History Headscratchers / KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance

** That's exactly why [[spoiler:only Riku got the MoM.]] Yen Sid says so.

** If you think about it, since they're mostly acquiring new abilities, techniques and magic through Dream Eaters, they're also more or less recieving proper instruction from them.

*** Well we did see Vanitas in the game. If that isn't ForeShadowing I don't know what is. and Vanitas is the manifestation of Ventus' darkness, right? Well Ventus has been rebuilding his heart within Sora all this time. This is just a theory but [[WildMassGuessing what if he recieved Sora's darkness with his light and it then became his darkness. And when Ven recieved darkness, it took shape as Vanitas?]] It's very much possible that he exists within Sora's heart in some way, and Xehanort [[spoiler: would definitely be interested in recruiting him for the new Organization, if he hasn't already.]]

* Speaking of the Grid, what about Riku's version of it? If sora was in a sleeping world that doesn't "dream" (yet have dream eaters), and Riku was in a dream of a dream (because of Sora), wouldn't it meant that riku's version of The Grid was actually a real world too? or it could just be part of Sora's Dream?

*** Why that's true, it can be better summed up as: all according to Mr. H's plan.

*** The Dream Worlds are established in-game as being the worlds that fell to darkness but never managed to recover. When Sora and Riku explore them, they act as snapshots of those worlds sometime before they fell. The time between Dream Worlds doesn't have to match up; Pinnochio's dream world is set immediately before ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'', while The Country of the Musketeers is set a long time before ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep''.

** Anything involving VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou can be summed up as: Joshua is a jackass.

** An alternate possibility is that this was not the event that turned them into Nobodies. If you recall from VideoGame/KingdomHearts you saw 5 'pods' in Hollow Bastion/End of the World, implying the Apprentices went into them voluntarily. Perhaps what as seen was an experiment (which in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII we were told were being run on Apprenice Xehanort's heart, in order to restore his memories) gone awry.

*** The Dream Worlds are established in-game as being the worlds that fell to darkness but never managed to recover. When Sora and Riku explore them, they act as snapshots of those worlds sometime before they fell. The time between Dream Worlds doesn't have to match up; Pinnochio's dream world is set immediately before the first VideoGame/KingdomHearts, while The Country of the Musketeers is set a long time before VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep.

** The Mysterious Tower was part of Twilight Town in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII - maybe it's capable of moving between worlds (and being its own world) whenever Yen Sid pleases, and the heart of Symphony of Sorcery - originally consisting of just the musical realm - liked the Tower enough that it added it to its dreams, the same way the other worlds did with their own native residents?

* [[spoiler: Young Xehanort states that one of the rules of time travel dictate that in order to travel back through time, another version of you has to be present at the destination. So how was he able to visit the Land of Departure in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep?]]

** Well, looking at the renders provided on [[Characters/KingdomHeartsDestinyIslandsTrio Riku's Character page]] his eye-color is always a nice electric-blue/teal/aquamarine/green-blue color, so this Troper has no clue what you're talking about.

** I think the answer to this question is thus: Throughout [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 Days]], Roxas (and by extension, the player) has a deep emotional connection to Xion... and then [[WhamEpisode WHAM]]! CessationOfExistence. When the credits roll, we're thoroughly convinced that [[RetGone she'll never so much as be mentioned again, let alone seen again]]. Therefore, whenever Xion shows up in the trailers for KH3D, it's kinda like seeing the love of your life, who died 3 years ago, standing right in front of you saying [[UnexplainedRecovery they got better]]. Who cares about the ramifications? That can wait 'till after the welcome-back glomp.

* Why is Chernabogs boss fight so simple? KH1, big, scary, epic fight. KH3D? Dodging and lovetaps. The hell?

*** You do realize that Sora will have to fight Orgy XIII-2 in KH3, so pointing that out will just branch off on a discussion on how Nomura will be able to write out paradoxes. And Replicas seem messed up IMO, since he'd be making a Replica of a Replica. Also, if he could use Replicas to begin with, that'd create another huge plothole, since Repliku is firmly established to have a heart.

** Due to a concept that has been introduced into the series in VideoGame/KingdomHearts2 and continously gained more and more importance ever since then. I nicknamed it "Heart Resonance": Whenever a person in the Universe of Kingdom Hearts meets someone they associate strong emotions to and expresses them, these emotions will eventually jump over to the person they're associated to as well, whether or not they actually have any memories or even true connection to them. It happened when Sora met the real Hayner, Pence and Olette after Roxas had embedded Data-Hayner, Data-Pence and Data-Olette in his heart as friends: Sora started crying and the kids suddenly began to feel like they had met him before as well. The same thing happens again in Coded when Data!Sora meets Donald and Goofy and, through their continous friendly actions towards Data!Sora eventually cause Data!Sora to develope a sense of Dèjá vu and the same sense of "attachment" that the real Sora has to them. Basically, it's like this: It doesn't matter if a connection is initially real, if a heart reaches out to you to make a connection and your heart is ready to accept it, it WILL become real. Add to that the fact that Sora's heart has basically been stated to have the power to create bonds incredibly quickly and efficiently, and you realize that Sora's heart must have pretty much hijacked itself into Tron's within Rinzler and continued to press until it finally opened up and made the connection.

* If the Realm of Sleep contains worlds not fully restored, how did Traverse Town become part of the dreamworld? It was intact by the end of Kingdom Hearts 1, and its keyhole was sealed, which should have prevented any heartless from destroying it.
** Well, Traverse Town was basically refugee town made up almost entirely by people who had their own worlds destroyed in [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts1 KH1]], So i would[[WildMassGuessing WMG]] that the world itself might just be composed entirely of wreckage or at least having been "damaged" enough that it started attracting things into itself in attempt to restore itself, thus making it "incomplete", I am fairly sure that it was mentioned that Traverse Town got a "[[WeirdnessMagnet special]]" placement like The World That Never Was in a interview, Albeit it was few years ago i read said interview.

** But... how? How was Yen Sid able to do that without breaking the rules of KH time travel, introduced in this very game? Xehanort needed to be split into a Heartless and Nobody in order to time travel; seems like a lot of trouble in comparison. Not to mention that seemingly nobody outside of True Organization XIII knew about the time travel rules; even if Yen Sid knew them (I mean, how could he initiate time travel without knowing them?), why wouldn't he tell Sora and Riku? Seems like pretty critical information. And that doesn't explain Ursula, either; why the hell would she be in Destiny Islands circa Kingdom Hearts 1? And where was Kairi in this supposed instance of time travel? And why would Destiny Islands have anything to do at all with the Sleeping Worlds in the first place? My understanding is that falling into darkness =/= falling into sleep. Sleep is only what happens when you, for some reason, don't get properly restored to light following a fall to darkness (0.2 proves this; if Castle of Dreams, Dwarf Woodlands, Enchanted Dominion and ''Destiny Islands'' were sleeping, how did Aqua get in to them, and why were they in various states of screwed up instead of dreaming?). Destiny Islands was restored properly after KH1, so what's with the Sleeping Keyhole? The whole intro to the game just doesn't add up on so many levels.

** Look at the combat system, it's very similar to Birth By Sleep. So even if their normal combos are unrefined, the way they perform their techniques and spells no longer require Reaction Commands or Mana. Furthermore, they can properly perform stunts that would make [[Franchise/DevilMayCry Dante]] [[CutscenePowerToTheMax jealous]], and implement them in combat too. This training essentially strips away Sora and Riku's previous limitations.

** Maybe [[HeartwarmingMoments Sora went back to the Sleeping Worlds to say goodbye to them?]]

* A new world is [[MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers The Three Musketeers]] [[CaptainObvious (Disney version)]]. What doesn't make sense is that Mickey, Donald, and Goofy (supposedly) never leave the Realm of Light. In one of the trailers, you can see Donald, Goofy, safe-ish to assume Mickey is off-camera, in Yen Sid's tower with Sora and Riku. And it's sort-of-said by Yen Sid in the same trailer that only Sora and Riku enter the Realm of Sleep. Yet here they are, in a world of their own.

* So. Could anybody PLEASE explain to me WHAT the deal with Xehanort's plan [[spoiler: to assemble 13 Dark Hearts and 7 Lights]] is?! [[spoiler: So, basically, he needs 13 hearts of pure Darkness and 7 hearts of pure light to create a PERFECT x-Blade, one that won't shatter on the first-best oportunity, like Venitas' did. So far, so good. However, it's been stated SEVERAL times that the only pure-light hearts are the 7 Princesses of Heart, who were part of the first X-Blade too, meaning that he will NEED those to combat his Organization of Clones, everything else wouldn't work. OK, OK, that still makes sense. HOWEVER, suddenly, he claims he was also trying to gather "7 Protectors of Light", keyblade wielders, to start the Keyblade war with. OK, OK, now, what did I miss? If he gets his X-Blade by just sending his Organization XIII.2 to merge with the Princesses, why would he want 7 Keyblade Wielders to OPPOSE him?! He sure as hell can't forge the X-Blade for them, Riku and Lea are partially Darkness Users themselves and even if they weren't, it's CLEAR none of them are hearts of pure light, not even Mickey or Sora. So are the 7 Protectors of Light meant to serve as bodyguards for the Princesses? The Secret Ending heavily implies this to be the case. But why would Xehanort WANT bodyguards for them? Why would he WANT them to be protected when he comes to take them? And if there is a reason, why would Yen Sid play right into the plan by assembling the 7 Protectors of Light himself when Xehanort fails at it?! Why?! Why do it HAVE to be 7, can't they just, like, just have 6 and place two princesses under the protection of one? I'm sure Riku could pull that off, he's become pretty overkill during the game. And why, in Light's sake, did they decide to make Kairi a Protector of Light herself?! Is she supposed to be her own bodyguard?! With only a few months of Keyblade experience?! Nice job, playing the Cosmic Keystone right into OrganizationXIII.2's hands then, Yen Sid!]] ...Uhh... My brain... it hurts... X-x

* How exactly is there a dreaming version of Yen Sid's Tower for the Fantasia level when it's still in the Realm of Light?

** I have a theory for this! Their Nobodies were destroyed, but I think their Hearts that their Heartless were carrying around had been trapped in the fake Kingdom Hearts that Xemnas was creating during KH2. All of the Organization member's hearts were trapped in it, and it isn't until Sora and Riku defeat Xemnas and destroy the fake Kingdom Hearts that their hearts were free to reunite with their bodies and make them whole again. They all come back at the same time because their hearts were freed at the same time.

*** Ansem is alive because [[spoiler: Young Xehanort pulled him out thtough {{TimeTravel}}. To be more precise, he's from a time where he hasn't died yet. However, this act did not save him from his "death"; as per the rules of time travel, he has to go back to his own time eventually and history can't be changed either to avert his death as it is destined to happen. Master Xehanort successfully reforming at the end of 3D proves that.]]

*** Expanding on the above, perhaps it's a Sleeping World, dreaming of Disney Town's past? Maybe a chunk of the world broke off, bringing a piece of the World's heart (the fragment containing the memories of that particular era), and it went to sleep because it's not a complete world. Merlin's magic has been known to get around world barriers that are supposedly impenetrable (Scrooge McDuck in BBS). And, since it contains a piece of Disney Town's heart, what happens in it could affect Disney Town in a more... psychological sense. After all, the theft of the Cornerstone of Light in the Timeless River didn't cause it to disappear in the present at the castle (which would violate the rule of "you can't change past events"), it instead caused a huge amount of vines to appear and dulled the protective abilities of the Cornerstone. In other words, the Nocebo Effect applied to an entire world; the Cornerstone was fine, the world just believed it was in big trouble because a piece of its heart dreamed of its theft. As for how the Heartless are in a Sleeping World, they got in through the same door Pete did. This could also explain the old "Present!Pete has KH design and meets Retro!Pete, yet there's no Retro!Donald and Retro!Goofy running around, and Present!Donald and Present!Goofy have their Retro designs" conundrum: the world chunk remembers what Donald and Goofy looked like, but has no specific memories of the things they did, so when the Present versions of them show up, the world dreams them to look like how it remembers them. But it does have specific memories of Pete, so when a second Pete shows up, it rolls with it and doesn't alter Present!Pete's appearance.

* Okay, something that makes me scratch my head a bit, when a Heartless and Nobody are destroyed, the original person is restored, right? But it was Xehanort in Terra's body that got turned into a nobody and a heartless, so shouldn't Terranort of been the one reformed, not Master Xehanort?