[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

and having a race to fix everything is a plot choice,

One of my actual favorite parts of the movie is Shinnosuke challenging Shocker to a race, and then the very next scene is Yuuto pointing out that there's no way Shocker is going to honor the terms of the deal. But then Shinnosuke just goes No Duh, and pivots to trying to solve the legitimate mystery of why Sangou's abduction strategy was so needlessly convoluted.

It nicely hangs a lantern on Shocker's untrustworthiness and Sangou's tortured psychology - like the fact that he keeps befriending Riders he then betrays, endlessly, pathologically - moving the Grand Prix challenge from hail-mary resolution into something more about trying to break Sangou out of his self-loathing patterns.

I don't know, I like that part of the story.