Quote Originally Posted by antiravage
Pain doesn’t have necessarily to be Jiraiya’s student, my theory is that the real Pain never met Jiraiya before but because he has bodies of deceased ninjas he shares the memories those ninjas once had, having the Yahiko body and becoming one with Yahiko makes him Jiraiya’s student, Pain is a conjunction of various ninjas who are already dead, that explains why for the first time ever we see a guy with two different animals as his summons, and judging by the opening and the preview he’s gonna have a lot of different summons, normally you can only have a contract with one type of animal, so maybe Pain has one contract per body.
I think if that were the case, only one of the eyes would have the Rinningan, whichever body used to be Nagato's.

The fact that all of the bodies have access to the Rinningan leads me to believe that Nagato is the one in control, and that the Rinningan is what's actually allowing him to control the bodies. Especially since it looked like there were 6 bodies in tubes, and Jirayia said the original Rinningan user was called "The Sage of the Six Paths".


Which makes me think, we know that Kazuku could use the chakra natures of everyone who's heart he had. Can Pain use the chakra nature of whichever body he's in control of?

Quote Originally Posted by Artris
Looks like Hanzo is going to get his fight. "Hanzo of the salamander" or whatever, and this guy summoned a lizard..
I noticed he summoned a crab AND some kind of chameleon. That's the first time I've ever seen someone summon more than one type of animal before.

This guy doesn't look like Hanzo though, but I'm willing to be Hanzo is going to turn out to be one of the bodies.