Obito Uchiha

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Obito Uchiha from the Naruto anime and manga. As a child, he was a kind-hearted boy who dreamed of one day becoming the Hokage, the world’s strongest ninja- in many ways serving as a parallel to the protagonist, Naruto Uzumaki. However, through childhood trauma and tragedy, he lost all hope in the world, joining Madara Uchiha’s plot to enact the “Infinite Tsukoyomi” to ‘save’ humanity by trapping them in an illusory, ‘perfect’ world of dreams. A tragically broken man, his fervent belief that “This world is Hell” led him to commit atrocious deeds out of a twisted, but genuine, desire to spare others from the suffering that he had endured. Ultimately, he would come to understand that his actions had only brought more pain upon the world, and he would sacrifice his life in an attempt to, if not ‘redeem’ himself, then at least undo some of the suffering that he had caused, playing a crucial role in the series’ final conflict, helping Naruto to achieve the dream that he had once shared as a kind-hearted boy.