I remember when I first played this game, I was freaking out after this scene!

I was like, "DID THEY REALLY JUST KILL A DISNEY CHARACTER!?!?!?!?!!?"

I knew it couldn't be true--it's Goofy for goodness sake, he can't just die! That's like--against a commandment!

ha ha ha ha

Anyway, I just wanna know what you guys felt/thought/reacted right after this scene.

Edited March 19, 201213 yr by wayfinder823

I didn't care.

I laughed and was like WTF ? I didnt really think he was dead though so i was right

Edited March 19, 201213 yr by axel_lea_lives_on

My and my brother's reaction:

 

I was kinda sad for like a second, the laughed cause I remembered that Goofy is indestructible

FINALLY! HE'S GONE!

I'm dead serious.

Nothing. I was completely numb to this game the first time I played it. >//>;;;;

Rob: GOOFY'S DEAD?!!!!!! HY-UCK!!!

I was thinking "Does that mean Mickey is going to replace Goofy?"

I chuckled.

I cried! then turned it into rage while I fought my way through the next part then cried again when he came back lol too much of a Disney fan I guess

I didn't buy it for a second.

My and my brother's reaction:

 

 

ur bra was on ur head when..........nvm

yeah i didnt react that much

I truly did not care.

i thought "wait what? whaaaaaaaaat!?!?!? no nononono" then i got to the point where he "came back" and thought "oh that figures...nice curveball Square Enix!!"

I cried....for a second.

At first, I was shocked. Then, I was sad. Then I was mad.

As soon as I found out he was okay though, I immediately calmed down.

i thought, ya right......it's goofy, he's been through worse than that

I was 14/15 so long time back but I'm pretty sure Sora's reaction had me tearing up-- and then the fights with the FF characters happened and suddenly my mind was on other things. Like how awesome that was.

I was like

firetruck YES.

NOW LETS HOPE WE GET A BETTER MEMBER.

I was like

firetruck YES.

NOW LETS HOPE WE GET A BETTER MEMBER.

 

That's not nice.

"God bless that rock, but It could of been Donald instead..."

I was like "LOOOOOOOOOL Did Goofy just die?! xDDD"

But when I saw he was alive, I thought "How the heck could he survive that?! "

I was a little sad for Sora and Donald and Mickey, but I had the majority of the game spoiled for me before I played it, so I knew that Goofy wasn't really dead.

What I hadn't seen before I played the game was Mickey's reaction, and the way he said, "They will pay for this!" Then I was like "ANGRY MICKEY, FIRETRUCK YES!!!"

I was immediately shocked but laughed a little bit because i found it hilarious how he got hit. But when everyone in the game was worried that he died I couldnt help think "omg... GOOOOOOOOOFYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". Once Mickey said "They'll pay for this." I yelled out "YA DAMN RIGHT THEY ARE! LETS GO KICK SOME ASS!"

Edited March 20, 201213 yr by burnsideking24

The fake-out of Goofy's death is one of the reasons that I really adore Kingdom Hearts. You, the viewer, know that Goofy's not dead, but what the image does to the characters inside of the game is heartbreaking. Consider that Goofy is the picture of innocence and kindness, and in every mission you go into, he's the one providing the voice of reason and humanity, as opposed to Sora's often impulsive attitude or Donald's selfishness. To even have the idea that the truly good member of the party was even mortal, and that death was even a possibilty for him, obviously shakes everyone. This is emphasized heavily by Mickey, usually happy go lucky and essentially omnipitent, showing both sincere sadness followed by anger gives the character an emotional depth that had previously been eluded. Donald's reaction is even more heart breaking: he's incapable of forming words as an outlet of his feelings, and can only yell incoherently as he joins Mickey in the charge. They feel they have lost a very good friend, anad even if the death is fake, the emotions and reactions to the proposition of death are very real.

 

Also, even if it does turn out to be a trick, it really is the first time the series actually talks about the idea of death. Most every other time, a character falls into darkness, or loses their heart, or does something that is supposed to more or less reference death without actually being dead. Here, the scene straight up suggests that Goofy's dead. You leave his lifeless body behind, and as far as you know, he's not getting back up. There's going to be no Heartless or Nobody to stick back together, there's no taking him out of the Realm of Darkness. He's dead, and that's all there is to it. Really, it's one of the most mature moments in the game in accepting that there is the possibilty of an ultimate end, made even more poignant that it happened to Goofy, who is not only a resounding presence within the game itself, but also in a larger cultural sense. The act of killing Goofy is killing an icon of many people's childhoods, and thus can resound not only with the characters inside the game, but also to the player in a more meta-textual fashion.