Yuffie was one of the more comical characters in the original version of Final Fantasy 7. This made sense because she was a kid, and children are often set up to be the joke machines in popular media. Some examples include her hunger for Materia wherein she tries to steal it from the party a few times.
Another classic set of incidents involve Yuffie getting motion sick like on the boat leaving Junon or on the Highwind airship. She’s full of laughs in this DLC for the remake as well. Some of these moments feel naturally primed for memes. Jokes aside, there will be some spoilers for these.
10 The Umbrella Fantasy
Shinra from Final Fantasy 7 and Umbrella from Resident Evil are two companies that have a lot in common. They both are promoting themselves as corporations for the common good but underneath they are experimenting on humans and creating weapons.
It would not be shocking then to have Yuffie run into Shinra HQ only to find herself in an Umbrella wing of the building. This seems like an evil team-up just waiting to happen.
9 Ninjas Get It Done
“That’s how ninjas do it.” That’s the actual line Sonon says after defeating the centipede robot. “Ninjas get it done” in the case of this meme gets it close enough.
The revised line is snappier and works well with other phrases in pop culture such as “immigrants, we get the job done” from the Hamilton musical. Despite the two of them not looking like traditional ninjas in black, these Wutai heroes are indeed excellent shinobi.
8 Da-Chao Souls
Da-Chao Beans are the Dark Souls of beans. They are from Yuffie’s home nation wherein she implies everyone can eat them with ease. Every non-Wutai resident she hands them to in Final Fantasy 7 Remake are reduced to tears as if their jaws break when they bite down on the beans.
How could a nut or bean be that hard to crack? That’s where the Dark Souls reference comes into play for this meme, as these beans seemingly require someone to git gud.
7 The Red Queen
“You're all going to die down here." That’s a line from the first Resident Evil live-action film spoken by the AI known as the Red Queen.
In Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Scarlet presents herself as a similarly shaped red hologram. As it was said earlier that Shinra and Umbrella have a lot in common, it would be not that hard to believe that a killer AI would try to go after Yuffie and Sonon.
6 The Master Ball Materia
Another organization that can be likened to Shinra is Team Rocket from the Pokemon series. They want to rule the world by capturing rare and powerful Pokemon. Meanwhile, Shinra wants to rule the world by breeding monsters.
Finding a Master Ball in the vaults of Shinra HQ is not that farfetched. Maybe they wouldn’t call it a Master Ball in Final Fantasy 7 Remake but it seems like a reasonable idea that Shinra would develop some way to capture monsters like with Materia.
5 The Power Of Mew
It would also be likely for Yuffie and Sonon to stumble upon a Pokemon in one of Shinra’s many holding tanks. They do experiment on humans and monsters in order to create subservient soldiers after all.
Yuffie stumbling upon a Mew would not be that big of a surprise, as it is right up Shinra’s ally. One can bet that the way in which they would experiment in Final Fantasy 7 Remake would be far worse than anything Team Rocket ever did.
4 Metroid Comes To Midgar
Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Metroid Dread share a lot in common. Both were rumors that took over a decade to turn into real products. The title of Metroid Dread as well as the idea of Final Fantasy 7 getting a remake were both conceived in the mid-2000s.
Final Fantasy 7 got a tech demo on PS3 which created a thirst for a real remake, a promise that was not delivered on until 2020. In the case of Metroid Dread, which was rumored to be a DS game, fans had to wait until 2021 to see that vision realized. Yuffie is understandably very excited about Metroid Dread.
3 The Seven Materia Balls
Materia are powerful crystals that allow anyone to use magic. That’s a cool set of powerful orbs in Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but some things that could rival their might are the seven Dragon Balls.
Their powers vary from arc to arc in terms of what can be wished for but whether it is one wish or three, a wish is a wish. Yuffie going on the hunt for them instead of Materia is a funny concept. She could just wish for this new rumored Materia.
2 Yuffie Steals The Show
One of the things Nintendo has gotten good at is starting its Direct presentations with trailers that seem to be advertising one thing only for the clip to turn into a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate trailer. These reveals are always pretty clever, with the most recent Tekken trailer being one of the funniest.
If this scene appeared in a Nintendo Direct altered from the main game, it would drive fans wild. As cool as Cloud and Sephiroth are in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it would also be nice to see someone from the female crew represent Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
1 Team Wutai
This meme is another reference to Pokemon, mocking the Team Rocket motto Jessie and James shout out in every episode of the anime. It’s abbreviated a bit to fit the images but it works just as well for Yuffie to deliver these lines.
The actual dialogue Yuffie says in Final Fantasy 7 Remake is pretty close to Team Rocket’s motto. Either way, this is one of the funniest scenes in the game proper, cementing Yuffie as one of the best adaptations in the remake from the PS1 original.