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Byron808 posted...

Necron wasn't bad. Zemus/Zeromus from FF4 was bad.

Necron was an entity whose sole purpose is to "reboot" the universe. Necron's existence made sense.

what is Zemus/Zeromus? some Sith lord on the moon who feeds evil into Golbez?

Final Fantasy IV came out in 1991, which was fairly early in the SNES's life cycle. It's not entirely fair to compare him to later final bosses, but even so he still has more backstory and explanation than Necron. When the Lunarians' home planet was destroyed, it was decided that they would enter cryogenic sleep while waiting for Earth's civilization to mature so they could coexist peacefully. Zemus was a Lunarian who opposed this decision, believing that they should just wipe out the puny humans and colonize Earth now. Because of the threat he posed, he was forced into cryogenic sleep at the center of the moon, but even from there, he was able to psychically control Golbez and Kain to carry out his ambitions. He's shown to be fairly cunning, as he engineered Golbez's rise to power in Baron and manipulated them into getting the Water, Air, and Fire Crystals, then manipulated Cecil to get the Crystal of Earth. He also successfully stole the four Dark Crystals and was able to summon the Giant of Bab-il to destroy the world, which was narrowly averted only because every nation came together in the nick of time to fight it off. After Zemus was slain, his feelings of hatred and anger were so powerful they took on a life of their own, giving rise to the evil spirit of Zeromus. Zeromus is hatred incarnate, and will always exist as long as there is hatred in the hearts of humanity. As opposed to the mortal Zemus who wanted to destroy life on Earth so that Lunarians could settle there, Zeromus just wants to destroy everything. As paper thin as that is, we at least know where Zeromus came from and why he wants to destroy everything. Necron just shows up out of nowhere and decides to kill everyone because reasons.