[MarsHottentot]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

For me it's a combination of a large array of factors:

- The big anime eyes generally look really bad.
- Ex-Aid's helmet with the funky anime hair (and the various Ex-Aid repaints by extension)
- Everything about the level 1 suits (which, thankfully, rarely show up any more)
- Almost every suit is a mishmash of garish and clashing colors: magenta and lime green, navy and neon yellow, canary yellow and pink, neon blue and neon orange, etc.
- Most of the power-ups consist of attaching giant blocks of stuff to the base Rider suit. The vast majority of them do not color match the Rider they're attaching to (Ex-Aid and Snipe's red armor, Brave's yellow, Genm's pink and green). Several of them also fail to match up thematically, Brave's baseball cap and turntable being the worst offender.
- The proportions on Maximum Mighty X and the fact that it's just regular Ex-Aid wearing a big suit.
- The sparkly dreadlocked wtf-ery that is Muteki.

To be fair, there are some suits I like - most of Brave's power ups, for example. Out of the entire show, though, there's only one suit that I would say is legitimately great: Dangerous Zombie.

Well, a lot of your problems seem to be against the show's overarching 90's 16bit console / action figure aesthetic which was incredibly garish, stupid and OTT*. If you weren't around to experience these things, thereby getting a nostalgic kick out of it - yeah, I can see the obnoxiousness being on the annoying side.

*See pretty much ALL Batman figure lines 1992-1999