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** [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge Brilliance]]: Necron only exists to give Kuja time to pull his [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turn]]! It wouldn't make sense if Kuja just randomly decided to save the group while he was in the middle of fighting them. Necrons appearence gives him to to have a [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God What Have I Done]] moment!
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* FridgeLogic: At one point, Garland tells Zidane that Kuja has a tail, but hides it. How?! Does he [[UnfortunateImplications shove it you-know-where]]?
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** Similarly, the Trance powers in the game is based on the character's emotions. Damage taken over time builds the emotional state of the character to fight harder and survive, breaking their limit and emotionally heavy events can push characters into an instant Trance. When Garnet [[spoiler: goes mute after seeing her mother die and Alexandria get destroyed by Garland,]] she is filled with so much sorrow that not only she can't concentrate in battle, but her negative emotions prevent her from using her Trance abilities, which explains why she loses her Trance gauge.
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* Another FridgeBrilliance coming up. Noticed how Garnet's SummonMagic at the game's start have extremely high MP costs but once she loses her abilities and starts to relearn them one by one, the MP cost afterwards is a lot lower? Garnet stated in the beginning of the game that she is terrified of her powers and is too scared to use them (explaining her high MP cost). Once Garnet accepts her responsibilities with her summoning powers and wants to use them to help out, her boost in confidence lets her use her powers freely and explains why the MP cost was reduced!
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* FridgeBrilliance here - why do South Gate and North Gate exist when you're piloting an airship, why not just fly over the mountains instead of through the gates? Because the airships run on Mist and are known to not be able to fly on other continents without Mist. Flying too high would invite the same problem, which is why the gates exist.
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* This is kind of- odd. When you are asked to give Garnet an alias (this troper chose Valefor, after the dear departed summon she beat at the end of FFX, but whatever), you can actually just stick with Garnet. Everyone will agree it's a great alias! Fridge logic, right? Well, turns out later on that [[spoiler:Garnet's not her real name anyway.]] Zidane, you are a smart monkey for somehow knowing that ahead of time!
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** It also serves, once again, as a MythologyGag to the pre-FFVII Black Chocobos, which could fly but only land in forests.
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** There also are ''nine'' Knights of Pluto in the game. ArcNumber status aside, at the time Pluto was considered the ''ninth'' planet.
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** The game's status as a grand homage of the series so far may also explain why Necron has a similar name and design to one of the last bosses in VideoGame/FinalFantasyV, Necrophobia.
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* I was one of those people who were very confused by the sudden GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere final boss of ''FinalFantasyIX''. Sometime later I realized that that guy represents some sort of [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil inherent evil nature of mankind]] and that the Crystal World was supposed to signify that the final battles take place on some sort of plane above reality (the crystal signifying the origin of the universe or something). That realization put my whole image of the plot in a different perspective and I saw that it was actually a quite brilliantly made story about a war between different people who are, in the end, only humans as well. --{{Fawriel}}
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* I was one of those people who were very confused by the sudden GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere final boss of ''FinalFantasyIX''.''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. Sometime later I realized that that guy represents some sort of [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil inherent evil nature of mankind]] and that the Crystal World was supposed to signify that the final battles take place on some sort of plane above reality (the crystal signifying the origin of the universe or something). That realization put my whole image of the plot in a different perspective and I saw that it was actually a quite brilliantly made story about a war between different people who are, in the end, only humans as well. --{{Fawriel}}
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** When I played it, I saw it as an {{Homage}} to ''FinalFantasyIV'''s last boss, who turned out to be the physical incarnation of the main villain's hatred; the power of the crystal turned Kuja's despair into what was essentially an AnthropomorphicPersonification of despair that sought to unmake the universe. There's lots of EpilepticTrees about what Necron really is; as the game leaves it vague, the player can decide for himself what its significance is. - Ronfar
*** What's funny is that it took me until much later in life to decide that I thought the last battle was an homage to the Cloud of Darkness from [[FinalFantasyII FF III]] - The embodiement of blind destruction of EVERYTHING theme, and even their boss themes seem similar to me. Now I wonder if maybe it was meant to be a combination of the two bosses. - Jedi3459
*** What's funny is that it took me until much later in life to decide that I thought the last battle was an homage to the Cloud of Darkness from [[FinalFantasyII FF III]] - The embodiement of blind destruction of EVERYTHING theme, and even their boss themes seem similar to me. Now I wonder if maybe it was meant to be a combination of the two bosses. - Jedi3459
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** When I played it, I saw it as an {{Homage}} to ''FinalFantasyIV'''s ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'''s last boss, who turned out to be the physical incarnation of the main villain's hatred; the power of the crystal turned Kuja's despair into what was essentially an AnthropomorphicPersonification of despair that sought to unmake the universe. There's lots of EpilepticTrees about what Necron really is; as the game leaves it vague, the player can decide for himself what its significance is. - Ronfar
*** What's funny is that it took me until much later in life to decide that I thought the last battle was an homage to the Cloud of Darkness from[[FinalFantasyII [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII FF III]] - The embodiement of blind destruction of EVERYTHING theme, and even their boss themes seem similar to me. Now I wonder if maybe it was meant to be a combination of the two bosses. - Jedi3459
*** What's funny is that it took me until much later in life to decide that I thought the last battle was an homage to the Cloud of Darkness from
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* On an unrelated note, same game, I just realized, what's the first thing you do in the original ''[[FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]''? Rescue Princess Sarah. And what's the first thing you do in ''FinalFantasyIX''? Kidnap Princess Garnet [[spoiler:whose real name is 'Sarah'.]] - MrDeath
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* On an unrelated note, same game, I just realized, what's the first thing you do in the original ''[[FinalFantasyI ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]''? Rescue Princess Sarah. And what's the first thing you do in ''FinalFantasyIX''? ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''? Kidnap Princess Garnet [[spoiler:whose real name is 'Sarah'.]] - MrDeath
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* Fridge Horror time: You know how the Mist is a product of souls of the dead? Well after Terra blew up, guess why Gaia is covered in nothing but mist?
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* Once you learn the truth about Eiko's friend Mog, it begins to make sense why Eiko is the only human that can understand her; she says earlier that Summoners can speak to Eidolons through their horns.
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** On an unrelated note, same game, I just realized, what's the first thing you do in the original ''[[FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]''? Rescue Princess Sarah. And what's the first thing you do in ''FinalFantasyIX''? Kidnap Princess Garnet [[spoiler:whose real name is 'Sarah'.]] - MrDeath
** The Burmecian doors--you know, the ones with the keys-that-are-bells. I always thought that they were silly, pointless, and utterly nonsensical (aesthetically-pleasingly silly, yes, but still). Then it occurred to me: When seeking entrance at certain doors, what do we do in RealLife? Why--we ring the doorbell. - {{Teg}}
** The Burmecian doors--you know, the ones with the keys-that-are-bells. I always thought that they were silly, pointless, and utterly nonsensical (aesthetically-pleasingly silly, yes, but still). Then it occurred to me: When seeking entrance at certain doors, what do we do in RealLife? Why--we ring the doorbell. - {{Teg}}
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** I have always thought Necron was someone Kuja was trying to summon, but since Kuja was not alive anymore when the summon was complete, Necron simply did what was natural to him. - dbz77
* On an unrelated note, same game, I just realized, what's the first thing you do in the original ''[[FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]''? Rescue Princess Sarah. And what's the first thing you do in ''FinalFantasyIX''? Kidnap Princess Garnet [[spoiler:whose real name is 'Sarah'.]] - MrDeath
** * The Burmecian doors--you know, the ones with the keys-that-are-bells. I always thought that they were silly, pointless, and utterly nonsensical (aesthetically-pleasingly silly, yes, but still). Then it occurred to me: When seeking entrance at certain doors, what do we do in RealLife? Why--we ring the doorbell. - {{Teg}}
* On an unrelated note, same game, I just realized, what's the first thing you do in the original ''[[FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]''? Rescue Princess Sarah. And what's the first thing you do in ''FinalFantasyIX''? Kidnap Princess Garnet [[spoiler:whose real name is 'Sarah'.]] - MrDeath
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** Is the final sequence ''that'' hard to understand? First, Kuja declares that he's going to use the power of both worlds' pent-up energy in the Iifa Tree to destroy everything that's ever existed. Then, the party follows him down through the layers of time and creation that have resulted in Gaia, ''backwards''...through their own memories, to the memories of the planet itself, back through its primordial ocean to its seismic planetary formation...then further back ''before'' Gaia was formed, into empty space and then straight to the supernatural "Crystal" that apparently created the world.
*** And Kuja is waiting for them, waiting to destroy that Crystal and thereby tip the balance of the universe towards destruction and wipe out all of existence. And then...he ''does''. And they literally find themselves at the end of the world, in this compressed moment of nothingness, fighting off the primeval force of destruction that has existed and undone the world for as long as the Crystal has existed and fueled it. They win, presumably restoring the Crystal, and the universe is kept in balance between creation and destruction, for now. See? Not that hard at all.
*** And Kuja is waiting for them, waiting to destroy that Crystal and thereby tip the balance of the universe towards destruction and wipe out all of existence. And then...he ''does''. And they literally find themselves at the end of the world, in this compressed moment of nothingness, fighting off the primeval force of destruction that has existed and undone the world for as long as the Crystal has existed and fueled it. They win, presumably restoring the Crystal, and the universe is kept in balance between creation and destruction, for now. See? Not that hard at all.
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** Thats really more HilariousInHindsight
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*** [[spoiler: Which would be confusing because it only targets single enemies...]]
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* It seems a little bizarre when the guy playing the character of "Marcus" in ''I Want To Be Your Canary'' turns out to be [[ContrivedCoincidence actually named Marcus]]. Until you stop and think - what does Baku love? The theater. What does Baku ''do''? Adopt kids off the street for his troupe/gang. And who probably got to name those kids...?
** It seems right up his alley to later cast the kids in their "own" roles. Guy's got a bizarre sense of humor. (Yessir, there's nothing like naming your gawky ward "Romeo" and then casting him in a production of the classic romance...)
** It seems right up his alley to later cast the kids in their "own" roles. Guy's got a bizarre sense of humor. (Yessir, there's nothing like naming your gawky ward "Romeo" and then casting him in a production of the classic romance...)
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** Mist ''and rain''. Rainfall goes through the Mist and enters their water supply like acid rain... in a different sense of the word.
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*Early in the game Steiner points out that the Mist causes irregularities in the body and mind. Later we meet the warrior like Burmecians who live in a valley surrounded by Mist. The Cleyrans on the other hand, who are their pacifistic cousins, live in a tree with little or no Mist in the area.
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* Getting the Gold Chocobo to fly involves launching it from any forest. Why, you ask? Well, a little-known trait of freerange chickens involves leaping from branch to branch in order to climb trees and reach normally impossible heights for chickens - maybe Choco needs the treetops for a convenient launchpad.
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* Speaking of Trance, the ultimate attacks Zidane uses in his Trance form are called "Solution 9" and "Grand Lethal", and both of them basically just unleash massive, brutal amounts of pure energy on his foes, incurring phenomenal damage. Doesn't make much sense for a playful, friendly thief character, does it? [[spoiler:The latent Angel of Death, originally destined to wipe out all life on Gaia, on the other hand...]]
** Gets twice as creepy when you think about the implications of those names. Especially Solution 9, which sounds like some kind of genocidal strategy...[[spoiler:and probably originally was.]]
** Gets twice as creepy when you think about the implications of those names. Especially Solution 9, which sounds like some kind of genocidal strategy...[[spoiler:and probably originally was.]]
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** Except that that didn't happen until well after Final Fantasy IX was released.
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* The Pluto Knights being derided as a joke in-universe, if you compare it to Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet in ''our'' universe.
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* Having Freya wearing what looks a godawful lot like a raincoat when you realise Burmecia is known in-universe as 'the Realm of Eternal Rain'. Doesn't explain Fratley's lederhosen though...
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* It seems almost contrived that any plot-centric action in Lindblum tends to take place in the ''Theater'' district...
* It seems almost contrived that any plot-centric action in Lindblum tends to take place in the ''Theater'' district...
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* Having Freya wearing what looks a godawful lot like a raincoat when you realise Burmecia is known in-universe as 'the city of endless rain'. Doesn't explain Fratley's lederhosen though...
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* Having Marcus, the resident TattooedCrook and pirate-themed individual as the ''romantic male lead'' in 'I Want to Be Your Canary' seems like a case of WTHCastingAgency at first - until you factor in Zidane's constant mentions of "improvising" at the time. Which would be a far more relevant skill in their ''mercenary'' jobs, under its better known name of XanatosSpeedChess. Speaking of which, once you figure out the Tantalus member roles you get [[WHoseLineIsItAnyway Baku=Drew Carey]] (bespectacled Big Guys), Blank=Wayne Brady (EnsembleDarkhorse), Zidane=Chip Esten (EstrogenBrigadeBait), Marcus=Ryan Stiles (LargeHam), Cinna=Colin Mochrie (ButtMonkey), even Benero and Zenero=Brad Sherwood (heavy-lifters and TheBigGuy) and Ruby=Greg Proops (resident perfectionist).
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* 'Trance' may seem like an odd name for what's basically a SuperMode, but what's one way to call it when it happens? Trance form. Trance-form. ''Transform.'' Geddit? - {{AaronHong}}
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*** Another level of brilliance evident when you think about it: Cleyra was formed by pacifist Burmecians. To both of them, music is an important part of their society. What better key, then, then something musical?
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*** Another level of brilliance evident when you think about it: Cleyra was formed by pacifist Burmecians. To both of them, music is an important part of their society. What better key, then, then something musical?musical? - themagicdance
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*** Another level of brilliance evident when you think about it: Cleyra was formed by pacifist Burmecians. To both of them, music is an important part of their society. What better key, then, then something musical?
