History Fanfic / KingdomHeartsIIIArmyOfLight

** In all ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' story arcs, several Light-affiliated characters become kung fu masters.

** The first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' story arc has a moment in which Sora's team (which had Po at the time, as well as [[TheAtoner Axel]], save the Furious Five from the original Organization XIII.

** ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime''. First off, the Fairy Godmother restores the original timeline, [[ForWantOfANail as Aqua was still in Castle of Dreams when Lady Tremaine tried to changes fate]]. There also is the changes in Lady Tremaine and Drizella's fate. In the movie, they're forced to work as servants at the castle. Here, Drizella is EasilyForgiven, and Lady Tremaine was exiled after Anastasia revealed how much of an AbusiveMom Lady Tremaine is. Also, Lucifer and Pom-Pom are exiled as well. In Lucifer's case, Lady Tremaine took him with her. Pom-Pom was exiled after the castle's inhabitants learned about and got used to Cinderella's mouse friends. We don't know what happened to Lucifer and Pom-Pom in the movie. Oh, and the "servant" thing? Anastasia and Drizella became Cindy's Ladies-in-Waiting [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe because of Cindy's kindness, not because they were forced]]. The Baker dating Anastasia works too at the castle.

* SpoilerCover: The final cover of the saga, which covers the time between the most recent visit to Agrabah and the Keyblade War (Up until then, each individual arc got it's own cover), implies that the thirteenth member of the True Organization is Sora's Heartless. It also spoils the fact that Gladstone Gander, Fethry Duck and Donald's friends Panchito and Jose are members of the Army of Light, as they only debuted in the series after the cover was revealed. It also spoils Sephiroth being in the True Organization, as a LateArrivalSpoiler.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Sultan gives one to Razoul after he accuses Aladdin of thievery one too many times.
--> '''Sultan''': That's quite enough Razoul! Yes, what Cassim did was wrong. But like Aladdin, I now see someone who just wanted to help his family, like how I want to help mine and my kingdom. And if they all say he and Iago can be redeemed, then I'm willing to see for myself.\\
'''Razoul''': But--\\
'''Sultan''': And another thing! Your way of dealing with criminals is quite frankly despicable, especially when it comes to petty crimes and executing them as well. It's very disturbing. And whenever Aladdin is in trouble, you always assume he's a criminal who only cares about himself. And that sickens me as much as it sickens my daughter. Aladdin is a good person. And you need to start clearing up your act Razoul or else it'll be your job! Now get out of my sight!

* TheBusCameBack: Sora returns to multiple worlds that are not visited again after ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Such worlds here include: [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Agrabah]]. This is also the case for the ''Birth By Sleep'' trio and the [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Castle of Dreams]]. Furthermore, due to Zira and [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Morgana]] being part of Maleficent's LegionOfDoom, Sora will return to Pride Lands and Atlantica.

'''Sultan''': And another thing! Your way of dealing with criminals is quite frankly despicable, especially when it comes to petty crimes and executing them as well. It's very disturbing. And whenever Aladdin is in trouble, you always assume he's a criminal who only cares about himself. And that sickens me as much as it sickens my daughter. Aladdin is a good person. And you need to start clearing up your act Razoul or else it'll be your job! Now get out of my sight!
* VillainTeamUp: Xehanort teams up with Maleficent to further each other's goals. He also teams up with various villains that are not part of Maleficent's LegionOfDoom, but he warns them not to backstab him. [[EvilerThanThou He makes good of his warning against Thanos]].

--> '''Sultan''': "That's quite enough Razoul! Yes, what Cassim did was wrong. But like Aladdin, I now see someone who just wanted to help his family, like how I want to help mine and my kingdom. And if they all say he and Iago can be redeemed, then I'm willing to see for myself."\\
'''Razoul''': "But-"\\
'''Sultan''': "And another thing! Your way of dealing with criminals is quite frankly despicable, especially when it comes to petty crimes and executing them as well. It's very disturbing. And whenever Aladdin is in trouble, you always assume he's a criminal who only cares about himself. And that sickens me as much as it sickens my daughter. Aladdin is a good person. And you need to start clearing up your act Razoul or else it'll be your job! Now get out of my sight!"
** And another one at the beginning of the Avengers Endgame arc, when Tony Stark and Steve Rogers get in a huge fight and it's '''Sora''' of all people, in a fit of rage, is the one giving it to the remaining Avengers.

* AdaptationalExpansion: The Frozen story arc, natch. It's barely visited in the game, but here, it's more developed. Aqua in particular has a major role in Elsa's CharacterDevelopment.

** The ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' arc: Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff are both SparedByAdaptation, Steve managed to live both his lives, and, [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue five years after the Keyblade War,]] the Avengers are stronger than ever.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Several events happen a lot sooner than in the games: namely, the rescue of the ''Birth By Sleep'' trio, as well as Roxas and Namine. Same goes for Saix.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Xion is not a member of the True Organization XIII here. Instead, she joined the Guardians of Light right after her recreaționale. [[SpoilerCover The final cover implies that the Organization's thirteenth is Sora's Heartless]].
** Also, Myde. He never helped the heroes directly in the games, but here, he does.
** Downplayed with Even/Vexen. In the games, while he is a reserve for The True Organization XIII, he actually works as a DoubleAgent for Ansem the Wise and Ienzo. Here, he's not affiliated with the Organization at all. Furthermore, in both instances, he helps in bringing Roxas BackFromTheDead by using a Replica body, Although this time he also brings one for Namine, and a third one for a reason he couldn't figure out (it turns out this body was for Xion).
** Shinra Inc. and SOLDIER. Justified since [[TheHero Cloud]] is a member of it and Rufus Shinra had a HeelFaceTurn.
* AdaptedOut: Zigzagged with Namine being the one who summoned Lingering Will against Terranort. Namine was restored before the gang rescued Aqua from the Realm of Darkness. However, one should keep in mind that, according to [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doc Emmet Brown]], [[ForWantOfANail even the smallest change in the past can create an]] AlternateUniverse. (In this case, the change from the games is most likely an encounter between the Wayfinder Trio and [[Film/IronMan Tony Stark]] during Birth By Sleep.) This means that it may be possible for an alternate version of Namine to have summoned Lingering Will. Then again, how Lingering Will saved Sora and [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Shang]] is unknown, so perhaps Lingering Will was simply following the gang from the shadows, eventual being accompanied by [[WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit Oswald]].
* AuthorAppeal: J. Tom is a big fan of Duck Tales.
* BackFromTheDead: This happened to [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 Magica de Spell and Lena]]. Maleficent also plans to do this with various deceased members of the original LegionOfDoom, such as Scar and Jafar. This also happens to some of the heroes at the end of the Avengers Endgame arc, as they died at the end of the Infinity War arc.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: It turns out that the Master of Masters gave [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3 Kai]] the idea of stealing other's Chi.
* BrickJoke: When confronting Ansem in Dream Drop Distance, Riku says his (Riku's) way is "consume the darkness, return it to light". In this fic, not only there are 20 Guardians of Light (the supposed 7 lights + 13, the number of darknesses), but three of them (Myde, Terra and Isa) are former members of Xehanort's Organization.
* TheBusCameBack: Sora returns to multiple worlds that are not visited again after ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Such worlds include: [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Pride Lands]], [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast's Castle]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} The Land of Dragons]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Agrabah]]. This is also the case for the ''Birth By Sleep'' trio and the [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Castle of Dreams]]. Furthermore, due to Zira and [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Morgana]] being part of Maleficent's LegionOfDoom, Sora will return to Pride Lands and Atlantica.
* {{Crossover}}: Between ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' and various Disney and non-Disney franchises.
** Among Disney franchises (which do not appear in Kingdom Hearts) are ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse the Marvel Cinematic Universe, whose creator, Marvel Comics, is owned by Disney]], and a PatchworkFic between the [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 two versions]] [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 of DuckTales]]. It's also implied that there will be a ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' arc, since Yzma is part of Maleficent's LegionOfDoom.
** Non-Disney franchises include ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and ''[[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]]''.
* DarkIsNotEvil: After the rescue of the ''Birth By Sleep'' trio, Lena, who is an example of this trope, is helping Aqua to understand this trope.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' arc, this happens to Biff-A. In the film, it is stated By WordOfGod that [[TheDogBitesBack he was shot by Lorraine-A]]. Here, Biff-A was so consumed by the darkness in his heart, that slaying his Heartless ended up killing him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The reason Mortimer does not appear in the games? He was exiled after he wouldn't stop hitting on Minnie, even after the latter married Mickey.
* EverybodyLovesZeus: PlayedWith. As it turns out, a different world means a different Zeus, so it depends on which Zeus you're talking about. It's played straight with the Zeus from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' and averted with the Zeus from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', as per the canon of each.
* EvilCounterpart: In-depth analysis of the first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' arc makes Tai Lung be one to Terra. Both of them are prodigious students of a master that treated them like a son (Shifu for Tai Lung, Eraqus for Terra) and prepared them for greatness (being the Dragon Warrior for Tai Lung, being a Keyblade Master for Terra), and both of them, when denied that greatness because of the darkness in their hearts, caught Xehanort's attention. However, Tai Lung becomes obsessed with the Dragon Scroll and [[RedemptionRejection refuses the chance at redemption Shifu gave him]], while Terra only succumbed to the darkness because Xehanort and Vanitas tried to hurt Aqua and Ventus, and wants to [[MustMakeAmends "set this right"]].
* EvilerThanThou: The True Organization XIII pulls one to Thanos, after the latter decides to destroy the universe.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' arc, Namine asked for the Daisy Sorbet. Come the "Rescue of the Wielders" arc, and Daisy becomes Namine's successor.
* TheGhost: Max's girlfriend, Roxanne, and Oswald and Ortensia's children, are mentioned, but do not appear.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Per canon, the Princesses of Heart and their successors, the New Seven Hearts. Kida is one of the New Seven Hearts, along side Kairi, Rapunzel, Anna and Elsa, leaving only two unknown New Hearts.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: There are instances when someone from Sora's gang notices that a character from a world they visit sounds like another character from movies and TV shows they are watching. The first instance is in the ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'' arc, when Sora and Kairi note that Angelique sounds like [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Rita]]. The "leaning on the forth wall" thing comes from the fact the characters Sora's gang is talking about have the same voice actor: to continue the example, Angelique, Rita are all voiced by Creator/BernadettePeters.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Demyx's Somebody, who is named Myde here.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sora, of all people, at the beginning of the Avengers Endgame arc, is shown to be very shaken after the events of Infinity War, and when Tony Stark and Steve Rogers got into a huge fight, he has a huge outburst of rage and scolds the Avengers for their stupid mistakes, which caused them to split up and the heroes' defeat against Thanos, shocking everyone and even literally ripping a table off the ground and throwing it out a window. Even Thor and Nebula felt unease, while Donald was scared in witnessing this outburst, even though he was that angry just shortly before that, and Sora's words about ''sparing themselves from the truth'' made him flinch because he and Scrooge did something like that themselves about Della's fate, hiding everything about her from Huey, Dewey and Louie.
* PatchworkFic: The [=DuckTales=] cast is from a combination of the [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 1987]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 2017]] canons. From the 1987 canon, we have Webby being Bentina Beakley's granddaughter, and from the 2017 canon, we have Della's story, as well as Lena and Violet's presence.
* PetTheDog:
** Sora's friends stand up for him when, even after Sora used the Power of Waking to defeat the Shadow Blot Heartless, [[MemeticTroll Yen Sid]] refuses to name Sora a Keyblade Master. Yen Sid finally gave Sora the title at his friends' insistence.
** Shortly after his rescue, Terra was named a Keyblade Master, fulfilling his and Aqua's dream.
* RedemptionPromotion: Myde is more competent as a Guardian of Light than as a Seeker of Darkness.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Multiple ones.
** Sora and Kairi, at the end of the ''[[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]]'' story arc.
** Donald and Daisy get engaged at the end of the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' story arc.
** Po and Tigress, at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' story arc.

* ShoutOut: At one point, Reno calls Xemnas "Mansex", a memetic FanNickname resulting from scrambling Xemnas' name.
* SparedByAdaptation: Since Midgar is made out of FridgeBrilliance, this is the case for Zack and Aerith.
** [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Tony Stark]], as Sora was the one who used the past Infinity Stones to kill Thanos'army.
** [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Natasha Romanoff]], as Nebula gave the idea of having Natasha and Clint travel back to 2018 to retrieve the Soul Stone from Thanos alongside Aqua, Pepper Pots, and Carol Danvers.

* TraumaButton: ''Anything'' regarding Thanos is this for Sora, after several of his friends, including Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Goofy, Terra, Xion, Naminé and Lea die because of Thanos's snap.
* TrueCompanions: The Guardians of Light see themselves as a family.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Webby is not April. Also, April, May and June are not [[OppositeSexClone clones]] of Scrooge.
* VillainRespect: Xehanort does this by giving Sora the Infinity Stones after Thanos's defeat.

** [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Natasha Romanoff]], as Nebula gave the idea of having Natasha and Clint travel back to 2014 to retrieve the Soul Stone from Thanos alongside Aqua, Pepper Pots, and Carol Danvers.

** Sora and Kairi, at the end of the [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]] story arc.

*** Max is Riku Replica's successor. Keep in mind that he got it not from Riku Replica himself, but rather from Dark Riku
*** Ortensia is Oswald's successor

*** Max is Riku Replica's successor.

*** Goofy is Young Xehanort's successor. Keep in mind that Sora is technically Ven's successor not by doing a Keyblade Inheritence Ceremony, but by storing Ven's heart within him.