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MX having a quick and painless demise. How fair would that be to people like TAV?

Vanitas invoking The Dog Bites Back for all his abuse from MX (as Alpha Baymax suggested), Saix/Isa invoking Redemption Equals Death for Axel/Lea (as LETTERSE7EN suggested), or Terra (and/or Eraqus) invoking Woobie, Destroyer Of Worlds by stealing KH from MX in order to invoke Taking You With Me on the Seekers.

But sadly, DDD only seemed too eager to just make it worse---the illusion scene where Terra and Aqua left Ven in despair, the fact that now they'll most likely return feeling like s*** for failing to even hinder MX's master plan (even helping it along), Ven's Armor being useless to Sora (thus giving Ven yet another Butt Monkey moment just to make MX's Darkness even more of a Villain Sue force), etc. Just... firetruck that game.

MX: *Can't possess anyone too self-aware.* *Has no trouble possessing someone not only self-aware enough to create an armored juggernaut that actually defeats MX, but also containing the awareness of the most anti-Darkness man in the universe.* Yoda: "Consistency, Nomura lacks."

DDD turning MX into a time-traveling Aizen, making all the heroes and other villains his b****es, and committing homicide on all our nostalgia and senses of accomplishment.

Given what little we've seen of Terranort as ATW's apprentice, there's probably some major behind-the-scenes shenanigans with Terra and Eraqus. I mean, why else even have them there?

1. "King Of Pain" by Sting & The Police being the main theme (if Utada can't return for whatever reason(s)). 2. Terra's and Eraqus's Hearts actually being up to clever behind-the-scenes stuff all along. 3. The real final boss being someone/something of Light trying to use KH to undo all of MX's Darkness-related damage, but ultimately going too far.

I want the real final boss to be someone/something of Light trying to use KH to undo MX's damage but going too far in desperation to prevent it from happening again. Unless such a betrayal is successful, it serves no purpose other than to reinforce MX's Villain Sue status at the expense of yet another character's credibility.

I still think it should be King Of Pain by Sting & The Police.

As long as as many people as possible can get it, I'll be happy.

So far, all we have are candidates, not confirmed Guardians.

If MX gets KH, then he could presumably influence the Princesses like that, given their connection to it.

Yep, it's time to move on, especially since there's now nothing left to like about MX (At least Leonard Nimoy gave him cool lines and screentime.).

Luxord does need to come back, as does Demyx. Those 2 had the least development out of all the original Org. members---and it was a shame, too, because their personalities and powers were made of win.

Anything short of MX either ending up trapped in some "torment" of his own or dying a completely broken man will make me finally rage-quit the series for good.

Not me---I've been calling it out since 2012: The main villain is way too cheap and depressing, the heroes keep firetrucking up in the long run, and the director badly needs to go to rehab for his retcon addiction.

Once, there was a cheap Villain Sue. He was so cheap that everyone died. The End.

The fact that MX must look invincible no matter what, no matter how many @$$ Pulls and retcons it takes, no matter how many other characters lose credibility as a result, and no matter how many fans' nostalgia turns into Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy.

Did Eraqus just hint that Light might be some kind of threat in KH3, too?

Story. Give us some proverbial painkiller to help our headaches from all the convolutions that DDD caused until KH3.

This has been a terrible year for screen legends. ;_;

Dream Drop Distance - No Forced Drops, time travel, or retcon-spamming.

Is that picture recent? If so, then he's clearly aged like fine-@$$ wine.

Jiminy's Journal repeatedly states it, and Mickey explicitly says Riku kept his Heart but lost his Body.