[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So to sum up you want for her to actually cause a doom and try to atone for it? Probably just the difference of stances (and I have to admit I'm likely pettier in this case). I think I prioritize morality over storytelling for this case. I want Yui to be just as empathetic as Shinji like you said here, where like him, feeling guilt over things like this, so I'd like for her having no actual mistake like Shinji here (unlike in movie). And like Shinji again, I want her decisions being selfess; based off on others and not out of personal (unlike in movie); like Shinji deciding to become a Rider after seeing a girl losing her mother.

Yeah, I want her predicament to be a choice she made, even if it's (especially if it's) without full knowledge of the consequences. It keeps her central to the story, an active participant rather than a perpetual victim.

And, I get it, her being blameless can make her sacrifice more noble. I just feel like her being an innocent martyr is less interesting, dramatically, than someone who made one weird mistake in childhood and now has to grapple with that as an adult. One's not better than the other, but I prefer the latter.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Gotta talk about the others later, but again, want to explain this one first. It either comes to these 2.

I mean, those are neat theories, but I'm just going off of what's on the show. I'm not sure anyone ever makes a distinction of multiple Odins adding up to the Rider Battles thirteen Riders. Same thing with the intro. It's a cool concept, but it's a fan theory. You can certainly come up with theories to get most of it to come together, but I my feeling is you shouldn't have to? Like, we're talking about basic mechanics of a plot that's paying off a year-long story. These aren't the sort of things that fans should need to have theories about.

To me, those extra faces are meant to imply the breadth of people that could be involved in the Rider Battles, not fill in holes to a story that probably hadn't even been written yet. (I'm not sure how many scripts would've been completed before they shot that intro sequence, but I'd guess no more than a dozen.)

Also, what is the fan theory for the lucky cat, the broccoli, and the fish?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I think you got mistaken here, wasn't the scene of Asakura being shot happened before Knight becomes final Rider (and Odin self-destructing)? Asakura's death scene actually cuts to Odin slashing Knight Survive.

Odin declares Knight to be the final Rider (other than him) before Asakura's killed. That's what bugs me, the Odin/Knight Final Fight is happening before all the other Riders are dead.

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Originally Posted by catwhowalks

I always assumed that the additional riders died off-screen. After all, some of them were riders prior to meeting the other characters. And it wouldn't surprise me if some were killed off by the mirror monsters.

Sure, definitely a possibility. Or maybe some got killed during the series and we never saw it. It's just weird that they couldn't seem to spare a minute to close off that omission. Also, how cool would it have been if we didn't see Asakura for a few episodes, and then he just drops four cracked Card Decks on Kitaoka's desk or something? How great would that have been?