History Fridge / FinalFantasyVI

* One of the pieces of Magicite Terra can equip, learn spells from and summon is her father's. And magicite are the remains of a dead Esper. ''Terra can equip her father's corpse.''

* This troper never understood the point of Gogo in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''. Of course, he was an very useful character and was this troper's trump-card of choice, but the character always seemed bland. Heck, UMARO had more backstory and foreshadowing then Gogo. Years later, this troper plays through the GBA remake of VideoGame/FinalFantasyV and realizes that Gogo is not only a funny cameo of a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere boss]] in VideoGame/FinalFantasyV, but his entire skill-set changing gimmick is a throw-back to how Mimics worked in V, just like Gogo, they could change their entire skill-set, even throwing out the Item command. Suddenly, the most personality-lacking character became a hilareous cameo. It only got better when the remake of VI came along and revealed that Gogo was mimicking the main characters all along; they were saving the world, so he would save the world too. All in the name of the "true path of mimicry". Hilarious - @/{{Enlong}}

* Did Kefka really want to destroy the world merely ForTheEvulz? Looking at his HannibalLecture before the final battle from a certain perspective, it seems his main issue was that everything that is created will eventually be destroyed, and is therefore meaningless. That would mean he saw destruction as the only permanent, all-encompassing force in the universe and, following his logic, the only thing that had any meaning. His words about creating a monument to non-existence seem to confirm that.

* This troper just realized that the three characters you take with you for the full "Gau meeting his father scene" are three characters who you select from during the escape to Narshe at the beginning of the game: Locke, Edgar, and Sabin.

* FridgeHorror: One of the pieces of Magicite Terra can equip, learn spells from and summon is her father's. And magicite are the remains of a dead Esper. ''Terra can equip her father's corpse.''
** The empire spent a lot of time trying to harness magical power for humans. Eventually, it's revealed that they did this by experimenting on captured Espers -- but Espers only pass along their magic when they die and turn into Magicite. The Empire ''did not know this'' until the events of the game. The last raid on their home was performed when Terra was just a baby. That means that for almost twenty years, those Espers were imprisoned and experimented upon, knowing that any time one of them died they were just one test away from ensuring a death sentence for all of the rest of them...
*** Puts an entirely different spin on when you get all their Magicite in the facility. It's not that they killed themselves to give you their power, it's that after twenty years of hanging on so as to not let the Empire understand the true nature of their power, they finally just...let go.
* FridgeLogic: How can you equip Sprint Shoes and Marvel Shoes at the same time?

* Intention or not, the game makes great use of existentialist themes. Each character goes through an existentialist crisis and will only rejoin you or gain new strength once they have been resolved:

* Profound epiphany: [[ICallHimMisterHappy Humpty and Dumpty]] are actually the ones in the back, not the front.

* This troper never understood the point of Gogo in ''FinalFantasyVI''. Of course, he was an very useful character and was this troper's trump-card of choice, but the character always seemed bland. Heck, UMARO had more backstory and foreshadowing then Gogo. Years later, this troper plays through the GBA remake of FinalFantasyV and realizes that Gogo is not only a funny cameo of a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere boss]] in FinalFantasyV, but his entire skill-set changing gimmick is a throw-back to how Mimics worked in V, just like Gogo, they could change their entire skill-set, even throwing out the Item command. Suddenly, the most personality-lacking character became a hilareous cameo. It only got better when the remake of VI came along and revealed that Gogo was mimicking the main characters all along; they were saving the world, so he would save the world too. All in the name of the "true path of mimicry". Hilarious - @/{{Enlong}}

* In ''FinalFantasyVI'', when you find Mog in the World of Ruin, he's just staring at a spot in the wall of the (now empty) moogle's den. If you search that spot, you find the Moogle's charm... in the SNES version. In the retranslated GBA version, the name given is "Molulu's Charm". Molulu was one of the Ten Moogles who fight to protect Terra way back in the Mines fight. Specifically, Molulu fought right next to Mog during the battle. And [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] reveal that Molulu was Mog's ''girlfriend'', and gave him the charm as a present. Mog is very likely the only Moogle spared from the apocalypse. He probably spent the entire year just [[HeroicBSOD forlornly staring at that charm]], because it's all that's left of Molulu, of his entire people. And... when Kefka asks the party what they could possibly have that gives them the strength to keep living... Mog's only answer is "New pals, Kupo!". Because all his old friends are... [[TearJerker Oh Mog!]] * sob* -- @/{{Enlong}}
* Two things about ''FinalFantasyVI'' just occurred to me today. The first comes during the section where you, as Celes, have to give fish to Cid while he is sick. For some reason, whenever you walk in, he's out of bed, and just walking back into bed as Celes approaches. Only now does it occur to me that while Celes was out, he was down in the basement working on the raft for her to use to find dry land! That's why you can't find the raft before he gets better/dies, he hasn't built it yet!

* OK, so, in ''FinalFantasyVI'', Espers have to die in order to produce Magicite. You fid the Bahamut magicite in the mouth of the Deathgaze enemy. So, Deathgaze must've killed Bahamut. How? Well, Deathgaze's attack pattern is to open every encounter with Level 5 Death, killing everything whose level is a multiple of five. Looking through the Final Fantasy Wiki, I found that in ''FinalFantasyIII'', Bahamut's first appearance in the series as a boss (rather than an NPC), his level is precisely 50. That's a multiple of 5! Probably a huge coincidence, but I'm calling it brilliance. @/{{Enlong}}
** On a similar note, you find the esper Odin petrified. In ''FinalFantasyV'', you have to fight him and and win in under one minute to gain his summon magic. On both rereleases, he is not immune to being petrified.

* This troper never understood the point of Gogo in ''FinalFantasyVI''. Of course, he was an very useful character and was this troper's trump-card of choice, but the character always seemed bland. Heck, UMARO had more backstory and foreshadowing then Gogo. Years later, this troper plays through the GBA remake of FinalFantasyV and realizes that Gogo is not only a funny cameo of a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere boss]] in FinalFantasyV, but his entire skill-set changing gimmick is a throw-back to how Mimics worked in V, just like Gogo, they could change their entire skill-set, even throwing out the Item command. Suddenly, the most personality-lacking character became a hilareous cameo. It only got better when the remake of VI came along and revealed that Gogo was mimicking the main characters all along; they were saving the world, so he would save the world too. All in the name of the "true path of mimicry". Hilarious -{{Enlong}}

* In ''FinalFantasyVI'', when you find Mog in the World of Ruin, he's just staring at a spot in the wall of the (now empty) moogle's den. If you search that spot, you find the Moogle's charm... in the SNES version. In the retranslated GBA version, the name given is "Molulu's Charm". Molulu was one of the Ten Moogles who fight to protect Terra way back in the Mines fight. Specifically, Molulu fought right next to Mog during the battle. And [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] reveal that Molulu was Mog's ''girlfriend'', and gave him the charm as a present. Mog is very likely the only Moogle spared from the apocalypse. He probably spent the entire year just [[HeroicBSOD forlornly staring at that charm]], because it's all that's left of Molulu, of his entire people. And... when Kefka asks the party what they could possibly have that gives them the strength to keep living... Mog's only answer is "New pals, Kupo!". Because all his old friends are... [[TearJerker Oh Mog!]] * sob* -- {{Enlong}}

* OK, so, in ''FinalFantasyVI'', Espers have to die in order to produce Magicite. You fid the Bahamut magicite in the mouth of the Deathgaze enemy. So, Deathgaze must've killed Bahamut. How? Well, Deathgaze's attack pattern is to open every encounter with Level 5 Death, killing everything whose level is a multiple of five. Looking through the Final Fantasy Wiki, I found that in ''FinalFantasyIII'', Bahamut's first appearance in the series as a boss (rather than an NPC), his level is precisely 50. That's a multiple of 5! Probably a huge coincidence, but I'm calling it brilliance. {{Enlong}}

** And after [[spoiler: You take Gau to see him, he says everything's fixed. You did good.]] Or AlternateCharacterInterpretation - He was always crazy, therefore never mentally fit to be a father to begin with.

*** I once read somewhere that WordOfGod claimed that Kefka was raised an orphan in Thamasa and routinely physically abused, causing him to develop a snide passive-aggressive personality. After the Magitek Infusion shattered his mind, his mental and emotional scars came to the forefront and left him cruel and insane. --{{Anomaly188}}