5 Strongest Final Fantasy Characters You've Never Heard Of, Ranked

Everyone knows Cloud, Sin and Lightning, but some of them most overwhelmed Final Fantasy sign found in spin-offs, sequels, remasters and forgotten gems. Unless someone has played everything Square Enix's franchise has to offer, they've almost certainly missed at least a couple villains or creatures capable of destroying planets or worse. Final Fantasys hidden powerhouses.

Forget Sephiroth or Clive, let's highlight a couple of characters who never really got their moment to shine, despite having more than enough power to take on any of the main heroes or even the villains. These Final Fantasy characters are true monsters, at least in the story.

I'm only talking about lore and not combat mechanics, as the two don't always match.

Some people will definitely know these characters, but they are all obscure and don't get much love or respect.

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Shuyin is a vengeful ghost with power on the planet

The power of love, sorrow and hate

• Game: Final Fantasy 10-2

• Main villain

• Almost destroy Spira

Square Enix almost never releases direct sequels, but the developer made an exception with Final Fantasy 10-2. To be honest, the game is pretty disjointed, with the story almost going down a magical girl route that comes out of left field; The dressphere system is great though, and the combat is pretty fun. Shuyin is also a pretty good villain in his own right, and he deserves to be part of a more visible entry.

An ancient spirit born out of grief when his beloved, Lenne, was killed in front of him during the Machina War, Shuyin became a vengeful spirit driven by pure hatred for Spira and its inhabitants. As a manifestation of a lingering consciousness, he possesses unique, terrifying spiritual qualities that are not bound by a physical body. Shuyin can possess people if they feel enough hatred in their hearts, essentially turning itself into a spiritual parasite. Through this ability, he arms factions against each other and throws the world into chaos.

In battle, Shuyin is quite difficult as most of his attacks are just Tidus overpowered moves, but he is stronger in story. His most dangerous weapon is the Vegnagun, a doomsday device that can only be controlled by a select few, including Shuyin.

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Jade Weapon is a terrifying antivirus

The strongest Final Fantasy weapon that time forgot

• Game: Before Crisis -Final Fantasy 7-

• Post-Game Superboss (kind of, it's weird).

• Basically impossible to fight these days

To be honest, I can only include the strongest bosses Before Crisis -Final Fantasy 7- and call it a day, simply because of the obscurity of the mobile game. A Japan exclusive that was meant to be released in North America but never made it due to incompatible devices, Before the crisis takes place a few years before the events of FF7 and revolves around the Turks. From what I've heard and seen, it was a respectable RPG for its era and platform, and it's a shame most of us will never get to play it.

Released in chapters, the final boss of the campaign, Zirconiade, is an incredibly powerful summon that could exterminate Gaia, and it only appears in Before the crisis. At first I was going to bring Zirconiade, but Before the crisis actually released a boss after the game called the Jade Weapon, a device created to destroy Zirconiade that ended up without a purpose after the defeat of the Summons; consequently it turned its attention to the Turks. I don't know much about this enemy, to be honest, but that's basically it Before the crisis' super boss and main enemy of weapon mode.

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Enuo controls the void

A big bad Final Fantasy Superboss that is even stronger in Lore

• Introduced in Final Fantasy 5s lore

• Super boss in Final Fantasy 5 Advance

• The first picture is from Final Fantasy 5s smartphone launch. The other two pictures are from FF14s “Dawntrail” expansion

Despite being mechanically the easiest of the three super bosses i Final Fantasy 5 AdvanceEnuo is 100% the strongest character in not only FF5s lore but also the entire franchise. A historical figure in the 1992 game, Enuo basically wrote the playbook that the main villain, Exdeath, follows, and the copycat is nowhere near as strong as the original.

Seeking ultimate power (like any good evil wizard), Enuo made a terrifying alliance with the cosmos: he surrendered his own physical immortality in exchange for complete, absolute dominion over The Void. The latter is essentially a multidimensional abyss that cannot be obliterated and precedes reality itself. He was so overwhelmed that the ancient warriors needed to split the planet into two physical dimensions and seal the interdimensional rift.

As most “power corrupts” stories go, Enuo's hunger becomes his weakness, as his lack of physical presence leaves him vulnerable to the Void itself. He ended up being consumed by his own antimatter crack. IN Final Fantasy 5 AdvanceEnuo's super boss fight is challenging but manageable, even if it doesn't quite match his mythos.

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Final Fantasy 11's Cloud of Darkness Is The Void

The literal end of the line

• Appears in a bunch of games

• Final boss for Final Fantasy 11The story of the “Rhapsodies of Vana'diel”.

• Only the first image is FF11 version. Other pictures are from Final Fantasy 14, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasyand Final Fantasy 3.

If you consider yourself a die-hard Final Fantasy heck, you probably know Cloud of Darkness from either FF3 or FFXIVwhere it functions as both story and raid boss. Alternatively, you may know it as a Warrior of Chaos from Dissidia game or as a boss in one of the other spin-offs that All the bravest or Teatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call.

Honestly, I could have included some of the above as they are quite obscure, but I chose Final Fantasy 11 version because Cloud of Darkness is the epic final boss of the core story, and I doubt many new players are discovering MMOs these days. This character regularly has an almost Lovecraftian aspect, but it FF11 the version is by far the most original, transcending call to become a concept. Don't mistake it for FF3final boss.

The manifestation of cosmic emptiness, the Cloud of Darkness is essentially The Void that Enou controls, and it is far more powerful than the Sorcerer. The Cloud of Darkness, which literally represents the end of the game, appears when the balance between the forces of light and darkness stagnates. It is the end of time and the return to the void.

You are only fighting a fragment of the Cloud of Darkness FF11as it would be quite impossible to defeat the cosmic state on this scale.

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Bhunivelze is the creator of worlds

Meh Boss Fight, Incredible Lore

• Mentioned in Final Fantasy 13

• Final boss for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 and that Fabula Nova Crystallis fairy tale

Here we are: the strongest obscure Final Fantasy character. Of all of them, Bhunivelze might be the most controversial, and I almost left this divine figure out of the game. First, he is the final boss of Fabula Nova Crystallisaka Final Fantasy 13 trilogy, serves as the final battle in the The lightning returns. Second, his actual combat is underwhelming, and he doesn't offer much of a challenge.

The thing is, The lightning returns may be the most overlooked modern release in the franchise, especially for a mainline entry. More importantly, Bhunivelze's fight doesn't do justice to his lore, a deity that can create and shape worlds, with a couple of exceptions. When he wakes up from a deep sleep to find the universe corrupted by chaos, he doesn't try to fix it but instead plans to remove it so he can create a new one from scratch.

“God” may not be the perfect word to describe Bhunivelze, but he inherits that role when he usurps his mother, the supreme goddess Mwynn. He precedes the history of mortal life.

He manipulates reality like a writer rewriting a page, casually discarding entire planets as minor battery sources to fuel his divine ascension. Yeah, Lightning punches Bhunivelze in the face and defeats him pretty easily, but she's basically a goddess by then.