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[[caption-width:222:A new generation, a new destiny. (From right to left: Naruto, Kakashi, and Sakura)]]

In a world rife with {{Ninja}}, one boy seeks to become the greatest ninja there ever was. That boy is Naruto Uzumaki, a twelve-year old ninja-in-training who tries makes up for his lack of talent and intellect with enthusiasm and sheer determination.

However, Naruto's cheerful disposition hides a dark secret: when he was but a baby, his hometown of Konohagakure ("The Village Hidden In the Leaves") was attacked by a monstrous demon fox known as the Kyuubi ("Nine Tails"). The beast was eventually subdued, but not before it had killed many of the strongest ninja of the village. Furthermore, the beast had to be contained in the infant Naruto's body, and the boy has had to grow up with the stigma of basically being a living prison for a demonic monster.

But like any good {{Shonen}} protagonist, Naruto doesn't let this slow him down. He continues to pursue his ambition of becoming the next Hokage ("Flame Shadow", a title for the head ninja of his village). The manga ''{{Naruto}}'' follows the story of his pursuit of greatness, with the help of his teammates (Angst-ridden {{antihero}} Sasuke and hot-headed love-interest Sakura), and eventually moves to encompass their struggles against BigBad Orochimaru, the ruthless leader of the rival village of Otogakure ("Village Hidden in the Sound"), and eventually, the struggle within each other.

On February 8, 2007, the original series ended after 220 episodes, of which 96 were filler and 85 of those were infamously consecutive. The continuation, ''Naruto: Shippuden'', debuted on February 15, 2007. It focuses on the further adventures of the now-15-year-old Naruto.

The English dub ran on Toonami in the US. When the news first spread that ''Naruto'' was hitting the States, [[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] seemed eager to jump on the license, but they lost interest. Fans were relieved, to say the least (see ''OnePiece''). Viz scooped up the license and dubbed it for the US audiences. At first, it seemed like it would be marketed as a kiddie show with blood - NeverSayDie was in full effect - but the Wave Country arc onwards saw free usage of the words "kill", "die", etc.

Also notable is that as of January 2009, an official English subtitled version of the anime will be available for a subscription fee as little as ''an hour'' after the Japanese broadcast on and available subtitled ''for free'' on [[http://naruto.viz.com/ this site]] which started with the beginning of ''Shippuden'' and has since caught up. For American users, the television site [[http://www.hulu.com Hulu]] features the episodes for free a week after they're aired, catching up at the same rate. Which is good, considering CartoonNetwork stopped airing the show when there was only 11 episodes of filler left (though luckily episodes in either language are still available on [=iTunes=] and coming out on DVD). If, like many of us, you don't live in the US you can also watch Naruto for free within an hour of it being broadcast in Japan at [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Naruto_Shippuden Crunchyroll]].

Dubbed episodes of ''Shippuden'' [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-09-10/disney-xd-to-add-naruto-shippuden-in-u.s are now airing]] on DisneyXD as of October 28, 2009. The broadcast dub is about as edited CartoonNetwork version. The uncut episodes of the first 13 dubbed are available on [=iTunes=].

For a look at the (many) characters, take a look at the [[{{Characters/Naruto}} character sheet]]. In a similar vein to YugiohTheAbridgedSeries, FanFic/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries is quite hilarious.

'''Note: When writing new instances of tropes in fan translations, be careful of using [=SleepyFans=] translations, as they have made significant errors in the past. [[http://www.mangatoshokan.com/series/naruto Manga Toshokan]] provides multiple translations to compare.'''

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'''This series provides examples of:'''
*{{Acrofatic}}: Choji
*AdaptationDistillation: Unlike many of the earlier filler arcs, the recent anime episodes 119 and 120 depicting Kakashi Gaiden were virtually flawless. True to the source material, it really helps drive home how Kakashi became who he is.
*AdaptationExpansion: The anime often expands on subplots, like Shikamaru's reaction to [[spoiler: Asuma's death.]] It also adds scenes to most of the fights and sometimes adds entire fights (Sasuke vs. Temari).
*TheAbridgedSeries: NarutoTheAbridgedSeries.
*AGodAmI: Pain.
*AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Konoha villagers. [[spoiler: Inverted, or perhaps reinforced, in one of the most recent chapters: through flashbacks from a minor character who'd previously adhered to this trope in a big way, it turns out the Konoha villagers have actually been paying attention to Naruto's development from BrattyHalfPint to Heroic {{Determinator}}.]]
*AllLoveIsUnrequited: The case with several of the main characters. [[AndZoidberg And Hinata.]]
*AllThereInTheManual: The databooks hold a lot of information never revealed in the anime or manga, like the backstories of Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu and how the former's immortality technique works. Also a recent art book gave names and pictures to the tailed beasts and their hosts who were killed offscreen and only appeared on the splash page for chapter 420.
*AllYourColorsCombined: Rainbow Chakra. Granted, it only appears in TheMovie, but it's too good an example to pass up.
*AloofBigBrother: Itachi
*AmericansHateTingle: The American fanbase is ''[[UnderStatement quite]]'' [[BaseBreaker divided]] on Sasuke, while he is more consistently popular in Japan.
*AnchoredShip: Naruto doesn't believe he can tell Sakura about how he feels as long as he hasn't fulfilled his promise to bring back Sasuke. [[spoiler:And then Sai tells Sakura for him, inducing a massive HeroicBSOD. Sakura is so ridden with guilt over what Naruto's gone through because of her that she rushes straight to Naruto to all but perform an unanchoring ceremony, which doesn't end well.]].
**More like it doesn't have the desired result. [[spoiler:Sakura failed to get Naruto to abandon Sasuke, but Naruto's not doing it for his promise, see CycleOfRevenge.]]
*AngstWhatAngst: Naruto, who gave up angsting a long time ago. Still, finding out you have what is basically the physical analogue of the devil inside you seems kind of...big to get over in just a few minutes.
*AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Sakura to Sasuke in Part 1. He merely responds that she's annoying, but thanks her before knocking her out to prevent her from trying to stop him from leaving or going with him.
** [[spoiler:Hinata to Naruto during the Pain arc, nearly getting herself killed in the process and setting off a HeroicBSOD and the mother of all {{UnstoppableRage}}s. Oh, and seriously, seriously tormenting the shippers.]]
** Rin to Kakashi near the end of Kakashi Gaiden too. He responds that he doesn't deserve her for abandoning her, but he will protect her as Obito, who secretly loved her, would.
** [[spoiler:Sai gives one of these on Naruto's behalf, to Sakura.]]
*** [[spoiler:And then Sakura gives it to Naruto herself. Except Naruto rejects it because she's being not at all honest (and he's not alone). Even telling her that he hates people who lie to themselves.]] Sakura then [[spoiler: further embarasses herself, claiming that Naruto doesn't know her feelings and gives a long string of reasons why she did what she did. Naruto doesn't buy it, and tells her that she's just making excuses. Sakura then leaves angrily.]]
*AnimalMotifs: All the Hosts of the Tailed Beasts have them. Plus Choji has butterflies, Kiba has dogs, and Neji has birds.
*AnimationBump : Some of the fights, notably Sasuke vs. Orochimaru, Naruto vs. Sasuke and some parts of Team 10 vs. Hidan and Kakuzu.
*AnimatedActors: Some of the {{Omake}} segments have the characters as these.
*ArmorPiercingQuestion: Gaara asks one to the council of Kages.
*ArrogantKungFuGuy: Everyone, but even then there are a few exceptional cases. Neji is one to the point of almost being the TropeNamer. In general Konoha's noble clans (Hyuuga and Uchiha) are Ninjier than thou.
*ArtShift: In the anime, Juugo's initial flashback is drawn in a more abstract, undefined style. Also, the 4 tails Kyuubi may count as it is drawn almost indentically as it was in the Manga, resulting in something which was probably very intentionally surreal.
*AscendedExtra: The rest of the Konoha 11 outside of Naruto, Sakura and Shikamaru in the anime, who often receive central roles in filler arcs.
*[[spoiler:AssimilationPlot: Madara's master plan: using the moon as a conduit to cast a happy-happy-unity ''genjutsu'' on the whole world]].
*AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Kages.
*AssShove: The "1,000 Years of Pain" technique.
*AxCrazy: Hidan, Gaara before his HeelFaceTurn.
*BadassBookworm: Shikamaru
*BadassNormal: Rock Lee
*BadassTeacher: Iruka, being more of a schoolteacher type, defines this trope.
*TheBadGuyWins: The end of Part 1.
*BalloonBelly: Worked into Choji's fighting style.
*BaseBreaker: Sasuke, as well as Uchihas in general.
*BattleButler: Zabuza's apprentice, Haku.
*BeatStillMyHeart: In a {{Filler}} episode, a ninja impersonating Kabuto links [[spoiler:her]] heart to Naruto's and then pulls it out still beating.
*BeastMan: Kiba
*BerserkButton: A very common feature in this series.
** Given the right circumstances, Naruto ''does not take deaths well''. He [[SuperPoweredEvilSide goes ballistic]] when Haku apparently kills Sasuke, but that's nothing compared to his reaction when [[spoiler:Pain apparently kills the first ever person to tell him "I love you"]]. Insinuating that Sasuke is beyond redemption also does not sit well with him; just ask Orochimaru.
** Also calling Chouji "fat", taking his last potato chip, or mocking Shikamaru in front of him. As shown by his fight with Jirobo, he considers the third of those to be by far the worst.
** Never call Tsunade an old hag.
** Recently we've learned that it's a bad idea to mention marriage, engagements or needing a man to the current Mizukage. It's also inadvisable to use any words [[TwistingTheWords that might possibly be confused with the words "marriage" or "engagement"]]. Which is a lot more than you might think.
** Question Pain's ideals and [[spoiler: he'll nuke your city]]. While keeping a completely straight face.
*BigBad: Currently [[spoiler:Madara Uchiha]], but the series seems to drift through them and often it seems that villains just end up on top of the villain pile by coincidence rather than design. The series' first and only proper, archetypal BigBad was probably Orochimaru.
*BigEater: Naruto can eat several bowls of ramen for dinner without gaining weight, and Anko often eats dozens of sticks of dumplings for lunch- and several days' worth of calories. Chouji and his whole clan are like this, as they use the extra body mass for their fighting style.
*BigFancyHouse: The Uchiha extended-family compound stands out particularly for its size and the Hyuugas is the most frequently seen, but most of the established ninja clans have pretty impressive spreads.
*{{BFS}}: All of the "Seven Swordsmen of the Mist" seem to have their own BFS. [[FillerVillain Except Raiga.]]
*BigOlEyebrows: Rock Lee and Might Guy, to the point of almost being alive. Also Inari's dog Pochi and master Sab-chan.
*{{Bishonen}}: Kakashi, if Ayame's reaction is to be believed. [[TheUnreveal We don't get to see it, though.]]
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The Land of Iron is located around the "Three Wolves"; three "mountains" [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/c/c2/LandofIron.jpg which are shaped like canine mouths]]. How the hell does ''that'' happen?
*BloodMagic: Summoning
*BloodUpgrade: Gaara (It's my BLOOOD!)
*BoobsOfSteel: Tsunade, of course.
*{{Bowdlerise}}: Jetix UK, RTL 2, and maybe where it's airing in Australia. In short, any Anglophone country that airs this except for America is/has going to make/made a mess of it.
** On the upside, Manga is doing good stuff by providing the uncut version for a paltry £20 for 13 episodes.
** The manga's English release that censored... drinking (accidentally) and smoking. In two pivotal scenes. OTL
*** Konohamaru's Girl on Girl and Boy on Boy jutsus are turned into silhouettes, but [[DoubleStandard at least the latter's still there]].
** Sasuke pulling out his sword on Naruto was cut out on the DisneyXD broadcast of the first ''Shippuden'' episode, and the first few episodes [[NeverSayDie didn't say "die" or "kill"]].
*** True, but it could be worse. It could be like the German dub.
* BoringImmortalHero: Sasuke Retrieval Arc, where all five bad guys (not counting Sasuke) died, but all five good guys survived (including two that [[DisneyDeath really looked like they were dying]])
*BrilliantButLazy: Shikamaru
*BrokenPedestal: Aside from Sasuke's first childhood view of his brother being destroyed in his background story, Part 2 has revealed that [[spoiler:after Madara's attack, the Second Hokage placed the Uchiha in the military police to keep them away from a political position and to have ANBU keep watch over them. This policy was maintained until the Uchiha clan was on the verge of rebellion against Konoha, which might have led to a fourth ninja war. This is followed with the revelation that most of Konoha's leaders, sans Hokage, ordered Itachi to kill his family. Granted the BigBad delivered this, so the info is dubious, so this may just be an InvokedTrope, but it does cast a rather uncaring light on two of the Hokages.]]
*BrotherChuck: Characters may disappear for several years before showing up again(Anko, the Sand Village), but they rarely fade away completely. Iruka, for example, showed up literally hundreds of chapters since we last saw him, to comfort Naruto after [[spoiler: Jiraya's death]].
*BruceLeeClone: Again, Rock Lee and Might Guy.
*ButtMonkey: Naruto and Sakura before the start of the series. In early chapters Naruto still had shades of this, but generally this has faded.
*CainAndAbel: Sasuke and Itachi.
*CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler: Naruto does this when he meets his father in his mindscape.]]
*CantCatchUp: A particularly galling instance in the Pain arc, where apparently '''the entire village of Konoha''' can't keep up with Naruto.
*CatFight: The Chunin Exams suspiciously pair most of the girls against each other.
*Character Entry: {{Characters/Naruto}}
*ChekhovsBoomerang: Jiraiya's first book features a story with a character named Naruto who has a tough battle against a rouge ninja; at first Naruto thinks the story is dedicated to him, [[spoiler: But it turns out it was actually dedicated to Nagato a.k.a Pain, Jiraya's first pupil. When Naruto mentions this to him when declaring his answer, it is enough to make Pain realize that people may understand each other after all.]]
*ChekhovsGun: Kakashi's copy of the unreleased Icha Icha Tactics becomes important later on when [[spoiler: Jiraiya uses it as the key to his coded last words.]] Also [[spoiler: Shisui Uchiha]] - introduced as a skilled member of the clan to build Itachi up and now it's been revealed that not only does [[spoiler:Danzo have Shisui's right eye and arm, but Shisui's powers let him control people's minds]].
** Whatever Itachi did to Naruto involving the crow before he fought Sasuke. You know it's going to show up at some major point.
** The latest ones to become important: the Uchiha shrine and [[spoiler: the moon itself, though we only learned about it recently anyways. Turns out the origin of the Tailed Beasts is down in the shrine, which is tied to the origins of the moon, and can only be completely read by the Rinnegan.]]
*ChekhovsLecture: Kakashi's pre time skip lecture to Sasuke about revenge. Guess what becomes one of the major themes of the entire manga (and not just Sasuke)?
* ChildSoldiers: The main cast of teenagers (including Konohamaru and his friends) became ninja at twelve. Kakashi became one at ''six''.
*ChristmasCake: The Fifth Mizukage is rather... sensitive about her love life.
*CityWithNoName: The city in the Land of Fire where the movie studio is in the first movie, although the theater owner gives the only indication that it's not just [[GeographicFlexibility part of Konoha we haven't seen before or since]].
*TheClan: The Hyuuga and Uchiha clans
*ClingyJealousGirl: Sakura and Ino before the TimeSkip, directed towards Sasuke. Later, in Part II we have Karin being clingy over Sasuke.;
*CompletelyMissingThePoint: We all know how Naruto's perseverance makes him oh so charismatic, causing one HeelFaceTurn after another... then [[spoiler:Kabuto]] does this after [[spoiler:Orochimaru is killed: he decides he needs to give himself some sort of identity crisis to overcome and better define himself. So he [[BodyHorror fuses the remains of Orochimaru's body with his own]], figuring that if he can overcome it he'll become and even greater being!]]
*CompleteMonster: Hidan.
*CondemnedContestant: The winner of the kill-all in Orochimaru's jail would get the ''honor'' becoming Orochimaru's body.
*ConservationOfNinjutsu: Everyone takes it to a whole other level
*ConvectionSchmonvection: In theory, Fire-element jutsu are among the most powerful attacks in the world. In practice, they are ''useless'', as even a fireball so hot it makes the bedrock glow red will simply ''not burn'' a human being for no discernable reason. The worst offender is probably the jutsu 'Amaterasu', which produces a flame which is supposedly as hot as the sun... and therefore seems as though it should kill everyone within a ten mile radius. And yet, this stupendously hot fire only seems to be dangerous if you touch it, and despite [[InformedAbility its presented heat]] it can be extinguished with no ill effects.
**[[spoiler: Finally subverted with the younger Nagato being permanently injured by [[StuffBlowingUp a crapload of explosives]] placed by Hanzou.]]
** [[spoiler: Now subverted with actual katon jutsus. Amaterasu burns the Raikage's arm even through his forcefield/aura thingy so badly that he has to remove it.]]
*** [[spoiler: Granted, Amaterasu ''should'' probably kill everyone in the room, including the ninja using it, every time it's cast. But it is nice to finally see it ''burn something''.]]
*ContemplateOurNavels: Orochimaru sometimes slips into this when describing why he's seeking immortality.
*CoolShades: Shino and Killer Bee wear these.
*CrackingUp: Naruto, over and over. More than any mortal knuckle could really take.
*CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Kakashi reads ''Makeout Paradise'' while fighting his prospective squad and is perpetually late. He also acts very calm and somewhat scatterbrained, but he turns out to be one of the most powerful ninja in the world. Also, the host of the Eight-Tailed Bull seems to fit the bill, rapping and writing his lyrics while fighting Sasuke and the rest of Hawk.
**Lee and Guy also qualify.
***'''Naruto.'''
***Tobi is a good boy!
*CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[CrowningMoment/{{Naruto}} See here]].
*CrowningMomentofFunny: The three Cloud-nin bickering in the forest in 450. One throws a rock at another. "Hey, what if that rock had hit a boulder, and that boulder hit another boulder, and that landslide buried Konoha?" "You're overthinking things!" All three emerge find [[spoiler:Konoha in ruins]]. "I didn't mean it!" [[WhatTheHellHero "Karui, what have you done..."]]
**Raikage's reaction on learning his brother is alive [[spoiler:and on "vacation"]].
*CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: When Gaara apologizes to his siblings after Naruto defeated him. Things will turn out OK for him after all.
** "You will be a fine Hokage." Tsunade to Naruto.
**And again after the arc to rescue Gaara. Things really do turn out okay. He even has fangirls!
**Chapter 437: I'm not afraid [[spoiler:to die protecting you... because I love you.]]
**Chapter 440. [[spoiler: We knew that Naruto would eventually find out who his father was, but Naruto's expression when they finally meet is what makes it heartwarming. He doesn't freak out like he is prone to do. He just smiles.]]
***[[spoiler:and then punches him in the gut.]]
** [[spoiler: Kakashi telling his father that he thinks he did the right thing in putting his teammates first, which enables him to move on to his final rest]].
** Chapter 450: A full two-page pan shot of [[spoiler: the entire village cheering Naruto after he returns from defeating Pain, especially when contrasted with flashbacks from the very early issues with Naruto sitting alone and apart from others. Later on, Sakura makes her way from the crowd and gives Naruto a thwack on the head because of his recklessness, but gives him a hug like you've never seen her do before.]]
* CycleOfRevenge: Naruto's been made aware of this concept in the Pain arc, and is now trying to prevent one involving Sasuke being formed, thinking that it could turn into war. Part 2 has also revealed that a lot of the grief Naruto and Sasuke went through was because one of these existed between [[spoiler:the Uchiha and Senju clans, the latter succeeded by the governing body of Konoha]]. [[spoiler:One of Madara's goals is to have Naruto and Sasuke fight to end this cycle and prove Uchiha superiority, with Naruto symbolically representing the Senju clan.]]
** Also motivates characters' decisions with regards to Sasuke; Naruto asks the Raikage not to take vengeance on Sasuke to avert this, [[spoiler:while Shikamaru believes Konoha should kill Sasuke to prevent the Cloud village from having to]].
*DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Several jutsus are classified as forbidden, either for great risk to the user or being inherently evil.
*DarkActionGirl: Tayuya
*DarkestHour: Chapter 437
*DeadpanSnarker: Kakashi, Shikamaru, Sai
*DeathGlare: Captain Yamato, Itachi, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Gaara.
*DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler:Despite earlier indications to the contrary, the Pain invasion arc ended up this way as well.]]
*DefeatMeansFriendship: Successful attempts include Neji, Gaara, Sai, and possibly Haku and Zabuza. Failed attempts include Sasuke. Tsunade's a partial subversion, as while she defeated Naruto easily during their two matches, his resolve changed her outlook on life, and he won the bet by mastering the Rasengan.
** Don't forget Kiba, who constantly mocked Naruto during their match and openly cheered for him in the finals after Naruto kicked his (Kiba's) ass.
** Recently, [[spoiler:Nagato/Pain and Konan, of all people]].
*{{Determinator}}: Naruto exemplifies this trope, Rock Lee perfects it.
** Hinata makes an excellent showing as well when she fights Neji.
*DeusExMachina: Chapter 449: [[spoiler:Pain pulls a case of RedemptionEqualsDeath and revives ''[[DeathIsCheap everyone]]'' that he'd killed in the last thirty chapters or so]].
*DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Naruto defeating the Shukaku may qualify, as well as Minato [[spoiler: and earlier Hashirama(the First Hokage)]] defeating the Kyuubi.
** Then there is The Sage Of Six Paths who [[spoiler: single handedly defeated the Juubi, sealed it into himself, and then when he was dying and it would have broken free, he created a moon to hold its body, while he split its chakra into the other Bjuu.]]
* DieForOurShip: [[SeriousBusiness Oh]] [[InternetBackdraft God]], [[{{Shipping}} the shipping]] [[FanDumb fandom.]]
*DirtyOldMan: Jiraiya, and the Third Hokage. Naruto, on the other hand, is a part time Dirty ''Young'' Man.
**More like him using their [[AttackItsWeakPoint weak points]].
**He has a fair bit of perversion on his own, like when he considers peeping on Sakura in Part II and only stops when Yamato suggests that she might attack him with her enhanced strength if she found out.
***Leading to a nightmare involving most of the non-filler female cast (including one of Gaara's Fangirls).
*** link to that scene please
***[[http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/9831/fillesdenarutogrand.jpg Here you are]]. There's even ''Moegi''...
* DiscardAndDraw
* DisneyDeath: Sasuke, Neji, Choji and Gaara(although in the latter case, Chiyo [[HeroicSacrifice dies]] [[KilledOffForReal for real]] to bring him back).
* DistractedByTheSexy (Naruto's Sexy Technique, as well as Konohamaru's. Ebisu and Jiraiya's reactions fall under this trope.)
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: [[FantasticNuke Pain's plan involves the creation of a weapon that causes instant destruction to a large area, its use the first time will end the wars and people will be afraid to use it again, until time passes and people forget about it and use it again, only this time everybody will have access to it, and the resulting mass pain, death and destruction will bring peace to the world.]]]]
**Heroes..?
* DoomedHometown: [[spoiler: Konoha in the Pain arc, though it is quickly rebuilt.]]
* DoubleStandard: Remember the scene where Konahomaru transformed into Sai and Sasuke in a decidedly Yaoi situation? You know, after Naruto did the same thing except with women? Yeah, that's in the MANGA ONLY.
** To [[DieForOurShip some]] [[FanDumb parts]] of the fandom, Naruto constantly asking Sakura out on dates and getting rejected is an example of enduring, selfless love, while Sakura and Ino's pursuit of Sasuke's affection (and to a lesser degree, Hinata's attempts to prove herself to Naruto) are {{Fangirl}}ing.
*** This Troper has a hard time seeing how even the above mentioned can put Hinata into this category of fangirling, but can actually see it happening with Sakura and Ino and Karin...
*** This troper has seen moments where people call Sakura's fangirling over Sasuke in Part I as such, but Karin's actions in Part II as true love.
*DracoInLeatherPants: Sasuke Uchiha, and to some extent, Orochimaru. In the case of Sasuke, virtually every girl in the series has a crush on him, probably some pre-emptive TruthInTelevision.
**Itachi Uchiha since day one. [[spoiler:Even before TheReveal]].
**Most of the Akatsuki.
*DramaticWind: Almost always accompanied by leaves, referencing the village the main characters are from.
*DroppedABridgeOnHim: Orochimaru's had this done to him [[spoiler: ''twice'']], in an incredibly awkward manner [[spoiler: both times]]. The first time, shortly into Shippuden, Sasuke attacks him, deciding he's not useful anymore. Orochimaru tries to use his GrandTheftMe no Jutsu on the Sauce only for Sasuke to [[AssPull randomly turn it back on him]]. [[spoiler: Much later, during Sasuke's fight with Itachi, Sasuke runs out of chakra, which somehow frees Orochimaru...only for Itachi to seal him in a permanent, inescapable genjutsu before he can do anything.]]
*DroppedABridgetOnHim: Happens to Naruto regarding Haku. (See next entry) It even happened to the ''fans'' with Haku, Deidara and Sai.
*DudeLooksLikeALady: Haku, and how.
** If it weren't for the fact that names ending in -maru indicate that they're male, Gaara's uncle Yashamaru would have most people fooled as well.
***Still managed to.
**** In one of the dubs, the producers mistake him for a woman.
*DynamicEntry: Trope namer.
*[[spoiler:EldritchAbomination: Juubi qualifies. A ten tailed entity that was all the tailed beasts fused together, has one huge eye that has both the Rinnegan and a triple Sharingan, and was stated to be a direct threat to the world as a whole. It couldn't be defeated, only sealed.]]
** The [[spoiler:Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, the thing that Nagato summoned that became the statue the beasts were sealed in, and which is both apparently alive but can eat people's souls]] qualifies as well. They appear to be related
*** [[spoiler: Kisame's sword seems to be less a sword and more an eldritch abomination on a stick. It eats bijuu chakra like candy and will sell you up the river if it has too much.]]
*ElementalBaggage: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], mostly.
* EmpathicWeapon: Kisame's Samehada is one of these, along with being a ShapeShifterWeapon and a LivingWeapon. [[spoiler: It's not very loyal though...]]
*EnsembleDarkhorse: Iruka
**And Hayate. He has ''more fans than the Fourth Hokage''.
**The three-tailed beast, which is either a turtle, a shark or something entirely different according to fandom
**Shikamaru and Gaara are arguably the best examples considering their actual plot relevance.
*EstrogenBrigade
*EstrogenBrigadeBait: Sasuke, Sai, Gaara, Deidara, Sasori...
** Don't forget Naruto, especially when he's not wearing his all orange outfit.
*EvilAlbino: Hidan, maybe.
*EvilCounterpart: Gaara
*TheEvilsOfFreeWill: [[spoiler:Madara]]'s plan has recently been revealed to be based on this.
*ExecutiveMeddling:: If it wasn't for a mandate by his publisher, the author would have never shown Suigetsu or Juugo fighting on-screen.
*ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: Sakura and Tsunade, the former much more so after receiving several years worth of training by the latter. Both are Medical Ninja, which makes them anatomy experts and thus dangerous. They also have SuperStrength, even by the standards of the already inhumanly strong ninja of series.
*EyepatchOfPower: Kakashi constantly covers his Sharingan eye with his headband as he cannot turn the Sharingan off.
**[[spoiler:Two others are doing this. Danzo's bandages cover up a Sharingan taken from Uchiha Shisui, and Ao has a Byakugan. He doesn't even need to take the eyepatch off to utilize it.]]
*FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Sasuke]]
*FacelessGoons: Comes in three flavors. The Sand/Sound ninjas from Orochimaru's first invasion and the [[spoiler: samurai from the Land of Iron]]. ANBU probably count as well, but at least they have different masks.
*FacialMarkings: Naruto, Jiraiya and Tsunade, the Inuzuka, Akimichi and Kaguya clans.
* FakeDefector: [[spoiler:Itachi]] is/was one according to Madara.
*{{Fake Boss}}: In the part one it's Orochimaru who later is replaced by Akatsuki. [[spoiler:Also in the Konoha Invasion arc, Pain plays this role for Uchiha Madara]].
*FanOfUnderdog: Hinata
*FanPreferredCouple: Don't even start.
** Well, there's [[spoiler:Did You]] and [[spoiler:Seriously]] and [[spoiler:Highlight This?]] and...
*FanService: Hinata's jacket being pulled open to expose her ample chest (for a 12 year old, no less) to take her pulse in the anime (revealing she also wears a kunoichi SpyCatsuit underneath) was added especially to the anime. [[spoiler:The trick is repeated almost exactly in chapter 442 of the manga, revealing the full extent of her [[UnusualEuphemism character growth]] over the 3 year timeskip.]]
** Don't forget the Sexy and Harem Jutsu.
*** And Konohamaru's variants "Double Knockout Girls" and "Double Knockout Guys" Techniques. The latter may be FanDisservice unless you're a YaoiFangirl.
** How about the (in)famous Waterfall Dance scene in the filler Bikochou Arc? Hinata, supposedly 12, dancing completely naked on the surface of the water?
*FauxActionGirl: Sakura, but she recognizes this. It's partly the reason for her transformation into an ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl after the TimeSkip.
** In fact, nearly every female in the series suffers from this. Tsunade does become Hokage, though. Some of it is due to the fact that, though they do have their skills, they inevitably get paired up against enemies who are much more powerful. A good example would be Konan, the only female member of Akatsuki, has her sole major battle be against Jiraiya, a hokage level legendary sannin who is so powerful that the brokenly capable Itachi-Kisame Akatsuki pair run away rather than fight him. Others, however, have no such excuse.
** In Tenten's two fights her opponents were able to either perfectly match her moves or completely negate them, so she alone has the dubious distinction of being one of the few justified applications of the trope.
* FemaleSuccessIsFamily: Konan
*FencePainting
*FightingSeries
*{{Filler}}: Before the TimeSkip, filler made up 38% of the entire series, including 85 episodes in a row! At its best, the quality could be considered mediocre though it was usually much worse than that. Standard formulas were various examples of DefeatMeansFriendship, fights against blatant {{Filler Villain}}s, and several one-shots of slapstick humor and no plot relevance.
** Post-TimeSkip, Shippuuden has begun taking a completely different approach to their filler arcs. Rather than use up several canon story arcs in a row and burn through their source material, they have prudently inserted a filler story arc in between every one or two canon arcs. Each has been a full storyline of 10-15 episodes, completely cutting out the single episode pointlessness of the previous series. Thus far there have been two filler arcs. The first, the Ninja Guardians arc, featured an expanded backstory for a character who [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready probably wasn't going to get another chance to have one]], along with an EarlyBirdCameo in the form of the [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Fire Temple]]... errr, Fire Nation Temple and it's leader Chiriku. The next story goes even further; the Three Tails arc has possibly perfected the filler formula for anime everywhere after decades of trying, moving away from complete filler towards AdaptationExpansion, creating a full-on story arc of 22 episodes for an event that took all of half an issue in the manga. It is also possibly the first filler story arc ever to feature constant and relevant appearances by canon antagonists and managed to be very interesting.
* FourIsDeath: The Sound Four.
** The fourth Kages of the respective villages have a tendency to die early as well.
* FreudianExcuse: Pain.
**Neji also comes to hate the main branch and think that destiny is unchangeable because he thinks that they forced his father to sacrifice his life for his twin brother.
**Heck, most of the cast. It doesn't help that ThereAreNoTherapists.
*FridgeLogic: Plenty of it, much because of the SchizoTech (Electronic communication exists, but only for relatively minor stuff...)
** How did Naruto and Sasuke take care of themselves when they were younger?
*{{Gainaxing}}: Similar to [[ReadOrDie R.O.D.]], Temari becomes unusually bouncy in one episode despite her breasts being perfectly stable in the rest of the series.
*GenderBender: "Oiroke No Jutsu" aka "Sexy Jutsu". Inevitably creates TheNoseBleed.
*GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the anime is moderately popular in Japan, it's even bigger in America (and the manga is ''comparitively'' more popular, though as with all manga sales they are much lower in foreign markets).
*GeodesicCast - the "two males that are [[RedOniBlueOni of contrasting personality]], one female" [[PowerTrio group]], repeated again and again.
** It's explicitly stated that Sasuke and Naruto were both assigned to Team 7 because Sasuke was first-ranked in their Academy class and Naruto was last, and its tradition to put first and last on the same team to balance out its capabilities. That same reasoning, if applied more generally, would explain why all the various genin teams are roughly-balanced power trios. This also indirectly explains why none of the teams doubled up on girls -- only one girl in Naruto's rookie year had any major hand-to-hand combat power, and ''she'' was put in as the close-quarters specialist for Team 8, the recon squad. So they can't double up on girls for any other team without leaving them critically lacking on muscle.
* GirlOfTheWeek - more like Girl of the 'Movie' (and or certain filler). Naruto gets one of these in the first, fourth, and fifth movies. While the first, Kazahana Koyuki, could arguably be a JerkAss [[CoolBigSis Big Sis]] role (the actress in the first movie is definitely subject of a one-sided crush), the same is not true for Shion (fourth movie) or Amaru (fifth movie). As noted elsewhere, the writers are taking full advantage of Naruto hitting puberty over the time skip.
** Shion asks him to let her 'bear his children'. The funny bit is that he happily agrees. We know he's read Jiraiya's books. The line is worth it just for the shocked look on Sakura's face.
*{{Gonk}}: Rock Lee, Konohamaru's first attempts at the Sexy Jutsu, Akatsuchi
*GoryDiscretionShot: What happens when Pain stabs [[spoiler:Hinata]] and when Zabuza tries to attack Sakura and Tazuna, but ends up being blocked by Kakashi.
*GrandTheftMe: Orochimaru is intent on becoming immortal by transferring his mind to other bodies. Ino's main technique also allows her to do this temporarily.
*GratuitousEnglish: "DynamicEntry" among a few of Guy's other lines. A filler character often speaks in English.
*HairColors
*HannibalLecture: Commonly used by antagonists, especially Neji and Pain.
*HardWorkHardlyWorks: Ridiculously hard training-Rock Lee just CantCatchUp to Naruto or Sasuke. On the other hand, he's quite far from where he would be otherwise.
*{{Hatedom}}
*HeelFaceTurn: Neji and Gaara.
*HeirToTheDojo: Sasuke is treated like this by pretty much everyone in Part I; Neji is an important subversion, especially since while he has many of these traits, much of his inner conflict comes from the fact that he ''is not allowed to'' inherit the Hyuga clan.
*{{Henohenomoheji}}: Kakashi Hatake's face is the subject of an entire episode (no. 101), in which his students try to remove his mask. Against one of them he uses a decoy (scarecrow) of himself, with the Henohenomoheji drawn on the face. Also, Kakashi is able to summon eight dogs, all of which have the Henohenomoheji on their backs.
*HeroicBSOD: Tsunade after [[spoiler:seeing Konoha destroyed]], Naruto after [[spoiler:Jiraiya's death, Pain's HannibalLecture, and Hinata's apparent death]].
*HeroicRROD: Kakashi can need to rest for extended periods of time if he overuses his Sharingan. [[spoiler:He apparently dies once, but gets better]].
*HeroicSacrifice: Third and Fourth Hokage.
*HesBack: Happens often, but Naruto does it best.
*HeyItsThatVoice:Sasuke's Japanese voice actor plays another pale, dark-haired rival in {{Bleach}} as Ishida.
**As well as his English voice actor voicing Suzaku in CodeGeass
**Hinata's English VA also voices Orihime in Bleach, who also has a crush on the main character.
*HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Guren]] and [[spoiler:Konan]].
*HighSchoolAU: The second ending of Shippuden, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1_2AsZQERQ=channel_page Konoha Gakuen Den]], which is based off of it.
*HighlyVisibleNinja: The titular character wears BRIGHT ORANGE, and is quite possibly the first character to use ninjutsu as a bully pulpit - almost BondVillainStupidity in reverse.
** Mildly subverted by the fact that usually Jounins get missions where stealth is a real factor and they tend to wear clothes that are a tad more practical for such a situation, and the people that do the stuff that ninjas could reasonably be expected to do (such as perform assassinations) are the ANBU black ops, who wear black and grey.
*HimeCut: Hinata Hyuga
*HoYay: Naruto and Sasuke are probably meant to come across as being like brothers, not a couple. Probably. It really doesn't help that when Sasuke leaves the village to join Orochimaru, Naruto responds like a jealous boyfriend who just found out his significant other is leaving him for another man... and on that note, don't even get ''started'' on Orochimaru himself, for all our sakes.
** Not to mention them "kissing" in chapter 3.
*** That doesn't really count(as much) given the humorous nature of the scene.
*** Didn't Kishimoto say he included that deliberately, to save slashers the effort?
*** In one Shonen Jump interview, Kishimoto mentions that he doesn't think there has ever been a manga where two rivals kissed and, curiously enough, "Sakura, who had intended to be the first one to kiss Sasuke, has it stolen by her rival Naruto".
*HufflepuffHouse - The ninja villages besides Leaf, Sand, and Sound.
**This begins to change late in the manga.
*IAmBigBoned - Choji.
*IAmYourOpponent
*IdiotBall: The Daimyo of the Land of Fire picking up this thing caused [[spoiler: Danzo's appointment as Hokage.]]
** [[spoiler:This may have well have had something to do with the fact that Danzo has some sort of mental manipulation ability.]]
**[[spoiler:Possible mind manipulation aside, the choice of appointing Danzou wasn't that illogical when you consider he is a former canditate for the Hokage position from the 3rd's time, has been the government's number 2 for decades and that he is a political hardliner (as opposed to the last few hokages and Kakashi, the other young candidate) at a time where the village has just been leveled by a terrorist attack.]]
*IGaveMyWord: Naruto, concerning his promise to bring back Sasuke.
** Well, Naruto concerning pretty much any promise he makes.
*IHaveTheHighGround
*IJustWantToBeNormal: Nara Shikamaru. Not so much wanting to be a non-ninja, but rather just a normal ninja.
*IKnewIt: Naruto's paternal parentage and the apparent truth behind the Uchiha massacre. Not to mention Tobi's true identity.
*ImportantHaircut: Sakura cuts her long hair with a kunai to escape from a Sound Ninja's grip.
*InactionSequence
*IneffectualLoner: Uchiha Sasuke
*InformedAbility: ''Loads and loads'' of characters introduced in the story. The most obvious example is the ANBU.
*InstantArmor: Gaara's sand-armor.
*InstantExpert: Naruto with shadow clones (especially considering Sage chakra. Naruto trained for a month using only two or three shadow clones, but by the end of that month he had completely mastered it, a feat Jiraiya couldn't manage in thirty years.
*InternetBackdraft:
**Step 1: Go to any Naruto forum.
**Step 2: Claim that either [[ShrinkingViolet Naruto/Hinata]] or [[{{Tsundere}} Naruto/Sakura]] is the OfficialCouple.
**Step 3: Watch as the thread erupts into flames.
***[[spoiler:Hinata confessing her feelings to Naruto and then seemingly dying]] in Chapter 437 sparked quite a few heated debates. [[spoiler:Sakura's confession, and Naruto's very unambiguous ''rejection'' of it, in Chapter 469 is sure to do the same.]]
** Hell, just admitting you like Naruto, or defending Naruto even if you don't like it, are considered mortal sins in [[FanHaters certain]] [[SeriousBusiness parts]] of the [[FanDumb anime]] [[{{Hatedom}} fandom]].
*InvisibleParents: Perhaps most notably, Sakura and Lee's (assuming he even has parents), but many parents (such as Hinata and Neji's mothers, Kiba's father, etc) are also absent.
**Kiba explained that his dad got scared by his mom and made a break for it.
*JerkAss: Sai in his introduction.
** Neji before his HeelFaceTurn
*JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Sasuke when he finds out the brass at Konoha were behind the death of the Uchiha clan, and decided to kill the ''entire'' village.]]
*JustBetweenYouAndMe: Subverted by Pain, who tells [[spoiler:Jiraiya]] about his plan and then proceeds to kill him.
**[[spoiler:Played straight]] when Pain describes his plan to Naruto.
*KabukiSounds
*KarmicDeath (loads)
*KatanasAreJustBetter: Subverted, the only character who wields one dies in the only fight he's in.
*KilledOffForReal: Usually varies from this and BoringImmortalHero from time to time.
*KissingCousins: Despite of the fact that Hinata addresses Neji as she would to an older brother, this still didn't stop the jokes featuring Neji, [[AccidentalPervert the perv]], "who constantly [[MemeticMolester tries to grope Hinata]]" during their combat.
** Nor the actually serious pairings of the two. [[OrSoIHeard According to some Neji/Hinata fans]], Hinata is paired with Neji more than even Naruto in Japan due to [[ValuesDissonance a lack of taboos against]] [[IncestIsRelative first cousin marriage]].
** Neji/Hinata is kind of a special case. Since their fathers are identical twins, and identical twins have identical DNA, from a purely genetic standpoint, they are half-siblings. [[BrotherSisterIncest Making this pairing...]]
*KnightTemplarBigBrother: Kankuro, in Shippuuden.
*KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Once Sasuke learns how to cast Genjutsu on people, all his major opponents are able to resist Genjutsu in one way or another.
** The Sharingan is quite powerful, but most of the people who fight characters who have it know at least one counter-measure.
*** Which is the reason it provides NewPowersAsThePlotDemands to make sure Sasuke never loses.
*LargeAndInCharge: The Raikage.
*LargeHam: Guy and Lee, although they can be serious.
** Jiraiya can be one of these sometimes.
*LeakedExperience: This is how Naruto's "train with a [[MesACrowd hundred doppelgangers]]" InstantExpert method works - he gains all the experience(s) of the clones when they're dismissed, like a reverse [[{{Pokemon}} EXP Share]].
*LeeroyJenkins : Naruto, Kiba and Lee. Killer Bee is mentioned to be like this as well.
**Zabuza's "I have 1 HP left, dammit!" might fit here too.
*{{Leitmotif}}
*LifeOrLimbDecision: [[spoiler:The Raikage]] willingly steps into one of these where [[spoiler:attacking Sasuke to get his revenge]] would mean needing to cut off his arm or [[spoiler:burn to death]]. He also would have [[spoiler: sacrificed his leg]] in order to [[spoiler: finish Sasuke off]] had not [[WallBanger Gaara stopped him]].
*LightningBruiser: Despite his enormous size, the Raikage is blindingly fast and capable of catching [[spoiler:Zetsu]] off guard.
** Not to mention he's a ''[[IncrediblyLamePun literal]]'' [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] bruiser.
** Let's not forget The Fourth Hokage, who's nickname was [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Yellow Flash]]
*LimitedWardrobe: Most characters have one outfit for before or after the timeskip, but may wear casual clothes while off-duty. By contrast, the Sand Siblings change outfits in each of their major appearances.
*LineOfSightName: Not directly, but Naruto's first name came from someone eating a bowl of ramen. Namely Jiraiya when thinking up a name for the main character of his book, who Naruto's parents named him after.
*LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
*LocalHangout: Ichiraku's ramen bar, [[{{Filler}} when they're in town]].
*LovableSexManiac: Kakashi and Jiraiya, among others.
*LoveFreak: both Might Guy and Rock Lee.
*LoveHurts: [[spoiler: After informing her that Naruto is in love with her, Sai flat out says to Sakura's face that his feelings for Sakura (and Sasuke) are what's causing Naruto pain.]]
*LukeIAmYourFather: Naruto's father is the fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. Naruto himself was not made aware of this fact until recently.
*{{Macekre}}: The ''German'' dub.
*MadArtist: Deidara and Sasori
*MadBomber: Deidara
*TheManBehindTheCurtain: [[spoiler:Pain, or rather Nagato, the "real" Pain]]
*ManlyTears: Guy and Rock Lee
** Although Guy and Lee win top prize, an honorable mention should go to Zabuza. His crying over the death of Haku was exceptionally manly.
** Naruto too, when he [[spoiler:learns that Hinata is alive]].
** Gaara after [[spoiler:deciding that he has to kill Sasuke when he won't listen to his urging him to come to his senses]].
** This troper found Naruto crying in 227 [[spoiler:after he realizes Sasuke's really fucking serious about killing him]] to be quite manly.
** Iruka deserves special mention, since he was the first to pull this off in Chapter 1.
** Why has no one mentioned [[spoiler:Itachi]] yet?
*MarathonMan
*MartialPacifist: Might Guy and Rock Lee.
*MaskPower: Hatake Kakashi and several others.
*MasterApprenticeChain: The First & Second Hokage > The Third Hokage > Jiraiya > The Fourth Hokage > Kakashi > Naruto
** The Third Hokage > Orochimaru & Tsunade > Sasuke & Sakura
*MeaningfulFuneral
*MeaningfulName: Naruto means "Spiral," which is apt considering in the Pain arc that [[spoiler: his mission now is to break the spiral of hatred and pain caused by the ninja system.]]
* MemeticBadass - Aoba can defeat anyone with a single door slam and can even cause the Akatsuki to flee in terror of his ''Murder of Crows'' no Jutsu.
** Don't forget Iruka!
** The Raikage is quickly evolving into this. [[spoiler:Snapping Zetsu's neck]], [[spoiler:breaking Zabuza's sword [[MemeticMutation which cannot be beat]]]], and [[spoiler: piledriving Sasuke like some [[{{Dragonball}} Super Saiyan]] [[StreetFighter Zangief]] and grabbing him [[TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja despite the fact that he was on fire]]]] will certainly add to this. Not to mention the fact that, upon noticing that his arm is [[spoiler: ''on fire'' from Amaterasu, he treats it like an annoyance, and immediately cuts it off with an expression like he's just being inconvenienced rather than losing his arm.]]
* MemeticMolester - Orochimaru, for his tendency to lust over the [[BodySurf bodies]] of teenage boys.
** Also the new Mizukage, for her tendency to coddle her teenage bodyguard and making some rather interesting comments about Gaara and Sasuke...
* MemeticMutation - Kabuto's [[StupidStatementDanceMix Ninja info cards]], "[[BlindIdiotTranslation Good Naruto,]] [[OffModel you look kind of cool]]", and recently: '''[[AssPull NINJA TANK]]''' (from fake spoilers saying that in Chapter 465, [[spoiler:Madara and Zetsu]] turn up to [[spoiler:Sasuke]]'s rescue with a tank containing [[spoiler:Itachi's Eyes]]. You can figure out ''why'').
* MesACrowd - How did it go so long without anyone adding this to the page?
* MessianicArchetype: Hinted and danced around for quite some time, but recent manga chapters have seen Naruto truly embrace it.
* MeteorMove
* MilkyWhiteEyes: The Hyuugas.
* MindRape - Various genjutsu can border on this, with Itachi's Tsukiyomi being the most extreme.
** The first time you see Tsukuyomi used against Kakashi is [[{{NightmareFuel}} pretty creepy]], as well.
* MissingMom: So, what happened to [[spoiler:Kushina Uzumaki]]?
* MobileShrubbery: Konohamaru, pre-Shippuuden.
* MoreThanMindControl: The ease with which Sasuke can be manipulated is astonishing.
* TheMovie (currently six)
* MrExposition - Kabuto in the chuunin exams.
* MundaneUtility - One of the hallmarks of ''Naruto'' filler is the characters turning their fantastic ninja powers to boring everyday tasks -- the titular character using his absurdly powerful Rasengan jutsu to mix noodles, for example.
** In canon, Naruto jumps into a creek with shadow clones to force some fish to the surface, which Sasuke catches with kunai and cooks with his fire jutsu.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:[[spoiler: Sasuke after he learns the truth behind the Uchiha Massacre after killing Itachi. Sakura when Sai confronts her about Naruto's feelings and makes her realize Naruto had enslaved himself to his promise to her to bring Sasuke back]].
*{{Nakama}}: Naruto has this for the first time in his life, which is why he's so reluctant to give up on Sasuke.
*NerdGlasses: Karin and Shiho. Somewhat subverted with Kabuto. After he turns out to be with Orochimaru, these turn into ScaryShinyGlasses.
*NeverSayDie: The first few episodes of the''Naruto '' CN dub and the early ''Shippuden'' DisneyXD dub.
*NewPowersAsThePlotDemands
*NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Itachi]]
*NightmareFuel: Dear god, ''[[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel/Naruto}} so much.]]''
*{{Ninja}}: Just about everyone.
*NinjaLog: Used in a surprising number of variations, including several that explode.
*NoMouth: Kakashi keeps his mouth concealed behind a mask at all times.
*TheNoseBleed: the inevitable result of Naruto's Sexy no Jutsu.
*NotSoDifferent: Naruto and Gaara
** Also Naruto and Iruka, and Naruto with most of the characters he befriends in the fillers and movies.
*ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Tobi. Just Tobi.]]
*OCStandIn: Hanabi (Hinata's younger sister) is often prominently featured in Hyuga-centric fanfiction and her personality widely varies from story to story, given her lack of characterization.
*OddlyNamedSequel: The anime adaptation of Part II, Naruto Shippuden.
*OhCrap: Notably, the first time Gaara is ever injured.
*OminousLatinChanting: Akatsuki's musical motif in Shippuuden.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: [[spoiler:Itachi]], though so far he has failed to achieve his goal, but he has one more contingency plan. Prepare for an enormous InternetBackdraft if you discuss this online.
* {{Ondo}}
*TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Uchiha Itachi basically says that the only one allowed to defeat him is his younger brother, Uchiha Sasuke. But [[XanatosGambit he has his reasons]] for saying that. Also, Naruto and Sasuke, mutually. Gaara also used this before his HeelFaceTurn by saying Sasuke was 'his prey.'
*{{Orochi}}
*OutOfFocus: ''So many'' characters. In fact, whenever the focus shifts to any of the secondary characters with the notable exception of Shikamaru (to the point that Shikamaru is almost a main character himself now), you can say with certainty that something ''[[ADeathInTheLimelight bad]]'' is about to happen to them.
*OvertookTheManga: Results in {{Filler}} Hell, obviously.
**Got better once they hit Part 2, as the manga way out in front now thanks to said Filler Hell, and they cautiously have filler more spread out.
*PaperMaster: Konan.
*ParentalAbandonment: many orphans due to 1)being ninja, 2)Kyuubi, who was the reason for the end of 3)The Ninja War.
** Some ninja parents aren't even brought up. Like, who are Lee's parents? Neji's mom? Asuma's mother, essentially the Third Hokage's wife? Konohamaru's parents? It's one thing to be orphaned, but they are just flat out ignoring the parents of the ninja.
*PersonalityBloodTypes: In ''Shippuden''. Kabuto is AB, despite Orochimaru's asking if he is A based on his compulsive desire to keep corpses sealed in a scroll in a certain order.
** So is Danzo.
*PersonOfMassDestruction: Jinchuurikis. [[spoiler:And Pain.]]
*PlayingWithFire: Sasuke has a variety of fire-elemental jutsus at his disposal and, like [[GogglesDoNothing the goggles]], [[ConvectionSchmonvection they do nothing]].
*PleaseDontLeaveMe: Sakura to Sasuke [[spoiler: before his FaceHeelTurn]].
*PlotArmor: Sasuke is a major offender, but [[spoiler: Hinata's]] armor really stands out as it allowed her to [[spoiler: survive Pain's attack despite him having every reason to kill her, standing right over her and presumably possessing enough knowledge of Human anatomy to locate the heart. This was ''after'' he flattened her to the ground with the same move he'd just used to flatten all of Konoha and launch three giant ass frogs into the next zipcode.]]
**And also considering that [[spoiler:she wasn't blown to smithereens by the berzerk kn6, despite being ''right in the way'' between Pain and Naruto, by sheer luck.]] [[OrIsIt Or was it really luck?]]
*PlotDrivenBreakdown: Chakra always convienently runs out when it's necessary for the plot.
** Shikamaru's Shadow Possession jutsu seems to get weaker each time he uses it in a fight, regardless of how much chakra he has at the moment.
*PlotTumor[=/=]SpotlightStealingSquad - The the Uchiha clan, to the point where many fans think the series should've been called ''Sasuke''.
*PossessionSue: Maybe it's due to the belief that main characters ''have'' to be awesome instead of overlooked, but regardless, the fans love doing this to Naruto.
*ThePowerOfFriendship
*ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope ...is apparently a distant second behind the power to repel things with gravity]]. Poor Hinata.]]
*TheUntwist: The 4th is Naruto's dad. Didn't see THAT one coming.
*PowersAsPrograms
*PowerTrio: Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke
*PunnyName: ''UZUMAKI Naruto''= "Spiralling whirlpool", ''HARUNO Sakura''= "Cherry blossoms of spring", ''HATAKE Kakashi''= "Farmer's scarecrow", ''UMINO Iruka''= "Sea dolphin"...
** ''HYUUGA Hinata'': Hyuuga and Hinata can be written with the same Kanji. Hyuuga means towards the sun, while Hinata means sunny place.
* RandomPowerRanking: Uses S, A, B, C and D ranks for the missions, though they at least [[JustifiedTrope serve a purpose]]. There's also an E rank for the most basic jutsus.
** The letters are based on the Japanese school grading system. S = "Shin", aka "Perfect", and is seen in several other Japanese exports. However, it wouldn't be a Shonen Combat series without drama, and just about every "C" mission shown turns out to be a "A" or above mission.
* RapeOfTheLock: Sakura, being forced to cut her own hair.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: During [[spoiler:Kisame's fight with Killer Bee]] the latter makes the statement that octopuses eat sharks. Many found this statement to be idiotic, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9A-oxUMAy8 there's actually quite a bit of truth to it]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Several times. [[spoiler: Most recently with Pain, who sacrifices himself to [[DeathIsCheap resurrect everyone]] he killed.]]
* RedShirtArmy: The Samurai.
* RedOniBlueOni: Naruto and Sasuke, respectively. [[GeodesicCast And the guys on most of the other ninja teams.]]
* RedSkyTakeWarning: Invoked by the cloaks worn by Akatsuki members.
* ReplacementScrappy: Some fans and even the main characters (at first) hated Sai for replacing Sasuke on Team 7.
** Ironically, since among a sizeable segment of American fans Sasuke is considered a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] himself ([[AmericansHateTingle in stark contrast to his overwhelming popularity in Japan]]), this gave Sai [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff a slight fan following in America]].
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Sakura, as a result of getting stronger and more mature over the timeskip.
* RightMakesMight: subverted with Rock Lee, who often actually loses; averted with Naruto, as it's generally a combination of some wit and being MadeOfIron.
*RockPaperScissors: Guy sees even this as SeriousBusiness, and believes that if he punishes himself for losing, he not only has incentive to win the next time, but becomes stronger in the process.
*{{Roofhopping}}
*RummageSaleReject
* RyuAndKen: Iruka/Mizuki, Zabuza/Kisame in the Clash of Ninja games.
** Also Hinata and Neji.
*SarutobiSasuke: Sasuke Uchiha and the Third Hokage and his relatives (Sarutobi family) take part of their names from him.
*SchizoTech: When the plot called for it, suddenly there's a refrigerator. And walkie-talkies, security cameras, video game consoles, cell phones, full-color movie theaters, and so on. ''Absolutely'' no modern weaponry though. This was [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in an interview in which [[WordOfGod the author]] explained that allowing the existence of modern weapons into the story would make the story pointless.
** Absolutely except for [[TheDragon Pain]]
** A filler villain has a smoke bomb launcher with revolving chambers.
* TheScrappy: Sakura was once one but has gotten better in the time skip.
**As of chapter 469, {{It Got Worse}}. [[spoiler: [[{{Die for our ship}} A]] [[{{Ship Sinking}} LOT]] [[{{Flame War}} worse.]] ]]
** Sasuke has quite a bit of hatedom, especially now that he [[spoiler:wants to destroy Konoha]].
** Naruto has a fair number of highly vocal detractors who criticize him for 1) being a ninja who wears orange 2) having a limited number of jutsus compared to other ninjas and little knowledge of strategy or teamwork (which gets better over time), 3) still trying to bring Sasuke back, after some of the above developments and 4) some of his recent Messiah tendencies, especially with regards to 3.
*ScreamDiscretionShot: Happens when a filler villain beats up Hinata in the Three-Tails arc.
*SealedEvilInACan: The Can in question is Naruto himself (and the other hosts). It works out [[CursedWithAwesome fairly well for him]], though. [[HeroicRROD Mostly]].
*SempaiKohai: Kakashi is Yamato's senpai in Part II.
*ShadowArchetype: Naruto and Gaara in Part 1, Naruto and Pein in Part 2
*ShadowPin: The Nara clan.
*ShaggyDogStory: If you read the manga, you know that [[spoiler:neither Konoha nor Orochimaru will get the Three-Tailed Beast]] in the recently completed Three-Tails arc.
*SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Asuma and Kurenai [[spoiler:before we find out that they '''were''' in a relationship]], Shikamaru and Temari.
*ShipSinking: Repeatedly done and then amazingly shrugged off. Sasuke [[spoiler:ignores Sakura's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove then knocks her out and goes on to betray everything they believed in]], and then Hinata [[spoiler:confesses her love to Naruto and promptly gets whacked with a human WaveMotionGun and stabbed apparently to death]], and then Sakura [[spoiler:spends half a chapter telling Naruto she's changed her mind and she wants to be with him and forget Sasuke- except Naruto blows her off, insisting that she's telling herself a great big lie]]. Each of these looks like a defining, cathartic, end-of-ship torpedo, and then given enough recovery time the ship just floats back up again. [[spoiler:The last one still hasn't had its recovery time, so the jury is still out on that.]]
*ShipToShipCombat: Naruto/Sakura vs. Naruto/Hinata vs. Sasuke/Sakura vs. Naruto/Sasuke. It's not pretty. It's not pretty at all.
**Even less so now that [[spoiler:Hinata's confessing her love to Naruto, potentially putting the two closer to [[OfficialCouple ending up together]], unless he says he's still in love with Sakura]] threatens to sink at least one of these ships, depending on what happens.
*** The shippers aren't even ''waiting'' to see what happens. The fact something finally moved forward is apparently reason enough.
*** Sakura's possibly developing feelings for Naruto in Part II is another controversial issue, since many of those incidents are ambiguous enough to be read as romantic or merely platonic.
**** And then [[spoiler:Sai telling Sakura how Naruto feels]] further heated up the debate. [[spoiler:And now Sakura has made her own confession to Naruto. Who, once he's convinced that she's not joking, immediately rejects her. Cue an even bigger FlameWar.]]
*ShippingGoggles: Hinata and Sakura can barely look at each other or Naruto without their every action being analyzed by the shippers, especially in the wake of [[spoiler:Hinata telling Naruto how she feels about him]].
*ShockingSwerve: [[spoiler:Itachi being a FakeDefector.]]
*ShoutOut: Plenty, some of the most obvious ones are the striking resemblance of the Hokage Mountain to Mt. Rushmore and the Valley of the End to [[LordOfTheRings the Argonath]].
**The anime has also used StarWars stock sounds like the lightsaber humming and TIE Fighter laser sounds.
*ShoutOutThemeNaming: All of Kakuzu's signature techniques are named after (and pronounced very similarly to in Japanese) [[MobileSuitGundam mobile suits used by Zeon in the One Year War]]; Jiongu, Domu, Zukokku, Atsugai, Gian, = Zeong, Dom, Z'Gok, Acguy, Gyan.
*SkeletonGovernment: To the point of FridgeLogic...
*SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler: Sakura towards Naruto in 450. Either she's just happy she's alive or she needs to up her game to counter Hinata so that their LoveTriangle can [[StatusQuoIsGod remain viable]].]]
*SmugSnake: Danzo. [[spoiler: Has been trying to [[MagnificentBastard slyly con]] his way into the Hokage seat for years, but none of his plans have actually worked, until now.]]
**And at the Summit of the Five Kages, [[spoiler:he ends up wasting all his credibility]].
**Gato is quite arrogant, and tends to berate the rogue ninja he hired for their failures when they, even heavily wounded, could kill him and his bodyguards in seconds- which Zabuza ends up doing.
*TheSmurfettePrinciple: Most teams have a single token female member if they have any at all. Also applies to the Akatsuki. Inverted with a three-man team of Cloud ninja that has two female ninja and one male ninja.
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*SocialServicesDoesNotExist: There's the unanswered question of who looked after the more troubled and often orphaned members of the cast, especially Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara.
*SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Shippuuden episode 82's mature and soulful examination of Shikamaru's character in the wake of [[spoiler: Asuma's death]] was a temporary but dramatic departure in tone and style from the series norm.
**Partially the result of AdaptationExpansion, since what Shikamaru's doing is shown as a montage with no dialogue in the manga.
*SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Subverted, as the first major enemy, Zabuza, is too strong for the Genin to take on alone, and the [[spoiler:first]] BigBad Orochimaru shows up around episode 30.
** Mostly played straight with the enemies that Naruto's age group faces, although Akatsuki has little in the way of official power rankings.
*TheSpartanWay: The things young ninja have to do and endure in order to advance in rank are pretty hellish, when you think about it. Even moreso for some of the villages other than the main characters'. The Village Hidden in the Mist, for example, was known as "Bloody Mist" for its brutal "graduation exam". To become a ninja there, you had to kill a fellow student in a duel. Zabuza, the series' first major enemy, was infamous for having killed ''all'' of the students in this "exam", and he wasn't even in it.
*SpellMyNameWithAnS (Might Guy, whose name has a number of other unofficial romanizations that fans like to use)
**Also Pein vs. Pain vs. Paine in the early chapters after he was first named.
*SplitPersonality: Zetsu can talk and even argue with himself.
*SpotTheImposter: Two different characters use ninjutsu to disguise themselves as Naruto in the same arc.
*SpyCatsuit: The female teachers.
*{{Squick}}: The reaction you have when you realize the sheer number of ephebophilic relationships in the series.
**[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that most of them involve the BigBad, while the good guys tend to exhibit healthy mentoring. (When you think it through, Iruka-sensei is ''literally'' the one teacher who saved the world - Naruto could've turned out like Gaara.)
** And there's Orochimaru and Sasuke, which is made easier to read as ephebophilic, because Orochimaru ([[GrandTheftMe literally]]) [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean wants Sasuke's body]]. In Konoha Gakuen Den, "Orochimaruko" is portrayed as a transvestite ephebophile who's after Sasuke, {{Squick}}ing most of the cast.
* TheStarscream: One of the most recent filler villains, [[spoiler: Rinji (The guy who uses bats)]] becomes this.
** Played with, but averted with Kabuto, who seems to be planning to betray Orochimaru on three occasions (and Orochimaru even muses that he's not sure which way Kabuto will go), but remains loyal to him.
* StartOfDarkness: Sasuke
* StealthMentor: [[spoiler:Itachi]]... in the most messed-up way possible.
* TheStoic: Shino and Neji, as well as Yamato and Kakashi.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Danzou does have a point. [[spoiler:Konoha has been completely destroyed]]. Sasuke ''is'' a missing-nin who is a threat.
** The irony with Sasuke is that, unless something's revealed in the future, [[spoiler: Danzo's partially to blame for the Uchiha massacre.]]
*** Though to be fair, [[spoiler: The options at the time seemed to be either have the Uchiha's massacred, or allow them to start a civil war that would result in death and destruction similar in scale to Pain's attack.]]
****This troper would say that there was some middle ground available. [[spoiler:Such as, say, ''not'' massacring the innocent civilians and children of the clan, just because their leaders were traitorous scum.]]
*****Except it's been [[spoiler: stated Sasuke was the only Uchiha not in on it.]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: The female teachers, several of the students.
* StupidStatementDanceMix: Kabuto, with his... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbjXmBmHAdk ninja info cards]].
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Naruto's Kyuubi.
** Also Gaara's Shukkaku. Basically all jinchuuriki who aren't properly trained in controlling and cooperating with their Bijuu.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Some ninja abilities are passed down through family genes, though most are just clan secrets. True genetic powers (known as Kekkai Genkai) are quite rare.
* TakingTheBullet: Iruka, Haku, [[spoiler: Chouza (Chouji's father) and Kakashi.]]
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Naruto and Lee are the worst offenders, but it's common enough that this troper wonders if Talk You To Death No Jutsu is part of the ninja academy curriculum.
** In one of the worse chases, Lee manages to have a brief exchange with Sasuke while the two are flying through the air in Lee's Dancing Leaf Shadow jutsu.
** If you don't get a whole dramatic scene as part of an important character's death, you can tell the next few seconds probably involve a log appearing (substitution technique) or a clone going poof.
* TalkToTheFist: The Raikage ''tries'' to do this to [[spoiler:Madara]] but he just [[spoiler:phases through his attack]] like everyone elses'. Then he tries ''again'' and the guy just dodges it [[CasualDangerDialogue and keeps talking like nothing happened]].
*ThanatosGambit: The 4th Hokage died turning Naruto into a Jinchuuriki [[spoiler: not just because it was the only way to stop the Kyuubi's rampage, but also because he knew the person controlling the Kyuubi during the attack couldn't be defeated without the power of a tailed beast.]]
* [=~That's No Moon~=]: Sort of; [[spoiler:rather it's not that is isn't "the moon", but ''what the moon'' is turns out not to be a naturally existing satellite, but the [[SealedEvilInACan giant stone prison]] the Sage of Sixth Paths made and put into orbit that contains the body of the Ten-Tailed beast]].
* TheMessiah: Naruto. It has been said that his best power isn't his near limitless chakra, his SuperpoweredEvilSide, or his growing mastery of the Fourth Hokage's techniques -- it's his simple minded ''charisma.''
* ThereWasADoor: [[{{Darwinist}} The Raikage]] believes doors only slow you down.
* TheTease: Naruto's Sexy No Jutsu.
* TheThingThatGoesDoink: Usually heard but not seen in scenes featuring the Hyuuga and Uchiha homes.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Two pairs; Kotetsu and Izumo, Genma and Raido
* TimeSkip: ''Naruto Shippuuden/Part II''.
* TooDumbToLive: People might not hate Sasuke as much if he didn't have such ''horrendously'' poor judgement.
* TookALevelInBadass: Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, Naruto, Shikamaru, Naruto, Konohamaru, Naruto, Hinata, Naruto.
** The reason for Naruto's multiple entries is that he takes a level in badass several times during the entire series, like as of [[spoiler: Chapter 430, where after coming back to Konoha after Pain made Konoha go kaboom; with a stylish new sage coat to boot, Naruto destroyed one of Pein's bodies that took THREE NINJA, including Kakashi, to ''cripple and not even destroy'', Naruto flies in and destroys it in a single blow to protect Tsunade]]. Holy shit.
* TournamentArc: The Chuunin examination arc.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ramen for Naruto, while Choji's seldom seen without his bag of chips.
** Dumplings for Anko, which provide the inspiration for her name.
* TrashTalk
* TriangRelations: Mixture of Type 3 and Type 5 with Hinata in love with Naruto, Naruto and Lee in love with Sakura, and Ino and Sakura in love with Sasuke in Part I. Things get considerably more complicated after the timeskip with Naruto, Sakura and Hinata, especially after [[spoiler:Hinata confesses to Naruto, Naruto indicates that he can't tell Sakura how he feels if he can't fulfill his promise (''before'' finding out about Hinata), Sai tells Sakura how Naruto feels, and Sakura may be developing feelings for Naruto]]. Naturally, the fandom is quite divided about which direction the arrows face in that triangle.
** [[spoiler:Type 3 between Hinata and Sakura over Naruto. Naruto isn't willing to accept that Sakura's feelings are genuine, but we don't know how he feels about Hinata]]
* TryNotToDie: Anko in the Chuunin tournament: "Just don't die!"
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Explanations of various new moves and counters.
* UnpleasableFanbase
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The ultimate test on this trope has begun in a recent chapter, with Ao and Danzo's bodyguard explaining ''all'' the details of the two possible outcomes between their encounter. The result has yet to be seen.
* [[spoiler:UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo]] In Chapter 469, [[spoiler:Sakura confesses to Naruto that she loves him and doesn't care about Sasuke anymore, but he's not willing to believe her]].
* UnstoppableRage: Almost all characters demonstrate this at one point.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: In the second movie, ''Legend of the Stone of Gelel'', Master Haido's stated reason for seeking the titular ArtifactOfDoom is to use its power to create a war-free world.
**This is Pain's motivation for collecting the tailed beasts.
*VainSorceress: Tsunade, and in a rare male example, Orochimaru (though his body was female for a time).
*VeinOVision: Chakra lines are similar to this.
*VerbalTic: Naruto -dattebayo.
**Konohamaru -kore.
**Jiraiya -daro.
**Deidara, hn.
* ViciousCycle: It turns out that [[spoiler:those who inherited the Will of Fire are forever destined to clash with those who possess the Sharingan]].
*WalkOnWater: Precise chakra control can result in this ninja technique.
*WallBanger: [[http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-449/page001.html Chapter 449]]
**[[http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/450/1/ Chapter 450]], I'm looking at your last four pages.
*** While this may be a terrible decision, it makes more sense if you consider [[spoiler:the daimyo doesn't know about any of the things Danzo has done- and even Shikaku is unaware of Danzo's more heinous deeds]].
*** The main issue I've seen brought up involving this is [[spoiler:how the council is set to enstate their choice, and then Danzou just basically says "No, he sucks. Pick me." And they do, without any debate or anything, they just go along with him and don't give Kakashi a second thought. Not to mention the fact that Tsunade isn't dead yet. What're they gonna do if she wakes up immediately afterwards? Say, "Sorry, we've decided that you're not Hokage anymore."?]]
*** At the moment, [[spoiler:Danzo is just the Acting Hokage]], whether [[spoiler:he will be made official]] remains to be seen. He himself states that whether this will happen depends on how the Summit of the Five Kages goes, although [[spoiler:becoming leader of the five-village alliance]] helps.
*** His appointment in the first place is potentially justified, as [[spoiler:it has been revealed that Danzo has mind control abilities and it's implied he's been using it to manipulate the others,]] though [[FridgeLogic this brings to mind ]][[VoodooShark as many questions as it answers]].
** [[http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/453/01/ Chapter 453]]
--> Madara: Hey Sasuke, [[spoiler: Danzo is Hokage now!]]
--> Sasuke: [[spoiler: I'm going to kill him at the Kage Summit, even though he'll be more heavily guarded than ever before.]]. So far, the results of this have been [[spoiler:Danzo exiting stage left, while Sasuke and Co get into a brawl with the 4 other kages and their bodyguards.]]
* WaveMotionGun: The closest term that can even begin to describe [[spoiler: Pain's penultimate attack.]]
** It's arguably an even better description for [[spoiler:Kyuubi-Naruto's ultimate attack.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Sai implies that Danzo is this, but the way things are going he'll be JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope any day now.
** Pain/Nagato wants world peace even if it's only for a little while between wars.
* TheWesley: Many readers dislike Sasuke, although he continues to be a major part of the story.
* WhamEpisode: The Sasuke Retrieval Arc is the first of many.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The Uchihas and Shinto mythology; Pain and Buddhist beliefs.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Naruto's Kage Bunshin and Rasengan, but averted later on.
* TheWoobie: Gaara, oddly enough, post NotSoDifferent moment with Naruto. This started happening even before his HeelFaceTurn.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Gaara starts out as this.
** And [[spoiler:the Nine-Tails]] tried to turn [[spoiler:Naruto]] into one.
* TheWorfEffect: Often happens to Rock Lee, Gaara, and... heck, every single character up to and including the ''title character'' at some point of time.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Two big factors in the Pain vs. Naruto fight that prevented Pain from killing Naruto in one thousand and one ways with in fifteen seconds of them meeting are 1. Pain needed Naruto alive for his master plan and 2. the easily strongest Path of Pain Deva Realm was out of order when Naruto shows up.
* WorldOfCardBoardSpeech: Naruto vs. Gaara, Tsunade vs. Orochimaru
* WillfullyWeak
* WorldDomination: The stated goal of the Akatsuki organization.
*{{X-Ray Vision}}: Anyone with the Byakugan [[SuperpowerfulGenetics Bloodline Limit]].
*XanatosGambit / XanatosRoulette - Evidently [[spoiler:Itachi's behavior was in order to get Sasuke's eyes powered up so that he could steal them to replace his own dying ones. [[OrIsIt Or was it]]? Apparently not: As [[BigBad Tobi/Madara]] claimed, Itachi was actually trying to ''protect'' Sasuke by giving him enough Power of Hate to kill Tobi/Madara]].
**...which Sasuke promptly turns and pisses all over.
*** Which was planned for! Aaaand [[{{Squick}} sort of creepy]] in implementation.
*** Naruto himself pulls off a brilliant one in Chapter 442 that [[spoiler: kills God Realm Pain. Tricks him into thinking he's done for by deliberately missing both of his unique rasengan shurikens to put him off guard. Reveals his trump card (a whole bunch of shadow clones disguised as rocks which mob up. Pain uses his gravity attack to push them away, but they block it by bracing the real one. Real one then finishes that body off with a Rasengan]].
*YamatoNadeshiko: Haku is a subversion, he fits this near perfectly,[[ItWasHisSled despite being male.]] He fits the [[DudeLooksLikeALady look]], the respect of authority, the gentleness and the hint of steel about protecting loved ones parts. He doesn't show it (unless you count nursing Zabuza and flower picking) but I wouldn't bet against domestic ability.
**Played straight with Hinata.
*YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Sakura's pink hair. Hinata and Konan have blue hair.
** To be fair Hinata's hair is more blue-black.
*YouShouldKnowThisAlready: Sasuke does a FaceHeelTurn, Neji and Gaara do a HeelFaceTurn, Kabuto works for Orochimaru. Also, Hayate dies.
** [[TakingTheBullet Haku]] and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Zabuza]] die, too.
** Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, is Naruto's father, which is partially because [[TheUntwist it was pretty obvious]].
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