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Do you think we might see other Pixar villains in future games in the Kingdom Hearts series, besides only Randall from the Monster's Inc. world in Kingdom Hearts III?
Well that is the question and it's a so-so decision to some of you, Pixar has several different villains/antagonists from their 22 films so far, but it will depend on Square Enix and especially the crew/team at Pixar on what role the antagonists from the films will play in the original story exclusive to KH, and whether or not that specific Pixar antagonist would fit within the original story or simply not add them in at all.
As @GrandWebster said it himself in another thread:
In Randall's role for Monstropolis in Kingdom Hearts III, he was brought back by Vanitas as a "pawn" so he can collect Negative emotions for the Unversed and for Vanitas. Plus, he was just there to be kind of antagonizing the situation to Sora and the gang, which would likely explain Pixar being very restrictive on Monstropolis and why we never got to beat up Randall as a boss in Kingdom Hearts III, which I'm not surprised so I don't blame Pixar's decision on not allowing us to battle him as a boss when compared to Nomura and his team's decision on not making CLU and Gaston bosses in Dream Drop Distance and X respectively.
For Ernesto De la Cruz, depending on the original story for the Coco world (sequel route or prequel route), if they went with the prequel route it wouldn't make sense for Sora, Riku and/or Kairi to encounter him and know about his true nature that he murdered Héctor and stole his music and songs (cause that goes to Miguel who figures it out himself once he finds out about Ernesto's true nature in the Land of the Dead in the original movie) or literally go the same route like what Randall went to in Kingdom Hearts III where he's antagonizing the situation. I think the likely route for Ernesto is have the Coco world be a prequel to the film and have him be just indirectly mentioned, or have a small cameo in one to two scenes in the world, cause he does a Sunrise Spectacular at the end of Dia de Los Muertos, but only to have his concert be briefly interrupted by a Giant Nightmare Dream Eater or Heartless.
For The Incredibles, just like with San Fransokyo (Big Hero 6), given that they have the superhero aspect they can put any random threat in the world (e.g. Underminer, Heartless, the OC Villain (Xigbar/Luxu, MoM, one of the Foretellers), etc.), since its most likely going to take place after the events of the 2nd film instead of Evelyn Deavor as she was arrested. Speaking of which, I also wouldn't get my hopes up on battling Syndrome due to his demise in the first film which will disappoint certain players that wanted to battle him in the Kingdom Hearts series only to have their hopes crushed he's not in the game, so that's that, even the same can be said for Hopper (A Bug's Life) due to his demise.
So that leaves the Underminer as the only Pixar villain left that we can fight as a boss in The Incredibles world unless Pixar pulls a "Randall" on him (which I'm skeptical about).
But what do you guys think do you want some Pixar antagonists in a future KH game or just only leave Randall as the ONLY Pixar Villain/antagonist in the series?
Personally, I'm okay with having more original KH centric stories for the Pixar worlds, but if they do have the Pixar villain/antagonist appear and be involved in the original story, I don't want Pixar to continuously be very restrictive like what they did with Randall in the Monster's Inc. world back in KH3.
Well that is the question and it's a so-so decision to some of you, Pixar has several different villains/antagonists from their 22 films so far, but it will depend on Square Enix and especially the crew/team at Pixar on what role the antagonists from the films will play in the original story exclusive to KH, and whether or not that specific Pixar antagonist would fit within the original story or simply not add them in at all.
As @GrandWebster said it himself in another thread:
He's not wrong cause in the majority of their films, Pixar isn't known for their villains in the first place, as the main conflict is the protagonist's internal/external struggles they face in the film (e.g. Woody's jealousy of Buzz Lightyear in the first Toy Story, Marlin's external struggles on finding his son Nemo, Joy's intrapersonal conflict on not allowing Sadness to touch the Memory orbs, Merida wanting to be independent, etc.) of course Pixar does have its well-known villains such as Sid, Hopper, Stinky Pete, Randall, Syndrome, Lotso, and Ernesto de la Cruz, but at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter in that front for inclusions or not, I know people really wanted Zurg in Toy Box, but I had the feeling he wasn't going to get represented because he's just a minor character in Toy Story 2.Just like with Original stories with the Pixar movies, The Pixar Villains aren't really threatening and they will not really pose the same level of malevolence as other villains they can utilize.
In Randall's role for Monstropolis in Kingdom Hearts III, he was brought back by Vanitas as a "pawn" so he can collect Negative emotions for the Unversed and for Vanitas. Plus, he was just there to be kind of antagonizing the situation to Sora and the gang, which would likely explain Pixar being very restrictive on Monstropolis and why we never got to beat up Randall as a boss in Kingdom Hearts III, which I'm not surprised so I don't blame Pixar's decision on not allowing us to battle him as a boss when compared to Nomura and his team's decision on not making CLU and Gaston bosses in Dream Drop Distance and X respectively.
For Ernesto De la Cruz, depending on the original story for the Coco world (sequel route or prequel route), if they went with the prequel route it wouldn't make sense for Sora, Riku and/or Kairi to encounter him and know about his true nature that he murdered Héctor and stole his music and songs (cause that goes to Miguel who figures it out himself once he finds out about Ernesto's true nature in the Land of the Dead in the original movie) or literally go the same route like what Randall went to in Kingdom Hearts III where he's antagonizing the situation. I think the likely route for Ernesto is have the Coco world be a prequel to the film and have him be just indirectly mentioned, or have a small cameo in one to two scenes in the world, cause he does a Sunrise Spectacular at the end of Dia de Los Muertos, but only to have his concert be briefly interrupted by a Giant Nightmare Dream Eater or Heartless.
For The Incredibles, just like with San Fransokyo (Big Hero 6), given that they have the superhero aspect they can put any random threat in the world (e.g. Underminer, Heartless, the OC Villain (Xigbar/Luxu, MoM, one of the Foretellers), etc.), since its most likely going to take place after the events of the 2nd film instead of Evelyn Deavor as she was arrested. Speaking of which, I also wouldn't get my hopes up on battling Syndrome due to his demise in the first film which will disappoint certain players that wanted to battle him in the Kingdom Hearts series only to have their hopes crushed he's not in the game, so that's that, even the same can be said for Hopper (A Bug's Life) due to his demise.
So that leaves the Underminer as the only Pixar villain left that we can fight as a boss in The Incredibles world unless Pixar pulls a "Randall" on him (which I'm skeptical about).
But what do you guys think do you want some Pixar antagonists in a future KH game or just only leave Randall as the ONLY Pixar Villain/antagonist in the series?
Personally, I'm okay with having more original KH centric stories for the Pixar worlds, but if they do have the Pixar villain/antagonist appear and be involved in the original story, I don't want Pixar to continuously be very restrictive like what they did with Randall in the Monster's Inc. world back in KH3.
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