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During the journey, Tidus makes a variety of new friends (and enemies):
* Wakka, a blitzball fanatic with a Pidgin accent and a gravity-defying hairstyle which would make Guile from ''[[Street Fighter]] II'' implode with jealousy. [[Hey
* Lulu, a goth-dressing [[Lady of Black Magic]] with a penchant for stuffed animals and an impressive amount of cle--, [[Last Second Word Swap|uh,]] [[Too Many Belts|belts]].
* Kimahri Ronso, [[Catfolk]] [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] who communicates primarily in [[Death Glare|glowers]].
* Seymour Guado, a [[Half
* Cid, Rikku's father, and leader of the Al Bhed. The game's obligatory curmudgeonly airship lieutenant.
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=== This game is the [[Trope Namer]] for: ===
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: And, by extension, its [[Snowclone]]:
** [[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"]]
* [[This Is My Story]]
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** The alternative, of course, is having to slog through the incredibly tedious battle with {{spoiler|Braska's Final Aeon}} again...
* [[Antidote Effect]]: Played straight until you can customize weapons.
* [[Anti
* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]].
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: Played straight - only three characters can fight at a time - but simultaneously averted by letting you trade an active member for anyone in the [[Lazy Backup]] section at any time.
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* [[Breakout Character]]: Auron is badass. You may notice it reading this page. Jecht gets much love too.
* [[Bring My Red Jacket]]: Auron has the signature red coat, but doesn't take much damage...mainly because {{spoiler|Yunalesca killed him during the last attempt to destroy Sin.}}
* [[But Thou Must]]: The game plot runs on rails with a single way forward up to the point where you get the [[Global Airship]]...and at that point you can go directly to [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] or run around doing sidequests to get all the [[Infinity
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: {{spoiler|This ends up being the central plot point of the whole game. In fact, it's implied that the whole reason Tidus was even brought to Spira was so he could save the world by doing this. It's also subverted; by the time you can do it, Tidus forgives him and Jecht is apologizing for being such a crappy father.}}
* [[Catfolk]]: The Ronso are a race of muscular, anthropomorphic feline humanoids from the world of Spira. The Ronso tribe lives at the base of Mt. Gagazet and guard the sacred mountain fiercely. They are formidable warriors, well known for their strong sense of honor and loyalty, as well as their pride and quickness to anger.
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* [[Did Not Get the Girl|Did Not Get the Guy]]: In the ending, {{spoiler|played straight with Tidus disappearing and going to the Farplane.}}
** {{spoiler|Averted in the sequel.}}
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did We Just Punch Out Cthulu?]]: Yunalesca, and to a more evident extent Sin, who is {{spoiler|shot down out of the sky by an airship after having both its arms disintegrated in plain view of the whole damn world.}}
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Subverted - Yuna is kidnapped by the Al Bhed, and when the party arrives to rescue her, she's already kicked some ass and is about to leave.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The Ronso take great pride in their horns. "Hornless" is one of the biggest insults they have.
* [[Doomed Hometown]]: Zanarkand
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Jecht as Sin is this to the true [[Big Bad]], Yu Yevon. But defeating Jecht is the emotional climax of the story, not to mention that whole [[Anticlimax Boss]] thing...}}
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** Wakka is a lovable oaf who is unquestioningly loyal, is paired up with a short-tempered, bossy woman who keeps him in line, and has a [[Verbal Tic]] of asking for confirmation whenever he makes a statement. This sentence also describes Raijin from ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]''.
** Jecht, Braska, and Auron are just the buddy dynamic of Laguna, Kiros, and Ward warmed over, except Jecht is what would have happened if Laguna was an alcoholic [[Jerkass]] who wasn't too good at being a father. (Then again, Laguna's {{spoiler|stepdaughter got kidnapped and his son went to an orphanage and became an [[The Stoic|emotionless]] [[Tyke Bomb|mercenary]]...}})
** The main characters: a White Mage/Summoner, an MC with a specific purpose who is of a previous physical class in the series, a [[Token Non
** Rikku is a perky teenage girl with shorts and some weird guard on her arm, with a knack for theft, and who comes from a culture which antagonizes the culture most the rest of the cast comes from. Yes, Rikku is so much an Expy for [[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Yuffie]] that Yuffie substituted Rikku during the development of [[Kingdom Hearts]] and mostly it only involved changing the head in the design.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Poor Auron. To be specific, {{spoiler|he was casually blasted in the face/eye when he confronted Yunalesca as he was trying to avenge Braska's and Jecht's deaths.}}
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* [[Feather Motif]]: Yuna's wedding dress contains a double dose of feather symbolism - first of her role as [[The Messiah]] (and thus divine/angelic), and second as a symbol of freedom and flight. Immediately after the ceremony, she {{spoiler|quite literally flies away on Valefor.}}
* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: {{spoiler|While fighting Braska's Final Aeon, Jecht}} does this if you attempt to talk to him using Tidus. After a couple of times, it stops working.
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Tidus
** [[The Lancer]]: Wakka
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* [[Guide Dang It]]: The only hint as to the location of {{spoiler|Anima's Fayth}} is NPC chatter in Al Bhed and a hint from a few Guado in Guadosalam. And you still have to figure out how to get to Baaj Temple even once you've worked out that there's a Fayth there.
** Hell, the whole Bevelle Cloister of Trials in general. It's nearly impossible to do without looking it up in a guide.
** Same thing goes for one third of Tidus's [[Infinity
** Many of the Celestial weapons require you to find treasure chests in totally obscure/not visible places while others require you to beat various mini-games and hidden bosses. Most of the mini-games are plainly obvious to find, but Kimahri's Spirit Lance requires you to pray to three random Qactuar stones in the Thunder Plains with the square button -- which is only used on the overhead map to recruit blitzball players -- and then follow an almost invisible ghost around. Oh, and the ghost doesn't appear on the north side of the plains where the majority of the stones are.
* [[Healing Checkpoint]]: [[Save Point|Save Points]] heal you and remove negative status ailments.
* [[Hellish Pupils]]: Averted with the Al Bhed, whose pupils are spiral-shaped. Although [[Fantastic Racism|they have a common reputation in Spira as violent, ungodly heretics]], they're actually much nicer and more morally centered than most groups.
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: Subverted. Because the game is almost entirely voiced, Tidus is addressed directly with variations of 'you' and 'newbie' or 'new guy'. When being spoken about, Tidus is replaced with pronouns and sometimes in the sequel as 'You-know-who'.
* [[The Heretic]]: Upon learning the truth about Sin's origin, Yuna rejects the teachings of Yevon to pursue the monster to destruction.
* [[Hero Killer]]: The dark Aeons.
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** All the summoners know that {{spoiler|their pilgrimage will end in their death if they succeed}}. However, this is more an example of {{spoiler|a [[Senseless Sacrifice]]}}, given {{spoiler|the truth about Sin and the Final Summoning}}.
** There is also the [[You Shall Not Pass]] incident described in detail in that article. {{spoiler|The fact that they subverted it doesn't make it any less heroic. It just makes it less of a sacrifice}}.
* [[Hey, You]]: Tidus is never referred to by name, and in at least once instance is actually addressed "Hey, you." This is due to the fact that his name is chosen by the player.
* [[How We Got Here]]: The game opening has all of the main heroes assembled around a campfire, preparing to enter Zanarkand. A short narrative voiceover later, and the player is zipped back to the past to see how the whole thing got started. In fact, pretty much the first two-thirds of the game is one massive flashback.
* [[Hufflepuff House]]: The Crusaders. They stick around in X-2, rechristening themselves as the Youth league.
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: In a minor example, Seymour gets to hold it in one scene.
{{quote| '''Rikku:''' Cover your eyes! *throws flash grenade*<br />
'''Seymour:''' *[[What an Idiot!|glances down directly at the grenade]]* }}
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: While fighting against {{spoiler|Braska's Final Aeon, Tidus gains a "Talk" command that, rather than attack, attempts to reach Jecht, resetting the monster's [[Limit Break|Overdrive gauge]]. [[Nightmare Fuel|It stops working the third time.]]}}
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: One look at all the failed cosplay inspired by this game will tell you how hard this clothing is to reproduce.
** It's worth noting that Lulu is absent from many of the game's CGI movies, unless it's from the waist up. Her skirt is simply too ''abstract'' to hold up under dynamic camera angles or movements.
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** And in Wakka's, those blitzballs are clearly pretty hard and heavy, as are his throws. [[Fridge Brilliance|They'd have to be to have any sort of chance of going through water]].
* [[Improvised Zipline]]: The ship fires massive anchor cables into the building the characters need to get to, but since it's under fire, it can't stay long, so the party surfs down the cables onto the building.
* [[Infinity
* [[Infinity
* [[The Ishmael]]: A fakeout trope. Tidus seems to be turning into this as the game progresses, since most of the drama centers around Yuna's pilgrimage. But then Auron reminds him "This is your story,"...
* [[Just Whistle]]: Tidus teaches Yuna to whistle in Luca, promising that if she ever does so, he will come running. One of the last scenes of the game is Yuna standing on a pier, [[Book Ends|whistling for him]].
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* [[Lost Forever]]: Many of the items in Bevelle and Home, for example. Watch for those Al Bhed Primers!
* [[The Lonely Piano]]: The opening piece, "To Zanarkand", though it's a bit more uplifting than most pieces of this trope.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|A very strange case, whereby the hero discovers that his estranged father has actually been transformed into the recurring monster which threatens to destroy Spira}}.
** This is also handled very matter of factly; {{spoiler|Auron outright tells Tidus only three/four hours into the game, and he just refuses to believe it until he gets way too close to Sin.}}
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Not by the main cast; their individual talents generally remain useful throughout the game. Rather, it applies to a few of the recruitable Blitzball players.
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* [[Obviously Evil]]: Seymour, you're not fooling ''anyone.'' And even if he was, his [[Leitmotif]] isn't.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The only way to describe Tidus' look when he faces [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIZA3P4hEWI Penance... Jump to 1:43.]
* [[One
* [[One
* [[Opposing Sports Team]]: The Goers are painted this way in the beginning, and in the mandatory minigame segment. After that it fades away because more important issues are taking center stage.
* [[Opposites Theme Naming]]: Tidus is a romanization of "Tidaa", which is Okinawan for "sun"; Yuna, on the other hand, is Okinawan for "night".
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* [[Path of Inspiration]]: The Church of Yevon, an arguably greyer example of the trope.
* [[Petal Power]]: Yojimbo's Zanmato attack.
* [[Pimped
* [[Pluralses]]: The Hypello talk this way.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: This is how we get the surprisingly complex [[Character Development]] for Jecht. {{spoiler|Even if it turns out he's not actually dead yet}}.
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{{quote| '''Auron:''' (after seeing a statue of Braska in a temple) So you're a champion of Yevon now, Braska? }}
* [[Practical Taunt]]: Tidus's Provoke skill, if successful, makes an enemy attack him only, or even drive down the enemy's accuracy. It sounds like a spell, but it's performed through a rude gesture and sometimes a verbal taunt. "Hey, hey, hey!"
* [[Pre
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Lulu's neckline. Odd in that she was born and raised on a ''tropical island''.
* [[Proud Warrior Race]]: The Ronso.
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* [[Random Number God]]: Although the blitzball tutorial specifically notes that there is some deviation when it calculates the chance of successful passes/shots/etc., you seem to get the low end of the stick ''unusually'' often....
* [[Recurring Traveller]]: A couple of people, including the merchant O'aka, the wandering scholar Maechen, and other summoners going on their own pilgrimages.
* [[Revive Kills Zombie]]: And it can be used to [[One
** And if it wasn't enough, you can zombify your opponents for this purpose, including {{spoiler|the final bosses}}.
* [[Role Playing Game]]
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: It's almost impossible not to be awe-struck with some of the backgrounds.
** The Farplane and pyreflies are especially noticeable...while the scenes in the Farplane take place on a barren stoney platform, it was shortly shown as actually being covered with flowers in a large landscape with a sunset, rainbows and beautiful waterfalls. X-2 has a character wondering if the Farplane is creepingly pretty...or pretty creepy.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Basically what you're saying every time you have Yojimbo use [[One
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: When {{spoiler|Yuna and company decide to try and defeat Sin without using the Final Aeon.}}
** This is also how Tidus meets Yuna.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: {{spoiler|Mika}}, after learning of the defeat of {{spoiler|Yunalesca}}, decides to send himself rather than face a seemingly unstoppable Sin.
* [[Sculpted Physique]]: {{spoiler|Seymour Natus}}
* [[Schizo Tech]]: Probably the [[Justified Trope|most thoroughly explained]] example in the entire series. Advanced technology/machina like that used by the Al Bhed are outlawed by Yevon's teachings, as the technology is more or less the same of that of the allegedly-corrupt and decadent civilization of Zanarkand. The restrictions on robots and [[More Dakka]] ''do not'' apply to the religious authorities, however.
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* [[Songs in The Key of Lock]]
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Both on the final road to {{spoiler|Zanarkand}} and during the [[Bonus Boss]] fight with {{spoiler|the Aeon Yojimbo}}.
* [[Shell
* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Auron with Yuna and Tidus.
* [[Slap
* [[Spoiled By the Manual]]: The manual spoils a lot of the early game:
** Kimahri first mistakes Tidus for an enemy and attacks him - but since Kimahri is listed as a party member in the manual, the player knows in advance that the hostility won't last for long.
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* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The laughing scene. In-story, it's supposed to be horribly forced and hollow.
* [[Suicide By Cop]]: {{spoiler|Jecht sends his son to Spira so that Tidus can ultimately kill him}}.
* [[Super Not
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: Tidus seems to be this for most of the game; many players are a little startled when he suddenly declares, "No, wait: [[Arc Words|this is MY story]]."
* [[Taken for Granite]]: the Fayth are statues that house the souls of people who provide the power for the summoned creature. Many fiends can also petrify you...but you can also petrify them as well, with the right spells and items.
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* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: Sinspawn Gui. It's the first boss that can genuinly wipe the floor with your party.
* [[Watching the Sunset]]: Tidus and Yuna at the travel agency in Mi'ihen.
* [[Well
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* [[White Magician Girl]]: Yuna hits this trope on nearly every point: feminine and sweet, primarily a [[White Mage]], and [[The Heart]] of the party.
* [[With a Friend And A Stranger]]: With the protagonist as stranger variation, and a trio of friends instead of a duo.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Seymour is at least ''intended'' to come across as this: he was born to a human mother and Guado father, he and his mother were banished by his father to maintain the peace in Guadosalam, his mother gave her life to become a Fayth ''right before his very eyes'' (to his horror), and he grew up lonely. As a result, he develops an ideology that life is suffering, and intends to become Sin so that he may kill everyone on Spira and end the cycle of death and pain. Unfortunately, he's targeted by the [[Misaimed Fandom]] because the creators played ''down'' the potential [[Woobie]] traits and ''played up'' his condescending attitude and [[Smug Snake]] grin (as opposed to, say, the other way around}}. Then again, given that ''his own mother'' admits that he's driven completely by a lust for power and has become a [[Complete Monster]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]] who wants to destroy the world [[For the Evulz]], it's kinda hard to ''make'' him sympathetic in the first place.
* [[Word of God]]: Hints in an Ultimania interview that ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' is the [[Distant Future]] of the game's ''[[The Verse|world]]'', but likely on another ''planet''.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Rikku, and how.
* [[You Bastard]]: To get the sigil for Rikku's [[Infinity
* [[Zen Survivor]]: Auron
* [[Zero Effort Boss]]: {{spoiler|Yu Yevon. After spending years upon years recreating Sin and summoning Dream Zanarkand, he's been reduced to a ''black tick thing with a symbol on it''. Granted, it was because there's practically nothing human left of him. The party easily kicks his ass, due to having infinite Auto-Life cast on everyone. The only way to lose the fight is to petrify your frontline allies.}}
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