Analyzing Evil: Kefka Palazzo From Final Fantasy VI

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  @TheVileEye · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @TARDISman85 · 3 years ago (edited)

  A streamer I watch named A_Raving_Loon did a pretty good analysis of Kefka&apos;s breakdown at the end of the game when presented with the party&apos;s &quot;chapters from a self-help booklet.&quot; Loon posits that Kefka sees life as a joke that he doesn&apos;t get the punchline to. &nbsp;Everyone else seems to be having a good time and he literally can&apos;t comprehend how they do that. The party makes their statements to him and he blows it off because he&apos;s heard it all and he knows it&apos;s bunk. He is a clown that is not having fun. He is the sad Pagliacci.

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  @jstratton1981 · 3 years ago

  The villain who actually accomplished his goal...and did it halfway into the game.

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  @Auffinaugh · 3 years ago

  Kefka is the object lesson in &quot;your trauma is not your fault, but it is your responsibility.&quot;

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  @spicytrashpanda · 3 years ago

  I&apos;d say, as far as the series is concerned, Kefka is hands down the greatest villain. &nbsp;He succeeded, he destroyed the world. &nbsp;No other big bad can make that claim.

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  @matttyree1002 · 3 years ago

  Kefka with voice acting is like a cross between Frieza and The Joker

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  @scottlemiere2024 · 3 years ago

  Kefka is the only one that managed to pull off the villain end goal: destroying the world and remaking it in his own image.

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  @shenloken2 · 3 years ago

  Kefka was indeed a monster. But a monster manufactured by the Gesthal Empire. <br><br>It is similar to how Sephiroth was also manufactured by the Shin-ra Corporation. But unlike Kefka, Sephiroth was once admired and beloved. Only after he found out about his fabricated reality did he become a true monster.<br><br>Both evil empires helped create two of the most iconic villains in the franchise.

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  @Laxhoop · 3 years ago

  I think the scene with the guards cleaning Kefka’s boots is actually highly important for understanding his motivation and mentality.<br><br>He never told them to clean his boots. He simply stated that they were dirty. They cleaned them without even being asked to do so. He hadn’t even considered ordering them to clean them.<br><br>So, all he can do is laugh. And he laughs at how humans jump so quickly into subjugating themselves.

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  @LegacySagasRecap · 3 years ago

  Kefka saying to Ultimecia in Dissidia &quot;Changing time to hide those wrinkles?&quot; Is the ultimate smackdown and I love it.

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  @kellodrawsalotkello7058 · 3 years ago

  I love Kefka a lot, he&apos;s not just the most insane bad guy in Final Fantasy he&apos;s also very tragic Terra points out that his laughter sounds like crying. Kefka is unable to comphrend or think beyond destruction and chaos and most likely he knows that which is why he hates heroes so much. If I&apos;m not mistaken wasn&apos;t it mentioned that before the expriments Kefka was implied to be a timid man? which makes the transformation all the more depressing

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  @destructor3152 · 3 years ago

  Kefka is truly one of my favorite video game villains and one of the most pitiful. The cost of gaining his powers made I impossible for him to find joy in anything other than pain and destruction. He accomplished his goals halfway through the story and suffered an existential crisis because of it.

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