[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

This isn't entirely acceptable plotting though, can be controversial due to how this can feel like deus ex machina to some.

Yeah, not my favorite part of the story. It sort of works, with the entire issue being that Megumi's body is sabotaging itself to keep from dealing with her feelings about IXA, but still: psychosomatic leg failure? Okay, Inoue, whatever.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

The Checkmate group is named after chess pieces, Maya's someone on similar league as Rook with the term Queen for heres, what Maya (how did you get her name??) did here is something... similar to the likes of Smart Brain in 555 or Uca Worm in Kabuto to kill Fangires or Worms respectively who are "rogue" like siding with humans.

Rook calls her Maya! Right when he sees her!

And, yeah, Maya is definitely similar to the original purpose of Faiz, to police a monster group for deviancy and dereliction. It puts her in a really interesting role, where the first thing we see her do is detonate a monster (that's good!) that's only trying to live a normal life (that's bad!). She hasn't harmed any humans (that's good!), but she's so insultingly dismayed that a Fangire would choose to love a human that it doesn't seem like she's against killing humans (that's bad!). She's got immediate chemistry with Otoya (that's good!), but then there's her potentially choosing to be in a relationship with Otoya (...that's bad).