History Characters / FinalFantasyVIIRemakeShinraInc

* NumberTwo: He's the adjutant to the commander, meaning it's his job to be her right-hand man and help her lead the Seventh Infantry.

* BlackSheep: One trooper mentions that, after the parade incident, the Seventh Infantry has been treated badly by their colleagues due to suspicion they've been "fraternizing with the enemy" (Avalanche), which is why no one would agree to give them reinforcements to deal with the Hell Rider II.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Unlike the majority of the troops stationed in Junon, the Seventh is quite concerned about civilian casualties when a bioweapon is let loose from an underwater research facility.

* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: Somehow, the troopers of the Seventh managed to corner Hell Rider II, a MiniBoss of a bioweapon, with little more than their small arms. That takes guts and more...

* TokenGoodTeammate: Downplayed, as he is not up there with Reeve in morality. He is in on Shinra's atrocities and thinks Aerith getting tortured is funny, but he does not seem to directly part take in said evil actions. He mostly just enjoys luxuries and is relegated to menial labor. He even has a few *AffablyEvil qualities and only goes after Cloud after a long list of humiliations. Its worth noting that, even fighting Cloud's party, he is effectively fighting wanted terrorists from his perspective (of course its not that simple and Shinra is evil but at least some of Clouds party has committed acts of terrorism and even Yuffle attempted to assassinate his boss. Though non of this is really is motivation)

-->'''Palmer:'''... Well, who could blame them? They fought against the republic in the name of freemdom... but when the smoke finally cleared, they found themselves under the heel of a new oppressor. Why, I'd be more surprised if they didn't hate us!

* StupidEvil: Hand-in-hand with IncompetenceInc, Shinra's higher ups are so pointlessly cruel and power-hungry that it's almost self-sabotaging. Aside from Reeve (and Palmer, who doesn't do anything anyway), Shinra's board of executives treat their employees like dirt, they're afraid they may lose their jobs (or worse) over any petty or perceived sleight, and even if they do their jobs competently, they'll get no recognition for it and more likely be ignored. They're also apathetic about the damage they do to their own city in their fight with Avalanche because they [[spoiler:plan to abandon Midgar to build ''Neo Midgar'' in the Promised Land, even though they don't know if it actually exists]]. And they callously destroy a sector of their own city out of petty spite against Avalanche despite it not benefiting them in the slightest and as Cloud points out, it would cost them a fortune to rebuild. In ''Rebirth'', following Rufus Shinra becoming the new president, he calls out the executives on this behavior and questions why they never spoke up against his father for his own reckless and short-sighted behaviors.

** Would-be fascist dictator he may be, but in ''Rebirth'' he calls the Shinra board of directors out on not having the guts to stand up to his father, especially when it came to his more ruthless actions like destroying Sector 7.

* ChildSoldiers: People like Cloud and Zach were allowed to join their armed forces at a young age. Cloud was stated to be about 13 or 14 when he joined as a foot soldier. Granted, its an evil corporation, so Shinra is likely not concerned with the ethics of using child soldiers.

* ChildSoldiers: Implied. Its not specifically addressed but it is shown that most of its members is relatively young, with Zach and Sepiroth implicitly being teenagers by the time they first joined. Roche does not seem very old either yet he seems to hold a rank in the army; infact most SOLDIERS seen seem to be young adults. Its mentioned by President Shinra that SOLDIERS die young due to cellular degradation from their experiments, which may be part of why recruits join at a young age, as their life spans are short. That and considering Shinra is an evil corporation, it's unlikely the company is concerned about the ethics of using teenagers as soldiers(though its unlikely anyone younger than their teens at least could join.)

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Weiss is an elite member of SOLDIER and an arrogant warrior, as emphasized by his snow-white hair.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: The harsh training of the Turks gives them great physical conditioning that rivals the actual members of SOLDIER. Elena is able to jump from a damaged helicopter onto the party's buggy with no injury, Rude blocks direct strikes from Cloud's massive Buster Sword, and Reno is fast enough to dodge around Cloud despite him routinely parrying bullets. Tseng and Rude also have KiManipulation abilities and Reno electrical abilities with no clear origin, presumably products of their training or very well-concealed equipment.

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* NotSoStoic: The only time she'll break her stoic facade is if she wins the commendation at the parade, where she'll drop the stoic attitude and cheerily wave to the crowd, something even the reporter notes is odd from her.

* ResignationsNotAccepted: Due to the nature of their job they're privy to quite a few company secrets, so any Turk that resigns is considered a security risk.

-->'''Barret''': (after seeing the destruction that the reactor 1 explosion caused) Y'all gotta look at the bigger picture here. Nothing worth fighting for was ever won without sacrifice.
--> '''Tseng''': (after noticing that Tseng and Rude were feeling guilty about the destruction of sector 7) Had we refused, someone else would've completed the task. We have spared that someone the burden of a guilty conscience.(...) After everything we've taken from the planet, we were due to give something back.

* {{Foil}}: To Barret. While Barret is the leader of an Avalanche faction willing to carry out terrorist attacks to save the planet, including accepting collateral damage to do so, Tseng is the leader of the Turks, a covert ops unit that carries out vile acts under the orders of Shinra Inc.and they both use NecessarilyEvil's rhetoric to justify what they did to assuage their companions' guilt, which makes them so much more alike than they'd like to admit.

* MachiavelliWasWrong: Played with quite a bit. While his original game incarnation famously said he wanted to rule the world with fear, this version clearly wants to be loved and adored by the people he now rules over [[ContrastingSequelCharacter in stark contrast his father]]. If anything, in the ''Remake'' continuity, father and son's outlooks appear to be transposed, with President Shinra ruling over the world with an iron fist and no quarter for his adversaries. While Rufus, as seen in ''Rebirth'' spends considerable capital on pagentry designed to ingratiate himself to the public, and is even willing to entertain letting the party do as they please, provided they stay out of Shinra's way. He even crashes Dio's tournament at the Gold Saucer almost purely to put on a show and wow the crowd in addition to squaring up with Cloud. He's still a ruthless cut-throat bastard, however, but it's clear that he cares a lot what other people think of him.

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* ISeeThemToo: Rufus is so far the only non-party member aside from Sephiroth [[spoiler: and as of ''Rebirth'', Scarlet and Cissnei,]] who has been able to see the Arbiters of Fate. How this is possible and what it means are current unknown.

* VillainHasAPoint: When Barret holds Rude and Elena hostage in chapter 3 of ''Rebirth'' in order to take them to account for the fall of Sector 7 Tseng says that if the party wants to blame someone it should be themselves for their own actions. Since technically, Barret's group fired the first shot by bombing the reactors, Shinra simply showed up with a bigger gun, and the Turks are only guilty of carrying out the order.

VillainHasAPoint: When Barret holds Rude and Elena hostage in chapter 3 of ''Rebirth'' in order to take them to account for the fall of Sector 7 Tseng says that if the party wants to blame someone it should be themselves for their own actions. Since technically, Barret's group fired the first shot by bombing the reactors, Shinra simply showed up with a bigger gun, and the Turks are only guilty of carrying out the order.

* NeverMyFault: When Barret holds Rude and Elena hostage in chapter 3 of ''Rebirth'' in order to take them to account for the fall of Sector 7 Tseng says that if the party wants to blame someone it should be themselves for their own actions. This argument doesn't exactly hold water since Shinra deliberately escalated the situation with Avalanche by helping to blow up the Reactors and the fall of the Sector 7 plate was orchestrated by President Shinra to stir anti-Wutai sentiment around Midgar.

* TaughtByExperience: Her battle in Gongaga shows how she learned from her encounter with Yuffie and Sonon. First, she softens up the party wit some of Hojo's experiments before attacking with the Crimson Mare mk II. Secondly, the new mech has a flight pack to shore up the original's speed issues and allows her to make the most use of their remote functions to attack independently. Third, she has a personal rocket launcher to fight without the mech's equipment. All this makes her such a threat the entire party has to fight together against her and the Shinra forces to get a win.

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* SignatureHeadgear: Loyal Little Stamp is never seen without his helmet. The variants seen across ''Rebirth'' have their own pieces of headwear.

* BadassInANiceSuit: The iconic Turk uniform is a sharp black suit, and they carry on their assignments dressed like that.

* StupidEvil: Hand-in-hand with IncompetenceInc, Shinra's higher ups are so pointlessly cruel and power-hungry that it's almost self-sabotaging. Aside from Reeve (and Palmer, who doesn't do anything anyway), Shinra's board of executives treat their employees like dirt, they're afraid they may lose their jobs (or worse) over any petty or perceived sleight, and even if they do their jobs competently, they'll get no recognition for it and more likely be ignored. They're also apathetic about the damage they do to their own city in their fight with Avalanche because they [[spoiler:plan to abandon Midgar to build ''Neo Midgar'' in the Promised Land, even though they don't know if it actually exists]]. In ''Rebirth'', following Rufus Shinra becoming the new president, he calls out the executives on this behavior and questions why they never spoke up against his father for his own reckless and short-sighted behaviors.