Deidara

The artist of Iwagakure

Deidara is a former ninja of the Hidden Stone recruited into Akatsuki, and a fanatic with a single obsessive creed: that true art is a fleeting explosion. Loud, vain and volatile, he treats every battle as a chance to stage his masterpiece.

Explosive clay

Deidara’s cursed technique gives him mouths in the palms of his hands that chew and mold clay into living bombs — birds to fly on, spiders to creep, and escalating grades of detonation from C1 up to the vast C3 dropped from the sky. His forbidden trump card, C0, turns his own body into a final, suicidal blast.

Rivalries in art

Deidara’s ego drives his relationships. He resents Sasori’s belief that art is eternal, and he bitterly hates the Sharingan after Itachi trapped him in a genjutsu — a grudge that fuels his obsessive hunt for anyone who wields those eyes.

Going out with a bang

That grudge brings him to Sasuke Uchiha. Outmatched by Sasuke’s lightning and refusing to lose to another Uchiha, Deidara detonates himself in a colossal explosion meant to erase them both — a death that is, by his own definition, his supreme work of art.