Paths of Our Fathers: Difference between revisions

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* [[Action Girl]]- Kairi's molding into one.

* [[A God Am I]]- Sephiroth.

* [[Alas Poor Villain]]- {{spoiler|Kadaj's send off was rather heartwarming- until Sephiroth interrupted it.}}

* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]- {{spoiler|Kadaj's send off was rather heartwarming- until Sephiroth interrupted it.}}

* [[All Men Are Perverts]] - The boys seem a bit 'too' entranced by 'La Esmeralda Dance'...

* [[And This Is For]]- See [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* [[Anti Hero]] - {{spoiler|Vincent. Type III or IV}}

* [[Anti-Hero]] - {{spoiler|Vincent. Type III or IV}}

* [[The Atoner]] - Vincent has become this, post- {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}.

* [[Awful Truth]] - Riku's parentage. {{spoiler|He's related to the [[Big Bad]], Sephiroth}}

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* [[The Chessmaster]] - Sephiroth.

* [[Cooldown Hug]] - {{spoiler|Kairi waking up and saying Sora's name gets him out of Antiform, in a non-physical version of this trope.}}

* [[Cold Blooded Torture]] - {{spoiler|Riku faces this after being captured by Frollo's men.}}

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] - {{spoiler|Riku faces this after being captured by Frollo's men.}}

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] - Kairi, after witnessing {{spoiler|an armada of ships Sephiroth commands orbitally bombarding Radiant Garden}}, gets [[Unstoppable Rage|really pissed off]], and proceeds to {{spoiler|run right into the ravaged town square to the Gummi Ship, pilot it, and single-handedly manages to destroy a nice fraction of Sephiroth's forces.}}

** Vincent also gets one on Notre Dame as he {{spoiler|overcomes his inhibitions about using Chaos form, and proceeds to rescue Kairi from being burned at the stake.}}

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* [[Doomed Hometown]]- [[Final Fantasy VII|Well]] [[Kingdom Hearts|duh]].

* [[Dramatic Irony]] - Sephiroth and Hojo have a little discussion about [[The Reveal]] which Sephiroth, without too much testing, gave to Riku. {{spoiler|Sephiroth is speaking with his (unbeknownst to him) father about his son, Riku.}}

** Also, Riku proceeding to mimic Sephiroth's actions exactly after giving him a definite [[Shut UP Hannibal]] due to a lecture claiming they are [[Not So Different]].

** Also, Riku proceeding to mimic Sephiroth's actions exactly after giving him a definite [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] due to a lecture claiming they are [[Not So Different]].

* [[Dreaming the Truth]] - Riku, having dozed off in Radiant Garden's library, has a flashback to the moment his mother told him {{spoiler|his father had died}}. His dream-child self didn't notice, but he now pieced together that {{spoiler|his mother had lied to him}}.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]- JENOVA. Also, Sephiroth after his ascension.

* [[Exact ~~Eaves Dropping~~]] - Of the 'Bob saying something important about Alice' variety. {{spoiler|Riku overhears the Radiant Garden group talking with Sora and Kairi about him, worrying about his recent actions after The Reveal}}.

* [[Exact Eavesdropping]] - Of the 'Bob saying something important about Alice' variety. {{spoiler|Riku overhears the Radiant Garden group talking with Sora and Kairi about him, worrying about his recent actions after The Reveal}}.

* [[Eye Scream]]- {{spoiler|Sora's left eye gets torn out by Way to the Dawn, leaving a massive scar down the side of his face...}}

* [[Face Heel Turn]]- {{spoiler|Riku.}}

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* [[Genre Savvy]]- Sephiroth can have his moments of this.

** {{spoiler|Riku seems to swing back and forth between this and grabbing the Villain Ball... Sometimes doing the latter to be Genre Savvy.}}

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself Man]]- Kairi does this to Sora before her Rousing Speech to get him to fight Sephiroth following {{spoiler|Riku's death}}.

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]- Kairi does this to Sora before her Rousing Speech to get him to fight Sephiroth following {{spoiler|Riku's death}}.

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]- {{spoiler|Riku has been slowly going mad over the fact that his father is Sephiroth, and that madness has now begun to show.}}

* [[Hannibal Lecture]] - It's a fanfiction with SEPHIROTH as the main villain. This trope is GOING to come into play.

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** Vincent has also seemingly entered one after {{spoiler|Hojo escapes}}.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]] - {{spoiler|Quistis was able to deliver the group good information- in exchange for Squall fighting Seifer. She justifies her actions by saying it was for the greater good. Sora is, understandably, not happy.}}

* [[I Have You Now My Pretty]]- {{spoiler|Riku pulls this trope, but not the line, on Kairi.}}

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]- {{spoiler|Riku pulls this trope, but not the line, on Kairi.}}

* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] - {{spoiler|Kairi's words to Vincent, and her motivation in stopping him from killing aforementioned scientist.}}

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] - Sora pointing out the Valentine's day tree in the Hinterlands speaking in reference to Vincent's location. [[Do Not Explain the Joke|Get it? His last name's Valentine, so...]]

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* [[Little No]] - Riku's initial reaction as he realizes the [[Awful Truth]].

* [[Loss of Identity]] - {{spoiler|Seifer's dialogue with Squall implies that, after Radiant Garden was destroyed, he had lost his memories, and with them, a large portion of his identity, reverting back to the hot-blooded, disobedient person he once was}}

* [[Luke I Am Your Father]] - {{spoiler|The last part of the line is uttered verbatim by Sephiroth, though without the obligatory ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Big No|reaction]]}}

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] - {{spoiler|The last part of the line is uttered verbatim by Sephiroth, though without the obligatory ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Big No|reaction]]}}

* [[Magnificent Bastard]] - Sephiroth. Holy. Crap. Sephiroth.

* [[Mercy Kill]] - {{spoiler|Vincent does this twice to two of Hojo's failed creations.}}

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* [[Motive Rant]] - Sephiroth delivers this to QUISTIS of all people, as a [[Batman Gambit]] to {{spoiler|maintain her brainwashed trust}}. In a rare moment of [[Genre Savvy]], he {{spoiler|avoids mentioning the specifics on how his ultimate goal is to be carried out}}.

** Kadaj does one to himself {{spoiler|as he recovers from the Notre Dame attack}}.

* [[My God What Have I Done]] - Vincent says the statement pretty much verbatim during his {{spoiler|[[Heel Realization]]}}

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]] - Vincent says the statement pretty much verbatim during his {{spoiler|[[Heel Realization]]}}

* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]] - {{spoiler|In fleeing for their lives from Frollo's guards, Sora, Kairi, Riku, and Vincent lead them right to the Court of Miracles. Oops.}}

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] - {{spoiler|In fleeing for their lives from Frollo's guards, Sora, Kairi, Riku, and Vincent lead them right to the Court of Miracles. Oops.}}

* [[Nice Job Fixing It Villain]]- Kadaj, in performing a [[Limit Break]] of his own on the helpless heroes {{spoiler|forces all of them into Over Limit, and sets him up for a successive assault of Limit Breaks}}. Nice job fixing the heroes, Kadaj. And Nice Job Breaking Yourself.

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]- Kadaj, in performing a [[Limit Break]] of his own on the helpless heroes {{spoiler|forces all of them into Over Limit, and sets him up for a successive assault of Limit Breaks}}. Nice job fixing the heroes, Kadaj. And Nice Job Breaking Yourself.

* [[No One Should Survive That]] - {{spoiler|Kairi gets hit by an Ultima at point-blank range.}} This should have been lethal. {{spoiler|She survives.}}

* [[Not Quite Dead]]- {{spoiler|Riku after being stabbed by Sora...}}

* [[Oh Crap]] - When Frollo shows up to find Sora and Co. apparently {{spoiler|harming his innocent troops, and the ink Riku used to hide his silver hair has clearly washed off.}}

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]] - Cloud is invoking this trope in his longing to fight with Sephiroth.

* [[Paper Thin Disguise]] - Technically any disguise the group takes on, but this is most obvious on Notre Dame.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] - Technically any disguise the group takes on, but this is most obvious on Notre Dame.

* [[Please Wake Up]] - {{spoiler|"Kairi? K... Kairi, please. Please, wake up."}}

** {{spoiler|"Riku, get up, this isn't funny!"}}

* [[Post Rape Taunt]] - {{spoiler|Riku attempts to pull this on Sora, though the supposed 'rape' never ended up happening.}}

* [[Precision F Strike]] - Riku is none too pleased with not getting a straight answer. "Stop dodging the question, and answer me, damn it!"

* [[Precision F-Strike]] - Riku is none too pleased with not getting a straight answer. "Stop dodging the question, and answer me, damn it!"

** And, in what could qualify as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMoA]] for Vincent, he says to Hojo {{spoiler|[[This Is Sparta|You. Deserve. Hell.]]}}

** Riku, once more, when confronting his mother, loses his temper a bit- implying she was a street walker.

** Sora claims, rightfully so, that Riku's parents were never married when he discovers what almost happened to Kairi...

* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]] - {{spoiler|The fake Lucrecia's Hannibal Lecture to Vincent also has shades of this.}}

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] - {{spoiler|The fake Lucrecia's Hannibal Lecture to Vincent also has shades of this.}}

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]- {{spoiler|Poor Riku...}}

* [[Rousing Speech]]- Vincent and Kairi deliver [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|most epic ones]] to Sora to get him to fight once more.

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** [[Code Geass]] even gets a wink when Riku muses to himself {{spoiler|as the island burns around him}}.

** [[Revenge of the Sith]] gets a nod in an exchange between Riku and Sora.

* [[Shut UP Hannibal]] - {{spoiler|"If I am a monster... it's only because you have made me so!"}}

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] - {{spoiler|"If I am a monster... it's only because you have made me so!"}}

** Sora has a mental one in response to {{spoiler|Riku's Hannibal Lecture...}}

* [[Skyward Scream]]- Sora lets out an impressive one after {{spoiler|Riku dies.}}

* [[Stepford Smiler]]- {{spoiler|Sora may be on his way to becoming this, seeing as how he's forcing himself to smile before the final battle begins.}}

* [[Super Powered Evil Side]] - Sora's Antiform is treated as this, brought out whenever he's suffering from a particularly dark emotion.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] - Sora's Antiform is treated as this, brought out whenever he's suffering from a particularly dark emotion.

* [[Survival Mantra]]- {{spoiler|"Self defense... self defense... In the end, it was self defense...}}

* [[Tear Jerker]]- {{spoiler|Riku's death... Just... Riku's death...}}

* [[Tell Me About My Father]] - In Riku's dream, he remembers asking about his father's whereabouts as a child. His mother tells him his father [[From a Certain Point of View|died]]. {{spoiler|She lied.}}

* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]- Sephiroth pulls this on Cloud and the others when they arrive in the form of a holographic pre-recorded message.

* [[This Cannot Be]]- Kadaj, as an homage to the Tales Series, lets out a massive one when when he's about to be struck by an [[Memetic Mutation|IN-DIG-NAY-SHUN]] based spell.

* [[This Cannot Be!]]- Kadaj, as an homage to the Tales Series, lets out a massive one when when he's about to be struck by an [[Memetic Mutation|IN-DIG-NAY-SHUN]] based spell.

** {{spoiler|Riku utters the 'impossible' variation on this when Sora stabs him.}}

* [[This Is Sparta|This! Is! SPARTA!]] - Twice in Wonderland, both times in the quiet form, delivered by Riku and Vincent.

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* [[Troubled Fetal Position]] - Riku, in classic [[Heroic BSOD]] form, takes this position after discovering the [[Awful Truth]].

* [[Turn Out Like His Father]] - {{spoiler|This seems to be Rydia's motivation for having apparently lied to Riku about his origins.}}

* [[The Un Reveal]] - {{spoiler|"Because Kadaj and Yazoo are-"}}

* [[The Un-Reveal]] - {{spoiler|"Because Kadaj and Yazoo are-"}}

* [[Unstoppable Rage]] - {{spoiler|Sora, after Kairi's "death", goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] in Antiform. It takes Riku getting in the way and Kairi waking up to stop him from completely going nuts.}}

** [[spoiler: After tracking down Hojo, Vincent goes a little bit nuts on him...

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* [[Villain Ball]]- Grabbed FIRMLY by Sephiroth in the end, complete with [[Just Between You and Me]] and [[Pride]].

* [[Voice of the Legion]]- Sephiroth gains this after he ascends to godhood.

* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong]] - Vincent says this to be sarcastic just before they land on Notre Dame, and it turns out that {{spoiler|everything goes wrong.}}

* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]] - Vincent says this to be sarcastic just before they land on Notre Dame, and it turns out that {{spoiler|everything goes wrong.}}

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]] - {{spoiler|After being found by Sephiroth, Riku is referred to being chained to the wall in a position like someone being crucified.}} [[Fridge Logic|Think about that for a second.]] {{spoiler|The son of a would-be god is in a position like he's being crucified.}}

* [[What Measure Is a Non Cute]] - {{spoiler|Vincent shoots a helpless, mutated animal from Wonderland to 'put it out of its misery'.}}

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]] - {{spoiler|Vincent shoots a helpless, mutated animal from Wonderland to 'put it out of its misery'.}}

* [[What Measure Is a Non Human]]- {{spoiler|When the group comes across a clearly sentient failed Loz clone begging for help, Vincent [[Mercy Kill|shoots it]].}} This leads directly into...

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]- {{spoiler|When the group comes across a clearly sentient failed Loz clone begging for help, Vincent [[Mercy Kill|shoots it]].}} This leads directly into...

* [[~~What the Hell Hero|~~What the Hell, Hero?]]- This happens TWICE in Wonderland. The first time is {{spoiler|Vincent shooting a sentient failed experiment}}, the second is {{spoiler|Riku as he coldly says Hojo should die}}. Kairi calls them both on their actions.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]- This happens TWICE in Wonderland. The first time is {{spoiler|Vincent shooting a sentient failed experiment}}, the second is {{spoiler|Riku as he coldly says Hojo should die}}. Kairi calls them both on their actions.

* [[Well Excuse Me Princess]]- Riku uses this when Kairi pulls her [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.

* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]- Riku uses this when Kairi pulls her [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.

* [[Where I Was Born and Razed]]- {{spoiler|Riku [[Star Wars|has too much of his father in him]], and does this.}}

* [[Batman Gambit]] and [[Kansas City Shuffle]]- Sephiroth has been running a massive one from square one. {{spoiler|He only ever created or hired his minions [[Kansas City Shuffle|to serve as distractions for the heroes as he made whatever preparations he needed]] to in order to become a god, [[Batman Gambit|counting on their utter need to save people]] from distress and death to keep them busy.}}