Squall Leonhart is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Final Fantasy VIII, a role-playing video game that was produced by Square .
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31 Facts About Squall Leonhart
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In Final Fantasy VIII, Squall Leonhart is an 17-year-old student at Balamb Garden, a prestigious military academy for elite mercenaries .
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Squall Leonhart has appeared in several other games, including Chocobo Racing, Itadaki Street Special, and the Kingdom Hearts series as Leon.
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Squall Leonhart was designed by Tetsuya Nomura with input from game director Yoshinori Kitase.
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Squall Leonhart's first voiced appearance is in the first Kingdom Hearts game, in which he is voiced by Hideo Ishikawa in Japanese and by David Boreanaz in English; Doug Erholtz has since assumed the role for later English-speaking appearances.
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Squall Leonhart had a mixed reaction from critics, some of whom judging him poorly in comparison with other Final Fantasy heroes due to his coldness and angst, and others praised his character development.
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Squall Leonhart was the first character Nomura designed for Final Fantasy VIII; he was inspired by actor River Phoenix, although Nomura said "nobody understood it".
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The game's logo that depicted Squall Leonhart embracing Rinoa was left open for interpretation by players.
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The scar on Squall Leonhart's forehead was left ambiguous although Nomura said it was important for him.
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Nomura's design of Squall Leonhart included a fur lining along his jacket collar as a challenge for the game's full motion video designers.
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Squall Leonhart is voiced by David Boreanaz in the English version of the game and Hideo Ishikawa in the Japanese version.
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At the beginning of Final Fantasy VIII, Squall Leonhart is known as a "lone wolf" because he never shows his feelings and seems unresponsive to his associates.
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Squall Leonhart's superiors including his teacher Quistis Trepe consider him challenging to deal with but respect his talents.
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Squall Leonhart is stoical and his taciturn nature used for comic relief.
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Squall Leonhart is forced into a heroic role midway through the game when Cid, headmaster of Balamb Garden, appoints him the leader of the academy.
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Later in the game, Squall Leonhart becomes more comfortable in a leadership role, especially when he must fight Ultimecia.
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The orphans were cared for by Edea; although Squall Leonhart remembers little about his past, he becomes an emotionally detached, cynical, and introverted boy whose goal is to go through life without emotional ties or dependence.
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Squall Leonhart appears as a non-playable character in Kingdom Hearts, in which he wears a short leather jacket with red wings on the back and a Griever necklace.
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Squall Leonhart takes the name Leon as an alias because he is ashamed of not protecting those he loved from the Heartless when his home world the Radiant Garden was consumed by darkness.
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Squall Leonhart appears as an opponent in Olympus Coliseum tournaments, where he is often paired with other Final Fantasy characters.
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Squall Leonhart is a secret character in Chocobo Racing and Itadaki Street Special, and a sprite version of him occasionally appears on the loading screen of the PlayStation version of Final Fantasy VI.
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Squall Leonhart appears as a playable character in every Dissidia: Final Fantasy title.
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Squall Leonhart is one of Cosmos' chosen warriors to determined to fight Chaos' Ultimecia.
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Squall Leonhart is a playable character in Itadaki Street Portable and is the main character representing Final Fantasy VIII in the rhythm games Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, and the arcade-only game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: All Star Carnival.
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Squall Leonhart appears as a premium character in Pictlogica Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy: All The Bravest, both of which are designed for Android and iOS.
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Squall Leonhart is present in Mobius Final Fantasy where Squall finds himself in an alternate version of Balamb Garden.
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GameSpot said while Squall Leonhart can be viewed as a jerk, he can be seen as "standoffish because of some repressed Wagnerian broodiness, in which case he was kind of interesting".
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Squall Leonhart was voted the 29th-best video-game character by Famitsu readers in February 2010.
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Eurogamer commented that while Squall Leonhart remains as unlikable character even after his character arcs that contrast the more social and expressive Final Fantasy leads like Tidus or Noctis Lucis Caelum, he still remained as a realistic take on a soldier.
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Squall Leonhart stated in a different article, "Squall and Rinoa are at the heart of it all".
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AJ Glasser, of GamesRadar, said Squall Leonhart "has all the emotional depth of a fingernail" and that Rinoa's traits make the duo more engaging across the narrative.
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