There's so many heartless in the Kingdom Hearts universe. There's Search Ghost, Sheltering Zone, Sea Neon, Screwdiver, Aquatank, Gargoyle, Wight Knight, Pirate, Air Pirate, Battleship, Neoshadows, Darkball, Wyvern, Defender, Wizard, White Mushroom, Black Fungus, Rare Truffle, Invisible, Angel Star, Bit Sniper, 

Spring Metal, Air Viking, Magic Phantom, Perplex, Runemaster, Iron Hammer, Mad Bumper, Silent Launcher, Reckless, Lance Warrior, Necromancer, and Aerial Champ. That's just some of the many heartless. With these many heartless, surely people have favorite heartless. So, which heartless is your favorite? I have to say Neoshadows. They gang up at Sora in groups, while aiding each in battle and revive each other. They provide the perfect challenge for level one walkthroughs.

The Ice Blocks (I forget the proper name) in Beast's Castle in DAYS. 

Pretty easier to knock out if you load up on Fire.

it's a total cliche but

Guardian

Not counting bosses, Invisible. They just look so badass to me and I think it's really cool to fight other enemies that have cool sword skills (same reason Samurai are my favorite Nobodies). They definitely feel like this-is-the-last-level material.

Assault rider from land of dragons. When i first started playing they were the most annoying S.O.B's that i ever fought and i love a challenge. Other than them Behemoth

Edited July 18, 201510 yr by Eternalsleep

I really liked the Dark Balls in the first game. The hyper aggression of them and their gnashing teeth kind of made them seem more fearsome than the average Heartless, and the part in the final battle where all you can see is their eyes makes them all the more creepy.

Guard Armor , Defender and  Large Body .

Dark Thorn.

The heartless from the first Kingdom Hearts game, with those big shields with a face of a dog or wolf. And those griffin heartless.

I really liked the Dark Balls in the first game. The hyper aggression of them and their gnashing teeth kind of made them seem more fearsome than the average Heartless, and the part in the final battle where all you can see is their eyes makes them all the more creepy.

 

Definitely agree. All the end game Heartless in KH1 are pretty firetrucking creepy, especially if you're a kid (and that's not even counting the bosses- Phantom will forever haunt me, for instance).

Angel Star and the Wizards are my fav.

Dark Hide looks awesome but if we're not counting bosses

Angel Star and Zip Slasher are the most cool looking. There must be others but I don't really remember them all.

I really liked the Dark Balls in the first game. The hyper aggression of them and their gnashing teeth kind of made them seem more fearsome than the average Heartless, and the part in the final battle where all you can see is their eyes makes them all the more creepy.

Definitely agree. All the end game Heartless in KH1 are pretty firetrucking creepy, especially if you're a kid (and that's not even counting the bosses- Phantom will forever haunt me, for instance).

late game heartless are basically the point where they stopped trying to be Disney with the designs, and basically just made Final Fantasy enemies (not that things like Angels and Invisibles don't kinda match Disney's biblical imagery)

Shadows...

Not because they are easy, but because they are [somewhat] cute

late game heartless are basically the point where they stopped trying to be Disney with the designs, and basically just made Final Fantasy enemies (not that things like Angels and Invisibles don't kinda match Disney's biblical imagery)

 

I mean, they were still kinda cartoony (mostly the big yellow eyes) but still threatening- like, Behemoths are almost stuffed animal-like with how rounded they are and how soft their textures are, but they've also got huge tusks and horns on their head that shoot lightning at you, so it's this cool mix of both silly and serious. The only ones I ever though really look straight up menacing are Invisibles, and that because they're literally demons (I always sort of thought they were supposed to heavily resemble Chernabog, since you fight them mostly in End Of The World and they're dark winged humanoids, thought that might just be because I'm not nearly as familiar with FF designs, so it could be some obvious FF enemy I don't know about).

 

Point is, they still incorporated some kind of Disney-esque cuteness into the designs, but did go more typical FF style monster design, and I think it worked really well- kinda like KH in general. They felt like they were seriously threatening because of that, and KH1 was really the only game to rock the enemy design for Heartless so well (compare to KH2 where pretty much every Heartless design is a cartoon, or Days where almost everything is a reskin).

Edited July 18, 201510 yr by HeyMouseSayCheese

Every single one who first appeared in Hollow Bastion (KH1) and the End of the World, especially the Invisible.

That's the reason Hollow Bastion is my favorite world in KH1(well, that and the amazing soundtrack).

I mean, they were still kinda cartoony (mostly the big yellow eyes) but still threatening- like, Behemoths are almost stuffed animal-like with how rounded they are and how soft their textures are, but they've also got huge tusks and horns on their head that shoot lightning at you, so it's this cool mix of both silly and serious. The only ones I ever though really look straight up menacing are Invisibles, and that because they're literally demons (I always sort of thought they were supposed to heavily resemble Chernabog, since you fight them mostly in End Of The World and they're dark winged humanoids, thought that might just be because I'm not nearly as familiar with FF designs, so it could be some obvious FF enemy I don't know about).

 

Point is, they still incorporated some kind of Disney-esque cuteness into the designs, but did go more typical FF style monster design, and I think it worked really well- kinda like KH in general. They felt like they were seriously threatening because of that, and KH1 was really the only game to rock the enemy design for Heartless so well (compare to KH2 where pretty much every Heartless design is a cartoon, or Days where almost everything is a reskin).

I think KH2 did pretty good at times

I think KH2 did pretty good at times

 

I was more referring to standard enemies than bosses. If we count boss designs, well then yeah, I do think pretty much every KH game gets those really well, even ones I don't like. For threatening or creepy regular enemies, KH2 really just had Gargoyle Knights/Warriors (mostly because they're surprising, I feel) and Living Bones (because SKULLZ) and I guess technically Graveyards, though I never see them as much as I do Toy Soldiers which are way sillier. And none of those were encountered really late game like Invisibles and Angel Stars were so it didn't feel nearly as tense.

 

Not that I'm really complaining, by the way- KH2 had decent enemy designs for all the Heartless, and the spooky menacing role was filled perfectly by Nobodies (who primarily existed late game anyway, so that helped). It's just one of the things from KH1 that, in retrospect, I'm realizing was done really really well.

I was more referring to standard enemies than bosses. If we count boss designs, well then yeah, I do think pretty much every KH game gets those really well, even ones I don't like. For threatening or creepy regular enemies, KH2 really just had Gargoyle Knights/Warriors (mostly because they're surprising, I feel) and Living Bones (because SKULLZ) and I guess technically Graveyards, though I never see them as much as I do Toy Soldiers which are way sillier. And none of those were encountered really late game like Invisibles and Angel Stars were so it didn't feel nearly as tense.

 

Not that I'm really complaining, by the way- KH2 had decent enemy designs for all the Heartless, and the spooky menacing role was filled perfectly by Nobodies (who primarily existed late game anyway, so that helped). It's just one of the things from KH1 that, in retrospect, I'm realizing was done really really well.

hm, yeah, in terms of regular heartless all KH2 really has going for it is Neoshadows. and those were much scarier in KH1

Ansem, Seeker Of Darkness aka Terranort's Heartless.

Edited July 20, 201510 yr by Guest

Anything that I can easily defeat without having to spam Curaga.

Edited August 2, 201510 yr by Ryanicool110

Ansem.

Ansem SoD of course

No need to explain why

Edited August 4, 201510 yr by Seeker Of Nothingness

 

gotta go with the shadow heartless. i love the way they twitch and kinda seem to writhe around. how they just flatten into the ground and come back up and slash at you. there pretty cute.

That badass Dragon Heartless from Land of Dragons... 

 

...Unless Hydra counts. We all know why we loved that one.

Either White Mushroom or Hunter of the Dark.

 

White Mushroom because I always need stuff. Who doesn't need stuff? Stuff is great.

 

Hunter of the Dark because of the amazing fight music. Seriously, listen to this amazing junk:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiVlIUix54g

 

 

Also...

 

 

...Unless Hydra counts. We all know why we loved that one.

 

 

"GET ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET ON THE HYDRA'S BACK!"

Edited August 7, 201510 yr by SarcasmAbounds