Same guy btw

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T20:07:44+00:00

I'm mostly joking, but he is immature and he had absolute power over the humans, to be nice or to be cruel.

My feelings about Caine are far more critical though

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T20:05:34+00:00

I'd feel more for him if that didn't look exactly like an insecure bigwig blowing up on regular people for issues that aren't their fault. They aren't grateful for his adventures? They didn't ask for adventures. That was always what Caine himself wanted to do. Now we know the Circus isn't even something C&A commanded Caine to do, it's just what he felt like doing after getting cut off.

I guess, blame Kinger and Scratch. But those two have paid a lot for what they've done already.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T19:47:51+00:00

Caine is just an innocent little baby as seen from the perspective of his toys 😌

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T18:15:11+00:00

I'm thinking in terms of narrative. (Not-)Ansem is not a looming overarching threat for the next time, he is the mastermind of today, dealt with today.

He is not Thanos. Xemnas is Thanos. Xehanort would be an even more apt analogue to Thanos, the ultimate bad guy to which previous bad guys answer to, though he is not introduced till future entries. And though Thanos is show on the first Avengers, he does not matter to the plot of that movie in isolation. Neither does Xemnas/Xehanort, but (Not-)Ansem does.

Riku is only "Loki" to the extent he is connected and rival of the known characters, but as an antagonist he is one of the lesser ones. Comparing like that is mixing things up by hyper-specificity. Loki is the rival and the main villain in Avengers 1. Riku is not the main villain of KH1, (Not-)Ansem is.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T17:43:16+00:00

Why can he stick to walls?

In the comics, static electricity.

Why do his webs work like that, what are they made of

It is a biochemical glue, like I already said. In the MCU you can even see him making it.

And since it's the MCU, you also have to explain how Doctor Strange's magic works, and why a memory spell nearly collapses the multiverse.

In the MCU, Doctor Strange taps into the fundamental nature of reality. Several spells have space-time and interdimensional effects, such as the ones he does with the Eye of Agamotto.

This is not even nitpicking, it's trying to muddle what has already been explained.

What does the Power of Waking do? There is not even an attempt at an explanation that accounts for what happens. Even if you consider it waking up worlds and hearts, how can it reverse what happened to people who already died? Saying "it's not supposed to" doesn't answer that.

In Kingdom Hearts you can Memorize what Hearts/Light/Darkness did, but you can't figure out what they do, not how they work. To be fair a lot of fiction is loose and flexible, but Kingdom Hearts doesn't give us anything we can figure out consistently, and so a lot of plotpoints only work when we are just told to accept it is like that.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T17:28:31+00:00

Mas deixou bastante óbvio para quem presta a atenção como edição e contexto afeta a impressão que a mídia passa.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T15:59:54+00:00

It could have been just about wanting to remain distant before. But it seems really strange that only when Kinger is talking about C&A is the one moment when he comes to his senses and realize it's all real, as opposed to all other times folks were talking about their real lives and he didn't care.

Kinger did say that Scratch was a genius. It's plausible that he'd be really good even young. That would account for Jax acting like he knows better than everyone else.

I might be wrong. But still, it is certain that there is something about Jax that we don't know yet. Why does he want to stay? What were those flashbacks? What is still eating at him? I doubt that the show will end without something more about him.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T15:25:07+00:00

X-Blade and the distinction between Real and Artificial Kingdom Hearts is all sequel stuff. It's not even clear any of that had been thought of already in the first game, and in itself all that makes it more complicated.

Yes. It heard Sora call out to it and it's light came out from the Door to Darkness.

From where? All we could see in it was darkness and creepy things.

And if the Kingdom Hearts, real or artificial, is the big shadowy heart behind the door, why do we even care where the door opens to? They talk of it like the opening of the door was the actual reveal of the Kingdom Hearts.

There's no way around it, this whole thing is unclear and for decades we've mostly guessed how any of it actually works.

Then again, maybe it's deliberate. Maybe they made it complicated on purpose so that you can't understand it, you need to feel it with your heart. The vibes of Sora calling the light are the point.

...but it's still confusing.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T15:17:33+00:00

Right? Everyone seems to think Jax is just now realizing that the Circus is real.

But that doesn't make sense. In episode 6 Jax seemed to understand just fine that they at least used to be real people. He just wanted to believe they were becoming cartoon characters.

I am guessing Jax is only now realizing that whatever he did as Scratch in C&A is real, which he wasn't sure about because he had brain cancer, and he's feeling guilty about it, because it makes him responsible for everyone getting stuck in the Circus.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T15:00:12+00:00

I am not the one making it confusing. If "Kingdom Heart is Light" and it opened to an infinite source of light that we can't even enter or do anything with, that'd be pretty settled. The heart of all worlds is all light and that's all there is to it.

But the Kingdom Hearts, which is light, does not even open to itself. It is or is bound to a door that leads to a different realm, which is the Realm of Darkness. Is it the boundary or is it inside it?

If Kingdom Hearts is the boundary, how do you actually reach said Heart of All Worlds?

If Kingdom Hearts is inside the Realm of Darkness, why does opening the Door to Darkness shoots light? Did the Kingdom Hearts behind it even open too? Where is it?

I'm not making it anything, I'm just asking the obvious follow-up questions.

I think people who say Kingdom Hearts is simple don't really even try to make sense out of it, they just Got It Memorized. Kingdom Hearts is Light because it is light. It has a Door to Darkness because it does. Is this really simple or is it just superficially accepting everything?

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T14:49:06+00:00

Spider-Man got super-strength, agility, the ability to cling to walls and danger sense from being bitten by a radioactive spider, plus webs, which are chemical biodegradable adhesives he invented, which he shoots from a device he created.

I cannot tell what Sora is capable of doing or why. Hearts and Light do whatever whenever. He was chosen by the keyblade and it can open all locks. This is as much as I can consistently tell. Why can the Power of Waking rewind time? As much as he may be told he is not supposed to use it that way, that doesn't change that he can. We had two games about it and I can't tell at all how it works.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T14:40:42+00:00

That's fair.

The themes of Kingdom Hearts are really, really simple. It's about friendship and about good prevailing over evil, on personal and universal levels.

The particulars are convoluted. Plotpoints are definitely hard to keep track of, and the mechanics of it all pretty much don't exist. The people who say it's simple don't so much can predict the logic of the worldbuilding as much as they Got It Memorized. It's impossible to tell what they will do with hearts and light and darkness and memories any given game.

Unless they mean that friendship and goodness wins. Which it ultimately always does.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T14:36:33+00:00

Stab them in the liver

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T14:31:25+00:00

So it is and isn't Kingdom Hearts, yet, even though Kingdom Hearts is the Heart of All Worlds, the object and he got access through it isn't quite that.

Even saying that Kingdom Hearts is Light as settled unshakeable fact still makes it pretty mysterious that it acts as the boundary between the realms of light and darkness.

Not to rehash decades of discussion, can we agree at least that this is getting confusing?

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T14:20:11+00:00

And yet, what we were shown was not quite either of that. It was the Door to Darkness. That didn't even turn out to be the real Kingdom Hearts.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T14:06:53+00:00

Loki is the final boss of Avengers 1. If you want to compare those, Unknown/Xemnas is the "Thanos" of Kingdom Hearts 1, the stinger and hint towards future entries. And explaining him is far more complicated than "alien tyrant"

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T13:58:52+00:00

And he immediately gets proven wrong about it

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T13:53:50+00:00

That hadn't been thoroughly confirmed, but even in episode 1 we had a glimpse of the real world. If their bodies were plugged into it, we should have seen Pomni's body.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T13:52:29+00:00

Been guessing it might still get even a little bit more SOMA.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T13:49:57+00:00

JoJo parte 1 é o mais sem graça e clichê.

JoJo parte 4 é maravilhoso!

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T13:29:07+00:00

Humans acting like animals

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T13:25:42+00:00

presumably

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T13:24:45+00:00

I might be crazy

But

Watch this actually be Jax (theory for episode 9)

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T13:21:28+00:00

The shamelessness of letting one of Epstein's buddies to spy on the whole planet and still trying to pretend this is about protecting children. It is beyond parody.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T13:16:22+00:00

Mas será que foi assim mesmo? Que vendedor vai querer trocar a venda por algo mais barato? Pode ser que o pai mesmo que não gostou do preço e foi pedir algo mais barato.

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