History Characters / FinalFantasyRecurringCharacters

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[[folder:Ultros/Orthros and Chupon/Typhon]]

* EvilDuo: Ultros is the brains and Chupon the muscle.

* TheUnintelligible: Typhon only ever speaks in roars. Ultros even admits he's "not much for words" in ''XII-2''.

* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Even in games where moogles wear no clothes, you can expect at least one of them to have an accessory, such as a bandanna or a NiceHat.

* CoolOldGuy: From middle aged, to at the edge of their ''eighties''. Double subverted with Cid Raines from ''XIII'', who is a rather young man (In his late twenties to early thirties), but still older than most of the main cast as well as Cindy of XV, who is a WrenchWench.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Gilgamesh as he appears in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'']]

* BadassBeard: The older Cids tend to have some form of facial hair, the Cid in ''XIV'' even grew one out in the five (in game) years between the original release and A Realm Reborn, and the general consensus is that he looks better for it.

* DependingOnTheArtist: The generic Moogle description is "white fur, bat wings, pom-pom, smaller than humans." Other than that their appearance varies wildly from game to game.

* WeakToFire: Oddly, for an aquatic creature, Ultros generally does badly when hit with flames.

* LastOfHisKind: In ''XIV'' he's rumored to be the sole surviving member of a MoonRabbit tribe, though most people don't believe this and instead assume Namingway is just making up stories about himself. The in-game description about him also seems to side with the later argument.

* ThoseTwoGuys: [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Bad]] or otherwise.

Named after Luke Skywalker's Red Squadron wingmen from ''Franchise/StarWars'', they rarely play a major role in games but pop up frequently in supporting roles.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Biggs in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' panics at the sight of Chocobos because he worked with them as a kid, got a permanent smell from it, and spent millions of gil for special perfume to get rid of the smell if it means getting a wife. [[SequenceBreaking Bringing a chocobo to him causes him to run away, to Wedge's annoyance, and unlock the area they were guarding early on]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Biggs is called "Vicks" in Woolsey-led translations; it's a fairly simple mistake to have made and has been corrected ever since.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Hes a rabbit-like creature. Of course hes going to be cute.

* InconsistentDub: His name was Ultros in ''[=FFVI=]'' and subsequent games afterward up until ''[[VideoGame/ChocobosDungeon Chocobo's Dungeon 2]]'', where Square started changing his name to Orthros such as in ''Dawn of Souls'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2''. His name was changed back to Ultros in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'' and ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', then back to Orthros for the PSP port of ''The After Years'' while remaining Ultros in ''Dissidia 012''... and he's Ultros again in ''VideoGame/TheatrhythmFinalFantasy'' and beyond. His [=CollectaCard=] description in ''Theatrhythm'' lampshades it:
-->"Though his name has at times been mixed up with that of a certain [[Myth/GreekMythology two-headed dog of legend]], Ultros is quite definitely just an octopus with no sense of propriety for women."
** The current rule seems to be that monsters that ''look'' like an octopus but aren't (for example, the ''FFXII'' monster is a giant Flan) are Orthos, while the ''actual'' octopus is Ultros.

* TheUnintelligible: Typhon only ever speaks in roars.

The Cids are a varied bunch in personality, appearance and importance. Inevitably though, Cid is a genius engineer and probably built or owns an airship.

* DimensionalTraveler: Courtesy of the Rift. As ''Dissidia 012'' reveals, thanks to the events of ''V'', Gilgamesh no longer has a "home" world per se, and instead uses the Interdimensional Rift to traverse from universe to universe. How much control he has over the rift and his destination seems to vary. For example, in Final Fantasy 8 and 4 After Years he seems confused by his sudden appearance in the new worlds and apparently has been trying to return to Bartz's world each time. In Dissidia 12 the Rift even forcibly pulls him out of the Dissidia world at one point. Yet in Final Fantasy 14, he appears to have some control over these travels and can even summon portals to the rift at will.

* LastOfHisKind: In ''XIV'' he's rumored to be the sole surviving member of a MoonRabbit tribe, though most people don't believe this and instead assume Namingway is just making up stories about himself (the in-game description also seems to side with the later argument).

* YourSizeMayVary: Gilgamesh is almost always depicted as a very big guy, but he varies from being the size of a large human to an outright giant. In XIV, he explicitly has sizeshifting powers.

* YourSizeMayVary: Gilgamesh is almost always depicted as a very big guy, but he varies from being the size of a large human to an outright giant.

* OneSteveLimit: Besides the [[LegacyCharacter obvious]], there's another Cid in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' who isn't considered the Cid of the game and really doesn't have to do with the actual Cid. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' also introduced a Dark Knight character named Sidurgu Orl, who has the similarly-pronounced nickname ''S''id. Then there's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' which features both Cid Sophair and his granddaughter Cidney/Cindy Aurum who is more akin to the classic Cid archetype, being the game's main mechanic, meaning she just might be the first female Cid in the franchise.