History Naruto / TropesLToZ

* TheRestShallPass: During the Sasuke retrieval arc; every time one of Orochimaru's Sound Four arrives to stop them, one of them stays behind to fight while they tell the rest to keep going.

* PlotArmor: Sasuke is a major offender, often relying on NewPowersAsThePlotDemands to make him [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe As Strong As He Needs To Be]]. His most iconic one may be when, after it had already been established that he was out of chakra, he summoned a giant snake, hypnotized it, jumped in its mouth and teleported it and himself out of harm's way all to avoid a massive 10-kilometer-radius explosion. After said explosion ''had already gone off. A few feet from him.'' ([[http://sractheninja.deviantart.com/art/Naruto-Deidara-Lives-63271750?q=gallery%3Asractheninja%2F196008&qo=77 Illustration.]])
** Hinata somehow manages to survive being stabbed point blank, , then Kyubi's chakra explosion, then'' laying there alone bleeding and unconscious for several minutes while two PersonsOfMassDestruction summon gravity blasts and giant chakra balls all over the smoking crater.

* PlotTumor: Uchiha Madara is behind everything. EVERYTHING. [[spoiler: Or is he?]]

* PowerPerversionPotential: Naruto has insane stamina, can make dozens of clones of himself, plus has the [[GenderBender Sexy Jutsu]]. All the Hyuugas have the [[MilkyWhiteEyes Byakugan]], a special eye which allows [[XRayVision to see through things]]. Then there's Orochimaru's tongue, Jiraiya's PrehensileHair, Deidara's mouths in his palms, the Eight-Tailed-Beast [[NaughtyTentacles tentacles]], Karin's [[FetishFuel strange]] way of healing people, an alternate interpretation of why the Fourth Hokage is called the Yellow 'Flash'... In-universe, Jiraiya invents an invisibility technique ''specifically'' for peeking on women bathing.

** Naruto tries to reason Sasuke through their fight at the Valley of the End. [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't work]].

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Sakura to Sasuke [[spoiler: before he leaves the Leaf, in an absolutely heartbreaking scene]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Naruto tries to reason Sasuke during their fight at the Valley of the End. It doesn't work.

* [[MesACrowd Me's A Crowd]]: The various Clone Jutsu: Shadow, Water, Lightning, etc. Also seen to a smaller scale with Replacement and Substitution Jutsu. Then you have Zetsu, [[spoiler: whose white half can be cultivated like a plant. The BigBad grows [[UptoEleven one hundred thousand]] copies of him to fight in the fourth ninja world war.]]

* For some reason when Deidara was first introduced, he was called [[spoiler: Akatsuki]]. Spoiler tagged because I'm not sure if it's this trope or a {{BlindIdiotTranslation}}

** [[spoiler:Tobi is Madara Uchiha, Sasuke's ancestor who attacked Konoha with the Nine-Tailed Fox! Oh, wait.. he's actually an impostor and ''Kabuto knows the truth!'']]

* For some reason when Deidara was first introduced, he was called [[spoiler: Akatsuki]]. Spoiler tagged because I'm not sure if it's this trope or a {{BlindIdiotTranslation}}

* WindsOfDestinyChange: Seems to be what the forbidden dojutsu [[spoiler:Izanami]] is about.

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* [[SlapSlapKiss Slap Slap Hug]]: The whole Naruto and Sakura relationship seems to be this.

* SmashTheSymbol: Itachi throws a kunai into a Uchiha clan symbol.

* SkyscraperCity: [[http://images.wikia.com/naruto/fr/images/3/3c/Amegakure.jpg The Hidden Rain Village]] is an odd example. The architecture and giant pipes everywhere make it seem like the buildings are "unfinished"; this, and the perpetually gloomy sky, give the impression of a huge shantytown rather than a prosperous city.

* SmashTheSymbol Itachi throws a kunai into a Uchiha clan symbol. All though its not long before the gesture is completely overshadowed by something else he does

** Naruto chews out [[spoiler:Sakura]] for a supposedly dishonest confession rather angrily, despite loving her..

** Naruto chews out [[spoiler:Sakura]] for a dishonest and shallow love confession.

* PlayingWithFire: Any character who uses fire techniques. [[ConvectionSchmonvection Not that can really]] [[TheWorfBarrage help to win a fight]].

* SkyscraperCity: [[http://images.wikia.com/naruto/fr/images/3/3c/Amegakure.jpg The Hidden Rain Village]] is an odd example. The architecture and giant pipes everywhere make it seem like the buildings are "unfinished", and give the impression of a huge shantytown rather than a prosperous city. The perpetually gloom sky doesn't help.

* YouFailPhysicsForever: Kakashi can shout clearly while in Zabuza's Water Prison Jutsu.

* Itachi is probably the standout case, aged 18/19 in his first appearance and more powerful than anyone else we've seen, or ''will'' see, for a long while. Kakashi during his Gaiden arc qualifies, as does Nagato during his flashbacks.
** Naruto's generation in general is stated to be very talented, but the degree to which they live up to this reputation varies. Naruto and Sasuke stand up to S-class ninjas on a semiregular basis so they're very probably much more powerful than is typical for their age, but the rest of their classmates do not have such insane feats to their name, and telling where they stand as opposed to someone "typical" of their age is difficult since we don't have anyone to compare against.

** The First & Second Hokage > The Third Hokage > Jiraiya > The Fourth Hokage > Kakashi > Naruto (provides the page's cture)

There are [[TropeOverdosed so many tropes]] in ''{{Naruto}}'' that we had to split its trope page. The first half is [[Naruto/TropesAtoK here]]. Tropes about the anime and other media go [[Naruto/AnimeAndOthers there]].

Please add character tropes directly to said character entry on one of ''Naruto'''s numerous [[Characters/{{Naruto}} characters sheets]], unless it is a key plot point or a remarkable recurring trope (e.g. on this page: NotSoStoic).
This is to keep these pages from inflating artificially.

''Here be spoilers. Anything that has not been aired on the free version[[hottip:*:one week after the paid version]] of [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Naruto_Shippuden Crunchyroll]] should be spoiler-tagged.''
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[OneSceneWonder Once]]. 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.
* LimitedWardrobe: Most characters have one outfit for before or after the timeskip, but may wear casual clothes while off-duty. By contrast, the Sand Siblings change outfits in each of their major appearances.
* LineOfSightName: [[ZigzaggingTrope It's hard to tell whether this is played straight, or subverted, or averted, or what]].
** Naruto's namesake, a character from Jiraiya's novel, is [[WatsonianVersusDoylist a Watsonian example]] from our perspective and a Doylist example from the [[ShowWithinAShow story within a story]] perspective, as Jiraiya thought up the name while eating a bowl of ramen and Naruto is a type of ramen topping. The titular Naruto, in turn, was named after said character by his dad, which is not a LineOfSightName at all.
** Sasuke ''was'' a straight-up [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] example. Naming a ninja "Uchiha Sasuke" is akin to naming a nurse Fanny Nightingale (you may have heard of SarutobiSasuke). Then we find out that in-universe he's named after [[spoiler:the Third Hokage's father]], whose name actually ''was'' Sarutobi Sasuke.
* LivingMacGuffin: The Jinchurikis.
** Sasuke provides an even better example given the number of people who are after him throughout the story.
* LivingWeapon: The Jinchuuriki are Type 1. Yes, even Naruto. In fact, ''especially'' Naruto. He is the only one who had a specific target, [[spoiler: Uchiha Madara]].
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: which leads to...
** CastHerd: The huge cast is conveniently organized in teams of 3 or 4 members, while antagonists are almost always organized by pairs (Zabuza/Haku, Orochimaru/Kabuto, and of course Akatsuki members), the sole exceptions being the Sound Five and arguably Konan and Pain.
** GeodesicCast: The team 7's [[TwoGuysAndAGirl structure]] "''Two males that are [[RedOniBlueOni of contrasting personality]], [[TheSmurfettePrinciple one]] female''" [[PowerTrio group]], repeated again and again. As the manga progresses it seems to slowly drift away from this gimmick.
*** Justified for Team 7. It's explicitly stated Sasuke and Naruto were both assigned to Team 7 because Sasuke was first-ranked in their Academy class and Naruto was last, and it's tradition to put first and last on the same team to balance out its capabilities.
* LocalHangout: Ichiraku's ramen bar.
* LoopholeAbuse: By way of LampshadeHanging. TheStinger of the [[TournamentArc Chunin exam]] second stage's HiddenPurposeTest is that the evil mind games and intricate manipulations surrounding the exam were played up so much, you could theoretically pass the test without writing down a single word. Which [[TheTrickster Naruto]] [[TakeAThirdOption does]].
* LosingYourHead: ''Twice''. First, we have Hidan, who, being immortal, yells curses at his beheader until such a time his head can be reattached. Then there's Kisame ([[spoiler:actually a Zetsu clone]]), who compliments his opponents on their victory ''as his head is flying through the air''.
* LoveHurts: Realizing for the first time what Naruto went through because of her does not make Sakura very happy. She, in turn, had more than her fair share of this courtesy of Sasuke.
* LukeIAmYourFather: The reveal of Naruto's [[SarcasmMode incredibly]] [[TheUntwist surprising]] parentage.
* MagicByAnyOtherName: Sex-change, fireballs, summoning toads! Oh jutsu, is there ''anything'' you can't do?
* ManlyTears: Quite often, and from the first chapter on. Mostly [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] and PlayedForLaughs with Lee and Might Guy.
* MasterApprenticeChain:
** The First & Second Hokage > The Third Hokage > Jiraiya > The Fourth Hokage > Kakashi > Naruto (provides the page's cture)
** The Third Hokage > Orochimaru & Tsunade > Sasuke & Sakura
* MeaningfulFuneral: The 3rd Hokage's funeral.
* MeaningfulName: Naruto's surname, Uzumaki, means "spiral" - fitting considering Naruto's fondness for spirals (see: Rasengan).
* [[MesACrowd Me's A Crowd]]: The various Clone Jutsu: Shadow, Water, Lightning, etc. Also seen to a smaller scale with Replacement and Substitution Jutsu. Then you have Zetsu, [[spoiler: whose white half can be cultivated like a plant. The BigBad grows [[UptoEleven one hundred thousand]] copies of him to fight in the fourth ninja world war.]]
* TheMessiah: Naruto, complete with MessianicArchetype. It has been said that his best power isn't his near limitless chakra, his SuperpoweredEvilSide, or his growing mastery of the Fourth Hokage's techniques -- it's his [[strike:[[FanNickname Talk no Jutsu]]]] simple-minded ''charisma''.
* MeteorMove
* MindRape: Most of genjutsu techniques boil down to this, with Tsukuyomi being the most extreme.
* MundaneUtility: In canon, Naruto jumps into a creek with shadow clones to force some fish to the surface, which Sasuke catches with kunai and cooks with his fire jutsu. Jiraiya also used a fire jutsu in flashback to cook a giant fish.
** One of the hallmarks of ''Naruto'' {{Filler}} is the characters turning their fantastic ninja powers to boring everyday tasks, the titular character using his absurdly powerful ''Rasengan'' jutsu to mix noodles, for example. Even lampshaded by Naruto in that instance.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sasuke claims one of the most epic instances of this in the series, but a honorary mention goes to Sakura when she realizes what the promise she got out of Naruto did to him.
* {{Nakama}}: The [[FanNickname Konoha 11]].
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Tsunade has light shades of this, since one easily forgotten reason of why she got picked up to be 5th Hokage is that she's respectively the grand-daughter and grand-niece of the 1st and 2nd Hokages. It's by '''no way''' THE one reason, but it's there, somewhere at the bottom.
** Konan was introduced as having been mainly defined by her loyalty to Yahiko and Nagato, [[spoiler:and eventually, Naruto]]. Subverted when [[spoiler:she eventually gets a chance to show [[LetsGetDangerous just how powerful she is]] - come to think of it, she ''too'' could have destroyed Konoha all by herself.]]
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] once by the BigBad.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] for the most part with the series. Information about an enemy's jutsu is often the key to winning battles, so it makes sense that most ninja save their most useful techniques for especially difficult battles. If you go around spamming your best attack at everyone, it won't be long at all until someone comes up with a way to beat it. Example: probably the biggest reason that [[spoiler: Jiraiya dies fighting Pain]] and [[spoiler: Naruto beats Pain]] is that [[spoiler: Jiraiya didn't have a slug by his ear telling him about all of Pain's jutsus]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Uchiha clan holds the world record in this. Remember when they felt things weren't going their way so they had this brilliant idea to sway things in their favor?... Remember how that went? Mm hm. Remember Sasuke's great triumphant moment of revenge? Remember how that one turned out? Mm hm. Remember the part where we find out what Itachi was all about and what he was trying to achieve? See how ''that one turned out?'' Mm hm. Nice job, Uchiha clan.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Pain seems to go out of his way to induce rage and despair in Naruto, presumably to Teach Him [[strike:[[TeachHimAnger Anger]]]] [[TeachHimAnger Pain]]. [[GoneHorriblyRight You can imagine how well that eventually went for him]].
* {{Ninja}}: Just about everyone.
* NinjaLog: Used in a surprising number of variations, including several that explode.
* NobodyPoops: {{Averted}} in the sports festival OVA as well as the actual show. Naruto is the usual offender.
* NonhumansLackAttributes: Usually played straight (e.g. Kakashi's dogs). Averted with a certain armadillo. {{Squick}}.
** Also averted for Akamaru in the [[PottyHumor comical]] spin-off ''Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth''.
* TheNoseBleed: The inevitable result of Naruto's Sexy Jutsu.
* NotADate / SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Shikamaru and Temari. Asuma and Kurenai.
* NotEvenHuman: How many people in the manga view jinchuuriki. This way of thinking is a personal berserk button for Naruto.
* NotJustATournament: The Chunin Exam arc features a single-elimination tournament as the final stage of the exam. Initially, the idea is that the contestants will fight each other and that the judges determine who should be promoted based on the performance. However, it is soon explained that that function is more of an in-universe ExcusePlot to showcase competition between villages. Said competition affects incoming business for each village.
* NotQuiteDead: A number of characters have pulled this off at some point or the other, but the runaway award winner is Orochimaru.
* NotSoDifferent: Naruto has had many foils throughout the series, and often he finds out that he's more like them than he thought:
** Gaara is what Naruto would have become if Iruka hadn't acknowledged him. They share the traumatic isolation of being host to tailed beasts. This is made all the more poignant by the fact that we are introduced to Gaara as a completely AxCrazy monster hungry for blood and only find out that he and Naruto are NotSoDifferent after several {{Establishing Character Moment}}s of Gaara's that involved plenty of murder. What's more, they were both entrusted to the care of someone whose loved ones they'd inadvertently killed. Where their paths diverged, and for us the story begins, is Iruka being better than Yashamaru at getting over one's shit. ([[spoiler: Recently revealed that Yashamaru was kind of forced into his jerk ass moment by Gaara's dad. Makes it arguable that they turned out differently because Naruto had an awesome father who died and Gaara had a terrible one who stuck around. Sort of.]])
** The astute viewer would have suspected as much about Hinata to begin with, but just in case they don't, Lee outright points out that her borderline-suicidal determination seems oddly familiar to him from somewhere. In moments of great despair she often resorts to Naruto's trademark WorldOfCardboardSpeech.
** Naruto realizes at some point that [[spoiler:his own anger from Konoha's hatred towards him means he could've been the threat to Konoha and Sasuke the one defending it. The panel shows Naruto using chidori and Sasuke using Rasengan to drive it home]].
** At one point, Naruto finds out that one of the villains actually used to be very similar to him before he became a FallenHero.
** Gaara is doubly interesting in that he also serves as a foil for Sasuke. Sasuke is what Gaara would have become if Naruto hadn't been able to reach his heart.
** Abused and done to death in fillers. Remember that guy who showed up for three episodes, initially was hostile to Naruto but then both of them found out that "''He is... the same as me...''" or "''He has... the same eyes as me''"? Yeah, that guy?
* NotSoStoic: It's something of a theme that no one can truly kill or completely overcome their own emotions and pretty much ''everyone'' who tries to play TheStoic with some level of development lets loose at some point.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: End of Part I. Seems to be the case after a certain WhamEpisode in Part II, but the lasting effect on the plot turns out to be less drastic than expected.
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* ObliviousMockery: Having heard that Jugo went to Orochimaru voluntarily, Suigetsu comments that only someone completely nuts would throw himself into Orochimaru's arms. Right next to Sasuke, who threw himself into Orochimaru's arms for the sake of his revenge.
* OddlySmallOrganization: There are some clans of whom we've never seen more than a nuclear family (Nara, Inuzuka, Aburame and Akimichi for a while). And to date, Sakura is the one and only member of the Haruno clan we've ever got to see. Either these families are just that small and Sakura's parents are really plot irrelevant, or there's more of a story there that we'll get to see eventually. It should be noted that not every family is a large, internally organized "Clan" like Hyuga or Uchiha, and some may even be civilian families rather than ninja clans.
** [[GenericEvilOrganizationSquad The Akatsuki]]. Its size is never clearly stated. It's defined as a ten-members group, incredibly small for an organization aiming at world domination, although Sasori had several underlings working for him in the Sand village and their leader turned out to have had a whole village under his control.
* OfficialCouple: There's Asuma and Kurenai, Minato and Kushina, and [[spoiler: Konan and Yahiko]].
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We don't see most of the fights between the Tailed Beasts hosts and Akatsuki (except in some {{Filler}} episodes).
* OhCrap: Sure to happen whenever some invincible villain turns out to be NotSoInvincibleAfterAll or some ultimate technique turns out to be [[TheWorfBarrage Not So Ultimate After All]]. Also a common response to nightmarish genjutsu before you realize you've been caught in one.
** A rather humourous example is Shikamaru during the final round of the Chunnin exams. He had no interest in fighting the match, and was about to give up, when Naruto pushed him into the field, and he was promptly jeered by the audience because ''he is not Sasuke''. His face had OhCrap written all over it.
* OneWingedAngel: Anyone using Curse mark level 2, Juugo, and anyone with a tailed beast.
* OnlyAFleshWound: "''Oh, my god! That was my arm! They ripped off my arm! AARGH!''" - A quote not uttered by anyone at any point in the series, though logic dictates it ''should have been'', on at least five separate occasions. On ''two'' separate occasions, a villain had this done to them, and instead of the battle being over right there and then, they just kept fighting to eventually ''win''. This is especially jarring given how much Orochimaru was both furious and terrified at the loss of his arms (Which, granted, were ''sealed'', not just cut off, but still...).
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Gaara used this before his HeelFaceTurn by saying Sasuke was 'his prey'.
** Itachi Uchiha basically says that the only one allowed to defeat him is his younger brother, the same Sasuke. But [[BeneficialAbandonment he has his reasons]] for saying that.
** Also, Naruto and Sasuke, mutually and multiple times.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Type "V" for the characters brought back with the forbidden technique ''Edo Tensei''.
* OutOfFocus: Most of anyone in this series who has just played some significant part in the plot and is not part of Team 7 or a top-tier villain goes straight to the OffstageWaitingRoom. In fact, more often than not when the focus shifts to any of the secondary characters, it's because something ''[[ADeathInTheLimelight bad]]'' is about to happen to them.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Too many characters to tell, but Tsunade and above all Sakura (who is supposed to be the third protagonist) are badly affected by this trope, ''despite'' being {{Extraordinarily Empowered Girl}}s.
* ParentalAbandonment: Orphans abound due to the life of a ninja just not being very conductive to one's life expectancy. Kyuubi killed numerous ones in its rampage -- the ones which weren't killed in the previous Ninja Wars, that is. Some would-be-plot-relevant parents may have managed to escape this fate by virtue of their [[InvisibleParents invisibility]].
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Most prominently Tailed Beast hosts, but it's a valid option to any protagonist or villain so inclined provided they have a sufficiently high [[PowerLevels Power Level.]] ([[MemeticMutation cue Vegeta breaking his scanner]]).
* PlayingWithFire: Any character who uses fire techniques. [[ConvectionSchmonvection Not that can really]] [[TheWorfBarrage help to win a fight]].
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Sakura to Sasuke [[spoiler: before he leaves the Leaf, in an absolutely heartbreaking scene]].
* PlotArmor: Sasuke is a major offender, often relying on NewPowersAsThePlotDemands to make him [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe As Strong As He Needs To Be]]. His most iconic one may be when, after it had already been established that he was out of chakra, he summoned a giant snake, hypnotized it, jumped in its mouth and teleported it and himself out of harm's way all to avoid a massive 10-kilometer-radius explosion. After said explosion ''had already gone off. A few feet from him.'' ([[http://sractheninja.deviantart.com/art/Naruto-Deidara-Lives-63271750?q=gallery%3Asractheninja%2F196008&qo=77 Illustration.]])
** Hinata somehow manages to survive being stabbed point blank, , then Kyubi's chakra explosion, then'' laying there alone bleeding and unconscious for several minutes while two PersonsOfMassDestruction summon gravity blasts and giant chakra balls all over the smoking crater.
* PlotTumor: Uchiha Madara is behind everything. EVERYTHING. [[spoiler: Or is he?]]
* PoliceAreUseless: While the governments do have safety nets to deal with rogue ninjas, these are incredibly inadequate. The people in charge of taking out rogue ninjas are [[NominalImportance Nameless]] Faceless Mooks that get slaughtered by anything stronger than a stiff breeze while said rogues are, almost without exception, THE strongest ninjas in the world.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: The level 2 of the cursed seal. Averted for Juugo, even though he's the source of it. {{Inverted}} with Jiraiya's ''hari jizo'' attack, where your hair growing makes for power.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: [[SubvertedTrope ...is apparently a distant second behind the power of a sufficiently well-seated superiority complex]]. [[spoiler:Is nonetheless strong enough to end ancient grievances, unite the Ninja Villages against a common foe, and remind an EldritchAbomination about his better nature.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: Sasuke lives by it.
* ThePowerOfLove: [[SubvertedTrope ...is apparently a distant second behind the power to repel things with gravity]]. [[DoublySubverted Gets the job done anyway, more often than not.]]
* PowerPerversionPotential: Naruto has insane stamina, can make dozens of clones of himself, plus has the [[GenderBender Sexy Jutsu]]. All the Hyuugas have the [[MilkyWhiteEyes Byakugan]], a special eye which allows [[XRayVision to see through things]]. Then there's Orochimaru's tongue, Jiraiya's PrehensileHair, Deidara's mouths in his palms, the Eight-Tailed-Beast [[NaughtyTentacles tentacles]], Karin's [[FetishFuel strange]] way of healing people, an alternate interpretation of why the Fourth Hokage is called the Yellow 'Flash'... In-universe, Jiraiya invents an invisibility technique ''specifically'' for peeking on women bathing.
* PowersAsPrograms
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: How moral is pursuing {{revenge}}? That depends on who you are. If you're Sasuke, it's a corruption to stay away from and Kakashi will give you an extensive lecture to make sure you get that. If you're Shikamaru, it's a rite of passage that will get you closure. No one is actually bothered by this because Sasuke is batshit insane and wants to exact revenge on an entire village full of innocent people, while Shikamaru just went after the guy who killed his FatherFigure; but it's still sort of disconcerting that rather than acknowledge this, the manga just keeps on spouting the "revenge=bad" message.
** Naruto's obsession with redeeming a traitor and would-be mass murderer just because they happened to have an abrasive WorthyOpponent dynamic (which the audience is repeatedly told was friendship) is treated, at worst, as idealistic to a fault. When ''bad guys'' are loyal to villains who showed them kindness, it's tragic and destructive (Haku, Zaku, [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Kimimaro]]). To be fair, there ''are'' exceptions where it is portrayed as a redeeming characteristic for a villain, such as with [[spoiler:Kisame]].
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Sasuke's takes a so big share of the story that for a while [[SpotlightStealingSquad he effectively serves as the main character]].
* PsychoRangers: The Sound Five (see EvilCounterpart).
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: A healthy portion of high-profile villains have a backstory to this extent, although Pain kind of stands out.
* PunnyName:
** ''UZUMAKI Naruto''= "Spiralling whirlpool" (plus "naruto" is a ramen topping)
** ''HARUNO Sakura''= "Cherry blossoms of spring"
** ''HATAKE Kakashi''= "Farmer's scarecrow"
** ''UMINO Iruka''= "Sea dolphin"
** ''HYUUGA Hinata''= Hyuuga and Hinata can be written with the same Kanji. Hyuuga means towards the sun, while Hinata means sunny place. [[LongList And so on...]]
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* RandomPowerRanking: Uses S, A, B, C and D ranks for the missions, though they [[JustifiedTrope serve a purpose]]: higher ranking (and therefore more dangerous) missions are more dangerous, therefore more expensive as they would require more or better ninja, so there's an incentive for customers to leave out details and get a lower ranking. The letters are based on the Japanese school grading system (S is for "Shin", meaning "Perfect"), and there's also an E rank for the most basic jutsu. Of course, [[RuleOfDrama just about every "C" mission shown turns out to be an "A" or above mission]].
* RankUp: Almost all of the Konoha 11 ninja are promoted in between the Time Skip. Gaara takes this further by going from Genin to the Kazekage.
** Naruto himself averts this, being now possibly the most powerful ninja in the village [[AlmightyJanitor but having one of the lowest ranks.]] Funnily, Sasuke is in the same situation, being a missing-nin.
* RealityEnsues: Naruto's panic attack.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: One of the chapters featured a character stating that octopuses eat sharks. Many found this statement to be idiotic, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9A-oxUMAy8 there's actually quite a bit of truth to it]].
* RealityWarper: Later in the manga we find out about a technique which breaks the boundaries between reality and illusion.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Sometimes, but redemption is equally likely to [[RedemptionEarnsLife earn life]].
* RedOniBlueOni: Most obviously Naruto and Sasuke, but that can be said for almost all the males duos of the story. For Naruto and Sasuke especially, seen TigerVersusDragon below.
* RefugeInAudacity: So you attack under a flag of truce in order to break into a compound of one of the most powerful clans in an enemy village and kidnap the 3-year old daughter of the clan head in order to steal her eyes, but her father thwarts the attempt by killing the kidnapper CAUGHT IN THE ACT. What do you do? Pretend the kidnapping attempt never happened and accuse her father of murder, and demand that he be put to death and have his body delivered to you (which would also give you access to the eyes you wanted), and if they don't comply, you'll resume the war. International politics, Cloud village style.
* TheRestShallPass: During the Sasuke retrieval arc; every time one of Orochimaru's Sound Four arrives to stop them, one of them stays behind to fight while they tell the rest to keep going.
* RedShirtArmy: The ANBU (how ironic, given they're supposed to be EliteMooks), the Samurais and [[spoiler:the Zetsu clones]].
* RedStringOfFate: Someone's ''hair'' gets used as this. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* RescueRomance: It turns out this is how [[spoiler:Naruto's parents met]].
** Also Sasuke and Karin, though that one is used more for IronicEcho than anything.
** The anime [[AdaptationExpansion decided that this is how Hinata fell in love with Naruto]] (who, typically, remembers nothing of it).
* {{Retcon}}: The ''entire basis of the series post-timeskip'' is technically a retcon. Reading the first half of the series with the benefit of hindsight, it's obvious that everything related to Akatsuki and Jinchuuriki wasn't part of the story from the beginning. Akatsuki was never even ''mentioned'' when Orochimaru, a former member, was the series' BigBad, and the concept of Jinchuuriki as institutionalized living weapons simply did not exist either. While Gaara was [[NotSoDifferent a SIMILAR character to Naruto thanks to the monsters sealed within them]], Shukaku was openly stated to be a completely different manner of being to the Kyuubi (an incarnation of sand, living spirit of a Sunagakure priest stored in a kettle), let alone them both being members of a "series" of tailed beasts.
** Going further back, in the first chapter (not just the pilot, which was in a different continuity and had this as its premise, but also the first chapter of the actual series), it's treated as if Naruto ''was'' the nine-tailed fox in human form, rather than simply having it sealed inside him. The Hokage worries that he might regain his old form, and Naruto gets a brief HeroicBSOD on being told that he's literally the nine-tailed fox. In current continuity, where Jinchuuriki are a major cultural institution, it's impossible to imagine anyone making that mistake. Note, though, that it was ''Mizuki'' telling him he was literally said beast- anything that guy ever said should be taken with a grain of salt.
** In the 3rd Hokage flashback, he seems to be a kid when he's appointed Hokage, and the First is still alive. Many chapters later, Danzo's flashback gives a completely different version of Sarutobi's nomination, be his age or the circumstances.
* RightMakesMight: Surprisingly, [[AvertedTrope averted]] pretty nicely. Rock Lee is very right and loses his two big fights. Naruto relies on [[{{Determinator}} determination]], being MadeOfIron and the element of surprise to come through. The last time the infamous "''Aagh so much is at stake, I must win''" flashback montage is invoked is in the fight against Neji, way before the end of the second arc of the story.
* {{Roofhopping}}
* RousingSpeech: By [[spoiler:Gaara]] [[TheStoic of all people]].
* RuleOfSymbolism: The Uchihas and Shinto mythology. The three arcanes of the Mangekyou Sharingan are named after the 3 greatest gods of the japanese mythology, who are also siblings: Tsukuyomi (God of Moon -> Genjutsu), and Amaterasu (Goddess of the Sun -> black flames), Susanoo (God of Storms and a hero -> something akin to giant summoning). The last figh between Orochimaru and Itachi is a remake of the one between Yamata no {{Orochi}} and the god Susanoo. Itachi uses his Susanoo attack to defeat Orochimaru who turned himself in a gigantic 8-headed, 8-tailed White Snake.
** Orochimaru and his White Snake theme ; white snakes are said to bring fortune and ''rebirth''.
** The Fourth Hokage, references the "Susanoo vs. the Yamato-no-Orochi" myth. His name is Minato Namikaze ("harbor", "wind and waves": Susanoo is the god of the sea and storms), his signature technique is the Flying '''Thunder God''', and he beat out Orochimaru for the title of Hokage. Overlaps with MeaningfulName. And [[spoiler: knowing that his wife, '''Kushina''' Uzumaki, harkens back Susanoo's own consort '''Kushina'''da-hime, might also count]], but we're probably pushing it.
** Pain and Buddhist beliefs. It turns out his bodies' names are a [[MeaningfulName Meaningful]] ThemeNaming. They invoke the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_realms Buddhism's Six Paths of Rebirth]].
*** The statue that Akatsuki uses is called "Gedo Mazo". "Gedo" means "outer path", referencing the term in Buddhism for a false path to enlightenment (as opposed to the inner path, which is the correct one). Konan reveals that Nagato himself is another "path" of Pain called the "Outer Realm" and can also revive the recently deceased. This is fitting, given that Pain is what Naruto could have become if he had chosen a [[FallenHero false path to enlightenment]].
* RummageSaleReject
* RunningGagged: Inner Sakura. She only appeared in Part 1 when Sakura would hide her feelings more often, and when Part 2 came around she only appeared once as a CallBack. The last time it appeared in Part 1, it was used to foil Ino's attempt at GrandTheftMe, and it was implied that InnerSakura was an alternate personality.
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* SadisticChoice: Invoked when Kakashi is giving Team 7 their SecretTestOfCharacter. He asks Sakura what she would do if he threatened to kill Sasuke unless she kills Naruto. Much later we find out this actually happened to a major villain and was part of his StartOfDarkness.
** When confronted with one of these, Naruto's knee-jerk reaction is to try and TakeAThirdOption. Itachi even calls him out on it, telling him that he's [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids naive]] and sometimes the choice must be made, but Naruto [[ShutUpHannibal tells him to shove it]].
* SarutobiSasuke: Sasuke Uchiha and the family of the 3rd Hokage (Hiruzen, Asuma and Konohamaru Sarutobi) take part of their names from him. Incidentally, Sarutobi Sasuke is the name of 3rd hokage's father, who Sasuke is actually named after.
* SayMyName: In their first fight on the hospital roof:
-->'''Sasuke:''' Narutoooooooo!!!!!!!!
-->'''Naruto:''' Sasukeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
* SchoolSavedMyLife: Naruto averts it by learning everything through being a main character and training. Sakura plays it straight.
* SchizoTech: When the plot calls for it, suddenly there's a fridge. And walkie-talkies, security cameras, [[{{Filler}} video game consoles, cell phones]], full-color movie theaters, and so on. Towards the beginning of the Fourth ninja war, the five feudal lords communicate using video conferencing ; just a few months back, the Suna village had to send a ''messenger bird'' asking Konoha for help when their Kazekage was abducted. Modern Weaponry is pretty much nowhere to be seen, which is obviously a NecessaryWeasel (To quote WordOfGod: "If we allowed that, this story would not be about Ninjas."). One of Pain's bodies had rocket launchers due to the RuleOfCool, but that's about it.
* [[strike:[[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Sci Fi]]]] [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Fantasy Writers Have No Sense Of Scale]]: The black flames of Amaterasu being "as hot as the sun", which ought to be ever-so-slightly more volatile than portrayed.
** A character busting out [[spoiler: [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill 600 billion exploding tags]]; even with a jutsu that spawned 1000 of them per second, you would have to constantly be on it without food, drink or sleep for over 19 years to have that many]]. See the Trivia page for more information.
* SealedEvilInACan: With urns, people, sake jugs, kettles, even the Moon(!)... All the ninja masters seem to think that if you like it, you should seal an evil in it.
** SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Applies to the Tailed-Beasts. There's also at least two instances in fillers. Kurenai's eyes are said to be red because some part of one of her student's powers was sealed into them. Also with the forbidden jutsu in the six-tails arc.
* SelfDuplication: There are various Ninjutsu that can do this, but the Shadow Clone Technique is the most iconic one, not the least due to the protagonist tending to utterly ''spam'' it as part of his pre-TimeSkip combat strategy.
* SempaiKohai: Kakashi is Yamato's sempai in Part II. Sakura also sees Shizune as her sempai.
** Tobi calls Deidara "sempai".
** [[spoiler:Nagato]]considers himself Naruto's sempaï.
* ShipSinking: Some scenes ''seem'' on first glance to be this (rejected confessions and attempted mutual kills come to mind), but if you've been following the series long enough you know the author's favorite sport is [[ZigZaggingTrope audience expectations ping-pong]], and you should take these with more than a few grains of salt.
* ShooOutTheClowns: The first few episodes were punctuated by several silly {{Running Gag}}s, including [[GenderBender Gender Bending]]-induced {{Nose Bleed}}s and [[ToiletHumour gastrointenstinal malfunction]]. These stopped getting used very quickly, and haven't shown up in years (save for one guest appearance at the beginning of [[TimeSkip Part II]] as a humorous callback to the early days of the series). {{Filler}}s, however, have taken those one-off gags from nearly a decade ago and are ''still running with them'' whenever some {{Padding}} is called for - making for a rather weird intra-franchise example of NeverLiveItDown.
* ShoutOut: Plenty.
** The Hokage Mountain evokes Mt. Rushmore.
** The Third Hokage summoning Monkey King Enma and wieding a magic staff refer to JourneyToTheWest.
** "Ino Shika Cho" is a reference to a high-ranking hand in the card game ''Hanafuda''.
** The Valley of the End is similar to [[Film/LordOfTheRings the Argonath]].
** The anime has used StarWars stock sounds, such as the lightsaber humming and TIE Fighter laser sounds.
** In the HighSchoolAU OVA, Naruto uses "attack yo-yos" to beat up on a gangster. A technique used by [[YuGiOh "mutts..."]] Sakura even says "Haven't I seen this before?" It's worth noting that in all the urban fantasy and slice of life Jump series [[CelebrityParadox Shonen Jump itself exists.]] Therefore, it's quite reasonable that she would have read Yu-Gi-Oh in said AU.
** [[FanNickname Kabutomaru]] wears a black hood with white eye-like markings similar to fellow snake-themed baddie [[SoulEater Medusa]].
** The arrival at and the look of [[spoiler:the island where Killer Bee and Naruto meet]] is reminiscent of the island from ''KingKong''. The giant gorilla that the team meets is called "KingChan", it doesn't get more obvious than that.
** Kushina's red hair and grey eyes may be a homage to Anne Shirley of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' fame who also has the same eye and hair color. The books are part of the school curiculum and quite popular in Japan.
** The Sage of six paths [[spoiler: and the form Naruto Takes after absorbing all of the Kyuubi's chakra]] is definitely similar looking to the oni warriors of {{Onimusha}} fame, Soki in particular
** When Naruto [[spoiler:fails at turning into the Kyuubi after taming it]], he actually transforms into the chibi-kyuubi design from the pilot, which was originally supposed to be his true form.
** The real names of the Kyuubi and the Four Tails: [[spoiler:[[YuYuHakusho Kurama]]]] and [[spoiler:[[JourneyToTheWest Son]][[{{Dragonball}} Goku]]]].
** The four tailed Beast references {{Dragon Ball}}. Its design is partially based off of the Oozaru, the host's name is Roshi and its number of tails is the same as Goku's favorite Dragonball. Its horns are also apparently modelled after the diadem worn by Sun Wukong from ''{{Journey to the West}}'', who is himself one of the original inspirations for Goku. And the four tailed beast's proper name is SON GOKU!!!!!!
* ShootTheDog: One of the major themes of Part II is Naruto trying to avoid this at all costs, even when it seems like the path to the closest thing to a happy ending he can get.
* ShootTheHostage: Happens once. When it does, you are likely not very happy with the person who does it.
* ShutUpHannibal: Standard answer to [[BreakThemWithWords a lecturing antagonist]]. It sometimes works though, and then consequences are [[HeroicBSOD memorable]] and [[FreakOut not pretty]].
* SkeletonGovernment: So, each one of the 5 Great Countries have 1 Daimyo and 1 Kage... and that's pretty much of it. No ministers, no (more) police... Some councils have been featured, but their roles, powers and composition are very vague.
* SkyscraperCity: [[http://images.wikia.com/naruto/fr/images/3/3c/Amegakure.jpg The Hidden Rain Village]] is an odd example. The architecture and giant pipes everywhere make it seem like the buildings are "unfinished", and give the impression of a huge shantytown rather than a prosperous city. The perpetually gloom sky doesn't help.
* [[SlapSlapKiss Slap Slap Hug]]: The whole Naruto and Sakura relationship seems to be this.
* SlapYourselfAwake: A common way to snap out of illusions is to injure yourself.
* SlaveBrand: The Hyuuga clan's branch family mark.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Sakura, Ino and Hinata at the beginning of the series, though they eventually all grow out of that phase. Later, Karin, who is almost too late to realize her crush is not a very good person.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Most teams have a single token female member if they have any at all. Also applies to the Akatsuki. Inverted with a three-man team of Cloud ninja that has two female ninja and one male ninja. Averted for the [[spoiler:5 Kages: there are two female ones, Tsunade and the 5th Mizukage]].
* SnapToTheSide: A variation, as this tends to happen more in response to a sneak attack then TeleportSpam.
* {{Sneezing}}
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: There's the unanswered question of who looked after the more troubled and often orphaned members of the cast, especially Naruto and Sasuke.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: In Part I it's subverted with sneering, malicious intent. There's a great deal of setup regarding various ninja power rankings and you expect the enemies to line up neatly. Then the first "big" villain Naruto and his friends encounter is so powerful, they nearly exhaust themselves pulling out every possible trick they can think of just to get the guy to release a single technique. They do ''not'' grow powerful enough to have defeated him for a very long while. Then an arc and a half into the lush exposition-laden first stages of the story, the Part I BigBad shows up and starts wreaking havoc on the plot for a rather long while without anyone at all being able to stand up to him.
* TheSpartanWay: The things young ninja have to do and endure in order to advance in rank are pretty hellish, even more so for some of the villages other than the main characters'. The Village Hidden in the Mist, for example, was known as "Bloody Mist" for its brutal "graduation exam". To become a ninja there, you had to kill a fellow student in a duel. Zabuza, the series' first major enemy, was infamous for having killed ''all'' of the students in this "exam", and he wasn't even in it.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Might Guy, whose name has a number of other unofficial romanizations that fans like to use.
** Also Pein vs. Pain vs. Paine in the early chapters after he was first named.
** In what has to be the most bizarre application of this trope ever, there has been some controversy over whether the Raikage's name is A or E. It's actually "A" versus the [[RecursiveTranslation literally romanized version of the Japanese pronounciation of the English letter "A"]], which is something like "E/Ei" (all of which are pretty much pronounced the same). It's just that since it's only written down many think it's supposed to be "E".
** There's also "Killer Bee"/"Killer B"/"Kiraabii"; "C"/"Shii"; and "J"/"Jay"/"Jei" from the same village.
* SpiritualSuccessor: The main character of ''{{Ninku}}'', Fuusuke, is a wind ninja who wears orange and uses a move similar to the rasengan. It's set in a universe where ninja are highly militarised and wear flak jackets, there are supernatural entities who can posses humans and bestow great but dangerous powers; it deals with themes of war and hate, often with interpersonal stories where even the villains may have faced tragedy. Sounds familiar? The convergence is especially confusing, given Naruto's {{Pilot}} had little to nothing in common with it.
* SpotTheImposter: Two different characters (a Rain Genin and the not yet introduced Orochimaru) use ninjutsu to disguise themselves as Naruto in the Forest of Death arc.
* SpyCatsuit: The female teachers and even some of the males.
* StartOfDarkness: We get to see it for nearly every villain. It usually means they're going to die soon and the author is going for an AlasPoorVillain reaction.
* StartXToStopX: One villain's grand plan is to get people to see first-hand the horrors of [[FantasticNuke fantastic nuclear warfare]] and make war much less likely by virtue of mutually assured destruction. He flat out states that his plan is a stop-gap measure, and will not work to secure world peace beyond the lifetimes of the people who saw it in action. He expects them to resume fighting and nuke each other once they've forgotten how terrible it is.
* StockNinjaWeaponry: Used extensively. Kunai and Shuriken are used as the default weapon for many Ninjas, the ANBU use Ninjato, Sasuke has his FuumaShuriken and Gai can use Nunchaku in battle. [[spoiler: Resurrected Hanzo used a Kusarigama, and so did Tobi.]]
* SummonMagic: The Summoning contracts.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Several characters have one such as Naruto and Jugo. Even ''Sakura'' has one (though it's mostly PlayedForLaughs).
* SuperReflexes: One of the powers the Sharingan grants is super reflexes due to move prediction. It can read any movement the enemy makes, even those at high speeds, so the user can avoid an attack. This isn't an exact science. Rock Lee rightfully said that even if you can see an attack, if you can't move fast enough to react, it's useless. Tsunade and Sakura's style also revolves around having super reflexes and move prediction to make up for their lack of speed.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Every single jutsu.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: A big plot point is special powers that run through family genes. Countries go through a lot of trouble to protect theirs and get their hands on their enemies' abilities.
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* TakeAThirdOption: The whole point of the series. Since the beginning, Naruto has faced people urging him to follow the "ninja way", basically saying "''Give up X or be a failure''". X being human feelings (Zabuza), the will to fight (Kabuto, Pain), Sasuke (Jiraiya, Itachi, Pain, Sasuke ''himself''), etc. Being a [[TricksterArchetype trickster]] possessing the "wisdom of the fools", Naruto always [[{{Ubermensch}} dismisses that dilemma]] saying "''I won't give up X'' and ''I won't be a failure''". Which leads him doing some things (namely, not killing [[spoiler:[[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Nagato]]]] and never ever giving up saving [[BaseBreaker Sasuke]]) which are highly controversial in the Fandom.
*** Specifically, during his conversation with Sasuke after [[spoiler:the latter has just killed Danzou]], Sasuke asks him, "What do you want to do Naruto? Die by my hands and become another victim of my revenge, or kill me and become a Hero?". Naruto, of course, has a third option: [[spoiler:"If we fight, we both will die"]].
*** Even with his ''love life''. Receive a love confession? Only wimps either accept or reject it. Naruto resorts to the third option of ''[[SelectiveObliviousness forgetting]]'' it, and later, with a different confession, resorts to the ''[[UpToEleven fourth]]'' option of saying, "You're lying. You don't even mean it".
** The participants in the first round of the Chunnin exam are given a test which is supposedly too difficult for their level. The participants are therefore faced with the option of either failing the test or getting caught trying to cheat. It is later revealed that the true purpose of the test was to test their ability to cheat without getting caught. However, both Naruto and Sakura pass the test without cheating. Naruto turns in his paper completely blank, while Sakura answers all the difficult questions [[TeenGenius anyway]].
* TakingTheBullet: Iruka started it in chapter 1 and many a hero (and villain!) have followed suit.
* TalkToTheFist: The Raikage ''tries'' to do this to a major villain only to have him [[CasualDangerDialogue dodge it casually and keep talking like nothing happened]].
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Common enough to make you wonder if Talk You To Death no Jutsu is part of the ninja academy curriculum.
** If you don't get a whole dramatic scene as part of an important character's death, you can tell the next few seconds probably involve a [[NinjaLog log appearing]] or a clone going *poof*.
** Lee manages to have a brief exchange with Sasuke while the two are flying through the air in Lee's Dancing Leaf Shadow jutsu. ** In one of the confrontations between Naruto and Sasuke, they manage to have some sort of telepathic conversation just before their attacks collide. Or maybe it's all in Naruto's head.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Used by Naruto to beat [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Nagato]]. This is also the only way to defeat [[spoiler:Edo Tensei zombies (other than removing their soul)]].
* TearsOfJoy
* TeenGenius: Very common.
* Itachi is probably the standout case, aged 18/19 in his first appearance and more powerful than anyone else we've seen, or ''will'' see, for a long while. Kakashi during his Gaiden arc qualifies, as does Nagato during his flashbacks.
** Naruto's generation in general is stated to be very talented, but the degree to which they live up to this reputation varies. Naruto and Sasuke stand up to S-class ninjas on a semiregular basis so they're very probably much more powerful than is typical for their age, but the rest of their classmates do not have such insane feats to their name, and telling where they stand as opposed to someone "typical" of their age is difficult since we don't have anyone to compare against.
* ThanatosGambit: The 4th Hokage's death is really a tour de force of this, which is to be expected since it kick-starts the plot. This guy accomplished more by dying than most of the characters we've seen have accomplished while alive.
* ThatsNoMoon: Played straight to the highest, most absurd degree. ''The Moon itself'' turns out to be No Moon. Yes, really.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Sweet Ninja Jesus, the number of problems in this series that could have been solved by a therapist is staggering.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Konan uses six-hundred ''billions'' of explosive tags in an attempt to kill Tobi. He lives, but only because he has the ability to resurrect himself.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Two pairs: Kotetsu and Izumo, Genma and Raido.
* ThrowingTheFight: Gaara refused to take a dive in his match with Sasuke and proceeded to kill the two Kusagakure Shinobis who threatened him to do so.
* TickleTorture: Jiraiya uses this as an interrogation technique on some Hidden Rain ninjas.
* TigerVersusDragon: Naruto and Sasuke respectively in Part I. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance when you realize that Sasuke's clan is known for their fire techniques and Naruto's color is orange.
** Also used as a picture to open one of the Gaara Vs Lee chapters, with Lee as the Dragon and Gaara as the Tiger.
* TimeSkip: ''Naruto Shippuuden/Part II''.
* ToBeAMaster: It takes a certain kind of skill, but Naruto won't stop until he becomes Hokage, and if all goes well he will be writing a brand new chapter in the history of the Ninja world.
* TookALevelInBadass: Name a character that was alive at the end of the Sasuke Retrieval arc. Any character. Odds are they took a level during the time skip. Naruto stands out in particular due to doing this multiple times, and recently it was revealed that [[spoiler:Kabuto]] was putting his time offscreen to good use as well.
* TournamentArc: The Chuunin examination arc.
* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: An important female character relates to Naruto how she did this with ''her own hair'' when she was kidnapped once.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Land of Waves Arc.
* TrashTalk: Commonly used by antagonists, but [[spoiler:the revived Madara Uchiha]] probably takes the cake.
* TriangRelations: Several Type 3 and Type 5s.
* TryNotToDie: Before the second task of the Chunin exam, which takes place in a DeadlyTrainingArea:
--> Anko Mitarashi: "''Just don't die!''"
* TurtleIsland: The island where [[spoiler: Naruto and Killer Bee are sent and train together]] is actually one.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Played completely, shamelessly straight with Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Explanations of various new moves and counters.
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* [[spoiler: UltimateEvil]]: [[spoiler:The Juubi.]]
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Invoked and Subverted in a love confession by a female character. The [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal previously pining party]] doesn't believe her. WordOfGod confirmed that the confession was fabricated out of desperate, well-meaning manipulation (ItMakesSenseInContext).
* UnstoppableRage: A surefire catalyst of Naruto drawing on Kyuubi's power, much to the former's chagrin and medical detriment. Cue earnest attempts to not go on Unstoppable Rages anymore, which promptly all goes to hell in a handbasket during the next WhamEpisode. Naruto then realizes that he can't avoid this, and decides to control the power instead.
** Sasuke's rampage at the Kages Summit is very much like this.
** The fourth Raikage on any matter pertaining to his brother, Bee.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Everything with Sasuke from the latter half of part 1 to now could've been avoided if that one guy (Aoba Yamashiro) had been more careful with announcing Itachi's return.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Nefarious, heartless villains the world over.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: {{Big Bad}}s who aren't Orochimaru tend to delude themselves this way. Happened in the second movie too.
* VeinOVision: Chakra lines are similar to this.
* ViciousCycle: The only reason there's any conflict in the plot at all is because of some old grudges between dead people. [[TruthInTelevision Of course, the same can be said about many similar situations in the real world]].
* ViewersAreGoldfish: Given the abundance of flashbacks.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: This happens to Naruto when he sees if [[spoiler:he can make the tailed beast bomb work by sticking his fingers down his throat]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* WalkOnWater: Precise chakra control can result in this ninja technique.
* WarArc: The Konoha Invasion arc by Orochimaru and the Fourth Shinobi World War arc.
* TheWarToEndAllWars: Two major villains actively work in triggering it.
* WarriorTherapist: Neji perfectly fitted this trope before his HeelFaceTurn. Gaara was like this exclusively towards Sasuke. Interestingly, they still have this dynamic the next time they meet, except, well, some things have changes around. Naruto has his moments, too.
* WaveMotionGun: A standard visual cue for "impossibly epic attack imminent".
* WeaponTombstone: Zabuza's [[{{BFS}} Executioner's Blade]]. Years later Sasuke and Suiegetsu [[ChekhovsGun went back to retrieve it]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Danzo; a lot of villains think of themselves as this, but their conceits are all patently ridiculous save for a specific one who successfully [[MustMakeAmends managed to fix things]] when Naruto convinced him he's gone too far.
* WhamEpisode: One point in favor of this series is that very little falls in the realm of LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt. Expect to go "''What, Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!''" a lot.
* WhatTheHellHero: Naruto tries to reason Sasuke during their fight at the Valley of the End. It doesn't work.
** Shikamaru's dad lectures him about his tentation to leave the shinobi life after the Sasuke retrieval arc.
** Danzou slams Sasuke on his chaotic lashing out of blind revenge and rejection of the will and cause of the person he's avenging.
** Some of Naruto's classmates berate him for his over-idealistic approach to the situation with Sasuke.
** Naruto chews out [[spoiler:Sakura]] for a dishonest and shallow love confession.
** [[spoiler:Ino, Shikamaru, Asuma ''and'' Choza]] are all furious with [[spoiler:Choji]] when [[spoiler:he refuses to attack Asuma, who's been resurrected and forced to fight his former students.]]
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Generally, this applies to most of the clan ninja, who rely exclusively on clan techniques and basic skills. Ino seems to be the sole exception by branching out to medical ninjitsu.
** 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).
* WillfullyWeak: Inevitably. This ''is'' shonen after all.
* WomenInRefrigerators: Invoked a few times in a toned-down version where the women at least survive to maybe be important to the plot in a real way another day.
* TheWorfBarrage: Fire-elements techniques ''look'' powerful. In practice, what they do is create a SmokeShield for enemies to slowly and dramatically step out of [[ConvectionSchmonvection without a single burn on them]]. Averted once with Asuma's cloud of exploding smoke.
** Anything attempted by Rock Lee is automatically this. {{Lampshaded}} in the DenserAndWackier spinoff RockLeesSpringtimeOfYouth, where Lee's initial lotus fails against some random fodder {{Mook}}, to which he comments "I guess there's no helping it... That move never even worked once in the actual story." (and an outraged Tenten shouts, "Then why did you use it?!")
* TheWorfEffect: Affected Orochimaru in Part II, and clumsily justified.
** Lee was also hyped to be extremely strong (by worfing Sasuke) and actually [[TheWorfEffect never won a real fight]] (except against his doppelganger in the Rescue Gaara Arc) [[TheWorfEffect because he fought people even stronger]], even if he fell with honors.
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Cycling]] trope concerning Sasuke.
** Averted for Jiraiya
* WorfHadTheFlu: Sasuke acknowledges that he defeated Orochimaru only because the latter was terminally ill.
** A majorly powerful villain has to confront Naruto when he's just used a very exhausting technique, is without his backup and cannot kill Naruto if he wants his plan to work. When he loses you can't help but wonder how the fight would have looked liked if it weren't for all those factors.
** [[spoiler:Danzo]] loses a major battle which he began having just used one of his major abilities that needed to recharge. He gets it back at the end but, unable to decide how to use it in time and taken by surprise by one of his opponent's decisions, it doesn't do him any good.
* WorldDomination: The stated goal of the Akatsuki organization.
* WorldHalfFull: The ninja world is a horrible place to live. Ninja are supposed to be emotionless tools to be used and discarded as the village they live in sees fit, especially Jinchuuriki, who have demons put inside them largely without their consent, and are treated even worse than other ninjas. In less than 100 years, 3 [[spoiler: now 4]] massive wars have been waged, creating grudges and massive distrust between nations, which is continually perpetuated. ChildSoldiers are the norm, and are taught that if they want to live in this world they have to kill. The current ninja system of blood and hatred is responsible for the birth of people like Pain and Sasuke, who were driven mad by the death that occured around them. Luckily though, this series has [[TheMessiah Naruto]], who, when he first began to comprehend the horror of everyday ninja life, basically says "Suck it!" and decides to do it his way, and fix this shitty way of life. Considering where this series falls on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism, he'll probably succeed.
* WorldOfBadass
* WorldOfCardBoardSpeech: Naruto vs. Gaara, Tsunade vs. Orochimaru
* {{X-Ray Vision}}: Anyone with the Byakugan [[SuperpowerfulGenetics Bloodline Limit]].
* XanatosGambit / GambitRoulette: Subverted as far as we can see. So much for Itachi's brilliant plan.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Some ninja abilities are ''engineered'' to [[RuleOfDrama lead up to this]]. If a character starts a TemptingFate speech about how their opponent is screwed that didn't involve this trope in the first place, chances are 50/50 that they'll start coughing blood mid-sentence followed by their opponent explaining to them that three minutes ago they were hit with poison or chakra eating insects or PressurePoint strikes or what-have-you.
* YouAreNotAlone: Gaara and Naruto in particular have only come as far as they have because they have those supporting them. This became especially true for [[spoiler:Naruto when his parents left a portion of themselves in his seal for the sole purpose of helping him against the Kyuubi when he needs it most]].
* YouFailPhysicsForever: Kakashi can shout clearly while in Zabuza's Water Prison Jutsu.
* YouKnowTheOne: ''That Man'', whose use of ''That Jutsu'' during ''That Day'' played a key role during ''That Incident''.
* YourMindMakesItReal: ''Inverted'' with with the jutsu [[spoiler:Izanami]]. Yeah, really.
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