Fan Nickname / Final Fantasy

Since Final Fantasy is a very long and popular franchise, it couldn't not get a big number of fan-made terms and nicknames.

Games with their own subpages:

• Final Fantasy Record Keeper
• Final Fantasy XIV

Final Fantasy II

• Doutei - Originally a Japanese fan nickname for Firion. "Doutei" literally translates to "virgin", which is the vibe Firion gives to players given his lack-of-reaction to being seduced by Fake Princess Hilda. (It also rhymes with "koutei," the title of that game's Big Bad). Recently, some corners of English fandom have begun using "doutei" or similar to refer to Firion—and even in those parts that don't use it, the sentiment remains.
• Fish Mountain: Nickname for the fish-shaped mountain encountered while approaching Salamand.
• Ambush closet: The doors in dungeons that lead to tiny dead end rooms with nothing in them except a huge encounter rate.

Final Fantasy IV

• Batkain - In the voice-acted DS version, Kain's English voice is astonishingly deep, so much so that his normal speaking voice sounds like the affected speech put on by Batman in the Nolanverse films... hence, Batkain.
• White Wizard Yikes — There's a white wizard in Mysidia who jumps around after you speak to him. Legends of Localization named him as such in the Alt Text.

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

• Monk Anderson, Brown, and Coleman - The three generic Monks that join Yang in his tale, with the notion that the letter in their names is in fact their surname (e.g. Monk A as Monk Anderson). Monk Coleman is jokingly treated as a Memetic Badass within the fandom.
• Guard Ashley, Bruce, and Campbell - The three generic Guards that join Edward in his tale, for the same reason. Also a Shout-Out to Bruce Campbell from the Evil Dead series.

Final Fantasy V

• Bearaga: The "spell" that is cast when releasing a Sand Bear as a Beastmaster; named so because it is on par with a Black Mage's -ga tier spells in terms of damage.
• Cutezerker: Krile as a Berserker, since she looks like she's wearing tiger-themed footy pajamas.
• Gunch: Goblin Punch, a Blue Magic spell picked up as soon as you get Blue Mages after the Wind Shrine and used in speed runs.
• NED: Neo Exdeath, via Fun with Acronyms; similarly, tree-form Exdeath is referred to as TED.
• Pajama Mage/Santa Mage: Geomancer outfits are very comfortable-looking, and feature Santa-esque hats, complete with little pom-poms on the ends!

Final Fantasy VII

• The Complication - The Compilation Of Final Fantasy VII. Usually used derogatorily by the fans who lump the sequels and prequels into the Fanon Dis Continuity bin, but can be used as an affectionate tease by Compilation fans who are okay that Final Fantasy VII canon has more than a few plot holes.
• Sephiroth's Estrogen Brigade stereotypically calls him "Sephy".
• Cloudo and Cloudster seem to have sprung up lately.
  • Also 'Spiky', for obvious reasons.
  • Some parts of the fandom like to mock Cloud's melodramatic name by using synonyms, like "Mist Conflict", "Fog Discord", "Puff Trouble", "Veil Fighting", and so on.
• The Mommy Box - The black box with JENOVA's... er... slime in it.
• Mr. T - Barret for obvious reasons.
• The Hobo Vampire - Vincent
• Moogle Girl / Moogle Kid - The unnamed girl with the moogle doll in Advent Children
• SHM (Silver-Haired Men) to refer to Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo.
• Vinny for Vincent. Cid calls him "Vince" a couple times in Dirge of Cerberus, though.
• Aerith Gainthborough, called this by fans who disapprove of the retcon to her name's spelling and pronunciation, which to some, sounds like lisping. Or Aeristh.
• Miboujin ("widower") is used in Japanese fandom to refer to the Advent Children version of Cloud, because he wears mourning dress and has "widower energy". Sephiroth also says he's Cloud's "master", but the word used here (goshujin) also means "husband", so if he's dead then Cloud is a widower.

Final Fantasy VII Remake

• Don Corneo received the nickname "Don Joker" due to his voice actor sounding like Mark Hamill's version of the character.
• "Rebuild of Final Fantasy VII" has become a moniker due to how the game practically swerves from the original plotline, much like how Rebuild of Evangelion did to its original show.
• As soon as they realized what they were, the users of 4chan quickly started calling the Whispers of Fate things like Time Ghosts, Time Jannies, Changebad Ghosts, Nazgûl, Dementors, and many other◊ similar names.
• Chadley has been dubbed "Discount Hope Estheim", due to his very similar appearance to the latter.
• "Chairith" for when Aerith cheerfully smashes a folding chair wrestling-style over Don Corneo's goons, due to it being hilarious and clashing with Aerith's reputation for sweetness.

Final Fantasy VIII

• Captain Facepalm - Squall.
  • Squall is nicknamed 烤鹅 (literally "roasted goose") in the Chinese fandom as his official transliterated name 斯考尔 (Sī kǎo ěr) resembles 烤鹅 (Kǎo é).
• Galbadian Missile Crisis - The part of Disc II where the Gardens are attacked by missiles, with Selphie's party trying to prevent a second strike and Squall's having to fight through a civil war in Balamb Garden before they can even come up with countermeasures.

Final Fantasy X

• Teedus - Tidus. This is apparently the correct way to pronounce his name, at least according to Dissidia Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts (but Kingdom Hearts II got inconsistent and went with "Tie-dus") and an interview with his voice actor James Arnold Taylor.
  • Also known as Tedious for obvious reasons.
  • Also simply known as "HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! Guy" for the infamous laughing scene.
• Kitty, Fuzzball - Kimahri.
• The Dumb Jock - Wakka.

Final Fantasy XI

• Krini - A Real Money Trade misspelling of an iconic endgame boss.
• Genfat, Gaybu, Genboob - Genbu, one of the easiest endgame bosses ever (so much so that a few jobs can solo it).
• Fafhogg - A name shared by the monsters that spawn in one endgame area.
• Dienamis - Dynamis, where it's very common for a wipe to occur.
• Garbage Shitadel - Garlaige Citadel, a dungeon that somehow manages to be a popular leveling spot despite the fact that enemy spawns are far too close together, which often causes parties to to be attacked by multiple enemies.
• Manthra - A male player who plays as a Mithra, the (almost) all-female catgirl race.
• Sky - Tu'lia, an endgame area that looks like a flying castle.
• Sea - The Lumoria region, an endgame area that contains monsters that look similar to Jellyfish and Manta Rays.
• Blank's Aery - Any overcrowded camp by replacing the word "Blank" with whatever is being camped (Colibri's aery, Ullikummi's aery, etc.). Named after Dragon's Aery, which is famous for being overcrowded due to the Dragon that spawns there dropping the Ridill, a sword usable by six jobs that has a frequently occurring chance of additional attacks in a given attack round. And it is the source much Loot Drama — to the extent that other powerful, contested low-drop items may be called Ridills.
• Laggate - Aht Urhgan Whitegate, the central "hangout zone" for players, so called because it's common to see several hundred players there during prime time, leading to lots of, well, lag.
• Crotch Hearts - When The Beastmaster class uses Charm on a monster, they launch a heart... from their crotch. I suppose that's ONE way of taming an animal...
• Buttersheep - Warrior with White Mage subjob. Refers to a hypothetical situation where a mad sheep can choose a subjob, and has the choices of Shark, Elephant, or Butterfly. Despite the other job's advantages, he chooses butterfly.
  • To further elaborate - many newbies assume that having Warrior as a main job to kill monsters, and White Mage subjob to heal themselves, would make them invincible. It doesn't.
• Ghetto Paladin - another name for Warrior/White Mage, which takes the point of view that said combo is attempting to be a cheap substitute for a paladin.
• Noob Dunes - alternate name for Valkurm Dunes. Valkurm Dunes is a region populated by monsters between level 15 and level 30, which is about the point where you can't solo effectively anymore and have to join a party. Cue horrible Total Party Kill because a newbie player, unused to party play, screws something up epically. Alternate names: The Dunes, Noobland, Hell.
• MGS - a character, especially a White Mage, sneaking around a dungeon populated by monsters many levels higher than he is, and that can probably one-hit kill him, using sneaking and invisibility spells.
• WHM Airlines - White Mage Airlines, from the White Mage teleporting spells. Many White Mages work as teleporters in order to round up a bit their gil income, some even setting up macros with airplane-like announcements like "We thank you for choosing White Mage Airlines, please fasten your seatbelts and keep your arms and legs inside the teleporting field at all times..."
• Rat, Glowing Rat, Radioactive Rat, Pikachu, Carbychu, Carby - Carbuncle, the first Summon a Summoner gains.
• Blink Tank - A Ninja (normally a quite fragile job) tanking via high Dodge combined with Utsusemi.
• Pimp Hat - The Warlock's Chapeau, the Artifact hat for Red Mages.
  • Pimp Suit - is a popular nickname for the full Red Mage Artifact Armor set.

Final Fantasy XII

• Vaan from has quite a few relating to the fact that Dude Looks Like a Lady, being a standout example of the pretty boy protagonists that the Final Fantasy games have had. Most simply point out his physical resemblance to either Meg Ryan, Ellen Degeneres, or GACKT.

Final Fantasy XIII

• Superpope - Galenth Dysley, that man with the owl.
  • Alternatively: Pope Palpatine
• LeBron James - Sazh Katzroy.
• The "Motordyke" - Shiva's transformation, which consists of the Shiva sisters forming a motorcycle by entwining their legs around each other.
• Scissoring Sisters - Who else? The Shiva Sisters
• Chocofro - the chocobo hatchling that nests in Sazh's hair.
  • Or Frocobo.
  • Sazh is sometimes called Chocobro to accompany this.
• "Medieval Hooker Barbie"—Lightning, mainly from her Goddess outfit in 13-2, considered stupid by many a player.
  • "Girl Not-Cloud."
• Bunny / Bhunny / Bunnybells - Bhunivelze, the supreme god and supreme Jerkass of the FFXIII metaseries.

Final Fantasy XV

• Chocobros - the party.
• One-Winged Asshole - Ardyn.
• Gladdy Daddy - Gladio.
• Plumpto - Prompto when he used to be fat.

Final Fantasy Tactics

• Garfgarog - Popular GameFAQs name for Gafgarion.
• Zombag - Zalbag, when you fight him as a Tragic Monster.

Final Fantasy Type-0

• Card-kun for the Ace, before name had been revealed, since he wields tarot cards as his weapon.
  • This also spawned the various Weaponname-kun/chan titles for the rest of the cast.

Dissidia Final Fantasy

• Voidshipping - The act of pairing up Exdeath and Cloud of Darkness, due to their fascination with THE VOID. Keep in mind that despite their shared goal to return all existence to nothingness, these two have never interacted in canon.
• Emperor Bowie - The Emperor, due to his English VA (Christoper Corey Smith, aka Kittan) making him sound like David Bowie and his overall similarities in appearance to Jareth.
• Luneth - Onion Knight, due to fans of the DS remake of Final Fantasy III wanting the main character from that game instead of the nameless protagonist from the original version. OK's alternate costume was even designed to look like Luneth.
• 589 - Shorthand for the group of Bartz, Zidane, and Squall, a traveling group in the story mode of the game with more than its share of hilarity (and Ho Yay). The name is taken from the numbers of the original game each hails from, and is usually used as a descriptor on fanworks. Other numeral combinations may be used for other groups or pairings—for instance, 24710 referring to the traveling group of Firion, Cecil, Cloud, and Tidus—but seem to be less generally prominent.
• Captain Jecht - Jecht of Final Fantasy X, due to Dissidia propelling him to the status of Memetic Badass. So manly, he carries around a huge-ass sword and yet decides to clobber you to death with punches and kicks. It doesn't hurt that he has his own form of the Falcon Punch thanks to Triumphant Grasp.
• GARland - Garland. Once upon a time, the first boss in the series was laughably easy. Now, he can and will "knock you all down", while hamming it up and loving every second of it.
• Wol - A common fan name for the Warrior of Light, since he will probably never have a Canon Name. Pronounced either like "wally" or "wohl," depending on regional dialect.
• Spamiroth and variations - Derogatory term for a certain way of playing Sephiroth in PvP that relies on extensive use of his Shadow Flare move.
• Trollbez - Golbez, due to his status among players as being a very tough and challenging opponent when used properly (or when the A.I. is controlling him).
• The Pimp Hand - Golbez's fighting style incorporates Full-Contact Magic, usually in the form of him literally bitchslapping his foes before blasting them with all sorts of wicked spells. This has all contributed to his status as another one of Dissidia's Memetic Badasses.
• "Swolebez" is also a thing for referring to his visuals in the sequel.