Why Hinata doesn't need to be powerful

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Throughout the manga, Hinata has never achieved significant fighting prowess and has never won any major fight scenes or defeated any powerful opponents.
This is often used as a criticism of Hinata's character, with people calling her weak or useless.

However, in my opinion, this mindset shows a fundamental misunderstanding of Hinata's character arc. Hinata's story was never about being powerful.

Hinata's character arc was about overcoming her insecurity, standing up for herself, and not giving up.Her major moments of character development are when she refuses to surrender to Neji, when she tries to protect Naruto from Pain at the cost of her own life, and when she inspires Naruto after the death of Neji.

Hinata's story was not like that of Naruto or Rock Lee, who wanted to prove that they could overcome weakness and defeat strong opponents. Her story was about overcoming the emotional abuse inflicted by her father and Neji, and learning to be more confident and never give up.
 

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"has never won any major fight scenes or defeated any powerful opponents"

She has never won a fight in her life nor defeated any opponents. But yeah, you're right. She never aimed to be a strong ninja or to be a better shinobi, all she could think about was Naruto.
 

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Finally a person understands Hinata isn't an elite shinobi and never was going to be one. She never had potential for that that's why she was abused and treated like she was. However she was going to overcome he weaknesses and become more confident.
 
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"has never won any major fight scenes or defeated any powerful opponents"

She has never won a fight in her life nor defeated any opponents. But yeah, you're right. She never aimed to be a strong ninja or to be a better shinobi, all she could think about was Naruto.
She defeated a juubi clone and some white zetsus. On another note, she defeated some opponents in filler (like that magnet release guy).
 

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There was so much potential for Ino,Sakura and Hinata.
Tenten is weak so no.
WTF? Tenten was the only female that didn't chase after a D of a guy, rather than that, she sought to be a powerful Kunoichi like Tsunade
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she favors her weapons over mens and this is the type of female characters that we need in Shounen.
 
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The former two are Canon though. Besides, filler should get some credit for side characters who got so little screen time.
Then that makes it unfair for characters whose feats in filler arcs get ignored. Anyways, yeah, I get Hinata isn't so average, but let's be honest, she really deserves to be a Chuunin. That's why Neji was Jonin while she's 30 right now and is still Chuunin level.
 
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