History WhatAnIdiot / Naruto

* Naruto is the son of the Fourth Hokage and the Kyuubi's previous jinchuuriki.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Those who knew this -- Sarutobi, Jiraiya and Kakashi -- to take extra special care in Naruto's upbringing and raise him. That they would at least train him better, ensure that he had better treatment in the village, and that when he was of appropriate age, inform him of his parentage to encourage him.\\
'''Instead:''' Jiraiya doesn't even associate with Naruto until he's nearly a teenager, Sarutobi hangs in the background without taking necessary measures, and Kakashi says nothing. It is through a series of contrived coincidences occur that reveal the truth to Naruto, when learning beforehand would have been '''very''' helpful.
* The Kyuubi attacked Konoha and killed many people. The Fourth Hokage heroically sacrificed himself to seal it into a newborn baby. However, the child now has no family to speak of, and should he let it, [[SuperPoweredEvilSide the beast will take over.]]\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The people of the village to raise the child positively, and keep loving people around him, if only to monitor him. Because the last thing you need is someone with a SuperPoweredEvilSide with mental issues.\\
'''Instead:''' They are outright hostile towards him for something he ''didn't do'', leave him on his own with no real adult supervision in his life, and encourage their children to do the same. All without ever telling him why.\\
'''Result:''' Naruto lives the first twelve years of his life in isolation and depression and only through the sheer luck that he had the strength of character as a MessianicArchetype to move on from their mistreatment of him did Konoha dodge the bullet of a walking nuclear bomb with the emotional stability of an Uchiha turning their village into a speck of dust out of despair and anger.

'''You'd Expect:''' He (lies and) tells them that the Kyuubi died with Fourth Hokage and Naruto is Foutth Hokage's son asking the village to help raise their hero's son.\\

* A few years before the start of the story, the elders of Konoha suspect of the Uchihas being behind the Kyuubi's rampage, as they know the Sharingan has the ability to control the bijuus. While it WAS an Uchiha who did it, it was one who was at that point presumed dead, and the rest of the clan is not aware of this. \\

'''Instead:''' Instead, he turns off the Preta Path ability thus enabling him to be blindsided by Itachi in [[PowerArmor Susano'o]], and Naruto and Bee get freed. To add insult to injury, he has Nagato use Chibaku Tensei and just ''stands there'' instead of you know, summoning another bird or one of the Rams or Rhinos in his disposal. He doesn't even keep the Preta Path ability up for the slim chance that Chibaku Tensei gets destroyed, and thus, Nagato gets sealed. Granted, Kabuto probably wasn't aware that the Chibaku Tensei could be stopped or avoided, but he was facing three very crafty ninja; you'd think he'd be more [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic]].

'''Result:''' Fourth Shinobi World War and Tobi kills Konan and takes the Rinnegan back.

'''Worse Still:''' Konan was already distrusting Tobi, that's why she prepared the lake made up of explosive tags. Why she didn't tell them anything on how to defeat Tobi is a mystery. \\

'''Result:''' She loses the fight against Obito, Obito gains the rinnengan eyes. \\

** Naruto is framed for attempting to assassinate a number of important ninja from various nations, including the Raikage himself. Tsunade knows that Naruto's innocent, but decides to send him to Blood Prison, due to the fact that there's a MacGuffin there that Konoha wants destroyed.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Tsunade to assure Naruto that she knows that he's not guilty, and give him a mission to play along with the accusations, and go to Blood Prison to destroy the MacGuffin. It's not like he'll mind such a mission, given his patriotism.\\

'''Instead:''' He resurrects of all those whom he killed, not having told anything important to Naruto and just dies. Konan also nothing tells Naruto and decides to deal with Tobi by herself.\\

'''Or You'd Expect''': Her to just...you know...leave. They're already trapped in an alternate dimension, with no way of getting back, so the only thing standing in her way of killing everyone in the world is the Kages, who aren't anywhere near her level.\\

* Madara overhears a conversation between Hashirama and Tobirama, in which it is revealed that Hashirama will be elected as the first Hokage and that nobody trusts Madara.\\

'''Instead:''' Madara decides that the peace between Uchiha and Senju is impossible, then makes a nonsensical warning to his clan to leave the village (which they understandably reject) and later the dedicates all his time to studying the Uchiha stone tablet leading to the following moment..

* Twenty years ago Rin is kidnapped by the Mist and the Three Tails is planted within her her, and she's "chased" back to Konoha in the hopes that the three tails would bust out and wreck up the joint when she arrived.\\

** In her defense, As Madara later revealed, Rin didn't really have a choice, as she was being controlled by Madara. Same goes for her pursuers.
* Kushina is the jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tails. When she gives birth, the seal holding it will weaken.\\

* Naruto is the son of the 4th Hokage and the Kyuubi's previous jinchuuriki.\\

'''Result:''' Naruto lives the first twelve years of his life in isolation and depression and only through the sheer luck that he had the strength of character as a MessianicArchetype to move on from their mistreatment of him did the Leaf Village dodge the bullet of a walking nuclear bomb with the emotional stability of an Uchiha turning their village into a speck of dust out of despair and anger.
* Sarutobi has to break the news of what happened to the Kyuubi and 4th Hokage to the village.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' He (lies and) tells them that the Kyuubi died with 4th Hokage and Naruto is 4th Hokage's son asking the village to help raise their hero's son.\\
'''Instead:''' He tells them the truth (except 4th Hokage's son part), forbids people to talk about it and then does nothing as Naruto experiences the worst childhood ever. Even worse, he does nothing to help make Naruto's life better yet has the gall to feel guilty about it.
* Gaara's father needs to insure that he has control over the Shukaku to make sure that he won't lose control of him.\\

* Itachi Uchiha was given a mission to wipe out the whole of the Uchiha Clan, to prevent them starting a civil war. Itachi agrees, but is unwilling to kill his beloved little brother, Sasuke. He also wants to ensure Sasuke's survival and dispel the Uchiha's negative reputation it gained following the Nine-Tails attack.\\

'''Result:''' In the end, the destruction of the entire clan brought a strong weakening of the military power of Konoha, allowed Tobi acquire a large number of Sharingans in his laboratory and also acquire another member of the Akatsuki for sealing Tailed Beasts. Itachi's scheme with Sasuke ends up working [[GoneHorriblyRight a little too well]], before [[GoneHorriblyWrong failing completely]]: In order to become strong enough to kill Itachi, Sasuke ends up defecting from Konoha to Orochimaru, a guy who wants to possess him for his eyes. And Sasuke happily embraces the possibility of this happening if it would help him get his revenge. When Sasuke does kill Itachi, he's taken into the custody of Tobi, who explains the truth of what Itachi was up to, causing Sasuke to want to [[DisproportionateRetribution destroy]] [[MisplacedRetribution the whole of Konoha]].

* Even Jiraya has another moment of idiocy in this scene after he arrives just in time to stop the Akatsuki duo from capturing Naruto. Starting when Sasuke demands that he wants to fight Itachi himself.\\

* The {{filler}}s did this with Neji in the Hoshikagure Arc. BigBad Akahoshi hires the heroes to protect the village's secret weapon, but then takes measures to recover it himself, then declares them enemies of the Hidden Star Village, in front of a large crowd because they know of their motives. In the finale, everybody comes together, Akahoshi's plan to mutate the children of the village with the power of the meteorite into an army that will help him conquer the other nations is exposed, and he decides to use the meteor by himself to slaughter his own people and the Leaf genin present.\\

'''Instead:''' He refuses to stay and urges Menma and Naruto to carry on with the mission, even after Menma tells him that helping the villagers might trigger some of his memories and refuses to even look into any possible connection between Menma, the village, the attackers and the man who attacked the leaf village earlier, effectively defying the Hokage's orders because of a minor technicality.

* The deaths of Nagato's parents themselves are very stupid and senseless. Two Leaf shinobi enter their house unannounced looking for essentials and Nagato's dad picks up a weapon to defend himself. The lights are off and no one can see clearly.\\

'''Instead:''' Nagato's dad is so paranoid about shinobi in general during the war that he takes leave of his senses: he pulls a LeeroyJenkins and bum rushes one of the shinobi, not even so much as speaking to them to make them ease their guard. In fact, he screams angrily. Yeah, like ''that's'' gonna make you look harmless and civilian. The mother says and does nothing to stop him; in fact, had the mother taken the lead and been the one to do the above, in an earnest and maternal voice of protection, the Leaf Shinobi might have been even more inclined and convinced to sympathize and lower their guards and be friendly.\\
'''Result:''' The Leaf shinobi he attacks easily outmaneuvers and slays Nagato's dad, thinking he's an enemy. Then, Nagato's mom is immediately mistaken for a subordinate/partner and slain shielding her son, who neither shinobi could see in the dark. Nagato is orphanized, kills the Leaf as well in a fit of anguish, and set onto the spiraling path of becoming a jaded antagonistic figure who will ultimately die himself because he let being a victim define his life. Neither father nor mother nor son knew well enough to play nice and more tolerant and accepting of things and cool-headed when death was on the line. Nope, they just jumped to conclusions, and as such, got their tickets punched prematurely. All in all, five dead, none of whom had to die.

'''Instead:''' He resurrects of all those whom he killed, not having told anything important Naruto and just dies. Konan also nothing tells Naruto and decides to deal with Tobi by herself.\\

* Sakura has resolved to kill Sasuke herself, and is travelling to his location with Kiba, Akamaru, Sai and Lee. Unbeknownst to the three of them, Sakura has come up with her own plan to take Sasuke out.\\

* Even more anime {{filler}}. While Naruto's travelling to the Land of Lightning, a gigantic eagle kidnaps Guy, who's on the journey as part of Naruto's escort. The rest of the group tracks the eagle to an island, and go ashore to search for Guy. Naruto offers to use Sage Mode's AuraVision to try and find him.\\

'''The Result:''' The Bijuu get their asses handed to them in short order by Madara and are chained by the Mazou, about to be dragged in. And worse, even ''Naruto and B are chained'', and thus, Kurama and Gyuuki are extracted.

'''You'd Expect:''' Madara will try to take his eye immediately because anybody at the time could to understand that Obito not his ally, since Obito '''himself''' had said him that he had never considered his as ally and also betrayed him when he became the Ten Tails Jinchuuriki. Also Madara has just forced Obito to resurrect him through a jutsu which kills the user and any sensible person would understand that Obito will be displeased by this.\\

'''Result:''' Obito plunges his hand through Madara's chest and taking back Yin Kurama and a portion of Shukaku's and Gyuki's chakra (that Naruto is currently missing).

* Madara manipulated the Mist Shinobi to seal the Three-Tails inside of Rin in order to use her as a bomb against the Leaf Village, planning for the despair over Rin's death at the hands of Kakashi to turn Obito over to the dark side. Then when Obito is in the process of a HeelFaceTurn, Madara attempts to remove his eye.\\

'''Instead''': Sasuke wants to rule the world as a shadow guardian. Someone not chosen by people, but someone who bears people's hate without complaining. He'll do Judgements and Executions himself and bear the hatred of all the people towards him. That way the five great countries will be united. But he wants to kill the Bijuus and the five Kages trapped in the Eternal Tsukuyomi and Naruto too since he has the chakra of all the Bijuus. It's his way of preventing the past from interfering.\\

'''Or You'd Expect''': Him to tell Naruto, who he is conversing with simultaneously, or after the defeat of Kaguya when he shows up with the kage, that Sasuke is a nutjob and shouldn't be trusted because he plans to destroy the ninja world and rule it through hatred, so Naruto at least has a heads up to Sasuke's end goal and can try to talk some sense into him before the final showdown. Or, failing that, foreknowledge of the information would allow the Hokage + Naruto + The Tailed Beasts to lay the smackdown on Sasuke before the edo tensei is released.\\
'''Instead''': ...He doesn't say one word about it until Sasuke makes the first move, choosing instead to spend his short time left helping the Hokage pass on and preaching about family and ninja, so Naruto and the others are completely blindsided by Sasuke's betrayal which allows him to catch the Tailed Beasts like Pokémon and force Naruto into a one-on-one fight that costs them both an arm.

'''You'd Expect:''' That at least 1 Konoha citizen recognize the similarity and realize that he is Minato's son.\\

'''Instead:''' He stabs both Danzo ''and'' Karin into their heart, thus robbing him of a valuable medical ninja and if Karin did not succumb to her own idiocy later, she would have outright give up and move on from him.

'''Instead:''' Nagato's dad is so paranoid about shinobi in general during the war that he takes leave of his senses: he pulls a LeeroyJenkins and bum rushes one of the shinobi, not even so much as speaking to them to make them ease their guard. In fact, he screams angrily. Yeah, like ''that's'' gonna make you look harmless and civilian.\\
'''Result:''' The Leaf shinobi he attacks easily outmaneuvers and slays Nagato's dad, thinking he's an enemy. Then, Nagato's mom is immediately mistaken for a subordinate/partner and slain shielding her son, who neither shinobi could see in the dark. Nagato is orphanized and set onto the spiraling path of becoming a jaded antagonistic figure who will ultimately die himself because he let being a victim define his life. Neither father nor mother nor son knew well enough to play nice and more tolerant and accepting of things and cool-headed when death was on the line. Nope, they just jumped to conclusions, and as such, got their tickets punched prematurely.

'''Result:''' The Leaf shinobi he attacks easily outmaneuvers and slays Nagato's dad, thinking he's an enemy. Then, Nagato's mom is immediately mistaken for a subordinate/partner and slain shielding her son, who neither shinobi could see in the dark. Nagato is orphanized and set onto the spiraling path of becoming a jaded antagonistic figure who will ultimately die himself because he let being a victim define his life. Neither father nor mother nor son knew well enough to play nice and more tolerant and blase when death was on the line.

* The deaths of Nagato's parents themselves are very stupid and senseless. Two Leaf shinobi enter their house unannounced looking for essentials and Nagato's dad picks up a weapon to defend himself. The lights are off and no one can see clearly.
'''You'd Expect:''' Nagato's dad to turn the lights on and tell the shinobi that they have actually not entered an abandoned house but instead entered an occupied house filled with civilians and that he is a dad with a wife and young son and mean them no harm and will provide them food and shelter if they need it and he is willing to peacefully let them be.
'''Instead:''' Nagato's dad is so paranoid about shinobi in general during the war that he takes leave of his senses: he pulls a LeeroyJenkins and bum rushes one of the shinobi, not even so much as speaking to them to make them ease their guard. In fact, he screams angrily. Yeah, like ''that's'' gonna make you look harmless and civilian.
'''Result:''' The Leaf shinobi he attacks easily outmaneuvers and slays Nagato's dad, thinking he's an enemy. Then, Nagato's mom is immediately mistaken for a subordinate/partner and slain shielding her son, who neither shinobi could see in the dark. Nagato is orphanized and set onto the spiraling path of becoming a jaded antagonistic figure who will ultimately die himself because he let being a victim define his life.

* Madara overheard a conversation between Hashirama and Tobirama, in which it is revealed that Hashirama will elected as the first Hokage and that nobody trusts Madara.\\

'''Instead:''' Madara decides that the peace between Uchiha and Senju impossible, then makes a nonsensical warning to his clan to leave the village (which they understandably reject) and later the dedicated all his time to studying the Uchiha stone tablet leading to the following one.

'''Instead:''' He tried to do the same thing that his ancestor did, to put an end to all wars.\\

'''Instead:''' [[TooDumbToLive He uses the uber-move]]. To make matters worse, his opponent, Dosu, is unaffected, thanks to Zaku's intervention. Ultimately, Lee's actions become a [[StupidSacrifice stupid sacrifice]].
** In his defense, though, he wasn't fully aware of Zaku's abilities and might not have been able to predict that.

'''Instead''': [[StupidSacrifice She makes Kakashi kill her]], kicking off the entire series.\\

In her defense, As Madara later revealed, Rin didn't really have a choice, as she was being controlled by Madara. Same goes for her pursuers.

In Kurama's defense here, it is stated that dying is still, y'know, painful. Even for a Tailed Beast. And it did turn out well in the end.

'''Instead''': [[StupidSacrifice She makes Kakashi kill her]], kicking off the entire series.

'''Instead:''' He does everything he could just to prevent Naruto from dying despite the fact that it wouldn't help him one bit.

* Madara overheard a conversation between Hashirama and Tobirama, which said that Hashirama will elected the first Hokage and that nobody trusts Madara.\\

'''Although''': spoiler: As Madara later revealed, Rin didn't really have a choice, as she was being controlled by Madara. Same goes for her pursuers.

'''You'd Expect:''' That he [[BoringButPractical assassinate the Third Hokage immediately]] and take his blood in order to gain another collection to his Edo Tensei arsenal.\\

'''Instead:''' He stabs both Danzo ''and'' Karin into their heart, thus robbing him of a valuable medical ninja and if Karin does not succumb to her own idiocy later, she would have outright give up and move on from him.

'''You'd Expect:''' When it comes to the heroic Shinobis who are unwilling to fight their own men, Kabuto erase their personalities in order to prevent them invoking ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy and gaining emotional closure because as shown what he did Zabuza and Third Raikage, they can easily steamroll the opposition thanks to their unlimited Chakra and HealingFactor, meanwhile he can keep some of their personalities for the ones more willing to fight the allied forces such as the Gold and Silver Brothers and Deidara to reduce micromanagement and allow them to use their creativity to perform better in war.\\
'''Instead:''' He only does erase their personalities if he really wants to, not thinking that it will somehow backfire against him.\\
'''Result:''' This causing many of the heroic Edo Tensei nijas to get easily sealed with little resistance.

'''Result:''' This cost them their defeat without accomplishing anything at all save the death of one Konoha member.

'''You'd Expect:''' Knowing that Itachi is still out there, he'd keep Nagato's Preta Path ability up, as well as create more summons to widen the field of Shared Vision. Thus, when Itachi begins his counter attack he'd be able to easily retort and capture Itachi too.\\
'''Instead:''' Instead, he turns off the Preta Path ability thus enabling him to be blind sighted by Itachi in [[PowerArmor Susanoo]], and Naruto and Bee get freed. Adding insult to injury, he uses Nagato to create the Chibaku Tensei and just ''stands there'' instead of you know, summoning another bird or one of the Rams or Rhinos in his disposal. He doesn't even keep the Preta Path ability up in the little chance that the Chibaku Tensei gets destroyed, and thus, Nagato gets sealed. Granted, Kabuto probably wasn't aware that the Chibaku Tensei could be stopped or avoided, but he was facing three very crafty ninja; you'd think he'd be more [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic]].

'''You'd Expect:''' Him to set up a trap to catch Itachi unaware, knowing what Itachi is capable of. Either a new type of clone, summoning a few of his backup Edo Tensei's, or even hiding under ground since the Sharingan can't see through the earth.\\

'''Instead:''' She throws a tantrum, beats up Suigetsu for a bit, then immediately falls back in love with Sasuke without anyone telling her to.
* Obito been allowed to live at Naruto and Minato's request, their moment is interrupted by Madara who uses Black Zetsu to resurrect himself using the Rinne Tensei.\\

'''Instead''': Sasuke wants to rule the world as a shadow guardian. Someone not chosen by people, but someone who bears people's hate without complaining. He'll do Judgements and Executions himself and bare the hatred of all the people towards him. That way the five great countries will be united. But he wants to kill the Bijuus and the five Kages trapped in the Eternal Tsukuyomi and Naruto too since he has the chakra of all the Bijuus. It's his way of preventing the past from interfering.\\

* Madara overheard conversation Hashirama and Tobirama, which said that Hashirama will elected the first Hokage and that Madara nobody trusts.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Madara sincerely happy for Hashirama, and he would try to open up and work hard to prove the village that he is trustworthy.\\
'''Instead:''' Madara decides that the peace between Uchiha and Senju impossible, then makes nonsensical a warning his clan to leave the village (which they understandably reject) and later the dedicated all his time to studying the Uchiha stone tablet leading to the following one.

'''You'd Expect:''' He will learn a lesson from this story and would try help Hashirama create a village of their dreams or would try to do something else than what he did in any case.\\
'''Instead:''' He try to do the same that his ancestor to put an end to all wars.\\
'''Result:''' He did completed then what he wanted, but he ultimately ends as the biggest loser in the series, not only failing to achieve any of his goals, but only making things worse for himself and everyone else in the process.
* Twenty years ago Rin is kidnapped by the Mist and the three tails is implanted into her, and she's "chased" back to Konoha in the hopes that the three tails would bust out and wreck up the joint when she arrived.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That she'd turn on her "pursuers", stop moving, or run in the opposite direction. Anything to buy time for Minato to arrive and try to properly seal the three tails so it couldn't escape. Even if Minato hadn't been able to do anything, it was still a better option than what she did.\\

* The Kyuubi attacked Konoha and killed many people. The fourth hokage heroically sacrificed himself to seal it into a newborn baby. However, the child now has no family to speak of, and should he let it, [[SuperPoweredEvilSide the beast will take over.]]\\

'''Instead:''' He requests for help [[BigBad Tobi]] and together with him arranges mass genocide the entire clan Uchiha and herewith taking all the blame for the destruction of the clan on himself (even thinking of the fact that this makes it very convenient for Tobi since none but Itachi and Danzo even do not know about his involvement in the massacre). And later he tells Sasuke that he was responsible for the attack, makes himself out to be a monster, and [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] him for good measure, before running. He does this in order to give Sasuke motivation to hunt him down, kill him, and therefore redeem the Uchiha.\\
'''Result:''' In the end, the destruction of the entire clan brought a strong weakening of the military power of Konoha, allowed Tobi acquire a large number of Sharingans in his laboratory and also acquire another member of the Akatsuki for sealing Tailed Beasts. Itachi scheme with Sasuke ends up working [[GoneHorriblyRight a little too well]], before [[GoneHorriblyWrong failing completely]]: In order to become strong enough to kill Itachi, Sasuke ends up defecting from Konoha to Orochimaru, a guy who wants to possess him for his eyes. And Sasuke happily embraces the possibility of this happening if it would help him get his revenge. When Sasuke does kill Itachi, he's taken into the custody of Tobi, who explains the truth of what Itachi was up to, causing Sasuke to want to [[DisproportionateRetribution destroy]] [[MisplacedRetribution the whole of Konoha]].

'''Instead:''' They immediately believed him to be "Madara" despite having little proof of his identity (well except Sharingan).

* Obito been allowed to live at Naruto and Minato's request, their moment is interrupted by Madara who uses the Black Zetsu to resurrect himself from the Edo Tensei.\\

* Madara spends the first few pages talking to White Zetsu, and takes this chance to summon the Gedou.\\

* Madara wants to return his Rinnegan from Black Zetsu but Obito does not allow to do so.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Madara will try to take his eye immediately because any man at a time could to understand that Obito not his friend, since Obito '''himself''' had said him that he had never considered his as ally and also betrayed him when become the Ten Tails Jinchuuriki. Also Madara has forced Obito to resurrect him through jutsu which kills the user at using and any sensible person was understandable that Obito will be displeased this.\\
'''Instead:''' Madara trying to convince him to give Rinnegan voluntarily and aslo says him come up and shake his hand.\\

* Madara knows that Obito was going to resurrect Naruto and the only way to get to him: the eye Kakashi.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Madara will ignores all enemies and will take the eye Kakashi (that he will do but later) and prevent Obito to resurrect Naruto.\\
'''Instead:''' Madara is spending all his time on fighting with Guy and even not think about it.\\
'''Result:''' Guy nearly kills him and Naruto resurrected with new power.
* Kakashi knows that his eye is the only way how to get in Obito's dimension.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' While Madara busy in battle, he will restore his strength and teleports to Obito. So Madara will unable to return his Rinnegan.\\
'''Instead:''' [[ForgotAboutHisPowers He stands as a vegetable and does nothing.]]\\

* Safe within Obito's dimension, he pleads for Sakura to destroy his Rinnegan eye so that he won't give the eye to Madara shoud he ever find a way to the dimension.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Remembering the crimes that Obito did including the deaths of thousands of Shinobis that includes Neji herself, Shikaku, and Inoichi, she stabs his eye without any hesitation whatsoever.\\
'''Instead:''' She completely hesitates out of fear, resulting in Madara taking back his other eye from Obito. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Thanks a lot Sakura, your actions brought about the beginning of Infinite Tsukuyomi]].

'''You'd Expect:''' Madara sincerely happy for Hashirama, and he would try to open up and work hard to prove the village that he trustworthy.\\

* Obito witnesses the death of the girl he loves at the hand of Kakashi and reaches his despair event horizon. Immediately afterwards, Madara Uchiha tells him about his plans, which involves Obito convincing Nagato to use the Rinnegan to bring him back to life, presumably telling Obito exactly how this can be done as Nagato would likely not know it at the time.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Learning that a jutsu exists that allows the dead to come back to life, Obito immediately goes to seek Nagato out and manipulate him into resurrecting Rin, or at the very least taking the Rinnegan and doing it himself, before returning to the Leaf Village with Rin and getting back on track to become the Hokage.\\
'''Instead:''' He never once considers the possibility of bringing Rin back to life whether through Edo Tensei or Rinne Rebirth, even when he himself possesses the Rinnegan later on, choosing instead to embrace Madara's plan because he refuses to accept living in a world where Rin is dead, kicking off a scheme that results in pretty much every single hardship occurring in the series.

* In the Forest of Death during the Chunin Exams, Sakura is left fighting 3 sound ninja all by herself. She tricks one of them through an admittedly tricky series of substitutions, getting him to assume she's a substitution when she isn't, giving her a window of opportunity as she jumps down on him with a kunai in her hand.\\

'''Instead:''' [[TooDumbToLive He uses the uber-move]]. To make matters worse, the guy he uses it on is unaffected, thanks to his teammate, making Lee's actions pretty much a [[StupidSacrifice stupid sacrifice]].

'''Instead:''' He says outright ''who'' are infiltrating Konoha. Thus, everything about Sasuke's defection can be traced back to [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom him, who thought is a good idea to say who they were in the first place]].
* After the revelation that Itachi is trying to protect Sasuke and wants him to be loyal to Konoha. After Sasuke confronts him and Kisame.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Sasuke to realise that he's outmatched either way, and to not try anything stupid.\\

'''Instead:''' He lets Sasuke get a free shot at Itachi which directly cause Sasuke to defect from Konoha all because of his own honor.

'''Result:''' Naruto gets seriously wounded and [[NotGoodWithRejection his heart gets broken]] thinking that Hinata betrayed him and stopped loving him. He then goes into a four-day HeroicBSOD giving up on everything. Meanwhile, Hinata gets caught red-handed by the BigBad trying to destroy his WeaponOfMassDestruction, and [[HypnotizeThePrincess she gets turned into one of his puppets.]] And THEN it turns out that [[DidntThinkThisThrough she didn't have the necessary power to destroy the Tenseigan on her own anyway]]. Really, it was only because of a bit of ContrivedCoincidence that the world didn't get destroyed.

'''Result:''' Naruto gets seriously wounded and [[NotGoodWithRejection his heart gets broken]] thinking that Hinata betrayed him and stopped loving him. He then goes into a three-day HeroicBSOD giving up on everything. Meanwhile, Hinata gets caught red-handed by the BigBad trying to destroy his WeaponOfMassDestruction, and [[HypnotizeThePrincess she gets turned into one of his puppets.]] And THEN it turns out that [[DidntThinkThisThrough she didn't have the necessary power to destroy the Tenseigan on her own anyway]]. Really, it was only because of a bit of ContrivedCoincidence that the world didn't get destroyed.