The Blade guys look really generic to me, though. I know that's a dumb thing to say, but just don't think it'd be my thing.

Also did I miss or forget what happened to that big lock thing in Agito? I remember it unlocked or whatever but not what happened to it.

It let out the Overlord. After that it served no real purpose and was conveniently forgotten about.

Oh right.

Agito 22: Well, I've seen worse excuses to have the riders fight eachother. But yay, Aki's gone! I don't usually like seeing characters die, even if I hate them, but I'm glad I don't have to suffer through her smug overacting anymore. The future is bright. Kind of random that Gills would attack Agito, a clearly non-monster gently mourning his dead not-girlfriend, but since he just came out of rider form and was likely still raging from it (dude's fucking nuts BTW. Gills as a person may not be all that but as a rider he's so cool and unique. Can anyone tell me if his SIC is in-scale with the Double/OOOs ones? :D) and only saw her dead body and some random dude touching her. But I don't get why he thinks Agito killed her when he knows she was being attacked by cat people (that's racist) and Agito is quite clearly a hero fighting said cat people. I do like that G3 came to Agito's rescue. Shame all he does is get his ass kicked. Though really the biggest shocker was that Agito is apparently capable of speech. I mean, the guy's never really said a word as Agito and I kind of thought he went into a battle trance when he transformed and only regained his normal personality afterwards. Also it was cool to see G3's helmet break and come off in battle. Anytime you actually see the regular actor in the suit is cool. (Like Skull in Decade's Movie War)

Also, the bug unknowns were creepy but interesting. They seemed more sadistic than the others, the first one actually seeming to admire his work. Also holy shit the G3 lady mowed down those beers faster than I mow down on KitKat bars. Maybe she's got superhuman powers, too. It was neat seeing those two talk.

You should try Hibiki sometime. They do that all the time.

God that was so boss when Skull did it though.

I get why double himself never did it, being two minds in one body would make Shotaro speaking in Philip's voice weird, but OOOs never did it either. And I never saw it when I watched Kabuto.

Weird.

It's pretty rare. The only times I can think of off-hand where that happens are Skull in the Decade movie, the G3 armor several times, the Hibiki Oni taking their masks off, and that one moment in Blade when Garren's helmet is shattered. I think I'm forgetting one (Birth maybe? Or Fourze?), but there aren't many more occasions of it.

There really aren't many examples of it. In sentai it's more common place, some times the heroes take their helmets off to introduce themselves or to have a breather in between fight scenes, in the middle of a rollcall before the helmet henshins into place and what have you. As for riders though the costume tends to form around the body all at once as opposed to the more segmented henshin of a sentai hero.

Agito 24: Man, G3-X rocks. It actually destroyed the bugwoman with, like, barely any trouble and had Agito on the ropes. (Or at least had Agito going for his finisher, something he wouldn't do unless he had no other option) I wish G3-X had finished Homo off and punched his frigging face in. And it only took, well, half the God-damned show, but Agito's finally remembering something. Kind of. Sort of. Point is, the show has remembered he's the main character at least.

Speaking of, I have a question about Agito: why is he only alerted to Unknown attacks sometimes? They always manage to bump off at least one person before his spidey-sense decides it gives a shit. Seeing him in the G3-X was... surreal, but neat.