[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

I like that little scene of Sento being rescued by Evolt after being beaten by Blood. I've no idea if that's in-character for him or not, it's just neat to see the main villain saving the main hero from the new villain. It comes off to me as some sort of pettiness that Evolt wouldn't let Sento be killed off by some rando and he has to be the one to do it.

Evol(t) is one of my favorite villains, because his actual feelings are so difficult to pin down. Like, Kuroto is dead easy to understand, because he's VERY LOUD, but Evol(t)? Hipster Dad? There's a lot going on with that dude!

Case in point, one of my favorite Hipster Dad moments:



Ostensibly, this is Evol(t) manipulating Sento even further, taunting him into fulfilling Evol(t)'s villainous scheme. But it's also Hipster Dad, giving a frustrated young man some helpful advice after a difficult patch. It's disingenuous and insulting and sweet and productive and funny and cruel and empathetic and sociopathic. Some of it's in the writing and plotting, but a TON of it is in the actor's choices. Just a great, complex character.

Long story short, I will totally accept that Evol(t) saved Sento to piss off The Blood. (He basically says as much, after they're all killed.) But you could just as easily read it as Hipster Dad being disappointed in Sento's pessimism, when he expects so much more from his main adversary. There's a lot of levels!