Final Fantasy Characters Who Were Surprisingly Unimportant

I’ve always loved how some Final Fantasy characters are introduced – they start off as total mysteries, but their stories unfold so beautifully as you play. Take Auron from Final Fantasy 10, for example. He just shows up with Tidus in Zanarkand, then vanishes, and when he comes back, he’s pretty quiet. But honestly, by the end of the game, everything clicks and you realize he was essential to the whole story! It’s just brilliant character development.

Many characters from the Final Fantasy series, including Final Fantasy 10, aren’t used to their full potential. While they might start strong with interesting designs or introductions, they often don’t develop into truly exciting or memorable figures. Fan theories are often the only thing keeping these characters relevant outside of their original games.

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Edward Chris Von Muir

This Prince Is A Popper

Edward is a character who joins your party for a while in Final Fantasy 4, a game known for its constant action right up to the final challenges. He’s a prince from Damcyan who left home with Anna, the daughter of the skilled mage Tellah.

When Anna and Edward ran away together, Anna tragically died, and Edward didn’t have the courage to intervene. This caused a major argument with Tellah. Edward is a bard, but he’s quite weak, making him a poor addition to the party and he doesn’t develop into a strong character later in the game. The game fails to give Edward a satisfying arc, and ultimately, he’s forgotten about.

Gogo

Who Is It?

Final Fantasy 6 boasts a large number of playable characters, but some get less attention than others. Gogo is a prime example – he’s an optional character who doesn’t appear until late in the game. He lives inside a monster and remains mostly silent, both when you first meet him and throughout the rest of the game.

Gogo is a unique character who doesn’t have any special skills of his own, but he can learn and use the abilities of other characters, making him surprisingly powerful in battle. Because he’s so mysterious and heavily cloaked, fans have come up with interesting theories about who he might be – some suggest he’s connected to important figures like Emperor Gestahl, Daryl (who knows Setzer), or even Baram, a friend of Shadow. While these theories are intriguing, the game doesn’t really focus on Gogo’s story or make him a crucial part of the plot.

Rashard Zangan

Tifa’s Fighting Coach

Zangan is a small but memorable character in Final Fantasy 7 who taught Tifa how to fight. Players first encounter him during Cloud’s flashback about his time as a SOLDIER, while the group is in Kalm. He appears in Nibelheim’s Inn during the flashback and is later seen helping people escape the fire after Sephiroth’s attack. After that scene, he doesn’t appear again in the game.

The character of Zangan appears more prominently in both Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children and the recent Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, giving him more screen time than in the original game. Despite his significant connection to Tifa, the remake still doesn’t fully capture how powerful and important Zangan is. Every hero deserves a chance to shine, and Zangan is no exception.

The Black Waltzes

Abracadabra And Gone In A Flash

In Final Fantasy 9, the Black Waltzes are three powerful villains who form the core of the game’s initial storyline. Unlike the standard Black Mages created in the factory, each Black Waltz possesses unique abilities and greater strength. You’ll find Black Waltz 1 in the Ice Cavern, encounter Black Waltz 2 while attempting to depart from the Dali airship field, and Black Waltz 3 will chase you as you travel by airship.

The game features three memorable boss battles that also reveal more about the character Vivi. However, once these bosses are defeated, the game never references them again. Since they’re so important at the beginning, players often anticipate they’ll reappear later in the story.

Tidus’s Mother

A Broken Home

Tidus is the main character in Final Fantasy 10. The game heavily focuses on his complicated relationship with his father, Jecht, who is a well-developed character with a crucial role in the story and their shared history. In contrast, Tidus’s mother is portrayed as a generic background character and isn’t even given a name by the game’s creators.

Officially, she’s known as “Tidus’s Mother,” and she appears briefly in memories throughout the game. Tidus believes she died of either illness or heartbreak after Jecht abandoned the family, which is a key reason for Tidus’s strong dislike of his father. The game heavily focuses on this resentment and the complex relationship between Tidus and Jecht, leading many players to expect the mother to play a significant role later on. However, despite being Tidus’s primary motivation, we never learn much about her as a character.

Reks

Oh, No Bro

At the beginning of Final Fantasy XII, players control Reks, who initially appears to be the main character. The game starts with a castle siege where Reks is ultimately betrayed and killed. He’s the brother of Vaan, who then becomes the true protagonist and looks very similar to him. Typically, a character’s death motivates a relative to seek revenge or find answers, but Reks’ death doesn’t have a significant impact on Vaan’s story.

Reks and Vaan barely seem like relatives, and Reks doesn’t play a significant role in the story beyond a few scenes. The game initially suggests his background might become important later – perhaps he’d reappear in disguise – but like the connection between Basch and Noah, it ultimately goes nowhere. He’s essentially irrelevant to the main plot.

Lunafreya Nox Fleuret

Your Princess Is In Another Game

Lunafreya is meant to marry Noctis, the main character in Final Fantasy 15. Though they don’t share much time together on screen, the game follows Noctis as he rushes to reach her before the Empire captures her. Sadly, she ultimately sacrifices herself to protect her city, preventing their wedding from ever happening.

The game developers originally intended to expand Lunafreya’s story with a dedicated downloadable adventure, but this, along with other character-focused expansions, was ultimately canceled. While Lunafreya plays a key role in the narrative and advances the plot, her untimely death prevents a full exploration of her character. It’s a shame we never got to see the team’s ideas for her DLC.

Argath Thadalfus

Of Broth And Bean

Argath is an important character in the early parts of Final Fantasy Tactics, though you don’t directly control him. He’s a nobleman who teams up with Ramza and Delita, hoping to regain his family’s reputation. However, Argath becomes a villain, ultimately killing Delita’s sister, Tietra, because he views them as people of low social standing.

Argath’s actions create tension between Delita and Ramza, effectively kicking off a key plot point. Sadly, he dies in this encounter and doesn’t reappear. Tactics suffers from having too many villains, lacking a single, compelling antagonist to rally against. Argath had the potential to be that iconic villain – someone on par with Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7 – but ultimately, he’s just another face in the crowd.

2026-02-24 16:35