Final Fantasy VIII: Difference between revisions

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''"I'll be waiting... for you, so... if you come here... you'll find me. [[The Promise|I promise]]."'' }}

 

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Squall.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The writing dips into this at times:

Seifer: "You'll thank me when the time comes." }}

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The Ragnarok conveniently floats by as Squall and Rinoa are drifting in space. It's revealed later that it was used to launch Adel's tomb and thus was abandoned in the same area of space. However, its timing and placement is still incredibly convenient.

** 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.

'''Selphie''': You tell 'em, Squall. They can't treat us that way. }}

* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Inverted. Irvine appears to be invoking this on the train to Deling City when he's telling Selphie they're destined to be together when they just met a few minutes earlier at Galbadia Garden. However, {{spoiler|the orphanage flashback reveals that he has known her a lot longer}}.

* [[Kill the Ones You Love]]: Averted, more or less {{spoiler|with Cid. He's fully prepared to send his and Edea's ''children'' to kill her, because he knows he's not capable of it himself, but it all works out in the end}}.

* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: {{spoiler|Ultimecia.}} in her final [[One-Winged Angel]] form.

* [[Killer Bunny]]: One beach-dwelling monster is a sand-swimming, flying piranha-toothed ''goldfish''.

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Not as bad an example as many RPGs, but there are some instances. There's also an aversion - rooting around in cupboards in a house in Timber finds the party some gil, but it also makes the house's resident refuse to let you rest there any more, and since the hotel is off-limits during your first visit...

** Any item on the Esthar Lunar Base, one of which is a card that can only be gotten there.

* [[Lost in Translation]]: Although it's still possible to guess from Gilgamesh's comment about the Rift that he's the same Gilgamesh that appeared in ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'', a single syllable confirming it was left out of the English translation:

'''Gilgamesh [English]:''' "Huh? Was it you...?" }}

* [[Love Confession]]: Notably [[Subverted Trope|Subverted.]] The IGN review notes that, for love basically being the main theme of the game, the word is not mentioned once (although this is incorrect; Rinoa does tell Squall "''we'' love you" during the concert at FH. Nevertheless, neither of the leads of what is primarily a love story ever makes an official [[Love Confession]]).

* [[Time Master]]: {{spoiler|Ellone}}. Also, Ultimecia

* [[Title Drop]]: The Japanese version of Edea's speech in Galbadia plays out a little differently from the English translation, and includes a line referencing the series.

* [[Token Minority]]: Kiros, the only non-white playable character.

** Raijin, the only non-white human enemy, boss, and supporting NPC.