History Characters / KingdomHeartsSquareEnixVillains

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This is a listing of the villians created by SquareEnix that appear in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series. Visit the index [[Characters/KingdomHearts here]] for other characters who appear in the series.

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!Xehanort ([[spoiler:Thirteen Seekers of Darkness]])
The overall antagonist of the series, and with the exceptions of ''Chain of Memories'' and ''coded'', a Xehanort is always the main enemy of the individual games. It is important to specify "a" Xehanort, because there are several Xehanorts in the series as well as various alternate incarnations of Xehanort that go by different names. However, they are ultimately all different aspects of the same being, and they all aspire to more or less the same goal: to claim the power of Kingdom Hearts and unravel the mysteries of the universe, even if they have to destroy that universe to find the answers they crave.

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* {{Badass}}: A LightningBruiser MagicKnight with [[CastingAShadow the powers of darkness]] who occasionally swaps out his [[CoolKey Keyblade]] for DualWielding {{Laser Blade}}s or a terrifying [[GuardianEntity Shadow Monster]]. In whatever incarnation he appears, Xehanort is always awesome.
** BadassBaritone: Always has a very deep voice, with the exception his incarnation in ''3D'', but even then only in Japanese--the English voice plays this straight.
** BadassLongcoat: Even his {{Black Cloak}}s are Badass Longcoats.
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: According to the press release blurb for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', Xehanort(s) believes the scales are too tipped in light's favor, motivating his darkness-based plot.
* BigBad: Of the series, and nearly every game.
** [[HijackedByGanon Hijacked By Xehanort]]: Has been behind the events of every game to date, with the exception of ''coded'', but his involvement is generally only revealed partway through a given game.
** ArcVillain: Because WordOfGod states that ''KHIII'' will not be the end of the series, only the GrandFinale of the Xehanort Saga, this is what Xehanort will ultimately end up as come the next installment.
* BlackMagic[=/=]CastingAShadow: Prefers using dark magic, though certain incarnations lean on it more heavily than others. [[spoiler:Averted only by Young Xehanort, who hasn't given into the darkness like his older incarnations.]]
* BodySurf: [[spoiler:Xehanort has transferred pieces of his heart into over a dozen different bodies, including Terra, most of the members of the True Organization XIII, and temporarily Riku. Also, he can surf between the bodies of the True Organization XIII at will, owing to the mechanics of TimeTravel.]]
* TheChessmaster: He's very good at setting up overarcing schemes.
* DarkIsEvil: While the series as a whole explains DarkIsNotEvil, Xehanort is a practitioner of dark powers, tempts others to darkness to weaken their hearts, and considers darkness a source of true power and knowledge.
* DarthVaderClone: Not as obvious as some, but its there. Young kid who wanted to leave his quiet little home to explore other worlds? Check. Delved too heavily into darkness and became a FallenHero? Check. Wears a black cloak and a booming voice? Check. [[spoiler:There's also the blue Ethereal Blades wielded by Young Xehanort prior to his descent to villainy, while Xemnas's blades are red]]. Master Xehanort in turn takes some cues with Palpatine with his manipulations of Terra and him hiding his true nature as the villain behind everything.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Though Master Xehanort is calm and collected, his other incarnations are far more prone to fits of rage and total insanity.
* EvilMentor: If a Xehanort ''ever'' tries to help you or give advice, never, ''ever'', listen. Terra and Riku had to learn this lesson the hard way.
* EvilSorceror[=/=]MadScientist: Regularly uses both [[{{Magitek}} machines and magic]] to [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment on and learn to control people's hearts]]. Each incarnation leans more to one or the other on an individual basis, Master Xehanort being a pure sorceror while his alter-egos combine the two in their own ways.
* EvilSoundsDeep: As mentioned under Badass Baritone, all of the Xehanorts are given deep voices, with the exception of his ''3D'' incarnation's Japanese voice.
* EvilCounterpart: To [[TheHero Sora]], as an evil [[TheChosenOne keyblade wielder]] from [[SmallTownBoredom Destiny Islands]] with [[AlternateSelf multiple incarnations]].
** ShadowArchetype: To Riku, who also lost himself in darkness in pursuit of his ambitions, but has since managed to pull himself back and maintain his sense of morals. Ansem shifting to being Riku's ArchEnemy[=/=]EnemyWithout exemplifies this.
* EvilPlan: Always wants to get his hands on [[MacGuffin Kingdom Hearts]] by [[PoweredByAForsakenChild sacrificing a bunch of innocent people]].
* TheFaceless: His face is always hidden behind a hood or a turned back or a shadow the first time you see him.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His incarnations are all faily polite and well-spoken, which makes their highly manipulative natures that much creepier. His new incarnation in ''3D'' particularly acts friendly and personable, even while [[spoiler:planning to make Sora the 13th vessel for Xehanort]].
* ForScience: The key trait of Xehanort is that he isn't interested in power and conquest just for the sake of power and conquest, he wants to understand the mysteries of life and the universe, even if his pursuit of these answers would cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. The Ansem Reports in the first game particularly emphasize this, being written in the form of a researcher conducting experiments, jotting down observations and forming hypotheses based on what he sees. Eraqus sums it up well in ''Birth By Sleep'':
-->'''Eraqus:''' "You would risk an apocalypse out of sheer curiosity?!"
* AGodAmI: Wants the power and knowledge of [[MacGuffin Kingdom Hearts]] to become a PhysicalGod and remake the universe in his image.
** InTheirOwnImage
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was initially just a boy on Destiny Islands with [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitions]] of leaving. He then became the universe's biggest threat since the [[WorldSundering Keyblade Wars]].
* HadesShaded: The Xehanorts all have dark skin as a result of their descent into darkness. Ansem and Xemnas, being the deepest divers as a Heartless and Nobody, are AmbiguouslyBrown in some depictions.
* IHaveManyNames: Xehanort, Master Xehanort, Xemnas, Ansem, No Heart, [[spoiler:Terra, Xigbar, and Saix]].
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Inevitably [[{{Infodump}} explains his entire plan to the heroes]]. Unfortunately for the heroes, this quirk has yet to work against him. He even starts exploiting this in later titles to MindRape and [[IShallTauntYou screw with]] his enemies.
* KnightOfCerebus: Whenever a Xehanort shows up, the current game tends to become much darker in tone. Master Xehanort naturally reigns as this within the Xehanorts, his arrival to the franchise in ''Birth By Sleep'' [[spoiler:beginning an ArcWelding that has tied the stories of the series together as a GambitRoulette of his to enact a plan more ambitious than any of his previous ones.]]
* LackOfEmpathy[=/=]TheSociopath: Although this seems to have been augmented by [[TheDarkSide corruption by darkness]], all Xehanorts have issues empathizing with others. Ironically, Master Xehanort is the only one to show the slightest hints of compassion and caring, towards Eraqus and Ven.
* LargeHam: Master Xehanort even provides [[LargeHam/VideoGames the page image]]. Every Xehanort is prone to grandiose, long-winded speeches, often complete with dramatic hand gestures, and in battle they spout over-the-top BossBanter at the top of their lungs. Choice topics for the two include the nature of darkness, power, hearts, nothingness, and [[MemeticMutation SUBMIT]] and similar commands. Here's a sampling of each of them.
-->'''Ansem:''' Darkness conquers all worlds! \\
'''Xemnas:''' Anger and hate are supreme! \\
'''Master Xehanort:''' You see how ''powerless'' you are to save them? Savor that rage and despair! Let it empower you! \\
'''[[spoiler:Terra-]]Xehanort:''' I will guide you to the depths of darkness!
** EvilIsHammy: While played straight, there's also an interesting inversion. [[spoiler:Young Xehanort is a younger Master Xehanort who has not yet turned evil and borders on PunchClockVillain. He's comparatively muted and calm and in battle continues being very quiet, making him a case of AmbiguouslyEvil Is Not Hammy.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Xehanort never shows any remorse or hesitation in his actions, no matter how many innocents suffer for it.
* LegacyCharacter: The Xehanorts all share very similar appearances, outfits, personalities and goals, while fighting style varies but there are definitely repeated themes. Justified in that they're all the same person in various alternate incarnations.
* MadScientist: His sole motivation for trying to unlock Kingdom Hearts is simply ForScience.
* MagicKnight: Every incarnation is very skilled with both melee weapons and magic.
* ManipulativeBastard: He is a master at getting other people to help him whether they know it or not.
* [[spoiler:MesACrowd: Eventually has 13 different incarnations through the use of TimeTravel, LiteralSplitPersonality, and GrandTheftMe.]]
* [[TheManBehindTheMonsters The Men Behind The Monsters]]: Emblem Heartless, Nobodies, Nightmare Dream Eaters, and Unversed originate and, except the latter, are led by some form of Xehanort. The Dream Eaters were indirectly created by Ansem as a result of some of the Heartless-attacked worlds remaining submerged in sleep.
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Every time Xehanort speaks, he can never seem to ''keep his arms or hands still''.
* ObviouslyEvil: Between the [[WhiteHairBlackHeart silver hair]], [[SupernaturalGoldEyes yellow eyes]], and [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver black and red clothing]], it's pretty clear he's a villain. Master Xehanort, in particular, takes this trope and not only runs with it, but goes ''Gummi Ship flying'' with it.
* OneSteveLimit: Played with back and forth. Early in the series there were several people with the name "Ansem" and "Xehanort", but it's now known that all of the latter are the same person in different forms, while with the former, a few people have just stolen the name as an alias and there is only one actual Ansem. This has lead to a few of them being given in-universe titles or {{Fan Nickname}}s to refer to them separately.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Has created and cultivated three separate races of monsters that have terrorized the universe, and has threatened an apocalypse on several occasions. Not to mention the personal tragedies he brings to the heroes....
* PointyEars: Every incarnation, [[EvilMakesYouUgly due to corruption by darkness]], [[spoiler:other than the uncorrupted Young Xehanort.]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Xehanort's plans to get [[MacGuffin Kingdom Hearts]] revolve around sacrificing others in horrible ways.
** Ansem uses the pure hearts of seven young women to try and create a portal to Kingdom Hearts.
** Xemnas makes a fake Kingdom Hearts by combining the hearts from thousands of Heartless.
** Master Xehanort tries to summon Kingdom Hearts by splitting a single person into [[EnemyWithout pure light and pure darkness]], and then making one consume the other.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Master Xehanort's black and red cloak, passed on to Ansem, and Xemnas's BlackCloak and red Etheral Blades.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: Master Xehanort is voiced by Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka, while [[spoiler:Terra-]]Xehanort and "Ansem" are voiced by his son, AkioOhtsuka.
* SeekerArchetype: A villainous example. All his incarnations seek to understand the true nature of their world, only to cross the MoralEventHorizon in search of it. [[spoiler:They even go by the moniker "the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness"]]
* SignificantAnagram: [[WordOfGod Nomura]] chose the name Xehanort because without the X it was an anagram of both "Another" and "No Heart", referring to Xehanort's many alter-egos and his lack of morality and empathy.
** [[spoiler:Although likely unintentional, there is also "No Earth", relating to his GrandTheftMe of Terra.]]
* SoulJar: Every Xehanort holds some fragment of Master Xehanort's heart.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: His natural eye color, [[spoiler:which is also given to his assimilated hosts]].
* TeleportSpam: Always makes use of FlashStep or [[OurWormholesAreDifferent dark portal]] teleport attacks.
* ThinkingUpPortals: All of Xehanort's incarnations have access to [[OurWormholesAreDifferent Corridors]] [[CastingAShadow of]] [[BlackMagic Darkness]].
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [[spoiler:His incarnations have been trying to form a group of thirteen of themselves for more than the past decade to have the "Darkness" half of the χ-Blade.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Because of {{Retcon}}s his [[EncyclopediaExposita reports]] rarely have any factual information by the time the next game is released.
* VisionaryVillain: He may have some roundabout and cruel methods, but everything Xehanort does is in the name of finding Kingdom Hearts and recreating the universe as he sees fit. [[spoiler:''3D'' reveals that even Ansem and Xemnas were just working on a very complex scheme laid out by Master Xehanort that ultimately leads back to this goal]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: If someone has silver hair, they either (a) have some relation to/contact with Xehanort, or (b) are Sephiroth. ''Yes''. The only exception is Master Xehanort, as he's bald from age; even then, he still has a silver goatee. Now that's ''dedication'' to the trope.
* WouldHurtAChild: Has no qualms about physically or [[MindRape psychologically]] assaulting youngsters such as Ven or Sora (though to be fair, these are [[TheChosenOne Keyblade wielders]] and [[{{Badass}} not exactly helpless]]).
* XMakesAnythingCool: Xehanort's X is a recurring motif for him, passed on to the Organization.
** LetXBeTheUnknown: Uses X in his names and iconography, including the names given to the member of [[Characters/KingdomHeartsOrganizationXIII the Organization XIII]]. This stems from Master Xehanort's obsession with the χ-blade. [[spoiler:They're also a "Recusant's Sigil" that marks the bearer as Xehanort's property and a potential vessel for his heart.]]
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[[folder:Master Xehanort]]
!Master Xehanort
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[[caption-width-right:235: "Destiny is never left to chance."]]
->"We know so little about the Keyblade War -- only that it was just the beginning. Amidst that crisis a precious light was found. It is a curious tale -- and one worth exploring. They say ruin brings about creation. So what, then, would another Keyblade War bring? When the darkness falls, will we be found worthy of the precious light the legend speaks of? I must have these answers."

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka (Japanese), Creator/LeonardNimoy (English)

An elderly Keyblade Master, he was once a noble and wise man, if somewhat shifty. However, in his quest to unravel the mysteries of the Keyblade and its role in the fate of the worlds, he delved too deep into darkness and now seeks the power of Kingdom Hearts to cause an apocalypse ForScience. He's effectively the BigBad of the franchise, as his schemes and his various incarnations fuel the main conflicts behind almost every game.
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* [[AbusiveParents Abusive]] ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: Toward [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Ven]], Xehanort's original apprentice. As well as Vanitas in the novelization.]]
* AnimatedArmor: His armor, the BonusBoss No Heart.
* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler: Could be considered one to Terra, at least starting late in ''BirthBySleep''.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Is reborn as a human in ''Dream Drop Distance'', after the destruction of his Heartless and Nobody in the previous games.]]
* BadassGrandpa: He's the oldest original character seen in the series so far, and is easily one of the most powerful characters yet.
* BaldOfEvil: Has gone bald from age after descending into darkness.
* BeardOfEvil: His only hair left is a silver goatee.
* BigBad: Of ''Birth By Sleep'', and as the original Xehanort (sharing this position with [[spoiler:Young Xehanort]]), the franchise itself.
** BiggerBad: Of the earlier games, through his incarnations carrying out his plans.
* [[spoiler:CainAndAbel]]: He mentions several times in his writings that he considers Eraqus a brother. [[spoiler:And yet he murders Eraqus in ''Birth By Sleep''.]]
* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/LeonardNimoy, best known as [[TheSpock Spock Prime]] of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', in the English release.
* TheChessmaster: Plays everyone in ''Birth By Sleep''. [[spoiler:Everything Ansem and Xemnas did was also part of his plan to create 13 avatars and start a second [[{{Gotterdammerung}} Keyblade War]]]].
* CombatTropes
** [[{{BFS}} BFK]]: His [[http://www.khwiki.net/images/f/ff/Master_Xehanort%27s_Keyblade_KHBBS.png Keyblade]] is one of the larger ones.
*** AnAxeToGrind: Its curved blade and spiked shaft give it this appearance. Impressive, considering his age and bodily weakness.
*** EvilWeapon: His keyblade is an expression of the evil inside his own heart.
*** MorphWeapon: His Keyblade can become a floating shield, body armor, and a set of wings. [[spoiler:As of Dream Drop Distance, it can even [[EvilCounterpart be used with different Keychains]] by different members of the True Organization XIII to have different Keyblade variants.]]
** ElementalPowers:
*** AnIcePerson: Has a preference for ice -- he freezes Ven, tosses out Blizzard attacks in battle, and ends his Keyblade combos in a blast of ice.
*** BlowYouAway: His StormOfBlades in the Keyblade Graveyard in ''Birth By Sleep'' seems to be through the use of wind and the Keyblades littering the battlefield.
*** DishingOutDirt: Can raise massive pillars of earth to launch opponents into the air or separate them from their allies.
*** ShockAndAwe: Calls down lightning strikes.
** FlashStep: Uses short range SuperSpeed for his form of TeleportSpam.
** KungFuWizard: Even as an old man possesses SuperStrength and a vast array of [[BlackMagic dark magic]].
** SquishyWizard: Being an old man, he's rather slow and prefers to use magic from afar while [[VillainTeleportation teleporting to avoid you]].
** StormOfBlades: Can summon a barrage of keyblades to launch at opponents.
** SuperStrength: Despite being a SquishyWizard, he's strong enough to damage Ven's PowerArmor and hold off [[MightyGlacier Terra's]] attacks with one hand.
* CrazyPrepared: Managed to plan for his various incarnations defeats in ''every single game of the series''.
* TheDeterminator: He will do ''anything'' to obtain the power and knowledge of [[MacGuffin Kingdom Hearts]].
* EvilCounterpart: To fellow Keyblade Master Eraqus, as well as Sora and Riku.
* EvilLaugh: As a battle quote and in cutscenes, both laughing out loud and chuckling evilly.
* EvilMentor: Toward [[spoiler: Ventus]] in the backstory, and toward Terra during the course of ''BirthBySleep''.
* EvilOldFolks: The oldest character seen so far is one of the most sinister and evil.
* FallenHero: He was once a great Keyblade Master, but he's become one of the most dangerous foes to the worlds that Keyblade Masters are supposed to protect.
* GambitRoulette: [[spoiler:Everything Ansem and Xemnas did was planned out in advance by him. Further, Maleficent, Sora, Riku and most of Organization XIII were all {{Unwitting Pawn}}s in his plans.]]
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:He took his failed attempt to gather the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness in ''3D'' fairly well. Of course, the fact that he plans on trying again helps.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Transfers his heart and mind into Terra's body at the end of ''Birth By Sleep''.]]
* INeedYouStronger: Keeps forcing Terra to use the power of darkness [[spoiler:in order for it to corrode Terra's heart enough for Master Xehanort to [[GrandTheftMe take over his body]].]]
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Terra then uses ThePowerOfHate to turn into AnimatedArmor and kick the crap out of the new Terra-Xehanort]].
* IWasQuiteALooker: Despite being a pretty boy and TallDarkAndHandsome most of his life, he ends up a [[EvilOldFolks creepy]] old [[BaldOfEvil bald]] man.
** This [[EpilepticTrees might]] be due to [[EvilMakesYouUgly corruption by darkness.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Kills Eraqus and destroys the Land of Departure, then [[EvilGloating gloats]] about it to Terra.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Feels no remorse for all the evil he's done or lives he's destroyed. Case in point: when Mickey chews him out for what he did to Terra, Ven, and Aqua, he brushes it off as a case of BecauseDestinySaysSo and that he merely helped them reach their destinies that much quicker. [[SarcasmMode Rrrright...]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Xehanort".
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: [[spoiler:He created Vanitas, the source of all Unversed.]]
* TheMaster
* MasterSwordsman: As shown [[spoiler:when a full-memory Terra-Xehanort and when in a VillainOverride of his younger self in ''Birth By Sleep'' and ''Dream Drop Distance'' respectively]], he wasn't named a Keyblade Master on magical prowess alone.
* MeaningfulName: The "[[TheMaster Master]]" title, as the original version of Xehanort, a Keyblade Master and [[spoiler:leader of the True Organization XIII]].
* NotHelpingYourCase: Certainly reinforces Eraqus's negative views about Darkness.
* OldMaster: In ''Birth By Sleep'' he's SquishyWizard who prefers to attack with magic from afar. However, as shown by [[spoiler:Terra-Xehanort and Young Xehanort]], he has all the power and skill of any other Keyblade Master shown in the series. He's just held back by his old and feeble body.
* PetTheDog:
** His reports show he was a far cry from an evil mastermind even a few years before the events of ''BBS'', and that he seriously considered just quietly living out his final years in peace.
--->'''Report VIII:''' "Ordinarily, Keyblade Masters take pupils under their wings, malleable minds in which to impress the precepts of the Keyblade wielder and keep our profession alive for generations to come. Was my time drawing to an end, then, after all I had accomplished since casting away the place of my birth? Surely waiting for a quiet death would not do, not when there was still so much I needed to see for myself. Powers help me, I thought, [[{{Foreshadowing}} my body is so old...]]"
** [[spoiler:He also took Ven to Destiny Islands after the creation of Vanitas to let him live out his final days peacefully before falling into an eternal coma.]]
* PowerGivesYouWings: His armor, [[BonusBoss No Heart]].
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Vanitas' red.
* RuleOfSymbolism: His Keyblade Armor is bright white with feather motifs, and his Keyblade Glider is a set of wings to play up comparisons to {{Fallen Angel}}s like {{Satan}}.
* SlouchOfVillainy: [[spoiler:Gets a magnificent one in ''Dream Drop Distance'', complete with propping his hand on his fist and folding his leg up onto his knee]].
* TheSociopath: Began as WellIntentionedExtremist, but suffered MotiveDecay till he became only interested in acquiring knowledge and power by whatever means.
* StartOfDarkness: Xehanort would have been just another youth looking for an escape from his home [[EvilCounterpart much like Riku]] [[spoiler:if not for the intervention of his Heartless Ansem who had travelled back in time to facilitate his escape. Which means Xehanort was responsible for ''his own'' StartOfDarkness.]]
* [[spoiler:ThanatosGambit: Xehanort lets Terra beat him into submission [[SecretTestOfCharacter to see if Terra is now strong enough to be a worthy vessel]].]]
-->'''Xehanort''': Only now, have I truly won...
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler: This is what separates him most from [[StarWars Palpatine]], who [[RuleOfTwo genuinely wanted a dark apprentice]]. Xehanort, on the other hand, is lying to Terra [[GrandTheftMe to steal his body.]]]]
* TheUnfettered
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He once believed that the universe was too full of light and believed [[OrderVersusChaos a balance between light and darkness]] was the way for a perfect world to exist. His solution -- begin a Keyblade War to engulf the worlds in darkness, and when he wins and claims the power of Kingdom Hearts, he can remake it in his image of balance. However, he's since become DrunkOnTheDarkSide, and his only goal these days is power and knowledge for the sake of having them.
** Well, to be fair his original goal had these as a prerequisite/sub-goals. Kinda can't do the whole balance schtick without enough power and knowledge. He still plans on balancing out the worlds and order of light and darkness, whatever the cost, but he knows that he needs enough power and knowledge to attempt it.
* WorthyOpponent: Considers [[BigGood Mickey Mouse]] this, instead of just another tool for him to use.
* [[XanatosGambit Xehanort Gambit]]: [[spoiler:If "Ansem" and Xemnas find the real Kingdom Hearts, Master Xehanort wins. If they're killed instead, Master Xehanort gets to come BackFromTheDead and finish the job himself.]]
* [[XanatosSpeedChess Xehanort Speed Chess]]: He's virtually a master of it [[spoiler:considering that his incarnations are near or about the same level of [[CrazyPrepared scheming]] that he has.]]
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[[folder:Xehanort]]
![[spoiler:Terra-]]Xehanort
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[[caption-width-right:200: "I will guide you to the depths of darkness!"]]
[[caption-width-right:200:Click [[labelnote:here]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Terra-Xehanort_1343.png[[/labelnote]] to see Xehanort as he appears in Birth By Sleep (spoiler warning)]]

->"The Heartless feed on other's hearts, and they yearn for that energy core. That thing beyond the door must be a heart, too—the heart of this world. There is no proof, but, having felt that immense energy, I am certain. That was the heart of the world."

-->'''Voiced by:''' AkioOhtsuka (Japanese), RichardEpcar (English)

A young man that was found in Radiant Garden in the aftermath of a great battle between several Keyblade wielders, bearing no memories but his name. Ansem nursed him back to health and took him on as an apprentice, but he quickly became obsessed with TheHeartless and Kingdom Hearts, and cast Ansem into the Realm of Darkness and became a Heartless and Nobody to delve deeper into the powers of darkness than his human form would allow. His backstory was a mystery until ''Birth By Sleep'', which explains it in full, revealing his connection to Master Xehanort and his true role in the larger story of the series.

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* BadassArmfold: His pose when commanding [[GuardianEntity the Guardian]].
* CombatTropes
** {{BFG}}: [[spoiler:Ultima Cannon]].
** [[{{BFS}} BFK]]: Uses a big Keyblade. [[spoiler:Master Xehanort's, in fact]].
** BladeSpam: Uses long Keyblade combos, based on [[spoiler:Terra's Ars Solum and Dark Impulse]].
** ColonyDrop: Meteor.
** DashAttack: [[spoiler:Dark Haze, which replaces Terra's Slide-Sonic Impact.]]
** DishingOutDirt: Quake.
** GetBackHereBoss: Dashes around and is immune to damage after you use a special attack like magic or a shotlock. This makes him very hard to pin down without relying on physical attacks or a block-counter strategy.
** GuardianEntity: The Guardian, a Heartless born from the darkness in his heart.
** LightningBruiser: [[spoiler:Has [[MightyGlacier Terra's]] power and vitality combined with [[OldMaster Master Xehanort's]] experience and training]].
** MagicKnight: Uses both Keyblade combos and magic with no preference for either, though his Keyblade strikes are stronger.
** MagicMissileStorm: [[spoiler:Dark Volley.]]
** MirrorBoss: [[spoiler:All of his attacks are taken from Terra, including Block-Counter Hammer, Ars Solum, his Dark Impulse combo, Dark Volley, Ultima Cannon, and a variant of Meteor.]]
** NoCureForEvil: Averted, he has Curaga.
** TrueFinalBoss: Of ''Birth By Sleep'', averted in ''Final Mix'' though.
* DeceptiveDisciple: Perverted the research of his mentor Ansem for evil purposes.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: His experiments on the TheHeartless helped turn them into an entire army of darkness.
* FanNickname: [[spoiler: Terranort.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Master Xehanort's heart with Terra's body.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Had his memories locked away [[spoiler:[[FightingFromTheInside by Terra at the end of]] VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep to prevent Master Xehanort from controlling his body]]. Unfortunately, the memories eventually start coming back. Also [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Braig.
-->'''Braig:''' Please tell me the amnesia was just a sick joke. Boy, this is some cliché."
* LiteralSplitPersonality: Was eventually split into "Ansem" and Xemnas. Xemnas kept his more hands-on combat style [[spoiler:and is hinted to retain some of Terra's devotion to Ven and Aqua]], while "Ansem" kept the Guardian and his magical prowess, [[spoiler:as well as Master Xehanort's outfit]]. Additionally, Ansem believes in the power of darkness while Xemnas believes in ThePowerOfHate, [[spoiler:also reflecting Master Xehanort and Terra.]]
* LivingShadow: His GuardianEntity.
* LossOfIdentity: Originally, he was said to be motivated to understand the nature of hearts by his own lack of memories of who he is. ''3D'' revealed that [[spoiler:he was actually just following the plans Master Xehanort had set in place in case he had to seal his heart.]]
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: Created the crest Heartless and brought countless wild ones into the Realm of Light as well.
* MeaningfulRename: Changed his name to Ansem after banishing his former mentor and taking over his kingdom.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler:Despite Master Xehanort using an entirely different style of fighting from Terra, once he takes over Terra's body he exclusively uses Terra's attacks, and even uses the same battle stance as Terra. May be due to him not having time to become accustomed to this new body so he goes with what's familiar to it. ([[LightningBruiser Not that it doesn't work]])]]
* MonsterSobStory: Became obsessed with the workings of the heart because of his lost memories, and it lead to him doing increasingly amoral experiments to try and understand them. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Dream Drop Distance'', where it is revealed this was actually because Master Xehanort was slowly taking back over.]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Turned himself into a Heartless and a Nobody so he could acquire more power and [[spoiler:[[AllAccordingToPlan further Master Xehanort's plan]]]].
* MysteriousPast: His past is unclear till ''Birth by Sleep'' [[spoiler:where it's revealed he's [[FallenHero Terra]] after the original Xehanort [[GrandTheftMe took over his body]].]]
* NeckLift: Tries to choke Aqua to death at the end of ''Birth By Sleep''.
* OminousLatinChanting[=/=]OminousPipeOrgan: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhYdzHZ1Vo Dismiss]]", his second battle theme in ''Birth By Sleep''.
** BossRemix: Contains fragments of character themes.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: Is voiced by AkioOhtsuka in the Japanese version, son of Master Xehanort's japanese voice actor Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka.
* {{Retcon}}: [[spoiler:The reports he wrote directly contradict his time travel plot.]]
** [[spoiler:Maybe not. While he definitely got some of Xehanort's memories back, he may not have gotten all of them.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:After all, he is Master Xehanort.]]
* StartOfDarkness: ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts/BirthBySleep'' - though it's more detailed in the "Ansem Reports" of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts1''.
* ThatManIsDead: "[[spoiler:Terra's heart has been extinguished! Smothered by the darkness within him!]]"
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Inverted -- when it comes time to fight him with [[spoiler:Lingering Will]] in ''Birth By Sleep'', the music for the fight is [[spoiler:Rage Awakened, the Will's theme]]. Which accurately reflects [[ThePowerOfHate what's]] [[UnstoppableRage about]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge to happen]].
* VillainousBreakdown: The only time he loses his cool in ''Birth By Sleep'' is when [[spoiler:the Lingering Will forms, prompting a snarl of protest. In the subsequent battle he begins by walking towards the Will slowly, attacking with a few Dark Volley shots and blocking attacks, but as the battle wears on he begins rapidly teleporting, cranks "a few" Dark Volleys into BeamSpam, and begins using Ars Solum liberally.]] Best summed up by this quote:
--> [[spoiler:"Your body submits. Your heart succumbs! So why does your mind ''resist?!''"]]
* VoicesAreMental: As covered under RelationshipVoiceActor, Xehanort is voiced by the son of Master Xehanort's voice actor in the Japanese version. The intended effect is presumably to be that the two characters have the same, but age-affected, voice.
* WalkingWasteland: His presence in Radient Garden causes an aura of darkness around the world, and while it may just be the time of day there, it's also nighttime when the player investigates.
* WouldHitAGirl: Ask Aqua.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Ansem"]]
!"Ansem", the Seeker of Darkness (Xehanort's Heartless)
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[[caption-width-right:325:"So, you have come this far, and still you understand nothing. Every light must fade, every heart return to darkness!"]]
->"All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it, grows, consumes it. Such is its nature. In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came."
-->Voiced by: AkioOhtsuka (Japanese), Billy Zane[=/=]RichardEpcar (English)

Xehanort's Heartless who kept the alias "Ansem" that Xehanort himself took. He was the driving force behind the Disney villains's search for the Princesses of Heart, and uses Riku as a vessel to try and obtain the power of Kingdom Hearts. Uniquely for a Heartless, he retains the memories, appearance, and personality of his original self, Xehanort.

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* AGodAmI: Wishes to access Kingdom Hearts to use as a source of ultimate knowledge and power.
* ArchEnemy: Is treated as Riku's after [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts the first game]].
* 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.]]
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead]]: You'd think that [[spoiler:Riku getting purged of him at the end of ''II'' would finally do him in, but nooooo. While 3D ends with him and Xemnas returning to their own times, Master Xehanort still needs them for his grand final battle.]]
* BadassArmFold: His default posture while fighting with his Guardian.
* BadassLongCoat: The original example of the series, before all the Xehanorts began wearing them.
** NoShirtLongJacket: Well two coats undone anyway.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:He gets what he wants and obtains Kingdom Hearts's power in the end. Unfortunately for him, it turns out to be ''light'' power, not dark power like he thought it was, and he basically implodes as a result.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Maleficent, though Ansem is [[TheManBehindTheMan the bigger Bad.]]
* BishonenLine: The most powerful Heartless in the series (so far) appears completely human and is fully intelligent instead of being a creature of instinct.
* [[BlackCloak Brown Cloak]]: After destroying Radiant Garden, he unlocked his own heart to traverse worlds and gain more knowledge. Until he possessed Riku, his Heartess could only appear as a hooded figure in a brown cloak with a creepy voice. [[spoiler: It turns out the journey also involved ''TimeTravel'', which required him to give up his "physical existence".]]
* CelestialBody: [[spoiler:His Guardian in his second form in ''[=3D=]'']].
* TheChessmaster: Masterminded the entire plot of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts''
* ChewingTheScenery: Good Lord, once he gains a body of his own, every scene he's in feels like it's being torn apart between his teeth, even the ones where he doesn't have a face!
--> '''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis KINGDOM HEARTS! FILL ME... WITH THE POWER... OF DARKNESS]]!!!"'''
** Let's put it this way. He [[HamToHamCombat features in the same game as a number of]] Disney Villains, whose [[LargeHam hamminess]] is the stuff of legend, ''and he manages to out-ham them ALL.''
* [[spoiler:CoDragons: He and Xemnas seem to be this in Master Xehanort's True Organization XIII, being his left and right hand men.]]
** [[spoiler:DemotedToDragon]]
* CombatTropes
** AirJousting: His Dark Rush Attack.
** BlackMagic[=/=]CastingAShadow: All of his attacks.
** BarrierWarrior: Uses both his Guardian and magical barriers offensively.
** DeadlyDisc: Most of his battles involve shooting these at you.
** EnergyBall: Another common attack of his Guardian. His final form in [[spoiler:In ''3D'' he uses a very powerful version for his desperation attack.]]
** FightingSpirit: The guardian itself is invincible and more or less a this for Ansem.
** DoubleWeapon: His final form uses a lance resembling two huge Soul Eaters fused together.
** FusionDance: With the Guardian for his final forms.
** FrickinLaserBeams: Summons {{Energy Ball}}s which fire them.
** GuardianEntity: "Come, Guardian!" His entire fighting style involves it in some way (except for his final form's spear).
** PowerFloats: He's always floating around in combat, and is usually only shown standing on the ground in cutscenes.
** SizeShifter: He's absolutely enormous for his final battle in the first game.
** SphereOfPower: [[spoiler: In his new battle phase in ''3D'' his Guardian becomes one.]]
** SphereOfDestruction: [[spoiler:His new attack in ''3D'' is to trap you in one.]]
** SquishyWizard: Ansem almost never fights directly, relying on the Guardian to attack for him while he floats around, occasionally summoning it to defend him. He is also far and away the most magically-inclined of the Xehanorts.
** TeleportSpam: Ansem does this with his Guardian for his Dark Shadow attack, sending him into a portal into the ground and rising and [[{{Shoryuken}} uppercutting the enemy]].
* TheCorrupter: Manages to not only be this to Riku for ''Kingdom Hearts'', but also to [[spoiler:Young Xehanort, through the use of TimeTravel to impose his own StartOfDarkness]].
* CreepyMonotone: Earlier in the game when he was wearing a brown cloak and wasn't wolfing down scenery.
* DemonicPossession: Of Riku in part of ''Kingdom Hearts'' and once in ''Chain of Memories''.
* EnemyWithin: To Riku from ''Chain of Memories'' through the explosion of the Kingdom Hearts encoder in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
** [[spoiler:EnemyWithout: Acts like this to Riku in ''Dream Drop Distance''.]]
* EldritchAbomination: Being a Heartless and all.
** HumanoidAbomination: He's the only intelligent, fully-sentient Heartless we've seen thus far, though he only gets the "humanoid" part after possessing Riku.
** DramaticIrony: Not to mention [[{{Irony}} Cosmic and Historic]]. Considering that Terra, [[spoiler:who eventually became Xehanort]], wanted Riku to [[TakeUpMySword take up his sword]]...
* {{Flanderization}}: The first game presented Ansem as a misguided scientist that [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumped Off the Slippery Slope]] when his curiosity went too far. His experiments, while horrifyingly amoral, were done in the name of genuine scientific curiosity, and lead him to believe that all beings are born from darkness and darkness is the source of all power and knowledge. He encouraged Riku and Sora to accept this and open their hearts to darkness to be stronger, and was disappointed when Sora refused to believe him, declaring him ignorant. However, with the {{Retcon}} that this Ansem is an impostor who delved into darkness knowingly and the kindly ruler of Hollow Bastion that Leon and Aerith spoke of was someone else, he is cast in a more villainous light, and subsequent appearances play him up as a CardCarryingVillain in contrast to Xemnas's TragicVillain and Master Xehanort's WellIntentionedExtremist.
* GenreBlind: The seeker thought ''darkness'' was the source of all worlds ''in a '''Disney''' game''. You don't get much more GenreBlind than that.
* GlovedFistOfDoom: Even makes the usual pose with it a few times.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Kingdom Hearts, the so-called ultimate darkness he was searching for, turns out to be light, and ends up doing him in.
* KneelBeforeZod: Declares this to Riku when trying to tempt him back to darkness.
--> "You are weak. You need darkness. Surrender. Bow to darkness. Bow to me."
* {{Leitmotif}}: With the exception of the first game's final battle, any battle theme involving him opens with a series of six [[OminousPipeOrgan organ chords]].
* LargeHam: By far the largest within the entire series.
* TheMagnificent: Seeker of Darkness. [[BrickJoke This becomes far more relevant as the games go on.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Played both the villains and [[spoiler:Riku]] through their darkest desires.
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Maleficent
** TheManBehindTheMonsters: To the Emblem Heartless.
* LivingShadow: The Guardian.
* NoNameGiven: Sort of. This is the only Xehanort incarnation to not be given a proper name of his own, he's only ever referred to as Ansem or Xehanort's Heartless by other characters. His original title "the Seeker of Darkness" was discarded after the first game, but has persisted in the fandom for the sake of differentiating him from the other "Ansems" including the real thing.
* OmnicidalManiac
* OnlyMostlyDead: Even after being destroyed by ''Kingdom Hearts'', a small piece of himself was still alive in Riku. [[spoiler:It got purged in the sequel]].
* TheOtherDarrin: [[CelebrityVoiceActor Billy Zane]] in the first game, replaced with RichardEpcar from ''Kingdom Hearts II'' onward. This led to more [[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin Flashbacks With The Other Darrin]] in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
* RedBaron: The Seeker of Darkness. [[spoiler: Not exclusive to him.]]
* SequentialBoss: First you fight Ansem, then Ansem again, then a Darkside, then you fight Ansem attached to the World of Darkness before fighting the ship itself, then finally Ansem again.
* SignificantAnagram: Probably unintentional, but "nAmes" is surprisingly relevant [[spoiler:to anyone with the name Ansem; they all have more than one name]].
* ShirtlessScene: As the final boss of the first game. What a body.
** FanDisservice: He's quite the looker in the final battle, aside from [[spoiler: being connected to a gargantuan Eldritch Abomination battle ship with numerous fleshy chords]].
* TheSociopath: Literally heartless, not to mention it comes with the territory as an incarnation of Xehanort.
* StarterVillain: For the entire franchise. [[spoiler: Though he does return in later entries as well, alongside other villains, and suffering no VillainDecay in the process.]]
* TheStoic: Prior to possessing Riku, after which all bets are off and [[ChewingTheScenery no scenery will be left unchewed]]
* StrawNihilist: "All things begin in darkness, and all so end."
** BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: It should perhaps be noted that, as a Heartless, he probably sees that as a good thing.
* [[spoiler:TimeTravel: The reason for his [[BlackCloak Brown Cloak]] in ''Kingdom Hearts'', and also how he influenced the plot both in Xehanort's distant past and after his own destruction.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Most players agree that Ansem was not a terribly difficult final boss in Kingdom Hearts 1. For his return in [[KingdomHeartsDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]], on the other hand...[[spoiler:Ansem becomes a much, much harder fight than he ever used to be, effectively using projectiles and melee attacks together to make combos, having multiple phases that both have huge amounts of health, and in a display of CutscenePowerToTheMax, he subdues Riku almost effortlessly.]] That's quite a step up there.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Gets a rather subdued one in [[KingdomHeartsDreamDropDistance KH3D]] when Riku [[WeCanRuleTogether rejects his offer]] to embrace [[TheDarkSide the darkness]]. This is what triggers the boss battle.]]
* VocalEvolution: Richard Epcar's voice acting improved a lot between ''[=KH2=]'' and ''Re:[=COM=]'', although it's more like the vocal director gave him some breathing room instead of forcing him to try and out-ham Billy Zane with unsuccessful results. [[spoiler:He's also significantly better in ''Birth By Sleep'']].
** Also, Akio Ohtsuka himself was actually over-the-top hammy to an annoying level in the original Japanese version of ''Kingdom Hearts'', but also sounded a lot better in ''Re: [=COM=]''.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: As of ''3D'' Xehanort was given a completely new face to better resemble his other incarnations.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Kairi completes the Final Keyhole Ansem says this to her, which unfortunately for him was [[MoralityPet the one thing Riku wasn't willing to do]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Xemnas]]
!Xemnas
->''See Characters/KingdomHeartsOrganizationXIII''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Unknown]]
!The Unknown [[spoiler:(Young Xehanort)]]
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[[caption-width-right:236:"You haven't the slightest idea where you actually are."]]

->"Hypocrite. [[SoulJar You are the one who has made your heart a prison...]] [[MindHive Even if you are not the prisoner.]]"

-->Voiced by: Takanori Okuda (Japanese), David Gallagher (English, ''Birth By Sleep'') / BenDiskin (English, ''Dream Drop Distance'')

An enigmatic figure who appears out of thin air in ''Birth By Sleep'' to challenge the heroes in the Land of Departure as a BonusBoss. The Unknown's identity is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin completely unknown]] -- [[TheQuietOne he doesn't say a word]], and even the Keyblade he drops upon defeat is simply named "No Name". Despite the seemingly [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment random]] encounter, WordOfGod confirms that his battle with one of the trio is canon.

He reappears in ''Dream Drop Distance'' as the main antagonist, and is described as a being travelling worlds that causes beings of darkness to manifest in his wake. Unsurprisingly, he turns out to be another incarnation of Xehanort, working on another scheme to seize power.

Another "Unknown" is a BonusBoss in ''Kingdom Hearts Final Mix'', and is [[ChekhovsGunman eventually revealed]] to be Xemnas. This section, however, only refers to the ''Birth by Sleep''/''3D'' character.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: If you thought that Xemnas' claim to villainy was [[AmbiguousSituation hazy enough]], ''this guy's'' moral standing is even foggier. Everything, from his rather impersonal dealings with the heroes (remember, this is [[KickTheDog Xehanort]] we're talking about) to his reaction to [[spoiler:Sora's inquiry about him working with the new Organization (which prompts Young Xehanort to admit ''he doesn't even fully know'' what will come from aiding his various time-space continuum-displaced incarnations)]], casts a shadow on where he stands in relation to the others and even brings up the question of [[spoiler:how much of this is of his own accord in the first place]]. The storywriters clearly have ''something'' in mind, as Creator/BenDiskin [[http://www.khinsider.com/news/Exclusive-KHInsider-Interviews-Ben-Diskin-3022 has mentioned that]] he was deliberately instructed to ''not'' make the character sound stereotypically evil.
* [[spoiler:TheAssimilator]]: [[spoiler:His goal is to gather appropriate vessels to become Xehanort clones.]]
* BadassBaritone: In the English version, at least compared to his very youthful Japanese voice.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler:Not even Xehanort himself is above his manipulations -- Young Xehanort says that although he'll forget what he's learned of the future when he returns to his own time, the knowledge will remain in his heart and he will inevitably live out the life he is meant to lead to bring everything to this point. He also comments that a rule of time travel is that you cannot change events that are meant to happen, implying this to be in effect for the entire series.]]
* BerserkButton: In his ''Birth by Sleep fight'', trying to attack him while he's in the middle of his BeamSpam is a ''bad'' idea. He usually stands there and lets his beams do the work, but try and attack him and he decides to start attacking you again while the beams are still firing, and this will likely get you killed.
** 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]]. However, WordOfGod reveals that this may be more a BerserkButton of [[spoiler:Master Xehanort, who imposed VillainOverride on him and caused the personality change and enhanced power set]].
* {{Bishonen}}: While Ansem and Xemnas also apply, this one has the youthful face to go with it.
* BlackCloak: His only attire, as a throw-back to Xemnas's BonusBoss appearance.
* BonusBoss: In ''Birth by Sleep''.
* CallBack: In ''[=3D=]'', as he attempts to rewind time, you will be bombarded with attacks from his ''Birth by Sleep'' battle.
* ChekhovsGunman: First appears as a BonusBoss in ''Birth by Sleep''; his next appearance in ''Dream Drop Distance'' sees him as TheHeavy.
* CombatTropes
** [[{{BFS}} BFK]]: The keyblade associated with him, No Name. [[spoiler:His variation of the No Name in ''3D'' is even larger]].
*** CoolKey[[CoolSword blade]]: It's a laser-blade Keyblade with a clock motif. Doesn't get much cooler than that.
*** LaserBlade: ''Dual wielding'' laser blades! The Keyblade you get from him, No Name, is also essentially a LaserBlade [[CoolKey Key]][[CoolSword blade]]. [[spoiler:And then in ''3D'' he wields a variation of it over his laser blades for the first part of the battle with him.]]
*** MorphWeapon: Combines his separate blades into one, throws them out as orbs of light to shoot out like projectiles, elongates them to stab forward, and can whirl them through the air like a whip. [[spoiler:Also does many of the same tricks with his Keyblade in ''3D'']].
*** BifurcatedWeapon: Can combine them and separate them freely.
*** DoubleWeapon: When combined they form a dual-bladed weapon.
*** WhipSword: Can extend and lash his weapons out to ensnare opponents.
*** ReverseGrip: Holds his laser blades like this. [[spoiler:Not his Keyblade, however.]]
*** SwordBeam: Can fire them in ''3D''.
*** ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Does this during one of his combos.
** CrosshairAware: Go ahead, try to charge up your Shotlock and see just how aware of the crosshairs he is.
** DoppelgangerAttack: Summons four copies of himself in ''Birth By Sleep'' to attack you all at once. The clones vanish in one attack, if you can manage to get one in, because they're all going to attack at once and will not let up. The second phase of the fight in ''3D'' is a Doppelganger ''Battle'' -- [[spoiler:you can't actually damage Young Xehanort himself, you have to attack the clock emblem, which is producing a constant stream of clones to attack]].
** ElementalPowers
*** AnIcePerson: In ''3D'' he can fire ice shards at Riku
*** BlowYouAway: In ''Birth By Sleep'' he can use Whirlwind to the Void and knock away your commands.
*** PlayingWithFire: Can use Mega Flare and Raging Storm in ''Birth By Sleep'', and in ''3D'' he can use a fiery variation of Whirlwind to the Void in the second phase of his battle.
*** TimeMaster: He can avert NoCureForEvil by rewinding time to before you hit him. It even makes the background music go in reverse for a few seconds. [[spoiler:His desperation move in ''3D'' is this on a larger scale -- he rewinds the battle to the start of the fight, even replacing the intro cutscene over again to complete the illusion, but he only recovers two bars of health]]. He's also able to resist Mickey's fourth-level Stopza spell, which even Ansem and Xemnas are halted by - although this may have something to do with [[spoiler:Master Xehanort taking control of his body, given the fact that it's shortly after this that his Keyblade appears.]]
** LightningBruiser: He moves and teleports rapidly and hits with combos powerful enough to drain you from full health to critical.
** MagicMissileStorm: Can shoot barrages of darkness that will afflict you with Slow.
** MirrorBoss: Has many of the same commands as you such as [[ColonyDrop Meteor]], [[PlayingWithFire Raging Storm, Mega Flare]], Collision Magnet, Restore Barrier, Sonic Blade, Vanitas's X-shaped SwordBeam, Marluxia's Doom and Whirlwind to the Void, {{Laser Blade}}s like Xemnas, can clone himself like Xemnas, and in ''Dream Drop Distance'' he even [[spoiler:wields a Keyblade]]. ''Dream Drop Distance'' also justifies how he can do this, [[spoiler:since he's a young Xehanort that has visited multiple time periods to gather alter-egos of his future self. Notice most of those attacks can be used by people Xehanort has corrupted]].
** TurnsRed: When low on health in ''Birth by Sleep'' he'll turn invisible and will begin using multiple attacks at once. And then in ''3D'', he gets faster, teleports more often, and his attacks are harder to avoid.
* CreepyMonotone: Much like Ansem, he never raises his voice or shows much any emotion outside of facial expressions. Justified, as [[spoiler:he's taking part in events he's going to forget about once he's done, is doing things he's meant to do anyway, and probably doesn't fully understand what he's been told]] -- his emotional investment in things isn't much.
* FanNickname: Mysterious Figure, which is from the Brady Games ''Birth by Sleep'' guide. The name is unofficial, but persists in the fan community for the sake of distinction from the original Unknown.
** A handful of fans also refer to him as Soranort. Because at this point, he's bound to be related to one of them somehow. [[spoiler:Ironically his entire plan in ''3D'' is to create/[[GrandTheftMe become]] a literal "Soranort."]]
** As of the release of ''3D'', he's been referred to as Trollanort, [[spoiler:thanks to his affinity for playing literal mindgames and his bordering-on-unfair use of time control in his boss battle]]. Other variants include [[spoiler:Clockanort and [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure "TOKI WO TOMARE-nort"]]]].
* TheFatalist: His attitude regarding the BecauseDestinySaysSo entry above.
* FinalBoss: In ''3D''. The story hits its climax with his battle, the boss after is just a PostFinalBoss to tie up a final loose end, and is much easier to defeat while this guy is still up to ''BBS'' levels of power.
* TheHeavy: In ''Dream Drop Distance''.
* [[spoiler:HelpYourselfInTheFuture]]: [[spoiler:This is essentially what he's doing, helping his future self form the new Organization XIII advance his MesACrowd plot.]]
* InterfaceScrew:
** He can actually knock commands off of his opponent, who is forced to scramble to pick them up off the ground ''while dodging his attacks''.
** It's a bit unclear if it's actually intentional on the developers' part, but in ''[=3D=]'' his TeleportSpam is too fast for the camera to track at times, so if you're locked on it can seriously screw with your dodging.
* {{Invisibility}}: Has a penchant for going invisible and pulling out an instant KO combo.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[spoiler:"Xehanort -The Early Years-".]]
** BattleThemeMusic: "Dark Impetus" and "[[GratuitousItalian L'Impeto Oscuro]]."
* MindOverMatter: He force-pushes both Riku and Mickey at different points.
* MindRape: [[spoiler:Subjects poor Sora to this.]]
* MythologyGag: He's a thematic retraux of the Unknown BonusBoss from ''Kingdom Hearts Final Mix'', wielding similar weapons and appearing in a similar fashion, and like it foreshadowing the BigBad of the next game.
* PaintingTheMedium: He can knock the commands out of your menu, when he reverses time the music goes backwards too, and he teleports to avoid your targeting sensor when you try to use a Shotlock. And then in ''3D'' he can replay cutscenes.
* PunchClockVillain: In a certain sense of the word -- as far as he's concerned he's just doing what's destined to be done, and while such acts are evil, there's no malice in his demeanor. [[spoiler:And given that this is a teenaged Xehanort from before he [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumped Off The Slippery Slope]], how evil he was before Ansem told him about what he's going to end up becoming is up for discussion]].
* ShoutOut: During his Desperation move, he yells out [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure "TOKI WO TOMARE!"]]
* SNKBoss: He can clone himself, with all five clones able to attack individually, his "Colision Magnet" attack stuns you so the follow-up attack ''doesn't'' trigger Second Chance, can blow your command cards across the arena forcing you to pick them up, and any time you land a hit on him he may decide to rewind time to undo the damage and recover from the blow. This is in addition to his lightning-fast, powerful attacks. Then he gets weak, when he turns invisible, preventing you from targeting him, and begins to use multiple attacks at once, in addition to all of the previous.
* SpeedEchoes[=/=]TeleportSpam: During his battle in ''3D'' he'll teleport just as you initiate an attack, leaving an afterimage.
* [[spoiler:StableTimeLoop: It's implied he became able to move through the worlds and leave Destiny Islands because of Ansem, and though his memories of what he's learned regarding what his other incarnations will do will be erased when he returns to his own time, the knowledge of the events will remain embedded in his heart and draw him to live them out]].
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:His meeting with Ansem [=SoD=].]]
* ThemeSongReveal: According to WordOfGod, his theme "Dark Impetus" contains a clue to his identity. It seems to take elements from [[spoiler: "Rage Awakened" (Terra's Lingering Sentiment), "Darkness of the Unknown" (Xemnas' final battle theme in ''Kingdom Hearts II''), and "Lord of the Castle" (Marluxia's final battle theme in ''Re:Chain of Memories'').]] Which mostly all fits together when you learn he's [[spoiler:a younger Xehanort that orchestrates the re-creation of Organization XIII]].
* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Is a younger Master Xehanort traveled forward in time from the past.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: It's not much of a spoiler listing him here in the Xehanort section, since the trailers for ''Dream Drop Distance'' spoiled his status as yet another Xehanort by simply showing [[SupernaturalGoldEyes what]] [[WhiteHairBlackHeart he]] [[BlackCloak looks]] [[LegacyCharacter like]] -- it's just a matter of figuring out in what way. [[WordOfGod Tetsuya Nomura]] also spoiled a major plot twist near the end of the game by confirming outright that the white-haired figure in the black cloak was the ''Birth By Sleep'' BonusBoss.
* {{Troll}}: Most of his appearances throughout ''3D'' are him just appearing to taunt Sora and occasionally Riku before vanishing. [[spoiler:Turns out this is precisely the idea, since he's luring Sora deeper into his dream world in order to MindRape him.]] Also acts as this to the player, [[spoiler:constantly rewinding time to reset the battle with him and keep the fight going on longer and longer.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:He was very similar to Riku in his youth - just a boy tired of being stuck on Destiny Islands and wanting to see the world.]]
* VillainOverride: [[spoiler:[[AllThereInTheManual 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.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Others]]
![[spoiler:Braig / Xigbar]]
->''[[spoiler:See Characters/KingdomHeartsOrganizationXIII]]''

![[spoiler:Isa / Saix]]
->''[[spoiler:See Characters/KingdomHeartsOrganizationXIII]]''
[[/folder]]

!Unaffiliated
[[folder:Vanitas]]
!Vanitas
[[quoteright:235:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Vanitas.png]]
[[caption-width-right:235:"Oh grow up. Is that what you call friendship? You'll never learn the truth unless you go out and look for it yourself. Come on, what could you possibly know when you're stuck here, looking at nothing but what's in your tiny world?"]]
->"This χ-blade will open a door -- one that leads to all worlds! Then, Keyblade-bearing warriors will flock here from each and every one of them, to battle for the light within Kingdom Hearts! And just like the legend says, the Keyblade War will begin!"
-->Voiced by: [[spoiler:MiyuIrino (Japanese), Haley Joel Osment (English)]]

The mysterious masked apprentice of Master Xehanort. Master Xehanort claims he's running around worlds creating chaos and attacking people with Unversed, but the reality is that he's doing so under orders as part of a larger plan. He appears to antagonize Ven and Aqua several times, alluding to a plan for the two of them that he has in motion.

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* AnimeHair: [[spoiler:Exactly as ridiculous as Sora's. Just black.]]
* ArchEnemy: Could be considered one to Ven. [[spoiler: Natch, given that he's his EnemyWithout.]]
* [[spoiler:ArtificialHuman]]
* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBaritone: Has a deep voice.
* [[spoiler:BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: With Ventus.]]
* BilingualBonus[=/=]MultipleReferencePun: "Ventus" (Latin for "wind") and "Vanitas" ("emptiness") sound similar, and both can be defined with the kanji 空, which means both [[spoiler:"sky"]] and "emptiness". And could also, due to one of those meanings, be read as [[spoiler:"Sora"]].
--> "Empty creature from Ventus riven,
--> to you, the name "Vanitas", shall be given."
* BlackKnight
* BloodKnight: He seems pretty excited about the idea of a massive war starting up, especially after he gets his hand on the [[spoiler:[[InfinityPlusOneSword Chi-Blade.]]]]
* [[spoiler:TheCameo]]: [[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.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: The Cain to Ventus's Abel.]]
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Subverted and then played straight; he initially plans to kill Ven after finding him too weak for their plans, but after Mickey helps Ven gain the upper hand, he decides to leave Ven alone for now.
* CollapsibleHelmet
* CombatTropes
** {{BFS}}: The [[spoiler:χ-Blade]].
*** CoolKey[[CoolSword blade]]: Void Gear, his WeaponOfChoice, [[spoiler: until he gains the χ-Blade]]
** CombatPragmatist: Don't expect a fair fight from this guy. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yafvTV4gCW4 Aqua learned this the hard way]].
** CombatSadomasochist: His in-game battle quotes largely consist of such gems as "Suffer!" and "Show me anguish!" And let's not forget that he cracks up laughing after Aqua kicks his ass in Radiant Garden.
** ElementalPowers
*** BlackMagic[=/=]CastingAShadow: As a being of darkness and an apprentice of Xehanort, it's a given
*** FireIceLightning: Can wield potent dark variations of Fire, Ice, and Thunder spells and can combine the former two with melee attacks
** FlashStep
** LightningBruiser
** GlassCannon: In a sense. He has the strength and speed of a LightningBruiser, but has poor defense.
** SwordBeam
* CompressedHair
* ClassicVillain: Representing Envy, Pride, and Wrath.
* CoolHelmet: Although it's called a "[[CoolMask mask]]" in ''Birth By Sleep''.
* CursedWithAwesome: According to the novels, [[spoiler: Destroying an Unversed causes Vanitas intense physical pain. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation However, this is never shown in game.]]]]
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: See MookMaker below.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Considering he was "raised" by Master Xehanort to be a powerful weapon, it's safe to say he never had a chance at a normal life.
* DarkIsEvil[=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: In the novels, while Vanitas is a being of Darkness, he didn't start out as evil. However, after four years under Xehanort's "care", he became the cold sociopath he is today.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Does this to Ventus]]. It doesn't last though.
* TheDragon: To Master Xehanort during Birth By Sleep.
** DragonWithAnAgenda: Early on he's not pleased with Ven's progress and tries to kill him when he decides Ven is useless for their schemes. It's also hinted he was supposed to kill Aqua in the Radiant Garden, but she proved stronger than they expected so he let her live in case they needed a back-up if Ven turned out to be a bust.
* DramaticUnmask: Averted at first; he comes to before Aqua can actually take his mask off. Played straight after Ven beats him when he unmasks himself.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Awkward male version.
* EldritchAbomination: He is a being of pure darkness(basically a ''pure'' Heartless) whose existence unbalances the laws of the worlds, and he is [[spoiler:the source of all Unversed]].
** HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Played straight when Ventus's heart connects with Sora's]].
** Lampshaded by Master Xehanort,
-->'''Master Xehanort''': He has no control over the darkness in his heart. The Keyblade is not his to bear. He's an abomination beyond hope of salvation.
* EmotionalPowers: [[spoiler: Has the ability to spawn the Unversed from his negative emotions.]]
* EnemyWithout
* EvilCounterpart: To Ventus.
** Though the two have no direct relation or interaction as of yet, he also seems to be this for Xion. [[spoiler:Looks like a member of the Destiny Islands love triangle with black hair? ArtificialHuman? Get screwed over by Xehanort? These two are living the same life with a different X.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilTwin: To Ventus, and to Sora, kind of.]]
* EvilIsBurningHot[=/=]EvilIsDeathlyCold[=/=]PsychoElectro: ZigZagged. Vanitas can use both fire, ice, and lightning-based attacks.
* EvilLaugh
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler: It's Sora's voice, only deeper and more sinister.]]
* {{Expy}}: Well let's see, his outfit is similar to Riku's Dark Mode, he takes the same battle stance as Riku, and he even dons Riku's iconic pose in the opening cinematic.
** [[spoiler:Yet it's Sora he has a connection to, through Ven, and he looks like Sora with black hair and gold eyes and an epic SlasherSmile. He even has Sora's ''[[MiyuIrino voice]]''.]]
** In Japan, he is thought to be an {{Expy}} of Jagi from FistOfTheNorthStar.
* TheFaceless: [[spoiler:Until part way into the final battle against Ventus.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Tries to be this, but is too much of a {{Jerkass}} to pull it off. Especially shown with his first encounter with Aqua. At first he tries to be polite, but when Aqua asks him a question, he gets irritated and attacks her.
* ForTheEvulz: It's indicated that he doesn't really have or need a reason to restart the Keyblade War; he's just excited by the idea of a universal conflict, especially now that he's the guy with an InfinityPlusOneSword. The SlasherSmile he gives while revealing this to Aqua and Mickey says it all.
** [[spoiler:An alternate reason, in the novels' version of the story, is that he wanted to rejoin with Ventus, thus not being all alone anymore. 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.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:The Vanitas of the novels is extremely envious of Ventus' friendships.]]
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] He has eyes as large as Ven's [[spoiler:because he's a Sora look alike]].
* [[spoiler:GrandTheftMe]]: Not nearly as successful as [[spoiler:Xehanort]], though, but manages to possess [[spoiler:Ventus]].
* HopelessBossFight: His first encounter with Ven.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Does this without shame, confident the heroes cannot do a thing about it.
* INeedYouStronger: He's always going around telling people whom he fights to get stronger, and to show him their power. Why exactly is one of the key points of ''Birth By Sleep''.
* KickTheDog: Breaking Ven's toy Keyblade that Terra gave him in front of Aqua.
* KnightOfCerebus: Though to a lesser extent than Master Xehanort, but he's played dead serious with little to no comedic elements to him.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't care about anything but himself.
* LaughingMad: In Japanese ''and'' English. Not all the time, granted, but he does have his moments, such as after his battle with Aqua in Radiant Garden.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: He is [[spoiler:the personification of the darkness that Master Xehanort ripped out of Ventus's heart]].
* MadeOfEvil: He's quite literally made from [[spoiler:Ven's darkness]].
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: [[spoiler: Is the source of the Unversed.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Though nowhere ''near'' Xehanort's level, he manages to coax Ventus out of the Land of Departure.
* MeaningfulName: His name is derived from the Latin word for ''emptiness'', indicating his state of existence. Also, it sounds similar to Ventus, hinting at a connection between the two. It's also similar to "vanity", reflecting his smug, self-absorbed nature. And, as mentioned above, the Japanese character for emptiness can also mean sky, [[spoiler:hinting at his connection to Sora]].
* MookMaker: [[spoiler:He can create the Unversed from his negative emotions, and if an Unversed is destroyed, then he can absorb their negativity to spawn new Unversed. This gives him an endless supply of Mooks. [[CutscenePowerToTheMax However, this is only in cutscenes, not gameplay.]]]]
** WalkingWasteland: And he puts that power to deadly use.
* NoSneakAttacks: Averted, as Aqua learns the hard way.
* NotSoDifferent: Before the final battle with Ventus, Ven declares [[spoiler:he's willing to risk losing his heart forever by destroying the χ-Blade and saving Terra and Aqua. In his DesperationAttack, Vanitas shatters the station they're on. Keep in mind the platforms in the Dive to the Heart are implied to be reflections of the heart, indicated here by Vanitas appearing opposite Ventus on it -- in other words, Vanitas is willing to take the same risk as Ven]].
* ObviouslyEvil: At ''no point'' could this guy pass for a good guy. Even ''[[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Terra]]'' immediately knows he's a villain who must be stopped.
* OnlyOneName
* OmnicidalManiac: Heavily implied to be this in the game, but never outright stated. By the end of his backstory in the novels, he wants to make everyone, in every world suffer. In the game, he gets really excited by the prospect of the Keyblade War, and the legends about it's catastrophic, universe-ending consequences.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: Is the source of the Unversed, who inhabit and terrorize the entire World.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: He'd ''like'' to just kill his enemies straight-off, but he's smart enough to know that this won't get him anywhere and bides his time accordingly.
* PsychoStrings: During one or two notes at the beginning of his theme, "Enter the Darkness".
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression when unmasked.
** SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:When he's possessing Ventus, he can give some pretty creepy ones.]]
* PureIsNotGood: [[spoiler:He's made of pure darkness. This seems to be the root of the Unversed.]]
* RecurringBoss: For Aqua and Ventus in ''Birth By Sleep''. Although he's the reason why Terra went out to the worlds, however, he is only fought once in his story, and never speaks.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver
* RedHerring: At first glance, he has a lot of similarities to Riku, wearing an outfit similar to his Dark Mode and using the same battle stance. [[spoiler:But then the mask came off, and his appearance seemed to be essentially a darker clone of Sora's.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Master Xehanort's blue.
* TheResenter: [[spoiler:To Ventus in the novels.]]
* {{Sadist}}
* SmugSnake: Though he's a dangerous threat, he's not as powerful as he claims to be.
* TheSociopath: Fits all the criteria of one, but the [[spoiler:Unversed]] make him a rare subversion. Instead of feeling only shallow emotions, Vanitas is composed of nothing but negative emotions and he [[spoiler:creates a new Unversed]] with each negative emotion he feels. A true sociopath could not feel deep enough to create them in the first place.
* TheStarscream: It's hinted he planned to take the power of Kingdom Hearts for himself once he got the χ-Blade.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes[=/=]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]].
* ThemeSongReveal: His battle themes borrow from [[spoiler:Sora]]'s {{leitmotif}}.
* TooSlow: One of his stock lines.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After being defeated for the final time by Ventus, he's reduced to panicking and attempts to grab the floating χ-blade before dying.]] It almost makes you feel sorry for him.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds[=/=]JerkassWoobie: Is portrayed as such in [[http://remember-kingdom-hearts.tumblr.com/post/28798364782/bonus-translation-of-the-novel-chapter-dark-memory the]] [[http://remember-kingdom-hearts.tumblr.com/post/28870649241/bonus-translation-of-the-novel-chapter-contrast novelization]], in stark contrast to the unrepentent sociopath in the actual game. [[spoiler:He's unable to control his ability to spawn Unversed, which are created autonomously every time he feels a strong emotion, and he hates them as a sign of his lack of control and a reminder of the true nature of his existence. Furthermore Master Xehanort forced him to train by fighting the Unversed, and Vanitas felt the emotions and physical pain they did upon being killed every time, which in turn fueled his dark emotions more and spawned stronger Unversed. And while all this TrainingFromHell was going on, he was still connected to Ven and felt all the friendship and happiness Ven was experiencing training under Eraqus]].
* WouldHitAGirl: More like [[spoiler:Would Stab A Girl]].
** [[spoiler:[[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown Stab Them While They Are Down]]]]
* YinYangBomb: [[spoiler: Master Xehanort's plan was to have Vanitas and Ventus fight and forge a powerful weapon called the χ-Blade.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: A double case. He is only 4 years old in the main events of BBS (as Ventus was 11 when Vanitas was [[ArtificialHuman created from him]] four years ago), but he has the physical body and mentality of a 15 year old. ''But'' at the same time, his 15 year old body just so happens to look at least a few years older since he is tall and muscular. The deep voice also doesn't help.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Riku Replica]]
!Riku Replica
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Riku_Replica_9780.png]]
[[caption-width-right:229:"But there is one easy way to tell us apart, though! Unlike you... I fear nothing."]]
-> [[spoiler:"So... it's over. Hmph. Death doesn't frighten me. Good riddance to a phony life. My heart was never real. I'm sure even what I'm feeling now is probably all fake."]]
-->Voiced by: MamoruMiyano (Japanese), David Gallagher (English)

Created by Vexen and used as a tool by Vexen, Marluxia, and Larxene, and ultimately Axel. He's mistaken for the real Riku by Sora when he's sent against him, and appears to attack the real Riku as well.

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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: [[spoiler:His motivation for defeating Riku.]]
* ArtificialHuman
* BecomeARealBoy: His entire motivation.
* BerserkButton: He has two -- getting anywhere near Naminé (Sora's storyline) and being called a "fake" (Reverse/Rebirth).
* BetaTestBaddie
--> ""I'm me" he says. Must be nice, being real. A fake like me could never get away with saying something like that! That's right! I'm a phony! A fake! The way a look, the way I feel, everything I remember! And even this newfound power! I thought that by gaining new strength, I could finally ''be'' someone! Someone who's not at all you! But nothing changes. I'm still just empty! Everything about me is borrowed. As long as you're around, I'll never be anything better than a shadow!"
* ChekhovsGunman: After finishing ''Chain of Memories'', [[spoiler:he dies and is literally forgotten until ''358/2 Days'' came out, and it turns out Xion is a Replica just like him]].
* CloningBlues
* CoolSword: His copy of the [[EvilWeapon Soul Eater]].
* FakeMemories: Throughout Sora's storyline, since Vexen had him implanted with the memories Naminé was force-feeding Sora [[ForTheEvulz to see what would come of it]].
* FanNickname: Repliku. Ironically, this is also his actual name in the German edition of ''Chain of Memories''.
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile]]
* GreenEyes
* HeelFaceTurn: At least during Sora's storyline.
** HeelFaceDoorSlam: In Riku's, he goes to antagonize the real Riku after Marluxia's death to Axel's goading.
* HotBlooded: Maybe [[{{Flanderization}} even moreso]] than Riku in ''Kingdom Hearts'', and that's saying something. However, this is justified by the fact that [[MadScientist Vexen]] doesn't really understand hearts, not having one himself, and by the fact that [[ManipulativeBastard Larxene]] manipulates him into it the entire time.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: More like pushed off by Axel.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: In a series where several recurring characters suffer from losing their hearts, which WordOfGod states is different from death since they can regain their hearts, the Replica is one of the few characters confirmed to be dead. Bizarrely, though, he is referred to as having "''seemingly''" died in ''Dream Drop Distance'''s story recaps.]]
* MirrorMatch: During [[AnotherSideAnotherStory Reverse/Rebirth]].
* NoPlaceForMeThere: After Marluxia is defeated he essentially says this to Sora.
* [[spoiler:ObiWanMoment: See his quote above.]]
* [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known As His Origin]]
* TheRival
* ShadowArchetype: To Riku.
* [[spoiler:SparedByTheAdaptation: In the manga.]]
* TalkingToHimself: Quite literally happens any time he and the real Riku face each other.
* TeleportSpam: If you hated Riku's [[LimitBreak Dark Aura]] back in the first game, you will ''loathe'' this guy.
* TragicVillain
* WhiteHairBlackHeart
* {{Yandere}}: For Naminé. The scary thing is that the Organization's plan basically amounted to Sora becoming just as crazy as him concerning protecting Naminé.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sephiroth]]
!Sephiroth
[[quoteright:330:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kh2-sephiroth2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:330:"I am TheChosenOne! [[DeadlyEuphemism I shall lead you to the Promised Land!]]"]]
-> "The light doesn't suit you."
--> Voiced by: Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese), [[Music/NSync Lance Bass]] / Creator/GeorgeNewbern (English)

The famous ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' villain appears as a fiendishly hard optional boss in both ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II''. In the latter, there's a bit of a subplot with him and Cloud -- in the former, Cloud mentions that he's "looking for someone," but the two only interact in a cut-scene added to the ''Final Mix''.

See also his ''[[Characters/FinalFantasyVII Final Fantasy VII]]'' traits.
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* AffablyEvil: He remains calm and polite even when expressing his intent to slay Sora and Cloud.
* ArchEnemy: Cloud's, naturally, to the extent that he actively seeks out Cloud midway through ''II'' for no reason other than to taunt him. His skirmishes with Sora and Tifa in the same game were more impersonal than malicious, making this Sephiroth simply "antagonistic" than outright "evil."
* {{Badass}}: Cloud, no slouch himself, ''struggles'' against this guy, who doesn't show as much as the slightest amount of effort in ''any'' of their encounters. He even brushes off Sora's win like it was nothing.
** BadassLongcoat: Of the NoShirtLongJacket variety.
* {{BFS}}: Wouldn't be Masamune if we could fit it in the picture. That sucker's seven feet, ''as usual''.
* {{Bishonen}}: Lacks the textbook personality, although when he was voiced by Lance Bass, his combat dialogue did show hints of it.
* BladeSpam: His ''Flash'' technique in ''KHII'', of the "Simultaneous Blade Spam" variety. Sephiroth [[SingleStrokeBattle dashes past Sora]], and if you don't [[PressXToNotDie use the Block Reaction Command]], Sora instantly is bombarded with about 7-9 slashes.
* BonusBoss: Though his ThatOneBoss status is diminished in ''[[NoExportForYou Final Mix+]]'' by the introduction of Terra, [[spoiler:Roxas]], and the Data Organization XIII.
* CastingAShadow: A few of his attacks in both games, as well as the BattleAura he adopts [[TurnsRed in later phases of his boss battle]].
* ColonyDrop: His most powerful attacks involve meteors, naturally, though they're on a ''Dissidia'' scale rather than the planet-crushing one from ''VII''.
* CombatPragmatist: The first use of the aforementioned Blade Spam attack starts partway through the battle's introduction, and can only be blocked by using the brief window for the Reaction Command - which will more than likely catch the player off-guard.
* EnemyWithout: It is heavily implied, if not outright stated, that he's the physical embodiment of Cloud's own darkness rather than the "real" Sephiroth. To further emphasize this point, Sephiroth has the exact same facial features as Cloud, even sporting Cloud's blue eyes instead of the green eyes the Sephiroth of ''FFVII'' possesses.
* HeyItsThatVoice: It's jarring hearing [[Franchise/{{DCAU}} Superman]] taunt you in battle.
** It's less jarring when you take into account that in his previous appearance, it was Lance Bass taunting you in battle.
* HPToOne: His signature Heartless Angel attack, with an MP drain effect to boot.
* MrFanservice: Come on, it's ''Sephiroth''.
* NeverSayDie: Pseudo-example, his declaration in the first game of "I will lead you to the Promised Land" becomes [[FridgeHorror more threatening]] when you remember that most interpreations of the "Promised Land" in ''VII'' were that it was TheLifestream.
* OneHitKill: Or more like a One Hit Combo Kill, if you don't know what you're doing.
** Can happen literally in the first game if you're underleveled/unprepared, seeing as Sephiroth uses ''no combo attacks'' sans a LimitBreak very similar to Cloud's Omnislash.
* OneManArmy: Carves through a horde of Heartless like cake while Leon and Cloud are plain outnumbered - [[{{Troll}} just to taunt Cloud and teleport away]]. EnemyMine isn't a philosophy of his.
* OneWingedAngel: Notably averted, despite being the {{Trope Namer|s}}. This seems to be a trend [[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren in recent]] [[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy years]] (with the exception of the hip wings). If you're being literal, he has one wing in the first game and three in the second - on the other hand, the hip-wings do make an interesting callback to his actual OneWingedAngel form.
** He does feature his signature Leitmotif, however, and in Final Mix, Sora can win a Keyblade called One-Winged Angel for beating Sephiroth (also notably the longest Keyblade in the game).
* [[OnlyICanKillHim Only Cloud Can Kill Me]]: To emphasize this point, he ''brushes off his shoulder'' and speaks softly after Sora gives him a particularly long beating.
* OnlyOneName
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: "STOP!" Not only does that sound ''weird as hell'' coming out of his mouth, but this is ''[[WhiteHairBlackHeart Se]][[OneWingedAngel phi]][[BladeSpam roth]]'' and he is ''freaking out'' - which tells you that Cloud is getting ready to kick his ass back to Jenova.
* PerpetualMolt: Every time he teleports, he leaves behind a few black feathers, and he sheds a few during his combos in ''II''.
* PlayingWithFire: [[RuleOfCool Just because]], though it's possibly an application of EvilIsBurningHot. Alternately, it could be a reference to his [[OverlyLongFightingAnimation infamous]] [[LimitBreak Super Nova]] attack.
* TheOtherDarrin: Lance Bass -- yes, ''[[BoyBand that]]'' Lance Bass -- in the first game, George Newbern in the second.
** And with it, came the realization that the [[CallingYourAttacks words]] for his HPToOne deathmove were "Descend Heartless Angel," ''not'' "[[{{Mondegreen}} Sin Harvest]]."
* PunchClockVillain: Sephiroth's only interests are really in tormenting Cloud. He challenges Sora to a duel in Kingdom Hearts 2 to see if the keyblade would choose him to be it's new master if he won. After essentially fighting to a draw and coming to a conclusion that only Cloud can actually kill him, he decides to no longer fight Sora.
* RapunzelHair
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver
* ASinisterClue: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]; he wields the Masamune with his right hand in the first game, but his left in the second.
* TheStoic
* TeleportSpam
* VillainousBreakdown: Gameplay example; in both games, his fighting style becomes more frantic the less HP he has. When the battle starts, he fights by slowly walking towards Sora and swinging Masamune when it will hit, sticking to relatively simple attacks (and Flash in ''II''). After he's taken a bit of damage, he starts running, hits a bit harder, and calls up [[HPToOne Heartless Angel]]. A few more hits, and then he gets serious; he starts flying and pulls out his [[ColonyDrop Black Materia]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart
* WingedHumanoid
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Others]]
!The Hostile Program
A virus program created by the MCP and released by Sark to cause chaos in both Radiant Gardens and Space Paranoids to deal with Sora and Tron.
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* AIIsACrapshoot
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: Its armor.
* FoeTossingCharge
* FrickinLaserBeams: Sweeps the area with these.
* GetBackHereBoss: Spends alot of the battle moving to different points in the area, firing lasers.
* GameBreakingBug: On early PS3 consoles, the Hostile Program could get a glitch where it would be invincible, this has been fixed via updates.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In an odd variation, when the Program is hit, it drops cluster orbs, which don't defeat it, but can be used to cripple its movement and make it easier to hit. The Program does this through no fault of its own, so it isn't a TacticalSuicideBoss.
* NoNameGiven
* RaymanianLimbs

!The Experiment
A mechanical creature intended to be a playmate for Lock, Shock, and Barrel. It was created by Dr. Finklestien like Sally, but lacked a Heart like she had. To fill this void it steals Christmas presents, believing that the joy from a gift from ones heart will help this problem.
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* BodyHorror: Its pieces can be taken off and put together again.
* DecapitatedArmy: Each part can move on its own, but the creatures torso needs to be beaten for it all to be brought down.
* EyeBeams: The head can juggle you with these.
* [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known As The Experiment]]
* ShownTheirWork: The pieces the creature is made from are background props from the movie - e.g, its right arm is a machine from Oogie's Lair.
* VacuumMouth: Its left arm, when detatched.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: All its doing is trying to find a heart of its own, unintentionally taking away joy in the process. What's even sadder is that, per Dream Drop Distance's revelation that anything could get a heart of its own given enough time, had Sora and company not fought it... a heart just might've developed in the poor guy after time passed.
[[/folder]]

!The Heartless
[[folder:General]]
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kh_shadow.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:The cutest EldritchAbomination you'll ever see.]]

-> "Anger... hatred... corruption, become power. Everything that exists, will be devoured!"
--> [[spoiler:—'''Data-Sora's Heartless''']]

The true antagonists of the story, Heartless are creatures of darkness born from the hearts within humans. They are driven only by instinct to seize hearts from other beings and destroy them, either by attacking them or manipulating them into darkness, creating more Heartless in the processs. As worlds also have hearts, this inevitably means they are drawn to worlds to destroy the world's heart and plunge it into darkness. Heartless come in two varieties -- Pureblood, formed naturally, and Emblem, formed by forced production.

According to legend, only the Keyblade wielder can stop the Heartless, able to lock the hearts of worlds from their reach, and when a Heartless is killed by a Keyblade its captive heart is freed. Thus the Heartless instinctively seek out Keyblade wielders to strike them down.
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* AdorableEvilMinions: Albeit with a few genuinely scary exceptions.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil
* AnimalisticAbomination: Several varieties including the Rabid Dog (dogs), the Sea Neon and Sheltering Zone (jellyfish) and the Powerwild and Bouncywild (monkeys).
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: They're born from the darkness, and so long even a single heart has a bit of darkness in it, they'll always exist. However, it was only due to Xehanort's experiments that they were able to invade the Realm of Light, their inactivity in ''Birth By Sleep'' suggests perhaps they could be marginalized in the Realm of Darkness again.
* AsteroidsMonster: The first game has the Sheltering Zone Heartless. ''Days'' has the Massive Possessor.
* BiggerBad: As the very embodiments of darkness and the main reason so many people and worlds are destroyed, they're the most significant evil force in the game universe. However as creatures of instinct with infinite numbers they aren't actual "villains" in terms of plot, thus the actual villain roles go to human characters.
* BishonenLine: Zigzagged. Several of the strongest Heartless (Invisible, Neo Shadow, Darkside, etc) look more humanoid than their lesser counterparts, and Xehanort's Heartless, the most powerful Heartless of all, looks entirely human. On the other hand most Heartless including bosses look like monsters.
* CuteBruiser: Most of them look too cute to be an army of bloodthirsty creatures.
* EldritchAbomination
** LovecraftLite: No one actually has [[GoMadFromTheRevelation an epic grade]] FreakOut when they show up, and even the most powerful of them can still be defeated.
* EliteMook: Invisibles are universally the strongest pureblood Heartless short of Darksides and other bosses. The strongest Emblem Heartless varies, but the Angel Star and Defender are commonly among the toughest.
* EnemyMine: They stop fighting against the Nobodies during the Battle of Hollow Bastion any time Sora shows up, but also ally with Organization XIII at one point.
* FisherKingdom: While the Pureblood Heartless keep their appearances in all worlds, Emblem Heartless change their appearance to reflect the world they're in. As a result they can appear as almost anything, from cars to sorcerers to ghosts to plants.
* GiantMook: At least one a game, such as the Large Body or Fat Bandit. They also NoSell against front attacks.
* TheHeartless: The TropeNamer.
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: In the words of Saix, the Heartless ally with whoever's the strongest, which is why [[spoiler:most of them defect from Maleficent's service to ally with the Organization.]]
* TheLegionsOfHell
* LightIsNotGood: The Angel Stars.
* MadeOfEvil
* ManipulativeBastard: They've no problems taking advantages of people's inner greed and anger; even Maleficent, a ManipulativeBastard herself, was manipulated by them.
* MeaningfulName: They were given the name "Heartless" because they act on pure instinct, with no emotion to speak of.
* MetalSlime: Various mushroom-type Heartless, usually rare and/or hard to kill, but yield great rewards.
* OurMonstersAreWeird
* PaletteSwap: Many of them have recolored stronger forms. The music-themed spellcasters ''all'' share the same appearance aside from color.
** Most of these appear in either the Final Mix games or in ''Days''. The Final Mix games also give most of the regular Heartless more psychedelic color schemes. Additionally, one of the bosses in ''Days'', a Darkside palette swap, can summon Shadows that are purple rather than the normal blueish color.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Their sigil is a black heart with jagged red lines. Many stronger Heartless add red, purple and blue to their color scheme.
* SlasherSmile: Some of them have those.
** JaggedMouth : Goes with the SlasherSmile
* SigilSpam: Emblem Heartless, who the apprentices branded to further distinguish them from the naturally-occuring "Pureblood" ones; presumably either the apprentices or Maleficent are responsible for the enormous emblem on the Hollow Bastion castle.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes
* ThemeNaming: The mushroom type Heartless are called "Color Fungus-type" (Blue Truffle, Gold Tricholoma), while the floating spellcaster Heartless are "Color Music-type" ([[BlowYouAway Emerald Blues]], [[PlayingWithFire Crimson Jazz]]).
* TheUsualAdversaries
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: They always ally with the strongest villains to further their goals of conquest. Those villains who are too weak are abandoned or brought into their ranks.
* YouHaveFailedMe: See above trope.
* ZergRush: Their main "strategy". Since Sora is basically a OneManArmy, it usually fails.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Data Heartless]]
![[spoiler:Sora's]] Heartless
[[quoteright:258:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Soras_Heartless_6788.png]]
[[caption-width-right:258:"RAGE... HATRED... GLITCHES TO FEED MY DARKNESS... AND SOON, HEARTS TO SATE MY HUNGER!"]]

-> "LONG HAVE THE FALLEN WANDERED. NOW THEY SHALL SERVE THE WILL OF DARKNESS"

The source of the Bug Blox in ''coded'' and ''Re:coded'', he's a massive Heartless wishing to break out into the real world. Despite taking the form of a Darkside, he's much stronger and more intelligent than such a form would make you think. His true identity and true form are revealed at the end of the game.

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* BigBad: Of ''coded''.
** ArcVillain: For ''coded''.
* BishonenLine: Transforms into [[spoiler:Anti-Sora, complete with Keyblade]], after being defeated as a Darkside.
* BoldInflation: As one can tell by his all caps quotes.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:He's actually the same Darkside you fought at the beginning of ''coded''. But as they realize at the end of the game, as you've been killing Heartless to gain power, he's been absorbing their fragmented data to do the same]].
* CombatTropes
** DoppelgangerAttack
** ElementalPowers:
** LightEmUp: Surprisingly, instead of [[CastingAShadow Dark]] attacks, it fights almost exclusively with Light attacks. [[spoiler:Even Sora's evil, hyped up on enough dark data to make [[Webcomic/EightBitTheater Black Mage]] look like a rookie, can't help but LightEmUp. [[MessianicArchetype God]] ''[[IncorruptiblePurePureness damn!'']]]]
*** PillarOfLight: One of its attacks heavily resembles [[spoiler:Roxas's Magic Hour]].
** PlayingWithFire[=/=]AnIcePerson: In its first form, he casts Debug Blizzard with his left hand and Debug Fire with his right.
** MegatonPunch
** SpinAttack
** StormOfBlades: Launches light [[spoiler:Keyblades]] at you and calls on a barrage of them for its Desperation Attack.
** SwordBeam
* TheCorruption
* EldritchAbomination
* EvilCounterpart: To [[spoiler:Sora]]. [[spoiler:Data-Riku even comments that as Sora got stronger killing Heartless, their data was absorbed by his Heartless so it could grow stronger too]].
* FlatCharacter: Those two lines of dialogue at the top of his profile and under his picture? They're about all he says the entire game, and you don't even confront him until the final battle. Justified, as [[spoiler:he's really just a Shadow Heartless pumped full of power, and by nature Heartless are driven by instinct and lack higher intelligence]].
* FromNobodyToNightmare
* GlowingEyesOfDoom
** SupernaturalGoldEyes
* LightIsNotGood: Despite fighting almost exclusively with light attacks, it is still TheVirus and a member of TheHeartless.
* LivingShadow
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: No one ever thought about the fact that when the data Heartless are killed, they don't fade into hearts like real Heartless, and thus never thought about what happened to that destroyed data. [[spoiler:Turns out this guy was absorbing it to grow stronger and stronger]].
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In the first game, it was just a little [[{{Mook}} Shadow.]] It takes quite a few [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badass]] in Coded.
* [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Origin]]
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: He is only defeated when [[spoiler:Mickey separates him from the power he got from corrupting the journal and reduces him back to the form of a lowly Shadow.]]
* TookALevelInBadass [[TookALevelInJerkass and Jerkass]]
* TronLines
* TheVirus
* YouWillBeAssimilated
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bosses]]
!Darkside
A large humanoid pureblood Heartless that first appears in the tutorial of [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts the first game]]. Both its second appearance in the first game and its appearance in Sora's story in Chain of Memories are as the level boss for Destiny Islands.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever
* CastingAShadow
* ChekhovsGunman: When [[spoiler:Destiny Islands showed up at the End of the World, did anyone really expect him to ''not'' show up?]]
* LargeAndInCharge: The second one fought is stated in Jiminy's Journal to have led the Heartless that destroyed Destiny Islands.
* LivingShadow: The one in the tutorial is introduced as one, though [[MentalWorld all things considered]], it's most likely not the case for the other ones.
* NoMouth
* PaletteSwap: The Dark Follower in ''Days'' and the Shadow Heartless it [[SummonMagic summons]].
** Kingdom Hearts X has a variation with red hands and feet.
* PrehensileHair: Averted. Despite looking like shriveled tentacles, its "hair" just sort of floats around its head.
* RecurringBoss
* SummonMagic: It can summon Shadow Heartless. Not only that, its PaletteSwap can summon palette-swapped Shadows.
* TorsoWithAView: The hole is, of course, heart-shaped.

!Guard Armor/Opposite Armor
The Guard Armor is a large Heartless that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin looks like a giant suit of armor]] and is the first boss in Traverse Town in the first game, appearing right after Sora meets Donald and Goofy. It is also the level boss for Traverse Town in Chain of Memories. The Opposite Armor is the second Traverse Town boss, appearing when Sora finds that world's keyhole. Its hands and feet have switched places and it has a somewhat different attack style from the Guard Armor.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever
* BossRoom: The Third District, complete with blocks that spring up to keep you from leaving. The Opposite Armor is fought in the Second District. The Guard Armor uses the Second District in ''Chain of Memories''.
* ChestBlaster: A variation. One end of the Opposite Armor's torso can aim at Sora and fire a homing energy ball.
* CognizantLimbs
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: Part of both battles involves detroying the bosses' limbs.
* EssenceDrop: The limbs drop HP orbs when destroyed.
* TheFaceless: The Guard Armor and its palette swaps have their visors down, concealing their eyes. Averted with the Opposite Armor.
* FoeTossingCharge: Not a charge exactly, but in ''Days'', the Guard Armor and Powered Armor will walk at you, which can knock you back.
* PaletteSwap: The Red Armor, which is fought during a tournament at Olympus Coliseum, but doesn't get named until ''Final Mix'', which also gives the Guard Armor and Opposite Armor a more varied color scheme. ''Days'' gives us the Powered Armor, which is blue. Kingdom Hearts X had a gold version as a raid boss.
* RaymanianLimbs
* SpinAttack: Both Heartless can do this with their hands. The Opposite Armor can also do this with its head. The Guard Armor's torso does this when its limbs are removed.

!Trickmaster
This Heartless is the level boss for Wonderland in both the first game and ''Chain Of Memories''. In the first game, it appears when Sora lights a pair of lamps [[GravityScrew on the ceiling]] of the Bizarre Room.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever
* BreathWeapon: In ''Days'', the [[PaletteSwap Crimson Prankster]]'s fire breath seems to be similar to real life fire breathing except that it's weaponized and has a much longer range.
* BossArenaIdiocy: Averted in the first game and subverted in ''Chain of Memories''. The only way you can hit this boss is to get up on the table at the center of the room and attack its faces. In both games, it can collapse the table. I the first game, it can also cause the table to spin.
* Boss Room: The Bizarre Room.
* DualBoss: The [[PaletteSwap Crimson Prankster]] is an unusual case. It splits into two. If one copy is defeated and the other is left standing, the first one is revived with the same health as the second.
* EssenceDrop: It drops HP orbs when stunned.
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: In ''Chain of Memories''.
* IncendiaryExponent: The Trickmaster has to light its batons on fire before it can shoot fireballs at you. The [[PaletteSwap Crimson Prankster]] lights itself on fire and spins at you.
* MultipleHeadCase: Averted. Despite having five heads stacked on top of each other, it single-mindedly attacks Sora and company.
* PaletteSwap: The Crimson Prankster appears in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' and has the same appearance as the Trickmaster except that its color scheme is lighter. It also has a very different battle style. ''Final Mix'' gives the Trickmaster itself a similar range of colors arranged differently.
* PlayingWithFire: It can use its batons to shoot homing fireballs. The Crimson Prankster has a wider range of fire attacks.
* SpinAttack: The Crimson Prankster does this while on fire.

!Stealth Sneak
A large, chameleon-like Heartless that fights alongside Clayton in Deep Jungle in the first game.
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* ChameleonCamouflage: See VisibleInvisibility below.
* DualBoss: With Clayton.
* EyeBeams: Homing ones. It also can't be killed when using this attack.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Clayton is riding it when it first appears.
* PaletteSwap: The dark gray Sneak Army, which is fought in a tournament, but only gets named in ''Final Mix''. ''Final Mix'' also gives the normal Stealth Sneak a pattern of dark lines on a solid green body rather than the regular camo pattern.
* RandomDrop: Has a chance of dropping healing items when defeated.
* RazorWind: It can shoot a small one at its targets.
* TheUnfought: Sort of. You don't actually have to actually fight it in Final Mix, just beating Clayton automatically ends the boss fight.
* VisibleInvisibility: Its camouflage ability is a type 2, appearing as a large blur.
* TheWorfEffect: It knocks Tarzan halfway across the battlefield when it first appears. The trope is subverted if Tarzan is in your team during the battle, in which case [[GameplayAndStorySegregation he will not have taken any damage]].

!Pot Centipede
An insectoid Heartless that Jafar summons in the first game while kidnapping Princess Jasmine. It consists of a head and an abdomen with several pot spiders forming the rest of its body.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: One of the few insectoid Heartless in the series.
* BrokenBridge: The piles of junk that block off some of the entrances to different parts of Agrabah can be destroyed by this boss walking through them. Even if it doesn't, the roadblocks will all be gone after you defeat it.
* CastingAShadow: The antennae on its abdomen segment use a darkness attack.
* GetBackHereBoss: If it is joined with any Pot Spiders, it moves constantly.
* MiniBoss
* ShockAndAwe: It electrifies its front antennae to attack.
* SpinAttack: Sometimes does this when not connected to any Pot Spiders. It's the only way it can move without them.

!Parasite Cage
A large, pink Heartless found within Monstro in the first game and ''Chain of Memories'' that can use its mouth as a cage. In both appearances, it drags Pinocchio off to another area.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: An orb of darkness inside its mouth is vulnerable while it's stunned. Hitting it does more damage than attacking the boss normally.
* BossRoom: Monstro's stomach.
* BreathWeapon: See HollywoodAcid below.
* CombatTentacles
* EssenceDrop: Attacking the orb of darkness in its mouth causes it to drop HP orbs.
* HollywoodAcid: Used as a hazard on the battlefield. In the first game, it uses its tentacles to suck it some of Monstro's stomach acid and use it as a BreathWeapon. In ''Chain of Memories'', it spits it at you instead.
* PaletteSwap: In ''Final Mix'', its lower body is orange, its head is a dull yellow and its tentacles are green.
* PlatformBattle: In ''Chain of Memories'', the only way to avoid being hurt by the acid is to stay of the four circling platforms in front of the boss.
* StandardStatusEffects: Its poison breath can poison Sora in the first game.
* StationaryBoss
* StatusBuffDispel: Its enemy card in ''Chain of Memories'' does this once per battle if equipped.

!Behemoth
A large, quadrupedal Heartless that first appears when the Final Keyhole in Hollow Bastion is opened near the end of the first game.
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* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: When you fight it in Hollow Bastion and both times you fight one in the End of the World.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Its horn.
* CastingAShadow
* DummiedOut: From ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' due to technical issues.
* FoeTossingCharge: It can jump across the battlefield at you.
* PaletteSwap: It is blue in ''Final Mix'', which also gives the Arc Behemoth and Destroyed Behemoth.
* PurpleIsPowerful
* RecurringBoss: Appears multiple times in the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon and is always fought alone.

!The Phantom
A shrouded entity appearing in Neverland around the clock tower.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint
* BarrierChangeBoss
* BedsheetGhost: Its color scheme in ''Final Mix'' somewhat resembles this.
* BlackCloak
* BonusBoss
* CastingAShadow
* TheFaceless: Aside from the Guard Armor and its palette swaps, it is the only Heartless we've seen with no glowing yellow eyes visible.
* FireIceLightning: Its energy orb must be attacked with physical blows or one of these three spell types.
* PaletteSwap: In ''Final Mix'', its cloak is light gray with smoke patterns on the sleeves.
* ShoutOut: Appears similar to Lord Ombra from the Peter Pan novel ''Peter and the Shadow Thieves''.
* TimeMaster: Uses the clock tower to inflict Doom on your party members one by one, and then eventually on Sora.
** TimedMission: He will use the clocktower to eliminate your team one by one. This can be slowed down with the Stop Spell.
* TheVoiceless

!Kurt Zisa
A large Heartless appearing in the Agrabah desert.
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* AntiMagic: Can disable Sora's ability to cast magic.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever
* BonusBoss
* CastingAShadow
* ContestWinnerCameo: Named after a contest winner.
* DetachedSleeves: Detached pantlegs as well.
* DualWielding
* EssenceDrop: The glowing orbs that fuel its AntiMagic ability drop HP orbs when destroyed. Using physical attacks on its shield causes it to drop MP orbs.
* LoinCloth: With the Heartless symbol on it.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Six arms. One pair holds the swords, another generates its AntiMagic ability.
* OneDimensionalThinking: How Sora and co. try to escape getting crushed by it after the battle. [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Carpet]] has to save them.
* RandomDrop: Destroying the energy orbs that power its AntiMagic ability sometimes nets you a healing item or two in addition to the normal HP orbs. As with other drops, this is influenced by the Lucky Strike ability.
* SequentialBoss: It cycles through three modes until it is defeated.
* SinisterScimitar
* SpinAttack: It can use vertical and horizontal variations of this.
* TurnsRed: It uses a wider range of abilities the more it is damaged.
* TheVoiceless

!Antlion
A large Heartless with a mechanical, vaguely insect-like appearance. It is fought by Roxas in Agrabah in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2''.
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* BlowYouAway: It uses a whirlwind as a shield.
* DishingOutDirt: It can send shockwaves through the sand.
* FastTunnelling: When it goes out of sight.
* TennisBoss: It will launch explosives at you later in the battle. Knocking enough of them back to it will stun it. This is the only way to get through its whirlwind shield.

!Infernal Engine
A large Heartless that looks like a giant wood box on wheels. Weapons come out of its mouth and there are several small archer Heartless on top. It is fought at Beast's Castle by Roxas in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2''.
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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Subverted. While it will menacingly creep foward all the time, it always stops short, for whatever reason, of crushing Roxas against the back wall.
* AnnoyingArrows: The archers fire these.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: The BatteringRam it uses for its most FoeTossingCharge attack.
* BatteringRam: Its weakest point.
* CrosshairAware: Similar to attacks by the cannon Heartless, a crosshair will appear under Roxas when the archers fire their arrows.
* DropTheHammer: One of its weapons is a large hammer on a mechanical arm.
* ExplodingBarrels: One of its attacks involves rolling these across the battlefield.
* {{Expy}}: Perhaps a more lighthearted take on ''Final Fantasy'''s [[RecurringBoss Demon Wall]].
* FoeTossingCharge: It uses a BatteringRam for this. It is at its most [[AttackItsWeakPoint vulnerable]] while this attack is charging.
* MookMaker: It spits out crates of Soldier Heartless when its archers are gone.
* PlayingWithFire: It has a cannon that shoots fireballs.
* ShockAndAwe: The archers' arrows are a lightning-elemental attack.
* TennisBoss: Bouncing the fireballs back eliminates the archers.
* TheWorfEffect: It throws the Beast over the wall prior to the battle.

!Leechgrave
A large Heartless that looks like a coffin hanging from a purple flower with four thorny vines radiating from it. It is fought by Roxas in Halloweentown while he investigates the disappearances of the local Heartless in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2''.
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* CannibalismSuperpower: It got as powerful as it did by eating other Heartless.
* CombatTentacles: It is the source of the Tentaclaw enemies fought in previous missions.
* [[DeadlyGas Deadly Pollen]]: It has two attacks that release poison clouds, which drain Roxas's health if he does not move away.
* DinnerDeformation: If one of Tentaclaws swallows Roxas during the boss fight, one of these moves along the tentacle until the flower spits him out.
* MarathonBoss: Its weak point (the coffin) attacks you if you step near it, possesses extremely high defense, and can only be stunned and weakened by knocking out all the Tentaclaws, and even then you only get a few precious seconds to attack before it gets back up. If you've not been grinding, this back-and-forth cycle can take an exceedingly long time.
* PoisonousPerson: Its projectile attack releases poisonous pollen on impact and the flower spews clouds of poison.

!Ruler of the Sky
A large avian Heartless fought by Roxas in Neverland after being uncovered by [[Disney/PeterPan Captain Hook]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2''.
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* AbnormalAmmo: Its mouth is a treasure chest which can shoot gold coins.
* AnIcePerson: It can summon pillars of ice around the battlefield.
* BlingOfWar: Its wings are made of golden swords and it has a (weaponized) treasure chest where its beak should be.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: It can fly past the edge of the battlefield while [[InvisibleWall you can't]].
* FoeTossingCharge: It uses this when its body starts glowing red.
* GiantFlyer
* {{Greed}}: Captain Hook's lust for treasure [[spoiler:fueled by Pete's meddling]] caused it to appear.
* InvisibleWall: It uses the one around the battlefield to [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard its advantage]].
* MakingASplash: It fires homing balls of water from its tail.
* PirateParrot: Based on one.
* TreasureChest: What it disguised itself as when Captain Hook found it.
* TurnsRed: It becomes more aggressive when its tail is destroyed (and, fortunately, becomes easier to hit).

!Dustflier
A large wyvern-like Heartless that appears in Twilight Town during Mission 89 of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2''.
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* AIRoulette: Out of every two attacks, the first is a ShockwaveStomp. The other is randomly selected.
* BonusBoss: Defeating it is the optional objective in Mission 89 and it only appears after you defeat six other giant Heartless.
* BreathWeapon: "''[[OhCrap Meteor]]'' Breath". The fireballs fly at you in a very fast salvo, though they're not homing once they start moving.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Has health and defense comparable to [[BullyingADragon taking on the Zip Slasher at level 5]]. It gets even more health in Mission Mode.
* GiantFlyer
* FoeTossingCharge: This is its ''weakest'' attack.
* MarathonBoss: You'll spend a lot more time dodging it than attacking, especially if you wind up with a status effect.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: It's a variant of the Tailbunker, which in turn is based on the Wyvern from the first game.
* PaletteSwap: Of the Tailbunker from earlier Twilight Town missions.
* PlayingWithFire / DeathFromAbove: Its BreathWeapon.
* ShockwaveStomp: One that has a HUGE range.
** PlanarShockwave: It radiates outward into empty air if the Dustflier lands on the stairs, making it harder to dodge.
* StandardStatusEffects: The shockwave attack randomly selects from several of these. Its BreathWeapon inflicts burn.

!Possessor/Thresholder
A Heartless that first appears in Beast's Castle in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII. It looks like a puff of black smoke with a face and purple spikes. It also appears in ''Days'' as a regular enemy that attacks by enveloping is target. The Thresholder is the result of the Possessor taking control of a carving on a door.
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* AsteroidsMonster: In ''Days'', Possessors are regular enemies. Massive Possessors are large versions that split into regular Possessors upon dying.
* CastingAShadow: The Thresholder can unleash homing balls of darkness.
* DemonicPossession: Possessors can take control of inanimate objects, resulting in the Gargoyle Knight and Gargoyle Warrior enemies appearing.
* EssenceDrop: When the Thresholders health reaches zero, it drops HP orbs in addition to revealing the Possessor.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* ExtendableArms
* GetBackHereBoss: Averted with the Possessor only due to the battlefield being relatively small.
* JaggedMouth: Both
* KingMook: The Thresholder is this to the Gargoyle Knight and Gargoyle Warrior enemies with the twist that it appears at the same time as the first example of each.
* MiniBoss
* SequentialBoss: Bringing the Thresholder's health to zero will allow you to force the Possessor to appear. The Possessor will fly around the room for a short time before possessing the door again. Rinse and repeat until the boss is defeated.
* StationaryBoss: The Thresholder stays in place due to being a door.

!Shadow Stalker/Dark Thorn
The first level boss in Beast's Castle in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII. The Shadow Stalker is a spherical pureblood Heartless wrapped in chains. Its second form, the Dark Thorn is a demonic-looking Heartless with thorns wrapped around its body.
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* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: The [[EvilMakeover corrupted]] ballroom.
* BossRoom: The corrupted ballroom.
* DemonicPossession: The Shadow Stalker attacks from control of the back windows, the chandelier, the floor and a random pillar InThatOrder.
* CastingAShadow
* ChainedByFashion: Both of them.
* EvilMakeover: It does this to the ballroom as the battle starts.
* FallingChandelierOfDoom: The Shadow Stalker does this before shooting lasers out of two point on the chandelier's edge. The Dark Thorn actually pulls the chandelier down and rides it around the room, something that you can do as well with the proper reaction command.
* KingMook: The Shadow Stalker is this to the Possessor Heartless.
* SequentialBoss
* ShoutOut: WordOfGod says that the Dark Thorn's design was based on [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Ifrit]].
* SpinAttack: The Dark Thorn uses these.
* TorsoWithAView: The Dark Thorn has a heart-shaped hole it its chest.
* VisibleInvisibility: Type 2. The Dark Thorn appears as a shimmer while invisible.

!Illuminator
A lizard-like Heartless that appears during the boss battle with Barbossa in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII. It uses the lantern on its tail to darken the room, making Barbossa invincible until it is defeated. It also respawns occasionally during the battle.
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* FlashStep: It will sometimes do this when you get close, appearing on another part of the wall.
* FogOfWar: Its only ability is to create this.
* GetBackHereBoss: It sometimes zips around the room when you get close, especially when Barbossa is at low health.
* IronicName
* OverlyLongTongue: Though it's not used for attacking.
* PaletteSwap: Gets one in ''Final Mix +''. The palette swap has a pattern that looks like TV static superimposed on the new coloration.
* WallCrawl

!Volcanic Lord/Blizzard Lord
A pair of pudgy-looking Heartless that appear at the end of the first visit to Agrabah in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII. They use fire and ice attacks respectively.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: The Volcanic Lord can bounce at Sora to attack.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: The Volcanic Lord can inflict this on Sora's allies.
* AnIcePerson: The Blizzard Lord.
* AsteroidsMonster: The Volcanic Lord and Blizzard Lord can split into Fiery Globes or Icy Cubes and then reform after taking a certain amount of damage. If one does this, the other starts attacking immediately.
* BreathWeapon: The Blizzard Lord can use this.
* DualBoss: Subverted. One attacks while the other floats around nearly out of range. You can attack the floating one, but you can't lock on and there is a chance of any hits being blocked. You can also fight them individually in one of the Paradox Cup tournaments.
* GetBackHereBoss: Subverted. See DualBoss above.
* HarmlessFreezing: The Blizzard Lord can inflict this upon Sora's allies.
* MagicStaff: Both of them use this.
* MookMaker: They can split into several Fiery Globe or Icy Cube Heartless respectively.
* PaletteSwap: Subverted. The staffs have different designs and their pants have different patterns.
* PlayingWithFire: The Volcanic Lord.


!Prison Keeper
A large, mechanical-looking Heartless summoned by Maleficent to aid Lock, Shock and Barrel during the first visit to Halloween Town in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII.
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* {{Cephalothorax}}: While its does have a cage hanging from the bottom of its head, its arms are attached to the head as well.
* EatMe: A reaction command allows you to hit it from the inside when it tries to power up again. It spits you out afterward.
* GetBackHereBoss: When it's not trying to bite its target, it's usually floating around high enough that you have to jump off of the highest point in the area to get at it.
* MegaManning: It gains new powers by eating Lock, Shock and Barrel. They're perfectly fine afterward.
* PaletteSwap: Gets one in ''Final Mix +''.
* SequentialBoss: See MegaManning above. Once you go through all three phases, it goes to a fourth phase where it can use all of the attacks it used before.
* SpamAttack: After eating Shock, it can shoot energy projectiles from its claws.
* SpinAttack: One that hits you with the cage.
* TennisBoss: After eating Lock, it shoots giant fireballs that can be deflected back at it.
* WingdingEyes


!Storm Rider
A large flying Heartless that attack the imperial city at the end of the second visit to the [[Disney/{{Mulan}} Land of Dragons]]. Many of its design elements come from Chinese dragons.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Destroying the nubs on its shoulders will stun it. Actually getting up on its back to do so is [[GetBackHereBoss another matter]]. Attacking its horns is the only way to defeat it.
* GetBackHereBoss
* GiantFlyer
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Apparently, it was an actual dragon that was corrupted by the Heartless.
* PaletteSwap: Gets one in ''Final Mix +''.
* ShockAndAwe
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: It can drop a whole bunch of explosive spheres while flying across the battlefield air raid-style.
* WaveMotionGun: A stationary version of this is its ultimate attack.

!Grim Reaper
A large Heartless summoned by Luxord during the second visit to Port Royal. It becomes an invincible undead monstrosity when Luxord steals four of the medallions.
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* BlowYouAway
* {{Greed}}: Luxord describes this Heartless as "a veritable maelstrom of avarice."
* InNameOnly
* {{Mayincatec}}
* RecurringBoss: You fight it twice. It's more powerful the second time.
* PaletteSwap: Gets one in ''Final Mix +''.
* SupernaturalIsPurple

! Groundshaker
A Heartless so large that trees grow on its back. It appears at the end of the second visit to the Pride Lands in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII. It looks like a WitchDoctor riding a giant version of the Living Bone Heartless with tusks and an extra pair of legs. The other section looks like a witch doctor. [[spoiler: It is Scar's Heartless, which should tell you something about how rotten the guy was.]]
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: The mask on the witch doctor and the eyes on the main body.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: It's the second-largest Heartless in the series right after the OneWingedAngel form of Xehanort's Heartless.
** {{Kaiju}}: Certainly big enough to qualify.
* KingMook: To the Shaman and Living Bone Heartless.
* MaskPower: The mask serves as one of the Heartless's vulnerable areas.
* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel: Technically, this thing is Scar's Heartless.]]
* PaletteSwap: It gets one in ''Final Mix +''
* PlanarShockwave: Despite the shockwaves being a few feet feet in the air.
* PlayingWithFire: It can use a homing fire attack with a VERY long range.
* [[spoiler:ThePowerOfHate: It is implied that it was Scar's hatred for Simba that caused his to become this.]]
* RapidFireFisticuffs: The "rider" section does this when it goes invisible.
* ShockwaveStomp
* WingdingEyes: The main body has them.
* WitchDoctor: The "rider" section of the Heartless.

!The Red-Eyed Heartless
A massive bestial pureblood Heartless fought in the Realm of Darkness in ''Birth By Sleep Final Mix''.
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* CastingAShadow
* ChainedByFashion
* DoppelgangerAttack: Yes, the afterimages can hurt you.
* FanNickname: "Red Eyes" or "Hunter of the Dark", the latter after its boss theme.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: While all the Bonus Bosses appear with little backstory, this one's existence is canon. Justified in that it appears in the Realm of Darkness where of course anything could attack you at any time without warning or reason.
* JaggedMouth: Like several other Heartless.
* JawsFirstPersonPerspective: A terrestrial variant when it charges at Aqua.
* LargeAndInCharge: Rivals the Darkside as one of the largest Pureblood Heartless ever seen.
* NoNameGiven
* PlayingWithFire
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SlasherSmile
* [[spoiler:TrueFinalBoss]]: [[spoiler:Actually the last enemy of the Secret Episode, replacing Terra-Xehanort in this regard for BirthBySleep]].
[[/folder]]

!The Nobodies
[[folder:General]]
[[quoteright:176:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/280px-Dusk_KHII_6997.png]]

-> "A Nobody doesn't have a right to know. Nor does it even have the right to be."
-->'''[=DiZ=]'''

What's left behind when a heart is lost. Don't take "Nobody" literally: they ''are'' the body (and ill-defined "soul") of the person, though usually warped to something unrecognizable as human. Those who had the strongest will before losing their heart, however, can retain human form: see Organization XIII. Because they lack hearts, they have no emotions, only putting on the illusion of feeling based on their memories of how they expressed themselves when they were human.

They come in far fewer 'types' than the Heartless; Dusks and Creepers fill the 'generic mook' role, with every other breed of Nobody corresponding to an Organization member in some way.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The Twilight Thorn.
* ColdSniper: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Snipers.]]
* DanceBattler: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dancers]].
* EliteMooks: To the Heartless. Nobodies are only born when particularly strong hearts are lost, so they're not as common as Heartless but are more powerful and have some minor form of intelligence instead of just going on instinct.
** The Nobodies are an unusual example of this trope in that most Nobody varieties qualify.
* EmptyShell
* EvilWeapon: Berserkers wield "cursed hammers". This probably explains the "[[UnstoppableRage Berserk]]" [[ActionCommands Reaction Command]] and the fact that it seems to drag them around.
** Creepers can turn into these.
* TheFaceless: Most varieties, but look closely at the Dragoons.
* FantasticRacism: Not ''by'' them, but rather ''of'' them. Most anyone who talks about Nobodies, up to and including Sora, talks about them as being emotionless abominations that do not deserve to exist, often in arguments with members of the Organization XIII themselves. This is most prominent in ''II'', but is toned down in later ones, to the point where in ''3D'', Sora's next outing with Riku, Sora is appalled by injustices done to the Organization XIII by [[spoiler:Xemnas himself]], and [[spoiler:tells Roxas that he always wanted to tell him he deserves as much as anyone to be his own person, not just to be Sora]].
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: How [[ActionCommands Reaction Commands]] around lesser Nobodies seem to operate, using their own powers against them.
* 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. Characters in ''II'' also comment that by the nature of their existences, they are unnatural abominations that should not exist, though later games have toned down the FantasticRacism.
* IntangibleMan: Assassins can phase through solid objects.
* [[spoiler:ItWasWithYouAllAlong: As Dream Drop Distance reveals, Xemnas lied about the nature of Nobodies to further the Xehanorts' schemes. Nobodies do start without hearts, but as they connect to others, they develop emotion, and can grow new ones. By refusing to accept their own emotions and connections, the hearts are suppressed, allowing others to [[AssimilationPlot put their own in their place, specifically Xehanort's]].]]
* NiceHat: Dancers wear one.
* [[DistaffCounterpart Nobody Counterpart]]: Twilight Thorn is this to Darkside. The Berserkers may be this to the Lance Soldier Heartless, which also has a weapon that drags it around.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Believe it or not, they are merely reanimated corpses. Very powerful, intelligent corpses
* PowerOfTheVoid: Sorcerers attack with HardLight cubes of PureEnergy, being Xemnas' personal type. Also technically, all Nobodies are beings born of Nothingness.
** The Twilight Thorn's main attack, which fires thorned streamers at its target, is similar to one Xemnas's attacks.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Creepers shapeshift into various forms freely, including swords and spears.
* SigilSpam: An inverted Heartless / Mark of Mastery logo based on [[spoiler:Master Xehanort's armor]]. You could make a drinking game out of how many Nobody symbols there are decorating the Organization's castle, but you'd probably keel over before reaching the top.
* ThemeNaming: Except for [[{{Mooks}} Dusks and Creepers]], all the "lower" Nobody types are named after ''Final Fantasy'' job classes.
* UncannyValley: An InvokedTrope in how the lesser Nobodies move, ways that seem wholly unnatural.
* UndyingLoyalty: Implied in the Dusk fight in ''II'' if taking into account Roxas' [[DefectorFromDecadence actions]] at the end of ''Days''. The Dusk Roxas fights still calls him "my liege", in spite of the fact that Roxas abandoned the Nobodies. Also, late in ''II'', upon coming to The World That Never Was, Roxas still has control of [[spoiler:Samurai Nobodies, in spite of fighting them on the way out of the Castle That Never Was weeks prior]]. An exception seems to have been made for [[spoiler:Axel and his Assassins]], however, so perhaps it was just Roxas, or because the situation was less dire for the Organization XIII as a whole at the time.
** Or perhaps [[spoiler: the Samurai Nobodies were just random Nobodies wandering around Dark City, and Sora's BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with Roxas coincidentally occurred at the same time.]]
* TheUsualAdversaries
* WeaponOfChoice:
** BarefistedMonk: Dancers.
** {{BFS}}[=/=]DropTheHammer: Berserkers.
** BladeBelowTheShoulder: Assassins, all down their arms.
** BladeOnAStick: Dragoons.
** DeathDealer: Gamblers.
** NaturalWeapon: Dusks.
** PureEnergy: Sorcerers.
** DualWielding[=/=]KatanasAreJustBetter: Samurai.
** ShapeshifterWeapon: Creepers (see above).
** SniperRifle: Snipers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Organization XIII]]
->''See Characters/KingdomHeartsOrganizationXIII''
[[/folder]]

!The Unversed
[[folder:General]]
[[quoteright:170:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The_Unversed_8946.png]]

->"The negativity took shape as these monsters. They are what I feel -— a horde of fledgling emotions under my control."
--> [[spoiler:'''Vanitas''']]

The Unversed are a horde of fledgling emotions that feed on negativity and have taken monster form. When Yen Sid informs him of their appearance, Eraqus charges Terra and Aqua with wiping them out and discovering their source.

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* EmotionEater: They apparently feed on negative emotions, though this is largely an InformedAbility.
* EldritchAbomination
* {{Expy}}[=/=]SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In terms of appearance and behaviour, there really isn't much that separates the Unversed from the Heartless. Of course, ''Birth by Sleep'' takes place before the Heartless were a world-spanning threat, so the Heartless themselves couldn't be used.
** One could argue that they are extremely similar to [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou The Noise]], after all; both of them are extensions of negative emotions and appear to be very similar in design.
* TheHeartless
* MadeOfEvil
* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:Once Vanitas is destroyed, barring GameplayAndStorySegregation in the Final Episode, the Unversed vanish from the worlds]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* TheUsualAdversaries
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bosses]]
!Mimic Master
An Unversed fought in the Mirage Arena.
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* DoppelgangerAttack: Manifests clones of the party members from its pages.
* PlayingWithFire
* ThrowTheBookAtThem
* YinYangBomb: Sends out beams of light and darkness

!Iron Imprisoner
A Unversed fought in the Mirage Arena
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* ChainedByFashion
* DropTheHammer
* PlayingWithFire
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SealedEvilInACan
* TookALevelInBadass: Each incarnation gradually frees itself from its bindings, becoming stronger and faster.

!Vanitas Remnant
A shade of Vanitas spawned in the Keyblade Graveyard after his destruction.
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* CastingAShadow
* GlassCannon: Only one health bar, but insane power.
* LastOfHisKind: In a sense, he can be considered the last of the Unversed in existence.
* NoCureForEvil: Famous for averting it; he heals himself to full HP if the player heals themselves.
** LoopholeAbuse: But only with Cure commands, items and attack commands that also heal get no reaction.
* PlayingWithFire
* SwordBeam
* TeleportSpam
[[/folder]]

!The Dream Eaters
[[folder:General]]
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/KH_Dream_Eater_9786.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[ObviouslyEvil Guess which one is the Nightmare]].]]

The Dream Eaters are the Heartless to the worlds in sleep. Sleeping worlds can't be invaded by the Heartless, so when a Heartless would normally be born in such worlds, a Dream Eater is created instead. They come in two varieties -- Spirits, who are friendly, and Nightmares, who are malicious.
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* AdorableEvilMinions: Zigzagged. Spirits are all cute or at least friendly-looking, but Nightmares run the gamut from just as cute to genuinely threatening.
* AdventurerOutfit: As its name would suggest, Iceguin Ace's attire resembles an ace pilot.
* AmbiguousGender: Most Dream Eaters, but especially Meow Wow and it's cousins Flowbermeow and Meowjesty, based on their journal entries.
* AstralProjection: Aura Lion and Keeba Tiger.
* BearsAreBadNews[=/=]PandaingToTheAudience: Kooma Panda can invoke both with its Nightmare and Spirit variations.
* BigFriendlyDog[=/=]MegaNeko: Meow Wow, Flowbermeow, and Meowjesty.
* ABoyAndHisX: Not only are Spirit-Type Dream Eater recruitable and can be raised like pets, Sora and Riku also develope quite adorable relationships with their starter Dream Eaters, Meow Wow and Komory Bat, the first of which Sora ends up lovingly nicknaming "Eata". [[spoiler: Sora ends up keeping all his Dream Eaters for companionship in the end, when he decides to embark on a journey on his own.]]
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Pricklemane.
* ChestMonster: Jestabocky, which is [[GoddamnedBats very annoying]] when looking for chests you possibly missed. Perhaps in this form he's a [[IncrediblyLamePun Chestabocky.]]
* KnightInShiningArmor: The Kyroo series of Dream Eaters. Sir Kyroo is a winged frog that wields a lily pad and cucumber-like vegetable, which gives the appearance of a knight. [[LethalChef Chef]] Kyroo gives off the same imagery, but with a chef's hat and weilding a pan and a pot lid. [[spoiler:Lord Kyroo is a frog who is also a proper knight, wearing a cape and weilding an actual Rapier and shield. In addition to the usual movements of the other Kyroos, he blows a kiss with a visible heart coming out. He's also a BonusBoss, and the only Nightmare (if he is one) that doesn't seem to want to kill you, but rather says "I challenge thee", something the player can decline, and leaves the battle once the player deals a fair amount of damage. The actual fight has him running away pretty cowardly, ironically enough, but once defeated he gives the recipe for a spirit version of himself that fights like a proper knight.]] They're KnightsErrant, travelling with the player.
* CuteKitten: Necho Cat and Frootz Cat.
* DanceBattler: Necho Cat and Frootz Cat.
* DarkIsNotEvil: They're expressions of darkness, just like the Heartless, but many are perfectly non-antagonistic.
* DemBones: Skelterild and Fishboné.
* DePower: Staggercep Dream Eaters have an attack that can prevent Sora and Riku from using commands.
* DetachmentCombat: Skelterild and Fishboné.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Tyranto Rex and Skelterwild are based on Dinosaurs but have Draconic traits.
* EldritchAbomination
** LovecraftLite: See DarkIsNotEvil above.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Of Darkness, more or less-they aren't actually corrupted hearts like the Heartless, they seem to be creations of Darkness itself, devoid of any foreign influence. Each Dream Eater is also associated with one element, which will determine it's strengths and weaknesses as apropriate:
** AnIcePerson: Ducky Goose, Iceguin Ace, Juggle Pup, R & R Seal, and Skelterwild.
** CastingAShadow: Fishbone, Frootz Cat, Ghostabocky, Keeba Tiger, Komory Bat, Majik Lapin, Necho Cat, Peepsta Hoo, Toximander, and Woeflower.
** LightTheWay: Aura Lion, Flowbermeow, Halbird, and Pegaslick, as well as the boss Spellican.
** MakingASplash: Fin Fatale, Sir Kyroo, Tatsu Steed, Wheeflower, and Zolephant, as well as the boss Chill Clawbster.
** NonElemental: The Dream Eaters not mentioned elsewhere go here, as well as these bosses: Hockomonkey (both versions), Queen Buzzerfly, Wargoyle (both versions), Brawlamari, Holey Moley, and Anti Black Coat Nightmare.
** PlayingWithFire: Chef Kyroo, Drak Quack, Eaglider, Hebby Repp, Ryu Dragon, Sudo Neku, Tatsu Blaze, Tyranto Rex, and Yoggy Ram, as well as the boss Char Clawbster.
** ShockAndAwe: Cyber Yog, Electricorn, Jestabocky, Lord Kyroo, and Thunderaffe, as well as the boss Commantis.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Fire > Blizzard > Thunder > Water > Fire... Light and Dark-type Dream Eaters are both strong and weak against each other. Fire-type Dream Eaters also have a slight weakness against Blizzard, while Blizzard-type Dream Eaters have a slight resistance against Water. The seventh type of Dream Eaters don't really have a weakness or resistance, but may be a little weak against all elements if they are physically inclined.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin[=/=]YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord: The Japanese names of the different species tend to be very cut-and-dried or bilingually redundant. The English version's names, when not [[{{Woolseyism}} adapting puns]], retain this redundancy, but tend to go for [[MyNaymeIs odd spellings for the Japanese portion of the name]], such as adapting "Kaeru Chef" as "Chef Kyroo".
* {{Expy}}: Story-wise, mentioned in-universe; it's mentioned that they're the equivalent of Heartless in places where the Heartless can't spawn. Gameplay-wise, they avert it though; while Nobodies and Unversed had equivalents[=/=]analogues to certain Heartless enemies, the Dream Eaters lack any of those.
** The Kyroos appear to be expies of Frog from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', being knightly frogs. They also have their own version of his jumping slash, and [[spoiler:Lord Kyroo]] acts very chivalrous and speeks in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe just like Frog [[spoiler:despite being a Nightmare.]] Their Link Attack with Sora, Decussation, is basically Frog and Chrono's X-Strike dual tech spammed repeatedly. The base Sir Kyroo is also [[MakingASplash water elemental.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Spirits apparently have golden eyes when in a neutral mood but can change to turquoise or green in other circumstances.
* FeatheredFiend: Halbird, Eaglider.
* FrogsAndToads: The Kyroo series. [[spoiler:The Lord Kyroo is a BonusBoss.]]
** [[spoiler:CowardlyBoss: Similiar to [[FinalFantasyVI Deathgaze]], Lord Kyroo will run away once enough time has passed, forcing you to track it down anew. It's HP won't recover between battles, also (thankfully) like Deathgaze.]]
* HairRaisingHare: Me Me Bunny and Majik Lapin.
* TheHeartless: Much like their TropeNamer cousins. Inverted for Spirits, who are born of powerful ''positive'' emotions, and [[DarkIsNotEvil it shows]].
* LightEmUp: Dream Eaters such as Pegaslick can use light based attacks such as Spark.
* LightIsNotGood: Some Nightmares such as Pegaslick are able to use light-based attacks.
* LuckyTranslation[=/=]{{Woolseyism}}: A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. Wandanyan's name doesn't simply mean Wonder Meow, but it is also a pun on the onomatopoeia for a dog's bark, (wanwan). By using the English onomatopoeia "bow wow" for the pun, they were able to keep the spirit of Wandanyan's name as Meow Wow.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: [[spoiler: Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]], unlike the other monster species, who were all created and/or led by an individual villain. Perhaps this is one reason why certain Dream Eaters are benevolent.]]
* MascotMook: Possibly due to overwhelming popularity, Meow Wow is THE Dream Eater, with a giant baloon based on Flombermeow in Traverse Town and its face adorning all the icons in the spirits menu, and is also the trophy in the Flick Rush. They're also the picture above.
* MiniBoss: A normal Dream Eater will occasionally serve as this. The Tyranto Rex is an especially good example of this.
* MonsterClown: Jestabocky. Their Japanese name, "Obake Pierrot", is basically a direct translation of the trope's name.
** NonIronicClown: Their Spirit versions.
* {{Mons}}: The spirits, which very similar to {{Spectrobes}} (another Disney property interestingly enough), can be created and used as your party fighting alongside you. They grow stronger with battle, but can also be trained using Toys and simply petting them. In return, they get more competent AI and can unlock commands.
* ObviouslyEvil: It's not exactly difficult to tell a Nightmare from a Spirit.
* OneGenderRace: Ducky Goose. Their journal entry hints that they are all male.
** Same with Aura Lion, Drill Sye and the Kyroo triplets
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Ryu Dragon and Drak Quack.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Jestabocky and Ghostaboky.
* PaletteSwap: The Spirits and Nightmares are this to each other. They're both brightly colored, but Spirits tend to be pink, turquoise, and white while Nightmares tend to be purple, yellow, and black. There are also special Nightmare variants that use paler colors than regular Nightmares.
* PantheraAwesome: Aura Lion and Keeba Lion.
* {{Pegasus}}: Pegaslick.
* PiranhaProblem: Fin Fatale and Fishboné.
* {{Pun}}: A great many of their names amount to this, with varying degrees of [[IncrediblyLamePun lameness]]. For example, "Holey Moley".
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Nightmares.
* RepetitiveName: Many, but not all of them have names that consist of the English name of the animal they resemble followed by a phonetic variant of the equivalent Japanese word (or vice versa).
* RhinoRampage: Drill Sye.
* RobeAndWizardHat: Majik Lapin
* SeahorseSteed: Sora can invoke this trope with Tatsu Steed and Tatsu Blaze.
* SigilSpam: Interesting in that they have two different ones. Spirits have their own Sigil and so do the Nightmares.
* StockDinosaurs: Three: the ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]''-based Tyranto Rex and [[DemBones Skelterwild]], and the Triceratops-based Cera Terror.
* TurnsRed: Several Dream Eaters will invoke this trope literally.
* TheUsualAdversaries
* {{Unicorn}}: Electricorn.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bosses]]
!Hockomonkey

A mandrill Nightmare summoned by Unknown/[[spoiler:Young Xehanort]] in Traverse Town. It has two forms: the Brute form and the Mage form, who fights Sora and Riku respectively. [[spoiler:The Brute form is also the first of the Nightmares summoned by Spellican to fight Sora on his second visit to Traverse Town.]]
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* CognizantLimbs: The Mage form's hands. The Mage form can also split up into hands that attack you with various things from the arena. [[spoiler:Defeating all the hands allows you to attack Hockomonkey without it retaliating for a while.]]
* ManiacMonkeys
* PlayingWithFire: The Mage form, which can shoot {{Fireball}}s.
* RaymanianLimbs: The Mage form shows this the most, though the Brute form can also do this.
* StageMagician: Hockomonkey's Mage form is reminiscent of these.
** MagiciansAreWizards
** EvilSorcerer: However, it's pretty amateurish compared to the Spellican.
* WarmUpBoss
** WakeUpCallBoss: The Mage form that Riku faces is more difficult to handle than the Brute form whom Sora faces. [[spoiler:And on the second visit, the Brute form's stats have been boosted, in addition to the fight taking place in a smaller area that makes its attacks harder to avoid.]]
** RecurringBoss: Faced once with Sora and once with Riku. [[spoiler:Then faced once again with Sora on your second visit to Traverse Town.]]

!Queen Buzzerfly

A bee Nightmare that is only faced during Dive sequences. Faced first by Riku, then much latter by Sora.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies
* EverythingsWorseWithBees
* FlunkyBoss: Spawns Buzzerflys to attack you, and you have to destroy them to expose its weak spot.
** RecurringBoss: Faced by Riku in his Dive to La Cité des Cloches, and later by Sora in his Dive to The World That Never Was.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Almost too literally. The only hint you get that you're going to have to fight it is that the music for the Dive sequence is different than normal.

!Wargoyle

A gargoyle Nightmare under the command of [[spoiler:Frollo]], who can appear with or without wings. The wingless version eventually eventually fights Sora, while the winged version assaults Riku. [[spoiler:The wingless version is also the second of the Nightmares summoned by Spellican to fight Sora on his second visit to Traverse Town.]]
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* GoodWingsEvilWings: The winged version is most certainly of the evil kind.
* OurGargoylesRock
* PlayingWithFire: Both versions.
* RecurringBoss: The wingless version is faced once with Sora, while the winged one assaults Riku before fighting him for real. [[spoiler:The wingless version is also one of the boss Nightmares sumoned by Spellican to fight Sora on the second visit to Traverse Town.]]
** AdvancingBossOfDoom: Riku's first encounter with Wargoyle.
** WakeUpCallBoss: Both versions. [[spoiler:The wingless version gets to be this again on Sora's second visit to Traverse Town.]]
* SpinAttack: One of the attacks of the wingless version.

!Brawlamari

An octopus Nightmare that is only faced during Dive sequences. Faced first by Sora, then later by Riku.
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* CombatTentacles: Can be used for head-on attacking, as well as laser-firing. [[spoiler:Including a really big one that can only be avoided by going behind rocks that appear during the fight with Riku.]]
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Almost literally. The only hint you get that you're going to have to fight it is that the music for the Dive sequence is different than normal.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Can use these.
** WaveMotionGun: [[spoiler:For its second fight against Riku. You have to hide behind a rock to avoid it.]]
* RecurringBoss: Faced once by Sora during the Dive sequence for the Grid, then latter by Riku during the Dive sequence for Country of the Musketeers.

!Commantis

A mantis Nightmare commanded by [[spoiler:CLU-2]], faced by Riku in the Grid. [[spoiler:In actuality, its actually a Spirit ''repurposed'' into helping CLU.]]
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* BigCreepyCrawlies
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: About halfway though the boss fight (and as the finishing blow) its giant spinning ring becomes four legs and it turns into a large Spirit Dream Eater which are benevolent by nature, meaning its being influence by an outside force. This explains its unfocused, twitchy movements; The red lightening that continuously strikes the disk in its head from [[spoiler: CLU's ship]] is the cause.
* DyingAsYourself:[[spoiler: It fades away as its original Spirit persona when defeated.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Notable in that, unlike other Nightmares, its eyes are in a curved, teardrop design, [[spoiler:hinting at its true nature.]]
* RecurringBoss: Faced once by Riku while on a hoverbike, then again at the very end of his story in the Grid.
* ShockAndAwe

!Chill Clawbster

A giant lobster Nightmare with ice lasers that show up out of nowhere in Prankster's Paradise [[spoiler:when Pinocchio and Jiminy are swallowed by Monstro]], who then proceeds to [[spoiler:freeze Monstro alive]]. It's fought by Sora immediately after that.
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* [[AnIcePerson An Ice Lobster]]: Uses mostly ice attacks [[spoiler:and froze Monstro alive]].
* FrickinLaserBeams: Of the ice element.
* GetBackHereBoss: Tends to move about on the battlefield, [[spoiler:and attempts to [[CowardlyBoss flee]] once weakened]]. [[spoiler:It does not flee in rematches, where you have to take its HP down the normal way.]]
** TacticalSuicideBoss: If only it hadn't [[spoiler:smashed the ice one last time]], allowing Sora to [[spoiler:free Monstro]] and take up the chase.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
* HeliCritter: Can use its tail as a propeller.
* PowerUp: Can do this infrequently during battles, which gives it access to the real guns.
* UndergroundMonkey: Averted, Both lobster bosses have notable differences from each other, and possess different attacks.

!Char Clawbster

A giant lobster Nightmare with fire projectiles that Riku encounters inside Monstro. [[spoiler:It is also the last of the Nightmares summoned by Spellican to fight Sora on his second visit to Traverse Town.]]
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* GetBackHereBoss: Uses the large area it has to its advantage, and can switch to the ceiling as well. [[spoiler:It doesn't have as big advantage during its fight with Sora on his second visit to Traverse Town.]]
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Though it is at least hinted a little bit beforehand, unlike its counterpart.
* PlayingWithFire: Uses mostly fire attacks.
* PowerUp: Same deal as its chillier counterpart.
* RecurringBoss: Faced once with Riku in Monstro, then [[spoiler:once with Sora as one of the Nightmares summoned by the Spellican]].
* UndergroundMonkey: Averted, Both lobster bosses have notable differences from each other, and possess different attacks.

!Holey Moley

A mole Nightmare faced by Riku in Country of the Musketeers.
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* AffablyEvil: compared to other Nightmares at the very least, like Wargoyle or Spellican.
* BreatherBoss: comes with being in the BreatherEpisode of the game.
* DisproportionateRetribution: It trips Riku, and pokes him in the back when it very clearly had an opening to do something worse, Riku's response is to destroy it outright.
* GetBackHereBoss: Whack-A-Mole style. The area it fights in is pretty large as well, to give it the advantage.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
* KnightInShiningArmor: Styled after the musketeer version. Is anything but.
* PokeThePoodle: Compared to other Nightmares at least, Holey's actions are excessively tame.
* ThinkingUpPortals: how it attacks and moves around the backstage area.

!Spellican

A pellican Nightmare first encountered during the heroes' second visit to Traverse Town, where it summons Nightmares to stop Sora, Riku, and the TWEWY cast. It latter appears in Symphony of Sorcery, where it interferes with Yen Sid's reckless apprentice at the time: Mickey Mouse.
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* AttentionWhore
* DeathFromAbove: Can bombard you with stars...
** ColonyDrop: And meteors.
* EvilSorcerer
* GetBackHereBoss: Through ''dimensions'' and other worlds. It's basically its Modus Operandi.
** BossRush: Responsible for one of these, that happens to Sora during his second visit to Traverse town.
** FlunkyBoss: Summons Nightmare Dream Eaters to deal with Sora and Riku and the TWEWY cast. It can also summon brooms during its fight with Sora in Symphony of Sorcery.
** RecurringBoss: Well, kind off. The first time you face it in Traverse Town, it summons Nightmare bosses you've fought before to try to finish Sora off. It fights Sora for real when he catches up to it in Symphony of Sorcery.
* IgnoredEnemy: When Riku first comes across it fighting Beat and Rhyme, They stop mid-battle to talk about insults, jokes and introductions. At first its reasonably calm, looking back forth between its chatting adversaries, but as the conversation drags on, it quickly gets mad and brings their focus back to it by summoning another wave of Dream Eaters to attack.
* LaserBlade: Can turn its broomstick into one.
* ShockAndAwe
* SummonMagic: How it brings forth its Dream Eater minions, and brooms.
* TurnsRed: When low on health, it begins to use its more dangerous spells.

!Anti Black Coat
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A mysterious entity shrouded in a black longcoat, it is [[spoiler:a Nightmare spawned from the darkness in Sora's heart, and is the one trapping him in a nightmare]] in ''Dream Drop Distance''. It wears a black coat but has magenta patterns on the edges and never shows its face.
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* BeamSpam
* BlackCloak
* CastingAShadow
* DualWielding
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Manifests from within Sora and is a Nightmare type Dream Eater]].
* EvilCounterpart: To [[spoiler:Riku, the counterpart Spirit that has been protecting Sora during the exam]].
* TheFaceless: Except for the eyes, nothing is seen of the face at all.
* GlowingEyes: The only visible facial feature, setting it apart from many other BlackCloak and InTheHood figures in Franchise/KingdomHearts.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: Black, purple, ''and'' red? This thing screams evil.
* HPToOne: The LifeDrain attack mentioned below inflicts this on you. [[TurnsRed Then he gets mad]] and starts zooming in for a sword combo before you can heal...
* InTheHood
* LaserBlade: Like Xemnas and the Unknown it wields two, but its are purple and black.
* LifeDrain: Can drain Riku's HP into health orbs it absorbs for itself.
* NoCureForEvil: Averted.
* NoNameGiven
* NothingIsScarier: A hood obscuring everything but a {{Mook}}-like pair of eyes is rather creepy.
* PowerFloats
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Many of its attacks are red and black.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Like Vanitas before Ven's connection with Sora,]] all you can make out of its face is a pair of glowing red eyes.
* SigilSpam: A Nightmare emblem appears on its back when it notices the Spirit on on Riku's clothing, and the emblem appears in several of its attacks.
* SwordBeam
* TeleportSpam
* ThemeSongReveal: Averted. [[spoiler:Its battle theme takes cues from "Hunter of the Dark", the battle theme for the giant red-eyed Heartless Aqua fights in the Realm of Darkness, but they have no connection.]]
* TheVoiceless
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