No. 100 to 91.

Okay, finally we can get into the list of the 100 most popular Final Fantasy characters of all time. It’s been months in the making, and now I can finally reveal who ranked where. This week, we’ll have a look at numbers 100 to 91. The bottom ten. The characters who just snuck into the list. Here we go.

100. Emperor Mateus (Final Fantasy II)

"You have braved the bowels of Hell to reach me. But the hand of man, which deals in false justice and forsaken love, can never hope to defeat the lord master of Hell!"

Since when is Ziggy Stardust in Final Fantasy? Emperor Mateus is the main villain of Final Fantasy II, and represented the villains for his game in Dissidia. He rules the land of Palamecia, but dreams of taking over the world. With his army, he easily conquers most of the world. The Wild Rose rebellion ensigns Firion and his friends, who manage to defeat Mateus. However, he managed to split his soul in two, one which conquered heaven, and the other hell. Firion, Maria, Guy and Leon beat his dark half, while Minwu, Josef, Scott and Ricard took the light half.

99. Agrias Oaks (Final Fantasy Tactics)

"Have you no pride, no honor?"

Final Fantasy really distorts my view of people called “Lady”. Lady Agrias Oaks was at the Orbonne Monastery when the War of the Lions began, with Princess Ovelia. Since the princess was in great danger where she was, Agrias hires Gaffgarion’s mercenary troop to protect her. Unknown to her, Ramza is among them. When the monastery comes under attack, Delita manages to kidnap the princess. The group track Delita to Zeirchele Falls, where he ran into some Northern Sky knights. Agrias and Ramza then have to protect the princess from Gaffgarion and the Northern Sky, who intend to kill her.

98. Rosa Joanna Farrell (Final Fantasy IV)

"Cecil of the Red Wings is many things... But he is no coward. Not the Cecil who I love..."

Finally, a Final Fantasy game with a love interest. Rosa is one of the main characters of Final Fantasy IV, and Cecil’s girlfriend (wife in The After Years). When Cecil’s unsure if the king is working for good or evil, Rosa comforts him and says that there’s no evil in him. When Cecil disappears and The Red Wings start planning to take the next crystal, Rosa starts searching for Cecil. However, in the desert outside Kaipo she contracts Desert Fever, and is cared for by an elderly couple while Cecil, Rydia and Edward get the Sand Pearl from Antlion’s Den.

97. Cait Sith (Final Fantasy VII)

"There's plenty of stuffed toys like my body around, but there's only one me!"

Worst, robot, EVER! Cait Sith is a playable character in Final Fantasy VII, and temporarily playable in Dirge of Cerberus. He’s a robot plush toy controlled by Reeve who spies on the party (and yet they keep him around). He’s a terrible fighter (which even he admits to), and in Final Fantasy VII relies on the moogle he rides on to fight for him. He sometimes tells peoples fortunes, which turn out to be right, though they’re vague (like a normal fortune teller). He appears in Advent Children as nothing more than comic relief, and apparently has a Scottish accent.

96. Barthello (Final Fantasy X)

"Even if we believe different things, I'll always feel the same about her. The time of the summoners may have passed, but I will always be Dona's guardian. I live only to protect her!"

And here I honestly thought this list would only contain heroes and major villains. Barthello is a recurring NPC and Dona’s guardian, making a few cameos. He is first met in Kilika Temple with Dona, where he doesn’t speak, however when the party meets him in Djose Temple he speaks with Auron, the man who inspired him to become a guardian. In Final Fantasy X-2, he has joined New Yevon while Dona is in the Youth League. As the tension between the two factions grows, so does the tension between Barthello and Dona, eventually resulting in Barthello being kicked out.

95. Garland (Final Fantasy IX)

"To live is to give life meaning, yet one must take others' lives to survive... Terra's souls will sleep until they forget such nonsense. They will begin a new life in a new dimension. It's a world in which life and death become one... That is the dimension in which we are meant to live, as beings that transcend life and death!"

Didn’t I knock you down last time? Garland is an android created five thousand years before the events of the game. His purpose was to ensure the Terran’s survival as they merged with Gaia. However, the fusion was a disaster, leaving Gaia in ruins and Terra inside Gaia. Garland oversaw the restoration from the Iifa Tree, and started creating Genomes for the Terran souls to be moved into. To speed up the removal of Gaian souls, Garland created Kuja to kill them. However, Kuja was viewed as a failure by Garland, and so Garland decided to replace him with Zidane.

94. Hope Estheim (Final Fantasy XIII)

"Snow dragged us all into this. You and me, your sister Serah...He's gotta pay."

As if Tidus and Sephiroth didn’t fill the momma’s boy quota. Hope is the youngest cast member of Final Fantasy XIII, at fourteen years of age. While on vacation with his mother Nora to Bodhum, members of PSICOM discover Pulse fal’Cie Anima in the Vestige, and the two are caught in the quarantine of the town. They are forced onto the Purge train (where Hope meets Vanille), which is later derailed by Lightning and Sazh. They are rescued by a resistance group (also named NORA), which Nora agrees to help. When Nora is killed, Hope blames the group’s leader, Snow.

93. Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII)

"Time... It will not wait... No matter... how hard you hold on. It escapes you..."

“Hey Squall, am I your matron, your girlfriend, or the sorceress your father stopped?” “Whatever.” Ultimecia is the main villain of Final Fantasy VIII, and the game’s villain representative in Dissidia. Ultimecia’s goal is to use Time Compression to force all time into a single moment, then absorbing all existence and becoming a god. To do so, she needed to find and possess Ellone, Squall’s half-sister. She sends her consciousness back in time to take possession of Edea’s body and quickly rises through the ranks of Galbadia’s government. While possessing Edea’s body, she is attacked numerous times by SeeD members.

92. Anima (Final Fantasy X)

"He is the one who sowed the seeds of hatred. He is to blame. But I am at fault for letting him become what he was."

Where does your food come out? Anima is a summon who appeared in Final Fantasy X as Maester Seymour Guado’s aeon. In Final Fantasy X, she (that’s right, she) is the aeon that resulted from Seymour’s mother deciding to become a fayth. She intended for Seymour to use her to defeat Sin so he’d be accepted by the people, but instead he used her power for personal gain. Her overdrive, Oblivion, can do nearly 1.6 million damage. When Yuna and her guardians find her faith at Baaj temple, she encourages them to defeat her son, to stop him destroying Spira.

91. Eiko Carol (Final Fantasy IX)

"Solitude - I don't wanna be alone anymore..."

Wait, I thought this game already have a white mage and summoner? Eiko is amazingly not the youngest playable character in Final Fantasy IX, despite only being six years old. She is a summoner from Madian Sari, which was destroyed by Kuja and Garland so they wouldn’t be a threat to them. This resulted in all her remaining family being killed, and Eiko lived alone in Madain Sari with some moogles. While stealing food from Conde Petie, she met Zidane’s party. She noticed that he was in love with Garnet, and from that moment attempted to make him hers (eww).

Well, that’s it for this week. Next week, we continue on with the next ten characters. Until then, seeya.