Games with their own subpages:
Main series
Spinoffs
- Final Fantasy Type-0
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Dissidia Final Fantasy
- Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
- World of Final Fantasy
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
- Final Fantasy Adventure
- Final Fantasy The 4 Heroes Of Light
- Final Fantasy Brigade
- Final Fantasy Dimensions
- The Final Fantasy Legend
- Final Fantasy Record Keeper
- Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
- Mobius Final Fantasy
- Final Fantasy All the Bravest
- Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
- Vagrant Story
- Bravely Default
Other media with their own subpages:
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- Final Fantasy: Unlimited
- Last Order: Final Fantasy VII
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
- Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
In the series as a whole:
- Cash-Cow Franchise: While they certainly have many other IPs that are popular and profitable, this is the video game franchise that turned Square into a powerhouse publisher and made them kings of the JRPG genre alongside Enix, at least until the two companies merged and became Square-Enix.
- Creator's Favorite: Yoshitaka Amano has stated that of all characters he has drawn for the series, Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI is his favorite.
- Dueling Games: Before Square and Enix merged, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest were very much rivals of one another. Even today (mainly in Japan), there is still some rivalry over which series is better.
- And within the Broken Base of Final Fantasy fandom, while many different games' fans are at each other's throats, likely the best-known rivalry is between fans of Final Fantasy VII and its direct predecessor Final Fantasy VI, with many of the latter resenting the former's popularity, which is believed to be undeserved as compared to their own game, and the former thinking (if they care at all) that the title of best FF game is theirs and the old-school fans need to get over themselves already. This usually manifests itself as fighting over which game had the coolest villain.
- Panzer Dragoon Saga was made to go up against VII and be the Killer App RPG for the Sega Saturn. Unfortunately, Saga was released late into the Saturn's life, so it never stood a chance.
- I Am Not Shazam: An unusual case of the series doing this to itself, at least a term in it. It's commonly accepted that the various Final Fantasy worlds form a multiverse connected by the Void, the space between the dimensions. However, when Final Fantasy V introduced the Void as a concept, it was treated like a source of power wielded by the warlock Enuo and later Exdeath, and the Void itself was sealed in the Interdimensional Rift between the two worlds. Ergo, it's the Interdimensional Rift that is actually the Void Between the Worlds, and the Void is closer to The Nothing After Death. Most games since that reference the concept of the Rift tend to refer to it interchangeably as either the Rift or the Void, but it is more commonly called the Void now. Granted, this isn't helped by V itself not always distinguishing clearly between the Rift and the Void, so there was already a degree of confusion.
- Killer App: Like with Dragon Quest and Monster Hunter, a Final Fantasy game will usually sell lots of consoles if it shows up as an exclusive, namely Final Fantasy for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Final Fantasy VI for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation, Final Fantasy X for the PlayStation 2, the remakes of Final Fantasy III and IV for the Nintendo DS, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation Portable, Final Fantasy VII Remake for the PlayStation 4, and Final Fantasy XVI for the PlayStation 5.
- Magnum Opus Dissonance: Hironobu Sakaguchi considers IX the best title in the series. The game received mixed reactions and sold the least copies of all the PlayStation installments of the franchise. However, it has since became vindicated by fans and is the highest-rated PS1 entry of the franchise on Metacritic, so perhaps time showed Sakaguchi to be right.
- Meaningful Name: A lot of the names in the FF world draw upon mythology, religious beliefs, and fiction. A good example is all of the summons, who are named after mythical figures, places, or objects such as Leviathan, Kujata, Shiva, Hades, and Ark to name a few.
- Some of the weapons are named after legendary ones such as Excalibur, Masamune, Gigas, and so forth.
- Certain spell names are obviously what they do also.
- Referenced by...: A potted cactus shaped like a Cactuar can be spotted in the background in several episodes of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons.
- Throw It In!: A fan wrote Sakaguchi a letter asking if the title Final Fantasy was an English translation of Grand Illusion note . Sakaguchi denied this but said that he hopes to use it one day and is indeed used in Final Fantasy XII.
- What Could Have Been: Xenogears was originally proposed to be a Final Fantasy, but it was deemed too dark to be one. It instead went on to be its own thing, spawning a meta series of its own with Xenosaga and Xenoblade Chronicles.
