[quote name='Cornfedwb'][quote name='JSweeney'][quote name='craven_fiend']Mine is quite possibly one of the coolest bad guys around.[/quote]
I'd have to disagree. I've always seen Sephiroth as a psychopathic momma's boy. I've ever understood the devoted fanbase he has that thinks hes "sooo cool".[/quote]
I feel the same way.. he's not nearly as evil or cool a character as he's made out to be... although he kicks the shit out of that goddamn comic relief Kefka. Why people think Kefka is a good villian is beyond me. Honestly I don't think the FF series had one really decent villian until Sin.. Sin's overbearing presense, his acceptance by the people, and the internal personal conflict.. amazing.[/quote]
The thing to keep in mind is that a lot of these players were quite young and impressionable when they played FF #whatever, so this was their first encounter with such a character.
One of the reasons I got fed up with comics for several years was that they'd been taken over by a bunch of artists, some talented and some not, who also faniced themselves writers despite being borderline illiterates. You'd see things like an allusion to Moby Dick that soon revealed itself to be stolen from a more serious writer who actually knew the source material. The know-nothing artist/would-be writer would rip off a better writer without understanding that he was shoplifting from a store where everything had already been stolen previously.