I see lots of hate for her. I luvd her as a villain of the game!

The boss fight with her was decent, her theme tune was pretty good. but as a villian there was just no logic to her motives. i mean shes the only person who could exist in a time compressed world... then what?

she wasnt introduced in person until the last hour of the game. her character wasnt fleshed out at all. i think you see where i'm going with this; shes another Normura concoction thats poorly developed. although her design is good and her facial design is fearsome.

so why did you like her??

Is this a joke?

Umm... you don't even meet her until the last part of Disc 4. Sadly, the worst thing about about VIII is the villains (except Seifer). You start thinking that Seifer is the villain, then you think it's Edea, then Adel and finally Ultimecia.

I love Final Fantasy VIII to death, but Ultimecia is forgettable compared to the other villains in the series (e.g. Kefka, Sephiroth, Zemus...etc).

FF8 is my second favorite game, and I thought she was one of the weaker villains, you can like her though. I liked sorceress Edea and Seifer a lot more, but they weren't completely evil, Kinda like Jecht. And hell even the Fal'Cie

She was underdeveloped IMO by a lot. So definitely not one of my favorites.

My question sparked a thread! Yay!

Like I said before, she pops up at the end of the game, with practically no back story, some stupid time compression stuff.

For me vilains are good when you get to see them be evil, when you get a sense of who they are during the game.

Let me put it this way, Kefka would have sucked if during the whole game you were going after Ghestal and the Empire and then at the end they would have sprung him out of nowhere saying : "Here's your final boss, he's really evil, take our word for it"

Maybe he liked how she looked? Personally I think she's ugly but people have fetishe's

Ultimecia is one of the worst villains in the history of speculative fiction; games, books, and movies all included.

Although FF VIII was my 3rd favourite FF game I think she is far away from being one of the best villains in the series. I would even say that she is one of the worst... When I look at FF VIII alone, Seifer and Edea were much better ones.

A lot of people don't seem to realize that Ultimecia was in possession of Edea, Rinoa, and Adel at various points in the game. This is fairly clearly explained during the game. She wasn't a villain that just popped up at the end of the game. She was present from fairly close to the beginning, right through to the end. Her character weaves throughout history, and all of the events of the main story revolve around Ultimecia's quest to unify the powers of the Sorceresses to awaken the full power of an ancient God (which is why, Rinoa is referred to as "Daughter of Hyne" in the game).

Essentially the story goes as follows:

Distant Past
1. In the past, the God Hyne was defeated and his powers were split up among the sorceresses.
2. Over time, sorceresses passed on their powers to successors, and they became more powerful as certain sorceresses inherited the powers of 2 sorceresses - this is seen towards the end of the game when viewing the history of the sorceresses, you battle multiple weak ones, then gradually fewre but stronger ones.

Laguna's Time
3. By the time of Laguna's youth, when Raine and Julia were still alive, there were only two Sorceresses, Edea and Adel.
4. Adel mysteriously disappears from history; this was because Laguna locked her up in cryo-storage and shot her into space. Adel's powers do not pass on.
5. Dr. Odine begins creating the Ellone Emulator.
* In the future, Ultimecia is attempting to gain unlimited power, she can go back in time as far as this period using Odine's Ellone Emulator. She can only go as far back as the Emulator's existence.
6. Edea bumps into Ultimecia at the orphanage, and when she absorbs her, she realizes that the power is hers, and that Ultimecia is a wrathful figure from the future with intentions.
* It is here that SEED is born in order to battle the sorceress.

Squall's Time
7. Ultimecia transfers her consciousness back in time and possesses Edea, Ultimecia is now effectively using Sorceress Edea's body. Her goal is to find Sorceress Adel, and to absorb her to unify the ancient powers of Hyne (kind of like how Highlander unified the knowledge of the Immortals by killing the others off).
8. When Ultimecia can't find Adel, she discovers she has to go further back in time, and seeks out the real Ellone who lived in the time of Adel.
9. Adel is discovered, Ultimecia uses Seifer and Rinoa to retrieve her body from space.
10. When Adel's body is found, Ultimecia possesses and awakens her, and uses time compression to bring her body to the future. Time compression allows the transportation of more than just consciousness, but matter as well.

Future:
11. Ultimecia somehow becomes corrupt, SEED of the future attempt to stop her, but are destroyed.
12. She sends her consciousness back in time to find the rest (the stronger part) of the sorceress powers (in Adel's body).
13. She can now merge with body of Adel and resurrect the full powers of Hyne.
14. Squall and company defeat her.
15. Her body is thrown back in time, and she wanders into sorceress Edea who absorbs her power.