[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

And there we go into the thing I love about Tiger: his woefully inept moral code. His professor taught him that a hero is someone who would be willing to sacrifice a friend to save another, but Toujou was only half listening and missed the "would be willing to" part and just got "A hero something something something kill your friends." I love the idea that his entire philosophy is built around the fact that he doesn't understand metaphors.

I just love that Professor gets the ironic death of being sacrificed by someone he's trying to teach the value of sacrifice, and how that shows the tragic outcome of his argument. Professor's like, You Can Have A Little Sacrifice, As A Treat, but once you open that door it's nearly impossible to close it. If people get to pick and choose who's expendable, it's going to lead to tragedy. Inevitably, you become a justifiable sacrifice for the greater good. It's not heroism to judge who should live or die, it's villainy.

Like, the restaurant scene in this one. It's all Professor trying to show Toujou why you make sacrifices, what you're making them for, but Toujou just sees more people who need to die to make them both heroes. By trying to tell Toujou it's okay to murder sometimes, he created an argument where's it's always a possibility to solve something with murder.

It's all why I'm okay with Professor dying in this one. He'd created a logical construct in Toujou's brain that required his own death, and he did it all by trying to argue for the usefulness of destroying the things you care about. Dude's story was only going end one way!