Final Fantasy (Nintendo Cinematic Universe)

Final Fantasy is a three-part Japanese anime film.

Part 1
Cloud Strife, a former member of SOLDIER, joins an eco-terrorist group called AVALANCHE to rebel against a corporation that is sucking the life out of the planet.

Part 2
With Aerith dead, Cloud vows to kill Sephiroth and avenge her.

Part 3
AVALANCHE makes their last stand to save the Planet from the meteor.

Part 1

 * The story begins with Cloud joining a group known as AVALANCHE in a series of raids against the Mako reactors that surround the city of Midgar. Although their first mission, which was to blow up the Mako Reactor 1, is a success, AVALANCHE is trapped at another reactor during a subsequent raid. Before they can escape the reactor explodes, launching Cloud from the upper levels of Midgar into the slums below. He lands unharmed on a flower bed, where he is formally introduced to Aerith.
 * Prompted by the arrival of Shinra's Turks operatives sent to capture Aerith, Cloud agrees to work for Aerith as her bodyguard.
 * After Cloud defends Aerith from her would-be kidnappers, Aerith offers to show him the way back to Sector 7. They then meet up with Tifa Lockhart, and the three infiltrate Corneo Hall, the mansion of crime boss Don Corneo. From him, the party learns that Shinra has discovered the location of AVALANCHE's hideout and plans to collapse the upper level of Sector 7 onto the slums below.
 * Despite AVALANCHE's efforts to prevent it, Shinra successfully destroys Sector 7, killing its population and three members of AVALANCHE.
 * The Turks finally capture Aerith, who is the last living member of the Cetra, a race closely attuned with the planet, and previously thought extinct.
 * President Shinra believes that Aerith can lead him to a mythical land of fertility known as the Promised Land, which he expects to be ripe with easily harvested Mako energy.
 * The remaining members of AVALANCHE—Cloud, Tifa, and Barret—infiltrate Shinra's headquarters to rescue Aerith. After freeing her and Red XIII, who joins the party, they escape when most of the personnel in the building are killed, including President Shinra.
 * Finding the body of the president skewered by a masamune, Cloud suspects a man called Sephiroth has returned from his presumed death. These suspicions are confirmed by an executive spared during the massacre, who claims to have witnessed Sephiroth murder the president and state that he would never allow Shinra to claim the Promised Land. The party also learns that during Sephiroth's attack on Shinra, the headless body of a creature named Jenova disappeared from the building's research facility.
 * While Rufus Shinra, the president's son, assumes control of the Shinra Company, AVALANCHE pursues Sephiroth across the planet, fearing his intentions for the Promised Land may be more destructive than Shinra's. During this pursuit, the party is joined by Yuffie, Cait Sith, Vincent Valentine, and Cid Highwind. As the journey progresses, each member of the group must come to terms with personal conflicts from their past, and the full scope of Sephiroth's plan is eventually revealed: if the planet is significantly damaged, the Lifestream within will gather at the point of injury, attempting to heal the wound.
 * Sephiroth explains that he intends to use a powerful spell known as Meteor to summon a powerful meteor that would heavily damage the planet, inciting a reaction in the Lifestream to heal the wound before it can cause the planet's destruction. Entering the fissure created by the meteor's impact, Sephiroth would merge with all the energy of the planet, granting him God-like power over it.
 * At the Temple of the Ancients, AVALANCHE attempts to undermine Sephiroth's plot by claiming the Black Materia needed to activate Meteor, but Sephiroth displays a mysterious power over Cloud, forcing him to relinquish the Black Materia.
 * At an inn in Kalm, Cloud tells the party his story five years ago. During a Shinra mission at Nibelheim, the hometown of Cloud and Tifa, Sephiroth learned that he was the product of this experiment. However, unaware of all details involved, he concluded that he was a Cetra who had been produced solely from Jenova's genetic material. Enraged, Sephiroth burned down the town, intending to kill all descendants of those he believed had abandoned his ancestors in the defense of the planet. According to Cloud, he confronted Sephiroth during this massacre, after which Sephiroth vanished under unknown circumstances and was presumed dead until his reappearance in the Shinra Building.
 * Fearing that Sephiroth may cast Meteor, Aerith sets off to stop him on her own.
 * Concerned for Aerith's safety, AVALANCHE follows her to the Northern Continent, where they enter the Forgotten City, an ancient city once populated by the Cetra. After finding Aerith praying to the planet for aid, Sephiroth, unseen, begins affecting Cloud's behavior, once again, and attempts to force him to kill her. Cloud resists Sephiroth's command, but Sephiroth himself appears and kills Aerith. After laying her body to rest, the surviving characters resolve to defeat Sephiroth and avenge her.

Part 2

 * In the middle of the night, Cloud has a vision of Sephiroth heading north. He gathers the party together and arrive in Icicle Inn.
 * In one of the houses, Cloud finds old videos belonging to Professor Gast.
 * In the videos, Gast interviews Ifalna, one of the last Cetra. She teaches Gast of an interstellar creature that crash-landed on the Planet 2,000 years ago. It traveled via a meteor, whose collision formed a large impact crater, grievously harming the planet. The creature, who came to be known as Jenova, emerged from the crater, intending to infect all living organisms on the planet with a virus that would induce insanity and incite monstrous transformations. Among its victims were most of the Cetra, who were approached when Jenova used its mimic abilities to appear as their relatives. Attempting to defend itself, the planet created giant monsters called WEAPONs. Rather than deciding to fight Jenova, a majority of the humans fled. However, a small group of Cetra survivors fought to defend the planet and managed to defeat Jenova, confining it within the crater that was formed by its landing. Afterward, the WEAPONs entered hibernation to await any possible threat to the planet. Gast and Ifalna came to fall in love and would conceive a child named Aerith.
 * When AVALANCHE reaches the Northern Crater, Sephiroth tells Cloud that he was not in Nibelheim, and shows him images of a 1st Class SOLDIER with dark hair who occupies Cloud's place in his memories.
 * With Tifa unable to refute Sephiroth's claims, Cloud goes crazy and, thinking it the right thing to do, gives the Black Materia to Sephiroth's real body, which is encased in crystalized Mako. (Earlier, Cloud was pursuing a clone of Sephiroth, who led him to his real body.) This results in the reawakening of the WEAPONs. In the earthquake that follows, Cloud is separated from his companions and falls into the Lifestream.
 * As the meteor summoned by Sephiroth slowly approaches the planet, Shinra focuses its efforts on protecting humanity from the WEAPONs, who have begun to perceive everything as a threat to the planet.
 * The members of AVALANCHE are interrogated, and eventually nearly executed. They escape from Junon and obtain Cid's airship, the Highwind, allowing them to travel anywhere on the overworld. They then search for Cloud. They discover Shinra's plan to take Huge Materia from the major spots of the world.
 * Barret Wallace saves his hometown from Shinra's escort, thus redeeming himself for building the Mako reactor there in the first place. They eventually find Cloud, locating him on a tropical resort island called Mideel, where he washed up following the casting of Meteor; he is in a catatonic state.
 * Unable to see Cloud like this, Tifa resolves that she refuses to leave until Cloud has fully recovered. The WEAPONs' destructive activity quickly causes the island to split open, depositing Cloud and Tifa into the Lifestream below. There, she reconstructs Cloud's memories in his subconscious and learns the truth about his past:
 * Flashback: While Cloud had actually been in Nibelheim during Sephiroth's attack, he never successfully joined SOLDIER and only managed to attain the rank of private in Shinra's military. It is revealed that the dark-haired SOLDIER is named Zack. During Sephiroth's destruction of Nibelheim, Zack, Tifa and Cloud fought Sephiroth in Nibelheim's Mako reactor. Although Tifa and Zack were defeated, Cloud and Sephiroth severely wounded one another. After decapitating the body of Jenova, which had been stored in the Mako reactor, Sephiroth is thrown into the Lifestream by Cloud, taking the creature's head with him. Rather than dying, his body and consciousness were crystalized in Mako inside Jenova's crater.

Part 3

 * Flashback: At Nibelheim, it is shown that Cloud and Zack were among the wounded survivors who were apprehended by Shinra as part an elaborate cover-up of Sephiroth's massacre. Professor Hojo subjected these survivors to an experiment, in which he performed the same enhancements given to members of SOLDIER. However, because Hojo conducted the experiment without any concern for the subjects' mental capacities to handle the procedure, all but Zack entered a comatose state. Nearly five years later, Zack broke free from his confinement and took Cloud with him. It is revealed that the procedure used to enhance members of SOLDIER involved both Mako showers and the injection of cells from Jenova. The alien cells inhabiting Cloud's body allowed his mind to construct a false persona, built around Zack's behavior, fighting style, and description of Sephiroth's destruction in Nibelheim, but they also allowed Sephiroth to modulate his behavior. The cells' inherent ability to duplicate information led Cloud to believe he had been the 1st Class SOLDIER in Nibelheim, as Zack was killed outside Midgar by Shinra soldiers after saving Cloud's life. During Zack's final moments, he tells Cloud to live "both of their lives" before taking his final breath. Afterward, Tifa discovered Cloud, who was wearing a SOLDIER 1st Class uniform, which Zack gave him at the Shinra Mansion when they escaped from Hojo's experiment and offered him a job with AVALANCHE.
 * Back in the present, Cloud awakens and having learned the truth, rejoins AVALANCHE. Before Cloud awakened, the few members of AVALANCHE recovered Huge Materia to counter Shinra's attempts to destroy the WEAPONs and Meteor.
 * During the next few segments, many members achieve their lifelong dreams, or settle their past:
 * Cid became the first man in outer space.
 * Yuffie encourages her father to return her hometown Wutai to its former glory.
 * Vincent Valentine learns the truth about his past.
 * With the help of Bugenhagen, the elder of Cosmo Canyon and grandfather of Red XIII, the party discovers that Aerith, just before dying, was casting a spell named Holy as a means to oppose Meteor. Though she succeeds, Sephiroth's focused will prevents the spell from taking effect, and has been restraining it since.
 * Deciding that humanity must be protected from the WEAPONs before Sephiroth can be approached, Shinra and AVALANCHE destroy the WEAPONs, but nearly all of Shinra's executives are killed in the process, seemingly including Rufus. Among the few survivors are Reeve Tuesti, revealed to be the repentant controller of Cait Sith, and Professor Hojo, who is revealed to be Sephiroth's biological father. He explains that he and his wife were assistants to Professor Gast and offered up their unborn child as a test subject to research involving Jenova.
 * When Hojo attempts to help Sephiroth gain mastery over the Lifestream afterward, AVALANCHE is given no choice but to fight and kill him.
 * Cloud tells the remaining members of his team to go find what they are fighting for.
 * Every member return, including Cait Sith, who had been captured by Shinra for helping Cloud.
 * Just before dying from old age, Bugenhagen tells Red XIII to join Cloud for the final battle against Sephiroth.
 * With each member of Cloud's group at peace with his or her past and all other opponents defeated, the group travels through the mantle of the planet to its core, where they defeat Sephiroth and free Holy. However, due to Meteor's already close proximity to the planet's surface, Holy is unable to destroy it alone.
 * Selected as Meteor's target, Midgar is almost completely destroyed by the storms that spawn from its presence. However, sent by Aerith' spirit, the Lifestream itself rises from the planet to aid Holy by pushing Meteor away, allowing Holy to destroy it.
 * Five hundred years later, Red XIII is seen with two cubs looking out over the ruins of Midgar, which are now covered in greenery, showing that the planet has healed.
 * Mid-Credits Scene: Sometime after Sephiroth's defeat, the surviving members of Avalanche receive a call from a panicking Cloud, but shortly after answering, they all disintegrate into golden dust particles.

Part 1

 * The 89th installment of the Nintendo Cinematic Universe.
 * The 33rd installment of the Stage 4.

Part 2

 * The 111st installment of the Nintendo Cinematic Universe.
 * The 20th installment of the Stage 5.

Part 3

 * The 121st installment of the Nintendo Cinematic Universe.
 * The 29th installment of the Stage 5.
 * The 9th installment of Stage 5.5.