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Summary

Kingdom Hearts is a Japanese RPG video game series that presents a marriage between Square Enix and Disney Interactive Studios. Boasting an in-depth plot akin to those of various Final Fantasy titles, Kingdom Hearts follows Sora and his fellow Keyblade Wielders through worlds both original and those featured in various Disney cinematic titles such as Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, The Little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland, Pirates of the Carribbean, Tron, and far more.

The series begins with Sora, the protagonist, as a happy-go-lucky resident of the tranquil Destiny Islands. He and his friends Riku and Kairi dream of escaping their solitary lives and experiencing foreign worlds. Before they can cast off, the Heartless, shadowy creatures who hunger for the hearts of people and worlds alike, plunge their island into darkness. Sora manages to escape to another world and there discovers that he can use the Keyblade, a powerful weapon capable of vanquishing Heartless. He is soon after recruited by Donald and Goofy, King Mickey's right hands, in the effort to fight the Darkness that threatens to overtake the entire Realm of Light. To save the cosmos, restore his world, and reunite with his friends, Sora embarks on a journey that's taking a really long time to conclude.

The series currently spans 14 games so far, with 3 collections of the series containing previous games but remade in HD (KH I.5, II.5, and II.8). These games are, in order of the plot's chronology:

- Kingdom Hearts χ

- Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover

- Kingdom Hearts Union χ

- Kingdom Hearts Dark Road

- Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

- Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage-

- Kingdom Hearts

- Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories

- Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

- Kingdom Hearts II

- Kingdom Hearts coded

- Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance

- Kingdom Hearts III

- Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory

Terminology

Heart: One of the three main components of one’s being. A Heart is primarily formed from both light and darkness. A heart is needed to conventionally exist, with the exception being the Seven Princesses of Heart (Seven maidens whose hearts are completely devoid of darkness) or beings with their light/darkness forcefully separated (Such as Ventus and Vanitas) regarding the former (Only holding light or darkness). Hearts are also responsible for one feeling emotion and, when one holds strong bonds with others, allow the being to be able to feel the emotions of others. Hearts separated from their bodies also possess additional capabilities, such as possessing others, traveling through time (As long as there is a version of themselves where they travel), and even surviving the destruction of their worlds. Those with exceptionally strong hearts are able to wield a Keyblade.

Soul/"Mind": The second of the components that make up one’s being. The mind is what gives an individual life, and determines whether they are alive or dead, the force that wills the body to live and drives it to survive. Those of exceptionally strong will are able to survive with only their mind, lacking their heart or body, as showcased with the Lingering Will.

Body: The final part of a being’s existence. Bodies give both the heart and mind a vessel, for without them, it is an empty husk.

Memory: Functioning similar to memories in real life, memory in Kingdom Hearts make up a strong part of the heart’s existence, and possess actual reality, leading to significant side effects if a person’s memories are altered (Even going as far as rewriting reality itself). And while memories may be concealed or forgotten, they never truly “fade”, and the heart will recognize things the mind may not (A sort of "déjà vu" feeling), if that is the case. This is even inclusive of abstract ideas, such as writing, as seen in Kingdom Hearts coded, where even after Naminé erased the pages of Jiminy’s Journal, their memories remained intact.

Heartless: A creature formed when a heart falls to darkness. Heartless are completely lacking in emotion and intelligence, only having instinct to collect hearts. Their appearance wildly varies depending on the individual that fell. There exist two different types of Heartless, Purebloods (Which are designed as being virtually pure black) and Emblem (Which have the Heartless logo located somewhere on their bodies). As mentioned before, Heartless are generally mindless beasts who only desire to collect hearts, however, there exist three who are exempt from this (Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, Scar and Sora’s Heartless, the former two even able to maintain their original form), in addition to the Black Costume Heartless maintaining the ability to speak, but are still driven by the desire present in all Heartless.

Nobody: After a being becomes a Heartless, their body and mind are left to become Nobodies. Nobodies are generally white in appearance, and are essentially empty husks, only existing to be commanded. When the original being has strong enough will, they shall maintain their original form as a Nobody (As shown with the members of Organization XIII). When a strong-willed Nobody is slain, they may leave behind a semblance of their original being (Essentially a type of spirit) in the form of an Absent Silhouette. If a person's Heartless and Nobody are destroyed, their original being is restored wherever this separation happened, if such a place isn't around anymore, they reappear in Traverse Town instead.

Unversed: Essentially avatars of a person's own negative emotions, Unversed are chaotic beings with drastically varying appearance. All Unversed originate from Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts), with the exception of two, the Symphony Master and the Cursed Coach, both of whom were created by Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters (Lady Tremaine, Drizella and Anastasia).

Dream Eaters: Only existing in the Realm of Sleep, where worlds restored from darkness lie in slumber, there exist two different classifications of Dream Eaters, Spirits (Who eat nightmares and replace them with good dreams) and Nightmares (Who eat good dreams and replace them with nightmares).

Kingdom Hearts: The heart of all hearts, and the source of ultimate power and unlimited wisdom. Kingdom Hearts is the primordial source of all light and darkness in the Kingdom Hearts universe, and the origin of the hearts of both worlds and men. As a result of the ancient war over Kingdom Hearts known as the "Keyblade War", Kingdom Hearts was swallowed in the Realm of Darkness, never to be seen again. While there have existed false versions of Kingdom Hearts (Such as the heart of all men gathered by the Organization XIII, or the heart of all worlds sealed behind the Door to Darkness), they are in reality a lower variation of the true Kingdom Hearts (KHIII).

χ-Blade: The counterpart to Kingdom Hearts and the item all Keyblades are modeled after. The χ-Blade acts as the only way to summon the door to Kingdom Hearts, and presumably the way to unlock it as well. At the end of the Keyblade War, the χ-Blade was shattered into 20 pieces, seven of light, and thirteen of darkness. These pieces would eventually "manifest" as the Seven Guardians of Light and the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness, whose fatal clash would recreate the χ-Blade and summon the true Kingdom Hearts.

Keyblade: A weapon originally forged in the image of the χ-Blade from the heart of a user; the Keyblade has remained a prominent weapon used by most major characters in the series. Only those chosen by the Keyblade are able to wield it, and those who cannot will simply have the weapon disappear right from their hands. Keyblade Wielders are shown to have various different abilities relating to their Keyblades, including the ability to open or close virtually any lock or door, channeling magic with enough ability to surpass most mages, remove hearts from one's body (Including their own, but this only applies to Keyblade Masters), summon and dismiss the Keyblade whenever they desire (Making it practically impossible to properly disarm a Keyblade Wielder) and transforming it into various different kinds of weapons for more varied offensive purposes (Such as close-quarters-combat, ranged combat or enhanced mobility). While normally a Keyblade Wielder can only wield one Keyblade, those harboring another heart are capable of wielding two (As seen with Sora and Roxas, the former of whom can even wield three through the aid of telekinesis).

Knowledgeable Members

• The real cal howard
• Matthew Schroeder
• CrimsonStarFallen
• Bobsican
• Js250476
• TheSpeedster96
• SamanPatou
• Nehz XZX

Supporters/Opponents/Neutral

Supporters

• Hst master
• DBZMLP12345
• The real cal howard
• MarvelFanatic119
• Bobsican
• Dragonmasterxyz
• Js250476
• ArkhamDC06
• Nehz XZX
• SamanPatou
• Stupits
• Strife304
• Mantidil
• Ailamiona
• Orewanoninho (Tigger's special matches)

Opponents

• Mr. Bambu
• Arrogant Schmuck

Neutral

Main Disney Characters

Square Enix Characters

Original Characters

Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories

Kingdom Hearts II

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Kingdom Hearts coded

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

Kingdom Hearts χ

Kingdom Hearts III

Species

Heartless

Nobodies

Dream Eaters

Disney Worlds

100 Acre Wood

• KHIII
• KHII
• KHI

Agrabah

• KHII
• KHI

Atlantica

• KHII
• KHI

Beast's Castle

Deep Jungle

Deep Space

Dwarf Woodlands

Enchanted Dominion

Halloween Town

• KHII
• KHI

Monstropolis

Neverland

• KHBbS
• KH358/2
• KHI

Niceland

Olympus Coliseum/Olympus

• KHIII
• KHBbS
• KHII
• KHI

Pride Lands

San Fransokyo

Space Paranoids/The Grid

• Space Paranoids
• The Grid

The Caribbean/Port Royal

• The Caribbean
• Port Royal

The Land of Dragons

Toy Box

Unknown World of Origin

Weapons

Other Canons

Gallery

Notes

- Although Disney legally owns the rights to Kingdom Hearts, the series is made in collaboration with Square Enix, and characters associated with Final Fantasy and other series are fully owned by the latter company.

- While most incarnations of Final Fantasy characters are considered as stated by WoG to just be parallel universe counterparts on Kingdom Hearts, and thus have no real canon affiliation to the original, Auron is remarked as an exception as it's accepted by the staff behind FFX and KHII (Where this collaboration in particular happened) as an event on both series, and thus falls as a canon crossover.

- The events in Kingdom Hearts III take place after Toy Story 2 and before Toy Story 3, however, such events aren't considered as canon by the site to the Toy Story series, although it's left dubious enough to be mentioned here per the statements made between the writer of the Kingdom Hearts series and Pixar, and for the pages of Toy Story characters that appeared in KH like Woody and Buzz to take into account the KH events, instead of doing separate pages.

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