sephiroth

[Zeromus_X]

Yes, they don't focus on him nearly enough.

I'm actually half sarcastic.

[Ryushikaze]

cloned one of the most dangerous men in the world,

When? Sephy clones are not literal clones, and should not be considered to be in any way, shape, or form, like he is mentally or physically.

and all in the name of science

No, he did it all in the name of Hojo. Not science. The man's a fraud. A wannabe genius. The man thought you could breed extra-genus by simple bestiality. He's a gorram nutbar.

[Kain_Highwind]

cloned one of the most dangerous men in the world,

When? Sephy clones are not literal clones, and should not be considered to be in any way, shape, or form, like he is mentally or physically.

and all in the name of science

No, he did it all in the name of Hojo. Not science. The man's a fraud. A wannabe genius. The man thought you could breed extra-genus by simple bestiality. He's a gorram nutbar.

Sorry, I should have said, "attempted to clone." And I guess by "science" I'm referring more to his own incessant curiosity for all things world-ending.

[Aralith]

I think a lot of us are missing the beauty of Sephiroth's character here. He wasn't your typical villain. He wasn't just like: "I need to become a God so I can become powerful. Why I want this power I do not know. Let's go kill some people." Sephiroth wasn't like that at all. In fact, I thought Sephiroth was more a victim than a villain. He was turned into the villain because of Hojo. It was because of what Hojo did to him that made him vulnerable to the villainry. He saw an easy way out of why he might have been the way he was and took it. Most of the time he thought he was in the right, doing the world a favor, rather than destroying it.

Sephiroth had more character than Kefka did in the fact that he didn't do a great number of evil things. I like to think that a part of what he used to be still remained inside of him and kept him from doing many more evil things with his power. As Kain_Highwind said, Hojo was the true villain. He did terrible things to everyone around him and set in motion almost every problem in that game.

[sephirothishere]

what made sephiroth scary and whatever was in the first disc before you really know anything about him he just seems really intimidating especially when you have been playing for a few hours and suddenly you end up in the shinra building with bloody marks as if something had been dragged along the floor...but then once you learn he is just confused he becomes less scary and shinra become the worse of the evils...if you go to nibelheim and see cloud toss him into the mako he jus looks like a little kitten.... hahahahahah...hojo starts scarin me....he is a crazy ass foo...

[Dell]

SEPHIROTHISTEHSUCKERINTHEWORLD!!!1one!!11eleven!!!$elven!!!solution%!!!

Seriously, Sephiroth is just a normal villain, he did what a villain must do, he die like a villain must die and he demand on returning to the world like a villain must do.

In my opinion, Kuja and Kefka was ten-ten-ten-ten-10-10-ten-100 thousand times better than him. Both of them are clever, evil and gracious (Kuja)/funny (Kefka).

But last week, I had played Tactic (Once again) with my friend (Using his PSX), I was amazed by their villain.
They acted like a true villain
Cheers for them
But I hate almost all zodiac face.....
And I hate Miluda and Meliadoul.....and Malak.

[Dignified Pauper]

Does this mean that Sephiroth really is the Puppet Master of Final Fantasy
VII? Yes. JENOVA's instincts play out through Sephiroth, however, it was not
consciously manipulating or controlling him into doing anything, nor was he
technically controlling it. He WAS JENOVA, or, rather, it's evolved form.
There was not any puppeteering going on except that which was exerted over
Cloud and the black-cloaked Clones from Nibelheim. There was just growth.
Sephiroth could control all of JENOVA's Cells that were disembodied and could
manipulate those in whom they were injected, but he was not controlling JENOVA
because the JENOVA that the Cetra had known no longer existed and all that
remained was him. He simply grew as a mutation of JENOVA.

i believe this clears up who was the puppet master.

[Zeromus_X]

Yes, we knew. Ultimania guide, and what-not.

I also think Hojo isn't payed enough attention to, if anything, he can be considered the 'mastermind' behind everything, even if in the end, he doesn't do much but set everything up. He dug up Jenova. He began injecting it into his victims, including his own son, all for the purpose of increasing his knowledge. Perhaps he saw that if Sephiroth became a god, he too, would have succeeded in godhood. Or something like that. I'm delving too deep into it, but point being, Hojo isn't a bad villain.

But anyway, back to Sephiroth, it was nice to see a villain with more character with Kefka, even if his type of villain is so overused by the series afterward. ("I r teh nihilistick godly antaganixt!11one"). Shame, hopefully they'll think of a 'Type C' villain from now on.