[DreadBringer]

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Ha ha, do people seriously not think that George isn't already a villain?! This guy has never once shown that he cares about any of the Riders or civilians or Fenix troops or literally anything other than his own mad Kamen Rider experiments. He's basically a Shocker scientist in everything but name! He's not a good guy!!!

Yeah, they do, even claiming Hiromi's the one responsible for the events in ep. 7 (debut as Demons) with George speaking the truth. Him being a Kamen Rider fan (and not direct bad guy fan) seems to be also what can downplay his atrocities albeit some do think of him as sus. Though... it's not the first time because I also felt people forgot that Woz was a villain in earlier Zi-O, who just happens to be a help for the primary Rider (and was introduced as that).

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KAMEN RIDER REVICE: THE MYSTERY EPISODE 4

On that front, I thought this episode’s Drawing Room Accusation stuff mostly worked. I got it when Ikki got it: When Suzu says the word "Orphnoch", there’s no way she could’ve heard it yet. Kaido didn’t identify his monster type before he jumped out a window, and Ikki was the first person to see her afterwards. There’s no possible way for her to have just learned he was an Orphnoch, so she must’ve known well in advance and hidden it from everyone else. Plus, there’s almost no one else it could be at this point; Suzu was the only character with enough screentime to make for a villain worth confronting.

Like I said before, I think this just boils down to people's prejudice for monsters (...like Kusaka), which is also the reason for Suzu to direct suspicions to Kaido, so that people'd only focus on taking out the "obvious baddie" (albeit Kaido's a misanthropic jerk), including even Ikki's Kamen Rider duties of going after monsters as Suzu mentioned Orphnoch. I guess actually for this time, Ikki seeing the best in people actually pays off, because it also extends to some monsters as well in him defending Kaido from Otta, not blindly viewing them as evil like Suzu hoped, allowing him to suspect another one as the culprit. Though Kaido himself claims nice guys like him tend to think with heart than brain more, but it's not something inherent, and it's just a writing choice to make nice guys dumb.

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Beyond that… hoo boy, it’s all just a mix of previously unrevealed details, stuff the audience learned outside of Ikki’s investigation – meaning Ikki had no idea whatsoever of Suzu’s potential motivation – and wild suppositions that incredibly turned out to be accurate. The biggest offender is the frequent instances of Suzu spilling dirt, which I can’t recall ever being shown onscreen, despite Ikki mentioning it as his first clue something was up. It’s the only clue prior to this episode, but I don’t think it was ever actually shown to the audience? Seems like a big deal!

I do think that Suzu was the culprit too when I heard about her mourning about her fiancee, and for previously, the talk about Orphnoch DNA, which'd likely lead into her actually scheming something related to said fiancee. This actually means there are more than 1 baddies though, where Hanawa too is Suzu's right hand man. Still, I'd hope that the two-faced Suzu being the culprit won't be used to enforce "politeness is deceptive, bluntness is honest" and encourage people to be rude assholes to be "honest" (including if you'd hope that pure and innocent girls will always turn out like this so it won't be "generic" and "subverting expectations").

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Still, it mostly doesn’t matter in the details. Suzu was bound to be the culprit, her motivation seemed reasonable to deduce in the previous episode, and the nuts and bolts of how she committed her various crimes is more academic than integral. (Nice to know that half the reason for attacking Hiromi was that he was a sweaty pest! This poor guy! Jesus!) I don’t love how much Ikki just guesses that ice cubes were used to delay the discovery of a crime scene until the perpetrators had an alibi, but whatever.

Hiromi here is more blinded by love to deflect any of Ikki's assumptions towards Suzu and immediately buy any words from her. Yeah, sense of justice is often shown by chivalry to protect women, but actually, real sense of justice should be unbiased, and not only protecting something worth your affection, but something undesirable as well (I guess monsters above in this case), and also not get blind in acknowledging how what's not expected as bad can be one (equals not seeing the best all the time).