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TakeThat.Web Video/Final Fantasy In A Nutshell

• The opening of the III parody opens with the announcer saying the game was the last to be localized for the west because of how bad it was.
• Towards Gogo and Umaro about how useless they are as party members.
  Edgar: Right. We have our three teams of four. Let’s go get Kefka!
  Gogo: What about us?
  Edgar: Uh, stay up here and be useless?
  • Before that, during the skit in Mobliz, there was a graffiti on the ground reading "Umaro Sux!"
• In VIII Squall calls out the absurdity of the party's forgotten origins, being no more than an Ass Pull.
  Squall: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hold up! You're telling me we all just happened to be raised in the same orphanage, even those of us that came from completely different regions who just happened to join a team... by chance... INCLUDING the teacher and my nemesis? And we were raised by the same Sorceress we're all trying to defeat? And we all just happen to CONVENIENTLY forget this because we sometimes use summoned monsters... I mean... that's ridiculous in its own right... but it made us specifically forget what should be a HUGE part of our lives in particular! Huh... I mean... how does using a summoned monster even make you forget things anyway?
  Quistis: Okay, I get it. It's not as good as VI or VII. Just... just roll with it, okay?
• In IX after Garnet does her Important Haircut, Zidane downplays it by saying that was a pointless thing to do and that it looks stupid to boot.
  • Also towards the sudden appearance of Necron.
    Necron: Hey.
    Zidane: Uh... hi...?
    Necron: So... we gonna like fight, or...
    Zidane: Uh... I’m sorry... uh... who are you?
    Necron: A poorly implemented final boss.
    Zidane: Aw man!
  • Amarant gets a particularly cutting one in that he doesn't even appear at all. Not as an Outcast like most of the forgotten parody characters, not even as a cardboard cutout like Penelo. The closest the series gets to acknowledging his existence is in the Outcasts Recap Episode...as a Something We Forgot joke that still doesn't mention him by name.
• The VIII and X parodies take a jab at the XIII trilogy, joking that Lightning ruined the franchise.
• The Dissidia parody takes several jabs at each game in the series, but II, III and VIII get the worst of it.
• XII has theirs be that there's always a reason they can't just use an airship to get where they need to go, requiring the party to go on foot to pad out the game. For example, Balthier's airship can't fly over the desert or that flying to Archades is a death trap.
• XIII gets it worse as a lawyer comes to tell Lightning that she’s being sued by the fans of the franchise for ruining the series to the point of being unsalvagable.
• XV gets the brunt of how for all of its three years in Development Hell, everyone does the same hand fanning animation, that Aranea is a Punch-Clock Villain who has all the power to pulverize the party and leaves soon as her shift's over, the Empire took over Insomnia in hours and yet it's so easy for four teenagers to lay waste to them, and when Gentiana as Shiva does an Exposition Dump when Noctis paid full price for the game. There's also a lot of Show, Don't Tell scenes involving Gladio, Ignis, and Prompto unless you buy their respective DLC.