Even *MORE* Kingdom Hearts References Made Outside The Games!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2023
- The BEST Kingdom Hearts References Made OUTSIDE The Games!
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If you're a Kingdom Hearts fan, then you know that there are a LOT of references to the game series outside of the games themselves. In this video, we're taking a look at some of the most popular references and celebrating all of the Kingdom Hearts' goodness that exists outside of the games!
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Man when sora dunked on lebron and said "I am the kingdom hearts" I nearly cried
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Same. This is the most emotional moment in the entire franchise
Then Sora Dropped 45 points on Boston
Sora then went on to win 3 rings in a row and Surpasses Michael Jordan
Arby's one actually has a layer of humor to it, as i believe they did a post when 1.5 or 2.5 was coming out and they had the cardboard keyblade, without the bottle of water. When 2.8 was coming out the "but this one has Aqua" actually got a chuckle out of me.
LeBron with sora's hair has me dying
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Same 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
How will xehanort summoning kingdom hearts effect lebron’s legacy?
Lekeyblade
That OK KO reference goes even further with the fact they are all hanging out near a ledge like many characters in KH are seen doing while eating said ice cream!
And the sky looks like its sunset
In the first season of The Boys Sora's voice actor Haley Joel Osment plays a character called Mesmer. We meet him for the first time when he's signing autographs in a convention. There are bunch of real and fictional people in the room, but on the table next to him is Billy Zane, the voice actor of Ansem the seeker of Darkness. I'm sure this was intentional
Of course that was intentional
There’s actually 2 Kingdom Hearts references in Dreamlight Valley, the first is the heart reflected from Minnie’s house as mentioned in the video but the second comes when having a conversation with Goofy where he talks about how the night thorns could be attracted to negative emotions which may or may not be a reference to Vanitas from KH
It's not! It's part of the main storyline (Idk how far you are in the story. I don't want to spoil anything).
I am surprised that the Keyblade from Dark souls 2 didnt get mentioned. Hell its even used to unlock... a person
If you want another Kingdom Hearts reference in a song. An artist named Midwxst(pronounced Midwest), who is pretty big in the hyperpop scene, made a song called No Smoke and one of the lyrics says "I got the key, I feel like I'm Sora".
In NEO: The World Ends With You, there is a dialogue option related to the main quest where Simple and Clean, the opening theme for KH1, is name dropped
dont forget toontown corporate clash where you can wear sora's halloween town outfit as a set during the halloween event
I love the promo picture for True Colors from Amphibia that looks so much like the cover of KH2. This is top tier reference for sure.
The crown on Sora’s necklace is in a few episodes of PAW Patrol
What episodes
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!??!??!?????!!?!!?? I love Paw Patrol
@@Fudgaroni check in the background of the first mission paw episode
@@quinnhouk5369 I’m glad you do
My cousin did the Mexican Pizza song for Taco Bell. He did not know it was going to resonate so hard with the KH fandom lol
Honestly, I'm shocked that between this video and the last, no one has brought up the Key Cutter from the game Fantasy Life on the 3DS! It's a mid-to-late game weapon you can use as any Life (AKA RPG Class) as long as your skill level with one-handed swords is high enough. The description is:
"Said to be the "key" to any monster's heart.
If only it opened locked treasure chests..."
Fantasy Life is filled with silly references in the dialogue, items, etc. It's a great game! Super excited for the upcoming sequel on the Switch.
Since you brought up the NBA, we must not forget that the Olympics set in Japan had played a lot of video game music. Kingdom Hearts was one of them, specifically the Olympus Coliseum world theme
It had 2 actually. Olympus Coliseum from KH1 and Hero's Fanfare from KH3.
@@andrewpotts he mentions this in part 1
@@lazyren0711 oh whoops! LOL Been awhile since I watched the video! Thanks for reminding me! XD
It’s definitely fitting, that’s for sure. Both the Hercules/Olympus Coliseum and The Olympic Games share that IRL historical connection. Not Herc, obviously- but the games themselves.
Thanks, Greece and Japan!
I'm surprised after all of these, it wasn't mentioned how in Disneyworld/land, during Halloween time for the Oogie Boogie Bash, you can find the mascots of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy wearing their kingdom hearts outfits
I believe Bayonetta has a reference to. One of the angel weapons they can drop is a giant key needed to open doors and paths in the game and while the enemies use them like spears, when Bayo picks it up her animation changes to using it like a sword instead starting with an overhead swing and finishing with a spinning horizontal slash
I don't think that's a straight up KH reference, it just recycles the animations for the single swords some enemies drop later on
Its the most OP weapon in the game xD
YAY! Thanks for mentioning Gaia! There's also an actual item dedicated to the Kingdom Key and both Oathkeeper & Oblivion too! But, thank you so much for that!
I watched my older brother play gaia when I was a kid and could not wait until I was allowed to play. I was 9 when I started. I also loved KH, for a while I only saw it when my brothers friend brought it over. Destiny Island being swallowed up traumatized me. By the time I started on gaia I had already beaten 1 and 2. When I saw there were KH items, I knew what I had to do. For years I saved gold, I roleplayed in forums, I did gaiacash events to get whales which I would sell on the marketplace for 100,000 g each. and eventullay I had a pretty good KH2 outfit that I felt I really earned without spending any money on. Feels good.
I still hop on every once in a while just to look everything over. My User is Manety
@@Stormer224 I'm Odd Cinderella and I actually, recently, over the years spent IRL money to recolor items on Gaia so that Kingdom Hearts cosplayers had some items they can use. I recolored at least 20 Kingdom Hearts themed items and then items not direct references, but could work for cosplays. Lol.
@@Odd_Cinderella Not surprising really, Gaia has been making extremely direct (bordering-on-ripoff) items to all kinds of pop culture stuff for a while now
2:24 My guy coming in with that DUELIST OF ROSES OST
I love the idea that this is "evidence" of an unofficial shared Kingdom Hearts universe. I've always loved the crossover potential of "But what if Sora could go to other worlds that weren't in the games, or even weren't Disney/Squenix at all?", and so I'm glad I'm not the only one who has that daydream sometimes.
Anyway, I definitely think the Toy Story key was a reference, since modern keys don't have the teeth grouped at the end anymore. Modern keys tend to have jagged edges all along the entire shaft because of how locks are designed. For the TS4 key to have that trapezoidal hilt AND more of a skeleton-key arrangement of the teeth really sticks it out from what you'd expect a key to look like. But also, I'm pretty sure the teeth are arranged vaguely in a crown shape rather than just being straight, which ties back to the KH motifs again.
The only thing stopping Sora and co. from going to worlds outside the scope of disney/squeenix is licensing!
Trove, there was another weapon type that was also the keyblade reference. Which is a dual wielding of 2 kingdom keys held as pistols and name of this weapon is called Unlock 'N Load
I didn't know FF Record Keeper was discontinued, a shame, I played it for a while and it was pretty good
Only global was discountinued; But JPN probably isn't going to last long.
JP is still good for a little while longer.
Damien Haas from Smosh can be seen in quite a few videos wearing a heartless t-shirt and I can't remeber what wrestler but a female wrestler came out with a keyblade and later used it in ring wrapped in barbed wire to hit her opponent
14:33 Dragon ball keyblade straight up looks like the Omega Weapon from Days when you equip the Pandora's Gear
one you missed
In the Game Backpack hero, you can get an item called the Key sword, when gains power when other keys are placed near it. and its description reads "Unlocks your potential as a Warrior!"
I *think* Disney's Descendants (the first one) has a small reference. You know how KH characters always describe Sea Salt Ice Cream as "salty but sweet" in some way? When the villain kids first leave The Isle, Jay & Carlos are eating chocolates in the limo. Paraphrasing here, but I'm pretty sure Carlos says "they're salty, but sweet like I don't know what." Not sure if this counts.
Also, I think there might've been another reference in Descendants 3, but I can't remember what it was.
I love the candy scene. I think he was referring to the taste of the chocolate cause they’ve never had sweets before so he couldn’t describe the sweetness part. He says it’s salty like nuts
There's even a kingdom hearts reference within a old flash series called Mardek, specifically the second chapter where the key master is at
Don't know if this counts, but there are a few references in pokemon infinite fusion. The fusion of Klefki & Gallade, Klefki & Pikachu, Klefki & Jolteon, Klefki & Torterra, Klefki & Aegislash, and Klefki & Mr. mime! ( Did you notice a pattern?)
there is also a Roserade and Kirlia fusion that is just Kairi by bubbarottweiler
And some people like me hope that Sora could appear in Disney Dreamlight Valley that would be so cool.
It would, but I think people more want to see him in Disney Speed Storm
@@PerfectChaos115 yes apparently it's a good racing game well let's hope that he will appear in both games okay ?
@@vincentfichtler7758 Yeah, I think it would be cool if he WERE in both games myself
2:40 The Duelist of the Roses music in the background was so nostalgic! Also, had no Idea about a Yu-Gi-Oh! Refference, pretty neat!
In the song "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" by Odetari there are the lyrics "I'm heartless, I'm nobody I feel like I'm Roxas" and in the old version of the song it used direct lines from the cutscene before the fight with Xemnas, "You're not sad about anything... (etc.)"
In the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, they play the Olympus coliseum theme from kingdom hearts one
idk if this counts but the 3rd season of the masked singer Jesse Mccartney was the turtle and in his clues there were a few kingdom hearts references as he the english voice actor for Roxas and Ventus
-He had a comic book that was labeled as the 13th volume
-In his finale clue package before the final song, he was on a chess board referencing the bracelet worn by Roxas and Ventus
-On that same chess board there was a heart with a crown on it
-There was a small extra clue that played before the commercial break for the viewers at home where him and the other 2 finalist are talking to each other he says "I will become the king of this kingdom with all my heart"
great videos! I also want to point out that in the OK KO episode A Hero's Fate, Hero from RPG World makes an appearance and his sword has a handle and keychain that resembles a keyblade
I don't remember if you already mentioned this before, but in ratchet and clank rift apart, you can get a keyblade skin for rivets hammer or ratchets wrench
Here is another reference in a hidden gem game called crosscode!
There are a couple of items alot of other references from enemies designs and color palettes
Anyhow those are the ones that got my attention, star fruit os an item in the game and its description is "star-shaped fruit, its origin dates back to a small island in the ocean " which i clearly the star fruit from destiny island
Second is the salty ice cream item, its an item that you can eat to boost resist against fire dmg, salty ice cream description is "best enjoyed at sunset on top a clocktower" which is obviously a reference to kingdom hearts days, there are some skills or abilities in the ice element thag has KH reference and enemies too(one is sephiroth), and the main character's name is Lea! She is a girl tho
Its even on the game's wiki page lol
Might need that NBA remix of Darkness of The Unknown
I absolutely did a double take when I heard the Taco Bell rap 😜
Another Reference that I was expecting but surprisingly wasn't included: In Phantasy Star Online there is an Outfit called "Cursed Coat" that is basically a 1 to 1 exact replica. Comes in Male/Female style with other variations with Hood Up or Hood down.
Theirs also another weapon camo that looks like a white and blue key blade I forget it's name
IS THE DUAL KEYBLADE REFERENCE A HUNTER WEAPON?!
@@drakenforge4276 For the Greatsword yes but you only get to have the Oblivion Keyblade for it
@@888pokemaster1 damn
And I'm asking as a CAST Gunner/Hunter btw
@@drakenforge4276 For more detailed explanation:
Greatsword - Oblivion is attached to your back while the weapon is Oath keeper
Soaring Blades - Both weapons
Katana - Purely Oblivion
Yeah, I remember mentioning last time that there was actually an episode that was a parody of kingdom hearts in Johnny test where Susan and Mary create this invention, known as the X key in order to open any lock and get anywhere. If you’re wondering why that sounds familiar it’s because the Keyblade can open any lock just like in kingdom hearts :-)
In Swae Lee's song called "Reality Check" you can hear the iconic KH Level Up sound effect several times throughout the song.
5:19 STOPPP UR GONNA MAKE ME CRYYYYYYYY (amphibia is 4 years old and the show helped me threw some really tuff timess)
I don't remember if it was mentioned in the last video but starbucks had a sea salt frappe to promote kh3. one store at least even had someone draw an image of sora in his kh3 outfit drinking said frappe. I remember seeing the post on Pinterest years ago. love the video.
One cool reference I found was in the mobile game Gacha Life, where you make avatars and can make little skits with them. In the game, one of the props you can have a avatar hold when customizing them is a keyblade. Its not called anything but pretty obvious to see for any Kingdom hearts fan. Hope it helps for a possible pt 3!
If goku and Sora went on adventures together ? That would have blown my mind as a kid
11:35 That weapon camo is called lumiere fonce*, and was obtainable in the global version of pso2 for a small while trough a code, And this camo was usable on 3 weapon types Sword, Katana and soaring blades with each of them using the camo a bit differently. When used on a sword you would only wield the sword of light while the black one was on your back while if you used katana you would only wield the black one and then there was the soaring blades that uses both of them. Another thing to note about the soaring blades it that a class in base game called etoile could use them and when you paired this camo with the class you could get a look similar to one of sora's drive form from kh2.
I'm not sure if this is really a kh reference but the flower enemies in Kirby have colors simalar to one of the flower's on kairi's keyblade, the colors seem to be inverted though
Not sure was this mentioned but there was a disney kamen rider belt that was show case a few weeks ago. I think it was called imagination belt. And it uses key to change into different forms(although the keys r mostly gray out for coming soon in the future)
Since you did that music reference about the NBA, J Cole’s song Dollar and a Dream III also uses the Darkness of the Unknown theme if I remember correctly.
the only one I knew on this list was the tacobell one, so glad to learn some of these new references to the series!
Not sure if it was mentioned:
In the anime-style game "Grand Fantasia", there is a character class/job called "Wanderer" (to start. Different names for it as you progress). While not a melee weapon, they get a ranged weapon slot for items called "Crystal Keys". When you look at the icons for different Crystal Keys, you can clearly see they are inspired by Keyblades.
Arby’s had a great social media advertising campaign where they remade tons of different items/characters from pop culture using their packaging, not just kingdom hearts. There’re some really great ones, too
If we try hard enough, we can force the universe to materialize even more references which will enable you to create a third video!
jk, great video, though! I never knew about the Rumbleverse reference, which is probably the last place I'd expect to see KH lmao
Final Fantays TCG has a cloud card in his KH attire as well as sephiroth. I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones I found
The amphibia reference had to be my absolute favorite with kh2 being my favorite game of all time the okko is also great I immediately called that out when I saw it also there's a reason that eliza is my main in skull girls
Marie from Skullgirls, now playable has an Ansem color palette now
Record Keeper's global versions were only shut down, the JP version is still active and getting updates.
11:35 Just to be more precise, as a fellow PSO2 player that's got this, this is a Weapon Camo. It isn't a weapon in itself, but moreso a skin to put on your regular weapons.
This one is called Lumiere Fonse and the version with both the light and dark blades together is for Soaring Blades, as the camos adapt to whichever weapon type they're compatible with.
I found another in an anime called Date A Live. One of the characters fights with a key shaped sword. Crunchyroll pointed out the similarity.
I have seen the hearts also on a sheriff skin in Valorant for the agent Harbor agent track at his release. He does come up out of the water in one of the trailers so it may be references to Sora and coming out of the water at the end of KH2 or it could be coincidence. I will also note that I noticed the El Dorado map hearts and wondered if they were a reference.
Big respect for using Yu-Gi-Oh duelest of the roses soundtrack
Man so many references lol
There's also one I know, but it's probably difficult to find. It was on German TV (ProSieben to be exact) on a series called "Galileo Big Pictures" where they showed off the most incredible things on earth. Number 1 was Life, and what music did they use? The orchestral version of Simple & Clean. Absolute genius, whoever came up with that idea...
Sora, Riku, Kairi and Young Xehanort were in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius mobile game. I heard they will appear in War of the Visions.
Another Kingdom Hearts reference appears in Season 3 of The Masked Singer (US). In one of the clue packages for the Turtle, there is a heart with a crown amongst a chessboard and pieces.
Because Turtle was Jesse McCartney, the VA for Ventus and Roxas from Kingdom hearts
"Aerith lives" "she does not" I'm wheezing-
Lein in AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative must be a massive kingdom hearts fan, as his dreamscape is heavily kingdom hearts inspired with a giant keyhole in the sky and even wields a massive key in the style of sora :'D
Fun fact: there is an item in Gaia Online called Shibuya Nobody. You would think it's a Neku reference as it looks like a yellow version of his headphones, but the rest of the poses are all Roxas. (I am still steamed they haven't released a purple colorway of the item because of the headphones.)
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet. But RuneScape has a KH reference in the quest: elemental workshop part 3. Where you have to turn a knife into a key to unlock the deeper sections of the workshop.
Or wait, was it part 4? Been soo long since I completed these quests.
There's a kingdom hearts reference In The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative game.
One of the characters shows up to a fight, with a huge key that thy Just "found".
Kiritos duel weild swords kinda represents the oblivion and the oathkeeper from SAO
In the final of hazbin hotel there's a scene where Lucifer uses keke and it looks like he's using a keyblade
I may be overthinking it, but in FF7R, Cloud and Aerith have to fight in the Coliseum, right? I just thought to myself that they could've called it, I dunno, the "Arena" or something, and to me "Coliseum" is I'm pretty sure a nod to where Sora first meets Cloud. Maybe I got the name wrong, but I feel like this is.
Also, I've seen a lot of people flip out when Jessie says "as if" in Intermission, lol.
Another one: Leslie, from Wall Market, has SILVER HAIR AND YELLOW EYES. Fr
In the lyrics to Caraphernelia by Pierce the Veil, they say "Nobody prays for the Heartless". They never said it, but I am sure it is a KH reference
Idk, heartless in this case means an evil or deceitful person.
I have found a reference in superman crisis of multiverse. When Louis Janes talks about other Lois Janes, the one from earth 24 has a keyblade and a jacket that is similar to the one sora has.
That's all I have!
I've been playing the new kickstarter edition of Dragonbane ttrpg, and just yesterday we came across a trio of NPC's prewritten into the book as a random travel encounter. A human thief (keyblade opens locks), wolfkin warrior and a mallard wizard. Not entirely sure but we had three players notice it in turn and it fits too well to be a coincidence, haha.
If you ever come back to doing more references, there’s a new one:
In Hazbin Hotel, there’s a cat named Keekee that transforms into a small key to the hotel. However in the finale song, Keekee transforms into a keyblade for Lucifer to use in helping rebuild it
Ski mask has a song called child’s play with a part that says “Kingdom Hearts is what I are, my keyblade swing like arm
Out of the darkness b****,
Inside my heart and s***”
There's a weapon in Soda Dungeon 2 called the Keybringer. Its design is very obviously a reference to the Keyblade, and it has the special trait of increasing the chance of finding keys.
I want part 3 if that’s possible
In pokemon infinite fusions, if you fuse torterra with klefki, it becomes a bunch of kingdom hearts references
10:40 I actually have that volume! I founded it at my grandmother’s. Theres also at least 1 volume with an ad for Re:Coded on the back. Definitely the weirdest items in my collection.
Another Emoji Blitz thing. You can now get Donald and Goofy in their mage and captain attire.
Terrorbane - keyblade on wall at blacksmith
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative - one character is using big key as weapon and open keyhole in heart at sky
In music video Therefore I Am Billie Elish wear sweater with Heartless icon
That old Yu-Gi-Oh game music just sent me back about 20 years, I haven't heard that in years!
Wisdom courage and charisma is a reference within itself cuz its the first question they ask in KH1 when ur in the tutorial
So about little references, I'm pretty sure square slipped one in First Soldier and most people didn't notice it until I pointed it out During its first event for Christmas 🎄 they changed up and decorated the lobby screen.
Some of the ornaments hanging across the ceiling where mostly stars🌟 but there were also 👑 little 3 pointed crowns... with Nomura have made the game I could see it. But what's really weird is how before shut down of the game christmas came around again but the lobby was zoomed closer so you couldn't see the ceiling ornaments anymore other then the bottom of maybe 3 stars barely.... kinda weird to make that change to agame your shutting down in 30 days lime why hide it after the fact is why it still stick as with me.
Not sure if there's enough for another reference video, but Hazbin Hotel had Lucifer with a Keyblade in the finale.
Absolutely love the amount of references to Kingdom Hearts in different series, thank you for making these videos.
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There's a keyblade reference in the saints row reboot called the Saintsblade
i like the references about SPECIFICALLY from KH 358-2 Days, since i fell that is the most emotionally memorable of all i see most people agreed making references to the organization, the clocktower but mainly to the sea salt ice cream, being an item that is more called on that game
Didn't notice the big bang theory one that's awesome
The game slash and girl has a keyblade in it as a weapon you can use
I've made perlers of all the Kingdom Hearts characters from Record Keeper, they were given away as raffle prizes at two different RPG Limit Break speedrun events
Surprised that there were no KH references in FFVII Remake since Nomura was Director for that as well.
In the discontinued game Dawn of the Breakers, there was a somewhat major character who used a sword that looks very much like a keyblade.
Record Keeper is still playable on the Japanese Servers: But that likely won't last for much longer.
Sora adventuring with Goku is all I could ever want, I hope one day kh branches into anime
XXXTentacion was a huge fan of Kingdom Hearts and referenced it often and after his passing Yoko Shimomura had composed a piece in his memory and the music video for it contains a guy in a coat reminiscent of the Organization.
Dark Souls 2 has a weapon called "Key to the Embedded". it's literally a keyblade, well a sword with a key as it's hilt
in toon town corporate clash, a version of toon town online without the Disney branding theres a costume you can get during the halloween and april fools events that is just soras halloween town outfit :)
NGL, I’d really like to see a Toriyama sketch of the KH Cast. Mangakas often draw eachothers characters in their own style for fun and support/promotion- so I’d love to see a Dragon Quest/Chrono Trigger mashup of KH - or even Toriyama simply drawing KH characters his way.
Just an image, I know - but I want to see it.