History Headscratchers / KingdomHeartsII

** Sora regressed in power as a result of being asleep for a year, while his memories were muddled. Whatever you learned and however strong you became as Roxas, is passed on to Sora upon their union. Roxas effectively passes the torch. Furthermore, you can level grind as much as you want, but Sora will not learn any of the awesome abilities, drive forms or reaction commands that he has in Kingdom Hearts II. I think Roxas [[JustForPun unlocked]] his full potential.

*** Jafar got trapped in a lamp at the end of the first movie. Iago escapes the lamp shortly after the start of the second movie. Abu recognizes the lamp, in the second movie. There's no doubt that they remember the first ''movie'', plus Sora, Donald, and Goofy. The whole Kingdom Hearts 2 Agrabah level is just retelling the plot of ReturnofJafar. And my theory isn't that Naminé ''erased'' all their memories of everything during [=CoM=]. It's that Naminé's restoration between the games is the only reason the Disney movie characters ''remember'' him. When all the worlds got restored at the end of the first game, their memories must've gotten reset-buttoned as well (otherwise, everyone would've already known about the Heartless in [=KH2=]). Restoring the worlds might've erased some of their memories, and Naminé accidentally helped put them back together while trying to undo the damage she did. But the end result still left some holes when it came to other events that didn't involve Sora, like Ursula and the Heartless.

*** As a troper with autism, faking emotions (and faking expressing real emotions in an appropriate manner) is something many of us have to do, and something that comes quite naturally after some practice. 'Fooling someone into believing we're normal humans' is commonplace for us, and becomes second nature quite quickly with consistency. To be clear, I'm not stating autistic people don't have emotions, but frequently we won't respond emotionally to things the same way others do for myriad reasons (Using logical instead of emotional reasoning being a predominant one). On a personal level, I feel it's a shame the plot point about them not having emotions was dropped in favor of 'No they grow hearts eventually lol', as for me at least, it was a trait that made them a rare instance of characters I could identify with, and the series was starting to touch on some very personal subjects for me before they did a 180 and did away with that entire plot. As for why they fake said emotions, well, it's human instinct to seek the acceptance and approval of those around you, not something based in emotion (Though it obviously becomes entangled with them, it doesn't start with them. Rather, emotions are how those instincts are expressed internally.)

* In [=DiZ=]'s computer room in Twilight Town, you can see a silhouette of Sora on one of the computer screens. But if you look closely you can tell he's wearing his second game clothes. How did [=DiZ=] somehow predict that Sora was going to get new clothes from the fairies while sleeping?

*** But wasn't the novelization non-canon? Though, [[spoiler:the hundreds of keyblades]] thing does make sense. I was also thinking that he might of got it from Ansem [[spoiler:or while he was Ansem.]]

** Ansem's original story seemed to me to be less "evil madman who everyone thought was a just, kind ruler" and more "just, kind ruler who secretly suffered rapid MotiveDecay while studying TheDarkSide." The change just ditched the StarWars morality -- [=DiZ=] still went from wise and just to self-serving and questionably-sane, he just had a better reason for doing so and continued to align himself with the heroes in spite of it (which is probably even stranger for a half-Disney character). Not to mention that he wasn't exactly nice even before being betrayed, though it's hard to tell how far he went, because he glosses over all his own wrongdoings in his reports.

** I would like to point out that [[StarWars one man's terrorism is another man's liberation]].