History MythologyGag / DissidiaFinalFantasy

* The game's ending FMV shows the Warrior of Light walking towards Cornelia Castle in a camera angle mirroring the opening of the original game.

* When you find the Bahamut summon in the Warrior's storyline in ''Dissidia 012'', Bahamut says "Long has it been since men of courage have stood before me.", the same thing he said when granting you your PrestigeClass in the first game.

* The Warrior of Light vows to break the cycle everyone's trapped in and save Garland too. According to the end of Final Fantasy I, he makes good on that promise.

* When unlocking Garland through the PP Catalog, he will shout 'I will twist you into a knot!', which was an actual threat used by Garland in the original Final Fantasy.
* Garland's "Discord Incarnate" alt in ''Duodecim''' is based off of [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:The_Cloudsea_Djinn.jpg an obscure piece of artwork of a demon called the "Cloudsea Djinn"]], confirming that it and Garland are one and the same.
* When the [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Warrior_light_vs_garland.jpg Warrior of Light leaps at Garland]] at the end of his Destiny Odyssey, the poses may have been taken from [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Garland_Nintendo_Power.jpg this piece]] of Magazine/NintendoPower artwork.
* The Warrior of Light's "[[http://i.imgur.com/RGrvM.png Classic Red]]" costume is based on the [[https://myoldnintendo.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/fighter.gif Fighter class's sprite]] from the original NES game, with red armor and red spiky hair.

* Firion's fighting style reflects the entire battle system and the different weapon types -- swords, bows, lances, daggers, axes, staffs, shields, and barehanded. In fact, pretty much the only thing you can do in this game that you couldn't do in Firion's original game [[note]] that ''isn't'' only different because of the gameplay style [[/note]] is shoot your other weapons out of your bow.
* His knives are charged with electricity. Leila, the character who fought with knives in the game, joined the party with the [[ShockAndAwe Thunder Spell]].

* Firion has a trademark pose, appearing in the most well-known concept art of him as well as the original Famicom boxart of ''II''-- he holds his arm out, sword horizontal in front of his face. This appears twice in ''Dissidia'' -- in a cutscene, from the same angle, right before he fights The Emperor, and as the very end of his match-start animation, before he sheaths the sword, though this one is harder to notice due to the angle of viewing being different than the art piece.

* The Emperor's ground Flare is blue, while everyone else's Flare is orange -- in his original game, Flare has an animation of blue fire as opposed to the rest of the series where it's orange.

* The Emperor's perfect EX Burst, Entice, is a reference to the Lamia Queen boss, who uses the same skill to... [[NeverLiveItDown seduce]] and [[StandardStatusEffects confuse]] Firion.

--> '''Tidus''': What's this ''ungaaaahhhh'' business?
* One of The Emperor's exclusive weapons is called "Mateus' Malice", referencing his real name in the Japan-only novelization, ''Final Fantasy II: Labyrinth of Nightmares.''

* Saint's Fall is a mistranslation of "Saint Dive", a Band ability in ''The After Years'' that is formed by combining Kain's Jump with Rosa's White Magic.

* Kain's Spiral Blow and Sky Rave attacks are Band skills from ''The After Years''.
* The Onion Knight says to Kain "can you catch birds with that jump?", serving as two references -- Kain's DS minigame where players had to swat away birds as he leapt into the air, and the Garuda from ''III'', widely considered ThatOneBoss unless you spammed the Dragoon's Jump attack.
* The Shadow Dragon's Black Fang and Binding Cold attacks are taken from the boss battle with Golbez. Twin Meteor is his CombinationAttack with Fusoya.
* When someone other than Cecil beats Golbez in Shade Impulse, he says "The flesh may rot, but the soul never perishes...", which is what Zemus said when Golbez and Fusoya killed him.
* Golbez randomly says "Allow me to give you something" when using Gravity Force, and says "A gift!" when using Gravity System and Float System -- when he met Cecil at Fabul, Golbez said "Allow me to give you something - a gift to remember our meeting by."
* His Cosmic Ray is based on his cutscene attack where he knocks party members aside with lightning blasts from his hand.
* If the inputs for Golbez's EX Burst are performed at very specific frames, his Shadow Dragon will shout (via text box) "Give your power to Meteor!" to which Golbez will reply with "Very well!" ("Iidesutomo!" in the Japanese version,) inreference to his and Fusoya's battle against Zemus, as well as a popular meme in the Japanese FF community.

* His MirrorMatch quote "how about we have a staring contest" refers to the BonusBoss Gogo -- in order to beat him and get the Mime job, you had to sit there and do nothing.
* Exdeath's lines "prepare for the afterlife" and "anger and hatred cannot defeat me" are taunts he tossed at [[BadAssOldGuy Galuf]].

* His line in the final storyline, "All shall be returned to nothing, as will I... For eternity!" is a paraphase of Neo Exdeath's BadassBoast introduction.
* When starting his EX Burst, Exdeath briefly adopts a pose similar to his second, monstrous tree form.
* Gilgamesh's weapon arsenal is made up of weapons he has or could have collected -- the Excalibur, Excalipoor, Masamune, and Zantetsuken are his summon attacks, the Chicken Knife was in his original game [[labelnote:and there's more to that]]The player can only get the Brave Blade or the Chicken Knife; the other is {{Permanently Missable|Content}}. Since apparently Bartz took the Brave Blade, that left the Chicken Knife behind and presumably Gilgamesh got ahold of it somehow[[/labelnote]], the Genji Katana of course refers to his trademark Genji equipment, and the Naginata and Battle Axe are weapons his sprites are holding.
** The Genji Katana specifically takes its appearance from Auron's Genji Katana. A bit of FridgeLogic there, since we never see Gilgamesh visit Spira, but apparently he got there somewhere along the way.
* His taunt when using Jump, "Fell for it!", is a joke on how he likes to pretend the party has beaten him, then casts status buffs on himself and uses a Jump attack.

* The Data Install screen for the original ''Dissidia'' references the opening to FFV, showing Bartz running through the fields on his chocobo.

* In ''012'', Terra says she feels nostalgic looking at the snowfields, a reference to Narshe.
* Her relationship with Vaan and Onion Knight are a collective reference to Locke.
* Aside from Flood and Thundara, all of Terra's attacks are spells she or Celes could learn naturally.

* ''Many'' of his one-liners from the original game made it in:

** When Lightning tells him and the other Warriors of Chaos to step aside, Kefka replies "'Step aside' she says. Do we look like side steppers?". When he ran from his battles with Sabin, Sabin called out "Wait!", and Kefka's response was "'Wait' he says. Do I look like a waiter?"

* In the end of the Onion Knight's story, Terra (who was forcibly transformed into an Esper and attacked him earlier in the story) is lying unconscious, and a concerned Onion Knight has Terra's situation explained to him by Golbez. Golbez tells him that Terra is afraid of what she is, and that she needs some time to come to terms with her situation. The whole setup is very similar to the visit to Zozo, after Terra transforms when speaking with the Frozen Esper. The leader of the playable party is approximated by the Onion Knight, and Golbez takes the place of Ramuh.
* Terra's Crystal has a shape similar to a Magicite crystal.
* The Data Install screen for ''Dissidia 012'' references the opening to FFVI, showing Terra and two soldiers treking through the snow in Magitek Armors.

* The camera angles in Cloud's confrontation with Sephiroth mirror many of their battles in other games -- [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100924201130/finalfantasy/images/d/d9/CloudSephDissidiaComparisons.JPG see here]] for a comparison.
* All of Cloud's limit breaks appear as attacks.

* In the cutscene before the second Garland battle in the Warrior's chapter as well as briefly during his EX Burst, he briefly assumes a pose used in one of Amano's concept pieces of the Knight.

* In his EX Mode, Chaos' colour scheme changes to a yellow hue resembling his original ''FinalFantasyI'''s sprite colour.

* The Warrior of Light's FireIceLightning "Fang" magic attacks are named after items that cast elemental magic. If you look closely when he attacks with them, you can see he's actually throwing an item into the air, not casting the spell himself.

*** These items were only added to Final Fantasy in the remakes, however.

* In the cutscene before the second Garland battle in the Warrior's chapter, he briefly assumes a pose used in one of Amano's concept pieces of the Knight.

* Firion has a trademark pose, appearing in the most well-known concept art of him -- he holds his arm out, sword horizontal in front of his face. This appears twice in ''Dissidia'' -- in a cutscene, from the same angle, right before he fights The Emperor, and as the very end of his match-start animation, before he sheaths the sword, though this one is harder to notice due to the angle of viewing being different than the art piece.

* The Emperor's "Silver Despot" alternate costume in ''Duodecim''' is based off of his appearance from the opening FMV of the second game's ''Final Fantasy Origins'' CompilationRerelease.

* When the [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Warrior_light_vs_garland.jpg Warrior of Light leaps at Garland]] at the end of his Destiny Odyssey, the poses may have been taken from [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Garland_Nintendo_Power.jpg this piece]] of NintendoPower artwork.

* Gilgamesh's weapon arsenal is made up of weapons he has or could have collected -- the Excalibur, Excalipoor, Masamune, and Zantetsuken are his summon attacks, the Chicken Knife was in his original game [[labelnote:and there's more to that]]The player can only get the Brave Blade or the Chicken Knife; the other is LostForever. Since apparently Bartz took the Brave Blade, that left the Chicken Knife behind and presumably Gilgamesh got ahold of it somehow[[/labelnote]], the Genji Katana of course refers to his trademark Genji equipment, and the Naginata and Battle Axe are weapons his sprites are holding.

** If you look even closer, he's pulling the items from [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything the pouch on his left hip]].

* The Emperor's perfect EX Burst, Entice, is a reference to the Lamia Queen boss, who uses the same skill to... [[NeverLiveItDown seduce]] and [[StandardStatusEffects confuse]] Firion. [[UnfortunateImplications Um...]]

* When Cloud returns to his world at the end of ''Dissidia'', he's seen in a field of yellow flowers. This is the scenery used when he thinks of Aerith in ''Film/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.

*** Of course, all of those are Black Magic, and the Warrior of Light is a Fighter/Knight, who had no access to it in the original.

* The ability of Lightning's EX Mode to instantly Break opponents low on Bravery is based on the Omega Weapon's Quick Stagger ability, which staggers opponents once their stagger gauge is 90% full.

* In the original ''Dissidia'', when fighting Zidane, she asks if he is a Mithra due to his catlike appearance.

* Gilgamesh's weapon arsenal is made up of weapons he has or could have collected -- the Excalibur, Excalipoor, Masamune, and Zantetsuken are his summon attacks, the Chicken Knife was in his original game [[labelnote:and there's more to that]]The player can only get the Brave Blade or the Chicken Knife; the other is LostForever. Since apparently Bartz took the Brave Blade, that left the Chicken Knife behind and presumably Gilgamesh got ahold of it somehow[[/labeelnote]], the Genji Katana of course refers to his trademark Genji equipment, and the Naginata and Battle Axe are weapons his sprites are holding.

* Gilgamesh's weapon arsenal is made up of weapons he has or could have collected -- the Excalibur, Excalipoor, Masamune, and Zantetsuken are his summon attacks, the Chicken Knife was in his original game ([[labelnote:and there's more to that]]The player can only get the Brave Blade or the Chicken Knife; the other is LostForever. Since apparently Bartz took the Brave Blade, that left the Chicken Knife behind and presumably Gilgamesh got ahold of it somehow[[/labeelnote]]), the Genji Katana of course refers to his trademark Genji equipment, and the Naginata and Battle Axe are weapons his sprites are holding.

* Exdeath's lines "prepare for the afterlife" and "anger and hatred cannot defeat me" are taunts he tossed at Galuf.

** Of course, all of those are Black Magic, and the Warrior of Light is a Fighter/Knight, who had no access to it in the original.

* Gilgamesh's weapon arsenal is made up of weapons he has or could have collected -- the Excalibur, Excalipoor, Masamune, and Zantetsuken are his summon attacks, the Chicken Knife was in his original game ([[hottip:and there's more to that:The player can only get the Brave Blade or the Chicken Knife; the other is LostForever. Since apparently Bartz took the Brave Blade, that left the Chicken Knife behind and presumably Gilgamesh got ahold of it somehow]]), the Genji Katana of course refers to his trademark Genji equipment, and the Naginata and Battle Axe are weapons his sprites are holding.

** When facing the Emperor, he says "you're less than worthless!", based on what he says when he kills Gestahl. His Extra-Crispy Firaga quote "you'll be well-done!" is taken from the same scene.
** "You're lower than lower than dirt!" and "that hag isn't worth the dirt on the bottom of my boots!" paraphase his taunt to the party, "You may as well be the dirt on the bottom of my boots! Or the dirt stuck to the bottom of that dirt!"
** When Lightning tells him and the other Warriors of Chaos to step aside, Kefka replies "'Step aside' she says. Do we look like side steppers?". When he ran from his battles with Sabin, Sabin called out "wait!", and Kefka's response was "'wait' he says. Do I look like a waiter?"
** When preparing to fight Vaan, he says "You're about to learn why 'oppose' rhymes with 'dispose'!", the same thing he said to 'encourage' his troops when he attacked Narshe.

* Hell's Gate is the attack he used to kill Aerith. This was taken to its logical usage in ''012'', where the AI is specifically programmed to use Hell's Gate on Aerith when she's called as an Assist to use Holy.
* His victory quote "Know your place" is taken from his ''Kingdom Hearts II'' battle.

* When Cloud returns to his world at the end of Dissidia, he's seen in a field of flowers. This is the scenery used when he thinks of Aerith in ''Film/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.