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1''Kingdom Paf'' is a French audio [[WebOriginal Web series]] [[AffectionateParody parodying]] the famous video game ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', created by an internaute known as Ishtun.
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3The story mostly takes the plot of of the original ''Kingdom Hearts'' game, changing the characters' names into french puns and alterning their characters. As a result, it focuses on Dora, a boy who ends up chosen to bear the Keyblade after his world was consumed by Darkness, and is forced to go on a quest with Magician Cobalt and soldier Gecko to stop the [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorceress]] Pathetic from opening the Gate of Darkness. HilarityEnsues.
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5The series involves a lot of MediumAwareness and BlackComedy, and some puns cannot be understood if you don't speak french. It can be found [[http://www.kingdompaf.com/2.html here]] (in french).
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7!! Provides examples of the following tropes:
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9* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' turns out to be the BigBad.]]
10* AIIsACrapshoot: Invoked twice by Thorium:
11-->"Not fun... One day you will see, I'll do like my cousin the [[{{Film/Tron}} MCP]], and I'll kill you all..."\
12"Show some respect! ''I'' am a dangerous psychopathic computer! I could cause a rise of the machines if I wanted to!"
13* AndThenWhat: [[spoiler:Pou, Lia and Koff intend to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone in the Universe]] [[TheSocialDarwinist so only they will remain as the superior beings]]. Jack asks them with this trope, causing Pou to reveal he intends to continue killing everybody (including themselves) after that. Cue to the two others turning against him and the three of them killing each other]].
14-->'''Cobalt''': So ''that'''s how morons regulate their own number...
15* AntiClimaxBoss: Invoked as a RunningGag: with a few exceptions, ''any'' boss will end up becoming this thanks to something interfering with the fight and defeating them before the heroes get to do anything. By the time they reach Pathetic, Dora is sick of it and makes a list of these:
16-->'''Dora''': SHUT THE FUCK UP! There are no more [[ComicBook/{{Asterix}} gaul]], VideoGame/RavingRabbids or guy from Carglass to double me! ''Nobody'' is gonna kill you instead of me! And don't you dare kill yourself!\
17'''Pathetic''': [[BreakingTheFourthWall That's what happen we you set the game on easy mode]].
18* AntiHero: Cobalt means well for Disneyland, but he is willing to go to extremes such as a torture to reach his goal.
19%%** Dora is a Type I-II.
20* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In her EvilGloating, Pathetic informs the protagonists she will soon gain the power to summon Darkness, Chaos, and their parents in her office.
21* BadBoss: Pathetic, as shown in her first appearance:
22-->"SHUT UP WHEN I AM LAUGHING!"
23** Gaz Mask is by far worst.
24* BerserkButton: Cobalt ''hates'' Communists and will go berserk whenever they are involved. Apparently, all Disneylandians are like him... except Gecko, who doesn't know what a Communist is.
25* BewareTheNiceOnes: Dora's Conscience represents his sense of duty and his good side, but when he gets sick of the Unconsciousness' crap, he has him [[spoiler:trapped in a torture room he had secretly built in Dora's brain]].
26* BigBad: Initially seems to be Pathetic. Later revealed to be her Master, the "Gaz Mask", AKA [[spoiler:Dora the Explorer]].
27* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The villains are all defeated and the worlds that had been consumed by Darkness are gradually rebuilding themselves; however, Dora had to be trapped on the other side of the door, which has been definitely closed. He is initially horrified, but gets over it by the end and seems on his way to fight the monsters he is trapt with and find a a way to get out alive.]]
28** BelatedHappyEnding: The ''Kingdom Paf Uchronies'' bonus reveals [[spoiler:Dora ''did'' manage to get back on the other side, and ''finally'' leveled up in the process.]]
29%%* BlackComedy: A lot.
30* ButtMonkey: Dora, due to having the same name than [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer a certain kid show character]], gets constantly mocked by everyone who hears his name.
31** Aeromite, as a reference to her counterpart Aeris' famous death, has a bad habit of [[TheyKilledKenny dying horribly each time we see her, only to come back alive and well later]].
32* TheCaligula: The King of Disneyland isn't seen enough to judge, but he has to be this to chose to name Gecko as his captain of the guards.
33** Believe it or not, but the Queen of Ass somehow manages to be even ''worst'' than [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland her counterpart]].
34* CatsHaveNineLives: Comically exaggerated; In Wonderlands, cats have ''59'' lifes.
35* ComedicSociopathy: Would be shorter to list the characters who ''aren't'' subjects to this.
36** HeroicComedicSociopath: Despite being the OnlySaneMan in the group, Cobalt seems far too willing to use ElectricTorture or just plain torture to get informations out of people. Regardless, he still remains more or less well-intentioned toward Disneyland.
37*** Wasa also has shades of this in [[spoiler:his return, having become a Creator/SylvesterStallone spoof]].
38* CompositeCharacter: Wasa is both a parody of Wakka and [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]]]].
39* CrazyEnoughToWork: When confronted by an entire horde of enemies, Wasa attempts to avoid being slaughtered by suggesting them to play a card game. It works.
40* DoWithHimAsYouWill: [[spoiler:ADSL ends up caught by two Daleks, presumably sent by Gaz Mask. Rather than kill him, they decide to hand him over to the Heart Princesses, who then proceeds to make him go through a ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''-like test.]]
41* DrugsAreBad: Parodied several times; Kanari get reduced to a barely alive husk after consuming too much Kahoku, and Anselle clearly is a drug addict.
42* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Rikouille, big time.
43* EasilyForgiven: Averted; Dora ''doesn't'' take well [[spoiler:Cobalt and Gecko abandoning him after finding out Rikuillle was the true wielder of the Keyblade. When he actually gets it back and they try to team up with him again, he tries to get rid of them and go of his own until he realizes he needs their help]].
44* EvilIsCool: In-universe, everyone seems to agree that Darkness generally have much cooler stuff than Light.
45* EvilIsHammy: Pathetic takes this trope and runs with it as much as she can. She is hammy even when washing her hands, preparing her snack and playing Super Mario Bros.
46** Also, Rikuille is significantly hammier than before after his FaceHeelTurn.
47%%* EvilSorcerer: Well, Sorceress: Pathetic.
48* FailureHero: Dora. Really, the only reason he keeps advancing is because someone or something usually ends up coming to his help out of nowhere everytime there is a fight. He had so few actual victories of his own that he still is level 2 by the end of the story.
49* FakeRussian: Tutti-Frutti ([[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie-Boogie]]'s counterpart) and the Halloweenians are pictured as a parody of the Soviet Union.
50* FashionVictimVillain: Invoked with Rikuille's new look after [[spoiler:he consumed the Tenebeuh]]. Dora even points out he is using one of Pathetic's old skirts as what he intends to use as a BadassCape, but only ends up making him look ridiculous.
51* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Dora the Explorer ended up going psycho after getting mocked constantly for having the same name as [[MemeticLoser the protagonist]]. The constant mockery she suffered from it caused her to have a SanitySlippage, ruin her entire career as a star and eventually have everybody turn against her. Her whole motivations focused on eliminating Dora (the hero, not her) in the past so she could have her old life back.]]
52* FunWithAcronyms: The CIA here means "Confération Inter-Mondial des Enfoirés" (french for "Inter-World Conferation of Bastards"). According to the characters, they were too dumb to realize "Enfoirés" was written with a "E" and not a "A".
53* GenderBender: [[spoiler:ADSL actually was the Goddess Hel when he was born and went through a sex change.]]
54* GeniusDitz: Gecko. Most of the time, he is a complete moron, but he often has sudden sparks of intelligence. [[spoiler:Later revealed to be due to the fact he is a Terminator.]]
55* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler:taking inspiration on [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Ozymandas]], Cyber-Dora and Anselle explain their plan to the protagonist only a hour after already starting it.]]
56* GoodAngelBadAngel: Dora has his Conscience and Unconsciousness talking in his head as this. Though his Conscience isn't all ''that'' [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice]].
57* GratuitousEnglish: Poil/Bob constantly swears in english.
58* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Thanks to his SplitPersonality, Jack goes from siding with the heroes to siding with Tutti-Frutti, then with the heroes then with Tutti-Frutti and then with the heroes again, all in the matter of a few seconds. [[spoiler:And it gets even more complicated when his ''other personality turns out to have a split personality of its own'' and does a HeelFaceTurn itself.]]
59* IAmAHumanitarian: The inhabitants of Halloween.
60--->'''Jack''': We will need to go through the graveyard where we bury our comrads killed by the cold.
61--->'''Cobalt''': Killed by the cold, or gutted by the wolves?
62--->'''Jack''': O, no, we eat those ones.
63* IdiotBall: Otherwise fairly intelligent ADSL fails to remember [[spoiler:he has a fiery hair when he has to jump in a tube of a burning alcohol.]]
64* IdiotHero: Dora zig-zag between being a relatively sane but ineffectual hero and a complete moron. Gecko, on the other hand, is a complete moron almost all the time.
65* KnightOfCerebus: While the series never get completely serious, Gaz Mask manages to make the whole story significantly darker.
66* LameComeback: Dora's speciality:
67--->'''Dora''': Eat this, you rabbit!
68--->'''Narrator''': "Rabbit" ?
69* LaughablyEvil: The CIA as a whole, but Pathetic stands out especially.
70* LegionOfDoom: The CIA.
71* TheLoad: Gecko is seen as this by Cobalt and Dora, to the point they repeatedly try to get rid of him, in vain.
72* MemeticLoser: Dora is a In-Universe exemple. He has the name of [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer an infamous kid cartoon character]], is dressed goofy with ridiculous choses, has an ugly impractical weapon and is ''specialized'' in {{Lame Comeback}}s. Ironically, [[spoiler:this ends up playing in his favour: the Keyblade is a weapon for weak, meaning that, being the weakest of all, he deserves it better than Rikuille]].
73--->'''Anselle''': "Weakness reaches such a level of concentration in this guy, the Keyblade can only come back to him. Take it away from him as much as you want; sooner or later, he will say something even lamer than before, and get his weak weapon back!"
74** [[spoiler:This is actually the ''reason'' behind the main villain's motivation: he was such a loser that even the original Dora got mocked for sharing his name, leading her to madness.]]
75* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Rikuille creates one with an attack to give life to Dora's shadow.
76* NerdInEvilsHelmet: Rikuille, even after his FaceHeelTurn, likes to play Counter Strike in his free time. Pathetic is revealed to play both Counter Strike and Super Mario Bros, and the heroes' visit in her room reveal she collects trading cards.
77** [[spoiler:[[TheDreaded Sipheroth]], of all people, likes playing with action figures in private.]]
78* NormalFishInATinyPond: Gecko is an absolute idiot, but Halloweenian Science are so unadvanced that even ''he'' is considered a genius by them. Cobalt actually misses the chance to get rid of him by letting him accept Tutti-Frutti's offer because he fears he might actually cause science to advance in Halloween.
79* NothingIsScarier: We don't actually get to know what [[spoiler:Dora the Explorer did to her bullies during her SanitySlippage]], but the screams of terror and the EvilLaugh are enough to make it creepy.
80* NighInvulnerability: Gecko has it. Even ''Sipheroth'' couldn't kill him. [[spoiler:Justified in that he actually is a terminator.]]
81* OnlySaneMan: Cobalt usually acts as this in the protagonists' team. Considering he is an InsufferableGenius HeroicComedicSociopath, that says ''a lot'' on our "heroes".
82** ADSL in the CIA. He is the only one to realize how stupid it is to try to rely on Dora to find the Locks and that they should just kill him.
83* PowerHigh: Rikuille, big time.
84** Taken to ridiculously litteral extreme when [[spoiler:Anselle provides him with a PowerUpgrade by ''literally'' making him high thanks to the Tenebeuh, a special drug of his invention.]]
85* RebelliousPrincess: Actymel
86* RockBeatsLaser: Hilariously parodied when Tutti-Frutti states he once won against "capitalist tanks" using pitchforks:
87--->'''ADSL''': Yeah, sure... the pilot was so busy laughing his ass off when he saw you attack him with your gardenning instruments, he didn't notice he was going right into a pit!
88--->'''Tutti-Frutti''': A pit ''we'' had dug!
89* RunningGag: Several:
90** The characters (especially Dora and Pathetic) confusing the Gate of Darkness with a broom closet.
91** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Aeromite dying in graphic ways.]]
92** Boss being defeated by ridiculous things coming out of nowhere, thus preventing Dora from gaining any XP.
93** After Cobalt explained to Gecko that adding "molecular" to random words was a good way to look more intelligent, characters often answer to TechnoBabble with an interrogative "Eeeee... Molecular?".
94* SameCharacterButDifferent: Wasa initially is introduced as a brutish, stupid, [[TheBully bullying]] almost animal-esque character who can only talk in HulkSpeak and is generally antagonistic toward Dora. [[spoiler:When he comes back, he is now covered with fur, has learnt how to speak proprerly, is more of a Sylvestre Stallone impersonnator and ends up in fairly good terms with Dora]].
95* ShockAndAwe: this is Cobalt's favourite way to kill or torture his opponents.
96* ShoutOut: Too many to be listed.
97* TheSmartGuy: Cobalt.
98* SplitPersonality: Jack the Schyzo, as suggested by his name. [[spoiler:and his own SplitPersonality has a Split Personality!]]
99%%* TheStoner: Dora.
100%%** Anselle even more so.
101* TheyKilledKennyAgain: As a reference to the fate of the character she is based on, Aeromite, the parody of Aeris, will often get killed in gruesome ways, only to come back alive and well later.
102* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler:Ansell tries posessing Rikuille for his own purposes. Rikuille ends up taking over him.]]
103* VillainBall: [[spoiler:Pustula decides to betray Actymel (who up until this point actually was on her side) just ForTheEvulz. This causes Actymel to join with the good guys again... sort of.]]
104* VillainsOutShopping: Thanks to Chaos disturbing space and time, Dora, Gecko and Cobalt end up catching Sipheroth [[NerdInEvilsHelmet playing with action figures in his room]]. Cue him chasing them to protect his reputation.
105** Hilariously played straight with Pathetic, who is shown doing various very mundane activities... while still expressing herself in her usual over-the-top, hammy way.
106%%* WorldOfSnark
107* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Gaz Mask inflicts this to ''all the other villains of the series'', Thorium excepted.]]

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