I float... like a butterfly. And sting like a bee! 'Cause I'm the Eight-Tailed Beast!

Host of the Eight-Tailed Ox and brother of the Raikage. A dark-skinned, light-haired muscular man with a penchant for rapping.

Sasuke's Team Hawk, sent to capture his tailed beast, engaged him in battle, but he easily kicks their asses and beats the ever-loving shit out of Sasuke. He then transformed into his full Ox form, but Sasuke subdued it with Amaterasu — or so it seemed. Turns out Bee pulled a fast one on him, making them all look like idiots. He then goes off to take a vacation. The Raikage was pretty pissed about that. Now he's hanging out (actually on exile for security reasons) on an island with Naruto, whose attempts to get Bee to train him have thus far have them working well together, BY THE POWER OF RAP! (though it had to involve a Big Damn Heroes moment for the both of them with some old wounds of Bee's having to mend).

For tropes associated with the Eight-Tails, go to the Tailed-Beasts page.

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• The Ace: Arguably, given that each of the chapters he appears in without fail has had him doing something awesome, funny, or both.
  • And is therefore one of the best examples of this trope done right, since he's a Fan-Favorite instead of a Scrappy despite being The Ace.
• Adult Child: In the middle of a serious meeting on military matters, he's seen not paying any attention and scrawling down song lyrics — looking absurdly similar to a bored high school kid scribbling and not paying attention to class.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Averted. He's about as well-liked as they come. the previous sentence only applies after he's grown up. Played straight when he was a kid, though.
• Animal Battle Aura: Which is a Bull with Combat Tentacles of course.
• Badass: And HOLY SHIT HOW. In fact, he's so badass, that he became A's Brother by being able to perform a perfect Double Lariat with him when he was a kid. And he even overpowered him in a clash.
  • Badass Beard
• Bash Brothers: With A. Even though they aren't bros by blood.
• Beyond the Impossible: He uses seven blades, without his hands. He can transform into his biju without going nuts. As in, the full on eight tailed giant monster version and stay conscious.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A Cloudcuckoolander rapper who aspires to be an enka singer. He also happens to be one the strongest characters introduced in the series.
• Child Prodigy
• Cloudcuckoolander: If you have an extremely powerful demonic entity inside of you, and it is significantly more rational and sane than you are, you qualify for this trope.
• Cool Shades
• Cool Sword: Has seven! Later 8 when he receives the Samehada
  • Implausible Fencing Powers
  • Multi Wielding: He uses seven swords at once, and hold them in such places as in his armpits and between his legs, but not in his hands. He needs those to write down lyrics should he think of them.
  • Spellblade: He is able to use the lightning element chakra flow on his sword to make a Vibroweapon.
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: He's fairly good at throwing his swords (or for that matter a pencil) like daggers.
• Dark-Skinned Blonde: White in the manga, but tinted yellow in the Anime.
• Everything's Better with Spinning: One of his maneuvers while using all swords at once is to spin like a top.
• Excuse Me While I Multitask: Frequently battles while in the middle of rapping, and sometimes even pauses to write down lyrics.
• Flight, Strength, Heart: In addition to standard tailed beast host powers, his special power is salivating ink.
• Friend to All Living Things: On the island of giant beasts, he starts by fist-bumping with a giant Gorilla and goes from there. Taken to its extreme when Killer Bee tries to comfort freaking Samehada after it forces Kisame to separate from it because Kisame had been forcing it to go against its will. Remember that Samehada is generally regarded to be at least partially demonic.
• Ignore the Fanservice: Naruto's Sexy No Jutsu had knocked out even the third hokage and never let him down before...but when he tries to use it to convince Bee to help him out, Bee just shuts the door.
  • Later on, he is distracted by the sexiness of Tsunade's giant cans. And the fact that she doesn't wear a bra.
  • Even later he is distracted by Yugito's (who is now an animated corpse puppet controlled by Tobi) exposed chest and doesn't notice the chakra receivers implanted there.
• Image Song: Well, not exactly an official image song per se, but the Shippuden UNS Generations comes with an exclusive song for Killer Bee sung by the voice actor himself (both English and Japanese VA's) And. It. Is. Awesome. (and Hilarious, depending on your opinion)
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Naruto.
• Leeroy Jenkins : Invoked in-universe and the Alliance actively tried to Defy it, but ultimately failed.
• Let's Get Dangerous: There's no way this rapping ninja could be danger... HOLY SHIT! Did he just gut Sasuke like a fish?
• Lightning Bruiser
• Made of Iron: The guy pretty much shrugs off, in order, a flying kick to the head, electrocution, and a jet-propelled, superhumanly strong fist to the face which left a dust cloud in which he was able to escape without noticeably slowing down. Heck, even his seal-acting tattoo says 'tetsu', which means 'iron'!
• No Sell: Twice against Sasuke, first played straight, then subverted: when Sasuke uses his apparently unblockable Chidori Sword on him, he happily blocks it, much to Sasuke and his teammates' surprise. Later Sasuke cast a Tsukiyomi on him, and falls to the ground, unconscious...only to almost kill Sasuke in one hit after letting his guard down.
• The Obi-Wan: Now serving this role to Naruto, and is actually more balanced and powerful than him in many ways to avoid Mentor Occupational Hazard. Although he has none of the gravitas.
• Painful Rhyme: Played for Laughs as it is frequently pointed out in-universe that his rapping skills don't quite match his fighting ones. Although some of his rhymes or puns are surprisingly well-thought (the translators do a rather good job with it too).
  "Kikiude janakutemo, ki… kiku. Kiki da yo!" ("Even though it's not your good arm it… it works. I'm in trouble!")
• Partial Transformation
• Punny Name: He's probably called "Killer Bee" because the Japanese words for "bee" and "eight" are homophones. In addition, his brother the Raikage is named A.
  • Additionally, "Killa Beez" is a term used to reference the affiliates of The Wu Tang Clan. That a Crazy Awesome Rapper-cum-Ninja has a name associated with the world's nerdiest hardcore rap groups can't be a coincidence.
• Scarf of Asskicking
• Scary Black Man
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Although the Eight Tails is fairly benevolent now.
  • Sealed in a Person-Shaped Can
• Shock and Awe: Can channel electricity into his swords.
• Shout Out: To Jero, the unlikely African-American enka singer. When you think of Japanese postwar love ballads, you usually don't think of dudes wearing hip hop clothing (or rapping ninjas, for that matter.)
• Spanner in the Works: He ends up massively throwing Akatsuki and Sasuke's plans out of whack. It's rather hilarious.
• Superpower Lottery: Becomes more apparent with each chapter; Bee is one of only four characters in the entire series that has the ability to control the Tailed Beast, (he's also one of the only two that is currently living). Also, being a Jinchuuriki at that, it allows him him to control the 8-Tail's chakra perfectly. Due to this, he's also completely immune to Genjutsu, not to mention he's also a Lightning Bruiser.
• Symbiotic Possession: One of the few to actually get along with his Tailed Beast.
• Uncle Tomfoolery: Subverted in that even when his antics are played for humor, he's far from incompetent.
• Verbal Tic: Tends to finish most of his lines of speech with "baby" and/or "Oh Yeah!"
• Vibroweapon: Can turn any weapon into this by using that electricity to vibrate it at a high frequency. Even pencils.

Real name: A. The leader of the Cloud Village and Killer Bee's older brother.

When he hears of Killer Bee's apparent demise at the hand of Akatsuki and Sasuke Uchiha, he calls a meeting of the Kages and sends Team Samui to the Leaf Village to inform them and request intel on Sasuke. While on the way to the meeting, Naruto talks to him and pleads for him to give mercy to Sasuke, but the Raikage ignores him. During the meeting he emphasizes that his village is the only one which has had no attachment to Akatsuki, but also causes a ruckus when he smashes part of the table and objects to Mifune nominating Danzo to lead the forces against Akatsuki. When Zetsu's white half interrupts with news that Sasuke is in the building, he promptly grabs him by the neck and strangles him until he loses consciousness. He then heads out with his bodyguards to confront Sasuke, and proceeds to knock Jugo unconscious and attack Sasuke even when it costs him his arm to do so, and would have killed them both if Gaara hadn't intervened.

Is currently serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied Shinobi Forces.

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• A Father to His Men
• Badass: Memetic status aside, he is the poster boy man of this trope for Naruto.
  • Badass Longrobe
• Battle Aura: While fighting he surrounds himself in a shroud of lightning for both offensive and defensive purposes.
• Dark-Skinned Blonde: White in the manga, but tinted yellow in the Anime.
• Dynamic Entry: Inverted. See There Was a Door below.
• Handicapped Badass: He is forced to cut off his own arm to save himself. It hasn't slowed him down that much, despite the fact that it was his main hand.
• Implacable Man: Him cutting his own arm off didn't even faze him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He became a jerk to his brother at some point in the past. Also towards people from other countries. However, he is an inspiring Father To His Men and cares deeply and even too much for his little brother. Even though Bee isn't actually related to him at all. He was also behind Hinata's kidnapping -while his father was probably behind Kushina's.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Wants to destroy Akatsuki, and kill Sasuke in particular, after the attack on his brother, but calms down somewhat after learning the truth (instead becoming angry with Bee for sneaking out of the village).
• Large and in Charge: The leader of his village, and so far the largest person in the series.
  • Also the official leader of the allied ninja forces, although Gaara is currently the Kage taking charge on the field.
• Large Ham
• Leeroy Jenkins: Attacks Sasuke on sight, tries to hit Tobi and comically fails, and goes through windows rather than doors.
• Life or Limb Decision: Due to Sasuke's Amaterasu.
• Lightning Bruiser: A literal example. Despite his enormous size, he is incredibly fast, and can use lightning chakra to enhance his reflexes.
• Manly Tears: So manly that everyone else nearby must cry in unison.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket
• Overprotective Dad: Not per se, but the day he became Raikage, A decided Killer Bee wouldn't allowed to leave the village. Ever.
• Rated M for Manly
• Scary Black Man
• Shock and Awe
  • Lightning Can Do Anything: Not only it enhances his strength, toughness, speed and reaction to absurd levels, it also acts as a shield.
• Social Darwinist: He believes that a shinobi is defined by his strength and an absolute of the shinobi world that those without power will be crushed. Unusually, he said this as less of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and more of a stern lecture.
• The Southpaw
• Spell My Name with an S: Because of language puns his named can be romanized as A/Ei/Ē. Keeping with the Theme Naming its A.
• Super Speed: The fasted shinobi alive until Naruto surpassed him.
• There Was a Door: He is seen smashing through both a window (his own office window, at that) and a wall that blocked the fastest route to his destination, and his secretary suggested this happens often.
• The Unfettered: He will do anything to achieve victory at all costs. When Naruto and Killer Bee escaped their confinement, and weren't persuaded to stay hidden during the 4th Ninja World War, he considered killing Naruto, to prevent Tobi capturing all the tailed beasts.
• Walking Shirtless Scene
• Wrestler in All of Us: Most of his attacks are based on and named after wrestling moves.

A high ranking Cloud-nin and the Raikage's bodyguard. He is appointed as general of the 1st Division of the Allied Shinobi Forces.

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• Apologises a Lot: A trait that saves his life against the Kin-Gin brothers.
• Authority Equals Ass Kicking
• BFS: His sword looks like a giant cleaver. It can be folded sideways and sheathed for transportation.
  • Spellblade: He is able to use the lightning element chakra flow on his sword to make a Vibroweapon.
• Beam Spam: Storm Release: Laser Circus.
• Dark-Skinned Blonde
• Frickin' Laser Beams: combining lightning with water.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With C.
• Light 'Em Up: The Storm Release is a quasi-example. It's supercharged Lighting using Water as a conductor with it's flowing nature, but serves just like laser beams.
• Making a Splash: One of the two ordinary elements he is able to use.
• Number Two: To the Raikage.
• Peek-a-Bangs
• Shock and Awe: One of the two ordinary elements he is able to use. He is apparently also capable of using BLACK lightning, passed down to him by the Third Raikage

Another high rank Cloud-nin and the Raikage's other bodyguard. He is assigned to the Sensor Division to help co-ordinate intelligence in the Fourth Shinobi World War

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• Bishōnen
• Blinded by the Light: Uses an illusion which functions as a constant high powered flash bang.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Darui.
• Master of Illusion
• The Medic: Is a medical ninja.
  • Healing Hands
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Another sensor type.
• One Letter Name: Follows the other theme naming scheme of the Cloud Village. Well if your spelling with S's
• Shock and Awe: Uses a lightning element genjutsu.

One of Killer Bee's students and the leader of their three-man cell. Currently serving in the First Division of the Allied Shinobi Forces, but got sealed away by Ginkaku.

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• Big Breasts, Big Deal: Type 3. She didn't even blink when Omoi called on it.
• Bob Haircut
• Cool Sword
• Faux Action Girl: Despite being a respected kunoichi in the Cloud, she didn't do anything in the Fourth Ninja War and was defeated pretty quickly, though not as fast as her brother. Of course, she was fighting characters way above her level.
• Ice Queen: Her personality and name. Also "cool" is her favorite word and how she was trapped by the Kinkaku brothers
• Closer to Earth
• Meaningful Name: It means "cool" which so happens to be her favorite word.
• Power Blonde
• The Stoic: She makes Shino seem excited. She barely emotes in all her appearances and she was the only one to not react with the news of Killer Bee being captured by Akatsuki, or even his return.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Taken to extreme levels with her brother Atsui.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue one to her brother's red.
• Team Mom
• Worf Effect: Against Ginkaku and Kinkaku. She was supposed to be the best student of Killer Bee and a deadly ninja but it took little time to bring her down and show how badass these two zombie criminals really are.
  • Worf Had The Flu: Samui was up against a set of items that come out to Story Breaker Power for those capable of using them, but the chapter she was defeated made no sense at all since her being sealed completely contradicted the established rules the items played by. As it turned out, Samui's getting sealed had nothing to do with how good or bad she or her opponents were; she was simply undone by the fact that the weapon used on her did not work the way anyone thought it did, and a hidden extra rule that nobody could possibly know about screwed her over. It still didn't escape fans' notice that it's yet another time the villains are allowed to use an Ass Pull to take a female out of the fight easily.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: As far as we know she and her brother are still in the gourd

Another of Killer Bee's students, a somewhat hot-tempered kunoichi swordswoman. Currently serving in the 2nd Division of the Allied Shinobi Forces.

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• A-Cup Angst Flat-chested and somewhat sensitive about it.
• Cool Sword
• Dark Skinned Redhead
• Hot Blooded
• Hot Chick with a Sword
• Karma Houdini: Nobody, including the fans, had said anything about her and Omoi beating down Naruto, especially when it was a a diplomatic convoy and Naruto was the Village Hero. Though they have some excuse.
• Manly Tears
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Omoi's blue.
• Ryu and Ken: She and Omoi share a similar fighting style and fight well as a duo.
• Tsundere: Despite beating Naruto up at his request, Omoi suspects that she's inwardly worried about him.

Killer Bee's third student, who worries about many things. Currently serves in the Surprise Attack Division, and helped take down the resurrected Sasori and Deidera.

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• Cloudcuckoolander: Comes up with highly pessimistic and improbable scenarios, like believing that a rock Karui threw could cause an avalanche that could destroy Konoha and after reaching Konoha, was convinced for a moment that it did. This was just after Pain's invasion, by the way.
  • Epileptic Trees: Has a penchant for looking for the Worst Case Scenario, in everything.
• Cool Sword
  • Spellblade: He is able to use the lightning element chakra flow on his sword to make a Vibroweapon.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• Dark-Skinned Blond
• Manly Tears
• Meaningful Name: Means "heavy" in contrast to Karui, which is "light, or can mean "feelings", which indicates his thoughtful, often gloomy personality.
• Oral Fixation Fixation: A lollipop
• The One Guy: In an inversion of The Smurfette Principle, is a male on a team with two females.
• Perpetual Frowner
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Karui's Red.
• Ryu and Ken: He and Karui share a similar fighting style and fight well as a duo. It's unclear if they are siblings.

The host of the Two-Tailed Monster Cat, a jonin of Kumogakure, who has since been captured and killed by Akatsuki in a mostly unseen battle. But Kabuto later resurrects her with Edo Tensei.

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• Action Girl
• Animal Battle Aura: A cat one thanks to the Two-Tails.
• Badass
• Braids of Action: Naturally comes from being an action girl.
• Cat Girl: To a certain extent. She has Femme Fatalons and databooks tell her favourite food is milk.
• Informed Ability: Like the 2nd Hokage, we hear a lot about how awesome she was, but sadly Kakuzu and Hidan thrashed her off-screen. Having been brought back by Edo Tensei it shows exactly why she earned the respect the Cloud nin had for her.
• Meaningful Name: Her last name, "Nii", means second in Japanese.
• Mismatched Eyes: After the Big Bad implants her with a sharingan and a rinnegan.
• Playing with Fire: She can launch fire attacks including Homing Projectiles.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: She is the can.
  • Sealed in a Person-Shaped Can
• Vapor Wear: No bra!
• Wolverine Claws/Femme Fatalons: Can extend her nails like a cats claws not unlike the Inuzuka clans Four Legs technique.

Warriors of Kumogakure from the Second-Third Great Ninja War revived by Kabuto to fight in the Fourth Ninja War. They're known as the Two lights, but are also remembered as the Hidden Cloud's most reviled criminals for the attempted coup they made during negotiations with the Hidden Leaf. They are among the strongest opponents that Darui's Division face, but Ginkaku is taken out by Darui and a Nine-Tails powered Kinkaku is defeated by Shikamaru and Choji(who provided backup from Gaara's Division) along with Ino(Joining them from the Fifth Division) using their famed Ino-Shika-Cho Formation.

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• Animal Battle Aura: Kinkaku is able to summon a biju-cloak.
• Badass: Beside wielding 4 out of the Five Legendary Weapons and possessing gigantic Chakra reserves, they were devoured by the Nine Tailed Fox and not only managed to survive for two weeks but ripped part of its chakra to their own.
  • By eating its stomach meat at that! To add more, it was recently mentioned no one else has ever survived consuming the chakra flesh of a a Bijuu, not least the Nine-Tails.
• Bash Brothers
• Braids, Beads and Buckskins: Wear stereotypical Native-American headresses.
• Calling Your Attacks: "Curse him, Seven Star Sword! Record, Crimson Gourd!"
• Cool Sword: The Seven Star Sword.
• Horned Humanoid: Although it may be part of their headdresses.
• Facial Markings: The exact same ones Naruto has. This is due to eating the 9-tails flesh of course.
• Fallen Heroes: Revered by the Hidden Cloud Village, but they are also remembered as the Hidden Cloud's most reviled criminals due to their attempted coup when the Second Hokage and Second Raikage were meeting for a formal alliance. Its implied they where responsible for the death of the Second Hokage.
• Feathered Fan of Doom: The Banana Palm Fan which gives them access to all Elemental Powers.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Ginkaku gets sealed away inside his own gourd.
• Public Domain Character: Pretty much everything about them is based on the characters of the same names from Journey to the West, Including the host of Public Domain Artifact's.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Even without Edo Tensei's regenerative powers, the two were so amazingly powerful that the most practical way to bet them off the battlefield was simply to use their own magic jars against them to seal them away.
• Sibling Team
• Spanner in the Works: When Ginkaku is sealed away, Kinkaku explodes in rage and goes 4-Tails. Naruto, being the 9-Tails' real host, senses this through the otherwise-chakra-blocking barrier that the Alliance are keeping him & Killer-Bee distracted in. This sparks Naruto's curiosity enough that he eventually goes to check out what's going on, fights through the guards meant to confine him, finds out about the war going on outside, and teams up with Bee to bust through the forces keeping them contained. In short: Kinkaku's transformation ruined the Five Kage's plans to keep Bee & Naruto out of the fight.
• Too Spicy for Yog Sothoth: They were too unruly to let something as silly as being devoured for two weeks by the strongest bijuu to stop them or even slow them down.
• Your Soul Is Mine

The previous Raikage, father of the Fourth and considered one of the mightiest Ninjas to had ever lived. Died during the Third War by stopping an army of 10,000 Ninjas for three days, allowing his subordinates to escape safely. Known only in flashbacks of A and Killer Bee's childhood. Revived with Edo Tensei and fighting the second front in the 4 Ninja War along with Nidaime Tsuchikage, Yondaime Kazekage and Nidaime Mizukage. Faced most of the Fourth Division and was destroying them, until Naruto showed up and has a moment of opportunity that causes the Raikage to impale himself.

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• Authority Equals Asskicking: It Runs in the Family.
• Badass Stated to be one the few people that have actually fought a Tailed beast head-on without the use of seals and won. Several times. It took an army of 10,000 ninjas to kill him. It took three days.
  • He No Sells a RASENSHURIKEN!!!
  • Badass Beard
  • Badass Longhair
• Black Eyes of Evil: Subverted
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: The 10,000 Ninjas The Shinobi Alliance did not fare any better.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: He halted 10,000 ninjas for three days.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Against 10,000 Shinobi.
    • Last Stand
    • You Shall Not Pass: And 10,000 ninjas didn't.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Black sclera.
• Fangs Are Evil: Subverted
• Finger Poke of Doom: A more serious example. The Jigo Kuzuki Yonhon Nukite (Four Fingered Hell-Bringer Hand) concentrate his entire might in the tips of his fingers, making a penetrating attack that is hundreds of times stronger than Raikiri. It took the force of one finger to penetrate a squadron forged giant Doton wall, reinforced with Lava and kill dozens of Shinobis, to give you an idea.
  • Inverted in that the move gets more powerful the fewer fingers he employs for his technique. Using one finger is basically his strongest move.
• Gonk: He looks like the cross between a Neanderthal and Gorilla Grodd.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Naruto defeated him by redirecting his attack with a Sage Rasengan to his shoulder.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Like the rest of the Kages, he is enraged that Kabuto brought him back to life and is doing his best to help the army to bring him down for good.
• Implacable Man: He gets hit by Naruto's Rasenshuriken Kyūbi Chakura Mōdo, the single deadliest Wind technique ever created, that cuts objects at their cellular level in the form of a concentrated mile-wide storm. Made of microscopic energy blades. In his normal state. And he just shrugs it off!
• The Juggernaut: He is this for the Kages, who are all to a fault One-Man Army. It was stated that nothing could slow him in a fight. A rumor that the Allied Shinobi Forces is learning the hard way. He is the only resurrected warrior who hand't need to use regeneration so far.
  • No Sell
• Large and in Charge
• Legacy Character: He was the one who gave lighting release armour to A, Black Lighting to Darui and Hachibi to Killer Bee.
• Lightning Bruiser: A literal one like his son, A.
• Made Of Diamond
• Nigh Invulnerability: His toughness was legendary, capable of recieving over hundreds of jutsus head-on without even a scratch. It took a direct attack from the second strongest Bijuu to leave an scar in his body... and the beast lost one of his horns as payment forever.
  • Actually, Turns out that it was self inflicted wound. Yes, not even Hachibi was able to damage him.
• No Sell: Three so far to the Shinobi army. Shrugging off a Rasenshuriken, ripping the Cloth Binding Technique, and pulverizing an earth wall along with dozens of soldiers.
• Old Shame: His lighting bolt scar, given by Hachibi.
  • The reason of this is it was self inflicted. He gave it to himself when the felt to the ground exhausted in his charged hand... somehow still activated.
• One-Man Army: At difference of the rest in the Narutoverse, he won this distinction by stopping an actual army. Made of 10,000 Super Soldiers. For three days.
• Shock and Awe
• Scars Are Forever: In form of a lighting bolt, appropriate enough.
• Unnamed Parent: By proxy.
• Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?: Averted and used straight. Naruto defeated him because he didn't want to hurt him/kill him so as to capturing him... and when Kabuto decided to mutilate him, he decided to control directly the Third.
• Why Won't You Die?: Three days.