Flan (enemy family)

Flan is an enemy species from the Final Fantasy series, first appearing by the name "Flan" in Final Fantasy II. Flan are true to their name, as they are gelatinous, cylindrical creatures, generally possessing large eyes and a mouth that takes up the majority of the front of their body. In many games, they have stubby arms that spurt from the sides of their body.
In most games, Flan-family enemies are named for various gelatinous foods, such as jelly, pudding, or simply flan. Some games will also draw on words such as "slime" or "ooze"; less-tasty terms for substances of the same general consistency. Other times, "Flan" simply refers to one specific enemy within a game.
In many games, Flan are weaker creatures, encountered fairly early on. In some games, there are some Flan with elemental affinities, such as an Ice Flan or Dark Flan. Flan are usually resistant against physical damage but weak to magic. Fittingly, they are also likely to be formidable casters.
==Appearances==
===Final Fantasy===
The four types of ooze monsters were inspired by classic Dungeons & Dragons monsters: Green Slime, Gray Ooze, Ochre Jelly and Black Flan (originally "Black Pudding"). The Red Flan, a Final Fantasy original monster, has been added to this list in the Dawn of Souls and 20th Anniversary remakes, and can be found in the bonus dungeons.
===Final Fantasy II===
Flans received a significant visual redesign that would form the basis for the majority of their depictions across the series, appearing more as big, sticky gumdrops with goofy faces and a pair of wing- or fin-like arms than as simply blobs of sticky, amorphous muck. The names of Flan-family enemies also shifted to a stronger trend towards gelatinous confections as inspirations. There are four varieties of flan: the Green Slime, the Yellow Jelly, the Red Mousse and the Black Flan. The Flan Princess is added to the Dawn of Souls and 20th Anniversary versions, and can be found in the Unknown Cave.
===Final Fantasy III===
The Black Flan is an enemy and is found in the sewers of Amur and has the highest strength of all of the monsters in the area. There are also two other Flan types, the Slime and the Red Marshmallow.
===Final Fantasy IV===
75px|left
Flan enemies possess a near-impervious defense against physical attacks.
There are several other breeds: Flan Princess, Red Mousse, Black Flan , Purple Bavarois, Yellow Jelly, and White Mousse, Golden Flan, and Dust Mousse appear only in the Advance and The Complete Collection. In the 3D versions, physical attacks deal considerably higher damage than they did in previous versions.
====Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-====
There are three types of flan:
*Black Flan
*Purple Bavarois
*White Mousse
====Final Fantasy IV: The After Years====
There are eight types of flan:
*Green Cell
*Flan Princess (rare)
*Red Mousse
*Black Flan
*Dust Mousse
*Purple Bavarois
*Yellow Jelly
*White Mousse
===Final Fantasy V===
There are no Flan, but there are a few creatures that are similar to them, such as the Gel Fish, Blood Slime, and Dark Aspic.
===Final Fantasy VI===
right|100px
Flan have no Defense and are immune to most elements. Flan can use Sticky Goo to slow one party member. There are known two variants of Flan; the Flan and the Mousse. Flan Princesses appear as bosses in the Advance release.
===Final Fantasy VIII===
Blobra have varied elemental affinities. All physical attacks deal minimal damage to the Blobra. This monster holds most of the defensive status spells, likely a homage to its defensive nature.
===Final Fantasy IX===
The Flan is an enemy that can be found in the Ice Cavern. There is only one variation of Flan.
===Final Fantasy X===
Several types of Flan appear throughout Spira and each have different elemental properties depending on their location. While Flan-type enemies are strong against physical attacks, using Armor Break will cause them to take full damage from physical attacks (except Jumbo Flan, which is immune to Armor Break and to physical attacks in general).
*Water Flan
*Thunder Flan
*Snow Flan
*Ice Flan
*Flame Flan
*Aqua Flan
*Dark Flan
*Jumbo Flan
====Final Fantasy X-2====
Flan live in the various locales of Spira. They are generally similar to the Flan encountered in Final Fantasy X, but, possibly due to Flan being a dessert of Spanish origin, they are given Spanish names, usually the Spanish word for the color they happen to be. It takes 20 kills to Oversoul a Flan.
*Flan Amarillo (yellow)
*Flan Azabache (jet black)
*Flan Azul (blue)
*Flan Blanco (white)
*Flan Palido (pale)
*Flan Rojo (red)
====Sphere Break====
====Final Fantasy X-2: Last Mission====
===Final Fantasy XI===
Though there are formless slime enemies found throughout Vana'diel, Flan (usually called "puddings") are a specific type of Amorph found in the Near East, particularly around Halvung. These flan regularly cast black magic spells, unlike slimes and clots.
Due to the fact they take increased damage from spells, they are very popular EXP targets for black mages, red mages, and scholars.
===Final Fantasy XII===
Flan are the only genus of the amorph classification. Some have the ability to duplicate or divide to overwhelm an opponent with numbers. This type of flan bears an even greater resemblance to the dessert, as it is covered in syrup, or as the game puts it, caramel. Flan resist damage from guns and measures.
There are twelve variants:
*Flan
*Tallow
*Jelly
*Hecteyes
*Oiling
*Foobar
*Slime
*Etherian (Rare)
*Melt (Rare)
*Cubus (Rare)
*White Mousse (Mark)
*Orthros (Elite Mark)
===Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings===
The Flan is an enemy type with four variants:
*Blue Flan
*Red Flan
*Yellow Flan
*Green Flan
===Final Fantasy XIII===
There exists an entire class of Flan-type enemies. Flan designed for military use in Cocoon have metallic components attached to them, while the wild flan are fully organic. Many of the wild Flan have the ability to merge with others of their kind in order to form larger Flan.
*Flan
*Dire Flan
*Monstrous Flan
*Flandragora
*Hybrid Flora
*Phosphoric Ooze
*Alchemic Ooze
*Flanitor
*Flanborg
*Rust Pudding
*Ferruginous Pudding
*Corrosive Custard
*Ectopudding (Mark)
*Gelatitan (Mark)
*Rotten Tomato (Dummied)
====Final Fantasy XIII-2====
A child form of flan called Miniflan is introduced. Furthermore, the wild flans' ability to merge with others of their kind is taken to an extreme in the form of Royal Ripeness. Flandragora has been renamed to Flanbanero in reference to the Habanero pepper.
Flan play a role in the storyline at Sunleth Waterscape where a giant flan has appeared due to a paradox and is eroding the crystal pillar. Noel temporarily surrenders his trade as monster hunter for a bit of monster rescuing in 400 AF, rounding up lost miniflans with Serah, only to find that mischievous lesser Flan again threaten the Pillar.
It is mentioned in the Brain Blast quiz in Academia that during the annual Gran Pulse festival, La Prettina, an event that celebrates the coming of spring, people throw flan at one another. Furthermore, the Brain Blast quiz also mentions that Flan are terribly spicy in flavor. Flan are a regular food source of hunters, whose livelihood is threatened by the appearance of the Faeryl that sucks away the flan from the Archylte Steppe into the Sunleth Waterscape. Defeating the Faeryl removes Miniflan and Flanbanero from the Waterscape and adds them (returning them, as the story would have it) to the Steppe.
In a paradox ending in the Sunleth Waterscape, a giant flan takes over Cocoon and Serah, Noel and Mog sneak into the Waterscape with Noel disguised as a Microchu and Serah as a Miniflan in an attempt to defeat it by serving it a poisoned flan.
All Flan use one of two Feral Links, both doing physical damage: Twin Fists and Hundred Fists. Of the cyborg versions of the Flan, the Militarized Unit Flanborg, also does Twin Fists, but Flanitor has a unique Feral Link, Hyper Rescue; this ability to heal the entire party instantly is one of the reasons for its popularity.
*Miniflan
*Flanbanero
*Flanitor
*Flanborg
*Phosphoric Ooze (Dummied)
*Royal Ripeness
**Mutantomato
====Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII====
There are three types of Flan that appear and their Last One versions (except for Flanitor). Flanitor patrol the streets of Yusnaan and attack the player on sight before Lightning clears her name there. The other variants are daytime enemies on the Wildlands: Miniflan on the Grasslands and Ectopudding on the Eremite Plains. The latter also appear in the Temple of the Goddess regardless of the time of day.
*Flanitor
*Miniflan
*Miniflan Ω
*Ectopudding
*Ectopudding Ω
===Final Fantasy XIV===
Puddings are commonly found inside of caves or places with some kind of disruption of the aether flow. They can change their elemental alignment at will, often starting with Ice or Water. They are one of the few creatures in Eorzea able to absorb elemental attacks.
The player can obtain Bite-Sized Pudding and Slime Puddle as minions.
===Final Fantasy XV===
Flan are daemons that spawn in dungeons and are fought in hunts. They halve physical damage, but take full damage from royal arms.
*Flan
*Jumbo Flan
*Crème Brûlée
*Gelatin
*Bavarois
*Marshmallow
*Dolce
*Custard
*Matcha Mousse
*Black Flan
*Lakhmu Flan
The Sweet Jamming-style fishing lures are fashioned after different species of flan.
====A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV====
Flan resist physical attacks and are impervious to magic that is the same color as them. Blue flans are immune to ice, red flans are immune to fire, and yellow flans are immune to lightning. If a flan is defeated with magic, it will instantly die, but if it is defeated with physical attacks, it will split into two weaker flans.
A King's Tale FFXV Blue Flan.png
A King's Tale FFXV Red Flan.png
A King's Tale FFXV Yellow Flan.png
===Final Fantasy XVI===
The Flan Prince is an A-rank Mark ("Muddy Murder") on the Hunt Board. "The Rising Tide" expansion includes a flan-type enemy called Quindim.
===Final Fantasy Tactics Advance===
The Flan is a type of enemy with three variants:
*Jelly
*Cream
*Flan
====Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift====
Flan is again a category rather than a species. There are five strains of Flan that appear: the Red Marshmallow, Yellow Jelly, Ice Flan, White Pudding, and Orthros. They do not possess a high defense.
===Final Fantasy Tactics S===
===Crystal Defenders===
Four types of Flan appear as enemies:
*Ice Flan
*White Pudding
*Red Marshmallow
*Yellow Jelly
===Vagrant Story===
There is no Flan, but the Slime enemy is quite similar in appearance.
There are two different types of slimes:
*Slime
*Poison Slime
===Final Fantasy Type-0===
There are four varieties of Flan, which make up four different enemy families and are based on an element:
*Flame Flan
*Ice Flan
*Electric Flan
*Aqua Flan
FireFlan-type0-psp.png|Flame Flan (PSP).
IceFlan-type0-psp.png|Ice Flan (PSP).
LightningFlan-type0-psp.png|Electric Flan (PSP).
====Final Fantasy Agito====
Flans appeared in the trailer.
===Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles===
There are three types of Flan that appear:
*Flan
*Dark Flan
*Water Flan
====Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates====
The Flan is an enemy with four variants:
*Flan
*Ice Flan
*Fire Flan
*Dika Flan
====Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King====
====Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time====
The Flan is an enemy that appearing as a gelatinous blobs. They are stern, and fond of head-butting and casting spells. All Flan act and respond identically, only their element changes between species.
Three elemental types of Flan are found:
*Flan
*Fire Flan
*Ice Flan
====Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers====
There are five different types of Flan:
*Flan
*Armor Flan
*Princess Flan
*Tallow
*Lil' Flan
===Final Fantasy Mystic Quest===
Jellies, Oozes and Slimes appear in various regions around the world. These variations resist magic, as they possess a permanent Reflect status.
===Final Fantasy Legend II===
There are five types of Flan appear:
*Jelly
*Pudding
*Slime
*SlimeGod
*Tororo
===Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light===
Flan can merge with others of their kind to raise their overall stats.
Three types of Flan appear:
*Slime
*Metal Flan
*Red Jelly
===Final Fantasy Dimensions===
Flan appear as an enemy family.
There are two dummied sprites. One is a purple flan with red eyes, resembling the Purple Bavarois from Final Fantasy IV. The second is red with green eyes, resembling the Red Mousse from Final Fantasy II.
*Red Mousse
*Yellow Jelly
*White Mousse
*Ice Flan
*Aqua Flan
*Black Flan
*Flan Princess
===Final Fantasy Dimensions II===
===Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia===
Flan appears as an enemy. The Flan resembles the Water Flan from Final Fantasy X.
===Theatrhythm Final Fantasy===
Flans appear as enemies during Battle Music Sequences.
====Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call====
Jumbo Flan and different-colored smaller Flan appear as an enemies during Battle Music Sequences (BMS).
===Pictlogica Final Fantasy===
Flan from the series appear as enemies.
PFF Flan FFVI.png|Flan from Final Fantasy VI.
PFF Flan Princess.png|Flan Princess from Final Fantasy VI.
PFF Dark Flan.png|Flan from Final Fantasy VI.
PFF White Mousse.png|White Mousse from Final Fantasy XII.
PFF Flan.png|Flan from Final Fantasy XIII.
===Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade===
Flans are enemies found in the Mist Cave. They are instantly defeated when encountered.
===Final Fantasy All the Bravest===
The Final Fantasy VI version of the Flan appears as an enemy on the Bridge of Moore. It uses Slap and drops the Rapier.
In addition, the Flan from Final Fantasy XIII appears as a premium enemy on the Archylte Steppe.
===Final Fantasy Record Keeper===
Flan appear as enemies.
FFRK Flan FFVI.png|Final Fantasy VI version.
FFRK Flan FFXII.png|Final Fantasy XII version.
FFRK Flan FFLII.png|Final Fantasy Legends II version.
FFRK Flan FFWWW.png|Final Fantasy World Wide Words version.
===Final Fantasy Explorers===
===Final Fantasy World Wide Words===
===Final Fantasy Brave Exvius===
===World of Final Fantasy===
Flan have 3 variations: Mini Flan, Flan, and Flan Princess. A fourth variation, Kaguya Flan, appears in the Coliseum through DLC or in the Maxima version.
WoFF Mini Flan.png|Mini Flan
WoFF Flan.jpg|Flan
WoFF Flan Princess.png|Flan Princess
WoFF Kaguya Flan.png|Kaguya Flan
===Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon===
===Dice de Chocobo===
===Final Fantasy Trading Card Game===
Flan from Theatrhythm Final Fantasy appears with an ice-elemental card.
===Final Fantasy Portal App===
Flan from Final Fantasy VI, Blobra from Final Fantasy VIII and Pudding from Final Fantasy XIV appear as Triple Triad cards.
117a Flan.png|Final Fantasy VI Flan
166a Blobra.png|Final Fantasy VIII Blobra
366a Pudding.png|Final Fantasy XIV Pudding
==Non-Final Fantasy guest appearances==
===Hanjuku Hero: Aa, Sekaiyo Hanjukunare...!===
Final Jelly appears as an Egg Monster. The sprite is a modified version of the Flan-type monsters from Final Fantasy IV.
===Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable===
Flan is a chance card, the card's ability: Give 50G to target player.
==Gallery==
Amorphxii.jpg|Final Fantasy XII artwork.
FFXIIRW BlueFlan.PNG|Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings portrait.
FFTA-IceFlan.jpg|Final Fantasy Tactics Advance artwork.
FFTS - Flan.png|Final Fantasy Tactics S.
Type-0 Flan.jpg|In-battle in Final Fantasy Type-0.
PFF Flan.png|Pictlogica Final Fantasy.
FFRK Blobra FFVIII.png|Final Fantasy Record Keeper.
==Etymology==
fr:Flan
it:Budino
Category:Enemy families in Final Fantasy Dimensions
Category:Enemy families
Category:Enemy families in Final Fantasy X
Category:Enemy families in Final Fantasy Type-0