[Zakiel]

Originally Posted by Quizap

I'm pretty sure that if they lose their host, they die with the host. It'd only be natural to put up a fight. I think that's the main reason Tobi wants them still alive for the extraction process.

Yeah, probably. I get the feeling that that creates a plot hole somewhere, but maybe not.

It's quite late, nearly 4 A.M and this amuses me. So time for a THEORY.
MOST RECENT CHAPTERS HYPOTHETICAL SPOILERS, BUT STILL SPOILERS

Tobi= Madara Uchiha = Danzou
It seems that way anyway. I don't see any canon contradiction in it, that I can recall anyway.

1. Village destroyed? Danzou/Madara is very pro-war and quite likely believes that the village needed to be destroyed to wake them up from their complacency. Which oddly enough, is similar to this recent (a few days ago) statement from a former CIA agent.

MICHAEL SCHEUER: The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States....only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them.

Pain's attack certainly was like a "major weapon". How is did Danzou get elected? He made the case that he would protect them. How convenient for him to set up the very attack that gets him elected.

2. He told Sasuke to kill the other Kage. Why? So he can eventually be the leader of every country, or at least have a grand old war. The fact that he ordered Sasuke to be killed is fine, because he was upset at Sasuke for failing him coupled with that he's a eventual threat to Madara.

3. The last page of the newest chapter. He's lost his vision in is right eye, probably like it says happens from using the Mangekyo Sharingan too much. Also on this last page, he's planning to kill off anyone who might know anything about him.

4. Root, emotionless supersoldiers, tongue tattoos, forming a powerbase within "enemy" territory.

AGAINST:
In some filler episode of the anime it shows Danzo as a young guy or something, but it's like in the last 2 minutes after that credits thing and very non-canon.

NOTE: I'm not saying that I think Danzou was plotted to be Madara from the beginning, I think at some point it just happened. But, if it was planned that far ahead, that's cool too.