Having read this whole thread and beaten pretty much every Final Fantasy except XIII, I'm going to have to say that Chaos himself is, as the embodiment of chaos itself and pandemonium, more powerful than Exdeath, Sephiroth, Ultimecia, or Cloud of Darkness. Exdeath is extremely powerful even before he has control of the Void, but as stated earlier, the Void is basically just the balanced version" of Chaos. Chaos is nature's unpredictability and inevitable tendency towards bedlam and entropy, born from the Rift. The Void is also born from the Rift. They are equal concepts but Chaos has the added bonus of being unpredictable, thus making it more powerful than the consistently boring Void. Sephiroth does have the most powerful will, but will doesn't always promise control over your power. He pretty much goes insane with power, actually. I mean, he blows up the rest of the solar system (multiple times) just to damage Cloud and his party. The man's obviously unstable. Cloud of Darkness is some sort of physical manifestation of the darkness existing within the Void or within people's hearts and minds, I think, but I don't think she's as powerful as the Void itself. And Ultimecia just has some very powerful magic. So in the end I think it's Sephiroth, then Cloud of Darkness, then Chaos and Exdeath tied at the top in terms of sheer power, and Cloud of Darkness, then Sephiroth and Exdeath tied, and then Chaos in terms of overall dangerousness or difficulty in defeating. Plus Minerva and Kaiser Dragon and Shinryu and Omage Weapon and Yiazmat and all them make this whole "ultimate power" debate that much more complicated, because almost every game had a superboss that was as strong as or stronger than the main boss, and seemed to be on the antagonist side. So if Sephiroth could manipulate minds, Cloud of Darkness and Exdeath could manipulate darkness/evil, and Chaos was able to simply control things or even just take their power for himself, any of them could have made themselves more powerful at any time by varying amounts. It's a pointless argument that will end up in "they're all badass in their own way but I personally prefer ***** no matter what" so I think even trying to make any logical points or present your own point of view is moot.
...This was fun.
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