Skeleton concept art for Final Fantasy XII.
- For the recurring status effect, see Zombie (status).
The undead (アンデッド, Andeddo?), also called the living dead or zombies, are a recurring type of enemy from the Final Fantasy series. Undead enemies vary in appearance, abilities and strength, but share a few key characteristics: they resist Dark and Poison spells, but are vulnerable to healing magic, Fire and Holy.
They are immune to HP draining attacks, often employing such attacks themselves, and are often able to infect party members with debilitating status ailments. In most games, as they are vulnerable to healing spells and items, Undead can be killed simply by throwing a Phoenix Down at them, or by casting a Raise spell.
Recurring classes of undead creatures include ghosts, skeletons, mummies, vampires and liches, all of which change forms and have different variations throughout each game.
Characters can become undead in Final Fantasy V by equipping the Bone Mail and in Final Fantasy VI by equipping a Lich Ring. In fact, undead is also known as the status effect Zombie in the series.
Appearances
Final Fantasy
Template:Sideicon Undead enemies appear in many locations and areas in the world map. Easy damage is inflicted with Dia, a spell specifically for the White Mage job class. The Black Mage's Fire spells are also very useful.
The enemies in the Shadow family are cloaked skeletons that often appear in large groups and are very fragile. The Shadow and Wraith are very weak enemies, and the Specter and Ghost are like glass cannons: they hit multiple times for large damage, but can be felled quite easily.
Skeletons also appear in large hordes, but are similarly susceptible to weak Fire or Holy-based attacks. Other enemies in this group are the Skuldier, Bloodbones and the Dawn of Souls exclusive Bonesnatch, which is marginally more powerful.
Enemies of the Zombie genus include the Ghoul, Ghast, Wight and Revenant. They share the common trait of being able to inflict Paralysis with their physical strikes.
The Vampire is a boss in the Cavern of Earth, and its stronger counterpart, the Vampire Lord, inhabits the Flying Fortress and the Chaos Shrine. Both are far more durable than other undead enemies.
Mummies are also present, but do not have any special abilities or characteristics. The King Mummy is just as weak as its common counterpart, but the Pharaoh has a large sum of HP and can often be found guarding treasure chests. All of these can inflict Sleep with their melee attacks.
Final Fantasy II
Template:Sideicon Undead enemies appear and almost all of them are weak against Fire, resistant to the Poison and Matter elements, and absorb Death (converting it into a Cure effect of equivalent level). The Blood Sword, Drain, and Osmose have their effects reversed, deducting the attacker's HP or MP and giving it to the undead enemy.
Undead enemies can be harmed with Cure spells or instantly killed with Life for the first time. They are also the only enemies that suffer damage when the Garlic item is used. The Sun Blade inflicts extra damage to undead.
Final Fantasy III
Template:Sideicon Undead monsters can be found in the Cave of the Seal, the Mythril Mines in Kazus, and Hein's Castle.
Final Fantasy IV
Template:Sideicon The majority of the undead are found in Mount Ordeals, but many can be found throughout dungeons and caves across the world such as Mt. Hobs and Cave of Eblan.
- Zombie
- Ghoul
- Revenant
- Skulnant
- Scarmiglione (Boss)
- Skeleton
- Bloodbones
- Skuldier
- Vampiress
- Succubus
- Echidna
- Lilith
Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-
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- Skuldier
- Bloodbones
- Vampiress
- Lilith
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
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Template:Sideicon Undead are common enemies in the Ship Graveyard, but they also inhabit the Great Sea Trench. Siren can turn undead at will.
- Skeletons
- Zombie Dragon
- Siren (boss)
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Additionally, Bone Mail or the Necromancer job's Undead passive will bestow undead status, with the following effects:
- The effects of healing and life draining spells, items and effects (with the exception of Life Drain) are reversed in combat. The character can still be healed while out of combat.
- Undead characters are restored to full health by instant death effects.
- The character cannot be revived in combat (the character can still be revived outside of combat).
The Requiem song deals massive damage to the undead, but ignores all other opponents.
Final Fantasy VI
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Cloudwraith regenerating after being struck by an instant death attack.
Undead are mainly found in the Phantom Forest and Darill's Tomb among other areas. Most Death attacks (excluding things that cut the enemy apart, like the Zantetsuken, or effects that drag the enemy out of the battle, like Banish or Snare) will allow the undead opponent to fully replenish the undead target's HP.
Playable characters can be made undead by equipping the Lich Ring. This will make Death effects and the Poison element heal the character, while Cure and Raise spells will harm them. The Healing Rod will heal undeads targets. It also makes the playable characters unable to be revived when they are knocked out. Undead status expires at the end of combat and has no effect outside of battle, so characters wearing Lich Rings can be healed and revived outside of combat without needing to unequip them first. Gau can also be made undead by performing the Rage of any of the enemies listed below. Unlike with the Lich Ring, Gau's Undead status wears off along with the Rage when he is KO'd, so he can still be revived with the Raise or Arise spells afterwards.
The temporary ghost party members from the Phantom Train also have permanent undead status due to their unremovable Lich Rings.
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Final Fantasy VII
Template:Sideicon There is no classification for undead, however those that are weak to Holy and absorb Restorative (and thus take damage) are considered to be undead enemies. A number of these undead enemies are also healed by the attacks that attempt to inflict instant death. Their aversion for Restorative means that Phoenix Down items will defeat them instantly.
Undead enemies are encountered in the Cave of the Gi, including the boss Gi Nattak. They were created when the vengeful souls of the Gi could not pass into the Lifestream.
The Ghost enemy's affinity with Holy is Death, which means that any attack of the Holy element will defeat it instantly. Despite this, by the time the player has means of inflicting the element they are no longer available to fight.
Enemies who are damaged by Restorative, weak to Holy, and absorb Death:
Enemies who are damaged by Restorative and weak to Holy:
Final Fantasy VIII
Template:Sideicon Undead creatures appear sparingly in dungeons, fields and as bosses. They are damaged by curative abilities, instantly killed by reviving abilities, take half damage from physical attacks, and are resistant to the Doom and instant death attacks including Death and Selphie's Limit Break, The End.
- Abadon (Boss)
- Blood Soul
- Forbidden
- Gerogero (Boss)
Final Fantasy IX
Template:Sideicon Undead class includes all zombie type enemies. There is only one boss, the Soulcage. Undeads take damage from curatives and can be instantly killed by revival items and spells. Undead Killer makes the equipper's normal attacks deal x1.5 damage to undead targets.
Final Fantasy X
Template:Sideicon While there is only one undead creature, there is a skill that can give Zombie status and there is also an undead boss.
It should be noted that undead is not a classification in and of itself; rather, the enemies considered "undead" simply have permanent Zombie status.
- Fallen Monk
- Evrae Altana (Boss)
Final Fantasy XI
Template:Sideicon Undead are a genus in opposition to Arcana. They are characterized by immunity to drain/aspir/absorb spells, tendency to menace travelers at night and a habit of attacking players when they are at low health.
They encompass the following families:
Final Fantasy XII
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Undead monster rising from the ground.
The genus Undead includes a large number of undead creatures. The classifications of Ghosts, Skeletons, Zombies, Reapers, Plate Wyrms, Sleipnirs, Steelings, Malboros, Flans and Headless include undead creatures.
List of the Undead creatures:
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Template:Sideicon Skeleton and its variant, Skeleton Ω, appear, but they do not exist as a undead enemy type.
Final Fantasy XIV
Template:Sideicon Ashkin commonly appear near ruins or areas with high Voidsent activity. Varieties include skeletons, revenants, and ghosts.
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Daemons are monsters that appear at night and in dark places, like caves and ruins. They deplete maximum HP and are weak to Holy, but not weak to curatives like undead in other games. Daemons are otherworldly in appearance, modeled after recurring Final Fantasy monsters like Tonberries and Iron Giants. They take damage from sunlight if the battle draws until daylight hours.
Final Fantasy Tactics
Template:Sideicon Undead creatures have a chance of reviving 3 turns after they are KO'd. The Monk's Chakra skill will restore HP and MP to the undead.
In addition to these, there are several undead generic units that appear specifically in story related battles. They all have innate Beastmaster ability along with innate status of Undead and Float (except for the Undead Knight). These units also all have status immunity to Traitor, Blind, Vampire, Reraise, Invisible, Poison, Regen, Charm, and Doom.
- Undead Black Mage (Male)
- Undead Time Mage (Female)
- Undead Mystic (Male)
- Undead Archer (Male)
- Undead Summoner (Female)
- Undead Knight (Male)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
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Undead creatures will revive three turns after they are KO'd. However, several abilities are introduced that defeat the undead permanently, such as the Archer's Burial skill.
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
Template:Sideicon Undead monsters turn into tombstones when their HP reaches 0, and will be raised when three full turns have passed. They can be permanently removed from the field by either skills such as Burial or Exorcise (which have a low chance of working on an active undead, but 100% hit rate when the undead is in a tombstone form or under some status ailments).
Also by using a Phoenix Down or casting Raise (or most other revival skills, such as Phoenix) on the tombstone. Unlike previous games, in which the undead can be defeated by just throwing a Phoenix Down, it only defeats the enemy if it's a tombstone, as when the undead is still on the field, it deals slightly less damage than a Hi-Potion.
- Note: Undead can be removed from the battlefield without such holy banishment, such as by the Alchemist's Transmute ability.
Vagrant Story
Template:Sideicon Undead is an entire class of enemies.
List if undead enemies:
- Ghast
- Ghoul
- Mummy
- Skeleton
- Dark Skeleton
- Skeleton Knight
- Zombie
- Zombie Fighter
- Zombie Knight
- Zombie Mage
- Dragon Zombie
- Minotaur Zombie
- Ogre Zombie
- Dummy (Undead)
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Template:Sideicon Attacking with the Cure spell is highly effective against the undead, the spell deals zombie-elemental damage against them.
- Skeleton
- Red Bone
- Skuldier
- Minotaur Zombie
- Zombie
- Mummy
- Ghost
- Specter
- Flamerus Rex (Boss)
- Skullrus Rex (Boss)
The Final Fantasy Legend
Template:Sideicon Undead is one of four monster types, the Sun will inflict critical-hits against them.
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Template:Sideicon There are three types of undead monsters, the ghost-type, skeleton-type, and zombie-type. Undead monsters reverse absorption just like many other games in the series.
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Bravely Default
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Undead enemies are very typical and are vulnerable to healing spells. However, draining spells and abilities such as Drain, Osmose when cast on them will heal themselves and damage the casters instead. This also means that the Blood Lance, one of the best weapons, is useless against Undead.
Etymology
The term undead describes beings in mythology, legend or fiction that are deceased yet behave as if alive.
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