Re: Naruto Manga 560 Discussion and 561 Predictions
Tobi and Madara are the same person and at the same time not the same person. Let me explain:
We all kind of agree that the 1st Hokage didn't kill Madara right away, but it can be deduced from the manga that Madara was gravely injured during the fight; even maybe leading to his death after some time. Perhaps during this time he thought out a plan to become whole again and created the Tobi clone. The fact that the Kyuubi, Itachi, and even Sasuke recognized Tobi as a human and not a clone let's you know that Tobi at least is not a Zetsu clone, but could be a Madara clone. All of those years trying to recuperate were spent doing experiments trying to recreate his body to what it was before being defeated by the 1st Hokage. That would also explain why Zetsu was the only person who knew Tobi’s real identity. He was a part of his experiment. Tobi seemed to not have a problem getting rid of body parts either. When Tobi fought against the guy from the Aburame clan and was infected with those bugs Tobi chopped off his arm. When it dropped on the floor it turned white. It appears this way in the manga and even more clearly in the anime. It’s possible that Tobi can recreate a missing arm because he has two arms AGAIN.
Do you remember when Tobi visited Naruto to ask him about how he convinced Nagato to betray him? He said he was planning to use Nagato’s technique that brings back the dead on himself. Madara was running out of time because of his injuries from the fight with the 1st, so he gave Nagato the Rinnegan hoping that when Nagato grew up he would bring him back to life, but instead he heard the Tsuchikage talk about the impure world resurrection. He left Tobi in his place to make sure that Nagato would bring him back.
Another theory is that since Madara can copy any jutsu he may have copied a splitting type jutsu from someone else and created the Tobi persona. Tobi himself said that he was a "shadow of his former self". Splitting oneself into two also has some drawbacks as we saw when Muu tried to use dust techniques. That could be the reason why Tobi cannot do the Susanoo, but can phase/time shift.
So, Madara is Tobi and Tobi is Madara, but at the same they are not the SAME. Tobi has to be a clone of some type because Madara talked about “HIM” and not by his brother’s name (which would have made more sense). So there you go; Digest it, dissect it, disinfect it.
