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*** For Destiny Islands, by then Sora already knew what will happen but is still happy anyway. Like... cherish the good memories before things everything (the world or island?) goes away. Foreshadowing Sora cherishing whatever moments he could have with Naminé before his memories get erased and replaced with his original memories. Despite the memories being mostly fake, Sora was still happy to see Naminé. After Naminé shatters the illusion created by the false memories, Sora is able to recall Kairi's existence, despite not being able to remember her name until he's just about to go to sleep. The next game reveals that Kairi was the only one on the Destiny Islands that could remember Sora existed but was unable to recall his name and face until she received some prompting from Sora's voice. This clearly shows how close Sora and Kairi are to each other.
*** Lastly, for Twilight Town. Sora clearly has never set foot in Twilight Town. Roxas did. This is the largest hint from Naminé to Sora that his memories are being manipulated but Sora still could not get the hint. By right, this memory of Twilight Town should be remembered by nobody on Sora's team. Literally. That is, by the "Nobody" of Sora's team as in Roxas which said team won't truly be "formed" until Kingdom Hearts III at the Keyblade Graveyard. The connection between Sora and Roxas would not be revealed until ''II''.

* When you really think about it, each Memory World in Sora's storyline (with the exception of Traverse Town, Twilight Town, and Destiny Islands, all of which are directly connected to the plot) foreshadows the story, Naminé's character arc, and the effect true and false memories can have on people:
** In Agrabah, Aladdin is a StreetUrchin who hopes to use the Genie's lamp so he can be with Jasmine, believing she wouldn't want to talk to Aladdin if he wasn't a prince. Jafar used him to get the lamp for himself so he can use it to become Sultan of Agrabah by making Jasmine his queen. Aladdin realizes if he does go through with his plan, he'll be no better than Jafar, so he ultimately chooses to instead free Genie from the lamp before going to meet Jasmine, wanting her to know the real him. Naminé, while she was forced by the Organization to manipulate Sora's memories, admitted she used her powers to draw Sora in to escape her loneliness, but finally acknowledged it was wrong and instead to chose to do the right thing and tell the Sora the truth and restore his memories, which allows them to promise to meet each other again someday as real friends.
** In Olympus Coliseum, Cloud makes a deal with Hades. In exchange for eliminating Hercules, Cloud will have his memories restored. When Cloud fails in the task, Hades double-crosses him, never intending to help him in the first place. After Sora defeats Hades, the games are cancelled due to everyone being in no condition to fight, much to Sora's disappointment. Before Cloud leaves, Sora tells him that the smallest things will help bring back memories, since even the most important ones aren't gone forever. Riku Replica fought against Sora due to being led to believe he was a threat to Naminé, unaware that the Organization had Naminé mess with his memories and used him as a pawn to lure Sora further into the castle. Sora and his friends' memories have been messed up to the point they have to sacrifice the memories they made at Castle Oblivion to recover them, including the recent memories of Naminé despite finally meeting her, necessitating they sleep for a whole year. Sora is able to recall Kairi, his most important memory, just by looking at her good luck charm instead of the false one Naminé made and thinking hard enough about who the red haired girl is.

** In Halloween Town, Dr. Finklestien's potion is supposed to bring back true memories, but when Oogie Boogie drinks it, he is overcome by fear. The doctor theorizes this is because true memories unbalance the heart, and if Sora had drank it, something even worse would happen. When the Riku Replica regains his memory of being a replica of the actual Riku, he becomes unbalanced trying to become his own person due to Axel's manipulations.

*** Although Traverse Town, Destiny Islands and Twilight Town are directly connected to the plot, they still have some forms of brilliance foreshadowing but more for Sora. For Traverse Town, it's like bits and pieces of hints for Sora who literally could not see the hints. Memory Leon wondering what was up with his memory (what Sora is experiencing), Memory Aerith being unsure of whether to welcome Sora and gang back or introduce herself (Sora being unsure of what happened where like Sora being turned into a Heartless in a Castle for instance the further he goes), Memory Yuffie who knows who Sora is but is sure that they are strangers yet it is convenient (Sora able to remember Pooh and vice versa when they should have forgotten each other which is strange yet convenient for the player and Sora himself somewhat but he did not realize it) and Memory Cid who thought he knew who Sora is but really does not yet he insisted because he looked like a Sora (foreshadowing Sora who will meet the Riku Replica who Sora KNOWS is Riku but it's really only by looks, calling Riku Replica "Riku" as Sora sees him).
*** For Destiny Islands, by then Sora already knew what will happen but is still happy anyway. Like... cherish the good memories before things everything (the world or island?) goes away. Foreshadowing Sora cherishing whatever moments he could have with Naminé before his memories get erased and replaced with his original memories. Despite the memories were mostly fake, Sora was still happy to see Naminé.
*** Lastly, for Twilight Town. Sora clearly has never set foot in Twilight Town. Roxas did. This is the largest hint from Naminé to Sora that his memories are being manipulated but Sora still could not get the hint. By right, this memory of Twilight Town should be remembered by nobody on Sora's team. Literally. That is, by the "Nobody" of Sora's team as in Roxas which said team won't truly be "formed" until Kingdom Hearts III at the Keyblade Graveyard.

* While Traverse Town, Twilight Town, and the Destiny Islands are directly part of the main plot in Sora's storyline as mentioned above, they do foreshadow some things that would be revealed in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'':
** In Traverse Town, Leon and his gang do not recognize Sora and his companions initially, but are able to remember their names and Leon's parting words back in Hollow Bastion with some prompting, despite claiming to have never met them. Aerith theorizes this is because Sora's heart is connecting them and doing the remembering for them. We would later learn in the next game that everyone forgot Sora's party at the same time they forget them as a side effect of Naminé tampering with Sora's memories, and it's not until their forgotten memories are restored that they everyone else remembered Sora's party. So in a sense, Sora's heart really did connect them all.
** Twilight Town quite obviously foreshadows Sora's connection to Roxas, namely how Sora has a sense of nostalgia despite never having been there before, and Vexen's statement about how the "other side of Sora's heart" remembers.
** On the Destiny Islands, after Naminé shatters the illusion created by the false memories, Sora is able to recall Kairi's existence, despite not being able to remember her name until he's just about to go to sleep. The next game reveals that Kairi was the only one on the Destiny Islands that could remember Sora existed but was unable to recall his name and face until she received some prompting from Sora's voice. This clearly shows how close Sora and Kairi are to each other.

--> '''Donald''': So...the higher we go, the more we forget? What if we forget everything and can't get it back?

** That is not all. What happens if Sora actually drinks it? What will happen? One popular theory is that Sora will realize that his memories are being manipulated. However, it probably won't really have any effect since it's just a figment of Sora's manipulated memories. To prevent something that would be hard to do and have it "make sense" to Sora, Naminé probably reluctantly settled that by having Oogie Boogie show up. Even when given a chance by Dr. Finkelstein, Sora willingly refused anyway. In a sense, Naminé gave Sora a chance to know the truth by Sora declined the offer. Probably also foreshadowing that Sora declined the offer of keeping the current memories and chose to have his original memories restored. The "current" one which involves Naminé, knowing Sora, he will seek the truth along the way anyway. Naminé even allowed Jiminy to keep the "Thank Naminé" part in his journal.

** [[spoiler:Popular theories are that the potion made him "remember" that he's just an illusion that will disappear once Sora leaves the floor... or that the potion made him remember the real Oogie's memories from the previous game... including the fact that Sora and Jack essentially destroyed him. It could be the reason why his memories were out of wack in ''II'']].

* A single line here that spreads across the entire series: in a relatively lighthearted scene, Sora jokes that Donald beat him up when he was a Heartless without realising it was him. Here's the question: how could he remember that[[AndIMustScream unless he was conscious of what was happening?]]
* Much earlier in game, when you finish the first floor and get in front of the second floor, a cutscene plays where Goofy attempts to recall Hollow Bastion, but while he can recall how it looked like, he can't recall the name. Sora and Donald both fail to recall it completely. This begins to highlight Namine beginning to remove their memories, but take note of another fact... when you get to the upper floors where you will have the Hollow Bastion card, none of them recall the earlier conversation nor does it seem to come up. The FridgeHorror that can be taken from this is that Namine's memory wiping is getting to the point that not only have they completely forgotten their previous adventure, but it's ''starting to make them forget their current one too''.

*** Although Traverse Town, Destiny Islands and Twilight Town are directly connected to the plot, they still have some forms of brilliance foreshadowing but more for Sora. For Traverse Town, it's like bits and pieces of hints for Sora who literally could not see the hints. Memory Leon wondering what was up with his memory (what Sora is experiencing), Memory Aerith being unsure of whether to welcome Sora and gang back or introduce herself (Sora being unsure of what happened where like Sora being turned into a Heartless in a Castle for instance the further he goes), Memory Yuffie who knows who Sora is but is sure that they are strangers yet it is convenient (Sora able to remember Pooh and vice versa when they should have forgotten each other which is strange yet convenient for the player and Sora himself somewhat but he did not realize it) and Memory Cid who thought he knew who Sora is but really does not yet he insisted because he looked like a Sora (foreshadowing Sora who will meet the Riku Replica who Sora KNOWS is Riku but it's really only by looks, calling Riku "Riku" as Sora sees him).

** In Agrabah, Aladdin is a StreetUrchin who hopes to use the Genie's lamp so he can be with Jasmine, believing she wouldn't want to talk to Aladdin if he wasn't a prince. Jafar used him to get the lamp for himself so he can use it become Sultan of Agrabah by making Jasmine his queen. Aladdin realizes if he does go through with his plan, he'll be no better than Jafar, so he ultimately chooses to instead free Genie from the lamp before going to meet Jasmine, wanting her to know the real him. Naminé, while she was forced by the Organization to manipulate Sora's memories, admitted she used her powers to draw Sora in to escape her lonliness, but finally acknowledged it was wrong and instead to chose to do the right thing and tell the Sora the truth and restore his memories, which allows them to promise to meet each other again someday as real friends.

** In Monstro, Pinnochio tries to find an exit out of Monstro without telling Gepetto because he didn't want him to worry, only to be encouraged by everyone to tell him the truth instead. Sora also encourages him to fight back against the Heartless holding him captive. Naminé does fear Sora wouldn't like her if he knew the truth, but still told him anyway and is surprised when he still wanted to help her. This gives Naminé the courage to defy Marluxia.

* Wonderland goes deeper still. You get a bad deck but it is still stronger than the weaklings you are fighting. In fact you can win duels by button mashing. You are Riku, a swordsman with no equal. Until the boss appears... the boss makes Riku SMALL. Its cards are 8s and 7s. It walks around a table that is Riku's only source of safety. Like a predator stalking its prey. Almost laughing at Riku as if to say "did you truly think you where strong while killing those weaklings? Now that you are small and weak... how does it feel? What will you do?"

* Wonderland goes deeper still. You get a bad deck but it is still stronger than the weeklings you are fighting. In fact you can win duels by button mashing,You are Riku a swordsmen with no equal. Until the boss appears..the boss makes Riku SMALL. Its cards are 8s and 7s. It walks around a table that is Rikus only source of safety. Like a predator stalking its prey. Almsot Laughing at Riku as if to say "did you truly think you where strong while killing those weaklings? Now that you are small and weak..how does it feel? What will you do!"

** In Wonderland, the Chesire Cat gives the group advice about how to deal with the Queen of Hearts, "Think too hard, and your memory might lie to you." Alice makes the Queen of Hearts believe she ordered Sora and his friends to destroy the Heartless, exploiting her lost memory and counting on her being too prideful to admit that didn't happen. When Sora thinks too hard about the girl that suddenly appears in his memories, he was led to believe in false memories of Naminé, something that was exploited by the Organization.