Uchiha Clan

The Uchiha Clan is a ninja clan from the anime Naruto and many of its members are central to the plot and themes of the series. The clan also appears in Boruto, Naruto's sequel series.
==Canon==
The Uchiha Clan founded Konoha with the Senju Clan, largely based on the childhood dreams of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, despite a long-running blood feud with the Senju. In much of Naruto's canon the Uchiha clan is almost completely dead, having been massacred by Uchiha Itachi on the orders of Shimura Danzou. Uchiha Sasuke, the sole surviving member besides his older brother Itachi, spends much of the series seeking vengeance against his brother before uncovering Danzou's involvement. The Uchiha ran the Konoha Military Police before the Uchiha Massacre; how exactly the village dealt with losing its entire law enforcement branch in a single night is unknown and the subject of much speculation and world building.
Uchiha have the ability to unlock the Sharingan, a special bloodline that lets them predict enemy movement and copy enemy techniques via their eyes. The final level is the Mangekyou Sharingan, which is gained through extreme trauma (usually seeing a loved one die) and will cause the user to eventually go blind unless they switch Mangekyou eyes with someone else, attaining Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.
===Criticism===
Some fans are frustrated with how the Sharingan works against Naruto's overall theme of power and fulfillment being achieved through hard work. 
==Fandom==
Uchiha characters (and therefore the clan itself) tend to be very polarizing. Fans on tumblr use the pro-Uchiha tag to find and denote positive Uchiha-focused content.
==Common tropes and themes==
Because all but a few members of the clan are dead during canon, fanfiction that wants to deal with the Uchiha Clan as a whole often has to take place pre-series in the Warring Clans Era or diverge from canon. 
===Warring Clans Era===
Warring Clans Era fic most often focuses on Uchiha Madara and his younger brother Uchiha Izuna. The most common pairing is Hashirama x Madara.
===Uchiha Massacre===
The Uchiha Massacre commonly features as a station of canon in time travel fix-it fics, and is often portrayed as being near-impossible to stop. Fanfiction and meta also often speculate on the exact cause of the coup the Uchiha were planning and whether Danzou had ulterior motives for ordering the Uchiha Massacre. A 2014 meta post remarks:
===The Curse of Hatred and Senju Tobirama===
Senju Tobirama, the second Hokage, was concerned with the trustworthiness and mental stability of the Uchiha, essentially believing that their great capacity for love was matched only by their extreme capacity for hate, and that in losing the person they care about the most they essentially become dangerously unhinged and selfish. This is often in contrast to the Senju Will of Fire. The audience mostly hears about the Curse of Hatred from Tobirama, however, so some fans think that this is just a personal theory of Tobirama's, or a piece of Senju propaganda, or otherwise suspect due to the nature of the Senju–Uchiha blood feud.
There is no fandom consensus on this subject. Consider this YouTube comment chain from early 2018, which has five comments from five different users:
===Other===
* Mangekyou Sharingan
* A character discovering that they're Uchiha by having their Sharingan awaken
* Speculation about how the clan functions, especially with regard to women
* Sai being an Uchiha
==Shipping==
===In-clan pairings===
:See Also: Uchihacest
Canon never definitively says how big the Uchiha clan is, but they certainly seemed large enough to intermarry, so some "Uchihacest" pairings might be incestual in name only.
====Itachi x Sasuke====
Also abbreviated ItaSasu. The original Uchihacest pairing, although the term can now apply to all Uchiha x Uchiha ships. Gen works are also included in the ItaSasu fandom.
====Shisui x Itachi====
Shisui is the only character besides Sasuke who Itachi is shown to be close to. 
===Out-clan pairings===
====Sasuke x Naruto====
Also abbreviated SasuNaruSasu or SNS because of the LJ shipwar regarding which character is seme or uke.
====Sasuke x Sakura====
Also abbreviated SasuSaku or SS. This ship is canon and in Boruto they have a daughter together, Uchiha Sarada.
====Hashirama x Madara====
Also abbreviated HashiMada. This is the main yaoi ship for Warring Clans Era fic.
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
===Fanart===
* The Book of Uchiha by Shiya
* Daddy Tajima and his kids by junsui4089
===Meta===
==Archives and Fannish Links==
* Uchiha Clan tag on AO3
* Uchiha Massacre on AO3
* Uchiha Clan tag on tumblr
* Uchiha family tag on tumblr
* pro-Uchiha tag on tumblr
* Uchiha month on tumblr
==Resources==
* Uchiha Clan on Narutopedia
* Uchiha Clan Downfall on Narutopedia
==References==
Category:Naruto Character Groups