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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Yeah, I definitely didn't have that read on it? I don't think the show is addressing her overconfidence, because she's not overconfident, she's too determined. (She actually is anxious and scared, which is a big point of this episode!) Her determination makes her unable to sit back and say Holy Shit I Almost Got My Brother Killed, and that's going to keep her from any sort of actual heroism. Power has to be balanced with humility -- an understanding that power has to be wielded with both purpose and reluctance -- or it's never going to get you what you want. By acknowledging her anxiety and fears, by recognizing the burden of what she's doing, she's reached a level of power that eluded her before.

I get that, but it still reads as someone who?s core problem is the idea that she has to be invincible. That her acknowledging her weakness makes it go away.

Her approach hasn?t changed. She still sees herself as someone who should be invincible, missing the whole point.

Her strength and power aren?t wielded with purpose or aim, they are wielded to not be weak. And that hasn?t changed, at least to me. That is why I feel this episode?s moral utterly contradicts itself. If she really understood her problem, she wouldn?t have said that.