Obito

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Team Minato and Kannabi Bridge

Obito serves alongside Kakashi Hatake and Rin Nohara under Minato Namikaze during the Third Shinobi World War. Minato considers him passionate but careless and prone to showing off, in contrast to Kakashi’s cold, mission-focused behavior 124.

During Rin’s rescue, Obito awakens his Sharingan and defeats Taiseki. He and Kakashi then coordinate against Kakkō, injuring him before rushing to Rin without confirming his death. Watching secretly, Tetsuya finishes Kakkō with a senbon 127.

Obito subsequently suffers crushing injuries. Black Zetsu and White Zetsu bring him to Madara’s hideout, replacing his damaged organs and body parts to keep him alive. His teammates believe he has died, while Kakashi carries the Sharingan Obito gave him 132 135.

Madara’s Successor

Black Zetsu selects Obito as Madara’s prospective representative before the Kannabi Bridge incident. Madara intends for him to gather the tailed beasts under Zetsu’s guidance and arrange his resurrection through the Rinnegan 115 128.

Witnessing Rin’s apparent death awakens Obito’s Mangekyō Sharingan. He massacres the surrounding Kirigakure shinobi with Kamui and Wood Release. During the slaughter, Tetsuya takes Rin away and leaves a trail intended to make Obito believe her body has been lost at sea 135.

Obito chooses to inherit Madara’s will and pursue the Eye of the Moon Plan. He approaches Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan with promises of a world containing only peace, love, and victors. Tetsuya has already supplied them with a detailed account of his identity, abilities, and manipulation by Black Zetsu 137 138.

Unable to abandon Nagato’s Rinnegan, Obito later applies to Akatsuki as Tobi. The trio accepts him as an intern to keep his activities under observation rather than leave him operating unseen 154.

The Nine-Tails’ Attack and Rin’s Pursuit

Obito infiltrates Kushina’s delivery site, exploits the weakened seal during childbirth, releases the Nine-Tails, and controls it for battle. Minato mistakes the masked attacker for Madara; Obito changes his voice and embraces the impersonation 160.

A masked Rin confronts him during the attack. Her specially designed Protective Water Formation Wall shreds his arm when he tries to become tangible and strike her. He retreats and replaces the limb with a White Zetsu arm 159.

Rin continues hunting him without revealing her identity. Her Flying Thunder God and Rasengan combination repeatedly disrupts his plans, including his investigation of the Seven-Tails at Takigakure. Obito initially wonders whether the attacker could be Minato, having faked his death 184 185.

Tailed-Beast Collection and the Rinnegan

Obito works toward collecting the tailed beasts while cultivating allies for his own ambitions. He accepts Nagato’s apparent decision to support Infinite Tsukuyomi but sends Black Zetsu to investigate the sudden change of heart 311.

Danzō supplies him with intelligence on jinchūriki and Konoha’s deployed squads, seeking to frame Tsunade as a warmonger. Obito welcomes the possibility of another Shinobi World War 323.

After Itachi’s death, Obito attempts to manipulate Sasuke into becoming a partner who could help him exclude both Madara and Black Zetsu from the final plan. Rin interrupts the recruitment, and her complete tailed-beast transformation finally reveals the Three-Tails’ whereabouts to him 340 341 344.

Obito also rescues Kabuto from the Sound Four and recruits him by appealing to his hatred of Konoha and Danzō. He later captures the Seven-Tails’ jinchūriki, Kaede, using Kamui and his gunbai 346 351.

Fearing Nagato might become the Ten-Tails jinchūriki himself, Obito plans to take the Rinnegan. Kabuto supplies four reanimated Kage for the assault. After two days and a night of fighting, Obito exploits an opening to take one eye; Nagato is defeated and loses both, surviving through an item Tetsuya supplied beforehand 375 377.

Fourth Shinobi World War

When Obito’s mask breaks, Kakashi recognizes his supposedly dead teammate. Obito continues attacking and later publicly admits responsibility for the Nine-Tails’ Attack and the deaths of Minato and Kushina 391 393.

After killing Rin on the battlefield, Obito confronts Kakashi over the earlier incident in which he believed Kakashi had killed her. Their duel moves into the Kamui Dimension, where Obito loses his intangibility advantage. Kakashi ultimately pierces his heart with Lightning Blade 393 395.

White Zetsu keeps Obito alive through his chest injury and a subsequent battlefield shock wave. He resumes control of the Ten-Tails, but Kakashi later attacks him from inside the Kamui Dimension, making further use of intangibility unsafe 398 399 403.

Madara intervenes and recognizes that Obito used Kakashi’s attack to remove the curse mark on his heart. He nevertheless threatens that other means of control remain. The two exchange eyes: Madara takes Kamui, while Obito receives both Rinnegan and draws chakra directly from the Ten-Tails 404.

Infinite Tsukuyomi and Final Sacrifice

Obito becomes the Ten-Tails jinchūriki, gains Six Paths power, and battles Naruto, Minato, and Hashirama. Although senjutsu can injure him, he survives attacks including Hashirama’s True Several Thousand Hands 411 413 414.

He eventually casts Infinite Tsukuyomi through the God Tree and declares himself the new era’s savior. Black Zetsu then betrays him, redirecting the accumulated chakra into his body and using him as the vessel for Kaguya’s resurrection 416 434.

After Kaguya transfers her chakra back into her original body, Obito is left severely weakened. Madara removes the draining Rinnegan, and Tetsuya returns Obito’s Kamui Mangekyō to his socket 432.

Obito’s sacrifice later plays a major part in restoring those killed in the war. Tetsuya explains to Rin that the resurrection depends on Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, whose price is the caster’s life, alongside his exploitation of a loophole involving the Shinigami 454.

Appearance

• Young shinobi: Wears goggles; his formerly black eyes turn red with two tomoe when his Sharingan awakens 127.
• After reconstruction: Retains one eye and has substantial portions of his body replaced with White Zetsu tissue 132 404.
• Masked identity: Wears a yellow spiral mask and a black robe while operating as Tobi or Madara 154 185 376.
• Controlled Ten-Tails form: Has white hair, unequal forehead horns, protrusions beneath his collarbones, a necklace-like row of tomoe, and skin resembling a flowing cloak. Carries a black scepter with Truth-Seeking Orbs floating behind him 412.
• After serving as Kaguya’s vessel: Is reduced to an emaciated, motionless body described as little more than skin and bones 432.

Personality

As a young ninja, Obito is emotional, enthusiastic, careless, and eager to impress. His determination to protect his comrades helps trigger his Sharingan awakening, and he immediately prioritizes Kakashi’s injury over celebrating his new eyes 124 127.

Rin is his emotional anchor. Her apparent death transforms his protective instincts into grief, rage, and rejection of the existing world. Even then, Tetsuya observes that his refusal to reclaim Kakashi’s eye suggests he still cares about his former teammate 135 393.

As a conspirator, Obito mixes confidence with suspicion. He investigates Nagato’s sudden cooperation, recruits Kabuto through a shared enemy, and seeks a partner who will let him push Madara and Black Zetsu aside. His intended utopia becomes inseparable from his desire to be its sole god 311 340 346.

Repeated interference by the masked Rin makes him volatile. He berates Black Zetsu for failing to identify her, while Naruto’s sudden acquisition of Six Paths power enrages him because it appears effortless beside his own suffering 185 413.

Abilities & Skills

Sharingan

Obito’s dōjutsu improves perception and close-combat tracking 127 395.

• Detects an otherwise unseen attacker and observes fine environmental details upon awakening 127.
• Reads chakra flow well enough to identify Rin’s genjutsu 127.
• Tracks Kakashi’s lightning-enhanced sword attacks during their duel 395.

Kamui

His Mangekyō ability links him to a separate dimension, supporting transportation, storage, and apparent intangibility 34.

• Moves himself, other people, and objects into the Kamui Dimension; uses it to rescue Kabuto and imprison Kaede 346 351.
• Avoids attacks by shifting his body into that dimension rather than remaining physically exposed in the shinobi world 342.
• Attack restriction: Must become tangible to strike an opponent 138 159.
• Dimensional vulnerability: Cannot evade someone already attacking him inside Kamui; Kakashi exploits this directly 395 403.
• Spatial counter: Izuna can negate the separation between Kamui and the shinobi world with his Rinnegan’s space manipulation 342.
• Gives up access through his own eye when he exchanges it with Madara for the second Rinnegan; Tetsuya later restores it 404 432.

White Zetsu Augmentation and Wood Release

White Zetsu reconstruction sustains Obito through injuries that would otherwise be fatal and grants enhanced physical abilities 132 395 404.

• Replaces damaged organs and severed limbs with White Zetsu tissue 132 159.
• Produces branches for piercing attacks, restraints, and mass assaults 135 392 403.
• Uses a blood-fed branch that expands into spiked wood after impaling an enemy 135.
• Can suppress tailed-beast chakra, but his Wood Release is insufficient to restrain Rin’s Three-Tails power 392.
• Survives repeated damage to his heart, including Kakashi’s attack and Black Zetsu’s betrayal 432.

Fire Release and Close Combat

Obito specializes in Fire Release and develops into a dangerous hand-to-hand and weapons fighter 342 395.

• Great Fireball Technique: Used against Rin and Kakashi 159 395.
• Blast Wave Wild Dance: Combines flames with Kamui’s influence to create a spiraling attack 392 403.
• Fights with kunai, black rods, kicks, and deceptive attacks; even uses Kakashi’s captured hand to complete seals 395.
• Recognizes that his Fire Release is poorly suited to confronting the water-specialized Three-Tails 342.

Rinnegan and Ten-Tails Control

Obito obtains Madara’s Rinnegan from Nagato and uses its power in the war’s final stages 377 404.

• Uses Shinra Tensei to repel Jiraiya’s Rasengan and Double Rasengan 405.
• Controls the Ten-Tails and connects to it through a conduit to offset the Dual Rinnegan’s severe chakra drain 400 404.
• Initially struggles to support two Rinnegan even with his modified body 404.

Six Paths Power and Truth-Seeking Orbs

Becoming the Ten-Tails jinchūriki grants overwhelming physical power, regeneration, and shape-changing black spheres 411 413.

• Shapes Truth-Seeking Orbs into shields, spikes, spears, and weapons 411 413.
• Shatters Hashirama’s wood dragon and pulverizes part of his reanimated body 411.
• Regenerates serious wounds and can rapidly regrow lost limbs 413.
• Resists ordinary ninjutsu; senjutsu and taijutsu remain effective ways to damage him 413.
• Breaks through Hashirama’s senjutsu-enhanced True Several Thousand Hands 414.

Infinite Tsukuyomi

Obito casts the worldwide illusion after releasing the God Tree and opening his forehead’s third eye 416.

• Turns the moon blood-red with an enormous Rinnegan pattern 416.
• Uses the God Tree to drain chakra across the shinobi world 416.
• Loses control when Black Zetsu redirects that chakra to transform him into Kaguya’s vessel 416 434.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Goggles — Worn before his Sharingan awakens 127.
• Yellow spiral mask and black robe — Conceal his identity while he operates under assumed names 154 185 376.
• Kunai — Used against Taiseki and in close combat 127 159.
• Gunbai — Used to knock Kaede unconscious during her capture 351.
• Black rods — Principal weapons in his duel with Kakashi and later battlefield attacks 395 403.
• Black scepter and Truth-Seeking Orbs — Manifested in his controlled Ten-Tails form 412.
• Phone — Used for intelligence exchanges with Danzō and communication with Zetsu 323 351.

Relationships

• Rin Nohara — Teammate, beloved, and emotional pillar. Unrecognized beneath her mask, she becomes his persistent pursuer; after his sacrifice, she mourns him 135 185 393 454.
• Kakashi Hatake — Teammate and childhood rival; receives Obito’s Sharingan. Their bond deteriorates into a lethal confrontation inside their shared Kamui Dimension 135 395.
• Minato Namikaze — Former teacher. Obito conceals his identity from him during the Nine-Tails’ Attack and later admits causing his and Kushina’s deaths 124 160 393.
• Madara Uchiha — Sponsor and intended predecessor. Obito inherits his plan but seeks independence, removes his heart’s curse mark, and later exchanges eyes with him 137 340 404.
• Black Zetsu — Manipulator and apparent collaborator. Selects Obito as a pawn, then betrays him to resurrect Kaguya 115 416 434.
• White Zetsu — Bodily support, replacement tissue, and healing source; essential to his survival after repeated catastrophic injuries 132 159 399.
• Nagato — Necessary Rinnegan wielder turned rival. Obito first seeks his cooperation, then attacks him to take his eyes 137 375 377.
• Chiba Tetsuya — Interferes with his plans, exposes his secrets, and trains Rin to counter him; later preserves his weakened body and returns his Sharingan 138 159 432.
• Kabuto Yakushi — Recruited ally who provides reanimated Kage. Unknown to Obito, Kabuto is working undercover and reports the planned attack on Nagato to Tetsuya 346 375.
• Shimura Danzō — Intelligence supplier whose campaign against Tsunade aligns with Obito’s willingness to provoke war 323.
• Sasuke Uchiha — Prospective recruit Obito hopes to manipulate through information about Itachi. Tetsuya identifies Obito as another culprit in the Uchiha massacre 340 341.

Notable Quotes

“I'll protect my comrades here!” 127

“One god of the new world is enough—me.” 340

“Naruto Uzumaki! Why can you obtain so easily what I sacrificed so much to get?!” 413

Trivia

• Tetsuya uses the name Tobi and a spiral-mask disguise before Obito joins Akatsuki under that identity. The overlap initially makes the Akatsuki trio suspect another of Tetsuya’s antics 73 128 154.
• White Zetsu blames delays in intelligence gathering on Obito becoming addicted to the match-three game Shinobi Clan and spending years in Kirigakure 323.
• His “False World” username and Danzō’s “Darkness of the Shinobi World” username double as the identification exchange during a meeting with a Root operative 323.