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4There are [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed so many tropes]] in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' that we had to split its trope page. Please add character tropes directly to said character entry on one of ''Naruto'''s numerous [[Characters/{{Naruto}} character sheets]], unless it is a key point or a remarkable recurring trope (e.g. on this page: ArtAttacker). This is to keep these pages from inflating artificially.
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11* AbilityMixing: A core concept in several parts of the story.
12** Certain unique Jutsu types are the result of combining elemental chakra together. For example Haku's [[KillItWithIce unique Ice style]] is the result of [[BlowYouAway Wind]] and [[MakingASplash Water]].
13** The Rasengan was designed for this purpose. The fourth Hokage intended for the Rasengan to be beefed up by adding one's Chakra element to it but [[KilledOffForReal died]] before he could. Naruto later is able to combine his wind element with it, creating [[SignatureMove the]] [[DeathByAThousandCuts Rasenshuriken]].
14** The Sage Chakra is created by mixing the physical and spiritual energy one has on their own, with the natural energy of the atmosphere. The resulting chakra is stronger than normal chakra and it can empower the user's strength and durability, as well as letting them manipulate natural energy as an offensive aura and empowering the jutsu performed with the chakra.
15** Later on, Naruto manages to combine the Sage Mode (the state where you're full of sage chakra) with his Kyuubi chakra/transformation for an even greater boost in power.
16* AbortedArc: The first major arc of the series put a lot of emphasis on the shinobi practice of completely destroying an allied ninja's corpse in order to keep any secrets their body contained from falling into enemy hands. Yet over the course of the series it seems like this practice was either surprisingly ineffective or rarely done on famous ninja, as many future events only happen due to villains being able to get a hold of the DNA of long dead ninja, with many examples being obtained from digging up their corpses when at least the implication of the first arc is that there shouldn't be enough left to bury. Furthermore, the practice of completely destroying bodies is not mentioned after the first arc. The only mitigation is that the first arc never shows us what this standard method of body destruction looks like, i.e. it leaves it unknown if the focus is simply on destroying enough to make copying body modifications or certain bloodline abilities impossible, and that there still might be enough left to be used for Edo Tensei or cloning.
17* AchievementInIgnorance: The written portion of the Chuunin Exams were set up to test the students' stealth and information-gathering skills by having questions so hard that the students would need to cheat in order to get the answers, even though they were warned they would automatically fail if they were caught too many times. Of all the members of Team 7, only Sasuke realizes the point of the written exam; Sakura simply answers the questions to the best of her knowledge, while Naruto panics and ends up leaving his answers completely blank. Any student that makes it to the end of the written portion without being caught cheating (and passing the subsequent SecretTestOfCharacter) passed automatically, and since neither Naruto nor Sakura even ''attempted'' to cheat, they inadvertently [[LoopholeAbuse found a loophole]] to pass.
18* ActionMom:
19** Tsume Inuzuka has remained an active kunoichi and mother of two teenagers while managing her clan, all after her husband left (Kiba suspects it's ''because'' she was such an ActionMom).
20** Kushina Uzumaki. She restrained the Nine-Tails with chakra chains, then used her own body to stop its claw from striking Naruto, not an hour after she gave birth and had the Fox forcibly dragged out of her body. And she was dying from having a spiritual behemoth ripped out of her the entire time.
21** [[spoiler:Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, otherwise known as the mother of the [[PhysicalGod Sage of the Six Paths]]. The Sage himself states that Kaguya was even more powerful than him, and easily the strongest person to ever live. Shame that her power [[HeWhoFightsMonsters corrupted her eventually]]...]]
22** Sakura after the time skip. She is a full blown chunin, goes in missions, is the head of the Hospital, and the most active ActionGirl of her generation.
23** Downplayed but present with Hinata. She's content to simply be a wife and mother as a rule, but keeps up her training to stay in good enough shape to spar with her kids to train them and even beat her active duty younger sister in a somewhat serious fight.
24* AnAesop: Some episode's have morals taught at the end:
25** The world must never forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The memory of the atomic bombings maintains a healthy fear of nuclear war, and we must not let this memory die with the generation that saw it or else the next war likely will be a nuclear war. Notably, this Aesop is delivered by a villain who is about two decades past the DespairEventHorizon who is actively planning to cultivate a series of [[FantasticNuke fantastic nuclear wars]] in order to secure ~80 year intervals of peace between the wars.
26** No matter how horrible things seem, it can never be too much to ask for help from your friends and allies. Itachi, a villain who was posthumously revealed as a HeroWithAnFInGood, more-or-less says to the titular character, saying not following will make him no different from the BigBad. He is also likely talking from experience, seeing that [[spoiler:after his zombification]], he learned that every contingency plan that he made failed miserably.
27* AlasPoorVillain: Nearly any major death villain. Kishimoto loves emotional death scenes with flashbacks, thus villains and good guys get equal treatment, even when they don't have a case of Redemption Equals Death. Examples include: Zabuza and Haku, Kimimaro, Sasori, Orochimaru, Danzo, Kisame, Nagato, Kabuto (though he is not dead), Obito and Madara.
28* AlliterativeFamily: The Hyuga -- Hiashi, Hinata, Hanabi, and the late Hizashi. Only Neji stands out.
29* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Villagers toward the tailed beast hosts. Inverted, or perhaps reinforced, in one of the most recent chapters: through flashbacks from a minor character who'd previously adhered to this trope in a big way, it turns out the Konoha villagers have actually been paying attention to Naruto's development from BrattyHalfPint to Heroic {{Determinator}}.
30* AllThereInTheManual: The databooks hold a lot of information never revealed in the anime or manga, like the backstories of Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu and how the former's immortality technique works. The jinchūriki (and their Tailed-Beasts) who were killed offscreen and only appeared on the splash page for chapter 420 got named and pictured in an art book month before being properly named and shown in the manga. The real names and ordinals of the current Mizukage, Tsuchikage, and Raikage were revealed in the fanbook. The Fourth, and last, databook also gives several characters' elemental chakra affinities.
31* AlwaysSecondBest:
32** Sasuke wanted to surpass his brother so he could gain full acceptance from his family, but always fell short. When he saw that Naruto was growing at a faster rate, he started to worry he'd become the weaker of the two.
33** Lee always came second to Neji, despite his incredible dedication and strength.
34** Madara refused Hashirama's call to peace, but his own clan chose to accept it against his objections. When the first Hokage was named, Madara wanted the position, but Hashirama was chosen. He finally defected and tried to kill Hashirama, and failed. His desire to create a world where nobody would be trapped in such a position was the driving force behind most of the manga.
35* AMillionIsAStatistic: Neji's death is treated as this huge thing, while potentially hundreds of other ninjas who died in previous skirmishes—and even from the same attack—are given nary a reference.
36* AmphibianAssault: The toads of Mount Myoboku can be summoned with jutsu. Although they're somewhat comedic characters, they do have jutsu of their own that can make life difficult for enemies. For instance, Naruto, Gamatatsu and Gamakichi can perform a rather powerful flame-throwing technique together.
37* AmphibianAtLarge: The toads of Mount Myoboku can be summoned with jutsu. They come in a range of different sizes, including some gargantuan ones.
38* AnachronismStew: Residents of the ''Naruto'' world live in a world with wireless radio headpieces, handheld video games, cars and movie theaters, and have electricity; but then they communicate via messenger birds and many people use horses to get around.
39* AnalogyBackfire: Kakashi compares himself to the Third Hokage having to fight his beloved pupil Orochimaru before Kakashi fights Sasuke. Sasuke replies he can share the Third Hokage's fate.
40* AnchoredTeleportation: The Flying Thunder God Technique is a teleportation jutsu invented by Tobirama Senju. It allows the user to instantly teleport to any location marked with the technique's formula. This technique can be utilized in battle by marking several kunai with the formula and [[TravelToProjectile throwing them across the battlefield to create teleportation destinations]], as demonstrated by Minato Namikaze.
41* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: From practically everyone to practically everyone else, especially in Shippuuden. Usually with less than stellar immediate results, but becoming alarmingly more effective with the passage of the years and, most of all, the approach of the CosmicDeadline.
42* AnimalMotifs: It's a veritable zoo in there!
43** [[GenerationXerox Jiraiya and Naruto -> Toads ; Tsunade and Sakura -> Slugs ; Sasuke and Orochimaru -> Snakes]]. Much later: Sasuke -> Hawks - [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands New Animal Motifs As The Plot Demands]].
44** Neji -> Birds.
45** Hinata -> Lions.
46** Team 10 - Ino, Shikamaru and Choji -> Boars, Deer and Butterflies, respectively. It plays off of a high-ranking combination in the card game Hanafuda.
47** Inuzuka clan -> Dogs ("''inu''" meaning "dog") ; Aburame clan -> Bugs
48** Third Hokage -> Monkeys.
49** Akatsuki - Itachi -> Crows ; [[MeaningfulName Sasori]] -> Scorpion ; Konan -> origami-style Butterflies ; Kisame... Well, no arrow there. {{Shark|Man}}.
50** Iruka -> [[MeaningfulName Dolphins]]. He even has ''sonar'' as his trademark ability.
51** Itachi has another one, given his first name means "weasel"
52** Temari -> [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaitachi Weasels]]
53** Kabuto -> Snakes -> Dragon
54** The cover of chapter 83 depict Gaara as a tiger while [[BruceLeeClone Rock Lee]] is a dragon.
55* AnotherDimension: Kaguya has the ability to travel though these through the use of Amenominaka.
56* AntiVillain: Several, such as: [[NobleDemon Zabuza]], [[ReluctantWarrior Haku]], [[MyMasterRightOrWrong Kimimaro]], [[JustFollowingOrders Itachi]], [[UndyingLoyalty Kisame]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist Nagato]], [[BrokenBird Konan]], and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Obito]]. [[{{Deuteragonist}} Sasuke]] becomes this in Part II—though it varies between this and AntiHero. Also [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Madara]] depending which side you to look at his backstory and his motives.
57* ArcVillain:
58** ''Land of Waves'': Zabuza as the DragonInChief to Gato, with Haku as his own [[TheDragon Dragon]].
59** ''Chunin Exams'': Orochimaru infiltrates the exams as he prepares for his invasion, with Gaara as the most dangerous and psychotic of the tournament's contestants.
60** ''Konoha Crush'': Orochimaru launches his invasion, while Team 7 chases down Gaara before he can release his tailed-beast.
61** ''Search for Tsunade'': Orochimaru and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Kabuto try to force Tsunade to heal the former, while Naruto and Jiraiya (after a brief clash with Itachi and Kisame) chase after them trying to get Tsunade to agree to become the next Hokage.
62** ''Sasuke Recovery Mission'': The Sound Five, Orochimaru's personal bodyguards who are sent to escort Sasuke to him after his FaceHeelTurn.
63** ''Kazekage Rescue Mission'': Sasori and Deidara, two members of the Akatsuki who kidnap Gaara.
64** ''Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission'': Orochimaru and Kabuto, who Team 7 fight as they try to track down Sasuke.
65** ''Akatsuki Suppression Mission'': Hidan and Kakuzu, two more members of the Akatsuki [[spoiler:who kill Asuma.]]
66** ''Itachi Pursuit Mission'': Deidara, sent by the rest of the Akatsuki to slow down Sasuke's search for his brother after he betrays Orochimaru. Tobi is revealed to be leader of the Akatsuki, claiming to be Madara Uchiha.
67** ''The Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant'': Pain, the figurehead leader of the Akatsuki and Jiraiyi's former student, with his fellow former student Konan as TheDragon.
68** ''Fated Battle Between Brothers'': Itachi Uchiha, who Sasuke finally confronts with the intent to avenge his family. Orochimaru is seemingly KilledOffForReal, and Tobi recruits Sasuke and his Taka onto the Akatsuki's side.
69** ''Pain's Assault'': Pain and Konan, who assault Konoha looking for the Nine-Tails.
70** ''Five Kage Summit'': Danzo, a Hidden Leaf elder who orchestrated the Uchiha massacre, with Tobi manipulating [[VillainProtagonist Sasuke]] into attacking him at the Kage summit.
71** ''Fourth Shinobi World War: Countdown'': Kisame is sent to spy on the Shinobi Alliance, while Kabuto returns and forces Tobi into a BigBadDuumvirate.
72** ''Fourth Shinobi World War: Confrontation'': Kabuto's Edo Tensei army provides the greatest threat, resurrecting the real Madara near the end while Tobi schemes in the background.
73** ''Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax'': Tobi is revealed to be Obito Uchiha, with the real Madara Uchiha as his master who created his current plan. After being resurrected, Madara replaces Kabuto in the BigBadDuumvirate, while Obito manages to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuuriki.
74** ''Birth of the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki'': Obito pulls a HeelFaceTurn, Madara becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuuriki and initiating the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
75** ''Kaguya Ōtsutsuki Strikes'': Black Zetsu backstabs Madara, revealing himself to be TheDragon to Kaguya Otsutsuki, who possesses Madara. Sasuke is the FinalBoss.
76* ArmorIsUseless: Flak jackets are designed specifically to stop...well... flak. That should also include slow sword swipes, shuriken, kunai, bits of rock, etc. Somehow, they don't. Unless the ninja tools are being flung with such a velocity as to pierce leather-coated-armor, then normal kunai piercing body armor should not be possible.
77** Note that the old style metal-plated armor worn by Madara and company also follows this trope. It does nothing, except serve as weight training.
78* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
79** Pain asks Naruto: "Well, what's ''your'' solution?". Naruto loses all his enthusiasm to fight because he doesn't know the answer.
80** Gaara asks the council of Kages, "When did you all forsake yourselves?". This has a particular impact on the Tsuchikage, who had been most dismissive of him.
81* ArmyOfTheAges: The Fourth Shinobi World War arc features heavy use of a resurrection jutsu that brings back a wide range of ninja that had been previously killed, including past villains the protagonists had faced.
82* ArtAttacker: Something of a theme: puppets, Konan's origami, Deidara's clay, Sai's paintings, etc. What is "true art" is even discussed several times.
83* ArtEvolution: {{Justified|Trope}} as puberty and aging for most characters, but the artwork in both manga and anime has changed quite a lot since the early chapters. It's become apparent in the newest chapters. Ten year old characters look different than before. There have been complaints on Haku's even more bishie look and, apparently, makeup.
84* ArtificialHuman: Zetsu and his various clones are the products of a failed experiment by Madara using Hashirama's [=DNA=] and the Juubi's body. Though sapient, they are completely subservient to their creator. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that they were actually humans assimilated into the Shinju (Divine Tree) by Kaguya.]]
85* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Kishi, on several occasions, would appear to have no idea how the human body actually works, or simply doesn't care — ironic given the fact that Medical-nin and the ANBU of various villages, specifically the Hunter-nin Corps of Kirigakure, are supposed to have detailed knowledge of how the body works. Most notable would be anytime a transplant is featured in the series; eyes, limbs, etc, all appear to be transplanted into the body well without fear of the body rejecting them; Madara and Obito especially transplant limbs and eyes like they're Legos, the former somehow managing to [[spoiler:tear out Kakashi's Sharingan while running past him ''without stopping or slowing down'' or otherwise damaging Kakashi's face and then simply popping it into his own empty eye socket without needing to reconnect the optic nerve.]]
86** Special mention also goes to Kabuto, who slapped a bunch of random bits of flesh from multiple people onto himself, and was able to use their jutsu by having some of his flesh transform into the chosen person.
87* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Kakashi can shout clearly while in Zabuza's Water Prison Jutsu.
88** Ninjas in general don't seem to have to fight gravity to stay straight while standing sideways on a vertical surface. Sure, chakra explains how they're adhering in the first place, but ''not'' how they have that much upper body strength.
89* ArtShift: In Episode 228, during Lee's dream he, Guy, and Tobi are drawn in the same SuperDeformed style as in ''Manga/RockLeesSpringtimeOfYouth''.
90* AscendedExtra: Shikamaru. Also Hinata, who becomes gradually less secondary during the WarArc and ends up having a whole [[Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie canonical movie]] dedicated to showing us how [[spoiler:she and Naruto fell in love]]. The rest of the Konoha 11 also often receive central roles in {{Filler}} arcs.
91* AssShove: The "1,000 Years of Death" technique.
92* AssholeVictim: The Fourth Kazekage (Gaara's dad).
93* AssimilationBackfire:
94** When Orochimaru tried to steal Sasuke's body, Sasuke reversed the process and absorbed him instead.
95** Also, there's always the threat that the [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan Tailed Beasts]] can take control of their hosts and go on a rampage. But a strong enough host can instead summon their power at will, and an even better host can make friends with their beast.
96** Obito barely avoided this when trying to seal the Juubi into his body. The pressure was so severe his mind started to break apart until [[ThePowerOfLove he remembered why he was sealing it]].
97* AssimilationPlot: During the final arc, the villain ensemble is collecting the tailed beasts in order to use the Moon as a conduit to cast a happy-happy-unity genjutsu on everyone and TakeOverTheWorld.
98* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: The principle is that the head of a ninja village (the Kage) is its strongest fighter. It is shown several times that reality is a bit more complicated than that.
99* AuthorAppeal: Kishimoto seems to have a thing for eyes. He also likes drawing toes, which is why almost everyone has opened shoes.
100* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: Pain, who we are led to believe is Akatsuki's leader, had never lost a battle before fighting Naruto. Later the situation is kind of complicated by TheReveal that even though Pain was the acting leader, he was taking orders from TheManBehindTheMan, who is also very powerful (but not nearly as powerful as Pain [[FromNobodyToNightmare at the time]]).
101* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The Infinite Tsukuyomi shows that [[spoiler:for all his complaining about her, [[LadyOfWar Temari]] really is important to [[BrilliantButLazy Shikamaru]], enough to show up by his side in his perfect dream world. And then they get married and have a son in the epilogue...]]
102* AwfulTruth:
103** The reason [[FirstEpisodeTwist why the villagers hate Naruto]] is that he's [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan the can]] of [[EldritchAbomination the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox]] which killed many of them and destroyed a good part of the Leaf Village.
104** Sasuke was far happier when he thought his brother killed his entire family out of his own volition, as some twisted form of target practice. [[FromBadToWorse Then he finds out]] this massacre was carried out under direct village orders. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope He doesn't take it well]].
105** {{Inverted}} with Neji, who finds out that the truth is far less awful than he thought; his father Hizashi ''willingly'' gave himself up in place of Hiashi. Hiashi just [[PoorCommunicationKills kept it from him]] until he thought Neji was ready to hear it and wouldn't blow it off as more lies and manipulation (which he nearly did anyway).
106** Also Inverted with Gaara. He eventually finds out that what he'd been told as a child about his mother not loving him was in fact a lie designed to test his control of [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan Shukaku]].
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110* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:As of the [[DistantFinale epilogue]]: Naruto/Hinata have two, while Sasuke/Sakura, Sai/Ino, Shikamaru/Temari, and [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Chouji/Karui]] each have one.]]
111* BackFromTheDead:
112** Gaara, by getting a LifeEnergy [[EquivalentExchange transfer]].
113** All of Konoha, due to Naruto talking some sense into Pain.
114** The entire premise of Edo Tensei. In Part I, the First and Second Hokages. In the final arc, almost every major bad guy, a few good guys (including Asuma and Tsunade's fiancé, Dan), some of the previous Kages and Jinchûrukis, and pretty much every relatively famous ninja Kabuto could think of.
115** Apparently, no matter what you do to him, Orochimaru simply ''refuses to permanently die''.
116* BackToBackBadasses:
117** Kakashi and Gai during Orochimaru's invasion, and then again during the Fourth Shinobi World War.
118** Neji and Hinata during the Fourth Shinobi World War, which carries significant meaning in light of the Main House and Branch House's bitter grudge being finally put to rest.
119* TheBadGuyWins: The end of Part I: Sasuke goes to Orochimaru willingly, just as the latter had planned.
120* BadassFamily: In a WorldOfBadass, every family is a BadassFamily. The only family introduced that is not badass is Inari, Tsunami, Kaiza, and Tazuna the bridge builder from the Wave Country arc, and even they are merely not badass by the standards of this particular universe; in a normal world, they would definitely stand out. You'd think Naruto would be exempt from this by virtue of being an orphan and you would be wrong: his father was hokage and his mother was a jinchūriki.
121* BagOfHolding: Just where do they store all those kunai and shuriken, anyway? Some characters such as Naruto wear pouches on their legs, but those things can't hold nearly as many shuriken as they throw.
122* {{Baku}}: A baku appears as Danzou's summoning and looks like a huge, tuskless fierce elephant, able to suck anything in his trunk.
123* BalanceOfPower: The distribution of the Tailed Beasts among the earliest villages helped stabilize the region. One of the main reasons the Fourth Hokage couldn't simply let the Nine-Tails escape was that its presence would disrupt that balance and potentially start a new war. [[spoiler:One of the major final motions of the manga was about Sasuke coming to the conclusion that this system was inherently terrible and needs to get rid of.]]
124* BanishingRitual: A variant is the ritual the Akatsuki organization performed on any [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan jinchūriki]] to extract the bijuu sealed in them and then seal it in the Demonic Statue of the Other Path. The ritual takes three full days to perform with all members present.
125* BathroomControl: In the OVA "Konoha Sports Festival", Naruto finds Shino in a stall in the men's room. He is about to go in after him, but Shino says there's no time because the sports festival's next event is about to begin, and drags him off.
126* BattleCouple: Minato and Kushina. Possibly other couples that we see in the DistantFinale, but we never get to see them explicitly fight side by side as a couple.
127* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Naruto vs. his dark side (or something to that general effect) at the Waterfall of Truth, and later Naruto vs Kyuubi.
128* BatmanGambit: Nothing is more satisfying than watching a character screwing their opponent(s) over in a way that ''in retrospect'' [[MagicAIsMagicA they should have totally seen coming]]. Naruto lives by this, but many other characters get their share, including villains.
129* BearsAreBadNews: Sasuke saved Karin from an attacking bear during the [[TournamentArc Chuunin Exams]].
130* BigBad:
131** Part I: Orochimaru, the leader of the Hidden Sound Village.
132** Part II: The Akatsuki led by Tobi/Obito Uchiha, with Madara Uchiha as his partner in a BigBadDuumvirate and Kaguya Otsutsuki as the GreaterScopeVillain.
133** ''[[Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie The Last]]'': Toneri Otsutsuki, who kidnaps Hinata.
134** ''Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie'': Momoshiki Otsutsuki attacks Konoha, and continues to be a major antagonist in the [[Manga/{{Boruto}} sequel series]].
135* BigBadDuumvirate: Tobi and Kabuto during the Fourth Shinobi World War arc. After Kabuto's defeat, this changes to Tobi and Madara.
136* BigBadEnsemble:
137** Part I has Orochimaru as the unambiguous main villain, with most of the conflict being derived from his attempts to destroy the Hidden Leaf Village and, after that backfires, heal his body. However, he briefly shares the role with Gaara in the Chunin Exams and Konoha Crush arcs, as while the Hidden Sound and Hidden Sand may be allied Gaara's own insanity and bloodlust make him a relatively separate threat from Orochimaru's machinations. The arc after introduces the Akatsuki, though Orochimaru is still the central focus.
138** Part II has a more clear cut BigBadEnsemble. It starts out with Orochimaru, molding Sasuke so that he can take his body; the KnightTemplar elder of the Hidden Leaf [[spoiler: who ordered Itachi's massacre of the Uchiha clan]], Danzo; and [[spoiler: Tobi (initially claiming to be Madara Uchiha, later revealed to be Obito), the true leader and ''actual'' mastermind behind the Akatsuki, who is eventually revealed to be creating an Infinite Tsukuyomi that would hypnotize the entire world, and is [[TheHeavy directly responsible for a majority of the series' events]]]]. Sasuke kills Orochimaru after trying to take Sasuke’s body, and Danzo kills himself after being confronted by Tobi and Sasuke, with Tobi himself briefly forming a BigBadDuumvirate with Orochimaru's former [[TheDragon Dragon]] Kabuto (who tries to fill his master's shoes by creating an Edo Tensei zombie army, [[BigBadWannabe but just doesn't cut it]]). As the Fourth Shinobi World War drags on, the true BigBadEnsemble of the series is established as [[spoiler: Obito, trying to initiate the Infinite Tsukuyomi; Madara Uchiha, Obito's master who caused his StartOfDarkness and whose plan Obito is attempting to hijack; and Kaguya Otsutsuki, the GreaterScopeVillain indirectly responsible for Madara's own StartOfDarkness through her [[TheDragon Dragon]] Black Zetsu, who orchestrated almost everything towards her resurrection]]. And then, [[PostClimaxConfrontation after all of them are defeated]], Sasuke declares his own intentions of world domination ([[InvokedTrope admittedly in an attempt to keep the normally warring nations united against him]]), serving as the FinalBoss.
139** And ''then'', ''[[Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie The Last]]'' introduces Toneri Otsutsuki, a descendant of Kaguya who attempts to use the moon to destroy the earth, as a punishment for the inhabitants abusing chakra in a misunderstanding of the Sage of Six Path's will. And that's not even touching the ''[[Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie Boruto]]'' [[Manga/{{Boruto}} series]].
140* TheBigBadShuffle: The BigBad at various points, been: [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Mizuki]] (Konoha shinobi teacher and StarterVillain) -> [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gato]]/[[NoNonsenseNemesis Zabuza]]/[[PunchClockVillain Haku]] (corrupt businessman/rogue Mist ninja hired by Gato/Zabuza's minion and MoralityChain) -> [[MadScientist Orochimaru]] (former [[StandardEvilOrganizationSquad Akatsuki]] member) -> [[GottaCatchEmAll The Akatsuki]] itself ([[AloofBigBrother Itachi]] being its most visible player) -> [[BigBadWannabe Pain]] (with [[TheManBehindTheMan Tobi]] as the true BigBad) -> [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Tobi]] ''[[BigBadEnsemble and]]'' [[KnightTemplar Danzo]] -> [[{{Necromancer}} Kabuto]] [[BigBadDuumvirate and]] [[DeadPersonImpersonation Tobi]] -> [[PredecessorVillain Madara]] [[BigBadDuumvirate and]] [[FallenHero Obito]] -> [[DarkMessiah Obito]] (after as he becomes the jinchūriki of the Ten-Tails and Madara [[BigBadWannabe leaves on the background]]) -> [[AGodAmI Madara]] (after defeat Obito) -> [[PhysicalGoddess Kaguya]] (after stabbing Madara) -> [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Sasuke]] (after helping Naruto seal Kaguya) -> [[KnightTemplar Toneri]] (when he tries to crash the Moon into the Earth) -> [[EvilVersusEvil Momoshiki Otsutsuki]], (who is Kaguya's rival in monopolizing chakra).
141* BigBadassBattleSequence: The Invasion of Pain and the Invasion of Konoha.
142* BigDamnHeroes:
143** Played straight as much as you can expect given [[{{Shonen}} the genre]] (Naruto for Iruka, Sakura and Naruto for Sasuke, The Sand siblings for Team Shikamaru, etc.).
144** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]] with Naruto's return to Konoha when Pain attacks. When Naruto arrives Pain has already destroyed the village and got the intel he was looking for. He was ''leaving'' and pretty much nobody needed to be saved anymore or ''could'' be saved anymore. Then Naruto goes ahead and [[LogicBomb saves the day anyway]], because [[TheHero that's what he does]].
145* BigEater: Somewhat of a running gag. Naruto can eat several bowls of ramen for dinner without gaining weight. Anko often eats dozens of sticks of dumplings for lunch- and several days' worth of calories. Chouji and his whole clan are like this, as they use the extra body mass for their fighting style. Tsunade boasts a huge appetite when she wakes up from her coma. Obviously a case of RuleOfFunny, RefugeInAudacity and NegativeContinuity in one of the {{Omake}}s where a huge ramen eating contest takes place and ''[[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]]'' wins, of all people.
146* BigFancyHouse: The Uchiha extended-family compound stands out particularly for its size, being the size of a small village. The Hyuga's place is pretty impressive as well, looking more like a palacial estate than a housing complex.
147* BigShutUp: Naruto says this to Chiyo when the latter tells him to calm down following Gaara's death.
148* BirdsOfAFeather: Naruto and Hinata. Despite having different personalities and fighting styles, they're very similar to each other, as pointed out by [[ShipperOnDeck Lee, Sakura, Kiba and Shino]]. Both are considered failures by everyone around them, both suffer because of the respective statuses they have carried since birth, and both want to be acknowledged and accepted. Both are really nice, dorky, determined, loyal, and insecure. According to [[AllThereInTheManual the databooks]] and ''[[Literature/KonohaHidenThePerfectDayForAWedding Konoha Hiden]]'', both like to eat red bean soup and preserve their plants. Their respective signature colors--Orange and Purple--share the common color {{Red|StringOfFate}} on the [[http://web.archive.org/web/20170929145745/https://designcode.io/cloud/chapter1/Colors-Wheel.png color wheel]]. Finally, both are incredibly empathetic, despite living in a world where that trait is easily looked down upon. This is one of the reasons why they develop a strong friendship [[spoiler:that grows into love]].
149* BittersweetEnding: The End of Part I has the effort to retrieve Sasuke fail, and he officially defects over to Orochimaru, who plans to take his body for his own purposes. Everyone was injured in the mission, but end up surviving and begin to recover. Then Jiraiya shows up and says that he found out that Orochimaru cannot accomplish his plans with Sasuke for 3 more years, and the Akatsuki will not target Naruto for the same period of time. This prompts Naruto to leave the village and go train with Jiraiya for a few years, in order to get stronger and rescue Sasuke later on.
150* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The Land of Iron is located around the "Three Wolves"; three "mountains" [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/8/82/LandofIron.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20150101173232 which are shaped like canine mouths]]. How the hell does ''that'' happen?
151* BlackEyesOfEvil: Anyone summoned by Edo Tensei gets these, as does Naruto's "Dark Side" at the waterfall of truth.
152* BlockingStopsAllDamage: A common problem cited is in the Gaara vs. Rock Lee fight, Gaara manages to continue fighting when his gourd intercepts the damage from the final blow. He had already taken a large amount of hits at high speed and the physics behind the second last hit would have made it much stronger than the last. When the round ends he doesn't even limp or show any type of injury afterwards.
153* BloodIron: Long after its introduction, [[NamedWeapon Zabuza's sword Kubikiribouchou]] is revealed to have the power to repair itself by drawing iron from the blood it spills.
154* BloodMagic:
155** Summoning techniques require a tribute of blood to call forth a creature with which you have a contract; most shinobi bite their thumb to obtain it.
156** Hidan's curse. Hidan licks the blood of his opponent off his scythe, turning himself into a living voodoo doll for his enemy.
157* BloodOath:
158** As early as the first arc, when Naruto stabs his hand, bleeds and vows to not be saved again (namely by Sasuke).
159** An interesting variation appears later, during the Chunin Exam arc: Naruto swears to defeat Neji not on his own blood, but on Hinata's, after he witnessed [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown her brutal defeat at Neji's hands]] during the Chunin Exams preliminaries.
160* BloodySmile: After a brutal fight between brothers, Sasuke Uchiha seems trapped against Itachi, who has BloodFromTheMouth. But in the end, Itachi smiles and pokes his forehead as he did when his little brother was a kid [[NotSoStoic breaking his facade]] and demonstrating that he always was worried about Sasuke, to finally GoOutWithASmile.
161* BodyHorror: There are many examples of it. See the trope's BodyHorror/AnimeAndManga section for details.
162* BondBreaker: Due to Sasuke and Itachi's reunion in part one. After NoHoldsBarredBeatdown meets MindRape courtesy of Itachi, Sasuke snaps. He becomes obsessed with revenge while unleashing his frustration and anger upon [[TheHero Naruto]] (because of the latter's progress). Meanwhile [[NeutralFemale Sakura]] cannot do anything but witness this, and [[{{Mentor}} Kakashi]]'s good words don't have the time to sink in. Sasuke leaves Konoha soon after, rejecting Sakura's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, before defeating Naruto in an epic duel. In the series' end, [[spoiler:Sasuke sees sense, but of course, [[DefeatMeansFriendship Naruto needs to punch him in the face several times before that can happen]].]]
163* TheBookCipher: Jiraiya uses his books for this. Played for laughs due to type of content his books hold.
164* BookEnds:
165** The Hidan & Kakuzu arc begins and ends with Shikamaru playing Shogi and discussing Konoha's ChessMotifs with his opponent.
166** Both Part I and Part II end with [[spoiler:a battle between Naruto and Sasuke in the Valley of the End]].
167** The very first chapter of the series starts with Naruto vandalizing the Hokage monument. In the epilogue chapter, [[spoiler:Naruto's son]] does the same.
168** On a more literal level, the first page of the first chapter shows a mural detailing the Fourth Hokage's battle with the Nine-Tailed Fox. The last page of the final chapter shows a similar mural detailing [[spoiler:Naruto's battle with the Ten-Tailed Beast]].
169** One for the Part II anime. The first episode, which [[spoiler:contains a FlashForward of the 51st episode]], has a scene where Naruto and Sakura spot light at the end of a dimly lit corridor, which they run towards, both being uncertain of what lies ahead. The last episode's final scene is [[spoiler:[[OfficialCouple Naruto and Hinata]] walking out to a brightly lit corridor to commence their wedding and begin their future together]]. As a bonus, Sakura [[spoiler:was Naruto's [[LovingAShadow one-sided shallow crush]], until the events of [[ShipSinking Chapter 469/Shippuden Episode 206]]]].
170** For the entire anime, with both parts. The very first episode of Part I ended with Naruto receiving his Konoha forehead protector from Iruka, with the former reacting with stunned silence (as Iruka had put it on Naruto as a surprise). In the last episode of Part II, when the credits have finished rolling, an extra scene shows an older Naruto [[spoiler:[[PassingTheTorch taking off his headband and giving it to his son, Boruto, who puts it on happily]]]].
171* BoringButPractical: Kunai and Shuriken. They're the most basic ninja tool, but they have a place in the highest level battles.
172** Karin's abilities aren't flashy, but instant healing and chakra sensory can be invaluable on an [[{{BFS}} offensive]] [[SuperPoweredEvilSide focused]] [[MagicalEye team.]]
173* BotanicalAbomination: The God Tree is a massive tree formed from absorbing the blood of battlefields for a millennium, and also the source of all chakra, which can be imbued to anyone who devours the chakra fruit it bears every subsequent millennium.
174* {{Bowdlerise}}:
175* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: One of the foundations of the Root. Also the officially stated motivation behind Madara's master plan -- placing the entire population of the world under an illusion where there is no more war, pain or negative feelings.
176* BrawlerLock: During their Chunin exam fight, Sakura and Ino end up briefly doing this, along with [[CrossCounter cross counters]], and [[PunchParry Punch parries]].
177* BreakThemByTalking: An antagonist will give this a shot more often than not. Sometimes the target [[ShutUpHannibal shrugs it off]]; other times, it starts sinking in, and another character will have to break them out of it.
178** [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Part I Neji]] delivers one so effective to Hinata that by the end she's in hysterics and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, until Naruto starts cheering her on. Later he tries to do the same to Naruto, who needs something like three flashbacks, six {{Theme Music Power Up}}s and a NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech to break out of it.
179** Pain almost completely breaks Naruto with one of these; it ends up being overridden with an UnstoppableRage when Pain crosses the line and, in order to prove a point, almost kills [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Hinata]] right in front of Naruto. [[PlotArmor She somehow manages to survive]].
180** Attempted by The Kyuubi every once in a while whenever it feels like there's something to be gained by messing Naruto up. This is no longer the case after the Kyuubi's HeelFaceTurn, though.
181** Obito's overwhelming power and nihilistic worldview make his alarmingly effective. When he gets started on Kakashi, Naruto ends up having to snap him out of it; when he later gets started on ''Naruto'', the effect doesn't go away until Hinata ''[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slaps him in the face]]''.
182* BreathWeapon: Many techniques revolve around spewing a substance out of a person’s mouth. Among the elemental ninjutsu, it’s very common to see this be applied to [[PlayingWithFire Fire Release]] techniques.
183* BrightnessShadows: Lightning release illuminates with darkened shadows, particularly when Sasuke uses it.
184* BrokenAesop: [[BrokenAesop/{{Naruto}} Has its own page]].
185* BullyingADragon: Bullying someone who as an überpowerful and bloodthirsty monster sealed inside him/her is obviously a bad idea. And yet, jinchūriki are usually reviled and excluded from the community. This is especially dangerous if the host doesn't fully control their beast... which is true in the overwhelming majority of cases. Consequently, at least three jinchūriki left their village and became wanderers, and one of them became a murderous sociopath who would kill someone just for looking at him the wrong way.
186* BustContrastDuo:
187** Sakura and Hinata, post-TimeSkip. The former is [[ACupAngst highly sensitive about her lack of growth]], while the latter is [[DCupDistress embarrassed about her growth]].
188** Likewise, there's Sakura and her mentor Tsunade, who's one of the few women with breasts that are larger than Hinata's.
189** The Team Samui of Kumogakure includes [[FauxActionGirl the big-breasted leader]] Samui and the flat-chested {{Tsundere}} Karui.
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193* CagedBirdMetaphor: Neji compares his Curse Mark as being similarly to caging a bird. He's confined by his birth, not by his skill (at least at first). Neji [[spoiler:committing a HeroicSacrifice and chosing his own death]] is signified with a bird flying free.
194* CainAndAbel: Sasuke's backstory involving his inexplicably AxCrazy brother Itachi. It turns out there's a bit more of a story to this. This theme goes all the way back to the first ninja clan in history; it had two brothers which went on to found two ninja clans whose bitter, bloody rivalry echoed throughout centuries.
195* CallBack:
196** When Kakashi gives Team 7 the bell test, he challenges them on what they would do if one of them were captured and they were told to kill their other teammate to save the hostage. Several hundred chapters later, that exact situation plays out for Yahiko, Konan and Nagato. Yahiko's solution was to throw himself on Nagato's kunai, solving the immediate problem, but ultimately causing [[FreakOut a much greater one]].
197** Several with Zabuza and Haku. They involve the former's sword, and them being revived and Haku using himself as a human shield for Zabuza to take advantage of against Kakashi.
198** Very subtle, but during the Chunin Exams, Kakashi and Sasuke appear for Sasuke's battle at the last possible second in a cloud of smoke, with Kakashi remarking "Sorry we're late." Over one hundred episodes later, in Shippuden Episode 86, "Shikamaru's Genius," Naruto and the rest of Team Kakashi come to the rescue of Kakashi, Choji and Ino, and after the smoky mist clears, Naruto uses the exact same phrase to Kakashi Sensei.
199** During Naruto's fight with Neji in the Chunin Exams, Neji asks why Naruto is trying to defy his destiny. He replies "'Cause people called me a failure." During the Fourth Shinobi World War when Neji [[TakingTheBullet is hit]] with a fatal blow while protecting Naruto and Hinata, Naruto tearfully asks why he did that. Neji replies "Because you called me a genius."
200** When Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru and Pakkun were following Sasuke and Gaara only to be hunted by Sound Nins they contemplate to ambush their pursuers only for Shikamaru to shot down the idea and instead volunteered to be a decoy, though thankfully he was saved by Asuma before anything happened. Hundreds of chapter later we saw this also happened to Danzo, Hiruzen and Tobirama once with Tobirama acting as the decoy, though Tobirama ended up being actually killed then.
201** Several are made to events from the beginning of the series after [[spoiler:Team 7 reunites and are the only ones left to fight Kaguya]]. For example: when fighting Haku on the bridge, Sasuke jumps in the way of an attack to save Naruto. Naruto asks him why he did it and Sasuke says, "I don't know why. My body just moved." After [[spoiler:Kaguya first transfers them to AnotherDimension]], Naruto saves Sakura and Kakashi from falling into lava. Sasuke tells Naruto they have to let the others go if it means saving the world, and Naruto says he'd planned to act that way but "My body just moved. [[LampshadeHanging You know what I mean, Sasuke?]]"
202** Many of Naruto's tactics during the FinalBattle are actually ones that he relied on during the earlier half of the manga. [[spoiler:First, for the first time since the post-TimeSkip section of the series began, Naruto attacks with a swarm of shadow clones, which he'd been using much more conservatively since he got back from his training trip. Then, he disguises one of the clones as the real him in order to lure Kaguya into attacking it, all while having the rest of the clones defend it fiercely, which is the same tactic he used against Neji during the Chuunin Exam.]]
203** The way the FinalBattle of the series begins is full of call backs galore to the beginning and ''end'' of Part I of the series. [[spoiler:Sakura begs Sasuke not to go through with his plans on revolution, crying and trying to get him to stay, just like she did at the end of Part I. Sasuke, in turn, calls her annoying, much like how he did at the beginning of Part I when Team 7 first came together. And to cap it all off, Sasuke and Naruto begin their final battle in the Valley of the End, a very deliberate CallBack to their final fight in Part I.]]
204** The very last chapter contains a callback in the form of [[spoiler:Naruto's son Boruto vandalizing the mountain portraits of the hokages, just like Naruto did in his own youth. Except that while Naruto did it because of how ostracized and lonely he was, Boruto did it because Naruto's duties as Hokage mean they don't get to spend much time together anymore.]]
205* CallingTheOldManOut:
206** Naruto punches his father when he meets him in the mindscape, angry about having the fox sealed in him.
207** {{Inverted}} later when Gaara's father calls ''himself'' out. Instead of raging at his father, Gaara calmly declares that he's surpassed/defied everything the former Kazekage expected of him... And then the Fourth Kazekage reveals that Gaara's mother and his uncle Yashamaru always did truly love him, while admitting that he himself doesn't deserve to be Gaara's father.
208** Itachi even managed to do this to his father in a flashback despite being completely and totally respectful, threatening to quit an important mission to go to Sasuke's academy entrance ceremony when his father decided to skip it to go on Itachi's mission with him. Fugaku was not happy.
209** [[spoiler:In the DistantFinale Naruto's son, Boruto, constantly pulls pranks and chastises Naruto for not paying enough attention to him.]]
210* CanonImmigrant:
211** [[FillerVillain Raiga]]'s twin swords from the ''Curry of Life'' filler arc have been included in canon since they appeared in chapter 523. Raiga was a former member of the Seven Swordsman of The Mist (according to filler), and they are seen being wielded by another former member in the manga.
212** Gari of the Hidden Stone Village, Chukichi of the Hidden Mist Village, Pakura of the Hidden Sand Village and Toroi of the Hidden Cloud Village were all originally from the sixth Naruto movie.
213** The Hōzuki Castle/Blood Prison -- the setting for the ''Anime/NarutoTheMovieBloodPrison'' movie -- is mentioned in the canon novels ''Kakashi Hiden: Lightning in the Icy Sky'' and ''Shikamaru Hiden: A Cloud Drifting in Silent Darkness''. In fact, the ''Literature/NarutoHiden'' light novels in general have canonized a number of things introduced in {{Filler}} and the [[NonSerialMovie Non-Serial Movies]] (though they had to change a number of details to make them canon-compliant).
214* CantCatchUp: Remember when Naruto and Sasuke were more or less on the same level as the rest of the rookies? Remember when Rock Lee could hand anyone of the Konoha 11 their behinds in a fight? Remember when the Byakugan was hyped as something on equal footing with the Sharingan? Remember the time when Sakura took a leap and was obviously going to be on the same level as Naruto & Sasuke now? And the other time? And the other time?
215* CartesianKarma: Sasuke's fall and betrayal of Konoha has continually been a plot point, with the eponymous character constantly hoping for his return. Obstructing this is not only the fact that he's now an internationally wanted criminal, but also had a central antagonist absorbed into his body at one point, and he had gone nearly blind. He seems to be getting better, at least in the seeing department.
216* CastFromCalories: Choji has a SuperMode that uses calories and is triggered by FoodPills. It's considered a DangerousForbiddenTechnique because it consumes so many nutrients that the user dies; however, Choji is so enormously fat that he has barely enough energy to survive, and becomes comically skinny in an instant.
217* CastFromLifespan: Commonly enough. The really powerful techniques have shades of this more often than not, and several characters end up dropping dead just from the sheer toll their techniques are taking on them. Naruto has to deal with the Kyuubi's chakra having this effect, but he gets something of an equalizer in that his clan is ''really'' long lived. Kabuto seems to be aware that a lot of techniques work like this, and makes a point of bragging that Summoning: Impure World Resurrection has ''no'' such drawbacks or trade-offs. Except, as always, Itachi and Madara begs to differ.
218* CastHerd: The huge cast is conveniently organized in teams of 3 or 4 members, while antagonists are almost always organized by pairs (Zabuza/Haku, Orochimaru/Kabuto, and of course Akatsuki members), the sole exceptions being the Sound Five and arguably Konan and Pain.
219* TheCavalry: Inari manages to convince the villagers to put up a fight at the end of the Land of Waves arc after the henchmen discuss looting the town as compensation due to the death of their employer Gato. Naruto and Kakashi then cast a shadow clone jutsu to increase the number of fighters the henchmen would then have to deal with. Needless to say, the henchmen say ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
220* CelebratoryBodyTossing: After Naruto defeats Pain, the villagers of Konoha toss Naruto into the air. Poignant in that it show Naruto has finally earned their respect after years of being scorned for being the container of the Nine-Tails.
221* CentralTheme: Naruto starts out seeming like a straight ToBeAMaster series but later two major themes emerge: How much pain can a person endure without turning their back on the world? and Will your family's legacy ever stop being a part of you? With the second in mind it also deals heavily with the CycleOfRevenge. Most evil characters have had terrible pasts and wish to either get revenge, run away, or restart the world from scratch, and Naruto redeems them because he too has had a terrible past but his drive and love have seen him through to brighter days. Oh and he is well on his way to being a master after all because of it.
222* CerebusSyndrome: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzags]]. Part I goes back and forth between Naruto's borderline {{sitcom}} interactions with his classmates and ominous angst (like Sasuke's "death" and anything ''at all'' having to do with Orochimaru). The very beginning of Part II has it completely settling in -- from that point on, barring {{filler}}, [[spoiler:some {{Call Back}}s in the very FinalBattle and the DistantFinale]], the episodic comic relief is gone.
223* CharacterShilling: Everyone lines up to say how perfect Itachi is -- even Naruto and Sasuke, who have very good reasons to dislike him, or the First Hokage, who says that Itachi is a better shinobi than him even though they've never met.
224* CharacterTitle: ''{{Characters/Naruto}}''
225* ChaseFight: Deva Path vs the Nine-Tails.
226* ChekhovsBoomerang:
227** "''Icha Icha Tactics''" is used as a silly gag during the first few episodes of Shippuden. Then again as a serious plot device a hundred chapters later.
228** Jiraiya's first book features a story with a character named Naruto who has a tough battle against a rogue ninja. At first Naruto thinks the story is dedicated to him. Turns out the story is much more complicated than that.
229** If it starts looking like the Sharingan has been implanted in every possible way and every possible person towards any possible goal, that's a sure sign yet more sharingan shenanigans are afoot.
230** Orochimaru's experiment that ended up giving Yamato his powers. Turns out Yamato was not the only one to survive the procedure.
231** Early on, Naruto solves the riddle of learning a technique that is "like looking to the left and the right at the same time" by using the Shadow Clone Technique. Much later, when learning Sage Mode, the Fukasaku says the same phrase again
232* ChekhovsGag: "Sexy Jutsu" shows up as a throwaway joke in the very first chapter of the manga (or at least an early variant of it), and has been played for laughs in its every appearance since. And yet, [[spoiler:It's the only technique that manages to phase [[PhysicalGod Kaguya]] at all. It doesn't win the battle, but the protagonists can't land a single hit on her until they use it]].
233* ChekhovsGun:
234** During the Hinata vs. Neji match in the Chunin Exams, Kakashi mentions that the Sharingan is said to have been derived from the Byakugan. Over a decade later in real time, [[spoiler:Kaguya, Byakugan user and progenitor of all chakra, is revealed to be the owner of a Dojutsu called the Rinne Sharingan, which the Sharingan is derived from]].
235** Kakashi's pre-TimeSkip lecture to Sasuke about revenge. Guess what becomes one of the major themes of the entire manga (and not just Sasuke)?
236** The Uchiha shrine. It turns out the origin of the Tailed Beasts is down in the shrine, and is also tied to the origins of the Moon.
237** At one point, Itachi makes Naruto swallow a crow. Metaphorically, in genjutsu-scape, however that is supposed to work. Naruto spits it back out in chapter 549, ''two years'' of real life running time later. It was a contingency plan for when Naruto would confront Sasuke; it ended up being triggered by completely different conditions even Itachi didn't foresee.
238** The first book Jiraiya ever wrote, The Tale of the Gutsy Shinobi. The Great Toad Sage [[TheProphecy prophesized]] Jiraiya would write it when Jiraiya was young. It was the book that Minato named his son after because he enjoyed the main character. It was later given to Naruto to read before his sage training. Then Naruto shows it to Nagato to remind him of his past self before he gave up on true peace and perform a HeelFaceTurn. Nagato was the inspiration for Jiraiya to write it in the first place.
239** On the topic of Jiraiya’s books, Icha Icha Tatics, the first Icha Icha published post-TimeSkip, in particular a early release copy being gifted to Kakashi. As he’s [[spoiler:dying, Jiraiya placed a coded message based on passages in the novel]]. [[spoiler:Said message is meant to convey the true nature of the Six Paths of Pain]].
240* ChekhovsGunman:
241** Shisui Uchiha was introduced as a skilled member of the clan to show how even more impressive Itachi was in comparison. Later it's revealed that Danzo has Shisui's right eye, which has MindControl powers, and a right arm made of Hashirama's cells.
242** Obito Uchiha and everything about him.
243* ChekhovsSkill:
244** The Rasengan. Learnt pre-TimeSkip, and then much, much later on, when Killer Bee thought it was hopeless to use the Tailed Beast Bomb, the Rasengan turned out to be the answer: it was based on the Tailed Beast bomb. Release chakra, compress to sphere (rotate if it's Rasengan), and release.
245** [[BackFromTheDead Summoning: Impure World Resurrection.]] Introduced by Orochimaru during his invasion of Konoha in the Chunnin Exam Finals pre-TimeSkip, this jutsu plays a pivotal role in the Fourth Shinobi World War arc.
246** A smaller-scale example: right after Shikamaru is promoted to Chunin, there is a scene that reveals Choji believes the last bite in a meal is sacred. A few episodes later, Shikamaru recruits Choji into the Sasuke Retrieval Squad by eating a bag of potato chips and leaving only one left, causing Choji to run outside and eat it.
247* ChildSoldiers: The main cast of teenagers became ninja in their early teens. Most of the characters became ninja at early ages; Kakashi became one at ''five''.
248** Far more chilling is the revelation that during the Warring Clans Era, children as young as seven were sent into battle only to be mercilessly slaughtered. So many died, it lowered the average life expectancy to around 30.
249* ChildhoodFriendRomance:
250** Naruto and [[spoiler:[[OneTrueLove Hinata]], the girl who has admired, acknowledged, and loved him [[WartsAndAll for the way he is]] since the day they met. He ''finally'' [[LoveEpiphany realizes his feelings for her]] and reciprocates her love in ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', and from the ending credits and the [[DistantFinale epilogue]] onward, they're HappilyMarried with two children]].
251** After his HeelFaceTurn, Sasuke is able to open up to the possibility of pursuing a romantic relationship. [[spoiler:He marries his teammate from team 7, Sakura, the girl who has always loved him, and has a daughter with her.]]
252** Naruto's parents Minato and Kushina met as children -- Minato even admitting the first thing he noticed about her was her beautiful red hair. They were no more than 14 when they fell in love.
253* TheChooserOfTheOne: Jiraiya was told by the Toad Sage that he would train the Child of Prophecy.
254* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Kabuto and Sasuke are only loyal to Orochimaru and the Uchiha clan, respectively. To top it off, several times Sasuke ends up drastically altering his choice of goals, allies and methods because his concept of what it means to be "loyal to the Uchiha clan" changed.
255* CigarFuseLighting: How Shikamaru sets off a huge array of explosive tags during his fight with Hidan.
256* CiviliansAreIrrelevant: Played straight as a razor both in this show [[Manga/{{Boruto}} and its continuation]]: it is established repeatedly that Konoha has both a civilian government and a separate Ninja government run by the Hokage, both of which work together to make the town function on a day-to-day basis (and it's also shown that other Villages are not nearly this much democratic ''and'' also mentioned that Ninja, as mercenaries, depend on looking good to potential customers, which is one of the big reasons the Chuunin Test is a TournamentArc), but in the end it just seems that if you are not a PersonOfMassDestruction you don't have any say whatsoever in how things are run. An egregious example of this involves Orochimaru, one of the BigBadEnsemble of the series, a man responsible for a hefty amount of atrocities incuding the personal assassination of two Kages (one of them being the Third Hokage, Naruto's father figure), causing a war, MadScientist experiments on many people... yet for his actions in the Fourth Ninja World War the shinobi governments decide to spare his life and merely place him under surveillance in case he is needed again, and there is absolutely no mention of what the civilian governments of the world feel about having one of the world's greatest terrorists living among them (though giving Orochimaru's crimes mainly effected shinobi, the civilian governments may not care all that much anyway).
257* TheClan: Plenty, though the most high-profile in Konoha are Hyuga and Uchiha.
258* CloneByConversion: Summoning: Impure World Resurrection resurrects someone by transforming someone else into a copy of them.
259* CloningSplitsAttributes: This is how the Shadow Clone jutsu works. Unlike the normal basic Clone jutsu, shadow clones are not illusions or afterimages, but have corporeal form and are thus able to fight, take damage, act independently, and even perform more jutsu. What gives them form is that the user imbues each clone with half of their own chakra and the strength and durability of each clone is directly proportional to the amount of chakra in each, making higher numbers of clones far weaker and easier to destroy. Multiple Shadow Clone jutsu is a forbidden technique because it is dangerous for most people to attempt due to the fractioning of chakra. Naruto however is able to master this technique because he can tap into the [[EnemyWithin Kyuubi's chakra,]] giving him a near infinite supply to divide amongst his clones, effectively loopholing his way out of the main downside to the technique. He's also seen using the clones to accelerate his training since the memories and experiences of each clone return back to him along with the chakra when they are destroyed.
260* CollectiveDeathGlare: On entering the Chuunin Exam chamber, Naruto and the rest of the three sets of rookie teams from Konoha all disturb the (many) gathered ninja from mentally preparing for the exam with their noise, earning their annoyance. However, when Naruto loudly declares that none of them will beat him at the exams, everyone in the room gives him a death glare and Kabuto observes that he's just made enemies with everyone in the room.
261* CombatBreakdown:
262** This is how the battle between Madara and Hashirama ultimately went. It started with them throwing their most powerful and impressive techniques at each other. It ended with a battered and exhausted Hashirama tricking an equally exhausted Madara with a clone technique — one of the simplest tricks in a ninja's arsenal — and impaling him in the back with a sword.
263** The FinalBattle between [[spoiler:Naruto and Sasuke]] plays out the same way (and at the same spot as the above one). It starts with the two combatants throwing ridiculously powerful attacks at each other until they're both out of usable chakra, at which point they forgo all that and just charge in and start beating the crap out of each other. By the end of it, they're so injured and completely exhausted that their punches are too slow and weak to even hurt each other anymore.
264* CombatByChampion: This seems to be what Tobi has planned for Sasuke and Naruto. Subverted because it seems to be scheduled for after the war. In the end [[spoiler:this actually comes to pass, but by then so many of the variables have changed, and so drastically, that [[AbortedArc this original plan has absolutely no bearing on the fight]]. No reference is made to it, and the readers are probably not expected to remember it]].
265* CombatHandFan: Both main varieties (folding fan and gunbai) are used by various characters.
266* CombatParkour: Being ninjas, all the main characters relish in this trope when dodging or attacking. Every fight scene is laced with stylistic flips and twists in addition to the consistent use of the environment and the people around them to fight.
267* CombinationAttack: In the series, there’s a subset of ninjutsu called “cooperation ninjutsu”, where two or more combatants on the same side create a more powerful jutsu by combining two or more jutsus.
268* CondemnedContestant: The winner of the kill-all in Orochimaru's jail would get the ''honor'' of becoming Orochimaru's body.
269* ConservationOfNinjutsu: It goes without saying. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with the Shadow Clone technique: the user's existing chakra is split evenly between all clones, so the more clones you make, the less chakra and stamina you and the clones have each. This is the primary reason why the Multi Shadow Clone version is a forbidden technique, as most ninja can't fight with more than a couple of clones active, and can easily die from chakra exhaustion if they make too many.
270* ConspicuousGloves: In a variation, Danzo covers his whole right arm in a metal contraption, which is covered further by having his arm tucked into his kimono. It hides a multitude of transplanted [[MagicalEye Sharingan]] on said arm, alongside the fact that he injected [[SuperpowerfulGenetics The First Hokage]]'s DNA into said arm, making it look hideous (with Hashirama's face seemingly grafted on his shoulder).
271* ConvectionSchmonvection:
272** In theory, Fire-element jutsu should be among the most powerful attacks in the world. In practice, they are ''useless'', as even a fireball so hot it makes the bedrock glow red will simply ''not burn'' a human being for no discernable reason. The worst offender is probably the jutsu 'Amaterasu', which is supposedly ''[[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale as hot as the sun]]'' and therefore should kill everyone within a ten mile radius. Instead, it only seems to be dangerous if you touch it, and despite [[InformedAbility its presented heat]] it can be extinguished with no ill effects. In fact, the only important characters that have been hurt at all by fire jutsu on-screen are [[{{Irony}} Sasuke and Itachi]].
273** [[spoiler:Kaguya starts her fight with Team 7 by dumping them in AnotherDimension over a lake of lava. They're able to hover inches above it without issue, [[ZigZaggedTrope but the scroll that Kakashi used to tether himself to a wall eventually burns up]]]].
274* ConvenientTerminalIllness: Inverted for Itachi: it's ''because'' he wanted to die at the hands of Sasuke that he took numerous drugs to stay alive.
275* CostumeEvolution: Over the TimeSkip, some characters (mainly the Konoha 11) start wearing new clothes. Naruto went from wearing a complex-looking jacket and pants with some accessories added to a simpler, black and orange jacket and pants with little to no add-ons. Sasuke's went from a simple collared shirt, arm warmers, headband, simple pants and boots to looking more like a samurai without headband.
276* TheCorrupter: Orochimaru and Obito. Danzo is more of a mild example; he probably holds the series record for people screwed over by listening to him, but he is much less of a CardCarryingVillain, and believes he is just helping people stop being Naive and see things from the point of view necessary to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo do what they have to do]].
277* CrapsackWorld: During the Warring Clans Era, the average life expectancy of a shinobi or even civilian was around 30, due primarily to the number of {{Child Soldier}}s killed (it wasn't unusual for children in the single digit ranges to go into battle). Most adults were so embittered they could not even fathom the idea of peace that did not come from utterly destroying their enemy.
278** And it's mentioned that the world was in an even ''worse'' state before the Sage of Six Paths introduced chakra and kicked off the Warring Clans Era.
279** CrapSaccharineWorld: The current era of Hidden Villages is better perhaps only in the sense that it has mitigated the problems of the previous era, but hardly solved them. While it generally has an optimistic outlook and the bad guys often fall to ThePowerOfFriendship, many of the problems from the old world are still around. The peace between some of the villages is shaky at the best of times, they still use {{Child Soldier}}s (albeit older than before and generally more likely to survive to adulthood), and the curse that has been stoking and manipulating the flames of hatred in the shinobi world since its birth is still alive and well. It is only at the conclusion of the Naruto series that the latter issue is solved by Black Zetsu's sealing and the feud between Indra and Asura at last ending by those whose souls their chakra possessed (Sasuke and Naruto) making genuine peace.
280* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: A staple of the series.
281** The [[CharacterDevelopment progression of Naruto's character]] is so much this that Part I and Part II could have easily been called "Volume I: Crouching Moron" and "Volume II: Hidden Badass".
282** Kakashi reads ''Makeout Paradise'' while fighting his prospective students, is perpetually late, often acts scatterbrained and is one of the most powerful ninja in the world.
283** Killer Bee raps and rhymes non-stop (even during battle) and is on equal footing with Sasuke's team Hebi.
284** Guy and Lee are {{Large Ham}}s who are even considered weirdos in-universe but are Taijutsu prodigies.
285** Shikamaru acts like a total demotivated slob and is a brilliant strategist with an IQ of over 200.
286* CurbStompBattle: Happens quite often.
287* CutApart: Sasuke learns that Itachi and Kisame are searching for Naruto in a nearby town, so he dashes off to warn him. He knows that he is traveling with Jiraiya, so he asks every hotel owner he comes across whether they have seen a blonde kid with a tall white-haired man until he finally gets a positive response. He goes up to the room and knocks on the door. The scene cuts to Naruto inside his room hearing the knock while meditating. The scene switches back and forth a couple more times, with Sasuke knocking with increasing urgency until Naruto gets fed up and stands to answer the door. Finally, the door opens for Sasuke revealing . . . a completely unrelated blonde child and white-haired old man. Immediately after, Naruto opens the door to reveal Itachi.
288* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: Amegakure certainly gives this vibe. It has a lot of tall industrial buildings and it is almost always raining. Played with as Amegakure is considered a backward minor village, rather than technologically advanced.
289* CycleOfRevenge: Naruto's been made aware of this concept in the Pain arc, and from there on is very big on stopping both his own personal cycle of revenge and the greater cycles of revenge making the ninja world miserable. He faces a lot of opposition -- from those who believe in a more pragmatic approach and from total nuts who want this state of affairs to ''escalate'' so they can prove ''their'' side of the conflict was right all along.
290* CynicismCatalyst: Tons of them. Almost every antagonist has one, usually involving a loved one being killed in some very unfair way. There's [[spoiler:Sasuke (clan killed), Itachi (forced to kill said clan), Neji (father died), Orochimaru (parents died), Tsunade (younger brother died, then lover died), Sasori (parents died), Nagato and Konan (best friend died), Tobi (teammate died), Madara (brother died), Kabuto (tricked into killing foster mom), [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Danzo (inferiority complex)]], etc.]] Most of the protagonists have this kind of thing in the backstory too, so you could argue that the main difference between them and the antagonists is that they don't let their traumas turn them evil.
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294* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Several jutsus are classified as forbidden, either for great risk to the user or being inherently evil. It just so happens that characters very often come up with ways to get around the drawbacks or just find themselves in a desperate enough situation to use one, so we actually get to see plenty of these.
295* DarkAndTroubledPast: Shinobi in general have blood on their hands before they reach chunin rank. Also, considering they are essentially soldiers, whose relatives and friends are also soldiers, living in a warzone, nearly every character has lost someone important to them at some point.
296* DarkestHour:
297** During the Invasion of Pain arc. The village has been leveled, with several important characters and hundreds of nameless villagers killed. Naruto's [[LookWhatICanDoNow new sage power]] has failed and he is pinned to the ground helpless. Worse still, he can find no response to Pain's nihilistic BreakingSpeech. Then [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Hinata]] tries to come to his aid, makes an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove and attacks Pain, only to get [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed]]. Naruto's shock and anger [[UnstoppableRage overcome his protective seals]] and the power of the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nine-Tailed Fox]] bursts free like it has never done before. As Kyuubi-Naruto is fighting Pain, the scene switches to Yamato (the only person who can rein in the Nine-Tailed Fox when Naruto loses control), who's miles away. He looks down to his tattoo that shows how many tails Naruto has unleashed (if all of them are released, the Nine-Tailed Fox can break free completely), and sees the number changing from 8 to '''9'''...
298** At this point it would be futile to try and write down all the Bad Things that have happened during the climax of the Fourth Shinobi World War arc -- all the crushed {{Hope Spot}}s, all the vindictive turns of plot the author has inflicted on the protagonists in this climax, all the desperate measures taken that in the end amounted to jack squat. It has been a case of OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow from the start, and it just keeps getting worse and worse.
299* DeadlyGraduation: It's why the mist used to be known as "The Bloody Mist". Also used as the punchline of initiation training at Root, at least during Danzo's reign.
300* DeadlyTrainingArea: Training Ground 44, also known as The Forest of Death. The name sort of says it all.
301* DeadlyUpgrade: Continued use of the Mangekyou Sharingan ''quickly'' renders the user blind, although there's a way around this particular limitation in the form of [[HumanResources taking the]] [[EyeScream eyes]] of another Mangekyo Sharingan user. It's highly suggested that it works only between siblings, though. If you don't have one, you're pretty much doomed.
302* DeathIsCheap: A main character has to go to ''great'' lengths to actually get killed without promptly [[DisneyDeath "coming back to life"]]. If a character has been completely milked for drama and is thus expendable, they just might have a chance to pull it off. And then Kabuto will just resurrect them anyway.
303* [[DefaceOfTheMoon Deface Of The Hokage Monument]]:
304** Naruto's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduction]] has him doodling rather rude sketches on the faces of the Hokage carved on the cliff surrounding the Leaf.
305** Later [[spoiler:his son, Boruto]], does the exact same thing for [[AttentionWhore the same reason]] only instead of doodling he scribbles insults. Hashirama is "idiot", Tobirama is "dork", Hiruzen is "perv", Minato is "geezer"[[labelnote:Spoiler -- click to reveal]]apparently, that's the most insulting thing he has to say about his grandfather[[/labelnote]], Tsunade is "old hag", [[spoiler:Kakashi has a drawing of lips over his mask]] and, finally, [[spoiler:Naruto is "moron" and "shitty old man". Naruto helps him with the last one]].
306* DefeatMeansFriendship: This is one of Naruto's techniques, which he's used successfully on a wide array of nasty people (including EleventyZillion interchangeable {{Filler Villain}}s). ''Inverted'' with Sasuke; when Naruto seems to catch up to him and even surpass him in some aspects, it does ''not'' in any capacity equal friendship at all -- until the finale, at least, when he finally gets through to him.
307* DemotedToExtra: Rock Lee, whose fight with Gaara is still considered one of the high points of the whole series, does comparatively little for most of part 2. Heck, the ''vast'' majority of the Konoha 11 get quite limited focus after the timeskip, some of them getting barely more than a single spoken line every few arcs or so. The biggest exception to this is Shikamaru, who gets a whole arc heavily involving him when his master is killed (albeit he shares the arc with Naruto's Rasenshuriken training arc). Hinata also gets a memorable, if brief, square off with Pain. Downplayed during the World War arc, where most of the Konoha 11 get some time to shine, Ino's abilities in particular proving very important.
308* DerangedAnimation: The AdaptationExpansion fight between Version 2 Naruto and Pain in "Planetary Devastation" is full of artwork so OffModel it borders on BodyHorror.
309* DeskSweepOfRage: In an anime only scene of ''Naruto'', after Shikaku mentions [[spoiler: Asuma's death]] when playing Shogi, Shikamaru sweeps the board in anger.
310* DesignatedGirlFight: The Chunin Exams suspiciously pair most of the girls against each other. Later, Tayuya gets defeated by Temari. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] as far as Sakura and Karin are concerned: Instead of a designated fight, Sakura and Karin have a climactic meeting where Sakura saves Karin's life and Karin becomes sympathetic to the Hidden Leaf Village.
311* {{Determinator}}: If there could be only one trope on this page, this would be it. Naruto's defining characteristic; he pulls through no matter how bleak things seem and has a habit of {{Trash Talk}}ing ''reality''. Akin to a WorldOfHam and a WorldOfBadass, Naruto's is a World Of Determination -- people will stand up while unconscious, will themselves momentarily back to life after their larynx has been crushed and throw themselves in the face of insurmountable odds just to prove a point. Taken to ridiculous extremes with Rock Lee, whose attitude in this regard often seems like more of a self-aware lampooning on the series' part than anything else.
312* DeusExMachina:
313** Sasuke's "Great Snake Escape". Following his fight with Deidara, Sasuke -- completely exhausted and out of chakra -- summons, mind-controls, and teleports a gigantic snake. He does this in the time it took for an explosion that would completely level a city to reach him. After the explosion had already started. ''A few feet from him.''
314** After spending the last thirty chapters wreaking havoc, Pain pulls a case of RedemptionEqualsDeath and a device that was only shown to be able to repair corpses to bring back ''[[DeathIsCheap everyone]]'' that he had killed since entering the village.
315** During his assault on the Kage Summit, Sasuke nearly died from chakra exhaustion, having been spamming the crap out of high level techs with his new Mangekyo Sharingan. And then, out of nowhere, Zetsu, who had previously shown up to alert the Kages to Sasuke's presence and gotten killed for his efforts, reveals that he managed to use a time release jutsu in the split second before the Raikage snapped his neck that sucks all the chakra out of everyone in the room and gives it to Sasuke.
316** Itachi's forbidden dojutsu Izanami completely sways the tide of a major battle with a few panels' notice without ever having been mentioned before.
317* TheDevilIsALoser: Madara Uchiha -- TheDreaded, ShroudedInMyth, WorldsStrongestMan... spent the last few years of his life squatting in a cave, depending on Zetsu for life support, obsessing over the misery his own shortcomings brought upon him and concluding [[NeverMyFault the entire world was to blame]]. Obito's not too impressed with him when they first meet, and Zetsu appears to consider his creator a loser despite doing his bidding; White Zetsu points out to Obito behind Madara's back that the Moon's Eye plan is mostly based on Madara's own {{Wangst}}, not a desire for peace.
318* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
319** Naruto punches out the Shukaku, a malevolent being on a completely different scale of power that threatened the village. Then when that doesn't work he headbutts its host.
320** The First Hokage, and later the Fourth, defeating the Kyuubi (though the latter died during).
321** The Sage Of Six Paths together with his brother defeating the Juubi and sealing it into himself.
322** Did you just [[spoiler:pull off a DistractedByTheSexy on '''''[[PhysicalGod Kaguya Otsutsuki]]'''''!?]]
323*** [[spoiler:Sakura tops this by punching Kaguya out of the sky when she attempted to escape Naruto and Sasuke.]] This was without using any special jutsu or skills. She used good, old fashioned elbow grease.
324* DieOrFly: Jiraiya employs this by throwing Naruto off a cliff so he can tap into the Nine-Tails' chakra and master the summoning jutsu.
325* DigAttack: During the Chunin Exam arc, Naruto dives into a hole in the field left from earlier in the battle and distracts his opponent Neji with a shadow {{Doppelganger}}, then emerges from the ground beneath Neji and decks him with a haymaker to the jaw.
326* DisappearsIntoLight: One way of getting rid of an otherwise unkillable foe resurrected with the Impure World jutsu is to put their spirit at rest.
327* DismissiveKick: During the battle of Kisame vs Killer Bee, the latter is downed and Kisame tries to deal the killing blow with his sword Samehada. Unfortunately for him, the sword - which is alive, sentient and feeds on chakra - has eaten so much of Killer Bee's chakra that it refuses to hit him. Irritated, Kisame kicks the sword away, then attempts to kill Killer Bee with the latter's blade instead. (Luckily, Bee's brother comes in time to save him.)
328* DistractedByTheSexy: The Third Hokage, Ebisu (although it requires about a hundred clones for it to work), and Jiraiya's reactions to Naruto's Sexy Jutsu.
329** Shockingly enough, this gets used against [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Kaguya Otsutsuki]]]]... AND IT WORKS! [[spoiler:It's not enough to win the battle, but Naruto can't land a single blow on her until he tries this.]]
330* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Pain's plan is obviously a metaphor for the doctrine of nuclear mutually assured destruction.
331* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The main culprit of all the conflicts in the series was neither [[MadScientist Orochimaru]] nor [[AGodAmI Pain]] nor [[FallenHero Tobi]] nor [[WorldsStrongestMan Madara]] but Black Zetsu, a mysterious member of Akatsuki who manipulated events for centuries for the revival of its creator, Kaguya.
332* DoingInTheWizard: The Mangekyo Sharingan was introduced as being born when an Uchiha killed their best friend, giving it a sort of dark mystique. Tobirama Senju eventually explains that in moments of extreme emotional anguish, an Uchiha's brain releases a special chakra that causes the mutation.
333* DoppelgangerLink: Duplicates created using the [[SelfDuplication Shadow Clone]] technique are linked to the original. For example, if the original gets hurt (or in Naruto's case, dons the Demon Fox cloak, which burns him), the clones will feel the same pain and possibly disperse. On an inverse note, if a clone is gathering nature energy and overloads, they will turn into stone, a fate that will befall the original as well. Naruto also learns anything the clone learned if it is destroyed, which he exploits to speedrun learning new techniques.
334* DoubleSidedBook: InUniverse, Sai has an art book featuring pictures of himself and his brother on their respective journeys through life, each tale chronicled from opposite ends of the book. The picture in the middle is not completed.
335* DramaticHighPerching: The most memorable example is Itachi atop a pillar after the destruction of the Uchiha clan, but it happens to several characters quite often.
336* DramaticWind: Almost always accompanied by leaves, referencing the village the main characters are from.
337* DressingAsTheEnemy: When Juugo and Suigetsu try to leave the samurai base undetected. Not as effective as they'd have liked it to have been, and Juugo admits it.
338* DrivingQuestion: For ''years'', the mystery of Tobi's identity served as this for the entire plot. It was finally answered in chapter 599.
339* DubPronunciationChange: In Japanese, Sasuke's name is pronounced like "Sas-keh". In the Italian, French, German, and Romanian dubs, he's pronounced "Sa-soo-keh".
340* DuelingMessiahs:
341** Naruto fights [[WellIntentionedExtremist Pain]]. Pain wanted to bring peace by creating a [[WeaponOfMassDestruction horrifically destructive jutsu]] (which would get used), thereby horrifying/scaring everyone into peace for a long time. Once time lets people get over it, they will use it again, after this there will be a very long period of peace, rinse and repeat till the end of time. Naruto wanted to achieve peace in a much more moral yet still unexplained way that he still probably hasn't come up with.
342** DarkMessiah Madara and WideEyedIdealist Hashirama came to believe in conflicting ideas on how to bring lasting peace to the world, culminating in their battle at the Valley of the End. [[spoiler:After Hashirama's death, Madara continued to work on his plan and passed it on to [[BigBad Obito]]. Naruto's emergence as the HopeBringer has set him as the new messiah opposing [[HopeCrusher Obito]].]]
343* DwindlingParty: Played with in the Sasuke retrieval arc. Only two (or three if you count Naruto in) out of five characters [[DisneyDeath seemed]] to die, and they got cured later.
344* DyingReconciliation:
345** Obito Uchiha, [[spoiler:after making his HeelFaceTurn and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dying to help the heroes seal Kaguya away]], speaks to Kakashi one last time before he passes onto the afterlife. Obito laments his sins, but Kakashi tells him that he's just happy that they get to part as friends instead of enemies]].
346** Madara, on the verge of death for the third and final time, speaks with Hashirama in his final moments, admitting that his way to carving peace is superior to his own, and dies peacefully when Hashirama tells that he still cares for him as a friend.
347* DynamicEntry: TropeNamer (albeit indirectly). naturally, there are many, many instances where someone uses this.
348** Might Guy embodies this {{trope}} so much that [[TropeNamers he invokes it verbatim]].
349** In the second Chuunin Exam, [[HotBlooded Anko]] introduced herself by somersaulting through the exam room window. [[SuperWindowJump It was closed.]]
350** Conversely, the [[ScaryBlackMan Raikage's]] tendency to [[ThereWasADoor break down walls or windows]] in order to leave a room.
351*** He also provides a straight example: Jugo caught the guy off guard with his BeamSpam and figure he obliterated him completely. Cue [[LightningBruiser the Raikage]] [[FlashStep popping up out of]] [[BehindTheBlack fucking]] [[OffscreenTeleportation nowhere]] and checking Jugo into the wall. Jugo is next seen a good while later, still stuck in the wall.
352** [[http://i54.tinypic.com/1zmf0j8.png Also invoked]] when Killer Bee held a concert on top of a building: Raikage kicked him straight to the ground.
353** Animal path Pain breaks into the Leaf Village's interrogation facility by ''having a giant rhino smash through the wall''.
354** Naruto pulls one from above, complete with Rasengen, no less, on Naraka path Pain.
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358* EarlyBirdCameo: One of Kishimoto's cover arts for his chapters all the way back in the Waves arc featured Kakashi sleeping and two pictures on the head of his bed. One featured Kakashi with Team 7, hands in the hair of Naruto and Sasuke with Sakura grinning from the front and the other features Kakashi and his team as a genin, with his sensei having his hands in his and his teammate's hair. [[spoiler:It would take several volumes and over two hundred chapters for us to learn that these were Kakashi, Rin, Namikaze Minato/The Fourth Hokage, and [[BigBad Uchiha Obito]].]]
359* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Tons'', [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/{{Naruto}} to the point that it has its own page]].
360* EasyAmnesia: [[{{Filler}} Shippuden #271]], which functioned as a tie in for the "Road to Ninja" movie. Sakura has a nasty fall and loses her memory. After a good time is had by all trying to cure her, she finally recovers at the end of the episode. But there's a [[PlotTwist twist]]! This isn't the Sakura we all know and love; she's from an AlternateUniverse! Then she disappears in a flash of light, presumably going back to her own universe. This leaves Ino wondering where the heck ''her'' Sakura is.
361* EasyEvangelism: Naruto can convert ''almost'' anybody to his way of thinking with minimal argument, [[DefeatMeansFriendship provided he has had the chance to beat the hell out of them first]]. Some don't even need the beatdown (Inari, Tsunade, or Sai). This extends to homicidal maniacs who have been driven insane by having monsters sealed inside of them and remorseless sociopaths who have killed hundreds of people as children. Conversely, he fails when he's not able to defeat them (Sasuke, Orochimaru), or not allowed to fight them (the Fourth Raikage).
362** Justified, to some extent; many of Naruto's opponents, such as Gaara, initially view the compassion that forms the core of Naruto's world view as weakness. By defeating them, he demonstrates that he is not held back by his views, which makes them more likely to listen to him. Many of them also used to be idealistic, so often, it's a matter of undoing the processes that made them who they were when Naruto first met them, or forcing them to see them in a new light.
363** Also sometimes justified by outside circumstances. Zabuza, for example, has just experienced the loss of his MoralityPet [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Haku]], and Naruto's ranting makes him realize that yes, you idiot, you did in fact care for the boy. He them proceeds to acknowledge that feeling, but rather than convert to Naruto's path, he goes out in a blaze of glory instead by killing the BigBad of the arc. Like with many Wave Arc examples, EarlyInstallmentWeirdness was in full effect all around.
364* EatingTheEnemy:
365** Orochimaru is a fiendish SnakePerson. Not only can he summon massive snakes to devour his enemies, but he can actually turn into a giant snake made of smaller ones and consume his opponent in order [[YouAreWhoYouEat to steal their body.]] He tried to do this Sasuke when Sasuke double-crossed him. Unfortunately it [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfires on him]] as Sasuke is able to reverse the absorption process and consume ''him''.
366** Naruto found himself getting ingested by both Three-Tails and Four-Tails during his scuffles with them.
367** An [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated example]] is revealed when we're introduced to the Gold and Silver Brothers. Long ago, the two got eaten by Kurama while fighting with him. And inside his stomach, they subsist by eating ''his'' flesh which ultimately gave him ulcers and led to him spitting them out. And from this they ended up gaining a portion of his massive amounts of chakra.
368* EldritchAbomination: The Tailed Beasts. Especially Kurama the kyuubi.
369** There's also the Gedou Mazo / Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which can contain Tailed Beasts, steal souls, etcetera.
370** Later on, it's revealed that both are parts of the Ten-Tails. It was so powerful it could only be sealed; the statue contains its body while the Beasts are all fragments of its chakra. The Juubi's power is so immense, it can't be sensed by humans because its beyond their ability to comprehend.
371** Kisame's sword, Samehada, which seems to be some sort of Eldritch Abomination on a stick.
372** Ten-Tail's mature form is even more of one than the Tailed Beasts! Except for its final form, which is [[spoiler:the Divine Tree.]]
373* ElementalBaggage: Water based jutsus require an existing source of water to use, but sufficient levels of skill allow users to bypass this restriction, which bites Rock Lee really hard. He doesn't beleive that Kisame can pull it off to such an extent and that the attack is an illusion designed to distract him from the real attack. It wasn't.
374** Gaara got around the limitations of his sand-manipulation abilities by carrying around a giant gourd full of sand.
375* ElementalNation: The five major countries are the Lands of Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, and Earth, and were named according to their dominant environment (the Land of Fire is hot and humid, the Land of Water consists of an archipelago, the Land of Wind is mostly desert, the Land of Lightning is mainly highland country where lightning is a common occurrence, and the Land of Earth has lots of rocky formations). Each country's ninja village corresponds to the element (the Leaf, Mist, Sand, Cloud, and Rock, respectively) and tends to produce ninja with its respective national identity.
376* ElementalFusion: Some ninja that possess Kekkei Genkai or Kekkei Tōta can have affinity for two or more elements and be able to combine them to create techniques that other ninja can't replicate. For example, Hashirama's Wood Release uses Earth and Water Release, while Ōnoki's Dust Release combines Earth, Wind, and Fire.
377* ElementalPowers: Most ninja are capable of using techniques that manipulate [[DishingOutDirt earth]], [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[MakingASplash water]], [[BlowYouAway air]], and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]]; however, everyone has a special affinity that makes it easier to manipulate their element, allowing them to use techniques of strength and complexity beyond that of other ninja without that particular affinity. A few even have an inborn affinity with two or more elements, [[ElementalFusion allowing them to combine them in techniques that other ninja cannot even begin to replicate]].
378* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Fire beats Wind, which beats Lightning, which beats Earth, which beats Water, which beats Fire again.
379* EmbarrassingNickname:
380** Kakashi nicknames Naruto the "Number One Hyperactive Knucklehead Ninja". Naruto [[AppropriatedAppellation doesn't mind one bit]].
381** Jiraiya certainly considered "Pervy Sage" to be one at first, although everyone else thinks it's very fitting.
382-->'''Jiraiya:''' I really wish you wouldn't call me that in front of other people...\
383'''Naruto:''' ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! We've got worse things to worry about than what ''these'' guys think of you! Get with it, Pervy Sage!\
384'''Jiraiya:''' ''DIDN'T I JUST ASK YOU NOT TO CALL ME THAT?''
385* EmotionSuppression: Part of Danzo, and therefore the Root, credo. It completely goes against the manga's credentials, so this trope is naturally deconstructed.
386** Kakashi highly attempted it as a teen, but Obito talked him out of it.
387* EmpathicWeapon:
388** Kisame's Samehada is one of these, along with being a ShapeShifterWeapon and a LivingWeapon.
389** The Gedou Mazou has shades of this. It's hinted that it needs to synchronize with a powerful person in a deep state of hatred/anger to actually do anything.
390%%* EnemyWithin: The Nine-Tails Fox is this for most part of the story.
391%%* EnemyWithout: Used as a gimmick for one of Naruto's many training sessions.
392* EnemyExchangeProgram:
393** In a sense, this is what the Nara Clan's [[CastingAShadow Shadow Manipulation]] techniques do. The Kagemane doesn't override the victim's sense of self, it just forces them to mimic the caster's movements because it latches on their chakra system. This is mostly a capture & containment tactic but can also be used to make the target fire projectiles or attack their allies.
394** The Summoning: Impure Reincarnation technique summons any dead person's soul and inserts it into a living vessel, thus restoring the deceased person. The next step is to insert a special talisman into the reincarnated person so they obey the summoner's commands. Orochimaru, the man who improved it, uses this to summon the past Hokages of the village he betrayed to deal a heavy emotional blow to the current Hokage (by forcing him to fight his mentors). Kabuto, Orochimaru's disciple and the person who perfects the technique, takes this to a massive scale. Not only does he summon elite ninjas such as the Akatsuki's members (a terrorist organization he never belonged to) or the traitor Madara Uchiha but also a massive army of dead people. Kabuto then proceeds to declare war on all of the ninja villages.
395** The Rinnegan's Six Paths technique allows the user to reanimate six corpses that work as extensions of the user. On top of granting each corpse a unique, overpowered ability, they also retain their original skillset.
396* EnergeticAndSoftSpokenDuo:
397** The main OfficialCouple consists of the loud, IdiotHero Naruto and the ShrinkingViolet [[spoiler:Hinata]]. By adulthood (as shown in the sequel ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'' and to an extent ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'') Naruto has matured into a [[KidHeroAllGrownUp less energetic man]] than he was originally while [[spoiler:Hinata]] has traded her awkward shyness for simple, [[SilkHidingSteel quiet level-headedness]], however they still fit to a degree.
398** Sasuke and Sakura are this combined with BroodingBoyGentleGirl. Sakura is energetic and spunky while Sasuke is stoic and quiet. Sakura has had a crush on Sasuke since before the series began. [[spoiler:The two end up HappilyMarried]].
399* EnhancedPunch:
400** Tsunade and Sakura have some of the highest destructive ability in the series because of their ability to focus their [[KiManipulation chakra into their fists]] for a devastating attack.
401** Choji from the same series can do this with his Butterfly Bombardment attack after using his [[TemporaryBulkChange Calorie Control]] jutsu. He can make this punch even more ludicrously powerful by [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever by making himself gigantic]].
402* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Sage Mode. The user has to be InHarmonyWithNature and combine the physical and spiritual energy found in the body with natural energy found in outside it in nature. It's a very tricky thing to do and only a handful of people have ever truly mastered the skill.
403* EpiphanicPrison: Izanami, which forces its victim to accept reality rather than trying to escape it.
404* EquivalentExchange:
405** Summoning: Edo Tensei (Reanimation) requires a living person to be sacrificed and used as a vessel for the soul summoned from the afterlife. The worst thing about this jutsu is that it doesn't affect the caster at all.
406** Chiyo's One's Own Life Reincarnation jutsu can heal a person in exchange for some of her life force. It can even revive the dead, but at the cost of the user's life. Chiyo labelled it a Forbidden jutsu and refused to teach it to anyone, but she ended up using it to save Gaara.
407** Rinne Rebirth uses the same principle. To revive someone, the caster has to sacrifice their life. However, the number of people that can be revived depends on the caster's strength. Pain[=/=]Nagato revived hundreds of people before succumbing; it's speculated that he would have survived if he had been at full strength. Likewise, Obito planned to revive all the shinobi killed during the War before Madara hijacked his body.
408* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
409** Naruto's introduction establishes his nature as a prankster well enough, but the first scene that shows how there's more to him than that is when he sits on the swing, looking on at all the other kids who graduated get congratulations from their parents, while he is the only one who failed, showing the depths of his loneliness and isolation.
410** In Iruka’s second scene, he tells Naruto that he can’t go home until he cleans the monuments, and Naruto sullenly responds that he has no one to go home to. Iruka ponders it for a moment, then tells Naruto that if he finishes, they’ll go out for ramen, effectively showing that Iruka may be strict, but also cares for Naruto.
411** Gaara’s pre-HeelFaceTurn character is established when he breaks up the fight between Kankuro and Team 7 by threatening to kill Kankuro, his own brother. Then, in the Forest of Death he kills three people who he claims looked at him the wrong way, wants to kill Team 8 and threatens to kill his own SIBLINGS when they try to reason with him! And he only gets worse before he gets better thanks to Naruto!
412** Might Guy appears in a puff of smoke, brags about his rivalry with Kakashi, punches Lee for using the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Primary Lotus]] in a sparring match, then tearfully hugs him and assigns him laps, showing his [[LoveFreak ecce]][[LargeHam ntric]] personality.
413** Jiraiya is introduced peeping on women in the baths, then knocks out Special Jonin Ebisu with one attack, showing that he's not just a perverted old man.
414** Sai is introduced kneeling before Danzo, with a smile Danzo knows is fake. When told to stop it, Sai apologizes, saying that he read smiles are good for such situations. It shows his complete lack of social skills and his ''initial'' inability to genuinely express his emotions.
415** Hidan and Kakuzu's introduction indicates their conflicting personalities as a psychotic religious zealot and a practical, greedy mercenary. Hidan confesses that he might kill the Two-Tailed Beast's host in a rage, prompting Kakuzu to remind him that the mission is everything, to which he responds that his religion forbids not killing opponents.
416** Suigetsu, shortly after being released from his tank, complains about the other two members Sasuke is planning on recruiting for what he then calls Team Snake. He then tells Sasuke that he isn't necessarily any better than the others who tried to take down Orochimaru -- he only had more opportunities -- while making threatening gestures at him, before backing down when Sasuke is unfazed, signifying that Suigetsu is not much of a team player.
417** A is lifting a barbell one-handed while being told that Killer Bee has been captured. He then smashes his desk in anger, vowing to go after his little brother, showing both his HotBlooded nature and his love for his brother.
418** Killer Bee first appears writing down rap lyrics and insisting that he be called Lord Eight-Tails or Lord Jinchūriki, then fighting Sasuke by wielding seven swords, none of which he holds in his hands. It shows his eccentricity and his skill as a shinobi.
419* [[EverybodysDeadDave Everybody's Dead, Sasuke]]: The aftermath of the slaughtering of the Uchiha clan.
420* EveryoneCanSeeIt:
421** Amongst all the ShipTease, Shikamaru and Temari were fairly obvious from the get-go, with Naruto even assuming they were on a date after he first came back to the village after the TimeSkip. [[spoiler:They are married with a son in the epilogue]].
422** After the Invasion of Pain arc, nearly ''everyone'' in Konoha and all of their friends knew Hinata was in love with Naruto... [[ObliviousToLove except for Naruto himself]], due to his emotionally-stunted childhood. In ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', [[spoiler:when Naruto finally realizes he's in love with Hinata, he is incredibly obvious with his feelings, which makes Hinata's oblivious status painfully ironic and causes many characters to give them knowing looks]]. Considering Kiba's throwaway comment to him in Chapter 611 -- which Naruto ''did not'' deny nor poke fun at -- and Sakura's knowing smile at his reveal in ''The Last'', [[spoiler:teasing Naruto's feelings for Hinata started long before the movie, and it lends credence to the implication that he ''had'' been in love with her since the middle of Part II. They are married with two children at the end of the movie and in the epilogue]].
423--->'''Kiba''': "[[InsecureLoveInterest Don't act tough just because Hinata is here, Naruto!]]"\
424'''Sakura''': "So you finally '''get it''', you blockhead."
425* EveryoneMustBePaired: By the end of the series, nearly every member of the Kohana 12 have gotten together [[spoiler: and with kids]]. While some of the pairings do have legitimacy; [[spoiler:Hinata has loved Naruto since she was a kid and the two even got a [[Anime/TheLastNarutoMovie movie about their romance]], Sakura has been pining for Sasuke all her life who finally recuperated her feelings, and Shikimaru and Temari have BelligerentSexualTension with one another]], others come out of nowhere. They include [[spoiler: Ino getting with Sai and Choji marrying Karui. Even Rock Lee has a kid and Kiba is seeing someone]]. The only ones who aren't in a relationship are [[spoiler:Shino, Ten-Ten and Neji, who is dead]].
426* EvilCounterpart: Gaara in Part I (what he could ''have been''), Pain in Part II (what he could ''become'') for Naruto. Deva Path's silhouette even looks like a grown up Naruto. Gaara's no longer evil, but he's only becoming more of an uncanny foil for Naruto. They're both despised as jinchūriki as well as the son of the Fourth Kage of their respective villages and the third jinchūriki of their respective Tailed Beasts.
427** Invoked by Naruto towards Sasuke: "''I could have been the one wanting to destroy Konoha and exterminate its inhabitants. You could have been the one protecting it.''"
428*** Finally, we have Obito Uchiha, who as a child was virtually identical to Naruto in both appearance and personality.
429** Karin (what she ''was'') and/or Konan (what she ''could have become'') can count for Sakura in Part II.
430** Team Shikamaru in the Sasuke Retrieval Arc (Chouji, Kiba, Naruto, Neji, Shikamaru) had to fight the [[PsychoRangers Sound Five]].
431* EvilFormerFriend: The series seems to love this trope, as there's a recurring theme of former teammates/allies [[FaceHeelTurn going bad]]. Examples include Orochimaru (to Jiraiya), Sasuke (to Naruto), Tobi/Obito Uchiha (to Kakashi), and Madara Uchiha (to Hashirama).
432* EvilPuppeteer: Sasori of the villainous Akatsuki organization fights mainly using special puppets that he controls with chakra strings. He also converted the late Third Kazekage's corpse (who can control iron sand) into his special doll, and it's also revealed that he converted ''his own body'' into a puppet, with the only living part of him being his intact heart. He's opposed by his grandmother, Lady Chiyo, a good puppeteer.
433* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: A major evil plan in the works appears to be based on this.
434* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: It's one of the AcceptableBreaksFromReality which tends to fade as story goes on. The explaining has ''got'' to be done at some point, and [[RuleOfCool doing it in any other way than mid-battle commentary would obviously be much less exciting]]. Rarely this is ever-so-slightly justified by the [[EvilGloating gloating]] character feeling they have their prey at their mercy and ''obviously'' [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong cannot lose now]], which is a true feat of GenreBlindness. ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' [[PlayingWithaTrope plays with]] it much more often than in most shônen series, though... as long as somehow the explaining ''gets done''.
435** Sometimes characters end up [[InvertedTrope explaining the enemy's power to the enemy]]: this variation occurs when Sasuke fights Danzo. After a few minutes of fighting, he gives ExpoSpeak about the weaknessess of his opponent's technique, the [[RealityWarper reality warping]] Izanagi. Danzo replies with "So you figured it out", to which Sasuke, in turn, responds that, yes, [[BatmanGambit now that Danzo has confirmed that his guess was correct]], he ''HAS'' figured it out.
436** Characters explain the enemy's power to each other while they're on the sidelines and not even fighting: this one happens repeatedly during the subsidiary fights of the Chunin exam.
437** The most extreme must be Konan [[InnerMonologue explaining]] ''[[InnerMonologue to herself]]'' [[InnerMonologue in thoughts]] how she intends to get rid of Tobi while doing it.
438** In a subversion, Kakashi lied to Zabuza about how the Sharingan works.
439** Defied during the battle between Rock Lee and Gaara, when Naruto asks Gaara's brother Kankuro if the sand armor has any weaknesses. Kankuro refuses to admit that it does, but thinks to himself that it's an AwesomeButImpractical technique, so Gaara must have a hard time if he resorts to it.
440*** Neither Pain nor Hidan explained how their power works at any point, and it was up to the protagonists to figure it out. It should be noted that in these two cases, one character had to actually die for the others to figure it out.
441*** Tobi never explained how his [[IntangibleMan intangibility]] works. Everyone who fought him had to figure it out through trial-and-error. Interestingly, nobody got it quite right and if Kakashi didn't have Obito's left eye, they wouldn't have realized how his ability truly works.
442** {{Justified|Trope}} with the Edo Tensei zombies summoned by Kabuto. Many of them ''want'' to be defeated, and since they can't move their bodies according to their own free will they try to help their enemies in any way they can -- usually by giving information about their techniques.
443*** And then subverted by one of them, who is upset that his descendents are too weak to stop him so he gives up trying to help them and tells them to figure it out themselves.
444* ExploitedImmunity: Kakuzu and Hidan fight with this tactic; Hidan recklessly charges down the enemy, while Kakuzu bombards them with his area-wide jutsu. Hidan is immortal, so they have nothing to worry about.
445* ExpressiveUvula: In the OVA "Hidden Leaf Village Grand Sports Festival!"[[note]]Also known as "Konoha Annual Sports Festival"[[/note]], Naruto [[PottyEmergency has to use the bathroom so badly]] that it motivates him to win a race and he yells, "I gotta go!" as there are several EatTheCamera shots of his uvula that has a screaming face on it.
446* ExtradimensionalEmergencyExit: Obito Uchiha's Sharingan lets him teleport to the Kamui Dimension, an ability which he exploits in battle to escape many attacks. During the World War arc, when he is being hunted down by Madara, Obito retreats into the parallel world, knowing that it would be nearly impossible for his enemy to find him there.
447* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Naruto and Sasuke's last fight ends 184 chapters after the first clash of the Fourth Shinobi World War, yet this is more than a quarter of the entire manga. It covers roughly four days InUniverse.
448* EyeColorChange: There is at least two instances of eyes changing colour when some power is activated:
449** The Sharingan grants AwesomenessByAnalysis and turns the eyes red.
450** Similarly, Naruto's eyes also turn red when he's tapping into the Kyuubi's chakra, consciously or unconsciously. Also, they turn yellow when activating Sage Mode.
451* EyeScream: Several plot points involve characters who want to, or actually try to, steal eyes that grant special powers, like the Sharingan or Byakugan. Thank goodness for the GoryDiscretionShot! Though alas, it can't always be there for us, as for example, when we get treated to [[spoiler:Madara stealing Kakashi's eye]].
452* EyesNeverLie: The look in Naruto's eyes is enough for Hinata to recognize that he is really himself and not a Zetsu Clone, something which a unit full of sensor-types failed to do. A few panels later Naruto tells her that [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre she's stronger than she thinks she is]] because it's [[ShipTease "all in her eyes"]].
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456* FaceHeelTurn: A major character does this about halfway into the manga. [[LateArrivalSpoiler You probably know who]].
457* FacelessGoons: Comes in at least two flavors -- the Sound ninjas from Orochimaru's first invasion and the samurai from the Land of Iron. ANBU probably count as well, but they have various masks.
458* FailureGambit: Itachi Uchiha had planned for his brother Sasuke to kill him in order to make Sasuke a hero of Konoha village in a Thanatos Gambit. Unfortunately for him, further manipulation by Tobi just manages to make Sasuke hate Konoha.
459* FaintInShock:
460** [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]] is often depicted as fainting whenever Naruto "surprises" her by randomly popping up inches away from her. In canon, she only did so once after seeing him for the first time in two years, and after that, it's made patently clear that [[CharacterDevelopment she dropped all of her]] ShrinkingViolet tendencies during the TimeSkip, but {{filler}} episodes, spin-offs, and fanfic [[CharacterExaggeration have her do it more]].
461** Sakura faints during her academy graduation exam when her instructor Kakashi tricks her into seeing a hallucination of her teammate and crush Sasuke horrifically wounded and dying.
462** Soon after waking up from that faint, she runs into the ''real'' Sasuke, who was almost buried by Kakashi a little while ago, with only his head still left aboveground, mistakes this for Sasuke's severed head, and promptly faints dead away again right in front of him. By the time she wakes up from the second faint, Sasuke has already managed to un-bury himself on his own.
463** By the sequel ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', Sakura seems to have officially taken over from Hinata as the fainter of the franchise. She faints in shock when Sasuke returns home unannounced after a long absence, and also when she realizes that she has accidentally destroyed her house with her super-strength. In the latter case, Shizune (who is a skilled medical ninja) examines her and concludes that the shock has knocked her out so deep that there's no point trying to wake her up and that she'll stay totally out cold until ''tomorrow''. Shizune then remarks that Sakura had been a frequent fainter during her teenage years.
464* FalseFalseAlarm: Pain (with his 6 bodies) and Konan are about to infiltrate Konoha village, when they detected a dome of chakra sensors that covers the whole village that will alert the guards whenever someone enters it. Then Pain devises a tactic: Using his bigger body, he throws another body specializing in SummonMagic to the air, through Konoha's borders, to fool the guards about their number, and after that, the summoner will summon other bodies of Pain as well as Konan as surprise.
465* FallenHero: Itachi, Obito, Nagato. Possibly Madara, depending on how much of his backstory you are willing to internalize. Inverted with Orochimaru, an unrepentant villain who is eventually driven by circumstances and whims to act heroically, and later muses about how these events have made him a different person.
466* FamilyExtermination: The Uchiha Clan Massacre was done to prevent their potential uprising against the Konoha village. It was done by their own member, Uchiha Itachi, who's more loyal to the village than to his clan.
467* FamilyOfChoice: Naruto, whose entire family is dead, has formed close bonds with his "[[AFatherToHisMen grandfather]]" the Third Hokage, his "[[ParentalSubstitute father]]" Iruka, his "older brother" Sasuke, his "[[BadassTeacher other father]]" Kakashi, and, once he gets over his [[LovingAShadow one-sided shallow crush]] on her, his "[[LikeBrotherAndSister older sister]]" Sakura.
468** Before Kakashi and Sasuke, Naruto formed a bond with Iruka. Their bond has a father/son dynamic, but Iruka explicitly refers to Naruto as his "younger brother."
469** Not to mention Jiraiya. After his death, Naruto is told that Jiraiya thought of him as a "grandson."
470* FanService: All over the place. The Sexy and Harem Jutsu (often {{Lampshaded}} and PlayedForLaughs), the various {{Stripperiffic}} outfits, Tsunade's overly-large breasts which serve no plot purpose whatever[[note]]except that one time it saved her from a hit to her chest by Kabuto that should have paralyzed the muscles around her heart and lungs[[/note]], everything about the Fifth Mizukage in general, poor [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Hinata]] who is shoved into bunny outfits and UsefulNotes/{{qipao}}s and cleavage-revealing outfits whenever an opportunity arises for her to act out-of-character, all the myriad pretty boys and their myriad {{Shirtless Scene}}s...
471** Of course, this is toned down as the series went into part II, Tsunade's breasts aren't given much attention, the Sexy Jutsu is hardly used and most characters tend to keep their shirts on.
472%%ZCE/natter** That said, of the classic shonen [[Manga/OnePiece Big]] [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Three]], ''Naruto'' clearly has the ''least'' fanservice: ''Manga/OnePiece'' is ''renowned'' for the ridiculous proportions of most of its female characters, and as for ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''
473* FantasticNuke: A lot of the actual and potential weapons introduced qualify. The Bijuu Bomb is this, each being at least able to destroy a mountain from any of the Tailed Beasts.
474* FantasyLandmarkEquivalent: The Hokage Rock, a mountain with the heads of the previous Hokages, a title given to the leader of the Leaf ninja village. This is an obvious homage to Mount Rushmore
475* {{Fartillery}}: How Naruto gains the upper hand in his fight against Kiba during the Chunin exams.
476* FateWorseThanDeath: The first four Hokage. Minato sacrificed his life ''and'' his afterlife to seal the Kyuubi into Naruto. Hashirama, Tobirama, and Sarutobi are likewise imprisoned for eternity within the belly of Death due to a desperate HeroicSacrifice made by Sarutobi to stop Orochimaru. [[spoiler:Thankfully, they are later dealt a Get Out of Terrible Fate Free Card]].
477* FauxActionGirl: To make a very long story very short, arguably none of the girls on the side of the heroes are anywhere near as capable in a fight as their male counterparts, despite being touted as amazing fighters. Only one of them in the entire series ever won a fight against a male character in a serious one on one fight (Tsunade's brief fight with Naruto was very casual on her part), when Temari defeated Shikamaru (and even then only because he threw in the towel after running out of chakra). Sakura is the worst of the bunch due to being compared to Naruto and Sasuke, whose random powerups become downright gratuitous towards the end, whereas she is mostly relegated by the writers to cheering from the sidelines and sometimes distracting the enemy to give Naruto and Sasuke a chance to do all the work, even though she doesn't inform either of them of her plans to do so and has to be saved by them yet again, as shown in Chapter 676. The three quotes below neatly sum up this whole sad affair:
478-->(Jump Festa interview 2010)
479--->'''Kishimoto Masashi''': "Honestly, from the standpoint of showing a female-like disposition, [Sakura] hasn't been much of a heroine. You could even say that Hinata's more of a heroine than her. But since, as we know, Sakura is a heroine deep inside, she'll show that side of hers from now on."
480-->(Jump Festa interview 2012)
481--->'''Kishimoto Masashi''': "Next year [2013] I'll write about Kakashi first, then about Sasuke and then about Naruto."\
482'''Sakura's Voice Actor''': "What about Sakura?!"\
483'''Kishimoto Masashi''': "Sakura, well... [[OutOfFocus well, she slipped my mind]]."
484-->(Comments on Twitter by [[WordOfStPaul Kishimoto's assistant]] regarding the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', posted 2014 and quickly deleted to no avail)
485--->'''Assistant''': "Why are people making a racket and asking if Hinata is going to be the heroine in this movie? Maybe because until now there hasn't been a heroine. [...] Sakura isn't the heroine! That's what I've been saying since a long time ago. I've been hearing the man himself [Kishimoto] [[FlipFlopOfGod say that Naruto doesn't have a heroine from before 2010]]."
486* [[NeverASelfMadeWoman Female Success Is Family]]: In the last chapter many of the main female ninjas are [[spoiler:content mothers... except Tenten, whose ninja supply shop isn't doing so well in an era of peace. Subverted when it's later detailed that most of them are more than housewives. Temari remains an ambassador for the Sand Village, Sakura is a respected doctor, and Ino takes on her father's old position of village security and communication]].
487* FightingAcrossTimeAndSpace: The penultimate battle between Team 7 and Kaguya has them being transported through several dimensions using Sasuke and Kaguya's spacetime jutsu.
488%%* FightingSeries
489* FightsLikeANormal: Might Guy. Unlike his student Lee (a BadassNormal who famously ''can't'' use ninjutsu or genjutsu), Guy simply "chooses" not to use them, but he certainly can. Example: during the Chunin Exam when a sleep genjutsu was deployed over the whole village, Guy is right beside Kakashi in spotting and protecting himself from it.
490* FirstNameBasis: A weird example. Everyone in the series is addressed by first name or (rarely) by first and last name, never by last name alone. Even respectful honorifics are attached to the first name and not the family name, which would be the more normal practice elsewhere. This extends to the point where most of the characters with known surnames come from either the Hidden Leaf or the Hidden Mist, and it's plausible that the other villages as a rule don't even use surnames (heck, even several characters from the Leaf and Mist don't have known family names). This peculiar form of address might have originated from the warring clans era practice of not telling strangers one's surname, in case they were from an opposing shinobi clan.
491* FiveManBand: The five Kage form this as they are fighting Madara Uchiha:
492** TheHero: Tsunade Senju is aggressive, powerful, and does what she believes us right and specializes in healing abilities.
493** TheLancer: Gaara of the Desert. Medium- to long-range fighter. Calm and logical to Tsunade's passion and temper. Originally a villain.
494** TheBigGuy: Ay. Purely offensive, the largest of the group, and displays only attack and self-supporting abilities.
495** TheSmartGuy: Ohnoki. Due to his age, focuses on tactical use of his abilities and his experience provides insight into the tactics of his opponents.
496** TheHeart: Mei Terumi. More feminine than Tsunade and specializes in indirect attacks and debilitating abilities. Hates that she hasn't been able to have a family of her own.
497* {{Flashback}}: Exaggerated. Protagonists, antagonists, and bystanders alike will go into flashback after flashback, explaining their tragic back-stories, lives, and motives. Any and all emotional scenes that were reasonably short in the manga will be [[{{Padding}} severely lengthened]] by montages of flashbacks. Sometimes, a character has multiple flasbacks to an event which happened in the same episode.
498** WholeEpisodeFlashback: Entire episodes will consist of two characters talking while they exchange flashbacks.
499** FlashbackWithinAFlashback: Logically bound to happen. [[Film/{{Inception}} We have to go deeper!]]
500* FlashStep: A standard technique used by many ninjas, often with character-specific appropriate special effects. Tobi's warping abilities can be used to this effect (though they function differently).
501* FlightIsTheFinalPower: The protagonist only learns how to fly during the final story arc, when the ability spontaneously manifests to enable him to save his friends from the BigBad.
502* FlippingHelpless: As a part of their preparations for [[WarArc the Fourth Shinobi World War]], [[TheAlliance the Allied Shinobi Forces]] send Naruto and Killer Bee to hiding on an island in [[ElementalNation the Land of Lightning]]. In reality, this island is a [[TurtleIsland gigantic turtle]]. When Kabuto attacks the island, he uses the fact that it's a living creature to his advantage by flipping the turtle upside down with the combined effort of Manda II ([[ReptilesAreAbhorrent a genetically altered giant snake]] [[SummonMagic summon]]) and [[MadBomber Deidara]] ([[{{Necromancer}} who Kabuto brought]] BackFromTheDead with his [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Impure World]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Reincarnation technique]]).
503* FlorenceNightingaleEffect:
504** It is learned via flashback that Yahiko and Konan established themselves as a couple when she was bandaging his wounds.
505** A soldier that Sakura treats writes her a LoveLetter.
506* FlyingWeapon: Orochimaru can do this with his sword, the {{Kusanagi}}.
507* ForegoneConclusion: Teasers for ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'' reveal that [[spoiler:Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, Sai, Shikamaru, Chōji, Gaara, Temari, Tenten, and Rock Lee will survive the end of the manga, with no mention of Sasuke's fate as of yet. They also strongly imply that Naruto and Hinata will become a couple]].
508** [[spoiler:After the last chapter where Sasuke is confirmed to survive, he shows up in the first trailer. With the epilogue established, the main heroine of the film is indeed Hinata, and the premise is made clear: this is the story of how she and Naruto fell in love]].
509** ''Shippuden'' episode 463 has a silent acknowledgement from [[spoiler:Naruto and Obito]] that the latter's gonna die anyway: all Naruto was able to do with his HealingHands was buy him some time. [[spoiler:Obito]] [[TheAtoner puts this chance]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath to good use]].
510* ForeverWar: A running theme in the story is how the main characters try to build a peaceful world in an environment that doesn't seem to be conducive to hosting it.
511** The Warring States era which preceded the founding of the ninja villages played this trope to a T. The various shinobi clans were constantly at war with one another for so long that most information about the time before this era has fallen into legend.
512** All four Ninja World Wars happened within the last seventy or so years, to the point that there are living people who saw and went through all of them. Although open hostilities have subsided in the present, it's obvious that some ninja villages still have not let their grudges against others go, hence why Sunagakure jumps at the idea of invading Konohagakure when given the chance.
513** In the manga itself, Amegakure is described as a place where warfare is a constant threat, because the country it is located in borders three major countries (the Lands of Fire, Wind, and Earth) and perennially has to play the unwilling host of all of their conflicts. Not to mention their own civil war.
514* ForgottenPhlebotinum: A big deal was made after after Naruto controls the Kyuubi about how extremely fast he is now. After his fight with the Raikage, the second fastest man alive, suddenly his speed drops dramatically and he doesn't seem any faster than any other character he fights or fights along with.
515* FormerlyFriendlyFamily: Sasuke once [[BigBrotherWorship adored]] his older brother Itachi until Itachi murdered their entire clan, leaving Sasuke orphaned and traumatized.
516* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Shippuuden episode 82's mature and soulful examination of Shikamaru's character in the wake of Asuma's death was a temporary but dramatic departure in tone and style from the series norm. Partially the result of AdaptationExpansion, since what Shikamaru's doing is shown as a montage with no dialogue in the manga.
517* FormulaWithATwist: ''Naruto'' established itself by refining and perfecting many of the tropes that previous works created. For example, it took the concept of the underdog protagonist started by ''Yu Yu Hakusho'' and took it to its extreme conclusion, with a hero [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer considered an absolute FAILURE]] by all of his peers. It took the StockShonenRival established by Vegeta and Hiei and perfected it with Sasuke, a character who possessed everything Naruto ever wanted and provided a constant challenge for the hero to overcome.
518* FourIsDeath:
519** The Fourth Hokage had the shortest time in office of any known Kage, sacrificing his soul to the Shinigami for all eternity in order to defeat the Kyuubi.
520** The Fourth Kazekage reigned during arguably the worst period in his village's history, facing severe economic strain during the disarmament after the last war. His attempt to create a weapon to boost his village's strength killed his wife and brother-in-law while turning his son into a homicidal maniac.
521** The Fourth Mizukage presided during the period when his village held the nickname "''the Bloody Mist''" and was known for his willingness to quickly eliminate subordinates he deemed a threat to the village, whether they were loyal or not. To top it off, he did this all because he was {{Mind Control}}led to begin with.
522** Training Ground 44 has 44 gates. Its nickname is "The Forest of Death".
523** Of the Eight Celestial Gates, the fourth gate is the first with directly detrimental side effects.
524** Orochimaru's elite bodyguards were the Sound Four.
525** When utilizing the Kyuubi's chakra shroud, Naruto's SuperPoweredEvilSide assumes control and causes a horrific transformation when the chakra shroud reaches four-tails.
526** Kakuzu's ''Four Hearts Jutsu'', which enables him to prolong his life by adding four hearts in addition to his own.
527** The climactic conflict which will decide the fate of the shinobi way of life? The '''Fourth''' Shinobi World War. And while we're at it, the Fourth Division of the Allied Forces is utterly wiped out by Madara Uchiha using a ColonyDrop -- it's not completely dead, but suffers the most casualties during that phase of the war.
528* FreakyFridaySabotage: Pretty much the basis behind the techniques used by Ino and the Yamanaka clan as a whole.
529* FreudianExcuse: Almost everyone -- even the [[SealedEvilInACan Tailed Beasts]]. It doesn't help that ThereAreNoTherapists. Notably, losing one's parents/friends/family is the StartOfDarkness of almost all villains and {{Jerkass}}es.
530* FriendlyEnemy: Taken to extremes in the Fourth Shinobi World War arc. Various characters summoned via Edo Tensei will ''verbally'' do their best to lose to former friends, students, and family (though they cannot prevent their bodies from attacking) by shouting warnings about their techniques and any surprise moves they make.
531* FriendsTurnedRomanticRivals: Sakura and Ino used to be friends before they both developed crushes on Sasuke.
532* FromBadToWorse: Kishimoto just LOVES this trope:
533** Gaara's sympathy flashbacks (both the anime and the manga ; this is the anime’s description). He unintentionally injures a group of kids and the one person who seems to actually care about him, tries to give medicine to said injured kids, is told “Go away you Freak!”, and has the door slammed in his face, inadvertently kills a man, is attacked while he is finally having a good cry by some assassin who turns out to be the same person who pretended to care about him (not to mention who is his blood relative, but in Narutoworld, that doesn’t seem to matter a whole lot…), is told, using his last breath, that his mother never cared about him and “I hate you… I’ve always hated you” by the ''same person''. ''All in the same day!''
534** Sasuke had 3 or 4 different battles all on the same day (two with the same guy) during the invasion of Konoha. He'd used up pretty much all of his energy, and was fighting a Cursed Seal threatening to take him over. His friends came looking for him only to find him nearly unconscious, with this psychotic half-transformed jinchūriki about to deliver the fatal blow. Sakura tries to defend him, only to be caught by a giant hand of sand, knocked half unconscious, and pinned to a tree. The only guy left to defend them is a spiky-haired IdiotHero poster child in an orange jumpsuit, who tries to summon a giant toad and gets a minuscule toadling instead. And it actually got worse from there.
535** Sasuke's life in general.
536*** One fine day, a seven-year-old Sasuke is returning home, only to find the streets filled with slain members of his clan. When he reaches home, he finds that his parents have been killed, too. Turns out the entire clan was killed by none other than his much-admired elder brother Itachi. Itachi puts Sasuke under a genjutsu, and plays the massacre scenes in his mind over and over again. Itachi abandons Sasuke, and tells him to develop enough hatred for his brother, and eventually kill him. Having spent the next eight years or so doing exactly as his brother told, when Sasuke eventually meets Itachi and tries to kill him, he gets pwned immediately. Itachi rubs it in further saying he is not interested in Sasuke anymore, but had come there to capture Naruto.
537*** After Sasuke ''finally'' kills his brother four years later, he finds out his brother was actually JustFollowingOrders and trying to make something good out of a hopeless situation and resorted to a ZeroApprovalGambit to at least save his little brother.
538** Pain's invasion arc is largely this until Minato's intervention.
539** The Madara revival arc just keeps piling it on and on and ''on''.
540* FromZeroToHero: Naruto starts out almost completely untalented and [[SmallNameBigEgo overconfident]], but once he [[TrueCompanions finds his friends]], he realizes what it means to be a hero and fights to protect them.
541* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Naruto and Kakashi in a jolly saunter in Episode 194 of the anime.
542* GambitPileup: At any given point in the story things seem pretty straightforward -- we think we know who the bad guys are and what they want. Invariably, we turn out to be wrong; inconspicuous chains of events are revealed to have been mere byproducts of several colliding machinations and secret motives, usually directly opposing each other, also [[ThanatosGambit usually conceived by people who have long since passed away]]. For a long while, the most we could say for sure was that the bad guys were taking orders from some guy in a trippy mask who calling himself Madara. Then, real Madara appeared and everything turned much more difficult. And the moment when everything was more or less clear, Black Zetsu, shows that he planned it all in order to free Kaguya.
543* GambitRoulette:
544** Itachi plan associated with Sasuke. Itachi planned to push Sasuke to awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan, tell him about "Madara", and die fighting him so that the Uchiha Clan could be avenged. After that Sasuke was to kill Madara and return to Konoha a hero. This, of course, banked on Sasuke actually wanting to go back to Konoha instead of razing it to the ground.
545** Tobi indulges in this from time to time by his own admission. He took a gamble by telling Sasuke the truth about Itachi, hoping that the former would not return to the Leaf to protect it. Then, he honed Sasuke's skills after Nagato died, just in case he needed a [[LivingBattery replacement power source]] for the Gedo Statue.
546** Also Madara showed that [[spoiler:he was the true mastermind behind Rin's death, as all of the abductors were being mind-controlled by Madara and Rin herself had an impulse to commit suicide implanted in her mind. The entire thing was planned to destroy Obito's idealism and turn him evil. The fact that Rin committed suicide via Kakashi was a happy coincidence.]]
547** But the biggest roulette in the entire history of the shinobi was pulled by [[spoiler:Black Zetsu for revive Kaguya. First he caused Indra's betrayal of Asura in order to start the Uchiha-Senju feud. Then he edited the Sage of the Six Paths' tablet in order to make the Uchiha Clan his pawns. Then he watched over both brothers reincarnations in hopes of finding someone that would be able to awaken the Rinnegan: Madara. [[labelnote:Note]]On edited him tablet, he wrote "seeking stability, one god was divided into yin and yang, these opposing two acting together obtain all things in creation" so he had to hope that one of the reincarnations of Indra will be able to interpret his message as he wanted.[[/labelnote]] From there, he had to rely on Madara creating the Moon Eye Plan in order for his plan to succeed. In the process, Madara was somehow tricked into thinking he had himself created Black Zetsu. And guess what? His plan went off without a ''single'' hitch.]]
548* GenerationXerox: One of the themes of ''Naruto'' is the recurrence of certain characters, traits, and patterns across the generations. Most of the Konoha 11 (as well as Gaara and to a lesser extent Kankuro) are the spitting image of their fathers, and tend to group together in the same way their parents did. Team 7's relations and characteristics are a dead ringer for those of the Legendary Sannin. As a matter of fact, the relationship between Naruto and his friend/rival Sasuke works as a Generation Xerox on three separate levels across multiple generations. Sasuke himself has been through GenerationXerox drama since day 1, changing who he will grow into a clone of (Kakashi, Orochimaru, Itachi, Madara) more often [[LimitedWardrobe than he changes his clothes]]. In some instances, this is {{Justified|Trope}} -- Rock Lee intentionally models himself after Gai; the Nara, Yamanaka and Akimichi clans apparently have a tradition of working together.
549** Turns out there's a canon excuse for this, at least in part. Hagoromo Otsutsuki, aka the Sage of the Six Paths, tells Naruto that the spirits of his two sons, Indra and Asura, are reincarnated every now and then into different ninja. Naruto and [[AntiHero Sasuke]] are part of this cycle; Hashirama and Madara were the previous incarnations.
550** The last chapter reveals everyone's kids, who are either copies, blends, or gender-flipped versions of their parents. The first chapter of ''Manga/{{Naruto Gaiden}}'' shows how much the kids resemble their parents in appearance and attitude, though it's painful for [[spoiler:Sarada Uchiha, who's surrounded by her friends complaining about their goofy, old-fashioned lookalike fathers while she's never met her's]].
551* GenocideFromTheInside: Itachi killed his entire clan except for Sasuke, for a long time it was assumed to be a standard BloodBathVillainOrigin until Sasuke's final confrontation with him revealed that Itachi had been under orders from Konoha to do it, as his clan was planning a coup.
552* GenocideSurvivor:
553** Itachi Uchiha murders every member of his own clan, save for his younger brother Sasuke. Sasuke's trauma and his desire to get revenge for the massacre drives pretty much his entire character arc. While Sasuke Uchiha has a [[ZigZaggedTrope complicated relationship]] with his LastOfHisKind status, one thing that remained consistent is he indeed survived a systematic killing of his clan.
554** In the Land of Water, people with [[SuperpowerfulGenetics bloodline limits]] are hated and feared for their abilities, which results in regular purges of anyone thought to have one. Haku, an antagonist from early in the story, survived an attempt on his life by an angry mob that included [[OffingTheOffspring his own father]], because he had inherited a bloodline limit from his mother. Haku's mother was not so lucky.
555* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: Sakura is in the same team with Naruto (the Gentleman) and Sasuke (the Scoundrel), although their roles were reversed when they were introduced.
556* GeodesicCast: The Team 7 [[TwoGuysAndAGirl structure]] of "''Two males that are [[RedOniBlueOni of contrasting personality]], [[TheSmurfettePrinciple one female]]''" group, was repeated again and again for the other three-person teams. The only exceptions were Killer Bee's students, who were two girls and one guy.
557* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Hinata ''slaps Naruto in the face'' when Obito's DespairGambit starts getting to him. ''It works!''
558* TheGift: Quite a few characters are called "genius" or "natural prodigy", they often do live up to expectations. Some examples:
559** The Uchihas, ''all of them''. The only one that seemed like a decent person turns out to be the BigBad who is perfectly capable of fighting the entire world at once, single-handedly.
560** The Fourth Hokage, who's considered the fastest ninja who ever lived. He had a flee-on-sight order placed on him during the Third War, was able to figure out the aforementioned BigBad's weakness in seconds and created the Rasengan by observing the Tailed Beasts.
561** Orochimaru, one of the legendary Sannin, who knows a humongous amount of techniques, killed the Third Hokage and is functionally immortal.
562* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: All the time. Naruto is the most frequent offender, but everyone has indulged in this at some point. Even Kurama. Itachi deserves a special mention, since he can place someone under genjutsu just by pointing his finger at them.
563* {{God}}: According to Kurama, the Juubi is the creator of chakra, the world and the progenator of all living things in the world of Naruto. The truth is a bit more complex: [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Kaguya]] merged with the Divine Tree, becoming the beast known as the Juubi. She then went on a rampage, trying to reclaim the chakra her sons, Hagoromo and Hamura, "stole" from her. However, thanks to Black Zetsu's re-editing of shinobi history, no-one ever knew that]].
564* GodMode: The Rinnegan. Derived from [[spoiler:the Sharingan]], its first user was the Sage of Six Paths. Those who possess it get the power to do [[PhysicalGod almost anything]].
565** Pain[=/=]Nagato conquered the Hidden Rain village, killed Hanzo and Jiraiya (among many others), captured the Six-Tails on his own, destroyed the Leaf and nearly captured Naruto. Then, after an extended and brutal battle with the latter, he still had enough chakra to resurrect those he had killed. And he did all that by using six reanimated bodies as puppets. When he gets revived by Edo Tensei he's pretty much unstoppable.
566** Tobi[=/=]Obito is not quite as impressive as Nagato. By his own admission, he didn't have enough chakra to properly control the Rinnegan: even one eye was pushing him to his limit. Still, he could control six Tailed Beasts at once. And after he [[FromBadToWorse absorbs the Juubi]]...
567** Madara is just ridiculously overpowered. He can do everything Nagato could plus defeat the five Kage without breaking a sweat and capture all nine Tailed Beasts in a matter of minutes. He can even use a special kind of ability called Limbo, [[spoiler:which allows him to create living shadows of himself that cannot be seen by anything ''except'' another Rinnegan (like invisible, superpowered shadow clones)]]. On top of that, he can also use his Susano'o and Hashirama's Mokuton (Wood Style).
568** [[spoiler:Sasuke gets the Rinnegan as an EleventhHourSuperpower and puts it to good use. His special power is limited range teleportation, plus the good old energy absorbtion.]]
569* GodOfEvil[=/=]GodIsEvil: The Juubi, or rather [[spoiler:Kaguya, who merged with the Divine Tree and became the Juubi]].
570* GodzillaThreshold:
571** Anything that prompts the use of the Reaper Death Seal, which seals both the target's soul and the user's soul in the belly of the Shinigami.
572** During the War, Edo Tensei Nagato is sealed away by Itachi after [[CurbStompBattle moping the floor]] with him, Naruto and Killer Bee. This forces Kabuto to use his trump card and revive Madara Uchiha.
573* TheGoldenRule: Other characters open up to the protagonist -- trust him and help him -- because they realize that he is doing the same for them.
574* GoldenSnitch: The first round of the Chunin Exams can be passed as long as you answer the 10th question correctly and don't have a 30 point loss so far.
575* GooItUp:
576** Katsuyu is a gooey slug that can turn into a slimey liquid and spit acid.
577** Slime Release is a kekkei genkai that allows creating and manipulating slime.
578* GoryDiscretionShot: When Zabuza tries to attack Sakura and Tazuna, but ends up being blocked by Kakashi.
579** When Itachi puts Sasuke under a genjutsu where his left eye is pulled out.
580** When Pain stabs Hinata.
581** Kisame's death was censored with a cloud of blood. Think about that one for a second.
582* GrandTheftMe: The Yamanaka's clan combat strategy. Orochimaru uses this trope to stay young. He also planned to use it to get the Sharingan.
583* GratuitousEnglish: "''DynamicEntry''"! There are some jutsu names that seem like this but are given kanji that somewhat match the pronunciation.
584* GraveRobbing: A required for anyone using the technique [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Edo Tensei]].
585** A minor example when Suigetsu takes Kubikiri Houcho from Zabuza's grave, where it had been his headstone.
586* GrayRainOfDepression: During the Third Hokage's funeral, when Sasuke defeated Naruto at the Final Valley, and when Asuma and Itachi die.
587* TheGreatSerpent:
588** The Kyodaija are a race of giant, sapient snakes that live within the Ryuchi Cave sage region and can be summoned by shinobi that have made a contract with them, the most famous of which being one of the series {{Big Bad}}s Orochimaru.
589** During the Chunin Exams Arc, giant snakes indigenous to the Forty-Fourth Training Ground are encountered as an obstacle, Naruto in particular gets eaten by one of them.
590* GreenEyedMonster: Sasuke became this toward Naruto at the end of Part I. First he was jealous of Itachi's interest in Naruto, and then he was jealous of how much faster Naruto was growing in comparison. This ultimately led to Sasuke's betrayal of Konoha.
591* GreyAndGrayMorality: Each of the five major Ninja Villages (and a slew of smaller ones), think their side is righteous and superior, [[EnemyMine only resorting to alliances in the face of bigger threats]], even if they have to [[{{Tykebomb}} train children]] [[ChildSoldiers to become ninjas]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction with techniques capable of leveling cities]]. Leaf Village has its fair share of atrocities, such as mistreating Naruto out of irrational fear before the latter's meteoric rise to fame, driving Orochimaru to his StartOfDarkness, massacring Pain/Nagato's family and friends, and indirectly driving Sasuke into a FaceHeelTurn with the revelation that it was the elders who drove his older brother to murder his own family. Then there's [[KnightTemplar Danzo]], who's more than willing to kill rival villages and belligerent Leaf ninjas if it's for the best interests of Hidden Leaf Village, as well as to catch up to his ex-comrade, Sarutobi. [[MetaphoricallyTrue Since everyone is fighting for their own point of view]], no single village can claim to be exclusively good or evil. Even [[BigBad Tobi]] heinous master plan to end all conflict in the world by means of capture the whole world in LotusEaterMachine is revealed to be driven by his desire to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans set right the]] CrapsackWorld he grew in, having suffered as Naruto did.
592* GreaterScopeVillain: [[GodOfEvil The Ten-Tailed Beast]], an ancient EldritchAbomination that was [[SealedEvilInACan sealed way]] centuries ago by [[GreaterScopeParagon The Sage of Six Paths]], and is the entity that [[BigBad Tobi]] seeks to unleash.
593* GroundhogDayLoop: The effect of the forbidden Genjutsu Izanami, which forces the affected to experience the same event over and over again, until it is sealed off in the affected's mind, disabling him completely.
594* GroundPunch: Whenever Kakuzu punches the ground, he's really sending strings of himself underground (he's made of strings) to pop out as spikes wherever he wishes.
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598* HammeredIntoTheGround: At one point, [[AGodAmI Pain]] got slammed into the ground by a berserk Four-Tailed Naruto.
599* HandyMouth:
600** In a very early arc, the villain Zabuza lost the use of both arms after Naruto (with the help of Kakashi) beats him. Then, before everything's settled, Zabuza's employer Gato shows up with multiple armed men, saying that YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to Zabuza and that his men are gonna execute him. An angered Zabuza asks Kakashi for a kunai, which he catches with his mouth; he then proceeds to charge at the armed men and cut them down with the kunai between the teeth, using his tongue to flip the kunai's direction. In the manga, he also beheads Gato this way.
601** Naruto Uzumaki also uses his mouth as a "third hand" to hold kunai and rolls as seen [[http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/9500000/Uzumaki-The-art-of-Naruto-scans-naruto-9532451-359-500.jpg in]] [[https://www.zerochan.net/1197748 these]] [[https://www.zerochan.net/1788542 artworks]], mostly seen in the first series as well in ''Shippuden''.
602* HardWorkHardlyWorks:
603** There's a noticeable comparison between Naruto and Sasuke in regards to this trope. Throughout Parts I and II, for Naruto to gain any type of strength he actually had to go out and train first, with clones unknowingly helping in that regard. While the Nine-Tails power was technically handed to him, he had to actively work to make any use of it. The payoff for him is just world-breakingly ridiculous. Sasuke on the other hand is a more straight example, as all the hard training he put himself through in Part I and II resulted in practically nothing, and all of his power ups came in the form of Sharingan upgrades. The latest required the least amount of work possible as it just required him implanting his brother's eyes into his own head. By the end of the series both of them end up as living gods through a power-up given to them while critically wounded.
604** Rock Lee seems like this, but is actually a subversion. While yes, it's true that he plays TheWorfEffect often and has no impressive victories under his belt, his skill level prior to undergoing TrainingFromHell was atrocious. Now, he's one of the strongest of the Konoha 11, and the reason he gets [[TheWorfEffect worfed]] is ''because'' he's so strong. So, while hard work may not have made him the strongest ninja around, without it he'd have no ability at all.
605* HarmfulHealing:
606** Tsunade developed a form of this as her emergency backup, the Creation Rebirth Seal. While it instantly heals all her wounds, the downside is that the healing is based on rapid cell division. Due to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit Hayflick limit]], this means that each use shortens her lifespan and ages her body.
607** Naruto faced a variant of this for much of the story. When he drew on too much of Kurama's chakra, it would damage his body, which would then be fixed by his accelerated HealingFactor, the rapid healing working to shorten his lifespan like with Tsunade. This ceased to become an issue after Naruto learned to channel Kurama's chakra safely, and more importantly after he ''befriended'' the kyuubi, who started actively helping Naruto instead of dumping some of his chakra on him when things were desperate.
608* HazyFeelTurn: Sasuke and Orochimaru, who decide to join the Alliance and help defeat Madara and end the War. They have their own plans for the future and being caught in an eternal genjutsu in not in their to-do list.
609* HealTheCutie:
610** Naruto himself had a lot of breaking moments from the outset. First, his father sealed a demon inside him as the only way to save their village. His parents are dead, and he grows up ostracized by the entire village. He battles with the power inside him for control, which if unleashed could destroy all he loves. Later, his best friend decides to turn on him and tries to kill him and their female teammate, tries to destroy his village, and everyone is trying to get him to kill said best friend. He's hit with the deaths of [[BadassTeacher Jiraiya and Kakashi]], near-death of [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Hinata]], destruction of Konoha, and having the truth of the ninja system quite brutally explained to Naruto. However, thanks to a few well-placed flashbacks, Jiraiya's book, and care and support from his loved ones, Naruto recovers every time.
611** Hinata Hyuga was [[AbusiveParents abused by her harsh father and the rest of her family from childhood]], and she lost her rightful position as heiress to the Hyuga clan because they mistook her [[NiceGirl kind, gentle nature]] for weakness. Her cousin Neji, who was supposed to protect her with his life, grew up to hate her for nine years, and he ends up brutally attacking her (both physically and verbally), ''to the point of almost killing her'', in the Chunin Exams preliminaries. Her familial shame resulted in a huge inferiority complex and [[ShrinkingViolet crippling shyness]], which tragically persisted up until she met [[{{Determinator}} Naruto]] when they were children. Seeing Naruto's enduring optimism and determination inspired her to keep trying, and eventually she gains the respect of her family. Naruto himself comes to admire and care for her, and the two earn their happy ending together.
612* HeavenlyConcentricCircles: The Rinnegan is the most powerful of the dojutsus and known as Samsara Eye which, according to Myth/HinduMythology, represents the cycle of reincarnation. Its users are said to be the heavens' chosen ones, fated to become gods of creation or destruction. The Rinnegan originated from an extraterrestrial Clan. It manifests as a pattern of concentric circles on a purple sclera. When it gets upgraded to Rinnesharingan, the added tomoe motifs from the Sharingan look like orbiting planets, as the tomoe motifs.
613* HeelFaceBrainwashing: We learn that this was Itachi's plan for dealing with Sasuke just as we see it fail in a very convoluted way.
614* HeelFaceTurn: Several early villains, which you may see coming. Also several ''later'' villains which you definitely do ''not'' see coming.
615** Naruto in particular has a habit of [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talking villains]] into making [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns]].
616* TheHeroDoesntKillTheVillainess: [[spoiler:Konan, the only female member of the villains group Akatsuki, survives their long series of battles with the heroes. She is killed by the leader of the group, Tobi.]]
617* HeroKiller:
618** Orochimaru is this in Part I. Even the strongest good guys like the Third Hokage, Kakashi or Jiraiya feared him and didn't feel able to fight him on par. He demonstrates it by triggering crippling fear in several opponents and killing the Third Hokage.
619** Akatsuki globally becomes this in part II. It's ordered not to engage them in battle if not in a team because each member is a formidable threat on their own. Going alone (or even as a trio) to fight any of them is repeatedly stated to be at best reckless, at worst suicidal. They manage to incapacitate Kankuro, and (temporarily) kill Gaara and two major {{Mentors}}. Itachi Uchiha particularly stands out, given he's the one the protagonists know better. Pain does it simply through [[AuthorityGrantsAsskicking being "Akatsuki's leader"]]. And Tobi [[TheManBehindtheMan "a true leader Akatsuki"]] is the most effective of these (mostly due to the fact his victims actually die and are not [[DisneyDeath resurrected later]]).
620* HeroOfAnotherStory: Arguably applies to all the other ninja teams, but especially Shikamaru and his.
621* HeroesFightBarehanded: The titular hero heavily relies on Taijutsu, contrasting Sasuke who prefers to use a [[ShockAndAwe lightning-enchanted]] [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]. On a similar note we have Tsunade versus Orochimaru (Uses the Kusanagi sword) and [[BoisterousBruiser the Raikage]] compared to his brother Kirabi.
622* HeroicRROD:
623** Kakashi will need to rest for extended periods of time if he overuses his Sharingan.
624** Chouji during the Sasuke Retrieval Arc after taking his super magic butterfly pill.
625** Tsunade after saving all the villagers from Pain's Shinra Tensei.
626** The opening of the chakra gates is said to be extremely dangerous and exhausting. Lee was affected (though his most serious injuries were from Gaara) as well as Might Guy after going toe-to-toe with Kisame.
627* HeroicSacrifice: There's bound to be several given the military-centered (and TrueCompanions) nature of the Naruto verse.
628* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Epidemic. The heroes spend so much time tearing themselves down (openly or not) that their enemies hardly need to bother.
629* HesBack: Happens several times to Naruto, but also to Shikamaru after Asuma's death. Deconstructed with Sasuke after his first "[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown fight]]" against Itachi.
630* HiddenDepths: Plenty of characters, but especially Naruto himself. Due to this, he's subject to many an AlternateCharacterInterpretation, especially in FanFiction.
631* HiddenPurposeTest: One of the selling points of the first few arcs of the series. Tests where they tell you not to feed a teammate, and to pass you need to say ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight, tests where the final question is accepting the risk of taking on the final question, tests where the final question is ''not'' accepting the risk of taking on the final question, tests where the first part of the test is figuring out that it takes place on another floor and the classroom you're about to enter is a decoy classroom, tests where they tell you not to cheat and the idea is that you can only pass if you cheat without getting caught...
632* HighCollarOfDoom: An Uchiha fashion statement. [[spoiler:Sarada]] seems to be the only one unaffected by this "tradition".
633* HighlyVisibleNinja: The titular character wears '''[[LimitedWardrobe BRIGHT ORANGE]]''', and is quite possibly the first character to use ninjutsu as a bully pulpit -- almost BondVillainStupidity in reverse. This is eventually [[{{Retcon}} Retconned]] in an attempt to make sense of it. Evidently the ninjas here aren't quite traditional ninjas, Orange-Wearing Earth-Rending Nuke-Throwing Toad-Summoning Gender-Bending shenanigans. Plus they can use a "Transformation technique" at any time to be as sneaky as they want to.
634** In Naruto's defense, [[{{InvokedTrope}} one of his favorite strategies is to draw attention to himself on purpose to he can pull one over on you.]] The success rate varies, but he's caught several genius ninja off guard by getting them to focus their attention on the wrong Naruto.
635* HijackedByGanon:
636** Orochimaru does this during part one of the anime's interminable filler seasons -- they even retcon Mizuki, from the first chapter, into having been operating under the orders of the aforesaid baddie.
637** Zig-zagged with Akatsuki. First it was revealed that it was all the doing of Jiraiya's former student by name Nagato. But wait, it was actually Tobi, who calls himself Madara but actually he is Obito Uchiha and it was actually real Madara, who manipulated him to resurrect him so he could become god. But wait, later we learn that Obito never had any intention of reviving Madara and himself using him in order to become god. But then, rather abruptly, it's revealed that Black Zetsu is doing this to both of them. In fact, he's been manipulating pretty much everything connected to the Uchiha and Senju clans since before their founding as part of a ploy to resurrect Kaguya. This includes leading Madara and Obito around by the nose, starting Akatsuki and having Kabuto discover Madara's body.
638* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Inverted with Itachi, who is ''saved'' when the mind-control trap he set for Sasuke eventually hits him instead. As a direct result of this, it's played straight for Kabuto, who gets defeated by a minion he resurrected.
639** Invoked by Kakashi and echoed by Naruto later on.
640--> '''Kakashi:''' Think before you use a jutsu, or it'll be used against you.
641* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: After Madara's most powerful jutsu is interrupted by an outside force, he decides not to use it again because it would be insulting to the jutsu to need it twice in one fight.
642* HollywoodBoardGames: The Nara Clan is characterized by being BrilliantButLazy. This is conveyed by the fact its members enjoy playing ''Shogi'' --a slow-paced strategy game usually played by smart old men with nothing better to do. It also serves as a nice father-son bonding activity for two generations of Nara: Shikaku and his son Shikamaru and, in ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', Shikamaru with his son Shikadai. They can get so absorbed with the game, that they ignore their wife/mother's call for dinner.
643* HopeSpot: Used extensively to great effect. The harshest is probably when Naruto manages to be impressive for several chapters against [[ImplacableMan Pain]], only to be quickly neutralised when his opponent [[WorfHadTheFlu regains]] his most useful [[GravityMaster ability]].
644** [[spoiler:Naruto is dying and only the yin-half of Kurama in his father can save him. When they finally try to transfer it, Black Zetsu steals it by intercepting Minato's seal. The sudden and only hope they had of saving Naruto just crumbled at the tip of their fingers.]]
645* HornedHumanoid (with FacialMarkings): [[spoiler:The original Sage of the Six Paths]] had small devil/''oni'' horns while [[spoiler:his powerful mother Kaguya, who was known as both the benevolent [[MoonRabbit Rabbit Goddess of the Moon]] and a terrible demon]] had even larger and longer horns.
646* HospitalityForHeroes: Naruto often gets this treatment from the guy who runs his favorite ramen shop. After he saves the whole town, in addition to finally being respected by everyone else, the owner (who already respected him, and knew him to be a BigEater) goes above and beyond them by giving Naruto a free buffet.
647* HostageMacGuffin: When Hinata was a little girl she was kidnapped. She's the heiress to the Hyuga clan, one of Konoha's most elite and illustrious families. The trope is subverted: it wasn't because she was Hyuga Clan's heir, but because of her [[SuperPowerfulGenetics Byakugan]] eyes. Of course, since the Main Head is always expected to be the strongest, Hinata being his daughter was only an add-up, plus the fact she wasn't marked with the Bird Cage Seal.
648* HotBlooded: Naruto and Might Guy. In ''Shippuden'', Guy actually uses a technique known as ''Morning Peacock'', a high-level technique to shoot fire from his fists in such a flurry it resembled the bright feathers of a peacock. And no, it's not ninjutsu; he's just so damn hot-blooded the friction of his fist against the air starts a fire.
649** And Rock Lee too. He's Guy's protege, so he's like this also. He was nicknamed the "Hot-Blooded Dropout".
650*** When Lee and Guy hug, the sheer amount of passion generated is enough to warp reality and cause a [[AgainstTheSettingSun cliffside sunset]] to appear... indoors in the middle of a perfectly level forest.
651*** Fanon is that it's Guy's Genjutsu.
652** Kiba's also quite Hot-Blooded — according to Naruto, even more so than he, himself, is.
653** Apparently [[spoiler:Naruto's mom, Kushina, was more Hot-Blooded than everyone else, earning the nickname ''Red Hot-Blooded Habanero'']].
654** When the [[spoiler:seventh gate]] is opened, Gai's hot blood goes supernova. Instead of his punches that shoot fireballs, he can punch a tiger face made of [[AwesomenessIsAForce awesomeness]] into existence. Just ask [[spoiler:Kisame]].
655*** And it wasn't just fire, oh no. According to him (at least in the anime) the bear (it was a bear in the anime) he punched was made of youthful vigour. Let me reiterate that: ''the man punched to create a bear made of youthful vigour.'' [[BrokenBase Reactions are still mixed as to whether or not this counts as]] DeusExMachina so he could beat the aforementioned spoilerdx character.
656** Gai's Eighth Gate takes Hot-Blooded to an entirely new level, as [[spoiler:his sweat aura makes way for a blood vapor. Which he uses to [[FlashStep attain aerial movement by kicking the air with such force that it acts as a platform]], create massive elephant stomps by merely punching the air, and ultimately create a titanic dragon aura out of his chakra, blood, and ash, centering on a relativistic-speed kick]].
657* HourglassPlot: Kakashi starts as a shinobi who only cares about the mission, while Obito thinks that comrades are more important. After the battle of Kannabi Bridge, Kakashi becomes more concerned about comrades and puts them above the mission. Obito however, completely and utterly ''shatters'' at seeing the love of his life kill herself with his best friend's attack and is sent down the nihilistic path to becoming Tobi, who will sacrifice anyone and everyone for his mission. In fact, everything about Obito and Kakashi switched after that mission, including the GenerationXerox. Kakashi was originally Sasuke's counterpart and Obito was Naruto's. However, as they grew up, Kakashi became a kind, loyal shinobi of Konoha [[spoiler:who becomes Hokage]] like Naruto, while Obito become a wanted criminal/terrorist [[spoiler:who eventually makes a HeelFaceTurn]] like Sasuke.
658* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake: [[spoiler:With both their chakra exhausted, the FinalBattle between Naruto and Sasuke eventually descends into a brutal, bloody no-holds-barred street fight. To the point where Sasuke repeatedly screams at Naruto to just fall down already, when he can barely stand himself.]]
659* HufflepuffHouse: The ninja villages besides Leaf, Sand, and Sound. This begins to change late in the manga.
660* HuntingTheRogue:
661** Played with during the Sasuke Retrieval Arc. By that point, Sasuke has become increasingly estranged with his comrades due to feeling they're holding him back from his ultimate goal of avenging his family by killing his older brother Itachi (who had left Sasuke the SoleSurvivor and witness after massacring the clan). Before this can fully come to a head, he's kidnapped by the Sound Four, and the resulting mission is described as a cross between a rescue mission and a retrieval mission: if he was taken unwillingly then then it's a rescue, but if it turns out he went willingly then he must be captured or killed.
662** Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade, known as the Three Sages, were a ChildhoodFriend trio. However, Orochimaru's ForScience attitude eventually resulted in him going rogue (among other things, he was interested in developing techniques to revive the dead). Jiraiya would spend much of his time attempting to find and bring him in, partially because on some level he still sees Orochimaru as his friend.
663* HypnoticEyes:
664** The Sharingan and anyone using Genjutsu.
665** Subverted with Orochimaru's snake eyes which ''aren't'' hypnotic, despite what Sasuke primarily thought and the traditional association of snakes with hypnotism. It's Orochimaru's [[AxCrazy bloodlust]] which leads Sasuke and Sakura to have a vision of their own gruesome and supposedly imminent death.
666* IAmNotLeftHanded: Rock Lee delivers one of the most epic examples of this trope in manga/anime history during his fight with Gaara: After fruitlessly trying to break through Gaara's automatic sand defense, Guy gives him permission to take off his leg weights, and they hit the floor hard enough to shake the building and kick up twin pillars of dust. Cue a blindingly-fast beatdown that Gaara can barely block before Lee finally manages to hit him, becoming the first character to ''ever do so.'' [[spoiler:Even after performing this a second time with the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Eight Inner Gates]], [[WorfEffect Gaara eventually proves that he's still the stronger shinobi.]] However, he walked away from the battle with a newfound respect for Lee.]]
667* IAmYourOpponent: Happens all the time (episode 115 is titled after this phrase). Bad guys (and, less often, good guys) find it difficult to complete their primary mission when facing an imminent duel to the death.
668* ICannotSelfTerminate: Anyone revived through Edo Tensei.
669* IdealistVsPragmatist: A massive focal plot point is a central conflict between two characters that symbolize both sides of the trope in conflict while wanting the same goal. One idealistic character to symbolize using Love and ThePowerOfFriendship to achieve their goals, while the pragmatic opposite using Power and MightMakesRight to reach their ends. All of this tying back to the sons of the Sage of Six Paths who would go onto reincarnate across generations to continue their struggle. The titular Naruto and his rival Sasuke would serve as an example as well as their predecessors Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.
670* IGaveMyWord: "''I don't go back on my word... That's my ninja way!''" -- Naruto's trademark slogan from the early days of the series. Hinata also says it word-for-word to drive it home [[BirdsOfAFeather how similar they are]].
671* IJustWantToBeYou: This is how Naruto and Sasuke's relationship works in its core. At least Naruto acknowledges it as far back as Part I. We don't really know how Sasuke feels in this regard, [[spoiler:at least until their FinalBattle where he admits he was always envious of Naruto, his best and only friend]].
672** Also seems to be the case in the early rivalry between Rock Lee and Neji.
673* IceCrystals: Haku's ''kekkei genkai'' jutsu "Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals"/"Ice Crystal Magic Mirror"/"Crystal Ice Mirrors" are mirrors made of ice that are perfectly shaped (at least on one side) to function as mirrors for Haku to dash between.
674* IconicItem: The headbands worn by shinobi, with a metal forehead protector inscribed with its village's symbol, are an instantly recognizable symbol of the ''Naruto'' franchise.
675* IdiotHero: Downplayed and a bit Justified. Naruto himself is primarily BookDumb. Despite the fact that he is recognized at the bottom of his class, Naruto was capable of sneaking into the home of his village's leader, a wise and skilled ninja, and stealing a forbidden scroll, and learning a forbidden technique written on said scroll. He is capable, or "learns through his body" as Kakashi puts it. On the other hand, he is practically incapable of learning the basic techniques early on that all of his classmates learn. At one point, [[SealedEvilInACan it is inferred that the Tailed Beast inside of him]] is disrupting his anatomy, resulting in at least a few of his academic failings. Regardless, as to his personality, Naruto is still an overly spirited and loud-mouthed individual throughout the first half of the series.
676** In ''Shippuden'', he gets a bit better at making strategies, to the point where his own sensei was surprised at getting caught off-guard by him. Naruto's newfound tactics cause most of his acquaintances and allies to marvel at how he's grown. Sakura, however, berates him from holding onto a perverted technique and believes that he still hasn't really matured. Due to this particularly unhappy childhood, Naruto is also rather good at relating or identifying with people who grew up in similarly negative ways (Sasuke, Gaara), and [[BirdsOfAFeather Hinata]] being the most notable examples), so something in his brain is definitely churning. He's also darn good at ShutUpHannibal speeches.
677** Choji Akimichi is a straight example.
678** Obito is another example [[spoiler:well, that is, [[DumbassNoMore before he became]] [[TheChessmaster Tobi]]]].
679** First Hokage Senju Hashirama belongs here, perhaps more so than all the others mentioned earlier although his brother considers that Naruto still surpasses it in this.
680* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: More or less the core reason why Naruto didn't kill Nagato. The explicit saying is actually rather "If I kill you, I(t) won't be Naruto anymore" ("It" in regard to the first book Jiraiya ever wrote in which he named the main character "Naruto").
681* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Sasuke tells Sakura that if she wants to join him, she'll have to kill Karin. He tries to kill her ''anyway'' the second [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder her back is turned]].
682* ImColdSoCold: Sakura remarks how cold [[spoiler:Sasuke's]] body feels. [[spoiler:Apparently, that's one of the effects of the [[NotQuiteDead deathlike]] state he was put into.]]
683* ImmortalHero: Sasuke Retrieval Arc, where all five bad guys (not counting Sasuke) died, but all five good guys survived (including two that [[DisneyDeath really looked like they were dying]]). Justified in that the medics arrived in time. Neji also still had his Curse Mark, so one could guess he had not died. Plus, if any of the Sound Four were OnlyMostlyDead, the Leaf ninja would have made short work of them.
684* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The most common cause of death or serious injury for pretty much everyone, from fodder-nin up to main characters, is a good old piece of steel through the chest. Justified in that most of the higher level jutsus end up countering each other, leaving the chakra-depleted opponents to resort to 'stabbing until they fall over'. Some examples: the Third Hokage, Sakon and Ukon, Sakura, Orochimaru, Madara Uchiha, Danzo, Karin, Tsunade, Neji, Rin, Obito, Kakashi, Hinata...
685* ImperfectRitual: There's a ritual involving all the eye bloodlines, and all the tailed beasts. Tobi can't capture the two strongest tailed beasts, so he just uses small samples of their power.
686* IncapableOfDisobeying: During the Great Ninja War arc, several powerful shinobi are resurrected to act as an army using the Edo Tensei jutsu. Their summoner ''can'' exert total dominance over his undead minions, but opts to order them to fight while otherwise allowing them to act freely. This results in situations like one person actively trying to tell his adversaries his weakness so they can defeat him again while simultaneously trying to kill them.
687* InelegantBlubbering: A common occurence when male characters cry.
688** PlayedForLaughs with Lee and Guy when they're having their "YOUTH!!" moments. Also, when Naruto meets Yagura.
689** PlayedForDrama most of the time. Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara (among others): when something genuinely moves them to tears, they don't try to hide them. It often has a cathartic effect, allowing them to move past their pain; Sasuke is an exception.
690* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Naruto and Sasuke towards each other. Sasuke's got bad enough that it became a major contributor to his FaceHeelTurn.
691** [[HistoryRepeats Madara had a truly MASSIVE one with the First Hokage, and it's one of the reasons he left the village]].
692* InformedAbility:
693** The ANBU are the top of the elite and are a force to be reckoned with. Which is why they seem to do nothing but die ''[[RedShirt en masse]]''.
694*** Except Kakashi, Yamato, and Sai. Named members seem to live longer which is a major a problem for the group since ''everyone'' is supposed to be unnamed for their spy duty. Hell, Fu and Torune were also killed and Yamato was imprisoned.
695** Kakashi is supposed to have trained Sakura in genjutsu, but she is actually never seen performing one or breaking a high level one.
696*** [[AllThereInTheManual The fourth databook]] showed many characters to have the ability to use multiple elements despite most of them only using their clan jutsu (Shikamaru), kekkai genkai abilities (Neji) or lacking any training at all (Jugo).
697** When it was introduced, it was mentioned that one of the advantages of the Rasengan over the Chidori is its lack of seals, and thus is faster to use. Except that not only Naruto, on top of needing a clone to prepare it, takes a lot of time to form the Rasengan, but Kakashi and Sasuke take about two seconds to do all the Chidori's hand seals, plus they learned how to use it without them in later arcs. Subverted, however, with literally every other person that uses the Rasengan; all of them are able to use it instantly with just one hand.
698** The Uzumaki Clan's skill with seals is pretty much a case of [[ShowDontTell telling rather than showing]], since none of the Uzumaki characters (Naruto, Karin, Nagato, Kushina) are shown using fuinjutsu at any time of the series. On top of that, of all the characters who are shown to be skilled in fuinjutsu (Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Minato, Tobirama, Danzo) none are Uzumaki.
699* InjuredSelfDrag: Downplayed example. By the end of Naruto's fight with Gaara, both of them are so exhausted and drained that neither has the strength left to stand, or even crawl. But Naruto is so determined not to give up that he starts dragging himself towards Gaara with his chin. It isn’t until others step in and assure him that the fight is over and Sakura is safe that he finally lets himself succumb to unconsciousness.
700* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: For the longest time the ''Kakashi Gaiden'' was considered to be a sort of BreatherEpisode, serving the purpose of filling in some of Kakashi's backstory to bridge the gap between the pre- and post-TimeSkip series. Then we finally found out it was actually introducing and setting up the backstory of one of the series' 2 joint {{Big Bad}}s.
701* InterfaceScrew: In her fight with Kabuto, Tsunade delivers a shock to his neural system, causing his muscles to respond to different inputs. His "right arm" moves his left leg, his "left ankle" moves his right shoulder, etc.
702* InternalReveal:
703** Naruto learns much more later than the audience that Kabuto is a Sound ninja and reacts with appropriate feelings of betrayal and disappointment.
704** It was long suspected and eventually revealed that Naruto's father was the Fourth Hokage. Naruto himself didn't discover it until a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind nearly 80 chapters after it was revealed to the audience in a conversation between Tsunade and Jiraiya. Used again about 50 chapters later when Naruto meets his mother in much the same fashion.
705* InverseDialogueDeathRule: The death or near-death of any major character can take the better part of an episode, and sometimes even spill over to the next. Then there's the funeral.
706* InvisibleParents:
707** Perhaps most notably, Sakura's and Lee's (assuming he even has parents), but many parents (such as Hinata's and Neji's mothers) are also absent.
708** Tenten's as well -- her lack of a revealed family name leads many to wonder if she's an orphan. We also don't know the status of Shino's mother, though this is somewhat subverted by Kiba's father -- who was driven away by his wife at some point in the past, so he's just not in the picture in general.
709** Sakura's are finally introduced in an anime {{Filler}} episode and a {{Filler}} movie, so they aren't canon. Choji and Ino's mothers were also introduced in the anime (the former's in the padding for a main arc, the latter's in another {{Filler}} episode), so they aren't canon.
710* InvisibleWriting: The Uchiha tablet on first glance gives the basic informations regarding secrets of the Uchihas. But use your Mangekyou Sharingan or Rinnegan and you will see even more details regarding the history of the ninja world. Such as the history of Senju and Uchiha war and the origin of the Ten-Tails.
711* IronicEcho: Over and over. If someone taunts someone else, their opponent is almost bound to repeat the same taunt to them later in the fight when the tables have turned. In a non-opponent example, Naruto quoting Sasuke's, "''Hey kid, you aren't hurt are ya, you scaredy cat!''" back at him while holding off Orochimaru's giant snake.
712** Can also be used for tragic flavour, like the ''"See you"'' between Karin and Sasuke. Just to twist the knife, the past and present-day panel are drawn [[TwoScenesOneDialogue side by side]].
713%%* JapaneseHonorifics[=/=]JapanesePoliteness:
714%%** Naruto only uses "-sensei" frequently. He usually forgoes any honorifics; exceptions are Sakura ("Sakura-chan"), Tsunade's and Killer Bee's {{AffectionateNickname}}s, the Third Hokage ("old man") and Kabuto ("Kabuto-san"). That's why the latter's betrayal stings so much.
715%%** Sasuke uses honorifics only when addressing family members. Not even Kakashi and Orochimaru merit a "-sensei" or "-sama" respectively, something that comes off as very rude.
716%%** Hinata and Lee, the two most excessively polite characters in-universe, use honorifics on everyone.
717%%** Most people forgo the use of honorifics with their friends.
718* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Played straight at least once, but also subverted memorably when Pain explained his plan to Jiraiya then proceeded to ''actually kill him''.
719* {{Kamaitachi}}: Temari, a special technique that involves summoning a kamaitachi. She is the wind user, while the kamaitachi does the cutting. The only time it was used, the opponent was too dead to notice if the bleeding had stopped.
720* KarmaHoudini:
721** The Hidden Cloud village doesn't appear to undergo any hardship for the kidnapping attempt they made on the 3-year-old Hinata, the eldest daughter of the Hyuga clan head. Not only do they not get punished, but they demand revenge for their ambassador getting killed mid-kidnapping attempt. The only time this is brought up is when Yamato reminds the Raikage that the Leaf Village had to accommodate their demands for the sake of peace in the past.
722** Unlike most villains in the series, Orochimaru is pretty irredeemable, having performed numerous massacres and experiments on prisoners (including children and infants, usually fatal) to become immortal. Yet after [[EnemyMine siding with the heroes against Madara]], Orochimaru is still living and working in a remodeled laboratory of his with Yamato and other Leaf shinobi keeping said base under constant surveilance. Neither Sasuke nor ''[[MessianicArchetype Naruto]]'' have any problem with visiting and chatting with him (albeit they both make it clear they don't actually like him). They don't even mind that Orochimaru looks younger, beyond finding his new appearance odd (of course Orochimaru always looked however he wanted to). WordOfGod even confirmed that [[http://qaelios.tumblr.com/post/130767854594/notes-from-the-kishimoto-interview Orochimaru gained immortality]] later on. This is even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[AdaptationExpansion in the anime adaptation]] of ''[[Literature/KonohaHidenThePerfectDayForAWedding Konoha Hiden]]'', where Orochimaru openly strolls around town and even participates in a video to send [[spoiler:[[OfficialCouple Naruto and Hinata]] well-wishes for their upcoming wedding]], and only Yamato who was assigned to monitor him finds anything wrong with this.
723** Kabuto also qualifies. Like Orochimaru, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse we have no idea what happened to him]] immediately after the original series ends despite orchestrating some of the war. ''Manga/NarutoGaiden'' reveals that he not only was pardoned for his part in the war, but is now running an orphanage with the Leaf Village's approval and supervision.
724** It is eventually clarified that not punishing Sasuke, Orochimaru and Kabuto as their crimes would normally deserve was a joint decision by the 5 Great Nations. The fact was that without their powers the war and thus the world would have been lost, so it was decided keeping them "tamed" and monitored was better than losing powers that may be needed in the future.
725* KiManipulation: Everyone in the Naruto-verse can use chakra for a variety of effects, like ElementalPowers, CharlesAtlasSuperpower, walking on walls and water and [[MasterOfIllusion illusion casting]] among others.
726* KidnappedWhileSleeping: A flashback shows Hinata being kidnapped by a Cloud ninja while she's asleep in her room. Her father manages to catch up with them and kills the cloud ninja to save Hinata.
727* KilledOffForReal: A number of characters, both in the main plot and the backstory. Among the few that haven't come back in ''any'' form, the most notable is Jiraiya. There are minor character casualties however, and when the Fourth Shinobi World War arc starts, the stakes rise exponentially. Individual deaths are listed in the Character Sheets.
728* KillTheLights: The First Hokage (in the manga) and the Second Hokage (in the anime) use a technique called Kokuangyo no Jutsu (Bringer of Darkness Technique) that shrouds the target's perception with darkness.
729* KillOnSight: Inverted with the future Fourth Hokage during the Third Shinobi World War. He was so badass that enemy countries ordered their troops to ''flee'' whenever he was sighted on the the battlefield.
730* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: The Sharingan is quite powerful, but most of the people fighting characters who have it know at least one counter-measure.
731** Once Sasuke learns how to cast genjutsu on people, all his major opponents are able to resist it in one way or another.
732* KungFuWizard: Ninjas in the Naruto universe are essentially this, rather than classic ninjas.
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