List of protagonists

Every game in the series has main characters that the player must assume the role of.

Final Fantasy
Light Warriors - The heroes of destiny who were prophesized to restore light to the crystals.

Final Fantasy II
Firion - An orphan from Fynn who becomes the core of the Wild Rose Rebel Army.

Final Fantasy III
Luneth - A curious and adventurous youth.

Final Fantasy IV
Cecil Harvey - A Dark Knight from Baron who converts to a Paladin.

Final Fantasy V
Bartz Klauser - A young man who travels the world.

Final Fantasy VI
Terra Branford - A child of an Esper and a human who was formerly under the control of the Gestahl Empire..

Final Fantasy VII
Cloud Strife - An Ex-SOLDIER mercenary who is hired by AVALANCHE.

Final Fantasy VIII
Squall Leonhart - A SeeD who is promoted to leader for mysterious and unknown reasons.

Final Fantasy IX
Zidane Tribal - An easygoing thief who is hired to kidnap Princess Garnet of Alexandria

Final Fantasy X
Tidus - A Blitzball player from Zanarkand who ends up in Spira.

Final Fantasy X-2
Yuna - The former summoner who brought about the Eternal Calm in Final Fantasy X. She is currently in a Sphere Hunting group, the Gullwings.

Final Fantasy XI
Due to this being an online massively multiplayer roll playing game, there is no main character. Each player experiences the game as an adventurer and each quest features each player as the hero or component of success regardless of whether he was the first or thousandth player to complete the quest.

Final Fantasy XII
Vaan - A street urchin from Dalmasca.

Final Fantasy Tactics
Ramza Beoulve - A member of the Beoulve royal family.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Marche Radiuju - A boy who ends up in Ivalice but retains his memory.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
The player creates a main character. The main character can be male or female, one of four races (Clavat, Lilty, Yuke, or Selkie), and once of four "race styles". Each "race style" changes the character's appearance slightly. For example, a male Clavat in Cowlick style has blond hair and green clothing, but a male Clavat in the Natural style has brown hair and red clothing). All in all, there are 32 possible combinations.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Benjamin - A young boy who gets more adventure than he ever dreamed of.

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
Vincent Valentine - A former Turk, now a dark and mysterious character, with the ability to morph into various monsters.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Zack - A SOLDIER, First Class.

Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII
The Turks - Shin-Ra's special forces unit that handles all the shady, underground business that the company has.