Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
His real motive for most of the game was to gain freedom from his servitude to Garland. He wanted to be free to do what he wanted.
Kuja's motive was very cliche. He wanted to replace Garland as the ruler of Terra and Gaia, like he told the party, in Terra. The only thing that makes him diferent from other villains, is that he wanted to conquer TWO worlds, instead of just one.

And about Kefka... Symbolism exist to make a character be a little more interesting, but to me, a villain that ONLY have symbolism in his favor, is not a good villain(if we consider a villain only by his/her motives, i mean).
Kefka fans use symbolism to explain why he is so evil, and why he is a good villain, but the fact is... Kefka's motives to be evil in the story are poor. And in the end, this is what really matter. The story. Kefka wasn't literally all the evil in humanity or whatever. This is not part of the story, it's just symbolism. But it doesn't change the fact that his motive is weak.
You cannot pretend that a character is deep, ONLY because of symbolism.
This is just my opinion, i hope that i didn't offend you.