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Oh, I was referring to his entire persona, rather than particular scenes/passages. Itachi is no doubt a very admirable and noble and deep character, and had a lot going for him, which made him a real fan favorite even when he was apparently evil, but a lot of it was a bit too good to be true, and he would score really high on the Mary/Gary Sue scale, for reference. Typical traits include...Good calls with Shanks and Ulquiorra! When you say he went too far, are there any particular scenes/passages you are referring to?
I just love the depth of the character and the way he drip fed his genius to his brother and those he deemed a threat in the grand scheme.
This is all Itachi for the most part, when you really think about it (same goes for someone like Minato)...a character that is designed by the writer to be excessively popular/noble/cool, and is shoved down the readers' throats. Even his Urban Dictionary description is so corny!
Plus, I really loathe Kishimoto's Reanimation Jutsu gimmick, outside of Orochimaru resurrecting the Kages vs. Sandaime as a one-off. Itachi should have died, and remained dead, after his final battle vs. Sasuke — his reanimated characterization was really poor, IMO. Same goes for Nagato...should have died, and remained dead, after his face-off vs Naruto.
The latter, it's impossible for me to select a clear-cut #1 for such a voluminous manga! I like Itachi, but also...So, is there a #1 for you, or more a tier you can't really put one character above others in?
Nagato (in terms of power scaling, he should have been the peak and final villain of the story because of how compelling his motivations and how exotic his abilities were), Hashirama (really like his The Man, The Myth, The Legend God-of-Shinobi characterization — another character who shouldn't have been reanimated in Shippuden), Shikamaru (most well developed character of the entire manga, IMO — GOAT strategist and a genuine badass without excessive powers and hacks that plagued Shippuden), Kakashi (consistently good and likeable from start to finish), or even Jiraiya and Neji (another character whose potential wasn't fully explored because of Kishimoto's boner for the Uchihas).