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* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: Oh sure, you'll kick their asses in the actual fights, but in the final cutscenes Xehanort and Vanitas utterly ''own'' Terra, Ventus, and Aqua.
* [[Cutscene Power to The Max]]: Averted by Master Xehanort. Blasts of ice, a storm of Keyblades, raising plateaus of earth? Those are all things he does when you fight him.
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: Spend ten or more hours playing as Terra and you'll take quite a bit of getting used to the style of the next two characters. Especially Aqua.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: This is, without a doubt, the darkest game in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, with ''358/2 Days'' coming in second. [[Doomed By Canon|You already know that something]] ''[[Doomed By Canon|has]]'' [[Doomed By Canon|to happen that makes the three former Keyblade wielders disappear by the time]] ''[[Doomed By Canon|KHI]]'' [[Doomed By Canon|starts.]] It's also not afraid to deal with heavy subjects such as death. However, as dark and as intense as it is, the game does not lose the happy fun of the Disney worlds. It's a testament to the quality of the game's writing that they mesh so well.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: The battle against the Armor of the Master uses one of "Future Masters", the Land of Departure's battle theme.
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* [[Field of Blades]]: The Keyblade Graveyard. The ruins of many keys who took on the powers of their masters are here in the place, where there was a fight between light and darkness.
* [[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:
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** 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]]!}}
* [[Go -Karting With Bowser]]: Hey guys! Let's stop trying to destroy the Unversed and race with them instead!
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: What happens to Cinderella's step-mother and step-sisters is downright brutal.
* [[Graceful Loser]]: The Servant of the Mirror, to Aqua.
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** The Xehanort Reports. Most of them are available by playing through the story, but Terra has one only available in the Mirage Arena, Aqua has one only available from a treasure chest and Ven has ''two''.
** The two [[Critical Hit]] stats of Keyblades - the rate of criticals and their damage multipliers. They're described in relative terms, but you'd have probably given second thoughts to the Keyblades described as having high critical rates if you knew that usually meant as much as ''seventy-five percent''.
** The locations of the Prize Pod enemies, which you'll need to hunt down if you want all the ice cream recipes, can take forever to find without a guide since whether or not they'll spawn at the designated point is [[Luck -Based Mission|mostly random]] and if they don't spawn, you need to leave the world and come back, which might take ages if they're far from a savepoint.
* [[Hammerspace]]: Besides the [[Justified]] Keyblades, Lea's weapons come from nowhere and Ven ''somehow'' manages to carry a full size wooden toy keyblade with him for 90% of his story.
* [[Hard Mode Perks]]: If you begin a game on Critical, you start with five command deck slots for attacks, instead of the three you start with on the lower difficulties.
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* [[Hollywood Spelling]]: Averted and lampshaded with {{spoiler|the χ-blade}}. When it is first mentioned, Ventus mutters {{spoiler|"Key...blade?"}} in confusion, and {{spoiler|Master Xehanort}} explains how the spelling is different and the origins of {{spoiler|the χ letter}}. He even notes, "Some say 'kye', but the meaning is the same." Played straight with Terra and Aqua, though, who have it spelled correctly in their subtitles and don't seem at all confused.
* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: Ven's exclusive skills Faith and Salvation.
* [[Hot -Blooded]]: Vanitas's battle taunts certainly sound as if his VAs had fun with the role. {{spoiler|[[Miyu Irino]] and Haley Joel Osment were obviously enjoying themselves playing a character who looked like Sora but was his ''exact opposite'' in terms of personality.}}
* [[Hot Chick With a Sword|Hot Chick With A Keyblade]]: Aqua.
** Phil and Hades pick up on this, as well as many a player.
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* [[Infinity-1 Sword]]: Chaos Ripper (Terra), Bright Crest (Aqua), Lost Memory (Ven).
* [[Infinity+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.
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: Master Xehanort is a bad guy who uses [[Dark Is Evil|darkness for evil]]. But he does make sense saying that [[Light Is Not Good|light isn't automatically good just for being light]]. This leads to the downfall of {{spoiler|Eraqus}}.
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* [[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.
* [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards]]: Only partially played; while everyone can learn some really powerful magic like Meteor (Terra), Tornado (Ven), and Glacier (Aqua), it's Aqua who gets the ''best'' and most practical ones like Triple Blizzaga, Triple Firaga, Seeker Mine, etc. Also, everyone is technically really powerful, but Aqua's the most due to story purposes and this trope. As you can bet, Terra's final boss is ''super'' hard, especially if you didn't take the time to find out all the useful abilities like Second chance and EXP walker. Aqua meanwhile is ''VERY'' fragile in the beginning until you get her some useful early-game abilities (like Barrier Surge and Wishing Edge) or even the [[Disc One Nuke]] (Which is naturally deadliest in Aqua's hands thanks to her magic stat) Course everyone is powerful at the end though; just at their different things.
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: You're going to spend a lot of time staring at that spinning blue heart. The game also frequently freezes to load when you activate a Command Mode or D-Link. You can install the game onto your PSP Memory Stick to help with this, which drastically lowers the loading times, and removes it all together in some places.
* [[Lost Forever]]: As Terra and Aqua, be sure to return to {{spoiler|Land of Departure as soon as you can. Though you can still pick up any lost chests after Xehanort sends it to the darkness. You just have to beat the Unknown first.}}
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* [[She Fu]]: Aqua. For example, her dash is a ''cartwheel''.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Ventus in his awakening.
* [[Shout -Out]]: The game's command and ability system are pretty much taken right from ''Crisis Core'', particularly the concept of fusing commands to create new ones while attaching support skills to them.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: In addition to Yen Sid being Disney backwards, Eraqus is an anagram of Square.
** And Xehanort is "X No Heart", the X being a staple in the names of the Organization.
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* [[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.}}
** There's also the origins of Pete and Braig, aka the man who would be Xigbar. {{spoiler|Turns out Braig's a ''lot'' more important then at first glance, and likely more dangerous.}}
* [[Super -Hero School]]: The Land Of Departure, where the main trio seem to have spent most of their lives training for the Keyblade.
* [[Super Mode]]: Filling up the Limit Break meter with certain attacks transforms your character, changes your movelist, and grants a new Limit Break. Filling the new meter a certain way grants a higher tier super transformation and all that it entails.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Yeah their backstories are different, but could you really tell the difference between an Unversed and a Heartless if they didn't have symbols on them?
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* [[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 It'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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