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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Late reply, but I want to remind that even saving the world doesn't mean they don't have personal motivations or necessarily want to help others. They just have the power (or probably genius level intellect) that allows them to do so. And it applies too for the ones who help people after becoming Rider, it doesn't mean that they "magically" get the urge to help people, it's just that they already want to help people from the very beginning (disagree with the notion that helping others can only be done as Riders or fighting), but becoming a Rider lets them contribute to far greater things than what a normal human can do in their daily job due to the Rider's power.

In short, power (or toku intellect) lets you contribute far greater, but moral doesn't necessarily measure corresponding to those 2. B̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶e̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶a̶i̶n̶e̶d̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶F̶a̶i̶z̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶R̶i̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶m̶o̶t̶i̶v̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶.̶.̶.̶

your right also I never realized that 2 of my least favorite Rider series (that I've seen) do this (555/Ghost) (give the main character motives beyond "I want to make everyone happy" initially which I do like, the problem is EVERYONE in 555 minus Yuka and Kiba(the former of whom dies and then the later get's butchered from a writing standpoint because Inoue needed a conflict for the last few episodes) is an asshole complete with Kusaka who if it weren't for Kiriya from Hibiki would be a shoe in for the worst character in the franchise (keep in mind I consider Banno/Masamune from Drive/Ex-Aid to be the least likable characters in the franchise but your very much supposed to hate them and I think they did a good job with that). Ghost is much like Wizard a show of good ideas held back by terrible execution/a crappy cast that ranges from wasted at best to bland to irritating, and dreadful pacing and it doesn't even have Wizard's redeemable factor of having well written/interesting villains (or let me rephrase that it's an interesting idea on paper but horribly executed)