[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Don't think that Zeronos' finisher is that cool, well I just had tight marking of Rider's finishers. Zeronos' default form seems to still possess Deneb's traits like the green color, and most importantly, it's strong enough to fight off monsters unlike Plat Form. Deneb taking part of Zeronos instead turns it into new form, Vega form.

Ah! This reminds me of several more things I love about Zeronos:

- Having Altair Form be something he can access entirely on his own further illustrates the difference between Yuuto and Ryoutarou, with the former not needing to borrow anyone else's strength; while Den-O is basically powered entirely by friendship, because the latter is incapable of doing anything himself. It really nicely reflects the difference in personality between the two that Vega Form is an option for Zeronos, while also having him arguably be less flexible overall.

- It's been said several times in here already that Den-O set the formula Rider would start employing from around Double to Wizard, and one of the things I love about that era of secondary Riders, that I think really started with Zeronos, is how they're like a watered down version of the main guy in some ways. Accel only has one Memory; Birth uses Cell Medals; Meteor relies on martial arts rather than a wide array of Switches; and Beast gets cute little shoulder capes instead of actual new forms. That sort of thing. With Zeronos, he's only got the one Imagin (you might say it's a case of quality over quantity for Yuuto~), and instead of the fancy modern contactless train pass, his are just plain cards he jams into the belt. It's a simple thing, but I don't know, I just find it really neat.

(Also, I'm now half-seriously wondering if I should numbering these? Seems like I've got a lot of 'em in me!)