Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28869806-20150511192408

first off I don't hate his character in fact I would put him in my top ten favourite characters list. I just feel he's kinda overrated as a villain, not as a character but as a villain. the biggest reason is that we haven't been given a definitive reason for what made him evil, Tsunade suggests he was evil from the beginning, were Jiraiya suggests it was the loss of his parents and his lack of a backstory just bothers me, look at Madara, he had a very detailed backstory, we all knew why he made the choices he did, we understood Madara, even Nagato and Obito were given a better explanation about why they were doing the things they did. did Orochimaru, want immortality so he could give it to both himself and his teammates? we know he wanted to become the ultimate shinobi by obtaining ultimate power but why? was he just consumed by power or did he want to protect something?

now for the other thing I wanted to talk about regarding Orochimaru, and that is his role in Naruto Gaiden, I don't want him to be the main villain, the reason being that he is nowhere near powerful enough to give Naruto and/or Sasuke challenge, even if he were to somehow obtain the Rinnegan I still don't think he'd put up a fight, and if he obtained the Rinnegan even if he obtained it through absorbing Madara's body I still would consider it a bigger asspull than Kakashi's Susanoo because Orochimaru has shown to only be able to absorb the bodies of the living, not the dead. 