Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36006024-20180719181710/@comment-25607614-20180730015629

If you want real facts, then we have to really address the story.

Madara who's vaunted for his amazing IQ and battle experience couldn't tell that he was getting long-conned by a weird, black booger who lied and told him he was Madara's will made manifest.

Zetsu was basically 100% of the driving force behind Madara even knowing how to achieve the Ten Tailed Form. Without him, he'd be just another dead guy like Hashirama.

Madara can't achieve that level of power without Zetsu. Zetsu will always release Kaguya, because he's secretly her weird, black booger, and Madara will die regardless of his opponent.

"Kishimoto only wrote it that way because he didn't know what to do with Madara!"

Yeah, well he wrote it that way. Having the 10-tails inside of you puts you in the cross-hairs of becoming a big, nasty blood smear when the power that you're borrowing decides it wants to do its own thing. If you can survive until Kaguya decides to rip Madara in two pieces like a napkin, then you win.