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The Parasite Cage (パラサイトケイジ Parasaito Keiji?) is an Emblem Heartless that is found in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. It is one of the bosses at Monstro.

Journal Entries

Kingdom Hearts

Heartless that appeared inside Monstro. It's known to swallow its enemies. Sora and the others rescue Pinocchio, who was trapped inside it.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

A Heartless that dwelled inside Monstro.

The Parasite Cage is quite the gourmand and eats anything in its path. Pinocchio figured out how to escape Monstro after getting gobbled up by it.

  • Reverse/Rebirth

A Heartless that dwelled inside Monstro. It appeared before Riku as a token of the indeliable darkness in his heart.

Story

Kingdom Hearts

The Parasite Cage was a Heartless that(presumably) formed naturally inside Monstro where it spent all day sitting in its bowels. Its obvious that it wasn't created by maleficent or one of her allieas because riku seemed surprised by its appearence (plus its the only unique heartless in monstro). It captured Pinnoccio when he ran away from Riku. However, before it could succeed in fully devouring his heart, Riku, Sora, Donald, and Goofy battled and defeated it. Eventually the Parasite Cage spit out Pinocchio and climbed away into Monstro'supper organs. Despite being defeated, the Parasite Cage retained Pinocchio's heart.

Sora chased Riku into the Stomach, only to discover that the Parasite Cage had lodged itself there. With Pinocchio's heart, the Parasite Cage had increased in size and gained several new abilities, such as the time spell Bio. Sora battled it one last time before it was finally destroyed.


Following its defeat Sora gained the spell stop and monstro regurgitated, allowing everyone to escape.

Strategy

First Incarnation

At the start, remain on your platform and lock on to the Cage’s head, shooting Fira or Gravity spells at it. Keep doing this until it’s dead. If you need to recharge, either use an Ether or attack the head and cage with the Keyblade until you’ve regained enough of your MP.

throughout the battle riku will fight it using his soul eater. Sadly Riku hasn't gained that much levels since the islands(he even has the exact same moves as his island self) so his damage is really low. but he distracts the beast and keeps some of his attacks away from you if you fight it up close.

After winning, Goofy learns the Cheer ability.

Second Incarnation

This fight is much the same as the last one, but the Cage is more powerful and it has gained the spell bio. When the Cage gets tired and sags backward for a moment, it's mouth will open. Bash it with the Keyblade, and Try to execute a couple of flying combos during this time. When it recovers, return to your normal strategy of casting spells at the head. Eventually, it reverts to its old strategy, and the player can get closer to smash it with the Keyblade. After the battle is over, Sora and Donald will learn the Stop spell. The party is then automatically ejected from Monstro and returns to the Gummi Ship.

Attacks

Please note that the names of the attacks are conjectural, as they are never given.

  • First Time
    • Left Tentacle: In which the Parasite Cage swings its left appendage
    • Right Tentacle: In which the Parasite Cage swings its right appendage
    • Double strike: In which the Parasite Cage connects its appendages and swings them in both directions, characterized for being its strongest attack
  • Second Time
    • Left Tentacle: In which the Parasite Cage swings its left appendage
    • Charged Left Tentacle: In which the Parasite Cage swings its left appendage more powerfully (marked by the mandibles at the end shining at the height of swing)
    • Right Tentacle: In which the Parasite Cage swings its right appendage
    • Charged Right Tentacle: In which the Parasite Cage swings its right appendage more powerfully (marked by the mandibles at the end shining at the height of swing)
    • Double Strike: In which the Parasite Cage connects its appendages and swings them in both directions, characterized for being one of its strongest attacks
    • Bio: A time element spell where in the appendages' mandibles absorb stomach acid from Monstro's stomach and the head fired it as a poisonous gas, because it is a time spell it doesn't damage you at first but then you start losing HP. Best avoided on the ground.
    • Slam: In which the appendages mount themselves on the ground and the cage swings into the air; best avoided to the side

Trivia

  • This is the only boss battle in Kingdom Hearts where Sora receives help from an ally not in the party.
  • Parasite Cage's appearance bares many similarities with and possibly based on Prison Cage from Final Fantasy IX.

Notes and References

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