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Funnily enough, this aired alongside the episode of Wizard where the female villain makes the secondary hero fight his allies (granted, the plots that result are different, but still).

About the episode, wow was I not keen on Escape being back. In fact, this and Messiah’s return helped form one of my pet peeve tropes in Toku: giving a villain a fitting send-off and then bringing them back for a more generically “epic” death. It annoyed me here, it annoyed me with Manmarva in Hurricaneger and it looks like it’s about to annoy me with MadRex Fury in Boonboomger. There aren’t any Rider villains that come to mind (mostly because most of them either have rather lame first deaths, tend to stay alive after their resurrection or have the good decency to stay dead). But I’ll discuss more of this next time.

And to end on a more positive note, Kuwagataloid/Stagloid/Stagroid/Kuwagatroid (delete as appropriate) is probably my favourite Metaloid design, so I can say they saved the best for last at least.