Line #10 Awesome/FinalFantasyVI


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: A party of fourteen party members after CharacterDevelopment against one god of magic. Place your bets.]]
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10	* Any time you fight Kefka is a good time. It's so satisfying beating up the villain you LoveToHate.
11	* Many players viewed Kefka's [[{{Woolseyism}} hilarious and genre savvy]] response to the heroes' final speech at the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' to be his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
12	-->'''Kefka:''' ''"This is sickening! You all sound like chapters from a SELF-HELP BOOKLET!"''
13	** That, and the whole ''destroying the world'' scene.
14	** Many villains in the series sought to become gods/have godlike power and/or destroy/rule the world. Kefka succeeded in those goals having become a god of magic, wrecked the world to a dying state and has the remains at his mercy, making this one for him. And this makes what your parties do also one in that you kill said god, which starts the world's recovery.
15	** Many {{RPG}}s let you fight the end boss with your entire party. Kefka lets you take more than that. He lets you form ''three'' parties to take him on. And, just like almost everyone in your party, he was born a normal man.
16	* So you've just rescued Relm from the burning house in Thamasa, and it seems that you're trapped, right? Cue Shadow, swooping in and saving your bacon.
17	** For more Shadow awesome: when Kefka has your party trapped and paralyzed on the Floating Continent, he swoops in, undoes the paralysis, traps Kefka, and tells you to run. Epic.
18	*** [[RuleofThree Not awesome enough?]] If he's in your party, ''he shakes the paralysis off and traps Kefka.''
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24	* Hell, the very opening to the game! You walk into the starting town with giant mech suits that can shoot lasers and heal in the hundreds? Three party members instead of one? Wiping the floor with the enemies who desperately try to stop you with said party members in giant mech suits?
25	* There's one near the beginning of the game: Edgar, king of the highly industrial Figaro Castle, wakes up to find his castle on fire and Kefka demanding Terra. When all seems hopeless, the two of them and Locke jump from the castle onto speeding chocobos on the ground. As if that wasn't enough, as they're racing away from the castle, Kefka can only watch as the castle itself '''sinks into the sand beneath him'''.
26	-->'''Chancellor:''' No one can touch the people of Figaro!
27	* During the Siege of Doma, Cyan steps out of the palace. Alone. He then proceeds to ''slaughter the entire Imperial detachment''. '''Alone.''' (You only ''need'' to kill the commander, but who would consider passing this up?). Considering his Class/Job, he took lessons from [[UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura another samurai]].
28	** Moments later, Cyan avenges the poisoning of his family and his people by taking on the Imperial invaders, ''alone''. When Sabin finds him, Cyan is holding his own against multiple Imperial opponents!
29	* [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u84cH_bmTA&feature=player_embedded put it best]]: '''[[MemeticMutation MOTHERFUCKER SUPLEXED A TRAIN]]'''.
30	** The [[GameMod ROM hack]] ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIBraveNewWorld Brave New World]]'' removes Suplex immunity from the game. Cue suplexing final boss Kefka.
31	* The Opera - particularly, Aria de Mezzo Carattere. There's a reason why it's the picture for the [[AwesomeMusic/FinalFantasy franchise's Awesome Music page]], and why it's considered one of the most famous scenes in the history of video games: '''''it's just that damn good.'''''
32	** Just look at how many people have said the scene made them cry and realize the people behind the game were able to elicit that kind of emotional response over a situation that's ''not even real'' within the game itself!
33	** And it's all done with SD characters, 16-bit graphics, and ''MIDI synthesizer music''.
34	** Even more awesome in the Pixel Remaster: all of the Opera scenes have remastered music and even vocals, and each of the languages for which the game is localized have their own version. The scenes even get the HD treatment.
35	* Celes - who has recently rejoined your party after a good while - shows up on the Floating Continent. Kefka hands her a sword and says all of her treason will be forgiven if she kills her comrades. She mulls it over for a few seconds, then refuses in the most direct way possible - by stabbing Kefka instead. It doesn't kill him, but ''damn'' was it cool to watch.
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41	* Celes wakes up after a year in a coma, and after a (possible) suicide attempt, regains the will to live and starts PuttingTheBandBackTogether, culminating in the rise of the ''Falcon'' listed above. Most everyone else was either roaming around or settled down in one spot without getting much done for a year, apparently accepting of the new state of affairs. But within like, a week, Celes has put a rudimentary party back together and motivated them to regain hope and have another crack at Kefka.
42	* The second Humbaba fight is Terra's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. During the first fight with Humbaba, we find that the year's worth of emotional turmoil Terra has gone through, coupled with her inability to comprehend the emotion of love, has robbed her of her Esper powers, leaving her indescribably weak, and easy prey for Humbaba. After a while, the party comes back to defend Terra and the orphans from a second Humbaba attack. When a party member is blown away by Humbaba, Terra shows up, and without a word, goes Esper. The following fight has Terra in Esper Mode ''for the entire fight!'' In other words, the most awesome example of a MamaBear ''ever''. It helps that it's immediately followed by a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment\|s}} and Terra re-joining the party with a souped-up Trance.
43	* Gungho tricking Strago into thinking he was wounded in order to get him to finally locate and defeat Hidon once and for all to put the issue to rest.
44	* The Phoenix Cave is smack dab in the middle of a huge mountain and is a lengthy lava and trap-filled dungeon that needs two parties to traverse safely. Locke managed to get through it on his lonesome without an airship and managed to raid all but one of the chests inside. Talk about determination!
45	* When all seems lost, and [[AfterTheEnd the world is dying]], Setzer reveals one final hope: the ''Falcon'', the long-sealed [[GlobalAirship airship]] of his lost love, Darill. After walking down a long staircase deep in her tomb, throughout which Setzer narrates her tale, the scene switches back to the surface, and the golden ship rises from the ocean as [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "Searching For Friends"]] starts up, forever replacing the gloomy world map theme of the World of Ruin.
46	** What makes this more awesome is how Setzer who was previously shown [[DrowningMySorrows drinking in depression in an inn]] not only overcomes his sadness thanks to a [[DareToBeBadass pep talk]] by Celes of all people but leads the team to their chance of hopeful return using the same air ship that his deceased lover Darill had crashed and died in some time ago that caused him so much personal tragedy, essentially overcoming both his past and current tragedies to save the world.
47	* When you re-encounter [[TheBigGuy Sabin]] in the World of Ruin, he's holding up a burning mansion on his shoulders, and even has time for a casual chat, including the famous line "Ha, did you think a little thing like the end of the world was gonna do me in?"
48	** Sabin gets another one during the ending, where he catches a large piece of rubble while Edgar operates on a door and then throws it away, saying that he didn't run away from his responsibility, but trained hard to support Edgar. "Now I know why I have these stupid muscles!" Note that if Sabin didn't rejoin your party, it takes 3 characters just to drag the same piece of rubble aside.
49	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgcbShn9x8g&t=14m58s The introduction to Kefka's ultimate form]]. As he comes into view, you finally get to hear that incredibly ominous opening theme in its proper context, making it abundantly clear that [[FinalBattle this is it]], it ends here one way or the other, and that crazy fucker means ''business''.
50	-->'''God!Kefka:''' ''Life... Dreams... Hope... Where do they come from? And where do they go? Such meaningless things... I'll destroy them all!! [[EvilLaugh UWAHAHAHA WAHAHAHA!!]]''
51	* The epilogue after the character endings show the world is now much greener than before. With Kefka gone, society has begun to rebuild from the ruins, from the burned mansion in Thamasa being repaired, to the seed in Kholingen having begun to sprout. While magic is now gone, humanity managed to survive the end of a world, and it's begun to heal.

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