Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26005711-20150512133037/@comment-25405426-20150729225335

Fearlandscape wrote: If guys like Hashirama and Tobirama were God-like ninja and could have solo'ed entire villages, how the hell did they get killed in the first place? Tobirama agrees to act as a decoy and dies in the process?

Shouldn't he be strong enough to survive some rent-a-ninja on a random mission if guys like him could solo the modern day Leaf Village on a day Naruto wasn't around.

Hiruzen might not win this but the SOB deserves some damn credit for living as long as he did in a turbulent cutthroat village system.

Although I agree with your logic...In the Naruto ninja world if you run across a jutsu that you have never seen before chances are you will be killed if you could not assess it in time. Sometimes even if you figure it out you still might lose. So that is what could have happened to the 2nd.

Take Sasuke for instance when he was fighting Itachi. There were plenty of urine and brown streaks when he saw Susanoo for the first time and if Itachi wanted to kill him he could have despite how strong Sasuke had become. The look on Sasuke's face...priceless