Final Fantasy VIII: Difference between revisions

* [[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.}}

** 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]]:

* [[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 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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