Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32617252-20171028231750/@comment-9782468-20171029180136

Hashirama NEVER wanted to kill Madara, and he held back accordingly. If the story says Izuna and Madara were equal when they had MS, they were equal. It's just Tobirama was actually fighting to kill, while Hashirama was fighting to defeat only. Which was never enough to beat Madara. And we saw what happened when hashirama finally got his resolve up to kill Madara; he killed him.