Explaining Why Plot Armor Is Very Real In The NarutoVerse

[Devauzamaki]

First the definition of plot armor

"Character shields (also known as plot armor or plot shield) are plot devices in films and television shows that prevent important characters from dying or being seriously injured at dramatically inconvenient moments. It often denotes a situation in which it strains credibility to believe that the character would survive."

Plot armor is very real. There have been moments where it was just plain unrealistic for the main cast to survive.
A few examples

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Here my boi Naruto goes through extraction. His heart stops. Sakura magically pumps his heart. How you pump blood through his heart and out across his body with your hand and CPR???

Then sasuke gets stabbed through the heart/chest and doesnt die immediately.

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Here Kaguya drops them in the lava dimension. Now somehow magically in the time it takes to fall 10 ft into lava,kakashi had enough time to take out a scroll,wrap 1 end around a kunai and throw it and pin obito hand against he cave while grabbing sakura with his other arm. what tf lol?

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Look where Sakura at and look where obito at. now tell me how he had enough time to do that.

They move to the gravity dimension and nobody can move. But wait kakashi and obito apparently can. Saving the MCs..again.

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If thats not bad enough, to make sure the MC's survive the biggest a**pull in naruto history happens to save the MC's..again.

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and to finish it off, Sakura managing to hit Kaguya. Sure you could say she was distracted but she still shouldve saw her considering she did this.

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Attacked from all directions and countered effortlessly.

So this here makes no sense

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Plot armor is indeed real folks. When Characters survive situations they realistically should not have. It's plot armor.

If Hagaromo+Hamura=Kaguya

and Naruto+Sasuke=Hagaromo.

Then there shouldnt be a naruto and sasuke walking on the narutoverse earth right now lol.

 

[Mattobi]

"Plot armor" is very real in nearly every single story you read or see, especially in manga/anime. I don't believe this comes as a surprise to anyone who read Naruto or any other manga.

 

[AllKnowingShinobi]

just think of the current plot as being the universe out of infinite other possibility/universe , the current one is the universe that succeed by only by a hair thread.

yes sasuke being stabed in the heart and not instantly dying is a huge plot hole( i mean he did have hash cells and maybe hebi healing too)

naruto not dying in vote1 is plot hole (well sasuke did want to obtain power without following itachis advice)

sakura not staying/ dying as a virgin is plot hole( i truly find her useless in all situations)

 

[Yahcob13]

Sakura cut open his chest and pumped his heart for him

 

[Brady]

It's not plot armor, it's just plot. The author plans for these ridiculous things to happen and create new things in the story that allow these particular characters to survive.

The idea of Plot armor in Naruto came about when Sasuke kept surviving difficult fights as if Naruto never did the same.

 

[Ansatsuken]

I agree

 

[DannySenju]

black zetsu is the counter to plot armor

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madara had absorbed the power of plot armor and raising hell on protagonists before black zetsu somehow undetected stabs him

 

[rollin]

Kakashi getting susano'o was well thought out and most likely planned since kakashi had the left sharingan