Main characters get injured and spend time in bandages at hospital key characters die nobly, while those left behind work through grief. People are experimented on (shown, but not graphically) and turn into monsters. Mentions of family members who died by suicide. Characters often reference dead and/or murdered family members (deaths sometimes seen in flashbacks). Heroes sacrifice their lives to save others. Dead bodies are visible (no blood), including a few brief scenes of mass graves and entire villages leveled by explosions. Gamariki is stereotypically gay: He wears red lipstick, has long lashes, speaks effeminately, and flirts with Jiraiya (played for humor).įrequent fights using hand-to-hand combat with blades, projectiles, bombs, and other weapons, show a bit of blood (puddles on the ground or bleeding at injury site). (A dying mentor's last words to Choji are that he needs to diet).

Fatphobic character of Choji improves slightly from the original series, given a bit more to do, but he's still depicted as always snacking and is the punchline of jokes about overeating. Disabled-villain clichés include a manipulative man who uses a cane and has bandages on his face a visibly ill man, shown coughing blood in bed, obsessed with finding a new body to take over a villain who's losing his vision killing family members to use their eyeballs, etc. Sexist clichés strongly apply: Women cry, heal others, are defined by pregnancy, and say things like 'Hair is the most important thing to women.' A male shinobi, considered Naruto's mentor, peeps at women in hot springs and talks extensively about a colleague's breasts. Women shinobi have important roles and can fight, but they're vastly outnumbered by male shinobi and are never as strong.

Nearly all characters across hundreds of episodes are light-skinned the main exception is Killer Bee, who's tanned, has blond cornrows, and draws from stereotypes about Black people (he raps all his dialogue and quotes Muhammad Ali, and his spoken Japanese has an exaggerated 'American' accent).

Naruto gender transformation games