History Characters / NarutoSasukeUchiha

* TroubledButCute: Sasuke completely misses the look (or at least, the dress code), though -- that turtleneck, shorts, and kneesocks combination fairly scream "scrawny kid". Then again, {{Ninja}} are ''supposed'' to cultivate an unassuming personal appearance, even if, in fiction, [[HighlyVisibleNinja they usually don't]]. [[spoiler:He gets... better when he gets an [[BadassLongCoat Akatsuki trench coat]] and a KillEmAll attitude later on.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: Sasuke's main weapon post-TimeSkip is a chokuto, a sword resembling a straight-bladed [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]].

* WouldHitAGirl: He shoots Karin with his lightning and nearly kills Sakura.
** This also happened before Shippuden. He fights Temari with no hesitation, and then knocked Sakura out after she tries to stop him from leaving Konoha.

* GoodIsNotNice: Started out as this status, before he underwent his FaceHeelTurn. [[spoiler:However, he reverts back to this after his HeelFaceTurn, if ''slightly'' downplayed.]]

* GoodIsNotNice: Started out as this status, before he underwent his FaceHeelTurn.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Back before his FaceHeelTurn, he was this. Though he presented a cold façade, he grew to care about Naruto and Sakura, openly risking his life for theirs and coming to consider them his true companions before he let his desire to grow stronger overcome him.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: He is the most important character in the story bar Naruto himself.

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* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: A position that he shares with Naruto. Both he and Naruto are the two Children of the Prophecy that are destined to change the ninja world. They later meet the Sage of Six Paths who reveals that they are the reincarnations of his two sons, and gives each of them a half of his power so that they can defeat Madara, and later Kaguya.]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: A rare male example. His first outfit in Part II had a long-sleeved white shirt open all the way to the blue cloth tied around his waist, exposing almost half his torso. It actually serves a purpose besides fanservice, as it allows him to quickly remove the shirt when he uses the Curse Seal so that the wings won't tear it apart. When Itachi removes this ability, Sasuke reverts to more standard clothing, although he somewhat leaves the zipper more open than it's strictly necessary. The only instance where he fully zips up his shirt (thereby subverting this trope) is after acquiring the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan but before [[spoiler:being fatally stabbed by Madara and gaining the Rinnegan]].

* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: A position that he shares with Naruto. Both he and Naruto are the two Children of Prophecy that are destined to change the ninja world. They later meet the Sage of Six Paths who reveals that they are the reincarnations of his two sons, and gives each of them a half of his power so that they can defeat Madara, and later Kaguya.]]

%% Be careful before using Expy. It is not just a similar character; it's a character the author has admitted the character is based on.

* {{Expy}}:
%%** Sasuke is based on [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Hiei]].
** Sasuke's TakeOverTheWorld and establishing himself as the ultimate evil in the Ninja World, so that people fight [[GenghisGambit HIM than fighting each other]], is resemblant of [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch's]] ultimate plan of establishing true peace. [[spoiler:Thankfully he was made to see the error of his ways, and he made a genuine HeelFaceTurn before he could completely play Lelouch.]]
** Likely inspired from Togashi's character [[Manga/HunterXHunter Kurapika]], as well. Sole survivor of his powerful clan? Check. Intelligent, vengeful youth clinging to hatred? Check. [[RedEyesTakeWarning Supernatural red eyes]] granting them unnatural, coveted abilities? Check and check.
** By the epilogue, he is dressed in a black cape, is a one-armed swordsman and hides one of his eyes, remind you of a certain [[Characters/BerserkGuts Someone]] ?

** Second time after he re-encountered his big brother, who broke several of his bones before repeating the same torture he went through as a child and thus left him in a month-long coma. This new trauma undid all the gradual healing and progress he made toward psychological recovery, destroyed his self-worth and belief in being able to defeat him (and/or protect the people Sasuke grew to care for). It also proceeded to leave him fresh wounds and a much greater disturbed psyche. His troubled state led [[UptoEleven to him becoming much more obsessed over vengeance]] and [[RevengeBeforeReason caused]] him to sever all his bonds to join one of the biggest monsters in the series.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Kishimoto (as Kakashi) lampshaded this himself. Sasuke will never admit someone is his better, but will obsess if he ''thinks'' someone is. Sasuke had an absolutely ''massive'' one towards Itachi, but Itachi's massacre of their clan and Sasuke's torture at his hands made it a complete (if somewhat understandable) obsession. Itachi tortuing him ''again'' made it go UpToEleven. He also developed one towards Naruto over the course of Part I, refusing to believe Naruto could ever be stronger than him but driving himself crazy thinking he already was, which eventually lead to his FaceHeelTurn.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: In Chapter 632, [[AmazonChaser He flashes a proud and flirty smirk]] when [[CuteBruiser Sakura]] shows off her [[UpToEleven upgraded]] SuperStrength (courtesy of her Yin Seal) by smashing the ground so hard it created a new crater, killing multiple clones of the Ten-Tails in the process. Bonus points because: a) everyone is shocked when they first see the ''normal'' [[CraterPower Cherry Blossom Impact]] and b) Naruto, who's standing right next to him, looks ''[[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon absolutely terrified of her]]''.

After several battles that nearly end Sasuke's life, he finally succeeds in killing Danzo but his newfound hatred overwhelms him, alienating even his most devoted followers and old allies, (Karin, Konoha 12, Kakashi, etc.) leaving Naruto as the one person who still wants to save Sasuke without killing him (even Sakura deciding to try to kill him for the sake of her love for who he used to be, though she ends up unable to go through with it out of that same love). Later Sasuke takes Itachi's eyes in order to save himself from blindness and obtain new powers. Through fate and chance, Sasuke once again meets up with his brother Itachi, brought back by Edo Tensei, and together they manage to stop the caster of the technique, though not before Itachi manages to change Sasuke's mindset from mindless revenge and get him to start thinking for himself instead of always allowing himself to be influenced by others. He also apologizes for the pain he put his little brother through, and the mistakes he made in taking on so many burdens alone.

** He’s one of these to [[TheHero Naruto]] after defecting from the village. The two have been longtime rivals for the series. Sasuke resents Naruto for growing stronger than him, and the two has constantly trained for years to surpass each other. Sasuke plotted the destruction of the Leaf Village, and Naruto is determined to prevent him. Although Naruto still considers Sasuke a friend, Sasuke doesn't return his sentiment and is determined to kill Naruto in order to sever his personal bonds and become stronger. The two of them are reincarnated from previous sets of archenemies, it is believed that the two of them would kill each other if they fought to the death. The battle between Naruto and Sasuke becomes the final fight in the main series.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: In his relationship towards Naruto and his desire to fight only strong opponents in order to achieve his goal of killing Itachi Uchiha. This has him lose to Rock Lee and nearly die in facing Gaara. Losses to Itachi and others teach him at least some humility, [[AesopAmnesia at least at first]].

* BigBad: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] [[spoiler: after Obito, Madara, and Kaguya are defeated. Once he and Naruto manage to save the world, Sasuke announces his intentions to kill the five Kage, overthrow the current system, and establish himself as the new ultimate evil in order to unite the world. Naruto of course disagrees with this, and Sasuke challenges him for one final duel. While his defeat means his plan doesn't come close to getting off the ground, and in any event has [[PostClimaxConfrontation considerably lower stakes than the previous conflict]], Sasuke nevertheless serves as the FinalBoss of the entire series.]]

** In order to kill Danzo, who used Itachi and cast him aside and orchestrated the Uchiha genocide to advance his ambitions, Sasuke casually used and cast aside his allies of Taka and made plans for the genocide of Konoha to advance his plans of revenge.

* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:What his ZeroApprovalGambit is. He claims he is going force the world to unite against him in order to bring peace. However, in order to accomplish this he has to put the world into a perpetual state of war against him that would only last as long as he continued to perpetuate the hatred itself, to wit the plan involved killing all the current kage, using the tailed beasts' power as his own, ''and'' killing the person who has the most faith in him, all because he sees the current way shinobi works as flawed. Naruto calls him out on this.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Post-FaceHeelTurn is when it shows the most, but he had those moments before then too. Before his FaceHeelTurn, he abandoned Konoha in order to gain power from [[BigBad Orochimaru]], attempting to kill Naruto on the way to his Path of Darkness. Upon reuniting with Team 7 after three years, he tried to kill all of them, and shortly after successfully overthrew Orochimaru, though this was more of a KickTheSonOfABitch moment combined with UngratefulBastard. Then a little later [[FromBadToWorse he found out the truth about Itachi]]. Following ''that'' [[SanitySlippage unpleasant]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation revelation]], he went after Killer Bee, an innocent jinchuuriki, simply because Tobi told him to. Then he tried to kill the Five Kage at the Summit. Next he abandoned Suigetsu and Juugo, two of his loyal teammates, to be captured by enemies, then followed it up by [[ShootTheHostage sacrificing his other teammate Karin]] when she was taken hostage. Then Team 7 showed up and he tried ''again'' to kill them all. And then decided he wanted [[KillEmAll to murder all the innocent people]] in Konoha, instead of just the elders like he'd originally planned. Then he mellowed out some and decided he wanted to become Hokage to create a world of peace... [[spoiler:oh but then he wanted to try ''again'' to kill all the Kage, as well as to enslave the Tailed Beasts, and then last but not least, he tried '''yet again''' to kill Naruto... Yeah, obviously he still hasn't totally gotten to the root of his problems. And that's not counting his overall everyday ArrogantKungFuGuy demeanor, either. Good thing he had a true HeelFaceTurn in the Epilogue after his final fight with Naruto]].

** After [[spoiler:Kaguya]] is defeated, he proves this with respect to Danzo, with his willingness to [[spoiler:kill the Kages in order to establish a peaceful life for ninjas everywhere.]]

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Like with Kakashi, use of the Chidori requires the Sharingan to be active in order to be used safely.

* ShootTheHostage: Happens when he stabs through Karin with his Chidori blade in order to hit [[HostageSituation his real target, Danzo]].

* TookALevelInJerkass: Starts as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and slowly [[HiddenHeartOfGold works his way]] down the queue [[{{Jerkass}} as time passes]]. He [[ZigZaggingTrope wavers occasionally]], but it never seems to stick.

* TraumaCongaLine: Itachi's first [[MindRape Tsukuyomi]] turned him from a happy kid to a somber screwed-up one. Itachi's second Tsukuyomi, undid all his recovery process and heavily unstablized him, leading to his first FaceHeelTurn. The revelation of Itachi's true allegiance utterly ''broke'' him, and finding out that Danzo '''harvested his dead family members' bodies''' for their Sharingan drove him off the deep end. While he might be a colossal {{Jerkass}} most of the time, it's not hard to see why. Furthermore, it explains why he keeps remaining as an antagonist for so long. While similar characters have been able to overcome their past trauma, Sasuke is given fresh trauma pretty much time he is on the road of recovery, screwing him up even further.

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'''Sasuke:''' [[TheComicallySerious You're my cute little peanut]].

* OlderAndWiser: In his travels around the world Sasuke has learned a lot and mellowed out.

* OppositesAttract: Sakura is the loud, brash healer from an ordinary family who starts the series quite weak, and she loves the calm, broody Uchiha prodigy Sasuke, [[spoiler:who finally reciprocates her feelings at the end of the manga]].

* AmazonChaser: {{Implied|Trope}} with [[CuteBruiser Sakura]]. In Chapter 632, Sasuke gives a rather ''[[https://31.media.tumblr.com/85051a84ec0a23d61ea6a1cb05953cf8/tumblr_inline_mnjxs4bx3x1qz4rgp.png flirty smirk]]'' when Sakura first shows the power of her White Strength Seal during the Fourth Shinobi World War. [[spoiler: Later, when their daughter Sarada demonstrates a chakra-enhanced punch like her mother, Sasuke sports that same proud smirk]].

* OneHeadTaller: Although they don't share any scenes together in the movie, according to Kishimoto's character designs for ''The Last'', Sasuke has gotten tall enough to be one head taller than [[spoiler:his only love interest Sakura]].

* SingleTargetSexuality: Even though he was consumed with revenge for most of the series, Sasuke finally showed sexual/romantic feelings for exactly one woman: [[spoiler:Sakura Haruno, who he married and had a daughter with]].

* TroubledButCute: Sasuke completely misses the look (or at least, the [[HollywoodDressCode dress code]]), though -- that turtleneck, shorts, and kneesocks combination fairly scream "scrawny kid". Then again, {{Ninja}} are ''supposed'' to cultivate an unassuming personal appearance, even if, in fiction, [[HighlyVisibleNinja they usually don't]]. [[spoiler:He gets... better when he gets an [[BadassLongCoat Akatsuki trench coat]] and a KillEmAll attitude later on.]]

* VillainProtagonist: Villain Deuteragonist, more accurately. Sasuke recieves almost as much focus as Naruto himself, with most of Part 2 of the series being centered around his descent into madness and villainy and Naruto's attempts to stop him. He best fits the VillainProtagonist role in the Five Kage Summit arc, especially in his fight against Danzo.

* CursedWithAwesome: His Sharingan eyes grant him great power, but the more he evolves them the crazier he gets. According to Tobirama, the Sharingan is a product of the Curse of Hatred.

Ultimately Naruto wins their final clash and finally redeems Sasuke, causing him to let go of all his hatred by accepting said loss, ending the thousand year feud between Indra and Ashura and the curse that accompanied it. After being pardoned by the Five Great Nations, as penance for his actions, he resolves to travel the world to see things with new eyes and to investigate the original purpose of the White Zetsu army, fearful that the alien forces that inadvertently birthed the ninja world may one day resurface. Along the way, he also returns Sakura's feelings. They eventually marry and together they have one daughter, Sarada Uchiha.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: In the anime, his hair is given a bluish tint.

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