area of effect blows force him to teleport whole body, so in another dimmension, he will not know what will happen so he must go back, so when he does, he will appear in the middle of explosion = hit

are of effect? haven't you seen him summon any type of area of effect shielding?

damnit! reveal his identity alrdy

This may sound weird but here I go. Tobi could be Orochimaru's experiment gone wrong from some future timeline and came to the present timeline to make an impact. I know this sounds weird but its a nice guess. But no way in hell its the ramen guy or Madara.

I believe we're going to know for sure in the next 1-2 chapters. I've heard a few other alternate timeline theories as well, even one about Naruto being Tobi. I don't think there was any indication of time travel in this series. I hope there isn't.

Well Tobi being from a past or future timeline is the safest answer for now.

like i said before dont make me slit thats just a retardedly easy way out why not make all 597 chapters just a baby ants dream? fuck outta here

that alternate parallel w/e universe shit is just a cop out.

Tobi = Obito because

His name is a representation of himself.
When gave his Eye to kakashi, he took the O out of his name, it was a symbolic gesture about how he isn't the same anymore. (2 Os 2 Eyes, 1 O 1 Eye? Coincidence, I think not!)
Since the name 'tibo sounded funny, he decided to re-arrange the letters of his name.
This left him with Tobi.

When he was crushed under the rocks hanging out, he accidentally slipped into his alternate dimension, No more rocks caving in his chest... but OH WAIT, I'm STUCK!
He spent 2.000.000 years trying to figure out how to get out of this dimension, and when he finally figured it out he made a discovery that no one else in the world had.

His discoveries were as follows:
A.) Because his body originated in Dimension A, it was not affected by the passing of time in dimension B.
B.) Time is circular, and repeats indefinitely with infinite possible outcomes each time.

Each time Tobi left his dimension during his original "present" time, he would come to a world that was ravaged by war, and completely destroyed.
Each time he came to a world like that, he would go back into his dimension and wait. Wait for a chance at life agian.
He came across non-destroyed worlds, but like the ones before it, they had eventually fallen into chaos and been destroyed by the fighting nations.
Tobi decided he couldn't stand the destruction of war anymore, and went to his dimension to come up with a plan.
He came up with "The Moon Eye Plan" over many of thousands of possible timelines (I guess?) He stepped out of his dimension into the first not destroyed world he could find to enact his plan.

The one thing that happened in this timeline that didn't happen in all the previous ones he was in? Naruto wasn't killed as a child.

Therefor Tobi=Obito.

tl;dr This is bullshit, and not worth the read.

This post was edited by AWHavoc on Aug 12 2012 01:08pm

well its worth reading atleast for your time spend on writing this shit

That's entirely too complicated and out in left field to be in the story if you ask me.