Onion Knight

Onion Knight may refer to:

• The recurring job.
  • The character from the Dissidia Final Fantasy series based on the job class.
• The recurring weapon.
• The enemy from Final Fantasy VI.
• The summon from Final Fantasy Dimensions II.
• The enemy from Final Fantasy Record Keeper.
• The enemy from Chocobo's Dungeon 2.

Etymology

[view · edit · purge]The onion, also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is used as a vegetable and is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

In a 2020 Famitsu interview with Koichi Ishii and Hiromichi Tanaka about Final Fantasy III, Tanaka stated that he created the term "Onion Knight" after seeing Ishii's character design for the job, likening the shape of its helmet's large, white plume to that of an onion.

Fans had previously speculated that "Onion Knight" refers to the Japanese metaphoric idiom "peeling away one layer at a time and crying all the way" (referring to poverty) or from the slang phrase "to know one's onions" (meaning to be very versatile).