It's her fault that:
A) The SeeDs wanted to destroy her.
B) That the SeeDs were evena ble to destroy her.

By trying to prevent the thing she feared, she made it come to pass.

Ah, so many of you would say 'Sephiroth' -of course!...but who created him? Who maimed vincent and killed Lucrecia? Who made cloud and revived Jenova?
H-O-J-O

I'm going to have to agree with you on the grounds that Advent Children (and the rest of the FFVII Compilation) was complete bullshit. I can't deny that it's canon, but...god, I really wish it wasn't. I'd just like to make it known that, when I defend Sephiroth, I'm defending the Sephiroth that appeared in Final Fantasy VII. Remember him? The wonderfully-crafted villain with genuine depth and a complex personality (for the time)? Yeah. I loved him. He was awesome. Too bad Nomura took over and turned him into 2-Dimensional Prettyboy #591. I suppose it is rather unfair/closed-minded of me to not take the FFVII Compilation into consideration, but goddamnit, that sin against all that is Final Fantasy should never have existed. It tarnished the good name of a wonderful RPG. *fumes*

However, I still stand by my statement that Sephiroth is not a momma's boy. The fact remains, Sephiroth decapitated JENOVA and repeatedly tore off her body parts, sending them to do battle against a team of powerful warriors. Even if he still thinks JENOVA is his mother, he doesn't exactly treat her very well. He certainly doesn't suck up to her or depend on her in any way. So yes, as of Advent Children, perhaps he does think JENOVA is his mother, but I still can't see why anyone would call him a "momma's boy."

Of course, you can't deny that that statement is quite ridiculous. I honestly don't know what possessed Nomura to include that in the movie's script. It was obvious in FFVII that Sephiroth had come to realize that JENOVA wasn't his mother, considering he no longer thinks of himself as a Cetra. In fact, if memory serves, he blatantly refers to himself as being superior to the Cetra. Besides, logically, he should've gained the knowledge of what JENOVA really was during his time spent in the Lifestream. Of course I'm not saying that the line shouldn't be taken into consideration, but you have to admit that it doesn't make that much sense, given what we say in FFVII itself.

You mean the experiment that Celes went through and came out of perfectly fine? Even without taking into consideration the obvious flaw there, it's still terrible storytelling in that Kefka fails to develop as a character beyond that 2-Dimensional stereotype. I still assert that he's no better than the average Captain Planet villain in terms of character depth.

Yes, nevermind the fact that he found out that everything he'd been told over the course of his life was a blatant lie and that he was a monster created for the explicit purpose of slaughtering people in the name of ShinRa. Oh, and the stress/pressure he obviously went through as the best of SOLDIER means nothing, either.

For the record...

FFVII Sephiroth>Kefka
FFVII Compilation Sephiroth<Kefka

I'm gonna have to agree with this. Hojo was one scum-sucking douchebag, whose villainy is rather underrated.

Well, again, I can't fault someone for just not liking Sephiroth, but your reasons still don't make much sense. You seem to be under the impression that superpowers make everything better. If that were the case, then we'd probably never have any supervillains, because they'd all be too busy being happy about their neat powers to destroy the world. Sephiroth was a genuine freak of nature. That he had superhuman abilities didn't make up for the fact that basically everything he'd been told about himself was a lie. And...a better hiding place? Excuse me, but didn't ShinRa lock those files in a laboratory hidden deep underground behind a secret door? And yes, he goes crazy and starts burning shit down. I told you, it was essentially a coping mechanism. Sephiroth didn't want to believe that he was created to serve ShinRa, so he convinced himself he was superior to ShinRa. In fact, he had to convince himself that he was superior to the entire human race so he didn't have to deal with the harsh reality of his identity.

I agree that Sephiroth isn't the most realistic villain ever, but you have to remember that this game was made in 1997. At the time, RPG's were still a developing media. Before villains like Sephiroth and Kefka, the typical RPG villain acted more along the lines of ExDeath. They were shadowy figures without identities who operated from the shadows. Just like Kefka was one of the first RPG villains to have an actual personality, Sephiroth was basically the first RPG villain who actually had a backstory of some sort. Everyone has to start somewhere. For the time of his creation, Sephiroth was an incredibly complex villain and character.

No personality? 2-Dimensional character? Why, I do believe that sounds exactly like Kefka, good sir! He went around talking about killing, and...that's basically it. That's all there is to him. Oh yeah, and he dresses like a psychotic clown. Because we've never seen psychotic clowns before. *coughStephenKingcough*

In any case, if that's all you saw in Sephiroth's character, you should probably pay more attention to the actual dialogue. Yes, Sephiroth talked about becoming one with the Planet...because that was his goal as a villain. That's because, within the FFVII Universe, that's a perfectly reasonable goal for a villain to have. Kind of like how ExDeath wanted to become one with the Void, Ultimecia wanted to compress time, and Kefka wanted to...err...destroy the world *coughblandcough*.

Besides, Sephiroth actually had...you know...style. Unlike a lot of villains, he really served to intimidate a lot of players during their first playthroughs. He had a sort of presence that wasn't really replicated by any other RPG villains at the time. Still, it's pointless to try to convince you of that, because you just didn't like the personality that he did have. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that, but you really should know that there was definitely more to his character than "creepy cult member."

Yes, Sephiroth isn't realistic by today's standards because RPG's are evolving. Kefka is pretty outdated, too, if you haven't noticed. However, again, both of them were created back when RPG's were a lot less complex than they are today...at least storyline-wise. You can't expect them to have completely realistic, dynamic reactions that perfectly replicate human emotion. Again, everyone has to start somewhere. Sephiroth and Kefka are still popular because they each have a redeeming quality. Sephiroth has his style, and Kefka had his colorful personality.

Yes. As I've said many times, I love Kefka. I know it sounds impossible for someone to like both Sephiroth and Kefka in the same way that it sounds impossible for someone to like the Red Sox and the Yankees, but I do. While Sephiroth takes second place behind Kuja in my book, Kefka is still a wonderful villain with interesting one-liners that certainly compensated for his lack of depth. However, I realize that, when it comes down to it, Kefka is nothing more than the archetypical 2-Dimensional psychotic clown. That doesn't prevent me from liking/hating his character as a villain (depending on how you look at it), but it does prevents me from being blinded by nostalgia into thinking that he's the greatest villain to ever grace the Final Fantasy series.

Of course, it's also a mistake to claim that a villain's accomplishments make them better villains. By that logic, Dragonball Z villains would be the greatest antagonists ever because they've destroyed numerous galaxies and planets within the span of just one episode. However, I am of the opinion that the Dragonball Z villains are among the worst (except for Frieza, who will always be a classic anime villain as far as I'm concerned). The fact that Kefka destroyed the world really doesn't make him a more interesting character. Besides, there have been villains within the Final Fantasy series itself who have done more damage to space on a universal scale. Chaos disrupted the flow of time itself, ExDeath nearly absorbed the entire universe with the Void, Ultimecia had already absorbed a significant portion of time/space by the time Squall beat her, and Kuja destroyed a planet himself (hell, it's theorized that he destroyed the crystal that gave life to existence itself). Kefka really isn't even anything special in terms of what he accomplished.

Yes, I love Kefka, and no, I can't fault anyone for disliking Sephiroth. I really hope to make that clear to avoid unneccessary confrontation. However, you pretty much just over-simplified Sephiroth's personality to suit your argument. As far as the original FFVII goes, there was a lot more too him than "The psychopath with a sword." Granted, when it comes to the rest of the FFVII Compilation, Nomura basically stripped Sephiroth of any depth he might've had in the first place, but...that's a whole other argument. I'm speaking for the original Sephiroth, not the cheap knockoff we see in Advent Children and beyond.