While the Naruto franchise has hopeful undertones, many of the characters struggled before reaching a more peaceful life.

Naruto fans falsely lauded one major villain early on in the series, putting him on the same tier as Minato, only to be proved wrong years later.

Naruto assumed that Haku was a civilian when he saw him for the first time, with his gentle personality making it hard to believe that he could be such a vicious warrior. However, during their ...