Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-18016240-20160208110013/@comment-25626003-20160417132501

After Obito's backstory being crammed down our throats, you'd think Tobirama would be seen more favorably. I don't even think of Madara much anymore because he's an Uchiha to the core, and he grew up during the Warring States Period (conflict and war was his livelihood; he was even willing to quash his friendship with Hashirama because of it).

Tobirama's reasoning was far from faulty, and in the end, became justified. The only douchebags in this situation aside from Madara and Obito, was the select Uchiha individuals who were too power-obsessed and short sighted to see what Tobirama was trying to do, Danzō for being too rigid on his hard-line stances, and to a much lesser extent Hiruzen for allowing the former to enforce it. Hiruzen clearly valued Danzō, so I can't blame him too much for trying to allow Danzō some wiggle room to work with, but damnit you're the Hokage and you know how he operates. He needed to put his foot down, and when he did it was too late for Itachi already made his mind up after Danzō got to him. Now, Tobirama DID say that he figured the Uchiha would try a coup at some point down the road, so the people who say that he should've saw it coming are justified there. But at the end of the day, his responsibility was to the village. It wasn't his job to babysit the Uchiha, especially knowing what he knew about the clan on a much deeper level.

@Bakumatsu You can call them mistakes NOW, but at the time, I don't see how anyone could. To me, this is absolutely a classic case of hindsight 20/20. Then again, Tobirama himself said that he could foresee something like an Uchiha coup attempt happening just based on their power hunger and instability. As you said, he tried and failed. But to me, too many things happened in between then and the clan massacre for me to pin any of it on Tobirama. Danzō was the largest culprit to me in terms of how he and the leafs upper echelon could've steered the village after Obito went bat**** insane and attacked the village with the Nine-Tails. He was second-in-command after all.