[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

I guess part of it is, Ishinimori posited that a Kamen Rider walks a lonely path against evil, but I don't agree with that. I think in all of us is a hero who can fight evil given the right tools, hence why it's so important to organize.

Yeah, boy, I don't know if Lonely Path is what I get out of modern Kamen Rider. Coming in through Ex-Aid, and spending a lot of time in the Phase 2 Heisei stuff, one of the big themes I got out of it was Consensus Matters. Like, every time a Rider decides to ignore the wishes of the group, to go out and do what they think is right, they're inevitably punished by the story. Iconoclasm is irresponsible, deference to the group is responsible.

It's actually one of the things that really intrigued me about Kamen Rider at first. So much American superhero storytelling is about rugged individualism, or personal exceptionalism, so a show that was about how we need to work together to decide what the right course of action is, I thought that was really refreshing.