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Received a cell phone sequel called ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years|The After Years]]'' (also available on [[Wii Ware]] and the [[Play Station Portable|PSP]]), which stars the old cast and some of their children teaming up again to prevent the same catastrophe from happening again. It, along with ''Final Fantasy IV'' itself, was released on the PSP in March 2011 in Japan and April every where else. Also includes a Midquel called Interlude to connect the plots better. Both games use new graphics and is the largest 2D graphical change to the original other then the cellphone version. This version is heavily based on the GBA version, only thing taken from the DS version is translations of terms (e.g. Carnellian Signet rather then "Bomb Ring").
''Final Fantasy IV'' is considered by many to be one of the best of the series, partly because it was first released before the series developed an [[Unpleasable Fanbase]]. It's been remade/ported numerous times; this has garnered some distaste for the game as [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|its story and battle system haven't aged well]]. In addition to being half of the ''Final Fantasy [[Chrono Trigger|Chronicles]]'' compilation on the [[PS 1]], ''FFIV'' has been ported to the GBA, and was the second game (after [[Final Fantasy III]], [[No Export for You|which didn't make it over beforehand]]) to be remade with 3D graphics on the Nintendo DS. It's also the first remake to add voice acting, if only for key scenes.
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* [[Advancing Wall of Doom]]: The Demon Wall in the [[Scrappy Level|Sealed Cave]].
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* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: You can only have five people in your party. This game's method of dealing with it? Killing off the spares. {{spoiler|Though only one stays dead, which makes it all the more obvious.}} Seemingly averted when Baigan joins your party (who would have been a sixth party member), but Palom and Porom reveal him to be a monster on Golbez' side before you even have a chance to go to the menu screen.
* [[The Archer]]: Rosa can use other weapons, but is best with these. Originally almost everyone could use bows, but this was changed in the DS version.
* [[Author Appeal|Artist Appeal]]: This game contains more or less all of Amano's favourite art trends...Cecil is the typical pale willowy man with frizzy white hair, blue lips, and very pale skin. He also has what Amano ''loves''...spiked armour and a cape. Rosa and Rydia meanwhile are clad in catsuits, and as for capes...it's probably more efficient to list the main characters who do ''not'' wear a cape (Cid, Kain, Yang, and arguably FuSoYa, who wears a robe).
* [[Ascended Meme]]: "You [[Spoony Bard]]!" is the [[Trope Codifier]] for the series, being kept in all releases of the game when the rest of the script has been re-translated. It has even worked its way into other ''Final Fantasy'' games and beyond.
* [[As Long as There Is Evil]]: The [[Trope Namer]] is {{spoiler|Zeromus'}} [[Final Speech]].
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** And then in the story, {{spoiler|when Tellah ''finally'' manages to use it it [[Cast From Hit Points|costs too much energy and kills him.]] [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu|And it]] [[Senseless Sacrifice|accomplishes little]] except for breaking Golbez's control of Kain.}}
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|Cecil, Rosa, and Yang}} all become monarchs in the epilogue.
* [[Badass and Child Duo]]: Cecil and Rydia at the beginning of the game, up until Tellah joins the party.
* [[Badass Beard]]: Fusoya.
** Tellah and Cid also have manly beards, but Fusoya's is by far the largest (and therefore, most manly).
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** This is fixed in the DS remake. Rosa's 'Pray' ability has a much higher success rate than the original game and heals MP as well as HP. It is also possible to teach a character 'Bless', which is an MP regen spell. Quite useful, considering how much more important MP is in the remake (in the end-game your mages are double-casting every turn, and the 'Phoenix' skill which revives fallen allies heals them equal to the percentage of MP the Phoenix-caster has.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: The "spoony bard" line is actually one of the least blatant examples in the SNES version. Much worse are the recurring [[Never Say "Die"]] elements, leading to lines like "A girl from Baron was kept from falling down", or the total elimination of anything remotely religious like references to Hell. The latter manifests itself in cringe-worthy lines like "Fall flat into the deep ravine!" or "Come with us, Edge... To the Dark World!!" Cecil's Dark Knight equipment was also changed, with Hades armor becoming "Black" and the Deathbringer sword becoming simply the Black sword.
** "Spoony" is actually an archaic term meaning "foolishly lovestruck," {{spoiler|which fits Edward perfectly,}} so it's less bowdlerization and more "who even says that anymore?"
** The blade above Rosa's head during her captivity is changed to a metal sphere. At least that's roughly as deadly as the original item.
** Also concerning Rosa, her Holy spell becomes White, and Holy elemental becomes "Sacred power."
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*** It seems she's dying from Desert Fever, as it returns in the After Years and the cure is exactly the same. (Though it's re-translated as a Sand Pearl). It's a deliberate call back and the only differences are it's Harly who catches it and she's with you at the time.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Kain, Yang, and {{spoiler|Golbez}} at different points in the game.
* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Rydia, when you first meet her, acts a bit like this, though to be fair, you had just killed her mother. She has a moment like this after her [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] as well. A far better exemplar of this trope is Palom, whom players admit to loathing even after his monumental black magic power essentially breaks the game.
* [[Broken Bridge]]: Several, including mountain passes being blocked by fire or ice until you clear the right plot events or recruit the right party members. Also, an underground passage leading to your next objective remains sealed until you complete a certain task.
** There are also two ''retroactive'' Broken Bridges that later appear at two places where the characters take drastic 1-way movements. If you attempt to jump down the waterfall in the Watery Cave a second time, Cecil will remark that the current is too strong, and you will not be allowed to jump. The second is in the Eblan Cave, where one of the Eblan guards blocks the final passage to the Tower of Bab-il (and an eventual dead-end at an airship dock). Clearly, [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|someone thought]] to prevent players from stranding themselves without an airship and rendering the game [[Unwinnable]].
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** Cecil's Dark Wave/Darkness is a gameplay example, as it saps his health either to attack all enemies on screen or to power up his normal attack, depending on the version.
* [[The Cavalry]]: Just as the {{spoiler|Giant of Babil}} awakes to raze the planet, the heroes stand horrified and at a loss as to what to do. Cue the ''entire armed forces of the world'' arriving to [[Hold the Line]].
* [[Combat Medic]]: Rosa can be this, if you choose to equip her with a bow. Her Aim ability gives her [[The Archer|increased attack power and accuracy with a bow]]; while it's not near enough to match the damage output of, say, Cecil or Kain, it's still better than your average [[White Magician Girl]]. And that doesn't even take [[Holy Hand Grenade]] into consideration.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: You can win the mirror-battle at the top of Mt. Ordeals by just attacking and killing the Dark Knight, and the game will proceed as normal.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Averted, when your airships require special modification to fly over lava in the underworld. Played straight, when you're on foot in that same underworld and able to walk right next to the same lava with no ill effects.
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*** Not to mention that they seem to be able to revive a fallen character, a trait normally reserved for the Raise spell.
** It's been mentioned Tellah's cutscene use of Meteo exceeds his maximum MP (90) by 9, but moments before, he casts four spells that add up to 110 MP.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The entire story begins with the heroes angsting over war crimes they've committed... Then our heroes are asked to wipe out an entire town. [[It Got Worse]] when characters start getting [[Disney Death|Disney Deaths]] right and left.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: "Final Battle," the [[Department of Redundancy Department|theme of the final battle]] against Zeromus, contains haunting echoes of "Airship" and "Overworld."
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Most of the more powerful Eidolons must be defeated before you can summon them.
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* [[Glass Cannon]]: Rydia. Nice spells, but with 30HP it's hard work keeping her alive long enough to level up in the beginning. Even later on, {{spoiler|when she comes back in Dwarven Castle and saves the party from Golbez}}, depending on how leveled you are, she's got about a third of Cecil's HP.
* [[Global Airship]]: You get a few of these throughout the course of the game.
* [[Good Bad Translation]]: "You spoony bard!" appears in every English version of the game. Technically, it's not ''wrong'' ("spoony" means "foolish and/or lovesick"), but... yeah. Thanks to language marching on, it feels this way.
** "The bard ''was'' spoony. We checked!" - Tom (Retran)Slattery, the guy who retranslated the game.
** Rydia is almost certainly a mistranslation of [[Japanese Ranguage|Lydia]] - not that anyone complains!
* [[Good Costume Switch]]: Cecil.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: The DS port never tells you that A) Augment distribution is used to unlock other augments from characters who leave the party and B) Augments will eventually affect the stat growths of the characters who have them. You'd need a guide anyway to put those growths to proper use, because there's no way guesswork alone would let you figure out how to use them to max the stats of your final party!
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** The Giant of Bab-il.
** The lower half of the Tower of Bab-il, after Giant of Bab-il sequence.
* [[Look What I Can Do Now!]]: Golbez appears and wipes the floor with Cecil's group, until {{spoiler|Rydia}} returns and effectively destroys Golbez's summon.
* [[Lost Tribe]]: The Lunarians.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: This trope sort of comes into play. Kain's jealousy of Cecil as a result of his unrequited feelings for Rosa make him a lot easier to be [[Brainwashed and Crazy|controlled by Golbez]].
* [[Love Triangle]]: Kain has feelings for Rosa, but she has feelings for Cecil instead.
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: In the DS version, the battle versus the CPU. It pretty much boils down to how quickly the Attack Node begins to attack...its only attack, Laser Barrage, is ''guaranteed'' to two-shot your entire party (and it'll usually one-shot Edge and Fusoya). If you can off it before it fires the lasers twice, you have the battle in the bag...{{spoiler|unless you kill off the Defense Node. Prepare for the carnage of [[One-Hit Kill|Object 199]] if you do.}}
** The fact that
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Golbez is Cecil's brother, Theodor.}}
* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: More than once with the crystals.
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* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Cecil and possibly Kain, after the massacre at Mist.
* [[Near Villain Victory]]: Right before the final battle.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: This trope is in full effect in the SNES translation, to the point of [[Bowdlerise|bowdlerization]]. However, in a [[Sturgeon's Tropes|rare]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] way, this actually makes the game's many [[Disney Death|Disney Deaths]] more believable. After all, why should the player believe that such-and-such is dead if the characters don't believe it either?
** Also manifests in spells like "Fatal" instead of "Death," or "Swoon" for "dead" characters.
*** Even before the translation, this was the first Final Fantasy to have the loss of all HP count as a [[Non-Lethal KO]] instead of actual death. [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|Otherwise]] the cast's now-frequent cutscene performances [[Our Zombies Are Different|would be awkward]]. Especially if you were planning on giving them [[Revive Kills Zombie|phoenix downs]].
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* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Multiple examples, first starting with Scarmiglione returning immediately from [[Not Quite Dead|Not Quite Death]] before Cecil reaches paladin-hood.
** Cid jumps down from an airship at a very great height holding a nuke bomb in his hand which explodes right in front of his face. Yet he doesn't lose any of his limbs.
* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: Many Western fans were...surprised...that Cecil's name is pronounced the same as "sessile" (though both a long "e" and a short "e" are valid pronunciations for the name).
** You can hardly fault Square for not providing English pronunciation guides for names of English origin. Rydia'd be a straight example {"RID-e-ah", not "RHY-de-ah").
* [[Not His Sled]]: Gameplay variation. Many bosses in the original game had a particular weakness or strategy associated with them that made them easier to beat. The developers remembered these when it came time for the DS remake, and players trying those old tricks found the bosses had been programmed to punish them for trying it again.
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* [[Stripperiffic]]: Suffice to say the female mages do ''not'' wear the concealing robes of their predecessors.
** [http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ff4ds/swf/dl_images/3dcg_3s.jpg Rosa] has wardrobe problems. Never knew that underwear goes under your clothes or just simply does not like to wear a dress or skirt? You be the judge.
** The fiend Barbariccia also fits the wardrobe.
** In ''[[The After Years]]'', she switches to a simpler white dress. [http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:After_Rydia.png Rydia,] on the other hand...
* [[Stupid Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Cid's apparent death - there's no actual reason that he needs to jump with the bomb. He could have thrown it. It's hard to imagine that he couldn't build a remote controlled bomb either, considering how he has a remote control ''airship''. And he couldn't control the speed of his descent, so carrying it wouldn't have altered anything. Then he winds up surviving anyway, so it just comes off as a transparent method to bump him from the party in favor of Edge.}} Stupid as it may be, it's still a pretty awesome moment.
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** {{spoiler|Palom and Porom's sacrifice. Not only does one of them know Teleport, they're also traveling with a mage powerful enough to bring the whole castle down. Right after he recovers the memory of every spell he's ever known.}}
*** Furthermore, {{spoiler|Palom and Tellah, being Black Magic users, know Fire spells. The doors at each end of the hallway are quite clearly (in the DS remake, at least) made of ''wood''. Which fire can burn. Would it really have been so hard for Palom and Tellah to cast their strongest Fire spell at the door they had to go through?}}
*** There's probably a ton of ways out of this, but the two noted above may be a case of [[Gameplay Story Segregation]]. This event immediately comes after fighting a boss with a multi-hit near insta-death move, ergo he's supposed to be powerful. The implication may have been that they were too weak to try anything else if one assumes the basic fire spell is too weak to destroy the wall, or they just lack the magic power to teleport.
* [[Summon Magic]]: Rydia.
* [[Tagalong Kid]]: Rydia, at least at the start, Palom and Porom.
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*** Maybe she stowed away on the Damcyan-bound Red Wings and parachuted into the Kaipo desert?
*** Which actually makes a bit of sense with the original translation of "A girl from Baron was kept from falling down", at least to the mind of a young player.
* [[Traumatic Superpower Awakening]]: Inverted with Rydia: she has an innate talent for magic, but the trauma of watching her village being burned to the ground makes it difficult for her to use fire spells.
* [[Trick Boss]]: Calcabrina, Lugae.
* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: Cecil, Kain, and Rosa.
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* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: Dr. Lugae, while he's manually operating Barnabas. It turns out that it's Barnabas's {{spoiler|self-destruct}} button.
** [[Too Dumb to Live]]: He built the damn thing.
* [[When Elders Attack]]: Tellah does this to Edward in a scripted battle, hitting him with his cane and calling him a [[Spoony Bard]].
* [[Whip It Good]]: Rydia.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Subverted with Cecil, who is [[The Hero]].
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