

Could someone transplant the Rinnegan from one of Pain's paths?

For example, from the male Chikoshodo (summoning) Pain that the Leaf had in
their possession.


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Could someone transplant the Rinnegan from one of Pain's paths?


I have to say NO.

My reasoning is based on the time when Tobi is hunting for the Rinnegan after
the death of Nagato. After he kills Konan, he finds the corpses of Yahiko (who
was also the Tendo's body) and Nagato, and pulls only the body of Nagato to
his dimension and leaves the body of Yahiko in the same place. If he would
have been able to use Yahiko's eyes, I reckon Tobi would've picked that body
as well. Seeing how he chooses to ignore Yahiko's body would suggest that only
Nagato's eye truly matters and it's the real Rinnegan.


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**NO** , transplantation of the Rinnegan eyes from one of Pain's paths would
not work. As soon as the eyes are detached from the corpse, they lose contact
with the chakra receiver rods, and turn back into ordinary eyes that the
corpse originally had. In Chapter 565, Naruto and Bee discuss this when they
are fighting against Tobi's Six Paths of Pain.

![Naruto and Bee discussing strategy against Tobi's Six Paths of
Pain](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dg6DQl.png)

The Chikoshodo Pain's corpse in Konoha's possession still had the Rinnegan
activated, but it also had about 20 chakra rods when Shizune is shown
examining it in Chapter 406.1 We were never shown the corpse's eyes with all
the chakra rods removed.

![Pain's body with chakra rods and
Rinnegan](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Jbicm.png) ![Shizune performing medical
examination](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ji4zAm.png)

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1 We have to make an assumption that although the chakra reception weakens
over distance, it will not completely die down. Without this, the corpse still
having the Rinnegan activated becomes a plot inconsistency, if not a plot
hole.


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