SHTZ raw is out there. I wanna see who the random main characters are.
Wizard's treatment in this movie was so weird. In the beginning, he seems like the main character, and, unlike Fourze in the original SHT, he isn't around for only one scene. He continues getting focus for a while, until Sharivan arrives and then Wizard is teleported away, meets the Kyoryuger and then... Wizard just disappears from the movie. In spite of that though, we get the other characters talking about despair and hope, and even Wizard's supporting cast appears in one scene, as well as Beast in several ones. Haruto himself only returns when the final battle is already happening though. It's like they were trying to make it seem like he was a main character, even though they didn't have his actor available enough for the movie.
The focus in the final battle also wasn't handled well. GokaiSilver and Yellow Buster had tons of screentime before it, but really got to do nothing there. Well, Yoko got a character scene, but combat-wise was irrelevant. At least, in the first SHT, the Gokaiger, Decade (and even OOO) got final battles of their own while Fourze and the Go-Busters fought in space. Here, Wizard and Kyoryuger mostly dominate the final battle, with Gavan also getting some scenes, although mostly in space combat, while everyone else only appears in group shots, even people who were main characters before.
The sequences when other heroes appeared near the ending of the movie also were underwhelming after watching Wizard's finale. No form changes or even actual special attacks. Super-1 appears alongside Fourze and Meteor, but only says his name, no actual dialogue, and he only does a single double Rider Kick with Meteor against random monsters before disappearing in the background. There's a scene in the final battle itself where various Riders and Sentai fire at the monster army to blow it up, and people without weapons in their basic forms, like W and Kuuga, just stood in the background there doing nothing. Also, they didn't even bother making up bad excuses for the movie items. Haruto pulls two new rings out of nowhere like he always had them, and Gavan just throws the Metal Hero keys to the Gokaiger without any explanation.
There was also OOO in the final battle, which was plain weird. He arrives alongside Fourze and Meteor, looking like he's going to be relevant, but he only has a bad voice actor and basically only gets beaten up through the final battle. No form changes or anything. In spite of that, he got several lines throughout the battle. More than Fourze even, although I might be mistaken here and just remember him more because it was so odd.
