Final Fantasy/Characters/Recurring Characters

This page deals with recurring monsters from the Final Fantasy series.

Biggs and Wedge
Named after Luke Skywalker's Red Squadron wingmen from Star Wars, they rarely play a minor role in games but pop up freqently in supporting roles.


 * Red Shirt
 * Running Gag: They rarely, if ever, survive the game.
 * Mythology Gag: In A New Hope, Wedge survived but was shot and had to abandon the mission, while Biggs was killed.
 * Those Two Guys

Chocobo
Large birds that are used as mounts, they rarely play a large role in the series but are always in the background as the generic beasts of burden.


 * Art Evolution: Even fanboys of Yoshitaka Amano don't dispute changing his original art of the beast was a very wise decision.
 * Colony Drop: Choco Meteor.
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: Chocobos are usually yellow but also come in red, blue, white, black, and gold, among other colors. This usually denotes their species and abilities.
 * Horse of a Different Color: Games set in Ivalice even feature them being ridden into battle wearing armored plates.
 * Let's Get Dangerous: They can sometimes be fought as enemies, and while they aren't a threat usually, inevitably there will be an Elite Mook version or two. See also Colony Drop.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Series Mascot
 * Took a Level In Badass: Some games allow you to breed Chocobos to enhance their skills and eventually learn to fly.

Cid
The Cids are a varied bunch in personality, appearance and importance. Inevitably though, Cid is a genius engineer and probably built or owns an airship.


 * Ace Pilot
 * Badass Grandpa: While exact age varies, Cid is usually an older man.
 * Cool Airship: It would be easier to list the Cids that aren't associated with airships in some way.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Face Heel Turn: Starting in XII and continuing into XIII, Hikari to Yami no Senshi, and Type-0, the Cids are antagonists instead of allies. The Cid of Type-0 is even the Big Bad!
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Goggles Do Nothing/Opaque Nerd Glasses: Often have one or the other.
 * Legacy Character
 * Parental Substitute: Assuming he doesn't already have a family, Cid will end up being this to someone.

Gilgamesh
The wandering swordsman every fan of the series knows and loves, he began in Final Fantasy V as The Dragon to Exdeath but was cast into the Void Between the Worlds. Since then he's travelled between worlds seeking rare and powerful swords and challenging worthy foes.


 * Badass
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Braggart Boss
 * Breakout Character: From The Dragon in just another game to a recurring character spawning almost every main series game.
 * Collector of the Strange
 * Joke Weapon: Excalipoor, a knock-off of Excalibur. He's also got a lot of other weapons that are convincing fakes.
 * Large Ham: YES.
 * Legacy Character: Averted -- as speculated for years and confirmed in Dissidia 012, unlike many other recurring characters, the Gilgamesh seen across the series is indeed the same person travelling between worlds.
 * Multi-Armed and Dangerous: As a trademark, he often shifts into an alternate "true" form with six or eight arms.
 * Punch Clock Villain: He's not really evil, he just loves a good brawl and will often consider the party friends if they give him one and he lives to see them again.
 * Samurai
 * Spirited Competitor
 * Weapon of Choice: His main four weapons he's known for are the Excalibur, Excalipoor, Masamune and Zantetsuken.

Moogles
Fluffy white critters with red wings and a "pom-pom", they appear throughout the series and like Leaning On the Fourth Wall on occasion. Famous moogles include Artimeticon who runs Mognet, Stiltzkin the travelling moogle salesman, and Mog who has varying roles.


 * Berserk Button: They are very sensative about people touching their pom-poms.
 * Breakout Character: They played bit parts in III and V and weren't even in IV. And just look at them now.
 * Catch Phrase: "Kupo!"
 * Verbal Tic: In early games it was all they could say, in later games they can speak English but often end sentences or puntuate words with it.
 * Depending On the Artist: The generic moogle description is "white fur, red wings, pom-pom, smaller than humans". Other than that their appearance varies wildly from game to game.
 * Hidden Elf Village: You'll rarely see any large band of moogles setting down roots near human settlements.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * The Rival: To the Chocobos.
 * Unknown Rival: But it seems one-sided. In the Chocobo Series for example, Mog is always looking to one-up Chocobo and snatch glory for himself while Chocobo considers him a close friend.
 * Series Mascot

Ultros/Orthros and Typhon
A purple octopus with lots of tentacles and as-many fangs, he and his pal Typhon are always looking to cause trouble.


 * Blow You Away: Typhon's trademark Snort blasts a party member out of battle.
 * Boss Banter
 * Braggart Boss
 * Breakout Character: Much as with Gilgamesh, from minor bosses in a single game to recurring bosses throughout the series, but they aren't quite as widespread or well-known.
 * Combat Tentacles: As to be expected of an octopus.
 * Everything's Squishier With Cephalopods
 * Evil Duo
 * Evil Laugh: "Uwee hee hee!"
 * Greek Mythology
 * Kansai Regional Accent: Ultros in the original Japanese.
 * Large Ham
 * Perverse Sexual Lust: Ultros loves it when players bring along female party members for him to ogle. He initially claims that Noel from Final Fantasy XIII-2 is even prettier than Serah, although he claims he was joking afterwards.
 * Spell My Name With an "S": His name was Ultros in FFVI and beyond, but after Chocobo's Dungeon 2, Square started changing his name to Orthros such as in Dawn of Souls, Final Fantasy XII, and Final Fantasy Tactics a 2. His name was changed back to Ultros in Final Fantasy IV the After Years and Dissidia Final Fantasy, then back to Orthros for the PSP port of The After Years while remaining Ultros in Dissidia 012...and he's Ultros again in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, as well as Final Fantasy XIII-2.
 * Inconsistent Translation
 * The Unintelligible: Typhon only ever speaks in roars.