Dr.weil was the perfect example of one of the three main things I look for in villains.Being smarter than the protagonist counterpart.Today I bring you the perfect example of another of the three elements I look for;threat.Henceforth I give you my favorite and in my opinion the most threatening on definatly most underrated final fantasy villain Kuja.
For those who don't know why kuja is probably the least liked villian in final fantasy history sans maybe necron since let's face it necron did literally appear in the last ten minutes of FF9.But in all honesty I do understand the criticism.I mean he is the single girliest villain of all time.
Get your laughs out now cause this is the only villain who ever made my acid reflux start up
I always enjoyed kuja's behavior in FF9.Yes very artistic,and classy which results in alot of very playlike dramatic scenes namely like the second scene he's in where the music and visuals cut to black with the words "Fly home to your mother, my little canary. I, too, will welcome you home with open arms." Both artistic and elegant but still very threatening especially in context. Another example would namely be the first scene he shows up.After alexandrian general beatrix defeats and knocks out the party.Kuja stands above them looking at them.and simply walks off.His outfit is still a touch feminine( well okay a large touch) but just the way the scene is done the music,the visuals,and kuja's actions make the scene incredibly threatening all things concerned.
But the big thing that makes me love this villain has to be expalined.Kuja was created by garland(No not chaos garland but why did they name him that?) As the angel fo death to try and take over the planet gaia( the main world of FF9) and take the souls to revive the planet terra (other world of FF9....it's a final fantasy go figure) soon after zidane was created and garland knew he was far more powerful but kuja behind garland's back left zidane on the planet gaia in hopes he would die.
Kuja became the angel once more and would turn the world of gaia on itself when he played the devil on queen brahne's shoulder and convinced her to attack the other kingdoms while he planned his own search for power to destroy garland and take over terra and gaia.Evantually he would kill the queen (and this time not the jukebox) I think literally just cause she was ugly (fair enough trust me on this) which again proves both his elegance and his fury as well his power after literally taking on and taking control over the eidolon bahamut.
From here he would kidnap,blackmail,and scheme his way back to terra where he had no problem taking out garland after absorbing all of the souls garland had gathered from gaia including brahne,which he joyously told her daughter garnet.But at that point garland with his last breath told kuja that he would soon die due to his lifespan which garland designed to be short and to say the least kuja took that unpleasantly
Yeah that's the look alright
He had no problem literally destroying the planet terra single handedly.And planned to destroy all of existance by unleashing the crystal at the universe's center which would unleash a powerful creature( well they said destroy the universe but my theory on this is necron is the demon who would destroy the universe.My theory anyway) and despite the best efforts of the protagonists he actually succeeded in unleashing necron.While he did evantually save the heroes from necron's death rattle of a black hole I think he more the deserves a spot here
