Final Fantasy X/YMMV

"Auron: Although he was not the man I once knew, was still my friend, Seymour. You will pay for his death!"
 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: Is set to be rereleased in high definition for the PlayStation 3 and Play Station Vita, in honor of the 10 year anniversary.
 * Alas, Poor Villain: He's not an especially likable character, but he was back stabbed by his own partner. In fairness, he really should have seen it coming. On the other hand, someone will miss him.

"Seymour: So it is you [Yuna] who will send me. But even after death, Spira's sorrow will prevail."
 * Also, Seymour, especially upon


 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The entire soundtrack.
 * The Battle with Seymour is particularly awesome. It didn't make it on to Dissidia for nothing.
 * Deconstruction Fic: Quite a few, about how much it would hurt to accompany your surrogate baby sister to her inevitable death, which everyone (including her) wants to happen. In the Sequel, fics about Yuna hiding her pain.
 * Dude, Not Funny: "Well, I am Sin, you know."
 * Another example occurs when Wakka, trying to cheer Rikku up, makes a rather tasteless joke as the Al Bhed prepare to destroy Home. Rikku quite rightly chews him out for it, and if you speak to Wakka afterward, he admits that he really ought to have "kept his big mouth shut".
 * Ear Worm: Ieyui, nobomeno...
 * Even more so the cutscene version.
 * Ending Fatigue:
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: While Tidus and Yuna are the leads, Auron's name comes up on this page more than either of them. This is because he is a Badass, starting from his first line.
 * From before his first line - the first time you see him, Auron is standing on a ledge high above Zanarkand, Badass Longcoat blowing in the wind, looking out over the city. He sees  and calmly toasts the approaching monstrosity. And this is set to "Otherworld".
 * Fan Disservice: starts off in her oh-so-revealing metal bikini, then you have her subsequent forms, which are anything but fanservice material.
 * Fan-Preferred Couple: Auron + Lulu is practically a cottage industry. Cold, aloof personalities in need of some happiness (or at the very least a hug)? "It practically writes itself!"
 * Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: Lulu and Yunalesca, though the latter serves double-duty.
 * Also, Yuna. Mismatched Eyes? Yamato Nadeshiko? And that outfit teases with a eyeful of leg...
 * For the ladies, there's Auron in all his Badass Foxy Grandpa glory. Though maybe not just for them....
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment: Playing through the game a second time and knowing changes your perception of many early scenes. Especially
 * It's an in-character version as well, because when Tidus learns he suddenly has about the same reaction to those earlier scenes.
 * Game Breaker: So many! On your first time through the game, it's recommended that you fight the last boss as soon as it's available. If you go and start doing sidequests first, you'll pick up a few Game Breakers and the end will be disappointingly easy.
 * Yuna's celestial weapon Nirvana turns her into a death machine. It breaks her damage limit and lets her cast any spell for just 1 mana-- including Holy, which normally costs 85. Even better, once Lulu gets Ultima and Doublecast, Yuna can immediately learn both with a black magic sphere and a special sphere. Yuna can then doublecast Ultima, doing tens of thousands in damage to all enemies, for twice the mana than the weakest cure spell.
 * Quick Hit allows you to attack, and then get a second turn with almost no delay. Keep using the ability and your enemy takes forever to get an action.
 * Wakka's Attack Reels Overdrive + World Champion + high Strength = 12 max-damage hits, for a total of 1199988 points. All but the toughest Bonus Bosses die in one attack. Getting it is a ridiculously long process, but once he has it, you might as well just have everyone else Entrust their Overdrive to him.
 * Mindy's Passado can do fifteen max-damage hits if Yuna's strength is high enough. While this is definitely more net damage than the aforementioned Attack Reels, it's somewhat less reliable due to the Magus Sisters' pseudo-random AI, meaning that while you can influence Mindy to use Passado, you can never outright guarantee it like you can with Attack Reels. In the end, which you prefer comes down to risk vs. reward.
 * Also, Passado's individual hits may be lessened by armor, which becomes very noticeable against tougher enemies.
 * Yojimbo is a summoned aeon who fights for money. He's supposed to act randomly depending on how much you pay him. If you play your cards right you can guarantee he will use his ultra-rare "Zanmato" attack, which kills literally anything in one hit, even if its immune to instant death.
 * Hell, any aeon at any point is game breaking. Most people who have played the game before avoid using them just because they make the game so easy.
 * Rikku's "Mix" Overdrive, so much so that most guides for the Dark Aeons/other high-level bosses make a huge deal of using it. The best combination is Final Elixir, which heals the entire party to max HP and MP, revives K Od party members, and cures all negative status effects. Other awesome combinations include Trio of 9999 (every attack does 9999 damage), Freedom X (the whole party can cast spells for free), Hyper Mighty G (casts Shell, Protect, Haste, Regen and Auto-Life on the party), and many, many others.
 * For Blitzball, the Jecht Shot. With very little strategy and enough HP to use it constantly, it can result in almost effortless victories.
 * There's also a glitch in the Blitzball enemy AI: as soon as you have the lead, have one of your guys holding the ball swim into your own goal. The opposing team has no programming for what to do and will swim uselessly around in circles until the time runs out.
 * Goddamned Bats: The Chocobo racing minigame has birds that exist for no other reason than to eat away at your time as they attack in an inexplicable rabid frenzy.
 * Hate Dumb: It's a Final Fantasy game; of course there's going to be a sizable Hate Dumb.
 * Final Fantasy X-2 gained a Hate Dumb merely because it wasn't a continuation of their favourite Final Fantasy game.
 * The HD Remaster gained one by existing, and largely because the fans have been asking that Square remake Final Fantasy VII for the modern consoles since the PlayStation 3 Tech Demo.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The cutscene with Tidus grinding down the wires in Bevelle can be seen as quite hilarious, if you remember that James Arnold Taylor (Tidus' American VA) took over as the voice of Ratchet from 2 onwards.
 * Ho Yay Shipping: And how. You haven't seen a Rule 34 thread on 4chan until you've seen someone request Tidus and Jecht.
 * Hype Backlash: Although not as explosive as Final Fantasy VII's, it's still fairly big.
 * Love to Hate: Seymour's so obnoxious, but that makes him oh-so-fun to kick around.
 * Memetic Badass: Jecht. Auron also has some shades of this.
 * With Auron, it's not memetic. He really is just that badass.
 * Memetic Mutation: "Stay away from the summoner!"
 * Tidus desktops (just google it).
 * "I'M THE BEST!"
 * "I wanna be a blitzball when I grow up!"
 * "AH! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!"
 * Moe: Rikku and Yuna
 * Moral Event Horizon: Seymour's gloating about.
 * Most Annoying Sound: The entire time you're walking around the battlefield of Home, there's a voice saying something in (presumably) Al Bhed over the loudspeakers. No one really knows what he's actually saying.
 * He's saying "I'm annoying, huh?"
 * You might also hear something else.
 * Tidus's Annoying Laugh.
 * Most Wonderful Sound: Death spell.
 * Just about any Pre-Mortem One-Liner your party throws out right before delivering the final blow of a fight.
 * Narm: Where do we even begin? This game could have it's own page.
 * Most people misunderstand the laughing scene taking it for the trope, when in reality it was meant to be forced. However, it still may count in the Japanese version due to just how strange and bird-like Tidus' laugh sounds.
 * Or that stunningly gorgeous, but also stunningly terrible first kiss/love-making/it's all terribly unclear underwater?
 * A great example is when Tidus finds out that Yuna will die fighting Sin. His scream makes it sound like he subbed his toe
 * Nothing Is Scarier: The second half of the final dungeon. The tense music cranks the paranoia all the way up, and those damn pieces of the floor that suddenly bar your path with a loud noise certainly don't help. It gets worse when you have the No Encounters ability equipped, preventing random encounters from breaking the tension.
 * Poe's Law: Say, ever hear about that laughing scene? You know where Tidus and Yuna laugh like they went crazy? The scene that's held up as an example of bad English dubbing? Well guess what...it's identical in the Japanese version, except that Tidus sounds like a crow and not a seagull, because the entire point of that sequence is that Tidus and Yuna are faking it - most people spreading this were either making fun of it (because they sound like birds!) or took it out of context...or completely ignored what happened afterwords. ("We thought you had gone crazy!")
 * Smurfette Breakout: Yuna and Rikku were two of only three girls in a party of seven characters. Yuna was the main character's love interest while Rikku was a supporting character. The direct sequel revolves around them and new character Paine. Word of God has said that there were originally meant to be two spin off games with one focusing on Yuna and the other on Rikku but they eventually got combined into the one game.
 * Tear Jerker: And how. It might be faster to list what wasn't.
 * Theiss Titillation Theory: Why Lulu's dress just doesn't fall off.
 * That One Attack: Sin's Giga-Graviton. It's
 * That One Boss: There likely isn't a single player that didn't lose to on their first attempt (unless they read a guide). The second and third forms of  are no picnic either.
 * Going into details with 's difficulty, her first two forms aren't that bad, she'll use an attack called Hellbiter that does a small amount of damage and inflicts zombie status on the whole party, and then most of the damage she does comes from her using healing spells on them, which she will keep doing if even you remove the zombie status. This is more likely to be annoying than anything else, the bad part is that when she gets to her third form, where she starts using an attack called Megadeath, an instant death spell on the whole party, which you can only survive if someone has something protects from instant death (not likely at that point), or is in the zombie status, meaning you can't heal them.
 * Evrae and Sinspawn Gui are also a pain.
 * That One Sidequest: You say you want Lulu's ultimate weapon? Be prepared to dodge 200 lightning bolts in one sitting.
 * Which is nothing compared to the amount of time you'll need to be prepared to waste to get Wakka's ultimate weapon.
 * The butterfly minigame. That damned butterfly minigame.
 * Getting the sigil for Tidus' weapon will more than likely have you either swearing, speaking gibberish, or throwing your controller as you try to get a time of less than zero on the chocobo race.
 * Unlocking the final Bonus Boss Nemesis requires you to capture 10 of every monster in the game (by defeating them with a weapon that has the "Capture" skill), no matter how rare. This can easily take tens of hours.
 * Too Cool to Live: . Technically, more of a
 * Huge subversion with
 * Villain Decay: After defeating, he drops out of significance in the plot and eventually becomes a complete joke. Not even the main characters take him seriously anymore, with Tidus' reaction to their final confrontation being one of simple annoyance.
 * Ironically, he becomes tougher as a boss, so I guess it all balances out?
 * Visual Effects of Awesome: The art direction's beauty still holds up long after PS2 graphics become outdated. Just imagine how it'll look in HD....
 * Woolseyism: Too many to list.
 * Woolseyism: Too many to list.