Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-142748-20150410212019/@comment-142748-20150412061434

QuakingStar wrote: A completed Edo Tensei does not equal someone being as strong as their living forms. It just means more control and more shinobi to be controlled at once. Yes they were stronger than Orochimaru's original version but so what? @Mecha Naruto the example is in my last post. Madara was not playing possum that's speculation on your end. Also Kabuto wouldn't know Madara's prime because he was not alive and did not witness his power at all, as he later confirms before Madara uses Tengai Shinsei. That whole statement was just bs hype. You take somethings said in the wrong context and others far too literally. Onoki explicitly said Mu's power was the same as in life. That means, that he wasn't weaker as an Edo Tensei. A more complete or completed Edo Tensei can bring out the reincarnated's power to its fullest.

Madara, Hashirama, and Tobirama were the special cases in the manga. They were the only reincarnated brought back not at full strength due to their own extraordinary powers. And even then, Madara was most likely fooling Hashirama so he could buy time for Black Zetsu to bring him back to life...so he could become the new Juubi Jinchuriki. Orochimaru's version was less complete, hence why Hashirama and Tobirama were brought back a hair shy of their full strength. Kabuto's? He could not only bring shinobi back at full strength, he could do so to dozens of them at a single time.