Is Zack a Sephiroth clone?

Zack, also a Sephiroth-clone, was a complete failure: he was not mentally affected by the experiment due to previously being unaffected by the identical SOLDIER procedure. The twelve successful Sephiroth-clones become the group of fanatics that follows Sephiroth around in Final Fantasy VII.
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Is Zack a Sephiroth?

Cloud later realizes that some of his memories and even aspects of his personality were actually Zack's, and not his own. Flashbacks reveal that both Zack and Cloud battled Sephiroth after he burned the town of Nibelheim upon discovering he was the result of a scientific experiment.
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Is Cloud a Zack clone?

Cloud was not a clone at all, it was a ploy by sephiroth to control him.
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Is Cloud a copy of Sephiroth?

No. While at one point Cloud was tricked into believing this about himself by Sephiroth, who wanted to break his fragile sense of self in order for him to willingly give Sephiroth the Black Materia - the whole truth is, Cloud has never been a clone in any sense.
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Are Zach and Cloud the same person?

In Final Fantasy VII, Zack only appears in flashback sequences that portray him as almost identical to Cloud Strife, but the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII expands upon his character. Zack is a 1st Class SOLDIER and Cloud's best friend during their time working for the Shinra Electric Power Company.
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Who is Cloud's father?

We know nothing about Cloud's father, except that he died when he was very young. Cloud's mother remains in Nibelheim when he departs to become a member of SOLDIER and she is later killed when Sephiroth goes berserk and puts the town to the torch.
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Does Aerith know that Zack is alive?

While it's a little foggy given the complications of the original Final Fantasy 7 compilation, Aerith didn't seemingly know about Zack's death until she was in the lifestream. Some have speculated that she felt his life force go at once, but didn't know it was him for sure or how he died.
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Is Red 13 a Sephiroth clone?

In actuality, the tattoo is from an unrelated experiment, as Red XIII was captured by Hojo more than three years after the other Sephiroth-clones were created; this is also confirmed in the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega. Hojo places Aerith and Red XIII in the same containment tank and Cloud's party rushes the lab.
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Are there two Sephiroth's?

The developers have disclosed some information that somewhat clears up his role in the 2020 game: they have confirmed there are actually four different forms of Sephiroth in FF7 Remake.
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Is Sephiroth actually Jenova?

At different parts of the game, Sephiroth refers to Jenova as his mother. The reason behind this is Hojo, who lies to Sephiroth and tells him that Jenova is the name of his mother and that she died in childbirth. Sephiroth's real mother is Lucrecia Crescent, the same woman who Vincent fell in love with.
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Is Jenova Sephiroth mother?

Jenova has a feminine form and is said to be the "mother" of Sephiroth.
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Is Sephiroth a puppet?

Since Jenova was a puppet of Sephiroth, the Clones also became fanatics who would do anything for their master. Those who turned into mindless slaves were tattooed with a number somewhere on their body, but those who failed and kept some shred of their ego were left to die.
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Is Zack alive ff7r?

The ending of FF7 Remake Intermission DLC shows Zack alive and well, attempting to see Aerith at the church in Sector 5. A possible reason why Zack was brought back is that Cloud may encounter an unfortunate end midway through the games.
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Is Cloud pretending to be Zack?

We know that after Zacks death, Clouds mind was warped by trauma and that he essentially turned himself into a Cloud/Zack hybrid taking on some of Zacks persona and history while seemingly erasing Zacks existence from his memory.
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Who is stronger Zack or Cloud?

Both Zack and Cloud are very powerful fighters. A battle between them would be a very close match. However, purely because Cloud gets more time to develop his skills, while Zack dies earlier, Cloud ends up being a little stronger than Zack.
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Does Cloud remember Zack?

Tifa follows him past the town and into the mako reactor to his memories of confronting Sephiroth. Tifa is injured and the black-haired SOLDIER runs up to fight Sephiroth. Cloud remembers the SOLDIER's name is Zack.
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Is Sephiroth a whisper?

At the end of the game, when Sephiroth appears as the final boss, it looks like he's absorbing the whispers, his wing is made of them, and when he's defeated he separates into a bunch of whispers. Also, the 3 whisper colors are based on the 3 Sephiroth remants.
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Is Sephiroth an ancient?

Fiat Lux. Aerith: Sephiroth is different. He's not an Ancient. Cloud: He shouldn't be able to find the Promised Land.
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Why does Cloud hallucinate Sephiroth?

In FF7, Cloud is being influenced by Sephiroth, used as a puppet to bring the Black Materia to Sephiroth's wounded body in the North Crater. This is the reason why Cloud has so many strange hallucinations in FF7, as it's Sephiroth exerting his will through the cells Hojo injected into Cloud's body.
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Does TIFA know Zack?

Tifa insists she doesn't know who Zack is, but she met him five years ago when he visited as a SOLDIER to investigate the Nibel Mako Reactor.
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Does Cloud have Jenova cells?

This makes Cloud the only known surviving product of Project S. Cloud, Shelke, Genesis, and Weiss thus bear the last known fragments of Jenova's cells, either directly, or via the cells of Genesis or Sephiroth.
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Is Zack Fair in ff7 remake?

Zack Fair is a 1st Class SOLDIER and Cloud's best friend during their time working for the Shinra Electric Power Company. He wields the iconic Buster Sword, which he would pass onto Cloud in a similar manner to how Zack had himself received it from his SOLDIER mentor, Angeal Hewley.
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Why does Aerith not recognize the Buster Sword?

So it's clear the reason why Aerith doesn't show any sort of reaction to the Buster Sword in OG FFVII was because it wasn't established (and perhaps wasn't even conceptualized) to be a one-of-a-kind family heirloom yet.
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Does Cloud love Aerith Remake?

Their chemistry is off the charts compared to how Cloud acts bored all the time when he's with Tifa or Jessie. You can tell that Cloud doesn't want their time together to end.
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How is Sephiroth alive in ff7 remake?

The final boss of 7 Remake is Sephiroth. This is a bit of surprise. In the original, Sephiroth, thought to be dead, makes his return known by killing President Shinra and taking Jenova's remnants from the labs within Shinra HQ.
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