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Selphie's purse has a Moogle clip attached to it. There is also a special Gummi ship modeled after a Moogle. | Selphie's purse has a Moogle clip attached to it. There is also a special Gummi ship modeled after a Moogle. | ||
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Revision as of 12:31, 11 April 2013
- "I know I've been cracking a lot of jokes about munny, kupo... But remember that you're what I'm worried about most, kupo. Safe journey, kupo!"
- —The moogle to Data-Sora
Moogles are creatures that appear in each of the Kingdom Hearts games, always running one of the game's shops. They generally operate their omnipresent stores through holograms, instead of in person, as they hate getting their pom-poms ruffled.[1] In Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts coded, they run synthesis shops where Sora or Roxas can synthesize items to make new weapons and armor; the Moogle Shop in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is even available in Mission Mode, in the main menu. In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories they sell various cards to Sora in Moogle Rooms and in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep they sell Deck Commands that can be purchased in holographic versions of their shops. To date, Moogles are the only characters hailing from the Final Fantasy series to have appeared in all released Kingdom Hearts games.
Story
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Moogles run Command Shops on all but two worlds, but use holograms for each of them except the Radiant Garden shop, which is run in person. At the Mirage Arena, the resident Moogle instead runs a "Medal Shop", where the Medals earned from the world's mini-games can be used to buy rare items and commands.
Kingdom Hearts
Moogles appear only in Traverse Town, refugees from the destruction of their respective home worlds. After Sora uses Trinity Ladder in the Accessory Shop, he opens a path to the Moogles' Item Workshop, where the Moogles will accept his synthesis items in order to craft various recovery items, accessories, and weapons.
According to a Moogle in the First District, Pinocchio enjoys ruffling the Moogles' pom-poms.
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
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Memory-based Moogles appear in special "Moogle Rooms", which are generated by the Map Card of the same name. These Moogles sell Sora various packs of cards in exchange for the Moogle Points he finds throughout the castle.
On their way out of the Neverland floor, Donald Duck is struck by a falling Moogle.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
- "My name is of no importance, kupo."
- —The Moogle, echoing Xemnas.
A Moogle wearing a Black Coat enjoys a business relationship with Organization XIII. However, it holds no loyalty to them, and ends up following his best customer, Roxas, when the latter flees from The World That Never Was to Twilight Town.
Kingdom Hearts II
By the time Sora awakes from his slumber, Moogles are once again running shops on most worlds, using holograms everywhere but Radiant Garden and Twilight Town. Each Moogle names their shop after themselves:
- Twilight Town: Elmina's Moogle Shop
- Radiant Garden: Mog's Workshop
- The Land of Dragons: Kupo's Moogle Shop
- Beast's Castle: Monty's Moogle Shop
- Olympus Coliseum: Mosh's Moogle Shop
- Disney Castle: Mogjiro's Moogle Shop
- Timeless River: Mogtaro's Moogle Shop
- Port Royal: Morlock's Moogle Shop
- Halloween Town: Gumo's Moogle Shop
- Agrabah: Mojito's Moogle Shop
- Pride Land: Kumop's Moogle Shop
- Space Paranoids: Artemicion's Moogle Shop
- The World That Never Was: Stiltzkin's Moogle Shop
Kingdom Hearts coded
Data-based Moogles appear throughout the Datascape to run most of the realm's Shops. They sell various command, accessory, and finisher chips.
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Several Moogles can be found in the Fourth District of Traverse Town running the Coliseum, as well as several shops.
Other appearances
Kingdom Hearts II
Selphie's purse has a Moogle clip attached to it. There is also a special Gummi ship modeled after a Moogle.
Appearance
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Moogles in general share a uniform appearance. They are small, white creatures resembling plush toys, with large, spherical heads, small ears sprouting out of the sides of their heads, and stubby hand and feet that lack distinct digits. Their eyes are constantly narrowed into brown slits, giving the appearance of being closed despite having open eyes in the Final Fantasy series, and their noses are bulbous and pink. Moogles also sport tiny, purple wings like those of a bat on their backs and, perhaps their most distinctive traits, large, red, spherical "pom-poms" on attached to the tops of their heads by a thin, brown antenna.
In Kingdom Hearts II, the hologram for Mogtaro, the Timeless River Moogle, appears in monochrome like everything else in that world, making him one of the few Moogles to be visually distinctive.
In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, the only Moogle to appear dresses in its own black cloak. Its ears are visible poking through the hood, as is its pom-pom. Its hood covers its eyes, and it seems to wear black gloves over its hands.
Origin
The Moogles are a race of small creatures that was spawned from and primarily appears in the Final Fantasy franchise. They first appeared in Final Fantasy III, and have shown up in nearly every franchise entry afterward. The Japanese name is a portmanteau of the Japanese words mogura (mole) and kōmori (bat), animals that the Moogles display physical traits of. Moogles are known for ending many of their sentences with "kupo."
Each of the Kingdom Hearts II Moogles is named after a notable Final Fantasy Moogle. Most of them are named after Moogles from the Mognet in Final Fantasy IX.
Gallery
A Moogle wearing an Organization coat
A Moogle hologram
Mogtaro as he appears in Timeless River
The Moogle Clip on Selphie's Purse
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The Moogle-based Gummi Ship
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Notes and references
- ^ Kingdom Hearts II, Jiminy's Journal: "Moogles hate having their pompoms ruffled (don't we all?), but the pompom rufflers just keep coming in droves. Maybe that's why the moogles use holograms to run their shops now, while they kick back at home."
See Also
| Final Fantasy characters |
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| Characters introduced in Kingdom Hearts |
| Tidus | Selphie | Wakka | Cid | Squall Leonhart | Yuffie | Aerith | Cloud | Sephiroth | Moogles |
| Characters introduced in Kingdom Hearts II |
| Seifer | Raijin | Fujin | Vivi | Setzer | Auron | Tifa | Yuna, Rikku, and Paine | Wantz | Wallace | Biggs | Wedge | Jessie |
| Characters introduced in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep |
| Zack |
| Characters introduced in Kingdom Hearts Union χ |
| Dr. Mog | Elarra | Exdeath | Gilgamesh | Kefka | Lann | Lightning | Reynn | Tama | Terra | Tyro | Warrior of Light |
