Sephiroth or Darth Vader?

[Avarice-ness]

... This is like... the perfect example of a rhetorical question.

Because everyone knows that Darth Vader could own Sephiroth anyday.

Yeah Sephiroth may have his long sword, but in the few seconds that he gets his sword out, Vaders already cut his arms off and then knocks the sword up into small little peices.

[Slothy]

Darth Vader.

When Sephiroth and the rest of FFVII are remade in videogame lego form, then maybe he'll stand a chance.

[SAIX2000]

ill go with sepheroth he is much better

[Heath]

I can't believe this question even needs asking. Vader, clearly.

[Rogue]

Sephy

I don't mean to be harsh but why do you guys keep typing that stupid ass nickname are you too tired/lazy to type Sephiroth? By the way Episode III may have been horrible but at least Vader didn't look like a girl in that movie...Look at a picture of Sephiroth in Advent Children he looks like he's wearing eye shadow! *Shakes head*

i agree Sephiroth deserves more respect then sephy that jus make him sound ???

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Vader.

[Sefie1999AD]

It depends on whether we're talking about the movie characters Sephiroth and Darth Vader or the game characters Sephiroth and Darth Vader. If it's the game characters, it's an easy win for Sephiroth. Here's why:

SEPHIROTH: "Super Nova!"
DARTH VADER: "The power to destroy several planets is insignificant compared to the power of the Force!"
SEPHIROTH: "And the power of the Force is insignificant compared to the power of this!"
(Sephiroth summons 5 million screaming Sephiroth fanboys and fangirls.)
DARTH VADER: "This is just too much." (dies)

If it's the movie characters, it would end up as a draw.

(Sephiroth flies away from Darth Vader, then he suddenly appears behind him and stabs his sword through his armor.)
SEPHIROTH: "Die!"
DARTH VADER: "Arrgh!"
(Sephiroth's Masamune is stuck on Vader's armor, he can't get it out of him. Darth Vader notices this and drives his lightsaber through Sephiroth.)
SEPHIROTH: "Urk!"
(Sephiroth and Darth Vader both die. Sephiroth goes into the Lifestream, Darth Vader becomes a Force Ghost. Even then, they keep fighting each other, but neither of them can die any more.)
DARTH VADER: "So, what now, Sephiroth? Are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgment Day and trumpets sound?"
SEPHIROTH: "Or you could surrender."
(Emperor Palpatine appears.)
PALPATINE: "Ha ha ha ha ha! Good! Good!"
SEPHIROTH: "..."
(Sephiroth casts Pale Horse on Palpatine, which turns the Emperor into a frog.)
(Kefka appears.)
KEFKA: "Wop wop wop wop wop wop wop! What a pitiful excuse for an Emperor."
(Kefka kicks the Frog Palpatine down from the cliff.)
DARTH VADER: "I can't see you doing any better."
(Darth Vader lifts Kefka to the air with Force Grip and then throws him down from the very same cliff.)
SEPHIROTH: "So, what now?"
DARTH VADER: "Listen, Professor Gast never told you what happened to your Mother."
SEPHIROTH: "Rufus dropped the rest of her down from a Shinra building in a box?"
DARTH VADER: "No. I am your Mother."
SEPHIROTH: "What the... hey, that's cool. Does that mean you are a Cetra?"
DARTH VADER: "Yes. Come with me, together we can rule the Planet as the people of Cetra did ages ago."
SEPHIROTH: "Right. I'd say it's about time."

[Ouch!]

DARTH VADER: "So, what now, Sephiroth? Are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgment Day and trumpets sound?"
SEPHIROTH: "Or you could surrender."

You had to go quote Pirates and ruin it, didn't you? D=

[fantasyjunkie]

Vader! Sephiroth had some kind of neglected little boy syndrome. Vader was just plain evil!

[Kryton87]

Given a duel between Vader and Sephiroth, Vader wins. He has a freaking Lightsaber! It doesn't matter that the Masamune is 20 feet long, the lightsaber will destroy the thing. Even if it didn't, Vader can block the blow with his HAND (as in SW5) and then disarm Sephiroth. Not to mention that Vader would not fight fair. He wouldn't bother with a swordfight. He'd just do the choke hold thing, I mean, Vader doesn't care about Sephiroth. As far as Vader's conserned, Sephiroth is just another flunkie of Shinra. If he even cares to know what Shinra is. Luke got those torpedos into the death star because he was using the Force too. Ok, given that Sephiroth has the equivellent of the Force with Materia, and given that Vader doesn't use his choke hold, and given that the Light Saber can't cut through the Masamune slicing it in half, there would certainly be an interesting fight. But I still vote for Vader. Because Vader has a cape. . . and well... Darn you Darth Haden Christianson!

[Tainted Angel]

Vader! Sephiroth had some kind of neglected little boy syndrome. Vader was just plain evil!

Thanks to George "smurfing-the-franchise" Lucas, in EpIII, Anakin (who later becomes Vader) is tricked into killing Padme, and angsts into becoming Vader.

Vader is Angst. Sephiroth is Angst. They are equal in that regard, but the One Winged Angel is so much more cooler about it. And never had a boss he had to listen to. And never broke down and asked for redemption by killing his (nonexistant) boss.

Sephiroth wins, then HK-47 as a old republic frigate kills him using her 'Aura of Pure Awsome'.

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

Wait a minute wasn't Jenova Sephiroth's boss? I haven't completed Final Fantasy VII so I don't know much about the plot.

[Forsaken Lover]

A lot of people (myself included) deduced that a rationale human being would not burn down a town after reading books unless something was tinkering with his mind. But, Square's official motto is "give the fanboys what they want" and so Sephiroth is imbued with the power that is never explained to control jenova and march towards an ideal he should not have and do things with jenova's body he should not be able to do because the fanboys want it so.

[Kryton87]

Well, the thing is, Vader only asked for Redemption because of Luke. If he hadn't interfered, Vader would still be doing evil and awesome things. And Luke only had to interfere for a few moments. It was only when Vader saw the Emperor torturing his son that he had second thoughts about being evil.

Any time before that, Vader was awesome. Any time after that, he couldn't fight anyway.

The other thing is when he was Darth Haden Christianson, (i.e. before episode 4). Darth Haden Christianson couldn't hold a candle to Sephiroth. Mostly because at that point he's strewn with emotions: hatred, guilt, fear, jealousy, and of course, lust of power.

That makes him an entirely different person to deal with. Specifically, one that Sephiroth could easily manipulate and destroy.

Of course, if Sephiroth first disposed of the Emperor, which he could likely do pretty easily, Vader might actually join him. Or just kill him anyway and join sides with Luke.

But totally, Darth Vader could easily smash Sephiroth, but Darth Haden Christianson would have his butt handed to him faster than Obi-Wan Kenobi on crack.

[Forsaken Lover]

Of course, if Sephiroth first disposed of the Emperor, which he could likely do pretty easily,

Wait, wait, wait. How would Seph kill Palpatine? Palpatine has decades of studying Sith teachings. A Force Storm would destroy Sephiroth.