Temari's Overrated
overrated.
I don't dislike Temari's character, I do find her overrated in comparison to other characters and here's why.
Let's look into character wise
Temari's not a bad character either but she literally has like 10 pages worth of screen time in Part 1. 5 pages worth in Part 2 (Shippuden) . Only reason she gets hyped so much is because Naruto fandom has convinced itself to believe a “badass girl who's kinda mean” equals best female character ever.
Her entire character in has been:
Gaara's older sister, She's great at wind style and Temari maybe has a crush on Shikamaru.
My other point, the ShikaTema ship. When you're on any Naruto social media (Twitter, reddit, tiktok etc). You've definitely seen people say it's “the best ship” or “the only ship that makes sense” and “the one ship that everyone likes”. I don't have any problems with it.
But, where were are the romantic moments of Shikatema that made them the best couple in the entire series? The only time they ever even got romantically close to one another was when Shikamaru was looking for a wedding gift for Naruto and Hinata after The Last movie.
Please do not use any filler screencaps because if it didn't happen in the manga its not canon.
And Shikamaru made it clear and that he wasn’t romantically into Temari before this event due to how oblivious he was to Temari.
People shit on Naruto for being oblivious/dense to Hinata’s feelings despite the fact that there is a canon explanation as to why he couldn’t understand Hinata’s feelings. But nobody says anything about Shikamaru being dense to Temari as well despite having a good upbringing and understanding how his parents speak with each other romantically.
Certain (some not all) people claim that Shikamaru and Temari already had chemistry since OG Naruto and only panel they use to support it this:
the only conversation between Shikamaru and Temari that can be seen as chemistry in a sense without it being half-way or taken out of context like most people do with this couple.
People like to compare them to other ships that had WAY more moments and screentime. Just because they have no drama.
most ships, these two characters have little to no interactions. What makes it worse, you can't even give them the benefit of the doubt for having offscreen interactions as when they live three days away from each other. Meanwhile, something like Naruto and Hinata or Sai and Ino likely had interacted offscreen
Let's be honest here, the author said it himself Naruto is a battle shōnen manga romance was never a main focus. It will always be secondary part or not there at all like other shōnen.
her power-scaling
This isn't to say Temari is weak I say she is at least Jonin level
As far as war arc, Temari literally doesn't due much at all compared to others. Manga whatever the anime adds is NOT CANON
She did one thing in war arc :
With the help of two other shinobi, she managed to damage base edo third raikage. Assuming he was actually blitzed and didn't just decide to tank it (since they stated they haven't inflicted any significant damage, implying he likely didn't even care to dodge)
This is anime-only aka filler that's not canon to manga
(Even if you did consider this a feat, Madara just dusted himself off like nothing happen and set up for fire style.)
Comparing other Konoha memebers
Can you tell me something important that Temari ever did to develop the plot? People insult female characters like sakura, karin and Ino but they contributed far more than temari. Heck, even tenten with her little screentime helped more than Temari.
Sakura: Contributed alot during the war, became one of the best medical ninja
Hinata: Assisted Ino in redirecting the ten-tails attack by linking her byakugan to Ino’s mind transfer. Saved the whole shinobi alliance including Naruto, Killer B, Might Guy and Kakashi. Helped Naruto when he was about to give-in after witnessing neji’s death.
Ino: Linked everybody multiple times during the war together. She was the only person capable of doing that from her clan. Besides her father.
Karin: Helped Tsunade retore her reserves. Also destroyed multiple shinzu arms that zetsu tried to use to kill team taka and the shinobi. She was one of the most important memebers that sasuke had in team taka.
Tenten: A memeber of the team 10(chapter258) who was sent to rescue Temari’s brother while temari did absolutely nothing. Temari only arrived after gaara had died. Tenten was also one of those who destroyed more than one of kakuzu’s heart.
I shouldn't have say much about Mei & Tsunade.
Could list more but, I want to keep this short.
Temari as a character, has no purpose after the chunin exams arc, where her best feats was defeating Tenten (basically fodder) and defeating an already weakened Tayuya.
Which begs the question.how is Temari a well written character if she's barely around. Only Gaara was the most relevant sibling. The sand village in general wasn't that important. Most notable characters were Gaara, Chiyo and Sasori that were relevant from the Sand. Maybe If I push it, their father the previous Kage and the bijuu Shukaku.
( Edit: Looking back & a comment I can't reply back for a odd reason. Kankuro did have a bit of a bigger role than his sister)
Temari seems like one of the most overrated characters in the show upon her non relevant appearances for the plot compared to other female characters.
again I don't dislike this character, I just think in certain aspects she's overrated.
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