Here is a challenge: try and find any series that has more different flavors of undead than Naruto. I’ll wait.
Because Sage, there’s a whole palette of those. The two separate full-fledged resurrection techniques. The two distinctly different corpse puppeteering techniques. There’s both a necromancer’s immortal zombie army AND a plant zombie army. Should I also mention that time the Sage of Six Path summarily summoned all the dead Kages souls from the Pure Lands to lend a hand in the final fight.
Don’t believe me? Confront the list:
Lady Chiyo’s ‘Kisho Tensei’/‘reanimation jutsu’: resurrecting the dead (one person) by exchanging the caster’s life force.
the Rinnegan’s ‘Rinne Tensei’/‘Gedo art of Rinne Rebirth’: resurrecting the dead (potentially maaaany people) by having the King of Hell spit back the souls (drains the caster, unclear if *necessarily* kill them).
Edotensei: summon immortal zombies retaining the personality and abilities from their lives, for the price of one human sacrifice per zombie and with 0 strain on the summoner
Sasori’s human puppets: puppets made from human corpse, capable of using the techniques of the humans used as material
The Six Path of Pain: corpses piloted from afar via chakra needles by a Rinnegan user, sharing a field of vision and able to use one Rinnegan technique each
the white Zetsus: the Monster Chakra Tree slowly drains the life force of the people it trapped into a coma as plant nutrients and then turns the soulless vessels into vegetal zombie soldiers
Considering, the Narutoverse is also in my opinion the best equipped to deal with all and any type of zombie apocalypse ever.
Between their desensitization to corpse handling—more precisely corpse weaponization, the versatility of fuinjutsu science and ninjutsu firepower, the various long range scouting/surveillance abilities and the ruthless scientists—not even mentioning the Tailed Beast trump card—the zombie apocalypse the shinobi world can’t handle is the one no universe can.
I’ll take Game of Thrones’ White Walkers as an example:
The Walkers can’t swim/shinobis can walk on water among other surfaces
Vulnerability to fire —> Katon
Self-destruction-of-the-body-upon-death seals to avoid fueling the enemies numbers
Link between each Walker and the undead he turned ; the speciality of shinobi is ambush and assassination
(Trump card: biju bomb for long range fight with no casualties)
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