The love triangle aspect between Cloud, Tifa and Aerith is primarily focused on in the first disc, and at times is used to humorous effect.

It is not until after he and Tifa fall into the Lifestream that he, with her encouragement, can piece his past back together, and restore his own personality from underneath the amalgam where he had subconsciously hidden it, ultimately dismissing Sephiroth's deceit that he is an artificially-constructed Sephiroth-clone.

When confronted by Tifa following the disappearance of Denzel and Marlene, it is revealed that Cloud is also suffering from the effects of Geostigma, and he responds that he is unfit to protect his new family and other friends.

Cloud and Tifa are the only Final Fantasy VII characters with a third costume or a story mode title ; Cloud's depicts him in his Shinra infantryman attire, and his title is ' Guardian '.

Concerned for Tifa, who is on the opposing side, Cloud tries to defeat Chaos alone but is nearly killed.

He is searching for Sephiroth, and is himself being sought out by Tifa.

Another scene, implying Cloud and Tifa having sex, was proposed by Masato Kato, one of the event planners, but was replaced with a toned down version by Kitase in which a risqué line is followed by a fade to black.

Rachael Leigh Cook ( born October 4, 1979 ) is an American actress, model, voice artist and producer, who is best known for her starring role in films She's All That ( 1999 ), Josie and the Pussycats ( 2001 ), and the television series Into the West and Perception, as well as being the voice behind various characters in Robot Chicken and Tifa Lockhart in the English version of Final Fantasy VII.

After a fight between Loz and Tifa, Loz is able to capture Marlene and confiscate Cloud's stock of materia, whilst Yazoo begins rounding up children infected with Geostigma, including Denzel, promising them they will be healed.

As of Advent Children, Tifa is voiced by Ayumi Ito in Japanese, and by Rachael Leigh Cook in English.

A member of the eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE and owner of the 7th Heaven bar in the slums of Midgar, Tifa is the childhood friend of Cloud Strife, the protagonist of Final Fantasy VII.

Introduced in Final Fantasy VII, Tifa is the childhood friend of Cloud Strife, and owner of the 7th Heaven bar, as well as a member of the eco-terrorist organization AVALANCHE, who oppose the megacorporation Shinra and their use of Mako energy as a power source.

In flashbacks, it is revealed that as children Tifa and Cloud had decided to follow a path to a mountain near their hometown of Nibelheim.

The novella " Case of Tifa ", written as part of the On the Way to a Smile series, is a story set between the original game and Advent Children.

In LittleBigPlanet 2, Tifa is featured as a downloadable character model.

Mania Entertainment placed her tenth in the 2010 list of " video game women that kick ass ," stating that while subsequent games in the Final Fantasy series introduced other memorable female characters, " Tifa is our first Final Fantasy girl and holds a special place in our hearts.

The most well-known is Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII and Zell Dincht from Final Fantasy VIII.

The love triangle between Cloud, Tifa and Aerith was also an aspect which the staff found to be new in the series.

Tifa also appears briefly in the game Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, set one year after the events of Advent Children in which she helps the protagonist Vincent Valentine defend the Planey against Omega WEAPON.

Marlene also appears in The On the Way to a Smile novellas " Case of Barret ", " Case of Tifa " and " Case of Denzel ".

Scarlet is one of the more evil-minded Shinra executives and was directly responsible for the destruction of Barret's home town of Corel, as well as the loss of Barret's forearm ; during Final Fantasy VII, she also attempts to execute Tifa using a gas chamber.

Zangen also appears in Before Crisis and Last Order ; in the former, he makes note of Tifa's white cat leading him to her, in the later he is shown rescuing Tifa.

Together, they also started working on tracks by mailing packages back and forth containing audio cassettes with Zlatan composing and Tifa writing the lyrics.

Upon his return from the army, Tifa learned that Paradox had been dissolved and that Zlatan joined another band named Top, so he took back all of his lyrics and sought a new band to play with, only to eventually end up in Top also.

In 2004, Play featured Tifa in the first issue of their Girls of Gaming annual periodical, describing her as " the most adored female in recent Fantasy history.

The song " Pediculis pubis " featured Bora Đorđević, the leader of the competitive band Riblja Čorba, on vocals ; he co-wrote the song with Bregović and sung it with Bregović and Tifa.

Cook voiced Tifa Lockhart in the video games Kingdom Hearts II, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, as well as the CG movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.

Named the pin-up girl of the " cyber generation " by The New York Times, Tifa has been compared to Lara Croft as an example of a strong, independent and attractive female character in video games.

Tifa was developed to use the " Monk " character class that appears in previous games in the series.

" That same year, Complex ranked her as the 16th best looking " sideline chick in games ," stating " our heart lies with Tifa Lockheart.

" In 2011, UGO. com placed her 13th among the " fighting games ' finest hottest women " just for her appearance in Ehrgeiz, commenting that " we would have kicked that frigid flower-selling bitch to the curb and taken Tifa on that Golden Saucer date in a New York Minute.

The idea was for the film to focus on the characters of Cloud and Tifa in a similar way to how other titles from Compilation of Final Fantasy VII centered on certain characters ( for example, Before Crisis focuses on the Turks, Dirge of Cerberus focuses on Vincent, and Crisis Core focuses on Zack Fair ).

In the CGI film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Cloud, two years following the conclusion of Final Fantasy VII, lives with Tifa in the city of Edge, working as a delivery boy for the " Strife Delivery Service " that Tifa set up in her new bar, having given up his life as a mercenary.

* Final Fantasy VII: Cloud Strife, Aerith Gainsborough, Tifa Lockhart, and Sephiroth

* Final Fantasy VII Advent Children: Tifa Lockhart

The Compilation of Final Fantasy VII has several notable couples, such as Cloud Strife and his relationships with childhood friend Tifa Lockhart and flower girl Aerith Gainsborough.

Designed by Tetsuya Nomura, Tifa was not present in early versions of Final Fantasy VII, as initially, the game was to have only three playable characters ; the protagonist Cloud Strife, the heroine Aerith Gainsborough and Barret Wallace.

In early drafts of Final Fantasy VII, Tifa was to be a background character, her role in AVALANCHE was to add support behind the scenes, and to cheer everyone up after missions, as well as having a particular fondness for Cloud.

Outside of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Tifa appears in the fighting game Ehrgeiz, as an unlockable character and an optional boss.

" In 2009, IGN named Tifa one of the ten best heroines in gaming, describing her as " without a doubt, a legendary heroine of the Final Fantasy universe.

" IGN listed Tifa as the 13th best Final Fantasy character of all time in 2008, describing her as an attempt by Square to " give Final Fantasy characters real sex appeal ," and someone who " could take care of herself in a pinch "; in a follow-up Reader's Choice edition of the list, Tifa placed first, with the staff repeating their previous comments while attributing her placement on the list to her breasts.