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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

Also, Hanto is getting noticably more aggresive, especially after he starts suspecting Shouma is hiding something. I wonder if they're doing a Kamen Rider Ryugen situation and slowly building him up to become an antagonistic force later on.

Go/Mach was also a secondary that has a prejudice to the MOTW race in Roidmudes.

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

And I think that rules, making the new Rider someone evil but with their own goals in mind, because first of all that takes guts to do (“Hey the characters we want to sell toys for children just kidnapped three dozen people to be processed into food”) and second it' a perfect fit for this show.

I don't know what'd happen to Vram later, but seems usually these kind of villains are made to not succeed in their villainy thus even though they do attempt to murder many like Vram, they're stopped by the heroes on time, so their hands are still clean making people view them as a better person should they got redeemed.... It's probably a hot take from me that not being successful in your villainy doesn't make them a better person than those who have caused damage and labeled as irredeemable.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Antagonistic perhaps, but I doubt Hanto would ever go full Ryugen. After all, he's a good guy who believes in justice and the only reason why he acts with prejudice towards Granutes is due to him not knowing any good Granutes. I think if he found out about Shouma, he would quickly change his mind. A good journalist will always listen to all arguments before reaching a conclusion based on logic and intuition.

As we know Ryugen is one of the most depraved person in the KR franchise, being villainous doesn't need to be Ryugen level. If Hanto knowingly and actively wants to target and murder innocents for his self-righteous belief, like Shoma or other good Granutes, then he'd be anti-villainous.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

What about Chaser?

Well you're right, I guess to be specific, about the 3rd Rider being treated just like something like Reiji Nogi or Gigist, just one of the big antagonist bosses to be eliminated, as Chase got redeemed and became one of the heroes, his death being a case of big bad's tragic victim.