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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Hey Utsumi Is SG Ratchet

I was under the impression he was Sideswipe? Who TF Wiki assures me had a fairly prominent role in that initial comic as a character with a form of preexisting connection to Cliffjumper, who helped him get his bearings in a world he doesn't understand (being the audience surrogate), and apparently even hung out with him in at least a later story or two? Like a friend might?

As for why the main characters are based on those designs to begin with, just ask yourself why the creators of SSSS Gridman might have felt such a strong affinity for an alternate take on a nostalgic property made by nerds incorporating homages to all sorts of things they were fans of. Because once you start to look at it from that perspective, I'd argue how conscious a decision it was begins to stop mattering.