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Originally Posted by james0246
None of that is being an underdog. Naruto has a nuclear bomb in his stomach, so any of the earlier fights he was in could have been solved at any time by the nuclear bomb going off (it's what happened against Haku, and then he started to learn hopw to control it). It doesn't matter if it was an evil presence or like a possession, it was still a force within Naruto that made it so he could not die or, in some of the earlier fights (specifically Negi's and Gaara's) be defeated. It doesn't matter that Naruto was put down on, considered a loser, mocked and ridiculed for his childish stunts, treated as an equal, etc. He had the Kyuubi, and the Kyuubi almost always evened the odds. He was not an underdog, just unappreciated.
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but it is being an underdog. an underdog can win. look at rocky balboa beating apollo creed. for example, naruto was thought to be an underdog vs neji. the entire Colosseum thought he had no chance. that's an underdog. i think you are getting too carried away with the kyuubi's presence. just because naruto had a failsafe doesnt negate him being an underdog. that's actually what the series was about until post-chuunin exam. we see naruto's chipped fingernails and covered in mud and his speech to neji about hard work overcoming talent and it all exemplifies the underdog overcoming the odds mantra that the series was all about at that time. yes, it's old news, but this is in response to saying that naruto was
never an underdog.