History VideoGame / FinalFantasyVII

* [[TheTapeKnewYoudSayThat The Game Knew You'd Say That]]: After escaping Midgar a few hours into the game, Cloud is given a choice as to which 2 of his 4 companions to take with him to Kalm. If you choose both of the girls (Aerith and Tifa), Barret says "Yeah, I thought you'd do that."

* TrainEscape: Cloud does a Type II shortly after the Sector 5 reactor job. He jumps off a bridge and lands on a speeding train to get away from Shinra troops.

** The Ancients, or the the Cetra, are also mentioned numerous times before their true significance is understood.

** Vincent's Hellmasker transformation wears a [[Film/FridayThe13th hockey mask]] and wields a [[TexasChainsawMassacre chainsaw]]. It's even a developer shoutout to Edgar from [=FFVI=].

** One of the larger shout outs is to H. P. Lovecraft. ''The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward'' is about a man trying to track a wizard who can inhabit different bodies. The hero finds his hidden lab under a house, complete with crystals called "materia" (which is where he gets his magic) and "garda" (which summon guardians). Another Lovecraft work, ''At the Mountains of Madness'', where cosmic horrors are discovered buried in the Antartic ice, seems eerily familiar to the part where the party encounters Jenova. Also, despite being female (and that really is not an issue for him), Jenova has similar motivational attributes to Nyarlhathotep, particularly the fact that she deceived the ancients into accepting her only to destroy them all.

** Tifa--slashed across the chest a ridiculously long katana: '''survived'''. [[InfantImmortality She was a young teenager at the time.]] Plus, her mentor pulled her out of there, and got her immediate medical attention.

** AntiClimaxBoss[=/=]ZeroEffortBoss: ''Final'' final duel with Sephiroth, which is basically an interactive cutscene. Sephiroth actually has only 1 hp, can only use a percentage-based attack, and if you don't do anything, you'll automatically counter attack and kill him anyway.

** DamageSpongeBoss /MarathonBoss: Emerald and Ruby [=WEAPON=], who both have well over a million hp, and you are only able to do 9999 at once, typical strategies for beating them involve using the GameBreaker summon a couple dozen times. The fight against Emerald [=WEAPON=] takes place underwater; you have to either kill it in [[TimeLimitBoss 30 minutes]], or undergo a simple sidequest to allow you to [[SuperNotDrowningSkills breathe water]]. Since half an hour isn't very long against something with as many hp as Emerald [=WEAPON=], most people go for the sidequest.

However, Squaresoft had already attempted to release a game on CD -- ''Secret of Mana'' was slated for release on a [[{{UsefulNotes/SNESCDROM}} Nintendo-proprietary but Sony-created CD-ROM peripheral for the Super Nintendo console]]. Negotiations between the three companies soured, however; while ''Secret of Mana'' was eventually released on a cartridge in a stripped-down form, the anticipated CD device died in DevelopmentHell, and was eventually released by Sony as a stand-alone product called the "PlayStation". Squaresoft would only release a few more titles under the {{Nintendo}} brand before following that CD device to Sony. Check out the [[{{UsefulNotes/SNESCDROM}} Useful Notes page]] for a more detailed background.

And, yes, ''FinalFantasyVII'' was in the center of that conflict. Oh, and, for you Sony fans out there, this game [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5l0A3zzEgw&t=21s was originally supposed to be made for the N64]], even after the above tension lessened. A tech demo using characters from ''FinalFantasyVI'' to show the capabilities of the system was released, but it was scrapped due to spatial issues with the {{Nintendo 64}} cartridge.[[hottip:*:The 32 MB cartridge was too small to contain the entirety of this game, and Nintendo makes sure its games do not use hot-swapping, even though [[BanjoKazooie some]] [[BanjoTooie games]] do it [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the radar]].]] In prompt succession, ''FinalFantasyVII'' became the game it is now, and Square is predominantly with Sony.

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Squaresoft had already attempted to release a game on CD -- ''Secret of Mana'' was slated for release on a Nintendo-proprietary but Sony-created CD-ROM peripheral for the Super Nintendo console. Negotiations between the three companies soured, however; while ''Secret of Mana'' was eventually released on a cartridge in a stripped-down form, the anticipated CD device died in DevelopmentHell, and was eventually released by Sony as a stand-alone product called the "PlayStation". Squaresoft would only release a few more titles under the {{Nintendo}} brand before following that CD device to Sony.

* LostForever: Some of the Enemy Skills. Trine can only be learned from three enemies- two are bosses, the other is a Mook found in an un-revisitable dungeon. Pandora's Box is used only as a [[TakingYouWithMe final attack]] by the ''first'' Zombie Dragon in the ''entire save file''.
* The Ramuh summon must be picked up while you are in the waiting area for the Chocobo races in Corel Prison.

* WhatTheHellHero: Cloud gets called out on his morally dubious actions more than once during the game. The first occurrence is even 30 minutes into the game. Later, Cait Sith calls out the rest of our heroes for their eco-terrorist bombings at the beginning of the game, which caused a couple hundred deaths according to him. Barret tries to justify it as a few acceptable casualties in the fight to save the planet, but Cait Sith doesn't accept it

* TheWorfEffect: At one point the team comes across a Midgar Zolom, a thirty foot tall cobra snake, ''which no more than ten minutes before has been played up as the only enemy you do not absolutely want to fight'', impaled upon a tree by Sephiroth. One of the characters in your party will say "Our enemy is someone that could do this?". [[spoiler: Actually once you're trained enough the Midgar Zolom is not so bad, but it still exemplifies the diference in levels between Sephiroth and your party.]]
* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: Part 7 continues the series' grand tradition.

* TheWorfEffect: At one point the team comes across a Midgar Zolom, a thirty foot tall cobra snake, impaled upon a tree by Sephiroth. One of the characters in your party will say "Our enemy is someone that could do this?"

*** The Spanish translation of KingdomHearts uses ''Aeris'' and ''Sefirot'', like in the original game, but they are changed to the canon equivalent in KingdomHeartsII. Some Spanish players find those unfortunate because Sefirot is the usual transliteration of the Hebrew words, and as such it was about the only thing the Spanish BlindIdiotTranslation did ''right''.

*** The Spanish translation of KingdomHearts uses ''Aeris'' and ''Sefirot'', like in the original game, but they are changed to the canon equivalent in KingdomHeartII. Some Spanish players find those unfortunate because Sefirot is the usual transliteration of the Hebrew words, and as such it was about the only thing the Spanish BlindIdiotTranslation did ''right''.

* PartyInMyPocket: Lampshaded when Cloud tries to stop Cait Sith from joining the party.

*** And if you think the English translation is bad, the Spanish translation is a Blind Idiot Translation of the English Blind Idiot Translation. Highlights include Aerith and Yuffie being referred to as men at times, Aerith's mother having two names, "techno" translated as a substantive rather than as a prefix/adjective, in a way that ''in every case'' it appears it sounds like they're talking about the musical genre (someonw in Corel calls Barrett a "monstruo del tecno", which makes it sound like he's a really badass DJ), and "well" somehow being once translated as "rueda" ("Wheel"), among lots of other "marvels". A Spanish LetsPlay concluded Aerith was a hermaphrodite.

*** And if you think the English translation is bad, the Spanish translation is a Blind Idiot Translation of the English Blind Idiot Translation. Highlights include Aerith and Yuffie being referred to as men at times, Aerith's mother having two names, and "well" somehow being once translated as "rueda" ("Wheel"), among lots of other "marvels". A Spanish LetsPlay concluded Aerith was a hermaphrodite.

* Flanderization: To Cloud in the movie. Happened to the extent that people mistake him as being a complete jar of angst in the game. Far from it. He's about as stoically composed as someone in his situation could be.

** Tifa--slashed across the chest a ridiculously long katana: '''survived'''. [[InfantImmortality She was a young teenager at the time.]] Plus, her mentor pulled her out of there, and if he cared for her at all he'd of gotten her immediate medical attention (He was also a martial artist trainer, and would likely have SOME medical expertise)

** Vincent--shot in the face by Hojo: '''survived'''...Kind of, the game is kind of vauge on if he died, was experimented on and was brought back, or was stabilized with a special kind of Matiera, experimented on, then fully healed.

* SirSwearsalot: Barrett and Cid. Especially Cid.

* CigarFuseLighting: One of Cid's LimitBreaks has him do this.

* BrickJoke: While infiltrating Shinra tower, you overhear some comments from the staff about a stench in the boardroom. Later on you learn why firsthand... [[ToilerHumor there's an airshaft that connects the boardroom to the washroom.]]

* {{Kaiju}} - The Weapons.

* KavorkaMan - Hojo is an amoral, unattractive mad scientist with bad posture, and yet gets more action than anyone in the series.
* KilledOffForReal - Most of her dialogue is still there to make it easy on you if you GameShark her back into your game, but yes, Aerith dies and does not come back.

* KillTheCutie - Again, Aerith.
* KleptomaniacHeroFoundUnderwear - During the Nibelheim flashback, it's possible for Cloud to sneak into Tifa's house and rifle through her drawers and find "orthopaedic underwear." This sequence is happening under the framing device that Cloud is actually narrating everything he does in the flashback to his companions, and Tifa butts in at this point and yells at him for revealing this.

* LensFlare - The Mt. Nibel scenes.
* LimitBreak - The originals, though these are an expansion of the Desperation Attacks in ''FinalFantasyVI''.
* LosingTheTeamSpirit - [[ItWasHisSled Aerith's death, of course.]]

* LoveHurts: Lets see, Vincent falls in love with Lucrecia and is summarily rejected because of [[spoiler: the guilt Lucrecia feels over his father's death, despite the fact that she seems to have returned his feelings]]. He suffers though IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy as she runs off with Hojo, but finally steps in when he finds out about all of the [[spoiler: experiments on Lucrecia and an, at the time, unborn Sephiroth]]. Hojo shoots him, and commences a multitude of [[BodyHorror body horrors]] on him ForScience. The aftermath is a large ItsAllMyFault complex for Vincent, who [[MyGreatestFailure blames himself]] for being unable to protect her. The guilt furthers [[spoiler: when he finds out Lucrecia is indeed still alive, and unable to die because of the experimentation]].

* TheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Yup, Cloud and Tifa's hometown got demolished five years ago. Totally.]]

* {{Nakama}}
** AVALANCHE, plus Zack in Cloud's case. Zack has his own Nakama in Crisis Core, ditto the Turks.

* NetworkToTheRescue: Not only did Sony help with the costs for the game, they also handled the North American distribution (Square didn't have an American distributor at the time).
* NewNeoCity: Shinra's master plan was the construction of Neo Midgar, a metropolis planned to be 3x the size of the current Midgar, using the resources from the Promised Land. [[spoiler:When the Promised Land turns out to be nothing but a lie, the Neo Midgar plans vanish in a puff of smoke... and a giant red fireball]].

* {{Nice Job Breaking it Hero}}: Cloud, several times in the story.
** [[spoiler: Cloud tosses Sephiroth into the Nibeliheim reactor, which is what caused him to become as powerful as he did.]]

* NoExportForYou: ''Before Crisis'', particularly annoying because it's almost universally agreed by reviewers to be the highest quality cell phone game of all time. There may yet be hope now that Square has ported two cellphone projects to other platforms explicitly to ensure Western release, but this one remains a curious omission.

* NotQuiteDead: Several individuals supposedly killed in the original game are [[RetCon retconned]] back to life in the sequels.

* OminousLatinChanting "Estuans interius, ira vehementi, ''Sephiroth''! Noli manere, manere in memoria, nole manere, manere in memoria, ''Sephiroth''!"

* OnlyOneName - Many characters have been given last (or first) names by way of {{Retcon}}, but a few notable exceptions still remain: Professor Hojo, President Shinra, Scarlet, Heidegger, Palmer, Tseng, Rude, Reno, and Elena.

* [[OutrunTheFireball Outswing The Fireball]] - During the escape from Sector 7.

* OverlyLongFightingAnimation - All of the summons. OneWingedAngel!Sephiroth's ultimate attack, "Supernova", takes this beyond ridiculous levels: it's over two minutes long and you can't skip it, he destroys [[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto]], Saturn, and Jupiter, makes the sun go nova - swallowing up Mercury and Venus and destroying Earth - it's [[GameplayAndStorySegregation much more destructive than the plot the heroes are trying to prevent]] but ''[[SlapOnTheWristNuke it can't kill them]].''

* PartyInMyPocket - Lampshaded when Cloud tries to stop Cait Sith from joining the party.
* PietaPlagiarism - When Aerith dies.
* PivotalWakeup - Vincent.
* PlayingThePlayer - One of the earliest examples.
* PlotCoupon - The Keystone.

* PlotCouponThatDoesSomething - The Black Materia.
* PlotlineDeath - Say it with us: Aerith.
* PowersAsPrograms - Materia.
* PowerPerversionPotential - Materia like Transform, Manipulate, and Time; Sephiroth and Vincent's shapeshifting abilities.
* PowerupLetdown - Kjata. Much more often than not, summoning him will either deal 0 damage, or it will ''heal'' the enemy party as they block or absorb one of the four elementals Kjata utilizes (Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Earth).
* PowZapWhamCam - Used in Junon and Shin-Ra Mansion.
* PreMeeting - Cloud meeting the flower girl.
* ProgressivelyPrettier - Reno was ''not'' originally designed as the prettyboy he is in FFAC and later installations.

* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight - The fortune that Cait Sith reads upon first meeting Cloud that convinces him to join the party, which turns out to be true when they acquire the Black Materia and Aerith dies.
* ThePromise - Cloud's childhood promise to Tifa.

* PsychopathicManchild - Kadaj, though he is rather young. And Loz, who fits the description a little better.
* PsychoPrototype - Sephiroth, of course.
* {{Punch Clock Villain}}s - The Turks, who refuse to capture Cloud and co. in {{Wutai}} because they're on vacation.

* ThePurge - Sephiroth plans to do this with [[EarthShatteringKaboom Meteor]].

* RedemptionDemotion - Rude and Reno, who were actually ''competent'' in FinalFantasyVII, are reduced to comic relief in FFAC now that they've had their HeelFaceTurn. Then again, they still put up a good fight against Loz and Yazoo.
* RedemptionInTheRain - Kadaj gets this. Loz and Yazoo just get blown up in the rain.
* {{Red Shirt}}s - In the original and CrisisCore, this role is filled by the Shinra army, who wear blue. In DirgeOfCerberus, the white-shirted WRO are the Red Shirts. The officers do however get the nifty red hats.
* RefugeInAudacity - Nintendo never let Squaresoft do anything, from SpoonyBard to [[NeverSayDie "I, Garland, will knock you all down!"]] Once they go to Sony, 20 minutes into the game, you're a transvestite hooker who visits a [[GymBunny gym]], whorehouse, bathroom, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking dress shop]] to get your clothing. Barret is the only black man in the game, and he's basically Mr. T with a cybernetic limb. Cid and Barret curse constantly. The MagicalNativeAmerican isn't even human. There's a GayOption on the one date. And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Tifa calls Cloud a retard]].
* RelationshipUpgrade - Cloud and Tifa's [[PreClimaxClimax night under the Highwind]].
* RelationshipValues - Though most people either end up with Tifa or Aerith, it's possible to get either Barret or Yuffie to accompany Cloud on the Gold Saucer date.
* RemoteBody - Cait Sith, who's really a high ranking member of Shinra, operates a false body apparently operating another false body.
* TheRez - Cosmo Canyon!
* RuleOfDrama - The reason why [[GameplayAndStorySegregation one glaring gameplay mixup]] during one [[ItWasHisSled particularly famous death scene]] didn't really stop [[TearJerker full grown men from openly weeping at their controllers]].
* RuleOfSymbolism - Zack means "Memory."
* SaveScumming - Chocobo breeding. Even if you've [[GuideDangIt got all the qualities and colors set up right]], you've still got a random chance for any of them to have the right gender. Or you ''would'' if they would just [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=72 HAVE SEX ALREADY DAMMIT]]
* ScaryBlackMan - Barret, he rotates between this and AngryBlackMan.
* SceneryGorn - Welcome to Midgar. It sucks and we're going to spend a lot of time showing you. If it isn't enough for you, check out Corel, too!
* ScriptedBattle - The final battle.
* SdrawkcabName - Air[[spoiler:e]]Tam Storm is a move tha punishes you for using materia.
* SexyDiscretionShot - Cloud and Tifa under the Highwind. Fade to Black.

* ShiftingSandLand - Corel Prison. Doubles as TheAlcatraz.
* ShipSinking - WordOfGod, as stated in the FFVII 10th anniversary Ultimania, Crisis Core Ultimania and the Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Ultimania (amongst other places), is that Cloud and Tifa are the official couple.
* ShipTease - The multitude of possible date sequences with Aerith, Tifa, Yuffie... and [[GayOption Barret]]. The game is pretty conclusive by the end, and reinforces that through later sequels and spin-offs. And yet, there are still people trying to insist on who Cloud really loves, even today.

* ShrinkingViolet - Tifa
* SingleStrokeBattle - Odin.
* SirSwearsalot - Barrett and Cid. Especially Cid.
* SlapOnTheWristNuke - Many a summon, and Sephiroth's solar system shattering attack (which doesn't actually destroy any solar systems, that bit's just there to [[RuleOfCool make it cooler]]).
* SneakyDeparture - Aerith leaving [[spoiler:to get killed by Sephiroth]]. Also, Yuffie leaving with all the materia (right below). Cloud attempts to leave Aerith behind early on, but she's [[TookAShortcut already waiting for him]] at the town entrance.
* SoleEntertainmentOption - Strangely it does not have this worldwide entertainment in the largest city, Midgar. Rather, they have an entire amusement park just outside one of the ''smallest'' cities in the game. And believe me, nothing spells entertainment better than trying to force Chocobos to go the way you want them to go.
* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear - The former TropeNamer. Yuffie runs off to Wutai and not only takes her own equipment but all of your party's materia (along with any additional materia you might find). Well, she did tell you she was a thief.

*** At another point later in the game, Cloud and Tifa are both temporarily {{Put On a Bus}} and you lose their equipment as well, but you get their stuff back when they rejoin the group.

* SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness - Kind of a weird one.

** Cloud--also impaled on a ridiculously long katana (three times so far), and fell hundreds of feet through the roof of a church: '''survived'''. (Partially justified by the SOLDIER procedure making people tougher although [[Spoiler: If you're weak willed enough it can SERIOUSLY fuck with your head, Hojo forced Cloud through the procedure, and it worked at the cost of warping his memories and sending him Comatose for a while]])
** Tifa--slashed across the chest a ridiculously long katana: '''survived'''. [[InfantImmortality She was a young teenager at the time.]] plus her mentor pulled her out of there, and if he cared for her at all he'd of gotten her immediate medical attention (He was also a martial artist trainer, and would likely have SOME medical expertise)

* SortingAlgorithmOfMortality - Catastrophically averted when (got the hint yet?) [[KilledOffForReal Aerith Dies]].

* SphereOfPower - In this case, Materia.
* SplitPersonality - The protagonist Cloud suffers from a case of split personality, where his TraumaInducedAmnesia caused by [[spoiler: the death of his best friend Zack]] leads to Cloud [[spoiler: subconsciously absorbing Zack's experiences and mixing them with his own, setting up a split personality]].
* SpritePolygonMix - Square's first foray into this style of gaming.
* StaffChick - Aerith
* StalkerWithACrush - You learn Cloud was a bit of a stalker to Tifa when they were kids during "Cloud's Subconscious," when Tifa must fix Cloud's memories when they both fall into the Lifestream. For example, Cloud used to look at Tifa's room through the window from outside, and he often watched her with her friends from afar... He didn't like her three friends and thought they were stupid. To top it off, Cloud randomly calls Tifa out to the well, even though they weren't "close" friends. Even ''Tifa'' was surprised. Hmm...
** There's also Tseng and Aerith. They've known each other since they were kids and Rude flat-out states in Gongaga that Tseng has the hots for her. The stalker part comes from Tseng being assigned by Shinra to keep tabs on Aerith for research purposes. ''CrisisCore'' turns it into something of a reverse BodyguardCrush, as part of Tseng's duties also include keeping her safe (without her knowledge, of course). They seem to be on decent terms in ''Crisis Core'', but then he goes and slaps her across the face during the Sector 7 pillar bombing, but this was before the Turks were [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] from an evil {{MIB}}-type organization into a NobleDemon QuirkyMinibossSquad in the rest of ''Compilation of FinalFantasyVII''.
* StandardStatusEffects - Poison, petrify, silence... and then you get decidedly nonstandard status effects like freeze. While bosses and certain higher level mooks are immune to it, no enemy in the game is prepared to deal with it. Attach it to your weapon and have fun.
* StarfishCharacter - Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo each represent different aspects of Sephiroth, and Kadaj ultimately turns into him. The other two have this ability as well, but the producers thought it would be over the top to show three Sephiroths, so only Kadaj was shown achieving it.
* TheStarscream - Rufus is revealed to have been this to President Shinra in ''LastOrder'', secretly working against his father in hopes of replacing him, [[spoiler: but Sephiroth solved the problem for him]].
* SticksToTheBack - Cloud's {{BFS}}. ''Advent Children'' shows quite clearly that he uses a sheath/holster, though in ''Crisis Core'', SOLDIER troops are fitted with magnetic holsters for their swords.

* StormingTheCastle - The party's raid on Shinra Tower.
* SwissArmyAppendage - Barret.
* SwissArmyWeapon - Barret and Yuffie, during a couple of their Limit Breaks with certain weapons...
* TakeUpMySword - Cloud does this with the Buster Sword from Zack...
* TakeYourTime - Don't worry about that giant, fiery ball in the sky descending to bring about the world's destruction, even after you're told you have seven days before it falls. It will politely wait for you to deal with it whenever you're ready and done with arcade games and chocobo racing.

* TechPoints - Materia have a separate EXP scale to the characters. To complicate things, some equipment offers double or even triple Materia growth, or none. That's why you use the InfinityMinusOneSword when powerleveling.

* ThereAreNoTherapists - Emotionally disturbed mercenary? Petty thief? Serial bomber? BodyHorror victim? Multiple victims of kidnapping and ParentalAbandonment? Nope, [[SarcasmMode no problems here]]!
* ThirtySecondBlackout - Firing the Sister Ray.

* ThoseTwoGuys - [[StarWars Biggs and Wedge]] of AVALANCHE. Throw Jessie in, and they become ThoseTwoGuys [[TwoGuysAndAGirl And A Girl]]. Later, Rude, Reno, and Elena fill that role. Reno and Rude by themselves are a good example in TheMovie.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - Aerith and Tifa, in an interesting inversion: the StaffChick in the pink dress was the boisterous one and the CuteBruiser in the cropped shirt was secretive and nervous.
* TogetherInDeath - Aerith and Zack. Subverted, Aerith promptly turns down Zack when he playfully flirts with her in the Lifestream.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth - Aerith.

* TrainEscape - Cloud does a Type II shortly after the Sector 5 reactor job. He jumps off a bridge and lands on a speeding train to get away from Shinra troops.
* TransformationTrauma - Vincent.

* TraumaInducedAmnesia - This happened to Cloud prior to the start of the game after an incredible TraumaCongaLine.
* TrialAndErrorGameplay - The passcode in the rocket on disc 2. 24 possible combinations, 0 advance [[GuideDangIt hints]] on what it is.
* {{Tykebomb}} - Sephiroth and Kadaj.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange - The bike, snowboarding and submarine battle sequences. These are eventually unlocked as minigames in the Gold Saucer. Also [[TowerDefense Fort Condor]].
* UnreliableNarrator - Cloud Strife seemed to have several retellings on a key event in the past before the game makes you play through his subconscious to figure out what really happened.

* UnusableEnemyEquipment - Sephiroth's sword, Masamune, is explicitly stated to be a weapon that only he can use. At one point, the team sees the sword [[spoiler:sticking out of the corpse of President Shinra]], but they don't take it, presumably for this reason. In the ''Last Order'' anime's recreation of the Nibelheim scene, Tifa attempts to use this weapon to slash Sephiroth and fails for this reason, though this was not present in ''CrisisCore'''s version of the same scene.
* UncleTomfoolery - Why no, Squaresoft, not all black people are like Mr. T.
* UnroboticReveal - A variant: TheReveal that Cait Sith is being operated by radio. Obviously, [[spoiler:Reeve]] neither fits into Cait Sith itself nor into the moogle doll, but we were led to believe that he was just a normal lifeform anyhow.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda - An ever-rumored quest to bring back Aerith. Discussed in more detail on the HeroicSacrifice entry.
* VasquezAlwaysDies - Played straight or inverted, depending on your perspective.

* ViceCity - Midgar. The Wall Market is a sleazy red-lights district owned by Don Corneo, wealthy pervert and mafia crime boss, and muggers can be encountered as enemies in Sector 5, who may steal your items and run away from them, taking them forever if you fail to beat them in time. Corel also suffers from having thief enemies.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend - Word of God, [[http://thelifestream.net/ffvii-advent-children-complete/6139/this-just-in-the-love-triangle-debate-over/ this is how Cloud and Tifa end up]].

* VillainousBreakdown - The ''entire goddamn Shinra company'' after Meteor is summoned. With a big-ass ColonyDrop in the sky barrelling down on them, panicked civilians running for the hills, a veritable QuirkyMiniBossSquad of giant {{Eldritch Abomination}}s roaming the lands, and the [[MacGuffin "Promised Land"]] turning out to be fake, everyone at Shinra collectively loses their shit. They start running through a litany of stupid and/or insane plans like the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world was coming to an end]]. They start trying to ''[[VillainBall execute the only people besides themselves with a chance to stop it]]''. They try shooting 20 year-old derelict rockets at Meteor (which proves more dangerous than just letting it be). After Rufus is incapacitated, the other execs turn on each other and Reeve and Palmer get thrown under the bus. Hojo goes nuts and tries to beat Meteor to the punch by blowing up Midgar himself. And worst of all, the remaining execs try to kill the heroes ''while they race to stop Hojo from blowing up Midgar''. By the end of Disc Two, Shinra Inc. has effectively killed itself, with the party's role in its downfall being nothing but the natural reaction to their self-inflicted deathblow.

* WelcomeBackTraitor - [[spoiler:Yuffie]], [[spoiler:Cait Sith]]. The latter is practically the poster child and could have been the TropeNamer were it not for all the ''other'' strange characteristics making it impossible to determine just which one we'd be talking about by name drop alone, despite the time span between betrayal and redemption being so short that it might be less "welcome back" and more "actually never even left."

* WhatTheHellHero - Cloud gets called out on his morally dubious actions more than once during the game. The first occurrence is even 30 minutes into the game. Later, Cait Sith calls out the rest of our heroes for their eco-terrorist bombings at the beginning of the game, which caused a couple hundred deaths according to him. Barret tries to justify it as a few acceptable casualties in the fight to save the planet, but Cait Sith doesn't accept it

* WickedCultured - President Shinra is seen listening to classical music while the Sector 7 Slums are destroyed.
* TheWorfEffect - At one point the team comes across a Midgar Zolom, a thirty foot tall cobra snake, impaled upon a tree by Sephiroth. One of the characters in your party will say "Our enemy is someone that could do this?"
* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed - Part 7 continues the series' grand tradition.
* WouldHitAGirl - Sephiroth proves he has no problems doing this, first when he slashes Tifa with his sword in Nibelheim and later, when he kills Aerith.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy - Lots of 'em.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs - Tifa's "Meteodrive" limit break. Rather than a martial arts attack like her other moves, it's a pro wrestling suplex. (Sheer drop brainbuster, to be precise.)
* XanatosRoulette - Arguably, [[spoiler: Aerith's calling of the White Materia, since she likely knew Sephiroth would be able to keep it under control.]] Doesn't actually work, however, since [[spoiler: By the time Meteor reaches the planet, it's too powerful for the White Materia alone to stop it.]]
* YouAreNumberSix - Red XIII. He doesn't mind people calling him this, even though he has an actual name.