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'''Tifa Lockhart''' is one of the main characters of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. She was designed by [[Tetsuya Nomura]]. She is an expert in Zangan-Ryu [[martial arts]] and uses her fists and feet as her weapons. Tifa has long, dark brown hair with the ends parted like a dolphin's tail, a large bosom, and deep brown eyes. She is voiced by [[Yuko Minaguchi]] in ''[[Ehrgeiz]]'' and by [[Ayumi Ito]] in the Japanese versions of the ''[[Compilation of Final Fantasy VII]]'' and ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''. She is voiced by [[Rachael Leigh Cook]] in the English versions. | |||
'''Tifa Lockhart''' is the | |||
In her debut appearance, Tifa is a member of the eco-terrorist group [[AVALANCHE]] and | In her debut appearance, Tifa is a member of the eco-terrorist group [[AVALANCHE]] and owner of the [[7th Heaven]] bar in [[Midgar]]. Tifa is the childhood friend of [[Cloud Strife]]. She convinces him to join the group and later assists him in saving the planet from [[Sephiroth]]. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===''Final Fantasy VII''=== | ===''Final Fantasy VII''=== | ||
[[ | [[Image:Tifasc1.jpg|thumb|80px|left|Tifa as she appears in battle in ''Final Fantasy VII''.]] | ||
Tifa Lockhart was born in [[Nibelheim]] and grew up next door to [[Cloud Strife]]. Though they knew each other since childhood, circumstances prevented them from getting close, and Cloud was left to admire Tifa from afar. | |||
When Tifa was eight, her mother died, and soon after, believing that her mother's spirit may have passed through the mountains, she decided to follow the path leading up the nearby [[Mt. Nibel]]. Her three closest friends, who were afraid to follow her up the mountain, abandoned her one by one. Cloud, however, who had been following them unnoticed, continued on after Tifa. When Tifa missed her footing on a rope bridge leading into the mountain, he ran to save her but was too late, and both of them fell into the gorge below. | |||
Cloud survived the accident while suffering no more than scraped knees, but Tifa was in a coma for a week. Tifa's father held Cloud responsible for the incident, and his relationship with Tifa remained distant. Cloud blamed himself for the accident as well and felt that he had been unable to save Tifa because of his own weakness. His self-reproach led to anger toward himself, which then led to him into fights with others. Later, he would hear of [[Sephiroth]], a legendary soldier admired by many young men, and he would conceive a plan to prove to himself and to everyone else that he was strong enough to protect Tifa. | |||
At the age of fourteen, Cloud asked Tifa to meet him one evening at the well in the center of town. Cloud then told her of his plans to leave for [[Midgar]] and join [[SOLDIER]]. It is later revealed that this decision was largely influenced by a desire not only to become strong enough to protect Tifa, but also to impress her as well. Tifa was both surprised and disappointed at Cloud's news; she asked him to promise that if he achieved his dream and that if she were ever in danger, he would come to her rescue. | |||
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Springtime came and Cloud left for Midgar. Despite never really being close with Cloud, Tifa found his departure harder than she had expected. She began to think about him frequently, wondering whether he was well and whether he had achieved his dream. She began to read the newspapers, thinking there might be an article about him, but it would be years before she heard any news of him. | |||
When Tifa | When she was fifteen, Tifa acted as a Nibelheim guide for a group of SOLDIER personnel inspecting the [[Mako (Final Fantasy VII)|mako]] reactor on Mt. Nibel. The group consisted of the 1st-Class SOLDIERs Sephiroth and [[Zack]], as well as two military police officers, one of which, unbeknownst to Tifa, was Cloud. After the inspection, the group returned to town, and Sephiroth stayed in the basement of the Shin-Ra Mansion to read through the research notes left by Professors Gast and Hojo. What he discovered brought about a gruesome change in him. Without warning, he set fire to Nibelheim in the night and slaughtered the townspeople. | ||
With her hometown in ruins and most of her loved ones dead, Tifa pursued Sephiroth as he returned to the reactor, only to find that Sephiroth had murdered her father as well. In a blind rage, she attempted to kill Sephiroth with his own sword. However, he proved too strong for her, and with terrifying ease he disarmed and seriously injured Tifa, nearly killing her. As Cloud made his way into the reactor, he found Zack lying against some machinery with critical injuries, as well as Tifa's severely wounded and unconscious body at the bottom of the stairs leading into [[Jenova]]'s chamber. Enraged, Cloud took up [[Zack's sword]] before picking Tifa up and moving her to a more comfortable position. Cloud then confronted Sephiroth, who stabbed him. With a final burst of strength Cloud lifted Sephiroth whilst still impaled, and threw him off the edge into the Lifestream below. In the aftermath of the incident, [[Zangan]] appeared on the scene and took the grievously injured Tifa to safety. | |||
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Due to the severity of her injuries, Zangan carried Tifa to [[Midgar]] for medical attention, where he left her in the care of a doctor before returning to his travels. Upon recovering, Tifa set up a bar called "7th Heaven" in Midgar's Sector 7. There she met [[Barret Wallace]], the leader of the Shinra resistance group [[AVALANCHE]]. Tifa joined his resistance faction, as she wanted revenge on Shinra for the events that had occurred in Nibelheim. | |||
One day, Tifa found a barely-coherent Cloud sitting at the Sector 7 train station and took him back to AVALANCHE's base to recover. It was the first time she had seen him in seven years, though he would later say, much to her confusion, that it had only been five. Tifa soon realized that Cloud knew many things he should not have known, while apparently unaware of other things that he ''should'' have known. These abnormalities caused her great concern for his mental welfare, and she persuaded him to join AVALANCHE so she could be with him and watch over him. | |||
Tifa was not originally present in the early drafts of the story.<ref>Electronic Gaming Monthly - October 2005, page 104.</ref> | |||
===''Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring''=== | ===''Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring''=== | ||
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====''Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children''==== | ====''Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children''==== | ||
[[Image:Tifa AC screenshot.jpg|thumb|150px|Tifa's appearance in ''Final Fantasy VII Advent Children''.]] | [[Image:Tifa AC screenshot.jpg|thumb|150px|Tifa's appearance in ''Final Fantasy VII Advent Children''.]] | ||
In ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children]]'', Tifa returns as one of the main characters. Her main role is being emotional support for Cloud, urging him to come to terms with the unwarranted guilt he places on himself. She also displays a great deal of concern for the children in their care, particularly Marlene and Denzel. Tifa takes part in a one-on-one battle with the new villain, Loz, and later joins in the fight against [[Bahamut SIN]]. During the film, her athletic abilities, martial arts skills, strength, and agility are clearly proven to be superhuman. Her strength may have been above normal earlier than the film and the present time of the game. In the fight scene with Loz, Tifa shows her true power and knowledge of martial arts. Although she loses, she shows she can put up a fair fight. | In ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children]]'', Tifa returns as one of the main characters. Her main role is being emotional support for Cloud, urging him to come to terms with the unwarranted guilt he places on himself. She also displays a great deal of concern for the children in their care, particularly Marlene and Denzel. Tifa takes part in a one-on-one battle with the new villain, Loz, and later joins in the fight against [[Bahamut SIN]]. During the film, her athletic abilities, martial arts skills, strength, and agility are clearly proven to be superhuman. Her strength may have been above normal earlier than the film and the present time of the game. In the fight scene with Loz, Tifa shows her true power and knowledge of martial arts. Although she loses, she shows she can put up a fair fight.. | ||
====''Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-''==== | ====''Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-''==== | ||
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==General information== | ==General information== | ||
=== Name === | === Name === | ||
Before Tifa made an appearance in games with voice actors, many English-speaking players were confused on the pronunciation of her name. They were caught between {{IPA|/ˈtɪfə/}} (as in Tiffany) and {{IPA|/ˈtiːfə/}} (with the first vowel corresponding more closely to Japanese pronunciation). Once Advent Children was released, the name was pronounced consistently with its Japanese spelling as {{IPA|/tiɸa/}} by the Japanese voice actors, which sounds to an English-speaker more like {{IPA|/ˈtiːfə/}} than {{IPA|/ˈtɪfə/}}, yet some still speculated that the English release would change the name to sound more like "Tiffany". After all, the unlengthened Japanese vowel "i" (as found in the Japanese version of Tifa's name) is often used to represent {{IPA|/ɪ/}} (the English "short i" sound, which isn't found in Japanese phonology) and its long counterpart "ī" is typically used for {{IPA|/iː/}} (the English "long e" sound). The name's pronunciation was confirmed as {{IPA|/ˈtiːfə/}} in an interview with Rachael Leigh Cook, who described Tifa's character in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''. | Before Tifa made an appearance in games with voice actors, many English-speaking players were confused on the pronunciation of her name. They were caught between {{IPA|/ˈtɪfə/}} (as in Tiffany) and {{IPA|/ˈtiːfə/}} (with the first vowel corresponding more closely to Japanese pronunciation). Once Advent Children was released, the name was pronounced consistently with its Japanese spelling as {{IPA|/tiɸa/}} by the Japanese voice actors, which sounds to an English-speaker more like {{IPA|/ˈtiːfə/}} than {{IPA|/ˈtɪfə/}}, yet some still speculated that the English release would change the name to sound more like "Tiffany". After all, the unlengthened Japanese vowel "i" (as found in the Japanese version of Tifa's name) is often used to represent {{IPA|/ɪ/}} (the English "short i" sound, which isn't found in Japanese phonology) and its long counterpart "ī" is typically used for {{IPA|/iː/}} (the English "long e" sound). The name's pronunciation was confirmed as {{IPA|/ˈtiːfə/}} in an interview with Rachael Leigh Cook, who described Tifa's character in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''. | ||
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*Tifa's original length of hair in Advent Children was cut shorter due to the difficulty of animating the sheer length and color. Lighting effects proved difficult while working with black hair.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071011204508/http://one.xthost.info/ffwebnovel/pinterview.htm FFVII: Advent Children - "3N Interview"]. FFVII WEB NOVEL (archived).</ref> | *Tifa's original length of hair in Advent Children was cut shorter due to the difficulty of animating the sheer length and color. Lighting effects proved difficult while working with black hair.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071011204508/http://one.xthost.info/ffwebnovel/pinterview.htm FFVII: Advent Children - "3N Interview"]. FFVII WEB NOVEL (archived).</ref> | ||
*A poster depicting Tifa appears in a room in the city Etrenank in the PlayStation RPG ''{{wp|Xenogears}}''. | *A poster depicting Tifa appears in a room in the city Etrenank in the PlayStation RPG ''{{wp|Xenogears}}''. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Final Fantasy VII characters]] | [[Category:Final Fantasy VII characters]] | ||
[[Category:Playable characters]] | [[Category:Playable characters]] | ||
[[Category:Party members]] |