General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Chris]

What FF is this dude from? I think it would have happened afterwards so DC probably ripped it off

 

[Barry Poppins]

What FF is this dude from? I think it would have happened afterwards so DC probably ripped it off

Final Fantasy VI (or III if you're American).

 

[Barry Poppins]

So it came out in 1994.

 

[Chris]

Yeah I'm pretty sure the Emperor Joker angle was in the 2000s lol

 

[Chris]

Like 01 or something if I had to guess

 

[Chris]

 

[Barry Poppins]

Yeah, Kefka and Joker are very similar.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Big difference though is that Kefka is nihilistic, pessimistic, and cynical. He wants to see everything destroyed, because people suffering is what makes him think he is validating himself. He's essentially The Joker if instead of creating chaos, focused on wanton destruction and human suffering only.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Kefka's biggest mistake was letting the main characters live, because he easily could have killed them, but he was confused, or more realistically could not fathom the fact they still had hope and resolve even after he ruined the world.

 

[Chris]

Yeah Joker's never really had his motives expanded upon enough to say he feels anything like that other than enjoying chaos

 

[Chris]

Anytime they do...it gets retconned

 

[Barry Poppins]

And even worse, once he actually became a god, he realized that there was nothing more he could do. He became trapped by his own nihilism. So much so, that when he died, he accepted it with insane glee because he accepts that he would eventually have destroyed everything and himself.

 

[Barry Poppins]

So yeah, Kefka's awesome.

 

[Barry Poppins]

He also has the most iconic laugh in video game history.

 

[Chris]

More than the dog from Duck Hunt?