Final Fantasy IV/Characters: Difference between revisions

** [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Father, Like Adopted Son]]: ... Which makes a lot of sense, given that the king was also stated to be a Dark Knight.

* [[Cast From Hit Points]]: The Darkness ability.

* [[Expy]]: Played very oddly. [http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/d/df/King_Cecil.jpg His CGI render] for ''The Complete Collection'' looks a heck of a lot like [[Berserk|Griffith]], facially, but the official artwork that came first ''doesn't'' (partially due to [[Hair Color Dissonance]]). Personality-wise, however, [[Knight in Shining Armor|they couldn't be further apart]] [[Complete Monster|if they tried]].

* [[Purple Prose]]: The DS version had him dabble in some of this during his angsty moment with Rosa. [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|After that, he starts speaking much more normally, oddly enough]].

* [[Generation Xerox]]: She wished to become a white mage and fight alongside her lover, much like her mother did. The only difference is that Mrs. Farrell's husband was a dragoon, and Cecil's a paladin...

* [[The Medic]]: Rosa is known in story as a master of [[Healing Hands]].

* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]: A pure and loving healer {{spoiler|/queen}} who dresses very well and kicks ass.

* [[Spikes of Villainy|Spikes of...]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtpPSyaLgWQ Heroism]: [[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Well, now we know who the Warrior of Light takes fashion advice from.]]

* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: Doesn't anyone else think she was supposed to be '''L'''ydia?

** [[Good Bad Translation]]: ...but honestly, who cares?

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: When she first joins the party as a child.

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: He has feelings for Rydia. She doesn't seem too interested.

* [[Warrior Prince]]

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: The original versions of the game notwithstanding, both the GBA and DS remakes, as well as ''The After Years'', have seen Edward discard his [[Joke Character]] status quite triumphantly (in the case of the latter, it's more evident in the story, but damn, Edward has ''balls of steel'').

* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Palom.

* {{spoiler|[[Taken for Granite]]: They turn themselves to stone to save the rest of the party.}}

* [[Parental Substitute]]: The [[PS 1]] version had some lines of dialogue that imply he sees himself as one for Rosa.

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Likes to tease Edge about his crush on Rydia. Not to mention how much he ships [[Official Couple|Cecil x Rosa]].

An old Lunarian sage and {{spoiler|1=the brother of KluYa, Cecil and Golbez's father.}}

** [[Badass Baritone]]: In both English and Japanese.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: A most notable ''inversion'' on the "[[Glass Cannon|squishy]]" part, which probably comes from his armour. It says a lot about how durable he is gameplay-wise that the team needed ''[[Death From Above|Meteor]]'' to beat him. {{spoiler|''And even then, it doesn't work!''}} He could qualify as a magical [[Lightning Bruiser]] if he was a bit quicker.

* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet]]: In the battle with Cecil's Dark Knight side in ''TAY'', Golbez takes a fatal blow aimed for his brother, finally rousing Cecil out of his [[Heroic BSOD]]. [[Guide Dang It|If Rosa and Ceodore aren't also in the party]], [[Killed Off for Real|he won't survive the battle]].}}

* [[Spin to Deflect Stuff]]: Her primary defense is wrapping herself in a tornado that [[No Sell|renders all direct attacks null.]] Unfortunately, it doesn't protect her from attacks coming straight down, and you just joined up with a Dragoon who knows [[Death From Above|Jump]].

* [[As Long as There Is Evil]]: In [[New Game+]] for the DS remake, the Archfiends' malice lives on in the [[Bonus Boss|superboss]] [[Biological Mashup|Geryon]]. Averted in ''The After Years'', as the Archfiends [[Heel Face Turn|show a more benign side]] (when they break free of their [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] status due to [[Came Back Wrong|an against their will]] [[Back From the Dead|resurrection]] by the Crystals), [[Friendly Enemy|holding no ill-will towards their former enemies]] (going as far as to ''thank'' them), as well as expressing joy to see {{spoiler|Golbez again, honoring him with the same respect as when they were in his servitude}}. Seeing as it can be inferred that they are the physical representation of the world's elemental forces, it's likely that Zemus' influence perverted them and the group was really [[Good All Along]].

*** [[Master of None]]: He is outpaced by more dedicated fighters and healers but his versatility by far outstrips almost any fighter in the game.

* [[The Apprentice]]: To Cid.

* [[Rebellious Princess]]

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Like a lot of your party.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* [[The Apprentice]]: To Palom.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: She stutters a lot and is respectful of Palom initially despite him being a [[Jerkass]]. Once he insults the Epopts though, she's had enough and tells him off, at which point for the rest of the game the stuttering stops. This event coincides with the completion of the Tower of Trials, and thus she begins to learn [[Black Magic]] as she levels up from now on.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]

* [[Joke Character]]: Unfortunately while Edward [[Took a Level In Badass]], he passed his "usefulness" to his secretary. Piercing Sight gives an enemy a random elemental weakness and has a very low success rate, while Gil Toss is much weaker than in other entries in the series to the point that it's useless, even with the [[Money Spider]]s in the final areas giving you lots of cash for it. Her Band abilities are also horrible, with all but Feast of the Land taking up the turns of half your party or greater, two requiring specific equipment set-ups, and another having random effects. And even then, the party configurations required to use her Bands quite simply suck.

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: They malfunction and turn on the party in ''The After Years''. May also explain their actions in the original game too.

* [[The Man Behind the Monsters|The Woman Behind the Monsters]]: She controls an army of monsters to take over Baron, and still uses them on occasion after switching over to relying on Baron's military instead.

* [[Enemy Without]]

* {{spoiler|[[You Have Failed Me]]: Apparently his attitude towards the planets he destroys.}}