Deidara

## **Introduction**

Deidara is a major antagonist in the *Naruto* anime and manga series. He was a rogue ninja from the Village Hidden in the Stones and the youngest member of the Akatsuki. He served as one of the two main antagonist in the Kazekage Rescue arc, a supporting antagonist in the Three-Tails' Appearance arc and the main antagonist in the Itachi Pursuit Mission arc.

## **Character Details**

During his partnership with Sasori, Deidara usually showed a cool, and relaxed attitude, never losing his smirk even while fighting an intense battle or when being blamed by his partner. However, his personality seemed to change to some extent after being partnered with Tobi, as he would easily get mad at his partner’s childish and sometimes disrespectful behavior. He also had something of a sadistic arsonist nature, rather he was not above enjoying a good fight, and he often blew up his opponents in a very brutal fashion. Deidara's most distinctive trait, however, was his love of art. He would respect any form of it, even if it disagreed with his own. Deidara also had a habit of ending his sentences with nasal-like grunts (…うん, *…un*), roughly translated as "yeah" or "hm". The latter of which is used in the VIZ version. Deidara also seemed to respect the ideals of others as he allowed Gaara to move the sand he used to protect his village into the desert before kidnapping him, even going so far as to admiringly call him noble.

## **Power and Stats**

Tier: **High 7-C,** up to **6-C**

**Name:** Deidara

**Series**: Naruto

**Age:** 19

**Classification:** S-rank, Missing-Nin, Member of Akatsuki, Former Member of the Explosion Corps

**Power and Abilities:** **Superhuman Physical Characteristics**, **Martial Ar**ts, **Weapon Mastery**, (He was able to keep up with Team Guy while he had no arms with just a Kunai in his mouth), **Acrobatics**, **Stealth Mastery**, **High Tolerance to Pain** (lost both of his arms but wasn't really affected by it), **Statistics Amplification**, (All Shinobi can amplify their physical stats via chakra). **Surface Scaling** (He can focus chakra at the soles of his feet), Minor **Illusion Creation**, **Duplication** (Shinobi can use the Clone Technique to make illusionary duplicates of themselves that have no physical substance), **Shapeshifting** (With **Transformation**, Shinobi can transform themselves into other people, animals, plants, and even inanimate objects, such as weapons), **Paralysis Inducement** (Shinobi can full paralyze their targets from close to mid range via the **Temporary Paralysis Technique)**, **Extrasensory Perception** (He can spot people from miles away while he's in the air), **Flight** (Via his Clay Creations), **Earth Manipulation**, **Electricity Manipulation**, **Explosion Manipulation** (From making Clay Bombs with his Clay from his body using the mouths in his hands and his chest and form it into various shapes that can be controlled independently at long range, such as insects, birds, etc. that can also be remotely detonated), **Limited Durability Negation**(He can make Clay Bombs and the resulting cloud from his clones detonating causes targets to explode on a cellular level from the inside out), **Resistance** to **Illusion Creation** and **Mind Manipulation** (He spent a long time training his left eye to break out of Genjutsu from the Sharingan).

**Attack Potency:** Is logically be above **Small Town Level** (Off of Gamabunta's Fire Blast who he can easily scale above since he was able to defeat the 3 Tails which would logically scale him relative to the 1 Tails who is above Gamabunta). **Large Town Level** (Made a large explosion with his **C-0**). **Likely Island Level** (The Akatsuki are stated to be above the Tailed Beasts).

**Speed:** **Supersonic** (Should scale above a Part 1 Rock Lee who perception blitzed Gaara). Should be **Hypersonic+ (**From scaling far above Temari who was able to block attacks that reached the Speed of Sound). **Massively Hypersonic** (Fighting Onoki in Edo Tensei).

**Durability:** Should be above **Small Town Level** (Off of Gamabunta's Fire Blast who he can easily scale above since he was able to defeat the 3 Tails which would logically scale him relative to the 1 Tails who is above Gamabunta). **Large Town Level** (Made a large explosion with his **C-0**). **Likely Island Level** (The Akatsuki are stated to be above the Tailed Beasts).

**Intelligence: Above Average** (Deidara has shown a keen understanding of explosives and is an experienced fighter).

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

**C1-** Deidara's most basic yet versatile form of explosive clay, that is created from only a single palm mouth. These are small animated dolls that often resemble animals. Depending upon which variation is created, they will retain the abilities of the creatures they were modelled after, i.e. those resembling birds can still fly. This feature combined with their little independent explosive power, makes them great for undercover operations. He can produce and release a significant number of them at high speeds.

**C2-** (Shi - Tsu) One of Deidara's specialities that requires the use of both of his palm mouths, creating a large dragon. The dragon itself is capable of flight, and, while Deidara is safely on its back, the dragon can spit out smaller clay figures that attack the opponent similar to guided missiles. These independent missile-like creatures take the form of a greatly reduced version of the larger dragon that created them, however, despite this decrease in size they are still relatively larger than a normal person. Each is capable of tracking their target and producing a large explosion proportional to size upon contact but as they emerge, they consume a considerable amount of clay from the original dragon, primitively extracting it from the creature's tail. This ultimately limits the number that each C2 "Dragon" is capable of creating, before clay must be sacrificed from more vital areas, such as the body or wings. By using more clay, the missile's size and explosive power can be considerably increased. The dragon can also produce clay mines at the expense of clay, that take the form of small spherical creatures, which can be subsequently manipulated to force opponents to fight in a limited space. This is achieved through the use of Tobi's Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique, to hide a large amount of these mines underground, without the opponents' knowledge to their exact location. When this tactic is combined with the previously mentioned missiles, it can confine the enemies' movements to such an extent, that they are forced to suffer an explosion.

**C3-** Deidara's most powerful large scale bomb, that once activated becomes an ginormous statue that Deidara drops on his target from above. Its explosive power was great enough to potentially destroy a large portion of Sunagakure. In its first known appearance, Deidara had already prepared the explosive clay for this attack. Once activated, the bomb instantaneously increases its proportions before being subsequently dropped, where it extends both its "arms" outwards until they are completely horizontal.

**C4-** A technique he created to counter the Sharingan and the Genjutsu it produces, Deidara uses his own mouth instead of the ones on his hands to create a giant doll in his image. When the doll ruptures, it releases a cloud of microscopic bombs that enter the bloodstream of anyone who inhales them. On Deidara's command, the micro-bombs' detonation causes the victims' bodies to disintegrate at the cellular level; literally turning them into dust. While fighting Onoki, Deidara utilizes an alternate method of C4 by forming a small, child-like clay statue of himself with the mouths in his hands. This technique also earned enough credit to be called a fearsome technique by such a formidable shinobi as Obito Uchiha.

**C0-** The highest form of Deidara's explosive clay (his "Ultimate Art" (究極芸術, Kyūkyoku Geijutsu)), C0 is a suicide-bomb technique used as a last resort. Deidara reveals a mouth on his chest, which is stitched up. After undoing the stitches, Deidara feeds it a large ball of clay. The mouth on his chest has a direct connection to his heart so a large amount of chakra is built up. It then shapes chakra directly from the pinnacle of the heart and keeps doing it without interruption until the moment of the explosion. His explosive chakra then manifests itself in his veins, flowing through his body. These "veins" then condense into a sphere that slowly cracks open and detonates, producing a unique explosion that covers a ten kilometer blast radius.

**Explosive Clay Minions**- The user creates explosive clay that is connected to their hands with a thin cord of clay. The clay then rises from the ground, molding itself into a human-like appearance. The user runs chakra through the cords of clay, exploiting the clay substances to attack the opponent. The density of the clay is strong enough to block and suck in a sword. When cut apart, the clay substances form more human/animal like forms. The user then can connect more cords of clay to the fallen clay pieces. Moreover, the user can then use the clay as explosives, attacking the opponent and covering them with clay, which then explodes. The minions, in their human form, were also able to fight with their club-like arms and to form spikes out of their bodies to impale the enemy.