Gamefaqs are doing some kind of greatest rivals contest

I'll be shocked if CloudxSephiroth or SoraxRiku don't win.

Hopefully someone puts some other better choices up there though. Sub zero and scorpion or ryu and ken could hopefully stop something annoying like those winning.

Kain vs. Raziel
Sonic vs. Mario
Solid Snake vs. Revolver Ocelot
Dante vs. Vergil

goku vs vegeta

Link vs. Gannondorf
Mario vs. Bowser

those two plus Cloud vs. Sephiroth will win it. It's just like the character battles.

I find it slightly depressing that people can't discern between "rivals" and "enemies".

If you limited to rivals in the strict sense of the word there wouldn't be as many high profile characters in there at all. That's why only a few of the selections will be traditional rivals.

I never bother to take part in the contests, but my brother usually does. I think he won something or some shit last year.

I love how the finals is going to involve people who aren't even rivals.

Cloud and Sephiroth are rivals. Just because they are also protagonist/antagonist doesn't mean their not. The winner of this match will be the overall winner though. It kinda sucks cuz every character battle and so on ends with link or cloud winning

Ellis the Stampede wrote:

Cloud and Sephiroth are rivals. Just because they are also protagonist/antagonist doesn't mean their not. The winner of this match will be the overall winner though. It kinda sucks cuz every character battle and so on ends with link or cloud winning

I know you've played final fantasy 7, so i'm sure you know what clouds real history is and i don't need to point out the fact cloud wasn't even in soldier and hence was never a rival of sephiroth in that sense. The guy was a god by the time cloud actually dealt with him, there were no common motivations or goals.

There is/was no basis for any kind of rivalry.

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There is/was no basis for any kind of rivalry.

Sephiroth killed Aerith. Cockblocking Cloud for all eternity.

Cloud still fucked Tifa.

Babby wrote:

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There is/was no basis for any kind of rivalry.

Sephiroth killed

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Thats a reason for them to be enemies. There is no rivalry. If cloud and him were competing in Soldier or hell they both wanted to get with Aeris then that might be a reason, but there's nothing like that in the game. Sephiroth wants to destroy the world, cloud wants to stop it.

Sephiroth has never really been a rival figure he's always been a friend or villain. I'd say mentor too, but that's sort of a stretch.

Well see in Cloud's twisted, crazy mind he was his rival after he made his comeback in the Shinra building. He was his unfinished business (this much is true at least) but it was over exaggerated in Cloud's mind. You are right with what you said but that was my basis for why they are rivals.

You can make an argument either way though.

4 out of the 5 people debating this need to look up 'rivalry' in a dictionary.

Ellis the Stampede wrote:

Well see in Cloud's twisted, crazy mind he was his rival after he made his comeback in the Shinra building. He was his unfinished business (this much is true at least) but it was over exaggerated in Cloud's mind. You are right with what you said but that was my basis for why they are rivals.

You can make an argument either way though.

I get your point. But even in that context there still not rivals, as i don't think trying to catch up to someone is really a rivalry as it normally involves both parties competing. There was no contest for Sephiroth, that part of the game where sephi kills a dragon in one hit and Cloud does like 1% of that damage.

By that logic i'm a rival of Bradley Cooper.

doesn't clouds wimpy ass inflicr a fatal wound on sephiroth?

Have a Merry Christmas wrote:

doesn't clouds wimpy ass inflicr a fatal wound on sephiroth?

If you're talking about that final hit in the game, I always thought that was a dream sequence. Regardless that is sane cloud, so he definitely wasn't a rival of him.

i meant when he was with shinra

Have a Merry Christmas wrote:

i meant when he was with shinra

You're going to have to give me more of a clue what you're talking about that was years ago when i played this.

Red vs Green

Yes Cloud was the one that stopped Sephiroth 5 years prior by nearly killing him, stopping him from releasing Jenova after finding out his true origins. Sephiroth remembered this but mind-fucked Cloud the whole way until the end of the game.

Ellis the Stampede wrote:

Yes Cloud was the one that stopped Sephiroth 5 years prior by nearly killing him, stopping him from releasing Jenova after finding out his true origins. Sephiroth remembered this but mind-fucked Cloud the whole way until the end of the game.

Youtube clip this if you can, it sounds familiar.

Link and Ganondorf is a pretty awesome rivalry, striving to defeat one another for dat Zelda ass.