History Naruto / TropesLToZ

* 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.

** DarkMessiah / EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Tobi/Obito]]

** DarkMessiah/EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Tobi/Obito]]

* RazorSharpHand: The Chidori in its basic form consists of concentrating lightning chakra in your hand and charge very fast to make it cut and pierce through anything. Ay uses it to ''[[OnlyAFleshWound cut his own left arm]]''.[[TheJuggernaut His father the Third Raikage]] also has a similar technique, except [[OneManArmy he takes it to ridiculous levels.]]

** 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.

* 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 family 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.

** The Fourth Hokage can now be added to the list, and has also [[spoiler: died by the hand of a former student. Namely, Tobi/Obito, whose actions led to both Minato's AND Kushina's deaths.

* NobodyPoops: {{Averted}} in the sports festival OVA as well as the actual show. Naruto is the usual offender.

** Danzo is a major offender of this trope, seeing as three major characters have fallen to darkness because of his actions. Those people are Itachi, Sasuke, [[spoiler: and Kabuto]]. One of the major reasons he's such a polarizing character.

* MultiTailedBeast: The Kyubi.

* TheUntwist: Tobi's true identity as [[spoiler: Obito]] was so incredibly obvious to everyone that most people assume it was a RedHerring intended to throw us off the track of the real guy. No such luck.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 599 knows it's this, with only one or two lines of dialogue and the entire story is told though a flashback of [[spoiler: Obito's]] life before we zoom out and prove [[spoiler: he's Tobi.]]

* WhamLine: Tobi clearly intended his reveal that [[spoiler: he's has his Sharingan since the battle Obito died in]] to be one to Kakashi, but it was only one for the readers since Kakashi forced himself not to react...but then it was played straight as Kakashi went frozen in place.

* WhamLine: Tobi clearly intended his reveal that [[spoiler: he's has his Sharingan since the battle Obito died in]] to be one to Kakashi, but it was only one for the readers since Kakashi forced himself not to react.

** Kakashi Gaiden happened 13 years ago by the end of Part One. Apparently, the Kyuubi also attacked Konoha 13 years ago by the end of Part One. If they happened in the same year, Kakashi shouldn’t have looked about sixteen years old during the flashback of Tobi unleashing the Kyuubi on the village. He still would have been about 13 years old ''if'' they actually happened in the same year. However, the manga shows him to look a few years older when Tobi attacked, also being part of the ANBU...But both events were claimed to have happened in the same year – 13 years ago from the end of Part One. But he looks older and taller...But both events happened...Forget it. Kishimoto hasn’t slept properly since 1999.

*** Tobi mentions that Konoha was founded about ''200 years ago''. If Hashirama (who essentially was said to have ''founded the village'') and Tobirama were alive back then, ''how were they alive to appoint Sarutobi the Third Hokage when Sarutobi was only 68 years old when he died?'' Unless they were about 132 years old when he was born and by failed {{Continuity}} about 140 (when Sarutobi remembered being appointed at a very young age) or 160 (when Danzou remembered Sarutobi being appointed ''only'' by Tobirama when he was in around his mid-twenties), when he was named Hokage, they wouldn’t have been alive. But wait. Various types of immortality techniques are always on the prowl. ''But did they even use any''? If not, ''how were they still alive''?
** Also, Uzumaki Mito was the first Jinchuuriki host for the Kyuubi. Being married to Hashirama, she’d be about as old as him. If he was around some 200 years ago, she probably was as well, but around the time of her death, even if she lived for some 100 years, being an Uzumaki (as they are said to have long life expectancies), [[spoiler: Kushina]] was a ''child'' when [[spoiler:she]] was decided upon as the next Jinchuuriki host. If Mito was about 20 ''during the founding'' of the village, she died when it was 80 years old (It was 80, and she was 20 at its birth. She would have been 100 years old). [[spoiler:Kushina]] was about ten years old at this time (so [[spoiler:Kushina]] was born when it was 70 years old, and now at age ten it is 80 years old), and about fifteen years later from Mito’s death ([[spoiler:Kushina]] having been ten years old then, now is 25), [[spoiler:Naruto was born.]] The village is now 95 years old. [[spoiler:Naruto is sixteen when Kushina explains all this to him.]] Now the village is 111 years old. ''So now we’ve got our present timeline happening when Konoha is 111 years old’''. So much for being 200 years old.
--> The simplified breakdown of the Retconned timeline:
---> Mito’s Timeline: Twenty years old, village founded. Lived to 100; the village is 80.

---> [[spoiler:Kushina]]’s Timeline: Born when Konoha was 70 years old. Ten years old when the village is 80. [[spoiler:Gives birth and died]] at about age 25, so fifteen years after the village was 80 years old. It’s now 95.

---> [[spoiler:Naruto’s Timeline: Born when the village is 95 years old. Kushina tells this story to him sixteen years after his birth. The village is 111 years old when Naruto is sixteen.]]

---> General Timeline: Village founded 200 years ago. Uzumaki Mito married founder of village, Hashirama, and they seemed about the same general age. Hashirama was likely about 20 years old when he founded Konoha. If Mito was also 20 at that time, and died at about 100, the village had only been around for 80 years. So, the village being 80 years old here, [[spoiler:Kushina]] was brought in at (this is a guesstimate here) age ten as the second Jinchuuriki host. About, we’ll say fifteen years later, [[spoiler:Naruto was born]]. Now the village is 95 years old at the time of [[spoiler:Naruto’s birth]]. [[spoiler:Naruto is sixteen when Kushina informs him of all this]], so now, presently, [[FridgeLogic the village is actually only 111 years old]]. That or when Tobi said it was about 200 years old, he was telling the truth, and we’ve been in one huge flashback ever since, making Naruto actually 89 years old.

---> ''The moral of the story?'' The idea that Konoha is about 200 years old has been Retconned ''miserably'', along with any character’s timeline that is not of Naruto’s age group (Even Kakashi’s timeline is off, as mentioned below).
*** There's a simpler explanation: [[UnreliableNarrator Don't trust anything Tobi says unless independently verified.]] We already know he's a liar, and he won't even tell the truth about his own name.

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]].

''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.''

* 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.

* LivingMacGuffin: The Jinchurikis.

* 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]].

* 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:

* [[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.]]
* MeaningfulFuneral: The [[spoiler:3rd Hokage's]] funeral.

* NotADate / SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Shikamaru and Temari. Asuma and Kurenai.

* NotQuiteDead: A number of characters have pulled this off at some point or the other, but the runaway award winner is Orochimaru.

** A rather humorous 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.

* 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]]).

* PlotArmor:

** Hinata somehow manages to survive being stabbed point blank in the neck, getting caught in the blast radius of a WaveMotionGun and laying there alone, bleeding and unconscious, for several minutes while two PersonsOfMassDestruction summon gravity blasts and giant chakra balls all over the smoking crater.

* PowerPerversionPotential: The fandom has taken use to ''many'' of the characters' powers. However, a rare in-universe example comes from Jiraya, who invented a jutsu that let him turn invisible...specifically to peep on women bathing. When the third hokage found out about this, he asked Jiraya to teach him the technique. A second in-universe example comes from Naruto's transformation Jutsu, where he (or Konohamaru) transform into a beautiful and naked woman and causes a massive nosebleed. (He called it the "Sexy Jutsu")
** Fandom examples have included....Naruto's insane stamina, being 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 on his palms (and chest), 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'...

** Pein brings this up to Naruto as a HannibalLecture. There goes our [[{{Determinator}} Determinator's]] will to fight… Even a ''frog'' had to try to boost his morale back up.

* PunnyName:

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

** [[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.

** 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 [[NamesTheSame SON GOKU]]!!!!!!

* 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.

* 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.
* SwordAndSorcerer: Shikamaru and Temari is definitely this. With Shikamaru's preferred method of fighting being {{plans}} it leaves him full of openings when he starts [[PuttingOnMyThinkingCap putting his thinking cap on]] to formulate strategies in his head. Also, Shikamaru has a very limited variety of ninjutsu which doesn't give him too many options to work with. On the contrary, Temari has a very wide range of jutsus (and long-range ones, at that) which would help Shikamaru focus on his planning while she keeps the enemy at bay until Shikamaru can find the best strategy to defeat the enemy.

* 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*.

** Also used as a picture to open one of the Gaara Vs Lee chapters, with Lee as the Dragon and Gaara as the Tiger.

* TrueCompanions: The [[FanNickname Konoha 11]].

* TheWorfEffect: Affected Orochimaru in Part II, and clumsily justified.

* YouKnowTheOne: ''That Man'', whose use of ''That Jutsu'' during ''That Day'' played a key role during ''That Incident''.

** Every named character in the ninja alliance thing. They're fighting an army of invincible zombies, who in life were some of the strongest ninjas to ever live. Not one single named character has lost their life. Just a bunch of {{Red Shirt}}s. Especially egregious is [[spoiler: Madara's refusal to even try to kill the Kages.]]