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« on: August 31, 2009, 04:53:34 am » |
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We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather thanto live slaves.
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« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2009, 03:16:35 pm » |
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Kefka is undeniably the greatest villain in video game history. He has no motive for doing what he does, save that he wants to destroy the world (and everything else) because he thinks it might be fun. How do you come up with a villain that can compete with that? Kefka was simply evil in its most basic form; malevolence for malevolence's sake. Kefka was an agent of chaos, in much the same way that Heath Ledger's version of the Joker was, perhaps even more so.
What furthers this is the magnificent ruse he takes the player on: at first, he appears to be nothing more than plucky comic relief, bumbling through his missions, but even then, we get a small hint of how truly wicked he is when he says "I truly hope nothing happens to your precious Figaro!" to Edgar, but here we simply believe that he would summon the Gesthalian army. Later on, he poisons a river because he's annoyed with how long the destruction of a rival kingdom is taking, without any regard for the lives of the captured Gesthalian soldiers inside the castle prison, and he justifies this by saying "Who cares? They're the ones who were stupid enough to get caught by the enemy!"
Though he is more insidious in that scene, we still are led to believe that the Gesthalian Empire is the main antagonist, and so we disregard Kefka's actions and simply consider him an overly zealous agent of said empire. Much later, he raises the Floating Continent, and kills General Leo and the Emperor, and manages to become a GOD. Suddenly, his machinations are crystal clear, and we realize how evil he truly is.
He not only becomes the God of Magic, but he also rules the world for a whole year, and has a devoted cult.
Later on, he says:
"And did you all find your "somethings" in this broken world that just won't die?
Bleh! You people make me sick! You sound like lines from a self-help book! If that's how it's going to be... I'll snuff them all out! Every last one of your sickening, happy little reasons for living!"
How could Sephiroth compare with this?
How could Kuja, or Seymour?
Not even Garland possesses such a powerful will for destruction.
Kefka stands alone as not only the greatest villain of the series, but of video games in general.
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I HAVE INHERITED THE TITLE OF ANTI!!
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« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2009, 06:26:37 am » |
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He is Kefka. Behold his Kefka-ness.
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