History VideoGame / WorldOfFinalFantasy

** "Aria di Mezzo Carattere" features plans for an opera, Celes and Cloud being asked to take part, and an interruption from Ultros. Celes and Cloud both have experience with plays in their separate games. Celes' encyclopedia entry covering that also mentions Cloud's time DressedInDrag.

** "Aria di Mezzo Carattere" features plans for an opera, Celes and Cloud being asked to take part, and an interruption from Ultros. Celes and Cloud both have experience with plays in their separate games.

** Lightning tells Lann and Reynn to "make sure [they] sort things out" with their sister Hauyn. Her tone makes it clear that ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''[='=]s terrible snowball effect from Light failing to do so (or a similarly disastrous proceeding) has taken place in Grymoire. [[spoiler:Sure enough, when Hauyn refuses to hear out or explain anything to the twins, the end result is that just about '''every character''' original to ''World'' ends up dead, Grymoire irrevocably plunged into despair, and a decisively bad ending.]]

** Copper Gnome's description page mentions a quote "You'll never take me alive, copper!", and implies that it's a reference to something. [[https://messenger-news.com/2019/06/17/youll-never-take-me-alive-copper/ Except...]] [[BeamMeUpScotty it's never actually been stated like that]].
** Ice Bat's description page has this gem.

** Bablizz's description page states that she has no button nose and that her eyes are definitely aren't made out of coal, a reference to the ChristmasSong "Frosty the Snowman".

* FailedASpotCheck: An NPC in Agarthir gives you a quest to beat up some cactuars so he can figure out how to foot race with them. No, his dialog doesn't change even if you have a Cactuar Mirage of your own tagging along with you.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Shinra]] apparently.

** Copper Gnome's Who's Who page mentions a quote "You'll never take me alive, copper!", and implies that it's a reference to something. [[https://messenger-news.com/2019/06/17/youll-never-take-me-alive-copper/ Except...]] [[BeamMeUpScotty it's never actually been stated like that]].

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The soldiers of Corneria aren't there to protect Princess Sarah when she decides to go out (or even keep her from going out to begin with), but it's downplayed in thast they seem capable in mounting a counteroffensive (despite Princess Sarah's lack opf confidence) when the Bahamutian Soldier amasses a Goblin army to invade them. Sure, it would still be up to Reynn and Lann to take care of the Mirage Keeper, but even before the Warrior of Light was awakened, they seemed to be handling things well.

* ShoutOut: Sometime during the climb of the Crystal Tower, we get [[Series/StarTrekVoyager this exhcange]]. That said, Warp Ten has been exceeded in the series. %% Is... is that a Star Trek reference? Because they did exceed Warp 10 in that series. I'm not even a Trekkie and I know that. Let's not even get into the possible speed of Plaid.

* SuperDeformed: The game plays with this. Your two main characters, Reynn and Lann, can switch freely between "Jiant" form (more realistic human proportions) and "Lilikin" form (super-deformed chibi look reminiscent of the sprites from previous games) and doing so affects what monsters they can use in battle using the "stack" mechanic. Meanwhile, returning characters from past ''Final Fantasy'' installments appear in Lilikin form, whie their enemies, the Bahamutian Federation, are all Jiants.

* UselessUsefulSpell: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]; this is one of the rare ''Final Fantasy'' games where status spells are extremely useful. Every status ailment is required to imprism at least two Mirages, possibly more, [[OneHitKO Death]] and [[PercentDamageAttack Gravity]] are still viable to easily beat high-level Mirages in the post-game bonus dungeons, and toppling an enemy stack and putting one of their members to Sleep can stop them from re-stacking. Even ContractualBossImmunity is subverted, as some bosses ''are'' vulnerable to status ailments and it can make a big difference in their fights, and while Gravity spells have a damage penalty they'll still hit hard.

* UselessUsefulSpell: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]. Every status ailment is the prismtunity condition for at least two Mirages, [[spoiler:Segwarides, Pellinore, and Brandelis are vulnerable to Poison, Blind, and Slow respectively,]] Death will carve a swath through the EX Dungeons, Sleep will keep the bosses of the first three from stacking, and Gravity will slash the difficulty of enemies like XG and Omega God even with the efficiency reduction.

* EvilAlbino: The EX Dungeons unlocked after beating the game have variants of Ramuh, Ifrit, and Shiva to fight, stacked with their lesser forms. These versions are black and white {{Palette Swap}}s with white skin, bright red eyes, and a resistance to Dark attacks but a weakness to Light. Their Mirage Manual entries specifically identify them as having dark powers and/or looking more sinister than their counterparts.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Ramuh seems to serve this role among the Pleiad (or at least among the [[FireIceLightning trielemence barrier]] faction), although his role is less "leader" and more "OnlySaneMan".

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Hilariously subverted in one of the Intervention Quests involving Mog, the Cactuar Conductor, and Master Tonberry. After a few short battles, Mog proposes they try stacking - the battle system's cornerstone, in which multiple units stacked together combine their stats, strengths, and weaknesses. They proceed to stack... and Tonberry can't move, Cactuar is having trouble keeping his balance, and they are quickly toppled by a rampaging Tifa. [[spoiler:Double-subverted in the post-game, where the three are Imprismable, which reveals why their stack failed. Like their normal species, Master Tonberry is an M-sized Mirage, while Master Moogle and Master Cactuar are both S-sized Mirages; a three-Mirage stack requires an L-sized Mirage on the bottom.]]

** ''Maxima'' also includes a few Bonus Bosses not related to the dungeons, with a hunt for puzzle switches unlocking a fight with [[VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasyMeliMelo The Immortal Dark Dragon]] and a quick look at the Rumour Radar enabling a fight with [[spoiler:Enna Kros]].

** A certain element of the post-game kind of straddles the line between Segregation and Integration. [[spoiler:After the twins' prismariums copies are given to Hauyn, Lann and Reynn can be completely removed from the party (provided that doesn't leave either of their stacks empty), but will still be controlled on the overworld. This makes very little logical sense, but gives the player full control over which stack each side is using via shifting them between Jiant and Lilikin forms.]]
*** Now likely subverted in ''Maxima'', [[spoiler:which adds a controllable Hauyn to the overworld post-game and more openly implies that she has indeed taken command of the party. She also does not participate in battle, which matches up with her more support-oriented role.]]
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