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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

I'm sick of the whole secondary riders personally being the whole "I'm the asshole antihero that is a jerk to everyone and becomes friends later on" cliche. Birth is one of my favorite secondary riders because he felt like a chill guy and was not OOO's arch enemy.

That is probably Riderman's fault. The original secondary Rider debuted as a character who hated the bad guys, but also had a negative impression of the hero and would initially fight both. A lot of the secondary Rider tropes we see today call back to that.

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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

^Oh yeah, I almost forgot about Beast. I enjoy a good anti-hero secondary rider like Knight, Accel, and Zeronos because those characters have more going for them. Secondary riders like Specter was so bland because he follows the typical cliche anti hero from Kamen Rider and other Shonen anime.

One of the things I liked about Wizard was that it inverted the standard main/secondary dynamic we had at the time. Haruto was the more serious and straightforward character while Beast was the more emotional goofball.