Did you seriously try and claim that Anakin murdering children is somehow not worse than any of Obito's crimes?
Where did I even begin to claim this? All I said is that Obito's corruption and crimes were more abrupt than Anakin undergoing manipulation and corruption since he was a young child.
Let alone standing by while Tarkin kills billions?
This thead is about Anakin, not Darth Vader. Vader watching Tarkin blow up Alderaan was 20+ years after Anakin fell.
What is your point exactly? To argue that Obito's life and suffering doesn't matter?
This comment is oddly personal sounding to me.
No, I'm not arguing that Obito's 'life and suffering doesn't matter'. I am arguing that Anakin has better writing than Obito. The topic of the thread.
The overall pacing, development and reasoning behind Anakin's fall is superior, to me, even with just the films. This is due to Anakin:
- Being a slave since he was born
- Having to leave his mother behind for freedom
- Being raised by the Jedi Order
- Trained by an inexperienced Knight
- Having his constant visions of his mother dying be dismissed by the Jedi Grandmaster
- Discovering his mother was tortured to death, causing him to go on a rampage
- Having to deal with the Jedi Order's general distrust for him from day one
- A strained relationship with Obi-Wan, the only person he is ever shown to like in the Order besides Qui-Gon (Film-wise)
- Constant visions of his pregnant wife dying
- Fighting in, and ending, a galactic-wide war
- Witnessing Mace Windu, somebody who has never been positive towards Anakin, who has constantly distrusted him, a Jedi Master of extreme ability and repute attempt to murder an unarmed, 'defenceless' man instead of taking him to face justice
- Finding his only option is to either join the Sith Lord to save his wife or let his wife and child die.
All of the above having Palpatine constantly hawking and manipulating Anakin's every movement, a master manipulator that controlled two sides of the same galaxy-wide war and became the Emperor for over 20 years, only failing due to Darth Vader's betrayal.
To compare, what happened to Obito?
- He MIGHT have been an outcast as a Uchiha
- He saw Rin die at Kakashi's hand
- Was mentored by Madara for under a year, who then died
Logically speaking, Obito only suffered/underwent corruption for a year or so, and was then willing to murder his teacher's child, murder his teacher, torture and murder his teacher's wife and destroy the entirety of Konoha. Not to mention all of the genocide he contributed to as a teenager in Kiri, when he was controlling the 4th Mizukage.
Let me put it this way, Obito is like...if Darth Maul murdered Anakin's mother in the Phantom Menace, Anakin was trained by Dooku for less than a year and then he went onto slaughtering the entire Jedi Temple and razing worlds by the time he was 14. Yet in the actual story, Anakin only tasted the darkness against the Tuskens, slaughtering a tribe of creatures he considered to be animals. It was years after this, that he started to slaughter what he considered sapients, to save his wife.
Overall, Obito's lack of morality and willingness to slaughter his own village from a under year of experience is just bizarre, compared to Anakin who underwent many years of steady descent.