Tifa Lockhart
Portrait
Also known as	Tifa Lockheart[1][2][3]
Japanese name	ティファ・ロックハート
Romaji	Tifa Rokkuhāto
Weapon	Knuckles
Ultimate Weapon	Premium Heart
Occupation	Bartender, AVALANCHE member
Birthplace	Nibelheim
Date of Birth	May 3 1987
Age	15 (Crisis Core) 20 (Final Fantasy VII) 22 (Advent Children) 23 (Dirge of Cerberus)
Height	5' 4" [4] (167 cm[1][5])
Blood type	B
Japanese voice actor	Yōko Asada (Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring) (Arcade) Yūko Minaguchi (Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring) (PS) Ayumi Ito
English voice actor	Rachael Leigh Cook
Final Fantasy VII Character

"Bright and optimistic, Tifa always cheers up the others when they're down. But don't let her looks fool you, she can decimate almost any enemy with her fists..."

—Description

Tifa Lockhart is one of the main protagonists in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. She appears as a playable character in Final Fantasy VII, and is the deuteragonist of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. In Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- and Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- she plays a supportive role. Tifa is the only one of the cast who knew Cloud Strife when they were children and is his childhood friend. She is strongly opposed to the Shinra Electric Power Company, joining the resistance group AVALANCHE to fight them.

Though she has a strong will and possesses great physical strength, Tifa also has a motherly streak and is caring, though she is shy to express herself. She supports Cloud as his comrades and helps him fight his nemesis Sephiroth, bearing the same deep hatred for him as Cloud does due to the destruction of their hometown.

Contents 1 Appearance and personality 2 Story 2.1 Crisis Core / Before Crisis 2.2 Final Fantasy VII 2.3 Novellas 2.4 Advent Children / Advent Children Complete 2.5 Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- 3 In Battle 3.1 Limit Breaks 4 Development 5 Musical Themes 6 Other Appearances 6.1 Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy 6.2 Final Fantasy Trading Card Game 7 Non-Final Fantasy Appearances 7.1 Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring 7.2 Kingdom Hearts II 7.3 Itadaki Street series 8 In Popular Culture 8.1 Dead Fantasy 9 Gallery 10 Etymology 11 Trivia 12 References 13 External Links

Appearance and personalityEdit

Tifa has dark brown hair, occasionally appearing black, which falls below her waist and is tied at the tips to form a distinctive dolphin-tail split. In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and some other appearances, her hair is shorter and reaches to her lower back - in Advent Children this was done due to longer hair being more difficult to animate. Tifa's eye color has been officially addressed as red, but they have also been depicted as a rich brown in some appearances. Tifa's most famous traits are arguably her large breasts and long legs, though her exact measurements have varied. According to the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Ω, Tifa's Bust-Waist-Hip measures are 36-24-35 (92-60-88 cm).

In all her outfits across her many appearances Tifa has always worn some variation of a sleeveless shirt that exposes some part of her midriff with a miniskirt and white teardrop earrings. In Final Fantasy VII Tifa wears a white tank top and black mini-skirt with a belt and suspenders. She dons red and black gloves that extend to her elbows with red boots, and a metal elbow guard on her left elbow. She wears the same outfit in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, as well as in Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring and the Itadaki series. In Crisis Core, and in flashbacks in Final Fantasy VII when she is a guide at Nibelheim, Tifa wears a cowgirl outfit with a short leather skirt and vest, a white shirt, cowboy boots and hat. In Crisis Core this outfit is given more detail, changing the top into a patterned, button-up corset, giving pockets and tassels to the skirt and vest and adding a belt around her hips. In her artwork by Yoshitaka Amano, Tifa has white hair and wears a red miniskirt with a white top and red gloves. This outfit appears as an alternate outfit for her in Ehrgeiz and Dissidia 012.

In Advent Children Tifa wears a white shirt under a black zip-up vest with black shorts that fold at the waist, forming an additional utility pocket at the front and a short duster at the back extending to her heels. She also wears a pink ribbon around her left arm in remembrance of Aerith Gainsborough, and a Fenrir ring on her right hand. Her gloves are black and shorter than in Final Fantasy VII, covering only her hands. Tifa wears this attire in the Kingdom Hearts series and in Dirge of Cerberus, and it is available as an alternate outfit for her in Dissidia 012.

While deceptively strong, Tifa is an empathic and emotionally shy character. While identifying and responding to the feelings of others, Tifa does not express her internal feelings often, and when she does she often has trouble doing so.

When writing Advent Children Nomura and Nojima had a hard time creating the new Tifa and focused on developing the emotional backbone that her character is to the cast. They made sure to portray her as a modern woman who can function without a man, rather than a clingy one. When Tifa finally tells Cloud what's inside her heart, the original scene had Tifa feeling a little guilty about being blunt, but Nojima decided to cut it for time.

In Final Fantasy VII Tifa is a hard worker and spends her time caring for everyone but herself. On the inside, she keeps the feelings of uneasiness towards Cloud locked up. She has a strong motherly streak and tends to offer sanctuary and physically protects those in need. Seeking to do all that she can for those in need she spends her time caring for others at the consequence of herself, often comforting the other AVALANCHE members; finding in them similar spirits seeking to find an end to the tyranny and corruption the Shinra Electric Power Company has brought unto the Planet, although initially her motivation for joining the rebel group was to seek revenge for the destruction of her hometown and the deaths of her family and friends therein.

StoryEdit

Tifa's childhood is revealed through various flashbacks in Final Fantasy VII. Tifa was born in Nibelheim and was Cloud's next-door neighbor. She was out-going, lively and had a lot of friends. Although she and Cloud lived right next to each other, and were only a year apart in age, they were never close. Tifa and the others did not really know Cloud through most of, or all of their childhood. Tifa's mother died when Tifa was eight years old in 1994, leaving her upset and confused. Tifa believed her mother had gone to Mt. Nibel, and that she could meet her again if she crossed the mountain.

Tifa headed off to Mt. Nibel, and Cloud followed to keep her safe, but both fell from a rickety bridge. Tifa's father found her severely injured, and blamed Cloud for leading her to Mt. Nibel. Five years later, in 1999, Cloud decided to become a SOLDIER, like his idol Sephiroth, in part to impress Tifa. He called Tifa out to the water tower, a local date spot, to tell her of his plans, and Tifa made Cloud promise to protect her if she was ever in trouble. He agreed, and left to join SOLDIER the following spring. Afterward, Tifa constantly worried about him, reading the newspaper every day looking for some mention of Cloud, and asking Shinra personnel if they knew him when they came to Nibelheim. She would find nothing, for Cloud never made into SOLDIER, becoming only a lowly infantryman.

Crisis Core / Before CrisisEdit

"I hate you! I hate Shinra! I hate SOLDIER! I hate you all!"

—Tifa to Zack after the Nibelheim Incident

Two years later, on September 21, 0001, at the age of 15, Tifa is working as a tour guide in the Nibelheim mountains and is taking martial arts lessons from Zangan. In Before Crisis she is hired by the player's Turk to lead a Shinra expedition from up Mt. Nibel to investigate a faulty Mako Reactor. The expedition includes Sephiroth and a SOLDIER named Zack. During their stay, she drops hints to Zack that she dreams of specifically having a blond-haired SOLDIER protecting her, obviously referring to Cloud.

Unbeknownst to her, Cloud happens to be one of the two Shinra guards with Zack and Sephiroth, but is hiding his identity due to his shame of failing to enter SOLDIER. Without her knowing it the entire time, he happens to be the guard who prevents her entry to the reactor, attempts to protect her from a monster attack that occurs shortly after (trying to anonymously keep his promise in the process) with little success, and whom she helps down the mountain. Afterward, Tifa leaves messages for Zack expressing her worry for the soldier who helped her. She thanks Zack for his help and asks him if they could talk about SOLDIER.

At the reactor, Sephiroth goes berserk when he learns who "his mother" is, and upon his return to town and spending several days studying, is driven fully insane. On October 1st, he sets Nibelheim ablaze and razes the town, then sets off to the reactor. Tifa's father and others follow, but Sephiroth slays them. At the reactor, Tifa finds her father's corpse with Sephiroth's Masamune. Declaring her hatred of Sephiroth and Shinra, she rushes into the reactor and attacks Sephiroth, but he disarms her and cuts her down. Tifa falls down the steps and slumps to the ground, unconscious.

After learning of Sephiroth's madness, Zack goes to the reactor and finds Tifa severely injured. He engages Sephiroth in combat, but is defeated. Not long after, Cloud arrives and carries Tifa aside to make sure she will be safe while he confronts Sephiroth; Cloud later admits he thought Tifa's wounds were fatal. Tifa, heavily wounded, would later be taken to Midgar by Zangan for medical treatment. He continuously cast Cure on her to try and heal her, but succeeded only in keeping Tifa alive, and it is implied she has no recollection of the journey to Midgar.

The exact time frame is not given, but at some point after this, Zangan leaves Midgar, and Tifa recovers from her wounds and joins AVALANCHE, an anti-Shinra resistance group led by Barret Wallace. She also becomes the owner and proprietor of the bar and restaurant 7th Heaven, which houses AVALANCHE's base in a secret basement.

When Cloud returns to Midgar as a mercenary in late 0006, he meets Tifa. Unaware that Cloud was in Nibelheim during its destruction, but suspecting something is off about his behavior, Tifa recruits him to work for Barret in order to keep him close to examine him further. Later realizing Cloud knows several things he should not and has forgotten things he should know, and also initially doubting her own recollections when faced with Cloud's, Tifa decides to keep this information to herself while she tries to figure out the reason behind Cloud's strangely different character and inconsistent memories.

Final Fantasy VIIEdit

On December 9th, Cloud's first mission with AVALANCHE is a success, and he returns to Tifa's bar. The next day Tifa accompanies him and Barret on their next mission. The bombing of Sector 5 Reactor is successful, but Cloud is separated. When the rest of AVALANCHE returns to the hideout, they find someone spying on them, who points to the crime boss Don Corneo as a Shinra informant. Tifa comes up with a plan in order to get close to him; Don Corneo is known for calling up girls in his mansion and then choosing the one he likes best to be his "bride" for the day. Cloud catches Tifa being taken to Don's, and infiltrates Corneo's mansion with Aeris.

In the ensuing confrontation, Corneo reveals Shinra is planning to drop the Sector 7 plate to crush the slums. Tifa and Cloud race to help Barret defend the pillar supporting the plate while Aeris takes Barret's daughter, Marlene, to safety. Most of the other AVALANCHE members are killed, and the pillar is destroyed. Tifa, Cloud and Barret escape while Shinra captures Aeris.

The remains of AVALANCHE fight their way into Shinra Headquarters to save Aeris, but are captured. That night, Sephiroth appears to attack the building, and in the chaos the group is mysteriously released from their cells. After battling various Shinra war machines and the new president of the company, Rufus Shinra, the group flees from Midgar to Kalm. At Kalm, Cloud tells the group about how Sephiroth destroyed Nibelheim. His version of events is faulty, but Tifa, confused by his story, does not confront him on these issues both to protect him and because she now doubts her own recollection.

The group travels around the world tracking Sephiroth, with Tifa supporting the party when she can. When they arrive at Nibelheim, they discover the town has been rebuilt, and the villagers (who are really Shinra employees hired to cover up the Sephiroth incident) do not remember Cloud or Tifa ever living there.

When the group reaches the Northern Cave, Sephiroth appears and begins to show Cloud the true events of Nibelheim's razing. Tifa, worried what this could do to Cloud, pleads for him to stop, but Sephiroth's manipulations take their toll. Cloud submits to Sephiroth's will and hands over the Black Materia, a powerful Materia that can summon Meteor, then apologizes to Tifa as the crater begins to shake. Tifa and Barret flee on the Shinra airship, Highwind, as the crater collapses and are captured, with the rest of AVALANCHE escaping another way. Tifa and Barret are brought to Junon, where they are to be executed as scapegoats to show Shinra is still in control as Meteor looms in the sky.

Tifa is thrown into a gas chamber, while the other party members hidden in the crowd save Barret. While gas seeps into the chamber, Tifa breaks out of her restraints. Sapphire Weapon attacks Junon, blasting a hole in the gas chamber, which saves her. Running to escape the Shinra forces, Tifa climbs up onto the Mako Cannon. The Shinra executive Scarlet confronts Tifa, and the two women descend into a catfight. The Highwind appears below the cannon and Tifa jumps down to the airship and safety from Shinra. She is elected the party's temporary leader while Cloud is gone.

Cloud is later found in Mideel, suffering from a Mako overdose. Tifa stays behind to watch over him, and Cid is elected leader. Later, the friends decide to check up on Cloud, who is not showing signs of improvement. The Ultimate Weapon appears and Lifestream swallows Mideel, Tifa and Cloud falling into it as Tifa tries to push the unresponsive Cloud to safety.

Inside Cloud's Subconscious Tifa uncovers the truth about the Nibelheim incident, and restores Cloud's memories and motivations. Later, in the aftermath of Midgar's siege by Diamond Weapon and the impending chaos of Shinra's destruction, Cloud dismisses the party members, instructing them to find a reason to fight. Tifa stays behind with Cloud, as she has nowhere else to go. Depending on the player's interactions with her during the game, the following scene has two possible dialogue courses, one implying a romantic connection, and the other not. It is ambiguous which version is canonical.

In the game's ending in late January 0007, Tifa stays behind to help Cloud to safety as he descends into the Lifestream for a final battle with Sephiroth, and is caught by him as he returns to his own body. Tifa is last seen on the Highwind with the others as the Lifestream surges from the Planet to help Holy destroy the Meteor.

NovellasEdit

Tifa is the focus of Case of Tifa in On the Way to a Smile, examining her life and relationship with Cloud after the game events. Tifa, Cloud and Marlene become a family in the newly built city of Edge, and Tifa runs a bar called 7th Heaven, while Cloud runs a delivery service. Her life with Cloud is initially happy, but Tifa becomes increasingly concerned with Cloud's secrecy and growing depression, which begins to strain the family's unity. Cloud later brings Denzel to the bar and he joins the family, but Cloud continues to grow distant from her as time goes on. As the novella ends, Cloud has left 7th Heaven with no explanation, despite briefly showing signs of happiness again. Tifa calls his cellphone several times but eventually the answering service takes over. Shortly thereafter, the events of Advent Children begin.

Tifa also has a brief mention in Hoshi wo Meguru Otome. After learning from Zack that Cloud truly is not himself, Aeris protects Tifa's mind from the Mako poisoning while she is in Cloud's subconscious, believing she can restore Cloud's true persona.

Advent Children / Advent Children CompleteEdit

"Which is it, a memory or us?"

—Tifa to Cloud

Tifa plays a large role in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, taking place two years after Final Fantasy VII in 0008. Tifa serves as Cloud's emotional support, runs a bar called 7th Heaven, rebuilt in Edge, and cares for Marlene and Denzel; apparently, she also handles the business side of Cloud's delivery service.

While taking Marlene to Aerith's church to find Cloud, she discovers Cloud has Geostigma. Loz shows up, hoping to find Jenova's head under Cloud's care. Instead, he finds Tifa, whom he begins to duel. Though she puts up a good fight, Tifa is eventually defeated after Loz begins to use his superhuman speed and pile bunker. Cloud finds her unconscious in the church and prepares to hunt down Marlene, but a bout of pain from his Geostigma stops him. Cloud first turns down Tifa's request to go to the Forgotten Capital to get Marlene and Denzel, fearing he will be unable to help them, but Tifa gives him a speech about his apathy and self-loathing, talking him into going.

The next day, when Loz and Yazoo have mind-controlled the children with Geostigma into going to the memorial in the center of Edge, Tifa attempts to save Denzel from them. Bahamut SIN knocks her out while she is protecting him. Quickly waking up, she joins the battle with the remaining AVALANCHE members against Bahamut SIN, and is the last person to physically help Cloud — with Aerith providing support from the Lifestream — into the air to deliver the final blow to the dragon.

Tifa appears on the Shera with the AVALANCHE members while Cloud fights Kadaj and Sephiroth, and arrives in the church with Denzel to heal his Geostigma, and share a shy smile with Cloud as he relaxes with the children in the pool of Lifestream purified water.

Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-Edit

Tifa only appears briefly during the game, which takes place one year later in 0009. The first is during the ground assault on Midgar, leading the tanks with Barret and Cloud. The second is when the gang is cheering on Vincent towards the end when he is "saving the world", and the third is at the end, when Yuffie enters 7th Heaven to inquire about Vincent. She is still running the bar, and lets Shelke live with them. Tifa can also be heard during a phone call to Vincent during his descent into Midgar's underground, but in audio only.

In BattleEdit

List of Tifa's Knuckles

Tifa's stats in Final Fantasy VII are designed around the Monk character class from previous Final Fantasy games, thus she has high physical stats and equips claw and glove type weapons. She has low HP growth. Tifa's starting level is determined by the following formula: [average party level - 2]

Only a handful of Tifa's gloves have higher-than-average strength, but the two that do are exceptional. One, the God's Hand, has 255% Accuracy, meaning Tifa will never miss, and the other is her strongest weapon, the Premium Heart, which grows stronger as Tifa's Limit Break gauge fills. Both weapons also boost her magic power. Also notable are the Master Fist, which does not have a particularly powerful strength rating, but whose damage output doubles for each status effect Tifa is under while it is equipped, and even outclasses several final weapons if Tifa has numerous ailments afflicting her, and the Powersoul, which doubles in power if Tifa is near death, and quadruples in power when she is under Death Sentence.

Limit BreaksEdit

Main article: Limit (Final Fantasy VII)#Tifa

Tifa's Limit Breaks are unlike most Final Fantasy VII characters'. Instead of selecting a move from a list, Tifa's Limit Breaks consist of consecutively hitting the opponent with each move adding on to the previous. Each move deals physical damage to a random opponent. The Limits are selected through a selection process similar to the Slot skill from Final Fantasy VI. Each time the reel hits "Hit" the attack connects and does normal damage. When the reels hit "Yeah!" damage is doubled, but each time it hits "Miss", the attack does not connect and is not performed at all. The player stops the reel, and later skills have "Yeah!" harder to hit and surrounded by "Miss".

Tifa uses many of her Limits in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, in the battle against Loz.

DevelopmentEdit

Designed by Tetsuya Nomura, the concept of Tifa was first created when the idea was suggested that, at some point within the game, a character would be permanently killed off. When it was decided to have Aeris die, attention went into developing her character and her relationships with the other characters, this resulted in the idea to introduce Tifa as a sort of rival for Cloud's affections. The notion of having two concurrent heroines and the protagonist torn between them was something Yoshinori Kitase liked, describing it as something new, not present in past Final Fantasy games.

The Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Ultimania interviews with the creators of Final Fantasy VII reveal that the original depiction of Cloud and Tifa's "moment" under the Highwind before their final battle against Sephiroth was more suggestive: following a fade-out scene, Cloud was to walk out of the airship's chocobo stable followed shortly by Tifa who would check around as she left, implying that the two had spent the night together. This idea was rejected for being too "extreme" and was replaced by the less risqué conversation scene.^[6]

Initially Nomura had difficulty deciding whether to give Tifa's design a mini-skirt or long pants. Seeking input, he passed his sketches around Square's offices, and the majority of the staff members approved of the mini-skirt design. The attire was explained in respect to the game as giving her freedom of movement due to her affinity to weaponless fighting, and the skirt, noted as "quite short [...] giving a considerable degree of exposure", was kept as a staple for her alternate costumes. The developers additionally noted that due to her figure, her otherwise plain garments took on a pleasant appearance. Initially Tifa was planned to be a supportive member of AVALANCHE rather than a field operative, and would have played a role in the organization's formation.

In a plot point cut from the final product, Tifa was also intended to have been attacked by Cloud in the past and receive a scar on her back from the assault. This plot point was later changed to her childhood accident, for which Cloud was blamed but not responsible for. At another point Tifa's childhood diary was to be found, where she wrote about other children who were her friends and Cloud's tendency to get into fights. Tifa was also going to meet her master Zangan, who would directly teach her the Final Heaven Limit Break - this was replaced with her finding a hidden letter from Zangan containing the manual for the attack. Tifa was also planned to tell Aeris the true events behind the Nibelheim Incident, revealing to her Cloud's faulty memories and Zack's role in the town's destruction.

When developing Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Takeshi Nozue had difficulty developing a framework for Tifa's body that was "balanced, yet showed off her 'feminine qualities'." Her outfit was redesigned with emphasis on expressing her physical qualities while being pleasing to the eye. Her hairstyle was changed to end at the middle of her back, instead of extending down to her thighs like in her video game appearance, due to the difficulty of animating her original length of hair, as well as problems that arose due to its black color and lighting.

With Aerith's Advent Children voice actress already decided, Nomura requested that Ayumi Ito take on the role of Tifa for the film; feeling her "husky voice" would offer a good contrast to Maaya Sakamoto (who played Aerith). Nomura additionally noted that after completing Tifa's updated design they debated on her finalized details, but once Ito had been cast for the role they chose to blend many traits from the voice actress into the character's completed appearance.

Script writer Kazushige Nojima described Tifa's role in Advent Children as "very much like any woman who's been left behind by a man," stating that while they didn't want her to appear clingy, they also wanted to portray her as having been hurt emotionally. In the film's initial draft, she was intended to have a more central role in the then-short film, which only featured herself, Cloud, and several children, with the story revolving around a note being delivered to him.

Musical ThemesEdit

Main article: Tifa's Theme

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"Tifa's Theme" from Final Fantasy VII
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Tifa's eponymous theme "Tifa's Theme" (ティファのテーマ Tifa no Tēma) plays during Tifa's flashback of Cloud's promise. Additionally, "Tifa's Theme" originally plays as the background music for the 7th Heaven bar, until the day they are going to destroy the Sector 5 Reactor, after which it switches to "Barret's Theme".

Tifa's Theme has also been remixed for Before Crisis as "Brief Reunion", for the Case of Denzel as "Connected Heart" and Dissidia 012 as "Tifa's Theme" as well as appearing on the Piano Collections: Final Fantasy VII.

Other AppearancesEdit

Dissidia 012 Final FantasyEdit

Main article: Tifa Lockhart/Dissidia

Tifa appears as one of the new characters in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy fighting as a Warrior of Cosmos. She does not know Sephiroth or Cloud, although they remember her. Tifa dons her original design from Final Fantasy VII with her Advent Children clothes, cowgirl outfit and her design by Yoshitaka Amano as her alternative outfits.

Final Fantasy Trading Card GameEdit

Tifa is represented in the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game by four Fire-elemental cards, one being a promotional card. One displays Tifa's promotional CG art, another uses her artwork by Tetsuya Nomura, and a third uses her Dissidia artwork. The final, promotional, card depicts her artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.

Non-Final Fantasy AppearancesEdit

Ehrgeiz: God Bless the RingEdit

Tifa is an initial playable character in Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring. Her moveset includes Somersault, Beat Rush, and chargeable energy blasts. Her alternate costume is based on her original Amano artwork and a third costume can be unlocked, depicting her in her cowgirl outfit from the Nibelheim flashbacks. Her title in Story mode is "Summoner", and she can only be fought after successfully defeating "Guardian" Cloud.

Kingdom Hearts IIEdit

For more information, see The Keyhole:Tifa

Tifa appears in Kingdom Hearts II, looking around Hollow Bastion for Cloud and helping Leon defend Hollow Bastion when the world is invaded. Tifa wishes to help Cloud fight Sephiroth, and has spent much of the game searching for him. She eventually interrupts a battle between the two and gives Cloud the power of light to combat Sephiroth's darkness. Cloud shines brightly and he and Sephiroth depart to places unknown to continue their battle. Tifa thanks Sora for his help in locating Cloud and gives him the Fenrir keychain. She later appears as a boss in several cups in the Underworld Coliseum, fighting with the other Final Fantasy characters.

Tifa may or may not be a human resident of Hollow Bastion, but rather a physical embodiment of Cloud's inner light to oppose Sephiroth, who symbolizes his inner darkness. The ambiguity of her nature was deliberately inserted by Nomura in order to generate discussion among players.

Tifa was originally supposed to appear in Kingdom Hearts, but was removed for time reasons.

Itadaki Street seriesEdit

Tifa appears as a playable character in Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special, Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable and Itadaki Street Mobile alongside Cloud, Aerith, and Sephiroth.

In Popular CultureEdit

See also: Final Fantasy in Popular Culture.

Dead FantasyEdit

For more information, see Dead Fantasy Wiki: Tifa Lockhart

Tifa makes an appearance in Monty Oum's Dead Fantasy series as a combatant against the girls from the Dead or Alive video game series. Her main opponent is Hitomi, as they are both martial artists. In the series, Tifa combines her martial arts with her Materia magic. As of the fifth episode, Tifa loses most, if not all, her Materia to Hitomi, and is severely wounded by Hayate and his men. She is now held captive by Helena Douglas and DOATEC.

Tifa also appears in the two music videos Monty Oum created: Dead Fantasy - Obsessed and Dead Fantasy - Gee. In both videos, she's in her cowgirl outfit from Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-.

GalleryEdit

Gallery

Original promotional poster. Tifa with Cloud in an FMV. Tifa in an FMV. Field model from Final Fantasy VII. Tifa wearing a parachute backpack. Tifa in her Wall Market outfit Tifa dressed in her guide outfit. Tifa as a guide wielding the Masamune. A young Tifa. Model of Tifa during the Chocobo Racing minigame. Ingame image of Zack Fair, Tifa, and Sephiroth. Sketch of Tifa's Cowgirl outfit. In-game model of Tifa in Crisis Core. Tifa's sprite in Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children costume artwork. Tifa’s original outfit for the Final Fantasy VII Anniversary. Tifa’s Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children outfit for the Final Fantasy VII Anniversary. Tifa fighting Shadow Creepers in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete. Advent Children Tifa render from Dissidia 012. Cowgirl Tifa render from Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Yoshitaka Amano's Tifa render from Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. CG render of Tifa from Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Trading card of Tifa's promotional CG artwork. Trading card of Tifa's artwork by Nomura. Trading card depicting Tifa's Dissidia Final Fantasy artwork. Promotional trading card depicting Tifa's artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.

EtymologyEdit

Tifa's name is pronounced with a long "e" (Tee-fa) rather than a short "i" (Tiff-a). It is often assumed that "Tifa" is a shortened version of the name Tiffany, meaning "manifestation of God" or, in Greek, "Three, The Trinity", "Tifa" may also possibly be derived from the Tiferet, the sixth Sefira in the Tree of Life symbolizing love, beauty and self-sacrifice. However, there are no sources to confirm these.

Tifa's last name, Lockhart, might be a reference to Tifa's reserved nature and hiding away her feelings for Cloud, "locking" them within her heart, or to her role in unlocking Cloud's psyche later in the game.

TriviaEdit

• Two of the Gold Saucer minigames can be played by Tifa in Cloud's stead if she is in the party: Snowboarding and Chocobo Square. She will sometimes ask Cloud if she can have a go when the player chooses to play. If Tifa and Cid are both in the party, Tifa will take precedence and always be the one asking. Tifa and Cid are the party leaders during the time Cloud is lost, but during this time Gold Saucer is closed and Tifa and Cid can only play the games by asking Cloud.
• Yuffie's dialogue changes if either Tifa or Cid are the party leaders when recruiting her. She calls Tifa "Boobs" and Cid a "Cranky-legged old man".
• Tifa has been named the pinup girl of the "cyber generation" by the New York Times, being compared to the likes of Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider franchise as an example of a strong, independent and attractive female character in video games. As such, whenever there is a poll involving female video game characters, Tifa is usually featured in the list. In 2004, Play featured Tifa in the first issue of their "Girls of Gaming" annual periodical, describing her as "the most adored female in recent Final Fantasy history".
• In Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, Zack can speak to a man building a bar, who asks Zack what to name it. When Zack suggests "7th Heaven", the man loves the name and suggests getting "a young girl with a big bosom and long legs" to work the bar, a call forward to Tifa working at the bar years later.
• The entire fight sequence between Tifa and Loz in Advent Children has been duplicated for Korean pop singer Ivy MV's "Temptation of Sonata" music video, albeit with minor changes, such as small parts of the fighting choreography being altered due to the absence of Loz's Dual Hound, and Tifa's victory by snapping Loz's neck at the end. The music video was later banned from Korean television and singer Ivy was sued by Square Enix for copyright infringement.

• In Dissidia Final Fantasy, one of the strongest grappling weapons shares its name with Tifa's strongest weapon from Final Fantasy VII, the Premium Heart.
• Tifa's "Dilly dally, shilly shally" line from Advent Children was referenced in The World Ends With You, a game also made by Square Enix.
• Tifa appears in the game Mainichi Issho, but as a costume only.
• A poster of Tifa can be seen in Solaris in Xenogears, which is another Square RPG that was in development at the same time with Final Fantasy VII.
• Tifa is the first permanently playable female Monk in the series.
• Tifa's costume is available as DLC for LittleBigPlanet 2.
• Tifa makes a slight appearance in Cartoon Network's MAD TV show. She appears in season 1, episode 16, Gaming's next top model.
• In Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, when Cloud finds an injured Tifa laying in the church, her fighting gloves are off, something that could be considered odd for her to remove them, considering the situation. In Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete, however, during that same scene, her fighting gloves are still on, showing that it was most likely a minor mistake in the first movie.

ReferencesEdit

External LinksEdit

• Tifa Lockhart in Wikipedia

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Characters
Player Characters
Rod (Male) - Gun (Female) - Two Guns (Male) - Shotgun (Female) - Martial Arts (Male) - Martial Arts (Female) - Katana (Male) - Shuriken (Female) - Nunchaku (Male) - Knife (Female) - Legend (Male) - Veld - Tseng - Reno
Shinra
President Shinra - Rufus Shinra - Heidegger - Scarlet - Professor Hojo - Reeve Tuesti - Rude - Sephiroth - Zack Fair - Essai and Sebastian - Cloud Strife - Professor Rayleigh - Lucrecia Crescent - Grimoire Valentine
AVALANCHE
Elfe - Kanos, Kyneugh, and Tierce - Shears - Fuhito - Chelsea - Shalua Rui
Other Characters
Aerith Gainsborough - Azul - Barret Wallace - Bugenhagen - Cait Sith - Cid Highwind - Deneh - Elena - Genesis Copy - Hollander - King - Red XIII - Shera - Tifa Lockhart - Tifa's Cat - Vincent Valentine - Yuffie Kisaragi - Zangan
Locations
Midgar - Sector 8 - Sector 5 - Sector 5 Church - Wall Market - Shinra Headquarters - Midgar Slums - Junon - Costa del Sol - Mt. Nibel - Nibelheim - Shinra Mansion - Rocket Town - Mt. Corel - Corel Desert - Kalm - Wutai - Icicle Inn - Gongaga - Cosmo Canyon
Races
Human - Red XIII's Species - Cetra
Terms
AVALANCHE - B1-Alpha Helicopter - Buster Sword - Cargo Ship - Cellphone - Jade WEAPON - Lifestream - Mako - Mako Reactor - Masamune - Materia - Meteorfall - Motorcycle - Nibelheim Incident - Panasonic FOMA P900iV - PHS - Promised Land - Rank Points - Ravens - Shinra No. 26 - Shinra Electric Power Company - Shinra Military Troop Transport - Sister Ray - SOLDIER - Submarine - Tiny Bronco - Train - Turks - White Materia - Wutai War - XCannon - Zack's Final Stand - Zirconiade
Music
Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII- & Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- OST "Theme of Turks" - "Theme of Elfe"
Archives
Armor - Enemies - Items - Timeline - Translations - Wallpapers - Weapons

v · e · d Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-
Characters
Player Character
Zack Fair
SOLDIER
Sephiroth - Genesis Rhapsodos - Angeal Hewley - Lazard Deusericus - Luxiere - Kunsel - Nero the Sable - Weiss the Immaculate
Turks
Tseng - Cissnei - Reno - Rude
Other Characters
Aerith Gainsborough - Cloud Strife - Cloud's Mother - Professor Hojo - Dr. Hollander - Gillian Hewley - Minerva - Tifa Lockhart - Yuffie Kisaragi
Locations
Midgar - Midgar Slums - Shinra Headquarters - Wutai - Fort Tamblin - Banora - Sector 8 - Sector 1 - Sector 5 Reactor - Sector 5 - Modeoheim - Costa del Sol - Junon - Nibelheim - Mt. Nibel - Gongaga - Banora Underground - Chocobo Farm - Great Cavern of Wonders
Terms
Angeal Copy - Banora White - Cellphone - Crescent Unit - Degradation - Fan Club - Genesis Copy - Gift of the Goddess - Jenova Project - LOVELESS - Makonoid - Nibelheim Incident - Shinra Electric Power Company - Shinra Military Transport Helicopter - Sister Ray - SOLDIER - Turks - Wutai War - Virtual Reality System
Gameplay
Digital Mind Wave - Difficulty Level - Materia Fusion - Soldier Points
Music
Original Soundtrack "Theme of CRISIS CORE" - "First Mission" - "The Summoned" - "On the Verge of the Assault" - "A Flower Blooming in the Slums" - "The Clandestine Dark Suits" - "The World's Enemy" - "Why"
Archives
Accessories - Characters - Enemies - Enemy Abilities - Items - Locations - Mail - Materia - Missions - Shops - Translations - Wallpapers - Walkthroughs

v · e · d Final Fantasy VII
Characters
Player characters
Cloud Strife - Barret Wallace - Tifa Lockhart - Aeris Gainsborough - Red XIII - Cait Sith - Cid Highwind - Vincent Valentine - Yuffie Kisaragi
Temporary playable characters
Sephiroth
Shinra Staff
Rufus Shinra - President Shinra - Professor Hojo - Tseng - Reno - Rude - Elena - Heidegger - Scarlet - Palmer - Reeve Tuesti - Gast Faremis - Lucrecia Crescent - Mayor Domino - Deputy Mayor Hart - Manager - Zack Fair
Other characters
Big Bro - Biggs - Elder Bughe - Bugenhagen - Butch - Chole - Choco Billy - Chocobo Sage - Cloud's Mother - Mr. Coates - Dio - Don Corneo - Dyne - Eleanor - Elmyra Gainsborough - Ester - Godo Kisaragi - Elder Hargo - Mr. Holzoff - Ifalna - Jenova - Jessie - Joe - Johnny - Kalm Traveler - Kotch - Marlene Wallace - Mukki - Myrna - Priscilla - Seto - Shera - Teioh - Tifa's Father - Village Headman - Wedge - Zangan
Locations on the Planet
Eastern Continent
Midgar - Sector 1 - Sector 1 Reactor - Sector 8 - Sector 7 - 7th Heaven - Sector 4 - Sector 5 Reactor - Sector 5 Church - Sector 5 - Sector 6 - Wall Market - Honey Bee Inn - Train Graveyard - Shinra Headquarters - Midgar Slums - Midgar Wasteland - Kalm - Chocobo Farm - Marshes - Mythril Mine - Fort Condor - Junon - Junon Underwater Reactor
Western Continent
Costa del Sol - Mt. Corel - North Corel - Gold Saucer - Wonder Square - Battle Square - Corel Prison - Gongaga - Cosmo Canyon - Cave of the Gi - Nibelheim - Mt. Nibel - Rocket Town - Ancient Forest - Crystal Cave
Northern Continent
Bone Village - Sleeping Forest - Forgotten Capital - Icicle Inn - Great Glacier - Gaea's Cliff - North Crater - Whirlwind Maze - Northern Cave - Chocobo Sage's House
Other locations
Cargo Ship - Wutai - Da Chao Mountain - Temple of the Ancients - Mideel - Cloud's Subconscious - Materia Caves - Goblin Island - Cactus Island - Round Island - Bottom of the Sea - Gelnika - Debug Room
Races
Humans - Red XIII's Species - Cetra - Weapons
Terms
All Lucky 7s - AVALANCHE - Black Materia - Buster Sword - Chaos - Condor - Date Mechanics - Gi Tribe - Hardy-Daytona - Holy - Huge Materia - Jenova Project - Keystone - Leviathan Scales - Lifestream - Limit Break - Lunar Harp - Mako - Mako Reactor - Makonoid - Masamune - Materia - Meteor - PHS - Promised Land - Shinra Electric Power Company - Sister Ray - SOLDIER - Sephiroth Clones - Turks - Weapon - White Materia
Events
Aerith's Death - Nibelheim Incident - Raid on Midgar - Siege of Fort Condor - Wutai War - Zack's Final Stand
Transportation
Highwind - Buggy - Cargo Ship - Chocobo - Motorcycle - Submarine - Tiny Bronco - Train - Shinra No. 26 - B1-Alpha Helicopter - B1-Beta Helicopter
Music
Original Soundtrack - Reunion Tracks - Piano Collections "Opening ~ Bombing Mission" - "Those Who Fight" - "Those Who Fight Further" - "Turks' Theme" - "Aerith's Theme" - "J-E-N-O-V-A" - "Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII" - "Farm Boy" - "Descendant of Shinobi" - "Cosmo Canyon" - "One-Winged Angel"
Archives
Accessories - Allusions - Armor - Demo - Enemies - Enemy Abilities - Items - Manual - Materia - Timeline - Translations - Walkthroughs - Wallpapers - Weapons

v · e · d On the Way to a Smile
On the Way to a Smile: Episode Denzel
Characters
Main characters
Aerith Gainsborough - Barret Wallace - Cid Highwind - Cloud Strife - Denzel - Marlene Wallace - Red XIII - Rufus Shinra - Sephiroth - Tifa Lockhart - Yuffie Kisaragi
Other Characters
Abel - Arkham - Chloe - Elena - Gaskin - Johnny - Kilmister - Mutten Kylegate - Pazu - Reeve Tuesti - Reno - Rick - Rin - Rude - Ruvie Tuesti - Sakaki - Veld - Vincent Valentine - Yuri
Locations
Cliff Resort - Cosmo Canyon - Edge - Forgotten Capital - Kalm - North Corel - Rocket Town - Materia Caves - Midgar - Wutai
Terms
Cellphone - Fenrir - Geostigma - Gilligan - Lifestream - Materia - Meteor - The Shera - Strife Delivery Service - World Regenesis Organization

v · e · d Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete
Characters
Main Characters
Cloud Strife - Tifa Lockhart - Marlene Wallace - Denzel - Kadaj - Yazoo - Loz - Sephiroth
Other Characters
Aerith Gainsborough – Bahamut SIN - Barret Wallace - Cait Sith - Cid Highwind - Elena - Jenova - Moogle Girl - Red XIII - Reno - Rude - Rufus Shinra - Tseng - Vincent Valentine - Yuffie Kisaragi - Zack Fair
Locations
Edge - 7th Heaven - Healen Lodge - Forgotten Capital - Midgar - Northern Cave - Sector 5 Church - Shinra Headquarters
Races
Human – Red XIII's Species – Cetra - Remnants of Sephiroth
Terms
4-Point Shuriken - Buster Sword - Cellphone – Cerberus - Chocobo – Chocobo Farm - Dual Hound - Fenrir – Fenrir (Motorcycle) - Fusion Swords - Geostigma - Lifestream – Limit Break - LOVELESS - Masamune - Materia - Meteor - Motorcycle – Nibelheim Incident - Panasonic FOMA P900iV - Shadow Creeper - Shera – Shinra Electric Power Company – Shinra Military Transport Helicopter - SOLDIER - Souba - Strife Delivery Service – Turks - Velvet Nightmare - World Regenesis Organization
Novellas
On the Way to a Smile - Hoshi wo Meguru Otome
Music
Original Soundtrack - Complete Reunion Tracks "The Promised Land" - "Tifa's Theme" - "Those Who Fight" - "Those Who Fight Further" - "Aerith's Theme" - "J-E-N-O-V-A" - "One-Winged Angel" - "Calling" - "Safe and Sound"
Archives
Timeline - Wallpapers – Merchandise

v · e · d Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-
Characters
Player character
Vincent Valentine
Temporarily playable character
Cait Sith
Multiplayer Mode player character
Player Tsviet
Tsviets
Argento - Azul the Cerulean - Nero the Sable - Rosso the Crimson - Shelke the Transparent - Weiss the Immaculate
Other characters
Reeve Tuesti - Yuffie Kisaragi - Shalua Rui - Cid Highwind - Cloud Strife - Tifa Lockhart - Barret Wallace - Professor Hojo - Lucrecia Crescent - Grimoire Valentine - Restrictors - Usher - Este-D - Officer-East - Genesis Rhapsodos - Red XIII
Locations
Kalm - Edge - WRO Headquarters - Nibelheim - Midgar - Shinra Headquarters - Sector 0 - Crystal Cave
Terms
Battle of Midgar - Chaos - Deepground - G Report - Lifestream - Materia - Protomateria - Shinra Electric Power Company - SOLDIER - The Shera - Synaptic Net Dive - Tsviets - Omega - Omega Report - World Regenesis Organization - Worldwide Network
Music
Original Soundtrack - Redemption - Multiplayer Mode Original Sound Collections "Redemption" - "Longing"
Archives
Characters - Enemies - Enemy Abilities - Extra Missions - G Reports - Gun Customization - Items - Locations - Omega Reports - Wallpapers - Walkthroughs

v · e · d Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
Dissidia Duodecim Prologus
Characters
Warriors of Cosmos
Warrior of Light - Firion - Onion Knight - Cecil - Bartz - Squall - Zidane - Jecht - Shantotto
Warriors of Chaos
Garland - The Emperor - Cloud of Darkness - Golbez - Exdeath - Terra - Kefka - Cloud - Sephiroth - Ultimecia - Kuja - Tidus - Gabranth
New characters
Kain - Gilgamesh - Tifa - Laguna - Yuna - Prishe - Vaan - Lightning - Feral Chaos
Non-playable characters
Aerith - Chaos - Cid of the Lufaine - Cosmos - Moogles - Shinryu
Areas
World B
Old Chaos Shrine - Pandaemonium - Pandaemonium-Top Floor - Crystal Tower - World of Darkness - Lunar Subterrane - The Rift - Kefka's Tower - Phantom Train - Planet's Core - Ultimecia's Castle - Crystal World - M.S. Prima Vista - Dream's End - Empyreal Paradox - Sky Fortress Bahamut - Orphan's Cradle - Order's Sanctuary - Edge of Madness
Story Mode
Prologus - Treachery of the Gods - Light to All - Confessions of the Creator - Reports - Official Quests
Battle Mode
Arcade Mode - Labyrinth - Quick Battle
Terms
Accomplishments (Prologus) - Artifact - Assist - Banish Trap - Battlegen - Bravery - Calendar Bonuses - Chase Sequence - Combination - Command Mode - Cycle - Damage Priority - Dash - Data Install - EX Mode - Friend Card - Gateway - Judgment - KP - Light Orb - Manikin - Mognet - Original Quests - Original Rules - Pieces - Play Plan - PP Catalog - Quickmove - Skills - Summonstone - Teleport Stone - Wall Rush
Music
Original Soundtrack
"Cantata Mortis & God in Fire"
Archives
Abilities - Accessories - Armor - Downloadable Content - Enemies - Gameplay Changes - Moogle Shop - Museum - Player Icons - Shop - Translations - Wallpapers - Weapons