Nothing Zetsu does ever changes the dynamics of the story. If his action were to have lasting effects on the story and characters, he would have been more significant in the end. Giving him his own iconic fights and moments would have brought more substance to the character. Being allied with characters such as Obito, Madara and Itachi would give Zetsu access to a variety of forbidden information that would make him a dangerous enemy of the Naruto world and its leader.
If he were to release the true reason the Uchiha clan was wiped out , it would sow the distrust that Obito would have wanted and show the reader that he was an interesting character to follow. Constantly undermining the rule of the five Kage's by providing the public with the darker secrets of the world would leave them too busy to deal with Madara's plan.
Although Orochimaru's origin isn't touched on very much besides his interest in researching forbidden techniques , using a character such as Zetsu, who would have been active during the Third Great Ninja War, would be an understandable trigger for his interest in cloning and human experimentation.
Zetsu's link to the first Hokage would especially pique his interest and lead him to discover Jutsu such as the Edo Tensei. It would also show how he became obsessed with the Uchiha Clan and their abilities if he were to learn that Madara was still alive somewhere.
Madara having an army of White Zetsus from his original experiment in creating the God Tree makes sense for the story, each victim of Kaguya's reign sealed within and later mutated by Hashirama Senju's DNA.
However, having each of them be the same person mentally does not make sense. If Hashirama's DNA or Kaguya's will corrupted them somehow, that form of power has never been shown to exist within Naruto. Though each could be loyal to Madara, it would make more sense for them to have unique personalities. It would definitely help White Zetsu stand out more if his personality was unique to him alone.
Both sides of Zetsu's identity showed different loyalties. However, throughout the story, neither of these loyalties comes into conflict. It could help to flesh out Zetsu's dual personality if they were to argue about who they'd rather follow.
Black Zetsu could've revealed a separate agenda from White Zetsu and Madara, or Zetsu as a whole could've displayed some clear thought about betraying Madara or questioning his own motives. Another layer of personality to the character would create new and interesting roads to go down. Conor Gunn is an avid reader of comics from East to West. A fan of everything pop culture from Batman to Boruto. By Conor Gunn Published Apr 30, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics Lists naruto.
Tobi declared that he was tired of hiding, and explained that they needed to speed up the " Eye of the Moon Plan ". White Zetsu and Black Zetsu meet up at the site of Killer B and Kisame's battle only to reveal that Kisame's decapitated body was actually one of White Zetsu's shape-shifting clones. It is then revealed that Kisame, by having the clone fake his death, was then able to infiltrate Kumogakure while inside Samehada which was being carried back to Kumogakure by Killer B who intended to use it as his own weapon.
Black Zetsu then stated that it was their feeding time and that they should merge once again. At some point, Black Zetsu reveals the corpse of Madara Uchiha to Kabuto, allowing him to resurrect the famous Uchiha to use in the upcoming war.
In the anime, Zetsu sees off Tobi before he made his journey to Amegakure to retrieve Nagato's Rinnegan. Upon Tobi's acquisition of the Rinnegan, Zetsu informed him that the scroll with the information that Kisame Hoshigaki sent through his messenger shark had arrived, also noting that everything seemed to be going in their favour.
Zetsu later accompanies Tobi as he shows Kabuto around the Mountains' Graveyard , but questions if Tobi should really trust him.
Main article: Fourth Shinobi World War: Confrontation Supervising Sasuke's recovery, Zetsu told him to be patient when asked if his bandages could be removed, remarking that when he did regain his sight it would be to a different world.
The fight continued throughout the night. Continuing to battle with Mei and her squad, Black Zetsu observed the arrival of Naruto 's shadow clone to their location, who then proceeded to crash into a tree beside him.
Having been reincarnated, Madara telepathically communicates with Black Zetsu, ordering him to keep watch on Obito until after his "playing" with the Five Kage is done. Subsequently, Black Zetsu seeps into the ground, escaping. With Obito weakened after the tailed beasts were extracted from him, Madara enacted his trump card. With this, Black Zetsu suddenly emerged from underground and restrained him. Apologising as this all unfolded, Black Zetsu noted that from the start, this was his sole purpose for existing.
Black Zetsu once more melds with Obito's body, using the Uchiha's body to battle his former team and noting that his merger was the only thing keeping Obito alive. Afterwards, Black Zetsu again attempted to take the left Rinnegan. Obito, managing to resist Black Zetsu's control of his hand, told Kakashi to destroy the Rinnegan. Black Zetsu, realising what the summoning of the Demonic Statue meant, informed his enemies that Madara has regained his right Rinnegan. Standing to face Minato and Kakashi in battle, Zetsu complained about the duo's stubbornness before Gaara arrived along with Sakura and a dying Naruto to their location.
Soon afterwards, Zetsu was joined by Madara who complained about having to come all the way there. As Black Zetsu attempted to return to Madara, bringing with him Yin-Kurama and Madara's missing eye, Obito overpowered him, keeping him merged to his body and he spoke with and subsequently attacked the legend. As Kakashi and now Obito were determined to save Naruto, the two use their respective Kamui to send Naruto to the other dimension and soon afterwards Obito as well.
Later, after Madara managed to teleport himself using Obito's original Sharingan, which he took from Kakashi, he overpowered Obito and reclaimed his Rinnegan, allowing Black Zetsu to regain control of Obito's body. Madara also implanted Obito's original Sharingan back into his body in order for Black Zetsu to use its power. After the genjutsu ended, Madara managed to confront Team 7 and prepared to eliminate them, but was stabbed from behind by Black Zetsu, who admonished a confused and shocked Madara for believing that he was any different than Obito and that he himself couldn't be used.
After a distraught and also furious Madara stated that Black Zetsu was supposed to be his will, he declared that he is in reality "the will of Kaguya ". Following this declaration, Black Zetsu proceeded to spread all over Madara's body as the latter screamed in anguish, whilst forcing the chakra of the people caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi out from the ground and having Madara absorb it, turning him into a gargantuan blob.
When it was completely covered by Black Zetsu, Madara's body shrunk and changed, bringing forth the revived Kaguya in his place. Two incarnations of Black Zetsu once again re-emerge to absorb Naruto and Sasuke's chakra. While attached to their bodies, Black Zetsu shows and explains to them what he did to ensure Kaguya was revived.
After he is completed, he attempts to return to Kaguya, but Naruto and Sasuke manage to regain control of their bodies and rip Black Zetsu off themselves, preventing him from absorbing any more chakra. He notes that Naruto and Sasuke are too rebellious, and that they can't do anything to Kaguya. Nonetheless the duo attack Kaguya and prove to be surprisingly effective in their coordinated strikes.
It is then when Black Zetsu suggests to Kaguya that she separate the two in order to pick them off one by one. Kaguya complies with this by promptly sending Sasuke to another dimension. As Kaguya goes to deal with Naruto, the crafty ninja begins drawing aid from the tailed beasts within him, ploughing through Kaguya's defensives and quickly overwhelming her with a massive army of shadow clones , calling it his own "personal dimension".
The princess quickly retreats through her portal, to which Naruto quickly follows through, as does Obito along with Sakura and Naruto's clone. While the shadow clone quickly disperses, Black Zetsu is shocked that Naruto could follow them to the base world of Kaguya's various dimensions. While Kaguya is determined to "reclaim" the massive chakra within Naruto, Black Zetsu points out that Naruto is too dangerous and should just take the easier route of killing him.
Dismayed in agreeing, Kaguya then launches a jagged bone barrage on Naruto that impales him and starts to crumble. Kaguya then returns to the normal dimension, only to find that Naruto's shadow clone army didn't disperse.
Black Zetsu realised that they were played, as the Naruto in the other dimension was also a clone. As Kaguya continued to destroy clones one at a time, Obito returned from Kaguya's dimension with Sasuke.
Realising the threat of Sasuke and Naruto reunited posed, Kaguya shifted dimensions again to one of extreme gravity. As Naruto and Sasuke were pinned from the natural force, Kakashi and Obito moved to shield the younger ninja from Kaguya's attack with their own body. Ultimately, only Obito was struck as he used Kamui to save Kakashi from his projectile. As Obito began to crumble away, Naruto desperately tried to save him with his Yang powers, to which Black Zetsu mocked his efforts as futile, noting further that Obito is a disgraced man who will never be forgiven for his actions.
After Obito finally dispersed into dust, Black Zetsu openly expressed his relief in Obito's passing. Angered by this, Naruto quickly attacked, severing Kaguya's left arm and Black Zetsu with it. As Naruto and Sasuke continued to pressure Kaguya, the Uzumaki bombarded Kaguya with nine separate attacks imbued with the each of the tailed beasts' powers, respectively. While surviving the assault, Kaguya's body began breaking down, morphing into an amalgamation of the tailed beasts, speculated by Black Zetsu to be caused by the will of the tailed beasts reacting to Naruto.
Kaguya's body then began producing several massive hands that attacked in every direction. As one of them approached Sakura, Kakashi, having inherited Obito's chakra and Sharingan powers from the departed spirit, intervened and saved her with his newly awakened Susanoo , much to Black Zetsu's shock. Despite Black Zetsu's fears for its creator, Kaguya ultimately regained control and formed the tailed beast-mass into a giant Truth-Seeking Ball. As Team 7 prepared for quite possibly their final mission, they launched a group attack that with well-coordinated efforts from their respective abilities landed a decisive group blow on the princess, greatly surprising Black Zetsu.
Ultimately, Kaguya reverts back into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path before ejecting Madara and the tailed beasts, and begins to be resealed within the moon. As Black Zetsu resolved to wait for another opportunity to revive Kaguya and begin the process all over again, Naruto arrived noting he had not forgotten about it with Black Zetsu being left outraged at Naruto handling it as it believed that Naruto was a part of the shinobi history it had created.
Naruto retorted that said history was caused by the lives and deaths of many shinobi before calling Black Zetsu a snot-nosed brat too afraid to leave the nest and that it should get over itself. Naruto then hurled Zetsu into the satellite along with its creator, leaving Black Zetsu trapped in the satellite forever, while also ironically granting Black Zetsu's long desired wish of always wanting to be the side of its "mother".
For all its misdeeds, Black Zetsu did have a silver lining to its legacy; when Kaguya was being reborn, Black Zetsu told Team 7 the true origins of the White Zetsu as people trapped in the previous Infinite Tsukuyomi to convert into soldiers.
Main article: Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie Zetsu was responsible for sending several clones disguised as deceased Akatsuki members to attack Konoha at the beginning of the movie. Later, he was seen with Tobi after Naruto and Sakura returned to their world, noting that they were so close to capturing the Nine-Tails.
In Naruto Hiden: Sha no Sho Character Official Data Book , Kishimoto revealed that he had originally planned for Akatsuki to be a group of monsters, "with almost no human characteristics", and that Zetsu's design was modelled after an insectivorous plant.
He also stated that he had decided to make Zetsu half black and half white to "better show his split personality".
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