He never really impressed me, but then again a lot of the FF villains haven't given me a real buzz. cept maybe kefka...
but srsly, he's too popular for his own good, and I get pretty angry when people have a nerdgasm whenever they hear his name, I mean, he's not THAT special. He could've had a lot more of a personality, I mean, yeah he went insane blah blah but he was a coward. Come on, you stab a girl from behind while she's unarmed?
Nice job ya jerk, let's go kill little kids while we're at it.
My main beef with sephiroth is that he has a huge legion of blindly zealous fans, not all of them, but a lot of them. The character himself? Nyeh, he gets a shrug from me, he's nothing special. Personally the judges were more intimidating than he was, perhaps because they didn't die shirtless.
imho, people just need to realize the awesome that SE is trying to lay out and get rid of this emo black leather wearing silver haired bad guy spree, because AC nearly gave me an androgyny overload. Even though Vayne had super frisktastic hair, at least he went hulk >.>;
Sephiroth is angry, angsty, emo, and pretty. That's enough to amass an army of unrelenting fans who will jump at anyone who says otherwise.
So jump at ME, because yeah I'm dissin sephiroth, I dare ya.
ALSO! History lesson!
No, SE did not make up Sephiroth's name, I'm sad to say, some of you may already know this :3
A 'sephiroth' comes from the Qabbalistic tree of life,
http://www.crystalinks.com/kabala.html
There are ten Sefirot on the tree of life, each one has a specific purpose.
Also, since Sephiroth is part of Jenova, she may be the 'tree of life' and he's her little Sefirot.