Concept artwork from Final Fantasy II. While the family first appeared in the original Final Fantasy, its Final Fantasy II is the basis of its iconic appearance.
Freely contorting its amorphous form, the flan will consume the unwary, leaving not even bones behind. They can suspend their sticky bodies from walls and ceilings, waiting patiently for prey to come to them.
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The Flan (プリン, Purin?, lit. Pudding), also known as the Pudding, is a recurring type of creature in the Final Fantasy series. True to its name, it is a gelatinous creature, generally possessing large eyes and a mouth that takes up the majority of the front of their body. In many games, it has elastic arms that spurt from the sides of their body.
In most games, flan-type enemies are named for various gelatinous foods, such as jelly, pudding, or simply flan. Some games will also draw on words such as "slime" or "ooze". The basic Flan typically appears as the weakest member of the family, while the Black Flan is the most commonly recurring and typically strongest variant. Slimes are a related type of creature typically distinguished by having a less defined form with no face or limbs, though there is some overlap between the two families.
In many games, flans are weaker creatures, encountered fairly early on. In some games, there are some flans with elemental affinities, such as the Ice Flan or Dark Flan. Flans typically have extreme defenses, being exceptionally resistant to physical attacks while vulnerable to magic or vice versa, or weak against one element while resisting all others. Flans are also likely to be formidable casters.
Appearances[]
Final Fantasy[]
Four types of flans appear as enemies inspired by classic Dungeons & Dragons monsters: the Green Slime, Gray Ooze, Ochre Jelly and Black Flan. The Red Flan, a Final Fantasy original monster, appears exclusively in the Dawn of Souls and 20th Anniversary remakes.
Final Fantasy II[]
Four varieties of flan appear as enemies: the Green Slime, the Yellow Jelly, the Red Mousse and the Black Flan. The Flan Princess is added to the Dawn of Souls and 20th Anniversary versions. All flans are Earth- and Flying-type enemies. Flans received a significant visual redesign that would form the basis for the majority of their depictions across the series, appearing more as big, sticky gumdrops with goofy faces and arms. The names of Flan-family enemies also shifted to a stronger trend towards gelatinous confections as inspirations.
Final Fantasy III[]
Three varieties of flan appear as enemies: the Black Flan, the Slime, and the Red Marshmallow.
Final Fantasy IV[]
Flan appears as an enemy type that takes increased damage from the Blood Lance, Blood Sword, and Index Finger. Six varieties of flan appear as enemies: the Flan Princess, Red Mousse, Black Flan , Purple Bavarois, Yellow Jelly, and White Mousse. The Golden Flan and Dust Mousse additionally appear as enemies exclusive to the Advance and Complete Collection releases. Flan enemies possess a near-impervious defense against physical attacks in the 2D releases; they are considerably more vulnerable to physical damage in the 3D versions.
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years[]
Flan returns as an enemy type consisting of the returning Flan Princess, Red Mousse, Black Flan, Dust Mousse, Purple Bavarois, Yellow Jelly, and White Mousse, and the new Green Cell. No weapons deal increased damage to the type, but the Flan Ring reduces damage taken from flan-type enemies.
Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-[]
Flan returns as an enemy type that takes increased damage from the Index Finger. Three types of flan return as enemies: the Black Flan, Purple Bavarois, and White Mousse.
Final Fantasy V[]
Three types of flans as enemies: the Gel Fish, Blood Slime, and Dark Aspic.
Final Fantasy VI[]
The common Flan first appears in Final Fantasy VI as an enemy encountered in the Magitek Research Facility. It has low Defense but is immune to most elements. It can use Sticky Goo to slow one party member. The Mousse is the only other variety of flan to appear in the base game; the Flan Princess appears as an optional boss in the Advance and Matrix Software releases.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth[]
The Flan appears as an enemy encountered in the Mythril Mines and Junon Region. The White Mousse is the only other variety of flan to appear. Flans are among the few types of enemies to appear in Rebirth that were not in the original Final Fantasy VII.
Final Fantasy VIII[]
The Blobra appears as the sole flan-type enemy. It takes minimal damage from physical attacks, and is randomly weak to Fire, Ice, or Lightning. Most defensive status spells can be Drawn from it.
Final Fantasy IX[]
The common Flan is the only enemy of its type to appear, being encountered in the Ice Cavern.
Final Fantasy X[]
Eight types of flan appear as enemies encountered throughout Spira, each with their own elemental affinities: the Water Flan, Thunder Flan, Snow Flan, Ice Flan, Flame Flan, Aqua Flan, Dark Flan, and Jumbo Flan. While flan-type enemies are strong against physical attacks, using Armor Break will cause most of them to take full damage from physical attacks.
Final Fantasy X-2[]
Six types of flan appear as enemies: the Flan Amarillo, Flan Azabache, Flan Azul, Flan Blanco, Flan Palido, and Flan Rojo. They are generally similar to the Flan encountered in Final Fantasy X, but, possibly due to Flan being a dessert of Spanish origin, they are given Spanish names, usually the Spanish word for the color they happen to be. It takes 20 kills to Oversoul a flan.
Final Fantasy X-2: Last Mission[]
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Flans appear as a family of amorphs typically found in the Near East, particularly around Halvung. They regularly cast black magic spells, but also take increased damage from spells, making them very popular EXP targets for black mages, red mages, and scholars. The Botulus is a related creature resembling a gigantic flan bearing a crown.
Final Fantasy XII[]
Flans are the only genus of the amorph classification, with the common Flan being encountered as an enemy in the Garamsythe Waterway and Barheim Passage. Flans resist damage from guns and measures, and some have the ability to duplicate themselves to overwhelm an opponent with numbers. Aside from the common Flan, members of the genus include the Tallow, Jelly, Hecteyes, Oiling, Foobar, Slime, Etherian, Melt, Cubus, White Mousse, and Orthros.
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings[]
The flan appears as an enemy type with four variants: the Blue Flan, Red Flan, Yellow Flan, and Green Flan.
Final Fantasy XIII[]
Flans appear as a genus of enemies under the Militarized Units or Feral Creatures classifications, with the common Flan being encountered in the Archylte Steppe and Vallis Media. Flan designed for military use in Cocoon have metallic components attached to them, while the wild flan are fully organic. Many of the wild Flan have the ability to merge with others of their kind in order to form larger Flan. Members of the genus include the Flan, Dire Flan, Monstrous Flan, Flandragora, Hybrid Flora, Phosphoric Ooze, Alchemic Ooze, Flanitor, Flanborg, Rust Pudding, Ferruginous Pudding, Corrosive Custard, Ectopudding, and Gelatitan. The Rotten Tomato is a dummied flan originally intended to appear in the cut Seventh Ark.
Final Fantasy XIII-2[]
The flan returns as a genus of enemies including the Flanbanero, Flanitor, and Flanborg, the dummied Phosphoric Ooze, and the juvenile Miniflan. Furthermore, the wild flans' ability to merge with others of their kind is taken to an extreme in the forms of Royal Ripeness and Mutantomato.
Flans play a role in the storyline at Sunleth Waterscape where a giant flan has appeared due to a paradox and is eroding the crystal pillar. Noel temporarily surrenders his trade as monster hunter for a bit of monster rescuing in 400 AF, rounding up lost miniflans with Serah, only to find that mischievous lesser flans again threaten the Pillar.
It is mentioned in the Brain Blast quiz in Academia that during the annual Gran Pulse festival, La Prettina, an event that celebrates the coming of spring, people throw flan at one another. Furthermore, the Brain Blast quiz also mentions that Flan are terribly spicy in flavor. Flan are a regular food source of hunters, whose livelihood is threatened by the appearance of the Faeryl drives away the flan from the Archylte Steppe into the Sunleth Waterscape. Defeating the Faeryl removes Miniflan and Flanbanero from the Waterscape as they migrate back to the Steppe.
In a paradox ending in the Sunleth Waterscape, a giant flan takes over Cocoon and Serah, Noel and Mog sneak into the Waterscape with Noel disguised as a Microchu and Serah as a Miniflan in an attempt to defeat it by serving it a poisoned flan.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII[]
Three types of flan appear as enemies: the Flanitor, Miniflan, and Ectopudding. Of these, only the Miniflan and Ectopudding have Last One variants, the Miniflan Ω and Ectopudding Ω. Flanitors patrol the streets of Yusnaan and attack the player on sight before Lightning clears her name there. The other variants are daytime enemies on the Wildlands: Miniflan on the Grasslands and Ectopudding on the Eremite Plains. The latter also appear in the Temple of the Goddess regardless of the time of day.
Final Fantasy XIV[]
The Flan, also known as the Pudding, is a type of voidsent formed of residual matter that accumulates in the void. Flans are typically encountered in caves and dungeons with some kind of disruption of the aether flow. They can change their elemental alignment at will, and typically attack using elemental magic. In the original release, they were one of the few creatures capable of absorbing elemental attacks.
Players can obtain the Bite-Sized Pudding as a minion.
Final Fantasy XV[]
Flans are a variety of daemons that spawn in dungeons and at night. They halve physical damage, but take full damage from royal arms. The common Flan is encountered in the Greyshire Glacial Grotto, Malmalam Thicket, and Costlemark Tower, as well as during the Squash the Squirmers hunt in Leide. The Jumbo Flan, simply Flan (フラン, Furan?) in the Japanese localization, appears during the Raindrops in the Night hunt. Other varieties of flan include the Crème Brûlée, Gelatin, Bavarois, Marshmallow, Dolce, Custard, Matcha Mousse, Black Flan, and Lakhmu Flan.
A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV[]
Flans appear as enemies that resist physical attacks and are impervious to magic that is the same color as them. Blue flans are immune to ice, red flans are immune to fire, and yellow flans are immune to lightning. If a flan is defeated with magic, it will instantly die, but if it is defeated with physical attacks, it will split into two weaker flans.
Final Fantasy XVI[]
Flans appear as mini-bosses capable of using powerful elemental magic. Common varities of flan include the Blue Trifle, Green Fool, Purple Bavarois, Red Mousse, and Yellow Jelly. The Flan Prince appears as a notorious mark capable of using multiple elements. The Quindim is another common variant exclusive to the DLC "The Rising Tide."
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance[]
Three type of flan appear as enemies: the Jelly, Cream, and Ice Flan
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift[]
The Flan is a family of enemies including the Red Marshmallow, Yellow Jelly, Ice Flan, White Pudding, and Orthros. They do not possess a high defense.
Final Fantasy Tactics S[]
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Crystal Defenders[]
Four types of Flan appear as enemies: the Ice Flan, White Pudding, Red Marshmallow and Yellow Jelly.
Final Fantasy Type-0[]
There are four varieties of flan, which make up four different enemy families: the Flame Flan, Ice Flan, Electric Flan, and Aqua Flan.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles[]
The common Flan appears as an enemy encountered in the Goblin Wall and Conall Curach. Other varities of flan include the Dark Flan and Water Flan.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates[]
The common Flan appears as an enemy encountered in the Old Town. Other varieties include the Ice Flan, Fire Flan, and Dika Flan.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King[]
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The common Flan appears as an enemy encountered in the Forest and Ruins. Other varities of flan include the Fire Flan, and Ice Flan.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers[]
The common Flan appears as an enemy encountered in the Snowfields. Other varieties of flan include the Armor Flan, Princess Flan, Tallow, and Lil' Flan.
The Final Fantasy Legend[]
Six types of flan appear as enemies and potential transformation for monster units: the Gummy, Hi-Slime, Jelly, Legend, Slime, Tororo,
Final Fantasy Legend II[]
Five types of Flan appear as enemies and potential transformation for monster units: the Jelly, Pudding, Slime, SlimeGod, and Tororo.
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light[]
Three types of flan appear as enemies: the Slime, Metal Flan, and Red Jelly. Flans can merge with others of their kind to raise their overall stats.
Final Fantasy Dimensions[]
Seven types of flan appear as enemies: the Red Mousse, Yellow Jelly, White Mousse, Ice Flan, Aqua Flan, Black Flan, and Flan Princess.
Final Fantasy Dimensions II[]
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Flans appear as a type of enemy that typically resists physical damage. The common Flan is among the first enemies encountered, serving to emphasize the need for varied damage types. Other types of flan include the Flame Flan and Thunder Flan, while the Flan Medley appears as a boss.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy series[]
Flans appear as enemies during Battle Music Sequences.
Pictlogica Final Fantasy[]
The common Flans from Final Fantasy VI and XIII appear as enemies. Several other flan variants also appear.
Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade[]
The Flan appears as an enemies encountered in the Mist Cave. They are instantly defeated when encountered.
Final Fantasy All the Bravest[]
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The common Flans from Final Fantasy VI and XIII appear as enemies in the Bridge of Moore and Archylte Steppe.
Final Fantasy Record Keeper[]
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The common Flans from Final Fantasy VI, XII, and Dimensions II, and World Wide Words appear as enemies.
Final Fantasy Explorers[]
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Final Fantasy World Wide Words[]
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The common Flan from Final Fantasy XV appears as an enemy during the events "The Frozen Cavern" and "The Web-Weaving Princess." Other varieties of flan appear as aquatic-type enemies including the Green Slime, Yellow Jelly, Red Marshmallow, White Mousse, Crème Brûlée, Blancmange, Gray Ooze, Black Flan, and Flan Princess, all based on the flans from Final Fantasy IV, while the Dark Flan from Final Fantasy X also appears.
World of Final Fantasy[]
The common Flan appears as a Mirage encountered in the Windswept Mire, Coliseum, EX Dungeon A, and Hidden Dungeon. It can be imprismed with a Mini Flan Prism after hitting it with physical attacks, and transfigured with the Flan Princess, and Mini Flan. A fourth type of flan, the Kaguya Flan, appears as DLC or in the Maxima version.
Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon[]
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Dice de Chocobo[]
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The Flan from Theatrhythm Final Fantasy appears as an ice-elemental card.
Final Fantasy Portal App[]
The common Flan from Final Fantasy VI appears as a Triple Triad cards with 5/4/1/1 values. Other varieties of flan from throughout the series also appear as cards.
Non-Final Fantasy guest appearances[]
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The Final Jelly (ファイナルゼリ－, Fainaru Zerī?) appears as an Egg Monster. The sprite is a modified version of the flan-type monsters from Final Fantasy IV.
Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable[]
The Flan appears as a chance card that grants 50G to target player.
Etymology[]
The word Flan refers to an open pastry or sponge cake containing a sweet or savory filling. A typical flan of this sort is round, with shortcrust pastry, usually coated with sweet syrup. It is similar to a custard tart or a South African melktert.