History VideoGame / KingdomHeartsI

* AlasPoorVillain: Unlike the rest of the Disney villains, Clayton is treated like another victim of TheHeartless rather as a megalomanic psychopath, whose heart was lost when he'd a moment of weakness and became an emotionless puppet for them to use. After his death, the party expresses pity for him, with Tarzan saying that Clayton was a lonely and bitter man, and so an easy target for the Heartless.

* AlasPoorVillain: Unlike the rest of the Disney villains, Clayton is treated like another victim of TheHeartless rather as a megalomanic villain, whose heart was lost when he'd a moment of weakness and became an emotionless puppet for them to use. After his death, the party expresses pity for him, with Tarzan saying that Clayton was a lonely and bitter man, and so an easy target for the Heartless.

* UpdatedReRelease: [[No Export for you The Final Mix version.]]

* BoringYetPractical: The Leaf Bracer ability in Final Mix/1.5, which does nothing except keep you from taking damage as you cast Cure/ra/ga. You /will/ want this active during basically every boss battle.

* SequelHook: "Deep Dive", a post-ending cinematic.

** In terms of actual game length, it would probably be Monstro, coming right in the middle of the game and signaling a big difficulty spike, as well as the part when the game starts to drop its sillier aspects and takes on a more serious tone since thats when Sora discovers that Riku is now working for Melficent.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: At the beginning of the game, Donald wakes up Goofy with a thunder spell. In the actual game, Donald (and Sora) would access to the thunder spell only after a while.

** However ''Final Mix'' fixed this by moving the Trinity to an area that remains accessible after the boss fight.

* NerfArm: In Hollow Bastion, [[spoiler:your Keyblade is taken away from you, and you're given the toy sword from Destiny Islands, severely decreasing your strength]].

** Interestingly, the scene shown in the video ([[spoiler: Roxas fighting Riku]]) did not actually appear in any game until the series' [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 fourth sequel]].

* VideoGameFlight: Glide.

** While you can't avoid Monstro, you don't actually have to complete the level either.

** Luckily, in the ''Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix'' re-release, the camera is mapped to the right analog stick to help with this.

* InferredHolocaust: The Heartless invasion. Although this fact is pretty heavily glossed over and not really discussed much, it is stated at least once that it has completely destroyed several entire worlds by the time the game starts, presumably killing hundreds of billions of people. The few survivors in Traverse Town are, for all intents and purposes, interdimensional refugees, condemned to spend the rest of their existence well and truly homeless, huddling together and trying to preserve what remains of their culture and civilization. It's basically an AfterTheEnd scenario on a hilariously massive scale.
** [[spoiler: Birth By Sleep Final Mix reveals that worlds consumed by darkness aren't necessarily destroyed....but are now stuck in a bleak, hellish dimension. A FateWorseThanDeath, perhaps?]]
** [[spoiler:All of the lost worlds are restored via a ResetButton, pushed by none other than Sora; additionally, the Summon Gems are stated to contain spirits that survived the destruction of their world. Two of them appear in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.]]

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''[[NoExportForYou Final Mix]]''.

* LostForever: The Trinity at Oogie Boogie's Manor in [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]]. There is a Trinity at the base of Oogie's Manor and you must use that Trinity before fighting Oogie Boogie for the first time as he ends up becoming the manor after you beat him and beating him a second time makes him collapse to the ground, thus rendering the Trinity Lost Forever. You also need to have Donald and Goofy in your party instead of the Guest Character for the world for them to work, which can only be done on the map at a SavePoint at the top of the manor.
** This also makes HundredPercentCompletion impossible and, thus, the reward for it is Lost Forever.

* DistressedDamsel: Kairi and all the Disney princesses — [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[Disney/PeterPan Wendy.]] Though Kairi is something of a subversion in that [[spoiler: her heart was actually protected within Sora's all along.]]

* AdaptationDyeJob: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. In the stained glass level, Cinderella's hair color is ''brown'', despite being blonde when she appears in person. This may be a symptom of the fact that her hair ''was'' a light brown in the original 1950 film, but all merchandising since the '90s has shown her as a blonde.

* GrindBoots: Tarzan, as in the film. Sora [[IncrediblyLamePun apes]] him during the Jungle Slider.

In May 2001, Squaresoft (now known as SquareEnix) announced a game at that year's E3. To ''everyone's'' shock, the game showed scenes of {{Disney}} characters fighting tandem with ''FinalFantasy'' characters. [[{{Understatement}} The reaction wasn't positive]], and many thought Square had gone off the deep end. [[SleeperHit Then, the game came out.]]

An update, called ''Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix'', was released in [[NoExportForYou Japan only]] and contains all the English voice acting as well as bonus content. On February 25, 2013, Square Enix announced that ''Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix'' would be released in North America in Europe in the fall of 2013 and that the version of ''Kingdom Hearts'' included with this would be the Final Mix. Not to mention that Nomura hinted at at a 2.5 HD ReMIX, which would have Kingdom Hearts 2(Obviously) and possibly Birth By Sleep(The credits of 1.5 HD Remix seem to confirm this), meaning that the US might get all the Final Mixes by the next Remaster.

** It's not an isolated incident either. Captain Hook is tough to beat in both Chain of Memories and [[spoiler: Birth by Sleep]] as well.

** [[spoiler: As of Dream Drop Distance, the latter is canon, as while witnessing the events from Sora's perspective in Traverse Town, he falls over in his passing out animation.]]

* BreatherEpisode: The [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh 100-Acre Wood]].

** Luckily, in the Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix Rerelease, the camera is mapped to the Right Joystick to help with this.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Ansem, or Xehanort's Heartless]]

** in terms of actual game length it would probably be Monstro, coming right in the middle of the game and signaling a big difficulty spike, as well as the part when the game starts to drop its sillier aspects and takes on a more serious tone since thats when Sora discovers that Riku is now working for Melficent.

** BigBad - Maleficent
** TheDragon - Captain Hook
** TheBrute - Oogie Boogie
** [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]] - Jafar
** [[DarkChick The Dark Chick]] - Ursula
** SixthRanger - [[spoiler:Riku]]
** SixthRangerTraitor - Hades
** TheManBehindTheMan - [[spoiler:Xehanort's Heartless]]

* GetBackHereBoss: Stop flying around the room, Jafar!

* {{Retcon}}: Many involving Ansem would show up in later titles, not the least of which involves [[spoiler: the fact that Ansem stole his name from his mentor]]. Also of note is the fact that [[spoiler: Ansem's possession of Riku wasn't just for the sake of Ansem himself having a body - it was an early attempt to "recruit" Riku as one of Xehanort's vessels for the true Organization XIII.]]

* UniversalDriversLicense: Played straight in the game when Sora begins to pilot the Gummi Ship (after the events of Deep Jungle). Averted in the manga adaption, with Sora crashing it into a meteorite near Traverse Town.
-->'''Donald:''' You ain't never touchin' the controls again in my lifetime. NEVER!

* UniversalDriversLicense: Played straight in the game when Sora begins to pilot the Gummi Ship (after the events of Deep Jungle). Averted in the manga adaption, with Sora '''CRASHING''' it into a meteorite near Traverse Town.

->'''Note: This page contains examples pertaining to the ''first game'' in the series. For examples relating to the series in general, please see Franchise.KingdomHearts.'''

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