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8	''Disney Mirrorverse'' is a Creator/{{Disney}} crossover mobile ActionRPG {{Gacha Game\|s}} for UsefulNotes/{{iOS\|Games}} and UsefulNotes/{{Android\|Games}} devices, developed by Kabam. It was beta-released in the Philippines in April 2020, and while other countries were added to the beta, its full global release wasn't until June 23, 2022.
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10	The Mirrorverse is said to have begun when stars of light and dark magic collided, creating worlds similar to those of Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/{{Pixar}} but infused with powerful magic that enhances the abilities of its inhabitants. Here, Mickey Mouse discovered the Stellar Mirror, the source of all light magic. He eventually learned how to master its power and use it to travel between the worlds, allowing their heroes to form connections and friendships with one another.
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12	But things changed when mysterious dark magic creatures appeared, with many of them taking the forms of the Mirrorverse's heroes and villains. Called the "Fractured" (after the way they shatter when defeated), they began attacking the worlds trying to claim the Stellar Mirror. Mickey calls on the friends he's made to defend the Mirror from the Fractured, and track down who is sending them and why.
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14	In addition to some merchandise in the form of action figures[[note]]which first released in 2021, predating the global release[[/note]] and an artbook, some [[TieInNovel Tie-In Books]] have been released: ''Pure of Heart'' in July 2023, a novel featuring Snow White's origin as she first encounters the Fractured and the Guardians; and ''Belle'' in April 2024, an alternate telling of ''Beauty and the Beast'' before that world comes in contact with the wider Mirrorverse.
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16	'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/qHzDdvfOEhU First trailer]]
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18	See also auto-brawler ''VideoGame/DisneyHeroesBattleMode'' (2018) and turn-based ''VideoGame/DisneySorcerersArena'' (2020).
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22	[[folder:Playable Characters]]
23	* ''[[Franchise/MickeyMouse Mickey and Friends]]'': Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy
24	** ''ComicBook/{{Disney Ducks\|ComicUniverse}}'': Scrooge [=McDuck=]
25	* ''Franchise/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Cruella de Vil
26	* ''Franchise/{{Aladdin}}'': Aladdin, Jasmine, the Genie
27	* ''Franchise/AliceInWonderland'': Alice
28	* ''Franchise/{{Beauty and the Beast\|Disney}}'': Belle, the Beast, Gaston
29	* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': Hiro, Baymax
30	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': Merida
31	* ''Franchise/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Kuzco
32	* ''Franchise/FindingNemo'': Dory
33	* ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'': Anna, Elsa, Olaf
34	* ''Franchise/{{Hercules}}'': Hercules, Hades
35	* ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'': Mr. Incredible, Violet, Frozone, Dash
36	* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'': Anger
37	* ''Film/JungleCruise'': Frank Wolff
38	* ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'': Stitch
39	* ''Franchise/TheLionKing'': Simba, Scar
40	* ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid'': Ariel, King Triton, Ursula
41	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': Moana, Maui
42	* ''Franchise/MonstersInc'': Sulley, Mike
43	* ''Franchise/{{Mulan\|Disney}}'': Mulan
44	* ''Franchise/TheMuppets'': Kermit the Frog
45	* ''Franchise/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Jack Skellington, Sally, Oogie Boogie
46	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'': Ian Lightfoot
47	* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook
48	* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann
49	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Tiana
50	* ''WesternAnimation/RayaAndTheLastDragon'': Raya
51	* ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Aurora, Maleficent
52	* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Snow White, the Evil Queen
53	* ''WesternAnimation/{{TaleSpin}}'': Baloo
54	* ''Franchise/{{Tangled}}'': Rapunzel
55	* ''Franchise/ToyStory'': Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Rex
56	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'': Zurg
57	* ''Franchise/{{TRON}}'': Tron
58	* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': WALL-E, EVE
59	* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'': Tigger
60	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': Judy Hopps
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62	[[Franchise/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]] also appears as a villainous NPC and story mode boss.
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65	!!Tropes in this game include:
66	* AchievementMockery: When new characters are introduced, there are usually a handful of objectives related to them named after movie quotes. Kabam presumably knew the irony when the quote they used for trying to pull for Jasmine in the gacha was "I Am Not A Prize To Be Won!".
67	* AdaptationalBadass: The characters are all much more combat-oriented than their normal counterparts, even if they were already fighters.
68	* AllThereInTheManual: Most of the world-building about the Mirrorverse is left to secondary sources like the website, novels and manga, or art book.
69	** In particular, the game is incredibly vague about how all the different realms in the Mirrorverse are connected to one another; piecing together info from other sources clarifies that it's not a single world mashing up everything but a Multiverse that the heroes can travel through with the Stellar Mirror.
70	** One potentially important bit of worldbuilding info only appears in Jasmine's bio: Jafar, one of the biggest antagonists in the game, has already conquered Agrabah; and Jasmine is leading a rebellion from the streets.
71	* AllegedlyFreeGame: It's free to download, but the game tries to push several {{Microtransactions}}.
72	** Outside of special occasions, Mickey is locked behind a paywall that's only available when a player first starts the game.
73	** You can buy an energy refresh each day for a small amount of the premium currency that's shared with the rest of your Alliance. The thing is, your Alliance roster shows which members have done so; and its only purpose seems to be to name-and-shame members who aren't paying up.
74	* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Zig-zagged.
75	** Whenever you receive a character in the gacha (whether its a duplicate or not), you receive an amount of "Stardust" currency with its type based on the character's role and the amount based on their rarity. If enough Stardust is collected, it can be exchanged in the shop for a three- or four-star character of the same role (with selection rotating daily), providing a way to get characters or their rank-up materials even if the gacha isn't giving them to you. Characters can even show up in the Stardust store at times when they're not available in the gacha, provided you've unlocked them already.
76	** Daily tasks involve "opening crystals" and "get items from the shop", both of which implicitly encourage players to engage with the game's {{Microtransactions}}. However, both can be achieved by claiming daily freebie items.
77	* ArtificialStupidity: The AI controlling allied characters is known for not being to dodge attacks very well. It's even worse on occasions where there are stage hazards, as the AI won't even register them as a threat and leave characters just standing in a damage field.
78	* TheBard: Kermit acts as a standard application of the trope, playing songs that buff his allies and using his banjo as a club when needed.
79	* BattleCouple: A few sets of romantic partners can be paired together in battle: Mickey and Minnie, WALL-E and EVE, Belle and the Beast, Jack Skellington and Sally, and Aladdin and Jasmine. There are even events for Valentine's Day where you could earn prizes for using any of the couples available at the time in battle, and Sally's debut event running at the same time featured her trying to go out on date with Jack.
80	* BigBadEnsemble: The Disney villains, naturally. Thanks to the Macguffin they're all using [[SlipperyMacguffin changing hands]] every so often, each of them get a turn to cause trouble. Jafar, however, stands as the primary overarching threat among them, with his sights set on gathering more of them to be his followers as the story progresses.
81	* BigGood: Mickey Mouse, who is the keeper of the Stellar Mirror, serves as MissionControl directing the heroes, seemingly has no Fractured counterpart, and will occasionally appear in story levels to provide a buff.
82	* BribingYourWayToVictory: There are bundles for real-money sale that provide extra gacha pulls for Guardians or equipment (or even high-rank Guardians, no gacha needed) and upgrade materials; and you can buy FreemiumTimer energy with the premium currency to play more levels (and farm their rewards) more than you otherwise would be able to. Indirectly, this investment can also help you place high on PVP leaderboards [[UnstableEquilibrium that will net you prizes to make your team even stronger]].
83	* BroughtDownToBadass: According to [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary info]], Maleficent is actually ''weakened'' by the Mirrorverse's Stellar Magic and draws on her draconic powers more to compensate.
84	* CharacterClassSystem: The game classifies all Guardians as having Melee, Ranged, Tank, or Support "Roles". Most of the upgrade materials are role-specific.
85	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Everything related to Roles, most importantly various upgrade materials, has a color associated with it: Melee is red, Ranged is yellow, Tank is blue, and Support is green. Generic items used for any Guardian are white.
86	* {{Crossover}}: The game is another Creator/{{Disney}} crossover.
87	* CrossoverAlternateUniverse: The Mirrorverse is a universe where all sorts of Disney and Pixar characters coexist and are familiar with one another. No explanation is given as to why or how they all share a world (beyond a vague reference to it "mirroring" the worlds the stars came from), they just do.
88	* DamagerHealerTank: The game's characters are classified into those who distract the Fractured (the Tanks), those who heal the team (the Healers), and those who strike the enemy hard (the Damagers), though the "Damager" function is split into two roles: Melee for close-range fighters and Ranged for long-range.
89	* DarkerAndEdgier: It has a very sinister army trying to break a magical mirror and more combat-ready versions of Disney characters trying to defend it (that said, the characters' ''personalities'' haven't changed very much).
90	* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Once the Guardians stop Oogie Boogie causing chaos on the Monsters Inc. Scare Floor, he decides to join them because he thinks that fighting ''with'' them would be as fun as it was to fight against them.
91	* DifficultyLevels: The Story, Event, and Dungeon modes come in Normal, Hard, Expert, and Master difficulties (though smaller Events sometimes stop at Expert).
92	* DoppelgangerCrossover: The game includes two characters played by Creator/DwayneJohnson; Maui and Frank Wolff.
93	* DoubleUnlock: One of the requirements for leveling characters up is leveling ''other'' characters up. For instance, to get a Tank past level 60, you need to get two other Tanks up to level 40.
94	* ElementalEmbodiment: Elemental spirits are a second enemy type that show up; said to be drawn to the Fractured. They're also called "Titanborn", as they're modeled after the Titans of ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' (and appropriately enough, they first show up when Hades is taking his turn as the villain).
95	* EnemyMine: After being defeated, Maleficent decides to join the Guardians to get revenge on Jafar (who she blames for betraying her). While the rest of the Guardians are ready to shoot her down, Mickey agrees to it since it's better if she stayed where they could see her.
96	* EvilKnockoff: Bosses encountered are Fractured versions of the playable characters. The potential for a MirrorMatch is {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d by Rapunzel early on.
97	* FourthWallObserver: Tigger, who, in his debut Event campaign, is able to scout ahead for Jasmine and Simba by literally jumping ahead in the story (and then going too far back at first) and then calling for the Narrator to close the story out (much to Jasmine and Simba's confusion). His is based on the original ''Winnie-The-Pooh'' movie PaintingTheMedium and interacting with the narrator and book text.
98	* FreemiumTimer: Most game modes use "energy" that gradually recharges. Dungeons and Rift Raids also each use separate energies that have their own update schedules.
99	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Oogie Boogie. The Guardians put up with him as a group but are visibly reluctant to have to spend time with him one-on-one, and when the villains discuss a LegionOfDoom they want to leave him out of it.
100	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: During a limited event featuring Buzz and Anna, they end up talking about the roles they play in their respective stories. Anna admits that she always kind of saw Buzz as Woody's sidekick, and Buzz responds by politely asking if she's ''Elsa's'' sidekick. They end up concluding that they're "co-protagonists" with their aforementioned friends.
101	* LegionOfDoom: Act 2 of the story has Jafar offer an alliance to Hades and Maleficent, and he also talks about bringing in most of the other villains (except Oogie Boogie; none of them really like Oogie).
102	* MascotRPG: Naturally, as a RolePlayingGame that brings together the mascots of the Creator/{{Disney}} universe.
103	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Kermit the Frog is textured and animated to look and move like an actual {{Muppet}}.
104	* OddFriendship: Despite their SnarkToSnarkCombat, Belle and Maleficent gradually come to respect each others' skill with magic, and Maleficent begins tutoring Belle in what she knows.
105	* OneSteveLimit: This isn't the first time a Disney crossover averts the trope by having both Jack Skellington and Jack Sparrow.
106	* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Kermit is described as having become the Swamp King by pulling a magic banjo out of the swamp.
107	* OrwellianRetcon: Violet's bio originally stated that she created a new superhero identity as "Ultraviolet". This was soon altered to remove her new codename for some reason.
108	* PerpetualBeta: The game was in beta for over two years, between April 2020 and June 2022. The US even received ''Mirrorverse'' merchandise on store shelves before the game was actually released.[[note]]action figures came out in September 2021 and March 2022[[/note]]
109	* PlayEveryDay: There are daily tasks that can be completed for rewards, and some levels like those in Supply Runs and Events can only be completed so many times a day.
110	* RankScalesWithAsskicking: A good handful of characters are in positions of leadership and are explicitly given the "Leader" trait, such as captains (Sparrow and Hook) and [=CEOs=] (Scrooge and Sulley), though some Leaders don't have any titles and are just naturally charismatic, like Mickey, Buzz and Woody, and Gaston. The same also applies to "Royalty" characters.
111	* ARareSentence: "Oh good, Maleficent's here!" Even Maleficent herself comments that she never expected to hear that. (For context, Rapunzel was desperate to get away from having to hang out with Oogie Boogie.)
112	* RedBaron: Each of the characters has a cool title to go with their playable status, such as Wall-E being "Terraformer of Planets" and Snow White "Stalwart Friend of the Forest."
113	* RequiredPartyMember: Story Mode and Event chapters sometimes have side levels that can only be played by specific Guardians. Some Dungeons are also themed after roles and require using at least one Guardian of that role. Other modes have restrictions based on Guardian traits such as "Royalty", "Leader", "Hi-Tech", "Seafaring", and "Fortune Seeker": the Towers require that one or all Guardians have a specific trait, Dungeons give a bonus for including a party member with a certain trait but ban other traits, and Rift Raids call for specific combinations of traits on each team member (giving bonuses on lower tiers but outright requiring certain trait combos on higher ones).
114	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Certain characters are designated with the "Royalty" trait. The Princesses naturally are part of this group, as are the Evil Queen, Jack Skellington, Simba and Scar, the Beast, Kuzco, King Triton, and Kermit (who is "the Singing Swamp King" in the Mirrorverse, even though he's not royalty normally).
115	* SetBonus: High-rank Relic equipment can potentially give a bonus stat boost to Guardians with a certain trait. Assembling a full set of Relics with the same trait will grant a further bonus, even if the Guardian doesn't have that trait themselves.
116	* ShoutOut: A "Calculated Combat" Event had achievements themed around video games, with several of them requiring pairs or teams of Guardians as references to other game series. The games referenced were ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'',[[note]]Peter Pan and Belle as Link and Zelda[[/note]] ''VideoGame/{{Horizon}}'',[[note]]Merida and Rex as Aloy and a machine beast[[/note]] ''Franchise/MortalKombat'',[[note]]Woody and Frozone as Scorpion and Sub-Zero (Woody has a "Get over here!" move)[[/note]] ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'',[[note]]Kermit, Anger, and Olaf as a set of grass/fire/water starters[[/note]] ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'',[[note]]Donald and Goofy as themselves, with Hiro standing in for Sora[[/note]] ''Franchise/AnimalCrossing'',[[note]]{{Funny Animal}}s Baloo, Judy, and Scrooge[[/note]] ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'',[[note]]Dash and Tinkerbell as Sonic and Tails[[/note]] ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'',[[note]]Snow White and the Evil Queen as... presumably Mario and Luigi but we're not quite sure[[/note]] ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'',[[note]]Tron and EVE as Master Chief and Cortana[[/note]] ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'',[[note]]Maui as Kratos, with Merida and Hades[[/note]] ''VideoGame/SeaOfThieves'',[[note]]any two pirates (Sparrow, Swann, or Hook) and Ursula[[/note]] and ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''.[[note]]Anna the knight, Ian the wizard, and Maleficent the dragon[[/note]]
117	* SlipperyMacguffin: The villains' power source, [[spoiler:the Fractured Mirror]], never stays with any one villain for long; instead it keeps vanishing on them and reappearing in the hands of a ''new'' villain.
118	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: The first few chapters have Maleficent and Jafar bicker over the former's schemes. Once Maleficent jumps ship to the Guardians, she and Belle start sniping at one another instead. Jafar forming his own LegionOfDoom also results in a lot of back-and-forth snark between him and the other villains.
119	* StarPower: The main magic of the game is star-based. The Mirrorverse is said to be born from two stars colliding, and the heroes are empowered by the Stellar Mirror and summoned with Star Crystals.
120	* StarterMon: Your first Guardian is Rapunzel, and then you're given a choice of Hercules, Mulan, and Ariel. After that, you get Merida in the gacha tutorial; and then Sulley and Jack Sparrow are awarded for completing early chapters of the game; ultimately giving new players a starting selection of characters from all four categories.
121	* StarterVillain: Maleficent is the first one to create the Fractured and start the conflict, but it eventually becomes apparent that there's something else going on.
122	* TeamDad: Sulley acts like this in Chapter 3, calling for his teammates to look out when Fractured creatures arrive even if they can see them coming. The other Guardians have to tell him that they can take care of themselves, and that he's being so focused on everyone else that he's putting ''himself'' in unnecessary danger.
123	* {{Troll}}: In Chapter 5, Oogie Boogie will show up mid-stage to issue a handicap to you, and you have to take one to proceed, even (or, in one random case, especially) if he's the boss. In some levels, "Don't Pick This One" appears instead, which is a genuine buff.
124	* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: The Rift Raids are set here, as Mickey sends out Guardians to explore what's between the different realms of the Mirrorverse.
125	* WolverinePublicity:
126	** During the beta period, Frank was added as a tie-in to ''Film/JungleCruise''. Ian might also qualify, as he arrived only a few months after ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'' released.
127	** The global launch came shortly after the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'', so the new character added and featured at the time was Zurg. It's also explicitly the ''Lightyear'' version of Zurg, not the one from ''Toy Story''.
128	** King Triton was released on the very same day as his film's [[Film/TheLittleMermaid2023 live-action remake]], and while not outright separated from the existing ''Little Mermaid'' characters the way Zurg was, he definitely takes design cues from the live-action version over the cartoon.

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