Line #67 Trivia/KingdomHearts


1	[[index]]
2	* ''Trivia/KingdomHeartsI''
3	* ''[[Trivia/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]''
4	* ''Trivia/KingdomHeartsII''
5	* ''[[Trivia/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]]''
6	* ''[[Trivia/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]''
7	* ''[[Trivia/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]''
8	* ''[[Trivia/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D]]''
9	* ''[[Trivia/KingdomHeartsX X]]''
10	* ''[[Trivia/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A Fragmentary Passage-]]''
11	* ''Trivia/KingdomHeartsIII''
12	* ''[[Trivia/KingdomHeartsMelodyOfMemory Melody of Memory]]''
13	[[/index]]
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15	* ActingForTwo:
16	** Several veteran Disney actors voice multiple characters such as Creator/CoreyBurton, Creator/JimCummings1952, and more.
17	** Xion and Kairi are both voiced by Risa Uchida in Japanese and by Creator/HaydenPanettiere and Alyson Stoner in English.
18	** Several characters who end up basically alternate versions of one character share voice actors, such as Sora and Vanitas (Miyu Irino and Creator/HaleyJoelOsment), Roxas and Ventus (Kouki Uchiyama and Music/JesseMcCartney), and Ansem, Seeker of Darkness and Terra-Xehanort (Akio Ohtsuka and Richard Epcar).
19	** In ''III'', Akio Ohtsuka not only reprises Ansem, Seeker of Darkness and Terra-Xehanort, but also voices Master Xehanort in lieu of his late father Chikao Otsuka.
20	* AllStarCast: Though some of them are replaced with TheOtherDarrin sometimes, the voice acting credits of the series include Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, David Gallagher, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Music/JesseMcCartney, Creator/BillyZane, '''Creator/ChristopherLee''', '''Creator/LeonardNimoy''' and '''Creator/MarkHamill'''. And that's just the original characters; we're not listing the Disney and ''Final Fantasy'' credits where many famous voice actors reprise their original roles, or characters who got famous voice actors for their first vocalized appearance. Those credits include Music/MandyMoore, Creator/JamesWoods, Creator/DavidBoreanaz, and Creator/DanCastellaneta. Heck, Sephiroth was voiced by ''Creator/LanceBass'', of all people .
21	* BeamMeUpScotty: A lot of fanart, fan-animation, etc. depict the Keyblade being swung with the teeth facing ''forward'', like an ax, when in the actual games it's swung with the teeth facing ''backward'', like a blunt-force object. A side-effect of this is that Ventus' default Keyblade, Wayward Wind, is often depicted in fanart with the teeth facing the wrong way, which is very noticeable given Wayward Wind's asymmetric design.
22	* CashCowFranchise: How else do you explain the presence of ''five'' side story games between ''[=KH2=]'' and ''3'', one of which existing just to tie up all the loose ends left by almost every other game? Given the series's enthusiastic fandom and the fact that it's made by both Creator/SquareEnix and Creator/{{Disney}}, it's not surprising.
23	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
24	** Let's see... Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Music/JesseMcCartney, Creator/DavidGallagher, Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/BillyZane, Creator/DavidBoreanaz, Music/MandyMoore, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/ChristopherLloyd...the list goes on and on; although some of the celebrities who appeared in the first game did not reprise their roles later on.
25	** Creator/TetsuyaNomura states that he picked Creator/MarkHamill to voice Master Eraqus in English because of his role as [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker]].
26	* CharacterOutlivesActor: Several characters have lost their voice actors over the years, but the most prominent ones are Mickey Mouse and Master Xehanort (the former is Creator/WayneAllwine; one of the games in the series is his very final Mickey Mouse voice role, having been released posthumously). The latter is very noticeable, as both his English and Japanese voice actors, Chikao Otsuka and Leonard Nimoy, died ''a month apart'' in 2015! Not only that, but Nimoy's replacement, Rutger Hauer, died almost 7 months after ''III'' came out, leading him to be replaced by Christopher Lloyd. Then in June 2015, Sir Christopher Lee passed away, but Corey Burton had been filling in for Lee since 2010.
27	* ColbertBump: Pretty much any obscure Disney movie gets a HUGE boost in popularity after being featured in a Kingdom Hearts game.
28	** While ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' was by no means neglected by Disney, as it at least got its own [[WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries animated series]], it wasn't able to achieve the monumental critical or financial success [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 as some of]] [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the other]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} movies released during]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the Disney Renaissance]]. However, it quickly gained more recognition and fans after being a recurring world since ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''.
29	** Though a CashCowFranchise for Disney, now, ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' was little more than a CultClassic, at first. Thankfully, the movie being [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff massively popular in Japan]] worked in its favor, as it received a world in the first Kingdom Hearts game, and soon became a franchise in and of itself.
30	** ''Franchise/{{Tron}}'', as a franchise, owes its EXISTENCE to Kingdom Hearts. Like ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'', the first ''Film/{{Tron}}'' movie was a CultClassic, at best, and was hardly ever mentioned by Disney until it was featured as a world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Soon after, Disney made ''Film/TronLegacy'', ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'', and the Tron Lightcycle Coaster at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
31	** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'' seems to be getting one. Like ''Hercules'', HOND underperformed financially, and only had a DirectToVideo [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameII sequel]] to show for it. Since being featured in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', however, it's gained a substantial amount of notoriety, as the song ''Out There'' from the movie has gotten its own segment during the Magic Kingdom fireworks show ''Happily Ever After''. Also, Esmeralda now has [[https://www.shopdisney.com/esmeralda-classic-doll-the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-11-12-460017075352.html?isProductSearch=1&plpPosition=undefined&searchType=autosuggest-popular&siteSearchTopProduct=1 her own doll]] among the Disney Classic Dolls line alongside characters such as [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]].
32	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer:
33	** ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'', the official magazine for The Walt Disney Company, inexplicably delivered a totally inaccurate blurb on the first game's plot, claiming it was about Disney villains trying to change the endings of their stories so the bad guys win. This ''was'' the premise of the slightly older ''VideoGame/DisneysVillainsRevenge'', but doesn't really apply to ''Kingdom Hearts''.
34	** In Italy, Disney's official materials (articles on the Italian Mickey Mouse and their strategy guide) about the first game of the series claim that "the invincible Heartless prince" Darkside (the giant Heartless Sora fights at the beginning of the game and later before the final boss) is the BigBad of the game, and that the game ends with Sora fighting him in Neverland. In the actual game, Darksides are a generic heartless (note the plural), and while Sora does fight one again later on, it's in [[spoiler: the remains of the Destiny Islands]], not Neverland. [[spoiler: Since you encounter it [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere in the middle of fighting]] the game's ''real'' BigBad, Ansem, it may have been a simple misunderstanding]].
35	** One article in a British newspaper about the then-upcoming ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' made several errors, apparently confusing Kairi for Sora and calling "her" a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' character (Sora and Kairi are part of the series' OriginalGeneration).
36	* CreatorsFavorite: Thanks to Mission Mode in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'', [[DeathDealer Luxord]] became Creator/TetsuyaNomura's favorite member of [[LegionOfDoom Organization XIII]], which led to him gaining more prominence in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIIIReMind''.
37	* DawsonCasting:
38	** Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, Creator/HaydenPanettiere and Creator/DavidGallagher have become this in the course of production. When the first ''Kingdom Hearts'' came out, they were 14, 13 and 17 respectively, playing characters who were 14, 14, and 15 respectively. However, by the time ''Dream Drop Distance'' came out, ten years had passed in real life while only two have passed in-universe. Luckily, Gallagher's voice hasn't changed a bit in the almost 20 years the series has gone on, enabling him to voice 15-year-old Riku with no problem, but Osment's has considerably deepened over the course of time, so in games where Sora is back in his 14-year-old body, it's really jarring to hear Osment's deeper voice out of a 14-year-old Sora, especially since Square Enix doesn't seem to bother casting a younger voice double.
39	** ''Chain of Memories'', originally a [[VoiceGrunting mostly unvoiced]] GBA title, was reworked into a full [=PS2=] game as ''Re:Chain of Memories'' in 2007 - after the release of ''Kingdom Hearts II''. Thus, 19-year-old Haley Joel Osment appears playing the same version of the character he voiced at 14 to a rather jarring result, whereas in the original, they just reused his battle grunt & quote voice clips from the first game. Averted with the only other teenaged character; 14-year-old Naminé is played by 15-year-old Meaghan Jette Martin.
40	** Brittany Snow was 20 when she voiced the 15(ish) year old Naminé in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
41	* {{Defictionalization}}: Master swordsmith and renowned propmaster Tony Swatton made a replica of the Kingdom Key Keyblade after receiving a lot of requests from fans. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPH8Pe5G1p0 No joke.]] They later also did the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ic-avlBAZ0 Oathkeeper]]. Later still, [[https://youtu.be/GI_LAIt9zis The Pirate's Of the Caribbean blade from III]].
42	* DummiedOut:
43	** The first ''Kingdom Hearts'' has the remnants of a Bahamut summon in its code.
44	** [=KH2=] Final Mix has unused models for a Woody and Buzz summon.
45	** Sprites related to a Pinocchio-based world are hidden in Days.
46	** A half-finished Jungle Book world is hiding in Birth by Sleep's files.
47	* ExecutiveMeddling: If you've wondered why none of the Disney worlds are allowed to interact with each other in the games outside of Donald and Goofy, you can thank ''Creator/{{Disney}}'' for that. There ''were'' plans that Hollow Bastion in the first game would allow you to use all the Disney party members, but Disney wanted the worlds to remain separated and self-contained.
48	* ExiledFromContinuity: Don't expect to see Deep Jungle, the world based on ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', ever again in any ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games after [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI the first]], even in the form of flashbacks or recaps, as Creator/{{Disney}} is unable to secure the ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' trademarks from the Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs estate.[[note]]''Tarzan'' and all elements pertaining to it are in the public domain as the copyrights to the novels have expired, but the trademarks to these elements were retained by the Burroughs estate, thus subjecting them to similar restrictions[[/note]]
49	** Surprisingly, Square Enix was able to produce a HD remaster for the original game ''and'' retain Deep Jungle, which would be otherwise impossible without cutting the world out. And since some items relating to the controversial world have appeared in ''coded'', it's possible that it's a sign saying that the trope could be [[TheBusCameBack averted one day]].
50	** Enforced in the games themselves to a certain degree; Disney has strict rules about how the franchises interact. This leads to both TheStationsOfTheCanon (in that the plots of the levels loosely follow the movies they're based on) and an AlienNonInterferenceClause (in that the natives of each world can't be told about other worlds). The rule of thumb seems to be that if you're tied to a particular movie, you're LockedOutOfTheLoop, though some characters get a bit of leeway in this, including [[spoiler: The Beast being a partner during Hollow Bastion]] in ''Kingdom Hearts I'', [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud, Zack]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Auron]] being plot-critical in the Colosseum stages in ''1'', ''Birth By Sleep'', and ''2'', [[spoiler: and the TRON level being Hollow Bastion's operating system]] in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
51	** In a sense, ''Kingdom Hearts V-Cast'' was made by Disney Mobile, so while it makes sense that he'd appear in Wonderland's chapter from the Disney side of things, the ''Alice in Wonderland'' Caterpillar isn't considered canon because Square-Enix's games don't feature him in Wonderland. Despite this, he appears in the manga adaptation for ''Days''.
52	** Unsurprisingly, most of the video game characters that appeared in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' don't show up in the world based on his film, due to most of them [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} being own by]] [[Creator/{{Sega}} many other]] [[Creator/{{Sony}} video game]] [[Creator/{{Microsoft}} publishers]] [[Creator/{{Capcom}} and]] [[Creator/{{Konami}} developers]].
53	* FlipFlopOfGod: Though some of this is also the fault of WordOfDante, there have been conflicting explanations for why Sora and Roxas are able to dual-wield Keyblades. The current official explanation is that [[spoiler:Sora has the ability due to harboring Ventus's heart, while Roxas inherits the ability as Sora's Nobody. This is a direct flip of what fans had previously assumed—that Sora got the power from absorbing Roxas, and Roxas in turn got the power from absorbing Xion.]]
54	** The HD [=ReMIX=] Collections being ported to the Xbox One, despite the fact that ''III'' was ported to the system. Due to the collections being put together for the specific purpose of catching people up to speed on the games prior to ''III'', as well as give people the most definitive ways to experience them and absorb the stories in the games, it was incredibly odd that Square hadn't brought them to the system sooner, a thing that left many fans confused. Nomura said that he wasn't against the idea, but they had to gauge interest and wait till after ''III'' came out to be able to port them due to wanting to not have ''III'' delayed. Then you have Tai Yasue saying in 2017 that they had yet to make a decision on that and Nomura said that they still needed to talk to Microsoft about it in 2018. Luckily, this all got sorted with the announcement that they're coming to the system in 2020.
55	** In an Ultimania interview, Tetsuya Nomura states that Sora's lighter hair color in games post ''II'' are because of his connection to Roxas. However, he seems to take this back in games made after Re: Chain of Memories, where an entirely new character model for Sora was created that gives him lighter hair akin to II.
56	* GodNeverSaidThat: A popular claim is that that the games prior to ''III'' hadn't been announced to be coming to the Platform/XboxOne yet is because of a supposed exclusivity deal with Sony for the first two main games to stay on Platform/PlayStation. Not only does this not make ''any'' sense, seeing as the series has been multiplatform since ''Chain of Memories'', which was originally on the Platform/GameBoyAdvance, but no one at Square or Sony has said anything of the sort. The most probable reasons for those games being on Platform/PlayStation, and nowhere else, thus far is that the [=PS2=] was the most popular gaming console of the 6th generation and Square has a good working relationship with Sony, as well as Square not having another team available to port the games to the Xbox One while ''III'' and several other big projects were in the works.
57	* InspirationForTheWork: The initial project that eventually became ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' stemmed from Creator/TetsuyaNomura's desire to make a game like ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. Hence the platforming elements in the first game.
58	* NoDubForYou: The first two [=PS2=] entries were dubbed into multiple European languages, but all of the following games used the English voice track in European regions - including the HD Remix compilations, despite said European dubs existing for the older games included.[[note]]To be fair, including said dubs would have been inconsistent with the newer games in the compilations, and the HD version of ''[=KHII Final Mix+=]'' includes newly recorded English voice acting for the added cutscenes.[[/note]] Additionally, only ''[=KHII=]'' was dubbed in Spanish, and neither entry was dubbed in Italian despite receiving a full localization.
59	** ''III'' isn't getting any dubs outside of the English dub subtitled in other languages either. It's been stated that this was mostly due to time reasons with the simultaneous release everywhere with the Japanese version.
60	* NoExportForYou:
61	** ''Kingdom Hearts'' was, for a time, infamous for including plot-relevant content in Japan-only ''Final Mix'' re-releases. Eventually all this content reached the international audience in the form of the ''1.5 HD Remix'' and ''2.5 HD Remix'' (then ''1.5+2.5'') compilation disks.
62	** ''coded'' was almost an example, being a Japanese mobile phone game. This was slightly less painful than the ''Final Mixes'' since it's less important to the overarching plot, but it still has a few important scenes and offers interesting reflections on the series' themes. It was eventually remade as ''Re:coded'' for the Nintendo DS and given an international release.
63	** ''Re:Chain of Memories'' didn't get released outside of the US or Japan in the [=PS2=] days either (it was almost not even release in America until fans begged hard enough as well) and it wasn't until ''1.5'' came out in 2013 that international players outside of those countries could play that version of the game.
64	* TheOtherDarrin: Quite a few.
65	** Music/MandyMoore, after voicing Aerith in the first game, was replaced by Creator/MenaSuvari for ''II'', who was later replaced by Andrea Bowen for ''III''.
66	** [[Music/NSync Lance Bass]] voiced Sephiroth in the first game before being replaced by Creator/GeorgeNewbern for the second game.
67	** Creator/CoreyBurton played [[Film/{{Tron}} MCP and Sark]] in ''II'' when those characters' original actor, Creator/DavidWarner, was unable to work on the game due to a previous commitment.
68	*** Creator/ChristopherLee voiced [=DiZ=]/Ansem the Wise in ''II'' and ''358/2 Days'', but as a busy man in advanced age with health issues, those were the only games he played the role. Corey Burton, just as he did for Lee's character Count Dooku in ''Franchise/StarWars'', took on the role for all subsequent appearances. It's impossible to notice a difference, as even Lee had praised Burton's perfect impression of his voice.
69	** John Fiedler, the only other voice actor besides Kathryn Beaumont to have worked with Creator/WaltDisney, reprised his role as Piglet for the first game only. After his death, he was succeeded by Travis Oates as of ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
70	** After her initial appearance in ''II'', Creator/BrittanySnow was replaced by [[Creator/MeaghanMartin Meaghan Jette Martin]] for the character of Naminé in all subsequent appearances. Martin even voiced her in the ''Final Mix''-exclusive cutscenes for ''II'' in 2014.
71	** Kairi and Xion are an unusual example, due to being characters who have to be ActingForTwo. While initially Kairi was voiced by Creator/HaydenPanettiere, in ''358/2 Days'' both her and Xion are voiced by Creator/AlysonStoner. Panettiere would later return to voice both Kairi and Xion in ''Birth by Sleep'' and ''Dream Drop Distance'', essentially making her TheOtherDarrin to Stoner's Xion. However, due to Panettiere both being busy with ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' and her subsequent health troubles, Stoner returned in the CompilationRerelease ''1.5 HD Remix'', ''0.2'', and ''III''. This will likely cement Stoner as their permanent voice actor.
72	** Creator/ToruOkawa replaced Creator/AkiraKamiya as Iago in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
73	** Wayne Allwine, the longstanding voice of Mickey since the late '70s, died in May of 2009, shortly after he finished recording for ''Days''. ''Birth by Sleep'' marks the debut of Bret Iwan as Mickey. It’s a bit fitting, since Mickey is nearly a decade younger and his voice for the character sounds younger than Allwine’s.
74	** Beginning in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Creator/RichardEpcar took over for Creator/BillyZane as Ansem in all future releases, to the point where his voice even replaced Zane's in [[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin flashbacks to the first ''Kingdom Hearts'']] to maintain vocal consistency.
75	** Eddie Carroll (voice of Jiminy since the mid-70's) died in 2010. Phil Snyder replaced him in subsequent games. Then Snyder quit acting and Jiminy was played by Joe Ochman in ''Ⅱ.5''’s ''Re:coded'' cinematics.
76	** A similar situation happened for the Genie. Initially played by Robin Williams in ''II'' of the films, Dan Castellaneta, who'd filled in for him in ''Return of Jafar'' and the TV show, played him in ''I'' and ''II''. In ''Ⅱ.5'', however, he was replaced by Jim Meskimen for the ''Re:coded'' cinematics, who was a closer voice-match to Williams than Castellaneta's already-pretty-close take. This might have been part of an overall thing for Disney properties, as Meskimen played the Genie in other Disney-themed games contemporary to ''Ⅱ.5''’s release.
77	** Tate Donovan reprises his role as Hercules in the second game. Before that, he was voiced by Sean Astin (y'know, [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Sam]])? In ''Birth by Sleep'', Josh Keaton returns to voice the younger Hercules.
78	** For ''KHIII'', Creator/AkioOtsuka and Creator/RutgerHauer take over as Master Xenahort in Japanese and English, respectively, after Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka's and Creator/LeonardNimoy's deaths in 2015. Ironically enough, Hauer died later that year, and was subsequently replaced with Creator/ChristopherLloyd in the ''Re Mind'' DLC.
79	** Additionally, since Creator/NachiNozawa passed away long before the third game, Vexen’s Japanese voice is instead provided by Creator/ShigeruChiba.
80	** [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]], played by Creator/JohnnyDepp in the movies, is voiced by Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor (the voice of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]] and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank Ratchet]]) in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', who does a not-so-convincing impression of Depp because of mold in his throat at the time of recording. When Jack Sparrow returns in ''Kingdom Hearts III'', the role has now been taken over by Jared Butler. This was most likely a similar situation with the Genie, as Butler has already played Jack in ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity''.
81	** Also present to various degrees in the European dubs of the [=PS2=] games. Although Disney managed to bring the original voice actors for their characters wherever they could, there were many of them that just weren't possible, either due to the pass of time, schedule conflicts or budget reasons.
82	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/ChristopherLee as a noble king who refuses to allow darkness to consume him even at his most morally ambiguous, his performance as Ansem the Wise is a very noticeable contrast from his portrayals of Dracula, Saruman, and Dooku.
83	* TheProductionCurse: According to [[https://kh-ultimania.livejournal.com/6608.html Yoko Shimomura]], the chorus portion of the iconic "Destati" is believed to be cursed because every time the developers loaded it into the game, something bad would happen. An example of this was the entire building suffering a power outage.
84	* RealLifeRelative:
85	** Japanese: Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka (Master Xehanort and Captain Hook) is the late father of Creator/AkioOtsuka (Ansem). Incidentally, Akio Ohtsuka took over the role of Master Xehanort in ''Kingdom Hearts III'' after his father passed away.
86	** English: Shanelle Gray (Larxene) is the older sister of Creator/ArielWinter (young Kairi).
87	* ReclusiveArtist: Despite having had several roles as a child actor and young voice actor in the past, from ''Kingdom Hearts II'' and onwards, Ryan O'Donohue has apparently done little else in the field of acting aside from voicing Demyx and scant details of his current life exist. There don't even appear to any sort of contemporary photographs of the the man, only black and white child photos.
88	* ScheduleSlip: Music/YokoShimomura apparently has habitual problems producing her music on time. This got a whole lot worse during production for the handheld trilogy (''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]]'', ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]''), during which she was ''also'' composing for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', leading to Tsuyoshi Sekito and Takeharu Ishimoto composing a good deal of ''Birth by Sleep'''s music.
89	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: [[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} Deep Jungle]] has never reappeared in any game after [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI the first]], probably never will, and just about any references to it have been essentially forgotten thanks to a dispute with the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate (Who still own the trademark rights to Franchise/{{Tarzan}}). The remakes of the first game in {{Compilation Rerelease}}s have maintained the Deep Jungle level despite this.
90	* SleeperHit: It can not be understated that the announcement of a Disney/''Final Fantasy'' collaboration was [[AudienceAlienatingPremise derided by majority of gamers]] when first announced. ''Kingdom Hearts'' was released during a time when Disney Studios was going through an AudienceAlienatingEra, so most gamers felt that the collaboration would bomb. The end result was popular reviews, the game ending up as one of the top 10 selling [=PS2=] titles, and [[CashCowFranchise the start of one of Square's biggest franchises.]]
91	* UrbanLegendOfZelda: One of the more common things you'll read online as to why the ''1.5,'' ''2.5,'' and ''2.8'' HD collections weren't ported off the [=PS3=] and [=PS4=] for the longest time is that the earlier [=PS2=] games had an exclusivity deal with Sony to release on only their consoles that extended to their remasters. Not only does this make no sense, since the rest of the games, minus ''Birth By Sleep'' came out on Nintendo's handhelds or mobile devices, but ''Kingdom Hearts III'' also released for the Xbox One, at the same time as the [=PS4=]. Also, Nomura and Tai Yasue also stated that ports of the collections to Xbox One were also possibilities after ''III'' was released, but had yet to do so because the team was focused on ''III's'' development to not have it be delayed. This seems to be hearsay from some fans to justify the lack of ports of the earlier games to Xbox, despite there being no evidence to support it. In fact, there's more evidence against it. Safe to say, after [=X019=], if there ''was'' an exclusivity deal, same as the 3D ''Final Fantasy'' games a year before, it's clearly not in effect anymore if it ever ''was.''
92	* WordOfGod: Nomura [[https://www.khinsider.com/news/Famitsu-interviews-Nomura-on-Kingdom-Hearts-4-and-Missing-Link-19005 confirmed]] on ''Famitsu'' that there was a riddle [[https://twitter.com/sakuram00chi/status/1513022495531491329 hidden in a sign]] at the 20th Anniversary Event. Its solution was [[spoiler:"the voice's identity is [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX Sigurd]]".]]

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