Even after his "redemption" post FFVII, he's certainly not just helping to rebuild the world out of a feeling of contrition and benevolence. To me, he always came off as ruthlessly ambitious and determined. From that point on, Rufus is determined to be the one that beats Sephiroth since it would serve as a display of power and control, while also cementing his legacy as the next head of the company. Since that's what he's wanted for a very long time.Īs a villain, I always saw him more as a rival to the heroes than outright villain since after President Shinra's death and Sephiroth's return, most of Shinra's resources focus on tailing and defeating Sephiroth. His newfound role and responsibility at apprehending and defeating Sephiroth allows him the means to not only flex Shinra's military power, but also feel out what full control of the company is like. He's been stuck in Junon for awhile, and given his youth and experience, he's very comfortable fully embracing his role as President of the company, while also traveling within the very airship that was stationed at the airbase he controls. He's more militaristic, ruthless and willing to utilize the company's weapon power to achieve his ends. He's far more ruthless in regards to overseeing the company since he never was interested in just the company's profits or attempts at harvesting Mako. With all that in mind, Rufus Shinra's aesthetic and personality fits perfectly. He pointed out that those types of society were very good for invading because you could change their political direction fairly easily.įinancier of AVALANCHE and his attempted coup of the Shinra Company, his daddy thought it was best he was given a more limited role within the company, somewhere far away from the main dealings of the company in Midgar. There's actually a chapter in Machievelli's The Prince on the issue. It's very hard to change the direction of a heavily institutionalized corporation, but fairly easy to change the direction of a feudal society ruled by "Divine Right of Kings", it happened in medieval Europe all the time.
They probably just realised they'd created a much more complex fictional society, and that the behaviour would need to change to match it. The Rufus thing probably wasn't intended to be deconstructing tropes. They usually just lazily default onto a kind of romanticized feudal society, which would never actually exist anywhere but is nice to imagine. Most of the previous games in the series, and all RPGs since then, don't even bother doing this. It has clear political and economic structures that affect the world in understandable ways. The main thing FF7 did was just put 10 times as much thought into the details of the society it was depicting.
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