Talk:Gaara/Archive 1

message: *Development during the Chuunin exam arc.
*Appearance in Sasuke Rescue & Naruto II arc.
*About Naruto's identification with Gaara.
*At least one good body-sized picture (Taken from anime under fair use? Fanart with premission from the author?) --AceMyth July 5, 2005 21:51 (UTC)
Moved 'Gaara' to 'Gaara of the Desert'?--JadziaLover 5 July 2005 22:05 (UTC)
:I don't think I can point to an exact reason, but "Gaara of the Desert" is the full name he uses to introduce himself, and I think we should use it. This way we pre-emptively deal with possible disambiguation issues and the title provides more context (Notice that to the average person 'Gaara' sounds like it might be anything really but 'Gaara of the Desert' immediately tips one off that the article deals with a person). 
::Aside from that, may I ask what your source for asserting Gaara knows Shunshin no Jutsu is? --AceMyth July 5, 2005 23:29 (UTC)
:::Good enough reason ^_^ I just wanted to know, since the data books call Gaara just 'Gaara' and he's almost always called 'Gaara' except when he's introduced or something.
::::The first Data book has Gaara listed as one of the users of Shunshin no Jutsu. He uses it during to preliminaries, to get down to the arena floor just before his name is announced, using sand to hide his Shunshin ^^ --JadziaLover 5 July 2005 23:41 (UTC)
:::::Oho! Sorry for ignorantly taking it down then ^^;; --AceMyth July 6, 2005 00:21 (UTC)
::::::And also to get down to the ground in episode 21, after he scolds Kankurō. SpionKop 05:56, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Gaara of the Sand will take preference over the Japanese name once the anime begins its run in the U.S., as it is assumed that name will be used in the U.S. anime. WhisperToMe 02:53, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

text: It looks like User:Someguy0830 reverted you; he said "describing in detail serves little purpose" .  --Merovingian ※ Talk 04:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Gah, ya beat me to it. To elaborate on that, it's best to condense plot summaries as much as possible. As nice as it is to get a blow by blow, we have the plot articles (see the navbox at the bottom) for the larger descriptions. – Someguy0830 (T | C) 04:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  To do 

message: "Six-year-old Gaara with his Uncle Yashamaru." -- it looks like a kid and a chick in that picture, not an uncle (which implies male)
:Yashamaru is feminine, yes, but he's male nevertheless.
::Also, Yashamaru is a boy's name. SpionKop 21:12, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: O please grow up. Yashamaru is a man and u should know that if you follow up on the story so you shouldnt make stupid jokes like that and say he "looks like a chick". i hate when people act immature and do this like with Orochimaru and Haku.QuietDrive627 21:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender! 

message: how do we know that garaa can still control sand after he had his sand thingy taken out of him?
: I don't remember well, but I remember him using sand to shake Naruto's hand after Chiyo revived him.  Could be making that up, though. SpionKop 22:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: SpionK0p is correct, the source for this is manga ch 281 p 10.  Of course, I doubt it would be difficult for any moderately talented chakra user to manipulate such a small amount of sand, so it is not yet clear how much of Gaara's fearsome abilities remain. Meersan 05:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On an episode of Naruto Shippuuden Deidara says something along the lines of: "I see so he merges his chakra with that sand.un" Alright I am paraphrazing. If you decifer the text it says that Gaara infuses the sand with his own chakra. Meaning that apon the Ichibi being removed the sand controlling ability looses some of its power. (LatiRider 19:26, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  question 

message: Why is, as one of his least favorite foods, chestnut glace odd? What's odd about it? Is it about Temari's favorite food being roasted chestnuts?
Maybe his family has a thing about chastnuts? Then does Kankuro have a thing about chestnuts too?--Bloody rock princess 16:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chestnuts odd? 

message: Does Gaara bleed? All I ever see is sand coming out of him.
:He usually has a thin layer of sand covering his entire body to act as a shell, and the sand automatically reacts to prevent him from being injured. Nevertheless, he bleeds when he uses the sand to carve the "ai" kanji on his forehead, and later on freaks out when Sasuke's Chidori breaks through his shoulder, and he sees his own blood. He also bleeds during his fight with Naruto near the end of the arc.
He bleeds alot when Naruto headbutts him.  That was messy! -Count Mall
Why does he freak out? he sees other peoples blood... what's the difference between that? Makes no sense. -Maymi Hatake(yes, kakashi's daughter)
(1 December 2006) My opinion is that perhaps he fears seeing his own blood as much as he fears dying, thus his once unreasonable efforts to allow no one "to destroy [his] existence". It would also be rather frightening, I believe, to be injured in a fight for the first time, especially at the time when Sasuke attacked him, a point where he was obviously reaching the peek of his mental instability... - Kaas
I think it freaks him out because he feels scared that he is becoming as he became vulnerable to others attacks. I think it was Temari who said during the Chunnin Exams "Gaara's Beeding?!?!" apparently it isn't normal for him to bleed.Peridotprincess 00:46, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think he's scared because of all the blood he's seen when he was younger. You know, when his father sent ninjas to kill him. The sand naturally protected him, and, as a result, killed the assasins and that of course made them bleed. Gaara was only a child when this happened, and I guess he's haunted by the memory of seeing death and blood when he was a yound boy. He doesn't want to see more blood. That's my opinion anyways. --Tohru Honda13Sign here! 00:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wounds 

message: "If anything, Gaara felt that his opponent was pathetic and stupid."  -- I removed this sentence because I don't think it's supported by the manga/anime.  Gaara says Kimimaro is brainwashed by Orochimaru (ch 217 p 5 Inane translation) and stubborn (ibid p 10) but it seems pretty clear that Gaara has an understanding of (and even sympathy for) his opponent, rather than believing Kimimaro to be stupid.  His final words are "Even if you know they're bad/evil... a person can't defeat loneliness.".  A fitting coda to one of the best fights in the series. 
Also, I changed some of the wording about the Gaara/Kimimaro fight to make it clearer.  Gaara essentially admits he would have been defeated when he says "We would have been completely beaten, wouldn't we?" (ibid p 14, Inane translation).  Lee immediately refutes this, saying luck is a part of strength, but the key to the fight is the difference between Kimimaro fighting for a person he believes in vs. Gaara fighting for only himself (though starting to change after his fight with Naruto) and the strength this gives to Kimimaro.  - Meersan 05:09, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sasuke Retrieval arc 

message: The author implies, if not outright says that Gaara means to kill everyone but himself. This is not true. Gaara obviously is homicidal, but not to the point that the article says. The article states that Gaara finds meaning in killing anyone who threatens his existance and then in parentheses says "Anyone Who is not himself" This is incorrect. Gaara does thrive on killing people that want to kill him, as evidenced in the Second Stage of the Chuunin exam when he states "I will kill anyone I encounter." This could be seen as favoring the article, however, everyone in that part of the exam was out to kill each other, so Gaara would have taken pleasure in killing every single team but his own. Also, Gaara obviously knew that Hinata's team was hiding in the bushes after he stated he would kill all in his path, yet decided to move on anyway. I removed one part making the article more correct, but someone should consider revising the paragraphs talking about his thirst for blood to make them more accurate.
I don't get it. Maybe he didn't want to waste chakra. There are many reasons. Besides it's the author not him. -Maymi Hatake
He does say in Rock Lee's hospital room that he concluded that he existed to kill anyone who wasn't him, but I never got the impression that he would go around killing randomly. There was method to his (then) madness.
(14 November 2006)
Agree with the first point. It has not been implyed that Gaara would go out of his way to kill 'everyone', but rather anyone 'who gets in his way.' To my knowledge, Gaara never went out to find a victim, instead, he only killed those who seemed to threaten him or whatever he may have wished to do in each case. It's a matter of speculation however, so perhaps it would be wise to include both opinions of his past behavior. -Kaas
Gaara viewed the world as his play toy- he commented to Naruto and Shikamaru that if the world was created and filled with people for him to kill, it was a wonderful world indeed. He intended to kill everyone beside himself, because that was what he concluded was the purpose of his life- to love no one but himself. I agree with the second point made, there was a method to his madness; he was called a "genius" by Kankuro during the Gaara and Lee fight- If Gaara was a genius, he wouldn’t go around killing randomly. In the Death Forest, he was talked into moving on by Temari, even though he knew Hinata and co. were in the bushes. Perhaps he thought he could deal with them later in the exam.
~~KazeAi
I'm pretty sure that the author who put that Gaara is overly homicidal was just vandalism. I've found that before and just reverted it. --Tohru Honda13Sign here! 00:34, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaara is not overly Homicidal.  

message: It's a huge spoiler!
But that's what we have spoiler tags for. Anyone who is afraid of ruining Naruto II for themselves would be wise to avoid the sections of the character articles that say "Naruto II" or "Part II" on them. That's just common sense. Treima 01:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, an anon user added that line after I posted my comment. I see it has since been removed. Treima 00:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not censored. Even if it gives things away, as long as it benefits the article, it should be included.--SUIT 42 04:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, but any reasonable step that allows casual fans to view the article without soiling their enjoyment of the series should be taken. That's what the spoiler tags are for in the first place. I've got no problems with the Kazekage thing, just so long as we can throw it underneath a spoiler tag. Having it at the tippy-top of the article isn't only pointless, it's mean. Treima 04:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I've removed the line about Kazekage 

message: He was born in janury it should be 12-14.
:I shouldn't even have to explain why this is flawed. Its... not... real... life..., get... it? – Someguy0830 (T | C) 02:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, we have the data and a source, so hhe shouldn't need to ask..Lord GaleVII 22:30, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Er, this thread is about two months old. There's no reason to revive old threads for the sake of what one could interpret as a personal attack. You Can't See Me! 04:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age 

message: In the following line "For the next six years, Gaara would be the victim of almost constant assassination attempts, all ordered by his father," I think the term target is more appropriate; use of the term victim in this context implies that the assassination attempts were successful, which they were not.  --BrokenSphere 03:31, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded! Treima 03:32, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Target vs. victim wording 

message: i read through the whole article, and i might have missed it, but does the article explain the rings around gaaras eyes and how they keep him awake? Lord GaleVII 01:59, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't seem so. The information is on the page about tailed-beasts though. Retlor 02:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

text: its because of the one-tailed shukaku sealed inside of him. the rings are just a mark showing the shukakus presence in him, much like narutos cheek lines, and he has insomnia because if he ever fell asleep, the shukaku would eat away his personality and take control of him. it says all this in the biju page under one-tailed shukakuQuietDrive627 23:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Shukaku is a tanuki. Tanukis have the same sort of "masks" as racoons. You Can't See Me! 11:57, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a double meaning. JuJube 00:05, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Eyes

message: yo, wat is gaara's reg. #????? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.106.93.130 (talk) 01:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an unimportant little factoid. For those who are curious, however, it's 56-001. ~SnapperTo 01:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: what does that even mean? KKIPPES 06:06, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably the number on his passport, like the one Temari flashed to Sakura when they first met... Or the one Naruto purposely made a weird pic for right after graduation >_>  -- Seraphchoir 13:00, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  registration number? 

message: Someone has stated that after the shukaku is extracted by the Akatsuki that Gaara dies as Chiyo was unable to revive him , this is FALSE and needs editting. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.69.23.32 (talk) 09:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't see what you're talking about.  If you see something like this in the article, please Be Bold and make the correction yourself. –Gunslinger47 18:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Editting 

message: Shouldnt the technique Gaara used in the finals of the chunin exams agaianst sasuke where he creates a sand dome to transform into the shukaku be considered another defensive technique of his? The article says it is a variation of the sand shield, but it took longer to create and is much more powerful than the sand shield. Im really curiuos about this so please help me discuss so i can see your opinion.QuietDrive627 23:46, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Defense 

message: Um, does he have a last name like everyone else, or is it just "Gaara"? 74.167.170.215 17:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To my knowledge, no one from the Land of Wind has been given a family name. –Gunslinger47 18:23, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gaara?

message: When exactly does Gaara become Kazekage?24.185.163.37 21:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unknown.  Some time during the time skip.  I'd guess within the last year. –Gunslinger47 01:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kazekage 

message: Lately Ive been having more and more interest in Gaara's character, what his psyche is, likes, dislikes, what’s his place in the series and the influence in his creation.
Which brings to thought- Gaara is very much influenced by Arab Culture.
Now don't go saying "Oh yeah thanks for pointing out the obvious”. While it’s true his attire is remarkably in fashion by Arabs its more the context of his character that we begin to see this. For example lets start from the beginning:
We all know the dragon ball series created by Akira Toriyama, and we all remember such memorable characters like Piccolo and the Nameks. And iam sure anyone can see the Arabian tones in Piccolos character and the Nameks in general. But did you know Masashi Kishimoto (creator of Naruto) said he was heavily influenced by Akira Toriyama and his work on Dragon ball Z. Both stories seem to have a Oriental-Arabian style theme and somewhat the same setting.
But of course the real foot notes here is his outfit, the crossed armed posture we see Piccolo always in and notably characters like Jaffar from Arabian nights, also insomnia and the fact that he's a sand nin. The outfit speaks for itself very much Arabian, the supposed eye liner which is in fact just signs of sleep deprivation also has an Arabian undertone and of course the sand country. Did Masashi use Arabs as a research vessel in his creation of the desert people in Naruto. You can't have a desert without desert people and so of course he would make the sand village and Gaara a direct reflection of the Arabian Peninsula.
Next is his name- The name Gaara is written like this "ガアラ" by (katakana syllables) this syllables are used to write foreign words. That means the name isn't a direct Japanese word "there is no meaning of name in the dictionaries". But take a look at this
http://kaswarah.jeeran.com/new2/colorcave2.jpg That’s the Gaara mountain! Its located in sudia arabia near the Al-esa village... The name while having no direct meaning in Japanese has over a few in Arabic. "Gaaraa"(Ghayrah/الغيره) in Arabic is the word describing a context of an emotion. The Arabs don’t just give names for plain emotion (anger-happiness etc) but they also address the state of an emotion. In this case Gaaraa means to be jealous, envies to the point where you're only concern is the well being and value of you're self as a person! Gaara as we all know means "to love only himself"... Literal meaning: Fearful of the loss of position or affection: clutching, possessive
But this was the clincher for me, take a look: Arabic writing in the sand village.
This type of information cannot be left out and unfortunately has been neglected somewhat. I would like to start right away in making this vital addition, but I can't do it without the support of the community. So I would like to know everyone’s opinions and input in this matter, so please discuss ^_^ Sagato 21:55, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't get me wrong, what you have said makes sense, but it would probably be in breach of WP:OR. Retlor 22:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

text: It seems like you and I have a very different definition of "vital".  (P.S. You're wrong about Gaara's name, it's written in kanji and is a "vital" plot point during his story). JuJube 22:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Anyway, your point is that the people living in the Sand Village are likely based off of real-life desert based cultures?  I don't see how that's surprising. –Gunslinger47 23:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gaara/influences

message: Shouldn't the article have a pic of him in his new battle outfit, just throwing it out there but thats what i think
 Allen Walker 12:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gaara part 2 pic?

message: The gourd on Gaara's back has several symbols which resemble an M and a W. Reading it sounds similar to mum, could this be a reference to his mother? Also when he has his inner talks the other being is referred as mother.
Black Dollar 11 April 2007
:I'm sure they're not "M"s and "W"s, since they look more like the stuff you see on eye tests for kids who don't know their alphabet yet.  As for what the actual symbols mean or where they from, I don't know right now.  -- Seraphchoir 13:00, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  M W M 

message: Pardon if I'm wrong, but it seems that Gaara is the only ninja who does not wear his village's symbol. Elaborate below… —Nahum Reduta 12:59, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In Part I, Gaara tied his headband onto the strap of his gourd. I'm not so sure about Part II, but I haven't seen too much of Shippuden anyways. You Can't See Me! 16:43, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I've seen, it's not visible at least in Part II which is odd. JuJube 16:56, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Who says the -kages have to wear a headband. Gaaras predecessor didn't, and the 3rd hokage only wore his in combat. 1st and 2nd (hokages) wore theirs, but we never see them in anything but battle clothes.Lord GaleVII 19:34, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Gaara wears the headband on his vest-thingie, if I'm not mistaken, in part II Gaaras girl434 14:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headband 

message: At the end where it says desert emperial funeral can i add Sabaku Taiso (Desert Emperial Funeral) i dont know the japanese symbol but i will look for it here
:.  This is mentioned under #Abilities. –Gunslinger47 03:39, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Media

message: How much sand can gaara fit in his gourd? It seems like the amount of sand he summons up from his gourd is not proportionate to its size. i cant spell
:Gaara only keeps his blood sand inside the gourd; sand he can control more easily than other sand.  He can summon up an arbitrary amount of sand from surrounding environments. –Gunslinger47 22:28, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Its a cartoon - try not to place too much emphasis on realism :-)  Artistic license is used throughout to make everything more dramatic.  If you must have an explanation, just remember that the gourd is made of this same sand, too, and he has a fair amount covering his body in an armor form - any of this could be used to increase the amount available for attacks.  Further, the sand that is flying around for his attacks could be puffed up significantly due to air between the grains. ApokalypseCow 15:51, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  amount of sand? 

message: The pictured that was uploaded then got replaced was better, it should be Gaara's perminate one. His eyes in this one are wired you can't really see them.Ultimaterasengan 19:26, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture