[ElConvoy]

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Originally Posted by Locke

But skinny boy band lookalikes are fewer and much further between in American action shows not including those intentionally with casts like that or Power Rangers.

Most Actors that play Superheros in american productions arent 20 years old either. Of course most Characters in Toku look extremely young and not as "hardened" as for example Christian Bale in Batman. Thats because they are betwen 17 and 22 Years old most of the time.

[XW1n5t0nX]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

But what about Date? I think he looks better than most of the Riders in Blade, and he was a soldier prior to becoming a rider, like Oren.
Good looking people can be soldiers, too.

Anyway, if I recall Kabuto correctly, I'm pretty sure 2 of TheBee's users were also military trained.

You are correct. Yaguruma and Kageyama both were TheBee and worked for Zect as soldiers, so they had military training. Kagami was also TheBee for a short time and while he probably didn't have as much, he probably had some training as well.

[Matrixbeast]

Oh yeah. I forgot about Kagami.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

Most Actors that play Superheros in american productions arent 20 years old either. Of course most Characters in Toku look extremely young and not as "hardened" as for example Christian Bale in Batman. Thats because they are betwen 17 and 22 Years old most of the time.

That isn't an excuse.

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Originally Posted by Powerman293

Are we literally having an argument over the masculinity of the Blade Riders being compared to what the show tells us of thier skills?"These guys are trained," "Uh no they aren't because they don't look masculine enough," its fiction, no matter hiw grounded youre tryong to make it, there's still going to be some radically fantasticak element in there and move on.

The fact is if they had the actual training they wouldn't look that soft or skinny, televisual stories are an illusion and I have no illusion the Blade Riders have had any training because they look fresh off of the autotune machine.

[Suzu]

Would you guys mind moving this discussion into a fitting topic instead flooding this one? I think this has moved a bit too far from what the original discussion was about.

[MaskedRiderAsakura]

The way I see it, Kamen Riders gaining their powers from evil but ultimately using it for good is just a really good story for me.

It's part of why Ryuki is one of my favorite series. Everything in the show is telling Shinji that he should just join the fight like the rest of the Riders, but he refuses to do so. On top of that, Shinji isn't the smartest Rider or the strongest Rider, but his commitment to doing the right thing is what makes him a great protagonist for me.