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* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' (both versions) Heidegger intends this to be the final step of an [[Engineered Heroics]] plan involving his attempts to crush Avalanche. First, he purposely lowers the security in the Sector 5 Reactor right before Cloud, Tifa, and Barret begin their infiltration, all while recording it for the press (which he naturally has complete control of) to broadcast after editing to demonize the heroes as much as possible. This is intended to end with him sending an Aircrusher - an incredibly powerful roboticrobot - to crush them in a televised [[Curb Stomp Battle]]. Unfortunately for him, the Aircrushers are not ready to deploy when he unveils this "dramatic" finale, his subordinate telling him - too late - that the "estimates were too optimistic", and has to resort to delaying the heroes with a swarm of ordinary mooks, which are defeated easily, and when the Aircrusher is finally deployed (Cloud and the others having used this unintended warning to weaken it by hacking several consoles) it is defeated, and Heidegger's broadcast ends with him and Shinra utterly humiliated.