Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25265296-20150801112522

Orochimaru is pretty much immortal, or at least expected to live for a long time as long as he regularly keeps changing host bodies, and doesn't do anything stupid to get himself killed /sealed.

He isn't incompletely devoid of malice yet, and also has a desire to learn all the techniques in the world, and is expected to continue with knowledge gathering, experiments, body modifications, clones etc

If he stays low, and doesn't create much nuisance, there is a chance that after some generations, people might forget about his existence, until and unless information regarding him is publicly available/passed down to future generations.

Post Sasuke and Naruto's death, there is a chance that he might start looking for Sasuke's rinnegan (He already has sharingans - shin uchihas), or the tailed beasts,and also searching and adding multiple Kekkei Genkais from others into his possession/collection, all the while expanding his obscure knowledge and arsenal of techniques. Although late, he has participated in the war and has seen the extent to which individual powers can scale and be increased and also knows about some stuff regarding Ten tails/TT jinchuuriki transformations /reincarnations /rinnegan /Kaguya /chakra fruit/infinite tsukuyomi/create another chakra fruit via 'nativity of god trees/ootsutsuki clan & other alien clans/shinju...etc.. Is there possibility for his to somehow again desire the kind of power that Madara (at his peak) had, and take steps to try to become like him

Basically, In the distant future, is there anyhow a chance for Orochimaru to become the strongest character at that point in time and forward ? If yes, how, else what are the limitations to him becoming the strongest character at some point in the future ?

Is it also possible that if he achieves much power or a controllable army of powerful clones, or revive powerful yet controllable shinobis via a perfected edo tensei (Shisui, Jiraiya... etc), he might go rogue again, and do nasty things? 