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* [[Animal Motifs]]: Wolves, specifically Fenrir, the name of the wolf that follows him in ''Advent Children'' and of his [[Cool Bike]], which debuted in the same movie. However, this only applies to that movie.
* [[Anime Hair]]
* [[Anti -Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|Type I]] who [[Jerkass Facade|pretends to be]] Type III. He arguably evolved into an actual hero (or at least a Type II antihero) by the end of the first game.
** [[Classical Antihero]]
* [[Badass]]: See [[Determinator]].
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* [[Flanderization]]: If you haven't played the original game, you'll be surprised at how ''non'' angsty Cloud was. He ''did'' angst and express hesitation and insecurities, but only at key points and for good reasons, and at the end of the game seemed perfectly fine. In his appearances since, he has been an angsty brooding loner. [[Square Enix]] states outright in ''The Reunion Files'' (basically the ''Ultimania'' for ''Advent Children'') that they regressed his personality back to a mindset they thought fans would be more familiar with, making this a case of [[Pandering to The Base]].
** In all fairness, it'd be downright absurd to think he'd just be emotionally fixed by the end of the game. Anyone who might go through what Cloud went through might need a few years to fully reconcile. Like 30 of them.
* [[The Hero]] of the [[Five -Man Band]].
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: [[BFS]]'s are preferred, although he does have a few katanas. As an infantryman, however, he favored an [[Cool Gun|assault rifle]] and [[Dual Tonfas|police baton]].
* [[Her Heart Will Go On|His Heart Will Go On]]
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* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: With Tifa.
* [[Weapon Twirling]]: As part of his victory animation.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] {{spoiler|He beats up Aerith in the Temple of the Ancients, causing her to leave the party. Granted, he was being controlled, but still...}}
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: A certain, ahem, [http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Miss_Cloud_Artwork.png "noble incident"].
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: {{spoiler|Twice. With Aerith. Once in the Temple of the Ancients, second in Forgotten Capital, where she was praying. With a [[BFS]]. Neither time intentional, [[Brainwashed and Crazy|he was a puppet]].}}
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* [[Angry Black Man]]: Pretty obvious, don't you think? It's [[Justified]] later on in the game when Barret explains just ''why'' he's so angry to begin with.
* [[Anti -Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|Type IV -> Type II.]]
* [[Arm Cannon]]: Although some of his weapons turn it into a [[Power Fist]] instead.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: His gun arm is able to transform into a robotic hand in ''[[Advent Children]]''.
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** [[Handicapped Badass]]
* [[Big Good]]: From ''his'' perspective in the beginning of the game, given that he's leading AVALANCHE and giving orders to Cloud & co. He gradually comes to realize that maybe he wasn't quite as noble as he thought.
* [[The Big Guy]] of the [[Five -Man Band]].
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: [[Character Development]] turns Barret into one of these later on. He's still emotional and outgoing, but no longer quite as trigger-happy.
* [[Brown Eyes]]
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: He looks, and even acts, ''very'' similar to [[Mr. T]]. So much in fact that it's a [[Running Gag]] among the fandom to compare the two. As of ''Advent Children'', he even talks like him.
** The audiobooks for ''On the Way to a Smile'' has him sound more like Chi McBride.
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]
* [[Hot Blooded]]
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]:
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* [[Mighty Glacier]]: He's slow and not very good with magic, but he can take a tremendous amount of punishment and is very good at blowing things up with his gun weapons.
* [[Morality Pet]]: His daughter, Marlene.
* [[Moral Myopia]]: Initially, he doesn't care about the lives of many people besides Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie (who all die really early on) and Marlene and Tifa. He fights Shinra primarily out of revenge and his self-righteous [[Saving the World]] claims are just his self-justification. This would count as [[Moral Dissonance]], if Cait Sith didn't [[What the Hell, Hero?|call him out for it later on,]] and later his acknowledgement that it was wrong.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: To Marlene.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Again, to Marlene.
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* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: But not as much as Cid.
* [[The Southpaw]]: Necessary, his right hand is an assault weapon.
* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: At first. He later acknowledges that his actions might not have been best.
* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: His solution to most problems seems to involve [[More Dakka]].
 
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** [[Badass Long Hair]]: In-game, Tifa's hair reaches to her knees. In ''Advent Children'', it's reduced to shoulder length for animation purposes. She still keeps the bad ass part though.
** [[Badass Normal]]: Tifa doesn't have an ancient heritage, or Mako in her veins, but she can still keep up with the best of them.
* [[Bare -Fisted Monk]]: Her combat style is based on this character class.
* [[The Bartender]]: Tifa tends bar at 7th Heaven.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Her [[Final Fantasy VII|in-game]] outfit bares a lot of midriff. Her ''Advent Children'' one only shows a sliver.
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* [[Brown Eyes]]: Or red eyes. It varies on the source.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Does as much damage with her fists as others with actual weapons. Then there's her [[Limit Break]] which [[Serial Escalation|continually gets bigger and bigger until her fist causes an explosion]].
* [[The Chick]]: By being [[The Heart]]. But boy, does she kick ass! She can suplex tanks, robots, dragons, marlboros, hell, even the [[One -Winged Angel]].
* [[Converse With the Unconscious]]: In ''Case of Tifa'', she asks Cloud if he loves her while he's sleeping. Her voice wakes him up, and she quickly changes the question.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Possibly the cutest member of the team, and one of the strongest.
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* [[Promotion to Parent]]: To Marlene and Denzel, although she could be viewed as more of a [[Parental Substitute]] to the former.
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: It even had to be cut to help the animation along in ''Advent Children''.
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Dark haired and very pale skin.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Very long legs.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Can be very shy in regards to her feelings.
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* [[Smurfette Principle]]: If you don't get Yuffie, and after Aerith dies, Tifa is your only girl.
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Although it is an [[Informed Attribute]].
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Tifa's the tallest out of the three females on the team.
* [[Team Mom]]: To AVALANCHE. The home base chef who worries about them.
* [[Third Person Seductress]]: Just ''look'' at her picture, or ''any'' picture with her in it.
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* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: With Cloud.
* [[Womanin Black]]: She's got the outfit in ''Advent Children'', but (as with everything involving Tifa and appearance-based personality cues) subverted to hell and back.
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Let's see here, devotion to the man she loves, check. Good domestic skill, check. [[Team Mom]], check. [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]], check. Iron heart that is strong enough to snap [[The Hero]] out of his [[Heroic BSOD]], check please. She has everything except a connection to [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Wutai/Japan]] and the attached cultural trappings.
 
=== Aerith (Aeris) Gainsborough ===
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* [[Green Eyes]]
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Her ribbon.
* [[Half -Human Hybrid]]: Half human, half Ancient.
* [[Happily Adopted]]: By Elmyra, who actually {{spoiler|finds little!Aerith by the side of her dying mother Ifalna in the local train sation, and takes her in to fulfill Ifalna's dying wish.}}
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Her bust is nowhere near as large as Tifa's, and it's hard to tell if [[She's Got Legs]] because she wears full-length dresses. However, Aerith still has [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110227161509/finalfantasy/images/9/93/Aeris-FFVIIArt.png her] [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110224134016/finalfantasy/images/3/37/Aerith-DissidiaAlt1.png womanly] [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110224033548/finalfantasy/images/9/9f/Itadaki-Aerith2.png attributes].
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* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]: A sweet and lovely lady who recruits Cloud to be her body guard. Her HOLY spell is the only threat to the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Evil Plan]]
* [[Sneaky Departure]]
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: The original English translation had her name as "Aeris."
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: To Cloud in Advent Children.
* [[Street Smart]]: "I was raised in the slums. I'm used to danger."
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: A much gentler version of the trope.
* [[The Tease]]
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: She looks like the Mother, but she actually acts like the Seductress with some sprinkles of The Child.
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** [[Colony Drop]]: Cosmo Memory
** [[Life Drain]]: Blood Fang absorbs HP and MP
** [[Light 'Em Up]]: Stardust Ray
** [[Status Buff]]: Lunatic High and Howling Moon grant status buffs on him and/or his allies.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: In ''[[Advent Children]]'', he was meant to sound like Sean Connery.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: His mother [[Missing Mom|died protecting Cosmo Canyon]], and he believed his father [[Disappeared Dad|left her alone to die]] [[You're Not My Father|because he was afraid of fighting]]. Turns out he didn't run away but went fighting the monsters that were attacking from behind; he won but was [[Taken for Granite|petrified]]. And he is still [[And I Must Scream|alive and conscious]].
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky|Red Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Until he befriends [[True Companions|Cloud and the others, anyway.]]
* [[The Smart Guy]] of the [[Five -Man Band]]
* [[Talking Animal]]
* [[Teen Genius]]: Despite being a teenager by his species' standards, he's the wisest and most intelligent member of the party.
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* [[Team Pet]]: Probably the only one who has their ''own'' [[Team Pet]] (his giant moogle).
* [[Welcome Back Traitor]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Calls out Barret for his bombing missions from earlier in the game. It comes off as somewhat hypocritical, however, since he's... y'know, with the Shinra, but {{spoiler|Reeve}} was never crazy about the killing of innocents to begin with.
 
=== Cid Highwind ===
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* [[Ace Pilot]]
* [[Artistic Age]]: He is really 32 years old. You wouldn't think so considering his appearance in the game. In ''Advent Children'', he looked more his age.
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Despite the fact that he verbally abuses his girlfriend, Shera, constantly throughout the game, he really does deeply care for her. He even names his new airship after her, and finally marries her throughout ''Advent Children'' and ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]].''
* [[Badass]]:
** In ''Advent Children'', he made a freaking {{spoiler|Bahamut Summon}} flinch by stabbing it on the head!
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* [[Blade On a Stick]]
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: One of his reasons for joining the party is because he likes the idea of "numbskulls" fighting Shinra. Plus, [[Badass|he can back every word of his boasts up]].
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: He's much worse about this than Barret.
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]
* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Well, he's only 32, but that's old by Japanese anime/video game standards.
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* [[Cutscene Power to The Max]]: In ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', Vincent pulls off amazing feats of [[Gun Fu]], [[Supernatural Martial Arts]], and gravity-defying superhuman agility that would make [[Devil May Cry|Dante]] jealous. But only in cutscenes; when you're controlling him, he can't do any of these things, and in fact, he can barely jump.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: To put it mildly.
* [[Eerie Pale -Skinned Brunette]]
* [[Guest Fighter]]: In ''[[Ehrgeiz]]''.
* [[Gun Fu]]: The spin-offs have established him utilising this with his handguns. Which is kinda weird considering that he never did it in the original games.
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* [[Limit Break]]: Unlike other party members, Vincent's Limit Breaks transform him into monsters with two special attacks, but he becomes [[The Berserker]], acting of his own will.
** [[Big Badass Wolf|Galian Beast]]: [[Spam Attack|Berserk Dance]] and [[Playing With Fire|Beast Flare]]
** [[FrankensteinsFrankenstein's Monster|Death Gigas]]: [[Shock and Awe|Livewire]] and Gigadunk
** [[Hockey Mask and Chainsaw|Hell Masker]]: [[Chainsaw Good|Splattercombo]] and [[Standard Status Effects|Nightmare]]
** [[Our Demons Are Different|Chaos]]: [[Razor Wings|Chaos Saber]] and Satan Slam
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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 [[FrankensteinsFrankenstein'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]].
** [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Transforms into the monsters intentionally; its changing back where his control is rather iffy.
* [[Sixth Ranger]]
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Super -Powered Evil Side]]: Chaos, a demonic entity sealed inside of him.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
* [[The Undead]]: Vincent is, to all intents and purposes, a walking corpse animated only by Chaos. The resemblance to a vampire is purely intentional (although he's actually closer to a zombie when you get right down to it).
** [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: He's a Type C (onstruct) with shades of Type R(evenant).
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* [[Action Girl]]: Not quite as much as Tifa, but she can still kick some serious ass.
* [[Anti -Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|Type IV]], at least in the original.
* [[Badass Adorable]]
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]
* [[Bratty Half Pint]]: In the original game.
* [[Brown Eyes]]
* [[Eerie Pale -Skinned Brunette]]
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Yuffie's very fast, but when she gets hit, it hurts.
* [[Fuuma Shuriken]]
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** [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Landscaper.
** [[Healing Hands]]: Clear Tranquil.
** [[Light 'Em Up]]: Gauntlet.
** [[Spam Attack]]: Bloodfest and Doom of the Living.
** [[Wave Motion Gun]]: All Creation.
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** With Vincent in ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', {{spoiler|especially when Vincent seemingly dies taking out Omega.}} Whether it's because she likes him or is simply concerned because he's a comrade is still open to debate.
* [[Sixth Ranger]]
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: She often calls herself "the Great Ninja Yuffie" or "the single white rose of Wutai".
* [[So Long and Thanks For All The Gear]]: "Wutai Theft" is the former [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Sticky Fingers]]
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* [[All Your Powers Combined]]/[[Mega Manning]]: According to [[All There in the Manual|the Ultimania guide]], this is how Zack learns his Limit Breaks -- 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.
* [[Badass]]: The beginning of ''[[Crisis Core]]'' firmly establishes him as this, and it only gets better from there... up until, [[Doomed By Canon|well]].
* [[BFS]]
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
* [[Nice Guy]]
* [[One -Scene Wonder]]: In the original game.
* [[Posthumous Character]]
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: The X-shaped scar on the lower part of his cheek.
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* [[Super Soldier]]
* [[Take Up My Sword]]: The [[Retcon|Retconned]] 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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* [[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.
* [[And Then What?]]: Until the ''Compilation'', it wasn't explicit as to what Sephiroth was actually going to ''do'' with his godlike power after obtaining it, with interpretations ranging from [[Take Over the World]] to [[Omnicidal Maniac]]. {{spoiler|According to ''Advent Children'', the ultimate result was the Planet's destruction, it's hinted that he intended to use the Planet as a vessel similar to Jenova, and basically lead him towards a new planet (his "Promised Land") and rule it as a god.}}
* [[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''.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: In ''Crisis Core'' he arrives out of nowhere and saves Zack from Ifrit.
* [[Bishonen|Biseinen]]
* [[Bishonen Line]]: His [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|Bizz]][[Gonk|aro]] to [[One -Winged Angel|Saf]][[Faux Symbolism|er]] transformation. He resumes his original body for the final confrontation with Cloud.
* [[Blade Spam]]: In more recent iterations of ''The Compilation of [[Final Fantasy VII]]'' as well as ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' and ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'', Sephiroth seems to be able to strike his opponent several times with only a few tactically-placed slashes of his Masamune. In ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'', he possesses a move called Flash, where he dashes past Sora; if you don't [[Press X to Not Die|use the Reaction Command]], Sora eats about 7-9 slashes. In ''Dissidia'', his slashes inflict upwards of four blows at a time (his Octoslash, in particular, hits eight times in spite of Sephy only swinging five times).
* [[The Chessmaster]]
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* [[Guest Fighter]]: In ''[[Ehrgeiz]]''.
* [[Guinea Pig Family]]: He was conceived and born solely to serve as a test subject for the Jenova Project, which both of his parents worked on.
* [[Hell -Bent for Leather]]
* [[Human Popsicle|Human Mako-sicle]]: When Cloud and the others discover his body at the Northern Crater {{spoiler|before Cloud, due to Sephiroth's earlier statements as well as Hojo, ends up giving Sephiroth the Black Materia again}}, he is seen to be in a mako-cocoon in stasis.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: It turns out that being injected with the cells of a dead alien god while you were a fetus will do this to you. His very presence is a threat to the world, he contaminates the Lifestream dead or alive, he refuses to stay buried, and his nickname is The Abomination.
* [[In -Series Nickname]]: The Abomination.
** In Advent Children, it seems he's earned the title "The Nightmare".
* [[Japanese Pronouns]]: Before Sephiroth went insane, he used the arrogant term of "Ore", but after after the Niebelheim Incident, he always uses the formal and polite term "Watashi," alluding to the fact that he has devoted himself to his "mother's" cause.
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* [[No Shirt Long Jacket]]: With suspenders.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: [[Mind Screw|Maybe]]. His goal in the first game was a bit confusing to some. Though it's a given that {{spoiler|his plan requires all life on the planet to be obliterated in order to make a wound big enough for the lifestream to come out to mend.}}
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: See [[Freudian Excuse]].
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: After his descent into insanity, as Tifa learned the hard way when she [[You Killed My Father|attempted to avenge her dad]].
** He'd also ''kill'' a girl, of course.
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* [[The Starscream]]: He attempted to have AVALANCHE attack Midgar as a means to usurp his dad in the business in Before Crisis. Surprisingly, his father takes his son's attempt to backstab him pretty well, relatively speaking.
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: He is put on an "extended assignment overseas" at Junon (in actuality, put under house arrest in Junon) after it became apparent that he aided AVALANCHE in their efforts to eliminate Shinra so as to remove his father from power. Considering the alternatives (ie, being sacked or executed, possibly even both), this punishment was actually very light.
* [[The Un -Reveal]]: When he and Cloud meet in ''Advent Children'', Rufus begins to explain how he escaped his office before Diamond Weapon killed him, but Cloud doesn't care and interrupts him before he finishes. The side novellas later explain it.
* [[The Unfettered]]: Nobody has ever seen him cry, and he is never shown to have much fear for his own safety, much less those of his subordinates or anyone else. Case of Shinra shows his [[Heel Face Turn]] as a calculated method of patiently getting back on top of the world and rebuilding the corporation (which he had done, by the time of ''Advent Children'') after Mako ceased to be a viable power source.
 
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* [[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.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: The official Romanizations [in Japan] of Elena's and Reno's names were, once upon a time, "Yrena" and "Leno" [specifically in the ''Official Establishment File'' artbook].
* [[Ship Tease]]: Between Tseng and Elena, Zack and Cissnei. You could also mention how Tseng likes Aerith and Rude likes Tifa, but in that case it's kind of one-sided.
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: ''Before Crisis'' reveals that Elena's older sister was a Turk, and Elena resented her for outperforming her; she refused to join the Turks while her sister was a member. She joined after her sister retired along with many other Turks from that game, following their defeat of Zirconiade and decision to follow Veld's lead.
* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: Tseng towards Aerith and Rude towards Tifa, so much that Rude will refuse to attack Tifa during boss fights. Subverted by Elena, who has a crush on Tseng but doesn't actively pursue him.
* [[The Unfought]]: At no point does the party ever actually engage Tseng, the leader of the Turks, in combat. He can, however, be fought in the Training Mode in ''Before Crisis''.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Whatever happened to [[Crisis Core|Cissnei]]?
** [[Word of God|She retired with the other members]] from ''Before Crisis'', of course.
 
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* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|He returns as the main antagonist in ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', commanding the Tsviets through the body of Weiss.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Bigger Bad]]: Along with Jenova in the main game, he's the source of everything evil in the story.}}
* [[Card -Carrying Villain]] / [[Obviously Evil]]: Look us in the eye and tell us your Evil Radar ''wasn't'' going off when he first appeared. He also admitted to being one when Cloud confronts him. See [[For Science!]]. This is also one of the few examples in the former trope where it isn't intended to be funny.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: He is particularly snarky with Cloud whenever they meet.
* [[Drunk On the Dark Side]]
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: He is fairly restrained in the original game, until the final confrontation, during which he was pretty close to a complete break with reality. In ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', however, he gives [[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka]] a run for his money.
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: A textbook example.
* [[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]]
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: {{spoiler|He takes over Weiss the Immaculate's body prior to ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]''. If the Novellas are anything to go by, he also did this to Sephiroth between his own death and Sephiroth's fight against AVALANCHE.}}
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* [[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.
* [[Laughing Mad]]: See [[Evil Laugh]].
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|He reveals that he is Sephiroth's father near the end of the game.}}
* [[Mad Scientist]]: His first appearance in the game involves him attempting to ''[[Squick|breed Aerith and Red XIII]].''
* [[The Man Behind the Monsters]]/[[The Man Behind the Man]]: Aside from Jenova herself, all of the antagonists of the ''FF7'' universe can be traced back to his experimentations. {{spoiler|He's responsible for the creation of Sephiroth and Genesis, his experimentations on Elfé is what lead to her getting her superpowers and forming AVALANCHE, and he's also the one controlling Deepground in ''Dirge of Cerberus'', as well as the fact Deepground began as an off-shoot of SOLDIER, which of course was based on Hojo's research.}}
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* [[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.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Like father like son, eh?}}
* [[The Starscream]]: It is implied in Before Crisis that Hojo intended to fake a kidnapping so he could "defect" to AVALANCHE (who aren't nearly as good as their successors).
* [[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.
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: As [[Annoying Laugh]] as Heidegger's.
* [[Lady in Red]]
* [[NoblewomansNoblewoman's Laugh]]
 
=== Palmer ===
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* [[Fusion Dance]]: With Sephiroth, to the point that he's taken her originaly instinctive destructive goals [[Up to Eleven]] and infused them with his own conscious intelligence.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Resembles a deathly pale woman with eyes and veins in places where they should not be. Sometimes wears a steel mask to hide this.
* [[In -Series Nickname]]: Heaven's Dark Harbinger, The Calamity from the Skies, Mother.
* [[NamesName's the Same]]: Jenova LIFE's water-based magic is called Aqualung, which is also the name of a song by [[Jethro Tull]].
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: It's been suggested that Jenova, while wicked and cruel, was originally just a creature that instinctively sought to destroy. Her fusion with Sephiroth combined her instincts with his powerful will and intelligence.
* [[Planet Eater]]: Drains them of life anyway.
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'''Kadaj'''
 
* [[And Then What?]]: As Cloud notes, {{spoiler|Kadaj isn't really sure what to do when he finally gets his hands on Jenova}}.
* [[Cool Sword]]: Souba, his double-bladed sabre, which can take a hit from the First Tsurugi and not break.
* [[Dark Messiah]]: Kadaj pulls this off in the scene where he brainwashes the kids, channeling "cult leader" for all he's worth, while ranting about how the world has tried to reject all of them (them being victims of Jenova). Even his obsesssion with reuniting with Jenova has vaguely religious overtones.
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* [[Not So Different]]: "So what if I'm a puppet? Once upon a time, you were too!"
* [[The Pawn]]: He's not quite [[Unwitting Pawn|unwitting]], since he realizes that he probably won't come out on top, but since it's all for "Mother", he's willing.
* [[Peek -a -Bangs]]
* [[Redemption in The Rain]]
* [[The Unfavorite]]: He worries that Mother might love Sephiroth more than him. She does.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Has a minor one when he {{spoiler|gets his hands on Jenova's head}}, then has a larger one when Cloud points out {{spoiler|he's just Sephiroth's pawn}}.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]
 
'''Yazoo'''
* [[Badass Long Hair]]
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: He shoots Cloud in the back without any warning in the finale.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Apparently, Yazoo is meant to represent Sephiroth's "allure". Erm.
* [[The Gunslinger]]
** [[Guns Akimbo]]
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* [[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.
* [[Green Eyes]] with [[Hellish Pupils]]
* [[Hell -Bent for Leather]]: They are wearing nothing ''but'' leather.
* [[Oedipus Complex]]: All three of them, but Loz especially.
* [[Older Hero vs. Younger Villain]]: The younger villains to Cloud's older hero. Even ignoring the fact that they've been alive for two years at the most, they still come off as considerably younger than Cloud.
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* [[Terrible Trio]]: Kadaj is the brains, while Yazoo and Loz provide [[The Gunslinger|firepower]] and [[The Brute|muscle]].
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Yazoo and Loz.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy|White Haired Pretty Boys]]
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: They're barely two years old.
 
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* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]
* [[Known Only By Their Nickname]]: Her real name is {{spoiler|Felicia}}.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: She's {{spoiler|Veld's}} daughter, presumed dead.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Three times in fact. {{spoiler|Veld assumes Felicia dead when their hometown is attacked, but she's retrieved and used as an experiment by Hojo. He decides she's a failure and orders her disposed of, but Fuhito takes her to safety. And then at the end of ''[[Before Crisis]]'', she's assumed dead due to the Zirconiade Materia finally taking its toll, but she and Veld are taken care of in secret and eventually go into hiding together}}.
* [[Stock Super Powers]]: [[Super Reflexes]], [[Super Senses]], [[Super Speed]], [[Super Strength]].
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Elfé's right-hand man in AVALANCHE
 
* [[Co -Dragons]]: With Fuhito.
* [[Bare -Fisted Monk]]
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: He used to lead his own rebellion on Shinra, until he ran into Elfé. She kicked his ass, and he and his men joined AVALANCHE.
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: {{spoiler|After Veld abandons the Turks to try and help Elfé, Shears abandons AVALANCHE and joins him to try and help him}}.
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* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}: {{spoiler|Is manipulating Elfé and AVALANCHE to gather the pieces of the Zirconiade Materia}}.
* [[Co -Dragons]]: With Shears.
** [[Dragon Ascendant]]: After Shears leaves the group and Elfé is too weak to do it herself, Fuhito takes over command of AVALANCHE.
* [[Four Eyes Zero Soul]]
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* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Omnicidal Maniac]]}}: {{spoiler|Believes that the Planet is too weakened thanks to Shinra's actions and wants to kill all human life so their energy will return to the Lifestream and the Planet can heal without their interference}}.
* {{spoiler|[[One -Winged Angel]]}}: {{spoiler|Merges with Zirconiade for the final battle}}.
* [[Recurring Boss]]
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|His plans for all of AVALANCHE, Elfé and Shears included}}.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Genesis" of course parallels Sephiroth's name, but it also means "birth" or "origin". Combined with the origin of his last name, he is "the original epic poem", referring both to his obsession with LOVELESS, and the idea that in-universe he was the original rebel SOLDIER and commited acts that Sephiroth would later repeat.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: His appearance is based on [[Gackt]] Camui; he's also voiced by Gackt, Gackt had a hand in the design of his outfit, and Gackt portrayed him live action in {{spoiler|''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'''s secret ending}}.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]
* [[Playing With Fire]]: Throws a definite preference for fire spells like Flash and Energy.
* [[Power Degeneration]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Dead to Begin With]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Disney Death]]}}: {{spoiler|It's implied in the 100% ending with all Genesis reports collected that Weiss is not actually dead.}}
* [[Dual -Wielding]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]: While {{spoiler|possessed by Hojo.}}
** He does this in the online mode as well. It's just him.
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* [[Super Soldier]]
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Oh ''yes'', please and thank you.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]: Though he's no relation to Sephiroth.
* [[Wild Hair]]: It's even bigger and spikier than Cloud's!
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Did this to Nero after {{spoiler|he became alive again and Hojo took control of him}}.
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* [[Cultured Badass]]
* [[The Dragon]]
* [[Dual -Wielding]]: Takes this [[Up to Eleven]] by having four functioning hands (one per wing) and using all four to shoot at you.
* [[Eerie Pale -Skinned Brunette]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Nero is the Italian word for "Black," which in itself is a derivation of a rather infamous Roman Emperor.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
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* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: Sometimes.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Or so Shalua thought...}}
* [[Dual -Wielding]]
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Very much. Borderline [[Sugar and Ice Personality]] towards the end.
{{quote| Shelke: "It's not what you think... I'm simply providing this service for my own benefit." <br />
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* [[Evil Genius]]: She was Deepground's computer expert and a major tactician alongside Azul. When she becomes a ally of W.R.O., she becomes [[The Smart Guy]] of the bunch.
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: What she lacks in strength and endurence, she makes it up with both ''extremly fast'' speed and agility.
* [[Full -Name Basis]]: She does this. Frequently.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: She joins the W.R.O after she was betrayed by Deepground.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: See her [[Manipulative Bastard]] entry. After that, her happy ending seems sort of like this.
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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 -- due to [[Colorful Theme Naming]] -- 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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* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]
* [[Woman in White]]
 
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* [[BFS]]
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]
* [[I Cannot Self -Terminate]]: Pretty much the reason why he transformed and fought Zach to the death.
* [[Meaningful Name]]
* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]
* [[The Obi -Wan]]: To Zack.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: By fusing with several monsters.
* [[Ornamental Weapon]]
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: An in-game email from his fan club states that he loves ''dogs and gardening.''
* [[Team Dad]]: To Zack, and most of SOLDIER.
* [[What Have I Become?]]
 
=== Marlene Wallace ===
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* [[Cheerful Child]]
* [[Children Are Innocent]]
* [[DaddysDaddy's Girl]]
* [[Happily Adopted]]: By Barret. And in the compilation, Cloud and Tifa.
* [[Kid Has a Point]]: ''""How are you supposed to look after your family if you can't even look after yourself?"''
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* [[Bonus Boss]]
* [[Blade On a Stick]]/[[Magic Staff]]: A bit of both.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Zack will probably do this literally, since Costly Punch is what you're likely going to be spamming against her.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Inverted, as a goddess who embodies the will of the Lifestream, she's a Good Counterpart to Jenova and Sephiroth, false gods who try to corrupt the Lifestream.
* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: Crimson Flare, Krysta and Thor's Hammer.
* [[Gold and White Are Divine]]
* [[Hair of Gold]]
* [[Hot Goddess]]
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]
* [[Morph Weapon]]: Her shield, spear/staff, and armor and cape, come apart and combine to form a giant bow and arrow for Judgement Arrow.
* [[No Cure for Evil]]: Unfortunately she isn't evil, hence Blessing Light.
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