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05-13-2020, 05:37 PM
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Kurona
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Originally Posted by
Fish Sandwich
Joke's on you! The only thing I have to say about that is the White Wizard isn't a Kamen Rider, and nobody, including Toei, can ever convince me otherwise. He's in the same boat as Shadow Moon. He's just a guy with the same powers as Wizard, and that's not the same thing in my eyes.
Why, you might ask? Well, because quite frankly, I kind of hate the notion of evil Kamen Riders in a broad sense? It was perfect in Ryuki, which was making a deliberate attempt to defile tradition, and also had a clear and specific definition for what a Rider actually
was
, but in general, I feel flooding the franchise with so many movie villains and Genms and Evols dilutes the entire notion Kamen Rider started out with, which is one of the things I love so much about it.
You can't have an evil Kamen Rider, because all Kamen Rider is to begin with is a
good
monster.
On a case-to-case basis, I don't really have any issues with guys like Genm, for example, or your Thousers and Kaixas who still oppose the show's main villains, but in general, I really wish the franchise would put more thought into what that name gets attached to. If all Kamen Rider means is "person who transforms with a fun toy", I think that's more than a little sad.
That's basically where I'm at too, and why I specifically called out Evol -- Build definitely,
definitely
felt like it was doing something very intentional with the term Kamen Rider, and all the corruptions and layers that came with it. If anything, I think Build beating Evol in the end was kind of the cap on that. It was essentially his final thesis of Kamen Rider being exactly that -- something that
is
good, and how
dare
you even call yourself a Kamen Rider. There's obviously a lot more overt stuff going on in that final fight scene, but it certainly felt like something sneaked in between the lines.
Meanwhile, Wiseman, Cronus, and a thousand movie riders including everyone's Eternally favourite darling... just, kind of, are called Kamen Riders.
In retrospect, and unless I'm remembering this wrong; I really REALLY like that Banno only ever called himself 'Gold Drive'. Not
Kamen Rider
Gold Drive. Just Gold Drive.
Also ALSO in retrospect, I've always found it very fun that Kuuga and Fourze are the only Heisei Rider series to not have a 'Dark Rider'. Even OOO eventually got Poseidon -- but Fourze wants absolutely nothing to do with that. And I like that.
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