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''"I'll be waiting... for you, so... if you come here... you'll find me. [[The Promise|I promise]]."'' }}
The eighth entry into the [[Running Gag|finger-flayingly popular]] ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series. Originally released on [[PlayStation]] and home computer, and ported to the [[Playstation Network]] for the [[
Squall Leonhart is a student at an [[Elaborate University High]] for mercenaries named Balamb Garden. The organisation that runs Balamb Garden, SeeD, takes in prepubescent orphans and [[Child Soldiers|trains them to become soldiers]], requiring them to graduate before their twentieth birthday.
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Right before the Battle of the Gardens, Squall is given a choice of orders to issue to the students in Balamb Garden involving their battle strategy and defense, but there's also an order of what to do with the hot dogs.
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: Esthar Lunar Base and the Ragnarok. The latter has a scene where it's turned off, causing Rinoa to float.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: The Ultimania guide reveals that Seifer's dream of becoming a sorceress's knight was influenced by seeing the movie in which Laguna played a knight, and that he based his gunblade stance on the one Laguna used during the film.
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: Cid steps down as Headmaster and promotes Squall to Commander of SeeD specifically in order to change Garden from a school to an active fighting force against the sorceress. {{spoiler|The decision is undoubtedly helped along by the fact that Cid already knows, courtesy of Edea, that Squall is going to defeat Ultimecia in the future.}}
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** [[Dual Boss]]: The Iguions, Fujin and Raijin, Biggs and Wedge, Sacred and Minotaur, Vysage with Lefty and Righty.
** [[Duel Boss]]: In the first boss fight against Seifer, Squall fights him alone.
** [[Final Boss, New Dimension]]: The climactic battle against Ultimecia begins in her throne room, but grows increasingly chaotic as [[Time Compression]] proceeds; the last stage occurs in a nearly-featureless void.
** [[King Mook]]: Tonberry King.
** [[One-Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Ultimecia}} goes through several of these. Also, the {{spoiler|Fake President Deling}} has this when he transforms into Gerogero.
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** The same goes for Squall's feelings towards Rinoa. This is because for the majority of the game, he's simply not emotionally mature enough to [[What Is This Feeling?|understand his feelings]] towards her, or how to reciprocate.
*** Rinoa addresses this when the team is at Trabia Garden. She tells Squall that he has to voice his feeling or she won't understand.
* [[
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Selphie ''tries'' to get "Booyaka!" to catch on among the students. It doesn't work. Squall's may as well be "Whatever", especially in the English version which altered some of his dialogue to add this as much as possible.
* [[Celebrity Resemblance]] / [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
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* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: Squall, when he's being tortured by Seifer in D-District Prison.
* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: Esthar, pretty much literally.
* [[Cultural Cross-Reference]]:
** The French translation, full of [[Artistic License|gratuitous English that does not match the original English]], has an item called a [[Nine Inch Nails|9 inch nail]]... described as "the claw of an [[Industrial Metal|industrial monster]]." Guess the French translator must've been a fan then.The same translation also has an NPC remarking that Galbadia Garden's ice hockey team watches the [[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]] movies while they train. Then when you fight them on Disc 2 they're not called "Slapper" but are instead named "Jason".
** In the English version, Zell is obsessed with obtaining hot dogs from Balamb Garden's cafeteria. In the original Japanese script, it was 'pan' i.e. sweet bread. It is considered an exotic treat in Japan (introduced when they began trading with Portugal in the 16th century) and comes in flavors such as apple, curry, and melon. It was changed to hot dogs in the English version simply because the pan shown in the ending FMV vaguely resembles hot dog buns.
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: Ellone
* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: This is an RPG, so of course the characters are unable to do things during the story that they can easily do in battle, such as summoning GFs.
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* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Odin again.
* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: Squall gets into a space suit and leaves the [[Escape Pod]] to {{spoiler|rescue Rinoa, who's floating out in space}}. Even though he succeeds, they're both stuck out in the middle of space, low on oxygen, and with no way to get back to the Planet. Fortunately [[Deus Ex Machina]] saves the day.
* [[
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|Edea}}, literally. Twice.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Rinoa requires rescuing several times over the course of the game, and is unplayable for almost all of the third disc thanks to being {{spoiler|variously comatose, possessed by Ultimecia, or imprisoned by Esthar. This makes her a [[Damsel Scrappy]] to many players, at least until she [[Takes a Level In Badass]] by becoming a sorceress. Even then, she still gets taken captive by Seifer, later to be held hostage by Adel, but of course, he was holding her at weapon-point.}}
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* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: Done in the Galdbadia Missile Base mission. Also, Watts is seen in Timber dressed as a Galbadian soldier.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: One can be seen briefly in a hallway in Galbadia Garden making students do push ups, one of whom is Zell if he's not in your party.
* [[Dub
** It still sort of works in the English version, as the dinner rolls look like hotdog rolls which would, presumably, contain hotdogs therein.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: This is an RPG, so of course, you're not too important to run people's errands like finding pieces of a vase or gathering rocks to make a statue. Squall [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this during the Timber Mission when the Forest Owls ask him to go wake up Rinoa.
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* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Squall. He gets better.
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Seifer's [[Electric Torture]] on Squall in D-District Prison.
* [[Justified Tutorial]]: The Fire Caverns quest at the very beginning of the game.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Sure, he was under Ultimecia's influence, but Seifer, as a Sorceress Knight and while leading Galbadia, was responsible for a lot of death and destruction... and {{spoiler|yet he gets to live happily ever after with his buddies Raijin and Fujin}}. Well, unless you count the beat down the party delivered to him near the end (especially if [[Sidequest|you unlocked]] [[Memetic Badass|Gilgamesh]]).
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* [[Shipper on Deck]]: During the Garden festival at Fisherman's Horizon, after meeting up with Rinoa, Squall [[Lampshade Hanging|comments]] that everyone is trying to get them together and that it's so obvious even he can tell.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Fujin
* [[Shout-Out]]: Great Salt Lake.
** Another shout-out occurs in music form: the final boss music, "The Extreme", contains a call-back to the original Final Fantasy battle music.
** On the music example, the beginning of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czn2_ngX6_k the final dungeon theme] is very similar to the third segment of Dancing Mad from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''.
*** Doomtrain isn't terribly different from the [[Final Fantasy VI|GhostTrain / Phantom Train]] either. And by that, it has a freakin' ghost face and looks undead enough.
*** Triple Triad may be a reference to the Warring Triad in ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''.
** Ultemecia's design was actually a [[Shout-Out]] to Yoshitaka Amano's artstyle. You can definitely see the features - white hair, lipstick, eyeliner...
** Lunatic Pandora likewise has sequences very similar to music from the Moon in [[Final Fantasy IV]]. Appropriate, considering that it was designed to call down monsters from the moon. Likewise, when the monster's are ready to drop the moon grows red. This same feature is shared by the corrupted moon of IV.
** The blue Galbadian uniforms resemble the SOLDIER uniform from [[Final Fantasy VII]]. They're even issued with Buster Swords.
** Zell's final weapon is quite appropriately named for a [[Fighting Game]], [[Ehrgeiz]].
** The jaunty polka tune from peacetime-Dollet is reused for [[2001: A Space Odyssey|the Esthar moonbase.]]
* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]: Biggs and Wedge
* [[Sidequest]] It is an RPG.
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* [[Slow Motion Fall]]: Squall gets two of these. First, in the FMV at Dollet, with him jumping to reach the landing vessel before X-ATMO92 fires at him. The second occurs after the first boss fight with Edea when she impales him, and he falls off the parade float.
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: The cutscene with Quistis at Dollet taking down [[Spider Tank|X-ATM092]]. Although not petite, she's still pretty trim and the gun she's using is ''freaking huge''.
* [[Skill Slot System]]: The GF system allows ability customization.
* [[Sole Entertainment Option]]: It doesn't really have a city that specializes in the Card Game of the Week, but each city has its own rules. Regardless of this fact, practically everyone plays. Not only that, but people carry all of their cards around with them as they aimlessly walk around.
* [[Solemn Ending Theme]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNefNLOHVYk Eyes On Me]".
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* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Laguna and Squall get two out of three; at 175cm and 177cm respectively they are shorter than any other male playable character in the game except for Zell.
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]:
** Hot for teacher variation: Many of Quistis's male students (and apparently [[Les Yay|quite a few female ones]], if the Trepies are any indication) are pining for one. She [[
** Hot for student variation: Quistis for Squall, though in her defense, they're only a year apart in age {{spoiler|and apparently grew up together, though neither of them remembers it anymore.}} Squall comments on the awkwardness of it fairly early in the game, and Quistis eventually says that her crush on him was actually misdirected sisterly affection, although how honest she's being about that is subject to interpretation.
* [[Technicolor Death]]: Following series tradition, the [[Final Boss]] goes out like this.
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