Sora's Adventures in Kingdom Hearts/Tropes

The tropes related to Sora's Adventures in Kingdom Hearts.

## Main Tropes

* **Adaptation Explanation Extrication:** Completely averted due to the copy-and-paste nature of many episodes' plots: *all* important events are done on-screen, with Sora and co. sometimes changing the flow of the scenes, but the latter often have no effect on the plot whatsoever.
* **Alas, Poor Villain:** Not always deaths or demises, but sometimes betrayals and/or decays.
	+ You *really* have to feel sorry for Mr. Smee, Sharky and Bones when their Cap'n fires them in favor of his new managers Luxord and Vexen. Even *Riku* sympathizes with them due to being tricked into being evil himself. While none of them die, you also feel sorry for them and Hook when the Horned King declines their help.
	+ Demyx on several occasions. Most of the time, despite following orders, he doesn't even try to be evil unless his boss orders him to, especially Marluxia, Maleficent, Zexion and Xaldin. It makes his temporary death more sympathetic, before his revival into Emyd again.
* **Big Bad Duumvirite:** Xigbar/Luxu and the Horned King, the latter of whom usurps Maleficent due to firing her.
* **Big Bad Wannabe:** Maleficent is reduced to this after her firing, coupled with her status as a Creator's Pet.
* **Continuity Nod:** Scenes form each game currently released (except for *Union X, Missing Link* and *KHIV*) are told via flashbacks.
* **Contrived Coincidence:** The fact that there are more than just seven Princesses of Heart.
* **Earn Your Happy Ending:** It took quite a few games and this fanfic, but Sora and co. *finally* get their Happily Ever Afters by the end.
* **Forced Transformation:** Sora and his friends get hit with this a lot, from animals to monsters. Sometimes it is healed quickly, other times...not so much. Averted when the world calls for it to blend in, though.
* **New Powers as the Plot Demands:** Apparently, Keyblade Inheritance doesn't require the Master level anymore, as it works for anyone who is able to use it. As such, different characters are able to gain Keyblades as called for, especially child characters.
* **Shot-for-Shot Remake:** Almost every episode is one of these, with the scripts being copied and pasted with some lines changing as an afterthought. Why they are this way is unknown.
* **Strictly Formula:** The Disney world plots (with a couple exceptions) can be best summarized as this: Sora and friends find which world they're going to according to their mission, then land and meet the main characters. After this, they accompany their new friends through the movie/show plots that are extremely copy-and-paste, with the bare minimum of deviations, then fight the villains, typically allied with Organization XIII, Maleficent/Pete, the Horned King, or a combination of these. Said villains either die their canonical deaths and/or turn into a Heartless, *then* die after that is destroyed, and the plots end by sealing the Keyhole of the world (and in some cases, they do the latter *even if the original Keyhole was already sealed!*), gaining a Keychain or two and the heroes bidding their new friends farewell. Rinse and repeat for the next episode.
* **Two Girls and a Guy:**
	+ For Disney groups:
		- Skippy and his sisters in Nottingham when they're not with Toby.
	+ For *Final Fantasy* characters:
* **Two Guys and a Girl:**
	+ Sora, Riku and Kairi.
	+ Terra, Ven and Aqua.
	+ Roxas, Axel/Lea and Xion.
	+ Hayner, Pence and Olette.
	+ For Disney groups:
		- Hercules, Icarus and Cassandra in Olympus Coliseum during the former's high school years.
		- Taran, Eilonwy and Fflewdurr Fflam in Prydain.
		- Mowgli, Ranjan and Shanti in Kipling Jungle.
		- Basil, Dawson and Olivia in Mousedom.
		- Wendy, John and Michael in NeverLand.
			* Within the same world, Jake, Izzy and Cubby for the Pirate Crew.
		- Hugo, Victor and LaVerne, the gargoyles in La Cité des Cloches.
			* Within the same world, there is Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Phoebus.
		- Terk, Flynt and Mungo in Deep Jungle.
	+ For the *Final Fantasy* characters:
		- The main three members of AVALANCHE: Cloud, Tifa and Barret.
			* Also Biggs, Wedge and Jessie for the minor members.
		- Seifer, Fuujin and Raijin.
* **Universal Driver's License:** Each Guardian of Light has been seen piloting a Gummi Ship at least once, the most common ones being Sora, Donald, Kairi, Terra and Aqua.
* **Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:**

## YMMV

* **Alternate Character Interpretation:** Has its own section.
* **Ass Pull:** This fanfic is particularly notorious with them.
* **Contested Sequel:** Opinions of the fanfic are all over the place among fans. Some view it as an improvement over *Kingdom Hearts III,* bringing back characters from *Final Fantasy* and *The World Ends With You,* having several original plots alongside the Shot-for-Shot Remakes of the source material and Sora actually marrying Kairi. Others, however, find it a basic repeat of KH3's faults and ramped to the extreme, such as the Shot-for-Shot Remakes being copy-and-paste with Sora and friends' parts basically an afterthought, overuse of certain characters (particularly Maleficent) and controversial lore changes such as inheritance being able to be used by anyone.
* **Creator's Pet:** Quite a few.
	+ Maleficent is this in spades, likely due to creator LeAnn Holsclaw's blatant favoritism of the character. While she was a legitimate threat in the first few seasons, she still had the most screentime of all the villains, and appeared in the most episodes out of all of them. When she was resurrected for the second time, she becomes a Big Bad Wannabe and a pest who shows up constantly, even in episodes that wouldn't be any different without her. By the final seasons, however, Maleficent appears less and less, so the hate has died down.
	+ To a lesser extent, there is Captain Jake and his crew. They don't appear as often as Maleficent, but still hog up the screentime when they do appear, and have several episodes dedicated to them.
* **Franchise Original Sin:** Has its own section.

## Franchise Original Sin

* In terms of storytelling the handling of worlds in this fanfic are seen as this due to the nature of the scripts. The actual games have done the original stories of the movies/shows since the first two games, with very little criticism due to Sora and co. sticking with their new friends until the end. In some cases, the basic plot structure was maintained, but some things changed due to the protagonists' interference, such as William Clayton losing his heart to the darkness, or the MCP tying into Radiant Garden's lore. KH2 also had a second visit for each world, allowing for interesting follow-up plots (and some being more interesting than the actual Disney sequels themselves, such as the Land of Dragons'). KH3 is where the problem arguably began, with the plots of *Tangled*, *Frozen* and *Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End* being rehashed plots that our heroes had very little effect on the plot of (though this can be attributed to Disney's strict guidelines). Sora's Adventures (*this very fanfic, no less!*), however, is where the worlds' rehashing plots and types *really* started to become a problem. On top of the scripts being copied-and-pasted from other areas, they usually feel more like soulless Shot-for-Shot Remakes with Sora and co. thrown in as an afterthought; the reader can literally just take them out of the stories and nothing important will change, aside from the reveals of random female characters being Princesses of Heart, or giving inheritance to a random CHILD character. This can be attributed to two possibilities: one, LeAnn is afraid of Disney's (and other companies', too) strict guidelines, or just plain laziness on her behalf.