text: He was redesigned by Tetsuya Nomura in the video game Dissidia Final Fantasy. As downloadable content, Nomura readapted Zidane's black clothing from the ending of Final Fantasy IX as an alternative costume. He is voiced by Romi Park and Bryce Papenbrook in the Japanese and English versions of Dissidia respectively. Papenbrook described Zidane as a "really really fun character". In particular, he enjoys voicing Zidane as during his childhood he used to play the Final Fantasy games as well as the Square Enix game Bravely Default. For Dissdiia NT he in particular aims to bring a feeling sassiness in his lines while calling him "snarky" due to his womanizing traits. He was glad during a convention where he met a cosplayer of Zidane who expressed satisfaction with his performance in his games.
  Appearances
  Final Fantasy IX
  Zidane first appears in the video game Final Fantasy IX as one of its protagonists. Prior to the events of the game, an orphaned Zidane leaves his adoptive father Baku to search for his real home, his only memory being a blue light. Unsuccessful in his search, he returns to Baku and rejoins his troupe of performers and criminals called Tantalus.
  At the age of sixteen, he becomes involved in Baku's scheme to kidnap Princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII, fomented by Regent Cid Fabool VIII of Lindblum in order to distance the princess from her increasingly hawkish adoptive mother, Queen Brahne of Alexandria. Zidane and his cohorts travel to the kingdom of Alexandria aboard the airship Prima Vista, ostensibly to perform a theatre play as a part of their plot to kidnap Princess Garnet.