Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32186285-20180807172737/@comment-5407586-20180807195351

Thekillman wrote: JOA20 wrote: Madara had planned to fake his death from the very start. The reason he lost to Hashirama was because his Sharingan was no longer active. I don't think this is necessarily true. At the end, he only lost by a single move. Victory was within his grasp, so i think it's more likely that he enacted Plan during the fight, when it probably wasn't going as well as he expected. Madara still needed to go into hiding, since he didn't know how long it'd take to awaken the Rinnegan after taking Hashirama's cells into his body. Not to mention how cautious he was. (By the way, I don't understand how Tobirama couldn't notice that Madara's corpse was actually a Shadow Clone).