History Characters / DissidiaFinalFantasyOperaOmniaIToIII

* TookALevelInBadass:
** Visually and thematically, at least. The Emperor's Absolute Dominion EX Burst in the original ''Dissidia'' had him zap the opponent with beams of electricity before concentrating energy around them that exploded. His Absolute Dominion Burst in ''Opera Omnia'' is an AlphaStrike, with the Emperor basically unleashing both his Flare attacks and Dreary Cell on the opponent along with the electricity and energy explosion.
** Story-wise, the Emperor is someone who never hesitates or lacks the will to do anything necessary to gain power - and in this world, will is everything. Even ''before'' he gets his sealed powers back from the dark crystal, he faces off against Ardyn and defeats him soundly enough that it leads to Ardyn being willing to side with Noctis to get revenge (though this might be saying more about Ardyn's current wavering mindset than anything).

* ExactlywhatItSaysOnTheTin: His Force Attack is called "Harmonious Light to Clear Dark Clouds", it is the only FR to be introduced in a cutscene and usable even if you don't have the force weapon, and it literally features Onion Knight as the current Warrior of Light along with ''FFI'''s Warrior of Light combining their powers to defeat the Cloud of Darkness.

* GentleGiant: He is a muscled brute, but he actually one of the most gentle and soft-spoken characters. He has been shown enjoying collecting flowers and keeping the children of the party company.

** His Ninja Nurst Attack, Ninjutsu, has Onion Knight catch the enemy in a "Back Attack", a feature seen in many ''Final Fantasy'' games where the party gets a pre-emptive strike on the enemy.

* BackStab: One of his crystal passives makes him inflict more BRV damage to any targets not locked onto him, likely adding to his Ninja class.

* EveryoneHasStandards: After the World of Respite is reduced to a fragile, godless state after Chapter 3, he and Seymour, who he has been in alliance with for most of the chapter, meet Sephiroth in Chapter 3 Interlude, who manages to convince the despondent Seymour that the current state of world is something they can take advantage of. Xande, who has been granted with a form of immortality just by existing in the World of Respite, calls both of them insane for either wanting to destroy what little of it remains or already getting new schemes underway instead of ensuring the world's stability and leaves both of them to their own devices.

* CastingAShadow: All of Xande's abilities do dark elemental damage and he is the game's first party enchanter for the Darkness element.

* EvolvingAttack: How his "Quake" attack works after his Syrcus Tower buff increases enough. Once it evolves to "Quaga," it becomes a 4-hit bravery attack and single-target HP attack with splash that is executed twice.

* PlayingWithFire: Libra Combo does fire and darkness elemental damage.

The Cloud of Darkness is a destructive magic damage dealer specializing in delaying whole groups of enemies' turns and even outright deleting them. With some BRV poison options and turn jumping, the Cloud of Darkness specializes in controlling the flow of battle. With enough stacks of the Darkness buff, they can increase their damage potential as well.

* ExtraTurn: Its LD buff grants it an extra turn whenever it breaks an enemy.

%%FR: Soul of Light (with Prishe)

* NoSell: As long as his LD overhead buff is active, any HP damage dealt to the party is reduced by the currently existing Shield value: unless the enemy does massive amounts of BRV damage high enough to break the 50k+ shield followed by an HP attack before Warrior can refresh the shield and since the HP attacks done by the enemy don't actually reduce the shield strength, this essentially means that the party won't take any HP damage that doesn't bypass HP damage reductions as long as the LD overhead buff and the shield buffs last.

* SummonBiggerFish: The Emperor calls forth an Atlas from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' as the final boss of Chapter 9.

* AGodAmI: He wishes to become the new god of discord in place of Chaos, who has been gone since the end of the original thirteen cycles. In turn, he wishes for the Warrior of Light to become the new god of harmony, in place of Cosmos, in order to oppose him.

** He has this with Seymour, which confuses even the party as the two's end goals couldn't be any more different (Seymour seeks death while Xande wants immortality). Their fledging partnership breaks down almost immediately when Seymour mocks Xande's goals, causing Xande to storm off angrily, but following that scuffle the two do put aside their differences are one of the strongest villainous duos from then on.

** He appears to have this with Seymour at first, which confuses even the party as the two's end goals couldn't be any more different (Seymour seeks death while Xande wants immortality). Their fledging partnership breaks down almost immediately when Seymour mocks Xande's goals, causing Xande to storm off angrily.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: His FR ability, "Harmonious Light to Clear Dark Clouds," [[spoiler: is the first instance in the game where the ability's use is ''forced'' in the climactic battle of Act 3 against the [[BigBad Cloud of Darkness]], ''even if you don't have Onion Knight in your party'' or the ability itself. Once the boss is brought down to 1% health, Onion Knight and the Warrior of Light switch into the battle automatically and the only ability that can be used is Onion Knight's FR, which they use to banish the Cloud of Darkness]].

* ArcVillain: Shaping up to be this for Act 3, in conjunction with Onion Knight's promotion to TheHero. The Cloud of Darkness takes the central villain role for two chapters in a row, even with the party scattered across the new world, and is intent on causing a flood of darkness to redress the balance of overflowing light. Interestingly, while their main intent seems to be to return everything to the void, they also seem open to the idea of just returning things to a perfect balance between light and darkness.

FR: Harmonious Light that Clears the Dark Clouds (with Warrior of Light)

%%FR: Light of Harmony that Clears the Dark Clouds (with Warrior of Light)

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler:The compasses were created by him as a way for everyone to find each other in the new world--and maybe find a way back to him. Prishe is the first one to realize that he made them.]]
** Though it later turns out Prishe was wrong -- [[spoiler: the Warrior of Light didn't create the compasses, ''Bhunivelze'' did, as bringing the Warrior of Light back supports his goal of overwhelming the world's balance toward light]].