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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER W RETURNS: KAMEN RIDER ETERNAL

A lot of it is because the arc of Daido isn?t exactly A Good Man Brought Low By Tragic Circumstances. He?s a motivated psychopath, and what little heroism he manages to exhibit in this film is really just a cocktail of resentment, disgust, bloodlust, and egotism that becomes a lifeline for a bunch of psychokinetic test subjects. Daido?s main opponent in the film is a Foundation X researcher, and the liberation of the test subjects starts off as just a way to ruin that guy?s day. Daido doesn?t really care about the Quarks, he just a) resents any lab rat that acquiesces to its fate, and b) SUPER wants to screw up Foundation X?s strategies. Watching Daido go on an emotional journey here is mostly just watching a remorseless killer briefly and unintentionally help out some people with a similar backstory. It?s not? it is not a very compelling 70-odd minutes of narrative.

Shame to hear you didn't enjoy this as much as I did. The most memorable scene for me was when Daido played that song to calm down the Quarks, then he admitted that it was something he only understood cognitively, rather than anything he could actually feel, due to his NEVER-induced apathy. It's ironic that a man with no reason to live can become an inspirational advocate for others to live, which is the tragedy of Daido's hollow existence. It even adds new meaning to his goal in Gaia Memories of Fate, that a world of mutual suffering would be fairer than one where people like him, his crew and the Quarks suffer prejudice at the hands of Foundation X.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

-I remembered pretty much nothing of this film. When it kicked off with Double fighting a Dopant, I was genuinely surprised to learn they were in this!

I recall it was the Sweets Dopant.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

-Also, it doesn?t really make sense for how she starts this film? She?s like I Wanted Katsumi?s Killer To Know He Was A Good Guy As Well As A Villain, but she starts off by ambushing Team Double and immediately trying to murder them? That? doesn?t make any sense? It?s not like she thinks Daido was a saint; she specifically says that she learned he tried to destroy Fuuto, and Daido went on TV to tell everyone in Fuuto that he was going to be sending them to hell. If Mina learned that Double killed Eternal, she must?ve learned that he went out trying to kill an entire town. The whole point is that Daido wasn?t all the way evil, but he was evil at the end. Why is she instantly trying to kill Double and Akiko?

I believe that Shoutarou and Phillip at the end were mourning the person who Daido used to be, rather than the person he was when he Die-do. While it's true that Daido was totally a villain by the point of Gaia Memories of Fate, I think it's fair that Mina would want him to be remembered for all his deeds, not only the evil ones, as well as remember the evil deeds that done to him. Like, Mina is living proof that the world was a little better for having Daido in it, despite his sins.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

But prior to that, he was the Black Ranger in two consecutive 80s Sentai: Dai Sentai Goggle Fove as Kanpei Kuroda and Kagaku Sentai Dynaman as Ryu Hoshikawa (the main difference being that the former is a chess player who talks normally, while the latter is a ninja who talks like he?s a Shakespeare character).

Hmm, that's not quite right. Kuroda is actually a shogi player.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

It really does make it feel to me as though the romance angle is the main focus, with other forms of love as an afterthought. Especially in a movie where Terui claims that Akiko is the reason that he changed.

Fair enough. Being written by Sanjo, I think his romantic bias shows here, but at least the moral can still be interpreted in other ways that can be beneficial outside of romance. It's easy enough to simplify to just, "you don't need to be alone". That's a good statement even for people without current love interests.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

-I'm glad we kind of decided to explain Utopia having weird abilities that wasn't his energy draining and face stealing stuff. We knew he was a NEVER from his final episodes, but there were weird psychokinetic stuff that didn't seem to really match Utopia's powerset.

Yeah, Foundation X have their fingers in every pie, so it makes sense that they would be mixing together different powers like that.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

-The Ending Theme: Cod-E ~E no Angō by SOPHIA is easily the best part of the movie. Really good song, Eternal's actor really doesn't miss with the music he sings.

I can neither remember nor pronounce the title of that song, but I agree that it's a great song for sure and I think it could be about how Daido was a small beacon of hope in Mina's life.