Editing Sora

:''For other uses of "Sora," see [[Sora (disambiguation)]]''

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|caption        = [[File:KingdomHeartsSymbol.svg|50px|class=invert]]<br>Official renders of Sora from ''{{s|wikipedia|Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Remix}}'', ''{{s|wikipedia|Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Remix}}'', ''{{s|wikipedia|Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue}}'' and ''{{s|wikipedia|Kingdom Hearts III}}''

|lastappearance = ''[[khwiki:Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory|Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory]]'' (2020)

|englishactor  = {{s|wikipedia|Haley Joel Osment}}

|japanactor    = {{s|wikipedia|Miyu Irino}}

|placeoforigin  = Destiny Islands

|creator        = {{s|wikipedia|Tetsuya Nomura}}

|artist        = {{s|wikipedia|Tetsuya Nomura}}

'''Sora''' ({{ja|ソラ|Sora}}, ''Sora'') is the main protagonist of the {{uv|Kingdom Hearts}} series.  

Hailing from the {{iw|khwiki|Destiny Islands}}, a small tropical archipelago, Sora was born and immediately made contact with a unconscious {{iw|khwiki|Ventus}}. Offering to tether their hearts together to save Ventus, Sora was able to repair Ventus's station, but in return, cause the dark part of Ventus, {{iw|khwiki|Vanitas}}, to bear his face. After Vanitas is destroyed by Ventus, Sora offers to give Ventus a place in his heart so he could sleep.

Sora would continue to live peacefully with his friends {{iw|khwiki|Kairi}} and {{iw|khwiki|Riku}}, and other children such as {{iw|khwiki|Tidus}} and {{iw|khwiki|Wakka}} (from ''Final Fantasy X''), and {{iw|khwiki|Selphie}} (from ''Final Fantasy VIII''). The trio of friends desired to explore other worlds, so they built a raft to sail away from the Destiny Islands. The night before their voyage, however, an ominous event occured. A strange darkness overtook the islands, and creatures known as the {{iw|khwiki|Heartless}} appeared. Desperate to protect the raft, Sora was then granted a magical weapon called the {{iw|khwiki|Keyblade}} in order to fight the Heartless, and found himself thrown through the universe.

Awakening in a place called {{iw|khwiki|Traverse Town}}, Sora teamed up with {{iw|khwiki|Donald Duck}} and {{iw|khwiki|Goofy}} to find his friends, as well as [[khwiki:Mickey|King Mickey]]. Together, they would venture through various worlds in order to save the universe from the Heartless, led by {{iw|khwiki|Ansem, Seeker of Darkness}}, who sought to open the door to {{iw|khwiki|Kingdom Hearts}}. After fighting Ansem in [[Hollow Bastion]], Sora ends up sacrificing himself to Kairi and the other {{iw|khwiki|Princesses of Heart}}, which gives birth to both his Heartless and his {{iw|khwiki|Nobody}}, {{iw|khwiki|Roxas}}, sharing the same facial look as Ventus. Sora is able to return from his Heartless form thanks to bond he shared with Kairi, and with Donald and Goofy, the trio travel to the {{iw|khwiki|End of the World}} to defeat Ansem and seal the {{iw|khwiki|Door to Darkness}} to Kingdom Hearts. He and Kairi end up separating, but not before Sora promises to Kairi that he will be back.

While finding a way back, Sora, Donald, and Goofy end up in {{iw|khwiki|Castle Oblivion}}, where they soon finds out that their memories are fading or rewritten. While trying to figure out what is going on, Sora, Donald, and Goofy run into several members of {{iw|khwiki|Organization XIII}} that both try to stop and help them along the way. They also comes across a girl named {{iw|khwiki|Naminé}}, Kairi's Nobody that had been hired by Organization XIII to mess up memories of Sora and his friends for the Orginization's plans. After Sora, Donald, and Goofy defeat the castle's ruler, {{iw|khwiki|Marluxia}}, she agrees to help restore their memories, but in order for their memories to be fully restored, she has to put them in a coma for one year.

Concurrent to Sora's recovery, Roxas is quickly discovered by the head of Organization XIII, {{iw|khwiki|Xemnas}}, who declares Roxas an Organization member and mandates him to do various tasks. He also makes friends with two other members of the Orginzation; {{iw|khwiki|Axel}} and {{iw|khwiki|Xion}}. The latter is later revealed to be not a traditional Nobody, but a puppet created around Sora's memories. Xion is eventually forced by the Organization to kill Roxas and absorb him to become a "complete" Sora, though Roxas defeats her with regrets. Roxas is then taken captive by Riku, led by {{iw|khwiki|Ansem the Wise}} under the pseudonym DiZ. Roxas then realize that he must cease to exist and merge with Sora to regain his memories. After some initial resistance, Roxas willingly accepts his demise for the greater good. Sora, now awake with all of his memories intact, sets out on another adventure to take down the Organization members and Xemnas. Heading to the {{iw|khwiki|The World That Never Was}}, Sora and Riku eventually foil Xemnas's plans to merge with his Kingdom Hearts, and are able to find themselves back home on Destiny Islands.

Later, Sora and Riku are tasked by {{iw|khwiki|Yen Sid}} to complete the {{iw|khwiki|Mark of Mastery exam}} to become {{iw|khwiki|Keyblade Master}} after sensing the return of {{iw|khwiki|Xehanort}}, who long ago tried to initiate the ancient {{iw|khwiki|Keyblade War}}. It is later revealed by copies of Xehanort that he plans to acquire the [[khwiki:Real Organization XIII|13 Seekers of Darkness]] in order to restart the Keyblade War. While only Riku becomes a Keyblade Master, Sora is still believed to be the one destined to save the day. Vowing to stop Xehanort, Sora manages to save {{iw|khwiki|Aqua}} from the {{iw|khwiki|Realm of Darkness}}, and uses the "[[khwiki:Power of waking|power of waking]]" on {{iw|khwiki|Ventus}} at the {{iw|khwiki|Land of Departure}}. Together with Donald, Goofy, Mickey, Kairi, Riku, and {{iw|khwiki|Lea}}, the true form of Axel, they head to the {{iw|khwiki|Keyblade Graveyard}} to fight Xehanort's clones and his subordinates.

Although the group manages to save {{iw|khwiki|Terra}} and Xion from Xehanort's grasp, and restore Roxas and his heart, Xemnas kidnaps Kairi and delivers her to Xehanort, who promptly destroys her after the group defeats the last of Xehanort's subordinates in order to craft the {{iw|khwiki|χ-blade}}. Using all their strength, Sora, Donald, and Goofy manages to defeat Xehanort and stop his plot to reignite the Keyblade War. Sora then traveled into {{iw|khwiki|The Final World}} in order to save Kairi, but at the cost of being lost forever.  

One year later, Sora awakens in a night time version of The Final World and discovers himself intact. He calls for anyone to answer him, and encounters {{iw|khwiki|Yozora}}, the protagonist of the fictional video game ''{{iw|khwiki|Verum Rex}}'' who was mentioned by a {{iw|khwiki|Nameless Star}} Sora had met in the Final World. Yozora cryptically claims that he was sent to save Sora, and teleports himself and Sora to the city of {{iw|khwiki|Quadratum}}. A battle ensues in which Sora claims victory, and Yozora fades after realizing his power was not yet needed, something which a confused Sora asks. Afterwards, Sora returns to the day time version of the Final World, his fate after that unknown, as his friends continue to search for him.

==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4|Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U]]''==

According to [[Masahiro Sakurai]] during the announcement of Sora for ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', Sora was the highest-voted character on the [[Super Smash Bros. 4 Official Site|Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot]] that was held to determine the last [[Downloadable content (SSB4)|DLC]] fighter for the game. However, {{SSB4|Bayonetta}} was added in his stead as the highest-voted "realizable and negotiable" character, indicating that Sora was not a possibility at the time for unclear reasons.

Sora will appear as the final fighter in Fighter's Pass 2 and the final DLC character in general. He has costumes based on his appearance from ''Kingdom Hearts'', ''Kingdom Hearts II'', ''Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance'', and ''Kingdom Hearts III''.

*Sora is the third fighter in the ''Smash Bros.'' franchise to be owned by a company that does not specialize primarily in game development, after [[Banjo]] & [[Kazooie]] and [[Steve]] (all of whom are owned by [[Microsoft]]), that being [[The Walt Disney Company]].

*Sora is the first character from a Square Enix developed game to be fully voiced in English, as Cloud, Hero, and Sephiroth are only voiced by their Japanese voice actors (Takahiro Sakurai, Mitsuki Saiga, and Toshiyuki Morikawa), rather than also being voiced by their English actors (Steve Burton, Rasmus Hardiker, and George Newbern).

**Also, as his English voice actor, Haley Joel Osment, is also a screen actor and has starred in several films, most notably ''{{s|wikipedia|Forrest Gump}}'' and ''{{s|wikipedia|The Sixth Sense}}'', this also makes Sora the first playable character to have a "celebrity voice actor", as this is often known as.

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