User blog comment:Zetarion/Worst Anime Characters/Mary Sue Reviews/@comment-3549833-20150313014148/@comment-24384232-20150313030623

Aha, that's a load of shit and you know it. Hashirama experienced the same thing as Madara, lost his brothers too. Also his idea of "peace" makes no fuckin sense in any sense of the word at all. The man was a power-hungry crazed maniac with control issues. The reason he left Konoha was because he lost to Hashirama as Shodaime, and then turned that around on his clansman demanding they leave with him (as their leader). Oddly enough they saw him for what he was, a man driven by rage, who would stop at nothing to have the control he needs. So he left, and what did he do? He tried to destroy the village. His clan included. He didn't care about peace then and he certainly didn't care about peace at the time of the war. He didn't give two fucks about anyone but himself. Every solution he personally sought was either through destruction or domination.

Every justification he made was just an excuse to cover up his true desire. Madara raged at everything, not unlike Sasuke did, and decided that in order to "save the world" he himself had to control it. He had to save them, to put them in this illusion and remove their free will. What kind of man thinks of that as the only solution to peace? This was a man who wanted to control everything because he lacked it in his life. He lost his brother and decided the whole world had to pay for it. I'm not fooled Madara, I see through bullshit, hell I smell the bullshit coming out of your mouth.

His way of handling his emotions, and Sasuke was so juvenile, so immature I can't stand either of them. The fact that they got even more powerful the more juvenile and stupid they became was the icing on the cake. Boo hoo, your brother died. Haku watched as his father killed his mother and tried to kill him. Yamato (formerly Tenzo) was taken as a kid and experimented on, and watched as 50 some odd other kids died from the failure of the experiment. Gaara, had his father attempt to kill him, sent his uncle who died and on his death revealed that no one loved you Gaara, we all hate you and want you dead.

So no Madara, you don't get to pull that card. There were plenty of people in Naruto who had it infinitely worse than you ever did, and they came out fine all things considered.