Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3306440-20140416120407/@comment-24824148-20140417140618

Mlpa16 wrote: i thought madara was OP enough because he survived the hachimon tonkou no jin, beat all 9 bijuu blind, defeated hashirama with one eye and nearly killed naruto and sasuke with one eye before he got juubi power

I didn't have too much of a problem with Madara having all that power. He is considered the strongest ever, or at least one of the strongest ever. They had to give a reason why mentioning his name invoked fear into the people. Nearly killing naruto and sasuke was merely a plot device that they could of worked around.