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{{quote|''"There ain't no gettin' offa this train we're on!"''}}
'''''Final Fantasy VII''''' is the [[Video Game Long Runners|seventh entry]] in the [[Running Gag|nerve-twistingly popular]] ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series. It's one of the most famous games of all time, as it helped extend console [[RPG
The game's story begins in the [[Cyberpunk|industrial]] metropolis of Midgar. The city's prosperity has soared thanks to the electricity supplied by the [[Mega Corp|Shinra Electric Power Company]] and their Mako Reactors. A [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|eco-terrorist organization]] known as
Cloud Strife, a former member of Shinra's elite private army SOLDIER, has joined AVALANCHE as a mercenary for hire. Alongside AVALANCHE leader Barrett Wallace and childhood friend Tifa Lockhart, Cloud begins to dig into the layers of corruption that permeate Shinra. The group discovers many of Shinra's secrets, including human experimentation and a plot to kidnap Aerith Gainsborough, a young woman believed to be [[Last of His Kind|the last]] of the mysterious [[Precursors|Ancients]].
The fight against Shinra changes completely with the reappearance of Sephiroth, a legendary SOLDIER who has been AWOL for years and is now blazing a trail of death across the entire world. Cloud senses the threat Sephiroth poses, and in an attempt to save the
Squaresoft (now [[Square Enix]]) published ''Final Fantasy VII'' on Sony's [[PlayStation]] console after a falling-out with Nintendo over the latter's extreme censorship policies (as well as a reported refusal to move away from the industry-standard ROM cartridge, which severely limited the scope of a game). Sony was more than willing to permit more "mature" content on its systems; coupled with the [[Technology Marches On|then-impressive]] storage capacity of the CD-ROM format, this proved to be much more accommodating to Square's design philosophy than Nintendo's restrictions.
Few people completely grasp the plot during the first playthrough
''Final Fantasy VII'' proved successful enough to spawn a fair amount of merchandise, including novellas told from various characters' perspectives and a raft of [[Spin-Off
* ''Final Fantasy VII: [[Advent Children]]'', a full-length CG animated [[The Movie|movie]] sequel.
* ''Last Order: Final Fantasy VII'', an [[OAV]] version of [[Two Lines, No Waiting|two flashbacks from the game]]
* ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]: Final Fantasy VII'', a [[Third-Person Shooter]] sequel for PS2 set after ''Advent Children'' and focusing on [[Ascended Extra|Vincent Valentine]].
* ''[[Crisis Core]]: Final Fantasy VII'', a PSP [[POV Sequel|POV Prequel]] focusing on [[Posthumous Character]] Zack Fair.
* ''[[Before Crisis]]: Final Fantasy VII'', a [[No Export for You|Japan-only]] mobile phone game; tells the story of the Turks (mainly new ones, though the ones from the original game appear only as NPCs) as they fight the original incarnation of AVALANCHE, who were more villainous than the one led by Barrett.
* ''On The Way To A Smile'', an anthology of short stories detailing the events that lead up to ''[[Advent Children]]'' from the end of the original game, eventually released in book form around the same time as ''[[Advent Children]] Complete'' was released on Blu-Ray.
A popular rumor
The ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' characters got their first cameo shots in the oft-forgotten [[Fighting Game]] ''[[Ehrgeiz]]''.▼
▲The ''
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== A-E ==
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Sephiroth's Masamune and Cloud's Fusion Sword blades are capable of not only slashing cleanly through massive pieces of concrete building that are far larger than the swords themselves, but setting the edges of the cut concrete ON FIRE. Of course, the swords
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Hojo and Lucrecia do genetic experiments on their son while he's ''still in the womb''. Said son turns out... well, let's just say "sociopath" is putting it mildly.
* [[The Ace]]: Zack {{spoiler|before he died}}.
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* [[All Asians Are Alike]]: Strangely, the portrayal of Wutai seems to suggest that the Japanese get traditional Japanese and Chinese culture mixed up just as much as Americans do.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Let's see... Tifa loves Cloud, but if he knows she does, he doesn't show it. Johnny has the hots for Tifa too, and ends up running 7th Heaven in her absence because of it. Cloud loves Aerith, but she's still hung up on Zack, so he never makes it past First Base with her. Tseng loves Aerith, but while it was an open secret, he never acted on his feelings. Rude has the hots for Tifa, but every time they encounter one another she either kicks his ass or mouths off to him. Elena loves Tseng, but she's too much of a fangirl to do anything about it. Vincent loved Lucrecia to the point of madness, but she was too busy starfucking Hojo to notice him. Hojo in turn didn't care one wet napkin about Lucrecia. And Shera loved Cid so much she (accidentally) sabotaged his dream rather than let him go through with it and die ([[Earn Your Happy Ending|they eventually get married after Cid learns her side of the story and he names an airship after her]], however).
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Sapphire WEAPON's name was revealed nearly a decade after the fact when Square began selling figurines of it, [[Ascended Fanon|which is what everyone called it before Square made it official
* [[Always Night]]:
** Midgar seems to be like this, but it's only because of all the smog and fallout from the Mako reactors, and on the world map, it's clearly daytime outside, but the screen and sky become more grey as you're closer to the city. The Cosmo Canyon and Northern Crater areas are also distinct for being set during twilight and at night, respectively.
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* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Barret.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Zack.
* [[As You Know]]: Cloud occasionally gives plot recaps. Justified (at least the second time)
* [[The Atoner]]:
** {{spoiler|Rufus and the Turks, following the end of the game}}.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Barret's old buddy Dyne, who racks up quite the body count before you battle him.
* [[Babies Ever After]]: The good ending of the Mog House minigame.
* [[Back
* [[Back Tracking]]: Want all the items from that three-way split in the North Cave? Yes, you do. Even better is that if you play it right, you can double up some of the items.
* [[Badass]]: Many characters.
* [[Badass Abnormal]]: Materia is a stone giving abilities, magics, and stat-boosts to the character who equips it. When he/she unequips the stone, these powers can't be used.
* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: The Turks, with the exception of Reno. While the rest of the Turks wear their blue suits clean, pressed
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Vincent and Sephiroth, although the latter is a villain.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Tifa and Yuffie.
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* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Cait Sith}} despite originally being [[The Mole]] in the party, ends up bonding with them and sharing their goals.
* [[Belated Happy Ending]]: Aerith and Zack are shown reunited in ''[[Advent Children]]''.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Tifa and Aerith zig-zag between the two. Tifa is [[Ms. Fanservice]], but acts frequently between Type B [[Tsundere]] and a [[Shrinking Violet]]. Aerith does not look as wild as she is, [[The Tease|yet is very flirty with Cloud
* [[BFG]]:
*
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with the Sister Ray.
* [[BFS]]: Cloud and Sephiroth each have one. Sephiroth's is a [[Katanas Are Just Better|no-dachi]]. It's not just any no-dachi, it is ''six feet long'' in the game. In other words, almost longer than he is ''tall'' (his canonical height is 6'1"). In Crisis Core and Advent Children, the no-dachi gets a ''downgrade'' to a much more manageable four feet long (as if that makes it better).▼
* [[BGM Override]]: Possibly the most well known example of this trope would be the fight with Jenova-LIFE where Aerith's theme keeps playing through the entire scene from the full-motion segment until the disc change.
* [[Bifurcated Weapon]]: Cloud's new [[
* [[Big Bad]]: Sephiroth is the definitive main antagonist of the game, but there are a few major antagonists that come close to filling the role. More information can be found on the trope page.
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Angeal to Zack and Zack to Cloud. Possibly also Cloud to Denzel.
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* [[Black Best Friend]]: Barret, specially if you choose him for the tram cut-scene.
* [[Blade Lock]]: Happens several times towards the end of ''[[Advent Children]]''.
▲* [[
* [[Blade on a Stick]]: Cid.
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The abnormally large number of these is said to have prompted Square to create its own localization department.
** "This guy are sick" and "To the settling of everything
** [[Tutorial Failure|The game says otherwise]], but ''do not'' "attack while the tail is up" in the first boss battle. The problem here isn't the translation but the phrasing. Had it been "Attack while the tail is up, it'll counter-attack with its laser!" in a single text box, it would have made a lot more sense. Prefixing it with "If you..." would have solved the issue too.
** And if you think the English translation is bad, the Spanish translation is a [[Blind Idiot Translation]] of the English [[Blind Idiot Translation]]. Highlights include Aerith and Yuffie being referred to as men at times, Aerith's mother having two names, "techno" translated as a substantive rather than as a prefix/adjective, in a way that ''in every case'' it appears it sounds like they're talking about the musical genre (someone in Corel calls Barrett a "monstruo del tecno", which makes it sound like he's a really badass DJ), and "well" somehow being once translated as "rueda" ("Wheel"), among lots of other "marvels". A Spanish [[Let's Play]] concluded Aerith was a hermaphrodite.
** The German translation is just as bad. Ignore the random German text, suddenly littered with untranslated English text, with translated German text beneath ''that'', and the sentence fragments repeating themselves two or three times. They also exchanged the Ü for a é (despite having the option to just write ue), making dialogue that includes that vowel hard to understand the first time around.
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* [[Book Ends]]: Aerith's face in the opening and closing cutscenes of the game. This has led some to theorize the whole game is a vision she's having before any of it takes place. If true, it means she knows she's going to die but [[Heroic Sacrifice|goes through with it anyway]].
* [[Boss Battle]]:
** [[Bonus Boss]]:
** [[Anticlimax Boss]]/[[Zero Effort Boss]]: ''Final'' final duel with Sephiroth, which is basically an interactive cutscene. Sephiroth will perish in a few hits, can only use a percentage-based attack, and if you don't do anything, you'll automatically counter attack and kill him anyway.▼
▲** [[Bonus Boss]]: The WEAPONs: Emerald and Ruby.
*** Lost Number in the Shinra Mansion gets you Vincent, as well as the Odin summon and Red XIII's ultimate limit break.
*** The five pagoda bosses in Wutai get you Leviathan summon and Yuffie's ultimate limit break.
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** [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: Numerous enemies in the Sunken Gelnika and in the Northern Crater.
** [[Boss Rush]]: The Battle Arena.
** [[Cognizant Limbs]]: Schizo, Carry Armour, Proud Clod, Helletic Hojo, Emerald Weapons, Jenova-Synthesis
** [[Cowardly Boss]]/[[Get Back Here Boss]]: Ultimate WEAPON, which runs away after the first, and only mandatory, fight against it in Mideel. The player is then given the option of fighting it again. It must be fought several times with it running away each time after it's taken a certain amount of damage.
** [[Cutscene Boss]]: Sapphire WEAPON. Diamond WEAPON was this in the original Japanese version, but an actual fight against him was added when the game went international.
** [[Damage Sponge Boss]]
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ovxL1wdjtI&feature=related Or you can beat it in 7 seconds
** [[Dual Boss]]: Three of the four boss fights against the Turks involve fighting two or three of them at once.
** [[Duel Boss]]: Cloud and Rufus, Barret and Dyne, Yuffie and the Pagoda, and of course, Cloud and Sephiroth.
** [[Final Boss, New Dimension]]: Bizzaro Sephiroth and [[Blind Idiot Translation|Safer Sephiroth]].<ref>Sepher Sephiroth.</ref>
** [[Final Exam Boss]]:
*** {{spoiler|During the final battle with Sephiroth, you can switch your party members}}.
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** [[Vehicular Assault]]: Motor Ball, the boss following the motorcycle chase sequence.
** [[Warmup Boss]]: Guard Scorpion in the reactor in the introductory sequence.
*** Air Buster in the Sector 5 reactor is, somehow, even more of a pushover. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95x_1RHxXhE It's very possible to kill it in one shot without even intending to
▲**
* [[Boy Meets Girl]]: Cloud and Aerith. Subverted in that, boy meets girl, {{spoiler|[[Plotline Death|girl]] then [[Tear Jerker|dies]]}}.
* [[Breakout Character]]: Vincent Valentine, who would go on to star in his own game. Same for Zack.
* [[Breather Episode]]: Right before the Temple of the Ancients is a lighthearted date scene. The first new location visited on disc two is the rather peaceful Icicle Inn, which is host to a snowboarding minigame.
* [[Brick Joke]]: While infiltrating Shinra tower, you overhear some comments from the staff about a stench in the boardroom. Later on you learn why firsthand... [[Toilet Humour|there's an airshaft that connects the boardroom to the washroom
* [[Broken Aesop]]: The original game had an environmental message about the Lifestream and humans abusing the planet's natural resources to the point there was the chance Holy would see them as a threat and destroy the species. Materials set after the game, namely ''On The Way To A Smile'', mention that people don't like using Mako anymore because they learned this message. Instead, the more "environmentally friendly" fuel of choice people are turning to is
* [[Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl]]: To an extent, both Tifa and Aerith are this towards Cloud.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Halfway through the game, you get a [[MacGuffin]] and are told to give it to someone else for safekeeping. Everyone but Barret or Red XIII/Nanaki declines to accept it.
* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]: Both subverted and played straight
* [[Cat Fight]]: Between Tifa and Scarlet, on top of a cannon during an attack by a huge monster while your team hijacks an airship.
* [[Cats Have Nine Lives]]:
** Referenced directly by Rude in regards to both Rufus and Tseng in ''Advent Children Complete'' when Reno hopes that their two missing partners are still alive. "Tseng is just like the president. They're kinda like cats. Nine lives, y'know?"
** Cait Sith sacrifices his body so you can get the [[Cosmic Keystone|black materia]]. His new body shows up again within 20 seconds, complete with his equipment and materia. [[Bag of Sharing]] much?
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** The mysterious voice talking to Cloud while he's unconscious.
** The men in Nibelheim in black cloaks.
** Reeve, JENOVA, Hojo, Ifalna, Red XIII's grandfather, Professor Gast, Dyne, Red XIII's father, Cait Sith.
* [[The Chessmaster]]:
*
** Rufus Shinra in ''[[Advent Children]]'' manages to pull the wool over Kadaj's eyes for the entire movie. Given his [[Magnificent Bastard]] status in the game, it really shouldn't come as any surprise...
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: You can go this route with Cloud.
* [[Cigar Fuse-Lighting]]: One of Cid's [[Limit Break
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Barret and Cid have a tendency to launch into these. The harsher curse words are censored, since this game has a "T" rating. Interestingly enough, the PC version was censored more than the [[PS 1]] version, with "hell" and "damn" censored too. Strangely, they don't censor "shit!".
* [[Colony Drop]]: Shinra drops the entire plate of Sector 7 onto the slums below to get rid of AVALANCHE.
* [[Combat Haircomb]]: Red XIII's weapon of choice.
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* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Tifa, though Yuffie also qualifies.
* [[Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain]]: Midgar always has dark skies, even above the plate.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|Yazoo [[Just Shoot Him|shoots Cloud]] [[In the Back]] while he's quietly contemplating his victory over Kadaj mere minutes earlier. Doesn't stick
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Lots of people in this game.
** Sephiroth.
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** Cloud, with his [[Trauma Conga Line]] past.
** What about Vincent? The guy [[Bodyguard Crush|fell deeply in love with Lucrecia]], only for her to choose Hojo and her work over him, and then was cruelly experimented on, had a total of four bloodthirsty demons shoved into him to share his mind for the rest of his life, and locked in a coffin for thirty years. If that's not dark and troubled, I don't know ''what'' is.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Than the previous ''Final Fantasy'' games (other than maybe ''VI''). [[Polluted Wasteland|Midgar]] serves as an especially immediate indication of this.
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Every playable character has at least one part of the game focused exclusively on them, their backstory, character development
* [[Dead Character Walking]]: By a glitch with Cloud's flashback sequence. Sephiroth's AI is supposed to revive Cloud should he fall in battle but sometimes Sephiroth will just wail on enemies instead, leaving Cloud down. This becomes extremely funny when Sephiroth separates from Cloud's party, leaving Cloud to walk around town by himself while his HP is at 0. There's no more random encounters once Sephiroth leaves due to plot reasons, so there's no risk of a [[Game Over]].
* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Gast and Ifalna.
* [[Death From Above]]: Numerous examples:
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* [[Death Ray]]: Big Cannon and Sister Ray.
* [[Debut Queue]]: Most of the first disc up until Rocket Town (when Cid, the last mandatory member joins).
* [[Deconstruction]]: Of [[Eastern RPG
* [[Deep South]]: Cid seems to be from here.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Beating up that Mysterious Ninja allows you to recruit her into your party. But only if you give the right [[Guide Dang It|answers to her questions]]. Failure just means she steals cash from you, but it's a lot of cash! She also [[Trickster Archetype|tricks you]] with a fake save point and takes your money if you check it out.
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* [[Derelict Graveyard]]: Of ''trains''.
* [[Despair Speech]]: Dyne delivers one before hurling himself off a canyon. Unlike his first 'death', this one sticks.
* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: Shortly before entering the [[Final Dungeon]], the party disbands so that its members can spend the last day before the apocalypse with their families before returning (or simply stay home entirely). Cloud and Tifa remain behind, having no families of their own to go home to, and spend the night together in the shadow of their airship. Cloud and Tifa's dialogue ends with a [[Sexy Discretion Shot|Fade to Black]].
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Cloud does this to {{spoiler|Sephiroth in his real memory of Nibelheim}}. After getting {{spoiler|impaled by Sephiroth's sword and lifted up, Cloud actually manages to reverse the move and simply toss Sephiroth aside and into the reactor}}.
* [[Dieselpunk]]
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: President Shinra {{spoiler|who turns up dead early in Disc 1}}.
** Averted in that the game's first two discs do end with big boss battles, but neither time does the game fool you into thinking the battles are climactic.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: After [[Go Mad
* [[Distant Finale]]: The cut to 500 years later after the credits, which caused some confusion (among other things, it convinced some players that Meteor and Holy wiped out all the humans), but at least showed that Red XIII lived up to his promise to live for 500 years.
* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: Sephiroth.
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* [[Doomsday Device]]: The Black Materia.
* [[The Dragon]]: JENOVA to Sephiroth. Rufus to President Shinra.
** [[Co-Dragons]]: Scarlett, Heidegger
* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Rufus, who's first the vice-president of Shinra, Inc., but then takes over for his father as president and becomes considerably more powerful.
* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: Professor Hojo can be seen as an example, as he actively works against Shinra on many occasions despite arguably being their most valuable executive. {{spoiler|He resigns from his post and begrudgingly assists the main party on their search for Sephiroth, only because he wants to see his research come to fruition. Later in the game, while his colleagues are attempting to stop his son from causing the apocalypse, he does everything in his power to speed it along}}.
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: The Junon infiltration sequence. Apparently, dressing is the ONLY requisite part of this trope
* [[Drunk on the Dark Side]]: Sephiroth, Hojo.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Lampshaded early in the game when Cloud has to crossdress to get into Don Corneo's mansion. Depending on how much the player worked, it's even possible for him to be picked over Aerith and Tifa as Corneo's future bride. [[Foe Yay]] and [[Squick]] don't even begin to describe it.
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* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: What Meteor does.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Jenova, who really isn't ''evil'' so much as hungry and looking for lunch. Unfortunately, that lunch just happens to be the life energy of planets. The whole turning people into monsters and driving them insane and impersonating the native race and [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|turning on them after gaining acceptance]] is kind of pushing it though.
* [[Electric Jellyfish]]: The Crown Lance enemy, which casts lightning spells as well as being able to absorb lightning. They're more dangerous for their [[Taken for Granite|Deadly Needles]] attack
* [[Encounter Bait]]: One of the materias.
* [[Encounter Repellant]]: One of the materias.
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* [[Equipment Spoiler]]: You can find a weapon for Vincent in Kalm, way before you can actually recruit him. Also, weapons for him and Yuffie will appear in shops and chests around the world even if you miss them.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]:
** Sephiroth was rather fond of his [[Eldritch Abomination|extraterrestrial destroyer-of-all-things holy]] "mother", {{spoiler|although she wasn't ''technically'' his real mother}}.
** Kadaj is ''really'' obsessed with his mother, though it's likely even he doesn't know why.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Sector 6 slums has the Hell House enemy, which is... a small house. That sprouts arms legs and tries to kill you. And for some reason, it also shoots out bombs.
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* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: Shinra Tower.
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: Hojo.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: ''Final Fantasy VII'' has the most fleshed-out universe of the entire series. The ''Compilation of Final Fantasy VII'' refers to all media that deals with the ''
* [[Expy]]: While the game's creators later revealed it to be unintentional, Barret has been compared to Mr. T since the game's release.
== F-J ==
* [[Fake Memories]]: Hey, remember the Nibelheim flashback sequence you poured about
** {{spoiler|Foreshadowed spectacularly, when you play through a second time
* [[Fantastic Aesop]]: If we ever find a way to tap into the energy of the Earth, we'll heed the lessons of this game and not suck it out. We'll [[Broken Aesop|stick to coal instead]].
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The Cetra, an ancient race of persecuted wanderers who are supposed to be the only ones with access to 'The Promised Land'.
** Aerith, the main Cetra in the game, born to a non-Cetra father and a Cetra mother, but treated as completely Cetra, was living undercover in a household run by a non-Cetra, lying about her heritage in order to stop [[The Empire]]'s agents finding her and taking her to have sadistic experiments done on her.
** Cosmo Canyon is based on indigenous American tribes.
** Wutai is clearly based on post-World War II Japan
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]:
** {{spoiler|Instead of being left for dead after Sephiroth completely devastated them, Zack and Cloud are experimented on for four years by Hojo before Zack manages to break them out. Cloud is left a vegetable from being used as a test subject, and while he got better, his already weak mental state was completely shattered and he had self-induced Amnesia to cope with the events}}.
** Meanwhile, {{spoiler|Sephiroth spent five years frozen in Mako, conscious but unable to move}}.
** The Compilation reveals that {{spoiler|Jenova cells left Lucrecia unable to die. She went and froze herself in crystal instead, but may still be conscious}}.
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: Rufus and the Turks.
** [[Big Bad|The Big Bad]]: Rufus.
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** [[The Lancer]]: Barret would seem to be this at the beginning. But when Cloud goes down, the team puts Tifa in charge. Cid also has flashes of this.
** [[The Big Guy]]: Barrett is a Class 3, a deconstruction of 1 and 2. Tifa is of the [[Cute Bruiser]]/[[Hot Amazon]] variety.
** [[The Smart Guy]]: Cid is the [[Gadgeteer Genius]] type, but physically (in appearance and combat) he's one of Cloud's [[The Lancer|Lanc]][[Incredibly Lame Pun|ers]]. Cait Sith looks like the [[Team Pet]] and [[Alien Scrappy]] type, especially since his [[Limit Break
** [[The Chick]]: Both Tifa and Aerith have aspects of [[The Chick]]. But neither can really be pinned down with the label. Tifa's more [[The Big Guy]].
** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Vincent and Yuffie fall into this because they are optional characters, though they would eventually get [[Ensemble Darkhorse|bigger roles]].
** [[Team Pet]]: Cait Sith looks the part, but as [[The Mole]] and the [[Squishy Wizard]] he's closer to [[The Smart Guy]]. He's almost a [[The Lancer|lancer]] in being the sneaky guy and performing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Red XIII is the [[Token Non-Human]] and so you would think he might be [[The Big Guy]], but his stats (and [[Backstory]]) are like Cloud's (well-rounded and full of traumatizing experimentation, respectively), so he and Cloud look more like [[A Boy and His X]] ([http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cloud_%26_Red_XIII.jpg especially in the] [http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cloud_%26_Red_XIII_2.jpg Amano Artwork]).
* [[Fixed Camera]]: In battle.
* [[For Doom the Bell Tolls]]: The "Those Chosen By The Planet" and "Birth Of A God".
* [[For Science!]]: Although Hojo ostensibly works for Shinra, he pretty much admits that this is the only reason for his horrific experiments.
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** The Gelnika is a plane that gets shot down after transporting the Huge Materia to Rocket Town, and you can explore the wreckage using the sub. However, if you immediately take the sub back down to the ocean floor once you get it, but before going to Junon, you can actually explore the wreckage of the Gelnika before it gets destroyed, and then go back to the surface and watch it take off.
* [[Gas Chamber]]: Tifa gets placed into one near the end of Disc 2. Given that it has a control switch to shut off its gas ''inside the chamber'', its design is... suboptimal.
* [[Gateless Ghetto]]: Midgar. Despite being a massive city with a large amount of buildings, you only explore Slum Sectors Four, Five, Six
* [[Genre Shift]]: There's the snowboarding (which was eventually ported to Cell Phones as ''Final Fantasy VII'' snowboarding), the Submarine combat mission, and the escape from Midgar. Fort Condor has a [[Real Time Strategy]] minigame.
* [[A God Am I]]: Sephiroth's motive:
* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: The Turks. They oppose Cloud [[Punch Clock Villain|if ordered to]], but under other circumstances are perfectly willing to live and let live. By ''Advent Children'', they're basically allies, and they get their own game in ''Before Crisis''. And they have an awesome theme tune. They're also pretty tough in their own right. They put up a decent fight most of the time. Elena can also knock Cloud out cold with ''one punch''.
* [[Go Mad
* [[Going Mobile]]
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Sephiroth does this to Cloud several times during the game.
* [[Green Aesop]]: A major plot-point of the game is the conflict between nature and industrialization. Midgar is polluted and dark, and it's surrounded by an expanse of post-apocalyptic style wasteland, Lower Junon had its waters poisoned from the city above, the beautiful forests of Corel became inhospitable deserts after an attack from Shinra, and Gongaga was utterly ruined when one of the Mako reactors blew up. The Shinra leaders themselves are for the most part, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|disgusting heartless tyrants who will stop at nothing for profit and power]], and then there's [[Mad Scientist|Hojo]], {{spoiler|who is more or less responsible for all of the bad things that happen in the game due to his [[Science Is Bad|creations and research]]}}.
* [[Green Rocks]]: Materia; most of it is actually [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|green]].
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: The guards in Shinra Tower, Junon, and on the Shinra Boat.
* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: Sephiroth, during the "Young Cloud" flashback sequence. Invincible, and can chop anything in two with his [[
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Several parts in the main game. Finding the Keystone which unlocks the Temple of the Ancients. The only place that makes any mention of the Keystone is a random house near the Gongaga, which the game fails to mention anything about. Then when you get the Keystone good luck finding the Temple without a guide.
** After completing the Temple of the Ancients, the game shows a scene of Aerith in the Sleeping Forest. It fails to tell you where the forest is and that you're supposed to go to Bone Village to get to it (though at that point it's the only place left that you haven't been that's accessible with the Tiny Bronco). On top of that, for some reason the game places you in Gongaga, which is extremely far away from Bone Village.
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** Also, happens with the sidequests. It's not apparent at all that you can get a one-of-a-kind materia from the crazed consumer's pet white chocobo.
** Hey, did you know you can fight up to 15 battles at Fort Condor? What, you didn't go back and check after every single event in the game, going so far as to huff it on foot lest your car breaks down to make sure that you can backtrack to Fort Condor? Too bad, guess you missed out on a whole lot of free stuff!
* [[Gullible Lemmings]]: The [[Mega Corp|Shin-Ra Electric Power Company]] didn't even do all that well of a job masking their despicable acts from the [[Apathetic Citizens|people of the world]]. Hell! Scarlet of Weapon R&D boasted, [[Loose Lips|on live television no less]], that their whole sham execution of Tifa and Barret was to assign blame for the meteor crisis on anybody whom wasn't them. Really begs the question [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin'|how they ever got away with everything]] they did up to that point. Given their long standing history pertaining to the disastrous misuse of resources and general wickedness leading into making incredibly incompetent decisions, and [[Arson, Murder, and Admiration|yet most everyone loves them anyway]].
* [[Gunship Rescue]]: Cid's Highwind Limit Break.
** Also, occurs in the end game cut scene but also uses the Highwind airship.
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* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Cloud and Zack.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Cloud has ''issues''.
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Zack. 10 years after his brief role in ''
▲** {{spoiler|Cait Sith sacrifices himself to let the heroes escape the Temple of the Ancients - [[Disney Death|but because he's a remotely controlled robot, he comes right back not ten minutes later]]}}.
▲* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Zack. 10 years after his brief role in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', [[Crisis Core|his story is told in full]].
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Yuffie. Hiding in that pot might have worked better if you hadn't been shaking it around, silly girl. And go learn your rope-escape tricks already.
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Every female scientist in the franchise.
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* [[Improbable Weapon User]]:
** Cait Sith's megaphones and Red XIII's headpieces. They somehow boost attack, though they aren't used directly.
** Some characters normally use "serious" weapons, but have a single
* [[Incompetence, Inc.]]: A lot of everything that goes wrong in story can be lain at the feet of Shinra, particularly their inept salesmen tendencies.
** Gongaga's (Zack's hometown) Mako Reactor blew sky-high, killing many of its residents, and the company didn't do a thing to compensate them.
** Shinra staff & security are pretty lackluster in the thinking department, considering an army of three had infiltrated so easily, with many of its employees teaching them how to ascend the levels willingly.
** The fact that a select of individuals confounded this [[Predatory Business]] with as many resources and as much manpower as it has at every turn boggles the mind.
* [[Industrial Ghetto]]: Lower Midgar.
* [[Inevitable Tournament]]: You're forced to fight in the Gold Saucer's Battle Arena in order to borrow the Keystone from Dio.
* [[Infinity-1 Sword]]: Since all of the characters' ultimate weapons have some sort of variable that causes them to deal damage, this means that depending on battle conditions, your weapons might suddenly become worthless. As such, the game sees fit to give the characters all weapons that are ''almost'' as powerful as their ultimate ones. When the ultimate weapons are fully powered, they are better, but these weapons are usually better in the long run.
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Every character has an ultimate weapon that has eight linked Materia slots and provides additional combat benefits. For instance, Cloud's Ultima Weapon and Cait Sith's HP Shout gain strength when their HP is high. The downside is that these weapons have zero materia growth, but by the time you get most of them, your Materia won't have much growing left to do anyway. They all have some trick to maxing out damage
* [[Intellectual Animal]]: Red XIII.
* [[Interface Spoiler]]: The stores sell weapons for party members you either haven't discovered yet
* [[Internal Reformist]]: Reeve Tuesti starts out as the only member of Shinra's board who isn't a complete psychopath, but largely goes along with their wishes. As he pilots the Cait Sith, which becomes part of your party, he increasingly gets convinced of the rightness of your cause and become a [[Reverse Mole]], helping the party against the threats of both Sephiroth and Shinra.
* [[It's Raining Men]]: Appears in two forms.
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** The second form is done by the party when they return to Midgar, commando style by parachuting in.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Holy {{spoiler|almost doesn't defeat Meteor... but thanks to Aerith's [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, she can power it up with the Lifestream}}. Then the first cases of Geostigma start appearing.
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: Tseng's name, despite having an E in it, is pronounced "Sung". It's even [[Lampshaded]] in ''Crisis Core''
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Vincent pulls one of these, almost word for word, when Lucrecia chooses Hojo over him. He keeps out of it until he finds out the bit about the {{spoiler|horrible experimentation Hojo is doing on a now pregnant with Hojo's child Lucretia}}.
* [[I Will Protect Her]]: Cloud's promise to Tifa and becoming Aerith's bodyguard.
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** Yuffie post [[So Long and Thanks For All the Gear|Wutai Theft]].
* [[Jump Off a Bridge]]: The characters leap off a bridge onto a passing train after destroying the Mako generator.
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** Technically Bahamut Zero, although it's actually a dragon firing its [[Breath Weapon]] from space.
* [[Kill the Cutie]]: Again, Aerith.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero, Found Underwear]]: During the Nibelheim flashback, it's possible for Cloud to sneak into Tifa's house and rifle through her drawers and find "orthopaedic underwear
* [[Last-Disc Magic]]: Ultima, Knights of the Round and many
* [[Last of His Kind]]:
** Aerith is the last of the Ancients.
** Supposedly, Red XIII is the last of his species, but he was able to have cubs somehow about 490 years after the game ends. ''[[Before Crisis]]'' fixes this by introducing his mate, who he presumably meets up with after the events of this game.
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]:
** Hint: Aerith dies.
** So does Zack. No matter in which order you play them,
* [[Lens Flare]]: The Mt. Nibel scenes.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: The Gi Cave.
* [[Level Grinding]]: An odd case in that you have to do this to gain characters' Limit Breaks rather than simply leveling up, and then you have to use their Limit Breaks to acquire new ones.
* [[Limit Break]]: The originals, though these are an expansion of the [[Desperation
* [[
* [[Losing the Team Spirit]]: [[It Was His Sled|Aerith's death, of course
* [[Lost Forever]]:
** Some of the Enemy Skills. Trine can only be learned from three enemies
** The Ramuh summon must be picked up while you are in the waiting area for the Chocobo races in Corel Prison.
** The entire Bahamut trio of summons can be missed. Bahamut and Neo Bahamut are only found in one-shot locations, while Bahamut Zero is lost if the player didn't get all of the Huge Materia.
** There are so many items in this game that can be permanently missed, there's an [http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/197341-final-fantasy-vii/faqs/27656 entire walkthrough on GameFAQs dedicated to them
* [[Love Hurts]]: Let's see, Vincent falls in love with Lucrecia and is summarily rejected because of {{spoiler|the guilt Lucrecia feels over his father's death
** Then there's Aerith and Zack, whom she claims was her first love. She never finds out about his untimely demise. Later, she meets Cloud and is smitten with him because of his similarities with Zack, but eventually reveals she wants to get to know the ''real'' him. We all know how that turned out. Then there's Tifa, who is obviously crushing hard on Cloud the entire game, but has to deal with him making kissy faces with Aerith, finding out he endured the mother of all [[Mind Screw
* [[Love Triangle]]: The famous (or infamous?) Aerith/Cloud/Tifa love triangle. The backstory has Hojo/Lucrecia/Vincent, and there was a bit of Tseng/Aerith/Zack and Aerith/Zack/Cissnei in ''[[Crisis Core]]''.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Black Materia.
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* [[Matchmaker Crush]]: Though competing for Cloud's affection with Aerith, Tifa likes Cloud more when he shows concern for Aerith. Go figure. You can interpret it as Tifa appreciating the fact that Cloud actually cares about anyone at all, and in the Wall Market mission, that he remembered to rescue a girl from getting raped. Aerith, on the other hand, loses affection for Cloud when he shows concern for Tifa if put in the exact same situation.
* [[Matryoshka Object]]: The Grangalan outside Costa del Sol can spawn smaller versions of itself known Grangalan Jr. for the second generation and Grangalan Jr. Jr. for the third and smallest generation.
** Slightly inverted. The Black Materia [[Plot Coupon]] is contained within the Temple of the Ancients. When the party goes in and discovers it, they discover it is actually a replica of the real thing.
* [[May Contain Evil]]: Shinra's Mako reactors.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Cloud ''Strife'' (he struggles with illusions), Tifa ''Lockheart'' (she keeps secrets), Barret (a high caliber sniper rifle) and Cid ''Highwind'' (he is a pilot). Aerith's name is similar to earth. Then there's the painfully obvious theme naming (Sephiroth, Jenova = Sephirot, Jehovah). Also ''Cait Sith'', derived from [[wikipedia:Cait Sidhe|"Cait Sidhe", a panther-like faerie from Celtic mythology. This also explains his Scottish brogue.]] Also, a place falls under this trope
* [[Mega Corp]]: Shinra, Inc.
* [[Mega Manning]]: The Enemy Skill materia, this game's equivalent of Blue Magic.
* [[Metal Detector Puzzle]]: There's a sequence near the end of the first disc where the player has to find an item (the Earth Harp) buried underground by hiring sentries, placing them around the area, and then having them turn to face the general direction of the buried treasure. This minigame can also yield other rewards, including a card key that lets you re-enter the Midgar slums.
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** {{spoiler|Cloud getting shot by Yazoo while he reflects on Kadaj's death comes right out of nowhere too. He gets better though, literally two seconds later}}.
* [[More Dakka]]: Barret's "Ungarmax" Level 3 [[Limit Break]]. There's a few instances where if you don't advance the dialogue, Barret will continue pumping lead into whatever he's supposed to be shooting at ''forever''. Also, what Shinra does to the Mako Cannon near the end of Disc 2.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Professor Hojo often provides information that is critical to understanding the plot. This makes sense considering that he's the one [[Complete Monster|behind all of it
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Tifa.
* [[Mukokuseki]]: Three of the six playable humanoid
* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]: Tifa.
* [[My Dear Idiot]]: Barret continues to call Cloud "Spiky" as a derogatory referral to his hair, but by the end of the game, it has become a term of endearment.
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Cloud, several times in the story.
** {{spoiler|Cloud tosses Sephiroth into the Nibeliheim reactor, which is what caused him to become as powerful as he did}}.
* [[Ninja]]: Yuffie... [[Naruto the Abridged Comedy Spoof Series Show|apparently]]. Sure, she throws shuriken, and at one point she skillfully hides in the roof and steals a materia right out of your hand, but other than that, her gimmicks make this out to be more of her [[Informed Attribute]]. She can't escape from ropes, her hiding (aside from in the roof) involves things like hiding behind a curtain or inside a pot (fidgeting enough to rattle it around). And she isn't ruthless in the least
* [[No Biochemical Barriers]]: Jenova, an alien lifeform from who-knows-where, can infect humanoids without a problem. Hojo also seems to think that he can [[Improbable Species Compatibility|breed Aerith and Red XIII
** At the time, Hojo thought Red XIII was a dumb beast, which Red knew and was doing that to play to the act. He later apologizes to Aerith for scaring her.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The tutorial room in the weapon shop by Tifa's Bar. Some of these people also show up later in the game, though you should really know most of the stuff you tell them by that point.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Two incidents. The first is Sephiroth {{spoiler|getting tossed into the Nibelheim reactor by Cloud in his true memory}}. The second is Rufus {{spoiler|getting hit by a barrage of energy from Diamond Weapon}}.
* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: The E in Reno's name is supposed to be pronounced the same as the E in "cello
* [[Not Me This Time]]: Sephiroth laughs at your party when you get attacked by a dragon in the temple of the ancients and think that he is responsible for it.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Several individuals supposedly killed in the original game are [[
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: Especially if the fall is into Aerith's church. To date, three protagonists have taken the plunge from the upper plate into her flowers, and all three came out of it just fine.
* [[Nuke'Em]]: What Shinra attempts to do to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Meteor]].
* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Bugenhagen. Sephiroth also serves as something of an Obi Wan to Zack and Cloud before he goes crazy.
* [[The Obi Wrong]]: Though Barret is the leader of AVALANCHE and is giving Cloud orders, circumstances force him under Cloud's leadership instead.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Vincent and Lucrecia are around sixty, but thanks to [[Body Horror]] experiments and hibernation, they look as though they're still in their late-twenties, with Lucrecia looking about the same age as her own son. Shelke is the same age as Yuffie, but her body is locked at nine years old after her [[Super Soldier]] treatment.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: "Estuans interius, ira vehementi, ''Sephiroth''! Noli manere, manere in memoria, nole manere, manere in memoria, ''Sephiroth''!"
** Also, no Latin, but the evil chanting in Sephiroth's theme
** And the chanting in Shinra's theme.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Sephiroth's plan involves leveling the planet with a [[Colony Drop|massive meteorite]].
** Dyne has reached the point where he simply wants to destroy everything. However, he doesn't get further than the mass murder of a handful of Gold Saucer employees.
** Hojo also qualifies even moreso than Dyne or {{spoiler|even his son}}
* [[One-Handed Zweihander]]: Cloud and Sephiroth are the poster boys for this trope.
* [[One-Time Dungeon]]: Shinra Building (more accurately a two-time dungeon, and the second visit is completely optional), Corel Prison, the Cave of the Gi, the Temple of the Ancients, Gaea Cliffs, Whirlwind Maze
* [[One Nation Under Copyright]]: The Shinra Electric Power Company. The towns Shin-Ra ''don't'' own real estate in are Wutai (but they vacation there), Kalm (although the people that live there tend to like Shin-Ra and buy their products, in addition to using Midgar's power), Bone Village, Mideel
* [[Only One Name]]: Many characters have been given last (or first) names by way of [[Retcon]], but a few notable exceptions still remain: Professor Hojo, President Shinra, Scarlet, Heidegger, Palmer, Tseng, Rude, Reno
* [[Optional Party Member]]: Yuffie and Vincent.
** Referred to in ''[[Advent Children]]'' by Denzel, who apparently has not met those two before and asks Tifa about them.
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* [[Outside Context Villain]]: Jenova.
* [[Outside the Box Tactic]]: The Demi spell is surprisingly effective against Emerald Weapon. Demi is a low-level Gravity spell, that does damage equal to 25% of the target's current HP. On most common enemies, it's a waste of time, and most bosses are immune. But Emerald Weapon is not, and until you whittle his HP down, it can do [[Cap|9,999 damage]] to him.
* [[Overly-Long Fighting Animation]]: All of the summons. [[One-Winged Angel]]!Sephiroth's ultimate attack, "Supernova", takes this beyond ridiculous levels: it's over two minutes long and you can't skip it, he destroys [[Pluto Is Expendable]], Saturn
== P-T ==
* [[Party in My Pocket]]: Lampshaded when Cloud tries to stop Cait Sith from joining the party. Actually, this is the last game in the series where it is played ''completely'' straight, presumably because in the 2-D games one could maintain the illusion that the other members were just obscured by the hero, but in 3-D seeing the other characters walk in and out of Cloud is ''heavily'' disconcerting.
* [[
* [[Pivotal Wakeup]]: Vincent.
* [[Playing the Player]]: One of the earliest examples.
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* [[Plotline Death]]: Say it with us: Aerith.
* [[Polluted Wasteland]]: Midgar. A large expanse of polluted wasteland surrounds the city, and the closer you get to the city limits, the greyer and gloomier the sky and colors become. Inside the city, the sky is often incredibly dark and depressing, and this can all be connected to the Mako Reactors and the fallout and smog they generate. Junon isn't much better, as the waters nearby are lifeless, discolored, and dark due to the abundant pollution.
* [[Power-Up Letdown]]: Kjata. Much more often than not, summoning him will either deal 0 damage, or it will ''heal'' the enemy party as they block or absorb one of the four elementals Kjata utilizes (Fire, Ice, Lightning
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Materia like Transform, Manipulate
* [[Powers as Programs]]: Materia.
* [[Pre Meeting]]: Cloud meeting the flower girl.
* [[Progressively Prettier]]: Reno was ''not'' originally designed as the
** Cid Highwind was originally designed as a much more gruff and coarse-looking character; however, he has gotten [[Progressively Prettier]] in any of his other Compilation appearances. Just compare his original [http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/6/67/Cid_Portrait.jpg portrait] to his [http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/a/a7/BCVIICid.jpg portrait] in ''Before Crisis'', or his [http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/8/8a/Advent-Children-Cid.jpg CG render] in ''Advent Children''.
*** At least he kept his gruff appearance in ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]''.
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* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Kadaj, though he is rather young. And Loz, who fits the description a little better.
* [[Psycho Prototype]]: Sephiroth, of course.
* [[Punch Clock Villain
** Inverted with Elena, though it turns out she would have been better off just relaxing.
* [[The Purge]]: Sephiroth plans to do this with [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Meteor]]. Also, Holy does its own, not quite as evil, version.
* [[Redemption Demotion]]: Rude and Reno, who were actually ''competent'' in ''
▲* [[Redemption Demotion]]: Rude and Reno, who were actually ''competent'' in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', are reduced to comic relief in FFAC now that they've had their [[Heel Face Turn]]. Then again, they still put up a good fight against Loz and Yazoo.
* [[Redemption in the Rain]]: Kadaj gets this. Loz and Yazoo just get blown up in the rain.
* [[Red Shirt
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Nintendo of America's legendary censorship enforcement led to American releases of this series being much more G-rated. For North American fans that had played the earlier, [[Bowdlerized]] entries up to that point, it was quite a shock when 20 minutes into the game, you're a transvestite hooker who visits a [[Gym Bunny]], whorehouse, bathroom, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|dress shop]] to get your clothing. Cid and Barret curse constantly (though the harshest of it was still censorsed). There's a [[Gay Option]] on the one date. And [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Tifa calls Barret a retard]].
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Cloud and Tifa's [[Pre-Climax Climax|night under the Highwind]].
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* [[Shark Tunnel]]: The pathway to the underwater reactor at Junon.
* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: Corel Prison. Doubles as [[The Alcatraz]].
* [[Ship Sinking]]: [[Word of God]], as stated in the
* [[Ship Tease]]: The multitude of possible date sequences with Aerith, Tifa, Yuffie... and [[Gay Option|Barret]]. The game is pretty conclusive by the end, and reinforces that through later sequels and spin-offs. And yet, there are still people trying to insist on who Cloud really loves, even today.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Sephiroth is shirtless when he is found in the Whirlwind Maze and during the final battle against him.
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** [[Star Wars|Biggs and Wedge]], continuing the tradition from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''.
** [[Akira|The motorcycle sequence]].
** Shin-Ra Mansion, Vincent
** The [[My Bloody Valentine|Loveless]] posters in the opening movie.
** [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|the Type-D magma-diver equipment]] in the Gold Saucer trophy room. In addition, [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|channeling an entire city's electrical grid to fire a giant cannon at an autonomous "WEAPON"]].
** Sephiroth's [[Out of the Inferno]] scene may well be a tribute to a certain scene from ''[[The Usual Suspects]]''. {{spoiler|There are certain similarities to both Keyser Söze and Sephiroth in these scenes, since they both end up being really evil afterwards}}.
** Vincent's Hellmasker transformation wears a [[Friday the 13th (film)|hockey mask]] and wields a [[Texas Chainsaw Massacre|chainsaw]]. It's also a developer shoutout to Edgar from
** In Wutai, you can obtain the Yoshiyuki katana for Cloud, which [[Yoshiyuki Tomino|powers]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam|up when]] [[Lampshade Hanging|both of your allies]] [[Kill'Em All|are dead
** Speaking of ''[[Gundam]]'', the Weapons are based on [http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6405/weaponsfinalfantasyviig.png various Mobile Suits]. Two of these would get remixed further, ironically back into [[Humongous Mecha|machines]] with less resemblance to the originals, for ''[[Einhander]]''.
** One of the larger shout outs is to H. P. Lovecraft. ''The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward'' is about a man trying to track a wizard who can inhabit different bodies. The hero finds his hidden lab under a house, complete with crystals called "materia" (which is where he gets his magic) and "garda" (which summon guardians). Another Lovecraft work, ''At the Mountains of Madness'', where cosmic horrors are discovered buried in the Antarctic ice, seems eerily familiar to the part where the party encounters Jenova. Also, despite being female (and that really is not an issue for him), Jenova has similar motivational attributes to Nyarlhathotep, particularly the fact that she deceived the ancients into accepting her only to destroy them all.
** [[Mr. T|I pity the fool]] who didn't see this one.
** The game's protagonist and antagonist draw a lot from ''[[Berserk]]'''s in premise and design. It continues in their reappearance in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. [[Edit War|Don't mention more than that here]].
** In Cosmo Canyon, there's the [[Peter Pan|Tiger Lily weapons shop]].
** A giant cannon called [[Velvet Underground|Sister Ray]].
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** The Highwind's theme sounds similar to the Enterprise's theme in some of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' movies.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Tifa.
* [[Skill Slot System]]: Materia can be added to the weapons and equipments of characters, which can be provide skills.
* [[Single-Stroke Battle]]: Odin.
* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: Barrett and Cid. Especially Cid.
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* [[Sneaky Departure]]: Aerith leaving {{spoiler|to get killed by Sephiroth}}. Also, Yuffie leaving with all the materia (right below). Cloud attempts to leave Aerith behind early on, but she's [[Took a Shortcut|already waiting for him]] at the town entrance.
* [[Socketed Equipment]]
* [[Sole Entertainment Option]]: Strangely it does not have this worldwide entertainment in the largest city
* [[So Long and Thanks For All the Gear]]: The former [[Trope Namer]]. Yuffie runs off to Wutai and not only takes her own equipment but all of your party's materia (along with any additional materia you might find). Well, she did tell you she was a thief.
** A more permanent example is Aerith, whose [[It Was His Sled|sudden death]] makes you lose all her equipment. Thank God the creators weren't cruel enough to take away all her materia
*** At another point later in the game, Cloud and Tifa are both temporarily [[Put on a Bus]] and you lose their equipment as well, but you get their stuff back when they rejoin the group.
** Luckily, this is avoided completely by the important stuff: the Materia. Whenever a party member leaves, they hand over their Materia beforehand. Except for Yuffie's sidequest, of course.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Deadness]]: Kind of a weird one.
** Tseng
** Rufus
** Palmer
** Aerith
** President Shinra
** Cloud
** Tifa
** Zack
** Dyne
** Dyne
** Vincent
** Scarlet
** Hojo
** Sephiroth
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality]]: Catastrophically averted when (got the hint yet?) [[Killed Off for Real|Aerith Dies]].
* [[Space Jews]]: Many fans speculate that the Cetra (Ancients) are this. These fans use almost any bit of information from the game to support this, from the 'promised land' back story, to Aerith's curls.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]:
** You could probably [[Internet Backdraft|power several continents]] with the sheer energy spent on debating whether to use "Aeris" or "Aerith". As of recent English releases (such as ''[[Crisis Core]]'' and ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'') and from the very beginning in Japanese publications, "Aerith" has become the canon spelling, but because people ''still'' cling to the "Aeris" spelling from the original US release (and it has yet to be corrected in reprints), even [[The Other Wiki]] uses it
*** The Spanish translation of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' uses ''Aeris'' (for Aerith) and ''Sefirot'' (for Sephiroth), like in the original translation of ''
** "Shin-Ra" (in Japan) versus "Shinra" (in translations), which was rather curious because it clearly said "Shin-Ra" in the company's logo, in the English version as well. Japan has adopted the "Shinra" parsing in text, but the logo continues to read "Shin-Ra".
** More obscure examples (taken from the old ''Official Establishment File'' artbook) include "Yrena" (Elena), "Leno" (Reno)
* [[Sphere of Power]]: In this case, Materia.
* [[Split Personality]]: The protagonist Cloud suffers from a case of split personality, where his [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]] caused by {{spoiler|the death of his best friend Zack}} leads to Cloud {{spoiler|subconsciously absorbing Zack's experiences and mixing them with his own, setting up a split personality}}.
* [[Sprite Polygon Mix]]: Square's first foray into this style of gaming.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: You learn Cloud was a bit of a stalker to Tifa when they were kids during "Cloud's Subconscious
** There's also Tseng and Aerith. They've known each other since they were kids and Rude flat-out states in Gongaga that Tseng has the hots for her. The stalker part comes from Tseng being assigned by Shinra to keep tabs on Aerith for research purposes. ''[[Crisis Core]]'' turns it into something of a reverse [[Bodyguard Crush]], as part of Tseng's duties also include keeping her safe (without her knowledge, of course). They seem to be on decent terms in ''Crisis Core'', but then he goes and slaps her across the face during the Sector 7 pillar bombing, but this was before the Turks were [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] from an evil [[The Men in Black]]-type organization into a [[Noble Demon]] [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in the rest of ''Compilation of
* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Poison, petrify, silence... and then you get decidedly nonstandard status effects like freeze. While bosses and certain higher level mooks are immune to it, no enemy in the game is prepared to deal with it. Attach it to your weapon and have fun.
▲* [[Starfish Character]]: Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo each represent different aspects of Sephiroth, and Kadaj ultimately turns into him. The other two have this ability as well, but the producers thought it would be over the top to show three Sephiroths, so only Kadaj was shown achieving it.
* [[The Starscream]]: Rufus is revealed to have been this to President Shinra in ''[[Last Order]]'', secretly working against his father in hopes of replacing him, {{spoiler|but Sephiroth solved the problem for him}}.
* [[Sticks to the Back]]: Cloud's [[
* [[Still the Leader]]
* [[Still Wearing the Old Colors]]:
** Cloud still wears his SOLDIER outfit. {{spoiler|We later find out that he was never a member of SOLDIER to begin with}}.
** Also Sephiroth who
* [[Storming the Castle]]: The party's raid on Shinra Tower.
* [[Swiss Army Appendage]]: Barret.
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* [[Thirty Second Blackout]]: Firing the Sister Ray.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: '''"Sit your ass down in that chair and drink your goddamn TEA!"'''
* [[Those Two Guys]]: [[Star Wars|Biggs and Wedge]] of AVALANCHE. Throw Jessie in, and they become [[Those Two Guys]] [[Two Guys and a Girl|And A Girl]]. Later, Rude, Reno
* [[Time Bomb]]: The one that destroys the pillar in Sector 7.
{{quote|'''Cloud''': It's not a normal time bomb.
'''Tseng''': That's right. You'll have a hard time disarming that one. It'll blow the second some stupid jerk touches it.}}
* [[Together in Death]]: Aerith and Zack. Subverted
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Aerith and Tifa, in an interesting inversion: the [[White Magician Girl]] in the pink dress was the boisterous one and the [[Cute Bruiser]] in the cropped shirt was secretive and nervous.
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: Aerith.
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* [[Trauma Conga Line]]:
** Holy crap, ''Denzel''. The "On The Way To A Smile" novella and OAV spares him no suffering.
** The other novellas for Barret, Yuffie
** Cloud himself. [[Up to Eleven]]. Before the game even starts, he's already: {{spoiler|(1) endured a lonely, alienated childhood; (2) been told he's too weak to become a SOLDIER; (3) watched his hero Sephiroth destroy his hometown and nearly murder both his childhood crush Tifa and his good friend Zack; (4) suffered over four years of sadistic experimentation by Hojo; and finally (5) is forced to helplessly watch Zack die in a gutwrenching heroic last stand to protect him}}.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: This happened to Cloud prior to the start of the game after an incredible [[Trauma Conga Line]].
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: Bugenhagen's "Ho ho ho" (an uncommon [[Verbal Tic]] for a benevolent character).
* [[Vice City]]: Midgar. The Wall Market is a sleazy red-lights district owned by Don Corneo, wealthy pervert and mafia crime boss, and muggers can be encountered as enemies in Sector 5, who may steal your items and run away from them, taking them forever if you fail to beat them in time. Corel also suffers from having thief enemies.
* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: [[Word of God]], [http://thelifestream.net/ffvii-advent-children-complete/6139/this-just-in-the-love-triangle-debate-over/ this is how Cloud and Tifa end up].
* [[Video Game 3D Leap]]
* [[Villain Decay]]:
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: The ''entire goddamn Shinra company'' after Meteor is summoned. With a big-ass [[Colony Drop]] in the sky barrelling down on them, panicked civilians running for the hills, a veritable [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] of giant [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] roaming the lands, and the [[MacGuffin|"Promised Land"]] turning out to be fake, everyone at Shinra collectively loses their shit. They start running through a litany of stupid and/or insane plans like the [[The End of the World as We Know It|world was coming to an end]]. They start by trying to ''[[Villain Ball|execute the only people besides themselves who might have a chance at stop Meteor]]''. They they try shooting 20 year-old derelict rockets at Meteor (which proves more dangerous than just letting it be). After Rufus is incapacitated, the other execs turn on each other and Reeve and Palmer get thrown under the bus. Hojo goes nuts and tries to beat Meteor to the punch by blowing up Midgar himself. And worst of all, the remaining execs try to kill the heroes ''while they race to stop Hojo from blowing up Midgar''. By the end of Disc 2, Shinra Inc. has effectively killed itself, with the party's role in its downfall being [[Villains Act, Heroes React|nothing but the natural reaction to their self-inflicted deathblow]].▼
** Sephiroth, along with some [[Motive Decay]]. In most subsequent appearances like ''Advent Children'', ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Dissidia'', he's becoming steadily more obsessed with trolling Cloud than he is actually being a villain and pursuing any actual goals other than messing with Cloud's head. However, [[Badass Decay]] is averted.
** In the original game, Hojo is presented as a calm and calculating individual, but as time goes on, his insanity seeps through, and he goes off the deep end at the end of the game. {{spoiler|In ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', he's reduced to a nasally nutcase who loves ranting about his evil plans. While justified in that it's a computer version of him made ''after'' going off the deep end at the end of the original game, one wonders why Hojo was needed in the game at all if he wasn't going to be as considerable a threat}}.
▲* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: The ''entire goddamn Shinra company'' after Meteor is summoned. With a big-ass [[Colony Drop]] in the sky barrelling down on them, panicked civilians running for the hills, a veritable [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] of giant [[Eldritch Abomination
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: The party run into Hojo during his [[Ten-Minute Retirement]] at the Costa Del Sol, working on his tan (in his lab coat?). He makes it quite clear he's not interested in having it out with them and just wants to enjoy his time off.
** Ditto for Turks drinking out during the Wutai sidequest.
* [[Welcome Back, Traitor]]: {{spoiler|Yuffie}}, {{spoiler|Cait Sith}}. The latter is practically the poster child and could have been the [[Trope Namer]] were it not for all the ''other'' strange characteristics making it impossible to determine just which one we'd be talking about by name drop alone, despite the time span between betrayal and redemption being so short that it might be less "welcome back" and more "actually never even left
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: AVALANCHE.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Hoo boy. After the date scene, we get an entire series of wham moments that continue until a little way into the second disc. {{spoiler|In this order, Cait Sith's betrayal, the Temple of the Ancients with the black materia and Cait Sith's sacrifice, Sephiroth controlling Cloud and forcing him to hand over the black materia, Aerith leaving, Aerith ''dying'', some trekking, and ultimately the Whirlwind Maze. The events unfolding at the maze include the discovery of Sephiroth's true body, the realization that it was Zack in Nibelheim, not Cloud, [[Oh Crap|Cloud falling into the lifestream, Meteor being summoned, and finally the Weapons being released]]}}. Phew.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Cloud gets called out on his morally dubious actions more than once during the game. The first occurrence is even 30 minutes into the game. Later, Cait Sith calls out the rest of our heroes for their eco-terrorist bombings at the beginning of the game, which caused a couple hundred deaths according to him. Barret tries to justify it as [[A Million Is a Statistic|a few acceptable casualties]] in the fight to save the planet, but Cait Sith doesn't accept it
{{quote|'''Cait Sith''': "A few? Whaddya mean 'a few'? What may be a few to y'all is everythin' to them who died…
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Lots of 'em.
* [[White Magician Girl]]: Aerith.
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** He also kills Cloud's mother earlier offscreen.
** ''[[Advent Children]]'' has an actual hitting example, as oppossed to the death by stabbing examples, when Tifa fights Loz.
** Disc 1, after Cloud is tricked into handing Sephiroth the Black Materia. Cloud realizes what he's done and suddenly flips his lid, giving Aerith a severe, misplaced beating
** Tseng also backhands Aerith early in Disc 1. Poor Aerith seems to get a lot of this. It's made even more tragic/evil in light of the fact that he [[All Love Is Unrequited|has a crush on her]].
* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Tifa's "Meteodrive" limit break. Rather than a martial arts attack like her other moves, it's a pro wrestling suplex (sheer drop brainbuster, to be precise).
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