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8. Every Undead Enemy Ever (Final Fantasy)

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It's a long-established trope of Final Fantasy that enemies of the 'rotting corpse' category can be healed to death with curative spells and items. This applies to absolutely all of them: fake zombie presidents, cave-bound tribal spirits, moogle-munching octopuses, the whole festering lot.

It even extends to trains. That's right: undead trains.

Cyan's nightmare from Final Fantasy VI is one of the game's standout moments, a soul-searching journey through a phantom landscape as the former soldier of Doma contends with his guilt-ridden grief over the death of his wife and son. Naturally, the stirring sequence concludes with the party desperately fleeing a demonic train which has, metaphorically at least, gone off the rails.

Entertaining as it is seeing Sabin suplex the evil locomotive, the whole battle can be skipped entirely with a solitary Phoenix Down. Just as well, since everybody knows that if you die in a dream, you die for real.

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