Naruto has some of the best villains that are not in the mainline story, and somehow, not many fans talk about them. There are a total of ten movies, with ten completely different threats, and yet they are not known by many fans because it’s common knowledge that the first nine movies aren’t canon.
If you haven’t seen these movies, you can check out the watch order for the entire anime, including the movies. For those of you who have, let’s take a look at all the villains we saw in the Naruto and Naruto Shippuden movies and rank them on the basis of how lethal they are in combat. Let’s dive in.
| TITLE | Naruto | Naruto Shippuden |
| MAL RATING (as of July 17, 2026) | 8.02 / 10 | 8.29 / 10 |
| STUDIO | Studio Pierrot | Studio Pierrot |
| WHERE TO WATCH | Crunchyroll | Crunchyroll |
| RELEASE DATE | Oct 3, 2002 to Feb 8, 2007 | Feb 15, 2007 to Mar 23, 2017 |
10. Doto Kazahana – Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow (2004)
Starting from the bottom of the ranking, we get Doto Kazahana. He’s the first-ever Naruto movie villain, which means the writers were still figuring out how big these threats should even get. Doto killed his own brother out of greed, and he’s chasing his niece, who was being protected by Kakashi.
To be honest, he is not much of a threat, as Naruto was able to deal with him when Naruto was still young. His main strengths lie in cold manipulation, which makes him a political threat. Against a properly trained ninja, he ends up losing, which ranks him at the bottom.
9. Ishidate – Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom (2006)
Ishidate is one of the mercenaries that Shabadaba, who is a corrupt politician with a private army, hires to do his dirty work. He uses a gas that messes with opponents’ senses, and he has a technique that lets him petrify people into stone, something he managed to do with Kakashi himself (even if it was just an arm). However, neither Shabadaba nor Ishidate operate anywhere near the tailed-beast or dimension-hopping villains that show up later in this list.
8. Hiruko – The Will of Fire (2009)
Hiruko wasn’t born with any special kekkei genkai, so he engineered a forbidden technique that lets him literally steal other people’s abilities, even kekkei genkai, by fusing their bodies with his own. This results in him being able to access Swift Release, Dark Release, Storm Release, and Steel Release all at once because he’s absorbed the users of each into himself.
However, it’s the scale of his abilities that holds him back in the ranking. The jutsus he stole are impressive, but Hiruko himself isn’t strong enough to even be able to use them perfectly. He was a tough opponent for Team 7, but he was not a world-ending threat.
7. Satori – Blood Prison (2011)
Muku, the son of the prison warden Mui, was tragically transformed into the demonic monster Satori after his father opened the Box of Ultimate Bliss to ask for his son back. Satori can fire devastating energy blasts and unleash swarms of high-speed feathers that easily pierce through defenses. It took serious teamwork between Naruto and the prison’s resident ninja just to contain it.
The father-son tragedy at the center of this movie is genuinely one of the better-written arcs in the franchise. However, Satori sits lower on this list because, purely in terms of raw destructive output, it is more of a localized horror than a global catastrophe.
6. Mukade / Anrokuzan – The Lost Tower (2010)
After turning himself into a literal human puppet stitched with weapons, Mukade goes full One-Winged Angel and fuses with an entire ancient tower to become a giant war machine. On top of all that gore stuff, Mukade controls an entire army of puppet soldiers built from the ley line’s stolen chakra, meaning the protagonist is not facing one single opponent.
It takes Naruto some genuine struggle to finally put this villain down. Commanding an army while surviving hits and giving Naruto the hard time that he gave bumps him up in this ranking, but he is still nowhere near the threats that we saw in the other movies of this franchise.
5. Shinno – Bonds (2008)
Shinno is where things start getting scary. This is a man who taught Orochimaru, the great bad guy from the mainline story himself, the forbidden regeneration jutsu. That is enough to tell you about his skill level alone. His actual goal, unlocking the power of the Zero-Tails, was so that he could take over the Five Great Nations, not just one kingdom.
His Body Revival Technique lets him push past normal human limits, using jutsu without hand seals and reportedly able to open all Eight Gates without dying, something that would kill basically any other shinobi outright. Combine that with Dark Chakra pulled from the Zero-Tails, and you get a villain who breaks the rules of what a human body should be able to survive.
4. Haido – Legend of the Stone of Gelel (2005)
The reason Haido sits this high on the list is that he is perhaps one of the most resilient villains in the entire anime. He tapped into the Gelel Vein, which is an ancient and near-limitless power source, which means he can shrug off attacks that would normally be the end of anyone else.
At one point, he even survived the Rasengan from Naruto. He also commands an army of armoured soldiers, made from children of Temujin’s village whom he kept alive and transformed using Gelel energy, giving him manpower on top of his personal durability.
3. Moryo – Naruto Shippuden the Movie (2007)
This is the first villain in this ranking that is not a human ninja. Moryo is a massive demon from another dimension whose entire goal is to destroy the world and create the thousand-year kingdom that he would rule. What really shows his threat is his backstory, when it took a priestess, splitting and sealing away both Moryo’s body and its soul just to stop it the first time. In fact, that wasn’t even a clean kill; it was just a seal that eventually breaks down.
A threat that requires a soul-splitting ritual to merely delay, instead of defeat, is on a completely different level from a strong ninja or a chakra-boosted human, which is why Moryo ranks this high up.
2. Menma Uzumaki – Road to Ninja (2012)
What if Naruto had access to the Nine-Tails with none of the safety put in place? That is what Menma Uzumaki is, and that is why he ranks this high. His universe never sealed the Black Nine-Tails behind an Eight Trigrams Seal, which led to him having access to tailed-beast chakra whenever he wants it.
On top of all that, he was able to summon nine separate masked beasts to fight alongside him. He also uses a corrupted version of Rasengan. Stacking tailed-beast-tier chakra with an entire personal army of summoned monsters puts him near the top of any lethality conversation in the franchise’s movie lineup. If we consider the non-canon villains, he is easily ranked at the top.
1. Toneri Otsutsuki – The Last: Naruto the Movie (2014)
Toneri isn’t just the strongest movie villain; he’s the only one who’s actually canon, a descendant of Hamura Otsutsuki with access to power that makes everyone else look like weaklings in this ranking. His plan alone should tell you about how lethal he is: after Tensaigan Chakra Mode grants him truth-seeking orbs and Otsutsuki-level abilities, Toneri’s endgame is pulling the moon out of orbit and crashing it into the Earth to wipe out humanity entirely.
Backing that up is an army of ancient puppets, the ability to absorb chakra from other ninja, and enough raw firepower that Naruto needs Kurama’s full cooperation just to have a shot. Every other villain on this list is fighting to conquer or destroy a piece of the world. Toneri is the only one who could genuinely end it.
| RANK | VILLAIN | MOVIE | STREAMING (USA) |
| 10 | Doto Kazahana | Naruto the Movie 1: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
| 9 | Ishidate | Naruto the Movie 3: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
| 8 | Hiruko | Naruto Shippuden the Movie 3: The Will of Fire | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
| 7 | Satori | Naruto Shippuden the Movie 5: Blood Prison | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
| 6 | Mukade | Naruto Shippuden the Movie 4: The Lost Tower | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
| 5 | Shinno | Naruto Shippuden the Movie 2: Bonds | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
| 4 | Haido | Naruto the Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
| 3 | Moryo | Naruto Shippuden the Movie 1 | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
| 2 | Menma Uzumaki | Naruto Shippuden the Movie 6: Road to Ninja | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
| 1 | Toneri Otsutsuki | Naruto Shippuden the Movie 7: The Last | Crunchyroll (stream), Prime Video (rent) |
Which villain is your personal favorite? Let us know in the comments.
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