The Complete Evolution of Non-Human Protagonists 

You missed the one Robot protagonist Promto

I don't think fran was the worse character, I found her extremely useful when you use her right. In the original she was easier to make strong, but on the remastered Switch game to use her right: Combines her license points to get cure, cuts firaga, and other basic spells. Also improve her health, magicka, magicka potency, strength and bow equipment and her armours. (If he health is lower then the other focus of heavy armour and even ones that have immunes attached to them)

You much know that the Final Fantasy series are all on different planet and stuff, so while ff13 and ff15 have all human characters it's not just because their done with the none human. It's simply because the the are no connections between game's, apart from FF7 and ff10 where Shinra first appeared in ff10. How ever the Shinra in 10 is not the same Shinra in ff7, ff7 Shinra is a descendant from the boy in ff10 who improved the mecha and developed a way to travel in space over a matter of hundreds to a thousand years later. In doing so the boy Shinra In Ff10: his grate grate grate grate grate grate grate grandson is the one to travel to a new planet where he eventually establishes the Shinra company, raping the planets life force the way his grate (×8-10) grandfather before him and his dad, said he wanted to do. Shinra from ff10 states: "there is an energy force I wish to learn how to harness it." (Basically) In which he does eventually and his descendants follow in his path, only to travel to a new planet and do the same thing. Even in ff7 it states: "the original beings who lived here." This could mean that the people ff10 had bleed their planet dry perhaps and left, only to find the planet in which ff7 takes place. Meeting people who wish to stop Shinra's descendant who is also named Shinra from doing what his family has done fore generations. (This is not a theory this has been confirmed by the creator himself.)

@@Obisaro it's a shame to hear that you feel our standards have dropped, but we'll work hard to keep improving!

@@FinalFantasyUnion You missed out Aramant from FFIX. How could you not mention a mandatory character? Sure, he is mostly the least popular of the playable party, but I was looking forward to seeing him on this list.

That's why the video says there's 3 definite (Kimahri, Tidus, Auron) and 2 depending on how much you count the physical differences between humans and Al Bhed (Rikku, Yuna).

@Raimundo91 Yeah... that story has issues like Bedore not being able to use magic while Al Bhed absolutely can.

@Raimundo91 As was explained in a dubiously canon novel that was never translated which was followed up by a dubiously canon audio drama, which of course being an audio drama, was also never translated...

@@shadenox8164 Rikku isn't even a engineer/machinist class too. She's Thief/Chemist. Why is she even a chemist?

​@@CommanderCoyler Now that’s tricky. Tidus is a Dream Fayth or some sort of spiritual being or manifestation but his ‘ancestors’ (the people of the Original Zanarkand 1000 years ago) were Human which I’m pretty sure. Auron, he is or was Human but he is dead; he is an “Unsent”; willfully stuck between life and death. You know how souls whom refused to move on to the afterlife and become ghosts? Same goes for the Unsents but given physical forms in FFX; either in Human forms or monsters. It’s hard to explain and if I understand completely. The World of Final Fantasy X is more ‘spiritual’, almost everything: Fayths, Aeons (Summonings), Dream Zanarkand, Sin, monsters, Unsents, they are all manifestations of spirits who those died or at least their memories and given physical forms thanks to the Pyreflies that live throughout the FFX World. To those those played FFX, did you ever have your Aeons killed in battle, seeing their bodies fade away but you can still summon them again later? I think that’s also part of the FFX lore. Though Aeons can ‘die’ but put back together whenever they are summoned as long their spirits, or Fayths, in the physical world. That is until Yuna send them all away to the Farplane (the spirit world) after defeating Sin.

Save some for kimahri. Lol

Lamao i thought this

Hrothgar look stupid though, definitely not worth comparing to the noble Ronso

They're literally called Ronso in The First. Just like how Lalafells are Dwarves in The First even though they're gnomes. (the beards are part of the helmet)

@@mattwo7 alright idk what The First is but I feel like that’s spoilers so imma drop this. But really, the Hrothgar have stubbier snouts, bad posture, this weird physique. The Hrothgar have a very weak design compared to the Ronso imo, just less interesting and unique decisions. In other words, Hrothgar look like a deviantart artists’ take on a gay bear Ronso

cant forget the best item for Umaro. the berserk ring... (as Umaro picks mog up and throws him)

If only this were a line ♡

They didn't have Umaro until World of Ruin. The Gestahlian army would have been an afterthought by that point right?

Yuna would always be my overpowered one. I thought it was hilarious to use her for melee attacks 😂.

@ToKiferous Only 99,999 sneeze? WEAK! You need to equip that Overkill ability.

Why? Just, why?

Personally my favorite is using Yuna as a dark mage. She wrecks shit.

@@mattsully2238 I mean; you can break the game all the way into the bonus content with Kimahri by breaking him into the end of Yuna's grid with your first Lvl3 break sphere. He will destroy the game with high magic Holy and Curaga enough to solo everything in the game until the dark aeons and monster arena (and even still a few of those if you know how)

Especially for poaching!

Isn't he just a clone of a human? Thats still human

@@raikkel9516 eh, kinda yes, kinda no. Especially when he had to deal with his cohort all being angry green zombie soldiers.

Nah, they're roes in cat masks. They're a. insult to Ronso

Actually if you play FF7 Cait Sith tells you that the doll under him is a moogle.

moogle with diabetes

Makrs you wonder where the moogles antenna thing is?

Prompto was created from a human embryo though. He's genetically entirely human. Sure he was meant to be a soul battery and turned into magiteck trooper but he himself was entirely human.

Rydia is a true badass, too. Even more so in TAY

Rikku's brother who traumatized her towards lightning because he hit her with a thunder spell while trying to save her from a fiend has also entered the chat since we know for a fact he can use magic and, has no known connection to the sphere grid or dresspheres. Or Yuna being a half who can use white and summon magic canonically within the game regardless of the sphere grid or dresspheres since, well the summon magic needs no explanation, but at the djose temple she stayed up all night healing the wounded and overslept because of it. Then of course there's POTENTIALLY Rikku because of the mechanics of both games, but the canon of this is somewhat questionable given that in universe she's never described as using magic and, aside from breaking into leblancs hideout dressed as a femgoon, is always dressed as a thief. But she at least serves as a third potential candidate because the games mechanics allow it.

@@BillyBob-yy6bd Yuna is only half Al Bhed, she's not blonde and only has one Al Bhed eye like Kakashi or something. It'd still be strange that her summoning magic is so strong though.

@ No

@ wtf? No.

FFV : the story of Bartz and his harem of princesses. XD

@@anthonydelfino6171 Don't forget Ashe and Noctis!

@@Johnny_Shields Garnet in IX and Edward in IV.

@@wschippr1 also can’t forget Edgar in VI (Sabin too, since I guess he’d be a prince wouldn’t he).

Edgar and Sabin Lunarian Brothers

Happy Birthday! 😁

FF Legend: hold my beer

@@MarcoLongoMusic Final Fantasy Adventure: Hey, how about me?

@@Metaldersmore like Saga

@@makhyusnimakhyusni401 Actually Adventure is a Mana series game, Legend are SaGa games.

No you're not a Joke but I'm over 6 years old so I classify you has a babies toy not a game ,sorry not sorry

It depends on which FF. In FF4, Summoners are a considered a different race. They may look humanoid & resemble humans, but they have innate magical connection with the Espers in their blood (just like the Cetras in FF7, physically human looking, yet have innate magical connection with the planet). In FF9, the Summoners also look human & have magical connection with the Eidolons, but prominently they have a horn on their head.

@@bondyaliano this still does t answer how they're not human.having a magic connection doesnt change ones biology or race

@ I'd say Guados are more like "Elfs" since from what I recall they are a complete different thing Al Bhed are humans through and through though, they're just a different ethnicity

@ That's a fair question on the breeding. Can Yuna and Seymour have children? If not (and given they are both willing to sacrifice themselves that is possible), then their parentage is of 2 differing species. If they can, then the guado and al bhed are variants of the same species. However they would still need to be closely related. BTW this is why Spock never made sense in star trek to me, Humans and Vulcans might be an example of 'Convergent evolution' but if you think about it, it would be easier to crossbreed a human with a falcon than a vulcan (they come up with some bs reason I think, my star trek knowledge isn't great). However none of this applies to final fantasy, it's a magical world where you can create fire in your hands and change time, and really none of the characters are humans because they don't come from earth. Except FF7 which might be earth given a certain spell.

@@TheBT That's how the real world works, not fantasy stories. The Guado aren't humans because they're literally tree people. The Al Bhed while in their original introduction were basically just ostracized group of humans got retconned by a story that is apparently canon even though it says Al Bhed can't use magic even though they do in X.

@@gregoryford2532 You are correct. Seymour was described as having a Human mother and Guado father. Thus by the games own admission, Guado are not Human and you are also correct that this distinction is never made for Al-bhed. Which is to be expected since literally the only difference between Al-bhed and the rest of the humans of spira is having green spiral eyes. They are definitely Human and the Guado definitely are not.

No. Apart from Hume, the race names on the First are not the same as 11.

Technically final fastasy legend was a SaGa game reskined as final fantasy in the west.

Especially weird considering the other "people who were born human but aren't currently 100% human because of death or experiments". And considering their weirdly counting ethnicities on here as well like al-bhed.

Yes, but non playable.

@@AkaiAzul yeah, but he cites golbez and cecil and non-humans, since galuf comes in a meteor i believe he is also counts

Since he never joined the party, I don't think he counts, this video only seems to mention named party members that are playable. (Otherwise you'd have to include every monster type from Tactics, and all of the non named non human units from Tactics A2)

He's Cecil's older brother, so yeah.

​@@TsuikeNovaus True, but I wasn´t referring to him being a protagonist (although he is playable in after years), but rather due to how they said Cecil is the only product of a human and a lunarian breeding by the end of ff4's section of the video

@@TsuikeNovaus Golbez is playeble.

Yes he was, that's an error on our part. Sorry about that!

Blondie is human though. Sure he's a test tube baby that was slated to be converted into a magitek trooper but that obviously never happened. His DNA is 100% human because you need a human soul to create a magitek trooper. The Empire just mass produced test tube babies because it was the most efficient way to go about it.

No, it’s heavily implied that cait with isn’t being controlled by reeves in a 1-1 input style. But is actually a form of AI given commands by reeves. The biggest moment of this is when he’s sacrificing himself and asks the party to remember him even though a different cait sith would show up. He seems to have a bit of his own sentience. Meaning his sacrifice was an actual sacrifice.

Almost! Mikoto and Zidane were both meant to be replacements for Kuja, with Mikoto only being created because Zidane was stolen

tide-us

Tidus makes so much more sense tho

I was going to point that out, isn't cloud a jenova based clone?

@@isaacrodewald8807 No, he's a natural born human who was LATER infused with Jenova cells. Their use of the word "clone" in that game is very...dubious. He's more Captain America than he is Superboy

literaly basically

He started out human though. By the time you meet him in FF7 it's true he's no longer fully human. But straight out calling him entirely non human is a bit much.

@@clothar23 if half humans like Terra and Aerith are considered in this video, then Vincent would also be eligible, unless the rule is that have to be born not fully human.

I never heard this before. What's the sequel novel called and do you know where I can find it?

non-human, not non-humanoid. Most characters on this list are humanoid.

All the other graphics were nice enough, but the playable fighters were just embarrassing.

Other racists have it easy. They just see a skin tone or hair color that isn't right and they go "I HATE YOU!". Wakka gotta be all "yo, lemme see your eyes for a sec". Dude has it rough. Lynchin aint easy.

Final Fantasy Adventure was even before that, in 1991.