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3A list of characters from ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII''.
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7[[folder:Lumina]]
8[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/FF13_Lumina_1039.jpg]]
9!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaeIto (Japanese), Creator/JessicaDiCicco (English)\
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11-->"This savior... What is she about, anyway?"
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13A capricious young girl who resembles Serah. She has a reputation for being a nuisance to all who encounter her, made worse by her ability to withstand and control Chaos. Despite this, it's unclear whether she considers herself an enemy of Lightning or merely causes her trouble as a form of entertainment.
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15* AmbiguouslyEvil: She causes a lot of trouble for Lightning and others, but it's out of mischeviousness, not malice. Her true motives are a mystery either way.
16* AntiVillain: She has good motives and is not really evil, but still serves as Lightning's main source of antagonism in the game.
17* ElegantGothicLolita: He outfit is almost entirely black with lots of frills, feathers, and spikes.
18* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:She's the embodiment of Lightning's repressed childhood emotions given form.]]
19* EveryoneHasStandards: After a scare with ominous-looking item spheres that she caused, a cleric of the Order of Salvation defends the act to Lightning. He says that Lumina just likes playing around and "knows her boundaries". Lightning has a hard time believing this.
20* EvilCounterpart: To both the Farron sisters in different ways, though she's not really ''evil''.
21** She's built as an antithesis to Serah, trolling Lightning and making fun of her, and referring to her as a sister. Her outfit is also a dark reflection of Serah's in the first game, black and red to Serah's white and red with a skirt, stockings, and jacket.
22** She also serves as one to Lightning, traveling Nova Chrysalis causing trouble as Lightning travels it trying to save souls. Her playful and joking demeanor also sharply contrasts Lightning's cold stoicism.
23* FigureItOutYourself: At one point, when Lightning tires of her riddles and wordplay and outright asks Lumina what the hell she's talking about, Lumina's response is that Lightning has to figure it out herself or else it won't mean anything.
24* GoodAllAlong: Apparently, everything she did was to [[spoiler:save Lightning and her allies, help them stop Bhunivelze, and get Lightning to re-embrace her childhood personality traits to be a stronger person.]]
25* GratuitousLatin: Her name is derived from the Latin word for light. [[spoiler: It's a MeaningfulName, too: she's an incarnation of ''Lightning'', whose real name is Claire, which means "light".]]
26* TheHeavy: She's the driving force of the story by virtue of manipulating Lightning and her allies to get them to do what she wants, and usually in an antagonistic manner to at least Lightning. She could be considered the BigBad if not for the fact that [[spoiler:she's not really evil, and is helping to expose the actual villain to be thwarted, Bhunivelze.]]
27* IdenticalStranger: Despite her looks, she doesn't have much in common with Serah as far as personality goes.
28* ItAmusedMe: Many of her misdeeds are just causing minor mischief for her own enjoyment, or to annoy Lightning for the same.
29* JerkassHasAPoint: Lumina spends most of her time harassing and taunting Lightning, but she often (if somewhat cruelly) points out reasoning for other characters' actions in-game: such as Noel loving Yuel above all else (why he's willing to fight Lighting in the Warrens); that Dajh is upset by how depressed Sazh has become (why Dajh isn't waking up); or that while both Snow and Lightning have lost and are mourning Serah, Lightning has spent the past 500 hundred years in crystal sleep while Snow's been awake and running himself ragged trying (and failing) to keep the world from falling apart at the seams (Snow being so worn and broken-down emotionally).
30* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:She's the manifestation of Claire Farron's repressed childhood emotions that she cast off when she "became" Lightning.]]
31* ManipulativeBitch: While she can be described as playful at best, it's clear that she's not above arranging for the deaths of any characters just for her own amusement. In fact, while she says it was nothing personal [[spoiler: setting Noel up to kill Lightning was clearly just for a few shits and giggles.]]
32* MeaningfulName: Lumina's name is Latin for light. [[spoiler: More than that, her name is actually derived from the Latin ''plural'' form, so it's actually ''lights.'' Lightning's real name, Claire, is French for light, and she's another Lightning.]]
33* MotiveRant: A variation as she's prone to lecturing Lightning on the motives and desires of ''other characters'', including Lightning herself. [[spoiler:Which, being that she ''is'' Lightning in a way, makes sense.]]
34* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: On the Final Day, she [[spoiler:desperately/tearfully pleads for Lightning not to leave her alone]]. It's a ''stark'' contrast to everything she's said/done before then, to say the least.
35* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Due to their conflicting attitudes, Lightning sees her as a nuisance. [[spoiler:Or, rather, she sees her ''younger'' self as a nuisance.]]
36* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her outfit is primarily shades of black with some red details, so she stands out when she causes mischief.
37* RedHerring: Her characterization and appearance are designed to give the impression she's somehow an evil version of Serah. [[spoiler:She's actually Lightning's EnemyWithout.]]
38* SoulJar: [[spoiler: Though she is a manifestation of Lightning's emotions, she is also the container for Serah's soul.]]
39* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:Despite effectively being an incarnation of the young Claire, everyone identifies Lumina as resembling a younger Serah, which speaks volumes of the similarities between the Farron sisters.]]
40* SummonMagic: She uses chaos to summon monsters.
41* {{Troll}}: She'll show up unexpectedly most of the time just to toy with Lightning or any of her friends, though it ranges from light teasing to emotional blackmail to get them to do what she wants them to. [[spoiler:Which, considering who she's a LiteralSplitPersonality of, may have some interesting implications as to what the younger Claire Farron was like...]].
42* VagueAge: Aside from the fact that no one in Nova Chrysalia physically ages anymore, it's not fully clear how long Lumina has been around.
43* VillainWithGoodPublicity: While she tends to cause a lot of trouble and Lightning sees her as an enemy, many citizens around Nova Chrysalia speak well of her, regarding her playful mischief as harmless.
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46[[folder:The Speaker for the Dead]]
47!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), Erik Davies (English)\
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49The representative of the souls of the dead who are lost in the Chaos to enlighten Lightning of the true nature of the Soulsong. It's not what Vanille thinks it is. To communicate with Lightning, it assumes the form of someone she knows, specifically Cid Raines.
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51* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: They're not actually [[spoiler:Cid Raines]], but the representative of the dead who is using their form because it is a person Lightning knew (rather, remembers deeply) well.
52* CessationOfExistence: [[spoiler:Explains that the souls lost in Chaos will continue to exist as long as they are remembered by the living, but the corrupted Soulsong that the Order of Salvation plans to have Vanille perform will wipe out the dead souls, which will, in turn, erase the memories of them from the living, and be genocide on an unimaginable scale. It will be as if they simply never existed.]]
53* MrExposition: They explain lots of things for Lightning, such as the corrupted Soulsong and the nature of living memory-soul existence.
54* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler:Asks Lightning to make sure that the Soulsong Vanille is set to perform on the final day is the correct one that will lead the souls to a new world, and not the corrupted one that will wipe them all out.]]
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57[[folder:Adonis]]
58!!!'''Voiced by:''' David Lodge (English)
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60-->"Honestly, I don't want to get blamed for spilling the wrong thing."
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62Adonis is a member of Monoculus, a guild of thieves based out of the Dead Dunes. He hires Lightning to rid the desert of a nasty sandstorm, earning her a membership within Monoculus in the process.
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64* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: He's in all red to contrast with Fang's all-blue ensemble.
65* DeadpanSnarker: Snarking is apparently a bandit thing to do because he does it a lot with Lightning. It makes a comical routine given her stoic mission-focusedness.
66* NumberTwo: Fang's adjutant in the bandit gang.
67* PermaStubble: Low-key, but present.
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70[[folder:Dr. Gysahl]]
71A chocobo doctor who lives and works out of Canopus Farms in the Wildlands. He has been chasing the legend of the Angel of Valhalla for over a century.
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73* TheChosenOne: He heard "a maiden's voice on the wind" that told him to seek out the Angel of Valhalla and ride to the Temple of the Goddess. However, [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] because there have been multiple people who have heard the same voice and no one has managed to find the Angel, let alone reach the Temple. Then Lightning comes along...
74* CynicismCatalyst: When his daughter died nearly a century ago.
75* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's pretty brusque and rude towards strangers, but his demeanor completely changes once Lightning reveals she too has heard the voice and is seeking the Angel of Valhalla.
76* KindlyVet: He's certainly nice to the chocobos he treats. All the same, after he treats the Angel's wounds, he can't get it to accept food and drink because it's too proud to take help from a human, and is understandably exasperated at this.
77* MythologyGag: He's named after the favorite food of chocobos across the entire ''Final Fantasy'' franchise.
78* YouAreNumberSix: He can't be bothered to remember the names of all his assistants, so he simply assigns numbers to them. [[spoiler: Turns out that's not the case; he ''does'' remember their names, but he keeps himself emotionally distant as he has seen too many people and animals die over the years.]]
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81[[folder:Director Sarzhak]]
82The man in charge of the "Legend of the Savior" play in Yusnaan. He's been [[WhoWantsToLiveForever putting on the same show for decades]] and is beginning to want a change in routine.
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84* AllergicToRoutine: Starting to feel this way by the time the game takes place. The main reason he's so willing to help Lightning is because he's "bored spitless doing the same play over and over and ''over'' again."
85* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his eccentricities, he knows how to manage a stage extremely well.
86* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may not be the best boss in the world, but he did care enough to reduce the amount of fireworks Lightning set up to ensure that the explosions will not harm the audience. Not too much, though; there was still enough kaboom packed in to make Hope's plan go off without a hitch.
87* PrimaDonnaDirector: His subordinates, especially the fireworks boss, find him incredibly difficult to work with and prefer to just let him do his own thing.
88* [[ScrewTheWarWerePartying Screw the End of the World, We're Partying!]]: His attitude to the play. It's also why he has no problem blowing up the entire set: the world's about to end, so might as well make the final performance memorable.
89* SheCleansUpNicely: Said practically word for word by him when Lightning shows up in the Midnight Mauve garb.
90* TrashTheSet: He turns out to be surprisingly agreeable to Lightning & Hope's plan to blow up the statue of God with copious amounts of fireworks.
91* YiddishAsASecondLanguage:
92-->: "You've got ''chutzpah'' to spare, I'll give you that."
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95[[folder:Bhunivelze (SPOILERS)]]
96[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lrffxiii_bhunivelze_full_render_4566.jpg]]
97!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukiKaji (Japanese), Creator/DanielRiordan (English)\
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99The god of the ''Final Fantasy XIII'' universe. He defeated his mother Mwynn in the past, believing that death was a curse upon the world. In order to find the Door of Souls (Etro's Gate) he created Pulse, Etro and Lindzei. He gave Pulse the purpose of tracking down the Door while he went into Crystal Stasis until the day the door is opened, and Lindzei the duty of protecting him while he slept.
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101By the time of ''Lightning Returns'' he has awakened and is in the act of creating a new world for humanity to migrate to since the current one is almost destroyed. As he cannot see the souls of humanity, he awakens Lightning and makes her his chosen Savior to guide their souls to the new world for him. During the game Lightning learns he is planning to purify humanity's souls of emotion and to destroy the souls of the dead, erasing the memories of them from the living so they may live in blissful ignorance without knowing mourning or loss.
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103* AbusiveParents: In the myth he created Pulse, Etro, and Lindzei solely to find the Door of Souls. Out of fear of Etro due to her resemblance to his mother he decided not to give her any purpose or power, which lead to her suicide.
104* ActionBomb: His second phase summons orbs called Monads. They don't do anything but offer targets until he uses Wings of Destruction, whereupon they'll close in on Lightning, interrupt any guard she's attempting to use, and detonate.
105* AdaptationalSexuality: In the original Japanese, in possessing Hope's body it is implied he had begun to feel some of Hope's emotions, and developed a twisted "love" for Lightning, referring to her in adoring words during their battle. That he was voiced by the same person who voiced Hope was meant to further this subtext. The English version completely rewrites those bits of dialogue and gives him a different voice actor than the English Hope, entirely removing Bhunivelze's sexual interest in Lightning.
106* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original Japanese, he wished to become a benevolent deity for humanity and possessed Hope to gain a better understanding of them by using him as a vessel; however, his desire to purge humans of negative memories including their memories of the dead was still wrong, thus why Lightning opposed him. The English version changed that into him wanting to remake humanity as his mindless puppets to live in his new world as blissfully ignorant servants, and Hope was his lab rat to figure out how to mold them to his liking. This moves him from AntiVillain to a more straightforward brand of villainy.
107* BigBad: He's the main villain of ''Lightning Returns'', planning to purify human souls of emotion and destroy their memories of the dead to create emotionless pawns that will live in his idea of a perfect world he rules over.
108* ChildSupplantsParent: A variant -- he killed his mother to supplant her as ruler of the world, but believed she didn't really die and became obsessed with finding her again. It gets fully sexual in ''Lightning Returns'', with the Japanese version having a lot of innuendo-laced dialogue about Lightning replacing Etro (who was said to look like Mwynn) by offering herself to him. This further goes to downright ShipTease when you connect it to Bhunivelze possessing Hope as a vessel and the implication that Hope's emotions are influencing him during this.
109* ColdBloodedTorture: In order to make Hope an acceptable vessel, he reverts him to his childhood form and tortures him for 169 years.
110* ContinuityPorn: His boss fight is full of references to the ''XIII'' trilogy and other ''Final Fantasy'' villains.
111** ​In his first form he uses Ruin and Graviton spells, previously used by Barthandelus and Caius, the villains of the first and second games. He also opens the first battle by casting Doom on Lightning, just as Eidolons and Orphan did in ''XIII'', and his fourth form is severely resistant to damage until staggered, as Orphan's final form was.
112** His attacks across his various forms include Almagest, a signature attack of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Exdeath]]; Wings of Destruction (an alternate translation of Havoc Wing) and Dancing Mad, alluding to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]]; Falling Star, a reference to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII Mateus']] Starfall; and Hypernova, which resembles [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth's]] Supernova. He also has Heartless Angel, first used by Kefka but more famously associated with Sephiroth.
113* DemonicPossession: Bhunivelze possesses Hope, whom he sees as his only suitable vessel.
114* DoubleWeapon: Wields a dual-bladed scythe, the Double Deity. It can be obtained as a drop to use in NewGamePlus.
115* EvilMentor: He's secretly grooming Lightning to take Etro's place as the Goddess of Death.
116* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Or rather, comprehend emotions. He doesn't seem to understand why his creations would rather live with all the negative feelings in the world instead of being empty puppets under his command.
117* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Bhunivelze's philosophy boils down to this. By tasking Lightning with saving souls, he culls them to rid them of free will, making them nothing more but dolls, and even plans on robbing Lightning of hers, turning her into another Etro, a living balance between the worlds of the living and the dead. Alas, Lightning will have none of it.
118* FinalBoss: Of ''Lightning Returns'' and the Lightning Saga altogether.
119* FinalExamBoss: Bhunivelze tests not only your understanding of this game, but of all the elements from across the Lightning Saga.
120** His first form uses Doom, which is otherwise absent from ''Lightning Returns''. If you don't have the best equipment available on your difficulty level and you didn't get Ultima Weapon in the room before, you are NOT going to get through this phase without blowing a Phoenix Down or two.
121** His second form is a BarrierChangeBoss like the Protoflorian, and the attack that follows Genthalic Hymn is much more dangerous if you don't stagger him before he's done charging. Neglecting your Ravager moves will get you killed here, no two ways about it.
122** His third form's Hypernova is cinematic, and thus cannot be mitigated by guarding; the only warning it's coming is that he buffs himself throughout the phase, and only uses Hypernova with three buffs ready. In the same way that such attacks in XIII and XIII-2 could only be weakened by changing to a Sentinel-heavy paradigm when you got the cue, surviving Hypernova is best done by keeping to a schema with high HP while he's fully buffed.
123** If you haven't mastered staggering and perfect guarding, his final form is nearly impossible to beat. Until he's staggered, he takes no higher than two-digit damage from most attacks with the best gear, and Heartless Angel is, well, [[HPToOne Heartless Angel]] unless you perfect guard against it, thus keeping you from surviving long enough to take him down with ScratchDamage.
124* GodIsEvil: TopGod of the setting, and BigBad of the game.
125* GodIsGood: He's a subverted example in that he is initially set up as this benevolent deity that is creating a new world for humanity to live in and empowering a hero to save their souls, and of course, the Order of Salvation goes on and on about his good qualities. However, Lightning harbors doubts about him early on and considers his promise of reviving her sister to be more like a HostageSituation. Sure enough, she is right.
126* GodOfOrder: The god most opposed to the forces of chaos, who wishes to eliminate free will and is a massive ControlFreak.
127* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: His TopGod body is primarily white with his wings and ornamentations being gold and black.
128* GreaterScopeVillain: Though he does not awaken until the final game, his actions in the past drive the entire series; most everything Pulse and Lindzei have done, including their creation of the fal'Cie and subsequent orders to them, traces back to Bhunivelze.
129* HPToOne: Bhunivelze is one of those ''Final Fantasy'' villains who, like Kefka and Sephiroth, has the dreaded Heartless Angel attack, which does this trope.
130* HumanityIsInfectious: It's implied in the Japanese dialogue that while he stole Hope's memories, he was also starting to become affected by Hope's emotions. Hence why after Lightning defeats him in the final boss battle, he begins to [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry feel emotions, namely anger]] [[DespairEventHorizon and despair,]] as it indicates Hope's soul is surfacing and is within reach for Lightning to save.
131* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Because human souls are invisible to him, he has a very limited understanding of what makes them tick. In the Japanese dialogue, he explicitly states that he possessed Hope's body, then remade and remolded it to suit his purposes as a vessel to dwell in as part of an attempt to better understand humanity. [[note]]The English dialogue has him saying that he's planning to remake all of humanity's souls in general instead of singling out Hope.[[/note]]
132* IHaveYourWife: He uses Serah's soul as a bargaining chip to ensure Lightning performs her duty as the Savior. But in the end, it turns out he ''never'' had Serah's soul as it was already lost in the Chaos. However, he did have another soul in his possession to manipulate her with: Hope's.
133* IfICantHaveYou: As his final battle goes on, he goes from praising Lightning to being angered by her determination, deciding that since she won't become the new Etro, he'll just wipe her out of existence instead.
134* ImmortalsFearDeath: According to the myth he views death as a curse created by his mother, seeking the door of souls to put an end to it.
135* LightIsNotGood: The God of Light turns out to be the biggest villain in the saga.
136* NotQuiteDead: Lightning doubts that he actually died following the final battle, suspecting that he just merely fell into stasis again. However, she is confident that humanity will be able to defeat him again should he return.
137* PowerGivesYouWings: As the battle wears on and he becomes stronger and stronger, he starts spouting more wings.
138* RandomlyDrops: Unlike the other bosses in ''Lightning Returns'', who have guaranteed prizes for victory, Bhunivelze's reward (his Double Deity weapon) is a random drop. This is due to the nature of those guaranteed prizes being glowing items appearing on the ground, whereas defeating Bhunivelze leads directly into the credits, and so there's nowhere to pick it up from.
139* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite being the TopGod of the ''Final Fantasy XIII'' universe, he was rarely mentioned before ''Lightning Returns''.[[note]]"The Maker" is mentioned several times in the first game, but in-context it's vague enough that the characters could just be referring to Pulse or Lindzei. The Ultimania confirms "The Maker" that the Cocoon Fal'cie sought to summon was Lindzei while the Pulse Fal'cie also wished to summon their "Maker" Pulse and also notes the term "Maker" refers to all the deities in the mythology of the FNC franchise as each one can be seen as the "Maker" of either other deities, the Fal'cie and/or humanity either directly or indirecly depending on the deity being referred to. Bhunivelze himself is indirectly referred to as "Luminous" in the first of the Analects of the first game which vaguely summarizes his motives in the mythos, and is outright mentioned in the second game twice, once in written form in an unmissable Oracle of Etro Fragment by Yuel referring vaguely to his role as the TopGod of the universe and later his name is spoken outright by Hope in the ending when naming the replacement Cocoon after him albeit with no context as to who he is. [[/note]] Justified in that the myths of even his children are a bit distorted by time and mistruths passed down through generations, so knowledge of Bhunivelze was likely lost to humanity until this game where he made his presence known to them. This is supported by the ancient ruins in the Dunes which were built and inhabited during a time when Bhunivelze and the other gods and their myths were known to humanity as evidenced by the murals of all of them (except Mwynn who never appears in any form in any game in the franchise outside of having an accesory named after her in Type-0 and being mentioned in the FNC mythology).
140* SatanicArchetype: Although referred to as God throughout the game, he's a bit closer in concept to a {{Satan}} that actually succeeded in his rebellion against the actual God of this verse (his mother Mwynn) and is trying to remake the human world to his liking.
141* SelfMadeOrphan: In the myth he defeated his mother, killed her, and banished her to the world of the dead.
142* SigilSpam: The white and black checkered pattern that makes up the "ground" of the battle where he is fought is seen throughout the game in the architecture of Luxerion and Yusnaan, as well as around Chaos in its many forms. It also doubles as a hint to his influence over Hope; Hope's scarf is different from the one he wore in ''XIII'' and is a white and black checkered pattern.
143* SinisterScythe: He uses a double edged one that's the fusion of Lindzei and Pulse.
144* StalkerWithACrush: Japanese version only. He spent the entire game watching ''everything'' Lightning did through Hope, after all. Then there's the innuendo during his boss fight with her.
145* TheStoic: Presumably because human emotion is foreign to him, his face is very blank as he talks to Lightning and his voice quite calm. Then during the final battle he proves he's NotSoStoic as he undergoes his VillainousBreakdown as described below.
146* TakenForGranite: He put himself into crystal stasis until the door of souls was opened.
147* TopGod: The God who defeated his mother and made the three major Gods that created humanity and fal'Cie.
148* TrueFinalBoss: Defeating Ereshkigal on a NewGamePlus results in a fight with Bhunivelze+ on the Final Day of that cycle. It's ''much'' harder than the normal fight, with the first phase constantly alternating between what were the second and third phases of the original fight, more HP than those three phases put together, more durable Monads, Wings of Destruction coming in almost immediately once the Monads are on the field, Hypernova coming with no warning whatsoever, and the Doom timer being transplanted to the stagger-mandatory final phase. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also]], the drop rate for Double Deity is raised from 5% to 15%, [[BraggingRightsReward but if you need that...]]
149-->'''Bhunivelze+:''' I applaud you, savior. You have surpassed God's trial! ''Now you will face me!''
150* TwoFaced: He has an angelic face in his front and a demonic face on the back of his head; he turns around to show the demonic face in the second phase of his battle, sprouting extra wings in the process. Lightning considers the demonic one "the true face of God".
151* UnderestimatingBadassery: A self-inflicted variant; he nurtured Lightning as a goddess of death... and then lets her walk right up to him with intent to take the new world at his expense.
152-->'''Bhunivelze:''' You think you can slay god?
153-->'''Lightning:''' The goddess of death can! ''You've'' made me strong enough!
154* VillainousBreakdown: He initially allows Lightning to fight him to prove her worth to him so he knows she is ready to become the new Goddess of Death. As it becomes apparent that she's not only trying to kill him, but may be capable of doing it, he becomes increasingly enraged, and when he enters his fourth form he screams at her. After the fight he becomes completely unhinged to the point of snarling and growling at her.
155-->'''Inflicting Doom at battle start:''' Time's trial awaits... Prove your worth as a goddess.
156-->'''When entering phase 2:''' You have proven yourself... But the real battle is merely beginning!
157-->'''When entering phase 3:''' Resist no more... Come to your God! A new goddess is born!
158-->'''When entering phase 4:''' You dare to raise your sword against God himself?! ''You will burn in his light!''
159* VillainousCrush: The Japanese version implies that he ended up being influenced by Hope's feelings for Lightning, developing a twisted and obsessive "love" for her.
160-->'''Bhunivelze:''' Submit to me and become my new goddess!
161* WalkingSpoiler: He's the primary villain of the trilogy and the FinalBoss of ''Lightning Returns''. Though if you've been following the backstory and know what his children were up to in his absence, it isn't ''that'' surprising.
162* YinYangBomb: He's mostly light-themed, but some of his attacks have dark elements in them. More notably is his SinisterScythe, at least in terms of design, being dual-ended with a demonic face (Pulse) and an angelic face (Lindzei) on either end.
163* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Bhunivelze's true nature is revealed, Lightning and ''all of humanity'' collectively decide that the new world is theirs and Bhunivelze has no place in it. Led by Lightning, they unite for a massive attack that seals him in the unseen realm in crystallized form for eternity.
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