Here is my analisis of Sephiroth.

How did he first make headlines?: He was a First-Class SOLIDER. He worked for the forces of good to become every little boy's hero. He was a great SOLIDER, and completed many missions very sucessfully.

Why did he turn to evil?: One day, on a mission to repair a Mako generator with Zach Fair, Cloud Strife, and some others, Sephiroth finds a body in a tube that has a plaque(plack, don't know how to spell that) reading JENOVA. He had been told that his mother was JENOVA, but didn't know who it was. He then goes crazy. It was actually JENOVA controling him.

What was his first act of evil?: He burned down a city near the Mako reactor and slaughtered all of the citizens living there. The city would later be rebuilt and populated by Shin-Ra employees.

What did he do then?: He dissapears for a few years.

Then what?: He tries to get the Black Materia and suceeds. He uses the Black Materia to summon the ultimate black magic spell, Meteor.

How is he beaten?: Cloud Strife and AVALANCHE defeat him.

Does he die?: Yes, but JENOVA lives on.

What happened after he ''dies''?: Meteor hits Midgar, but the ultimate white magic, Holy, and the lifestream stops it. It does a whole lot of destruction, though.

What then?: JENOVA lives on, and when Kadaj, Yadoo, and one other Sephiroth clone find her, he comes back to life and is killed again by Cloud.

Overall?: He was a good villan, but highly overrated. He gets credit for JENOVA's actions. My question is, why do we give him the credit for JENOVA's actions, but we don't give Golbez credit for Zeromus's actions, or Edea for Ultimacia's?