Monster (term)

Monster refers to an enemy fought in a Final Fantasy game. In some games the existence of monsters is not given a back story and they exist simply as the fauna of the world, but in other games, the element of monsters the player fights throughout the game is incorporated into the lore of the game world, by giving their occurrence a more specific explanation.

Final Fantasy X
In the world of Spira monsters are corrupted souls formed of pyreflies. Upon a person's death, if they do not enter the Farplane either on their own volition or being sent by a summoner, they stay on the world of living as unsent. If the unsent does not find meaning in his or her continued existence in the form of a "mission" of sorts, they are in danger of being consumed by envy and hatred they feel toward he living and transform into mindless fiends. Some unsent who have not been corrupted and turned completely into fiends are still shown to be able to transform into a fiend-like monster at will, and are sill able to revert back into their human form. Curiously, the Farplane itself still appears to be filled with fiends, as seen in Final Fantasy X-2. Defeating a fiend disperses its pyreflies and the fiend ceases to exist.

Dissidia Final Fantasy
In Dissidia series manikins work as the common monsters fought in the game. Manikins were themselves artificial experiments banished in the Rift, but during the 12th cycle the forces of Chaos find a way to summon them to World B and pit them against the forces of Cosmos.

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