Kuja

• Kuja
• Trance Kuja

“	The weak lose their freedom to the strong. Such is the way of the strong. And it is the providence of nature that only the strong survive. That's why I needed strength.	„
	~ Kuja

Summary

Kuja is the main antagonist of Final Fantasy IX. A Genome manufactured to provoke war between humans, he operates behind the scenes, at first working in Queen Brahne's shadow. He's an effeminate, vain sorcerer who supplies Queen Brahne with Black Mages and summon magic, ostensibly only for the money. However, after murdering his client, it turns out that his ambitions may lie more in the direction of global domination. He wishes to acquire the power of the Eidolons to overthrow his creator, Garland, and rule both Terra and Gaia. It turns out that he was actually created by Garland to wage war on Gaia; having decided to rebel, he's gathering power to usurp his master and conquer both Gaia and Terra.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 5-B | High 5-A | At least High 5-A | At least 2-A

Key: Base | Post Souls Absorption | Trance Kuja | Dissidia

Name: Kuja

Origin: Final Fantasy IX

Gender: Male

Age: 24

Classification: Genome, Red Mage

Powers and Abilities:

• Base
• Dissidia

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Magic, Elemental Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Flight, Barrier Creation (In the form of a magic wall that reflects magical attacks), Transformation into his Trance that drastically increase his stats, Energy Blasts, Healing (Mid-Low via Regeneration scale), BFR via Teleportation, Telepathy, Non-Physical Interaction, Soul Absorption, Life Creation from Mist

• Abilites
• Resistances
• With Eidolons

All previous abilities enhanced, Summoning (Can summon various Eidolons from Summonstones and the World of Illusions), Willpower Manipulation (a person's will is power there and enables them to do a multitude of things the stronger their will), Reactive Power Level (the greater someone's will, the greater their power), Law Manipulation (Beings with strong wills can overwrite the laws of the world and bend them to their will), Creation (With a powerful enough will, once can create various things such as phone lines, airships and even entire countries and worlds), Sealing (Can seal off large areas and people with her will, such as Cecil sealing himself in Castle Baron or the cast sealing Kefka inside a Torsion), Dimensional Travel (Characters can open Torsions, rifts in space-time to travel various dimensions), and Immortality (Type 2) (Due to the crystal core of darkness's influence in the hands of Ardyn, warriors will not die no matter how injured they are)

Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (Via Zalera, the Death Serpah, who was going to absorb the souls of every living being on the planet), Corruption & Body Puppetry (Due to their light, Warriors of Materia can dispel attempts to control them), Empathic Manipulation, and Madness Manipulation (Type 3; Resistant to the effects of the True Moon, which is capable of affecting the hearts and minds of all living beings on the planet), Gravity Manipulation (Unaffected by the gravitational pull of the True Moon, which even the Lunar Whale couldn't escape from), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (Can withstand the attacks of Atomos, who manipulates space, crush enemies down to a molecular level, and can warp them into another dimension), Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations (Can fight and survive on the moon), Absolute Zero (Can survive Shiva's ice attacks, including Diamond Dust),

Hellfire Manipulation (Via Ifrit, Phoenix, Rubicante, and Marilith), Ice Manipulation and Absolute Zero and Duplication (Via Shiva who's Ice and aura are stated to reach Absolute Zero including her Diamond Dust, Shiva can duplicate herself), Water Manipulation (via Kraken, Cagnazzo, and Leviathan), Necromancy (Via Lich), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (via Atomos, who manipulates space, crush enemies down to a molecular level, and can warp them into another dimension), Death Manipulation and Space-Time Manipulation (Via Odin, who's Zantetsuken instantly kills an enemy and opens a rift in space time to take their remains), Matter Manipulation and Radiation Manipulation (via Megaflare, which is stated numerous times to be a nuclear power), Attack Reflection (via Carbuncle), Poison Manipulation and Corrosion Inducement (The Poison status effect, which is also stated to corrode the target), Darkness Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (The darkness status ailment via various equipment, which would render the target blind), Power Nullification (The Silence status, which would render the target's ability to use magic null), and Petrification (Via Malboro's Bad Breath), Resurrection (Phoenix can revive fallen party members), Light Manipulation and Holy Manipulation (Via Alexander), Explosion Manipulation and Self-Destruction (Via Bomb), Healing (Via Sylph and Asura), Earth Manipulation (Via Titan), BFR (via Typhon), Soul Manipulation (Via Zalera, the Death Seraph, who was going to abosrb all souls on the planet)

Attack Potency: Planet level (Dispelled Clerya’s Sandstorm powered by a part of Alexander’s power) | Brown Dwarf level (After absorbing all the souls from the Invincible, he became powerful enough to fight and take hits from party at the moment) | At least Brown Dwarf level (Vastly superior to Garland, easily laid waste to all of Terra) | At least Multiverse level+ (Is comparable to the other Warriors of Spiritus and draws power from the gods of the cycle. Participated in the defeat of Shinryu)

Speed: Relativistic+ (Should be comparable to the Ark) | Relativistic+ (Comparable to Garland) | Relativistic+ (Kept up with the entire party) | Massively FTL+ (Can keep up with the other Warriors of Materia such as Zidane)

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Immeasurable (Is superior to Neo Exdeath and Enuo)

Striking Strength: Unknown | Unknown | At least Brown Dwarf level (Harmed a weakened Garland with physical strikes) | At least Multiverse level+

Durability: Planet level (A blast from Bahamut barely damaged him) | Brown Dwarf level | At least Brown Dwarf level | At least Multiverse level+ (Can keep up with the other Warriors of Spiritus)

Stamina: Extremely high

Range: Standard Melee Range. Planetary with magic (Dispelled Cleyra's sandstorm from Alexandria)

Standard Equipment: None notable

Intelligence: Kuja is an incredibly skilled magician, casually wielding powerful spells like Flare Star and Holy as well as the ultimate magic, Ultima. Created as the Angel of Death, Kuja has no conscience, and is thus incredibly wicked, ruthless, and calculating, single-handedly instigating a war to wipe out life on Gaia as Garland intended, enslaving the mighty Bahamut with the airship Invincible and using it to wipe out Alexandria, only failing due to the intervention of the country's patron Eidolon, Alexander, which too was destroyed in the end. However, for all his power and brilliance, Kuja is also narcissistic, proud, and childish, having never experienced a childhood to develop his emotional maturity. As a result, he panics when things go wrong and refuses to improve himself since he feels that he has done nothing wrong.

Weaknesses: Arrogant and often takes his opponents lightly, Vain and narcissistic and incredibly childish, He's sensitive about his mortality and is a somewhat of a nihilist upon discovering his origin, believing that the world should not go on without him, impacting his sanity.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

• Trance: Upon experiencing a powerful surge of emotions, Kuja achieved the Trance state at the end of the game, drastically increasing his already great magical prowess, allowing him to lay waste to all of Terra with ease.

• Curaga: Heals the caster's wounds instantly upon usage.

• Flare: Unleashes a powerful non-elemental explosion to deal massive damage.
  • Flare Star: A stronger version of Flare.

• Holy: Unleashes a powerful Holy-elemental explosion.

• Reflect: Creates a magical barrier that can block and reflect magic based attacks back at the original caster.

• Teleportation: Used on the party at the end of the game with the last of his power. The power teleported them out of Memoria/The Hill of Despair's dimension and back on to Gaia thousands of kilometers from where Memoria once was.

• Thundaga: Unleashes a powerful bolt of electricity, dealing heavy lightning-elemental damage.

• Ultima: The most powerful expression of offensive magic in the game. Unleashes numerous powerful energy blasts that can cover planetary ranges. Kuja used this attack upon achieving Trance to destroy Terra.

• Final Requiem: His EX Burst in Dissidia, Kuja sends his opponent flying before "conducting" a series of explosions similar to the Flare spell before engulfing his foe in the light of Ultima.

Notable Matchups

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Discussions

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