In more recent games... Final Fantasy Tactics Advance has a 'Blue Mage' job, keeping with the old tradition.
The meme also pops up in, say, FFX and FFX2. In FFX, Kimahri's Overdrive was 'Ronzo Rage', but it functioned exactly like Blue Magic - he could use enemy skills he'd been hit by. Likewise, in FFX2, one of the Dress Spheres is 'Gun Mage', and the Gun Mage special ability is 'Blue Bullet'... which works as you might expect.
And FFVII had the 'Enemy Skill' materia...
The Blue Magic thing is in most Final Fantasy games. Just not always by that name.
-- Acyl
The meme also pops up in, say, FFX and FFX2. In FFX, Kimahri's Overdrive was 'Ronzo Rage', but it functioned exactly like Blue Magic - he could use enemy skills he'd been hit by. Likewise, in FFX2, one of the Dress Spheres is 'Gun Mage', and the Gun Mage special ability is 'Blue Bullet'... which works as you might expect.
And FFVII had the 'Enemy Skill' materia...
The Blue Magic thing is in most Final Fantasy games. Just not always by that name.
-- Acyl