Characters who had potential but were forgotten since the start of Shippuden (Part 2)

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This is a continuation from my last thread. In this part I will be talking about characters who have not been necessarily forgotten but have not received the development that they deserve.

Shino:
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It's a canon fact that Shino is ignored by everybody. Naruto couldn't even remember the poor guy at the start of Shippuden, yet he recognised Kiba and Hinata immediately. His mysterious personality makes him all the more interesting to me.

Kiba:
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I thought about this one for quite a bit before I decided to include him as well. Kiba has had some form of development since the start of the series but in all honestly his looks may have changed, but his personality still feels exactly the same as it was in Part 1. And now Kishi is making spew out this stuff about being Hokage, which is an insult to his character IMO.

Tenten:
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Like Anko, Kishimoto stated that Tenten was his favourite out of all of the Konoha 11 but she has hardly been developed even from Part 1. She didn't even appear to bear a reaction to Neji's death whilst all of the alliance who might I add weren't even on his team bore a more significant reaction.

Neji
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He played a part in the rescuing of Gaara early on in Shippuden, but died down afterwards. Neji was the first member out of the Konoha 11 to reach Jonin level, but Kishi didn't even emphasise on that by showing his powers. The friendship and rivalry between Lee and Neji was hardly shown and developed. The flashback between them would have been much more significant had it been shown before. And finally his death was ultimately used as a plot device to get a shy horny pupilless 17 year old girl to finally confess to her crush. And people say Obito is sad, at least he was 14. Just sad.

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And lastly we have the Beautiful Green Beast Rock Lee. His taijutsu only fighting style had so much potential and I loved every single minute of his fights in part 1. He and Gai were the most funniest characters in the series and added light to it, taking away the feelings of the forced relationship between Naruto and Sasuke. But in Part 2 he has hardly shown any improvements or development. I expected him to be even faster with his weights on now, the speed at which he maneuvered against Gaara was incredible. Now lets look at this list:
-Naruto
-Tobirama
-Minato
-Sasuke
-Obito
-Madara
Yep, guess what? All of them trampled all over that feat.
 
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Agree about Shino and Neji

Lee still has a chance hopefully

Tenten is already too awesome to be in Naruto
 

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Lee still has a chance
 

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Shikamaru with his brain....but also being so weak is a damn shame! He is the biggest dissapointment imo
 

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Agreed with all; esp. Lee and Neji...

I can rant about how they are wasted, forgotten, "fodderized", their characters and what they represent get shitted on with whole "destiny-love-hate-i stole the eyeball lel" crap; but i said a lot about this matter U_U.

Also Tenten...The only girl in k11 who is not sucking up to a boy crush...she had alot of potential.

And finally his(Neji's) death was ultimately used as a plot device to get a shy horny pupilless 17 year old girl to finally confess to her crush
^Also this statement shall be known by everyone.
 

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Aggree about shino and neji. Kiba's been lost in time and space since shippuden began U_U Lee still has some chances of doing something useful, the guy has kicked madara, so, maybe...:| tenten...hope lost U_U
 

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I definitely agree about Lee and Neji. Sakura got the spotlight, even though she would get fodderized by these two. Too bad Neji's dead now. And Kiba is underrestimated. TenTen would get buttr*ped by anyone. And Shino isn't that strong IMO.
 

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Agreed with all; esp. Lee and Neji...

I can rant about how they are wasted, forgotten, "fodderized", their characters and what they represent get shitted on with whole "destiny-love-hate-i stole the eyeball lel" crap; but i said a lot about this matter U_U.

Also Tenten...The only girl in k11 who is not sucking up to a boy crush...she had alot of potential.


^Also this statement shall be known by everyone.

Nahhh uhh :|
 

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This is a continuation from my last thread. In this part I will be talking about characters who have not been necessarily forgotten but have not received the development that they deserve.

Shino:
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It's a canon fact that Shino is ignored by everybody. Naruto couldn't even remember the poor guy at the start of Shippuden, yet he recognised Kiba and Hinata immediately. His mysterious personality makes him all the more interesting to me.

Kiba:
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I thought about this one for quite a bit before I decided to include him as well. Kiba has had some form of development since the start of the series but in all honestly his looks may have changed, but his personality still feels exactly the same as it was in Part 1. And now Kishi is making spew out this stuff about being Hokage, which is an insult to his character IMO.

Tenten:
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Like Anko, Kishimoto stated that Tenten was his favourite out of all of the Konoha 11 but she has hardly been developed even from Part 1. She didn't even appear to bear a reaction to Neji's death whilst all of the alliance who might I add weren't even on his team bore a more significant reaction.

Neji
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He played a part in the rescuing of Gaara early on in Shippuden, but died down afterwards. Neji was the first member out of the Konoha 11 to reach Jonin level, but Kishi didn't even emphasise on that by showing his powers. The friendship and rivalry between Lee and Neji was hardly shown and developed. The flashback between them would have been much more significant had it been shown before. And finally his death was ultimately used as a plot device to get a shy horny pupilless 17 year old girl to finally confess to her crush. And people say Obito is sad, at least he was 14. Just sad.

Lee
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And lastly we have the Beautiful Green Beast Rock Lee. His taijutsu only fighting style had so much potential and I loved every single minute of his fights in part 1. He and Gai were the most funniest characters in the series and added light to it, taking away the feelings of the forced relationship between Naruto and Sasuke. But in Part 2 he has hardly shown any improvements or development. I expected him to be even faster with his weights on now, the speed at which he maneuvered against Gaara was incredible. Now lets look at this list:
-Naruto
-Tobirama
-Minato
-Sasuke
-Obito
-Madara
Yep, guess what? All of them trampled all over that feat.

No he said that out of the K11 females, her design was his favorite not the character herself
 

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naaah tenten is hopeless
 

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Neji and Lee should be at the absolute top of this list. They went from guys who could give Naruto and Sasuke a tough fight to now just random fodders.
 

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Team Gai should deserve the most Spotlight especially for Neji and Lee

What happened to Lee and Garaa Tribute??? Remember the good ol time when theres so many rivalry in Part 1, Lee fought against Garaa yet he lost??

Now Kishi decided to Neglect Lee characters and everyone else beside Naruto & Sasuke.

It's soo sad we never seen Lee surpass Neji .


Man, Neji should deserve more screen time if Kishi planning kill him off. I mean I want to see the connection between the Hyuga and the Village of Cloud during the Kage summit arc, or showcase his new move like emerge Phoenix shape like.

That would been cool but no Kishi just suddenly kill him off -_-
 

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Team Gai should deserve the most Spotlight especially for Neji and Lee

What happened to Lee and Garaa Tribute??? Remember the good ol time when theres so many rivalry in Part 1, Lee fought against Garaa yet he lost??

Now Kishi decided to Neglect Lee characters and everyone else beside Naruto & Sasuke.

It's soo sad we never seen Lee surpass Neji .


Man, Neji should deserve more screen time if Kishi planning kill him off. I mean I want to see the connection between the Hyuga and the Village of Cloud during the Kage summit arc, or showcase his new move like emerge Phoenix shape like.

That would been cool but no Kishi just suddenly kill him off -_-

Lee will surpass Gai; then automatically he would surpass Neji. I viewed them as equals; but i would like to see their all-out fight. It would be an excellent taijutsu oriented battle with great character development. Imo, it was more appealing than Naruto vs Sasuke; busting bombs while glowing or spamming EMS techs do not appeal me; they are stronger; but not more interesting.

Lee can still have paneltime...though my hopes are getting slimmer.

Btw; what is "Lee and Gaara tribute"?
 

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It's not canon fact that Shino is ignored. Period. Naruto couldn't recognise Shino because his face was covered, but was able to easily identify him by speech type. Not recognising someone does not mean you forgot them. It mostly means they look different. If you noticed, the reintroduction of team 8 was entirely humorous. On top of Naruto remembering Shino by speech pattern (despite hardly talking) and Hinata fainting, we have Kiba who didn't even notice the growth of Akamaru and even had to smell Naruto to know it was him. So yeah, people need to stop stating Shino's some poor forgotten soul.
But I agree with the part about his mysterious personality makes him interesting.

You're right about Kiba. His personality is the same. His jutsu is the same. His role is now that of idiotic guy who just makes pointless comments.

Agreed with Tenten.

"Kishi didn't even emphasise on that by showing his powers."
Apparently Neji's showing is part one was enough that Kishimoto didn't feel the need to show more in Shippuden.

Lee's speed was shown again when he broke through Haku's impenetrable ice mirrors. But yeah, I do agree with you.
 

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You are correct on all.
 

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Gaara, gaara didt get any power up ....
 

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pretty much, Konoha 11...

infact what about Shizune, Kurenai, and Anko...

why didn't Kishi resurrect Hayate? even the anime team though was be a cool plot point, it would give closure to his lover over his death and allow her to give up on killing Baki...
 
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