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* TraumaCongaLine: Denzel, in a very short time frame, lost both his parents, his hometown, a kind old woman that took him in after that, multiple friends after that either due to geostigma or just leaving town after being adopted, and then contracted geostigma himself.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kilmister, who kept Rufus captive in a cave full of Geostigma patients, initially researched a cure for it, but upon realizing the disease contains parts of Jenova, [[spoiler:instead opts to use the information to [[JustThinkOfThePotential create another SOLDIER more powerful than Sephiroth]]. When Rufus himself contracts Geostigma and learns that Kilmister has no intention of finding a cure, has him executed.]]
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* BadassInDistress: Rufus spends the majority of "Episode: Shinra" being under captivity by a former Shinra trooper and later by one of Hojo's colleagues.
* BondageIsBad: The basement that Mutten locks Rufus in is all-but-said to be a [=BDSM=] dungeon, with red walls with whips and chains attached to it, which Rufus finds unsettling.
* BondageIsBad: The basement that Mutten locks Rufus in is all-but-said to be a [=BDSM=] dungeon, with red walls with whips and chains attached to it, which Rufus finds unsettling.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Yuffie in her episode returns home to Wutai expecting to be welcomed as a hero for saving the planet, but is instead treated as patient zero of the Geostigma epidemic and gets locked up in her home by her father.
* {{Interquel}}: The story takes place after the original game but before ''Advent Children''.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Cloud and Tifa's relationship was troubled from the start of Case of Tifa and kept improving before snapping back. [[spoiler:This culminates at the end where Cloud leaves her and does not come back, right after the most hopeful point in the story, and they won't get their happy ending until the end of ''Advent Children''.]]
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* VillainEpisode: "Episode: Shinra" focuses on Rufus and the Turks after the Shinra tower gets blown up by Diamond Weapon.
* YankTheDogsChain: Cloud and Tifa's relationship was troubled from the start ofCase of Tifa "Episode: Tifa" and kept improving before snapping back. [[spoiler:This culminates at the end where Cloud leaves her and does not come back, right after the most hopeful point in the story, and they won't get their happy ending until the end of ''Advent Children''.]]
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* BrokenAesop: The original game had an environmental message about the Lifestream and humans abusing the planet's natural resources to the point there was a chance Holy would see them as a threat and destroy the species. ''On the Way to a Smile'' mentions that people don't like using Mako anymore because they learned this message. Instead, the more "environmentally friendly" fuel of choice people are turning to is... ''oil''.
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*YankTheDogsChain: Cloud and Tifa's relationship was troubled from the start of Case of Tifa and kept improving before snapping back. [[spoiler:This culminates at the end where Cloud leaves her and does not come back, right after the most hopeful point in the story, and they won't get their happy ending until the end of ''Advent Children''.]]
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*NoPlaceForAWarrior: Some of the cast, particular Cloud and Barret, struggle to adapt to the new life.
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''Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile'' is an entry in the [[RunningGag soul-crushingly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series. It is part of the ''Compilation of Final Fantasy VII'', specifically an {{interquel}} to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.
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''Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile'' is an entry in the [[RunningGag soul-crushingly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series. It is part of the ''Compilation of Final Fantasy VII'', ''Franchise/CompilationOfFinalFantasyVII'', specifically an {{interquel}} to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.
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''Episode: Denzel'' received an AnimatedAdaptation by Creator/A1Pictures and Creator/BeStack, which was included on the Blu-ray release of ''Advent Children Complete'', the UpdatedRerelease of ''Advent Children''.
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''Episode: Denzel'' received an AnimatedAdaptation by Creator/A1Pictures and Creator/BeStack, Creator/BeStack with Creator/AsahiProduction, which was included on the Blu-ray release of ''Advent Children Complete'', the UpdatedRerelease of ''Advent Children''.
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''On the Way to a Smile'' was written by Kazushige Nojima, the main writer for several ''Final Fantasy'' games. Each story was originally published in various tie-in media for ''Advent Children'' before all of them were eventually collected and published in a single book.
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''On the Way to a Smile'' was written by Kazushige Nojima, Creator/KazushigeNojima, the main writer for several ''Final Fantasy'' games. Each story was originally published in various tie-in media for ''Advent Children'' before all of them were eventually collected and published in a single book.
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''On the Way to a Smile'' was written by Creator/KazushigeNojima, the main writer for several ''Final Fantasy'' games. Each story was originally published in various tie-in media for ''Advent Children'' before all of them were eventually collected and published in a single book.
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''On the Way to a Smile'' was written by Creator/KazushigeNojima, Kazushige Nojima, the main writer for several ''Final Fantasy'' games. Each story was originally published in various tie-in media for ''Advent Children'' before all of them were eventually collected and published in a single book.
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On second thought, the only one of these that actually fits is Denzel.
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** Denzel, in a very short time frame, lost both his parents, his hometown, a kind old woman that took him in after that, multiple friends after that either due to geostigma or just leaving town after being adopted, and then contracted geostigma himself.
** Barret, after civilization started to rebuild and things returned to normal, became ostracized from society, partly on his own due to being indirectly responsible for the massive loss of life in Midgar, and partly due to people seeing him as a monster thanks to his weaponized prosthetic arm.
** Nanaki loses himself in the forest [[spoiler:for two years]], reverting to a primal self that runs on little more than pure instinct, [[spoiler:and the two cubs he decided to raise as his own are killed by a hunter.]]
** Yuffie, after returning home to Wutai, discovered that geostigma had infected several of his fellow townspeople, and after personally treating them with healing materia, was falsely accused of bringing geostigma with her and locked up against her will, and forced to escape and search for a cure to clear her name.
** Denzel, in a very short time frame, lost both his parents, his hometown, a kind old woman that took him in after that, multiple friends after that either due to geostigma or just leaving town after being adopted, and then contracted geostigma himself.
** Barret, after civilization started to rebuild and things returned to normal, became ostracized from society, partly on his own due to being indirectly responsible for the massive loss of life in Midgar, and partly due to people seeing him as a monster thanks to his weaponized prosthetic arm.
** Nanaki loses himself in the forest [[spoiler:for two years]], reverting to a primal self that runs on little more than pure instinct, [[spoiler:and the two cubs he decided to raise as his own are killed by a hunter.]]
** Yuffie, after returning home to Wutai, discovered that geostigma had infected several of his fellow townspeople, and after personally treating them with healing materia, was falsely accused of bringing geostigma with her and locked up against her will, and forced to escape and search for a cure to clear her name.
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* TraumaCongaLine:
**TraumaCongaLine: Denzel, in a very short time frame, lost both his parents, his hometown, a kind old woman that took him in after that, multiple friends after that either due to geostigma or just leaving town after being adopted, and then contracted geostigma himself.
** Barret, after civilization started to rebuild and things returned to normal, became ostracized from society, partly on his own due to being indirectly responsible for the massive loss of life in Midgar, and partly due to people seeing him as a monster thanks to his weaponized prosthetic arm.
** Nanaki loses himself in the forest [[spoiler:for two years]], reverting to a primal self that runs on little more than pure instinct, [[spoiler:and the two cubs he decided to raise as his own are killed by a hunter.]]
** Yuffie, after returning home to Wutai, discovered that geostigma had infected several of his fellow townspeople, and after personally treating them with healing materia, was falsely accused of bringing geostigma with her and locked up against her will, and forced to escape and search for a cure to clear her name.himself.
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** Barret, after civilization started to rebuild and things returned to normal, became ostracized from society, partly on his own due to being indirectly responsible for the massive loss of life in Midgar, and partly due to people seeing him as a monster thanks to his weaponized prosthetic arm.
** Nanaki loses himself in the forest [[spoiler:for two years]], reverting to a primal self that runs on little more than pure instinct, [[spoiler:and the two cubs he decided to raise as his own are killed by a hunter.]]
** Yuffie, after returning home to Wutai, discovered that geostigma had infected several of his fellow townspeople, and after personally treating them with healing materia, was falsely accused of bringing geostigma with her and locked up against her will, and forced to escape and search for a cure to clear her name.
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* EvilIsPetty: After asking his father how he would escape in the event of an attack on Shinra HQ, President Shinra builds a panic room to be used by Rufus when he becomes president in case of such an attack. The room is emblazoned with giant [="L"s=] everywhere, which he says stand for "Loser", because he believes that none of Shinra's enemies [[TemptingFate are powerful enough to attack them directly]], so building a panic room is cowardly. The room ends up saving Rufus's life from the Diamond Weapon's attack.
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** Denzel, in a very short time frame, lost both his parents, his hometown, a kind old woman that took him in after that, multiple friends after that either due to geostigma or just leaving town after being adopted, and then he contracted geostigma himself.
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->''"I want to help people like people have helped me. It's my turn to do the protecting."''
''Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile'' is an entry in the [[RunningGag soul-crushingly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series. It is part of the ''Compilation of Final Fantasy VII'', specifically an {{interquel}} to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.
''On the Way to a Smile'' is an anthology of short stories showing where each member of the cast (as well as newcomer Denzel) ended up [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue after the events of the game]], as well as the aftermath of Meteorfall, including the abandonment of Midgar, the construction of a new city built on the outskirts of Midgar aptly named "Edge", and the advent of the strange terminal illness called "Geostigma" that appeared shortly after Meteorfall.
''On the Way to a Smile'' was written by Creator/KazushigeNojima, the main writer for several ''Final Fantasy'' games. Each story was originally published in various tie-in media for ''Advent Children'' before all of them were eventually collected and published in a single book.
''Episode: Denzel'' received an AnimatedAdaptation by Creator/A1Pictures and Creator/BeStack, which was included on the Blu-ray release of ''Advent Children Complete'', the UpdatedRerelease of ''Advent Children''.
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!!''Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile'' provides examples of:
* AnimatedAdaptation: ''Episode: Denzel'' was adapted into a 30-minute {{OVA}} that was included on the Blu-ray of ''Advent Children Complete''.
* TheAtoner:
** Barret began wandering the world after Meteorfall, searching for a way to atone for the destruction he inadvertently caused as the leader of AVALANCHE.
** Tifa, also plagued by guilt for her role in AVALANCHE, reopened her Seventh Heaven bar as a way to give the newly-built town of Edge a place to unwind and destress.
* BrokenAesop: The original game had an environmental message about the Lifestream and humans abusing the planet's natural resources to the point there was a chance Holy would see them as a threat and destroy the species. ''On the Way to a Smile'' mentions that people don't like using Mako anymore because they learned this message. Instead, the more "environmentally friendly" fuel of choice people are turning to is... ''oil''.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite appearing on the cover, Vincent, Cloud, Cid, Sephiroth, and Cait Sith do not get their own episodes, though they all do show up in other characters' episodes, to varying degrees of prominence.
* DramaticIrony: After saving a human from a Nibi bear attack, Nanaki decides to take care of the bear's cubs after it is killed. He grows to care for the two cubs as though they were his own. [[spoiler:The two cubs are ultimately killed by the very same human he saved earlier.]]
* FramingDevice: ''Episode: Denzel'' has the framing device of Denzel recounting his life to Reeve, which technically makes it the only episode to take place after ''Advent Children''.
* SimultaneousArcs: Most of the episodes take place within the same timeframe, and characters often cross paths (or are mentioned in passing) without much explanation as to what they were doing immediately before the central character of that episode met up with them.
* TraumaCongaLine:
** Denzel, in a very short time frame, lost both his parents, his hometown, a kind old woman that took him in after that, multiple friends after that either due to geostigma or just leaving town after being adopted, and then he contracted geostigma himself.
** Barret, after civilization started to rebuild and things returned to normal, became ostracized from society, partly on his own due to being indirectly responsible for the massive loss of life in Midgar, and partly due to people seeing him as a monster thanks to his weaponized prosthetic arm.
** Nanaki loses himself in the forest [[spoiler:for two years]], reverting to a primal self that runs on little more than pure instinct, [[spoiler:and the two cubs he decided to raise as his own are killed by a hunter.]]
** Yuffie, after returning home to Wutai, discovered that geostigma had infected several of his fellow townspeople, and after personally treating them with healing materia, was falsely accused of bringing geostigma with her and locked up against her will, and forced to escape and search for a cure to clear her name.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Each episode details where the cast of VII ended up after Holy and the Lifestream stopped Meteor from destroying the planet.
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->''"I want to help people like people have helped me. It's my turn to do the protecting."''
''Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile'' is an entry in the [[RunningGag soul-crushingly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series. It is part of the ''Compilation of Final Fantasy VII'', specifically an {{interquel}} to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.
''On the Way to a Smile'' is an anthology of short stories showing where each member of the cast (as well as newcomer Denzel) ended up [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue after the events of the game]], as well as the aftermath of Meteorfall, including the abandonment of Midgar, the construction of a new city built on the outskirts of Midgar aptly named "Edge", and the advent of the strange terminal illness called "Geostigma" that appeared shortly after Meteorfall.
''On the Way to a Smile'' was written by Creator/KazushigeNojima, the main writer for several ''Final Fantasy'' games. Each story was originally published in various tie-in media for ''Advent Children'' before all of them were eventually collected and published in a single book.
''Episode: Denzel'' received an AnimatedAdaptation by Creator/A1Pictures and Creator/BeStack, which was included on the Blu-ray release of ''Advent Children Complete'', the UpdatedRerelease of ''Advent Children''.
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!!''Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile'' provides examples of:
* AnimatedAdaptation: ''Episode: Denzel'' was adapted into a 30-minute {{OVA}} that was included on the Blu-ray of ''Advent Children Complete''.
* TheAtoner:
** Barret began wandering the world after Meteorfall, searching for a way to atone for the destruction he inadvertently caused as the leader of AVALANCHE.
** Tifa, also plagued by guilt for her role in AVALANCHE, reopened her Seventh Heaven bar as a way to give the newly-built town of Edge a place to unwind and destress.
* BrokenAesop: The original game had an environmental message about the Lifestream and humans abusing the planet's natural resources to the point there was a chance Holy would see them as a threat and destroy the species. ''On the Way to a Smile'' mentions that people don't like using Mako anymore because they learned this message. Instead, the more "environmentally friendly" fuel of choice people are turning to is... ''oil''.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite appearing on the cover, Vincent, Cloud, Cid, Sephiroth, and Cait Sith do not get their own episodes, though they all do show up in other characters' episodes, to varying degrees of prominence.
* DramaticIrony: After saving a human from a Nibi bear attack, Nanaki decides to take care of the bear's cubs after it is killed. He grows to care for the two cubs as though they were his own. [[spoiler:The two cubs are ultimately killed by the very same human he saved earlier.]]
* FramingDevice: ''Episode: Denzel'' has the framing device of Denzel recounting his life to Reeve, which technically makes it the only episode to take place after ''Advent Children''.
* SimultaneousArcs: Most of the episodes take place within the same timeframe, and characters often cross paths (or are mentioned in passing) without much explanation as to what they were doing immediately before the central character of that episode met up with them.
* TraumaCongaLine:
** Denzel, in a very short time frame, lost both his parents, his hometown, a kind old woman that took him in after that, multiple friends after that either due to geostigma or just leaving town after being adopted, and then he contracted geostigma himself.
** Barret, after civilization started to rebuild and things returned to normal, became ostracized from society, partly on his own due to being indirectly responsible for the massive loss of life in Midgar, and partly due to people seeing him as a monster thanks to his weaponized prosthetic arm.
** Nanaki loses himself in the forest [[spoiler:for two years]], reverting to a primal self that runs on little more than pure instinct, [[spoiler:and the two cubs he decided to raise as his own are killed by a hunter.]]
** Yuffie, after returning home to Wutai, discovered that geostigma had infected several of his fellow townspeople, and after personally treating them with healing materia, was falsely accused of bringing geostigma with her and locked up against her will, and forced to escape and search for a cure to clear her name.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Each episode details where the cast of VII ended up after Holy and the Lifestream stopped Meteor from destroying the planet.
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