Eh?

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Khalin:

1) Sephiroth's appearance and personality can be considered cliche by now, but it was pretty original at the time. Remember that FFVII is a very old game.
It was only new to the video game scene. His appearance has been cliche in anime for a long, long time. This started long before FF VII was even conceived. The only reason why I know this is because I used to watch a lot of fan subbed anime at the time.

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2) Sephiroth was using Jenova's body to interact with you. So it's not true that he only appeared in flashbacks and at the end of the story. Because he was there, speaking and interacting with the characters all the time. The fact he was using Jenova's body to do it, is a mere detail.
Yes, I'm aware of this. I'm not sure what your point is. I was implying that the only teaspoon of personality that you get from him was through the dialogue in the flashback.

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3) Don't get me wrong, but I have the impression you read too much forum-debates about Sephiroth, where the haters state that "he only k1lled a flower g1rl!!1" or "he only destr0yed a v1llage!!1one!", and you forgot everything he actually did in the game.
Sephiroth did a lot of things. But there are many FFVII-haters who ignore it, and you shouldn't go by what they say.
I'm grateful for your concern, but trust me, I'm not going by what they say. I'm going off of my personal experience with having played this game myself. I'm well-aware of everything he pulled off. My point is that it was lighter in comparison to some of the past FF villains. Even as far back as the Emperor from FF II who just decided to stop wasting time and destroy nearly every town in the game with a Cyclone. I'm aware of the fact that he killed people in the Shin-Ra building and the ship, as well as summoning Meteor and killing "flower girl".

Trust me, I played the game. I'm voicing my opinion based on how I felt about Sephiroth as a villain. I'm not trying to be rude, but you haven't really pointed out anything that I [or anyone else here] didn't already know. I will agree that Sephiroth haters don't extend much credit to him, however I think he's given far too much credit by fanboys. As for the Geostigma bit, I'm not really sure what to say to this. While I appreciate that they made a nicely CG-animated movie about FF VII [which allows us to get at least some voice/personality attatched to the characters we like], I really hated the "plot" for the movie with a passion, and I couldn't take it seriously. I thought the entire concept of the Geostigma was ridiculous, as was the attempt to find an excuse to slide Sephiroth into the movie. I won't even go into how annoyingly stupid Kadaj and those other two retards were.

I still stand by my opinion that Hojo was the true twisted and villianous mastermind among all the antagonists in FF VII, and he played a major role. For some reason, I just couldn't really respect Sephiroth's character. Of course, it may be due to my initial heavy dislike for him based on his cliche presentation and appearance, however I've seen other characters like that which ended up redeeming themselves with interesting characterization. In my opinion, Sephiroth had no characterization.