History Characters / NarutoNagato

* KickTheSonOfABitch: He's the one who killed Hanzo.

The (supposed) leader of the Akatsuki after Yahiko's passing, Pain possesses the Rinnegan, the predecessor to the Sharingan, which allows the user to use all six elements and learn any jutsu. Orphaned by the Land of Rain's civil war, Nagato was raised by Jiraiya, who believed him to be the prophecized [[TheChosenOne Chosen One]], alongside his friends Konan and Yahiko, with whom he would later found the Akatsuki. When Hanzo, the leader of the Hidden Rain village, and Danzo, set a trap, Yahiko was killed and in his rage Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, crippling himself in the process. Believing his suffering had caused him to become enlightened and his power caused him to become [[AGodAmI a god]], Nagato took on the alias of Pain and outfitted six corpses, including Yahiko's, with chakra receivers and used them to take over the Hidden Rain village. Pain wanted to use the Tailed Beasts to create a weapon of mass destruction that can be used to [[WellIntentionedExtremist put an end to war]]. Each of his six (actually seven) different bodies possesses a different skill, and can't be defeated unless all of them are killed at once. The bodies are all ninja Jiraiya fought as he wandered the earth. His first physical appearance has him engaging his old master in battle in the Hidden Rain Village until Jiraiya killed one of his bodies and sent it back to Konoha (along with a toad bearing the message "The real one isn't there"), but he was eventually overwhelmed and killed.

** Nagato is able to use all abilities of the Pain Rikudo that make Nagato a real PhysicalGod. However, Nagato himself is extremely weak physically, extremely skinny, and has difficulties walking unaided that is one of his greatest weaknesses he has.
** Deva Path Pain has limited control over gravity through pushing and pulling things, however, he can't do it continuously; the cooldown is proportional to how much power he puts into it, and in a regular battle the minimum is five seconds. His nuking of Konoha left him drained long enough for Naruto to take out several Pain bodies, and he uses the five-second window to defeat Deva Pain himself.
* AffablyEvil: If you don't stand between him and a Jinchuuriki, he won't harm you. Even then he´s always polite and doesn't kill unnecessarily unless it can lure out Naruto or if you questioned his ideals.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Pain asks if Naruto has a better solution against the cycle of hatred, but Naruto doesn't respond. Only later did Naruto respond that he would continue searching for the answer, and convinced Nagato to believe in him.

** Pain's interrogation methods. He uses two main abilities to try to find Naruto, one of which can instantly read the mind of those it touches. On its own, this is perfectly practical. His other, however, can kill anybody who either lies to him or refuses to answer his question. Meaning anybody who actually knows ends up dead... This does spare him the trouble of having to look up misinformation, though.

* BenevolentBoss: He's beloved "god" to his village, genuinely cares for his country. He also this to Akatsuki being the only member who cares about the organization itself, is constantly telling the other members not to piss off each other stressing teamwork and mourns those who die in the pursuit of Akatsuki's goals.

* ChewingTheScenery: '''MY PAIN IS STILL FAR GREATER THAN YOURS!!!'''

* DestructiveSavior: This happens to be Nagato's end goal for world peace; to develop a superweapon capable of destroying a continent in an effort to terrify entire nations enough to stop fighting and enter a short period of peace. Should enmity and war occur, the superweapon would be deployed again, and the whole process repeats.

* DidNotSeeThatComing: He is shocked when he discovers that Naruto, in his six-tailed state is not only able to resist his Shinra Tensei, but also bypass it and facepalm him. Happens again when Naruto manages to stand his ground against another Shinra Tensei, at the expense of some of Naruto's shadow clones.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: At first it seems his plan of essentially creating nukes and handing them out to assure mutual destruction upon villages and then to enforce peace so this does ''not'' happen is incredibly short sighted. Turns out, he's well aware that this will last in temporary peace, but he simply doesn't care. He's too cynical to see any alternative to this short-lived peace driven by violence and hatred.

* DisproportionateRetribution: While killing Hanzo is justified to a degree, to kill off all of his associates, loyal followers and relatives, [[WouldHurtAChild children and "even babies"]] included seems like an overstretch.

** The same can be said of his annihilation of the Hidden Leaf Village shortly beforehand. Despite having already won the battle and gotten what he wanted (the location of the Kyuubi jinchuuriki), Pain insists on physically destroying the entire village before leaving, expending significant chakra to do so and severely straining himself. It's entirely possible that, had he not been weakened by this effort, he might have been strong enough to succeed in his capture of the Kyuubi. And it's particularly notable considering that, up until this point, despite his repeated {{A God Am I}} declarations, Pain had demonstrated a very realistic evaluation of his own abilities, putting careful thought into his strategies and averting {{Explaining Your Powers To the Enemy}} to great effect. In both the above instances, he did what he did to make others [[CatchPhrase know pain]], showing how [[MeaningfulName important]] that motivation is to him.