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** Because that would have required the sprite-makers to know what the demon was supposed to look like.

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*** No, the OTHER time Lenna nearly poisoned herself to death to save a Wind Drake. At Bal Castle, after the whole bit with the Big Bridge and saving that Moogle and such.




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*** More seriously, given the compact nature of the sprites in the original version, it's possible they just couldn't get something that looked like a centaur that wasn't a complete mess. Had the game been made with Final Fantasy 6's engine (or at least graphical capabilities), we might've seen the quadrupedal Exdeath after all.




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*** While engaging in the physical exertion fighting and/or fleeing from monsters, no less.


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** Several NPC's talk about how, thanks to the wind stopping, sea travel (including shipping) has come to a standstill. This would suggest that Tycoon has been using the Wind Crystal to guarantee that ships have favorable winds for travel and trade.
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* If using the crystals to power a machine cause them to shatter (at least faster), then how was it that the wind crystal, which was not used to power a machine, shattered before the others, which were at some point?
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** What? She doesn't eat any she got stabbed by the thorns of the purple flowers which are poison, the dragon grass just grows nearby, and she never ate it. Nor did she offer any explanations as she needed none as it never happened...
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* How did Bartz leave his hometown in the first place? It's completely surrounded by mountains, with no caves, passes, or trails.

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* So... what's with the meteors, anyway? Who found / invented them and decided they were the best way to get from world B to world A?

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* So... what's with the meteors, anyway? Who found / invented them and decided they were the best way to get from world B to world A?
A? When you reach Galuf's world, there's no hint that they ever existed there, and no indications of any place where they could have been stored, launched from, or controlled, so what gives?


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* How did Bartz leave his hometown in the first place? It's completely surrounded by mountains, with no caves, passes, or trails.
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*** I'd rather utilize a SuperSentai - [[PowerRangers st]][[RoninWarriors y]][[SpearCounterpart le]] [[HenshinHero transformation]]. Helps with the [[FetishRetardant Galuf]] problem. Faris would likely prefer it too, as it helps maintain [[SamusIsAGirl the gender illusion]] a little longer.

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*** I'd rather utilize a SuperSentai - [[PowerRangers st]][[RoninWarriors st]][[Anime/RoninWarriors y]][[SpearCounterpart le]] [[HenshinHero transformation]]. Helps with the [[FetishRetardant Galuf]] problem. Faris would likely prefer it too, as it helps maintain [[SamusIsAGirl the gender illusion]] a little longer.
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** The Phoenix, unlike its FF V incarnation, seems associated with revival rather than fire. As for Syldra, as a summon, it does ''lightning'' elemental damage, which, if anything, would be associated with Wind magic in FinalFantasy.

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** The Phoenix, unlike its FF V incarnation, seems associated with revival rather than fire. As for Syldra, as a summon, it does ''lightning'' elemental damage, which, if anything, would be associated with Wind magic in FinalFantasy.''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.



** Because Amano's art, which is used by the mugshots, is often treated more like a suggestion by the actual sprite artists. Nobody in the game (and hardly anyone in FinalFantasyVI) looks like their mugs.

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** Because Amano's art, which is used by the mugshots, is often treated more like a suggestion by the actual sprite artists. Nobody in the game (and hardly anyone in FinalFantasyVI) ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'') looks like their mugs.
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** That's easy. They can hold their breath for seven minutes in Walse Tower.
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* When the Barrier Tower blows up, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Zeza/Xezat]] tells you to wait for him at the sub. The party then... jumps off the top of the tower to be caught by Hiryu, ending up afterwards right outside the sub... which was docked at the entrance to an underwater tunnel. Even if wind drakes can swim, is the party suddenly amphibious? How did they get from the top of the tower to the tunnel through the sky?
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** For one thing, I doubt that's Amano; it really doesn't look like his style at all. Also, Yoshitaka Amano does ''lots'' of different designs for characters. He had multiple looks for Faris, too.
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*** Just as there are multiple species of domesticated animals, there are multiple species of dragons. A wind drake isn't the same as a multiheaded lightning-element Yellow Dragon or the forest-dwelling, pink-winged Mythril Dragon, any more than a lynx is the same as a tiger.
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* Why did Amano make art different from [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lenna_Concept_Art.jpg Lenna's early Concept Art]] when it was clear the sprite makers were ''using'' said early concept art. Was he just bored with his first artwork of her and wanted to make art of her with a completely opposite design!?!

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* Why did Amano make art different from [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lenna_Concept_Art.jpg Lenna's early Concept Art]] when it was clear the sprite makers were ''using'' said early concept art. Was he just bored with his first artwork of her and wanted to make art of her with a completely opposite design!?!design?
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* Why did Amano make art different from the [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lenna_Concept_Art.jpg early Concept Art]] when it was clear the sprite makers were ''using'' said early concept art. Was he just bored with his first artwork of her and wanted to make art of her with a completely opposite design!?!

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* Why did Amano make art different from the [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lenna_Concept_Art.jpg Lenna's early Concept Art]] when it was clear the sprite makers were ''using'' said early concept art. Was he just bored with his first artwork of her and wanted to make art of her with a completely opposite design!?!
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* Why did Amano make art different from the [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lenna_Concept_Art.jpg early Concept Art]] when it was clear the sprite makers were ''using'' said early concept art. Was he just bored with his first artwork of her and wanted to make art of her with a completely opposite design!?!
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** EvenTheGuysWantHim
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**** This makes me wonder if, if the game was produced now, ''especially'' with the respective virtues[[hottip:*:This game's original release ''[[OlderThanTheyThink predated]]'' [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Digimon]], so Fire=Courage [[ShoutOut would've been kept]]; still, "passion" is ''wind'' now, ''[[HotBlooded really]]''?]], Faris and Bartz would have switched elements. (Faris becoming Wind (with perhaps a different virtue?) and [[TheHero Bartz]] [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority becoming]] Fire). Granted, the fire-connection itself could've come with gunpowder, but we don't see any cannons aboard ships [[InformedEquipment even as flavor]].

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**** This makes me wonder if, if the game was produced now, ''especially'' with the respective virtues[[hottip:*:This virtues[[note]]This game's original release ''[[OlderThanTheyThink predated]]'' [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Digimon]], so Fire=Courage [[ShoutOut would've been kept]]; still, "passion" is ''wind'' now, ''[[HotBlooded really]]''?]], really]]''?[[/note]], Faris and Bartz would have switched elements. (Faris becoming Wind (with perhaps a different virtue?) and [[TheHero Bartz]] [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority becoming]] Fire). Granted, the fire-connection itself could've come with gunpowder, but we don't see any cannons aboard ships [[InformedEquipment even as flavor]].
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** StupidSexyFlanders?
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**** it could be that the guys in charge ship Bartz and Faris together...maybe

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**** regarding the previous troper's theory about how Bartz and Faris would have switched elements, it may have been intentional on the dev. team's part, and furthermore, it could be that the guys in charge ship Bartz and Faris together...maybe
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** [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110119034040/finalfantasy/images/thumb/d/da/Exdeath_Dissidia_012_3rd_alt..jpg/274px-Exdeath_Dissidia_012_3rd_alt..jpg Here]]
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*Does Exdeath have a face behind his helmet before he is shown to be a tree?
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** To make him easier to animate in Dissidia later?
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*Why was Exdeath a {{Tin Tyrant}} instead of a centaur as seen [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:FFVAmano4.PNG here]]? Neo-Exdeath could have been less surprising.
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** It's necessary to [[spoiler:merge the worlds]] to gain access to the full power of the Void (IE: the power to send entire civilizations into it) but nothing says he can't use a spell that seems tailor-made to throw one individual into the void to do just that. This does bring up the problem of why he didn't do that to the heroes, though.
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* How can Exdeath banish Gilgamesh to the void when he has yet to complete the actions that will allow him to harness that power? We can be absolutely certain that it's the same void due to later events, and the world divide was supposed to make that action impossible in the first place.
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**** This makes me wonder if, if the game was produced now, ''especially'' with the respective virtues[[hottip:*:This game's original release ''[[OlderThanTheyThink predated]]'' [[DigimonAdventure Digimon]], so Fire=Courage [[ShoutOut would've been kept]]; still, "passion" is ''wind'' now, ''[[HotBlooded really]]''?]], Faris and Bartz would have switched elements. (Faris becoming Wind (with perhaps a different virtue?) and [[TheHero Bartz]] [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority becoming]] Fire). Granted, the fire-connection itself could've come with gunpowder, but we don't see any cannons aboard ships [[InformedEquipment even as flavor]].

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**** This makes me wonder if, if the game was produced now, ''especially'' with the respective virtues[[hottip:*:This game's original release ''[[OlderThanTheyThink predated]]'' [[DigimonAdventure [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Digimon]], so Fire=Courage [[ShoutOut would've been kept]]; still, "passion" is ''wind'' now, ''[[HotBlooded really]]''?]], Faris and Bartz would have switched elements. (Faris becoming Wind (with perhaps a different virtue?) and [[TheHero Bartz]] [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority becoming]] Fire). Granted, the fire-connection itself could've come with gunpowder, but we don't see any cannons aboard ships [[InformedEquipment even as flavor]].
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** In all the scenes until his death, he's being spirited away and/or mind-controlled by Exdeath, so he likely isn't able to say anything--Exdeath just makes him act as a human lure to have the party destroy the Earth Crystal's guardian and seal. And during his death, he's trying to make up for fifteen years of lost time with Faris in his last moments, so unfortunately Lenna is going to get less time.

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** In all the scenes until his death, he's being spirited away and/or mind-controlled by Exdeath, so he likely isn't able to say anything--Exdeath just makes him act as a human lure to have the party destroy the Earth Crystal's guardian and seal. And during after he's freed, there isn't a lot of time between that and his death, in which he's trying to make catch up for with Faris after fifteen years of lost time with Faris in his last moments, so unfortunately Lenna is going to get less time.thinking she was dead.
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** In all the scenes until his death, he's being spirited away and/or mind-controlled by Exdeath, so he likely isn't able to say anything--Exdeath just makes him act as a human lure to have the party destroy the Earth Crystal's guardian and seal. And during his death, he's trying to make up for fifteen years of lost time with Faris in his last moments, so unfortunately Lenna is going to get less time.

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