Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-43403813-20191007194759/@comment-43403813-20191103231522

Naruto’s whole underdog phase ended at the end of the Pain arc. Ebisu summarised Naruto’s entire struggle from beginning up until that point, it was as if the writers were intentionally letting the audience know that Naruto wasn’t an underdog anymore. From that point on, Naruto began to have this destiny thing or whatever.