History FinalFantasyIX / TropesIToP

* PettingZooPeople; In addition to the Burmecians, who look like rats, there's a number of other miscellaneous characters, like "Hippo Lady" and her son "Hippaul". A few of the members of Tantalus look like certain unorganized humanoids.

** Potentially subverted however when [[spoiler: everyone in Cleyra dies ANYWAY due to Odin's attack. However given that Cleyrans are seen after Clerya is destroyed, then it's possible that the mother and two children also somehow survived.]]

* PrehensileTail: Zidane has one, although he only used it once (to hang from the rafters of the pilot's cabin of an Airship).

** The game had a horribly implemented card game that most people don't remember because it wasn't clearly explained, there were no rewards outside of a card player ranking, and the ranking system made it so difficult to max out that the only person in the world who bothered to do it discovered that the game designers never even anticipated it happening as he was rewarded with a glitch. Oddly, it was this card game that Square chose to include with their [=PlayOnline=] service, alongside ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI''.

** In the game's ending, his memory [[spoiler: never returns, but he [[EarnYourHappyEnding falls in love with Freya again]], anyway. [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming Awww.]] ]]

** Garnet wears a skin-tight orange latex outfit showing off her butt, and her Trance outfit swaps in a different outfit to add AbsoluteCleavage to the mix. Bonus points for her nice rear being lampshaded for a CrowningMomentOfFunny when [[ChivalrousPervert Zidane]] accidentally gropes her while climbing up a ladder. "Ooo, soft!"

** Eiko being just six years old is incredibly hard to believe given that she's been essentially raising herself, with help from a group of moogles, ever since she was four or five years old. She's also incredibly well read, well spoken, and is able to cook and provide for herself. Despite being raised in isolation from the rest of the world, Eiko adapts to it incredibly quickly.

* InstantSedation: The game plays this straight after the Festival of the Hunt. Princess Garnet puts a sedative in the food that her uncle Cid provides, making sure to leave it out of her own food and Steiner's. Within less than a minute, everyone who has consumed the affected food is down for the count, and Garnet is able to make her planned escape.

* TheLoad[=/=]ScrappyLevel: Garnet in disc 3, who cannot reliably execute battle commands for plot reasons.

* ModestRoyalty: Garnet dresses fairly casually for most of the game, and actively tries to behave in a more "common" fashion, as well as changing her name to Dagger. And again, she is a [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess who actually does something]].

* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Dagger]] gets one. So important that it's even shown as a FMV scene. Doubles as a CallBack to the end of disc 2.

* LethalJokeItem: One would think it would be insanity to use tents (powerful healing items) on enemies. It turns out that [[StealthPun pitching tents]] hits them with many negative status effects, as well as healing them. Do this at the start of a battle, and it makes the fight much easier.

* MasterCharacterHeroines: Garnet til Alexandros fits this archetype very well, as she struggles with standing on her own two feet without the help of her mother, Zidane, or anyone else.

* IdleAnimation: Zidane does some stretching exercises, Garnet fluffs her hair out, and Steiner in particular ''almost dozes off.'' He's a soldier, they can sleep any where.

-->”[[/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Dammit Jim!]] I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker!”

* IAteWhat: During the feast after the Hunting festival in Lindblum [[spoiler:everyone, save for Garnet and Steiner suddenly collapse after taking a few bites]]. Garnet hasn't been eating at all, and Steiner, who has, and now noticed that [[spoiler:everyone had collapsed]], dramatically falls on his knees and gasps that the food was poisoned and he is dying for his princess... that untill Garnet says [[spoiler:there shouldn't have been any in ''his'' plate]]. Upon hearing it, he utters that now that she mentioned it, he suddenly feels much better and stands up again. [[spoiler:The alleged "poison" is revealed to be sleeping pills]].

* ImprobableAge: Top of the list has to be Eiko from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' - she's only '''six years old'''.
** Zidane and Garnet are both 16 and Freya is 21. If you weren't told this, you would never know it. They act much older, and have histories and experiences that imply they can't be that young, for example Freya being a member of the Dragon Knights ''several years ago'' and Zidane having years of experience as a thief. [[spoiler: May be justified in that both Freya and Zidane aren't human and hence may age and reach maturity differently.]] Vivi looks to be about 9, [[spoiler: but the official ultimania guidebook confirms that he was activated SIX MONTHS before the start of the game!. The age of 9 is likely a guess by his adoptive grandfather.]] Kuja is only slightly better in this regard, being a famed "weapons dealer", rich Treno personality, proprietor of a massive desert palace, and doing all his villain accomplishments at the tender age of 24.
* ImprobableHairstyle: Garnet is able to cut off her long hair into a perfectly styled bob with one slice of a dagger while her eyes are closed. Youtube anyone cutting their hair off with a blade and you'll find that no matter how sharp it is, it's impossible to cut through hair on one stroke. Garnet's hair also rapidly grows back to its original length in time for the game's ending which is only less than a year later.

** In regular (Zidane escaping the Evil Forest) (with ''an airship'') through quickly-closing ''humungous'' doors. Doubly awesome in that a much faster craft, which is chasing it, fails to make it through the doors and crashes spectacularly.

* InevitableTournament: The game holds not one, but two {{Inevitable Tournament}}s. The first being a hunting tournament that you compete in against two other party members. The second is a card tournament. Both you must participate in, but you don't need to win either, although you still need to beat the first two opponents in the card tournament. In fact, the prize you get from the hunting tournament is better if you finish second instead of first.
** To clarify, if Zidane (who the player controls in the tournament) wins, you get a cash prize (worthless, as you can grind for gil), If Vivi wins, you get a card (absolutely worthless, as it offers you nothing gameplay wise, just like every other card with the possible exception of one specific card that you can get without even touching the card game if you count being able to rename characters a gameplay feature). If Freya wins, you net yourself the Coral Ring, an accessory that you can't get anywhere else on Disk 1 and whose Thunder absorbing qualities just so happen to completely nullify the end-of-disk boss's most powerful single-target attack. You can also get a decent accessory for winning the final match of the card tournament, but there's plenty of other ways to get it by that point in the game.

** Subverted however when everyone in Cleyra dies ANYWAY due to Odin's attack.

** Vivi.

* InsufferableGenius: Beatrix [[spoiler:before her HeelFaceTurn.]]

* ItemCrafting: Synthesis shops.

* TheKingdom: Alexandria during Queen Brahne's reign is actually an exception to the trope.

* LikeYouWereDying: Vivi and the other Black Mages, who have very short lifespans. Also [[spoiler:Kuja at the end after his defeat when Zidane tries to rescue him.]]

* OnlyMostlyDead: There are two ways to "die" in this game: KO from HP loss, and being [[TimeStandsStill Stopped]]. KO can be remedied via the usual tactics, but [[ScrappyMechanic Stop cannot be reversed until the spell wears off on its own]]. If all characters are stopped, it's GameOver.

*** Scissor Fangs be damned, Esto Gaza is also the only place in the game that sells the Octagon Rod, which is the only item that teaches Vivi all 3 of his -aga spells, making him a lot less useful if you miss it since without them, he has no way to hit multple enemies late in the game without either wasting a ton of MP to do it, having a chance to miss enemies entirely or damaging the party members that don't have armor that absord Shadow-elemental attacks in the process.

%% * NonActionBigBad: Queen Brahne from the first half.

%%** MasterSwordsman: General Beatrix and Steiner.

** Equipment that boosts stats also boosts stat GROWTH, meaning that you have to wear it starting at level 1 to get the maximum benefit out of it. Some of the best stat-boosting equipment is only available on disc four, and to get that far still at level 1 you need to run from every battle, find special "friendly monsters" to gain ability points, and use obscure strategies for many bosses. And to make matters worse, you have to get [[GuestStarPartyMember Marcus]] during the short period he is in your party to level 99, because Eiko later inherits his stat bonuses, but not his level (contrary to Amarant, who inherits Blank's level). Of course this also means you can't get perfect stats and Excalibur II in the same game.

* IdleAnimation: Zidane does some stretching exercises, Garnet fluffs her hair out, and Steiner in particular ''almost dozes off.''