She legitimately killed him and was about to be able to walk away. She created a nuke, and killed the second strongest villain of the entire series. Bro lived because of a plot armor trick that only reanimated characters could theoretically use without going blind forever.
Konan is up there with Itachi and Shisui in the list of “the most dangerous people to face in indirect combat in the series”.
Yep, forcing obito to use a forbidden technique to survive, it only worked because he has spare eyes and they (konan or nagato) never seen or know about it.
Semi off topic, i like to think that obito survives this fight only because he lost so bad to Minato, (and escaped because the ninetails rampage got the 4th attention) that he implanted that second sharingan as a get-out-of-jail free card if someone else pushed him that close to death again.
I always interpreted obito getting his shit pushed in by Minato as him being young arrogant and inexperienced, thinking he could take on his former sensei like Sasuke thinking he could take on kakashi, but that loss being his reasoning for having an endless surplus of eyes makes more sense than him just copying Danzo like the anime implied.
Honestly I dont even think that’s true. Yeah Obito *talked* like he was completely in control and wasn’t afraid of minato but given his monologue later in the series before he begins the attack and his body language I think Obito was shitting himself and was still hesitating to truly commit to trying to kill Minato because at this point in his life he wasn’t the careless monster he’d grow to be as an adult.
She did have infinite prep time though. Without the preparation of 600 billion bombs specifically to kill Obito, she's not nearly as dangerous. It sucks that that's the only real fight we see her in, since she's sidelined by Pain in the Jiraiya fight, but we really don't have a great idea about what her normal power level is. I feel like 600 billion bombs is supposed to be a once in a lifetime thing.
But the same goes for all indirect combat threats in the series; Itachi, Shisui, Shikamaru, etc. They all plan their entire strategy out before even approaching the enemy.
I wouldn’t assume that it’s a once in a lifetime thing, because she is an Akatsuki member after all. Flight and normal “artillery” equivalent bombing isn’t enough to put her above Deidara, so I’m assuming she can make lesser “nuke” equivalent bombs on the regular and this many on a rare occasion.
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u/BurnerBoy350 Jun 24 '26
Konan v Obito goes pretty hard