Another of the villains we face in early Naruto is Orochimaru ... The Akatsuki come in all shapes and sizes and even introduces us to Pain and his iconic cycle of pain speech.

Some characters like Kiba, Kurenai, and Tenten fade into irrelevance as the series progresses. Powerful characters like Anko ...

Speaking of early villains, Orochimaru is most assuredly the “biggest bad” of the initial Naruto series ... once and even the combined effort of all of the Hidden Leaf ultimately wasn ...

Orochimaru, a notorious villain from Naruto, evaded punishment for his heinous crimes and now lives peacefully in Boruto: ...

For all of his careful world-building, Masashi Kishimoto couldn't implement any of his female characters in it to save a life ...