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The old one had cool characters with unique personalities and powers. The new one is just the byproduct of some old fart's Villain Sue trip.

"MX is right about Light and Darkness being out of balance!" IMO, the "tyranny of Light" seems far preferable--no demonic entities, shadowy apocalypses, abusive sorcerers, etc. And isn't the Realm Of Light kind of supposed to be Light-heavy anyway? "Eraqus is a bigoted idiot!" No, he's a desperate extremist who frankly has plenty of good reason to be paranoid against Darkness. And while he does make a... less-than-stellar... judgment call about Ven and Terra, he ultimately goes to make up for it by sending his Light into Terra as a preemptive countermeasure against MX's Darkness. "Terra's Heart gets completely engulfed by MX's!" Really? The Heart of the guy whose sheer emotions were strong enough to create the Lingering Will, combined with the Heart of the biggest Light-worshipper of all time... just falls flat in an anticlimactic fashion to the Heart of some self-serving hypocrite who let himself get corrupted by Darkness by being too arrogant to wear his Armor? CHEEEEEEEEEAP!!!

Yes, but ASOD had to eject Riku's Heart first, meaning MX would've had to do the same with Terra's and Eraqus's Hearts first.

You speak as if they haven't already screwed us over (*Cough!*DreamDropDistance.*Cough!*).

He'll most likely return via some kind of troll method involving Eraqus's Heart.

The @$$ Pull to end all @$$ Pulls. But at least it would be something different besides "The Xehanort Show."

Who said it automatically had to be the present version?

Can't argue with the first sentence, but as for the second, that's actually my point: control over the past version via time travel.

An alternative theory (and the one I believe most) is simply Terranort from BBS via time travel.

http://kh13.com/forum/topic/34230-ultimate-spoiler-nomura-interview%ce%b1-photos-from-kh3d-ultimania/page-2

Ultimania.

All Nomura's said about it is this: "In this game, Master Xehanort does not appear in the form of Terra-Xehanort when he transferred his heart, but as the old man he was before he took control of Terra's body. During the revival, what happened to Terra's body, and Terra's heart that was in opposition to Xehanort's control? In Kingdom Hearts, Birth by Sleep, it is to be considered that it was thought the whereabouts of the heart of Terra's master, Eraqus rested within his body."

I doubt it's so cut-and-dry. Nomura (in an Ultimania interview): "In this game, Master Xehanort does not appear in the form of Terra-Xehanort when he transferred his heart, but as the old man he was before he took control of Terra's body. During the revival, what happened to Terra's body, and Terra's heart that was in opposition to Xehanort's control? In Kingdom Hearts, Birth by Sleep, it is to be considered that it was thought the whereabouts of the heart of Terra's master, Eraqus rested within his body."

No, I said Eraqus's Heart would be.

Was hoping DDD would hint at it. Instead, time travel and MOAR RETCONS LOL.

She's a witch; why are you surprised?

I know; I meant to say it (Eraqus) would be underwhelming if it didn't pay off (ultimately failed to help Terra, despite that Blank Points buildup).

I personally think it's just the BBS version via time travel.

However, him still being Terranort would also be very underwhelming, as he's also "possessed" by Eraqus (and therefore his Light). Pointless MacGuffin would be pointless.

Robert Englund? MX: "Welcome to MY Darkness, B***H!"

Xemnas is already gone---he only appears in DDD and beyond by being time-travelled from some point before his death.

In reality, give it another year or two.

"So, which one of us is Mary Kane, and which one of us is Ashley?"

I personally nominate Robert Englund, a.k.a. Freddy Krueger.

Dear Nomura, When your upcoming climax is being delayed for several years, the most pragmatic thing to do is ease your fans over until then, not incense them more than ever and risk too much fandom burnout for said climax to sell well.