History Narm / FinalFantasyXIV

* Ala Mhigo are WarRefugees who suffer discrimination at the hands of Ul'dah, but it can be hard to take their plight seriously when they all dress like MachoCamp {{Leathermen}}, including the women.

** The fight against [[GreenEyedMonster Nero]] is supposed to be something of a dramatic duel between him and the Warrior of Light's party, but his tank buster attack, "Spine Shatter", is one of the few in the entire game that requires the boss to actually be in physical contact range with the target. Since some of his attacks involve movement, a player can unintentionally make the fight look silly by having Nero chase after them to hit them with the attack. A particularly bored Tank might consequently sprint like hell -- leading to Nero having a sped-up normal jogging animation rapidly following after someone running for their life around the arena as he wastes his time trying to smack them until he can finally catch up.

* Adding materia to weapons and armor can be done by the player after completing a certain quest as a Disciple of the Hand. This would make perfect sense for some classes, such as a Blacksmith or an Armorer. But it's a little silly to think that a Culinarian is somehow adding materia to giant axes, broadswords, plate mail, etc. by cooking it with a frying pan.

* Dark Knight carries a {{BFS}} that they wield in an overhand-forward pose to look somewhat intimidating, like they're about to be a human guillotine. Then they have to run and sprint- and awkwardly keep the blade up in the most stiff, unusual animation possible, as if they're afraid to let the weapon down in any meaningful way whatsoever that doesn't have them constantly keep it near their idle posture. Similarly, Machinists are cited by some players as looking more like they're holding a vacuum cleaner than they are a {{BFG}} depending on the weapon, similarly refusing to lift the gun up from their side at least until their sprint.

* Just before fighting the FinalBoss of the Praetorium, your Warrior of Light talks on their linkpearl with Cid about the upcoming fight. During this conversation, another player will be standing behind your Warrior, and will eventually make an awkward look towards the left side of the screen, where there is nothing in particular to look at. It turns what should be a pivotal cutscene into an unintentionally funny one because of how out-of-place it is.

** The fight against [[GreenEyedMonster Nero]] is supposed to be something of a dramatic duel between him and the Warrior of Light's party, but his tank buster attack, "Spine Shatter", is one of the few in the entire game that requires the boss to actually be in physical contact range with the target. A particularly bored Tank might consequently sprint like hell -- leading to Nero having a sped-up normal jogging animation rapidly following after someone running for their life around the arena as he wastes his time trying to smack them until he can finally catch up.

* Another "A Realm Reborn" mission has you dress as an imperial soldier. Unfortunately the disguise only includes a hat and a chestpiece, meaning you can enter wearing either a skimpy pink skirt or pied piper pants. Or worse - pastel underwear with ''thigh high'' pastel boots.
* Playing a few class quests after major events can be ''quite'' amusing when you have characters you've ''already met'' introduce themselves to you, or suddenly forget who you are:
** The Culinarian Quests for "A Realm Reborn" involve meeting Lolorito and Nanamo. These characters will react to you as if you've never met them before. For extra hilarity? Do this after "The Parting Glass" which ends ''A Realm Reborn''. Apparently, your cooking is so good that Nanamo will wake up from her poison-induced coma to go to a banquet in Limsa Lominsa to try it.
** If you didn't start as a Lancer, Estinien will introduce himself to you and act as if he doesn't know you even if you've played all the way to ''Endwalker'', meaning he knows ''quite'' well.
* Frankly, multiple of the gathering or crafting quests features them looking over what you just found or made with their hands over them.

* Zenos's death is somewhat of an AlasPoorVillain moment when he decides [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to slit his own throat]], thinking he would never feel this happy again... except [[BloodlessCarnage Square-Enix refused to do put in any blood]], meaning it looks like Zenos just hugged a prop sword and fell down like a stage actor faking his death.
** This also unintentionally ends up making the plot point of Elidibus possessing Zenos's body somewhat humorous - both because Zenos apparently never even broke the skin, but mere ''moments'' after you witnessed Zenos's death, there he apparently is in Varis's chamber no worse for wear.
* Asahi's death is intended to be a satisfying moment, yet he apparently suffered absolutely no ClothingDamage despite being impaled by Yotsuyu as Tsukoyomi. This ends up making Fandaniel appearing in his body feel more like [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim they apparently didn't think to just cremate the bodies so this can't happen]].
* After banishing the Light from Il Mheg in the First, Emet-Selch appears at the Crystarium and will extol the incredible spectacle of the restored sky. Except, this doesn't take place in a prerendered cutscene, nor does the game adjust the skies for the sake of the cutscene (like with the two previous times Night was restored), so it shows the cities current weather condition at the time. Meaning there's a decent chance Emet-Selch will be praising the beauty of the sky while it's gray and muggy out, raining, or experiencing some other form of inclement weather.

* The animation for the Hum emote looks absolutely adorable when used by a Lalafell. On every other race... it looks ''really'' silly.

* All mounts have the capability of flying - a welcomed [[AntiFrustrationFeature QoL feature]]. Unfortunately? Most mounts look absolutely ''ridiculous'' when they're flying. Chocobos, birds, dragons, or miniature airships? All look perfectly fine. Mounts of creatures that can't fly such as horses, buffaloes, [[RodentsOfUnusualSize rats]], and pigs? All look absolutely ''ridiculous'' when they are flying. Some just seem to be clumsily running on air. While there are some mounts that look ridiculous, this [[IntendedAudienceReaction is intentional]]. Doubly so when using mounts underwater since they just reuse the flying animations, but at a reduced speed.

* All mounts have the capability of flying - a welcomed [[AntiFrustrationFeature QoL feature]]. Unfortunately? Most mounts look absolutely ''ridiculous'' when they're flying. Chocobos, birds, dragons, or miniature airships? All look perfectly fine. Mounts of creatures that can't fly such as horses, buffaloes, [[RodentsOfUnusualSize rats]], and pigs? All look absolutely ''ridiculous'' when they are flying. Some just seem to be clumsily running on air. While there are some mounts that look ridiculous, this [[IntendedAudienceReaction is intentional]].

** Carpenter saws are big enough that they are actually placed on the character's back like a weapon... and when you combine this with the utterly ridiculous design of some [[https://res.cloudinary.com/lmn/image/upload/fl_lossy,q_80/f_auto/v1/gameskinny/97bac1ec449905b0e1339c1b7b5baee9.jpg saws]], it looks hilarious. ''Especially'' since as demonstrated, putting the weapon on your back clips through.

** The moment in ''Stormblood'' where Asahi reveals his true colors to the Warrior of Light and gets close to their face while revealing his hatred of them looks fine with most races. But if you play a Lalafell, Asahi has to [[https://i.imgur.com/OX7y5vh.png awkwardly hunch over to get close to your face,]] and it just looks goofy with your allies all looking in opposite directions.

** The moment in ''Stormblood'' where Asahi reveals his true colors to the Warrior of Light and gets close to their face while revealing his hatred of them looks fine with most races. But if you play a Lalafell, Asahi has to awkwardly hunch over to get close to your face, and it just looks goofy with your allies all looking in opposite directions.

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** The moment in ''Stormblood''s where Asahi reveals his true colors to the Warrior of Light and gets close to their face while revealing his hatred of them looks fine with most races. But if you play a Lalafell, Asahi has to hunch over awkwardly to get close to your face, and it just looks goofy with your allies all looking in opposite directions.

* [[LittlePeople Lalafell]] are meant to be some intentional levity in the world design, like their [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI predecessors in the Tarutaru]]. The problem is the game crafts unique animations for the Lalafell interacting with taller characters or vice versa, since the Lalafell are only about half the size of the average Hyur at their tallest. The result is many Lalafell characters are hard to take seriously, either because of their smaller size or because some of these animations come off as unintentionally funny.

* Lalafell are meant to be some intentional bit of levity in the world design, like their [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI predecessors in the Tarutaru]]. The problem is the story puts many of these Lalafell as [[OlderThanTheyLook full adults]] compared to the player characters, to the point of Yuyuhase having a BadassBaritone in the Japanese voices. The Ul'dah Lalafell are also notorious for being corrupt and giving in to their vices. The result is story scenes involving several major Lalafell characters falling apart at the seams the moment it expects you to take a CardCarryingVillain or a SmugSnake at face value, committing utterly horrible crimes and sleazy behavior, while looking like an evil child with a moustache; meanwhile someone like Momodi at the Quicksand bar is infamous for having virtually half of the people that talk about her [[AbhorrentAdmirer really wanting her hand in marriage.]] It eventually crosses over into NarmCharm, almost entirely on the absurdity of how disarming they look, which is probably the point.
** Almost none of the cutscenes are properly rigged with a Lalafell Warrior of Light in mind, making the few that stand out (like Zenos and Asahi) ''really'' become that much more hilarious. But it gets better when the camera dramatically pans over to a character that comes up to everyone's thighs all the time as the savior of Eorzea, or if you happen to have a cutscene that has other players in the background like the Praetorium. Play a more normal-sized race while you're in a Lalafell party and observe as the camera almost entirely ''ignores'' and literally flies right over their heads.

* The moment in the ''Stormblood'' patches where Asahi reveals his true colors to the Warrior of Light and gets close to their face while revealing his hatred of them. With most races, this looks fine, but if you play a Lalafell, he has to hunch over awkwardly to get close to your face, and it just looks goofy with your allies all looking in opposite directions.

** The scene also manages to become rather silly if the Warrior of Light happens to be a [[LittlePeople Lalafell]], as the animations were very clearly not adjusted for the massive difference in size. Multiple blows from the Warrior appear to either miss entirely or have [[KungFuSonicBoom some sort of shockwave effect]], whilst at least one punch from Zenos that would have slugged any other race in the stomach instead [[NasalTrauma smashes the Warrior square in the nose.]]

** The Culinarian Quests for "A Realm Reborn" involve meeting Lolorito and Nanamo. These characters will react to you as if you've never met them before. For extra hilarity? Do this after "The Parting Glass" which ends ''A Realm Reborn''.[[spoiler:Apparently, your cooking is so good that Nanamo will wake up from a poison-induced coma to go to a banquet in Limsa Lominsa to try it.]]

** The Culinarian Quests for "A Realm Reborn" involve meeting Lolorito and Nanamo. Nanamo doesn't know who you are by this point - which makes sense at a certain point, but a few later quests make this a bit confusing since Nanamo ''does'' know who you are. For extra hilarity? Do this ''after'' she has been poisoned into a coma - meaning she will apparently ''wake up from her coma'' to go to a banquet.
** If you didn't start as a Lancer, Estinien will introduce himself to you and act as if he doesn't know you even if you've played ''all the way to Endwalker'', meaning he knows ''quite'' well.

* The end of the Tam-Tara Hard questline, "Corpse Groom". So you've destroyed the Avere monstrosity, cleansed the Deepcroft again, and seen Edda fall to her doom. Paiyo is pretty much ready to hang up his adventuring spurs for good after all that... then he glances over to a lighting fixture, and Edda is standing there. The animation for this is ''insanely'' creepy in the best way, and ends with "Edda" giving Paiyo an amazing SlasherSmile. It's all fantastically creepy, until the narm sets in with Paiyo's reaction. The devs clearly wanted to convey his complete horror, but between Paiyo being a lalafell to start with and Square kind of hitting the limits of what XIV's real-time facial animation tech and their current character models are capable of, his expression is more "ridiculous" than terrified and pulls the viewer out of an otherwise stellar capstone to an excellent questline and dungeon.

* The dramatic revelation that Thancred has been possessed by an Ascian is quite a twist -- up until the heroes fly away as Minfilia delivers with a DullMonotone not quite at a shouting volume, "Thancred, [[BigNo nooooo!]]" The voice acting can veer into ChewingTheScenery for the original ''A Realm Reborn'' content, but this moment in particular became a minor meme in its own right.

* The end of the Tam-Tara Hard questline, "Corpse Groom". So you've destroyed the Avere monstrosity, cleansed the Deepcroft again, and seen Edda fall to her doom. Paiyo is pretty much ready to hang up his adventuring spurs for good after all that, and then... he glances over to a lighting fixture, and Edda is standing there. The animation for this is ''insanely'' creepy in the best way, and ends with "Edda" giving Paiyo an amazing SlasherSmile. It's all fantastically creepy and the highlight of the patch AND THEN!... the narm sets in with Paiyo's reaction. The devs clearly wanted to convey his complete horror, but between Paiyo being a lalafell to start with and Square kind of hitting the limits of what XIV's real-time facial animation tech and their current character models are capable of, his expression is more "ridiculous" than terrified and pulls the viewer out of an otherwise stellar capstone to an excellent questline and dungeon.