Top 5 Ugly Rider Suits
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Mr. Rhythmic
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So that means she IS a fanservice, which she is in that movie. She's in there to look hot.
Switchblade
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5. Stronger - I'm fine with it from the neck down, honestly. The chest shield is a little puffy but fine, the belt is okay, and I actually like the way the stripe runs down the arm and onto the gloves. That said, the giant doofy helmet completely kills the look for me. Did the stunt actor have a massive afro or something that needed accomodating? I just cannot take that enormous head with all the obvious eye holes cut into the lenses seriously. Especially since I cannot look at the mouthpiece and not see it forming a happy little smiley face.
4. Climax/Chou Climax Form Den-O - I'm not a huge fan of the Den-O design aesthetics on a good day. Zeronos, New, and G Den-Os are great; I can put up with Sword, Axe, Rod, and Liner forms; Gun form is... a valiant effort. Climax form, though, dear god that's a mess. So many clashing elements on one suit, made even worse when you slap giant blue wings on the back. And again, the helmet is really terrible. The color on the lenses is neat, but overall its far too busy of a design.
3. Masked Form Sasword - Every crappy, short-lived mid-90s toyline called; they want their design back. I have never seen any design in Kamen Rider that was more obviously meant to represent a toy (not counting ridiculous vehicles from Kiva or Double). Everything about this guy - bright purple, crazy armor, green Cyclops visor, day-glo orange hoses everywhere - screams cheap, ugly action figure.
2. Rising Ultimate Kuuga - No. Just... no. Not only did this completely fail to understand how the Rising and Ultimate forms actually worked on the show, but it is one of the most ridiculously over the top designs ever. The original Ultimate suit was a classic design that took the base Kuuga form and built onto it in imposing and frightening directions. This suit barely even looks like Kuuga anymore. It's like someone chloroformed Yusuke, took his unconscious form to an LA body shop, and let them just go nuts. Horrible, horrible costume.
1. Decade Complete and Diend Complete - I'm calling this a tie since they're effectively just minor variations on the same deeply flawed concept. I don't mind the silver and black base suits, but the armor and helmets on both are just atrocious. I have no idea why anyone would ever think that the unnatural combination of a Kamen Rider and a trading card folder would make for a good design, but it's quite clear that they were dead wrong. I'll give Diend some bonus points in that the two-layered look is less clunky than Decade's shoulder-to-shoulder spread, but it's still a terrible design choice.
So that's my five. I'll toss out a couple dishonorable mentions to Shuki (a skirt, really? This isn't Sentai) and Touki (giant fake muscles look dumb on kids' Halloween costumes and they look dumb here), but neither were around long enough or egregiously bad enough (Shuki's true awfulness coming more from her message and purpose - i.e. "women aren't fit to be Riders") to make my top five.
4. Climax/Chou Climax Form Den-O - I'm not a huge fan of the Den-O design aesthetics on a good day. Zeronos, New, and G Den-Os are great; I can put up with Sword, Axe, Rod, and Liner forms; Gun form is... a valiant effort. Climax form, though, dear god that's a mess. So many clashing elements on one suit, made even worse when you slap giant blue wings on the back. And again, the helmet is really terrible. The color on the lenses is neat, but overall its far too busy of a design.
3. Masked Form Sasword - Every crappy, short-lived mid-90s toyline called; they want their design back. I have never seen any design in Kamen Rider that was more obviously meant to represent a toy (not counting ridiculous vehicles from Kiva or Double). Everything about this guy - bright purple, crazy armor, green Cyclops visor, day-glo orange hoses everywhere - screams cheap, ugly action figure.
2. Rising Ultimate Kuuga - No. Just... no. Not only did this completely fail to understand how the Rising and Ultimate forms actually worked on the show, but it is one of the most ridiculously over the top designs ever. The original Ultimate suit was a classic design that took the base Kuuga form and built onto it in imposing and frightening directions. This suit barely even looks like Kuuga anymore. It's like someone chloroformed Yusuke, took his unconscious form to an LA body shop, and let them just go nuts. Horrible, horrible costume.
1. Decade Complete and Diend Complete - I'm calling this a tie since they're effectively just minor variations on the same deeply flawed concept. I don't mind the silver and black base suits, but the armor and helmets on both are just atrocious. I have no idea why anyone would ever think that the unnatural combination of a Kamen Rider and a trading card folder would make for a good design, but it's quite clear that they were dead wrong. I'll give Diend some bonus points in that the two-layered look is less clunky than Decade's shoulder-to-shoulder spread, but it's still a terrible design choice.
So that's my five. I'll toss out a couple dishonorable mentions to Shuki (a skirt, really? This isn't Sentai) and Touki (giant fake muscles look dumb on kids' Halloween costumes and they look dumb here), but neither were around long enough or egregiously bad enough (Shuki's true awfulness coming more from her message and purpose - i.e. "women aren't fit to be Riders") to make my top five.
BLASTMATIC
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FROM AN OVERALL DESIGN PERSPECTIVE
KAMEN RIDER AMAZON (HAD A DECENT YET KINDA UGLY DESIGN)
KAMEN RIDER OOO (WHICH I LOVE THE SHOW BUT THE COLOR SCHEME IS MEH AKA KAMEN RIDER TRAFFIC LIGHT LMAO)
KAMEN RIDER DECADE (REALLY RED-PINK AND BLACK MEH, SMH)
KAMEN RIDER HIBIKI (NUFF SAID)
KAMEN RIDER AMAZON (HAD A DECENT YET KINDA UGLY DESIGN)
KAMEN RIDER OOO (WHICH I LOVE THE SHOW BUT THE COLOR SCHEME IS MEH AKA KAMEN RIDER TRAFFIC LIGHT LMAO)
KAMEN RIDER DECADE (REALLY RED-PINK AND BLACK MEH, SMH)
KAMEN RIDER HIBIKI (NUFF SAID)
JUST 5 HUH?
5. All movie riders in all Rider Series after Agito
They're just not real.
4. All Ryuuki Riders except Ryuuga
Ryuuki should just appeared in Black Version and as badass as Ryuuga, kick every rider's ass.:castlerock: Also, in the finale, Ryuuga was defeated not because he is weak, but because he was actually a ghost who need a host, I think he dissapeared because his time is over.
3. All Den-O Riders except Zeronos and new Den-O
Zeronos got the giant gatling gun and New Den-O got an imajin called Tendon who can change into giant sword. I like giant weapon.
2. All Masked forms of all Riders in Kabuto, except Kabuto and Gattack.
I like the simpler version of Kabuto Masked Form and Gattack's Cannon, :buttrock:
1. Decade Show: Decade Complete Form, Diend Complete Form, Kuuga Rising Ultimate [WTF is that], and all Showa Riders.
I think, I wish just 1 [ancient rider]predecessor of Heisei riders could just slap one monster's face and then the monster exploded, I'll take back my words. Most of them look so weak in Decade episodes or movies.
that's all I guess.
5. All movie riders in all Rider Series after Agito
They're just not real.
4. All Ryuuki Riders except Ryuuga
Ryuuki should just appeared in Black Version and as badass as Ryuuga, kick every rider's ass.:castlerock: Also, in the finale, Ryuuga was defeated not because he is weak, but because he was actually a ghost who need a host, I think he dissapeared because his time is over.
3. All Den-O Riders except Zeronos and new Den-O
Zeronos got the giant gatling gun and New Den-O got an imajin called Tendon who can change into giant sword. I like giant weapon.
2. All Masked forms of all Riders in Kabuto, except Kabuto and Gattack.
I like the simpler version of Kabuto Masked Form and Gattack's Cannon, :buttrock:
1. Decade Show: Decade Complete Form, Diend Complete Form, Kuuga Rising Ultimate [WTF is that], and all Showa Riders.
I think, I wish just 1 [ancient rider]predecessor of Heisei riders could just slap one monster's face and then the monster exploded, I'll take back my words. Most of them look so weak in Decade episodes or movies.
that's all I guess.
FreedomR8G6B1
New Member
Hey, don't diss the gloves man, they can punch through rock.:eyebrow:
Agree with you there, but its Joji's trademark (when his arm is not in use). People even said that Riderman isn't Riderman if you try to put a hopper face plate over his mouth.
Burkion
SLICE
...I don't even know what to say that isn't insulting.
DECADE5
The Historian
Think about it- he likes Sabans Masked Ri-DER, V1 from Agito and probably gets a boner from Kamen Rider Shin.
Otherwise- he's just a troll.
