History Characters / KingdomHeartsVillains

** Unless of course you take into account his fate after his final battle and the end credits during {=KHII=}, [[spoiler:where it seems that not only is the Underworld rid of him for good. He's seemingly been replaced as 'Lord of the Dead' by Sir Aron!...cool.]]

* WalkingWasteland:[[spoiler: Appears to be this to Radiant Garden in the Final Episode of ''BirthBySleep''.]]

* EvilOverlord: [[spoiler: Has effectively become this as of ''KingdomHeartsDreamDropDistance''.]]

* VillainOverride: [[spoiler:According to the Ultimania for ''3D'', Master Xehanort did this to him for the battle with Riku in Where Nothing Gathers so as to be able to override the Stopza imposed by Mickey.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot
* ArchEnemy: To Kevin Flynn

* TheCorrupter: Corrupted The Grid and also [[spoiler:turned TRON into Rinzler.]]

* EvilOverlord: He controls the entire Grid. Evilly.

* FantasticRacism: Hates the [=ISOs=] for being imperfect.

* KarmaHoudini: He manages to avoid defeat in Sora's story, making the DownerEnding [[FromBadToWorse all the sadder.]]

* PermaStubble

* TheUnfought

* CharacterDevelopment: For better or for worse, he went from a well-meaning and essentially decent authority figure to JerkAss attention seeker to cowardly villain (though he still retains some of his mettle). It's shown that he longs for the old days of steam boat captaincy.

** ShockAndAwe: Can use D-Thundaga in re:coded which also is an example of RideTheLightning.

** ThrowDownTheBomblet: In [[MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers The Land of Musketeers]] in ''3D''.
** TrapMaster: Can summon rigged blox in re:coded.

* EnemyMine: Twice. His past self put aside his (misunderstood) difficulties with Sora, Donald, and Goofy in order to help them fight his future self, so that he could get his boat back. Later, his present self helped [[spoiler:Sora and the King against Xemnas and the Heartless]].
* EvilChancellor: He was this to Minnie in the past.

* YouShallNotPass

** BlackMagic / CastingAShadow

* [[spoiler:DemotedToExtra]]: [[spoiler: Shows up with Young Xehanort in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', confronting Sora in one cutscene, and nowhere else in said game. TetsuyaNomura [[WordOfGod says]] that this is meant to be a representation of Ventus' heart reacting to Xehanort's darkness.]]
* TheDragon

* [[spoiler:EvilTwin: And to Sora, kind of.]]

* EyesOfGold / RedEyesTakeWarning: Although he has gold eyes in all of his appearances, accoridng to an interview from Nomura, Vanitas resembled a heartless-like creature with red eyes [[spoiler:before Ven joined his heart to Sora's to give Vanitas Sora's general appearance.]]

** [[spoiler: An alternate reason, canon to the novels, is that he wanted to rejoin with Ventus, thus not being all alone any more. However, this isn't exactly reflected in his actions; early in the story, he was perfectly willing to annihilate Ventus for being too weak, and considered Aqua a decent backup plan for forging the χ-Blade.]]

* LargeHam: Hoo boy, it seems ChikaoOhtsuka[[hottip:*:Master Xehanort's seiyuu.]], [[spoiler:MiyuIrino[[hottip:*:Vanitas's seiyuu. Same as Sora's.]]]], and [[spoiler:AkioOhtsuka[[hottip:*:Xehanort's seiyuu.]]]] decided to have a contest to see who can ham it up more.
** Ditto for their English counterparts. You can definitely tell [[spoiler:Haley]] was enjoying himself on this one.

* BigBad: Of ''Coded''.
** ArcVillain: [[spoiler:Has no relevance to the overarcing story of the series aside from this game]]

* TookALevelInBadAss [[TookALevelInJerkAss and Jerk Ass]]

* EldritchAbomination: As Groundshaker. Damn, that thing is even bigger than {{Godzilla}} himself.

* BackFromTheDead
** The sequel doesn't even ''try'' to explain why Ursula comes back in the sequel; in fact, it seems nobody remembers fighting her in the first game at all, since Ariel goes for a DealWithTheDevil... [[IdiotBall again]].
*** Sora seems to remember her, and Ursula's VillainSong does make a big deal out of her being back. There's no real excuse for Ariel, though.
** Done ''again'' in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', where she is brought back as the tutorial boss however she is revealed in the journal to merely be a phantom.
*** Actually, in [=KH2=] everyone ''did'' notice how weird her revival was, they had a theory that it was her mastery over the power of Darkness that helped to bring her back. Then she kept telling them that she had [[CallBack given up her evil ways]]. And as a gesture of her new found ''good will'' she offerd Ariel her new "deal".
Apparently she can enter her enemies mind/memoeries/dreams, as she clearly remembers Sora, and says that she wants revenge.

--> [[spoiler:—Sora-Heartless]]

--> [=DiZ=]

* TheFaceless: Most varieties, but look closely at the Dragoons...

--> [[spoiler:Vanitas]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent
** ScaledUp: Twice in canon. Once in the story of her original world as fought by Aqua, the other as unlocked by Riku possessed by Ansem[[spoiler:, Seeker of Darkness]] in the first game.

!!Tropes applying to the Xehanorts as a whole:

!!Master Xehanort

!![[spoiler:Terra-]]Xehanort

!!"Ansem", the Seeker of Darkness
!!!Xehanort's Heartless

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Ansem was able to remain alive due to his control of Riku, allowing him to continue to exist as long as Riku held darkness in his heart. [[spoiler:However, he was destroyed when [=DiZ=]'s machine at the end of ''II'' purified Riku's heart]].

** SizeShifter: He's absolutely enormous for his final battle.

** Historical[=/=]Cosmic[=/=]DramaticIrony: Considering that Terra, [[spoiler:who eventually became Xehanort]], wanted Riku to [[TakeUpMySword take up his sword]]...

!!Xemnas

!!Unknown [[spoiler:(Young Xehanort)]]

** And then in ''Dream Drop Distance'', the only time he breaks his CreepyMonotone is when [[spoiler:Riku tries to rescue Sora before he can be made the 13th Xehanort vessel]].

!![[Disney/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]]

* {{Familiar}}: Her [[RavensAndCrows raven]] who remains nameless in the games itself (It is named Diablo in SleepingBeauty).

* VillainOverride: In the first game, she was the BigBad until the climax where she's defeated and it's revealed that "Ansem" is [[TheManBehindTheMan the true villain behind everything.]]

!!{{Pete}}

** FlunkyBoss: In ''3D'' where he has his henchmen the Beagle Boys.

** RoyalRapier: In [[MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers The Land of Musketeers]] in ''3D''.

** TeleportSpam: In re:coded.

!!Vanitas

* JerkassWoobie: According to the novels at least. The novel stories about him go to some lengths to show that while he ''is'' an evil monster, he didn't start out that way, and it isn't entirely his fault that he ended up that way.

* LaughingMad: In Japanese ''and'' English.

!![[spoiler:Sora's]] Heartless

!![[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Hector Barbossa]]

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: The first of two live action disney villains to make it into Kingdom Hearts

!![[{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]]

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere

!![[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Claude Frollo]]

!![[Disney/{{Tarzan}} Clayton]]

!![[Film/TronLegacy CLU]]

!![[Disney/SnowWhite Evil Queen]]

!![[Disney/LiloAndStitch Experiment 221/Sparky]]

!![[Disney/LiloAndStitch Gantu]]

!![[Disney/{{Hercules}} Hades]]

!![[Disney/PeterPan Captain Hook]]

!![[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]]

!![[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Iago]]

!!Ice Titan

!! [[RunawayBrain Julius]]

!![[Disney/LiloAndStitch Jumba Jookiba]]

!![[Disney/SnowWhite The Magic Mirror]]

!![[{{Tron}} Master Control Program]]

!![[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]]

!![[Disney/AliceInWonderland The Queen of Hearts]]

!![[{{Tron}} Sark]]

!![[Disney/TheLionKing Scar]]

!![[Disney/{{Mulan}} Shan Yu]]

!![[Disney/{{Cinderella}} Lady Tremaine]]

!![[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ursula]]

!!Heartless

!!The Nobodies

!!The Unversed

!!The Dream Eaters

!!Riku Replica

!!Anti Black Coat

!! The Hostile Program

!! The Experiment

!!Sephiroth

!!The Phantom

!!Kurt Zisa

!!Mimic Master

!!Iron Imprisoner

!!Vanitas Remnant

!!The Red-Eyed Heartless

* EvilSorceror: Typically a MixAndMatch of this and a MadScientist, as the series's focus on {{Magitek}} heavily blurs the line between science and magic. For example, Master Xehanort uses his Keyblade and the powers tied to it for his schemes, while his incarnations have various machines such as the Hollow Bastion and World That Never Was labs, but both methods let them manipulate and experiment on hearts.

* EvilSorceror: Typically a MixAndMatch of this and a MadScientist, as the series's focus on FunctionalMagic heavily blurs the line between science and magic.

* EvilSorceror: Typically a MixAndMatch of this and a MadScientist, as the series's focus on {{Magitek}} heavily blurs the line between science and magic.

* PointyEars: [[spoiler:Likely due to corruption by darkness. Curiously absent with Young Xehanort]]

* HumanoidAbomination: In direct opposition to TheHeartless (who take on more monstrous forms as they become stronger), the strongest Nobodies [[BishonenLine are human-like in appearance]]. They also move and walk in ways that highlight how ''un''-human they are, such as "swimming" through solid matter or walking on air.

-->"Only now, habe I truly won..."

* [[spoiler:ThanatosGambit]]: [[spoiler:Terra battering him into submission is his final SecretTestOfCharacter to the effect that Terra is now strong enough to be a worthy vessel. Also possible, though not confirmed, he needed Terra's heart to be suffused with darkness.]]

* [[spoiler:ThanatosGambit]]: [[spoiler:Terra battering him into submission is his final SecretTestOfCharacter to the effect that Terra is now strong enough to be a worthy vessel. Also possible, though not confirmed, he needed to be near death to transfer his heart to him. Or that he needed Terra's heart to be suffused with darkness.]]

* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Though he is calm and collected[[spoiler: in his own body, when possessing people such as Terra, Saix, and his younger form, he is far more prone to fits of rage and furious attacks.]]

* GambitRoulette: [[spoiler:Everything Ansem and Xemnas did was entirely planned out in advance by him, and to various degrees Maleficent, Sora, Riku and most of Organization XIII were {{Unwitting Pawn}}s to help it all along]] And it worked.
* [[spoiler: GracefulLoser: He is remarkably calm in ''Dream Drop Distance'' as he discusses his failures of ''Birth By Sleep'', admitting he was "rash" in trying them and expecting them to work so easily. When Lea and later Donald and Goofy intervene to stop Xehanort from turning Sora into one of his vessels, Master Xehanort simply sighs that the time afforded to him for this attempt is up, but not to worry, eventually the pieces he needs will surfaces and he can try again in time.]]

** [[spoiler: And is the real reason he created Organization XIII!]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He started out this way, believing the universe ought to have a balance of light and darkness, and decides a flood of darkness to push it to the bring of destruction was the only way to bring about this re-balancing. However the darkness he delved into took its toll and whatever benevolent goals he once had have long been forgotten in favor of acquiring power and knowledge even at the cost of existence.
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler: As of KH3D, MickeyMouse seems to be the only character he actually respects, and doesn't just see as another tool to be used.]]

* TheHeavy: In KingdomHearts.

!!'''This is a listing of the Villains that appear in the ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' series. Visit [[Characters/KingdomHearts here]] for the main characters index.'''