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7	!Individual Villains
8	[[folder:Jenova]]
9	!! Jenova
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11	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jenova_6764.png]]
12	-->''"Because, you are... a puppet."''
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14	An alien creature who descended on Gaia 2,000 years before the events of FFVII. It single-handedly devastated the Cetra, and nearly destroyed the planet, before being sealed in a geological stratum in the Northern Crater. Unearthed by Shinra scientist Gast Faremis who mistakenly identified it as a Cetra and gave it the name "Jenova", it indirectly played a huge role in Shinra's rise to power as the source of the genetic material they use to create members of SOLDIER, their elite super-soldiers with which they conquered the world. Sephiroth calls it "Mother".
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16	* ActuallyADoombot: The "Sephiroth" hunted throughout Discs I and II is really a Jenova mass in his form and directed by his will.
17	* AliensAreBastards: Jenova is a genocidal monster from space that is completely impossible to reason with, and even the lifeforms she doesn't personally kill can be corrupted or destroyed by proximity to her.
18	* AmbiguousGender: Zig-zagged. Nearly everyone refers to Jenova as “she”, and she has a female body, but Ifalna calls Jenova a “he” or “it” depending on what version of the game you’re playing. As she can alter her form at will, it’s not even confirmed if the body we see in Nibelheim is actually her true form.
19	* AncientEvil: She is an ancient being who came to Gaia two thousand years ago, and who almost caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, consumed almost all of the [[{{Precursors}} Ancient Cetra]], and plans to consume all the energy in the planet and then depart to another planet to do it again.
20	* AngelicAbomination: At the Nibel Reactor, Jenova's container is covered by a metal effigy which resembles the torso of an angel, with "wings" (industrial tubing) obscuring the rest of the container. Connected to the ceiling are cables bearing the appearance of golden hair. When Sephiroth arrives to free her, he poses like Christ and says he's taking her to the Promised Land.
21	* AppliedPhlebotinum: SOLDIER was a spin-off of Project Jenova, an attempt to produce a human-Cetra hybrid using her cells. Since only the heartiest can withstand Jenova's influence (and not go insane), SOLDIER has a reputation for producing the best of the best.
22	* ArchEnemy: The Cetra and, by proxy, Aerith.
23	* TheAssimilator: Jenova released a virus upon the Cetra (in actuality, its own cellular material), which drove the Cetra mad and transformed them into monsters. By the time of ''Final Fantasy VII'', this starts happening to members of SOLDIER as well.
24	* BeamSpam: The first form of Jenova fought in the game, Jenova-BIRTH, uses a multitude of beam attacks including its own version of the Guard Scorpion's infamous Tail Laser, which it can actually use twice in a row and at any time (the Guard Scorpion only uses the laser when attacked while its tail was up).
25	* BishonenLine: Jenova's body looks incomplete in her early boss battles. Much like Hojo, she gains flight ability and a more streamlined appearance in Disc 3.
26	* BodyHorror: Among other things. She has an eyeball on her breast, and her innards float in the tank outside her body.
27	* BrainInAJar: The top of Jenova's cranium is missing, leaving her brain exposed.
28	* BrightIsNotGood: All of Jenova’s forms are brightly colored, but [[EvilIsVisceral the exact shades evoke corpses and mutilation]]: bloody browns and reds, bruised blues and purples, pinkish whites and rotten greens. This stands in contrast to both [[GrayscaleOfEvil Sephiroth]] and the [[GoodColorsEvilColors warmer-colored AVALANCHE]].
29	* CombatTentacles: Jenova-SYNTHESIS. She has twin tentacles that self-regenerate and "slap" the party for around 1,500 HP each, along with inflicting Silence and Fury with repeated whacks. These tentacles can be killed temporarily, but they do count towards Jenova's overall health.
30	* CraterPower: The Northern Cave formed from the impact of her arrival. The lifestream burst forth to heal the 'wound' caused by Jenova, but was unsuccessful in fixing it (thanks to the deaths of the Cetra). This gives the appearance of a crater ''within'' a crater.
31	* DeadPersonImpersonation:
32	** Once the creature emerged from the impact site and approached the Cetra settlement, it read their minds and adopted the forms of dead relatives to get close to them.
33	** Hojo duped Sephiroth into believing this thing is his real mother. Thanks to the Jenova cells in her body, Lucrecia was unable to die, though; instead she fled, eventually winding up in the Crystal Cave where she turned herself to crystal (as a penance and, perhaps, to stop herself from mutating).
34	* DeathFromAbove: Personified; she struck the planet in a meteor and caused massive death. In the Cetra language, her name translates as "Calamity From The Sky".
35	* DiabolusExNihilo: [[CameFromTheSky Fell from the sky]] two thousand years before the game began. No one knows where it came from, but it's speculated that it may have landed on & devastated other worlds in the past.
36	* DiscOneFinalBoss: Literally; her second incarnation of Jenova-LIFE, which attacks you after she/Sephiroth attacks and kills Aerith, is the very last fight on the first disc of gameplay.
37	* TheDragon: She is this to Sephiroth. During the story he used Jenova as a puppet while fighting Avalanche, and Sephiroth also used Jenova to disguise as himself and serve as the second to last boss before the heroes fight Sephiroth himself.
38	* DugTooDeep: A small band of un-mutated Cetra mounted a final assault on the alien, [[SealedEvilInACan sealing her body]] at the point of arrival: the North Crater. Two thousand years later the alien would be excavated by Shinra Electric Power Company.
39	* EldritchAbomination: She came from the heavens in a meteor to destroy humanity, can shapeshift, bestows a variety of incredible powers on those exposed to her cells, and is stated to have no gender.
40	* EvilIsVisceral: In her original and final forms, Jenova's body is sprouting from a giant heart. Her "body" is haphazardly put together, as though by an alien which doesn't understand human anatomy.
41	* {{Expy}}: Jenova and some of her offspring (Helletic Hojo, especially) were based on the titular alien in John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982''.
42	* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The original specimen has an eye where her right nipple should be. Along with a second eyeball coming out of her abdomen.
43	* FourIsDeath: The player has to face Jenova 4 times in ''Final Fantasy VII'', including one last time before facing Sephiroth at the end of the game.
44	* FromASingleCell: Jenova has powerful regenerative and shapeshifting abilities, making it difficult to permanently destroy her.
45	* FusionDance: With Sephiroth, to the point that he's taken her originally instinctive destructive goals and infused them with his own conscious intelligence.
46	* GreaterScopeVillain: Jenova's not completely in charge of Sephiroth or his actions, and due to the nature of her being cannot be directly confronted. In fact, whether she's even ''alive'' is up for debate. But the facts remain that if she hadn't come down to earth two thousand years ago, most of the events of the game wouldn't have happened.
47	* HumanoidAbomination: Resembles a deathly pale woman with eyes and veins in places where they should not be, but is an ancient, shapeshifting, planet eating entity from the depths of space.
48	* InSeriesNickname: "Heaven's Dark Harbinger" and "The Calamity from the Sky" to the Cetra, "Mother" to Sephiroth, "Jenova" to Gast, which several other characters use. The entity is [[NoNameGiven never referred to by its true name]], assuming it has one.
49	* {{Leitmotif}}: Jenova's main theme is a creepy, fast-paced alien theme with violins called "J-E-N-O-V-A". This theme plays over two of the boss fights with her (Jenova-BIRTH and Jenova-DEATH) plus the fight with Hojo and the two screens inbetween passing ''FFVII's'' PointOfNoReturn and the Jenova-SYNTHESIS boss fight (the Jenova-LIFE boss fight has Aerith's Theme over it and the fight with Jenova-SYNTHESIS uses a different theme called "Jenova Complete/Jenova Absolute"). A rendition of "J-E-N-O-V-A" plays over Cloud's fight with Kadaj over Jenova's head in ''Advent Children".
50	* LivingMacGuffin: When Dr. Gast found the remains of Jenova, he mistook it for a Cetra--naturally, since Jenova took the form of a Cetra to infiltrate and destroy them. The Jenova Project was an effort by a number of Shinra scientists to use Jenova's cells to create a human-Cetra hybrid who could lead them to the "Promised Land." Shinra was unsuccessful at cloning a Cetra, but those treated with the cells proved to be super-soldiers, which led to Sephiroth going mad and Cloud losing his memory.
51	* LosingYourHead: Knowing Jenova can repair herself (and even recover her lost body parts), Sephiroth hacked off her head with the Masamune. When Sephiroth took a tumble into the Mako pool, he took his mother's scalp with him. She rears her ugly head again, pun intended, in the Northern Cave. This is presumably the last of the Jenova segments.
52	* LovecraftianSuperpower: For some reason, organisms that are exposed to the Jenova cells mutate into grotesque abominations and often grow a wing-like appendage from their backs. When Hojo shoots himself up with her DNA, he turns into a writhing mass of flesh, with a tattered labcoat and glasses.
53	* MakingASplash: The second form of Jenova, which AVALANCHE fights immediately after the famous scene of Sephiroth killing Aerith, attacks with only water. A Water Ring can be picked up and equipped not too long before this fight, which will absorb the attacks and make it impossible for Jenova to kill you.
54	* MetaphoricallyTrue: As Vincent says to the rest of the party when they meet, the claim that Jenova is Sephiroth's mother is true in a sense, since her cells made him what he is, although it was actually Dr Lucrecia Crescent who gave birth to him.
55	* MonsterProgenitor: Experiments with her cells have produced most of the major antagonists of the FFVII Compilation.
56	* MysteriousPast: What Jenova did before landing on Gaia remains a mystery.
57	* NoNameGiven: "Jenova" is a name the character received from Gast Faremis, the character's real name if one exists is unknown.
58	* OneBadMother: In a way. Kadaj, Yazoo, Loz, and Sephiroth all address her as "Mother" anyway.
59	* OutsideContextProblem: Compared to Shinra, who are sucking the planet dry for money, and Sephiroth, who wishes to destroy the world and remake it InTheirOwnImage. Jenova is an eons-old, planet-eating EldritchAbomination of questionable sapience.
60	* PartsUnknown: It is never specified where the mysterious entity originated from beyond being from space.
61	* PeopleJars: Jenova's remains are kept in cold storage in Hojo's lab.
62	* ThePlague: The Geostigma of ''Advent's Children'' is the result of the human body's immune system trying to cure itself of her cells and overcompensating, causing pain, weakness, lesions, and ultimately death.
63	* PlanetEater: The only antagonist whose motives are completely unknown and unknowable, mostly due to being a cosmic horror. According to the Cetra, Jenova feeds on entire planets and then converts them into a vehicle to invade new ones.
64	* PlayingWithFire: The third form of Jenova the team has to kill uses only fire attacks; having a Fire Ring equipped will make this battle a cinch.
65	* PowerFloats: Jenova-SYNTHESIS is the first and last incarnation to float.
66	* PreFinalBoss: Before the party can face off against Sephiroth, they have to fight Jenova one last time in the form of Jenova SYNTHESIS.
67	* PullingThemselvesTogether: Jenova is hacked to pieces before the game starts.
68	* RecurringBoss: AVALANCHE has to fight Jenova 4 times as the game progresses (3 of which are {{palette swap}}s); with the right equipment, only the first and the last battles will require some effort.
69	* RuleOfSymbolism: Her name is a combination of "nova" and "Jehovah", and thus approximately means "New God".
70	* ShapeShifting: Jenova would shapeshift into the loved ones of her victims to get close to them. In the modern day Sephiroth uses this power of hers to form new bodies in his own image to act through.
71	* SilentAntagonist: She has exactly ''one'' line of dialogue attributed to her, providing her quote above. All other times it's Sephiroth speaking through her.
72	* TaintedVeins: Her veins pulse blue.
73	* TakingYouWithMe: After Jenova-SYNTHESIS loses enough health, she begins charging up an Ultima attack to try to wipe out the party; if the team is unable to kill it before it fires but survives the attack, Jenova self-destructs.
74	* TheVirus: People and animals who are injected with Jenova's cells become victims of numerous side effects, including [[BodyHorror mutation]] and susceptibility to MindControl. She's TheVirus incarnate.
75	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: While her hair looks blue due to the color of the fluid she's in, it's actually white. As for the black heart, she's a planet-eating EldritchAbomination that mutates people into monsters.
76	* XenomorphXerox: ''Final Fantasy: Mobius'' game gives Jenova∙LIFE a Gigeresque makeover with segmented tentacles, an elongated eyeless head, and a ridged black-and-red exoskeleton.
77	* ZeroEffortBoss: The second and third encounters with Jenova can become completely trivial if the player equips a specific accessory prior to these boss fights due to these two forms using only elemental attacks (water for the second form, and fire for the third; equip a Water Ring that you can find just prior and a Fire Ring respectively and it becomes impossible to lose these fights.)
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80	[[folder:Don Corneo]]
81	!!Don Corneo
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83	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doncorneo_6511.png]]
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85	A mafia don in the slums of Midgar, he abducts Tifa as a candidate for his "special lady" for the evening. Cloud and Aerith infiltrate his mansion to rescue Tifa and find out what the Don knows about Shinra's schemes.
86	--> Appears in: ''VII''
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88	* AllMenArePerverts: The Don and his cronies are all lustful for Cloud and his companions.
89	* AssholeVictim: The novella "''Lateral Biography Turks -The Kids Are Alright-''" reveals he survived his fall in Wutai, but is now confined to a wheelchair due to the injuries he sustained. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
90	* BaldOfEvil: He's bald aside from a wisp of blond hair.
91	* ChekhovsGunman: He returns during the Wutai subquest.
92	* DirtyOldMan: He's an aging crime boss who kidnaps women looking for someone to spend the night with. When presented with Aerith, Tifa, and the crossdressed Cloud, he's ecstatic at the idea of having a choice, and gives the two he doesn't choose to his men to enjoy. Even when on the run from the Turks in Wutai, he can't help but kidnap Elena and Yuffie (the latter of whom is ''sixteen'') the second he spots them, which bites him in the ass when Cloud and the Turks come gunning for him.
93	* DisneyDeath: Though Reno drops him off a mountain in Wutai, "''Lateral Biography Turks -The Kids Are Alright-''" reveal he's still alive by the time of ''Advent Children''.
94	* DisneyVillainDeath: He meets his apparent end falling off Wutai's mountain.
95	* TheDon: His title and position.
96	* {{Expy}}: Of Jabba the Hutt. He's a gluttonous, lecherous crime boss who feeds his harem and people who cross him to a giant beast he keeps at the bottom of a trapdoor.
97	* FatBastard: He's overweight and a perverted crime boss.
98	* FateWorseThanDeath: He survives his apparently deadly fall in Wutai, but ends up crippled and living in a wheelchair. The reason this is a fate worse than death for him is that it means he can no longer have sex, rendering his whole existence empty.
99	* GroinAttack: Cloud, Aerith and Tifa get him to spill the beans about Shinra's plans by threatening him with this.
100	* HeKnowsTooMuch: After spilling the beans to the party about Shinra's plans, he flees the city pursued by the Turks who plan to silence him.
101	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He made a decent attempt to escape from the Turks in Wutai, but he couldn't help himself and kidnapped Elena and Yuffie out of lust. This led to an EnemyMine situation between Cloud and the Turks that led to his DisneyVillainDeath.
102	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's just this side of Palmer as the most pathetic villain in the series. He's cowed into submission by one ex-SOLDIER and two civilian women (albeit, both of whom are capable fighters). He does have "pets" which he siccs on the party in Midgar and Wutai, but even those don't help increase his threat level.
103	* {{Leitmotif}}: "Don of the Slums", which plays in his mansion and when he reappears in Wutai.
104	* PunnyName: In Italian, ''corneo'' means horny, as in "made of, or resembling horn." In English, horny can mean "made of, or resembling horn" but is also very common slang for sexual arousal.
105	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He sexually assaults countless women up until he runs into Cloud and his crew, including Leslie's wife Merle. In ''A Turks Side Story'', Evan Townshend is revolted by his actions and informs Leslie that Corneo is using the pictures as blackmail material. [[GuileHero Leslie promptly worms his way back into the Don's good graces]] simply so he can burn his mansion and the evidence to the ground.
106	* ShoutOut: His name is obviously inspired by [[Film/TheGodfather Don Corleone]].
107	* TooDumbToLive: When you're the run from the Turks, kidnapping one of their members isn't a good idea, to say the least. He also ran off with the friend of the guy who caused him to be on the run in the first place, so things could only end badly for him.
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110	[[folder:Dyne]]
111	!!Dyne
112	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dyne_artwork_0.png]]
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114	The birth father of Marlene, a close friend of Barret. After a Mako Reactor blew up, Shinra mistakenly blamed their town and destroyed it, turning its ruins into a prison. Dyne survived and, believing his friend and family dead, became a murderous psychopath. When Cloud and his friends were trapped in the prison Dyne and Barret reunited as they needed his permission to leave. After the two battled, he committed suicide after allowing the group to leave.
115	-->Appears in: ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''
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117	* ArmCannon: Had a gun grafted onto his arm, just like Barret.
118	* AssholeVictim: Averted in Barret's case, but after realizing that Dyne was killed, at least one of the Corel Prison employees, Mr. Coates, only feels relieved that the place can be calmer and better without Dyne around.
119	* AxCrazy: By the time you find him, his sanity is just about gone. He regularly goes on murderous rampages, claims he can hear voices in his head, and even expresses a desire to murder his own child.
120	* DisneyVillainDeath: Suffers this twice. The first time, he and Barret were shot by Shinra/Scarlet, but he survived minus his left arm, which became a gun. The second time, he jumps in himself, and this time, he dies for real.
121	* DrivenToMadness: After the destruction of Corel, Dyne goes insane. He has his arm replaced with a machine gun and he regularly goes on murderous rampages in the hope of one day killing everyone.
122	* DrivenToSuicide: He jumps off a cliff after being defeated by Barret, believing he had too much blood on his hands to ever have the right to hold his daughter again.
123	* DuelBoss: The reunion between Dyne and Barret in the Corel Prison leads to him forcing Barret to fight him alone.
124	* EvilCounterpart: To Barret. Both of them lost everything to Shinra, both lost a hand, both replaced it with a gun, and both are filled with a lot of murderous rages. However, while Barret was able to maintain some decency within himself, in large part thanks to [[MoralityPet Marlene]], Dyne was completely consumed by his anger.
125	* EvilFormerFriend: Was Barret's close friend before he went off the deep end. Much more one-sided on Dyne's part though.
126	* OffingTheOffspring: Upon hearing that Marlene survived the destruction of Corel he wanted to kill her to reunite her with her mother.
127	* ProperlyParanoid: He was the only person in Corel to protest Shinra constructing a Mako Reactor. When the first incarnation of AVALANCHE blew the reactor up, Shinra blamed Corel for it, burning the town down and killing almost everyone; the few survivors left outside of Barret, Dyne and Marlene settled in North Corel.
128	* TakingYouWithMe: Possibly. Once his HP hits zero, he has a 50/50 chance to use Molotov Cocktail before keeling over. That means if you could get wiped out by it, you have to hope luck is on your side.
129	* TheseHandsHaveKilled: He turns down Barret's offer to unite him with his daughter, citing that a man with hands as blood-stained as his shouldn't ever hold a child. However, Barret gives him a NotSoDifferentRemark in anguish that his hands aren't clean either, as he was too late to prevent Dyne jumping off a cliff.
130	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Losing his home, friends and family turned him into a bitter shell of a man who wants only to wipe everything from the face of the earth.
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133	[[folder:Zirconiade]]
134	!! Zirconiade
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136	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zirconiade_7525.png]]
137	->Appears in: ''VideoGame/BeforeCrisis''
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139	A legendary "Ultimate Summon" also known as "The World Burner". Zirconiade is said to be strong enough to destroy all life on the planet, but the energy needed to summon it is so great that the base Summon Materia cannot muster the energy, four support Materia is also needed.
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141	* ArtifactOfDoom: The Materia to summon it can end the world in the wrong hands.
142	* DismantledMacGuffin: A variant; the Zirconiade Materia itself is intact, but its support Materia are scattered around the planet.
143	* EldritchAbomination: Its a giant mass of spikes, blades, and wings.
144	* EvilCounterpart: To the Weapons. While Zirconiade is a Summon Materia that will destroy the planet, the Weapons exist to protect it. Zirconiade's name parallels the Weapons; while they're named after precious stones, Zirconiade takes its name from Zirconia, as in "cubic zirconia", fake diamonds.
145	* FinalBoss: Of ''Before Crisis''.
146	* SealedEvilInACan: It'll destroy the world if unleashed.
147	* SpikesOfVillainy: It's very, shall we say, "pointy".
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149
150	!The Remnants of Sephiroth
151	[[folder:The Remnants of Sephiroth]]
152	!! The Remnants of Sephiroth
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154	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sephirothremnants_7124.png]]
155	[[caption-width-right:300:Left to right: [[TheGunslinger Yazoo]], [[DarkMessiah Kadaj]], and [[TheBrute Loz]].]]
156
157	->''"So what if I'm a puppet? Once upon a time, you were too!"''
158	-->-- '''Kadaj'''
159
160	Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo are physical manifestations of Sephiroth's will. Each of them represents a different aspect of Sephiroth's personality, but they share a fanatical obsession with Jenova.
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163	* ArtificialHuman: They're formed out of pure tainted Lifestream energy by Sephiroth's will.
164	* BerserkButton: Some handle it better than others, but they all get annoyed whenever someone brings up Jenova in a flippant manner.
165	* BetaTestBaddie: They're each incomplete copies of Sephiroth, and their drive to find Jenova is out of a need to reunite with her so Sephiroth can be reborn properly.
166	* CainAndAbel: They consider Cloud their "brother" through Jenova, and fight and try to kill him several times since they view him as a traitor to her.
167	* CarFu: The only thing more impressive than their martial skills is their ability to combine that with their riding skills. Not only can they make precise attacks while riding a motorcycle, they can use their motorcycles as makeshift projectiles.
168	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In a very twisted way. They actually think Jenova is their mother and want to find her and be with her again. Kadaj goes so far as to consider children infected with Geostigma, which is a result of them being infected with Jenova cells, as his "brothers", which makes them all a family.
169	* FauxAffablyEvil: When they ask people for Jenova's location, they tend to do so in a way that's both polite and menacing. They also frame their reunion with Jenova as more benign than it really is and call the Geostigma disease their [[TermsOfEndangerment "invitation"]] for their "siblings" to join in. Their mask shows its cracks when people refuse to give them the answers they want or when Jenova is insulted.
170	* {{Flanderization}}: They're the result of Sephiroth undergoing in-universe Flanderization. Allowing his own memories to fragment and be stripped away, Sephiroth had to rely on memories of how other people saw him to create the remnants, resulting in each of them being an exaggerated depiction of a different aspect of his true character.
171	* FreudianTrio: Loz is the Id, being a ManChild with simplistic emotions, Kadaj is the Ego, being the comparatively level-headed leader but prone to fits of rage and anger, and Yazoo is the Superego, being always calm and collected.
172	* HellBentForLeather: Each wears a black leather outfit that, in different ways, mimic Sephiroth's iconic attire.
173	* HellishPupils: All three have slitted, catlike pupils, emphasizing their nature as Sephiroth's incarnations.
174	* LiteralSplitPersonality: They each embody a different aspect of Sephiroth. Kadaj has his cruelty and insanity, as well as his preference for katanas, Loz has his speed, physical strength and obsession with Jenova, and Yazoo has his charisma, aloofness, and with his longer hair bears the closest physical resemblance to him.
175	* OmnicidalManiac: They're in full support of Jenova and Sephiroth's goal of destroying the planet.
176	* PowersAsPrograms: While all fighters in the compilation can use Materia, the Remnants are able to absorb Materia into their own bodies instead of attaching them to equipment.
177	* PsychopathicManchild: While Kadaj is the most blatant example, all three are fiercely devoted to their "mother" and are more than a bit unstable and destructive in their search to find her.
178	* SiblingsInCrime: They're all brothers, and occasionally bicker or banter with each other during the film.
179	* ASinisterClue: All of them, much like their "progenitor", wield their weapons in their left hands and share his contempt for the world.
180	* StrongAndSkilled: They're not as strong as Sephiroth, but they're still stronger than the majority of the party and the Turks, all while being proficient in multiple kinds of weapons. They're also capable of coordinating their attacks while riding motorcycles.
181	* SummonMagic: They can summon monsters from tainted Lifestream called "Shadow Creepers".
182	* TerribleTrio: Kadaj is the leader and the one with the most knowledge of Sephiroth's plans, while Loz and Yazoo carry out efforts to find Jenova and do most of the fighting as Kadaj watches.
183	* UnwittingPawn: They're just incarnations of Sephiroth's will meant to find Jenova so he can be reborn. Loz and Yazoo have no idea of this, while Kadaj has some measure of understanding, but is still unaware of his true purpose.
184	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Being they're each embodiments of Sephiroth, they share this key design trait.
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187	[[folder:Kadaj]]
188	!!'''Kadaj'''
189	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kadaj_6.jpg]]
190	[[caption-width-right:350:''"I've never known Sephiroth. I just... I sense him there. It's unbearable to think that Mother might want Sephiroth more than..."'']]
191	-> Voiced by: Creator/ShowtaroMorikubo (Japanese), Creator/SteveStaley (English)
192	--> Appears in: ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]''.
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194	* AndThenWhat: Kadaj isn't sure what to do once he [[spoiler:has his hands on Jenova's head.]] Cloud lampshades this is because he's just a remnant, he's driven by instinct with no understanding of what he's doing.
195	* BigBad: Of ''Advent Children'', where he's after Jenova's cells to try and bring Sephiroth BackFromTheDead. He may be a pawn, but he's nonetheless TheHeavy.
196	* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Sephiroth was a world-famous FallenHero with a {{BFS}}, while Kadaj is a nobody with a smaller, double-bladed sword. Sephiroth worked largely alone and through his control over Jenova, while Kadaj works with his independent "brothers". Finally, while Sephiroth will always be Cloud's ArchEnemy, he ultimately ends up with the hero's pity.
197	* DarkMessiah: Presents himself as one to the children with Geostigma, declaring they are a family chosen by the stigma, and that he can heal them and take them to their mother to take back the planet together.
198	* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's TheHeavy of the film and the leader of the remnants, but is defeated by Cloud just before he triggers Sephiroth's rebirth. The ''Complete'' UpdatedRerelease makes it clearer that he's just Sephiroth's pawn long before this is revealed at the climax.
199	* DyingAsYourself: In the final battle, [[spoiler: he takes enough blows for Sephiroth to lose control, causing Kadaj to spend his last few minutes of life as his old self.]]
200	* EnfanteTerrible: WordOfGod is that the youngest remnant was made their leader to give viewers the sense of an insane, unstoppable child.
201	* FusionDance: Merges with [[spoiler:Jenova's cells, allowing Sephiroth to shapeshift Kadaj's body into his own and be reborn for real.]]
202	* HumansAreBastards: In the ''Complete'' version of the film, he's introduced mocking humanity for their self-destructive tendencies, saying that they wrecked everything they've ever made.
203	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Wields Souba, a katana with two parallel blades.
204	* NoBodyLeftBehind: Dissolves into Lifestream energy upon his death.
205	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Kadaj himself lampshades that Cloud knows all about being Sephiroth's puppet, confused and unsure of what to do and who he really is.
206	-->"So what if I'm a puppet? Once upon a time, you were too!"
207	* RedemptionInTheRain: The most sympathetic and tragic remnant dissolves into rain calling for his mother as he lays in Cloud's arms dying.
208	* TheUnfavorite: Considers himself such, sensing that his "mother" Jenova loves Sephiroth more than him. It's unclear how much of this is actually Jenova's will and how much is Kadaj interpreting Sephiroth's control of Jenova.
209	* VillainousBreakdown: Lets out an anguished wail and then quiets into sobs when he sees [[spoiler:the "mother" he's been pursuing is a puddle of genetic goo.]] After this Cloud arrives and he attacks him furiously.
210	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Kadaj has just enough understanding of what he's doing to realize he's just ThePawn for Sephiroth's resurrection, but he doesn't understand how. At heart, he's a PsychopathicManchild who's trying to find his mother and reunite his "family". When he finally does get his hands on Jenova and sees that the "mother" he's been looking for is just a puddle of genetic goo, he begins to cry and scream in anguish. Even Cloud seems to pity him, muttering "[I guess] a remnant wouldn't really know" when he realizes Kadaj really has no grasp of what he's doing.
211	[[/folder]]
212
213	[[folder:Loz]]
214	!!'''Loz'''
215	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/loz.jpg]]
216	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Mother will know. When she gets here, she'll decide what's best."'']]
217	-> Voiced by: Creator/KenjiNomura (Japanese), Creator/FredTatasciore (English)
218	--> Appears in: ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]''.
219	----
220	* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's prone to voicing out sound effects, cries over Jenova, and calls the Turks meanies for insulting his mother. In spite of his LaughablyEvil traits, he's still a dangerous LightningBruiser who can easily defeat Tifa and the Turks.
221	* TheBrute: The most physically dominating of the remnants and easily the most powerful.
222	* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:Loz and Yazoo appear shortly after Cloud defeats Sephiroth and Kadaj returns to the Lifestream intending to kill Cloud before they fade away too. They shot him while his back is turned and overload their Materia causing an explosion that seemingly kills Cloud though fortunately Aerith and Zack bring him back to life saying that it's not Cloud's time yet]].
223	* DumbMuscle: He's very stupid and childish, making sound effects when he rides his motorcycle and crying over Jenova at times. WordOfGod says they intended him more as a ManChild rather than plain stupid, but admit he ended up being this trope too.
224	* LightningBruiser: His physical strength is immense, allowing him to punch apart trees, and he moves so fast he appears to FlashStep in a blur of white light.
225	* ManChild: His defining trait is his childish behavior. His movements and emotional states are deliberately exaggerated to emphasize this.
226	* PowerFist: His weapon is the Dual Hound, a spiked taser-like gauntlet that adds [[ShockAndAwe electric shocks]] to his punches.
227	* SuperSpeed: Can move so fast his body is covered in white energy. A special animation tool was even designed by the staff that let them slow down the movie for the other characters while Loz moved normally, resulting in this trope when the film played normally.
228	[[/folder]]
229
230	[[folder:Yazoo]]
231	!!'''Yazoo'''
232	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yazoo.jpg]]
233	[[caption-width-right:350:''"I will not have you refer to Mother that way!"'']]
234	-> Voiced by: Creator/YujiKishi (Japanese), Creator/DaveWittenberg (English)
235	--> Appears in: ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]''.
236	----
237	* CreepyMonotone: Barely raises his voice beyond a soft and easy rhythm.
238	* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:Loz and Yazoo appear shortly after Cloud defeats Sephiroth and Kadaj returns to the Lifestream intending to kill Cloud before they fade away too. They shot him while his back is turned and overload their Materia causing an explosion that seemingly kills Cloud though fortunately Aerith and Zack bring him back to life saying that it's not Cloud's time yet]].
239	* GunFu: While they're used much more often for shooting, the Velvet Nightmares have blades running along their length and are sturdy in design, and they're used as melee weapons when needed.
240	* GunsAkimbo: Occasionally uses both his own and Loz's Velvet Nightmares at once.
241	* TheGunslinger: Wields a gunblade called Velvet Nightmare. Loz has one as well, but Yazoo uses his much more often while Loz relies on his fists.
242	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Yazoo uses a broken bridge as a ramp to take his motorcycle up to the Turk's helicopter, and then shoots the cyclic stick while his motorcycle is flying through the helicopter.
243	* TheStoic: Calm, cool and collected.
244	[[/folder]]
245
246	!AVALANCHE
247	[[folder:Elfé]]
248	!! Elfé
249
250	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Elfe-Final_Fantasy_4077.png]]
251
252	->''"You found me when I was wandering all alone, without my memories. I was raised by AVALANCHE. You're all like my family. That's why I'm going to fight with everyone and repay my debt."''
253
254	The leader of the original incarnation of AVALANCHE in ''VideoGame/BeforeCrisis'', she's a swordswoman with a fierce devotion to her warriors and is driven to save the planet from Shinra by any means necessary.
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256	* ActionGirl: ''Sephiroth'' of all people is impressed with her skill when she manages to endure his attacks.
257	* AntiVillain: She really does want to protect the planet from Shinra. She's just willing to go to extremes to do it, albeit not to the same extremes as Fuhito.
258	* BadassCape: Wears a dull grey cloak.
259	* BigBad: As the leader of AVALANCHE, she's the primarily antagonist of ''Before Crisis''. [[spoiler:At first]].
260	* AFatherToHisMen: She cares for AVALANCHE as her own family and fights alongside them on the front lines, unwilling to sit back and let them fight for her.
261	* HopelessBossFight: The first encounter with her is impossible to win.
262	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Her weapon of choice is a katana, though of a more practical size than Sephiroth's.
263	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She has no memories from before she joined AVALANCHE.
264	* LukeYouAreMyFather: She's [[spoiler:Veld's]] daughter, presumed dead.
265	* NotQuiteDead: Three times in fact. [[spoiler:Veld assumes Felicia dead when their hometown is attacked, but she's retrieved and used as an experiment by Hojo. He decides she's a failure and orders her disposed of, but Fuhito takes her to safety. And then at the end of ''Before Crisis'', she's assumed dead due to the Zirconiade Materia finally taking its toll, but she and Veld are taken care of in secret and eventually go into hiding together]].
266	* OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Her real name is [[spoiler:Felicia]] instead of Elfé.
267	* PowerDegeneration: Has common, standard superpowers due to [[spoiler:the Zirconiade Materia imbedded in her arm]]. It also happens to be draining her life force and will eventually kill her.
268	* TheStoic: She doesn't show a lot of emotion.
269	* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Fuhito]] was just using her and AVALANCHE for his own schemes.
270	[[/folder]]
271
272	[[folder:Shears]]
273	!! Shears
274
275	[[quoteright:198:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shears_2136.png]]
276	Elfé's right-hand man in AVALANCHE, he led an anti-Shinra group of his own until Elfé defeated him and compressed his group into AVALANCHE. He's in love with her and entirely devoted to her and her cause.
277	----
278	* AmazonChaser: Thinks so of Elfé.
279	* BarefistedMonk: He fights with his bare hands.
280	* CoDragons: With Fuhito, he's Elfé's second-in-command.
281	* DefeatMeansFriendship: He used to lead his own rebellion on Shinra, until he ran into Elfé. She kicked his ass, and he and his men joined AVALANCHE.
282	* HeelFaceTurn: After Veld [[spoiler:abandons the Turks to try and help Elfé]], Shears leaves AVALANCHE to try and help him and the Turks.
283	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Part of his reason [[spoiler:for ditching AVALANCHE is because Fuhito pushed him to the bottom of Corel's Reactor, causing him to realize that Fuhito was using him and Elfé all along]].
284	* MutualKill: He helps the Turks [[spoiler:fight Fuhito, but is severely wounded by Fuhito's OneWingedAngel form. Despite that, he finishes off Fuhito at the cost of his own life]].
285	* RecurringBoss: He's fought several times throughout the game.
286	[[/folder]]
287
288	[[folder:Fuhito]]
289	!! Fuhito
290
291	[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fuhito_1552.png]]
292	A scientist in the employ of AVALANCHE, he's the mastermind of their elite shock troops the Ravens, {{Evil Counterpart}}s to SOLDIER.
293	----
294	* CoDragons: With Shears, he's Elfé's second-in-command.
295	* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Or rather, prequel antagonist. Fuhito is a MadScientist like Hojo, but while Hojo has no illusions about his morality and only cares about scientific achievements, Fuhito is a zealot [[spoiler:who wants to use his scientific knowledge to save the Planet at the cost of all life]].
296	* EvilCounterpart: Fuhito and Barret both perform terrorism in the name of Planetology, but while Barret uses that ideology as an excuse for his own revenge and to compensate for his own guilt in being a former Shinra supporter, Fuhito has no backstory and is instead only characterized by his fanatical devotion to the Planet. Ironically, having a "purer" motivation actually makes Fuhito worse, since while Barret cares enough about people to want revenge in the first place, Fuhito has no regard for anyone and is willing to [[spoiler:sacrifice all life on the Planet for the sake of his environmental goals]].
297	* FourEyesZeroSoul: Like Hojo, he wears glasses. He's also just as evil and amoral.
298	* TheHeavy: He's behind most of AVALANCHE's plans in the game.
299	* KnightTemplar: He's a fanatical believer in Planetology [[spoiler:and twisted its teachings to justify sacrificing all life in order to save the Planet as a whole]].
300	* MadScientist: He idolizes ''Hojo'', and orders an AVALANCHE attack on Shinra's headquarters in the hopes of being able to meet him and show off his Ravens.
301	* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the real force controlling AVALANCHE.
302	* MaskOfSanity: He acts like a [[FauxAffablyEvil composed and polite]] AVALANCHE operative, but is also crazy enough to believe [[spoiler:that wiping out all life on the Planet is necessary to save it]].
303	* MoralSociopathy: He believes the health of the Planet should be maintained no matter what, but he has no empathy for his fellow humans [[spoiler:and believes they should all be sacrificed so that they'll return to the Lifestream and heal the Planet]].
304	* OmnicidalManiac: Believes that the Planet is too weakened thanks to Shinra's actions and [[spoiler:wants to kill all human life so their energy will return to the Lifestream and the Planet can heal without their interference. This is why he wants to summon Zirconiade, because it will be his tool to do the job.]]
305	* OneWingedAngel: He merges with [[spoiler:Zirconiade]] to fight you in the final chapter.
306	* RecurringBoss: You fight him over and over during the game.
307	* TheStarscream: After Shears leaves the group and Elfé is too weak to do it herself, Fuhito takes over command of AVALANCHE. As it turns out, [[spoiler:he was using Elfé and Shears as sacrificial pawns for his own plan to wipe out all life on the Planet]].
308	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He tries to pull this on AVALANCHE's benefactor. [[spoiler:This is also his eventual goal for all of AVALANCHE, Elfé and Shears included]].

Context Characters / FinalFantasyVIIOtherAntagonists