History Headscratchers / DissidiaFinalFantasy

** Onion Knight is the one who runs from fights. Bartz is merely [[Franchise/MetalGear on a sneaking mission]].

*** It's a ContinuityNod, plain and simple. For those who aren't familiar with the story in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', one of the main villains in ''IX'' (not counting Kuja or [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Necron]]) is named... wait for it... '''Garland'''. It is Garland who [[TheReveal reveals Kuja's origin as a genome (and an inferior one at that)]]. The revelation from being the FlawedPrototype to Zidane, ''[[GrimReaper The Angel of Death]]'' (and the AntiAntichrist), causes Kuja to experience his VillainousBreakdown, which in turn causes Kuja to become... er... [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Kuja, Destroyer of Terra]]. Thus, the whole Garland vs. Kuja thing (as is all of ''Dissidia'') is a nod to ''Final Fantasy''. Garland's own quote ("I sense you are haunted by your fate") even references Kuja's fear of dying alone and his role as an imperfect Angel of Death. furthermore, he and Zidane have some choice words for each other when ''they'' have fights. Garland says "I will erase you, and your soul!" as a reference to the part in IX where Garland was going to take back the soul he gave Zidane. In return, Zidane will say "This place will be your grave!", or something like that; apparently sort of referencing a line where he says that he is the angel of ''Garland's'' death.

* The names of the Manikin versions of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' cast. Squall's Manikin is called "Transient Lion", and Ultimecia's is called "Transient Witch". [[IncrediblyLamePun So why isn't Laguna's Manikin called]] [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia "Transient Wardrobe"?]]

** Each bit of music is from the end credits theme of each game, and FF6's is a long medley of every character theme in your party. Cyan's is around the middle, so his theme it is.

*** Beyond that I can think of a few reasons. 1. Cecil is only a dark knight for a very short time in the FF4 series. For 4/5ths of 4 and all of after years, Cecil is a paladin. It's a critical part of his character and not a "power up" so to speak. Kain's Holy Dragoon thing only comes in for the finale of After Years, having spent all of 4, and most of After Years as just a regular Dragoon. The Paladin stuff isn't a major part of his character. 2. In Dissidia one, they had the hard task of diversifying a cast of all pretty much the same type of character. FF main heroes tend to be sword wielding magic users, and Cecil being able to shift fighting styles was something they could do to give him a unique playstyle. Kain (and much of the new 012 cast) doesn't have that problem. He's a spear fighter, something new to the game. If anything making his Paladin abilties his EX mode was a stretch just to give him an Ex mode. 3. Cecil had been a Paladin for 17 years before Kain became one. He's got alot more experience and knows how to use holy power more than Kain, so in essence stuff that would be base level stuff for Cecil would be EX mode stuff for Kain.

** I'm okay with it not actually being the Subterrane, because I can't stand the other indoor arena in the game, Pandaemonium. [[CameraScrew Too many damn walls for the camera to get stuck on.]] I agree the naming's a little strange, though.

** Not that I'm aware but I think it would be doing of Kefka, considering he was trying to brainwash Terra again.

* A minor one - is it ever explained how Tidus and Jecht are “brainwashed“, as an above entry put it? Chaos can’t be controlling them, because Sephiroth has his own goals and doesn’t care about the cycles, Kuja and Cloud don’t seem to care much either, and they’re allowed to screw around and do pretty much whatever they please. Heck, Cloud of Darkness leaks confidential information because she thinks it’ll be more interesting that way, and Golbez is a straight-up traitor, and they’re allowed to do what they do.

** This is a questionable element, certainly, but I don't think there's any real answer to this. Based on their names, we could argue that the concept of the conflict is that of OrderVersusChaos, but instead, it's really about GoodVsEvil and, to a point, Light VS Darkness, which makes it a bit contradictory altogether.

*** It's a ContinuityNod, plain and simple. For those who aren't familiar with the story in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', one of the main villains in ''IX'' (not counting Kuja or [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Necron]]) is a BadassGrandpa named... wait for it... '''Garland'''. It is Garland who [[TheReveal reveals Kuja's origin as a genome (and an inferior one at that)]]. The revelation from being the FlawedPrototype to Zidane, ''[[GrimReaper The Angel of Death]]'' (and the AntiAntichrist), causes Kuja to experience his VillainousBreakdown, which in turn causes Kuja to become... er... [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Kuja, Destroyer of Terra]]. Thus, the whole Garland vs. Kuja thing (as is all of ''Dissidia'') is a nod to ''Final Fantasy''. Garland's own quote ("I sense you are haunted by your fate") even references Kuja's fear of dying alone and his role as an imperfect Angel of Death. furthermore, he and Zidane have some choice words for each other when ''they'' have fights. Garland says "I will erase you, and your soul!" as a reference to the part in IX where Garland was going to take back the soul he gave Zidane. In return, Zidane will say "This place will be your grave!", or something like that; apparently sort of referencing a line where he says that he is the angel of ''Garland's'' death.