Quote Originally Posted by Winter View Post
Well, Sieses, you have to consider how much of the series they had planned at the time. I mean, with 3D it sure seems like Nomura was planning things and dropping hints all along, but how long did it take to flesh out the importance of this new collection of villains? Sure, everyone seems to have solid plans in CoM, but that's what? Six of the thirteen, and they were pretty evenly divided in their interactions between Sora and Riku's stories. By KH2, you're back to one main character and two more main villains on top of the other seven in the Organization that you're dealing with, and again, there's no telling how well planned the entire series plot was at that point, so it could be that that's why you don't see enough of Organization XIII, particularly certain characters.
Granted, but I don't think that quite excuses the pure lack of screen time from them.

Part of the reason that they couldn't show up more in CoM was that the Disney Worlds of that game were created from Sora's memory, and there was nothing to be gained from the members of the Organization interfering with what occurred in them. Nomura could have easily had them take part in the Disney worlds, trying to turn the villains into Heartless, with their interference changing how things go down from the movie. As things are, I have to agree with some of the critics; Kingdom Hearts II feels like a bad fanfic, with most of the canon Disney worlds going the same way as they did in the movies except Sora takes an unnecessarily large part that he didn't have the first time.

On the topic of how much they had planed, it was at least enough for them to know that Xigbar had interacted with the Keyblade wielders of the past. It was only an offhanded comment on his part, but no other character in the game mentioned another Keyblade wielder in the past tense other than Roxas. They could have easily given that part to Saix, being for all intents and proposes the second-in-command of the Organization, or even Xemnas himself to establish him as more of a threat, but they chose to give it to Xigbar. They had to have known something about what would happen in BBS at that point.

Anyway, they should have firmly established what each villain was going to be like before doing anything with them, and a single Disney World with one of them as the main antagonist would have been enough to establish their characters. If they really felt that they needed more than Xemnas to fight at the World that Never Was, then they could have easily had Xigbar and Saix survive their initial encounters with Sora.