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A list of characters from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' and associated works.
 
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== Protagonists/Playable Characters ==
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* [[Becoming the Mask]]
* [[BFS]]: His Buster Sword is emblematic of this trope.
* [[Bifurcated Weapon]]: His First Tsurugi in ''[[Advent Children]]'' is ''six'' [[BFS|BFSs]]s in one.
* [[Bishonen]]
* [[Blue Eyes]]: They also glow because of his Mako infusion; this is a mark of all members of SOLDIER.
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=== Barret Wallace ===
 
[[File:barret-portrait_3564portrait 3564.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"You gotta understand somethin'... I don't got an answer. I wanna be with Marlene... but I gotta fight. 'Cause if I don't... the planet's gonna die. So I'm gonna keep fightin'!"''}}
 
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=== Tifa Lockhart ===
 
[[File:424px-Tifa_HotTifa Hot--1-2.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"Uniforms, soldiers, war. I hate 'em all. They take away the things and people you love... I wish they'd all disappear."''}}
 
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* [[The Pollyanna]]
* [[Red Herring]]: Aerith is presented as a possible love interest on the first disk to make the [[Player Punch]] that much harder.
* [[Sacrificial Lion|Sacrificial Lioness]]ess
* [[Second Love]]: Cloud, as her first love was Zack.
* [[Simple Staff]]
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=== Red XIII (real name: Nanaki) ===
 
[[File:800px-Red_XIII_2007_versionRed XIII 2007 version-1.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"What a fascinating story..."''}}
 
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=== Cid Highwind ===
 
[[File:Advent-Children-Cid_9089Cid 9089.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"Sit your ass down in that chair and drink your goddamn TEA!"''}}
 
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=== Vincent Valentine ===
 
[[File:resized-vincent_3266vincent 3266.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"Cool, huh? I guess that's just the way I am... sorry."''}}
 
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* [[Sealed Good in a Can|Sealed Good in a Coffin]]
* [[Secret Character]]
* [[Shape Shifter]]: Can change into a [[Big Badass Wolf]], a [[Frankenstein's Monster]], a [[Hockey Mask and Chainsaw]] style [[Slasher Movie|slasher]], or the bat-winged and positively demonic [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Chaos]] during his [[Limit Break|Limit Breaks]]s.
** [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Transforms into the monsters intentionally; its changing back where his control is rather iffy.
* [[Sixth Ranger]]
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=== Yuffie Kisaragi ===
 
[[File:435px-Yuffie_ACYuffie AC-1.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"I am the champion of the earth and the sky. I am the conqueror of evil. The single white rose of Wutai... Yuffie Kisaragi!"''}}
 
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=== Zack Fair ===
 
[[File:Zack_fairZack fair.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"Boy oh boy... the price of freedom is steep."''}}
 
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* [[The Ace]]: Justified, in that this was intentional to have his personality contrast sharply with Cloud's. ''[[Crisis Core]]'' makes it work, too.
* [[Adorkable]]
* [[All Your Powers Combined]]/[[Mega Manning]]: According to [[All There in the Manual|the Ultimania guide]], this is how Zack learns his Limit Breaks -- heBreaks—he meets someone, and upon doing so, learns how to copy their Limit Break and modify it to create his own, such as Meteorain->Meteor Shots and Healing Wind->Healing Wave.
* [[Anime Hair]]
* [[Anti-Villain]] [[Villain Protagonist|Protagonist]]: He works for Shinra, and helped to end the Wutai War leaving the place in the condition is seen in FF7, but his interests were [[Heroic Neutral|starting a new life and protecting Cloud.]] It wasn't until after it became clear that Shinra wasn't going to stop hunting them down that Zack opposed them.
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* [[Shirtless Scene]]: We thank Square kindly.
* [[Super Soldier]]
* [[Take Up My Sword]]: The [[Retcon|Retconned]]ned ending to ''[[Crisis Core]]'', and his inheritance of said sword from his mentor.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
* [[Together in Death]]: Him and Aerith, but it's more like Together In The Lifestream. Interesting because most people's consciousness will dissolve into the Lifestream after death.
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=== Sephiroth ===
 
[[File:resized-sephiroth_4956sephiroth 4956.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"Ha, ha, ha…my sadness? What do I have to be sad about? I am the chosen one. I have been chosen to be the leader of this Planet."''}}
 
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* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Averted (pre-madness, at least). Sephiroth has shown himself to possess empathy (though when Tifa met him she thought he was "rather cold"). Notable examples are his encouragement for Zack to not have to obey Shinra's command for him to kill Angeal earlier in the game, as well as giving Zack permission to return to Midgar so he could see Aerith as he knows he's worried about her. Post madness, on the other hand...
* [[Laughing Mad]]: In Cloud's flashback, Cloud/{{spoiler|Zack}} goes down to the basement of Shinra's mansion at Nibelheim and locates Sephiroth a few days after the incident at the reactor, only to hear Sephiroth chuckling dementedly. This is the first sign that Sephiroth [[Go Mad From the Revelation|went mad from the revelation]] that he might have been created as a Jenova clone.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: [[Flash Step|Flash Steps]]s all over the place but he can do major damage with only one hit.
* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
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* [[A Sinister Clue]]
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Made very, very clear, as opposed to the other bad guys in the game, who are just kinda evil from the get-go.
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: ''[[Crisis Core]]'' gives him this personality pre-madness -- hemadness—he's composed, aloof, and professional, but he's also capable of being loyal and worried about his friends. He can also be pretty considerate, as evidenced by Zack once the two start to become friends. Comes complete with several [[Pet the Dog]] moments, such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQQ_OUqbXE the end of Chapter 7], when Sephiroth informs Zack that Genesis copies have been sighted in Midgar, particularly noting their presence in the slums, and gives him permission to return to the city because he knows Zack is worried about Aerith and wants to see her. Another example is, when Zack has doubts about trying to kill Angeal after the latter turned traitor, Sephiroth agrees with him and also encourages Zack to not carry out his duty (The fact that Angeal was also Sephiroth's childhood friend helps a lot). Also, it makes sense that in order for him to become as emotionally warped as he eventually did, there had to be something there to warp.
* [[Super Soldier]]
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: He was genetically altered in the womb and raised pretty much from birth to be a [[Super Soldier]].
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=== Rufus Shinra ===
 
[[File:resized-rufus_3935rufus 3935.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"I'll control the world with fear. It takes too much to do it like my old man. A little fear will control the minds of the common people. There's no reason to waste money on them."''}}
 
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** [[The Trickster]]: And it becomes quite obvious that in part all his manipulation, especially of Kadaj, are for mere giggles
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Let's put it this way: His dad didn't want him taking over the company because he was even more corrupt than he was!
** On the other hand, Shinra Sr. seemed a poor judge of character, and Rufus is largely brutal, but not outright ''corrupt''--he—he's entirely preoccupied with the war effort against Sephiroth, and then Meteor.
* {{spoiler|[[Guile Hero]]}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: He toys with it in the first game. {{spoiler|Finally switches sides in ''[[Advent Children]]''. Apparently all it took was getting shot by Diamond Weapon in his office to suddenly realize how bad everything was.}}
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=== The Turks ===
 
[[File:Turks_in_ACC_3208Turks in ACC 3208.jpg|frame|Left to right: Rude, Reno, Tseng, and Elena.]]
 
{{quote|''"A pro isn't someone who sacrifices themselves for a job. That's just a fool."''|'''Reno''', ''FFVII''}}
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* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Rude, though described by [[Word of God]] as somewhat resembling a person of South American descent rather than African American.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: The ''[[Before Crisis]]'' Turks were [[Flat Character|interchangeable]] aside from small background details...until ''[[Crisis Core]]'' used one of them (the shuriken girl, aka "Cissnei") as a main character.
* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: Except for Reno -- wellReno—well, they all wear the same thing, but Reno wears it like he just woke up after a one night stand.
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Rude.
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Elena, even though she's not very evil...[[Minion with an F In Evil|at all.]]
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* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: Tseng. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''Crisis Core'' when Zack finds a camera with Tseng's name on it, and thanks to the odd spelling doesn't realize who it belongs to; he then wonders how one pronounces the name.
** Also "Reno" is derived from the romaji "Reno," and should therefore rhyme with Leno, rather than be given the Nevada pronunciation. "Rude" could confuse as well; some refuse at first to pronounce it the obvious way.
* [[Punch Clock Villain|Punch Clock Villains]]s: To the point that they even agree to help the heroes when they are found off-duty in Wutai. They'll still commit atrocities when ordered to by their boss, but hey.
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]
* [[Skippable Boss]]: The only times they have to be fought is the first Reno fight and the fight with Rude at Rocket Town. All others can be skipped or those areas passed over. Even the final confrontation is skippable, if you've completed the Wutai quest.
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=== Hojo ===
 
[[File:resized-hojo_811hojo 811.jpg|frame]]
 
{{quote|''"Hojo of Shinra, Inc. ...An inexperienced man assigned to take over the work of a great scientist. He was a walking mass of complexes."''|Voiced by: Nachi Nozawa (Japanese), Paul Eiding (English) }}
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=== Scarlet ===
{{quote|"Kya ha ha!"}}
Responsible for the Shinra Corporation's Weapons Development department, Scarlet specializes in creating [[Glass Cannon|Glass Cannons]]s.
 
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]
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=== JENOVA ===
 
[[File:Jenova_AC_2_2222Jenova AC 2 2222.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"Because, you are.... a puppet."'' }}
 
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* [[Body Horror]]: Among other things.
* [[Cool Mask]]: Is sometimes show wearing a steel mask over her face.
** ''Wearing'' might be too charitable--thecharitable—the Shinra Corporation put a strangely elaborate female bust/doll/''death mask'' directly in front of Jenova's tank in the Nibelheim Reactor, for reasons never explained, which is torn away by Sephiroth. Jenova never ''wears'' it, since that form's never shown engaging in any sort of ''movement''.
* [[Cosmic Horror]]: She's an ambiguously living [[Eldritch Abomination]] who fell to earth millenia ago and tried to drain it of life. Why she does this, what she wants, and where she came from are a mystery to everyone except ''maybe'' her offspring/successor Sephiroth. Talk about alien.
* [[Dead All Along]]: Died well before the events of the game. May have been resurrected by Sephiroth. It's hard to tell.
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=== The Remnants of Sephiroth ===
 
[[File:20090306214922RemnantsofSephiroth_267520090306214922RemnantsofSephiroth 2675.jpg|frame|Left to right: [[The Gunslinger|Yazoo]], [[Dark Messiah|Kadaj]], and [[The Brute|Loz]].]]
 
 
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* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: He's the [[Big Bad]] of the [[Terrible Trio]] and is behind most of ''Advent's Children'''s plot (even facing Cloud in a [[Sword Fight]] near the end), but he's still [[The Pawn|a pawn]] in Sephiroth and Jenova's endgame, and is replaced by the former during the film's finale.
* [[Enfante Terrible]]: Was made the youngest remnant to invoke this.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: The staff envisioned him as a reminder of what Cloud was -- Sephirothwas—Sephiroth's [[Unwitting Pawn]].
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: At least when compared to [[Lightning Bruiser|Lightning Bruisers]]s Cloud and Sephiroth. He's actually quite strong in addition to being freakishly quick, but both of them are much, much stronger.
* [[Mommy Issues]]
* [[No Body Left Behind]]: dissolves into the Lifestream.
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'''All Three'''
* [[Adult Fear]]: '''They kidnapped and brainwashed a legion of ''children'''''. And if that wasn't bad enough, they then put the lot of them in harm's way and clearly didn't see them as anything more than pawns. For any good parent, this is the stuff of nightmares.
* [[Artificial Human|Artificial Humans]]s: They're just parts of Sephiroth's soul/will.
* [[Badass Biker|Badass Bikers]]s
* [[Beta Test Baddie]]: They're all pieces of Sephiroth, which leaves them feeling incomplete. Kadaj is the one who most realises it.
* [[Bishonen]]
* [[Cain and Abel]]: With Cloud whom they view as their brother.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: A disturbingly dark take on the trope, given their respective [[Oedipus Complex|Oedipus Complexes]]es and [[The Virus|what]] [[Cosmic Horror|their]] [[Evil Matriarch|mom]] [[Planet Eater|really]] [[Bigger Bad|is]].
* [[Expy]]: The whole trio to some extent, and Kadaj in particular, really come across as Sephiroth: The Next Generation. {{spoiler|It turns out there's a good reason for that.}}
* [[Freudian Trio]]: They're all insane and childish, but they still have this set-up. Loz is the Id, Kadaj the Ego, and Yazoo the Superego.
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=== Elfé ===
 
[[File:Elfe-Final_Fantasy_4077Final Fantasy 4077.png|frame]]
 
{{quote|''"You found me when I was wandering all alone, without my memories. I was raised by AVALANCHE. You're all like my family. That's why I'm going to fight with everyone and repay my debt."''}}
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=== Fuhito ===
 
A scientist in the employ of AVALANCHE, he's the mastermind of their elite shock troops the Ravens, [[Evil Counterpart|Evil Counterparts]]s to SOLDIER.
 
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}: {{spoiler|Is manipulating Elfé and AVALANCHE to gather the pieces of the Zirconiade Materia}}.
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=== Genesis Rhapsodos ===
 
[[File:resized-genesis_6058genesis 6058.jpg|frame]]
 
{{quote|''"My soul, corrupted by vengeance, hath endured torment to find the end of the journey, in my own salvation and your eternal slumber."''|Voiced by: [[Gackt]] (Japanese), Robin Atkin-Downes/Oliver Quinn (English) }}
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* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: I'm sorry, why weren't you mentioned in the original game's flashbacks, again?
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]
* [[Sissy Villain]]: His English voice actor goes down this route, and the [[Bishonen|Bishoneny]]y appearance, flamboyant hand gestures and ''constant'' recital of LOVELESS just add to it.
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: According to Angeal's mother.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]
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* [[The Philosopher]]: Her speech, full of idioms, indicates this.
* [[Sequel Non Entity]]: She shows up in the Online Mode for all of five minutes, then we never see her again.
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]: Argent's hair color -- duecolor—due to [[Colorful Theme Naming]] -- is—is somewhere between this and [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|Silver-Haired Pretty Girl.]]
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Argent or Argento? It's pronounced the same either way.
* [[Zen Survivor]]: Easily the most chill of all the Tsviets.
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