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* MasochistsMeal: The people of the island nation of Radz-at-Han cultivate spices for use in cuisine and trade. For this reason, their popular curries are known to be extremely hot to the uninitiated. The special curry made to the taste of [[spoiler:Zero, the last memoriate of the Thirteenth]], includes even hotter specialty spices. Passerby with sensitive noses are instantly knocked to the floor by the tingly, burning scent, while those brave enough to eat the curry itself have steam pouring out of their ears. Even the MadeOfIron Warrior of Light [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes can say that their life flash before their eyes]] while enjoying it.

* MoneySpider: ZigZagged. Enemies usually don't drop gil when defeated, but they do drop a small amount if you fight them in a dungeon. However, certain dungeons don't have enemies drop gil at all and have the bosses drop a large amount of gil when defeated instead. Played straight in treasure map dungeons, where there's a random chance one of these guys[[note]]Goblin Adventurers in the Aquapolis, Gold Whiskers in the Lost Canals of Uznair, Fuath Tricksters in the Dungeons of Lyhe Ghiah, and Golden Supporters in the Excitatron 6000.[[/note]] spawn, and can potentially drop 10,000 to 30,000 gil upon defeat. The catch is that [[MetalSlime they can flee if left alive for too long,]] and they like to run all over the place.

* MoneySpider: ZigZagged. Enemies usually don't drop gil when defeated, but they do drop a small amount if you fight them in a dungeon. However, certain dungeons don't have enemies drop gil at all and have the bosses drop a large amount of gil when defeated instead. The Goblin Adventurer encountered in the Aquapolis is a straight example where [[MetalSlime he can potentially drop 10,000 to 30,000 gil upon defeat.]]

* MoneySpider: ZigZagged. Enemies usually don't drop gil when defeated, but they do drop a small amount if you fight them in a dungeon. However, certain dungeons don't have enemies drop gil at all and have the bosses drop a large amount of gil when defeated instead. The Goblin Adventurer encountered in the Aquapolis is a straight example where [[MetalSlime he can potentially drop 10,000 to 30,000 gil upon defeat.]]

* OrderReborn: The story line of the Legacy 1.0 "7th Umbral Era" revolved around this. With the Garlean Empire knocking on Eorzea's door, and building its first fort in Mor Dhona, Castrum Novum (Latin for "The New Fortress"), Gridania, Limsa Lominsa, and Ul'Dah all decide to reform their individual Grand Companies. The three being the Twin Adders, Maelstrom, and Immortal Flames respectively. Which the players join, and help out. However, initially, they each refuse to work with each other, all trying to secure resources for themselves, or refusing to accept assistance. However, as the threat became more dire, the leaders of the Grand Companies, began to question their methods. Between the player's help (with a bit of a push from the Circle of Knowing) they become convinced to put aside their differences, and reform an even greater order, the Eorzean Alliance. [[spoiler: This almost backfires spectacularly at the end of the 2.0 storyline, when the leaders of the Grand Companies realize that they have to unite to respond to Garlemald's ultimatum, but fail to realize that they can unite their forces to share the burden of battle, still thinking of the Alliance in terms of their own forces rather than the combined might. As a result, they almost surrender when in fact they are more powerful than the Garlean forces in Eorzea.]]

* OneStatToRuleThemAll: After the unique stat for a class's role, most get the most use out of CriticalHit, due to it not only increasing the frequency of crits, but increasing their scaling as well, on top of applying to outgoing healing. A few classes, such as Astrologian, get the most use out of Spell Speed (Skill Speed for physical classes), which lets them cast faster.

** "Nophica's tits!" or "Matron's teats!" have been heard as an exclamation in Gridania where they worship Nophica the Matron, made extra amusing in patch 6.3 when [[GagBoobs you get to see for yourself that they're worth swearing by]].

*** Parley, a game introduced in the 1.0 version of the game[[note]]It was originally used as a means of communicating with beast tribes who may not speak the same language as the Spoken races. With the introduction of [[TranslationMicrobes the Echo]] in ''ARR'', the game was relegated to an optional diversion[[/note]] revolving around collecting tiles in straight lines to earn points.

* OddNameOut: On a community level, the Ultimate difficulty fights are always referred either to by name or by their initials (ie UCoB, TEA, DSR, and TOP for Unending Coil of Bahamut, The Epic of Alexander, Dragon Song's Reprise, and The Omega Protocol). The one exception to this is the second Ultimate fight, The Weapon's Refrain. Instead of calling the fight TWR, the community unanimously have referred to the fight as Ultima Weapon Ultima, or UWU. This is no doubt both for being a catchier name and for the silliness of the abreviation, but it is essentially community wide. People might have to take a second to remember what you are talking about if you refer to "The Weapon's Refrain" or even more so "TWR".

* OhMyGods: "By the Twelve!" and "Seven hells!" can be used more-or-less interchangeably on Eorzea to express surprise or shock. By the same token, "Thal's balls" frequently gets used as a swear in Ul'dah, related to Nald'thal, one of the Twelve and god of the underworld and commerce. Nald'thal is also the patron deity of Ul'dah, which is why it's a common phrase there.
** Ishgardians naturally tend to swear either directly or indirectly by their patron goddess Halone the Fury. "Nophica's tits!" has been heard as an exclamation in Gridania where they worship Nophica the Matron, made extra amusing in patch 6.3 [[spoiler:when [[GagBoobs you get to see for yourself that they're worth swearing by]].]]

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: If you're not in combat, you can never be brought below [[HPToOne one HP]] by falling damage, no matter how long the drop. If you ''are'' in combat, on the other hand, it is entirely possible to die from falling damage. Rogues/Ninjas have a trait that lets them take less falling damage, but a great drop will still wreck them. The Stormblood expansion introduced deep water, but in an aversion of SoftWater, it hurts just as much.

** During the Stormblood Hildebrand questline, Hildebrand infiltrates a private meeting as a geisha. Nearly everyone in the room is confused and angered by his presence. Everyone except Yojimbo, hired to guard a priceless treasure for the host. Yojimbo proceeds to be completely smitten with Hildebrand in makeup. Notably, Yojimbo has never been treated as a comical character in the franchise before this and has generally had an air of coolness and professionalism about him. [[spoiler:This is a hint towards his true identity as Gilgamesh.]]

* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: During the Heavensward Hildebrand questline, at one point you are searching for the mammet Vivi and talk to a guard to see if he's seen him. The guard confuses the mammet for a lalafell (which are not common in Ishgard at all) and refers to them as being "funny little buggers". If the player is a lalafell, he immediately stumbles over his words to say that he of course wasn't referring to you. He then has an extra line awkwardly talking about how lalafells are a fine and hard working race of people. Later in the quest, another character refers to rumors about how Lalafells are all scheming moneygrubbers who would stab you in the thigh for some gil, only to quickly say (if you are a lalafell) that he doesn't actually believe such rumors, of course. Ahem.

** Hildebrand will be sent flying into the region the next expansion takes place in [[spoiler:(or in the case of the end of the ''Stormblood'' questline, sucked into the Rift)]].

** The player cannot use a Level 3 LimitBreak as a base class such as Thaumaturge - they need to equip a Job Crystal to transform the base class into a Job before using Level 3 limit breaks. And yet, when fighting [[FinalBoss Ultima Weapon]] with a party of [[GuestStarPartyMember Duty Support]] NPCs, one of said NPCs will use a Level 3 limit break despite being a Thaumaturge (though she only does if the player is a tank or a healer).

-->-'''Konogg:''' Everyone knows you're the soul of generosity! A sinner who cannot help but render aid to his/her fellow sinner in their hour of need! Not for fame or fortune or any other reward, but simply for the joy of it! Am I wrong?\\

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The "In The Company of Heroes" quest is this on its face, in essence making a quest out of enjoying the celebration that you had set up, worth eight thousand experience points by itself, and even ramps it up further at one point when you taste the meal you provided for the party.
---> "Tasting the exotic feast triggers a divine revelation. In that brief transcendent moment you glimpse the true form of reality, comprehend its fleeting nature, and cry out to the heavens in celebration." Even playing the [[ShoutOut victory theme from the original NES/Famicom version]] of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI''.
** And Lampshaded by your fellow Scion, Y'shtola, who thinks they're wasting time on the frivolity of the HiddenPurposeTest, when the threat the hero has to face is looming with little time to spare.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Several minor antagonists (especially those met early on in the story) come to regret their actions and turn themselves in to the authorities. [[spoiler:Gaius also has this in the form of shock when he realises the true destructive potential of the Ultima Weapon.]]

** Player characters have fixed rules on how quickly they can cast their spells and how much cooldown they have following casts. Computer enemies can cast ''much'' faster and in more rapid succession. The result is especially scary for light armor wearers, who often have less magic defense than casters ''or'' tanks, on top of SquishyWizard-level HP. Enemy AI also have infinite MP (you can absorb their MP all you want and they'll never run out) while players have to rely on RegeneratingMana to keep up.

** In the same trailer for ''Shadowbringers'', a gremlin is seen taunting the Warrior of Light as they are about to be attacked by a massive sin eater. In the game proper, the sin eater shown in the trailer is a semi-common enemy type, rather than the massive final boss-scale threat the trailer played it up to be. While you can find gremlins in the First, none of them take part in the main story; the lines spoken by a gremlin in the trailer are spoken by another character entirely, [[spoiler:Emet-Selch]].

** In the same trailer for ''Shadowbringers'', a gremlin is seen taunting the Warrior of Light as they are about to be attacked by a massive sin eater. In the game proper, the sin eater shown in the trailer is a semi-common enemy type, rather than the massive final boss-scale threat the trailer played it up to be. There is also no gremlin in the story, and the lines they speak are spoken by another character entirely, [[spoiler:Emet-Selch]].

** Main quests are pretty light on these, with a very-early-game quest tasking you to kill three each of three different types of low-level mobs around your starting city being the most the game will ever demand before you can continue. [=FATEs=], however, regularly take the form of spawning half a dozen of one or two enemies and tasking you to kill them several times over.