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* [[Burn the Witch|Burn The Sorceress]]: {{spoiler|Rinoa on Disc 3.}}
* [[Canine Companion]]: Angelo, to Rinoa.
* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]: Except for several plot-specific instances in which [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|the party splits up to accomplish separate objectives]], such as the disc 1 assassination mission and the disc 2 missile base mission, Squall must remain in the active party at all times.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]:
** Irvine pretends to be a cool loner, then a nervous flake, in an awkward attempt to hide the fact that {{spoiler|he remembers his childhood at the orphanage and recognizes all his old friends (and their "Matron", Edea), while none of them remember him. When they finally remember,}} he reveals that he didn't say anything because he was embarrassed about {{spoiler|being so utterly forgotten.}}
** 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.
* [[Cannot Stand Them Cannot Live Without Them]]: Squall spends the first two discs of the game grimly resisting Rinoa's efforts to get him to open up to her, but gradually giving way. When she {{spoiler|falls into a coma at the end of disc two, however, he realizes how much he doesn't want to lose her, and she becomes his main priority}}.
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* [[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}}.
* [[Dummied Out]]: Originally, Selphie was supposed to have two more Limit Break spells which apparently were never programmed in. The spells were ''Percent'' which cuts all enemies' current HP by 93.75% and ''Catastrophe'' which is more powerful than the ultimate spell, Apocalypse. They both can be accessed with a Gameshark.
** Another example is an entire mini-game mode for the [[Pocket Station]], which [[No Export for You|never made it out of Japan]]. Said mode is still referenced in the English release and manual, probably because the decision not to release the hardware hadn't been made yet. It is possible to play with an imported [[Pocket Station]] from Japan. The mini-game could be used to get many useful items, guardian forces, and of course, [[Hundred
* [[Dungeon Crawling]]
** [[Bonus Dungeon]]: The [[Underwater Base|Deep Sea Research Facility]] and the Centra Ruins.
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* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: Two of them. Fujin and Raijin. Biggs and Wedge.
* [[Good Morning, Crono]]: After the title sequence, the game proper begins with Squall awakening in Balamb Garden's infirmary.
* [[Good Wings, Evil Wings]]: The recurring Buel creature has ''both'' bird and bat wings. [[Rule of Three|In threes]]. And the bat wings are the bigger ones.
** {{spoiler|Rinoa (in her second Limit Break form) and Ultimecia both possess wings. Rinoa's? Pure white and angelic. Ultimecia's? Black.}}
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Zell uses his fists as his weapon of choice.
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* [[Inner Monologue]]: Squall does more of this than he does actual talking. A source of humor with pretty much anyone who gets to know him.
* [[Instant Fanclub]]: Quistis Trepe; her fans call themselves ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Trepies]]''.
* [[Insurmountable Waist
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Ellone with {{spoiler|her Uncle Laguna}}.
* [[Interrogated for Nothing]]: Squall not only doesn't have the information that Seifer tortures him for at the beginning of disc 2, he doesn't even understand the question.
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* [[Item Crafting]]: The only way to improve your weapons in the game. There's also a fair bit of "Item Mutation" in the game, as almost every GF has the ability to "Refine" spells into different spells, items into different items, items into spells, or (in one case) Triple Triad cards into items/spells.
* [[It's All My Fault]]: Zell has a moment in Disc 1, after he inadventertly said that Seifer belongs to the Garden of Balamb [[What an Idiot!|right in front of the President, who were threatened by Seifer himself, during a live TV program]]. Fortunately, Quistis later reassures him that his recklessness didn't cause repercussions at all for their Garden.
* [[
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** "Eyes on Me" is more the Leitmotif for the concept of love itself. Every time something romantic between Squall and Rinoa, or their parents (it's complicated, but there's no incest) or Laguna and Raine, this music plays. In addition, most of the main cast ends up with ''someone'' by the end of the game, and the reason that SeeD exists in the first place is because Cid loved Edea too much to just outright kill her when he saw what a monster she was becoming (that and before being mind controlled Edea knew a teenager killed Ultimecia).
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: The Fire Cavern
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: After breaking out of D-District Prison, the team splits up into two groups; one to head back to Balamb Garden to warn them out about the missile attack, the other to the missile base to try and stop the attack.
** The team also splits up when Squall and Rinoa are sent into space.
* [[Level Grinding]]: As mentioned, the game slims down this process as it is normally seen in [[RPG|RPGs]]. However, players often find themselves spending a while Drawing spells from monsters, either to keep for its own sake or the purposes of Refining. Triple Triad got a similar reputation, but at least it was more fun than spamming "Draw" for five minutes.
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* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Galbadia's missile attack on Balamb Garden.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Odine.
* [[Make
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Rinoa subverts this - she really only acts particularly quirky or footloose around the lead, then gets told off for it repeatedly before learning to take things more seriously. She shapes up on Disc 2 after nearly getting killed by Edea.
* [[Meganekko]]: Quistis. Unfortunately, only during FMVs.
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* [[Milking the Giant Cow]]: Most of the characters do this at some point.
* [[Mind Screw]]: It is not exactly clear what the GF Eden is, nor what exactly happens [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZbfDMzynwg during its attack] except that the universe appears to fold in on itself and back out again. But hey, [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|doesn't it look awesome?]]
** The idea of "Time Compression" is based on the concept of [
* [[Mini
* [[Model Planning]]: The Forest Owls use train models to explain the hijacking the railcar of an enemy president.
* [[Money Spider]]: The first [[Final Fantasy]] game to avert it, actually. Instead, Squall receives a regular stipend proportional to his rank, which itself rises and falls depending on your performance. Monsters still drop standard consumables / components for [[Item Crafting]].
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Squall.
* [[The Mutiny]]: The team returns to Balamb Garden after breaking out of D-District Prison to find the school undergoing one by students and staff loyal to NORG.
** [[Anti
* [[Mutually Exclusive Party Members]]: The pseudo-Guardian Forces Odin and Gilgamesh can't be possessed at the same time. Getting Odin before disc three results in him being killed during the events of Lunatic Pandora and replaced by Gilgamesh. You can keep Odin if you wait until disc four to get him, but then you lose your chance to get Gilgamesh.
* [[Muggles Do It Better]]: Faced with an unkillable robotic warmachine that your team of [[One-Man Army]] soldiers and their [[Summon Magic|summoned demigods]] can't stop? Break out the .50 cal machineguns.
* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]: At level 100, the playable character with the highest unmodified strength stat in the game isn't [[The Hero|Squall]], [[The Rival|Seifer]], or [[Gentle Giant|Ward]]. It's ''Rinoa.''
** Probably justified in that she's unavailable for most of disc 3 and will rejoin you at a level close to your average party level. If you're playing normally and had been using level up bonuses, she'd fall way behind if her growth rate had been average due to lost opportunities to to increase her stats through said bonuses.
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong|My Friend Right Or Wrong]]: Fujin and Raijin state that they're on whatever side Seifer is on, which they do for most of the game, {{spoiler|however, at the end of Disc 3 when they finally feel Seifer has gone too far they call him out on it}} but still tell him they will remain his friends.
* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Ellone.
* [[A Nazi By Any Other Name]]: Galbadia's initial plan bears resemblance to [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi Germany]]'s actions at the Munich talks in 1938; hold peace talks that are really just a guise for demanding concessions in order to ultimately [[Take Over the World]].
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** It's worth noting that Rinoa herself ''doesn't'' consider the situations a game either. She's dead serious about assisting Squall and liberating Timber, but she's simply not mature or experienced enough at planning things out to carry out the operations successfully on her own.
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Rinoa claims she doesn't want to ask Squall to see his ring (so Zell can make a replica of it) because people would get the wrong idea.
* [[Now Where Was I Going Again?]]: Doesn't happen so much after getting {{spoiler|the mobile Balamb Garden}} as the NPC's on the deck will tell you where you need to go, but it can happen before that, as there's no real reminders of where you're supposed to be going or what you're supposed to be doing.
* [[Numerological Motif]]: The number eight recurs throughout the game, presumably for the obvious reason. The Galbadian soldiers have 08 on their armour, the heroes have to catch a number 8 bus at one point, and there are eight playable characters (including the two [[Guest Star Party Member|Guest Star Party Members]]) in the present.
** There are 4 pairs of [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|color-coded]] propagators inside the Ragnarok.
* [[The Obi Wrong]]: Quistis is demoted from Instructor to normal SeeD early on, leaving her free to team up with Squall and join the party.
* [[Occupiers Out of Our Country!]]: What the Timber resistance wants.
* [[Official Couple]]: Squall and Rinoa.
* [[Off With His Head]]: NORG wants to offer the heads of the party members to Edea on a silver platter to calm her after the assassination attempt.
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* [[Power-Up Letdown]]: Reflect is heavily [[Nerf|Nerfed]] in this game, only working on single-target spells the player characters can learn. Later on, all it does is block healing spells.
* [[Porn Stash]]: That copy of "The Girl Next Door" you pick up from the magazine publishers in Timber rewards you with a Triple Triad card later on. Also, Zell is ''very'' adamant about not letting ''anyone'' enter his room. [[Wild Mass Guessing|One can only guess what he's got hidden away up there.]] Of course, when you actually do get a chance to visit his room, (during the Balamb occupation sequence), there seems to be no evidence of it. Though, you can see a spare T-Board and a [[Wall of Weapons|collection of guns]].
* [[Precision
* [[Pre Meeting]]: Rinoa asks Squall to dance at the party, but doesn't think much of it. Squall's first mission as a SeeD is assisting her resistance group.
* [[Press X to Not Die|Press Right To Not Die]]: During the escape from D-District Prison, when Squall is hanging off the bridge connecting the towers, the player has to hold down the right directional button or else it's game over.
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== S-Z ==
* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: Squall and Rinoa early on, though they both move closer to center as the game progresses.
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Apparently true for Ward's facial scar. It's not clear about Squall or Seifer's, however, since they both get their scars right at the start of the game, actually making it plausible for them to still have them considering the short period of time that passes.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Background bitmap detail compared to ''VII'' was cranked [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Schizo
* [[School Nurse]]: Dr. Kadowaki.
* [[Schoolteachers]]: Quistis fits several sub-tropes.
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** [[Fired Teacher]]
** [[Hot Teacher]]
* [[Screw the War,
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|Screw This, We're Outta Here]]: Biggs and Wedge
* [[Scripted Battle]]: The first fight against Edea. Seifer vs. Odin/Gilgamesh. Also, the end of the battle with Ultimecia.
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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
* [[Sidequest]] It is an RPG.
** [[Irrelevant Sidequest]]: So it has both.
* [["Silly Me" Gesture]]: She doesn't hit herself on the head, but Selphie's introductory FMV includes the wink and tongue-stickout parts of this after she trips her way down a hill.
* [[Simple Staff]]: Raijin uses a staff as his weapon of choice.
* [[Single
* [[Sinister Geometry]]: Lunatic Pandora's outer casing.
* [[Slow Clap]]: Initiated by Seifer after Squall, Zell and Selphie graduate as SeeD.
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** When Balamb Garden is about to be {{spoiler|carpet bombed by Galbadian missiles}}, the party instructs Xu, Raijin, and Fujin to tell everybody to evacuate. When they finally reach the underground control center and {{spoiler|get the Garden airborne}}, they end up {{spoiler|crashing into the sea}}. After that, they ''never return to Balamb to pick up all the SeeDs and other classmen who, supposedly, evacuated''. Since there was a fight going on between sympathizers of Cid and NORG at the time, the evacuees might have continued fighting amongst each other or even have died due to collateral damage from the missile strikes. (On the other hand, since Garden is not appreciably less populated afterwards, they may not have managed to evacuate many in the first place.)
* [[What Is Evil?]]: Ambiguity between good and evil is a prominent theme in the game. The fight against the primary antagonist is almost purely pragmatic, only loosely tied to any personal motivation against the antagonist proper. Arguably, the antagonist even has a defensible position (one of the heroes even considers this, albeit briefly).
* [[What Is This Feeling?]]: Squall has the love version of this a few times with Rinoa.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: After {{spoiler|Squall rescues Rinoa from ''[[Beyond the Impossible|the freaking void of space]]'', only to see her into Esthar custody for becoming the next sorceress}}, Quistis ''tears him a new one''.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Quistis Trepe uses a whip as her weapon of choice.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Ultimecia. Also, Fujin.
* [[
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Raijin, during the three boss fights with him, will not attack your female characters. He even says ''"I don't hit girls, ya know"'' if he KOs all the male members of your party and only females are left. (Sadly it is not possible to take advantage of this by fighting him with an all-female party since you [[Can't Drop the Hero]], and during the first two fights, Zell is a [[Required Party Member]].)
* [[You Are in Command Now]]: Cid summarily hands command of Balamb Garden and SeeD as a whole over to Squall in disc 2 - to Squall's intense dismay. He proves quite good at it, but doesn't enjoy it.
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