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** Just before Cloud can bring down his sword upon Aerith, he apologizes just before he is about to strike.
-->'''Cloud:''' ''(anguished)'' I-! I'm sorry!

'''Cait Sith:''' Do ''not'' [[BerserkButton call those people my friends]].\\

** What's worse is that even after Reeve bares his soul to them, Cloud and the others make it abundantly clear that he ''still'' isn't forgiven, and give him a deadly warning.

'''Tifa:''' And if you even THINK of pulling the shit you did at Gold Saucer...\\

'''Vincent:''' [[{{Understatement}} I think they hate you.]]\\
'''Mog:''' [[LampshadeHanging At least I'm being thought of.]]

-->'''Aerith:''' It's alright, Cloud. [[CatchPhrase All]] [[PreMortemCatchphrase is]] [[KilledMidSentence forgi-]]

** The performances of Creator/JustinBriner and Creator/SarahWilliams sell this, as over the course of the scene, their voices are gradually cracking, showing how much psychological strain this is putting the two in.

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** It's tragic from a meta-perspective too. There were theories as the series progressed from the fanbase about how TFS would use game-mods to [[SparedByTheAdaptation let Aerith live]], or would treat it almost jokingly and keep her around as a ghost. In the end however, [[YouCantFightFate there was no way to stop it from happening.]]

** The Movie itself is an meta example in that [=FF7MA=] was [[GrandFinale the last of Team Four Star’s abridged series]]. With ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' and ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'' concluded, and TFS now focusing on producing original content, the ending feels as much a conclusion to the series as it is the EndOfAnEra.

** And in the {{flashback}}, we learn that not only was Barret [[ThePollyanna the type to unironically use phrases like]] "Golly gosh" and "Peachy-keen swell," he also had [[IllGirl a wife who was dying]] prior to the Mako reactor getting built. Seeing as the town was burned to the ground roughly a week later, odds are she didn't make it either way.

'''Mog:''' [[AC: [[LampshadeHanging At least I'm being thought of.]]]]

'''Mog''': [[AC: This won't repent for our sins.]]\\

'''Cid:''' I bet the fucker called up the Turks to say we were coming so they can ambush us.\\

** The tension is already thick enough to cut with a knife, but the final drop comes at the start of Episode 16, where Cloud's LackOfEmpathy and one InnocentlyInsensitive comment by Red [[RantInducingSlight cause Barret to explode on them both,]] driving Red to tears in the process before he storms off in a huff. Red is utterly dejected as a result, choosing to sit out because he feels he doesn't deserve to have fun for this.

*** For reference, the only other times "fuck" wasn't censored in TFS's works (aside from ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'' and ''WebVideo/AttackOnTitanAbridged'') were when [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Vegeta didn't use a condom with Bulma]], which was PlayedForLaughs, and when Vegeta [[SincerityMode sincerely]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness apologized]] to Gohan after his recklessness (an [[UnstoppableRage attack]] on Cell triggered by [[PapaWolf Trunks']] [[AdultFear death]]) resulted in Gohan's [[TakingTheBullet broken]] [[ChronicHeroSyndrome arm]].

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->''You go in and you're like, "Yeah, I'm gonna do this parody! It'll be so fun--AHH FEELS I'M SAD CRYYYYY!!"''

** At the same time, Aerith makes Tifa finally realize that she and Yuffie are NotSoDifferent: They're a pair of dumb kids who are covering up their sadness and anger by trying to act like tough girls, until personal tragedies made them explode.

** The Movie itself is an meta example in that [=FF7MA=] was the last of Team Four Star’s abridged series. With ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' and ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'' concluded, and TFS now focusing on producing original content, the ending feels as much a conclusion to the series as it is the EndOfAnEra.

* With [[WhamEpisode Episode 25]] comes the moment everyone was dreading since the series began... The death of Aerith. [[ItWasHisSled Everyone and their mother knew it was coming,]] but [=TeamFourStar=] did the impossible and made one of the saddest, most shocking moments in video game history -- the moment EVERYBODY remembers ''Final Fantasy VII'' for -- even more heartrending than the original game. ''By playing it completely straight with '''zero humor'''''.