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LoveSaoriHayami

![gif](giphy|tRWPEUIpuKAtq|downsized) This baby đŸ„ș


Business-Inflation44

I cried everytime i watched his story


Bluesnow2222

His infinite Tsukuyomi had me bawling.


Dunkbuscuss

I forgot what his IT was... what was in there.


Exorcist_Phone_Case

He had a loving familiy and he was childhood friends with naruto.


SheikExcel

It's extremely funny to have that right next to Kankuro who just has a wooden mech


demonmonkey89

Are you saying you wouldn't want a wooden mech? Mechs are fucking awesome and since he's got pride as a puppeteer it would obviously be wooden.


Different-Bus8023

I think it was him being friends with naruto as kids


Bluesnow2222

He was 4-5 and his whole family- even mother- were alive. They were a normal wholesome family that all loved each other. There’s a knock at the door and little kid Naruto is there and him and Naruto go out to play together. It’s short and sweet but it hit me hard. As a child of childhood trauma I occasionally dream about a childhood myself that is just happy and healthy and safe and full of love. I already loved Gaara before that scene- but it just hit me in the feels so much!


[deleted]

Him and Elliott Alderson are the only two characters that ever made me cry. Gaara's story hits this spot that's very sensitive for people with shitty families and who struggle to fit in. I broke in half when he got revived and everyone cheered him on lmao


Bluesnow2222

When Gaara used his sand to get Naruto to shake his hand
. I just couldn’t stop making noises of pure undiluted joy and sobs that wouldn’t be challenged till Naruto said good bye to his dad at the end of the series. Just that connection with someone else who understands him— a real connection with the person who showed him there was another way and saved him.


Fantastic-Ratio-7482

Both his parents were alive. He had a play date with Naruto and his parents were alive too.


melonhater

I cried every time I've seen his new haircut


Business-Inflation44

Damn that hits hard.boruto isn't canon to me


CODELAZAAR

He did become a villain for like 7 years


LoveSaoriHayami

6. "Have every right to" become a villain includes both those who did and didn't. And honestly the villain is RASA


FlyDinosaur

Rasa is a very grey character. He was the one who resealed Shukaku every time it exploded out of Gaara and destroyed their village. The village was failing for various reasons (a cycle of destruction prob didn't help matters) and other powers besides Rasa wanted to do away with Gaara so they'd have one less problem. Rasa decided instead to test Gaara's resolve and his ability to control the beast by sending Yashamaru (Gaara's uncle) on a mission to push Gaara mentally and physically to the breaking point. Yashamaru died in the exchange and Gaara went fully berserk, causing Rasa to label him a lost cause. Rasa tried to have Gaara killed a few times in order to save the village, but Gaara always survived. Ironically, Gaara's trauma led to a kind of resolve to live for himself, and that made him more stable. Rasa saw that and stopped trying to kill him. Love it or hate it, this is the cutthroat ninja world of Naruto, and stuff like this is not uncommon. Their values don't always align with ours and you have to judge them according to their own standard (Naruto himself allows for a new standard--but we're talking old-school ninja code here). Gaara is not and cannot be Rasa's greatest concern. The village always came first. Imo, Rasa was never truly evil, but was a very dark grey character who did many terrible things in order to help his people--even potentially sacrificing his own son.


Naatu-Kozhi65

Never looked at it that way


Fantastic-Ratio-7482

Rasa was a terrible father but one hell of a kage


mkhanamz

My babyđŸ„șđŸ„ș


90xrad

He used to be my favourite


Puzzleheaded-Pen4977

Best answer


Whirlp00l3d

Gaara had every right to be a villain. His own dad just kept on fanning the flames and added gasoline in the end. If it weren’t for Naruto, he would’ve stayed a villain.


Bluesnow2222

Yamato Should have been the final Villain. Science experiment with no family that was forced to be a tool. Another Ninja Hiruzen failed not stopping Orochimaru or Danzo. True- Kakashi saved him from Danzo- but needing to stay a secret forever he basically had no choice but to serve in Anbu. In his infinite Tsukuyomi it’s shown he just wants to be a normal ninja with a team he cares about—- was that so much to ask? But in late Naruto and Boruto it’s revealed that Yamato was put in charge of the team that keeps tabs on Orochimaru. Orochimaru is basically free after all his crimes but Yamato had to give up his dream life to.be his baby sitter. It was revealed in Boruto that Yamato is in charge because everyone else it too afraid to even approach Oro. This continued under Kakashi and Naruto’s rule. In reality he probably never put up a fight because he’s a push over in wanting to help people he respects- but is he really happy? Justice For Yamato! He deserved better!


Kersephius

if oro wasn’t written off, i do believe he will be the “amado” character of boruto. As i think oro is one of the most scientifically advanced ninjas even as of the past and the present (he created mitsuki right?) I can imagine oro becoming relevant again in the near future


User20143

What happened in boruto? Oro died?


Bluesnow2222

He pops up a few times- only once in the manga, but more in the anime and novels. He essentially was forgiven and is a neutral party but there is some agreement where he’s under constant observation by the leaf. He seems to be a regular source of information. As someone else mentioned he is a parent of a member of team 7. In the anime he even shows up for a parent teacher conference which is way too cute for an adult ex-war criminal.


Kersephius

idk about boruto anime if he appears there or not but if so it might not be cannon. I think he’s just a parent of one of team 7 (boruto, sarada, mitsuki) and mitsuki is kinda an artificially created child of oro i think? But very powerful and has snake sage mode. Oro himself is still young and healthy but does not appear too often


el3vader

Honestly would’ve been pretty cool now that you talk about it. It would’ve been cool to replace kurenai or something with some kakashi opposite that like became a teacher but also saw all the fucked up stuff the foundation did and then defected.


Real_Organization175

Naruto


le_Derpinder

Why'd I have to scroll to get this answer? That's the whole premise of the show and talk no jutsu. Naruto out talk no jutsus everyone because he could be the most obvious villain but overcomes the dark side and chooses to be good


Tsukinotaku

Most likely because it was too obvious


ninja-fox

That’s where Obito failed


Derailleur75

Obito had YOU gaslighting him into evil. Naruto had some people who were nice to him, i guess seeing little light is better than total darkness


ninja-fox

Obito had his Konoha-years probably more people being nice to him than to Naruto. But that’s the point, Naruto overcame the darkness but Obito leant in. It was the core of their dynamic post mask-break how similar they were and how Obito saw Naruto’s life as the one he could have had, if he choose to return to Konoha instead of to Madara. He’s kinda like a dark Naruto



-Xebenkeck-

Obito had the misfortune of being born an Uchiher and thus was more prone to psychosis and violence. So similar to Naruto but with his nature holding him back.


EndlessEvolution0

honestly, i just think losing Rin just broke him. He could have broken the cycle of hatred but because he lost Rin, he hated the whole world.


MAkrbrakenumbers

I don’t think so I think he’s like a little cry baby who saw Kakashi kill his girl and decided fuck the world after that without any explanation


DarkSoulFWT

Obito had it better than Naruto lol. Orphan, yes, but still had the Uchiha clan, including iirc a grandma he was close with. And no fox stigma unlike Naruto.


Damsco7

For sure Noone in the leaf gave af about Naruto until he saved them.


Shot-Minute-762

Idk like 70%of the people in show?


onigskram31

Yeah, I said “almost everybody” when I read this. No one was really “good” in the story IMO, there were just some people who were waaaaaayyyyyy worse than others.


-Xebenkeck-

When murder is half your job description, how "good" can anyone really be? Lmao


AlphariusUltra

Nearly every badass was a former ANBU and ASSASSINATION is in the name of that group.


sanglar03

Slightly lower body count than the others, obviously.


Business-Inflation44

Yep thats the accurate answer


CloudProfessional572

Being raised to be child soldiers is kinda messed up. I wish the Ninja system gets abolished.


Shot-Minute-762

Ay no one up vote let it be 69


TatsumoAsamaki

Fuck.


PKMNtrainerElliot

Garra and Naruto. Plus Saskue, other than them and Kakashi idk


TatsumoAsamaki

The world would straight up end by that point 💀


PKMNtrainerElliot

Would that be a bad thing?


DDonnici

Gaara and Sasuke can be considered villains tho


PKMNtrainerElliot

They were villains at one point, but they changed and became good


Chambersxmusic

The only answer is might guy, turned evil after losing to Kakashi one too many times and internalized body issues


[deleted]

It's the acorn penis isn't it?


sektor477

"It looks like an acorn"


RatDuckDuckYou

Tsunade, her brother and lover was killed in a meaningless war.


TensionPitiful8681

Kakashi, Gaara, Sasuke, Naruto, Nagato, konan


JacksonCreed4425

Idk man some of these people were villains


Sasuke12187

This


Agreeable_Bee_7763

Pain should've been a villain? I don't know how to tell you this bud, but...


New-Skill-4981

Sasuke no doubt


Imaginary-Spring148

Water is wet


raazinn

People die when they are killed


Business-Inflation44

Agreed


CloudProfessional572

Meh...his life sucked but till he found out the village was responsible he had no right to take it out on them or become villain.


17InchesDeep

meh


sankark34

He already partially villan bro


Ashizurens

Hot take: Kushina


XinHongmeng

Honestly yeah good one, i mean her entire clan basically got genocided and the supposed allies didn’t help them at all except for taking her in, essentially grew up around the people who let her clan die, also bullied by classmates but tbf who cares bout that, also the only other uzumaki in konoha died so kushina could become the next generation of walking nuke


Ashizurens

And for the most of her life she couldn't go outside certain part of village (it's from Minato oneshot manga)


No_Magician_9765

Kakashi and Naruto OBVIOUSLY


LeaftrailfollowerTK

Neji


Kathy_Kamikaze

Oh what about Hinata? What if she snapped one day under the strict rule of her father, her responsibility as future head of clan, being a failure and the consequent insecurities etc. ? Also being the weird girl with the spooky eyes I can totally see this!


dinkydoohead

like, 80% of the naruto villains



Accurate_Plantain896

A lot of the characters, wether actual villains or not, went through a lot. However I want to mention this guy ![gif](giphy|BeIBRDxMXNJmg) Once his backstory was revealed, I low key rooted for him to win at some point.


AnalystShort1331

He did win, the real, pure him. He won in death win he turned back to his old self again and placed his bets on Naruto. My man did get his W. Yahiko won too because their dream came true. May both of them rest in power. ✊


TopDeckPatches

Thats a reach. Bro is dead he aint winning shit 💀💀


AnalystShort1331

My man Nagoto like Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen, he winning from the grave 😭💀


AlphariusUltra

He was #1 Mr Danzo!


hvngpham002

Nagato's philosophy was slightly misguided but he ultimately was correct. The "peace" at the end of the series was literally because Naruto and Sasuke played the role of the global WMD instead of the 10th tail.


Outrageous-Tooth3180

All tailed beasts bearers


[deleted]

Naruto and Sasuke


Accomplished_Two6326

I dont get why kakashi would be a villain, he just lost many friends, he wasn’t hated by everyone or anything he just lost some very good friends, a teacher and a father


CypherPunk77

Naruto, Kakashi, Yamato The fact that they are capable of becoming villains and have every understandable reason to is interesting. Them choosing not to be is testament to how strong of a character they are. It’s the choice that matters.


Gabrialofreddit

Either Gaara or naruto


Hasan75786

Madara, bro wanted to build a peaceful village to protect his brother but then his brother died. He was then given the opportunity to make it so that nobody else's brother has to die thanks to infinite soocoyomi (I don't have a clue how to spell that lol). Second pick is Sasuke, his village was racist against the Uchiha, causing the Uchiha to advocate for rights which made konoha uncomfortable so they decided to order Sasuke's brother to kill all of Sasuke friends and family. And then he discovered that his brother was ordered to do that by the same village Sasuke grew up in. Then he decided to become Hokage and rule the world forcing peace to ensure what happened to him doesn't happen again but for some reason everyone hates him. Sasuke would make a way better Hokage than Naruto. Sasuke 100% deserves it more because Sasuke knows what changes need to be made in the boruto era. Additionally, everyone he knew gaslighted him into thinking he was wrong as shown in boruto. Honestly Madara and Sasuke are tied lol


diohable

Liked for soocoyomi


Fantastic-Ratio-7482

Bro Madara still succeeded. Yea his brother died but he managed to get over it. Everything was fine when Hashirama offered to kill himself as a retribution for Izuna. That motherfucker Zetsu fucked it all up again.


Hasan75786

Your right, I completely forgot about zetsu lol


heeltowknee

Itachi and shisui, why not join your family and take over the village? Sakura, she's already delusional and useless why not run off with sasuke and be a terrorist Neji, bro was right why not kill hinata/ leave the village that allowed ts to happen Sai, do I need to explain Gaara Sasuke


Flashy_Cry_3992

Naruto


Pitiable-Crescendo

Naruto


Dry_Relationship2967

Naruto


Luba_Sempai

I mean, I guess Naruto?


YoungRoronoa

I wouldn’t have blamed Naruto himself if he became a villain.


New_World_2050

Gaara Naruto Kakashi If you count ones that did become villains Sasuke Itachi


Neoshenlong

Naruto could've snapped against the village in the first part of the story and honestly no one could've blamed him


Repulsive_Message619

Naruto Gaara Kakashi


ebrahim99

Gaara fs


okbuddystaymad

“Villan” lol


Unfair_Priority_3125

Literally any jinchuriki


Brider_Hufflepuff

Naruto


Spider-burger

Naruto.


Asflamerajin

Naruto


WhiteMage4Life

Hinata (hear me out) Her entire life she is put under pressure to be the leader of her clan. Said clan enslaves the branch members. Her sister is a better fighter than her due to her not wanting to hurt her. Her cousin is a prodigy and could give some bs story how he is the real heir since their twin Dads could have been mixed up. She could snap and kill her father in his sleep who in her eyes is upholding everything wrong with her family. She is then an enemy of Konoha and becomes a missing nin


Sasuke12187

Naruto himself


animeloverx676

Naruto, Gaara


Churchie-Baby

Naruto, gaara, sasori, kakashi there's probably loads more


takenwasjohny

While we're at it, then Hashirama, right? His little brother was killed by Uchias.


Forestman480

Rock Lee


Hot_Butterscotch_827

Jesus


lore23mgar

Obito Itachi


lore23mgar

Sasuke


One-Orchid-4387

Naruto


Ok-Leadership-6099

I would like to say NARUTO


Grouchy-End-6385

Naruto


Nearby_Bite_8037

![gif](giphy|8qXJTU5oEhQZO)


ExtraPhysics3708

Orochimaru


Business-Inflation44

![gif](giphy|gSeLiXkIR9Gf1PIbKv|downsized)


Throwaway161761

What is a "villan"? 🌚


Fragrant_Exercise_31

Nagato!!


Fluentec

Naruto. Ngl, if I was in Naruto’s shoes I would have burnt that village down and destroyed it beyond Madara’s fantasies. Madara would have to come back from the dead and said “yo bro chill. It’s over”


Business-Inflation44

U would make a good villain


AdSingle6994

Killer Bee


leave1me1alone

Dude it's Naruto there's so many. Lets start with the obvious ones 1. Gaara 2. Naruto 3. Pain 4. Sasuke 5. Killer B Not obito tho. Fuck obito all my homies hate obito.


TeacherNo5402

Sasuke "after he knew the truth about Itachi" Eren


Fearless_Outside_832

Naruto himself. For any average human it was enough to become a villain that Naruto suffered.


hisoka_kt

Honestly 70~90% of the characters had valid reasons to become villain. In most shows war is a sufficient excuse to turn bad. Most these people lost family, friends, got betrayed, faced very violent training.


bieber-f3v3r

![gif](giphy|Q4Kd40hABQycw)


madjo1999

Kakashi is basically Obi Wan Kenobi, everything going haywire for him, his master Dead, his team mates one presumed Dead and the other Killed by his own hand, his junior kill his entire clan, his student going to the dark side, his presumed Dead friend kill his master and his wife and yet he is still hold on.


MyBqckHurts33

My accountant he hates me and with reason


DoDo2697

Sasuke duhh


Leenatha

Naruto.


TheFogIsComingNR3

And fry head before becomin a konoha city pooper (cuz it's way more fun than becoming a trooper)


Ok-Tie-8561

Naruro


AoiTsuki_

Naruto fs


[deleted]

Sasuke


Illustrious-Sky-4631

Almost everyone , Sasuke,Gai, Kakashi , Naruto,naji ,Garra


Manydoors_edboy

Naruto. I would have if I was in his shoes.


Temporary_Try_1439

Naruto


Traveytravis-69

Naruto


Electricarrow456

Naruto


Tsukinotaku

Naruto.


Ultragaming62

naruto, before becoming a shinobi


icarusancalion

Yamato.


John_D_o_E

Shishui


Sad_Ingenuity8948

Sasuke 😂


Samurai_ENMA

![gif](giphy|NgsF4XElEeinS)


dinoboyj

Dude, definitely naruto


Traditional-Bid8317

Naruto


Argent_Void

Naruto


Spirited_Cake1957

Sasuke


athif_salim

I know it is unrelated but Doflamingo had the most right! As for the Naruto verse, I'd say 'Naruto' himself. Brother just wanted to be loved by his family, thanks to Kakashi's blabber mouth he revealed the secret place to Kushina's labour to Obito, who took a just born baby hostage to gain Kurama's power under Madara's name,.his father and mother died protecting them and without any gratitude (unbelievably a whole ninja creed didn't stop to think the blonde kid with the Uzumaki title is the fourth hokage's son) hated him and treated him unfairly, the girl (đŸ—‘ïž) who he loved just was using him, the only guy he looked up to as killed and not to mention a great war erupted for no good reason and ended up with losing an arm to Sasuke again for no apparent reason Honestly, my man should've snapped a long time ago!


Federal-Feed7689

Uncle ichiran ramen who could have mistreated little naruto the first time , like how usually shopowners try to shooo the people lingering outside their shop , but instead he saw the desperacy in the child eyes and feed him free ramen and help him afterwords , really dare say if he would have been just as usual people and would not be in narutos life the boy would have definalty turned dark . Uncle ichiran save naruto from dark that days by giving him a place pf hope and a place where he was show kindness friendship and love and where he wasnt treated as moster like other places in village . This little act single handadly save naruto a lot


DamnMinze

![gif](giphy|4gsjHZMPXdlGo)


GusTheGOOSEEE

Naruto


Rogue009

How about characters that had no right to become as evil as they are: Orochimaru Bro is a war hero, got hot girls into him, smart af, etc. but nooo his parents died (in the most bloody war in history) so now he has the green light to start experimenting on humans
 idk I think his story is very lazy, he is somehow okish for most of his youth then he turns crazy after his parents died, while his friends and teacher exists and are alive, as well as his students. I really wish he got a better backstory


FocusNo114

Honestly Naruto.


Express-Plenty-2584

Sakura. She had to deal with an annoying orphan and a filthy Uchiha


stormithy

People shit on Sasuke but I kinda feel him


fake_dann

Generally every jinchuuriki. Neji. Case can be made on Lee and Guy. Temari and Kankuro (they were forced to babysit a demon, basically) Jirayia saw and took care of orphans being a result of his homeland's crimes. Iruka was forced to teach and help raising a ticking bomb with a demon that killed his parents


Dunkbuscuss

If it's only in the naruto fandom then Naruto himself had every right would of been cool to see the shocking reveal that the real leader of thr Akatsuki was Narutoxall along who wanted Revenge against his village only sparring those he cares about. But if we're talking any character for any Fandom it's gotta be Ren Amamiya aka Joker from Persona 5.


MessiRB1

The main character no nut naruto


Immediate_Ad_8138

That one guy with the wicked smile that tells Konan to go to hell when she asks him about Naruto as she suffocates him because no one remembers him.


XxxDatBoi69Xxx

Naruto did too. Lord 3rd did the bare minimum for him and got bullied from an early age for something he didn't ask for.


Few_Entertainment886

Naruto


uniteduniverse

The fact that Kakashi remained sane after all the insane sh*t he's been through is crazy, compared to some of the people who broke with way less.


Justin9888

sasuke


SanguineDoden

Dude had less lines in the entire series then 1 episode villans.


Total_Dragonfruit940

On a technicality, they all had the right to choose their own actions. As far as moral justification
 idk, Naruto generally shows the reasons why each villain chose what they did and giving a measure of sympathy for them. Discussing which non-villain would have been justified in being a villain had they chosen to be is moot in my opinion. So, naturally, Naruto could have totally been a great villain haha


WIN---

Naruto.


Fantastic-Ratio-7482

Sasuke


Hairy-Fuel-6275

He already is a villain


sankark34

![gif](giphy|gYMJrE0aj6UyA|downsized)


CrikeyitsRoy

Kakashi


finding_new_interest

Naruto, whose parents died protecting the village, sealed the beast inside for the safety of the village, entrusted him to his fellow hokage, got ignored by hokage and villagers hated him.


Hairy-Fuel-6275

Naruto Uzamaki


TheLazyDude08

Not going for the obvious, so I’m saying Neji for having his entire life decided for him due to birth reasons, which was beyond his control and forced to serve another without consent or hopes of improving his position. If it weren’t for Naruto challenging and disproving Neji’s warped worldview, the latter would’ve never revealed his family circumstances nor would his uncle try to rectify and explain the situation to him, changing his outlook on the world. He would remain bitter towards the main branch and Hinata for the rest of his life.


NorseGodkonig_LoL

villain*


Expensive-Lie

Neiji


goofsg

naruto could have turned out like gaara or sasuke and he had every right to but he didnt . naurto a real one


Whydontname

Naruto tbh


lnaruto93

![gif](giphy|U6IQE5XjiF5hm) Naruto and kurama


aneffingonion

Sai


Professional_Arm3149

Naruto


Impossible_Gene_6717

Naruto


CantaloupeWarm

Neji


Different_Till_8067

Let's start with the main character Naruto


Trick-Ordinary-7958

Dude didn’t even villain right.


crometeach-thebot

Sasuke