Quote Originally Posted by ItMe View Post
Final Fantasy games generally don't kill off main characters or party members. Even in FF4
everyone that died either faked it or comes back to life by the end.
This is actually incorrect.

The majority of party members turn up alive later on, yes. But Tellah dies fighting Golbez and, unlike the rest, is only ever seen as a ghost.


Other notable party member/ally deaths in the series:

FF2:
Scott, Josef, Minwu, and Ricard all die over the course of the story. The remake's Soul of Rebirth mode features a new story following the four of them in the afterlife.


FF3:
Aria Benett is perhaps the first character in the entire series of have their own leitmotif, and like several other NPCs joins the party as a guest. She dies shortly after joining, however, after successfully reversing the flood that Xande unleashed upon the surface world.


FF5:
Galuf fights Exdeath alone roughly halfway through the story, desperately clinging to life against the fiend's mortal blows through sheer willpower in order to protect the rest of the party. He expires after driving Exdeath away, and his granddaughter Krile joins the party in his place.


FF6:
Shadow will die if the player chooses not to wait for him on the Floating Continent. In addition, he'll choose to stay behind in the final dungeon as it collapses during the credits, strongly implying he chose to die.


FF10:
Auron is revealed to have already died before the game even began. Tidus, by contrast, is revealed to be something akin to a living meme—he's essentially an idea of a person given form by the dreaming Fayth. The former passes on to the afterlife at the end of the game, while the latter ceases to exist so that the Fayth summoning him into reality can rest.


FF12:
Vossler and Reddas both join the party as temporary allies at certain points in the story. Vossler betrays the party and is killed by them soon after, while Reddas sacrifices himself in the Pharos of Ridorana. Noah (Judge Gabranth) also joins the party in the final battle, and passes on the mantle of Gabranth to his brother Basch in his final moments.