[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I skipped Maria because she was actually sympathetic, but she's only 1/4th of the villain roster
I guess when Tran was a child, he could be seen in a more sympathetic light, though.

Maria is the most active general after Radiguet, and she's a key part of the series' most long-running and important story arc. Giving her the same level of narrative importance as Grey or Tran/za is a little unfair, IMO.

Honestly, though, I even have a little bit of sympathy for Radiguet? Just because he tries so freaking hard, is so devastated after every failure, and actually works to improve himself (a lot like a tremendously less noble Rio, tbh). Sure, he's a psychopathic monster, but he's also a little pathetic, which endears him to me slightly. (Certainly more than you run-of-the-mill Baranoias, Zangyacks, and Underground Empire Tubes.)

I mean, obviously you don't have to find them sympathetic. But I do, and I think my feelings are pretty grounded in the series' text.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

As for Grey, I guess because his feelings for Maria kind of just appeared out of the blue around the end, I didn't really see him as deep or complex.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm just a sucker for noble villains, especially when romantic feelings are involved. You don't get a lot of villainous romances in Western media, but they're pretty frequent in Japanese kids' action shows, and I always enjoy them when I see them.