[Locke]

That is why I love Xaviax. Most toku villains sit in the background and send down monsters one at a time, granted, but it never feels like it's part of some master plan, it never feels like they're actually achieving anything.

It's also really clever that the show is smart enough to sidestep a lot of the common pitfalls of these kinds of things. For example, the Decks are DNA locked meaning the mirror double is the ONLY person other than the original Venteran who can use the decks. This allows Dragon Knight the freedom to have a huge variation of characters because just because they were a knight on Ventera doesn't mean their mirror double is, they could literally be ANYTHING.

I'm often watching toku and wondering what a skinny market stall salesman or whatever has over a trained military professional in being chosen but here Xaviax has no choice, he has to go with whoever the Deck is DNA is locked to, whether it be conman, dirtbike racer or frat boy douchebag. He has to work with what he is given.

Keeping this in mind also, it means that any times Xaviax's plans go wrong...it isn't really his fault. He has such a flavour of people under him, pretty much ALL of which you'd never actually pick for an evil army that a lot of them are so unpredictable he can't physically predict all of the outcomes. Which means Xaviax can fail, but when he does it doesn't feel like it's out of utter incompetence like the majority of toku villains.