Luxord wasn't you evil archetype, but it definitely wasn't a "wimp" like Demyx (personality wise).
I'm fine with any kind of aggression during or at the end of a battle, I feel that the heat of battle does justify that plenty.
When it's how you open the fight, that's when I start furrowing brows.
Demyx also wasn't really a "wimp" personality wise as the "Silence Traitor!" bit showed that this was all an act Demyx put up.
Not to mention that being called a traitor when you never even once supported that group can also tick someone off and it is an undeniable fact that Sora never "betrayed" the Organisation in any way because he always was their enemy starting in CoM or even KH 1 if one wants to count the FM Xemnas battle.
So in this vein, I do put both Luxord and Demyx in the same category of "moderate villain" or "member of a villainous group without being strictly a total villain themselves".
That can be.
That's kinda what I said at the end of my comment, the moment you declare a hero is a paragon of justice and charity his every action, past and future, will be analyzed to see if they meet the parameters.
It's pretty likely actually since it does adhere to a more human nature-esque approach. One can be
rightfully declared a hero or paragon of justice even when he/she isn't like that 100% of the time because in the end what counts is the vast majority of one's actions paired with the intentions behind them.
It's even the same somewhat with Xehanort as while he indeed may not be the "ultimate evil", the vast majority of his actions are harmful and disregarding of other people's wellbeing while Sora's and other "heroes" actions are like this only once in a blue moon and then most often not deliberately and/or out of malice or selfish desires.
Well, now.
Roxas said he defeated a Riku once. As you said, and I concur, whenever his friends are involved, Sora is mister nice guy no more. Roxas was also the one going all on the offense everytime, verbally and physically.
Regarding Marluxia, Sora did already meet a black coat guy and things weren't peachy. But that's as far as I can go to justify that scene, they obviously wanted to create a generic anime moment of attacking a powerful villain, but it still counts.
During the Radiant Garden-events there in KH 2 Sora's friends were also involved in two regards, as I pointed out in my "essay"-long post beforehand. One thing was the danger for Leon and co presented by the massive outnumbering Heartless army, from which Sora was prevented going for assistance due to Demyx' insistence o holding him up and the other was the just beforehand learned facts that there was no progress in finding Riku or Kairi.
Nomura did justify that they forgot the Tower because it changes shape: it's a bad explanation, but it's there.
Pete did do that... I always have trouble filling the Musketeers events in the storyline.
I feel the same, but I always worry about confrontation anyway.
To be frank this "justification" comes over as more tongue-in-cheek than anything (I re-read the interview and posted the snippet talking about it further down) and it also addresses only the interior of the tower which
is different in KH 2 and BBS.
Even if one can't fit it in exactly it does show off what Pete is actually capable of and Minnie may very well remember this.
Being a rather ruthless criminal with a certain level of competence isn't actually that strange as in most european Disney comics Pete is portrayed like exactly that.
Not a threat on the level of say, Xehanort or Maleficent, but certainly more serious than what the KH series allowed him to be so far outside of the Musketeer storyline.
While things can easily go out of hand when text passages are misinterpreted due to how they are worded, ow a confrontations/debate goes though can still be controlled by paying attention to wording and with passages that may seem aggressive asking for clarification.
I personally had it more than once in my by now rather long forum time already that a statement was taken as aggressive by someone when I originally wrote it with no intention of it being that way.
Sora's practically non-existent (inactive) idle animation in KH2. Like, his model is just there. No movement whatsoever.
Even in KH1 and BBS, all characters have an idle animation where you can see them breathing and move slightly, whereas Sora in KH2 barely moves his arms.
Uh, didn't he move his head in several directions while in idle stance?
When did he say that? But, oh my if he did, that explanation is terrible. Extra terrible since in BBS and KH2, Mysterious Tower looks exactly the same. The only difference is that it has more rooms in 2.
BBS Ultimania, but I actually doubt that Nomura intended it as a serious explanation considering the way it is written:
BBS Ultimania said:
-- In this title, the dark influence of the Heartless isn't breaking down the walls between worlds, so in this period before Gummi Ships, why are Donald and Goofy able to travel to the Mysterious Tower?
Nomura: You can think of it as being thanks to Yen Sid, and also because the Mysterious Tower is a loophole world in the first place, so it comes under slightly different rules than the ones that connect the other worlds. By the way, when Donald and Goofy visit the Mysterious Tower in "KHII", they say "Isn't this tower strange!" even though they know it from "KH BbS". This is because the floors are constructed differently to the previous time they visited, which is strange (laughs).
Note how he goes with a "by the way" starting point as if this is a trivia piece of information and there's a (laughs) at the end.
He also only speaks about the tower's interior as well, not its overall shape, so if the english translation of the scene in KH 2 doesn't diverge too much from the japanese original this is simply an oversight during the development of BBS.
If Aqua and Ventus meeting with Donald and Goofy is really that important they could have done this literally anywhere else than Yen Sid's Tower like i.e. in Disney Town and this discrepancy would never have come up.
