Naruto Is Not Gifted Or Privileged. He Has Worked For Everything He's Got.

My argument will oppose your argument from the youtube video "Naruto, The Self-Made Hypocrite" by PlagueOfGripes. My source: Youtube video "Was Naruto REALLY an Underdog? " by Clyde. This video is actually a response to "Naruto, The Self-Made Hypocrite"Con's premise: "Rock Lee is the true hard worker in the series. Naruto had everything handed to him. "Information needed for you:9 tails name is Kurama. Jinchuriki - humans that have tailed beasts sealed within them. Jutsu - the mystical arts a ninja will utilize in battle. Taijutsu - hand to hand combat. Ninjutsu - elemental jutsu. Genjutsu - jutsu involving illusion and senses. The Beginning. From the very start of Naruto it's made apparent that Naruto has no one. He has no parents, Family, Friends and he can barely even trust himself. As he has a planetary being that's been sealed inside of him that not only torments him but at any moment can take advantage of Naruto's despair and loneliness. For the most part of Naruto, The village sees him as nothing but a trouble making pest. Those who are aware that the 9 tails is actually sealed inside of Naruto treat him like he's an animal. It honestly isn't until he becomes part of Team 7 that he gets consistently treated like an actual human being. Hinata and Hiruzen (The 3rd Hokage) were the only two before who actually seen him as more than a Jinchurki. As Hinata was rarely allowed near Naruto due to how strict her family in the Hyuga were and Hiruzen checked up on him every now and then but was swarmed with the responsibilities of being Hokage. Hiruzen then proceeded to die shortly after Naruto became part of Team 7. Some people make the comparison that Rock lee is the true hard working underdog in Naruto. A boy born with no talent for anything. Lee may as well be a real human transported into the series of Naruto as he can neither use ninjutsu, Genjutsu or even summoning jutsu. With his raw hard work alone, Lee trains himself to the degree where he is not only superior to Sasuke at hand to hand combat, A famed member of the Uchiha someone who naturally was very quick at learning things like taijutsu and scored almost perfect grades on everything. Naruto and Rock Lee. Lee trained himself so hard from scratch that he was the first person to not just touch Gaara but send him to the shadow realm and surpass Sasuke in hand to hand combat. Lee is without a doubt a true underdog. In fact I don't think anyone disagrees with that notion. But there is actually another underdog. His name is Naruto. As I said prior to the Rock Lee stuff, Naruto has started from absolute zero. Now just from me saying that, I will predict you will say "Naruto has 9 tails, Naruto wins because of it, He's gifted, If it wasn't for the 9 tails, Naruto would be nothing. " I dislike mentality about comparing Naruto to Rock Lee. Kurama was never friendly with Naruto at all until episode 329 of Naruto Shippuden. It wasn't until that fight until the anime and manga chapter 571 which includes over 10 whole years of real time of story telling by Masashi Kishimoto that Kurama was actually helpful, Had Naruto's interest in mind and worked alongside him. Almost every single time Kurama got involved in one of Naruto's fights was so he could take advantage of Naruto's helplessness, Hatred of a villain or just any ounce of a chance to cause trouble and weaken the seal on Naruto's body. Kurama verbatim says this on more than one occasion and even highlights how each Jinchuriki before Naruto had treated him as a tool. Kurama absolutely hated humans and had no reason to help Naruto genuinely other than for it to lead to Naruto removing the seal which kept Kurama inside of his 8 trigrams prison and then Kurama would take over Naruto's body. Kurama's thoughts on Naruto. Also one of the actual reasons Kurama ended up liking Naruto later on in the story was because he did admire Naruto's hard work which he himself actually explains in the story. Kurama says there were countless times where he actually expected Naruto to lose or the situation was so one sided that he should give up, And Naruto never once did. Kurama even foreshadows and starts coming to this conclusion. Before this however, Kurama was still a massive and cynical force that let Naruto go berserk on numerous occasions against numerous enemies such as the fight against Zabuza and Haku, Orochimaru, Neji, Gaara, Sasuke, Orochimaru again and Sasuke again within multiple encounters in both Part 1 and Part 2. The entire Pain fight where he even entices Naruto due to how rock bottom he is after the Hinata event. There are also plenty more occasions in the series with this happening as well. Naruto gained skilled because of himself, Not because of Kurama. To say that Naruto had everything handed to him is just plain wrong. One misconception that most people have is that Naruto was actually very talented and dear to work hard throughout the story regardless of the 9 tails being inside of him. We can assume he got this from his father Minato who was insanely talented as a ninja when he was a kid and had an insane knack for creating jutsu. Although Naruto was terrible in school, Kind of like how most are when they don't have anyone at home pushing them to do better and don't care about them getting good grades, Naruto in Part 1 was only 12-13 years old and was dealing with depression as a child alongside this loneliness which would also directly correlate his lack of caring for schooling and other things. Also, The direct reason Hinata even liked Naruto in the first place is because she could see his depression but she also seen that he would never give up regardless of the circumstances. When Naruto tried to learn new techniques and really wanted to do something he learned them very quickly because when he put his mind to something he knew that he could do it because that was his ninja way. The multi-shadow clone jutsu was the best example because this was a forbidden jutsu, Yet Naruto learned it in a single day then mastered it quite quickly and was able to incorporate it into other jutsu and used it against almost every other villain that he fought afterwards throughout the story. As time passes, Naruto masters sage mode whereas Jiraiya didn't and he was around 50 years old yet Naruto was 16 at the time when he mastered it. He also then used it to help master the rasenshuriken which Kakashi says the original rasengan in itself is already hard enough to master and neither Jiraiya nor Minato did anything like that with the jutsu itself. All they did however was implement the actual rasengan with other jutsu like Jiraiya with his massive rasengan's sage mode and Minato who used it to attack people with the flying raijin technique. Thanks to Kakashi training Naruto, Naruto was able to get a small push where he learned what his chakra nature was and from there he was able to create the rasenshuriken and later on master sage mode when he was training with the toad sage. With all that being said, To be fair this isn't even a talent thing but actual hard work. Difference between Rock Lee and Naruto when it comes to their struggles throughout the series. Rock Lee. Negatives: No ninjutsu. Positives: -Insanely powerful forbidden taijutsu (8 inner gates) that can take on Sage Madara when it's actually mastered. -Insane levels of motivation and compassion from the strongest taijutsu user thats ever lived in the series (Might Guy), Which is confirmed by Madara himself. -Teammates that genuinely push him and are willingly helping and support him, Even Neji who simply said he'd never surpass himNaruto. Positives: A lot of physical potential. Strong shinobi like Jiraiya started looking after him 15 years after his depression. Negatives: -His source of power wants to possess him 24/7. -No one in the village likes him. -Depressed ever since he growing up. -His teammates looked down on him and are constantly either making him more happy or extremely depressed. -He has no parents. -Motivation to grow stronger was very limited because he originally had nobody to push him. -He was destined to fight the strongest people in the shinobi world AKA Pain, Obito, Madara and even Itachi. All of these people want to kill him because the demon which has been ruining his life since he was a child is thankfully sealed inside Naruto. -Naruto is also destined to fight his best friend to the death. Yes, Kurama is apart of him, But nevertheless. I will say Kurama has helped Naruto a lot with or without good intentions, But to say Naruto -- the same kid who was born without parents, Friends, Loved ones except 2 people until the age of 13, Had Iruka sensei who didn't originally like Naruto, Naruto having to watch all the other kids prosper and be loved by their families while he sat on the sidelines, A boy who was destined to be chased across the earth until the day he died by the Akatsuki, Had no one like Might Guy to see that hard work in him and show him compassion. To say that Naruto didn't work his a$$ off learning techniques, Helping people out, Show compassion to everyone he encountered whether they were a villain or not -- and genuinely not only wanted to save Sasuke from a road filled with despair but also wanted to lead his village into a new era when he could protect everyone by himself. The actual difference between Naruto and Rock Lee is that Rock Lee didn't have the hardships Naruto had growing up. Rock Lee still had parents and could've lived a relatively normal life. He didn't actually need to be a ninja. Even Tsunade actually states this in the story too. Naruto would've had to become one especially with the Akatsuki existing. Even though Naruto wanted to become a ninja, He was destined to fight regardless. Running out of space. I only have a little bit left to say. I am finishing my R2 in the comments.