History Characters / NarutoOtsutsukiClan

Beginning with the events of ''Boruto'', full-blooded Ohtsutsuki members -- those who came from the same world as Kaguya's -- begin threatening Earth as they plan to continue what she failed to do. At present it is unclear why they waited a thousand years to arrive. For more information about them, see [[Characters/BorutoOhtsutsukiClan this page]].

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Even after she's sealed again, the manga gives vague details about her backstory or motives at best. Even her own son admits that he doesn't know much about her as she refused to say much of herself even to him. [[Manga/Boruto The sequel reveals how]] she came to this world while
[[AdaptationExpansion The anime reveals]] she became a concubine and lover to a region's emperor (who would father her children) along with her friend and the events that came to lead her to eat the fruit.

* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: She ate the chakra fruit to become a goddess in order to make a safe world for her sons. However, she began losing it because of her power and she lost sight of her goal. Her sons rebelling against her didn't help matters.

** The Sequel would end up adding that she didn't came alone originally, however she decided to betray her fellow comrade before eating the chakra fruit, setting up the scene for more development.

* PlantPerson: She could use a kekkei mora version of Nativity of a World of Trees to create massive roots linked to the Divine Tree that assimilate people, and eventually merged with the Divine Tree itself to become the Ten-Tails.

* SheWhoFightsMonsters: She ended all the wars that plagued her world. Unfortunately, her power was too much, and she eventually lost control and became corrupted. In a literal example, she became the Ten-Tails EldritchAbomination after absorbing the Divine Tree and ended up as a Demonic Statue that couldn't return to her human form until recovering all her chakra back.

* TheStarscream: According to Amado, Kaguya was meant to be fed to the Ten-Tails while the higher-ranking Isshiki watches over the tree's growth. However, she betrayed and severely injured Isshiki before that can happen. Fearing retaliation, she began creating an army of White Zetsu and merged with the Divine Tree to become the Ten-Tails.

* ThisCannotBe: Her reaction to Naruto and Sasuke managing to seal her yet again.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Even after she's sealed again, the manga gives vague details about her backstory or motives at best. Even her own son admits that he doesn't know much about her as she refused to say much of herself even to him. [[AdaptationExpansion The anime does show us how]] she came to the land as well as her time as a concubine and lover to the emperor of the region (who would father her children) along with her friend and the events that came to lead her to eat the fruit. Even with all that though, very little is known about Kaguya's motives or mental state at the time.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: According to one of her sons, the Sage, this is what happened to her. She initially used her power to pacify conflict through brute force, and with time, it got worse as she would kill any who opposed her. Upon eating the fruit her sanity descended so far that she also made most of humanity into {{Empty Shell}}s to serve as her toy soldiers, with the motive of using them to help fight against the rest of her clan. It got much worse when she realized how much chakra she had passed on to her sons. To get back her power, she merged with the Divine Tree and together they became the Ten-Tails, with her consciousness driving its rampage.

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The Ohtsutsuki Clan is the force behind the foundation of the Narutoverse's Shinobi world. However, the creation of Shinobi, or indeed humans being able to use chakra at all, is something that was never intended by these initial {{Precursors}}. The Ohtsutsuki Clan's existence on Earth began over a thousand years ago and it is unknown when and where they were born. The enigmatic nature of the clan's existence is so closely guarded that it is to the point that the [[AllThereInTheManual databook]] simply describes them being "from another world". In addition to being the ancestors of the Senju, Uzumaki, Uchiha, Hyuga, and Kaguya clans, who inherited unique abilities that made them powerful forces in the modern world of ''Naruto'', they are also behind the distribution of Chakra to all individuals.

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[[Characters/NarutoOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/NarutoTaka Hebi/Taka]] | [[Characters/NarutoTailedBeasts Tailed Beasts and Their Hosts]] | '''Otsutsuki Clan''' \\

!The Ōtsutsuki Clan
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The Ōtsutsuki Clan is the force behind the foundation of the Narutoverse's Shinobi world. However, the creation of Shinobi, or indeed humans being able to use chakra at all, is something that was never intended by these initial {{Precursors}}. The Ōtsutsuki Clan's existence on Earth began over a thousand years ago and it is unknown when and where they were born. The enigmatic nature of the clan's existence is so closely guarded that it is to the point that the [[AllThereInTheManual databook]] simply describes them being "from another world". In addition to being the ancestors of the Senju, Uzumaki, Uchiha, Hyuga, and Kaguya clans, who inherited unique abilities that made them powerful forces in the modern world of ''Naruto'', they are also behind the distribution of Chakra to all individuals.

Over a millennium ago the Ōtsutsuki Clan members Isshiki and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki appeared on the Earth with the goal of eventually harvesting the Chakra Fruit produced by the Divine Tree and with it over time devour the life force of the planet to sustain their own immortal lives. When Kaguya Ōtsutsuki arrived, she betrayed Isshiki and left him for dead, and eventually matured the Divine Tree, ate the Chakra Fruit as she had intended to do from the start, and became the first chakra user on Earth (in the process defying her clan by taking all the power for herself). Using the power gained from eating the Chakra Fruit, she cast the first Infinite Tsukuyomi, which would turn everyone into White Zetsus to serve as soldiers for her when her clan would eventually pursue to punish her. She later freed a few humans to make sure they did not get completely wiped out, erased their memories, and had them rebuild society with her as their ruler. She later gave birth to two sons: Hagoromo and Hamura.

The consequences of eating the chakra fruit, however, had soon taken root and took a toll on Kaguya's personality, though it is unclear how benevolent she ever really was. While first worshiped as a goddess, her brutal retribution toward any defiance would over time cause humanity to fear her as a demon. In the anime she is also depicted as having continued to drain the Earth of life via the Divine Tree, periodically sacrificing humans to it as well. The matriarch of the Earth-based Ōtsutsuki clan also developed an obsessive lust for chakra which later culminated in turning her sights on her two sons, whom she discovered had inherited chakra from her. Kaguya, seeking more power (and in the anime responding to them rebelling against her tyrannical methods), fused with the Divine Tree and became the Juubi (the Ten-Tails), rampaging across the land and battling with her twin sons. Oblivious of the true identity of the Juubi being their mother, both Hagoromo and Hamura fought heroically against the Juubi without hesitation. After a long and fierce battle the two trapped it through activating Rikudō — Chibaku Tensei/ Six Paths Chibaku Tensei. The Juubi's body (and presumably Kaguya's soul) was thus sealed into the sealing stone that became the moon, while its chakra was sealed within Hagoromo and later formed into nine sapient parts to avoid the possibility of Juubi resurrecting when Hagoromo died of old age.

Beginning with the events of ''Boruto'', full-blooded Otsutsuki members -- those who came from the same world as Kaguya's -- begin threatening Earth as they plan to continue what she failed to do. At present it is unclear why they waited a thousand years to arrive. For more information about them, see [[Characters/BorutoOtsutsukiClan this page]].

!!Ōtsutsuki Clan as a whole provide examples of:
* AncientAstronauts: In a sense, Kaguya is this to humanity as whole because of her rebelling act against her partner and other Otsutsuki. Before her, humans were just mere humans, living in a fictional Feudal Japan. But her coming and eating the chakra fruit, then giving birth to humans who would spread chakra all over the world drastically changed the FictionalEarth's fate in those 1000 years since her coming (to say nothing of her ending existing civilization via the first Infinite Tsukuyomi). The simple existence of chakra has led to major political, social, technological, and philosophical transformations over time. The existence of the Tailed Beasts, the Creation of the Moon, and the simple existence of ninjutsu has changed the world that much.

* TheAssimilator: A whole clan of this. While implied in the original series, their ways are not detailed until the Boruto manga. As a race they evolve by eating a Chakra Fruit, usually harvested from all the lives of one planet. They dispatch a Ten-Tails on the surface as a Divine Tree seedling, which, once mature, will harvest the lives of the planet to grow a Chakra Fruit until the planet is drained of life. The chakra fruit is then shared among the Ōtsutsuki, granting them great power and nigh immortal lifespans, and then the cycle starts again on another planet. They're Alien Parasites

* BenevolentPrecursors: Hagoromo, Hamura and Asura can be considered this to not just their lineages, but also to the shinobi world. Indra and Kaguya and the full-blooded clan as a whole, not so much.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Best seen in Kaguya, but other examples are present; with many members having horns, the ability to breathe in space, sprout additional eyes, and a malleable skeletal structure that puts Kimimaro to shame, the Otsutsuki clan are right up here.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: All the Ōtsutsuki we've seen thus far seem to operate on this. Their modus operandi is draining worlds of the chakra which would doom said worlds to extinction, but from their perspective, they are simply satiating their hunger. This isn't helped by their less-than-stellar views of humans as inferior creatures.
* CloneByConversion: How the Ōtsutsuki resurrect themselves through Karma. Despite being reformed virtually identical to how they were in their previous body, the Ōtsutsuki also retains all the skills and knowledge from the vessel.

* DividedWeFall: The civil war between main and branch families of Hamura's lineage eventually ended with the latter victorious. Its victory ultimately amounted to a great loss of life and began the Hamura-descended Otsutsuki clan's decline.
* DyingRace: By the time ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', it’s heavily implied that there are very few, if not no more full blooded Ōtsutsuki left. Indeed, when Isshiki dies he speaks to Code as if there are no other Ōtsutsuki still alive, entrusting him with becoming an Ōtsutsuki and continuing the legacy of their race. It is yet unknown what caused them to dwindle.
* TheEmpath: Ōtsutsuki clan members save Indra specialized in this ability which Hagoromo named Ninshu. Ninshu was the conversion of ones' own Chakra to understand themselves better and others better, to read feelings, etc.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: While her words were an anime addition, the behavior of all full blooded Ōtsutsuki seen in the series lends credence to Kaguya's statement that they have no comprehension of love and only understand power. The achieving and keeping of power seems to be the only thing that motivates them (and punishing any who interfere with those activities).
* {{Flight}}: All full-blooded members of the Ōtsutsuki clan seen so far are able to levitate and fly about at will. How they do this is unclear, but it may be similar to the Earth Style: Lightened Boulder Jutsu used by some of the Tsuchikages which allowed them to essentially remove gravity from themselves or others.

* HornedHumanoid: All full-blooded Ōtsutsuki have at least one horn growing from their heads, and half human ones can possess these as well. Becoming more like an Ōtsutsuki in power or genetics will likewise cause a horn to grow even if the person originally had no Ōtsutsuki blood at all.

** Goes a long way. ''Boruto'' reveals that Kaguya actually came to Earth with another member, Isshiki, who had a higher status than her. Because the Otsutsuki ritual to grow the Divine Tree requires one of the pair to sacrifice themselves, Kaguya was chosen to do it (and be revived later) as was custom for their clan. But for unknown reasons she instead mortally injured Isshiki. Isshiki survived by transferring his consciousness into Jigen to stay alive. Jigen ended up becoming the future leader of Kara, setting the plot of ''Boruto'' in motion.
* HumanAliens: The Otsutsuki Clan is confirmed to have arrived from ''another world'' 1,000 years ago, meaning whatever planet (or dimension) they originate from, it's not Earth. Their biology is similar enough to humans, however, to allow interbreeding; thus was the birth of the Uzumaki, Senju, Uchiha, Hyuuga, and Kaguya clans.
* HumanSacrifice: Otsutsukis work in pairs because of one them must be fed to a Ten-Tails to complete the Chakra Fruit. Since they have Karma to revive in another body, the sacrifice is usually consensual.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: A very weird case. The Otsutsuki play a huge backstory role in the original ''Naruto'' manga, but their existence isn't even mentioned until the penultimate arc of the manga. They have more to do in ''Boruto'', where they become the focus of the story.
* OutsideContextProblem: The original Otsutsuki are literal aliens, as in people who came from either outer space or another dimension, a world that has yet to be shown in the franchise. Earth is merely one of the many worlds/dimensions they have visited in their history of growing and harvesting Divine Trees, draining whatever planet they target into a dead world for the sake of making their own people more powerful and longer lived. Earth seems to have been a notable exception to this system, due to Kaguya's rebellion and the way the humans were later able to spread the power of chakra to each other and thus gain the power to fight back against the Otsutsuki. Their existence makes the problems with the ninja world seem petty in comparison, being essentially interdimensional alien parasites that one might more expect from a apocalyptic science fiction story rather than a magical ninja one.

* PsychicLink: Ninshu, the trademark skill of the Otsutsuki Clan, was the better understanding of one another, and it was hoped by Hagoromo that Chakra would be used this way.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: With the exception of Toneri and Hamura, every named Otsutsuki has their roots in things from Japanese folklore.
* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: Due to their FantasticRacism towards humans, it's implied that Ōtsutsuki like Momoshiki and Isshiki see their role of draining worlds of their chakra for them to eat as this.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Like modern day shinobi, the Otsutsuki clan once enjoyed continuous improvement and prosperity from generation to generation. In fact, it was specifically fear of this trope, along with a massive ego, which prompted Kaguya to basically tear everything to the ground.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: The Byakugan, the clan's natural kekkei genkai, was passed down from Kaguya's son Hamura to the Hyuuga clan on Earth and their Otsutsuki counterparts on the Moon. Part of her Rinne-Sharingan's power was passed down to her other son Hagoromo in the form of the Rinnegan, and the other part - the Sharingan - became Hagoromo's son Indra's. While not at first obvious, the Kaguya clan are indeed confirmed to be Kaguya's descendants due to possessing Shikotsumyaku, which is a degraded form of her ability to manipulate her skeletal structure. The clan's Shikotsumyaku, however, inherited none of the precise [[OneHitKill deadliness]] that her own skills possess, as Obito found out.

!!Full-Blooded Ōtsutsuki

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!Kaguya Ōtsutsuki

The originator of chakra on Earth, as a result of eating a chakra fruit from the Divine Tree, and the mother of the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo, as well as Hamura, the younger twin and the one who went to the Moon. She is also notably the only full blooded female Ōtsutsuki so far seen.

* FinalExamBoss: Naruto requires not only all his newfound tailed beast and Asura powers, but a lot of call backs to his earliest techniques, to beat her. Specifically the Sexy Jutsu, the first technique we ever saw him use, and Naruto Uzumaki Barrage.

* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Naruto, who had previously confirmed that it was pointless to attempt to measure the Ten-Tails' chakra levels due to it being, quite simply, immeasurable states that her chakra levels are even greater than the Ten-Tails.

[[folder:Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki]]
See Characters/BorutoOtsutsukiClan.

[[folder:Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki]]
See Characters/BorutoOtsutsukiClan.

[[folder:Urashiki Ōtsutsuki]]
See Characters/BorutoOtsutsukiClan.

[[folder:Isshiki Ōtsutsuki]]
See Characters/BorutoOtsutsukiClan

[[folder:Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki]]

[[folder:Hamura Ōtsutsuki]]
!!Hamura Ōtsutsuki

* FamousAncestor: He's the ancestor of the Hyuga clan, not to mention the remaining members of the Branch Otsutsuki clan a millennium after his physical death.

[[folder:Indra Ōtsutsuki]]
!!Indra Ōtsutsuki

* CainAndAbel: Became the Cain to Asura's Abel.

* EternalHero: More of an eternal antagonist. His chakra was so potent, and his rivalry with Asura so deeply ingrained, that even after his physical death it persisted and was reincarnated several times over the course of the next thousand years into his descendants. It is implied his will/chakra influenced Sasuke and others towards their more extreme behaviors, such that time and again those his chakra attached to would inevitably kill or be killed by those who bore Asura's chakra. It is further implied that Sasuke and Naruto making peace at last put an end to the feud and Indra's curse upon his descendents.

* KarmaHoudini: Started the Uchiha/Senju feud and fostered an attitude of ItsAllAboutMe in his descendants. Sure Black Zetsu helped him along, but he wasn't forced into it; he's responsible for his own actions but his father, Hagoromo, treats it like his own fault for choosing Indra's clearly superior (in so many ways) brother as his successor instead. To be clear, Hagoromo regrets believing that Indra would simply accept the decision and support his brother, rather than regreting the decision to choose Asura.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: In Hinduism, Indra is a warrior-god and the leader of the Devas. ''Naruto'''s Indra was the founder of the Uchiha Clan and the opponent of his brother Asura. Myth/HinduMythology believes that the Devas are always at war with Asuras. In the original myths, Indra is a heroic figure and the Asuras are antagonists, but this version sees their roles flipped.

* UnwittingPawn: It turns out he was one to Black Zetsu, who manipulated him into attacking his younger brother Asura and starting the feud between their descendants in his pursuit to revive the brothers' grandmother.

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!!Asura Ōtsutsuki

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* EternalHero: His chakra was so potent that even after his physical death it persisted and was reincarnated several times. Naruto eventually became aware of Asura's presence/chakra clinging to him and compared it to being possessed by a ghost. It's implied Asura's presence within a reincarnate would inevitably influence a rivalry with the current reincarnate of Indra, with tragic results. It is further implied the chakra ghosts of Indra and Asura were at last put to rest when Sasuke and Naruto made peace.
* GreenThumb: In a {{filler}} arc detailing his life, Asura is shown to be able to use Wood Release.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Defied. Despite having none of his brothers natural talent, Asura was eventually able to match him by working all the harder and finding strength in the support of the people around him. His willingness to accept help and cooperate with others eventually enabled his own inner potential to bloom and he found in himself power equal to Indra.

** His Animal Battle Aura had six arms and three faces, and his brother's name was Indra, after the leader of the Deva in Hinduism. Hindu mythology holds that the Devas and Asuras are perpetually at war. In the original myths, Asuras are the antagonists and the Indra-led Devas benevolent, but this version sees their roles flipped.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Ashura" is the phonetic translation from katakana, whereas the ''Naruto'' wiki has decided to go with "Asura", which makes more sense all things considered.

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!!Toneri Ōtsutsuki

The BigBad of the seventh ''Shippuden'' movie (and the first {{Canon}} movie in the franchise), ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie''. A descendant of Hamura Otsutsuki who hails from the moon, he intends to drop the moon onto the Earth as punishment to mankind who have abused chakra in their petty wars and attempts to kidnap Hinata, for the sole purpose of gaining a wife after Earth has been wiped clean of all life. It's later revealed that he belongs the Branch Family of the Otsutsuki clan that wiped out the Main Family after they misinterpreted Hamura Otsutsuki's will. To get Hinata to come to him, he has his puppets kidnap Hanabi Hyuga and steals her eyes in order to awaken the legendary Tenseigan: eyes that rivals the Rinnegan in power. Despite all the evil he commits, Toneri demonstrates that his isolation on the moon drove him to desperation for companionship and after being defeated by Naruto and Hinata and shown the error of his ways, he stops trying to destroy the Earth and lives the remainder of his life on the Moon as atonement.

* TheAloner: Toneri is the only remaining person left on the Moon after a bloody civil war started by the branch family of the Otsutsuki clan.

* AndIMustScream: In ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', after facing off against Urashiki Otsutsuki, the later traps him in a time prison.

* TheAtoner: It's strongly implied that his stance against his distant Otsutsuki relatives and his aid for Boruto is driven by his desire to make up for his earlier sins.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Toneri is a part of the branch family of the Otsutsuki clan. The branch family wiped out the main family after the events of the manga because they blamed them for allowing Madara to summon the King of Hell Statue and seek to wipe out humanity for abusing chakra and corrupting ninshuu.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Toneri is [[TheLastOfHisKind the last Otsutsuki]] and person living on the moon, with only his puppets to keep him company and the result has made him quite unhinged, but for the most part he keeps it in check until his VillainousBreakdown.

* KryptoniteFactor: Only Hamura Otsutsuki's chakra, which can be yielded by Hinata, can actively harm him and his Tenseigan. Naruto manages to use it against him during the FinalBattle, thanks to Hinata's chakra clinging to the scarf he holds.

* LastOfHisKind: Toneri is the last of the Otsutsuki Branch family after the civil war.

* ManaDrain: Apparently, he and his Tenseigan can absorb all forms of chakra from a distance. Naruto finds this out the hard way when he faces him for the first time after he confesses his love to Hinata. Toneri attempts to do it again after Naruto beats him but Hinata protects Naruto by sharing Hamura Otsutsuki's chakra with him.

* OddNameOut: Unlike other named Otsutsuki, Toneri’s name has its roots in Japanese history instead of Eastern mythology.

* TragicVillain: More so than the previous villains. He spent most of his life alone on the moon and has nothing to cling to except for the Otsutsuki branch family's propaganda about Hamura's intention for the Tenseigan, causing him to become a love-starved KnightTemplar.

* FinalBoss: While Kaguya is the final villain Naruto fought in the manga, Toneri is this for Part II as whole.

* FinalBoss: Of Part II.

* {{Bishonen}}: The description for his character design packet even {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s his good looks.