Fodders, the lot of them.

[wanderingcactus]

The only ones that aren't fodders in the series died by their own accord.

Examples are:
Itachi
Shisui (KA is too OP)
Nagato (series should really have ended here)
Minato (shame he had to do that because he had to protect everyone)

Anyone who was killed by someone else are fodders.

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

I mean like, or just interesting and likeable characters...

Boring ninja who have to be killed by the authors suggest they've written themselves into a corner, poor writing.

 

[Pumpkin Ninja]

They were forced into shitty circumstances so it's kind of the same.

 

[wanderingcactus]

I mean like, or just interesting and likeable characters...

Boring ninja who have to be killed by the authors suggest they've written themselves into a corner, poor writing.

In terms of Naruto, yes. I don't know whether it really was Kishi's inability to write proper story or his bosses pressuring him to dish out and keep milking the series in which he no longer had any control of it.

Either way, the end resulted into having these characters where he had no means to end them when they had to be.

 

[Disaster]

So madara, Hiruzen, izuna, jiraiya, kakuzu and kisame are fodder to you

 

[Kanino]

I guess you are right.

Madara Fodder lol yikes

 

[wanderingcactus]

So madara, Hiruzen, izuna, jiraiya, kakuzu and kisame are fodder to you

Hiruzen isn't since he died by his own hands but he wasn't worthy on the list as he wasn't in his prime. It was just Orochimaru.
No need to go that drastic.

 

[wanderingcactus]

I guess you are right.

Madara Fodder lol yikes

he's a tool. a powerful one but a tool. not only was he killed by BZ, he died the same way the first time he was killed.
IDK how that isn't fodder in your book.

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

In terms of Naruto, yes. I don't know whether it really was Kishi's inability to write proper story or his bosses pressuring him to dish out and keep milking the series in which he no longer had any control of it.

Either way, the end resulted into having these characters where he had no means to end them when they had to be.

It's a card Naruto way overplays, it was bs starting with Kimimaro and it was bs in the late game.

Only true sacrifices such as Hiruzen's and Yahiko's don't feel forced. 'Fodder' got nothing to do with it.