Complete Monster/Final Fantasy

"Kefka: Oh, who's THAT handsome devil?!""
 * Emperor Mateus Palamecia, the warmongering leader of the Palamecian Empire and the main villain of the second game. Although he does not appear frequently in the story, his influence can certainly be felt through the incredibly dreary and hopeless atmosphere. Using the powers of Hell itself, he unleashed hordes of demons into the world and forced it into a state of constant desparation. And because this apparently wasn't enough for him, he continued to ravage the world with an incredibly powerful airship and a destructive Cyclone. What makes it even worse is that if you take the time to talk to the villagers, you can see just how badly he shattered their lives.
 * Dissidia goes to great lengths to show how much of a bastard he is. Whereas most of the other villains are at least humanized in some fashion (even Kefka, the insane monster clown!), everything he does is aimed to make the player hate him more.
 * In the Dawn of Souls edition, his light side appears and ask the heroes for forgiveness and promises to grant them eternal life if they accept. The heroes don't buy it, and they turn out to be right. Yes, the Emperor is so evil that even his light side is a bastard.
 * What makes him more hateful is that he wasn't made to be evil (Like Exdeath or Cloud of Darkness), and nor was he insane (like Kefka). He's just an asshole.
 * Make no mistake, just because Kefka Palazzo was insane didn't make him any less monstrous or more sympathetic. This psychopathic, manipulative Monster Clown of Final Fantasy VI is one of gaming's most famous Complete Monsters in spite of his Freudian Excuse . While some of his dialogue is darkly comical, his actions are portrayed in a horrific and often tragic light. The poisoning of Doma and the impact it had on the character of Cyan was a major example of this. He embodies despair, hatred, and death and believes that life is meaningless, finding destruction fun because "precious lives" are lost...and commits his atrocities laughing. Even when he met his end at the hands of the returners, he still managed to destroy all magic and bring the espers to extinction.
 * Also, when Kefka has his rematch with the Esper swarm in Thamasa, he disables their powers, an action that is also strongly implied to have resulted in the deaths of the Magitek Armored mooks accompanying him in the process. Although it's extremely unlikely that he intended for their deaths (since the attack was intended to be aimed at the espers), his reaction afterwards (which is giving a brief laugh) implies that he didn't care if his powers would kill his comrades in the process or not.
 * Kefka's atrocities:
 * The first Dissidia, however, deconstructs it by painting Kefka Palazzo in a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds type, as noted above.
 * But it is to be noted that he nonetheless qualifies even in that, seeing how some of the other villains (even the Emperor) were implied to be quite disgusted with Kefka's actions, going by their pre-battle quotes. And that's not going into his corruption of Kuja and torturing of Terra.
 * That said, Kefka's basically a mad dog - an Axe Crazy psychopath who has no place in this world, or in any world for that matter. It's not entirely his fault, but that doesn't mean he should be excused, either - while it's sad that he only finds meaning in destruction, he still needs to be stopped. Think of it this way: his personality (minus the extreme narcissism), is more or less The Joker taken Up to Eleven and beyond.
 * Dissidia Final Fantasy also heavily implies that the only person that Kefka cares for, if at all, is himself, to the point of extreme narcissism, even more so than in the original Final Fantasy VI, evidenced when the player fights a mirror Kefka:
 * The first Dissidia, however, deconstructs it by painting Kefka Palazzo in a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds type, as noted above.
 * But it is to be noted that he nonetheless qualifies even in that, seeing how some of the other villains (even the Emperor) were implied to be quite disgusted with Kefka's actions, going by their pre-battle quotes. And that's not going into his corruption of Kuja and torturing of Terra.
 * That said, Kefka's basically a mad dog - an Axe Crazy psychopath who has no place in this world, or in any world for that matter. It's not entirely his fault, but that doesn't mean he should be excused, either - while it's sad that he only finds meaning in destruction, he still needs to be stopped. Think of it this way: his personality (minus the extreme narcissism), is more or less The Joker taken Up to Eleven and beyond.
 * Dissidia Final Fantasy also heavily implies that the only person that Kefka cares for, if at all, is himself, to the point of extreme narcissism, even more so than in the original Final Fantasy VI, evidenced when the player fights a mirror Kefka:
 * The first Dissidia, however, deconstructs it by painting Kefka Palazzo in a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds type, as noted above.
 * But it is to be noted that he nonetheless qualifies even in that, seeing how some of the other villains (even the Emperor) were implied to be quite disgusted with Kefka's actions, going by their pre-battle quotes. And that's not going into his corruption of Kuja and torturing of Terra.
 * That said, Kefka's basically a mad dog - an Axe Crazy psychopath who has no place in this world, or in any world for that matter. It's not entirely his fault, but that doesn't mean he should be excused, either - while it's sad that he only finds meaning in destruction, he still needs to be stopped. Think of it this way: his personality (minus the extreme narcissism), is more or less The Joker taken Up to Eleven and beyond.
 * Dissidia Final Fantasy also heavily implies that the only person that Kefka cares for, if at all, is himself, to the point of extreme narcissism, even more so than in the original Final Fantasy VI, evidenced when the player fights a mirror Kefka:
 * That said, Kefka's basically a mad dog - an Axe Crazy psychopath who has no place in this world, or in any world for that matter. It's not entirely his fault, but that doesn't mean he should be excused, either - while it's sad that he only finds meaning in destruction, he still needs to be stopped. Think of it this way: his personality (minus the extreme narcissism), is more or less The Joker taken Up to Eleven and beyond.
 * Dissidia Final Fantasy also heavily implies that the only person that Kefka cares for, if at all, is himself, to the point of extreme narcissism, even more so than in the original Final Fantasy VI, evidenced when the player fights a mirror Kefka:


 * Professor Hojo, the Mad Scientist from Final Fantasy VII. While he isn't the primary antagonist, he is responsible for nearly everything bad in the game and is generally thought of as one of the most evil villains in the entire franchise. While his atrocities are too numerous to list completely, here are some of the most notable:
 * His worst offense takes place prior to the game proper, when he
 * It's also heavily implied that he was manipulating most, if not all, of Sephiroth's actions for no other reason than to see his research blossom, and if the novellas were anything to go by, he even possessed Sephiroth to grant him more power and, more importantly, bear final witness to the results of his research after he was killed. Heck, until Crisis Core had placed the implications of Genesis doing this act, it was also implied that Hojo was the one who wrecked one of the mako generators at the Nibelheim Reactor to lure Sephiroth to the reactor and receive his first clue about his possible origins.
 * In Dirge of Cerberus
 * To sum up the depravity of Hojo, as well as his direct responsibility for virtually everything bad that happened in the game barring the things Jenova caused years before he was born, he's basically the Final Fantasy equivalent of Dr. Josef Mengele.
 * There's this other guy named Fuhito in one of the prequels, acting scientist for the original AVALANCHE. Let's just describe his mindset in a single expression:  The kicker?   He found a way to copy part of Shinra's SOLDIER program. What did he do with the data?   And worst of the lot, he
 * While not coming off as despicable as Hojo, Jenova and President Shinra are contenders for this trope as well. The former being the other Bigger Bad behind Sephiroth along with Hojo, and the latter being willing to mass murder several people in the slums and give Aerith over to Hojo in the first place all to further his plans of finding "the promised land" and sucking up it's boundless energy to create a Neo Midgar empire, which he admits is all so that he can have limitless money and power. And unlike Barret, who led AVALANCHE in terrorist actions without thinking of the lives they'd cost, Shinra knew damn well that innocent people would die in the attack on Sector 7 that he intended to frame AVALANCE for, and he didn't care, despite Reeve's protests. And he declines rebuilding the sector afterwards, too! What a dick.
 * Final Fantasy Tactics has several antagonists in the story that at least have some sympathetic qualities, like Delita Heiral. Not so for Folmarv Tengille, . At this point, he's already one of the most despicable characters in the game, but then he decides to   What. The. Hell.
 * turns out to be one, so much that it's not funny. . This all arguably makes him worse than Folmarv/Vormav, who might not have initially been a CM.
 * Final Fantasy XII features Judge Bergan, who decides, on a whim, to, the Occuria, who.
 * ExDeath certainly qualifies as such. Despite being born of an evil tree, he chooses to act in the most despicable possible way and revels in it. For one thing, his castle was heavily implied to be made out of his enemies' remains, some of which give off the sense that they are alive. He sank an island with possible innocents just to demonstrate what happens if they try to go against him and his plans, After tricking the characters into breaking the seal, he thanks them by torturing them with the crystals, and then tortures Galuf's grandchild. He also ends up shattering the remaining crystals so the two worlds would fuse back together just to get his hands on the void, and upon gaining it, his first acts are to have Lenna's kingdom sucked into the void, as well as having her possessed by a demon just to spite the party. It gets worse when, after gaining some more control over the Void, he actually goes as far as to suck up nearly every small village on the planet, including Bartz Klauser's hometown, Lix. Suffice to say, Bartz does not take this well at all, even going so far as to drive the airship quite dangerously in his rage and grief.
 * In Final Fantasy IV, there is depraved Mad Scientist Doctor Lugae, a guy so monstrous
 * The true Complete Monster of this entry?  According to his wiki,
 * from Dissidia
 * Not only that, but  To wit, he took advantage of Cid's grief and rage over his wife's death and tricked him into a Deal with the Devil under the guise that he would   However, what happened instead was that Shinryu