Re: Obito : All plotholes explained
"Obito was 14 during the Konoha attack"
I'm yet to see any true evidence about him being 14 during the Konoha attack, and I really don't see where the hell people pulled this crap out of. Anti-Obito theorists just made this up to have the whole timeline plot hole, so I don't see it as a valid argument.
14 or not, it doesn't matter his exact age. If you look at the pictures of Kakashi and Gai in that time I suppose they are tall enough that somebody of their age could pretend to be Tobi.
The real problem with the timing of the attack is this: It was only a year or two after Obito's apparent death. Maybe three years, to be generous. During that time Obito needed to be rescued from under the boulder, he needed to recover from the very traumatic injury, he needed his personality to flip 180 degrees (from a good guy to a very bad guy), he needed to unlock MS and his Kamui, and he needed to train for his mission. That's a hell of a lot of things that needed to happen, more or less in order, in a very short amount of time.
"Obito could not have fought Minato with his combat experience"
Obito did not defeat Minato, he got his ass kicked hard. He didn't even manage to land a blow on Minato. So don't talk as if they were on the same levels.
Sure Obito lost the battle, but he sure did put up a good fight. Minato's speed is extremely high, and the fact that Tobi was able to keep up with any of his movements suggests Obito was at a pretty high level during that fight. Their first exchange, on top of the hokage monument, happened very quickly. Tobi was intangible for what was a very quick kunai attack through his head, then he resolidified quickly and was able to grab Minato's arm in mid swing. These aren't chuunin we're talking about. We're talking about one of the fastest ninja ever, being caught during a very quick attack.
"Obito could not have given Rinnegan to Nagato"
It wasn't Obito who gave him Rinnegan, it was Madara himself before he died.
Madara ripped out his own eyes, secretly implanted them into an unknowing recipient, then disappeared into the night to die without anybody (except Kabuto) knowing where his body was hid. I'm sure it's very easy to do an eye transplant operation when you're blind. This is all sarcasm.
"Obito could not have helped Yahiko start the Akatsuki"
People think Tobi started the Akatsuki with Yahiko because they believe he's Madara's secret assistant. Well sorry to burst your bubble but Madara's almost certainly been referring to Zetsu as his assistant all this time. We know Madara got his hands on Hashirama DNA, and it's easy to assume he just somehow got Zetsu made out of it. Zetsu got entrusted the mission of recruiting members and finding someone like Obito to take over later on.
You're forgetting the scenes where Tobi talks to Pain and gives him orders. Here's one example:
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The "invincible Pain" wouldn't take orders from anybody, and this is clearly not Zetsu speaking. Tobi is clearly giving orders to Pain. Now, if Nagato and Yahiko founded the organization are Nagato is in charge of it, why is he taking orders from anybody?
"Obito would not have turned evil"
Because "turning" evil isn't a part of these series, I mean Sasuke, Nagato, Konan, and a few others didn't just decide to have their justice done against Konoha. Unless you watch this through Kishimoto's eyes where Naruto is the ultimate form of justice, there's no good and evil in these series, Konohagakure are also jerks who've been abusing of plot no jutsu since the dawn of time to dictate their rules over others, including a clan of their own, the Uchiha. There's plenty of reasons to "turn evil".
But all those people you mention had reasons to become evil:
1) Sasuke watched his entire clan get massacred, and his quest for revenge and power lead him to Orochimaru
2) Nagato, likewise, watched his parents get murdered, watched his village get ravaged by war, and even was forced to kill his best friend by his own hand (all while not really having a stable mentor figure, because Jiraya didn't stay).
3) Konan is with Nagato, and believed he was the messiah. She wasn't really evil so much
Obito had no such reasons. Obito didn't become evil after losing his family and his clan, because Obito performed the massacre that killed them. His experiences in war weren't much worse than anybody else's. His very last act was giving Kakashi his eye. His very last thought was about how much he loved Rin and never told her. How do you go from that to being a ruthless murder, who kills a pregnant woman, threatens to kill a newborn baby, unleashes a natural disaster on a village of mostly innocent people and then goes back years later to personally massacre one of the clans there?
These are two completely different people. Tobi represents a complete role reversal for Obito in every way. Every single thing that Obito believed is completely the opposite of what tobi believes.
Nagato at least had the benefit of several painful events shaping a gradual evolution of his mindset. He lost his parents young and was set on a path of hardship and pain that slowly but inevitably lead him to becoming a villain. Obito was a good person with good friends, and he become the complete opposite in every way in only a few short years.
Going from good to evil isn't a light switch that you just turn on and then one day you turn it off. It's a gradual journey shaped by events. In three years Obito, apparently, had all those events AND did a bunch of other training and preparation as well.
"Obito was unskilled"
So was Naruto and how he's completely overpowered.
Naruto is also a prophesized hero with the full chakra and power of the 9-tailed demon fox sealed inside him. The 9-tails being, remember, the most powerful of all the bijuu. Naruto's intense training has been in pursuit of goals he's had since he was a child. Obito's goals completely reversed themselves, which means for the same amount of necessary training there would have been times when his motivations were not clear enough to continue.
But motivations don't even really matter. What matters is that Naruto contains an extra, super-sized power source that Obito does not have. Naruto's explosive growth can be attributed to his status as a jinchuuriki. Without the fox, Naruto would not be anywhere near as powerful as he is today.
