Who likes Rubicant/Rubicante?

[Vars]

That picture reminds me that his leg and face is ugly

He was burnt quite badly you see.... The operation left some cool swirly scars though

[BG-57]

I'm a sucker for honorable villains, so naturally Rubicant is a favorite of mine.

[darksword12]

I always expected him to moon the party or something. I mean, come on, he looks like he's naked under that cloak! xD

But yah, he's a great character.

Everybody's thinking it... nobody says it...

XD

Yeah, but I still think Rubicante's awesome, and have since I first saw him.

[Freya Coral]

I think Rubicant is one of the coolest FF villains of all time. He's a fire fiend, fire is so destructive, yet he is such a gentlemen. And he believes in fairplay, as shown by his trademark healing the party right before battle. He's pretty awesome imho.

I second that! I thought Rubicante was the coolest villain (aside from Sephiroth, of course.).

[scrumpleberry]

I think Rubicant is one of the coolest FF villains of all time. He's a fire fiend, fire is so destructive, yet he is such a gentlemen. And he believes in fairplay, as shown by his trademark healing the party right before battle. He's pretty awesome imho.

I second that! I thought Rubicante was the coolest villain (aside from Sephiroth, of course.).

Thirded.

[Hazzard]

Rubicante was awesome. He kept it so slick and so Gangsta...

[Momiji]

He may heal you, sure, and he's a pretty nice guy, but I don't like him for one reason:
I CAN'T BEAT HIM!
I've never been able to get past him, and I have training my characters up. That's why I gave up playing ff4. Yes, I'm a quitter. No, I don't care.

Erm...you're serious aren't you?

Rubicante is by far the easiest to kill of the 4 Fiends (followed by Cagnazzo, Milon/Z, and Barbariccia). Just cast Ice Spells and attack with Ice-based weapons and he'll die quickly.

[Heath]

While Rubicante is probably the easiest against the fiends, in terms of personality he's my favourite of the fiends. I do like how he was different from your stereotypical boss by the fact that he has a conscience and he does have honour, instead of exploiting weaknesses on a less-than-level playing field.

[Genome]

Rubicante is surely one of the better villains in FFIV. Probably the best, actually.

[starboyK]

I remember being an eleven-year-old kid playing what will always be Final Fantasy 2 in my heart (though not my mind) for the first time. I had just struggled past these 3 wicked ass sisters that seemed able to destroy my hopes and dreams over and over before I pressed on to meet this character that was the master of the seemingly chaotic element of fire. I had already seen him mop the floor with Edge, and I was intimidated. Then I met him. He greeted me with a revelry that has not been matched since. My friend and I talked endlessly about the first boss that seemed to match the knight that wanted to knock us all down in coolness of sprite look. Rubicant was that villian that was so self confident and kind that he was willing to heal us to give us a better shot at beating him. How he had gotten mixed up with Golbez perplexed me then as now, but later in life, I came to recognize him as the most lunarian of the fiends, emperors, whatever. His sense of justice was unparalelled and seemed to dwarf the sense of righteousness of my own party, and this led me to ideas that are relevant even today. This curiousness about what makes right, right or vice versa. Later in the game, my party was proven the pursuers of peace, and that alone justifies actions that many would consider barbaric, but what if we'd been wrong? Rubicant would then have been the most virtuous being in the game, and it must have been toward these sensibilities that Golbez was able to flatter Rubicant into his party.

Short answer: Rubicant is the most awesome fiend ever and the only one to come close is Tiamat.

p.s. One can only wonder what Rubicant's shorter party-sized self would have looked like, but I bet it would have been frikkin' awesome.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

It's too old.