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Thunder (サンダー, Sandā^?), Thundara (サンダラ, Sandara^?), and Thundaga (サンダガ, Sandaga^?) magic are spells that appear in Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, and Kingdom Hearts coded. They utilize the element of Lightning, and are associated with the Lightning material, despite their name. Thunder spells summon lightning bolts from the sky to rain down on their target.

Mechanics

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

Aqua using Thundaga in the Radiant Garden

Thunder is used much differently than its other incarnations. The user casts a ring of lightning around them, and any enemies inside the ring are struck by lightning. However with advanced Thunder spells such as Thundara and Thundaga, the ring grows larger and the effect of the jolt on the enemy's HP grows stronger.

It is available to all three characters.

Another spell exclusive to Aqua and similar to Thunder is called Thundaga Shot, which causes a ball of revolving Thunder energy to hover across the battle area and hit an enemy, causing a ring of thunder to appear around the target. This spell is basically Thundaga with an aiming addition.

Thunder is a Basic Magic Command that takes up one slot in the Command Deck, has a maximum level is 3, a reload time of 10 seconds, and fills the Command Gauge by 20%.
Thundara is a Basic Magic Command that takes up one slot in the Command Deck, has a maximum level is 3, a reload time of 10 seconds, and fills the Command Gauge by 25%.
Thundaga is an Advanced Magic Command that takes up one slot in the Command Deck, has a maximum level is 4, a reload time of 15 seconds, and fills the Command Gauge by 30%.

Kingdom Hearts

Sora using Thundaga

Thunder was the first magic ability seen, where it was used by Donald to awaken a sleeping Goofy.

In Kingdom Hearts, Thunder was a more powerful and also more costly spell than Fire or Blizzard, summoning a barrage of lightning bolts from above to strike the surrounding enemies at the cost of 1 MP bar.

Characters who cast Thunder magic in Kingdom Hearts:

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

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Sora using Thundaga

In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Thunder appears as a magic card that can be used in the following sleights.

Ability	Description	Obtained	Requirements
Thundara (サンダラ, Sandara^?)	Shock the opposition with powerful lightning magic.	Obtain Thunder.	+
Thundaga (サンダガ, Sandaga^?)	Fry the opposition with supreme lightning magic.	Obtain Thunder.	+ +
Thunder Raid (サンダーレイド, Sandā Reido^?)	Hurl the Keyblade and inflict lightning damage.	1^st Neverland Reward	+ +

As a Magic card, Thunder can also be used in the following sleghts.

Ability	Description	Obtained	Requirements
Homing Fira^{[KH CoM]} (ホーミングファイラ, Hōmingu Faira^?)	Cast a Fira spell that seeks out the targeted enemy.	Neverland Bounty	+ + Aero + Fire + Any magic card
Homing Blizzara (ホーミングブリザラ, Hōmingu Burizara^?)	Cast a Blizzara spell that seeks out the targeted enemy.	Atlantica Bounty	+ + Aero + Blizzard + Any magic card
Quake (クエイク, Kueiku^?)	Inflict damage on all ground enemies with a violent tremor.	1^st Atlantica Reward	+ + Gravity + Simba + Any magic card
Bind (バインド, Baindo^?)	Hold enemies in place. Enemies can still attack from their positions.	Find Eeyore.^{[KH CoM]} 1^st Halloween Town Reward^{[KH Re:CoM]}	+ + Gravity + Stop + Any magic card
Gifted Miracle (ミラクルギフト, Mirakuru Gifuto^?, lit. "Miracle Gift")	Reload cards and reset the counter while restoring HP to friends and foes alike.	Halloween Town Bounty	+ + Any summon card + any magic card + Jack + + Bambi + Blizzard + Any item card
Teleport (テレポ, Terepo^?)	Rematerialize behind the targeted enemy, stunning it for a short time.	Neverland Bounty	+ + Any magic card + Any magic card + Peter Pan + + Stop + Aero + Any item card

Keyblades are sometimes given elemental properties in this game. Thunder-elemental keyblades appearing in this game are as follows:

Spellbinder
Photon Debugger^{[KH Re:CoM]}

Kingdom Hearts II

Sora using Thundaga

In Kingdom Hearts II, Thunder is approximately equal to the other base elemental spells Fire and Blizzard in power. Thunder has decreased in power in Kingdom Hearts II, as opposed to Fire and Blizzard, which have increased in power from their incarnations in Kingdom Hearts. The spell summons a single lightning bolt to strike an enemy and an area-of-effect that is expanded with each upgrade.

A new ability, Thunder Boost, appearing in Kingdom Hearts II increases the amount of damage caused by lightning-elemental spells. Although it may be learned by leveling up, it is also a passive ability acquired when equipping the Photon Debugger keyblade.

Characters who cast Thunder magic in Kingdom Hearts II:

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Roxas using Thundaga

In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Thunder sends out a straight line of lightning before the caster. Thundara resembles Thunder magic as it appears in Kingdom Hearts, in which lightning strikes randomly around the caster for a brief period of time. Thundaga invokes a single, enormous bolt of lightning to strike the target.

Kingdom Hearts coded

In Kingdom Hearts coded, the Thunder license may be used from the Hero's License.

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded

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Data-Sora using Thundaga

In Kingdom Hearts Re:coded, Thunder summons multiple lightning bolts to hit the surrounding area.

Thunder: It costs 12% of memory, has 10 seconds of reload time and 8 seconds of overspec reload time.
Thundara: It costs 15% of memory, has 12 seconds of reload time and 11 seconds of overspec reload time.
Thundaga: It costs 16% of memory, has 14 seconds of reload time and 13 seconds of overspec reload time.