Naruto Zetsu The Cleaner

  • April 12, 2008 – 4:04 pm
  • Posted in naruto

“Zetsu, the Cleaner”

In Luc Besson’s cult action flick La Femme Nikita, there’s a grimly funny scene where the heroine (a secret agent) gets in a little bit over her head. On the phone, her controller says, “I’m sending a cleaner,” which doesn’t immediately make sense to the audience – what’s a cleaner for? What’s he going to clean?

The answer comes a second later, when Jean Reno shows up, shoots several people, and proceeds to try and dissolve their still-twitching bodies in a bathtub full of sulfuric acid. That’s what a cleaner is for.

In the first major Naruto arc, after Kakashi’s team gets out of basic training, we’re introduced to the ninja world’s equivalent of the “cleaner.” The ninja named Haku (who turns out to be Zabuza Momochi’s henchman) masquerades as one of Kirigakure’s body-disposal specialists, operatives who hunt down the body of fallen ninja and make sure no trace of the village’s secrets slips out. That means making every last bit of a body disappear.

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