Hm, I really haven't had the chance of checking out FF9, but Kuja might as well be a good villain (I don't care if he looks like a woman, looks don't matter when you're a villain, unless you look like Brian Peppers).
I agree with the Sephiroth thing, though, all he ever did was "OMFG I KEEL AERIS" and "LOL I SUMMON THIS METEOR THAT FAILS PATHETICALLY", that and getting killed by a guy with a Zapdos for hair.
His motivations were lame (Actually, were there ANY?), his reasons to be evil were lame as hell (Kefka at least had the excuse of insanity in the beginning, then we get to know the depths of his nihilism, which is in my opinion a rather good excuse for his evilness, I mean, if life is pointless he might as well destroy all of it, right?) and the way he used to attempt destroy the world was rather uncreative (A meteor? What do you think I am? A T-Rex?).
Plus, spending the whole game as a fuggin corpse encased in materia was dumb as well, and did I mention he didn't say ANYTHING before the final battle? I don't know about you, but I feel that when the villain doesn't do or say anything before the final battle it's rather anti-climatic.
In my opinion, the only reason as to why Sephiroth gets all of that dumb credit is because of the way he looks (looks don't make a character, fools), despite saying nothing interesting, having nothing really memorable to him (Aside from an unrealistic sword), and lacking on any kind of psychological development whatsoever (Why did he want to destroy the world is beyond me).
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