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* HideYourChildren: Averted. No explicit violence is done upon children, but some of the storyline moments feature child characters very prominently (Gridania's main story especially), young characters find themselves in serious danger more than once, and the game does not shy from exploring the consequences.
** ''Heavensward'' eventually averts it entirely. Through some side quests, you're introduced to a StreetUrchin little girl stealing firewood and gil to save up and find a new life elsewhere. The last side quest involving her has you discovering her frozen corpse and being tasked to lay her to rest.
** Surprisingly averted in probably the last place you'd expect to see it. During the 2018 Little Ladies Festival, which was an event where you get glowsticks to cheer on the fantasy equivalent of {{Idol Singer}}s, there is a small sidequest that has one of the darkest storylines in the game. [[spoiler:Specifically, many years ago, a young girl, not even a teenager, who had wanted to see the festival in Ul'Dah got kidnapped by slavers, sold off to a sex ring, and sometime later was murdered. The only consolation is that you help her spirit find peace by helping her see the festival she had wanted to see while alive.]]
** Averted in ''Shadowbringers'' (MAJOR SPOILER) [[spoiler: In Eulmore you meet a young girl who has hurt her throat and is scared because the only reason she's allowed to live in Eulmore is her singing voice. She is later granted "mercy" by being granted "ascension". You later find out that "ascension" is being turned into a Sin Eater and most people turned into Sin Eaters are later butchered and fed to the population as a food named "Meol".]]
** In ''Shadowbringers'' [[spoiler:Pixies are said to be the spirits of children who drowned during a great flood in Il Mheg many years ago. Your interactions with the Fuarth strongly suggest it's true.]]
** ''Endwalker'' also averts this, with several children [[spoiler: not only attacked by Terminus beasts, but transforming into them - on-screen. One sequence in Thavnair even has ''an infant'' beginning to turn, and only Vrtra and Estinien's intervention saves its life.]]

* HollywoodToneDeaf: In the sidequest "Songstress of the Sea", an aspiring songstress living in Gatetown hopes to earn her place in Eulmore for her singing. But her singing is so bad that the other residents complain and insult her if she practices in town. Even when she goes to a secluded area to practice, her terrible singing riles up the local wildlife into attacking her, forcing her to ask the Warrior of Light to clear out any beasts in her practice area. Her singing is so bad that a separate sidequest shows people from a nearby town mistake her voice for the haunted cries of a sea witch.
* HopeSpot: 3.2's story line leads into one. [[spoiler:After securing an Ishgardian victory in the Grand Melee, the peace conference that follows seems to be working out greatly. Nidhogg in Estinien's body arrives to dig his lance into Vidofnir for "betraying" her kind, and vows to the audience that their judgment will be nigh. What was supposed to be hope for a new future turns into a hate chant for Nidhogg's blood and destroys the message of peace]].

* HubUnderAttack: Rhalgr's Reach is established early on in ''Stormblood'' as the Ala Mhigan Resistance's safe haven. Concealed by powerful glamour magicks, the hidden alcove serves as the hub for the heroes' efforts to free the country from Garlemald's grasp. But the base is besieged by Garlean forces not long after the Resistances' first major victory in years. Led by Zenos yae Galvus, the crown prince of the Garlean Empire, many members of the Resistance are slaughtered in the ensuing attack. Even [[TheHero the Warrior of Light]] is powerless to stop Zenos, only buying enough time for the wounded to escape and only surviving due to Zenos deciding that they're NotWorthKilling.

** In the Far East, the goddess Tsukuyomi is the kami associated with the moon, worshipped throughout the Ruby Sea and Doma. [[spoiler:Yotsuyu uses a Kojin relic along with Asahi's stores of crystals to perform a summoning to transform herself into the primal Tsukuyomi, threatening to swallow all of Doma in eternal night in the process.]]

* GenderedOutfit: Although many pieces of gear look the same on men and women (so you can have a female character 100% hidden by armor and a {{Stripperific}} man leaving nothing to the imagination), there are still plenty of subtle and flagrant differences. Some examples are the level 50 artifact armor for Dragoons having an [[BareYourMidriff abs window]] on women, the bliaud and coatee tops show skin and cleavage on women, and "bottom" items are usually trousers on men, a miniskirt and long socks for women. There is also gender-''locked'' gear, which is found in starting racial gear and certain items intended to be used only for glamouring that can only be worn by men or women. The latter example tends to be few and far in-between with several previously locked outfits having their locks lifted to allow anyone to wear them.

* GrandFinale: ''Endwalker'' is, as the name implies, the end of the MythArc about the Ascians, Hydaelyn, and Zodiark that started in 1.0, wrapping up the majority of the mysteries and plot points involving them. Though it isn't the end of the game itself, as subsequent patches introduced new story arcs involving other plotlines, such as the Twelve, the remaining seven great wyrms, and the Void.

** Area-of-effect markers for powerful or wide-hitting enemy attacks are justified as some combination of the enemy in question tipping their hand before a big attack and/or actual precognition granted by the Echo. Despite this, it appears to purely by nothing more than a gameplay mechanic wholly insulated from the story - most enemies that have area-of-effect markers simply stand still with the same animation they normally have when an [=AoE=] marker shows up, and, more strangely, those that ''do'' have a unique animation for a big attack, like diresaurs in ''Heavensward'' and vanaras in ''Stormblood'', don't have an [=AoE=] marker. The Coincounter from the Aurum Vale dungeon was a particularly infamous example for not having markers, enough that the devs went out of their way to give his attacks proper markers for 5.3, because he shares the model and several animations and attacks with Steropes, a boss FATE whose attacks ''do'' have those markers (save for the large instant-death AOE, which also had to have a marker added in that patch).

** Despite the justification for area-of-effect markers being some combination of the enemy in question tipping their hand before a big attack and/or actual precognition granted by the Echo, there have been a few enemies with area-of-effect or other powerful attacks who don't get any markers despite ''visibly'' preparing for the attacks in question, including diresaurs from ''Heavensward'' and vanaras in ''Stormblood''. The Coincounter from the Aurum Vale dungeon was a particularly infamous example, enough that the devs went out of their way to give his attacks proper markers for 5.3, because he shares the model and several animations and attacks with Steropes, a boss FATE whose attacks ''do'' have those markers (save for the large instant-death AOE, which also had to have a marker added in that patch).

** The Sharlayan Studium alchemist and culinarian quests revolve around improving the recipe for a nutritious but disgusting meal, and it is stressed early on that any ingredients used must be easily accessible. Despite this, the recipe for the very first quest item calls for ingredients only found in zones from the previous expansion - a journey impossible for anyone but the player character due to [[spoiler:being located in an entirely different dimension!]]

** Gaius says that the Eorzean Twelve are the exact same: "They ''will'' answer [your prayers], so long as you lavish them with crystals and gorge them on aether." He raises a valid point, but the Twelve have not physically appeared in person to temper anyone, as of yet, [[spoiler:though the Primals accuse you of being tempered by Hydaelyn, a claim which makes a disturbing amount of sense even ''before'' the revelation in ''Shadowbringers'' that Hydaelyn and Zodiark were the ''first'' Primals. Not until ''quite'' late in ''Endwalker'' is it finally confirmed that you're protected by something other than a OneCurseLimit]].

* GottaCatchThemAll: There's a ''ton'' of stuff you can collect in the game that are 100% optional and doesn't affect your gameplay in any way, but players do collect as much as they can for the sake of it (some are gone for good due to being linked to a limited time event). Minions, mounts, cards, and gear from achievements are just a handful of things you can make a collection of.

* GottaCollectThemAll: There's a ''ton'' of stuff you can collect in the game that are 100% optional and doesn't affect your gameplay in any way, but players do collect as much as they can for the sake of it (some are gone for good due to being linked to a limited time event). Minions, mounts, cards, and gear from achievements are just a handful of things you can make a collection of.

* GenderedOutfit: Although many pieces of gear look the same on men and women (so you can have a female character 100% hidden by armor and a {{Stripperific}} man leaving nothing to the imagination), there are still plenty of subtle and flagrant differences. Some examples are the level 50 artifact armor for Dragoons having an [[BareYourMidriff abs window]] on women, the bliaud and coatee tops show skin and cleavage on women, and "bottom" items are usually trousers on men, a miniskirt and long socks for women. There is also gender-''locked'' gear, which is found in starting racial gear and certain items intended to be used only for glamouring that can only be worn by men or women.

** Earlier in 3.0, Hraesvelgr effectively explains what the primals are, making this lean a little away from this trope: what is summoned isn't actually a god, but the aetheric manifestation of their fervent prayers and desires. You can see this as early as the final Hildebrand quest in 2.5 when Gilgamesh summons Enkidu in this manner by simply reminiscing about him while standing next to a large quantity of crystals. This ends up breaking Ysayle, as she wholeheartedly believed that she was the reincarnation of Shiva.

* HornyDevils:
** Despite having an overall draconian appearance, the Au Ra associate more with demons, meaning their imposing (but attractive in their own way) males and beautiful, waif-like women have more in common with incubi and succubi, respectively.
** Succubi themselves have been a recurring foe for most of the game. According to their Triple Triad card, Succubi are normally formless spirits, but can enter the physical world by (and only by) possessing recently-deceased women, morphing them into the Succubi's form.

** In ''Shadowbringers'', the Warrior of Light earns the mantle of Warrior of Darkness for their ability to [[spoiler: absorb the essence of the Lightwardens and end their corruption of Norvrandt]]. However, the only reason the Warrior is able to do this is because [[spoiler: of Hydaelyn's blessing of ''light'', which they are imbued with]]. To top it off, during the final battle, [[spoiler: the Warrior finishes off Hades - the ''true'' villain of the expansion and another [[DarkIsEvil dark-aligned Ascian]] - by expelling all the absorbed Lightwarden energy into their trademark Blade (or in this case, [[AnAxeToGrind Axe]]) of Light.]]

** In the Ixali beast tribe quests, you craft a variety of airship parts to help make their prototype ship flight worthy. However, you can use ''any'' crafter class to make the parts, so you can end up using Culinarian to somehow cook ship parts into being. The game doesn't even try to justify it, it just works. This is good as the quests are a good source of experience when leveling crafters from 1 to 50.

** ''A Realm Reborn'' has "A Relic Reborn", where you have to go through a ChainOfDeals (with a mixture of item gathering and boss fights) in order to get an ancient weapon restored to their former glory, and there's one for each class available in that time. Prior to 2.1 changing it to [Relic Weapon Name] Zenith, it literally had a +1 when upgraded. Once it becomes a Nexus weapon, it then takes on a completely new form, namely the legendary Zodiac Braves Weapon, recreated and infused with your Nexus weapon's energy. Then ''that'' weapon reaches its peak as a Zodiac Zeta weapon.

** ''Stormblood'' combines this trope with InfinityMinusOneSword with the Eureka weapons: the Antiquated weapon you get as a reward for finishing the your job's level 70 quest gets progressively upgraded with materials painstakingly gathered from the mobs in Eureka, with fully upgraded Anemos and Elemental gears having 5 materia slots. Eureka Pyros and Hydratos replaces the quintuple material slots with a crystal grind that increases the substats even greater than the materias but has a completely randomized buff for each roll. With some persistence, you can have the weapon's stats tailored to your exact needs.

* HumansAreSpecial: Hyur avoid the HumansAreAverage trope by being decently smart and well learned, and are the perpetuators of many magical and scholarly pursuits. Midlanders are consistently some of the more magical folk, and the player character midlanders have an almost non-effecting advantage in intelligencee. The other things humans are excellent at go without saying, both the hyur of The Source and the humes of The First.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: A recurring theme with the beast tribes is that humans are just as much to blame for the existence for primals. As Y'shtola doesn't hesitate to point out ''to the Maelstrom's faces'', the Kobolds and Sahagin only summoned Titan and Leviathan because humanity was encroaching on their territory; in the Kobolds' case, Limsa outright broke a land treaty they had signed with them. The Sylphs also only summoned Ramuh because they were absolutely terrified of the Garleans, and the tempering process for Sylphs specifically makes them even more wary and hostile towards humans. [[spoiler: Ultimately, even Bahamut himself exists because of human cruelty. The ancient Allagans went out of their way to torture his subjects into summoning him and then proceeded to trap them all inside of Dalamud. Alisae outright states that Bahamut's rage is justified, if misplaced by a few eras]].

** The Warrior of Light and their party take on [[spoiler:the Diamond Weapon, the Garlean Empire's newest and most powerful warmachina]] atop a platform being tugged by a HumungousMecha. The battle takes place so high that the very clouds can be seen rushing by underneath.