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Admittedly, I'm not like, intimately familiar with them either (Amazon was the only one I'd seen in full until just earlier this year), so maybe I just have undue confidence in speaking for them, but a lot of this stuff was kind of baked right into the premise, from everything I know.

And heck, Amazon? That guy was making friends everywhere he went decades before Gentarou was! One of his best ones was literally just one of the random monsters of the week who ended up being pretty chill. Is that "lonely"? I don't think so, and while Amazon had difficulties communicating that isolated him from humanity a lot of the time, the same way being cyborgs would for other Riders, they all had allies, you know?

I think there's an argument to be had about what the concept of the "Lonely Kamen Rider" really meant. To me, it always simply represented the sorrow of them as tragic heroes (which is also why Rider 1's mask is crying, and why that design element reoccurs so much), and nothing more. You can be surrounded by others and still feel alone.

It's always seemed to me what defined Riders as heroes was their refusal to give up their human hearts, even when their bodies are altered, and being able to live in harmony with others, and get along, and basically everything Ghost was about (!), I think that always kind of walked hand in hand with the whole nature angle, even if it wasn't always emphasized as much.