History Fridge / FinalFantasyV

* Ex-Death eventually subverting the crystal seal follows considering his origin. Ex-Death is the amalgamation of countless evils sealed into a holy tree that turned evil and sentient as a result. Ex-Death was BORN from subverting seals.

* The titular warrior from "''The Epic of Gilgamesh''" was a crass warrior-king known for his lack of tact and respect for gods, ultimately being humbled by his own mortality, and in the end found a sort of immortality in his adventures being passed down in stories and fables. Exdeath's general, Gilgamesh, fights a constant uphill battle to remain relevant, lest he be killed, but is ultimately cast into the rift by his master for his failures. It is here, however, he meditates on his life, and decides to sacrifice himself to defeat another of Exdeath's minions, a sorcerer named Necrophobe, and allow the party to get through... But even that has hardly been the end to his travels, as ''Dissidia'' and ''Final Fantasy XII'' have shown. In the end, much like his namesake, Gilgamesh found seeming immortality by conquering the fear of death in favor of letting his actions live on in the minds of those he earns the deepest respect of.

* Galuf continuing to fight at 0 HP may bring to mind the idea of [[DefenseMechanismSuperpower fight-or-flight response]], i.e. one's own body reacting to drastic stressors by removing its self-restrictions on using muscle power, suppressing sensations of pain, etc., at the expense of possibly damaging itself fatally as a result, hence why those functions [[GodzillaThreshold only occur under extreme-stress situations]]. Like, you know, ''saving his friends from the BigBad''.

*** It gets even worse, thanks to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''. Omega has become a machine so powerful and monstrous that it can hold entire dimensions within its databases. Each database, being one of the many "-scapes" for the player to go through, ending with boss fights against a particular game's bosses, notably Chaos, Exdeath, and Kefka. Thank whatever benevolent dieties that Hydaelyn has that Omega has been destroyed.

* Thanks to KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep, Exdeath's name in the PSX version "X-Death" can be interpreted as "χ-Death" or "Kai-Death". According to Xehanort in that game, it is a most ancient letter (normally pronounced as "chi") but the meaning is the same. Death... A letter that spells endings. Even with that in regard, his name here can be "[[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy Death-Death]]". Either that or Exdeath was going for [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Deathy "Deaths of Death"]].

* Galuf continuing to fight at 0 HP may bring to mind the idea of [[DefenseMechanismSuperpower fight-or-flight response]], i.e. one's own body reacting to drastic stressors by removing its self-restrictions on using muscle power, suppressing sensations of pain, etc., at the expense of possibly damaging itself fatally as a result, hence why those functions only occur under extreme-stress situations. Like, you know, ''saving his friends from the BigBad''.

* Galuf continuing to fight at 0 HP may bring to mind the idea of [[DefenseMechanismSuperpower fight-or-flight response]], i.e. one's own body reacting to drastic stressors by removing its self-restrictions on using muscle power, suppressing sensations of pain, etc., at the expense of possibly damaging itself fatally as a result, hence why those functions only occur under extreme-stresss situations. Like, you know, ''saving his friends from the BigBad''.

* Galuf continuing to fight at 0 HP may bring to mind the idea of [[DefenseMechanismSuperpower fight-or-flight response]], i.e. one's own body reacting to drastic stressors by removing its self-restrictions on using muscle power, suppressing sensations of pain, etc., at the expense of possibly damaging itself as a result, hence why those functions only occur under extreme-stresss situations. Like, you know, ''saving his friends from the BigBad''.

* Thanks to KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep, Exdeath's name in the PSX version "X-Death" can be interpreted as "χ-Death" or "Kai-Death". According to Xehanort in that game, it is a most ancient letter but the meaning is the same. Death... A letter that spells endings. Even with that in regard, his name here can be "[[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy Death-Death]]".

* On a somewhat related note, Exdeath's castle being made out flesh and bone also makes perfect sense for an evil tree, considering the reverse is generally the case.

*** It doesn't matter where they live anymore. Omega has started traveling the Rift like Shinryu and Gilgamesh, and can appear anywhere anytime.

*** And in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', it's ''canon''. Bartz and friends are so goddamned lucky they don't live in Ivalice.

* On a somewhat related note, Exdeath's castle being made out flesh and bones also makes perfect sense for an evil tree, considering that wood is what most houses in the game are probably made out of.

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* This game does a pretty good job of tutorializing you on enemy attack patterns by making you the victim of such patterns. For example, the first time you go to the Ancient Library and face enemies that have the Level 5 attack, you're probably going to be somewhere around level 15. Here's hoping you saved a lot!

* Ghido calls Krile psychotically--sorry, psychically--and this gives her a migraine so bad she collapses and has to stay in bed, which is where the party finds her after coming back from Drakenvale. Then they try to visit Ghido, but Exdeath stops that. Then they wind up in a naval attack/submarine infiltration of a Barrier Tower, and ''then'' they finally get to take the submarine to Ghido's newly-underwater home. Now, if you take the time to fly all the way to Bal Castle during this time, Krile is still in bed and mumbling about Ghido. In story time, all of these adventures have to take a while. That means Krile has been suffering from a migraine so hideous she literally can't stand up for ''days''. Poor kid.

* In ''FinalFantasyV Advance'''s BonusDungeon, one of the chambers leads to the game's second most powerful Bonus Boss, Omega MK II, an improved version of Omega, the robotic monstrosity who was the second-most powerful boss in the original. Prior to the room with the boss himself, you go through a room reminiscent of one of the rooms in the Sealed Pyramid, with a bunch of mechs crawling all over a small room. Except instead of the "Mecha Head" enemy, they are perfect replicas of Omega itself. Now, think about what this means. Someone, somewhere took Omega, a mechanical beast too powerful for the 12 Sealed Weapons, a monster capable of incinerating heroes with massive lasers, ruining the best parties in a turn, and temporarily ''erasing people from existence'', and ''mass-produced it''. And ''improved upon its design''. Who is this person? Are they still working on these things? And ''why?''

*** And in ''FinalFantasyXII'', it's ''canon''. Bartz and friends are so goddamned lucky they don't live in Ivalice.