A lot of Final Fantasys have extremely messed up situations: people dating people who look like their dead ex, men running around with children in the wild, plots to abduct and have ways with women, and most of the people you know and love die in gruesome fashions. This could be potentially lame, but these dark Final Fantasys do a good job of not only laying foundations, but adding sidequests or main quests to flesh out both the tragic events and the characters who have had them. While it might be easy to imagine how absurd things can get, I find these more morbid origins to work for world-saving badasses, unlike, cough, Zell, who only really wants hot dogs.

So what particular icky situation throughout the series stick in your mind? Mine? Easy; just knowing someone and a blue elephant conceived Queen Brahne.