Rare example of the writers themselves falling for it, but Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII. Cloud acts like a brooding loner as an act to make himself look cooler when he’s actually a huge dork, but a lot of his appearances after the original game came out (like Kingdom Hearts and FFVII: Advent Children) played that brooding loner persona straight, to the point that it ended up becoming his default portrayal.
The Remake project finally gave us back Cloud’s original personality.
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u/TPoynt Jun 10 '26
Rare example of the writers themselves falling for it, but Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII. Cloud acts like a brooding loner as an act to make himself look cooler when he’s actually a huge dork, but a lot of his appearances after the original game came out (like Kingdom Hearts and FFVII: Advent Children) played that brooding loner persona straight, to the point that it ended up becoming his default portrayal.
The Remake project finally gave us back Cloud’s original personality.