History Naruto / TropesLToZ

* WelcomeBackTraitor: {{Justified}} with Sasuke and Orochimaru, who are clever enough to execute their HazyFeelTurn when the good guys are really in no situation to reject their help.

** In the Death Forest after the fight against the Sound Genins, Shikamaru and Choji comment how Naruto is too much an IdiotHero to be a good Shonen manga main protagonist.

** The PostScriptSeason, ''Manga/NarutoGaiden'' makes a [[TrollingCreator very pointed jab]] to the people that both disliked the [[spoiler:Sasuke/Sakura]] pairing and actually suggested that [[spoiler:Karin was Sarada's mother instead of Sakura]] by dealing with[[spoiler:the real possibility of Sarada being Karin's daughter]], even using a [=DNA=] test to confirm this. But in the end [[spoiler:it turns out Sakura is indeed Sarada's mother]], and not only that, but [[spoiler:Karin]] mentions also being good friends with Sakura.

** Naruto's own parents recognize each other as this as well. His mother Kushina was bullied as a child for being an outsider and for her long flowing red hair in particular, which caused her to resent it. She also initially didn't think much of his father Minato, believing him to be "flaky", [[GenerationXerox similar to how Naruto initially thought of Hinata as "weird"]]. One day, though, Kushina was kidnapped by Kumo ninja for being the Kyuubi jinchūriki. She made a TrailOfBreadCrumbs using strands of her hair, and just when it seemed no one had caught on, [[RescueRomance Minato appeared and rescued her]]. He was the only one to catch on to what she was doing, and even admitted that the first thing he noticed about her when they first met was [[HeroesWantRedheads her beautiful long red hair]]. That was the moment that Kushina realized that the hair she hated so much had become her RedStringOfFate that led her to her soulmate.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Sakura to Sasuke before he leaves the Leaf, in an absolutely heartbreaking scene. Naruto’s entire fight with Sasuke at the Valley of the End consists of this, eventually turning into “I’ll break every bone in your body and drag you all the way back if that’s what it takes!” “I won’t let you be taken by someone like Orochimaru!” ''Subverted'' by Naruto when he just wants to talk with Sasuke, even going so far as to tell Sasuke that they will [[TakingYouWithMe die together]] if they fight each other, then allows him to go freely on his way once he’s finished.

* MassiveMultiplayerScam: In a filler arc, Gennou sets paper bombs throughout all of Konoha, supposedly to detonate them to destroy the village, but it is later revealed that many of the original paper bombs were replaced with fakes in order to let Naruto and his friends have a scavenger hunt like the ones his son used to enjoy.

* RedShirtArmy: The ANBU (how ironic, given that they're supposed to be EliteMooks) and the Samurai.
* RedStringOfFate: Someone's ''hair'' gets used as this. ItMakesSenseInContext.

** Pain kills Jiraiya, then Kakashi and a buttload of other named characters. ''Then'' he lays waste to Konoha and turns it into a smoking crater. ''Then'' he almost kills [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Hinata]], [[BerserkButton which causes Naruto]] [[UnstoppableRage to nearly completely release the Nine-Tails]], which is supposed to be an irreversible, cataclysmic, RocksFallEveryoneDies event.

** The jutsu Amaterasu gets this. Initially introduced as black flames that burn to ashes anything they make contact with (even fire is consumed by them) and can't be dodged unless you can move/react faster than the user's eye can focus on you (since in its base usage the flames are not shot out but actually directly appear on the body of the target), the vast majority of the time it is used simply to showcase how the target ''can't'' be beaten by it (typically by them being able to absorb the chakra powering the flames). Over the course of the series Sasuke often uses it for defense or as an actual projectile to more practical means than the instant-win use it was originally introduced for.