PrinceMyshkin
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For those of you who somehow still don't understand why Madara was able to break the Edo Tensei I will explain it to you in the way that I understand it, and explain why Tobirama will be unable to do the same thing.
1. The Misconception
"Madara broke out of the Edo Tensei because he is an Uchiha badass who is too strong to be constrained by the Edo Tensei"
This seems to be the most common misconception. I see people saying that no Uchiha can be Edo Tensei'd because he broke out of it, or that people think he broke out of it because he was so powerful that Kabuto couldn't control him. Let me go over why this is wrong.
Another misconception is that Madara's talisman was special and this is why he was able to break Kabuto's control, but this is also wrong which I will show.
2. How the Edo Tensei works
As you can see the Edo Tensei works by taking the body of a dead person and using it as a vessel for the soul of another. But that's not the important part for my purposes. The most important part is where Kabuto says that the ET is a variant of the summoning techinique.
Now as we know summoning techniques require contracts this can be seen as Naruto signs the contract with the toads in order to be able to summon his toads.
3. The Theory about the Edo Tensei
My theory about the Edo Tensei is that like any other summoning jutsu it requires a contract between the summoner and the one who is summoned. This means that when Kabuto summons his Edo Tensei summons he not only is bringing their souls back into the world by having a dead body act as a medium, but that he also has a summoning contract with each soul that he summons back.
4. The Risk of the Edo Tensei
According to my theory of the Edo Tensei, Kabuto establishes a summoning contract with the dead souls he brings back to the world. This is the one risk of the Edo Tensei.
As we can see Minato is able to rip away Obito's contract with Kurama. I believe that this is exactly what Madara was able to do to break free of Kabuto's control.
I believe that what Madara is doing here is taking control of his own summoning contract which Kabuto abandoned when he released the Edo Tensei.
5. Why can Madara take control of his own summoning contract but Tobirama can't?
I believe that the key difference in these two cases is that Kabuto released the Edo Tensei whereas Orochimaru has never actually released Tobirama. Tobirama has been sealed once and resummoned, but we've never seen Orochimaru use the signs to undo the jutsu.
Why this is important.
1. Edo Tensei summons can momentarily control their summoned bodies and use jutsu when the Edo Tensei is released via hand signs.
This means that as Kabuto released the ET Madara was able to act on his own and use his own jutsu/hand signs.
2. Releasing the ET releases the summoning contract.
This is important because it means that by releasing his jutsu, Kabuto forfeited his contract with Madara's soul, which allowed Madara (who was now able to use his own jutsu) to establish a summoning contract with his own soul using his Edo body.
6. Conclusion
Madara now owns his own soul's summoning contract. If Madara weaved the seals to undo the Edo Tensei himself he could release his summoning contract and unsummon himself. This is important because the circumstances of Madara breaking the ET were never available to Tobirama. This means if Orochimaru undid his jutsu Tobirama could "break out" the same way Madara did. There is no plot hole, we just have circumstances surrounding Madara's edo that Tobirama never had.
1. The Misconception
"Madara broke out of the Edo Tensei because he is an Uchiha badass who is too strong to be constrained by the Edo Tensei"
This seems to be the most common misconception. I see people saying that no Uchiha can be Edo Tensei'd because he broke out of it, or that people think he broke out of it because he was so powerful that Kabuto couldn't control him. Let me go over why this is wrong.
Another misconception is that Madara's talisman was special and this is why he was able to break Kabuto's control, but this is also wrong which I will show.
2. How the Edo Tensei works
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As you can see the Edo Tensei works by taking the body of a dead person and using it as a vessel for the soul of another. But that's not the important part for my purposes. The most important part is where Kabuto says that the ET is a variant of the summoning techinique.
Now as we know summoning techniques require contracts this can be seen as Naruto signs the contract with the toads in order to be able to summon his toads.
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3. The Theory about the Edo Tensei
My theory about the Edo Tensei is that like any other summoning jutsu it requires a contract between the summoner and the one who is summoned. This means that when Kabuto summons his Edo Tensei summons he not only is bringing their souls back into the world by having a dead body act as a medium, but that he also has a summoning contract with each soul that he summons back.
4. The Risk of the Edo Tensei
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According to my theory of the Edo Tensei, Kabuto establishes a summoning contract with the dead souls he brings back to the world. This is the one risk of the Edo Tensei.
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As we can see Minato is able to rip away Obito's contract with Kurama. I believe that this is exactly what Madara was able to do to break free of Kabuto's control.
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I believe that what Madara is doing here is taking control of his own summoning contract which Kabuto abandoned when he released the Edo Tensei.
5. Why can Madara take control of his own summoning contract but Tobirama can't?
I believe that the key difference in these two cases is that Kabuto released the Edo Tensei whereas Orochimaru has never actually released Tobirama. Tobirama has been sealed once and resummoned, but we've never seen Orochimaru use the signs to undo the jutsu.
Why this is important.
1. Edo Tensei summons can momentarily control their summoned bodies and use jutsu when the Edo Tensei is released via hand signs.
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This means that as Kabuto released the ET Madara was able to act on his own and use his own jutsu/hand signs.
2. Releasing the ET releases the summoning contract.
This is important because it means that by releasing his jutsu, Kabuto forfeited his contract with Madara's soul, which allowed Madara (who was now able to use his own jutsu) to establish a summoning contract with his own soul using his Edo body.
6. Conclusion
Madara now owns his own soul's summoning contract. If Madara weaved the seals to undo the Edo Tensei himself he could release his summoning contract and unsummon himself. This is important because the circumstances of Madara breaking the ET were never available to Tobirama. This means if Orochimaru undid his jutsu Tobirama could "break out" the same way Madara did. There is no plot hole, we just have circumstances surrounding Madara's edo that Tobirama never had.
