History Fridge / KingdomHeartsI

** One thing I noticed is that Sora is comparatively much more melancholy in [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts1 KH1]] than he is throughout the rest of the series, where he seems to be almost be eternally optimistic. Why? It's because in [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts1 KH1]] he's an inexperienced youth thrown into an unfamiliar environment and keeps finding himself in very strange and dangerous situations. In the next games Sora is much more experienced, confident, and used to dealing with odd things. As such doesn't let the crap he has to go through get him down anymore.

** There's a plot hole in this. In Chain of Memories, which takes place where [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts1 KH1]] leaves off, Sora can use all the same magic that he could in the first game, plus more. So really, it was just due to his original fighting style that he could use magic such as in the first game.

** Also acts as foreshadowing, because within Kingdom Hearts, people can fall into a different world as a shooting star. Sora falls from the sky but isn't a shooting star because he is able to travel from world to world, not actually landing in any of them. - [[Tropers/{{Mokyn}} Mokyn]]

* I was furious for ''years'' after playing the original ''Kingdom Hearts'' due to one hanging plot thread that was never explained throughout the games; in the jungle level, when Jane shows you a bunch of slides, Slide 6 shows an unknown castle, which Sora says 'feels familiar', and as far as I could see was never explained. Come to realize, years later, that this was due to Kairi's heart being within Sora, as the castle was actually Hollow Bastion, Kairi's homeworld, and it was her recognizing it and projecting onto Sora. Subtle foreshadowing, game. Good job. - ChaosShadow

** On the topic of the Dalmations, some of them can be found in Halloween Town, where the regular ambience audio track contains a sound effect of lonely howling. Talk about heartwrenching, ''especially'' if you've returned there specifically to look for them.
!! FridgeLogic

* The big twist of the original ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' (and hell, the original ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'') is that Wonderland exists entirely within a dream Alice has. In ''Kingdom Hearts'', she is somehow taken from her own dream by Maleficent. How does Wonderland continue to even exist in her absence?
** Since the worlds are essentially alternate universes with the movies, this must take place in where Alice did end up in a real wonderland. The real question is what original world did she belong to? The Clock Tower extension of Never Land?
* A bit of a blunt one: where is Christopher Robin during all of the events in the 100 Acre Wood? We see that Sora apparently takes his place, being the one that opens the book and all. Was the book separated from Christopher Robin's world, in which he becomes the human of the story?
** Has ''Merlin'' ever entered the story while the book was in his possession?
* Birth by Sleep has shown that in Kingdom Hearts, you can't breathe in space. If that's the case, how was Monstro able to survive in space without his head exploding?
** It's a whale floating through space. [[MST3KMantra Don't think too hard about it.]]
** I'm not even sure how BBS proved that. They wear the armor to prevent themselves from being corrupted by the darkness in space. In BBS, Xehanort refuses to wear the armor, believing that it he should welcome the darkness rather than reject it, while Mickey gets knocked unconscious and is suspended in space without armor until Aqua finds him. It's fair to say you can breath in space.
*** No, it's not that they can breathe in space, it's that Mickey has the magic of his Star Shard protecting him, even when he is unconscious. No character in Birth by Sleep or any Kingdom Hearts game is shown to be able to move around to other worlds without a ship, corridors of darkness, or Keyblade armor protecting them. Monstro might have a way for air to circulate through his body, especially given how insanely complex and weird the inside of the whale is.
** Air is never brought up, it's just the corrupting influence of darkness, this isn't space as we think of it, it's The Realms Between, We don't know for sure if Monstro could be corrupted, or even if he has a heart.
*** Although we are told that he tore through dimensions to get to Hollow Bastion, it's safe to conclude that Beast managed to utilize the corridors of darkness himself.
*** Let's not forget Kingdom Hearts II's ending, where Kairi threw a message in a bottle from the sea in Destiny Islands managed to reach Sora and Riku at the Dark Meridian, ALSO connected to water. And the factor that the King's message also arrived in a bottle at sea and the theory above on how the Space between Worlds and the Ocean were basically the same thing (from a different perspective). From this take, to Sora and co they're riding on a Gummi Ship through Space when a huge space Whale pops up to eat them. But to Monstro, he came across the equivalent to a submarine vessel which he then proceeded to eat.

** There's a plot hole in this. In Chain of Memories, which takes place where [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts KH1]] leaves off, Sora can use all the same magic that he could in the first game, plus more. So really, it was just due to his original fighting style that he could use magic such as in the first game.

** One thing I noticed is that Sora is comparatively much more melancholy in [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts KH1]] than he is throughout the rest of the series, where he seems to be almost be eternally optimistic. Why? It's because in [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts KH1]] he's an inexperienced youth thrown into an unfamiliar environment and keeps finding himself in very strange and dangerous situations. In the next games Sora is much more experienced, confident, and used to dealing with odd things. As such doesn't let the crap he has to go through get him down anymore.

** One thing I noticed is that Sora is comparatively much more melancholy in [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts KH1]] than he is throughout the rest of the series, where he seems to be almost be eternally optimistic. Why? It's because in KH1 he's an inexperienced youth thrown into an unfamiliar environment and keeps finding himself in very strange and dangerous situations. In the next games Sora is much more experienced, confident, and used to dealing with odd things. As such doesn't let the crap he has to go through get him down anymore.

** There's a plot hole in this. In Chain of Memories, which takes place where KH1 leaves off, Sora can use all the same magic that he could in the first game, plus more. So really, it was just due to his original fighting style that he could use magic such as in the first game.

** One thing I noticed is that Sora is comparatively much more melancholy in KH1 than he is throughout the rest of the series, where he seems to be almost be eternally optimistic. Why? It's because in KH1 he's an inexperienced youth thrown into an unfamiliar environment and keeps finding himself in very strange and dangerous situations. In the next games Sora is much more experienced, confident, and used to dealing with odd things. As such doesn't let the crap he has to go through get him down anymore.

* The recipie for Hi-Poition is simply to place a Potion on a hot stove. Therefore, normal Potions must be just Hi-Potion with a lot of water in them, and boiling out the filler makes it stronger.

* Jafar said to Maleficent regarding Jasmine, "With her, or without her, this world will be ours once we find the keyhole." Turns out, he was right; Maleficent may as well have forgotten about the Princesses, because Kairi's heart was already out of reach.

* After the fight with the Ansem-posessed Riku, all the previously visited worlds have all the old Heartless you've likely outlevelled replaced with either far more powerful versions of themselves, or Heartless that untill that point were only encountered in Hollow Bastion. This is also off-handedly mentioned in the game by some characters stating that the Heartless numbers have been getting out of control, why is that? Because Ansem regains a physical form right before this happens, [[VillainOverride and assumes direct control of ALL Heartless]]. Ansem himself being the most powerful Heartless in the game, it wouldn't be surprising if his ability to command and give power to them was far greater than that of [[BigBadWannabe Maleficent]].

* Alice is rather unphased by possible execution during her trial, more concerned with how she'll eat without a head. This may either be a case of her being [[ChildrenAreInnocent unaware of death]] or [[DumbBlonde just dumb]], but there may be some justification for this. An old Disney game, ''"VideoGame/DisneysVillainsRevenge"'' actually shows us what would happen to Alice, and likely anyone, when they're decapitated in Wonderland. They lose their heads...and [[OnlyAFleshWound both the headless body and disembodied head are perfectly fine]], capable of speaking and the body can still move around, [[BloodlessCarnage there isn't even any wound or anything]]. This being Wonderland, such a fate would make sense, hence Alice's lack of concern. Given Kingdom Hearts' tendency to go down different routes with Disney's stories, one could even assume Alice ''saw'' the results of these decapitations before Sora and co. arrived.

** You could arguethat Gaston did that more because he's a hunter, though like the hunter in original film, shooting a deer that's clearly with their child is insanely questionable. This does raise a question though, with the amount of animals Sora befriends in these games, how would he react if he actually saw a hunter?

** On the topic of the dalmations, some of them can be found in Halloween Town, where the regular ambience audio track contains a sound effect of lonely howling. Talk about heartwrenching, ''especially'' if you've returned there specifically to look for them.

* This series has always been vague about the exact definition of "world". Some worlds are tiny places like Destiny Islands, while others cover quite a lot of ground, like Neverland being both Neverland and the city of London. I came to the conclusion that everything makes much more sense if the word "world" is replaced by "story". Worlds are stories, which is why their geographical limits depend entirely on the scope of the story. Even worlds that supposedly take place in a fully-realised planet only comprise that which is described in their stories. This is more evident in the case of 100-Acre Woods, which is literally a story in a book, and all the other worlds may not be so different. No one can travel to other worlds because a fictional character can't just jump out of their story into another one.
** Under this logic (and a bit of WMG) the reason the Atlantica world only concerns, well, Atlantica and not the human world (as they explored in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]'' is because it's actually an adaptation of [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1992 the 1992 TV series]], which both takes place almost entirely within Atlantica ''and'' before the events of the first movie, as does the world in Kingdom Hearts I.

* FridgeLogic: The big twist of the original ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' (and hell, the original ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'') is that Wonderland exists entirely within a dream Alice has. In ''Kingdom Hearts'', she is somehow taken from her own dream by Maleficent. How does Wonderland continue to even exist in her absence?
* FridgeLogic: Birth by Sleep has shown that in Kingdom Hearts, you can't breathe in space. If that's the case, how was Monstro able to survive in space without his head exploding?

* This series has always been vague about the exact definition of "world". Some worlds are tiny places like Destiny Islands, while others cover quite a lot of ground, like Neverland being both Neverland and the city of London. I came to the conclusion that everything makes much more sense if the word "world" is replaced by "story". Worlds are stories, which is why their geographical limits depend entirely on the scope of the story. Even worlds that supposedly take place in a fully-realised planet only comprise that which is described in their stories. This is more evident in the case of 100-Acre Woods, which is literally a story in a book, and all the other worlds may not be so different. No one can travel to other worlds because a fictional character can't just jump out of their story into another one

** On the topic of the dalmations, some of them can be found in Halloween Town, where the regular ambience audio track contains a sound effect of lonely howling. Talk about heartwrenching.

** This may also be how the Queen of Hearts [[KarmaHoudini evades the kind of karma throwing out executions left and right would get someone]], she's really doling out annoying punishments that seem to just inconvinience people.

* Speaking of the Queen, her trial isn't fair at all. [[MortonsFork It either forces you to fight her cards, or forces you to fight her cards]] [[FromBadToWorse while your allies are trapped.]] Wonderland's Keyblade, Lady Luck, can't be found until very late in the game. [[StealthPun You couldnt win the trial because Lady Luck wasn't on your side.]]

** On the subject of summons, one can only imagine how horrifying it must be to have your entire world crumble around you, and you wind up as a stone waiting to be found. Even forgetting that, the summons you find have their own issues, [[ILetGwenStacyDie Simba already had a guilt complex the size of Pride Rock]], so he's probably feeling even worse. Whether Mushu was with Mulan before their world fell apart is unknown, seeing as ''"KHII"'' plays out the film's story, but either way, he considers himself a guardian to the Fa Family, and as far as he knows in this game, [[MyGreatestFailure the Fa's, living or dead, are all gone.]] [[AdultFear Bambi and Dumbo are just kids, ones now stuck in strange worlds without the parents and friends they cherished]], so it doesn't take a genius to imagine how that felt.

* Speaking of Hades, ever wondered why despite being one of the first villains to appear, he's fought really late in game, even after Maleficent? Well, remember that unlike all the other Disney villains, Hades is an actual '''god'''.

*** Well, Sora already met [[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} Clayton]], and Shorty after they met, the latter became a Heartless. So if Sora met Gaston, the latter would have became a Heartless as well.