Line #4 NightmareFuel/KingdomHearts


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7	Ahh, ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', you have it all: your own page for [[Awesome/KingdomHearts awesome moments]], [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic great soundtrack]], [[ThatOneBoss/KingdomHearts a variety of hard bosses]], and .... what's missing?
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9	Oh, a page for NightmareFuel.
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11	What else did you expect from NightmareFuel/{{Disney}} ''[[JustForFun/XMeetsY and]]'' [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasy Square]]?
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14	!!Games with their own pages:
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16	[[index]]
17	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHeartsI
18	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories
19	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHeartsII
20	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2
21	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHeartsCoded
22	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep
23	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance
24	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHeartsX
25	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage
26	* NightmareFuel/KingdomHeartsIII
27	[[/index]]
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29	!!In General
30	* The Japanese version of Axel's kamikaze death was bad enough that it had to be censored for Western audiences. Axel's element is fire, so he essentially burned himself alive.
31	** Similarly, [[spoiler:Axel]] executing a kneeling Vexen from behind after Vexen begged him to stop in ''Chain of Memories'' could be upsetting. The modifications made to that scene in ''Re:Chain of Memories'' made it even worse by immolating him on-screen as Sora watched in horror.
32	** Zexion's death, like Vexen's, was made much more horrifying in Re:Chain of Memories. Instead of having the life drained out of him off-screen, [[spoiler:Riku-Replica]] holds him by the collar as he begs for his life, and the camera watches from behind as he stops resisting and his feet are left to dangle lifelessly.
33	** Larxene's death isn't as graphic, but when she realizes she's fading away, she starts desperately grabbing at the pieces of her being, trying to keep them in. It may be worse in the Japanese version because her voice actor sounds absolutely terrified while it's happening.
34	** Nobodies, despite all their claims to feel nothing, often seem as if they actually do have emotions, but only negative ones, such as anger and fear. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance It turns out, THEY ALL HAD HEARTS.]]]]
35	* Some of the little details in the way dying or pained characters are animated are pretty upsetting upon closer inspection. Among the worst include Roxas involuntarily twitching as Ansem-Riku choked him into unconsciousness, Zexion's feet swaying around like a hanged man's as the life was drained out of him, Riku-Replica looking very much like [[DiesWideOpen a corpse]] when his heart was broken, and [[spoiler: Master Eraqus falling forward towards the camera with unblinking eyes when he was killed]] in Birth By Sleep.
36	* Deep Jungle was a peculiar case when its villain deaths are taken into account. Sabor's final confrontation ends with the leopard struggling to both stand and see, and then the cat just sort of, gives up and dies, earning you one of its teeth as a trophy. The boss against Clayton ends similarly, only this time it's the Stealth Sneak, and then its full weight crushes Clayton, who still had some of his sense of self left, and they both disappear together.
37	* There's a section in the End of the World called the World Terminus. You go through, fighting through small sections of the other worlds in the game, all familar areas (The Third District, Rabbit Hole, Agrabah etc). Then you come to Hollow Bastion, and access what is implied to be the freak-lab where most of the OriginalGeneration villains' StartOfDarkness happened. Just for context, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZV9jufp2r8&feature=related here's a Let's Play showing said lab.]]
38	** In ''Melody of Memory'' this room is finally elaborated upon, and it's not pretty. [[spoiler:When Radiant Garden was falling to darkness, Xehanort (as an apprentice to Ansem) kidnapped Kairi and put her in one of the pods to send her to another world in search of a Keyblade wielder.]]
39	** Other frightening locations include The Heartless Manufactory and the secret basement laboratory operated by Xehanort and his fellow apprentices. The Manufactory is a location in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' where [[Film/{{Tron}} the MCP]] starts mass producing Heartless in order to invade Radiant Garden, and is also, according to [=KH3D=] [[spoiler: the place some of the original members of the Organization lost their hearts.]] The basement laboratory [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QVAmLPv_w&feature=player_detailpage#t=180s contains a prison-like area in which the doors are chained shut]], which is implied to be where Xehanort's human test subjects were held, as well as the Chamber of Repose, in which [[spoiler: Aqua's armor is placed.]] Xemnas is not to be disturbed while he is down there, under any circumstances.
40	* TheHeartless as a concept. These shadowy creatures are the result of people losing their hearts to the darkness and essentially becoming [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie zombies]] that mindlessly attack anyone they find, turning ''them'' into Heartless as well. Some Heartless can be [[CuteMonster deceptively adorable]], while others become outright {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. And that's not getting into the [[EmptyShell Nobodies]] - the bodies of strong-willed individuals who lost their hearts to the darkness. They look more like something out of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' than anything, and though it's possible for them to gain a heart, most are just as instinct-driven as the Heartless. The only consolation is that, if a person's Heartless (and Nobody if they have one) are destroyed, they may come BackFromTheDead.
41	* In many games, there exists a {{Superboss}} stronger than any other adversary in the game that serves as a SequelHook towards the next game. Why is this so scary? Purely because ''[[NothingIsScarier absolutely nothing about them is explained at the time]]'', leaving the player up against a horrifically-strong foe with absolutely no idea who or ''what'' they even are.
42	** Worse is that several of these bosses are [[TheVoiceless completely silent]]. They don't even grunt in pain when hit. [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI The Unknown]] only "speaks" through ominous, [[VaguenessIsComing vague]] text appearing on the screen. [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII The Lingering Will]] communicates through subtitles backed up by nothing but faint, metallic, ghostly moaning. And [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep the Mysterious Figure]] remains totally silent and retreats by just... fading out of existence. And when pausing the game against the latter boss, the only "tip" the game offers is "? ? ?". [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIIIReMind Yozora]] is little better. He has a voice and a name, but the sheer power and mystery remain.
43	** Even worse? These bosses often appear with little to no warning while the player is exploring. They'll usually only find out what they've gotten themselves into when the boss' introductory cutscene has started playing. At which point, it's far, ''far'' too late to back out. So if you happen to stumble across one of these bosses by accident? Expect a fairly-quick trip to the GameOver screen.

Context NightmareFuel / KingdomHearts