Even though I'm a hardcore Seph fan, I must agree with this. There are a lot of people who do that and it's really bad for Sephiroth's rep, since people come to hate him just because he has some brainless fans. When I support a character I learn all I can about him and then I start talking(Or posting for the matter ). But most of Sephiroth's fans are just as you said. There are always points to debate on characters with big backgrounds, so reasonable talking and debating is necessary. Oh well, what can we do....

Sephiroth was alright, but I really don't think he is such a badass.

The only one I agree with their is Id. But Kuja??? This brings back memories of the forum I was a part of many years ago, where with the same name I currently use, I lead a series of threads on Sephiroth vs Kuja in which I ran with the Sephiroth banner leading the fight for all the Sephiroth fans and totally destroying all the reasons everyone who loves Kuja thinks he's better. Kuja is a far inferior villian than Sephiroth (or any villian now that I think about it) he's a child and very emotional. While Sephiroth mear presence demands attention wherever he is mentioned, and is cool, calm and collected at every instance, even when dying in Advent Children.

I thought that Sephiroth was a great villain for the following reasons:

First off I think that the dark theme and story of the game really leant itself to Sephiroth, the way the story was told, the music, cutscenes; it was all extremely dark and made it far more serious.

Sephiroth was an extremely dark and fearful character; with other villains sich as Kuja, Ultemicia, Seymour and even villains from other games (that I've played) they were just bad guys you just fought and killed but with Sephiroth he was just really evil. Being both psychotic and immensely strong were very powerful traits that fueld this evil and you really felt the seriousness of the situation in the game. He didn't hang around or spare people's lives; he just killed, killed, killed.

With scenes such as when he left the trail of blood and murded President Shinra, the spearing of the snake, Aeris's tragic death, the burning of the village and his whole obsesion with Jenova and fulfilling her wishes were some reasons that made him so felt. He was a really good villain because he was pure and utter evil; both his words and actions portrayed this effectively.

I don't mind if people have a bad word to say about Sephiroth, it's there opinion; however, this why I thought he was an immense villain.

I kinda that agree with Darkblade.
Sephiroth was kinda... ... ... «- no words. Not like Kefka, kefka had madness, what a true villain must have

The fact though is that he was a hero. Cloud idolized him, as well as Zack. Sephiroth was a leagend in the known world and of course the contributing factors which led to his anger and "about-face" made him commit many horrible actions, but he did it with a passion. Not saying it's excusable, but he's 100% committed/obsessed with Jenova. :p

I thought he was awesome myself. Very cool and a worthy adversory for Cloud.