WARNING: This posting may contain spoilers for those who haven't played FFX yet (and don't know anything about it)!

Quote Originally Posted by Christ Eastwood View Post
My favorite villain was Jecht. He has a lot of depth to him, his story is shown throughout the playthrough of Final Fantasy X, and he has a personal relationship with the main character. Not to mention that he is the reincarnation of a massive monster summoned to protect a dream version of a civilization, which ironically becomes a civilization that it eventually physically destroys.
Wait - what? Really? I must say I'm surprised to hear someone say that - of all villains in the FF series - Jecht is the best one. If you'd said "My favorite villain was Sin.", I would've nodded my head, thinking to myself "Yup. Sin was quite an interesting villain." But Jecht? I must admit, I don't see him as a villain at all.
Yes, you have to fight against him at the end and you have to defeat him. But - as far as I remember what Jecht was saying at the end - he wanted you to defeat him. He even regretted being such an a-hole to you. (With you I mean Tidus of course. *coughs*)
Still, he didn't have a chance than to become sin. I guess he didn't really want to become a monster, he just wanted to save Auron and Braska when he sacrificed himself - I consider this very brave. He may have been a bad father (okay, he definitely was), still he left all the spheres for his son and showed - throughout the game - that he's not that bad at all. And as I said, at the end he regrets everything he's done. (Doesn't he even apologize for being such a bad father? I really don't remember it in detail.)

Nevertheless, I agree with you that Jecht definitely was an interesting character - but he wasn't the villain. Sin was.