Line #45 Naruto/AnimeAndOthers


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4	There are [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed so many tropes]] in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' that we had to split its trope page. This one is for the tropes specific to other media than the manga itself, especially the anime.
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11	Naruto:
12	* AbandonedCatchphrase:
13	** In the English dub, the titular character often said "Believe it" in order to get past the LipLock due to his Japanese VerbalTic (Dattebayo). By the chunin exams he almost never used it and by episode 100 it was completely gone except for a few jokes.
14	** Sakura had a habit of saying "Shannaro" ("Cha" in the English dub) when pumped or angry, especially in her inner monologues, but her CharacterDevelopment involved her losing it. By Shippuden she rarely says it.
15	* AdaptationExpansion: A staple of the Anime, especially from the onset of Shippuden onwards. A common occurrence is for fights to be much more fleshed out, or even for fights to be written from scratch.
16	** Shikamaru's reaction to Asuma's death is dealt with in much more detail.
17	** While Sasori's flashback is briefly revealed in the manga, it only shows him as a [[UsedToBeASweetKid sweet young boy]] who controlled the "Father" and "Mother" puppets to have them hug him. The anime expands this to show Sasori's parents alive (albeit with no dialogue) before parting with him, Chiyo taking him to town, leading to Sasori seeing a boy being hugged by his parents after tripping over, and being inspired to make the puppets hug him the same way.
18	** Temari's fight against Tenten in the manga is only shown off-panel, and she does not confront Sasuke at all. In the anime we get to actually see Temari [[CurbStompBattle curb stomping]] Tenten, and later trying in vain to delay Sasuke.
19	** If you have to name the character who [[AdaptationalBadass got the most mileage]] out of this, it's probably Hinata. In the manga you'd be hard-pressed to find her enjoying even a single fleeting moment of triumph. In the anime she learned a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped Alligator Jutsu]] involving a [[EleventyZillion gazillion]] laser beams, landed solid hits on seemingly undefeatable villains and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking won a ramen eating contest]]. The anime team didn't bother to hide their fondness of her -- they even spent an omake on {{Lampshading}} it.
20	** In the manga, Iruka stops being an influential character past the first few chapters, and we never get to see him fight. The "Mizuki Strikes Back" {{filler}} arc changes that, revisiting Iruka's important role in Naruto's life and letting him take front stage in dealing with Mizuki again.
21	** Many characters missing from important events are accounted for in the anime. After being knocked out by Kabuto during the chunin exams, Hinata was kidnapped by Cloud Ninja who wanted her eyes. She is saved by Kiba, Akamaru, Tenten, Neji, and [[spoiler: Hiashi]] who were missing from that part of the arc.
22	** When Tobi is [[TheReveal revealed]] to be [[spoiler:Obito]] the manga has a flashback to his life prior to and immediately after his "death." The anime takes the opportunity to expand on that idea and launch a {{filler}} arc covering the time span between ''Kakashi Gaiden'' and the series proper.
23	** In general the anime often attempts to address or explain potential questions that arise from events or a character's actions that the manga didn't address due to space constraints or simply not considering them, to delve deeper into the characters and expand the world. Sometimes it does this well and may even be incorporated into the manga later, other times it leads to plot holes.
24	* AdaptationInducedPlotHole:
25	** Part I filler introduces a minor village called “Hoshigakure”, with its leaders dubbing themselves as “Hoshikage” in hopes that they’d be recognized by the 5 Great countries. During the arc they were introduced, it was stated that they were founded roughly two hundred years before, which contradicts the later revelation that the first Hidden Village to be created was actually Konoha, with its founders being Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, and how other Hidden Villages came after Konoha.
26	** Episode 166 of ''Shippuden''. Hey, why is Hinata charging head-on when that's the ''least'' likely strategy to work? What happened to the [[ForgottenPhlebotinum insane barrage of chakra lasers]] from [[{{Filler}} the first series' episode 151]]?
27	** Tobi is [[spoiler:Uchiha Obito]], whose life-saving operation left the right side of his face with a lot of striations in it. In his fight with Konan, in the manga only a little of his face is revealed under the broken mask and the beginnings of the lines are visible; in the anime, more of his face is shown and its skin is smooth, which doesn't match up with his striated face after his identity is revealed.
28	** During the Hidan and Kakuzu arc one of the omakes state that the Akatsuki have captured four tailed beasts already, not counting the two tail, and later in the same arc, after sealing the two tail, Pain states that they only have four tailed beasts left to acquire. This was accurate to the manga at the time, but the anime later added a new arc revolving around Utakata, the 6 tail host, retroactively making both Tsunade and Pain's counts inaccurate.
29	** How the anime treats some shinobi powers before the manga has defined exactly how they work can lead to these plot holes. An early example was a movie that featured various ninja using ice jutsu and Kakashi copying it. Later the manga would detail that ice jutsu is impossible if you don't have the blood line for it, and that the sharingan cannot copy such an element. A much later example involved Tobi using his kamui at range, when the manga would later reveal he has to make physical contact to suck something into his pocket dimension.
30	** The war arc featured an Edo Tensei finding peace and thus being released from the jutsu ''after'' Kabuto had explicitly strengthened the jutsu to make that impossible.
31	* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the original manga of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', versus the anime adaptation:
32	** Sakura and Sasuke (Sasuke is in the background of one panel) aren't shown clearly until after Naruto becomes a Genin. The rest of the "Nine" aren't introduced until the Chunin Exam arc. In the first episode of the anime, all the members of the Rookie Nine are seen lined up for the Henge Jutsu evaluation. Sakura and Sasuke are even shown going before Naruto.
33	** Some of the dialogue is changed, as Shikamaru and Ino replace the generic students who complain about Naruto's mischief causing them to be tested on Transformation, with Shikamaru wondering why Naruto is among the graduates when they are assigned to teams.
34	** In Episode 3, a few of the teachers appear while observing Naruto and Sasuke in the classroom, including Kurenai, who is incredibly OffModel, has the red and white on her outfit reversed, and has a [[TheOtherDarrin different voice actor for that episode]].
35	** In the manga, the Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu were only seen clearly when they make their first appearance in person, but in the anime they make an appearance as holograms during the Gaara Rescue, requesting to take care of Team Kakashi.
36	** A WholeEpisodeFlashback of Jiraiya's has two of the ninja who would become [[spoiler:the Six Paths of Pain]], back when they were still alive. One of whom had already been introduced before the flashback. For the anime, the entire group was introduced.
37	* AdaptationNameChange: Sabu, B’s music teacher during the Kage Summit Arc, has his name changed to Kin.
38	* AllYourColorsCombined: Rainbow Chakra. Granted, it only appears in TheMovie, but it's too good an example to pass up.
39	* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The first opening theme for the English dub of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWx5EJWonmc this]], but afterwards, all the theme songs were the original Japanese ones.
40	* AnimatedActors: Some of the {{Omake}} segments have the characters as these.
41	* AnimationBump: Crops up from time to time in big fights. Examples include Sasuke vs. Orochimaru, Lee vs. Gaara, Naruto vs. Sasuke, some parts of Team 10 vs. Hidan and Kakuzu, Sasuke vs. Killer Bee, Kakashi vs. Pain, Hinata vs. Pain, and the Kyuubi vs. Pain (which has quickly gained infamy amongst the fandom for its OffModel art, arguably counting as an inversion).
42	* AnimeThemeSong: The opening and ending credits are always new songs that really have nothing to do with the show. Singing one of the songs for the opening and ending credits inevitably results in an influx of new fans for the singers.
43	* ArtShift: In the anime, Juugo's initial flashback is drawn in a more abstract, undefined style.
44	* BaitAndSwitchCredits: Virtually every opening features activities of characters who really aren't doing anything at the time, especially during the filler seasons, when almost all the openings featured Sasuke and Orochimaru, despite neither of them making any appearance besides cameos.
45	** The openings in Part I (especially the first and fourth ones) give the impression that [[NeutralFemale Sakura]] often fights alongside her squad, but she's often set aside and forced to serve as a (somewhat ineffective) last line of defense for the people who need protection.
46	** The second version of the fourth ''Shippuden'' opening features members of Team 8 fighting the QuirkyMinibossSquad (Hinata vs. Gozu, Kiba vs. Kigiri, Shino vs. Nurari, Sakura vs. Rinji, and Sai and Naruto vs. Guren). Only the ones with Kigiri, Nurari and Guren happened.
47	** The seventh opening to ''Shippuden'' is particularly guilty in this regard. It features (in increasing level of inaccuracy) Choji and Kakashi vs. Preta Pain; [[DesignatedGirlFight Ino, Hinata, and Sakura vs. Konan]]; Sai vs. Asura Pain; Kiba, Lee, Tenten, and Neji vs Deva Pain. In actuality, Choji and Kakashi fight together against ''Deva'' Pain (and Asura Pain, sort of), Hinata tried to fight him later on, Ino didn't fight because she was working with her father getting some information, Sakura spent the battle treating the wounded and defending a hospital, Konan fought Shino and some other members of the Aburame clan (mostly off-panel in the manga, more is shown in the anime), Kiba fought Preta Pain with his mother (briefly and it was a bit longer in the anime), and Lee, Tenten, Neji, and Sai ''never'' fought because they were out of the village at the time (for the first three, until after most of the fighting was over; for Sai, the entire arc) -- so ''none'' of those things ended up happening.
48	** All those have nothing on ''Shippuden's'' [[JustForFun weird and funny]] as hell tenth opening. It features, in increasing order of implausibility/absurdity:
49	*** Naruto, Sakura, and Sai fighting Tobi, Kisame, and Zetsu--all six of them ''flying around''--and unleashing an AllYourPowersCombined jutsu.
50	*** The scene of Naruto embracing his "shadow" self transitioning from him being [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace uncomfortably close]] to Sakura.
51	*** The Elder Toad shown alongside the ''villains''.
52	*** The revived Akatsuki zombies sliding into each other while their containers comedically topple in the background.
53	*** An out-of-nowhere dance routine featuring the Konoha rookies and the Sand Siblings, [[DisneyAcidSequence while the adults are shown prancing about synchronously on a tropical beach]]. Even the [[LargeAndInCharge 4th Raikage]] and the [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior 3rd Tsuchikage]].
54	** The fourteenth Shippuden ending features Sakura prominently, and makes the show look like it's a romance. While the previous one is ''only'' Hinata and makes it [[MoodWhiplash look like]] a SliceOfLife!
55	** The 26th Shippuden ending is even more odd. The art is so shifted, it hardly looks likes Naruto. Naruto is the only character that appears and he is dressed in clothes more fit for a shoujo series. Naruto is also a DudeLooksLikeALady.
56	* BeatStillMyHeart: In a {{Filler}} episode, a ninja impersonating Kabuto links her heart to Naruto's and then pulls it out, still beating.
57	* BlindIdiotTranslation: The official translated episode titles for the series could often be extremely inaccurate to the actual japanese titles. Possibly the most egregious example being episode 89 of the original series, which had a single word title in japanese, "Hamon". The translated episode title from Viz? "An Impossible Choice, The Pain Within Tsunade's Heart".
58	* BodyguardCrush: An inverted example in that numerous girls Naruto has been assigned to protect in fillers and the movies end up developing feelings for him. He may actually have picked up more admirers than Sasuke through this method, although he tends to be, true to character, [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]].
59	* BottleEpisode: Episode 26's first 12 minutes is just a recap and introduction for new viewers.
60	* {{Bowdlerise}}: Quite a few examples. See the trope's Bowdlerise/AnimeAndManga section for details.
61	* BulletTime: Extensively and painfully used in episode 159 of ''Shippûden''.
62	* BullyingADragon: In [[{{Filler}} "The Weight of the Prized Artifact"]], the client is a {{jerkass}} who continually antagonizes Naruto and Kiba. Yes, he's mistreating ''two'' [[PersonOfMassDestruction People of Mass Destruction]]; the guy who can pulverize stone with ''Rasengan'' and the guy who can turn into a two-headed wolf monster. Even if he doesn't know specifically what they can do, he knows that shinobi in this world have ridiculously dangerous abilities, so the way he's acting is borderline TooDumbToLive.
63	* ButtMonkey: [[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Riichi_(ninja) Riichi]] is always in trouble in the few times he shows up. He's the guard ninja who wanted to see the chunin exams only to be thrust into the front lines by the Sand Village's initial attack. In the Konoha history arc, he was a prisoner of the Hidden Lock Village, though he was recovered. He was part of Nijū Shōtai which was tasked with finding information on Akatsuki. His mission with them failed with getting no intel. Finally, he was patrolling Konoha with other ninja when was attacked and killed by Pain and Konan. The only thing going for him is that [[spoiler: Pain brought him back to life with everyone else.]]
64	* CanonForeigner: Not only due to the anime - the various spin-offs, movies and specials have also introduced countless characters, techniques and elements that never appear in the manga at all, and exist in canonicity limbo:
65	** Loads and loads of new advanced bloodlines that we likely won't ever hear about again. Among them: a "crystal release" that turns things into crystals; a "dark release" that absorbs and manipulates chakra; a genjutsu hack that [[YourMindMakesItReal causes your mind to make it real]] (as if genjutsu was not completely broken to begin with); a "magnet release" that manipulates magnetic fields; an unnamed advanced bloodline that allowed [[ComboPlatterPowers penetrative sight, self-healing and shutting down other eye-based advanced bloodlines]]; an advanced bloodline that allows you to absorb a person's chakra and duplicate their appearance and memories; an advanced bloodline allowing you to bring the dead back to life; and on and on and on...
66	** Several princesses who are head over heels for Naruto now, one of whom explicitly said she wanted to bear his children.
67	** "Rainbow Chakra" appears in the end of the first movie, and is promptly never mentioned again.
68	** Various techniques, among them Tenten's ability to summon huge rising scrolls that spit out lots and lots of various weapons and Hinata's infamous chakra bee-massacring laser spam.
69	* ChosenConceptionPartner: Shion indirectly asks Naruto to father a child with her. He ignorantly vows to do so, not knowing what she means.
70	* CityWithNoName: The city in the Land of Fire where the movie studio is in the first movie, although the theater owner gives the only indication that it's not just [[GeographicFlexibility part of Konoha we haven't seen before or since]].
71	* ClipShow: ''Shippuden'' likes to do this after every arc to give the manga time to get ahead. The most egregious example is after Pain's invasion, when in the course of rebuilding the village various characters go through basically an entire {{filler}} mini-arc of flashbacks ranging from the start of the first series up to that point.
72	* ConfrontingYourImposter: A Naruto imposter has the misfortune of running into the real Naruto and comes off looking completely pathetic and ridiculous.
73	* DependingOnTheWriter: Quite infamous regarding the fillers, Naruto's intelligence/competency level shifts in every filler to suit the need of the story.
74	* DissonantSerenity: Naruto Shippuden Ending 33. Not only the BigBad(for the current arc)is smiling while the giant roots of a tree are moving in the background and the moon turns red, but the music itself is cheery against a montage spanning several gory and/or sad moments of the manga and anime. This is intentional: the BigBad is a self-appointed Messiah of the human race that thinks he is saving it from suffering through his evil plan, and the final moments shows him getting closer to his objective with intermissions to his happy childhood memories with his best friend, with who he dreamed together of making the world a better place.
75	* DoomedByCanon: Utakata, Fuu and the woman that will become the second Animal Path.The latter two barely count as spoilers because the filler showing more of them was made way after their deaths were confirmed in the anime itself.
76	* DoubleStandard: Remember the scene where Konohamaru transforms into Sai and Sasuke in a decidedly Yaoi situation? You know, after he does the same thing except with women? Yeah, that's in the MANGA ONLY. Which is highly ironic, considering the entire original joke was about Sakura's DoubleStandard.
77	* DownerEnding: The Six-Tails arc, though if you read the manga [[DoomedByCanon you obviously saw that one coming]].
78	* EmergencyFoodSupplyAnimal: With all the supplies contaminated by poisonous mushrooms, Naruto resorts to trying to eat Gamatatsu. This fails hilariously, but then he remembers that he can also use summoning to get fresh supplies from Mt. Myoboku.
79	* {{Fanservice}}: Not too over-the-top, but excuses to put girls in all sorts of revealing outfits ''will'' be found and employed (summer endings regularly feature Sakura in a bikini; Hinata was shortly featured in a bunny christmas outfit, a SpyCatsuit and a UsefulNotes/{{Qipao}}).
80	* {{Filler}}: Before the TimeSkip, filler made up 38% of the entire series, including 85 episodes in a row. These mostly consisted of various examples of DefeatMeansFriendship, fights against blatant {{Filler Villain}}s and several one-shots of slapstick/potty humor, all with no plot relevance; by the end it was being described by fans as a form of torture. Initially Shippuuden has taken to spreading out the filler arcs, probably to keep this from happening ever again. There's also clearly been a shift from three-episode pointlessness to AdaptationExpansion :The Ninja Guardians arc featured an expanded backstory for a character who probably wasn't going to get another chance to have one; the Three Tails arc created a story arc of 22 episodes out of an event that took all of half an issue in the manga; and the Six-tails Unleashed had one of the jinchuriki as it's protagonist. Unfortunately this ended with the post-Pain's Invasion filler arcs which returned to the random formula, and were often told in {{Flashback}}s. Then there was the Ten-Tails attack arc, which got almost as much filler shoved in in-between plotpoints of a single arc (that was already tediously long, even in the manga), as the above mentioned filler saga of Part 1. In the end, out of Shippuuden's 500 episodes, 203 or 41% were filler.
81	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Done in, of all things, the opening sequences. For example, in the second opening you see Sakura with long hair except a couple of brief shots taking place after her ImportantHaircut. In the third opening there is a shot of Sasuke running zoomed into his face, and a lightning bolt very briefly appears near him, which is him using Chidori.
82	* GodWasMyCopilot : Played straight for the audience and semi averted for Naruto himself in the 4th Shippuden Movie. The audience knows (or ought to know) that Naruto has inadvertently met the 4th from nearly the beginning. Naruto himself gets a few hints towards the very end of the film, but never puts two and two together (and gets mind wiped as a a result of time travel).
83	* [[GirlOfTheWeek Girl of the Movie]]: Naruto gets one of these in the first, fourth, and fifth movies. While the first, Kazahana Koyuki, could arguably be a JerkAss [[CoolBigSis Big Sis]] role (the actress in the first movie is definitely subject of a one-sided crush), the same is not true for Shion (fourth movie) or Amaru (fifth movie). The writers are taking full advantage of Naruto hitting puberty over the time skip.
84	** Played with the BigBad of the sixth movie and [[HoYay Kakashi]].
85	** Subverted in [[LuckySeven the seventh Shippuden movie]]. Since the movie is the {{canon}}ical bridge between the end of the manga and the DistantFinale epilogue, the "girl" of the movie is Naruto's [[OneTrueLove main love interest]]: [[spoiler:Hinata]]. The movie is the tale of how they fell in love and became the main OfficialCouple.
86	* GuestStarPartyMember: During the filler episodes and movies, various other characters join Team 7 to fill in for Sasuke after his desertion.
87	** Shikamaru fills in during the second movie and Rock Lee fills in during the third movie.
88	** The Star Guard Mission filler arc has Naruto joining Team Guy to fill in for Guy, with Neji swapping over to the position of team leader in his absence.
89	** In the first Shippuden movie, Lee again joins, and Neji again takes the position of team leader.
90	* HeavyVoice: In ''Shippuuden'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qWGqfFfVxA Episode 188 omake]], Naruto has one of these when he transforms himself into a sumo wrestler.
91	* HighHeelFaceTurn: Guren.
92	* HighSchoolAU: The second ending of Shippuden, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1_2AsZQERQ=channel_page Konoha Gakuen Den]], which is based off of it.
93	* HowWeGotHere: The post-Pain Invasion filler consists of a series of flashbacks to before the TimeSkip and even before the start of the series. It starts as an Iruka Gaiden, but it quickly branches out.
94	** Episodes 257-260 give anyone who hasn't already seen it a crash course in how Naruto and Sasuke grew together and apart.
95	* IndecipherableLyrics: Exhibited by the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJJiEaFZgT0&t=0m04s original English, dub-exclusive]] AnimeThemeSong for the first two seasons ("Rise, Power!", composed by Jeremy Sweet and Ian Nickus). Just look at the comments for the video attempting to decipher the lyrics, which range from "Rice, chew your sock!" to "Rise, do your stuff!" to "Fries, too much salt!". The official lyrics apparently consist of "'''Rise, ''tsuyosa''!'''", with "tsuyosa" [[http://jisho.org/words?jap==strength&dict=edict&common=on&romaji=on meaning strength/power in Japanese.]]
96	* KabukiSounds
97	* LampshadeHanging:
98	** In a filler episode, Naruto lampshades the overuse of super-powerful ninja techniques for mundane tasks, which was a regular feature of the pre-Shippuden fillers. The said episode has Jiraiya using a Rasengan to ''row a boat''.
99	-->'''Naruto:''' It looks like the Rasengan has become some sort of a cheap technique.
100	** Naruto lampshades StatusQuoIsGod in episode 101, one of the first majorly obvious filler episodes in the series.
101	-->'''Naruto:''' What kind of ending is that?!
102	** The introduction music for season 1 of Shippuden is a bit ''too'' triumphant in declaring that now the series proper can get back on track (with an implied "as opposed to endless filler"). One translation even went ahead and translated a line to "no more doing the same thing over and over" (the "same thing" being encountering {{Filler Villain}}s, flinging rasengans, failing the plot-of-the-day to locate Sasuke...), though it's unclear how close that is to the meaning of the original.
103	** The {{Omake}}s which appear from the onset of Shippuden onwards have a habit of lapsing into this:
104	*** In #14, Neji and Tenten discuss the Hyuga clan; at some point Tenten asks Neji what's the name of his cousin Hanabi, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse who has not appeared in the series for over 5 years]], and Neji takes several seconds.
105	--->'''Tenten:''' "you had to think about it, didn't you".
106	*** In #22, Kakashi talks about how one of his duties in the village is to be a teacher, and then suddenly notes that he does not actually have any students left. Visibly distraught by this, Kakashi asks the audience whether anyone would like to train with him.
107	*** #26 lampshades Sakura's (mostly anime) habit of repeatedly punching Naruto in the face - in it, she actually sets "the world Record in punching Naruto away long distance".
108	*** In #32 Temari and Kankuro complain about not having had enough screen time in the last arc, which heavily involved the sand village. They are dismayed to learn that they will not be featured in the next arc, either.
109	*** In #75, Asuma and Shikamaru note that for the next arc Shikamaru [[ADayInTheLimeLight effectively becomes the main character]], and Naruto won't be doing much of anything. They suggest renaming the series to ''Shikamaru: Shippuden'', much to Naruto's dismay.
110	*** #121 treats the characters as AnimatedActors, and has everyone teasing Hinata that practically her only line is "Naruto-kun". Hinata protests that it may be her only line, but she knows how to deliver it with feeling; to the others' requests she then gives several such deliveries (sad, happy, worried, smitten...). #142 is a CallBack to this - in it, Sakura is very annoyed that Hinata repeating a single silly line was such a "hit" and proceeds to do several deliveries of "Naruto-kun" of her own, by everyone's various requests. After all her effort, the girl at the recording panel informs her that those were very nice, but Sakura will not be saying this line in the series, so they have no use for it. Sakura is not pleased.
111	*** #137 lampshades the total detachment of [[AllThereInTheManual the databooks]] from the actual plot. Shizune asks Tsunade various questions regarding her fellow villagers, and Tsunade cheats by reading the answers from the databook. Absurdly, Tsunade needs to refer to the databook even to find out what ''her own hobby'' is.
112	*** In #156, Neji complains about [[OutOfFocus his lack of screentime]], and demands to have his own arc.
113	*** In #165, Sakura accuses Hinata of attempting to usurp her as main heroine; she specifically complains about the then-current credits animation which consisted of ~10 year old Hinata pedaling a bicycle up a mountain to the tune of a super cheery fun pop song. Sakura is outraged that Hinata, a mere extra, is hogging the credits all to herself, and further points out that as a ninja Hinata should be running and not riding bicycles. Naruto then explains that it can't be helped- [[BreakingTheFourthWall the production staff had been overrun with Hinata fans]] and every other word in the song is "bicycle" or "pedal", so they hardly could have ''not'' put her on a bicycle. Sakura would have none of this and demands to have an ending all to herself, [[{{Foreshadowing}} which she, funnily enough, gets two episodes later]].
114	* {{Leitmotif}}
115	* LikeCanNotCutLike: Lightning charged swords.
116	* LoudGulp: Twice, courtesy of Sakura. First in response to facing the scary ninja in episode 23 and second when at one point she realized she had to be nice to Naruto. Her swallow sound effect sounded different between the dub and sub versions.
117	* TheMovie: Currently eleven in the whole franchise: three for the original anime, seven for ''Shippuden'', and one that's a sequel to the seventh ''Shippuden'' movie.
118	* NudeNatureDance: A {{filler}} episode has Hinata performing one [[WaterfallShower under a waterfall]] - - a shadowy and artsy variant, surprisingly void of FanService for all intents and purposes. The sparkly water and overall atmosphere give off strong vibes of the MagicalGirl genre, which led to jokes about "[[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Hinata]]".
119	* NeverSayDie: The first few episodes of the ''Naruto '' CN dub and the early ''Shippuden'' Creator/DisneyXD dub.
120	* NoSell: In the Raiga filler arc, Neji's byakugan- an all-seeing eye passed down via generations of SuperpowerfulGenetics, the secrets of which Neji's father died to protect - is unable to locate a paraplegic kid in a backpack.
121	* OddlyNamedSequel: The anime adaptation of Part II, ''Naruto Shippuden''.
122	* OminousLatinChanting: Several pieces of music in ''Shippudden'': ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux0Qnn2XEgM Akatsuki's theme]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pkZ1xwFZdA Hidan's theme]]'', and most recently the unearthly ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9z8t6k3liU Girei]]'' which was used as a theme for the godlike Pain (and once for Tobi revealing himself as Madara).
123	* OminousPipeOrgan: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keMcNo38fGA Orochimaru's theme]]'' is the ''Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor'' ([[OlderThanTheyThink by Johannes Sebastian Bach]]) on a pipe organ, with some Asian flute, shamisen and electric guitar thrown in. The ''Fight'' version is that [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on steroids]]. The rest of the villains pretty much follow suit, each upping the ante with yet more unearthly chords and OminousLatinChanting.
124	* {{Ondo}}
125	* OneWomanWail: Used for great effect in ''Shippuden'' when Sasori dies. Also subverted at the middle of Orochimaru's theme: it's there but used for hypnotic and unsettling effect.
126	* OvertookTheManga: Resulted in an 85-episode stretch of {{Filler}} after the main events of Part I, but got better in Part II. They now have the filler spread out more cautiously.
127	* PortalStatuePairs: The statues at the entrance of the Final Valley in the series, flanking a waterfall, depict two antagonists of an ancient mythic battle that created the valley.
128	* RainbowPuke: During the Mecha-Naruto filler arc, the eponymous villain targets Naruto and Yamato while they are being carried on a palanquin. The ensuing chase triggers Yamato's motion sickness, whose nausea is comically represented by a shot of him flying through outer space while a colorful stream flows through his mouth.
129	* RaysFromHeaven: Inverted at the end of the Naruto vs. Sasuke fight at Valley of the End. After the final clash, Naruto is laying on the ground with Sasuke looking down at him. Sunlight has broken through the clouds and one of the rays is on Naruto, but the cloud cover returns and the ray slowly shrinks to a point on his bare forehead and disappears, symbolizing the loss of hope for retrieving Sasuke.
130	* RememberTheNewGuy: The anime pulls this with the random Hyuga guy guarding Hinata during the Pain arc. A whole series of flashbacks make him out as some sort of bodyguard that's constantly around, yet we've never seen him before now.
131	* RunningGag: The filler sometimes have Naruto and Sasuke accidentally kiss which only happened once in the manga.
132	* ScaryStingingSwarm: In a filler fight from Shippuden, Sakura accidentally dislodges an enormous hornet's nest from a mountain while attacking Kabuto. Oddly, the hornets ignore her and go straight for Kabuto, who, despite being startled, cuts them down before they can hurt him.
133	* ScreamDiscretionShot: Happens when a filler villain beats up Hinata in the Three-Tails arc.
134	* TheScreamParody: In the OVA "Hidden Leaf Village Grand Sports Festival!"[[note]] Otherwise known as "Konoha Annual Sports Festival"[[/note]], Naruto (who is suffering from a PottyEmergency) makes his clones disappear after they've run into the stalls in the men's room, and then [[OhCrap he finds out too late that now all the doors are locked from the inside]]. He then imagines himself doing the same pose as the person in ''The Scream'' as [[ColorFailure he turns gray]].
135	* ShaggyDogStory: If you read the manga, you knew all along that neither Konoha nor Orochimaru were going to get the Three-Tailed Beast in the Three-Tails arc.
136	** Also the chief problem with the filler episodes pre-timeskip. Yay, there's a surefire method of finding Sasuke inches within Naruto's grasp! Victory at last! It has all not been for naught! Now all Naruto needs to do is to not do something stupid, like, say, [[EpicFail fail to find Sasuke's headband then fart on the rare scent-tracking beetle thus rendering it completely useless]]! [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Three guesses what happens next]].
137	* ShootTheShaggyDog: After getting a brief filler arc wherein he finally accepts his past and becomes a master that seems set for good things, Utakata is killed by Pain before anything good can happen
138	* SickeningCrunch: During the Chuunin exams, Neji damages Hinata's heart during their fight. A heartbeat sound and a picture of a heart appears from time to time, and she reacts as though she's in pain.
139	* SimpleScoreOfSadness: The appropriately titled 'Sadness and Sorrow' from the original series, as well as 'Despair', 'Tragic' and 'Loneliness' from ''Shippuden''.
140	* SoundtrackDissonance: The 13th ending of ''Shippuden''. Not the ending itself, but seeing as the arc that this ending plays trough [[WhamEpisode is probably the darkest moment of the series]], you would think that the animators knew exactly what they were getting into by putting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8kGyaTSC0 an insanely upbeat ending featuring Hinata happily riding a bicycle]] after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm0XfDXrv1o something like this.]]
141	* {{Spoiler}}: Weaponized during a sparring match - during the repeat of the "take the bells from Kakashi" bit, Naruto threatens to spoil the plot of the next Icha-Icha book. Kakashi considers this worth clapping his hands over his ears ''and'' shutting his eyes, as his MagicalEye automatically reads Naruto's lips.
142	* TechnicolorToxin: In the anime, many poisonous jutsu and weapons are purple, including Shizune's venomous cloud and Sasori's blades.
143	* ThemeMusicPowerUp:
144	** In Part I, Naruto had several "commence recovery and ass-kicking" tunes. "''The Raising Fighting Spirit''" was the most common, but several were held in reserve for really stand-out occasions. To beat [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Neji]], Naruto had to bust out ''three'' of these in a row ("''Avenger''" followed immediately by "''Heavy Violence''" followed immediately by "''Strong and Strike''").
145	** Rock Lee has "''Utsukishi Aoi Yajuu''" (Beautiful Green Beast), which starts up every time it [[TheWorfEffect seems like]] he is going to win a battle.
146	** [[BrilliantButLazy Shikamaru]] has the techno song "''Fake''" which starts up whenever it turns out things have gone AllAccordingToPlan.
147	** In Part I, whenever [[BigBad Orochimaru's]] theme music started playing the other guy was screwed. The normal version meant they were merely scared half to death and weren't going to dare stand up to him; the "fight" version was reserved for horrible [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomping]].
148	* VariableLengthChain: Lee's weapon in the third movie.
149	* WaterIsWomanly: Ameno is a ninja who uses Water Release to heal, and is a caring and polite young woman.
150	* WeddingFinale: ''Literature/{{Konoha Hiden\|ThePerfectDayForAWedding}}'', an officially sanctioned light novel, deals with [[spoiler:Naruto and Hinata]]'s wedding in detail. The last arc of the ''Naruto'' anime adapted ''Konoha Hiden'', with the finale ending on their wedding day.
151	* WelcomeTitles:
152	** The anime's first opening starts with an introduction of Team 7's dynamics. Naruto's exuberant personality is shown by him performing a stunt on a roof. He lands in front of Sasuke and Sakura, who look amiably at him and respectively hold a BadassArmFold and a CoyGirlishFlirtPose. Then, Kakashi appears walking on some street wires. After some individual shots, the scene changes to the team effectively fighting a small army of thugs, displaying not only their ninja abilities but also the fact that Kakashi is protective of his students (he carries Sakura to safety) and that Sasuke and Naruto are best friends (the two bump fists after the battle). It's a {{downplayed example as Team 7's actual dynamic is less than functional most of the time. Furthermore, the opening excludes half of the arc's cast (Zabuza, Haku, Iruka, the Hokage, Mizuki, Ichiraku, and Ayumi).
153	** After mandatorily introducing Team 7, the Chunin Exams Arc's opening briefly goes through the other relevant participating teams, the senseis plus other assorted Konoha staff, and Kabuto. It serves to establish some of the other genin's skills and personalities.
154	* XRayOfPain: PlayedForLaughs in an episode of the first series. Jiraya is caught spying on bathing women and this trope is initially subverted when he gets hit in the face by a geta and falls over the roof he was standing on headfirst. After a successful landing, Jiraya slips over ''his own getas'' and falls again head first, this time cracking his skull and knocking himself out.
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158	* {{Bowdlerise}}: Jetix UK, Creator/RTL2, and maybe where it's airing in Australia. In short, any Anglophone country that airs this except for America is/has going to make/made a mess of it.
159	** To give an example from the Jetix UK Broadcast, the scene in the Search for Tsunade Arc where Kabuto slits his wrists to take advantage of Tsunade's crippling fear of blood was edited so that there was no blood during that scene. Instead of blood, Tsunade now seemed to have a fear of getting dirty.
160	** Sasuke pulling out his sword on Naruto was cut out on the Creator/DisneyXD broadcast of the first ''Shippuden'' episode, and the first few episodes [[NeverSayDie didn't say "die" or "kill"]].
161	** Shippuden's edited dub on Disney XD doesn't seem to know ''what'' to do with it. Some violent scenes are edited in ways that end up making no sense as a result, others are kept in almost unedited. Sometimes NeverSayDie is in full effect, other times it isn't, with no real reason given as to why. A particularly bad example is a line of Sai's dialogue. In the original Japanese, he states his brother is dead. In the original English airing, he states he's "gone." On the first flashback to this line, it's changed to "dead." On another LATER flashback to the line, it's changed back to "gone." Disney XD just can't make up its mind.
162	** The Filipino dub.
163	** The manga's English release has censored drinking (accidentally) and smoking in two pivotal scenes. It's also turned Konohamaru's Boy on Boy and Girl on Girl jutsu into silhouettes, but [[DoubleStandard at least the latter's still there]].
164	%%* CCGImportanceDissonance
165	* ColonCancer: Exhibited by the video games ''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja: Storm'', ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm2'', ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStormGenerations'', ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm3'' and the Platform/PlayStationPortable game ''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja: Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress''. Technically, one could also insert a colon between "Naruto" and "Shippuden" in some of the titles.
166	* GreatBigBookOfEverything: There are many [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto#Art_and_guidebooks supplemental books]] of the series. They include official artwork, plot, and data books. There is also the ''Mysteries and Secrets Revealed'' series whose numbers 8 and 17 books focus exclusively on Naruto. The official books add to the source material and explain it in more detail in and out of universe. The ''M&SR'' books explain questions many fans may have and it also gets into what may occur in the Naruto series using what facts they had when the books came out. For example, in the unofficial books, ''The Naruto Saga'' and ''Naruto Forever'', the reason given for the Uchiha massacre relays on out of date information.
167	** [[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Narutopedia Narutopedia]] is another great place to go for information.
168	* OCStandIn: Hanabi (Hinata's younger sister) is often prominently featured in Hyuuga-centric fanfiction and her personality widely varies from story to story, given her lack of characterization. Also Tenten, who has absolutely no background (not even a family name).
169	* SerialEscalation: The Ougis of the Ultimate Ninja Series by Creator/CyberConnect2 have become infamous for this, and are definitely much more powerful than the manga or anime, going to near-Manga/DragonBall levels of destruction at times.
170	* SpinOff:
171	** ''Manga/RockLeesSpringtimeOfYouth'', a comical spin-off centered around Rock Lee and the rest of Team Guy, was published in the Jump's monthly.
172	** ''Manga/UchihaSasukesSharinganChronicles'' is similar to the ''Rock Lee'' spin-off, but with Sasuke and the rest of Team Taka.
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