[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER OOO EPISODE 3 - “CATS, EVOLUTION, AND GLUTTONS”

I think Ankh’s prominence in my memory over Eiji has less to do with Eiji’s sweetness than with Eiji's tendency in the narrative to be mostly reacting to Ankh’s cruelty/hilarity. This episode alone is largely just Eiji trying to work around Ankh’s more human-indifferent goals, while Ankh is the one deciding where to go next and how to approach a problem. Eiji’s job is to work within Ankh’s restrictions and push back on Ankh’s imperiousness, which makes for a solid episode of tense conflict between our leads, but definitely gives Ankh the juicier part.

This tendency seems to be not limited to Eiji and Ankh, but just media in general, where the sweet heroes would feel reactive, only reacting to problems that happen to others to help them, and that the villains, or at least much more morally questionable good guys, would be the proactive one, driving the plot by going after their goals. Also, how heroes are seen as just predictable that they're only about doing the right thing, where the other can have variety in what they do for their goal. I don't know if this common trait of media can be actually solved, while still having the heroes retain Eiji's virtue (rather than, well, making them morally questionable as said above). Then again, Eiji is someone without a desire.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s the sort of cold pragmatism we’d expect from our avian asshole, and Eiji’s resistance so far is more about a general belief in human life than a specific counter to Ankh’s worldview, but I’m sure that’ll come in time. The tracks are already being laid for a discussion about how some of the people who least deserve help most need it, and that probably includes Ankh.

Superhero shows would usually have the people who least deserve help getting help, by the righteous characters, but seems that many of real life people, even those who believe they're good people, would discourage it and wish for 'karma' for someone that deserves it, particularly villains they have a sympathy for, but also including those who make foolish decisions like said glutton V/MOTW. This can make those virtuous heroes feel less of a human and more of a messianic-like figure to not feel the same way as them and instead being seemingly incapable of holding negative feelings and contempt like humans'd be expected to.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Ankh, who is absolutely gluttonous this episode when it comes to harvesting Cell Medals. We’re still at a point with Ankh where his blatant contempt for humanity is making his partnership with Eiji horribly ineffective, and threatening both of their objectives. Definitely a good place to leave the first half of a two-parter!

Dunno if Ankh'd think Eiji being nice means he'd be a doormat that'd please Ankh anytime (or the people Ankh assigns to 'help' for his own purpose), which isn't limited to complete bastards like Ankh, but also many normal people thinking this. But ofc, being nice means one should oppose wrongdoings, like Ankh's callousness or attempt to murder innocents like Hina. Wish this'd be more widespread rather than being seen as Eiji 'knowing the time to be an asshole' to Ankh. About Eiji trying to fight the parasite glutton and endangering himself, missed a chance to have Eiji further threaten Ankh to lose his only means to regenerate, but after the Yummy came out, Eiji is now shown to be a capable fighter that can stand up to the Yummy's attacks as human.