Cloud
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Cloud Strife is a former member of Shinra’s elite paramilitary unit, SOLDIER, but he’s left it to become a mercenary-for-hire, now working for the anti-Shinra group AVALANCHE. He’s a bit cocky, and seems to not be interested in a lot of things, but he has a good heart. Cloud wields the enormous Buster Sword into battle, and can use techniques known as Limit Breaks. In Smash, these techniques are strengthened when the Limit Gauge is full.
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Cloud (Advent Children)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005 - Movie)
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In Smash, Cloud can take an appearance based on his outfit in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, making it one of the few elements of Smash based on a movie, rather than a game. Advent Children takes place about two years after the end of Final Fantasy VII, and in it, Cloud, while rescuing some kidnapped children, discovers a plot to resurrect Sephiroth. While using this costume, Cloud’s Buster Sword is replaced with the combined Fusion Swords.
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Sephiroth
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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The man in the black cape. The child of Jenova. The One-Winged Angel. Sephiroth was Shinra's greatest war hero, a SOLDIER unrivaled in power, and admired throughout the world. One day, however, a horrifying revelation about his birth drove him to violent madness. For five years he was believed to be dead, killed by Cloud Strife, but now, he suddenly re-emerged, using his awesome power for some mysterious, and frightening, purpose
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Tifa
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Tifa Lockhart was Cloud's childhood friend, when the two would eventually reunite, motivated by what happened to her hometown in the Nibelheim Incident. She joins Cloud and the rest of Avalanche to take down Shinra. Unlike the rest of the team, she doesn't need any weapons. Because who needs those when your fists do the job just fine? Due to this, she's more of a physical attacker, so don't go setting your strongest Materia on her.
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Barret
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Barrett Wallace is the head of Avalanche, an eco-terrorist group dead set on taking down Shinra. Alongside his comrades Jessie, Wedge and and Biggs. Why? Well to Save the world's Mako supply from these greedy corporate giants of course! He's armed with, well, a gun on his right arm. He can't dish out much damage, because what are bullets gonna do to a literal god? But he makes up for it with with a high health bar.
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Aerith
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Aerith Gainsborough is a young woman on the run from Shinra, who want to capture her to exploit her powers for their nefarious needs. When she's with your party, she serves mostly as team healer, being able to use defensive Limit abilities to heal or protect the rest of her team. She seems to be very close with Cloud, ss she made him her bodyguard at the cost of a date. Unfortunately for her, a relationship didn't blossom, but hey, maybe Cloud was just in a bad mood. She should take another stab at it!
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Red XIII
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Nanaki is one of the last remnants of an unnamed feline species that lived in Cosmo Canyon, but he was captured and used in experiments by the mad scientist Professor Hojo, who renamed him Red XIII, just another numbered subject. Despite his feral appearance, Red XIII is intelligent, honorable and articulate, and chooses to accompany Cloud and his friends once they rescue him from Hojo’s laboratory.
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Cid
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Since the second game, every entry in the Final Fantasy series features a character named Cid, and VII is no different. Cid Highwind is a foul-mouthed pilot with one dream: to go out into space. However, when the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to realize that dream is taken from him, he became jaded and aggressive, with his precious airship, the Highwind, resting inert behind his house. For years, all he did was regret his past, until he came across a certain party of heroes and joined them in their adventure.
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Cait Sith
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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The most curious-looking of the Final Fantasy VII cast, Cait Sith is a talking robot cat who rides around in a giant stuffed toy Moogle. He works as a fortune-teller at the world-famous amusement park known as the Gold Saucer, where you can pay him some Gil so he’ll tell you something that passes as prophecy. He enthusiastically joins the party in their adventure, despite not having any obvious motive to doing it, or even being friends with (or liked by) Cloud and the others. But who knows? Maybe he has his reasons.
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Yuffie
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Yuffie Kisaragi is an optional party member whom Cloud can encounter wandering the woods near Junon. She is a rebellious ninja thief who wishes to restore her homeland Wutai to its former glory, after it was defeated in a war with Shinra. To accomplish this she seeks on thing: Materia. Her Materia, your Materia, everyone’s Materia! She wants it, and she’ll stop at nothing to get it, and maybe help save the world from destruction in the meantime.
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Vincent
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Vincent Valentine is an optional party member whom Cloud can find sleeping in a locked room under the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim. He is a dark, brooding character with a mysterious past, a former Turk who was subjected to numerous experiments which turned him into a monster, or several monsters, actually. Using his Limit Breaks, Vincent can transform into various frightening creatures, becoming incredibly powerful, but losing control of his actions.
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The Turks & Rufus Shinra
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Rufus is the ambitious and ruthless president of the Shinra Electric Power Company, who believes in controlling the populace through fear. He is faithfully aided by the Investigation Sector of the General Affairs Department of Shinra, an organization assigned to tasks ranging from espionage to assassination. The members of this organization are often called ‘Turks’, and they consist of newcomer Elena, the stoic Tseng, the reticent Rude, and the hot-headed Reno.
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Bahamut ZERO
Final Fantasy VII (1997 - PS)
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Arguably the most iconic Summons of the Final Fantasy series are the Bahamut line, draconic creatures that have appeared since the very first game. All Bahamuts are very strong but the most powerful strain of all is Bahamut ZERO. This creature dwells in the depths of space, and when summoned will fire from orbit its Tera Flare ability, dealing colossal non-elemental damage to all enemies.
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Chocobo & Moogle
Chocobo: Final Fantasy II (1988 - Famicom)/ Moogle: Final Fantasy III (1990 - Famicom)
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The two cute mascots of the Final Fantasy series! Chocobos are large birds that can be found in forests that smell like them. They are rather shy, but if you feed them some greens, they can be domesticated and mounted, which is great for getting around the world or competing in races. Moogles are a funny looking people who serve a variety of roles throughout the series, from playable characters, to mere background cameos. In Final Fantasy VII, these two team up for a low-level Summon called, what else, Chocobo & Moogle
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Shiva
Final Fantasy III (1990 - Famicom)
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This icy beauty is Shiva, one of the most recurring Summons in the Final Fantasy series. Her exact usage varies a lot from game to game, but you can always count on her being an early game Summon that will attack opponents with moderately strong Ice magic, usually her signature spell, Diamond Dust. She’s generally very friendly, and will give her aid to your party without putting up a fight.
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Ifrit
Final Fantasy III (1990 - Famicom)
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Ifrit is the recurring Fire-elemental Summon of the Final Fantasy series, and can be found rather early in almost all the games. Its appearance has greatly changed throughout the series, originating as a humanoid demon but gradually taking a more bestial design. Despite this, the scorching flames of its Hell Fire ability have remained intact. Though little is known about Ifrit himself, it is said to have a fierce rivalry with the Ice summon Shiva.
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