Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-43689784-20200520151938/@comment-39350828-20200523181634

Yeah except that in neji vs naruto, they definitely would've stopped neji if naruto was about to die like they did with hinata and lee. Plus, neji apparently didn't attempt to kill naruto after he thought naruto was defeated. In oro vs naruto I don't know why orochimaru would want naruto dead but if he did, even though he was capable of fending off naruto, I still couldn't see him managing to kill 4 tails naruto. Neji was not almost about to beat naruto. In their final clash neji was clearly way too battered and exhausted. Whereas neji was panting and could barely walk, naruto was able to begin digging a hole towards neji with his bare hands and then punch through the ground so hard it blew neji away. If naruto did have a get out of jail free card that ensured his life that wouldn't have made any difference because his life wasn't in danger in those situations in the first place. It still doesn't make those struggles meaningless because besides his life there were other things at stake. As for the tension, the writer is hardly keeping us in suspense about whether the plot is gonna allow the main character to die so early on anyway. IMO the nine-tails did seem like a get-out-of-jail-free card to me for pretty much up until sasuke beat naruto just because of how much it ended up bailing him out at times when he would've lost without it.