What is Fodder

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It's a misused term. 'Fodder' relates to an unimportant character who is nameless and is just there for plot reasons. For example, a member of the allied shinobi force can be considered to be 'fodder', as could a Zetsu clone. However, what you'll find is, anyone deemed to be weak per say (Tenten or Ino for instance) will be called 'fodder', although this is not in itself correct since these characters play a part in the storyline and are well known.
 
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irrelevant characters that dont matter, really the only fodder in naruto is the zetsus, chunin and genins but characters like rock lee, neji, hinata and ten ten fit into this bracket sort of; because they get no air time like they used to... you had you're 5 minutes now get out
 

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Its is misused a lot, you will see people like Tenten or Shino called fodder although they actually aren't. Here on NB it is used almost synonymously with weak, but it actually means a character who doesn't or hasn't played a role in the story and rather is there to fill up the setting and make it more real, eg. most of the Shinobi alliance members.
 
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