Team 7 provides examples of:

• Betty and Veronica: Sakura was the Archie to Naruto's Betty and Sasuke's Veronica.
• Color-Coded Characters
  • Chromatic Arrangement: Naruto - Yellow (or Orange), Sasuke - Blue, Sakura - Red (or Pink), Kakashi - Green
  • Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura respectively.
• Freudian Trio: Team 7 starts out with pretty clearly defined roles, with Naruto representing the Id as he was loud, impulsive, boastful, hyperactive, stubborn, instinctual, etc. ; Sakura being the Ego and Sasuke the Super Ego. Interesting in that Naruto and Sasuke gradually exchange their roles through the course of the story, while Sakura's role remains mostly the same.
• Generation Xerox: Twice, no less!
  • Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura trained under a Sannin over the timeskip, learning their summons and part of the moveset, and furthering their personality comparisons. Sasuke/Orochimaru was the student who left to further his own power, Jiraiya/Naruto was the dedicated, dreamer friend who can't give them up, and Tsunade/Sakura the woman caught in the middle.
  • They have a few similarities to the Team 7 under the Fourth Hokage - Naruto/Obito was the loud jokester who was looked down upon for having "lesser" abilities, the heart of the group; Sasuke/Kakashi was the serious "cool" guy, completely single-minded in his dedication and something of a prodigy; and Sakura/Rin was the cool guy's fangirl who didn't recognise the jokester's crush on her, had a bright demeanour, and was essentially the group's medic.
    • It goes even further with 629. Both teams each comprise of a Jinchuuriki, an Uchiha, and an otherwise Badass Normal
• Hair Contrast Duo: Naruto and Sasuke.
• Ninja Brat: Naruto in particular, as he started the series as a bratty, immature, mischievous child who had failed the Ninja Academy graduation exam multiple times. Sakura and Sasuke both have their moments of immaturity in Part 1 as well.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Naruto is the red to Sasuke's blue.
  • In Part 2, it has slowly flipped around.
• The Team
  • Part I - with a Freudian Trio mixed in
    • The Mentor / The Leader - Kakashi
    • The Lancer / Number Two - Sasuke (Superego)
    • The Hero / The Big Guy - Naruto (Id)
    • The Chick / The Smart Guy - Sakura (Ego)

I never go back on my word. That is my way of the Ninja.

• The Ace: Grows into it. By the time the Fourth Great Shinobi War starts up, he is the only living person capable of fighting the undead, constantly regenerating, and nigh-unbeatable Madara Uchiha on equal terms. The reverse may be true, as well.
• Adaptation Dye Job: His chakra color, and therefore the color of his Rasengan as well, was changed from yellow to blue in the anime.
• Adorkable: He's socially awkward, and early on, most of his boasts came off more as cute/laughable than intimidating.
• All of the Other Reindeer: A huge theme in the first part and his backstory. It gradually fades away through the course of the story, because he proves everyone wrong.
• Almighty Janitor: Out of all of his friends, Naruto is still technically a genin. A genin that is a literal One-Man Army, whose personal favorite technique is the logical conclusion of tossing a million razors into a whirlwind and sealing it into one big Happy Fun Ball, and can pull multiple several-story-tall weapon-using toads from another realm, but still a genin.
• Always Someone Better: His thoughts on Sasuke.
• Animal Motifs: Foxes due to being the Kurama's host, and toads due to his affiliation with the ones of Mount Myobokuzan. Also, he has a money pouch that's designed to look like a frog (which he calls 'Gama-chan' ('Little Froggy').
• Appeal To Popularity: Believes that if people have different opinions only the most commonly held opinion should be considered.
  Naruto: When people have different opinions, you should apply the majority vote.
  • The Irony of this being the reason he was the village pariah being lost on him.
• Attention Whore: In the very early days of the manga, and most definitely in the academy.
• Attractive Bent Gender: Weaponised.
• Awesome Yet Practical: The techniques that Naruto uses such as the Mass Shadow Clone and Rasengan tend to be extremely flashy and draining abilities that few have the chakra capacity for, even before modifying or improving them. For anyone else, they would be Awesome, but Impractical. However, Naruto has absolutely staggering reserves that only improve with time, giving him immensely powerful and flexible abilities that no one else would be able to use.
• Badass: In part 1 he's a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass more than anything, but come Shippuuden he´s developed into a weapons-grade full-fledged badass.
  • His Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass nature is even Lampshaded in Rock Lee's spin off series.
  Tenten: He's kind of a dimwit, and a scatter brain, and a little clumsy, and a butthead, and cheap, and perverted, and greedy, and egotistical, and oblivious, and a dork, but you can't let your guard down!
  • Badass Boast: He always boasts before he engages in fight. It inevitably became this.
  • Badass Long Coat: When Naruto returned from learning Sage Mode to fight Pain, he was sporting one of these, but quickly lost it. He regains one with an elaborate, seal-decorated coat of chakra when, together with Kurama/Nine-Tails, they finally pulled off their Biju Transformation.
• Battle Aura: One in the form of the Biju cloak, and the other while using his Sage Mode abilities. He can punch people with both.
• Beneath the Mask: Beneath Naruto's mischievous Idiot Hero facade was a lonely, resentful child starved for attention and hovering dangerously close to a Face Heel Turn. The acknowledgement he got from Iruka, and later Team 7 and the rest of Konoha helped him get better, but Naruto constantly finds parallels between himself, Gaara, and Sasuke.
• Berserk Button: It's highly recommended to NEVER hurt his friends, Love Interest, mentors, or Parental Substitute.
• Big Brother Mentor: He's this to Konohamaru, who looks up to him more than anyone. Iruka is this to Naruto himself.
• Big Damn Heroes: Several times throughout the course of the series. Most of the time played straight, but the most spectacular one his rescue of Tsunade and the Leaf Village from Pain is actually a Double Subversion. Pain had already killed multiple significant characters and obliterated the vast majority of the village landscape before Naruto arrives. But he manages to convince him to make a Heel Face Turn, so Nagato promptly sacrifices his own life to revive everyone he'd killed.
  • Gets another one after taming Kurama. Just as Tobi's Biju are about to blast Kakashi and Gai with their Bijudama he flicks them all the way just by sheer speed.
• Big Eater: He eats a lot, but never seems to gain any weight from his overeating.

• Black Eyes of Evil: Dark Naruto, who's a manifestation of the darkness in Naruto's heart, complete with a constant Slasher Smile and eyes that are completely black.
  • In the anime they add Red Eyes, Take Warning.
• Blank White Eyes: Played For Drama whenever he uses his V2 Chakra Cloak.
• Blow You Away / Razor Wind: The main nature of his chakra is "Wind", and he puts it to good use with Futon(Wind Style): Rasen Shuriken, which basically creates a crapload of tiny little blades that cut every cell in your body.
  • In 4th tail form, he creates a cyclone with a fling of its claw.
• Bodyguard Crush: Inverted - if he has to protect a girl in a filler arc or movie, said girl has a good chance of developing feelings for him whether he catches on or not.
• Boisterous Weakling: He was this as a child and at the very beginning of the series, boasting that he would become Hokage while failing to perform the most basic techniques.
• Book Dumb: He comes up with winning strategies for his squad, yet placed dead last in the exams.
• Boring, but Practical: Naruto's signature move, the shadow clone jutsu, allows him to create multiple physical copies of himself. On paper, it sounds considerably less flashy than majority of the other jutsu's in the series. That said, it's actually proven to be a Swiss Army Superpower.
• Born Winner: Heir to no less than three super-powerful legacies, in addition to having the ability to tame a creature composed of pure malevolence that was sealed inside of him. Personally trained by some of the strongest ninjas alive, and the wisest Toad Sage. More accolades keep getting piled on as time goes on.
• Bratty Half-Pint: In the beginning.
• Broken Hero: Between his past, Sasuke and Pain...
• Broken Messiah: Temporarily had this spectacularly happen to him during the Iron Country/Kage Summit arc.
• Butt Monkey: At the start of the series, but generally this has faded.
• Chain of People: Naruto replicates to pull this off by himself occasionally.

• Chick Magnet: Not so much in the manga, but he usually manages to get at least one more girl to fall in love with him in each filler arc of the anime.
• The Chosen One: According to Jiraiya, Naruto is the one child of an ancient prophecy destined to save the world and not Nagato (aka Pain) or Minato as Jiraiya always thought. Though it's later hinted that they're all The Chosen One. Might as well be just Naruto, though, since the other two are dead..
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Naruto has it bad during the Ninja War arc, where he insists on breaking out of hiding because he can't bear to sit back while his friends die to protect him, and pretty much takes the task of winning the war on himself, sending clones to help every division and protecting his fellow shinobi left, right and centre.
• Clipped Wing Angel: His V2 Chakra Cloak is insanely powerful, but allows the Nine Tails to assume control of his body and shortens his lifespan.
• Combination Attack: Has one with Yamato which combines his Wind Style Rasengan with Yamato's Water Style Tearing Torrent.
• Confusion Fu: Naruto is the number one ninja at surprising people.
• Cosmic Plaything: He had the most powerful demon in the world sealed in him as an infant, grew up a neglected orphan not knowing why the entire village shunned him, finally made some friends only for his best friend to Face Heel Turn and try to kill him. He has an organization of super powered psychos out to get him. He can't use too much of the demon's power without it killing him or driving him mad.
• Covert Pervert: Despite his habit of calling out adults he considers 'perverts' (especially Jiraiya) pre-timeskip and taking advantage of them with his Sexy Jutsu, Naruto seems to be Not So Different from Jiraiya after all...
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• Cursed with Awesome: Having the Nine-Tails sealed into his belly. It makes everyone hate him but the trade off is access to the biju's chakra in addition to rapidly developing his personal chakra reserves to the point where he has more raw power than most jonin before the story even begins. It's revealed later to be Blessed with Suck as his father choose to stash the beast in his son so Naruto could fight Tobi and hoped it would be a blessing both tactically and socially.
• Death Glare: Give this to The nine tails in chapter 538 and even it was afraid.
• Defeating the Undefeatable: Something of an inversion, The Third Raikage resurrected by Edo Tensei was shilled as being an incredibly strong one man army (literally) that beat the Eight Tails in a fight. The man tanked Naruto's strongest attack and was only defeated when Naruto recreated the way he got his scar; by having him run himself through with his own technique. Played straight in his battle with Pain.
• Determinator: This trope more or less defines Naruto.
  • "I won't let any of my comrades get killed !".
• Ditzy Genius: Has very little in the way of common sense, but has shown himself to be both surprisingly perceptive of others, likely due to only being able to watch others as a child, and extremely proficient when it comes to making strategies, especially under the heat of battle.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Towards Sakura. Initially before his Character Development.
• Doppelgänger Attack / Me's a Crowd: One of his two trademark techniques.
• Dumb Blonde: Naruto isn't the sharpest kunai in the pouch especially when it comes to social graces or booksmarts, but to his credit he can be a cunning battle tactician.
• The Empath: Naruto gains the ability to sense negative emotions while using the Nine-Tailed Fox's chakra after he defeated it.
• Et Tu, Sasuke?: Definitely his reaction when the latter said that he is leaving his friends for the matter of getting stronger.
• Everything's Better with Spinning: His Signature Move, the Rasengan, and all its variants. The tenth anniversary game one-ups this by making an Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons version! It's even in his name!
• Facial Markings: Whiskerlike marks on his cheeks, apparently a result of the Fox inside Naruto.
• The Final Temptation: Obito offers, and Naruto nearly takes it until Hinata slaps it out of him.
• Flash Step: Once he has tamed the Nine Tails.
• Fluffy Tamer: A literal case as he manages to befriend all of the tailed beasts including Kurama, the Nine Tailed Fox, who is currently assisting him in the war.
• Gender Bender: "Oiroke No Jutsu", translated "Sexy Jutsu".
• Generation Xerox: Jiraiya, a member of the Legendary Sannin and Naruto's godfather-mentor, has more on one occasion remarked that Naruto resembles and is surely able to surpass his former student the Fourth Hokage, who is Naruto's father, and even himself (in terms of awesome and pervertedness). Kakashi also remarked in the third Shippuden movie Inheritors of the Will of Fire that Naruto's ethic of protecting his friends solemnly reminds him of his late comrade Obito Uchiha, whose spiky hair and knuckleheaded determination Naruto mirrored perfectly. According to Tsunade, although Naruto inherited his colouring from his father, the Fourth Hokage, his personality, favorite food, and even Verbal Tic all come from his mother Kushina, including his unconventional battle-tactics and love of pranks. Not to mention her being the previous Jinchuuriki of Kurama.
• Genius Ditz: He may normally be an idiot, but the plans and strategies he comes up at the span of seconds while under pressure are definitely to be admired. It has gotten to the point it is lampshaded at various points in part II.
• Healing Factor: Thanks to the Kyuubi.
• Heartwarming Orphan: An orphan who has the tendency to make friends out of his enemies.
• Hellish Pupils: Vertical slits when using the the Fox's chakra.

• Hereditary Hairstyle: He has his father's spiky blond hair.
• Heroes Want Redheads: The girl he has a crush on has pink hair, he loves his mother's red hair and at least a couple of the Filler girls he's Ship Teased with have red hair.
• Heroic BSOD: Naruto usually handles himself outstandingly well, but some things that happen are enough to drive even him into a state of gaping, awestruck desperation. So far it's happened three times. The first was completely justified and long overdue; the second came when he learned that Sasuke, who he had dedicated six years of his life to rescuing, had been declared Public Enemy No. 1 and marked for death by every ninja village,including the Hidden Leaf. The third was brought on by the death of Neji. It nearly had Naruto plunged into the Despair Event Horizon, until Hinata gave him the Get A Hold Of Yourself Man + Rousing Speech combo.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Beats the shit out of himself if he feels he's being "useless". Actually, the more powerful he gets, the more he seems prone to this, perhaps because he used to suck earlier in his lifetime, or to keep balance in his characterization (boasting loser -> doubting hero).
  • He claims that he's "not that good of a ninja" after defeating five out of six of Pain's bodies, when few could even defeat one, and before defeating the last and most powerful one. Granted, his opponent was tired and and had used most of his chakra in fighting the villagers and nuking the city, but still...
• He's Back: Several times (after his 3 years training with Jiraiya, then after he fails to bring back Sasuke again, and after Jiraiya's death).
• Hidden Depths: Enough to be poster boy on the trope page.
• Highly Visible Ninja: Lifetime achievement award. And it seems it's a hereditary trait between his mother's red and father's yellow.
  • Technicolor Ninja: Despite the Orange, Naruto has shown a great proficiency for stealth when he cares about using it.
  • One the other hand, he recently gained the ability to turn into full-tailed beast form. You can't be much more highly visible than turning into a kaiju-sized fox demon.
• Holding Hands: Does this with Hinata after she saves him from the Despair Event Horizon.
• Honor Before Reason: His whole reason for trying to help Sasuke can be summed up as this.
• Hot Blooded: When he was a kid he'd more or less charge straight into battle screaming and spamming shadow clones. He's more level headed in part II, but stile has his moments.
• Hour of Power: His Bijuu Mode only allows him 10 minutes at most to fight, though it does seem to last slightly longer after each subsequent use.
• Hurting Hero: Which he hides behind a smile and a upbeat cheerful attitude.
• I Am Your Opponent: Says it word-for-word against Tobi after the Impure World Resurrection is deactivated
• I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: Said word for word in Chapter 551.
  Naruto: I can't believe I'm saying this, but thanks for the save, Itachi!
• Idiot Hero: He's the protagonist and a moderate Book Dumb. Not insufferably stupid, just overly simple, cheerful and carefree at times when it would be better to act serious, thoughtful, and focused. His lack of social graces and tendency to sound ill-informed cause him to look like a nimrod, but you gotta be fair enough to spare him the total idiot billing.
• I Gave My Word: He never goes back on his promises.
• I Got Bigger: Before the timeskip, he was the second smallest of the Konoha 12◊. Afterwards, he ended up being taller than Sakura and as tall as Sasuke.
  • We got a 'growth chart' of Naruto over the course of the series during the 590-600 chapters. From the beginning to the end of Part II Naruto grew at least three or four more inches.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Inherited them from his father, the Fourth Hokage. They symbolize his youth, naive personality and inexperience.
• Insecure Love Interest: Seems to display this trope to an extent. While not having a romantic relationship with Sakura, he states to Sai that he could not tell her how he feels if he couldn't keep his promise to her, so he seemingly implies he's unworthy of her.
• In-Series Nickname: As a kid, he had on more than one occasion been called the "Number One Hyperactive Knucklehead Ninja" by Kakashi, which caught on here and there.
• In the Blood: Several things.
  • His natural ability to learn-by-doing, which is one of the few things he inherited from this father.
  • His lack of academic prowess, his energetic personality, his short temper, and his Verbal Tic, "Dattebayo!/Believe it!", all of which he inherited from his mother.
  • The Uzumaki-clan natural chakra affinity, strong life energy, and excellent physical health, all of which is necessary to perform the ninjitsu he masters throughout the series.
• It's Personal: The Pain Arc. From killing his beloved sensei, to blowing up his village, to (temporarily) killing his other sensei, and then trying to pull a Not So Different comparison between Naruto and himself, by the time Naruto actually sees Pain for the first time, he wants him so, SO dead.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: His promise to bring back Sasuke for Sakura is rooted there. Though he also has personal motives as well, and they overtake through the course of the story.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Can be fairly blunt and quite willing to tell people when he thinks less than highly of them, but is very willing to help when needed.
• Keet: Naruto is very energetic and very loud.
• Kirk Summation: His reply to Pain's Motive Rant.
• Knuckle Cracking: Over and over. More than any mortal knuckle could really take.
• Leader Wannabe: His goal throughout the series is to become Hokage and reform the ninja world.
  • Not anymore, he's leading the entire ninja world against Madara, Obito, and the Ten-Tails.
• Leaked Experience: This is how Naruto's "train with a hundred doppelgangers" Instant Expert method works. He gains all the experience(s) of the clones when they're dismissed, like a reverse EXP Share.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Often charges in on his own, and gets called out for it by Yamato, Kakashi and Sakura in the Three-Tails arc. This is even explicitly the reason why he was hidden what was going on at the beginning of the War Arc. Of course, due to the fact that his clones enable him to watch his opponent's technique as many times as he needs to, it's to his advantage to be one.
• Legacy Character: Considering that he's named after Jiraiya's main character in his best book, and that Naruto's training was considered his greatest achievement before his death this definitely qualifies.
• Leitmotif: In part 1.
• Lightning Bruiser: He qualifies as this when using the Fox's power, and also when in Sage Mode. He can even outmatch the Raikage's speed, who was previously fastest in the world.
• Like Father, Like Son: It's mostly appearance wise. He takes most after his mother.
• Lima Syndrome: Learning about the circumstances surrounding the Kyuubi being sealed inside him unlocked some sort of empathic powers which allows him to feel sympathy for the Kyuubi.
• Living Battery: To the point where he can supercharge the entire alliance with their own Version 1 Super Modes.
• Living Weapon: Although he was first introduced as a living prison, Minato later outright stated he was made a Jinchuriki for the purpose of combating The Masked Man.
• Look What I Can Do Now: Naruto uses this as his quasi standard way to progress. In fact, he does it in the first episode/volume when he first busts out what will later become his signature move.
• Love Martyr: Counts as a platonic example for Sasuke. He also falls into the romantic variety for Sakura.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: His dad is the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. Not that it wasn't incredibly obvious all along.
• Made of Iron: the Kyuubi boosts his body's natural regeneration to superhuman levels, but damn does he take some serious hits. He was stabbed through both hands, arms and legs by Pain yet shows no signs of scar tissue.
• Magnetic Hero: Definitely. Other characters often point out his uncanny ability to bring out the good in people.
• Meaningful Name: Naruto can either mean "maelstrom" or a type of fish cake ramen topping with a spiky starburst and spiral in the middle which obviously inspired his look. Uzumaki either means "spiral" or "whirlpool." Both names tie in well with his energetic personality and his signature move, the rasengan ("spiral sphere"), and narutomaki is meant to resemble the whirlpools in the Naruto Strait, which may have inspired his mother's home village of Uzushiogakure, the Village Hidden in the Whirling Tides.
• Mentors New Hope: Jiraiya considers training Naruto the one thing he definitely got right in his life.
• The Messiah: Deconstructed to some extent a few chapters after his fight with Pain, but soon quickly reconstructed.
• Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Courtesy of All of the Other Reindeer and the rumors about him becoming a demon going on a rampage against the village.
• More Teeth Than The Osmond Family: When using the V2 Fox Cloak.
• Mr. Fanservice: Lots of Shirtless Scenes in Part II. He spent whole arcs shirtless under oil- and waterfalls.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: After taking control of the fox's power he summon many Chakra arms, each with a Rasengan on it..
• My Greatest Failure: Not being able to save either Sasuke or Gaara comes off as this, especially in the Tear Jerker where he thinks he is useless for not being able to save either, especially seeing at it is his first major mission after three years training to defeat the Akatsuki and bring Sasuke back.
• Naughty Is Good: His debut scene involves him pulling an elaborate prank involving Face Doodling on the statues of the Hokage.
• Nom De Mom: His last name comes from his mom Kushina Uzumaki in order to hide his ties with his father Minato Namikaze, the fourth hokage.
• Oblivious to Love: Brutally deconstructed. He grew up only being shunned and hated by the village, so he simply cannot recognize genuine affection towards him. He didn't understand Hinata's feelings towards him. When she offers him some medicine or an opportunity to cheat on a written exam, he finds it awkward (justified while Naruto thinks to himself Hinata is way too kind to sabotage him, he thinks Kiba might be putting her up to it).
• One-Man Army: He is The Cavalry by the time the Fourth War comes!
  "I'm going to hit all the battle fronts at the same time and turn the tide!"
• Orange Blue Contrast and Red Oni, Blue Oni: In the anime, his chakra is blue, while the Kyuubi's is orange. He could originally only draw on the Kyuubi's chakra with extreme emotion, hence he was much calmer while using his own chakra.
  • Also, Naruto=Red and Sasuke=Blue. Used very literally in the Shippouden opening and end themes.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Like all biju and their hosts, Naruto is often described in a way analogous to a nuclear weapon.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "You give up... on me giving up!"
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When using the Kyuubi's power and Dark Naruto.
• Running on All Fours: Naruto each time the Bijuu cloak appears.
• Screw Destiny: What he tells Neji after he defeats him in the Chunin exam, and pretty much anyone else who views him as a hopeless cause destined for failure.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Naruto has little respect for rules on a good day, and when those rules become a hindrance he ignores them entirely.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: He's the aforementioned Person, with a demon fox sealed within him.
• Secret Legacy: He is this to his father the Fourth Hokage.
• Shaping Your Attacks: His Rasenshuriken.
• Shonen Hair: Spiky blond hair for a shounen protagonist.
• Signature Move: Shadow Clones and later Rasengan.
  • The Fuma Shuriken seems to be acknowledged as Naruto's signature weapon in console games, despite the fact that he's only used it twice, one in Part I (where he disguised himself as one) an in Part II, where he transformed his clone into one. He's never carried one around, or even actually thrown one.
• Spanner in the Works: To the point where Tobi actually calls him out on this trope.
• Spirited Competitor: He was willing to pick a fight with his rival every chance he could get.
• Stalker Without A Crush: Towards Sasuke.
• Stealth Mentor: In a strange way, Naruto was this to Itachi. Naruto declaring how he made it as far as he did with the help of his comrades and friends makes Itachi realize what true strength means, and how wrong he was to rely only on himself. His speech to Naruto about a belief only in yourself makes you arrogant and leads to failure? That was describing himself and his own failure.
• Stepford Smiler: Naruto will tend to mask his pain with a smile, such as when he promises Sakura to bring back Sasuke for her before and after the retrieval mission. Before the Chunin exams finals, he admitted to Hinata that he viewed himself as a loser and tried to act cool and brash to cope with this. In Part II, Pain put him on the ropes by breaking him down with words, getting him to second guess his own actions.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He looks so identical to his father Minato that no one was suprised by the time of The Reveal.
• Super Mode: Sage Mode and Tailed Beast Modes.
  • Enlightenment Super Power: Sage Mode.
  • Golden Super Mode: His Nine-Tail Chakra Mode
    • Power Up Full Color Change
  • In Harmony With Nature: Sage Mode requires this.
  • Super Empowering: Naruto can use the Chakra Transfer technique to give his allies his Animal Battle Aura.
  • Super-Powered Evil Side: Any tail form past two qualifies.
• Surpassed The Teacher: He perfected sage mode, which Jiraiya wasn't able to do.
  • He also surpassed Kakashi, because the latter wasn't able to add element manipulation to the rasengan -which is why Kakashi made chidori. Even the Fourth Hokage had been unable to add his elemental manipulation to the Rasengan.
• Swiss Army Superpower: Naruto's Shadow Clone Jutsu. The standard ability is it allows Naruto to create physical clones of himself. These clones can act as human shields, speed up his training, allows him to spam rasengans, and can be combined with his taijutsu techniques.
• Take a Third Option: This trope more or less defines Naruto.
• The Tease: Sexy Jutsu.
• Thousand Yard Stare: He has these shown after he finds out that Jiraiya is dead.
• Time to Unlock More True Potential: Every time Naruto learns a new skill, it's quickly rendered insufficient and it's back to training. Rinse and repeat.
• To Be a Master He doesn't just want to be the Hokage (the best ninja in Konoha). He wants to be the greatest Hokage, better than all before him.
• Took a Level in Badass: Several times. Achieving Sage mode and harnessing the Nine-Tails chakra are the most notable occassions. His progress before the timeskip is practically nothing by comparison. To basically sum it up: he has the full cooperation and power of the most powerful tailed beast short of the original, Sage Mode which gives him Super Strength and toughness outside of that, the ability to power-up anyone he touches, and has chakra so incredibly strong it can be felt all the way to Konoha. If it weren't for his current opponents, this would be a clear case of Story Breaker Power (though, for the Sasuke/Naruto fight which is practically inevitable, it'll be interesting to see how Sasuke will manage to level that playing field).
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ramen, ramen, ramen!
• Training from Hell: His training to learn the Rasen-Shuriken involved using a jillion Shadow clones to master his chakra control. He fainted more than a couple of times.
• Trauma Conga Line: Sasuke, Jiraiya and his parents are pretty much why he's so messed up.
• The Trickster: At first.
• Übermensch: In-universe. Since the first arc he has stated that he rejects the ordinary ninja way and will follow his own. It's constantly reaffirmed throughout the series.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Jiraiya describes him as this during the chunin exams. Thanks to his high levels of Chakra, Naruto doesn't need to worry about the fine control his peers do and can more readily rely on raw power ninjutsu. This is played in contrast to Neji's Weak, but Skilled. Later, Shadow Clone training helps convert raw power into skill, but he's still prone to muscle his way through jutsus that require loose chakra control. At least until he learns Sage Mode, which is enough to fight Pain on equal terms using an energy even more difficult than Chakra.
  • Ebisu also points out that he and Sasuke are this way in chakra control compared to Sakura. Sakura has by far the least chakra of the three, but the ability to use it the best. Naruto and Sasuke have far more chakra, but end up spending far more of it on their jutsus, to lesser effect, because their control issues.
• Unstoppable Rage: Thrice. In part 1 when he believed Sasuke had been killed, in part 2 against Orochimaru and when Pain seemingly kills Hinata.
• Verbal Tic: "Dattebayo/Believe It!" He uses it as a comma, for gods sake. "The sky's blue, Believe It!" Curiously, when the English dub has to acknowledge his verbal tic once more, in Storm 3 for instance, it's translated instead as "Ya know?"
  • Inheritance Of Acquired Traits: His mother has almost the exact same Verbal Tic ("Dattebane" to his "Dattebayo"), which he couldn't have possibly picked up from her, as he'd been alive for no more than an hour before she died.
• Warrior Therapist: Especially against Neji and Gaara.
• We Used To Be Friends: With Sasuke. Big time.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer: Naruto had a phase of this with his Kage Bunshin and Rasengan, but he seems to have grown out of it (this probably hangs on fans' minds because this is the point he was at when the plot of the anime took a 80-episode Filler break, so we got to see these milked for much, much more than they were worth).
• "World of Cardboard" Speech: Delivered one when he fought Gaara.
  Naruto: It's almost unbearable, isn't it? The feeling of being all alone. I know that feeling; I've been there in that dark and lonely place, but now there are others... other people who mean a lot to me. I care more about them than I do myself, and I won't let anyone hurt them. That's why I won't ever give up. I will stop you even if I have to kill you!
  Gaara: But why... why would you do this for anyone but yourself?
  Naruto: Because they saved me from myself. They rescued me from my loneliness; they were the first to accept me for who I am. They're my friends.
• Yuri Fan: Shown by Konohamaru's Girl on Girl Justu.

I hate a lot of things, and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it a reality. I'm going to restore my clan, and kill a certain someone.

• Aloof Ally: He believes he's this towards Tobi. It's more accurate to say he's under More than Mind Control, even if he attacked him once.
• Anti-Villain: He only wants his clan members avenged.
  • Anti-Hero: After meeting Itachi once again, which gets him to rethink his revenge, he decides to seek answers from the previous Hokage with Orochimaru's help, and upon learning about the Uchiha, the Senju, what are Shinobi, and what is a village, Sasuke decides that he will protect what Itachi fought for.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: In his relationship towards Naruto and his desire to fight only strong opponents in order to achieve his goal of killing Itachi Uchiha. This has him lose to Rock Lee and nearly die in facing Gaara. Losses to Itachi and others teach him humility in time.
• Asexual/Celibate Hero: Sasuke has never shown any undisputable romantic or sexual interest towards anyone, because that's the way he is or/and it would hinder his objectives of revenge.
• Avenging the Villain: How he justifies his objective of killing every single member of the Leaf village. Interesting in that it's clearly not what Itachi would have wanted.
• Ax Crazy: From the Kages summit on, though he has had the Sanity Ball at times. Notably when he sees Itachi again.
• Badass: Despite what you think of him, he is nothing short of this due to how much Naruto invests himself to reach his level. Even the most talented and elite shinobi of the entire world admit he's a genius with potential beyond theirs.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Psychological torture in his case. Three times, each worse than the last:
  • First when he was 7 years old, making him a socially inept, revenge obsessed kid.
  • Second time after he re-encountered his big brother, who broke several of his bones, left him in a month-long coma, destroyed his self-worth, ranked his obsession to eleven and caused him to sever all his bonds to join one of the biggest monsters in the series.
  • The third time finally ripped apart what little sanity he had left and transformed him into a deranged avenger.
• Bastard Understudy: Towards Orochimaru and Tobi.
• Berserk Button: Part I and a good chunk of Part II, any time Itachi is near him. After the latter's defeat, any remark about his clan, especially if it's about Itachi, is enough to make Sasuke snap.
• Bishōnen: In-universe, almost every female character he met has noticed how goodlooking he is.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: His Susanoo.
• Break the Cutie: In his backstory, when he was Forced To Watch his brother murder his clan, at the age of seven. Repeatedly. For days upon days in his mind.
• Broken Ace: Sasuke was Naruto's class Ace: extremely skilled, popular, wanted by all the girls. But he's also incredibly damaged inside because of his past.
• Byronic Hero: To Naruto's messiah.
• Cain and Abel: With Itachi.
• Can't Catch Up: This, towards Itachi, was what ultimately made him leave the Leaf. He felt threatened when it appeared that Naruto could catch up with and eventually surpass him, as it was a reminder that he wasn't close to catching up to Itachi, if he couldn't be the best in his own team.
• Chick Magnet: Not that he cares.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Almost everyone he gets involved with. In chronological order: the Leaf Village, Orochimaru, Tobi, Jugo and Suigetsu, Karin, Sakura again, Zetsu.
• Curtains Match the Window: Black hair and eyes, as opposed to Naruto's blond and blue-eyed appearance.
• Deadly Upgrade: The Mangekyou Sharingan. It grants numerous cool powers but slowly degrades the user's eyesight with each use. His Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan averts this.
• Death Glare: Used very early towards Sakura, but most instances are in part II where it is enough to scare Kabuto, Sai or Juugo.
• Defrosting Ice King: Throughout the first several arcs thanks to his friendly rivalry with Naruto. Then his brother showed up, tortured him and rekindled the thirst for revenge, which coupled with Sasuke's jealousy over Naruto's progress inspired him to run away from the village to train with a psychopath...
• Detached Sleeves: They may be heat-resistant, given breathing fire is one of his main moves.
• Deuteragonist: He is the most important character in the story bar Naruto himself.
• Discard and Draw: Loses his cursed seal, his regenerative powers, and certain other abilities from Orochimaru's remains, but acquires the Mangekyou Sharingan.
• Disproportionate and Misplaced Retribution: Wants to kill everybody living in Konoha, even those completely unaware of what happened or not even born then, for the village elders role in the Uchiha Massacre.
• Easily Forgiven: No one seems particularly interested in holding a grudge against him. Most prominently Naruto, but also Orochimaru, Jugo, Suigetsu and Karin.
• Evil Counterpart: Lampshaded frequently by Naruto.
  • Also, Gaara views Sasuke as his Evil Counterpart too. He lampshades this during his fight with the latter in the Kage Summit Arc.
• Evil Eye: The Sharingan and then later the Mangenkyou Sharingan and then finally the Eternal Magenkyou Sharingan. They grant the following abilities...
  • Aura Vision
  • Combat Clairvoyance: The Sharigan sharpens his eyesight by leagues. With it, he's able to read & anticipate enemy movements without missing a beat.
  • Instant Armor: The Susanoo technique.
  • Hypnotic Eyes: Tsukuyomi.
  • Hellfire: While Itachi primarily favored his Sharingan's genjutsu ability, Sasuke seems to focus on the Amaterasu technique, his Susanoo even has a Flaming Sword covered in the Blaze Release flames.
  • Mega Manning: Averted save for one instance. The Sharingan can copy almost any jutsu, except the Blood Limits. But Sasuke has only ever been shown to copy one thing this way: a bit of Rock Lee's Taijutsu that he couldn't properly utilize anyway.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Udon was shown makin googly eyes at Sasuke after he saved them from Kankuro.
• Evil Former Friend: To Naruto and Sakura.
• Exotic Eye Designs: His Sharingan◊, Mangekyo Sharingan and Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Face Heel Turn: To Orochimaru.
• Fallen Hero: Very much so.
• Fight Magnet: He spends a lot of time seeking them out, but they come to him just as often. Case in point, Deidara jumping him because by defeating Orochimaru, he basically stole his kill^note Long story short, it's because Orochimaru left Akatsuki that they recruited Deidara. The latter was forced to join the organization. He swore to kill Orochimaru himself as a revenge. Plus, Uchihas piss Deidara off in general.
• Fuuma Shuriken: Sasuke is very fond of them using many trick throws by attaching them to wires as well as one that is rigged to split appart and fire.
• Freak Out: Happens thrice.
  • First after the slaughtering of his clan and he gets Mind Raped by Itachi: the sweet and shy little kid becomes obsessed with revenge.
  • Second after he meets again Itachi, is beaten to a pulp and Mind Raped again: it leads to his Face Heel Turn.
  • Third one is delayed: after he learns the truth about Itachi, he Jumps Off The Slippery Slope, but it's only after he kills Danzou that he spectacularly freaks out. The result is not pretty. At all. Lucklily, he's backpedaled after a run-in with Itachi as an Impure Resurrection, but he's still on the fence about his desire for vengeance.
• Generation Xerox: Zig Zagged. For a while, Sasuke was similar to Orochimaru, but now that he isn't following the path of his teacher, his life seems to be headed a direction similar to several of his ancestors. It was explicitly called the curse of the Uchiha. Then Kakashi brings back the comparison with Orochimaru, if only for the teacher versus student parallel.
• Genocide Backfire: His goal is to kill Itachi for slaughtering their clan. It was revealed Itachi did so to stop a potential civil or world war. After he "succeeds" in killing Itachi, he wants to kill every Konoha citizen for what his brother had to do.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: He reacted poorly to learning that his brother loved him above all else and self-sacrificed. And that it was by order of Konoha that the Uchiha were killed.
• Good Is Not Nice: Started out as this status, before he underwent his Face Heel Turn.
• Green-Eyed Monster: To a sickening degree. Mostly directed towards Itachi and Naruto, but he generally can't stand the very idea that anyone could be stronger than him.
• Handsome Lech: In the Road To Ninja movie. His AU counterpart isn't plagued by a horrid clan massacre, so he's developed into a more normal sense of a teenage male, a flirtatious dude.
• Hates Being Touched: Itachi's fault.
• Heel Face Revolving Door: During the Chunin and Hunt for Itachi arc, he goes from being Jerk with a Heart of Gold to Jerk Ass with just a few facts revealed to him. It gets worse in Part 2, where after killing Itachi he apathetically dismisses Tobi until he learns the truth about why Itachi did what he did. His obsession with revenge increases to the point where he abandons and sacrifices his teammates, but after speaking with the resurrected Itachi starts to question his motivations. After hearing the tale of the Hokage, Sasuke chooses to follow in his brother's footsteps and protect Konoha from Madara.
• Heir to the Dojo: Sasuke is treated like this by pretty much everyone in Part I.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Fits this trope to a T.
• Horrible Judge of Character: The ease with which Sasuke can be manipulated by someone who is Obviously Evil is astonishing.
  • Though to be fair, it is heavily implied that a) He was planning on betraying both of his "manipulators" (Orochimaru and Tobi) from day one, and when he does, he manages to seriously mess up their plans with very little effort.
• Ineffectual Loner: Initially.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Has an absolutely massive one towards Itachi. It also starts to develop to Naruto over the course of Part One, which eventually leads to his Face Heel Turn.
• It's All About Me: He starts to have this attitude once he leaves the Leaf Village. Also, not to mention the fact that all he cares about is getting his revenge.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Back before his Face Heel Turn, he was this. Though he presented a cold facade, he grew to care about Naruto and Sakura.
  • Jerk Ass: After he finds out the truth about Itachi. Driving it in is the way he abandons Karin and disowns her as useless once she becomes a liability, even though she had just healed him a short while before.
• Kick the Dog: If stabbing Karin wasn't enough in itself, disowning her as useless puts the ice on the cake. However, Karin pathetically swoons over his smooth-talking and accepts the apology. Meanwhile, Suigetsu gets the business end of all her pent-up angst.
• Killing Intent: In part two, thanks to Orochimaru. It's so strong, it's enough to calm down Ax Crazies Juugo and Suigetsu.
• Last of His Kind: Subverted. He is called this, but his brother was still alive at the time, only disowned. Not long after Itachi's death, it's revealed there is another Uchiha still alive, and well hidden.
• Laughing Mad: Twice, the first time after achieving his Cursed Seal Level 2 form, and the second time after Kakashi asks him to give up on his quest for revenge.
• Living MacGuffin: Between Naruto, Sakura, Orochimaru, Kabuto and Tobi, everyone seems to want some part of Sasuke. Even Pain shows interest towards him once or twice (even if they never meet).
• Loners Are Freaks: Unlike Naruto, he definitely goes insane after truth of Itachi is revealed; Danzo just lit the fuse.
• Love Makes You Evil and Crazy: According to Tobirama, like with many other Uchiha, this is the reason why Sasuke went so completely off the deep end. Not because he is incapable of loving someone, but because when he loves, he loves so deeply and fundamentally that when that love is lost, it ultimately destroys him, which was exactly happened with Itachi.
• Master Swordsman: Is extremely skilled with his chokutō, although there are better swordsmen, like Killer B.
• Moral Myopia: His revenge was kind of justified till the truth of Itachi being a double agent was revealed, then he comes across as spiteful.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After learning the truth about Itachi.
• Named After Somebody Famous: "Sasuke" comes from famous folktale ninja Sarutobi Sasuke. It's also the name of the Third Hokage's father, who Mikoto named him after.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Lampshaded with his Hawk Summoning Contract, but mostly averted with his other abilities. All of the other abilities he gains (Cursed Seal, Mangekyo Sharingan and all of its requisite techniques etc.) are, at the very least, foreshadowed in some significant manner which justifies his possession of them before he gets them, even if he, in particular, is not the one using them at those times, which takes them out of the territory of this trope. Mostly, any smatterings of this trope in him seem to be a case of the author not devoting a large amount of time to Sasuke's training montages rather than anything else.
• One-Winged Angel: His level 2 Cursed Seal form. He lost it after Itachi purged him of Orochimaru's power, burning off the wings and demon parts in the process.
• Partial Transformation: His mastery of the Curse Mark lets him to do this.
• Perpetual Frowner: And when he does smile, it's either condescending or just plain creepy.
• Playing with Fire: The Uchiha specialty.
• Poor Communication Causes Insanity: All of Sasuke's problems can be traced to the fact that pretty much everyone except the people trying to manipulate him refuse to tell him jack. By the time anyone bothers to explain the truth behind the Uchiha massacre to him, Sasuke is so wrapped up in his own hatred that he has no other avenue but to irrationally lash out at those he perceives are to blame. His chat with the revived Hokages may have the potential to knock some sanity into him, since they are both straight with him and aren't trying to turn him into a psychopath.
• The Power of Hate: Tobi says that the more Sasuke gives into his own hatred, the stronger he becomes. Naturally this isn't a very healthy way to power up. According to Tobirama, this is genetic.
• Pride: Typical of Uchiha
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: He follows the steps of The Hero's Journey, even more archetypally than Naruto himself. But each one seems to bring him closer to be a villain. He ends up as one through the course of Part II.
• Psycho for Hire: This is all he really is to Tobi. Sasuke is not important enough to be let in on Tobi's plans and the latter mostly uses him as muscle he can point at something. His ultimate value to Tobi is as a bargaining chip to keep Kabuto on his side, as some kind of gladiator he wants Naruto to fight, or as Gedo Mazo's new battery. Until Kabuto was knocked out of the game by Itachi and Sasuke.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Definitely is this after the Kage Summit.
• A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Kakashi's pupil until the end of Part I. Not especially nice, but good nonetheless.
• Pure Is Not Good: Edo Itatchi points out that Sasuke is still pure in a sense. It's why he's so easily manipulated.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: His skin is fairer than Naruto.
• Razor Sharp Hand: The chidori.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Sasuke was stated to be more evil as he used his sharingan more. It's eventually revealed that this is quite literal, being a genetic trait of all Uchihas.
• Revenge Before Reason: Lives on this trope 99% of the time, the lasting 1% being when he's motivated by protecting his True Companions. Later, it eventually becomes 100%. Should the object of that revenge be removed, fear not! He'll find something new to point his revenge at. Hell, he's the God of this very trope!
  • Starting to grow out of this after meeting with the resurrected Itachi and learning the truth about the Uchiha Clan's massacre.
• Revenge Myopia: Sasuke wants revenge on all of Konoha for ordering Itachi to kill the Uchiha just because the Uchiha were about to pull a coup.
• The Rival: To Naruto.
  • Rival Turned Evil: A posterboy.
• Sanity Has Advantages: Generally when Sasuke calms down and thinks, he fights better and is more creative.
• Shaping Your Attacks: His Chidori Eisou and Great Dragon Fire and Sword of Kagatsuchi abilities.
• Shadow Archetype: Both Naruto and Sasuke lost their families and had to live alone, are obsessive to the point of fanaticism in their goals, level up like it's going out of style to reach their goals (often conveniently matching or spurring each other's upgrades) and even are destined to face and probably end the ancient feud between Senju/Uchiha. Naruto himself lampshades it at some point, commenting that had some events not happened, their positions may very well have been reversed.
• Shock and Awe: Chidori and numerous other techniques derived from it.
  • Psycho Electro: ...which ultimately get used to put holes into allies and enemies alike, at times accompanied by a nice Psychotic Smirk.
• Shoot the Hostage: Happens when he makes his Chidori blade go through Karin to reach Danzo.
• Signature Move: Chidori.
• Sliding Down The Slippery Slope: He was never fully sane or nice, but when he finds out about Itachi's real motives, he abandoned whatever moral standards and reason he had beforehand. By the time of the Kage conference, he is no longer above abandoning/sacrificing the rest of Hawk and indiscriminate murder to get his revenge.
  • As of 627, he seems to be slowly clawing his way back up.
• The Stoic: Much more in part II where he constantly has a blank face. His moods are more diverse in Part I: annoyment, excitement, concern...
  • Not So Stoic: Triggered by encountering: fear (first encounters with Zabuza and Orochimaru), rage (anything about the Uchiha), and so on. Probably the most poignant example, however, is how he just starts crying after he learns the truth of Itachi's motivations, especially considering how he showed almost no emotion throughout Part II before this point.
• Super Reflexes: His first encounter with Rock Lee points out that he doesn't have this. He gains them through the course of the story.
• Superpowerful Genetics: Being an Uchiha, he definitely gets the Super Power Lottery of abilities, even possessed Orochimaru's One-Winged Angel as well as his abilities for a short while
• Surrounded by Idiots: He really must have felt this way when the ninja girls, Sakura and Ino included, start to fangirl over him the first time they meet him.
• Survivor Guilt: It drove him insane just ask Danzo or Karin
• Tall, Dark and Handsome: His One-Winged Angel and his sanity slippage brings out the ugly side of things.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky: Later, he turns Ax Crazy.
• Tears of Remorse: After Tobi fills him in about Itachi's actions following their final showdown, which makes him realize big bro loved him all along. It is the first time Sasuke cries on screen, save for flashbacks.
• Thousand Yard Stare: In flashbacks after the destruction of the Uchiha clan in Part I. In Part II, after Itachi's death.
• Took a Level in Badass: Between part 1 and part 2. It's difficult to say whether or not the Mangekyo Sharingan gave him one.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Starts as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and slowly works his way down the queue as time passes. He wavers occasionally, but it never seems to stick.
• Trauma Conga Line: Itachi's first Tsukiyomi, Itachi's second Tsukiyomi, the revelation of Itachi's true allegiance, and finding out that Danzo harvested his dead family members' bodies for their sharingan ultimately drive Sasuke completely over the edge. Poor kid...
• Undying Loyalty: To his clan.
  • After chapter 627, he finally embrace Itachi's will and sides with the Ninja Alliance against Madara to protect Konoha.
• The Unfettered: Part of his Character Development and an excellent example. Counting from his first encounter with Itachi, he slowly goes more and more insane, and this trope results, though his dedication to Juugo, Suigetsu and Karin prevents him from truly becoming this. It is only after he kills Danzo and abandons them that he really becomes The Unfettered. The trope's page reads like it was written for him!
• Ungrateful Bastard: As both the Leaf Village and Team Hawk find out. Not only did he leave all of his friends after all the time he'd spent with them, he also leaves Jugo and Suigetsu behind to be captured by the Samurai after they save him from the Third Raikage, and later shoots a Chidori through Karin after she heals him at the end of his fight with Danzo.
• Unwitting Pawn: Thanks to Itachi's work when he was a kid and Sasuke's obssesion with revenge, it's quite easy to manipulate him. In addition to only intending to serve his own ends, even if he doesn't side with the good guys once he leaves them - or the bad guys fully - some of his actions end up being beneficial to them (killing Orochimaru, Deidara, Danzo and the original white Zetsu comes to mind).
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He was an extremely sweet kid before Itachi murdered his family and tortured him by forcing him to relive their deaths for three days straight. Afterwards, he is... less nice.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Starts questioning his desire for revenge following his encounter with Edo Itachi.
• “Well Done Son” Guy: Or Well Done Younger Brother Guy... both can apply really.
• We Used To Be Friends: The patron saint of this. Not only with Naruto and Konoha, even his new allies who were ready to give their lives for him were quickly discarded.
• Wild Card: Mainly in Part II, but he is already one at the end of Part I.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He becomes one after hearing the truth about Itachi.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
  • Towards Orochimaru, no less! He did some research to defeat him.
  • Later done to Suigetsu and Jugo. He thanks them for saving his life repeatedly by telling Karin to leave them behind when she expresses concern for them, just so he can have his shot at Danzo.
  • Karin, while not taking direct part in the battle, is instrumental to Sasuke's victory over Danzo, and healed him from his earlier wounds to enable him to fight. When Danzo takes her hostage, Sasuke shoots them both with his Chidori. He tells her that she became a burden when she became a hostage.
• You Shall Not Pass: Proposed doing this to enable Naruto to escape with Sakura, but Naruto, his resolve restored, was able to defeat Gaara.

I've always considered myself to be a true ninja… but those were just empty words, because Sasuke and Naruto were always in the lead! But now it's my turn to take the lead, and all of you can watch me from the background!

• Action Girl / Faux Action Girl: Zig-Zags. While praised by Kakashi at the beginning for being (slightly) above average, she realized during the Chunin Exams and after how much better her competition was. Over the Time Skip she trained under a Sannin like Naruto and Sasuke and had an impressive showing alongside Chiyo against Sasori, only for Naruto and Sasuke to win the Superpower Lottery shortly afterwards and completely overshadow her and everyone else. She still has her moments, though.
• A-Cup Angst: Has a rather small chest and shows irritation about that.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Played straight at first, but then deconstructed after the time skip. Ultimately, she still has lingering feelings for Sasuke, despite what he's become and despite that his actions threaten war, and her need to help stop him.
• Anger Born of Worry: Towards Naruto, especially when she punches him after coming back from his battle with Pain for making them all worry, then hugs him.
• Bare Your Midriff: In the third movie, explained as being "summer attire"(Naruto and Lee also had slightly different outfits).
• Berserk Button: NEVER diss the forehead or call her ugly.
• Character Development: Goes from initially standing on the sidelines to taking an active role in helping Naruto and Sasuke, as well as assisting in Naruto's goal to bring Sasuke back. Much of her development in Part II is answering the question of how best to accomplish this goal.
  • Completely symbolized by "Inner-Sakura" as well. The character represented all of Sakura's repressed emotions she constantly tried to cover up. Inner Sakura disappeared half-way through the first series as she started to be more straight forward about her feelings, and only appeared once in Shippuden as a gag.
• Cherry Blossom Girl: Named Sakura, check. Pink hair, check. Healing powers, check. Associated with love, check. Traditional Japan, check - ikebana and being, well, a ninja. Born in early spring (March 28th), check. Spring-themed, see Meaningful Name below.

• Combat Medic: With her chakra control, she can heal injuries (either hers or others') and extract poison... and pulverize rocks with Super Strength.
  • Healing Hands with gloves to protect them in battle.
• Commuting On A Bus: To an extreme degree. Besides her fight with Sasori, she´s had very little impact on the overall story in Naruto. Takes after Tsunade in that regard.
• Covert Pervert: It goes back as early as the chunin exams. She loudly tells Naruto to go behind a tree if he has to use the bathroom in the Forest of Death, but Inner Sakura indicates that she might want to see Sasuke, the boy she likes, pee. And she's a closet Yaoi Fangirl.
• Crater Power: One of her taijutsu techniques called Cherry Blossom Impact involves punching the ground hard enough to send chunks of earth sailing through the air like flower petals.
• Did Not Get the Guy: Courtesy of Sasuke's Face Heel Turn.
• Distress Ball: She picks it up when it comes to dealing with Sasuke.
• Dogged Nice Girl: Towards Sasuke.
• Dude Magnet: Gets three men to fall in love with her over the course of the manga(even more in fillers) which is more than any of the named characters in the series baring one. Sasuke is that one.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Grows out her hair while trying to woo Sasuke, until her Important Haircut.
• Flanderization: In the anime, Sakura's Tsundere characteristics gets exaggerated for the sake of humor.
• Forehead of Doom: So big that she was bullied as a little girl because of it. Try mocking it now, and expect to grow accustomed to the imprint of her fist on your noggin.
• Hair Decorations: She wears her headband as a hairband. She also used to tie her hair with a ribbon when younger.
• Heartbroken Badass: After Sasuke's Face Heel Turn.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation and Sorry I Fell On Your Fist: She feels horribly guilty for not being strong enough.
• Hot Blooded: Inner Sakura certainly was. Sakura of Shippuuden seems to be as well, at least in reaction to Naruto.
• Important Traumatic Haircut: She cuts her long hair off as a symbol of her new resolve. Conveniently, it's also to free herself from three Sound Gennin, who wanted to kill the incapacitated Sasuke and Naruto.
• Informed Ability: Downplayed to 'potential ability'. Kakashi referred to her as a 'genjutsu type' ninja, which doesn't necessarily mean she's an expert at genjutsu. It likely refers to her advanced ability with chakra control, seeing as how something like genjutsu, which manipulates the chakra of the opponent, would require precise control. She could become an expert but is not one yet.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Early on, she looks down on Naruto, and lets her temper get the best of her when it comes to him. In Part II she ends up admitting to actually look up to him. She still dishes out the punishment when Naruto acts like an idiot and/or a pervert.
• Kill The Ones You Love: Attempts this to spare Sasuke from falling even lower then he already has, but her feelings for him kept her from landing the fatal blow.
• Lethal Chef: Anime only, played for laughs. Her handmade balls of medicinal herbs taste awful. She has the tendency of adding said herbs in anything she cooks. Even chocolate.
• The Load: Until the Time Skip.
• Love Hurts: Especially when the person you're in love with tries to stab you In the Back. Literally.
• Love Martyr: Sakura's fixation on Sasuke seems more and more like this each time they interact in part II. She is still in love with him even after he has tried to kill her.
• Loving a Shadow: Subverted. Like the other Konoha girls, she at first likes Sasuke just because of his looks and skills, but as Sakura learns more about his troubled personality she comes to care for him for real.
  • Played completely straight in Part 2 when it is revealed that she is still in love with him despite how far he has fallen, which includes him nonchalantly attempting to murder her.
• Male Gaze: Part II seems to like giving attention to her rear. Here's◊ the◊ proof◊.
• Meaningful Name: Haruno means "of the spring," and Sakura is Japan's famous cherry blossom tree which sprouts its distinctive pink flowers in the spring and which are the same color as her hair.
• Ms. Exposition: In the first arc she explained things essential to the verse like how chakra works.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: As a result of chakra providing the force behind her blows.
• My Greatest Failure: How she felt towards being unable to stop Sasuke from turning his back on the village, especially after Shikamaru refused to let her come along on the mission to retrieve him.
• Oblivious to Love: In a weird way. She cannot have missed Naruto's clumsy attempts to hit on her, but she had to have Sai of all people telling her how Naruto suffered from Unrequited Love to take it seriously. So seriously, in fact, that she got pretty messed up and did some desperate things.
• Out of Focus: Despite being billed as one of the leads, Sakura becomes progressively out of focus after her fight with Ino in Part 1. Up until recent events, she also began to suffer the same in Shippuden following the second Arc.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: All her training under Tsunade allows her to be pretty badass in the first arc of Shippuden, but since Naruto and Sasuke just keep getting stronger, she's rapidly fallen back to being the weakest of the three.
• Petal Power: In the first movie, she used a technique called Sakura Blizzard that involved a large number of tiny explosive tags and cherry blossoms mixed in for good measure.
• Poisoned Weapons: Thanks to Shizune's tutelage she has acquired some poisonous weapons and Knockout Gas as well.
• Qipao: In part 1.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Ino's blue.
• Rose-Haired Girl: A pale pink, but it still passes.
• She's All Grown Up: In Part 2, she asks Naruto if she looks more like a woman, and Naruto says "You look fine. You haven't changed at all". She hasn't changed as much as some of the other genins, but she has grown.
• Shrinking Violet: As a child.
• Skirt over Slacks: Part of her standard attire.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: At the beginning.
  • Extreme Doormat: In Part I towards Sasuke. Not all the time, but it gets more pronounced as his behavior gets worse, and because she was a 12-13 year old deeply in love at the time, probably had no idea what to do about it.
• Super Strength: Uses a specialized version of this allowing for powerful strikes.
• Teen Genius: Before the Time Skip, being a good student with precise chakra control and enough knowledge to not need cheating in the written part of the Chuunin exams differentiated her from any other kunoichi. Afterwards, it's what makes her such a good apprentice and medic.
• Took a Level in Badass: Her efforts pay off in Part 2. Boy, do they pay off.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Starts in the beginning of the chunin exam and continues all the way to the end and is cemented in part 2, towards Naruto essentially.
• Training from Hell: Tsunade subjects her to this so Sakura can develop strength, speed and skills.
• Tsundere: Especially when she was younger.
• Unprovoked Pervert Payback: Towards Naruto once or twice but taken Up to Eleven especially in the fillers.
• Yaoi Fangirl: Just watch her reaction to one of Konohamaru's jutsus that included shadow clones of the naked Sai and Sasuke.

In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum.

• The Ace: Easily one of the most powerful ninja in Konoha. Even considered for Hokage on occasion!
  • Broken Ace: Never quite got over Obito's death in the Kakashi Gaiden, which in turn showed that his father's disgrace and suicide still took a heavy toll on him some seven years after. Justified, since these took place when he was thirteen and six, respectively, in a verse where There Are No Therapists.
• Achilles Heel / Awesome, but Impractical: Kakashi, while he has an all around awesome skill-set, has massive stamina issues. This is exacerbated by his Sharigan, which expends even more of his chakra when used. Almost all of his major battles in the series has resulted him getting bed-ridden for over-expending his energy.
• Always Save the Girl: That first flashback of him killing Rin turned out to be very misleading. She actually wanted him to do it, but he point-blank refused despite the Mist's plans for her. She took matters into her own hands and jumped in front of his attack.
• And I Must Scream: He was the first in-series victim of the Mangekyo Sharingan's Tsukuyomi, in which Itachi crucified him and stabbed him repeatedly without letting him die. For three days. Without stopping...
  • Made of Iron: An ordeal, during which, what Kakashi perceived as approximately one minute and forty-eight seconds (counting the time indicator from "I will stab you with a sword for 72 hours" to "71 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds remaining" was only one second. Meaning that the "three days" Kakashi experienced was, to him, closer to about one hundred and eight days. Even he was released from the genjutsu, he doesn't immediately pass out. He stays conscious long enough to realize how little time actually passed, and to hear Kisame express surprise that Kakashi is still alive. Mentally Made of Iron? You bet your ass.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy : As a kid, he was obsessed with following the rules and living like an obedient toy soldier. Anyone who didn't train themselves to be an ideal ninja was out of step with the rest and a disgrace. It was brought on by a fear that deviating from the shinobi code would lead to ostracism, since his father Sakumo chose to put his comrade's lives above a mission. The Leaf ninja felt betrayed, because it is their master goal to ensure a success of a mission at all costs. Sakumo was chided viciously by his peers, and Driven to Suicide. Kakashi feared the same might happen to him. After Obito brought him to his senses and warned him it would pretty much strip him of his humanity to live like this, he broke out of it.
• Ass Shove: A THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH!!!!
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Pretty good at figuring out the skills of dangerous opponents such as Zabuza, Kakuzu, Pain and Tobi.
• Back from the Dead: Gets killed and later revived by Pain
• Badass
  • Save for Naruto, he was the only ninja in Konoha who required the attention of more than one of Pain's bodies.
    • This video clearly shows the many forms of Badass that is Kakashi.
  • Badass Boast: "The "Copy Ninja" Kakashi, the man who copied one thousand techniques… is about to go on a rampage!"
  • Badass Bookworm: Naruto calls him "as smart as Shikamaru", which, combined with his status as the most elite ninjutsu specialist in the Hidden Leaf, would make him this easily. Inverted with his actual choice of literature - Jiraiya's erotic novels.
  • Badass Teacher
  • Badass Transplant: His Sharingan.
  • Four Star Badass: As General of the Third Division
• Battle Aura: Gains one when Naruto gives him the refined, combined chakra that he and Kurama made. He commented that it's even stronger than the dose that Kurama had given him originally, which increased his power threefold. Now he has a Version 1 cloak like the rest of the alliance.
• Berserk Button: Kakashi REALLY hates Edo Tensei (Impure World Resurrection), a jutsu that revives the dead and forces them to fight for the user. He also hates Kabuto, in no small part due to his insistence on using it.
  • It seems to come from a disdain of grave-robbing of his friends in general. He got set off when he realized that Tobi had to be using Obito's eye. The Irony of it all.
• BFS: Wields the Executioner's Blade in the 4th world war.
• Big Damn Heroes:He has a habit of joining fights by showing up out of nowhere to save his comrades.
• Break the Haughty: Happens in Kakashi Gaiden, when he gets the worst dose of cold reality you could believe.
• Broken Pedestal: His best friend Obito Uchiha who he originally thought was dead, and who was also the source of most of his ideals as an adult is now one of his greatest enemies.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The first of many, many examples among the characters. See also Ass Shove, Lovable Sex Maniac, and Badass.
• Canine Companion: The Ninja Hounds.
• The Captain: Of Squad 7.
• Child Prodigy: Youngest Genin and Chunnin graduated at 5 and 6.
• The Comically Serious: Often his nonchalance is used in humor especially to contrast Guy.
• Cool Teacher: Team 7 was the first team that he ever passed, because they're the first one to catch his lesson on putting each other's safety ahead of the mission.
• Covert Pervert: He's obsessed with the "Icha Icha" series of adult novels, and gets embarrassed when caught reading them by others. Naruto once got the drop on him by pretending to spoiler one book's ending.
• Day in the Limelight: Kakashi Gaiden
• Deadpan Snarker: Always has a straight face. One would imagine the mask probably helps in this department.
• Despair Event Horizon: As of chapter 600, he's been slowly getting there with each progressing chapter, though Heroic Resolve seems to have kicked in.
• Even the Guys Want Him: The few females and males who have seen him unmasked are, well, very impressed.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: His backstory can be summed up in this one trope. When Sasuke threatens to kill someone close to him so Kakashi can understand his pain, Kakashi replies that everyone he cares about is already dead.
• Evil Eye: The Sharingan and then later the Magenkyou Sharingan. It grants him the following abilities...
  • Aura Vision: The most standard ability of the Sharingan is to see Chakra.
  • Combat Clairvoyance: It also gives the ability to predict the opponents next moves.
  • Mega Manning: Kakashi's specialty.
  • Hypnotic Eyes: Just ask Zabuza.
  • Portal Cut: Kakashi's Magenkyou Sharingan's special Kamui jutsu.
• Excuse Me While I Multitask: Given a sufficiently inexperienced opponent, he can fight with one hand and read pornographic novels (namely, the Icha Icha series written by Jiraiya) with the other. And is quite happy to demonstrate this ability.
• Exotic Eye Designs: His Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Expy: Of Rikimaru from the Tenchu series.
• Eyepatch of Power: Normally covers his left eye with his headband. Underneath is his Sharingan. He hides it because unlike an Uchiha, Kakashi is incapable of turning it off at will. Only when facing a strong opponent does he uncover it.
• Failure Hero: How he sees himself after watching his childhood team die and failing to talk Sasuke out of defecting.
• Forgotten Phlebotinum: Kakashi's had the Mangekyo for twenty years. Sure woulda been handy against Orochimaru or Itachi. Granted, Kakashi fell unconscious the moment he unlocked it and didn't encounter another Mangekyo Sharingan user until he fought Itachi, so he might not have even realized he had one until then at the earliest.
  • Alternatively: The use of the normal Sharingan drains a lot of chakra (he was out of commission for a few days after the first battle with Zabuza), the Mangekyou Sharingan requires even more chakra, so it's possible that he hadn't yet the stamina required to use it.
• Friendly Rivalry: Proud owner of the ultimate rivalry with Might Guy, lasting from their early teenhood, up into adulthood, and still very, very intense as they go over the hill, showing absolutely NO signs of slowing down.
• Generation Xerox: He was mentioned to greatly resemble his father Sakumo Hatake, Konoha's White Fang, which made his enemies tremble in fear of him even when he was just about 13 years of age, mistaking him for his father. Cut to many years after when he is already known as Kakashi of the Sharingan and you know the awesome is In the Blood. Further xerox-ing lays credibility that since the Third Hokage taught the original Sannin of Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade, and that since the villagers see him as temporary Hokage when Tsunade was in her coma, Kakashi is a generation Xerox of Sarutobi, the Third Hokage.
  • He's also a generation xerox of Jiraiya. He lost his teacher, lost his student (to the dark side), his best friend turned into one of the most reviled criminals in history, and has a near pathological Heroic Self-Deprecation as well.
  • And he is also one to Minato as well, especially considering that his team is basically a Generation Xerox of Minato's team. One of them went evil because Love Makes You Evil (Obito and Sasuke), one of them stayed with Konoha (Naruto and Kakashi), and one was a skilled medic-nin (Rin and Sakura).
• Guile Hero
• Henohenomoheji: Seen on Kakashi's decoy scarecrow in Episode 101 ("Gotta See! Gotta Know! Kakashi-Sensei's True Face!"), when Team 7 attempts to unveil Kakashi's true face. It's also featured on the backs of his 9 ninken (Ninja Hounds/Dogs) Summoning group.
• Heroic RROD: This happens to him a lot in part one - at one point, the others are surprised when he doesn't need a hospital trip after a fight. He can handle the Sharingan somewhat better in Shippuden, but still needs to watch his reserves carefully.
• I Let Rin Die: Specifically, he killed her himself...because she chose to jump in the way of his Raikiri rather than be a Trojan Horse.
• Informed Ability: Kakashi is a legendary ninja who has supposedly copied over a thousand jutsu. Nearly all of his opponents have talked about how dangerous he is when they first face him. Yet, we almost never get to see him go all out, and when he does get to battle he's usually forced to use up chakra protecting his peers. The worst example is probably when he took on the remaining zombified Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. It was implied to be an absolute Curb-Stomp Battle in his favour, but it happened entirely off-panel.
  • In addition, Kakashi the Copy-Ninja has yet to ever actually copy any jutsu on-screen. In the Land of Waves Zabuza- and subsequently many fans- believed that he had somehow copied and reversed his Water jutsu at the exact moment Zabuza himself was using it, perhaps even before, but by the next battle Zabuza has realised that Kakashi simply used his Sharingan to implant ideas of what jutsu to use in Zabuza's mind, to freak him out, meaning every Water jutsu Zabuza used was already in Kakashi's arsenal. He might have copied Kakuzu's Iron Skin jutsu but if he has, he has yet to demonstrate it.
• Loose Lips: Accidentally leaked the classified information of Naruto's birth, unaware that Obito was listening in, or that he was even alive, at a visit to Rin's grave.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: He's a big fan of Jiraiya's book series.
• Mask Power: NEVER seen without it. The only time his face was uncovered, it wasn't shown onscreen. An anime filler episode revolves around Team 7 trying to see under Kakashi's mask. When they finally get him to remove it in front of them, underneath is... another mask.
  • On some covers he doesn't have it, but then his face is usually covered by his book or hand.
  • Also, according to Pakkun, he hates being photographed without it.
• Meaningful Name: Kakashi means "scarecrow," and Hatake means "farmland or field." Both are an obvious reference to his tall and lean appearance. This also ties to his use of a Henohenomoheji logo on his summoned dogs and decoys. There's also the fact that real life ninjas often disguised themselves as poor farmers. Get's into Theme Naming when you consider his Dad's name could come from the the word Sakumotsu, which translates to "Crops".
• Mr. Exposition: In the first arc.
• Multilayer Facade: Kakashi is a literal case: he wears another mask under his mask.
• My Greatest Failure: Tends to dwell on this, especially regarding Obito, losing track of time at the Memorial Stone by reminding himself of how he has failed. And then there's the issue of his second team...
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He inadvertently caused the Kyuubi incident by blabbing that Kurama's jinchuriki was gonna have a baby in front of Rin's grave, not realizing Obito was there as well.
• Non Chalant Dodge: The Trope picture
• No Mouth: Keeps his mouth concealed behind a mask at all times. Played with in the best filler of the anime.
• The Nose Knows: He is said to have a very good sense of smell. And he has a pack of trained canines.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: We first meet Kakashi as a goofy teacher who falls for one of Naruto's unbelievably idiotic pranks, but he soon reveals himself to be Bad Ass. His enemies do know he's dangerous, and treat him as such, but he's FAR more dangerous than most of them have been led to believe.
• Obsolete Mentor: Averts this, despite being Worfed sometimes. He specifically mentions in one arc that he's still young and improving. In the fight against Tobi/Obito he's particularly important.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Kakashi vs The Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. Kakashi won apparently.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: While certainly a versatile, experienced and highly competent fighter, his battles have been somewhat a letdown compared to say Akatsuki, Orochimaru or the Kages. He also suffers a lot of The Worf Effect against this opponents, even more than Sasuke. A fairly common complaint is that he's hyped to be stronger than he is, especially in the Databooks, where he's hyped to be one of the most formidable shinobi alive—YMMV, seeing as those who Worf him tend to have attained a similar Shrouded in Myth status.
• Parental Abandonment:His father Sakumo committed suicide when Kakashi was six-years old and his mother died before then.
• Red Baron: Kakashi has two famous nicknames first being Kakashi of the Sharingan, second being The Copy Ninja.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Might Guy's Red & Obito's Red.
• Sempai Kohai: Senpai to Yugao, Yamato and Sai (who considers him as such in the anime). Also Shizune addresses with the honorfic.
• Shaping Your Attacks: His Running Beast ability.
• Shock and Awe: Chidori, Raikiri/Lightning Blade, them lightning hounds, etc.
• Shrouded in Myth: See Red Baron. And just what the hell is behind that mask? Another mask.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Finally delivered to Obito, poiting that he basically choosed to ignore every feelings his friends could possibly have, quoting Obito himself.
• Signature Move: Raikiri/Lightning Blade, similar to the Chidori only better.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: His bell test.
• Space Master: Can now use Kamui to get to and from the other dimension at will.
• The Stoic: Probably the hardest character to get a rise out of in the entire series, except where the Icha Icha series Or his dead best friend is concerned.
• Super Mode: His Version 1 Cloak that Naruto gave him.
• Team Dad: To Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke.
• Took a Level in Badass: It's more subtle than most of the cast, but think about it. The first time we see him go all-out using the Sharingan, summons, and a Raikiri is enough to tire him out. Post-time skip, he's somehow got a Mangekyo that can send stuff through another dimension, and against Kakuzu he's firing off Raikiri like cheap kunai and staying on his feet afterwards.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Obito's death made him realize how important it was to care for your comrades more.
• Tragic Keepsake: He kept his father's Tanto for a good bit, but his sharingan eye, which was transplanted into him from his dead best friend, Obito Uchiha is what really falls into this trope.
• Tranquil Fury: What happens when he truly gets pissed.
• True Companions: A firm believer in this concept.
• Unknown Rival: Guy is his, though it may be more that Kakashi does not want to acknowledge it. It turns out that he does acknowledge Guy as his true rival, and the scene that reveals this is pretty heartwarming.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • He speaks about Naruto's birth at Rin's grave. Unfortunately, Obito happened to be watching.
  • He abandoned his mission so that he could help Obito when they were kids, resulting in a crippled Obito ending up on Madara's doorstep setting off most of the plot.
  • Go back a bit further: the event that kicked off the entire plot was his murder of Rin.
• Weak, but Skilled: Kakashi's individual skill and jutsu is not weak per se - it's probably in the very top percentile of the shinobi world. However against the ridiculously overpowered villains of the Shippuden series like the Akatsuki, Pain and Tobi, Kakashi is forced to fall back on his natural wit and can be considered this - especially considering his lack of chakra for spamming his Signature Move.
• We Used To Be Friends: His best friend Obito is now a major contender in the contest to determine the most evil ninja of all time. Tune in tomorrow to find out the results!
• White-Haired Pretty Boy
• The Worf Effect: His only real victory has been against Zabuza. After that he's only been used to show how strong whatever enemy comes along is, often with him commenting about how much stronger than him they are. That said, he fares a lot better in team battles (against Akatsuki) contributing to victories over Deidara, Itachi (sort of—it's complicated), Hidan/Kakuzu and recently Tobi. Which makes quite a lot of sense when you remember "teamwork" is pretty much everything to the man.
  • Though he seems to have finally left it behind in the current arc.
• Younger Than They Look: Kakashi was 6 when he took the Chuunin Exams, but looked almost like a full grown teenager.

A smile can get you out of a tough situation, even if it is fake.

• Adorkable: Has a few shades of this after he starts genuinely showing interest in emotions and human interaction. The sixth Shippuden film took this and ran away with it.
• Advertised Extra: After his big introduction arc, being brought in as Sasuke's replacement and serving as Danzo's mole, you'd figure Sai would play a large role in the scheme of things? Save for one fight during the most recent arc he's been floating in the background.
• And I Must Scream: One of his latest techniques, named Sealing Technique: Stalking Predator Launch, consists of an animated drawing of a tiger which can attack the enemy and then go back in the drawing with him.
  • Containment Field
• Art Initiates Life: His ability the Cartoon Beast Mimicry; with it he paints ink creatures to assist him in battles including: Lions and tigers for attacking and sealing, birds for transportation and aerial assaults, snakes for binding enemies, rats for tracking and even The Two Benevolent Kings for brute force.
  • Art Attacker: As in the art he brings to life, attacks you.

• Bare Your Midriff: A rare male example.
• Berserk Button: When Deidara blows up his brother and threatens to do it again and again. Then he insults Sai's art. To say that Sai was pissed is an understatement.
• Bishōnen: Like Sasuke before him, Sakura and Ino comment that Sai is quite pretty.
• Brutal Honesty: At first on account of his lack of social skills. Eventually, just out of genuine concern for his friends.
• Butt Monkey: In Filler, having No Social Skills made him good comedy material, sometimes getting beaten for an unsensitive statement.
• The Comically Serious: Zigzags between this and Deadpan Snarker. He can't fully understand humor due to his emotionless nature and lack of socialization, so it's hard to tell whether he's using Brutal Honesty, is snarking, or is genuinely confused or serious.
• Cool Sword: Specializes in long-ranged combat with his ninjutsu but is no slouch in taijutsu and swordfighting.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: His sealing jutsu is this in the anime.
• Deadpan Snarker: His only reaction to Konohamaru's "reverse" version of the Sexy Jutsu? "Ah. So that's me." More deadpan than snarker, other than insulting Naruto a few times early on.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Emotion Suppression: Being a member of a special ANBU branch, Sai has undergone a training that removed his emotions. It also left him with No Social Skills.
• Honorifics: Uses them on Naruto and Sakura at first, despite being quite rude to them in most other regards, but drops them when trying to become friends with them.
• Horse of a Different Color: His ability to surf on flying ink birds makes him one of the few flyers in the series.
• Identical Stranger: To Sasuke.
• Innocently Insensitive: Post-Character Development, he tries to become better friends with Naruto and Sakura, but genuinely thinks "ugly" is a good idea for a nickname, and that people always need to hear the truth.
• Jack of All Stats: According to the databook, his skill levels in the various aspects of being a ninja are actually not far from one another. They all range between 3 and 4 (inclusive) out of a maximum score of 5. This makes his skill set really balanced when compared to the majority of other characters in the franchise.
• Jerkass: At his beginnings, justified by No Social Skills. It progressively fades away with time, but Sai remains the one willing to bluntly tell the unpleasant truths.

• Mysterious Past: We only know that he's been in the ANBU for a long time and he's got a dead brother.
• No Social Skills: In line with his the emotion suppression he went through, after breaking away from Root's teachings Sai primarily interacts with other and tries to befriend them through literal by the book methods, having been researching ways to make friends.
• Only One Name: Technically not his real one, but he prefers going by it.
• Out of Focus: After his big introductory arc, in which he became the new official member of Team 7, Sai hasn't had much to do at all. This is even more noticeable in the Anime during filler arcs, where Sai either stands in the background or doesn't appear at all.
• Paper Talisman: He can create paper bombs by the dozen by painting them.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Noted for being both good looking and eerie.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: No Social Skills — check, pale-skinned — check, Mysterious Past — check.

• Restraining Bolt: Has a seal on his tongue that prevents him from revealing any information about Danzo, though this disappears after said character's death.
• Secret Keeper: For an unspecified length of time between his introductory arc and the aftermath of the Pain Arc, Sai knew about how Naruto had feelings for Sakura, but didn't feel as though he could tell her. However, Sai, knowing how hard Naruto was pushing himself for the sake of his promise to Sakura, decided to break his silence.
• Sempai Kohai: Considers Kakashi a senpai, as well as a nameless older member of Root.
• Smoke Out: Sai is very skilled with the body flicker technique, having an ink variant.
• Stepford Smiler: Smiles to please those he interacts with despite being emotionless.
• The Stoic: Due to years of of suppressing his emotions Sai is remarkably non-chalant and deadpan for most of his interactions, be they incredibly awkward, intense, or embarrassing.
  • Not So Stoic: See Berserk Button. There's also the part where Sasuke, in their first meeting, gives him a Death Glare that proves terrifying even for Sai.
• Sugar and Ice Personality
• Took a Level in Kindness
• What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Sakura for having Naruto promise to bring back Sasuke and expecting him to keep working at it when it's rather obvious Naruto loves her. He compares the binding of this promise to his own abuse at the hands of Root/Danzo.

I like being nice and friendly, but I don't have any problems with ruling by fear either.

• Butt Monkey: Kakashi tends to comically take advantage of him for little things like paying for meals while Naruto's recklessness is often played against his caution.
  • Try in Storm 3, where Naruto has raised his fist to him not once, but twice, and this lack of respect actually makes Yamato want to cry.
  • The Chew Toy: In the spin-off Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth, he is reduced to be a The Speechless Living Prop.
• The Captain: A temporary replacement for Kakashi, his true role is actually to look after Naruto.
• Child Prodigy: Ties with Kakashi with being the youngest Chunin at 6.
• Combination Attack: Has one with Naruto which combines his Water Style Tearing Torrent with Naruto's Wind Style Ransengan.
• The Comically Serious: Most of the interaction between Bee & Naruto leaves him speechless.
• Death Glare : His "ghoul eyes," although only Naruto seems to be scared by it.
• Fate Worse Than Death / Fridge Horror : So Yamato was abducted as a child and experimented upon by a creepy snake-themed Mad Scientist. He survives, goes on to become a fairly well-adjusted adult, only to be ultimately abducted yet again by another creepy snake-themed Mad Scientist (the protege of the first one, no less!). Oh and then it is strongly implied that after having vital information forcibly extracted from him, he will be used for endless experimentation again. Disturbing much?
• Green Thumb: His use of the wood techniques, which also require him to be able to control water and earth as well.
• Meaningful Name: Yamato may be named after Yamato Takeru, a legendary prince believed to be the first ninja. Tenzou means "heavenly creation" and refers to things created by nature, which fits with his wood powers.
• Satellite Character: Yamato was brought in as the substitute team leader of Team 7, was kidnapped as baby by Orochimaru and had his DNA manipulated to the point where he's the genetic clone of the First Hokage, and was a member of Anbu with Kakashi. On paper, all of that sounds like a lot of potential for a character. In reality, Yamato ended up being relegated to being Kakashi's assistant in training Naruto and being the Butt Monkey.
• Sempai Kohai: Kakashi is his senpai, and he once brings up this fact when trying to get him to pay for a meal.

• Stern Teacher: Contrasts his approach with Kakashi's on a few occasions, such as threatening to throw Naruto, Sakura and Sai in a cage together unless they start working better as a team, and saying that if an injured Naruto is unable to keep up with them, they could leave him behind.
• The Stoic: Typically calm and levelheaded, although he can be disturbed by shocking developments.
• Superpowerful Genetics: He was the only child to accept and survive the First Hokage's cells in Orochimaru's experiments and the only one who can use his highly coveted Wood Style jutsu. That is until Danzo and Zetsu are introduced anyway.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Honestly, if you are ever a comrade of Naruto's, you will end up becoming this at some point, but it will usually peter out after a while.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Just like Anko, Yamato got incapacitated early into the war and we haven't heard anything about him ever since.