Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28869806-20150511192408/@comment-25626003-20150511193509

I, too, do not want Celebi Uchiha linked to Orochimaru in any way for the reasons you stated. Besides, it's too late to truly redeem him as a character because Kishi couldn't be bothered to really explain his reasons for being a top class douche. Personally I'll stick with he was simply power hungry.

All that said, he's arguably the best villain this series produced. Nevermind his reasons for a sec, his acts alone were extremely foul and heinous. Abducting 60 innocent children for your "Mokuton" experiments, wasting people's lives just to ease your own curiosity, using people for your own twisted ambitions and then just toss them aside as if they were of no use to you from the very beginning...and it's not like he was apologetic about it during the war (he said Obito's plans would interfere with his "experiments"). With Pain, Obito, and even Madara you could at least argue that their intentions were good, but Orochimaru was villain down to the core. Kishi hadn't even given us an inkling that he was ever truly devoted to Konoha.