Biggs (Final Fantasy VII)

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## Behind the scenes information

### English voice actor

Gideon Emery

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**Biggs** is a minor character in *Final Fantasy VII*, with a more prominent role in *Final Fantasy VII Remake*. He is a member of Avalanche under Barret Wallace. While in story scenes he is shown to have some combat skills, Biggs never joins as playable character. Instead, he serves supporting roles, together with with his friends Wedge and Jessie focusing into the technological areas of Avalanche's efforts to oppose the Shinra Electric Power Company.

Early Japanese materials write Biggs's name as ビックス (Bikkusu?, with a "k" sound), which is the way the name of the original Biggs from *Final Fantasy VI* is written. Some instances of optional dialogue in *Final Fantasy VII* erroneously use this original name.

## Profile

### Appearance

Biggs is a lean young man with swept-back brown hair and a red bandana tied round his forehead. He wears an olive shirt and green three-quarter trousers, brown boots with silver fasteners round the ankle, brown gloves, and two belts: one black and one brown, the latter of which has a pouch on his left hip. Though not a playable character, in cut scenes he wields firearms.

### Personality

Biggs is considered the strategist of the group, acting as a calm contrast to Barret's intensity. Biggs can nonetheless be hotheaded and a bit of a complainer, griping about Barret's strictness as he dozes off on the train. He enjoys drinking, as he is ecstatic over the refreshments Tifa provides for the rest of Avalanche upon their return from Mako Reactor 1, and invites Cloud to partake. Despite his confidence, Biggs is prone to overthinking, particularly when involving his allies, to the point of becoming stressed. He alleviates this by occupying himself with tasks such as cleaning. In *Final Fantasy VII Remake* it is revealed he enjoys teaching children, and used to be a teacher before joining Avalanche.

## Story

**Spoiler warning: *Plot and/or ending details follow.*** *(Skip section)*
### Original continuity

Biggs along with the rest of Avalanche and Cloud, a hired mercenary, take part in the attack on Midgar's Mako Reactor 1. The mission is a success, and Avalanche retreats to the Sector 7 Slums, where their hideout, Seventh Heaven is located. The next day Biggs, Wedge, Jessie, Cloud, Tifa and Barret head out to bomb their next target, but problems arise concerning their fake IDs at a checkpoint while on board a train, and the carriages are going lock down to catch the intruders. Biggs, Wedge and Jessie stay behind in disguise while Cloud, Barret and Tifa escape into the underground railway system. The trio returns to the slums where Biggs dies when Shinra attacks the Sector 7 pillar, feeling his death is deserved for the civilian casualties they had caused in the reactor bombings.

Biggs appears as a spirit within the lifestream in *Hoshi o Meguru Otome*.

### Remake continuity

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Before joining Avalanche, Biggs was a teacher at Sector 5 Slums' Leaf House school whose current teachers still look up to him. He joins Barret, Jessie, Wedge and the newly hired mercenary Cloud in the bombing of Mako Reactor 1, and helps the group by opening certain sealed doors so Barret and Cloud can get to the core to set yup the explosive.

After they return to the slums, the Avalanche cell's leader Barret decides not to hire Cloud again. Jessie hires Cloud to take her topside to infiltrate a Shinra warehouse to procure a new kind of blasting agent for the next mission. Biggs and Wedge suspect that she is going topside and tag along, Biggs providing them with motorcycles to drive through the train tunnels. Wedge and Biggs drive one bike with Wedge steering and Biggs providing firepower when they come under attack from Shinra.

While Jessie, Biggs and Wedge distract Jessie's mother, Cloud sneaks in through the back to steal a Shinra ID card from Jessie's comatose dad so they can get into the warehouse. After Jessie goes off alone tasking the others to act as a distraction, Biggs tells Cloud about Jessie's past and how she came to join Avalanche, but demands he not tell her that he had said anything. They run into more Shinra troops, another Avalanche faction bails them out, and they parachute down the plate to the slums, Biggs riding with Jessie.

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When Jessie is hurt in an attack on their hideout by invisible ghosts, Biggs has already gone ahead to the next bombing mission, which thus cannot be postponed. Barret hires Cloud for the next mission on the spot, and the mission is back on track. Barret, Tifa and Cloud meet up with Biggs at their rendezvous point by following graffiti of a Shinra propaganda mascot, Stamp. Biggs goes his separate way after showing the others where to infiltrate the reactor.

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When Shinra attacks the Sector 7 pillar to drop the plate upon the slums, Biggs is badly wounded alongside Wedge when they fight Shinra forces to enable mostly everyone to evacuate in time. Biggs is found by Cloud, surrounded by Whispers. After a brief exchange, he seemingly dies, yet is seen again in ending montage, waking up at the Leaf House Orphanage with his wounds bandaged, having survived by unknown means. On a dresser beside his bed, Jessie's glove and a red bandana are also seen.

***Spoilers end here.***
## Other appearances

### *Mobius Final Fantasy*

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### *Final Fantasy Trading Card Game*

Biggs and Wedge appear with fire-elemental cards.

Biggs TCG.pngBiggs's card.
## Behind the scenes

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A number of players have remarked that Biggs's appearance in *Final Fantasy VII Remake* resembles the actor Charlie Sheen, especially from the movie *Platoon* wearing a similar olive shirt, brown swept-back hair, and red bandana. One of his lines later in the game,"'Nough for a platoon or two" may or may not be a reference.

### Voice

In *Final Fantasy VII Remake*, Biggs is voiced by Gideon Emery, who previously voiced Balthier in *Final Fantasy XII*. The recording process was different when compared with *Final Fantasy XII*, as he did not have the animation ready when recording, and was not focused on fitting English lines to Japanese flaps; instead, he had a little animated reference, and his main focus was timing and not being a frame over. Emery felt leaving the "comfortable leading man lane" felt fresh, and enjoyed the wisecracks between Biggs, Jessie, and Wedge.

## Gallery

Ff7-biggs.jpgBiggs by Tetsuya Nomura for *Final Fantasy VII*.Biggs FFVII Sketch.jpgSketch.Biggs-ffvii-field.pngField model.NPC-ffvii-midgarman.pngBiggs's disguise.Jessie-and-Biggs-FFVIIRemake.pngBiggs with Jessie in the 2015 *Final Fantasy VII Remake* trailer.FFVIIR Biggs and Jessie Sector 1.pngBiggs and Jessie in Sector 1.FFVIIR Biggs.pngBiggs prepares to open the train door.Biggs from FFVII Remake.jpgBiggs battling.

## References

1. ↑ Final Fantasy VII Remake Ultimania, p.032
2. ↑ 『FF7 リメイク』新ビジュアルが多数公開。北瀬佳範氏や野村哲也氏、野島一成氏など開発陣からのメッセージも到着 (Accessed: November 27, 2019) at Famitsu.com
3. ↑ FF7 Remake transforms the horniest Final Fantasy into a full-on thirst trap (Accessed: April 12, 2020) at Inverse
4. ↑ Final Fantasy 7 Remake Cast Gives Voice To A Classic (Accessed: March 06, 2020) at GameSpot

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