Zack Fair

Zack Fair, also known as Zack the Puppy, is one of the main protagonists from the Final Fantasy 7 series.
== Charactah Account ==
Zack is an energetic SOLDIER that was Cloud's best friend, he accompanied Sephiroth on the Nibelheim mission, where he was critically wounded and turned into a lab experiment for Hojo. Though he escaped several years later and took Cloud with him, he was caught and gunned down by Shinra. The dying Zack entrusted his Buster Sword to Cloud, who inadvertently also assumed a fake identity based on Zack's life and personality. Crisis Core explores his adventures prior to Nibelheim as he deals with the conspiracies that infested SOLDIER during its glory days.
Zack has a positive attitude and is always ready for work. His energetic personality and short attention span earned the nickname "Zack the Puppy" from Angeal. He is loyal to SOLDIER and dreams of becoming a hero. He is sociable and easily befriends almost everyone. Angeal's words of valuing dreams and honor have had a great impact on Zack and he goes on to succeed Angeal as SOLDIER's spiritual leader. He is flirty with women and protective of his friends.
Zack's personality juxtaposes with Genesis's in their respective quests of "becoming a hero". Whereas Genesis believes himself entitled to the moniker and strives to achieve it by proving himself superior to others, Zack views becoming a hero as a personal achievement and the only person he strives to surpass is his own past self. Whereas Genesis looks into outside sources to affirm his role as the hero—LOVELESS and becoming stronger and more revered in the public eye than Sephiroth—Zack instead follows his internal moral compass. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
* Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete
* Final Fantasy VII: Last Order
=== Light Novels ===
* Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile
=== Video Games ===
* Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII
* Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
* Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion
* Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring
* Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
* Final Fantasy VII
* Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
* Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis
* Final Fantasy: Record Keeper
* Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 Remix
* Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
* Theatrhythm Final Bar Line
* Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call
* World of Final Fantasy: Meli-Melo
== Trivia ==
* "Zack" is a shortened form of the name "Zachary" and is a name of Hebrew origin that means "remembrance of the Lord" or "Jehovah hath remembered". Whether his name is meant to be connected to Jenova's (a portmanteau of Jehovah and Nova) is unknown.
* Zack's last name was revealed in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- to be "Fair". According to Tetsuya Nomura, it is derived from "fair weather", and is intended to contrast with "Cloud Strife".
* Zack's original Japanese name is Zax (Zakkusu), instead of Zack (Zakku). It was most likely changed in the western releases to sound more like a real-world name.
* "Zax" is the name used in the Japanese PlayStation edition of Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring in 1998. His First Edition and Special Edition cards in the Final Fantasy Art Museum use the name "Zack's", as does his Final Fantasy Trading Arts vol.1 figure.
* The character names were made universally consistent for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and so his name has recently been romanized as "Zack" in official Japanese media and material. In Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- his name is written as "Zack" in the credits and atop a case file within the OVA, however, that same case file also writes his name "Zax" in its body.
* In Final Fantasy VII, the game code calls the two infantrymen during Cloud's telling of the Nibelheim Incident, "Zax" and "Zako"; "Zax" is what Zack is called in Japanese and "Zako" is a vulgar Japanese word that refers to someone as worthless cannon fodder. "Zako" would be the infantryman who goes missing after the bridge falls, meaning "Zax" is actually Cloud, a play on their role reversal in Cloud's faulty telling of the events.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Zack Fair at Final Fantasy Wiki
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