[The Chaos Entity]

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Originally Posted by MaskedRiderAsakura

Masamune coming up with a plan to kill Pallad so Emu can't access his final form. IIRC, it's actually the first time I've witnessed in a Rider show where the main villain was genre savvy enough to know that the main guy's final form is stupidly OP and the only way to beat them is to cut off their access to it..

That's not a rumour, it's concrete fact, stated in three different episoide summaries, two of which are on the TV-Asahi and Toei websites, respectively.