[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by BagJo

I definitely understand why you wouldn't get into Meteor. Whenever I'm feeling the Main and the Secondary is introduced as anti-the-protag, they usually start off in the negative with me. While not a true Secondary, this is very much how I felt about TheBee when he was introduced in Kabuto (I won't say anymore about that, no spoilers).

Yeah, I think it's down to how the secondary Rider's necessary antagonism is displayed. I mean, they have to be in some sort of conflict with the primary Rider, otherwise what's the point? But when that conflict moves outside the standard "want to kill monsters for different reasons" (Birth, Beast, Accel) or "has a legit grudge against the main Rider that can only be addressed through combat" (Specter, Grease), if it's not those two things and is a larger Frank Grimes-style critique of the show's premise or themes, that doesn't work as well for me. That's when I reflexively take the primary Rider and/or cast's side, and get a little cold-shoulder-y to the secondary Rider. I think Meteor's story had moves to it, it definitely grew beyond his deceptive debut, but I definitely sometimes felt like he was telling me that I shouldn't like watching Kamen Rider Fourze.