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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

OOO, DEN-O, ALL RIDERS: LET’S GO KAMEN RIDERS

Like, I think all of the Rider Scouts stuff in this movie is great? Really great? I gloss over it above – to almost the same degree the movie eventually abandons it to spend more time burnishing the legend of, like, ZX – but the way this movie talks about how Kamen Rider’s gift to the children of Japan for 40 years is that it taught multiple generations to believe in things like hope and kindness… that’s so cool. Creating an alternate non-Rider world whose tragedy is that kids are meaner and more selfish and scared? Very smart, and genuinely affecting for all of its nonsense in worldbuilding. (I like that Shocker kept building inspiring buildings and making fun fashion for people throughout Showa and Heisei, despite being a malevolent kleptocracy.) I like when these movies get at something sweet, rather than just something awesome. That’s such a nice thing to celebrate for a major anniversary.

It's perhaps misleading too that there's Ichigo and Nigo fighting OOO which made the kids confused, and the earlier conflict for the Rider Scouts is kind of similar too to think they're enemies. Dunno if Ichigo and Nigo attacking other Riders wouldn't sit well for some fans due to them being the golden standard of Riders to them yet they're doing the Ryuki thing (something deviative from some for Kamen Rider values) temporarily there.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The spectacle is what we’re nominally here for, if you believe the filmmakers, and I find it a fairly mixed bag. There’s an effort to get everyone and everything onscreen in some capacity, logic and/or history be damned. (Kind of surprised #1 and #2 invited, like, Scissors to the big brawl at the end. I feel like being a serial killer would be disqualifying, but maybe being Shocker henchmen for 40 years blurred their red lines some.) The bikes all can fly now because Why Not, everyone's just back because of belief so there's zero consequences, and the scale eventually dwarfs the humanity. It’s Quantity over Quality, which is basically the formula for every upcoming Taisen film. It’s a big party at Kamen Rider Quarry, and everyone is invited except for compelling storytelling.

It's unknown who was behind the suit of Scissors there. Because Kamen Rider user isn't the same as the suit/abilities, like how it was displayed in Faiz, where Delta user can range from Saya to Kitazaki. Like even in Ryuki, for 13 Riders special, it was unknown who used the Tiger and Imperer suit. RT Ryuki also has different users for existing Riders. And Sudo's actor has retired too if Scissors' original identity should be retrained. It's common for the movies to just add any of the previous Riders, likely except the main antagonist ones, for the fight.