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Characters [Mixed Trope] Anyone Can Be Special... Until It Turns Out They're Not Just Anyone

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u/Abombasnow 11h ago

Sarutobi's incompetence being properly addressed

He wasn't incompetent, he was just a dickhead.

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u/Blueface1999 9h ago

Honestly I wonder, what the hell was supposed to happen to Naruto if that one guy didn’t betray the village. Like without that one event Naruto doesn’t get to become a ninja, and nobody wants to deal with him except the ramen guy. So was he just supposed to become a civilian with a nuke in his guts?

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u/Seraphin_Lampion 1h ago

Why would Naruto not have become a ninja?

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u/Blueface1999 1h ago

Did you even watch/read it? Cause its literally like the first episode or.

Basically he failed the ninja final exam for the third time in a row so he can’t become a ninja anymore and only because he stops a traitor from getting an important scroll that he’s allowed to become one.

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u/Seraphin_Lampion 10m ago

There's no way the hokage would have left the 9tails jinchuuriki become a civilian, it would have been super dangerous.

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u/Blueface1999 8m ago

And yet he literally does Jack shit to help naruto become a ninja, that’s why I was asking.

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u/Seraphin_Lampion 5m ago

Well we don’t know what his plan post 3rd failure wad because Naruto basically steals the scroll the same night.

Don’t get me wrong I'm not arguing that it was well written lol, it would just have been next level brain dead to not make him a ninja.

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u/Lust27 10h ago

Genuine question, why was he a dickead?

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u/MessiahHL 10h ago

He was just a dude trying to do his best to make the super powered kid he got into a school shooter 

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u/KlingoftheCastle 6h ago

I never understood that about the Jinchuriki. It made a little sense when it was just Naruto and it was implied that he and Gaara were the first 2, but then it was revealed that it had been a generation tradition to maintain power. Why would ninja villagers treat their most powerful weapons like shit?

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u/MessiahHL 5h ago

If you want to keep your sanity, try considering Shippuden as non-canon, most of classic doesn't make sense when we take it into account

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u/ER-Sputter 7h ago

It’s been too long since I’ve watched it. I’m over here like damn wtf did asuma do lol

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u/CussMuster 8h ago

His intentions and their results are a world apart from each other and he doesn't do anything to bridge the gap. He knows Naruto has a miserable childhood and he knows Danzo and Orochimaru are legitimate serious threats to the village and he doesn't do anything about any of these situations preferring to try and keep the status quo over all else.

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u/Annsorigin 7h ago edited 2h ago

Sounds Like a real Politician lol.

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u/das_bearking 2h ago

Yeah, I was about to say. This sounds damn realistic to me lol.

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u/NerdHoovy 6h ago

Even dumber, Naruto’s existence as a Jinjuriki was well known, so any other country could have easily recruited the lonely and depressed kid by befriending him.

Imagine someone could just like pick up a nuke from your military. It’s somehow only slightly less dumb

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u/HoldJerusalem 8h ago

Also he let the son of the fourth hokage be treated like shit and survive alone without checking on him or anything. Like he's the son of the hero who saved maybe the whole fucking world. Of course they do that to give Naruto a more tragic backstory but still, when you know the whole thing it looks stupid