Naruto/Tropes A to K: Difference between revisions

* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Hoo, boy, this is an ''[[Unfortunate Implications|issue]]''. To date, a girl has yet to beat a guy at one of those full-length, fair and square one-on-one confrontations the series' "asskicking pyramid" scene thrives on. The girls' record of gaining the upper hand against the guys in chance confrontations, fights cut short, two-on-one fights and such is slightly better, but not by much. Kishimoto has been made aware of this and tried to round it out in the last parts of the story. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|We'll let you appreciate if he is succeeding or not]].

** Sakura is supposed to be the third most important character in the series and is set up as Naruto's and Sasuke's equal, but she just [[Can't Catch Up]]. The first stages of her [[Character Development]] seemed headed to avert this fate, as she gradually went from being a [[Smitten Teenage Girl|Smitten]] [[The Load|liability]] to [[Tired of Running|standing her ground]] to [[Took a Level In Badass|Taking a Level in Badass]] during the timeskip and being an [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]. Then Naruto and Sasuke started getting [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|impossibly]] [[Time to Unlock More True Potential|powerful]] [[Instant Expert|upgrades]] by the bucketload and Sakura, [[Overshadowed by Awesome]] as she was, became further subjected to re-[[Chickification]]. Now she [[Aesop Amnesia|once again]] believes the best she can do is have faith in the guys to work it all out somehow. Confirmed by [[Word of God]] (Jump Festa interview 2010):

** Tsunade is a milder example. Similarly to Sakura, she was set up as an equal to Jiraiya and Orochimaru, but has yet to demonstrate anything that can put her on par with Jiraiya, and fans are divided on whether she'd be equal with Orochimaru. To be fair to her, the similarity does end there- Tsunade has had plenty of chances to demonstrate that she's a very capable ninja. Probably what fans remember most unfavorably of her is how during Pain's invasion where she really got a major chance to protect the village and show what she's made of, she exhausted herself ''[[Boring but Practical|mer]][[What Measure Is a Non-Badass?|ely]]'' saving countless lives in her capacity as [[The Medic]]. They ought to cut her some slack- that was [[Executive Meddling]] trying to speed up the arc. And she did redeem herself in {{spoiler|her fight with Madara}}, showing her [[Action Girl]] chops once again.

** As of the start of the series Kurenai is a newly minted Jounin, which means she's supposed to be one of the village's most elite ninja. Yeah, well. According to the databook she has the lowest stat total of all Jounin, and her sole fight in the manga consisted of getting quickly defeated by Itachi, the super genjutsu prodigy, when [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|she tried to use a genjutsu on him]]. Then she got very conveniently pregnant, so we can pretty much expect her to [[Stay in the Kitchen]] for the rest of the series. (There will probably not be a "Kurenai's kid has grown up and she is [[Training Montage|getting back in shape]]" arc.) The manga doesn't even bother to justify this by putting some emphasis on her lack of experience- and even if it did, it sure is mighty convenient that the only jounin with issues about how powerful she is is exactly the only girl.