Naruto/Narm

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If you're thinking about making a "Narmuto" joke, you're too late, though it's a given that a series about ninjas who don't act ninja-like will have its share of "cool" and "cheese".

  • Gaara's scream of "IT'S MY BLOOOOOD!" in Naruto is a rare example of something being Narm and Nightmare Fuel at the same time.
    • If you saw that scene before in English and think you don't need to see that link, then watch the whole thing for all the languages for EXTRA NARM!
      • The highest Narm-factor scores the German synchro: "Was ist ... mit meinem Körper?!" (In English: "What is ... with my body?!"). Is he having a date with Rosie Palms for the first time in this sand balloon of his or what is his major malfunction?!
      • The Italian version of this scene is really hilarious because it sounds like Gaara is saying "Ssannwhich... I need a sanndwhihhch!!"
      • The Spanish version has Gaara saying something that sounds like "SOUND GAY.. ME SOUND GAY!"
    • The same goes for Gaara's demon form, which is supposed to be so awful that people are petrified just thinking about it. But it's a large grey raccoon with a southern accent.

English Dub: HERE I COME, BABY!

  • A Filler arc has the Serious Business Curry Of Life that can physically and emotionally heal people.
    • The villain of that arc looks silly. The supposedly sad scenes got ruined because of how the guy looked.
      • Almost every single filler villain had the same ridiculous fish face. Those who didn't either were just a front for a real Big Bad with a fish face or secretly had fish faces.
  • Another filler features Naruto and Kiba escorting a man carrying a valuable piece of art that bandits are after. One of the bandits going after it at the end of the episode is knocked down. For some reason, he figures there's no way he could get it even though he's only had his henchmen knocked out, so he decides to kill everyone by pulling a rope that just suddenly appeared between scenes and making the cave collapse. He's then crushed under a rock, but not the typical "buried in so many you don't even see them coming in contact with the body" way; he is hilariously crushed under a single rock roughly his own size cutting him off in the middle of his Evil Laugh.
    • While on the subject of rocks, the villain Raiga from the above filler arc, "The Curry of Life", was buried under an avalanche of rocks... with his arms sticking out of the top, still holding his swords.
  • The third movie: The plot cannot be taken seriously because the villain is named "Shabadaba."
    • It's especially bad when a character has to scream his name in rage.

"SHABADABAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

    • Shabadaba's appearance is also laughable, mostly because his mustache appears to be connected to his hair.
    • Then there's his Camp Gay-looking sidekick.
  • In the first episode, Iruka's dramatic speech is ruined thanks to all the snot coming out of Naruto's nose.
  • One of Sasuke's flashbacks about Itachi detracts from the drama of the scene of his having defeated Naruto because the parts of Itachi's face close to the center of the screen appear closer than the parts toward the edges, creating a fish-eye effect.
    • Kishimoto is very fond of the fish-eye effect.
  • Naruto's having Blank White Eyes after exiting his four-tailed fox mode a combination of this and Nightmare Fuel, since he usually has that expression in comic situations, like after Sakura hits him.
    • It quickly sinks back into Nightmare Fuel when you realize that they are blank and white because they rolled back in his head.
    • Previously, while he's still fighting, he swallows a ball of concentrated chakra and inflates. Suddenly. He looks like a giant football with legs. Narm doesn't get much better than this.
    • Also, during Naruto's fight with Orochimaru he goes into the Kyuubi state and Yamato's response to this is to say "Shit..."
  • In Shippuden episode 114, the death of Tsunade's brother in a Flash Back. He just shows up in a flashback about Orochimaru's life without any indication, runs ahead of his team, and just... explodes. And his necklace lands near the rest of his team.
  • Itachi's infamous RAEP FACE made the jump from manga to Shippudden's sixth opening. Every time one watches the upcoming episodes, it's there to remind the viewer how ridiculous it is—and if the original wasn't bad enough, then the one in the opening has an inverted color scheme that makes it look more like Kankuro than Itachi.

"I realize the screaming pain
searing loud into my brain
But I'm going straight ahead with this scar."

  • Sasori's fight with Sakura and Chiyo, while awesome, had an instant of Narm. Sasori is shooting fire at Sakura and Chiyo. Sakura and Chiyo both hide behind rocks and are completely unharmed by the flames even though some of the flames are bypassing the rocks. It's made even funnier when Chiyo remarks, "These flames are so intense."
  • It's hard to take Hinata getting smashed into the ground by Pain's Shinra Tensei seriously when the response this elicits is "Eek!" Fortunately, this is only the Sleepy Fans translation. (Others use the more appropriate "Kyah!")
    • Viz used it too.
  • Viz translates the name of the jutsu that Pain uses to level most of Konoha as "Almighty Push", taking away some of the impact of the scene with how unimpressive the name is.
    • The technique made its debut in Shippuden Episode 159, and it seems subs have picked up on using "Almighty Push" for Shinra Tensei (神羅天征). It's a matter of perspective; seeing it mentioned in a scene that has a Homage to The Matrix conserves its awesome and fear-inducing nature if you know the Matrix reference.
    • Viz's translation of the scene where Hinata :confesses her love to Naruto goes well until Hinata is charging to attack Pain. She lets out a battle cry of "Rraawrr!" It's quite amusing to imagine Nana Mizuki or Stephanie Sheh trying to make a sound similar to one made by Rorschach while voicing Hinata.
  • The reaction of Nagato (who would become Big Bad Pain) when ninja murder his parents:

"WAHHHHH!!!"

    • The reaction to the ninja that killed them after mistaking them for other ninjas is approximately, "Woops, our bad".
    • From the same flashback, we see where Nagato got the idea of becoming a god to help the world right before a stray exploding kunai comes by and kills his dog. The timing makes it hilarious.
    • Later we have Yahiko's death in the anime, by flash stepping into the kunai.
  • The final battle between Sasuke and Itachi has the scene where Itachi comes at Sasuke for his eyes. Itachi's facial expression kills any gravitas the scene has.
    • Itachi's infamous RAEP FACE? Looks something like >8D ?
      • Even more worse is when Itachi finally dies, his face smacks into the wall as he falls to the ground. This has pretty much become a meme of "Itachi Style: Facewall" when something is completely ridiculous.
      • By that same merit, Sasuke's reaction to Itachi blocking his Kirin with Susanoo may possibly count.
  • In the pilot chapter, after finding out who killed his best friend, Naruto transforms into a fox. It sounds cool before it appears; but then you see it's an adorable, sort of creepy, anthropomorphic fox.
    • It gets better. In that link, you have to scroll past the huge tentacle rape-y tails to get to the tiny little freaky fox.
      • The fox made it into the actual manga, and it's Narm factor is lampshaded by it being a goofy failed transformation.
  • There is an instance that shows how the perspective of a panel can reduce the impact of a scene. Jugo stepped up to take on one of Raikage's bodyguards. We cut back to the kage meeting, then return to Jugo in his Cursed Seal form 2. He's squatting awkwardly in front of Sasuke and Suigestu and saying, "HA HA HA. I'LL KILL YOU." The odd body position and angle combined with the evil cackling makes him look more like an evil troll than a threatening monster.
  • Though it wasn't an especially serious scene, the face [dead link] Naraka path Pain after it's killed is hilarious looking.
  • Naruto falling into an Angst Coma can easily come off as funny if you notice that it seems to result from Flash Back-overdose.
  • Sasuke's jovial facial expression when he admits that he just absorbed Orochimaru in the ritual that was meant for Orochimaru to take Sasuke's body.
  • The overly dramatic narration at the end of Chapter 480 ruined an otherwise disturbing scene for many readers:Sasuke enters true darkness!!!
    • Look at Madara's expression...er...eye on that page. He looks like he just had an orgasm.
    • Then there's the face he makes beforehand.
    • YMMV on the above image, since it is also on the Nightmare Fuel page.
    • What's worse than a crazy face? Why, an animated crazy face, of course!
  • This panel from Chapter 478. The shading makes it look like Orochimaru has a mustache and a bit of hair under his lower lip.
  • This from chapter 484. Seeing the Susanoo fizzle out after its latest upgrade was unexpectedly hilarious because the page before had Sasuke declare in a dramatic fashion how he wanted to "change everybody's scornful laughter to screams and moans".
  • The outfit that Sasuke wears after fighting Itachi and joining Akatsuki has a ridiculously oversized collar.
    • The high collar was another symptom of his "MY CLAN ALONE ROCKS" syndrome; it was tradition among Uchiha men to wear high collars on their shirts. That he incorporated it in a kimono did make him a Fashion Victim Villain.
  • Deidara's giant suicidal explosion in Chapters 362 and 363 is hard to take seriously because its silhouette looks like that of Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants—or, to put it another way, a happy starfish.
  • Sakura stating her wish of having Sasuke rejoin them so that "Team 7 can laugh together again". Uh, what? When did Team 7 ever laugh together? When did Sasuke ever laugh period? Team 7's interaction was mostly Sakura beating up on Naruto, Naruto and Sasuke having a heated rivalry, and Sasuke giving Sakura's advances the cold shoulder. Sakura and Naruto sure have a bad case of Nostalgia Filter if they think they were all the best of friends back then.
  • When Naruto enters the fox state and the chakra tails begin to appear, it looks like he's suffering from the problem that defeated Kiba in the Chuunin exams. Particularly when it's viewed from the rear.
  • In episode 159 from Shippuuden, Choji's run to escape the last missile sent by Pain's Ashura Path is ridiculous.
  • Sometimes when Naruto says or shouts Sasuke's name in the English dub, it sounds like "SAUCE GAY!"
  • Naruto throwing the rhino during the battle with Pain was awesome in the manga. In episode 163 of the anime, due to Off-Model animation in some parts, it looks more like he's trying to scare the rhino away by saying, "AWAY WITH YOU!"
  • Shippuden episode 166: Naruto's reaction to seeing Pain use his power to throw Hinata to the ground was hilarious here.
    • Some people find this scene, in which Hinata is crawling over to Naruto, funny because she looks like a dog sniffing the ground at first.
  • Episode 167, the Crowning Moment of Narm of the series, has a scene where Kyuubi!Naruto smashes Pain into the ground repeatedly. Then Pain, whose head is sticking out of the ground, merely looks at Kyuubi!Naruto and asks this with a Stoic expression:

"Do you hate me?"

"My pain is far greater than yours!"

    • Any time Pain's face breaks out of its default expression in that episode. Here are some good examples.
    • The Animation Bump this episode received gave it extremely fast-paced, fluid animation. Because of this, a lot of the episode looks Off-Model in still shots, much like the famous "I can see you!" picture of Sasuke.
      • When you can clearly see Off-Model work in this animation style without pausing the video, something is wrong.
    • Kyuubified Naruto hits Pain into a stone wall. Pain's head sticks into it, and his entire body goes rigid for several moments before going limp.
      • Also directly before this, when the punch sends Pain cartwheeling incredibly fast for like twenty seconds, and afterward when his body is IMMEDIATELY smothered by a bunch of boulders falling on him.
    • Pein gets 'windwheel' legs while running, causing him to resemble a Goth Emo Roadrunner.
  • Shippuuden episode 48, "Bonds", ends with a dramatic speech by Naruto in which he declares his determination to destroy Orochimaru. While admittedly a Crowning Moment of Awesome, it becomes Narm Fuel for Monty Python fans.

Naruto: If he tears off my arms, I'll just kick him dead. If he tears off my legs, I'll bite him dead.

  • Chapter 523 has Kakashi telling his team what they should do to deal with Zabuza and several other members of Kabuto's "Zombie Army". But did Kishimoto really need to to use Super Deformed for that? It completely killed the drama, damn it.
    • The fact that there's a character named Santa. WTF?
  • Konan's dying flashback about her former team and Jiraiya... all dressed and positioned like they're wearing the frog suit in SMB3. It kind of ruins the drama of the scene when they look like they're about to tackle a swimming level.
  • The 4:54 point of this scene, where Naruto's clones act as missiles. Notice how stretched out and fishlike their faces are.
  • In 529: the super-powered Ino-Shika-cho attack's name? It's called "Meat Tank" Come ON, Kishi! You're not even trying!
    • "Meat Tank" is actually the name of Chouji's jutsu, which he uses to turn into a giant ball. Still pretty narmy, though.
  • 533: Chouji spontaneously sprouting butterfly wings out of sheer rage. It's an awesome moment for what it represents... but still really silly looking.
  • Some of the dialogue in the last few volumes of the english manga has been... awkward. Especially the way everyone suddenly refers to their parents as "ma" and "pa". This makes for some serious Narm when Naruto first meets his parents.
  • Some think this about Sasuke's hairstyle which resembles a duck's ass.
  • The new opening of Shippuden. Just... the new opening of Shippuden.
  • Naruto crying at Gaara's death it looked like he was crying crystals. Sparkly crystals.
    • Also, Naruto's dramatic turning around and Big "Shut Up!" directed at Chiyo when the latter tells him to calm down following Gaara's death.
  • When Sasuke meets Itachi the first time since the anime/manga started, he gives that speech. "In order to defeat you..." after which he charges up his Chidori. After charging up, though, he looks at Itachi, screams the last line of his speech, and his left hand pulls the collar of his shirt down. WHAT. THE. FREAK. That just took much of the awesomeness out of their meeting, since there is no reason why he'd want to do that. If it's to show his curse seal, that's on the back. This is just... odd.
  • Naruto's head butt move against Tobi in chapter 563 while awesome was hilarious with the shocked look on Tobi's face and the strained look on Naruto's face.
  • When Madara uses his teleportation power on Torune, it just looked wrong as Madara sneaked up on him from behind, leading to many "SURPRISE BUTTSECKS" jokes.
  • In the 8th Shippuden opening "Diver" here the uplifting and dramatic moment where all of Naruto's friends push him out of the water to the surface is ruined when it appears that Sai is touching Naruto's butt.
  • That butt-bow that Sasuke (in part II), Orochimaru, and his minions wear.
  • Sasuke's Evil Laugh in Shippuden episode 214 and manga chapter 483 is Narm Charm. It's hilarious mainly because it's Sasuke but it also shows how far gone he is. See it here. Some of the comments on the video are pretty funny too like "Nothing says sanity like a psycho laugh after no one told a joke."
  • During Hidan's Evil Laugh in the anime when he does his voodoo ability you can see blood drip down from between his legs making it seem like he's having his period.
  • "YOUR HEART IS MINE!!!" Seriously, as if this line from Kakuzu to Kakashi isn't enough, let's add some context: the former has the latter pinned to the ground with Naughty Tentacles, is straddling him, and is about to literally rip his heart out to keep powering his immortality.
  • Itachi's crowjob.
  • Chapter 486: Seeing Sasuke say the word "fuck" in response to Naruto saying that they'll die together the next time they fight.
  • That noise the Hachibi makes whenever he comes out to fight. "WHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"
  • Naruto's Megaton Punch that makes a huge imprint in Sasuke's face and sends him flying through the air at the Valley of the End fight.
  • Suigetsu threatening Sasuke would have been a lot more dramatic if Suigetsu hadn't been naked while he was doing it.
  • The second part of Sasuke's name is Narmy because it sounds like the word Uke which is the bottom in homosexual relationships.
  • Behold. Sasuke and Orochimaru screaming. It sounds more like they're taking a poop.
  • In the manga Danzo's reaction to a group of assassins trying to kill,him is to shread them apart with a wind technique, naturally this is extremely painful. In the Viz translation instead of screams of pain one assassin just say "Owww Man" making it come off as if they've just scraped a knee instead.
  • The changing of Deidara's catchphrases for the Viz manga . His first "Art is a Bang/Blast" was short and to the point as well as helping describe his personality. It has been changed to "Art is an Infiftinte Explosion" which comes off as long winded and somewhat tedious. His second catch "Katsu" is also an activator for his explosive jutsu has been translated as "Yeaargh" which makes no damn sense what so ever and ruins every scene he uses it in. To be fair it's a specific Japanese phrase, but it could have easily translated as boom or something similar.
  • Viz Manga has recently come out with the 3rd Databook completely ignoring the first two that came before it. While the character profiles follow the original and fan translations pretty well,the jutsu are a series of hit and miss regarding names and descriptions. The jutsu names are a grab bag of completely literal translations, partially translated techniques or just technique names that vaguely have to do with the actual description,especially those that weren't named in the series before hand. For example naming a character's reincarnation technique "Self Destruct Jutsu" is one of the bigger offenders.
  • Continuing on the translation issue is the video game's name for one of Itachi's Genjutsu. His Ephemeral technique has it's own description on the series nightmare fuel page and is rather creepy to see in action. Of course the Japanese word for Ephemeral can also mean bubbles,I'll let you guess which one the dubber's went with.
  • "Yondaime... Minato. Step away from the Jinchuuriki, or your son dies at the ripe old age of one minute." That's meant to sound threatening, but the whole "1 minute" thing just ruined it for me.
  • A bit of Latin-American dub induced narm. Bless Moisés Iván Mora's heart for trying to break his Pigeonholed Voice Actor "roles" via playing Kabuto, but when you hear him speaking and all you can think about is how much you're hearing the voice of Tadao motherfuking Yokoshima, you know it's not working. (He did a little better as Yumichika, but still.)
  • The epic battle between Gai and Kisame is ruined by the wonky animation of their attacks with Afternoon Tiger looking more like a bear than an actual tiger and every single one of Kisame's sharks and related jutsu having way more teeth then should fit in their mouths. Gai's GlowingEyesOfDoombeing changed from white to red don't help matters either as it makes him look like a robot.
  • Chapter 579 is rather serious with the revelation that Kabuto has trained to become a Sage like Naruto from the Snake Summons among other reveals. This is broken by Itachi of all people calling Sasuke Dr. Snakes due to his knowledge of snakes when he was planning to kill Orochimaru. It's even funnier with there being a pause before saying it, as if Itachi added it in. Kabuto follows this up by saying "But you won't defeat me by becoming Dr. Snakes!". You can see it here: http://www.mangareader.net/naruto/579/4
  • Naruto and Sasuke have a lot of Ho Yay between them. Because of this any attempts on Sasuke's part to kill Naruto by stabbing him with his sword come off looking like he's trying to have sex with him. Case in point: Their first reunion in Part I where Sasuke half hugs Naruto and tries to stab him with his sword. As well as if you rewind any part in the anime where Naruto straddles Sasuke for whatever reason it comes off looking more like they're having sex.
  • Odama Rasengan. Hard to take seriously when you keep hearing "Obama" instead.
  • Chapter 581: Kabuto saying he'll be Sasuke's older brother in place of Itachi right after he tried to eat him and requesting that he join him again after Sasuke refuses the first time.
  • Karin can heal people if they bite her. Simple Fetish Fuel right? This becomes hilarious in the anime where, when Sasuke bites her, she reacts by throwing her head back and moaning like she is having an orgasm. We then see her breathing heavily next to Sasuke and him standing up, both of them acting like they just had sex.
  • Chapter 579: "EVEN HE COULDN'T BECOME A TRUE SAGE IN THE END JUST LIKE ME! My power in the sage mode...If you're Dr.Snakes, I hope you keep that in your mind... I'm no longer a snake... The perfect force of sage helped me shed my snake skin...AND I'M A DRAGON NOW!!" What.
    • Made ironic given that Kabuto was The Dragon to Orochimaru.
    • The snake that apparently has it's eyes fixed on Kabuto's ass.
  • Zetsu's super-enthusiastic "HALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in Episode 201 will make the viewer crack a smile.
  • Hidan bleeding from underneath his cloak after fatally torturing Asuma eerily looks like he's having a period.
    • And then there's his EXTREME fits of maniacal laughter. "GEH-WA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!"
    • As Shikamaru's trap caves in on his dismantled body, Hidan gets pelted by a rock on one eye hard enough that it goes lazy, giving him a goofy, broken-eyed baby doll look as he continues to spew out taunts in wake of the torturous fate about to ensue.
    • And the last line he screams before Shikamaru's trap completely buries him:

Hidan: I'LL BITE YOU IN HELL, MOTHERFUCKER!!!

      • In the dub, he shouts, "I'll just need my TEETH!" Hello again, Monty Python.
  • In Shippuden when Naruto goes Kyuubi he gets black lips, making it look like he has black lipstick on.
  • Despite 578 being a really intense chapter, it had a bit of a gem. Sasuke complained about how Itachi always left him for "later". Itachi notes that we keep our natures and habits until we die...but then, he's done that already, so he might want to work on a new way for dealing with his brother!
  • Sasuke picking up Sakura and choking her is pretty funny if you look at it with the sentence "Is Sasuke Uchiha gonna have to choke a bitch?" in mind.
  • Any scene with Hotaru in it of the Shippuden filler is made funny due to how big her forehead is.
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