Questions & Mysteries Why the boss succeeded where Rin failed.

#1
We get an entire game to develop the relationship between naked snake and the boss, To setup why she mattered to him and why her death was so impactful on naked snake like she was setup to die by the us government yet still stayed loyal to them regardless. this motivated naked snake now big boss to create outer heaven where soldiers are respected

All that setup for the main villain of one instalment in the series
Compare that to obito, Who like naked snake/big boss was motivated to act as he did after the death of a female consort or ally but unlike big boss, their relationship was very poorly explored like why did rin matter to obito what did rin do for him or help him with? nothing from we know and that's quite bad for story telling, it's like in god of war 4 where the death of kratos's wife causes the protags to go on this journey and we know nothing about this woman, She's the literal inciting incident and we know nothing

All this to say, god of war 4 and naruto horribly handled faye and rin where metal gear handled it's female martyr figure with some actual nuance and logicality
 
#2
Kishi clearly changed his mind with Obito, he probably was only going to come back as Tobi so Kakashi had an EOS fight but he likely realized he made his identity super obvious so he made him this mastermind behind everything

somewhere along the way he decided to give Rin a lot more importance to help Obito's character and he failed
 
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