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The [[MacGuffin
During the wars, the various ninja villages experimented with trying to use the Tailed Beasts as weapons of war. However, the Beasts proved to be too unstable to use directly. A last-ditch effort to make use of the Beasts involved sealing them into the bodies of humans, giving those humans access to the Beasts' power while also suppressing the Beasts' influence, but this too was ultimately deemed a failure, as it was not a foolproof method and had damaging effects on the psyche of the host. Most hosts are lonely people who hate the world; according to various members of the Akatsuki, when some of the hosts were captured, the people in their villages were glad to be rid of them. (Naruto considers the term "jinchuriki" to be a slur, and sympathizes with the others.)
The presence of a Tailed Beast usually has some sort of effect, physically and mentally, on their hosts. If the host dies, the Beast does too, so the Beasts usually have some method of protecting the host's life without the host's knowledge. The reverse is also
Akatsuki's mission is to [[Gotta Catch Them All|collect all nine of them]]. When they capture a Beast, they seal it into a large three-headed statue. Akatsuki's stated mission is to use the Tailed Beasts to start wars and then immediately quell them, creating a monopoly on shinobi labor that would then drive the other Hidden Villages out of business. From there, Akatsuki can easily take over the world. However, certain Akatsuki members have other designs on the Beasts -- {{spoiler|Pain and Konan want to use the Beasts' incredible amounts of chakra to fuel a jutsu that is roughly equivalent in power to a nuke, which they will then use to teach the world about the foolishness of fighting. Tobi, meanwhile, implies that the collection of all nine Beasts will allow him to return his Sharingan to full power}}.
Akatsuki currently has seven of the nine, and is closing in on the final two. {{spoiler|Recently in the manga, Tobi has promised Sasuke the use of one Beast to aid in the latter's planned destruction of the Leaf Village if Sasuke aids Tobi in finding the last two. Sasuke agreed to this deal, and headed out with his team to capture the Eight-Tails host. After apparently suceeding, he headed toward Konoha, but is stopped when Tobi informs him the host actually escaped}}.
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All the Tailed Beasts show examples of...
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Despite looking like gigantic versions of various animals, they are masses of chakra that drive unexperienced hosts into a mad frenzy.
** {{spoiler|The Ten Tails, from which they originate from is closer to this trope in description}}.
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** [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]]: The biju can give their jinchuuriki the ability to create arms of chakra (or in Shukaku's case sand).
* {{spoiler|[[Telepathy]]: They can use this to communicate with one another from within their Jinchuuriki.}}
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: {{spoiler|The Four-Tails reveals that the beasts find [[Humans Are
* [[Youkai]]
== One-Tail ==
[[File:ShukakuIchibi_7342.png|frame]]
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Real Name: {{spoiler|Shukaku. Yeah, really.}}
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In contrast to Gaara's sullen, morose personality, Shukaku is wild and incoherent, like a drunk. (This fits in with typical depictions of tanuki in Japanese mythology, and "Shukaku" itself can translate as "drunk".) Like all Tailed Beasts, it has an immense bloodlust and hunger for battle, and relishes a chance to kill opponents.
Shukaku has the ability to levitate sand, which it does to protect Gaara from all harm. (This prevents even self-inflicted
Shukaku manifests itself on Gaara's body by way of dark, raccoon-like circles that appear around his eyes.
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Tropes associated to the One-Tails:
* [[Ax Crazy]]: The worst example among the biju for this sort of behavior.
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Real Name: {{spoiler|Matatabi}}
Host: [[Naruto/Characters/Hidden Cloud Village|Yugito Nii]]
This Tailed Beast was sealed into Yugito Nii, a kunoichi of the Hidden Cloud Village. It is said to be a spirit of vengeance- the living ghost of a twisted human being. It can breathe fire. The spirit manifests itself on Yugito's eyes, which are shaped like a cat's. Yugito can transform into the Cat, but {{spoiler|this didn't help her against Hidan and Kakuzu, who defeated her in a battle with massive collateral damage. (It's unknown which one, specifically, was assigned to capture her.) The spirit was later extracted, and Yugito died from the procedure}}.
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Former host: [[Naruto/Characters/Hidden Mist Village|Yagura, 4th Mizukage]]
This giant turtle-like monster is the only Tailed Beast seen so far who was not sealed into a host when Akatsuki captured it. (Chapter 420, however, reveals that the Beast did have a host at one point, a young man from the Hidden Mist Village named Yagura who was apparently at some point {{spoiler|the Fourth Mizukage}}. However, {{spoiler|Yagura was apparently mind controlled by Tobi and killed afterward, so}} the Beast was free by the time it was encountered in the main story.) A [[Filler]] arc was centered around this creature, with the Leaf Ninja trying to seal it, only to be stopped by Guren and her henchmen repeatedly, eventually foiling the mission altogether. As such, the Akatsuki tracked it down, where it was easily defeated by Deidara and Tobi, who were assigned to capture it. Tobi claimed to have knocked it out in one punch, although Deidara contests this assertion. and got butt raped
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** [[Giant Enemy Crab]]
* [[Turtle Power]]
== Four-Tails ==
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Tropes associated to the Four-Tails:
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Towards humans wanting to steal his power to further their own goals.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Absolutely HATES being called the Four-Tails.
* [[Cool Crown]]: The horns on his head are shaped like a crown, a trait of nobility amongst Japanese demon folklore.
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* [[Eyes of Gold]]
* [[Expy]]: Of [[Journey to the West|Sun Wukong]] and the [[Dragon Ball|Oozaru]]. His real name is even {{spoiler|Son Goku}}.
* [[Four Is Death]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. {{spoiler|Appears to be the beast that kills Naruto by eating him, but Naruto ends up going inside his mental prison instead.}}
* [[Large Ham]]: Brags about himself and his "nobility" if given the opportunity, with a HUMONGOUS BELLOWING voice.
* [[Humans Are
** [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]
* [[I Just Want to Be Free]]: Has a powerful desire to run free and get as far away as possible from human affairs.
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Host: [[Naruto/Characters/Hidden Mist Village|Utakata]]
A recent{{when}} [[Filler]] arc focused on Utakata. Utakata's former master, Harusame, once tried unsuccessfully to extract the beast from his body, killing Harusame in the process. Utakata had sworn not to use the beast's powers ever again, but is forced to do so to in the process of rescuing his student, Hotaru, from a man named Shiranami who had activated the destructive jutsu fused with her body. {{spoiler|Soon after resolving this conflict, he is found by all six paths of Pain, which quickly overwhelm and incapacitate him. Though it isn't shown, presumably he is then taken away to have the tailed beast extracted from his body, dying in the process. Kabuto later resurrects him with Edo Tensei. Madara then use his body along with the rest of the revived jinchuuriki as the new Six paths}}.
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* [[Hollywood Acid]]: The beast specializes in expelling highly corrosive alkaline in the form of slime and vapor.
** [[Deadly Gas]]
== Seven-Tails ==
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Seven-Tailed Host: [[Naruto/Characters/Characters From Other Villages|Fuu]]
The Shichibi was a rhino beetle with six wings and a tail, whose host was a teal-haired, red-eyed girl (Kishimoto decided her gender at the last minute) from the Hidden Waterfall Village.
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== Eight-Tails ==
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Real Name: {{spoiler|Gyuuki}}
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Host: [[Naruto/Characters/Hidden Cloud Village|Killer Bee]]
This Tailed Beast, one of the final two still uncaptured by Akatsuki, is sealed into a ninja from the Hidden Cloud Village. [[
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[[File:KyubiKurama_3585.png|frame]]
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Real Name: {{spoiler|Kurama}}
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{{spoiler|In recent chapters, Naruto ([[Battle in the Center of the Mind|with the help of his parents]]) successfully tamed the Fox. Naruto can now tap into the Fox's unlimited chakra reserves whenever he chooses, giving himself a [[Dragon Ball|Super Saiyan-like glow]] in the process. Things progress even further when, upon seeing Naruto's genuine concern for the various tailed beasts, Kurama finally accepts his host as an equal partner, and the cage is finally unlocked. Now, Naruto is finally able to complete the tailed-beast transformation technique}}.
Tropes associated to the Nine-Tails:
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* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Allows Naruto to use his chakra to combat "Madara"}}
* [[Fantastic Foxes]]
** [[Kitsune]]: Naturally, although there are significant differences in malevolence and power.
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}
* [[Jerkass]]
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* [[Slasher Smile]]: Displayed this when Naruto met him for the first time. {{spoiler|Technically, everytime he smiles or shows he's amused looks like this, so much that you can't even tell whether he is feeling murderously giddy or is actually ready to cooperate.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Sleep Mode Size]]}}: {{spoiler|Noticably shrinks when Minato sealed half his essence into the Death God}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Tsundere]]: In the most recent chapters, especially when it always asserts its reluctance to help Naruto despite how it's already obvious that he is being taken in by Naruto's sincerity.}}
** {{spoiler|[http://www.mangareader.net/naruto/570/10 Observe.] Naruto even lampshades it.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: No, really.}}
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== {{spoiler|The Ten-Tails}} ==
{{spoiler|[[All Your Powers Combined|The combined form of all the Tailed Beasts]]. [[Sealed Inside a Person
* [[Bigger Bad]]: The primordial evil of the world, said to have chakra foul enough that all living things on the planet are menaced by its wrath.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The most overt example thus far in this series
** [[Humanoid Abomination]]: In the sense that its (albeit silhouetted) torso, up to its head, has this eerily humanoid outline.
* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Inside a Person
** {{spoiler|[[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Before the Sage died, he channeled the Ten-Tails' chakra and divided it into nine different pieces, leading to the creation of the Tailed Beasts, and hid the rest of the Ten-Tails' body in the moon to prevent it from wreaking further havoc onto the world.}}
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