[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

I?ll also point out that in this movie, Raider is played by the guy who played Kagami?s dad in Kabuto. Which you?d be hard pressed to tell with that make up.

I definitely did not pick up on that. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I always like when these shows find ways to stress that the heroes aren't heroes because of all the cool material items they have in their possession, kinda fighting against the whole merchandise-driven nature of toku, so Gentarou literally destroying his own Driver was something I loved seeing. Really cemented how great I find his character, and this is after a whole series that already did that for me!

Yeah, it's a great part. Gentarou's always seen being Fourze as a way to make even more friends and help even more people, but it's always been a means to an end. Once it's an obstacle to either of those things, as it clearly is with Saburou, he'll toss it aside.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

(...)and Haruto is immediately talking about hope, and takes offence to Gavan's plan to destroy magic or whatever specifically because of how that would affect Koyomi, before he thinks of anything else wrong with all of this.

Hey, lemme goof on Koyomi again for a minute.

One of my pet peeves with the Kamen Rider Wizard series is that, either because of story decisions or actor availability, Koyomi rarely contributes anything to the plot. (She does contribute to both the tone and the setting, but those are different things.) And, of course, she doesn't really contribute to the plot of Taisen Z, either.

But she does a thing in Taisen Z that is, like, the nadir of her usefulness.

It's in the beginning, when Gavan and Wizard are duking it out. A huge chunk of masonry is dislodged during the fight, and it's about to crush a parent and child. Wizard, Gavan, and Koyomi all see it. Koyomi runs over to the civilians... but she's smaller than the parent and larger than child, so she doesn't shield them or anything. Wizard ends up pulling them all to safety, which he was about to do before Koyomi ran over. All Koyomi contributes is an additional body to pull to safety.

I laughed incredibly hard at that scene.

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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

But I liked the Fourze portion in how we get to see what happened to the cast after they graduated, seeing what they're doing with their lives, and Gentarou becoming a teacher is pretty accurate for his character.

My favorite decision for the Fourze epilogue is skipping over their college experiences. I cannot imagine anything more redundant than Fourze: The College Years.

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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

And I'm glad at least Kyodain 2.0 got to not be the villains this time around.

One of my favorite superhero tropes is when villain alliances break down over who's going to kill the heroes, so I really dug Kyodain's whole We've Saved You, We're Even, Now We Can Kill You bit interfering with Space Shocker's own murder attempts.

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

Super Hero Taisen Z, if I'm remembering my 15 year old self's opinion right, is not one of the good ones.

I cannot imagine this movie improving since age 15, but who really knows? You owe it to yourself to rewatch it.

(You do not owe it to yourself.)