Tifa Lockhart

Tifa Lockhart
Tifa in "Dead Fantasy"
Full Name	Tifa Lockhart
Affiliation	Final Fantasy
Debuts	Final Fantasy VII Dead Fantasy I
Age	23
Nationality	Unknown
Fighting Style	Monk Zangan-Ryu Martial Arts mixed with Materia magic Zui Quan (DFII)
Weapons	Knuckles Materia
Main Rival	Hitomi

Tifa Lockhart is one of the female protagonists in the widely-acclaimed video game, Final Fantasy VII. She makes her first appearance in the Dead Fantasy series at the end of the first episode.

Background[]

Tifa is Cloud Strife's childhood friend from Nibelheim and a key member of an eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE. She also owns a bar called 7th Heaven, located in Sector 7 slums of Midgar, which also serves as an AVALANCHE hideout. Her personality is much more laid back and selfless in comparison, with a motherly streak concerning all her friends and her attitude to others.

Role In Dead Fantasy[]

Dead Fantasy I[]

During Dead Fantasy I, Yuna and Rikku are being battered by team Dead or Alive. Toward the end, just as Ayane, Kasumi and Hitomi were ready for a final strike and charge them, Tifa shows up and rescues her teammates by simultaneously beating back all of the Dead or Alive girls across the platform. Yuna and Rikku recover and join Tifa, who strikes an offensive stance as her Materia glows and she was showed as the most powerful character among all the girls.

Dead Fantasy II[]

The Dead or Alive girls charge the Final Fantasy girls, only to again be repelled by a series of Tifa's kicks. She and Kasumi exchange magical attacks, afterward conjuring a wall of sharp ice and hurling Hitomi through it. Tifa grabs Ayane by the head and unleashes a vicious 15-hit combo, sending her flying backward. Afterward Tifa sets up an impressively coordinated three-way attack against the DOA girls using her time magic. Tifa then displays her strength by hurling Rikku (Tifa's teammate) through the air, then withstands a point-blank explosion to the back of her head courtesy of Kasumi. During Kasumi's protecting of Ayane, Tifa jumped up and dealt a jarring blow to her face, the only one capable of penetrating her defenses.

While sliding down the tower Tifa utilizes her lightning materia to duel Ayane, then uses Kasumi's head to break a stone wall. Tifa outmaneuvers Hitomi while on the stone block, backflipping over Hitomi, grabbing her by the waist, then suplexing her upper body straight through the stone they're standing on. Tifa then unleashes a chain of spells onto the trapped Hitomi, who flies back screaming and trailing smoke. Tifa then regroups and casts Haste on her team. Hitomi manages to block Tifa while she's hasted, but as soon as it wears off, Tifa kicks Hitomi upward, then unleashes Final Heaven. When the tower came down, Tifa casts Protect on her team preventing further damage from the fall.

The girls land on a stone slab floating atop a bed of lava. Yuna supports a visibly weary Tifa, hurt from the fall and likely having expended too much energy casting spells. Yuna readies a Potion and Ether, but soon both her and Rikku fall to the DOA team, at which point Tifa then steps up to reaquire the bottles, flipping over Hitomi and allowing Kasumi's ninja blade to slice the bottle open for her. She then smashes the second bottle across Hitomi's face and beats her down with one arm. She then proceeds to beat the entire team whilst sustaining little damage herself. Even after being nearly knocked into the lava, she runs straight over it and delivers a flaming kick to Rachel's face.

Once Rinoa enters the fray and conjures the Tornado, Tifa is seen firing flaming spells into it at the DOA girls. Inside the tornado Tifa kicks Hitomi to Rinoa, who proceeds to repeatedly body-slam her enemies. After the conjuring of the Lunar Portal, Tifa slams Hitomi down into the one that leads to the site seen in Dead Fantasy III.

Dead Fantasy III[]

Tifa and Hitomi start their battle off by hitting each other with mirrored blows. First Hitomi kicks down Tifa, then Tifa does the same, only with ice imbued into her leg. The two go to punch each other, but Tifa gains the advantage after channeling a Fire spell through her arm, sending a wave of fire into Hitomi's face and forcing her to fly back. The whole church structure now set ablaze, Tifa imitates Sephiroth's infamous fire scene. Tifa throws a fire kick at Hitomi, briefly setting her bare arm on fire, then knocks her to the ground. She then throws her into a pillar, but Hitomi vaults off of it, catches Tifa with her legs, and sends her knocking into another pillar, which shatters on impact. After several more blows are exchanged with no combatant outdoing the other, Tifa briefly gains the upper hand against Hitomi with a powerful rapid combination ending with Poison and Blind applied to Hitomi, knocking her down and away. Once Hitomi gains her bearings, Tifa attacks again expecting the fight to be easier now against a blinded opponent. Using touch Hitomi counters Tifa's blows, and surprisingly, is able to expel the materia from her body. After knocking Tifa's materia out Hitomi sends her flying out of the church. Tifa gets up and recovers, but she is bleeding. Before she and Hitomi can reengage to continue their fight, Hayate and his ninja clan appear to interrupt.

Dead Fantasy IV[]

Tifa is seen at the end of the fourth episode in a flashback. After Cloud Strife rescues Yuna, he remembers the last time he saw Tifa before she fell down to the ruins of Midgar in Dead Fantasy V. Before that, there was some word appeared which was from Cloud, it mentions that he was there because he trusts Tifa and Yuna somehow reminds him of Aerith, whom he said goodbye a long time ago.

Dead Fantasy V[]

"It's only if you understand love... That you understand absolute fear... She needs my help.

-- Cloud Strife to Tifa before she falls off the cliff in the ruins of Midgar

"Trust me."​

--Tifa to Cloud before she falls off the cliff in the ruins of Midgar

In Dead Fantasy V, Hayate interrupts the fight between Hitomi and Tifa that he sends his ninja clan to capture Tifa. Having had almost all of her materia expelled from her during her fight with Hitomi, Tifa is considerably low on defense and advantages. She is also severely injured due to the previous fight, trailing blood where she walks. She makes an attempt to escape the ninjas by jumping onto a train, to be foiled by her enemies ability to teleport. Tifa makes her final stand in a vacant automobile garage, but is soon slashed and further injured by the ninja's weapons. For defense she seizes a large hydraulic car jack, and begins smashing the ninjas away with it. Hayate's men then ready themselves to shoot Tifa with their bows. While she manages to block the majority, she is still hit. There a flashback occurs where Tifa is about to jump off the cliff where Zack Fair died. Cloud Strife tries to stop her, but she tells him, "Trust me". Directly after this line, Cloud tries to reach her but she jumps off the cliff. After she jumps, a feather is flown into the sky. She falls and wakes up because of the feather and in the ruins featured in Dead Fantasy II.

The flashback ends and Tifa finds renewed strength where she forces a pipe through a foe's head, then makes a charge at Hayate, who repels her. Unabashed, she continues to slay his men one after one, then makes a final charge for Hayate again. He teleports out of her reach while his surviving men wrap her limbs and neck with chains. Still she keeps fighting, slinging the men around at the end of their own chains. Finally she rushes for Hayate a final time. He teleports away again, and Tifa collapses behind him, either of an unseen attack, fatigue, or blood loss. Hayate carries Tifa out to Helena, who with Hitomi take her on a helicopter and transports her to the city seen at the end. They were followed closely by Yuna and Cloud Strife.

Dead Fantasy VI[]

At the near end of Dead Fantasy VI Tifa was currently being held captive and recuperating at the DOATEC Headquarters and it reveals that she survived her injuries from Hayate and his shinobi in Dead Fantasy V. She wakes up without her clothes and she looked at her surroundings and her eyes are lighted up due to being experimented inside the headquarters.

Dead Fantasy series (remake)[]

Dead Fantasy I (remake)[]

Tifa appears in the remake version of the original Dead Fantasy series due to the change of different animation graphics. As the story was still based on the original series.

Music Videos[]

Dead Fantasy Obsessed[]

Tifa appears in the music video Dead Fantasy Obsessed in her Crisis Core outfit. She and Kasumi provide background dancing while Cissnei sings and dances to the song.

Dead Fantasy Gee[]

Tifa appears in Dead Fantasy Gee, again in the Crisis Core outfit. She sings and dances alongside Yuna, Kasumi, Ayane, Rikku, Hitomi, Rinoa Heartilly, Kairi and Cissnei where she portays Seo Joohyun (better known as simply, Seohyun) of Girls' Generation.

Appearance[]

Tifa's appearance in Dead Fantasy is based on her look in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. She wears mostly black leather which is called a Leather Suit, a white tank top under a black leather vest with a zipper going up the center, black overhauled shorts which is below her knees and a long black cape at the back of her waist. She also wears black and white boots and her black gloves. She also wears a pink ribbon around her left bicep in memory of Aerith Gainsborough (Tifa's deceased friend). The pink ribbon she wears on her left bicep is red instead of pink resembling a band.

In the remake version, the pink ribbon is red to resemble the band she wore in the original movie, and her black gloves are replaced by red fingerless gloves with turquoise studs from her main outfit in the original Final Fantasy VII. Her overall appearance is her playable appearance in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT within her first alternate costume.

Towards the end of Dead Fantasy III through Dead Fantasy V her appearance is changed slightly due to her fight with Hitomi as she is bleeding heavily all over her body showing visible injuries. The black leather vest is torn on the left side and becomes tattered, the white tank top is torn to reveal her cleavage and half of her bosom at the left side, her black gloves get holes, the left sleeve of her overhauled shorts became shorter, and the black cape gets a shredded edge. Toward the end of Dead Fantasy V, the damaged cape is not seen when Tifa decapitates most of Hayate's shinobi.

In the promotional trailer, she is seen waking up without any clothes. It is unknown what Tifa will look like or wear in future installments due to her clothes being damaged.

In Dead Fantasy - Gee and Dead Fantasy - Obsessed she wears her Crisis Core outfit. It consists a gray and white tube top that reveals the top of her cleavage. That is under a brown leather minivest. Tifa also wears a brown miniskirt with a belt around it. She wears a cowboy hat around her neck with the string that keeps the hat on the head/neck. To finish off the outfit she wears heeled brown cowgirl boots with white lining.

Fighting Capacity[]

As she faces off against Hitomi, Tifa is depicted as having 16 materia, the maximum loadout allowed in FF7 Classic. Based on color, she seems to be carrying the following (top to bottom, by limb): R. Arm = Red, Purple, Green, Yellow. L. Arm = Red, Blue, Purple, Green. R. Leg = Purple(?), Green, Blue, Green. L. Leg = Green, Blue, Yellow, Purple.

She is observed to have cast the following: Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, plus two others each paired with All,Time Magic (Haste, Slow, Stop), and Barrier. The green lightning that went with the black sphere in the casting during the “falling battle” indicates it is Ultima and NOT gravity-effect Demi, so we can eliminate the latter. Tactically, Demi cannot be a finishing blow (as depicted), it will always leave an opponent with at least 1 HP, so that can be eliminated.

A good guess at her actual materia loadout, from the evidence at hand, is as follows: L. Arm: Titan ↔ Elemental, HP+, Lightning R. Arm: Phoenix, MP+, Ultima, Deathblow L. Leg: Time ↔ All, Sense, Speed+ R. Leg: Luck+, Ice, All ↔ Barrier. A Master Magic materia is also speculated to be used as to account for the multiple materia cast by Tifa as well as Hitomi especially when the latter is able to cast multiple materia after obtaining only one green magic materia. There could also be multiple summon materia switched amongst themselves or the Master Summon Materia is used in combination with the Elemental materia as a way to quickly switch between a variety of elemental properties to add a tiny bit of elemental effects to strikes, which is unlikely in itself due to how Elemental materia works, but not change the physical damage of the strikes themselves. This materia set is overall however a guess on what Tifa may have brought based on observations and personal logical reasons depending on the individual's personal interpretation of conclusions.

For example if Titan was used with the Elemental materia to enhance physical damage with the earth element then there would be a very good chance of seeing a observational change to signify its usage such as an earth, stone or a dirt covering in a cloud or solid stone coming off her fists or legs in Tifa's strikes as we see with other elements such as fire and ice seen in the fights. There is also the question of the validity of using the Elemwntal Materia as it does not enhance physical strikes or add elemental damage it may add a small amount of elemental effects to her attacks in this scenario but not change the overall power of the strikes in anyway. These elemental effects would most likely come in the form of a little burning with fire, or cold from ice, as can be observed in Dead Fantasy III but with earth for example it may not do anything at all to enhance strikes due to Elemental materia not adding physical, and elemental damage to attacks so it would most likely just be like getting struck by a Tifa at the same weight, mass, durability and strength normally albeit made of earth at the most or just an internal magical reallignment to the earth element that would cause only more damage to those weak to said element at the least.

If any elemental enhancements to strikes were to happen then it would most likely be done by casting regular magic materia into a physical strike such as seen with a green activation of a magic materia followed by a physical strike that applied poison to Hitomi.

Overall Eleental materia is mainly used to exploit elemental weaknesses, and then in which it enhances physical strikes if the enemy is weak to the element it is being struck with. Any elemental effects gained from the Elemental materia at the most would still be a little useful depending on the element despite it being only by a little bit but it would most likely be unnecessary and negligible damage overall if there is any when compared to the actual physical power of the strikes without materia.

This is not to say it was these materia specifically or their type was not used but that there are other options and variations of a speculative materia loadout that are just as justifiably and reasonably used.

At some point after her loadout is depicted, she must swap materia; she casts more Green (magic) effects than she is shown to be carrying; best guess is she swapped out Fire (used early) in favor of Phoenix, but then was never able to use the summon. This swap is not depicted. The setup for this fight makes summoning impractical if not impossible, unless Yuna and Rikku could block for her while she casts, as the DoA team did for Ayane. A task they demonstrably could not do. Against Hitomi 1v1, she appears to apply the Blind status, but this would have been via Items or physical means instead of magic, there is no FF7 Classic materia that can accomplish this.

Tifa is classed as a highly magical competitor, mixing their magical power with her strength and skill in martial arts. Her martial arts skills are high enough that she can handle multiple opponents at once for a limited amount of time, especially in conjunction with spells like Haste and Stop.

In Dead Fantasy II until Dead Fantasy V, she also utilizes few of her Limit Breaks as she uses Somersault as her basic attacks against her enemies. The second is Meteordrive where she drags Kasumi through the stone wall during their fall to the edge of the temple and lastly is her ultimate Limit Break, Final Heaven as she uses this against Hitomi after in her haste state. She also has a very high threshold for pain, as she can fight on when seriously wounded and even when impaled by various weaponry.

In Dead Fantasy V, she was still able to fight almost all of Hayate's shinobi. Tifa is still a highly dangerous opponent in battle, as seen when she continued to fight Hayate and his shinobi without stopping although she was seriously injured.

During her appearance in Dead Fantasy II as she tried to get both X-Potion and Ether bottles from Team Dead or Alive girls, her fighting style changes from Zangan-Ryu martial arts to Zui Quan (drunken boxing) as she unleashes this fighting style against them after drinking both bottles to recover herself with a mix of her magical ability.

In the remake version, all of Tifa's Materia are shown as translucent while glowing in both of her arms before disappearing in seconds.

Tifa's fighting style is based on her Ehrgeiz counterpart, but she no longer utilizes Ken "Godhand" Mishima's fighting style. Her style is now Zangan-Ryu Martial Arts mixed with Materia magic and Tifa despite using fist weapons and gauntlets in the mainline Final Fantasy series in this depiction seems to slightly prefer kicks within her style, despite being just as skilled in her hand techniques as seen with her punches, grapples, defensive hand techniques and throws that are based on Chinese Kenpo.

Cloud Strife[]

The only person to be shown so far in Dead Fantasy with a previous attachment to Tifa is Cloud Strife. The two grew up in the same village, but were just barely considered friends. Cloud had a crush on Tifa, but he was too shy to tell her. Currently they're only considered to be close friends. In Dead Fantasy, Tifa is at the Midgar Wasteland where Cloud had lost a good friend named Zack years before. It is here where it is believed she was called to become a fighter. Looking at Zack's memorial (his sword) she turns around to find Cloud running after her protesting her next actions as she backed up to the cliff's edge. She then tells him "Trust me," backing off the edge of the cliff. Cloud raced to grab her but missed. It is believed that Cloud is looking for Tifa and is going to rescue her along side Yuna.

Vincent Valentine[]

N/A

Denzel[]

After Cloud brought Denzel to Seventh Heaven, Tifa and Denzel quickly developed a close bond. Denzel views Tifa as a mother figure and Cloud as a father figure along with Marlene, and would also do anything to help her and protect her, like when he did when he saw Tifa wounded by Bahamut SIN, and bravely ran to attack the monster, while not even thinking about his own safety. Tifa also thinks of Denzel as her own son, and cared for him while he had Geostigma.

In the Dead Fantasy series, it is unknown what Denzel's relationship will be with Tifa, but it is known that he still views her as a mother figure, as he views Cloud as a father figure.

Etymology[]

• The name Tifa means "Revelation of God" in Greek.
  • It's source name is Theophania
• Tifa's surname Lockhart is of uncertain origin, probably from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements loc ‘lock’, ‘bolt’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. English: occupational name for a herdsman in charge of a sheep or cattlefold, from Old English loc ‘enclosure’, ‘fold’ + hierde ‘herd(er)’.
  • It is the americanized form of German Luckhardt.

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

Promotional Art[]

A teaser of Tifa in the remake version

Trivia[]

200px|right|Tifa after capture

• Tifa was voted as Dead Fantasy's most popular character on the creator's blog.
• Tifa makes many allusions to other franchises in her performances. Some in-universe examples include her mimicking Cloud in leaping onto a train to evade soldiers, and more notably for recreating Sephiroth's notorious fire scene in Nibelheim.
• In Monty Oum's promotional materials, Tifa has a scar across her heart that she suffered from Sephiroth after he went insane in Nibelheim.
• The voice of Lisa (La Mariposa) was used for Tifa who is voiced by her current Japanese voice actress, Maaya Sakamoto.
  • When Tifa does a German suplex towards her rival, Hitomi. It's the same suplex that Lisa executes from her ending in Dead or Alive 4.
• Tifa uses Jet Li's signature butterfly kick in Dead Fantasy I and Jackie Chan's drunken fist in Dead Fantasy II. Tifa also uses Chun Li's famous "Hyakuretsukyaku" "Senretsu Kyaku" and C.Viper's "Burning Kick", moves from Street Fighter in Dead Fantasy II & III respectively. In Dead Fantasy V, she uses Kilik's "Great Waterfall" from Soul Calibur.
• A hidden easter egg appears in Dead Fantasy V during Tifa's flashback. It is impossible to see unless you pause on the black screen flickering. It is assumed these words are a monologue of Tifa's inner voice. They read: "... It´s only after you truly understand love ... That you understand absolute fear ...; She needs my help."
• During Tifa's flashbacks in Dead Fantasy V, the hidden easter egg is saying at the end that "she" needs Tifa's help. It's unknown who Tifa (who is saying these things) is talking about, but some fans assume she is talking about Rinoa, hinting that Rinoa wanted Tifa to fall off the cliff in the ruins of Midgar so she can join the fight.
• It has not been revealed what Helena plans to do with Tifa's unconscious body, though she displays an interest in the materia that Hitomi now possesses, in particular one specific materia that looks white. Monty Oum has confirmed that she will return and be "crazy awesome" in future installments.
• Since it has been confirmed that Tifa will make a return, it hasn't been told if she will have a rematch with Hitomi in a future episode, making it unknown if they'll fight again.
• Tifa is confirmed to make a return, based off early-production footage found on Monty Oum's account.
• It is possible that Helena is going to take some DNA to make a clone similiar to Alpha-152 in Dead or Alive 4.
• Tifa is one of three characters to change their fighting style, the other two being Hitomi and Yuna.
• In the remake version during her reveal trailer prior to the completion of the remake version of Dead Fantasy I, Tifa is voiced by her original voice actress Ayumi Ito when she arrives at the temple along with Zack's Buster Sword and she is the first character to be collaborated with two Japanese voice actresses in the movie with Maaya Sakamoto as her current voice grunts. Although this audio version is taken from Final Fantasy VII (remake). Later when Monty Oum's friend sWooZie unveils the remake version of Dead Fantasy I, Ayumi Ito now performs Tifa's grunts within her first appearance at the end of the movie.

External Links[]

• Tifa on the Final Fantasy Wiki
• Tifa on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki