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My Little Pony: Sora's Misadventures in Equestria is a Fusion Fic between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the Kingdom Hearts universe written by author Codex92.

Starting after the events in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], Sora feels upset over having failed his Mark of Mastery exam whereas his two friends, Riku and Kairi, have become Keyblade Masters ahead of him. Feeling he needs more training before he can retake the exam, Master Yen Sid gives Sora a set of coordinates that leads him to a far-off world somewhere in the galaxy. Sora accepts without asking why and sets off for the unknown world. Due to being in a hurry and a non-stop flight on his Gummi Ship, it malfunctions as it arrives to the destination and Sora crash-lands in a field where he is found by a certain orange farm pony and her little filly sister. Thus, Sora's new tale begins.

The fic is written via inserting the ponified Sora (and other Kingdom Hearts characters) into the canon Friendship Is Magic storyline with different events happening or having different results due to someone else experiencing the event instead of a canon character. The story eventually adds elements of Kingdom Hearts III as the series began before the game came out, but leaves the changes in the story intact. The series is currently ongoing.

Sora's Misadventures in Equestria contains the following tropes:

  • All Love Is Unrequited: Twilight falls in love with Sora, seeing him as a brave soul willing to do everything that is right. Unfortunately, she eventually learns about Kairi and she even arrives to Equestria. Then Maleficent comes along...
  • All Your Powers Combined:
    • By fusing with the Mane Six and their elements to combat Discord, Sora taps into a new Drive known as "Harmony Form", which allows him to channel the Elements of Harmony through six different Keyblades, as well as wielding Ultima Weapon.
    • Twilight mixes her transfered alicorn magic with both the bonds of her friends and all the Keyblades of the current wieldersnote to create an improved D-Link known as "Harmony Link" to combat a Tirek now infused with Keyblade wielder magic as well as all the earth pony/unicorn/pegasi magic of Equestria.
    • Sora uses Harmony Form to deal the finishing blow to the Pony of Shadows once Stygian is removed and shows the six Keyblades of Harmony being held by ephemeral versions of the Mane Six only for the Mane Six's shades to be replaced by shades in the form of the Pillars, showing Sora was always the "unofficial" seventh Pillar that the Master of Masters hinted at.
  • Alternate Universe: Toy Box reveals My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a real show in that world with the canon adventures happening to the Mane Six without Sora or any Keyblade wielder's presence.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: Dizzy gives away Discord's crush on Fluttershy through a memory crystal view which also proves Discord isn't responsible for the mishaps during the attempted retreat.
  • Apocalyptic Log: While searching the Crystal Empire's castle for clues on how to defeat Sombra, Sora finds in a Kingdom Hearts-esque locked chest, Sombra's own diary detailing his past, as well as his love for Princess Luna and how a "stranger in a black cloak wielding a key-shaped sword'' gave him new powers that eventually overwhelmed him with darkness.
  • Artifact of Attraction: The Keyblade, same as the series from where it is from, is a tool that the Heartless will flock around in order to destroy it and they infest other worlds due to the presence of a Keyblade wielder. Naturally, when Sora first arrives in Equestria, the Heartless quickly soon appear...
  • Back from the Dead: A two-fold example with King Sombra. Grogar steals the replica body the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness were planning to revive him for himself and brings back King Sombra's dark half as a heartless. Although Grogar has a shock device to keep him in line, he still allows Sombra to do as he pleases. Later during the fight with him, Sora uses the engagement ring given to him by Princess Luna and places it on his horn. This allows the good half of King Sombra to confront his heartless within his heart and after destroying him with the help of his dream eater friends, The good half of King Sombra takes control of the replica body and is revived for good.
  • Bad Future: The events of The Cutie Re-Mark now have universal consequences due to Starlight messing up Rainbow's first Sonic Rainboom also messing with Sora's past. Every bad future Twilight and Sora visit is worse than the last.
    • The "Crystal War" timeline is now a world where Sombra tapped into his inner darkness, enveloping Equestria with armies of Heartless made from ponies that have lost their hearts. It puts Sora into an Enemy Mine situation with none other than Master Xehanort, who finds himself fighting a losing battle with Sombra's Heartless hordes.
    • The "Changeling Invasion" timeline has Kairi being the one sent to Equestria instead of Sora (who was killed by Xemnas in the events of Kingdom Hearts II) and arrived during Chrysalis' wedding invasion. Chrysalis-as-Cadance sensed the deep love Kairi had for Sora, disguised herself as him, and used her love, along with Shining Armor's to increase her powers and invade Equestria. Kairi was left an emotionally-broken mess due having being used as such.
    • The "Nightmare Moon Reign" timeline has Pete defecting and swearing his allegiance to Nightmare Moon, while both Maleficent and Riku, who maintains his Ansem Seeker of Darkness appearance, are locked in her prison.
    • As before, the next two timelines only briefly seen is the "Tirek Apocalypse" (with what looks like Aqua on her glider challenging him) and the "Chaos Kingdom" (where Discord is fighting and winning against more cartoon-like versions of Mickey, Donald and Goofy) timelines in canon. However, instead of the "Flim-Flam Industry" future afterwards, it is a timeline where Master Xehanort has succeeded in obtaining Kingdom Hearts and holds the χ-blade.
    • The Final "Wasteland" timeline, where Twilight and Sora show Starlight what her messing with time has caused, instead has all of Equestria within the Realm of Darkness where the Heartless dwell.
  • Battle in the Center of the Mind: Or "heart", actually.
    • The first is when Sora reveals his Anti-Form and is taken to the Mysterious Tower to find an answer. He is again placed in a deep sleep to allow the wielders to dive into his heart. There they fight a remnant of Vanitas, who stowed-away in Sora's heart just like Ventus, and defeat him.
    • When Yen Sid and Lea visit Equestria, the former Org. XIII member gets migraines pertaining to a forgotten member, Sora proposes asking Roxas about it, and is again placed in sleep before they dive into his heart. Not only does Roxas have little recollection, but thankfully the stowaway CMC find who they were all looking for. Xion, however, didn't want to be remembered and forces Sora to fight her to be put out of her misery.
  • Battle Trophy: Since he couldn't make a Heartless out of Kairi due to her heart being pure light, Crystal War!Sombra decides to keep it as a Crystal Heart replacement under a glass container. When Sora sees it, he goes ballistic.
  • Beard of Sorrow: Sora grows a shaggy one during his depression.
  • Been There, Shaped History:
  • Being Good Sucks: Sora feels this way about rescuing Maleficent of all people from the teen dragons after she gets found out in "Dragon Quest"
  • Berserk Button: Due to being a justified Shell-Shocked Veteran spending 15 years in the Realm of Darkness and blaming herself for everything that happened in the past, Aqua has developed a seething hatred of anything that involves Master Xehanort. Even the No Name Keyblade he wields, which she saw being wielded by the Master of Masters in the past, is enough to make her fly off the handle.
  • Beyond the Impossible:
    • After escaping from Our Town, Starlight encounters Maleficent, who tries to get her to join her side just as with Pete and Riku. Starlight will have none of it and manages to actually remove Maleficent's pony-form's cutie mark, rendering the evil sorceress powerless.
    • Maud Pie saves Pinkie from a Defender Heartless by actually using her earth pony/rock farmer-enhanced Super-Strength to breaks its impervious shield to the shock and amazement of the Keyblade heroes who could never make a dent on those shields.
  • BFS: Starting with the season 3 chapters, Princess Celestia uses a broadsword construct made from her own magic aura to fight.
  • Big Damn Heroes: This story has its fair share, most done by Sora himself.
    • His first major one is saving the Ponyville Schoolhouse from a Heartless invasion.
    • When Kairi finally arrives in Equestria, she and Twilight are immediately attacked by a Stealth Sneak Heartless, and Sora arrives just in time to defeat it.
    • During the battle for the Crystal Empire, with Sora fighting King Sombra and Riku & Kairi destroying the ponified Shadows that were swarming towards the castle, King Mickey (who keeps his normal rodent form), Donald and Goofy show up to help thin out the herd of Pony Shadows.
    • When Twilight gets attacked by Neoshadows after going back into the Everfree to save the Tree of Harmony, Aqua appears and swiftly deals with them, allowing the new alicorn princess to return to her friends.
    • Human!Flash Sentry makes a non-physical one when Sora was about to get suspended from Canterlot High's grounds thanks to forged photos showing him destroying school property until Flash brings in Snips and Snails, who confess to being responsible for both those and the video that slandered Twilight.
    • Sora is on the receiving end of one as Marluxia's plot to bring him to Master Xehanort nearly succeeds, only for Kaito's Nobody and his Swashbucklers, followed by the Keyblade wielders, the Mane Six (sans Twilight who was sick with a cold), Master Yen Sid and Lea show up to rescue him and the foalnapped fillies and colts.
    • Larxene has the Swamp Fever-sickened Riku ready to kill him until Sora saves him at the last minute and uses the Keyblade of Magic's Formchanging abilities to utterly dominate and defeather.
    • After reverting back from his "Berserk Nirik" form, Saïx is ready to kill Lea until Xion with the heroes arrive to stop him.
    • A played version is when Sora was about to beat up the Flim-Flam Bros. for their friendship university con and being found out when Kairi shows up and freezes him before he could hurt them, saying having their reputation being tarnished is good enough punishment and drags him away.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy:
    • Chrysalis "charms" Sora into serving him same as she did to Shining Armor during the Canterlot Wedding.
    • The Dazzlings hypnotize all of Canterlot High to regain their energy with their negative attitudes. Sora doesn't get hypnotized due to the power of his Harmony Form protecting him. Riku and Kairi, however, do end up being made their slaves instead.
  • Breaking Speech: Young Xehanort delivers a scathing one to Smolder during and after his utter curbstomp of the young dragon, leaving her in tears.
  • Breath Weapon: Smolder, while already knowing how to breathe fire as a dragon, somehow learned to also breathe ice to reflect how she can't let her dragon temper get the best of her and to stay cool under pressure.
  • Broken Masquerade:
  • Broken Pedestal: Twilight's awe and worship of Star Swirl is broken even harder than in canon due to his hasty analysis of the Keyblade wielders showing them falling to darkness without learning why, then Riku making Twilight choose between him or Star Swirl (she choose her idol), and finally once they face the Pony of Shadows in Hollow Shades and Riku gets blasted by the ponified Heartless, she finally gives Star Swirl a piece of her mind and throws the Element of Magic at him over his callous behavior.
  • Broken Tears:
  • Brought Down to Normal:
    • With their Keyblade powers stolen by Tirek and showing their true human forms, the wielders are left as normal human beings, shown by the fact Twilight hits Riku's chest with her forehoof and it knocks the wind out of him.
    • The Dazzlings get their red gems broken and they lose both their singing magic and (apparently) their Siren forms as they become ponies once they are returned to Equestria to be incarcerated in Canterlot.
    • When Starlight uses her cutie-mark removal spell to remove the Keyblade cutie marks they have and replaced by gray equal signs, Sora and the other wielders are unable to cast any Keyblade magic nor use the weapons themselves until their cutie marks are returned.
    • As mentioned earlier, the AntiMagic properties of Chrysalis's throne prevents any magic in its radius and that includes Keyblade magic. Ventus may no longer use magic and reverts back to human form, but he still has the physical prowess of using the Keyblade which doesn't leave him totally defenseless within the Hive.
  • Burning with Anger: Lea releases his magic surge explosively after Aqua's latest hurtful comments about him and is later topped by Saïx commenting he will bring Xion back to Xehanort as the replacement for Sora's 13th Seed of Darkness which finally pushes him over the edge.
    • Saïx himself taps into this trope his own way mixing both his Berserker state and the powers of the Nirik.
  • Butt-Monkey: Sora is most definitely one at times during the more lighthearted "slice of life" chapters. Riku joins him whenever Twilight is around.
  • The Cameo:
    • After her Green-Eyed Monster possession and fight against Kairi, Twilight opts to take a vacation and goes to see Princess Celestia. The princess then offers her to take a week off along with her by going inside a very special book and meeting its inhabitants.
    • When Sora & Kairi take Cerberus back to Tartarus in "It's About Time", not only do they revert back to their human forms, but Cerberus also changes from the three-headed bulldog he was in Equestria to the demonic three-headed Dobermann he is when in Olympus Coliseum's Underworld.
      • Hades himself makes an appearance in all the times Tartarus is shown, after all it's the Greek Underworld.
      • Also starting from this chapter's end, Stitch becomes a semi-regular character of the story when Sora summons him.
    • During the events of "Too Many Pinkie Pies", Sora was accidentally dunked in the Mirror Pool, accidentally creating a clone and knocking him unconscious. Who was said clone created? Roxas. Naturally, he goes back inside Sora's heart at the end of the chapter.
    • Sora summons Genie to help save the falling ponies when the Twinkling Balloon was destroyed by the tornado instigated by Lightning Dust.
    • He later summons Peter Pan and Tinkerbell to help the Humane Six and keep the Element of Magic away from Sunset Shimmer. Unfortunately, both are automatically removed when Sunset uses her Wrath!Heartless powers and then dons the Element.
    • "Power Ponies" in this story is a crossover between the aforementioned series and a ponified comics version of Dissidia Final Fantasy. Sora takes the role of a ponified Zidane Tribal, Riku becomes a ponified Cecil Harvey in his Dark Knight form, and Kairi is a ponified Terra Branford. Helping the Mane-iac is Final Fantasy VI's own Kefka Palazzo, also ponified.
      • Speaking of Final Fantasy VI, Sora's first opponent in the Equestria Games' Struggle Tournament is a "blond-maned mare with a green leotard and a white cape" named Celestial Star, but is known by her nickname Celesnote
    • When Sora revisits Disney Castle after he finds out due to his Time Travel visit caused his father to birth a Nobody, he meets Max, PJ and Bobby, who are a knight, magician and archer respectively. When Donald and Goofy are chosen to stay close to Sora, Max and PJ are promoted to the formers' old positions in Disney Castle until they return.
    • When Aqua and Terra dive into Sora's heart to help him combat the darkness within his Anti-Form, taking the form of Vanitas of all beings, they get lost in his heart, but they get help finding the battleground from a certain young girl in a black coat to show them the way.
    • During Lea's time in Equestria, he and Sora (along with the stowaway CMC) dive back into Sora's heart to find the cause of the fire wielder's maladies over memories. Not only do they have help from Roxas, but also find Xion as well.
    • In the special Hearts & Hooves (2.5) chapter, Cheese Sandwich returns to Ponyville to help Pinkie with the special H&H party they set up for the end of the day. Also, Tender Taps appears to ask Apple Bloom out for a H&H date, and Rumble is also in the chapter, being Scootaloo's date. However, "Rumble" turns out to be Pharynx doing recon for Chrysalis in preparation for her next "invasion" plot.
    • At the end of the Movie chapters when Xigbar returns to True Organization XIII, he goes to the lab area where Vexen is and it is revealed that Ansem the Wise is also there working for them.
    • Ocellus is met half a season before her first true appearance during Thorax's problem with Pharynx.
  • Cannot Spit It Out:
    • After meeting and being saved by Sora, Twilight develops a crush on him but is unable to tell him her feelings. This promptly gets difficult once he talks about Kairi during the slumber party, and then torpedoed once she arrives.
    • Sora himself is unable to tell Kairi about finally being a couple due to being scared about her finding out about his Anti-Form and worried she'll dump him. She accidentally overheard him talking about it to Spike, whom he swore to secrecy, and this drives her to take the first step with him.
  • Characterization Marches On: Enforced with the author finally playing Kingdom Hearts III and starts using elements from that game in the story itself, starting with the chapters retelling Season 7, such as Sora's new outfit enabling him to change his keyblade into various weapons, the Master of Masters's more pronounced presence, Riku losing Way to the Dawn and earning his new Braveheart, the additional members of New Organization XIII like Marluxia, Larxene, Vexen, Demyx, Vanitas and Dark (Replica) Riku, and the subtle hints that Master Eraqus's heart is within Terra's. However, as stated in Pseudo-Canonical Fic below, the author's new fates of the Original Keyblade Trio stay as he wrote them so Aqua didn't remain in the Realm of Darkness, Terra's heart wasn't inside Ansem Keeper of Darkness's Guardian, and Ventus's heart was returned to his body in stasis within Castle Oblivion much earlier in the "story".
  • Chekhov's Gun: Kairi's Message in a Bottle that somehow manages to get into the End of Sea to save Sora and Riku from being stuck in the Realm of Darkness is later used itself by Aqua when she makes her way to the same location and uses it as well to return to the normal universe, saving her from her canon fate from Kingdom Hearts III.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The Storm King shows off this trait in the story just as in the Movie, not only by not keeping his promise to help Tempest regain her horn, but also not giving Xigbar the petrified Kairi as the King sees her as yet another alicorn princess to drain.
  • Combat Medic: Thanks to Rapunzel's magic, Gallus finally learns Cure but has an added Esuna effect due to the spell's bell flowers having the same gold color as the magic flower that gave Rapunzel her former healing magic, making him this in the process as the spell both restores health and heals status effects.
  • The Comically Serious: Riku's main Running Gag as he considers himself the Only Sane Man amongst the cute ponies and his Deadpan Snarker personality.
  • Comm Links: Around the chapters retelling mid-Season 5 after the discovery of the Galactic Map, Aqua and Rarity develop these from crystals that would allow the Keyblade wielders to talk at long distances. Even if communicating to any visited worlds apart from Equestria.
  • Corner of Woe: After explaining her stomach is a bottomless pit and she can eat anything without getting sick, Ventus reminds her of Equalized!Sugar Belle's muffins during their visit to Our Town and how Pinkie got sick from them, she immediately goes into one of these, along with her mane straightened out and a dark aura surrounding her, and warning him not to speak of them again.
  • Connected All Along: Once his heart is returned to his body stored within Castle Oblivion, Ventus reveals he knows about the ponies and Sora's Equestrian experiences due to his heart was always with Sora's and was able to see everything he experienced from the events of the first two games to Equestria itself.
  • Contrived Coincidence: It was until sending Twilight and the heroes to find out what happened to Star Swirl that Princess Celestia remembered about an ancient diary she kept detailing her and Luna's youth that also mentions their first meetings with the Master of Masters. This was just seconds before an irate Aqua shows up asking them about their relation to the enigmatic cloaked being that wielded Xehanort's No Name.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: Sora summons Stitch to punish almost all the Crusaders and Babs Seed for all the actions they did during the Manehattanite's stay by messily slobbering them with his tongue. However, because Sweetie Belle actually likes getting slobbered by Stitch, she is punished by not getting slobbered or hugging him.
  • Cuteness Proximity: Kairi naturally feels in heaven the second she steps into Equestria and sees all the cute ponies and fluffy animals. Her reactions and glomping of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Angel Bunny, the Cake Twins, and Discord's post-Heel–Face Turn "inner child" self, whom she affectionately nicknames Dizzy, are some of the best-known examples.
  • Death from Above: Smolder pulls a double version to defeat the King of Toys. First, she finds a bigger version of the same fireworks rocket Woody and Buzz used to catch up to the moving van and lights it up to direct it towards the ceiling above the Heartless (with Woody and Buzz along for the ride) and coats the entire front with a layer of ice using her frost breath. When the rockets reaches an area above the King, they all jump off and the rocket explodes sending sharp icicle shrapnel to severely damage the UFO Heartless. However, Smolder uses the force of the rocket explosion's shockwaves to remain afloat and decides to finish the King in style. She goes into a dive, uses both fire and ice to coat her Keyblade in the two elements and does an epic Sword Plant Coup de Grâce on the King's real tiny head to truly finish it off.
  • Drill Sergeant Nasty: Due to being one of the only "senior-level" Keyblade Masters of the previous generation before Terra and Ven are found, Aqua is one to the Destiny Island Trio and Twilight as she is very disciplined in teaching them how to forge their own Keyblade Armor & Gliders, and even takes them to the Mirage Arena to train. Also, Sora is scared of doing something she would disapprove for fear of being punished with more training.
  • Driven to Madness: Sora's encounter with Pinkie's Great Galloping Gala song's world is enough to freak him out so badly and want to leave it as soon as possible. He even considers The Wonderland as sane compared to Pinkie's imagination. When the song ends, he's practically questioning reality itself.
  • Dying as Yourself: Sombra regains control of his original pre-Darkness self after getting blasted by the Crystal Heart's full power and gives Sora the engagement ring he was supposed to give Luna a thousand years ago.
  • Easily Forgiven: One of the main subverted tropes the series tries to enforce. It is only played straight with those who were victims of darkness in their hearts such as Nightmare Moon, Green-Eyed Monster!Twilight, Torrent!Aqua, King Sombra, Sunset Shimmer, Sci-Twi and Gloriosa Daisy. Others such as Discord, Starlight Glimmer, Iron Will and Lightning Dust are not so lucky.
  • Enemy Mine:
    • During the "new" Crystal War timeline, Twilight and Sora ally themselves with none other than Master Xehanort, who finds himself outclassed by the new Sombra's darkness being more powerful than his.
    • The Storm King allies with Xigbar to recapture Twilight after she escapes. Tempest is a bigger example as the vengeful unicorn doesn't like working alongside others and resents being paired with the eyepatched stranger, but does it because the Storm King commanded it.
  • Enemy Within:
    • Sora's "Anti" Drive Form. Sora is hesitant to use Drive Forms in general due to his fear he may accidentally turn into Anti-Sora and kill everyone and everypony close to him during his unpredictable rage. Sora eventually manages to harness and pacify it by locking away its evil within his heart.
    • Torrent, Aqua's darkness taken form due to her anger and despair over her friends' fates and Master Xehanort having ruined all their lives.
    • Sci-Twi, as per canon, has Midnight Sparkle.
    • Princess Celestia considers Daybreaker as such and is horrified to see the evil mare's reflection when she asks Yen Sid to let her see herself in the mirror that reflects one's dark side.
  • Extremely Protective Child: Sora becomes this whenever Manami comes to Equestria. It becomes a friendship problem B-plot during "The Parent Map"
  • Eviler than Thou: Crystal War!Sombra all but says this to Xehanort as the dark unicorn not only took control of the Heartless from the old Master, but has completely taken the hearts of all the ponies and made them new Heartless varieties, leaving Xehanort fighting a losing battle against his hordes.
  • Evil Knockoff: Just like the Mean Six themselves, Mean Twilight wields her own version of the real Twilight's Harmony Keyblade and is quite adept at it. However, once the Tree of Harmony destroys them, its magic tendrils grab the Keyblade and destroys it as well, though it's suprising that it splinters like wood rather than bend like metal proves that even the Keyblade itself was as fake as the Mean Six.
  • Fading Away: Same as in the canon "Discordant Harmony", Discord begins to disappear due to acting normal. However, this time, it's because his actions were literally killing his "past self". Only when Kairi, Aqua, and Fluttershy begin to act in a chaotic manner does the little Discord get better and the older Discord returns to his "normal" chaotic self.
  • Faking Amnesia:
    • Sora does this when he first arrives in Equestria to prevent the native ponies from learning he's not a native to the world of Equestria, plus a human to boot. As of Chapter 165, it is revealed that Granny Smith knew about Sora before he met her due to him having gone back in time to the past events of "The Perfect Pear". Ironically, Granny believed Sora's initial amnesia story thinking he really did lose his memory of the past.
    • Xion does this in front of Chrysalis, to fake having this unlike the Mean Six who truly lack their real counterparts' memories to prevent them from finding the Tree of Harmony earlier than canon.
  • Fisher Kingdom: Just as in the games, outsiders not from Equestria blend in by taking forms of native creatures. The Keyblade wielders and Organization XIII members transform into a variety of ponies though Saïx becomes a kirin instead, Donald becomes a griffon, Goofy is a diamond dog, Pete is a minotaur, and Vanitas is a changeling. Played with Maleficent who has a pony form in Equestria but can easily shapeshift due to her dark magic.
  • Fountain of Youth: While under the effects of the Alicorn Amulet, Trixie turns Riku into a foal after witnessing him using a Keyblade same as Sora does and eliminates his threat to her.
  • Freak Out:
    • Sora has this as his initial reaction to Pinkie Pie's Breaking the Fourth Wall when she drags him into her Great Galloping Gala song's dream sequence. He's promptly Driven to Madness, considers Wonderland as sane compared to Pinkie's world and questions his own reality.
    • Pinkie gets her turn when she sees the love poisoned Sora and Twilight being insufferable Sickeningly Sweethearts with each other and eventually dives into a closet to escape this madness.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Organization XIII pun aside...
    • Sombra's journal reveals the tyrant was a regular unicorn (even if he wasn't a crystal pony) who worked hard to becoming a Crystal Guard and eventually meets Princess Luna, whom he falls in love with and vice versa. Until he meets a stranger in a black cloak and wielding "a strange key-shaped sword'' that released the darkness from within his heart, becoming the modern Sombra.
    • Human!Flash Sentry reveals he met Sunset Shimmer as a lost and scared girl (after crossing the portal) years ago, helped her adapt to the human world thinking it was funny she didn't act human, and eventually dated her and asked her to the Fall Formal Dance which netted her first title. Then the popularity and the simmering darkness borne of her Wrath got to her...
    • Discord is also this. He Used to Be a Sweet Kid and wanted friends but was shunned by every creature in Equestria due to his chimera-like appearance and it eventually led to a Then Let Me Be Evil choice, becoming an enemy of Equestria in the process.
    • Stygian and Shadow Tempest as per canon, of course.
  • Fun Size: Dizzy, Discord's past younger self who literally is his "inner child". Kairi fawns over him, while Aqua can't help but think of him as cute.
  • Gender Bender: Sora gets this under the effects of Poison Joke.
  • Goo-Goo-Godlike: Seeing Sora give in to Pete's demands and allow himself to be torn apart by Rabid Dog Heartless while Pinkie watches helplessly, the Cake Twins not only manage to get free themselves, but also teach the bumbling minion a lesson in not hurting one of their favorite foalsitters.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Twilight literally becomes one thanks to Maleficent egging her on due to her feelings for Sora and Kairi's arrival, allowing her to be consumed by the darkness in her heart.
  • Groin Attack: Sora (and later Riku) tend to be hit in "the area" between their hind legs either by foes or their allies (especially Kairi) if his antics are too much for everyone.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: The first of Smolder's weaknesses aside from Pride. Easily angered, prone to solving things with violence and feels bored in a world of living toys.
  • Hate Plague: Instead of infecting Granny Smith, Bulk Biceps and the old jeweler as in canon, Starlight's "bottled anger" instead infects a D-Link-powered Ventus, who is a much more dangerous adversary than the canonical trio it infected.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Aside from canon turns like Discord, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon and the Changelings (sans Chrysalis, of course), Sombra manages to regain his old self after being struck by the Crystal Heart. On one hand, he regains his original self but is still shattered to pieces, as in canon. On the other, he still lives on as a Dream Eater tied to Luna's engagement that Sora gives her as a memento.
  • Hero Worship: Axle Beam looks up to Lea in the same vein or even more than Scootaloo does to Rainbow Dash.
  • Heroic BSoD: Sora goes through so many during the course of the story that a tell-tale sign the happy-go-lucky goof of a hero is feeling very broken is whenever his jacket's hood covers his head and face. He falls into a deep depression after learning of Cozy Glow's betrayal.
  • Humanity Ensues: Even though he and other Keyblade wielders were human to begin with, Sora loses his pony form whenever he's in the dream world, in Tartarus (since it's part of Olympus Coliseum's Underworld), or the world of Canterlot High.
  • Human Chess: Instead of playing a giant version of Dragon Pit like it was done in "Uncommon Bond", Aqua instead has Starlight, Sunburst, Twilight, Trixie, Maud and herself play an Equestrian version of Command Board, which is a Monopoly-like game known to the Original Keyblade Trio.
  • "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Ventus's heart within Sora does this to the Torrent-possessed Aqua, which gives her the heroic resolve and first hope in over 15 years to finally fight back against her inner darkness, giving the rest of the heroes a chance to finally beat her.
  • Important Haircut:
    • Once Starlight is brought under "house arrest" in Twilight's Castle, she changes her mane style from the old "bangs between her horn" look to her new "curled bang" style she later sported in Season 6.
    • After gaining new apprentices in the Young Six, Aqua cuts her hair back to the short style she once donned before, reflecting her change to let go of the past and bring closure to her time in the Realm of Darkness.
  • Inconvenient Summons: Xion was on her way to pick up sea-salt ice cream for her and Roxas as they would observe Sora going on the retreat with the Mane Six, instead she is somehow summoned out of Sora's body due to Chrysalis's clone creating ritual and takes Sora's place by accident.
  • Incredible Shrinking Man: Sora, thanks to Discord's prank, get shrunk to Applejack's Poison Joke-cursed size and accidentally knocks Seabreeze's pack offcourse.
  • In Spite of a Nail:
    • Sora finds Ms. Harshwhinny at the train station once everypony else has gone with Peachbottom and manages to guide her around for a while, until he decides to check up on Rarity and Cadance at the Crystal Spa. Twilight immediately shows up and drags him away to entertain Peachbottom before he could explain he was guiding the real Games Inspector around. Ms. Harshwhinny ends up in the same predicament in canon when she believes Sora ditched her.
    • Instead of facing a darkness-possessed Anti-Aqua (who blames the heroes and especially King Mickey, for forgetting all about her) in the End of Sea as in canon in Kingdom Hearts III, the heroes instead face "Torrent", the darkness that was nurtured for 15 years in Aqua's heart due to her anger, blame and sorrow over the past in losing Terra and Ven and hating Xehanort. In short, Sora still fights a "Dark" Aqua, despite the new circumstances.
  • In Vino Veritas: After getting upset over Rarity's overly generous nature in lending Suri Polomare her fabric, Aqua goes off to drown her anger and sorrows. When she returns to the hotel room completely plastered, she gives Rarity an I Told You So over her generosity backfiring, mistakes Sora for Ventus and basically confesses in a tearful speech how she failed him and Terra from losing themselves. She then passes out , still hugging a confused Sora in her grasp.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: This fic also makes sure Karma Houdinis get their comeuppance one way or another.
  • In "Father Knows Beast", Sludge doesn't leave after being exposed as a fraud like in canon instead his heart falls into darkness after being stabbed by a heartless turning him into a monstrous heartless representing Sloth. He is destroyed by the keyblade wielders.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia:
  • Living Crashpad: Sora wonders if he's a Rainbow Dash magnet since she tends to crash into him. Constantly.
  • Losing Horns: A Type-B trombone sounds at certain "punchline" quotes during "Maud Pie". The first three times, it was a Pegasus on a cloud practicing on a trombone. The fourth time, however, was a Crescendo Heartless that summons Wyverns and a Defender to attack.
  • Love Potion: Like canon, the Crusaders make one for "Hearts and Hooves Day" to get Cheerilee and Big Mac to fall in love. However, due to his influence and not exactly watching what they drinking, Sora and Twilight are the ones to fall under the spell of the love poison instead. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Magic Map: The Cutie Map within Twilight's castle which pinpoints friendship problems to fix has been "upgraded" due to the presence of the Keyblade wielders to the Galactic Map, which somehow shows the entire universe and pinpoints where Keyblade holders or Heartless are anywhere in outer space. Aqua has made it her mission to find out how it works and to possibly make it pinpoint other enemies such as Nobodies, Unversed, etc.
  • Making a Splash: Kaito's Nobody has this as his main element, based more on sea water rather than normal water. His main weapon is a cutlass formed from sea water and his personal Nobodies he controls are in the form of burly-looking pirates, which he calls Swashbucklers, that act as his "crew".
  • Makes Us Even: Sora, Kairi, Spike and the ponies rescue Maleficent from the teen dragons in "Dragon Quest". Sora invokes this trope due to Maleficent and Pete's unwilling Villainous Rescue moment back in The World That Never Was.
  • Mental Picture Projector: The magic crystals that were first introduced in "Castle Sweet Castle" are given a much more increased role in the story as they are used to project memories of characters close to them so anyone close by can see them.
  • Metamorphosis: As of the events at Camp Everfree, Kairi is now an alicorn.
  • Mook Maker: Along with Sombra's mist-like form and darkness-based powers, he is also able to create personal Shadows in the form of ponies. His Bad Future as seen in "The Cutie Re-Mark" has him with these as well as Pony Shadows that have obtained hearts from unfortunate ponies and have becomes different forms of Pony-like Heartless.
  • Morph Weapon: One of the newest abilities Sora can use, starting from the chapters retelling Season 7 is the ability to change his Keyblade into different types of weapons (which was a gameplay mechanic first introduced in Kingdom Hearts III).
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Canon ones aside:
    • Twilight gets her first one after learning she allowed her envy to cloud her heart in darkness and attacked Kairi to keep Sora to herself.
    • Sora when his Anti-Form accidentally comes out and the Drive ends.
    • Whenever Sora is forced to fight and hurt Kairi, especially from fighting her under the influence of the love poison.
      • Riku has similar feelings whenever he harms Twilight.
    • Human!Flash Sentry feels this way when he realizes all the harmful insults he said while under the Dazzlings' hypnosis.
    • Starlight when she finally sees the other alternate timelines aside from the Realm of Darkness one thanks to the memory crystals used to show Twilight's view of them.
    • Sora after killing his father, Kaito, after he becomes a Heartless when the Keyblade wielder goes back in time with Reverse-Forward.
    • Aqua after she confronts the princesses and gets in a fight with Princess Luna over the Master of Masters being the original owner of the No Name Keyblade and accusing the two princesses that they knew he was a Keyblade wielder, when they swear they never knew. Eventually Terra berates her over letting her hatred get the best of her again. It comes back full force to her when Luna spitefully tells everyone when they return that she was right since the Master of Masters WAS responsible for turning Sombra to the dark tyrant the heroes faced. Aqua, however, feels even worse.
    • Twilight again after injuring Sora after their fight when they were all banished from Seaquestria. This allows the Storm King's forces to capture her when left alone in her shame.
    • Smolder after she gets curbstomped by Young Xehanort who, aside from a hurtful Breaking Speech, shows her in her rage to defeat him that she destroyed and incinerated a a miniature playset of Ponyville and Twilight's castle in Toy Box. Naturally, she is left in Broken Tears.
  • My Significance Sense Is Tingling: While picking out flower arrangements with Kairi, Sora gets the feeling to pummel the Flim Flam Bros. somehow and that he has a sixth sense of swindling. Turns out it was during the Friendship University fiasco. He lampshades it the next day once the news of their failed latest con was exposed and he shows up in Las Pegasus saying his "horseapple senses" were going off the day before and that was there to teach them a lesson.
  • Never Be Hurt Again: What Aqua's attitude sums up to. Manipulated after trusting Master Xehanort, losing her two friends, especially Terra, endured 10 years in the Realm of Darkness, and fighting for survival against endless hordes of Heartless and the Dark Hide has turned her from a kind Action Girl into a bitter Knight in Sour Armor. Once out of the Realm and into Equestria, she swore not just to take her revenge against Xehanort but also to never let herself or those she cares for be hurt in any way.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the Kingdom of Corona, Gallus accidentally tells Marluxia about the new Keyblade apprentices of the Young Six, thinking Luxord was not going to keep his promise not to tell anyone in True Org. XIII about them. Turns out the Gambler of Fate did keep his promise after all, and the griffon realizes he has just painted a large bulls-eye on himself and his friends.
  • No Fourth Wall: Both Pinkie Pie and Discord have their moments where they know they are characters in a Fusion Fic and makes comments as such. They even have had moments where they even talk to Codex92 himself.
  • Non Sequitur, *Thud*: Sora gets slammed into Ponyville General Hospital while under the telekinetic grab of Kairi's aura as she rushed to see the birth of the Cake Twins. When a dazed Sora finally appears in the maternity ward, he mumbles the first lines of the Mad Hatter's (or the Dormouse's) "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat'' poem before he faints.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: Aqua realizes she and Star Swirl, despite their differences, share the same cold attitude towards reaching their goals in not letting Darkness triumph over Light without any excuses. Both also start to change their mindsets when they learn the truth about Stygian (along with Aqua getting chided by Terra over the earlier outburst to Luna) and become far more understanding and penitent for their mistakes.
  • Official Couple: Many official and unofficial: Sora & Kairi, Riku & Twilight, Aqua & Terra, Sunset Shimmer & Human!Flash Sentry, Luna & Sombra, Big Mac & Sugar Belle, and Fluttershy & Discord
  • Older Than They Look: Ventus still looks the same youthful age as he did during the past since his body was in a state of stasis and never grew older, unlike Aqua and Terra, who look much older after their times in the Realm of Darkness. Still, he dislikes being treated as a youth due to being much older, year-wise.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: If Sora is no longer acting goofy, joking or smiling, then the source of his current ire is in trouble. Discord and especially Lightning Dust learned this the hard way.
  • Original Character: Sora's parents, Manami and Kaito, Sweet Delight and her son Axle Beam.
  • Passing the Torch: Played with. Riku, being a Master, inadvertently makes Twilight a Keyblade wielder through the Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony by pure accident when she touched it as Riku held it.
  • Portal Book: Celestia, through Yen Sid, borrows the Winnie-the-Pooh book owned by Merlin to give herself and an emotionally-conflicted Twilight a vacation. She later uses a variety of this book's magic to teach Sora how the Mane Six earned their cutie marks.
  • Power Copying: Dimension Links, a power only mastered by the Original Trio is used in this story.
    • Twilight gains them during the chapters retelling Season 4 as each of her friends overcome the "trials" that test their Elements and earn the "keys" for the Tree of Harmony's box. As each "key" is earned, Twilight gains access to skills and personality changes to those of her friends whenever she uses a D-Link of Harmony.
    • Ventus gains a D-Link with "King" Thorax and receives powers of illusion that completely overwhelms Vanitas and makes the evil changeling believe the D-Linked Ventus has power over the χ-Blade. This and other tactics help defeat him.
  • Power Trio: The Destiny Islands Keyblade wielders (Sora, Riku and Kairi) form one. Starting with Season 4 brings us the "Original Wayfinder" Trio (Aqua, Ventus and Terra) and currently two members of the Ex-Org. XIII Trio are in Equestria (Lea, formerly Axel and Xion as of the events of Season 8), while the remaining member (Roxas) dwells within Sora's Heart
  • Pride: The second of Smolder's two weaknesses aside from a Hair-Trigger Temper. Young Xehanort takes full advantage of those in his Breaking Speech.
  • Pseudo-Canonical Fic: At best. Due to the writer taking liberty with many canon characters' fates, mostly due to "Kingdom Hearts III" having not been made when it first began. Among the major changes is the fates of the original Keyblade Trio. Aqua having found a way out of the Realm of Darkness, Terra having his heart not being part of Ansem's Guardian but actually returned to his "Lingering Will" empty body when Sora defeats both Ansem and Xemnas instead, and finally Ventus is awakened at last after his heart is safely transferred from within Sora to his comatose body within Castle Oblivion. All three now live and train alongside the "Destiny Islands" Trio in Equestria.
  • Red Herring: The closing paragraphs of the chapter before "Shadow Play" has a flashback to the past where all the Pillars of Equestria are finally united due to the Master of Masters' influence. However, he tells Star Swirl about a "seventh member" that will join the groups and only hints that "his name starts with 'S'". Those familiar with the show automatically assume this meant Stygian. It turns out he was referring to SORA all along.
  • Restraining Bolt: Chrysalis puts a curse on Xion that prevents her from attacking her. Thankfully, the Tree of Harmony removes it.
  • Retcon: Since Codex92 started the story before Kingdom Hearts III was revealed that Terra's heart was inside Ansem's Guardian. Instead, Terra's heart was returned to his body after Sora defeats the two "halves" of his Xehanort-possessed body, aka Ansem and Xemnas. Once those two are dead, his heart was able to reform and return to his "Lingering Will" empty body still standing in the Keyblade Graveyard.
  • Rousing Speech: Rex gives one to Smolder after the earlier Breaking Speech, which helps her feel better. It actually worked better than was thought as those same words helped Smolder break out of Young Xehanort's darkness illusion he trapped her in to demoralize her again.
  • Rule of Three: So far Sora has used Reverse/Forward three times. The first time was when he went to the past after "Future Twilight" went to the past herself. The second was going back to Destiny Islands' past to discover what happened to his father Kaito. The third is going to Ponyville's past and being witness to the events of "The Perfect Pear".
  • Saying Too Much: Riku explains his reason for his arrival in Equestria and orders to help fight a certain threat once he enters Canterlot Castle. Too bad he tells it all first to "Princess Mi Amore Cadenza", who quickly subdues him.
  • Scare 'Em Straight:
    • Canterlot Highverse!Snips and Snails reform themselves after Sunset Shimmer "fires" them as her minions for listening and enjoying the Mane Six and Sora's pep rally in the cafeteria and witnessing her display her Wrath!Heartless powers by punching and bending several lockers.
    • After viewing Twilight's memories of the alternate timelines, Starlight finally realizes just how big a mess she made with her revenge scheme and allows getting punished as she deserved it.
  • Scaled Up: In the two chapters dealing with the dragons, the Keyblade Trio manage to use more magic to disguise themselves as dragons to accompany Spike to the Dragon Lands. Maleficent naturally uses her dragon form when she first visits the Dragon Lands.
  • Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: As of "Uncommon Bond", Aqua has finally stopped being a stickler with the "maintaining the world order" rule she has been taught, mostly due to everything Master Xehanort and the Heartless has done in countless worlds, making it impossible to turn a blind eye and reveal their fight without having the natives of other worlds confused.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When she and Pete find the returned Crystal Empire up in the Frozen North, Maleficent immediately senses the tremendous power of Darkness that comes from the awakened Sombra and feels that this dark power would overwhelm them all. She concludes it's not worth going up against whatever is giving off so much darkness and quickly retreats.
  • Secret-Keeper: Of the fact that Sora and the rest of the Keyblade wielders are outsiders from another world.
    • At first it was only Princess Celestia, due to her correspondence with Master Yen Sid.
    • Soon the Mane Six and Spike are added when Sora is interrogated about his use of non-pony magic and the Keyblade during Nightmare Moon's first appearance, though CloudCuckoolander Pinkie Pie knew this from the start. When she is purified, Luna also joins the list.
      • In addition, Sora tells Spike about his Anti-form and swears him to secrecy. Kairi, who was nearby and faked still being unconscious, also hears this.
    • Discord, due to his CloudCuckoolander Reality Warper ways, knows the truth after using his "memory book" ability.
    • Shining Armor and Cadance learn during the reunion of the Destiny Islands Trio and Chrysalis's first defeat.
    • Each Cutie Mark Crusader learn when Sora visits them in the Dream World in his original human form as he solves their problems.
  • Secret Test of Character: Sora's entire time in Equestria is his Mark of Mastery exam. Yen Sid hints that Sora's abilities and friendship bonds will help Equestria with its troubles and should he succeed, he will be given the title of a Keyblade Master.
    • Terra's own Mark of Mastery exam is this as well as he and Aqua duel without holding back all his power, with everyone/pony thinking he has to win the duel. The truth is that he must fight without using the power of Darkness, which he refrains from doing so despite being told to go all out, and earns his Keyblade Master title. Beating her was simply a bonus since she always won whenever they both dueled in their youth.
  • Sequential Boss:
  • Seven Deadly Sins: A concept introduced in the story is that there are certain Heartless created pertaining to a strong heart under each of these. So far the only "Corrupted Heartless" seen/created have been (in order) Twilight Sparkle's Envy, Sunset Shimmer's Wrath, Arimaspi's Greed, the Sphinx's Pride and Sludge's Sloth.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran:
    • Aqua is definitely one, mostly due to having spent years by herself in the Realm of Darkness, pursued by the Dark Hide, blaming herself over Terra and Ventus, and cursing Master Xehanort for all his deeds. Thankfully, with both her old friends with her now, she is starting to slowly defrost from her years of torment.
    • Changeling Invasion!Kairi's Trauma Conga Line is one of the saddest of the story. Seeing Riku bring Sora's dead body after Xemnas's defeat, being sent to Equestria by Yen Sid in order to stop feeling bad about losing Sora and arriving just in time for Chrysalis's wedding invasion, the Queen feels Kairi's deep love for Sora, changes into his form and then puts Kairi under her command just like Shining Armor (and Sora in this story), using her hardened battle abilities to take over Equestria and a personal feeding station for Chrysalis and her troops at the same time. She finally finds a way to free herself, but learns she destroyed her Gummi Ship under Chrysalis's spell and nobody knows where she is. She remains in Zecora's resistance village, but she is no longer the cheerful Princess of Heart she was in the past.
  • Shout-Out: To investigate Friendship University alongside Twilight and Rarity, Riku dresses up and "pretends" to be Snow Villiers.
  • Sinister Scythe: Season 3 chapters onward, Princess Luna forms a construct of one from her own magic similar to Celestia's broadsword to fight.
  • Something Only They Would Say: To prove to the Kairi from the "Changeling Invasion" timeline that he is the real Sora, he pulls out the homemade Wayfinder she made for him back in Destiny Islands. This is enough to make her stand down enough to finally get through to her.
  • Spanner in the Works: Marluxia would have succeeded in reclaiming Sora if Pinkie Pie didn't overhear the "Graceful Assassin's" message about where they were supposed to meet and go there alone. She brought everyone on Sora's side in Equestria to pull a Big Damn Heroes Moment.
  • Sudden Game Interface: After Discord manipulated and destroys the bonds between the Mane Six, Sora attempts to fight him only for Discord to use Sephiroth's Heartless Angel attack and leaves Sora near-death. At this point, Discord actually shows a display screen straight out of the Kingdom Hearts series with Sora's health at 1 HP, his magic bar "chained", his Command List greyed out and even the icons of the Mane Six around him in their "discorded" states. Once he helps the Mane Six snap out of it, regains his powers, and they all return to face him, though, Discord again brings up the display screen and it shows everything in a far more favorable position for Sora (including better images of the Mane Six), realizing he's screwed. The interface also stays during their entire battle showing Discord's dwindling HP gauge and health squares.
  • Super-Persistent Predator: The Dark Hide single-mindedly hunts down Aqua, due to the many times they fought in the Realm of Darkness.
  • Super-Power Meltdown: The story introduces the concept of "magic surges" which are endemic to unicorns, where a unicorn under heavy stress or emotions have their magic go out of control, usually using a basic element of nature. Of the unicorns shown so far:
    • Twilight's canon magic surge from "Feeling Pinkie Keen" is fire-related.
    • Aqua's surges are ice-related, since her darkness ponified, Torrent, heavily uses ice magic. Whenever Aqua herself gets extremely frustrated, the temperature around her drops.
    • Kairi's surges are wind-related, as Sora saw her alternate timeline counterpart having scars from reflected Aero slashes used against that timeline's Chrysalis. Fluttershy also mentions feeling strong breezes where there were no open areas whenever Kairi gets frustrated.
    • Lea also has a fire-related surge. Of course.
  • Talking to Themself:
  • Taken for Granite: The Storm King's orbs still maintain this deadly ability. Not only are the three alicorn princesses petrified during the initial invasion, but so are Riku, Kairi, the Wayfinder Trio, Donald, Goofy and Lea. The only non-Mane Six characters that escape this fate are Sora and Jiminy.
  • Tempting Fate:
  • The Conscience: The Trope Namer himself gets to shine as he snaps Sora out of his funk after the Storm King's invasion succeeds and to chide Twilight over how her desperate attempt to steal the Pearl of Transformation and her fight against Sora has made her forget all about friendship.
  • The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: During the friendship problem at Las Pegasus, Sora decides to buy his engagement ring for Kairi in one of the many shops there. After the events of Camp Everfree, both he and Kairi return to Las Pegasus to question the shopkeeper about how the ring was a catalyst in ascending Kairi to alicornhood, only to find an empty lot where the jewelry store once stood.
  • The Stations of the Canon: This series revisits several "episodes" of the MLP series, only having characters from the Kingdom Hearts series interacting with the cast or changing certain details to accommodate them.
  • The Tape Knew You Would Say That: The Master of Masters somehow holds a conversation through the holographic recreation of the Pillars sealing the Pony of Shadows one thousand years in the past, addressing everyone and everypony by name.
  • The Worm That Walks: The tiny easily-beatable Shadow Heartless can fuse en masse to become a dreaded Demon Tower. Sora himself faced one during the "Wasteland Equestria" timeline.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: Discord tells Ventus after defeating Aqua and Kairi his reason of betrayal of the ponies and side with Tirek. Because of his mixed-bodied appearance even as a child, not one species in Equestria wanted to be near him and feared his appearance when all he wanted was to have friends of his own. If everything shunned him for looking like a monster, then he was just going to be a monster.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: Kairi feels this way in facing his love poison-enchanted boyfriend, who not only has far more melee fighting experience than her, but also uses his Master Drive form and wields both Fenrir and Sleeping Lion Keyblades to boot.
  • Time Travel: During the events of "It's About Time", Sora finds a chest that contains a magic spell called "Reverse/Forward", which does exactly this. The Master of Masters is also capable of doing this with ease.
  • Took a Level in Badass: After Lea not only fought to prevent Saïx from taking Xion, standing up to the Org. XIII member's "Berserk Nirik" state in the process, and finally coming to terms with his Lazy Bum attitude not being fit as a Warrior of Light and being forgiven for it, both he and Xion get their own thrones in the Cutie/Galactic Map Room.
  • Token Good Teammate: Xion is the one of Chrysalis's Clone Army which includes the Mean Six, by nature of her being a Nobody with her own memories and "heart" given a vessel, so she tries to prevent them from reaching the Tree of Harmony and even fights Mean Twilight, despite the ex-changeling's queen's Restraining Bolt on her.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Demyx should have really thought things through when he threatened Manami with Sora nearby.
  • Transflormation: Zecora managed to save herself from her canon fate of getting Swamp Fever. The bad news is that the one afflicted in her place is Riku.
  • Uncontrollable Rage: After saving Scootaloo from the stunt-gone-wrong, Sora lays down both a verbal and physical assault on Lightning Dust and out-shouts Short Fuse, scaring all three Washouts so badly they fly away as fast as they can go, leaving their stunt gear and everything else behind to get as far away from the enraged Keyblade wielder as possible.
  • Unperson: Invoked by Xion, who thanks to Vanitas poisoning her thoughts over just being Org. XIII's puppet and being to blame for Sora not waking up after his time in Castle Oblivion, simply embraces being forgotten. It takes Sora's physical persuasion, as well as Roxas and Lea's (even though he's no longer Axel) encouragement and kind words that they remember the happy times they had when still in Org. XIII that one year.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If Garble didn't destroy Celestia's message before anyone could read it when Spike burped it out, Sora and the Mane Six would've learned of her premonition about an unknown threat that would trespass on a very important royal event and everyone would have been prepared.
  • Victory by Endurance: Discord attempts this against a Harmony Drive-powered Sora, knowing he will eventually run out of Drive energy and will defuse back to himself and the six ponies. Unfortunately for him, the fused Mane Six keep the energy from decreasing, rendering this strategy moot.
  • Visual Pun: One of Discord's favorite tricks, both as a villain and reformed, is to actually read the memories of characters through self-created books. He literally is able to "know someone like an open book".
  • Wham Shot:
  • What Could Have Been: In-Universe example. Kaito's Nobody explains that he would have been part of Organization XIII as the original Number IX until he had a change of heart and left. Xemnas then found Demyx to be the "new" Number IX.
  • What the Hell, Hero?:
    • Terra gives Aqua this after she forcefully accuses the Alicorn Princesses over their relation to the Master of Masters and gets into a shouting match with Luna. Getting chewed out by him is enough to finally get her to realize just how badly her years within the Realm of Darkness has changed her.
    • Unlike canon, Twilight has had enough of Star Swirl's mistrustful and hard-headed attitude after abandoning Riku when he got injured and knocked out by the Pony of Shadows. She chews him out throughly and throws her Element of Magic "big crown thingy" at him as a result.
    • Aqua once again is on the end of this trope after chewing Lea out for his lazy goofball attitude, adds how he would secretly still be aligned to Organization XIII and end up taking his Flame Liberator keyblade at the end. Xion, Roxas (taking over Sora's body) and Ventus chew her out in return for doing this, and in front of Master Yen Sid no less. This gets everyone and everybody disgusted with her attitude and makes her realize she Was Too Hard on Him.
  • Wham Line: Cozy Glow's conversation with Tirek while trapped in Tartarus heavily implies she is an outsider like Sora and his friends and comes from the Age of Fairy Tales.
  • Wrecked Weapon: Sora in his Anti-Form destroys Cozy Glow's Kingdom Queen keyblade, breaking it in two. Grogar repairs it but leaves out the keychain to prevent Sora and his friends from locating her with the friendship map.
  • Wrong Assumption:
    • Rainbow Dash at first believes Sora is some sort of bad guy due to his "powers". When she gets attacked by Heartless and saved by Sora, she assumes he is behind them and has him arrested.
    • Star Swirl is practically the king of this thanks to looking into the achievements of all six of the Keyblade wielders using the memory crystals. Everyone except Kairi disgusts him due to them using or falling into darkness one way or another without giving them a chance to explain or see how that happened or even looking into the good deeds they have done aside from their run-ins with darkness. Naturally this doesn't warm them up to him and merely follow along due to stopping the Pony of Shadows.
  • Yandere: When Twilight gives in to the darkness in her heart thanks to Maleficent's influence, she tries to kill Kairi to keep Sora all to herself.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Sora goes back in time to Destiny Islands' past to find out what became of his father, Kaito, after an ill-fated fishing trip with his fishing crew or, if possible, save him. Turns out he and his crew we set upon by a storm of Shadow Heartless and were quickly decimated. Sora attempts to save the fishing crew only for the Shadows to turn them into Pirate Heartless once they kill and steal their hearts. He eventually saves Kaito and reveals himself to him, sharing some closure together. However, Kaito pushes Sora out of the way of an incoming Pirate's blade and gets run through himself, turning into a Pirate himself as he loses his heart. Sora kills Kaito's Heartless to give him peace, but it leave him utterly broken.
  • You're Not My Father: This is Sora's initial sentiment over the Nobody created of his father, Kaito (which he himself had a hand in accidentally creating by going back in time and killing his Heartless as stated above) and attempts to destroy him using his new and controllable Anti-Form, to boot. It was his mother and Kaito's Nobody's pleas which finally got through to him.

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