@Spahettificator: that's not the humanity that this article is talking about. they're talking about betrayal as the motive, not power. The writer is mentioning Sephiroth's human reaction to being tampered with.

@Spahettificator: What's amusing is a bunch of people that are sticking up for Sephiroth are saying two different things; that he was a good person and loyal soldier who found out a dark secret about himself and then snapped killing a bunch of people, and another group is saying he was always an ass and once he found out he's more than human, he got his god complex. If you go by your translation of Sephiroth, then this article makes little sense including him because an ego manic that kills people because he finds out he's part human and above normal people really doesn't symbolize humanity.

@Spahettificator: He was a human mixed with alien DNA. He was the best at what he did and he found out why he was the best. I don't think that would induce a murderous rage. The God complex that came later makes sense but the betrayal portion doesn't. If I've been depositing 1,000,000 in your bank account for as long as you've been alive only to find out that i'm your father. Would you kill a bunch of random people?

@Rikudo-Pein: He's talking about motivations and personality which aren't traits that are changed by a fantasy setting. the article's writer points out that Nene's character is too simple but having a total life change in a minute period is just as simplistic. You want to see a pretty good character change, you should play NWN and look at Lady Aribeth. She's not a main villain but her betrayal and her change is believable.

For starters, Sepheroth's "betrayal" wasn't that drastic enough to turn him into a homicidal maniac. So the gov't lied and experimented on him. He still had years of conditioning and the mindset of a soldier. For all of that to totally disappear within a few moments is unrealistic in every way imaginable unless the character did have some sort of psychotic behavior prior to that...if he did, he's no different than any other nut case on the list and it's poor writing on the developer's part not to convey that. A better and more recent comparison about "humanity" would have been Saren, but it's understandable why he was excluded. You were able to make 1/4 of this shallow article by forgetting him.