What were your theories for KHIII that ended up being wrong?

[Exlon 165]

I’m interested in hearing what theories all you guys cooked up before KHIII came out that you were disappointed (or perhaps relieved) that ended up not happening, or being wrong.  I’m sure we all had some we were very certain were true, only to find out we were very wrong! These can be theories before the game as well as any you may have come up with during KHIII but before you reached the ending.

My favorite theory I came up with was the reason for Riku’s keyblade breaking. See, remember how both his original sword and then his keyblade had the same eye that was in Master Xehanort’s keyblade? And Vanitas’ keyblade had the eye too. So I thought, “what would be the logical connection through all of them?” Vanitas was Master Xehanort’s apprentice, so maybe his keyblade reflected that connection (even Terra gets a keyblade near the end of BbS that also has the eye, after he fully succumbs to the darkness under Xehanort’s influence).

But then why did Riku’s weapon have it, if he was never exactly an apprentice? I thought that maybe Riku was sort of a “spiritual successor” to Xehanort, in how he was chosen and used to open the door to let darkness into Destiny Islands, and then was Ansem SoD’s tool through the first game. My explanation for him having the eye in his keyblade after he was returned to his own form at the end of KHII was that, as somewhat shown in KH3D, he hadn’t completely gotten rid of the darkness in him (which had mostly taken root in him to begin with because of Xehanort). He still had dark powers and dark attacks, and was still having personal conflicts with forms of Xehanort in KH3D due to their past connection. So my theory was, perhaps his keyblade broke in KHIII because he had another big confrontation with Xehanort (whether as Ansem SoD or some other form) in which he had a moment where he completely severed his connection to Xehanort, and then as a result, his keyblade broke because he was no longer in the line of successors for Xehanort. I was very dedicated to this idea!

But, as we all now know, actually his keyblade broke because the darkness in that level of the Realm of Darkness was “just too strong.”

I was very sad about this simple explanation, as you can imagine. XD

[Green Sparrow 795]

My theories before KH3 that didn't come true:

-The fact that Xehanort came from Destiny Islands would be revealed to Sora and have some importance
-That a playable Radiant Garden would be revealed that it was home to a powerful darkness
-That KH3 would be the best game in the series
-The Foretellers would come back as part of Xehanort's plan (this kinda came true)
-That Sora would temporarily lose access to his Keyblade once Ven's heart was released.

None of these came true. The only theory I had that (unfortunately) came true was that Xehanort would be redeemed at end. Now he wasn't totally redeemed, but he got off waaaaaaay to easy. This guy (and all of his forms) has been nothing but an asshole towards our main cast for the entire. You can't tell me at the 11th hour that poor old Xehanort just wanted balance and was misunderstood.