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Why Auto is a Perfect Villain For Kingdom hearts.

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With Kingdom Hearts 4 being slowly shown off and people talking about it, I've been thinking about future worlds.

Now I can try to guess the words for 4, but I would probably fail lol (mainly since I have no clue what major themes, minus the classics, 4 will tackle) since if the game is based around idk being a forgettable movie minus one song, Dinosaur could get a world. (It's never getting one, but man, that would be insane to call lol)

I, however, think three worlds are very likely, and the longer KH is a thing, the more and more likely these movies get a chance of getting in due to how they perfectly work with the mythos/themes of KH.
Those films are Coco, Moana, and Wall-E.

Now two of those are on everyone's bingo boards, I think. However, I think people sleep on Wall-E despite how perfect it would be. IDK if all three of these bad boys will be in 4, but I think they are the front runners. So allow me to pitch why Wall-E is one using its villain Auto. Now, Auto isn't one of Disney/Pixar's classic rogues, but I think they are perfect for KH.

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Now, Auto would just be a level villain; they could never be anything more. They're not like Jafar, Hades, or Maleficent, who want to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! But unlike every villain prior, Auto spits at the face of all the core themes of KH.

To me, the main themes of KH as a whole are growing up, friendship and the bonds that drive us, and the pursuit of knowedgle/learning. To sum it all up, it's about growth at the heart of it, and there's a course, the classic light vs dark, to go with it.

Now, if you don't know Auto, sometimes called Otto from Wall-E, they act as a massive spaceship wheel, acting as well Auto pilot, hence the name Auto. They're a "villain" but not out of any human desire, despite almost every machine in Wall-E showing feeling/emotion, Auto's (apart from some head canons) soul drive is its prime directive, no matter what: "Do not return to Earth." Due to years of no conflict of any kind and no real drive for change (the ship is legit perfect), everything goes on autopilot everyone just becomes a soulless fat husk, not doing anything but sitting around on their screens and eating. In KH terms, sure, the Axiom (the ship's name) has no real darkness, no real problems; there's no light either; there's no real light either; nobody's really happy, nobody really knows each other; they just live until they die. The direct opposite of everything the series stands for.

Auto would be the first movie villain to be truly neutral and represent a lack of any real change. While everything man or machine changes around it, Auto will always be a soulless, heartless machine.

Anywho, just wanna get my thoughts out there lol, feel free to agree or disagree and say why I'm wrong.

Posted Jul 13, 2026, 10:38 AM UTC

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