Reflection: #1 my favorite superhero?

(Who is my favorite superhero and why?)

(Pictured above: my brain trying to decide who's the best)

To be quite honest, I never had a legitimate “favorite” super hero when it came to the prompt , but I did have  a few in my top ten, some not so heroic than others but still in my mind quite favorable.
Kamen rider has been a massive growing franchise of heroes since the early 70’s and is still going on today , even giving america shows that will forever homage or branch from its name (power rangers, the american “super sentai”   series , and beetleborgs, an Americanized “metal toukatsu” series).

(Hesei era Kamen riders )

Kamen riders  have no massive team to rely on and tend to work alone or in pairs and are characterized by insects and motorcycles along with their generations theme (Decade: the 10th heisei era rider is characterized by cameras and all of the previous generations banners  in homage to his predecessors). Though I can write books on the series, Faiz Comes to mind when it comes to this topic. Faiz attracts my eye not only by the fact that he is not only a troubled teen who was forced to wear the Rider gear, but he is in fact a member of the race of villains that terrorized this reincarnation of the world.
As a rider, he is seen as a hero and is prideful and arrogant, but as a Orphonoch, the villain race, he is seen as a beast and is either nearly killed by the people he wishes to help or harassed for it, kind of how Hellboy is seen in many cases in serial media.

Faiz came out a bit before I was born but he was always replayed on Telemundo, and though I did not know what was said at the time (years later I would come across it again and re-watch it with English subtitles) I knew what I saw, I saw a teenager growing up in a place that hated him and a man who would grit his teeth and save itif only for a few pockets of friends he would gain and a love of his life. He still gives me advice to this day and if not him, another rider of his era, and even Rider Decade, who at one point visits his time and rewrites history  in Faiz’s final episode where he is killed just so the man can “die” in both sides as a hero and live the life of a normal teen. Faiz and the other Riders have always given me hope of some miraculous day where I would be granted the power of my own generation , but as I grew older, I realized that the power of a generation is not a rider suit, but that’s only the symbol, and that it was what I would accomplish in my lifetime. Riders have always given the message of keep your head held high, and keep fighting, even if everyone around you spits at your efforts, you know what you have to do.