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Tidus is actually a really complex character. He's got that external manic optimism while still carrying the weight of insecurity from his childhood, and despite his cheerful outlook has one of the most tragic endings for any FF protagonist.

FYI -> Yuna's name is Okinawan for a type of hibiscus that grows near the shore on southern Japanese islands - Hibiscus tiliaceus. That same flower is featured on her obi/belt and her necklace in FFX. This species of hibiscus tends to bloom in the evening, just as the sun sets. Phonetically in Japanese Yuuna can mean "evening bloom/blossom", but no kanji writing has ever been officially released. In connection with Teéda/Tida (Sun) tho, the meaning of Yuuna as a flower which unfolds it's true potential and beauty during the setting sun perfectly reflects the their story.

Tidus was a very complex and highly well written character. Even his meme'd forced and fake laugh served a purpose. He is how you can do a hero with a tragic past and not be weighed down by it too much.

Love my boi Tidus Also, probably another fact about him that some people don’t know: specifically for those who consider the laughing scene as bad acting….it’s meant to be fake laughter lol

I liked Tidus. Never understood why he got hate.

The japanese voice actor of Seymour also ended up voicing Grimmjow, yes they’re both long blue haired villains of the protagonist.

I think we can all agree the correct pronounciation of Tidus is in fact "SonOfJecht." Gotta love the way they avoided speaking his name throughout the whole game.

Zell being Tidus might be the coolest piece of information in the world.

Thank you for the video, ill never understand why Tidus gets so much hate, he is one of the most human ff characters ever to me.

One of the best characters with great development.

*Sees a video about Tidus. Clicks and watches the video immediately in joy!*

Tidus: Let’s go save Yuna! Cid: Bevelle’s defenses are top notch. Tidus: What gramps, you scared? Cid: You got guts! Everyone just ends up watching the wedding scene.

I’ve always loved how they refer to tidus as ace at certain points and in shit like dissidia. Makes me feel even more attached to him with my nickname.

2:11 Oh wow, putting in my head this scene alongside the scene when Tidus chokes while eating in the al-bhed ship made me realize the movements are identical because is the same person, after all these years it's mindblowing

Tidus is still one of my favorite FF characters in the entire franchise!!! In fact, he's in the top 5! I love em THAT much!!! Great video you guys!!! Amazing job!!

I have Tidus' and Squall's necklaces. I also have one with a small box art of FF8 in resin.

Tidus is such an underrated protagonist. He handled his situation better than most.

The English voice actress for Yuna was also an actress in a film with David Boreanaz and Denise Richards in the movie Valentine 😁 she played an angry and spoilt character in that film though lol

Finally Darryl is saying Tidus correctly we got him boys 😂

Tidus always was my least favorite part of the game growing up, but as I've gotten older I appreciate and enjoy him even more. It just makes the game so much more fun to revisit as the years go by, to see how my opinions have changed since first renting FFX during release at Blockbuster.

If we're going to talk about how to say names, reading the katakana for Quistis proves I've always been right in saying "kiss-tis" and not "kwis-tis".

I'm been playing FFX for decades, and it just now dawned on me that Tidus most iconic swords, the Longsword, and the Brotherhood are shaped like fish hooks/lures.

Man, this is really good synergy with Resonant Arc's State of the Arc podcast that is working through the entire story week by week right now. If you love this sort of information, you'll fall head over heels for that. They get granular as well lol.

On 7, the affection meter affects more scenes and only some of them are female-specific. In Guadosalam when Yuna is in the mansion after the scene with Seymour and before leaving for the Thunder Plains, Tidus will have cutscene conversations with either Rikku or Lulu about it. Almost no one sees the Rikku one as you've only just picked her up at the Moonflow and have barely had an opportunity to build up the affection. At Lake Macalania after defeating the Crawler boss, either Lulu, Rikku, Auron or Kimahri can join Tidus on the snowmobile ride for a cutscene depending on affection. At the Fahrenheit after defeating both of Sin's arms and jumping off onto Sin, any of the characters will jump first depending on the affection level, after which Tidus says the "star players first!" line you mentioned. The last cutscene occurs right before going into the final battle with Sin (the fight where he draws you in for the ultimate game over attack). After Brother's English lines, the character with the highest affection will also say something. I remember Lulu saying something awkward like "Just you and me!" and Tidus scratching his head as the entire party goes to fight Sin. For more in-depth info on all the affection mechanics, you can see what influences it here: finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Affection_mechanics_(Final_Fantasy_X)

Awesome vid. Had the pleasure of seeing it early and loved it. Thank you!

Another pronunciation one I like to bring up... Chocobo's original pronunciation sounds like Chicago. It's a Sioux word for a stench, like how you'd find them in forest spots that "reek of Chocobo". That's how Chicago got its name, too. It was originally a settlement built around coal and oil refineries and those places emit a bad odor. Personally, I always pronounced it close to the way they decided to use starting on FFX, and I'm glad they went with that.

Even though know its pronounced tee-dus as I got a behind the scenes dvd alongside the game. He will always be Tidus to me.

I love learning more about Tidus! Thank you for this video!

As European I can say you pronunced Tidus (Teedus) name well ! Awesome video I've learned a lot !

I always thought the necklace was supposed to be an amalgamation of T, J, and Y, given that Yuna is also an integral part of the story. But this explanation makes sense

My favorite character from my favorite game that if I'm blessed with a son will be his namesake.

9:32 "Because they made Tidus the representation of the player: a stranger in a foreign land who was oblivious to what was going" I wish some people in the FF fandom could realise this... Because I actually noticed the moment I started playing FFX. Like, damn, guys, I don't about you, but if I was in foreign soil out of nowhere, I would be asking a lot of stuff and be an awkward dude.

Love your videos. I've been trying to platinum this game, but filling out the sphere grids are such a grind.

tidus was my idol since im teen .... also when im play dissidia he always my fave assasin class

My favorite final fantasy game 😊 I’ll take any and all facts

Awesome video. The one thing that interesting is that tidus is neckless had the letter t to represent his name and a j to represent jecht which symbolises that their both father and son.

My thing with the name, “Teedus” is fine but I guess I just like Tide-us more thematically. The game has so many references to water, water is central to a lot of elements of the game visually and in the story, so having his name also be water related, “tide”, fit for me. This was literally the interpretation of my developing teenage brain that had been taught to look for and identify themes and motifs by Square games up until that point so it wasn’t unreasonable.

I always assumed the necklace symbol was a J for Jecht, so I thought it was a bit strange for Yuna's outfit in X-2 to incorporated it. Now it makes a lot more sense, thanks.

I'm so thrilled we could get the Legacy of the Crystal PDF's a few days ago. Thanks for that. And, thanks for this vid as well. It was funny and interesting at the same time. ++

Wow, it really is amazing you can find facts that genuinely interests me at this point. I would hazard to guess changing Tida to Tidus might've been done because the associated gender connotation of "us" is more masculine to Westerners from the Latin tradition than a name concluding with "a". It just feels like one of those inane things that someone at SE would stay up late worrying about.

Man I really love hearing about these interesting facts as big a fan i.am I really didn't know most of them for all the games

Could we get some more videos on the tactics series? its such a wonderful subsection to final fantasy that never got enough love !

Sometimes I forget that I have Jechts and Tidus swords tattooed with the Zanarkand Abes logo :D...

Thank you for all you do here! We all enjoy your amazing content so pose because here it goes(insert fan fare song here.)

Great video! I just got my FF 35th anniversary FFX t-shirt from Uniqlo, very happy!

No lie….when I finished ffx 17 years ago, I cried for an hour. No one could console me for days.

🌸🌺I certainly learned a few new facts and this was an absolute joy to watch.🌺🌸

Great vid on my favourite final fantasy, but what I wanted to know is …..is he just someone’s dream perception on shuyin?

I feel like when a Japanese company says "I asked my American friend..." that should send up red flags, especially when it didn't make it into the original release they were working on at the time. "Tie-dus" is also the standard English pronunciation of the name of the Roman emperor who is called "Teetus" everywhere else. The Japanese pronunciation argument is more compelling (and one I personally subscribe to), but (i) it's not technically the indigenous Okinawan pronunciation but a Tokyo representation thereof and (ii) it doesn't really make sense to talk about Japanese vowel pronunciation when on is pronouncing "Aoki" (a real person's name) as "Eaki". (This is not a nitpick of the narrator's pronunciation so much as to make a point about how English pronunciation of foreign names works. If Tidus were real, he'd probably be about as likely to tell anglophones that their pronunciation of his name was "fine" as Eaki or Namura 😉)

I have always said Tide-iss rather than Tee-dus. It sounds like both are correct but sadly the way I dont say it sounds "more correct". I really appreciate how much tine was spent explaining this.

Great Video! Even I learned fun facts from this!! Thanks! JAT

Great video!!, I love your facts video!!, I would love you to make some facts about Vivi or Zidane!!

FFX is one of the few games you folks where I do know a lot! Thanks to folks like Dansg08

Don't believe common misconceptions, althought the lead translator of the French translation for FFIX later found a good excuse, its name being changed to Djidane is likely unrelated to our famous footballer. Reality is, we're just really, really, really bad at translating, and one thing we love to do is change the name to how it sounds phonetically in the original language, which is why he also changed Dagger to Dagga, as it is how it sounds in Japanese, as well as Vivi changed to Bibi. This is obviously not exclusive to FFIX and is very common, for example Midna from Zelda TP was changed to Midona.

Definitely an interesting video. Never really knew about the casting desicions so that kinda stands out as the most interesting to me. I will say that I will never pronounce the name as Teedus though, it just doesn't sound right to me and I'll admit I cringe a little whenever I hear it. 😅

I have almost always called him Tee-Dus because of the origin of the name being derived from Tida. the rest of the facts are interesting new pieces of information for me, including the fact that this was the role that practically made James Arnold Taylor's career. I knew I had heard his voice more often AFTER playing FFX, but I assumed it was more because I had just recognized his voice so much after playing FFX

I think the precedent for his name being pronounced correctly was set pretty early on in the FFX trailer promo that came out with Final Fantasy Spirits Within.

Thaaaank yoooou

Tidus & Ichigo having the same voice actor… how stupid I was, not realizing this…

You can give me all the lore and background reasons that exist, I will still never call him Teedus 🤣

The necklace is made out of the letters J (Jecht) T (Tidus) and Y (Yuna).

Wait... is Tidus an early Isekai character??? He fits most of the benchmarks. (Even if he’s not getting trapped in a video game.) • Goes to a “new” world • “Dies” to get to the new world • Old World = (High) Tech, New = Magic I mean... it works????

Some words get ingrained and can't be changed without changing your worldview. Good luck to those who try.

I've always pronounced the name "Tee-duss" because a pre-release article in EGM magazine way back. before FFX released made a point of including the pronunciation as part of the article. As that was the first time I (and many people) encountered the name and it was before the property was actually released, I've taken it as gospel ever since. That being said, pronunciation of a fictional name is quite a silly to argue about at all and I wouldn't flinch if he were called "Tie-duss" or even "Henry"; it's just not that important.

Finally! You finally say his name exactly as his VA was told it was pronuced, how it's also said in Dissidia. Finally!

It should be T(EYE)DUS because the game revolves around THE WATER, and Tidus is very close to Tide. I will die on this hill.

They tell us how to pronounce Chocobo (everyone I knew said Chock o bo before X) but create the Tidus problem at the same time.

This one's probably obvious, but the sword you get as a gift at the start of the game from jecht, is in the same style as the bottom of thr necklace, which led me to believe that some of jechts narrsacism bled through with it being more J like

NGL, I've always preferred names not to be localised, because a character's name is often a representation of who they are. As someone from a country where "I" is also pronounced as "ee", I've always pronounced it as "Teedus" as well. Often times I wish companies would sell more translations without western localisation, so I could experience the original references and humour, instead of changes made for Western (but let's be honest, it's American) sensibilities.

#8 - The laughing was always supposed to sound so awkward.

I liked the blitz ace fact and how it relates to the affection he has with the women in the game.

Tidus... as in *Tide* (The rising and falling of the sea.) or Tidal-wave.

My first Final Fantasy game after being exposed to Final Fantasy characters in Kingdom Hearts. I also said "Tee-dus" because of Wakka too. As a kid I said to myself "Why aren't they calling him by his name????"

There was a dvd for FFX where I learned how to say his name.

I usually prefer having real voice actors in place of celebs on these projects, but sometimes someone I know is nice. Like I was a fan of GLOW on Netflix and having Britt Baron do Tifa's voice on the remake was cool.

🌸😹I do not feel any would chastise you for the manner by which you pronounce Tidus name, it seems so trivial.😹🌸

Today I found out that someone other than Yuna can throw the ball

Tidus fact: He is absolutely overpowered in Dissidia NT

YAAAAAS need more

i don't care how much you tell me that his name is teedus, i will always call him tideus

So uh what's that clip at 6:50ish from

Dynasty Warriors reference!? Noice!

I ain't gonna lie, when I found out he was all a dream just reading word up magazine I didn't want to complete the game.

“Tee-dus” Okay, I’m out. Lol

🤣 Teeee- dus. The arguments some of us players got into over the name. Good times. I also thought he was a bottle blond. His roots are so dark.

When I was a little kid I always thought Tidus was based off of me since I thought we looked a like.

Just a note, There are 4 letters in the necklace not 2, T J S and Y. Considering how much importance Nomura put on symbolism in the character designs in this game, and also considering that the four characters whose name begin with those letters are quite important to the games plot/story, im gonna say that its not a conicidence.

I thought Billy West voiced Tidus. Wow, I was wrong

They referenced and inspired the actor who voiced Rachet.

Ok.. i did not know any of that (and that's surprising)

There is an affection meter what I can't believe it

It's pronounced Tide - us, like tide, like water, the entire theme of game.

I never played X until the remaster on ps4 and had always heard about all the cringe and bad about the game but I loved the game and really liked Tidus as well.

Am I the only one who thinks that at some point Tidus should have been confused for an al bhed? He's got the blonde hair, doesn't follow Yevon, and is wearing clothes unlike any of the other Spira denizens

The whole Tidus debate is a lot like the gif debate. God himself could come down and tell me how to say it and I'd say no.

Tidus is mah boi. No idea who this Teedus chap is though...

All Hail the "Tee-dus" spelling! 🙌🙌

Calling a different way to pronounce Tidus' name than some might prefer 'triggering' isn't a good idea. That way of using the word is taken from mental health terminology, where it's used to refer to when a person who's had an extremely negative, even traumatizing, experience is inadvertently made to recall it by some external occurrence. As such, using the word for what is ultimately just annoyance or frustration is a fairly drastic misuse.

I think the interesting one is the Tidus Overdrive where one of the lady characters helps give tidus the brizball to him for his move. I think when we was playing we wouldn’t of noticed the fact that it was to depend on if you have the three characters alive in order to see it.