Perhaps Madara wasn’t so smart, after all.
Spoilers ahead!
Summary:
- Naruto fans consider Madara as one of the greatest — and smartest — villains in the series.
- Despite that, his plan to get resurrected relied on Nagato and Obito, neither of whom were willing to cooperate.
- The reason it worked in the end is the result of a very unlikely chain of coincidences.
Many Naruto fans praise Madara as one of the greatest villains in the series. To be fair, it’s understandable why. He’s strong, has a cool design, and executed possibly one of the greatest plans of self-resurrection in the entire series.
Yes, Zetsu betrayed him in the end and revealed that he was Kaguya’s pawn all along, but Naruto fans generally dislike that development anyway.
However, Madara’s so-called plan wasn’t actually as great as people make it out to be. In fact, it was full of holes, and it was because of a set of unlikely coincidences that it worked in the first place. Perhaps Madara is actually the luckiest character in the entire series.
Plan Couldn’t Have Worked Without Some Coincidences
Madara miraculously surviving after his battle with Hashirama and remaining hidden without being found actually makes a certain amount of sense. Uchihas have always had their share of escape techniques.
However, pretty much everything that happened after that relied on so specific things actually happening that it can hardly be called a plan.
Madara finding Obito — who happened to have a perfect Mangekyo ability — and awakening a Rinnegan prior to his death was already unlikely. The latter happened pretty arbitrarily, and the former is simply a miracle. Giving the eyes to Nagato was not a good choice either — the kid simply could have been killed.
It Falls Apart at Every Step
The rest of the plan was for Nagato to go crazy at some point — absolutely no reason to suspect that would ever happen — and resurrect Madara using the Rinnegan he was given. Not only is this dubious, as Nagato would not have known Madara at all, but the backup plan using Obito was even less likely to come together.
Obito wasn’t brainwashed by Madara, and in the end, he wasn’t even strong enough to manipulate Nagato in the future.
The fact that he arrived at the battlefield at the exact moment when Kakashi killed Rin was a complete coincidence, even considering that he was there because of Zetsu. And even then, Obito was going to pretend to be Madara, with no intention to resurrect him.
Besides, Rinne Rebirth — the resurrection technique Rinnegan uses — would have brought an old Madara back, and he could barely fight at that point. It doesn’t resurrect the person at their prime. It is a complete coincidence that Kabuto brought him back using Reanimation. Perhaps Madara wasn’t as smart as fans were making him out to be.