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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': The Warring Triad, who willingly turned themselves to stone, may also be examples of this. Kefka's ability to communicate with them (and even encourage them to [[spoiler:attack Gestahl]]) certainly proves they're still conscious.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': After [[spoiler:being hurled into the Lifestream by Cloud after the Nibelheim Incident]], Sephiroth spends FIVE YEARS immobile at the Northern Creater, absorbing the knowledge of countless dead & gradually learning how to manipulate Jenova. Is it any surprise that he's a little bit ticked off at his spiky-headed nemesis? That's not even getting into the fact that he could only maintain his individuality by focusing on a few aspects of his personality and ditching the rest. In the end, the only thing left in Sephiroth's mind that wasn't related to Jenova's imperative to kill everything on the Planet and suck it dry of lifeforce was his hatred of the lowly grunt that nearly killed him.
*** Additionally, Seto's mind and awareness are implied to be intact given that he sheds tears after Nanaki's speech. Despite being turned to stone.
*** Vincent Valentine, after years of experimentation, had in fact become immortal. It doesn't help the fact that most of his life was filled with misery of losing his love, Lucrecia, and the turmoil of her giving birth to Sephiroth, among other things. Though Word of God states that in the far future, while all their friends had passed away, Red XIII has a very long lifespan, so Vincent visits him once a year to ease his friend's fear of being alone.
** Adel of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' was locked into a technological "tomb" and launched into orbit to keep her sorceress powers sealed, and spent seventeen years this way before being freed by [[BigBad Ultimecia]] to use as a vessel. Rinoa almost undergoes the same process voluntarily, but Squall talks her out of it.
*** Just to top up your nightmare fuel tank, remember that scene where Rinoa and the [=SeeDs=] attempt to get into the TV station in Timber, and pass a big screen showing red static? Rinoa says it's caused by radio interference. If you look closely, though, it says, "bringmebackthereiamalivehereiwillneverletyouforgetaboutme" over and over again. And what, do you remember, caused the interference? ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPwPuYLBP7A&t=7m33s I am alive here...]]''
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', the only known way to defeat Sin is for a summoner and his guardian to perform the Final Summoning. [[spoiler:The guardian (a close relative or friend to the summoner) is transformed into the Final Aeon. What the summoners and guardians don't know is that, once the Final Aeon "destroys" Sin, he is then possessed by the spirit within (known as Yu Yevon) and transformed into a ''new'' Sin. The guardian remains conscious of the carnage Yu Yevon is causing using his body but is helpless and out of his control, trapped inside Sin's shell until a new Final Aeon takes their place. The summoner at least gets a quick death by the psychic blast when Yu Yevon possesses the Final Aeon.]]
*** Similarly, each Aeon represents the spirit of a person who willingly sacrificed their lives to benefit a summoner. [[spoiler:We learn later that the body and mind of that person are encased in crystal, potentially forever.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has the Cie'th Stones. In the game's story, humans live alongside strange and powerful beings, the fal'Cie. Occasionally, a fal'Cie will choose someone to perform an important task, a "Focus"; these chosen humans are known as "l'Cie", and are branded with a mark that counts down the time they have remaining to complete their Focus. If a l'Cie fails to complete their Focus in time, they are transformed into horrific shambling monsters, Cie'th. Being turned into a Cie'th is horrifying enough and involves stripping an individual of their five senses, plunging them into black flames and forcing them wander in eternal darkness, their words turning into a song of agony, their screams a curse of death, and so they remain until someone merciful enough destroys their soul... but if a Cie'th is left to wander for many years, they are eventually consumed by despair and become Cie'th Stones, living statues whose only thoughts are regret at failing to complete their Focus and no hope of release as Cie'th Stones, unlike Cie'ths, are completely harmless.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', [[spoiler: Ardbert is prepared to perform a HeroicSacrifice with his friends to save his world from the all-consuming light. Ardbert and his friends are already dead, so they sacrifice their souls to aid Minfilia in stemming the flood of light. She stops Ardbert from sacrificing himself, saying that he has a bigger role to play and his time to play said the role will come. For the next one hundred years, Ardbert wandered about as a ghost and was unable to interact with anyone since no one could see or hear him. He went insane from effectively being [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolated]] and was nothing more than an anguished spirit, but his mind became sharp again when he runs into the player character.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesRingOfFates'', this is the final fate of [[spoiler:Galdes. He's doomed to world-jump forever to undo his defeat, but there's no world ''anywhere'' that Yuri and co don't beat him. The last thing you hear of him is a mental "Help me..."]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': The Warring Triad, who willingly turned themselves to stone, may also be examples of this. Kefka's ability to communicate with them (and even encourage them to [[spoiler:attack Gestahl]]) certainly proves they're still conscious.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': After [[spoiler:being hurled into the Lifestream by Cloud after the Nibelheim Incident]], Sephiroth spends FIVE YEARS immobile at the Northern Creater, absorbing the knowledge of countless dead & gradually learning how to manipulate Jenova. Is it any surprise that he's a little bit ticked off at his spiky-headed nemesis? That's not even getting into the fact that he could only maintain his individuality by focusing on a few aspects of his personality and ditching the rest. In the end, the only thing left in Sephiroth's mind that wasn't related to Jenova's imperative to kill everything on the Planet and suck it dry of lifeforce was his hatred of the lowly grunt that nearly killed him.
*** Additionally, Seto's mind and awareness are implied to be intact given that he sheds tears after Nanaki's speech. Despite being turned to stone.
*** Vincent Valentine, after years of experimentation, had in fact become immortal. It doesn't help the fact that most of his life was filled with misery of losing his love, Lucrecia, and the turmoil of her giving birth to Sephiroth, among other things. Though Word of God states that in the far future, while all their friends had passed away, Red XIII has a very long lifespan, so Vincent visits him once a year to ease his friend's fear of being alone.
** Adel of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' was locked into a technological "tomb" and launched into orbit to keep her sorceress powers sealed, and spent seventeen years this way before being freed by [[BigBad Ultimecia]] to use as a vessel. Rinoa almost undergoes the same process voluntarily, but Squall talks her out of it.
*** Just to top up your nightmare fuel tank, remember that scene where Rinoa and the [=SeeDs=] attempt to get into the TV station in Timber, and pass a big screen showing red static? Rinoa says it's caused by radio interference. If you look closely, though, it says, "bringmebackthereiamalivehereiwillneverletyouforgetaboutme" over and over again. And what, do you remember, caused the interference? ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPwPuYLBP7A&t=7m33s I am alive here...]]''
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', the only known way to defeat Sin is for a summoner and his guardian to perform the Final Summoning. [[spoiler:The guardian (a close relative or friend to the summoner) is transformed into the Final Aeon. What the summoners and guardians don't know is that, once the Final Aeon "destroys" Sin, he is then possessed by the spirit within (known as Yu Yevon) and transformed into a ''new'' Sin. The guardian remains conscious of the carnage Yu Yevon is causing using his body but is helpless and out of his control, trapped inside Sin's shell until a new Final Aeon takes their place. The summoner at least gets a quick death by the psychic blast when Yu Yevon possesses the Final Aeon.]]
*** Similarly, each Aeon represents the spirit of a person who willingly sacrificed their lives to benefit a summoner. [[spoiler:We learn later that the body and mind of that person are encased in crystal, potentially forever.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has the Cie'th Stones. In the game's story, humans live alongside strange and powerful beings, the fal'Cie. Occasionally, a fal'Cie will choose someone to perform an important task, a "Focus"; these chosen humans are known as "l'Cie", and are branded with a mark that counts down the time they have remaining to complete their Focus. If a l'Cie fails to complete their Focus in time, they are transformed into horrific shambling monsters, Cie'th. Being turned into a Cie'th is horrifying enough and involves stripping an individual of their five senses, plunging them into black flames and forcing them wander in eternal darkness, their words turning into a song of agony, their screams a curse of death, and so they remain until someone merciful enough destroys their soul... but if a Cie'th is left to wander for many years, they are eventually consumed by despair and become Cie'th Stones, living statues whose only thoughts are regret at failing to complete their Focus and no hope of release as Cie'th Stones, unlike Cie'ths, are completely harmless.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', [[spoiler: Ardbert is prepared to perform a HeroicSacrifice with his friends to save his world from the all-consuming light. Ardbert and his friends are already dead, so they sacrifice their souls to aid Minfilia in stemming the flood of light. She stops Ardbert from sacrificing himself, saying that he has a bigger role to play and his time to play said the role will come. For the next one hundred years, Ardbert wandered about as a ghost and was unable to interact with anyone since no one could see or hear him. He went insane from effectively being [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolated]] and was nothing more than an anguished spirit, but his mind became sharp again when he runs into the player character.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesRingOfFates'', this is the final fate of [[spoiler:Galdes. He's doomed to world-jump forever to undo his defeat, but there's no world ''anywhere'' that Yuri and co don't beat him. The last thing you hear of him is a mental "Help me..."]]
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*** Vincent Valentine, on the rare occasions he does speak, will often berate himself over his sins. Near the end of the original game he ponders if killing Sephiroth can possible atone for having been a bystander to the terrible events that created him.
** Auron from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' might possibly fit this trope. His "sin"? [[spoiler:Helpless to see his two friends, Braska and Jecht, sacrifice their life and humanity, respectively, to (temporarily) defeat Sin and aiding this cause by his deeds, even if he opposed the idea all the way up to the bitter end]].
** Auron from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' might possibly fit this trope. His "sin"? [[spoiler:Helpless to see his two friends, Braska and Jecht, sacrifice their life and humanity, respectively, to (temporarily) defeat Sin and aiding this cause by his deeds, even if he opposed the idea all the way up to the bitter end]].
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*** Vincent Valentine, on the rare occasions he does speak, will often berate himself over his sins. Near the end of the original game game, he ponders if killing Sephiroth can possible possibly atone for having been a bystander to the terrible events that created him.
** Auron from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' might possibly fit this trope. His "sin"? [[spoiler:Helpless to see his two friends, Braska and Jecht, sacrifice their life and humanity, respectively, to (temporarily) defeat Sin andaiding aid this cause by his deeds, even if he opposed the idea all the way up to the bitter end]].
** Auron from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' might possibly fit this trope. His "sin"? [[spoiler:Helpless to see his two friends, Braska and Jecht, sacrifice their life and humanity, respectively, to (temporarily) defeat Sin and
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* TheAtoner:
** Dark Knight Cecil from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' becomes an Atoner after he is stripped of his command by the King of Baron for questioning his orders to steal the Crystal of Water from Mysidia. After being tricked into destroying the Mist Village (home of summoners), Cecil defects. His journey eventually leads him back to Mysidia, where the village elder reminds him that he has to go to Mt. Ordeals to become a Paladin to complete the change. *** Later, Dragoon Kain seeks atonement for his service to Golbez. And in the sequel, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'', [[spoiler: Golbez ''and'' Kain. Though it can turn into RedemptionEqualsDeath for Golbez]].
** Celes Chere, from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', a former General of the Empire that joins the Returners, then becomes the first hope in defeating Kefka after the Apocolypse.
*** While never a completely evil character, she did commit some atrocities like burning Maranda.
*** And was complicit in Terra's enslavement, although the game doesn't really touch on this much, apart from her recognizing Terra when they meet again in Narshe.
*** [[spoiler:Shadow]] could also be interpreted as this trope, as he [[spoiler: either dies in the world of ruin protecting the party from Kefka or stays around to help the group (And watch over Relm). Shadow seems to hate himself both for leaving his friend to die, as well as for abandoning Relm and her mother. In the end, ''RedemptionEqualsDeath'', as Shadow remains in Kefka's tower to die while telling his dead friend that he's done running]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Rufus Shinra, after he [[spoiler:survives the events in the game]]. Although never directly mentioned again, he is vaguely referenced to be donating to respectable causes for restoring the planet...after nearly destroying it.
*** Reeve Tuseti also qualifies, although he was not nearly as villainous as the rest of Shinra Electric Company's ensemble cast; he's largely just feeling guilty that he had been part of the group, and that things happened on his watch.
*** Vincent Valentine, on the rare occasions he does speak, will often berate himself over his sins. Near the end of the original game he ponders if killing Sephiroth can possible atone for having been a bystander to the terrible events that created him.
** Auron from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' might possibly fit this trope. His "sin"? [[spoiler:Helpless to see his two friends, Braska and Jecht, sacrifice their life and humanity, respectively, to (temporarily) defeat Sin and aiding this cause by his deeds, even if he opposed the idea all the way up to the bitter end]].
** Reddas in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' [[spoiler: dedicates his life to preventing the use of Nethicite after he destroyed the city of Nabudis using the Midlight Shard during his career as a Judge Magister]].
** Dark Knight Cecil from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' becomes an Atoner after he is stripped of his command by the King of Baron for questioning his orders to steal the Crystal of Water from Mysidia. After being tricked into destroying the Mist Village (home of summoners), Cecil defects. His journey eventually leads him back to Mysidia, where the village elder reminds him that he has to go to Mt. Ordeals to become a Paladin to complete the change. *** Later, Dragoon Kain seeks atonement for his service to Golbez. And in the sequel, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'', [[spoiler: Golbez ''and'' Kain. Though it can turn into RedemptionEqualsDeath for Golbez]].
** Celes Chere, from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', a former General of the Empire that joins the Returners, then becomes the first hope in defeating Kefka after the Apocolypse.
*** While never a completely evil character, she did commit some atrocities like burning Maranda.
*** And was complicit in Terra's enslavement, although the game doesn't really touch on this much, apart from her recognizing Terra when they meet again in Narshe.
*** [[spoiler:Shadow]] could also be interpreted as this trope, as he [[spoiler: either dies in the world of ruin protecting the party from Kefka or stays around to help the group (And watch over Relm). Shadow seems to hate himself both for leaving his friend to die, as well as for abandoning Relm and her mother. In the end, ''RedemptionEqualsDeath'', as Shadow remains in Kefka's tower to die while telling his dead friend that he's done running]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Rufus Shinra, after he [[spoiler:survives the events in the game]]. Although never directly mentioned again, he is vaguely referenced to be donating to respectable causes for restoring the planet...after nearly destroying it.
*** Reeve Tuseti also qualifies, although he was not nearly as villainous as the rest of Shinra Electric Company's ensemble cast; he's largely just feeling guilty that he had been part of the group, and that things happened on his watch.
*** Vincent Valentine, on the rare occasions he does speak, will often berate himself over his sins. Near the end of the original game he ponders if killing Sephiroth can possible atone for having been a bystander to the terrible events that created him.
** Auron from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' might possibly fit this trope. His "sin"? [[spoiler:Helpless to see his two friends, Braska and Jecht, sacrifice their life and humanity, respectively, to (temporarily) defeat Sin and aiding this cause by his deeds, even if he opposed the idea all the way up to the bitter end]].
** Reddas in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' [[spoiler: dedicates his life to preventing the use of Nethicite after he destroyed the city of Nabudis using the Midlight Shard during his career as a Judge Magister]].
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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', two guards are gleefully beating [[spoiler:Celes]] and jeering over the treatment she's to receive the following day when [[spoiler:Locke]] shows in to rescue her in South Figaro.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Seifer does this to Squall in D-District Prison.
** In ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' have [[spoiler:Bhunivelze to Hope. In order to make Hope an acceptable vessel, he reverts him to his childhood form and tortures him for 169 years.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', two guards are gleefully beating [[spoiler:Celes]] and jeering over the treatment she's to receive the following day when [[spoiler:Locke]] shows in to rescue her in South Figaro.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Seifer does this to Squall in D-District Prison.
** In ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' have [[spoiler:Bhunivelze to Hope. In order to make Hope an acceptable vessel, he reverts him to his childhood form and tortures him for 169 years.]]
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* ForcedToWatch:
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', [[spoiler:Orphan forces Fang to watch him torture Vanille in order to get her to transform into Ragnarok and kill him. Fang ends up transforming into an incomplete Ragnarok but turns back into a human before she can kill Orphan. Then Orphan proceeds to torture Fang while Vanille watches. Who knows what would've happened if Lightning and co didn't pull a BigDamnHero moment.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'': Delita witnessed the [[spoiler:death of his sister Tietra]] at hands of [[spoiler:Argath]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', [[spoiler:Orphan forces Fang to watch him torture Vanille in order to get her to transform into Ragnarok and kill him. Fang ends up transforming into an incomplete Ragnarok but turns back into a human before she can kill Orphan. Then Orphan proceeds to torture Fang while Vanille watches. Who knows what would've happened if Lightning and co didn't pull a BigDamnHero moment.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'': Delita witnessed the [[spoiler:death of his sister Tietra]] at hands of [[spoiler:Argath]].
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* ChildSoldiers:
** Precociously Talented Type:
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', no one in the game seems to consider the idea of a 14-year-old Cloud Strife joining the Shinra Army unusual (Zack Fair also joined in at a similarly young age). And then there are people like Sephiroth, Shelke, and Cissnei who started their fighting careers as mere children, although not through any choice of their own.
*** The [=SeeD=] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' functions as a highly regarded military academy-type institution and many students enter voluntarily. Students ''are'' enrolled before puberty, but typically aren't taught in combat until their teens, and don't see actual combat outside of the training room until their graduation. Upon graduation, the [=SeeD=] sometimes also work side jobs in policing duties and receive a regular salary. The in-game encyclopedia outright states that any Garden student who doesn't graduate by the age of twenty is discharged from the school. Also, the underlying function of the [=SeeD=] is to [[spoiler: be prepared to defend the world against [[BigBad an imprisoned evil sorcerer]]]]. However, see the below category to see the flip side of this.
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', we have Eiko, a WhiteMage girl who can use SummonMagic. She happens to be 6-years-old and is the SoleSurvivor of her tribe, apart from a bunch of Moogles, who keep her company. She is also WiseBeyondHerYears and not only understands the complexity of the world-threatening conflict when Zidane and his friends meet her but willingly joins them to SaveTheWorld. The rest of the cast, while not nearly as young as Eiko, are also mostly teenagers and overall ''Final Fantasy IX'' has the youngest cast on average of any main game in the series.
** Just Plain Tragic Type:
*** Since Celes Chere from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has the rank of general at age of 18, it is safe to say that this trope applies to her.
*** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' is a {{deconstruction}} of this trope. Despite being rather quirky, all of the protagonists except one are members of an elite fighting force trained from the age of 5, and also have their childhood memories erased by the special equipment they use in combat. Early on, it's made quite clear that inexperience and youthfulness significantly screw up their jobs and lives. [[spoiler:Seifer breaks the commander's orders and later betrays everybody out of pure ego; Quistis suddenly feels sorry for yelling at Rinoa and abandons her post; Irvine suddenly becomes doubtful of his sniper skill (he's actually more caught up over the idea of assassinating his adoptive mother)]]; Selphie breaks down crying from the destruction of her old school; and Squall, while the most professional, is pretty much the TroubledButCute trope incarnated. There's also Zell, who is easily set off by being insulted and who often has trouble keeping his mouth shut, letting key info slip.
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' the PowerCrystal of the Fiefdom of Rubrum only grants the power of magic to the young and as the population ages, their skill with magic wanes. The protagonists are teenage students of a combination WizardingSchool and MilitaryAcademy that is drafted to fight in the war.
*** In ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia Final Fantasy 012: Duodecim]]'', [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Vaan]], [[MythologyGag possibly in reference to the orphaned friends he had in his own youth in the slums of Rabanastre]], views the fact that the young [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII Onion Knight]] is also part of the Conflict of the Gods as being a tragedy (despite the fact that the latter is very capable of holding his own, to the point that everyone else on the team ignores his age and sees him as a worthy peer), and so ends up inadvertently patronizing him for his youth. Onion Knight desperately wishes that Vaan would treat him as someone worthy of respect until he realizes that it ''is'' Vaan's way of doing just that: Vaan never tries to stop him from fighting, after all.
** Precociously Talented Type:
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', no one in the game seems to consider the idea of a 14-year-old Cloud Strife joining the Shinra Army unusual (Zack Fair also joined in at a similarly young age). And then there are people like Sephiroth, Shelke, and Cissnei who started their fighting careers as mere children, although not through any choice of their own.
*** The [=SeeD=] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' functions as a highly regarded military academy-type institution and many students enter voluntarily. Students ''are'' enrolled before puberty, but typically aren't taught in combat until their teens, and don't see actual combat outside of the training room until their graduation. Upon graduation, the [=SeeD=] sometimes also work side jobs in policing duties and receive a regular salary. The in-game encyclopedia outright states that any Garden student who doesn't graduate by the age of twenty is discharged from the school. Also, the underlying function of the [=SeeD=] is to [[spoiler: be prepared to defend the world against [[BigBad an imprisoned evil sorcerer]]]]. However, see the below category to see the flip side of this.
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', we have Eiko, a WhiteMage girl who can use SummonMagic. She happens to be 6-years-old and is the SoleSurvivor of her tribe, apart from a bunch of Moogles, who keep her company. She is also WiseBeyondHerYears and not only understands the complexity of the world-threatening conflict when Zidane and his friends meet her but willingly joins them to SaveTheWorld. The rest of the cast, while not nearly as young as Eiko, are also mostly teenagers and overall ''Final Fantasy IX'' has the youngest cast on average of any main game in the series.
** Just Plain Tragic Type:
*** Since Celes Chere from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has the rank of general at age of 18, it is safe to say that this trope applies to her.
*** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' is a {{deconstruction}} of this trope. Despite being rather quirky, all of the protagonists except one are members of an elite fighting force trained from the age of 5, and also have their childhood memories erased by the special equipment they use in combat. Early on, it's made quite clear that inexperience and youthfulness significantly screw up their jobs and lives. [[spoiler:Seifer breaks the commander's orders and later betrays everybody out of pure ego; Quistis suddenly feels sorry for yelling at Rinoa and abandons her post; Irvine suddenly becomes doubtful of his sniper skill (he's actually more caught up over the idea of assassinating his adoptive mother)]]; Selphie breaks down crying from the destruction of her old school; and Squall, while the most professional, is pretty much the TroubledButCute trope incarnated. There's also Zell, who is easily set off by being insulted and who often has trouble keeping his mouth shut, letting key info slip.
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' the PowerCrystal of the Fiefdom of Rubrum only grants the power of magic to the young and as the population ages, their skill with magic wanes. The protagonists are teenage students of a combination WizardingSchool and MilitaryAcademy that is drafted to fight in the war.
*** In ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia Final Fantasy 012: Duodecim]]'', [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Vaan]], [[MythologyGag possibly in reference to the orphaned friends he had in his own youth in the slums of Rabanastre]], views the fact that the young [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII Onion Knight]] is also part of the Conflict of the Gods as being a tragedy (despite the fact that the latter is very capable of holding his own, to the point that everyone else on the team ignores his age and sees him as a worthy peer), and so ends up inadvertently patronizing him for his youth. Onion Knight desperately wishes that Vaan would treat him as someone worthy of respect until he realizes that it ''is'' Vaan's way of doing just that: Vaan never tries to stop him from fighting, after all.
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* Tykebomb:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has both Celes and Terra. Justified in Celes' case, as the Magitek infusion process is said to be incredibly dangerous and painful when used on an adult. The last one they tried it on was [[MonsterClown Kefka]], [[FreakOut and]] that [[OmnicidalManiac didn't]] [[DeityOfHumanOrigin turn]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom out]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt well]]. Terra herself was captured as an infant and raised as a tykebomb due to her [[HalfHumanHybrid natural gifts]].
** ''Franchise/CompilationOfFinalFantasyVII'':
*** Sephiroth from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. [[spoiler: He was engineered by [[MegaCorp Shinra]] scientists to be the perfect soldier, implanted in the womb with alien DNA to endow him with superhuman strength and intelligence. The procedure killed his mother in childbirth, though she remained NotQuiteDead. He was then raised by his "surrogate" father (who never told him they were actually related) and grew up to be one of the world's most famed war heroes... until he discovered (most of) his secret origins, went AxCrazy, and decided to destroy the planet and [[AGodAmI become a god]] in the process. He damn near succeeded.]]
*** Sephiroth's remnant, Kadaj, also qualifies from ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''. [[spoiler:After Sephiroth's defeat, he wills this guy (and two others) into existence with the mentality and appearance of a teenager, for the purpose of insinuating Reunion and bringing Ol' Seph back from the Lifestream, and sacrificing his own body in the process. It's unknown how much Kadaj actually knew of what would happen. He was programmed to press for it to happen. He also wanted his mommy, which is [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas kind of hard to explain]].]] Loz and Yazoo also count, but they don't get as much screentime.
*** In ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'', the three Tsviets who were born and raised in Deep Ground Weiss, [[SelfMadeOrphan Nero]], and [[AxCrazy Rosso]]) apply.
*** ''Videogame/CrisisCore'' introduces Genesis and Angeal, Sephiroth's fellow First-Class Soldiers. [[spoiler:They were created in project "G" by Hojo's rival Hollander. Angeal's mother Gillian was infused with Jenova cells while pregnant with Angeal, and she was later harvested to expose Genesis' mother to Jenova cells while she was pregnant. Sephiroth, Angeal, and Genesis would become the star Soldiers of Shinra.]]
** Though not raised from birth, the [=SeeDs=] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' are generally trained from a relatively young age, with the youngest accepted students being only five-years-old and the oldest being fifteen. Ostensibly they're being trained as supercharged mercenaries, but in reality [[spoiler:they're being prepared to wage war against the Sorceresses.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' had [[spoiler: Rafa and Malak, who had their village destroyed, so they could become these after their elders refused to let the villain use them for his own purposes. Rafa turns and Malak follows shortly.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' is built around this trope. The playable cast are all members of Class Zero, an elite squad of fourteen teenagers with special powers, each of whom was taken from their parents at an early age and trained to master a particular weapon. As a result, they're devastating in battle but have little understanding of civilian life, to the point that learning about anything besides combat seems foreign to them. In part due to this, they're isolated from their peers but form [[TrueCompanions a close-knit group among each other.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has both Celes and Terra. Justified in Celes' case, as the Magitek infusion process is said to be incredibly dangerous and painful when used on an adult. The last one they tried it on was [[MonsterClown Kefka]], [[FreakOut and]] that [[OmnicidalManiac didn't]] [[DeityOfHumanOrigin turn]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom out]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt well]]. Terra herself was captured as an infant and raised as a tykebomb due to her [[HalfHumanHybrid natural gifts]].
** ''Franchise/CompilationOfFinalFantasyVII'':
*** Sephiroth from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. [[spoiler: He was engineered by [[MegaCorp Shinra]] scientists to be the perfect soldier, implanted in the womb with alien DNA to endow him with superhuman strength and intelligence. The procedure killed his mother in childbirth, though she remained NotQuiteDead. He was then raised by his "surrogate" father (who never told him they were actually related) and grew up to be one of the world's most famed war heroes... until he discovered (most of) his secret origins, went AxCrazy, and decided to destroy the planet and [[AGodAmI become a god]] in the process. He damn near succeeded.]]
*** Sephiroth's remnant, Kadaj, also qualifies from ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''. [[spoiler:After Sephiroth's defeat, he wills this guy (and two others) into existence with the mentality and appearance of a teenager, for the purpose of insinuating Reunion and bringing Ol' Seph back from the Lifestream, and sacrificing his own body in the process. It's unknown how much Kadaj actually knew of what would happen. He was programmed to press for it to happen. He also wanted his mommy, which is [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas kind of hard to explain]].]] Loz and Yazoo also count, but they don't get as much screentime.
*** In ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'', the three Tsviets who were born and raised in Deep Ground Weiss, [[SelfMadeOrphan Nero]], and [[AxCrazy Rosso]]) apply.
*** ''Videogame/CrisisCore'' introduces Genesis and Angeal, Sephiroth's fellow First-Class Soldiers. [[spoiler:They were created in project "G" by Hojo's rival Hollander. Angeal's mother Gillian was infused with Jenova cells while pregnant with Angeal, and she was later harvested to expose Genesis' mother to Jenova cells while she was pregnant. Sephiroth, Angeal, and Genesis would become the star Soldiers of Shinra.]]
** Though not raised from birth, the [=SeeDs=] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' are generally trained from a relatively young age, with the youngest accepted students being only five-years-old and the oldest being fifteen. Ostensibly they're being trained as supercharged mercenaries, but in reality [[spoiler:they're being prepared to wage war against the Sorceresses.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' had [[spoiler: Rafa and Malak, who had their village destroyed, so they could become these after their elders refused to let the villain use them for his own purposes. Rafa turns and Malak follows shortly.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' is built around this trope. The playable cast are all members of Class Zero, an elite squad of fourteen teenagers with special powers, each of whom was taken from their parents at an early age and trained to master a particular weapon. As a result, they're devastating in battle but have little understanding of civilian life, to the point that learning about anything besides combat seems foreign to them. In part due to this, they're isolated from their peers but form [[TrueCompanions a close-knit group among each other.]]
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* LossOfIdentity:
** This was a major plot revelation in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'' when we discover that [[spoiler:Cloud Strife, due to psychological trauma and denial, had altered his own memories and adopted the persona of his dead friend Zack Fair, losing his own identity in the process.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': Explicitly the fate that awaits any l'Cie who fails to complete the Focus given to them by the Fal'Cie. They slowly degenerate into mindless Cie'th, monstrous and aggressive creatures with tainted crystals jutting out of their bodies. Given that Fal'Cie tends to give VERY vague instructions when it comes to what they want done, this fate is far more common than success (and even what you get if you succeed is not that great).
** This was a major plot revelation in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'' when we discover that [[spoiler:Cloud Strife, due to psychological trauma and denial, had altered his own memories and adopted the persona of his dead friend Zack Fair, losing his own identity in the process.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': Explicitly the fate that awaits any l'Cie who fails to complete the Focus given to them by the Fal'Cie. They slowly degenerate into mindless Cie'th, monstrous and aggressive creatures with tainted crystals jutting out of their bodies. Given that Fal'Cie tends to give VERY vague instructions when it comes to what they want done, this fate is far more common than success (and even what you get if you succeed is not that great).
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* TomatoInTheMirror:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': One of the earliest examples in video games as well. Cloud Strife, the protagonist, suffers from freaky headaches and weird disjointed flashbacks. It turns out that Cloud was never in SOLDIER, let alone had ever been a 1st Class SOLDIER, as he had been proclaiming throughout the game. Cloud had instead been a Shinra Infantryman, but the combined trauma of having been experimented on by [[MadScientist Dr. Hojo]] for five years turning him into a "[[CloningBlues clone]]" or "copy" of the villain, Sephiroth, and has been acting under Sephiroth's MindControl for the game so far[[note]]which ironically, did involve a key component of SOLDIER creation, giving him genuine SOLDIER abilities[[/note]]. Even more, it is eventually revealed that much of his memories were not his own, but were in fact partly borrowed from that of his dead best friend Zack Fair, and watching his best friend, the actual Zack, get shot to death by Shinra soldiers, caused Cloud to have a mental breakdown in which he adopted Zack's identity as a 1st Class SOLDIER, and replaced his memories featuring Zack with memories of himself doing what Zack did. When [[BigBad Sephiroth]] reveals this to Cloud, he doesn't take it well. [[HeroicBSOD At all]]. Even more confusingly, when he recovers from said HeroicBSOD, he realizes he was never a clone to begin with (what he really is, is quite complicated, but it involves the way the {{Super Soldier}}s are created, and how TheVirus contains the {{genetic memor|y}}ies of those infected). However, when he finally regains his [[FakeMemories true memories]], he finally [[CharacterDevelopment develops]] into a fully-fledged person.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': Tidus discovers he isn't sent a thousand years into the future; the Zanarkand he grew up in - and, by extension, everyone in it - is part of a dream generated by the fayth.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'': Prompto Argentum, one of Prince Noctis' retainers and friends, goes missing in Chapter 11. When he gets back, he reveals that he's one of the clones created by Chief Verstael Besithia of the Niflheim Empire for the express purpose of being [[TheVirus daemonified]] and [[HumanResources sublimated]] into a power source/processing unit for the Magitek Troopers. A Lucian break-in and abscondment is the only reason why he met with a different fate than the rest. In the main game, this comes across your standard DarkSecret [[TheReveal Reveal]], but ''[[DownloadableContent Episode Prompto]]'' shows him going through the TomatoInTheMirror revelation.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': One of the earliest examples in video games as well. Cloud Strife, the protagonist, suffers from freaky headaches and weird disjointed flashbacks. It turns out that Cloud was never in SOLDIER, let alone had ever been a 1st Class SOLDIER, as he had been proclaiming throughout the game. Cloud had instead been a Shinra Infantryman, but the combined trauma of having been experimented on by [[MadScientist Dr. Hojo]] for five years turning him into a "[[CloningBlues clone]]" or "copy" of the villain, Sephiroth, and has been acting under Sephiroth's MindControl for the game so far[[note]]which ironically, did involve a key component of SOLDIER creation, giving him genuine SOLDIER abilities[[/note]]. Even more, it is eventually revealed that much of his memories were not his own, but were in fact partly borrowed from that of his dead best friend Zack Fair, and watching his best friend, the actual Zack, get shot to death by Shinra soldiers, caused Cloud to have a mental breakdown in which he adopted Zack's identity as a 1st Class SOLDIER, and replaced his memories featuring Zack with memories of himself doing what Zack did. When [[BigBad Sephiroth]] reveals this to Cloud, he doesn't take it well. [[HeroicBSOD At all]]. Even more confusingly, when he recovers from said HeroicBSOD, he realizes he was never a clone to begin with (what he really is, is quite complicated, but it involves the way the {{Super Soldier}}s are created, and how TheVirus contains the {{genetic memor|y}}ies of those infected). However, when he finally regains his [[FakeMemories true memories]], he finally [[CharacterDevelopment develops]] into a fully-fledged person.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': Tidus discovers he isn't sent a thousand years into the future; the Zanarkand he grew up in - and, by extension, everyone in it - is part of a dream generated by the fayth.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'': Prompto Argentum, one of Prince Noctis' retainers and friends, goes missing in Chapter 11. When he gets back, he reveals that he's one of the clones created by Chief Verstael Besithia of the Niflheim Empire for the express purpose of being [[TheVirus daemonified]] and [[HumanResources sublimated]] into a power source/processing unit for the Magitek Troopers. A Lucian break-in and abscondment is the only reason why he met with a different fate than the rest. In the main game, this comes across your standard DarkSecret [[TheReveal Reveal]], but ''[[DownloadableContent Episode Prompto]]'' shows him going through the TomatoInTheMirror revelation.
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* UnwittingPawn: The game's series. Multiple times.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': First Cecil delivers a trapped ring to the village of Mist (which, is known as the "Bomb Ring" in some versions). Then later he's approached with a HostageForMacguffin deal, and he hands over the macguffin (assumed at the time to be the last one Golbez needed) before seeing the hostage. Then he and his group have the door to the second-to-last Underworld crystal opened because of some disturbance inside and end up giving Golbez a way in. And ''then'', after failing to secure the (seven!) lost Crystals, they go and unseal the door to the last one, and trudge through the ScrappyLevel both ways to bring it outside, only for Golbez to re-control Kain and take it at the last second. And if you include the crystal that he retrieved for Baron in the backstory, that makes him directly responsible for Golbez getting fully ''half'' of the Crystals. Sometimes, you wonder why Cecil keeps doing things, considering that the situation gets worse every time he gets close to a macguffin.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'':
*** Bartz and his companions [[spoiler:head into the Great Forest of Moore, in order to stop [[BigBad Exdeath]] from taking what's sealed inside. Turns out ''he'' waited for them to get to that world's crystals... And destroy them. Wow.]]
*** Bartz and Krile go to seek Ghido for help after [[spoiler:Exdeath is defeated and the worlds fuse together]] and at that point, [[spoiler:an innocuous-looking splinter that Krile has]] enables Exdeath to return. Having overheard the conversation, [[spoiler:he sets out to take control of the Void]].
** Terra and her comrades fall for this ''hard'' when the Empire in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' insists that it wants to commence peace talks. Granted, a few party members are suspicious enough to prepare a backup plan, but Terra, Locke, and General Leo swallow the plot hook-line-and-sinker and deliver a whole bunch of Espers for Kefka to turn into Magicite. Worse, this enables him to enter the Esper World and raise the Floating Continent, where the Warring Triad are hidden away. It turns out that Emperor Gestahl was also an UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Kefka uses him and the Empire to get to the Triad, and then uses their power to kill him and take all of it for himself.]]
** Cloud from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. One of the main points of his character is that [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Sephiroth]] can make Cloud do anything by manipulating him just the right way, and he makes sure Cloud knows it.
*** All of the Deepground members from ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' are this to Professor Hojo. After his death in the original game, he ends up digitalizing his mind into the worldwide network and later possesses Weiss, as well for his final, final experiment, the revival of Omega.
** Queen Brahne Raza Alexandros XVI from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' thought she was behind everything but it turns out she was just a pawn of Garland and Kuja as they manipulate her war and greed to fulfill their own objectives.
** Tidus and Yuna from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. They get bounced like ping-pong balls back and forth between Yevon's plan to [[spoiler:continue the spiral of death and Auron's plan to destroy it and free Spira.]] ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' seems to imply that Yuna, at least, ''never figured it out.''
** By the time ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' rolls around, the main group is being ''told'' that they're Unwitting Pawns.
*** And in [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 the sequel]], it comes up again when [[spoiler:Noel kills Caius, destroying the heart of Etro, killing her with him]], ensuring his plan succeeds. The most infuriating part is that ''Noel and Serah already knew this'' but RememberedTooLate.
** [[spoiler:Almost ''everyone'']] ends up this way in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' after the dust has settled from the GambitPileup by the story's end. [[spoiler:Except Delita. And Ramza.]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': First Cecil delivers a trapped ring to the village of Mist (which, is known as the "Bomb Ring" in some versions). Then later he's approached with a HostageForMacguffin deal, and he hands over the macguffin (assumed at the time to be the last one Golbez needed) before seeing the hostage. Then he and his group have the door to the second-to-last Underworld crystal opened because of some disturbance inside and end up giving Golbez a way in. And ''then'', after failing to secure the (seven!) lost Crystals, they go and unseal the door to the last one, and trudge through the ScrappyLevel both ways to bring it outside, only for Golbez to re-control Kain and take it at the last second. And if you include the crystal that he retrieved for Baron in the backstory, that makes him directly responsible for Golbez getting fully ''half'' of the Crystals. Sometimes, you wonder why Cecil keeps doing things, considering that the situation gets worse every time he gets close to a macguffin.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'':
*** Bartz and his companions [[spoiler:head into the Great Forest of Moore, in order to stop [[BigBad Exdeath]] from taking what's sealed inside. Turns out ''he'' waited for them to get to that world's crystals... And destroy them. Wow.]]
*** Bartz and Krile go to seek Ghido for help after [[spoiler:Exdeath is defeated and the worlds fuse together]] and at that point, [[spoiler:an innocuous-looking splinter that Krile has]] enables Exdeath to return. Having overheard the conversation, [[spoiler:he sets out to take control of the Void]].
** Terra and her comrades fall for this ''hard'' when the Empire in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' insists that it wants to commence peace talks. Granted, a few party members are suspicious enough to prepare a backup plan, but Terra, Locke, and General Leo swallow the plot hook-line-and-sinker and deliver a whole bunch of Espers for Kefka to turn into Magicite. Worse, this enables him to enter the Esper World and raise the Floating Continent, where the Warring Triad are hidden away. It turns out that Emperor Gestahl was also an UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Kefka uses him and the Empire to get to the Triad, and then uses their power to kill him and take all of it for himself.]]
** Cloud from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. One of the main points of his character is that [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Sephiroth]] can make Cloud do anything by manipulating him just the right way, and he makes sure Cloud knows it.
*** All of the Deepground members from ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' are this to Professor Hojo. After his death in the original game, he ends up digitalizing his mind into the worldwide network and later possesses Weiss, as well for his final, final experiment, the revival of Omega.
** Queen Brahne Raza Alexandros XVI from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' thought she was behind everything but it turns out she was just a pawn of Garland and Kuja as they manipulate her war and greed to fulfill their own objectives.
** Tidus and Yuna from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. They get bounced like ping-pong balls back and forth between Yevon's plan to [[spoiler:continue the spiral of death and Auron's plan to destroy it and free Spira.]] ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' seems to imply that Yuna, at least, ''never figured it out.''
** By the time ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' rolls around, the main group is being ''told'' that they're Unwitting Pawns.
*** And in [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 the sequel]], it comes up again when [[spoiler:Noel kills Caius, destroying the heart of Etro, killing her with him]], ensuring his plan succeeds. The most infuriating part is that ''Noel and Serah already knew this'' but RememberedTooLate.
** [[spoiler:Almost ''everyone'']] ends up this way in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' after the dust has settled from the GambitPileup by the story's end. [[spoiler:Except Delita. And Ramza.]].
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': After Galuf is killed by Exdeath, his granddaughter Krile takes his place in the party (and magically inherits his abilities learned). Since the game only has four characters at a time, Krile will always be present for the final battle with Exdeath.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': After Galuf is killed by Exdeath, his granddaughter Krile takes his place in the party (and magically inherits his abilities learned). Since the game only has four characters at a time, Krile will always be present for the final battle with Exdeath.
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**''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': After Galuf is killed by Exdeath, his granddaughter Krile takes his place in the party (and magically inherits his abilities learned). Since the game only has four characters at a time, Krile will always be present for the final battle ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Firion, Maria and Guy with Exdeath.Leon. [[spoiler:Even at the end, after his HeelFaceTurn, he suggests that too much has happened for them to go back to the way they were before, but Firion holds out hope]].
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*** Cloud and Sephiroth. Or at least that's how Cloud initially frames how they know one another. [[spoiler:In reality, Cloud and Sephiroth were never friends, but Zack and Sephiroth were and did act out this trope]].
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', there's [[spoiler:Zack and Angeal in addition to Sephiroth and Genesis]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Paine, Nooj, Baralai, and Gippal. [[spoiler: Nooj getting possessed two years ago and shooting at the rest of them pretty much destroyed their friendship, and there’s still resentment over that when your party eavesdrops on the latter three late in the game.]]
* YouKilledMyFather:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': After Galuf is killed by Exdeath, his granddaughter Krile takes his place in the party (and magically inherits his abilities learned). Since the game only has four characters at a time, Krile will always be present for the final battle with Exdeath.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', there's [[spoiler:Zack and Angeal in addition to Sephiroth and Genesis]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Paine, Nooj, Baralai, and Gippal. [[spoiler: Nooj getting possessed two years ago and shooting at the rest of them pretty much destroyed their friendship, and there’s still resentment over that when your party eavesdrops on the latter three late in the game.]]
* YouKilledMyFather:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': After Galuf is killed by Exdeath, his granddaughter Krile takes his place in the party (and magically inherits his abilities learned). Since the game only has four characters at a time, Krile will always be present for the final battle with Exdeath.
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': "Moms are tough", but not tough enough to escape death. His failure in regards to the counterattack at Hanging Edge continues to metaphorically haunt Snow even as he tries to rescue Serah. It also physically haunts him in the form of Hope, the son of the woman who volunteered to assist him and misinterpreted that failure as Snow leaving her to die. It gets to the point where revenge is Hope's sole driving factor, and he almost exacts his revenge before a Sanctum mech blows them both to the streets below. They manage to smooth things out from that point forward.
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Firion, Maria and Guy with Leon. [[spoiler:Even at the end, after his HeelFaceTurn, he suggests that too much has happened for them to go back to the way they were before, but Firion holds out hope]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Cloud and Sephiroth. Or at least that's how Cloud initially frames how they know one another. [[spoiler:In reality, Cloud and Sephiroth were never friends, but Zack and Sephiroth were and did act out this trope]].
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', there's [[spoiler:Zack and Angeal in addition to Sephiroth and Genesis]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Paine, Nooj, Baralai, and Gippal. [[spoiler: Nooj getting possessed two years ago and shooting at the rest of them pretty much destroyed their friendship, and there’s still resentment over that when your party eavesdrops on the latter three late in the game.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Firion, Maria and Guy with Leon. [[spoiler:Even at the end, after his HeelFaceTurn, he suggests that too much has happened for them to go back to the way they were before, but Firion holds out hope]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Cloud and Sephiroth. Or at least that's how Cloud initially frames how they know one another. [[spoiler:In reality, Cloud and Sephiroth were never friends, but Zack and Sephiroth were and did act out this trope]].
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', there's [[spoiler:Zack and Angeal in addition to Sephiroth and Genesis]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Paine, Nooj, Baralai, and Gippal. [[spoiler: Nooj getting possessed two years ago and shooting at the rest of them pretty much destroyed their friendship, and there’s still resentment over that when your party eavesdrops on the latter three late in the game.]]
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': "Moms are tough", but not tough enough to escape death. His failure in regards to the counterattack at Hanging Edge continues to metaphorically haunt Snow even as he tries to rescue Serah. It also physically haunts him in the form of Hope, the son of the woman who volunteered to assist him and misinterpreted that failure as Snow leaving her to die. It gets to the point where revenge is Hope's sole driving factor, and he almost exacts his revenge before a Sanctum mech blows them both to the streets below. They manage to smooth things out from that point forward.
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Firion, Maria and Guy with Leon. [[spoiler:Even at the end, after his HeelFaceTurn, he suggests that too much has happened for them to go back to the way they were before, but Firion holds out hope]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Cloud and Sephiroth. Or at least that's how Cloud initially frames how they know one another. [[spoiler:In reality, Cloud and Sephiroth were never friends, but Zack and Sephiroth were and did act out this trope]].
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', there's [[spoiler:Zack and Angeal in addition to Sephiroth and Genesis]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Paine, Nooj, Baralai, and Gippal. [[spoiler: Nooj getting possessed two years ago and shooting at the rest of them pretty much destroyed their friendship, and there’s still resentment over that when your party eavesdrops on the latter three late in the game.]]forward.
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Firion, Maria and Guy with Leon. [[spoiler:Even at the end, after his HeelFaceTurn, he suggests that too much has happened for them to go back to the way they were before, but Firion holds out hope]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Cloud and Sephiroth. Or at least that's how Cloud initially frames how they know one another. [[spoiler:In reality, Cloud and Sephiroth were never friends, but Zack and Sephiroth were and did act out this trope]].
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', there's [[spoiler:Zack and Angeal in addition to Sephiroth and Genesis]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Paine, Nooj, Baralai, and Gippal. [[spoiler: Nooj getting possessed two years ago and shooting at the rest of them pretty much destroyed their friendship, and there’s still resentment over that when your party eavesdrops on the latter three late in the game.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure:
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud feels regret over several failures. His [[spoiler: failure to become a SOLDIER, the death of Zack who died trying to protect him, and blaming himself for not being strong enough to protect his childhood friend, Tifa, when she falls into a ravine and slips into a coma (also didn't help that Tifa's father blamed Cloud for Tifa's injury)]] leads to Cloud suffering from psychological disorders like TraumaInducedAmnesia and SplitPersonality. He also regrets failing to prevent [[ILetGwenStacyDie the death]] of [[spoiler: Aeris]], which motivates Cloud to take down Sephiroth.
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', Zack's failure in capturing Genesis and preventing the [[spoiler:death of Angeal]] also falls into this category.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Crystal Braves is this for Alphinaud; [[spoiler:Alphinaud had intended for the Crystal Braves to be the saviors of Eorzea, but his hubris caused him to miss the smaller details and not realize the Monetarists for Ul'dah had gotten their hands on them via funding. This allowed the scheming Teledji Adeledji to seemingly assassinate Ul'dah's Sultana Nanamo Ul Namo and frame the Scions of the Seventh Dawn for it.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud feels regret over several failures. His [[spoiler: failure to become a SOLDIER, the death of Zack who died trying to protect him, and blaming himself for not being strong enough to protect his childhood friend, Tifa, when she falls into a ravine and slips into a coma (also didn't help that Tifa's father blamed Cloud for Tifa's injury)]] leads to Cloud suffering from psychological disorders like TraumaInducedAmnesia and SplitPersonality. He also regrets failing to prevent [[ILetGwenStacyDie the death]] of [[spoiler: Aeris]], which motivates Cloud to take down Sephiroth.
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', Zack's failure in capturing Genesis and preventing the [[spoiler:death of Angeal]] also falls into this category.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Crystal Braves is this for Alphinaud; [[spoiler:Alphinaud had intended for the Crystal Braves to be the saviors of Eorzea, but his hubris caused him to miss the smaller details and not realize the Monetarists for Ul'dah had gotten their hands on them via funding. This allowed the scheming Teledji Adeledji to seemingly assassinate Ul'dah's Sultana Nanamo Ul Namo and frame the Scions of the Seventh Dawn for it.]]
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* FailureKnight: The series's games are fond of this trope:
** Locke in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''. He acts as the knight-errant protector to Terra, especially when he finds out she has amnesia and drops hints about a difficult past. Shortly thereafter he meets Celes and becomes utterly devoted. Locke swears to protect her, mentions a promise he had made to someone, other characters ask if he's "thinking of... her," and eventually we get the story: Locke was reminded, by both women, of his girlfriend Rachel. She was injured and lost her memories trying to save him. She later died, just after regaining them. [[spoiler: Eventually, he revives her -- [[TheLastDance only for a minute]]. That is long enough for her to forgive him, give her blessing to Celes and Locke's burgeoning romance, and die for good.]]
*** Cyan also falls under this when Kefka poisons the water surrounding Doma castle, killing everyone inside, including Cyan's wife and son. Later on, after beating the Phantom Train boss, Cyan sees his wife and son depart to the afterlife, telling him that they love him and they thank him for all he has done for them. Though he tries to put it behind him, Cyan still blames himself for not being able to prevent the tragedy. In fact, during [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the World of Ruin]], those negative emotions haunt him and cause a spirit fiend named Wrexsoul to appear in Cyan's dreams and feed off Cyan's soul. After the party defeats the monster, the spirit of Cyan's wife and son appear and they tell him to be strong and to keep living. This finally gives Cyan the strength to carry on, which causes him to fully master all of his Sword Techs.
** Cloud and Aeris in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. [[ItWasHisSled It's because she is killed by Sephiroth and Cloud was unable to do anything]].
** Steiner from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' is a ''literal'' failure knight. Despite his personal skills, his platoon (The Knights of Pluto) is the laughingstock of the Alexandrian military, his attempts to help or protect the Princess are undermined by everyone else in the cast (including the Princess herself), and he eventually [[spoiler: watches his own beloved Queen die, hoist by her own power-hungry petard.]] Fortunately, once he's hit rock bottom, things start to get better. When [[spoiler: Bahamut]] attacks Alexandria, his men start to redeem themselves when they perform specialized duties like readying the cannons, gathering information, protecting the citizens, and sending for reinforcements. You learn about which knights specialize in each area when one of the Knights of Pluto gives [[SomedayThisWillComeInHandy information]] (in the first Disk) that this knight is a great fighter, these knights are great cannoneers, that this knight knows all the women in town and things along that line.
** Lulu from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' went on two pilgrimages before going with Yuna. Both failed, but for differing reasons. The first journey was a summoner Lulu was unable to protect when they went to see an off-the-beaten-path Aeon, something she never forgave herself for. The second was a man who, upon reaching the Calm Lands, decided to abandon his journey -- something many summoners end up doing once they reach that stage.
*** Auron from the same game, however, is a FailureKnight because he ''succeeded'' in protecting his summoner ([[spoiler:since the Final Summoning results in the summoner's death anyway]]). Being a guardian just kind of sucks all the way around.
** Noel from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' feels he failed to protect Yeul and everyone else in his world. [[spoiler: He also fails to protect Serah, who dies in his arms right after they beat Caius. And then it turns out that he didn't even succeed in protecting the future, as killing Caius allows the world to be destroyed.]] Damn...
** Yunita from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'' is determined to protect Aire and save [[DoomedHometown Horne]], but Aire berates her for being late, they're separated early on, then the two boys she travels with ditch her one after the other and leave her with a severe inferiority complex, and she's conned out of all her possessions. It's probably a good thing she didn't find out until ''after'' meeting her again that Aire spent the good chunk of the game cursed into being a cat, otherwise her HeroicBSOD in Urbeth might have gotten even worse.
** Locke in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''. He acts as the knight-errant protector to Terra, especially when he finds out she has amnesia and drops hints about a difficult past. Shortly thereafter he meets Celes and becomes utterly devoted. Locke swears to protect her, mentions a promise he had made to someone, other characters ask if he's "thinking of... her," and eventually we get the story: Locke was reminded, by both women, of his girlfriend Rachel. She was injured and lost her memories trying to save him. She later died, just after regaining them. [[spoiler: Eventually, he revives her -- [[TheLastDance only for a minute]]. That is long enough for her to forgive him, give her blessing to Celes and Locke's burgeoning romance, and die for good.]]
*** Cyan also falls under this when Kefka poisons the water surrounding Doma castle, killing everyone inside, including Cyan's wife and son. Later on, after beating the Phantom Train boss, Cyan sees his wife and son depart to the afterlife, telling him that they love him and they thank him for all he has done for them. Though he tries to put it behind him, Cyan still blames himself for not being able to prevent the tragedy. In fact, during [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the World of Ruin]], those negative emotions haunt him and cause a spirit fiend named Wrexsoul to appear in Cyan's dreams and feed off Cyan's soul. After the party defeats the monster, the spirit of Cyan's wife and son appear and they tell him to be strong and to keep living. This finally gives Cyan the strength to carry on, which causes him to fully master all of his Sword Techs.
** Cloud and Aeris in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. [[ItWasHisSled It's because she is killed by Sephiroth and Cloud was unable to do anything]].
** Steiner from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' is a ''literal'' failure knight. Despite his personal skills, his platoon (The Knights of Pluto) is the laughingstock of the Alexandrian military, his attempts to help or protect the Princess are undermined by everyone else in the cast (including the Princess herself), and he eventually [[spoiler: watches his own beloved Queen die, hoist by her own power-hungry petard.]] Fortunately, once he's hit rock bottom, things start to get better. When [[spoiler: Bahamut]] attacks Alexandria, his men start to redeem themselves when they perform specialized duties like readying the cannons, gathering information, protecting the citizens, and sending for reinforcements. You learn about which knights specialize in each area when one of the Knights of Pluto gives [[SomedayThisWillComeInHandy information]] (in the first Disk) that this knight is a great fighter, these knights are great cannoneers, that this knight knows all the women in town and things along that line.
** Lulu from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' went on two pilgrimages before going with Yuna. Both failed, but for differing reasons. The first journey was a summoner Lulu was unable to protect when they went to see an off-the-beaten-path Aeon, something she never forgave herself for. The second was a man who, upon reaching the Calm Lands, decided to abandon his journey -- something many summoners end up doing once they reach that stage.
*** Auron from the same game, however, is a FailureKnight because he ''succeeded'' in protecting his summoner ([[spoiler:since the Final Summoning results in the summoner's death anyway]]). Being a guardian just kind of sucks all the way around.
** Noel from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' feels he failed to protect Yeul and everyone else in his world. [[spoiler: He also fails to protect Serah, who dies in his arms right after they beat Caius. And then it turns out that he didn't even succeed in protecting the future, as killing Caius allows the world to be destroyed.]] Damn...
** Yunita from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'' is determined to protect Aire and save [[DoomedHometown Horne]], but Aire berates her for being late, they're separated early on, then the two boys she travels with ditch her one after the other and leave her with a severe inferiority complex, and she's conned out of all her possessions. It's probably a good thing she didn't find out until ''after'' meeting her again that Aire spent the good chunk of the game cursed into being a cat, otherwise her HeroicBSOD in Urbeth might have gotten even worse.
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** One was given to the recurring villain of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', [[spoiler:Seymour Guado]]. In a nutshell, [[spoiler:non-human dad marries human mum, but his species' xenophobic civilization doesn't like that their leader married a human, so she and Seymour are exiled to a long-abandoned temple. Mum decides that Seymour will need to be powerful to be accepted, so she undergoes a procedure that will allow him to call on her as a powerful summon beast but will also turn her into a statue while young Seymour is crying for her not to, effectively meaning that he's been abandoned by both parents. Summon Beast Mummy is a monster who looks like a zombie trapped in a venus flytrap with a demon for a lower half.]] Even worse is that after this, Seymour was expected to use said beast to destroy the monster Sin, which would make him famous throughout the land... and also kill him.
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** One was given to the recurring villain of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', [[spoiler:Seymour Guado]]. In a nutshell, [[spoiler:non-human dad marries human mum, but his species' xenophobic civilization doesn't like that their leader married a human, so she and Seymour are exiled to a long-abandoned temple. Mum decides that Seymour will need to be powerful to be accepted, so she undergoes a procedure that will allow him to call on her as a powerful summon beast but will also turn her into a statue while young Seymour is crying for her not to, effectively meaning that he's been abandoned by both parents. Summon Beast Mummy is a monster who looks like a zombie trapped in a venus flytrap with a demon for a lower half.]] Even worse is that after this, Seymour was expected to use the said beast to destroy the monster Sin, which would make him famous throughout the land... and also kill him.
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** Ardyn from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has an entire TraumaCongaLine as his StartOfDarkness: Initially, he was [[spoiler:supposed to be TheChosenOne, the first king of the kingdom of Lucis, [[DivineRightOfKings appointed by the gods themselves]]. As part of his role, the gods sent him forth on a mission to cure people of the Starscourge, a MysticalPlague that turned humans into daemons. And he gladly did just that: Upon the gods' command, [[MessianicArchetype Ardyn went forth and cured countless by taking the plague into his own body]]. It was then that the gods decreed that Ardyn had defiled himself, appointed his younger brother to take his place as the rightful king, and [[BarredFromTheAfterlife barred his soul from entering the afterlife]]. And then [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Ardyn's brother branded him a daemon, had him ostracized]], and [[{{Unperson}} struck all records about him from the books]]. What's worse is that Ardyn, now that his body plays host to the Starscourge and his soul is unable to pass on, [[CompleteImmortality can no longer die]]. Ultimately, his RageAgainstTheHeavens and dedication to ending the line of Lucis comes across as nothing short of sympathetic.]]
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** Ardyn from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has an entire TraumaCongaLine as his StartOfDarkness: Initially, he was [[spoiler:supposed to be TheChosenOne, the first king of the kingdom of Lucis, [[DivineRightOfKings appointed by the gods themselves]]. As part of his role, the gods sent him forth on a mission to cure people of the Starscourge, a MysticalPlague that turned humans into daemons. And he gladly did just that: Upon the gods' command, [[MessianicArchetype Ardyn went forth and cured countless by taking the plague into his own body]]. It was then that the gods decreed that Ardyn had defiled himself, appointed his younger brother to take his place as the rightful king, and [[BarredFromTheAfterlife barred his soul from entering the afterlife]]. And then [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Ardyn's brother branded him a daemon, had him ostracized]], and [[{{Unperson}} struck all records about him from the books]]. What's worse is that Ardyn, Ardyn now that his body plays host to the Starscourge and his soul is unable to pass on, [[CompleteImmortality can no longer die]]. Ultimately, his RageAgainstTheHeavens and dedication to ending the line of Lucis comes across as nothing short of sympathetic.]]
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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Celes betrays the Empire, and joins the Returners after Locke saves her from torture. Kefka's plan to poison the entire town of Doma crosses her MoralEventHorizon. However, burning down Maranda is simply Empire evil, because she did participate in that.
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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Celes betrays the Empire, Empire and joins the Returners after Locke saves her from torture. Kefka's plan to poison the entire town of Doma crosses her MoralEventHorizon. However, burning down Maranda is simply Empire evil, because she did participate in that.
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** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]] in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy]]''. Terra was originally a lackey of Kefka, but thanks to some help from Vaan [[spoiler:and a little meddling from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Kuja]]]], she turned to Cosmos's side. While Cloud was an AntiVillain [[Analysis/AntiVillain Type IV]], as he shows concern toward his opponents in Prologus, warning Lightning not to underestimate the other Warriors of Chaos, and has no real motive (or incentive) to fight any of them, let alone Tifa. Since Cloud [[spoiler:has been through several cycles already, and more importantly, remembers them, so he's burnt out and unmotivated because he knows it's a waste of time. It's not like fighting any of the heroes or getting killed by one of them is going to change anything, they'll all just be back in the next cycle. But after Sephiroth attacks Tifa, he rebels against ''Chaos'' and got killed. His last wish to Cosmos was [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl to keep Tifa safe]]. Cosmos is so touched by this that she chooses him as her warriors on the next cycle]]. As for Tidus, [[spoiler:he was originally suckered into fighting for Chaos, but after taking a fatal blow from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII the Emperor]], his father Jecht sacrificed himself to save him [[FaceHeelTurn and left himself open to being turned to Chaos]], and Yuna helped him join Cosmos's army]].
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** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]] in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy]]''. Terra was originally a lackey of Kefka, but thanks to some help from Vaan [[spoiler:and a little meddling from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Kuja]]]], she turned to Cosmos's side. While Cloud was an AntiVillain [[Analysis/AntiVillain Type IV]], as he shows concern toward his opponents in Prologus, warning Lightning not to underestimate the other Warriors of Chaos, and has no real motive (or incentive) to fight any of them, let alone Tifa. Since Cloud [[spoiler:has been through several cycles already, and more importantly, remembers them, so he's burnt out and unmotivated because he knows it's a waste of time. It's not like fighting any of the heroes or getting killed by one of them is going to change anything, they'll all just be back in the next cycle. But after Sephiroth attacks Tifa, he rebels against ''Chaos'' and got killed. His last wish to Cosmos was [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl to keep Tifa safe]]. Cosmos is so touched by this that she chooses him as her warriors warrior on the next cycle]]. As for Tidus, [[spoiler:he was originally suckered into fighting for Chaos, but after taking a fatal blow from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII the Emperor]], his father Jecht sacrificed himself to save him [[FaceHeelTurn and left himself open to being turned to Chaos]], and Yuna helped him join Cosmos's army]].
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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Aerith has a Lost Lenore in the form of Zack. The reason she joined Cloud's party, to begin with is that Cloud ([[IJustWantToBeYou for one reason and another]]) is similar to Zack. Naturally, she then becomes Cloud's Lost Lenore when her inevitable sled occurs.
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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Aerith has a Lost Lenore in the form of Zack. The reason she joined Cloud's party, to begin with with, is that Cloud ([[IJustWantToBeYou for one reason and another]]) is similar to Zack. Naturally, she then becomes Cloud's Lost Lenore when her inevitable sled occurs.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Cecil and Kain, after unintentionally helping to destroy the village of Mist, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.
** Tidus spends the first half of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' telling Yuna how he'll take her to see his home of Zanarkand and all the fun things they can do together once Yuna finishes her pilgrimage. [[spoiler: Tidus eventually learns the AwfulTruth of Yuna's pilgrimage where she will sacrifice herself to temporarily rid the world of the monster, Sin. Tidus realizes that all the things he'd promised to do with Yuna after her journey was incredibly insensitive and he feels massively guilty over it. He rightfully gets angry at his party for not telling him sooner.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', Lightning doesn't believe her sister Serah when she claims to be cursed with the brand of a Pulse l'Cie, assuming it's some lame excuse to justify her marrying Snow Villers (of whom Lightning had a LOW opinion). She responded with an angry reminder that she, as a Sanctum soldier, would be charged with hunting Pulse elements down. Later, when she hears new reports that there actually WAS a Pulse fal'Cie in Bodhum's neighborhood, she puts two and two together and proceeds to beat herself up over this particular screw-up.
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'', [[spoiler:when the Unseen Chaos bursts from Etro's Gate and begins twisting the mortal world into a screwed-up place of doom, Noel realizes a few things. One, the goddess Etro is no longer among the living, and this is how the Chaos was able to burst out. Two, Caius held the Heart of Chaos, a manifestation of Etro herself. Three, however unintentional, Noel's own weapon was what pierced that heart. By the time ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' rolls around, Noel has spent the last five centuries convinced that he destroyed the world.]]
** [[BigBad Gaius]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has this realization at the end of the 2.0 story where [[TheManBehindTheMan Lahabrea]] forces Ultima Weapon cast Ultima, which completely obliterates the castrum everyone was standing in. Gaius, seeing the raw destruction of Ultima firsthand, realizes that he shouldn't have unearthed the ancient weapon since it can easily destroy the very land he was trying to conquer. Lahabrea has Ultima Weapon ready Ultima a second time when its HP is low and if the players fail to stop him in time, [[TotalPartyWipe the entire party is killed instantly.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'', [[spoiler: Doned has this reaction after realizing that his brother Marche was neglected back in the real world because Doned required more attention due to his illness. Doned didn't recognize that every sacrifice his family made, namely the move to St. Ivalice, their parents' divorce, and Marche's ongoing neglect, was either for his sake or a negative consequence of his illness on the rest of the family, instead choosing to resent Marche for being healthy and having friends, and thinking that he himself had nothing to be thankful for while Marche had a perfect life. Marche then finally reveals his resentment towards Doned for the ongoing neglect and the divorce, which he couldn't express before [[BecauseYouCanCope because Marche is the older brother and Doned is just a sick little boy]]. This segues into Doned's realization that he's been extremely cruel and selfish to his brother in his attempts to stay in fantasy!Ivalice.]]
** Cecil and Kain, after unintentionally helping to destroy the village of Mist, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.
** Tidus spends the first half of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' telling Yuna how he'll take her to see his home of Zanarkand and all the fun things they can do together once Yuna finishes her pilgrimage. [[spoiler: Tidus eventually learns the AwfulTruth of Yuna's pilgrimage where she will sacrifice herself to temporarily rid the world of the monster, Sin. Tidus realizes that all the things he'd promised to do with Yuna after her journey was incredibly insensitive and he feels massively guilty over it. He rightfully gets angry at his party for not telling him sooner.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', Lightning doesn't believe her sister Serah when she claims to be cursed with the brand of a Pulse l'Cie, assuming it's some lame excuse to justify her marrying Snow Villers (of whom Lightning had a LOW opinion). She responded with an angry reminder that she, as a Sanctum soldier, would be charged with hunting Pulse elements down. Later, when she hears new reports that there actually WAS a Pulse fal'Cie in Bodhum's neighborhood, she puts two and two together and proceeds to beat herself up over this particular screw-up.
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'', [[spoiler:when the Unseen Chaos bursts from Etro's Gate and begins twisting the mortal world into a screwed-up place of doom, Noel realizes a few things. One, the goddess Etro is no longer among the living, and this is how the Chaos was able to burst out. Two, Caius held the Heart of Chaos, a manifestation of Etro herself. Three, however unintentional, Noel's own weapon was what pierced that heart. By the time ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' rolls around, Noel has spent the last five centuries convinced that he destroyed the world.]]
** [[BigBad Gaius]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has this realization at the end of the 2.0 story where [[TheManBehindTheMan Lahabrea]] forces Ultima Weapon cast Ultima, which completely obliterates the castrum everyone was standing in. Gaius, seeing the raw destruction of Ultima firsthand, realizes that he shouldn't have unearthed the ancient weapon since it can easily destroy the very land he was trying to conquer. Lahabrea has Ultima Weapon ready Ultima a second time when its HP is low and if the players fail to stop him in time, [[TotalPartyWipe the entire party is killed instantly.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'', [[spoiler: Doned has this reaction after realizing that his brother Marche was neglected back in the real world because Doned required more attention due to his illness. Doned didn't recognize that every sacrifice his family made, namely the move to St. Ivalice, their parents' divorce, and Marche's ongoing neglect, was either for his sake or a negative consequence of his illness on the rest of the family, instead choosing to resent Marche for being healthy and having friends, and thinking that he himself had nothing to be thankful for while Marche had a perfect life. Marche then finally reveals his resentment towards Doned for the ongoing neglect and the divorce, which he couldn't express before [[BecauseYouCanCope because Marche is the older brother and Doned is just a sick little boy]]. This segues into Doned's realization that he's been extremely cruel and selfish to his brother in his attempts to stay in fantasy!Ivalice.]]
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'': The four main characters all turn out to have been orphaned by the same event -- [[spoiler:Cid's airship was torn apart by the cataclysm that froze most of the world in time, and only the four children and Cid himself survived the event, with their birth parents all perishing.]] They aren't the only ones either, since Prince Alus had already lost his mother some time before the events of the game, and then [[spoiler:his father, King Gorn, ''tries to kill him as he sleeps'' and eventually has to commit suicide to prevent himself from carrying out the deed. At least Gorn was being controlled by Garuda, making his actions that bit less horrific.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': ParentalAbandonment plays a big role in Theodor's transformation into Golbez and Cecil's adoption by the King of Baron. On the same day, Kluya died at the hands of angry humans and his wife Cecilia [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to Cecil]]. In addition, Rydia's mother is inadvertently killed by Cecil's hands near the start of the game. [[spoiler:She later finds a new family of sorts in the Land of Summoned Monsters.]] Kain's mother is never mentioned, and it's AllThereInTheManual that his father died when Kain was a child. Edge's parents [[spoiler:are turned into monsters by Dr. Lugae, and commit suicide upon realising what they have become.]] Edward's parents are both killed in the assault on Damcyan and are never seen by the player. Rosa's father is dead, but remarkably, her mother is still alive.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': ParentalAbandonment plays a big role in Theodor's transformation into Golbez and Cecil's adoption by the King of Baron. On the same day, Kluya died at the hands of angry humans and his wife Cecilia [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to Cecil]]. In addition, Rydia's mother is inadvertently killed by Cecil's hands near the start of the game. [[spoiler:She later finds a new family of sorts in the Land of Summoned Monsters.]] Kain's mother is never mentioned, and it's AllThereInTheManual that his father died when Kain was a child. Edge's parents [[spoiler:are turned into monsters by Dr. Lugae, and commit suicide upon realising what they have become.]] Edward's parents are both killed in the assault on Damcyan and are never seen by the player. Rosa's father is dead, but remarkably, her mother is still alive.
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'': The four main characters all turn out to have been orphaned by the same event -- [[spoiler:Cid's airship was torn apart by the cataclysm that froze most of the world in time, and only the four children and Cid himself survived the event, with their birth parents all perishing.]] They aren't the only ones either, since Prince Alus had already lost his mother some time sometime before the events of the game, and then [[spoiler:his father, King Gorn, ''tries to kill him as he sleeps'' and eventually has to commit suicide to prevent himself from carrying out the deed. At least Gorn was being controlled by Garuda, making his actions that bit less horrific.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': ParentalAbandonment plays a big role in Theodor's transformation into Golbez and Cecil's adoption by the King of Baron. On the same day, Kluya died at the hands of angry humans and his wife Cecilia [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to Cecil]]. In addition, Rydia's mother is inadvertently killed by Cecil's hands near the start of the game. [[spoiler:She later finds a new family of sorts in the Land of Summoned Monsters.]] Kain's mother is never mentioned, and it's AllThereInTheManual that his father died when Kain was a child. Edge's parents [[spoiler:are turned into monsters by Dr. Lugae, and commit suicide uponrealising realizing what they have become.]] Edward's parents are both killed in the assault on Damcyan and are never seen by the player. Rosa's father is dead, but remarkably, her mother is still alive.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': ParentalAbandonment plays a big role in Theodor's transformation into Golbez and Cecil's adoption by the King of Baron. On the same day, Kluya died at the hands of angry humans and his wife Cecilia [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to Cecil]]. In addition, Rydia's mother is inadvertently killed by Cecil's hands near the start of the game. [[spoiler:She later finds a new family of sorts in the Land of Summoned Monsters.]] Kain's mother is never mentioned, and it's AllThereInTheManual that his father died when Kain was a child. Edge's parents [[spoiler:are turned into monsters by Dr. Lugae, and commit suicide upon
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* ILetGwenStacyDie:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has Rachel, who serves as TheGwenStacy for Locke. One day, while exploring a cave with Rachel, he was too slow to keep her from falling down a cliff, which led to her contracting amnesia. [[WhatTheHellHero Her father called out Locke on this]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Locke left his hometown]], and while he was away, Rachel was killed in an Imperial attack. Locke fully [[ItsAllMyFault blames himself]] for once again not being there to protect her, like he promised he would. This is why he makes it his mission to protect Terra and Celes.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Aeris Gainsborough for Cloud. Actually, her example is to video game fans what Gwen's was for comic fans for the very same reasons. Her death provides the motive for Cloud to take down Sephiroth, but he is still angsting about it by the time [[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren the movie]] comes around, though ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children Complete]]'' and other materials make it clear that his angst in the film also relates to his failure to find a cure for the Geostigma, afflicting himself and Denzel, a hefty dose of survivor's guilt towards Zack, and depression and anxiety are symptoms of Geostigma.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': No less than ''three'' people feel this way towards Serah. First and foremost, her sister Lightning and fiancé Snow, the former for not believing her at a key moment, the latter for accidentally getting her captured by a fal'Cie, both of them blaming themselves for her subsequent transformation into a human paperweight. In this iteration, she gets better, but after [[TheHeroDies dropping dead]] at the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 end of the second game]], Lightning, Snow ''and'' Noel get this trope in spades. [[spoiler:Again, she gets better, due to the universe being rebooted]].
** Noctis suffers from immense guilt at [[spoiler: Luna's death]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', even though the way it was set up made it seem like it was inevitable.
---> '''Noctis''': All I wanted was to save you...
*** Watching Noctis break down and consequently mourn for weeks after it occurred is a punch to the gut, especially when he finally realizes [[spoiler: just how much she must have struggled to help him, and how he had been oblivious to all the hardships she had been through until it was too late]] and ends up crying alone.
----> '''Noctis''': It's... so hard... Guess it was hard for you too. I'm sorry... I couldn't be there for you.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has Rachel, who serves as TheGwenStacy for Locke. One day, while exploring a cave with Rachel, he was too slow to keep her from falling down a cliff, which led to her contracting amnesia. [[WhatTheHellHero Her father called out Locke on this]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Locke left his hometown]], and while he was away, Rachel was killed in an Imperial attack. Locke fully [[ItsAllMyFault blames himself]] for once again not being there to protect her, like he promised he would. This is why he makes it his mission to protect Terra and Celes.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Aeris Gainsborough for Cloud. Actually, her example is to video game fans what Gwen's was for comic fans for the very same reasons. Her death provides the motive for Cloud to take down Sephiroth, but he is still angsting about it by the time [[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren the movie]] comes around, though ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children Complete]]'' and other materials make it clear that his angst in the film also relates to his failure to find a cure for the Geostigma, afflicting himself and Denzel, a hefty dose of survivor's guilt towards Zack, and depression and anxiety are symptoms of Geostigma.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': No less than ''three'' people feel this way towards Serah. First and foremost, her sister Lightning and fiancé Snow, the former for not believing her at a key moment, the latter for accidentally getting her captured by a fal'Cie, both of them blaming themselves for her subsequent transformation into a human paperweight. In this iteration, she gets better, but after [[TheHeroDies dropping dead]] at the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 end of the second game]], Lightning, Snow ''and'' Noel get this trope in spades. [[spoiler:Again, she gets better, due to the universe being rebooted]].
** Noctis suffers from immense guilt at [[spoiler: Luna's death]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', even though the way it was set up made it seem like it was inevitable.
---> '''Noctis''': All I wanted was to save you...
*** Watching Noctis break down and consequently mourn for weeks after it occurred is a punch to the gut, especially when he finally realizes [[spoiler: just how much she must have struggled to help him, and how he had been oblivious to all the hardships she had been through until it was too late]] and ends up crying alone.
----> '''Noctis''': It's... so hard... Guess it was hard for you too. I'm sorry... I couldn't be there for you.
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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Aerith has a Lost Lenore in the form of Zack. The reason she joined Cloud's party to begin with is that Cloud ([[IJustWantToBeYou for one reason and another]]) is similar to Zack. Naturally, she then becomes Cloud's Lost Lenore when her inevitable sled occurs.
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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Aerith has a Lost Lenore in the form of Zack. The reason she joined Cloud's party party, to begin with is that Cloud ([[IJustWantToBeYou for one reason and another]]) is similar to Zack. Naturally, she then becomes Cloud's Lost Lenore when her inevitable sled occurs.
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* EtTuBrute:
** An EasterEgg of this exists in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. The Aeon Anima, Seymour's personal Aeon, is [[spoiler:the spirit of Seymour Guado's mother]]. If you summon Anima in the final battle against Seymour (the only Seymour battle you can have her for), he doesn't take it well:
--->"''You'' would oppose me as well?!? So be it!"
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', Sazh had no problem fighting with Vanille against PSICOM until [[spoiler:he realized that Vanille was the reason his son became a l'Cie he was about to kill her and commit suicide. He, fortunately, came back to his senses.]]
** An EasterEgg of this exists in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. The Aeon Anima, Seymour's personal Aeon, is [[spoiler:the spirit of Seymour Guado's mother]]. If you summon Anima in the final battle against Seymour (the only Seymour battle you can have her for), he doesn't take it well:
--->"''You'' would oppose me as well?!? So be it!"
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', Sazh had no problem fighting with Vanille against PSICOM until [[spoiler:he realized that Vanille was the reason his son became a l'Cie he was about to kill her and commit suicide. He, fortunately, came back to his senses.]]
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': "Moms are tough", but not tough enough to escape death. His failure in regards to the counterattack at Hanging Edge continues to metaphorically haunt Snow even as he tries to rescue Serah. It also physically haunts him in the form of Hope, the son of the woman who volunteered to assist him and misinterpreted that failure as Snow leaving her to die. It gets to the point where revenge is Hope's sole driving factor, and he almost exacts his revenge before a Sanctum mech blows them both to the streets below. They manage to smooth things out from that point forward.
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': "Moms are tough", but not tough enough to escape death. His failure in regards to the counterattack at Hanging Edge continues to metaphorically haunt Snow even as he tries to rescue Serah. It also physically haunts him in the form of Hope, the son of the woman who volunteered to assist him and misinterpreted that failure as Snow leaving her to die. It gets to the point where revenge is Hope's sole driving factor, and he almost exacts his revenge before a Sanctum mech blows them both to the streets below. They manage to smooth things out from that point forward.forward.
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Firion, Maria and Guy with Leon. [[spoiler:Even at the end, after his HeelFaceTurn, he suggests that too much has happened for them to go back to the way they were before, but Firion holds out hope]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Cloud and Sephiroth. Or at least that's how Cloud initially frames how they know one another. [[spoiler:In reality, Cloud and Sephiroth were never friends, but Zack and Sephiroth were and did act out this trope]].
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', there's [[spoiler:Zack and Angeal in addition to Sephiroth and Genesis]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Paine, Nooj, Baralai, and Gippal. [[spoiler: Nooj getting possessed two years ago and shooting at the rest of them pretty much destroyed their friendship, and there’s still resentment over that when your party eavesdrops on the latter three late in the game.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Firion, Maria and Guy with Leon. [[spoiler:Even at the end, after his HeelFaceTurn, he suggests that too much has happened for them to go back to the way they were before, but Firion holds out hope]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Cloud and Sephiroth. Or at least that's how Cloud initially frames how they know one another. [[spoiler:In reality, Cloud and Sephiroth were never friends, but Zack and Sephiroth were and did act out this trope]].
*** In the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', there's [[spoiler:Zack and Angeal in addition to Sephiroth and Genesis]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Paine, Nooj, Baralai, and Gippal. [[spoiler: Nooj getting possessed two years ago and shooting at the rest of them pretty much destroyed their friendship, and there’s still resentment over that when your party eavesdrops on the latter three late in the game.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn:
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Celes betrays the Empire, and joins the Returners after Locke saves her from torture. Kefka's plan to poison the entire town of Doma crosses her MoralEventHorizon. However, burning down Maranda is simply Empire evil, because she did participate in that.
*** Emperor Gestahl pretends to pull one of these creating a Disc One Ending following a DiscOneFinalDungeon, but it's a trap. The party [[TrapIsTheOnlyOption realizes this beforehand]], but they underestimate how far deep they are in.
*** When the above happens, General Leo actually pulls this off, and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies for his mutiny]].
** After defeating Zidane and friends three times in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' and getting a PyrrhicVictory after the third battle upon realizing Garnet's condition, General Beatrix joins your party for a couple of fights and seeks to atone for what she has done.
*** An unusual, less extreme example, but it counts. Steiner, even though he's in your party for a greater portion of the game, spends most of his time trying to sabotage the party and deliver Dagger back to the queen. Zidane and the others win his loyalty, eventually.
*** Even BigBad Kuja pulls this off before he dies at the end of the game. [[spoiler: Just when Zidane comes to pull off a HeroicBSOD to pick him up just as the Iifa Tree is about to crumble.]]
** Judge Gabranth in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' sides with TheEmpire after believing that his brother, Basch, betrayed them and his men. He even fights the party a few times but near the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: he realizes who the true evil is and assists the party for one battle. Gabranth dies after the war is over and Basch lives on in his name.]]
** Libertus Ostium in ''Anime/KingsglaiveFinalFantasyXV'' was among those in the Kingsglaive that turned against King Regis. However, towards the end of the film, he realizes that the Niflheim Empire are the true antagonists, changes allegiance to Nyx, and helped get Luna to the borders while Nyx battles General Glauca.
** [[spoiler:Meliadoul]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' (too bad this happens after Orlandu's already joined, however; everything she can do, he can do better). Also, Mediators can use their Invite skill on most enemies (as in, those who aren't plotting characters), recruiting them on the spot to your cause (well, with a bit of luck, anyway).
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]] in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy]]''. Terra was originally a lackey of Kefka, but thanks to some help from Vaan [[spoiler:and a little meddling from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Kuja]]]], she turned to Cosmos's side. While Cloud was an AntiVillain [[Analysis/AntiVillain Type IV]], as he shows concern toward his opponents in Prologus, warning Lightning not to underestimate the other Warriors of Chaos, and has no real motive (or incentive) to fight any of them, let alone Tifa. Since Cloud [[spoiler:has been through several cycles already, and more importantly, remembers them, so he's burnt out and unmotivated because he knows it's a waste of time. It's not like fighting any of the heroes or getting killed by one of them is going to change anything, they'll all just be back in the next cycle. But after Sephiroth attacks Tifa, he rebels against ''Chaos'' and got killed. His last wish to Cosmos was [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl to keep Tifa safe]]. Cosmos is so touched by this that she chooses him as her warriors on the next cycle]]. As for Tidus, [[spoiler:he was originally suckered into fighting for Chaos, but after taking a fatal blow from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII the Emperor]], his father Jecht sacrificed himself to save him [[FaceHeelTurn and left himself open to being turned to Chaos]], and Yuna helped him join Cosmos's army]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Celes betrays the Empire, and joins the Returners after Locke saves her from torture. Kefka's plan to poison the entire town of Doma crosses her MoralEventHorizon. However, burning down Maranda is simply Empire evil, because she did participate in that.
*** Emperor Gestahl pretends to pull one of these creating a Disc One Ending following a DiscOneFinalDungeon, but it's a trap. The party [[TrapIsTheOnlyOption realizes this beforehand]], but they underestimate how far deep they are in.
*** When the above happens, General Leo actually pulls this off, and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies for his mutiny]].
** After defeating Zidane and friends three times in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' and getting a PyrrhicVictory after the third battle upon realizing Garnet's condition, General Beatrix joins your party for a couple of fights and seeks to atone for what she has done.
*** An unusual, less extreme example, but it counts. Steiner, even though he's in your party for a greater portion of the game, spends most of his time trying to sabotage the party and deliver Dagger back to the queen. Zidane and the others win his loyalty, eventually.
*** Even BigBad Kuja pulls this off before he dies at the end of the game. [[spoiler: Just when Zidane comes to pull off a HeroicBSOD to pick him up just as the Iifa Tree is about to crumble.]]
** Judge Gabranth in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' sides with TheEmpire after believing that his brother, Basch, betrayed them and his men. He even fights the party a few times but near the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: he realizes who the true evil is and assists the party for one battle. Gabranth dies after the war is over and Basch lives on in his name.]]
** Libertus Ostium in ''Anime/KingsglaiveFinalFantasyXV'' was among those in the Kingsglaive that turned against King Regis. However, towards the end of the film, he realizes that the Niflheim Empire are the true antagonists, changes allegiance to Nyx, and helped get Luna to the borders while Nyx battles General Glauca.
** [[spoiler:Meliadoul]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' (too bad this happens after Orlandu's already joined, however; everything she can do, he can do better). Also, Mediators can use their Invite skill on most enemies (as in, those who aren't plotting characters), recruiting them on the spot to your cause (well, with a bit of luck, anyway).
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]] in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy]]''. Terra was originally a lackey of Kefka, but thanks to some help from Vaan [[spoiler:and a little meddling from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Kuja]]]], she turned to Cosmos's side. While Cloud was an AntiVillain [[Analysis/AntiVillain Type IV]], as he shows concern toward his opponents in Prologus, warning Lightning not to underestimate the other Warriors of Chaos, and has no real motive (or incentive) to fight any of them, let alone Tifa. Since Cloud [[spoiler:has been through several cycles already, and more importantly, remembers them, so he's burnt out and unmotivated because he knows it's a waste of time. It's not like fighting any of the heroes or getting killed by one of them is going to change anything, they'll all just be back in the next cycle. But after Sephiroth attacks Tifa, he rebels against ''Chaos'' and got killed. His last wish to Cosmos was [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl to keep Tifa safe]]. Cosmos is so touched by this that she chooses him as her warriors on the next cycle]]. As for Tidus, [[spoiler:he was originally suckered into fighting for Chaos, but after taking a fatal blow from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII the Emperor]], his father Jecht sacrificed himself to save him [[FaceHeelTurn and left himself open to being turned to Chaos]], and Yuna helped him join Cosmos's army]].
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** The [[BigBad villain]] from the very first ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]'', Garland's {{backstory}} states that he was once a famous hero. [[FaceHeelTurn That all changed]] when he kidnapped the princess of Cornelia in a bid to take over the kingdom.
** Kain from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', partly because of brainwashing, but also partly because of his envy for his best friend, Cecil, who was the boyfriend of the girl he had a crush on.
** Sephiroth in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' goes through a particularly malignant FaceHeelTurn in the main character Cloud's [[StartOfDarkness flashback]]...the awesomeness of which also made him the ultimate DracoInLeatherPants character.
*** The PSP game ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' (where you play as Zack, the guy Cloud absorbed the personality of) portrays this moment at the end. You even get to see Sephiroth before he went batshit. There are quite a few of the villains that do a HeelFaceTurn.
*** Dyne is an EvilFormerFriend to Barret. When [[EvilCorp Shinra]] betrayed and destroyed Barret and Dyne’s hometown in the BackStory, Dyne was seemingly killed, leading Barret to adopt Dyne’s daughter Marlene while joining the EcoTerrorist group Avalanche to fight Shinra. Except it turns out that Dyne survived and subsequently went insane, attracting the attention of Cloud’s group by going on a murder spree through the Gold Saucer, and then [[SuicideByCop threatening to murder his own daughter Marlene to force Barret into dueling him to the death]]. More or less, Shinra drove him so far past the DespairEventHorizon that he turned into an AxCrazy DeathSeeker who ultimately [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds turns out to be incapable of caring about anything or anyone anymore]], and kills himself after Barret defeats him in combat.
** Seifer in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' goes through a much more low-key version of this as well.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' there's a pair of paladins who were known for their superb swordsmanship and skills in combat. However, one of the paladins, Frimelda, is superior to her other paladin friend, Luc Sardac, in battle skills. Luc Sardac tries his best to match his skills with Frimelda's, but he could never get any better. Rather than accepting his limitations, Luc Sardac decides to kill Frimelda so that he would be the superior paladin. It didn't stick due to Frimelda's sheer force of will keeping her alive but as a zombie. When the zombified Frimelda and your party confront Luc Sardac over what happened, he decides to attack you.
** The [[BigBad villain]] from the very first ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]'', Garland's {{backstory}} states that he was once a famous hero. [[FaceHeelTurn That all changed]] when he kidnapped the princess of Cornelia in a bid to take over the kingdom.
** Kain from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', partly because of brainwashing, but also partly because of his envy for his best friend, Cecil, who was the boyfriend of the girl he had a crush on.
** Sephiroth in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' goes through a particularly malignant FaceHeelTurn in the main character Cloud's [[StartOfDarkness flashback]]...the awesomeness of which also made him the ultimate DracoInLeatherPants character.
*** The PSP game ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' (where you play as Zack, the guy Cloud absorbed the personality of) portrays this moment at the end. You even get to see Sephiroth before he went batshit. There are quite a few of the villains that do a HeelFaceTurn.
*** Dyne is an EvilFormerFriend to Barret. When [[EvilCorp Shinra]] betrayed and destroyed Barret and Dyne’s hometown in the BackStory, Dyne was seemingly killed, leading Barret to adopt Dyne’s daughter Marlene while joining the EcoTerrorist group Avalanche to fight Shinra. Except it turns out that Dyne survived and subsequently went insane, attracting the attention of Cloud’s group by going on a murder spree through the Gold Saucer, and then [[SuicideByCop threatening to murder his own daughter Marlene to force Barret into dueling him to the death]]. More or less, Shinra drove him so far past the DespairEventHorizon that he turned into an AxCrazy DeathSeeker who ultimately [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds turns out to be incapable of caring about anything or anyone anymore]], and kills himself after Barret defeats him in combat.
** Seifer in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' goes through a much more low-key version of this as well.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' there's a pair of paladins who were known for their superb swordsmanship and skills in combat. However, one of the paladins, Frimelda, is superior to her other paladin friend, Luc Sardac, in battle skills. Luc Sardac tries his best to match his skills with Frimelda's, but he could never get any better. Rather than accepting his limitations, Luc Sardac decides to kill Frimelda so that he would be the superior paladin. It didn't stick due to Frimelda's sheer force of will keeping her alive but as a zombie. When the zombified Frimelda and your party confront Luc Sardac over what happened, he decides to attack you.
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* BrokenPedestal:
** Cloud Strife got hit by this in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. As a teenager, he dreamed of joining the elite [=SOLDIER=] unit like his idol, the great warrior Sephiroth. When Cloud finally gets to go on a mission with Sephiroth, finding out that Sephiroth wasn't as noble as Cloud thought he was in the ''least'' of our hero's disappointments.
** Frimelda Lotice in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' had this happen to her. She was revered as a powerful Blademaster and fought alongside her friend Luc Sudarc in many battles. She, however, didn't know that Luc was ''hugely'' jealous of her, as he just wanted to surpass her but couldn't no matter how much he trained. So, ''he poisoned her'', sentencing her to wander Ivalice as a pink zombie...until Luso and the gang rescue her. They return her to human form with the help of a special potion, and to return the favor, she joins Luso's clan. And she's cute, to boot.
*** She starts off as a Paladin with Dual Wield already mastered AND she has two swords equipped from the get-go, along with great stats.
** Rurukuta in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has this towards his mentor Hamon. As children, Rurukuta and Chuchuto were taken in by Hamon and decided to become his students. When Rurukuta discovered how weak Hamon had become in his old age and realized that he'd been lying to everyone about his strength, he turned his back on Hamon and the Pugilist's Guild.
** Cloud Strife got hit by this in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. As a teenager, he dreamed of joining the elite [=SOLDIER=] unit like his idol, the great warrior Sephiroth. When Cloud finally gets to go on a mission with Sephiroth, finding out that Sephiroth wasn't as noble as Cloud thought he was in the ''least'' of our hero's disappointments.
** Frimelda Lotice in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' had this happen to her. She was revered as a powerful Blademaster and fought alongside her friend Luc Sudarc in many battles. She, however, didn't know that Luc was ''hugely'' jealous of her, as he just wanted to surpass her but couldn't no matter how much he trained. So, ''he poisoned her'', sentencing her to wander Ivalice as a pink zombie...until Luso and the gang rescue her. They return her to human form with the help of a special potion, and to return the favor, she joins Luso's clan. And she's cute, to boot.
*** She starts off as a Paladin with Dual Wield already mastered AND she has two swords equipped from the get-go, along with great stats.
** Rurukuta in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has this towards his mentor Hamon. As children, Rurukuta and Chuchuto were taken in by Hamon and decided to become his students. When Rurukuta discovered how weak Hamon had become in his old age and realized that he'd been lying to everyone about his strength, he turned his back on Hamon and the Pugilist's Guild.
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* TheLostLenore:
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Locke is guilt-ridden over the demise of his former love Rachel. She actually got amnesia while saving him from a bridge collapse and ''then'' died in an imperial invasion, both of which he is trying to atone for by acting protective over every woman he meets from then on (first Terra, and then Celes). Eventually, Rachel's spirit tells Locke he should move on with his life without feeling guilty.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Aerith has a Lost Lenore in the form of Zack. The reason she joined Cloud's party to begin with is that Cloud ([[IJustWantToBeYou for one reason and another]]) is similar to Zack. Naturally, she then becomes Cloud's Lost Lenore when her inevitable sled occurs.
** A male example is Lord Rassler to Ashe from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''. She keeps hallucinating that she sees his spirit following her around [[spoiler: and it turns out the Occurria were exploiting this trope to manipulate her]].
** Serah from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', though she has been crystallized instead of killed. It affects every main character, especially Snow and Lightning. [[spoiler:Serah's death at the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' evokes this in Lightning, Mog, Noel, and '''[[DeathSeeker especially]]''' Snow in ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII''.]]
** [[spoiler:Haurchefant]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', for [[spoiler:the Warrior of Light/Player character]]. He's the ImpliedLoveInterest, and his death breaks and marks a painful change in [[spoiler:the Warrior of Light]]'s attitude, which is lampshaded by several characters over the course of the story.
** [[spoiler: [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Lunafreya]]]] serves as this for [[spoiler: Noctis]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', as a good chunk of the second half of the story involves [[spoiler: him]] overcoming the PTSD [[spoiler: that accompanied him helplessly witness her death at Ardyn's hands,]] and the [[ItsAllMyFault guilt]] [[spoiler: of her using the last of [[HeroicSacrifice her strength]] to protect him and ensure his destiny fulfilled]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Locke is guilt-ridden over the demise of his former love Rachel. She actually got amnesia while saving him from a bridge collapse and ''then'' died in an imperial invasion, both of which he is trying to atone for by acting protective over every woman he meets from then on (first Terra, and then Celes). Eventually, Rachel's spirit tells Locke he should move on with his life without feeling guilty.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Aerith has a Lost Lenore in the form of Zack. The reason she joined Cloud's party to begin with is that Cloud ([[IJustWantToBeYou for one reason and another]]) is similar to Zack. Naturally, she then becomes Cloud's Lost Lenore when her inevitable sled occurs.
** A male example is Lord Rassler to Ashe from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''. She keeps hallucinating that she sees his spirit following her around [[spoiler: and it turns out the Occurria were exploiting this trope to manipulate her]].
** Serah from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', though she has been crystallized instead of killed. It affects every main character, especially Snow and Lightning. [[spoiler:Serah's death at the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' evokes this in Lightning, Mog, Noel, and '''[[DeathSeeker especially]]''' Snow in ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII''.]]
** [[spoiler:Haurchefant]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', for [[spoiler:the Warrior of Light/Player character]]. He's the ImpliedLoveInterest, and his death breaks and marks a painful change in [[spoiler:the Warrior of Light]]'s attitude, which is lampshaded by several characters over the course of the story.
** [[spoiler: [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Lunafreya]]]] serves as this for [[spoiler: Noctis]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', as a good chunk of the second half of the story involves [[spoiler: him]] overcoming the PTSD [[spoiler: that accompanied him helplessly witness her death at Ardyn's hands,]] and the [[ItsAllMyFault guilt]] [[spoiler: of her using the last of [[HeroicSacrifice her strength]] to protect him and ensure his destiny fulfilled]].
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' does a bunch of this with Cyan, who was unable to save his [[ILetGwenStacyDie wife]] and son in the siege of Doma. After an initial fit of berserker rage, he swears vengeance against Kefka for robbing him of his family. His latent guilt over the loss causes a HeroicBSOD later in the game when the heroes must journey into Cyan's subconscious to slay his psychological demons, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext who turn out to be the Three Stooges]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Cloud's guilt over failing to save Zack and then Aerith inspires him more than once to complete ''[[HeroicBSOD inaction]]''. Only an encouraging farewell from the two deceased characters at the end of Advent Children seems to have lifted this off his shoulders.
*** Vincent Valentine suffers from a grim backstory with regards to Lucrecia, though his response is the melancholic {{Goth}} to Cloud's {{Emo}}, and there's an element of the 'critical of the main hero's inability to the two of them.
*** Subverted in the online mode of ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus''. The main character is driven to sacrifice herself to destroy the Restrictor on the basis of memories of her little sister being cruelly murdered, only for Shelke to tell her corpse that she never had a sister; it was an implanted memory to get her to remove the Tsviets' captor so they could go on to try to bring about the end of the world.
** Inverted by Shelke herself, for whom the sacrifice of her older sister is the inspiration for her to join the good guys and become Vincent's MissionControl.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''
*** Wakka lost his parents when he was still a kid, resulting in him getting a PromotionToParent for his little brother Chappu. Even as Chappu became TheAce, still Wakka felt responsible for him and that he had to be a protective big brother. Then Chappu broke with Church teachings to join the Crusaders, who use forbidden technology in their fight against the EldritchAbomination Sin, and died in his first battle. Wakka responds by blaming Chappu's death on the Crusaders' use of forbidden weapons and becomes an almost fanatical follower of the religious laws who doesn't tolerate any challenges to the faith of Yevon.
*** Chappu's fiancee Lulu goes in the opposite direction by becoming deeply cold and cynical, and at one point she practically tells Tidus that Wakka is blaming "evil technology" for Chappu's death in part so Wakka won't have to acknowledge his own role or even Chappu's in the choices that Chappu made.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' has Paine, who is extremely cynical and barely expresses anything positive unless she feels strongly about it. In the past, she was a sphere recorder for Nooj, Gippal, and Baralai during their missions and she was as energetic and happy as the guys were. The group were then thrown into an incident where [[spoiler:Barali turned on the group (due to Shuyin possessing Barali's body) and attacked them, causing Nooj and Gippal to retaliate while Paine could do nothing but watch.]] The group never talked about the incident again, but there was distrust among them in the air and Paine was left with more questions than answers. The friendship among everyone was all but over, which was likely why Paine is always in a cynical mood. Right before the final battle, Paine watches a recording of herself with her friends in a time when she was happy and she wondered what happened to that side of her.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'':
*** Delita starts out as Ramza's [[TheLancer trusted companion]]. But when his little sister Tietra is [[ShootTheHostage killed in cold blood]] by an [[AristocratsAreEvil arrogant, uncaring noble]] [[FaceHeelTurn in his own party]] who sees "lesser" people as tools, he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the very society that allowed this situation to unfold. He, therefore, joins up with the CorruptChurch's AncientConspiracy, becomes a MysteriousProtector to a candidate to the throne, [[TheChessmaster deftly manipulates, outwits]], or murders any threat to ThePlan, and ultimately proves to be a self-serving VillainWithGoodPublicity [[HeWhoFightsMonsters who sees everyone around him (even his former best friend) as a tool to become the undisputed King of Ivalice]].
*** Wiegraf. As commander of the Corpse Brigade, he used to have enough honor to wish for the well-being of the troops drafted from commoners and peasants, and only campaigned for proper reparations for those left to rot by the nobles after the war. When he catches word of the death of his sister Milleuda, he loses his mind and seeks power at all costs in order to claim his revenge. But when Ramza later confronts him whether Milleuda would have wanted him to (literally) [[DealWithTheDevil sell his soul]], he says he has already moved past caring.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' does a bunch of this with Cyan, who was unable to save his [[ILetGwenStacyDie wife]] and son in the siege of Doma. After an initial fit of berserker rage, he swears vengeance against Kefka for robbing him of his family. His latent guilt over the loss causes a HeroicBSOD later in the game when the heroes must journey into Cyan's subconscious to slay his psychological demons, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext who turn out to be the Three Stooges]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Cloud's guilt over failing to save Zack and then Aerith inspires him more than once to complete ''[[HeroicBSOD inaction]]''. Only an encouraging farewell from the two deceased characters at the end of Advent Children seems to have lifted this off his shoulders.
*** Vincent Valentine suffers from a grim backstory with regards to Lucrecia, though his response is the melancholic {{Goth}} to Cloud's {{Emo}}, and there's an element of the 'critical of the main hero's inability to the two of them.
*** Subverted in the online mode of ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus''. The main character is driven to sacrifice herself to destroy the Restrictor on the basis of memories of her little sister being cruelly murdered, only for Shelke to tell her corpse that she never had a sister; it was an implanted memory to get her to remove the Tsviets' captor so they could go on to try to bring about the end of the world.
** Inverted by Shelke herself, for whom the sacrifice of her older sister is the inspiration for her to join the good guys and become Vincent's MissionControl.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''
*** Wakka lost his parents when he was still a kid, resulting in him getting a PromotionToParent for his little brother Chappu. Even as Chappu became TheAce, still Wakka felt responsible for him and that he had to be a protective big brother. Then Chappu broke with Church teachings to join the Crusaders, who use forbidden technology in their fight against the EldritchAbomination Sin, and died in his first battle. Wakka responds by blaming Chappu's death on the Crusaders' use of forbidden weapons and becomes an almost fanatical follower of the religious laws who doesn't tolerate any challenges to the faith of Yevon.
*** Chappu's fiancee Lulu goes in the opposite direction by becoming deeply cold and cynical, and at one point she practically tells Tidus that Wakka is blaming "evil technology" for Chappu's death in part so Wakka won't have to acknowledge his own role or even Chappu's in the choices that Chappu made.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' has Paine, who is extremely cynical and barely expresses anything positive unless she feels strongly about it. In the past, she was a sphere recorder for Nooj, Gippal, and Baralai during their missions and she was as energetic and happy as the guys were. The group were then thrown into an incident where [[spoiler:Barali turned on the group (due to Shuyin possessing Barali's body) and attacked them, causing Nooj and Gippal to retaliate while Paine could do nothing but watch.]] The group never talked about the incident again, but there was distrust among them in the air and Paine was left with more questions than answers. The friendship among everyone was all but over, which was likely why Paine is always in a cynical mood. Right before the final battle, Paine watches a recording of herself with her friends in a time when she was happy and she wondered what happened to that side of her.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'':
*** Delita starts out as Ramza's [[TheLancer trusted companion]]. But when his little sister Tietra is [[ShootTheHostage killed in cold blood]] by an [[AristocratsAreEvil arrogant, uncaring noble]] [[FaceHeelTurn in his own party]] who sees "lesser" people as tools, he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the very society that allowed this situation to unfold. He, therefore, joins up with the CorruptChurch's AncientConspiracy, becomes a MysteriousProtector to a candidate to the throne, [[TheChessmaster deftly manipulates, outwits]], or murders any threat to ThePlan, and ultimately proves to be a self-serving VillainWithGoodPublicity [[HeWhoFightsMonsters who sees everyone around him (even his former best friend) as a tool to become the undisputed King of Ivalice]].
*** Wiegraf. As commander of the Corpse Brigade, he used to have enough honor to wish for the well-being of the troops drafted from commoners and peasants, and only campaigned for proper reparations for those left to rot by the nobles after the war. When he catches word of the death of his sister Milleuda, he loses his mind and seeks power at all costs in order to claim his revenge. But when Ramza later confronts him whether Milleuda would have wanted him to (literally) [[DealWithTheDevil sell his soul]], he says he has already moved past caring.
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* FreudianExcuse:
** The UsefulNotes/NintendoDS remake of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' gives this to Golbez. [[spoiler:His father was killed by the town for teaching magic, and his mother died giving birth to [[TheHero his younger brother, Cecil]]. The hate he generated was enough for Zemus to manipulate him into stealing the crystals.]] According to [[WordOfGod Takashi Tokita]], this was originally written down in the script, but 3/4 of the script was removed in the Super Famicom version, and it wasn't until they made the DS remake that they could implement it. In other words, the DS remake was actually more of a director's cut.
** Downplayed with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'''s Kefka, who's insane because the process that made him a MagiTek Knight shattered his sanity.
** Sephiroth from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' was raised by his father, the evil mad scientist Hojo, who regarded him as little more than a human lab rat and was trying to turn him into the perfect super-soldier. Obviously, Hojo [[GoneHorriblyRight mostly succeeded]]. Being told that his mother died giving birth to him and then finding out that his "mother" is a monster couldn't have helped, either.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'':
*** ''Everything'' regarding AntiHero Squall's screwed-up mental state can be traced back to [[spoiler:separation issues at a very young age when Ellone was taken away from him at the orphanage]]. This is compounded by an apparent [[ThereAreNoTherapists complete lack of emotional support]] following [[spoiler:their separation, and by the fact that junctioning Guardian Forces during his training caused him to forget his childhood, making it impossible for him to re-evaluate his childhood trauma from a more mature perspective.]]
*** [[spoiler:Ultimecia's whole motivation behind her evil is being feared and hated for something she hasn't even done and doesn't know she's going to do yet.]]
** One was given to the recurring villain of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', [[spoiler:Seymour Guado]]. In a nutshell, [[spoiler:non-human dad marries human mum, but his species' xenophobic civilization doesn't like that their leader married a human, so she and Seymour are exiled to a long-abandoned temple. Mum decides that Seymour will need to be powerful to be accepted, so she undergoes a procedure that will allow him to call on her as a powerful summon beast but will also turn her into a statue while young Seymour is crying for her not to, effectively meaning that he's been abandoned by both parents. Summon Beast Mummy is a monster who looks like a zombie trapped in a venus flytrap with a demon for a lower half.]] Even worse is that after this, Seymour was expected to use said beast to destroy the monster Sin, which would make him famous throughout the land... and also kill him.
** [[spoiler:Shuyin]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'', was murdered along with his lover. He became Unsent as a result, and was then imprisoned in a device that forced him to relive those murders, over and over again, for a ''millennium''. It is [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds entirely understandable]] that, on finally escaping, he devotes himself to reactivating [[LostSuperweapon Vegnagun]], on the grounds that obliterating the country that tortured him would keep it from [[NeverBeHurtAgain ever happening to him again]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', there's the cruel Doman despot Yotsuyu, [[spoiler:who was left with her aunt after her mother died when she was young. Her aunt had no love for her and insulted her by constantly referring to her as a weak child. She was given away to a drunken old man to be married, who'd beat her constantly. When he died, she was forced to work in a pleasure house to work off his debts. When the Garlean Empire came knocking in Doma, she grabbed hold of the chance to take revenge, first becoming a spy, then becoming the ''de facto'' ruler, using her power to crush the spirits of the Doman people in revenge for her treatment.]]
** Ardyn from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has an entire TraumaCongaLine as his StartOfDarkness: Initially, he was [[spoiler:supposed to be TheChosenOne, the first king of the kingdom of Lucis, [[DivineRightOfKings appointed by the gods themselves]]. As part of his role, the gods sent him forth on a mission to cure people of the Starscourge, a MysticalPlague that turned humans into daemons. And he gladly did just that: Upon the gods' command, [[MessianicArchetype Ardyn went forth and cured countless by taking the plague into his own body]]. It was then that the gods decreed that Ardyn had defiled himself, appointed his younger brother to take his place as the rightful king, and [[BarredFromTheAfterlife barred his soul from entering the afterlife]]. And then [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Ardyn's brother branded him a daemon, had him ostracized]], and [[{{Unperson}} struck all records about him from the books]]. What's worse is that Ardyn, now that his body plays host to the Starscourge and his soul is unable to pass on, [[CompleteImmortality can no longer die]]. Ultimately, his RageAgainstTheHeavens and dedication to ending the line of Lucis comes across as nothing short of sympathetic.]]
** The UsefulNotes/NintendoDS remake of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' gives this to Golbez. [[spoiler:His father was killed by the town for teaching magic, and his mother died giving birth to [[TheHero his younger brother, Cecil]]. The hate he generated was enough for Zemus to manipulate him into stealing the crystals.]] According to [[WordOfGod Takashi Tokita]], this was originally written down in the script, but 3/4 of the script was removed in the Super Famicom version, and it wasn't until they made the DS remake that they could implement it. In other words, the DS remake was actually more of a director's cut.
** Downplayed with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'''s Kefka, who's insane because the process that made him a MagiTek Knight shattered his sanity.
** Sephiroth from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' was raised by his father, the evil mad scientist Hojo, who regarded him as little more than a human lab rat and was trying to turn him into the perfect super-soldier. Obviously, Hojo [[GoneHorriblyRight mostly succeeded]]. Being told that his mother died giving birth to him and then finding out that his "mother" is a monster couldn't have helped, either.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'':
*** ''Everything'' regarding AntiHero Squall's screwed-up mental state can be traced back to [[spoiler:separation issues at a very young age when Ellone was taken away from him at the orphanage]]. This is compounded by an apparent [[ThereAreNoTherapists complete lack of emotional support]] following [[spoiler:their separation, and by the fact that junctioning Guardian Forces during his training caused him to forget his childhood, making it impossible for him to re-evaluate his childhood trauma from a more mature perspective.]]
*** [[spoiler:Ultimecia's whole motivation behind her evil is being feared and hated for something she hasn't even done and doesn't know she's going to do yet.]]
** One was given to the recurring villain of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', [[spoiler:Seymour Guado]]. In a nutshell, [[spoiler:non-human dad marries human mum, but his species' xenophobic civilization doesn't like that their leader married a human, so she and Seymour are exiled to a long-abandoned temple. Mum decides that Seymour will need to be powerful to be accepted, so she undergoes a procedure that will allow him to call on her as a powerful summon beast but will also turn her into a statue while young Seymour is crying for her not to, effectively meaning that he's been abandoned by both parents. Summon Beast Mummy is a monster who looks like a zombie trapped in a venus flytrap with a demon for a lower half.]] Even worse is that after this, Seymour was expected to use said beast to destroy the monster Sin, which would make him famous throughout the land... and also kill him.
** [[spoiler:Shuyin]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'', was murdered along with his lover. He became Unsent as a result, and was then imprisoned in a device that forced him to relive those murders, over and over again, for a ''millennium''. It is [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds entirely understandable]] that, on finally escaping, he devotes himself to reactivating [[LostSuperweapon Vegnagun]], on the grounds that obliterating the country that tortured him would keep it from [[NeverBeHurtAgain ever happening to him again]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', there's the cruel Doman despot Yotsuyu, [[spoiler:who was left with her aunt after her mother died when she was young. Her aunt had no love for her and insulted her by constantly referring to her as a weak child. She was given away to a drunken old man to be married, who'd beat her constantly. When he died, she was forced to work in a pleasure house to work off his debts. When the Garlean Empire came knocking in Doma, she grabbed hold of the chance to take revenge, first becoming a spy, then becoming the ''de facto'' ruler, using her power to crush the spirits of the Doman people in revenge for her treatment.]]
** Ardyn from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has an entire TraumaCongaLine as his StartOfDarkness: Initially, he was [[spoiler:supposed to be TheChosenOne, the first king of the kingdom of Lucis, [[DivineRightOfKings appointed by the gods themselves]]. As part of his role, the gods sent him forth on a mission to cure people of the Starscourge, a MysticalPlague that turned humans into daemons. And he gladly did just that: Upon the gods' command, [[MessianicArchetype Ardyn went forth and cured countless by taking the plague into his own body]]. It was then that the gods decreed that Ardyn had defiled himself, appointed his younger brother to take his place as the rightful king, and [[BarredFromTheAfterlife barred his soul from entering the afterlife]]. And then [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Ardyn's brother branded him a daemon, had him ostracized]], and [[{{Unperson}} struck all records about him from the books]]. What's worse is that Ardyn, now that his body plays host to the Starscourge and his soul is unable to pass on, [[CompleteImmortality can no longer die]]. Ultimately, his RageAgainstTheHeavens and dedication to ending the line of Lucis comes across as nothing short of sympathetic.]]
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*** Then it goes downhill from there... on all four sides of the war. [[spoiler:In Rubrum thousands died (including all of Class Zero save Machina and Rem), and the ending reveals that the entire nation was left ravaged and would only recover after at least fifty years under Machina and Rem's guidance. On Milites thousands of soldiers and mechs died serving a charismatic leader who was DeadAllAlong, possessed by an OmnicidalManiac, including those ''reduced to Phantoma'' by [[SummonMagic Alexander]], the summoning of which [[CastFromHitPoints required the]] HeroicSacrifice of hundreds of Rubrum cadets, as well as instructor Kurasame Susaya and Alexander's main summoner, Caetuna. Lorica was totally destroyed, its king, Gilgamesh, left to [[WalkingTheEarth wander Oriense without a purpose in life]]. Concordia was shaken by its queen's death, and the revelation that its (mostly ceremonial) king, long scheming for a return to a patriarchal rule, had a hand in it.]]
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*** Then it goes downhill from there... on all four sides of the war. [[spoiler:In Rubrum thousands died (including all of Class Zero save Machina and Rem), and the ending reveals that the entire nation was left ravaged and would only recover after at least fifty years under Machina and Rem's guidance. On Milites thousands of soldiers and mechs died serving a charismatic leader who was DeadAllAlong, possessed by an OmnicidalManiac, including those ''reduced to Phantoma'' by [[SummonMagic Alexander]], the summoning of which [[CastFromHitPoints required the]] HeroicSacrifice of hundreds of Rubrum cadets, as well as instructor Kurasame Susaya and Alexander's main summoner, Caetuna. Lorica was totally destroyed, its king, Gilgamesh, left to [[WalkingTheEarth wander Oriense without a purpose in life]]. Concordia was shaken by its queen's death, and the revelation that its (mostly ceremonial) king, long scheming for a return to a patriarchal rule, had a hand in it.]]]]
* YouKilledMyFather:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': After Galuf is killed by Exdeath, his granddaughter Krile takes his place in the party (and magically inherits his abilities learned). Since the game only has four characters at a time, Krile will always be present for the final battle with Exdeath.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Averted. It is heavily implied that Professor Gast was the father of Aerith Gainsborough. He was murdered by Professor Hojo, and Hojo then subjected Ifalna and their daughter, Aerith, to seven years' worth of horrific experiments, which ultimately took its toll on Ifalna when they eventually escaped. However, Aerith never knew that Hojo killed her father, and you only get to find out about this after Aerith is dead.
*** This is Tifa's personal motivation for going after Sephiroth. He single-handedly killed her father, her friends, and everyone she knew and loved in Nibelheim (minus Cloud), and he comes scarily close to killing her as well. Much of the anger towards Sephiroth still remains in Tifa's later portrayals, including physically attacking him in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy''.
*** Sephiroth also killed Cloud's mother, though it goes unmentioned in the original game, with Cloud being simply unable to describe to his friends what he saw in his burning house, though he is seen collapsing with grief in the flashback. Cloud does get to avenge his mother and Tifa's father as well as [[DoomedHometown Nibelheim]] as whole, at least three times in the canon.
---->Give me back my mother, Tifa and the whole village... I used to admire you.\\
-- '''Cloud''' (stabbing Sephiroth) ''Anime/LastOrderFinalFantasyVII''
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', Sephiroth ''brags'' about killing Cloud's mother, and even [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied describes her final moments]] to send Cloud into a rage.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': "Moms are tough", but not tough enough to escape death. His failure in regards to the counterattack at Hanging Edge continues to metaphorically haunt Snow even as he tries to rescue Serah. It also physically haunts him in the form of Hope, the son of the woman who volunteered to assist him and misinterpreted that failure as Snow leaving her to die. It gets to the point where revenge is Hope's sole driving factor, and he almost exacts his revenge before a Sanctum mech blows them both to the streets below. They manage to smooth things out from that point forward.
* YouKilledMyFather:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': After Galuf is killed by Exdeath, his granddaughter Krile takes his place in the party (and magically inherits his abilities learned). Since the game only has four characters at a time, Krile will always be present for the final battle with Exdeath.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** Averted. It is heavily implied that Professor Gast was the father of Aerith Gainsborough. He was murdered by Professor Hojo, and Hojo then subjected Ifalna and their daughter, Aerith, to seven years' worth of horrific experiments, which ultimately took its toll on Ifalna when they eventually escaped. However, Aerith never knew that Hojo killed her father, and you only get to find out about this after Aerith is dead.
*** This is Tifa's personal motivation for going after Sephiroth. He single-handedly killed her father, her friends, and everyone she knew and loved in Nibelheim (minus Cloud), and he comes scarily close to killing her as well. Much of the anger towards Sephiroth still remains in Tifa's later portrayals, including physically attacking him in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy''.
*** Sephiroth also killed Cloud's mother, though it goes unmentioned in the original game, with Cloud being simply unable to describe to his friends what he saw in his burning house, though he is seen collapsing with grief in the flashback. Cloud does get to avenge his mother and Tifa's father as well as [[DoomedHometown Nibelheim]] as whole, at least three times in the canon.
---->Give me back my mother, Tifa and the whole village... I used to admire you.\\
-- '''Cloud''' (stabbing Sephiroth) ''Anime/LastOrderFinalFantasyVII''
*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', Sephiroth ''brags'' about killing Cloud's mother, and even [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied describes her final moments]] to send Cloud into a rage.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': "Moms are tough", but not tough enough to escape death. His failure in regards to the counterattack at Hanging Edge continues to metaphorically haunt Snow even as he tries to rescue Serah. It also physically haunts him in the form of Hope, the son of the woman who volunteered to assist him and misinterpreted that failure as Snow leaving her to die. It gets to the point where revenge is Hope's sole driving factor, and he almost exacts his revenge before a Sanctum mech blows them both to the streets below. They manage to smooth things out from that point forward.
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*** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' doesn't use dead parents as the main plot point, but it's still there. Luso's parents aren't mentioned at all except for one scene where it's revealed that both of his parents died while he was young, leaving him in the care of his aunt. Adelle's parents also died while she was young because [[spoiler: her entire village came down with a plague and she was the sole survivor.]]
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*** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' doesn't use dead parents as the main plot point, but it's still there. Luso's parents aren't mentioned at all except for one scene where it's revealed that both of his parents died while he was young, leaving him in the care of his aunt. Adelle's parents also died while she was young because [[spoiler: her entire village came down with a plague and she was the sole survivor.]]
* WarIsHell:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' starts off with the heroes being orphaned by war and barely surviving the siege on their hometown. Throughout the course of the game, [[AnyoneCanDie numerous major characters]] and [[PlayerPunch innocent NPCs]] are killed, including [[spoiler:several towns that are ''completely destroyed'' with no survivors]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', to prevent Princess Garnet from experiencing this is exactly why Steiner doesn't want her to get involved with investigating whether her mother, Queen Brahne, was responsible for an attack on Burmecia.
--->'''Steiner''': War is a terrible thing! You must never experience it like I have.
** Similarly, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', Basch tells Ashe that if he could but protect one person from war's horror, he would, noting that shame is nothing to him after the loss of his own homeland of the Kingdom of Nabradia. Larsa, too, aims for peace to protect the ordinary citizenry from the trials of war.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has the war between Eorzea, Garlemald, and the beast tribes' summoned primals as one of its central conflicts. As the [[ChosenOne Warrior of Light]], the PlayerCharacter is at the forefront of these and other conflicts, witnessing the deaths of innocents and close friends one after another. ''Stormblood'', in particular, shows that the wars in Ala Mhigo and Doma have not only physically ravaged the nations, but left their populace defeated and broken: it takes great effort to convince the Domans, alone, to overcome their fear of reprisal from the Empire and rise up in rebellion. Near the end of ''Stormblood'' and into ''Shadowbringers'', the situation becomes increasingly perilous. [[spoiler:As revealed by the Crystal Exarch, Eorzea's future was in peril due to Black Rose, a deadly chemical weapon developed by Garlemald that, combined with a massive influx of light aether from the destruction of The First, poisoned the entire planet, killing all of the heroes (including the Warrior of Light) and destroying civilization.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' pulls no punches in showing how horrific and brutal war can be right from the start.
*** The intro shows the beginning of the war between Rubrum and Milites. What begins with an effective defense by Rubrum takes a turn when Milites deploys an AntiMagic weapon, leaving Rubrum's forces (ChildSoldiers at that) at the mercy of an invading army that has no qualms with shooting anyone that crosses their path, regardless of if they are wounded or surrendering.
*** Its opening cinematic features the graphic death of Izana Kunagiri and his war chocobo from injuries as Ace, Queen and Jack stand helplessly (and all Ace can do is [[ManlyTears weep for him]]). There isn't much that could make war seem less glorious than showing [[TheHero Machina's]] older brother reduced to the level of complete freakout from his pain and fear of dying.
*** Then it goes downhill from there... on all four sides of the war. [[spoiler:In Rubrum thousands died (including all of Class Zero save Machina and Rem), and the ending reveals that the entire nation was left ravaged and would only recover after at least fifty years under Machina and Rem's guidance. On Milites thousands of soldiers and mechs died serving a charismatic leader who was DeadAllAlong, possessed by an OmnicidalManiac, including those ''reduced to Phantoma'' by [[SummonMagic Alexander]], the summoning of which [[CastFromHitPoints required the]] HeroicSacrifice of hundreds of Rubrum cadets, as well as instructor Kurasame Susaya and Alexander's main summoner, Caetuna. Lorica was totally destroyed, its king, Gilgamesh, left to [[WalkingTheEarth wander Oriense without a purpose in life]]. Concordia was shaken by its queen's death, and the revelation that its (mostly ceremonial) king, long scheming for a return to a patriarchal rule, had a hand in it.]]
* WarIsHell:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' starts off with the heroes being orphaned by war and barely surviving the siege on their hometown. Throughout the course of the game, [[AnyoneCanDie numerous major characters]] and [[PlayerPunch innocent NPCs]] are killed, including [[spoiler:several towns that are ''completely destroyed'' with no survivors]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', to prevent Princess Garnet from experiencing this is exactly why Steiner doesn't want her to get involved with investigating whether her mother, Queen Brahne, was responsible for an attack on Burmecia.
--->'''Steiner''': War is a terrible thing! You must never experience it like I have.
** Similarly, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', Basch tells Ashe that if he could but protect one person from war's horror, he would, noting that shame is nothing to him after the loss of his own homeland of the Kingdom of Nabradia. Larsa, too, aims for peace to protect the ordinary citizenry from the trials of war.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has the war between Eorzea, Garlemald, and the beast tribes' summoned primals as one of its central conflicts. As the [[ChosenOne Warrior of Light]], the PlayerCharacter is at the forefront of these and other conflicts, witnessing the deaths of innocents and close friends one after another. ''Stormblood'', in particular, shows that the wars in Ala Mhigo and Doma have not only physically ravaged the nations, but left their populace defeated and broken: it takes great effort to convince the Domans, alone, to overcome their fear of reprisal from the Empire and rise up in rebellion. Near the end of ''Stormblood'' and into ''Shadowbringers'', the situation becomes increasingly perilous. [[spoiler:As revealed by the Crystal Exarch, Eorzea's future was in peril due to Black Rose, a deadly chemical weapon developed by Garlemald that, combined with a massive influx of light aether from the destruction of The First, poisoned the entire planet, killing all of the heroes (including the Warrior of Light) and destroying civilization.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' pulls no punches in showing how horrific and brutal war can be right from the start.
*** The intro shows the beginning of the war between Rubrum and Milites. What begins with an effective defense by Rubrum takes a turn when Milites deploys an AntiMagic weapon, leaving Rubrum's forces (ChildSoldiers at that) at the mercy of an invading army that has no qualms with shooting anyone that crosses their path, regardless of if they are wounded or surrendering.
*** Its opening cinematic features the graphic death of Izana Kunagiri and his war chocobo from injuries as Ace, Queen and Jack stand helplessly (and all Ace can do is [[ManlyTears weep for him]]). There isn't much that could make war seem less glorious than showing [[TheHero Machina's]] older brother reduced to the level of complete freakout from his pain and fear of dying.
*** Then it goes downhill from there... on all four sides of the war. [[spoiler:In Rubrum thousands died (including all of Class Zero save Machina and Rem), and the ending reveals that the entire nation was left ravaged and would only recover after at least fifty years under Machina and Rem's guidance. On Milites thousands of soldiers and mechs died serving a charismatic leader who was DeadAllAlong, possessed by an OmnicidalManiac, including those ''reduced to Phantoma'' by [[SummonMagic Alexander]], the summoning of which [[CastFromHitPoints required the]] HeroicSacrifice of hundreds of Rubrum cadets, as well as instructor Kurasame Susaya and Alexander's main summoner, Caetuna. Lorica was totally destroyed, its king, Gilgamesh, left to [[WalkingTheEarth wander Oriense without a purpose in life]]. Concordia was shaken by its queen's death, and the revelation that its (mostly ceremonial) king, long scheming for a return to a patriarchal rule, had a hand in it.]]
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** Hojo and Lucrecia from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' did genetic experiments on their son while he was still in the womb in the name of science. Lucrecia at least harbored some regret for her part in the genetic experiments, even causing her to nearly commit suicide [[spoiler:and then willingly place herself in a FateWorseThanDeath]]. Hojo, on the other hand, had absolutely no regret for what he did; in fact, he enjoyed every single moment of it even afterward. The child, several years after his birth, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation did not take this well at all]] upon learning of this. Who was the child, you may ask? '''[[BigBad Sephiroth]].'''
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Tidus's father often insulted and berated his son for being a crybaby. After believing Jecht had died at sea, Tidus's mother also pined and [[ParentalAbandonment eventually died]]. As a result, Tidus harbored bitterness towards his father and never quite forgave him for it. While it's made clear Jecht actually ''did'' love his son, the man never, at any point in his life, told him such -- throughout both that game and ''Dissidia'', Jecht only admits his love for Tidus when the younger man is either absent or unconscious (or when he himself is dying).
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV: Stormblood'' has [[spoiler:Yotsuyu, the cruel BoomerangBigot Viceroy of Doma. She was adopted by her relatives after her birth parents died and endured horrific abuse from her stepmother (who played favorites with her adopted brother, Asahi) before being married off by her stepfather to an abusive drunk who died pennilessly and forced Yotsuyu into prostitution to pay off his debts. Her harrowing experiences in her formative years molded her into a cruel and heartless woman who takes pleasure in inflicting misery upon her own countrymen. Later in the ''Stormblood'' MSQ, she [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent suffers amnesia and seems to be better off for it]], only for her equally asshole-ish brother Asahi to arrange a reunion as part of his plans to restore her memories and subvert attempts at peace between Doma and Garlemald. Immediately upon seeing her, her mother berates her before her father mentions possibly selling her back into prostitution. Having regained her memories by this point, Yotsuyu [[KarmicDeath viciously murders]] [[SelfMadeOrphan them both]].]]
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Cid of the Lufaine]] is revealed in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia]]'' to be the ''father'' of [[spoiler: Chaos, and later the Warrior of light]]. While he technically only acted according to the circumstances put upon him and his family by the state seeking to exploit his wisdom, he appears to be responsible for [[spoiler: the creation of the cycle of war between Chaos and Cosmos]]. Thankfully, he later becomes horrified by what his desire for revenge had done and tries to correct his mistakes.
** Hojo and Lucrecia from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' did genetic experiments on their son while he was still in the womb in the name of science. Lucrecia at least harbored some regret for her part in the genetic experiments, even causing her to nearly commit suicide [[spoiler:and then willingly place herself in a FateWorseThanDeath]]. Hojo, on the other hand, had absolutely no regret for what he did; in fact, he enjoyed every single moment of it even afterward. The child, several years after his birth, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation did not take this well at all]] upon learning of this. Who was the child, you may ask? '''[[BigBad Sephiroth]].'''
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Tidus's father often insulted and berated his son for being a crybaby. After believing Jecht had died at sea, Tidus's mother also pined and [[ParentalAbandonment eventually died]]. As a result, Tidus harbored bitterness towards his father and never quite forgave him for it. While it's made clear Jecht actually ''did'' love his son, the man never, at any point in his life, told him such -- throughout both that game and ''Dissidia'', Jecht only admits his love for Tidus when the younger man is either absent or unconscious (or when he himself is dying).
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV: Stormblood'' has [[spoiler:Yotsuyu, the cruel BoomerangBigot Viceroy of Doma. She was adopted by her relatives after her birth parents died and endured horrific abuse from her stepmother (who played favorites with her adopted brother, Asahi) before being married off by her stepfather to an abusive drunk who died pennilessly and forced Yotsuyu into prostitution to pay off his debts. Her harrowing experiences in her formative years molded her into a cruel and heartless woman who takes pleasure in inflicting misery upon her own countrymen. Later in the ''Stormblood'' MSQ, she [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent suffers amnesia and seems to be better off for it]], only for her equally asshole-ish brother Asahi to arrange a reunion as part of his plans to restore her memories and subvert attempts at peace between Doma and Garlemald. Immediately upon seeing her, her mother berates her before her father mentions possibly selling her back into prostitution. Having regained her memories by this point, Yotsuyu [[KarmicDeath viciously murders]] [[SelfMadeOrphan them both]].]]
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Cid of the Lufaine]] is revealed in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia]]'' to be the ''father'' of [[spoiler: Chaos, and later the Warrior of light]]. While he technically only acted according to the circumstances put upon him and his family by the state seeking to exploit his wisdom, he appears to be responsible for [[spoiler: the creation of the cycle of war between Chaos and Cosmos]]. Thankfully, he later becomes horrified by what his desire for revenge had done and tries to correct his mistakes.
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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud had a lonely and alienated childhood in Nibelheim. He was apparently shunned and ostracized by many of the children, especially Tifa's close friends, as well as being viewed as a troublemaker by the adults. This makes it easy for Tifa's father to blame Cloud for causing Tifa's near-fatal accident when she was eight years old when it actually wasn't his fault -- running off into the Nibel Mountains was entirely Tifa's idea, not Cloud's. The years of social isolation led to deep emotional insecurities which drive Cloud to leave Nibelheim in an attempt to become a famous hero and thereby prove to everyone that he's not a loser. Unfortunately, those same insecurities prevent Cloud from getting into SOLDIER and also contribute to his mental breakdown during Hojo's experiments.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' applies to trope to an entire ''nation''. The nation of Garlemald is composed of people who are physically and intellectually superior to the other races. However, the Garleans have a genetic makeup that prevents them from using magic. According to the [[WordOfGod supplementary material in the lore book]], all the other nations either ignored, bullied, or mocked the Garleans for their inferiority with magic. Once the Garleans discover ceruleum, they harvest it to make huge advancements in technology and weapons that are miles above what the rest of Eorzea uses. With the power of magitek, the Garleans form their empire and [[FromNobodyToNightmare aim for the complete subjugation of Eorzea]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'': Marche, Mewt, and Ritz receive this treatment from their classmates in St. Ivalice for different reasons: Marche because he's the new kid, Mewt because he's painfully shy and quiet and carries his teddy bear everywhere, and Ritz because of her white hair, quick temper, and outspoken attitude. As a result, the three end up befriending each other pretty quickly. Marche's brother Doned also considers himself to be subject to this, since all the other kids can walk and he requires a wheelchair, feeling left behind because of this. [[spoiler: It's revealed that it's just his self-defeatist attitude about his illness that's causing him to shut himself off from others]].
** [[BadassCrew Class Zero]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' is marginalized by most of the faculty and fellow students of the Peristylium, Class Zero, in turn, isolates [[NewTransferStudent Rem and Machina]] as outsiders and keeps them LockedOutOfTheLoop.
* ParentalAbandonment (MissingMom and DisappearedDad): ''All'' of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games are like this. You could probably count the number of characters in the whole series that actually ''have'' a named parent on one hand, and ''forget'' finding a character with both a named mother and father.
** All heroes in all versions ([[VideoGameRemake so far]]) of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' are amnesiac and, thus do not remember their parents. True, this doesn't necessarily imply that they are dead... but the overall effect is the same, and given the series' track record...
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Maria and Leon's birth parents, who are also Firion and Guy's adoptive parents, get slaughtered by Imperial troops right at the start of the game. As for Guy and Firion--Guy was abandoned by his ''actual'' parents at birth and raised by wild animals (specifically a beast named Mauza) until Maria and Leon's family took him in. They also took in Firion, who had been orphaned in the city of Salamand. The dragoon boy named Kain in Deist lost his father [[spoiler:and then loses the man who promises to raise him]], and [[spoiler:Josef's daughter Nelly ends up orphaned after Josef's HeroicSacrifice]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'': The four main characters all turn out to have been orphaned by the same event -- [[spoiler:Cid's airship was torn apart by the cataclysm that froze most of the world in time, and only the four children and Cid himself survived the event, with their birth parents all perishing.]] They aren't the only ones either, since Prince Alus had already lost his mother some time before the events of the game, and then [[spoiler:his father, King Gorn, ''tries to kill him as he sleeps'' and eventually has to commit suicide to prevent himself from carrying out the deed. At least Gorn was being controlled by Garuda, making his actions that bit less horrific.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': ParentalAbandonment plays a big role in Theodor's transformation into Golbez and Cecil's adoption by the King of Baron. On the same day, Kluya died at the hands of angry humans and his wife Cecilia [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to Cecil]]. In addition, Rydia's mother is inadvertently killed by Cecil's hands near the start of the game. [[spoiler:She later finds a new family of sorts in the Land of Summoned Monsters.]] Kain's mother is never mentioned, and it's AllThereInTheManual that his father died when Kain was a child. Edge's parents [[spoiler:are turned into monsters by Dr. Lugae, and commit suicide upon realising what they have become.]] Edward's parents are both killed in the assault on Damcyan and are never seen by the player. Rosa's father is dead, but remarkably, her mother is still alive.
*** Also inverted, since Anna dies before her father, Tellah, [[spoiler:albeit not by very long.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': Bartz lost both of his parents to natural causes before the events of the game, while Lenna lost her mother in similar circumstances, and then [[spoiler:her father is killed by Exdeath partway into the game]]. Faris initially has no knowledge of who her birth parents are, having apparently been orphaned in a shipwreck and raised by pirates. It later turns out that [[spoiler:she's actually Lenna's older sister, a fact which is confirmed just in time for her to watch their father die.]] Poor old Krile has it the worst however, as not only did she lose both of her parents prior to the game's events, but her last surviving relative [[spoiler:Galuf, her grandfather, dies battling Exdeath in the game's TearJerker moment, leaving her completely alone in the world. Well, apart from the other player characters, anyway]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Relm's mother died and her father [[spoiler:ran away and became a {{Ninja}} mercenary with a pet dog who's MadeOfIron,]] although Relm was raised by her grandfather -- Relm's true parentage is never explicitly stated. Gau's mother died in childbirth, causing his father to go insane and abandon him on the Veldt. Terra [[spoiler:loses her parents both at the same time -- her mother [[DubNameChange Madeline/Madonna]] is killed when TheEmpire raids the Esper world, and her father Maduin, being an Esper, is taken by the Empire's scientists as a laboratory subject who dies over the course of the game]]. Edgar and Sabin [[spoiler:lose their mother in their very early childhood, and their father dies in their teens, strongly implied to have been killed by TheEmpire]]. Locke's mother is never mentioned and his father is dead by the start of the game.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Tifa's mom died when she was 8-years-old[[note]]Which led to an additional tragedy when, confused and upset, she wandered off to Mt. Nibel believing she could meet her mother if she crossed the mountains; there was an accident, Tifa got hurt, and Cloud (who'd been following to protect her) got blamed for it[[/note]], Cloud's dad is never mentioned, and both of their remaining parents (Cloud's mom and Tifa's dad) were killed by Sephiroth in the "Nibelheim Incident"[[note]] Sephiroth went insane, torched the town, then tried to release an EldritchAbomination from the Mt. Nibel Mako Reactor before disappearing (believed killed). Cloud's mother was killed in the fire. Tifa's father and a mob of survivors pursued Sephiroth into the mountains; she found them all butchered at the steps of the reactor[[/note]]. Aerith is not only an orphan, but the ''[[LastOfHisKind last of her race]].'' Barrett is raising a little girl, Marlene, the orphaned daughter of a former friend of his (his wife, and presumably the rest of his family, were killed it the Corel Massacre by Shinra troops. Sensing a pattern yet?). Red XIII's father was turned to stone by monsters. The two optional characters (Yuffie is understandable). Vincent's dad was killed in a materia experiment performed by the woman he loves. Yuffie hates her father (who was a disgraced warrior after Wutai lost a war with Shinra) and left to find a way to restore honor to her village (somehow this involves thievery).
*** [[BigBad Sephiroth]] was told that his mother, Jenova, died during childbirth. In truth, [[spoiler:he was taken away from his biological mother shortly after he was born. She then tried to commit suicide, but failed, and then sealed herself away in a crystal to atone for her misdeeds. His real father, [[MadScientist Hojo]], neglected to ever mention that he was his father.]]
*** The Turk member Cissnei from ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' was raised by [[MegaCorp Shinra]] after being found in an orphanage, her parents' death never explained.
*** In ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' Shalua and Shelke Rui's parents are dead years before the Compilation takes place.
*** Weiss and Nero's mother gets sucked into darkness when she gives birth to Nero.
*** Denzel from ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' lost his parents when the Sector 7 Plate collapsed.
*** Zack is an inversion: ''he'' abandoned his parents in order to join SOLDIER, without their knowledge. They still have no clue as to what happened to their son (as we assume that Cloud and company never bothered to fill them in).
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', almost all of the main cast are orphans, which becomes something of a plot point.
*** Their surrogate mother-figure, [[spoiler:Edea]], abandoned them when they were still very young [[spoiler: because she became possessed by an evil sorceress from the future]]. Their surrogate father figure, Cid, had all of them trained to be elite mercenaries, [[spoiler: and allowed (if not actually arranged) for their memories of Edea to be wiped, in order to later send them to assassinate her]].
*** Although Quistis, Zell, Selphie, and Irvine were all adopted, only Zell still appears to have a loving relationship with his adopted mother; Selphie and Irvine's adopted parents are never mentioned, and Quistis' adoption "didn't work out," causing her to be sent to Garden by the age of ten. Seifer was never adopted at all.
*** Rinoa's mother died in a car accident when she was a little girl, and she and her father are estranged over political conflicts.
*** And Squall takes the prize for ParentalAbandonment issues: on top of the abovementioned abandonment by his surrogate mother and father, he ''also'' got abandoned by his ''other'' surrogate mother/big-sister figure at the age of about four, and between one and the other is left with crippling emotional issues that he struggles with throughout the game. On top of ''that,'' he eventually learns that his mother died in childbirth and his father [[spoiler: is the president of a prosperous nation and had no idea he ever had a son]].
*** Even when they do meet, Squall's father only awkwardly hints that they have some things to talk about, and Squall doesn't indicate openly whether he's aware of the connection or not.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': Zidane not only has no parents, but is phenotypically unique on Gaia (and in that game's verse, that's really saying something) and doesn't know anything about his origins. Garnet's an orphan who's been raised by Queen Brahne, who also dies part-way into the game. Vivi also is unique and unaware of his origins. Eiko is an orphan who lives alone in the ruins of her hometown... I think what we can take away from this is that Final Fantasy loves this trope.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' is another winner.
*** Tidus' father went missing when he didn't return from swimming practice in the sea, and his mother died when he was eight and it left him to [[ParentalSubstitute Auron to be taken care of]].
*** Yuna's father is a legendary hero because he sacrificed himself to defeat Sin ten years ago. Her mother's own demise was the inspiration for her father's act of heroism.
*** Wakka's parents were killed by fiends when he was a child and so were Lulu's.
*** Rikku's mother was killed when malfunctioning machina went on a rampage.
*** Seymour [[spoiler:gradually turned bad because when he was a child, his mother died to become an Aeon. And then he later killed his own father]].
** And ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''. Vaan and Penelo are both orphans (Vaan's parents died in a plague, Penelo's parents and Vaan's PromotionToParent brother died in war with Archadia). Ashe's parents (and presumably the rest of the royal family) were wiped out two years ago. And Balthier keeps dropping vague references to unresolved issues with his own dad [[spoiler: which are perfectly understandable, since his old man Cid is now a mad scientist who'll stop at nothing to unlock the secrets of immortality and ultimate power]]. Interestingly, while it's AllThereInTheManual that Basch ''believes'' his mother to be dead (his father is never mentioned), there's no confirmation one way or the other.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' Lightning's and Serah's parents died some years ago, causing Lightning to deny her emotions to care for her younger sister.
*** Snow is an [[spoiler:orphan, everyone in NORA is.]].
*** Sazh is a single father and cares for his son Dajh alone.
*** Hope's mother Nora ([[MemeticMutation who is tough]]) dies in a failed attempt to help the purge victims escape from PSICOM. He's also very distant from his father and only visits him to tell him what happened after heavy convincing by the other party members. However, his father is devestated by the news of Nora's death and there are several pictures of her in his home, so it's unclear if they actually lived seperated.
*** [[spoiler:The final boss Orphan]] should be one because of his name.
*** That's actually a fair point to make, considering [[spoiler: Orphan's genocidal plot is only formed because the fal'Cie wish to call back the Maker, the creator deity which allegedly abandoned the world and all his creations millions of years ago.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' goes back and forth with the trope. Marche's parents are never seen, but are mentioned to always being busy taking care of his sick brother, Doned. Ritz's father is never mentioned and her mother only gets a single mention over how sad she looked every time she dyed Ritz's hair. Mewt is a special case regarding his parents; his mother passed away when he was young, causing his father, Cid, to be "crying in the gutters" (or an alocholic in the Japanese version). Most of the plot revolves around Mewt using the powers of a magical book to make his own life better again by making his father a powerful judge master and reviving his mother back to life to become queen of Ivalice. [[spoiler: Turns out that Mewt's mother isn't real and is a powerful magical being who is preying on Mewt's emotions.]]
*** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' doesn't use dead parents as the main plot point, but it's still there. Luso's parents aren't mentioned at all except for one scene where it's revealed that both of his parents died while he was young, leaving him in the care of his aunt. Adelle's parents also died while she was young because [[spoiler: her entire village came down with a plague and she was the sole survivor.]]
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