History Characters / FinalFantasyVIIRemakeAntagonistsAndBosses

* EmpoweredByNegativity: Through Jenovah, Sephiroth has learned to harness the dark side of emotions to create negative Lifestream to empower himself further. A large part of his motivations is to instill as much hatred, sadness, despair, and suffering on the party, particularly Cloud, as he can to harness their negative feelings and strengthen himself further.

** During the first phase of the battle, Jenovah Lifeclinger sends party members flying out of the arena, Much like Sephiroth begins the final battle in the original game by blowing away the party members that weren't picked for the team.

* {{Gaslighting}}: In ''Rebirth,'' Sephiroth makes use of this to weaken Cloud's grip on his identity and his trust in his allies. He insinuates that Tifa is a Jenova copy until Cloud attempts to kill her in a paranoid fit, and then begins to cast doubt on Cloud's own emotional state, either calling him a hollow puppet or a deluded lunatic.

* TranquilFury: He remains fairly composed, but it's pretty clear from his reaction that he's pissed off when he is beaten by Cloud and Aerith in Rebirth, which prevents him from merging the timelines together.

* UnskilledButStrong: Palmer's lack of skill as a pilot means that most of his attempts to direct the Anuran Suppressor result in it toppling over after its attacks in a vulnerable state. However, it makes up for this by having a variety of weapons at its disposal and can even hurt the party by falling on them.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Kotch starts beatboxing the Turk's theme during start of the boss fight with Rude and Elena in the Musclehead Colosseum.

* MrExposition: He informs the party of the history of the Gi and their fued with the Cetra, as well as the existence of the [[spoiler:Black Materia]].

* WrittenByTheWinners: He certainly believes so in regards to the Cetra. While the Cetra are regarded as ancient saviors by most of the inhabitants of the Planet, Gi Nattak remembers his old enemies as intolerant people who refused to help his tribe.

* TheDragon: She becomes this to Sephiroth near the end of part 1 and like the original game Sephiroth uses Jenova like a puppet and to disguise as Sephiroth himself.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Subdued but still there in ''Rebirth'', and three times at that. The first is when he realizes the White Materia is powered up again in this active timeline, after his use of the Whispers to strip Aerith's memories post-''Remake'' seemingly depowered it. His remark of "[[SoreLoser Very poor form]]" practically comes off as being genuinely surprised and ''irritated'' that Aerith actually managed to use his own interdimensional tricks to swap the Materia and undo his plan, almost like complaining about a cheap move at chess. It happens again when Zack hops timelines and joins Cloud at the Edge of Creation. When Sephiroth spots him and Cloud together he's visibly shocked by it, if only for a moment before regaining his composure. Then there's an empowered Aerith suddenly emerging to join Cloud in the final fight at the Edge of Creation, and they ''beat him'' this time, though in this case Sephiroth actually offers some VillainRespect towards her for managing this feat.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Subdued but still there in ''Rebirth'', and three times at that. The first is when he realizes the White Materia is powered up again in this active timeline, after his use of the Whispers to strip Aerith's memories post-''Remake'' seemingly depowered it. His remark of "[[SoreLoser Very poor form]]" practically comes off as being genuinely surprised and ''irritated'' that Aerith actually managed to use his own interdimensional tricks to swap the Materia and undo his plan, almost like complaining about a cheap move at chess. It happens again when Zack hops timelines and joins Cloud at the Edge of Creation. When Sephiroth spots him and Cloud together he's visibly shocked by it, if only for a moment before regaining his composure. Then there's Aerith suddenly emerging from the Lifestream in the very final fight of the game to help Cloud, and they ''beat him'' this time, though in this case Sephiroth actually offers some VillainRespect towards her for managing this feat.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Subdued but still there in ''Rebirth'', and twice at that. The first is when he realizes the White Materia is powered up again in this active timeline, after his use of the Whispers to strip Aerith's memories post-''Remake'' seemingly depowered it. His remark of "[[SoreLoser Very poor form]]" practically comes off as being genuinely surprised and ''irritated'' that Aerith actually managed to use his own interdimensional tricks to swap the Materia and undo his plan, almost like complaining about a cheap move at chess. Then there's Aerith suddenly emerging from the Lifestream in the very final fight of the game to help Cloud, and they ''beat him'' this time, though in this case Sephiroth actually offers some VillainRespect towards her for managing this feat.