Good LORD, what a waste of time! I remember the first time I fought Sephiroth, when he did that I just left the room and went to the bathroom - and when I came back, it was STILL GOING! And then I had a confused, spinning frog, a blinded, petrified someone with 1 HP, and someone else dead.
And honestly, what does blowing up planets have to do with you becoming a confused frog? It just never made any sense to me.
Because that's how a lot of FF's bosses are. There's nothing special about them, and the only way to make the fight difficult is with annoying status abnormalities. That's why I like games like Lunar and Grandia where things like the characters' placement affects the fighting strategy, and the IP gauge in Grandia added so much to the fighting system by simply showing you who would act, what they would do, and when they planned on doing it.
Well, his hair IS white...
My friend refers to this as "FF bad guy hair." I think he just looks too much like Setzer, or Alucard.
Zophar did the Hell Wave in the original EB, and it was monsterous. No spell ever took more than 999 in Lunar, but that spell did like 7000 damage. It was the only spell in the game that did a single amount of damage more than 999.
Edit- I don't even remember Ghaleon's Hell Wave in SSSC. I'm vaugely recalling it, but it wasn't the same spell graphically at all.