Line #72 Awesome/FinalFantasy


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2	[[caption-width-right:353:Serious [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Bartz]] is serious!]]
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4	With a plethora of moments to stun players in awe, is it any wonder ''Final Fantasy'' is such a [[RunningGag neck-snappingly]] popular series?
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8	[[index]]
9	* Awesome/FinalFantasyI
10	* Awesome/FinalFantasyII
11	* Awesome/FinalFantasyIII
12	* Awesome/FinalFantasyIV
13	** Awesome/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears
14	* Awesome/FinalFantasyV
15	** Awesome/FinalFantasyLegendOfTheCrystals
16	* Awesome/FinalFantasyVI
17	* Awesome/FinalFantasyVII
18	** Awesome/CrisisCore
19	** Awesome/DirgeOfCerberus
20	** Awesome/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren
21	** Awesome/FinalFantasyVIIRemake
22	** Awesome/FinalFantasyVIIRebirth
23	* Awesome/FinalFantasyVIII
24	* Awesome/FinalFantasyIX
25	* Awesome/FinalFantasyX
26	** Awesome/FinalFantasyX2
27	* Awesome/FinalFantasyXII
28	* Awesome/FinalFantasyXIII
29	** Awesome/FinalFantasyXIII2
30	** Awesome/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII
31	* Awesome/FinalFantasyXIV
32	** Awesome/FinalFantasyXIVLegacyARealmReborn
33	** Awesome/FinalFantasyXIVHeavensward
34	** Awesome/FinalFantasyXIVStormblood
35	** Awesome/FinalFantasyXIVShadowbringers
36	** Awesome/FinalFantasyXIVEndwalker
37	* Awesome/FinalFantasyXV
38	** Awesome/KingsglaiveFinalFantasyXV
39	* Awesome/FinalFantasyXVI
40	* Awesome/FinalFantasyDimensions
41	* Awesome/FinalFantasyType0
42	* Awesome/DissidiaFinalFantasy
43	** Awesome/DissidiaFinalFantasy2015
44	** Awesome/DissidiaFinalFantasyOperaOmnia
45	* Awesome/FinalFantasyTactics
46	** Awesome/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance
47	** Awesome/FinalFantasyTacticsA2
48	* Awesome/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin
49	* Awesome/FinalFantasyUnlimited
50	* Awesome/FinalFantasyRecordKeeper
51	* Awesome/BravelyDefault
52	** Awesome/BravelySecond
53	* Awesome/TheatrhythmFinalFantasy
54	* Awesome/VagrantStory
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57	[[AC:VideoGame/FinalFantasyX and VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2]] (unsorted)
58	* One scene in Macalania Temple has Yuna and company confronting Seymour. The group moves forward to guard Yuna, as it is their duty as guardians to protect the summoner (in this case, her). Yuna, however, has second thoughts about just sitting there as she gets protected:
59	--> '''Yuna:''' Maester Seymour. I trust my guardians with my life. But they are also my friends. I will not stand by and watch them be hurt. I will fight you, too!
60	* The moment when the party crashes Yuna and Seymour's wedding by shooting the [[GlobalAirship Fahrenheit's]] anchors at the temple, and then [[RefugeInAudacity grinding down their cables with just their feet]], even as the Church's machina and warrior monks pepper them with constant fire.
61	** Everything Yuna does during that scene, from going along with the wedding just for a chance to send Seymour to jumping out of the window, summoning an aeon to catch her as she falls. Yuna is ''made'' of awesome.
62	--> '''Yuna:''' Don't worry. I can fly.
63	* Quite possibly the most emotional scene in any game, especially if you haven't translated Al Bhed (and thus don't get the conversation between Cid and the airship bridge crew) is the flight from home. You can tell from the look on Rikku's face that something is about to happen, but when the ship's entire crew begins to sing the Hymn, it really hits you in the gut. Something great and terrible is about to happen. Then Rikku tells you the reason for the solemn moment.
64	* How about Yuna, Rikku, and Paine joining up with Leblanc and company, plus Nooj and Gippal to brave the Farplane, wreck Vegnagun, save Baralai and beat the hell out of Shuyin?
65	* What? This far and no mention of Yuna snapping Rikku and Paine out from Shuyin's mind control in the Den of Woe?
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67	[[AC:VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI]]
68	* Despite the epic storylines in the game, ''Final Fantasy XI'' somewhat spoils the moment by you remembering that most of the missions you complete have really been done with other people. Then ''Wings of the Goddess'' comes out, and we're suddenly doing all sorts of kick-ass things from pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment for a not-exactly street-smart genius kid Tarutaru, to stopping ''one half of an invading army force attacking Windurst.'' And this can all be done by yourself in the literal sense, without other [=PCs=].
69	* The finale of the mini-expansion, "A Shantotto Ascension," which not only reinforces the idea that Shantotto is quite possibly the most powerful being in the Final Fantasy XI universe, but it's also just... well, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-qLiXnDSI see for yourself]].
70	* In the past San d'Oria storyline, Altennia, Excenmille's [[ParentalSubstitute mother figure]] is captured by a group of orcs and a traitorous Elvaan. So what does Excenmille do? [[https://youtu.be/kyZsJUxhcQM?t=5m15s Dropkick the Elvaan on his face]] and take on the orcs with Rahal and The Adventurer, despite being just a child at the time.
71	** Excenmille's story is one Awesome Moment after another. At one point he recruits a unity of Gigas to throw giant snowballs at an enemy unit, leads the final attack and eventually kills Doggvdegg, the orcish warlord that had spent decades bringing ruin to San d'Oria and finally, teams up with his future self to take down an orchish super weapon
72	* After spending two storylines building up to the moment, seeing Karaha-Baruha summon Fenrir who then goes on to trash the beastmen army is something of beauty.
73	* The Adventurer's last stand against The Cloud of Darkness, which involves bringing back 20 heroes from across the all storylines.
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76	[[AC:VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics]]
77	* Delita Heiral's masterful outmaneuvering of every other group's plotting in ''Final Fantasy Tactics'', in what has to been some of the [[GambitRoulette most complex gambitry]] and most intense [[TheChessmaster chessmaster-on-chessmaster]] action seen in a video game up to that time, is so magnificent that one can't help be impressed. Even if he ''was'' a huge dick who would manipulate his closest friend and the woman he loved in the pursuit of power, he was far better than the [[EvilChancellor other parties]] [[CorruptChurch making]] [[DemonicInvaders power grabs.]]
78	** And Ovelia's moment came when she stabbed the son of a bitch for manipulating her and Ramza.
79	* Ramza's conversation with Rafa, where she reminds him he isn't going to get a reward, or even be remembered as a hero and everyone will still hate him, But Ramza keeps going through everything, Just because ''he knows it's the right thing to do, And no one else will do it''.
80	* Mustadio gets one at the end of his introductory adventure. His skillset centers around carefully aimed gunshots to disable enemy limbs. When captured by Baert's thugs and disarmed, does he sit out the ensuing battle? Heck, no! He charges into melee and starts breaking arms and legs ''with his bare hands.''
81	* Agrias gets a few. After leaving her and Ovelia while you go to solve Mustadio's problem, she and the princess get kidnapped. Agrias proceeds to break out of prison, and then escape from all of the enemy forces by herself. Even when you run into her, she proceeds to charge back into the enemy as you catch up to her and only quick action will allow you to ''share in the kills''. Say what you will about the numerous Swordmagic users who join your team later, the fact she's thoroughly useful for the entirety of her tenure as a Guest character is awesome by itself.
82	** She also gets a second Crowning Moment of Awesome (which doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming) if you take her to the Golgorand Execution Site battle. When Gafgarion ambushes you and springs the fact that the villains are Ramza's ''older brothers'', she doesn't bat an eyelash and expresses her unwavering belief in Ramza's commitment to their goals.
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84	[[AC:VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance]]
85	* When Marche is unwittingly teleported into Exodus' shrine, he plans on destroying the fruit in order to break the next seal. Babus steps up to stop him, and Cid reminds him that he's alone this time. Marche then delivers a NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech admitting that he never had confidence in himself and that while he can do many things in Ivalice, it isn't real and he must go home to face reality. He then proceeds to destroy the crystal alone, which nicely shows how much he's grown since coming to Ivalice.
86	* When Ezel is cornered by Judgemaster Cid, who uses an advanced law to prevent him from doing anything, he responds by finding an anti-law to counter it, enabling himself and Marche to escape.
87	** The best part is how cool and calm he is, even when faced with the Judgemaster himself. It's like "Oh, you're using an advanced law card, are you? Too bad, I'ma gonna use an anti-law, bye!"
88	* In the prologue, the bullies complain about being on the same team as Mewt, who's "like a little girl," for the snowball fight. Ritz then steps in, saying that there are girls who can beat them up, and resolves the situation by swapping places with one of the bullies, thereby deliberately choosing to be on the same team as Mewt, who'd been regarded as weak.
89	* Marche defeating Ritz. He admits early on that he'd assumed that once he found her, she'd help him find a way home, and went into a brief HeroicBSOD when he realized she didn't want to. Now, he's willing to stand against her, someone he admired, for the sake of his goal of returning home and facing hardship head-on, and neither holds any hard feelings against the other, which nicely showcases Marche's CharacterDevelopment since the early game.
90	* Marche's ShutUpHannibal against the FinalBoss just before the first fight against her...
91	-->'''Remedi''': I am the fulfiller of wishes. Now, Mewt's dearest wish is to stay here... And, there is another who wishes the same thing.
92	-->'''Marche''': Me...? I don't deny what you say, but... This world is just a dream, and I'm done with dreaming!
93	* In the ending, Marche and Mewt, their confidence bolstered as a result of their time in Ivalice, throw snowballs back at their bullies, catching all three of them off guard, and nonchalantly walk off after that.
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96	[[AC:Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren]]
97	* The moment when Rufus Shinra gets up from his wheelchair, shows Kadaj the box with Jenova's head, taunts him for being a failure as a son, throws the box down a skyscraper, dodges Kadaj's enraged attack by ''throwing himself off the skyscraper'' all the while shooting at Kadaj and ending the whole thing with planting a bullet in Jenova's head definitely is his Crowning Moment Of Awesome. Adding to all of this, he pulls it off while slowly dying from a crippling plague. And keep in mind that he is a [[BadassNormal normal human]] without the flashy superpowers of the main cast.
98	** Also, proving that victory is not necessary for a Crowning Moment Of Awesome, Reno and Rude get their moment in the spotlight fighting Yazoo and Loz. Sure, they get their asses kicked, but they get their asses kicked in a way that makes them look badass for even managing to put up a fight. And they ''still'' manage to top going toe-to-toe with near invincible superhumans and surviving when they realize that they don't stand a chance in a real fight and decide to up their ante. Cue StuffBlowingUp.
99	* The climax of the fight against Bahamut TREMOR. The ''entire party'' performs a FastballSpecial using Cloud as the projectile (yes, all ''eight'' of them, including ''[[KilledOffForReal her]]''), tossing him straight up a skyscraper towards Bahamut. Cloud rockets into the sky, flies right through a giant blue nuke-ball breathed at him by Bahamut, lands on his back, plants his sword right into the back of its neck, and performs a SwordDrag across his entire length, ripping a bloody line right through the dragon.
100	* This is only in the Complete version of the movie. After fighting Sephiroth for hours to no avail, Cloud is exhausted to the point of collapse. He manages to get a bit of a breather on top of the ruined Shinra building. And then Sephiroth shows up, beats him up a little more and kicks him into a still standing wall, crumbling it and sending up a large cloud of dust. He gets ready to charge in there and skewer Cloud one last time, when the dust fades and shows Cloud standing there, defiantly holding his sword, BattleAura flaming and ready to kick some ass. Of course, Sephiroth promptly skewers him anyway, but it was still awesome.
101	** That's not just "kicking some ass", Cloud uses the (regular) Omnislash against Sephiroth, ''who blocks every blow''. And then, with Cloud skewered, he remarks "Is this the pain you felt before, Cloud? Let me remind you. This time you won't forget." and grows the titular [[OneWingedAngel single wing]].
102	* In the final fight, Cloud reveals the ace up his sleeve in the fight with Sephiroth and uses his new Omnislash. Sephiroth can't even get one full sentence out before vanishing. Turns out that Cloud has improved since their last encounter, whereas Sephiroth, being dormant, was standing still. Looks like someone TookALevelInBadass.
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105	* When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQwAxMiKHPo the Final Fantasy main theme was played at Tour de Japon]], the Crowning Moment and [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music]] tropes became one. Halfway through the song, Nobuo Uematsu steps up to accept the audience's applauds. The conductor offers Uematsu the conductor's baton and he at first seems to politely refuse, only to reveal ''he has his own with him'' and step up to lead for the rest of the song.
106	* At about the end of the third hour into ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesTheCrystalBearers'', "Goldenrod", the Yuke that Layle's been pursuing since the start of the game, decides that she's given Layle enough warnings to keep his nose out of her business and tells him that she'll demonstrate her true power: ''[[SummonMagic Summoning]]''. She promptly creates a summoning gate that releases, of all Summons, the dragon god-king himself, ''Bahamut''. Not one to be outdone, Layle has a boss fight with the dragon who is traditionally the most powerful summon ever. However, when telekinetically launching rusty swords through his armor does little more than anger Bahamut into destroying the arena, he needs to find a new tactic. So what does Layle do to harm Bahamut? He performs a horizontal ColossusClimb on Bahamut while he's in mid-flight, grabs Bahamut's tail (which is a gigantic ''spear'' in this incarnation), and ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice skewers Bahamut through the heart WITH HIS OWN TAIL]]!''
107	* Just a general one, but [[LimitBreak Limit Breaks]] and [[SummonMagic Summons]]. You know they are awesome. You see an Omnislash or Ifrit coming your way, you know that you are pwned.
108	* ''Agni's Philosophy'' showed up at E3 2012 with absolutely no prior teasing or fanfare, and proceeded to show everyone exactly what Square Enix have been beavering away at in preparation for future consoles. [[http://youtu.be/UVX0OUO9ptU Keep in mind that this is all in real-time]].
109	* E3 2015, Sony's press conference, they showed a new game called World of Final Fantasy, nothing too exciting......until the background suddenly turns dark with flowing green lines and at that moment, you know where this is going: a VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII HD remake.
110	* The September 2018 WebVideo/NintendoDirect revealing that several mainline ''Final Fantasy'' games and spin-offs (including but not limited to ''VII'', ''IX'', ''X'' and ''X-2'', ''XII: The Zodiac Age'', ''XV'' through its Pocket Edition, and ''Crystal Chronicles'') would be coming to the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. After the falling out almost 20 years ago that lead to the series going [=PlayStation=]-exclusive, it's safe to say that ''Final Fantasy'' and Nintendo have officially reunited.
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