Quote Originally Posted by The Crystal View Post
Back to what really matters... Kuja is not a "noob" by any means, but he isn't perfect. He was very smart, calm and collected, but he had some moments of rage, and one of those moments(at Terra) made him act a little stupid IMO.
If he didn't let his rage take over him, I'm pretty sure he would have thought about using the Original Crystal to help him survive.
Hmm... I felt felt that Kuja's world-destroying rage was an extension of his childish, selfish narcissism.

"Why should the world exist, if I'm not going to exist too?"

Not an exact quote, but rather a summary of what he was doing. He was prepared to annihilate all life simply because he discovered that he was mortal. That's not some grand scheme, an awe-inspiring motivation for domination. It's right down there with Kefka's 'reasons' for trying to destroy the world. When I got to that part of FFIX, I felt a little let-down - it seemed like they'd snatched a rather arbitrary reason for making Kuja a threat to the world, simply because the plot needed a threat to the world. However, FFIX was the third FF I'd played, after VII and VIII. Sure, geeks will piss and moan about how much they hate the plots, characters and antagonists of those games, but at least Sephiroth and Ultimecia had fairly compelling reasons for doing what they were doing. It's possible to see why someone in their position would be willing to destroy everything in the pursuit of their goals. An enemy who wants to become a god is, to me, more intimidating than an enemy who's simply given up on life.