Gilgamesh has a BROTHER?!

[lololink]

1) Doesn't Gilgamesh die in the final dungeon of FFV? And yet he appears in many other FF games, including FFXIV.

We don't really know if he dies or not and he could totally have been wandering in all the FF games between the time he was sent to the void and the time he supposedly dies, because, you know, time and space travelling convenient logic.

[Sholah]

Gilgamesh is not actually the same in each game, any more than we keep seeing the same chocobos, moogles, summons, etc.

He actually is. After Gilgamesh is blown away in the Void in FF5, it somehow sends him to FF8. The Japanese version of the game has him asking about Bartz and the Interdimensional Rift in confusion when he first appears. From there, he jumps between worlds looking for Excalibur and Bartz.

[Blacksmith_Tony]

Tongue in cheek response, but isn't it a tad racist to take the very obviously Japanese inspired Samurai character from a past FF game, and pair him up as the alleged brother of the other very Japanese inspired Kabuki character based on the real life Mesopotamian warrior king from a past FF game?

[Ilenya]

Sudden headcanon for FFX. Yojimbo was the dream made when people tried to recreate the Zanarkand hero of ancient times, Gilgamesh. However, like most heroes, Gilgamesh's story had been changed and rewritten and exaggerated so many times that Yojimbo was what they came up with at the point the Aeon was required to be created.

[Tiggy]

What? No. Gilgamesh isn't some character reinvented each time. It's the same character each time. He didn't have a brother other than Enkidu before so no he won't suddenly get one now. Just because it's in Eorzea now doesn't change the fact that this character transcends eorzea and isn't tied to it's unique lore.

[BigPapaSmurf]

What? No. Gilgamesh isn't some character reinvented each time. It's the same character each time. He didn't have a brother other than Enkidu before so no he won't suddenly get one now. Just because it's in Eorzea now doesn't change the fact that this character transcends eorzea and isn't tied to it's unique lore.

OP changed it to "nemesis" instead of brother after much deliberation within the thread; he just couldn't change the title of the thread.