Orochi is a great villain. I'll die on this hill lol
Yeah, not as a fighter or w/e, but as a conniving piece of shit coward with some actual sympathetic motivations, as in what a great villain should be regardless of strength, thats completely true.
As much as I sympathise with him over his backstory, he also chose to become something just as bad, no worse than what was done to him and his people. He became an even bigger monster, the Smiles being the biggest example of that or how he willingly executed Oden or what he did to Wano in general too.
Orochi is so comparable to evil rulers IRL too, fragile cowards who flex their insecurity onto the world with complete tyranny, relying on their small dick-tatorships to compensate for how afraid and vulnerable they really are.
What he did to Wano we're seeing worldwide constantly, every country has their own Orochi to some degree.
Orochi was nowhere near what I wanted him to be but he was a great villain in some ways. He was such a manipulative, two faced piece of shit who knew how to play others like a fiddle and he learned well from those 2 Kurozumi people who helped him too. He was a real force to be reckoned with, getting Kaido on his side for 2 decades whilst it lasted and getting Kanjuro to be so devoted to him to the point of sheer martyrism too.