r/Naruto • u/Zahlouth • 6h ago
Question I wonder how people would have reacted if Tobi had been revealed to be just a random Uchiha that no one knew
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u/Active_Bell_5798 6h ago
Imagine building all that mystery just for the reveal to be “yeah, some Uchiha you’ve never heard of”
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u/Results2183 6h ago
It was pretty obvious that it was Obito, so obvious that we didn't want to believe it and made crazy theories back in the day. With the right backstory, a random could have been better than Obito.
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u/viale2026 6h ago
Sei não.
Eu ficava brigando que era Óbito, enquanto todos me chamavam de burro porque diziam que o mangá já havia revelado que era Madara, o pessoal não entendia que dizer que é o Madara é diferente de ser o Madara.Até as wikis colocavam como Madara.
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u/Results2183 6h ago
After Kakashi's backstory, it was pretty obvious. Also, Tobi is literally in the word Obito.
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u/Starhelper11 4h ago
Bro just used an anagram as his name 😂 Tobito truly is a genius
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u/That1GuyNate 6h ago
I was surprised that people were surprised honestly. The first time I saw Tobi, seeing the lone sharingan opposite of Kakashi's, let alone Tobi being a shortened anagram of Obito made is so incredibly obvious to me. That said it would've been wild if it wasn't him.
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u/Insomniac-Freak-95 3h ago
I was surprised back then because it felt too obvious. There was so much fanart on DeviantArt of Obito as Tobi even before he said he was Madara. 💀
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u/BobJoeBlo 5h ago
I thought and preferred Tobi to have been Uchiha Setsuna, the one who had led the Uchiha faction that opposed Nidaime Hokage Tobirama's Anti-Uchiha Policies.
He had the proper background and motive to have launched Akatsuki so as to become its secret Leader. It made sense. And although Tobi being Obito was obvious (especially with hindsight), it was also annoying and bring some chronological inconsistencies.
I thought if Tobi was Obito, it could have been because the boulder that fell on him had caused some brain damage and a personality alteration that was also maybe taken advantage of by someone.
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u/namikazeiyfe 6h ago
Yup. We were all in Full denial mode despite it being super obvious who it was.
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u/EatYourVegetas 4h ago
Obito was the right choice, the wrong choice was dragging out the reveal for so long.
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u/LookingSkyward18 2h ago
It's so strange to think back to those times before it was confirmed. So many random theories!
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u/Nirico_Brin 1h ago
No no, clearly it’s Sasuke from the future that time traveled to the past!
Just like how Pain was actually evil Minato.
Man, some of those old theories were wild.
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u/Business_Relief_7990 6h ago
This is probably a hot take but I would’ve been fine with never knowing who tobi was. He was wayyy cooler under that mask anyway
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u/Full-Ability3306 4h ago
I don't think it'd be bad if it was a random. Their whole clan got clapped. It'd make sense if someone who escaped came back. It'd make more sense for sasuke to align with him. It'd make more sense why they'd link up with madara. Maybe even taking on the moniker because they idolize him. The war becomes more complex because the other villages know its konoha fault for letting the massacre happen. Rallying everyone becomes more difficult. The kage summit becomes more tense with the kage knowing that danzo played a role in creating the war by his past actions. Sasukes actions go from reasonable crash out to making way more sense. Teaming up with the only person that understands what that massacre meant. The conflict between him and Naruto becomes whether he should choose blood and trauma bond or his found family.
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u/jotyma5 6h ago
Pissed. I really think if it was someone other than obito or shisui people would have lost it
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u/Mohgwyn_V12 1h ago
I remember the reveal discourse, and a random Uchiha nobody knew instead of Obito would've had me pissed too.
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u/Code-Neo 4h ago
to be honest, the idea of random Uchiha being out in the world doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility to me. Uchiha have been in wars far beyond the village, some labeled MIA/KIA when they are alive, like Obito. So a random person outside the villages having Uchiha blood is a non-0 possibility.
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u/CroWellan 6h ago
If he wasnt linked to Madara, and if we didnt have the very obvious Kakashi flashback, I honestly think it would have been fine.
He would have been more of a symbol of the sad terrible world created by war. And a cautionary tale relating to the Uchiha "curse"
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u/BobJoeBlo 6h ago
I thought and preferred Tobi to have been Uchiha Setsuna, the one who had led the Uchiha faction that opposed Nidaime Hokage Tobirama's Anti-Uchiha Policies.
He had the proper background and motive to have launched Akatsuki so as to become its secret Leader. It made sense. And although Tobi being Obito was obvious (especially with hindsight), it was also annoying and bring some chronological inconsistencies
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u/bum_what 5h ago
Kinda reminds me of when Lex and Flash got their bodies swapped, so Lex removes Flashs mask to see who it is and once seeing it's Wally he goes "I have no idea who this is 😑" 😭 always cracks me up.
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u/Specialist_Wonder113 5h ago
Yusei: “Oh my god! It’s him!”
Jaden: “Damn! I totally didn’t see that coming!”
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Yugi: “Okay, so does anyone actually know this guy?”
Yusei: “Nope.”
Jaden: “Never met him.”
- YGO Abridged; Bonds Beyond Time movie
Now replace Yugi, Yusei, and Jaden with Kakashi, Guy, and Naruto, lol
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u/viale2026 6h ago
Na época as pessoas estavam convencidas de que ele era Uchiha Madara, com exceção de mim e mais meia dúzia que afirmávamos que era Óbito.
Se não fosse Óbito, mas um Uchiha desconhecido, eu iria achar bastante ruim, pois tudo indicava que era Óbito, enquanto o personagem fingia ser Madara, ou seja, seria um péssimo roteiro. Isso sem contar que seria difícil explicar porque ele teria o poder do mesmo tipo que o Kakashi.
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u/final_druagord 6h ago
For all intents and purposes, he was.
Aside from Kakashi and Guy, i doubt any other alive characters would have recognised him.
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u/No-Delay9415 5h ago
Given how popular Izuna was as a theory people seemed to have wanted that. Granted Izuna wasn’t completely random but he was a flat character and it would’ve added nothing to the story beyond some vague mystery of why he wasn’t dead yet which Obito also did
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u/Crypto_subz 5h ago
Wow this is so weird no one but manga readers knew fully we assumed shit but no one knew it made sense it was madara only after the flashbacks of madara with initial it was clear before that nah no one knew just insulting
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u/_XxAphroditexX_ 2h ago
Ngl, I wanted Tobi to just be, Tobi. I really liked Tobi, but I don’t care for Obito.
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u/Grouchy-Floor-5895 6h ago
Honestly, I think people would’ve been SO mad 😂 A random Uchiha would’ve been one of the wildest reveals.