“Uboā” (ウボァー), also romanized as “Uboar” or “Uvoa”, is a death throe that was uttered by the Emperor of Palamecia from Final Fantasy II.¹⁾ The dialogue was presumably written by Akitoshi Kawazu, who went on to establish the SaGa franchise in the following year.²⁾

The death throe stood out in the Japanese community because, while the dialogue is indeed concise, having “uboa…” with no exclamation point at the end³⁾ made it sound very stupid. It doesn't have the same effect in English because the game didn't release until 2003, the line has been translated in many different ways, and it takes hours for any player to beat Final Fantasy II⁴⁾ due to its unique leveling system.⁵⁾

Interestingly, the Final Fantasy II prototype considered leaving the dialogue as “u.. boaa..”, but the game was never officially released. The first official translation was “Rrrraaaaagh!” in the PSX port, then this became “Ungaahhhh!” in the GBA and PSP port, which is the translation that Dissidia Final Fantasy borrows. For the Pixel Remaster port, it was changed once more to “Uraaahhh!”.

Final Fantasy II (FC)
Released 1988

• You can hear the Emperor, voiced by Kenyu Horiuchi, shout this within Dissidia Final Fantasy.¹³⁾
  • In addition, Tidus from Final Fantasy X references this line when facing the Emperor.¹⁴⁾
  • For the English localization, the Emperor is voiced by Christopher Corey Smith and they use the recent “Ungaahhhh!” translation.¹⁵⁾ Likewise, Tidus still retains the reference to this line.¹⁶⁾
• An anonymous 2channel post on July 30, 2005 using the scream¹⁷⁾ would end up giving the tentative name for a 1/64 (1.56%) chance event known as “Uboa” (ウボァ) in the Yume Nikki community.

• Uboa on Pixiv Encyclopedia
• Uboa on Niconico Encyclopedia
• Uboa on the Final Fantasy Glossary

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