History Characters / FinalFantasyXVillains

* VillainousCrush: On Yuna. He pretends to marry her in a similar manner to that of Zaon and Yunalesca, which this is a part of his plan as he wants become Yuna's Final Aeon so that he can then turn into Sin.

* FanService: Despite being a 1,000-year-old HumanoidAbomination she first appears to the party as a beautiful woman who is [[{{Stripperific}} practically naked]]. Once you start fighting her, [[FanDisservice though]]...

He is the main villain representing ''Final Fantasy X'' in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFInalFantasy Dissidia]]'', though unlike the other "Warriors of Darkness", his motives are still altruistic.

Seymour is briefly shown again in a recording in ''X-2'', which took place in his manor shortly before the guardians arrived. Humorously, his house has been commandeered by the [=LeBlanc=] Syndicate. He can also be fought and recruited in the Creature Creature, making him the fifth returning playable character from ''X''. Seymour is a versatile RedMage who absorbs all elemental attacks besides Holy. As he can spam magic for free (via Spellspring), it's no use trying to deplete his mana pool.

A SpaceWhale which is the primary antagonist of ''[=FFX=]''. Like Yu Yevon himself, it is a Gravity-based opponent.

** The canon novel Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō~ added some insight into her character backstory, which remains consistent with this trope. Though, it's evident in the book that she had always been a villain, much like her father.

* AntiVillain: It is plausible for the characters to infer that she genuinely believed there was no definitive method to vanquish Sin. In this perspective, providing Spira with momentary flickers of hope could appear to be the sole path to attain peace. However, her actions (unknown to anyone who operates outside of Bevelle's governance), such as pushing the Yu Yevon agenda, and establishing the Summoner-Final Aeon framework, undoubtedly made her responsible for an extensive cycle of death.

* AntiVillain: Subverted in that it is plausible for the characters to infer that she genuinely believed there was no definitive method to vanquish Sin. In this perspective, providing Spira with momentary flickers of hope could appear to be the sole path to attain peace. However, her actions (unknown to anyone who operates outside of Bevelle's governance), such as pushing the Yu Yevon agenda, and establishing the Summoner-Final Aeon framework, undoubtedly made her responsible for an extensive cycle of death.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunichiSuwabe (Japanese), Alex Fernandez (English)

* LuddWasRight: The purpose of Sin is to keep Spira frozen in a pre-industrial dark age.

* PoisonousPerson: DiscussedTrope. According to Wakka, Sin secretes a powerful toxin that badly disorients people exposed to it and takes a long time to wear off. This becomes Tidus' [[SureLetsGoWithThat go-to lie]] whenever he reveals how ignorant of Spira and Yevon he is.

* {{Kaiju}}: To the point of being an {{Expy}} of Godzilla. "Gojira" is a portmanteau of "gorilla" and "kujira" for whale, and Sin is loosely based on it. It attacks from the sea, goes straight for cities or its offspring, and it's the weapon of mass destruction of an ancient war gone horribly wrong.

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* AbusiveParents: So his Mom dragged him to Zanarkand at a young age in order for him to kill her for a political ploy. His Dad was totally on board with this. It explains a LOT of his nihilistic attitude.

* GutturalGrowler: He has a low, gravelly voice.

* TheJuggernaut: A giant beast that shrugs off everything thrown at it. This is why the pilgrimage is necessary; the Final Aeon is the only known weapon that can stop it and even that is temporary. In order to actually kill Sin, the heroes have to basically destroy parts of it's outer layer, until enough of a hole is left thatit can be entered into.

* AlwaysSecondBest: It's implied that Kinoc may have felt this way about himself in relation to Auron: a flashback via sphere shows that Kinoc only got his promotion after Auron turned it down first, and he knows it.

* DemiurgeArchetype: He was once a human summoner who ruled the city-state of Zanarkand and destroyed himself in a war with Bevelle. Becoming a strange bug-like creature, he creates a false world, Dream Zanarkland, trapping the survivors inside, and becomes the god of the Church of Yevon, a religion which he uses to keep the rest of Spira in a MedievalStasis, keeping his followers in line by regularly attacking them with his literal {{Dragon}}, Sin, and demanding pilgrimages that are essentially {{Human Sacrifice}}s. Like the Demiurge, Yevon rules over a false world and will do everything in his power to keep his subjects trapped within.

* AntiVillain: Despite being responsible for a long cycle of death thanks to the Summoner and Final Aeon system, she isn't truly evil like someone such as some of the Maesters. She honestly thinks there isn't a way to defeat Sin, and believes that giving Spira hope, however brief, is truly the only thing that will bring peace. Not only that, but she is outright honest with the heroes about the truth, and only tries to kill them once it becomes clear that they not only will not perform the Final Aeon, but stand against her.

* LimitBreak: Jecht has three when you fight him in the final battle. In his first form, there's only one: Triumphant Grasp, which can dish out serious damage to one fighter. In his second form, he has one Overdrive for Aeons, and a second called the "Ultimate Jecht Shot" for the team themselves if he can get it off; this is one of the most devastating attacks that isn't used by a BonusBoss in the game.

* BonusBoss: He returns as the third guardian of Via Infinito, Concherer.

* BonusBoss: Aranea, the first ThresholdGuardian of the Via Infinito, is Kinoc's Fiend form, a PaletteSwap of the WarmupBoss Boris fron the Gagazet Ruins.

* UndergroundMonkey: There are [[BonusBoss more powerful versions]] of Geneaux and Gui in the Monster Arena: Catastrophe and Ultima Buster, respectively. Geneaux also has another variant, Genais, that is fought in the four-part boss battle against Sin itself.

* BonusBoss: In X-2 she "returns" as one of the ThresholdGuardians of the Via Infinito BonusDungeon, the basilisk-like Chac.

* TheJuggernaut: A giant beast that shrugs off everything thrown at it. This is why the pilgrimage is necessary; the Final Aeon is the only known weapon that can stop it and even that is temporary.

* CassandraTruth: He was promptly locked up for heresy after claiming to be from Zanarkand. By the end of his journey with Braska, both Braska and Auron are completely convinced he was telling ther truth about Zanarkand, but do not get the chance to visit it with Jecht. At least, not an alive Auron or a human Jecht.

* PuzzleBoss: In the fight with Braska's Final Aeon, he has two pillars behind him that will each heal him for 1500 health every turn, for a total of 3000 health if both are active. If you are underleveled, they can easily undo the damage dealt to him. AND their healing ability also increases Jecht's overdrive guage. Fortunately the two pillars can be attacked, and if they lose all their health, they are knocked out for a few turns, allowing for uninterrupted damage on Jecht. The rub is that all extra damage they take when being knocked out gets permanently added to their total health when they revive. So if they have 5000 health total, and you were to knock one out with an attack that does 5500 damage, when they get back up, they'll have 500 extra health (and if you were to knock them out with 15000 damage, they'd revive with 15000 health). This means that you have to be careful with how much you damage them (and be careful with Aeon overdrives), because if they gain too much health, knocking them out becomes less and less feasible, turning the fight into a long battle of attrition.

* EvilVirtues: Dilligence: His mother was human, which resulted in them both being exiled from Guadosalam. Some years later, Seymour returned as a summoner, curried favor with the Yevonites, and clawed his way back to his rightful place as Guadosalam's leader.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A JustifiedTrope. Despite doing many terrible things, as one of the most important people in a society heavily revolving around a religious instituion, Seymour is well loved by the people.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: In the MetaphoricallyTrue way. He legitimately believes that the only way to free people from the cycle of suffering is via killing them, and seeks to take control of Sin to do so. Given that TheGovernment in Spira is dedicated to ensuring said cycle contiues forever, his plan is simply the ultimate conclusion of Yevon's philosophy. In fact, when he says "But even when I'm gone, Spira's suffering will prevail," he seems to say it with some sadness. The only reason he turns out to be wrong is because Yuna and her friends defy Yevon totally and ScrewDestiny.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: He used to be Auron's friend when the latter was still a Warrior Monk in Bevelle. They're not on very good terms anymore, mostly because Auron doean't recognize his friend anymore. He's become callous and greedy after rising in the Yevon hierarchy.

* BigGood: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Her function is to reveal the AwfulTruth to ascendant summoners and help them fulfill the final steps of their journey; and as far as Mika is concerned -- himself the BigGood to the average Spiran -- killing her is as good as throwing the world away. For all that, her Final Summoning ritual is a deeply flawed concept and has perpetuated a cycle of death for a millennium. From a narrative sturcture though, she's TheHeavy, being the one responsible for much of the problems, but not being directly involved as the BigBad, or the GreaterScopeVillain.

* DeathOfPersonality: Yu Yevon created Sin and directed it using his own disembodied spirit to protect Dream Zanarkand. However, after centuries of repeating the same mission and absorbing new Aeons, Yevon's mind slowly decayed until all he could think of was his mission. By the time the party confronts him, Yu Yevon the man had effectively ceased to exist long ago. All that was left was mindless machine programmed to follow its former self's last wishes, but so simplistic and uncreative that it could only follow for most rudimentary versions of it.
* DemiurgeArchetype: He was once a human summoner who ruled the city-state of Zanarkland and destroyed himself in a war with Bevelle. Becoming a strange bug-like creature, he creates a false world, Dream Zanarkland, trapping the survivors inside, and becomes the god of the Church of Yevon, a religion which he uses to keep the rest of Spira in a MedievalStasis, keeping his followers in line by regularly attacking them with his literal {{Dragon}}, Sin, and demanding pilgrimages that are essentially {{Human Sacrifice}}s. Like the Demiurge, Yevon rules over a false world and will do everything in his power to keep his subjects trapped within.

* {{Glamour}}: As Shuyin is embracing Yuna, a warning fron an unexpected source shakes her out of trance. "Open your eyes!", yells Nooj. Yuna recoils from Shuyin, who turns out to be Baralai on disguise. Shuyin/Baralai mentions "The end is not far now", before generating a portal for himself and vanishing.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Before he became an unsent, he just wanted to use Vegnagun to stop the war between his country and Bevelle before it killed his lover. After spending over a thousand years subject to MindRape from the Den of Woe, it's twisted into a belief the only way to end war is to kill everyone]].

* BerserkButton: Seymour will [[EtTuBrute have a conniption if you sic Anima on him. His mother is Anima's fayth]]

* {{Bishonen}}: He's got the looks and style down pat.