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Quote Originally Posted by Ishin Ookami
In FFVII, it was a team effort to save the planet, in Advent Children, cloud does it all himself. Which wouldn't have been so bad if he wasn't such an A$$ hole in the film.
Except that, you know, it took the entire team to help give him the momentum to reach Bahamut and strike him. It looked like a grand team effort to me...

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team effort to save the planet, in Advent Children, cloud does it all himself.
Meaning team effort, everyone working together to defeat the main enemies, like kadaj, loz, Yazoo, and sephiroth. And notice during the fight against Bahamut, only cloud lands any real damage against bahamut. And only cloud can defeat the three new villains in combat. Only cloud fights Kadaj. Only Cloud fights Sephiroth. The films real subtitle shouldn't have been Advent Children, It should have been Cloud the Bipolar and his Amazing Super Friends.

Like I said, it wouln't have been so bad if cloud was actually likeable. FFVII has some interesting characters like Vincent, Yuffie, Cid, and Red XIII. Why not actually let them have a respectable amount of spotlight?

You asked why someone would consider the rest of FFVII's main cast to only being relegated to clouds comic relief, that's the answer. Because THEY WERE relegated to the background. And when a film takes it's best characters, and makes them bit players in their own film, something is terribly wrong.
You seem to be under the impression that was meant to be a group sequel film. It wasn't, it never was, and certainly never meant to be. This started off life as a 15 minute retrospective on Cloud and his life after events of the game. It then grew it something larger, but the main focus and point was always on Cloud.

You say that only Cloud landed any real damage against Bahamut, when I could have sworn that Barrets attack was pretty effective, not to mention Vincent's gun attacks had the creature frustrated and lashing out. Not to mention Cid striking it square in the head and having it cry out. Only Cloud doing damage? I don't think so.

Only Cloud fights Kadaj? Only Cloud fights Sephiroth? I could have sworn that Tifa fought Loz. I could have sworn that Vincent saved Cloud. That Cid saved Tifa. That Reno and Rude took out Yazoo and Loz... Shall I go on?

Like I said, this wasn't their film, it was Cloud's. It was always meant to be like that. And yet, both Tifa, Vincent, Reno and Rude got more than decent exposure.