The one we know of as "Ansem" is Xehanort's Heartless. He shares some characteristics, such as obvious similarities in clothes, but is very different in appearance.
Riku-Ansem is identical to Ansem, which is the Heartless of Xehanort.
No. Xehanort's Heartless (the fake Ansem) looked like Ansem the Wise (the real Ansem) but a lot tanner.
Because when Riku went into the Door to Darkness, the darkness consumed him, so he could use the powers of the dark, look like Xehanort when he was a heartless, and a darkness keyblade.
Ansem the Wise is Ansem the Wise, he is nothing else, he pretended to be Diz in Kingdom Hearts 2, and he didn't show in Kingdom Hearts 1, the Ansem you fight in Kingdom Hearts 1 is actually Xehanort's Heartless, Xehanort is Ansem's apprentice, that became a Heartless, and the Nobody of Xehanort is Xemnas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WRONG!!! Xemnas is Ansem's Nobody... Get rid of the x and switch a few letters around and you get ansem's name.... Not xehanort... FYI... ansem was DiZ... AND......... in kingdom hearts you didn't battle Ansem... You didn't battle xemnas... You battled xehanort that was pretending to be ansem... But it turned out that the REAL ansem was just trying to HELP sora... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first answer was right. Xemnas is Xehanorts nobody. Think about it... they look alike and had somewhat the same goals.
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Hm, I would say 1. Let's review the four "Ansems": 1.) There's Ansem the Wise, aka Diz, the "original" Ansem. 2.) His heartless is also called Ansem. Heartless Ansem was the only one who claimed to be the original Ansem, so that's why only he is really an imposter. 3.) Ansem's nobody, Xemnas (Ansem remixed + an x), looks almost exactly the same as heartless Ansem, but this one does not claim to be anyone but what he is. 4.) But if you really want to split hairs, you could count Riku as one of the "Ansems" after his appearance was transformed to look exactly like heartless Ansem. He changes back later on. Convuluted, no? :)
no way
*NO SPOILERS*Ven and Roxas have some sort of connection through Sora. We know that they are all connected by some relation, but nothing is known yet. More will be explained in the upcoming 'Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep'.Note:Please don't spoil anything, guys! Wait until the game comes out!-RoxasDive
It was just a regular shadow. A bit strange, cause you would expect that someone with a strong heart like Sora would leave behind a very strong heartless.
well there are a few answers to this. if your talking about in the first game, then he looked like a normal heartless. in the second game he has to fight his dark side or whatever, then that looks like him but just black.
King Mickey told Ansem about Heartless, so Ansem was too intrigued to not look into them.
he looks like ansems heartless when he has the shape of riku's head but his head is covered with that dark stuff or just seach it in google images