[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Anti-heroes aren't bad guys. They're subcategory of heroes, they're the heroes who has unheroic traits (opposite of anti-villain, who are villains with redeeming traits). They're good guys too, they'd be typically on the side of the protagonists even if they can be at odds. Many of those edgy assholes secondaries in previous series are anti-heroes.

I'm aware of what an anti-hero is! Tassel being Calibur wouldn't necessarily be a villain, which is why I offered options like Threat and Anti-Hero!

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

I feel, if you wanted to make the crutch argument, Sento is the one to focus it around. Part of the Hazard Trigger arc is that dichotomy he sees between only being able to match Grease and Cross-Z charge by using it (and thus protect people/Banjou from them/himself), but also seeing it as something cursed that even thinking about using constitutes crossing a line and will render him as the villain. Whereas Aruto's driver gets gummed up the first time using MCH, and the drama centers more around his inability to sit back and not throw himself at someone he thinks needs help, even if the consequences have to be dealt with later.

If you want to be reductive about it, every Berserk Form arc seems to be about interrogating the hero's altruistic/empathetic catchphrase. Sento's "It's time to start the experiment" becomes an arc where his inventiveness creates something too dangerous to exist, and his fears that his curiosity might be the wrong attitude in a world of perpetual war. Aruto's "The only one who can stop you... is me" delves into Aruto's need to protect all Humagears, but the trouble any one man will have when he declares himself the protector of an entire species. Here, we've got Touma's "I'll decide how this story ends" meeting a challenge where his empathy makes him both the only hope and perfect target.