Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3297904-20150315141751/@comment-17623-20150318103025

Except the narrative did not present the dude as a tragedy. They presented the dude as being twisted as *#(@. They presented the dude as someone who kidnapped his own villagers for experiments and when he didn't get what he wanted (the title of Hokage, which even then he wanted for entirely selfish reasons), he stopped being subtle about it. Hell he kidnapped 100 babies and did experiments on them where only 1 survived.

The only time his story was presented as a "tragedy" was when they compared Sasuke to him and that was a cautionary tale of "Yeah, help your friend or he can become this psychopath."

Man did what amounts to one "good" thing at the end, which was not turn off the Hokage's personalities (and even then that would not have worked all that well considering Hashirama was moving on his own for just about the entire time) and decided to help Sasuke in his fool crusade for the lolz of it. That's pretty much it, and even then if Sasuke had said "Let's wreck Konoha" Orochimaru would have been the one in the trucker hat and the Cheetos stained t-shirt yellin "Git 'er done!".