I quote an old post of mine...
Now, we all know Kuja’s various fetes and his general storyline. This topic is to respect Kuja. Now, he has a host of impressive accomplishments in a large variety of areas. He took a shot from a city-busting King of Dragons and merely got a scratch. He survived a blast from the most powerful weapon in the FFIX-verse that was meant to kill him. He manipulated a benevolent monarch into a tyrannical and power-hungry destroyer of worlds who would bring death to thousands. And this is all his normal self. But Kuja’s most remembered and indeed disputed fete is Terra. What did he do to Terra? It’s widely argued he either busted it or simply reduced it to ruins. This all stems from a variety of ambiguous dialogue and the fact we never see the planet go boom or indeed anything given the fact the party made the extremely prudent move of getting the hell out of there. The only really clear dialogue, that is still very ambiguous, on this fete lie in these three lines.
Girl [Mikoto]: But Garland is dead. Terra will soon be destroyed.
This was Zidane talking to Mikoto shortly before they boarded the Invincible and escaped Terra. She makes another comment on Terra later on the beginning of Disc 4.
Mikoto: You saw Kuja's power. He destroyed a world by himself...
Now this is where semantics come into play. What does it mean to destroy? What is a world? What is the definition of “is?” People accuse, and they are kind of right, those lines of being too vague to attest to the fete of busting Terra. Yet the idea Kuja could blow up a planet did not materialize from nowhere. The fact is that there is not 100% conclusive evidence that he did or did not wipe out Terra. But, I feel just the two quotes I provided completely disprove the absurd notion that I’ve heard here and on other places that Kuja only destroyed Bran Bai. Some say he just tore down the city and looking through both those quotes, I don’t see her saying anywhere that Kuja destroyed a city by himself or that Bran Bai will soon be gone. But, nevertheless, I am a supporter of the planet-buster Kuja school. And partially out of faith and partially out of reasonable conjecture. Such as drawn from this line.
Amarant: Do you really think [Kuja] perished with Terra?
Now, examine that quote. If Kuja did nothing but strafe the world with magic, how would he perish along with it? I deduce, and I feel I’m definitely not going out on a limb here, that Amarant is saying Kuja did indeed blow up or cause some sort of cataclysm on Terra. How else would he “perish” along with it? When I hear that line, I have an image of a planet exploding and Kuja caught up in it. Does that seem too farfetched or reaching? I don’t think so. I do pride myself on having an open-mind. I can admit to being wrong and can look at the same line and see multiple meanings. But I just don’t see how that quote could say anything other than what it’s saying.
Also, I do not recall Sephiroth becoming intangible on his own. It's true that Jenova in the game did do things like go through objects but I don't see any reason to attribute that ability to Sephiroth on his own. His biology is highly different from Jenova's.
Sephiroth can kill Kuja in melee combat but Kuja just has to keep his distance and assault him with Ultima.
Now, we all know Kuja’s various fetes and his general storyline. This topic is to respect Kuja. Now, he has a host of impressive accomplishments in a large variety of areas. He took a shot from a city-busting King of Dragons and merely got a scratch. He survived a blast from the most powerful weapon in the FFIX-verse that was meant to kill him. He manipulated a benevolent monarch into a tyrannical and power-hungry destroyer of worlds who would bring death to thousands. And this is all his normal self. But Kuja’s most remembered and indeed disputed fete is Terra. What did he do to Terra? It’s widely argued he either busted it or simply reduced it to ruins. This all stems from a variety of ambiguous dialogue and the fact we never see the planet go boom or indeed anything given the fact the party made the extremely prudent move of getting the hell out of there. The only really clear dialogue, that is still very ambiguous, on this fete lie in these three lines.
Girl [Mikoto]: But Garland is dead. Terra will soon be destroyed.
This was Zidane talking to Mikoto shortly before they boarded the Invincible and escaped Terra. She makes another comment on Terra later on the beginning of Disc 4.
Mikoto: You saw Kuja's power. He destroyed a world by himself...
Now this is where semantics come into play. What does it mean to destroy? What is a world? What is the definition of “is?” People accuse, and they are kind of right, those lines of being too vague to attest to the fete of busting Terra. Yet the idea Kuja could blow up a planet did not materialize from nowhere. The fact is that there is not 100% conclusive evidence that he did or did not wipe out Terra. But, I feel just the two quotes I provided completely disprove the absurd notion that I’ve heard here and on other places that Kuja only destroyed Bran Bai. Some say he just tore down the city and looking through both those quotes, I don’t see her saying anywhere that Kuja destroyed a city by himself or that Bran Bai will soon be gone. But, nevertheless, I am a supporter of the planet-buster Kuja school. And partially out of faith and partially out of reasonable conjecture. Such as drawn from this line.
Amarant: Do you really think [Kuja] perished with Terra?
Now, examine that quote. If Kuja did nothing but strafe the world with magic, how would he perish along with it? I deduce, and I feel I’m definitely not going out on a limb here, that Amarant is saying Kuja did indeed blow up or cause some sort of cataclysm on Terra. How else would he “perish” along with it? When I hear that line, I have an image of a planet exploding and Kuja caught up in it. Does that seem too farfetched or reaching? I don’t think so. I do pride myself on having an open-mind. I can admit to being wrong and can look at the same line and see multiple meanings. But I just don’t see how that quote could say anything other than what it’s saying.
Also, I do not recall Sephiroth becoming intangible on his own. It's true that Jenova in the game did do things like go through objects but I don't see any reason to attribute that ability to Sephiroth on his own. His biology is highly different from Jenova's.
Sephiroth can kill Kuja in melee combat but Kuja just has to keep his distance and assault him with Ultima.