Cruelest character

[The Man]

As far as I'm concerned, the entire Compilation of FFVII doesn't even exist.

>>> Huh?

He probably just agree's with me about the quality of the Compilation being very poor and mostly a marketing ploy to bleed money from a successful game.

This.

Kefka actually explicitly says that he gets pleasure out of others' pain. Hojo, afaik, never actually said that. Though, since I've never bothered with DoC, I could be wrong.

>>> There is no need for a character to explicitly say what is really obvious..

In this case, I feel it is important. I never felt that Hojo got enjoyment out of the torture of his victims from experiments. He enjoyed gaining knowledge and he used people to acquire this cause he felt the scientific findings far outweigh the basic rights of life he used to obtain such knowledge. Also, Lucrecia took part of the experiments of her own free will so I don't feel we should be handing out sympathy for her.

Kefka, tortures people for the pure enjoyment of it. Other villains kill and torture in order to accomplish goals but Kefka did it cause he felt it was fun. There was rarely little method to his madness. He is a sociopath who feels he is a superior being to others. He purposely goes overboard and torches and demolishes any life he comes across. After becoming a god, he keeps humanity alive only so he can enjoy torturing and killing them slowly. In the end he tells your party that their is no meaning to existence and decides to end all life on the planet cause he feels life is a mistake.

Again, this. If there's any example of Hojo articulating such an utterly nihilistic view of the world, it has escaped my attention. Though, as I've said, I haven't paid much attention to the Compilation beyond Advent Children. Crisis Core kind of interests me but the rest may as well have never been published for all the attention I'm going to give it.