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* Orochimaru, the series' original Big Bad. With virtually every appearance in the series, another irredeemable crime is added to Orochimaru's long list. From his first introduction where he is literally wearing somebody else's face to forcing three of the Hokages into a Fate Worse Than Death, he just becomes more and more of a monster. Things are only upped in Shippuden as his body's abilities become increasingly monstrous and it is revealed that he had previously performed genetic experiments on infants, and out of them, almost nobody but Anko and Yamato survived. Having long ago shed any good qualities he had, Orochimaru shows how low even those with once good intentions can fall, having reached the point where he does not even remember them anymore and craves only total domination.
* Haido, Big Bad of the second film, was seemingly a friendly Well-Intentioned Extremist who wanted to create a utopia. However, this was just a façade, as his true goal was to find the legendary Stone of Gelel and use its mystic power to take over the world. He attacked Temujin's village and had everyone slaughtered, except Temujin himself, whom he made his servant. When Temujindid find out it was Haido who murdered his parents, his former master simply mocked him for being blind and in the dark for so long. To make matters worse, he turned many of his servants, including Temujin's friends, into mindless armored soldiers to follow his every order, many of whom were also children from villages he attacked. In the climax, he forcibly removes a piece of the stone from Temujin's body that he gave him, rendering the boy weakened and proceeds to beat him and Naruto to near death. A power-hungry and manipulative sociopath, Haido cemented himself as one of Naruto's most depraved adversaries.
* Anime-only Filler Villain he may be, but Shiranami of the Tsuchigumo clan is one nasty piece of work. He murdered his own father in an attempt to obtain the Dangerous Forbidden Technique which his father had been protecting just for the money it could get him, nonchalantly enslaved an entire village, pretended to sympathize with Hotaru's (the container of the forbidden jutsu) loneliness, and offered to help her restore their clan before revealing that he doesn't care about Hotaru or the clan at all, forcibly activated the forbidden jutsu inside the poor girl (which she had been trying to get rid of, but he manipulated her into keeping it) and considered her a mere "tool" that he wants to use to "steal the world" for himself. He cheerfully describes the act of killing his father to Hotaru and tells Naruto and Utakata that the main reason he killed him is simply because he's greedy. Nonetheless, Shiranami thinks that, compared to Utakata, who doesn't care about his own village either but still cares about Hotaru, he's a "pretty fine" person. He admits that they don't need to worry about Hotaru because she will live on with him in the world he hopes to create, but she will spend the rest of her life as his "tool/weapon" with no free will of her own. Oh, and episode 150 ends with him forcing the forbidden jutsu activated!Hotaru to fight Naruto and Utakata against her will. He then tries to murder people who try to prevent him from accomplishing his insane goal, which includes Utakata, Naruto, Sai, Yamato, Tonbee, and Sakura.
* Another anime-only Filler Villain who qualifies is Kazuma of the Land of Fire. A former friend and comrade of Asuma Sarutobi and Chiruku, he saw the Hokage, and by extension the entire Konoha village, useless and threats to the figurehead Fire Daimyo in the Land of Fire. Originally, he convinced half of his comrades to try to assassinate the Hokage while Asuma stopped him, and seemingly killed him. Years later, after it was revealed he implanted Kurama's chakra into his son Sora to create a weapon to destroy Konoha, he attacks dozens of border towns with his men. After killing thousands of people, he raided the tombs of his former comrades and would use them to make a Weapon of Mass Destruction to incinerate every man, woman, and child in Konoha, all the while constantly beating Sora and manipulating him into turning on his new friends. The people he killed on the border towns were used to create a small-scale Zombie Apocalypse around Konoha to distract, and trap, everyone in the village. Finally, when that plan failed he triggered his son's Super-Powered Evil Side and sent him to destroy Konoha. As he died at Asuma's hand, Kazuma's last thoughts were of how the Land of Fire could fail him.
* Out of all the Akatsuki's members, Hidan is the very worst of the bunch, as he has no sympathetic backstory, no Freudian Excuse... nothing. He is simply a perverted killing maniac who revels in the bloodshed that he causes. A foul-mouthed, murder-obsessed sicko hailing from the village of Yugakure, Hidan hated the natives of the village for their peaceful ways and remorselessly slaughtered his neighbors before ditching the village. He soon began to worship Jashin, the god of murder, bloodshed, and depravity and murders in the name of his religion. The first time he's seen as an Akatsuki member, he and his partner Kakuzu corner the host of the Two-Tailed Beast and and deliver her to their boss Pain so she can have the beast drained out before she herself is killed. He then goes on to attack a temple and slaughters every monk inside, never mind the fact that he only needed to kill one of them. However, what he does to Asuma Sarutobi is easily the worst act he commits: he initiates a religious ritual that binds his soul to Asuma's, and proceeds to slowly torture him to death through self mutilation. This is Hidan's favorite way of killing people, and thankfully the sick bastard gets his when he tries to inflict this fate upon Shikamaru, only to end up decapitated and buried alive, unable to die due to his immortality. It should be noted that side materials indicate that Hidan has standards regarding kids, so he might not qualify all the way, though he still fits the bill in his depiction in the main series.
* And then there's the series' ultimate Big Bad, Madara Uchiha, who plans to destroy the entire world so that he can control all that remains. He uses the excuse that he wants to make a world where there is no more struggling and everyone is equal, but delving into his backstory and motives makes it pretty clear that he truly just wants to be God amongst all other men because he's a sore loser. He cursed his entire clan as well. His co-Big Bad, Tobi/Obito Uchiha, is arguably even more heinous, making him a contender too. 13 years before the series started, he unleashed the Nine-Tails against Konoha and fought Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, who was forced to seal the Nine-Tails inside his own son, Naruto, to stop him in a Thanatos Gambit -- with the unfortunate side effect of orphaning this kid as well as subjecting him to being treated like hell for a reason he wouldn't even come to understand until after starting out at ninja school. Predictably, he never even bats an eyelash at this kid whose life he has completely ruined until years later when he decides it's time to implement his plans and Naruto is one of his main targets due to being a jinchūriki as well as the one guy who can become strong enough to stop him. He is not above threatening a newborn infant and attempting to kill Kushina right after she gave birth. His evil plan is basically an Assimilation Plot in order to enslave the entire world and make reality how he sees fit.
* Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki, the main antagonist of the Boruto movie and True Final Boss of the series not only matches them all in heinous crimes but has zero Freudian Excuses, being a power-hungry madman who truly believes hard work is for losers, preferring to absorb and steal other people's powers instead. Momoshiki, and his partner, Kinshiki, set out to accomplish where Kaguya left off and recollect all chakra in order to create a new chakra fruit to become all-powerful. Invading Earth for this reason they attacked and absorbed Killer Bee's chakra, nearly killing him in the process. They then made their way to Konoha's Chunin Exams causing wanton destruction to the place in an attempt to kill Naruto, Sasuke and their children, at one point Momoshiki even launched an attack powerful enough to destroy the entire Fire Country Laughing Mad about innocents dying in the process. He later takes Naruto to his dimension and tries to absorb Kurama's chakra clean from him until he dies, when the other Kages show up to stop him he decides to absorb Kinshiki in order to kill them all, forcing a nearly dead Naruto to watch. To top it off, when Boruto uses a Rasengan to free them all, Momoshiki is enraged at his garments being damaged and attempts to brutally murder Boruto just for that.
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