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* Getting to see Kefka outright kill Gestahl on-screen, and then [[KickTheSonOfABitch kick his corpse around for fun]] while you're totally powerless in doing anything. Consider that Emperor Gestahl was an absolute bastard that was willing to slaughter and destroy entire countries to rule it all, and he ends up the LesserOfTwoEvils because Kefka finally snapped enough to slip his leash and fry the guy dead on the spot.
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* Getting to see Kefka outright kill Gestahl on-screen, and then [[KickTheSonOfABitch kick his corpse around for fun]] fun while you're totally powerless in doing anything. Consider that Emperor Gestahl was an absolute bastard that was willing to slaughter and destroy entire countries to rule it all, and he ends up the LesserOfTwoEvils because Kefka finally snapped enough to slip his leash and fry the guy dead on the spot.
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** The same theme is re-used in the cutscene just before the final boss fight, but with the addition of [[HellIsThatNoise horrific screaming added to the background]].
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* Owzer's house in the World of Ruin is quite creepy in a more subdued way than other locations. The paintings are enchanted and ocassionally even attack, one painting moves around when you're not looking, others act as portals to other parts of the house, there's poltergeist phenomena occuring, and it's all accompanied by the haunting "The Magic House" track.
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* The poisoning of Doma Castle. This is where Kefka firmly first establishes himself as such an utter and soulless psychopath that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his Emperor doesn't look fondly on this action.]] Granted, his dialogue is a little [[LargeHam over-the-top]] and enjoyable, but then you see the water turn purple and all the citizens of the castle dropping dead. It's not a pleasant sight. But the worst is when Cyan, retainer of the castle, finds his king and his wife and child all dead due to the poisoning. Seriously messed-up.
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* The poisoning of Doma Castle. This is where Kefka firmly first establishes himself as such an utter and soulless psychopath that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his Emperor doesn't look fondly on this action.]] Granted, his dialogue is a little [[LargeHam over-the-top]] and enjoyable, but then you see the water turn purple and all the citizens of the castle dropping dead. It's not a pleasant sight. But the worst is when Cyan, retainer of the castle, finds his king and his wife and child all dead due to the poisoning. One could also take Kefka's dialogue in a more sociopathic light, doing this like it was business as usual hitting a snag. Seriously messed-up.
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* [[TheEmpire The Gestahlian Empire]] is a bit more visceral than the antagonists of past entries. Unlike [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII The Emperor]], who was just an evil bastard that wanted to rule and killed indiscriminately via a pact with demons from Hell itself, you get to see Emperor Gestahl working to try to rule the world under his sole, violent tyranny while [[ANaziByAnyOtherName preaching about supremacy as the rightful rulers of the world]]. You see good people like [[AntiVillain General Leo]] and the senseless waste of his life when he gets in Kefka's way. The citizenry and soldiers who range the gamut of believing wholeheartedly in their leaders, to indulging in the discrimination and extermination of all resistance against them. Their [[BodyHorror horrific experiments]] and monsters resulting of their works. As fantasy as they are, this empire stuck in the fandom's memories because of their realistically evil nature, and whereas previous antagonists had their goals and reasons or were simply [[ForTheEvulz out for themselves]], this is an entire ''nation'' of narcissistic human beings that buy the supremacy spiel at face value and dominate solely for one man's prideful sake of conquest. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom That sent into motion the events that all but end the world.]]
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* [[TheEmpire The Gestahlian Empire]] is a bit more visceral than the antagonists of past entries. Unlike [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII The Emperor]], Emperor Mateus]], who was just an evil bastard that wanted to rule and killed indiscriminately via a pact with demons from Hell itself, you get to see Emperor Gestahl working to try to rule the world under his sole, violent tyranny while [[ANaziByAnyOtherName preaching about supremacy as the rightful rulers of the world]]. You see good people like [[AntiVillain General Leo]] and the senseless waste of his life when he gets in Kefka's way. The citizenry and soldiers who range the gamut of believing wholeheartedly in their leaders, to indulging in the discrimination and extermination of all resistance against them. Their [[BodyHorror horrific experiments]] and monsters resulting of their works. As fantasy as they are, this empire stuck in the fandom's memories because of their realistically evil nature, and whereas previous antagonists had their goals and reasons or were simply [[ForTheEvulz out for themselves]], this is an entire ''nation'' of narcissistic human beings that buy the supremacy spiel at face value and dominate solely for one man's prideful sake of conquest. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom That sent into motion the events that all but end the world.]]
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* The Cultists' Tower. First off, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ALq2da7zg its theme]] is fucking disturbing; it sounds like some religious death march music with some eerie chanting in the background. Next, we have an entire cult that sprung up out of complete fear of Kefka and they march in a circle in front of this tower without end. The most disturbing thing? Strago is amongst them; believing Relm to be dead, he was so overcome with grief he actually turned to worship the same man that caused her "supposed" death. She's alive, of course, and comes to snap him out of it, but damn.
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* The Cultists' Tower. First off, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ALq2da7zg com/watch?v=-yqdYCmpF_I its theme]] is fucking disturbing; it sounds like some religious death march music with some eerie chanting in the background. Next, we have an entire cult that sprung up out of complete fear of Kefka and they march in a circle in front of this tower without end. The most disturbing thing? Strago is amongst them; believing Relm to be dead, he was so overcome with grief he actually turned to worship the same man that caused her "supposed" death. She's alive, of course, and comes to snap him out of it, but damn.
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** For that matter, Owzer himself. Every character in this game follows a similar design and similar body proportions on their sprite. Owzer ''defies'' this, being a morbidly obese man with a face that could be mistaken for that of a frog. His [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/8/85/Owzer2.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20120725033102 official art]] is pretty unsettling as well.
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** Returning to Narshe, a bustling mining town in the World of Balance and the first town in the game, only to find a monster-infested ghost town with only one human inhabitant left. It doesn't help that the music changes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fRIftyGh94 the same eerie ambience]] as the World of Ruin's map theme.
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** Returning to Narshe, a bustling mining town in the World of Balance and the first town in the game, only to find a monster-infested ghost town with only one no apparent human inhabitant left.inhabitants left[[note]]There's actually two, though they're locked up in houses that you need Locke to enter.[[/note]]. It doesn't help that the music changes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fRIftyGh94 the same eerie ambience]] as the World of Ruin's map theme.
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** The game itself outlines the horrors to come by narrating about the War of the Magi that nearly ended all life, and foreshadowing that the Empire would come to do the same. And it builds up to this by the ominous theme of Gestahl himself, while the intro shows that they'll straight up put [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Slave Crowns]] onto people to make them absolutely obedient to the death. And they did this on a ''young girl'' whose mind suffers severe amnesia and mental damages once it's removed, while Arvis implies that there's more people that have suffered from them with even worse side-effects, making one wonder how many soldiers you tear your way through might be other wearers.
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* [[TheEmpire The Gestahlian Empire]] is a bit more visceral than the antagonists of past entries. Unlike [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII The Emperor]], who was just an evil bastard that wanted to rule and killed indiscriminately via a pact with demons from Hell itself, you get to see Emperor Gestahl working to try to rule the world under his sole, violent tyranny while [[ANaziByAnyOtherName preaching about supremacy as the rightful rulers of the world]]. You see good people like [[AntiVillain General Leo]] and the senseless waste of his life when he gets in Kefka's way. The citizenry and soldiers who range the gamut of believing wholeheartedly in their leaders, to indulging in the discrimination and extermination of all resistance against them. Their [[BodyHorror horrific experiments]] and monsters resulting of their works. As fantasy as they are, this empire stuck in the fandom's memories because of their realistically evil nature, and whereas previous antagonists had their goals and reasons or were simply [[ForTheEvulz out for themselves]], this is an entire ''nation'' of narcissistic human beings that buy the supremacy spiel at face value and dominate solely for one man's prideful sake of conquest. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom That sent into motion the events that all but end the world.]]
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*** This also gives Cyan some kind of PTSD because only he and a single sentry had survived (and you never see that sentry again, it's not shown exactly what becomes of him). If you go to sleep in Doma Castle the World of Ruin, and Cyan is in the party, he has a nightmare and doesn't wake up in the morning. The three characters who are with him have to enter in his Dreamscape to save him, as three psychopathic triplets, the Dream Stoogles, want to eat his soul, and Wrexsoul, a monster formed by the souls of the dead in the War of the Magi, is eating him from the inside. Even worse, he was brainwashed by this monster to the point that he was willing to relinquish his soul out of deep despair and out of shame for his failure in protecting his family, his kingdom, and not being able to stop Kefka from destroying the world, and even when you save him, it takes the souls of his wife and kid to snap him out of it.
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*** This also gives Cyan some kind of PTSD because out of everyone in the castle, only he and a single sentry had survived (and you never see that sentry again, it's not shown exactly what becomes of him). If you go to sleep in Doma Castle the World of Ruin, and Cyan is in the party, he has a nightmare and doesn't wake up in the morning. The three characters who are with him have to enter in his Dreamscape to save him, as three psychopathic triplets, the Dream Stoogles, want to eat his soul, and Wrexsoul, a monster formed by the souls of the dead in the War of the Magi, is eating him from the inside. Even worse, he was brainwashed by this monster to the point that he was willing to relinquish his soul out of deep despair and out of shame for his failure in protecting his family, his kingdom, and not being able to stop Kefka from destroying the world, and even when you save him, it takes the souls of his wife and kid to snap him out of it.
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** In the original release and the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance version, the waters of the World of Ruin were a sort of rust-brown, giving the impression they were filthy and polluted. In the [=iOS=] remake of the game, the water looks [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140226185759/finalfantasy/images/thumb/0/0e/FFVI_Falcon_iOS.png/640px-FFVI_Falcon_iOS.png like an ocean of vibrant blood.]]
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** In the original release and the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance version, the waters of the World of Ruin were a sort of rust-brown, rust-brown to reddish, giving the impression they were filthy and polluted. In the [=iOS=] remake of the game, with the updated visuals, the water now clearly looks [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140226185759/finalfantasy/images/thumb/0/0e/FFVI_Falcon_iOS.png/640px-FFVI_Falcon_iOS.png like an ocean of vibrant blood.]]
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* When Terra suffers PowerIncontinence and transforms into her half-Esper form for the first time, she starts freaking out in utter confusion and terror, and then releases an ''ear-piercing [[HellIsThatNoise inhuman scream]]'' as she darts off the screen to fly for the horizon. To a player caught unawares, it's one hell of a JumpScare that can genuinely make you wonder if she's irreversibly become a full-blown monster.
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* When Terra suffers PowerIncontinence and transforms into her half-Esper form for the first time, she starts freaking out in utter confusion and terror, and then releases an ''ear-piercing [[HellIsThatNoise inhuman scream]]'' as she darts off the screen to fly for the horizon. To a player caught unawares, it's one hell of a JumpScare that can genuinely make you wonder if she's irreversibly become a full-blown monster. The [[https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Trance_(Final_Fantasy_VI)?file=Terraesper.JPG concept art]] for her Esper form isn't pretty either, she looks feral.
