The Final Fantasy series has had many pop culture references throughout its existance.
Movies
- In Charlie's Angels, two of the characters are playing Final Fantasy VIII.
Television and cartoons
I don't want fries with that, Cloud.
- The TV series Robot Chicken had a parody of Final Fantasy VII called the Final Fantasy Burger Chain, featuring Cloud, Barret, Tifa, Aeris and Yuffie. The restaurant is owned by Sephiroth and is ultimately destroyed by Cloud in a fight with Sephiroth. The characters don't actually speak in this, as their dialogue is shown in a blue box at the top of the screen similar to games in the series from Final Fantasy to Final Fantasy VII.
- There are several references to the series in the Homestar Runner series of Flash Cartoons:
- Videlectrix Films is a parody of Square Films, the company that produced Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
- In Teen Girl Squad Issue 8, the Shark at the end looks like the Shark enemy from the original Final Fantasy.
Webcomics
- 8-Bit Theater is a Final Fantasy based webcomic which follows the story of the original game, starring a Fighter, a Thief, a Black Mage, and a Red Mage.
- The Order of the Stick comic series Episode 388, the characters Elan and Thog disguise themselves as Locke and Mog from Final Fantasy VI so they can get aboard the Blackjack to head to Azure City. However, Terra and Edgar are suspicious of them when they use the term "Resurrect" to describe a Phoenix Down and throw them overboard
- Neglected Mario Characters features many Final Fantasy characters, most notably Kefka and Celes in the "Mario Busters" series.
- VGCats has several episodes relating to Chocobo raising, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XI, and Final Fantasy XII.
- The comic Adventure Log is about a Mithra named Kiro's journeys in Vana'diel.
Other Video Games
- The Wizzrobe enemy from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past looks suspiciously like a Black Mage.
- In Tales of Symphonia, a man in the slums is looking for a flower seller. This is clearly a reference to Aeris from Final Fantasy VII.
- In Super Smash Bros. Melee, three of the random names that are chosen are Vivi, Lulu, and Odin.
Real world
- The 2004 Summer Olympics' women's synchronized swimming event had one team swimming to Liberi Fatali.
- Professional wrestler Chris Sabin got his namesake from the Final Fantasy VI character Sabin.
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