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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Hanto's journey could lead him down a villainous path if he begins consistently targeting innocent Granutes, paralleling Lakia's actions against innocent humans, but in reverse.

It?s clearly too early for the show to move the action into the world of Granute, so for this to happen it either needs to allow the conflict between the riders to drag on for a long time, or for them to make up and then quarrel again. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for him to find a good Granute to show such cruelty. Unless they introduce us to Lakia No. 2, who will suicidally try to make friends with Valen; or the cowardly Granute, like a veteran crab, is portrayed as an innocent victim.
In any case, with Hanto, it seems to me that many are running ahead of the locomotive. That is, maybe this is not a dispute that is worth getting involved in, but it seems to me that it is too early to call Valen a merciless Granute killer. Let him do something really bad first.
Because if we talk about theories, then we can remember that in the final battle with the twins, Shouma fantasized about how they could become friends. This means that even after relatives killing his mother and he becoming Kamen Rider, he still dreams of being part of the Stomatch family. That is, if the older siblings, despairing of defeat, even pretend that they are ready to accept him, he may well turn against Hanto and Lakia and be an antagonist in the last quarter of the show, until his eyes are opened at the very end (or even after), as in the case of Zero-One. So all riders have villainous potential since Showa, and it?s more interesting how they avoid it rather than use it.
P.S. And it just dawned on me that Hanto punching Shouma , who can survive a collision with a truck without consequences.