History Trivia / FinalFantasyVI

* {{Blooper}}: Bosses normally can't be suplexed by Sabin. But the developers apparently forgot to make the Phantom Train immune to being suplexed, which lead to one the funniest things in the game.

* MemeAcknowledgment: The official Final Fantasy Facebook page acknowledges suplexing trains on the post that celebrated this game's 27th anniversary.

* ScapegoatCreator: According to Woolsey, back then, Square had to submit the entire game script and ROM to Nintendo so they could comb through it looking for raunchy stuff. That alone took 50-60 hours to transcribe, and if the company found ''anything'' they didn't like, it would jam up the whole process and prevent Square from meeting their deadline. Most developers decided to err on the side of caution, which resulted in "Holy" being rendered as "Pearl" and the like. Nintendo still removed all of the "scatological humor" and pop culture jokes; only the Princess Leia reference survived.

* MemeAcknowledgment: The official Final Fantasy Facebook page acknowledges suplexing trains on the post that celebrated this games 27th anniversary.

* MemeAcknowledgment: The official Final Fantasy Facebook page acknowledges suplexing trains on the post that celebrated this games 20th anniversary.

** VideoGame/GameGenie users found that it was entirely possible to have a party with Kefka and Gestahl in it, though they were largely non-functional and shared a character portrait with Terra. This is caused by various scenes in the game where they appear in-battle as their SuperDeformed sprites (as opposed to the static enemy artwork), which necessitated coding them as some equivalent to a party character. Suffice to say, this led to rumors that it is possible to recruit them into your party. The above are parodied by an infamous list of "unlockable characters" which starts with General Leo, and ends with Ryu from ''Street Fighter'', with increasingly-bizarre and impossible requirements for each.

* DearNegativeReader: Ted Woolsey is an easygoing guy. He got his share of hate mail; he took it in good humor. He did point out in an interview that some of those criticisms came from a place of ignorance:

* ScapegoatCreator: According to Woolsey, back then, Square had to submit the entire game script and ROM to Nintendo so they could comb through it looking for raunchy stuff. That alone took 50-60 hours to transcribe, and if the company found ''anything'' they didn't like, it would jam up the whole process and prevent Square from meeting their deadline. Most companies decided to err on the side of caution, which resulted in "Holy" being rendered as "Pearl" and the like. Nintendo still removed all of the "scatological humor" and pop culture jokes; only the Princess Leia reference survived.

-->"One thing that I just had to bust up on was, I saw one translation in which the whole game, it must have been a thousand pages long, all done in the Japanese syntax with the verb at the end. So like, 'I you and they want and have a good time to go.' They felt they had really preserved the essence of Japanese by having that syntax that was for them very special and that was the charm of them reading Japanese. You know, Japanese don't perceive the language that way. [[RealityIsUnrealistic It's perceived more the way that most translators write it]], which is digesting it and putting it out in English that makes sense."

* TroubledProduction: According to Woolsey, Nintendo threw all their weight behind ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' to drive sales, but that wasn't going to cut it this time. Square tried to translate the game into English themselves, but they didn't even have a localization department at this stage, so they finally called in a professional. Woolsey was given a 30-day window to play the game and localize it. He rode a plane to Tokyo twice to deliver a script, and both revisions were scrapped for being too long. ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' was even worse: Square were still pounding out a script as he was translating it.

** The [=CzarDragon=] rumors (see UrbanLegendOfZenda) were helped along by a lot of dummied content that made the rumors seem credible; there is dummied battle text for several members of the Eight Dragons' powering up in some way, text for each of them calling in the other for back-up, and of course the [=CzarDragon=] itself. When the Gameboy Advance version came out, the new bonus dungeon Dragons' Den contains rematches with the Eight Dragons, who use the same gimmicks described in the dummied battle text, and the boss of the dungeon is [=KaiserDragon=], which shares its Japanese name with [=CzarDragon=] and uses a modified sprite of it. And then when you beat Kaiser you unlock the Soul Shrine, a gauntlet of 128 battles ending with the Eight Dragons and Kaiser. The dummied assets make it clear that Dragons' Den and Soul Shrine, or something like them, were planned for the Super NES release, but left out for time or technical reasons.

** Hacking the game revealed the existence of [=CzarDragon=], an apparent "boss" of the Eight Dragons. The main theory on how to encounter him was to Petrify the Blue Dragon (which is impossible) and you'll get the Raiden Magicite without giving up the Odin Magicite. When you beat the Eight Dragons and get Crusader, you now have all the Magicite pieces in the game and will be thrust into a rematch with the Eight Dragons, who are now stronger than before, finishing off with [=CzarDragon=] entering the ring. This was sometimes combined with the Leo revival rumors by claiming one had to defeat [=CzarDragon=] to resurrect Leo. With the Gameboy Advance version adding the Dragon's Den which contains stronger versions of the Eight Dragons and the superboss [=KaiserDragon=] (who actually shares its Japanese name with [=CzarDragon=] and uses a modified sprite of it), it is apparent that the dungeon or something like it was intended originally but left out for time or technical restraints.

###Leo appears in a few other cutscenes that imply he was a LoveInterest for Terra at one point.

** Gogo's recruitment was also different. Originally, you will run into a doppelganger of one of the party members in random towns. To recruit Gogo, you would have bring to bring his/her double to meet them. The Siegfried "imposter" makes a bit more sense in hindsight.

** The persistent rumor that General Leo can join your party and the existence of a Paladin Ring. There's also a General Leo Revival theory which somehow ties into Shadow having two or three additional dream sequences. Sometimes dinosaur-fighting is involved, as well. Leo ''can'' be recruited, in a sense, but it involves using a complex glitch and playing through the World of Balance without saving to get him in the party, and he's only usable in a very limited capacity.

** The persistent rumor that General Leo can join your party and the existence of a Paladin Ring. There's also a General Leo Revival theory which somehow ties into Shadow having two or three additional dream sequences. Sometimes dinosaur-fighting is involved, as well. Leo ''can'' be recruited, in a sense: Gau learns "Shock" if you add the Retainer enemy to his Rage skillset.

* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/YoshitakaAmano has stated that of all characters he has drawn for ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', Terra Branford from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is his favorite which explains why Terra has the [[https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VI_concept_art#Terra_Branford most]] Amano artworks of any ''Final Fantasy'' character.

* {{Magitek}}

** Long-considered a 16-bit game ''par excellence'',''VI'' was originally going to be set entirely in Terra's world (dubbed the "World of Balance" by the fold-out map which came with the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] cartridge). An April 2019 interview in Famitsu revealed that the game was initially intended to end with the heroes stopping Kefka before he could destroy the world. But the game was completed way ahead of schedule, so Square doubled its length with the [[WideOpenSandbox free-roaming]] [[VillainWorld "World of Ruin"]], caused by the Empire disturbing the Warring Triad.

** The persistent rumor that General Leo can join your party and the existence of a Paladin Ring. There's also a General Leo Revival theory which somehow ties into Shadow having two or three additional dream sequences. Sometimes dinosaur-fighting is involved, as well. Leo ''can'' be recruited, in a sense: Gau learns "Shock" if you add the Retainer enemy to his Rage skillset. There actually is a way to properly recruit Leo into the party (see [[http://lparchive.org/Breaking-Final-Fantasy-VI/Update%2013/ here]]), though it wasn't intentional on the part of the developers.

** If you hack the game to either include General Leo in your party or simply switch to the alternate color palettes for the characters, in the final confrontation with Kefka, Leo shows up in the cutscene before the final battle, suggesting that he was originally going to be present.

** Lone Wolf from ''[=FFV=]'' appears as a thief being held in Figaro's prison who later takes Mog hostage. Technically, Gogo firsy debuted as a {{puzzle boss}} in ''V''.

* DeletedScene: The game was one of the first 24mb cartridges for the SNES but several events still had to be cut due to space limitations. They are known through sources like old ''V-Jump'' articles.
** Most famous is the exchange between Strago and Shadow in a bar. [[spoiler:Strago tells Shadow he wants to see his face for Relm's sake, to which the latter unmasks with his back to the camera.]] The scene is also illustrated in a ''[[TheMerch Carddass]]''.
** If time ran out in the damaged building in Tzen, instead of a standard GameOver, Sabin was planned to [[spoiler: be caught in the collapse and die. Bringing Edgar to the site would make him spend all night trying to dig out his brother, even though too many in-game days have passed after the fact.]] This was altered partly due to being [[PlayerPunch too dark]].
* FanNickname: Kefka is called "the psycho clown" (or synonyms thereof) and "ComicBook/TheJoker".

** Lone Wolf from ''[=FFV=]'' appears as a thief being held in Figaro's prison and later takes Mog hostage. Technically, Gogo counts, too.
** Moogles would be this. They first appeared in [=FFIII=] and reappeared in [=FFV=], both of which were only given Western releases long after FFVI. They first appeared in the U.S. in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'' (only as a status effect) and later reappeared in ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' (as both a status effect and [=NPCs=]), as well.

* ThrowItIn: Kefka's introduction cutscene barring Terra's flashback (specifically the part involving his shoes being dusted) was not in the original script, but was ad-libbed by Yoshinori Kitase in order to give players an early implication that Kefka was missing a screw or two from his head, and also because the scene itself, without it, seemed too boring to make completely normal.

** The persistent rumors that General Leo can join your party (as HesJustHiding), and the existence of the Paladin Ring. And there's the General Leo Revival theory that somehow ties into Shadow having two or three more (depending who you ask) hidden dreams. Sometimes dinosaur fighting is involved as well.
*** Leo ''can'' be recruited, in a sense. Gau learns "Shock" if you add the Retainer enemy to his Rage skillset.
*** There actually is a way to recruit Leo for [[http://lparchive.org/Breaking-Final-Fantasy-VI/Update%2013/ part of the game]], though it clearly wasn't intentional on the part of the developers. It's ''at least'' as strange as any of the "revive Leo" rumours that circulated back in the day.
** Game Genie users found that it was entirely possible to have a party with Kefka and Gestahl in it... though they were largely non-functional and shared a character portrait with Terra. This stems from various scenes in the game where they appear in-battle with their regular character sprites (as opposed to the elaborate, motionless sprites of enemies), which necessitated writing them as some equivalent to a party character in the code. Suffice to say, this led to rumors that it was possible to have them in your party legitimately.
*** The above two are parodied by an infamous list of "unlockable characters" that starts at General Leo, and ends with Ryu from Street Fighter, with increasingly bizarre and impossible methods for each one.
*** However, if you use codes to add Leo, well, see WhatCouldHaveBeen...
** The GBA release of the game featured censorship of the scene with Celes in prison. In the original release (worldwide), Celes was beaten by her guards while still in chains. The GBA version removed the beating and showed her unchained. After fans confirmed that this cut was in the Japanese version as well, speculation that the scene was censored due to mirroring a real life kidnapping in Japan ran rampant for years. Eventually, the game's translator, [[http://www.rpgamer.com/features/insidegaming/tslatteryint.html Tom Slattery]], revealed the story was far more mundane. Square was targeting a CERO-A content rating in Japan for the re-release, but violence against a restrained person gets a much higher age rating under CERO. CERO didn't exist when the game was originally released, and thus the content wasn't a problem in the early 90s.
** Early on, there was massive speculation as to what might be unlocked thanks to finding Cyan's "Book of Secrets" in the World of Ruin. Years later, it was finally put to rest, when it turned out that was the censors' response to what was supposed to be a PornStash.

** During development, Terra was originally conceived as a 20 year-old, male half-esper who was a partner in crime to Locke. Parts of this concept ended up inspiring the characters [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Zidane]], and in concept art this character heavily resembles [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Squall Leonheart]].
** Terra was also intended to have [[spoiler:been KilledOffForReal during the game's ending]].
** If you hack the game to either include General Leo in your party or to simply switch to the alternate color palettes for the characters, in the final confrontation with [[spoiler:Kefka]], ''he appears as one of the three characters in the cutscene before the final battle,'' heavily implying that he was originally intended to be present. He appears in a few other cutscenes as well, implying that he was at one point a LoveInterest for Terra.
** According to some storyline concepts, Celes was originally going to suffer from mental instability similar to Kefka due to the Magitek process, but she would have gotten over it. In addition, she actually was intended to be a spy (albeit a conflicted one), but that ended up removed, although they reused the concept for Cait Sith in the next game. Interestingly, her "spy" plotline was kept in the story (note how much the characters talk about her being a "traitor"), but what she actually did to be called treasonous is never brought up in the story, likely the result of a last minute cut.
** Gogo's recruitment was also different. Originally, they planned it so that you will meet a duplicate of your characters in random towns. To recruit him, you must bring the character he's currently disguised as. Suddenly, the Siegfried imposter makes a lot more sense.
** Relm was going to paint Creator/YoshitakaAmano artwork during the game, and was going to paint a mural of the party's adventures during the ending.
** One of Square's initial possible plans for Final Fantasy 7 was to make it a [[http://www.polygon.com/a/final-fantasy-7 direct sequel to Final Fantasy 6]].

** An April 2019 interview in Famitsu revealed that the game was initially intended to end with the heroes stopping Kefka just before he could destroy the world. The World of Ruin was added once the development team found that they were pretty far ahead of schedule.

* WordOfSaintPaul: Soraya Saga was one of the scenario writers of the game and was responsible for creating Edgar and Sabin. She wrote a doujinshi that detailed the background history of the Figaro family such as the death of King Figaro and [[FreudianExcuse Edgar's mother issues]]. She also wrote that the reason Sabin, Gau and Cyan got along so well was because they found a surrogate family with each other. However, Square has not confirmed or denied how much of that is considered canonical, and Saga even said it's just a side story.

* ReferencedBy: ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' uses Terra's sprite to represent old-school (but not old-timey) graphics in the "Fortnite/Dusk" double-bill episode. Yahtzee also points to [=FF6=] as the last JRPG he could stand to actually play ([=FF7=]'s more melodramatic story and overwrought character designs put him off som'thin' fierce).