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| - Axel makes his first appearance in Chain of Memories, the crap sequel to the original Kingdom Hearts. Well actually, only the gameplay is crap. The story is quite good, mostly due to Axel and the emergence of Organization XIII. Organization XIII are what are known as Nobodies; nobodies are essentially white Heartless borne of the creation of a regular Heartless, but are attuned to their actions rather than the Zerg-like Heartless that just kill whatever is in front of them. Nobodies seek to find their hearts and become whole again. The strongest of the Nobodies formed Organization XIII in an effort to expedite this process. After the events of Kingdom Hearts, Axel lures Sora into a twisted realm called Castle Oblivion, a place that consumes one's memories as you travel deeper into it. Axel's master plan is to trap Sora there and get his heart back, but he underestimates how strong Sora is and that Sora could best even that place. And so, Axel gets pissed off, kills a bunch of members of O13 in a grand coup de grace and moves on to other plans. Cue the events of Kingdom Hearts 2. Sora and friends still have no clue that Axel is somewhat against the Organization, but it all comes to a head at the tail end of the game. Axel finally turns on the Nobodies and kills himself with his ultimate attack, all to allow Sora to enter the Organization's stronghold and kick some ass. "My heart wouldn't be in it, you know? Haven't got one." -Axel Axel ends up being a pretty kickass anti-hero, if only because on top of his being a good character, Quintin Flynn (also the voice of Raiden) portrays him very well and makes him sound pretty damn cool. Flynn needed a badass role after Raiden, and Axel was it. "Got it memorized?" -Axel
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