Bartz Klauser/Dissidia (PSP)

Bartz Klauser is one of the heroes fighting for the side of Cosmos in Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, and who was previously seen as the main character in Final Fantasy V. A courageous young man with a strong sense of justice, Bartz possesses the ability to mimic and combine the powers of Cosmos's other warriors in battle.

Crystal and Attire
Bartz's design is based on his artwork by Yoshitaka Amano, although Bartz has brown hair and gray eyes. His outfit is made up of different shades of blue and white, with a blue cape and leggings and gold trim.

Bartz's first alternate outfit "White Mist Cape" is based on an alternate Amano artwork, which depicts him with a zebra-striped shirt, a red cloth around his waist, black and white leggings with white boots, white hair, and a blue Brave Blade.

Bartz's second alternate outfit, "Freelancer," is based on his original sprite appearance in Final Fantasy V, with differently styled hair, blue eyes, a blue tunic, white pants, and green boots. His EX Mode mirrors his appearance from the original Super Famicom box art for Final Fantasy V, giving him a differently styled cape that wraps around the neck with a yellow emblem.

Bartz's Crystal is an ordinary purple jewel, reminiscent of the crystal shards used in Final Fantasy V to obtain a new job.

Bartz's Manikin version, Fallacious Wanderer, is cyan.

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
After being attacked by Kain, Bartz is found by Lightning as he reveals his attacker's identity before Kain spirits him away. Coming to in the Interdimensional Rift, Bartz is caught off guard by Gilgamesh, whom he cannot remember. Gilgamesh's reintroduction and story persuade him into fighting Gilgamesh, in a battle he ultimately wins. Though Bartz warns him, Gilgamesh is sucked back into the Rift as he swears to return for a true rematch against Bartz someday.

Bartz is earlier seen alongside Zidane and Squall who met with Kuja - believing him to be a rarely seen Warrior of Cosmos. He is later seen again and fought when playing as Kuja in another report section where Kuja reveals himself to be a traitor. Bartz later is seen talking to Warrior of Light, on the subject of naming the currently un-named warrior.

Destiny Odyssey
After Squall saves Bartz and Zidane from the Manikins, he is asked to come along to look for the Crystals together. Squall states he is more comfortable by himself and the three agree to split up. Just a moment after Bartz runs off with Zidane, he comes back and gives Squall a chocobo feather as a good luck charm, promising that Squall would give it back when they meet again later. Wishing to transform the crisis into a bit of fun, Bartz and Zidane propose to have a contest to see who will obtain their Crystal first. However, the competition is cut short as Kefka captures Bartz and fights Zidane. After Bartz regains consciousness, he finds himself in the hands of the Warriors of Chaos. Overhearing a conversation between Kefka and Kuja that Bartz's capture was a mistake and the trap was meant for Zidane, Bartz makes his escape. Later on, Bartz overhears a discussion between the Emperor, Ultimecia and Sephiroth concerning the fellow villains who fight only for destruction. At first Bartz thinks the Emperor and Sephiroth are fighting over Ultimecia; he is spotted and makes his escape, and the Emperor and Ultimecia hope that pursuing Bartz would lead them to Exdeath, who is holding a Crystal that Bartz snatches away without a second thought. Bartz runs into Golbez and fights him before continuing to look for Zidane. Bartz eventually finds Zidane and is surprised to see Squall is with him. When Bartz shows Zidane the Crystal he has caught, they find out it was no more than a trap that teleports Zidane to Kuja's mercy. Bartz laments everything was his fault and Squall gives him back the chocobo feather before running into Exdeath. Bartz, tired of running, decides to fight and defeat him. After he wins, the chocobo feather turns into his Crystal.

Shade Impulse
Bartz, Squall and Zidane reunite with the other Warriors and approach Cosmos whom Chaos disintegrates. Realizing that Cosmos sacrificed her life and the final hope of the world is in their hands, the Warriors battle their respective enemies one more time before eventually defeating Chaos himself. After finding themselves near Castle Cornelia in the reformed world of the original Final Fantasy in the game's ending, Bartz returns to his world, as he throws a stick and fades into a forest. As he leaves, he tells his friends that when one is having the most fun, that is when time just flies on.

Battle
Bartz's fighting style is Mimic, as he copies the attacks of the other Warriors of Cosmos, freely changing between their weapons and fighting styles in battle to create new combos. His Bravery attacks have the unique feature of carrying support abilities, and he is able to equip any equipment piece in the game, giving him a high degree of versatility. Bartz's HP attacks are original attacks from other characters, and he possesses an impressive ground speed, though not as fast as some other characters like Zidane and Onion Knight. A slight drawback is that most of Bartz's moves are close to mid-ranged, limiting his ranged capabilities.

In Dissidia 012, Bartz's fighting style is almost completely revamped to accommodate the new characters.

Boss
Bartz is fought in Distant Glory and Inward Chaos.

Attacks
Bravery attacks

HP attacks

Bravery to HP attacks Bravery attacks

HP attacks

Bravery to HP attacks

EX Mode
Spellblade - Dual Wield - Rapid Fire rhqQQq744rM Bartz's EX Mode is Job Mastered. Bartz's cape turns red, approximating his appearance as a Mime in Final Fantasy V, and gains three gold stars over his head, a symbol of job mastery in the same game. While in EX Mode Bartz gains the special attack Goblin Punch by pressing R +. The attack is a quick, short-ranged HP attack with the Wall Rush ability, and does Bravery damage before knocking the opponent away. As is tradition with the attack, it does more damage if Bartz and his opponent are at the same level.

Bartz's EX Burst is Master Mime in Dissidia 012 - in Dissidia it is named Spellblade-Dual Wield-Rapid Fire, referring to a powerful combination of abilities commonly used in Final Fantasy V. Bartz imbues his friends' weapons with elemental energy and attacks his opponent eight times. In order for it to be perfectly executed, four pairs of D-Pad commands must be input correctly in quick succession. He finishes off the Burst by combining all his mimicry weapons into the Brave Blade for a final attack.

Equipment
Bartz is able to use any sort of equipment, except for the pieces unique to the other characters and female exclusive equipment.

Allusions

 * Bartz's weapon is the Brave Blade, a weapon from Final Fantasy V that is initially powerful but decreases in strength as the player flees from battle. Ironically, Bartz spends much of his storyline hiding from and fleeing from the various villains, perhaps a reference to the Brave Blade's counterpart, the Chicken Knife, which grows stronger as the player flees from battle. In Dissidia 012, Gilgamesh can use the Chicken Knife as one of his weapons.
 * Similar to Gilgamesh's use of parody weapons owned by various warriors, Bartz uses a variety of weapons the other heroes use: The Warrior of Light's sword and shield, Firion's axe and lance, Onion Knight's sword, both of Cecil's swords from his two forms, Cloud's Buster Sword, Squall's Revolver gunblade, Zidane's Mage Mashers and Tidus's Brotherhood.
 * In Dissidia 012, Bartz gains Kain's spear, Laguna's Ragnarok Cannon, Yuna's staff and the Aeons summoned by it, Vaan's katana and Lightning's Blazefire Saber.
 * Several references are made to Bartz's friend Boko, his pet chocobo: Bartz carries around one of Boko's feathers as a good luck charm, and when he begins his EX Burst chocobo footprints run across the screen, and the cry of a chocobo is heard as Bartz kicks his opponent with a flurry of yellow feathers around him.
 * In Dissidia 012, in one of the world map conversations, Bartz refers to the feather as his "partner", further referencing Boko.
 * Bartz's association with the wind is a reference to the fact it was his element in Final Fantasy V.
 * Bartz's EX Burst, where he attacks eight times with magic-enhanced weapons, is a reference to one of the most powerful ability combinations in Final Fantasy V. Dual Wield lets a character equip two weapons, Spellblade lets them enchant them with magic, and Rapid Fire lets them attack four times with each weapon, for a total of eight strikes. These abilities can only be used all at once by the Freelancer or Mime classes, hence Bartz's status in Dissidia as a Mime.
 * As Bartz begins his EX Burst, he raises his arms, and the eight swords he uses for the burst fly out in four directions, turn into orbs of magic, and fly back into him. This is identical to the animation used for Spellblade in Final Fantasy V. The colors of the magic are red, blue, yellow and green, referring to the colors and associated elemental Crystals' elements in Final Fantasy V. As well, before inputting the commands for his EX Burst, he will shout out, "The four essences!", which is seen at the PlayStation version's intro FMV of Final Fantasy V, describing the power of the Crystals.
 * Two of Bartz's strongest exclusive weapons are nods towards the Warriors of Dawn, and his father Dorgann Klauser, who was a member. Bartz's artwork for the game is in the same pose as Dorgann's artwork.
 * The Goblin Punch attack available in Bartz's EX Mode uses the same visual effects of white stars used to display a hit in Final Fantasy V. The Goblin Punch attack is furthermore a reference to Final Fantasy V being the first game in the series to use Blue Magic, as the blue octahedrons from the attack animation of Blue Magic in Final Fantasy V are included in the move as well.
 * The fact that Bartz's attacks grant him minor support abilities may be a reference to how Blue Magic works in Final Fantasy XI. It also may be a reference to the Mime class's ability to take on the support abilities and stat boosts of mastered classes in Final Fantasy V.
 * Bartz's ability to use other heroes' weapons may refer to Gilgamesh, who also uses the signature weapons of previous protagonists in Final Fantasy XII, and who first appeared in Final Fantasy V. When battling Jecht, Bartz says "Let's fight like men!" as a reference to one of Gilgamesh's famous lines. Another line said by Gilgamesh is when fighting Chaos, "Let's finish this, one on one!" which is said by Gilgamesh to Bartz before he defeats Necrophobe in Final Fantasy V, "When we meet again, let's fight one on one!"
 * When Bartz finds the Leviathan summonstone in his Story Mode, he exclaims "Sweet Cosmos, it's a talking rock!", a reference to his amazement when he met Ghido: "Sweet Christmas, it's a talking turtle!"
 * Bartz's victory pose is identical to the Amano artwork of him.
 * Bartz's combo of Holy and Flare is a reference to the Fork Tower, where the player is forced to acquire both Holy and Flare simultaneously in order to progress.
 * At the end of the battle scene between him and Exdeath in his Destiny Odyssey, Bartz assumes a pose similar to that of his sprite in the original game.
 * Before he returns to his homeland, Bartz is in a forest, similar to Final Fantasy V where he starts and ends his journey in a forest.
 * Bartz can use any equipment besides exclusive and female-only equipment. This is referencing his job class as a Mime, as Mimes can use any equipment except Ribbons, as in Final Fantasy V.
 * During a cutscene in a report sequence, Tidus asks Bartz about his homeworld. Bartz is able to remember a old friend from his past, but doesn't remember his name as he tries to think about it. He is clearly referring to his friend Galuf. This is further hinted when Tidus asked if it was actually a guy and not a girl, Bartz replies, "No it was a guy, an old guy."
 * In Dissidia 012, when the Warrior of Light faces Bartz, the latter says "You're not the only warrior of light here!" This is a reference to the fact that Bartz and his allies were indeed the second generations of Warriors of Light in Final Fantasy V.
 * In 012, when Bartz faces himself he says "Let's have a staring contest." This is a reference to how the player must simply do nothing in order to defeat Famed Mimic Gogo so that they may acquire the Mime Job.
 * In 012, when Bartz faces Kain, the latter says "Surprising that you would fear the skies." This is a reference to Bartz's fear of heights in Final Fantasy V.

Trivia

 * Of all of Bartz's Bravery attacks, Holy is the only one that is not a combination of two attacks. It is an identical copy of the original attack used by Terra. As with Terra's Holy Combo, Bartz's Holy chains into Flare, but his Flare is Onion Knight's Flare HP attack while Terra's Flare is a Bravery attack.
 * Bartz performs some moves with the opposite hand: Cecil uses Soul Eater with his sword in his right hand, but Bartz holds it in his left.
 * Bartz is the sixth hero to obtain his Crystal in Destiny Odyssey 90.
 * Although it is depicted in his artwork, Bartz only uses the Brave Blade when he is using his EX Burst. He otherwise uses the Crystal Sword in his victory pose, and the Mage Masher, Onion Sword, and Crystal Sword in his extended opening pose.
 * Rather than Firion's Blood Sword, Bartz uses his axe during his EX Burst. Firion's weapon is the only one used in the EX Burst that is not a sword or sword-derivative.
 * Bartz quotes his comrades when using their attacks, and even mimics their tone of voice.
 * Bartz has the quickest HP attack, only accessible in his EX Mode, Goblin Punch.
 * Bartz's EX Burst is mistakenly referred to as "Master Mime" in the menu in Dissidia. His EX Burst is renamed this in-battle in Dissidia 012.
 * In the Battle Tips menu, Penelo states that Bartz, due to his antics and personality, reminds her of Vaan.
 * Bartz's image on "Dissidia Potion" cans, along with Terra's, is not from the official artwork. Although in Bartz's case, only his height differs, so it's hardly noticeable.
 * Bartz learns the most new moves of any character in Dissidia 012.
 * Shantotto and Prishe are the only Warriors of Cosmos that Bartz does not mimic.
 * Despite Terra, Cloud and Tidus being Warriors of Chaos in Dissidia 012, Bartz still mimics their powers. This is perhaps due to the fact that Terra, Cloud, and Tidus are converted into Warriors of Cosmos halfway through the 12th cycle of war.
 * Bartz has used Cecil's HP attacks the most, using 4 of his attacks. In the first Dissidia Final Fantasy, Bartz uses Paladin Force and Soul Eater. In Dissidia 012, Bartz uses Dark Flames and Luminous Shard.
 * Hazaerd Raid is the only bravery attack Bartz uses that isn't an amalgation of the original attack names.