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It is not possible to beat a superior enemy without captain planet light powers and exceptional arrogance. Call it the weakness they need so much. Sephiroth wanted to make Cloud suffer before killing him.
In Dragon Ball Z Cell had the chance to come back, ready his Kame Hame-Ha and teleport right behind Gohan to win but he didn't. 95% of the villains who are at least as powerful as the heroes lose against their own arrogance.
^I agree. I'm not bashing Sephiroth for it. I'm just saying that if Kuja can be bashed for this reason, then so can any other FF main villain. Including Sephiroth who has more than 1 moment of plot induced stupidity. This is me defending Kuja, rather than bashing the other villains.
Kuja also had multiple opportunities. They all had. Not just being beautiful in Burmecia while standing right before people that were beaten by Beatrix was one of the easiest opportunities to kill the heroes. Instead he just brushed through his hair and walked away.
Yeah that was pretty much a case of arrogance or simply not giving a smurf.
I mean he is alien monkey with cool dragon and super powahz. If some one eyed woman can single handedly beat them alone then there is no need to bother himself with them.
Or he simply had fresh manicure and didn't want to ruin his nails, we will never know.
I do always like how video game villains will avoid killing you early on and instead send increasingly strong minions to buff you up and make you stronger before they finally face you and then they're all like "oh no how can this beeeee"
RPG villains apparently don't understand how RPG mechanics work.
This isn't accurate, though. I mean, yes, the cannon helped. But Sephiroth easily could have won despite the cannon. The fact that he did not is his fault and his fault alone.Quote:
His plan failed because Shinra made a giant smurf-off cannon that broke the barrier around Northern Crater. Cloud and friends never could have gotten anywhere near him if not for this random factor that neither side counted on.
How could he have won? Meteor was stopped, not even by Holy, but by Aeris, who he had killed. If anything, killing Aeris was what doomed him.
So...he should have killed our heroes except for the one he did kill. Huh.
What is your point? I'm saying that Kuja can't be singled out for this, since every other FF villain does this as well.Quote:
Kuja also had multiple opportunities. They all had. Not just being beautiful in Burmecia while standing right before people that were beaten by Beatrix was one of the easiest opportunities to kill the heroes. Instead he just brushed through his hair and walked away.
However, if we go into that mess of bad writing known as Advent Children. Then yes, Sephiroth is the undisputed dumbest FF villain of all time. It was directly stated by the creators that Sephiroth doesn't try at all on Cloud during any point of the fight. Which means that he literally allowed Cloud to chop him to ribbons. He's so stupid that he doesn't even try to fight against a guy that has already defeated him twice.
So yeah, if we go into AC, Sephiroth is the stupidest villain ever in a FF game. Hell, he's a contender for dumbest of all time. He crossed the line from arrogant to brain dead.
Luckily for Sephy, I'm only using the original FFVII.