Final Fantasy IV: Difference between revisions

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* [[Beneath the Earth]]: The underground world of the dwarves, featuring mountain ranges, a sea of magma, and the lower part of the Tower of Babil.

* [[Big No]]: Well, Big "WHY?!", in the DS remake.

* [[Black Magician Girl]]: Rydia, since she focuses on offensive spells after the [[Plot Relevant Age Up]].

* [[Black Magician Girl]]: Rydia, since she focuses on offensive spells after the [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]].

* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The SNES English script had many, many mistakes. The reception this got [[Woolseyism|actually led to a certain someone getting hired]], and began a trend of improving translation quality in the industry.

* [[Bold Inflation]]: The Dark Elf speaks in ALL CAPS in the SNES version. "YOU CANNOT USE METALLIC WEAPONS. YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME!"

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Cid is a perfect example.

* [[Bonus Boss]]: Some of Rydia's summons, {{spoiler|Zeromus EG}} and the Dark Summons in the GBA version, and two more in the DS version, accessible only on a [[New Game ~~Plus~~]].

* [[Bonus Boss]]: Some of Rydia's summons, {{spoiler|Zeromus EG}} and the Dark Summons in the GBA version, and two more in the DS version, accessible only on a [[New Game+]].

* [[Bonus Feature Failure]]: The ''Complete Collection'' release for PSP comes with a new Interlude chapter connecting this game to ''The After Years''...except all it does is show Ursula being born and gives a [[Hand Wave]] to {{spoiler|why the Maenads look like Rydia}}, while many of the other questions of the sequel about {{spoiler|the Creator and the Maenads}} go unanswered. The Interlude chapter is also built on the original game's engine, right down to enemies having the same stats and some areas having mostly the same enemy encounter groups, and is fully linear with absolutely no exploration or backtracking.

** [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: And all you get for completing it is unlocking a few entries in the Art Gallery. But even then you need a complete Bestiary to do it, and that's a [[Guide Dang It]] because several enemy encounters are rare and difficult to get.<ref>The Trap Door enemies, you ''have'' to let them transform into other monsters because those monsters cannot be fought in any other way. Meanwhile Edge's section of the game takes him through the Tower of Babil, and several enemies are only met on a staircase a single screen long, and if you go to the top of those stairs the story progresses and those encounters are [[Lost Forever]].</ref>

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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.

* [[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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* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Cid. And Tellah. You spoony bards!

* [[Cool Ship]]: Several of them, ''[[Cool Airship|airships]]'', no less: [[Super Prototype|Enterprise]], [[This Is a Drill|Falcon]], and the [[Cool Starship|Lunar Whale]].

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* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Most of the more powerful Eidolons must be defeated before you can summon them.

* [[Depending On the Artist]]: The designs of the entire cast vary greatly between sprites, artwork and renders. Look no further than [[The Hero]] -- Cecil's Super NES field sprites have him in blue as a Dark Knight and gold as a Paladin with purple hair, but in battle his Paladin armor is white and his hair is blue-purple, while it's white in his portrait. This is even carried over to re-released with refined character designs -- in the PSP release Cecil's battle sprite has spiked white hair with a tiara-like headpiece covering it, but his portrait has flowing white hair with a headband ''under'' the hair.

* [[~~Developers~~ Room]]: Hidden in the Lali-Ho Pub in the Dwarven Castle. Interesting in that it includes some of the developers as random encounters in the area. It was removed from the American SNES release and restored in the [[PS 1]] and GBA release. The Developer's room showed up again in the DS re-rerelease in the same place, with a completely new set of author avatars and in-jokes, because it's a different team this time around.

* [[Developer's Room]]: Hidden in the Lali-Ho Pub in the Dwarven Castle. Interesting in that it includes some of the developers as random encounters in the area. It was removed from the American SNES release and restored in the [[PS 1]] and GBA release. The Developer's room showed up again in the DS re-rerelease in the same place, with a completely new set of author avatars and in-jokes, because it's a different team this time around.

* [[Different As Night and Day]]: Palom and Porom.

* [[Discard and Draw]]: Cecil and Rydia.

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* [[Elemental Embodiment]]: The 4 Fiends of the Elements.

* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: A ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' staple.

* [[Eleventh Hour Superpower]]: When you first meet Rydia, she can only summon Chocobo (and Whyt in the DS remake). Enraged at Cecil and Kain for the death of her mother, she summons ''[[Oh Crap|Titan]]'', creating a huge fissure in the landscape.

* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: When you first meet Rydia, she can only summon Chocobo (and Whyt in the DS remake). Enraged at Cecil and Kain for the death of her mother, she summons ''[[Oh Crap|Titan]]'', creating a huge fissure in the landscape.

* [[The Empire]]: Baron sort of becomes one early in the game. It does attack and ruin various nations to steal their Crystals, but it doesn't expand its borders.

* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: Baron's forces consist of both humans and monsters. This is made most apparent during the Siege of Fabul, where Golbez sends his troops to steal the Wind Crystal.

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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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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 [[Fu So Ya]]'s "instructions" were not redone and ''still'' describe the original battle better than the redone one doesn't help. In fact, if you do what [[Fu So Ya]] says, you're ''screwed''.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Golbez is Cecil's brother, Theodor.}}

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** 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]].

* [[New Game ~~Plus~~]]: In the DS version, after defeating {{spoiler|Zeromus}}, you can play the game again, inheriting all those augments you gave to your characters. And If you gave the previous game augments to characters that weren't going to be in your final party, you will be rewarded with these characters' abilities as augments. You can play [[New Game ~~Plus~~]] only three times in a row though.

* [[New Game+]]: In the DS version, after defeating {{spoiler|Zeromus}}, you can play the game again, inheriting all those augments you gave to your characters. And If you gave the previous game augments to characters that weren't going to be in your final party, you will be rewarded with these characters' abilities as augments. You can play [[New Game+]] only three times in a row though.

* [[Ninja]]: Edge.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The DS version ramps up the difficulty significantly from previous versions. Even though your characters gain levels much faster than in the original, it's still possible to get one-shotted by random encounters. Mind you, this wasn't the easiest game in the world to begin with, at least not in the original SFC and PSX versions.

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* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Golbez. So. Very. Much.

** Both of Cecil's forms and Rosa have spikes on their shoulder pads.

* [[Shout Out]]: A lot. [[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)/Trivia|See the trivia page.]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: A lot. [[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)/Trivia|See the trivia page.]]

* [[Single Stroke Battle]]: Odin, when summoned.

* [[Single-Stroke Battle]]: Odin, when summoned.

* [[Sinister Geometry]]: CPU.

* [[Skyward Scream]]: During the destruction of Mist:

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* [[Split Personality Merge]]

* [[Spoony Bard]]: Prince Edward is the [[Trope Namers]], and Tellah the [[Memetic Mutation|Meme Mutator.]]

** This line even gets a [[Shout Out]] in the Developer's Room: "But the bard ''was'' spoony! We checked!"

** This line even gets a [[Shout-Out]] in the Developer's Room: "But the bard ''was'' spoony! We checked!"

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Rydia. She has the worst HP out of your final party, but [[Glass Cannon|she can slaughter enemies in no time]], even before she gets spells like Meteor, Leviathan, or Bahamut.

* [[Stay in The Kitchen]]: After all of his travels with the [[White Mage]] / [[Combat Medic]] keeping the party healthy and the [[Lady of Black Magic]] / Master of [[Summon Magic]] laying waste to all that stood in their way, Cecil suddenly decides the women are a liability and orders them off the Lunar Whale before the [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]. Thankfully, Rosa and Rydia are not amused and they stow away to the Moon with them anyway.

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* [[Weak-Willed]]: Kain.

* [[We Buy Anything]]: Unremarkable standard use of the trope, but it does become amusing in Mysidia where the merchants will happily buy Cecil's dark/evil equipment that the townspeople curse so much.

* [[Welcome Back Traitor]]: Kain again, and it happens ''[[Heel Face Revolving Door|twice]]'' no less.

* [[Welcome Back, Traitor]]: Kain again, and it happens ''[[Heel Face Revolving Door|twice]]'' no less.

** The second time he comes back, Edge actually defies the trope by calling him out on it, asking Kain what he expects them to do if he gets brainwashed again. Kain's response is succinct: [[I Die Free|Kill him.]]

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Cecil and Kain. Obviously.

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** As explained in other tropes, Rubicante is a sort of [[Noble Demon]]. He fights you with your whole strength (healing the party before the fight every time), spares Edge life once, tries to explain Edge how one should fight, apologies for the bad deeds of his subordinates and doesn't try to kill once he knows he has lost. (other bosses do that often)

* [[Written Sound Effect]]: Either a "POW!" or a *whack* on several occasions where Porom gives Palom a well-deserved hit.

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Rydia's [[Plot Relevant Age Up]] after her journey to the Land of the Summoned Beasts.

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Rydia's [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] after her journey to the Land of the Summoned Beasts.

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: By about halfway through, the good guys should just be going "Here, take the damn crystal" as soon as Golbez appears.

* [[You Kill It You Bought It]]: If you kill enough Goblins, Bombs, Cockatrice, and Mindflayers; they have [[Randomly Drops]] of their own summon that Rydia can use. This must mean their own souls are intact enough for her to control.

* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: If you kill enough Goblins, Bombs, Cockatrice, and Mindflayers; they have [[Randomly Drops]] of their own summon that Rydia can use. This must mean their own souls are intact enough for her to control.

* [[You Said You Would Let Them Go]]: {{spoiler|Cecil's deal with Golbez: Troia's crystal for Rosa. Guess who holds out on his end of the deal?}}