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== The Espers (or Phantom Beasts) in ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'' are the same entities as the summons from nearly every other Final Fantasy game, and FFVI is their origin story. ==

** From now on, every time I read the words [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|Everyone Is Jesus In Purgatory]] I shall be mentally replacing it with Everyone Is A Human In Zanarkand.

== Bahamut is the [[Dragon Quest (Video Game)|Zenith Dragon/Divine Dragon]] and Shinryuu/Lord Dragon is the Grand Dragon. ==

The Square-Enix fusion fused the [[Crossover Cosmology]] as well. Zenith Bahamut has tried setting up up a society from time to time in different worlds; [[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|dragons]], [[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Eidolons]], [[Dragon Quest IV (Video Game)|Zenithians]], etc. He's a tad xenophobic, but ultimately a good guy. Lord Grand Dragon mostly tests heroes in the [[Bonus Dungeon]], but he did help Cid of the Lufaine in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''.

* Jossed by [[Word of God]], FFX takes place in the same universe as FFVII, but on another planet and at an earlier point in time, so earlier in fact, that the boy Shinra in X-2 is not just a [[Shout -Out]], but the ancestor of all humans on Gaia after the Cetra.

Cosmos is in fact the creator goddess in the fictional mythology of ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'', while Chaos is very much the god of the first twelve worlds. The crystals are key because they are required to create the thirteenth world, but this can only happen by destroying the previous one, being Ivalice of ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]''.

A statement by series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi confirms that the descendants of Shinra from Final Fantasy X-2 eventually developed space travel, left Spira, and colonized Gaia, the world of ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', becoming the ancestors of the humans who {{spoiler|supplanted the Cetra}}.

== All Final Fantasy games take place in ''[[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]'''s [[Stable Time Loop]]. ==

Each time the world is reset, the geography changes and 2000 years of history play out differently. The Four Fiends and the [[Big Bad]] are reincarnated in different forms, and the heroes never discover the time gate, instead destroying the latest incarnation of the Temple of Chaos and unwittingly dooming their continuity. This, naturally, puts The Final Fantasy [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|at the very end of the series]]. And turns the rest of the series into a [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] story.

However, between ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]] and ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', something went wrong. People who had the "magic gene" married each other, maybe even formed societies, and the gene spread like a cancer, becoming essential part of the people's DNA. This allowed anyone to train themselves as mages/summoners/etc if they wanted to do so.

== Chocobos evolved from [[Super Mario Bros.|Yoshies.]] ==

As shown in the ending of ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'', he's the Leading Man, and he can never die. This is explains why he's in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics]]'', thousands of years into the future, because he ''never'' died. He even mentions that he misses Airships, since that era is without them. At the end of the game, Ramza and everybody might have died, but Balthier definitely lived. Fran's immortal too, but she's hiding someplace. A corollary of this is a proof that Vaan is actually imaginary since he shows up in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics a 2]]'', which takes place in a dream storybook Ivalice.

* Except that [[Word of God]] says ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics a 2]]'' takes place in the real (real as a fictional video game setting can be) Ivalice.

* [[Artifact Title]] because the original game was supposed to be Hironobu Sakaguchi's last game. It could also refer to the fact that the Warriors of Light in the first game end a [[Stable Time Loop]], making it the ''final'' iteration of a ''fantasy.'' This could, by extension, be applied to some of the other games. ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'' also features a [[Stable Time Loop]] (sort of) and ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'' features the ''final'' pilgrimage to defeat Sin.

Late in Pern's history, medical and military science achieved "soft" SF levels; [[Star Trek (Franchise)|phasers, medical tricorders, etc.]] The only caveat was that the correct device needed be used for the correct ailment; a detoxifier wouldn't close a wound, neither would an ocular surgical laser purge poison, or an energy-suture heal blindness. Military robots were constructed, though primarily used commercially as security forces, with only a select few being equipped with superpowered weapons. Power sources were all {{Stargate [[ZP Ms]].}} The Pernian human race launched a massive military satellite, codenamed "Sky Fortress", to do away with this "thread" bullshit once and for all. [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|They destroyed the Red Star,]] [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu|resulting in the unholy mother of all Threadfalls.]] Dragons and humans both were subsequently driven to near-extinction. In-development bioweapons, part of "Project Eidolon", broke free, some of them truly horrific in nature, such as "Lich", a project to extend human lifespan with nanotechnology that instead ended in [[Body Horror]]. The robots became self-aware, concealing their nature from other creatures with dark robes and ridiculous hats. Because of the highly destructive and mysterious nature of their equipment, and their dark robes, they became known as "Black Wizards". A cult also sprung up around the healing tech; the "priests" became known as "White Wizards". Later on, some humans learned how to operate equipment from defunct Black Wizards, furthering the confusion. In any case, this is the reason spells are bought the way they are. The reason some individuals, IE Terra or most of the FF4 cast, can cast spells naturally is due to descent from an Esper or Eidolon.

Like ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' theory that every game in the franchise is the same story being retold by a different person, there is one legend of a group of heroes going on a quest to save the world from a great evil, probably involving crystals and chocobos and moogles etc., passed down through the ages, adapted and distilled and so on.

* ''[[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]'' is the most stripped-down, bare-bones version of the story, probably its initial inception in medieval times or a summary on [[The Other Wiki|Wikipedia.]]

* ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' is told circa the 80's, between schoolkids or written down in novel form.

One species, featured heavily in ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'', have a more detailed, animalistic face and clothing and are the base species of Moogle/moguri. The more cartoonish, teddy-bear-faced mogs/moogles/Moguri with no clothes (easily seen in [[Kingdom Hearts]]) are related or arose by parallel evolution, and should more properly be called [[Incredibly Lame Pun|naked mole-bats]].

== [[Final Fantasy V (Video Game)|Gilgamesh]] is secretly [[Futurama|Bender]] in disguise, with some amnesia. ==

* First of all, this is [[Actor Allusion|Self-explanatory]] since his appearance in ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'', but [[John Dimaggio]]'s absence as of [[Final Fantasy Dissidia]] perplexes me. Now, onto business - the main reason he's here in the first place because [[Ex Death]] was the one to summon him first as an indestructible henchman. One bump in the continuum later, Bender loses his memories on his way, and [[Ex Death]] dubs him something or other. (To be continued)