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Orochimaru, featured in the Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari, is the arch-enemy of the ninja
Ninja

In history of Japan, a is a warrior specially trained in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. These include assassination, espionage, and various martial arts....
 Jiraiya
Jiraiya

Jiraiya , the title character of the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari , is a ninja who uses shapeshifting Magic to morph into a gigantic toad....
. He was once named Yashagoro and was one of Jiraiya's followers, but he was overtaken by serpent
Serpent (symbolism)

Serpent is a word of Latin origin that is commonly used in a specifically mythology or religion context, signifying a snake that is to be regarded not as a mundane natural phenomenon nor as an object of scientific zoology, but as the bearer of some symbolic value....
 magic. Having changed his name to "Orochimaru", he gained the ability to turn himself into a giant serpent. He attacked Jiraiya and his wife Tsunade
Tsunade

Tsunade , featured in the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari , is the wife of the gallant ninja Jiraiya. She is mastered in slug magic and is able to summon an enormous slug....
 and defeated them with his venom (only for another follower to save the couple's lives afterwards).






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Orochimaru, featured in the Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari, is the arch-enemy of the ninja
Ninja

In history of Japan, a is a warrior specially trained in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. These include assassination, espionage, and various martial arts....
 Jiraiya
Jiraiya

Jiraiya , the title character of the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari , is a ninja who uses shapeshifting Magic to morph into a gigantic toad....
. He was once named Yashagoro and was one of Jiraiya's followers, but he was overtaken by serpent
Serpent (symbolism)

Serpent is a word of Latin origin that is commonly used in a specifically mythology or religion context, signifying a snake that is to be regarded not as a mundane natural phenomenon nor as an object of scientific zoology, but as the bearer of some symbolic value....
 magic. Having changed his name to "Orochimaru", he gained the ability to turn himself into a giant serpent. He attacked Jiraiya and his wife Tsunade
Tsunade

Tsunade , featured in the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari , is the wife of the gallant ninja Jiraiya. She is mastered in slug magic and is able to summon an enormous slug....
 and defeated them with his venom (only for another follower to save the couple's lives afterwards). The kanji (??, usually pronounced daija) literally mean "giant snake" or "serpent".

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In the manga/anime Naruto, Orochimaru is a power full ninja. He wants imortality, and to get that he wants to use Sasuke Uchihas body as a vessle for himself.

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