Final Fantasy 7 Spoiler Debate Sparks Again Ahead of Rebirth

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Spoiler Warning: The following article features major spoilers for Final Fantasy 7 and potentially for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, which likely recreates several aspects of the original.

Final Fantasy 7 features one of the most iconic video game moments of all time, a moment set to be remade in some form in the upcoming Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

Fans are once again debating the discussion of spoilers around this moment as Rebirth's January 29 release date looms, prompted by the New York Times after it featured the spoiler on its homepage and sent it to users via a push notification.

Here's a final spoiler warning if you don't want to know anything about Final Fantasy 7 or potentially its second remake in Rebirth.

Aeirth is killed by Sephiroth towards the middle of Final Fantasy 7, and based on marketing from publisher Square Enix, this moment will seemingly end Rebirth. That's not to say Aerith will die in the new game, because various multiverse shenanigans featured in part one, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, suggest Square Enix isn't sticking to the script completely.

This makes spoiler discussions particularly complicated surrounding Aerith's death. Final Fantasy 7 arrived in 1997, meaning its 27 years old, and many fans think spoilers are therefore absolutely fine. But Rebirth isn't even out yet, prompting others to think spoilers are borderline criminal.

"On the one hand it's kind of wild to just put a spoiler on people's phones like that," Reddit user silverinferno3 said of the New York Times notification. "It was absolutely wild to hear my phone buzz and read: 'Will the creators kill Aerith again?'

"On the other, it's basically the 'Vader is Luke's father' of video game spoilers. There's always gonna be someone who hasn't heard of it but at this point the Remake project kinda leans in on you knowing the plot beats of the original anyways, but it would still suck to have the freakin' New York Times spoil you of all things."

Coolnametag chimed in too: "From my point of view,