Moogle

Template:InfoCharacter Moogles are creatures that appear in all the Kingdom Hearts games. 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. 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.

Journal entries

Kingdom Hearts

Escaped to Traverse Town when the Heartless invaded their home. They know how to combine various items to form new ones.

Many "Final Fantasies".

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

A strange race that seems to pop up just about anywhere.

In Castle Oblivion, the moogles run shops where Sora can trade in unwanted cards.

Kingdom Hearts II

Final Fantasy III

A strange race that pops up in even stranger places to open shop.

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.

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded

A curious clan of cuddly characters who pop up in the darndest places. Any Moogle worth a bean will be more than glad to take items off your hands — or better yet, put them IN your hands after lightening your wallet.

In the end, though, they're a welcome help on any adventure, even if nobody has figured out exactly what, you know, they actually ARE.

Story

For further information regarding Moogle Shops in the stories of various games, please see Moogle Shop.

Kingdom Hearts

According to the Moogle in the First District, Pinocchio enjoys ruffling the Moogles' pom-poms.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

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.

The Moogle in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days has a business relationship with Organization XIII, and wears a black cloak. However, it holds no loyalty to them, and ends up following his best customer, Roxas, when the latter flees The World That Never Was.

Kingdom Hearts II

Like Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy, the Moogle which appears in Timeless River, Mogtaro, appears in a black and white form at the Moogle Shop, the only Moogle to appear different from the others. However, the Moogles do have distinctive names:

• Twilight Town: Elmina
• Radiant Garden: Mog
• The Land of Dragons: Kupo
• Beast's Castle: Monty
• Olympus Coliseum: Mosh
• Disney Castle: Mogjiro
• Timeless River: Mogtaro
• Port Royal: Morlock
• Halloween Town: Gumo
• Agrabah: Mojito
• Pride Land: Kumop
• Space Paranoids: Artemicion
• The World That Never Was: Stiltzkin

The Moogles are all named after famous Final Fantasy Moogles. Most Moogles are named after Moogles from the Mognet in Final Fantasy IX.

Appearance

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 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

Moogles are small creatures and a race that originally spawned from the Final Fantasy video game series. They appeared as early as Final Fantasy III, and have appeared in nearly every game afterwards. 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."

Other appearances

Kingdom Hearts II

While on Destiny Islands, Selphie's purse has a Moogle clip attached to it. In addition, there is a special Gummi ship modeled after a Moogle.

Dissidia Final Fantasy

"We moogles're generous, kupo. I'll help you out—even if you're with those Chaos creeps, kupo."

—The Moogle, when acquired by a Warrior of Chaos

In Dissidia Final Fantasy, the Moogle appears as a summon, and is based upon those depicted in Kingdom Hearts, albeit with a comically disproportionate nose, pom-pom and body, and seemingly absent wings, though it still floats. The Moogle appears in a cutscene upon acquiring its summon during the Inward Chaos storyline. If the summon is acquired while playing as Terra Branford, she runs towards the Moogle and cuddles him, along with the Moogle telling Terra to stop ruffling his pom-pom. Moogles also appear sending letters to the player through the Mognet. These letters often reward the player with prizes.

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy

In Dissidia 012, Moogles play a much larger role. It is stated that the Moogles are the only species in the world aside from Manikins, though even the characters do not know how they exist. They operate shops around the world, trading "KP" for equipment with the player character. In the game's bonus storyline, "Confessions of the Creator", the player rescues a "mured Moogle" trapped in the Cavern of the Rotting Land, who then directs them to the Lands of Discord to destroy Feral Chaos, the game's superboss. Along the way the Moogle begins to recover its lost memories, and eventually reveals itself as Cid of the Lufaine, the mastermind and overseer of the cycles of war, shapeshifted into the form of a Moogle.

Final Fantasy XIII-2

In the Final Fantasy XIII-2's E3 trailer, a Moogle that is based on its Kingdom Hearts design makes an appearance, albeit with a crystal "pom-pom", a smaller nose, and a bigger head. The Moogle is shown to carry a staff with a clock design and can transform into a bow which Serah uses for combat.

Quotes

• "Are you here to shop, kupo?"
• "Greetings, kupo. What...Is your name?"
• "Your munny will always have a place in my pocket!"
• "I heard you collapsed, kupo. Gotta pace yourself, kupo. Who else am I going to swindl—talk to, kupo?"
• "I just got some super-special goods in, kupo. Have a look, kupo."

Gallery

• Selphie's Purse.png

  The Moogle Clip on Selphie's Purse.

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  A Moogle hologram.

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  The Moogle-based Gummi Ship.

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  The Moogle as it appears in Timeless River