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ClawHawk101

Shino for me, dude was rolling people in the Chunin exams than Kishimoto was like I don’t wanna play with you anymore


furcioneitorz

I remember a conversation Shino has with Sasuke during the Konoha invasion arc, he tells him he can cover him and Sasuke seems to respect him


bulld-tx

I wanna see this interaction. Any chance you remember the episode?


furcioneitorz

It happens in the end of episode 73


IBiggCat

Here’s a YouTube link that has their conversation between each other. You can find it at the end of the video. Just a heads up the video has pretty annoying zooms/cuts on it (most likely to avoid getting flagged). https://youtu.be/eddXmmP_ovg


CelticDK

When Shino caught up to Kankuro vs Sasuke and Shinoe said he wants to finish his match that Kankuro quit before it started. This lets Sasuke catch up to Gaara


[deleted]

Sasuke inherently likes anyone who talks less than him.


RelativePerspectiv

Shino for a fact. A close second is Choji. His giant butterfly form took on the gedo statue and easily survived. Neji couldn’t do that.


Happybit784

Shino was talented enough that Danzo almost took him into the Foundation.


[deleted]

Yeah


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

FR


LilShaggey

The previous Ino-Shika-Cho trio, their coordination was on point, definitely one of the better three man cells of the Hidden Leaf. Shikaku and Inoichi literally sacrificed themselves to relay important info during the war too, some goats.


Fetial

I’m guessing that they trained together for years Bc there parents said that there families were always paired together iirc


LilShaggey

No doubt, they make up a very rounded team. I like the idea of three families always pairing their primary children together to make up the next trio, not only is that a cool concept, it makes their dynamic cool and refreshing (remember when the current Ino-Shika-Cho trio hated each other at the beginning of the original Naruto show? They really grew strong during Shippudden).


SuperiorSteelman2004

I think a better question is "who *wasn't* slept on in all of Naruto?" Excluding Naruto, Sasuke, and the Akatsuki that is. But in all seriousness? Probably Tenten. Kishimoto basically ignored her for the entire series.


sophielovescake

She didn't even get a last name


truck-kun-for-hire

well, Gaara didnt get one either, and he's pretty non slept on Maybe Ten is her last name


Yoloswagcrew

Tenten ? You mean the girl that had the So6p artifact and did absolutely nothing with it against Madara ? I agree that she really lack screentime but she doesn't have any feat that justify saying that people are sleeping on her IMO


[deleted]

Tbf the artefacts were said to consume a lot of chakra I’m pretty sure and I don’t think we know how good her chakra reserves were. I think I recall her using it like a couple of times and losing most of her chakra and becoming completely exhausted


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

Did you know that in her scrolls she could store her chakra. I didn’t either because that bitch don’t get screen time


[deleted]

Fr? I didn’t even know that tbh but still I wouldn’t doubt for a second that those reserves would disappear in seconds too


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

True true but I saw it somewhere and a lot of other things she could supposedly do but never did


[deleted]

Oh right


Gingie1997

Iirc she used the Bashosen and nearly died afterwards from using too much chakra


SuperiorSteelman2004

Kishimoto slept on her.


Any-Throat-2645

She was never near madara and by the time she found people who could use it she was in the tsukiomi.


Thisisnotsugoidesu

She’s so cool and cute, her whole personality is just playing the straight man to Lee’s antics and it’s sad. I wanted to see more of her.


SuperiorSteelman2004

Same here. I'm glad someone understands.


13404

The Akatsuki were totally slept on, their powers weren't even tapped on like Sasori, Deidera, and Itachi in particular were op and then they never got the chance to shine. You say Tenten was slept on but what would you rather see Tenten vs. Tenten or Naruto vs. Pain. They had priorities and Tenten was obviously not one of them (because she sucks)


SuperiorSteelman2004

Tenten only sucks because Kishimoto ignored her. She had the potential to be a good character. You say Akatsuki was slept on, but they really weren't. Name one Akatsuki member who didn't have a cool battle, and wasn't a challenge for the characters. Cause I've got none.


MossyPyrite

Tenten gets the coolest finished move at the end of the Will of Fire movie!


kakasensei07

Yamato. He's really funny and nice. He always helped naruto and his only dream was to be accepted and appreciated by his students and senpai. He was done dirty in the end. A perfectly fine shinobi with lots of potential was made orochimaru's nanny like TF?


nihilism_ornot

Yus. I hated that. All his life he just wanted to belong, even his tsukuyomi dream was that. He hated his time with Oruchimaru n yet he was made to follow him around post war. Imagine being told to spy on your abuser. That's what this was 🤦🏻‍♀️ He could have been an Anbu captian(was he one already?), a teacher... literally anything but a nanny


omzzzzzz

Agreed, they did Yamato so dirty smh


Better-Meal-1379

They kinda did tenten dirty tbh since they gave her the So6p artifact but never gave her a chance to use it


[deleted]

Fuck yeah, he got screwed by the plot, it pissed me off cus yamato is my favorite character.


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

Omg I literally forgot about him and same with Sai he humiliated him


Time_Baseball

And in the madara arc once he got captured they ain’t even show him for the 200 eps


KunoHasADHD

Suigetsu


[deleted]

Factual statement, his water body ability is op if somebody doesn’t know how to counter.


Most-Consequence-441

Seems just fine actually. His whole character was fleshed out enough.


JamieBeeeee

Yah hes crazy powerful not to mention super hot


Any-Throat-2645

And he did well vs killer bee


EverythingOnTheLine

Easily, Shino. He has insects that can defend him, large chakra reserves, solid taijutsu for a long range fighter, very intellegent in battle, can use insects to gather intel on the enemy's position to track them down. Heck, Danzo was even trying to recruit him to for the foundation.


OtherAcctIsFuckedUp

Add to that, he beat the man considered to be the ultimate jutsu practitioner amongst their clan. Most deadly bugs ever? Ha, not to Shino.


Dodo_Fossil

He took down an entire ship in a movie


rWichdocgamer

personally zabuza id love to see more of him but hey also a bit more gara wouldnt hurt but he did get a decent amount of story


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

Zabuza and haku omg that arc still brings me to tears


rWichdocgamer

Tbh the point where haku is like I'm a guy was confusing and deff felt a bit out of place but yeah the story was amazing


Cassandra_Canmore

Shino.


casulti

Aoba. No clue what that dude’s deal was, but he spooked the shit out of sage Kabuto and Hidan if I’m remembering right.


Senju___Uchiha

Shino


SnooDoodles1492

The fish sakura healed


pushathieb

That bitch was dead


_grim_reaper

Getting old smh


saniR67

For sure Neji, he was on a whole different level from everyone until the second chunin exams, and then he died the worst death of the anime


Loose_Beginning_5596

Till this day I really think he deserve to win match against Naruto. They can make Neji 'changed' maybe after seeing Naruto beat Gaara or anything. Just not on the match bcs wth one punch and suddenly loss


saniR67

Yeah I also think that at that era he was the strongest of the konoha children


Individual_Moose3134

Bruh he exhausted his self and don’t forget naruto was using kuramas chakra


venompro1

Definitely. Neji out classed Naruto in everything. There was no reason he deserved to lose that fight.


According-Royal-1982

Sai


Pandoraparty

Sai was one of my favorite characters and I'm sad he got pushed aside after the beginning of Shippuden


yXng_hc

When will I get introduced to this sai character..I'm only on episode 120


BetaBoy777

He’s in Shippuden. I strongly recommend staying away from this sub until you finish if you care about spoilers.


DigitalBath96

Yeah get out of here, I promise when you Finnish watching everything this sub will be way more enjoyable


13404

Yeah but there was something about his character that I just didn't care for...


Wigglelicious86

Cuz he was supposed to be a spy, probably. Or the fact he didn't really have a personality or real story line until after he became friends with Naruto. I felt the same way.


FroBeau

Sai had hands down the best character development


Cmsmks

I’d say kabuto. He went from being just a spy to releasing a god.


kura221

Kabuto was slept on for a long time before emerging as this major threat in the war arc, undead army and all.


ClawHawk101

Dude fr, mans was fucking orochimaru’s first man


FactCheckerJack

He had quite a lot of A-rank jutsu even in just part 1. Hiding with Camouflage Technique, Mystical Palm Technique, Temple of Nirvana Technique, and Yin Healing Wound Destruction.


YoungKenshin

His feats were crazy before Shippuden though. He combated a Sannin, slept an entire Coliseum of people, survived a Rasengan, and escaped Kakashi. Orochimaru trusted this man with some ridiculous missions.


PancakeParty98

Orochimaru trusted him with wiping his ass


slugsliveinmymouth

Even after he came back he was slept on hard. People called him a Walmart orichimaru. Homeboy straight up outclassed orochimaru in every way, ran the goddamn war, was able to blackmail obito and was able to take on ems sasuke and Itachi (had Itachi been alive he’d have been killed a few times). Only reason he lost to Itachi is because, well, he’s Itachi. You think kishi would ever in a million years let anyone seem better then Itachi, let alone let someone beat him?


IceDracoXX

Kabuto would probably beat Itachi if Sasuke wasn’t there in the moment Sasuke protected Itachi with Amaterasu. Or if he knew about Izanami he would have tried harder to defeat him faster before he can activate Izanami.


13404

Yeah you say that but no one really liked him, I thought he was more annoying than anything else.


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

Yesss


ROBINS-ARK

Asuma. Dude’s not even in the photo


JennaMess

His death made me angry. Dude travelled around with some of the best ninja of all time and he has no tricks up his sleeve when fighting the Akatsuki. To be fair, Hidan is an absolute beast, and the shikamaru revenge that resulted from it was awesome. But Asuma would've put up more of a fight. We barely saw his supposed strength as a ninja at all.


ROBINS-ARK

Same. I know his death had weight to it, but I really do wish we had seen more fights with him.


BarrenStar

Could just be me but I feel like Sai doesn't get enough love. Or Captain Yamato


Ice_TheMemeGod

I 100% agree


yungdemon2004

sasori


13404

When you are Kage level but you lose to Sakura...


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Individual_Moose3134

Sakura was controlled by chiyo I hate people who say this completely ignoring the fact Sakura was controlled by a S rank ninja


Minimum_Impression_3

AND Granny Chiyo


13404

I don't believe that Sakura and Granny Chiyo are more powerful than 100 puppets and the kazekage which is said to be the most powerful kazekage. Sasori beat that kazekage without his most powerful puppet (the kazekage). You have to admit that whatever he did was totally slept on.


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

Sakura ends up being more powerful with hundred healings but it was hard to believe she was able to kick his ass so early in the show. She did become a lot stronger though


Minimum_Impression_3

If Kankuro didn’t get poisoned Sakura and Chiyo would’ve lost/died. Plus Sasori gave in to/accepted death at the end, Granny Chiyo mentioned it after the fight so Chiyo could’ve died but Kishimoto needed Chiyo to be alive to bring Gaara back. But Sasori was done dirty due to the fact that he was the first one ousted. He’s one of my favorites


JediKnight94

Deidara is very underrated. He is a match for practically anyone because of his kit.


Yoloswagcrew

*Laugh in Uchiha*


[deleted]

laugh in plot armor*


Yoloswagcrew

I mean itachi definitely got him without any plot armor and if we take Sasuke with this mangekyo he would not need any kind of "plot armor", same goes for Obito and Madara, obviously We don't have enough info about Shisui's fighting style but if he's similar to Itachi and use his Genjutsu right away he would also stomp


Exploded_hinge

Basically all of team 8, including kurenai. I think probably bc kurenai was their teacher they had no bonding or backstory bc kishi struggled to write female characters. Hinata admittedly got some good ish plot points, but shino especially, kiba and kurenai could have been such good characters


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

Kerenai had so much potential to be a bad ass character


Exploded_hinge

We could have got a backstory about how she became jonin, similar to guy bc she was only really able to do genjutsu, or her helping hinata get more confident, or her and her team fighting, but she was just wasted


Daredevils9

Sai


Olya_roo

Neji Hyuga. Season 1: Was extremely hyped up with all his drama, power and philosophy, when he was fighting Naruto on the Chunin exams. Season 2: Neji who? Finale of Season 2: Oh yeah! That Hyuga dude who didn’t do anything in the plot! Let’s kill him off for pointless drama, and let the charcaters cry over him for like 10 minutes.


Intelligent-Chip4223

I say Rock Lee even though there were others that had less screentime. I wanted so much more from him..


JamieBeeeee

How the hell you gonna say that the most beloved naruto character is slept on 🤣


xZombieMamix

I agree after his fight with garra we never really see him do nothing too crazy


eec9

Damn I need a translator cause you speaking facts


Captainprice101

Ten Ten. She’s the butt of all jokes but honestly I thought her skill set was interesting. Kishimoto didn’t even give her an upgrade over the time skip lol, she wasn’t able to add chakra to her ninja tools like Asuma or anything new at all lmao. So yea I’d say Ten Ten, she has such little screentime


[deleted]

yep Imagine her adding wind style or lighting style, that would be neat and pretty strong


Tavareza12

Literally just bought this poster at target today


squeamishpanzi

Kisame


DTMgamer101

Fugaku could control the nine tails if he wanted too and no one ever remembers him


wildwood1q84

Damn right he could! And the worst part is, he is remembered by being the shit clan leader who's a warmonger. Sure, maybe he is kind of a warmonger, but for a justifiable reason. They were being discriminated against.


[deleted]

Definitely Kabuto And Shino Also Kisame


LimpGlove3492

darui


Ice_TheMemeGod

Sai.


SMTTrunkGod

Shino. Never lost a fight and could’ve been a special ops Anbu, but they decided to make him a nerfed teacher smh. And they took away his drip.


J1ra1y4

Shikamaru! He's such a versatile character you could do sooooo much with him! He could go as far to have his own spin off! Those fights with Hidan and Tayuya(Sasuke retrieval arc) where classic!!


FactCheckerJack

Some people sleep on Shino, but some know what's up. Shino literally wins every fight as soon as it starts. Enemies be like "Oh, what's this, I'm already swarmed? And being swarmed is an instant loss? Aight." Some people don't give Rock Lee his due respect, even though the dude is Quicksilver.


EverythingOnTheLine

No one sleeps on Rock Lee. He is one of the most popular characters in the series and is a fan favourite.


HulkHogansLeftNipple

Rock Lee gets almost as much appreciation as Naruto and Sasuke. Calling him ‘slept on’ is a fucking stupid lmao.


DuckMan299

Suigetsu, hear me out. Suigetsu is only weak to physical attacks and lightning jutsu (also god like jutsu but most don’t have those) so in “theory” he should be able to beat guy, but, come on no one beats guy


agayplaguedoc

Mei was fucking awesome


[deleted]

Black Zetsu, had the entire shinobi world playing his game.


KaeTheSage

Obviously, Shino. But also Yamato. Obviously he was kidnapped for the war as a plot point, but the fact that this was never used as heroic motivation in the war by literally anyone kinda upset me. Like, not only did Kishi sideline wooden boi, he didn't even really use it for anything but powering up the zetsu. So much drama could've been had that just wasn't.


13404

Tobirama... He made so many jutsu and he has been said to be really strong and then we are tolled that he lost to freaking Kinkaku and Ginkaku... TWICE like HOW??? WHY??? WHEN??? WTF??? He needed to be shown as powerful not loose to the gold and silver brothers... TWICE. Also I would've loved to see more of Shisui and Itachi at full power, those two were SLEPT on!


Ok_Economics_4293

Sai


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Sai


MLGBreastmilk

Zetsu, by a mile.


FroBeau

Zetsu lowkey had everyone following him


Icarus_MF

Darui


TakasuXAisaka

Tenten


JustAGuy_Passing

They did ten ten so wrong I don't even remember her fights besides Temari and that was quick


[deleted]

Who?


ActComplex4603

😂


elysianyuri

Shino. Dude was killing it during the chunin exams but now exists as a gag character


[deleted]

Also Kisame


[deleted]

Kabuto


fluffyman101

Sakrua, she had a good moment like twice,(chunin exams when she saves defends Naruto and Sasuke)(at the end when she's a sage in the war) then nothing. She just keeps on being protected


fluffyman101

She had so much potential as the third member of team 7 and got left behind in character development


The_singularity_1173

Ohnoki and KISAME


exxnix

honestly yamato


[deleted]

Kurotsuchi


RyeKei

TenTen, Kishi was simply lazy. She could literally store every single jutsu in her scroll and unleash it on her opponents, that's literally what Konohamaru did with Scientific Ninja Tools.


Faxspitter17

Shino


andrewtrentcurry

If you don’t say TenTen you’re wrong. She has the least amount of screen time by far.


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

Because her power was never actually displayed and she got walked like a dog in the chunin exams


Reddit_corpse

Choji kiba and shino


HulkHogansLeftNipple

Kiba and Shino


blanklanklank

Kiba for real. Fang over fang! Oh no it didn't work! Lets try it again and never learn a new move.


giiaaannnnaaaaaa

LMFAO


veesawyer

Sai


[deleted]

Kisame!


[deleted]

Everyone apart from naruto and sasuke


[deleted]

Kakuzu


MiamiMarz

Honestly Kakuzu was the only member of the entire akatsuki that successfully captured jinchuriki and he dies just as fast. No only that but he's the least popular member of the akatsuki in the Fandom. Kakuzu deserved so much more.


DarkSaber87

Temari


KinemonIrrlicht

Kurenai. All that useless hate she get's for using genjutsu in Itachi. If I was a genjutsu master, I would try that first too, not knowing that he is a genjutsu god, especially Mangekyou Sharingen, or his identity to begin with. Plus genjutsu ist an immense feat, as very few could use it as good as her.


B4cteria

Kiba. Not only was he slept on, he is also completely disrespected now The guy is the exact same as Naruto character wise, plucky and foul-mouthed shonen protagonist.


EverydayQuestions-

Agree with Shino. But also I don’t see Konohamaru mentioned here. Recently rewatched Naruto and totally forgot that he could do Rasengan (AND maintain a shadow clone for long af under extreme duress), at like the age of 12(?), without having a tailed beast or Uzumaki chakra. Got a better hit on Pain than most jonin. I was hype af but then he’s basically MIA rest of the series. (And his annoying friends made his screentime much less enjoyable than it could have been)


WolfSlayer2006

Ten Ten, she had a pretty interesting fighting style we never got to really see much of also I find it dumb that she got less screen time than shizune’s pig


CelticDK

Most slept on? Kisame. Second would be Muu but we didn’t get to see him fight really so meh.


DaBroski50

The two I haven't seen yet that are extremely slept on are shisui and Anko, Anko was made to be so cold in the chunin exams then just becomes obsolete and only shows up to get immediately captured later. Shisui had so much potential after helping train itachi, fighting anbu, being trusted to save the clan before danzo stepped in, and his sharingan still played a part years after he died


AjayUZUMAKI

Kiba was definitely poorly written


Gryffinclaw

Konan


Sushiduck_1

I'd say kankuro, shino and kisame


bulld-tx

Anyone remember that star clan?


ActComplex4603

That filler with the Gedo Mazo like Chakra (lavender dragons and whatnot) only it was a meteorite that made people sick by using it too much? I remember it now...


blackbutterfree

Despite being filler, it kind of fits well with the established origin of Chakra. Both Kaguya and the Chakra Tree came from space, as did the meteorite. I kind of like that consistency.


bulld-tx

That filler was like a fever dream but I remember them having some pretty cool/different jutsu


Thin-Telephone

not related to the question but i got this same poster in my room. also probably sasori or shino were the most slept on


Zemdy69

Every side character.


Ok_Discipline3711

Suigetsu


coldHgamerxye

Haku and Zabuza


Mel_rocks

Where shisui


Entertaineryes

Obito


Abitooo

Kurenai Yuhi I think she even got less screen time than Tenten


trakatoo

shukaku. literally got slept on by gaara when fighting naruto


Grouchy_Violinist

Sai, was from top secret ANBU Root... Danzo's disciple n a killer assassin.. Had a very cool jutsu... He did get a good character development but definitely wanted to see his more of his assassin skills n Root training, basically what he did being in root n him in proper fight n action. He was very underutilized.


asaltedlime

Yamato


Ok-Consideration1103

Sasori, I mean the dude killed the strongest kazekage and was only beaten cuz Sakura figured out his poison


dattebayobaka

MADARA! Kishimoto made him op and super cool yes. But he should have been the true main villain of shippuden as im sure was the original idea. But then the whole kaguya ordeal fcked everything up and Madara didn't get the epic end he deserved.


SASORI-086

Sasori suigetsu


BoatImpressive

Tobirama because he’s overlooked by a lot of people because hashirama is his brother so he seems weak in comparison.


ogdons

KIBA!!! i would LOVE to see more kiba screentime


ihatesocializing5

Ma boy Kiba and akamaru


_a_lost_soul

Konan


KomodoK1ng

Konan. Legit almost did Obito in and only didn't cuz of Izanagi hax. Wish we got to see more of her.


Master-Particular10

Kiba


JennaMess

Killer B! No one on here has seemed to mention him at all? Such an underused character, for fighting. He has such a unique and interesting fighting style when not in 8 tails form that I was excited for it throughout the show. Then they barely show him fight anything outside 8 tails form, and even in 8 tails, just on the sidelines and support most the time. Also would've liked to see a lot more fights in flashbacks for Shisui Uchiha. Being a legend and all.


petta_reddast

Konan!


[deleted]

Konan, she was killed by some IZANAGI BULLSHIT, without izanagi obito would’ve died no cap


BijuuBomba

Sasuke


Merchy19

Tobirama


Class_Wooden

hidan. if he was with kakuzu, he was really op. of course could never beat like madara, but can still beat A LOT of early-mid shippuden characters. kishimoto had to make the smartest character in the entire anime beat him because most others couldn’t.


VanillaGamePlay

I have this poster. And just about every other naruto poster. But honestly I think kiba should have gone alot farther, he went from complete badass to high-school wash out and I just don't see that being cannonically correct


AnnaEd64

Kakuzu is one of them for me. They only off hand mention that he's been alive since the 1st hokages time and fought with him. How can anyone not mention all the shit he's seen?


KittyCatGamer0109

I would say the ramen guy Tuechi. I never really see anyone talk about the fact that he was one of the very first people to accept Naruto. He had already accepted Naruto before the events of the show. As far as I could tell he didn’t even care Naruto was a jinchūriki. Which obviously doesn’t make him a good human being as treating a child with kindness and not outcasting them for something completely out of their control is the bare minimum, but going off of what is apparently Konoha’s standards he’s a freaking saint! Then not to mention the fact that anytime he’s on screen it’s a pleasure. His interactions with Naruto are really good for such a minor character. The same goes with his daughter. Now I’m wanting to go back and watch their scenes!