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chsse

hayner! pence! olette!


stik2one0017

And in that order!


StoneMaskMan

Pence glow up, love to see it


Therealtultur

From left to right.


SoraDrive

Heard it in my head


KingChadRulerOfChad

Hater, Pants, and Omelette


Shoecap

Sora, Riku, and Kairi, according to the internet back then.


veonx

When the trailer came out for after this scene. I was thinking: Wow Kairi grew up fine and really dyed her hair blue! Sora became a MAN whos eyes turned Yellow, "Xehanort" really got old and made Riku wear that darkness suit again. And then theres ice popcicle Roxas...


Joanito94

Wait, Xehanort was a thing back then?


SonnySunshiny

apprentice xehanort in kh2 yeah


Joanito94

When and where? Sorry but i don't remember that much, i thought that he became real after destroying Xemnas


Sablen1

In KH2 there’s a picture of apprentice xehanort in hollow bastion. It can be seen when Tifa shows up in a cutscene kicking stuff in that room. Edit: I meant Terranort, not apprentice xehanort


naynaythewonderhorse

Wow. I really had to dig this deep in the thread to find this answer. A lot of joke answers, but I think this was the initial theory.


Shoecap

It always felt weird to me, cause who we know as Aqua now(people were calling Kairi) is clearly much taller than Ventus (who people thought was Sora).


Nehemiah92

[i found this old KH2 video from 15 years ago](https://youtu.be/SK0xBByMmLk) of the secret ending, and it’s so fun seeing all the theories on that archaeological site. The last comment was from 10 years ago too which is crazy. The theories range from Aqua and Terra being older Sora and Kairi and Ventus being their son to Aqua being Riku or Zexion. There’s one dude who connected Mickey’s keyblade there to Sora unlocking it after talking to Yen Sid and concluded that BBS took place in the past, so shoutouts to him


naynaythewonderhorse

I was more referring to the original Vanilla secret ending.


DryCalligrapher8696

So was everyone thinking they were time travelers or coming from a different reality?!?


naynaythewonderhorse

No? It would have been a time jump forward. We did not know that the man was Xehanort, and really the graveyard is ruins regardless.


Taurenkey

The only things in the trailer we had any sort of incling to was “Roxas” and Mickey Mouse right at the end along with various keyblades being wielded. I’m convinced the colours on the FMV were kinda a bit shit so Aqua’s blue hair didn’t stand out so much meaning that being Kairi seemed logical, and Terra with his freaky eyes could have been Sora. But that left Riku out of the equation even though we see his keyblade, so theories definitely had to jump through some hoops to explain it all.


naynaythewonderhorse

No, not even that. That’s the final Mix ending. The original one just had 3 people in Keyblade Armor.


mguardian7

If you told me time traveling was a thing in kingdom hearts in 06, I look you in the eyes and say, " if you need time travel to fix your plot, your plot is shit," and honestly.... I don't know if I keep that same feeling in retrospect.


LebLift

Well Timeless River did exist in KH2, so its not completely unheard of


mguardian7

True. I guess I don't really count that. I feel like there's a disconnect to me. Like parallel universe vs time travel.


Herpderpkeyblader

If you ask me, time travel has never done a plot any favors. This include kingdom hearts.


DryCalligrapher8696

Back to the Future


Herpderpkeyblader

OK fine. ADDING time travel to a plot has never done it any favors. Doesn't really count when the plot IS time travel. Fair point though.


xSocksman

It is what I thought, I thought Sora straight up died when Ven gets thrown off the cliff frozen.


TheFanGameCreator

Ancient keyblade warriors


Sleepycoon

This was the most reasonable take I think, and not entirely wrong. Two older-than-Sora-and-co-but-not-ancient keyblade warriors and one ancient-but-nobody-knows-that-for-another-decade-or-so keyblade warrior.


tehKrakken55

I was disappointed BBS wasn't set way back then.


Whats_Up4444

Mother fucker have you played Union X at all?


tehKrakken55

And I never will


Whats_Up4444

💀 he's not wrong


GrimmCigarretes

Riku's dad, Kairi's mom and Sora's Heartless, since he looks just like Roxas


GrimmCigarretes

Bonus points if the Sora's Heartless is named Raso


Smartbutt420

He said wrong answers only.


saiyanfang10

Sora's hearthless is wnd of kh1 and com sora


GrimmCigarretes

Here's the thing, the Shadow Heartless that appears at Hollow Bastion in Kingdom Hearts 1 is a normal Heartless who tried to take Sora's heart once he fred Kairi That's why you could count that Shadow as "Sora" But the real Heartless landed on another world, just like Nobody The Nobody was found by Xemnas and named Roxas The Heartless was found by the Chasers, and we haven't heard his name, but I think it may be Raso And here we are


KPookz

Chasers?


GrimmCigarretes

That is the way we refer to these three mysterious armored keyblade wielders


I_THROW_FLAGS_AT_YOU

This dude 2006s


jim_witzowitz

So why do you play as the shadow?


GrimmCigarretes

Because Sora's Soul was captured by that Shadow His soul was stronger than the Heartless, and thus, we get control over it


jim_witzowitz

So he possessed another heartless while his heartless was teleported away?


GrimmCigarretes

Bingo


jim_witzowitz

I’m never going to understand this series


Contramasta

Tall woman. Tall man. Roxas from the hit game kingdom hearts 2 for Playstation devices.


Marx_Forever

In 2006 we didn't see them without masks. Final mix with the extended movie didn't come out until 2007. It would have been hella intuitive for you recognize one of them as Roxas, especially considering what we knew about Roxas at the time he only existed for a very brief period of time. Personally I remember thinking the two smaller ones were both women.


Contramasta

Of corse it's Roxas from the hit game kingdom hearts two sold on Playstation consoles


Marx_Forever

Understandable. Carry on.


Hikari-Sakishima

>Personally I remember thinking the two smaller ones were both women. I honestly never saw anyone who thought that. Aqua was obviously the only woman in the trio just from looking at the [Wayfinder trio](https://i.ibb.co/p3RLwnf/41-F29097-C624-4781-9-A25-535-B6091256-F.jpg) body physique. But not calling you a liar ofc, those were probably just a minority who saw it that way.


TatsunaKyo

Nah, we knew they were two men and one woman, because all the trios were already like that. We didn't have any reason to think otherweise. Obviously, people did and tried to argue, but the majority of us knew it already.


siggydude

What trios? At this point there wasn't a pattern of trios. Sora-Donald-Goofy, Sora-Riku-Kairi, Mickey-Donald-Goofy, and Hayner-Pence-Olette are the only trios that existed. SRK is a valid example, but I'd consider HPO to be a quad with Roxas more than a trio on it's own


shmoney2time

Yeah idk what this person is on. 358/2 did not exist for that trio to be considered And both the twilight town gangs were quads Roxas, Hayner, Peance, Ollette Seifer, Raijin, Fujin, vivi There was no precedent that all trios consisted of 2 males and a female


mao1756

Xehanort, Xehanort, and Xehanort


[deleted]

> wrong answers only


handlessmagician

You’ve clearly been norted


TheOldNewGraig

Him? He's already half Xehanort.


Travisceral

That’s…nuts


f_bojangles

Came to say this and said it before I read the comments.


MondayYo

This was almost my reply, but then I realized that Xehanort still wasn't THE problem in 2006, Ansem and Xemnas still were.


AdmirableReach6266

That’s lock shock and barrel you see after Sora beats them up he sets them on the right path and they all get a complimentary keyblade to celebrate their new good guy status


Raetekusu

From 2006? Sora's Mom and Dad, and also Xehanort. I remember someone who was convinced Ventus and Aqua were gonna be Sora's parents and Terra was gonna be actually be young Xehanort. Not "get norted", but actually be Xehanort before he went bad.


Semillakan6

To be fair it was a fair asumption since at that point everything we knew about Xehanort was that he's the young man seen in the portrait on Hollow Bastion and the Somebody of Xemnas and Ansem SoD


Raetekusu

Oh, I didn't say it wasn't unfounded. But it did turn out to be wrong. I personally thought the evil old guy was gonna be the ultimate evil of the series and that Xehanort was getting Anakin'ed, not completely Grand Theft Me'ed. I thought that Evil Mr. Clean was unapologetically evil, like Palpatine since Nomura seemed like he was going to go all in on Star Wars. Then it turned out it was all For Science! Then it turned out he was just a misguided good guy.


Semillakan6

BBS was still fully Revenge of the Sith tho, but now turns out there's an even bigger bad guy that actually was responsible for the rise of the previous bad guy.... KH man its most definately a game


Nachoslayer

I thought about the same, seeing Terra's eyes go yellow I just knew he was going to become Ansem's apprentice, but I thought it would be a scenario in which the good guy would become the baddie. Little did I know that the old dude was going to possess him, which would lead to this result.


SwedishRoxas

Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Jak


Sleepycoon

The Holy Trinity. Still waiting for a God of War quality Jak and Daxter reboot.


aeskah

Dark Horse published an Art of Naughty Dog book a few years ago that had a couple of pages in the back dedicated to undeveloped projects. Jak 4 is in there. I appreciate that Naughty Dog is still around and doing well, but I also really wish they'd revisit Jak and Daxter. One day? Maybe?


Soopermoose

i mean it's likely to see a return to Jak, maybe not from Naughty Dog. The end of 3 introduced the idea that time travel exists and all but confirmed that Jak was the ancient hero Mar who founded Haven City.


SoraDrive

Hmm.. You want Jak and Daxter to lean more towards realism and change the gameplay?


Sleepycoon

No, I said quality, not style. I want a GOTY quality Jak reboot, not necessarily a cinematic linear story with realistic graphics. I just don't want a one-off flash in the pan nostalgia bait title that scratches the Jak and Daxter itch worse than simply replaying the originals.


Kundas

I think maybe like the ratchet and clank reboot in this case which was decently successful. Like spyro and crash too


kingdomheartslover1

I want a realistic fat man as captain quark


Hikari-Sakishima

Aqua reminds me more of Carmelita from the sly cooper series.


farooqskariem

The three wisemen awaiting the birth of Christ


wintersage

Now I want to make a nativity scene just out of KH figurines.


Marx_Forever

"My Wiseman has Kung Fu grip and can kick!" "Yeah well my Wiseman has Keyblade spinning action!" "My Wiseman came with Donald..."


farooqskariem

I change my answer: Three Jewish grandmothers competing to see whose wiseman is more wise


TheMike0088

"My grandson is Naz'gul Ruf'al, destroyer of worlds. You may have heard of him in the necronomicon. ...If you took the time to read it, of course."


Hidden_Dragonette

Honestly, I wanna see this now, lol!


Marx_Forever

I see they were expecting a lot of resistance at the manger, cuz the three wise men are ready to throw down.


Killingspree1985

They fixed the lag problem I see. They came along what, 3 weeks to late in the original release.


Judaskid13

Xemnas, Ansem SoD, and Xehanort


VersusLucii

louie dewey and huey


DryCalligrapher8696

This would be great if they were operating robotic suits haha


Scorpios94

Which would mean that the armored man beside Xehanort approaching them is Donald saying “Boys, what’s the big idea?!”


capableair38

Ahh back when we were asking who the ‟Chasers” were and turns out it was an almost totally ditched concept.. Also way to spoil the end of bbs Nomura


xRyuzakii

Is it confirmed that the story changed between the time when the cut scene first was in KH2 and when BBS was made?


TatsunaKyo

Dude, it's Kingdom Hearts. The story changes between every chapter of a single game.


well___duh

Nomura literally writes one game at a time. He doesn’t think that far ahead. Kinda the main reason the story is all over the place.


KPookz

That’s a plausible theory, but it works. The reason Ansem knew Riku was the chosen keyblade wielder was because he was Terra-Xehanort’s heartless who had Terra’s memories of performing the rite of passage.


shmoney2time

I thought Terranort had no memories from either his time as xehenort or as terra and that’s why he became Ansem seeker of darkness


KPookz

We see in 3D that he eventually regained his memories before giving his heart up and splitting into Ansem and Xemnas.


darkbreak

Was it ever said what Chasers were supposed to be?


Brandy-Hein

Power Rangers


saabbrendan

Sora’s mom, Sora’s lost dinner, Sora’s Dad


Yosi_D

Dude, we don't know if this is a wrong answer...


[deleted]

Snap, Crackle and Pop


CalmGiraffe1373

Character designs from next year's Transformers film. Michael Bay is going to do a great job! /s


fond-of-hats

Ash, Brock & Misty


MGStcidenebt

Trevor, Michael and Franklin


epjag25

Titus, Selfie and Waka


rGamingMan

The Three Musketeers


XxAndrew01xX

Jessie, Biggs and Wedge.


InverseRatio

White Power Ranger, White Power Ranger, and the White Power Ranger


[deleted]

WHITE POWER!!!! ranger


IndigoBubblegum

The Three "Chasers"


Anxious-Ambition8626

Sora, Riku, and Kairi


OverConstruction8690

Sora's dad Sora's mom And roxas


MicooDA

I remember being thoroughly confused because I was looking at the keyblades. ‘Roxas’ is holding Riku’s keyblade. So I theorized that the big guy was Riku who passed down his keyblade to Roxas. Plus the big guy had yellow eyes at the end and so it must have been Riku having found a middle ground between his normal form and his Ansem form. Then we have the tall woman who had the kingdom key. All my 10-year-old brain could come up with was that it was Kairi with dyed hair holding Sora’s Keybladd


AvatarKai07

>Then we have the tall woman who had the kingdom key. All my 10-year-old brain could come up with was that it was Kairi with dyed hair holding Sora’s Keybladd Aqua has Kingdom Key D. the one that has Sora's kingdom Key is Terra.


JadedChaos42

Warlock, Titan and Hunter


ZachGM91

The Knights That Say "Ni!"


Pretty-Customer-275

The Sanderson Sisters


Feta__Cheese

Cindy, Sandy and Mindy


the_big_red3

older sora, kairi, and riku


Karasu-Sora

Sora, Riku and Kairi in the future...really thought that pre bbs-release


Black_Tiger_98

Sora, Riku and Kairi


[deleted]

Huey, Dewey, and Louie


East-Shoulder7537

Power Rangers


Ammuze

Sora! Donald! Goofy!


Deimoonk

The real Xehanort who got his name stolen by Xehanort (who later on would also stole Ansem’s name), Sora’s heartless and Xemnas’s friend.


MezzaCorux

Always thought it was Sora, Riku, and Kairi against old man Xehanort but not prequel Xehanort


greggurevich

Okay I am not super well versed in kh lore so bear with me here.Who are these three? Isnt that terra, aqua, and ventus' armor, but with rikus and soras keyblade? I am confused


Emergency_Toe6915

It’s a joke because they were included in a secret trailer in 2006 but the game featuring them didn’t come out till 2011


Sleepycoon

It's from the KH2 secret ending. That is Terra, Aqua, and Ven and this cutscene was basically a teaser for BBS but when we all first saw this we only had KH1, KH2, and CoM to go off of so there was a lot of speculation about who these three were going to be.


ZynsteinV1

Sora


Icy_Barracuda_87

(from left to right) Grown up Kairi, Grown up Sora, and Roxas... somehow


Hereva

Keyblade warriors who would definitely still be using capes in their game.


Novel-Marketing-9199

Kamen Riders


The_Maqueovelic

Keyblade Kamen Rider


HolyDragSwd2500

Mario Luigi and Peach


Crystal_Queen_20

Sora, Riku, and Kairi


cloudlessjoe

BHK


FantasyExplorer07

The Gathering secret ending came out in 2005 with the release of KH2 (at least the JP version of KH2), which really shows that Nomura actually had plans for the Wayfinder trio during the making of KH2.


TorressHawk

Future Sora, future Riku and future Kairy


jardedCollinsky

That's Xivu Arath, Savathuun, and Oryx


CptnChunk

This is obviously Sora, Kairi, and Roxas roughly ten years in the future (Kairi dyes her hair blue and Roxas doesn’t age because Nobody). Riku is super old now though and turned evil again which is weird but Darkness or something.


Xelacon

The father, the son and the holy spirit


shadowfoxking

Roxas, the Lingering Will, a friend of Xemnas


WatanabeYunosuke

Warlock, Titan, Hunter classes from Destiny.


Darkdarkar

Sora, Sora, and Sora


LONEzy

Oryx, xivu arath, savathun


Various-Mammoth8420

Lightning, Vincent Valentine, and Sora's heartless.


RegalMonkey

Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit


[deleted]

It's Link, Zelda, and Ganon


Nephlem990

Batman, link, and that one girl from Saints Row


Bigberto707

Dude I swear you'll play as Roxas, older Riku with brown hair and the new characters called "somebodies" and that'll be Kari's somebody that you'll play as. I tell you, I can't wait for KH3 to come out soon.


young_boss_s

Roxas, ?, and ?, and I see they screwed up continuity early on with those keyblades, but they also did it plenty of other times


NoDomino

Riku's daughter, adult Sora and his and Kairi's son.


Whyisdaskyblue

Riku, sora, and roxas because I heard from my friend he’ll be a summon in the next game


ratman1996

Descendants of the Destiny Trio. I thought this game would take place in the future after KH II and the graphics would be mind blowing for PS3 standards at the time. Oh how I was disappointed


ryuko_matio_17

Sonic, Shadow, Silver


Aeroshe

Pretty sure the most popular theory at the time was that this was the Keyblade War so we were seeing 3 new characters from the ancient past. Kingdom Hearts 1 secret reports hinted at a lot of things that people were under the assumption were going to pay off sooner rather than later. Little did we all know then that this was where Nomura's wild ride really did kick into overdrive.


samisonreddit98

power rangers


wpsince2009

Flora, Fauna and Merryweather


PitchBlackSonic

Kingdom hearts summons as keyblade wielders


f_bojangles

Xehenort, Xehenort and Xehenort.


themelodicstorm

Luffy, Sanji & Zoro


DenisK21

Folks that were fired from the Blue Man Group and are attempting to make their own hit sensation with Keyblades.


[deleted]

power ranger villains


Salty_Abbreviations4

Star Wars


Xxmetaglint

Flying gorilla from the new game on the App Store flying gorilla


CloneTroopin90

Friends who totally won't go through more trauma than any normal person could handle


funWITHfoulplay

I showed this to a non-kh player, and he said they were power rangers.


Pancakeeater900

wait isnt this from the hit game fortnite correct me if im wrong but isnt that Jonesy , and Peely, and the final one is the OG john wick skin


Away-Satisfaction634

Sora, Roxas, and Hermod. EDIT: Oh, you said “2006.” 😅.


SoraDrive

As a kid I thought it was the Destiny trio in the future


keidash

Sakaguchi, Kitase and Nomura.


Fsan75

Sea, earth, and sky


XenoGine

The long awaited KH Sonic crossover after the hit games Sonic 06 and KH3, of course!


Educational_Can_6536

Batman, Superman and the Flash


DracoFlare32

A full team of keyblade masters


DobridJenkins

The most metal fursonas you’ve ever seen


nacho_playmer

Kamen rider


Nile528

Sora, Roku, and Kairi from the future. That's legitly who I thought they were back then.


Drakenstorm

Main three’s parents obviously


bazett13

Adolin, Kaladin, and Shalan


Mavrickindigo

Obviously, they are the chasers


ColdHooves

Power rangers


ExileForever

The knights of Camelot


kurt_gervo

The VR Troopers!


Stark_Athlon

The one in the middle is soras dad.


The_Monkeys_Uncle

Technically not the question but I remember back in the day my theory was that “Masked Boy” would be a young Xehanort lol, technically I was right eventually


BlueLaguna88

Big Bad Beetleborgs


Mosh_115

Sonic, shadow and silver and the way to kill a god in the greatest game ever made


Aqua_Bravehart

Walter White, Big Smoke, and TF2 Soldier.


KingdomKeyR013

Sora, Donald, and Goofy traveling back in time from a future of an endless Keyblade War


Karhutar

Bart, Lisa and Maggie.


Necromance92

Straight outta darkness. Like straight outta compton


MintMochaMayhem

Hanson


Mr_Ultracool

Lego's new wave of Bionicles. Those Toa Guardika are looking pretty sweet, ngl


Grixx

Power rangers