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An empty vessel whose heart has been stolen away; A spirit that goes on, even as its body fades from existence, for you see... Nobodies do not truly "exist" at all.
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~ Yen Sid describing the Nobodies.
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A Nobody doesn't have a right to know. Nor does it even have the right to be.
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~ DiZ on the Nobodies.
The Nobodies (in Japanese: ノーバディ, Nōbadi) are dark creatures that are the result of strong-willed people becoming Heartless; they are the empty shell of the body and soul that is left behind after the hearts are taken. They first appear in Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories. The inhabitants of Castle Oblivion are all Nobodies, though this is not discovered until the second game. In the second game they become a common enemy that is faced, like the Heartless; however, these Nobodies do not have human forms like the members of Organization XIII. Each Nobody (in Japanese: ノーバディ, Nōbadi) is generally more powerful than a Heartless creature; the more a Nobody looks like their original self, the more powerful they are. They also primarily lived in their homeworld called the World That Never Was.
There is also a special kind of Nobody called an Absent Silhouette that is created when a Nobody dies in Castle Oblivion. These are only seen in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+.
The Nobodies share the same name with the four-armed masked demons from the Devil May Cry universe.
The entities' name also serves as a possible allusion to Homer's Odyssey. In the poem, when Odysseus and his crew are confronted with the Cyclops named Polyphemus demanding to know his name, the Ithacan king tells him he is known as "Nobody". Later as part of Odysseus's escape plan, the crew blinds Polyphemus while passed out from excessive drinking in which he screams out to fellow neighboring cyclopes that "Friends, Nobody is murdering me by craft" who ignore him in indifference allowing Odysseus and his surviving crew members to escape to their ship and sail away.
They are the only enemy type in the entire Kingdom Hearts franchise whose emblem does not resemble a heart.
Xehanort old armor has a symbol of nobody. Could be a metaphor that Xehanort actions are very "heartless". It could also because he's the source of all Nobodies because they pretty much not exist before he spread Emblem Heartless to the universe.
Nobodies are very popular in cosplaying, with the Creeper, Dusk, Dancer, and Samurai being the most popular of these to imitate. However, the other Nobodies, like the Dragoon and the Gambler are cosplayed as well, but due to the complexity of the costume, mostly due to the head covering, they aren't so popular in this respect. There seems to be no preference for cosplaying these enemies in terms of gender, as both males and females are often seen cosplaying the many different types of Nobodies.
The song "Sanctuary" from Kingdom Hearts 2 could be interpret about Nobodies struggle to find Hearts and Emotions. That can only be complete by showing affection to them, which later confirm to be true in Dream Drop Distance.
In fact, Dancer Nobodies appear in Utada Hikaru music video "Passion", japanese version of Santuary, in scene that resemblem The World That Never Was, world that most Nobodies reside in.
Reality is compose of Light and Darkness which come from hearts. Nobody lacking all three components thus make them "non-existent". In unreality where Sora and Sterlizia currently stuck in is also describe as no light and darkness by Master of Masters. It's unknown if residents of that world have hearts or lacking its like nobodies or not.
However, it seem like thing won't be stay like that, as Sora, Guardian of Light bring light to unreality, Heartless following him, as if there is light, will always has darkness. As show in Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer.
