History Naruto / TropesAtoK

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: Pain, who we are led to believe is Akatsuki's leader, had never lost a battle before fighting Naruto. Later the situation is kind of complicated by TheReveal that even though Pain was the acting leader, he was taking orders from TheManBehindTheMan, who is also very powerful (but not nearly as powerful as Pain [[FromNobodyToNightmare at the time]]).

** Akatsuki globally becomes this in part II. It's ordered not to engage them in battle if not in a team because each member is a formidable threat on their own. Going alone (or even as a trio) to fight any of them is repeatedly stated to be at best reckless, at worst suicidal. They manage to incapacitate Kankuro, and (temporarily) kill Gaara and two major {{Mentors}}. Itachi Uchiha particularly stands out, given he's the one the protagonists know better. Pain does it simply through [[AuthorityGrantsAsskicking being "Akatsuki's leader"]]. And Tobi [[TheManBehindtheMan "a true leader Akatsuki"]] is the most effective of these (mostly due to the fact his victims actually die and are not [[DisneyDeath resurrected later]]).

* DyingReconcilliation:

* CynicismCatalyst: Tons of them. Almost every antagonist has one, usually involving a loved one being killed in some very unfair way. There's [[spoiler:Sasuke (clan killed), Itachi (forced to kill said clan), Neji (father died), Orochimaru (parents died), Tsunade (younger brother died, then lover died), Sasori (parents died), Nagato and Konan (best friend died), Tobi (teammate died), Madara (brother died), Kabuto (tricked into killing foster mom), [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Danzo (inferiority complex)]], etc.]] Most of the protagonists have this kind of thing in the backstory too, so you could argue that the main difference between them and the antagonists is that they don't let their traumas turn them evil.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Minato and Kushina.

* AbortedArc: The first major arc of the series put a lot of emphasis on the shinobi practice of completely destroying a allied ninja's corpse in order to keep any secrets their body contained from falling into enemy hands. Yet over the course of the series it seems like this practice was either surprisingly ineffective or rarely done on famous ninja, as many future events only happen due to villains being able to get ahold of the DNA of long dead ninja, with many of them explicitly being from digging up their corpses when at least the implication of the first arc is that there shouldn't be enough left to bury. Further, the practice of completely destroying bodies is not mentioned after the first arc. The only mitigation is that the first arc never shows us what this standard method of body destruction looks like, i.e. it leaves it unknown if the focus is simply on destroying enough to make copying body modifications or certain bloodline abilities impossible, and that there still might be enough left to be used for Edo Tensei or cloning.

** In Iruka’s second scene, he tells Naruto that he can’t go home until he cleans the monuments, and Naruto sullenly responds that he has no one to go home to. Iruka ponders it for a moment, then tells Naruto that if he finishes, they’ll go out for ramen, effectively showing that Iruka may be strict, but also cares for Naruto.

** Gaara's sympathy flashbacks (both the anime and the manga ; this is the anime’s description). He unintentionally injures a group of kids and the one person who seems to actually care about him, tries to give medicine to said injured kids, is told “Go away you Freak!”, and has the door slammed in his face, inadvertently kills a man, is attacked while he is finally having a good cry by some assassin who turns out to be the same person who pretended to care about him (not to mention who is his blood relative, but in Narutoworld, that doesn’t seem to matter a whole lot…), is told, using his last breath, that his mother never cared about him and “I hate you… I’ve always hated you” by the ''same person''. ''All in the same day!''

* HollywoodBoardGames: The Nara Clan is characterized as being BrilliantButLazy. This is conveyed by the fact its members enjoy playing TabletopGame/{{Shogi}} -- a slow-paced strategy game usually played by smart old men with nothing better to do.

** During the Invasion of Pain arc. The village has been leveled, with several important characters and hundreds of nameless villagers killed. Naruto's [[LookWhatICanDoNow new sage power]] has failed and he is pinned to the ground helpless. Worse still, he can find no response to Pain's nihilistic BreakingSpeech. Then [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Hinata]] tries to come to his aid, makes an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove and attacks Pain, only to get [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed]]. [[BerserkButton Naruto's shock and anger]] [[UnstoppableRage overcome his protective seals]] and the power of the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nine-Tailed Fox]] bursts free like it has never done before. As Kyuubi-Naruto is fighting Pain, the scene switches to Yamato (the only person who can rein in the Nine-Tailed Fox when Naruto loses control), who's miles away. He looks down to his tattoo that shows how many tails Naruto has unleashed (if all of them are released, the Nine-Tailed Fox can break free completely), and sees the number changing from 8 to '''9'''...

* GeodesicCast: The Team 7 [[TwoGuysAndAGirl structure]] of "''Two males that are [[RedOniBlueOni of contrasting personality]], [[TheSmurfettePrinciple one female]]''" [[ThreeAmigos group]], was repeated again and again for the other three-person teams. The only exceptions were Killer Bee's students, who were two girls and one guy.

* HeroesFightBarehanded: The titular hero heavily relies on Taijutsu, contrasting Sasuke who prefers to use a [[ShockAndAwe lightning-enchanted]] [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]. On a similar note we have [[BoobsOfSteel Tsunade]] versus Orochimaru (Uses the Kusanagi sword) and [[BoisterousBruiser the Raikage]] compared to his brother Kirabi.

* GratuitousEnglish: "''DynamicEntry''"!

** During the Chunin Exams Arc, giant snakes indigenous to the Forty-Fourth Training Ground are encountered as an obstacle, Naruto in particular gets
eaten by one of them.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Naruto and Hinata. Despite having different personalities and fighting styles, they're very similar to each other, as pointed out by [[ShipperOnDeck Lee, Sakura, Kiba and Shino]]. Both are considered failures by everyone around them, both suffer because of the respective statuses they have carried since birth, and both want to be acknowledged and accepted. Both are really nice, dorky, determined, loyal, and insecure. According to [[AllThereInTheManual the databooks]] and ''[[LightNovel/KonohaHidenThePerfectDayForAWedding Konoha Hiden]]'', both like to eat red bean soup and preserve their plants. Their respective signature colors--Orange and Purple--share the common color {{Red|StringOfFate}} on the [[http://web.archive.org/web/20170929145745/https://designcode.io/cloud/chapter1/Colors-Wheel.png color wheel]]. Finally, both are incredibly empathetic, despite living in a world where that trait is easily looked down upon. This is one of the reasons why they develop a strong friendship [[spoiler:that grows into love]].

** The Hōzuki Castle/Blood Prison -- the setting for the ''Anime/NarutoTheMovieBloodPrison'' movie -- is mentioned in the canon novels ''Kakashi Hiden: Lightning in the Icy Sky'' and ''Shikamaru Hiden: A Cloud Drifting in Silent Darkness''. In fact, the ''LightNovel/NarutoHiden'' light novels in general have canonized a number of things introduced in {{Filler}} and the [[NonSerialMovie Non-Serial Movies]] (though they had to change a number of details to make them canon-compliant).

** Unlike most villains in the series, Orochimaru is pretty irredeemable, having performed numerous massacres and experiments on prisoners (including children and infants, usually fatal) to become immortal. Yet after [[EnemyMine siding with the heroes against Madara]], Orochimaru is still living and working in a remodeled laboratory of his with Yamato and other Leaf shinobi keeping said base under constant surveilance. Neither Sasuke nor ''[[MessianicArchetype Naruto]]'' have any problem with visiting and chatting with him (albeit they both make it clear they don't actually like him). They don't even mind that Orochimaru looks younger, beyond finding his new appearance odd (of course Orochimaru always looked however he wanted to). WordOfGod even confirmed that [[http://qaelios.tumblr.com/post/130767854594/notes-from-the-kishimoto-interview Orochimaru gained immortality]] later on. This is even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[AdaptationExpansion in the anime adaptation]] of ''[[LightNovel/KonohaHidenThePerfectDayForAWedding Konoha Hiden]]'', where Orochimaru openly strolls around town and even participates in a video to send [[spoiler:[[OfficialCouple Naruto and Hinata]] well-wishes for their upcoming wedding]], and only Yamato who was assigned to monitor him finds anything wrong with this.