Naruto/Characters/Akatsuki: Difference between revisions

They mostly appear in ''Shippuden''—only Itachi, Kisame, and Zetsu appeared in the [[Naruto|original series]], and in Zetsu's case it was merely a cameo. They become more active in the second series as their plan to capture and seal the Tailed Beasts begins to move forward in earnest.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Always polite, offers his opponents the chance to escape (unless they are his target) and never uses more power than to disable, without lasting harm if possible. He is also an unrepentant mass murderer with history of mentally torturing several protagonists of the series, especially his little brother (who was 7 years old the first time, 13 the second).

* {{spoiler|[[Back From the Dead]]}}

* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Seems to be this way to Naruto.

* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: His acts with his goals and his desires are in such contradiction with each other that he not only skirt, but happily jumps to this category.

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: While he is renowned for his Genjutsu and Ninjutsu skills, he is extremely talented in Taijitsu and strong enough to throw enemies flying through walls with a kick.

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: {{spoiler|By Sasuke}} who went from loathing him to protecting his legacy (albeit in a completely opposite way of what Itachi wished) in the matter of a night. Ditto with the Fandom. It helps that he was popular before [[The Reveal]].

* [[Excuse Me While I Multitask]]: He was capable of doing Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Taijitsu and Shurikenjutsu ''simultaneously'' against a level S opponent without any strain.

* [[Fallen Hero]]: He was the pride and joy of the Uchiha clan and the idol of Sasuke before the massacre.

* [[Feather Motif]]: His Genjutsus almost always include a shower of Crow Feathers.

* {{spoiler|[[Happiness in Slavery]]}}: The ultimate fate he prepared for Sasuke though {{spoiler|he couldn't implement it. He had to use Shisui's eye in himself after Kabuto Edo tensei}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: A variant in that he {{spoiler|was an [[Anti-Villain]] all along. He was definitely still wrong, though, and admits it to Naruto later}}.

* [[Japanese Mythology]]: All his special abilities (and most of the Uchihas) are named after Japanese Gods.

* [[Mental World]]: Tsukuyomi.

* {{spoiler|[[Necessarily Evil]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]] of how much "necessary" his evil acts where. He certainly viewed himself this way, though, and hated himself for it. Then, after his resurrection, he realizes how horribly wrong he was}}.

* [[Power Degeneration]]: Mangekyô Sharingan.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: After the Third Ninja War. ''At four years old''.

* [[The Stoic]]

* [[The Strategist]]: So good that all his fights degraded into well oiled choreographs eventually.

* [[Super Reflexes]]: So fast with his hand seals that the two other Ninjas with [[Super Reflexes]] can barely see a blur.

* [[Teach Him Anger]] [[The Power of Hate|And Hate]]: ''Twice'' to Sasuke with a heavy dosis of powerhungry obsession so the latter {{spoiler|could become a well adjusted human being, a loyal Shinobi of Konoha and redeemer of the Uchiha clan}}... [[Gone Horribly Right|ye]][[Sarcasm Mode|ah]].

* [[Technical Pacifist]]: After the third war, he became a Pacifist above all else. His slaughter of the Uchiha clan was to {{spoiler|prevent them from throwing Konoha into chaos and starting another war}}. He's one of the least violent fighters, only ever using enough power to accomplish his ultimate goals, {{spoiler|of which just victory is a rare one...}}

* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: {{spoiler|Yes and no, depending on which "it" is being referred to. The insane, unrepentant murderer we first meet? Yeah, that's a huge lie. As for the loving (if extreme) brother Sasuke remembers? No, it wasn't}}.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Inverted. He is loyal enough to his partner Itachi and Akatsuki, and fanatically devoted to {{spoiler|what he thinks is Madara}}. However, while he was a Mist-nin he had a severe case of this, slaughtering his allies at the drop of a hat and murdering his superior to get a hold of Samehanda.

** [[Living Weapon]].

* [[Exotic Eye Designs]]: Looks like plant seeds.

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Despite his power being instantaneous, he likes to takes things slow.

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: He gets pretty unhinged when he realizes that Itachi's Sharingan is more artful than his bombs.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Right before pulling his [[Taking You with Me]], he mentally apologizes to Tobi.

* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: He's the first really challenging opponent for Sasuke in Part II.

A [[Mad Artist]] and [[Marionette Master]] notable for being very impatient. Before being destroyed by Sakura Haruno, Sasori was usually found maneuvering inside a large, hollow puppet called Hiruko as a means of transportation. It crawled on the ground and featured a scorpion tail that—like most of his weapons—was doused in poinson. His grandmother was Chiyo, who taught him how to master puppets in order to divert his attention away from his absent mother and father (who were killed by The White Fang of Konoha.. Sasori did not know this. He was told by Chiyo that they were on another long mission). Developed a technique to convert living humans into puppets, thus creating puppets who could use jutsu. Kidnapped the Third Kazekage and converted him into one of these puppets, somewhere along the way connverted ''himself '' into a puppet, and then fled the village to subsequently join the Akatsuki. There he was partnered with Orochimaru, where he admits that they worked well together before he defected. After his partner's betrayel of the organization, Sasori sent Kabuto as a spy to infiltrate Orochimaru's ranks and retrieve information.

He was then paired up with Deidara, a fellow art enthusiast. The downside was that they had conflicting views on art, Sasori for "eternal" and Deidara for "fleeting". They frequently argued over this concept, even amidst confrontation with the Leaf ninja sent to retrieve Gaara. Sasori fought his grandmother Chiyo and Sakura, eventually using his own puppet body in battle. He was killed by being pierced in the heart by the first two puppets he ever created: replicas of his Mother and Father.

* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]]: Both his Hiruko puppet and his body have a scorpion like tail

* {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]: After his defeat by Kankuro}}

* [[One-Man Army]]: Literally.

Deidara's gotten him for a second partner. Comic relief. [[Nigh Invulnerability|Nigh invulnerable]]. Wears a mask. Used to work for Zetsu. Gets [[Amusing Injuries|beaten up]] by Deidara [[Running Gag|a lot]]. Disappears from the group after Itachi's killed, because {{spoiler|he decided to drop his goofy facade. Claims to have been Madara Uchiha; half of Akatsuki seem to be in the know-how of that. He unleashed the Nine-Tailed Fox on Konoha, indirectly caused the deaths of Minato and Kushina, controlled the tyrannical Yagura of the Mist Village, pushed for Yahiko to form Akatsuki, claims to have given the Rinnegan to Nagato, and met with Danzo prior to the Uchiha Clan Massacre}}.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Polite, patient, easy going, pretty laid-back and an excellent boss to have, but never [[Berserk Button|betray him]] or he will make you regret it.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Betrayal. Tobi is general pretty easygoing and laid back, but he does NOT like being betrayed, {{spoiler|as Konan can testify}}. He also has a very low opinion of Orochimaru (who defected from Akatsuki) and was dead serious when he warned Sasuke not to betray him.

* [[Chain Pain]]:Used a pair of chains on his wrists in his fight with {{spoiler|Minato}} which combined with his intangibility to be pretty deadly.

* [[Complexity Addiction]]: Seriously, there has been 4 times already that he could have easily abducted Naruto ([[Fridge Logic|not to mention many others offscreen with his powers]]) and avoid the entire {{spoiler|4 World War}} thing in the first place. The only reason seems to be that it would go against the plan and would not [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|be fair]].

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He is repulsed by {{spoiler|Kabuto's Edo Tensei spell}}, though this may more or less be because {{spoiler|a large part of his plan hinged on the world believing he was Madara Uchiha and immortal. Proving he was actually dead would have probably forced him into using a backup plan}}.

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Implied. Can warp people into a [[Pocket Dimension]], has survived far too many things that would've killed anyone else, is abnormally old-aged, knows facts that others claim as myths, his creases look like ''scales'', half of his face is blackened out like a silhouette, his blood {{spoiler|is a mix of ''human flesh'' and ''plant matter''}}, and he {{spoiler|integrated entire bloodlines}} into his body like it was Lego.

* [[Immortality]]: Strongly implied to be a Type II.

* [[The Infiltration]]: A very odd inversion. He seems to have made up an alias (and alternate personality to boot) and infiltrated ''his own organization'' for, as far as we know, no particular reason.

* [[Japanese Pronouns]]: Used ''boku'' in his debut, but {{spoiler|once he dropped the act and became a more serious villain he started to use ''ore''. Both are masculine pronouns, but ''ore'' has the implications of sounding more "mature" and "manly" compared to the boyish ''boku''}}.

* [[Made of Diamond]]: {{spoiler|After Minato both shreds him with a Rasengan and stabs him in the gut, Tobi is still standing, and even casually chats for a bit}}.

* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]]}}: {{spoiler|He was the real leader of Akatsuki}}, and {{spoiler|controlled the Fourth Mizukage for years}}.

* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]:

* [[Not-So-Small Role]]: Seemed like a comic relief type of guy and a [[Token Good Teammate]] in Akatsuki, but even then, there was something off about him from the start.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Inverted, and it's like meth to him. He seems to delight in messing with peoples mind in the most [[Trouble Entendre|funny way possible]] {{spoiler|[http://www.mangareader.net/93-57473-8/naruto/chapter-510.html just ask Konan] }}

* [[Power Parasite]]: [[Up to Eleven]]. Just by {{spoiler|stealing the Rinnegan from Nagato, Tobi's gained the Six Paths of Pain (whom he's replaced with the six deceased Jinchuriki), controls the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path ''and'' learned how to use Edo Tensei. Furthermore, in addition to acheiving his own Sharingan, he's obtained Uchiha and Senju DNA, allowing him access to Izanagi}}.

* [[Red Herring]]: There were theories and degrees of evidence that he was everyone from Danzou to Obito and several others. Eventually he was revealed to be {{spoiler|Uchiha Madara}}, but even then about half the fandom argued that this was yet another ruse. {{spoiler|They were right, but it's a testament to the writing that so many disagreed or couldn't decide either way. Tobi himself claims to be "no one" and that he doesn't care about his own identity, but he does seem to care about concealing his face...}}

** That last part is an important (and possibly the ''only'') clue to his identity. {{spoiler|Behind his mask, he is clearly someone famous enough to be recognized almost instantly by Kisame when he first takes off his mask.}}

* [[Spanner in the Works]]: [[Running Gag|Its like cocaine to him]]. Massively screws up Itachi's postmortem plans for Sasuke by telling him [[Awful Truth|things]] he was [[Go Mad From the Revelation|probably better off not knowing]].

* {{spoiler|[[Shout-Out]]}}: {{spoiler|His newest mask is similar to Friend from [[Twentieth Century Boys]]}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Utopia Justifies the Means]]}}: Either played straight or Subverted. He claims at one point that this is his goal, but when Naruto accuses him of really just wanting power, he laughs and says that Naruto is probably right. So either he [[Graceful Loser|was laughing that Naruto caught him in a lie]] or [[Sarcasm Mode|was mocking Naruto's accusations]]. Only time will tell.

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: He was deemed by Itachi as a "shadow of his former self". He has been shown only to posses above average strength, intangibility and teletransportation that compared to the caliber of Akatsuki, Taka and the (past and present) Kages makes him a complete wimp. But he is also the man that [[Manipulative Bastard|used]] both {{spoiler|[[Physical God|Pain]] and [[The Ace|Itachi]] [[More Than Mind Control|like puppets]] and deemed so dangerous that the 5 Greatest Ninja Villages decided to unite for the first time in History to face him}}.

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] /[[Gambit Roulette]]: While at first sight it would look like he planned everything that has happened in the series, he is in fact very accomplished in cutting his losses and creating new [[plan]]s out of his ass as the situation demands. Hell, around 5% of the things happening now were in his plans and he is still at the top of the game.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Buried alive while being kept living by his immortality.

* [[Chew Toy]]: Official Title in Akatsuki. Kakuzu when enraged would kill his partners. Solution: Give him an immortal one. An obnoxious, swearing, religious nut one. A strange amalgamation of stress reliever/punishment apparently.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Was once a very loyal shinobi, but after his village locked him away for years after a lifetime of loyal service for failing an impossible task, he stole a forbidden technique, killed some of the elders and left, deciding to believe only in money from now on.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Pain's interrogation methods. He uses two main abilities to try to find Naruto, one of which can instantly read the mind of those it touches. On it's own, this is perfectly practical. His other, however, can kill anybody who either lies to him or refuses to answer his question. Meaning anybody who actually knows ends up dead... This does spare him the trouble of having to look up misinformation, though.

* [[Berserk Button]]: He does not like people questioning his ideals as Tsunade learned the hard way.

* [[Five-Bad Band]]: A one-man version.

* [[Shapeshifter Weapon]]: {{spoiler|Can use any of the weapons that Asura Path used and have them sprout from his real body.}}

* [[Closer to Earth]]: By far the most level-headed and, well, sensible of the whole bunch.

** [[Flower in Her Hair]]: Subverted in that she's anything ''but'' childish and cute.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: [[Word of God]] says this was the original intention.