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{{quote|''"Sit your ass down in that chair and drink your goddamn TEA!"''}}

A gruff airship pilot with dreams of going into space. He is the most uncouth of the protagonists; he constantly swears and loses his temper, and chain-smokes cigarettes. Despite this, he has a good heart, and is even voted temporary leader of the party at one point. He fits into the archetype of a father type character.

{{quote|Appears in: ''FFVII'', ''[[Advent Children]]'', ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]''.

* [[Ace Pilot]]

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He swears, smokes, is verbally abusive to pretty much everybody, but he gave up his dream to save Shera, genuinely tries to make amends to her, fights tooth and nail for the planet, joins the WRO, and gives a passionate speech about the need to protect the planet.

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: He certainly has this attitude, even if he doesn't actually ruin any plans for the party, as shown by his gung-ho attitude about fighting Shinra.

** [[Death From Above]][/=][[Jump Physics]]: Boost Jump, Hyper Jump and Dragon Dive

** [[Life Drain]]: Dragon

{{quote|''"Cool, huh? I guess that's just the way I am... sorry."''}}

Main character of ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]''. He is a former member of the Turks with a mysterious past that ties him to Cloud and his group.

{{quote|Appears in: ''FFVII'', ''[[Advent Children]]'', ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]''

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* Anti-Hero: Type III

* [[The Atoner]]

** [[Badass Abnormal]]: Due to a Death Penalty glitch in the game, he can take out Emerald Weapon... IN ONE SHOT! It's shown [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ovxL1wdjtI here.]

** [[Badass Cape]]

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: He looks and acts like a ninja vampire, and can shapeshift into [[Captain Ersatz]] forms of famous movie monsters, namely Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, and Jason Vorheez.

* [[Optional Party Member]]: In ''FFVII''.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

{{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!"''}}

An outlandishly-dressed ninja girl from the Japanese-lookalike town of [[Wutai]]. As a rebellious and cocky tomboy, Yuffie desires to restore her homeland Wutai to the glorious nation it was before being conquered by Shinra. Despite her sometimes obnoxious personality, she is friendly, helpful, and willingly helps the party in their battles.

{{quote|Appears in: ''FFVII'', ''[[Advent Children]]'', ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', ''[[Crisis Core]]''

* [[Action Girl]]: Not quite as much as Tifa, but she can still kick some serious ass.

* [[Heir to the Dojo]]

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]

** [[Diagonal Cut]]: Greased Lightning.

** [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Landscaper.

* [[Ship Tease]]:

** Out of all the characters you can choose to take on a date to the Gold Saucer, she is the only character who kisses Cloud.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: She often calls herself "the Great Ninja Yuffie" or "the single white rose of Wutai".

{{quote|''"Boy oh boy... the price of freedom is steep."''}}

An energetic SOLDIER 2nd Class with dreams of becoming SOLDIER 1st Class. Popular enough to get his own spinoff, generally the best received of the ''Compilation''.

{{quote|Appears in: ''FFVII'', ''Advent Children'', ''[[Crisis Core]]'', ''[[Before Crisis]]''

* [[The Ace]]: Justified, in that this was intentional to have his personality contrast sharply with Cloud's. ''[[Crisis Core]]'' makes it work, too.

* [[Doomed Moral Victor]]

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Since ''[[Crisis Core]]'' is a prequel to ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', and Zack's the hero in the game, it's fairly expected when he dies at the end.

* [[Guest Fighter]]: In ''Ehrgeiz''.

* [[The Gump]]: Besides his influence on Cloud's past, Zack was the guy who named the 7th Heaven bar, bought Aerith her iconic hair ribbon and suggested she sell flowers, and is partly responsible for sparking Yuffie's obsession with Materia.

{{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."''}}

A famous war hero and SOLDIER 1st Class, Sephiroth is a living legend within Shinra. After going AWOL for several years, Sephiroth suddenly reappears to murder {{spoiler|the President of Shinra}} and blaze a trail of death across the world. {{spoiler|He was the end result of a [[Super Soldier]] program designed to harness the power of the Ancients. Unfortunately, a misunderstanding causes him to be infused with the cells of the malevolent, [[The Virus|virus-like]] alien JENOVA instead. He stumbles across the truth of his origins and is driven insane, his madness catalysed by the influence of JENOVA. Coming to the conclusion that he is [[The Chosen One]] of the Planet and that [[Mommy Issues|the broken body of JENOVA is his biological mother]], he initiates a terrifying plan to [[Assimilation Plot|absorb the Lifestream into himself]] and become the successor of JENOVA. Although Cloud delays this plan in the short-term by throwing Sephiroth into the Lifestream, in the long-term it allowed Sephiroth to absorb the knowledge of the Lifestream to the point where he could influence the world psychically, manipulating those with JENOVA cells and creating solid astral manifestations of himself}}.

{{quote|Appears in: ''FFVII'', ''[[Crisis Core]]'', ''[[Advent Children]]'', ''[[Before Crisis]]''

* [[A God Am I]]: His original goal, according to the first game, was to become a god by absorbing the lifestream and conquering "the Promised Land". As for what it is in the ''Compilation'', well... [[Depending on the Writer|it varies]] but is generally this but with the twist of [[Visionary Villain|finding a new planet to build a utopia in his image]].

* [[All There in the Manual]]: You really do need to get into the side materials if you want to fill in the blanks this guy's story has.

* [[Audience Surrogate]]: In a comedic way during ''Crisis Core'', for those who don't like ''LOVELESS''. He's not the biggest fan of it, and he's not afraid to mention that he's bored of Genesis "beating it into (his) head".

* [[Back From the Dead]]: Technically speaking, {{spoiler|Cloud killed him before the game began, but he persisted within the Lifestream.}} Then he came back in ''Advent Children''.

* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Let's just say his role in every game after the original tends to vary and leave it at that.

** Similarly, his exact level of dominance regarding his "mother" Jenova seems to fall victim to this trope as well, with there being conflicting sources between the Ultimania and Dissidia 012 about whether Sephiroth was in control of Jenova or vice-versa.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: With the notable exception of the Nibelheim incident.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]:

* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]

* [[My Death Is Only the Beginning]]: After falling into the mako reactor, he ends up becoming somewhat stronger, or at least more knowledgable. Also, [[Word of God]] states that his revival in Advent Children had him becoming much stronger than before, and it is also implied that Sephiroth might return after the second defeat (specifically "I will... never be a memory").

* [[No Shirt, Long Jacket]]: With suspenders.

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: [[Trope Namer]]. He goes through Bizarro Sephiroth and Safer Sephiroth before reverting to his own body. In later appearances, he has become a ''literal'' one-winged angel.

* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: His Safer Sephiroth form is clearly intended to resemble one of the Seraphim, with a single black wing in place of one of his arms. Later appearances feature him with that same wing on one of his shoulders, channelling [[Fallen Angel]] for all it's worth.

* [[Out of the Inferno]]: Nibelheim, of course.

* [[Post-Mortem Comeback]]: By focusing on his hatred of Cloud, Sephiroth prevented the [[Life Stream]] from assimilating him, while using Kadaj and his gang to find what was left of Jenova to bring about Hojo's reunion theory, thereby allowing him to be reborn.

* [[The Power of Hate]]: How he survives between ''VII'' and ''Advent Children'', he concentrates on maintaining and building up his hatred of Cloud so he can maintain his own identity in the lifestream and resist being absorbed into the collective.

* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Gives a very nasty one after he's killed Aerith. And after the Nibelheim incident (although Crisis Core retcons this to a slightly sorrowful/rageful expression).

* [[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.

* [[Tyke Bomb]]: He was genetically altered in the womb and raised pretty much from birth to be a [[Super Soldier]].

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: It is heavily implied in both the original ''Final Fantasy VII'' and the novellas that Sephiroth was this to Professor Hojo for the sake of research in the main plot. [[Spanner in the Works|Although not even Hojo realised what Sephiroth was capable of.]] In fact, he reluctantly admits that science was meaningless before him.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: The front of his jacket is always open, exposing his chest. During his [[Final Boss]] battle with Cloud he sheds the trenchcoat, and attacks him wearing only his pants and boots. Heads straight into [[Fan Disservice]], given that he's covered in blood and sporting a [[Slasher Smile]] at the time.

* [[Where I Was Born and Razed]]: Although Sephiroth himself doesn't seem to realize it (he mentions that he "has no hometown"), it is implied in the games (and confirmed via [[Word of God]]) that Sephiroth's hometown was actually Nibelheim, the very same place he ended up burning to the ground.

{{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."''}}

Son of the president of the Shinra Corporation.

* [[All in The Manual]]: {{spoiler|How he survived.}} He ''could'' have explained it in ''Advent Children'', but Cloud cut him off.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]

* [[The Chessmaster]]: In ''[[Advent Children]]''. He manages to spend a great deal of time manipulating Kadaj and his brothers, and possibly Cloud as well.

* [[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's entirely preoccupied with the war effort against Sephiroth, and then Meteor.

* {{spoiler|[[Guile Hero]]}}

* [[Man in White]]

* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]

* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]

Reno: [[Keiji Fujiwara]] (Japanese), [[Quinton Flynn]] (English)

Rude: [[Taiten Kusunoki]] (Japanese), [[Crispin Freeman]] (English)

The Department of Administrative Research, unofficially known as the Turks, are Shinra's Black Ops unit. They carry out assassinations, blackmail, and the forced recruiting of potential SOLDIER candidates. Their roster consists of Tseng (leader), Reno, Rude, and Elena. ''[[Before Crisis]]'' introduces Tseng's predecesor as the leader, Veld, and eleven more Turks, one of which is named Cissnei to take a prominent role in ''Crisis Core''.

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Rude, though described by [[Word of God]] as somewhat resembling a person of South American descent rather than African American.

* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: Except for Reno—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.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Reno was a competent [[Deadpan Snarker]] in the original game. In ''[[Advent Children]]'', he became the [[Plucky Comic Relief]]. (There have been reports, though, that the [[Deadpan Snarker]] version of him was an alteration of the translation and that he was supposed to have been comical in the original Japanese.)

** Even in the US translation he had his comical moments. The first time you see him since [[A Million Is a Statistic|him destroying the Sector 7 plate]], he's [[Villain Decay|gossiping with Rude about crushes like a teenage girl.]]

** Some have the wrong impression that Tseng ''was'' a childhood friend of Aerith due to a mistranslation in the original game ("I've known him since '''we''' were little", rather than "since '''I''' was little"), even though we ''see'' a flashback of Tseng, as a teenage member of the Turks first meeting Aerith, who is a preteen girl, thus they never were little together nor were they friends.

* [[Cool Shades]]: Rude.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Reno.

* [[Determinator]]: In ''Advent Children'', Rude and Reno are clearly out of their league against Kadaj's gang. They don't care. They ''just keep fighting''.

[[File:resized-hojo 811.jpg|frame]]

{{quote|Appears in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', ''[[Before Crisis]]'', ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'' and ''[[Crisis Core]]''.}}

* [[Abusive Parents]]: He injected Jenova Cells into {{spoiler|his son Sephiroth}} and never even allowed his mother {{spoiler|Lucrecia}} to hold him.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: He is particularly snarky with Cloud whenever they meet.

* [[Drunk on the Dark Side]]

* [[For Science!]] and [[For the Evulz|the Evulz]]: He ''admitted'' this is the motive behind his treatment of Sephiroth in the first game. When Cloud calls him out on it, he simply responds with "It's my desire as a scientist."

* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Hojo attempted to defeat the party by injecting himself with Jenova's cells. However, this resulted in him being defeated due to losing his sanity as a result. In ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', it is also revealed that the specific reason for him injecting himself with Jenova's cells was to strengthen his body enough for him to possess Omega, but this attempt predictably backfired on him due to losing his mind and then being killed, and thus resulted in him uploading his consciousness into the World Wide Network.

** This is definitely demonstrated on the beach.

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: When Lucrecia asks to hold Sephiroth during an argument that was implied to be Sephiroth being shipped off to Shinra, as well as Lucrecia's attempts to help Vincent in recovering from Hojo's experiment, he mocks her and also pulls a [[Not So Different]] on her.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: His first appearance in the game involves him attempting to ''[[Squick|breed Aerith and Red XIII]].''

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Inverted; Hojo ''never'' takes his labcoat off... even when getting a tan.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Two of the experiments he was involved in nearly resulted in the end of the world, and it is heavily implied that the planet's destruction was exactly what he was hoping for.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: By the time the party faces him, he's completely lost what sanity he ever had. ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'' takes it even further.

* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: The group can run into him chilling on the beach in Costa Del Sol.

{{quote|'''Cloud''': "What are you doing...?"

* [[You Killed My Father]]: He killed Professor Gast, {{spoiler|Aerith's father}}. He also places Aerith and her mother into seven years' worth of inhumane experiments, which eventually resulted in her mother's death shortly after she gives Aerith to her foster mother after escaping Shinra.

* [[Disney Death]]: Apparently being hit by a truck was not enough to actually kill him.

* [[Fat Bastard]]: The man likes ''lard'' in his tea...

* [[Harmless Villain]]

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: He's ''extremely'' hyper, to the point where his idle combat pose looks like he's ''tap dancing''.

* [[Bigger Bad]]: Jenova's not completely in charge of Sephiroth or his actions, and due to the nature of her being cannot be directly confronted. In fact, whether she's even ''alive'' is up for debate. But the facts remain that if she hadn't come down to earth two thousand years ago, almost none of the events of the game would have happened.

* [[Body Horror]]: Among other things.

* [[Cool Mask]]: Is sometimes show wearing a steel mask over her face.

* [[Death From Above]]: Personified

* [[Diabolus Ex Nihilo]]: Fell from the sky two thousand years before the game began. No one knows where it came from, but it's speculated that it may have landed on & devastated other worlds in the past.

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: In a way. Kadaj, Yazoo, Loz, and Sephiroth all address her as "Mother" anyway.

* [[From a Single Cell]]: Jenova is consciously aware of all of her cells, enabling her to regenerate into Sephiroth a "Reunion".

Kadaj: [[Showtaro Morikubo]] (Japanese), [[Steve Staley]] (English)

Yazoo: [[Yuji Kishi]] (Japanese), [[Dave Wittenberg]] (English)

Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo are physical manifestations of Sephiroth's will. Each of them represents a different aspect of Sephiroth's personality, but they share a fanatical obsession with Jenova.

* [[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]]es and [[The Virus|what]] [[Cosmic Horror|their]] [[Evil Matriarch|mom]] [[Planet Eater|really]] [[Bigger Bad|is]].

* [[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.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Subverted. They tell the kids that they'll help them, but they're only looking to a) drain them of Jenova cells and b) use them as a distraction.

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A former SOLDIER 1st Class who deserted from the Shinra Corporation. He had a friendly rivalry with Angeal and Sephiroth {{spoiler|as well as some other similarities to them}}, and his main hobby is reciting quotes from [[Fictional Document|LOVELESS]]. A lot.

* [[Author Appeal]]

* [[Cool Sword]]: And it's flaming.

* [[Disney Death]]: A rare villainous version: Genesis fell into a reactor, yet it becomes apparent later on that he survived.

* [[Evil Redhead]]: Subverted because he isn't so much evil as he is a pretentious [[Jerkass]].

* [[Expy]]: Of Sephiroth. Besides the obvious similarities in appearance as seen in the accompanying image, Genesis is also a 1st Class SOLDIER and a spawn of the Jenova Project, he eventually sprouts a black wing over his shoulder, he was seemingly killed via [[Disney Villain Death]] in a Mako Reactor but turned out to be [[Not Quite Dead]]... you get the picture.

=== Weiss the Immaculate ===

Leader of the Deepground, the secret special forces of the Shinra Company made to replace SOLDIER.

* [[Bad Boss]]: See above.

* [[Big Brother Complex]]: He's ''very'' close to his little brother Nero.

* {{spoiler|[[Dead to Begin With]]}}

* [[Dual-Wielding]]

** He does this in the online mode as well. It's just him.

* {{spoiler|[[Grand Theft Me]]}}/{{spoiler|[[Hijacked by Ganon]]}}: {{spoiler|He is a host to the mad scientist Hojo, and it was with the help of Nero that he became free. He later grand thefted OMEGA}}.

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: The first one. Vincent, however, gets the help of Shelke/{{spoiler|Lucrecia}} to match him.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Did this to Nero after {{spoiler|he became alive again and Hojo took control of him}}.

** Also did this to Shelke, ordering Azul to terminate her.

=== Nero the Sable ===