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lennythereviewer · 11 months

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My favorite Kingdom Hearts fact is that one of the biggest plot-holes that Nomura has never been able to meaningfully retcon or write his way out, a plot-hole so big that it fundamentally breaks the very rules the series is written on...

Is the existence of Steamboat Willie

Let me explain for the uninitiated:

In Kingdom Hearts 2, there’s a small detour in the story involving Maleficent trying to invade Disney Castle, the home of King Mickey. She can’t step foot in the castle due to an artefact of pure light that wards off darkness locked in the basement.

Pete, who is working for Maleficent, opens a door into the past (Before Disney Castle, this land was known as Timeless River) and decides to remove the artifact from it’s place in time so it won’t be there to stop them from getting in.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy chase Pete into the past thanks to another magic door provided by Merlin, and through some shenanigans involving old cartoons and teaming up with Pete’s past-self, they lock the door the villains are using, and return the artefact to it’s proper place so it can exist in the present.

You with me so far? Pretty straightforward-ish time-travel plot right?

Here’s where it goes off the rails.

Time travel would go on to become a staple of Kingdom Hearts going forward and would come with a very strict set of rules over how it operates:

1. You can only travel to a point in time where a version of yourself exists

2. You basically give up your body to do so, and travel as a disembodied soul unless you have a vessel to inhabit

3. You can’t alter the past in a meaningful way, what’s going to happen will happen

4. You lose your memories of said trip once you return, but your actions could leave a lingering instinct on your other self that could influence their decisions

“Wait” you may be thinking “Why should anyone go through all those hoops? Wasn’t time travel super simple that first time?”

And you’d be totally right, because the existence of Timeless River completely renders all of these rules and restrictions meaningless.

There is no version of Sora that existed in Timeless River before he step foot there, everyone kept their bodies, the trio and Pete were able to mess with the timeline as freely as they pleased, and they all very much remember their trip.

Nomura has never been able to meaningfully explain this super simple, easy way of time travel and the more convoluted method co-existing other than a cheap-throwaway line from one of the villains saying that Merlin “broke the rules”

The hilarious part about this line is that it implies that PETE of all characters is actually more powerful than the actual villain of the series, because Pete opened a door into Timeless River through sheer willpower and nostalgia for “the good old days”

But the all-knowing chess-master of a villain who had an evil plan several decades in the making with countless moving parts and contingencies to account for had to use the roundabout, more complicated method of time travel where a lot could go wrong.

Pete though? Dude just casually broke all the rules of time travel because he felt like it. He's just built different.

TL;DR: Steamboat Willie breaks Kingdom Hearts lore in half, Pete is more powerful than Master Xehanort, and I fucking love this beautiful trainwreck of a series you guys it means so much to me

I love Kingdom hearts so much.

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destiny-islanders · 6 months

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world (destruction) tour

#kh #kingdom hearts #sora #donald duck #disney #service with a smile :D #sora is gleefully feral especially in the earlier games don't be COWARDS embrace his murder era #destiny doodles

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mysharona1987 · 10 months

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But he looks like he’s about to vow to kill an Avenger or Batman.

Look, if Trump leaves the courthouse and yells: “But Spiderman will pay for this!” It will be the least surprising thing ever.

#donald trump #trump #marvel #dc comics #democrats #republicans #politics #supervillain #Spiderman #georgia #disney #sony

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mostly-funnytwittertweets · 9 months

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#donald duck #thanksgiving #disney #twitter #tweets #tweet #meme #memes #funny #lol

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sweettjrose · 4 months

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So I learned this from Twitter and DidYouKnowGaming, but apparently there were plans for an Epic Donald game that would have similar gameplay as Epic Mickey, but would have been based on the Carl Bark's Disney duck comics and the Ducktales show with each level being a different adventure.

Apparently Magica, Gyro Gearloose, the Beagle Boys, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Scrooge would have been major characters.

But after Disney Interactive got scrapped and Disney started licensing games instead of making them... the idea got scrapped too.

... Why...

#disney ducks #disney #epic mickey #donald duck #duck comics #duckverse #scrooge mcduck #epic donald #gyro gearloose #magica de spell #the beagle boys #huey dewey louie #this would have been so cool #why does disney never do their cool ideas

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i-restuff · 2 years

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Out of Context Donald Duck comics

#I'm pretty sure all of these are carl barks'#I think #carl barks #donald duck #scrooge mcduck #huey dewey louie #disney ducks

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polisena-art · 11 months

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I’ve been listening to the Mexican adaptation of Phantom of the Opera on youtube and this is the result, please enjoy

#The Three Caballeros #panchito pistoles #donald duck #josé carioca #duckverse #ducktales #disney #PotO #polisenaart #I love them and I love them cosplaying as famous musicals #panchito is phantom donald christine and josé is the Daroga

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skullsemi · 11 months

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It was probably kinda weird

#my art #fethry duck #gladstone gander #donald duck #jose carioca #ze carioca #panchito pistoles #the three caballeros #disney #you have heard of rgb. now get ready to rgbgr #first impressions means a panicked donald and I'll 100% see that

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gameraboy2 · 2 months

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"A Financial Fable" by Carl Barks, 1951

#a financial fable #carl barks #1951 #1950s #vintage #donald duck #disney #vintage disney #comics #comic book #comic book art #comic books #art #illustration

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patemi-pk · 2 months

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Stefano Zanchi is an artist to be cherished.

#disney #comics #disney comics #fumetti #stefano zanchi #donald duck #daisy duck #donald #daisy #donald and daisy #paperino #paperina

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donaldduckisepic · 3 months

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Donald being relatable moodboard

#donald duck #duck comics #donald duck comics #duckverse #disney #stop liking & reblogging this please i have much better posts probaly

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weirdlandtv · 5 days

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How to depict blinking in a comic? Oh hello, by the way. Yes, I'm still alive. I'm fine and how are you and all that but—how to depict blinking in a comic strip? Carl Barks used this method—

The ducks' huge eyes are split in two, with one set of slightly faded pupils in the top half (see image 1), and another of solid black pupils in the lower half, both sets cut off in such a way that the “stacked” pupils don't appear like one large elongated pupil (a thin white horizontal line separates the two states as well); and that, with the added "Blink! Blink!" gets the job done perfectly. Here’s another slightly different blink:

(Now that I'm writing this stuff about top half, bottom half I'm suddenly reminded of a Barks gag I came across: a file cabinet in the background of a panel with one drawer saying TOP SECRET and the one below it saying BOTTOM SECRET.)

Really though, Barks's brilliant stories are en endless source of great ideas, gags, splash pages, twists, visual tricks, pacing, phrasing, suspense building, the whole proverbial "shebang", whatever a shebang is: I've said it before on this blog but any budding artist or writer—heck, even a professional one—could learn a lot from Barks's best work. Fireworks of creativity.

Re-reading some of Barks's stories, as I sometimes do by way of therapy, it struck me that many panels consist of three main elements: a foreground element, a middle section where the action takes place, and a background:

This foreground element can really be anything. It can be a bush, a tree, a rock, even a wave:

It can be a chair, a table, or any other piece of interior:

It can be a character, or just their silhouette:

And of course it's also a good way to hide snooping villains:

In the Gyro Gearloose stories the foreground element is often Little Helper having a kind of silent slapstick adventure of his own (in Dutch here as it’s from my own copy):