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|name=Ansem the Wise

|katakana=賢者アンセム

|romaji=Kenja Ansemu

|game3=Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

|game4=Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

|journalRR=Truly an enigma.<br><br>DiZ appeared before Riku in the guise of Ansem, presenting him with choices regarding the darkness within his heart.<br><br>It is said he and the king have met.

|journalKH2='''DiZ'''<br>An entity shrouded in mystery.<br><br>'''Ansem the Wise'''<br><br>The man who called himself "DiZ" and dressed his face in bandages to conceal it, now revealed to be none other than Ansem the Wise.<br><br>The true Ansem once studied hearts and the Heartless, but soon ceased his research for fear of disrupting the order of the worlds. But his apprentice Xehanort betrayed him, robbing Ansem of his discoveries and pride.<br><br>Since that time, Ansem was driven by vengeance -- but when he saw Riku go so far as to give up his physical form to help Sora, he had a change of heart.

When Riku and Mickey set off from Castle Oblivion, DiZ appears to them at the crossroads in the grassy plain, asking which path they will take: the road to light or the road to darkness. Riku chooses the middle road, which DiZ refers to as the "twilight road to nightfall". Riku corrects him, calling it the "road to dawn".

===''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days''===

[[File:Naminé and DiZ 01 KHD.png|thumb|left|DiZ and Naminé discuss Sora's restoration.]]

[[File:A Fragmentary Passage 05 KHBBSFM.png|thumb|right|DiZ places secret data within Sora.]]  

However, Sora is taking too long to awaken, and DiZ convinces Riku to retrieve [[Roxas]], the Nobody of Sora. Riku has no choice but to take on the form of [[Riku-Ansem|Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]] in order to defeat Roxas. Seeing the evidence of Riku's devotion to Sora, DiZ slowly begins to lose his lust for revenge, hiding his shame behind laughter. Still, DiZ continues with the plan, placing Roxas into [[Simulated Twilight Town|a digital copy of Twilight Town]] where he can live out his days under observation, until it is time for him to reunite with Sora.

===''Kingdom Hearts II''===

[[File:The End is Near 01 KHII.png|thumb|left|DiZ talks about his true goal.]]

The explosion completely purifies Riku of the presence of Ansem, Seeker of Darkness and undoes the majority of Organization XIII's work on Kingdom Hearts, while involuntarily summoning forth several hundred Heartless in the city below.

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===''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''===

Ansem is mentioned by Mickey as "''a friend who said that the heart is so much more than any system.''"

===''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance''===

After Riku frees Sora's heart from Ventus's possessed Keyblade Armor, he ends up on a projection of [[Destiny Islands]] within his heart. There, after meeting projections of Roxas, Ventus, and Xion and finding a bottle in the surf, Riku encounters a data projection of Ansem. He tells Riku about the research data he hid inside Sora while he was asleep, the content of the bottle, and he talks about Sora's ability to connect with others' hearts, and how it may be able to bring back those that have been lost or no longer exist.

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==Appearance==

File:Ansem the Wise KHII.png|Ansem the Wise in his lab attire.

File:DiZ KHII.png|Ansem as DiZ.

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