Fixing Naruto's Biggest Plot Hole

What's the worst Naruto plot hole?

Fixing Naruto's biggest plothole ❌ Explaining Naruto's biggest plothole ✅

My biggest thing is why didn't any of the ninjas use ninjutsu

they promoted everyone, even like the ramen cook, to jonin for the great ninja war lol

I feel that Kishimoto is really bad at keeping numbers consistent

Kishimoto created 80,000 ninjas to kill half and Neji for the illusion of danger and risk.

Tobirama:"80.000 shinobi, and not a single one of them is from the magic eyes clan... isn't that beautiful? 😌"

Simple answer: all the ninja's of the main villages used shadow clones to make the army bigger.

It's funny how small the village was portayed as pretty small prior to the war but suddenly thousands of them up during the war,

I always thought: Where are the strong ninjas who aren't from the leaf village?

It might be an unpopular opinion, but the whole concept of minjas fighting in a war as the main force never made any sense to me.

They were just good Zetsus

You're putting way much more thought into this than Kishimoto ever did throughout the entire series

My head cannon is that they basically had a mandatory draft ( just like IRL) in war times if it gets bad enough they can draft civilians as soldiers and that’s probably what happened which is why a lot looked like fodder to

The problem becomes worse when you consider places like the Sand & Mist are known to have fewer ninja, I mean that was part of the reason the Sand agreed to attack the Leaf in the first place because of the restrictions put on the village in the first place (FYI quick reminder Baki is telling the Sand Siblings that since the treaty was signed by their Feudal Lord, the Sand Village has been struggling both financially & in military numbers. Orochimaru offered them a way out & the Sand took it). The Mist Village had a ritual where they killed each other to become Ninja so their new influx of Genin is at best 50% (considering the winners won't always survived), this practice only stopped recently since its implied that Mei is relevantly new to the position of Mizukage (and in the 2nd Chunin exam filler arc the Mist flat out refuses to go because their busy rebuilding the village adding to this theory, yes its filler but until its proven otherwise its the best example we have). A way to get to the 80,000 is to add the smaller nations villages like the Rain, Grass, Waterfall etc.... to make 80,000 total.

I don't know if this was the only anime scene, but one of the soldiers explained that each nation is asking help from anyone, including former prisoners and outside sources.

Kishimoto wanted to showcase the brutalities of the 4th Shinobi War with the Allied Shinobi Fodders. The fodders are as disappointing as the White Zetsu Army.

Did you even mention that shinobi... DIE? All the time. Even if they produced 15k shinobi, a lot of them would die before the war. Also, the Blood Mist Village... Didn't Zabuza alone kill like... 100 of his peers?

Orichimaru summons giant ass snake, Every sensible Chunin/Jonin: "Oh look, time to clock out." They all know what happens when one of the Sanin starts rolling up and breaking buildings.

My way of explaining the matter is that Konoha is just a village located in one of the provinces of Land of Fire, and each of those provinces produces ninjas, not through the ninja academy, but through clans, as each province contains a number of ninja clans that offer a number of their members to be ninjas. Like before the invention of ninja villages