Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-30881771-20170604165052/@comment-25122992-20170605155137

LovelyFox wrote: Well, both Nagato and Itachi were revived with eyes, despite them not possessing them anymore. So Madara having Rinnegan isn`t an exclusion here. These aren't really comparable cases. Itachi and Nagato still possessed their eyes at the moment of their death, these eyes were extracted by Tobi only later on from their corpses, while at the moment of his death, Madara already gave away his Rinnegan and was living quite a while without it.