Is Anybody Else Struck by Just How LITLE Kairi Appears in this Franchise?

Rpg cliche logic: No matter how much a romantic female lead is built up or how much stronger they get, they will probably be kidnapped at some point in the game-there is an even higher chance of this happening if the girl in question has been kidnapped before.
Kairi will be given a keyblade, have some importance to the plot, be built up and then get kidnapped for whatever reason so sora has some "tension" in the final area.
im not saying this WILL happen but it is highly likely due to the fact that she has been kidnapped twice before and so far has shown no ability to do anything other than be moral support for sora and riku............and also pairing fodder.

 

Think of how American movies are similar. There's always the wise teacher/father figure/God figure, the hero that has to overcome problems on his own, the heroine that's mainly there for the love interest, the villain whose main interest is power over people etc.

Superhero movies are a good example of this. They all have similar aspects. It has to do with the culture/history and what typically happens in modern society.

Hmm well I'm not sure how accurate that producer's statement is. After all, CoM really stresses Kairi's importance to Sora. Sora still remembers Riku, but by forgetting Kairi, it kind of creates a paradox by making her more important. It's like Sora's forgetting the most important thing to him, what motivates him throughout the series. Also, throughout KHII, Donald/Goofy hint at Sora thinking of Kairi whenever there's some lovey-dovey scene. Plus Kairi and Sora had that special connection through the good luck charm.

However, something about KH really stresses the friendship between the guys. It's like Nomura wants tons of yaoi fanfics to be made. There's Sora and Riku's relationship, especially at the end of KHII, when they talk about being with each other forever. You have Roxas and Axel's relationship, where Axel pretty much

Spoiler

sacrifices himself Roxas

I still think the relationship between Kairi and Sora is very important to KH though. She's mainly there for a driving force, and I wouldn't really say she's the Sakura of KH. Sakura goes on about how she wants to help, but can't. Kairi is essentially Zelda as Sora is to Link.

 

Oh, first I was so annoyed by Kairi. In my opinion, she was just this little-weak-Princess every boy wants to rescue because she can't take care of herself.
But in the further games, I tried to accept her role and I did. I got to know more about her and it's kind of a shame that it needed so many games to finally sympathize with her.
I think, most people only see her as the girl at Soras side who is weak and can't do anything by herself. If Nomura only gave her a more important role, or if he had shown more of her strength, I'm sure people would see her in a much better way and as a more important role in the whole series.
She is important at all. We just don't recognize it because she's barely there in the games.

Edit(26th January):

I think I read an interview once, where Nomura stated that it's the intention of SE to create a lot of relationships where fans can interpret whether it's a romantic relationship or not. So we got Roxas and Axel, you can say they're best friends and Axel is like an older brother. But some interpret a much deeper relationship between both of them. Nomura said he don't want to clarify whose relationship is romantical and whose not because he wants fans to think about it and make up their own minds.