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The player can play the three different routes in any order they so choose, but the recommended route (and the route that makes the most sense story-wise) is Terra, Ventus, then Aqua.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: What kick-starts the plot is the rise of the Unversed and the threat they pose to the Princesses of Heart. The three worlds with the Princesses are visited first, but once you hit Radiant Garden they're forgotten and subsequent worlds focus solely on fighting the Unversed. Fittingly, Radiant Garden is where the three begin to follow their own agendas. Terra {{spoiler|believes himself a failure and is charmed into becoming Xehanort's apprentice}}. Thereafter, he's focused on trying to find Vanitas and put an end to him. Ventus never had the mission, and is intent on finding Terra, and Aqua is essentially scrambling to find the both of them and keep them together.
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* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: Briefly, and not ''completely'' different, but: At the end of Terra's story, {{spoiler|you stop ''directly'' playing as Terra, and fight against the body that Xehanort just committed [[Grand Theft Me]] on... with the Lingering Will, the suit of armor that Terra left behind. Although the Lingering Will does have Terra's memories and motives, essentially making it the remains (or a new incarnation) of the original Terra.}} Whether this trope applies or not is a matter of personal taste.
* [[Animated Armor]]: {{spoiler|When Xehanort takes over Terra's body, his armor, still possessing Terra's memories and part of his spirit, fights him.}} 2 of the Bonus bosses are similar. {{spoiler|And, in the Final Story, Aqua temporarily animates her armor to get Terra out of the Realm of Darkness.}}
* [[Anti -Hero]]: Terra, who allies himself with Disney Villains in his drive to find Xehanort, and later on, {{spoiler|embraces Xehanort's words about Darkness being safe to use, in the hopes of being a Master in ''someone's'' eyes}}. Aqua and Ven worry about him [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]. However, he doesn't generally follow the villains except when he is tricked by them into thinking that they are trustworthy. Which is often.
* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Well, more specifically, it only plays a role in story rather than in gameplay. It's designed to protect you from the power of darkness and basically acts like a space suit when the [[Three Amigos]] travel through the void of space to other worlds. It has no apparent effect on your actual defense stat. Of course, that doesn't stop the trio from activating it for the finale because [[Rule of Cool|it looks awesome]]!
** Expecting this trope to be averted, Terra becomes slightly [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] when {{spoiler|Master Xehanort tries to take over his body. Not only is the darkness of Xehanort's heart so great, but Terra's heart has been weakened by the dark powers he embraced.}}
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** Cinderella, Snow White, and Aurora also fit this role seeing as how they didn't have voices in the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' and were barely even mentioned in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Especially for weapons, where there's a [[Serial Escalation|descending tier]] of [[Awesome but Impractical]]:
** The No Name and Void Gear keyblades in ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]''. By the time you get them, you've already beaten the game and there are only a handful of enemies worth using them on. Aqua's and Ven's [[Infinity Minus One-1 Sword|Infinity Minus One Swords]] are also a bit more suited for them, anyway, and Aqua gets a weapon that better suits her for the [[True Final Boss]]. They can still be quite useful for the Mirage Arena, unless you've already cleared ''that'' out, too. Which, by the way, earns you ''another'' Keyblade: Ultima Weapon, which is between the two extremes offered by Void Gear and No Name. If you have all three of those, congratulations! You'll ''never need them again.''
*** In ''Final Mix'', three more [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]] were added that were designed to be so strong that it's recommended you don't fight them in groups of less than three, so you'll probably want any edge you can get for those fights. When you beat them as well, you get ''yet another'' Keyblade, Crown Unlimited, which matches both the Void Gear and No Name's best stats, while also filling the Command Gauge faster. By this point, you've trounced every enemy that could possibly pose a threat and probably [[Level Grinding|grinded]] to the [[Cap|level cap]] to do so.
*** Also in Final Mix, the Secret Chapter is where the Crown Unlimited would see some actual use, given that it's a fairly lengthy area filled with {{spoiler|Pureblood Heartless}} that can and ''will'' kill you, especially on Critical. You can't use it because the game locks you into {{spoiler|Master Eraqus's Keyblade, the Master Keeper}}.
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** {{spoiler|Ventus and Vanitas's final showdown.}}
** The secret ending also implies that {{spoiler|Terra and Master Xehanort will be doing this in Terra's mind ''indefinitely''}}.
** During the battle with {{spoiler|Terra-Xehanort, Aqua herself can briefly enter Terra's mind (somehow). If she can evade Xehanort's guardian [[Familiar]] and make it to a comatose Terra (''[[Guide Dang It|without attacking him]]'') in time, she can join him for a [[Combination Attack]] meant to purge Master Xehanort's heart out of Terra's body. It doesn't (fully) work, although it ''can'' be a [[One -Hit Kill]] if done correctly.}}
* [[Beam -O -War]]: {{spoiler|Ventus and Vanitas, at the very end of their final fight.}}
* [[Be As Unhelpful As Possible]]: Terra's chasing after any number of things, Ven's chasing Terra, and Aqua's chasing after both of them. In this massive amount of chasing around, there's quite a bit of bystanders from Disney worlds who can be questioned for assistance and many of them are quite unhelpful. The Magic Mirror? Speaks only in riddles. The Seven Dwarfs? Openly hostile to Ven even after he saves Snow White! Maleficent? Takes every opportunity to sow seeds of discord between the [[Three Amigos]] she gets, [[For the Evulz|just for the evil of it.]]
** ''Veeeeery'' slightly averted when Aqua asks Scrooge McDuck for information on Terra's whereabouts. Scrooge answers as helpfully as he can, but because her description of Terra was so vague <ref>she had even called him a boy, instead of a young man</ref>, Scrooge sends her after where he last saw ''Ventus'' instead of Terra.
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* [[Bonus Boss]]:
** {{spoiler|Vanitas Remnant}}, accessible only after playing through every character's storyline and obtaining all the Xehanort Reports.
** A new one exclusive to the international releases and ''Final Mix'' is dubbed the Unknown, a man in a [[Black Cloak|black coat]] who [[Dual -Wielding|dual-wields]] [[Reverse Grip|reverse-gripped]] [[Laser Blade|laser blades]] that he can [[Bifurcated Weapon|combine]] to result in a [[Blade On a Stick|lance]] and [[Whip Sword]]. Just look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIRjW-tO8Yc him.]
** And yet four more bosses in the ''Final Mix'' version: in the Mirage Arena, [[Pinocchio|Monstro]], No Heart <ref> a Keyblade-wielding armour which appears to be Master Xehanort's armour; it resembles Xemnas' armoured stages in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|II]]'''s final battle, but wields Master Xehanort's Keyblade</ref>, and Armor of the Master <ref>seemingly Master Eraqus' armour given form</ref>. The Secret Episode has "Red Eye", who Aqua fights {{spoiler|in the Realm of Darkness post-game}}. Mercifully, none of them are quite as [[Spam Attack|relentless]] as the Unknown, though Nomura mentioned that they were intended to be multiplayer bosses.
* {{spoiler|[[Bonus Dungeon]]}}: {{spoiler|The Realm of Darkness, in Final Mix.}}
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* [[Disney Princess]]: Cinderella, Aurora, and Snow White have a larger role than they did in the [[Kingdom Hearts (Video Game)|first game]].
* [[Distant Finale]]: {{spoiler|The final scene in the game takes place a bit after ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]''.}}
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The Conclusion to the Festival in Disney Town. After Pete loses to The Trio in a threeway tie, Queen Minnie sends him to the ''Realm of Darkness'' for being a bad sport about it, effectively [[Retcon|Retconing]] earlier statements that Mickey had banished Pete for severe wrongdoing. Afterwards, he is recruited by Malefecent to be her [[The Dragon|Right Hand man]]. Yeah, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice going Queen...]]
* [[Divergent Character Evolution]]: Terra, Ven and Aqua are a [[Mighty Glacier]], [[Fragile Speedster]] and [[Squishy Wizard]], respectively, but at the beginning of the game they all play more or less the same. As you proceed through the game you unlock their unique abilities a bit at a time, and come the final world their unique playstyles are firmly established.
* [[Doomed By Canon]]/[[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Considering the many events hinted to happen in this game and the conspicuous absence of a Keyblade-centric order in the other games, it's pretty much to be expected.
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** Terra's final boss sequence begins with him fighting {{spoiler|Master Xehanort and Vanitas, but Vanitas does most of the attacking and it ends automatically after you do a certain amount of damage.}}.
** Zack and Hades in the Mirage Arena.
* [[Dual -Wielding]]: The Unknown.
* [[Dub Name Change]]:
** 13 of 14 Keyblades' names were changed, although some were pretty minor (e.g. "Mark of Hero" vs. "Mark of a Hero"). 12 of 35 enemies also had their names changed.
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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: While the game's normal ending is a [[Downer Ending]], the secret ending implies that this is what will eventually happen to the main characters. After all, {{spoiler|although they lost, the three really fought like lions and they DID manage to derail most of Xehanort's scheme by destroying the χ-blade and Vanitas. I mean, come on, all that effort should be rewarded.}}
* [[Easy Mode Mockery]]: If you play the game in Beginner mode, you won't get to see the secret movie.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Terra and Ven get powerful exclusive [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earth]] and [[Blow You Away|Wind]] based abilities and spells, curiously however, Aqua doesn't get a powerful [[Making a Splash|Water]] spell or ability, other than her starting Bubble Blaster Shotlock. That's because she kicks ass with [[Playing With Fire|Fire]], [[Shock and Awe|Lightning]], [[An Ice Person|Ice]], [[Time Stands Still|Time]], and [[Light 'Em Up|Light]].
* [[Enemy Without]]: As the tutorial prologue shows, Ventus literally has a broken heart; all the darkness got ripped clean out of it, and he'd have died of this if not for the outside intervention of a mysterious force. Things get a little more sinister when it becomes clear that his shadow didn't just go away, either...
 
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* [[Fighting Your Friend]]: {{spoiler|Possessed versions of both Ven and Terra serve as Aqua's two different [[Final Boss|Final Bosses]].}}
* [[Finish Him]]: {{spoiler|Lampshaded in the final battle with Vanitas with Ven. Given that the "information" is likely to be the POV of the player character, it was likely the joke was not lost on the translators.}}
* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: The non-character-specific Command Styles are Firestorm, Diamond Dust and Thunder Bolt. {{spoiler|There's also a second ice-themed one, Frozen Fortune, except it's ''ice-cream'' themed}}.
* [[Five -Bad Band]]: Master Xehanort creates one with the allies he recruits from different worlds:
** [[The Big Bad]]/[[The Evil Genius]]: Master Xehanort
** [[The Dragon]]: Vanitas
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** Watch the ending of the introduction movie closely. {{spoiler|After Ventus descends from his Awakening and transforms into a ball of light, if you look real close at the next scene, you can see him enter Sora.}}
** At the beginning of the game, we see {{spoiler|a younger Master Xehanort, who looks very much the present day Xehanort, as well as Terra. He even appears to be voiced by both [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] and Jason Dohring (who voice Terra). When Terra picks Riku to be his successor, we see a brief silhouette of Young!Master Xehanort and then Riku circa ''KHII''.}} [[Harsher in Hindsight|This should make you cringe]], as {{spoiler|when Terra performed the [[Take Up My Sword|Keyblade Rite of Succession]], he didn't intend for Riku to end up being body snatched by Xehanort like he was.}}
* [[For Science!]]: Xehanort's plans: {{spoiler|1: Forge the χ-blade to summon Kingdom Hearts and get Keyblade wielders fighting over it. 2: Possess Terra to live through to the end of the new Keyblade War, and watch the universe be destroyed. 3: See what happens next.}}
* [[Fun With Subtitles]]: We probably wouldn't be able to understand half of what Jaq says without it. Made even more funny when you occasionally ''do'' catch what he's saying and realize they are translating his strange way of speaking and verbal tics into normal English.
* [[Game Breaker]]: [[Word of God]] admitted Mega Flare was one, doing high damage to all enemies over a wide area, executing quickly, and doing the damage over a period of several seconds so it could hit waves of spawning enemies as they appeared. As a result it was nerfed for the Final Mix release by doubling its reload.
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** Maleficent gets to keep the line "See for yourself all the powers of hell!" "Hell" typically isn't a swear word if you are talking about the biblical place, but this deserves special mention. (Even when she used it in [[Sleeping Beauty|the movie]], it was rated "G".)
** One of the seven dwarfs remarks he will miss Snow White's 'dapple lumpkins - er, apple dumplings.'
* [[Glass Cannon]]: A [[Bonus Boss]] has only one bar of HP, but dishes out [[One -Hit Kill|One Hit Kills]] without remorse. However, it also averts [[No Cure for Evil]] by healing to full HP whenever the player uses Cure (items don't seem to trigger this, mercifully) so really it's no more of a Glass Cannon than you are.
** Vanitas ({{spoiler|the original version of said [[Bonus Boss]]}}) is like this too. He has the speed and strength of a [[Lightning Bruiser]], but his defense is somewhat poor. Of course, his aggressive, [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]-styled attack pattern makes it somewhat hard to notice this.
** As opposed to [[Mighty Glacier|Terra]] and [[Fragile Speedster|Ven]], [[Squishy Wizard|Aqua]] grows into this mold by endgame. She's quick (although not quite to Ven levels) and possesses deadly magic, but due to her low HP, she cannot take a hit. ''Ever''. {{spoiler|Good luck with [[Final Boss|Ventus-Vanitas]] and [[True Final Boss|Terra-Xehanort]]!}}
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** {{spoiler|Aqua would have gone suicidal in the epilogue had it not been for the [[Big Damn Heroes|timely appearance]] of Terra and Ventus's Keyblades giving her a renewed sense of hope and the will to smile again.}}
* [[Heroic Resolve]]: Ventus: {{spoiler|As he lies frozen and helpless on the ground, Vanitas strikes Aqua down and prepares to finish her off. Through nothing more than sheer willpower, Ven thaws himself out just in time to stop him and engage him in combat.}}
** Terra: {{spoiler|After Master Xehanort commits [[Grand Theft Me]] on him, he begins to walk away, when a barrier suddenly surrounds the plateau. The camera pans over and we see Terra's armor has reformed itself, through what is apparently his lingering emotions and ''will''. [[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Terra's Lingering Will]] proceeds to battle Xehanort on its own, giving us a very satisfying [[This Cannot Be!]] moment}}.
{{quote| '''Xehanort''': {{spoiler|Your body submits, your heart succumbs-- so why does your mind [[Large Ham|RESIST]]?!}}}}
** Aqua: Despite everything that happens, she keeps on going long after the other two, and even {{spoiler|spends eleven years alone in the realm of darkness without cracking--[[Interrupted Suicide|although she did come close, but it was fortunately averted by the timely arrival of Ven and Terra's Keyblades to give her the drive to keep going.]]}}
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** [[Hot Amazon]]: As far as Zack (and the fandom) is concerned.
* [[How We Got Here]]: Sort of--the cinematics before the final battles in the three storylines are the same as the original trailer for the game at the end of ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'', with some scenes changed up and voices added. ''Birth By Sleep'' is the story of how things built up to this battle.
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Aqua vs. {{spoiler|both Ventus (possessed by Vanitas) and Terra (possessed by Xehanort)}}.
* [[I'm Crying but I Don't Know Why]]: Young Sora in the ending. It's actually because of {{spoiler|his connection to Ven's heart}}.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Hades remarks that Terra's name is a bit "earthy".
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|The Keyblade War was supposedly so bad it destroyed the ''universe'' and the worlds only came back because of an almost literal [[Deus Ex Machina]] (the Deus part not the Machina part). The Keyblade Graveyard, the main battlefield of the war and the only remnant of it, is a barren wasteland, with a landscape scarred by the destruction and countless Keyblades lying where their wielders fell. And Xehanort's motivation, showing why he is a [[Complete Monster]], is to start them again, [[For Science!|FOR SCIENCE]]!}}
* [[Infinity Minus One-1 Sword]]: Chaos Ripper (Terra), Bright Crest (Aqua), Lost Memory (Ven).
* [[Infinity Plus One+1 Sword]]: The protagonists get a third version of the Ultima Weapon, which includes nods to both of its previous (future?) designs. There's also the Void Gear and No Name, both rewards for defeating one of the Bonus Bosses. Between them the Ultima Weapon has well-rounded stats, the Void Gear has a higher Strength boost but lower Magic boost, the No Name has a higher Magic boost but a lower Strength boost. In the Final Mix, defeating No Heart gives you the Crown Unlimited; the supreme Keyblade, with Void Gear's attack and No Name's magic.
* [[Insurmountable Waist Height Fence]] / [[Broken Bridge]]: Out in full force, with certain areas in worlds being blocked to exploration from certain characters or until certain conditions are met. Sometimes there's a barrier, other times the character just decides "there's nothing important this way" and won't go any further.
* [[Interface Screw]]: The Confuse status effect.
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** Several of the Shotlock commands that you can only obtain on the Command Board can be this (ex: Ragnarok).
* [[Leitmotif]]:
** Terra, Aqua, and Ven all get their own. One shared between Xion, Roxas, and Axel from ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2 (Video Game)|358/2 Days]]'' also makes an appearance when Ven and Lea meet for the first time.
** [[Word of God|Nomura]] has stated that [[Bonus Boss|Mysterious Figure's]] battle theme is also this. {{spoiler|It takes cues from Rage Awakened (Terra's Lingering Sentiment), Darkness of the Unknown (Xemnas's final battle theme in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]''), and Lord of the Castle (Marluxia's final battle theme in ''Re: Chain of Memories'')}}.
* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: Sweetstack, an ice-cream-themed Keyblade that just so happens to have a 100% critical rate.
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** Terra briefly becomes one during his Sonic Shadow Shotlock.
** {{spoiler|Terra-Xehanort. The physical prowess of Terra plus the dark powers and Keyblade of Master Xehanort equals one very imposing opponent.}}
* [[LikeaLike a Son to Me]]: Eraqus, to Terra - and probably Aqua and Ventus as well, though he never says it out loud.
* [[Limit Break]]: Filling up a meter in gameplay allows each character to unleash one of these. More can be learned as the game goes on.
* [[Limited Special Collectors Ultimate Edition]]: A ''[[Updated Rerelease|Final Mix]]'' for this game was recently announced.
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* [[Mook Maker]]: {{spoiler|Vanitas is the source of ALL the Unversed. He's been visiting every world he can and spawning as many Unversed as he can, like a [[Walking Wasteland]]. This is actually a pretty impressive power and just hammers home that he's really [[Made of Evil]].}}
* [[Musical Assassin]]: The Symphony Master, though it has nothing on [[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Demyx]].
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|Both Terra and Eraqus do this after fighting each other to near death, and the latter additionally for nearly killing Ven. [[Complete Monster|Then Xehanort finishes the job]].}}
* [[Mythology Gag]]:
** In ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney)|Sleeping Beauty]]'', Aurora fell under Maleficent's spell of sleep when she was drawn into the pathway Maleficent created behind the fireplace in the castle. In this game, you can go through the fireplace in the Enchanted Dominion's castle to find... the Sleep spell. Appropriate.
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* [[Never Say Die]]: Surprisingly inverted--Master Xehanort uses "die" rather frequently, most explicitly in one of {{spoiler|Ventus's flashbacks: "you would rather die than use the power?"}} At the same time, though, the three heroes tend to use euphemisms (examples, {{spoiler|Aqua talking about how Eraqus was}} "struck down", {{spoiler|Ventus asking his friends to "put an end" to him, though he says the idea of the χ-blade "scares him to death" in the same scene.}}). However, both instances could be attributed to not wanting to use the actual word under the circumstances. Disney characters still use the verb as well, such as the Queen telling Terra to kill Snow White, or the three good fairies in Enchanted Dominion chanting "evil die and good endure".
** It also might be the sign that {{spoiler|Master Eraqus}} has [[Jumped Off the Slippery Slope|gone too far]]: {{spoiler|"Let the darkness die!"}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
** {{spoiler|Aqua is getting some flak from the [[Fan Dumb]] for saving the amnesiac [[Fan Nickname|Terranort]] from the Dark Realm, thus allowing his misdeeds from the entire rest of the series to get set into motion.}}
** Master Eraqus is no better. {{spoiler|His attempt to destroy Ventus sealed Terra's fate. Even he seemed to realize this just before he was killed.}}
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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: The Final Episode boss theme [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhYdzHZ1Vo "Dismiss"].
* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: Same as above. Also used in "Beyond the Door".
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: Averted in all three storylines, which may be a first for this series. {{spoiler|Unless you count Terra-Xehanort calling the Guardian in the Final Episode.}}
* [[The Other Darrin]]:
** Bret Iwan replacing the late Wayne Allwine as Mickey. Surprisingly averted by Chris Sanders, who still reprised his role as Stitch despite [[How to Train Your Dragon (Film)|now working for]] [[Dreamworks Animation]], Disney's primary rival in animated films, following behind-the-scenes conflicts on ''[[Bolt (Disney)|Bolt]]''.
** In the Japanese Version, Captain Hook is voiced by Naoya Uchida instead of Chikao Otsuka, presumably because the latter voice actor was also voicing Master Xehanort.
* [[Paint It Black]]: {{spoiler|Vanitas falls into the [[Evil Twin]] variation, being a [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin|black-haired, pale-skinned]] Sora.}}
* [[Palette Swap]]: The Unversed get different color schemes in Final Mix for the sake of variety, and and Unversed forms assumed by the[[Voluntary Shapeshifting|Illusion]] spells have a yet another palette.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Despite that the three see Eraqus as a replacement father, and he even sees ''himself'' as one, Terra, Aqua, and Ven don't seem to have mentioned any of their parents. Even Sora had his mom... [[Invisible Parents|sorta appear]] in the first game.
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* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Quite possibly '''the''' definitive example of this trope in this series is the [[True Companions|powerful bond]] between Terra, Aqua, and Ventus. Aqua might be more of a [[Love Freak|Friendship Freak]] than ''Sora''. Expect tears to flow like the Nile and hearts to be warmed... sometimes in rapid succession.
* [[The Power of Hate]]: This is how {{spoiler|Lingering Sentiment}} comes to be in order to {{spoiler|battle Xehanort for Terra's body}}.
* [[PowerupPower-Up Letdown]]: Terra's Sonic Impact, which adds a second dash to his normal Slide ability that carries him farther and can deal damage...which is actually not helpful at all, for several reasons: it does little damage, the second slide ''doesn't'' provide temporary invincibility like the first one does (which is the whole point of the dodge abilities), and the recovery from it is longer than the first Slide. Just to throw some [[Guide Dang It]] into the mixture, you get it right before Terra's battle with Zack; he has an attack that is extremely difficult to dodge any other way than just mashing Square to keep dodging -- which you can't do if Sonic Impact is equipped. This isn't to say it is completely useless (it's good in the "Defeat countless Unversed" sections, for instance), but leaving it unequipped will allow you to dodge a far greater number of deadly attacks with ease.
** That said, it is quite amusing to take out the first two of Terra's three final bosses by ''[[Cherry Tapping|headbutting them]]''.
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: Though not the kind you're thinking of--Aqua snaps "You freak!" when Vanitas {{spoiler|breaks Ven's wooden Keyblade}}. Considering this ''is'' Disney, that's about as extreme as the language can get so the effect is the same.
* [[Punny Name]]:
** {{spoiler|"χ-blade". As in, the Greek letter. Chi Blade.}}
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* [[Rashomon Style]]: The game's narrative method.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: As in the ''Stitch'' movie, the Grand Councilwoman is ''extremely'' reasonable. She may still want Stitch locked up, but she has more than blind rage to back up her reasons, like Gantu, and she's willing to hear Aqua out.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]:
** Terra to Xehanort at the end. {{spoiler|"You will pay, Xehanort! Was my Master--no, my father, Eraqus not enough for you? ''Leave my friends alone!''"}}
** And then there's Ven's speech to Vanitas immediately preceding their battle. {{spoiler|"At least I have some [friends]! I've become a part of their heart, just as they've become a part of mine. My friends are my power... ''and I'm theirs!''"}}
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* [[Recurring Riff]]: Bits of "Rage Awakened" can be heard in a few other songs.
** Fate of the Unknown (KHII Final Mix Secret Ending Music) is heard multiple throughout the game, most noticably in Terra and Aqua's themes
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Terra is red, Aqua's blue.
** An evil variation occurs with Master Xehanort and Vanitas: MX is the Blue, Vanitas is the Red.
* [[Retcon]]:
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* [[SNK Boss]]: Any [[Bonus Boss]], leaving players ''very'' little time to move, less to heal, [[Perfect Play AI|and even less to attack]].
* [[Spanner in The Works]]: {{spoiler|Again, the entire trio, although Aqua did the best job of screwing with Master Xehanort's grand schemes. However, Xehanort is [[Crazy Prepared]], [[Xanatos Speed Chess|so]]...}}
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Due to differences in Japanese pronunciation, fans in the western world initially believed the Unversed were going to be called the [[Unfortunate Implications|"Unbirths"]]. ''Erakwusu'' was also instantly recognized as a counterpart to Yen Sid by the fandom and a fair-sized faction assumed it'd be a straight [[Sdrawkcab Name]] (Erauqs); turns out it's Eraqus (the slight scrambling ''might'' be a parallel of the space in the middle of Yen Sid).
* [[Standard Status Effects]]: You can inflict blindness, poison, confusion and sleep upon enemies, and they can inflict a few of these on you as well. Doesn't work equally though (see "[[Useless Useful Spell]]"). Hilariously enough, Vanitas is affected by Sleep.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: {{spoiler|We get to see how Xehanort (in Terra's body) becomes Ansem's apprentice, setting the events of the series in motion.}}
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** The Unknown uses both his blades to perform a crossed one, similar to Vanitas' [[Sword Beam]].
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: {{spoiler|The χ-blade, a [[BFS]] that is the ultimate Keyblade and can open the door to Kingdom Hearts.}} Unfortunately, it's wielded by [[The Dragon|Vanitas]] who acquires it {{spoiler|by fusing with Ventus, merging Ven's heart of pure light with Vanitas's heart of pure darkness.}} Ven faces Vanitas wielding an incomplete version of the Keyblade, while Aqua and Mickey face him with the completed version.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Terra.
** Braig is a [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|snarkier]] version of this.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Averted in the case of Captain Hook due to [[The Other Darrin]] (Naoya Uchida, who in fact is the usual Other Darrin for the Japanese Hook); in the rest of the series and in the Japanese dub of ''[[Peter Pan]]'', Hook is voiced by [[Chikao Ohtsuka]]. Ohtsuka's in this game, but is playing Master Xehanort. And even if Ohtsuka did voice Hook here, the pirate and Master Xehanort do not cross paths anyways.
** Played straight in the English dub by [[David Ogden Stiers]], who plays two of the seven dwarfs (Doc and Happy); Russi Taylor, who plays Minnie, Huey, Dewie, and Louie, as well as the Fairy Godmother and Drizella (though the two don't have any scenes together); and [[Jim Cummings]], who plays Pooh and Tigger. And that's just naming the characters who share worlds together! The actors mentioned (and a few not mentioned) play other characters as well, though those characters aren't even in the same world as each other.
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* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: A major subplot is King Mickey going from rookie Keyblader to the [[Memetic Badass]] we all know and love.
** ''All three'' of the main characters.
*** Terra: After accepting the darkness in his heart, he gains great strength {{spoiler|but ultimately weakens his heart to the point that Master Xehanort can possess his body. Xehanort thinks that he's won, but Terra [[Determinator|refuses to submit]], [[Heroic Willpower|his mind and soul re-animating his suit of armor]] [[Unstoppable Rage|through hate and anger]]. Terra ([[Animated Armor|as the Lingering Will]]) then proceeds to ''kick his own ass'' (at this point, Xehanort was theoretically at his ''prime''), and--to this day--is still fighting Master Xehanort for control of his body. His response to when MX [[Hannibal Lecture|triumphantly boasts that]] [[Crazy Prepared|his grand scheme could take one of several routes]]?. [[Shut UP, Hannibal|A confident smirk.]]}}
*** Ven: When he first encounters Vanitas, it's a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]. {{spoiler|The paradigm shifts at endgame, when Vanitas [[Combat Pragmatist|knocks out an unsuspecting Aqua]] and then decides to [[Kick Them While They Are Down|go for a deathblow]]. Ven, who was just [[And I Must Scream|frozen]] by Master Xehanort earlier, literally ''defrosts himself with his anger'' and shows Vanitas no mercy. During his subsequent [[Battle in The Center of The Mind]], Ven delivers an absolutely stunning one-two punch of a [[Patrick Stewart Speech]] and a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] to Vanitas. More asskicking ensues, with a hyperkinetic battle that causes Ven's Awakening station to shatter, culminating in a zero-g fight where Ven cribs off of Vanitas by D-Linking with him and ultimately [[Curb Stomp Battle|walks all over him]]. And remember, [[Pyrrhic Victory|Ventus was well aware that Vanitas's defeat would destroy his heart in the process.]]}}
*** Aqua: She didn't have as long a route to take, already starting as a Master. Notably, {{spoiler|Aqua uses [[The Power of Friendship]] to create a [[Laser Blade]] that ''destroys'' the ''[[Infinity Plus One+1 Sword|completed]]'' χ-blade. That's the equivalent of cutting through [[Wolverine]]'s [[Made of Indestructium|adamantium skeleton]] with a ''twig''. She then faces Terra-Xehanort and his Guardian [[Familiar]] (beginning the struggle with an [[Mama Bear|empassionated]] [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|My Name Is Master Aqua]] moment) and ''wins'', her actions temporarily allowing Terra to break free and [[Laser -Guided Amnesia|lock away Terra-Xehanort's heart]].}}
* [[Tragic Hero]]: {{spoiler|Terra.}}
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The opening movie borrows a few scenes from the original "Birth by sleep" video that played at the end of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]: Final Mix''. This scene is actually of the trio's final confrontation with the [[Obviously Evil]] Xehanort and Vanitas. How things got to that way, though, and what lies beyond, are thankfully unspoiled.
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* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: Vanitas for both Ven and Aqua's stories. In comparison, Terra faces Braig, who while [[Get Back Here Boss|annoying]], is not nearly as tough to tackle.
** If you never played ''[[No Export for You|The Final Mix]]'' (or defeated [[Bonus Boss|Sephiroth]]) in the prior games, ''Birth by Sleep'' is a Wake Up Call ''[[Nintendo Hard|Game.]]'' To wit: [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome|No, you can't]] [[Button Mashing|bash X to win.]] Yes, [[Mooks]] ''can'' kill you. Yes, bosses can [[Genre Savvy|blink out of your stunlock combos]] and [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|stun-lock YOU instead]]. No, you cannot simply MAX out your shotlock to get free hits in, [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|the computer will simply dodge it]]. Yes, your [[Limit Break|finisher]] ''can'' [[Hoist By His Own Petard|become a liability.]] [[Overly Long Gag|No, you can't just use Aeroga to incapacitate]] {{spoiler|Eraqus}} without waiting for him to finish his attack...
* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Once he realizes Ven's importance to Xehanort's scheme, Eraqus tries to kill Ven to save the universe.}}
** Also, {{spoiler|Master Xehanort started out this way, but he [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|jumped off the slippery slope]]... ''[[Complete Monster|hard]]''.}}
* [[Wham Episode]]: The Secret Ending {{spoiler|qualifies as a wham not just for the game, but turns the whole franchise on its head}}. This is either a very good thing or [[Jump the Shark|a very bad thing]], the [[Broken Base|base is broken about it as usual.]]
** The Final Mix Secret Ending {{spoiler|qualifies as well... as it shows that the worlds aren't quite destroyed when consumed by the darkness...}}
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?]]: Opening of large treasure chests comes with swinging camera angles and dramatic Keyblade swings to open the chest.
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* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: We never see the Dwarf Woodlands' Queen's final fate. Her profile in Aqua's episode implies she met the same end as her movie counterpart, but off screen.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Happens several times. {{spoiler|During the trio's reunion in Radiant Garden, Aqua calls Terra out for his alliances with Malificent and the Evil Queen.}} Later, when you get to Disney Town, Terra is greeted by this for stepping on the racing track.
* [[When Trees Attack]]: Ven's Dwarf Woodlands boss, the Mad Treant. It's basically a thematic combination of the evil queen's poison apple and the trees Snow White believed were attacking her.
** And also, When Pumpkins Attack, when the Unversed combine with the Wicked Stepfamily's hatred to create a twisted version of the pumpkin carriage that lobs pumpkin bombs.
* [[WhosWho's On First?]]: In the Dwarf Woodlands, Terra is hired by the Queen to kill Snow White and bring back her heart in a box. This causes Terra to think that the Queen is also after the Hearts of Light [[Dramatic Irony|when in reality]], she ''[[Beat Still My Heart|really means her heart, no metaphors]]''. When Terra asks her if she ''is'' after the Hearts of Light, the Queen clearly has no idea what he's talking about and just claims that she had enough of Snow White's light.
* [[Wolfpack Boss]]: The Jellyshade swarm.
* [[Women Are Wiser]]:
** Aqua is the only one of the trio who qualifies to become a Keyblade Master. <ref>Ventus is too inexperienced to apply, and Terra [[Anti -Hero|has too much darkness in him]], partially because of circumstances outside of his control</ref> As a further example, take the Deep Space world. Both Terra and Ven have to constantly evade detection by the ship's inhabitants as they clear out unversed and help Experiment 626 (better known as [[Lilo and Stitch|Stitch]]) escape, which includes being attacked by the ship's defensive turrets. Aqua, on the other hand, simply walks up to the [[Reasonable Authority Figure|nice lady in charge]] and explains why she's there. Of course, that could have been just luck; if the Grand Councilwoman wasn't there and it was just [[Jerkass|Gantu]] in charge, Aqua would've gotten herself [[Too Dumb to Live|tossed in the brig even faster than Terra]].
** Inverted with Queen Minnie, See [[Disproportionate Retribution]] above.
* [[Yin -Yang Bomb]]: {{spoiler|The χ-blade}} can only be created when pure light and pure darkness clash, which is why {{spoiler|Master Xehanort ensures that Ven and Vanitas are set up against each other from the start.}}
** During Terra's story, Master Xehanort preaches the virtues of this idea to him, telling him that Eraqus's complete opposition of darkness is as bad as succumbing to darkness, and that the proper way to protect the worlds is to wield both in equal measure. {{spoiler|He's full of crap. He just wants to get Terra to give into the darkness and feeds him this line of thought to encourage him down that road. There may be some truth behind what he's saying, but as they say, the best lies are the ones made out of truth.}}
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Aqua.
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