She's not useless as some think. Even before kh3 she's an important character. I'm just going to start by listing accomplishments

 

BBS: gave Aqua the Destiny's embrace keychain by giving her the flowers

 

KH1: Without Kairi the Kingdom Hearts series would most likely not even exist. Kairi is how Sora and Riku found out about other worlds and why they wanted to travel to them. Had she not been there all kh events would'nt happen. She also serves as the main drive for Sora to continue his journey in KH1 and she is the reason Sora was able to recover his somebody form after becoming a heartless.

 

Com: She once again serves as a drive for Sora to continue through Castle Oblivion until his memories of her become replaced. And Namine ends up using Kairi's form to help Riku control his light and darkness. While this isn't directly Kairi doing anything this shows an impact she has on Riku.

 

KH Days: Xion greatly resembles Kairi to Roxas because of the fact that sora's memories with Kairi are the strongest.

 

KH2: 

Starting off with this we see yet again that Kairi is important to Sora. And she gets her keyblade in KH2.

 

Coded: Admittedly she doesn't really do anything in Coded besides giving Sora the letter from Mickey.
 

KH3D: Besides appearing in The World That Never Was as a figment Kairi also is eluded to being a light in the secret ending.

 

Keeping all of this in mind she'll most likely also be doing a lot of fighting and usefulness in KH3 as well.

Still.

Hate.

Her.

Guts.

Kinda always has, kinda always will.

Thing is, all of those things (save for giving Aqua a new keyblade, which had no impact on the plot) are things done TO her, or things ABOUT her.  She's not an active, engaging character and the way the plot has been structured until now meant that she couldn't be active even when she wanted to be.  The things you listed have more to do with WHAT she is (Sora's friend and a PoH) than WHO she is.  No, you can't take her out of the equation and have things stay the same, but he entire role so far has been a reactor.  She doesn't move the plot--I mean regarding who she is as a character as a person, not what she is--the plot moves her.

not sure if this is Weiss' attempt to start a shitstorm

 

Kairi is gonna be fighting a lot in KH3.

 

Why do I have a feeling Javelin is going to make a comment on this topic?

Thing is, all of those things (save for giving Aqua a new keyblade, which had no impact on the plot) are things done TO her, or things ABOUT her.  She's not an active, engaging character and the way the plot has been structured until now meant that she couldn't be active even when she wanted to be.  The things you listed have more to do with WHAT she is (Sora's friend and a PoH) than WHO she is.  No, you can't take her out of the equation and have things stay the same, but he entire role so far has been a reactor.  She doesn't move the plot--I mean regarding who she is as a character as a person, not what she is--the plot moves her.

That doesn't change her importance

That doesn't change her importance

 

Yes, she's important.  That doesn't mean she's a good character.

didn't riku give her that keyblade?

didn't riku give her that keyblade?

Yes

"she gets her keyblade"

from Riku

Edited April 30, 201312 yr by Weiss

Yeah, I think she'll have a pretty big part in KH3. She's still important in KH1 and 2, but it's just that the recent games have no reason for her to be important in terms of the storyline. 

 

Days didn't even follow anyone close to her (except for the fact that Xion looked like her)

BBS, she was, what, three? Four? It's hard to be relevant in that context.

Coded was strictly about Sora. Heck, technically speaking, Riku didn't even appear at all in this game either.

3D couldn't have included her that much. If she was in Sora and Riku's Mark of Mastery exam, it would be weird because there'd be no reason for her to be there. (not to mention having a third character on the drop gauge would be HELL)

 

So each of these games can't possibly add anything to her character, because Nomura would have needed to take quite a stretch to make her relevant in each of their individual storylines. But KH3 will be a great reason for her to be important again. 

Edited April 30, 201312 yr by Jim

I'm hoping that Kairi becomes more of a 3 Dimensional character in the future. Maybe even playable.

not sure if this is Weiss' attempt to start a shitstorm

 

Kairi is gonna be fighting a lot in KH3.

 

Why do I have a feeling Javelin is going to make a comment on this topic?

*A wild Javelin appears *

 

*reads post* I'm unsure as well as to whether or not this was an attempt of starting a s#!tstorm...

 

Coded was understandable since it was mostly about Sora's adventures. Riku technically wasn't even supposed to be in the game, but somehow they managed to flawlessly make that happen. 

 

I would add more but someone already beat me to it HERE (And go figure, I was first to comment on the thread...)

 

Also: Totally called it Xamtweth-ReMIXed Have a cookie:

Edited May 1, 201312 yr by Javelin434

I still hope Nomura makes a game for Kairi were she is the only playable character.

My problem with Kairi isn't so much that she's "useless" rather that she's not so much a character than she's an object that just so happens to walk and talk.