List of antagonists

The Final Fantasy series has featured many villains, both minor and major, who serve as antagonists to the player party throughout the game. Below is a list of the key villains from each installment.

Final Fantasy

 * Four Fiends - Four Demons representing the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind.
 * Garland - The first boss of the game, he used to be a loyal knight, but now his mind is being controlled by a dark force.
 * Chaos - The demon king, created when Garland merges with the 4 fiends. He is the one causing the time loop.

Final Fantasy II

 * Borghen - The Emperor's general.
 * Dark Knight - Maria's brother, Leon, under the Emperor's control.
 * Emperor Mateus - The Emperor of Palamecia. He comes back to life after dying by fusing with the dark powers of Hell, thus becoming the ruler of Hell himself.

Final Fantasy III

 * Xande - A pupil to the great Archmage Noah. Xande was given the gift of mortality from his master. However, he couldn't handle this, and so set out to get back his immortality.
 * Cloud of Darkness - Appears whenever there is an imbalance between light and darkness, to return everything to a world of nothingness.

Final Fantasy IV

 * Archfiends - The four fiends were Golbez's minions, each of which battled the heroes at least two times. Their names were inspired by names of devils in Dante's Inferno.  They are Scarmiglione, Cagnazzo, Barbariccia, and Rubicante.
 * Golbez - Cecil's brother who was under the control of Zemus. Golbez attacked the world in an attempt to steal the Elemental Crystals.
 * Zemus- A Lunarian who hates humans, and decides that the Lunarians should just take Earth for themselves. He can control people's minds, and after he dies, his hate becomes a creature called Zeromus.

Final Fantasy V

 * Gilgamesh - One of Exdeath's minions. He searches for Excalibur, but ends up with Excalipur instead.
 * Exdeath - The remains of the great evil, Enuo. This evil remnant fused with the Great Tree of the Elder Forest, and became Exdeath.

Final Fantasy VI

 * Ultros - A wisecracking Octopus which the party encounters throughout the game. Eventually gets a job working at a colosseum.
 * Emperor Gestahl - The leader of the Empire. He wants to have the ancient power of Magic all to himself.
 * Kefka - A general of the Empire, an experiment with Magitek infusion drove him insane. He thus began to hate everything and desires the destruction of all life.

Final Fantasy VII

 * Shinra - The power company that controls the world. Shinra extracts life energy from the planet for profit and has conducted a series of genetic experiments involving this energy.
 * Professor Hojo - Shinra's top scientist and Sephiroth's father who conducted a number of experiments with Jenova's cells on his son, leading to the development of SOLDIER
 * Jenova - The Calamity from the Skies, Jenova fell to the planet long ago and attempted to destroy it. Her cells are used by Shinra to create SOLDIER.
 * Sephiroth - The best of all SOLDIER. Sephiroth desires to become a god and is devoted to Jenova, who he believes is his "mother".

Final Fantasy VIII

 * Edea Kramer- the original Sorceress whom the party fights. Under the control of Ultimecia, she tries to conquer the world using Galbadia's military.
 * Seifer Almasy- Squall Leonhart's rival. Seifer is dedicated to being a Sorceress's Knight.
 * Ultimecia- The Sorceress from the future who's been possessing people from the past in order to create Time Compression.

Final Fantasy IX

 * Queen Brahne - The Queen of Alexandria who was a sweet queen until Kuja corrupted her. She now seeks the power of the Eidolons and will destroy all other nations to get it.
 * Kuja - A Genome with a soul, he can be considered Zidane's big brother. Garland's Angel of Death, it is in his nature to cause wars and chaos. Upon learning of his mortality, he resolves that if he can't live, no one can.
 * Garland- the leader of the dead planet of Terra. He is using his Angels of Death to disrupt the Cycle of Souls in Gaia to create a homeland for lost people, living inside the Genomes.
 * Necron - A mysterious entity which appears when the Crystal is destroyed and seeks to return the world to nothingness.

Final Fantasy X

 * Seymour Guado - A half-human, half-guado maester who believes that the only way to end Spira's suffering is to destroy it.
 * Yunalesca - Yu Yevon's daughter who gives Spira false hope through the final summoning.
 * Yu Yevon - The summoner who is worshiped by all of Spira. In reality, he is the source of all their troubles, terrorizing the world clad in his armor known as Sin.

Final Fantasy XI

 * Shadow Lord - Lord of the Beastmen, it was he who started the Crystal War.
 * Kam'lanaut - A Zilart prince. Eald'narche's brother.
 * Eald'narche - A Zilart prince, he wants to open the gates to paradise, and tried doing so by manipulating the Shadow Lord.
 * Promathia - The Twilight God, and creator of the Beastmen. He punished the people of Vana'diel for trying to open the gates to paradise.

Final Fantasy XII

 * Venat - A rogue Occuria, it believes that mankind should be able to forge their own history, free of the gods.
 * Dr. Cid - A scientist of Archadia, who, with the help of Venat, created the manufactured Nethicite.
 * Vayne Solidor - The would-be Emperor of Archades who murders his father to gain control of the Empire. He wants to be Ivalice's next Dynast King, and will use the power of manufactured Nethicite to do so.

Final Fantasy X-2

 * LeBlanc - Founder of the LeBlanc Syndicate, a rival Sphere Hunter to Yuna and the Gullwings, and a thorn in their side.
 * Shuyin - A blitzball player from Zanarkand 1000 years ago, now a vengeful unsent spirit. He wants to use the machina, Vegnagun, to destroy everything.

Final Fantasy Tactics

 * Wiegraf Folles - Leader of the Corpse Brigade, joins with the Knights Templar, becomes controlled by Belias.
 * Folmarv Tengille - Leader of the Knights Templar, he is being controlled by the Lucavi to resurrect their leader.
 * Saint Ajora Glabados- A man who is worshiped as a saint, although his true goal was to summon the Lucavi.
 * Ultima- The Bloody Angel. Ultima is the leader of the Lucavi Demons.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

 * Llednar Twem - The personification of Mewt's anger and hatred.
 * Li-Grim - The incarnation of all the dreams that make up the world of Ivalice. She pretends to be Mewt's mom and spoils her kid rotten.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

 * Vile Four - Four elemental monsters that serve the Dark King, they attack the four regions of the world and drain the Crystals of their strength.
 * Dark King - A green skinned spider king in the guise of a human watching the world secretly from atop the Focus Tower. It is he who ordered the Vile Evils to drain the Crystals in an attempt to destroy the world.

Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-

 * Fuhito - A twisted scientist for AVALANCHE who is using the Materia embedded in the back of his commander, Elfé's hand to destroy humanity and return them to the Planet.
 * Zirconiade - an ancient Summon with the power to destroy the world.

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-

 * Genesis Rhapsodos - A SOLDIER defector and product of the Jenova Project who is at war with Shinra to stop his slow degregation and fulfill the words of LOVELESS.
 * Dr. Hollander - Scientist who worked on the Project G side of the Jenova Project that created Genesis and Angeal Hewley. Joined with his creation when Genesis defected from Shinra.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

 * Kadaj - A remnant of Sephiroth who embodies Sephiroth's insanity. He becomes Sephiroth after fusing with Jenova.
 * Loz - A remnant of Sephiroth who embodies Sephiroth's physical strength.
 * Yazoo - A remnant of Sephiroth who embodies Sephiroth's allure.
 * Sephiroth - the original villain of Final Fantasy VII, who is resurrected with the help of his three remnants. He now wants to crush Cloud's spirit and then find a new planet to call home, using the Planet as his vessel.

Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-

 * Professor Hojo - Having uploaded his consciousness into a large computer network, Hojo later fuses with the Deepground Soldier Weiss. He hopes to summon the Omega Weapon, to start life over again.
 * Tsviets - The leading warriors of Deepground. They have no idea that they are actually being controlled by Hojo.

Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

 * Judge of Wings - A powerful Judge-like villain, she craves the powers of Auracite for unknown reasons.
 * Feolthanos - the leader of the Aegyl who went mad after the Occuria locked him away in Lemurés.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift

 * Khamja - A foreign syndicate, comprised of ruthless leaders with ties to Cid's past.
 * Illua - Leader of Khamja. An expert samurai, she carries her dark grimoire with one hand and a deadly katana with the other.
 * Ewen - A agile and secretive ninja, Ewen is a man of few words, prefering to let his katana do the talking.


 * Neukhia - A demon from the Rift, called by the twin Gran Grimoires.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

 * Raem - A monster that fell from the sky. It feeds on memories, and is the source of the Miasma.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates

 * Cu Chaspel - A servant to Galdes, with ties to the protagonist Yuri and Chelinka's family.
 * Galdes - A leader, Hierophant of the Crystal Temple. Has a plan involving crystal users.

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

 * Phantoms - Alien ghosts that came to earth via a meteor crash. They attack humans out of pain and agony.
 * General Hein - A general who won't listen to Aki Ross about the phantoms, and will destroy them at any cost, even the world.

Final Fantasy: Unlimited

 * Oscha - The Earl's right-hand man, one of the Four Lords of Gaudium.
 * Herba - One of the Four Lords of Gaudium.
 * Fungus - One of the Four Lords of Gaudium.
 * Pist Shaz XI - One of the Four Lords of Gaudium.
 * Soljashy - A new member of the Lords of Gaudium.
 * Earl Tyrant - A young child in control of Wonderland. A spoiled child, he is really the human embodiment of Chaos.

Final Fantasy Adventure

 * Devias - The son of Medusa, and ruler of the desert city, Jadd. He turned Amanda's little brother, Lester, into a parrot, and was responsible for Julius obtaining the Pendant.
 * Dark Lord - An evil tyrant who seeks the Power of the Mana Tree, so he can take over the world.
 * Julius Vandole - Found and raised by Dark Lord, Julius is actually the last citizen of the Vandole Empire. After learning this, he seeks the Power of Mana, so he can rebuild Vandole and use it to dominate the world.