Spoiler — from the ending. Tap to reveal.
“Tayuya, I could end your life right now if I wished to. The reason why I've spared you is because you have a duty that you must complete. And my duty is to deliver that coffin to Lord Orochimaru intact.”
Kimimaro Quotes
2 quotes from Naruto, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
Raised in a cage by a clan that used him as a weapon, and given a use by the one person who wanted him for anything. States everything as duty and nothing as belief.
Spoiler — from the ending. Tap to reveal.
“I am not his pawn! He is the one, the only one who ever gave my life meaning! But how could the likes of you EVER UNDERSTAND THAT?!”
Shouted while dying of a disease that has already taken him off the board, at a boy who has just called him a tool. He is not wrong about the facts, which is the horror of it: Orochimaru genuinely was the first person to want him for anything, and the series makes the audience sit with a devotion that is both entirely earned and entirely exploited.
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The series needed a final obstacle whose loyalty could not be argued with, and built one out of a boy raised in a cage by a clan that used him as a weapon. Everything here is stated as duty and nothing as belief, which is the tell: he has been given a use and he is holding onto it because it is the only thing anyone ever offered him. The threat is almost polite.