List of antagonists

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

Final Fantasy

 * Garland - The first boss of the game, he used to be a loyal knight, but he has betrayed Cornelia and kidnapped Princess Sara.
 * Four Fiends - Four Demons representing the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind. They capture the four Crystals and steal their light, causing chaos in the world.
 * Chaos - The demon king, created when Garland merges with the essences of the four fiends. He is the one causing the time loop. Final boss of the game.

Final Fantasy II

 * Borghen - The Emperor's general and a former noble of Fynn turned traitor.
 * The Dark Knight - Maria's brother Leon, working for the Emperor.
 * The Emperor - Also known as 'The Emperor', he is the ruler of Palamecia that unleashes an attack on the world. He comes back to life after dying by splitting his soul with the powers of Light and Darkness, thus becoming the rulers of Heaven and Hell himself.

Final Fantasy III

 * Gutsco - A rogue appears in the Subterranean Lake and has stolen one of the Dwarves' Horns of Ice.
 * Hein - A monster that cast a spell on the elder tree, causing it to float and renamed it Castle Hein. He also imprisoned and bewitched all of the Castle Argus's inhabitants in Castle Hein, as well as terrorizing neighboring Tokkul.
 * 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.
 * Guardians of the Dark Crystals- A group of creatures sent by the Cloud of Darkness to guard the Dark Crystals of the World of Darkness and kill the Warriors of Light.
 * Cloud of Darkness - Appears whenever there is an imbalance between light and darkness, to return everything to a world of nothingness. Final boss of the game.

Final Fantasy IV

 * Baigan - Baron's captain of the Royal Guards, who betrays his kingdom to gain more power.
 * Dr. Lugae - An insane scientist that follows Golbez, and performs experiments on humans to serve his own purposes. He turns Edge's mother and father into monsters.
 * 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 took command of the Red Wings airship fleet attacked the world in an attempt to steal the Crystals and summon the Giant of Babil.
 * Zemus - A Lunarian who hates humans, and believes that the Lunarians should annihilate the humans and take over Earth. He can control people's minds, and after he dies, his hate manifests into a creature called Zeromus.

Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-

 * Rydia? - a mysterious girl whom Cecil and his friends encounter while confronting an outbreak of monsters within the Sealed Cave.

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

 * Mysterious Girl - a powerful girl who slightly resembles Rydia. She is gathering the eight Crystals for an unknown reason.
 * Kain? - the evil side of Kain Highwind who joins the Mysterious Girl in her plot to retrieve the Crystals.
 * Dark Knight - much like Kain's evil side, Cecil's has reappeared. He attempts to deceive Ceodore and his family, and kill the party.
 * The Creator - the original creator of the Crystals who seeded them on many worlds to create life, it has deemed the inhabitants of the Blue Planet as evolutionary failures that must be destroyed.

Final Fantasy V

 * Gilgamesh - One of Exdeath's minions. He searches for Excalibur, but ends up with Excalipur instead.
 * Demons of the Rift - Thirteen powerful fiends sealed in the Void and released by Exdeath to destroy the Warriors of Light.
 * Exdeath - A warlock born of a tree infused with evil spirits. He wishes to take control of the Void and consume the world with it.

Final Fantasy VI

 * Ultros - A wisecracking, carnivorous octopus whom the party encounters throughout the game. He follows them to get revenge for his rising number of defeats, as well as to try and devour them, but eventually gets a job working at the colosseum and gives up his chase.
 * Gestahlian Empire - Led by Emperor Gestahl, the Empire seeks the power of magic to control the world, and has developed Magitek as a result of their research into Espers.
 * Kefka Palazzo - An experimental Magitek Knight driven insane by his augmentation. Kefka develops a hatred of everything and begins acquiring power on his own while serving Gestahl.

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. Staff members include the Turks and President Rufus Shinra.
 * 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 members of SOLDIER.
 * Sephiroth - The first and strongest SOLDIER, who was claimed to have disappeared seven years ago in an incident. Upon learning the origins of his birth in his mission's locale, he went insane upon his discoveries and now claims his birthright as an Ancient as the motivation to ascend to godhood through the destruction of the Planet.

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 antagonist 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.

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.

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.

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-

 * Dr. Hollander - A 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.
 * Angeal Hewley - A mentor and friend of Zack who joins Genesis in his rebellion against Shinra to cure himself.
 * Genesis Rhapsodos - A SOLDIER defector and product of the Jenova Project who is at war with Shinra and the world due to learning of his true birth and origins. Though he considers himself a monster that threatens the world, he ultimately wishes to fulfill the romance of the famous play LOVELESS and seek what is known as the "Gift of the Goddess".
 * Sephiroth - A SOLIDER 1st class who is driven insane by the revelation of his creation, spurred on by the words of Genesis about Jenova's true nature.

Final Fantasy VIII

 * Edea Kramer - A sorceress possessed by Ultimecia. Ultimecia uses her body to terrorize the world and search for Ellone using Galbadia's military.
 * Seifer Almasy - Squall Leonhart's heated rival and a SeeD candidate. Due to inappropriate protocol, Seifer fails the final exam, and his taste of failure leads him to become a Sorceress Knight and commander of the Galbadians under Edea.
 * Ultimecia - A sorceress from the future who possesses and manipulates people from the past in order to achieve time compression, along with a burning hatred for SeeD. Main antagonist and final boss of Final Fantasy VIII.

Final Fantasy IX

 * Queen Brahne - The Queen of Alexandria and adoptive mother of Garnet, she was a sweet queen until Kuja corrupted her. She now seeks the power of the Eidolons to conquer the Mist continent.
 * Beatrix - The top general and most trusted warrior of the all-female army of Alexandria. Loyal to her nation without wavering convictions, she stands against any opposition as a powerful adversary.
 * 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.
 * Kuja - A Genome with a soul, he can be considered Zidane's older brother. As Garland's Angel of Death, it is in his nature to cause war and chaos. Upon learning of his mortality, he resolves that if he can't live, no one can, going into Trance and destroying the world of Terra in the process and then aims for the Crystal. Main antagonist of Final Fantasy IX.
 * Necron - A mysterious entity which appears after Kuja is defeated and seeks to return the world to nothingness. Final boss of the game.

Final Fantasy X

 * Sin - A massive, whale-like beast controlled by Yu Yevon who's terrorizing the citizens of Spira.
 * Seymour Guado - A half-human, half-Guado maester who believes that the only way to end Spira's suffering is to destroy it and wishes to become Sin to achieve his goal of destroying all life. He is a major antagonist in the game and Yuna's main enemy inFinal Fantasy X, his actions driving her more to break away from her faith.
 * Yunalesca - Yu Yevon's daughter and an unsent who gives Spira false hope through the Final Summoning to destroy Sin.
 * Jecht - Tidus's father with whom he has an antagonistic relationship. As Braska's Final Aeon he forms the current Sin. He is the first reluctant antagonist of the series and Tidus's main antagonist in Final Fantasy X.
 * 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. At the time Yuna's party defeats Sin once and for all, it is implied that Yu Yevon has become a mindless entity, as his only purpose is to continually summon Dream Zanarkand. Nonetheless, he is the true antagonist and final boss of the game.

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. Consumed in malice and grudging contempt for a world without him and his lover, such feelings motivate him to use the massive powered machina weapon Vegnagun to destroy all of Spira. Shuyin is the main antagonist of Final Fantasy X-2 and resembles Tidus to the point where the Gullwings mistake Shuyin as Tidus.

Final Fantasy XI

 * Shadow Lord - The Lord of the Beastmen, it was he who started the Crystal War and formed the Beastmen Confederacy. Main antagonist and final boss of the original Final Fantasy XI.
 * Kam'lanaut - A Zilart prince. Eald'narche's brother. He was seen to the public as a hero and founder of Jeuno's current state.
 * Eald'narche - The main Zilart prince, he wants to open the gates to paradise, and tried doing so by manipulating the Shadow Lord. Main antagonist and final boss of Rise of the Zilart.
 * Nag'molada - A member of the Armahrwn Society and a diplomat of Jeuno. His desire for the "truth" is what sets many of the bad events in motion in Chains of Promathia. He is unique as he is more of an anti-hero, until the final chapters.
 * Promathia - The Twilight God, and creator of the Beastmen. He punished the people of Vana'diel for trying to open the gates to paradise. Main antagonist and final boss of Chains of Promathia.
 * Razfahd - The young, misled vizier of Aht Urghan, his lust for power and control nearly leads to the second Ragnarok through Alexander's manipulation and revival. Main antagonist of Treasures of Aht Urghan.
 * Spitewardens - A group of undead souls who serve Lady Lilith.
 * Lady Lilith - A mysterious woman from an alternate future of Vana'diel. Her goal is to make her own dark future come to pass. Main antagonist and final boss of Wings of the Goddess.
 * Cloud of Darkness - A dark entity who has consumed many worlds before and planned to take over Vana'diel, taking away colour and life from the world in the future. Main antagonist of Rhapsodies of Vana'diel and the true final boss of Final Fantasy XI.

Final Fantasy XII

 * Ba'Gamnan - A bangaa bounty hunter that chases Balthier.
 * The Occuria - A race of ancient, godlike beings, also known as "The Undying", that seek to control the world and the course of history by giving power to those they favor.
 * Venat - A rogue Occuria, it believes that mankind should be able to forge their own history free of the gods, and uses the Archadian Empire to further this goal.
 * Dr. Cid - Balthier's father and a scientist of Archadia who, with the help of Venat, created the manufactured nethicite that allows Archadia to come to power.
 * Archadian Judges - The supreme enforcers of Archadian law in the world of Ivalice. Each wields extraordinary legal power in his or her own right over lower-ranked Archadian officers.
 * Gabranth - A ruthless and feared man among the Archadian Judges who direct all of his hatred towards his twin brother Basch fon Ronsenburg. He is also the man responsible for killing Vaan's brother, Reks and is also the bodyguard for Larsa, answering only to Emperor Gramis.
 * Vayne Solidor - The Emperor of Archades who murders his father to gain control of the Empire. He wishes to use the power of nethicite to conquer Ivalice and declare himself the next Dynast King. Vayne is the main antagonist and final boss of Final Fantasy XII

Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

 * Judge of Wings - A powerful Judge-like antagonist, whose real identity being that of a viera named Mydia. 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 XIII

 * Cid Raines - A brigadier general working for the Sanctum, who was unwillingly made a l'Cie by Barthandelus and whose Focus is to guide the main characters.
 * Jihl Nabaat - A cruel and intelligent PSICOM officer who views l'Cie as subhuman.
 * Yaag Rosch - A lieutenant colonel of the Sanctum who sees all l'Cie as threats to the peace and prosperity of Cocoon.
 * Barthandelus/Galenth Dysley - The leader of the Lindzei fal'Cie and lord sovereign of Cocoon through his guise as the Sanctum's Primarch Galenth Dysley. His ultimate goal is to kill Orphan to open Etro's Gate at the cost of Cocoon and its citizens. As the main antgonist of Final Fantasy XIII, it was him that have made the characters stronger so that his goal can be easily accomplished.
 * Orphan - The fal'Cie that acts as the source for Cocoon's power, Orphan wishes to bring about the return of the Maker by summoning Ragnarok to destroy Cocoon so Etro's Gate would open, even if it means that it must die in the process. Final boss of Final Fantasy XIII.

Final Fantasy XIII-2

 * Caius Ballad - An immortal man from Gran Pulse who wishes to destroy Etro to negate time so he can save his companion Yeul from her own curse of reincarnation, wanting to stop seeing her incarnations die every time. Caius Ballad is the main antagonist of Final Fantasy XIII-2.
 * Alyssa Zaidelle - A woman whose continued existence in the timeline is a paradox and who wishes to foil Serah and Noel's plan to correct the timeline, so she can continue to exist.
 * Adam - A sentient man-made fal'Cie who uses humans to preserve its own existence.

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

 * Lumina - Created from Lightning's inner emotional turmoil and connected to the Chaos, Lumina is a playful prankster who interferes Lightning in her journey a number of times. In some of her encounters with Lightning, she causes some form of mischief, although at other times she helps Lightning.
 * Bhunivelze - The central deity of the universe, the creator of all fal'Cie who was in a deep sleep as his creations acted on his behalf. Upon awakening from his rest, Bhunivelze decides to create a new world and chooses Lightning as his servant to provide him with human souls. The main antagionist of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.
 * Caius Ballad - Now kept alive by the will of Yeul, Caius resides in the Wildlands as her guardian, continuing to wait for when he can die.
 * Snow Villiers - Once an ally of Lightning and now the Patron of Yusnaan, Snow wishes to fight Lightning and die by her hand as punishment for failing to protect Serah.
 * Noel Kreiss - A former ally of Lightning now acting as a vigilante in Luxerion, Noel believes that he must kill Lightning to ensure a bright new future for the world.

Final Fantasy XIV

 * Primals - Powerful magical beings whose very existence drains the land of life.
 * Gaius Van Baelsar - Leader of Garlean Empire's XIVth Imperial Legion who leads an invasion of Eorzea fueled by the beliefs of his country. Originally spearheading an official invasion, after the instigation of the Seventh Umbral Era and amid growing political instability at home, he leads his own personal invasion with the XIVth Legion. Main antagonist of A Realm Reborn.
 * Nero Tol Scaeva - Head of Magitek research, a ruthless and cold man who is loyal to the Empire, yet is mistrusted because of his attitude.
 * Livia Sas Junius - Gaius's adopted daughter and his most fanatical follower.
 * Rhitahtyn Sas Arvina - A former mercenary and native of a country annexed by the Garlean Empire, awarded his current ranks by General Van Baelsar himself.
 * Nael Van Darnus - Legatus of the Garlean Empire's VIIth Legion. In reality a woman named Eula Darnus, she is a ruthless woman in the disguise of her late brother who feels that the empire's invasion of Eorzea is of divine intervention to save its people from their pagan ideals. She is eventually possessed by the will of the moon Dalamud. The main antagonist of the original release of Final Fantasy XIV (1.x).
 * Lahabrea - A skilled mage and leader of the Ascians, a secret society determined to bring about the resurrection of the dark deity Zodiark. To further his cause and remain secret, he possesses the body of Thancred for a time while manipulating Gaius into doing his dirty work. Final boss of A Realm Reborn.
 * Varis Zos Galvus - New emperor of the Empire, succeeded the throne from his late grandfather Solus Zos Galvus.
 * Nabriales - Another high-ranking Ascian, who abducted Minfilia when she refused to yield the Tupsimati to him.
 * Teledji Adeledji - Head of the Mirage Trust and member of the Ul'dahn Syndicate. Incited unrest in Ul'dah to push the Carteneau Reclamation Bill in a bid to seize the ancient superweapon Omega discovered under the Carteneau Flats.
 * Lolorito - Chairman of the East Aldenard Trading Company and member of the Ul'dahn Syndicate. Effectively the most powerful man in Ul'dah, and is has more-or-less taken control of the city-state government as of the start of Heavensward.
 * Regula van Hydrus - Legatus of the VIth Imperial Legion, he seeks the secrets of Azys Lla so the Garlean Empire can use the Allagan knowledge kept within to trap primals to stop their cycle of rebirth.
 * Nidhogg - One of the first brood, this great wyrm has led the Dravanian Horde in a bloody vendetta against the Holy See of Ishgard for the past thousand years.
 * Thordan VII - Archbishop of the Holy See of Ishgard, who seeks the power of the Primals to become a God-King using an eye of Nidhogg. He also leads pthe Heaven's Ward, a group of skilled knights chosen as personal guard to the Archbishop himself. Main antagonist of Heavensward.
 * Warriors of Darkness - A mysterious group of five warriors allied with the Ascians.

Final Fantasy XV

 * Ardyn Izunia - Chancellor of Niflheim, he introduced Magitek infantry to the imperial army and amassed political power and influence. Born Ardyn Lucis Caelum, he was once a king of Lucis chosen by the Crystal two thousand years ago to save the world from the Starscourge. He absorbed daemons into himself, making him immortal, but was denied ascension by the gods for becoming corrupted. He seeks revenge against the Crystal and the royal line of Lucis by killing the True King. Final boss of the game.
 * Iedolas Aldercapt - Leader of the forces of Niflheim, who invade the country of Lucis under the pretense of signing a peace treaty to steal the Crystal. He seeks to conquer the world in order to fulfill the imperial dream of uniting the world as the ancient civilization of Solheim once did.
 * Aranea Highwind - A mercenary, captain of Niflheim's Third army Corps 86th Airborne Unit. Her loyalty towards the empire she serves wavers, however, and her true feelings towards their leader starts to show when she hangs out with Prince Noctis and his friends.
 * Verstael Besithia - Imperial Research Minister, he developed magitek technology under Ardyn's guidance by harnessing the power of daemons. He is Prompto's biological father. He considers even the Astrals of the world of Eos science experiments.
 * Ravus Nox Fleuret - Older brother of Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, and a high commander of the Niflheim army. He has desired Lucis's downfall ever since it seemingly abandoned Tenebrae when Niflheim invaded them ten years ago. He has a new mechanical arm made using magitek, giving him supernatural powers. He is loyal to his sister, who wants to convince him to help Noctis.
 * Ifrit - One of the Astrals, he betrayed his brethren and instigated a devastating war two thousand years ago, which led to the spread of the Starscourge and the fall of Solheim. Ardyn summons him in front of the Citadel of Insomnia to fight Noctis and his comrades.

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

 * General Glauca - The main antagonist and head of the magitek infantry of the Niflheim Empire. He sets out to murder King Regis and retrieve the Ring of the Lucii during the peace treaty-signing.
 * Ardyn Izunia - Chancellor of Niflheim, Ardyn visits the crown city to broker a peace treaty to King Regis. His true motive is to instigate a war that would lead to Lucis's and its royal line's downfall.
 * Iedolas Aldercapt - Emperor of Niflheim and the main representative for Niflheim during the peace treaty in Insomnia. He claims to stand for peace, but his true motive is to steal the Crystal for his pursuit of world dominance.
 * Ravus Nox Fleuret - Former Prince of Tenebrae, now a high-ranked staff officer of Niflheim who visits Insomnia with other Niflheim officials. Holding a grudge toward the Lucian royalty, he seeks the power of the Ring of the Lucii.
 * Titus Drautos - Leader of the Kingsglaive, whose true identity as General Glauca is exposed during the invasion of Insomnia.

Final Fantasy Tactics

 * Wiegraf Folles - Leader of the Corpse Brigade, a violent revolutionary group of civilian drafted warriors who were denied pay and reward after the brutal Fifty Years War who target the nobility of Ivalice as recompense for their actions. After the death of his sister, his grief and rage eventually becomes the motive for him to join the Knights Templar. Unable to move on and with obsession to rid of Razma as vengeance, this soon leads into him becoming the host for the Lucavi Belias.
 * Dycedarg Beoulve - Leader of the Order of the Northern Sky, one of the primary advisors to Duke Larg, and becomes controlled by Adrammelech.
 * Folmarv Tengille - Leader of the Knights Templar, he is being controlled by the Lucavi to resurrect their leader.
 * Saint Ajora Glabados - Worshiped as a saint, but with a view to summon the Lucavi.
 * Ultima - The Bloody Angel. Ultima is the leader of the Lucavi Demons and her revival is the true purpose of the War of the Lions.

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 grants him everything he wishes for.

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, preferring to let his katana do the talking.
 * Neukhia - A demon from the Rift, called by the twin Gran Grimoires. Final boss of the game.

Vagrant Story

 * Jan Rosencrantz - A traitorous double-dealing ex-Riskbreaker.
 * Romeo Guildenstern - The ambitious leader of the Order of the Crimson Blades.

Final Fantasy Type-0

 * Marshal Cid Aulstyne - The leader of the Militesi Empire. He sends his imperial soldiers and airships to invade the other nations in order to seize their crystals.
 * Brigadier General Qator Bashtar - The second-in-command of the forces of Militesi, a fervent supporter of his country and a skilled handler of Magitek armor.
 * Nimbus - A Militesi Primus l'Cie of great age whose only true goal is to fulfill his Focus.
 * Qun'mi Tru'e - A newly-created female Militesi l'Cie who takes on Class Zero during the war between their countries.
 * Gilgamesh - A Black Tortoise l'Cie who has lost sight of his Focus.
 * Gala: The former Emperor of Militesi, and one of the key figures who watch over Orience on behalf of its deities.

Final Fantasy Dimensions

 * Elgo - A Red Mage who joins the Warriors of Light on their quest to collect the shards of the world's crystal. He is later revealed to be the Avalonian Emperor himself. He seeks immortality, first from use of the world's crystal and then from the energy flowing from the world of Nil.
 * Four Generals - The four leaders of the Avalonian army. While three of them, Baugauven, Asmodai and Styx, are loyal to their roles, Vata first sought vengeance upon the Empire, which destroyed his home, then both fought and aided the Warriors in their quests.
 * Divine Generals - Three magical beings, Imperio, Shango and Cocytus, who are created from the bodies of the defeated generals in the wake of the world's crystal being repaired.
 * Cid - Commander of the Empire's air forces. It is he who orders the theft of the crystal from its temple.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

 * Raem - A monster born from the cataclysm that spread Miasma through the world. It feeds on memories.

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 Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King

 * Dark Lord - An evil king that once ruled over the land.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time

 * Larkeicus - An ancient immortal archaeologist and inventor who has a plan to alter the past.

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.

Final Fantasy Adventure

 * Dark Lord - An evil tyrant who seeks the Power of the Mana Tree, so he can take over the world.
 * Julius - 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.

The Final Fantasy Legend

 * Four Fiends - The Four Fiends are under the control of Ashura.
 * Ashura - Ashura is responsible for commanding the Four Fiends that antagonized the heroes throughout the story.
 * Creator - He had originally created humanity, the Tower, Ashura, and is the mastermind behind all the events that plagued humanity from the very beginning.

Final Fantasy Legend II

 * Ashura - Ashura became a god with MAGI and now rules Ashura's World. He wants to get the ultimate MAGI so that he can conquer the other worlds. Once the heroes defeats him, stating that his minions had already shrunk themselves and entered the body of the Ki to steal her MAGI.
 * Ninja - He raided the Guardian's Base and stole all the MAGI they had collected from across the worlds on behalf of the "new gods". Ninja kidnaps Lynn in order to lure Dad, he threatens to kill her, but Dad leaps at him into a portal. The heroes think that this marked the end of both but a short while later the lone Ninja reappears, taunting the heroes before engaging in a fight and is defeated.
 * Venus - She rules over her own city where she exiles anyone that didn't live up to her extreme standards of "beauty". The heroes stay in the city, but find out that they were lied to by Venus about the existence of MAGI in her world and they go hunt it down themselves. Much later when Venus shows no sign of stopping, the heroes confront the goddess and defeat her, freeing the inhabits of the city from her tyranny.
 * Echigoya - A criminal who smuggles bananas (opium in the Japanese version). When the heroes arrive in Edo World, they work with a Hana to try and stop his criminal empire but find out that he is in alliance with Sho-gun who granted him immunity to the law in exchange for great monetary reward. The heroes confront the two and Echigoya attacks alongside an impressive total of nine guards but is still defeated by them.
 * Sho-gun - A corrupt official who runs Edo World, he worked in alliance with the smuggler Echigoya to supply the world with illegal bananas (opium in the Japanese version). He planned on using MAGI to squeeze more money out of the townsfolk. After Echigoya defeat, they track down Sho-gun at his castle where they defeat him. He calls an unexpected "ally" in the form of his demonic-looking father, however Magnate is displease with Sho-gun's failure and kills him.
 * Magnate - The true mastermind behind the banana smuggling fiasco (opium ring in the Japanese version). However Magnate was not really concerned with this subplot, simply using it as a means to get MAGI. After disposing of his son Sho-gun, obviously displeased with his son's failure. He transporting himself and the heroes to the rooftop of Edo Castle where they engaged in a battle for control over their MAGI and was defeated.
 * Apollo - He seeks all the MAGI in the worlds, but waits patiently until the heroes collect them all but a single one which he keep safe. Once the heroes have accomplished this task, Apollo appears before them and demands they hand over all their MAGI to him which they eventually submit to. Apollo is confronted again in Central Shrine, he tries to obtain true godhood and they engage him in battle, however due to the level of power he absorbed he was able to take on a secondary form and rapidly began to melt until he violently exploded due to missing the 78th MAGI.
 * Arsenal - Due to Apollo's abuse of MAGI causes the Arsenal to become active. This powerful ancient security-system prepares to destroy the worlds in order to restore order. The heroes, aided by the goddess Isis, fought their way to the machine and destroyed it.

Final Fantasy Legend III

 * Dogra - The heroes attempt to rescue Lara, a young girl who Dogra has kidnapped and brainwash into a servant, however after Lara was freed she joined the heroes and together they went deeper into the dungeon to confront Dogra himself.
 * Ashura - He used a strange disease to transform humans into monsters, stronghold is South Tower. The heroes went after Ashura when rumors persisted that he had some Talon Units, Ashura informed the heroes that the Units were no longer in his possession but fought them.
 * Chaos - Ruler over his own castle, he had stolen the Future Unit which the heroes needed to time-travel into the future. The heroes confronted Chaos, he informs them that their future was already doomed and now they were too before engaging them in a fight, but he was defeated.
 * Maitreya - She kidnapped a girl named Faye in order to force her to draw the Mystic Sword Xcalibr. The heroes pursued her to the tower atop a large mountain on Floatland, Maitreya wastes little time with pleasantries and attacks the heroes but is defeated.
 * Fenrir - He acts as the guard to Faye's prison within the North Maze in Pureland, the heroes faced him and defeated him.
 * Guha - Guha and the Buzi engaging in an argument, with him questioning why the Masters had to destroy other worlds while Guha argued it was not his choice to make and that it was the will of Master Xagor, the heroes interrupts them much to Guha surprise that people are able to oppose the Master's will and engaged the heroes in battle.
 * Dahak - A guardian who blocks the heroes' path in Southwest Ruins and attacks them on sight. The heroes manage to defeat him, but Dahak's image manages to live on via the power of Xagor. It is is revealed to be a slave to the Masters rather than a true antagonist.
 * Jorgandr - Battles the heroes after it summoned a large sandstorm that engulfed the Talon and subsequently caused it to crash. The monstrous Jorgandr proceeded to instantly attack the heroes on the ground but was defeated.
 * Agron - Guards the Barrier Machine in Eastern Ruins which prevented people from entering the Goht Region. The heroes confronted Agron in battle, attempting to slay him with the Mystic Swords but he informs them that he's protected from the swords because of the machine. Dion destroys the machine and a angered Agron attacks the remaining heroes, only to meet defeat.
 * Ballor - Acting as a guardian who blocks the path of the heroes in Xagor's Castle. He also acts as a messenger, informing the heroes of Xagor's true nature and mocks them before engaging them in battle. Even after his defeat, he mocks them with his dying words that Xagor was they are late and that Xagor is now invincible.
 * Xagor - The leader of the Masters and residing within a castle high atop Mt. Goht. He created the Water Entity, which was slowly flooding the World and unleashing monsters upon humanity.

Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light

 * Servants of Chaos - The seven demons that were sent by Chaos to cause destruction throughout the world. Each of which battled the heroes two times. Their names were inspired by names of the seven princes of Hell from Christian demonology. They are Lucifer, Asmodeus, Mammon, Leviathan, Belphegor, Beelzebub, and Satan.
 * Chaos - The Demon King, Chaos was sealed inside the Star Chamber three hundred years before the events of the game. He is the darkness within the hearts of men and wishes to flood the world in darkness.

Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy

 * Warriors of Chaos - The champions summoned by Chaos to combat the warriors of Cosmos in endless conflict.
 * Chaos - the God of Discord who seeks to destroy Cosmos, his right hand Garland has helped to engineer the chain of events to have Chaos seek to end all reality during the final cycle of the war.

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: 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.