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Madara Uchiha
Naruto character
First appearanceManga : Naruto, chapter 370
Created byMasashi Kishimoto
In-universe information
RelativesTajima Uchiha (father)
Izuna Uchiha (brother)

Madara Uchiha (Japanese: うちは マダラ, Hepburn: Uchiha Madara) is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. He appears for the first in the series' second part, "Part II" and the Shippuden anime adaptation as a background character. He is one of the co-founders of Konohagakure (Japanese: 木ノ葉隠れの里, Hepburn: Konohagakure no Sato) along with Hashirama Senju, the first leader of it. Their power conflict over how to run the village, as well as the long-term feud between the Uchiha and Senju clans, leads to Madara's supposed death, but it is later revealed that Madara had used a man named Obito Uchiha as his agent and transplants his Eye Technique Rinnegan eye power into a child named Nagato, the leader of the Akatsuki organization, to be preserved for his eventual revival years later. During most of the Naruto series, Obito uses Madara's name until a criminal named Kabuto Yakushi reanimates the real Madara, after which the latter becomes formidable antagonist during the Fourth Shinobi World War storyline.

Madara has appeared in several pieces of Naruto media, including a Boruto feature film. Anime and manga reviewers have reviewed his role as an antagonist in the series; some have placed him in top all-time anime villains lists, while others have criticized his effectiveness. He has been featured as a playable character in many of the Naruto video games. Merchandise has been released in Madara's likeness, including keychains, plush dolls and figurines. In the Japanese anime, Madara (and Obito in his Madara guise) is voiced by Naoya Uchida while Gou Inoue voices him as a child. In the English version, Madara's voice is supplied by Neil Kaplan, with Xander Mobus voicing him as a child.

Creation and design

Madara originated from Masashi Kishimoto's desire to elaborate on the ending to the manga series Naruto. Once the series began its "second part", simply referred to as Part II in the manga and Shippuden in the anime, Kishimoto felt the need to create a story arc that would emphasize the tragedy of wars, leading to the final arc which would include a war. According to Kishimoto, Naruto and his group were so weak as genin in the first part. He wanted to make them stronger in the second part. That's why he introduced the Akatsuki and in turn Madara.[2] In an interview, Kishimoto asserted that making the villains "flamboyant" was one of the "guiding principles" he followed. It was his desire, to crate villains with "powerful aura".[3] Madara comes late in the manga, as one of the masterminds leading to the fourth shinobi world war, in the final arc.[4] Nevertheless he wanted to make him an engaging antagonist who whose story would clash with Sasuke Uchiha and the creature known as the Ten-Tailed Beast in order to give proper conclusion to the storyline.[5]

According to Kishimoto, Madara is not just like any other character introduced in the series. He created Madara as a character with no weaknesses.[4] From the very beginning, he is shown as a powerful character with the intent of destroying Konoha. He is a legend along with Hashirama Senju and his rival. As one of the antagonists in the story, Kishimoto created Madara as an antithesis to the protagonists' values, a perfect anti-hero.[6] Kishimoto also stated that Naruto always defeated the enemies without intent to kill and settled things verbally; which, kind of ruined the whole hyped-up mood for the naruto fans. Naruto, truly forgave his enemy, instead of having the protagonist kill the enemy, which he liked but no shonen manga truly followed.[2] Kishimoto found the idea of the two characters interacting and settling their differences more interesting and challenging, rather than killing them. So after the Pain arc onwards, he decided to introduce the Edo Tensei (and Zetsu clones) to have someone to beat, which obviously the fans want. According to him, this was one of the reasons why he introduced Edo-Madara into the storyline. But he confessed that it kind of ended complicated at first. Reviving him with Edo Tensei and then with Rinne Tensei to fulfil his goal. As it ended up into the confusion, about the difference between the two.[2]

Neil Kaplan first voiced Madara in the video game Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 because CyberConnect2's fighting game's storyline was ahead of the television series. As a result, he was requested by the staff to read the series' manga in order to get an idea in regards to the character. As a result, Kaplan expressed diffficulties in voicing Madara for the first time.[7]

Appearances

In Naruto

Madara's Mangekyo Sharingan (Top), his Eteranal Mangekyo Sharingan (Middle) and Rinnegan (Bottom)

Madara, presumably dead, is mentioned in the second part of the manga Naruto and does not appear in most of the series except the war arc. During his chilhood,[8] he met a boy like him named Hashirama, but amidst the conflicts of their respective clan, their friendship ends resulting a the war. After failing in several attempts to kill or defeat his rival Hashirama, Madara became friends with him and accepted his treaty, offering peace between the two clans. The Uchiha, Senju and all of their affiliated clans came together to form a village, which Madara named Konohagakure[9] Madara took merciless approach and didn't like the compassionate methods of Hashirama.[10] He cared for the people, and did what he thought was in the village’s best interests. After the death of his brother Izuna , Madara became cynical and vengeful who held grudges against the Senju Clan, for slaughtering his brothers in the War.[11] After his defection from Konoha, he believed that there is no real peace. Losing all of his family and conflicted with his own clanmates, he decided to free the world from its pains,[12] by casting infinite Tsukiyomi upon the whole world; so that there would be no war and no death.[13] Madara is believed to have been killed by Hashirama's hand, but he survives and goes into hiding. He awakens the legendary Eye Technique Rinnegan[14] using Hashirama's DNA. Before dying, Madara takes Obito as his agent and transplants his Rinnegan into Nagato to be preserved for his eventual revival years later.[15] He also transplanted his Rinnegan into Nagato to preserve it until his eventual return. After Madara's death, his greatest lasting influence was in Obito, one of his descendants, who used Madara's knowledge to create Akatsuki. When Obito moves into the final stages of Madara's goal by initiating the Fourth Shinobi World War, Kabuto Yakushi forms an alliance with him, eventually reviving Madara's reanimated corpse.[16][17]

By the nightfall, Madara releases himself from Kabuto's contract and rebound his soul to the modified immortal body, enabling him to act on his own will. Madara decides to reclaim the Nine-Tails within Naruto and defeats the Kages, only to reunite with Obito while he is engaged in combat with the shinobis. Madara fully resurrects himself by sacrificing defeated Obito, ordering Black Zetsu to take control over Obito's body and perform Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.[18] Restored to life, Madara unlocks his full potential and manages to break free of his restraints. Defeating his enemies, Madara goes after the Tailed beasts to revive Ten-Tails. He summons the Gedou statue and manages to seal all of the Tailed Beasts within it. Even Might Guy, in his eight gates mode, backed up by Minato, Gaara and Rock Lee is unable to stop him. Before killing most of his enemies, Madara is confronted by the healed Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha who overwhelm him. Madara is forced to escape and regain Obito's Rinnegan. Upon returning to the field, Madara succeeds in casting the "Mugen Tsukuyomi". The entire world becomes trapped in the dream as Madara announces himself the world's saviour. Sasuke manages to save Naruto, Kakashi, and Sakura from this Genjutsu; only to witness Black Zetsu stabbing Madara in the back, gaining control over his body. Black Zetsu reveals that it was never Madara's will but Kaguya's[19] and forces Madara to start absorbing the chakra of those trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Madara swelled in size, absorbing all the available Chakra, and shrank again only to reveal that Kaguya has taken his place. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi manage to seal Kaguya, who reverts into ten tails before being sealed and spits out Madara. Eventually, Madara dies because of the toll of both the tailed beasts and Demonic Statue removed from his body.[20] In his final moments, Madara finds real peace within the dreams of Hashirama, stating that his dream for peace has died while Hashirama's dream for peace lived on and will always keep living on as it is the better of the two. Before dying, he acknowledges the friendship of Hashirama and agrees to Hashirama when he said, that they are still friends despite everything. [20]

In other media

Madara appears in the original video animation Hashirama Senju vs. Madara Uchiha (2012); Obito narrates the origin of Konoha. At the beginning ninja fought for their own clans. The most powerful among them are two clans: the Senju led by Hashirama, and the Uchiha led by Madara. This was distributed as part of the Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations video game for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.[21] Although Obito impersonates Madara, the character made his debut in a video game in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3.[22] His Ten-Tailed Beast Host incarnation also appeared in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4.[23] In The Last: Naruto the Movie (2014), Madara appears for a brief moment to be seen fighting with Hashirama, depicting them as the reincarnation of Indra and Ashura, which gradually leads to the final battle between Sasuke and Naruto. Madara also appears in the iOS and Android mobile game Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Blazing.[24] Outside Naruto games, the character also appears in the crossovers fighting games J-Stars Victory VS and Jump Force as downloadable content.[25][26]

Several merchandise items based on Madara have been released, including key chains,[27] action figures,[28] and many more.[29]

Reception

Madara has been a popular character from the Naruto series. He is one of the most powerful characters and a better villain from the series and is featured in most of the powerful anime character lists from different anime reviewers. Comic Book Resources listed him 3rd[30] at their list of "25 most powerful anime villains", calling him "relatively indestructible" and a legend. CBR also featured him on their list of "10 Anime Characters Who Got Stronger After Coming Back From The Dead" and gave him the 9th spot.[31] Comic Vine rated him 34th on their the top 100 anime villains list.[32] TheGamer, a news website focused on video game journalism, however, ranks him at 5th on their list titled Final Form: The 25 Strongest Anime Villains Ever, Officially Ranked .[33] Madara is also featured 6th on their list titled "20 Most Powerful Naruto Characters, Ranked", where author Bobby Anhalt states that "Madara Uchiha is a force to be taken seriously." [34] UK Anime Network regarded Madara's introduction as one of the franchise's strongest areas not only for the direction in fight scenes but also because of how it affects the main storyline.[35] His next battle against the five Kages, the leaders of each ninja village, also earned acclaimed for the execution, making it the final story arc more appealing as the reviewer also like Naruto's fight against Obito which started in the same narrative.[36] The Fandom Post gave similar praise to this fight, noting how each Kage tried to defeat Madara on their own, but still felt the villain to be too overpowered as initially does not care about his rivals.[37] Siliconera enjoyed Madara's moves from the video game Storm 4 based on the way the character's Susanoo technique which was appealing to see in combat.[38] Anime News Network author Amy McNulty, on her review of episode 392 from the anime, states that Madara has been built up as the ultimate villain of Naruto, and he is living up to that promise.[39] Anime News Network author Jason Thompson criticized the character by calling Madara a "jerk"; but he liked the Madara's perfect Sussano'o, according to him it looks lot cooler than the others and is much more powerful.[40]

Madara's origins received good response. Screen Rant, on their article 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Madara, pointed out that the power that Madara sought eventually took over the his innocence that was once a part of him. They also praised some good qualities of Madara that includes his idea of gender, money and power. While describing his love for his brother Izuna, they compared it with Itachi's for Sasuke. According to them, Madara is "one of the best evil characters in the series".[41] When first seeing Madara's past, The Fandom Post enjoyed the chaos between the Uchiha and Senju clans as despite fighting through wars, Madara still showed of humanity to the point a spin-off based on the the war was wished by the reviewer.[42] In the next review, The Fandom Post enjoyed how his relationship with Hashirama was handled, when Hashirama tried offering him peace, giving the series more like a back story as it focused on the characters' past and the founding of the Hidden Leaf village.[43] Another reviewer from the same site noted that these backstories also helped to understand the chaos that occurred within the Uchiha clan, which was previously explored in the stories of Sasuke and Itachi, with the former needing to get his own resolve of whether or not to team up with Madara and destroy the ninja world, which resulted in his decision to stick with Itachi's ideals instead.[44]

Some critics aso disliked the handling of the character. In an article from Screen Rant, titled "15 Things Wrong With Naruto We All Choose To Ignore", author Daniel Forster criticised Black Zetsu's betrayal to Madara, by saying as he found Kaguya as a poor substitute for Madara who was noted to come across as well developed antagonist.[45] Anime News Network author Amy McNulty, however, thinks that it's not that much annoying, but she isn't sure if its a smart move or not to stab Madara, a genius, using Zetsu whom he believed as "his will incarnate"[46] CBR author Renaldo Matadeen criticized the handling of Madara as a villain despite appearing late in the story, and instead found his characterization weak.[47] While agreeing that Kaguya should not have replaced Madara as the final villain for the Shinobi War, Anime UK News still felt that Kaguya felt more built up in the anime adaptation making her more unique in terms of origins when compared with Madara's past as her descendants had a closer relationship with the protagonists, Naruto and Sasuke.[48]

See also

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