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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

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Well, Rook got his memory back, killed a bunch of people and Kivat is all "Oh what, you worrying about stuff again?"

YOU MEAN LIKE HOW ALL THOSE INNOCENT NICE PEOPLE WHO YOU KNEW DIED HORRIBLE DEATHS YEAH JUST A BIT BRO.

The complete inhumanity and disregard for the well-being of their fellow man is just palpable in Rider shows. It's almost revolting. These are the HEROES? Jeez I'm not expecting him to bust into tears, but he seems so... unconcerned.

Like, I once saw someone (on a different site) ask why Kouta got so upset when Hase died, evidently forgetting that's the normal human reaction to death. Riders pre-neo-heisei are so inhuman. So selfish. So... horrible.

Kiva's not even the worst of the bunch. Even Den-O was a little to apathetic toward civilian casualties at times. "What's my point of fighting" you mean besides saving lives?

Granted so many Riders are so downright awful at that it'd make sense if that wasn't their goal. Just once I'd like to see a Rider transform to save someone from a fire, or stop a runaway bus, or help someone in need. Where is it written you can't use the powers for anything beside monster fighting? W is my favourite rider because he has, multiple times, saved people with his powers. Stopped falling debris, move them out of the way of danger, stuff like that. Hell, even Kouta once tried to use his belt to save a kid from a tree. He didn't, but he tried.

It's more of a Toshiki Inoue thing than an era thing, really. Inoue is the writer whose heroes consistently skip the first two to three monster attacks before doing anything. Agito and Kiva, in particular, are the shows where the monster radar seems to only go off occasionally.