[Locke]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Just wait until you find out his actual story. He's just... he's something.

But yeah, I always wondered why there isn't some show where the Rider just kind of wants to use his powers because he's a superhero. I know lots of riders are responisble, but no-one thought "damn I'm late for poetry slam, I'll just use my rider powers to fly there!" Or how about when confronted with a non-monster problem? I mean, remember when Eiji had to dissarm those bombs and ran there out of the suit despite having, ya know, cheetah legs?

Plus, I think I've seen a lot of rider series where a non-monster threat shows up and, instead of using their amazing powers to stop it, they let the problem grow and become worse. Den-O was once held hostage by a guy he thought had a bomb, and once more at gunpoint. Both instances could've been solved instantly as a rider, but to an even lesser extent he can be posessed by powerful spirits that could have quelled the situation instantly. Momotaros even once tried to stop it, but they stopped him. He once even left the hostage situation posessed by Momo to fight a monster! Then again that was played for laughs and the hostage taker was quite clearly not a serious threat.

It's just weird that these people with great power, while understandably focused on the larger threat, never use them for anything except a monster fight.

It reminds me of that flat-out frog-retarded episode of Power Rangers Ninja Storm where the yellow ranger got in shit for using his powers to stop a robbery. You know, helping people.

I don't mind unmorphed action sequences, since they at least convince you that the person is in the suit but yeah, stuff like the OOO bomb thing was just stupid and I just like...yeah.

I want to see the powers explored, I want to see the heroes having fun with them and have them saying like 'this is cool, this is awesome!' and just doing stupid shit like leaping off buildings and stuff because now they can.

They subdue the actual fun factor of the powers so much most of the time it actually pulls me out of the show because quite often, even in a series with hugely flashy attacks, the actual transformation feels arbitrary like they've just put on their costume rather than accessed a new form with ungodly powers.