Actually, I'm sure he's a rip-off from Cipher from [insert name of some video game that used the word here]. It's so obvious.

Wait, no, SELPHIE is the Sephiroth rip-off. There's more letters of his name in hers, and they're both effeminate.

Wait, no, it's Raijin. She's got the white hair thing going for her, right?

Wait, no, it's Squall. He wears black and carries a ridiculously large sword. And his face is similar.

Seriously. Welcome to the wonderful world of archetypes, where patterns like "male lead has angst, meets female lead, falls in love and must rescue her ten jillion times" recur ad nauseam.

All villains must gloat and act badass. It's in the contract.
Most male FF villains have a creepy relationship to mom (Seymour, Sephiroth) and/or a sorceress-type-evil-female (Kujo, Seifer).