Yeah, he's like the quintessential definition of So Heroic It Hurts Everybody Involved. And people wonder where Zack got his martyr complex from - nobody with a teacher like Angeal could've left Cloud behind, not with all that honor oozing out and dripping all over the place and making a bloody mess and the worst of it being that he completely and totally practiced what he preached, which is the worst possible type of guy to have to disappoint because he totally walks the walk he talks up, and... yeah.