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-->'''Tidus''': You talk too much, Seymour. (''Tidus's Strength incrases!'')

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Seymour is at least ''intended'' to come across as this: he was born to a human mother and Guado father, he and his mother were banished by his father to maintain the peace in Guadosalam, his mother gave her life to become a Fayth (his Final Aeon) ''right before his very eyes'' (to his horror), and he grew up lonely. As a result, he develops an ideology that life is suffering, and intends to become Sin so that he may kill everyone on Spira and end the cycle of death and pain. Unfortunately, he's targeted by the MisaimedFandom because the creators played ''down'' the potential {{Woobie}} traits and ''played up'' his condescending attitude and SmugSnake grin (as opposed to, say, the other way around]]. However, his mother contradicts this, saying that he wants to become Sin because he has a lust for power after obtaining Anima.

** Sinspawn Gui. It's the first boss that can genuinely wipe the floor with your party. Which makes Seymour seem all the more powerful when he's in your party against a second Sinspawn Gui, where he can take it out in just a few turns.

** In a sense, [[spoiler:Yu Yevon too. He started out as a WellIntentionedExtremist who created the dream Zanarkand as a way to save his homeland and then created Sin so that he could be safe while he summoned the dream world. But as the years passed, the act of maintaining the dream world and re-summoning Sin destroyed his mind. Now, after a thousand years, he's essentially just the living equivalent of a looping computer program, able to do nothing but maintain the false Zanarkand and recreate Sin when it gets destroyed by the Final Aeon. Let's face it, getting killed by the party was probably the best thing that could have happened to him; which probably explains why you're practically railroaded into doing so: you're no so much killing a god as putting a broken, mindless creature out of it's misery and letting it finally die. Unfortunately, many players misconstrue him as an AnticlimaxBoss]].

* TheThreeFacesOfEve: Rikku is the Child -- she is the youngest and most naive. Yuna is the Wife -- she is the only member of the party to be part of the OfficialCouple[[note]]Rikku and Lulu's love interests aren't confirmed until the sequel[[/note]]. Lulu is the Seductress -- she's the only one that provides {{Fanservice}}.

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Tidus is a dream of the Fayth]].

* WasOnceAMan: Fiends.

'''Seymour:''' ''[[[WhatAnIdiot glances down directly at the grenade]]]''

* TacticalRockPaperScissors: woven into the fabric of RandomEncounters. There are four basic types of foes you'll face: armored foes, elementals, agile beasts, [[{{Flight}} flying]] types and robots. Each one is weak to one of Yuna's PraetorianGuard: Auron specializes in the ArmorPiercingAttack, Lulu is a BlackMage with access to all four ElementalPowers, Tidus is the FragileSpeedster with high accuracy, Wakka is a LongRangeFighter who attacks by throwing his blitzball, and Rikku can inflict fatal malfunctions via VideoGameStealing. If you have (or switch in) the right party members, you can OneHitKO a lot of fiends. Also doubles as GameplayAndStoryIntegration, since the whole point of the Guardians is to fight so that Yuna doesn't have to.

* TacticalRockPaperScissors: woven into the fabric of RandomEncounters. There are four basic types of foes you'll face: armored foes, elementals, agile beasts and [[{{Flight}} flying]] types. Each one is weak to one of your party members: Auron specializes in the ArmorPiercingAttack, Lulu is a BlackMage with access to all four ElementalPowers, Tidus is the FragileSpeedster with high accuracy, and Wakka is a LongRangeFighter who attacks by throwing his blitzball. If you have (or switch in) the right party members, you can OneHitKO a lot of fiends.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Tidus thinks this is his problem, although his relationship to this new world [[spoiler:[[TheReveal turns out]] [[DreamWorld to be]] something other than what he initially [[FishOutOfTemporalWater thinks it is]]]].