In the original, she was another casualty of his burning of Nibelheim, and her death wasn't brought up again. He even takes it a step further and recites her dying Last Words just to twist the knife more. Adaptational Jerkass: Despite his more pronounced affability to Cloud in this version, Sephiroth does something in the remake that he didn't originally: he personally murdered Cloud's mother and uses it to torment him, telling him about how she begged him to spare her son and how he killed her with his own blade.Case in point: he's aware of the original events of the game and masterminded a scheme spanning all of Part 1 to make Cloud get rid of the Arbiters of Fate for him, completely undoing his destined defeat in the future, and even tries to recruit Cloud to his cause because he knows he'd be a better ally than enemy. A few more years of writing practice and supplementary material and games really did Remake's Sephiroth a favor, as not only is he a more active threat, but he is capable of the complex planning and sheer brute force you'd expect from SOLDIER's crown jewel. Adaptational Intelligence: While Sephiroth in the original game was established to be The Ace once upon a time, this was before his Sanity Slippage turned into something just one step above a Generic Doomsday Villain - it wasn't clear if he had any motivation or personality beyond destroying the world or really hating Cloud.Here he appears as early as Chapter 2 (even if he's just a hallucination that Cloud suffers from), but makes a full, proper appearance in the final two chapters and is even the final obstacle keeping the party from escaping Midgar, where in the original story he wasn't fought until the very end.

Adaptational Early Appearance: Part one takes place entirely in Midgar, and Sephiroth was only mentioned during that portion of the original game.Possibly subverted, as it is implied the Sephiroth fought at the end of the game may actually be the Advent Children-era Sephiroth who has travelled back in time. He demonstrates powers on-par with his Advent Children appearance, able to fly, telekinetically move buildings, and manifest his single black wing. Adaptational Badass: Even with his original incarnation being the World's Strongest Man, in this game Sephiroth steps it up a notch.Absurdly Sharp Blade: He cuts an entire bridge with one swipe of his sword, and can casually one-shot the Whispers - which are noted to be resilient to physical attacks.

Here, his appearance in the final two chapters has him fully able to fight on his own. Abled in the Adaptation: In the original, for the entirety of the game except its very end, Sephiroth was Dead All Along, his lifeless body stuck in the Northern Crater, using Jenova fragments to act in his stead.

He wields a nodachi called the Masamune and was formerly a SOLDIER First Class, considered a living legend even amongst its top members. 'Those who look with clouded eyes see nothing but shadows.'Ī mysterious man who appears to have some connection to Cloud.

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