YMMV / How To Fix Kingdom Hearts

• Accidental Aesop: Apply a bit of Fridge thinking, and you'll realize that the imbalance between light and darkness is caused by the war between them, and the only way balance between light and darkness can be achieved is through peace.
  • The Birth By Sleep arc has a different one: don't take the word of authorities as Word of God, since they might lie to you. Out of the entire Keyblade Master council, Eraqus and Xehanort seemed more honest, but the former keeps information he knows he should tell the persons who trust him the most hidden away from them, and the latter is an Omnicidal Maniac.
• Anvilicious: Starting from the Kingdom Hearts 2 rewrite, the series started dropping the Dark Is Not Evil aesop like anvils, what with the huge What Measure Is a Non-Human? attitude towards the Heartless.
• Ass Pull: Cryptonix's opinion on the Star Cluster being Yen Sid's Keyblade.
  • Roxas and Namine being created by Ansem using a dark spell to fracture Sora's heart is this. Even Cryptonix acknowledges this, stating that he should have done it to be more sacrificial on Sora's part.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Cryptonix's "KH2 Dark Mode Riku" is popular among fans of the series. Someone even added it to a fan made expansion of KH3's Data Greeting mode.
• Fridge Brilliance: The fact that Roxas normally wields Oathkeeper and Xion normally wields Oblivion does explain in-universe why Roxas was able to dual-wield Oathkeeper and Oblivion in KH2.
  • The Adaptational Backstory Change given to Organization XIII (including Xion) and Namine make the words of Xemnas's game counterpart from Dream Drop Distance make more sense. The words are "One can banish the heart from the body, but the body will try to replace it the first chance it gets, for as many times as it takes." The Adaptational Backstory Change explain how the game version of the Nobodies can regrow hearts: it's not necessarily that they regrow it, but their bodies become able to do a heart's functions (like emoting) itself, without a heart, and Roxas and Namine just figured out how earlier than the others.
  • Cryptonyx stated right off the bat that he intends on removing the world of fiction. This, combined with Kairi's Adaptational Badass and Marluxia's and Larxene's Adaptational Heroism, means the following: Kairi won't get kidnapped and Stuffed in the Fridge in KH3, Sora won't have to erase himself from existence to save her, and the two will get their happy ending.
  • The Adaptational Villainy given to light puts the Master of Masters' prophecy in a better light: "On that fated land, a battle will transpire,/ Darkness will prevail, and the light expire."
    • Who's to say that the tyranny of light doesn't exist out of fear of this prophecy? And since it's a tyranny, the prophecy became a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
• Fridge Horror: Well, not exactly, since it affects Maleficent, who deserved it, but it still counts, since it involves death. Maleficent only survived being slain in Kingdom Hearts 1 by time traveling to the age of fairytales; however, no time travel means Maleficent was Killed Off for Real!
  • It's all but outright stated that Namine is an Anthropomorphic Personification of Kairi's repressed feelings for Riku. After all, she's "Kairi's shadow" when Riku uses the darkness, and a Shrinking Violet because she's, well, repressed. The horror kicks in when you realize Kairi was unwittingly a Big Sister Bully towards Namine (since plenty of fanworks, especially in recent days, portray Kairi and Namine as sisters). And that's on top of Marluxia's actions in Chain of Memories. Poor Namine...
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This web series started before The Reveal at the end of Union X was revealed, and with Cryptonix constantly reinforcing Dark Is Not Evil throughout his series, it's likely he embraced his inner Xehanort in advance. This becomes even more Hilarious in Hindsight with Terranort and Young Xehanort being more sympathetic in the Dream Drop Distance rewrite.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Upon reuniting with Kairi and Riku in The World That Never Was, Sora takes a moment to thank Namine, which is something he has yet to do in the games.
• Jerkass Woobie: The Heartless are often tortured by the tyranny of light led by Hermod, Bragi, Urd and Vor, though them destroying worlds is not helping their case.
  • Since Vanitas leads them and pulls a Redemption Rejection when the Wayfinder Trio tries to see the grey area, he qualifies.
• Older Than They Think:
  • Related in the Adaptation being applied to Kairi and DiZ: in Kingdom Hearts 3: Final Stand, which came out before the real Kingdom Hearts III, which Cryptonix saw as the last straw, DiZ is Kairi's grand-uncle.
  • The Kingdom Key being the key to Kingdom Hearts was a Wild Mass Guessing based on the X-Blade's appearance (look here: Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep; while the games Jossed it, Cryptonix gave it a new life by making the Kingdom Key the light half of the Key of Hearts, the dark half being the Kingdom Key D.
  • Similarly, Ventus and Vanitas wielding the Kingdom Keys; a What Could Have Been was for Ventus to wield the Kingdom Key D. Here, Ventus holds the Kingdom Key, while the Kingdom Key D is wielded by Vanitas.
    • That's not the first What Could Have Been that Cryptonix revived. Others include: Kairi having a greater role after being revived in Hollow Bastion, to the point she's briefly playable, in Kingdom Hearts 1, a Limit Gauge that, when filled, triggers the Limit Break in Kingdom Hearts Days, and Cloud and Squall appearing in Radiant Garden in Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
  • A lot of fans hate Kairi's portrayal from the games (a useless Damsel in Distress who only exists to be Sora's girlfriend) and prefer Cryptonix's take on her, where she's a much more competent fighter and has a clearer direction in her character arc.^note This portrayal is actually used extremely often in fanfics, especially Sokai fanfics.
  • Terra also receives this. While he's more of a Base-Breaking Character instead of The Scrappy, he does have plenty of detractors, who believe Terra always trusts Obviously Evil people. In Cryptonix's videos, Terra never seems to trust Disney Villains. As for Xehanort, Terra's doubts are made more explicit, which makes Xehanort's exploitation of them more understandable.
  • Similarly, Xehanort is hated for how his claim as he's dying that he's a Well-Intentioned Extremist is nullified by all his crimes, yet everyone believes it. Cryptonix made Xehanort actually feel guilty for the crimes Ansem and Xemnas committed, and tells Sora that he should hate him for them, though it's likely he was influenced by Terra. As for his claim to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist, it was changed to fit the Balance between Light and Darkness Aesop more, as well as being turned into a Cassandra Truth. And because of Xehanort holding onto this truth with no one save Braig and Isa believing him, he became a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Fallen Hero.
• The Woobie: Kairi. Yes, even here. She loses her old home to darkness at a young age, but she manages to meet her two best friends, so it's not a total loss, right? Except that world is thrust into darkness thanks to one of them and her heart is separated from her body and protected by the other, who performs a Heroic Sacrifice to restore her, which she bears witness to. Sora comes back, but then they've separated yet again. Later on, she decides to look for Sora, gaining a Keyblade in the process. She finds him, as well as her grandfather, but she's separated from the latter right afterward. On the plus side, she wasn't kidnapped, Namine didn't give up her existence to be a part of Kairi, and it's implied that Kairi's training will pay off, unlike in the games... right? At this point, though, Kairi being The Woobie is the only way to portray her.