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FoolsEditAccount (he/him) Since: Oct, 2010
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Oct 23rd 2023 at 3:21:25 PM •••

Archiving poor examples here for review per Trope Repair Shop discussion.


  • In Final Fantasy Tactics, the final boss is a thinly disguised Expy of Jesus.
    • Granted, the entire thing was essentially expanding on the Pharisee argument found in the Bible - Is Jesus' power really divine in origin, or is he meant to tempt people from the true path/faith? Pretty damn serious subject-matter for a T-rated video game, and one that could be completely missed by anyone not familiar with the subject matter.
    • The above is the result of poor translation (something the PS1 version was well known for). The plot of the PSP version has the final boss as a false prophet type plotting to use Lucavi to rule the world. The Beoluve family are blood descendants of the person who stopped him the last time.
    • The dominant in-universe religion, however, holds that the final boss really is a Jesus-like figure. Thus, their equivalent of the Bible is a lie, and the "god" they worship is actually a demon. Whether a true God exists in the FFT world is never specified.
    • The "true god/s" of FFT would be the Occuria of ''Final Fantasy XII', as it's the same world. Their elimination is the only thing that allowed Ultima and the rest of the Lucavi to destroy the world of Ivalice in the first place. So yeah.

This example is a mess. Is the final boss Jesus or isn't he? What does he do that's evil beyond being the final boss? Is he an actual god or is this God Guise? What does the Occuria addition have to do with any of this?


  • Final Fantasy XV: DLC reveals that Bahamut intentionally drove Ardyn insane and orchestrated the apocalypse 2,000 years in advance, with all the civil wars in between, just to cure a demon epidemic. The novelsnote  go further; Bahamut intended to use the power from defeating the Starscourge to wipe out the world and start over. All for the crime of having individuality.

Is the god in question the Top God of the setting?


  • In Alundra, Melzas is actually the god who is worshiped by the citizens of Inoa, which makes him more powerful. And then he starts killing them off.

Is the god in question the Top God of the setting?


  • A disproportionate number of Breath of Fire games use the world's leading god as their Final Boss, mostly because the Sorting Algorithm of Evil says not much else should be powerful enough to faze them by the end of the game. In some cases, like Breath of Fire III, they portray the realization that you are going to have to fight and kill God with the weight such a goal would bring.

How is the god evil beyond being the final boss?

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