Reno Reno is a prominent member of the Turks who appears in the " Compilation of Final Fantasy VII " , and is often accompanied by fellow Turk , Rude . In battle , he wields an Electro - Mag Rod , a nightstick with a on one end . Reno also has a penchant for gossiping and is a competent helicopter pilot . Profile . Appearance . Reno has a lanky physique , blue eyes , unkempt red hair terminating in a long ponytail ( though the ponytail is absent during " Before Crisis " and the first half of " Crisis Core " ) , and two symmetrical red marks on his cheekbones . He wears goggles pushed up onto his forehead , an unbuttoned suit jacket , and an untucked dress shirt . Reno has red tattoos under his eyes . They are not visible on his original in - game character models , but appear on his original artwork by Tetsuya Nomura , and on his " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " portrait and in " Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children " . Personality . Reno is cocky , cynical , somewhat lazy , and can be friendly . Despite his appearance and attitude , he is regarded as a prominent worker ; while second in command , he takes his job with pride and obtains skills that allow him to surpass many of his fellow Turks . He has a rebellious temperament and his actions can be sadistic , contrasting his laid back personality . Reno is left - handed ; even if he is occasionally seen holding his weapon in his right hand in promotional images , he only ever uses it left - handed in any media he has been depicted in . Reno possesses a distinct speech pattern in Japanese , speaking in a drawling , slangy manner and , most notoriously , ending most of his sentences with " zo to " ( ぞ , と ) , " yo to " ( よ , と ) , or simply " to " ( と ) . Tifa receives a phone call near the beginning of " " , and , although the caller ' s voice is not heard , the audience understands it is from Reno , as Tifa jokingly replies , " " Oboeteru , zo to " " ( " I remember you , yo " ; " Yeah , I remember you " in the English dub ) . The official page for the film also makes a nod to this . Speech patterns such as Reno ' s are impossible to translate directly into English and can only be approximated by attempting to capture the same " feeling " as the original , which the game ' s English translation and the movie did not attempt to do . Reno and Rude primarily serve as the comic relief in " Advent Children " , exemplified by cartoon violence . Reno ' s design overhaul for the film eliminates the somewhat sly and shady air he had in the original game . He still acts in a somewhat sly manner , but is far more lighthearted and playful than he was in the game . Story . Combating AVALANCHE . Discovering AVALANCHE are intent on destroying the Sector 8 Mako Reactor , Reno is sent in to support the Player Turk of " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . They enter the reactor to prevent AVALANCHE from detonating their bomb . Reno encounters Shears for the first time in combat and is soundly defeated . As Shears also defeats the Player Turk , who had successfully prevented the bombing , he is ordered to withdraw to Junon where President Shinra is residing to hold a news conference . Noting their movements , Tseng sends Reno and the Player Turk to protect the President . While the pair reach the President before the attack , the President ' s military escort proves ineffective against AVALANCHE ' s soldiers , who infiltrate and secure the President ' s hotel . As Reno stays with the President , the Player Turk clears the building before the President insists on leaving for the conference in spite of the danger . Forced to act as the President ' s street escort when Reno is separated from them , the Player Turk protects the President from numerous attacks until they enter the conference building where , dressed as Shinra troops , AVALANCHE dupes and momentarily captures the President before the Player Turk fights their way back to him as Reno returns to help . Cutting the power to the building and causing a black - out , Fuhito arrives to meet Reno and Shinra . While Reno escapes with the President , the Player Turk is defeated by Fuhito while attempting to distract him , whereupon it is revealed AVALANCHE had hijacked the Mako Cannon . As Reno returns the President to his quarters , Rufus Shinra calls and notes the new Turk ' s progress before Veld informs them of the cannon ' s hijacking . The President sends Reno to liberate it , leaving him open for Fuhito to enter the room and shoot him . Still alive , the President orders Veld to send in Sephiroth to destroy AVALANCHE . With AVALANCHE intending to use the Mako Cannon to destroy Midgar as a message to Shinra , Reno leads a contingent of Shinra troops against AVALANCHE ' s street forces and the Player Turk enters the cannon facility from an underground passageway . Lead by Tseng over the PHS , they work their way through the facility ' s security countermeasures and AVALANCHE personnel into the control room to turn off the cannon . Coming across the sight of a massacre at the control room ' s entrance , the cannon is turned off mysteriously before the Turk got to the control panel . With President Shinra dedicating SOLDIER to deal with AVALANCHE , the Turks are instructed to locate new SOLDIER candidates . Reno , Rude and the Player Turk travel the globe , employing potential fighters for the SOLDIER program . During a sea voyage transporting said candidates to Midgar , the entire candidate population is killed by a sole candidate called Azul , whom the Player Turk confronts . Azul is suppressed by Rude . While on the docks , the ship is attacked by a contingent of AVALANCHE soldiers lead by Shears who boards the ship and frees the SOLDIER candidates , defeating Rude while the Player Turk attempts to recapture them . As the Player Turk returns , Rude goes after Shears and , partnered up with Reno , defeats the AVALANCHE commander while a freed Azul returns to the Shinra ship willingly to finish his fight with the Player Turk and become a SOLDIER . Following the theft of confidential documents from the 45th floor of the Shinra Building , Reno and Rude are sent to guard the room and search for clues to the missing files . While the pair continue their investigation , an intruder sets off the alarm and the Turks must defend themselves against the building ' s security system , which had been sabotaged by the intruder . While Shuriken ( Female ) looks into the sabotage , Reno and Rude continue their investigation . When Reno notices a bearded man in a lab coat watching them from the shadows , the pair chase after him ; concluding the man was the person who stole the data . Escaping into an elevator , Reno continues pursuing . He jumps onto the elevator roof only to discover the access door is locked . As Reno fights another malfunctioning security robot , the suspect escapes the building . Recalled by Veld , Reno and Rude are ordered to continue their investigation as well as help stop the malfunctioning security robots , which have escaped onto the streets of Midgar and begun attacking civilians . On the streets of Sector 8 , Reno and Rude split up and after finding and destroying a number of the machines , Reno helps out Rude and together the two make their way to LOVELESS Avenue where they find Shuriken ( Female ) cornered by two Genesis Copies . Tseng arrives , along with newly promoted First Class SOLDIER Zack Fair , to assist , but Shuriken defeats the clones on her own . Continuing their hunt for rogue robots , Reno and Rude again spot the man in the lab coat . Gaining Veld ' s permission to follow him , they chase him into the sewer systems where they are attacked by robots , which seem to take orders from the scientist , concluding it was the scientist who tampered with the Shinra control system . Cornering the man , they discover him to be Professor Hollander , but two Genesis Copies appear from a hidden passage and distract the pair , giving Hollander time to escape . Veld orders the pair to return to Sector 8 as SOLDIER has taken over the investigation of the stolen documents . Curious over Rude ' s unexplained disappearances after work , Reno orders the Player Turk to follow after him in Sector 8 to discover he was going on dates with a woman named Chelsea . While the Player Turk deals with a monster infestation in the sector , Reno follows Rude to one of his dates and discovers Chelsea attempting to place a bug on Rude ' s PHS . Reno follows her from the date and discovers she works with AVALANCHE , but claims to her contact she was unable to place a wire tap on Rude ' s PHS in spite of Reno noting she had plenty of time to do so during the date . The next day Reno informs Rude of his girlfriend ' s affiliations , but Rude already knew . President Shinra is growing impatient to destroy AVALANCHE . Veld sends Reno and Rude to gather information on Fuhito ' s new Ravens while the Player Turk is to gather new Turk candidates . Conflict with Shinra . Four years after the Nibelheim Incident , the fugitives , Zack and Cloud are hunted by Shinra . The Turks , along with Reno , attempt a Priority - S retrieval mission but are unable to acquire them before the Shinra military ambushes them . After Veld has been taken to Midgar to be executed , Tseng , Rude and Reno discern the location he is being held . While Reno , Rude and Tseng free Veld , the Player Turk commandeers a helicopter to chase after AVALANCHE before they use the support Materia to summon Zirconiade . As the Player Turks chase after Fuhito along the construct created by Zirconiade ' s summoning , Tseng , Reno , Rude , Veld and an awakened Elfé are captured by the Shinra military . Confronted with the offer that the Turks would be spared from capture and execution if Veld and Elfé are killed , Tseng turns his gun on the pair and pretends to kill them . As Tseng leaves with Veld and Elfé , Reno and Rude wait for their remaining comrades still fighting Zirconiade . The shockwave emitted from Zirconiade ' s destruction destroys the construct on which the Turks were standing ; Reno and Rude watch in horror as the entire construction vanishes in an explosion of light . Fighting the second incarnation of AVALANCHE . Reno is first encountered in " Final Fantasy VII " when he comes to the Sector 5 Church with soldiers to capture Aeris , who escapes with Cloud . Since this encounter Reno is met frequently by the second incarnation of AVALANCHE , who are fighting against Shinra and Sephiroth , trying to stop the latter from destroying the Planet with Meteor . During Shinra ' s plan to wipe out AVALANCHE for good , Reno sets the bombs that blow up the Sector 7 pillar , but not without fighting Cloud , Barret , and Tifa , which leaves him temporarily incapacitated . Reno later confronts Cloud ' s party outside of Gongaga with Rude to settle the score , but once again has to back down . Despite this rivalry , he is not beyond teaming up with Cloud and the others in Wutai , where both parties have a bone to pick with Don Corneo , who has taken Elena and Yuffie hostage . Despite company orders for Reno and Rude to track down Cloud and his group , Reno ignores this order because he is still on his day off . Reno and Rude can also be found observing the Sunken Gelnika . Reno is encountered one last time when the Turks are in the Midgar subway tunnels after Diamond Weapon ' s raid on the city and Professor Hojo had gone rogue . Reno says he is " not really up for " fighting , even though he and the others were ordered to terminate Cloud and his party ; if the player completed the Wutai sidequest they have the option of not fighting them . Even if the player does fight the Turks , they depart after the battle and are not seen again . In " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " it is revealed that during Meteorfall Reno oversees the evacuation of Sector 4 while Rude clears Sector 2 and Elena clears Sector 3 . Moving to clear Sector 5 together with Tseng , the four are met by the previous Turks and Veld returning to assist in the evacuation of the citizens . Reno flies the Shinra helicopter over the Northern Cave where the Turks are in search of Jenova ' s head . He escapes when Kadaj , Yazoo , and Loz interrupt their investigation . Reno attacks Cloud when he first arrives at the Healen Lodge , although this seems halfhearted ; Reno possesses no true hostility towards his former enemies after he was pardoned for the destruction of Sector 7 by Reeve . He and Rude later find Cloud and Tifa unconscious in Aeris ' s church and brings them to 7th Heaven to recover and keep an eye on them . Reno and Rude travel to Edge , where Loz and Yazoo are attempting to topple a monument in the center of the city in their search for Jenova . They succeed in dissuading the two Remnants , but Kadaj calls Bahamut SIN to destroy the monument anyway . Reno escapes the blast with a pair of children , who are still under the influence of Jenova , before personally engaging Yazoo in hand - to - hand combat . After Cloud begins pursuing the Remnants down the highway , Reno and Rude attempt to provide air support for Cloud via helicopter , only to fail miserably . After being picked up by Tseng and Elena , set an ambush near the opening of a tunnel with Rude , and as soon as Cloud rushes by on his motorcycle , Reno drops a bomb . Loz , Yazoo , Rude , and Reno are all caught in the explosion , but survive it . Afterward , Reno and Rude are seen with the surviving members of Shinra , witnessing Rufus ' s Geostigma being healed . Gameplay . " Final Fantasy VII " . Reno can be fought four times during the course of the game . Only two to three of these fights are set . The fight at Gelnika , is optional . The fight at Midgar , Sector 8 can be optional if the player has finished the Wutai side quest . " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . Reno is fought in the Training Mode . Creation and development . During production of " Advent Children " , the film ' s staff were constantly tweaking Reno ' s movements and clothing to properly convey his attitude and personality , as he is a more energetic and excitable character compared to the rest of the cast . Tetsuya Nomura had a clear vision of how Reno should sound , and when he explained it to voice director Yoji Shimizu , Shimizu contacted Keiji Fujiwara , who had precisely the voice Nomura wanted . As Fujiwara recorded his lines , his mouth was video taped and superimposed on footage of Reno to make him feel closer to the character . Fujiwara and the film staff both noted there was a lot of pressure to make Reno look and sound good due to his popularity from the original game . Voice . Reno is voiced by Keiji Fujiwara in the Japanese version . He shares his Japanese voice actor with Izana Kunagiri from " Final Fantasy Type - 0 " as well as Ardyn Izunia from " Final Fantasy XV " , Ciggma Khint from " Bravely Default " and / from the " Kingdom Hearts " series . He is voiced by Quinton Flynn in the English version . He shares his English voice actor with Isaaru from " Final Fantasy X " and Axel / Lea from the " Kingdom Hearts " series . Other appearances . Reno has made appearances in the following canon works : He has made appearances in the following series games :