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The Akatsuki ("sunrise" or "daybreak" [[note]]Or broken down further, "Aka" and "Tsuki" taken as two words can be translated as "red moon"[[/note]]) is a criminal organization consisting of no more than ten [[RandomPowerRanking S-ranked]] criminal ninja. (Orochimaru was once a member, but defected before the series started. He was never replaced, so the organization has nine members for the series proper.) They all seem to have their own agendas, but the primary group's goal is to TakeOverTheWorld by seeking the nine Tailed Beasts. They work in pairs, with each partner's abilities and temperment complementing the other's. Their signature costume is a dark robe adorned with stylized red clouds, as well as broad-brimmed hats that they discard when discovered. They also wear their original shinobi headbands, but with a deep scratch across the emblem.

They mostly appear in ''Shippuden'' -- only Itachi, Kisame, and Zetsu appeared in the [[{{Naruto}} original series]] at all while the rest appear in silhouettes. Itachi and Kisame appear in an arc that lasts ''ten chapters'' (five episodes in the anime), and Zetsu's case was merely a cameo. They become much more active in the second series as their plan to capture and seal the Tailed Beasts begins to move forward in earnest.

''Here be spoilers. Any thing that has not been aired on the free version[[note]]one week after the paid version[[/note]] of [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Naruto_Shippuden Crunchyroll]] should be spoiler-tagged.''

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[[folder:In General]]
!!The organization as a whole provide examples of...
* AntiVillain: Their motives vary, but some of them qualify as this one way or another.
* BadassCrew: Everyone except Zetsu is {{Badass}} to the bone.
* BadassLongcoat: Their standard uniform is a coat with red clouds.
* BlackCloak: With Red Clouds.
* BattleStrip: Once any of them come to their fight's climax, they remove their robe, willfully or from ClothingDamage. [[spoiler:Every single Akatsuki member to do so has died, save for Konan, who died without stripping.]]
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead : The revived Akatsuki members, brought back by Kabuto to fight in the war: Deidara, Sasori, Kakuzu, Itachi, and Nagato/Pain.]]
* BigBad: They are the main antagonistic force of the entire series.
* BiggerBad: In Part I, they mostly waited in the shadows as Orochimaru rampaged in the Leaf, but their presence and the danger they pose became evident when Itachi and Kisame first appeared.
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* EvilDuo: They operate in teams of two, usually complimenting each other's skills and personalities. Itachi (stoic, fire-user, illusionist) and Kisame (talkative, water-user, tears people up with his {{BFS}}) set the trend.
* HighCollarOfDoom: Their cloaks reach right above their chins, looking rather ominous.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Just about all of them reveal at least one new ability or special attack.
* KnightOfCerebus: Their appearance was when the series took a darker turn.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:If you read the name as ''[[AssimilationPlot Red Moon]]'', referring to Madara's Infinite Tsukuyomi plan, which would turn the moon into a giant Sharingan able to hypnotize the entire world.]]
* NiceHat: Elaborate straw hats covering their faces during travel. They work for reconaissance.
* OddlySmallOrganization: For one of the most terrifying terrorist organizations in the world, there are never more than ten official members at a time. [[{{Badass}} Quality]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction beats]] [[SuperpowerLottery quantity]], as each member is capable of [[OneManArmy fighting an army]], [[spoiler: as their performance during the Fourth Shinobi World War indicates.]]
* OrderVsChaos: The Order to Orochimaru's Chaos.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Subverted - this is what they tell the new guys the plan is. The higher ups have [[DragonWithAnAgenda conflicting]] ideas about what the organization is actually planning.
* RingOfPower: Each member has a ring used to activate the statue which absorbs the Tailed-Beasts from their hosts.
* StandardEvilOrganizationSquad
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Upon being reanimated via [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Edo Tensei]], [[PuppetMaster Sasori]], [[MadArtist Deidara]], and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Kakuzu]] all suffer this, getting defeated by the combined efforts of the ninja alliance.
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[[folder:Itachi Uchiha]]
-->"''[[ArcWords Your hate is not strong enough.]]''"

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->Voiced by: HideoIshikawa (JP), SkipStellrecht (EN, original), Creator/CrispinFreeman (EN, current), Roberto Cuenca Rodríguez Jr. (Spain)

Sasuke's AloofBigBrother is the Akatsuki member with the most screen time to date. He [[spoiler:was believed to have]] killed his closest friend in order to gain the Mangekyo Sharingan, a more advanced form of the Sharingan with several unique abilities. He then proceeded to kill the entire Uchiha clan save Sasuke for reasons of his own, then abandoned the village to join Akatsuki.

Onscreen, he rarely moves and rarely speaks, but he's too good a fighter for even high-level ninja to take on. He was a prodigy as a child and has only gotten stronger since. He is an expert at genjutsu, is a master of the Fire-Style Techniques of his clan, and knows most of Konoha's signature jutsu, such as the Shadow Clone Jutsu; Itachi, uniquely, has demonstrated the ability to detonate his clones as an offensive technique when he no longer needs them. In addition, the Mangekyo Sharingan gives Itachi three extremely powerful but draining jutsu with which to fight: Amaterasu, a black flame hotter than the sun which can burn anything, even other flames, Tsukuyomi, a genjutsu which can bring its target to complete mental and physical collapse by [[MindRape tormenting them for what seems like days in just a few seconds]], and Susano'o, which summons a massive ethereal warrior which can attack and defend on Itachi's behalf. The new abilities the Mangekyo gives come with a price, however. Extended use causes the user's eyesight to fade, eventually resulting in complete blindness. The only way to combat this is to create a permanent Mangekyo Sharingan by replacing the user's eyes with his brother's.

His only appearance in the original series was directly after the Chunin Exam arc, when he appeared in Konoha with his partner Kisame to capture Naruto. He and Kisame easily defeated Kurenai, Asuma, and Kakashi, but retreated rather than become involved in a general melee. When Sasuke heard his brother was in the area, he immediately rushed out to challenge him, but Itachi easily beat him and [[MindRape Mind Raped]] him in the process, further feeding Sasuke's inferiority complex. After Jiraiya chased the Akatsuki off, Itachi was ordered not to attempt to capture Naruto again until after the TimeSkip.

In ''Shippuden'', Pain creates a clone of Itachi to serve as a delaying action during the Rescue Gaara arc. Team 7 beats it, and Itachi doesn't appear again until directly prior to his fight with Sasuke, where he briefly confronts Naruto, force-feeding him a crow [[spoiler:containing one of his friend's Sharingan]] before leaving to duel his brother. He claims that he left Sasuke alive because he wanted to take Sasuke's eyes for himself. However, Itachi dies from a terminal illness before he can kill Sasuke. More about his character and his relationship with Sasuke is revealed after his death.
->His hobby was visiting traditional Japanese cafés.
->Favorite word: "peace"

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* TheAce: Itachi is one of the best ninjas the Leaf has ever produced. He is one of Akatsuki's elite, which is saying a lot. He also understands the essense of what it ''means'' to be a true shinobi. Many characters have noted this, and even ''The First Hokage'', who carries the title "God of Shinobi" calls Itachi a better shinobi than he ever was, though he did seem to be half-joking at the time.
** BrokenAce: And yet, while he's never lost a fight onscreen, we also see that he's sacrificed his family, his happiness, and his honor all for the sake of serving the village. In addition to this, after his death, almost all of his plans backfire horribly in his face, as Sasuke goes completely insane and decides to destroy Konoha. Tobi also heavily implies that the only reason he is so strong and wise is because he was so traumatized by war when he was four years old that he had no choice ''but'' to grow up quickly. [[CharacterShilling Of course, this doesn't stop other characters from constantly praising him, even when by all rights, they should have had some serious problems with what he did]], but still...
* AffablyEvil: Always polite, offers his opponents the chance to escape (unless they are his target) and never uses more power than needed to disable, without lasting harm if possible. He is also an unrepentant mass murderer with history of mentally torturing several protagonists of the series, especially his little brother (who was 7 years old the first time, 13 the second).
* AloofBigBrother: One of the {{Anime}} poster boys for this trope. Even before his family's death, he was always detached. His father remarked that Itachi wasn't good with people.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Sasuke develops a massive inferiority complex because Itachi is always leagues ahead of him.
* AndIMustScream: As a genjutsu expert, he's more than capable of pulling this off, particularly with Tsukuyomi.
* AnimalEaredHeadband: Anime only, a flashback shows him wearing cat ears so he could talk to Nekomata. No, [[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17600000/Sasuke-s-Paw-Encyclopedia-itachi-uchiha-17639965-1280-720.jpg seriously.]]
* AnimalMotifs: Itachi will often dissolve into a murder of crows which Sasuke remarked was his favorite jutsu.
* [[spoiler:AntiHero: He killed his entire clan, including his family, in order to avoid civil war. While his goals for peace are ultimately noble, his methods, which include torturing his little brother in order to strengthen him, are questionable.]]
* ArcWords: "''Your hate is not strong enough''".
* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: After he's revived by Kabuto, he fights in order to help the Allied Shinobi Forces and save Sasuke.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Among all his other abilities, Itachi is excellent at analysing his opponents' skills.
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: Kabuto revives him to fight in the war. He manages to undo the technique with Sasuke's help.]]
* {{Badass}}: Kills an entire clan of elite ninja and Becomes an S-rank missing-nin at age 13, while [[spoiler:blackmailing ''Danzo'']]. Wins every fight we've seen him in without breaking a sweat, including [[CurbStompBattle "battles"]] against Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke and ''Orochimaru'', until he meets Sasuke in Part II. [[spoiler:''Beats Sasuke while terminally ill, literally dying in front of him.'']]
** [[spoiler:When resurrected under Kabuto's control, he promptly breaks free by using [[MoreThanMindControl Shisui's]] [[ChekhovsBoomerang eye]] and with Naruto and Bee's help defeats Nagato, then goes off to take on Kabuto with some help from Sasuke.]]
** BadassBoast: "Every jutsu has a weakness. That jutsu's weakness...is '''me'''."
** BadassLongcoat: As per usual for Akatsuki.
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** [[spoiler:HeartbrokenBadass: He actually doesn't want to do the things he does, mostly he's just following orders and trying to atone for it all.]]
** BadassBaritone: Especially in the [[CrispinFreeman English version]].
* BashBrothers: He and Kisame make an excellent team, even when they aren't actually fighting alongside each other.
** [[spoiler:He and Sasuke become an official [[SiblingTeam pair of literal bash brothers]] at the end of chapter 578.]]
* BeneathTheMask: During his fight with Sasuke, he [[spoiler:briefly lets his stoic personality slip and psychotically [[MotiveRant gives a speech about stealing Sasuke's eyes]], and claims that this unhinged persona is his true self.]] It's subverted when you learn that [[spoiler:Itachi was merely faking it and never intended to take Sasuke's eyes]]. However, [[spoiler:post-mortem it's revealed that the aloof personality he maintained was indeed an act. What was underneath was a young man torn up by guilt]]. [[spoiler:After he's revived by Kabuto, we get to see how Itachi really is, and he turns out to be a virtuous, wise, and even humorous individual.]]
* BigBrotherMentor: [[spoiler: Seems to be this way to Naruto.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: The reason [[spoiler:he didn't kill Sasuke and didn't kill him during their final fight]].
** Zigzagged later. [[spoiler:His plan was to make Sasuke a thrall for the rest of his life if he faced Naruto. Sasuke would still be [[AndIMustScream aware]] of what happened after this.]]
* [[spoiler:BigDamnHeroes: When he rescues Naruto and Killer Bee from certain death at the hands of edo Nagato after Nagato defeated the two Jinchuriki in a CurbStompBattle.]]
%% * {{Bishonen}}
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: He started on his path to villainy by killing his entire family except for Sasuke. [[spoiler: Turns out it was a sham and he actually killed them to prevent them from staging a coup.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: His acts, goals, and desires are in such contradiction with each other that he not only skirts, but happily jumps to this category.
%% * BornWinner
* [[spoiler:BreakTheCutie: He witnessed and was traumatized by the Third Shinobi World War at just four years old.]]
%% * BrokenAce
%% * [[spoiler:BrokenBird]]
%% * [[spoiler:ByronicHero]]
* CainAndAbel: With Sasuke.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Particularly [[ColdBloodedTorture sadistic]] in his first appearance ([[MindRape torturing]] Kakashi, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown breaking several bones]] of Sasuke and mind-raping him, not objecting Kisame's idea of ''cutting Naruto's legs off''). We later can see [[StartOfDarkness fragments]] of [[AloofBigBrother his]] [[PetTheDog past]], then we learn that [[spoiler:everything he did was for the sake of Konoha and Sasuke]].
* CharacterShilling: Everybody loves to point out how much of a [[MoralDissonance saint]] he was.
** This gets especially ridiculous when [[spoiler: the First Hokage]], of all people, says that Itachi's a better shinobi than him, after simply hearing a brief description of his history. [[spoiler: Even though Hashirama wasn't serious, Hiruzen seemed serious that Itachi had 'Hokage-level reasoning skills/wisdom' at age ''[[ImprobableAge seven]]''.]] The annoying part is ''everyone'' lines up to praise him. The fact he was a pure prodigy who could be praised by the village and his family? Great. One of Akatsuki's strongest ninja? Great. It gets way too much when everyone begins discussing what a perfect human being he was, how wise, honorable, kind and selfless he was...even his enemies, or people who should by all rights have serious critiques of how he handled things.
*** From Sasuke's point of view, what Itachi did was no different than was Hashirama did: killing his brother, family or friend to protect Konoha. Hashirama did kill Madara (or so he thought), who was attempting to destroy Konoha, and Itachi killed his family, who were about to attempt a coup. Hashirama and Tobirama seems to agree with him. They all have this IDidWhatIHadToDo mindset.
*** This is more or less another divergence between Japanese and American culture, as Itachi followed Japanese ''credo'' perfectly. Sacrificing one's self and those around him for the greater good, holding to one's duty above all else and seeking atonement for one's crimes (even when committed in the course of said duty) are all valued creeds within Japanese culture, and were especially followed upon by real world ninja clans. From that perspective, Itachi was praised for good reason, even if his long-term plans ended up failing, [[spoiler:at least momentarily]].
* TheChessmaster: Played his own game inside Akatsuki for years. Manipulated Sasuke just the same.
* ChewingTheScenery: Made even more awesome by CrispinFreeman in the dub.
---> [[VillainousBreakdown SASUKE! YOU ARE THE ONE WHO WILL BECOME MY NEW LIGHT!]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Itachi mentally tortures his foes with genjutsu, among his victims are Kakashi, Naruto, and ''[[{{Squick}} especially]]'' Sasuke. He does it as a standard fighting technique, apparently without wrath or pleasure.
* CombatPragmatist: Itachi tries to end fights as quickly as he can and certainly doesn't shirk away from dirty tactics.
* TheComicallySerious: Despite his [[spoiler:traumatic past and the lifetime of guilt that accompanies it]], he has a sense of humor, believe it or not. Pretty much the ''only'' person never thrown off by Itachi's joking is Sasuke, implying that Itachi used to be like this before the massacre (or possibly that nothing Itachi does throws him off anymore). [[spoiler:He even joins in at one point!]]
-->[[spoiler:''Itachi and Sasuke have just successfully double-teamed Kabuto, using an upgraded version of a move that Sasuke messed up on when he and Itachi took on a giant boar as children'']]
-->'''Itachi:''' [[{{Understatement}} "You could easily kill that pig now!"]]
-->'''Sasuke:''' [[{{Understatement}} "Rather than the pig, I think this snake is the more pressing priority."]]
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:The number of steps he's taken to protect Sasuke either directly or indirectly definitely qualifies him. He even had a backup plan in case Tobi survived his trap and won Sasuke over]].
** [[spoiler:Subverted in that all of his plans, while fairly thought out, simply didn't work like he wanted and in some cases backfired. In particular, Sasuke ends up doing the EXACT opposite of what he'd wanted, the trap he set for Tobi failed, and the failsafe he left Naruto ended up being used on himself (long story) instead of Sasuke. At this point he's down to his last backup plan which is basically "trust Naruto to fix this somehow".]]
* CreepyChild: When he was younger.
* CreepyMonotone: The whole damn time, save for one instance (see ChewingTheScenery above).
* [[spoiler:CryCute: He broke down into near-hysterics as he killed his parents.]]
* CrypticConversation: Pretty much everything Itachi has EVER said.
** [[spoiler:After being revived as a zombie and teaming up with Sasuke to defeat Kabuto and undo the jutsu, he finally decides he's done trying to manipulate Sasuke and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming tells him how he really feels]]. ]]
* CurbStompBattle: Pretty much every fight that he was actually present for, including fights that he had no interest in winning. The only exceptions are Nagato and Kabuto to a lesser extent.
** Some of the examples are: Orochimaru (twice), Deidara, Kurenai, Asuma and Kakashi together, Naruto (twice).
* CursedWithAwesome: His Susanoo possesses the Yata Mirror, an indestructible shield and the Sword of Totsuka, the mightiest genjutsu forged weapon in history. The drawback is [[spoiler:that it pretty much destroyed his eyes and put severe strain in his body]].
** [[spoiler:After killing off the clan, all he wanted was to die by Sasuke's hands to atone...but he's so damn strong, it took a massive fight with him ''holding back'' and being terminally ill to actually get that done. The man is too good for his own good.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: [[spoiler:Especially after his resurrection.]]
** [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he doesn't have to pretend to be evil anymore, so his real personality is more apparent.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: In the Valley-of-the-end flashback, he expresses his disgust at how his fellow clansmen are obsessed with the Uchiha's glory and utterly full of themselves, losing sight of their actual capacities. He then proceeds to throw a kunai into the nearest Uchiha crest, and the rest is history... [[spoiler:We later learn that he turned against them because they were planning a coup d'etat that would've plunged the entire continent into a senseless war.]]
%% * TheDeterminator
* DeusExMachina: Multiple times he has pulled plot-developing jutsus or items right out of nowhere to advance the plot. Izanami, Shisui´s once-every-10-years jutsu: Kotoamatsukami, his sickness and even his backstory seems to come straight out of nowhere.
** [[spoiler: It seems it's the regular way of Uchiha gaining power ups through traumatic events. The more traumatic the event, the stronger they get.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. He certainly thought through much of his GambitPileup, but in hindsight his methods to implement it were [[GoneHorriblyRight contradictory]] with his goals.
* [[spoiler:DirtyBusiness]]: He's constructed around this trope.
* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss: For Sasuke.]]
* TheDragon/ TheStarscream: For Nagato as one of the Akatsuki [[spoiler:zombies]], and the both of them as CoDragons for [[spoiler:Kabuto]], but Itachi later escapes the latter's control.
* [[spoiler:DyingMomentOfAwesome]]: [[spoiler:Not actually his defeating of both Sasuke and Orochimaru back to back, but his using his last seconds of life to put a defense against Madara in Sasuke.]]
* EasilyForgiven[=/=]KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:By Sasuke]] who went from loathing him to protecting his legacy (albeit in a way completely opposite to what Itachi wished) in the matter of a night. Ditto with [[BaseBreaker some of the fandom]]. It helps that he was popular before TheReveal.
** Also by [[spoiler: Naruto]] even though Itachi can be directly responsible for what happened with Sasuke, [[spoiler: Naruto doesn't give him any crap.]]
* EvilEye: The [[RedEyesTakeWarning Sharingan]] and then later the Mangekyou Sharingan. They grant the following abilities:
** AuraVision
** CombatClairvoyance
** [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop]]: [[spoiler:Izanami.]]
** InstantArmor: His Susano'o, which wields all 3 of Japan's [[PublicDomainArtifact Three Sacred Treasures]]: the [[CoolSword Totsuka Sword]] (Evidently another version of the Kusanagi) which here is an LaserBlade with [[TailorMadePrison sealing abilities]], the [[MagicMirror Yata Mirror]] which functions as a [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]] and the Yasaka Magatama which is a [[FumaShuriken giant shuriken]].
** {{Hellfire}}: [[TechnicolorFire Amaterasu]]
** HypnoticEyes: Itachi's preferred method of confrontation is through his Sharingan's [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]] and MindRape.
** MegaManning: Averted. The Sharingan gives him this, but we never saw him using this ability, though we don't honestly know if some of his heightened abilities stem from using this power at one point or another. The water technique he uses against Kakashi was more than likely learned this way.
** RealityWarper: Mangekyo Sharingan in general, and the [[spoiler:Izanami.]]
* EvilGenius: He's a genius. He's evil. Pretty self-explanatory. May also play this role within Akatsuki, given his MasterOfIllusion powers.
** [[spoiler:Subverted later on, when we learn he just pretending to be evil. He was certainly willing to ShootTheDog though.]]
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: He was capable of doing ninjutsu, genjutsu, taijitsu, and/or shurikenjutsu ''simultaneously'' against a S-ranked opponent without any strain.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: [[http://images.wikia.com/naruto/images/5/52/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan_Itachi.svg The Mangekyo Sharingan]], of which his was the first revealed.
%% * FacialMarkings
* FallenHero: He was the pride and joy of the Uchiha clan and Sasuke's idol before the massacre.
** [[spoiler:FakeDefector]]
* FeatherMotif: His genjutsu often include a shower of crow feathers.
* ForTheEvulz: He pretty much confessed to Sasuke that the only reason he killed off the clan was to see if he ''could''. [[spoiler:Subverted later, when it turns out he was ordered to do it.]]
%% * GeniusBruiser
* TheGift: Obviously. He graduates from the Academy at age 7, masters the Sharingan at 8, becomes Chuunin at 10, joins the ANBU at 13, the defects to become an S-ranked criminal and one of the strongest members of Akatsuki. Who thinks this guy is ''normal''?
* GlassCannon: Very skilled and powerful, but suffers from a lack of stamina, physical strength, and defensive jutsu that don't require him to nearly die to execute.
* GoneHorriblyRight: He deliberately made Sasuke full of hate and power-obsessed in order to [[spoiler:have him strong enough to kill him and redeem the Uchiha clan]]. The first part worked beyond any expectation, the second...not so much.
%% * [[spoiler:GoodAllAlong]]
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile]]: [[spoiler:"''Sorry, Sasuke. [[TearJerker There won't be a next time]].''"]] .
** [[spoiler:Twice, actually, thanks to being revived through Edo Tensei.]]
--> [[spoiler:"''You never have to forgive me... No matter what happens to you (Sasuke) from here on out, I will always love you.''"]]
* [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop]]: [[spoiler:He uses the genjutsu Izanami to place Kabuto in one]].
* [[spoiler:HappinessInSlavery]]: The ultimate fate he prepared for Sasuke though [[spoiler:failed to actually implement it. He had to use Shisui's eye on himself instead after Kabuto Edo tensei.]]
** It is to be mentioned that this was meant as an ultimate last resort in case all his other backup plans failed, and that he is later shown to feel somewhat [[spoiler:guilty]] about it. He outright tells Naruto "I hope you never have to use it." [[spoiler:He just didn't want a genocide to happen because of his personal wish to let his little brother live. ]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: A variant in that he [[spoiler:was an AntiVillain all along. He was definitely still wrong, though, and admits it to Naruto later.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroWithAnFInGood: Between his {{Mind Rape}}s of Sasuke and Kakashi, general brutality, and a pretty serious lack of social skills, Itachi ''sucks'' at being the good guy]].
%% * [[spoiler:HeroWithBadPublicity]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Since the first act it has been confusing which are his goals or if indeed he ''has'' any beyond messing with Sasuke's life. [[spoiler:We learn of them... by a third party after his death.]].
* [[spoiler:IDidWhatIHadToDo]]: [[spoiler:And he hated it.]]
* [[spoiler:ILetYouWin]]: [[spoiler:What he was intending to do in his last battle with Sasuke.]]
* IllBoy: Some combination of IncurableCoughOfDeath and SoapOperaDisease.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: ''Defense: Counter Shuriken Rain.''
* InnocentProdigy: During Kurama's attack on Kononha, Itachi (then five) calmly comforted the crying Sasuke (who was only a few months old) and assured him that he would keep him safe no matter what. His inner-monologue, however, reveals a rather frightened child wishing their parents would hurry and get home.
** He was so advanced during his time in the academy that one teacher mentions having to do very little work with him. He still put off doing his homework in favor of playing games with Sasuke, even with their mother wanting him to study.
* InstantArmor: Susano'o.
* ItsAllAboutMe: While he doesn't display this trope nearly to the extent that other members of his clan might this was basically the reason he let Sasuke live. He mind raped Sasuke by forcing him to repeatedly relive the apparently quite gruesome deaths of their parents, forcing him to grow up into a bitter obsessive lunatic all so that Itachi could [[spoiler: die on his own terms: At the hands of said brother (which he didn't in the end, making all of his efforts totally meaningless).]] Subverted through his secondary and tertiary motives, which were to [[spoiler:make Sasuke a hero for killing him (ensuring his permanent protection against Danzo) and to keep Tobi from manipulating him. Of course, both of these backfired amazingly.]]
* JapaneseMythology: All of his special abilities, like many of the Uchiha Clan's techniques, are named after Japanese gods.
%% * [[spoiler:JerkassFacade]]
* KickTheDog: His mental torture of Sasuke and Kakashi.
* KissingCousins: Said to have killed a "lover" during the Uchiha Massacre; since only the Uchiha clan was killed, the "lover" in question was likely a cousin, perhaps a girl that he was [[ArrangedMarriage arranged to marry.]]
* [[spoiler:KnightInSourArmor]]: [[spoiler:If his comments after Kabuto resurrects him are anything to go by.]]
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Had decided on his own what was best for Sasuke. Sasuke ''will'' become a great warrior. Sasuke ''will'' avenge the Uchiha. Sasuke ''will'' become a hero, and putting him through horrible torture, forcing him to walk the path of rage and hate, and making him a criminal is just a small price to pay. [[spoiler: And left Shisui's eye to MindRape Sasuke should he try to destroy Konoha. However, subverted in that Itachi realizes he was beyond wrong in his methods and reasoning and unbelievably selfish. He realizes he should have believed in Sasuke and trusted him instead of trying to decide his destiny.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBXrRfcnP98 Many Nights]]". It's very fitting... somehow.
* [[spoiler:LockAndLoadMontage:]] An anime-only scene of him getting ready to slaughter the Uchiha clan can certainly be viewed this way.
%% * LongHairedPrettyBoy
* [[spoiler:ManlyTears: As he left his home behind [[http://images.wikia.com/naruto/images/8/8c/Itachi_crying.png forever.]]]]
* MasterOfIllusion: The best genjutsu master we've seen so far. [[spoiler: The only exceptions are Shisui and possibly the [[CrazyAwesome Second Mizukage]].]]
* MasterSwordsman: We only see him using a sword a few times (deflecting kunai thrown by Sasuke and cutting [[spoiler:off Kabuto's horn]]) but it's clear he's incredibly skilled with the blade, as expected of an ANBU member. It also seems that he used his sword extensively when he killed off the Uchiha Clan. After relinquishing his ANBU gear, his skills carry over to his usage of kunai in close proximity combat. [[spoiler: He also gets to wield Sasuke's sword during the brothers' fight against Kabuto, utilizing it to great effect.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: Throughout their childhood, when Sasuke would ask Itachi to train with him, Itachi would poke his forehead and say something along the lines of "Sorry, Sasuke, next time." [[spoiler:The last thing he does before dying is to poke Sasuke's forehead and say "Sorry, Sasuke, there won't be a next time." It's ''heart wrenching''.]]
** [[spoiler:Then, as he is released by Edo Tensei, he seems poised to poke Sasuke's forehead again...and then he reaches back towards his neck, and their foreheads meet.]]
--> '''Itachi''':[[spoiler:"You never have to forgive me. No matter what happens to you from here on out, I will always love you."]]
* MentalWorld: Tsukuyomi.
%% ** EldritchLocation
* MindRape: Tsukuyomi. Also, for far too long, his solution to anything involving Sasuke.
* [[spoiler:MoralityChain]]: [[spoiler:Itachi's existence notably keeps Sasuke's sanity anchored to this world. Back when Itachi was alive, Sasuke may have been angsty, but not insane. After he killed Itachi was when he began to lose it, but, now that Itachi is..."alive" again, Sasuke is acting far more sane than he has in 100 chapters.]]
** [[spoiler:And now that he realizes that Itachi is about to go back to being dead (as a result of ending the [[{{Necromancer}} technique that revived him]]), he's right back to talking about destroying Konoha...]]
* [[spoiler:MyCountryRightOrWrong]]: [[spoiler:"The village does have its dark side and inconsistencies. But I'm still the Leaf's Itachi Uchiha."]]
* [[spoiler:NecessarilyEvil]]: [[spoiler:He certainly viewed himself this way, though, and hated himself for it. Then, after his resurrection, he realizes how horribly wrong he was]].
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: See DeusExMachina above.
* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero]]: All of his actions seemed to [[spoiler:have been aimed at making Sasuke realize that the village is more important than his family's pride]]. He [[EpicFail couldn't have failed more]] if he had done it on purpose. He at least accepted the possibility of failure and left [[spoiler:Naruto, [[TheReveal Shisui's other eye]], as a safeguard, only for ''that'' to fail, too.]].
** Forcing [[spoiler:Kabuto to release Edo Tenseï has become this, since it enabled Madara to completely break out of the technique's control while keeping the insane regeneration and unlimited chakra. In his hurry to dispel the technique, he failed to realize that the technique might have some actual weaknesses and drawbacks.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Using Tsukuyomi on Sasuke the night of the massacre ultimately made him able to resist Orochimaru's "killing intent" during the Chuunin Exams just enough to break free from the paralysis by stabbing himself.
* NoSocialSkills [[spoiler:Possibly a subversion, as after he's resurrected, he turns out to be good with advice and actually pretty funny. His lack of social skills may have just been a part of his act.]]
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Before [[spoiler:leaving the village]] he managed to [[spoiler:blackmail]] [[MagnificentBastard Danzo]].
** A filler episode taking place in part one has team 7 go through hell fighting their way through a city of ninja cats, then against their leader [[MegaNeko Nekomata]] in order to [[ItMakesSenseInContext get his pawprint]]. At the end of the episode it's revealed that Itachi, when he was about [[CuteBruiser six years old]], decimated the entire ninja-cat army and Nekomata himself with [[PintsizedPowerhouse apparently no difficulty]] whatsoever.
** Once the truth is learned, [[spoiler:the entire Uchiha massacre]] could be seen this way given that we're only shown tiny bits of it.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:His (fake) reaction to Kirin during his final fight with Sasuke and to Sage Mode Dragon Kabuto]].
* OnlySaneMan: He and Kisame together make up this as part of the Akatsuki. That says ''a lot''.
* [[PlayingWithFire Playing With]] {{Fireballs}}: As big as a house and strong enough to plow a furrow in the ground.
* PowerDegeneration: The Mangekyo Sharingan.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Deconstructed. He annihilates the entire Uchiha Clan, his own family, apparently ForTheEvulz. [[spoiler:His actual reason was because they were about to go forward with their betrayal of Konoha.]] He also antagonises and tortures his pre-teen little brother into hating him, [[spoiler:casts himself as the vile traitor so that one day his brother will be led to kill him, all to tie up everything and making everybody believe that the Uchiha Clan save him were a proud and noble clan devout to Konoha, when he knew full well that he was the only one left in the clan that was actually like that]].
* QuickDraw: Shuriken flavor. Capable of throwing dozens of shuriken with perfect accuracy in milliseconds without any effort.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: The usual flavor of Uchiha.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His Sharingan, which he almost always has activated.
* SanitySlippage: Implemented a [[VillainousBreakdown really]] [[spoiler:fake]] one during his fight against Sasuke.
* [[spoiler:SecretlyDying: He was "plagued" by an unnamed terminal illness for an unspecified amount of time before it finally killed him, meaning he may have been slowly dying since before the series even started.]]
%% * SelfMadeOrphan
* ShellShockedVeteran: After the Third Ninja War. ''At four years old''.
** Although he is said to have witnessed it, not taken part in it. It's already horrible enough.
* [[spoiler:SiblingTeam: He and Sasuke against Kabuto.]]
* [[spoiler:SixthRangerTraitor]]: was this in Akatsuki all along alongside Orochimaru.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Itachi has foiled or complicated the plans of pretty much every single organization or chessmaster he's encountered in the series. Short list: [[spoiler:the Uchiha clan, Danzo, Orochimaru, Team 7's attempts to rehabilitate Sasuke, Tobi, and Kabuto.]] Sadly, this includes a few of his own plans too -- [[spoiler:needlessly pushing an already vengeance-minded Sasuke over the edge and accidentally triggering his own failsafe in Naruto on himself. He further complicates Kabuto's plans by intending to force him to end the Edo Tensei, and seemingly puts a cork in Sasuke's [[KillThemAll Kill Konoha]] plan by promising to finally explain his motivations in exchange for his help in stopping Kabuto.]]
* SpringtimeForHitler: Subverted. [[spoiler:Tried to lose to Sasuke, failed to lose, then dropped dead anyway.]]
* StealthMentor: [[spoiler:Was this to Sasuke, before he died.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Type C, acting like a kind and gentle boy to hide his plan to murder his clan pretty much for the heck of it. Although his mask started to slip quite a bit after Shisui died. [[spoiler:Later revealed to be a Type A, he ''was'' kind and gentle but smiled to hide his despair at knowing he had no choice but to kill the people he loved. His attitude changed after Shisui's death because he was legitimately mourning his best friend.]]
* TheStoic
** [[spoiler:StoicWoobie]]
** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:During his final fight with Sasuke. Subverted in that it was actually fake]].
*** [[spoiler:Turns out, he was crying hysterically when he killed their parents, so much so that they actually had to [[FaceDeathWithDignity encourage him]] to go through with it.]]
* TheStrategist: So good that all his fights degraded into well-oiled choreographs eventually.
* [[spoiler:SuicideByCop: Subverted. He kept himself alive despite being ''eaten up with disease'' so that 1) Sasuke could kill him, become a hero for Konoha and redeem their clan and 2) to punish himself for his sins. Ultimately, he died from by a combination of his disease and fighting Sasuke]].
* SuperReflexes: So fast with his hand seals that the two other ninja with SuperReflexes can barely see a blur.
%% * SuperSpeed
%% * TallDarkAndHandsome
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Along with Manga/{{Bleach}}'s [[NietzscheWannabe Ulquiorra]] is the anime poster boy of this trope.
* TantrumThrowing: When his father and three other policemen start to lecture him about the importance of the clan (immediately after he's been accused of murdering Shisui) he hurls a kunai at one of the crests painted on a nearby wall, then goes off on a rant about how useless and limiting concepts like clans are.
* TeachHimAnger [[ThePowerOfHate And Hate]]: ''Twice'' to Sasuke with a heavy dose of trauma and encouraging him to develop an obsession with power [[spoiler:so the latter could become a loyal shinobi of Konoha and redeemer of the Uchiha Clan]]... [[GoneHorriblyRight ye]][[SarcasmMode ah]].
* TechnicalPacifist: [[spoiler:After the Third Shinobi World War, he became a pacifist above all else. His slaughter of the Uchiha clan was to prevent them from throwing Konoha into chaos and starting another war]]. He's one of the least violent fighters, only ever using enough power to accomplish his ultimate goals, [[spoiler:of which just victory is a rare one...]]
%% * TeenGenius
* [[spoiler:ThanatosGambit]]: [[spoiler:[[DeadManSwitch He had an emergency plan to stop Madara]] from manipulating Sasuke by implanting an Amaterasu in his brother that would be triggered at the sight of Tobi's Sharingan. It failed. However, Itachi had a backup plan since he knew there would inevitably be a confrontation between his brother and Naruto. His backup plan was to [[FridgeHorror brainwash Sasuke]] [[AndIMustScream permanently to be loyal to Konoha forever]] with Shisui's eye that implanted in Naruto with the crow, which would activate during their fight. However, the one thing he did not count on was being resurrected and turned into a thrall by Kabuto. The power he gave Naruto is used on ''himself'', which allows him to break Kabuto's geas with another. His Plan C appears to be [[MagneticHero "trust]] [[TheMessiah Naruto."]]]]
* ThemeNaming: His Mangekyo Sharingan powers are named after Japanese gods. Of note is that these are the exact same gods who slew {{Orochi}}[[spoiler:maru]] of the legend[[spoiler:ary Sannin of Konoha]].
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Kisame, early on. Par for the course for Akatsuki, who generally go about their grim business in pairs. This is given some depth in the two understanding each other, both being men lost without knowledge of their true selves, unable to forgive and acknowledge themselves. Itachi wants nothing more than death, Kisame wants his world of truth. Both live with the pain of having betrayed and killed their comrades and both. [[spoiler:Later on he strikes up quite the rapport with Nagato, whom he helps about the battlefield as they involuntarily serve Kabuto]].
* ToughLove: In the most extreme and twisted way possible. He would come to regret it later.
* [[spoiler:UndyingLoyalty: Uchiha Itachi will ''never'' betray Konoha, not even after death.]]
* TheUnfettered: He will do ''anything'' to [[spoiler:protect]] Sasuke and the Land of Fire.
** Subverted later. Not with the Land of Fire but [[spoiler:he deemed Sasuke's free will an acceptable sacrifice, after realizing that his brother may have fallen too far to save.]]
* VocalDissonance: In the Japanese version, his [[HideoIshikawa deep voice]] is initially a bit off putting. The English dub gives him a higher-sounding, yet still fairly low voice.
* [[spoiler:WarIsHell: His real motivation for killing off his clan. They were on the verge of starting a civil war (that would likely lead to a world war) and he was unable to convince them to call it off.]]
* WarriorTherapist: In a very odd way to Kabuto. Kabuto's arrogance, unwavering faith in his own abilities and belief he cannot fail and handle everything himself reminds Itachi of himself. Itachi was unable to let go of the selfish belief that he could shoulder every burden, which ended up making things far worse than if he hadn't tried at all. As a result, even though he knows what Kabuto is doing is wrong, Itachi wants to save Kabuto from the lies he tells himself, even if [[MindRape the methods he uses]] [[GroundhogDayLoop are a mite unconventional]].
* WasItAllALie: [[spoiler:Yes and no, depending on which "it" is being referred to. The insane, unrepentant murderer we first meet? Yeah, that's a huge lie. As for the loving (if extreme) brother Sasuke remembers? No, it wasn't]].
* WhatTheHellHero: In chapter 576 [[spoiler:Sasuke tries to do this to him, trying to understand why his brother left him alive. Due to Itachi both being in a hurry to stop Kabuto and feeling he's messed Sasuke up too much already, Itachi keeps shutting Sasuke down with curt yet vauge replies. He does at least confess that he wanted Sasuke to kill him so he could find redemption for the clan, but massive miscommunication still seems to be these two's standard.]]
* WhenHeSmiles: Itachi rarely smiles, and most of the time [[PsychoticSmirk it's rather unnerving]]. However, [[spoiler: the few times he cracks a genuine smile are downright heart moving]].
%% * [[spoiler:WhiteSheep]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Itachi is incredibly advanced in the mental department. Far more than any teenager has any right to be.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Subverted. He couldn't fight Sasuke at full force for two reasons: [[spoiler:1) he didn't want to; 2) he was terminally ill]]. And still, even [[TheWorfBarrage Kirin]] couldn't give Sasuke the upper hand in the fight.
* WouldHitAGirl: Up to and including his own mother.
* [[spoiler:YouAreWhatYouHate]]: Vividly believed this at one point in his life, but then [[spoiler:accepted himself for who he was and acknowledged his mistakes in death.]]
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[[folder:[[color:yellow:Kisame Hoshigaki]]]]
-->"''[[SocialDarwinist The weak are the meat the strong eat.]]''"

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->Voiced by: TomoyukiDan (JP), KirkThornton (EN), Pedro Tena (Spain)

A former member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, Kisame is a polite, but a savage warrior who [[BloodKnight loves to fight]]. He is partners and good friends with Itachi, and owns a sentient sword called Samehada ("Sharkskin" in the dub and as a rough translation) which can absorb chakra from anything it [[strike:shreds]] [[MemeticMutation shaves]], and can [[spoiler:fuse with him to transform him into an anthropomorphic shark]]. He also possesses an enormous amount of chakra that is compared to the level of a tailed beast.

In ''Shippuden'', a clone of his is beaten by Guy, then he doesn't do too much but hang around Itachi. [[spoiler:He later gets assigned to go after the Eight-Tailed Ox and seemingly gets killed for his troubles. It is later revealed that was just a clone and Kisame manages to infiltrate Kumogakure by hiding in his sword. His cover ends up blown and he fights Guy again, but rather than give up the information upon losing he commits suicide by having his own shark summons eat him]]. It was revealed that Kisame was [[spoiler:Tobi's]] PsychoSupporter since before his days as a member of the Seven Swordsmen, and served as the personal bodyguard of the Fourth Mizukage, [[spoiler:who was Tobi's puppet.]]
->His hobby was taking care of his sword, Samehada.
->Favorite phrase: "The weak are meat, the strong eat", a Japanese idiom for survival of the fittest.

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* [[spoiler:ActuallyADoombot]]: Happens twice.
* AffablyEvil: Cheerful, polite, and always pleased to make the acquaintance of someone new. Like Itachi, he'll also give opponents the chance to back down, which makes him very different from most of his teammates, who can be anywhere from naturally cruel to just plain genocidal.
%% * AlasPoorVillain
* AntiVillain: He was raised to not trust anyone and betray anyone at a second's notice; to the point he wanted to [[spoiler:accept Tobi's plan of a world of no lies, which Kisame desired]].
* {{Badass}}: Especially [[spoiler:in death. Who else would feed himself to killer sharks to guard a wellspring of dark secrets in his mind?]]
* BecomeYourWeapon: With Samehada, in a very [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Arrancar-esque]] way.
* {{BFS}}: If you can really count that thing as a sword. It is known as the ''Samehada'' ("sharkskin").
* BloodKnight: Kisame is very eager for a fight, [[spoiler: [[{{Irony}} despite his role being an espionage agent]]]]
* TheBrute: Serves this role in the Akatsuki up until [[spoiler:Itachi dies]]. (see the FiveBadBand page)
** {{The Dragon}}: Becomes this to Tobi and replaces Pain's postion as the Dragon of Tobi and with Zetsu as CoDragons.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Inverted. He is loyal enough to his partner Itachi and Akatsuki, and fanatically devoted to [[spoiler:what he thinks is Madara and to protecting valuable information at all costs]]. However, while he was a Mist-nin he had an even more severe case of this, slaughtering his allies at the drop of a hat and murdering his superior who is impled to have been his mentor, although this was out of loyalty to the village.
* [[spoiler:CyanidePill]]: [[spoiler:Instead of getting captured, he opted for suicide so as to not give any information he may hold to the enemy.]]
* DirtyBusiness: Constructed around this. His job in the Mist? Murder of other Mist ninja.
* EmpathicWeapon: Samehada's hilt will sprout spikes if anyone other than Kisame picks it up. It can also return to his hand. [[spoiler:it turns out to be a living, sentient sword with a toothy mouth.]] [[spoiler:When Kisame commits suicide, Samehada begins ''crying out'' for its master in mourning, but then chooses to join Killer B because it liked the taste of his powerful chakra to the point it got greedy and selfish enough to betray Kisame and make its master force it back under control until his death.]]
** LivingWeapon.
** LoyalPhlebotinum: [[DoubleSubversion Doubly subverted]].
** ShapeShifterWeapon
* EnergyAbsorption: His sword lets him absorb the chakra of anyone it touches, or of any technique that launch into the air.
* ExactWords: He was ordered to protect an Intel squad carrying important codes, and above all to prevent those codes from falling into enemy hands. [[spoiler:At the first sign of trouble, he massacres the squad, so they can't tell anyone the codes they are protecting. His attitude at the time suggests he was actually ''hoping'' they would be attacked just so he could do this, which would mean he did it ForTheEvulz.]]
* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead:]] After [[spoiler:his original seeming death by decapitation]], it was revealed several months later that [[spoiler:what actually died was a clone created by Zetsu]].
* FusionDance: With his sword.
* GeniusBruiser: Rarely seen, but he is very quick to pick up on weaknesses and has shown a decided knack for quick yet highly successful plans.
* GradualGrinder : His preferred method of taking down powerful foes.
* KlingonPromotion: How he became a member of the Seven Swordsman. Over his mentor's corpse.
* LightningBruiser: Terrifyingly fast, and strong enough to trade blows with Guy without any real difficulty.
* LonersAreFreaks: His backstory has elements of this, such as refusing to have lunch with the Intel group he was protecting.
* MakingASplash: Kisame specializes in flashy water jutsu.
** GiantWallOfWateryDoom / KillItWithWater: His preferred finishing moves.
* MeaningfulName: "Same" means shark in Japanese.
** The "ki" part of his name is written with a kanji character meaning ogre or demon. Therefore, his given name is "demon shark."
* TheMole: Becomes this to infiltrate the Allied Force.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Kisame means "demon shark".
* NotSoSmallRole: For a long time he was just considered as TheBrute and Itachi's sidekick. In the end, he was the last member of Akatsuki (except for [[NonActionGuy Zetsu]]) to be taken down, dying after Itachi and even Nagato and Konan. [[spoiler:He also turned out to be just as close to Tobi as Itachi was before he left Konoha, apparently.]]
* OffWithHisHead: When [[spoiler:the clone of]] Kisame goes up against the Raikage and Killer B, he gets struck with the manliest move ever used in the Naruto universe. His head flies off like a champagne cork.
-->'''Kisame''': Water Release: Super Shark Bo--''(sickening thud)''\\
'''A and Killer B''': '''''[[ProfessionalWrestling DOUBLE]] [[KentaKobashi LA]][[MemeticMutation RIA]][[GratuitousEnglish TOOOOOO]]!'''''\\
''(screen flashes white)''\\
'''Kisame's disembodied head''': Well...you guys are just too fast for me.
* OlderSidekick: To Itachi
* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel]]: [[spoiler:Can fuse with Samehada]].
* OnlySaneMan: With Itachi and Konan, among the Akatsuki.
* SharkMan: For some reason that is never explained. Judging by his mentor, fish people might just be a thing in the Mist.
* StrawNihilist: He believes the world is based on nothing but lies, so he has no particular reason to trust or be loyal to anyone. He only follows [[spoiler:Madara]] because the latter agrees, and because he appears to validate his opinions [[spoiler:for example, by the revelation that he was controlling the 4th Mizukage, thus showing that the Mist was based on a lie and not run by the man everyone was following]], because Kisame believes him when he says he can change all that.
* [[spoiler:ThanatosGambit / TakingYouWithMe: The scroll he stole back and made Guy fight so hard for... was booby trapped. As soon as it was opened it sealed everyone within range with the Water Prison Technique, complete with shark summonings in each individual prison, while one of the summonings takes the scroll to Madara]].
* ThreateningShark: His face, attacks [[spoiler:[[OneWingedAngel and more]].]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Akatuki and to Tobi.
* UnknownRival: Guy has a hard time remembering just who Kisame is [[spoiler:for Kisame's whole life]].
* VillainousFriendship: Compared to most of Akatsuki's other teams, which involve hostile relationships between partners, Kisame and Itachi get along quite well. While they were hostile when they first met, Kisame displays genuine concern for Itachi. In fact, other than the aforementioned meeting, they are never shown to argue at all, and that argument was quite civilised and only turned nasty when Kisame drew Samahada. Kisame's last words are even directed at Itachi! Their friendship is actually quite sweet.
* WorthyOpponent: To Guy [[spoiler:ironic in that the latter never remembers him till his death.]]
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[[folder:[[color:purple:Sasori]]]]
-->"''[[MadArtist Fine art]] is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... [[ImmortalityImmorality eternal beauty]].''"


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->Child Voice: AkikoYajima (JP), KariWahlgren (EN), Jesús Barreda (Spain
->Adult Voice: TakahiroSakurai (JP), JohnnyYongBosch (EN), Jorge García Insúa (Spain)
->Hiruko Voice: Yutaka Aoyama (JP) J.B. Blanc (EN)

A MadArtist and MarionetteMaster notable for being very impatient. Before being destroyed by Sakura Haruno, Sasori was usually found maneuvering inside a large, hollow puppet called Hiruko as a means of transportation. It crawled on the ground and featured a scorpion tail that - like most of his weapons - was doused in poison.

His grandmother was Chiyo, who taught him how to master puppets in order to divert his attention away from his absent mother and father (who were killed by The White Fang of Konoha, although Sasori did not know this - he was told by Chiyo that they were on another long mission). He developed a technique to convert living humans into puppets, thus creating puppets who could use jutsu. Kidnapped the Third Kazekage and converted him into one of these puppets, somewhere along the way converted ''himself '' into a puppet, and then fled the village to subsequently join the Akatsuki, where he was partnered with Orochimaru, with whom he worked well together with. After his partner's betrayal of the organization, Sasori sent Kabuto as a spy to infiltrate Orochimaru's ranks and retrieve information.

He was then paired up with Deidara, a fellow art enthusiast. The downside was that they had conflicting views on art, Sasori for "eternal" and Deidara for "fleeting". They frequently argued over this concept, even amidst confrontation with the Leaf ninja sent to retrieve Gaara. Sasori fought his grandmother Chiyo and Sakura, eventually using his own puppet body in battle. He was killed by being pierced in the heart by the first two puppets he ever created: replicas of his Mother and Father.

[[spoiler:His body serves as Kankuro's newest puppet, but Kabuto has used Edo Tensei to revive his spirit as well. In the first fight of the Fourth Ninja War, Kankuro defeats Sasori, telling him how he should not be a puppet to Kabuto. Sasori, moved by this speech, dissolves from his temporary body, giving Kankuro his Mother and Father puppets and telling him to take care of them.]]
->His hobby was remodeling his puppet collection.
->Favorite phrase was "Eternal beauty"

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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Happens, mixed with PullingThemselvesTogether, when he reattaches his head to his body. In the anime it also happens to his hands when he uses the Water Scroll.
* AlasPoorVillain: His parents were killed by Kakkashi's father, leading him to question his beliefs about life in general, even when his grandma Chiyo tried to help him make puppets shaped like his parents, it made the pain more obvious and ultimately led him to his dangerous obsession with {{Immortality}}
* AnatomyArsenal: See below.
* TheAgeless: Due to being a puppet.
* AnimalMotifs: [[ScaryScorpions Scorpions]] [[MeaningfulName of course]].
* AwesomeButImpractical: His [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bladed shoulder blades]] allow him to fly via the propeller motion they make and can function as swords or a giant powersaw but because they're attached to his hips it's hard to fight with them properly due to the angle they're situated at.
* {{Badass}}: Being in Akatsuki automatically qualifies for this, and [[spoiler:[[ILetYouWin he could've defeated Sakura and Chiyo, but chose to die at the hands of his puppets]].]]
** He also personally killed the Third Kazekage, who was apparently the strongest ninja his village had ever produced. This makes Sasori the strongest ninja in Sunagakure´s history.
* BadassBoast: "Since I don't like waiting or making other people wait... I'll end this quickly."
* BewareMyStingerTail: Both his Hiruko puppet and his body have a scorpion like tail
%% * {{Bishonen}}
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Applies to his ultimate technique. The less puppets he controls the better he controls each one. {{Justified|Trope}} by having more attention to spare as the numbers dwindle.
* {{Cyborg}}: Kinda.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: After the death of his parents.
* EvilGenius: For Akatsuki alongside Orochimaru - who both seem to fit the role - and for [[spoiler:the revived Akatsuki by Kabuto.]]
%% * EvilRedhead
* FreudianExcuse: Suggested to some degree that the death of his parents and his attempting to replace them with puppets caused him to turn evil, but Chiyo suggests that the Sand Village teachings caused it.
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile: After his defeat by Kankuro.]]
* HeartDrive: Has one that functions as his core.
* HiddenWeapons: In each and every puppet.
* HeelRealization : [[spoiler: After being revived, Kankuro's words caused him to renew his faith in humanity again]]
* ImmortalityImmorality: Believes that by becoming a puppet one can attain eternal life, and has some fairly twisted views on human life. He was, rather poetically, the first of the Akatsuki to get taken down in season two.
** ImmortalitySeeker
* InSeriesNickname / AwesomeMcCoolname: Akasuna no Sasori (Sasori of the Red Sand/Scorpion of the Red Sand).
* {{Irony}}: He hates waiting, but because of his puppet body he technically has all the time in the world.
** He claims that emotion is a form of weakness despite having a heart but no brain.
** [[spoiler:Yet thanks to them, Kankuro could set him free of Kabuto´s control.]]
** [[spoiler:His body is now used as a puppet by Kankuro, whom Sasori had [[CurbStompBattle easily defeated]] way earlier.]]
** [[spoiler:And now his soul is a puppet for Kabuto, who was once under his control as a spy.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA5gg7ETLkE Shitsui]]" Translates as 'Despair'.
* MadArtist: Believes that art lasts forever.
* MakingASplash[=/=]PlayingWithFire: Thanks to fire and water sealed into scrolls, he's able to use the guns in his puppet body's hands for at least those two elemental attacks. First flamethrowers hot enough to melt rock, then water streams intense enough to cut or smash through it (this one is [[AdaptationExpansion Anime only]]).
* MarionetteMaster: He created the puppets used by Kankuro, and was the most skilled puppeteer in the world while he was alive.
* MasterPoisoner: His poisons where nigh incurable to the best of the Sand's medical corps.
** PoisonedWeapons: His weapons (and his puppets' weapons).
*** DeadlyGas
* MeaningfulName: "Sasori" means "scorpion". Sasori's Hiruko armor runs on all four and has a bladed tail, Sasori uses PoisonedWeapons, and he uses a a scorpion as his symbol on the puppets he created before his defection.
* NamesTheSame: Translate Sasori's name to English, and you get Scorpion. The first to use that name was [[{{Main/Contra}} Lance Bean,]] followed by [[MortalKombat Hanzo Hasashi.]]
* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Names To Run Away From REALLY Fast]] / RedBaron: He´s known as Akasuna no Sasori, literally "The Scorpion of the Red Sand".
* [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks]]: He's 35 years old but his puppet body, which he created 20 years ago, looks like a teenager.
* OneManArmy: Literally. Sasori used his Performance of a Hundred Puppets to bring down a small country.
* [[spoiler:PassingTheTorch: To Kankuro.]]
* [[spoiler:PeoplePuppets]]: [[spoiler:Indulges in this after being revived by Kabuto's Edo Tensei due to a lack of usable puppets at his disposal. He combines this with Deidara's explosive clay to turn an incapacitated ninja from Konoha into a [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath suicide bomber]].]]
* [[PoweredArmor Puppet Armor]]: The armor even has a name (Hiruko).
** Anime provides an explanation for that. Hiruko is a human puppet. In the manga, it's just an ordinary puppet.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: After Sakura seemingly destroys his puppet body.
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic: After he reveals his puppet body, he becomes considerably less calm.
* ZergRush: His trump card, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Red Secret Technique: Performance of the 100 Puppets.]]
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[[folder:[[color:teal:Deidara]]]]
-->"''[[MadArtist Art]] is a [[MadBomber blast]]!''"

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->Voiced by: Katsuhiko Kawamoto (JP), QuintonFlynn (EN, original), RogerCraigSmith (EN, current), Sergio García Marín (Spain), JesusBarrero (Mexico)

A MadArtist and MadBomber who likes StuffBlowingUp. [[spoiler:The former student of the Third Tsuchikage]], Deidara has mouths in his palms which shape explosive clay, along with a stitched mouth on his chest. He defected from his village of Iwagakure and worked for various anti-government terrorist groups because they readily supplied him with chances to show off his "art". He was forcibly recruited into Akatsuki by Itachi, and hates him and the Sharingan for his dismal defeat.

His first partner was Sasori, with whom he frequently argued about what "true art" was (Sasori vouching for 'eternal' art in the form of puppets, and Deidara siding with 'fleeting' art in the form of his bombs). He single-handedly captured Gaara during the first arc of Shippuden, but not without having his arm crushed and subsequently ripped off by the Kazekage's sand, while his other arm was sent to another dimension when confronted by Kakashi. He managed to successfully fight against the entirety of Team Guy ''[[WithMyHandsTied with no arms]]''.

After Sasori's death he was paired with Tobi, with whom he assumes the role of a reluctant and impatient elder. With Tobi, he successfully captures the Three-Tailed Beast. After a pitched battle with Sasuke, Deidara tries to defeat him by [[TakingYouWithMe using his own body combined with his clay as a mini-nuke]]. He fails; Sasuke survived by summoning the giant snake Manda to block the explosion.

[[spoiler:He was later revived by Kabuto's Edo Tensei, joining Kabuto in finding Killer Bee and Naruto, mistakenly believing he killed Sasuke with his final attack. During the Fourth Ninja World War he was teamed with Sasori and Shin, Sai's adopted brother. He was defeated by Sai and imprisoned by Kankuro until the Edo Tensei was ended.]]
->His hobby was experimenting with explosions.
->Favorite phrase: "Art is an Explosion!"

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* ArtAttacker: His fighting style
** ArtInitiatesLife: He brings bombs to life so that they attack people then explode.
* AxCrazy: Not as much as Hidan, but is obsessed dangerously with art.
* {{Badass}}: He didn't come to Akatsuki. Akatsuki came to HIM.
* BerserkButton: People not giving his "art" the awe he feels it deserves. He can appreciate a fellow artist with a different philosophy, but Itachi and Sasuke drive him insane. The fact that Itachi effortlessly tricked him into near-suicide the day they met doesn't help.
* {{Bishounen}}: So much that many fans thought he was a girl at first.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: More SelfishEvil rather than ForTheEvulz, but still counts.
* BrilliantButLazy: Despite his power being instantaneous, he likes to takes things slow, something that in itself is conflicting with his ideal of short-lived beauty.
** He does however get defeated in the shortest amount of time compared to the other Akatsuki.
* CatchPhrase: "Art is a blast!" Doubles as his FamousLastWords.
* DarkChick: Serves this role in both Original Flavor and Zombified Akatsuki. He doesn't care about his leaders' cause, nor does he have one of his own besides spreading his "art", and is one of the less serious members overall.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: If everyone didn't keep saying "he", Deidara would be considered the second female member of the Akatsuki. Hell, he could pass off as Ino's evil twin.
* DishingOutDirt: His bombs where made of clay and thus susceptible to the same vulnerabilities as other earth ninjutsu.
* EvilLaugh: Not as often as Hidan, but still frequently.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's far from a sympathetic character, but he's often entertaining to watch.
* ForTheEvulz: Before being forcefully recruited into Akatsuki, he worked for various anti-government factions for [[TerroristsWithoutACause no reason but the opportunity to blow things up]], and Pain said his reason for fighting is "just because".
* HotBlooded: To the point of having a HairTriggerTemper.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He gets pretty unhinged when he realizes that Itachi's Sharingan is more artful than his bombs.
%% * HairTriggerTemper
* HavingABlast: A lot of the time, and half of it comprises his CatchPhrase.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Will perch himself on variety of different clay birds while he rains hell on his opponents.
* LargeHam: Not as much as Hidan, but he is proud to be an artist
* MadArtist: Of the belief that true art fades in an instant.
* MadBomber: His specialty, even before he joined Akatsuki.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Felt this way about Orochimaru, partly because his departure resulted in him being forced to join Akatsuki.
** He also wanted to use his most powerful techniques on Itachi and Sasuke, only because he hated the [[SuperpowerLottery Sharingan]].
* PetTheDog: Right before pulling his TakingYouWithMe, he mentally apologizes to Tobi.
* PowerPerversionPotential: He has hands with autonomous ''mouths'' (fully decked with teeth and tongue) in his palms, and another in his chest. FreudWasRight.
* PsychoForHire: Of the TerroristWithoutACause variety.
* ScreamingWarrior: Not as much as Hidan, but still is one due to his pride as an artist.
* ShoutOut: To Japanese artist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%C5%8D_Okamoto Tarô Okamoto]]. Deidara's CatchPhrase is a quote, while his ultimate explosion has the shape of Okamoto's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Sun Tower of the Sun]].
* TheSociopath: Not as much as Hidan or Tobi/[[spoiler: Obito]], but it's still safe to say he doesn't care for anything beyond his own art.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Does occasionally happen.
* TakingYouWithMe: Attempted on Sasuke, but it didn't work.
* TerroristWithoutACause: Pain says his reason is "Just Because".
* TooManyMouths: Has mouths on his ''[[BodyHorror palms]]''. [[spoiler:And one over his heart for his SuicideAttack.]]
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that his ninjutsu is a work of art that should inspire others for its short lived brilliance, while every other ninja does not put nearly as much pride in their techniques.
* UnknownRival: He can't stand the Uchiha siblings' cooler-than-thou attitude and utter indifference to his "art". To him, ItsPersonal. To them, he's an annoying idiot. He spends his fight with Sasuke trying to provoke some kind of reaction, while Sasuke just wants him to give up Itachi's location. [[spoiler: After his self-destruction and revival, he learns that Sasuke not only survived, but still doesn't think any more of him.]]
* VerbalTic: Adds "hm" to the end of every other sentence, hm.
* WakeUpCallBoss: He's the first really challenging opponent for Sasuke in Part II.
* [[spoiler: WhoWantsToLiveForever: in the recent filler episode during the Shinobi World War, he ponders the fact that his [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Edo Tensei body]] will never age or decay, and [[FromASingleCell cannot even be permenently destroyed]]. Played with, as his angst isn't so much about the pains of living forever as much as it is the fact that the concept of his newfound immortality ([[TheUndead such as it is]]) clashes with his view of art.]]
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[[folder:Tobi]] %% MOD NOTE: Don't put any other name on the top of the folder. It's spoileriffic in more ways than one.
-->''[[MemeticMutation "Tobi is a good boy!"]]'' ([[BeamMeUpScotty Zetsu]])

-->''[[spoiler:"[[ThatManIsDead I'm no one]]. [[LossOfIdentity I don't want to be anyone]], [[TheUnfettered all I care about is completing the Moon's Eye plan.]]"]]''

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->'''Goofy Tobi''': WataruTakagi (JP), Micheal Yurchak (EN)

->'''Serious Tobi/Madara/[[spoiler:Obito]]''': NaoyaUchida (JP), Neil Kaplan (EN), NolanNorth (EN, NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm2), VicMignogna (EN, Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3), Alex Saudinós (Spain)

[[spoiler:The leader of Akatsuki and main antagonist of the series.]]

[[spoiler: Prior to the start of the series, Tobi [[UnreliableNarrator claims to have masterminded]] several key events: bestowing the Rinnegan to Nagato (actually done by the real Madara); pushing for Yahiko to found the Akatsuki; and taking control of Yagura, the Fourth Mizukage and jinchuriki of the Three-Tailed Beast. Twelve years before the start of the series Tobi attacked Konoha and unleashed the Nine-Tailed Fox from its jinchuriki, Kushina Uzumaki, indirectly causing her death and that of her husband Minato Namikaze. Eight years later he assisted Itachi in slaughtering the Uchiha clan, and at some point met with Danzo.]]

In the present, Tobi was introduced as Zetsu's underling and a replacement partner for Deidara after Sasori's death. He was a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} zany comic relief]] JokeCharacter, being constantly beaten up by Deidara, but possessed [[IntangibleMan intangibility]] and constantly wore an [[CoolMask orange, spiral-patterned mask]]. He was seemingly killed when Deidara committed suicide, but came BackFromTheDead claiming to be [[DeadPersonImpersonation Madara Uchiha]]. He subsequently dropped the goofy facade and revealed Itachi's true motives to Sasuke, further driving him down the path of revenge. He enlisted Taka as Akatsuki associates, and revealed the existence of the Sage of the Six Paths to Naruto before declaring war on the entire Ninja World. To this end, he created an army of White Zetsus, used Hashirama's DNA to create his version of Izanagi, reluctantly allied himself with Kabuto, killed Konan in a fight, stole the Rinnegan, revived the Jinchuriki to serve as his Six Paths of Pain, and is attempting to resurrect the [[EldritchAbomination Ten Tailed Beast]] in order to become its jinchuriki and take over the world by [[MassHypnosis hypnotizing everyone]]. [[spoiler:At present, he's currently in a fight that was initially just against Naruto and Bee, but eventually expanded to the entire Shinobi Alliance]].

[[spoiler:In addition, as Kabuto indirectly revealed, Tobi '''is not the real Madara''']]. It is eventually revealed that he is, in fact, [[spoiler: [[{{Characters/Naruto-OtherLeafVillageMembers}} Obito Uchiha]], a teammate of Kakashi Hatake who seemingly sacrificed himself to save his comrades. He was rescued by an elderly Madara Uchiha, who replaced the damaged half of his body with tissue from the [[PlantPerson Living Statue of Hashirama]]. Obito initially refused to aid Madara in his [[AssimilationPlot Eye of the Moon plan]], but after [[DespairEventHorizon witnessing Rin's death]] he returned and received training. After Madara's death, Obito cast aside his name and took up Madara's name as an alias, meeting with Nagato, who Madara had given his Rinnegan eyes to, and proposing an alliance, thus forming the foundations of Akatsuki.]]

Tobi [[spoiler:is also the main antagonist of Naruto Shippuden Movie 6.]]
->His hobby is accompanying "Deidara-senpai".
->Favorite phrase: "Secret"

%%Note to all editors: When editing this page, please be sure to use the RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment. A lot is happening with the new chapters, and there are a ''lot'' of varying opinions about this character, as well as constantly changing tropes. Please take this into consideration as you post new tropes or edit old ones.

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* AlienBlood: We've seen blood in this series. Whatever it is that comes out when he cuts off his arm, it's ''not'' human blood. [[spoiler: It's plant matter.]]
* AppendageAssimilation: It seems Tobi can swap out arms (and it's implied ''eyes '' as well) as needed.
** [[spoiler:This is because half his body was crushed by a boulder and replaced with Zetsu cells, and he gave his original left eye to Kakashi.]]
* [[spoiler:APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Was this to Minato, who he ends up causing the death of.]]
* AssimilationPlot: His main goal. Kishimoto may have got the idea from his brother. [[spoiler:And considering how this desire was [[TheLostLenore triggered by the death of his beloved Rin]], he's on the way to becoming the ninja equivalent of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]]]].
* {{Badass}}: [[spoiler: This comes as no surprise once it's revealed that he was trained by Madara himself. See TookALevelInBadass below.]]
** BadassBaritone / GutturalGrowler: He fulfills the former in the Japanese and English versions, as well as the latter in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBl_tFFXvok English dub of Storm 3]].
** [[spoiler:BadassBoast: Quite a few, honestly. No surprise, considering he's the BigBad.]]
-->[[spoiler:"... If you want to see what's under my mask... '''You're gonna have to work for it. Eight-Tails... Nine-Tails... I will capture you both... ''And complete the Moon's Eye!'''''"]]
-->[[spoiler: "I am Madara Uchiha, and I possess the power of Hashirama Senju! I am unique! I am the second Sage of the Six Paths!"]]
* [[spoiler:BarrierWarrior]]: His usage of [[spoiler: Uchiha Keanjin (''Uchiha Flame Battle Trap'') makes him one. Doubles as PlayingWithFire]].
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler: This is why his true identity is such a shock to Kakashi; the young, kind-hearted, idealistic Obito shares absolutely no traits with the nihilistic madman Tobi.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:He chose alternatively to be [[DeadPersonImpersonation Madara Uchiha]] or a faceless "no one", presumably to forget about his past. This probably made it a lot easier for the former idealist to commit atrocities.]]
* BigBad: Easily the most involved antagonist in the series, from Kurama's attack on Konoha to the Fourth Shinobi World War.
** [[spoiler:BigBadDuumvirate: Kabuto forced Tobi into an alliance by blackmailing him with Madara's body, but now that he's blown Tobi's cover, Kabuto's lost his hold over Akatsuki. He is also this with Madara.]]
** [[spoiler:BigBadEnsemble: Alternatively competed with Orochimaru over it, before taking the reins once the Uchiha brothers threw Orochimaru under the bus.]]
* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:[[AskAStupidQuestion "I didn't unleash the Nine-Tails on Konoha]], it was a natural disaster." ]]
* [[spoiler:BloodFromTheMouth]]: In Chapter 609, [[spoiler:when Kakashi attacks his body parts while within Kamui.]]
* BreakingLecture: Several, but the most devastating must be the one he gives to Kakashi, [[spoiler: about how he wants to create a world where "heroes don't stand over graves apologizing for their failures".]]
** [[spoiler: In chapter 608 he almost succeeded in giving Kakashi a HeroicBSOD. It takes Naruto shouting to Obito that "He won't let his friends die." mirroring when Kakashi said that against Zabuza, to put him back on track.]]
** [[spoiler: Tries again on Naruto after Neji dies and almost succeeds, but Hinata and Kurama [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan put Naruto back on track]].]]
* BrokenAesop: [[spoiler:His identity is one. If Kakashi had abandoned his comrades and completed his mission to destroy the bridge, Obito would have died. This would have given Naruto an actual childhood, made Nagato less crazy, made the Mist a better place, invited the possibility of Minato stopping the Uchiha Massacre, let the Moon's Eye Plan die with Madara, and prevented the Fourth Great Shinobi World War. Guess those who abandon their comrades really aren't less than trash, eh Obito?]]
* [[spoiler:BrokenPedestal: Kakashi spent ''years'' trying to live up to Obito's loyalty to his comrades and kindhearted nature, and emulated his personality and mannerisms as a memorial to him.]]
* CaptainObviousReveal: Perhaps the one time this trope is played straight ''and'' subverted at the same time. He's [[spoiler:Obito Uchiha.]] Everyone saw it coming, or so it seemed. What makes the reveal so masterful is that [[spoiler:fans theorized Tobi was Obito]] the moment he appeared (at the beginning of Part II) due to all the obvious character traits; his similarly sounding name, his mask having a single eyehole on the right side and his pretty much being a happy-go-lucky idiot nobody took seriously to name a few. However, when Tobi revealed himself as "Madara Uchiha" much later, all of a sudden readers abandoned that theory because [[spoiler:nobody believed Obito could have taken that big of a leap in {{Badass}}, much less be the real power behind Akatsuki and the BigBad of the series.]] His later actions, namely his manipulations of Sasuke and the rest of the cast and his inherent knowledge of the ''Naruto'' universe only convinced people further, such that even those who weren't convinced he was Madara still [[spoiler:didn't believe he was Obito, with theories surrounding his true identity (ranging from the somehow still living Izuna Uchiha to the elder son of the Sage of Six Paths) being rampant]]. Really, it was only when Kakashi connected the dots with Kamui (i.e. the fact Tobi's teleportation/intangibility were just a variation of the technique) and when the Mangekyo design of Tobi's Sharingan was revealed that [[spoiler:the readers knew for sure that Tobi was Obito]].
* ChainPain: Used a pair of chains on his wrists in his fight with [[spoiler:Minato]] which combined with his intangibility to be pretty deadly. [[spoiler: Also uses chakra chains to control the Tailed Beasts.]]
* [[spoiler:ChekhovsGunman]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: While Madara came up with the Moon-Eye Plan and started Akatsuki, practically everything afterward was directed by Tobi. Including the manipulation of Nagato and Sasuke, leading Akatsuki from behind the scenes, using the Nine-Tails to attack Konoha and eventually close the curtain on his own clan, all while impersonating Madara. On the other hand, Madara may instructed him what he was to do after his death]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As part of his goofy facade.
* ComboPlatterPowers: [[spoiler: As an Uchiha, Tobi has the Fire Release, Sharingan and Mangekyō Sharingan and all of the accompanying abilities. He also has the Senju DNA, which grants him great vitality and immense chakra reserves (which presumably allows him to constantly use his Mangekyō Sharingan with minimal chakra drain and no side effects to his eyes), regeneration on the right side of his body, SuperStrength and the First Hokage's legendary Wood Release. In addition, he also has Earth, Water, Yin, Yang, and Yin-Yang Releases. Oh and right now, he currently has possession of the Rinnegan, and we all know how much of a GameBreaker that is]].
* ComplexityAddiction: For the past twenty odd years he has had the ability to teleport himself and others anywhere at any time instantly. He could have accomplished his goal in a matter of hours at literally any point during that time and avoid the entire [[spoiler:Fourth World War]] thing, as well as any actual use for Akatsuki, in the first place. The only reason seems to be that it would go against the plan and would not [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim be fair]]. [[spoiler: He claims however that he wants Naruto to fight Sasuke (people that, mind you, didn't exist for half that time, and didn't even know eachother until much much later than they were born), that he even ''needs'' it. Quite a lot of his plan seems to be to set that ultimate battle up, for whatever mysterious end]].
* [[spoiler:TheCorrupter: To both Nagato and Sasuke. [[EvilCounterpart After recognizing his younger self in Naruto]], he makes an attempt on him too.]]
* [[spoiler:DarkMessiah: According to Madara. Sets up a deliberate contrast to [[TheMessiah Naruto]].]]
* [[spoiler:DarthVaderClone: Whoo boy, where to start? Grevious injuries? Check. Mask? Check. Evil Sounds Deep? Check. The Big Bad to the Bigger Bad? Check again. Freudian Excuse? Check check. It even with the extra mile, with Obito battling his former teacher, Minato the Fourth Hokage, and being (albeit indirectly) responsible for the man's death. Japanese Vader, say hello to your fanbase.]]
* [[spoiler:[[CynicismCatalyst Dead Childhood Crush]]: Rin's death is what pushed Obito beyond the DespairEventHorizon and directly motivated him into becoming Tobi. Everything that Tobi's ever done or has taken part in facilitating is out of the desire to see Rin again. This includes the Kyuubi attack (which includes the death of many Konoha shinobi, including his sensei, the Fourth Hokage, and his wife Kushina), the Uchiha Clan Massacre (the genocidal destruction of his entire clan/family, leaving only three survivors, and that's including himself), and the Fourth Great Shinobi World War.]]
* [[spoiler:DeadPersonImpersonation: In spite of what he would like everyone, perhaps even himself to believe, he is [[WhamEpisode NOT the original Madara Uchiha.]] The fact that he actually ''is'' supposed to be a dead person makes it more complicated.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a tendency to make blunt, rude, and disrespectful comments to everyone around him.
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Even if he isn't Madara, you can't deny that he is extremely patient. He seems very old and to have been in the game for a very long time]]. [[spoiler:Once it's revealed that he's actually Obito, Naruto's counterpart on Kakashi's original team, suddenly his {{Determinator}} traits make a lot more sense.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Rin's death was this for him. Although he doesn't seem to care anymore.]]It doesn't help that chapter 604 reveals [[spoiler: that it was Kakashi that killed Rin, when Obito told him to protect her.]]
* DiabolicalMastermind: A nice contrast to [[EvilOverlord Orochimaru]].
* DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler:Sacrificed one Sharingan eye and replaced it with a much more powerful Rinnegan-eye.]]
* DishingOutDirt: Has been shown to have at least "Earth" for his chakra nature.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: [[spoiler:He possesses the Rinnegan and yet he hasn't demonstrated even half of the techniques that Nagato had. Whether this is due to having only one Rinnegan eye, not as much chakra or experience as Nagato, or just [[ForgotAboutHisPowers forgetting about them]], there's no denying that he'd be a massive GameBreaker if he uses all the Rinnegan techniques]].
** Tobi's [[spoiler:Mangekyō Sharingan]] abilities make him a defensively formidable combatant. Even knowing about his abilities and planning against them isn't enough, as Fu and Torune can testify. So in order to get past this, all of his opponents have had some sort of exclusive technique to counter his warping/intangible abilities. Minato was able to defeat Tobi by just a ''split-second'' using his FlashStep technique; Konan had been observing Tobi's abilities in Akatsuki the whole time and she had to ''[[CrazyPrepared heavily]]'' [[CrazyPrepared plan, simulate and trap]] to battle him; [[spoiler:Kakashi, Naruto, Guy, and Killer Bee had been having trouble fighting Tobi until Kakashi realized he just happened to have the exact same Kamui dimension as Tobi]].
* [[spoiler:DramaticUnmask: Naruto finally manages to shatter his mask by exploiting a weakness in his defenses — and in the process, confirms the Tobito theory.]]
* [[spoiler:DuelBoss: In chapter 628, he pulls Kakashi and himself into Kamui, isolating the two of them from the rest of the fighting while mentioning that he was "waiting for this". Presumably, he wants to invoke this on his old teammate.]]
* [[spoiler:EmergencyTransformation:Madara replaced the crushed half of Obito's body with the plant matter grown from the First Hokage's cells.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is repulsed by [[spoiler: Kabuto's Edo Tensei spell]], though this may more or less be because [[spoiler:a large part of his plan hinged on the world believing he was Madara Uchiha and immortal. Proving Madara was actually dead would have probably forced him into using a backup plan]].
* EvilCounterpart:
** [[spoiler: His personality was originally not dissimilar to Naruto's, he even wanted to be Hokage at one point. He himself has noted the similarities, though he presumes Naruto will end up like him in the end. He even tries to pull a BreakTheCutie to [[StrawNihilist show him how pointless the real world is]] and [[TheCorrupter accelerate the process]].]]
** [[spoiler: He's also one for Kakashi given their past history together, similar (superficial) trickster personality traits, and the same Sharingan abilities.]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Subverted in that he originally kept the same outfit after [[spoiler:being revealed as the BigBad]]. Played straight when he replaces his old mask with [[spoiler:one that resembles the Ten-Tailed Beast's single eye. Also, he now wears the same robes and holds the same giant "fan" that Madara Uchiha wore in the latter flashbacks, as opposed to his old Akatsuki uniform]].
* [[spoiler: EvilFormerFriend: To Kakashi.]]
* EvilGenius
* EvilSoundsDeep: Taken UpToEleven by Neil Kaplan in the dub.
* TheFaceless: We've only been able to see a small part of his right eye and there are numerous wrinkles around it. He probably does look very aged. Or tired. [[spoiler: Chapter 599 reveals that the supposed wrinkles are actually scars.]]
* [[spoiler: FallenHero]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts polite, patient, easy going and pretty laid-back but he's actually crazier and monstrous than he first lets on.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** During the fight between Deidara and Sasuke, he acts all goofy as usual until he gets away from the fight and mentally explains Deidara's C4 technique in all its details for the readers. It's the first clear hint of his ObfuscatingStupidity.
** There's also a case of foreshadowing by ''absence''. [[spoiler:He is never shown using the Mangekyou Sharingan, presumably because his eye doesn't have [[ExoticEyeDesigns Madara's distinctive design]], which in retrospect, was probably the strongest clue that he isn't actually Madara....along the fact Zetsu kept calling him Tobi even after he started to claim he was Madara.]]
** When he partially reveals his face to Sasuke to expose his Sharingan, you see it looks wrinkled, so you assume he's an old man. [[spoiler:You would be wrong. Those are actually the scars from where Obito's skin streched and deformed from the boulders smashing half his face.]]
** Tobi's remark to Sasuke in Chapter 397 about understanding how confusing it is when "some weirdo takes you in and starts saying shocking things" suddenly makes sense when you realize that his second encounter with Sasuke [[spoiler: [[HistoryRepeats paralleled how he met Madara]].]]
** In chapter 552, Itachi reminded Naruto not to bear the weight of peace all by himself, or else he would become like "Madara". [[spoiler:After it revealed that he was actually Naruto's parallel in Team Minato it suddenly makes a lot of sense]].
* [[spoiler:FreudianExcuse: Rin's death made him into the AssimilationPlot obsessed maniac he is today]].
* [[spoiler:FromNobodyToNightmare: Obito Uchiha was a joke who only managed to activate his Sharingan minutes before his death. Tobi, conversely, is a Kage level threat who can take on Naruto, B, Kakashi, and Guy all at once]].
* FusionDance: [[spoiler: With Memna in Road To Ninja]].
** [[spoiler: The Spiral Zetsu does this with Obito in the main series.]]
* [[spoiler:GenerationXerox: Invoked on him by Madara. Even if he doesn't like Madara, he ends up inheriting his ideals and vision regardless.]]
* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheRevelation: Rin's death did this to him.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler: What tends to happen when you have a boulder smash half your head.]]
* [[spoiler: GreenThumb: The Mokuton.]]
* [[spoiler:HairstyleInertia]]: [[spoiler:Although his hair grew out during his time in Madara's cave of evil, he trims it back to the style he had as Obito, making his true identity even more obvious.]]
* [[spoiler:HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: A rare vertical example, as the entire right side of his body was smashed by the boulder and replaced with tissue taken from a prototype "Spiral" Zetsu. The tissue took time to mature and strengthen, which was evident when Obito tried to punch out a solid stone wall, only to smash his new arm into putty.]]
* HalfTruth: It's pretty obvious he's withholding more than he's claiming.
* HeartTrauma: [[spoiler:He claims to have removed his heart, because all it could feel was pain. He also claims that he no longer feels pain, and plans to fill the hole left behind with an illusory world where Rin is still alive.]]
* [[spoiler:TheHeavy: He's Obito. So he was responsible for Kakashi's Sharingan, and his personality. He was responsible for the Nine-Tails attack on Konoha and therefore the deaths of Naruto's mother and father, as well as Naruto's life as a Jinchuriki. ''Then'' he participated in the Uchiha Clan Massacre, causing Sasuke's StartOfDarkness, and he threw Kirigakure to hell by controlling the [[FourIsDeath Fourth Mizukage]]. He's the leader of Akatsuki, and is responsible for indirectly causing a ton of other problems, like determining the damage done on Orochimaru's invasion of Konoha because he killed Minato, who could've stopped him. Obito's "death" was a '''''huge''''' catalyst.]]
* [[spoiler: HoistByHisOwnPetard: apparently he didn't learn anything from the [[DramaticUnmask "rasengan meets mask" incident]] and sucked Kakashi into his alternate dimension--[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome only for him to repeatedly pummel any part of him that materlialized within it]].]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Implied. Can warp people into a PocketDimension, has survived far too many things that would've killed anyone else, is abnormally old-aged, knows facts that others claim as myths, his creases look like ''scales'', half of his face is blackened out like a silhouette, his blood [[spoiler:is a mix of ''human flesh'' and ''plant matter'']], he [[spoiler:integrated entire bloodlines]] into his body like it was Lego.
** [[spoiler: Turns out half of his body is made from the same material as the Zetsu, and the wrinkles are actually scars from the boulder falling on him when he was Obito.]]
* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:Believes that the CrapsackWorld he lives in inevitably turns all ninja into "trash", himself included. It's part of why he wants to complete an AssimilationPlot.]]
* [[spoiler:InTheBlood: Despite easily being the most decent of all the Uchiha in the series, not even Obito was immune to the clan's most fatal flaw: their ability to love more deeply than anyone else. If anything, it was worse for him seeing as he was the most idealistic and emotional of all the Uchiha, and thus his sense of love was far deeper than usual. The death of Rin, his childhood crush, a girl he was and is ''still'' in love with, drove him over the deep end and made him what he is today]].
* HyperSpaceArsenal: He stores many weapons in his Kamui dimension such as FumaShuriken, and a massive chain and stake combo for pinning down and restraining the Tailed Beasts.
* [[spoiler:IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] in 629. After Kakashi fails to take the shot on Obito, he insists that something of the man he used to be is still with him. Obito rather amusedly insists that no, he's not. He's ''gone''.]]
** [[spoiler:This continues into 630, and it looks like Kakashi may be starting to get through to him.]]
* TheInfiltration: A very odd inversion. He seems to have made up an alias (and alternate personality to boot) and infiltrated ''his own organization'' for, as far as we know, no particular reason.
* InstantExpert: Immediately after [[spoiler: activating the Mangekyo, he uses it and his previously unseen Mokuton perfectly to slaughter a few dozen ninjas.]]
* [[spoiler:IRejectYourReality: Pretty much literally. He refuses to acknowledge a world in which Rin chose to sacrifice herself and Kakashi was unable to protect her, and chooses to believe the current world is fake. His main goal is to end misery by forcing ''everyone'' to reject reality, trapping the entire world in a LotusEaterMachine.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Seems to be leaning towards this as well. [[spoiler: Then again he ''is'' a Uchiha]].
** [[spoiler:Tobi's a notable case in that he was Obito, arguably the best of the Uchiha personality wise and, along with Shisui, one of the few who ''didn't'' suffer from this. However, Rin's death served as his DespairEventHorizon, and subsequently brought out all the Uchiha traits he used to lack, including this and the talent that Uchiha Clan ninja tend to have. Now, he claims he's completing his AssimilationPlot in order to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans create a better world]] but the truth is he doesn't care about this world or anyone in it anymore because they will all be there and happy in his dream world. What he really wants and all that really matters to him in the end is the chance to see [[TheLostLenore beloved Rin]] again]].
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:He despises Kakashi for failing to protect Rin and tries to kill him, calling Kakashi trash.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted/Inverted: Obito later says that it's really ''not'' personal, and what he really despises is the ninja system that led to that situation in the first place. In his view ''the entire ninja world'' is trash and needs to be destroyed, no exceptions.]]
* JapanesePronouns: Used ''boku'' in his debut, but [[spoiler:once he dropped the act and became a more serious villain he started to use ''ore''. Both are masculine pronouns, but ''ore'' has the implications of sounding more "mature" and "manly" compared to the boyish ''boku'']].
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: It's like crack to him. Although apparently, explaining his plan to everyone ''was'' part of his plan...
* JustToyingWithThem: [[spoiler:Rather than using the Ten Tails to murder everyone outright, he chooses to kill them off gradually [[KickTheDog just to make them suffer the loss of their comrades]] and [[StrawNihilist show them how pointless the real world is]].]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: In Road To Ninja, all he gets in punishment is that he didn't get the Kyuubi, and that didn't seem to bother him, especially when you see villains in previous films in the series, all getting deserving punishments by the end of the film. Well except Hiruko from the third movie who is EasilyForgiven. This is justified by his being the BigBad of the main series as well.]]
* {{Keet}}: Usually whenever he's around Deidara. He later drops the act.
* KickTheDog: It's bad enough that [[spoiler: he caused Neji's death]]. Spending half a chapter rubbing it in Naruto's face, however, firms it as a real kick in the gut.
** [[spoiler:He's been kicking Naruto from day one.]]
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:Plays the role of Madara Uchiha at the real Madara Uchiha's request.]]
* LossOfIdentity: [[spoiler:Deliberately tries to invoke this, presumably to forget his past.]]
* [[spoiler:LotusEaterMachine: His main goal is to trap the entire world in one of these so that ''everyone'' can be a winner and he can pretend to be back with Rin.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil: The reason he's doing all this? Kakashi failed to protect Rin. Although he doesn't blame Kakashi since it's implied WarIsHell in general for him.]] His other reason for everything was also because he [[spoiler:doesn't want to see heroes making excuses in front of graves. It seems more like he's doing it for both their sake]].
** [[spoiler: UpToEleven after The Second Hokage's revelation regarding the origin of the Sharingan. The Uchiha feels emotions like love tenfolds, which is problematic when they lose this love they feel despair and hate even more. The Sharingan is the mirror of the despair and hate felt by the person and the more hate and despair the person feel, the stronger the Sharingan gets. The more powerful their eye become, the harder it is to reason with them.]]
* MadeOfDiamond: After Minato both shreds him with a Rasengan and stabs him in the gut, Tobi is still standing, and even casually chats for a bit.
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:He was the real leader of Akatsuki]], and [[spoiler:controlled the Fourth Mizukage for years]].
* ManipulativeBastard: He may tell you the horrible truth, including his role in it, and ''still'' bend you to his will.
* MaskPower: He's had quite a few masks, usually with a single eye-hole. [[spoiler:His latest one is stylized like the Juubi's eye]].
** MalevolentMaskedMan
** WhiteMaskOfDoom: His latest.
* MismatchedEyes: [[spoiler: After his battle with Konan, he has a Sharingan and a Rinnegan.]]
* MoreThanMindControl: A master of this.
-->'''Tobi''': To control people's heart, you have to use the darkness within them. [[spoiler:Nagato]] was just too easily influenced.
* MrExposition: '''[[Webcomic/ElGoonishShive HE IS AN ENDLESS BARREL OF EXPOSITION]]'''.
* NighInvulnerability:
** {{Intangibility}}: [[spoiler:Assumed to be this, but subverted. It's actually part of the [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleportation technique]] related to Kamui, derived from one of Obito's eyes. ''His'' eyes, as it turns out.]]
** SpareBodyParts: Can easily replace body parts lost in battle.
* NoExceptYes: He denies [[spoiler: starting the war because of what happened to Rin and proceeds to explain how he started the war because of what happened to Rin. His goal is to bring down the entire ninja world, having determined that the world is fake because a world where Rin is dead, and where things like her death happen, can't possibly be real.]]
* NoOneShouldSurviveThat:
** Anywhere between Sasuke (unintentionally) setting him ablaze with the Amaterasu that Itachi sealed inside him, Konan's attempt to kill him with 600 billion explosive tags (which technically ''worked''), etc.
** Far before [[spoiler:becoming Tobi, Obito shouldn't have survived a boulder crushing the entire right half of his body at 13 years old.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Initially seems like a somewhat goofy member of Akatsuki, but fans knew something was up when a sword slash passes right through him and he survives a massive explosion. In his true persona he is an extremely ruthless, competent and determined enemy.
* NotSoSmallRole: Seemed like a comic relief type of guy and a TokenGoodTeammate in Akatsuki, but even then, there was something off about him from the start. [[spoiler: This can apply to his true identity, as well.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: It's unknown why he made himself act like a goofball if half of Akatsuki's already [[spoiler:bought into his impersonation of Madara]]. It's probable he simply enjoys playing silly.
-->'''Tobi''': ''[[TakingYouWithMe I ended up saving you too]]... I believe a "thank you" is in order.''
-->[[spoiler:'''Konan''']]: [[TheComicallySerious .......]]
* OhCrap:
** Inverted, and it's like meth to him. He seems to delight in messing with peoples mind in the most [[TroubleEntendre funny way possible]]- [[spoiler:just ask Konan]].
** Still, he's susceptible to it himself. [[spoiler: After all, apparently Kabuto has known all along that ''this'' Madara...isn't the real one. He finally reveals that to the world by summoning the original Madara to the battlefield with Edo Tensei. The mere existence of this knowledge scared Tobi into letting Kabuto join up]].
** Definitely has this when [[spoiler: Itachi's release of Edo Tensei has taken away his Six Paths Technique. Time will tell if it lasts though.]]
** In Chapter 598, [[spoiler:Naruto manages to DESTROY HIS MASK!]] The only word he even utters is "Shit!".
* OneManArmy: See PowerParasite.
* TheOtherDarrin: Even professional seiyuu cannot handle the discrepancy between his two characters apparently. NaoyaUchida had to replace WataruTakagi when Tobi dropped his act in the anime. Serious!Tobi had ''three'' voice actors in English. [[spoiler: Turns HilariousInHindsight when [[VicMignogna one of them]] also voices Tobi's younger self, Obito.]]
* PaperFanOfDoom: [[spoiler:He carries a large and apparently quite heavy fan which turns out to be the same one Madara used in his time]].
* PersonalityPowers: A very creative example. [[spoiler:Obito [[IRejectYourReality hates reality and wants to escape it]] by creating a dream world. His powers allow him to literally do so by [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporting]] all [[IntangibleMan or part]] of his body (as well as other people) to an alternate dimension.]]
* [[spoiler: PlantPerson: The right half of his body is composed of Zetsu's cells.]]
* [[spoiler:PlayingWithFire]]: [[spoiler:Finally uses an Uchiha fire technique in chapter 596. Also revealed retroactively, as he used Fire Release as Obito.]]
* PowerParasite: UpToEleven. Just by [[spoiler:stealing the Rinnegan from Nagato, Tobi's gained the Six Paths of Pain (whom he's replaced with the six deceased Jinchuriki) and controls the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Furthermore, in addition to his own Sharingan, he's obtained Senju DNA, allowing him access to Mokuton]].
* PragmaticVillainy: One of the few in the series. He's extremely good about avoiding pointless and/or unnecessarily risky fights. In addition he's fairly nice to his subordinates (as long as they don't betray him) and will help them out when they're in a jam. Not so much because he particularly cares about them, but because he values loyalty and there's simply no advantage in having your subordinates hate you. It's also notable that he seldom tries to force anyone to do anything and usually just talks people into doing what he wants. Doesn't prevent him from ComplexityAddiction though. Also quite ruthless and fond of [[{{Irony}} taking hostages, threatening children]], and ObfuscatingStupidity.
* PsychopathicManchild: Type B. His goal is extremely childish: he wants to create a dreamworld where everyone can be happy and the good guys always win. The psychopathic part comes from the fact that he is willing to do anything to accomplish this.
* [[spoiler: PsychoticSmirk: He sports one of these after his mask is shattered, and Kakashi asks if he truly is Obito, pointing out that he no longer considers himself to be "anyone" but they are free to call him by that name if they wish.]]
* [[spoiler:APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Tobi caused the Nine-Tails attack and the death of his own sensei. Minato, however, never even knew he was still alive, or that he had turned evil.]]
* RealityEnsues: His main motivation for ''everything''.
* RealityWarper: He can use the jutsu Izanagi. Apparently, his is a more complete (read: longer lasting) variant than Danzo's.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: To Konan, after she turns on him for Naruto and decides to kill him, fighting for the new hope.
-->'''Tobi''': ''There is no peace! There can be no hope! Nagato only believed in Naruto to try to comfort his own pitiful existence!''
-->'''Tobi''': ''[[TalkToTheFist You called me the Darkness, didn't you?]] [[ToThePain Then I will make you wilt]]. [[MindRape I will take your little rainbow bridge and its seven colors and plunge it all into darkness!]]''.
* RedHerring: There were theories and degrees of evidence that he was everyone from Danzou to Obito and several others. Eventually he was revealed to be Uchiha Madara, but even then about half the fandom argued that this was yet another ruse.[[spoiler: They were right, but it's a testament to the writing that so many disagreed or couldn't decide either way. Tobi himself claims to be "no one" and that he doesn't care about his own identity, but he does seem to care about concealing his face...]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: He's ''not'' Madara Uchiha. He's actually ''Obito'' Uchiha.]]
* [[spoiler: RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After witnessing Rin being killed by Kakashi, Obito loses it and proceeds to murder every single Mist ninja that comes to attack him. This was (probably) his main StartOfDarkness into becoming Tobi.]]
* SempaiKohai: Considers himself the kohai of Deidara and Kisame. [[spoiler:Even though he's really the sempai.]]
* ShutUpKirk: [[spoiler:When Kakashi asks Obito why he's doing this, Obito responds by telling him to shut up and tries to kill him.]]
* SignificantAnagram: [[spoiler: Tobi, is very similar to his actual name, Obito. You could think of the English spelling to be something like 'Toobi' in that regard or his original name to be Obit, with the extra 'o' at the end stemming from the tendency for Japanese pronunciations to end in vowels regardless.]]
** [[spoiler:It should also be noted that when both Tobi and Obito are written kanji, they are written in the same two characters, simply switched. It was ''that'' obvious.]]
* TheSociopath: Doesn't particularly care for anyone or anything. All that matters to him is his plan. [[spoiler:It's no surprise when it's revealed that he's responsible for a lot of the atrocities in the story. It's made even more tragic when his identity is revealed]].
* SpaceMaster
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[RunningGag Its like cocaine to him]]. Massively screws up Itachi's postmortem plans for Sasuke by telling him [[AwfulTruth things]] he was [[GoMadFromTheRevelation probably better off not knowing]].
* StrawNihilist: [[spoiler:"This world is completely worthless...there is nothing left in it but misery."]] [[spoiler: He thinks he is living in a CrapsackWorld [[VillainHasAPoint (with a fair amount of justification, it must be said)]] and resents how ThisIsReality is in effect with regards to heroes, ie. that very often heroes actually ''fail''. As such, he thinks the only place heroes and dreams can truly exist is in a dream world, and he intends to create just that, even if he has to enact an AssimilationPlot to do it.]]
* SuperpowerLottery: He really won the jackpot.[[spoiler: Not only is he an Uchiha, his Kamui is incredibly powerful, and the main reason he went from pushover to Kage level in a just a few years. More to the point it apparently has no precedent at all, so it might well be the rarest ability in the series.]]
* SuperStrength: He snapped an arm off of its shoulder ''with just the grip of his fingers'', and blocked a giant ass sword ''with his forearm''.
* [[spoiler:TakeUpMySword: A villainous example. After saving him, an elderly Madara passed his knowledge, [[DeadPersonImpersonation identity]], and [[AssimilationPlot plan]] on to Obito. Subverted in that [[ThanatosGambit part of the plan was to eventually revive Madara]], so this was meant to be temporary.]]
* [[spoiler:TeensAreMonsters: The same age as Kakashi, which means he was in his teens when he first attacked Konoha.]]
* {{Teleportation}}: He can teleport himself anywhere he wants, and can teleport others into an alternate dimension that seems to exist within his Sharingan.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Tobi and [[spoiler: Madara may need each other but that does not mean they like it. Madara thinks that Obito is being too impatient with the Moon-Eye Plan and wants to wipe out the Shinobi Alliance first to make sure they are not a bother. Obito thinks Madara is too immature to wield such power and this is just an excuse for him to test out the Juubi's powers like a child with a new toy. Then there's also the matter of Madara needing Obito to sacrifice himself using Rinne Tensei in order to revive him, which Obito isn't exactly thrilled about.]]
* [[spoiler: ThatManIsDead: Even after his true identity as Obito is revealed he still claims that he's "No One."]]
* [[spoiler:TookALevelInBadass]]: [[spoiler:UpToEleven! Tobi used to be Obito. The guy who was always in ''everyone's'' shadow. Was AlwaysSecondBest to everyone, and was basically the Dead Last to all of Konoha. But after becoming [[BigBad Tobi]] he can fight on par with [[WorldsStrongestMan Minato]], [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu control the Kyuubi,]] learned how to warp reality, and effortlessly manipulates people like [[SuperPowerLottery Nagato]], [[TheGift Itachi]] and the whole freaking Ninja World like they're his puppets! DAMN! Being evil really ups the IQ points. And the badass points.]]
* [[spoiler:TorsoWithAView: Intentionally have Kakashi pierce his chest in chapter 629 to show his HeartTrauma]] and keeps it afterwards.
* [[spoiler:TragicVillain: Because in the end, despite all the horrible, reprehensible things he's done, that's what he truly is. With the InTheBlood revelation of Tobirama, and the death of the girl he loved, by his own best friend no less, he's just become so jaded that the only thing he's been able to cling on is the AssimilationPlot, because it can give him the one thing he wants: Rin]].
* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: Has a not-so-subtle grudge towards Kakashi and isn't afraid to make it publicly known, but still manages to keep a lid on his bottle hate towards Kakashi because his act of murder was most likely forced through circumstance, not intentional. However, Kakashi failing to keep his promise is what really angered him, and now Obito is bitterly going forth with the Eye of The Moon Plan to tell the world to shove it to ensure even more senseless killings stop.]]
* TricksterArchetype: Likes to act like this.
** {{Troll}}: Enjoys toying with people's emotions to make them suffer.
* [[spoiler:TwoFaced]]: [[spoiler:The incident in Kannabi Bridge left the right side of his face severely scarred, while the left side is untouched. The cave-in pressed down on his face hard enough to make the skin stetch to the point of tearing, which resulted in spiral-like strech marks where the skin scarred.]]
* UltimateEvil: [[spoiler: until his reveal as Obito]]
* TheUnfettered: Whatever his goals are, he ''will not back down'' from obtaining them no matter how terrible the price. [[spoiler:Even if he has to murder his entire family and closest friends. Later, it's revealed that ThePlan will supposedly allow anything to happen inside the dream, even the resurrection of the dead, which may go a long way in explaining this.]]
* UnreliableExpositor: He delivers ''a lot'' of exposition, and quite a bit of it is suspect. [[spoiler:Especially when it comes to himself and his motives, what with him not actually being Madara.]]
* [[spoiler:UsedToBeASweetKid: Did he ever.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Either played straight or Subverted. He claims at one point that this is his goal, but when Naruto accuses him of really just wanting power, he laughs and says that Naruto is probably right. So either he [[GracefulLoser was laughing that Naruto caught him in a lie]] or [[SarcasmMode was mocking Naruto's accusations]]. [[spoiler:With the reveal, it seems is played very straight, as he doesn't care any more about this world]].
** [[spoiler:More like subverted, or at least indicates that ''both'' of them were right: While Tobi/Obito quite rightly points out that there is always pain and suffering in the world, and real change often is nowhere to be found, he is ''not'' motivated by making the world better, bringing a world where his beloved is alive and presumably doesn't have to die. At its core, he is attempting to impose ''his'' fantasy: A world that makes his dream a reality. At its core, his motivations are as selfish as Madara's]]
* VillainsNeverLie: Played straight most of the time, the rest it depends in how the manga evolves.
** [[spoiler:Except when it comes to [[DeadPersonImpersonation his identity]], anyway...]]
* VillainTeleportation
* WalkingSpoiler: You think you know everything about him? Keep reading the manga...
* [[spoiler:WeCanRuleTogether: After killing Neji and delivering a HannibalLecture, he invites Naruto to stop prolonging his suffering and join he and Madara. Naruto hesitates, but luckily for the Alliance Hinata is [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan around to snap Naruto out of it.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Tries this again with Kakashi, who also rejects it.]]
* WeakButSkilled: Downplayed as in spite of this trope, Tobi is actually strong. He has SuperStrength, his chakra levels and vitality are incredible to the point he can constantly use his [[spoiler:Mangekyō Sharingan]] abilities with virtually no drain or side-effects. However, Tobi's Space-Time ninjutsu abilities, while defensively impressive, lack the destructive power his Akatsuki comrades have shown. Instead of outright explosions or destruction or offense, Tobi carefully utilizes his warping/intangibility to attack his enemies.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: If he is truthful about the plan. He's called out on this as being nothing more than an egomaniac using this as an excuse. His response? To laugh and say the accusation is exactly right.
* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]: From what we can tell, [[spoiler:the idealism he possessed as a child was shattered after his near-death and the subsequent death of his teammate Rin, who he loved. This (and possibly other events) led to him believing that there is no true heroism in the real world, and he wants to create a new world which will allow heroes and ideals to exist within it - at the expense of free will and individuality.]]
* [[spoiler: WouldHitAGirl: Hit? He killed Konan with a pipe from behind, and that's not even getting into the details of the flashback when he killed Hiruzen's wife and then attempt to have the Nine tails kill Kushina, a mother weakened by pregnancy and maintaining the seal by mauling her to death. Thankfully, Minato showed up just in time.]]
* [[spoiler: WouldHurtAChild: Hurt? He'd kill one, as seen when threatening to cut baby Naruto with a kunai; which is soon upped by '''attempting to blow him sky high with explosive tags'''!]]
* [[spoiler:WideEyedIdealist: Was this as a kid, and this trait is ultimately what caused him to [[FaceHeelTurn eventually become the]] BigBad. After very nearly dying and then witnessing one of his best friends (whom had promised to protect her) kill the other, he realized he lived in a CrapsackWorld and decided he would [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans end it and create a better one]] at [[WellIntentionedExtremist all]] [[JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope costs]]. ]]
* XanatosSpeedChess [=/=]GambitRoulette: While at first sight it would look like he planned everything that has happened in the series, he is in fact very accomplished in cutting his losses and creating new plans out of his ass as the situation demands. Hell, around 5% of the things happening now were in his plans and he is still at the top of the game. He ''was'' fairly miffed about Kabuto bringing [[spoiler: the real Madara Uchiha]] onto the battlefield, as it forced him to drop his [[spoiler: DeadPersonImpersonation]] gambit, and even more miffed when [[spoiler: Itachi ended Edo Tensei and he lost the jinchuriki]]. But apparently he had back-up plans for that anyway.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Tobi has a habit of doing this to practically everyone he has come into contact with. Every member of Akatsuki was a pawn used for the express purpose of capturing all of the tailed beasts, and once they were obtained were cast aside to whatever fate they met. Nagato's only use was to die and revive him [[spoiler:or Madara]], and once [[spoiler:Madara was revived in a way that was a hindrance to their plan, Tobi threatens to pull this on him, should the legendary Uchiha not follow his orders.]]
* [[spoiler: YoungerThanTheyLook: When he was 14 he stood about as tall as Minato.]]
** [[spoiler:VocalDissonance: And had a very deep voice]].

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[[folder:[[color:green:Zetsu]]]]
-->"''[[ImAHumanitarian Seems palatable...]]''"

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->Voiced by: NobuoTobita (JP), Michael Sorich and BrianBeacock (EN, original), TravisWillingham (EN, current)

Zetsu is a strange plant-like being [[spoiler: created from the First Hokage's DNA]] that serves as Akatsuiki's spy, lookout, and [[IAmAHumanitarian corpse disposal]]. He possesses LiteralSplitPersonalities that talk to each other, and was the only Akatsuki member who is never shown with a partner, because he can be his own partner. He can perfectly blend into the background (sometimes by use of a Venus flytrap thing). He is capable of recording events, such as Naruto and Sasuke's fight at the Valley of the End and [[spoiler:Sasuke and Itachi's final battle]], for others to view.

[[spoiler:Zetsu knows Tobi's identity and status as the true leader of Akatsuki, and thus works closely with him. He showed ability to split his two sides apart, and had his white side lead Sasuke to the Kage summit while the black side stayed behind with Tobi. The white half interrupted meeting and revealed that Sasuke was in the building, after which the Raikage strangled him until he lost consciousness]].

[[spoiler:White Zetsu managed to escape the summit and healed the wounds Sasuke had received in his battles with Danzo, Kakashi and Naruto. Both halves appeared to be looking for Kisame's dead body, only to reveal that the body was just a White Zetsu clone, which was created so Kisame could infiltrate Kumogakure. During the Fourth Great Shinobi World War, Zetsu is the main source of Tobi's army. It is eventually discovered by Sakura that White Zetsu was created using the 1st Hokage's DNA. Black Zetsu was defeated by Naruto and the Mizukage's squad while attempting to assassinate the daimyos, while White Zetsu was killed by Sasuke Uchiha in order to test out his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.]] During Tobi's [[spoiler: [[StartOfDarkness flashback arc]], it is revealed that White Zetsu was one of numerous prototypes created by Madara Uchiha using Hashirama Senju's DNA and served as Obito's bodyguard during his recovery. One of these was a Spiral Zetsu with a quirkish personality and a face that inspired Tobi to don his spiral-patterned mask. The "main" Zetsu was one specifically chosen by Madara to contain his "will." Madara, just before he died, inserted his "will" into half of this Zetsu, forming the black half of his body.]]
->His hobby is observing unique shinobi.
->Favorite phrase: "Independence unbending" which means "The only one you can count on is yourself".

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* [[spoiler:ArtificialHuman]]
* [[spoiler:BlatantLies: "[[MemeticMutation Tobi is a good boy!]]"]]
* CloudCuckoolander: White is more prone to bizarre thoughts and actions than Black, sometimes downright stupid, such as [[spoiler: [[WhatAnIdiot bursting into the meeting room of the five Kages to announce Sasuke broke in and giving away Taka's cover]].]] Then, the newly-introduced [[spoiler: Spiral Zetsu has a nagging curiosity for ''[[PottyHumor bowel movements]]'' out of wonder what such a function would be like if he had it. NoSocialSkills, indeed.]]
* [[spoiler:TheDragon]]: [[spoiler:To Tobi. He appears to have been working with Tobi much longer than most of Akatsuki. Ironic, given Tobi's first appearance made him look like Zetsu's underling but possibly to cover him and also CoDragons with Pain and Kisame before their deaths]].
* EnergyAbsorption
* EnigmaticMinion: Nobody really knows what his deal is, but from what we've seen, he may be one of the few that knows the truth about [[spoiler:Tobi]].
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Looks like plant seeds.
* [[spoiler:TheFaceless]]: [[spoiler: Spiral Zetsu has a hollow head with one hollow eye socket, yet it still manages to see through the link it shares with the other Zetsu.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His personality (White) should've been an obvious foreshadowing to Hashirama's true personality as he is, after all, made from the man's cells.
* GreenThumb: Can merge with the earth and even burrow underground, masking his chakra altogether and allowing him to tunnel around undetected at extreme speeds. This is of course all made possible out of Hashirama's Wood Style abilities.
* [[spoiler:HalfTheManHeUsedToBe]]: [[spoiler:Chojuro cuts Black Zetsu in half during the War arc.]]
* HiveMind: The White Zetsu all share one mind that they link through a system of underground roots, once linked they instantly share information with each other.
* HumanoidAbomination: A [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] ManEatingPlant who [[GreenThumb can move seamlessly within grass and trees]] and [[SplitPersonality black and white halves which differ in personality]], which can split from each other physically, with the white half [[MesACrowd capable of making clones of himself]] in a process akin to a fungal parasite. WordOfGod implies he's probably not even human, [[spoiler:considering that he's an artificial amalgamation of Hashirama's DNA and Madara's will]].
* FusionDance: The White Zetsu can combine to create a [[EvilIsVisceral hideous gigantic plant monster]].
* ImAHumanitarian ManEatingPlant: Disposes of corpses by eating them. His favorite food is even listed as ''chewy people''.
* IronicEcho: [[CatchPhrase "*insert name here* is a good boy."]] becomes this [[spoiler: in chapter 603.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The original White Zetsu gets offed by Sasuke, though he still has plenty of clones running about]].
* MesACrowd: Tobi creates an army of 100,000 white Zetsu's Parasite Clones.
* MysteriousWatcher: Subverted. Nobody knew who he was or what he wanted the first time he showed up in the series but it soon beame clear he belonged to Akatsuki.
* NonActionGuy: White Zetsu never directly engages in a fight. [[spoiler:His clones, on the other hand...]]
* OffModel: In early anime episodes (and some in later ones, it seems to vary by who does animation) black half has orifices besides eyes. In the manga, black half never has had any of those.
* PlantPerson
* ShapeshifterWeapon: The Zetsu's malleable plantlike flesh can act this way for him.
* SplitPersonality: Has black and white halves.
* TalkingToThemself
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: In one body. Sorta.
* TheDarkChick: When Kabuto Joins in and after Konan's defection.
* TheMole- he functions as the spy and watcher of the group.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can make himself into a perfect double of a person after absorbing their chakra.
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[[folder:[[color:darkgreen:Kakuzu]]]]
-->"''Hidan, anyone with a brain would know that the world '''revolves''' around [[{{Greed}} money]]!''"

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->Voiced by: TakayaHashi (JP), FredTatasciore (EN), Fernando Elegido (Spain)

Kakuzu is a NighInvulnerable and almost immortal BountyHunter who cares only about money. He is old enough to have once fought the First Hokage, and can make his body [[MadeOfDiamond as hard as stone]] and extend his body into [[CombatTentacles thred-like tendrils]]. The source of his immortality is his ability to incorporate other peoples' hearts into his body, extending his lifespan and allowing him to use their elements. Paired with Hidan due to his habit of killing his other partners, he captured the Two-Tailed Cat and attempted to go after the Nine-Tailed Fox, but was crippled by Naruto's newest Rasengan variant, and killed by Kakashi. [[spoiler: He was revived by Kabuto's Edo Tensei and sent to fight alongside Kinkaku and Ginkaku, but was sealed]].
->His hobby was reading old and rare books.
->Favorite phrase: "If you're prepared, there won't be any sorrow"

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* AllYourPowersCombined / YouWillBeAssimilated: He can take his opponents' hearts and, at the same time, their [[ElementalPowers elements]]. Therefore, he controls [[DishingOutDirt earth]], [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[BlowYouAway wind]], [[MakingASplash water]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]].
* AmbiguouslyBrown
* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleofAntiVillains Type II]].
* AppendageAssimilation: With human hearts.
* AxCrazy: The reason that Hidan is his partner is because he killed his previous partners in fits of blind rage.
* {{Badass}}: One of Akatsuki's more [[LightningBruiser impressive]] [[GeniusBruiser fighters]].He mentions that he fought the First Hokage and lived ([[AllThereInTheManual although]] BonusMaterial reveals he was more dead than alive), a feat ''Madara Uchiha'' only barely pulled off.
** BadassBaritone: His voice is EXTREMELY deep.
** BadassGrandpa: He's the oldest of the Akatsuki, but keeps his youth due to his extended life-spans of the hearts he's taken
* BodyHorror: What his body strings do, and create five large beasts that fire powerful elemental attacks from his back that contain one of his five hearts each. Oh and he has two OneWingedAngel modes by recombining with those beasts.
* TheBrute: He and Hidan fullfill this role for Akatsuki during the early part of the series, although he's more of a GeniusBruiser. [[spoiler:As well as TheBrute for Kabuto's Akatsuki zombies.]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: [[spoiler:After meeting up with Izumo and Kotetsu, the two ninja he held helpless while Hidan killed Asuma, Kakuzu merely remarks:]]
--> [[spoiler:"Sorry, pal. I tend to forget about chump-change shinobi when I'm done with them.]]
* ChromeChampion: One of his more frequently uses abilities was to turn his skin into stone to protect himself or to give himself a PowerFist.
* CombatTentacles: Can extend his stitches and arms as weapons.
* DeadpanSnarker: Asuma decapitates Hidan and when Hidan tries to talk Kakuzu into bringing him his body, Kakuzu instead takes his head by its hair and carries it over to the body, under loud protests from his partner, stating that Hidan's head "is lighter". He says this with a completely straight face after having just razed a building with his bare fists. Later, when Hidan gloats about having killed Asuma as if it was no big deal, Kakuzu points out that Asuma ''did'' cut his head off. Hidan is not pleased.
* DeathInAllDirections: Many of his attacks do this, which makes Hidan an ideal partner because he doesn't have to worry about accidentally hitting him.
* ElementalPowers: His multiple hearts let him use all of them.
* EtTuBrute: The reason why he turned evil in the first place
* EvilOldFolks: He's ''91'' years old.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Especially in the Japanese.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Green iris. Maroon sclera.
* FreudianExcuse: Was once a very loyal shinobi, but after his village locked him away for years after a lifetime of loyal service for failing an impossible task, he stole a forbidden technique, killed some of the elders and left, deciding to believe only in money from now on.
* GeniusBruiser: Collectively, he and Hidan are more or less TheBrute for the Akatsuki. This doesn't stop Kakuzu from being very bright, even outsmarting [[TheStrategist Shikamaru]] on occasion.
* GlasgowGrin: After his mask finally comes off, [[spoiler:seen better much later in chapter 489]].
* {{Greed}}: He's the banker of the Akatsuki and greedily takes his opponents' hearts.
* HairTriggerTemper: Killed all of his partners this way, until he met Hidan.
** InformedFlaw: While he is repeatedly described as having a hair-trigger temper, the closest he ever comes to losing his cool on-screen is taking a single swipe at Hidan for his repeated mocking of his love of money, only to immediately shrug him off and go back to being stoic. For someone with such a big chip on their shoulder, he puts up with a surprising amount of annoyance from enemies and allies alike.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOh2HM-7xuA Kakuzu]]"
* LightningBruiser: Fast even for the series standards.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: His body strings tear his enemies' hearts so he can fuel his black elemental beasts that emerge from his back. Oh, and he has two [[SarcasmMode very nice]] OneWingedAngel forms.
* MaskOfPower: Has 4 stitched to his back which can [[FlunkyBoss split from him to attack]] or fuse with him to go OneWingedAngel.
* MiserAdvisor: His role in the organization.
* MoneyFetish: Admits this, saying that it'll be useful even in hell.
* NothingPersonal: [[spoiler:He doesn't seem to be particularly mad when he runs into Team 10 again after being revived, even playing along with Shikamaru's shogi metaphors.]]
* OhCrap: When he sees Naruto's Rasenshuriken. In his own words :"If I'm getting hit with that, this is over. I'm finished."
* OneWingedAngel: He has two more powerful forms he uses by combining with his mask monsters.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His motivation.
* OnlySaneMan: His intermittent fits of berserk rage notwithstanding, he's among the more realistic and collected members of Akatsuki.
* OrganTheft
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The masks on Kakuzu's back correspond to the four heads of the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Living Creatures]] of Judeo-Christian Mythology. Likewise, they also correspond to the symbols of the four Evangelists, and are arranged on his back in the same order as the Evangelists were traditionally depicted.
* Really700YearsOld: He's been around since the First Hokage, and at 91 [[spoiler:he's even older than Madara, the true BigBad, before he died and even then he was in a lot better shape than he was at his time of death.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: When Hidan warns him that killing a priest is a one-way ticket to hell, he simply replies with "Even hell runs on money, I'd be just fine."
* SeriousBusiness: '''money'''.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: All of his unique techniques are named (and pronounced very similarly in Japanese) after ''MobileSuitGundam'' mecha used by Zeon in the One Year War, with meaningful kanji replacing the phonetic characters. (e.g. MSN-02 Zeong -> Jiongu -> Earth Grudge Fear; this is Kakuzu's forbidden "body of threads" technique, and the Zeong was a mobile suit that could detach its arms on wires for ranged attacks.) Complete list: Jiongu, Domu, Zukokku, Atsugai, Gian = Zeong, Dom, Z'Gok, Acguy, Gyan
* SoulJar: He can't die unless all of his collected hearts are destroyed.
* SuperStrength: Even by Naruto standards. He manages to wreck an entire building in a single blow.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Hidan.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He bickers a lot with Hidan because of their disagreeing viewpoints, but they clearly have some mutual respect for each other.
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[[folder:[[color:orange:Hidan]]]]
-->"''As the other dies, their agony radiates through my body, and living through it is [[CombatSadoMasochist pure ecstasy]]!''"

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->Voiced by: MasakiTerasoma (JP), Chris Edgerly (EN), Víctor Martínez (Spain)

An immortal ninja who wields a SinisterScythe, Hidan is [[AxCrazy murderously insane]] and follows a ReligionOfEvil. Foul-mouthed and arrogant, he hates [[strike:his partner, Kakuzu]] just about everyone. Fuelling his immortality is a [[BloodMagic gruesome]] ritual that can transfer injuries to his enemies, and being immortal he can survive even [[LosingYourHead losing his head]]. He kills Asuma with this power, and in revenge Shikamaru dismembers him and [[BuriedAlive buries]] the [[AndIMustScream still-speaking pieces alive]]. [[spoiler:And it seems that he's still not dead: Kabuto is able to [[OurZombiesAreDifferent bring back to life]] almost every defeated member of Akatsuki EXCEPT him.]] However, Kabuto does [[spoiler: create a snake clone of him in the Chikara Arc special by harvesting some of the old Hidan's DNA, but when the snakes composing the clone's body burn out their lifespans, the clone crumbles into oblivion.]]
->His hobby is "Jashinistic" activities.
->Favorite words: "massacre" and "Jashinism"

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* AndIMustScream: Buried alive while being kept living by his immortality.
* AnotherMansTerror: Hidan experiences his victims' final moments. Though he [[CombatSadomasochist doesn't exactly feel terror]] from the experience.
* AxCrazy: The most openly deranged and bloodthirsty member of the group.
* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: Played with in a recent filler arc. His 'real' self is still buried at the Nara shrine, but Kabuto manages to recreate an entire edo Hidan from some of his cells. The fact that even the neo Hidan's personality matches the original is played for laughs.]]
* {{Badass}}: His first reaction to be stabbed through the chest with 2 swords? "Who the hell are you?"
** BadassBaritone
* BladeOnAStick: Carries around several [[RetractableWeapon collapsible spikes]] in order to inflict precise self injury.
* BloodKnight: Fighting is quite literally all he lives for, and the specific reason why he left his village in the first place.
* BloodMagic: Uses his opponent's blood to link his body with theirs, and typically uses his own to draw the circle.
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Killed his fellow villagers because they made the village into a bathing resort...BECAUSE it meant no more violence.
* TheBrute: He and Kakuzu fulfill this role for Akatsuki early on, although he's more of the traditional DumbMuscle.
* ChewToy: Official Title in Akatsuki. Kakuzu when enraged would kill his partners. Solution: Give him an immortal one. An obnoxious, swearing, religious nut one. A strange amalgamation of stress reliever/punishment apparently.
* ClusterFBomb: In some fan translations.
* CombatSadomasochist: "Let me feel your pain!"
** OrgasmicCombat: It's strongly implied that he [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar jizzed himself]] when he impaled himself to finish off Asuma.
* ConfusionFu: He swings around his scythe on a long cord, making it fly around unpredictably, and thus making it tougher to block.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Well, subverted in that he cannot die, but being blown up to pieces and buried while alive certainly is cruel and unusual.
* DumbMuscle: Played for laughs, though he really is stupid.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He doesn't condone blasphemy or attacking priests. Although he stil willingly does the latter when he thinks he can get a good fight out of it.
* EvilAlbino: Has white hair and magenta eyes
* EvilGloating: Kakuzu is really irritated about that to the point of constantly making(useless)death threats.
* EvilLaugh: A particular offender.
* FateWorseThanDeath: WordOfGod states that his head will ''rot'' before his immortality runs out.
* ForTheEvulz: His religion seems to be built around a sadistic god who encourages his followers to murder ForTheEvulz.
* FromASingleCell[[spoiler:[=/=]CloningBlues]]: [[spoiler:In the Chikara anime filler arc he is brought back by Kabuto. However, he used a cloning method different from the Edo Tensei resurrection. Instead he uses a lake to regenerate the clone.]].
* GigglingVillain
* TheGrimReaper: What his ritual does as a type of OneWingedAngel.
* HypocriticalHumor: Once cracks a joke about his enemies attacking clergymen. Of course, his religious dogma is Thou Shalt Massacre Thy Neighbor.
* {{Immortality}}: Type 6.
** ImmortalityImmorality: Type 1; Hidan needs to kill people to stay immortal.
* {{Irony}}: That fancy immortality of his? [[spoiler:It's the only thing that's keeping him from being brought back with the other beaten Akatsuki by Kabuto, meaning that [[FateWorseThanDeath he's stuck where Shikamaru buried him until he dies from malnutrition]]]].
* JerkAss: When he isn't killing something, he is arguably ''the'' biggest asshole in the series.
* KickTheDog: [[AdaptationExpansion He takes time during his fight with Team 10 to insult Asuma, who he had killed eariler]] [[MoodWhiplash then he calls Choji fat]].
* LargeHam: He really hams it up once he starts his ritual, even Shikamaru calls him out for this.
* LaughablyEvil: He is a psychopathic monster, but loves being evil so much, that he becomes enjoyable in his hamminess and crazy antics.
* TheLawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort: Thanks to his arrogance over being immortal.
* LeeroyJenkins: He's the most impulsive member of the organization.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkI_12WKnA Hidan]]"
* LickingTheBlade: It's necessary for his ritual.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Whenever he is injured, though he ''does'' feel the pain. Justified, as he's immortal.
* MrFanservice: sort of, given he's an almost WalkingShirtlessScene.
* ObligatorySwearing: In many fanlations, less so in Viz translations, to convey his very rude way of talking.
** PrecisionFStrike: The above-mentioned ObligatorySwearing becomes this in the English dub.
* PsychoForHire: The biggest example in the Akatsuki as he's literally there for acting psychotic and killing as many people as possible.
* PsychopathicManchild: Has a tendency to act like a teenager enjoying an adrenaline rush, complete with much smack talk and "woo-hoo"ing.
* ReligionOfEvil: Follows the religion of Jashin, which literally means "[[GodOfEvil evil god]]", and requires killing his opponents.
* ReligiousBruiser: See ReligionOfEvil above.
* SinisterScythe: WeaponOfChoice, more for drawing blood than fatally injuring opponents. Has three blades.
* SmugSnake: Not only is he a loudmouthed psychopath, but he's also an arrogant dick who thinks that he's invincible.
* {{Synchronization}}: Once he uses his BloodMagic.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Kakuzu [[spoiler: and apparently with Deidara during the Chikara filler arc. Ironically, the two argue no less than he and Kakuzu did, if not more so since they are more similar than they'd like to think.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: While they disagree and bicker a lot, Him and Kakuzu clearly have some mutual respect for each other.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Except when his ritual's active.
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[[folder:[[color:gray:Pain/[[spoiler:Nagato]]]]]]
-->"''[[DarkMessiah Those who do not understand true pain can never understand true peace]].''"

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->Deva Path: KenyuuHoriuchi (JP, Pain), DaveWittenberg (EN, original), TroyBaker (EN, current)
->[[spoiler:Nagato: Junpei Morita (JP), VicMignogna (EN)]]

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

[[spoiler:He quickly replaced the missing body with a new one, and arrived in Konoha in the hopes of capturing Naruto. After his bodies engage - and in some cases, are defeated by - Konoha's villagers, he rounds them all up and uses Shinra Tensei, an ability which nukes the city. He fights the newly-empowered Naruto in a long drawn out battle that bumped the {{HSQ}} up a few notches. Finally, Nagato is defeated and after accepting Naruto's ideals about peace, uses a jutsu to revive many of the Konoha ninja he killed, dying in the process. However, Kabuto resurrects him later with Edo Tensei and pairs him with a similarly resurrected Itachi, who helps him move around. They engage Naruto and Bee, where it is revealed that he can use all of the Six Paths' jutsu without the bodies, and nearly kills the pair until a liberated Itachi intervenes and seals him with Susano'o. He is eventually revealed to be a descendant of the Uzumaki clan, just like Naruto.]].
->His hobby was practising ninjutsu.
->Favorite phrase: "The stars are hidden on a rainy night". As a child, it was "Growing up".

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* AGodAmI: And he has the power to back it up.
* [[spoiler: AGodIAmNot: During his battle with Naruto however, he reveals that this attitude is simply a farce on his part. He actually does ''not'' think that he's a god. In fact, he repeatedly tells Naruto during their battle that he is only a man, and as such, he cannot find a perfect solution to the problem of the 'Cycle of Hatred' in the shinobi world.]]
* AffablyEvil: If you don´t stand between him and a Jinchuuriki, He won´t harm you. Even then he´s always polite and doesn´t kill unnecessarily [[spoiler:unless it can lure out Naruto]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Surprisingly inverted: Him wanting to change the world is viewed in a ''very'' positive light. ''How'' he wanted to change it is where he gets into trouble]].
* AntiVillain: VicMignogna's performance manages to drive this home even further than the original seiyuu.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The purpose of the Animal Path is to invoke this trope.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Pain's interrogation methods. He uses two main abilities to try to find Naruto, one of which can instantly read the mind of those it touches. On it's own, this is perfectly practical. His other, however, can kill anybody who either lies to him or refuses to answer his question. Meaning anybody who actually knows ends up dead... This does spare him the trouble of having to look up misinformation, though.
** His mind reading would be practical if it didn't rip out the person's soul, making it essential that the person had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his/her usefulness]].
* AwesomeMcCoolname: '''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast PAIN]]'''
* AwesomeYetPractical: Aside from the ones listed above, ''all'' of the Rinnegan's powers...
* {{Badass}}: The combination of the [[EvilEye Rinnegan's]] [[SuperpowerLottery powers]] with his [[DarkMessiah attitude]] and [[CurbStompBattle fighting ability]] make him one of, if not the, [[WorldsStrongestMan strongest shinobi of the current generation]].
** The three Sannin couldn't beat Hanzo. Pain completely destroyed him, has never lost a fight (and he´s presumed to be at least 30), easily defeated the ''entirety'' of Konoha and would´ve completely destroyed Naruto if it wasn't for the fact that Deva´s powers were down for a good 10 minutes after the Shinra Tensei and the vast amount of help Naruto had with him. He is easily the most badass character in the entire show. Oh, and he went up against a Six-tailed Naruto with 1 body left... and WON.
** When Kabuto revives him, he shows that he´s even more badass than we could possibly expect by [[CurbStompBattle curbstomping]] Naruto´s [[GoldenSuperMode Chakra Mode]], Killer Bee and ''[[BaseBreaker Itachi]]'' (after all, Itachi had been hit by the blindsiding [=OHKOing=] Shinra Tensei too and spent the time regenerating). He only gets sealed after all three of them destroy the Chibaku Tensei core. And even this arguably only happened due to his controller, Kabuto, being careless, and didn't even know of Nagato's sensing abilities which made up for when his Rinnegan got blinded..
** BadassBaritone: The voices of the 6 Paths of Pain, barring the female Animal Path, are all extremely deep.
* BerserkButton: He does not like people questioning his ideals as Tsunade learned the hard way.
* BigBad: Seemed to be this for a long time [[spoiler: [[RedHerring Turns out to the right hand man for Tobi]] the real leader from beind the scenes.]]
* BloodKnight: [[AllThereInTheManual Despite of his ideas of peace, he really wanted to fight Naruto in his Nine-Tailed form according to the databooks]], [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor unfortunately it was too much for him]].
** This does explain why he pissed off Naruto once to do so, and complimenting him as a fellow student.
** Not to mention that he briefly shows an uncharacteristic expression of awe ("The nine tailed fox' power... is amazing...") when he fought the six tails, like he was feeling the thrill of fighting a worthy opponent for the first time.
* BreakTheCutie: [[GameBreakingInjury His]] [[DespairEventHorizon entire]] [[AndYourLittleDogToo backstory]].
* [[spoiler:CastFromLifespan]]: [[spoiler:The Rinnegan's more powerful techniques]].
* ComboPlatterPowers: The [[MagicalEye Rinnegan]]'s powers are basically a mish-mash of various powers that are all {{Game Breaker}}s in their own right.
** AuraVision: He can see chakra in a manner similar to the Byakugan.
** ElementalPowers: He can use all five, but unlike Kakuzu it comes naturally.
** HiveMind: The Six Paths of Pain technique which controls six bodies that are in constant communication, [[spoiler:and it's justified in that they're being controlled and coordinated by one person]]. Each path is also granted a different power...
*** [[GravityMaster Deva Path]]: Which can attract and repel enemies as well as create a sphere that pulls enemies and the earth itself to it.
*** [[ShapeShifterWeapon Ashura Path]]: Which transforms the body into an AnatomyArsenal, including an ArmCannon, BewareMyStingerTail, MultiArmedAndDangerous, MultipleHeadCase, RocketBoots and RocketPunch.
*** [[MindReading Human]] [[YourSoulIsMine Path]]: Which can read the mind and soul as well as tear it from the body.
*** [[SummonMagic Animal]] [[TheBeastmaster Path]]: Which summons BondCreatures controlled by the Rinnengan including a [[DishingOutDirt Stone]] [[PandaingToTheAudience Panda]], [[EverythingsBetterWithCows a Giant Buffulo]], [[BigCreepyCrawlies a giant centepiede]], [[GiantEnemyCrab a giant]] [[MakingASplash bubble blowing crayfish]], a HellHound [[MesACrowd that can seperate its many heads into new bodies]], a [[GiantFlyer gigantic]] [[ThisIsADrill drill-beaked]] [[FeatheredFiend bird]] and [[InvisibleMonster Giant Chameleon]].
*** [[EnergyAbsorption Preta]] [[PowerNullifier Path]]: Which absorbs and seals chakra and ninjutsu.
*** [[TruthSerum Naraka]] [[HealingHands Path]]: Which summon an entity that tears the tounge from liars and regenerates the other paths.
*** [[{{Necromancer}} Outer Path]]: Which can ressurect the deceased as well as controls the [[SealedEvilInACan Statue of the Outer Path]].
* CosmicPlaything: His entire backstory is him being this, ironically prior his death; he had enough power to make the entire shinobi world into a literal plaything.
* [[spoiler: CrossDressingVoices: The Second Animal Path in both versions, justified since it enforced the fact that she was formerly female]]
* CurbStompBattle: Arguably, every battle Nagato/Pain has participated in to some extent.
** [[spoiler:vs. Jiraiya: Sure, he admitted that Jiraiya would've won if he had known about Nagato's secret, but the fight itself was nothing short of a dragged out execution.]]
** [[spoiler:vs. Konoha: Fighting an entire village and only temporarily losing one expendable Path puts the assault square into this category.]]
** [[spoiler:vs. Sage!Naruto: The first time ever that the Six Paths had faced a challenge, and that quickly disappeared after Deva Path's powers returned.]]
** [[spoiler:vs. 9Tail!Naruto, Killer Bee & Edo!Itachi: Not so much a CurbStompBattle as a massacre until Itachi unleashed Susanoo and used the one thing that had a chance of beating him in that situation]].
*** In most cases, and [[MultipleReferencePun especially the last example]], you can say that Nagato/Pain has only ever lost thanks to [[JapaneseMythology Divine]] [[DeusExMachina Intervention]]. And it only happened since Kabuto lacked knowledge of Nagato's extraordinary sensory powers, didn't even summon anything for Nagato to stand on or use Asura Path, and was generally completely careless throughout the fight.
* [[spoiler:CuteBruiser]]: [[spoiler:The second Animal Path]].
* CynicismCatalyst: He and Konan became villains after [[spoiler:the death of their best friend Yahiko]].
* [[spoiler:DarkMessiah]]
* DarthVaderClone: [[spoiler:Grevious injuries]]? Check, [[spoiler:if you count loss of leg use]]. EvilSoundsDeep? Check. TheDragon to the BigBad (who is ''another'' DarthVaderClone)? Check again. FreudianExcuse? Check check. It even with the extra mile, with Pain battling his former teacher, Jiraiya, and being responsible for [[spoiler:the man's death]]. What he has that the other DarthVaderClone lacks is [[spoiler:a HeelRealization shortly before death, an iconic Leitmotif, being related to TheHero, and being able to emotionally crush TheHero while he's on the ropes.]]
* [[spoiler:DefeatingTheUndefeatable]]: [[spoiler:Nagato, or more specifically the Six Paths, had never encountered someone who could fight him on even grounds until Naruto. To be fair though, he did admit that Jiraiya would have kicked his ass if he had known the workings of his techniques]].
** [[spoiler:Actually, [[HeroicSacrifice Villain Sacrifice]]. Before Naruto came Pain ''fought and defeated'' the entire Hidden Village. And [[NukeEm Nuked It]]. Naruto came with a SuperMode and the strongest warriors of the Frog village; and was ''defeated''. He fought with the Nine-Tails all out and was ''[[RuleofThree technically defeated]]''. Even the last Path needed all the juice Naruto had left to take. And when Nagato met with Naruto face-to-face he could use all the Paths' Powers, had Konan with him, and enough chakra left to revive the entire Village]].
*** [[spoiler:TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: And all it took was a little sympathy and Jiraiya's terrific Literature.]]
* DeusAngstMachina: [[spoiler:Pretty much Nagato's entire backstory.]]
* [[spoiler:DeusExMachina]]: [[spoiler:Pain pulls a case of RedemptionEqualsDeath and revives [[DeathIsCheap everyone]] that he'd killed in the last thirty chapters or so. Bonus points to him for considering himself [[{{Foreshadowing}} a god and sitting in a machine]]]].
* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss]]: [[spoiler:Deva Path to Nagato, Nagato to The Masked Man]].
* [[spoiler:TheDragon]]: [[spoiler:For quite a while, ''everyone'' thought this guy would be the BigBad, but he was actually working as a figurehead for Tobi]].
** [[spoiler:CoDragons: With Itachi for Kabuto, and when he was alive he was with Zetsu for Tobi]].
** [[spoiler:DragonInChief]]
** [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda]]
** [[spoiler:TheStarscream]]
* DramaPreservingHandicap: [[spoiler:Nagato, using the Six Paths of Pain, is a big {{Badass}} as he gave Naruto the fight of his life. Nagato, using his own single body despite his crippled legs, is an even [[UpToEleven more massive]] {{Badass}} as he managed to overwhelm Naruto (in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode), Killer B (in perfect jinchūriki form), and Itachi (who, this time, lacked the weakness of low chakra reserves and eye side-effects). Who knows what would have happened if this guy could use his legs?]]
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:The portion of the fandom that thinks Naruto should have killed him]].
* EvilCounterpart: Naruto's third one. [[spoiler:He's even a fellow descendant of the Uzumaki clan]].
* [[spoiler: EvilCripple: Nagato lost full use of his legs after saving Konan from Hanzo's fire attack.]]
* EvilEye: The most powerful ones in the setting. It gives him the powers in the SuperPowerLottery above although due to [[spoiler: [[EvilCripple his immobility]] he is forced to divide his abilities between six puppets.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilRedHead]]: [[spoiler:Yahiko, and all of Pain's bodies (even the ones that weren't in life) except the bald Asura path, have orange hair, while Nagato has dark red hair]].
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Has the Rinnegan, after all.
* FatBastard: Preta Path.
* FiveBadBand: A one-man version.
** BiggerBad: Outer Path/Nagato himself
** BigBad: Deva Path
** TheDragon: Animal Paths I & II
** EvilGenius: Naraka Path (used to be a priest, revives the others)
** TheBrute: Asura and Preta Paths
** DarkChick: Human Path.
* [[spoiler:FallenHero]]
* [[spoiler:FreakOut]]: [[spoiler:Nagato after Yahiko's death]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: While he is a descendant of the Sage of Six Paths and Uzumaki clan]], he was born to a normal family of non-shinobi people, as well as a StreetUrchin who stole food to survive. Who would've thought, he'd grow up to the "leader" of the Akatsuki, killing Hanzo who defeated the Sannin and [[spoiler: reduced the Leaf Village to a crater and create a mini moon]] in his acts a PhysicalGod.
* GeniusBruiser: He is described by Jiraiya as a prodigy from a young age, and he fights strategically in order to win fights
* {{Gonk}}: The Asura Path.
* [[spoiler:HandicappedBadass: Even after Kabuto summons him, he is unable to use his legs to do more than stand up, which leads to his sealing by Itachi.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroKiller]]: [[spoiler:Killed Jiraiya, Kakashi, and Shizune, and nearly killed Hinata and Choza. Then he brought them all back to life, except for Jiraiya]].
* [[spoiler:HeWhoFightsMonsters]]
* [[spoiler:HollywoodCyborg]]: [[spoiler:Asura Path.]]
* [[spoiler:[[IllGirl Ill Guy]]]]
* ImplacableMan: Pain ''modus operandi'' until he faced Naruto.
* [[spoiler:KickTheDog]]: [[spoiler:His nearly killing Hinata]].
* [[spoiler:KickTheSonOfABitch]]: [[spoiler:He's the one who killed Hanzo]].
* KnightOfCerebus: Played straight then subverted, He does not have any quirks to hinder him and is unfettered in his methods [[spoiler: He kills Jiraiya, destroys the Leaf Village, kills off characters like Kakkashi and Shizune, and finally nearly kills Hinata to bring Naruto to almost become the Nine Tails. However, after Naruto's words get to him, he revives the aforementioned except Jiraiya at the cost of his life]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M65Pcb04dLQ Courtesy]]", which perfectly captures everything about his character.
* LightningBruiser: The Deva Path. When you can [[spoiler:keep up with and beat up on both the Four-Tailed and Six-Tailed manifestations of the Nine-Tailed Fox while simultaneously taking whatever it can dish out]], you deserve the title.
** [[spoiler:Nagato himself shows just how broken the Rinnegan is after he gets brought back with Edo Tensei. He [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] Naruto's new SuperMode, Killer Bee, and ''Itachi'' at his peak physical condition '''simultaneously'''. The only reason he lost is Itachi had what is quite possibly the '''one''' ability that could beat him]].
*** [[spoiler: And even then the only reason said ability even connected was that Nagato was both controlled by an outside influence and seemed to be too busy [=WTFing=] at the fact that someone actually broke out of Chibaku Tensei to dodge it coupled with the fact that he couldn't use his legs properly either, and the fact that the one thing that would compensate, Nagato's sensing, wasn't even known by Kabuto.]]
* MadnessMantra: "''(Now) Do you understand pain?''"
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:Nagato to Deva Path]].
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheCurtain]]: [[spoiler:The Six Paths of Pain are insanely powerful, but they're just puppets. Nagato is extremely weak physically, extremely skinny, and has difficulties to walk unaided]].
* MightyGlacier: Nagato is able to use all abilities of the Pain Rikudo, making his main body one the strongest individuals in the ''Naruto universe''. But due to his almost immobile legs, he cannot dodge by his own, that is one of his greatest weaknesses he have. That's why he let the Pain Rikudo fight.
* [[spoiler:MultiArmedAndDangerous]]: [[spoiler:Asura Path]].
* [[spoiler:MustMakeAmends]]: [[spoiler:After being convinced by Naruto]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Well, duh!
* [[spoiler:NiceJobFixingItVillain]]: [[spoiler:Naruto was down for the count and demoralized... until Pain almost killed Hinata, which resulted in the Nine-Tails coming within a hair's breadth of being completely unsealed]].
* [[spoiler:NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished]]: [[spoiler:This is a man who's only desire in life was a world of peace and compassion, and he struggled to make life better for everyone. Fate's response was to destroy everything he held dear in the [[BreakTheCutie cruelest possible way]], thus causing his StartOfDarkness.]]
* [[OneManArmy Six Men Army]]: The Pain Rikudo, but Nagato himself is a OneManArmy.
* PeoplePuppets: Uses corpses as hosts/weapons.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:In general, Pain is a one... er, six-man army who can level villages on his own. In particular, his Shinra Tensei technique]].
** [[spoiler:It's been shown that he is perfectly capable of being a one-man army on his own, since he ''is'' the Six Paths, and can use the abilities ''better'' than through PeoplePuppets]].
* ThePhilosopher: Easily summed up as "HumansAreBastards" and "WarIsHell".
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "''Now, the world shall know pain... [[FantasticNuke SHINRA TENSEI]]''"
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath: Chapter 449]].
* ShirtlessScene
* ShrinkingViolet: As a child.
* [[spoiler:SquishyWizard]]: [[spoiler:For all the power the Rinnegan gives him, with his horribly mangled legs he's not going anywhere unaided]].
* [[spoiler:StartOfDarkness]]: [[spoiler:See NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished]].
* StoryBreakerPower: There's a reason fans accuse him of being a GodModeSue: His Rinnegan gives him ridiculous amounts of chakra that rivals the Nine-Tails, a virtually unlimited number of summons, and the ability to use all five elements (in addition to another two), [[spoiler:level entire cities, create miniature moons, read minds, rip souls from peoples' bodies, and ''revive the dead'' all while being in a '''wheelchair''']].
* SuperpowerLottery: Of all the superpower lotteries in ''Naruto'', Pain hit the absolute jackpot. In chapter 602 of the manga, [[spoiler:it's revealed that he was actually given his eyes by the BigBad Madara Uchiha. He still hit the jackpot, but more by virtue of being one of the few related to the Senju bloodline that he didn't hate with a passion.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Went from a sniveling brat to a godly badass over the course of his {{backstory}}.
* [[spoiler:TooPowerfulToLive]]
* TragicKeepsake: Yahiko's body.
* [[spoiler:TragicVillain]]: [[spoiler: He lost his parents, his best friend kills himself on his own kunai to save Konan and his dog, Chibi was killed by explosions, no wonder he turned into a peace obsessed near-deity with a serious god complex]]
* {{Ubermensch}}
* TheUnfettered: A villainous example.
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: Subverted. He's revived by Kabuto using Edo Tensei, allowing him to have a proper battle against Naruto.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:Until the world stomped on him and his dreams until there was nothing left. After making peace with Naruto, his good nature returns and he is ActuallyPrettyFunny.]]
* [[spoiler:UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans]]
* [[spoiler:VisionaryVillain]]
* WalkingSpoiler: The sole fact that Nagato [[spoiler:is alive]] is a huge spoiler.
** Simply showing the 6 paths of Pain is a spoiler, given Jiraiya fights and defeats only 3 bodies.
* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist]]: [[spoiler: His goal is essentially gaining world peace by using the threat of essentially nuclear warfare in order to frighten people enough to fight wars anymore]]
* WorldsStrongestMan: [[spoiler: The strongest member of Akatsuki, even acknowledged by Tobi as being invincible. His defeat by Naruto, Itachi, and Killer Bee drove Kabuto to [[GodzillaThreshold resurrect the original Madara Uchiha]].]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Notably, [[spoiler: almost killing Hinata]] and attempting to kill Tsunade when she didn't agree with his opinion
* WouldHurtAChild: The Hell Path had no reservations about using his jutsu in order to kill Konohamaru
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[[folder:[[color:darkgray:Konan]]]]
-->"''[[NothingPersonal I have received the will of God and I must kill you]].''"

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->Voiced by: AtsukoTanaka (JP), DorothyEliasFahn (EN)

[[TheSmurfettePrinciple The only female in Akatsuki]], and the last to be revealed. Konan [[PaperMaster uses origami-based powers]]. As a child she was orphaned by the Land of Rain's civil war and trained by Jiraiya. She was [[spoiler: one of the founding members of Akatsuki, along with Nagato (Pain) and Yahiko, and both [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Nagato]] and [[KilledOffForReal Yahiko]] had feelings for her. After Yahiko was killed she became Pain's [[TheDragon lieutenant]], calling herself "[[AGodIAm God's]] Angel". She helped Pain [[spoiler: kill Jiraiya]] when her old mentor came searching for intel on Akatsuki's leader, and accompanied him during his invasion of Konoha. [[spoiler: After Pain's death, she sided with Naruto and quit the Akatsuki. She tried to prevent Nagato's corpse from ending up in Tobi's hands, but died in the process]].
->Her hobbies were origami and flower pressing.
->Favorite word: "Order"

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* AntiVillain
* [[spoiler:AwesomenessByAnalysis]]: [[spoiler:She's the first person to figure out Tobi's MadeOfAir powers]].
* [[spoiler:{{Badass}}: Eventually shown to be one of, if not ''the,'' strongest female character in the 'Verse, given that she very nearly kills an enemy that took the 4th Hokage a lot of effort to even land one hit on.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Yahiko's death]] destroyed her emotionally.
* [[spoiler:BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu]]
* BuxomIsBetter: Kishimoto's concept art shows that Konan sports an E-cup ''at least''.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Yahiko if Chapter 511 is any indicator.
* CloserToEarth: By far the most level-headed and, well, sensible of the whole bunch.
* [[spoiler:CrazyPrepared: Disguised ''600 BILLION'' paper bombs as the Hidden Rain Village's lake]]
* CreepyMonotone: Except when she's yelling at [[spoiler:Nagato]] for being too reckless.
* CynicismCatalyst: She and Nagato became villains after [[spoiler:the death of their best friend Yahiko]].
* DarkActionGirl: Although her powers are not over all as strong as some, she still has some ''very'' deadly tricks up her sleeves.
* DarkChick
* DarkMistress
* {{Determinator}}: In her [[spoiler:last]] fight against [[spoiler:Tobi]].
* DesignatedGirlFight: Thankfully averted, despite everyone's expectations. Instead, [[spoiler: she got to face off with the ManipulativeBastard who hijacked their organization and led both her TrueCompanions to their doom, fighting for her ideals. ]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Konan's more or less dead inside, except when it comes to Nagato.
* FanNickname: "Blue".
* GrayEyes: In the manga.
* HairDecoration: A flower made of paper.
** FlowerInHerHair: Subverted in that she's anything ''but'' childish.
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: [[spoiler:Subverted when examined closely enough. Konan was only ''allied'' with Akatsuki, which is very different from being ''on their side''. She was only ever on Nagato's side and nobody else's. His RedemptionEqualsDeath ''is'' a HeelFaceTurn, but as far as Konan is concerned she never switched sides, since her "side" was Pain. Since Pain chose to throw his support to Naruto, she's supporting Naruto now]].
* HeroicSacrifice: God knows she tries. Her first attack against Tobi was an attempted suicide attack. He ended up saving her too. A "thank you" is in order.
* LadyOfWar: Konan finally has the chance to show [[spoiler:Tobi]] just how much ass she can kick.
* LetsGetDangerous: Granted, being in Akatsuki should have been the first clue. But not even [[spoiler:Tobi]] realized how tough she could be when she wanted to. [[spoiler:He still beat her, but he had to '''[[RealityWarper warp reality]]''' to SURVIVE]].
* OnlySaneMan: Along with Kisame, she is generally the only member who consistently acts in a rational manner.
* PaperMaster
** ElementalShapeshifter: Can turn herself into paper.
** PaperTalisman: All ninja use paper bombs but she gets a special mention for [[spoiler: her Sacred Paper Emissary]].
** PowerGivesYouWings: One of her powers is to create paper Angel's Wings.
*** FeatherFlechettes
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Thanks to [[spoiler:''billions'' of explosive tags]].
* PrimAndProperBun
* PunnyName: One of her techniques, ''kami no shisha no jutsu'' is a pun off of her "Angel" epithet. Phonetically, it could be reads as the "messenger of God technique," but the kanji instead reads "paper-person of God technique."
* SatelliteCharacter: Take away [[spoiler:Yahiko and Nagato]]'s influence on her and what do you have left? A near-emotionless woman with paper powers who likes to do origami.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: WordOfGod says this was the original intention.
* {{Stripperific}}: Kishimoto's concept art shows that beneath her cloak, she wears a scanty robe that exposes her stomach, part of her breasts and back.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: [[IceQueen Acts and looks very cold]], but genuinely cares for [[spoiler:Nagato]].
* [[spoiler:SurvivorGuilt]]
* TokenGoodTeammate
* UndyingLoyalty: To Nagato.
* UnholyMatrimony: Chapter 511 [[ShipTease heavily implies]] that she and Yahiko were ''at least'' aware that they were attracted to each other.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: She was a very sweet little girl... [[BreakTheCutie then shit happened]].
* WeaksauceWeakness: Her powers are nullified by oil.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Her paper abilities.
** [[spoiler:HeartIsAnAwesomePower:]] Her CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[spoiler:despite it being a failure]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Known as "Blue" prior to actually being given a name. More like light purple in the anime.
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[[folder:Yahiko]]
-->"''If war is going to continue - [[AGodAmI I will become the God of the world]]!''"

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->Voiced By: WataruHatano (JP, child); KenyuuHoriuchi (JP) TroyBaker (EN)

The founder and original leader of Akatsuki, [[spoiler:until he sacrificed himself to save Konan from Hanzo. He beleved Nagato was the ChosenOne, and so sacrificed himself to spare him from making a SadisticChoice. His body was later used by Nagato to make the Deva Path, the most powerful of the Six Paths of Pain]].

Born into the war torn land of Ame, Yahiko was orphaned like so many others. Forced to fend for himself, he soon met Konan and Nagato. They were forced to work together to survive, but became close friends under Jiraya's tutelage.
->His hobby was fishing.

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* AGodAmI: For a little while, [[spoiler:but he grew out of it]].
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Konan if Chapter 511 is any indicator.
* DeadAllAlong: After seeing Konan and The Six Paths of Pain, Jiraiya briefly believed that the rumors of their deaths weren't true. It turns out that it was only true of Yahiko. His body was used as the Deva Path by Nagato.
* {{Expy}}: {{Zigzagged}} of Mario, the main character of Kishimoto's one-shot of the same name. See Kishimoto actually wrote Mario back in 1998 before shelving it for 15 years at the advice of his editor, rewriting it for release in 2013. In the interim, Mario's design and basic motives were reused for Yahiko.
* FieryRedhead
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]: [[spoiler:For Konan.]]
* [[spoiler:HorribleJudgeOfCharacter]]: [[spoiler:Hanzo promised to free Konan in exchange for his sacrifice. Needless to say, that was a lie.]]
** That said, he saw through [[spoiler:[[DeadPersonImpersonation Tobi's]]]] lies pretty fast.
* IdiotHair
* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He killed himself by running into Nagato's kunai knife.]]
* LeaderWannabe: Wanted to be leader of Amekagure so that he could reform it.
* MakingASplash
* MessianicArchetype: He's like a mature Naruto.
* PeoplePuppets: His body along with the others were used as the Six Paths of Pain by Nagato.
* PosthumousCharacter: Everything we know of him comes from flashbacks.
* PowerTrio: With Konan and Nagato.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The manga suggested that he was the villain Pain, but Pain was then revealed to be his friend Nagato.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: With Konan, according to chapter 511.
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