Funny / Kingdom Hearts III

Dodgeball was the best. Oh yeah, I was the fastest one out there! Of course, I was the ball...

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Game

General

• The opening contains a scene in which Roxas accidentally drops his ice cream. When nearly every other scene in the opening is a dramatic summation of the previous games in the series, that moment just comes across as hilarious.
• The Gummiphone, which is basically a smartphone, has several gems:
  • It comes with its own social media site that Sora and his friends can use to post comments...complete with hashtags!
  • Using it on party members will make them react by posing for a picture, but it's even more amusing when you whip it out in worlds where such a device hasn't been invented yet in the time periods they're set in, leading to native characters like Anna or Jack Sparrow react with bemusement or fascination. Jack Sparrow in particular thinks it's a fancy sort of spyglass made by the French.
  • You can take out the Gummiphone during battles. It's hilarious to see Sora stop in his tracks literally just to take photos (or better yet, selfies) and saying "Cheese!" or "Yeah!" while enemies are attacking him. Some high-level players have even made a Self-Imposed Challenge out of this, as if you know a boss' attacks and stunlock timings well enough, you can take a selfie with them while they're down and get away with it, as this guy did.
• Sora has basically had enough of dealing with the Organization's shenanigans and doesn't even make the slightest attempt to entertain their behavior.
  (to Vanitas) This Is the Part Where... you spout some mumbo jumbo and disappear, right?
  (about the "New Seven Hearts" backup plan) ...which seems to be code for "let's go bother more princesses".
• Even in the New Organization, Demyx is still a No-Respect Guy.
  • Larxene says that a cereal bowl would make a better vessel than Demyx.
• The cooking Mini-Game has Sora and co collecting ingredients for Little Chef who is working a Bistro for Uncle Scrooge. A major source of ingredients to forage is Chinese takeout boxes.
  • Speaking of those cooking minigames: try bungling one where you're flambeing the food. Put too much in and there's quite the explosion which leaves Sora with an Ash Face.
  • Even better, fail the ones involving the pepper shakers, due to Sora (technically Remy) deciding to juggle both shakers at the same time.
• One of the Flantastic Seven minigames involves piloting a teacup, stacking Flan Heartless into a tower. For no reason whatsoever. Apparently the Heartless enjoy spinning and stacking Flan in towers.
• The Keyblade you obtain from The Hundred Acre Wood... becomes a honey shooting bazooka! When you use its more powerful attacks, your enemies can become frozen in honey as well!
• Chip and Dale spend most of the game shouting on the Gummi Phone... for each other... because they're never on the screen at the same time we answer the phone! First, it's Chip shouting for Dale, then it's flipped on its head and it's Dale shouting for Chip.
• Sora, Donald and Goofy spend most of the game sassing Hades, Xehanort, the rest of the Organization and each other.
• Just the fact that one of Vanitas' attack quotes is "Nope!"
• The new Organization is made up of Xehanort, Xemnas, Ansem, and varying forms/inhabited bodies of any or all of those three. You could say that Xehanort takes the phrase "Me, Myself, And I" to a entirely different level. ^note  Sorry, we couldn't resist! The joke was there!

Olympus

• Kingdom Hearts lampshades its own Exponential Plot Delay at the very beginning, with a title card that says "Kingdom Hearts II.9" popping up-right as Sora and company head off to Olympus, simultaneously lampshading the Prolonged Prologue of Kingdom Hearts II.
• Early on, Goofy manages to pull a Stealth Insult on Sora, who doesn't even remotely get it.
  Goofy: It never hurts to have your head in the clouds!
  Sora: Exactly!
• Sora has absolutely no respect whatsoever for Hades right from the get-go, and he doesn't even bother with fighting him or his friends off, having more important things to do.
  Sora: Really? Hades?
• When Hades has an unimpressed reaction to Sora’s return, Sora snarks that he’s being cold. Hades smiles and says not to forget that he can always TURN UP THE HEAT!!
• Hades sarcastically asks if Sora is from Sparta when Sora gets ready to fight him. Apparently yes, even in the relatively light Disney setting, the Spartans still are a group of Blood Knights.
• Sora refers to Hades as "The H-Ster".
• Hades is really annoyed that Maleficent and Pete have returned to Olympus Coliseum and immediately tries to shoo them out the door, noting they haven't really done him any favors, so why should he do any for them?
• In general, Hades is shown as at best an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, with absolutely nobody taking him seriously unless he has the complete upper hand. Better yet, Hades himself is almost in on it, acting pretty almost tired of Sora and crew showing up when they do.
• When Hades summons the Titans to knock Sora’s group off of Olympus, the gang looks up in terror, and Donald shamelessly hides behind Sora all the way to when they’re blasted off!
  • When they land in Thebes, Herc manages to catch Sora and Goofy (to which Sora happily exclaims "Found him!"). Donald, however, gets caught by his collar on a statue and is stuck quacking furiously for Herc to get him down too.
• In Thebes, there's a statue of Achilles you can knock down to find a secret. How do you know it's Achilles? You target its heel.
• When Sora, Donald and Goofy learned that Hercules is a god and is the son of Zeus, their reactions are exactly the same as when teenage Hercules learned that his father is Zeus.
• Just like in the film, once Zeus gets free of his prison, the Titans turn tail and run for their lives!
• At the end of Olympus; Maleficent has Pete digging up a box that Hades mentioned. Pete gets it out of the ground, and it's Pandora's box. Maleficent squints at it, and then quickly tells Pete to drop it because it's not the MacGuffin they want. Either that or even she knows that messing with Pandora's box is not something you do.
• The group lampshading the lack of fanfare when they first enter Olympus.

Dark World

• A bit of funny dialogue between Riku and Mickey in the Dark World. Riku is reluctant to leave while Aqua is still trapped somewhere in that world, but Mickey tries to reassure him, only for Riku to get the wrong idea about who Aqua really is.
  Mickey: But Aqua... she's like Sora.
  Riku: [completely horrified] Whaaat?!
  Mickey: No, no, no... Strong like Sora.
  [Riku gives a sigh of relief, having assumed "like Sora" to mean "a bit of a dumbass"]
• Anti-Aqua attempts to intimidate Riku. It doesn't go well for her.
  Anti-Aqua: All that is left in my heart is misery and despair...and now, you can share it!
  (beat)
  Riku: There's no need. Got my own.

Mysterious Tower

• In the Mysterious Tower, Donald tells Mickey that Sora still hasn't gotten back his power of waking. Mickey's respond is a rather dull "Oh.... what a shame." that sounds like "Aw, so Sora still hasn't succeeded yet. It's okay, we're chill, take your time."
• After a few times of Sora saying he will go for the rescue mission to get Aqua, Yen Sid has become wise to the fact that he would offer to do so again before he was ready. According to Riku, he knew Sora would stage a "half-baked rescue".

Twilight Town

• Sora and the gang arrive at Twilight Town, only for Hayner, Pence, and Olette to run by and fleeing from a Demon Tide. The look on the group's face sells it.
• Sora freaking out when Remy first takes control of him.
• The group point out the Fridge Logic of how Scrooge is able to attract enough customers to maintain a restaurant in Twilight Town when he is a fairly shrewd (though not evil) businessman. Donald can only sigh and question what his uncle is planning. Scrooge is basically running Twilight Town now!
• When you visit the alley where the movie screening takes place, Donald and Goofy quickly get involved with the movie and begin crying for Movie!Sora and Mickey to watch out and whatnot.
• Xigbar asks Xemnas and Ansem why they’re laying it on so thick to Sora, and Ansem, ever the petty villain, sneers that he’d never get far from the looks of him.
• When Pence tries to distract Ansem SOD, the latter actually stutters and just tells him to leave. Not attack, but bark like a dog. Kinda takes away all intimidation when one of your main villains suddenly acts like an old man chasing kids off his lawn.
• Hayner attempting to dropkick Ansem, Seeker of Darkness. It... doesn't end well...
• While Pence and Ienzo are setting up a network between Ansem the Wise's computers in Twilight Town and Radiant Garden, Sora, holding the Gummiphone so the two can communicate, ends up falling asleep while standing.

Kingdom of Corona

• Rapunzel's mood swing from the movie is reenacted scene-by-scene only with Sora's gang in it, and it is just as hilarious.:
  • Rapunzel spins around the tree exclaiming that this is "the best day ever!" Flynn looks annoyed with it. Sora? He's got his hands behind his head, a foot against the tree trunks and just seems to be rolling with it — he's been that hyperactive nutjob himself once upon a time.
  • We get the scene of Rapunzel rolling down the hill and cocooning herself in her hair that appears in the movie as Goofy observes.
• Sora takes a moment to reflect on his first time away from home, and how grateful he was to have Donald and Goofy with him, and says with them it’s been unforgettable. Donald is touched... but Sora ruins the moment by saying it’s unforgettable just like his face! Donald reacts with horror, then pure rage as he curses Sora for roasting him.
• Rapunzel and Flynn’s Combination Attack involves them lassoing Sora, Donald, and Goofy with Rapunzel’s hair and swinging them around like a wrecking ball.
• You can glimpse a couple Wanted Posters of Flynn scattered throughout the world. And yes, they still can't get his nose right.
  • A couple townsfolk can be heard talking about him and how he's supposedly handsome, but one is dubious because of his nose.

Toy Box

• Sora giving a Lampshade Hanging on how difficult Donald is to understand:
  Donald: We have to protect the world order.
  Sora: Border?
  Donald: I said order!
  • Doubly funny because it serves as a Call-Back to the first game, where Goofy made the exact same mistake.
• Woody and his friends mention a "huge thing" that happened in their world. Rex, being Rex, has no idea what they're talking about.
• Rex mistakes Sora for a toy based on a video game character, similarly named Yozora. Meta humor ensues. Apparently, even in-universe the characters aren't safe from the series' tradition for hosting a lot of hellishly hard boss fights.
  Rex: I've been playing your game for months now! And I've already gotten you all the way up to Level 47! But that Bahamut boss is really tough. Slinky and I can't figure out how to beat him!
  • Later on in the world, while they're in the games store, Rex, once again, looks at the strategy guides to try and find out how to beat a boss he's stuck on.
• From the cutscenes in Toy Box, Buzz Lightyear, the sentient Space Ranger Toy, is displaying skepticism at Sora's claims of the worlds being split apart, responding that might work in their video game, but "in reality" things don't work like that. So to reiterate; Buzz Lightyear, a living toy, from a movie, in a Kingdom Hearts video game, is telling Sora, the hero of the Kingdom Hearts video games, that his video game logic doesn't work in the real world. INSIDE a Kingdom Hearts video game. Now THAT is meta, especially since Dream Drop Distance involved split worlds.
• When Goofy is trying to convince Buzz to trust them, he claims that even though Sora is reckless and Donald grumbles a lot, they can be trusted. Sora can be heard agreeing with Goofy on the latter, and when Donald reminds Goofy he isn't trusted either, he is confused and surprised. Sora just laughs.
• Woody runs on a record to help play the band and find the soldier, but after a while, he starts getting tired. After the soldiers retreat and the fight is over, Woody is still running with Buzz telling him the mission was a success, to Woody's annoyance.
  Woody: Why didn't you tell me sooner?!
• In Toy Box, the group needs to stack a bunch of blocks in order to reach a high place. What shape do the blocks stack themselves into? A Cactuar! Cue Final Fantasy victory fanfare.
  • And just to add to it, Donald and Goofy apparently recognize the Cactuar from somewhere...
• Woody and the other toys were about to stage an attack on the Heartless until Sora and his friends came along. Buzz stops them right in the middle by popping out his wings. Rex almost falls off the bed.
• If you hit a canister of helium or pop a balloon in Galaxy Toys, this will cause everyone to have high-pitched voices- except Donald.
  Sora: Whoa! Hey, what happened to my voice?
  Goofy: Hey, you sound funny... Gawrsh, so do I!
  Buzz: What?! Well, this is rather embarrassing. Who said that?
  Woody: Get a load of me, Buzz! I sound like an alien!
  Donald: So do I! *squawks in confusion*...Hey.
• Rex's video game is apparently Verum Rex, which is totally not a fictitious counterpart of Final Fantasy XV (or perhaps Final Fantasy Versus XIII?). You even watch a commercial of it when you first enter the world, where it shows Yozora, Aegis, and Magia. Yozora is a Noctis expy, Aegis is an Ignis expy, and Magia is... an Ardyn expy?
  • What's better is that Yozora looks more like Riku than he does Sora. Which Donald and Goofy point out. Now, remember how everyone was comparing Riku's new design to Noctis?
  • In one of the social media-like loading screens, Sora comments on how Yozora looks like Riku and is excited to play Verum Rex.
• When going around in the air vents, it's possible to get blown around by the vents. Naturally, you can stop and take a picture of Woody and Buzz at just the right time. Hilarity Ensues.
• Sora, having reached the end of his rope with Xehanorts showing up to monologue at him, deciding to just try and attack Young Xehanort mid-monologue. And it still doesn't work, as Xehanort keeps teleporting around, without even breaking stride, or showing any sign of noticing at all.
• In what is arguably the most absurd scene of the game, in the middle of the dramatic confrontation with Young Xehanort, he is told in no uncertain terms that he's an asshole and nobody loves him... by Woody.
  Woody: (pissed) Whatever you're talking about, I don't care.
• Jiminy's Gummiphone entry for the Supreme Smashers ends with this: "This massive menace gave Sora and his friends a run for their money, but in the end no deadly claws or terrible tower turrets were a match for the mighty Rex. Yes, that Rex".

Monstropolis

• Upon encountering Sully, Mike, and Boo in the lobby of Monsters Inc., Boo immediately spots Donald's one-eyed monster form... and calls him Mike Wazowski, much to the actual Mike's chagrin. Topped off when Sully introduces himself and Mike, only for Sora to name Mike based off the earlier exchange.
• For a very extended period of time, Sora, Donald and Goofy discuss their situation with Mike and Sully within earshot. Then the three pretend they're part of the Monsters Inc world.
• One of Mike Wazowski’s attacks includes Sora rolling him into enemies like a bowling ball. Made even funnier when one remembers this particular line from the movie:
  Mike: But I loved sports! Dodgeball was the best. Oh yeah, I was the fastest one out there! 'Course, I was the ball...
• When Sora, Donald and Goofy first enter Monstropolis, they look at each other and take a few steps forward before realizing they’ve been turned into monsters.
• At one point, the gang attempts to generate enough laughter to power up a door, but it's not enough. Then Goofy suggests that Sora do "the Funny Face Special." What is it? The Un-Smile Sora did all the way back in Kingdom Hearts 1!
  Sora: Everybody join in!
  • Sulley's reaction once the door opens:
    Sulley: Sora's aiming for your job.
    Mike: (indignantly scoffs)
  • Sometimes, the loading screen will show an image of that moment, with Sora's post stating that he's still not used to his monster transformation.
• After the boss is defeated Randall is thrown back into the same door he was through at the end of the original film
  Boy: Mama, that gator’s in the house again!
  Woman: Are you kidding?! Oh, this time, he’s in for it.
  (Sounds of Randall being beaten up off screen.)
• In two words: Yeetus Vanitas. In more words: Sulley scaring Vanitas from behind and grabbing him, then throwing him through a door, just like with Randall... except he then takes that door and throws it behind another door, then another door, and another door, then shreds it just to be sure.
  • Due to being able to use Corridors of Darkness to travel to any point in any world, in theory this should only have barely slowed Vanitas down. But after this moment, he's never heard from again until the Land of Departure! Presumably Vanitas was so confused and/or embarrassed he couldn't bring himself to come back.
  • Bonus points for the doors showing different worlds of the game. Sulley just chucked Vanitas into a different world, and then trapped him in different worlds!
    • Even better? The door Sulley first chucks Vanitas into leads to Arendelle! The second is Corona too! And the third is San Fransokyo at night!

Arendelle

• Immediately on arriving in Arendelle, Sora, who comes from a tropical island, learns something: Mountains covered in snow? They're cold. He immediately starts complaining about his magic not giving him a coat.
  • Go to the foothills area after the story's over, and Donald will point out he's got it worse. Sora's taller than he is, and he's wearing pants. Donald isn't.
    • Even funnier when you realize that Donald, being a bird, has a full-body covering of feathers.
• Sora’s post on the loading screen after arriving in Arendelle:
  "How am I supposed to keep the order if I’m freezing my butt off? Come on, can’t I "order" a hat and scarf? #arendelle #snow #ice #cold #order #dosomethingdonald #islander"
• On meeting Larxene again, aside from her being mildly offended that the trio doesn't remember her before realizing why, they all turn their backs on her to talk about how they should know her and what to ask.
  Larxene: Excuse me? I'm right here!
• Olaf, of course, is Olaf:
  Sora: A walking talking snowman? You really are alive!
  Anna: Hello! Olaf, are these your friends?
  Olaf: Nope! Never met 'em! Don't know anyone who's blue, green, or who's oddly spiky.
  • And then Sora takes offense at being called "spiky".
• You can add "Let it Go" to the game's soundtrack. And no, not as music in the background, the full sequence plays out with the camera occasionally cutting back to Sora, Donald and Goofy during the scene. The scene itself isn't funny, but more so the fact they put the song in is.
  Sora: Wow. I don't know what we just saw but... wow.
• At least half of Arendelle is Sora, Donald, and Goofy climbing up the mountain to get to Elsa, only to be thrown back down, let it be by avalanche or Marshmallow. This happens three times.
  Sora: (most tired/annoyed voice to ever come out of Sora) Good thing snow's so soft. We could do this a hundred times.
  Donald: NO! Let's not!
  Goofy: You sure you don't wanna go again?
  Sora: Nooo, thank youuu!
  • And when they are first blown off the mountain, we hear the Classic Goofy Scream.
• Getting the wrong body part for Olaf leads to some hilarious results. Getting a long one makes Olaf tip over, a big one makes Olaf taller and he thinks that the others are smaller, and for a rock Olaf thinks he has a summer tan, though Kristoff wanted to tell him otherwise before Anna stopped him.
  • On that subject, at least the rock and pointy snow piece sort of look like Olaf's body; not only is Sora that willing to believe a giant mound of snow is a part of Olaf, but he also finds it behind the top of a waterfall. Meaning he had to either push it down or carry it all the way there.
• During the snowstorm sequence, Donald will often say "Phew! The snowstorm can't get us here!" while you're taking cover from the violent winds whenever they kick up. Sometimes, however, right after saying this line, Donald will then immediately walk right into said violent winds and thus get carried off by them (often letting out a surprised squawk as it happens). Exhibit A!

Caribbean

• In the Caribbean, Sora is ecstatic that he, Donald and Goofy get to be pirates on a ship again. Zoom out to reveal that their "ship" is a tiny raft. Bit of a double Mythology Gag too, as it's more or less how Jack Sparrow was originally introduced in the first movie, and it also references the raft from the first KH.
  • Sora and Goofy start talking in pirate-like terms to play up the role-play of a pirate captain and his crew. When joking around, Goofy points out that they're going to fall off the edge of the world. Sora and Donald, quite rightly, freak out as they fall off! Sora commands them to go hard to starboard, but as Goofy and Donald paddle hard, the ship is actually turning to port.
    Goofy: Captain Sora!
    Sora: (in a goofy pirate voice) What ails ya, Mister Goofy?
    Goofy: The edge of the world!
    Sora: Aye!
    Goofy: We're running out of sea, sir!
    Sora: Aye! We're running out of sea! Heh heh heh! (Beat) (in his normal voice) Running out?!
  • Upon ending up in Davy Jones' Locker, a desert in the middle of nowhere, after having fallen off said end of the world, Sora is so exasperated by everything he has gone through that he just sighs in spite of the sheer ridiculousness of it.
    Sora: Where'd we end up this time?!
  • Then, they see the Black Pearl somehow sailing across the desert. They begin chasing after it, at which point THIS exchange happens out of nowhere...
    Jack Sparrow: (sprinting past the trio) Hail, Sora!
    Sora: (gasp) Jack Sparrow!
    Jack: (stops dead and turns around, despite also chasing after the Pearl) Captain Jack Sparrow!
• Luxord confronting Jack and trying to invoke one of the pirate laws during the climatic battle against Davy Jones, only for Jack to basically tell him to shut up and breathing on his face, ending with Luxord falling over into the massive whirlpool while leaning away from Jack's bad breath.
  • Which even causes Jack himself to gag.
    Jack: Yup, still works.
  • Luxord's expression during this scene is what truly sells the moment. It's difficult to see him without his usual controlled expression and calm voice, but Jack's interruption and pushing him back completely throws him off his game and he can only watch stupefied until the captain makes him fall off the Flying Dutchman.
• Vexen's reaction to seeing that the Dead Man's Chest contains an actual heart rather than the metaphysical heart.
  Vexen: Disappointing. So this is what they meant when they said "heart". We've been chasing the wrong box this whole time.
• Isla Verdemontana is home to dozens of Powerwild Heartless, which leads to this line from Donald:
  Donald: Oh no! Not more monkey business!
• When entering the Caribbean and chatting to the crew who came to rescue Jack at the world's end, one might remember the scene going along the lines of Jack stating how everyone currently there tried to kill him at one point or another. Which makes his immediate willingness to take Sora and his crew along with funny because, well, they're the only ones who've NEVER tried killing him. They even yell they're on team Jack.
• Visit the Caribbean after finishing its storyline, and the trio will wonder whether the Captain Jack they're with is made of crabs. Sora states it doesn't matter, and Jack will agree, then ask Sora what he's talking about. Yep, Sora, Donald, and Goofy managed to confuse Jack Sparrow.
  Goofy: Uh, say, Jack. You are the real Jack, aren't ya?
  Donald: And not a bunch of crabs?
  Jack: Crabs? Did you hit your heads, mates?
  Sora: Hey, Jack is Jack, and that's all that matters.
  Jack: Precisely. What?
• Luxord loses the race to the heroes and agrees to uphold his end of the bargain, only to then ask what Jack actually wants. Jack, not even thinking about it, blurts out he wants "the chest that's aboard the Dutchman." The trio all give their own "Oh come on Jack!" reaction at how he just told Luxord what he wanted to know. Jack even tries to backpedal and say that he didn't specify which Dutchman.
• The fact that Davy Jones, asks Sora of all people what he could possibly know about the heart.

Gummi Ship

• As soon as they see Mickey on the Gummiphone, Donald and Goofy face plant Sora backward into the captain's chair and almost choke him with Goofy's gloved hand.
• While on the Gummi Ship, Sora almost has a nervous breakdown for being reminded by Donald and Goofy that he can't go to the Realm of Darkness without the Power of Waking, which frustrates him a lot, he gets a phone call. Thinking it's Riku, he excitedly answers, while Donald and Goofy think that it's Mickey, only for them to be disappointed when it turns out that it's Ienzo.
  Ienzo: Is this a bad time?
  [Sora, Donald, and Goofy all sag in their seats]
• Just the fact that apparently, Roxas did... something to Lexaeus that was so bad that Aeleus doesn't want to talk to Sora.

San Fransokyo

• After meeting Big Hero 6, Sora dubs himself, Donald, and Goofy "Keyblade Hero 3." Big Hero 6 give them strange looks.
  • Baymax notices the cold reception. His reaction is to up and offer hugs.
  • Even better: Keyblade Hero 3 has the same initials as Kingdom Hearts III!
• Fred is just as much of a Large Ham Ascended Fanboy as he was in the movie.
  Fred: [On getting inspired by Sora's Ice/Fire combo] Fire and ice! Diametrically opposed... Or so we thought!
• Baymax teaching Sora his signature fist bump.
  • Later in one of the loading screens for San Fransokyo, Sora uses "Balalalalalala" as one of his hashtags.
• Fred names the new Heartless microbot threat "the Darkubes". The others protest at first but decide to just go with it.
  • When the Darkubes are first sighted in the city, Hiro briefly believes them to be microbots and tries to explain what those are to Sora and company. Cue Sora and Goofy tilting their heads quizzically, forcing Hiro to re-explain in simpler terms.
• Baymax brings two of his signature phrases into battle: "Oh no!" (When he's attacked) and "You require assistance" (when healing someone). Sometimes he might get attacked as he's healing, leading him to say "You require Oh no!" or "You require as-Oh no!"
  • Even more rarely, Baymax might say "Oh no! You require assistance."
• Sora begging Hiro to let him have his own Baymax.
• Wandering around the city at night after finishing the story reveals that Keyblade Hero 3 has become somewhat famous to the citizens. Some can be heard talking about Keyblade Hero 3, but describe it as "Something-or-other Hero 3" and describe them as a spin-off of Big Hero 6. Well, they weren't wrong: Sora did derive the name from Big Hero 6's.

Radiant Garden

• Demyx and Vexen's interaction with each other, considering they didn't know each other much as Nobodies and Demyx say he didn't even know Vexen's old life. Even when they said that they were benched.
• The follow-up scene with Ienzo is also hilarious when it's not being heartwarming. Particularly during Ienzo's reunion with Ansem the Wise, which Demyx proceeds to interrupt by sticking his face in between them and reminding them that he has a vessel to deliver.

Land of Departure

• When the group arrives at Castle Oblivion, Aqua is pondering at her former home for a long time before she finally uses Eraqus' Keyblade to restore it to its former glory (understandable, since she hasn't been there for over a decade). Donald starts getting impatient and tries to talk, only for Goofy to shut his mouth with his hands.
• While perhaps not an intentional reaction, Aqua seems to get quite annoyed if you pause in your rescue of Ven to take a selfie with her.
• Vanitas calling Ventus "Venty-Wenty".

Finale

• Before the final battle the initial players are brought to the Mysterious Tower (Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, Mickey, Aqua, Ven, Kairi, and Lea). While the characters are catching up revealing just how they know each other, Lea proceeds to hang this massive lampshade.
  Lea: (Clears his throat audibly) This is all very touching, guys, but where do I fit in? Ven looks just like Roxas - or is it Roxas looks just like Ven? ... And now I have to explain it all to him - which is in itself a crazy long story - and, apparently everybody already knows everyone, and this is an insane amount to get memorized!
  • His point is further proven by Sora’s confusion as to how Ven knows Axel and Ven being confused as to who "Axel" is. Lea himself is practically spent by the time Jiminy pops out of Sora’s hood, because since he and Jiminy have never met until this point, when Axel, to him, it's as if ANOTHER brand new person he's never heard of just showed up. His frustration and confusion are palpable in his following lines.
    Sora: Axel, you know Ven?
    Ventus: "Axel" ? Who's "Axel" ?"
    Lea: See, see, see? Major brain-ache.
    (Jiminy pops out of Sora's hoodie and stands on his head)
    Lea: Huh?! Now, who?!
  • Instead of trying to catch everyone up on the screen, Jiminy just tells everyone to read the information in the Gummiphone if they're confused. Which if you think about it, is an incredibly meta way of Square-Enix saying "We're not going to bother to explain it to you, read the damn appendices we gave you. That's what they're there for."
• During the long series of cutscenes, one of them features Lea up on the Twilight Town clock tower, eating ice cream, only for Saix to arrive and swipe one of the bars. Over the course of the scene, Saix manages to devour the entire bar between camera cuts.
• The scene right before the final battle has a very brief moment where Ven and Roxas both glance at each other and go "Huh?"
• Donald casting Zettaflare is indisputably a Moment of Awesome, but there is something indisputably hilarious about the fact that- as determined by on the game's Awesome page- Donald Fauntleroy Duck is now canonically the most powerful magic user in the entire Square Enix library!
• The mere fact that one of the last worlds you go to is called "The Final World". Bonus points for that world not actually being the last world you go to.
• Many of Chirithy's lines to Sora in the Final World. Even after all these years, Chirithy doesn't lose his snarky side at all. It's even amusing when you realize that he is Ven's Chirithy. He says that Sora went to the Final World more than once in his Station of Awakening moments, and that while the edges of sleep and death are close, one can't help the occasional crossover.
  Chirithy: You have to piece yourself together in this world first.
  Sora: Why am I in pieces?!
  Chirithy: What? No, not literally, of course. You're conceptually in pieces.
• At the end of Sora's conversation with Naminé in the Final World, she says she will try to trace Terra's connection to the Realm of Light in order to bring him back. When Sora is predictably confused by the terminology, she dumbs it down to "I've got your back".
  • Furthermore, when they part ways, Sora thanks Namine for her help in explaining the situation and for tracking down Terra. He then hastily clarifies that it doesn't count as the "real" thank you that he still owes her from Jiminy's journal.
• Sora's comment on the Final World when he's collecting him is rather funny because it really feels like an Understatement for the sheer level of Mind Screw in-effect.
  Sora: What a weird place. ^note This is said, in response to seeing a place surrounded by sky, with hundreds of himself walking, running, falling, spinning, sliding, gliding, swimming, and dancing all over the place.
• Before the Boss Rush, Axel is annoyed, and it appears he's been reading TV Tropes itself.
  Axel: Just send out the Big Bad.^note Yes, it is in that exact capitalization.
• Two of Lea's lines to Xemnas. "How about, 'You were never my superior.'" and "You kidding? Do you know how popular I am? I got loads of people rootin' for me."
  • Xemnas' lead-in to this was similarly fourth-wall-breaking, describing Axel as "Ever the rogue pawn. Knocked from the board early in the game. Utterly useless and forgotten." When created, Axel was supposed to die in the prologue of KH2. His popularity spared him, which is of course why Lea makes the reply that he does.
    Lea: No one axes Axel. Got it memorized?
  • Bonus points for it having the rare honor of being the second of only two big fourth-wall-breaking jokes in the series, the last one being all the way back in Kingdom Hearts, when Donald physically pulled the camera down to his level so he could continue talking.
  • It's definitely a darker kind of humor, but there's something funny about how the triumphant music abruptly cuts off as Xemnas casually catches Axel's Keyblade in mid-swing.
    Xemnas: Is this supposed to be a Keyblade? Or is it some sort of joke?
  • When Lea weakly tries to stop Xemnas from killing Xion, Xemnas makes it a point to step on his hand out of spite.
• During the Boss Rush, Larxene's defeat. She falls to her knees and angrily says, "Are you KIDDING?!" but Sora, with a strange smile on his face, just tells her "You're gonna be recompleted." Despite that he just beat the living shit out of her.
• In his "dying" speech when he defiantly claims to Sora and Riku that he's worthy to wield a keyblade, Xigbar insists that why else he would ever put up with Master Xehanort and all of his nonsense. With The Reveal in the epilogue, this means even he admits that Master Xehanort's Evil Plan is nonsensical, but his secret agenda obligates him to play along with it.
• The existence of the "Grand Chef" keyblade and "Frying Pan" formchange means you can defeat all of Organization 13 by smacking them on the head with a giant, fiery frying pan like you're in Looney Tunes.

Ending

• There are several during the ending:
  • Riku, Terra, and Roxas racing across the beach with Mickey and Aqua cheering them. Riku wins, Roxas comes in a close second, and Terra is in the last place and can be seen exhausted after he arrives at the finish.
  • Unlike Ven and Lea, Isa takes the frisbee-throwing game very seriously and continues to put a stoic face when he’s throwing the frisbee to Lea.
    • As a Call-Back, they’re playing with Lea’s old frisbee. That thing sure is very durable. One wonders just where it's been for the last twelve years!
  • Hayner, Pence, and Olette are making a Mickey Mouse emblem.
  • Donald and Goofy are building a very detailed sand sculpture of the former. Donald is bragging around about his masterpiece...only for the sculpture to be ruined by a mis-aimed frisbee thrown by Ven. Donald then tries to pick a fight with Ven in retaliation and has to be held back by Mickey.

Epilogue

• We get yet another Self-Deprecation to the series' infamous Kudzu Plot when Luxu/Xigbar, asked about what his role over the last several centuries has been, sighs and replies, "I hope you guys like long stories."
• The Reveal that Xigbar is Luxu puts his remark from Kingdom Hearts II about being "not just any old dude" in another light: not only is he indeed an "old dude", he's quite possibly the oldest "dude" in the series by that point.
  • There's also the fact that Luxu has been biding his time, watching an old man trying to start the Keyblade War with his Keyblade, listening to him get his facts wrong throughout the entire time he was Xigbar, and allow himself to become "half-Xehanort" while waiting for his "master" to bite the dust. Dude's got the patience of a saint, especially when you realise he would know everything in advance due to the Master of Master's Book and has to have the will power to not interfere and play things out as they're meant too.
• In the Secret Ending, we get our first glimpse of the Master of Masters in the present day, as confirmed by Nomura. Keep in mind that all evidence currently points to this guy being the Big Bad of the next story arc, serving as the Greater-Scope Villain to Luxu and the other Foretellers. And in his first present-day appearance, what do we see him doing? Holding up his hands in a heart-shape to make the shape of Kingdom Hearts on the moon! Clearly, the intervening centuries haven't made him any less of a Manchild. That, or he's ultimately planning to turn Quadratum's moon into Kingdom Hearts...
• During the scene with the foretellers, Aced loses his patience rather quickly and tells Luxu: "I've heard enough!" In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Luxu reacts by turning to give Aced a death-glare and then rolling his eye at him.

Re𝄌Mind

• In the opening, Luxord talks about how the Seekers get their orders from either Xemnas, being the main administrator of the Seekers, or Master Xehanort himself. He says Master Xehanort only cares about engineering the Keyblade War, meaning the order to find the Black Box came from either Xemnas or Xigbar, the one who gave the order to him in the first place. Xigbar quickly assures Luxord it was an order he passed on from Xemnas, but Luxord sneers that’s not what he heard from Xemnas. Even Xigbar is taken aback - Luxord literally went straight to Xemnas, clearly not having expected Luxord to have the gall to do so. It puts a major dent in Xigbar’s confidence and he’s left trying to weasel his way out of the conversation.
• Fairly early into the DLC is a flashback of Xehanort, just before he takes the Mark of Mastery exam, meeting the Master of Masters. Towards the end of the flashback, Xehanort outright asks the Master of Master what his name is and... we don't hear it. Well played, Nomura.
• Before this moment, the Master of Masters makes his speech and point about his being and identity, the main point being who he is not truly mattering, only for Young Xehanort to ask him about his identity anyway. The Master of Masters trips over himself for a moment at how he just missed the point.
• In a somewhat dark way, the fact that Xehanort is being played like a kazoo^note The phrase is often written as "played like a fiddle" but a fiddle is actually notoriously difficult to play, while a kazoo is easy. by the Master of Masters, to the point where it's almost comical. The Master is clearly enjoying himself as he pushes Xehanort onto his future path.
• When Saïx brings up the task Xigbar gave out to Luxord, Xigbar is evasive on the subject. When Saïx looks to Master Xehanort in confusion, the old Keyblade Master simply smirks and shrugs, truly not giving a shit since all he cares about is having thirteen vessels.
• How Demyx convinces Riku that he's done a Heel–Face Turn: by holding up the Gummiphone that Ienzo gave him and saying, "All the cool kids have one, right?" And it works.
• Lea is too tall to see under Xion's hood, so he mistakes her for Roxas at first because she's wielding the Kingdom Key.
• Watch the scene before fighting Saïx and Xion with these tidbits of knowledge: Saïx has secretly been a mole for the good guys, and Xion starts regaining her memories upon hearing the names of her old friends. When Lea mistakes Xion for Roxas, Saïx has this to say:
  "No, it's not Roxas, Axel."
  • That's right, Saïx is purposely jogging Xion's memories right in front of Xemnas, who doesn't suspect a thing.
• One of the banters the Guardians have during the battle against Replica Xehanorts has Aqua scolding Lea for wisecracking too much instead of focusing on the fight. Lea just snickers.
  Lea: Not bad for an on the fly team, right?
  Aqua: Don't talk. Fight.
  Lea: Heh... you don't have to say it like that...
• An unintentional example. One of Kairi's battle quotes during the battle against Armored Xehanort is "Please work!", which makes sense considering she is still a Keyblade rookie. However, in this case, she is a playable character, which means her skills are entirely up to the player. If an expert is handed control over her, she can literally smack Xehanort to death without breaking a sweat and still hope her attacks work as if she Does Not Know Her Own Strength.
  One commenter of this YouTube video: Kairi: "Please work!" Xehanort: "Kairi, it has been WORKING for the past 12 healthbars; stop saying that!"
• Sora and Kairi's status as a Chastity Couple gets lampshaded near the end when, after Sora asks him why he appears late to say goodbye to them in the Final World, Chirthy tells him that he was trying to "give [them] some privacy". Of course, it flies over his head.
• The opening to Limit Cut actually gives an explanation for the creation of the Data Organization. Cid created them by complete accident! You have Cid to thank for Xion and Master Xehanort kicking your ass.
  • A more meta example here: The fact that all the fights against the Data Organization XIII are done in-universe via Riku pretty much playing a video game controlling Data Sora. And due to the difficulty of the bosses, one can almost imagine Riku being close to rage-quitting as much as the player is.
• When Sora and Yozora meet, the former starts rambling about what the Mysterious Star told him and about Yozora being real and once he's done, Yozora's response is nothing short of hilarious.
  "Are you done?"

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