Zidane > Squall & Cloud

[LunarWeaver]

And where on earth is Tidus in all this? Tidus is just Zidane without the mental breakdown when he finds out about himself. In fact, he just got up and smiled and kept going and bottled it inside. By your standards, Tidus > Zidane. Although Yuna was the leader and not Tidus in my opinion anyway.

Well, no one really likes Tidus. So saying Zidane > Tidus would hardly cause any interest while Cloud and Squall have a large fanbase. Oh and please do not insult Zidane. He is nothing like Tidus. Tidus leaned over and sniffed his companion, hates his father because he misses him and he whined. Over and over and over and over. Zidane whines...when? On Disk 3? That’s how many hours after Tidus goes “I need food!” in an abnoxious voice to absolutely no one. And after he’s done the whole “...sigh....life sucks...” act with Yuna at Luca before they do their infamously poor and ridiculous “HA-HA-HA-HA-HA” act. So, while one is amusing but has deep insight and philosophy and virtue to his actions, the other was a sports player, gets swallowed and proceeds to progress in lame-assery for the entirity of the game.

Zidane does express concern over his parents. He looks for them in his past and does whine about it to Garnet in one of his few serious scenes. Zidane uses humor to cover up what he is really feeling from everybody. It's his defense mechanism. Just like Cloud retreats into his shell, and just like Squall tries to keep others at an arm length, Zidane will try to never take anything seriously so that way he doesn't have to feel the gravity of the situation. They all three do the same thing in different ways.

Tidus was made (this is on Nomura's webiste) to be an extrovert, because they felt the lead male being an introvert with his feelings had been done too many times. So Tidus is simply honest with what he feels at the time. I think it takes more courage to express yourself than bottle it up and hide it, but that's just what I think.

To say no one really likes Tidus is the same as the people who say no one really likes Zidane. Thus, the magic of different opinions!