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* BrokenAesop: The Dark Is Not Evil aesop. We're supposed to sympathize with the darkness as Sora starts to see the gray area... Nevermind that the darkness destroyed his home back in KH1. And while Birth By Sleep does justify why the denizens of the Realm of Darkness did this by teasing Hermod, Bragi, Urd and Vor as LightIsNotGood villains enforcing the "tyranny of light" we know about from Xehanort's reports and portraying [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Vanitas]] more sympathetically, that still doesn't excuse the Disney Villains and Ansem using the darkness to terrorize everyone.

* LightIsNotGood: Xemnas exists here to show that light isn't purely good. Hermod, Bragi, Urd and Vor may also qualify.[[note]] A common desire for the games is the existence of a LightIsNotGood villain to stop [[BrokenAesop breaking]] the DarkIsNotEvil aesop.[[/note]]

* LightIsNotGood: Xemnas exists here to show that light isn't purely good. Hermod, Bragi, Urd and Vor may also qualify.

* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Downplayed: WordOfGod is that Lea (and by extension Axel) never liked the ObviouslyEvil Xehanort, but he still worked for Xehanort despite knowing better.

* AscendedFridgeHorror: Time travel being AdaptedOut is Fridge Horror for Maleficent, since in the games, she only survived being slain in ''Kingdom Hearts I'' by time travelling to the age of fairytales. No time travel means Maleficent was KilledOffForReal. This Fridge Horror is given further fuel by the fact Maleficent was AdaptedOut of ''Kingdom Hearts II''.

** It's implied to be the case for Maleficent.

* AHeroToHisTown: Vanitas is seen as a hero by the denizens of darkness.

** Maleficent does not appear in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. It's implied she was Killed Off For Real.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Cryptonix stated he doesn't have the guts to apply KilledOffForReal for Roxas and Xion... when it's implied Maleficent was KilledOffForReal.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[AdaptationalNameChange Ansem the Wise's stand-in Gnosis]] is Kairi's grandfather.

** He also states that his decision to have Riku/Namine and Roxas/Xion / / [[DieForOurShip will get a lot of hate]], mostly from the Roxas/Namine shippers.

* WhatIf: [[FridgeBrilliance If you think about it]], this series answer the question: "What If light won the original Keyblade War instead of darkness?" since in the games, it was darkness that won. [[AdaptedOut Ventus, Lauriam, Elrena and Ephemer not existing during that time]] is mostly done because Cryptonyx hates ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' because of how [[KudzuPlot convoluted]] it is.

* HypocriticalHumor: In Just a Pancake's ''Kingdom Hearts II'' recap, Mickey tells Sora that Xehanort was Ansem the Wise's apprentice, that he banished Ansem to the Realm of Darkness, and then killed himself to create a Heartless and a Nobody, which makes no sense. Here, Mickey tells Sora that Ansem was the apprentice of Gnosis, who he banished in the Realm of Darkness, and then Ansem killed himself to create a being of pure darkness and one of pure light, which makes perfect sense. ([[FridgeBrilliance Though perhaps it's because DiZ underwent]] AdaptationalNameChange.)

** Namine is unable to fight at all in the games. Here, she becomes a skilled BlackMagicianGirl during ''Days Between''. She learned everything she knew about magic from Zexion, or rather his Book of Retribution.

** Namine is unable to fight at all in the games. Here, she becomes a skilled BlackMage during ''Days Between''. She learned everything she knew about magic from Zexion, or rather his Book of Retribution.

** Kairi gets this in spades, moreso than in [[Manga/KingdomHeartsII the manga]]. She often sparred with Sora and Riku as a child, she briefly used the Kingdom Key after her heart returns since Sora was apparently gone, she got her Keyblade sooner than in the games (at the beginning of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''), and she does put up a good fight against Axel when he tries to kidnap her. This culminates with Kairi [[PromotedToPlayable becoming a main playable character]] in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]''. She also never actually gets kidnapped: the closest she got to being kidnapped was when Axel tried to kidnap her.

** The χ-blade was renamed "Key of Hearts".
** DiZ's real name was changed from Ansem to Gnosis.

** The entire thing with the key to unlock Kingdom Hearts is changed. Rather than being named "X-blade", here it's named "the Key of Hearts", and it resembles the Combined Keyblade from ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]'' rather than the actual X-Blade.

** The X-blade was renamed "Key of Hearts".

* RuleOfCool: This is why Master Xehanort is still talking in "[[PokemonSpeak X-BLADE]]" despite it being renamed and redesigned.

** In the KH2 recap, Yen Sid attempts that the Heartless represent darkness, but Sora, Donald and Goofy ain't having any of it.

--> '''Yen Sid:''' "Also my name-"
'''Sora, Donald and Goofy:''' "Spelled backwards is Disney!"
'''Sora:''' "We know!"

* AdaptationalJerkass: While he always thought the main female characters of Kingdom Hearts (Kairi, Namine, Xion and pre-0.2 Aqua) were bad, Just a Pancake is portrayed as a [[HeManWomanHater mysogynist]] here. Thankfully, he vanished after the ''Days Between'' recap.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Just a Pancake is portrayed as a [[HeManWomanHater mysogynist]] here. Thankfully, he vanished after the ''Days Between'' recap.