I have to agree. Strange, how Square went from FFIX black mage awesomeness to FFX black mage... goth chickness? *cheesy record scratching* Wha?

Paine has some awesome lines, though, like:

"That's forty-six."

Rikku: "Duck Soup!"
Paine: "Duck what?"

"Kiss me!"

"The hardest person to know is yourself..." (The best instance of sarcasm ever in a game)

But replacing any character with any other? That's hogwash! If they replaced bad characters with previously made cool ones, we would have nothing to gripe and complain about on internet forums!