[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER REVICE: THE MYSTERY EPISODE 5

It’s all about the need to interrogate and confront the things inside yourself that are shameful and/or destructive, to better understand why you felt that way to begin with. As Suzu’s scheme was revealed last episode, it’s time to reveal what her goal is: resurrection for her dead fiance? Power enough to rule/destroy the world? It turns out that the answer is… nothing, really. She just wants to get enough revenge to stop feeling like her future was taken from her by George and Fenix and Kamen Riders and monsters. There’s no resurrecting her dead lover. The stated goal of Destroying The System is laughably open-ended and ill-advised. It’s all just rage, with no direction or goal. Continuing the work was a way to feel connected to the man she lost, but now there’s nothing but grief and anger. There’s nothing but hurting people to make her rage feel purposeful.

This is also rather irrational due to how she focuses on something beyond her control in how it's Shogo losing the competition for a job position, even if it's sickening. George being better isn't something faulty to any side, regardless of George's behavior or Shogo's breakdown afterwards, of which it's unknown if George only got chosen due to the privilege of his father being previously a scientist for Fenix, as it's coming from someone close to them that is full of rage and grief. And Shogo's claimed to want to use his inventions for the better of humanity.... and Suzu claiming that she'd want to carry his will, this time actually the "would they approve of what you did" really fits here to be brought up to her in an attempt to stop her revenge. And I feel that, this isn't touched upon this time, I think there should be a vision of Shogo being disappointed on her instead to use his research to hurt people instead, to get her remorseful. Regarding the research, hers is the opposite of George's Barid Rex Vistamp, as it also uses the power of 10 Vistamps, but made up of the Kaijin Vistamps.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

And that’s more sad than it is villainous, which Ikki recognizes. This is a woman who needs to let go of the anger and resentment she’s been bottling up, and if she’s gone and turned herself into a composite monstrosity? Well, maybe she can unload her rage on the Kamen Riders that can withstand it. It’s not an ending where Suzu needs to be defeated; it’s an ending where Suzu needs to be rescued from her trauma. The only way to do that is to let it come to the surface, and then let it burn itself out in a safe place. (The lodge's adjacent Natural Hot Quarry, now taking reservations.) Ikki will always want to help someone in trouble more than he’ll want to fight a monster, and this ending recognizes that. It’s the perfect ending for a Revice story.

Eh, people shouldn't be absolved from villainy only because they have been abused or hurt in some way. Actually I'd wish if people'd stop measuring how someone's villainous simply by maliciousness alone. While she has tragic story, she has still done bad things while being two-faced about it, so she's villainous by that. But doesn't mean that all villains must be punished by brutally murdering them, and thus characters not getting that isn't villainous or such; it's more heroic for someone to not go into pay evil unto evil territory. And other than Ikki, I'd like if Terui makes a more convincing argument about telling about how bad revenge is because, he underwent through one in his debut. Though still, other than her being handcuffed, I kinda feel that Suzu got away with it lightly with her still being in the good graces of pretty much everyone. While you can deal with them in an understanding way, this can feel like how Ryunosuke (the father Shocker scientist) in Beyond Generations get treated by others, even though he's a worse one (he's when Shogo's desperation leads into actual dark path).