Hey, come on. Mari has done nasty stuff, sure, but "people we know about" includes Orochimaru (infinite horror dungeon) and Asuma (did a genocide and really wanted to do another). Most of Akatsuki ranks above Mari on the "does horrible stuff to individual people" scale, and of course we have Pangolin for the "mass-scale horrors".
She uhhh used to murder and rape for her own amusement........also got everyone else in Hidden Swamp killed to save her ass from Yagura and then fucked off and left them to die. But really, the murder and rape were pretty bad.

Like Asuma was probably worse overall (~500+ vs ~50+ kills) but Mari was a lil' more personal about it. At least Asuma ostensibly was saving the entire world. Mari was just amusing herself in her nihilism. She's no Orochimaru, sure. But compared to most jounin who are not Akatsuki? Far worse.
 
Really, we should be judging people by what they would do, not what they have done. Therefore, Hazou is the worst, QED.
 
Also, @Velorien, I would love to see an AU where Ami gets isekai'd to our world. I feel like it would be very funny. Maybe you could use the idea on a rainy low-spoon day?
This'd honestly be pretty interesting to see, because it'd flip the script for her pretty hard. Stuck in a world where she doesn't speak any of the languages (while Elemental Nations-ese is depicted as structurally similar to Japanese, we've seen actual Japanese in the story and they're ancient ritual words nobody speaks conversationally) while she's the only person around with ninja powers. Major roadblocks in front of her social-spec skills and yet her martial skills are unexpectedly uncontested.

Would she just stick around learning the language for long enough to get back into the swing of social-spec manipulations? She could, but that would be boring, and she's probably not willing to burn that much time in the first place, not if she wants to figure out what happened and how to get back. So as a story what we'd see is Ami playing her social-spec game to the best of her ability even through extremely limited grasp of human language, relying a lot more heavily on her martial talents to bridge the gap.

She might, for instance, start building up a reputation for herself in stories and rumours, to test the waters and see how society reacts. She won't be ready for her usual social-spec playground until she learns the language, but she can build herself up in the meantime so that once she can hold a proper conversation with people there's weight behind her words. Once she's seen that there don't seem to be any ninja here, and that people seem astounded by basic ninja feats, she'd have to lean into that to create the reputation she desires. At the same time, she can't afford to get too close to people, not while she can't speak. She'd have to let her actions speak for themselves and then withdraw immediately afterwards. Of course, she'd want to look flashy for this, larger than life, someone worth telling stories about.

In summation, I believe that if you isekai'd Ami into the modern world she'd promptly become a Magical Girl.
 
Stuck in a world where she doesn't speak any of the languages (while Elemental Nations-ese is depicted as structurally similar to Japanese, we've seen actual Japanese in the story and they're ancient ritual words nobody speaks conversationally) while she's the only person around with ninja powers.
Oh, uhh, my 3am brain didn't think of that. Honestly I just wanted to see Ami-brand chaos in our world, but I like your idea too.
 
Damn she sure has mellowed
The Cult of Hazou will do that to you... remember, back when Ami first met Mari in Leaf, Ami was stunned to find "you're not evil, anymore," and Mari intertwined her arm with Ami's, leading her away for a private talk about it.

Ami must have had quite the surprise to find that the Heartbreaker had turned into a Den Mother :p
 
This'd honestly be pretty interesting to see, because it'd flip the script for her pretty hard. Stuck in a world where she doesn't speak any of the languages (while Elemental Nations-ese is depicted as structurally similar to Japanese, we've seen actual Japanese in the story and they're ancient ritual words nobody speaks conversationally) while she's the only person around with ninja powers. Major roadblocks in front of her social-spec skills and yet her martial skills are unexpectedly uncontested.

Would she just stick around learning the language for long enough to get back into the swing of social-spec manipulations? She could, but that would be boring, and she's probably not willing to burn that much time in the first place, not if she wants to figure out what happened and how to get back. So as a story what we'd see is Ami playing her social-spec game to the best of her ability even through extremely limited grasp of human language, relying a lot more heavily on her martial talents to bridge the gap.

She might, for instance, start building up a reputation for herself in stories and rumours, to test the waters and see how society reacts. She won't be ready for her usual social-spec playground until she learns the language, but she can build herself up in the meantime so that once she can hold a proper conversation with people there's weight behind her words. Once she's seen that there don't seem to be any ninja here, and that people seem astounded by basic ninja feats, she'd have to lean into that to create the reputation she desires. At the same time, she can't afford to get too close to people, not while she can't speak. She'd have to let her actions speak for themselves and then withdraw immediately afterwards. Of course, she'd want to look flashy for this, larger than life, someone worth telling stories about.

In summation, I believe that if you isekai'd Ami into the modern world she'd promptly become a Magical Girl.
Why can I not give this post all the reactions? (Except maybe hugs. Spontaneously giving Ami hugs is like opening that door in the basement of your local church that's locked with three locks of cold iron, covered with exorcism seals, and has "stay the fuck away" scrawled in blood on the nearest wall.)
 
She uhhh used to murder and rape for her own amusement
Wait, what the fuck?
It's been hinted at a few times. Chapter 359 had an optional scene showing Mari being Mari which I removed because it was right after the threadlock incident and I was gunshy about anything even slightly dodgy. Oh, and there was chapter 309.

while she's the only person around with ninja powers.
I don't know that our world has chakra. She might well be an expert martial artist but nothing more -- no wall-running, no superhuman strength or speed, no jutsu, etc. This would probably be a major problem for her.
 
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Checked and apparently Gaara died during BoTG. If his Sand stuff worked the way it does in canon we might have been able to get more soul lore
 
Spontaneously giving Ami hugs is like opening that door in the basement of your local church that's locked with three locks of cold iron, covered with exorcism seals, and has "stay the fuck away" scrawled in blood on the nearest wall.
Hah! Imagine being the kind of unambitious, superstitious peon who'd pay attention to such warnings! There's either nothing in there, in which case revealing it for smoke-and-mirrors would increase our status at the expense of the con artist's, or there is something in there, in which case we shall research it in the name of paradigm-shifting scientific breakthroughs.

[x] Spontaneously hug Ami the next time you see her
 
Hah! Imagine being the kind of unambitious, superstitious peon who'd pay attention to such warnings! There's either nothing in there, in which case revealing it for smoke-and-mirrors would increase our status at the expense of the con artist's, or there is something in there, in which case we shall research it in the name of paradigm-shifting scientific breakthroughs.

[x] Spontaneously hug Ami the next time you see her
She caught him on his way out as he knew she would. Something had happened in Mist, something that surpassed the imagination of sane people like Hazō, and if there was one thing constant about the avatar of chaos, it was that she could no more resist boasting after a successful scheme than Noburi could resist pranking him when his back was turned, Kei could resist pointing out all his failures (which, to be fair, was her job), or Kagome-sensei could resist accusing people of lupchanzen possession when they acted out of character.

"Welcome back, Ami." He smiled. Strictly speaking, these days he could get by without his cane, but today he was very grateful for its assistance as he braced himself the instant before a massive hug.

"Ahh, that's the stuff," Ami said several seconds later. "Hugs you don't have to time are the best, second only to hugs from Kei."

"I'll take your word for it," Hazō said. "'Hugging Kei' is shorthand for 'suicide by stupidity' in the Gōketsu Clan—as in, 'Time travel seals? Why don't you go hug Kei while you're at it?'"
But also

"I'll take your word for it," Hazō said. "'Hugging Kei' is shorthand for 'suicide by stupidity' in the Gōketsu Clan—as in, 'Time travel seals? Why don't you go hug Kei while you're at it?'"
lol, lmao
 
She caught him on his way out as he knew she would. Something had happened in Mist, something that surpassed the imagination of sane people like Hazō, and if there was one thing constant about the avatar of chaos, it was that she could no more resist boasting after a successful scheme than Noburi could resist pranking him when his back was turned, Kei could resist pointing out all his failures (which, to be fair, was her job), or Kagome-sensei could resist accusing people of lupchanzen possession when they acted out of character.

"Welcome back, Ami." He smiled. Strictly speaking, these days he could get by without his cane, but today he was very grateful for its assistance as he braced himself the instant before a massive hug.

"Ahh, that's the stuff," Ami said several seconds later. "Hugs you don't have to time are the best, second only to hugs from Kei."
That's Ami spontaneously hugging Hazou, not the other way around.
 
Hah! Imagine being the kind of unambitious, superstitious peon who'd pay attention to such warnings! There's either nothing in there, in which case revealing it for smoke-and-mirrors would increase our status at the expense of the con artist's, or there is something in there, in which case we shall research it in the name of paradigm-shifting scientific breakthroughs.
Agreed.
[x] Spontaneously hug Ami the next time you see her
 
It's been hinted at a few times. Chapter 359 had an optional scene showing Mari being Mari which I removed because it was right after the threadlock incident and I was gunshy about anything even slightly dodgy. Oh, and there was chapter 309.
If I had to guess, it wasn't the "has raped and murdered" part that was surprising to @DanZapman so much as it was the "for her own amusement" part.
 
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