Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26388300-20150612203442

When Itachi overcomes Kabuto and forces him to reverse the Edo Tensei, Madara's spirit begins to return to the afterlife. However, thanks to Madara's skill level, he successfully returns to his reanimated body and then, surprising everyone, removed himself from any contact with the summoner with a counter-jutsu.

No one is surprised, I think, that Madara was capable of this: he lived alongside the Senju brothers for a period before finally leaving Konaha, and it was Tobirama Senju that created the Edo Tensei jutsu... naturally, Madara would have investigated and studied how such a jutsu worked. My point, however, is this:

Why didn't Tobirama and Hashirama utilize this same counter-jutsu to escape Orochimaru's control when he was invading Konaha?? As the jutsu's creator and the brother of the creator, shouldn't they understand how to escape it, too? How is Madara able to do this and they are not? 