History Trivia / KingdomHearts

* ShrugOfGod: Whether the remix collections will come to Xbox One and/or Switch (as well as ''III'' for that one) after ''III'' has come out. On one hand, there's a theory that Square is waiting to see the amount that ''III'' sells on Xbox One to justify the ports, which doesn't make sense because Xbox players going into ''III'' blind won't get what's going on in the story outside of what's happening in the main plot without them. On the other, Nomura has stated that it's a likely possibility and the main conceit of releasing the collections in the first place was to catch people up on the stories of the games in time for ''III'' to avoid massive ContinuityLockout with people who would either be playing the series for the first time with ''III'' or hadn't played the handheld games to keep up with the overall narrative of later entries’ stories and setups for ''III'', which is only more incentive for them to do it. Considering that the series used Disney characters to sell a lot of copies of a new game in the first place, the series has the potential to break a lot of ground on Xbox like it did the PlayStation compared to other Square Enix games due to the good word of mouth and hype generated by PlayStation players, so they shouldn't have much to worry about with sales numbers.

* GodNeverSaidThat: A main reason that most [=PS4=] fanboys claim that the games prior to ''III'' hadn't been announced to be coming to the Xbox One yet is because of a supposed exclusivity deal with Sony for the first two main games to stay on PlayStation. Not only does this not make ''any'' sense, seeing as the series has been multiplatform since ''Chain of Memories'', which was originally on the GBA, but no one at Square or Sony has said anything of the sort. The most probable reasons for those games being on PlayStation, and nowhere else, thus far is that the [=PS2=] was the most popular gaming console of the 6th generation and Square has a good working relationship with Sony, as well as Square not having another team available to port the games to the Xbox One while ''III'' and several other big projects were in the works. The fact that Nomura has said that it's entirely possible to port the collections to the Xbox One at some point in the future pretty much confirmed this. True to his word, the collections eventually did arrive on Xbox One.

** The original form of a Nobody or Heartless is called a “Somebody” by the fandom, especially among Organization XIII (e.g. Sora is Roxas’s Somebody). The games don’t have a specific terminology for what they otherwise just call “people” or “humans”, though the fan term may come from a quote from Axel in ''Chain of Memories'' (“We nobodies can never hope to be somebodies.”) One of the [[TheWikiRule wikis]] uses “Entelechies” to categorize complete beings, but acknowledges that the term has never been officially used.

** The original form of a Nobody or Heartless is called a "Somebody" by the fandom, especially among Organization XIII (i.e. Sora is Roxas' Somebody). The games don't have a specific terminology for what they otherwise just call "people" or "humans", though the fan term may come from a quote from Axel in ''Chain of Memories'' ("We nobodies can never hope to be somebodies.")

* VocalEvolution: Due to their voice actors going through puberty, Sora, Riku, and Kairi sound very different in ''I'' than they do in the later games. Because of this, the new cutscenes added to the Final Mix version of the first game are not dubbed except for some reused dialogue from earlier cutscenes for one of the secret bosses. The Final Mix versions of ''II'' and ''Birth By Sleep'', however, had their extra cutscenes dubbed later in 2014 for ''2.5'' since they're scenes that featured characters whose actors were all old enough to not have their voices change much in the 7 years since the original versions of the games were dubbed. However, some other characters, such as Demyx's, actors have also had their voices get noticeably deeper by the time ''III'' was dubbed in 2018.

** Around 2002, Disney commissioned a ''Kingdom Hearts'' animated series... but it was passed on, despite excellent testing, to avoid contradicting future games and to respect Tetsuya Nomura's vision. Some storyboards can be seen [[http://sethkearsley.deviantart.com/art/Kingdom-Hearts-Pilot-Board-415016339 here,]] and an interview with the show's creator [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaO92mBdJNM here.]] Later in 2017, Seth Kearsley is going to possibly release a pilot episode on the internet very soon.

** Xion shares her Japanese voice actress with Kairi, and in ''Days'' Stoner also plays TheOtherDarrin for Kairi. However, Kairi's original voice actress, Hayden Panettiere, returned for ''Birth by Sleep''... as Kairi and as Xion, interestingly enough.
** Several characters who end up basically alternate versions of one character share voice actors, such as Sora and Vanitas, Roxas and Ventus, Ansem, Seeker of Darkness and Terra-Xehanort.
** In ''III'', Akio Otsuka voices three of Xehanort's incarnations, the most notable addition being Master Xehanort as he takes over the role originated by his late father Chikao Otsuka.

* BeamMeUpScotty: A lot of fanart, fan-animation, etc. depict the Keyblade being swung with the teeth facing ''forward'', like an ax, when in the actual games it's swung with the teeth facing ''backward'', like a blunt-force object. A side-effect of this is that Ventus' default keyblade, Wayward Wind, is often depicted in fanart with the teeth facing the wrong way, which is very noticeable given Wayward Wind's asymmetric design.

* AllStarCast: Though some of them are replaced with TheOtherDarrin sometimes, the voice acting credits of the series include Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, David Gallagher, Hayden Panettiere, Music/{{Jesse McCartney}}, Creator/BillyZane, '''Christopher Lee''', '''Leonard Nimoy''' and '''Mark Hamill'''. And that's just the original characters; we're not listing the Disney and ''Final Fantasy'' credits where many famous voice actors reprise their original roles, or characters who got famous voice actors for their first vocalized appearance. Those credits include Music/MandyMoore, Creator/JamesWoods, Creator/DavidBoreanaz, and Creator/DanCastellaneta.

** Let's see... Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Music/[[Jesse McCartney]], Creator/DavidGallagher, Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/BillyZane, David Boreanaz, Music/MandyMoore, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/ChristopherLloyd...the list goes on and on; although some of the celebrities who appeared in the first game did not reprise their roles later on.

** Let's see... Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Music/[Jesse McCartney], Creator/DavidGallagher, Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/BillyZane, David Boreanaz, Music/MandyMoore, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/ChristopherLloyd...the list goes on and on; although some of the celebrities who appeared in the first game did not reprise their roles later on.

** Let's see... Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Music/{Jesse McCartney}, Creator/DavidGallagher, Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/BillyZane, David Boreanaz, Music/MandyMoore, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/ChristopherLloyd...the list goes on and on; although some of the celebrities who appeared in the first game did not reprise their roles later on.

** Let's see... Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Music/JesseMcCartney, Creator/DavidGallagher, Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/BillyZane, David Boreanaz, Music/MandyMoore, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/ChristopherLloyd...the list goes on and on; although some of the celebrities who appeared in the first game did not reprise their roles later on.

** Let's see... Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Jesse [=McCartney=], David Gallagher, Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/BillyZane, David Boreanaz, Music/MandyMoore... the list goes on and on; although some of the celebrities who appeared in the first game did not reprise their roles.

** Several characters have lost their voice actors over the years, but the most prominent ones are Mickey Mouse and Master Xehanort (the former is Creator/WayneAllwine; one of the games in the series is his very final Mickey Mouse voice role, having been released posthumously). The latter is very noticeable, as both his English and Japanese voice actors, Chikao Otsuka and Leonard Nimoy, died ''a month apart'' in 2015! Then in June 2015, Sir Christopher Lee passed away, but Corey Burton had been filling in for Lee since 2010.

* {{Defictionalization}}: Master swordsmith and renowned propmaster Tony Swatton made a replica of the Kingdom Key Keyblade after receiving a lot of requests from fans. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPH8Pe5G1p0 No joke.]] They later also did the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ic-avlBAZ0 Oathkeeper]]. Later still, [[https://youtu.be/GI_LAIt9zis The Pirate's Of the Caribbean blade from 3]]

* GodNeverSaidThat: A main reason that most [=PS4=] fanboys claim that the games prior to ''III'' hadn't been announced to be coming to the Xbox One yet is because of a supposed exclusivity deal with Sony for the first two main games to stay on PlayStation. Not only does this not make ''any'' sense, seeing as the series has been multiplatform since ''Chain of Memories'', which was originally on the GBA, but no one at Square or Sony has said anything of the sort. The most probable reasons for those games being on PlayStation, and nowhere else, thus far is that the [=PS2=] was the most popular gaming console of the 6th generation and Square has a good working relationship with Sony, as well as Square not having another team available to port the games to the Xbox One while ''III'' and several other big projects were in the works. The fact that Nomura has said that it's entirely possible to port the collections to the Xbox One at some point in the future pretty much confirmed this. True his word, the collections eventually did arrive on Xbox One.

* ActingForTwo: Xion shares her Japanese voice actress with Kairi, and in ''Days'' Stoner also plays TheOtherDarrin for Kairi. However, Kairi's original voice actress, Hayden Panettiere, returned for ''Birth by Sleep''... as Kairi and as Xion, interestingly enough.

* CursedItem: Out of universe example; but in this case, it's a song. According to [[https://kh-ultimania.livejournal.com/6608.html Yoko Shimomura]], the chorus portion of the iconic "Destati" is believed to be cursed because every time the developers loaded it into the game, something bad would happen. An example of this was the entire building suffering a power outage.

** A ''[[Disney/TheJungleBook Jungle Book]]'' world was planned for ''Birth by Sleep'', with Louie's Throne Room being DummiedOut.

* ReclusiveArtist: Despite having had several roles as a child actor and young voice actor in the past, from ''Kingdom Hearts II'' and onwards, Ryan O'Donohue has apparently done little else in the field of acting aside from voicing Demyx and scant details of his current life exist. There don't even appear to any sort of contemporary photographs of the the man, only black and white child photos.

* ReclusiveArtist: Despite having had several roles as a child actor and young voice actor in the past, from ''Kingdom Hearts II'' and onwards, Ryan O'Donohue has apparently done little else in the field of acting aside from providing the character of Demyx and scant details of his current life exist. There don't even appear to any sort of contemporary photographs of the the man, only black and white child photos.

** The final battle with Xemnas in ''II'' was supposed be quite different, with Xemnas melding into [[http://www.khwiki.net/File:King_(Art).png a giant Transformer-esque creature]] after absorbing power from Kingdom Hearts and, upon defeat, transform into [[http://www.khwiki.net/File:Kentauros_(Art).png this]] distorted version. This idea was nixed and replaced with the dragon-fortress/armored Xemnas and black-and-white coat Xemnas battles.

* GodNeverSaidThat: A main reason that most [=PS4=] fanboys claim that the games prior to ''III'' hadn't been announced to be coming to the Xbox One yet is because of a supposed exclusivity deal with Sony for the first two main games to stay on PlayStation. Not only does this not make ''any'' sense, seeing as the series has been multiplatform since ''Chain of Memories'', which was originally on the GBA, but no one at Square or Sony has said anything of the sort. The most probable reasons for those games being on PlayStation, and nowhere else, thus far is that the [=PS2=] was the most popular gaming console of the 6th generation and Square has a good working relationship with Sony, as well as Square not having another team available to port the games to the Xbox One while ''III'' and several other big projects were in the works. The fact that Nomura has said that it's entirely possible to port the collections to the Xbox One at some point in the future pretty much confirmed this.

** ''Kingdom Hearts'' was, for a time, infamous for including plot-relevant content in Japan-only ''Final Mix'' re-releases. Eventually all this content reached the international audience in the form of the ''1.5 HD Remix'' and ''2.5 HD Remix'' (then ''1.5+2.5'') compilation disks. This was due to releasing only on the [=PS2=] (and PSP for ''Birth By Sleep'') at the time, when Sony had a policy of not allowing games to be rereleased outside of Japan, or possibly just their country of origin, like the way ''Kingdom Hearts I'' and ''II'' were without significant enough changes to the base game to justify it. Additional cutscenes and secret bosses were not deemed enough to justify it to Sony at the time. The HD remixes were literally the first possible way to release the content overseas for Square, same with some of their other games that got redone versions of them at a later date in the [=PS2=] days.

** For ''KHIII'', Creator/AkioOhtsuka and Creator/RutgerHauer take over as Master Xenahort in Japanese and English, respectively, after Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka's and Creator/LeonardNimoy's deaths in 2015. Ironically enough, Hauer died later that year, so the character will likely be recast again in English if he appears in newer games or DLC for ''III''.

** Averted in that while Robin Williams passed away in 2014, Dan Castellaneta, who replaced him for ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', has always been playing The Genie in these games [[note]]they started after ''Film/BicentennialMan'' created a rift between Disney and Williams; he only voiced The Genie twice, first in the original ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' film, then in ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'' [[/note]]. Jim Meskimen also played the character in the 2.5 cinematic version of ''Re:coded.''

* ExiledFromContinuity: Don't expect to see Deep Jungle, the world based on ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', ever again in any ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games after [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI the first]], even in the form of flashbacks or recaps, as Creator/{{Disney}} is unable to secure the ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' trademarks from the Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs estate.[[note]]''Tarzan'' and all elements pertaining to it are in the public domain as the copyrights to the novels have expired, but the trademarks to these elements were retained by the Burroughs estate, thus subjecting them to similar restrictions[[/note]]

** [[Disney/TheLionKing The Pride Lands]] were originally going to be featured in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI I]]'', but the game engine couldn't handle any dedicated quadruped movement, so Simba was included as a summon instead. After changing the game engine, the world managed to make it into ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
** [[Disney/{{Tarzan}} Deep Jungle]] was set to return in ''Chain of Memories'', but was cut [[ScrewedByTheLawyers due to copyright complications]]. ''Tarzan'' has not appeared in any game since.

** Pleakley was meant to appear in the ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' world in ''Birth by Sleep''.

** An android/[=iOS=] game called ''Kingdom Hearts: Fragmented Keys'' [[http://kh13.com/news/concept-art-for-disneys-cancelled-iosandroid-kingdom-hearts-game-revealed-including-wreck-it-ralph-frozen-tangled-star-wars-worlds was in early development]], but was ultimately scrapped. Its new worlds included locations from ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', ''Disney/WreckItRalph'', ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', and even ''Franchise/StarWars'', which Disney had only recently acquired at the time of the game's development. However, it is likely that some of the concepts featured in the unfinished work will appear in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''.

** Another [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnu-yMDZxAM data mine]] revealed that worlds based on ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and ''[[{{Disney/Fantasia}} Fantasia]]'' were planned to be in ''Kingdom Hearts II''. Obviously, all of those worlds ended up being in the series eventually. Also, Atlantica was going to be a full world.

* VocalEvolution: Due to their voice actors going through puberty, Sora, Riku, and Kairi sound very different in ''I'' than they do in the later games. Because of this, the new cutscenes added to the Final Mix version of the first game are not dubbed except for some reused dialogue from earlier cutscenes for one of the secret bosses. The Final Mix versions of ''II'' and ''Birth By Sleep'' had their extra cutscenes dubbed later in 2014 for ''2.5'' since they're scenes that featured characters whose actors were all old enough to not have their voices change much in the 7 years since the original versions of the games were dubbed. However, some other characters, such as Demyx's, actors have also had their voices get noticeably deeper by the time ''III'' was dubbed in 2018.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: One of the more common things you'll read online as to why the ''1.5,'' ''2.5,'' and ''2.8'' HD collections weren't ported off the [=PS3=] and [=PS4=] for the longest time is that the earlier [=PS2=] games had an exclusivity deal with Sony to release on only their consoles that extended to their remasters. Not only does this make no sense, since the rest of the games, minus ''Birth By Sleep'' came out on Nintendo's handhelds or mobile devices, but ''Kingdom Hearts III'' also released for the Xbox One, aat the same time as the [=PS4=]. Also, Nomura and Tai Yasue also stated that ports of the collections to Xbox One were also possibilities after ''III'' was released, but had yet to do so because the team was focused on ''III's'' development to not have it be delayed. This seems to be hearsay from some fans to justify the lack of ports of the earlier games to Xbox, despite there being no evidence to support it. In fact, there's more evidence against it. Safe to say, after [=X019=], if there ''was'' an exclusivity deal, same as the 3D ''Final Fantasy'' games a year before, it's clearly not in effect anymore if it ever ''was.''
* VocalEvolution: Due to their voice actors going through puberty, Sora, Riku, and Kairi sound very different in ''I'' than they do in the later games. Because of this, the new cutscenes added to the Final Mix version of the first game are not dubbed except for some reused dialogue from earlier cutscenes for one of the secret bosses. The Final Mix versions of ''II'' and ''Birth By Sleep'' had their extra cutscenes dubbed later in 2014 for ''2.5'' since they're scenes that featured characters whose actors were all old enough to not have their voices change much in the 7 years since the original version was dubbed. However, some other characters, such as Demyx's, actors have also had their voices get noticeably deeper by the time ''III'' was dubbed in 2018.

** ''Re:Chain of Memories'' didn't get released outside of the US or Japan in the [=PS2=] days either (it was almost not even release in America until fans begged hard enough as well) until ''1.5'' came out in 2013.