Loz

Loz is one of the three Remnants of Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. He is described as being the embodiment of Sephiroth's physical strength, as well as his fondness and emotional instability concerning "Mother" that Sephiroth showed during the Nibelheim Incident. While physically the strongest of the three, Loz has a real soft spot, especially on the topic of Jenova, as he apparently cries a lot, a trait that Yazoo points out in mockery.
==Profile==
===Appearance===
thumb|Loz in the church.
Like the other embodiments of Sephiroth's will, Loz has green eyes with cat-like pupils and silver hair; his hair is styled short and slightly spiky with thin sideburns. Loz is physically bulky, being the largest and most muscular of the three remnants.
Loz wears black leather coat, boots, and trousers. He wears his coat with its hem is cut short and leaves it partially unzipped both ways, with the upper half zipped up just under his sternum. The image of a single wing is sewn on the back of his coat as an allusion to Sephiroth. He wears black leather gloves and shoulder guards with straps crossing over his torso. He straps his weapon, the Dual Hound, on his left arm, and carries his Velvet Nightmare handgun in a holster strapped through a small bandolier belt on his left thigh.
===Personality===
Of the three remnants, Loz is the most child-like and occasionally shows strong bursts of emotion, though not in the same way as Kadaj. Like a "big kid", Loz is simple and straightforward in his words and actions, and enjoys bantering with his brothers. Director Tetsuya Nomura has stated Loz was meant to be a stylized version of Sephiroth's strength, but admitted he could be described as "all brawn and no brains".Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children -Reunion Files- In some scenes, Loz can be heard making sound effects, such as "bruum!" when driving his motorcycle off the cliff in his opening scene, and "bang, buh buh bang!" when firing at a helicopter piloted by Reno, highlighting his childishness.
He is devoted to Jenova and reacts sensitively in regards to her, being easily upset by Reno's flippant remark about her and implies to be prone to crying whenever she brought up, which Yazoo playfully teases him for. His emotional instability and child-like quirks belie his violent and sadistic side. He takes pleasure in harassing Cloud Strife, nearly kills Tifa Lockhart, and views the chaos that he and his brothers cause to be "fun". Embodying his progenitor's "violent streak", Loz enjoys fighting, often laughing while sporting a wide, confident grin in battle. Since he wanted amuses himself at the time, Loz even waits for Tifa get ready after issuing a challenge to her instead attacking outright. Only after accepting a call from Yazoo, Loz stop "playing" with Tifa and end his battle quickly and refocuses on his mission. Loz displays his seriousness in his dedication to finding Jenova and aggressively rushes at anyone hindering him or his brothers.
===Abilities===
Loz is a powerful hand-to-hand combatant, possessing super-strength and speed that allow him to overwhelm opponents. He can shatter trees and stone pillars with just one punch, and flip his motorcycle with his legs with one hand supporting him on the ground. Whenever Loz uses his super speed, he appears to move in a blur of blue and white energy, and, at times, he moves so quickly that he appears to teleport. Loz can even used his super speed to propel himself in mid-air, as evident during the highway chase with Cloud. Even without exploiting his speed, Loz is a flexible and acrobatic fighter.
Combined with his physical prowess, Loz is also resilient and quick to get back on his feet after being hit, such as taking on Tifa's flurry of attacks and remaining unharmed. The Dual Hound accents Loz's strength, and with it, he can unleash jolts of electricity and send a shockwave through the ground. While Loz sometimes uses a Velvet Nightmare gun, his exact skill with it unknown, though he is presumably proficient. Due to his connection to the negative Lifestream, Loz can summon hordes of Shadow Creepers.
==Story==
Loz manifested within the North Crater as the Turks were collecting Jenova's remains, alongside two other remnants of Sephiroth, Kadaj and Yazoo. They defeated Tseng and Elena, before deciding to locate Jenova's head, which the remaining Turks escaped with. The trio subsequently tortured the two Turks they had caught for Jenova's location before heading to the City of the Ancients, which they decided make their base-of-operations.
Loz and his brothers traveled to the Midgar wasteland and attacked Cloud Strife while he was out riding his motorcycle, believing he might know where Jenova's remains were. While Kadaj called one of the Turks over the phone, Loz and Yazoo fought Cloud with their Shadow Creepers and interrogated him about Jenova. They gained an advantage and Loz disarmed Cloud of one of his blades. Before their Shadow Creepers could overwhelm Cloud, Kadaj recalled the monsters, signaling Loz and Yazoo to retreat.
While Kadaj headed out to see Rufus Shinra and Yazoo traveled to Edge to collect Geostigma-infected children, Loz went to the Sector 5 slums church in Midgar, believing Jenova may be there since Cloud has been staying there. He accosted Tifa Lockhart and Marlene Wallace there, with Tifa claiming to not know where Jenova was. Wanting to have some fun, Loz requested she "play with him" by having a duel with him. Although Tifa gained a momentary advantage and sent him crashing into the bench pews, Loz arose unharmed from her attacks. After a phone call from Yazoo, Loz exploited his speed to easily defeat her and stunned her with his Dual Hound. Although he was about kill Tifa, Loz ended up prioritizing kidnapping Marlene and stealing a chest of materia Cloud had been storing at the church.
He returned to the Forgotten City with his brothers and watched Kadaj take control of the Geostigma-infected children by activating the latent "reunion instinct" in their Jenova cells. When Cloud arrived to save the children, Loz and Yazoo overwhelmed him by combining their abilities, but Vincent Valentine saved him and took him to safety. 
The remnants and the children returned to Edge, where Loz and Yazoo attempted to destroy a monument to the Meteor, where they believed Rufus had hidden Jenova's remains. While Kadaj met with Rufus, Loz and Yazoo were interrupted by Reno and Rude of the Turks. As Kadaj summoned Bahamut SIN to terrorize the city, Loz battled and easily defeated Rude. 
After Cloud and his friends defeated Bahamut SIN, Rufus revealed Jenova's remains to Kadaj, who retrieved them. The remnants drove onto the highways leading into Midgar to flee from Cloud. Delaying him from reaching Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo battled Cloud and Loz became exceedingly reckless in his attacks. After steering Cloud onto a second highway from the one Kadaj took, a high-speed battle ensued, both on their motorcycles and in the air above them. Reno and Rude arrived via helicopter to assist Cloud, making Loz fruitlessly try to down them via his bike's guns. The Turks destroyed the section of highway the remnants were driving on, creating a ramp for Yazoo to reach and take down the helicopter. Cloud took on both Yazoo and Loz with his swords later, forcing them to share a motorcycle and to lose their primary weapons. At the end of the chase, the Turks had arrived ahead of their path via second helicopter and used bombs to seemingly kill Loz and Yazoo.
They survived and reappeared shortly after Cloud defeated Sephiroth and shot at him, wanting to take Cloud down with them. Already dissolving due to Aerith Gainsborough's healing rain, Loz and Yazoo used many materia to create an large explosion to kill all three of them, but only succeeding in hasting their deaths and returning to the lifestream.
==Other appearances==
===Pictlogica Final Fantasy===
PFF Loz Illust.png|Portrait.
PFF Loz.png|Sprite.
PFF lozEnemy.png|Boss.
===Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade===
Loz appears as a legend.
FFAB Oblivion - Loz Legend SSR.png|Oblivion (SSR).
FFAB Oblivion - Loz Legend SSR+.png|Oblivion (SSR+).
===Final Fantasy Record Keeper===
===Final Fantasy Brave Exvius===
===Mobius Final Fantasy===
===Final Fantasy Trading Card Game===
Loz appear in Final Fantasy Trading Card Game.
==Behind the scenes==
Loz was designed as a stylized version of Sephiroth's strength, and is described by writer Kazushige Nojima as having "a little something missing upstairs". His character was designed with the concept of "childish" in mind and Loz's lines about "playing" with Tifa during their battle were inspired by Nojima's son.
Loz's super speed forced the film staff to create a new CGI tool just to animate his fight scenes properly, which they called the "Loz Warp Tool". The tool was used to slow down the film for the other characters while Loz moved normally, so he would be able to move much faster than them. Loz's fight scenes and movements were made dynamic and over-the-top to draw back to his great strength and childish personality.
The entire fight sequence between Loz and Tifa was duplicated in the music video for the Korean pop singer Ivy MV's "Temptation of Sonata", albeit with minor changes, such as small parts of the fighting choreography being altered due to the absence of Loz's Dual Hound, and Tifa's victory by snapping Loz's neck at the end. The music video was banned on TV and singer Ivy was sued by Square Enix.
Loz's ringtone is the "Victory Fanfare", as heard when Yazoo calls Loz while he is buried underneath rubble during his fight with Tifa. The timing of the call is apt, as it rings after Tifa defeats Loz.
Final Fantasy VII The Kids Are Alright: A Turks Side Story reveals that Kadaj encountered Kyrie Canaan and adopted his name from one of Kyrie's deceased friends. Likewise, Kadaj may have bestowed the name "Loz" to his brother in-universe.
In Final Fantasy VII Remake, when Whisper Viridi (whose fighting style is based on Loz's) uses "Elude" while the player is controlling Tifa, a special camera angle occurs where it switches to a side view as an allusion to Loz's battle with her in Advent Children.Final Fantasy VII Remake Material Ultimania
===Voice===
Loz is voiced by Kenji Nomura in the Japanese version. Nomura originally thought Loz was a cool character during his battle with Tifa and voiced him with such a vision in mind, but was corrected by the directors that Loz was intended to sound like an idiot.
He is voiced by Fred Tatasciore in English version, who also voices Don Corneo in Final Fantasy VII Remake.
==Gallery==
FF7 Advent Children Early Footage Loz (2).jpg|Early footage.
FF7AC Loz.jpg|CG promotional image of Loz.
FF7AC Yazoo & Loz.jpg|CG render of Yazoo and Loz.
AdventScreenshot217.jpg|Loz "throwing" his motorcycle at Cloud Strife.
==Citations==
ru:Лоз
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Category:Antagonists