16 Characters Criminally Wasted In Naruto Shippuden 

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I guess Tenten didn't make the list.

Shino being irrelevant in shippuden is an absolute war crime. Rock lee survived his fight against gaara but somehow he's more dead after surviving and recovering from that fight than he was while gaara literally broke his limbs. Kiba, just a shit side character, done dirty. I guess he was never hyped up much to begin with though. Neji, got done absolutely diabolical, died a meaningless death. Got done in like true side character trash by some piece of wood. The worst of these crimes imo is rock lee.

Sakon, Orochimaru, Tayuya, Anko and Lee

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Then Neji died protecting Hinata... just like he knew he would

yup but its sad neji couldnt find out the truth that he was right about his beliefs and ideals

Neji’s beliefs and ideals were beaten into him by his family , years of trauma and literal slavery. His mindset was unhealthy at best and he died happily. Yes his death was implemented terribly but even in Part 1 during sauskenretrival Neji knew that Naruto was right. Hell Naruto shouldn’t have even beaten neji in part 1 tbh but who cares it’s shonen anime.

It’s not gaslighting though, he had no idea nor a reason to clarify down the road.

The same naruto that was blackballed to do anything because the people hated him or the naruto that was destined to continue a cycle of hatred for many other generations? I get he had a lot of powers but he wasn’t destined for greatness he was destined for failure but overcame it

what's that?

@@DygoKnight that's this really important, interesting character from Naruto pt 1. Guess Kishimoto skipped her because she was too OP anyways. You should reread it, she's easy to miss.

Tenten could not be wasted character because she was never a character to begin with.

Who?

Ten who???🤨

nah bro, Tenten defeat her clone and literally her next fight was against an akatsuki elemental demon mask 1v4 and she went "let me solo them" 4 Ws using an ancient weapon of god himself, and pack it up GG, Ino, Hinata even Temari none of them got a single W in the whole shippuden run Also thanks to Rock Lee SD she got more screentime, Tenten did good

I like tenten more than sakura

Yeah they shoulda used her way better. Orochimaru taught her many forbidden techniques but wiped her memory? They should have had her get her memories back and had her be more badass than just used as fodder during the whole war arc

Kishimoto will die before he gives a woman relevancy into the story like that

@@NotDaveGahan props to him

​@@markisreal775cringe

@@markisreal775 that thinking will get you no women son it got kishimoto a wife but he’s a successful mangaka and she won’t have to worry about getting a 9 to 5 to keep a roof over her head but you ain’t got shit you actually gotta be nice

Naruto can literally create an eye from nothing and bring Guy back to life from using the 8 gates but for some reason, can’t heal Guy’s bones lmaooo

@@aceclover758 lol i didnt think of that one

He was pupuler character the editor forced kishimoto to keep him alive

​@@ayhamahmad2277​ whats the point just so he can appear in 3 more panels

@@dertanlee6510 don't tell ask the editor who forced kishimoto to keep him alive that a major problem in shonan they won't allow popular characters to die

It's really funny that Guuy, the sensei that preaches about the energy of Youth and the new generation ends up stealing screentime form his students like wtf Guy xD

Kishimoto wanted to kill him there but they forced him to keep them alive and about naruhina it was forced and you can really tell because hinata doesn't do anything in the story she barely exists in the manga the only reason she ended with Naruto because she was popular character because of fillers

​@@ayhamahmad2277if he was forced to keep neji alive after the kidomaru fight by his editors, then he could've atleast use neji as a some kind of mediator between naruto and hinata to build their relationship so it doesn't feel forced. But no, neji got the most pointless and ridiculous death and his death is being used to force the naruhina ship. And subsequently, he proofed that neji was right all along with the destiny thing and naruto was bullshitting

​@@raviolibirb8009Naruto never mentioned hinata in the manga she barely exists and remember what Naruto said to minato about Sakura being his girlfriend

Ah yes because sumoning a billiongs weapons with a scroll sounds very ninja like to you its very realistic and not fucking magic

@@11_valyghost2 Ninja abilities are Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Bukijutsu, Fuinjutsu, Kenjutsu, Kinjutsu. Summoning weapon from scroll is a type of Space-time ninjutsu and storing it using Fuinjutsu. Tenten is also proficient in both Taijutsu and bukijutsu. Does it not look ninja to you?

@@11_valyghost2Many ninja stories and tales involve magic and the supernatural, so I don't see what makes the two mutually exclusive.

​@@11_valyghost2I don't get your point Naruto always had a magic system in place 🤔

Tenten just trhow random bullshit to the opponent. Ibiki and kankuro found way smarter way to use summoning jutsu, plus summing object is a plote hole because you didn't sigs any contract

if he died in the sasuke rescue like original intended it well be much better

Nejis death was done well I don’t get how yall this blinded in thinking it’s bad it literally portrays Neji making his own decisions and isn’t defined by his heritage and upbringing it’s making your own choices and choosing your own destiny

At least we’d have a byuakugan vs Sharingan fight

​@@Omen_SMK don't gaslight people. He died by getting stabbed by a piece of wood. When his eye abilities should have allowed him to avoid that. There was no buildup to his death and the second he died, the focus switched to Naruto and Hinata. Neji was hardly a character in Shippuden before he died. Furthermore, he didn't run away from his destiny. He died as people of his branch are expected to die. Stop it. People in English-speaking anime fandoms have this weird thing of justifying every bad decision that happens in a story. Don't be a shill.

I think neji had the setup to become the clan leader bc hinata would settle down and become a mother, also she’s not nearly as skilled as he was if anyone from the konoha 13 should have died before boruto, I say it should have been kiba, he shows the least improvement of anyone & im not really a fan of killing off one of the girls.

Yeah right. She has the so6p weapon but kishi just only put it on her shop. Her skills and balance mind is very suitable for the ANBU

@@sheabutterfly Wish the Anbu would have lived up to the hype too instead of being a fodderized measuring stick to show power.

@@ancladar8302 well it's time for kishi to make up for the anbu

Braindead

Damn, underrated comment mate, I totally agree with all your points.

What clans were forgotten? Because both of the ino-chika-cho trios really help out in the war arc, Sort of agree 5/10 of them weren’t explored enough, Yeah the villages aren’t explored but there are definitely relevant characters in different villages, Akatsuki captured 7/9 tailed beasts that is not a let down & if you actually payed attention to the story obito didn’t only start the war because of rin

Now that I think about it that's actually true, you can't even argue against that.

@@aoholliday8554 The fact he said that clans are forgotten and you replied that ino-shika-cho aren't is actually telling. None of the lcans, the Nara clan, the Akimichi clan nor the Yamanaka clan are explored on their own we only know they are allies and always team up together for some reason. We never find out who the original founders where, what kind of traditions they have, why they even team up with the other clans in the first place other then them I guess thinking they made a good team. Akatsuki Supression revealed the Nara clan has like a whole forest to them where did that ocme from? Why do they have that? Do other clans have territories to them like that? No, the Nara clan jsut does cause I don't know. The Uchiha clan that's literally genocided by the time the story begins have more history to them then the entirety of other clans in Naruto. The Senju clan, Hashira's clan, the very clan of the first hokage. What's their history? Fuck all that's what lol.

It was a wood style attack shot by the ten tails moving FTL or relative …

He died to a tentails amped woodstyle jutsu cast by Madara. Madara was originally killed by hashirama's woodstyle, so I guess that means Madara died to a stick, too.

What a lame way to get killed 😂😂😂

​@@Nether2342 actually that was by his sword

@@AhmedHussain-ju6xd fooled by a wood clone at least

I mean, kinda like the stealth aspect, why be a weapon master when you have magical country busting attacks or kaiju fights.

​@@msaag5490they have "magical weapons" though

@@RicardoKoei Sure, but they sure as shit didn't contribute much to stopping the big bad or the bigger threats like reincarnated Kage or even attempted to be used on Madara.

Becaus elf terrible writing. The magical weapons users beat Tobirama back in the day, had kyuubi transformations, and were infamous since the OG days. It took like 5 squads of ninja to take them both down while they were cocky the entire time. When tenten gets those weapons and should be Kage level she does NOTHING.

​@msaag5490 some of weapons were insanely strong and more could have been shown

so true

He is not bad the problem is that the changing because if you watch the show Naruto and sakura got more deployment than Naruto and hinata and sakura and sasuke it's was changed in the last minute because hinata being pupuler because of fillers

​@@ayhamahmad2277I thought I read somewhere that Sakura was always gonna get with Sasuke.

@@jasonone8726 if you watch the show it's very obvious that she was supposed to end with Naruto she got more screen time with Naruto than hinata

​@@ayhamahmad2277Well Naruto and Sakura were on the same team so it's expected they would've more screentime together 🤔

@@SusieBlup sakura got more moments with Naruto than hinata hinata barely exists in the manga Naruto focus on sakura all time even in part one

I'm not sure Kurenai is capable of an itachi level genjutsu like that

Yep, honestly i'd go as far as to say that Bleach also did a better job at developing side characters and it has rougly the same amount of chapters as Naruto. But yeah, when it comes to doing side character development in long running shounen series, One Piece should serve as the model.

I think you meant to say "The argument about the One Piece comparison was trash"

Most of Naruto characters like neji and the others were were supposed to die in part one and there isn't enough space to focus on all these characters

@@ayhamahmad2277 pretty sure only Neji was planned to die in part 1. And yes it's understandable why it happened, but it doesn't change the outcome

@@naganut9718 all of them were supposed to die there that why they do nothing and if you keep them alive you have to aid more arc to the story Naruto needs to be longer the war arc happened to early

Almost everything in Naruto was already wasted in Naruto. At least the excuse for Boruto is that it's focused on the 2nd generation. 😆

@@jasonone8726 Sorry, but saying it is a sequel focused on the new gens, does not excuse the crappy writing or it from p*ssing on everything good about it's predecessor. Sorry but sequel that disrespects it's predecessor is never good no matter what. example people hate Sta r Wars sequal trilogy, because it destroys everything that was established in previous movies. Same reason why people dislike Boruto.

@@chaos_knight_xy Why are you acting these problems never already happened in Naruto?

@@jasonone8726 I never said Naruto had no problems, I agree it has a lot of problems, like if you take everything about Naruto into account, it is a very mid series, and overrated in some aspects. Boruto on the other hand is just taking the bad parts about Naruto, and removing all the good parts, and then making it a series.

@@chaos_knight_xy You might actually want to read the newer Boruto Manga season as Masashi Kishimoto is back on it and a has cut out a lot of the puffing and harder Naruto fans are liking it as it's a lot darker and more brutal.

Tagashi is a master of making minor characters you never forget

It all has to do with Oda not making his arcs all about fighting. Kishimoto seems to take in the DBZ approach and make most of his arcs about a series of fights. Look at the Kazekage Rescue arc, it's basically jsut a list of fights, "Naruto shows up and Team 7 has their rematch, then immeidatly after Gaara has a fight with Deidara, then like 2 chapters later Itachi shows up and the team must fight him now, but at the same time Team Guy is also fighting Kisame and after those fights are concluded Team Guy fights their clones while Sakura fights Sasori and Naurot nad Kakashi fight Deidara". It's why most pre-Pain Shippuden arcs feel so short they are mostly just a series of fights with little room to breathe. The Alabasta arc is almost 2 times longer then the Kazekage Rescue arc yet has the same amount of fights because most of the rest of the arc is spend epxloring and adventuring and letting the characters interact with each other.

togashi is great at making side characters important too

Most of them were supposed to die in part one that why they do nothing and Naruto should have at least more chapters

Hinata us more important than Neji. And she is more beloved. Why tf would she be killed for Neji? Makes no sense.

Hinata is more important than Neji. And she is also more beloved. And more interesting tbh. So why would she be killed off for Neji who did absolutely nothing in all of Shippuden.

@@kenkaneki2667Nah, everyone likes Neji more. And lets be real, Hinata’s main role was to give birth to boruto and thats kinda it. Maybe if she died we would have been saved of from the trash can boruto is 😭

@milkiesLoverboi69 What? Everyone likes Hinaya more. She is literally the most popular hyuga by far. No one ever talks about Neji except from when he died. Hinata IA is amongst the most popular in the entire series, while Neji is not even in the top 20. Hinata was also more important to the plot than Neji ever was. And yes, Boruto is trash, but that has nothing to do with Hinata.

@kenkaneki2667 Hinata is not a terrible character. And is well liked by certain types of people. Making it all more impactful if she died. Also let's be real, she doesn't have much of a story arc she could be replaced by any girl who talks in an overly high pitched voice and is nice and people would forget about Hinata in a day.

The same goes for Naruto, Sakura's issues was being written to do nothing after the Kazekage arc, and when she did do something Kishimoto writes her to fumble.

Literally though. That would have been the easiest way to make people like Sakura more. Ino got over her crush on Sasuke so why is Sakura not allowed to

Same! LOL that was a shock and disappointment for me too.

A purely comedic spin-off. Up to now I still don't know entirely how I feel about it.

Drunk Shippuden Lee woulda went crazy. Imagine drunk lee with gates

​@@PKAlt lmaooo i think about the idea of drunk shippuden Lee very often

I heard that he was really meant to die back in Classic Naruto during his fight against Gaara, but he quickly became a fan favorite so Kishimoto let him live instead. That's would explain why he feels so absent later on in the franchise

A spin off that nobody cares about because let’s be real: it’s not really a spin off to be proud of, but I guess when you’re that desperate for Lee content, you’ll take anything up the rear…

What bothers me the most is the waste of the Jinchūriki, something that even "our" dear video friend in his "good" rewrite (Because in reality it is horrible) did not do either and I also waste them by killing the stupid ones without mentioning What is this about eliminating each person's Red Mantle ability when there were better ways for it to be there but for each Jinchūriki to develop something unique and the Red Mantle is actually not the Chakra of any Bijū but is actually the Essence of the Ten Tails, which is still active, I mean that "The Red Mantle" in the end was something more intrinsic to each Bijū but in reality it was a nuisance that should be eliminated, but no, "it is better to kill them completely stupidly who wants to see a Group with a Huge Potential for Development and Impact, much larger and gigantic than any other secondary character and that the Jinchūriki would contribute much more throughout History to the point that they can be the Equivalents of the Straw Hat Crew in the Naruverse", seriously In the Canon, the Jinchūriki HAD MUCH MORE TO GIVE, not to mention that each of the Jinchūriki, both in power and character development, are thousands of times better than most of the Konoha characters outside of the main group and one or another out there. Come on, all the Jinchūriki *SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE MAIN PROTAGONISTS OF THE ENTIRE SHIPPUDEN* and with the focus of Naruto going to look for them all to unite them to fight Akatsuki who would perfectly still be threatening and without the need to catch even a single Bijū In fact, it would leave them in good shape when they saw that it took the Nine Tailed Beast Carriers to defeat all the Akatsuki together once and for all.

You're not alone, bro!

Nope, Lee is my favorite character in naruto.

Naruto needs to be longer like one piece

Tbh, after finding out Naruto and Sasuke are reincarnations of alien deities, I lost interest

Right Sakura had no clan and trained super hard and became strong and yet she is nothing compared to Naruto and Sasukes strength.

​@@denzeldubois4978 Right ?? The narrative basically drilled in to us : if you start from zero , become a top notch doctor performing miraculous surgery in a battlefield through sheer hardwork and intelligence, if you can regenerate any injury and use it to save numerous civilizations and soldiers, You're still literal trash because your best friend and boyfriend are reincarnated Demi gods with enormous power inherited by genetics and they can kill people with a flick or cure leprosy/ a dead heart with a single touch . Because working hard AND smart means absolutely nothing in the long run.

Most shonen do that once they reach a certain point. It's a problem of going too long. As much as people pretend One Piece doesn't waste characters, Oda does it too. My Hero Academia and Jujutsu Kaisen do it too in newer stuff. It's a battle shonen thing.

Oda doesn’t waste characters. Even during egghead, half the arc was showing other characters outside of the crew around the world

I kinda Understand them they created a Big universe With lots of Characters Its hard to give Screentime To every Character You created But I can See why people get mad for wasted Characters

​@@cj-ew6xgit's not that the thing is that there is not enough arc to focus on all these characters kishimoto can't aid more unless the editor him to do that and most of these characters were supposed to die in part one

​@@aceclover758one piece is very long that why oda was able to do that in order to focus on all these characters Naruto needs to be longer but shonan told kishimoto to end at chapter 700

Naruto doesn't do anything in the beginning the problem is there isn't enough arc the war arc and pain arc happened to early and sakura wasn't supposed to end with sasuke

People tease Kiba but his transformation in part 1 was strong It would’ve killed any of the other sound 4 if he hit them head one Salon/Ukon we’re lucky to not have separated

Wasn't Sasuke faster? Speed was always his thing after all.

@@seg1912 Maybe in raw speed Kiba is faster but Sasuke in Boruto uses lightning to boost his speed

@@aceclover758 I was thinking of part 1 Sasuke who was already crazy quick. But you might be right Kiba was faster at that time. Definitely faster once he would start gatsuga but not sure about the rest of the time.

I hated Kiba because he was a cocky fuck but lost to a fart. He felt like a big mouthed bully. His abilities are cool but I couldn't stand him.

Shippuden has such a potential to be a magnum opus, so many interesting what ifs

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@@Thanatossssx You know you can edit your comments right? :P

She was pregnant. Nobody wants the previous Hokage's granddaughter to fall off before being born . Their safety was of utmost importance to at least Shikamaru.

Well yeah, thats kinda the main difference between old and new gen shonens, the new mangakas arent that scared of killing characters which im grateful for

Most of these characters were supposed to die in part one but they forced him to keep them alive and ruined them

If kishimoto was allowed to aid more arc

if Kishimoto knew how to write her

OG Naruto was dark and had consequences. Shippuden was a much more average shonen with random power ups and no real consequences to anything. And of course, the classic child of prophecy trope...

​​@@seg1912a lot of power up were set up in part one like kcm and many other parts one doesn't have a single major characters death not villains

Ya and she was the only girl that didnt base her character on sasuke or naruto. She had her own unique thing She had a dream of being like tsunade. She was cool. Awesome spunk Hinata was neat but her fighting wasnt unique. Sakura copy of tsunade

@@r.a.panimefan2109 facts

@fabiof.c7246 ya I liked her she was A amazing character and her kit could be lethal. Had Shonen jump let kishi develop them

On one hand, I agree but on the other, I also agree for a different reason, if Anko at least retired, what’s done is done, but she didn’t, what I hate the most is, when she was introduced it was still in a state of peace but she still trained and go on missions. Now, she let herself go but she still is a ninja but she doesn’t go on missions or train anymore because it’s a time of “peace”? Wasted character with a dumb reason for why she is how she is now

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Tenten's atributes is space-time and sealing jutsu. Imagine if she learns flying raijin and uzumaki fuinjutsu.

@@sheabutterfly imo that's a bit of a Stretch, I would Say: like, She has no business knowing about a secret of another clan/ninja jutsu. But Gai Is her sensei. And his Summoning Jutsu is criminally underused; Kishimoto could have f**king ninja turtles in his ninja manga and DIDN'T DO IT!!!!

@@sheabutterfly OR Make Ten Ten an actual expert in crafting and summoning specific weapons for her team. Like, the First Gai vs Kisame fight: TEN TEN summons Gai nunchucks. The clone fight? Make her summon customized weapons for ALL HER TEAM to give'em the edge.

That's the problem Naruto has too many characters so it needs to be longer

He was supposed to die in part one

Sasuke is never home to the point he deadass was about to kill his own daughter cause he hadn't seen her in years lol. Sakura lost.

He was forced to original kishimoto wanted to kill neji and the others in the sasuke rescue arc but they forced him to keep them alive