Quote Originally Posted by BlackWaltz
I dont understand, if cloud was not ever in soldier how comes he has jenova genes? and when hojo said that he will use him as an experiment, what happened? it jus cut to him and zack going to midgar?
I'm new to this board, but do you still use spoilers for games that are really old? Either way, I'll just add this as a spoiler:

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*Cloud was in Soldier, but as a normal grunt. He never made First Class. It was Zack and Sephiroth who were in First Class.

* Cloud possessed Jenova's Genes because Hojo experimented on both him and Zack after the Nibelheim incident, but Zack busted them out and he practically carried Cloud half-way to Midgar.

* FFVII has some secret scenes in the mansion where you see flashbacks of Zack. The Last Order anime also sheds more light on this.