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* PetTheDog: He didn't forget his roots in the slums, since he writes an email to remind SOLDIER members to be considerate of slum residents, since Shinra's policies are responsible for Midgar's class divisions.
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* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Played with. He joins Zack [[spoiler:due to Angeal's cells influencing him to prioritize his sense of justice over revenge. However, he also reveals that Hollander betrayed him and forced this transformation on him, which means Lazard's alliance with Hollander and Genesis likely wouldn't last anyways]].
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* UnskilledButStrong: After becoming [[spoiler:an Angeal clone, he's strong enough to survive against some weaker Genesis clones, but he admits that he can't fight like 1st Class and his cutscene fights against the Genesis clones consists of him shoving them with his enhanced strength]].
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to Angeal's mother, he was a nice guy growing up.

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* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to Angeal's mother, he was a nice guy growing up. In the final chapter, a book in Banora's underground reveals that as a kid, Genesis wanted to give Sephiroth a Banora apple.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: He spends much of ''Crisis Core'' being condescending towards Sephiroth and later tells Sephiroth that the latter is a monster. Despite that, he's surprised when Sephiroth refuses to share any cells with him in response to his cruel treatment of his friends.



* {{Foil}}: To Sephiroth. They're both famous First Class [=SOLDIERs=] that go rogue from Shinra and seek divine power. However, Sephiroth does so because he comes to think he's an Ancient and should rule the planet; Genesis is trying to save his own life and is resorting to desperate stretches of reason to find a way. Even their designs play into this; Genesis is short-haired, right-handed, has a wing on his left side, and wields a massive straight-bladed sword that he infuses with magic, while Sephiroth is long-haired, [[LeftHandedMirror left-handed]], with a wing on the right side, and he wields a katana that he never empowers. Also contrast Genesis' demonic-looking Genesis Avatar form with the angelic Safer Sephiroth, and Genesis' belief that he is a monster with Sephiroth's GodhoodSeeker.

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* {{Foil}}: To Sephiroth. They're both famous First Class [=SOLDIERs=] that go rogue from Shinra and seek divine power. However, Sephiroth does so because he comes to think he's an Ancient and should rule the planet; Genesis is trying to save his own life and is resorting to desperate stretches of reason to find a way. Even their designs play into this; Genesis is short-haired, right-handed, has a wing on his left side, and wields a massive straight-bladed sword that he infuses with magic, while Sephiroth is long-haired, [[LeftHandedMirror left-handed]], with a wing on the right side, and he wields a katana that he never empowers. Also contrast Genesis' demonic-looking Genesis Avatar form with the angelic Safer Sephiroth, and Genesis' belief that he is a monster with Sephiroth's GodhoodSeeker. Finally, Genesis plays a similar role to Sephiroth that Sephiroth played to Cloud in being TheCorrupter, but Genesis's role in corrupting Sephiroth is due to a poorly thought-out attempt to convince the latter to share his cells while Sephiroth's manipulation and breakdown of Cloud is planned out and more successful.
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* {{BFS}}: The original wielder of the Buster Sword.

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* {{BFS}}: The original wielder owner of the Buster Sword.Sword, however unlike those that wielded it after him. He prefers to [[OrnamentalWeapon not use it]] and goes for the more practical longswords used by Shinra SOLDIERs.



* OrnamentalWeapon: The Buster Sword costs so much for his parents to have custom-made for him that he dislikes using it to avoid damaging it.

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* OrnamentalWeapon: The Buster Sword costs so much for his parents to have custom-made for him that he dislikes using it to avoid damaging it. Opting to fight with the standard SOLDIER sword instead.
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Natter; also not a Character trope (plus this is already covered on Crisis Core’s YMMV page).


* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: what he is meant to be, however to many players, he comes off as a [[TheScrappy jerkass]] instead.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: what he is meant to be, however to many players, he comes off as a [[TheScrappy jerkass]] instead.
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* MissedHimByThatMuch: From the Remake: [[spoiker:based on his knowledge of Zack's last mission, his loyalty to Zack, and his tangential knowledge of Cloud, he and Cloud's grunt buddy could have resolved a lot of holes in Cloud's Nibelheim story. Given this was the first game in a trilogy, the plot/fate couldn't allow the unnamed grunt to bring Kunsel back to talk to Cloud, so Cloud bails before the grunt returns.]]

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* MissedHimByThatMuch: From the Remake: [[spoiker:based [[spoiler:based on his knowledge of Zack's last mission, his loyalty to Zack, and his tangential knowledge of Cloud, he and Cloud's grunt buddy could have resolved a lot of holes in Cloud's Nibelheim story. Given this was the first game in a trilogy, the plot/fate couldn't allow the unnamed grunt to bring Kunsel back to talk to Cloud, so Cloud bails before the grunt returns.]]
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* MissedHimByThatMuch: From the Remake: [[spoiker:based on his knowledge of Zack's last mission, his loyalty to Zack, and his tangential knowledge of Cloud, he and Cloud's grunt buddy could have resolved a lot of holes in Cloud's Nibelheim story. Given this was the first game in a trilogy, the plot/fate couldn't allow the unnamed grunt to bring Kunsel back to talk to Cloud, so Cloud bails before the grunt returns.]]
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There is no actual in-game indication that the standard SOLDIER procedure only works on men. Moreover, while he means it as a joke, Cloud aknowledges in REMAKE that in theory Aerith could have the potential to be a SOLDIER.


* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She the only female member of the team. Female SOLDIER members existed in the Compilation before, but only in Deepground, and were highly experimental (it is implied that the standard BioAugmentation procedures used on normal SOLDIER members only work on men). P0 types, however, predate the Jenova Project, they are just highly trained {{Badass Normal}}s, so there is a woman among them.

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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She the only female member of the team. Female SOLDIER members existed in the Compilation before, but only in Deepground, and were highly experimental (it is implied that the standard BioAugmentation procedures used on normal SOLDIER members only work on men). P0 types, however, predate the Jenova Project, they are just highly trained {{Badass Normal}}s, so there is a woman among them.
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* SurvivalMantra: Matt recites the Fibonacci sequence when under stress, and in general he is calmed by patterns and numbers.

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* SurvivalMantra: Matt recites the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence Fibonacci sequence sequence]] when under stress, and in general he is calmed by patterns and numbers.
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