Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-44142243-20200822163643/@comment-39350828-20200823125002

LegionZero wrote: This is false. Madara was looking straight at Naruto with the staff between them prior to firing the beam. From this position, he would have to shoot the beam straight at Naruto, cutting through the staff in the process.

Based on the "dodge" panel we can see that that the staff is broken, meaning he did initially fire the beam straight, cutting through the staff before Naruto could dodge. Naruto dodged before the beam hit him in the face, Madara swung to try and hit him.

I dont know why "he dodged the swing" is even a rebuttle in the Naruto community when Madara wouldnt have to swing unless Naruto dodged since Madara was looking him straight in the face already Again, you're assuming

1. you agree that the first thing the beam hit was the staff but you assume it didn't take time to get through the staff because if it did then naruto could've dodged during that time

2. naruuto didn't sense the chakra in madara's mouth before the attack was fired using SPSM because if he did he could've started moving himself away from where madara was aiming before the beam was fired.

And another issue I have with this is that there are no remnants of the beam in that panel except the ones in the beam madara was still firing. If naruto got to that position at FTL speed and the panel is from the time when naruto got to that position and all the parts of the beam are slower than naruto, then how have they already exited the area the panel captures? I think this shows that in the time it took for madara to swing his head and naruto to dodge that swing, the parts of the beam that he fired at the beginning of his swing and parts of the beam that he is still firing have already left our view unless you believe that the panel shows a time when madara's head stayed relatively motionless in the middle of a fight for long enough for the beam he was shooting to fully extend