Victory Pose: Difference between revisions

* At the end of the ''[[Metroid Prime|Prime]]'' games, ''[[Metroid]]'s'' Samus Aran tends to raise her [[Arm Cannon]] above her head like the victor of a wrestling match would raise his/her arm (putting her free hand on her hip is optional).

* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games have had these since the sprite days. Back then, the heroes would merely pump their fists, looking like they were running in place. As the technology progressed, the characters' poses gained variety, detail, and even sound, and in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', each character has a multitude of victory poses available after boss fights, depending on the type of weapon used or some little thing the character does independent of weapon.

** ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' is the first game in the series to give some characters different pose animations (most noticeable with Cid.)

** [[Lampshade Hanging]]: In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', while passing as a soldier, Cloud is commanded by a superior officer to come up with a special salute for the President. He offers his [[Victory Pose]]. It's particularly funny as the guards he's with [[Hero Worshipper|instantly declare it the coolest thing ever]] and spend the rest of the game practising it in the locker room.<br /><br />Once you reach the Submarine mission in the Underwater Mako Reactor, you meet them again and get a bit of dialogue and see them practice <s>their</s> Cloud's victory pose for the last time. Now you got two choices: Take them as "hostage" and let them live, or fight them to the death while Rufus' March is playing on the background, complete with in-battle dialogue. An odd mix of comedy and making the player appear a [[Complete Monster]].<br /><br />The game has a decent example of a specific nature of the victory pose: one from a busty female. After all, zooming in on Tifa as she leans back isn't exactly a subtle way of featuring her bust.<br /><br />The Victory Fanfare is available on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCN-a0NsNk youtube.]