Good title for Shadow Moon

[Basri RX]

Just thought of something random....

Which title sounds nice when coupled up with Shadow Moon's name?

1) Seiki-Ou Shadow Moon (Century King Shadow Moon -- In BLACK)
2) Kage no Ouji, Shadow Moon (Prince of Shadows, Shadow Moon -- In RX)
3) Kamen Rider Shadow Moon (not in any shows but printed on SIC figures)

 

[Shougo B'Stard]

I like "Century King" the most. "Prince of Shadows" sounds cool, but why the demotion? Why no "Kage no Ouja"? :laugh:

 

[Forever Knight]

If memory serves correct, Moon never won the CENTURY KING title. Therefore calling him so would be like calling Sousuke GO-ON PInk.

I go with Prince of Shadow. It fits more along with Black RX's Prince of Anger & Sadness.

 

[Basri RX]

Actually Century King is his title since day 1 in Black. Both him and Kotaro are Century Kings Shadow Moon and Black Sun respectively. The title that they're supposed to win is being the next Creation King.

 

[Forever Knight]

Remind me to bitch slap the fucker who did the HK set. :laugh:

I'd still go with Prince of Shadow. It sounds alot darker then Century King.

 

[martin angelo]

That's right. He's Seikioh and he's a candidate to become Den-o, I mean, Soseioh. I'll always go for his Century King title, with Kamen Rider Shadowmoon (in SIC) as second, but yes, why not call him Kage no Ohja? That would be more fitting for a fallen king.

 

[MattComix]

Just thought of something random....

Which title sounds nice when coupled up with Shadow Moon's name?

1) Seiki-Ou Shadow Moon (Century King Shadow Moon -- In BLACK)
2) Kage no Ouji, Shadow Moon (Prince of Shadows, Shadow Moon -- In RX)
3) Kamen Rider Shadow Moon (not in any shows but printed on SIC figures)

I've never really approved of villans or guys who get off on beating up other people with their power getting the name Kamen Rider. To me it was and should still be reserved for the hero or heroes. Especially in the context of Kamen Rider Black because Minami Kotaro's rejection of the name Black Sun and calling himself Kamen Rider Black is meant to be symbolic of his asserting his true humanity over that which Gorgom would have him be.

So in many ways, that's what the name means. To be a Kamen Rider is to reject evil and use that power (even when like for Hongo and many others the power itself was created by and for evil) to protect human life. It's having the guts to make the choice despite the dark hand fate has dealt. To me it seems cheap and lazy to just slap the Kamen Rider name on any asshat with a henshin belt. Thugs like Ouja and Kaixa do not deserve to have that mantle attached to them IMO.

So getting back to Shadowmoon, "Kage no Ouji" might be the most fitting. Has a good ring to it. He's not a Kamen Rider and as for him being Century King that didn't exactly pan out now did it.

EDIT: Though I guess with Ryuki where the name Kamen Rider is used in the context of the story as something to denote what these guys in armor are, that is a bit different.

 

[Igadevil]

Century King.

Kage no Ouji, as much as I like it, sounds like something you'd come up with after you'd been told that you can't be called a Century King anymore because you lost to the guy who rejected the whole thing and destroyed the entire system including the incumbant Creation King.

And I agree with mattcomics about the way "Kamen Rider" is just thrown around sometimes. Although they do make an effort to acknowledge this with some shows though, with it being a general group name. And I still maintain the probably-unintended trick to Ryuki is it's challenging the viewer to decide who the "true" Kamen Riders of the show are, and who's just a jerkface with powers.

I might just be reading into that too much though, considering this is the same show which never bothered to change the opening even after we knew that the mystery censored people were in fact...

[HIDE]Nobody at all![/HIDE]

 

[Blackbird]

Kage no Ouji (Prince of Shadows).

 

[NathanTZ]

I'm going with Century King.

1.That's the title that Gorgom gave him in the first place.
2.This is whom I consider the Prince of Shadows

3. He is not a Kamen Rider, as stated above the reason Kotaro is a Kamen Rider is because he broke free from evil and is using it's power to stop it. Shadow Moon is evil.