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!!Due to lengthy periods between releases and the prevalence of {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s, {{spoiler}}s from installments before 2010 may be unmarked. Read at your own risk.
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This is a listing of the villains created by Creator/{{Disney}} that appear in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series.
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[[folder:General]]
The classic villains of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and some live-action films. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', a group of them conspire under [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent's]] leadership are trying to use TheHeartless for their own evil means. After that, however, they're far more independent.

Maleficent's original group includes [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} Hades]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ursula]], [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Captain Hook]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]]. The second game introduces [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl Captain Hector Barbossa]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Shan-Yu]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]], and [[Film/{{Tron}} the MCP]], who aren't aligned with Maleficent, although she attempts to recruit/manipulate a couple.
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* AbortedArc: An InUniverse example; apparently Maleficent intended to convene a second iteration of her LegionOfDoom upon her revival in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', but local problems and the rising threat of Organization XIII ensure none of the villains bother to show up. While Jafar and Hook certainly weren't invited back [[note]]both being targeted for turning into Heartless[[/note]], the MCP and Shan Yu were unaligned, and Oogie and Ursula were dead. It's unknown if Barbossa, Hades and Scar were intended to be among the group or Pete was just helping them cause trouble to get some Heartless.
* ArcVillain: Every Disney Villain acts as the main antagonist to their own respective world, either completely out to do their {{Evil Plan}}s regardless of otherworldly involvement or working for a LegionOfDoom in the greater narrative, such as Maleficent's group, Organization XIII, the Seekers of Darkness, etc.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Though many of the Disney villains are hammy and somewhat comedic in behavior, it is evidently clear that each one is undeniably dangerous in combat.
* TheCorrupter: They weren't the best people to take in Riku upon his arrival at Hollow Bastion.
* EvilIsBigger: The vast majority of them tower over the more benevolent characters, even their most human members.
* EvilVersusEvil: They got into a hard competition with Organization XIII during the second game. Organization XIII was for quite a time one step ahead, but after [[EnemyMine Maleficent and Pete joined forces with Sora, King Mickey, and their friends]], the Disney villains eventually became the winning side.
* LargeHam: Noted in each applicable entry, but it should be noted that the group from the original game (Maleficent, Captain Hook, Jafar, Oogie Boogie, Hades, and Ursula, plus the unaffiliated Clayton) might as well be called ''The Large Hams Band''.
* LegionOfDoom: In the first game. One of the major plot points in ''II'' is Maleficent trying to rebuild her legion with both old and new allies with the help of Pete. By the time of ''III'', she and Pete have abandoned trying to form one of these for the time being.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Villains of a Sort". In battle, it depends on the boss, but it's often "Squirming Evil" or "The Encounter".
* ObviouslyEvil: Most of them really though there are certain exceptions.
* OmnicidalManiac: They seem to care little for whatever worlds fall to darkness, as long as they gain the power of Kingdom Hearts. By the time of ''Kingdom Hearts'' the group has wiped out ''billions'' of innocent lives whose worlds fell to darkness.
* TheRemnant: In the first game, they formed a fairly powerful organization under Maleficent's leadership that was strong enough to conquer countless worlds with their enormous Heartless army. In the second game, they'd been reduced to just only Maleficent and Pete, and while they do manages to form local alliances here and there with both old and new villains, they don't last long due to Sora's interferences and they never manage to re-create the same type of strong organization from before.
* UnwittingPawn: They believe they use the Heartless without knowing it's actually the Heartless who use them (or, to be exact, that the Heartless are only complying with them because their REAL leader instructed them to and because their constant abuse of darkness makes invading worlds and stealing hearts easier for them.) This is best seen in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', where the Heartless turn on Maleficent to follow the stronger Organization XIII, who are ironically using them as pawns.
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!Major Villains

[[folder:Maleficent]]
!Maleficent
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maleficent_khiii_2.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"The truth can be most cruel, even amongst the closest of friends."]]
->"What in the world do you think you're prattling on about? Kingdom Hearts belongs to me! The Heart of all Kingdoms! The Heart of all that lives! A dominion fit to be called Kingdom Hearts must be my dominion!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Susanne Blakeslee (English), Creator/ToshikoSawada (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ(chi)]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]'' | ''Dark Road''

Maleficent is an evil fairy hellbent on taking over all worlds in existence. First inspired by Master Xehanort to expand her ambitions beyond her world, she formed a league of villains bolstered by a vast army of Heartless in her bid to claim Kingdom Hearts. She poses a major threat early on in Sora's adventure, but she's later revealed to be Ansem, Seeker Of Darkness' UnwittingPawn before the climax of ''I''.

After her resurrection, Maleficent found herself at war with Organization XIII, who she discovered to her dismay poised a serious threat to her and the wider universe. Maleficent initiated a reluctant alliance with the heroes of light if just to get Xemnas out of her way, but after realizing how outclassed her flailing organization was, she set her sights on gaining power over secrets from the ancient Keyblade War. Unfortunately for Sora and co., you can't keep a good villain down for long…

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* AdaptationalWimp: In the original game, Ansem-Riku impales Maleficent's heart with his Keyblade to unlock her true potential after she was nearly killed by Sora and his friends in their initial fight, resulting in her getting a second wind and going OneWingedAngel. In the manga, this act ''kills her'' and the first fight was omitted.
* TheArtifact:
** After being the BigBad for most of the original game, leading a cabal of Disney villains, the series as a whole has shifted focus to Xehanort and Organization XIII as the major villains of everything, while the Disney villains are now usually confined to their own worlds. Thus, while Maleficent continues to feature in the series, she has less and less to do in each game.
** ''III'' zig zags this. Her and Pete's role are at its most minimal, seeking the black box of the Master of Masters and nothing else, they end up being the only ones to learn that Xigbar is Luxu and the return of the Foretellers at the Keyblade Graveyard. Xigbar himself even has the Seekers cause interference by searching for the box to prevent its retrieval.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: ''Chain of Memories'' has the Organization commenting on how Maleficent's "death" merely banished her to the Realm of Darkness. Then, in ''[=KH2=]'', her crow {{familiar}} shows her cloak to the Good Fairies, who try to resist acknowledging her existence, but they cannot and this brings her back.
* BackFromTheDead: ''Kingdom Hearts X'' reveals that she came back from her defeat in the first game via this method. To sum it up: after her defeat in ''KHI'', her heart [[TimeTravel made it to Daybreak Town in the past]], where she attempted to reenact her original plan of putting Aurora to sleep, but to no avail as she was placed in a data version of Enchanted Dominion specifically made to prevent her from screwing with the past. One of the 13 Darknesses helps her out of the Data Daybreak Town and into the real one, where she uses one of the escape pods to return to the present. Afterward, her heart manages to find its way to the Mysterious Tower, where Diablo had just delivered her cloak to the Good Fairies, whose memories enable her to return.
* BadassBoast: ''"You poor simple fools. Thinking you could defeat me! ''Me'', the Mistress of All Evil!"''
* BadBoss: While she doesn't ''physically'' abuse Pete, she ''does'' belittle, demean, and insult him constantly.
* BigBad: Of the first game, [[DiscOneFinalBoss at first.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Ansem in the first game, though [[UnwittingPawn the lesser of the two]]. And with Darkness in ''Union Cross'' though it was only temporary.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Xemnas in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', again, the lesser of the two.
* BigBadWannabe: ''Coded'' and ''3D''. While she's still a threat, with the full scope of Xehanort's plans revealed she's far from the main concern of the heroes now, and has nowhere near the influence or power she had in the first game. Nonetheless, [[TheDeterminator she's still determined to conquer the worlds for her own.]] The additional scenes added to the storyline of ''coded'' reveal she was looking for one of the Foreteller's Books of Prophecies during ''3D''.
%%* BlackMagic
* BlackMage: In her Witch form.
* BreathWeapon: As a dragon.
* CardCarryingVillain: She calls herself the "Mistress of All Evil".
* TheChessmaster: At least until her demise.
* ColonyDrop: In her boss fight, Maleficent's attacks involves dropping meteors on Sora and co.
* DarkActionGirl: A villainous fairy who is a master of magic and gets physical in her dragon form.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The original ''Kingdom Hearts'' sets her up as the BigBad for the first four-fifths of the game, only to pull a rug under her when it is revealed that Ansem is the one pulling the strings.
* {{Determinator}}: Organization XIII kicks her ass in the fight for Hollow Bastion and the XIII Seekers of Darkness make her look like a sissy. It doesn't deter her from [[EvilIsHammy hamming it up]] and trying anyways.
* EnemyMine: With Sora & co. during the wars against both Organization XIII and the Seekers of Darkness.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Downplayed with Riku. While it's clear that a lot of what she does is manipulation to have Riku go against Sora, she never lies to him, finds Kairi, gives him power and advice, and supports his growth as her protégé. While Riku rightfully has cause to doubt her, it does seem like she had a genuine fondness for him. Unfortunately, since she was a ToxicFriendInfluence, this leads him to be arrogant and also open to Ansem's DemonicPossession, which eventually leads to her final blow in the first game. Naturally, the two don't really interact all that much afterward because of their complicated history. When they do, one or the other is always a false version (real Maleficent and Data Riku, for example). The Manga expands on this point by having her infuriated when recalling her defeat when talking to Pete.
** Also Downplayed with Pete. She's constantly belittling him, but never betrays him and consistently trusts and relies on him for her plans and fieldwork. In a sense, it implies he's something of a ReplacementGoldfish for Riku, even though he began serving her years before Riku did.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Although her not killing Sora in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' qualified more under PragmaticVillainy, her not attacking Sora in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded'' definitely qualifies under this trope, as apparently even the (self-proclaimed) Mistress of All Evil has qualms towards attacking Sora and company after they saved her life and thus "made it even", at least not immediately (even though it was technically Data-Riku who did the actual saving).
** It seems that Maleficent intends to work against Luxu and the Foretellers, albeit for her own ends, so perhaps even ''she'' realizes that the Master of Masters is, actually, utterly insane and needs to be stopped.
* EvilCounterpart: To Master Yen Sid. Like him, she's one of the most powerful magic-users in the series who doesn't actually wield a Keyblade, she's known for her stern demeanor, and her character and appearance are drawn from the imagery of classic European fairy tales--but she wields Dark Magic instead of Light Magic. Appropriately, she even takes Mickey's nemesis WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} under her wing, just as Yen Sid took Mickey under his wing.
* EvilLaugh: She is quite fond of this.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Constantly warns the other villains of this in the first game, pointing out that many have been consumed by the darkness or the Heartless. To her credit, she never becomes drunk on darkness (at least until Ansem forces her to), but has trouble initially accepting that she might not be the Heartless' preferred master.
* EvilMatriarch: She attempted to manipulate Riku by telling him she honestly wanted to help him, claiming to view him like a son. Riku was smart enough not to fall for it but he continued to help further her plans, figuring it was his best bet to help Kairi. She also regularly stopped the in-fighting amongst the villains under her command.
* EvilMentor: To Riku.
* TheFairFolk: The games didn't mention it (calling her a "sorceress") until her "origin story" in ''Birth by Sleep'', but she's an evil fairy. Later in ''Dream Drop Distance'', she is finally referred to as "the evil fairy" by Master Xehanort.
* FairyDevilmother: In the first game, she feigns maternal affection onto Riku, acting as though she has only his best interest in mind when all he is to her is a pawn to manipulate Sora. She even gifts him the ability to control Heartless, making him more susceptible to possession by Ansem [=SoD=].
--> '''Riku:''' Why are you doing all this for me? What's the catch?\\
'''Maleficent:''' Catch? What's the catch? Silly boy. [[BlatantLies You're like a son to me. I only want you to be happy.]]\\
'''Riku:''' I seriously doubt that.
* {{Familiar}}: Her [[CreepyCrows creepy raven]], who aided in her resurrection for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
* FlunkyBoss: The first fight with Maleficent in the original ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI Kingdom Hearts]]'' has her summoning a few Heartless with shields on the ground while she's on a platform in the air.
* GetBackHereBoss: She has a tendency to run away from heroes by teleporting herself somewhere else or using a flying platform in her witch form.
* TheGrinch: She considers [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Christmas Town]] "ridiculous", and makes it a point to destroy it and plans to turn Santa Claus into a Heartless. Notably, this is the ''only'' time in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' where she turns up in person in a Disney world to aid the local villain. She must really hate the holiday.
* GroundPunch: In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', one of her dragon form's moves involves repeatedly slamming the ground with her front claws, sending out shockwaves.
* TheHeavy: In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''. She is presented as the BigBad for most of the game until the final act reveals that Ansem was the true mastermind who used Maleficent as a pawn. She's also this for the franchise's Disney Villain roster, the most consistently recurring villain who famously led the others during the first game.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: She seeks the datascape in ''3D'' for an unknown reason, but a new scene added in ''2.5'' reveals she seeks it to search for a connection to the "Book of Prophecies", a tome that can foretell the future and create new worlds all on its' own.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: In ''Dream Drop Distance'' she objects to Donald and Goofy insulting Pete. It's this because she frequently berates and insults Pete herself, and insults Pete in the same breath as defending him.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After spending all of ''III'' searching for the Black Box, she and Pete arrive just in time to witness Luxu reclaim it and summon the Foretellers into the present day. The two walk away without a word, apparently to plan their next move to obtain world domination.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: A dignified sorceress with a dark elegance, who fights with powerful dark magic while in her Witch form.
* LargeHam:
-->'''Maleficent:''' "You think you can defeat ME?! ''ME, THE MISTRESS OF ALL EVIL?!''"
* MadeOfEvil: Part of the reason she keeps coming back and perseveres in-universe, alongside some WrongContextMagic and quick thinking. Riku unlocks her heart and while the power goes to her head, she does not become a Heartless, an is implied to use the moment she was struck as an opportunity to time travel and survive. She comes back less due to returning to an actual vessel and more through the memories of others, and she seems impressively connected enough to the darkness that she can tell what is about to transpire to a degree and plan ahead a bit, something not even Yen Sid has been able to sense.
* MagicStaff: Which she uses as a blunt weapon against Ventus. Said weapon has a knockback effect, helping her to keep her distance against her enemies.
* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: It turns out that the Maleficent that appears in Enchanted Dominion in ''Union χ'' is not a data construct like the Disney characters in the other worlds, but the Maleficent from the present time, trying to rewrite the past in her favor. What she didn't realize, though, was that the past she thought she'd traveled to was a programmed construct and not the real world.
* {{Malaproper}}: As she's an evil fairy who hails from a medieval world, modern technology and terminology is lost on her. She repeatedly refers to the Datascape as "date escape."
* ManipulativeBitch: She played Riku like a fiddle, and even with a VillainDecay inducing lack of resources in ''[=KH2=]'', she played events to the point that she became an asset in bringing down Organization XIII, establishing herself at the top once more. Kingdom Hearts III has her and Pete disrupting the Organization's attempts to find the Box by finding them all before the Organization can and the secret ending shows that neither of them have any intention of working ''with'' the foretellers (or, if they do, they're definitely going to screw them over at the end so that ''they'' can be on top!)
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Maleficent has gotten something of a reputation of being a pushover ever since the release of ''Kingdom Hearts II''. Little things here and there have been done to try and maintain an ominous aura around her, but none so much more brutal than her appearance in ''Union χ'' and ''Dark Road''. In the former, she beats Lauriam in single combat, and in the latter, she takes on four Keyblade Wielders in short succession and ''kills them all.''
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Claims in the pre-boss fight dialogue in ''coded'' that she wants to bring darkness to the worlds because it's what they truly want. Data-Sora dismisses this as Maleficent only giving herself what ''she'' wants, and Maleficent's response is along the lines of: "And what's wrong with that?"
* ObviouslyEvil: Only [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Terra]] and Riku don't seem to see it. Riku , for his part, does have doubts about her, but stays with her group because she does keep her word, its his own weakness thats his own downfall. In Terra's case, she's the only person awake for him to converse with, and his only lead until it's far to late and she casts her spell to control him.
* OneWingedAngel: Assumes her dragon form when Riku unlocks the darkness of her heart in ''Kingdom Hearts'' (and basically the same thing happens again in ''Chain of Memories''). In ''Birth by Sleep'', after fighting her normal form as Ven, you fight her dragon form once again as Aqua (who is canonically the last of the trio to do so). It seems that Maleficent didn't consider using the dragon form in ''Kingdom Hearts'' against Sora's party, presumably because she was already so deep in the darkness by that point, she knew she'd be screwed if she used such a powerful form.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The name of her raven familiar, Diablo, is only given in her film of origin, and never stated in the games so far. His journal entry for ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' just refers to him as "Maleficent's Raven".
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Just as in the movie, she turns into a giant, black dragon with green fire.
* PlayingWithFire: Green fire, to be precise.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** After ''II'', Maleficent appears to have given up on attaining Kingdom Hearts like Xehanort and is focusing on gaining control of the [[RewritingReality Book of Prophecies]] instead while Sora and Xehanort's unrelated clash over Kingdom Hearts wraps up. Time will tell how this works out for her, but {{Foreshadowing}} would suggest that she has her priorities in order and the '':Re:Mind'' DLC seems to imply this was, in fact, an ''exceptionally'' smart idea!
** In ''III'' she stays out of Sora and Master Xehanort's way as she looks for the Black Box. No point in drawing unneeded trouble. PlayedForLaughs when Pete digs up Pandora's Box, Maleficent instantly recognizes what it is and orders Pete to leave it on the spot. No need in drawing ''that'' much unneeded trouble.
* RecurringBoss: In ''Birth by Sleep'' she is fought twice by the heroes - first by Ventus and the three fairies, and later Aqua and Prince Phillip as a dragon.
* SaveTheVillain: When Maleficent holds back a horde of Dusks in ''II'' to [[EnemyMine aid Sora for her own selfish reasons]], Sora refuses to play along with her scheme and flee, heroically choosing to [[ChronicHeroSyndrome stay behind and help Maleficent.]] Donald, pointing out that this is contrary to all common sense, restrains Sora long enough [[VillainousRescue for Maleficent to get the chance to save them instead.]] Also, Data-Sora, possessing Sora's altruistic personality traits, attempts to save her from obliteration by his Data-Heartless in ''coded'', though he doesn't exactly succeed. (Data-Riku rescues her instead.)
* ScaledUp: You fight her dragon form in ''Kingdom Hearts'' -- right before [[invoked]]ThatOneBoss. To some, she's [[invoked]]ThatOneBoss in her own right. She also uses it against Aqua and Data-Sora.
* SequentialBoss: When Maleficent is fought in ''Kingdom Hearts'', her first form is her as a witch. After winning this fight, you get a break to save and heal before you have to deal with her as a dragon.
* ShockAndAwe: Used exclusively and profusely in her witch form.
* ShockwaveStomp: When in her dragon form.
* SmugSuper: Another important aspect of Maleficent's character is her superiority complex, which, while shared by many Disney Villains, she takes to the extreme. This is readily apparent in nearly every instance in Kingdom Hearts II whenever the subject of Nobodies and Organization XIII is brought up and when facing them personally. Maleficent's narcissism extends to any Heartless she commands, despite the all-too-obvious difference in power and capabilities of Nobodies in general over the Heartless.
** However, her superiority complex is not entirely unfounded as she is easily one of the most powerful characters in the series, her magic rivaled only by Master Xehanort's. Thus, her views of the Organization as insignificant could be, to her, quite true. Ironically, the Organization seems to view her the same way that she views them: as a relatively insignificant threat, shown when Saïx calmly summons some Nobodies to destroy Maleficent's Heartless and smugly calls her a fool. In contrast to Pete, she possesses extreme and completely legitimate confidence, while her minion is a coward and doubts their chances of success.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Luxu suspects she is the one who helped the Five main Dandelion union leaders escape to another world-line to eventually reach the present rather than stay where Master Ava left them.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: With the plot of Enchanted Dominion in Birth By Sleep is that of the movie she comes from, she is ultimately the case there due to the fact that she survives having Philip's sword lodged into her whereas it kills her in the film. Of course, as Birth By Sleep is a prequel to the first Kingdom Hearts, her survival here is a given.
* SquishyWizard: Whenever you fight her in her Witch form.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Other than Xehanort she's the only one who has them, due to her heavy association with darkness.
* TakeOverTheWorld: This sums up Maleficent's entire motivation. She wants Kingdom Hearts and the Book of Prophecies for the power and knowledge necessary to help her conquer the worlds, unlike Xehanort, who rationalizes his evil with a combination of ForScience and WellIntentionedExtremist.
* TechnicolorFire: Her green dragon fire shows up with pretty much anything she does.
* TimeTravel: ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' reveals that she attempted this once, in one of the most bizarre explanations for a PlotHole in the entire series. Having her heart released by Ansem in ''I'' enables her to travel back to the Enchanted Dominion during the events of ''Union χ'' to rewrite her defeat, but she ends up trapped in a digital recreation created by the Master of Masters to prevent her from messing with the timeline. A character known only as ''Darkness'' agrees to help her out and sends her back to the present, which is how she returns in ''II''.
* VillainDecay: Got a lot less threatening as a villain as the games went on. She started out as the BigBad of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', is somewhat threatening in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' before losing control of the Heartless to Organization XIII, botches her plan and needs to be rescued in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded'' then in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' she's quickly scared out of Disney Castle by Lea. Inverted in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', which takes place before the original and has her still in her prime, with none of the game's three heroes being truly able to defeat her. As for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', she is reduced to a background role, never interfering with the heroes or the villains, simply pursuing her research of the box and binding her time. And she actually succeeds in finding it, unbeknownst to everyone, although the box is still in possession of Luxu and the Foretellers in the epilogue.
* VillainousRescue: Of Sora and friends in ''[=KH2=]''. See SaveTheVillain above.
* VillainTeleportation: Uses it a lot during her fight against Ventus in ''Birth By Sleep''.
** An odd variation occurs in her boss fight in ''Kingdom Hearts'': she turns into a sprite to briefly zip around in an invulnerable state, but her [[FloatingPlatforms Floating Platform]] (which does not undergo any transformation or teleportation) always moves to center itself at her destination, so she only ever reconstitutes in the same spot upon it. Aesthetically it's this trope, while functionally it's just an invisibility period on an enemy glued to a moving platform that's too big too miss.
* TheUnfought: In ''II'', ''Dream Drop Distance'' and ''III''. Justified since she's not even close to being the BigBad of those games, let alone a major threat to the heroes.
* UngratefulBitch:
** She zaps Pete and the Gullwings as "thanks" for saving her in the ''II'' manga.
** After Data-Sora saves her in ''Coded'', she refuses to thank him.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Maleficent was only attempting to return back to her own time during the events of ''Union χ'' when she realized she couldn't do anything else stuck in a past without all seven Princesses of Heart existing at the same time, but the moment she used the Ark to return to the future, she set off a system designed to seal both the real and data world verisons of Daybreak Town away, dooming both to darkness, as the Ark was considered the last line of defense-- a tool to escape from the forces of darkness should they prove unbeatable.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Like so many others, she's one to Xehanort, though she ended up playing a rather important role in his plans by gathering the Princesses of Heart for him and nearly getting access to Kingdom Hearts for him in the first game.
* WickedWitch: She's a villainess commonly called a sorceress.
* YouShallNotPass: To the incoming Pureblood Heartless in the endgame of ''Kingdom Hearts II'', as well as to incoming Dusks earlier in the same game, both as a Type V AntiHero. She survives.
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[[folder:Pete]]
!WesternAnimation/{{Pete}}
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[[caption-width-right:280:"See, it don't matter how tough he is, once he's a Heartless he'll do as I say!"]]
->"Just wait! Nobody, and I do mean nobody, messes with The Mighty Pete!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimCummings (English), Creator/ToruOhira (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''

Once a humble steamboat captain, Pete turned to mischief-making until he got out of hand and was banished. He met Maleficent during his inter-dimensional exile and acts as her loyal servant.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: While Pete's depictions in Disney cartoons have run the gamut of villain to ally, in this series he's eager to conquer worlds and plunge them into darkness, tempt powerful beings to darkness with the purposeful intent of making them into Heartless, and in ''Re: coded'', he almost crushed Donald and Goofy and tortured Data-Riku with a sadistic glee.
* AntiHero: Like Maleficent, they only aided Sora and his friends during the game so that they could gain once the Organization XIII was toppled.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: He dismisses the Book of Prophecies as "fluffy, pink kid fairy tale stuff". He's a Disney toon and he says this to an evil fairy.
* ArcVillain: While he's a recurring, secondary threat in several worlds in ''II'', the Timeless River is entirely dedicated to him. The same applies to the Country of Musketeers from 3D.
* BadassOnPaper:
** While Pete is a buffoon without a doubt, he actually is more impressive then you would think. First off he is is shown to have impressive command over a particularly large amount of Heartless. It takes a sizable amount of darkness within his heart and control over it (making him at least a tier above HarmlessVillain status) to get their attention and a strong will in order to control them. The fact that he has command over the heartless for this long without succumbing to them and becoming a Heartless himself speaks volumes. He was also able to fight off Sora and his friends twice (in both circumstances being against Hercules and his younger self) and survive to do it again another day, something some of Maleficent's more intimidating allies could not brag doing.
** He's also surprisingly capable of understanding WrongContextMagic, and when he's informed by Barbossa of the curse his crew has, he warns the pirate captain and his crew to be wary of Sora and Co. and their "otherwordly magic", as it could actually kill them. Unfortunately, he isn't smart enough to keep his mouth shut about it, and inadvertantly clues in the party on the potential weakness of the undead pirates (granted, Sora and Co. would've figured it out sooner or later). But what happens next just proves that he's ''absolutely correct'' to be wary.
* BarrierWarrior: Pete is able to shield himself in a spherical shield spell in the Underworld. This is turned against him when Sora bats him like a giant ball.
* BeardOfEvil: He had one during the time period of Country of the Musketeers.
* BoisterousBruiser: At least his past-selves in both Timeless River and Country of the Musketeers, who ain't afraid to accept a fight when someone challenges him, whether it's Sora or his future-self. His future-self is too much of a coward to be this.
* ButtMonkey: Poor guy. Almost nothing ever goes right for him.
* CardCarryingVillain: He knows he's the DumbMuscle to Maleficent and joyfully accepts this as his role.
-->'''Donald:''' Pete, you big thug!
-->'''Pete:''' "Thug" works for me. We all got a role to play, right?
* CarFu: He knows some as Captain Dark and when you use his D-Link, Terra, Aqua, and Ven can, too.
* CatsAreMean: He's a villainous catman.
* CharacterDevelopment: For better or for worse, he went from a well-meaning and essentially decent authority figure to a traitorous captain of the guard to a harmless {{Jerkass}} attention seeker to cowardly villain (though he still retains some of his mettle). It's shown that he longs for the old days of steam boat captaincy. Its implied that his failures beginning in Country of the Musketeers blew his confidence out from then on, making him rely much more on cheating and dishonorable tactics.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Implied to have this when he's really focused. One of his more dangerous attacks is him throwing a fit if you pressure him too much, and smashing the ground for a ShockwaveStomp. He is invulnerable during this. Is also shown to have held back the Heartless Horde successfully and survived in 2.
* ChronicVillainy: In the earliest time where he is seen as the true villain, "Country of the Musketeers", he is arrested in the end by the Royal Musketeers. By the time Terra, Aqua, and Ventus arrive in Disney Town, presumably several years later, he seems to be seen as a relatively reasonable person, enough that it seems as though he was a ReformedCriminal. However, losing to Terra in a race leads to him once again undergoing a FaceHeelTurn. Depending on how one interprets Maleficent helping him out of the resulting PocketDimension, he may count as a less tragic version of DrivenToVillainy as well.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: As incompetent as Pete is usually portrayed, he's shown himself to be talented in many areas. He has hand-to-hand fighting abilities, can use explosives and magic, can control Heartless, and is proficient with computers. He's also been a Rumble Racer, a steamboat Captain, and of course TheDragon to Maleficent.
* DirtyCoward:
** Made clear in the Battle of Hollow Bastion, where he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere left Maleficent for herself]] with the Nobodies. Subverted in the end when he was able to conquer his fears in order to help Sora and Mickey get some time to defeat Xemnas by holding back the Heartless.
** Inverted with his past self. Timeless River Pete was pathetically weak, but he was no coward.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Goes both ways. Was temporarily banished to a PocketDimension by Queen Minnie for being rude and preparing to attack her for not giving him the victor's prize of ice cream in Disney Town.
* TheDragon: He's Maleficent's right-hand man, though he spends much of his time by himself across the worlds to enforce her will.
* EnemyMine: Twice. His past self put aside his (misunderstood) difficulties with Sora, Donald, and Goofy in order to help them fight his future self, so that he could get his boat back. Later, his present self helped Sora and the King against Xemnas and the Heartless.
* EvilChancellor: He was this to Minnie in the past as Captain of the Royal Guard in "Country of the Musketeers".
* TheExile: Goofy says that Pete was banished from their world years ago, though ''Birth by Sleep'' later clarified that Minnie put him in another dimension as a "time-out", suggesting she would eventually retrieve him had Maleficent not rescued him.
* ExtremityExtremist: When he engages in melee combat he generally sticks to punches and can even [[GroundPunch slam the ground with his fists to produce]] a [[ShockwaveStomp damaging shockwave]].
* FlunkyBoss: In ''3D'', where he has his henchmen, the Beagle Boys, during his time as the Captain of the Royal Guard in the Country of the Musketeers.
* FromNobodyToNightmare His past-self in the Timeless River is portrayed as a grumpy, but still morally-stable person who enjoyed captaining his steamboat and even offers to let Sora, Donald and Goofy drive his steamboat for helping save it. At some point between then and now he developed a mischievous streak and is HatedByAll to the point where Minnie had him banished to a different world entirely for it. Now he is TheDragon to an EvilSorceress and has command over an army of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with intent of conquering the universe. [[GreenEyedMonster Odds are seeing his former first-mate become his King and a world-traveling hero had something to do with it.]]
* GoKartingWithBowser: An interesting version in that despite his obvious, if only slight, malevolence, he's still not a bad guy when you race him in Birth By Sleep, having seemingly repented from his villainous days in the Country of the Musketeers (detailed in ''3D''). In fact, it's the race (or rather the fact that he lost) that causes him to pull a FaceHeelTurn ([[ChronicVillainy again]]).
* GoldfishPoopGang: Sora considers him this, and he's not entirely wrong, given Pete and Maleficent are far from the heroes' greatest concerns as the series goes on. However, he's far from being totally incompetent to truly qualify as this.
* HatedByAll: By the time of his banishment from Disney Town, Pete slowly but surely earned the hatred of everyone. Minnie tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but when he proved he was a jerk through and through, she finally lost her patience with him.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor:
** Pete starts out as a steam boat captain before pulling a FaceHeelTurn as captain of the Musketeers and tries to take a then-princess Minnie's throne. He reforms, but is still a trouble maker. Losing the Million Dreams Award causes him to go back to villainy, and he is still an antagonist as of ''Dream Drop Distance''.
** Hilariously, he switches multiple times throughout ''Birth By Sleep'', taking on both a good persona (Captain Justice) and an evil persona (Captain Dark) in his attempts to win the Million Dreams Award. In the Command Board minigame, he can appear as either persona (often switching numerous times per game) and will either help or hinder the player he's closest to.
* HiddenDepths: It's hinted the reason for his FaceHeelTurn is that he's accepted the fact that he'll always be called and treated as a thug, and by playing that role and sticking by Maleficent he will get the respect he once had before his subordinate grew and became a king. In fact proving himself Mickey's better is why he holds off a horde of Heartless at ''II'''s Climax.
* IconicSequelCharacter: He's Maleficent's right-hand man, though he wasn't introduced until ''II'', and has been a staple supporting character ever since.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Minnie makes an appeal to Pete to realize what the point of the Dream Festival was really about, and implores him to be better and respect that some people ''did'' give him the benefit of the doubt and voted for him. However, Pete proves he's too bullheaded and selfish to care and soon becomes an arch-enemy of the kingdom.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: His battles involve [[MadeOfExplodium explosive bowling balls]].
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's too wimpy and cowardly to actually pose a major threat; Sora explicitly describes him as "not smart enough to tie his own shoes."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Pete from Timeless River was easily angered and abrasive, but knew how to show kindness. He was genuinely grateful that Sora and co. got Steamboat Willie back, and rewarded them for it by taking them on a ride.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: By the events of ''Birth by Sleep'', Pete is so selfish and stubborn, that he tries to cheat his way to get the Million Dreams award. He fails, but is told by Minnie that he actually got a few votes. He dismisses the votes in greed, causing the entire town to regret their votes and [[HatedByAll hate him]], and Minnie banishes him.
* LaughablyEvil: Pete is and always has been a more comedic villain, providing some moments of levity as the Keyblade wielders travel across the various worlds. Best exemplified in ''Birth by Sleep'' with his PaperThinDisguise double act as Captain Justice/Captain Dark and how it fools absolutely no one.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: He is perfectly aware of the fact that he can't really hold his own all that well against Nobodies. He's only following Maleficent because the alternative is worse. He also has to point out to her during the Battle of Hollow Bastion that their forces are no match for the Nobodies and bails, and later is wary of trying to claim the Castle That Never Was due to how close they are to the Realm of Darkness.
* LargeHam: Particularly as CAPTAIN JUSTICE!!!
-->'''Captain Justice:''' What's this? [[TrrrillingRrrs Trrrouble?]]
* TheLastStraw: Goofy says that Pete's been causing trouble for years, apparently the events in ''Birth by Sleep'' were the tipping point that got him banished.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Just like in the film, he has a line to this effect in "Country of the Musketeers" in ''3D''.
-->'''Captain Pete:''' How ''dare'' you [[BigDamnHeroes thwart]] me [[JustInTime just in the nick of time!]]
* MascotMook: The credits state at the end that Pete is one.
* ManipulativeBastard: Not particularly good at it, but it's how he sows Heartless throughout the World.
* MilesGloriosus: As Captain Justice, he supposedly tries to help people, but it's really only to gain popularity so he can win the Million Dreams Award. When it comes to actually helping people, however, he will only do it if it's not too dangerous for him; otherwise, he will make up an excuse and run off. Case in point: when Horace tells him of monsters (i.e., the Unversed) terrorizing Fruitball:
-->'''Capt. Justice:''' Monsters!? Well...too bad. Not on the list.\\
'''Aqua:''' I didn't know "bona fide heroes" got to pick.\\
'''Capt. Justce:''' But I wouldn't stand a chance of survivin'-- er, of fittin' em into my schedule.\\
'''Horace:''' Gosh, I thought you said you were Captain Justice. You can't leave those menacing things runnin' loose. They're ruining Fruitball!\\
'''Capt. Justice:''' Huh? Hark, do you hear that? Somebody's callin' for Captain Justice's help!\\
''(Aqua and Horace listen but don't hear anything.)''\\
'''Capt. Justice:''' Do not fear! I am on my way! Sounds like this catastrophe can't wait. But, uh, I'll be back here in a jiff! ''(runs off)''\\
'''Horace:''' Oh, I'm sure you will, Captain Useless. But I don't think I'll stay here and hold my breath.
* MythologyGag: One of his attacks is to throw explosive balls similar to a bowling ball. Bowling was a favored past time for the character in ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' and ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''.
* NostalgiaFilter: InUniverse. He seems to long for the good old days of steamboat captaincy, but, given the TimeTravel to Timeless River and [[HumiliationConga what happens to him]], he's probably just thinking it's better than his later situations.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: As mentioned, he's the one sowing Heartless and recruiting other villains in different worlds, and when given the right opportunity is really heinous. He is also one of the few villains to use the Heartless and never succumb to the darkness, even though it is implied that he has used them as long as Maleficent has. Best exemplified in ''Re:coded'', where he's in almost full control of the bugs, corrupts Data-Riku, and comes dangerously close to crushing Donald and Goofy to death using Bug Blox.
* NoRespectGuy / ThenLetMeBeEvil: Implied to be part of the reason for the events of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep''. Almost everyone aside from Queen Minnie (and even then she's pushed past her limit) dislikes him, viewing his antics as annoying, selfish, and cowardly. While it is subverted somewhat in that he got votes despite this reputation, he lost out to three people who ''literally just came and went separately, doing one good deed each'' while he was putting his all into getting votes with his personas. He pauses when he hears that he got votes, but by that point, [[IgnoredEpiphany the straw broke the camel's back already, and he's stuck in the mindset that no one expects much out of him.]]
* RecurringBoss: Pete is fought by Sora directly twice in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', once in Olympus and again as the boss of Timeless River. He continues to be an antagonist throughout the game, but he never directly fights Sora and co after Timeless River.
* RememberTheNewGuy: From ''Kingdom Hearts II'' onwards he acts as Maleficent's [[TheDragon right-hand]], and was shown to be allied with her as early as ''Birth By Sleep''. Despite this, he does not appear nor is even mentioned in the first ''Kingdom Hearts'' game, where Maleficent is most prominent.
* {{Retcon}}: In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', it was stated by Goofy that King Mickey banished Pete to another dimension, presumably for doing something ''really'' bad, and Maleficent broke him out. In ''Birth By Sleep'', however, Pete only throws a hissy fit, and ''Queen Minnie'' temporarily banishes him to another dimension "until he cools down" from what seemed to be a preparation to attack her... for ice cream. While there, Maleficent breaks him out in return for his service. This is a bit of a DubInducedPlotHole, as the Japanese script used a gender-neutral pronounce for "Majesty," so it indeed could have been Minnie or Mickey. However, then in the manga it's stated directly that King Mickey did it, and this is said by Minnie no less.
* RightHandCat: ''Technically'' he's this to Maleficent, being a cat.
* RoyalRapier: In [[WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers Country of the Musketeers]] in ''3D''.
* {{Sadist}}: Pete becomes one after he joins Maleficent, as demonstrated when Barbossa and Scar nearly murder Sora in cold blood, and when Pete himself tries to kill Donald, Goofy, Data-Riku, and Queen Minnie at separate points in ''Re:coded'' and ''3D''.
* SaveTheVillain: In ''coded'', Data-Sora resolves to prevent his Data-Heartless from destroying Pete and Maleficent. It seems at first that he only arrives just in time to see them get killed, but it is revealed that Data-Riku used a rift in the Datascape to rescue them after the boss battle with Data-Sora's Heartless. Despite Pete's more-malicious-than-usual and outright sociopathic actions from that same game, including enslaving Data-Riku, trying to use Data-Riku to kill Data-Sora, and nearly crushing Donald and Goofy while cackling sadistically, Data-Sora is still somehow [[AllLovingHero relieved to learn that Maleficent and he aren't dead.]]
%%* {{Sentai}}: In ''Birth by Sleep''.
* SequentialBoss: The boss fight with Pete in Timeless River in ''II'' starts out with Sora having to stop his steamboat with the Coverstone from escaping down the river. After that you fight Pete on foot, and after taking some damage, he yells, "How about a change", a curtain with Pete's face comes down, and the scene shifts to one of the scenes from the world. You will go through most of the former Heartless battle scenes in the world as the fight progresses.
** His boss fight in Hollow Bastion in ''Re:coded'' is a two-phase fight where he has both higher stats in the 2nd phase and kicks off the fight with his new move, [[ShockAndAwe D-Thundaga.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Can use D-Thundaga in ''Re:coded'' which also is an example of RideTheLightning.
* SoreLoser: Pete putting on a costume and pretending to be a hero in the hopes of winning the Million Dreams Award. No one is fooled, and when Pete loses to Ventus, Aqua and Terra, he gets banished due to being HatedByAll and for trying to attack Queen Minnie. Then again…
* TheStarscream: A definite possibility in regards to Scar. While he's a big supporter of Scar's regime (especially given one of Scar's commands was to ''eat'' Sora), he's all too happy to see him turned into a powerful Heartless.
* StoutStrength: Has a decent amount of physical strength and endurance to go with his rather massive gut. ''358/2 Days'' in particular has him charge forward with his belly much like the Large Body and Large Armor heartless will.
* TeleportSpam: In ''Re:coded''.
* TeamRocketWins: With Barbossa's help, Pete finally scores a victory against Sora in Port Royal with the use of the Heartless and [[NotHisSled kidnapping Will after a failed negotiation]]. This leaves Sora tied up and left to die on a ship rigged with gun powder, one of the closest Pete has ever come to killing him.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Uses exploding bowling balls and fireworks in combat.
** Also present in [[WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers Country of the Musketeers]] in ''3D''.
* TookALevelInBadass: He's at his most threatening in ''coded'' and its remake, harnessing the power of the bugs to give himself an edge over the heroes. He actually nearly succeeds in crushing Donald and Goofy to death with a trap involving bug blox. Even his boss battle in ''Re:coded'' is a noticeable step up from his previously less threatening outings, using full combo attacks, VillainTeleportation, covering the arena with obstructive bug blox, and being a two-phase battle with the 2nd one kicking off with the rather dangerous spell, [[ShockAndAwe D-Thundaga.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''coded'' and its remake, he tries to kill Donald and Goofy and almost succeeds.
* TragicVillain:
** It is pretty clear that he yearns for simpler times when he was just the captain of a Steamboat in a little world before access to the rest of the universe had opened up for him and his people. This sadness was so genuine that ''the universe itself'' took pity on him and manifested a portal to the Timeless River so that he could relive his glory days and possible turn a new leaf.
** Becomes even more tragic once he tells Maleficent about it. The Door was conjured for ''him'' but as Maleficent talks about it, his gaze wanders over to the emblem, ''his emblem'' as he realizes he's giving his door up for Maleficent's purposes. Naturally, going along with what Maleficent wants [[LaserGuidedKarma gets him beat up for lingering on and trying to change the past, with Sora locking him out of his door.]]
* TrapMaster: Can summon rigged blox in ''Re:coded''.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Downplayed and played with. ''Sora'' manages to do this by writing him off in Hollow Bastion while talking to Leon. Pete then proceeds to ambush, trick and screw with the heroes -- as well as cause real damage when left to his own devices -- through the course of the rest of the Kingdom Hearts entries. Its played with in that, while he is not given enough credit as a villain, he's so outclassed by other villains that he's a comparative smallfry.
* TheUnfought: He isn't faced in a boss fight in ''Birth By Sleep'' and ''Dream Drop Distance'', though the former has him as an opponent during a racing mini-game, and the latter does feature a fight with his past self in the Country of the Musketeers.
* UngratefulBastard: After they're saved by Data-Riku in ''coded'', both Pete and Maleficent are ingrates, but Pete is even more of one than his employer, threatening Data-Riku with a future return to slavery under him even as he is being evacuated from the Datascape.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: During his boss fight in Timeless River, if you combo Past Pete, he will launch into the air and make a shockwave upon landing, he will then get up and yell ''[[WhatTheHellHero What's that for!?!]]'' before going back into the fray. But it is a bit of a subversion, as it doesn't have any substantial effect on either Pete (Present Pete receives little damage if this is done).
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: In ''Birth by Sleep'', he puts on a costume and pretends to be a hero to win the Million Dreams Award, doing simple good deeds like giving information. No one is fooled, since he's well known as the biggest troublemaker in Disney Town, and Terra, Ventus, and Aqua beat him for the award by doing ''actual'' heroic deeds, like fighting off the Unversed.
* YouShallNotPass: In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', during the endgame. He survives.
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[[folder:Diablo]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/diablo_9.jpg]]
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ(chi)]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)''

Maleficent's loyal pet raven, a minor villain that only appears at certain times for Maleficent, he has however contributed a bit to the story several times.
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* CreepyCrows: Diablo is one himself.
* EliteMook: Seems to be, if he isn't CoDragons with Pete.
* FeatheredFiend: An evil crow.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Has been shown watching Aqua and Prince Philip's escape, then leading Maleficent's goons against them in ''Birth by Sleep''; Manages to revive his master through the memories of the three fairy godmothers in ''Kingdom Hearts II''; and delivers Maleficent's ransom note and Queen Minnie's crown to lure Mickey away from The Mysterious Tower in ''Dream Drop Distance''. In any case, he's more successful than Pete at being his Mistresses' number two.
* NoNameGiven: Particularly strange in that he has a name in the original movie, but the game just calls him "Maleficent's Raven" in journal entries.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Flies off in the Manga after an Ansem-Possessed Riku unlocks Maleficent's heart.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being a minor character, Diablo provides the waypoint that helps engineer Maleficent's return to the present; and later summons Mickey's group to Disney Castle where they will meet Lea.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He constantly disappears and re-appears in the games and the manga.
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!Dwarf Woodlands

[[folder:Evil Queen]]
!Evil Queen
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[[caption-width-right:300:"That is no concern of yours. Now, heed my words. My radiance is all the light this kingdom needs."]]
->"What I demand is her life. I have had more than enough of her light."
->'''Voiced by:''' Susan Blakeslee (English), Kyoko Satomi (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ(chi)]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)''
A vain woman who is convinced she is the fairest of all. When the Spirit of the Magic Mirror revealed Snow White to be fairer, the Queen decided to take the maiden's life.
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* ArcVillainess: She's the main villain of the Dwarf Woodlands in ''Birth by Sleep''.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
-->'''Queen:''' There is a maiden known as Snow White. '''Kill her.'''
* FairestOfThemAll: Her motivation is to be this, even if she has to out-and-out murder the competition.
* {{Foil}}: To Maleficent. One is an AmbiguouslyHuman woman with full command of Dark Magic who is hinted to be of demonic heritage, while the other is an ordinary human who irresponsibly dabbles in Dark Magic far beyond her comprehension. And one is a consummate schemer who's one of the most ambitious and powerful villains in the mythos, while the other is a textbook example of EvilIsPetty who has long since faded into irrelevance by the time of Sora's battle with Xehanort.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: It's all in the name. Terra realizes right from the get-go that the Queen is bad news and disregards her order to get rid of Snow White the first chance he gets.
* HighCollarOfDoom: A large white collar as part of her queen attire.
* KilledOffscreen: She herself is not directly defeated by any of the heroes. She meets her end offscreen between Ventus and Aqua's visits to the world.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After Terra defeats the spirit of the Magic Mirror, she decides to cut her losses and orders the mirror to give Terra the info he wants instead of facing him in combat herself.
->'''Queen:''' Magic Mirror, instruct this knave! Give him the answers he doth crave.
->'''Magic Mirror:''' Beyond both light and dark he dwells, where war was waged upon the fells.
* NeverSayDie: The first Disney villain in the series to avert this, as seen by her above EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever known as "the Queen".
* TheUnfettered: Most villains up to this point in the series largely threatened to turn others into Heartless or cast their hearts into the darkness, with the implication that they would kill Sora or Riku once their boss battle began. The Queen makes it clear to Terra from the beginning that she wants Snow White ''dead''.
* TheUnfought: The Evil Queen/Witch is not fought by the player at all in the game before she is KilledOffscreen by the dwarfs, with the player instead fighting her Magic Mirror. However, a Heartless, Wretched Witch, shares her appearance very closely in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX''.
* VainSorceress: Her only desire is Snow White's death to ensure she is FairestOfThemAll.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's last seen giving Snow White the poisoned apple. After that, the Magic Mirror simply states that she is "gone." Her [[DisneyVillainDeath fate]] from the film is only subtly alluded to in Aqua's journal entry of the character, which says she was "chased down" by the dwarfs.
* WickedStepmother: To Snow White.
* WickedWitch: She can brew potions, using one to disguise herself and another to drive the Magic Mirror into a frenzy.
* YouHaveFailedMe: When Terra refuses to kill Snow White, the Queen tries to have the Magic Mirror dispose of him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Magic Mirror]]
!The Magic Mirror
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[[caption-width-right:160:"Between both light and dark he dwells. Where war was waged upon the fells."]]
->"The queen is gone, and my work is done. Adieu, o victorious one."
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton (English), Tamio Oki (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ(chi)]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)''| ''Dark Road''
A spirit who appears within the magic mirror at the queen's behest and answers all questions with the truth. The Evil Queen's rage causes him to suck Terra and Aqua within a PocketDimension found in the mirror for a BossFight.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The Mirror never displayed any form of combat ability in the original movie. In ''BBS'', he can suck people into a PocketDimension within him and actually fight them with laser beams and blunt force.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: When not driven insane by one method or another, the Mirror seems personable enough, if cryptic. In fact, both of the battles (with Terra and Aqua) seem to be due to it being corrupted by outside forces.
* BreathWeapon: Inside the mirror.
* BrutalHonesty: As he explains, he is unable to tell anything but the truth. This includes frankly telling Vor that she doesn't really want to be a Keyblade Master because she doesn't want things to change, which does upset her despite being the truth.
* ButNowIMustGo: After the Queen's death, he states his work is done and leaves the mirror. What becomes of him is unknown.
* DeadpanSnarker: Downplayed, since he has no malicious or snarky intentions. But he does note how Master Xehanort is bald now when he meets him again as an old man, in a way that Xehanort acknowledges in a bemused way.
* DemotedToExtra: He appears only in a single cutscene in ''χ[chi]''.
* DoppelgangerSpin: The trick is to spot the one that's smiling.
* GracefulLoser: His only reaction to defeat is a rather bored "How unfortunate.". After losing to Aqua, he simply bids the "victorious one" farewell.
* MagicMirror: The trope is its name, after all.
* TheOmniscient: Possibly. The Mirror seems to be able to answer any question truthfully, even one about the location of Master Xehanort.
* PocketDimension: Contains one as a result of the Evil Queen splashing a potion on it in a failed attempt to invoke YouHaveFailedMe on Terra. In ''0.2'', it expands into a series of these that contain bits and pieces of the rest of Dwarf Woodlands after the world is dragged into the Realm of Darkness.
* PunchClockVillain: Seriously, compared to other characters on this page, he's sort of benevolent when in control of his own actions. He just so happens to answer to a cruel, vain owner.
* RecurringBoss: The Mirror is the main boss of the Dwarf Woodlands instead of the Queen, who, while being the antagonist in the world, is never fought by Eraqus's disciples. The Mirror is also fought twice, first by Terra, then by Aqua.
* RhymesOnADime: All of his lines are spoken in verse.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: The ''Dark Road'' finale reveals that Xehanort visited him in his old age, questioning The Mirror about the dreams he had as a child. The Mirror instead directs him to The Keyblade Graveyard, where Xehanort would first find Ventus.
* TheStoic: He's pretty laid-back, even during his battles with Terra and Aqua.
* TookALevelInBadass: Forced upon him by the Evil Queen, making his spirit quite the boss fight inside the mirror.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He appears to simply leave after the Queen's death; what he's done since is unclear, although ''2.8'' shows the physical mirror was in the Realm of Darkness between games, containing much of what used to be Dwarf Woodlands.
[[/folder]]

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!Olympus Coliseum

[[folder:Hades]]
!Hades
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[[caption-width-right:280:"He's strong. He's kind. He's always there for you and he's handsome to boot. He's perfect. Perfect. Perfectly infuriating! He makes me crazy!"]]
->"Did you forget who you're talking to? I AM THE LORD OF THE DEAD!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JamesWoods (English), Kyusaku Shimada (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ(chi)]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]'' | ''Dark Road'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIV IV]]''
The literally (and figuratively) hot-headed Lord of the Dead and ruler of the Underworld in Olympus Coliseum. While he's one of Maleficent's allies during ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' and part of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', his focus is largely on killing Hercules. He regularly recruits the local ''Final Fantasy'' warrior or original ''Kingdom Hearts'' character to his side if it means gaining a champion to face Herc. ''III'' sees him mount an assault on Olympus with the Titans.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the original movie, he's a schemer who tries to kill Hercules as indirectly as possible and goes down quite pathetically from a single OffhandBackhand back from Herc. Here, he still mainly relies on henchmen to do the dirty work for him, but when push comes to shove, he's willing to prove that his title of [[PhysicalGod Lord of the Dead]] isn't just for show.
** Also when he gets knocked into the River Styx in the movie, it's implied that he might be trapped there for a very long time, if not forever. However, despite being knocked in it ''II'', he's shown to have escaped just fine by the time ''III'' happens. Heck, if you consider the Underdrome tournaments to be canon, then that means he escaped almost immediately.
* ArcVillain: He's the main villain of Olympus in all of his appearances.
* TheBadGuyWins: He basically gets everything he wanted on the first Olympus visit in ''II'' -- the Underdrome is reopened and [[HeroicBSOD Hercules' self-confidence is destroyed]], and can stay this way if the player doesn’t return since the second visit is optional. Canonically, however, the second visit did happen as the events of ''III'' directly reference the events of the second visit in ''II''.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: He grabs Auron's swords during a cutscene with his hand. It doesn't harm him due to the curse of the Underworld.
* BatmanGambit: How he used Sora's concern for Meg in order to fool him to open the Underworld Tournament Cups. And to top it all off, he set it up so it would be a SadisticChoice even if Sora knew about the plan - Meg was directly merged with the lock stone itself, and seemingly the only way to save her would be to open the lock and free her anyway, so Sora's only options were to free her and unlock the Underworld Coliseum, or leave the lock be but keep her trapped. Either way, Hades wins somehow.
* TheBerserker: During combat or if someone pisses him off. In ''Chain of Memories'', his enemy card effect is even called Berserk.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Hades is a barrel of laughs, and is a smooth talker, but he ''is'' stil the god of the dead, and he isn't afraid to show it. He legitimately scares the hell out of Pete more than ''Maleficent'' does when he's angry. And in his own domain, he can only be defeated by someone with direct divine assistance or by a fellow deity, such as Hercules. He is functionally one of the most powerful beings in the universe, the only reason he lacks any overt multi-world influence is that he's from a world of similarly powerful deities and the rest of the Greek pantheon would probably beat the crap out of him if he ''tried'' to gain any.
* BoisterousBruiser: "Oh, yeah. This is gonna be good."
* BreakoutVillain: Hades was already a popular villain in his original film, so this is to be expected. Nomura noted that the Underworld was added to ''II'' mostly out of Hades' popularity. Sure enough, he's gone on to be the most recurring Disney villain in the franchise besides Maleficent herself, who has only appeared in [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance one more game than he has.]] By the Lost Master Arc, Hades is even set to take on a role more critical to the larger series lore due to being the Lord of the Dead.
* BrilliantButLazy: Hades is a PhysicalGod that could easily wipe the floor with Sora [[HomeFieldAdvantage due to being completely invincible while in the Underworld]], but he's more content with sending out monsters like Cerberus to fight in his stead if a chase takes too long.
* BurningWithAnger: As per his film, his fire goes from blue to red when angry.
* TheChessmaster: Even has a chessboard in his place, with Hercules, Zeus, Cerberus, and himself as pawns. In the Manga he also has pawns of the Hydra and Megara.
* ClassicVillain: Wrath obviously, but also Pride and Sloth, which all tie into each other. He never steps in until it's absolutely necessary, he gets pissed, or has his pride hurt. Being a god, he doesn't think too much of other characters and is fairly smug and confident until he's no longer able to control or make use of someone, at which point he becomes angry or disappointed.
* ConnectedAllAlong: ''Dark Road'' reveals that he's aware of the Final World, something that wasn't introduced until ''III''.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Pieces of equipment that reduce damage from specific elements [[SituationalSword tend to have limited utility]], since most enemy groups and bosses are capable of inflicting multiple damage types. Hades, however, can only inflict fire damage, so [[NoSell stacking fire resistance]] makes his fights dramatically easier.
* DeadpanSnarker: Still as sarcastic as he was in the film.
* DiminishingVillainThreat: By the time of ''III'', having defeated him so many times before in previous games, nobody not even Hercules takes Hades seriously or buys him as a threat, treating him more like an annoyance that hangs around.
* DragonTheirFeet: He's is the last Disney villain to be defeated in ''I'', as the only way to fight him is by competing in the Hades Cup, which only opens up after completing Hollow Bastion.
* EurekaMoment: After another failed attempt to kill Hercules, Pete jokingly suggests sending someone who's already dead to save Herc the trouble. This inspires Hades to resurrect Auron.
* EverybodyHatesHades: Hades in Myth/ClassicalMythology was a neutral force, not an evil one.
* EvilUncle: He's the brother of Zeus, which make's him Hercules' uncle. Hades also doesn't like Zeus and wants to take over Mt. Olympus, which requires killing Hercules to prevent a prophecy from coming true.
* FairPlayVillain: Played with -- he mostly pits Hercules against opponents in straight-up fights, but he's not above bending the rules of the Coliseum, and by the end of ''II'' when his VillainousBreakdown hits, he declares outright "I'm done playing by the rules! Now we're gonna play by ''my'' rules!"
* FauxAffablyEvil: He plays himself off as an easy-going guy with your best interests at heart, but in truth he's a self-serving bastard who only sees you for how useful you could be as a pawn.
* FieryRedhead: Played with. When he's BurningWithAnger, his head's "hair" of fire and the fire around him turns red.
* FireBalls: Hades can chuck these freely in battle.
* {{Flanderization}}: Early games featured him occasionally cribbing Phil's tendency to recite rules. Later games treat this as a trait of Hades rather than Phil.
* FriendlyEnemy: He and Sora can get along if they're not directly fighting each other at the time. When they reunite in ''III'', they initially harmlessly bicker until Hades announces he's in the middle of his latest world-conquering scheme.
%%* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition
* HairTriggerTemper: Hades can get riled up rather easily when things don't go the way he wants.
* IHaveYourWife: Megara. "Now, we're gonna play by ''my'' rules."
* InkSuitActor: Has similar facial features and expressions as his VA, Creator/JamesWoods.
* InsultBackfire:
-->'''Sora:''' Lowlife!
-->'''Hades:''' Heh! You're too kind, kid.
* ItsPersonal: By the end of ''III'' after Sora has helped foil his plans for the umpteenth time, it’s safe to say he holds nearly as much of a grudge against him as he does against Hercules.
* JokerImmunity: Well duh, he ''is'' a god.
-->'''Hades:''' I’ll give you the match, but not the tournament. What can I say? I’m immortal!
* KarmaHoudini: Even when put through similar events to the Hercules movie, Hades escapes the Well of Souls ''immediately''. A combination of PunchClockVillain and AsLongAsThereIsEvil.
* LargeAndInCharge: Though he has larger minions, he's very big, and in charge of the Underworld.
* LargeHam: Hades is very charismatic.
%%* LaughablyEvil
* ManipulativeBastard: Almost always has a ''Final Fantasy'' character at his beck and call through this trope.
* MotorMouth: When the mood strikes him, Hades will not stop talking.
* NighInvulnerable: He's immune to all damage when in his "red fire" mode. Well, apart from that, he is a god, so that is expected.
* OffhandBackhand: Does this to Sora in ''II''. And it's more like an Offhand ''flick''.
* OnlyOneName: Although this is less because of Disney not making a surname for him, and more because of Myth/ClassicalMythology.
* OptionalBoss:
** The only way you can battle him in ''Kingdom Hearts'' is to complete the tournaments which are not needed to complete the game. You can finish without ever completing any of them or fighting Hades.
** In ''II'', the second visit to Olympus is also optional, so you can beat the game without properly fighting Hades.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Competes with Chernabog and Genie Jafar for being the most powerful Disney Villain in the cast, being the immortal God of the Dead and all. Unfortunately for him, he hails from a [[WorldOfBadass world of similarly powerful deities, most of whom being generally more benevolent.]]
* PhysicalGod: The God of the Dead, implied to govern the lost souls of every world in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' universe. He's also completely tangible, which lets Sora and Aqua beat him up, but is truly invincible while in the Underworld.
* PlayingWithFire: As in the film.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In ''Birth by Sleep'', he has a pretty sexist attitude towards Aqua, expressing disbelief when he realizes the winner of the East Games is a woman. He also visibly ogles her when seeing her for the first time and repeatedly mocks her by calling her "bluebird".
* SixthRangerTraitor:
** He gradually pretty much abandons the rest of the villains. Surely enough, he's the only one not to need to be [[BackFromTheDead revived]][=/=][[SealedEvilInACan released]] come ''II'', and does his own thing in Olympus to no ill repercussions, though he does still respect Maleficent a ''little'', as he accepts assistance from Pete on her behalf.
** ''III'' reveals exactly why he did so when Maleficent visits him in person. As powerful as she was and as tempting as ruling over all worlds seemed to be at the time, Maleficent didn't actually contribute anything to his own personal ambitions aside from giving him access to the Heartless and sending [[DumbMuscle Pete]]. In the end, Hades decided to cut his losses and abandon the multiverse level villainy to focus on his plans for his own world. By the time he meets his former leader, he's rudely trying to shoo her away for this reason.
* SpinAttack: One of his recurring techniques is to spray fire from both of his arms and spin in place, sweeping the arena in fire.
* StarterVillain: He serves as this within ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''.
* SummonBiggerFish: After Pete naively suggests that the Heartless can defeat Sora, who does Hades summon to finish off the hero? ''Cerberus''.
* {{Superboss}}: A lesser one in ''I'', acting as the last opponent in the penultimate stretch of the Hades Cup.
* ThisCannotBe:
** His defeat quote. "This. Isn't. Happening!" You'd think he'd stop saying it when you ''keep'' defeating him.
** When Sora’s group finally defeats the Titans for good in ''III'', Hades is in furious disbelief that his master plan he spent 18 years working on has been foiled.
* TurnsRed: Literally, whenever he's pissed.
* TheUnfought: Breaking from tradition, Hades actually isn't a boss fight in ''III''; he leaves the conquering of Olympus to the Titans. He ends up getting taken out by Hercules in a cutscene after the Titans have been defeated.
* VillainHasAPoint: Though he was being his classic manipulative self at the time, he wasn't wrong when he advised Terra on how he should attempt to accept and utilize the darkness within him instead of constantly attempting to deny it. He warned Terra that if he did not face and conquer his own darkness then he would be consumed by it. Later events that transpired proved he was right. Made especially prominent by the fact that he seems not to have a Heartless or nobody, meaning his darkness has ''not'' consumed him (assuming it even can consume him as he may have immunity to becoming a Heartless, Nobody or being possessed by Darkness due to his divine nature).
-->'''Hades:''' "Okay, stay with me here--darkness is inside...everybody. Nothing to be ashamed of. You play nice with it, and darkness will be your best friend. But if you go and get all self-conscious and refuse to face it, the darkness will run over you like a debutante at a toga sale. And then where are you? Nowhere."
* VillainousBreakdown: He usually calms down fairly quickly, but in his final showdown against Sora & co, he had a completely epic one before trying to fry them alive.
** ''"What is so funny, you imbeciles?! How dare you get a happy ending?! '''HOW DARE YOU?!'''"''
* VocalEvolution: His voice has grown decidedly more gravelly and raspy by ''III'' on account of James Woods having been voicing the character for twenty years by the time of the game’s release.
* WeWait: Averted. ''III'' clarifies that he had his Titan attack on Olympus planned eighteen years ago, but Hades still made several off-the-beaten-path attempts at a takeover throughout the intervening years. The planetary alignment doesn't arrive until ''III'', and Hades is implied to believe he should've just waited for it to actually make his move since ''surely'' it'll work this time.
* WouldHitAGirl: More like "Would set a girl on fire" (or try to, anyway).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cerberus]]
!Cerberus
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cerberus.jpg]]
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[Videogame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded Re:coded]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ(chi)]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)''

A gigantic, ferocious, 3-headed guard-dog of the Underworld loyal to Hades. He's often sent out to fetch souls and cause destruction.
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* AscendedExtra: He only appeared in about a few minutes of screentime in the original film; here, he's one of the tougher early bosses you can encounter, and is fought a fair amount of times over the series ''In Coded'' and its remake, he's a source of the Bugs in the Coliseum, and thus part of the bigger problem of the game, rather than simply being Hades' lapdog and nothing more.
* AngryGuardDog: He's Hades' guard dog, and not very nice.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: A giant, three-headed dog.
* TheBattleDidntCount: In the first game, Hercules had already worn Cerberus down by the time Sora steps in, and when fought again during the Hades Cup, it's revealed he has more than double the amount of health, proving this to be true. The second game has similar circumstances, but doesn't bother to explain why Cerberus has more health in the tournament.
* BreathWeapon: Cerberus can spit tracking balls of fire at Sora.
* OptionalBoss: In the first game, since Olympus is completely optional.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: is almost entirely black, the only things that aren't are his eyes and mouth which (sans teeth) are red.
* SummonBiggerFish: There's always a bigger fish in Olympus. Most of the time, it's Cerberus.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: He vomits darkness as an attack in the first game.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen again after each story boss fight in his respective appearances, barring the optional tournaments.
* YourSizeMayVary: Is considerably smaller in ''II'' than in ''I'' to allow him to fit into the arena.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Hydra]]
!The Hydra
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->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''

A lizard-like monstrosity sent by Hades to fight Hercules in the Coliseum. Hercules fails to finish it off during a match, letting it wreck havoc after he leaves to go rescue Meg. When a head on this creature is chopped off, two more grow in its place.
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* AlienBlood: Its blood is green like in the film. The US release censored the blood as clouds of darkness.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: It's a gigantic monster.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Where as it was crushed to death by boulders in the movie, it is killed here by having all of its head sliced off at once by Sora.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Cutting off the heads, by all accounts, should ''not'' beat the Hydra, simply because that's just how the creature works. Yet Sora is able to cut them off and defeat the monster without working out a different strategy at all. Could be justified, as the Keyblade is elsewhere shown to just break the established rules of a world, like destroying Genie Jafar directly rather than going for the lamp, and destroying zombie pirates in Port Royal.
* MultipleHeadCase: Eventually sprouts into a total of seven heads during the second part of its boss fight.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: It leveled the entire Coliseum into rubble in a few minutes, and is implied to have killed everybody inside.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Hydra is certainly not very easy on the eyes, what with its [[PurpleIsPowerful purple scales]], ScaryTeeth and overall abominable appearance.
* TailSlap: One attack sweeps its tail across the arena twice, and it covers the entire floor, so you're going to have to jump to dodge it.
* TrashTheSet: It lays waste to Olympus Coliseum after Herc fails to kill it.
* UseYourHead: When it has seven heads, it will slam them down into the ground two-three-two across the arena, each impact releasing a small shockwave that can damage Sora if the heads themselves miss.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ice Titan/Ice Colossus]]
!Ice Titan/Ice Colossus
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->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]''[[note]]International and Final Mix version only[[/note]] | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded Re:coded]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''

One of the Titans from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', made entirely of ice. Hydros is fought as a {{Superboss}} in two games: it's the only challenge of the Coliseum's Gold Match in the non-Japanese versions of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', and is the very last obstacle of the Coliseum's maze in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded Re:coded]]''. He also comes back in time for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''.

A knockoff called the Ice Colossus appears in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]''. Unlike the genuine article, it is a mandatory boss that is [[DualBoss fought alongside Hades]] during Aqua's story.
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* AnIcePerson: It's made of ice and has dominion over it.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: During the battle. Inverted during the victory cutscene, though.
* BeamSpam: It fires icicle shards as its main attack, and fires a ''lot'' of them.
* BreathWeapon: Which can turn you into a HumanPopsicle.
* DeathFromAbove: One of its many attacks in the Gold Match is to summon several boulders of frost to rain down on Sora's head.
* DegradedBoss: His appearance in ''III''. While he's even larger now, he's lost many of his attacks from ''I'', he attacks much less frequently, and he has FAR less health. The major threat is that he's got two of his brothers helping him this time.
* DualBoss: With the Lava Titan in ''III'''.
* {{Expy}}: Hades employs the "Ice Colossus", a weaker clone of the Ice Titan, in ''Birth By Sleep''. The genuine article is still under lock and key at that point.
* FlatCharacter: Its sole purpose is to be an opponent for the player to fight, and lacks any sort of characterization.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Its canon name, Hydros, is never mentioned in any of the games.
* OptionalBoss: In ''Kingdom Hearts'', the Gold Match is an optional {{Superboss}}.
* ShockwaveStomp: Does this constantly during its battle in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', even from the sheer act of merely turning to face Sora. The shockwaves make being anywhere on the ground near him suicidal, so most of the fight takes place on the nearby spectator stands.
* SleepModeSize: After Sora beats it, it loses so much mass it has to run away before he steps on it.
* {{Superboss}}: In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', it's only fought as the only part of the optional Gold Match.
* TennisBoss: Ice Titan is out of range of Sora's normal attacks, so you have to deflect its icicles at its head to knock it down.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rock Titan]]
!Rock Titan
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->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''

Another Titan from ''Hercules'' featured in the Olympus Coliseum. Lythos appears as the final opponent in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI's'' Hades Cup, and later appears in a much bigger form in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Befitting its name, the Rock Titan is colossal in size and has seemed to grow even larger in ''III''.
* TheBusCameBack: It was shown in a trailer, fighting Sora, Donald, and Goofy on a magical train, showcasing scenes from ''Kingdom Hearts III'' after only appearing once as an optional boss in the first game.
* TheCameo: Appears in the opening cutscene for his world in ''Kingdom Hearts II''... only to be [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Team Rocketed]] away by Hercules.
* DishingOutDirt: He can manipulate the earth itself to make sharp stones jut out of the ground or make enormous boulders materialize out of thin air. Curiously enough, none of these powers were present in the first game at all, forcing the Rock Titan to rely upon its own body to damage Sora.
* EasyEXP: His ''KHI'' fight gives Sora a Tech Point for every single hit he lands on him. That's right; simply ''whacking Lythos with your Keyblade'' nets you extra experience. Because of this, he's a great method of level-grinding, especially after you beat the Hades Cup's Time Trial and you can whale on him whenever you want.
* FinalBoss: Of the Hades Cup and by extension the Olympus storyline of the first game. Though he's a much easier foe than Hades, but after fifty rounds of strong Heartless and bosses, are you complaining that this guy is the final boss?
* ManBitesMan: When knocked down on its back, its heads will occasionally perform a bite attack.
* MightyGlacier: Incredibly slow, but it makes sense considering it is a giant made out of stone. In the boss battle with it in ''III'', it's considerably faster, though still by no means a LightningBruiser.
* MultipleHeadCase: Has two heads that oddly seem to share the same mindless personality. Both also share an HP meter.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Crumbles apart after its defeat.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His official name is Lythos, not that the many games he appears in ever acknowledges it.
* OptionalBoss: The tournaments are optional meaning the player never has to fight him if they don't want to. Canonically, Sora did as the narrator in ''III'' mentions that he'd previously fought the Rock and Ice Titans before.
* RockMonster: Huge, monstrous, and made of stone.
* ShockwaveStomp: Its main method of close-up attack.
* StoneWall: It has more health than any other boss in the first game. It's attacks do not do that much damage compared to the other bosses fought that late in the game though, and it's very slow and easy to dodge, so it's relatively easy to defeat.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tornado Titan]]
!Tornado Titan
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->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''

After being absent from previous games, the Tornado Titan Stratos joins its fellow titans in ''Kingdom Hearts III''.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Can blow debris (similar to the Rock Titan's boulders), fireballs (from the Lava Titan), and icicles (from the Ice Titan) at you.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The Tornado Titan takes the form of a gigantic cyclone, matching the size of even the Rock Titan.
* BlowYouAway: Naturally. In the first phase he periodically does this to keep Sora away from his brothers while they fire their ice and lava beams at him. During the second phase where it's down to him alone he does it more often and in more ways.
* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: It's a huge sentient tornado. Of course it's going to throw Sora into the air as an attack. Of course it's going to use mini-tornados to attack you.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Much like the other Titans, his official name is Stratos, but it's not actually used.
* TheUnfought: During phase one, anyway. Hydros and Pyros are the two fought then, while Stratos remains behind them and tries to keep Sora away from them using his winds every so often. After they're knocked out Stratos becomes the TrueFinalBoss of Olympus.
* WakeUpCallBoss: He's the last enemy fought in the first world and by far the most difficult boss up to that point in the game.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lava Titan]]
!Lava Titan
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->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''

The Lava Titan Pyros makes its debut at long-last in ''Kingdom Hearts III'', summoned by Hades alongside series regulars Rock and Ice Titans.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Lava Titan's size is the least stable of the four titans, since it's basically a living magma flow. Even so, this thing is gigantic.
* BreathWeapon: A beam of lava.
* DualBoss: With the Ice Titan.
* ConvectionShmonvection: Sora can touch and attack Pyros' head and body with no ill effect despite him being literally made of red-hot magma.
* KillItWithFire: His modus operandi, firing a beam of lava from his mouth and throwing a bunch of lava balls by swinging his arms.
* MagmaMan: Basically a gigantic lava monster.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His official name is Pyros, but like all the above titans, ''Kingdom Hearts'' just calls him a Titan.
* UseYourHead: When Sora is standing atop the pillar of cooled lava Zeus is trapped inside, Pyros will frequently rear back then slam his forehead down onto the pillar, dealing a hefty amount of damage and knockback if it connects.

[[/folder]]

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!Deep Space

[[folder:Jumba Jookiba]]
!Dr. Jumba Jookiba
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Dr__Jumba_KHBBS_2737.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:"Impossible! Pshah! He has no actual feelings—only destructive instincts I have carefully chosen for him. Or perhaps you need another demonstration of my evil geniusness!"]]
->"I am innocent scientist who created galaxy's most destructive – er, ''constructive'' species of all time."
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidOgdenStiers (English), Creator/ShozoIizuka (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]''
A self-proclaimed "evil genius," he is arrested for illegal genetic experimentation and now serves time in a cell within the Turo Prison Block. He tricks Terra into breaking him out, but turns on him when Experiment 626 doesn't act on his destructive programming.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Sort of: he ''was'' originally a villain in his own series, but very little of his evil activities are ever seen as the film begins shortly before his HeelFaceTurn. The events of ''Birth by Sleep'', however, take place entirely before ''Lilo & Stitch'', leaving him in a strictly villainous role within its context.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: More specifically, admiring himself for creating experiments, and then admiring the destructive power they have.
* CardCarryingVillain: He calls himself an EvilGenius.
* EvilGenius: A bioengineer imprisoned for his illegal experiments.
* AFatherToHisMen: After Sparky is beaten, Jumba grabs his dehydrated experiment and comforts it.
%%* ForTheEvulz
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: While not ''quite'' as pathetic as Pete, he's still arguably the least evil and menacing of the Disney villains thus far. The fact that he ends up pulling a HeelFaceTurn in [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch his original continuity]] may have something to do with this.
%%* LargeHam
* LaughablyEvil: He's generally more a source of comic relief than an actual villain.
* MadScientist: Though he ''prefers'' to be called EvilGenius.
%%* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Though to be fair, we don't know the specifications for earning a doctorate on whatever planet he comes from.
* SaveTheVillain: Experiment 626 and he would've gotten shot on first sight by Gantu if Aqua hadn't remembered their orders were to capture them ''alive'' and fought Gantu to protect them on these grounds.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: He has some sort of very thick Eastern European accent despite [[SpaceJews being from outer space]].
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Experiment 221]]
!Experiment 221/Sparky
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Experiment_221_KHBBS_9970.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FrankWelker (English), Creator/WataruTakagi (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]''

One of Dr. Jumba's genetic experiments, with the primary function to short out electrical devices. Jumba summons him to attack Terra after seeing how Experiment 626 was "negatively" affected by learning about the concept of friendship.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Sparky first appeared in the (first released but second chronological) sequel movie, after his cousin has already settled on Earth. Here, he first appears before Stitch even escapes his prison.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Jumba did not have direct access to the other experiments until shortly before ''Stitch! The Movie'' when he was already exiled to Earth, but here he pulls both Sparky’s experiment pod and a flask of water to activate it from his person during the time he and Terra are trying to escape, which raises the question of why he does not simply activate 221 and use his electricity powers to escape earlier.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Jumba acts like this towards all his experiments, including Sparky.
* AxeCrazy: It was programmed by Jumba to be as destructive as possible.
%%* IcyBlueEyes
%%* LightningGun: Can possess one.
* LogicalWeakness: As an electrical creature, he is, of course, weak to ''blackout''.
* PsychoElectro: An evil experiment with electrical powers.
* SatelliteCharacter: The only reason he comes up in the game is because Jumba takes offense to Terra not being sure if Stitch is evil. Aside from this Sparky isn't that relevant to the story.
%%* RideTheLightning
* ShockAndAwe: He wields / becomes electricity.
%%* SlasherSmile
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Terra defeats him, he reverts back to pod form and is not mentioned again.
* YouAreNumberSix: He's only ever known as Experiment 221. He's only ever called "Sparky" by Lilo, who doesn't even show up in the game due to there being no arrival on Earth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gantu]]
!Gantu
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Gantu_KHBBS_6715.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:"I don't know how you did it, but you won't get away again."]]
->"Any last words before I blast you into a million pieces?"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson (English), Creator/UnshoIshizuka (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]''
A very large captain in the Galactic Federation's armada. He takes his responsibilities seriously, but his hotheaded attitude results in frequent failures. He attacks Aqua because she tries to stop him from destroying Experiment 626, leading to a BossBattle.
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* HeroAntagonist: Though he does become progressively less reasonable and heroic over the course of the Deep Space story.
%%* GoodOldFisticuffs
* IAmBigBoned: When he comes to get the prisoners, Stitch makes a remark in his gibberish language Tantalog, prompting Gantu to yell "I'M JUST BIG-BONED!".
* InspectorJavert: Toward Stitch. He refuses to believe Stitch is capable of anything but havoc, and eventually decides to go against his orders and execute the little guy -- ''and'' Aqua when she defends him.
* KickTheDog: Breaking Stitch's Wayfinder.
* LargeAndInCharge: Until he is demoted by the Grand Councilwoman, he appears to be the head of security on the Deep Space ship.
* RayGun: Gantu's primary weapon apart from his brute strength.
%%* SapientCetaceans

[[/folder]]

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!Agrabah

[[folder:Jafar]]
!Jafar
[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/260px-Jafar_KHREC_9637.png]]
[[caption-width-right:260:"Indeed I will, Princess. All of Agrabah will belong to me, while you...You, my queen, shall weep at my side for all eternity!"]]
->"Genie, my final wish! I want you to make me an all powerful GENIE!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Jonathan Freeman (English), Akira Takarada (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]]''
The royal vizier of Agrabah. Two-faced and cunning, Jafar seeks the demise of Aladdin and to rule as sultan of Agrabah. He has thrown in his lot with Maleficent, serving as her lieutenant in their conquest of the worlds.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Unlike the film, he doesn't need to wish for magical powers because he is already a powerful sorcerer by default, allowing him to use two of his wishes to further the villains' goals.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the games, he was overconfident and loyal to Maleficent. In the manga, he was a cowardly bootlick waiting for a chance to stab her in the back.
* AGodAmI: His reaction to becoming a genie, especially in the manga.
* AnIcePerson: He can conjure a floating ring of icicles.
* AndIMustScream: Imprisoned in a lamp for a year between ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
* AnimalMotifs: Cobras.
* ArcVillain: Every time he shows up, he acts as the main antagonist for Agrabah.
* BackgroundBoss: His genie form in ''KHI'' (and by extension, ''Chain of Memories'' and ''Coded'') is one of these, being out of reach and unable to be hit normally (though you can still hit him with Blizzard). The real target that Sora has to go after is [[AttackItsWeakPoint his lamp]], which is carried around by Iago.
* BeardOfEvil: A classic "EvilChancellor" goatee.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He wanted to be a genie. He didn't take into account that that means he can be imprisoned in a lamp. To be fair, when he returns, for some reason the lamp is not an issue any more.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: While killing him in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'' required the destruction of his lamp (which occurs with Iago kicking it into lava), Sora is able to kill him just by beating him in combat with his lamp simply vanishing upon his death. It's one of several examples in ''II'' alone that shows the Keyblade's WrongContextMagic.
* DirtyCoward: He was portrayed as this in the manga. While something of a second-in-command who's a bit too confident in himself for Maleficent during the games, the manga makes him nothing more than a sniveling, bootlicking wimp who's just waiting for his chance to stab Maleficent in the back. The manga version of Maleficent is aware of his cowardly nature, and only keeps him around because of his knowledge of Agrabah.
* DirtyOldMan: Much like the original film, one of Jafar's other goals is to take Jasmine as his unwilling bride, despite being several decades older than her.
* TheDragon: He was this to Maleficent in the first game until Riku replaces him after he was taken out very early on.
* EmergencyTransformation: In the first game, Maleficent is constantly warning him not to take commanding the Heartless lightly. After Sora and crew beat his human self, we see a split second of him blackened and screaming. ''Then'' he wishes to be a Genie. This wasn't just a power-boost, it was to ''reverse his transformation into a Heartless''.
* EnergyWeapon: Fires a magical laser from his staff as his primary attack. Changes to EyeBeams once he's a genie.
* EvilChancellor: Initially Royal Vizier of Agrabah. he's already deposed the Sultan by the time Sora arrives in the first game.
* EvilLaugh: Gets in quite a few, which are played up for a curious montage to the point of parody in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
* EvilSorcerer: Jafar has command of a large variety of spells.
* EvilGenius: Not conventionally, but he manages to stay a step ahead of Sora and Co. throughout Agrabah's story in the first game, and manages to lure them into a trap and keep his comeback a secret until the heroes were already in his trap in ''II''
* FatalFlaw: Hatred, according to Maleficent. Jafar was willing to destroy his homeworld out of spite to its inhabitants, especially towards the peasants, whom he calls "street rats". It's enough that [[PragmaticVillainy Maleficent]] deems Jafar as beyond help when he snaps and becomes an OmnicidalManiac.
* FlunkyBoss: The fights with Jafar in the original ''Kingdom Hearts'' give him some help in confronting Sora and Aladdin. In the first fight with Jafar as a human/sorcerer, the enslaved Genie will be floating around and reluctantly try to attack you (Genie does minimal damage, and if you get hit, he'll drop HP/MP balls for you to recover, meaning you only really need to worry after Jafar). The second fight with him as a genie has Iago carrying his lamp around the room; the lamp and Jafar share one HP meter and damaging the lamp is a major key to making this fight much easier.
* GetBackHereBoss: Spends his entire pre-genie boss fight in ''Kingdom Hearts'' just moving around the cave, rattling off spells.
* GenocideFromTheInside: Jafar is one of two villains actively trying to destroy his own world by seeking the Keyhole. And he nearly succeeded, too.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Just as in the source material, his wish to become a Genie leads to him getting stuck in a lamp.
* JackassGenie: In the sequel.
* KilledOffForReal: Once he's beat in ''II'', he sort of, overloads, and pops into a magical TechnicolorDeath
* LargeHam: He very much chews the scenery, and it gets even more hammy once he's an "ALL POWERFUL GEENAYYYY!"
* LavaAddsAwesome: The boss fights against his genie form in the ''Kingdom Hearts I'' and ''Chain of Memories'' take place in a lava-filled room in the Cave of Wonders.
* LeanAndMean: Fairly thin as a wizard, becoming a genie buffs up his physique considerably.
* MadeOfEvil: While not quite as much as other villains like Chernabog or Scar, he came perilously close to becoming a Heartless after his first boss battle, and both Pete and the Organization targeted him specifically to finish the job. Both parties are clearly well aware of how much darkness Jafar has if they are ''both'' gunning for him.
* MagicStaff: His signature Cobra headed staff.
* MythologyGag: Most battles with his genie form have him floating over a pit of lava attacking you while you have to attack and destroy his lamp that Iago is flying around with to keep it away from you. This is a direct reversal of the climax of ''Return of Jafar'', where Jafar trapped the heroes in a lava pit and Iago performed a HeelFaceTurn to try and get the lamp to them so they could destroy it.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Jafar may be a LargeHam, but in the first game, he is the only villain in league with Maleficent to actually come within minutes of destroying his world and killing everyone in it; he only fails because of a VillainousBreakdown that nearly turns him into a Heartless, causing his final wish to become a genie. In ''II'', when freed from his lamp, Jafar outright intends to destroy Agrabah (and, going by an in-battle quote, the entire universe), and (unsuccessfully) lures Aladdin away to prevent him from interfering.
* OffscreenTeleportation: In the first game after first meeting the party, he walks offscreen to pursue Jasmine via a passageway. However, if you attempt to follow him, the passageway is blocked up with crates and planks of wood, making pursuit impossible. The passage only becomes unblocked later when Aladdin joins the party.
* OmnicidalManiac: Jafar comes close to destroying his own world in the first game, and by the time of his boss fight in ''II'', he's completely lost his mind.
-->'''Jafar:''' I will destroy it all!
* OnceAnEpisode: All of Jafar's appearances in the series thus far inevitably climax with him going OneWingedAngel to serve as the final boss, especially his genie form.
* OneWingedAngel: Turns into a red genie in the end of ''Kingdom Hearts''' stay in Agrabah, and keeps it for ''Kingdom Hearts II''. In ''Chi'', he becomes a giant cobra, like in the original movie.
* PlayingWithFire: In both his human form and as a Genie he uses fire in every boss fight against him.
* RealityWarper: Becomes a genie with powers capable of granting any wish though it's not until ''II'' that he starts to weaponize this any any meaningful way against the heroes.
* ScaledUp: Finally takes on his famous giant snake form in ''Chi''.
* SequentialBoss: In ''Kingdom Hearts I'', when Sora finally confronts Jafar, the vizier is first fought as a sorcerer. After winning this fight and a short break, he's then fought as a genie.
* ShouldersOfDoom: Huge, pointy shoulders.
* SlasherSmile: In the manga while wishing to be a genie.
* SmugSnake: Subtly holds his position as the Vizier over others, using it as a reason the princess should come along with him when Sora and Co. find her. Since she heard him talking about finding a keyhole and needing her, she wisely runs away while the heroes take care of the Heartless summoned.
* TheStarscream: Also in the manga; he wants to use his genie powers to overthrow Maleficent. He's also briefly mentioned to have already deposed the Sultan by the time Sora first visits Agrabah in the first game.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Pete makes no attempt to recruit him back to Maleficent's fold during ''I'' and instead outright tries to turn him into a Heartless.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Iago]]
!Iago
[[quoteright:120:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/120px-Iago_KH_7628.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GilbertGottfried (English), Creator/AkiraKamiya (Japanese, ''KHI''), Toru Okawa (Japanese, ''KHII'' onwards)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]]''
Jafar's boisterous and cunning parrot. He's Jafar's eyes and ears for everything going on in Agrabah.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In ''Kingdom Hearts II'' he appears genuinely remorseful for his actions, compared to the ''Return of Jafar'' where he initially only wants to make amends for his own selfish desires of looking out for himself and still remains a JerkWithAHeartOfGold even after switching sides.
* TheAtoner: In the second game, much like in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''.
* ButtMonkey: Often finds himself at the end of all kinds of comical abuse.
* DeadpanSnarker: Like in the films, most of his dialogue is bitterly sarcastic. Comes with the territory of being voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.
* DirtyCoward: Regardless of his side of the conflict.
* HeelFaceTurn: Though he still proves to be a DirtyCoward in the sequel despite being the heroes' friends, much like in his home continuity.
%%* HeroicSacrifice: Luckily, he survived.
%%-->'''Iago:''' "You'd be surprised what you can live through."
%%* TheImp
* MisplacedWildlife: He's a South American parrot in Saudi Arabia.
* OnlyOneName: "Iago" is his name.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Talking parrot. Naturally.
%%* StationaryWings
* ToothyBird: His molars are visible inside of his beak.
%%* WildCard
[[/folder]]

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!Halloween Town and Christmas Town

[[folder:Oogie Boogie]]
!Oogie Boogie
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Oogie_Boogie_KHII_4589.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:"Ooh, when I get my hands on that heart -- [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments well, I've got no hands]] -- but I'm still gonna nab that heart and control the Heartless!"]]
->"Nobody disrespects me! NOBODY!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Ken Page (English), Hiroshi Hatanaka (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''
An evil bag of bugs who loves gambling with dice and dreams of causing trouble for Jack in Halloween Town. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' he steals a heart that Jack and Finklestien create to control the Heartless, but uses their power too much and succumbs to the darkness. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' he does the same thing as last time except it's a memory potion. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', he is resurrected by Maleficent so they can turn Santa Claus into a Heartless.
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* AlasPoorVillain: In ''Chain of Memories'', he begins suffering due to the fear the memory potion is causing him.
* ArcVillain: Of Halloween Town in ''I'' and ''Chain of Memories'', as well as after his revival in the first visit there in ''II''.
* BackFromTheDead: Maleficent brings him back in ''II'', but he's not all there, suffering from severe amnesia.
* BerserkButton: Being fooled or tricked. In the first game he engages in his boss fight when Jack's artificial heart fails to give him command over more than a handful of Heartless; in ''II'' he similarly gets ready for a fight when Sally tricks him into letting Santa go.
* BondVillainStupidity: He always uses traps in his attempts to stop Sora and his allies, since he doesn't quite have the guts to take care of them directly. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he's a pretty bad fighter in close combat.
* BullyingADragon: He's obnoxious and disrespectful to Maleficent, the evil fairy who brought him back from the dead in the first place. Oogie is lucky she didn't put him back in the ground.
* CameBackWrong: Well, Maleficent was certainly frustrated by his amnesia following his resurrection in ''II''.
* ConveyorBeltOfDoom: His boss fight in ''II'' takes place on these, mainly due to the fact that he blocks off the rest of the area for it.
* DemotedToDragon: In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Oogie is forced to serve as this to Maleficent after she brings him back. However, his severe amnesia and rude behavior caused her to leave in anger before she could turn Santa into a Heartless.
* TheDreaded: To his minions, anyway. And to most of Halloween Town in general, as unlike them, he aims to actually harm people.
* EvilGenius: True, he's not altogether the smartest villain when it comes to most things, but if ''Kingdom Hearts II'' is anything to go by, he can reformat entire systems of machines into a battle arena and Heartless manufacturing systems.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Learns this lesson ''hard'' in the first game, as his using the artificial heart caused the Heartless to take him.
* EvilLaugh: Interestingly despite having a low pitched voice, his laughs are all high pitched cackles.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Unlike most of the other villains in the series, Oogie's deaths are rather graphic when you think about it. His insides are essentially coming out, while his skin is coming undone and he yells in agony.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Nearly always laughy and jovial, but actively aided in the destruction of worlds, has a torture chamber, and is quick to go into murderous tantrums if things go south.
* FlunkyBoss: As a result of gaining the Heart jack worked on, he has more direct control of The Heartless during his first fight, [[ButtMonkey all two-to-three of them at any one moment]]. In the fight with him as his whole manor, after destroying enough of the dark orbs powering him, Gargoyle Heartless will start spawning when Sora approaches any additional ones.
** In ''II'', he creates Heartless with his reformatted gift system, packaging lots of Wight Knights and Emerald Serenades up in goodie bags to send out on the battlefield.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: From ''II''; "It's the last thing I remember! And it's the only thing I'll remember...!" Turns out, he's developed anterograde amnesia -- in other words, he keeps forgetting everything after his resurrection.
* ForTheEvulz: Unlike most of the other villains, its implied in the first game that Oogie's being evil for sport rather than vying for power and control, this is confirmed in the second game, where he is more interested in making a new deathtrap than anything Maleficent has planned.
* TheGambler: But he sucks at gambling. More specifically, if he rolls an undesired number, or snake eyes, he stomps the ground to change them to something more favorable.
* InsultBackfire: Though he's not the one on the receiving end, nor is he the one the original insult was directed to. Intriguingly, this line has made it in the manga as well, despite Oogie being absent from it.
-->'''Captain Hook:''' ''[regarding Sora, Donald and Goofy]'' Swoggle me eyes, they're all bilge rats, by the look of them!
-->'''Oogie:''' ''You're'' no prize yourself!
* ItsPersonal: In ''II'', he not only seeks revenge on his typical arch-enemy Jack, but explicitly swears vengeance on Sora, Donald, and Goofy as well, for their part in his demise in the first game.
* KilledOffForReal: Appears to be the case, as Donald crushes his brain bug after his defeat in ''II''. Though considering he's been killed this way and resurrected in his own series' continuity (''VideoGame/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasOogiesRevenge'') he could be revived later on.
* LaughablyEvil: Thanks in no small part to Ken Page's always riotous performance, Oogie is usually one of the villains most played for laughs.
* NonActionBigBad: As in the film, he possesses no martial ability of his own (bar a slap or two when you get too close), and relies on his traps and devices to deal with you. Once you get close, he's all yours.
* OneWingedAngel: Merges with his manor, becoming a giant burlap/building colossus brimming with darkness.
** PlayingWithFire: Casts homing fireballs from the pair of Gibbets he has, the Shadow Globs also cast these to defend themselves.
** CastingAShadow: coughs up darkness if you manage to destroy his gibbets as an attack.
** MegatonPunch: Swings his remaining arm at you if you destroy the gibbet he dangles there. Cleverly, its the same arm he uses when he defends himself in the first fight.
* OptionalBoss: In ''I'', Halloween Town can be skipped if you complete Monstro and Atlantica before it, so Oogie Boogie can be safely ignored.
* PuzzleBoss: Oogie's boss battles are less about besting him in a fight and more about figuring out how to remove the rogue casino machinery protecting him.
* ResurrectionSickness: He suffers from amnesia after Maleficent revives him, and it steadily gets worse as time goes on.
* ScaryBlackMan: His voice actor, anyway.
* SequentialBoss: Oogie Boogie is fought in two consecutive stages in ''I''. The player first has to confront his "Wheel of Doom" machine and try to game the machine to be able to attack him. After that, he merges with his house and the player must destroy all the dark orbs to destroy Oogie Boogie outright.
* SmallRoleBigImpact:
** In terms of the events of ''Kingdom Hearts I'' and ''II'', Oogie does fairly little outside of Halloween Town and the greater plot. However, Its implied that he's the one who worked on the machinery for Ansem's Castle when Maleficent took over Hollow Bastion (the Heartless manufactury being an exception), seeing as he specializes in machinery and rebuilt machine systems in other points of the series.
** Subverted in ''Chain of Memories''. He redoes the plot of the first game, but him seeing unedited memories and becoming a terrified wreck ties in the closest out of the Disney worlds to that game's plot of finding lost memories and what that can entail.
* StationaryBoss: When he merges with his manor, he barely moves.
* {{Troll}}: He loves messing with his fellow villains (as Captain Hook learned), teases Jack as much as he threatens him, and outright drives ''Maleficent'' away by clowning around too much.
* VillainBall: Let's just say that being a jackass to Maleficent and telling her to go away in ''II'' was not his smartest move. She even angrily tells him he'll regret doing so -- and she's not wrong, considering having her helping against the heroes would've greatly improved his chances of victory, and she was ''just'' about to turn Santa into a Heartless personally when he bumped into her.
* VillainousBreakdown: "Nobody disrespects me! NOBODY!!"
* WouldHitAGirl: In ''II'' he bumrushes Sally when she arrives in Santa's workshop and was prepared to attack her again before Sora's party intervened.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lock, Shock, and Barrel]]
!![[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Lock, Shock, and Barrel]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lock_shock_and_barrel_khii.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Shintaro Sonooka (Lock), Yuko Doi (Shock) and Shigeo Matsuzawa (Barrel) (Japanese); Creator/JessHarnell (Lock), Creator/KathSoucie (Shock) and Creator/JeffBennett (Barrel) (English)
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]''

->''"~One, two, three, together's the key!~"''

Three little trick-or-treaters who work for Oogie Boogie in Halloween Town. Lock dresses as a devil, and is the leader, Shock dresses as a witch, is the only girl, and is the smartest of the three, and Barrel dresses as a skeleton and is often the butt of the other two's jokes.
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* AntiVillain: They just like pulling pranks to entertain themselves, and really only follow Oogie to achieve that end by seeing what he does and comes up with. They are absolutely terrified of Oogie himself as well as actual evil individuals like Maleficent.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: They look and act like (bratty) human children, but considering Halloween Town itself, its hard to say for sure.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Without their masks, they look exactly the same, if not even more like what they're dressed up as.
* BullyingADragon: They continuously chuck pumpkin bombs at Roxas whenever he's about to leave from one of his Halloween Town missions from Organization XIII. Eventually he catches on, dodges a bomb, and gives them a well-deserved beating.
* EnergyBall: Shock gives the Prison Keeper the ability to fire purple energy in all directions.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: An interesting take on the trope. In the first game after they're beat, they stand around in the Evil Playroom, and each of them give slight hints as to what a lever there does, ultimately revealing that it unlocks the entrance to Oogie's lair behind the green door.
* ManBitesMan: What Barrel gives the Prison Keeper.
* PlayingWithFire: When Lock is eaten by the Prison Keeper he gives it a large fireball attack.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Most find them easy to fight. Their real strength lies in plot-based troubles, which make them more effective than the usual portrayals of this trope.
* TerribleTrio: Well, not so terrible, but they are still rather rude to most people, however this seems to have died down somewhat as of II's return trip, as they are trying to help Dr. Finklestein with his experiment.
* UnskilledButStrong: Lock, Shock, and Barrel's respective attacks are not exactly skillfull (respectively, a sliding kick, top-like spin, and a rolling attack) however one can easily lose track with everything going on and they can quickly knock you out if you aren't careful, especially in the first game, with the boss fight taking place in a very small area.
[[/folder]]

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!Space Paranoids and The Grid

[[folder:Master Control Program]]
!Master Control Program
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px-Master_Control_Program_KHII_3659.png]]
->"We don't need users."
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton (English), Ikuya Sawaki (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''Film/{{Tron}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''
Instead of working for the users, the MCP is planning to take over the system for himself. By refusing to follow the users' orders and trying to enact his evil plan, he's causing chaos among the other programs
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* AIIsACrapshoot: A MasterComputer who despises the beings who created him.
* ArcVillain: In addition to being the main villain of Space Paranoids, he becomes the most immediate threat to Hollow Bastion in ''II''.
* BossBanter: He doesn't attack on his own (he only can do so through in-built defensive measures), so rather than fight, he taunts you during the battle. And he never. Shuts. ''Up''!
-->"Insignificant user!"
-->"Is that the best a user can do?"
-->"I can repair that data..."
-->"Eliminate all threats!"
* DisproportionateRetribution: He arrests the party because [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]] fell onto the computer's keyboard, and provoked Donald into jumping after him. The final straw is when Donald accidentally steps on another key.
* FlunkyBoss: When the MCP is fought, he turns Sark giant to assist him against Sora and Tron.
* ForTheEvulz: Decides to run a self-destruct program for Hollow Bastion after accessing the DTD database, just to "see how it performs".
* OmnicidalManiac: In the manga adaptation.
* OptionalBoss: [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon The World That Never Was]] will always be available before the return to Space Paranoids, meaning Sora never has to engage the fight with Sark and the MCP.
* MookMaker: After getting control of the rest of the research facility, the MCP starts creating hundreds of Space Paranoids Heartless and sending them into the real world.
* PivotalBoss: Kinda hard to have this guy move around much.
* VillainOverride: Does this to [[TheDragon Sark]] in the final battle, giving many of his functions to him.
* WeCanRuleTogether: He attempted this on Tron. It didn't work; instead Tron takes over.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sark]]
!Sark
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/150px-Sark_KHII_8691.png]]
->"Tenacious little bugs! Your time is up! Prepare for de-resolution!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton (English), Tetsuo Kanao (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''Film/{{Tron}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''
A powerful program who doesn't serve any User -- just the MCP. Commander Sark is pretty harsh to any program that tries to resist his master's power.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: In the film, Sark shows some hesitation about training and crushing Kevin Flynn, due to him being a user, before MCP forces him to do so. Here, no such scene is present and he shows no qualms about imprisoning Sora and his teammates, even torturing Donald and Goofy.
* AdaptationExpansion: In the games, he comes off as a villain who, while threatening, is mostly glossed over in comparison to the MCP. In the manga, Sark has a more notable presence, complete with reasonings of why he is a villain.
* AlasPoorVillain: The reason behind Sark's villainy in the manga adaptation is because he thought he was betrayed by his user, Ansem the Wise, not knowing that it was actually Xehanort, and warns Tron that the same will happen to him, which causes Sora to feel sorry for Sark and promise Tron that they will be friends forever.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Thanks to the MCP.
* DeadlyDisc: His main weapon while normal-sized.
* TheDragon: To the MCP.
* EvilCounterpart: Of Tron.
* FaceHeelTurn: In the manga adaptation, due to Ansem's betrayal.
* InsultBackfire: Sark responds to Sora insulting his status as a "Heartless Commander" by torturing Donald and Goofy.
* JacobMarleyWarning: In the manga, Sark's dying words were to warn Tron about why they should not trust the users, since Ansem betrayed them long ago, which lead to Sark's FaceHeelTurn.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: After losing at normal size, the MCP makes him the size of a house for round two.
* NeverSayDie: See the above quote. Justified, seeing as they're computer programs, and derezzing is the same as dying for them.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: His EstablishingCharacterMoment. Sark is dismissed by Sora as a threat at first, and actually mocks him. Sark responds by torturing Sora's friends in front of him.
* OnlyOneName: As a computer program, he has no last name.
* OptionalBoss: Much like the MCP since you can beat the game before even unlocking the return to Space Paranoids.
* PowerupLetdown: Despite growing to gigantic proportions, Sark is actually quite laughable in his second form. He loses most of his mobility, his [[VillainTeleportation "Initiating data transfer!"]], and his attacks are easily telegraphed. In fact, by simply ''running away from him'', Sora can [[OneHitKO knock him out effortlessly]] via [[ActionCommands Reaction Commands]].
%%* TeleportSpam
%%* VillainTeleportation
[[/folder]]

[[folder:CLU]]
!CLU
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[[caption-width-right:200:"I took the System to its maximum potential. And now, you see the applications at my disposal!"]]
->"You have a little item called the Keyblade. Hand it over, and I'll change Rinzler back into Tron."
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FredTatasciore (English), Tsutomu Isobe (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''Film/TronLegacy''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''
CLU is a program created by Kevin Flynn in his likeness to oversee the development of the Grid. However, following his programming to create a "perfect system", CLU betrayed Flynn and took the Grid under his undisputed control, while also issuing the complete annihilation of the [=ISOs=], leaving Quorra as the sole survivor.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Clu, like Scar, Hans, and the Tremaine family, is much more evil in this continuity than he is in his own franchise. Here, he takes advantage of Sora's friendship with Tron for his own selfish desires, right up to forcing Sora into a SadisticChoice, and trying to kill both [[SoreLoser when he loses]].
* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted like in the film. CLU is still following his programming to try to create the perfect system. The problem is that Kevin made him when he was more naïve, and before he discovered the [=ISOs=], so CLU's plan is equally naïve. Therefore, it isn't CLU who changed; it's Kevin.
%%* AntiMutiny: See above.
* ArchEnemy: To Kevin Flynn.
* ArcVillain: Of [[Film/TronLegacy The Grid]] in ''3D''.
%%* ArtificialHuman
* BadassBoast: "I created the perfect system! And now, you see [[TheUsualAdversaries the applications at my disposal]]!"
* BeardOfEvil: Which, ironically, is also Kevin Flynn's beard from when he was at the age when he created CLU.
* TheCorrupter: Corrupted The Grid and also turned TRON into Rinzler. Not to mention the entire process of [[BrainwashedAndCrazy rectification]]. Its even implied that Commantis is actually a good Dream Eater controlled by him as well, as lightning from his ship strikes the disk in its head, and it subtly changes appearance when stunned.
* CreativeSterility: Why he has to [[{{Brainwashed}} rectify]] programs and Dream Eaters like Commantis instead of make new ones, and can't really think outside of his predefined mindset originally created by Kevin. Basics are unable to think outside of those parameters, unlike "Users" or [=ISOs=], and, unlike Users, cannot create, only repurpose what is already there.
* DeadlyDisc: Wields one, like everyone else in The Grid.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted. He tries to jump a gap, and it looks like he will fall. However, he manages to make the jump, only to get offed a minute later.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: As shown by his obsession with the Commantis Dream Eater.
* EnemyWithout: To Kevin Flynn.
* EvilOverlord: He rules the entire Grid with an iron fist.
* EvilTwin: Of Kevin Flynn, especially when he was younger.
* {{Expy}}: Clu's role in Sora's side of the game is identical to that of Lady Tremaine in ''Birth by Sleep'', with both keeping prisoners and the hero having to fight hard to free them. When they succeed, both Tremaine and Clu resort to murder, with only Clu succeeding.
* FantasticRacism: Hates the [=ISOs=] for being imperfect and unpredictable.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Though it drops completely when he hits his VillainousBreakdown.
* FunWithAcronyms: His name isn't "Clu", it's "CLU", which stands for "Codified Likeness Utility". It's unknown if, like in the original film, this is the second version of it.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Kevin built him as help to create the "perfect system" around the time of the inception of the TRON system itself. The only good thing that can be said about the result is that [[{{Dystopia}} it did work.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Tried to derezz Sora out of jealousy after Rinzler is freed.
* {{Jerkass}}: Arguably worse than in the film, especially in Sora's side.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He hates losing, and is willing to kill both Sora and Rinzler if it means remaining the winner.
* KickTheDog: Clu does this by forcing Sora to fight Tron/Rinzler, knowing fully well that Sora was once friends with him. And when Tron gets restored, Clu tries to kill Sora, forcing Tron to sacrifice himself to save him.
* KnightTemplar: He will do anything to create the "perfect system".
%%* LargeHam
%%* LatexSpaceSuit
%%* LittleNo: After Kevin tricks him into taking the wrong disc.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* MoralSociopathy
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Complete with his Black Guards and Sentries PuttingOnTheReich.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Along with Barbossa, Sark, Beckett, and Davy Jones, he is one of the only five live-action villains to be featured in the series.
* NotQuiteDead: Same situation as Frollo, he was not defeated in the real version of The Grid, so he could be back in later installments.
* OnlyOneName: Unless his acronym name could be counted as three, he's like most programs in this respect.
* ThePerfectionist: Clu desires to create the perfect system.
* PermaStubble: Even moreso than many other examples, since, as a program, his avatar is unchanging.
%%* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil
%%* RageAgainstTheHeavens: With "the heavens" being Kevin Flynn.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Due to the static nature of the Grid since Kevin's exile, CLU and all other remaining programs there are at least approximately one thousand cycles old, with "cycle" meaning "Grid-year".
%%* RingsOfDeath
* SadisticChoice: He foists one of these on Sora: the Keyblade in exchange for turning Rinzler back into Tron. Being the hero he is, Sora opts to take a third option by using the Keyblade to free Tron.
* SoreLoser: He loses Rinzler to Sora, and responds by attacking them both, killing Rinzler.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: He only wants the "perfect system". Unfortunately, he's the only one who thinks it's this, everyone else around him who follows him having been [[BrainwashedAndCrazy rectified]].
* TronLines: Uniquely, Clu is the only one with [[GoldColoredSuperiority gold]] in color.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Betrayed Kevin Flynn and took over The Grid.
* TheUnfought: Justified if one takes into account the source material. CLU can NoSell a direct disc hit, and even the game implies that only Kevin in the Grid or Sam out in the outside world could defeat him. Therefore, it's highly probable that neither Sora nor Riku would be even able to scratch him. Ultimately, Kevin does CLU in by absorbing him at the end of Riku's Story Arc.
* VillainousBreakdown: After being lectured by Kevin Flynn, and even more after learning of the disc swap that caused his defeat.
** In Sora's side, Rinzler's freedom is enough to cause [[SoreLoser Clu]] to snap and attack Sora out of jealousy.
* VillainousBSOD: After Riku defeats the Commantis.
* VisionaryVillain: He wants to create the perfect system.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants to bring the world to its maximum potential. Unfortunately, that means killing everything that's imperfect. Including the [=ISOs=] and two children.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rinzler]]
!!Rinzler
[[quoteright:239:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rinzler_2136.png]]
->'''Origin:''' ''Film/TronLegacy'' (2010)\\
'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]''

The original version of Tron, who has been repurposed by CLU into serving as his deadliest enforcer.

->See Characters/KingdomHeartsPartyMembersAndSummons for info on Tron.
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* BifurcatedWeapon: Just like the film, he can split his Identity Disk into two.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Thanks to CLU tampering with his code, the noble and affable Tron is now a silent, ruthless killer.
* DeadlyDisc: His weapon of choice, as usual. He can wield two at once, even.
* DecompositeCharacter: Since the Grid is the original computer system that Space Paranoids was copied from, that makes Rinzler the original Tron and the Tron of Space Paranoids a copy. In a CallBack to previous instances of this happening in ''II'' and ''Coded'', Rinzler's heart is implied to be entangled with that of the Tron from Space Paranoids, allowing Sora to try and influence him through their connection.
* FallenHero: He went from a heroic security program to a loyal, brainwashed enforcer of a ControlFreak.
* FightingYourFriend: Downplayed. Rinzler is the original Tron, and the Tron Sora met in Space Paranoids is a copy. However, that hardly matters to Sora, because Tron is Tron in any world.
* FightsLikeANormal: Unlike most boss battles, Rinzler fights with actual hand-to-hand moves and [[DanceBattler dance-like]] acrobatics against Sora.
* HeroicSacrifice: His decision to take the bullet for Sora after their battle indicates his return to his "Tron" persona.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Sora's battle with him involves him trying to bring the real Tron back to his senses. He succeeds in rattling his memories by [[SayMyName calling his name]] to keep him from killing Quorra, and appears to reprogram his "heart" at the end of their battle before Rinzler sacrifices himself.
* InterfaceScrew: During his boss fight, gravity may occasionally be reversed and invert Sora's controls.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Rinzler's true identity is considered a big plot twist in his home film. Here, it's revealed in the same scene Sora finds him.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He gets a boss theme called "Rinzler Recompiled", making him the first Disney boss to get his own music since [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Downplayed. He winds up TakingTheBullet for Sora after being returned to his original programming and suffers a DisneyVillainDeath, but is strongly believed to have survived and will be repurposed back into Rinzler.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: He's one of your old [[GuestStarPartyMember Guest-Star Party Members]] (or at least the original version of him) turned into TheDragon of an EvilOverlord.
* StabTheScorpion: He looks poised to attack Sora again after Sora tries reverting his code to normal. In truth, he pushes him aside before CLU can get him.
* UncertainDoom: He appears to suffer a DisneyVillainDeath in both stories, but CLU states he'll simply have to retrieve Rinzler to get him back in action, and Sora is certain enough of his survival to not be too broken up about it.
* TheVoiceless: The film shows he's capable of speech, but he never utters a word in the game.
* WakeUpCallBoss: He's capable of both close-quarters and long-distance combat, and he's dangerous at either range, often dealing hard hits by either slashing with or throwing his Identity Disks. This is also the first boss Flowmotion isn't completely practical against, since wandering too far will cause him to throw his disks with the added property of tracking you. The InterfaceScrew only adds onto the hurt. The only haven you have in this fight is [[CounterAttack Counter Rush]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Black Guard]]
! The Black Guard
[[quoteright:209:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_guard.jpg]]
->"Identify. State your handle, program."
->'''Voiced By:''' Kevin Michael Richardson (English, cutscenes), Brian Bloom (English, gameplay); Satoshi Taki (Japanese, cutscenes) and Hiroo Sasaki (Japanese, gameplay)\\
'''Origin:''' ''Film/TronLegacy''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''

Computer programs reprogrammed by CLU into being his soldiers. Unlike other programs, they don't use their Identity Disks to fight, preferring grenades and staves.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Since they're programs and not human, Sora and Riku essentially smash them apart to derezz them.
* {{Flight}}: They are able to fly into the air with the ''Tron chutes'' that come out of their backpacks.
* {{Mooks}}: They are regular enemies in The Grid beside Nightmare Dream Eaters.
* PunchClockVillain: Downplayed. They're just doing the job Clu reprogrammed into them.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Are able to toss grenades as an attack.
[[/folder]]

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!The Pride Lands

[[folder:Scar]]
!Scar
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/300px-Scar_KHII_9896.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:"My anger has grown for far too long!"]]
->"You're in trouble again. But this time daddy isn't here to save you."
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JamesHoran (English), Creator/HaruhikoJo (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''
Scar is Simba's evil uncle. Scar was always jealous of his older brother Mufasa, and killed him so that he could become king of the Pride Lands.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Neither the lionesses or hyenas are too fond of him by the time Sora arrives in the Pride Lands. The hyenas are weary of his foul temper, the lionesses are seeking to overthrow him, and after his death the hyenas realize how he manipulated them and figure they have it better in the Elephant Graveyard than under his rule.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the original film, Scar was cowardly, trying to pass the blame off onto his hyena henchmen (who later kills him after overhearing him) before getting his claws dirty and fighting Simba. Here though, not only is he ready for a fight from the get go, but he had [[MadeOfEvil so much darkness in his heart]] that he resurfaced from the dead ''twice'' as a Heartless, each time [[CameBackStrong coming back stronger than before]] and the second time as a straight out EldritchAbomination.
* AdaptationalVillainy: He's the only Disney villain in the series to become a Heartless while maintaining his own identity, demonstrating him to be MadeOfEvil which persists after his death as his spirit continues to cause trouble. He also tries to cannibalize a lion cub, which never happened in the original film.
* AlienSky: He turns the sky green.
* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Turns the top of Pride Rock into one for his boss fight.
* ArcVillain: He torments Sora and Simba in the Pride Lands, both in life and in death.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The Groundshaker was so huge the ''entire savannah'' was the battlefield.
* BackFromTheDead: His darkness was so strong, it helped him to come back as a Heartless after Simba killed him. When he died a second time, he came back again as a ghost. Later, his ghosts merged into the giant-sized Groundshaker Heartless, showing just how much darkness Scar had lodged in that callous heart of his.
* BigNo: As he's tossed off the cliff of Pride Rock.
* BishonenLine: Inverted. Before your first boss fight against him, Pete states that he has become a Heartless, though he still looks like himself. During your second time in the Pride Lands, you encounter several avatars of him, which eventually merge into the gigantic Groundshaker Heartless.
* CainAndAbel: As in the original film, he killed Mufasa to become king. During the second visit, Simba indicates that Scar had already been trying to undermine Mufasa for years before he ultimately opted for regicide.
* TheCaligula: The entire pride jumps at the chance of Sora possibly being able to depose Scar.
* CameBackStrong: He came back as a Heartless ''twice''.
* CastingAShadow: He combines this with a FoeTossingCharge in his first boss fight.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Scar doesn't get eaten by his hyena lackeys as he never gives them a reason to betray him [[BadBoss like he does]] in [[TheDogBitesBack the film]]. Instead, he is killed once he is thrown off the peak of Pride Rock, and resurrects as a Heartless, only to be destroyed by Simba and Sora's party.
* ElementalPunch: Lots of them as a Heartless.
* EldritchAbomination: As Groundshaker. Damn, that thing is even bigger than Franchise/{{Godzilla}} himself.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The defeat of Groundshaker wraps up the Pride Lands' story. Only it's been established that when an exceptionally powerful being turns into a Heartless, a Nobody is also created. Given Scar had enough darkness to maintain his original form after becoming a Heartless...
* EvilGloating: Which ultimately gets him in trouble...
* EvilIsBigger: Averts it just like in the movie [[LeanAndMean being slightly scrawnier than an adult Simba.]] Massively played straight later when he becomes the Groundshaker.
* EvilMakeover: Does this to Pride Rock for his boss fight.
* EvilPrince: Younger brother of Mufasa within the same lion royalty who often schemes to take his brother's throne.
* EvilUncle: Simba's uncle who has no qualms in killing his nephew.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Smarmy and smooth? Yes. Dangerous? Check other entries, particularly MadeOfEvil.
* FisherKing: The credits at the end show the Pride Lands lush with life and vegetation under Simba's rule, while in game the lands are dead and barren from Scar's rule.
* FoeTossingCharge: A [[CastingAShadow darkness-based]] one in his first boss fight.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: His pink gash over his left eye is an Evil Scar that earned his nickname.
* HiveMind: As Groundshaker, he has two bodies. The smaller body sits on top of the larger one and controls it.
* ImAHumanitarian: Ordered Sora, Donald, and Goofy killed so they could be eaten, declaring them "prey". Keep in mind that Sora was in the form of a lion himself at the time, [[ChildEater a teen cub to be exact]].
* KingOfBeasts: A lion and was officially king.
%%* LargeHam
* MadeOfEvil: Once he became a Heartless. Put it this way -- the only other person who retained their original appearance after turning into a Heartless was Ansem (and even then, Ansem needed DemonicPossession to retain his original appearance, Scar didn't even need to possess anyone to retain it!) Scar had even more darkness in his heart than even Xehanort did!
* ManiacMonkeys: Groundshaker is a two-headed shaman monkey riding a two-headed triceratops. Yup, the many ghosts of an evil lion [[FusionDance merged to form ''that'' thing]]. Wrap your head around that.
%%* ManipulativeBastard: Even as a Heartless.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The hyenas were a hair's breath away from killing and eating Sora before Scar called for them.
* OneWingedAngel: As mentioned above, the Groundshaker Heartless is technically his final form.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name isn't actually "Scar", it's Prince Taka. That said, nobody ever calls him anything but Scar.
* OptionalBoss: As the Pride Lands can be completely ignored, so can Scar.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They were avatars that he projected as a Heartless.
* PantheraAwesome: Being a lion, and a capable fighter.
* PerpetualSmiler: His ''II'' model depicts him with a constant grin, even as he's ordering Sora, Donald and Goofy to be killed or attacking Simba on Pride Rock.
%%* PlanarShockwave
* PlayingWithFire: One of his ElementalPowers in both forms.
* ThePowerOfHate:
-->'''Pete:''' "Anger and jealousy turned the king of Pride Rock into a Heartless."
* ScarsAreForever: He received his scar as a child long ago, and it's still as prominent as ever.
* ShockAndAwe: He can summon lightning bolts during his first boss fight.
* ShockwaveStomp: As Groundshaker.
%%* SmugSnake
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Scar is one of the only two beings shown to be able to retain his form after becoming a Heartless. [[labelnote:*]]The other being ''the series BigBad''.[[/labelnote]] Despite this, there's absolutely no mention of Scar's possible Nobody as a result, even in any of the sequels so far. To say this has spawned quite a few fan theories would be an understatement.
* TheWormThatWalks: His many ghosts all merge to form the Groundshaker.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed]]
!Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shenzi_banzai_and_ed.jpg]]
->''Hey look, a snack!" "Snack? No, we got ourselves a three-course meal!''
->'''Voiced by:'''\\
'''Shenzi:''' Tomie Kataoka (Japanese), Creator/TressMacneille (English)\\
'''Banzai:''' Ben Hiura (Japanese), Cheech Marin (English)\\
'''Ed:''' Creator/JimCummings\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''
These three hyenas are Scar's right-hand men during his regime as king of the Pride Lands. Shenzi, the leader, is the only female; the two males, Banzai and Ed, are sulking and... well, Ed, respectively.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: It's unlikely that they would've been on civil terms with the heroes after Scar's defeat in the original film, as they are here. The second visit especially fleshes out the better side of the hyenas as noted below.
* AerithAndBob: Ed is the only one whose name is not Swahili.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Unlike the film's TruthInTelevision example, Banzai appears to be the one in charge here.
* CloudCuckoolander: Ed, of course.
* CoDragons: To Scar, though Shenzi outranks Banzai and Ed since she is the matriarch of the clan.
* ComicTrio: They're as funny as ever.
* GetBackHereBoss: The second fight with the hyenas in ''II'' doesn't have them try to attack Sora at all, but the player is forced to chase each and every one of them down and deplete their health bars, which can take a while.
* HazyFeelTurn: After Scar's defeat, they stop trying to kill Sora and his friends, but they certainly aren't buddies with them. Their second boss fight barely qualifies as a fight, since Sora has to simply chase them around the Elephant Graveyard and beat them to a pulp. Following this, they can be approached and spoken to, and get along fairly well with Sora during their conversations.
* HiddenDepths: Shenzi not only appreciates that they still have food after Scar's defeat, but somehow knows the mechanics of how and when his ghost appears. There's also their comments following the end of the second visit to the Pride Lands that indicates they're smarter and better people than they appear.
* TheHyena: Obviously.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Though they nearly eat Sora's party twice over and taunt them into submission, once Sora's group has gained their confidence in their animal forms and properly fight them off, the hyenas stop targeting them. When Sora returns to the Pride Lands, the hyenas confront him believing him to be prey, but immediately withdraw. When Sora confronts them later, they outright ask for him to leave them alone. This is even reflected in how the mechanics of their boss fights change; in the first one they're trying to outright kill Sora, but in their second, they serve as a collective GetBackHereBoss, not having any offensive moves and the player simply has to catch up to them and beat them into submission.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: They're beloved, popular and hilarious characters from one of the most popular Disney films of all time, but just like in the film, they are surprisingly competent and dangerous. To hammer the point home, less than two minutes after their arrival in the Pride Lands, Sora and friends are nearly ''eaten'' by the hyenas.
* OptionalBoss: Both fights due to the Pride Lands as a whole being optional.
* PerpetualSmiler: Ed.
* PsychopathicManchild: All three qualify as this, laughing their asses off at Simba's name (much like how Shenzi shivered at Mufasa's).
* RecurringBoss: The hyenas are fought as a trio twice in ''Kingdom Hearts II''. The first one is a full-fledged fight, but the second one isn't so much a boss fight as Sora having to chase them down in the Elephant Graveyard and knock them out; they do not attempt to attack you in the second fight, but it will take some time and patience to outwit them.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Shenzi is the only female of the trio.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Narrowly averted. If Scar had not summoned his minions when he did, there's no telling just how bad things would've gotten for the entire ''Kingdom Hearts'' universe if Sora, Donald and Goofy ended up getting EatenAlive by these guys. Not even ''Xehanort'' would've been happy to learn if Sora had been eaten by some random hyenas.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Shenzi's the girl, Banzai and Ed are the two guys.
* TheUnintelligible: Ed, whose quotes are simply his wacky laughter with Sora's inner interpretation ("He seems genuinely ecstatic").
* UnwittingPawn: Shenzi theorizes that they were this to Scar when they worked for him.
* WolfpackBoss: The first fight with them in ''II'' forces the player to confront all three of them at once.
* WouldHurtAChild: Besides the time they tried to eat Simba and Nala as cubs, they also come ''this'' close to chomping down on Sora.
[[/folder]]

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!Deep Jungle

[[folder:Sabor]]
!Sabor
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sabor.jpg]]
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]''

A wild leopard who stalked the wilds of Deep Jungle. Sabor attacked Sora after he initially gets separated from Donald and Goofy, but was fended off by Tarzan. The leopard appeared repeatedly during the level until the heroes defeated her for good.
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* AdaptationalBadass: This version of Sabor can shrug off magical attacks of fire, ice, and thunder from Sora and Donald.
* AmbiguousGender: Sabor is stated to be male in her journal entry, but is female in the film. To make matters more confusing, the novel refers to her as "it".
* BadassNormal: Most Disney bosses have some kind of supernatural power source. Sabor is a normal African leopard who is able to shrug off magic like it's nothing.
* CombatPragmatist: Is fond of sneak attacks, as well as playing dead.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: After beating her for the final time, you see through her eyes as she struggles to stay up an her vision becomes blurred. After that she just falls over dead. [[TheToothHurts The equippable White Fang accessory]] was [[BattleTrophy most likely taken from her corpse afterward.]]
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Similar to Leon; though here, it's less improbable, as Sora is more experienced by now and doesn't faint regardless of the outcome. It's an OpenEndedBossBattle the first time Sabor is encountered. If you lose, Sora is shown struggling with Sabor. If you win, Sabor plays dead and almost overpowers Sora when he tries to investigate.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Both narratively and in-game. Taking into account bosses like Trickmaster before her and Clayton afterwards, Sabor seems trivial at first glance, being a wild animal with nothing but swipes and charges. These attacks however are somewhat quick and hard to predict, making Sabor reasonably tricky to fight if you haven't been leveling up right, especially the first time without anyone to back Sora up (the battle is ''open-ended'' for a reason.). Story-wise, she killed Tarzan's parents and very nearly does the same to Sora before Tarzan drives her off, showing just how vulnerable he is at this point without companions.
* PantheraAwesome: Not so awesome for Sora, though.
* RecurringBoss: So long as you don't continue the story to the point of her last battle (where she's killed), she'll occasionally show up to attack you at the Campsite and Bamboo Thicket areas, retreating when she hits a certain HP threshold.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Plays a very similar role to the Hyenas in this regard. No matter which way the battle goes, she will very nearly overpower Sora afterwards before being chased off at the last second.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Seeing that she's a RecurringBoss, Sabor is just bent on finishing what she started with Sora.
* TalkingAnimal: She isn't, which is accurate to her home film, but since none of the other animals speak like in the movie, it fits in better.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clayton]]
!Clayton
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Clayton_KH_4031.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250: "I'll go along as an escort. After all, the jungle is a dangerous place."]]
->"Blasted gorillas! I'll hunt down every last one of them!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{BRIAN BLESSED}} (English), Creator/BanjoGinga (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]''
A veteran hunter. He acted as Jane's guide on her expedition to the jungle. He thought of animals only as prey, and dreamed of the money to be made selling gorillas to zoos back at home.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Unlike in the film, here he just wanted to kill the gorillas for sport. Furthermore, he had no problem trying to kill Sora, who was still a young boy. Though, most of this can be explained by the fact that he became a heartless puppet.
* AlasPoorVillain: Unlike the rest of the Disney villains, and even though he wasn't a very good person, Clayton was in the end just another victim of TheHeartless rather than a megalomaniac psychopath. His heart was lost when he had a moment of weakness and he became an emotionless puppet for the Heartless to use. After his death, the party expresses pity for him, with Tarzan saying that Clayton was a lonely, bitter, and friendless man, and so an easy target for the Heartless.
* ArcVillain: After falling to the darkness, he becomes this for Deep Jungle.
* CardCarryingVillain: Clayton outright introduces himself as a hunter if Sora speaks with him in an optional scene.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Instead of [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to his death]] and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath being hung]] like in the film, Clayton is instead SquashedFlat by a dying Stealth Sneak.
* DualBoss: He fought side by side with a Stealth Sneak Heartless in his battle which proved to be his undoing as it crushed him when it died.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: When he's first encountered as a boss, he has a blank expression on his face right until the end, a sign that he's no longer himself.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Clayton fights alongside the Stealth Sneak. The execution is a bit awkward; Clayton's repertoire of attacks and movements is simplistic, and while the Stealth Sneak is a much greater threat and a more creative boss, its defeat isn't actually required. Later ''Kingdom Hearts'' games would take the simpler route of having Disney villains without combat prowess or supernatural powers summon dark creatures to fight in their stead, or, in the case of [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Mother Gothel]] and [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Hans]], ''becoming'' their own Heartless.
* EgomaniacHunter: Even moreso than in the movie, where his plan was to capture and sell the animals -- here, [[ForTheEvulz he just wanted to kill them]]. Though, it actually goes FromBadToWorse, since -- as basically a Heartless -- he doesn't even have Pride to fall back on as a reason anymore.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Already an experienced hunter, Clayton allows the Darkness to consume him, giving him the power to control Heartless.
* FatalFlaw: Lust for power, according to Maleficent herself. Clayton's intentions of gorilla genocide attracted the Heartless, but his weak heart made him no match against the Heartless, leading to the Stealth Sneak killing him as it dies. This leads the cabal of villains who actually know how to control the Heartless to mock him for being a weak-hearted fool who had no understanding of the power that had consumed him.
-->'''Oogie Boogie:''' Yeah, he got chomped instead!
* FinalSolution: Clayton stakes his life on gorilla extinction, and uses the Heartless to find and kill them.
* FlunkyBoss: The first stage of the boss fight with Clayton has a bunch of Powerwild Heartless. After damaging Clayton enough, the Powerwilds are replaced by the Stealth Sneak boss.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Stealth Sneak falls on top of him and crushes him just as it's dying.
* HumanoidAbomination: Before his boss battle, he was attacked by the Heartless. Tarzan is aware that he's lost his heart despite still appearing human.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Clayton makes it no secret that he is only in it for the gorillas.
* ManipulativeBastard: Clayton uses Sora looking for his two missing friends as an excuse to get Tarzan to take him as an escort to the gorillas. He also leads the heroes everywhere and uses that time to find Kerchak and a larger group.
* LargeHam: Just look at who voiced him. It's also funny, considering BRIAN BLESSED is thought of as the English counterpart to Banjo Ginga (and vice versa).
* LastNameBasis: He was only known as "Clayton", with his first name, John, excluded from the game.
* LoneWolfBoss: The only Disney villain in the first game to be fought and not be a member of Maleficent's Council of Villains.
* PetTheDog: He did help Goofy and Donald by bringing them to the camp when he found them lost in the jungle at the beginning of the Deep Jungle storyline.
* SequentialBoss: Clayton is first fought on his own and with a few Heartless, but after doing a little bit of damage, a cutscene starts that brings out the Stealth Sneak boss and changes the music to the "Squirming Evil" boss theme. For this fight, the creature is invisible until his first health bar is drained, and once the second health bar is drained, the Stealth Sneak will throw Clayton off it and Clayton will start attacking on foot again.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Like in the film, he uses a shotgun as his weapon of choice. In Night exp. runs especially, this gun can spell your doom if you aren't paying attention during the boss fight.
* SilentAntagonist: Clayton has no lines in cutscenes following his Heartless-summoning StartOfDarkness.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Clayton is the one the few characters to smoke onscreen, and he's a CardCarryingVillain. He uses his smoking pipe to distract Sora with a fight against Sabor while he kidnaps Jane.
* StarterVillain: He is the first Disney villain you ever fight as a major boss in the series.
* StartOfDarkness: Clayton starts off the arc as a noble, yet untrustworthy card-carrying hunter. When caught trying to shoot Terk, Jane forbids him from going near the gorillas again. Clayton storms out, and declares his intentions to hunt the gorillas to extinction, staking his life on it; this very act causes his heart to go black and attract the Heartless.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: If you talk to Clayton after meeting Jane for the first time, he'll greet you and confirm he was a hunter. If you talk to him again, he'll deny he was hunting the gorillas, but right afterwards, he was caught trying to shoot Terk. He still denies that he tried to kill her, claiming that he saved her from a snake, but no one believes him, triggering his StartOfDarkness.
-->'''Clayton:''' What? No, I am not going to hurt the gorillas. But they're so rare! I'd just like to get a look at them.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Tarzan, Sora, and friends take a few moments to lament that he was turned into a Heartless and destroyed, remarking that he might not have become so bitter and deranged that he lost his heart if he had friends to confide in.
* VillainTeleportation: Clayton warps back onto the Stealth Sneak’s back if you take too long finishing either off once you separate them.
[[/folder]]

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!Port Royal/The Caribbean

[[folder:Hector Barbossa]]
!Captain Hector Barbossa
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_barbossa_khiii.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: "Blast ye to bits!"]]
->"You best start believin' in ghost stories, Miss Turner. For, ya see, tonight -- you're in one!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianGeorge (English), Creator/HaruhikoJo (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]] | [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''
Captain of the Black Pearl and leader of the undead pirates. The medallions' curse keeps Captain Barbossa and his men in a kind of limbo between life and death. Their true form is revealed in the moonlight, and it's a terrifying sight to see.

After his true death at Jack’s hands, Barbossa is resurrected by Tia Dalma to respond to the threat of Cutler Beckett and Davy Jones, forming an alliance with Jack, his crew, and Sora’s party.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: As The Caribbean leaves out most of the backstabbing among the heroes in the third film, Barbossa doesn’t come across nearly as antagonistic as he originally did due to his comparatively reduced screentime.
* AffablyEvil: He's polite, treats Swann to dinner, and his end goal means freeing everybody from their curse.
* ArcVillain: Reprises his role as the main villain of the first movie for Sora's first visit to Port Royal.
* BackFromTheDead: Returns in ''Kingdom Hearts III''[='=]s ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' world, although just like in the third film, he is an ally this time.
* BadassNormal: His combat prowess rely entirely on mundane swordplay and his gun, yet he's skilled enough to take on Sora, Jack Sparrow, and Donald/Goofy at the same time.
* CombatPragmatist: He's not above pulling out his gun if Sora uses a Reaction Command to [[SteppingStoneSword hold his blade to the ground]].
* EvilLaugh: Loud and boisterous, as a pirate's laugh should be. It becomes a pretty sinister chuckle when he uses the Illuminator to darken the room.
* ExactWords: He agrees to leave the ''Interceptor'' while Will Turner threatens his own life. Unlike the movie though, he has ''the Heartless'' stay and ambush Will, leaving the monsters and lit powder kegs while he, Pete, and his crew leave, and [[TeamRocketWins essentially getting everything]].
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Shot with a pistol while his curse was lifted, earning one of the few ''actual deaths'' in the series.
* FireForgedFriends: He has become accepted as an ally by Jack, Will, Elizabeth and Mr. Gibbs by the end of The Caribbean, and by extension Sora, Donald, and Goofy, after they all fought Jones and Beckett together.
* FlunkyBoss: With Pete's help, Barbossa has an Illuminator Heartless blotting out the moonlight. This Heartless can regenerate if destroyed, but it must be destroyed for the player to be able to damage Barbossa.
* GhostPirate: He's technically not alive, being cursed by the medallions to be an undead skeleton.
* HeelFaceTurn: In ''Kingdom Hearts III'', Barbossa is assuming the Anti-Hero role he had in ''At World's End'', as he is seen with Jack's crew. However, Sora never trusts him, and his past with the Heartless is still brought up at times.
* ImColdSoCold: His last words of "I feel... cold" are carried over from the film.
* KingMook: Aside from some reaction commands and Illuminator pet, He's in essence a far more powerful version of the his pirates. His move set is actually several of their aspects combined:
** He's mainly a close quarters combatant, which is Bo'sun's specialty.
** He's able to attack from distances with a firearm, like Twigg.
** He can toss bombs, like Jacoby.
* LargeHam: Super dramatic in his speech and action.
* LastSecondChance: After Sora and he beat the guy into unconsciousness and intimidate Pete into fleeing, Captain Jack Sparrow offers the recovering Barbossa a last chance to surrender. Barbossa resumes the fight instead, and it is this decision which winds up killing him in the end.
* MasterSwordsman: He's very skilled with his cutlass; it's like his arm extension, especially since he's a pirate.
* MirrorMatch: Not to Sora, but obviously to Jack Sparrow, who is also a bomb-utilizing pirate that excels in swordfighting. The only major difference is that Barbossa also carries a pistol and a gimmick on his side.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Like the rest of the characters from Port Royal, he is rendered with realistic proportions and looks like a real person, in contrast to the cartoony looks of Sora, Donald, and Goofy, [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII initially]].
* NotMeThisTime: In ''III'', Jack accuses him of allying with the Heartless again after the creatures attack the ''Black Pearl''. Barbossa is almost insulted.
-->'''Barbossa:''' Don't impugn me honor. Why would I conspire with them?\\
'''Jack:''' But you ''did'' conspire with them.
* SneakAttack: He fights alongside an Illuminator Heartless which makes the area pitch black, allowing Barbossa to attack from the dark.
* SupportingLeader: He commands the ''Black Pearl'' during the final battle with Jones while Sora’s party provides support and later fight Jones personally aboard the ''Dutchman''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Captain Hook. Both are pirates with an air of sophistication to them who are BadassNormal fighters able to go toe-to-toe with Sora and Co. Both of their worlds also have a particular gimmick that their battle centers around (Hook can be fought while flying, and Barbossa can only be hit in moonlight.). Barbossa even uses ExactWords like Hook would. And they're both allies of Maleficent who aids her in her war against Sora & Co, though Hook has more direct contact with her, while Barbossa helps her indirectly through his partnership with Pete.
* SwordAndGun: Wields both a cutlass and a pistol. The pistol, which works similarly to Clayton's elephant gun, is odd here, due to his underling's muskets being censored into crossbows in the NA release.
** SteppingStoneSword: His reaction command, in a twist of the trope, is stepping on his blade to pin him down and open him up for a key to the face.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Barbossa leaves Sora tied up on the gunpowder-rigged ''Interceptor'', and Sora swears he would never trust pirates again. When they meet again after Tia Dalma brings Barbossa back, Sora continues to view Barbossa as untrustworthy, still sore from nearly being blown up.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: He tosses sets of bombs occasionally, yelling "I'll blast ya To bits!" all the while.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Barbossa's Crew]]
!Bo'sun, Twigg, and Jacoby
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[[caption-width-right:350:Bo'sun]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/undead_pirate_b_khii.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Twigg]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/undead_pirate_c_khii.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Jacoby]]

->"You best be sayin' your prayers!"\\
'''Voiced By:''' (English): Creator/BeauBillingslea (Bo'sun), Adam Leadbeater (Twigg), Creator/JohnDiMaggio (Jacoby); {Japanese} N/A\\
'''Origin:''' ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''

The crew of The Black Pearl who take orders from Barbossa. Though there were many in the original film, in Port Royal there are multiple copies of three of the pirates, Bo'sun, Twigg, and Jacoby.
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* DragonTheirFeet: After their captain's death, the remaining pirates throw their lot with Luxord and continue to antagonize Sora and Co during the second Port Royal visit.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Twigg got his musket turned into a crossbow in North America. It still makes the sounds of a musket, and even flashes when he fires.
%%* MadBomber: Jacoby
* MoneySpider: Justified this time. Unlike the Heartless or Nobodies, they're actual pirates, ''of course'' they'd be carrying money on them. Now, why it's Munny rather than British Pounds is another matter entirely...
* NoNameGiven: Despite having names in the movie, they don't use their original names. Bo'sun is referred to as ''Undead Pirate A'', Twigg is ''Undead Pirate B'', and Jacoby is ''Undead Pirate C''. Still they get their own Journal entries, which is more than say, Maleficent's Goons, or Glut can claim.
* NoSell: When in their human forms (i.e. not in the moonlight), they're immune to all of Sora's attacks. This is implied to be a direct result of Sora's WrongContextMagic, which also allows him to fight and kill them when they're in their undead forms.
* PressXToNotDie:
** All of them except Jacoby, which gives him the benefit of staying in battles the longest due to having to always be beaten normally.
** Bo'sun's is where Sora dodges backwards to avoid his hatchets, and then swats him with the Keyblade.
** Twigg's is reflecting shots from his firearm.
%%* WouldHurtAChild
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Davy Jones]]
!Davy Jones
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/davy_jones_khiii.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:What does a whelp like you know about the heart?]]
->Voiced by: Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (English)\\
'''Origin:''' ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''
The condemned Captain of The Flying Dutchman and leader of a crew of damned pirates, of which he owns the souls of.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Since the main plot of the film mostly transpires in the background, the game doesn't explicitly present his tragic backstory and [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the love that led to his downfall]]. He comes across more as a CardCarryingVillain than he already was in the films.
* ArcVillain: Jones and Beckett play out their roles from ''At World's End'' as the main villains of the Caribbean, at least for the local residents.
* TheBattleDidntCount: Jones is barely hurt in the cutscene following his boss fight, which makes sense because he's effectively immortal, and keeps duking it out with Jack for several minutes while the Kraken's tentacles prevent Sora's party from interfering. His demise then plays out the way it did in the movie.
* CombatTentacles: He can summon the Kraken's tentacles through magical portals to have them attack the party.
* CompleteImmortality: An [[TheAgeless ageless]] enchanted sailor boasting a truly massive pool of health; Sora and his friends give him the sort of beatdown that would put down a [[EldritchAbomination massively powerful Heartless]] or an [[HumanoidAbomination Organization member]] and it proves to be completely ineffectual after his boss fight. It takes Will and Jack stabbing his removed heart to get him to finally relent and die.
* TheDreaded: He is feared throughout the seven seas.
* FlunkyBoss: Once you get through a good portion of his health, he summons the Kraken to fight you alongside him, which have their own small health bars.
* TheHeartless: A more literal version than is usual in the games, whereas most of the enemies claimed to be "Heartless" mean it in a more spiritual and metaphysical sense, Davy Jones removed the actual organ in question, himself, Vexen is annoyed to find this out, as he thought Davy Jones was Heartless in ''his'' understanding of the term.
* HateSink: He [[AdaptationalJerkass lacks any of his movie counterpart's sympathetic qualities]], and during his confrontation with Sora, Donald and Goofy, mocks the very concept of love, and sadistically stabs Will in the chest.
* KnightOfCerebus: The Caribbean is largely a light-hearted pirate adventure for Sora until Jones becomes a proper threat in the world's endgame. He outright stabs Will Turner in the chest, mostly on-screen and in the process elicits ''the'' most visceral, dramatic response that Sora has ever had to a Disney Villain, let alone Donald and Goofy. The trio outright forgo their weapons and physically assault him, Sora even punching him in the head.
* RevisitingTheRoots: He is one of the very few straightforward Disney villain bosses in ''III'', which were mostly previously seen in ''I'' and ''II'' before the titles started more predominantly featuring Heartless and similar bosses in Disney worlds.
* TeleportSpam: He frequently teleports during his boss fight, being able to travel through his ship's parts. One of his trickier attacks is teleporting up from behind to give you a kick with his peg leg.
* UnskilledButStrong: Strangely in his boss fight itself, he tends to attack by kicking and using his claw, rather than fight with a sword. He does use it in cutscenes, however.
* ViolentGlaswegian: He has a thick, distinct Scottish accent made even weirder by his lack of a nose and LargeHam tendencies, and is ''vicious''.
* WrongContextMagic: The Seekers were keeping an eye on Jones and the Dead Man's Chest because they're fascinated by how he can still exist with his heart separated from his body. Except inside the chest is Jones's ''literal organ'' and not the series' standard metaphysical heart. When Vexen sees this, he decides that he's been wasting his time and leaves the Caribbean world annoyed.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kraken]]
!Kraken
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/350px_kraken_khiii.png]]
->'''Origin:''' ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''

A cephalopod of titanic proportions at Davy Jones' beck and call.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: It dwarfs entire ships in scale.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: It's in the name: a giant, tentacled sea monster that wrecks ships at Davy Jones's command.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the movies, the Kraken was KilledOffscreen at some point between ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' and ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''. Here, the Kraken is alive and well, and both Luxord and Davy Jones call upon it during the maelstrom battle.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Kraken is last seen attacking Will Turner. Afterwards, Davy Jones's death plays out exactly as it does in the movie while the Kraken never appears again.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lord Cutler Beckett]]
!Lord Cutler Beckett
[[quoteright:165:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/165px_cutler_beckett_khiii.png]]
[[caption-width-right:165:Of course. It's just... good business.]]
->Voiced by: Creator/MickWingert (English)
->'''Origin:''' ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''
Chairman of the East India Trading Company. He has come into the possession of Davy Jones’s heart, and has begun employing Jones as his personal attack dog to wipe out all pirates.
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* ArcVillain: The main villain of the Caribbean from the local cast's perspective, but he ends up diminished in favor of Jones for this retelling of ''At World's End''.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The power-hungry and megalomaniacal chairman of the East India Trading Company, though ''[=KH3=]'' doesn't show much of what makes him so evil.
* DemotedToExtra: He was the BigBad of ''At World's End'', but because ''III'' relegates much of the movie's plot to the background, his role is correspondingly diminished. Beckett never encounters Sora, and Davy Jones and Luxord both overshadow him as the world's ArcVillain.
* EvilBrit: He's a British colonizer and the chairman of the very British institution, the East India Trading Company.
* TheUnfought: Never fought in actual gameplay combat, ship or melee.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has the same unusually calm breakdown as in the film, as the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Flying Dutchman'' tear the HMS ''Endeavour'' asunder.

[[/folder]]

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!Symphony of Sorcery

[[folder:Chernabog]]
!Chernabog
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/350px-Chernabog_KH_9384.png]]
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''

Chernabog is a gigantic, muscular, humanoid demon. His skin is entirely colored black, and he is so large that Sora is roughly the size of his head. His head sports two curved horns, he has four fangs in his mouth, and his eyes are a glowing yellow. He has enormous, black, bat-like wings, and his wingspan is larger than he is tall. Chernabog is always seen trapped from the knees-down in a volcano.
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* AdaptationExpansion: In a sense. His realm that Riku visits him in expands the hellish setting of Bald Mountain into a large, similarly hellish valley. In ''Fantasia'' Bald Mountain was simply a mountain in the middle of otherwise normal countryside.
* AnimateDead: Sends ghosts and souls of the dead after Riku to weaken him in ''Dream Drop Distance''.
* BadassArmFold: Specializes in these, most notably when he first challenges Sora.
* BreakoutVillain: His sheer popularity with fans and the production crew of the first game alone is what allowed him to still appear in the game in the first place, even after his story significance was removed. A decade later, he returns for ''Dream Drop Distance'' with a new arrangement of his signature theme as well.
* TheBusCameBack: Returns for the first time in a decade in ''Dream Drop Distance''.
* TheCameo: He briefly appears in the last stretch of Sora's memory restoration in the prologue of ''II'', as Sora (and by extension, Roxas) remembers him from his visit to End of the World.
* EvilVsEvil: In a sense. He's the god of evil but he's just as much of a victim of Ansem's Heartless invasion as anyone else since Symphony of Sorcery was evidently destroyed and it got him cast into End of the World.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: In ''Kingdom Hearts'', there is no build-up to his presence whatsoever aside from a picture in the Traverse Town hotel that could easily be mistaken for a simple MythologyGag. It is left to the player to assume that Chernabog is in End of the World due to being transported there after the destruction of Symphony of Sorcery (which wouldn't be properly introduced until ''Dream Drop Distance'', for that matter). His appearance makes more sense in ''3D'', since we're visiting his home world.
* {{Hellfire}}: His preferred method of attack is to conjure the flames of perdition in various ways.
* LethalLavaLand: In his home world, the area around Bald Mountain is this, a hellish valley of ravines flowing with lava and smoke.
* LoneWolfBoss: Unaffiliated with Xehanort and the Heartless, but he still will attack anybody who happens across him all the same.
* MadeOfEvil: To the point he was going to be the GreaterScopeVillain and FinalBoss of the first game, and the embodiment of the darkness Sora fought in that game.
* NoNameGiven: He is not named in ''Kingdom Hearts'', leaving it to players who have watched his segment in ''Fantasia'' to fill in the blanks. His boss battle in ''Dream Drop Distance'', however, names him.
* OutsideContextVillain: He is unrelated to Xehanort or the Heartless, and thankfully appears to be confined to Symphony of Sorcery. Young Xehanort is implied to be aware of him, as he warns Riku that he's about to die just as Bald Mountain begins firing up for Chernabog to arrive.
* PlayingWithFire: A lot of his attacks generate fire in some form.
* PreFinalBoss: Chernabog is the last proper boss of ''I'' before Ansem.
* {{Satan}}: He is identified as Satan in the original ''Fantasia'', but was given the name “Chernabog” by marketing (which translates to “black god”, leaving no illusions about who this is supposed to be).
* TheSpook: Sora and Riku never learn anything about Chernabog, and are simply forced to fight off the sudden appearance of this unholy devil.
* StationaryBoss: Never leaves his volcano, and that's probably a good thing.
* TechnicolorFire: He can throw colorful fireballs around during his boss fight in ''Kingdom Hearts I''.
* UncertainDoom: Given how he's literally Satan, it's not at all guaranteed that Sora's defeat of him actually did anything to him.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: In ''3D'', Riku must fight him using Dive Mode controls. This is possibly why you don't get to fight him in the postgame.
* VillainSong: Music/NightOnBaldMountain, originally composed by Modest Mussorgsky. Notable for being one of only two Disney bosses to get his own theme in the series, the other being Rinzler. He did not have it in the Japanese version of ''Kingdom Hearts'' though, but he does have it in both versions of ''Dream Drop Distance''. After ''Kingdom Hearts'' featured a synthesized arrangement of the piece, ''Dream Drop Distance'' features an arrangement more faithful to Mussorgsky's work, and this arrangement is carried over to the ''1.5'' version of ''Final Mix''.
* VolcanoLair: Bald Mountain is explicitly a volcano in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, at least when it appears in its' homeworld, Symphony of Sorcery. This is in contrast to its' appearance in ''Fantasia'' as it appears to just be a normal mountain, albeit one that becomes a supernatural hellhole on Walpurgis Night. When Chernabog is defeated in ''Kingdom Hearts'' and disappears, Bald Mountain is left an empty, inactive husk. In Symphony of Sorcery, Bald Mountain is found as the main feature of a large, hellish volcanic valley.
* WeakenedByTheLight: When Chernabog is defeated in the first game, he rears up in pain, and is suddenly struck by a mysterious pillar of light. Chernabog then disappears with it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It’s not known exactly what happens to him when he is defeated by Sora, only that he is removed from Bald Mountain by the pillar of light.
* WingedHumanoid: The wings are largely for show, as he mercifully never flies, not even in Riku's fight with him where the arena is large enough that he ''could'' if he wanted to.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chernabog's Ghosts]]
!Bald Mountain Ghosts
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''

Hooded, robed spirits of the dead who Chernabog can summon to aid him in battle. They come in black and white varieties, and drain health if they latch onto Riku unless he does a spin to knock them off.

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* AscendedExtra: The body-less robed skeleton used as Chernabog's main kind of minion here only had one scene in ''Fantasia''. They even appear in the end credits, weaving though some letters as their master looks on.
* BedsheetGhost: Nothing is there except their eyes and hands
* FacelessEye: Only have GlowingEyesOfDoom under those cloaks.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Life-leeching BedsheetGhost minions of a Slavic devil.

[[/folder]]

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!Land of Dragons
[[folder:Shan Yu]]
!Shan Yu
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px-Shan-Yu_KHII_6366.png]]
->"Now you'll bow to me!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton (English), Creator/HiroshiFujioka (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''
Shan-Yu is the leader of the Hun army, and plans to attack and take over China (the Land of Dragons in game). He is large and burly, and wields a blade with zigzag shaped edges.
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* AnimalMotif: Hawks or raptor birds.
* ArcVillain: He's the enemy commander for Sora's first visit to the Land of Dragons.
* AttackAnimal: His bird, Hayabusa.
* BattleAura: He gains a black and purple aura at various points in his boss fight.
* BladeLock: A reaction command you can do with him.
* BoomHeadshot: Only in the Manga, courtesy of Xigbar.
%%* BossBanter: This makes a large part of his speaking role.
%%-->'''Shan Yu:''' "You think you can overpower ''ME''!!??"
* CoolSword: It appears to be a very large kris.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Blown up by fireworks in the film he comes from, dies upon defeat in the game, and for the manga...
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: In the manga, he makes a deal with Xigbar in exchange for power. When he fails and pleads for more, Xigbar comes to the conclusion that he isn't worth the trouble and promptly ''shoots him in the head, '''point blank'''''. What makes this even worse is the fact that even Sora winces at it.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: There's no word on what his motives for invading with the Heartless are, nor does he have much dialogue and screentime. He's defined by the threat he poses. However, dialogue with the Emperor and knowledge of the film of origin implies that he might have been using them to try to take over and destroy China.
* GeniusBruiser: Manages to command and organize Heartless with his military expertise ''alone'', sneak Heartless into the ranks of Shang's army, tricks Sora and co., and also puts up a good fight.
%%* GoodWeaponEvilWeapon: Definitely an evil weapon.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the manga, as opposed to visiting Land of Dragons later on. He rides the Stormrider Heartless, marking another similarity to Clayton.
* KneelBeforeZod: See his quote above. Aside from his battle quotes, and "Attack" which he yells during the recreation of the avalanche scene, it's his only spoken line in the game.
* ShockwaveStomp: One of the abilities the darkness gives him is a short-range version.
* SpinAttack: And he usually follows it up with one of these.
* StarterVillain: Plays a similar role to Clayton's purpose from the original game in the sequel.
* UncertainDoom: When Sora, Mulan, and friends defeat Shan-Yu, the villain is merely shown collapsing off the edge of the screen. The next scene is essentially a resolution for Mulan's storyline, and there is no indication whether Shan-Yu perished in the battle or simply fainted from exhaustion and physical injury.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hayabusa]]
!Hayabusa
[[quoteright:192:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/413px_shan_yu_khii.png]]
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''

Shan Yu's pet falcon, who scouts ahead of his master as his eyes and ears. His appearance in an ominous warning that Shan Yu's army is approaching.
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* AttackAnimal: TruthInTelevision, training falcons was, and still is, common among central Asian nomad groups.
* ADogNamedDog: Hayabusa is Japanese for "Peregrine Falcon", which is odd seeing as the Land of Dragons is China.
* DualBoss: With Shan Yu, though, due to his light damage output, fast movement, and tiny hitbox, it's likely a player with focus more on Shan Yu and the Heartless he summons.
* FeatheredFiend: The third villainous bird sidekick to be featured in the series, alongside Diablo and Iago.
%%* HypercompetentSidekick
* NobleBirdOfPrey: He fights right alongside Shan Yu, swooping in to attack.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Has a big case of this; Hayabusa doesn't need to be be beaten in Shan Yu's boss fight (and it's unlikely a player will do so), and it's never shown if the falcon simply flew off or died.
[[/folder]]

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!Castle of Dreams

[[folder:Lady Tremaine]]
!Lady Tremaine
[[quoteright:145:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/145px-Lady_Tremaine_KHBBS_9390.png]]
->"You see, ''this'' is what happens when you go against my wishes."
->'''Voiced by:''' Susanne Blakeslee (English), Aiko Konoshima (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)''
Lady Tremaine is mother by blood of Anastasia and Drizella. Keeping Cinderella as a slave, she will do anything to ensure her two daughters' own success.
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* AdaptationalKarma: Unpunished in the film, but here, she succumbs to ThePowerOfHate and tries to kill her stepdaughter, triggering her KarmicDeath or [[KarmicTransformation Transformation]].
* ADayInTheLimelight: She is given more focus than Cinderella during Aqua's visit, mainly to show that she's an irredeemable monster and more than deserving of [[AmbiguousSituation whatever happened to her]].
* ArcVillainess: She's the main antagonist of the Castle of Dreams.
* AssholeVictim: She, along with her daughters below, becomes this when the Unversed they send to murder Cinderella out of hatred drops a bomb on them as they laugh at her in sadism. It is unknown if they went directly to Hell or became Heartless.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: For a moment, it looks like Aqua would end up in a four against one battle against the Tremaine family and the Cursed Coach (similar to Barbossa and the Illuminator). Instead, he blows them up.
* CatsAreMean: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast She named her cat Lucifer]].
* CreateYourOwnVillain: A huge twisted example of what having too much light can be a real detriment, Cinderella is ''so'' good and selfless that Tremaine allowed her jealousy and insecurity to grasp hold and allow her to be MadeOfEvil and want to kill her in the end.
* DarkIsEvil: She has more than enough darkness in her heart for Aqua to detect instantly... and plot her assassination. It is heavily implied that she has no light in her heart.
** The Fairy Godmother states that she hates Cinderella because of her charm and beauty, and given a comment by the Grand Duke during Terra's scenario, said hatred and jealousy may have summoned ''[[TheManBehindTheMonsters Vanitas himself]]''.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the original movie, nothing bad ever happens to her. In ''Birth by Sleep'', she gets blown up by the Cursed Coach. Though since Aqua pointed out that "the darkness in their hearts overtook them", Tremaine probably suffered a FateWorseThanDeath.
** [[SparedByTheAdaptation However]], she and her daughters are alive/still human at the end of Unchained-χ's version of the plot, and they never even attack her upon freedom, though, considering that version of the world is an illusion for gathering Lux, it probably doesn't count.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When her daughters are not picked to dance with Prince Charming, who instead dances with "some random girl who just showed up", Lady Tremaine summons dozens of Unversed, including the Symphony Master, to kill everyone at the ball.
* EvilLaugh: Tremaine gives out a ''very'' sadistic evil laugh when she tried to murder her step-daughter.
* EvilOldFolks: ''Woo boy howdy''.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Implied by Aqua's statement that "the darkness in their hearts overtook them".
* HateSink: Lady Tremaine is up there with Scar, Clu, and Hans as one of the few villains who is even ''worse'' in this continuity, since she never bothered to murder Cinderella or attempt a hate-induced massacre on the ball in the films. The events of the "Castle of Dreams" ends with her damnation.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Lady Tremaine having brought the Cursed Coach to life, it begins attacking Cinderella with pumpkin bombs. Unfortunately for the stepfamily, they are so consumed with seeing Cinderella suffer that they fail to notice one stray pumpkin bomb fall on top of them and blow them up. [[SoundOnlyDeath Their death happens off-screen, with only their doomed screams coming from within the explosion indicating what happened to them.]]
* IfICantHaveYou: A non-romantic example: Tremaine's refusal to allow her step-daughter to live happily ever after triggers the summoning of the Cursed Coach.
** Also happens with the Symphony Master. Its journal entry implies that she unwittingly summoned it and other Unversed to massacre the entire ballroom out of anger towards the Prince dancing with an unknown girl (Cinderella).
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Can't stand to see Cinderella happy, going out of her way to sabotage her efforts even when it would technically benefit her the most (Cindy's her step-daughter, even if she gets the prince), which eventually leads to her [[NoKillLikeOverkill bringing about a monster in order to kill her so she can never be happy]], all because Cinderella didn't follow her petty rule.
* KarmaHoudini: Her famous status of this in the original movies is actually avoided here, as her last scene features her, Anastasia, and Drizella presumably ''killed'' by an Unversed.
* KarmicDeath: If the three of them died, which they arguably deserved in the first place, they were killed by the very Unversed set upon Cinderella.
* KillItWithFire: She gets firebombed to death or Heartless transformation by the monster she summoned. Its very cathartic, to say the least.
* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Lady Tremaine's willingness to attack her second husband's only child out of cold hatred and strong envy is one reason why Aqua considers her heart overtaken by darkness.
* LastNameBasis: She's only known as "Lady Tremaine", as in the films.
* MadeOfEvil: Has enough darkness in her heart to be considered this in the eyes of Aqua. It is also implied by the Fairy Godmother that Lady Tremaine's heart is 100% darkness.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* NeverSayDie: The final fate of Tremaine and her daughters is, according to Aqua, "The Darkness in their hearts overtook them." Then again, it can also just be a way to say "they brought it on themselves".
* ParentalFavoritism: If it were possible, ''Birth by Sleep'' actually pushes this trope even further.
* ThePowerOfHate: Tremaine's hatred towards Cinderella is what allowed her to summon the Cursed Coach. The journal entry for the Symphony Master even states it was created out of her anger for the Prince not picking one of her daughters, implying an upcoming massacre had Terra not stopped it.
** It is implied that Vanitas struck an alliance with her, as the Grand Duke tells Terra that he was spotted in the castle when the Unversed first showed up.
* RightHandCat: Who's even a boss battle!
* {{Sadist}}: Just [[SlasherSmile LOOK at her face]] when the Cursed Coach tries to murder Cinderella.
%%* SmugSnake
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Tremaine enslaved Cinderella as a child, and treated her as nothing but a scullery maid. Aqua almost ''assassinates'' her for this.
* TheSociopath: She was already one in the films, but she's much worse in this canon, being willing to use the Unversed to murder anyone who either gets in her way, outlives their usefulness, or just out of pure spite. Poor Cinderella fits all three quotas.
* StarterVillain: For Aqua in ''Birth by Sleep'', even though Aqua barely loses her chance to directly fight her.
* TheUnfought: The pre-battle cutscene implies Aqua would be fighting Lady Tremaine for attacking Cinderella out of hatred. The Cursed Coach drops a bomb on her instead. In ''Kingdom Hearts Unchained X'', the darkness in her heart summons [[https://www.khwiki.com/Mean_Maiden Mean Maiden]], a Heartless that looks like a twisted version of her, who also has its own RightHandCat.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Tremaine may look like a well-off grandmother figure, but she enslaved her stepdaughter out of spite, raised her daughters to become sociopathic fiends, and has no problems with burning a whole kingdom down (and risk being hanged for high treason) because the Prince didn't pick her daughters. Essencially, she and her daughters are [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons in human form]].
* VillainousBreakdown: Lady Tremaine obviously doesn't care about what happens to her (which, because of the Grand Duke's presence, is most likely execution for murder, high treason, and possibly heresy), just as long as she makes sure Cinderella is killed.
* WickedStepmother: Very cruel to Cinderella, just like in the original film.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Drizella and Anastasia]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drizella_and_anastasia.jpg]]
-->'''Drizella voiced by:''' Creator/RussiTaylor (English); Creator/ShinobuAdachi (Japanese)\\
'''Anastasia voiced by:''' Creator/TressMacNeille (English); Creator/AyumiKida (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)''
Cinderella's evil step-sisters. Sadistically and murderously cruel, they want nothing more than to bring misery to anyone they encounter, especially Cinderella herself.
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* AdaptationalKarma: Unlike in the film, they do not get away with abusing Cinderella because they succumbed to hatred as she was leaving, leading to their deaths or transformation into Heartless.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Alongside their mother, they are much worse in this adaptation. For example, when they see the prince dance with Cinderella at the ball, instead of expressing awe like in the film, they're get murderously angry and summon the Unversed.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Anastasia in the sequels turned into the TokenGoodTeammate of her family, eventually pulling a HeelFaceTurn that showed she was good deep down; here, she is just as evil as the rest of her family and her heart is pure darkness.
* AlphaBitch: They are snobs, after all.
* ArcVillainess: They're one along with their mother for the Castle of Dreams.
* AssholeVictims: They end up facing AdaptationalKarma and everyone doesn't care if they're dead or turned into Heartless.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: The pre-battle cutscene gives an implication that Aqua will be fighting all three Tremaines and the Cursed Coach. Instead, the Curse Coach blows them up with bombs.
* TheBully: They're mainly a way to torture Cinderella in the story.
* CainAndAbel: Female examples. By the time Cinderella wins her freedom, Drizella and Anastasia attack her with the intention of murder out of pure hatred. They fail because of Aqua's presence, and lose their hearts (and possibly their lives) to the darkness.
* DarkIsEvil: Like their mother, they have mostly darkness in their hearts, so much of it so that Aqua decided to kill them. It is heavily implied that much like Vanitas, they have absolutely no light within their hearts.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the movie, nothing bad happens to them. In ''Birth by Sleep'', they get burned alive by the Cursed Coach, with their fates left unknown.
* DreadfulMusician: Both of them, based on their journal entries. Drizella can't sing despite the costly classes she takes, and Anastasia takes pride in her flautist skills, despite being the ''worst'' flautist in the universe.
* DrivenByEnvy: Their attempted murder of Cinderella, at the cost of what little humanity they had left (if they even ''[[TheSociopath had]]'' any), all out of her [[NiceGirl charm]], [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold beauty]], [[RagsToRoyalty winning the Prince]], and being freed from their tyranny.
* EvilDiva: Drizella being pure evil, she can be considered one, even though we never hear her sing.
* EvilRedhead: Anastasia, very much so.
* FatalFlaw: Hatred. They resent Cinderella because of her grace and beauty, but it's her winning the Prince's hand in marriage that sends them over the edge that leads to the Cursed Coach being summoned to murder her and putting the ''universe'' into grave danger[[labelnote:why]]Cinderella is a Princess of Heart, and her stepsisters have no light in their hearts. Either she dies, and darkness floods the Realm of Light, or the χ-Blade gets forged, which spells Judgement Day in the wrong hands[[/labelnote]].
* GreenEyedMonster: Both are murderously envious to Cinderella because of her charm and beauty.
* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Trying to kill their stepfather's remaining kin is the cause of their permanent fall to darkness, and thus, a target of the Unversed.
* MadeOfEvil: It's implied that their hearts lack any light, making them foils to [[LightIsGood Cinderella]], who's a Princess of Heart.
* ThePowerOfHate: Their hatred towards Cinderella is what allowed them to summon the Cursed Coach and the Symphony Master, both for murderous reasons.
* SiblingRivalry: To each other mostly, but most heartlessly to Cinderella, to the point where they are willing to kill her after she is freed from their tyranny.
* SlasherSmile: They both give one of these to Cinderella as they try to murder her, indicating that they've finally given into darkness without a chance of redemption.
* TheSociopath: Both of them are highly selfish, hateful, lack empathy, prideful to their non-existent skills, and are willing to murder anyone to get their way.
* StarterVillain: For Aqua in ''Birth by Sleep''.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: They look like normal, if a bit gonky, teenage girls. In reality, they're [[TheSociopath sociopaths]] who abuse and exploit everyone, and [[NotGoodWithRejection respond to being rejected by the Prince]] by sending the Unverse to kill [[IfICantHaveYou him]], [[TheKingslayer his father]], and [[LeaveNoWitnesses everyone else in the castle]]. And when Cinderella wins her freedom, they pretty much turn into ''[[DemonOfHumanOrigin demons]]'' in their attempt to murder her.
* TheUnfought: Get themselves blown away before Aqua could even fight them.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lucifer]]
!Lucifer
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lucifer_07.jpg]]
->"MROWR!"
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)''
A [[CatsAreMean mean cat]] owned by Lady Tremaine who keeps a watchful eye out for Cinderella's mouse friends. He happens to be in the same room as one of the materials Jaq needs for Cinderella's dress, leading to Ventus having to fight to distract him.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite being spoiled into being rather large, he's able to jump to the top of a wardrobe with little effort.
* CatsAreMean: Probably the ONLY animal ever to resist Cinderella's kindness, probably because of the upbringing with Tremaine that came first.
* FatBastard: He's rather plump, and a mean cat.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite his nasty demeanor, he was just acting on instinct in attacking Jaq and Ven, both of whom are smaller, and one of whom could be considered vermin.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Like his owners, Lucifer appears to be an all-nice cat, but he later proves to be just as mean as them.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He's named after the devil of Judeo-Christian religions. That said, his actual name is never pronounced correctly out loud as [[SpeechImpairedAnimal Jaq]] pronounces it like the less threatening "Roosifee" so even Ventus thinks that's what his name actually is.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: A BuffoonishTomCat who gets a lot of {{slapstick}} in contrast to Lady Tremaine who is mostly played seriously.
* WarmUpBoss: Ventus's first Disney Villain he must face to get players used to the mechanics.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lucifer is last seen running off from Ventus, so his final fate after his owners' fall to darkness is unknown.
[[/folder]]

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!Atlantica
[[folder:Ursula]]
!Ursula
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/300px-Ursula_KHII_2049.png]]
->"The sea and all its spoils bow to my power!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PatCarroll (English), Creator/{{Kujira}} (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''
A sea witch, Ursula was once a senior member of King Triton's court that was banished for for her love of Black Magic. Ursula has two pet eels, Flotsam and Jetsam, whom she refers to as her [[{{Squick}} "poopsies"]].
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* ArcVillainess: In all of Atlantica's appearances, Ursula acts as the main villain.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Twice, once during each of her lives before her defeats. She's this the entirety of her first appearance in ''Dream Drop Distance''.
* BackFromTheDead:
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', nobody notices how weird her revival is, but the Bradygames guide for the game states that it relates to her mastery of the powers of darkness. While a sequel was not explicitly planned during the production of the first game, a player who revisits her lair after her defeat will still find her legions of polyops. Since they returned to normal upon her death in ''The Little Mermaid'', one can posit with the benefit of hindsight that she's not actually dead.
** Subverted in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''. She is brought back as the tutorial boss, and appears to remember her previous defeats. However, the journal reveals that she is merely a phantom.
* BerserkButton: Ursula [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever grows to giant size]] after Sora kills her {{Mooks}} Flotsam and Jetsam.
* BreathWeapon: As a giant, several of her attacks involve blasting you with magic from her mouth.
* TheBrute: Of Maleficent's band of Disney Villains, being one of the largest and strongest among them, and is very aggressive against her enemies when she isn't manipulating them. She is also very magically powerful as well, and is nearly indestructible in the first round without using her cauldron against her, and when she uses the trident, she becomes far more powerful, gigantic, and absolutely insane in the second round.
* DarkActionGirl: Puts up a good fight against Sora and friends.
* DealWithTheDevil: Offers one to Ariel in both ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' and ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. In the latter case, she was faking a HeelFaceTurn and wanted to give the deal as a gesture of her new found "good will".
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In every appearance she makes in Atlantica in the franchise, not one time does her death happen the way it does in the movie. In the first game, she dies upon defeat. In the second (which takes the film's plot), she has the trident thrown through her. Both of these deaths are different from how she is impaled with a ship in the movie. (Though the latter method is actually how she was ''planned'' to die in the film, before they switched to the ship method.)
* DeathByAdaptation: In the manga, her death in ''Kingdom Hearts'' actually takes, meaning she doesn't appear in the ''Kingdom Hearts II'' manga.
* DemotedToExtra: She's the first boss of ''Dream Drop Distance'', and fades into the shadows following her allotted beating.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Her love of Flotsam and Jetsam, but it's downplayed in the series. When they're killed in the first game, she only briefly gives a brief look of horror before retreating, and doesn't react too much to their deaths in ''II''.
* FatBitch: Due to having the same physical appearance and personality as she does in her original movie, she is this again.
* FlunkyBoss: The first fight with Ursula in ''I'' and the musical duel with her in ''II'' both have her assisted by Flotsam and Jetsam. In ''I'', they can be hit to build back MP, which is required to be able to defeat Ursula.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Defeating her in the first game [[NoOntologicalInertia doesn't release her victims from their]] ForcedTransformation. That's because she's not dead.
* GenocideFromTheInside: Ursula is one of two villains actively trying to destroy her own world by seeking the Keyhole. Unlike Jafar, she never finds it.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: In ''Dream Drop Distance'' she appears out of nowhere as the tutorial boss and is only briefly mentioned again after her defeat by Riku. She doesn't even get a character bio!
* ImAHumanitarian: She tries to ''eat'' Sora and friends during her final boss battle in the original game.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Only this time, it was by having the trident being hurled into her. Incidentally, this was originally how Ursula was going to be defeated in an early draft of the original film, as opposed to having the bow of a sunken ship ram into her like in the final draft.
* ItsPersonal: The vision of her that serves as the tutorial boss in ''Dream Drop Distance'' is eager to settle a score with Sora, and by extension Riku.
* LargeHam: And the hamminess only gets larger when she does physically.
* LoneWolfBoss: In ''II'', she's one of the few villains to not be affiliated with Maleficent, Organization XIII, or even the Heartless in general.
* MamaBear: To Flotsam and Jetsam. Their deaths really piss her off.
* NeverMyFault: In the manga, she tries to blame Sora and Co. for zapping Flotsam and Jetsam, even though it was she herself who did it by accident.
* OneWingedAngel: In all the games she is in, she turns into a giant form of herself. Trying to defeat her in the first game when she's in that form is pretty hard.
* OptionalBoss: In ''I'', Atlantica can be skipped if Monstro and Halloween Town are completed before it, so Ursula can be safely ignored.
* PivotalBoss: As a giant in ''I'', Ursula will be smack dab in the center of a whirlpool but will keep turning to face the player.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: When she has king Triton's trident anyway.
* RecurringBoss: Ursula is fought twice during Atlantica in ''I''. The player first fights her in normal size in her grotto, then they have to find the cave where they get to fight Ursula as a giant.
* ShockAndAwe: Uses thunder magic in every fight against her though in certain battles it counts as non-elemental damage.
* SizeShifter: In all games she appears in, she becomes the giant she became at the end of ''The Little Mermaid''.
* SlasherSmile: In the manga.
* StarterVillain: Of ''Dream Drop Distance''.
* VillainousGlutton: She tries to eat you during her second boss battle in the first game. Repeatedly.
* VillainSong: "Ursula's Revenge" in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', which also serves as her BossBattle due to the mechanics of the world. She even has a health bar during the song, which makes her stand out compared to the other songs that either had a point counter or a happiness meter.
* WickedWitch: Specifically, a ''sea'' witch.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Flotsam and Jetsam]]
!Flotsam and Jetsam
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flotsam_and_jetsam.jpg]]
->"NO ESCAPE!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton (English), Shuichio Moriyama (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII II]]''
A pair of twin Moray Eels who work for Ursula. They lure merfolk to strike raw deals with Ursula, then sabotage their efforts to keep their end of the bargain.
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* CreepyMonotone: They hardly ever break it unless they're attacking.
* CreepyTwins: They share the same exact character model, with the only difference being the eye coloration.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In the first game they are simply zapped to oblivion. The second game has the same happen, but this time a faint outline of a ''keyhole'' can be seen made of bubbles, which means that Sora essentially used his Keyblade to "unlock" these guys.
* DeathByAdaptation: Along with their mistress in the manga. The difference being that ''Ursula'' killed them accidentally.
* InvincibleMinorMinion: They are essentially Ursula's answer to Donald and Goofy. As she revives them after a short time if they're knocked out.
* MistakenIdentity: Their journal entries mistakenly identify the eel with the left yellow eye as Flotsam and the one with the right yellow eye as Jetsam. The script for the original movie and some merchandise officially indicate it's the other way around.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Glut]]

!Glut the Shark
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->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]''

A ferocious shark that stalks prey through Atlantica. Sora first meets this predator when investigating the sunken ship for something related to the keyhole and it continues to fight them throughout their ventures in the world.
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* NaturalWeapon: Being a normal (if exceptionally vicious) shark, he relies exclusively on his bulky body and sharp teeth to damage Sora and his party members.
* NoNameGiven: He didn't even get a journal entry in his only appearance, and is just called "Shark" in the official strategy guide.
* JumpScare: How he's introduced, it can actually hurt you if you aren't far enough away from the window he crashes through.
* MightyGlacier: It only takes 3 to 4 hits for him to off Sora, even if you've been leveling well.
* TailSlap: One of his attacks.
* ThreateningShark: Very much so, unlike Sabor (another natural predator mini boss) though, he's a tank that can easily kill you with a few direct hits.
* TheToothHurts: In the manga, he breaks his teeth trying to bite down on Sea-turtle!Goofy.
* RecurringBoss: Can occasionally be found swimming by the sunken ship or (more rarely) out in the more open Undersea Valley or Undersea Gorge for 15 exp. Unlike Sabor however, Glut never gets a final battle.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Upon defeat, he'll be knocked out for a few moments before regaining consciousness and swimming away.
* WakeUpCallBoss: His battles really punish those who don't pay attention.

[[/folder]]

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!Game Central Station

[[folder:King Candy]]

!King Candy
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->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ]]''

The ruler of the "Candy Kingdom" sub-world of Game Central Station.
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* FusionDance: He gets eaten by a Cy-Bug and as a result turns into an insectoid monster, partially made of candy.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He claims this about the player character, with both of them being "viruses" from outside Sugar Rush.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Otherwise known as Turbo.
* WeCanRuleTogether: He makes this offer to the player character, who responds by [[TalkToTheFist striking his hand with their Keyblade]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cy-Bugs]]

!Cy-Bugs
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ]]''

Virus-like bugs that dwell in the "Cy-Bug Sector" sub-world of Game Central Station.
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* FusionDance: They fuse with whatever they eat. And this includes Heartless.
[[/folder]]

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!Other Worlds

[[folder:Maleficent's Goons]]
!Maleficent's Goons
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]''

Maleficent's original henchmen who worked for her in the Enchanted Dominion. They were strange imps and goblin-like creatures armed with medieval weaponry, doing their mistresses work and guarding her castle from intruders. Terra never encounters them, but they are the main threat for Aqua and Ventus when they enter the Forbidden mountain's castle.
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* AnnoyingArrows: The Bird Goon's attacks consist of gaining distance to fire these, occasionally firing three at once.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: True to the source material, they must be doing "something" right if there are no Unversed within the castle grounds, and they really try their damnedest to fight Ven and Aqua.
* DishingOutDirt: While Aqua is trying to escape with Philip, some Goons toss large boulders at them.
* EpicFlail: Some wield these to fight.
* EverythingsMessierWithPigs: The standard Goon troop type here (using halberds, maces, and rocks), which is interesting because A.) There was more variety in the movie, and B.) the specific Goon was the leader in the film.
* FeatheredFiend: The Archers
* NoNameGiven: They aren't even given a journal entry.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: It's implied that Maleficent dumped them for The Heartless after she found the latter, which is why they don't appear in 1 onwards.
* ZergRush: The Pig Goon method of attack. and since they attack as soon as they reach you, attacking a group first is your best option.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Beagle Boys]]
!The Beagle Boys
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->"We'll flatten them like Crepes!"
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JeffBennett [Big and Small], Creator/MauriceLaMarche [Medium] (English); Fumihiko Tachiki [Big], Kenji Nomura [Medium], Naoki Tatsuta [Small] (Japanese)
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers''

'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''

A Trio of cloaked, rapier-wielding, gray beagle rogues who worked for Pete when he was Minnie's Captain of the Guard and trying to take over France, doing field work as he planned a coup using the Opera. In Sora's Story, they kidnap Minnie as per the film, while in Riku's Story, they hold on to the wench part that is needed to disarm a trap for Mickey, Donald, and Goofy.
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* TheBattleDidntCount: Their boss fight with Sora ends with them getting back up not even a minute later before being thrown out a window.
* CoDragons: All of them towards Pete.
* GetBackHereBoss: When confronted by Riku, they hide themselves within the Backstage area, forcing Riku to find them. though, they do stand and fight when caught.
* GoldfishPoopGang: In spite of this trope they actually are VERY competent at what they do, managing to surprise Sora, kidnap and hold Minnie hostage, and aiding Pete in trying to take over their world.
* NoNameGiven: The most they get is typically "Small/Medium/Big Beagle Boy."
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Based on their outward appearance, no one should take them seriously, however, the not-so-harmless nature of Pete has seemingly rubbed off on them, with the smallest Beagle in particular expressing the most glee in committing villainy.
* SequentialBoss: Somewhat, they attack you during the first phase of Pete's boss fight, and need to be launched at him to force him to come down to the arena, once some time passes, Pete will go right back up and the Beagle Boys will recover, which can happen at least twice (or even more if you let it) during the fight.
* TerribleTrio: A group of three criminals who work under Pete and enjoy being evil.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Right after Sora fights off the [[YourSizeMayVary unusually large]] Tyranto Rex, the Small Beagle throws his rapier at him to make him fall off the stagecoach.
* UnskilledButStrong: Their swordsmanship is fairly sloppy, all things considered, but they do decent damage, can move fairly quick, and can break through combos if you pressure them for too long.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Since they are fairly light enemies, the Gravity series of spells makes fighting them especially easy, though in turn it makes them confused and less predictable, slightly upping the chances of being hit once they're out of it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Claude Frollo]]
!Claude Frollo
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[[caption-width-right:138:"How dare you! I am a righteous man. Good and evil shall be made clear... once the gypsies face the fires of judgement!"]]
->"Now you will be judged...just like the rest!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton (English), Shozo Sasaki (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''
A ruthless and self-righteous justice minister who is Quasimodo's reluctant guardian, seeing the evil he commits to be for the greater good.
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* AbusiveParent: Or at least an abusive version of TheCaretaker for Quasimodo.
* AlasPoorVillain: Riku seems to pity Frollo for having fallen too far to the darkness, admitting it’s a lost cause to try to reason with him. Ansem also warns Riku that Frollo’s fate was entirely avoidable had he not failed to come to terms with his darkness.
* ControlFreak: According to Esmeralda during her talk with Riku, a big reason Frollo hates Romanis is because he can't control them the same way he controls everyone else in Paris.
%%* CoolSword: Brandishes one in cutscenes but is unfortunately TheUnfought.
* DarkIsEvil: Openly uses his darkness, assuming it to be a gift from God, during his purge of the Romani. Surprisingly, Sora was able to ''walk past him'' without detecting it, a contrast to Lady Tremaine and her daughters in ''Birth by Sleep'' and Hans in ''III'', whose [[MadeOfEvil darkness]] were ''immediately'' detected by Aqua and Sora, respectively.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Averted in Sora's scenario where his death plays out the same way as it does in the movie. Riku's scenario has it play out a bit differently though.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Falls off Notre Dame into the fire below while LaughingMad in Riku's scenario but gets the implied smiting by God Himself that he did in the movie in Sora's.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: In Riku's story when he's gifted with the Wargoyle, believing it to be a divine gift to aid in his crusade, he grows increasingly insane and goes off the handle.
* EvilCounterpart: Riku recognizes Frollo as one to himself. Like Riku, Frollo fell to the dark side committing terrible things believing himself to be doing the right thing. What sets them apart is that Riku has the sanity to pull back when he gets too deep into the darkness; whereas Frollo is too insane with bigotry and lust to recognize his own flaws. Frollo’s nature also means he has no friends who he loves that can serve as morality pets, unlike Riku who had Sora and Kairi. Ansem even warns Riku that failing to reconcile with the darkness inside him will lead him down the same path Frollo took that led to his death.
* EvilOldFolks: An elderly man and one of the most vile creations Disney has put to film.
* HangingJudge: If you're a Romani, you're getting burned.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In Riku's story, he prepares to fight Riku himself, and summons the Wargoyle, which flies overhead and causes vibrations, making Frollo lose his footing on the guard-rail and fall.
* {{Hypocrite}}: "I am a virtuous man! Good and evil shall be made plain!" says Frollo as he ''literally radiates an evil aura''.
* IfICantHaveYou: It's immensely downplayed compared to the film.
* InsaneTrollLogic: He assumes Sora is Romani simply because of his unusual clothes. This makes even less sense considering Sora neither looks nor dresses anything like the Romani. He also believes the Wargoyle serving him is a gift from God to smite the Romani with, and by the end of Riku's story is so insane he thinks falling to his death is a ''good'' thing.
* KirkSummation: Subverted. In ''Dream Drop Distance'', when Riku asks Esmeralda if Frollo was always an evil bigot and tries to locate him in order to speak with him, it is subtly implied that Riku intends to try to reason with Frollo, having fallen into the darkness once himself. However, when Riku sees Frollo trying to burn down a villager's home because the inhabitant was suspected of harboring Romani, he concludes the man is so deranged that he will [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer ultimately have to stopped by force.]]
* LaughingMad: Once he really starts going off the deep end, he can be heard cackling to himself often.
* LighterAndSofter: Downplayed, as he's still just as monstrous as he was in the film, but here, Frollo is seen acting more to enforce his interpretation of the law and mostly adapting out his religious and lustful motivations from the film.
* NonHumanSidekick: The Wargoyle, which replaces Captain Phoebus as his [[TheDragon Dragon]].
* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescription: Like in the film, he has no idea that he's calling God to smite ''him''.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He absolutely loathes the Romani and intends to slaughter them.
* SanitySlippage: In Riku's story he notably becomes more unhinged as the story goes on, even going LaughingMad. He doesn't even try to save himself from falling to his death and instead dies happy that judgement is his.
* SinisterMinister: Although he seems more intent on law (or his interpretation of it) than religion.
* SummonMagic: The darkness in his heart allows him to call Dream Eaters which he believes is a divine power granted by God.
* TheUnfought: While he's the main antagonist of La Cité des Cloches, he's never fought himself. Sora and Riku instead fight the Wargoyle under his command.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Captain Hook]]
!Captain Hook
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[[caption-width-right:124:"I have you now, Peter Pan! Today's the day I shall be rid of you forever!"]]
->"And the brat's friends are the king's lackeys. Swoggle me eyes, they're all bilge rats by the look of them.
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton (English), Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka (Japanese, ''KHI'', ''Re: Chain of Memories''), Creator/NaoyaUchida (Japanese, ''Birth by Sleep'')\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]''
Captain Hook is the leader of the pirates who sail the waters of Neverland, and Peter Pan's arch nemesis. He's a part of Maleficent's group trying to take over the worlds in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''.
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* AdaptationalBadass: He's quite capable of fighting Sora, Peter Pan, Donald, and Goofy all by himself despite the fact that they can fly while he cannot. In the film, he had to goad Peter into agreeing to fight him without flying in order to provide a decent challenge.
* ArcVillain: He's the main villain of Neverland in all of its appearances, though he's forced to share some of the spotlight with Riku in the first game.
* BadassNormal: He has no supernatural powers, darkness or otherwise aside from being able to command heartless, and uses only his sword and bombs to fight. He's still one of the highest ranking villains in Maleficent's crew, and his boss fights are usually among the tougher ones.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: One of Disney's most comedic, [[HarmlessVillain harmless]]-seeming villains, but in gameplay, he's a vicious and relentless combatant.
* BladeSpam: Surprisingly for one of the more comedic and bumbling Disney Villains, he'll pull off some rapid-fire displays of swordsmanship when sufficiently angered.
* BlingOfWar: He wears an expensive red pirate coat with a big hat to fit his captain status.
* BossArenaIdiocy: His boss battle in Ven's story in Birth by Sleep takes place on a small rocky island that has a few submerged steps around it that Ven can stand on. As it's on a lower level than the island itself, Ven is safe from all of Hook's attacks except his explosive presents, and since it still counts as ground, the crocodile can't get you. It's supposed to be counterbalanced by being unable to attack Hook while standing on them but there's nothing stopping you from using long-range spells like Fire or even Thunder. If you spend too long down there, Hook throws extra powerful bombs to flush you out, but that still doesn't stop you from being able to hide out from his berserker attacks there.
* CharacterFocus: Captain Hook is the only world-specific Disney villain from Maleficent's original group to even appear in ''Days'', and the main story line of the world is focused on him. [[note]]Though Hades is pictured on a leaderboard in Olympus Coliseum.[[/note]]
* CoolBoat: In the first game Riku hitches a ride on it to cross into other worlds. In fact, it seems to be his job to ferry the other villains around on it.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Yes he's a bumbling, cowardly fool who can't even beat a kid, but when pushed enough...oh boy, he sure knows how to split people apart with that sword and hook.
* DirtyCoward: Downplayed. He prefers to convince others to work for him, or force them into hostage situations, but he'll gladly fight when he's enraged enough or forced into it, and is no slouch.
* FlunkyBoss: When Hook is fought in ''I'', there's a Heartless pirate ship floating around off the deck helping him.
* {{Flynning}}: His ''Chain of Memories'' boss fight invokes this, since in the first stage of the battle, his deck is all 0s, meaning he can parry any attack or sleight Sora makes, but Sora can parry any of his in turn.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: He had an entire crew of pirate Heartless at his command in his debut and would even call upon them in the midst of battle. In ''358/2 Days,'' he flees from every Heartless he runs into though it's later justified since Pete is manipulating him, using his greed to create and control powerful Heartless and even try to turn the Captain himself into a Heartless.
* {{Greed}}: One of his primary motivations particularly in ''358/2 Days'' where he spends nearly the entirety of his screen-time searching for buried treasure. His Greed is potent enough to summon hordes of powerful Heartless which is unfortunate for him since he can't seem to control them.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''[=Re:CoM,=]'' those explosive barrels he kicks around to send them rolling about the ship's deck are capable of hurting him too. It can even spell defeat for him if his health is low enough.
* InASingleBound: He can't actually fly, but he can leap really good, usually to get off the water and back onto the deck in the first game.
* LargeHam: Arguably the least Hammy out of the Disney Villains, but that's not saying much. Corey Burton nails the nasally but still gravelly voice, with notable lines being his classic "BLAST THAT PETER PAN!" and "The hold is crawling with ''HEARTLESS!''"
* LaughablyEvil: Walks the tight-rope between being a threat and being a silly goon. He's clearly a threat, but compared to the other Disney villains, (a short tempered death god, a sadistic [[WormThatWalks burlap sack full of bugs in the shape of a man]], an aggressive octopus witch, an EvilSorcerer and Vizier, and a Dark Fairy who wants to conquer all worlds) he seems like the OnlySaneMan whose main duty within the cabal is to get them from world to world with his ship; when left to his own devices he's more concerned with finding treasure and getting revenge than the takeover or destruction of worlds
* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls him "Captain Hook" or "Hook". His given name (James) isn't even well known by most audiences.
* MasterSwordsman: He's not [[invoked]]ThatOneBoss for some without reason, however, once he starts letting go of that professionalism, he becomes WAY more dangerous.
* ManipulativeBastard: Displayed less often than the films but he does successfully lie to Terra in order to have him guard his treasure and fight Peter Pan.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Not him, but Tick-Tock Croc is always bound to be around when he is out in the open, which terrifies him, and can be used in the players favor in the boss fight.
* NoSell: With the exception of Ven's fight against him in Birth By Sleep, he'll guard against every attempt to use Thunder against him in combat.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Just because he wimps out when the Croc visits, it doesn't mean he can't fight with a sword.
* {{Pirate}}: One of the most famous in fiction, in fact.
** HookHand
** TalkLikeAPirate
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Disguised as presents just like in the movie. He also lights several barrels of gunpowder.
* ToonPhysics: During his boss fight in the first game, it's possible for him to end up standing in midair for a few seconds before realizing it and falling back to the ground.
* TheUnfought: Despite playing a major role in the Neverland storyline, he is never fought in ''Days''.
* UnstoppableRage: After he has his ass handed to him by Sora long enough, he'll snap, turn berserk during the middle part of the boss fight, and then chase after Sora like a madman, ignoring his own swordsman professionalism in exchange for wild, brutal swings in an attempt to kill him. He also does this against Ven.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Pete ends up manipulating his darkness during ''358/2 Days'' to create some powerful Heartless, and very nearly succeeds in making him one himself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Julius]]
!Julius
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/julius_kh3d.png]]
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''

A gigantic monstrous version of Pete created by Dr. Frankenollie. He shows up in the Dream World version of Traverse Town as a {{Superboss}}.
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* TheBerserker: A huge, raging boss who constantly plows anything in his way without thinking.
* CatsAreMean: A vicious and nasty brawler resembling Pete who is also an example of this.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Has 12 bars of HP, much more than any other boss and easily outdoing the FinalBoss.
* DePower: While electrified, he can lock away the commands used by Sora and Riku.
* DuelBoss: To even the odds, your Dream Eaters are forced to sit the fight out, so the only consideration when choosing your party members are what abilities they give you.
* ElementalPunch: When charged up, his punches release bursts of electricity.
* {{Expy}}: He's basically a gigantic Pete but far more vicious, bloodthirsty and more menacing.
* FrankensteinsMonster: A patchwork artificial monster who is empowered by lightning.
* HandicappedBadass: He has a peg leg. Suffice to say, it doesn't slow him down one bit.
* InterfaceScrew: If he is electrified, he can temporarily lock away one of your commands when he climbs, and then jumps down from the building, bouncing towards you in the arena you fight him in. Hope the command isn't from the "Cure" series.
* LightningBruiser: He hits ''hard'', and surprisingly fast for someone his size.
* ShockAndAwe: Once you knock half his health off he charges himself with lightning, making all of his attacks even more deadly.
* StatusEffects: If he grabs you, prepare to be [[HumiliationConga ravaged by almost every negative status effect in the game]]. Going in without at least Blindness Block is unwise.
* {{Superboss}}: An optional boss fight in ''Dream Drop Distance'' that can be fought in Traverse Town once the story is completed. He has a lot of health and is very difficult.
* UnskilledButStrong: His attacks are basic, but very effective.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Using punches, elbow drops, charging tackles, and a punch barrage close to a spinning clothesline.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Despite his incredible strength, speed, gimmick, and HP, he's very susceptible to the Balloon series of spells. since he homes in on you and the balloons can act as mines and homing projectiles, he'll take a substantial amount of damage and occasionally be stunned as long as one keeps a relatively safe distance away and avoid his more unstoppable moves while casting.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Monstro]]
!Monstro
[[quoteright:335:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/monstro_khbbsfm_8.png]]
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep: Final Mix]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''

A gigantic whale, big enough to be considered a world, and big enough to eat ships whole, including Gummi ships.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Monstro in the original film was already the definition of a literal monster, being large enough to swallow entire ships and agile enough to leap several feet into the air; despite this however, he's still just an abnormally large and ferocious sea mammal. Nothing in the movie suggested that he could swim through space without the need for oxygen.
* AdaptationalHeroism: An incredible SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome involving the character occurs in ''Dream Drop Distance''. Right from the start of his battle with the FinalBoss of Prankster's Paradise, Sora struggles to contend with the Chill Crawbster as he is unable to fly at that point, making it difficult for him to get within range of the creature to strike it effectively. Then, to the surprise of many, Monstro shows up to ''help Sora out'' and stays by the young Keyblader's side until the battle is over. Considering that he was frozen solid by The Chill Crawbster beforehand, this could also count as both an example of TheDogBitesBack and EnemyMine.
* BonusStage: While he is unavoidable, he doesn't need to be completed in order to beat ''Kingdom Hearts I''.
* HarmlessFreezing: The Chill Crawbster froze him solid.
* MonsterWhale: His name is "Monstro" for a reason.
* SpaceWhale: His world was destroyed, so he swims through the space between worlds as if it was an ocean.
* {{Superboss}}: An optional boss fight in ''Birth by Sleep: Final Mix'' that can be fought in the Mirage Arena.
* WombLevel: Monstro's insides are host of an entire world in ''Kingdom Hearts I'' and ''Chain of Memories'', as well as Riku's half of Prankster's Paradise.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Queen of Hearts]]
!The Queen of Hearts
[[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/349px-Queen_of_Hearts_KHREC_3253.png]]
->"Off with their heads!"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TressMacNeille (English), Sumie Ozawa (Japanese)\\
'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ(chi)]]'' | ''Union χ (Cross)''
A queen of Wonderland who lives in a castle with decks and decks of card soldiers. Selfish and short-tempered, she beheads anyone who crosses her. She thinks Alice tried to steal her heart.
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* AntiVillain: She's only a threat when she loses herself to her anger, otherwise she's just [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold extremely abrasive, but honestly cares for her subjects enough to protect them.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Often, she's the definition of {{Jerkass}}, running a KangarooCourt where slights are given harsh punishments. She seems like a prime candidate for being turned into a Heartless because of it, but once things become really serious, she is revealed to be protecting her world from the Heartless because she actually has a ''really'' strong heart.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She is said to be vigorously protecting her subjects and soldiers from the Heartless after the Final Keyhole is unlocked, apparently out of sheer force of will and heart, considering she has no martial abilities to speak of.
** OOCIsSeriousBusiness: One knows that the situation is bad when even the ruler of a nonsense world like Wonderland is taking things seriously.
* FlunkyBoss: She's no threat, it's her card soldiers you have to look out for, and even then they are easy to deal with.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The reason she goes after Alice is because the Heartless wanted her heart so badly. This not only foreshadows that she knows what a heart is in the greater context of ''Kingdom Hearts'', but also that she has a particularly strong heart as well. Which makes sense seeing as she is the Queen of Hearts.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: If struck in the boss fight, she flips upside-down revealing these. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Even some of the Heart cards will stop to laugh at her]].
* HangingJudge: Seems very prone to immediately ordering the decapitation
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Wonderland subplot in ''Chain of Memories'' is driven by her suffering this and blaming Alice for it.
* OffhandBackhand: Does a weak version of one if Sora mounts the rim of her booth and doesn't hit her first during her boss fight.
* PerpetualFrowner: Often frowning by default, ''Days'' in particular only ever has her use an angry talk sprite despite the existence of unused smiling talk sprites in the game's data.
* ShipTease: With Luxord, of all people, in the ''Days'' Manga adaptation.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Though "good man" may not be the right term to refer to Luxord, she nonetheless falls for him after he chivalrously displays sympathy and kindness towards her by building her a new castle made of cards after Roxas and Luxord had destroyed her previous one as part of a mission. She even remarks upon what a gentleman he is after he departs.
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[[folder:Gaston]]
![[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]
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->''"WHERE IS THE BEAST!?"''
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ]]''

A dashing and handsome (but also incredibly dull) hunter who was trying to court Belle (to no avail) before she got caught up with Beast. His growing frustrations that at both Belle's rejections and finding out that she's in love with The Beast drive him down the path of darkness to get revenge, eventually bringing about the Enraged Elk Heartless.

Intriguingly, despite having an important role in the original movie, he never appeared in his world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' or anywhere else until the movie's retelling in ''X'', a whopping eight years after the release of ''II''.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Just like in the film, he falls to his death [[TheEndOrIsIt ...Or did he?]] Since the hero of the game never actually visited his world in the first place, its entirely possible he could appear again, similar to Frollo and CLU.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Subverted, He loses himself to his anger and leads an army of heartless into Beast's castle; as he's beating The Beast that darkness separates himself from him to become the Enraged Elk, like Tremaine and Frollo.
* EvilIsPetty: Just like in the film, the only real reason he has to go after Beast at all is because he feels he is entitled to have Belle and is being passed over for the Beast.
* TheFightingNarcissist: He's a very self-centered, egoistic brute with a handsome look and he's willing to get his hands dirty on anyone, especially the player and the Beast, if they don't acknowledge it, all to have Belle for himself.
* TheUnfought: The returning theme of Disney Villains being unfought in favor of a monster they brought about is revisited here. In Gaston's case, it a brutish phantom in his likeness called the Enraged Elk.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The Heartless that is fought because of his darkness at the end of his story, The Enraged Elk, resembles a giant phantom version of himself from the waist-up wearing a deer skull and wielding a club. Of course, it represents how much of a monster Gaston himself has become (though one has to wonder why he didn't just transform into the Heartless outright).
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute[=/=]{{Foil}}: To Clayton.
** Both are hunters who are taken by darkness in a moment of weakness involving their pride (Clayton being desperate to hunt gorillas, Gaston being infuriated at being rejected by Belle.)
** Lead an army of Heartless to accomplish their goals, and spawn a larger Heartless when confronted.
** As a {{Foil}}, aside from being a DualBoss versus being TheUnfought, Gaston is a popular guy with many friends, while Clayton was described as being a friendless, bitter man.
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[[folder:Randall Boggs]]
!![[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Randall Boggs]]

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[[caption-width-right:250:You clowns are gonna be sorry when I find my way back and I finally take over this place!]]
->'''Voiced by:''' J. P. Manoux (English), Yutaka Aoyama (Japanese)
->'''Origin:''' ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' (2001)\\
'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''
A monster exiled to the human world by Sulley, Mike, and Boo after a conspiracy with Waternoose. However, when the XIII Seekers of Darkness have their eyes set on Monstropolis, Randall is freed while Sora and co. journey through the door storage.
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* ArcVillain: He takes over the factory in Monstropolis, though he's only a part of Vanitas's scheme to revive himself.
* BroadStrokes: The comic continuation to ''Monsters, Inc.'' had Randall briefly escape exile until he was caught again at the end of the comic's run. It also just so happened to be partly caused by a crossover event (thanks to the antics of Sid from ''Toy Story'', to be specific).
* EvilIsPetty: More or less the reason he's helping Vanitas is because he wants to one up Sulley in success.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After the Lump of Horror Unversed is defeated, Randall is surprised by Sulley and reluctantly leaves without fighting further.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: A six legged cross between a chameleon and a salamander, who's not above scarring children with dangerous creatures.
* TheUnfought: Despite having his speed and invisibility from the movie, Randall is not a boss at any point during the visit to the world.
* SoreLoser: He loudly complains when the Lump of Horror is defeated, and swears that he'll return someday and take over Monstropolis before being banished back to the same trailer he was sent to at the end of the movie.
* StatusQuoIsGod: He's sent back to the trailer he was sent to at the end of the movie.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mike and Sulley of all characters, do this once his first attempt to summon an Unversed fails, despite the guy hijacking machines left and right, directing all the enemies, and having nearly strangled Sully to death once already.
* UnwittingPawn: Vanitas uses Randall's desire for revenge to turn Monsters Inc. back into using children's scream as an energy source. With a source of children's negative emotions and their heart broken, Vanitas will be able to gather an army of Heartless and Unversed, in addition of regaining his strength.
* VillainHasAPoint: As selfishly ambitious and envious as his motivations were and only really serves to underline how messed up his methods are, Randall is kind of spot on when he points out how laughter, while excessively powerful, is generally not consistently sustainable, and has to account for a ton of variables. Negative emotions by contrast, are very lingering, especially when due to trauma or mental issues.
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[[folder:Mother Gothel]]
!![[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Mother Gothel]]
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[[caption-width-right:283:You want me to be the bad guy? Fine. Now I'm the bad guy.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Donna Murphy
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''
An old woman who kidnapped baby Rapunzel and raised her as her own, in order to keep Rapunzel's healing magic all to herself to remain young and beautiful.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While Gothel has always [[StatuesqueStunner been a looker]], ''Kingdom Hearts 3'' gives her an even more robust body and younger appearence.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Not her human form, but her heartless form, intentional or not, to the version of Mother Gothel as seen in "Once Upon A Time". The live-action Gothel and the Grim Guardianess Heartless both exhibit GreenThumb powers, something that the animated version did not. Additionally, the OUAT version at her defeat is reverted into a tree, and the Guardianess heartless has mostly tree features.
* ArcVillainess: Plays the same role in Corona as she did in her movie, but from Sora's perspective, she's overshadowed by Marluxia.
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Tangled'', Gothel is the BigBad who acts as a manipulator who not only emotionally manipulates Rapunzel, but she also tricks the Stabbington Brothers into retrieving Rapunzel and then has them and Eugene arrested. Here, Eugene's arrest is orchestrated by Marluxia to whom she answers to, being used as a pawn to look after Rapunzel until he and his fellow Seekers may have need of her, and then is turned into a heartless by Marluxia. [[MindControlEyes Her eyes turning pink]] also imply that Marluxia used mind-control on her.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: A downplayed example. While she does still age into nothingness, she is immediately transformed into a heartless soon after and taken down by Sora, Donald and Goofy.
* DisneyVillainDeath: In the film, after Eugene cuts Rapunzel's hair, Mother Gothel rapidly ages into dust and stumbles out of the tower's window in panic, her cloak being the only thing left behind. In this version, the same events occur, only with a giant monster being left behind as well.
* KarmicTransformation: For a given value of "transformation"; the long, twisting form of the Grim Guardianess and its bent limbs with stubby fingers that form after the Heartless is born create a resemblance to a chameleon (likely a nod to Pascal, who contributed to her death in the film), while her tail itself falls out of the sphere of darkness in such a way that it looks just like Rapunzel's hair falling from the tower window.
* MorphicResonance: The Grim Guardianess' canopy resembles her hairstyle.
* OneWingedAngel: After her DisneyVillainDeath, her heart is transformed into an enormous Heartless by Marluxia.
* PersonalityPowers: Her Heartless is able to entrap Sora in flowers to slam him into the ground, corner him with a cage of roots, and wrap around the tower; fitting for someone whose M.O. revolved around indefinitely keeping someone in captivity.
* TheUnfought: As with Hans in the same game, this is played with by providing a battle with a thematically-designed monster spawned from and arguably counting as a transformed incarnation of her, but bearing little to no direct resemblance with the woman herself.
* WhenTreesAttack: The Grim Guardianess, Gothel's tree-like Heartless transformation.
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[[folder:Prince Hans]]
!![[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Prince Hans]]

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->'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]''
A prince from the Southern Isles and Princess Anna's fiancé.
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* AdaptationalBadass: An odd example. Thanks to the lack of any soldiers or Weselton goons, Hans apperently managed to knock out Elsa offscreen and carry her all the way back down the mountain back to Arendale ''singlehandedly!''
* ArcVillain: Subverted. While he plays the same role as he did in ''Frozen'', he gets less focus than even Mother Gothel and Cutler Beckett, to the point he's a non-entity in this version of the story beyond kidnapping Elsa and spawning the final boss of Arendelle.
* DeathByAdaptation: Zig-Zagged. In "WesternAnimation/FrozenFever", Hans is shown having shoveling manure in the stables as part of his punishment for his crimes. Since he doesn't appear after the battle with Sköll, and since it came from Hans, it can be assumed its destruction means that Hans is dead.
* DemotedToExtra: Although he plays a major role in the movie, he only has two very short appearances in the Kingdom Hearts version of the story: Sora and co. only see him when they come across him carrying Elsa back to the kingdom and when he attempts to kill Elsa. [[TheVoiceless He doesn't even have any lines.]]
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: After his failed attempt to kill Elsa leaves him unconscious, he gets consumed by the darkness in his heart and transforms into the Heartless Sköll, a gigantic wolf made of ice and darkness.
* KillTheLights: Manages to pull this off while unconscious and possibly ''dead'' with the spawning of Sköll, who plunges Arendelle into darkness and takes Sora and his friends into a void with no light.
* MadeOfEvil: InformedAttribute; Sora can DetectEvil upon seeing him, and a particularly powerful Heartless boss is spawned from him as soon as he is physically incapacitated, but the man himself is shown demonstrating his own wickedness very little within the game, which is counting on players to be aware of the full storyline of ''Frozen'' and the events thereof which occur offscreen here.
* MeaningfulName: His Heartless is called Sköll, which comes from the evil wolf in Myth/NorseMythology that chases the sun to eat it. Anna and Elsa are confirmed New Hearts, and the cold-hearted Hans pursues them for their kingdom. When he fails, the monster spawned from him traps Sora and his friends in a void without light.
* MorphicResonance: At least by the standards of other Heartless bosses connected with Disney villains within the series, most of which bear no particular physical resemblance to their hosts; Sköll has a similar color scheme to Hans' princely attire, particularly in the ice spikes around the wolf's collar which resemble shoulder pads. See also WolfInSheepsClothing below.
* OneWingedAngel: After he fails to murder Elsa, the darkness in his heart consumes him and turns into a gigantic ice wolf Heartless, Sköll.
* SavageWolf: In addition to its own presence, Sköll is accompanied by packs of wolf Heartless which serve as hostile distraction from the main target of the boss fight.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: From Sora's perspective he looks like an ordinary gentleman and the heroes even wonder if he's just taking Elsa back home when they see him carrying her. They quickly change their minds when they detect how much Darkness he has in his heart and their suspicions are proven to be justified when such Darkness spawns a highly destructive Heartless.
* TheUnfought: Played with via the series' increasingly common practice of using a Heartless spawned from a Disney villain as the boss instead of the character himself, though this one at least has a bit more MorphicResonance than usual.
* TheVoiceless: He doesn't speak at all during his appearances.
* WolfInSheepsClothing: Invoked via his Heartless.

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* KingKoopaCopy: While Pete already bore many similarities to the TropeNamer despite predating him by several decades, his ''Kingdom Hearts'' incarnation can be likened to the depiction of Bowser found in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' RPG spinoffs (fittingly), as an IneffectualSympatheticVillain BigBadWannabe who commands a gaggle of minions (the Heartless in this case) and takes a backseat to the more serious and powerful OriginalGeneration threats.

* {{Sentai}}: In ''Birth by Sleep''.
** Results in a MixAndMatch of GoodCostumeSwitch and EvilCostumeSwitch: He's both Captain Justice and Captain Dark.

* BonusBoss: A lesser one in ''I'', acting as the last opponent in the penultimate stretch of the Hades Cup.

* SkippableBoss:
** The only way you can battle him in ''Kingdom Hearts'' is to complete the tournaments which are not needed to complete the game. You can finish without ever completing any of them or fighting Hades.
** In ''II'', the second visit to Olympus is also optional, so you can beat the game without properly fighting Hades.

* SkippableBoss: In the first game, since Olympus is completely optional.

One of the Titans from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', made entirely of ice. Hydros is fought as a BonusBoss in two games: it's the only challenge of the Coliseum's Gold Match in the non-Japanese versions of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', and is the very last obstacle of the Coliseum's maze in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded Re:coded]]''. He also comes back in time for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''.

* BonusBoss: In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', it's only fought as the only part of the optional Gold Match.

* SkippableBoss: In ''Kingdom Hearts'', the Gold Match is an optional super boss.

* SkippableBoss: The tournaments are optional meaning the player never has to fight him if they don't want to. Canonically, Sora did as the narrator in ''III'' mentions that he'd previously fought the Rock and Ice Titans before.

* SkippableBoss: In ''I'', Halloween Town can be skipped if you complete Monstro and Atlantica before it, so Oogie Boogie can be safely ignored.

* SkippableBoss: Bordering on being a lesser BonusBoss since you need to fight other Skippable Bosses to fight the MCP, but both he and Sark are optional, as [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon The World That Never Was]] will always be available before the return to Space Paranoids.

* SkippableBoss: Much like the MCP since you can beat the game before even unlocking the return to Space Paranoids.

* SkippableBoss: As the Pride Lands can be completely ignored, so can Scar.

* SkippableBoss: Both fights due to the Pride Lands as a whole being optional.

* SkippableBoss: In ''I'', Atlantica can be skipped if Monstro and Halloween Town are completed before it, so Ursula can be safely ignored.

A gigantic monstrous version of Pete created by Dr. Frankenollie. He shows up in the Dream World version of Traverse Town as a BonusBoss.

* BonusBoss: An optional boss fight in ''Dream Drop Distance'' that can be fought in Traverse Town once the story is completed. He has a lot of health and is very difficult.

* BonusBoss: An optional boss fight in ''Birth by Sleep: Final Mix'' that can be fought in the Mirage Arena.

* ImColdSoCold: His last words of "I feel... cold" are carried over from the film/

* MirrorMatch: Not to Sora, but obviously to Jack Sparrow, who is also a bomb utilizing pirate that excels in sword fighting. The only major difference is that Barbossa also carries a pistol and a gimmick on his side.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Like the rest of the characters from Port Royal, he is rendered with realistic proportions and looks like a real person, in contrast to the cartoony looks of Sora, Donald, and Goofy ([[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII initially]]).

->Voiced by: Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (English)
->'''Origin:''' ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''\\

* TeleportSpam: He frequently teleports during his boss fight, being able to travel through his ships parts. One of his trickier attacks is teleporting up from behind to give you a kick with his peg leg.

* WrongContextMagic: The Seekers were keeping an eye on Jones and the Dead Man's Chest because they're fascinated by how he can still exist with his heart separated from his body. Except inside the chest is Jones's ''literal organ'' and not the series' standard metaphysical heart. When Vexen sees this he decides that he's been wasting his time and leaves the Caribbean world annoyed.

* VillainSong: Music/NightOnBaldMountain, originally composed by Modest Mussorgsky. Notable for being one of only two Disney bosses to get his own theme in the series (the other being Rinzler). He did not have it in the Japanese version of ''Kingdom Hearts'' though, but he does have it in both versions of ''Dream Drop Distance''. After ''Kingdom Hearts'' featured a synthesized arrangement of the piece, ''Dream Drop Distance'' features an arrangement more faithful to Mussorgsky's work, and this arrangement is carried over to the ''1.5'' version of ''Final Mix''.

** TheUndead

* AttackAnimal: His bird Hayabusa.

* GoodWeaponEvilWeapon: Definitely an evil weapon.

* MeaningfulName: Hayabusa is Japanese for "Peregrine Falcon", which is odd seeing as the Land of Dragons is China.

* AllThereInTheManual: The name of her raven familiar, Diablo, is only given in her film of origin, and never stated in the games so far. His journal entry for ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' just refers to him as "Maleficent's Raven".

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: See ScaledUp. Just as in the movie, it's a giant, black dragon with green fire.

One of the Titans from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', made entirely of ice. Hydros is fought as a BonusBoss in two games: it's the only challenge of the Coliseum's Gold Match in the non-Japanese versions of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', and is the very last obstacle of the Coliseum's maze in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded Re:coded]]''. He also comes back in time for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''.\\
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* {{Expy}}: Hades employs the "Ice Colossus", a weaker clone of the Ice Titan, in ''Birth By Sleep'' (the genuine article is still under lock and key at that point).