I wouldn't say Sephiroth is my favorite villian (that would be Vayne ironically enough), but I personally don't think hes a bad villian either.

Sephiroth's motives were simply to cause an injury on the planet large enough to make the planet use a large amount of the lifestream to heal itself. Then as its doing that he would have absorbed the energy to become a god. That was his plan in a nut shell.

I myself don't mind villians that have no real character development, infact some of my favorite villians from books and movies don't. One of my all time favorite villians (if not all time fav. in pop culture) is Sauron from the Lord of the Rings and he gets almost no development all through Tolkien's mythology. I just realized a reference Lord of the Rings way to damn much.

Anyways my point is in my humble opinion sometimes a villian works better when their simple. When there isn't much behind their motives, we know Sephiroth went nuts after finding out his origins, but thats about it. He's a fairly simple villian, he is the typical evil bad guy out to get power because hes evil, and sometimes that works better than a villian with a tragic past and a lot of development through the story.

It's true that he doesn't do much himself in the game, and he doesn't make a lot of appearances. The most of the appearance he does make were actually the Jenova pieces. I think what they were going for with this was the less is more concept. He doesn't show up much and that helps with that eerie and ever forboding presence that seems to aways be looming over your shoulder. When he does show up its usually a big deal, especially at the end, when hes on the screen you know something bad is going to happen.


The Shinra company was a great antagonist (is that count as plural or singular, screw I've had enough english in college this semester). They definitaly were more involved with the main cast; they had some pretty mean, nasty, bada$$ characters in Shinra.