Concept art for Final Fantasy VII.
Giants (ジャイアント, Jaianto?, ギガース, Gigāsu?, or 巨人, Kyojin?), also known as Gigas or Gigant, are a recurring enemy type in the Final Fantasy series. It is comprised of various humanoid enemies of typically gigantic stature, including their namesake giants and gigas, ogres, and sometimes even diminutive cousins like goblins. The Ogrekiller is a recurring weapon that deals increased damage to giant-type enemies.
The common Giant or Gigas, also known as the Colossus, is a somewhat rare enemy in the family. While a moderately dangerous enemy when it appears, it is often the first and weakest enemy of its type encountered.
Appearances[]
Final Fantasy[]
The Giant is a colossal creature that lives in the Giant's Cave. It blocks the path through the cave necessary to reach the Sage's Cave, and can only be persuaded to step aside by feeding it a Star Ruby obtained in the Cavern of Earth. Giant is also an enemy type comprising various gigas, ogres, and goblins that take increased damage from the Excalibur, Great Sword, and Ogrekiller.
Final Fantasy II[]
Giant is an enemy type comprising various gigas, ogres, and goblins that take increased damage from the Ogrekiller.
Final Fantasy IV[]
Giant is an enemy type comprising various ogres and golems. Giants take increased damage from the Angel Arrow, Blood Lance, Blood Sword, Faerie Claws, Loki's Lute, Ogrekiller, Perseus Arrow, and Poison Axe, while the Giant's Gloves reduce damage taken from giants.
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years[]
Giant returns as an enemy type, as do the Angel Arrows Ogrekiller, Perseus Arrows, and Giant's Gloves with the same advantages against Giant-type enemies. The Phase Cutter is added as a weapon effective against giants, while the Blue Armor, Phase Body, Phase Helm, Phase Shield, and Phase Knuckle are added as giant-resisting armor.
Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-[]
Giant returns as an enemy type again, but only the Faerie Claws and Giant's Gloves return as giant-countering equipment.
Final Fantasy V[]
The Gigas is an enemy fought when escaping from the Karnak Castle and commonly appears in the monster-in-a-box chests there. It uses wind-elemental spells, such as Aero and Aera, and is a wind-elemental creature. This is the earliest Blue Mages can learn Aera, though it is not recommended to spend too much time on this due to the time constraint.
Final Fantasy VI[]
The Giant is a dummied enemy. It uses the same palette as the Hill Gigas. Based on its level and HP, it may have been intended to be encountered as a regular enemy in the final dungeon. Its level is substantially higher than any other regular enemy, but its HP does not quite reach boss levels and is even eclipsed by some regular enemies.
Final Fantasy VII[]
The Gigas is an enemy fought in the slope of North Crater and in the seventh round of the Battle Square after acquiring the Highwind and Cloud Strife rejoins the party. When fought at the Battle Square, its stats are enhanced with double the normal HP and its Attack and Magic Attack are increased by 25%.
Final Fantasy XI[]
Gigas are a type of beastmen which inhabit the northern regions of Vana'diel. They've landed on Qufim Island, Vunkerl Inlet, and have been living in the Northlands since the war.
Final Fantasy XII[]
Giants are a classification of enemies that include the drastically different Behemoth, a Headless, and Slaven genera. Obtaining the Knight's Monograph allows the party to obtain additional item drops from Giant enemies.
Final Fantasy XIV[]
Gigants (巨人, Kyojin?) are a species of giant humanoid spoken hailing from Abalathia's Spine. While they tower over most other spoken, gigants are relatively lacking in intelligence. In Eorzea, Gigants are divided into three dominant tribes: the Gigas (ギガース, Gigāsu?), the Giants (ジャイアント, Jaianto?), and the Hecatoncheires (ヘカトン, Hekaton?). In Tural, another tribe of Gigant, the Yok Huy, once held an empire in Urqopacha.
The gigas are relatively more intelligent than their primitive brethren, and have historically subjugated their giant and hecatoncheir cousins as slaves, and centuries ago sold the hecatoncheirs to Ul'dah to work their mines. In modern days however, most giants and hecatoncheires are broken free of servitude, and the three tribes are in constant conflict with each other. Gigas appear to worship the recently unearthed Crystal Tower, with many of their recently deceased found by scholars to have been carrying crude statuettes approximating the tower.
Final Fantasy X-2[]
The Gigas is an enemy found in the Fiend Haunt, Bikanel, Ruin Depths, and Cloisters 30 to 32 of the Via Infinito. It uses the Ogre's model from Final Fantasy X.
Final Fantasy X-2: Last Mission[]
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Final Fantasy XVI[]
Gigas resemble large, obese goblins, wielding large weapons and possessing surprising agility given their size and stature. Despite their association with goblins, it is disputed in-universe whether the two are the same species. The common Gigas appears as the first boss of the game in Stillwind, summoned by a Goblin leader to attack Clive, Wade, and Tyler. It later appears as a regularly occurring mini-boss.
Final Fantasy Type-0[]
Gigas is a Golem-class Eidolon. It can be obtained by completing the mission Expelling the Empire on Officer difficulty.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles[]
The Gigas is an enemy encountered at Selepation Cave for all cycles. Despite being one of the stronger monsters of Selepation Cave, the Gigas can be easily defeated with a powerful Fire spell. The Gigas is slow, but the player should attack from afar as its physical attacks can deal a great amount of damage.
The Final Fantasy Legend[]
The Giant is an enemy encountered on the 16th floor of the Tower, and a potential transformation for the party's monster units.
Final Fantasy Legend II[]
The Giant is an enemy encountered in the Central Shrine, and a potential transformation for the party's monster units.
Final Fantasy Dimensions[]
The Gigas is an enemy encountered in the Challenge Dungeon of the Prologue. Since the Challenge Dungeons do not appear outside the original phone release, it is dummied in the other versions and therefore not available in any English version of the game.
Final Fantasy Dimensions II[]
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The Gigas from Final Fantasy XI appears as an enemy.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call[]
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Pictlogica Final Fantasy[]
The Gigas from Final Fantasy V appears as an enemy.
Final Fantasy Artniks Dive[]
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The Gigas from Final Fantasy V appears as an enemy in Palamecia Desert. It uses Elbow and drops the Survivor weapon.
Final Fantasy Record Keeper[]
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The Gigas from Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy XI appear as a enemies.
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius[]
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The Theatrhythm version of Final Fantasy XI's Gigas as an Earth-elemental Monster card.
Dice de Chocobo[]
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The mythology and legends of many different cultures include monsters of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. Giant is the English word, coined 1297, commonly used for such beings, derived from one of the most famed examples: the gigantes of Greek mythology.
Gigas is a popular term for races of giants in fantasy games. Gigas is a Greek word meaning "giant", originally used to describe the race of Gigantes in Greek mythology and is used in the scientific name, as the specific epithet, of hundreds of species of animals and dozens of plant species to denote their size.