Quote Originally Posted by Xyrox View Post
The whole Edo Tensei thing also bothers me - Do you need the bodies? Can you resurrect people consumed by Death? etc. - but I guess I'll just have to be patient and wait for episode 264.
Since consuming them with the Death God is how the 3rd beat the two he was fighting, I'm assuming that no, once the Death God eats your soul, you can't be brought back as a zombie.

Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
I think you needed just the DNA of the person. That's why Madara fought the 1st.
But Madara didn't use the 1st DNA to Edo Tensei him. He used it to grow Zetsu's.

Orochimaru is the one that Edo Tensei'd the 1st. And he never fought Hashirama for his DNA that we know of.

I guess it's a question of, did Madara give Orochimaru the 1st's DNA, or did Oro get his own sample. Since we know he used it to make Yamato and to infuse Danzou with the 1sts cells.