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=== Squall Leonhart ===
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{{quote|''"Right and wrong are not what separate us and our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us."''}}
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: To Seifer's Red Oni.
** Squall's reserved nature contrasts with many other characters; he can easily be seen as the [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]] to Zell, Laguna, and Rinoa in addition to Seifer.
* [[Broken Ace]]: Much of the student body of Balamb looks up to and admires Squall due to his incredible fighting skills and calm professionalism despite his lone wolf attitude. This tends to confound the emotionally stunted Squall who created his cold-hearted and powerful persona to be strong enough to not have to deal with other people.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: His feelings towards Rinoa. This is because for the majority of the game, he's simply not emotionally mature enough to ''understand'' his feelings towards her, or how to reciprocate.
* [[
* [[Celebrity Resemblance]]: [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Intentionally modeled after]] actor River Phoenix.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Griever.
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** [[Ensign Newbie]]
* [[Cool Sword]]: His gunblade, be it Revolver or the upgrades of it.
** [[
** [[Blade Spam]] (standard-type): Renzokuken, especially when [[Finishing Move|ended]] with Lion Heart.
** [[Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age]]
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** [[Shout-Out]]: If you haven't figured it out by now, to ''[[Star Wars]]''. The [[Infinity+1 Sword|Lionheart]] even looks explicitly like a [[Laser Blade|lightsaber]].
** [[Spin Attack]]: His Fated Circle [[Limit Break]].
** [[Sword Beam]]: His [[
** [[Sword Lines]]: During his Limit Break "Renzokuken", whatever gunblade Squall happens to be wielding gets the second type.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Played very, very straight. See [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]].
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* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Squall makes a couple of impressive gunblade-first leaping entrances, the most notable of which is the [[Determinator]] moment mentioned above.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Interestingly even Squall can see that everyone can see it, but he doesn't [[Love Epiphany|realize]] how much he loves Rinoa until {{spoiler|she becomes a [[Witch Species|Sorceress]] and goes comatose.}}
* [[Face Palm]]: Often.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Multiple.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: He acquires his Hero Scar during the opening FMV.
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: In his own words, there are no true Good or Evil, just people with opposing viewpoints.
* [[The Hero]]: A rather [[Anti-Hero|antiheroic]] one.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: An ''epic'' one in the end FMV. One could argue that he also has one during the D-District Prison sequence or during Rinoa's coma on Disc 3, but really, with Squall, how can you tell? He really is basically a walking [[Heroic BSOD]] in progress that just happens to come to a head in the final FMV.
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=== Rinoa Heartilly ===
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{{quote|''"Look into my eyes... You're-going-to-like-me... You're-going-to-like-me... Did it work?"''}}
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* [[Coy Girlish Flirt Pose]]
* [[The Cutie]]: Designed by [[Tetsuya Nomura]] to be cute rather then gorgeous.
* [[
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Rinoa is not a princess, but the resistance calls her that as a nickname, most likely because she's the daughter of the occupying state's military commander.
* [[Feather Motif]]: Beginning with her turning a flower petal into a feather in the opening sequence. Her limit break Angel Wing and her [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Blaster Edge]] also share an angel wing/feather theme.
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* [[Heroes Love Dogs]]: And so do [[Gender Flip|heroines]]!
* [[Human Shield]]: To Adel.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: The "blaster edge," a chakram-like weapon she fires from a wrist-mounted launcher, which returns like a [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]. She launches her ''dog'' from it in one of her [[Limit Break
* [[The Lancer]]: To Squall.
* [[La Résistance]]: And [[Rebel Leader|she's the leader]].
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* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]: At level 100, the playable character with the highest unmodified strength stat in the game isn't Squall, Seifer, or Ward. It's Rinoa.
* [[Nom De Mom]]: Her father's family name is Caraway. Rinoa goes by her mother Julia's surname, either as a form of protest against her father or just because being obviously related to a Galbadian general would hurt her credibility with the various factions of the Timber resistance.
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Rinoa claims she doesn't want to ask Squall to see his ring (so Zell can make a replica of it) because people would get the wrong idea.
* [[Official Couple]]: Her and Squall.
* [[Opposites Attract]]: Her and Squall again.
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* [[Rebel Leader]]: She leads the Forest Owls, the only active resistance group in Timber.
* [[Rebellious Princess]]: At least stylistically. She's not an actual princess, but the Forest Owls call her that.
* [[Security Cling]]: Rinoa does this three times to Squall. First, after being rescued from the Iguions, she grabs onto him and doesn't want to let go. Later, while on the Ragnarok, after the intense sequence of events that's just occurred, she takes advantage of the gravity being turned off to float down into Squall's lap and puts her arms around him, telling him that it makes her feel safe. The third time is when she hugs him after he rescues her from the sorceress memorial.
* [[Three Amigos]]: With [[Those Two Guys|Zone and Watts]], albeit mostly in backstory.
* [[True-Blue Femininity]]: Her coat
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=== Zell Dincht ===
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{{quote|''"Why don't you try to show a little more passion...? You know, like me!"''}}
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: He is the closest to one you'll get out of the playable characters.
* [[Child Soldiers|Child Soldier]]
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Zell's Different Beat and My Final Heaven final [[Limit Break
* [[Facial Markings|Facial Marking]]
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: As his status as [[Mr. Exposition]] and [[Mr. Fixit]] can attest to. He's definitely ''not'' [[Book Dumb]].
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* [[It's All My Fault]]: He has a moment of this, after he inadvertently said that Seifer belongs to the Garden right in front of the Galbadian President (who was being threatened by Seifer ''on live TV'' at the time). Fortunately, Quistis later reassures him that his recklessness didn't cause repercussions at all for their Garden.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: His stat growth lends him naturally to becoming absurdly fast ''and'' strong.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: "Thank you very much, Mr. Know-It-All Zell."
* [[Mr. Fixit]]: Subtly implied in the game that he has a love of machinery, and bringing him to the [[Bonus Dungeon]] makes it easier to complete it.
** Depends on your interpretation of easy. If you completed the puzzle as it was supposed to be done, the player can move through the next section with Enc-None. If you use Zell for it, you can bypass the guessing game, but you have to fight some tough battles on your way down there. Battles which Enc-None doesn't work in.
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** Say what you will about Zell, but he's certainly no '''Chicken'''-Wuss.
** His facial tattoo is apparently based off of something the developers saw on [[MTV]].
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: A kind of bread in the original Japanese; hot dogs in the English translation. Unfortunately for him it seems that they're ''everybody's'' [[Trademark Favorite Food]] and the cafeteria is always sold out whenever he tries to get one. (This makes for a minor [[Dub
* [[Tyke Bomb]]
* [[Wall of Weapons]]: In his room in Balamb.
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=== Selphie Tilmitt ===
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{{quote|''"Destroy everything!"''}}
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* [[Badass Adorable]]
* {{spoiler|[[Beta Couple]]: Her and Irvine.}}
* [[The Big Guy]]: Magical powerhouse edition, though she's physically the smallest adult character in the game.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Selphie tries to get "Booyaka!" to catch on among the students. It doesn't work.
* [[Child Soldiers|Child Soldier]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
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* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Well, she does have ''The End''.
* [[Fighting with Chucks]]
* [[Genius Ditz]]
* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Green Eyes]]
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=== Quistis Trepe ===
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{{quote|''"You know, the boys often choke on this test when I come with them."''}}
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* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: To Squall.
* [[Hot Teacher]]
* [[Instant Fanclub]]
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: She initially thought her feelings for Squall were love but later came to realize they were this.
* [[Mega Manning]]: Her [[Limit Break]] revolves around Blue Magic. Unlike in the other games in the series, she learns new enemy skills from using special items, rather than getting hit by the attack.
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* [[Teen Genius]]: She's only a year older than Squall, but she's an instructor at the school at the start of the game.
* [[Tyke Bomb]]
* [[Whip It Good]]
=== Irvine Kinneas ===
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{{quote|''"Thanks for the support, but I never miss my target."''}}
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* [[The Gunslinger]]
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Despite what he would like others to believe, he's the kind of guy who wouldn't hurt a butterfly that landed on him.
* [[The Heart]]: He has a bit of a rocky start, but from the visit to Fisherman's Horizon onward Irvine makes the most active and consistent efforts to keep the party pulled together and emotionally centered.
* [[Handsome Lech]]
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]
* [[Jerkass Facade]]
* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: This seems to be the case at the Deling City Parade, but there's [[The Reveal|more to it than that]].
* [[More Dakka]]: His limit break consists of him just firing round after round of [[Abnormal Ammo]]. One of those is the Rapid Shell, which [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|allows you to shoot as quickly as you can press]] the button at reduced damage.
* [[Named Weapons]]: His guns are [[Vehicular Theme Naming|named after famous warships.]]
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=== Seifer Almasy ===
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{{quote|''"I've always gotta be doing somethin' '''big!''' I don't wanna stop. I'm gonna keep running! I've come this far... I'm gonna make it to the end, to the goal!"''}}
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* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]]
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: Unless you send your characters into battle with him without junctions, Seifer as a boss is unlikely to give you a lot of trouble. But during an automated sequence just before the final battle with him, he {{spoiler|goes Odin on Odin by [[Counter Attack|reversing]] his [[One-Hit Kill|Zantetsuken]] to [[HSQ|vertically]] ''[[Half the Man He Used To Be|bisect]]'' him...'''''[[The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort|with no effort at all]]''''' (In fairness, when Odin appears as a boss in the series, he generally lacks [[Contractual Boss Immunity]] to make up for his time limit).}} Even Squall is shocked. Of course, this sets up the stage for {{spoiler|the appearance of Gilgamesh}} a few turns later, who proceeds to {{spoiler|[[The Unfought|utterly defeat him in your place]]}}.
* [[Delinquents|Delinquent]]: Ironically, he's the head of the disciplinary committee.
* [[Determinator]]: Seifer simply does not back down.
* [[The Dragon]]
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Squall. Their designs also make this very
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Until the ending.}}
{{quote|"One of these days, I'm gonna tell ya 'bout my ROMANTIC dream!"}}
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* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Seifer is somewhere between [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] and this trope.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: His name is an explicit reference to [[Final Fantasy VII|Safer Sephiroth]], because "[[Blind Idiot Translation|Safer]]" was originally supposed to be "[[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Seifer]]".
* [[Never Speak Ill of the Dead]]: When the party thinks he is dead, they remember him in a fonder
* [[Pet the Dog]]: He has a few [[Pet the Dog]] moments when it comes to Rinoa... but his many [[Kick the Dog]] moments tend to overshadow it... and we ''never'' see those moments since they occur before the game.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Loves fire magic almost as much as his gunblade, and even uses it as part of his [[Limit Break]].
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Red Oni]]: To Squall's Blue Oni.
* [[The Rival]] [[Rival Turned Evil|Turned Evil]]
* [[Ryu and Ken]]: He has the same progression of [[Limit Break
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: To Squall.
* [[Three Amigos]]: With Raijin and Fujin.
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=== Laguna Loire ===
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{{quote|''"I speak with passion, from the heart! That's what matters most."''}}
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* [[Curse Cut Short]]: While [[Literal Cliff Hanger|falling off a cliff]].
* [[Determinator]]: His [[Limit Break]] is even called ''Desperado''!
* [[The Ditz]]▼
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: {{spoiler|To Squall.}}
▲* [[The Ditz]]
* [[Fingerless Gloves]]
* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: How he fell for Raine.
* [[The Fool]]
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]
* [[Friendly Tickle Torture]]: The "Cuchi-Cuchi Treatment" he threatens Kiros and Ward with.
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* {{spoiler|[[Our Presidents Are Different]]: The subverted President Buffoon and also [[President Action]] type.}}
* [[The Pollyanna]]: A very rare male version.
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Id.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
* [[Retired Badass]]: He, Kiros, and Ward can still kick ass even after leaving the Galbadian army.
* [[Screw the War, We're Partying]]: This seems to be Laguna's attitude in the first flashback sequence when he leaves Timber and goes to Deling City to see Julia peform.
* [[Second Love]]: Raine. {{spoiler|Ironically, [[Generation Xerox|their son will end up with the daughter of Laguna's first love]].}}
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: His ''Desperado'' [[Limit Break]] is this plus [[More Dakka]].
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Again, two out of three; Laguna is average height at about 5'9". Although the Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania has amended his height to
* [[Wacky Marriage Proposal]]
* [[Walking the Earth]]: When he's looking for Esthar in search for Ellone.
=== Kiros Seagill ===
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{{quote|''"You cut a pretty pitiful figure up there. I'd say you're about a -3 on the manliness scale."''}}
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]
* [[Badass Long Hair]]
* [[Black Eyes]]▼
* [[Black Best Friend]]
▲* [[Black Eyes]]
* [[Blade Below the Shoulder]]: His katal.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Dual-Wielding]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Laguna and Ward.
* [[Humans Are White]]: One of the few who is not.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Has a pair of Katar (misspelled as Katal), but he's a good guy through and through.▼
* [[The Lancer]]: To Laguna.
* [[Latex Space Suit]]
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]
▲* [[Knife Nut]]: Has a pair of Katar (misspelled as Katal), but he's a good guy through and through.
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Superego.
* [[Retired Badass]]: He, Laguna, and Ward can still kick ass even after leaving the Galbadian army.
* [[Spam Attack]]: Blood Pain.
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=== Ward Zabac ===
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Death From Above]]: See below.
* [[Gentle Giant]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Laguna and Kiros.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]
* [[Perma-Stubble]]
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Ego.
* [[Retired Badass]]: He, Laguna, and Kiros can still kick ass even after leaving the Galbadian army.
* [[Scars Are Forever]]
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=== Cid Kramer ===
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{{quote|''"I don't want you all to become machines. I want you all to be able to think and act for yourselves."''}}
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* [[Cheerful Child]]
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
* [[
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With {{spoiler|her Uncle Laguna}}.
* [[Mental Time Travel]]
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* [[Onee-Sama]]: {{spoiler|To Squall.}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[She
* [[Time Master]]: {{spoiler|Her powers can send one's consciousness to the past.}}
* [[Witch Species]]: It is revealed in the Dissidia Final Fantasy Character Files that she too is a Sorceress.
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=== Raijin & Fujin ===
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{{quote|''"Hey, jus' like Fujin said, ya know!? We're with Seifer. Always have, always will."''}}
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* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Fujin.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Fujin. {{spoiler|1=Her (failed) [[What the Hell, Hero?]]/[[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]] speech to Seifer is notably the ''only'' time Fujin uses coherent sentences and speaks in a soft tone.}}
** [[Zig Zagged Trope|Zig zagged]] in the French localization, where she speaks sentences more often. Most of them are still very short, but they're sentences nonetheless.
* [[Ice Queen]]: Fujin.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Fujin ALWAYS SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS.
* [[One Head Taller]]
* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]: Fujin. Overlapping with [[Fuma Shuriken]].
* [[Punch Clock Villain
* [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming]]
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Raijin.
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=== Biggs & Wedge ===
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{{quote|''"I was demoted because of you! I'm only a lieutenant now! I'll get my revenge!"''}}
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* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|Screw This, We're Outta Here]]
* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]: Named after Luke Skywalker's Red Squadron wingmen in [[Star Wars]], like other characters in the [[Final Fantasy]] series.
* [[Starter Villain
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]
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* [[Summon Magic]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Don't be confused. That is indeed a Sorcer''[[Viewer Gender Confusion|ess]]''. She just happens to be a
* [[Winged Humanoid]]
=== Ultimecia ===
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* [[Screw Destiny]]: Her motivation.
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: [[Word of God]] states that there are two tiers of this. First, Ultimecia's [[Start of Darkness]] was brought about when she was persecuted for the crimes she was ''going'' to commit, which became common knowledge thanks to the [[Time Travel]] antics of her future self (as depicted in the game). Second, Ultimecia's motivation was to {{spoiler|1=use Time Compression to control time and thwart her destined defeat at the hands of the "legendary SeeD". But not only do her efforts to cast Time Compression paint a big bullseye on her chest for SeeD, but her use of the Time Compression spell allows Squall's party to travel to the future and defeat her directly.}}
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Some localizations call her Artemisia, which is pronounced the same way than Ultimecia in Japanese and also creates an interesting link with the moon, one of the recurring motives of the game.
* [[Stripperific]]
* [[Summon Magic]]
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* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: In the final battle, she Draws Apocalypse, what she believes to be the ultimate spell, from ''herself''.
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▲=== '''Ifrit''' ===
The first Guardian Force you have to fight. Squall and Quistis must fight him in the Fire Cavern as part of a
* [[Big Red Devil]]
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* [[Timed Mission]]: You have to choose a time limit before you enter the Fire Cavern, and must defeat Ifrit before it runs out.
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A devil Guardian Force that controls gravity. You can fight him at any time after Cid gives you the Magical Lamp
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* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]
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A pair of minotaurs fought in the Tomb of the Forgotten King.
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: Minotaur.
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* [[Sibling Team]]
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A [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|cerberus]] G-Force you can fight in Galbadia Garden when you invade it at the end of Disc 2.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]
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* [[Multiple Head Case]]
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A powerful G-Force encountered in the [[Bonus Dungeon|Deep Sea Research Center]].
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* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]
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An optional, unjunctionable G-Force encountered in the Centra Ruins. After you obtain him, he can sometimes show up right at the beginning of a fight to [[One-Hit Kill]] your enemies before anybody has a chance to do anything. {{spoiler|If you obtained him before completing Disc 3, he will show up at the start of the fight with Seifer, and get [[Half the Man He Used To Be|cut clean in half]]. Fortunately, Gilgamesh replaces him}}.
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* [[Master Swordsman]]
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An optional G-Force you automatically obtain if {{spoiler|Seifer kills Odin}}. He's obviously a reference to the ''Final Fantasy V'' character, if not the same guy.
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* [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]]: If you look closely though, the arms on his cape are cardboard cutouts, with his real arms on his right side under it and holding his cape.
* [[Prophet Eyes]]
* [[Took a Level
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