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* The abstraction of video game mechanics reaches its zenith with the fight against the Emerald Weapon, where you shift from traversing the underwater trenches with a submarine to your party inexplicably fighting ''at the bottom of the ocean on-foot'', and an ExactTimeToFailure where somehow they can hold their breath for precisely ten minutes doing this unless you specifically use the single Materia in the game to circumvent it. Not even debuffs occur, they just suffer CriticalExistenceFailure the instant that timer expires. Forget [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]], our cast apparently have partially-functioning gills.
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A character's name isn't Narm. Narm is about specific moments. "spell takes too long" is also not Narm. A character's model "in general" can't be Narm. There are tropes for unfortunate character design. "A bit spoiled" is not narm.
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* The main character's name is [[DarkAgeOfSupernames Cloud Strife]]. Could he possibly be [[FakeMemories confused]] and [[DarkerAndEdgier a bit edgy]]? ''WHO COULD SAY''. Some parts of the fandom like to mock him by referring to him with {{Fan Nickname}}s based on synonyms of his name - e.g. "Puff Trouble" or "Mist Conflict".
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* The Knights of Round summon. It's one of the ultimate {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s, doing 13 hits of extreme non-elemental damage with a 70-second animation of each of the 13 Knights damaging all of your enemies. It looks cool the first time. But, like the aforementioned Supernova, it loses its luster on subsequent summons because it's just too freaking long and it's unskippable--you could start the summon, go take a pee, wash your hands, come back, and chances are you'll come back before the animation ends. It gets hilarious if you use it while fighting Safer Sephiroth, in which case get ready for a massive waiting game involving Knights of Round and Supernova.
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** Sephiroth's model in general is an incarnate of all kinds of narm. It's hard to take him seriously when he has this really [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] stupid face with his mouth perpetually open.
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* The infamous cutscene where Sephiroth walks out of a burning Nibelheim is a bit spoiled by his expression looking so blank. In ''Advent Children'', superior graphics made him look much more properly menacing and evil.
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** Even on the first submarine, once you clear the control room Cloud suddenly just ''starts doing a funny little dance'' as an attempt to highlight that he's got a bit of claustrophobia and motion sickness being in the vessel. And the moment the whole submarine starts to move because a party member accidentally [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo hit the wrong button]], Cloud immediately gets over his sickness simply by saying it ''does'' feel better to drive than ride.
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* When you have to get the submarine for the Huge Materia chase from Junon, you can screw up once and end up having to go for a red submarine instead. The guards are much more lax on this submarine compared to the grey one, and when Cloud encounters a mere guard dog, you can opt to ''threaten to dognap it'' to scare it off instead of doing a whole fight. Thus you get to see Cloud of all people shout this:
-->"Shinra dog!! I'm gonna dognap you!!"
-->"Shinra dog!! I'm gonna dognap you!!"
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* Sephiroth's last action before running from the Shinra mansion's library? He freakin' chucks a materia at Cloud, then front-flips and flies out of there like Superman! The most badass, menacing, threatening character in the game... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking committing a meaningless act of violence]] that would fit right in during elementary school recess.
** Leading up to this scene, the town is filled with cloaked strangers mumbling about a "reunion". When the party meets Sephiroth, he asks whether they've come "to participate in the Reunion". Cloud finally loses it. "I don't even know what a reunion is!".
** Leading up to this scene, the town is filled with cloaked strangers mumbling about a "reunion". When the party meets Sephiroth, he asks whether they've come "to participate in the Reunion". Cloud finally loses it. "I don't even know what a reunion is!".
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* Sephiroth's last action before running from the Shinra mansion's library? He freakin' chucks a materia at Cloud, then front-flips and flies out of there like Superman! The most badass, menacing, threatening character in the game... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking committing a meaningless act of violence]] that would fit right in during elementary school recess. \n Even better, Cloud, a SuperSoldier extraordinaire, is ''brought to a knee'' by the impact with a measly materia, as if he got beaned in the gut by a baseball.
** Leading up to this scene, the town is filled with cloaked strangers mumbling about a "reunion". When the party meets Sephiroth, he asks whether they've come "to participate in the Reunion". Cloud finally loses it. "I don't even know what a reunionis!".is!"
** Leading up to this scene, the town is filled with cloaked strangers mumbling about a "reunion". When the party meets Sephiroth, he asks whether they've come "to participate in the Reunion". Cloud finally loses it. "I don't even know what a reunion
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* The main character's name is [[AwesomeMcCoolname Cloud]] [[DarkAgeOfSupernames Strife]]. Could he possibly be [[FakeMemories confused]] and [[DarkerAndEdgier a bit edgy]]? ''WHO COULD SAY''. Some parts of the fandom like to mock him by referring to him with {{Fan Nickname}}s based on synonyms of his name - e.g. "Puff Trouble" or "Mist Conflict".
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* The main character's name is [[AwesomeMcCoolname Cloud]] [[DarkAgeOfSupernames Cloud Strife]]. Could he possibly be [[FakeMemories confused]] and [[DarkerAndEdgier a bit edgy]]? ''WHO COULD SAY''. Some parts of the fandom like to mock him by referring to him with {{Fan Nickname}}s based on synonyms of his name - e.g. "Puff Trouble" or "Mist Conflict".
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** Sephiroth's model in general is all kinds of {{narm}} incarnate. It's hard to take him seriously when he has this really fucking stupid face with his mouth perpetually open.
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** Sephiroth's model in general is an incarnate of all kinds of {{narm}} incarnate. narm. It's hard to take him seriously when he has this really fucking [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] stupid face with his mouth perpetually open.
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* The main character's name is [[AwesomeMcCoolname Cloud]] [[DarkAgeOfSupernames Strife]]. Could he possibly be [[FakeMemories confused]] and [[DarkerAndEdgier a bit edgy]]? ''WHO COULD SAY''. Some parts of the fandom like to mock him by referring to him with {{Fan Nickname}}s based on synonyms of his name - e.g. "Puff Trouble" or "Mist Conflict".
* The [[ItWasHisSled most notorious moment]] was [[HypocriticalHumor spoiled]] by a typo. In the pit of despair, Cloud screams out, begging Sephiroth for a justification, berating him for what he did -- all this with no small amount of self-hatred, as he had been [[MoreThanMindControl possessed]] previously by Sephiroth to kill Aerith himself and only failed to do so because his TrueCompanions called him back. It's incredibly moving until Jenova answers, "Be'''a'''cause, you are... a puppet." ''Final Fantasy VII'' has a GoodBadTranslation to start with, but the sheer mood of the scene this is in makes that tiny 'a' jar more than it should.
* Aerith's entire death scene is full of narm, except for the music and the part where the two people in your party besides Cloud pay their last respects to Aerith (right after defeating Jenova LIFE). From impossible sword movement to the pathetic animation to Cloud's nonsensical dialogue, it's all narm, all the time. And right after she's stabbed, the materia falls out of her hair and proceeds to ''bounce around'' for a good twenty seconds, and its momentum changes for no reason...
** In that scene, if the player has Vincent in the party in the earliest PC versions, he will ''do a little dance'' due to [[GoodBadBugs glitchy programming]]. (The Steam version fixed it.)
** (Un)intentional hilarity oft occurs when a new player attempts to buttonmash Cloud out of the mind control; this invariably results in a great deal of SD pixel hip-thrusting. When Cloud is holding his sword at groin-level... well. And Vincent sucker-punches Cloud with his metal gauntlet to stop the SD pixel hip-thrusting. After seeing Vincent, Mr. Stoic Angsty-for-a-reason, do that, it's virtually impossible to take Aerith's death seriously with tears of laughter rolling down your cheeks.
** The BloodlessCarnage [[note]]symbolism or not, you'd expect more of something to be coming out of there[[/note]] and gross inconsistency between what does and doesn't kill someone adds to the potential fun and confusion for those who were casually flipping through the story. "So, is she really dead? Are we going on a quest to revive her now? Oh, they just chucked her into the lifestream, and she's not in the party menu screen any more. Guess she's dead." Was probably not the reaction Square was going for.
* Tifa and Scarlet getting into a slap fight. It's just an utterly silly moment that comes completely out of nowhere and spoils the tension of the scene.
* For gamers who have been spoiled by all the high end graphics of today and forgotten how crappy old 3D games looked, the scene is likely to leave you with a good chuckle. Hard to feel sympathetic or sad when the characters all look [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aerislives.png like this]].
** The scene in which Mideel is destroyed and then Tifa and the BSDOD-ing Cloud fall into the Lifestream is depicted similarly. It's just as hilariously awkward to see a tiny Tifa running around and pushing Cloud's wheelchair with the most comical OhCrap face possible.
** And when they DO use proper character models, if Tifa's there, expect highly distracting JigglePhysics from her.
* [[OverlyLongFightingAnimation Super Nova, International version]]. Sephiroth does destroy the Solar System in the original Japanese version (it's harder to see because the explosion happens so far away); but for the International Version, they not only redid the attack to have much better animation, but they also made the attack incredibly over-the-top, showing the destruction of several planets (with their names in case you don't know what Jupiter looks like), with the Sun being a whopping two feet in front of our heroes before going Super Nova. Oh, and he for some reason decides to spare Mars, Uranus, and Neptune. Making things even worse, while Super Nova can actually kill in the original Japanese release, in the international version it is a PercentDamageAttack-- [[SlapOnTheWristNuke it will never directly kill the party]]. And it can MISS. A Supernova can miss, despite being two feet from the faces of the party. ConvectionSchmonvection at its most [[{{Narm}} Narmful]]. There is also the fact that Sephiroth can cast it multiple times. Planets reproduce by binary fission in the ''Final Fantasy VII'' universe, or so it would seem. Even if you take the destruction of the Solar System as a metaphor, the animation is still ''way too long'' for what is effectively an overglorified Demi spell.
* The Knights of Round summon. It's one of the ultimate {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s, doing 13 hits of extreme non-elemental damage with a 70-second animation of each of the 13 Knights damaging all of your enemies. It looks cool the first time. But, like the aforementioned Supernova, it loses its luster on subsequent summons because it's just too freaking long and it's unskippable--you could start the summon, go take a pee, wash your hands, come back, and chances are you'll come back before the animation ends. It gets hilarious if you use it while fighting Safer Sephiroth, in which case get ready for a massive waiting game involving Knights of Round and Supernova.
* After Cloud comes out of his HeroicBSOD, he gives a speech to his party, and while it's pretty incoherent, the translation pulls itself together for his genuinely inspiring final lines -- "[[NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech I'm... Cloud. The master of my own illusionary world. But I won't live in an illusion any more. I'm going to live my life without pretending]]." Tifa immediately pipes up -- "[[CaptainObvious You're sure messed up, Cloud!]]" Some friend she is.
* Right before the climax, Cloud tries to give a rousing speech to his party. What does he tell them? "[[spoiler:Let's mosey]]." Certainly intentional, because Cid makes fun of him for not sounding enough like a man.
* "Rate hike! Rate hike! Tra, la, la!" accompanied by a kangaroo impersonation does convey that Palmer is an idiot, but we're probably not supposed to laugh in the middle of a tense plot-advancing scene with our heroes in an air vent spying on the enemy's top brass.
* The burning of Nibelheim is a dramatic scene, that would probably have been a lot more had it not featured a man who looked like Frank Sidebottom. Adding to that, in the previous scene where Cloud confronts Sephiroth in the basement, and Sephiroth gives Cloud a whole TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, the impact of what he's said is rather deadened when Sephiroth says he's going to "see [his] mother", and leaves. Although he's probably meant to be running, Sephiroth's running animation (coupled with the strange camera angle) instead makes him look like he's ''skipping out of the room''.
** Sephiroth's model in general is all kinds of {{narm}} incarnate. It's hard to take him seriously when he has this really fucking stupid face with his mouth perpetually open.
* Sephiroth's last action before running from the Shinra mansion's library? He freakin' chucks a materia at Cloud, then front-flips and flies out of there like Superman! The most badass, menacing, threatening character in the game... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking committing a meaningless act of violence]] that would fit right in during elementary school recess.
** Leading up to this scene, the town is filled with cloaked strangers mumbling about a "reunion". When the party meets Sephiroth, he asks whether they've come "to participate in the Reunion". Cloud finally loses it. "I don't even know what a reunion is!".
* "Finish... Sephiroth... off...". Try saying that three times fast.
* The infamous cutscene where Sephiroth walks out of a burning Nibelheim is a bit spoiled by his expression looking so blank. In ''Advent Children'', superior graphics made him look much more properly menacing and evil.
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* The main character's name is [[AwesomeMcCoolname Cloud]] [[DarkAgeOfSupernames Strife]]. Could he possibly be [[FakeMemories confused]] and [[DarkerAndEdgier a bit edgy]]? ''WHO COULD SAY''. Some parts of the fandom like to mock him by referring to him with {{Fan Nickname}}s based on synonyms of his name - e.g. "Puff Trouble" or "Mist Conflict".
* The [[ItWasHisSled most notorious moment]] was [[HypocriticalHumor spoiled]] by a typo. In the pit of despair, Cloud screams out, begging Sephiroth for a justification, berating him for what he did -- all this with no small amount of self-hatred, as he had been [[MoreThanMindControl possessed]] previously by Sephiroth to kill Aerith himself and only failed to do so because his TrueCompanions called him back. It's incredibly moving until Jenova answers, "Be'''a'''cause, you are... a puppet." ''Final Fantasy VII'' has a GoodBadTranslation to start with, but the sheer mood of the scene this is in makes that tiny 'a' jar more than it should.
* Aerith's entire death scene is full of narm, except for the music and the part where the two people in your party besides Cloud pay their last respects to Aerith (right after defeating Jenova LIFE). From impossible sword movement to the pathetic animation to Cloud's nonsensical dialogue, it's all narm, all the time. And right after she's stabbed, the materia falls out of her hair and proceeds to ''bounce around'' for a good twenty seconds, and its momentum changes for no reason...
** In that scene, if the player has Vincent in the party in the earliest PC versions, he will ''do a little dance'' due to [[GoodBadBugs glitchy programming]]. (The Steam version fixed it.)
** (Un)intentional hilarity oft occurs when a new player attempts to buttonmash Cloud out of the mind control; this invariably results in a great deal of SD pixel hip-thrusting. When Cloud is holding his sword at groin-level... well. And Vincent sucker-punches Cloud with his metal gauntlet to stop the SD pixel hip-thrusting. After seeing Vincent, Mr. Stoic Angsty-for-a-reason, do that, it's virtually impossible to take Aerith's death seriously with tears of laughter rolling down your cheeks.
** The BloodlessCarnage [[note]]symbolism or not, you'd expect more of something to be coming out of there[[/note]] and gross inconsistency between what does and doesn't kill someone adds to the potential fun and confusion for those who were casually flipping through the story. "So, is she really dead? Are we going on a quest to revive her now? Oh, they just chucked her into the lifestream, and she's not in the party menu screen any more. Guess she's dead." Was probably not the reaction Square was going for.
* Tifa and Scarlet getting into a slap fight. It's just an utterly silly moment that comes completely out of nowhere and spoils the tension of the scene.
* For gamers who have been spoiled by all the high end graphics of today and forgotten how crappy old 3D games looked, the scene is likely to leave you with a good chuckle. Hard to feel sympathetic or sad when the characters all look [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aerislives.png like this]].
** The scene in which Mideel is destroyed and then Tifa and the BSDOD-ing Cloud fall into the Lifestream is depicted similarly. It's just as hilariously awkward to see a tiny Tifa running around and pushing Cloud's wheelchair with the most comical OhCrap face possible.
** And when they DO use proper character models, if Tifa's there, expect highly distracting JigglePhysics from her.
* [[OverlyLongFightingAnimation Super Nova, International version]]. Sephiroth does destroy the Solar System in the original Japanese version (it's harder to see because the explosion happens so far away); but for the International Version, they not only redid the attack to have much better animation, but they also made the attack incredibly over-the-top, showing the destruction of several planets (with their names in case you don't know what Jupiter looks like), with the Sun being a whopping two feet in front of our heroes before going Super Nova. Oh, and he for some reason decides to spare Mars, Uranus, and Neptune. Making things even worse, while Super Nova can actually kill in the original Japanese release, in the international version it is a PercentDamageAttack-- [[SlapOnTheWristNuke it will never directly kill the party]]. And it can MISS. A Supernova can miss, despite being two feet from the faces of the party. ConvectionSchmonvection at its most [[{{Narm}} Narmful]]. There is also the fact that Sephiroth can cast it multiple times. Planets reproduce by binary fission in the ''Final Fantasy VII'' universe, or so it would seem. Even if you take the destruction of the Solar System as a metaphor, the animation is still ''way too long'' for what is effectively an overglorified Demi spell.
* The Knights of Round summon. It's one of the ultimate {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s, doing 13 hits of extreme non-elemental damage with a 70-second animation of each of the 13 Knights damaging all of your enemies. It looks cool the first time. But, like the aforementioned Supernova, it loses its luster on subsequent summons because it's just too freaking long and it's unskippable--you could start the summon, go take a pee, wash your hands, come back, and chances are you'll come back before the animation ends. It gets hilarious if you use it while fighting Safer Sephiroth, in which case get ready for a massive waiting game involving Knights of Round and Supernova.
* After Cloud comes out of his HeroicBSOD, he gives a speech to his party, and while it's pretty incoherent, the translation pulls itself together for his genuinely inspiring final lines -- "[[NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech I'm... Cloud. The master of my own illusionary world. But I won't live in an illusion any more. I'm going to live my life without pretending]]." Tifa immediately pipes up -- "[[CaptainObvious You're sure messed up, Cloud!]]" Some friend she is.
* Right before the climax, Cloud tries to give a rousing speech to his party. What does he tell them? "[[spoiler:Let's mosey]]." Certainly intentional, because Cid makes fun of him for not sounding enough like a man.
* "Rate hike! Rate hike! Tra, la, la!" accompanied by a kangaroo impersonation does convey that Palmer is an idiot, but we're probably not supposed to laugh in the middle of a tense plot-advancing scene with our heroes in an air vent spying on the enemy's top brass.
* The burning of Nibelheim is a dramatic scene, that would probably have been a lot more had it not featured a man who looked like Frank Sidebottom. Adding to that, in the previous scene where Cloud confronts Sephiroth in the basement, and Sephiroth gives Cloud a whole TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, the impact of what he's said is rather deadened when Sephiroth says he's going to "see [his] mother", and leaves. Although he's probably meant to be running, Sephiroth's running animation (coupled with the strange camera angle) instead makes him look like he's ''skipping out of the room''.
** Sephiroth's model in general is all kinds of {{narm}} incarnate. It's hard to take him seriously when he has this really fucking stupid face with his mouth perpetually open.
* Sephiroth's last action before running from the Shinra mansion's library? He freakin' chucks a materia at Cloud, then front-flips and flies out of there like Superman! The most badass, menacing, threatening character in the game... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking committing a meaningless act of violence]] that would fit right in during elementary school recess.
** Leading up to this scene, the town is filled with cloaked strangers mumbling about a "reunion". When the party meets Sephiroth, he asks whether they've come "to participate in the Reunion". Cloud finally loses it. "I don't even know what a reunion is!".
* "Finish... Sephiroth... off...". Try saying that three times fast.
* The infamous cutscene where Sephiroth walks out of a burning Nibelheim is a bit spoiled by his expression looking so blank. In ''Advent Children'', superior graphics made him look much more properly menacing and evil.
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