Wiz: The great philosopher Plato once said...

Boomstick: But to these guys power is the measure of a man.

Wiz: Sephiroth, the fearsome One-Winged Angel of Final Fantasy.

Boomstick: And Vergil, the half demon son of Sparta from Devil May Cry.

He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.

Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who will win...a DEATH BATTLE!

Through the millennia legends were passed down of a place with a source of unlimited energy.

The Promised Land.

Unfortunately all hope of finding this sacred ground had been lost...

Until the Shinra Electric Power Company excavated the remains of a being believed to hail from the very land they sought.

Boomstick: They called this weird, naked purple lady Jenova and thought that if they could bring her back to life.

She could help them find the Promised Land.

But apparently, they just didn't have any Phoenix downs.

Wiz: If they couldn't resurrect a being who could lead them to the Promised Land.

Shinra would simply create their own after many experiments infusing Jenova cells with those of a human's.

They finally found their savior.

His name was Sephiroth.

Boomstick: With hair like that, it's no wonder he was created in a lab!

Look at how majestic that mane is.

Wiz: According to Final Fantasy lore, Sephiroth has to use an entire bottle of shampoo and conditioner every single time he bathes.

Boomstick: Why do you know that?

Did you join his fan club or something?

Wiz: Uh... for research.

But Shinra wasn't interested in Sephiroth for his hair.

Instead he was an essential part of their SOLDIER program.

Boomstick: Wait, wait.

This electric company has their own private military!?

I'd hate to miss a payment with those guys.

Especially if they sent Seph after me.

I mean, look at the ridiculously long sword he keeps with him!

That's his Masamune.

This 7' 2" behemoth of a blade is a lot like the Nodachi swords they used back in Feudal Japan.

But instead of wieldin' simply long with two hands like those, Sephiroth only needs one.

Wiz: Even that speaks nothing of his effectiveness as a warrior.

Boomstick: Yeah, you know when people spread legends of someone they usually make him out to be even better than he really is.

It's the total opposite with Sephiroth.

Wiz: With his superhuman speed, strength and durability.

Sephiroth was instrumental in ensuring Shinra's victory in the Wutai war, conquering the last free nation on the planet.

He returned home a legend.

Boomstick: When all those warm, fuzzy feelings of victory didn't last long.

While on a mission to the town of Nibelheim.

Sephiroth found a bunch of books on the Jenova project.

That's when he discovered that he was a secret science project the whole time.

Wiz: The truth crushed Sephiroth and droved him mad.

In a rage he annihiliated Nibelheim but was stopped by a mercenary named: Cloud Strife.

Sephiroth was impaled by the Buster Sword and fell...

To his death.

Boomstick: Oh...

Well, that's disappointing...

Which is what I would've said, if Sephiroth hadn't been dropped into a hole in the ground that led him to the giant Windows screensaver called the Lifestream.

Wiz: The Lifestream is a buried river of energy which basically maintains life across the planet.

Normally merging with the Lifestream is the equivalent of entering the afterlife but not for Sephiroth.

Boomstick: And this is where things get weird so buckle up.

Still conscious Sephiroth's essence floated through the Livestream for years until he absorbed enough energy to rebuild his body.

With the energy of the Livestream he could control other beings with Jenova cells.

Including the corpse of Jenova.

Who he manipulated like a puppet and disguise as himself.

Boomstick: Oh, what the hell that's his mom?

Who would do that to her own mom!?

I mean, I know she's a genocide Lillian monster, but come on...

Probably makes good breakfast.

Wiz: But Sephiroth's descent into the Lifestream offered him even more.

It transformed him from a mere super soldier into the most dangerous being on the planet.

He's strong enough to throw a man hundreds of feet skyward, move at supersonic speeds and withstand brutal stab wounds through vital organs.

Boomstick: He's got illusion powers that can trick people by creating an entirely fake scenario.

He can lift people with his mind including himself.

And that he can just fly it's all worth right?

Wiz: Additionally Sephiroth can cast magic thanks to his on-hand Materia.

Materia is crystallized life energy which grants different powers according to the type of materia use.

Boomstick: This led Sephy attack with fire, lightning, ice and earth based magic.

He can block attacks with barrier and reflect and heal himself with Pure and Regen and ever since jumpin' into the Lifestream he's had unlimited access to his magical powers.

Wiz: With his new Godlike abilities Sephiroth began a plan to stop mankind from drying up the planet's life force.

Boomstick: That doesn't sound so scary.

That mean he's an environmentalist-err.

Wiz: But to do this he decided to use black materia to summon a giant meteor to destroy the planet and absorb all of its life energy for himself.

Boomstick: So like an opposite environmentalist.

A planet vampire.

I mean we're talkin' 'bout a guy who kicked a dude through solid concrete.

Murdered the crap out of a 30-foot serpent with a spike through the face and tanked a dragon's flamethrower attack without even getting a teensy bit hurt.

Wiz: A particularly impressive feat considering this attack was capable of one shooting fellow soldiers Zach Fair.

Boomstick: Huh, Wiz?

You may need to up your prescription 'cause that's definitely Cloud.

No, no Cloud was just recalling false memories there it was really Zach.

However it was Cloud who impaled Sephiroth pre-Lifestream with the Buster Sword.

Boomstick: And Holy God is it huge it's like two feet wide.

You think of stabbed from that thin' with just cut him in half.

But Seph's just kind of shook it up.

Wiz: And in his rematch with Cloud he blocked in an attack strong enough to crater the metal around him.

Considering the diameter of the crater the surface area of Sephiroth's feet and assuming the most likely steel composition.

I estimate this attack to equal nearly 1,600 tons of force.

Boomstick: Sephiroth can use that wicked sword to stab and lift wanna be heroes by their ribcage.

Slice through skyscrapers and shoot energy beams that can shred these huge Mako cannons.

And from the Lifestream Sephy figured out he could create new bodies or even take on other forms.

Wiz: These forms greatly resemble certain creatures found in Christian and Jewish mythology.

Boomstick: He certainly looks the part when he goes into his ultimate form.

Wiz: Regardless Sephiroth does possess a single black wing.

A blight and symbol of his fall from grace.

Boomstick: So basically Final Fantasy does everything it can to not be subtle.

Just like Sephiroth's most devastating attack: Supernova.

Which decimates an entire solar system.

Wait if Seph's that powerful how does anyone ever beat him?

Wiz: Don't get the wrong idea.

There's a lot of debate over how Supernova actually works, but I think it's pretty clear that Sephiroth isn't creating the explosion himself.

Rather he's transporting his foes to a specific point in time within an alternate dimension.

Boomstick: Careful Wiz don't sell him short.

Wiz: Just look at it.

When he uses the attack reality literally crumbles away like glass.

This is identical to the animation for certain summoned creatures.

According to the official Crisis Core complete guide.

And this is no different.

In Dissidia fighting game Sephiroth goes for the simple approach and opens a dimensional hole to the explosion.

The attack is even described as sending destruction even into other dimensions.

And if he could summon planet busting meteors at will.

Why did he go through so much trouble to get the black materia?

Which literally summons meteors.

Boomstick: That would explain why the Supernova doesn't hurt him he's not really there just using those illusion powers of his.

With all these powers I can't believe Cloud and friends were able to take him down.

Wiz: He's not invincible but he's damn powerful.

Ever persistent Sephiroth departed with a final chilling promise.

Sephiroth: I will...

Never be a memory.

Boomstick: Why does he sound so bored?

Wiz: 2000 years ago, a great mutiny transpired in the Underworld.

The demon warrior Sparta rebelled against his evil master Mundus.

To protect the world Sparta did his best to seal the connection between Hell and Earth.

Boomstick: But then Sparta got lonely or maybe it was just a sausage fest in there.

Either way he snuck out of hell long enough to knock up this chick named Eva.

And she popped out a couple of awesome demon slayers.

Nice choice.

Wiz: You may already know the younger of the two, Dante.

Boomstick: Oh yeah, he fought that witch chick with the hair.

Wiz: But the eldest and potentially deadliest brother the one and only Vergil.

Boomstick: Vergil and Dante were rivals from birth.

Dante was a goofball, Vergil was serious.

Dante hated his being a demon, and Vergil loved it.

It's that classic odd couple scenario.

Wiz: But then one fateful day, in an act of vengeance against the late Sparda, a group of rogue demons separated the two brothers and killed their mother.

Vergil was believed to be dead.

But in reality, Vergil survived and set out on his own path to seek his father's immense power for himself.

Boomstick: And he's 100% equipped to be a butt kickin' demon slayer just like his pops.

As a half-demon, Vergil can jump several times his own height, move at supersonic speeds, and heal himself quickly kind of like that Wolverine guy.

He can tough out getting stabbed through the lungs, intestines, the heart, body parts I'm pretty sure most people need.

Wiz: Not if my experiment has anything to say about it...

Boomstick: Did you say somethin' Wiz?

Wiz: I said not if Vergil's abilities have anything to say about it!

Boomstick: Well, sadly for any human demon or human demon who gets in his way. Vergil also happens to carry some extra deadly weapons on hand, includin' a spiffy katana called Tomato.

Wiz: Yamato.

Boomstick: Eh.

It's said that this sword can cut through anythin', even dimensions.

And probably tomatoes.

Actually Yamato is the exact thing Sparta used to seal Hell from Earth in the first place.

Wiz: Virgil's sword fighting prowess draws from his dark slayer fighting style.

Which emphasizes teleportation, lightning quick movements and even quicker slashes straight from the sheet.

This technique is directly by Iaijutsu the real life japanese art of the quick draw.

And thanks to Vergil's demonic powers.

He can attack so fast the blade seems invisible.

Boomstick: Uh the only thing better than fightin' with one sword is fightin' with eight.

With Vergil's ghostly summons swords he can turn himself into a livin' beyblade.

Fire 'em like a machine gun or...

Make it rain.

Wiz: Blades maybe Virgil's bread and butter but if he needs to focus on brute strength he switches to Beowulf.

Boomstick: He can charge off blink of an eye punches and kicks that hit like a cement truck made of lead and k.o. some of the toughest demons in just a few hits.

And hey looks like he digs Street Fighter.

Wiz: There's one more trick up Vergil sleeve.

Thanks to his demon blood he can access a form known as Devil Trigger.

And this mode amplifies everything.

His strength, speed and healin' all get a huge boost makin' him several times deadlier than before.

Plus he just looked badass.

Wiz: In his quest to become as powerful as his father Vergil's abilities skyrocket.

He's taken down dozens of demons in the blink of an eye and escaped an illusion from the sorcerer Arkham which makes normal people go crazy.

Boomstick: But if anything's gonna show up what a son of Sparta can really do it's pitting him against his bro.

Sure Vergil can easily avoid Dante's bullets but why dodge them when you can spin your sword line them all up and fire 'em back.

Like a boss.

Wiz: In the same battle they briefly created a 12-foot diameter open space in a heavy rainstorm with nothing but their sword swings.

On average storms can fill a cubic foot space with as many as 30 raindrops.

So Vergil and Dante must have destroyed 108,000 raindrops in less than a second.

Boomstick: If Vergil can swing a sword that fast; I bet he'd make a killin' mowin' lawns or choppin' meat at the deli or givin' haircuts.

Or doin' that thin' where he jumps bad guys to pieces so fast they don't even realize they're dead yet.

Like when he fought Beowulf.

The monster not the weapon.

And then he punched him so hard he flew 55 feet up and hit the ceiling.

Wiz: When comparing Beowulf size to Vergil he appears to be as large as an elephant.

Given what's available this seems like our best measure of Vergil's strength.

But there is one issue.

The Devil May Cry series makes frequent use of slow motion to depict the absurdity of these characters and this could be a similar case.

Boomstick: So let's look at another slow-mo feat: The rainstorm fight.

Wiz: At one point the rain freezes in place for about two and a half seconds as Vergil and Dante keep moving.

Indicating a 14,500 percent speed increase in real time.

Applying the same degree to the Beowulf punch gives us an acceleration speed of about 4,882 feet per second.

With that in mind we can apply our previous data to deduce the maximum heights and ceiling and determined Vergil's striking strength to be nearly 720 million newtons of force.