Quote Originally Posted by Hyperion4444 View Post
Don't forget, Quistis (A SeeD Instructor) Defeated the Goliath Black Widow.
Absolutely, and she used a heavy, mounted machine gun to do it.
If your SOLDIERs are so smart, why don't they take cover?
They have less need to. All SOLDIERs carry swords, generally very large swords; their enhanced abilities allow them to repel gunfire with their blades. When the situation calls for it, they do indeed use terrain and cover to their advantage - for example, Cloud's acrobatics during the Forgotten City fight and Bahamut battle in Advent Children.
Squall being hit by the Icycle and live is proof they're tought enought.
He was caught off-guard and impaled through the shoulder; a reasonably easy injury to survive, especially since it was a clean and cold wound thanks to the icicle. He was definitely healed by someone else after being injured, though, hence the lack of a wound when he regains consciousness.
It's like the whole Ruby Dragon scene & Laguna (Squall's father arguably), would defeat the strongest FFVIII enemy.
Hardly the strongest enemy in the game, but it was an impressive feat nonetheless - at a time when they were empowered by the 'faeries', or rather the minds and magical powers of the SeeDs, sent back by Ellone.
Was able to Seal off a Sorceress who immensily surpassed his own powers until Squall & SeeDs defeated her. Stupid like she was, she fell into the trap.
It was a brave and creative plan, certainly, but doesn't really address the question of the relative strength of SeeD members and SOLDIERs.
FFVII has no concept or gravity (or reality much). You'd think that Vincent would float like in did in AC in DoC, but no. Not until he's Chaos where he has his two wings to fly.
There is indeed gravity in FFVII - in the original game, the characters routinely jump distances beyond what regular humans (in our world) are capable of. Vincent himself can 'float' briefly in mid-jump; he does this when he somersaults out of his coffin, and later in the game as well. As for Dirge of Cerberus - throughout the cut-scenes, he frequently leaps implausibly superhuman distances, as seen in the Kalm level when he jumps to the top of the church spire in a single bound. Sephiroth, when he's begun absorbing greater power than ever before, is the only character to actually 'fly' - and in both the game and movie, he only does this when he's using a 'surrogate' body forged from Jenova's cells.
If anyone would tell people on what they based themselve on, then there wouldn't be any confusions.
I must confess a measure of confusion at this statement.