YMMV / Naruto – Hidan and Kakuzu Arc

• Broken Aesop: This arc breaks the message from Part 1 that "revenge is pointless and fulfilling your thirst will only render you empty" by having Kakashi, the same man who delivered that message to Sasuke, fully support Shikamaru on his quest to avenge Asuma and help Team 10. He even convinces Tsunade to let them go. Shikamaru is clearly satisfied in taking care of Hidan, and there are no negative consequences, with the story and the character treating Shikamaru subjecting Hidan to Fate Worse than Death as a good thing.
• Complete Monster: Hidan, a Jashinist, worships violence and death, and sees mercy—or anything other than full-scale slaughter—as a sin. He and his partner, Kakuzu, corner and capture the Two-Tails jinchūriki, Yugito Ni, delivering her to Pain for draining and, eventually, death. The two of them subsequently slaughtered a temple's worth of monks in order to collect the bounty on the head monk, Chiriku. During the battle at the bounty station, Hidan engaged Asuma Sarutobi in combat, and used a religious ritual to bind their souls together, then began mutilating himself in order to torture Asuma, ultimately leading to the Leaf Ninja's painful death. When Asuma's student Shikamaru confronted Hidan, Hidan mocked his mentor's memory, and attempted to inflict the same fate on Shikamaru.