I was overlooking the 9th Xehanort report when I found this:
Considering that he expressly declares his purpose in his reports, is Nomura going to try to make MX look like a tragic hero KH3? Or will the MX in KH3 have a completely different intention than what he started with? Any thoughts on this?
A tragic Hero? A complete monster can't be a tragic hero...I'm seriously wondering why anyone would even consider that. This "intention" written there may have been a goal of MX in the past, but by now he has fallen way too far and committed too much crimes against the very universe itself.
Master Xehanort already
has completely other intentions by now, not to mention that this original goal itself is already an insult as he dares to plan to elevate himself to god-status and decide over all life and dictate how the universe has to be.
This so-called "goal" isn't as noble as he makes it sound to be, it only serves to give his megalomania and thirst for all knowledge (and by extension, power) some faux credibility.
I have a feeling that Xehanort is just greedy for power, fooling himself by saying that he wants it in order to 'maintain a perfect balance'. For every single KH game, no matter what form of Xehanort it was, he always wanted KH. Ansem, Xemnas, Master Xehanort himself, etc... That'll never change. And even if it does, it'll be for that same exact goal: power.
Now, I could be wrong and he actually wants to keep the universe in perfect balance. But all the horrible things he did. I mean, here's a list:
As MX: Stole Terra's body and manipulated him, treated Ven like a sh*tty tool and tore his heart out, tried to choke Aqua after possessing Terra's body.
As Xehanort the Apprentice to Ansem the Wise: Unleashed the masses Heartless upon the worlds of Light, possibly used the Keyblade to extract Vexen's, Ienzo's, Lea's, and Isa's(I think) hearts, etc...
As Ansem: Possessed Riku's body and put the Realm of Light in grave danger.
As Xemnas: Made an artificial KH through the Heartless, used Roxas and Xion as tools, manipulated the Organization by promising them hearts when KH was probably for his own power.
The list goes on and on. Even if MX has good intentions, he has a heck of a way to get there. And I mean a horrible, terrible, evil way.
It isn't so much that Xehanort is fooling himself, but rather that he may try to use that as an excuse for all the unforgivable crap he has done and I dearly hope that Sora or whoever he attempts it on will see straight through the charade and doesn't buy anything of these lies.
Sora already proved capable of that when he deconstructed Xemnas' "alas, poor villain, we had no choice"-shit in the finale of KH 2 and told him to hold it, lol.
If he really wants that or not is irrelevant now anyways, his horrible actions have already disqualified him as reasonable or trustworthy person and him wanting to gain the power of Kingdom Hearts to play god is an insolence in itself.
Making all his crimes into a list would truly be an effort, seeing how much peril and suffering he brought upon individual characters and whole worlds alike.
The world was doing relatively fine before he corrupted it, though, and I doubt his new world would truly be equal and peaceful and perfect. Plus, I think he's destroyed enough lives and screwed enough people to be considered a well intentioned extremist at best. I don't see him being a tragic hero, myself. He's cruel enough to be a full villain if he kidnapped random people for unethical experiments on their hearts and took over the body of a boy he corrupted. There's enough against him, he's no hero. In my opinion, at least.
Indeed, the keyblade war was what already destroyed the once complete world of light and the small worlds we travel to nowadays are only shards left of the old world saved by children, the lanes between are around those worlds, and what have these lanes? Darkness. The corridors of Darkness are there as well, the Realm of Darkness is one big, whole world while the Realm of Light is scattered into several smaller pieces. So if there is an imbalance I would rather assume that, on the cosmic scale, there's an overabundance of darkness.
Of course this new world wouldn't be equal and perfect because we would have Xehanort pulling the strings from the background. He would in essence enslave every heart that there is and his warped views of "balance" truly won't be for the best of everyone.
Xehanort is way too far gone to be considered a well-intentioned extremist. That title may have hold true in his youth, but nowdays (or rather, by the time of BBS) he borders on complete monster territory with a god-complex.
Eraqus or even Ansem the Wise as DiZ to a degree can be considered well-intentioned extremists, but surely not Xehanort.
That's why I can't even comphrehend to place Xehanort near "tragic hero" territory, he's not even an anti-villain but a full-fledged villain bordering on complete monster territory.
I don't think that, looking solely on the KH series itself, we have seen someone more evil than he is.
Of course, no one can argue that he wasn't
always like this, but we're talking about current Xehanort here, the one responsible for over 15 years of suffering (counting from four years before BBS to the end of KH 2).
To me "Tragic Hero" seems to be the farthest thing away from what MX could be at the end of his saga. He, and all variations of him, have messed up the worlds too much over the years, and they all seemed to have the goal of obtaining some kind of great power from KH.
Completely agree, the whole designation is wrong.
i can see a tragic hero thing happpening for MX.
but either way hesgoing down
I surely hope it goes down without that. After all he has done I simply refuse to feel any pity for that bastard and if he does try to play the victim card I wish for the heroes just to say "shut up and disappear already, bane of our lives."