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=== Squall Leonhart ===
[[File:Squall_LeonhartSquall Leonhart.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"Right and wrong are not what separate us and our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us."''}}
 
A skilled soldier who acts as the main character. Though he is one of SeeD's most accomplished students, his cold and professional demeanor ostracizes him from everyone else. He has a friendly rivalry with Seifer, and specialises in the notoriously awkward gunblade.
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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.
* [[CannotCan't StandLive with Them, CannotCan't Live Without Them]]: Squall spends the first two discs of the game grimly resisting Rinoa's efforts to get him to open up to her, but gradually giving way. When she falls into a coma at the end of disc two, however, he realizes how much he doesn't want to lose her, and she becomes his main priority.
* [[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.
** [[BFSBig Freaking Sword]]: Revolver doesn't quite cut it, but the later models, specially [[Infinity+1 Sword|Lionheart]], sure does. [[Wave Motion Sword|Blasting Zone]], his third [[Finishing Move]], puts it into a whole new level.
** [[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 [[BFSBig Freaking Sword|Blasting Zone]] and [[Spin Attack|Fated Circle]] [[Limit Break|Limit Breaks]]s.
** [[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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* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: He catches this kind of attitude from many other characters in the game.
* [[Love Epiphany]]: {{spoiler|Disc 3.}}
* [[Love Triangle]]: Between Squall, Rinoa, and Seifer. It doesn't actually come up very much, as Rinoa was only with Seifer for the previous summer, and there's no hint of jealousy or real competition.
* [[Magic Knight]]: While all of the PCs can use both weapons and magic, most of them favor one or the other; Squall is strong with both.
* [[Meaningful Name]]
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=== Rinoa Heartilly ===
[[File:Rinoa_HeartillyRinoa Heartilly.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"Look into my eyes... You're-going-to-like-me... You're-going-to-like-me... Did it work?"''}}
 
A member of the Timber resistance group "Forest Owls". Her outgoing and happy-go-lucky attitude contrasts sharply with Squall, as does her lack of actual battlefield experience. She strikes up a relationship with Squall and becomes determined to crack his shell. She wields a boomerang-esque weapon called a Blaster Edge.
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* [[Coy Girlish Flirt Pose]]
* [[The Cutie]]: Designed by [[Tetsuya Nomura]] to be cute rather then gorgeous.
* [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]: Justified as she lived a comfortable middle-class life, unlike the others. Rinoa requires rescuing four times over the course of the game (once per disc!) and is unplayable for a good amount of the third disc thanks to being variously comatose, possessed by Ultimecia, or imprisoned by Esthar. This makes her a [[Damsel Scrappy]] to many players, at least until she [[Took a Level Inin Badass|becomes a sorceress.]]
* [[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|Limit Breaks]]s.
* [[The Lancer]]: To Squall.
* [[La Résistance]]: And [[Rebel Leader|she's the leader]].
* [[Last Girl Wins]]: Rinoa is the last female to join the team.
* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]: Off the side of Balamb Garden during the Battle of the Gardens.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Between Squall, Rinoa, and Seifer.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Subverted. She acts like it around Squall in Disc 1 - and gets told off for it. She shapes up in Disc 2 after nearly getting killed by Edea. Played more straight in the emotional aspects when her persistence to getting to know Squall and for him to open up and rely on her that initiates his [[Character Development]].
* [[The McCoy]]
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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
* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: This is essentially her dynamic with Squall and Seifer.
* [[Witch Species]]
* [[Woman in White]]: When she wears her white (or ''ivory'') dress during the SeeD ceremony and during the FH event.
 
=== Zell Dincht ===
[[File:Zell_DinchtZell Dincht.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"Why don't you try to show a little more passion...? You know, like me!"''}}
 
A fellow SeeD who works alongside Squall and Selphie. Though he appears to be a comic-relief goof at first, he is actually a highly competent soldier with a deep knowledge of world history and a lot of integrity. He uses no weapon in battle, preferring instead to use martial arts.
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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|Limit Breaks]]s causes the enemy to spin.
* [[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 -Induced Plot Hole]] in the ending FMV, where Zell is seen stuffing his face with said flavored bread.)
* [[Tyke Bomb]]
* [[Wall of Weapons]]: In his room in Balamb.
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=== Selphie Tilmitt ===
[[File:Selphie_TilmittSelphie Tilmitt.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"Destroy everything!"''}}
 
A [[New Transfer Student|transfer student]] to Balamb Garden who ends up working alongside Squall and Zell. She is surprisingly perky and upbeat for a soldier, but behind her smiling face lies a psychotic, destructive streak that surfaces during times of stress. She is one of the more observant and practical members of the party. Also, she likes trains.
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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 ===
[[File:Quistis_TrepeQuistis Trepe.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"You know, the boys often choke on this test when I come with them."''}}
 
Squall's instructor at Balamb Garden. Beautiful and intelligent, she is adored by the student base to the point where she has a fan club. However, behind her perfect appearance lies an insecure human who struggles to control her own emotions, and who has unrequited feelings for Squall.
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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 ===
[[File:Irvine_KinneasIrvine Kinneas.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"Thanks for the support, but I never miss my target."''}}
 
An expert SeeD sniper who joins the Balamb Garden party on an assignment. He likes to style himself as a cool, unflappable gunman and complete ladies' man. However, this is just a façade so he can cope with the suffocating pressures of his job. His true personality is much more shy and dorky.
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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 ===
[[File:Seifer_AlmasySeifer Almasy.jpg|frame]]
{{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!"''}}
 
One of Balamb Garden's top students, and Squall's rival. Though he is just as competent as Squall, he lacks the detachment necessary for a soldier and frequently disobeys orders when his temperament flares up. Though he is outgoing and honest, his single-minded pursuit of his dreams leads to him failing the SeeD examination, and further disaster.
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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 obvious--Squallobvious—Squall is brunette, Seifer is blond; Squall wears black, Seifer wears white; Squall has more feminine features, Seifer has a very strong jaw; and they have opposite scars.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Until the ending.}}
{{quote| "One of these days, I'm gonna tell ya 'bout my ROMANTIC dream!"}}
** Of course, in that context, Seifer is referring to the concept of [[Romanticism]] rather than [[I Thought It Meant|actual romance]].
** Notice how in the second fight with Seifer, when he's about to whip out [[Limit Break|Demon Slice]], he quips, "Ready to die, '''Squall'''?". He's only targeting Squall.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Literally and figuratively.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Wears a long white trench coat. Also serves as one of the antagonists.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Between Squall, Rinoa, and Seifer.
* [[Magic Knight]]
* [[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 light--muchlight—much to the frustration of Squall who isn't willing to sugarcoat that Seifer was a bully and a [[Jerkass]].
* [[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|Limit Breaks]]s as Squall does, and the same "trigger" attack, but it requires different timing.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: To Squall.
* [[Three Amigos]]: With Raijin and Fujin.
* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: He, Squall and Rinoa fit the dynamic.
* [[Tyke Bomb]]
* [[The Unfettered]]: Slips into this after his decent into villainy.
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=== Laguna Loire ===
[[File:Laguna_LoireLaguna Loire.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"I speak with passion, from the heart! That's what matters most."''}}
 
A Galbadian soldier who dreams of becoming a world-renowned journalist. His dorky and excitable demeanour obscures his extensive combat experience and natural courage. He uses a machine gun in battle and is the main character in the flashback sequences that Squall's party experiences throughout the game.
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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]]
* [[PowerFreudian Trio]]: Id.
* [[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 181cm181 cm (5'11"), so he fits all three now.
* [[Wacky Marriage Proposal]]
* [[Walking the Earth]]: When he's looking for Esthar in search for Ellone.
 
=== Kiros Seagill ===
[[File:Kiros_SeagillKiros Seagill.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"You cut a pretty pitiful figure up there. I'd say you're about a -3 on the manliness scale."''}}
 
One of Laguna's best friends and fellow Galbadian soldier. He has a sharp wit and often pokes fun at Laguna, but also trusts him with his life.
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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]]
* [[PowerFreudian Trio]]: Superego.
* [[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 ===
[[File:Ward_ZabacWard Zabac.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"......"''}}
 
A Galbadian soldier and the third member of Laguna's unit. His intimidating appearance on the battlefield contrasts sharply with his caring demeanour outside of it. He is rendered mute after suffering a serious injury to his throat during battle.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Death From Above]]: See below.
* [[PowerFreudian Trio]]: Ego.
* [[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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=== Edea {{spoiler|Kramer}} ===
[[File:Edea.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"You must fight to the end! Even though it may bring tragedy to others!"''}}
 
A vain and power-hungry Sorceress who uses her brainwashing magic to seize control of Galbadia. SeeD is assigned the task of assassinating her. {{spoiler|She is the wife of Cid Kramer, and has become possessed by the malevolent Sorceress Ultimecia}}.
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=== Cid Kramer ===
[[File:250px-Cid_Final_Fantasy_VIII_9278Cid Final Fantasy VIII 9278.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"I don't want you all to become machines. I want you all to be able to think and act for yourselves."''}}
 
The headmaster of Balamb Garden, and one of the original founders of SeeD.
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=== Ellone ===
[[File:Ellone.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"You cannot change the past, but seeing it once more is enough."''}}
 
A mysterious girl who shares a connection with Squall, Laguna and SeeD. She is hunted by various factions during the game, most notably by Sorceress Edea. {{spoiler|She possesses a supernatural ability that allows her to send a person's consciousness into the past, and is the source of the mysterious flashbacks that Squall's party has been experiencing}}.
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* [[Cheerful Child]]
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
* [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]: {{spoiler|Even as a child.}}
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With {{spoiler|her Uncle Laguna}}.
* [[Mental Time Travel]]
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* [[Onee-Sama]]: {{spoiler|To Squall.}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[She Is's All Grown Up]]
* [[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 ===
[[File:200px-Fujinrajin_9366Fujinrajin 9366.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"Hey, jus' like Fujin said, ya know!? We're with Seifer. Always have, always will."''}}
 
Seifer's [[Those Two Guys|partners-in-crime]]. Raijin often slurs his speech and ends his sentences with "y'know", while Fujin speaks in monotone. Along with Seifer, they make up the self-proclaimed Balamb Garden Disciplinary Committee.
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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|Punch Clock Villains]]s
* [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming]]
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Raijin.
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=== Biggs & Wedge ===
[[File:200px-G-Soldier_FFVIII_8917Soldier FFVIII 8917.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"I was demoted because of you! I'm only a lieutenant now! I'll get my revenge!"''}}
 
Two Galbadian soldiers who encounter Squall again and again, each time leaving with both their pride and career prospects severely damaged.
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* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains]]s: Source of some of the game's funniest moments.
* [[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|Starter Villains]]s
* [[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 15ft15 ft tall, masculine-looking, [[Amazing Technicolor Population|purple]] woman with an overtly muscular frame. Yet nobody ever comments on her appearance. This, combined with the appearance of other sorceresses such as Ultimecia, has led to the [[Fanon]] theory that the Sorceress Power causes unknown physical side-effects on each woman which varies from subject to subject.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]
 
=== Ultimecia ===
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{{quote| ''"This is reality. No-one can help you."''}}
 
Ultimecia is an evil, all-powerful Sorceress from the future. She seeks to cast the almighty Time Compression magic, which would combine the worlds of the past, present and future into a single point and enable her to rule over all of time itself.
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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''.
 
== '''Guardian Forces''' ==
 
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=== '''Ifrit''' ===
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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 [[See D]]SeeD exercise.
 
* [[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.
 
=== '''Diablos''' ===
 
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]]
 
=== '''The Brothers (Sacred and Minotaur)''' ===
 
A pair of minotaurs fought in the Tomb of the Forgotten King.
 
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: Minotaur.
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* [[Sibling Team]]
 
=== '''Cerberus''' ===
 
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]]
 
=== '''Bahamut''' ===
 
A powerful G-Force encountered in the [[Bonus Dungeon|Deep Sea Research Center]].
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* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]
 
=== '''Odin''' ===
 
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]]
 
=== '''Gilgamesh''' ===
 
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 Inin Badass]]: ''And holy hell how!''{{context}}
 
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