Final Fantasy VII Remake

Cloud Strife (Cody Christian / Takahiro Sakurai) is a former member of SOLDIER, the elite warriors of the megacorporation Shinra Electric Power Company, which rules over the Planet. Shinra uses Mako, a refined form of the Planet's spiritual energy harvested by massive reactors, to power the metropolis of Midgar and develop cutting-edge technology. Disillusioned with Shinra, and at the request of his childhood friend Tifa Lockhart (Britt Baron / Ayumi Ito), Cloud takes a mercenary job for a splinter cell of AVALANCHE, an ecological resistance organization, led by Barret Wallace (John Eric Bentley / Masahiro Kobayashi). Barret believes excessive Mako harvesting harms the Planet, and leads a bombing attack on Mako Reactor 1. Cloud is continuously haunted by memories of Sephiroth (Tyler Hoechlin / Toshiyuki Morikawa), an enigmatic former SOLDIER, and meets florist Aerith Gainsborough (Briana White / Maaya Sakamoto) in the aftermath of the bombing. Strange ghost-like entities, who alternately help and hinder Cloud, lead him to be recruited for another attack on Mako Reactor 5. After being separated from the rest of the group during the attack, Cloud meets Aerith again and protects her from Shinra forces. After reuniting with Tifa, the trio learns that Shinra plans to collapse a piece of Midgar's "plate" onto the Sector 7 slums in a false flag attack in a bid to destroy AVALANCHE. AVALANCHE fails to stop Shinra's plan, and the plate falls, destroying much of Sector 7. Aerith helps much of the Sector's population, including Barret's daughter Marlene, evacuate in time, but she is captured by Shinra.
Cloud, Tifa, and Barret infiltrate Shinra headquarters and rescue Aerith from being used as an experiment by Shinra lead scientist Hojo (James Sie / Shigeru Chiba). Aerith reveals that she is the last descendant of the Cetra, a near-extinct precursor race who resided in a "Promised Land," which Shinra covets for its boundless Mako reserves. The group meets a talking canine-like creature called Red XIII (Max Mittelman / Kappei Yamaguchi), who explains that the ghostly entities are called Whispers. They exist to ensure that the course of destiny is not altered by correcting any deviations from this course. Meanwhile, Sephiroth infiltrates Shinra and steals a mysterious entity known as "Jenova," connected to the extinction of the Cetra.
In a confrontation at the top of Shinra headquarters, Sephiroth kills the president of Shinra. Shinra's son Rufus (Josh Bowman / Tōru Ōkawa) arrives to assume control of the company and fights Cloud, but is defeated. Cloud and his allies flee the scene via the Midgar Expressway, but find Sephiroth waiting for them at the end. After defeating Whisper Harbinger, an entity formed by an amalgam of Whispers, Cloud's group battles Sephiroth. Sephiroth separates Cloud from the group, asking him to join him and defy fate. Cloud refuses and fights Sephiroth, but is defeated, although Sephiroth spares him and departs. Meanwhile, as Cloud's group leaves Midgar to pursue Sephiroth, SOLDIER Zack Fair (Caleb Pierce / Kenichi Suzumura) defeats an army of Shinra forces elsewhere, and is shown approaching Midgar carrying a wounded Cloud.

Intermission

Shortly after the bombing of Mako Reactor 5, Yuffie Kisaragi (Suzie Yeung / Yumi Kakazu), a ninja working for Wutai, arrives in Midgar and meets up with her partner Sonon Kusakabe (Aleks Le / Yoshimasa Hosoya) in order to steal Shinra's "Ultimate Materia." With the help of a local AVALANCHE cell, Yuffie and Sonon infiltrate the lab under Shinra headquarters and fight through Shinra's forces, before discovering that the Ultimate Materia is not yet complete. As they try to escape, they are confronted by a Shinra supersoldier named Nero (Sean Chiplock / Ryōtarō Okiayu). Outmatched, Sonon sacrifices himself to ensure Yuffie can escape, leaving her distraught. Yuffie escapes Shinra headquarters just in time to see the Sector 7 plate fall. Sometime later, Yuffie has left Midgar and muses that to achieve her desire to see Shinra's downfall, she will need a team to help her.
In a post-credits scenes, Cloud and his group arrive at the town of Kalm after hitching a ride with Chocobo Bill, while Zack enters the Sector 5 church in Midgar to reunite with Aerith, only to find a group of locals in mourning.