What are your controversial and hot takes on Naruto?
Last Updated: 27.06.2025 09:29
6: Naruto’s past is overrated and over-saddened
Like I’m sorry but the first person Naruto lost was his 50 year old mentor when he was 16. He never had the grief of watching his family get slaughtered or being forced to kill your best friend, teammate or family (Sasuke 7, Nagato 12-14, Kakashi 13 and Itachi 13).
He used him for his own suicide, staining his hands in blood and forcing him to turn mad and revenge-hungry for less compassionate reasons than Yahiko or Rin. I love Itachi and all, but his decisions were shitty and I think it would have been better for him to just stay as a psychopath older brother instead of some pacifist undercover-hero.
The fact that there are even people saying that they ‘deserve better’ just proves my point. Never will I understand how anyone can genuinelly and actually say they ship these two?
I will never get why Itachi didn’t tell Sasuke the truth. He wanted him to get stronger, but he could have simply just trained him. Instead he decided to control Sasuke’s life entirely, never letting him make his own move and manipulating him for more years than they lived together. He tortured and more or less mind raped him for over 3 days staight when he was 7 and then brutalised, humiliated and did so again when he was 12.
Their ‘love’ remained one-sided until like the last (canon) episode
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Boruto says no, apparantly, and has him use his Rinnegan as a free uber and beef with dinosaurs instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
8: Sasuke deserved to have become a villain more than Naruto
Sakura was nothing short of obsessed with him and had no reason apart from ‘he is attractive’ to like him. Like at least Karin had an actual reason and wanted him to be happy. No matter how many times he called her annoying and rejected her she’d still push on.
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He also had friends (Shikamaru & Choji) someone who looked up to him (Konohomaru) and a father-figure (Iruka). His parents were killed when he was a baby, he remembers nothing.
Ok so when you stop and think of it, Sasuke with all the Tailed Beats and Sage of 6 path’s Chakra, the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, a 6 tomoe Rinnegan who can destroy a whole ass meteor with one arm and a base Chidori should be able to beat Madara.
3: The SasuSaku fandom is NOT overhated
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I know that Kakashi stated in the manga that the Byakugan beats the Sharingan, but come on, if you actually think about it then the Sharingan easily ovepowers it.
Sakura wouldn’t have bat an eye at him had he not been the good looking Last Uchiha
Also Naruto went crazy just by Orochimaru calling Sasuke ‘mine’ whereaas it took Jiraiya, Kakashi, the entire village’s, Tsunade and Sakura’s near ones and then finally Hinata’s to provoke the Kyubi. (Not YAOI, I just wanted to point out that Naruhina shippers are delusional).
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One thing that can’t reach the heads of Ichitards is that intentions don’t change reality. Sure, Itachi saved Sasuke’s life, but that doesn’t exclude the trauma he put him through.
Yes, Hiruzan made some very shitty and questionable decisions, but damn y’all be acting as if he’s satan or some shit like that. He was the Hokage after a war and an attack which caused the death of hundreds of citizens including two of the strongst. You guys seriously expect him to have the time to go visit an orphan even if they are Minato’s son. Jiraiya, on the other hand, was off bathing with some ladies somewhere like what’s your excuse for that? Plus Hiruzen gave him money and a house, what did Jiraiya give him? A popsicle?
Naruto doesn’t have the saddest out of his own show let alone the Big 3, like people honestly think that being hated by your village compares to, I don’t know, having your entire clan die before your eyes over 500k times, have everyone close to you die one by your hand, watching your best friend accidently murder the person you love, be made into a weapon by your own father and abused and despised all your life and feared by your own siblings, be an oprhan living in war and having to kill your best friend to save your other one.
Second, an 8–13 Shisui and Itachi were able to beat a Hyuga who had a fully developed Byakugan with mild difficulty so that pretty much speaks for itself.
Sasuke would much rather spend time with Naruto and Boruto than Sakura and even Sarada to an extent.
5: The Sharingan > Byakugan
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So yeah, they wonder why I hate the ship and judge people for liking it.
(This is all I can come up with at the moment but I’ll probably add more as life goes on)
1: Itachi was a terrible brother.
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She literally made fun of someone for being an orphan in hops of impressiong him despite knowing h e ‘ s a l s o a n o r p h a n (nice rizzing skills, Sakura)
When thinking he may die, he asked Naruto to take care of his kid, barely sparing a thought to his own said to be wife (again not Yaoi, just stating how the shippers are delu-lu)
Hinata exists for only one reason and that is to say ‘Naruto-kun’ in a cute kawaii voice. She has absolutely no relevance to the story, has horrible writing and caused the death of an actually GOOD character just to bring her and the MC closer (which failed).
4: Theoretically Adult Sasuke beats Madara, but with what Boruto have done to him he doesn’t come close.
7: Hiruzen was better than Jiraiya when it came to raising Naruto as a child
Sasuke practially guilt-tripped Sasuke into marrying her.
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Hiruzen by no means was a good Hokage, in fact he was the worst, but the hate he gets in the fandom is seriously undeserved, like he couldn’t have prevented the Uchiha massacre and while I agree he should have punished Danzo for doing it without him knowing it just shows how irattingly soft his heart is, that being proven when he allowed Orochimaru to escape because he hoped one day he’d become who he once was before again.
I love Naruto and he’s defintitely in my top 10 favourite characters, but bro someone please get a life and actually use their common sense when it comes to his sad-but-not-the-worst past.
The only ‘romantic’ relationship between the pair of them was Sasuke doing the thing his BROTHER did to him to her.
This statement really should not be contriversial at all and yet here there are some people who are just like that. The Hidden Leaf Village manipulated Sasuke’s 13 year old brother into killing his entire family. They disliked Naruto.
Now, I’m not one to compare trauma or anything; each character suffered respectably (with the exclusion of Sakura, of course) but when I see someone say that Naruto had the worst backstory in the whole of the Big 3 I actually feel a part of me dying.
2: Hinata is a trash character.
Naruto saved her life multiple times and yet she chose the person who tried to take it away also multiple times.
Like I said before, you can choose who had more right -_-.
First of all the Sharingan can literally predict, copy, and counter every move their oppenent does, but it can also spawn a giant ass beast-monster-armour-hybrid-thingy and burn you into oblivion. I personally think that being able to see 360 degrees and look at someone’s chakra pathways doesn’t really do much in a fight like that.
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They both tried to kill eachother more than once
Some people may argue she saved Naruto’s life in the Pain Arc, but since when does literally jumping to fight some one 10x stronger than you to impress your crush only to get your ass whooped and then die count as saving someone’s life? Literally had anyone else been the one Pain fought it would have earned the EXACT same reaction.
Even their CHILD has doubts about their relatioship, thinking that Sakura wasn’t even her real mother because of the fact that she has never seen Sakura and Sasuke together.
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