Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: Difference between revisions

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Limited-edition copies of the movie were bundled with a novella detailing several characters' points of view during the two-year [[Time Skip]]. The ''Advent Children Complete'' [[Blu Ray]] re-release included an OVA version of one of the novella's stories and added additional footage to the film that either helped to expand on much of the plot ([[Re Cut|which was a necessary move]]) or alter entire parts of it ([[Retcon|which wasn't.]])

=== This film contains examples of: ===

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Sephiroth, Cloud, Kadaj... Basically anyone who uses any kind of blade has one of these. Cloud's is so sharp that it can apparently cut through ''entire skyscrapers''.

* [[All There in the Manual]]:

** Before ''Complete'' more adequately explained the plot, the best way of comprehending the movie (as well as learning of other interesting information) was to buy the ''Reunion Files'' book, the filmic equivalent of an FF ''Ultimania'' book. Whilst it's technically only available in Japan, it's also thankfully fully bilingual, featuring both English and Japanese text.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Reno, possibly. {{spoiler|President Shinra turns out to be a Crouching Cripple Hidden Badass.}}

* [[Dark Messiah]]: Kadaj really channels this in the scene at the lake.

* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: {{spoiler|Cloud has one with both Aerith and Zack.}}

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: All the original playable characters not named Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, and Vincent. ''Especially'' Red XIII, who gets exactly one line before the end of the film.

* [[Fight Scene]]: It'd be more accurate to say the movie contains ''non''-[[Fight Scene|Fight Scenes]]. The original cut is 90 minutes long. The fight with Bahamut Sin starts about 45 minutes in, and the whole rest of the movie is one long fight. A good chunk of the first half is fighting too.

* [[The Gunslinger]]: Yazoo and Vincent

* [[Genki Girl]]: Yuffie

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: Reno's don't seem to do anything other than to look cool and give him red rings around his eyes. Completely averted with Cloud, though--in addition to their regular purpose (keeping dirt out of his eyes) the goggles also prevent him from taking a bullet right between the eyes.

* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: "A ''good'' son would have known."

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Yuffie

* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: Kadaj's katana (which is basically two blades on one hilt), Cloud's Fusion Swords.

* [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die|I Let Aerith Die]]: As it was in FFVII, one of the reasons for Cloud's depression until he finally allows himself to be forgiven.

* [[Intellectual Animal]]: Red XIII. Also Cait Sith, who is [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|a robotic Scottish cat]].

* [[It Is Not Your Time]]: Cloud, after {{spoiler|being shot by Yazoo}}, has a brief encounter with {{spoiler|Aerith and Zack}} who tell him he doesn't belong with them yet.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: ''Reno''.

** People seem to forget that even though President Shinra ordered the Midgar plate to be dropped that Reno was the one who ''physically did the deed''. [[Just Following Orders]] is not an excuse. Does he get any kind of karmic punishment in this movie? Of course not. He's demoted to [[Plucky Comic Relief]].

** We shouldn't forget, however, that Barret and AVALANCHE ''also'' responsible for terrorist actions that killed innocent people. If that can be swept under the rug, then there's really no reason Reno's actions can't be. And besides, with the whole Sephiroth and Meteor incident having transpired and the ''whole world'' needing rebuilding, a dropped plate seems like an insignificant event by comparison and retribution for it would be pointless.

* [[Let Them Die Happy]]: {{spoiler|Kadaj's death.}}

* [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Mother, Like Son]]: Invoked by Sephiroth, who states that he's more or less forgotten (or given up) on his original goal of becoming a god and has decided he's going to follow in Jenova's footsteps; flying through space draining worlds of all their life essence.

* [[Lip Lock]]:

** The dub. Oh so much.

** The [[Lip Lock]] also resulted in things like [http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss280/auntiebedjo519/Banana.gif this].

* [[Littlest Cancer Patient]]: Denzel and the other kids battling Geostigma.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Sephiroth's awesome theme tune.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Sephiroth, just like his dear mother before him.

* [[The Pawn]]: The silver-haired men to Sephiroth and Jenova.

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Kadaj

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Somewhere In Their Late Teens]]: Kadaj and his brothers might look like young men, but the truth is, as {{spoiler|Sephiroth's remnants}}, they're only about two.

* [[Recycled Soundtrack]]: Piano tracks come directly from a previous Final Fantasy VII piano album.

* [[Restart At Level One]]: See Took A Level In Badass. Initially, the party struggles against Kadaj's crew. They eventually pick up the pace later, wipe out Bahamut SIN, and kill Sephiroth all over again. This is probably signified as Cloud keeps adding more pieces to his sword.

** The adding of pieces serves as a [[Shout-Out]] to the way the game had Cloud upgrading by getting meaner and meaner swords.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: Acknowledged by the animators as the ''only'' rule they followed in designing the fight scenes.

* [[Rule of Drama]]: Probably the 2nd rule that truly matters in this show after the [[Rule of Cool]], the prime example would be {{spoiler|Aerith showing up to help Cloud...inside ''[[Sphere of Destruction|Mega Flare]]''.}}

** {{spoiler|With Cloud it's at least partially justified; the sequence in which he talks to Zack is probably taking place in his head, where time may be passing by slower. With Sephiroth, he's just really into crazy monologues and everyone seems happy to indulge him.}}

*** As Sephiroth is in [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]] mode while doing that, it's really no wonder nobody complains; they live longer that way.

{{quote| ''"I will...never be a memory...."''}}

* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: Why didn't Yuffie just pass around some materia, have everyone cast one of their maxed-out spells (most of the materia was green), and wipe Kadaj and his ilk off the face of the earth? Because they've lost their edge - they've moved on and rebuilt their lives after Sephiroth's defeat, while Cloud spent all of his time brooding on [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die|his failure to save Aerith.]] Tifa infers, from her defeat at Loz's hands, that none of them are the demigod-slayers they used to be. None of them save Cloud, who has refused to let go of his grief, is still riding the wave of desperation that let the party match superhumans like Sephiroth blow-for-blow. She even says those [[Exact Words]]. Letting him finish the final fight himself not only keeps them out of his way, but enables him to find closure.