Which Final Fantasy had the most memorable villain? (Poll Inside!!!)

I'd have to say either Seymour Guado or Sephiroth. Seymour just because he was so damn persistent and didn't know when to just give up. And Sephiroth just becuase he's such a badass.

I'd have to say either Seymour Guado or Sephiroth. Seymour just because he was so damn persistent and didn't know when to just give up. And Sephiroth just becuase he's such a badass.

KH-mixerX

Seymour was a **** compared to Sephiroth. Kuja is my 2nd favorite villain.

Sephiroth

Sephiroth is the most developed character ever. even main characters are not as deep as Sephiroth 

Sephirot ;)

I agree when the name Sephiroth is evoked, evil and hate comes to mind... But if there's a villain that can match him I'd say Kefka.

For those unfamiliar with the name, Kefka is a flamboyantly-dressed, nihilistic, brutal sociopath. Though at the time of SNES villains were huge monsters or powerful beings who would always go for broke with you, Kefka relied on deceit and manipulation to achieve his goals. You'd never really fight him, (such a coward) that when you did, he'd leave it to his soldiers or illusions and run.

While Sephiroth burned a city to the ground in his evil awakening, Kefka poisoned an entire city just because he got bored.

Kefka was insane and would often make sardonic jokes, making him "The Joker" of all video-game villains...

 But in the end Sephiroth takes the crown. He had so much hate he could've swallowed the world in it.

Vayne Solidor didn't get any vote.... LOL

I voted for Sephiroth, he is probably the most evil and coolest villain in Final Fantasy.

Even in Kingdom Hearts games, he is still sooo hard to beat.  

I thought this was a silly poll, you know before even reading it that everyone was gunna say Sephiroth. Someone said that Sin was a better bad guy than Seymor, but Sin isnt a villian, its the general name for the monsters you fight throughout the game, like Gnosis in Xenosaga. My top villians are Kuja first, cuz he's strong and still knew how to look pretty while tearing it up. Then Seymor, with his spikey blue hair and girly voice. Lastly, Bahamut, even though he is a summon creature he was bad in FF9 when Kuja had him attack Alexandria, and he is by far the most fantabulous summon there is throughout the franchise, BOW!madmann05

No, Sin is not the name for monsters throughout the game. Sin is the massive beast that you see in the beginning and fight near the end. 

FF VII just due to the fact that it had Sephiroth. Every one knows who he is and the way his character developed throughout the game was just pure genius!Robot_Vampire

Since when did his character develop? He was pretty much a static character and had an incredibly baselss and "out there" motive for his actions. 

You guys are crazy!!! Seymour is way more insane and crazy then Sephiroth ever even thought of being. Let me explain. Sephiroth just wanted to take over the world. WHOOP DEE FREAKIN' DOO. What main villain doesn't want to do that? Now Seymour on the other hand, he was true psychopath. He wanted to become Sin, kill everyone in Spira, and by doing this, he thought it was an act of compassion on his part. Now anyone who thinks this way is seriously messed up.KH-mixerX

you should do some research about Sephiroth's background

forget about that, just play FF7 again. for people think that Sephiroth is baseless, i think you should play FF7 again and carefully. 

Sephiroth was a top ranking SOLDIER officer, the most powerful and skilled fighter there ever was, many people admired him. but in his last investigating mission at nibelheim, he discovers the truth about himself and JENOVA. and it goes on (its not this short ofcourse), Sephiroth becomes the villain of the game and the whole plot of the game is based on this. Sephiroth kills people in terms of cleaning the gaia ( the world ), for his own goal and doesnt care anything else.

also Sephiroth name has meaning itself, picked up by square very wisely. there are 10 Sephiroth (plural: Sephirah) symbolised in the Tree of Life according to Kabbalah teachings. Each Sephiroth represents a path of ideas, attributes and concepts that one must realise and understand within oneself. Once that is done a person will have reached divine perfection.

Sephiroth is the best character in gaming history. he is the most developed and the deepest character cant be compared to even main characters. and this topic asks the most memorable villain; Sephiroth is the most memorable character and he is villain. some of my friends didnt play any FF game, but they know Sephiroth very well, because Sephiroth exceeded to stay in FF7 only.

and Seymour was just your cliche avengeful kid. his past was painful for him and made him want to avenge his pain, thats most used theme for bad guys, "painful childhood". he was just a freak and was not even main enemy in the game. you played the game to stop sin, not to stop Seymour, he was a pebble on the road of Sin. he was not even strong. also you said "he wanted to become Sin, kill everyone in Spira", so whats the difference between this and Sephiroth's cleaning the world from people. also Sephiroth's aim was not just that, he wanted to revive JENOVA and wanted to go to another planets to use their life source until he builds better world in another planet he finds suitable. deciding whole galaxy's fate on his own, he was psycho enough i think.

[QUOTE="KH-mixerX"]You guys are crazy!!! Seymour is way more insane and crazy then Sephiroth ever even thought of being. Let me explain. Sephiroth just wanted to take over the world. WHOOP DEE FREAKIN' DOO. What main villain doesn't want to do that? Now Seymour on the other hand, he was true psychopath. He wanted to become Sin, kill everyone in Spira, and by doing this, he thought it was an act of compassion on his part. Now anyone who thinks this way is seriously messed up.ali_kerem

you should do some research about Sephiroth's background

forget about that, just play FF7 again. for people think that Sephiroth is baseless, i think you should play FF7 again and carefully. 

Sephiroth was a top ranking SOLDIER officer, the most powerful and skilled fighter there ever was, many people admired him. but in his last investigating mission at nibelheim, he discovers the truth about himself and JENOVA. and it goes on (its not this short ofcourse), Sephiroth becomes the villain of the game and the whole plot of the game is based on this. Sephiroth kills people in terms of cleaning the gaia ( the world ), for his own goal and doesnt care anything else.

also Sephiroth name has meaning itself, picked up by square very wisely. there are 10 Sephiroth (plural: Sephirah) symbolised in the Tree of Life according to Kabbalah teachings. Each Sephiroth represents a path of ideas, attributes and concepts that one must realise and understand within oneself. Once that is done a person will have reached divine perfection.

Sephiroth is the best character in gaming history. he is the most developed and the deepest character cant be compared to even main characters. and this topic asks the most memorable villain; Sephiroth is the most memorable character and he is villain. some of my friends didnt play any FF game, but they know Sephiroth very well, because Sephiroth exceeded to stay in FF7 only.

and Seymour was just your cliche avengeful kid. his past was painful for him and made him want to avenge his pain, thats most used theme for bad guys, "painful childhood". he was just a freak and was not even main enemy in the game. you played the game to stop sin, not to stop Seymour, he was a pebble on the road of Sin. he was not even strong. also you said "he wanted to become Sin, kill everyone in Spira", so whats the difference between this and Sephiroth's cleaning the world from people. also Sephiroth's aim was not just that, he wanted to revive JENOVA and wanted to go to another planets to use their life source until he builds better world in another planet he finds suitable. deciding whole galaxy's fate on his own, he was psycho enough i think.

I didn't say he wasn't a deep character. It's just the way he went about his business after he became evil is very common in most video game villains. I like to call them cookie cutter villains (because in a cookie cutter, each cutout is exactly the same). Don't get me wrong, Sephiroth is still a very elaborant character. His past is very complicated. It's just I'm tired of the whole "I'm gonna destroy the world to rid it of impurities, then, i'll make a new perfect world in it's place." Yeah yeah, just do it already and save us the pain of hearing you monologue forever.

And come on now, Seymour killed his own father!!! I don't think Sephiroth could top that.

P.S.-Sephiroth died too easily also. It took not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 TIMES to take Seymour down!!!

[QUOTE="ali_kerem"]

[QUOTE="KH-mixerX"]You guys are crazy!!! Seymour is way more insane and crazy then Sephiroth ever even thought of being. Let me explain. Sephiroth just wanted to take over the world. WHOOP DEE FREAKIN' DOO. What main villain doesn't want to do that? Now Seymour on the other hand, he was true psychopath. He wanted to become Sin, kill everyone in Spira, and by doing this, he thought it was an act of compassion on his part. Now anyone who thinks this way is seriously messed up.KH-mixerX

you should do some research about Sephiroth's background

forget about that, just play FF7 again. for people think that Sephiroth is baseless, i think you should play FF7 again and carefully. 

Sephiroth was a top ranking SOLDIER officer, the most powerful and skilled fighter there ever was, many people admired him. but in his last investigating mission at nibelheim, he discovers the truth about himself and JENOVA. and it goes on (its not this short ofcourse), Sephiroth becomes the villain of the game and the whole plot of the game is based on this. Sephiroth kills people in terms of cleaning the gaia ( the world ), for his own goal and doesnt care anything else.

also Sephiroth name has meaning itself, picked up by square very wisely. there are 10 Sephiroth (plural: Sephirah) symbolised in the Tree of Life according to Kabbalah teachings. Each Sephiroth represents a path of ideas, attributes and concepts that one must realise and understand within oneself. Once that is done a person will have reached divine perfection.

Sephiroth is the best character in gaming history. he is the most developed and the deepest character cant be compared to even main characters. and this topic asks the most memorable villain; Sephiroth is the most memorable character and he is villain. some of my friends didnt play any FF game, but they know Sephiroth very well, because Sephiroth exceeded to stay in FF7 only.

and Seymour was just your cliche avengeful kid. his past was painful for him and made him want to avenge his pain, thats most used theme for bad guys, "painful childhood". he was just a freak and was not even main enemy in the game. you played the game to stop sin, not to stop Seymour, he was a pebble on the road of Sin. he was not even strong. also you said "he wanted to become Sin, kill everyone in Spira", so whats the difference between this and Sephiroth's cleaning the world from people. also Sephiroth's aim was not just that, he wanted to revive JENOVA and wanted to go to another planets to use their life source until he builds better world in another planet he finds suitable. deciding whole galaxy's fate on his own, he was psycho enough i think.

I didn't say he wasn't a deep character. It's just the way he went about his business after he became evil is very common in most video game villains. I like to call them cookie cutter villains (because in a cookie cutter, each cutout is exactly the same). Don't get me wrong, Sephiroth is still a very elaborant character. His past is very complicated. It's just I'm tired of the whole "I'm gonna destroy the world to rid it of impurities, then, i'll make a new perfect world in it's place." Yeah yeah, just do it already and save us the pain of hearing you monologue forever.

And come on now, Seymour killed his own father!!! I don't think Sephiroth could top that.

P.S.-Sephiroth died too easily also. It took not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 TIMES to take Seymour down!!!

Play Skies of Arcadia, I think Ramirez the final boss had similiar motives as Seymour. And you do fight Ramriez more than once. You fight him once where he kicks your ass, and then you fight him again....3 times in a row.

killing the person you love most is not something new and to kill parent is not harder than that, i dont know it just doesnt impress me. maybe i saw it in many animes so its like natural now. really, there are many examples of problematic kid stories.

 also yea it looked like Sephiroth made same sentences over and over again but it was only 2 cutscenes i think. at first he just set fire on shinra mansion and left without saying anything. then revealed his theory when he took JENOVA. then he appeared to kill Aeris but just teased Cloud and i think 1 more but i dont remember it now. other than that he was a mistery in the whole game.only main characters used it while explaining situation so it was flashback, not Sephiroth appeared and repeated himself, we didnt even see him.

and you ask the most memorable villain, the only villain character carved in my memories is Sephiroth, i partly forget others. and now i just checked the net and i remembered we fought seymour more than once now.before this search i was only remembering the last battle which he had wheels, which is easy if Lulu is strong and with holy magic, and Lulu was one of my favorite characters in FFX, because i like magicians.

about battles, well, difficulty is the same for FF games, they are all easy, they are beaten in the end, i dont say Sephiroth was hard, all of them were easy. but Sephiroth battle was long, because you were fighting with him more than once, not like other bosses appearing after a while in storyline and to be defeated by a no-muscle buster sword wielder was really annoying. look at Gutts, look at Cloud. its really annoying that Cloud can wield a buster sword with stick like arms. also to be like chicken-headed is another annoying part of him, though i admit they made a cool char in FF7: AC movie. Sephiroth is beaten because the good guys always win. you say Sephiroth is the best SOLDIER ever, then you make him lose to 7 guys only. it was annoying.

to be honest, while i was playing FFX i was thinking Seymour was good character too, but now when i think of it, he was not something special. in FF7, whole story is based on Sephiroth. so anyone who played FF7, will remember Sephiroth to remember the game. thats why he becomes the most memorable villain for majority i think.

you ask people's ideas so you should not be disappointed when they choose something different. this is not for arguments, for sharing thoughts. i say Sephiroth you say Seymour. you remember Seymour most, i and some others remember Sephiroth most. so poll decides the result, but it wont change anything for anyone, you still will remember Seymour as the most, some will say Kefka etc.

I wasn't disappointed about others opinions, I was just stating what I thought about everyone elses choices. I do agree with you that the last Seymour fight was really easy. If they would have made him harder than his third incanation, Seymour Flux, then it would have been a serious battle!!! And I didn't say that Sephiroth repeated himself alot, just that he is just your average villain trying to take over the world for his own twisted self. By no means though is he shallow. He is still extremely cool and very deep. He comes in at a very close second behind Seymour for me.

P.S.-Try to use a little grammar and better sentence structuring when typing a post. Not trying to insult you, just a little suggestion.:)

Sephiroth would BLINK all other villains out of existence. Result: Sephiroth Is the most memorable villain in gaming history.P-r-e-y

Too bad Seymour would just come back.:D

obviously its Sephiroth...I mean he's been ranked in top 10 most memorable/ hardest bosses by many game reviews...7 isn't even my favorite of the series but Sephiroth will always be the ultimate villan to me.  That and he got respawned into later square enix games which just adds to the point that he's extremely bad ass.

Seymour is more memorable because he is a morbid thinker, and believes when you die, your really alive. He also killed his own father, and almost all of the Ronso tribe,and his bride (Yuna), and he tried to destroy all of spira.. Even his mother (Anima) wanted him dead.

Yevon is also another memorable Villian, cause without him their wouldnt be aeons, or a storyline. But seymour could of been enough, he sure was quite the Hitler

SPOILER....

Many here are talking about how Sephi burned the village and what not.  But for me, he was the most memorable because he killed Aeris right in front of us while we played... powerless, forced to watch this happen.  I think Sephi was one of the very few characters that actually brought emotion out of me and actually made me hate him, I wanted to kill him!  Anywho, that's my take on Sephi.

i voted for kefka, cuz really, name any other FF villain that set out to destoy the world and actually accomplished it? Besides he's the biggest psychopath in any of the series.... FF needs more insane people, insane people make the world enjoyable.