Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-45444155-20200806213256/@comment-26636534-20200819145247

ReweR 1331 wrote:

Madara stole Hashirama's chakra senjutsu and automatically entered Sage Mode. Doesn't that mean that having a senjutsu chakra is tantamount to automatic entry into sage mode?

Not quite. Madara stole Hashirama's sage chakra and that same sage chakra synchronized with his Hashiboob. Madara didn't obtain the sage markings on his own face, he used Hashiboob for SM as it obtained the sage markings, becoming something akin to psuedo-SM. As Madara himself is not gathering and balancing NE, he is only controlling sage chakra already created by Hashirama.