Really good question I've seen on TVTropes (SPOILERS)

[Cat Rage Room]

(I didn't ask this question, this is a copy paste)

So Omega is the Planet's fail-safe measure just in case the Planet finally dies, taking all of the Lifestream and then seeding another planet. Okay, that makes a fair amount of sense. But apparently all it took to set Omega off was to kill a few thousand people.

Despite the fact that thousands of people have died over the centuries (First Meteorfall, Jenova killing the Centra, Wutai War, Corel/Nibelheim/Gongaga), not to mention how many people died in the game itself, including damage from the WEAPONS which the Planet itself created. So the Planet thinks that all those people dying and considering destroying the whole human race is no big deal, but a few thousand people makes it think that the end is at hand?

 

[Makoeyes987]

I guess you forgot the fact that Deepground was using Mako Reactor 0, hooked up to all the other Midgar reactors to synthesize a more concentrated stream of Mako that would make the planet believe that a larger influx of souls was occurring, and by using that concentrated stream of mako with the Protomateria, the planet would believe a massive loss of life had occurred and thus, Omega was needed.

That's why the mako in that sacrificial pit where they kept tossing "pure" victims was golden yellow. It was concentrated.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

Whoops, yeah, I did forget that. Huh.

 

[Makoeyes987]

 

[Tetsujin]

Also, because the story was stupid anyway.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

Yeah that too.

 

[Ⓐaron]

I don't care about the subject of this thread at all, I'd just like to note that TV tropes is the biggest time vacuum on the internets next to wikipedia. Stay away.

 

[Ⓐaron]

 

[Max Payne]

I still find the whole plot particularly insipid, when they could have come up with a much smaller scale threat that could have been just as personal, if not moreso.

A world ending threat that is confronted primarily by one character seems silly for VII. I know he wasn't the only one fighting, but in the end Vincent's actions were the only ones that mattered the most because he was the chosen one.

 

[Cthulhu]

I don't care about the subject of this thread at all, I'd just like to note that TV tropes is the biggest time vacuum on the internets next to wikipedia. Stay away.

This. Also, stay away from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki if you're into programming, encyclopediadramatica if you're into lulz or are a sick fuck, youtube, wikipedia (mentioned before), and any stupid flash game site.

 

[Dashell]

It's a bald guy and Tifa

 

[ForceStealer]

It's the glory that is xkcd is what it is.

 

[Cthulhu]

That's CxT proofs right there.