Jiminy Cricket

Jiminy Cricket is a character from the Kingdom Hearts games, originally from the film "Pinocchio".

Kingdom Hearts
''That's me! The cricket who keeps Pinocchio to the straight and narrow. I'm along on the quest as the royal chronicler.''

Look for me in "Pinocchio" (1940).

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
''That's right, me again. I'm keeping a journal of everyone's adventures.''

I also act as Pinocchio's conscience, so he'll know right from wrong.

Kingdom Hearts II
Pinocchio (1940)

''Glad you could join us! Cricket's the name-Jiminy Cricket. Queen Minnie asked me to come along on this quest as the Royal Chronicler. And what an adventure it's been!''

''You might remember that I also help my pal Pinocchio out as his official conscience. I try to keep the little fellow on the straight and narrow and show him right from wrong. He sure can be a handful sometimes.''

Story
In the Kingdom Hearts series, he chronicles the adventures of Sora, Donald, and Goofy in his journal. Although he is first met in Disney Castle (when Minnie tells him to accompany Donald and Goofy in their search for King Mickey), he is originally from the unnamed Pinocchio world (the only portion of it being present is the Monstro world).

Kingdom Hearts
Jiminy first makes his appearance in Disney Castle and becomes Sora, Donald, and Goofy's royal chronicler under the order of Queen Minnie. He explains to Goofy that he escaped right before his world was destroyed and he was scattered from his friends. After they befriend Sora, they travel to many different worlds in search for the King, Riku, and Kairi. Some time after, he meets up with Pinocchio in Traverse Town and tells him to stay put while he sets out to find his father.

When they head for Atlantica/Halloween Town (depending on which world the player chooses), they get swallowed by the giant whale, Monstro and meet up with Pinocchio again, this time reunited with his father Geppetto. But then Pinocchio was lured away from his friends by Riku and they searched for him until a Parasite Cage Heartless captured Pinocchio and attempted to take his heart. He failed, but then Riku captured him and stole his heart in hopes to be able to replace Kairi's. Jiminy, Sora, Donald, and Goofy manage to restore Pinocchio's heart with the united power of theirs. Then, they battle Parasite Cage again and defeat it once and for all, but then Monstro feels ill and spit them out and separate Jiminy away from Pinocchio. He finds out that Pinocchio and Geppetto are okay after they visit Traverse Town again and find them living there.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Jiminy appears alongside Sora, Donald, and Goofy, and his role in this game is much bigger as he appears more often and during the game he is the one that tries to keep the team together. He is alone with Sora when Sora runs away from Donald and Goofy.

Like the others, his memories are also disappearing the more they head for each level of Castle Oblivion. Even the entries in his journal have disappeared altogether.

When Sora gets angry at Donald and Goofy for not wanting to help save Naminé, he sets out to find her by himself. Jiminy tries to reason with him, but he refuses to listen.

When they finally meet Naminé, they find out from her that they haven't actually met, but were rather fooled by her abilities to control memories of Sora and those attached to his heart. But Sora forgives her for her doing and they all set out to fight against those who made Naminé do what she did.

When they finally defeat Larxene, Vexen, and Marluxia, the members of Organization XIII, Naminé takes them to a room of white pods where she tells them she will be able to restore their memories while they sleep in them. But it will take some time because re-chaining memories is harder than severing them. However, as a price they will lose their memories of all things that happened while they were in Castle Oblivion. Afraid that they might not be able to thank her for what she does for them, Jiminy writes down a small entry in his journal that says "Thank Naminé".

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
At this time, Jiminy is in a deep slumber, sleeping beside Sora, who is also sleeping to reclaim his lost memories.

Kingdom Hearts II
In Kingdom Hearts II, Jiminy has only appeared once.

A year later, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Jiminy awake from their long, deep slumber in Twilight Town, and have no memories of what happened right after they closed Kingdom Hearts. Goofy asks Jiminy what his journal says, and Jiminy only finds a sentence: "Thank Naminé". Unable to know who she is anymore, Donald scoffs at him for his bad journal entry and Jiminy dismisses it by telling to go and find out where they are. He does not reappear in the game since then.

Kingdom Hearts coded


Jiminy reappears in Kingdom Hearts coded. His journal is connected to what started this story.

He was re-organizing his journal when he suddenly finds a sentence saying "We must return to free them from their torment". Jiminy cannot recall any memory of that entry, and King Mickey creates a Sora out of data to try and find out more about the mysterious entries that continually appear. As Sora continues to unravel the Block Corruption that affecting the Data Worlds, Jiminy somehow gets sucked into the data world, along with King Mickey, Donald and Goofy.

Appearance
True to his name, Jiminy is an anthropomorphized cricket (though he bears virtually no resemblance to real-life crickets). He has olive skin, thin black eyerows, four-fingered hands, and wears the famous white gloves many older Disney characters wear. He dresses very formally, with a royal blue top hat with an orange band near the base, a red vest with a single, pink button on the front, a yellow ascot, a black blazer, and a high-collared white shirt. He also sports tan pants and yellow shoes with black tips. Jiminy also carries a red umbrella.

Origin
In "Pinocchio" Jiminy served as the main character's conscience. The Blue Fairy, who brought Pinocchio the puppet to life, gave Jiminy the task of guiding him and helping him to determine right from wrong.

Trivia

 * Jiminy Cricket's English voice actor, Eddie Carroll, responded to an email of a fan of the series regarding of his future involvements in the series and responded that he would be the voice in a future installment, but the game Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep doesn't have Jiminy in it and could mean that Kingdom Hearts coded could be localized.

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