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* IKnowMaddenKombat: Considering just how surprisingly brutal a sport Blitzball is, it shouldn't be all to surprising that characters like Tidus, Wakka, and Jecht are physically built for strenuous things like combat against fiends. If the Dissidia spinoffs are anything to go by, Jecht in particular (whose in-game description even outright lampshaded [[MusclesAreMeaningful his fitting bronze god-esque body)]] was not only strong enough to effortlessly carry and swing around a {BFS}-sized blade [[OneHandedZweihander with one hand]], but also just as easily wreak the same amount of havoc [[BareFistedMonk with just his bare hands and feet]] [[UnskilledButStrong without needing any sort of finesse.]]

* IKnowMaddenKombat: Considering just how surprisingly brutal a sport Blitzball is, it shouldn't be all to surprising that characters like Tidus, Wakka, and Jecht are physically built for strenuous things like combat against fiends. If the Dissidia spinoffs are anything to go by, Jecht in particular (whose in-game description even outright lampshaded [[MusclesAreMeaningful his fitting bronze god-esque body)]] was not only strong enough to effortlessly carry and swing around a [[{BFS} Buster Sword sized blade]] [[OneHandedZweihander with one hand]], but also just as easily wreak the same amount of havoc [[BareFistedMonk with just his bare hands and feet]] [[UnskilledButStrong without needing any sort of finesse.]]

* IKnowMaddenKombat: Considering just how surprisingly brutal a sport Blitzball is, it shouldn't be all to surprising that characters like Tidus, Wakka, and Jecht are physically built for strenuous things like combat against fiends. If the Dissidia spinoffs are anything to go by, Jecht in particular (whose in-game description even outright lampshaded [[MusclesAreMeaningful his fitting bronze god-esque body)]] was not only strong enough to effortlessly carry and swing around a [[BFS Buster Sword sized blade]] [[OneHandedZweihander with one hand]], but also just as easily wreak the same amount of havoc [[BareFistedMonk with just his bare hands and feet]] [[UnskilledButStrong without needing any sort of finesse.]]

* IKnowMaddenKombat: Considering just how surprisingly brutal a sport Blitzball is, it shouldn't be all to surprising that characters like Tidus, Wakka, and Jecht are physically built for strenuous things like combat against fiends. If the Dissidia spinoffs are anything to go by, Jecht in particular [[MusclesAreMeaningful (who had a bronze god-esque body to match)]] was not only strong enough to effortlessly carry and swing around a [[BFS Buster Sword sized blade]] [[OneHandedZweihander with one hand]], but also just as easily wreak the same amount of havoc [[BareFistedMonk with just his bare hands and feet]] [[UnskilledButStrong without needing any sort of finesse.]]

* IKnowMaddenKombat: Considering just how surprisingly brutal a sport Blitzball is, it shouldn't be all to surprising that characters like Tidus, Wakka, and Jecht are physically built for strenuous things like combat against fiends. If the Dissidia spinoffs are anything to go by, Jecht in particular was not only strong enough to effortlessly carry and swing around a [[BFS Buster Sword-sized blade]] [[OneHandedZweihander with one hand]], but also just as easily wreak the same amount of havoc [[BareHandedMonk with just his bare hands and feet]] [[UnskilledButStrong without needing any sort of finesse.]]

* LeakedExperience: Averted. Characters who do not take part in a fight get no experience for it, and neither do characters who do take part but are Knocked Out at the end.
* LetsMockTheMonsters: A legitimate battle tactic. The characters can learn an ability called Provoke, based around aggravating the enemy to draw attention away from weaker characters. Very useful if a character falls behind in experience, or joins late (like Rikku).

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Played with. Seemingly, the biggest spoiler you think you'll encounter, [[spoiler:namely that Jecht is Sin]] is dropped on you very early on, point blank and with no dancing around the fact. However, it's not until you reach Home that you realize Tidus has been locked out from a different loop, [[spoiler:the fact that the Pilgrimage ends with the summoner sacrificing him or herself]]. And finally, you find out at the climax that your entire party, save Auron, has been kept from one final fact: [[spoiler:that the Pilgrimage is nothing more than false hope, and cannot destroy Sin; only placate it for a short period of time]].

* MaleGaze: The camera loves Rikku's butt and Lulu's [[BuxomIsBetter chest.]] Several early scenes seem to have the camera purposely at the height of Rikku's butt, including when she's first introduced and when she changes from her salvaging jumpsuit to her normal shorts. Lulu's victory animation has her bend down, showing her cleavage.

* {{Motif}}: Water. Whether it's Tidus getting swept away by it (which happens several times), Spira's only source of fun being an underwater sport, Yuna performing a sending at Kilika, the oasis at Bikanel island, Anima's temple or the Via Purifico. Water always seems to get a ton of emphasis in this game.

* {{Motif}}: Water. Whether it's Tidus getting swept away by it (which happens several times), Yuna performing a sending at Kilika, the oasis at Bikanel island, Anima's temple or the Via Purifico. Water always seems to get a ton of emphasis in this game.

** There's also a hilarious ''aversion'' that needs to be mentioned - the infamous "I'm gonna be a blitzball when I grow up!" kid. The natural reaction would be to assume the translators made a typo or somehow lost that the kid meant "blitzball ''player''". But nope -- [[https://legendsoflocalization.com/qa-is-the-blitzball-kid-in-final-fantasy-x-really-this-dumb/ even in Japanese, the kid says,]] word for word, "おっきくなったらブリッツボールになるんだ!", which is indeed unquestionably the line as translated in 2001. The HD remaster made it clear that the typo was in the ''Japanese'' script -- the line in JP gets "player" added after blitzball -- but the English version left the now-spoony-bard-level-famous line in unaltered as a homage.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. When Sin attacks Kilika early in the game, many of its inhabitants are killed. The next day Yuna performs a ritual to send their souls to the Farplane, and child-sized bundles are seen among the funerary wrappings. [=NPCs=] also state that they have lost children or grandchildren to Sin.

* KillerRabbit: Tonberries, with a lantern in one hand and a kitchen knife in the other. Don Tonberries, found in the Omega Ruins, are dressed in chunky knitwear.

* OrphansOrdeal: ''Everyone'' is said to have experienced this or alluded to. The only ones who don't have any such thing stated in their past, are Auron and Kimahri. This is mostly thanks to [[EldritchAbomination Sin]]; lots of children end up orphans due to surviving the deaths of their parents when Sin attacks. Even Tidus' ordeal turns out ultimately to do with Sin [[spoiler:as coming into contact with Sin brought Jecht over to Spira, who then went on to ''become'' Spira, and Tidus' mom decided to stop living without Jecht sometime after that.]]

* NecessaryEvil: Yevon is sort of this. If it doesn't follow along with Yu Yevon's master plan, Sin destroys the world. Its [[CorruptChurch actual leaders on the other hand]]...

** In certain cases, a party member hit with a Stone attack will shatter and is lost ''for the remainder of the battle''. This means you cannot revive or soften them; their slot in the party is just '''gone'''. In underwater battles, specifically the "rematch" against [[spoiler:Geosgaeno (the giant underwater fiend Tidus fought at the beginning of the game)]], when the character is afflicted with the status, he/she is shattered ''instantly''.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: A few variations. In addition to ghost-type enemies, which are pretty standard, there are pyreflies, which are small, non-sentient balls of life energy that diffuse from a body when somebody dies and which are found in high concentrations in places associated with death ([[CrapsackWorld which in Spira is a lot of places]]), and Unsent, formerly living people who died with [[UnfinishedBusiness some important task yet unfulfilled]] and remain tied to the world of the living by the strength of their emotions.

* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Lulu, Wakka, and Auron all deserve credit here. All three are former guardians, the first two fighting all the way to the Calm Lands on their last pilgrimage while Auron completed his. Yet they all start out at effectively level one. The monsters in the Calm Lands would squash all three of them without batting an eye at the start of the game. [[HandWave Auron mentions that there were fewer fiends when he travelled with Braska on his pilgrimage, so he might not have needed to fight as many as Yuna and her guardians.]]

** After a series of events that force Yuna on the run, she ends up stating that after what has happened, "nobody will build a statue of me". The Ronso present reply "Then if nobody else will, the Ronso will! With a grand horn on [the] head,", which refers both to the importance of Ronso horns, and to the fact that the summoner job classes in [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII earlier]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV games]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX in the]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics series]] had horns on their forehead in the same place the Ronsos do. [[CallBack And if you get the Ronso/Guado subquest right]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'', you actually get to see the statue built, and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments it really does have the horn on its head]].

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: While fighting against [[spoiler:Braska's Final Aeon, Tidus gains a "Talk" command that attempts to reach Jecht and resets the monster's [[LimitBreak Overdrive gauge]]. It stops working the third time you use it]].

* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: A few examples. Lady Yunalesca imparts the secret of the Final Aeon [[spoiler: which requires sacrificing the life of both Guardian and Summoner]]. The spirit of Anima [[spoiler: Seymour's mother]] explains the history of the aeon's creation. Also Maester Mika [[spoiler: who reveals that he has been Unsent for a long, long time in order to keep the church running]].

* LadyAndKnight: [[spoiler: Yuna and Tidus, also Dona and Barthello]]. The maiden fair (or not so fair) falls in love with her faithful protector. Both cases end in at least minor forms of BattleCouple.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Tidus and Rikku form a bond like this across the game. They share many close moments but Tidus is unambiguously in love with Yuna, and their affection is never played romantically. There is one small ShipTease element early on when Tidus has a dream that involves Rikku and Yuna sort of arguing over which one he likes -- but that is before Tidus properly falls for Yuna or gets close to Rikku. Two very telling scenes are their talk on Mt Gagazet (just before [[spoiler: fighting Seymour]]) or the (optional!) ride on the way to Macalania Temple. Particularly when Wakka finds out that Rikku is Al Bhed, Tidus acts very protective of her -- much like a brother would.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Played with. Seemingly, the biggest spoiler you think you'll encounter, [[spoiler: namely that Jecht is Sin]] is dropped on you very early on, point blank and with no dancing around the fact. However, it's not until you reach Home that you realize Tidus has been locked out from a different loop, [[spoiler:the fact that the Pilgrimage ends with the summoner sacrificing him or herself]]. And finally, you find out at the climax that your entire party, save Auron, has been kept from one final fact: [[spoiler: that the Pilgrimage is nothing more than false hope, and cannot destroy Sin; only placate it for a short period of time]].

* LoveConfession: Avoided for almost the entire game, and even that depends on which version you play. In the North American release [[spoiler: Yuna admits her love for Tidus as he fades away]]. Most heavily implied when [[spoiler: Tidus]] picks up a sphere after Mount Gagazet.
* LoveEpiphany: In relation to the above trope, [[spoiler: Yuna realizes that she's in love with Tidus before or around the time the group is on the Mi'ihen Highroad, but only gets the chance to express it in any meaningful way in the Macalania Woods with TheBigDamnKiss scene, followed by her last chance [[FinalFantasyX2 (as far as she knows)]], explicit LoveConfession to him in the ending.]]
* LoveHurts: Very much so. Every major character in the game has lost someone they love at some point, which in Lulu's case was her former fiancé. [[spoiler: In the ending, Yuna loses Tidus right after [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove declaring her love]] for him.]]
* LoveTheme: "Suteki Da Ne" (the title is Japanese for "Isn't it wonderful?") plays as [[spoiler: Tidus and Yuna]] find comfort in each other after several world-shattering revelations. It's [[DarkReprise played again with a more somber arrangement]] over the closing credits, which is fitting given the [[BittersweetEnding nature of the final scenes]].

* MaritalRapeLicense: Luckily this trope is never truly acted on, but the look in [[spoiler: Seymour]]'s eyes as he kisses his bride, and her screwing her fist up in defiance, heavily implies that he intended to make full use of his 'rights'.

** The world's name also dings this: Spira. [[spoiler:[[ViciousCycle Now add an "L" at the end.]]]] This is even lampshaded by Auron when Tidus asks him why [[spoiler: Spira revolves around people dying]].
* MedievalStasis: Enforced. There is plenty of LostTechnology lying around, and some such as the Al Bhed and [[spoiler: [[{{Hypocrite}} the higher ups of the church itself]]]] are willing to use it, but the Yevonite religion preaches that using technology is what brought Sin down on Spira in the first place, and since it reliably shows up to destroy any settlement that grows larger than a medium-sized town or shows any signs of embracing technological advancement, everyone believes this. [[spoiler: As it turns out, this is exactly why Sin was created -- the ancient city of Zanarkand was on the verge of being wiped out by a more technologically advanced rival, and its leader, Yu Yevon, after calling into being a magical recreation of the city far out in the ocean, fashioned Sin partially to protect it by destroying any rival that became technologically advanced enough to discover or pose a threat to it. His daughter Yunalesca then went on to create the tenets of the Yevon religion based on this goal]].

-->'''Yuna''': "They'll find us if it doesn't hurry."\\
'''Rikku''': "Hey! You said you'd go with me!"\\
* Cue Tidus jogging on the spot, facing away from the pair of them*
* {{Mondegreen}}: The song at the beginning and the second final battle. The lyrics are almost impossible to make out. Though interestingly in the intro when Auron is standing on the pedestal holding out his jug towards Sin the lyrics sound like [[spoiler: How are you Auron? It is so good to see you]].
** During the escape from [[spoiler: Home]] the announcer's repeated warnings sound like "I'm annoying huh" repeated ad nauseum. That or, "let the noise stop" chanted [[LogicBomb loudly and repeatedly]].[[note]]The actual words are "Ajanouha ihtan!" which is Al Bhed to tell everyone to get underground.[[/note]]
* MonsterProgenitor: [[spoiler: Yu Yevon.]] It is explained in the story that this is how Sin came to be, and how Sin keeps coming back. [[spoiler: Sin is the armour in which Yu Yevon is clad, and he creates the beast from the Final Aeons]].

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: It takes [[spoiler: Maester Mika]] admitting the truth about [[spoiler: the Yevon religion's dependancy on the cycle of death]] for Yuna to finally snap, doing things ''her'' way and eventually [[spoiler: bringing about the Eternal Calm without using the Final Aeon]].
** [[spoiler: Yunalesca]] also does this. Even knowing the costs, Yuna considers [[spoiler: using the Final Aeon to defeat Sin]] when the option is first presented, with Wakka and Lulu both volunteering to [[spoiler: be the one to give their lives to become the Fayth necessary to summon it]]. It is only after Yuna asks whether [[spoiler: Sin will inevitably return should she succeed in defeating it]], and [[spoiler: Yunalesca]] not only answers in the affirmative but [[spoiler: seems to ''go out of her way'' to thoroughly crush any hope the three have of winning a final victory using this method and any faith they have that adherence to Yevon's teachings can prevent Sin from returning, that they all turn definitively against her and join the rest of the party in [[ScrewDestiny resolving to fight her instead of going along with her plan]]]].

-->'''Wakka:''' "We gotta pay?! If we lose, you'll die too, buddy!"\\
'''Rin:''' "I have faith in your victory."

-->'''Yuna:''' "I won't leave Kimahri behind!"\\
'''Auron:''' "He is a guardian. Protecting you is everything."\\
'''Yuna:''' "[[WhatTheHellHero Auron!]]"\\
'''Tidus:''' "That's right! We're all guardians! Yeah, and you know what that means? Yuna... Anywhere you go, I'll follow!"\\
'''Yuna:''' "Anywhere I go?"\\
'''Tidus:''' "Yeah, anywhere!"\\
'''Yuna:''' "Well, then!"\\
'''Tidus & Yuna:''' "Let's go! [Yuna and Tidus run back towards Kimahri, forcing the other guardians to come too]

** Zanmato is expensive and hard to pull off because of the RandomNumberGod, but it kills every single enemy, ''including bosses'', in one hit. The only exceptions are [[spoiler: Yunalesca and Braska's Final Aeon]], who enter their next form instead (unless they already are in their final forms, in which case they do die).
** An enemy example is [[spoiler: Sin's Overdrive, Giga-Gravitron]]. It completely wipes out your party, resulting in an instant Game Over. It also inevitably casts it after sixteen turns or so, making it a TimeLimitBoss.

* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Mostly inverted. Auron, the mission that kept him around as an Unsent complete, willingly departs for the Farplane, and Tidus ceases to exist as a result of the disappearance of the Fayth who created him, leaving the rest of the party downhearted (and Yuna heartbroken) while the rest of Spira celebrates their new Eternal Calm]].

* OrphansOrdeal: ''Everyone'' is said to have experienced this or alluded to. The only ones who don't have any such thing stated in their past, are Auron and Kimahri. This is mostly thanks to [[EldritchAbomination Sin]]; lots of children end up orphans due to surviving the deaths of their parents when Sin attacks. Even Tidus' ordeal turns out ultimately to do with Sin [[spoiler: as coming into contact with Sin brought Jecht over to Spira, who then went on to ''become'' Spira, and Tidus' mom decided to stop living without Jecht sometime after that.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Quite different. They're the resurrected corpses of former Yevon {{Warrior Monk}}s, and rather than shambling around trying to eat brains they guard the lair of [[spoiler: Yunalesca]] at her behest. They're also unusual in their combat tactics, preferring MoreDakka to biting and clawing.

* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Lulu, Wakka, and Auron all deserve credit here. All three are former guardians, the first two fighting all the way to the Calm Lands on their last pilgrimage while Auron completed his. Yet they all start out at effectively level one. The monsters in the Calm Lands would squash all three of them without batting an eye at the start of the game. [[HandWave Auron mentions that there were fewer fiends when he travelled with Braska on his pilgramage, so he might not have needed to fight as many as Yuna and her guardians.]]

** When Auron told Tidus that Yunalesca "struck him down". To be fair for Auron, he was OnlyMostlyDead at the time.

* ImmortalityField: During the runup to the final boss inside Sin, you are forced to kill your own Aeons to prevent the boss possessing them. All your characters get an auto-revive during this battle, making losing the battle a SelfImposedChallenge. [[spoiler:The final boss himself is one of the least challenging fights due in no small part to his subversion of ContractualBossImmunity.]]