Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII)/Other appearances

As the principal protagonist of her saga, Lightning represents it in series compilations, crossovers, anthologies, and other works by Square Enix, and by others in collaboration with Square Enix. The following is a list of works in which Lightning has appeared outside the Final Fantasy XIII series.

Final Fantasy XIV


Lightning appeared during the Lightning Strikes event to commemorate the release of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Final Fantasy XIV producer, Naoki Yoshida, said the sidequest was tied directly into the Lightning Saga, but not linked with the lore and story of Final Fantasy XIV.

The rewards from this event consisted of Lightning and Snow's costumes as well as a set of weapons from the trilogy.

Since Patch 2.1, the female playable characters can have Lightning's hairstyle by using the Aesthetician's service.

Triple Triad
Lightning appears as a legendary (5-stars) card. It used to be the most powerful card with its total number of 36 (9 A 7 A) before Square Enix quickly decreases it to 27 (9 1 7 A) during an emergency server maintenance they had shortly after the Gold Saucer update.

Final Fantasy Tactics S
Lightning appeared as a recruitable character. She was of the Visitor race and had Guardian Corps and Savior as her main jobs. Her attacks were Dual Shot and Crimson Blitz respectively, and her ability was Army of One.

Final Fantasy Dimensions II
Lightning appears as a summon and a character costume for players to obtain.

Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008)
Lightning appears as a set of two player icons to represent Final Fantasy XIII, though these icons can only be obtained through passwords.

Tetsuya Nomura and his staff originally wanted to include Lightning in Dissidia Final Fantasy, but left her out to avoid revealing her abilities before Final Fantasy XIII was released.

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy


Lightning is one of the warriors summoned by Cosmos to oppose Chaos, and stands as the sole character representing Final Fantasy XIII. Initially traveling with Tifa, Laguna, and Vaan, Lightning is left behind when she battles Kuja. Shortly after an army of manikins sweeps over the land, Lightning is attacked by Kain.

Returning to Cosmos to tell her what is happening, Lightning faces the Warrior of Light, who reveals he and Kain are putting the others to sleep on purpose to avoid them falling to the manikins and risking not being revived in the next cycle of the war. Lightning rejects this plan and leads Kain, Tifa, Laguna, Yuna and Vaan to the Lands of Discord where the six sacrifice themselves to seal the portal to The Void the manikins are emerging from.

Lightning's alternate outfit gives her white hair and a more subdued color scheme to match her concept art by Yoshitaka Amano. Her second alternate costume gives her the generic female Guardian Corps uniform, a dull orange and brown outfit with a cap. As a fourth bonus outfit available with purchase of The 3rd Birthday, Lightning dresses as Aya Brea, wearing torn blue jeans and a midriff bearing sleeveless black shirt.

Nomura has stated he personally would include Sazh in a Dissidia sequel over Lightning, but his only request for such a game would be Kain Highwind from Final Fantasy IV - Kain and Lightning were the first two new characters confirmed for Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy.

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT
Lightning is a playable character and a representative of Final Fantasy XIII. She is classed as a Assasin character. She no longer uses the gun mechanism due to her new playstyle.Her 2nd form has her wearing her Knight of Etro outfit and wielding her Overture gunblade.Her 3rd outfit she wears her Equilibrium (garb)}} and her sword Crimson Blitz.

Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia


Lightning appears as a playable character.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy


Lightning appears as a default playable character.

Lightning has great all-around stats and abilities, but she's ultimately outclassed by other characters that excel in their field. She's one of three characters to possess the rare ability Hero's Rime, which boosts the stats of all party members. All of her abilities cost high CP, however, so the must player must gain more experience for her, or utilize other characters that fare better with the abilities.

Her Limit Break, Omega Weapon, adds +75 to her Strength and Magic.


 * Type: Magic
 * Ability Slots: 4


 * Stats


 * iOS stats


 * Abilities

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call


Lightning returns as a playable character, and is one of the few characters to have a 2nd variation. Her 1st variation is her appearance in Final Fantasy XIII, donning her Guardian Corps attire, and is available from the start, while her 2nd version is the main representative of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, wearing her Equilibrium outfit, and can be available from the start by transferring save data from the second demo of Curtain Call. However, if the player did not select either among their party of four, or download the demo for the latter, she can later be unlocked by collecting Red and Green Crystal Shards, respectively.

Both versions of her are Balance oriented. Her 1st variation's Limit Break, Omega Weapon, functions the same as before, adding +75 to her Strength and Magic, while her 2nd version's Limit Break, Army of One, deals damage based on her Strength, Agility, and Stamina.

Lightning stats

 * Abilities

Lightning #2 Stats

 * Abilities

Pictlogica Final Fantasy
Lightning appears in a Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII-themed even donning her Equilibrium garb.

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
Lightning is an ally and a summonable Legend. She is depicted in her Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII outfits, an event-related Santa outfit and a Samurai outfit. She has also been depicted as wearing the following garbs from Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII: Equilibrium, Hidden Justice, Red Mage, Blue Mage, Miqo'te Dress and SOLDIER 1st class. She can be unlocked in the Japanese version by purchasing the correct issue of Mobage. Her abilities are Army of One, Crushing Blow, Gestalt Drive, Imperilga, Launch, Lightning Strike, Smite, Thunderfall, Elementa and Flourish of Steel. Her EX abilities are Flourish of Steel, Watera, Aeroga Blast, Cross-slash ver. Lightning, Thundaga, Lightning Strike, Magic Slash, Smite and Crushing Blow.

She was first introduced as an event ally in the event, Winter Holiday Campaign while wearing an exclusive Santa suit. Leveling her up in this event granted the player the Lightning II summon stone, along with each level-up at a specified number granting players an additional summon stone. The Lightning III summon stone was obtained from inviting a certain number of friends to play Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade.

She was present as an ally during the coinciding events, Final Fantasy Special Event Parts 1 & 2 - Shattered World and Final Fantasy Special Event Parts 1 & 2 - Showdown, in which she was unlocked by clearing the Sunleth Waterscape stage. In this event, her overdrive granted players a massive increase in their attack. Leveling her up to 99 in these events granted the player her individualized SSR weapon, Jatayu. In battle, Lightning is armed with her Blazefire Saber and uses the abilities Smite and Flourish of Steel.


 * Portraits

Final Fantasy All the Bravest


Lightning is an exclusive character only available from the Premium Character Shop as a random downloadable content. She uses the Lightning Strike ability during battle. Her Blazefire Saber is available as a drop from Beta Behemoths in the Archylte Steppe map. It grants +4 attack to the Warrior, Red Mage, Blue Mage, and Onion Knight classes and to Firion, Terra, Celes, Zidane, Tidus, Ashe, and Lightning. Her Omega Weapon is available as a drop from Orphan. It grants +10 attack to the same people as the Blazefire Saber.

Final Fantasy Record Keeper


Lightning is a playable character who could be first be recruited during the Challenge Event Lightning Strikes as the First Time Reward for completing the event's Vile Peaks Delusions stage on Classic difficulty. She has also appeared in the Challenge Events Fang's Oath, Dangerous Beauty, Defying Destiny and Flash of Defiance.

Lightning is a Pulse l'Cie, whose combat role is Physical/Magic Hybrid.
 * Assessment

Lightning is a balanced fighter with average physical stats, but very high Speed and a strong skillset. She is her Record Realm's representative Spellblade, and is also one of a very few able to wield a gun, giving her ranged attack potential. Her Blazefire Saber, Peacemaker and Etro's Embrace lets her work both ways via the Soul Breaks offered to her. However, the best asset she has is that she is one of the select few that can use the extremely powerful Powerchain-Full Charge combo, thanks to her full Celerity and Combat access, making her an excellent character in pure offense.


 * Stats

Lightning can use Black Magic spells up to rarity rank 3, White Magic spells up to rarity rank 2, Spellblade abilities up to rarity rank 4, Combat abilities up to rarity rank 5, Celerity abilities up to rarity rank 5, and Sharpshooter abilities up to rarity rank 5.
 * Abilities

Her default Soul Break is Blitz which at the expense of one Soul Gauge segment deals physical non-elemental damage to all enemies with a multiplier of 1.1x a conventional attack.

Lightning can equip the following weapon types: daggers, swords, guns, and spears.
 * Equipment

She can equip the following armor types: hats, light armor, armor, and bracers.

She can equip accessories.

Final Fantasy Explorers
Lightning appears as a summon.

Mobius Final Fantasy
Lightning appears as a non-player character as well as a substitute character obtainable during the Final Fantasy XIII collaboration event, where her appearance is triggered by equipping her Ultimate Hero Job card. Her job type is Ranger, with skills of a Ranger, a Hunter, an Assassin, a Thief, a Dancer, a Viking, and a Neophyte Ranger selectable.

The main character Wol can wear her Knight of Etro armor and Echo can wear her outfit from Final Fantasy XIII. Lightning's Echo can only be obtained if the player has drawn a Final Fantasy XIII Legend Job card via lottery.

While Lightning's Echo, Echo not only takes on Lightning's likeness with high-tech faerie wings, but her vocal tone as well, with references to Final Fantasy XII and Lightning herself.

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
Lightning appears as a vision obtainable through rare summoning. A 5-6★ rare summon, her job is listed as l'Cie. Her Trust Master Reward is the Aurora Scarf accessory.


 * Story

Lightning's stats at her highest levels are as follows, with no passive abilities taken into account: Lightning can equip the following weapon types: daggers, swords, great swords, katanas, bows, spears and guns.
 * Stats
 * Abilities
 * Equipment

She can equip the following armor types: light shields, hats, helms, clothes, light armors and heavy armors.

She can equip accessories.


 * Limit Burst
 * Awakening Materials

World of Final Fantasy


Lightning appears as a summonable Champion. She wears her Equilibrium outfit from Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and wields her Crimson Blitz in battle. She also wears her Guardian Corps outfit from Final Fantasy XIII during the ending credits. When summoned, she uses Gestalt Drive on an enemy. She is a member of the League of S and encounters Lann, Reynn and Tama during their travels in the Eclipse Region. Her sister lives with Snow in a village found within the Eclipse Region. She is voiced by Maaya Sakamoto in the Japanese release and Ali Hillis in the English release.

Having been sent on a request to dispatch Odin, Lightning is bested in battle and has her blade snapped into two by the powerful mirage. Lann and Reyn try to help her out during an intervention but are disrupted by an abrupt Zantetsuken. Following Odin's exit from the intervention, he encounters Lightning again and challenges her once more to battle. Lightning conjures Ramewl, a mirage relative of Ramuh who enchants Lightning with the lightning element. Upon doing so, Lann and Reyn manage to intervene and defeat Odin, with Lightning giving her thanks to their mysterious presence.


 * Who's Who
 * Lightning
 * CV: Ali Hillis / Maaya Sakamoto


 * Age in Nine Wood Hills: 21


 * Notes: Virtuous / Looks out for other people / On the stoic side / Genius with a sword / One of this age's greatest warriors


 * Reading Into the Outfit
 * Lightning is looking great in her outfit from LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII. But does that mean her soul might actually be over 500 years old? No wonder it only took her 21 years in Grymoire to become something of a living legend—and that was before the twins awakened her.


 * Lightning's superhuman skills drew the attention of Quistis and Squall, who tracked her down and persuaded her to lend her strength to the League of S.


 * First World of Origin
 * FINAL FANTASY XIII

World of Final Fantasy: Meli-Melo
Lightning appears as a summonable Champion.

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
There are several cards depicting Lightning: five Lightning-elemental cards, including a promotional card from V-Jump, and four Shine-elemental cards, not including a limited release.

Th Lightning-elemental cards depict her Final Fantasy XIII appearance, her portrait from Final Fantasy XIII-2, and a promo artwork from Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and her default garb, while the Shine cards present her as a swordsman, and as a knight of Etro. The promotional card from V-Jump presents her as a knight.

Triple Triad
Lightning appears as an opponent and on Triple Triad cards in the version available via the Final Fantasy Portal App. On Easy she uses the rule Same. On Normal she uses Same and Chaos. On Hard she uses Same, Plus and Chaos and the rare five star cards of herself can be won from her, among other cards. She uses the trading rule One.

Itadaki Street
Lightning appears in Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Mobile as a rank "A" opponent and she appears in Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary voiced by Maaya Sakamoto. She is the only Final Fantasy XIII character to appear.

Square Enix Legend World
Lightning from Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII makes an appearance as a card.

Puzzle & Dragons
Lightning and her Blazefire Saber appeared as part of the Final Fantasy collaboration. She was first introduced in the collaboration event took place in the North American version from March 21, 2016 to April 3, 2016. Lightning's Blazefire Saber was an enhance material that was obtainable from Orphan's Second Form and could have been used to enhance Lightning's active skill.

She was obtainable as a 6-star ranked unit named "Lightning", with an attacker and healer type and a light element. After evolving her for the first time, she becomes a 7-star ranked unit named "Knight of Etro, Lightning", with an attacker and healer type and dual light elements. In her last evolution, she becomes an 8-star ranked unit named "Savior, Lightning", with an attacker and healer type and dual light elements.

As a 6-star ranked unit, Lightning wears her Guardian Corps uniform and wields the Blazefire Saber while emitting an aura of light. Her active skill is No room for doubt. and her leader skill is Army of One. Upon being evolved to a 7-star ranked unit, Lightning wears her Knight of Etro armor and wields the Overture. Her active skill is No room for doubt. and her leader skill is Legion of One. After being evolved to an 8-star ranked unit, Lightning wears her Equilibrium outfit and wields the Crimson Blitz. Her active skill is No room for doubt. and her leader skill is Overclock Army of One.

Monster Strike
Lightning appears as part of the Final Fantasy collaboration.