Rock Lee
Rock Lee (ロック・リー, Rokku Rī?) is one of the characters in the manga and anime series Naruto. He is a genin from Konoha who agrees to the Chūnin Exam with Neji Hyūga and Tenten, all of whom are Might Guy's disciples.
Rock Lee is a tribute to Bruce Lee; he does not have Kekkei Genkai, nor can he fight other than with Taijutsu. His dream is to show that he can be a great ninja by mastering only Taijutsu (melee techniques). He overcame his initial inferiority to the native ninjas with great will. He is also very formal, sensitive, polite and respectful but when he drinks sake (Japanese liquor) and gets drunk he becomes a rowdy drunken boxing master (酔拳, Suiken?), a style of Kung Fu.
Background
Rock-Lee is a young man, determined to give his all to become a great ninja and like Naruto never give up. Despite not being able to perform any type of ninja technique, only Taijutsu since he has a birth inability to shape his own chakra. Kakashi, during the Chunnin exam, goes as far as to say that only with effort the 8 doors could not be opened, that Lee was a genius in Taijutsu.
He is in love with Sakura Haruno from the first moment he met her and considers Naruto his rival in love (because he is also in love with Sakura), however she rejects him, since Sakura is only interested in her partner Sasuke Uchiha, as well as a great friend and rival to overcome, especially after witnessing his fight against Kiba in the Chūnin exams and realizing the enormous will and determination that the young Uzumaki possesses. Once he graduated from the academy, his teacher, Might Guy, would change the way he was forever. This made him see that it was possible to become a great ninja only using Taijutsu, in exchange for hard work and a lot of training. From then on, Lee adopted the appearance of his master Might Guy, from his clothing to his haircut. Lee became a huge fan of Guy and set himself the goal of proving that with hard work he can become a great ninja.
Lee first demonstrates his potential in the Chūnin Exam when he takes on Sasuke (out of competition), and manages to dominate him until his teacher shows up and interrupts the fight, scolding him for acting so inordinately. Despite demonstrating his power, he makes it clear that his true rival is none other than his teammate Neji Hyūga.
First season
Chunin Exam
His first appearance was at the registration for the Chūnin exams, he runs into team 7, his intention was to meet Sasuke Uchiha, but when he sees Sakura he falls in love with her instantly. He later challenges Sasuke and manages to defeat and humiliate him before his teammates. He is disappointed that Sakura rejected him and preferred Sasuke (thus increasing his desire to fight him). During phase two of the Chūnin Exam in the Forest of Death, Lee sees Sakura in trouble, who is facing three Genin from the Village Hidden in Sound, and decides to defend her by facing them. During the fight, he uses a forbidden technique that his teacher taught him, warning him to use it only to defend someone important to him, in this case Sakura. Despite his great agility and strength he is defeated, this makes him ashamed and promises Sakura undying love and protection, which causes her to give him her unconditional respect, admiration and friendship. During the preliminary of the Chūnin exam, he attacks Temari to no avail, since she mocks Tenten after she lost their fight, then Lee has to face an enemy feared by almost everyone, Gaara, who had the fame of never having been touched by the enemy. In this fight, Lee demonstrates all his capabilities, taking them to the limit, this begins to be seen when Lee gets rid of two "little ones"; weights on each of his legs that had immense weight, so much so that they caused a huge hole in the battlefield as they fell, increasing his already great speed to an astonishing level. This allows him to bypass the sand barrier that was protecting Gaara. When Lee sees that despite this, he cannot touch Gaara (since Gaara wore an armor of Sand that covered his body and protected himself), he proceeds to do a forbidden technique, which consists of opening the 8 internal doors, which would give him access to enormous speed, which allowed him to destroy the sand protection that covered Gaara's body, being the first to hit Gaara, this causes Gaara's fury who awakens a small part of Shukaku's power and begins to attack Lee with gigantic columns of sand, despite this, Lee seriously damages Gaara by opening the fifth door and finishes him off with his Leaf Tornado or Hidden Lotus technique, which leaves Gaara very badly injured, but despite this, Gaara is already that a small part of Shukaku's power manifests and tries to retaliate against Lee for his insolence and because of this he manages to defeat Lee who was very worn out not by Gaara's attacks, but because opening the doors demanded an incredible expense of energy. chakra, running out of strength to finish off Gaara who from the ground makes two small coffins of sand in his leg and left arm, breaking them and tries to kill him, although he is stopped by the intervention of his teacher, Guy. This fight leaves Lee in a critical state, which would put his life in danger, and his aspirations to be a ninja would disappear for the rest of his life.
When the final comes around and Lee finds out about Naruto's victory over Neji, he feels great admiration for him, and at the same time he is disappointed that he didn't make it.
The arrival of the new Hokage Tsunade Senju, after the death of the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, put Rock-Lee in a very difficult decision: risk an operation that could in the worst case risk his life or not be a ninja for the rest of your life. Guy tells Lee to take a chance on the operation if he really wanted to be a ninja, that he had a 50/50 chance of success and if anything goes wrong during the operation he would die with him.
However, after several investigations in various books on medical ninjutsu, Tsunade came to the conclusion that she increased the chances of success of Lee's operation from 50% to 58% and successfully performed it, giving Lee back the chances of returning. to be a ninja
Chase Sasuke
While Lee fully recovers from the operation, Tsunade tasks a team led by Shikamaru Nara with a mission to rescue Sasuke Uchiha; this gives him back the will to fight. Without waiting long, Lee goes out to help his teammates and runs into Naruto, who is facing off with Kimimaro. After this, Lee tells Naruto Uzumaki to follow Sasuke while he takes care of Kimimaro. In an even battle, Lee shows that he is in almost optimal condition and as agile as before, however he cannot temporarily use his Hidden Lotus technique on Tsunade's recommendation, since despite being in the recovery phase he cannot exceed his body. to use that technique until he recovers 100%, he shows incredible abilities and uses the Suiken fighting style, which despite being drunk, gives him much more strength and agility, and he even manages to hit Kimimaro more times than himself Naruto in his Kurama form. In the middle of the battle, Gaara, now an ally of Konoha, comes to his aid, and he is also defeated in the end by an illness that culminates in the death of Kimimaro.
Second Season
Two and a half years later (three according to the manga); Lee participates in a mission to rescue the Kazekage of the sand (Gaara), which culminates in success, however they failed to prevent the Shukaku from falling into the hands of the Akatsuki. He confronts Kisame, a member of Akatsuki, along with Neji, Tenten and of course his teacher Guy, as well as fighting with a kind of clone capable of making the same attacks as himself and without getting tired, but discovering the weak point of the clones and sharing that "Achilles heel" with the rest, he defeats his, and all of his team members do as well, to great success. In the current saga, the Guy team has just finished a mission and they see some birds fleeing from the direction where the village is, they have a bad feeling and quickly go to the village, when they arrive they find Hinata injured, they prepare to heal her With the help of Sakura, she is also badly injured, she is about to go help Naruto along with Guy but they are stopped by Katsuyu who asked them not to interfere in Naruto's fight with Pain.
Filling
He appears in the first filler of the anime when Sora, Chouji, Kiba, and Naruto fight, joining them later to fight the zombies and to help Naruto fight Sora. He also appears in the second filler training with Tenten and Guy and being sent along with Tenten, Ino, and Shizune to help the others with the Three-Tails.
Other appearances
Lee also appears in the filler doing missions with Naruto, Neji and Tenten and in the Naruto movie 3, as the replacement for Sasuke Uchiha from the Naruto team and again in the Naruto Shippuden movie. Also in the Naruto Shippuden filler saga he appears when Sora and Team Kakashi arrive in Konoha; he also appears in all the Naruto video games (in some not just bonus). He has been an eligible character in Naruto Clash of Ninja, Naruto Ultimate Ninja, Naruto Shippūden: Shinobi Retsuden, Naruto: Path of the Ninja,Naruto Ninja Council (in the former he is not eligible), Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles 2 among others; he also appears in Battle Stadium D.O.N. and as a bonus character in Jump Super Stars.
Popularity
Rock Lee is one of the most popular Naruto characters according to several surveys, always being in the Top 10 and once in the Top 5; but in the last one he didn't appear in the Top 10, this one done in 2005. So far there hasn't been another poll.
Complete missions
- Rank D: 25
- Rank C: 21
- Rank B: 5
- Rank A: 10
- Rank S: 1