Re: Tobi (Official Breakdown):All Tobi theories go here:-
I'm new here, so I just want to say hey to everyone!
But that's beside the point. I've been reading some of the theories here on this thread and I just wanted to point something out.
A couple of weeks I read this theory about the Sharingan and Madara.
To obtain the MS, you have to kill your best friend.
To obtain the EMS, you have to receive the eyes of your sibling (regardless if they were stolen or not and it takes two compatible siblings for this to work -- Madara and Izuna, Sasuke and Itachi)
However, to obtain the Rinnegan (a secret that only Madara knew of because he had read the stone tablet and Itachi said during his fight with Sasuke that he was the only person ever to decipher it) the EMS holder has to sacrifice himself (this, of course, is all speculation as no one but Kishi and Madara know).
Now, Madara and Izuna were very close and since Madara had read the tablet, he knew that he could obtain the Rinnegan and did so after sacrificing himself after his battle with Hashirama -- in which he "obtained" Hashirama's and by extension Senju's, power. He "won" because he looked to the future, because Tobi had said that every generation, a Senju and an Uchiha fight -- ultimately leading to an endless cycle of fighting between the two.
Madara and Izuna knew that it would go on and to secure the permanent victory of the Uchiha over the Senju in the next destined battle, Madara sacrificed himself and was defeated to make sure that the EMP would work, thus allowing the cycle to be broken with the Uchiha on top.
Now the matter with Tobi is that Tobi is Izuna. How? Well consider this:
Madara stated that the "Nagato brat grew up." Once Madara activated his Rinnegan (before he died), he gave the eyes to an infant Nagato. The moment that Nagato activated the Rinnegan, it would automatically revive Izuna, not Madara, because (as the theory that I read said) it is the will of the SO6P. The sibling who took the eyes was not entitled to a second life after death, but rather, the sibling who's eyes were taken from him would be revived. Madara probably didn't know this and when Nagato first awakened his eyes, it revived Izuna in the state in which Madara was in before he died (therefore allowing him to say that he was a "former shell" of who he use to be), who set forth his and Madara's plan. Izuna was probably planning to revive Madara later on (or not), but ultimately couldn't because it would conflict with the Edo Tensei.
Which brings me to the next point: Why hasn't Izuna activated the EMS or the MS. Well, we kinda can't ask that question since Kishi hasn't mentioned it. It is a manga and to speculate beyond what we can't know is just trivial. We don't know, only Kishi knows why he hasn't activated the MS or EMS.
Tobi can't be Hashirama or Tobirama because they were both Edo Tensei's of Orochimaru and were sealed in the Death God by Hiruzen, and by extension, it can't be the Yondaime Hokage because of the same situation, being sealed.
It is most likely not Zetsu because Zetsu is a product of Hashirama's cells and that is why they turn into trees when they come in contact with Naruto. Tobi would have turned into a tree. Plus, how would he have gotten the Sharingan and why would the other Zetsu's listen to him?
It's only a theory--just a fan's speculation on the matter.
