History Characters / TheFifthAct

* CasualDangerDialog: Sephiroth has a habit of talking and snarking during fights. It really pushes Cloud's buttons because he often comes across as not taking the fight seriously and mocking him.

* PyrrhicVillainy: Sure, he succeeds in kidnapping Cloud and sold him out to Hollander in order to find a cure. He then finds out that Hollander has no intention of curing and fully intends to experiment on Cloud to find out what made Cloud superior. Then Hollander is killed and Cloud kidnapped ''again'' with no cure to show for it. He betrayed Cloud's and his friends' trust, is now a fugitive and has completely betrayed his ideals. [[spoiler:It's only when he does his best to atone for his mistakes that he's finally cured.]]

* NoodleIncident: Her Treasure Princess adventures. Taken UpToEleven when she ends up in [[spoiler: the Northern Crater.]]

* ChekhovsSkill: Genesis always tries to cast [[StatusEffects status effects]] on Cloud, only for them to [[NoSell never work.]] [[spoiler: Once Cloud gets possessed by Jenova, Genesis's reflexive casting stopped Cloud without them having to kill him.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: All Cloud wants to do is to prevent the tragedy and deconstruction that afflicted his timeline. While everyone agrees that he's right in wanting [[EldritchAbomination Jenova]] and [[MadScientist Hojo]] dead as the two are genuinely dangerous and continue to do so. However, most people believe that he crosses the line with his open desire to kill Sephiroth because as far as they know, Sephiroth has done nothing to earn to his hatred.

* TheUnfettered: Cloud was approaching this territory as he was willing to go through extremes to achieve his goals. To him, it doesn't matter that he doesn't matter that he works for a company that he despises and goes against his ideals. It doesn't matter that he gains fame or gets many friends. He's willing to throw all of it away if it means Sephiroth, Jenova and Hojo die.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Angeal is horrified when he realizes that Hollander has no interest in curing him but he doomed Cloud to experimentation for ''nothing.'']]

* PyrrhicVillainy: Sure, he succeeds in kidnapping Cloud and sold him out to Hollander in order to find a cure. He then finds out that Hollander has no intention of curing and fully intends to experiment on Cloud to find out what made Cloud superior. Then Hollander is killed and Cloud kidnapped ''again'' with no cure to show for it. He betrayed Cloud's and his friends' trust, is now a fugitive and has completely betrayed his ideals.

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Cloud is not that different from Sephiroth, to the point that Jenova was able to possess him.]]
--> In that split second, he'd wondered what he'd do after he killed Sephiroth.
-->His first thought had been to destroy [=ShinRa=]. Destroy the company that had drained the Planet, dropped the Plate on Sector 7, and made Sephiroth possible in the first place. Destroy the man [[spoiler:''who left his mother in Nibelheim to die.'']]
-->Except… once he'd been freed of Jenova's influence, he'd realised how familiar that line of thinking was.
-->''When he found out the truth of his origins…''
-->...The first thing Sephiroth had done when he'd returned from the Lifestream was assassinate President [=ShinRa=].
-->''He started to hate [=ShinRa=].''
-->Revenge on [=ShinRa=] hadn't been enough. He turned his resentful eyes towards the Planet, and constructed fanciful notions that it was to be destroyed and made anew – that it was his ''birthright.''
-->''Then after a while, he started to hate everything.''
** [[spoiler:Also to Lazard. Both are half-brothers, abandoned by Shinra and had to work their way to the top]]

* NotSoDifferent: Lazard warms up to Cloud after finding him to be a slum rat/backwaters nobody who is nevertheless competent enough to rise to high in [=ShinRa=] much like him. [[spoiler: He's also Cloud's half-brother who was also abandoned by [=ShinRa=].]]

* ChekhovsSkill: Genesis always tries to cast [[StandardStatusEffects status effects]] on Cloud, only for them to [[NoSell never work.]] [[spoiler: Once Cloud gets possessed by Jenova, Genesis's reflexive casting stopped Cloud without them having to kill him.]]

* TraumaButton: Being sent to the past is not good for Cloud's emotional health. Pretty much everything and everyone he interacts with forces a flashback or pushes a BerserkButton or otherwise reminds him of his past. He starts getting frequent BadDreams as a result.

* BadDreams: Sephiroth starts getting nightmares of Cloud's memories in the original timeline. Due to their S-cells, [[spoiler: they evolve to Sephiroth seeing Cloud's recent memories in his sleep.]]