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This page is for Headscratchers that apply specifically to ''Kingdom Hearts I'' as well as to the series in general. If your Headscratcher focuses on one game more than the other, put it in that game's Headscratcher page.
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* I've never played this before, and I asked some friends of mine who did about it, and, I have to ask, do the later games really eschew the Disney elements to the point that they're just [[Final Fantasy]] [[My Friends and Zoidberg|with]] [[Mickey Mouse]] shoehorned in? That's what they said happened, and it kinda tarnishes the novel idea of a Disney/FF crossover if one overtakes the other.
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** Weapon type names are generally pretty uninspired. Broadsword? Claymore?
*** Wait, what? I get broadsword, as it's a broad sword, but claymore? Because it... clays more? It's not a great example of uninspired names.
**** It is if you replace the [[Spell My Name
**** Claidheamh mòr translates (colloquially and dysphemically) to [[BFS]].
* If meddling isn't allowed, why the hell does Mickey send [[Donald Duck]] & Goofy? How the hell doesn't anyone from a world where only humans can talk, question the fact that there are suddenly talking animals?
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*** Plus, prior contact with Humans would mess up the dynamic of her own story. Remember, she never knew Sora was a human.
**** Don't forget, Square would have had to get rid of a party member by having Ariel get taken. Plus, how would she be captured? Donald's magic was the only reason they could breathe in Atlantica.
** There's actually a very good reason why Ariel couldn't be used, regardless of whether or not she makes more sense from the perspective of marketing -- Princesses of Heart have no darkness in their hearts. Ariel made a [[Deal
*** That, plus "disobeying" her father by going to the surface world may or may not have played a part in it.
** As for why Alice is a Princess of Heart, it works with having Wonderland as one of the first few game worlds. The heroes are alerted to the disappearance of young girls early in the quest, instead of not finding out until they get all the way to Agrabah.
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**** Who's to say he didn't have one; after all, there was that thing with the door in the flashback in Monstro -- perhaps his came around the time Kairi showed up...
*** Riku actually does get a Keyblade: Soul Eater (that bat-wing-sword thing he uses) turns out to be the proto-form of Way to Dawn, the Keyblade he uses in the latter segments of Kingdom Hearts II.
** Check out the [[Kingdom Hearts
** I believe it was stated in the ultimania that that was Mickey readying him for what was coming, and that Sora was never actually meant to receive one on his own, rather the theory is that he pulled Riku's keyblade from his heart in a moment of pure darkness.
* The game relies on [[Power Trio]] tropes, with heavy emphasis on theme symbolism, sometimes doubled. For example, we have Sora/Donald/Goofy (Fighter/Wizard/Shield and also Red/Blue/Green, a colour combination which repeats a lot). Hayner/Pence/Olette; Selphie/Tidus/Wakka; the Trinity Marks, Xemnas's final battles... The list is extensive. With the Destiny Islands trio of Sora/Kairi/Riku we have the [[Theme Naming]] of sky/sea/land, the knight/princess/sidekick and also the [[Four Philosophy Ensemble|optimist/realist/pessimist]], [[Hero/Mac Guffin|Mac Guffin]]/[[Anti-Hero]]... But the major theme of the games are Light/Dark/Twilight. If Kairi is Light (Princess of Heart) and Riku is Twilight (reference CoM), then doesn't that make Sora Dark?
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*** There are actually two different twilights during a day: Dawn, where darkness shifts to light, and Dusk, where light shifts to darkness.
*** In my theory, I believe the concept from the troper above. Kairi is of course Light, Riku is Dusk and Sora is Dawn. Reason? Sora cannot be Dark because of the Keyblade and {{spoiler|Ventus. Because of what happened before [[Bb S]], he became a person of pure light while Venitas became the personification of his darkness}}. Riku is Dusk because he was chosen by {{spoiler|Terra to succeed in using the Keyblade}} but derailed from this path of Light into the Darkness. Who is Dark, I cannot tell you because I don't know myself.
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* A friend of mine thinks that [[Square Enix]] needs to stop making Kingdom Hearts games. When I expressed my disagreement, he explained that each installment just muddies up the story making it more and more confusing (never mind the fact that said friend is a huge [[Star Wars]] fan, need I say more about their confusing storyline?), he also doesn't like that they keep adding [[Final Fantasy]] characters and [[Retcon|retconning]] their back-stories to fit in the KH storyline. When I told him that [[Kingdom Hearts]] is a different continuity from the [[Final Fantasy]] games and that none of the interactions between FF and [[Disney]] characters is meant to be [[Canon]] to their respective stories, he dismissed it as me being the only one to say that. The problem is that I say that because I remember reading it somewhere on the [http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts_Wiki Kingdom Hearts Wiki]. Can anyone else back me up on this?
** You are indeed correct. Perhaps you could direct your friend in the direction of the wiki?
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