* AccidentalInnuendo: When climbing the stairs up Shinra Tower, Barret complains that they should've gone in through the front. Leads into a HehHehYouSaidX moment immediately after.
-->'''Tifa:''' "Going in through the back is better, trust me."
* ArchiveBinge: The series began on on May 13, 2010 and is currently over 400 pages long.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: {{Animesque}} and cartoony as it is, the comic can look pretty when it wants to. The author does not use parody as an excuse to half-ass his art.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: After Yuffie defeats her father, the two start laughing and [[spoiler:turn into mantis-people]]. The next strip has Yuffie now back to normal, and agreeing with the narration to never mention what just happened again.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Since part of the humour of the webcomic relies on BlackComedy, this is a given.
** In general, a lot of deaths are played for dark laughs, especially if we're talking about mooks or random monsters.
** Cloud's comment after seeing a dead soldier (killed by Jenova) with his insides spread on the floor? "Look at him sleeping on the job."
** After Sephiroth wounds him, Tseng [[JustAFleshWound shrugs off his own organs falling out of his body (including coughing his heart at some point)]] and insists that it's not fatal, since he'll be back in the rest of the Compilation.
* FridgeHorror: If [[spoiler:Yuffie and Godo]] are any indication, there are mantis-people masquerading as humans in this world...
* HarsherInHindsight:
** This wouldn't be [[WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged the last FFVII parody]] to depict Dyne as a KnightOfCerebus rather than play him for laughs.
** In a surprisingly subtle moment, the Meager Troop's line in TearJerker below strongly implies that [[spoiler:this Cloud actually ''really'' got torn up about the death of his mother Claudia, rather than just his overwhelming rage at Sephiroth for the destruction of Nibelheim in general like the original game.]] Lo and behold, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake the remake]] has Sephiroth specifically bring up that [[spoiler:he murdered her [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied by describing her final moments]], just to piss off a Cloud that bites the bait in an uncharacteristically berserk instant.]]
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The comic pretty much has a TakeThat at the ''Compilation of VII'' every time it gets brought up, to the point that Cloud calls ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' a horrible vision of the future. Years later with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', [[spoiler:it ends up having the Whispers of Fate using an ''Advent Children'' scene in one of their [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone visions of the future]] which the cast interpret as a bad future.]]
** Jessie including a nude selfie of herself in Cloud's "special ID" seems rather prophetic with the Remake [[AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul giving her a major crush on Cloud.]]
* {{Moe}}: The three main female leads are more adorable than their game counterparts. Elena and Shera too.
* NightmareFuel: The aftermath of Jenova's rampage in the Shinra Tower. Fortunately, the few dismembered corpses with their insides spread on the floor that we see are seen from on a distance and not in close-ups.
* TearJerker:
** When Cloud picks up the injured Meager Troop and the latter exclaims "I couldn't... save her..." Especially because [[spoiler: Meager Troop is the ''real'' Cloud and it is him lamenting the fact that he couldn't protect his mother against Sephiroth, even though he clearly tried his best]].
** [[spoiler:Dyne]]'s crossing of the DespairEventHorizon and suicide are mostly played straight, with very few jokes.
** At comic #440, one of the darkest moments of the game finally happens, with the author admitting that they couldn't make this any easier to see. [[spoiler: Cloud gets controlled by Sephiroth, giving him the Black Materia. He then proceeds to brutally beat Aeris into the ground while ranting like a madman, all while Cloud is ForcedToWatch it happen [[AndIMustScream without being able to do anything about it]], crying that this was supposed to be "a funny comic".]]
* TheWoobie: Shera. Because of [[AdaptationalVillainy Cid]]'s DomesticAbuse.