Artwork of the Final Fantasy Gigas by Yoshitaka Amano.
Gigas (ギガース, Gigāsu?, ジャイアント, Jaianto?, or 巨人, Kyojin?), also known as Giant or Gigant, is a recurring race in the Final Fantasy series. Gigas generally resemble giant humanoid, often with more "primitive" or even monstrous features. Common variants are the Hill Gigas and the Glasya Labolas. As enemies, Gigas often a combination of powerful physical attacks and strong magic, making them very dangerous.
Appearances[]
Final Fantasy[]
Many gigas enemies have elemental affinities. Their ranks include the Hill Gigas, Ice Gigas, Fire Gigas, Flare Gigas, and Elm Gigas. There is also the Flood Gigas, but it is a Worm-type enemy.
Final Fantasy II[]
The Hill Gigas is the base type of gigas. In the Mysidian Tower, the Fire Gigas, Ice Gigas, and Thunder Gigas are bosses that bar the path further up the tower. The Glasya Labolas appears in the Unknown Palace.
Final Fantasy V[]
Gigas, Elm Gigas, and Ziggurat Gigas use a combination of Wind magic like Aero and physical attacks.
Final Fantasy VI[]
The Hill Gigas is accompanied by the Gigantos and the Glasya Labolas. The Gargantua is a boss in the Advance release. A fourth variation was coded in to the game but excluded, the Giant. Gigas in this game use powerful physical attacks, and Earth-elemental magic.
Maduin's sprite resembles the sprite of the Gigas in Final Fantasy V. However, Maduin is never directly stated to be a gigas.
Final Fantasy VII[]
The Gigas is a rare and powerful enemy in the Whirlwind Maze. It uses physical attacks and can cast Quake 3.
Final Fantasy IX[]
The Hilgigars is a boss who attacks the party on the Conde Petie Mountain Path. Its name is a mistranslation of Hill Gigas.
Final Fantasy XI[]
Gigas are a type of beastmen which inhabit the northern regions of Vana'diel. They've landed on Qufim Island, Vunkerl Inlet, and have been living in the Northlands since the war.
Final Fantasy XII[]
Giants are a classification of enemies that include the drastically different Behemoth, Headless, and Slaven genera. Of these, the Headless most resemble the recurring gigas race, and includes the recurring Hill Gigas under the name Blood Gigas. Other headless-type enemies are the common Headless, Dullahan, Wendigo, Striker, and Bune. The Daedalus, Overlord, Ancbolder, Wendice, Anchag, Bluesang, and Avenger are stronger Headless that appear are bosses, marks, or rare game.
Final Fantasy XIV[]
A gigas (left), a giant (middle), and a hecatoncheir (right).
Gigants (巨人, Kyojin?) are a species of giant humanoid spoken hailing from Abalathia's Spine. While they tower over most other spoken, gigants are relatively lacking in intelligence. In Eorzea, Gigants are divided into three dominant tribes: the Gigas (ギガース, Gigāsu?), the Giants (ジャイアント, Jaianto?), and the Hecatoncheires (ヘカトン, Hekaton?).
The gigas are relatively more intelligent than their primitive brethren, and have historically subjugated their giant and hecatoncheir cousins as slaves, and centuries ago sold the hecatoncheirs to Ul'dah to work their mines. In modern days however, most giants and hecatoncheires are broken free of servitude, and the three tribes are in constant conflict with each other. Gigas appear to worship the recently unearthed Crystal Tower, with many of their recently deceased found by scholars to have been carrying crude statuettes approximating the tower.
In Tural, another tribe of Gigant, the Yok Huy once held an empire on Urqopacha but it has since fallen.
Final Fantasy XVI[]
Gigas resemble large, obese goblins, wielding large weapons and possessing surprising agility given their size and stature. Despite their association with goblins, it is disputed in-universe whether the two are the same species.
A Gigas appears as the first boss of the game in Stillwind, summoned by a Goblin leader to attack Clive, Wade, and Tyler. The common Gigas later appears as a regularly appearing mini-boss, along with the Akashic Gigas, Gigas Bruiser, Gigas Ploughswain, Hill Gigas, Thunderbound Gigas, Windbound Gigas, and Virtual Gigas.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles[]
Gigas appear as enemies in dungeons and a gigantic Gigas by the name of Jack Moschet owns the Moschet Manor where he is fought as the boss.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King[]
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The Giant is an enemy encountered on the 16th floor of the Tower, and a potential transformation for the party's monster units.
Final Fantasy Dimensions[]
Gigas is an enemy and a family of enemies.
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Final Fantasy Dimensions II[]
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A general term for the many varieties of huge, hairy beasts, gigas possess super-human strength and at times form raiding gangs to pillage human villages. There is no making peace with these wild creatures.
Gigas's CollectaCard
Gigas and Hill Gigas appear based on their Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy VI appearance.
Pictlogica Final Fantasy[]
Gigas from Final Fantasy V appears as an enemy.
Final Fantasy Artniks Dive[]
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Gigas is fought on Palamecia Desert. It uses Elbow and drops the Survivor weapon.
Final Fantasy Record Keeper[]
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Gigas from Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy XI appear as a enemies.
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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius[]
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Gigas appears in Final Fantasy Trading Card Game as an Earth-elemental Monster card.
Dice de Chocobo[]
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The mythology and legends of many different cultures include monsters of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. Giant is the English word, coined 1297, commonly used for such beings, derived from one of the most famed examples: the gigantes of Greek mythology.
Gigas is a popular term for races of giants in fantasy games. Gigas is a Greek word meaning "giant", originally used to describe the race of Gigantes in Greek mythology and is used in the scientific name, as the specific epithet, of hundreds of species of animals and dozens of plant species to denote their size.
The Hecatoncheires were children of Gaia and Uranus who were thrown into Tartarus as soon as they were born. They were released by Zeus, and aided him in overthrowing Cronos. They were giants depicted with one hundred arms (and sometimes even fifty heads). The name (Εκατόγχειρες - Hecatonchires) is of Greek origin: Hecaton (εκατόν-) means one hundred and chires (-χείρες) means hands.