History Funny / LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII

* Hope and Lightning come up with a plan to infiltrate Snow's palace: Shooting a buttload of fireworks into a giant statue to topple it and turn it into a bridge leading to the palace. Lightning goes along with it, but Hope seems a bit too excited by the prospect of the "destructive plan" they've hatched up, consistently hurrying her on in the quest to find more fireworks:

** Fang and Vanille were chosen as l'Cie to destroy Orphan in the War of Transgression 500 years before the events of XIII, then spent those 500 years in crystal stasis before waking to kickstart the events of XIII. At the end of XIII, they go back into crystal stasis for 500'ish years until waking 13 years before the events of Lightning Returns. That means Fang and Vanille are at least 1000 years old, hence Fang's comment about being the [[SelfDeprecation the oldest hag on the planet.]]

** Then there's the [[UpToEleven Moogle Lover]] garb. To put it in Lightning's own words:

* The side quest ''Life of a Machine'' involved finding oil for a Bhakti robot. After mentioning that he has friends waiting for him, he observes that Lightning [[LampshadeHanging "should feel emotional compulsion to help [him]"]], thereby completely ruining any emotional compulsion Lightning and/or the player may have felt to help him.

* If not riding the Angel of Valhalla in the Wildlands, it is possible to talk to him, which may result in Lightning giving a very deadpan "Kweh kweh." Bonus humor points for the fact that she will still do this [[spoiler:even after learning that her chocobo is really a form of her eidolon, Odin.]]

* To find this one you have to initiate conversation with Hope on the Ark ''repeatedly''. Most of the time when you interact with Hope, he'll say something like "How can I help?", "Is everything okay?", or "Do you need something?" in a soft, concerned tone. But every now and then when you interact with him he'll say [[LargeHam "WELCOME VALUED CUSTOMER!"]] in the most over the top tone you will ever hear. It comes out of nowhere.

* Hope and Lightning come up with a plan to infiltrate Snow's palace: Shooting a buttload of fireworks into a tower to form a bridge into it. Lightning goes with it, but Hope seems a bit too excited by the prospect of the "destructive plan" they've hatched up, consistently hurrying her on in the quest to find more fireworks:

-->'''Lightning:''' I don't really do hugs.
** Even better, when you go back to the Ark you'll now have an option to talk to Hope about Mog. He will then start to scold Lightning for being mean to Mog and eventually accuse her of liking the hug, but being embarrassed by it.

** For added humour, notice that everyone else alive in Nova Chrysalia has lived 500+ years, while Vanille and Fang were sleeping in crystal until about 13 years before the 13 days. Which means that, mentally, she's the (second-)''youngest brat'' on the planet.

** Chocolina's reaction to Lightning walking up to first talk to her is saying she knows she wants to talk to her. Quickly seeing how chatty she is, Lightning replies that she thinks she has it backwards.

* After their first conversation together of a New Game+, Lightning [[LampshadeHanging mentions how she feels that Hope and herself have had this very conversation before and she's getting a sense of Deja Vu]]. Hope tells her he's worried about her mental fortitude and that the Savior needs to be in tip-top mental shape... [[DistinctionWithoutADifference then also admits on the second day that she]] ''[[DistinctionWithoutADifferencecould]]'' [[DistinctionWithoutADifferencehave a point; they don't know if she's done this before, and never will even if she actually did, no matter how times she's (possibly) done it.]]

* After their first conversation together of a New Game+, Lightning [[LampshadeHanging mentions how she feels that Hope and herself have had this very conversation before and she's getting a sense of Deja Vu]]. Hope tells her he's worried about her mental fortitude and that the Savior needs to be in tip-top mental shape... [[NoExceptYes then also admits on the second day that she]] ''[[NoExceptYes could]]'' [[NoExceptYes have a point; they don't know if she's done this before, and never will even if she actually did, no matter how times she's (possibly) done it.]]

** [[spoiler: Turns into FridgeHorror when you recall that Hope is under Bhunivelze's influence, who could very well be indirectly encouraging Lightning to be little more than a tool. And that is not even considering that, in the novel, Hope himself speaks of how exactly he came to be God's servant... and it is pretty much like the Song of the Savior's lyrics tell, which means the song could be very well speaking of both servants of God.]]