✨Your Local Procrastinator✨

I want to list some of the times Orochimaru got hurt. Let's find out how he dealt with it.

Nawaki's death.

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Dan's death.

Orochimaru only ever cries in the rain. See the above image for his tears in the rain, and next few images too.

Orochimaru overseeing the Amagakure battlefield.

When Konan offered him the flower, he stood in the rain too. In a different post I argued that he thought killing Konan was more merciful than taking care of her.

(Placeholder. If anyone can find a gif of that scene, I'll insert it here. I only have an icon and that does not suffice. The scene should be around chapter 511.).

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Manga Orochimaru is emotional (trembling, stalling, teary wet eyes) before killing Hiruzen. Water is represented differently here: he's wearing the colours of the MIZUKAGE (Land of the Water), despite impersonating the Kazekage (Land of the Wind). His tear even gets a PLIP sound effect.

The anime fully removed the tears, and added the tongue for creepiness. This led to a conflict in fan reactions. Anime-only fans only ever saw Orochimaru as one-dimensional creepy villain. Whereas readers of the manga had been teased with character depth. Those fans remained hungry for information about Orochimaru's motivation and backstory.

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This is Orochimaru in the shower, after the Third Hokage died, and Orochimaru lost use of his arms. Here, chance at ever again using ninjutsu seemed to have vanished. One person could argue he grieves his arms, another person could argue he grieves his dead sensei, and I argue that it's both.

Noticed something really interesting: the following shots depict the six of them experiencing worst/hardest times in their lives

Most of these are to be expected as we're familiar with the way these things have impacted their lives and characters. Orochimaru lost their parents, Tsunade lost her brother, Sasuke survived a massacre, him leaving hurt Sakura, and Naruto was ostracized by the village.

The one that I didn't initially understand was Jiraiya's -

It took me a moment to realize what this scene of him sitting in the forest is referencing:

This is the moment he lost Orochimaru. Orochimaru leaving was Jiraiya's worst moment.