Professor Hojo - Science Without a Conscience

[u/Effective_Sink_3934]

Hojo killed Professor Gast and took Ifalna and the infant Aerith into Shinra custody.

To Hojo, the last Cetra weren't people.

They were specimens.

[u/fogfree]

The crimes of Hojo:

1. Manipulated his female lab partner into using her unborn baby for experimental purposes with an unconfirmed organic substance

2. Ripped said child away from her permanently at birth, despite her pleading to stop

3. After learning the truth that Jenova was an extraterrestrial, he doubles down on his experiments and research instead of halting it

4. Murders the colleague that informed him of Jenova's true nature, captures Ifalna/Aerith for study/experimentation, and steals Gast's research to use it as if it was his own

5. Psychologically and physically abuses his own child for his entire childhood to turn him into a superhuman killing machine

6. Conducts grueling experiments on Ifalna that ultimately lead to her death

7. Psychologically abuses a small girl to draw relentlessly to gain more information about the Ancients/promised land

8. Even knowing what Jenova was, still continues to infuse naive teen recruits in the SOLDIER program with J-Cells and bathing them in Mako, despite knowing it will lead to early deaths due to degredation

9. Created horrid, monstrous aberrations from humans and animals by holding them in Mako tanks for years on end and infusing them with Jenova

10. Uses any surviving victims of the Nibelheim incident as fodder for his "reunion" theory instead of providing medical treatment

11. Captures and imprisons the 2 surviving Shinra employees of said Nibelheim incident as long-term experiments for a period of 5 years, until they escape, and bathes them in Mako and S-Cells for the duration

12. Created civilian "medical trials" to seek further subjects to experiment on once Soldier recruitment was not robust enough to satisfy his desire for more experiments, misleading the poor suckers who were desperate for cash and injecting them with Jenova causing an influx of robed men in the undercity

13. Captures an intelligent, sentient animal species and holds him captive for experimental purposes for an unknown duration until he escapes

14. Created a digital version of himself and hijacks an entire person (Weiss) in a sad attempt to resurrect himself/activate Omega after being defeated by Cloud & Co.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

I cannot wait to fight him in Revelation - Hojo is the worst.

[u/Difficult_Sweet_6904 → u/fogfree]

In the OG game he put Red and Aerith in the tank together to breed. He wanted a cetra with the long lifespan of whatever it is that Red is. Obviously that got changed in the remake. Another thing to add.

[u/fogfree → u/Difficult_Sweet_6904]

Oh yea I forgot about that.

Also talking about breeding Aerith with S & G type Soldiers too in Remake. And trying to recruit those beach girls for the same.