Final Fantasy VII: Difference between revisions

* [[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, despite repeated clashing, [[Like Cannot Cut Like|never damage each other.]]

* [[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.

* [[Action Girl]]: Tifa and Yuffie. Aerith has her moments as well, though she's usually the [[White Magician Girl]].

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Used several times. Most prominently in Shinra Tower when the team listens in on a meeting of Shinra's top executives.

** 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.

** The Midgar Slums are an even more extreme example, with all sunlight being completely blocked off by the plate suspended 50 meters in the air. Junon suffers the same exact problem, since it's built just like Midgar.

** Red XIII's weapon, the Seraph Comb, counts as well. When he gets it, you'll want to use him a lot more, since it's his fourth most powerful weapon in the game, and ''drastically'' outclasses all the other weapons your characters have, and will continue to do so until over halfway through disc 2.

* [[Angry Black Man]]: Barret. He rotates between this and [[Scary Black Man]]. Though he's clearly not racist as evidenced by his being the [[Token Minority|only black guy]] in AVALANCHE, he's definitely angry at [[The Man]] for keeping him down.

* [[Angst Coma]]: Cloud's coma midway through the game may have been caused by Mako poisoning, but it's not until he deals with his amnesia and other psychological disorders that he's cured.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: It's never specified how much damage Meteor will do, but it seems to be anywhere in between [[Apocalypse How|Class 3 and Class X]].

* [[Apocalypse Wow]]: The scene of Meteor making its final descent.

* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Barret.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Zack.

* [[As You Know]]: Cloud occasionally gives plot recaps. Justified (at least the second time), because you've just brought in new party members who don't know what you've been up to since the beginning.

** Vincent Valentine sees himself as this when you first meet him.

* [[Audible Gleam]]: Bahamut Zero would like you to know you should quickly search for a bunker.

* [[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 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 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, and neat, Reno wears his like he just woke up from a drunken one-night-stand.

* [[The Battle Didn't Count]]: Usually happens whenever a Shinra exec. is fought, but it's most visible at the end of disc two if you chose to fight Rude, Reno, and Elena rather than just let them walk. {{spoiler|They survive anyway and even go on to [[Heel Face Turn]] in the later installments of the Compilation, so just go ahead and kick their asses for the hell of it, [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|it doesn't really count and you can steal some pretty sweet equipment from them]] that would otherwise be [[Lost Forever]]}}.

* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: The final battle.

* [[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.]]

** The PC version has a revised script that really isn't bad at all.

* [[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]].

** [[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.

*** Your Limit gauge automatically fills during the battle as well. The developers probably intended to have you defeat him with an Omnislash, but if you select Level 1 Limit Breaks, it takes a few Bravers to do it.

** [[Boss Rush]]: The Battle Arena.

** [[Cognizant Limbs]]: Schizo, Carry Armour, Proud Clod, Helletic Hojo, Emerald Weapons, Jenova-Synthesis, and Bizarro Sephiroth.

** [[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]] /MarathonBoss: Ruby and Emerald WEAPON, who have eight hundred thousand and one million hp , respectively, and you are only able to do 9999 at once, typical strategies for beating them involve using the [[Game Breaker]] summon a couple dozen times. The fight against Emerald WEAPON takes place underwater; you have to either kill it in [[Time Limit Boss|20 minutes]], or undergo a simple sidequest to allow you to [[Super Not-Drowning Skills|breathe water]]. Since that isn't very long against something with as many hp as Emerald WEAPON, most people go for the sidequest.

** [[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>.

*** The game [[Guide Dang It|doesn't tell you this]], but it's keeping track of how well you do in the fight against Jenova immediately before you fight Sephiroth. If you barely scrape by, the game takes pity on you, and you fight Sephiroth with only one party, which makes this a very straightforward boss fight. If you bring the hurt and totally wreck Jenova's stuff, you have to split your equipment and materia three ways; having one team defeat Sephiroth's left arm, one team for the right arm, and one team for his core... which will heal the arms back if you take too long. And if you used the [[Infinity+1 Sword|infinity plus one summon]] on it, the final boss gets a boost to its HP. And what's even worse, the numerous parties need to be properly equipped, but once you beat the boss, your main party goes straight on to the [[Final Boss]] battle without giving you a chance to swap equipment in-between.

*** It's also made worse that if one of your team gets taken down, instant [[Game Over]], even if it's not the team fighting the core (which fights Sephiroth's final form).

** [[Underwater Boss Battle]]: Emerald Weapon.

** [[Vehicular Assault]]: Motor Ball, the boss following the motorcycle chase 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.]

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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?

* [[Central Theme]]: Life, death and rebirth.

* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Vincent's Level 3 limit break Hellmasker. Also one of Barret's weapons.

* [[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.

* [[The Computer Is a Lying Bastard]]: Thanks to [[Cue Card Pause|an unfortunately broken-up set of instructions]], Cloud's first boss warning sounds like he's telling you to attack while the tail is up (which will cause you to eat a severe counterattack).

{{quote|"Attack while its tail is up.... '''beat''' ....it'll counterattack with its laser."}}

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Tifa, though Yuffie also qualifies.

* [[Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain]]: Midgar always has dark skies, even above the plate.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Lots of people in this game.

** Sephiroth.

* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Gast and Ifalna.

* [[Death From Above]]: Numerous examples:

** [[Our Dragons Are Different|Bahamut ZERO]].

** [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Meteor]]. Though this qualifies more as [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicide]] from above.

*** Barret's [[Kill Sat|Satellite Beam]] and Catastrophe.

*** Cid's [[Big Damn Gunship|Highwind]].

* [[Debut Queue]]: Most of the first disc up until Rocket Town (when Cid, the last mandatory member joins).

* [[Deconstruction]]: Of [[Eastern RPG|Eastern RPGs]], including their mechanics, plots, and many common character types associated with them. Of course, since this game introduced many people to [[RPG|RPGs]] in general, [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|many people missed that point entirely.]]

* [[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]].

* [[Dieselpunk]]

** 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 From the Revelation|going crazy]] from finding out he's a product of Shinra's experimentation, Sephiroth burns down Nibelheim and kills all the townsfolk. Why? Because he was there when he found out.

** [[Co-Dragons]]: Scarlett, Heidegger, and Tseng to President Shinra and later to Rufus.

* [[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.

* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: The Junon infiltration sequence. Apparently dressing is the ONLY requisite part of this trope; no matter how bad of an actor you are in the parade, you still get onto the boat. Red XIII can barely balance on two legs, but he's still wearing a soldier's uniform and making a good try of it anyway.

* [[Drunk on the Dark Side]]: Sephiroth, Hojo.

* [[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]]

** 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.