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** Same thing goes for one third of Tidus's InfinityPlusOneSword. If you failed to pick it up [[spoiler:straight after you defeat Yunalesca]], then you'll find BonusBoss [[spoiler:Dark Bahumut]] there to kick your ass when you retrace your steps in the International/PAL version. Same with Dark Valefor if you missed getting Valefor's second overdrive in Besaid at the beginning.

*** In Djose, everyone picks on Yuna for waking up later and have a good time. Tidus narrates that, in retrospect, he was the only one laughing genuinely that day.

** Tidus' narration drops hints several times about TheReveal surrounding everyone's odd emotional reactions to the things he says. Even without his narration, there are several instances of the other party members looking sad or annoyed when Tidus says things like "Let's come back here after Zanarkand!", such as when they reach the Selenos river.

* In Guadosalam, Auron tells Tidus to be careful about Seymour and makes an off-hand remark regarding people with power abusing said power. Tidus asks him point-blank if Auron has something againt Yevon. Auron chuckles and simply answers that he spent a long time in Zanarkand, without further comment. [[spoiler:As Auron knows firsthand how corrupt the church of Yevon truly is and what really lies at the end of the pilgrimage, it is yet another hint of his true feelings regarding the whole affair]].

** In his mansion, when you are about to leave, Seymour very suddenly asks Auron why he is "still here", before quickly adding that he [[spoiler:"has the scent of the Farplane" about him]]. There's a good reason for that...

** When Seymour notes that Auron [[spoiler:"has the scent of the Farplane" about him]]. There's a good reason for that...

** Tidus' narration drops hints several times about TheReveal surrounding everyone's odd emotional reactions to the things he says.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** [[invoked]] After Tidus learns [[spoiler:that Yuna's pilgrimage will end with her sacrifice]], he reacts accordingly when he recalls certain events from earlier in their travels. Especially [[spoiler:remembering how Yuna acted when leaving Besaid]].
** In one of the most light-hearted scenes of the game, Rikku pokes fun at Auron, saying he always charges into things without a plan. [[spoiler:As it turns out, that's exactly how he got himself killed]].

*** And even if you've been knocking down Dark Aeons left and right, Penance is a completely different fight even with all character stats maxed out. Whittling down all of its 10 million HP (for comparison, the story's FinalBoss by this point can be taken out with less than three hits) will take at least half an hour and lots of strategizing to avoid being completely wiped out.

* DrawAggro: Every character can eventually learn this (Provoke), with each of them having a different animation for it (Yuna waves, Rikku slaps her ass, Kimahri wags his tail at the enemy, etc).

** It's implied this was the case with Tidus's mother. Her spirit appears on the Farplane and Tidus wonders how, since no one performed the sending for her. Yuna says "she must have accepted death while she was still alive". How she died is never stated but it's said that she never got over losing Jecht. So even if she didn't actually take her own life, it clear that she definitely ''wanted'' to.

** Another example occurs when Wakka, trying to cheer Rikku up, makes a rather tasteless joke as the Al Bhed prepare to destroy Home. Rikku quite rightly chews him out for it, and if you speak to Wakka afterward, he admits that he really ought to have "kept his big mouth shut."

** MP. By the time the player is at the point they can look at maxing out their party's stats, they can easily farm Three Stars from several sources; Three Stars can be used in battle to grant the party MP Cost Zero, rendering MP entirely useless as a stat. You can furthermore customize weapons with MP Cost Half and MP Cost 1, and the Celestial Weapons for the two mages (Lulu and Yuna) come with the latter ability already on them anyway.

* ExoticEyeDesigns: Al Bhed have swirly pupils. Yuna has [[MismatchedEyes heterochromia]], which symbolizes her dual nature.

* DreamWorld: It turns out that [[spoiler:Tidus' hometown is merely a recreation of the real Zanarkand, which was destroyed in a cataclysmic war 1,000 years before the events of the game, dreamed into existence by trapped spirits called Fayths]].

** ''[=FFX=]'' is the final game in the franchise to feature TurnBasedCombat, and it's clear that Squaresoft applied all that they had learned. StandardStatusEffects matter; ElementalRockPaperScissors matter; TacticalRockPaperScissors matter; there are abilities that affect the VisualInitiativeQueue; and because the player can swap any of the seven party members in and out of the active three-person front line at any time, enemies can have complicated and multi-layered defenses which no single player character can pierce through. It's a fun and rewarding system, but the days when the "Fight" command could carry through the final boss are over.

** The game too, considering that most of the games before weren't as difficult.

** Applies to leveling mechanism as well. While just accumulating Sphere Levels and activating nodes on the grid will make you strong enough to finish the game, defeating most optional bosses requires unlocking most of MonsterArena creatures, collecting stat raising spheres from them, filling them into grid and then activating them. More yet, taking on Penance/Dark Aeons/Nemesis requires pretty much erasing (with sphere that is unlocked after defeating penultimate arena boss with 5 000 000 HP and costs 10 000 Gils apiece) any but maximum stat nodes and replacing them with the spheres obtained from arena bosses, since those always create maximum stat node.

** The only hint as to the location of [[spoiler:Anima's Fayth]] is NPC chatter in Al Bhed and a hint from a few Guado in Guadosalam. And you still have to figure out how to get to Baaj Temple even once you've worked out that there's a Fayth there.

* FiveRaces: Humans as the Mundane, Ronso as the Stout, Guado as the Fairy, Al Bhed as the High Men (they represent what Humans really are, [[spoiler:when the roots of the Yevon religion are revealed]]), and the Hypello fill the role of the Cute. All except the Hypello have some significance to the plot.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar[=/=]ParentalBonus: Tidus: "Wakka, you're stiff!" Wakka moves his face around making a grimace. Tidus: "Not your face!"
** Although the event itself is really tame, Tidus and Yuna's TwoPersonPoolParty ends with Yuna sheepishly stating that Tidus should head back first before she does.

** There is also the YouShallNotPass incident described in detail in that article. [[spoiler:The fact that they subverted it doesn't make it any less heroic. It just makes it less of a sacrifice]].
* HeroicSafeMode: Tidus's mental response to the understanding that [[spoiler:his father truly IS Sin, the being killing thousands of people for no real reason]] is to chase [[spoiler:him]] into the ocean, swimming without hesitation, single-mindedly determined to catch and kill [[spoiler:him]].

* EasyLevelTrick: Normally, dodging 200 lighting strikes in order to obtain Lulu's Sigil can be frustrating as you need to react almost perfectly to random flashes of light, without any in-game counters to keep track of your progress. Luckily, walking over a specific crater will always force lightning to strike down on the player, so long as they take a few steps back after every successful jump. This turns an otherwise difficult minigame into an easy but tedious 10 minute loop.

* TheHero: An odd example based on perspective. In-universe, Yuna is the one expected to save the day, and the plot hinges on her journey and decisions, but Tidus is TheProtagonist and performs his own heroics. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, it's revealed that the Fayth intended Tidus, not Yuna, to be the one to defeat Sin, so he ultimately ends up as TheHero. However, it takes both their efforts to succeed]].

* HappyEndingOverride: The Final Fantasy X -Will- audio drama is this for the entire series. [[spoiler: Yuna and Tidus are no longer a couple, Tidus is [[a BackFromTheDead beckoned]] who ''will'' [[UndeathAlwaysEnds disappear for good if he ever realizes what he actually is]], and the "Eternal" Calm ends with [[WhamShot the return of Sin]].]]