Sora

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Sora
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Universe	Kingdom Hearts
Debut	Kingdom Hearts (2002)
Smash Bros. appearances	Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory (2020)
Console/platform of origin	PlayStation 2
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Place of origin	Destiny Islands
Created by	Tetsuya Nomura
Designed by	Tetsuya Nomura
English voice actor	Haley Joel Osment
Japanese voice actor	Miyu Irino
Article on Kingdom Hearts Wiki	Sora

Sora (ソラ, Sora) is the main protagonist of the Kingdom Hearts series.

Origin

Hailing from the Destiny Islands, a small tropical archipelago, Sora was born and immediately made contact with an unconscious 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, 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 Kairi and Riku, and other children such as Tidus and Wakka (from Final Fantasy X), and 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 Heartless appeared. Desperate to protect the raft, Sora was then granted a magical weapon called the Keyblade in order to fight the Heartless, and found himself thrown through the universe.

Awakening in a place called Traverse Town, Sora teamed up with Donald Duck and Goofy to find his friends, as well as King Mickey. Together, they would venture through various worlds in order to save the universe from the Heartless, led by Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, who sought to open the door to Kingdom Hearts. After fighting Ansem in Hollow Bastion, Sora ends up sacrificing himself to Kairi and the other Princesses of Heart, which gives birth to both his Heartless and his Nobody, 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 End of the World to defeat Ansem and seal the 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 Castle Oblivion, where they soon find 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 Organization XIII that both try to stop and help them along the way. They also comes across a girl named Naminé, Kairi's Nobody that had been hired by Organization XIII to mess up memories of Sora and his friends for the Organization's plans. After Sora, Donald, and Goofy defeat the castle's ruler, Marluxia, Naminé 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, Xemnas, who declares Roxas an Organization member and mandates him to do various tasks. He also makes friends with two other members of the Organization; Axel and 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 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 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 Yen Sid to complete the Mark of Mastery exam to become Keyblade Master after sensing the return of Xehanort, who long ago tried to initiate the ancient Keyblade War. It is later revealed by copies of Xehanort that he plans to acquire the 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 Aqua from the Realm of Darkness, and uses the "power of waking" on Ventus at the Land of Departure. Together with Donald, Goofy, Mickey, Kairi, Riku, and Lea, the true form of Axel, they head to the Keyblade Graveyard to fight Xehanort's clones and his subordinates.

Although the group manages to save 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 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 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 Yozora, the protagonist of the fictional video game Verum Rex who was mentioned by a 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 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. 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 Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot that was held to give an idea of the last DLC fighter for the game. However, Bayonetta was added in his stead as the highest-voted "realizable and negotiable" character, indicating that Sora was not a possibility at the time.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

As a playable character

Sora, as he appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

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, with an alternate appearance for his Kingdom Hearts design which resembles his look in the Timeless River.

Names in other languages

Language	Name
Japanese	ソラ, Sora
English	Sora
French	Sora
German	Sora
Spanish	Sora
Italian	Sora
Chinese	索拉, Sora
Korean	소라, Sora
Dutch	Sora
Russian	Сора

Trivia

• 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.
  • He is the first character to be owned by a company that is not a video game publisher, since while Microsoft is involved in many industries besides video games, they still develop and publish video games through Xbox Game Studios, while Disney merely licenses their properties out to other companies in order to make video games.
    • However, Disney did have a video game division in the form of Disney Interactive Studios before shutting down the studio in 2016, 5 years prior to Sora’s inclusion in Smash.
  • Similarly, he is the third fighter after the aforementioned fighters to be owned by a Western company.
• Sora is the first and only character from a Square Enix developed game to be fully voiced in both English and Japanese, as Cloud Strife, Eleven (Dragon Quest XI’s 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).

External links

• Article on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki
• Article on the Disney Wiki