29 Times Sasuke Should Have Died 

Sasuke - the only character with more plot armor than the protagonist.

the fact that killer bee basically killed sasuke 3 times during their fight speaks volumes if it wasn't for plot armor and karin's moaning heals series would be over faster

Looks like Sasuke did learn something from Naruto. He learned the Plot Armo No Jutsu.

Honestly if kishimoto didnt make C0 no one would complain about Sasuke's plot armor in that fight it was a good foght on sasuke's part then kishimoto thought "alright both of them are exhausted im going to set off a nuke where sasuke is a few meters away and have him survive by summoning a heavily taxing summon, put that summon under snd gen jutsu then have sasuke jump in his mouth then having him reverse summon all in a half a second period" i honestly want to know what made him think this was a good way to end the fight

One thing wrong with the Haku being “too kind” and that’s why he didn’t aim for vitals on Sasuke is that he was aiming at Naruto…on the ground. So Haku would have had to predicted Sasuke jumping in front of Naruto and aimed for that scenario to intentionally not hit any vitals on Sasuke.

He literally died in these scenarios 1. Against Haku 2. Deidaras nuke 3.killer bee hole in chest(died 4 times in a single battle) 4.madaras selfie stick 5. Kaguya

My headcannon regarding the the 90% chance of the curse mark killing the host, is that Orochimaru specifically referred to the Cursed Seal of Heaven in that conversation (which Anko also survived), which is the strongest type of curse mark along the Seal of Earth, so Orochimaru only used it on his elite subordinates who had a higher chance of sustaining it

There is a reason why around the Deidara and Killer Bee fight in the manga people would joke about how Sasuke was the main character now.

Sasuke having plot armor fits that he was the protagonist when the story focused more around him

11:32 "But Sasuke survived which was really good, because well... He didnt die" Well played 😂

The thumbnail is crazy. Naruto really said "Eat this knuckle-fist sandwich"

My headcannon on the Itachi fight is that he knew he was being watched by Zetsu so he had to make it look very convincing. Similar to the earlier time when he was with Kisame when beating up younger Sasuke

6:15. Feel sorry for the hotel room

Itachi sparing Sasuke's life was an obvious hint that there was something wrong with the massacre and that Itachi had not done it on a whim in the Valley of the End flashback, the dialogues make this clear

Can we talk about Naruto’s often overlooked plot armor though? In almost every big fight Naruto is saved by a convenient 9 tails amp, a convenient mental amp, or a super convenient seal implanted by Minato or something.

There was the time when he was unconscious while Dosu and his team closed in to kill him but were prevented by Sakura, Lee, and Team 10's efforts.

Some of these aren’t plot armor though. Ones where he gets saved by his allies or there was never any intent to kill him such as when he fought Itachi or Orochimaru are not plot armor. Surviving particle style or other moments where there should have been no way he survives are absolutely plot armor.

Sasuke didn't get hit by c4 the first time. He saw the mini bombs as a cloud of Chakra moving toward him and stayed out of range. It's only when I gets trapped in the mini version that he uses chidori on himself to defuse the bombs.

That thumbnail is perfect😂😂😂😂😂😂

The thumbnail is funny considering you have another video named "Why Sasuke Does Not Have Plot Armor" LOL

Finally a Sasuke Plot Armor video 😅

The number of people that has the curse mark just shows how many failed attempts Orochimaru tried, how.many people he killed with his experiments

Sasuke's life in a nutshell: "Sasuke is so cool!" "Oh no Sasuke left the village!" "Sasuke became a villain!" "Ayye Sasuke's back!" "Sasuke wtf bro!" "Good to have you back Sasuke!" Then you have the fact that Sasuke basically killed or tried to kill everyone that helped him, even from death. "Sasuke we're here to help!" "I don't give a sh*t, die!!"

You forgot the icing on the cake 🫢 it was confirmed by the creator that sasuke was originally supposed to die against haku, but the creator realized that naruto needed a legit vegeta like rival which is why he chose to let sasuke live instead 😂 it doesn’t get more plot armor than that

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I believe you raised an interesting point when you said that Sasukes Battle IQ fluctuates, buit I don't think it's because of plot or bad writing. A significant portion of Sasukes IQ decrease goes hand in hand with his mental health. While Sasuke always had the tendency to become reckless if he got too worked up, this got amped up to 11 right after he found out that Itachi sacrificed himself for the leaf. In the following fights he both abandons his principles and downright throws himself into unwinnable situations. He can still somewhat improvise on the spot but has little overarching strategy to speak of. He only starts regaining some finesse in the later fights when Edo Itachi gets through to him and he starts chilling out.

Honestly, he put a chidori through Naruto’s chest. That should have been a wrap. Sasuke Shippuden right after.

literally biting little boys necks, AND low-key stalking them IN MASS to see the people they become. that my good sir is a predator.

Sasuke had more plot armour than Naruto in this series tbh

"Haku was gentle and didn't want to kill Sasuke" *Sasuke on screen having 6 nails through his throat at the same time*

Thank you Dygo for making so many videos and still maintaining this high quality. I can't stand click baits and panderers. You sir might be the best Naruto content creater now (including Borito 😅😅)

Itachi according to fans: Caring and loving older brother Itachi in reality: "If he dies, he dies"

I love Sasuke's symbolic representation of "taka" he adopts after deleting Orochimaru from his body and mind. It is a great metaphor to his relationship with Orochimaru as the snake he is both in character and literally. Orochimaru is power hungry and greedy for himself. Sasuke on the other hand although his actions appear selfish, he is power hungry and greedy for revenge. As twisted as he became he did everything for firstly the Uchicha clan (against Itachi) and eventually for Itachi (against the Leaf). This is how he was destined for conflict with Naruto he lived his life for the Leaf.

I mean, he's the 2nd MC so he ought to have plot armor worthy of that 😂

Btw haku hit sasukes artery- so sasuke should have died for sure

This is the first video in quite a while that omits everything and jumps to the point. So refreshing. you have my Like + Sub.

The vital poins explanation from Haku makes no sense. He was aiming to avoid Naruto's vital points, but then Sasuke jumped in front of the needles, intercepting them with random points in his body.

"Haku didn't aim for any vital spots" *Show's picture of Sasuke's neck cosplaying as a pincushion*

Dygo you should make more versus battle videos. Like the one you made for Itachi vs Sage Jiraiya. I thought it was pretty dope.

Plot Susannoo vs Talk-no-jutsu

Half of these aren’t even really plot armor as much as they are bad writing The biggest plot armor is with Deidara and Danzo, arguably also when Kabuto shows up to prevent Sasuke from outright dying despite missing a heart

Think of it this way... the show Naruto is basically all about a prophecy. Even if not outright stated, Sasuke is part of that prophecy, because he was needed for Naruto to bring peace to Earth. He was never meant to die all those times he almost did, because he was meant to make Naruto as strong as he got. If Sasuke had died, Naruto may have just given up on everything. I'm sure he would have still been a strong shinobi, but Kaguya wouldn't have been defeated, and Naruto wouldn't have the drive to become as strong as he did.

I love the last one especially. "Oh whoops, looks like we're gonna die lol".

my newest hot take: "kage level" shouldn't be a thing. atleast not a way of measuring power level. when gaara became kage at age 15 he wasn't as powerful as your normal adult, experienced kage. still very powerful but not as a tsunade or A for example. and then there is guy who is stronger than most kage, even proven to be stronger than all of the active ones when he fought madara. all while being a jonin... so yeah, the term "kage level" is at best inaccurate and at worst misleading

Alternate video title: 29 times the series almost got much better.

Crazy how at some point he actually died and plot armor was like "yeah nah, he is the re-incarnation of an ancient alien god so wake him up with new god-tier eyes and jutsu"

12:44 that’s cap 🧢 Itachi literally put the flames out and that stopped Sasuke from dying Zetsu says Itachi put the flames out so he can get sasuke’s eyes

It would be much easier to accept Haku not aiming for vital spots to avoid killing Sasuke if Sasuke didn't look like he was wearing a spiky dog collar by the end. Seriously, why target THE NECK so much of all places if you're trying to just knock him out. That's arguably the most lethal place you can stick a needle into someone besides through the eye into the brian. Anime logic I know but I feel like this scene would be much more believable and still dramatic if he stuck to arms/legs/chest area with his needles. You can't even argue that while stuck in his body the needles prevent bleeding while you can clearly see him losing quite a lot of blood from his injuries. Also the curse mark having 90% lethality rate is essentially 0% lethality rate, let's be real. Anime logic again, if the chance for one of main characters to survive is as small as 0.001% it's essentially guaranteed to happen. I mean, even for side character Rock Lee - did anyone and i mean ANYONE believe even for a second that he wasn't going to survive the 50% chance of operation success by Tsunade? side tangent : the operation should've ended with Rock Lee dying because 1. Rock Lee was wasted as a character anyway with Guy taking his spot, Kishimoto wanted him die in part 1 for a reason, he didn't really know what to do with him further down the line. He already won the hearts of most readers and has proven he became a great ninja with sheer hard work without any support demon inside him. His arc felt finished in part 1 2. It would make the story much more tense going forward because if we were told there is a % chance of character surviving X situation we would be aware that they could really DIE (unless it was Naruto for obvious reasons)

If it wasn’t for Karin and Sakura, he wouldn’t stand a chance

4:20 definitely one of the best panel in naurto. It just show so much in a picture

Absolutely loved Naruto as a series but the ending obliterated everything in my book. Sasuke definitely, definitely, *definitely* should've died in the final battle. I loved how he even after the war was won, he would still betray Naruto and everyone else, absolutely priming his supposed death by Naruto's hand, but not only does he survive, he's PARDONED by the village after everything bad he did!!!!!!!!!!

I hate when characters just survive because they are the main charakter it always leaves me disapointed. So fuck Plot armor

Plot armor ran out now he's a tree.

You played RO? love the bg music choice

the only thing more insane now then plot armour is how naruto is getting milked dry for content in recent years

sasuke has a plot susanoo that even isshiki cant kick through 😂

It's amazing how each time Sasuke escapes more narrowly than the previous one.

Rank the Hokage in terms of who was the better leader and who did the best decisions and improvements for the leaf

Where do i get this colourfull scans?

yes he has plot armor but at least its back up by the plot by being indras reincarnate..for me sakura has the bull plot armor and is random...

Let's be honest, Suigetsu should have died to a POINT BLACK BIJUDAMA from the second strongest Tailed Beast in existence

No matter how much i adore Sasuke, bro is the definition of plot armor 😭

Great video! Feel like one important one missing here is when Sasuke almost died to Rocklee's Primary Lotus. There was no way he was surviving that.

Touching on the subject brought up quite a few times in this video about Itachi almost going too far and possibly killing Sasuke. I think in respect to Itachi's absolute genius battle IQ as a shinobi; Him pushing Sasuke to these limits putting his little brother in mortal danger. I think this is a sentiment of Itachis absolute unyielding faith in Sasuke; predicting and banking on the fact Sasuke would go on to be a even stronger Shinobi than himself. Aiding his ultimate objective of protecting his little brother by preparing him for the worst of threats to surely come his way being the lone survivor of the Uchiha. Essentially putting a massive target on his back; Teaching Sasuke to always expect those sneaky , devastating low blow. Teaching him also to strike first and hard going for the killing blow because so many Ninjas have some pretty crafty and deadly jutsus, as well as kekkei; genkai that if given the chance to be executed; can put you down or out of the fight in a instant. Always expect the unexpected, and if Sasuke can outclass and outwit the likes of Itachi; one of the strongest Shinobi to ever live. Then he has a true fighting chance to stay alive and survive; even if hes alone as a rogue ninja... To that i say " well played Itachi... Well played"

I only picked up Naruto with Shipuuden and stopped watching it after the Sasuke vs Deidara fight because Sasuke was getting too annoying. (Plus Deidara was probably my favorite character and i felt like Sasuke did him dirty and cheated.)

Also the fact that danzo used the most powerful genjutsu on some random dudes, just before his conflict with Sasuke

And any single one of these moments would've made me happy. Sasuke being alive is one of the reasons I fell off enjoying Naruto like I once did.

The first valley of the end was so savage. The last valley of the end fight was poetic.

27:27 bro said number 28 and displayed 23

Itachi putting sasuke into Infinite Tsukiyomi will always be one of the main reasons I call his character inconsistent.

Sasuke had to have been talented or he would've died several times, other instances his friends in Taka were there save him in his teenage years though he did not appreciate them at the time. The way Sasuke handled Deidara mirrored how Naruto handled Kakazu, these were tests where they showed off that they were the future.

22:30 was really funny . always gotta sneak at least one joke into these lists

I believe after Sasuke got stabed by maradra he was actually the closest to death and essentially was dead but with the help of kabuto and the sage of six paths he was revived and also crazy how nobody talks about how Sasuke has harshrama's cells which means sarada has it too

gonna be honest, i think sasuke has more plot armor than naruto does.

Thank you for making a great video! I really enjoyed it. It's fun to argue about what "plot armor" really means, but it's also fun to see just how close a character gets to "dying" in an anime. Sasuke got close a lot. I do think he's the Vegeta of the Naruto series, but I like him better because he doesn't get reduced to "crying on his knees" as often as Vegeta did. I firmly believe the "plot" kept Sasuke alive as a motivator for the main character. But it was nicely done. Each time Sasuke was saved, it was used as a chance to show how great the person "saving him" was. Even poor abused Sakura got a chance to shine when she stood against half-demon Gaara with just a Kunai. But then there's the Deidara fight "save." I want the creator to tell me how he rationalized that. Why did Sasuke give a vial of his blood to Suigetsu? Sasuke wasn't planning to fight anyone but Itachi. Why - for what in-character reason - would Sasuke have forseen a situation that made him give that vial and scroll to Suigetsu just in case he ended up in a fight where he needed to use Manda in order to run away from the fight? That was a bad plot point. Nonsense, and embarrassing. I will die on this hill.

hey are you gonna continue the naruto remake ?

"Explodes himself from within"??? #PAUSE

He’s got more plot armor than Batman.

Bro please make a comparison on hagoromo vs madara

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Although being an asshole in the entire story, he always have someone to save his life for some reason.

I love when people talk crap about the worst character (quality wise) in all of the fiction I have experienced.

7:10 think this was another case of never really intending Itachi to secretly be good as not just that but he was literally there to kidnap Naruto so that the Akatsuki can obtain the Ninetails and there was nothing stopping them besides Jiraiya. 13:09 and this can just be even further evidence? There is nothing to suggest that the use of Amaterasu in this scene was in order to be a killing blow as it seems Itachi is quite surprised that Sasuke used his Substitution Jutsu here to escape it... All this leads to the fact that Itachi was originally written not to care about Sasuke and did not fully intend for Sasuke to gain Mangekyou especially when Itachi was trying to optain Sasuke's eyes... Like it seems more appealing that Sasuke was fighting on par and eventually Itachi is killed all while not having Mangekyou Sharingan, not requiring to go through with the sacrifice needed to unlock Mangekyou. But obviously the writing changed, Sasuke gets Mangekyou by random means and he loses the curse mark cus its no longer cool I guess?

If count Narutos, might be the same. But we chuck that up to Mc privileges, I chuck Sasukes up to MV privileges

naruto vs sasuke (PTS) was just the result of sasuke having more raw power with his curse mark, naruto literally got stabbed but no one talks about that. Sasuke vs Deidara Wasnt plot armor AT ALL, battle IQ matters too. Sasuke simply outsmarted deidara on numerous occasions. Sasuke vs the raikage was also the result of sasukes insane battle IQ, infact, if garaa never stepped in, the raikage wouldve been killedd via being impaled due to sasukes amaterasu's flame control as he was about to try and slam onto sasuke. Sasuke vs danzo wasnt plot armor at all, danzo literally had 9 lives and lost them all due to the raw power of sasuke, if yall still believe otherwise then you're simply biased with no attention to context. sasuke vs orochimaru was due to sasuke taking his chance to take him out when he had the chance, of course sasuke at the time wasnt beating a FP orochimaru, hence why he actually used his head to win this time. Naruto vs sasuke (Shippuden) wasnt plot armor at all, they both literally nearly died, naruto himself said he wasnt holding back, using the strongest jutsus in his arsenal, on top of that even if you argued with the fact "Sasuke used the chakra of every tailed beast" naruto already has the chakra of every tailed beast, The difference is, naruto has healing factors with much more chakra while sasuke didnt, sasuke was more exhausted than naruto post-kaguya fight, sasuke went from being equally matched with naruto to completely overpowering him once the grounds were fair, even forcing naruto to collect an ungodly amount of sage chakra with a kurama avatar AND enter "Ashuras mode" just to tie with indras arrow. If anything, they were very much equals. Itachi vs sasuke wasnt plot at all, as itachis intention was to never kill sasuke anyways, even if sasuke was weaker and should've lost, itachi wouldnt of killed him anyways, be real. Madara stabbing sasuke? Okay then, naruto should've died too as he had his tailed beast ripped from him, only living as long as he did to receive the yin-transplant due to hagoromo, but we dont say that. its literally explained via context as to why he didnt die, You think his rinnegan just spawned out of thin air? I could go on and on, but you get the point. Battle IQ, hax, etc, context matters as well, stop overlooking alot of details and labeling alot as plot, because same could be said for naruto if we use your logic. Sasuke vs gaara, i dont see how that was plot armor in any way shape or form if he literally lost the fight. However, Some instances such as, Sasuke vs killer bee, Sasuke vs all the five kage, and some more, he should've died and was literally straight plot. For example, sasuke randomly awakening his MS and spamming amaterasu as if it wasnt new to him against bee despite being beat so badly he honestly should've been rendered unconscious. I find this whole video funny though, since you literally have a video explaining why sasuke does not have plot armor. In my opinion, sasuke has plot armor in some occasions, as hes the main antagonist. But not as much as naruto does

Ive though a long time the show should be called Sasuke during shippuden

Not gonna lie, none of these examples are really "plot armor" but simply... plot.

The hidden leaf was stupid for picking itachi because he had a personal connection to his brother and his clan. If they picked someone with no connection to them then all of them would have died. This video made me realize that.

There’s actually a logical explanation given for EVERY single time sasuke survived a close call. He’s never had anything crazy happen like his dead parents souls returning from the after life to help him defeat someone. Plot armor isn’t simply wanting a character to die, and they don’t. It’s the writer going to extremes, and flat out BREAKING rules within the story to keep a character alive. This has NEVER happened once with sasuke. Fans just hate the fact that he doesn’t die so they whine plot armor but there really is none.

Sasuke being killed by bee is the equivalent of fighting that secret boss and using all the revives you got just to beat him.

Biggest plot armor - Naruto uses Bijubomb Rasengan which clashes with Sasuke's normal Susanoo Chidori while Naruto was being massively boosted by Six-Paths Sage Mode and still tied. Rinnegan doesn't provide any boosts like that, so that was literally plot armor as Biju-bomb >>>> Chidori. And yes, it was a normal chidori on Susano's arm, not some special chidori.

How exactly was Haku not aiming for vital points when he was initially aiming at Naruto ? 😂 Did he predict that Sasuke would protect him and place his body in that exact spot? Haku is sus bro

The thing that always got to me was how Sasuke must've felt when he was laying in the floor with all those needles there was clearly needles EVERYWHERE on his back, front, side-to-side, even his neck I can only think how was he able to lay down and i can only imagine the pain and how uncomfortable he was feeling knowing it was piercing him even more 😂

regarding itachi using amaterasu on sasuke, i belive zetsu said that itachi put out the flames to protect sasuke's eyes (you know, fooling all arround and all that), sasuke's mangekyou allows him a greater control of the amaterasu for sure but itachi can also put out the flames if ztsu is to be believed

16:34 - thinking about it... is juugo immortal? Like if he keeps doing this would he live forever? Or he still has a set amount of years to live regardless?

イタチニキ held back heavily in both battles with Sasuke.

I've given you a lot of shit over the years but this video was great lol

Sasuke uses chidori 4 times against Gaara, 2 times during the chunin exam stage, once to break the sand shell, once to get his arm back out as it had stopped after the impact. You see him activate it again there. Then he uses it twice after catching up to Gaara in the forest, once that failed and a second forced activation due to curse mark.

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11:15 What does dygoknight think that manda and the ninetails are female?