[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I like the suit itself a lot and the choreography of both the mook fight and the battle against Arms himself was really good.

This is something I meant to bring up last time, but -- much like some people with competitive climbing -- I will take this opportunity to steer the conversation towards something I enjoy.

I love mooks! The best gift the Begins Night movie gave us was the Masquerade Memory, so we could see FangTrigger wallop the holy hell out of a bunch of besuited grunts. I love how creative and insane a good mass brawl can get, and there's nothing I like better in Kamen Rider than seeing some new suit demonstrate its capabilities by obliterating zero-level idiots. So fun, and easily 70% of what I like about FangTrigger's debut.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Also I'll be real, I don't feel there's a big retcon with Fang? Like, it shows up to protect Philip in the movie, he gets angy and W fights like a wild animal which is pretty much how Fang is at this point in time during this two-parter. The only oddity is W casually walking away with Shotaro's body. But like, it's fairly consistent in how it's portrayed and the scene of Philip swearing to never use Fang again could easily be placed after something like that.

I don't want to make it sound like I thought this was a huge deal, or the main reason I thought the episode let its story down -- the easy write-off is that the movies and the shows are infrequently canonical, and the show's Begins Night could be slightly different than the film's.

That said... like, the movie doesn't even hint at the idea that Fang is something other than a Cool New Power for Double to use in their in escape. Double just kicks some ass, drapes a body over a shoulder, and sprints away from an exploding building. To drop a scene in now to say, Actually, it was a horrifying violation that Philip has spent a year running from... like, bit of a retcon.

Again, though: not a big deal! But definitely something I sort of squinted at between Begins Night and Episode 16.