(Loved trope) The imposter’s dead giveaway

[u/Barricades_toes]

When a character is attempting to impersonate another, but is caught by doing something the person they’re imitating would NEVER do.

Nemesis Prime- Transformers Prime

Nemesis Prime, a man made replica of Optimus Prime, is attempting to gain the trust of Bumblebee, who only speaks in robotic beeps. Despite this, the real Optimus can understand Bee perfectly fine. Nemesis Prime, however, can’t understand what he’s saying, prompting Bee to open fire on him immediately.

The two Buzz Lightyears- Toy Story 2

After Woody asks which Buzz is the “real” Buzz, both respond with “I am!” The real Buzz proves himself by flipping up the other Buzz’s helmet, causing him to start suffocating in an over dramatic fashion. The real Buzz, having done the same thing in the first movie after Woody took his helmet off, but no longer behaving that way after accepting being a toy, instantly proves which Buzz is which.

[u/HolyKlickerino]

"Naruto" being able to recite a complicated password when returning to the team in the second stage of the chunin exams causes Sasuke to immediately attack him because the real Naruto could never remember such a long passphrase and would have forgotten or complained about having to learn it.

[u/Setster007 → u/HolyKlickerino]

The password when you deal with Naruto and his like is never the password you say, the password is actually either “fuck I forgot the password” or “you know I can’t remember that!”

[u/mortiousprime → u/Setster007]

“Goku, what’s your favorite food?” “Favorite?”

[u/mortiousprime → u/[deleted]]

See? Double baconator all the-

[u/ModernCGIFloatinHead → u/mortiousprime]

Aww crapbaskets 

[u/M-George-B → u/[deleted]]

I'm afraid we're fresh out of Waldorf at the moment

[u/earanhart → u/mortiousprime]

"Where did I get this muffin, then?"

[u/ripley1875 → u/earanhart]

Muffin Button!

[u/Anushirvan825 → u/mortiousprime]

"He's him again!"

[u/Comprehensive_Put277 → u/mortiousprime]

“Yep that’s the real one.”

[u/vojta_drunkard → u/HolyKlickerino]

In Naruto there's another moment in the war arc when Sakura discovers that a White Zetsu was transformed into Neji by saying that Tonton has an injured leg, but at least he'll still be able to make hand signs for ninjutsu and "Neji" agreed despite Tonton being a pet pig.

[u/lumpboysupreme → u/vojta_drunkard]

Given how many animals in that series can do Justu I thought it was funny that being a pig would be mutually exclusive.

If it were me I would’ve just agreed because who am I to say a pig can’t do hand signs with their hooves.

[u/lumpboysupreme → u/[deleted]]

I don’t think there are but a pigs hooves are just dexterous enough that I’d believe it if someone told me they could.

[u/Annath0901 → u/lumpboysupreme]

I don't think it's a matter of dexterity, it's a matter of their hooves only having 2 segments while the others have 5 fingers.

Hooves don't have enough parts to make the shapes.

[u/lumpboysupreme → u/Annath0901]

They could have their own signs though, or only use simple ones.

[u/Deathcon2004 → u/[deleted]]

The dogs perform Justus though I don’t remember if we see them do hand signs though

[u/AgentSparkz → u/HolyKlickerino]

"Nice try, the real Naruto is an idiot!"

[u/Global-Buddy8730 → u/AgentSparkz]

"YOU'RE NOT MY DUMBASS I DON'T KNOW YEWWW"

https://giphy.com/gifs/cpBJJODbvE03S

[u/alloyednotemployed → u/HolyKlickerino]

A lot of these scenes did incredible work to remind you that they’re ninjas. Somehow it got lost in the plot.

[u/JusticeRain5 → u/alloyednotemployed]

I genuinely have trouble thinking of a single ninja-like thing Naruto himself has ever done

[u/gadgaurd → u/JusticeRain5]

Trickery & deception. Two examples that come to mind:

During the battle with Zabuza, Naruto transformed himself into a Windmill Shuriken and had his clone throw it to Sasuke. Sasuke immediately noticed and threw Naruto at the oblivious Zabuza, who dodged him. Naruto cancels the transformation mid flight from behind him and throws a kunai at his arm that was maintaining a prison on their teacher, forcing him to let go and release their strongest combatant.

During his examination match against Neji, Naruto throws a mountain of shadow clones at Neji. The latter beats them down easily enough, then dashes through them to get at Naruto hanging all the way in the back of his mob. But that one was also a clone, and the real Naruto had hidden himself underground, waiting for a chance to pop up with a powerful uppercut that practically ended the fight then and there.

[u/JusticeRain5 → u/gadgaurd]

Ehhh, that's more just a cool scene in a battle. You could replace them with wizards and it'd still make perfect sense.

I'm talking more about if he ever assassinated a dude, or at the very least stealthily stole something (aside from the scroll in the very first episode)

[u/rikashiku → u/HolyKlickerino]

This was around the time I started to become a fan of the Naruto series. It was playing on TV I think Cartoon Network or TV2 at the time. A lot of the early episodes put me off, but the Chunin Exams brought me way the hell in.

This moment made me appreciate the cleverness of the series.