History Trivia / FinalFantasyVII

* {{Jossed}}: Fan theories continue to abound that Vincent, not Hojo, is [[spoiler:Sephiroth]]'s father. Spin-offs have done nothing to support the idea though, and Ultimania guides with relationship charts state outright that Hojo really is the father.

** Veil of Maya has a song called “Aeris”.

** American post-hardcore band A Skylit Drive makes a bunch of references to Final Fantasy in general in their music, but they seem particularly fond of VII and X. To note, their second album “Wires...and the Concept of Breathing” has song titles such as “Knights of the Round,” “This Isn’t The End,” referencing the summon and a line from Aerith. “All it Takes For Your Dreams to Come True” takes the cake, as the entire song is about the events of the game and the title is taken from a speech Rufus delivers to Cloud during their showdown in Disc One (“all it takes for your dreams to come true is a little money.”)

** Yuffie's VA in ''Kingdom Hearts I'' and ''Advent Children'' is [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Christy Carlson Romano]]; in ''Dirge of Cerberus'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II'', she's played by Mae Whitman.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Sephiroth's final form was never called "One Winged Angel". The name of the track playing during the boss fight was. The final form is referred to as Safer Sephiroth by the game's in-battle tip bar. This may be a bit of poor translation, as Sephiroth's final form resembles an angel, or “seraph”. His name could also be a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for “book”, “sefer”, given Sephiroth’s name coming from Kabbalah.

** This is the game that elevated the {{UsefulNotes/Playstation}} into a must-have console and cemented {{Creator/Sony}} as a major player in the gaming world.

* NetworkToTheRescue: Not only did Sony help cover the costs for the game, but they also handled the North American distribution. (Square didn't have an American distributor at the time.)

** Despite being one of the defining games of the [=PS1=] era, it was originally intended to be released on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}. Square had a long-standing relationship with Nintendo, but it went sour after Square grew frustrated with Nintendo's censorship policies and their decision to scrap the UsefulNotes/SNESCDRom i.e. their steadfast refusal to switch from cartridges to CD technology. This has since come full-circle with the rerelease on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

** Aerith originally was not supposed to die, and was implemented at Nomura's suggestion.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Creator/KenichiSuzumura, the voice of Zack Fair, and Creator/MaayaSakamoto, the voice of Aerith Gainsborough, are married in real life. Suzumura and Creator/TakahiroSakurai are well known for being best friends, with the two even owning their own radio station and a singing duo R-16. They appear together in a lot of things, some BoysLove audio dramas, or other closely platonic friendships, like [[Manga/FairyTail Sting and Rouge]], another spiky blond-black hair duo.

** For ''years'' everyone was saying it was only a matter of time until Square Enix remade ''Final Fantasy VII''. On June 15, 2015 they ''finally'' announced it at E3, and the first part of ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake FFVII Remake]]'' was released on April 10, 2020. [[note]]Due to the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]], ''Remake'' was released earlier in Europe and Australia on April 1.[[/note]]

** This is the game which elevated the {{UsefulNotes/Playstation}} into a must-have console and cemented {{Creator/Sony}} as a major player in the gaming world.

* NetworkToTheRescue: Not only did Sony help cover the costs for the game, they also handled the North American distribution. (Square didn't have an American distributor at the time.)

* RealitySubtext: There is some circulating rumors that the reasoning for Zack's anti-climatic death in the original compared to a valiant LastStand in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' was because the mother of Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the series, died during the game's production. This in turn made him pursue [[RealityEnsues "human deaths"]], meaning no {{Last Stand}}s or any [[DyingSpeech parting words]]. Keep in mind that despite what many people think, Sakaguchi did not actually direct or do much writing for the game, so these rumors could be wrong. This was however, stated by the actual director Yoshinori Kitase, to be the intent behind Aerith's death.

** Red XIII had an entire sub-plot based around him cut from the game. He was going to have his own QuirkyMinibossSquad of feline clones created by Hojo who would routinely fight the party.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Rumors abounded for ''years'' about ways to bring Aerith back from the dead. One of the most popular back in the day stated that you could retrieve the White Materia from the pool in the ancient city and use it to revive her. Another popular rumor says that if you were really mean to Aerith but nice to Tifa, then ''Tifa'' would die instead. Before the days of the internet and data mining, rumors like this caught a lot of traction. Also not helping is the availability of Aerith's final Limit Break, Great Gospel (which you can't use). Or that if you go back to the Sector 7 church (after getting the Midgar key) where you met Aeris, you can see her 'ghost' make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance above the flowerbed.

** For ''years'' everyone was saying it was only a matter of time until Square Enix remade ''Final Fantasy VII''. On June 15, 2015 they ''finally'' announced it.

** Aerith originally was not supposed to die in game, and was implemented at Nomura's suggestion.
** Originally, the entire party except for Cloud and 2 chosen party members were supposed to die by the time of the final battle.

* NetworkToTheRescue: Not only did Sony help covet the costs for the game, they also handled the North American distribution. (Square didn't have an American distributor at the time.)

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Rumors abounded for ''years'' about ways to bring Aerith back from the dead. One of the most popular back in the day stated that you could retrieve the White Materia from the pool in the ancient city and use it to revive her. Another popular rumor sais that, if you were really mean to Aerith but nice to Tifa, then ''Tifa'' would die instead. Before the days of the internet and data mining, rumors like this caught a lot of traction. Also not helping is the availability of Aerith's final Limit Break, Great Gospel (which you can't use). Or that if you go back to the Sector 7 church (after getting the Midgar key) where you met Aeris, you can see her 'ghost' make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance above the flowerbed.

* RealitySubtext: There is some circulating rumors that the reasoning for Zack's anti-climatic death in the original compared to a valiant LastStand in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' was because the mother of Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the series, died during the game's production. This in turn made him pursue [[RealityEnsues "human deaths"]], meaning no {{Last Stand}}s or any [[DyingSpeech parting words]]. Keep in mind that Sakaguchi did not actually direct or do much writing for the game, so these rumors could be wrong. This was however, stated by the actual director Yoshinori Kitase, to be the intent behind Aerith's death.

* RealitySubtext: There is some circulation that the reasoning for Zack's anti-climatic death in the original compared to a valiant LastStand in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' was because the mother of Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the series, died during the game's production. This in turn made him pursue [[RealityEnsues "human deaths"]], meaning no {{Last Stand}}s or any [[DyingSpeech parting words]]. Furthermore, this was already explicitly stated to be the intention behind Aerith's death as well.

** Cloud turning out be [[TomatoInTheMirror a copy of the original Cloud]], who would occasionally speak through him. In the final product, Sephiroth is lying about Cloud's clone origins, whereas in he was originally planned to have been telling the truth.

** Cloud turning out be [[TomatoInTheMirror a copy of the original Cloud]], who would occasionally speak through him. In the final product, Sephiroth is lying about Cloud's clone origins, whereas in the original he's telling the truth.

* RealitySubtext: There is some circulation that the reasoning for Zack's anti-climatic death in the original compared to a valiant LastStand in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' was because the mother of Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the series, died during the game's production. This in turn made him pursue [[RealityEnsues "human deaths"]], meaning no {{Last Stand}}s or any [[DyingSpeech parting words]].

** Creator/BeauBillingslea, who consistently voiced Barret in English up to the gameplay trailer used to announce the remake in 2015, has confirmed that he will not be returning to voice Barret in the full game; the role will instead go to John Eric Bentley. It was later revealed that every character would receive new voice actors.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Rumors abounded for ''years'' about ways to bring Aerith back from the dead. One of the most popular back in the day stated that you could retrieve the White Materia from the pool in the ancient city and use it to revive her. Another popular rumor sais that, if you were really mean to Aerith but nice to Tifa, then ''Tifa'' would die instead. Before the days of the internet and data mining, rumors like this caught a lot of traction. Also not helping is the availability of Aerith's final Limit Break (which you can't use). Or that if you go back to the Sector 7 church (after getting the Midgar key) where you met Aeris, you can see her 'ghost' make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance above the flowerbed.

** Sephiroth and Aerith being former lovers, or possibly[[CainAndAbel brother and sister]].

** This is the game which turned the Playstation into a must have-console and cemented Sony as a major player in the gaming world.

* NetworkToTheRescue: Not only did Sony help with the costs for the game, they also handled the North American distribution (Square didn't have an American distributor at the time).

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Rumors abounded for ''years'' about ways to bring Aerith back from the dead. One of the most popular back in the day stated that you could retrieve the White Materia from the pool in the ancient city and use it to revive her. Another popular rumor sais that, if you were really mean to Aerith but nice to Tifa, then ''Tifa'' would die inztead. Before the days of the internet and data mining, rumors like this caught a lot of traction. Also not helping is the availability of Aerith's final Limit Break (which you can't use). Or that if you go back to the Sector 7 church (after getting the Midgar key) where you met Aeris, you can see her 'ghost' make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance above the flowerbed.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Rumors abounded for ''years'' about ways to bring Aerith back from the dead. One of the most popular back in the day stated that you could retrieve the White Materia from the pool in the ancient city and use it to revive her. Another popular rumor sais that, if you were really mean to Aerith but nice to Tifa, then ''Tifa'' would die inztead. Before the days of the internet and data mining, rumors like this caught a lot of traction. Also not helping is the availability of Aerith's final Limit Break (which you can't use). Or that if you go back to the Sector 7 church (after getting the Midgar key)
where you met Aeris, you can see her 'ghost' make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance above the flowerbed.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Rumors abounded for ''years'' about ways to bring Aerith back from the dead. One of the most popular back in the day stated that you could retrieve the White Materia from the pool in the ancient city and use it to revive her. Another popular rumor sais that, if you were really mean to Aerith but nice to Tifa, then ''Tifa'' would die inztead. Before the days of the internet and data mining, rumors like this caught a lot of traction. Also not helping is the availability of Aerith's final Limit Break (which you can't use). Or that if you go back to the church where you meet Aeris after getting the Midgar key, you can see her "ghost" make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance above the flowerbed.