"is that you,Luxu? You look different" Luxu: *wears a black coat as always*

Also, this is from a interview in 2009: Nomura: Please look forward to it. In Birth by Sleep, the initial Organization members appear, but I can’t say they play an active part. At that time, they were humans. Pay attention to Xigbar in particular. Although, when you think you understand his true nature… The mystery may deepen even more. (Laughs) He has a different standing than the other Organization members, there’s speculation about his original form.

It’s absolutely insane how many hints there are throughout the series.......... Such a clever little sneak

"Ha Ha! Talk about a blast from the past." "Of all the faces.. Why do I look at her and see yours?" The fact that Xigbar sees Ventus when fighting Xion in 358/2 make so much more sense now. That was a face that kept showing up in crucial moments throughout his life. Plus Ven was there from the start. Sure, so were Lauriam and Elrena (possibly Demyx, and Luxord as well). But none of them appeared as often, or as prominent as Ventus. From Union leader, to X-Blade, to the form of Roxas. I'm sure near the end he was getting sic of seeing his face.

3:56 “You think you two have got some grand ROLE to play”-this line can also be a hint, with the word choice of role. The fortellers having their assigned roles to play.

I love the fact that this whole time he was playing xehanort like a fiddle. In the endgame post credits we'll find out that Loki was secretly galactus this whole time

“You really put organization xiii in a pickle, I guess that’s why the keyblade chose you. But man did it pick a dud this time. You don’t even look like half the hero the others were” -Xigbar’s words to Sora in KH2 before the boss fight against him. It’s funny how when he says “the others”, I used to think he was only talking about Aqua, Terra and Ven. But after seeing the KH3 epilogue my guess is he is talking about the dandelion leaders and the foretellers. My mind is blown

Also, in that scene w/ Aqua and Ven, I noticed how differently he acted towards them. With Xehanort, he acted simply as a thug following orders for a Keyblade. But here, he acts more nuanced, mysterious, and a lot more serious towards them, as if he knows they’re big threats to his plans later on.

That clever little sneak.

If kingdom hearts 3 got anything right, man its gotta be this twist. My jaw legit dropped when I saw that cutscene.

Master to Luxu: Come on, you did a fantastic job! At least smile a little! And from that day that's what he did.

When re:playing 358/2. Xigbar took more control the xemnas. Like all the time in the chairs it's xigbar making orders and telling people off, not xemnas.

In Kingdom Hearts 3, when you complete Olympus, Maleficent and Pete find the wrong black box and then leave, after it shows Xigbar trying to say “ May your heart be your guiding key” but is cutoff. That is another piece of evidence.🤔

I once upon a time told my friends that Xigbar and Luxu have somewhat of the same humor. They laughed it off. I dropped the theory. I need better friends 😭

Not going to lie; before Kingdom Hearts 3 came out, I honestly thought that Xigbar was the Master of Master.

I sure do hope we end up getting a big climatic battle between Luxu and Ventus in Union X. Ever since Xigbar’s first scene in KH2 with Sora in the first visit to Hollow Bastion when Sora gives him “the angry look” it seems that Luxu has been hinting that he and Ventus have some major history together and possibly some unfinished business.

Honestly he kinda showed he was important in many way its just we didnt know the whole luxu thing. but in every kingdom hearts he'd do something. Weither its confusing the shit out of people or talking about something important he for sure stood out from everyone else. I mean in king heart 358/2 days they literally said his power was moving through dimensions.

I knew there was more to him, since Kingdom Hearts II. In Jiminy's Journal, he's listed as the founding member of the old Organization. There have been numerous hints throughout the series, but as soon as I heard his voice-actor in χ-backcover, I knew immediately.

Now his constant obsession with Ven makes even more sense, damn everything really unfolds nicely with this reveal.

Look at Luxu's body language in KHUX back cover and look at xigbar's.

I’d hate to be the guy who read this video’s title before finishing the game

Dude, I'm proud of myself. I didnt call Xigbar being Luxu. BUT I did call that Xigbar was much more important than letting on. Almost like he was pulling the strings all along. I really felt I was right when in DDD, its Xigbar who confronts Sora and says "i have a few more hoops to jump through.

Xigbar is my favorite character in the entire franchise. And after this game, he went to be my favorite villain in gaming. I’m NOT exaggerating when I say that.

KH4 gonna be so much better than KH3. KH3 feels like a prologue game just like 0.2.

This was definitely my theory, after seeing backcover Xigbars scenes really sounded like he had all knowledge of the keyblade war and previous knowledge of the No name. , I’m so glad my favourite character is being given a chance to take the spotlight.

It is actually a very compelling argument. Most of us fans simply thought that those scenes with Braig's/Xigbar's eyes were just leading up to the plot twist that Braig/Xigbar was Half-Xehanort and of the true purpose of Organization XIII, to make 13 vessels/avatars of Xehanort, individuals to place the pieces/fragments of Darkness of the X-blade into. All leading up to the reforging of the X-blade and accessing Kingdom Hearts. It never really dawned on us that there was a double meaning to those scenes. By the way excellent job tying it all together.

Don't forget about how he meets Sora for the first time, he literially teleports right up to them and taunts them. Also that KH2 boss fight: "You don't look like HALF the heroes the others were" Is that the wayfinder trio, the dandelions or the foretellers he's talking about hahahah

i like how it retroactively makes every time Xigbar called MX "old coot" a snarky in-joke literally only he gets. I also feel like, retroactively at least, the "you're not half the wielder the others were" could be referring to the Union Leaders just as much as the BBS trio.

Even though I was shocked that Luxu was Xigbar as well, I still felt something was up with him because he just screamed, "Loose cannon" to me. So when Luxu's true identity was revealed, I literally scream, "OMG I KNEW IT!!!!" Like I knew he was up to something. He toyed too much with everyone, and that right there should have been a clue because in the Union Cross scene when Ava confronts him, he kind of toys with her too I think. So yeah I am hyped! Now I am just waiting for NicoB's reaction to Xigbar being Luxu. Oh Riku was my fav KH char, well, Xiggy just trumped him now. I love chars who know more then they are letting on.

I actually saw most of them. Not to forget, his UX medal says that he has unknown plans

I thought the eye thing was leading up to the "I'm already half Xehanort." Braig's eye in Radiant Gardens prior to the final battle was orange if I recall

What excites me most about this is that Matt Mercer and Travis Willingham are now important KH characters. Is it Thursday yet?

It was always evident that xigbar had alterior motives to what xehanort was doing so it made perfect sense for him to be Luxu... I was still surprised though

_I guess that must be the reason why the Keyblade chose you but man did it pick a dud this time, you don't look like half the hero the others were_ How could you forget that line from Kingdom Hearts 2? Its the first hint we get on the backstory in the series not relating to Ansem/Xehanort.

Pretty sure the eye scene in BBS is just referring to how his eye is yellow now like Xehanort's but it's still pretty cool

After I saw the Luxu reveal I remembered the scene where he confronted Sora at the end of KH2 and called Sora a traitor with emphasis on the word TRAITOR...

I absolutely lost my s*** when I saw this it was actually a spoiler there's also the hint at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts 3 after you beat Olympus Maleficent and Pete are digging up to find a box it cuts to xigbar about to say may your heart be your guiding key but it cuts to Black leaving it as a cliffhanger

It's kinda a reach but when I re-watched the scene 7:30 I kinda thought Xigbar was making fun of Saix. Saix is doing all that he can to find a girl (subject X) and Xigbar is the one that hid her. I wouldn't be surprised if Xigbar knew Saix was looking for her, like he eavesdropped on a conversation between Axel and Saix.

Love to see my favourite character get this incredible reveal to truly show how much more important he is in the overall plot of Kingdom Hearts universe!

Xigbar looks at least 10 years younger in kh3 :D he is handsome

To be honest I was more certain that they would have made Braig/Xigbar the Master of Masters. Their voices sound almost fairly alike, their mannerisms and way of speaking are eerily similar. Plus they both seem to have lost an eye. The Master of Masters looks like a much better fit to be Braig/Xigbar then Luxu does. Although there is still a slim chance that this theory could still be possible. Maybe Is reality Braig/Xigbar is both the Master of Masters and Luxu. I mean, if Master Xehanort could time travel to meet his younger self and set himself on the path to forging the X-blade and summoning Kingdom Hearts, what's to say Braig/Xigbar can't do the same. Maybe the Master was somehow Braig's/Xigbar's Heartless time traveling the same way Xehanort's Heartless Ansem did. The possibilities of that happening isn't really Far-fetched.

I just had a thought... What if the Master of Masters is in Luxu/Xigbar's body? I've noticed that he and Xigbar acted the same, personality wise. I feel like there's a connection there.

I definitely think Young Xehanort and Xigbar/LuXu were aware of each other. YX: Every Keyblade master is bequeathed a Keyblade of his very own. With the passing of time, *as you can imagine*. LuXu: Whatever. I got my hands full with my own plans.

I think a lot of aspects of Braig/Xigbar's character are directly influenced by Luxu channeling the Master of Masters. After all, from what we see of Luxu in Back Cover, he's pretty different from Xigbar's character, but many people have commented on Xigbar's similarity to the MoM. I think Xigbar channeled his old master's personality in an attempt to appear as flippant as the MoM so often does.

This is a joke theory.... What if the 7 Sora must save are Luxu, the 5 Foretellers and himself (reference to how the Master of Master reference himself). Yet the 5 foretellers are Riku, Kairi, Aqua, Terra, and Ventus. Sora gains his true power to be the Masters of Masters. Second joke theory... Sora is one of 7 hearts he held. (Sora (masters of masters), Kairi, Roxas, Ventus, Xion, Namine (5 Foretellers) and finally Vanitus (Luxu). Thus recreating history all over again to bring light vs darkness. I will say this again, these are just jokes since no one is going to come up with it.

What I love is that every main character (besides Kairi, Riku & Mickey) have had some kind of memorable confrontation with Xigbar. I love the look Aqua & Ven made in kh3 when he first appeared. Terra obviously had the biggest influence over the character we’ve seen. He’s the one who took his eye and gave him the scars. Terra, Aqua, Sora, Riku & Xion are the only ones who have actually fought against Xigbar at this point. No doubt when it’s revealed Luxu (Xigbar) pulling some of the strings, everyone will band together once more because they know personally how manipulative he can be. Very smart planning. I wanna see all the characters lose their shit when they realize what exactly this character is and the importance he really holds.

This series is so clever. No one saw this coming and yet there were clues everywhere.

I hope we see a scene in UX of Luxu Vs Ventus that would be dope. Would make the whole *angry look* thing more meaningful

You missed a couple in kh2 after you meet xigbar in land of dragons if you go on jiminy’s journal and look for his name it says he has a greater goal in mind beyond the organization’s goals from what I recall, also in kh2 in the xigbar boss fight he says “you’re half the hero the others were” to Sora probably talking about the old Keyblade wielders, or about the terra, aqua, ventus trio.

It's weird knowing that Xigbar had this big huge plan for his role...but seing older cutscenes like when he ran at Xehanort shooting wildly in Birth by Sleep

Dude I'm telling you this Nomura guy KNEW right after 2FM released and he's known since, what a guy! xd

Pfft as if

Lol, bro xigbar/Luxu is give me Black Zetsu from Akatsuki vibe

I Wonder Sometimes If Maleficent Had A Role To Play In All This.

What really caught my interest after watching KH3 was the scene in KH2 where Xigbar said that Ven gave him the same look that Sora was giving him. Originally I thought Xigbar was talking about Roxas since he was Sora's Nobody and Roxas was a member of the original Organization XIII. It was only after seeing watching KH BBS and KH 358/2 Days that I realized Xigbar was talking about someone else. Though once you think about it, the whole thing still didn't make sense at the time. Xigbar spoke about Ven as if he had seen the boy before many times, but in reality, Braig (Xigbar's Original Somebody) only met Ven once, during BBS at the Keyblade Graveyard. After reviewing the scene in Union X were Ven was revealed to be one of the keyblade wielders chosen to a Union leader in the data world, I formed a new theory: Luxu probably had several encounters with the new Union leaders in the past before they were sent into the future. Its possible Ven saw Luxu send his friends into the future. Unaware of what was going on, Ven, no doubt, got angry and tried to attack Luxu, only to be sent into the future with no memories of the Keyblade War or the fake data world.

“R for Reload” showing how much he relaxes while fighting. I’m glad someone else noticed the marluxia scene.

I have been obsessing over why this reveal made the entierety of kingdom hearts series worth replaying. Glad someone finally did this

Before Kingdom Hearts 3 I always thought that Xigbar was somehow the Master of Masters, because of how simulair they acted. I guess Luxu/Xigbar got his act from the MoM.

The biggest him about him being luxu was just how he carried himself throughout the entire series. He acts just like the master of masters. The master of masters was only adult figure in his life that practically raised him and he was the wisest man he knew. So it'd only makes sense that once he set out on his own he'd emulate the only grown up he knew.

I always knew that Xigbar had a grander role to play since the beginning. Then I watched Back Cover and I knew that Xigbar was either Luxu or Master of Masters. I was so happy when I was right.

Hey this is random but why do you think Xigbar or *Luxu* always said that Ven/Roxas pissed him off?

"One of the best twists..." lol around the first time I saw back cover I figured either Luxu or the master of masters was braig/xigbar

One day.... we will see a cutscene of the real Braig, maybe we’ll see the moment Luxu steals Braig’s body.... holy shit how wild that would be

I always found it weird that Xigbar saw Ventus when he looked at Xion, but with this revelation and those two's connection to the keyblade war, it suddenly makes sense. Making sense in Kingdom Hearts... what has the world come to?

Is the Master of Masters a time traveled Xigbar?

Yea I replayed many of the games after kh3 and when I rewatched that scene of him talking to zexion and he was talking about Keyblade wielders I was like “WTF” and also at the end when he says “you’re half the hero the others were” in kh2.

The Moment we run into him in KHII in Radiant Garden. His very first few moments with Sora and Co. He is put up as an important Character. He is the first to straight up call out to Roxas and Ventus from Sora. He teases them throughout the remainder of the series as if he has an ultimate plan for them. From the MOMENT we see him in KHII...DUDE LIKE 13 YEARS AGO!

This is entertaining for the fact that every Kh installment before kh3 now has irony in every cutscene of his.

I guess Nomura liked him so much he wanted to keep the man alive. Even the MoM`s behaviour design seems inspired from him.

Axel is my favorite character, but luxu/Xigbar is a close second ^-^

Yo thank you sooo much for this video! I was so curious about this very thing but too lazy to go back through the bajillion game cutscenes myself lol.

Not sure if anyone in the comments noticed but when Sora, Donald, and Goofy first meet Xigbar he notes about how old he is and that he isn't any ordinary "old dude" which is strange because he never seemed that old compared to most of the Organization and even Ansem the Wise. But with the Luxu reveal it seems to all come together.

The breadcrumbs were there. It's just slipped out of our fingers.

Calling right now: Demyx is going to be the master of masters

what is the song that plays at your outro, I need it on my playlist👌🏽

It seems to me that Xigbar/Luxu was referring to Skuld when Saïx was talking about Naminé. And it seems Saïx thought of her during their conversation

I knew Luxu was Xigbar year's ago but I confirmed it with kingdom heart unchained x it was pretty obvious for me at least or so I told people is a Madara and black zetsu situation.

Xehanort was looking for "the girl". Luxu was the one that told Luxord to look for the box. Then Luxord throws sora a wild card. He can put Mickey in a card..why not a real box.

I have always loved xibar. I'm glad that we will see more of him

It was something I was theorizing ever since they introduced Luxu and MoM It’s just the way Xigbar is, he acts like a perfect hybrid of the two(Luxu’s Personality with the humor of MoM[something that can be taken from a master-to-student typically])So when they revealed it I through my controller in the air and got excited. I thought it was my most Farfetched theory and that it would never come true. BUT IT DID

xigbar keep mumbling about ancient keyblade war everytime and I never notice that lol

so in order to understand whatever the hell will go in kh4 you need to play union x, kh3, all of the other kh games that came before that, and also watch all of the disney movies used in all of those kh games as well as play all of the final fantasy games and watch the final fantasy movies too. what the fuck was nomura thinking?

There is another thing too, in 358/2 Days Xigbar is seeing Xion as Ven from all the people and Ven was one of the union leaders in Union X, Luxu knew Ven according to the secret reports so it' not a coincidence

I think that some of the biggest secrets in KH are hidden in plain sight. Here's one thing I think is hidden in plain sight the MoMs is an Avatar of Light but not only that one of the first 7 lights. All I have to go on for this is though is when MoMs talks to Ira in Back Cover he says "If I should disappear I'm counting on you to keep the others calm" Ira says "Disappear?" MoMs says "Vanish, DIM, FADE... its difficult to explain" Dim & Fade are how you'd describe a light that is further away... Then there's the conversation he has with young Xehanort when asked his name and he kind of glows with a yellow light. On a side note every time Xigbar/Luxu says As If he's being duplicitous also in that one scenario he says the things you hear from someone with no heart... like he was not counting himself.

You never noticed, that is.

The reveal scene was better and far more satisfying then the entire world of Arendelle 😂

I cannot wait for Sora and Riku to get flashbacks to his battle when they find out Xigbar’s is 1. a Keyblade wielder and 2. a FOUNDING Keyblade wielder. He certainly wasn’t lying when he said he was worthy.

Honestly, I wasn't surprised at all. I knew he was Luxu as soon as I saw that Union Cross movie (basically as soon as I learned of Luxu's existence). They move so similarly. Even tho the voice was different I was like "waaaaait, why is he acting like Xigbar?" And the way he interacts with Roxas, Sora, and especially Ventus, even if we just assume he's only referring to current events, just the way he talks shows that he's a very nostalgic person, like he's seen a LOT go by. He keeps getting excited whenever he sees Sora like "Yeah! He always gave me that same look!" like almost fanboyish. To me it would make sense for him to get excited over consistency after watching just generations of stuff going by that he can't ever call back to. Like omg he did the thing! I remember when he did the thing!! But anyway, yeah I knew it when I saw Luxu's animation. XD

As if....

Pff I inspired this video.

That sly body hopper looked and searched specifically for Marluxia for a specific reason, and it wasn't what he and xehanort talked about. The guy wanted Lauriam to still have relevance for what comes next.

Nomura has been planning KH3 Story since they finished development on KH2

I think it was around Birth By Sleep that I really started asking the question: Who is this guy? Why does he act like he's so important? Now it all makes sense.

>That is my destiny You can see the look in his eye lmao "No it isnt, its MINE"

Ever since the first time i saw Xigbar i always had the impression that there was something greater behind him.

One of the things that is really fascinating about this reveal is that it makes us have to reconsider everything we thought we knew about Xigbar and all the things that were previously 'confirmed' about him. One of his earliest pieces of dialogue was to tell Sora that 'he used to give me that same exact look' Until Birth by Sleep we assumed 'he', meant Roxas simply because we knew Roxas was in the Organization. However, we later learned about Ventus and that the two of them have crossed paths before during BBS, so that line was then 'confirmed' to be in reference to Ven. Yet looking back on BBS, Ven and Braig don't really interact very much so it's hard to say why Xigbar would remember 'that look' so vividly. And most recently, it's been revealed that Ventus was originally from the age of Fairy Tales and one of the Danelions, which suggests that he and Luxu might have known each other *then* as well, although we never see them interacting- unless Luxu has more secrets yet to tell, which I'm certain he does and will be revealed in the upcoming saga- and we may yet find out that 'he used to give me that same exact look' could mean something we never could have guessed! Me? Hyped as hell? More likely than you think

Honestly these hints are left to where the creative writers can take it wherever they want to because it's just so OPEN so it leaves room to play with the story more. But this is natural it's a good writing tactic

8:12 'Ah, the things you hear from a guy with no heart.' implicits Xigbar has a heart?

Xigbar has become the revolver ocelot of kingdom hearts universe