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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Yeah, boy, I don't know if Lonely Path is what I get out of modern Kamen Rider. Coming in through Ex-Aid, and spending a lot of time in the Phase 2 Heisei stuff, one of the big themes I got out of it was Consensus Matters. Like, every time a Rider decides to ignore the wishes of the group, to go out and do what they think is right, they're inevitably punished by the story. Iconoclasm is irresponsible, deference to the group is responsible.

It's actually one of the things that really intrigued me about Kamen Rider at first. So much American superhero storytelling is about rugged individualism, or personal exceptionalism, so a show that was about how we need to work together to decide what the right course of action is, I thought that was really refreshing.

Yeah that is very much something I forgot about. A lot of Modern Rider is about people with different ideals coming together to solve problems. It's about like the meeting of ideals, because letting one voice dominate (though admittedly one voice does dominate because there's a main character) leads to stagnation.

Hmmmmm *thinks even more*