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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER ZI-O EPISODE 20 - ?FINAL ANSWER 2040?

Which? what? We?re told a number of times in this episode that robbing Quiz of his powers would also rob him of his memories, including the catharsis he came to 2018 to obtain. But then none of that happens? Woz creates the Quiz Miridewatch, and Mondo?s like I?m Just Going Back To The Future Now To Tell My Mom The Good News. Isn?t? isn?t that exactly what we were told couldn?t happen? And hasn?t ever happened before? I genuinely don?t understand how this episode could end in the way it did. Even setting aside the continuity of it all, it gives this story zero stakes at the end. What in the hell were they all fighting over for the last 20-odd minutes?

Mondo's mother is dead though, so his future hasn't really changed much. Even if he loses his powers in his past 2019, they'll probably return to him in his present 2040, as the timeline problem gets resolved (unless it's Oma Zi-O in which case Quiz ceases to exist entirely). That's the perk of being from the future, since most of Mondo's history hasn't happened yet and you can't really negate something that doesn't exist.

So yeah, I agree that the stakes here are kind of irrelevant, since a lot of it is probably being made bigger than it is in Geiz's mind. There's the paradox that Geiz is supposed to be this savior of Kamen Riders, but apparently he has to usurp the power of future Kamen Riders to accomplish that and it's not so different from how Oma Zi-O rose to sovereignty. I think Geiz's problem with that is on principle that taking Quiz's power for the sake of obtaining more power is just a morally ambiguous thing to do, even if the effects of that are merely temporary. And of course, he doesn't want to destroy Sougo if he doesn't have to. White Woz is the one who wishes for Sougo's death the most.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

So, the answer to my question from last time was? true.

Goddammit, 2 misses in a row. I suck at this!