Ranking the Final Fantasy Protagonists

In the build-up to the release of Final Fantasy 7: Remake, Daniel Rom takes a retrospective look at some of the highlights of this iconic gaming franchise.

[FinalAeonX]

Great list. Agree with the top 3. Cloud, Zidane and Tidus are my favourite too.

[FinalAeonX]

Zidane has to be the most likeable protagonist though imo

[babadivad]

Titus???

[Poopmist]

Cloud has no business in the top 5

[FinalAeonX]

Actually he's my favourite protagonist and surely many others' too.

[mairons57]

Why though? He is incredibly bland.

[Kyizen]

It explains why cloud is so high. Because he started as just an afraid soldier who was afraid to fight but stepped up when needed to save Tifa and got crushed and punished for that. His friend who was a real bad ass hero died and he tried to copy him, even taking his actions as his memories. But by the end especially you watch advent children Cloud is a bad ass that surpasses Zack by far and is his own person. That growth is in FF7 but since it is spaced over 60+ hours it gets lost. I hope the remake makes it more clear, even playing the demo i'm loving how they are treating his character.

[Elda]

I enjoyed mostly all the sp FF games but my top 3 protagonist are Tidus,Lightning & Squall.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Ramza, Zidane, Squall, Cloud, Lightning, Tidus

Ramza has such an astoundingly good back story and character progression...he is the Hero with the Untold Story.

[Name Last Name]

Ramza is so underrated!

[343_Guilty_Spark]

He's such a good character...it's really not close.

[-Foxtrot]

Noctis above Squall

Come off it, Squall had some of the best development in Final Fantasy, the story showed so much growth with his character it's unreal.

[Terry_B]

Squall, Zidane and whoever the main protagonist in Final Fantasy XII was.

[Imalwaysright]

Ashe and Balthier.

[rlow1]

Looks like an 80s hairband group.

[Trueflames]

Squall and ramza boulve 😎

[-Gespenst-]

Tidus is my favourite. Noctis was pretty good too. Also Wol from Mobius Final Fantasy (R.I.P.)

[nommers]

List looks varied at least. You can tell the Top FF whatever lists are almost always made by the 6, 9, 12 crowd.

[Auron]

1. Zidane

[Nerdmaster]

Squall is the only character in the series that I hoped would die in the middle of the game (so the much better character Quistis could take his place).
Vaan was useless to the plot, but he wasn't as bad enough for me to wish him dead.

[FlavorLav01]

They all look like white washed K-pop stars. I know it’s my loss, many of these are considered masterpieces, I just never could get into any of the games of this series 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷 🏼‍♂️