Fodders Don't Exist In The Naruto Verse!!!

[Hipster Madara]

They are useless at anything but defeating low level zetsu -__-

[lilshell43]

pretty much everyone in the war are fodders.

Your sig always hypnotizes me. lol

[Omnipotent]

Nawaki was supposed to be Yondaime Hokage. He's fodder.

[Vanderfee]

They exist for a reason. To make the main characters look better.

[Gesshoku28]

Everyone I highlighted isn't fodder to me.

So Naruto is fodder? Tsk tsk

[gas83091]

people with avatars like yours are usually pervs but your sig is kinda homo no offense lol

oh yeah and i think konohamaru's friend with the booger is fodder lol

[theRPGdude]

people with avatars like yours are usually pervs but your sig is kinda homo no offense lol

oh yeah and i think konohamaru's friend with the booger is fodder lol

...what?

[Kamikage]

The definition of "fodder" is, "people considered as readily available and of little value". So yes, there is such thing as fodder. Those ninja that just die and don't change much about the main plot line. And note I said, "much". There only uses are to die, make others look stronger, make casualties seem great, and make it seem more like a war. Whether it be fighting for someone or their village, if their character doesn't do anything about the story line, they are fodder...

[gas83091]

...what?

your avatar... it's an anime girls wedgie, something jiriya would like and your sig.... well i'm asuming your a dude lol and to have a sig of a boy with roses stating "i'm too sexy" well it's kinda homo to me :D

[SpiderRider89]

Shino is not a fodder, he just doesn't get enough air time!

[Staarkk]

I'd own Ino tbh, like irl of she wasn't a pixel.

[UchihaKira]

The only one in K11 I'd consider fodder really. Sakura's a great medic if nothing else. I'd say Ino is fodder by herself but she's got that InoShikaCho thing going for her.

[UchihaKira]

your avatar... it's an anime girls wedgie, something jiriya would like and your sig.... well i'm asuming your a dude lol and to have a sig of a boy with roses stating "i'm too sexy" well it's kinda homo to me :D

made me lol

[Paintry4]

Thats dont interest any1.

[enditallsin]

Sadly fodder depicts those characters who exist in the manga to die to show someone else's strength or someone who can no longer compete with people who stand on the top of the shinobi world

That second part i agree with and itachi is who comes to mind.

[Yui Kotegawa]

NO.

He's out numbered plus someone made a thread about it

[nibilbhai]

Nice

[u wanna die]

it was a long read... and after finishing 1 sentence my eyes always end up with your avatar... the outcome is i dont clearly understand at all what you trying to say in ur thread .. haha... honestly your avatar distracts my reading lol....

[Zlad]

Fodder is people that aren't important to the serie, for example those that have died in this war. It's annoying that people use it wrong

[ProGun]

Every genre has fodder.

The most famous stereotype/trope/meme of the fodder class are the red shirts on Star Trek. Disposable plot devices to advance a story and show how bad the big bad really is.

[enuzuki]

Honestly alot of character are slowly turning into fodder...Like most of Konoha 11. What i mean is that they offer almost nothing to the storyline, Sakura has been left in the dust by Naruto and Sasuke. Let alone the rest of the characters...

[redsglory1974]

That Ramen Guy is a fodder, his wife's not, his daughter 50-50

[oShux]

So realistically speaking you say that.


Shino Aburame

Akamaru

Chōji Akimichi

Sakura Haruno

Hinata Hyūga

Neji Hyūga

Kiba Inuzuka

Rock Lee

Shikamaru Nara

Tenten

Naruto Uzumaki

Ino Yamanaka

Are all Fodders am I correct?

Ino is most def a fodder bro every ninja up there has a special power Even tenten wdf does Ino have? She's useless

[ChiefHermit]

see how many kiddies there are on nb to not understand fodder, lol
op +1

[ProGun]

Fodder have no real backstory. Like the common lower quality grain you feed to livestock, fodder is common and ubiquitous. If the author uses time to develop a backstory they aren't really fodder as the author and reader have invested something into these secondary characters. To kill them off willy nilly is showing something more than how badass the big bad is, it is meant to hurt and shake you to your core.

Take the Avengers movie and its prequels, for example. Agent Phil Coulson is certainly squishy, but his use in the plot was not one of fodder. He appeared in several movies, and was about as developed as a normal person could be in a superhero movie. Coulson was not fodder. His death meant something more. Fodder are just breifly introduced (if at all, often they are nameless) and then fed to the bad guy like one ties on the feedbag to one's horse, and that is how fodder derived this use in our language. I do not consider any recurring character (even Ichiraku Ramen Store operators Teuchi and Ayame) fodder as developed characters make connections to the reader where fodder is meant to be used and disposed of by the bad guy without causing the reader any real duress.

Squishy and Fodder are two different things in my book as both a reader and a writer.