Talk:Vincent Valentine

I have heard roomers about a side story manga discussing the history of Vincent Valentine wile he was a member of the Turks. I do not know where to locate this manga. From pictures that I have seen, the Vincent in the manga looks a lot different then the one that we know from Final Fantasy VI, but is undobtably the one and the same. From the pictures, he used to be a very handsome, non-metal gauntlete handed, Turk member. As far as my own opinions about Vincent, he is my favorite character beside Sepherothe. Vincents unbridled power to turn into beasts of past rage only makes him a more uniqe and rememberal character. Also an interesting tip about Vincent in the game, if equiped with deathblow, he spins his rifle like mad. Looks pretty cool. Behold the unleashed power of Vincent.

Edited by Mark Kautzman

The manga is most likeley doujinshi. My recomendation: stay away from it. Cause it ruins the characters with gross sex and crap. -- Psi edit

Bishonen?

"He is a popular example of a bishonen." I'm not sure I agree with that. Rufus Shinra's a bishonen, and one could argue that Cloud and Sephiroth are bishonen, but Vincent Valentine basically isn't. Bishonen have to be at least a bit effeminate. I'll probably remove the reference in a few days unless there's some sort of outcry.--ByrnedHead 23:10, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Being effeminate is not a total requirement to being a bishonen. And if personalty traits are an absolute requirement, then his personal drama and moodiness fills the bill plenty. Don't remove it. --Paul Soth 02:16, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What? Vinny *is* a bishie!! Don't say things like that.

Yes, I would say that Vincent is a bishonen. He does have feminine features. Cloud does have some of the same features and so does Sephiroth so I think they would consider them bishonens. They don't even have to look feminine. They just have to look really hot.

On the side note, "bishonen" literally translates to "beautiful young man," not necessarily 'effeminate' or gay. Observation 07:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Dead or Alive?

There have been arguements as to whether Vincent is a vampire of some sort...Actually, I can see the side that thinks he may have been dead. Some Christians believe that hell is not a place of fire and brimstone, but a place where you relive all of your sins, for all eternity. That could be his "nightmare", so in that sense, he could be dead. However, Hojo did experiment on him, and that, assuming the experimentation didn't kill him in the first place, and if one assumes that he too was injected with Jenova cells, as I do, seeing as it was Hojo's favorite toy, as it did with Lucrecia, could have granted him unnatural long life, and therefore he imposes the sleep upon himself, a kind of self imposed purgatory, therefore making him alive. So, in short, both sides have valid points. ~ Lord Sephiroth

Nah, he's not vampiric. You can't really compare Final Fantasy VII to other literature, except for the fact Vincent clearly mimics vampiric look and style. — CuaHL 22:57, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Metal Arm

I used to think (like many others) that Vincent's left arm had been replaced by a mechanical one, but, when I was watching Advent Children, I noticed that the golden "claws" are merely articulated metal bits that lay on top of what appears to be a normal-looking hand. Unless he has something robotic underneath that glove, I would think that his left arm is intact after all, just covered up... apparently for whatever reason incited Vincent's original reaction upon seeing it. I've revised the entry accordingly. Reichu 23:59, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, i heard that he has the metal arm because he had infected Macko injected into him, and it started to attack the cells in his arm.

Ambiguity

I've been reacquainting myself with FF7 recently (blame Advent Children), and I finally recalled the significant "gap" in Vincent's story. His flashback abruptly ends after he awakens from Hojo's treatment, and all we know is that he eventually ended up in that coffin. The preexisting article only took note of this by commenting on the fan debate about how long Vincent's prolonged slumber lasted - a bit too vague to be useful, so I've corrected this. Many fans say straight-out that Vincent put himself to sleep, as it were, which is in conflict with Hojo's own claim, but not entirely substanceless, IMO. I've attempted to present the frequently-advocated "alternate scenario", albeit favorably. Any thoughts?

Here's hoping that Dirge of Cerberus will satisfactorily resolve some of these problems... It'll necessitate a full rewrite of Vincent's page, more than likely. -Reichu 18:37, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Before Crisis stuff

Uh, HUGE mistake there. The picture shown supposedly from his BC picture, is from his character card and alternate costume picture in Ehrgeiz. Vincent is never seen as a Turk in Before Crisis. There is one chapter where Veld awakes him in the ShinRa mansion basement, but he is in the usual attire and in the coffin.

Already took care of it. Vincent was already sleeping when he was awaken by Veld at Chapter 19.

Grimoire Valentine

Has anyone played through DoC and can make a good-sized entry about Vincent's father, Grimoire?

So far all I've got is... He died protecting Lucrecia Lucrecia turned to Hojo because she felt guily about Grimoire Grimoire had a similar dress to Vincent

Deleting the bit about the intro happening right after the battle with Sephiroth..because it is not true.

If one goes through Dirge of Cerberus and remembers what exactly happened in Final Fantasy VII, the event takes place after the Diamond Weapon fight. I'll direct you to this link here on Adventchildren.net where this was established. The password is "Vincent"

http://forums.adventchildren.net/showthread.php?t=63585&page=2&pp=15

Citing Needed for the Trivia about Cloud's Appearance

Where is it ever said that Cloud's look in KH/KH: CoM is based off of Vincent's attire? I'll add a citation needed to that part, and wait to see if anyone can conjure one before deleting it. --Eternal Trance 20:53, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Cloud's look in KH is based off of Vincent. He wears Vincents cape and some other items.

Do you have any sources to prove that? Because if you're basing that off of your own observations, that's called Original Research and Wikipedia doesn't do that here. --Trance 16:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, scratch that. I went to the Cloud Strife page which says: "In Kingdom Hearts, Cloud appears in the Olympus Coliseum world. He wears a claw and a cape which Tetsuya Nomura stated are not Vincent Valentine's, but rather that the KH version of Cloud was designed in a similar "dark" style as Nomura put it, thus they will have similarities as a result." I'd like to see where Nomura said that, though they didn't cite it, but I'm still going to edit out that bit of trivia to keep it consistent throughout Wikipedia. --Trance 16:11, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Question: Also, about Cloud, isn't the left-hand side of his design modelled on FFVII's Vincent?

Nomura--Yes, his left arm is in Vincent's image. This time, in this setting, Cloud is leaning :::towards the dark side, and I wanted to make him a bit more demon-like. And, since Vincent was :::exactly that kind of design, I just added it in. Although I would have liked to put Vincent in the :::game too...

This is from the Kingdom Hearts Ultimania guide book interview. Here's a source.

http://www.khinsider.com/info/nomura2.shtml

There. It's cited. Now it should probably be re-added.198.213.57.8 16:31, 15 :::July 2006 (UTC)Makoeyes

There is no explanation to why they are not in the ending.

Can someone please explain to me what explanation was given in regards to Vincent not being in the ending? That line in the "Trivia" section of the article is flat out wrong. Dirge of Cerberus makes NO ATTEMPT to explain why Yuffie and Vincent are not in the ending. The intro does not take place during the ending, and the game makes no mention of it. These two characters were not present during the ending because they were optional. Nothing more. Please stop adding that.198.213.57.8 16:21, 15 July 2006 (UTC)Makoeyes

The ability to fly?

Huh? When does he ever fly? Granted, I've not played Dirge of Cerberus, but based on Advent Children and some scenes from FFVII, it just looks like he's uber agile. Able to jump really far and high, wrap himself up in the cloak and dissapear, etc. etc. Flight, though? 154.20.135.89 05:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)