Baddest Villians: Ultimecia

A powerful Sorceress from a future many generations ahead of the game's time, Ultimecia intended to compress time into one single moment with a form of magic known as Time Compression. She used a device called "Junction Machine Ellone," as a means to send her consciousness into the distant past. In the past era, Ultimecia manipulated world events, and utilized her ability to possess other sorceresses.
In her final confrontation with Squall Leonhart, she attempted to absorb all that ever had and ever would exist, including all time and space, in order to become "a living god." Much is unknown about Ultimecia's true motives and existence in the game.

Baddest Villians: Sephiroth

In Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth is the result of an experiment by the mega-corporation Shinra in which they used cells from the extraterrestrial lifeform Jenova. Feeling he is better than all the humans, Sephiroth decides to become a god to take control of the planet and so Cloud and the other game's protagonists decide to stop him. Only those who have played and completed the game will truly understand his badassness

Baddest Villians: Kefka

Kefka Palazzo (Final Fantasy 7)

Kefka acts as the court mage of Emperor Gestahl early in the game, and simply carries out his monarch's orders. However, behind Gestahl's back, Kefka attacks various towns and drains the power of Espers meant for Imperial usage. This gradual culmination in power leads Kefka to overthrow Gestahl and take control of the Warring Triad, effectively becoming the God of Magic itself.

While previous villains in the Final Fantasy series were distant, cold, ruthless, and bent on their goals, Kefka is loud, short-tempered, maniacal, and destructive. His popularity among Final Fantasy fans as a villain is rivaled only by Sephiroth. Kefka is well-known for his many one-liners, his final appearance as an Angel of Death (which has become something of a tradition in the series), and his sociopathic hatred of virtually everything in existence. His dark humor and jester-like appearance have earned him the nickname "The Psycho Clown" among fans. Kefka's most defining character trait is arguably his laugh, a high-pitched whooping cackle that is repeated numerous times throughout the game.

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Baddest Villians: The Goblin King

Jareth, The Goblin King (The Labyrinth)


Ok, so Jareth isn't an necessarily evil but he is certainly bad-ass. His true motives are unknown throughout the film so one could just assume that he is a madman at the end of a magical labyrinth. The only reason he would be considered a villain is because he has created an extremely complicated and morphing labyrinth for Sarah to travel though in order to get her baby brother back, Toby. The brother in which she wished The Goblin King to take him away from her in the first place due to her frustrations while watching him. So in all actuality, The Goblin King isn't an evil villain, just some madman that takes babies when told to and then turns the babies into goblins when the time is right. His powers include the ability to form crystal orbs in his hands, which can create illusions of all types or to view things from a distance. Jareth uses his magical crystals to show dreams and offers the crystals to Sarah as a symbol of dreams. Another inspiration for the idea of Jareth's magical crystals is Hand with Reflecting Sphere by M.C. Escher, i. e. the inspiration for the mirror properties of the crystals and their power to show reflections of dreams. Villain or not, The Goblin King deserves a spot on this list due to his sheer David Bowie awesomeness.

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