Ranking the Strongest Naruto Characters Who Broke Free From Edo Tensei Control

A recent fan analysis has sparked heavy debate across the Naruto community, focusing on which resurrected characters successfully overcame Kabuto’s control after being brought back via the forbidden Edo Tensei jutsu. This technique, central to the Fourth Great Ninja War, creates immortal puppets from the dead, but a few legendary shinobi demonstrated the sheer willpower necessary to shatter those bindings.

Itachi Uchiha consistently ranks at the top of these discussions. His resolve was strong enough to break the control entirely, allowing him to deliver a critical warning to Naruto and Killer Bee regarding Nagato’s Rinnegan threat. Even as an undead entity, his mastery over Susanoo and Amaterasu remained fully operational, making him an immediate and autonomous threat.

Nagato also managed to regain autonomy following Itachi’s intervention. He primarily used this freedom to cancel his own summons and spare the jinchuriki pair. Nagato consolidated the power of all the Paths of Pain into a single body, significantly ramping up the difficulty for KCM Naruto and Bee during their confrontation.

The previous Hokage also showed significant resistance. Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage, utilized his Hiraishin no Jutsu to move the entire Allied Shinobi Forces out of the path of Madara’s massive meteor attack, demonstrating full access to his high-level techniques. Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, similarly defied his reanimation status to protect his son, using the Flying Thunder God technique to evade attacks from other revived Kage.

Further down the list, Obito Uchiha eventually shook off the binding as his redemption arc progressed. Madara Uchiha, whose immense power allowed him to essentially treat the jutsu as a tool for his own ends until Black Zetsu intervened, also features prominently. While figures like Hizashi Hyuga showed brief moments of resistance, their overall impact was too limited to place them highly against the main players who achieved full autonomy.

These moments from the War Arc serve as a stark reminder of how terrifying the Edo Tensei technique truly was, pitting Itachi’s strategic mind against Madara’s raw destructive capability in ongoing forum debates.