The Paradox of Defeating M (打倒MのParadox,Datō Emu no Paradokkusu) is the sixteenth episode of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. It features the debut of Snipe Hunter Shooting Gamer Level 5 (Full Dragon).
Emu thinks Taiga and Hiiro attacked him since he is the source of stress for Nico, who is suffering the Game Disease. He does not realize the true intention of the other two riders is to eliminate the Bugster virus residing in Emu himself, who is unknowingly infected with the disease as well.
Brave attacks Ex-Aid again but Revol Bugster and some grunts appear to…defend Emu! He is further convinced he is the source of Nico’s stress. Genm Level X appears and attacks both riders. He succeeds in stealing all of Hiiro’s Gashats and seems intent to do the same with Emu’s.
When Emu triggers Mighty Action X on the rooftop to join Brave and Revol's fight, the game's title screen doesn't appear behind him.
The game title screen also doesn't appear when Emu transforms with Mighty Brothers XX to face Genm and Para-DX.
Neither did they appear for Genm and Para-DX's Dangerous Zombie and Perfect Puzzle.
The error of using Tekken 7: Fated Retribution for 2010 arcade tournament on Emu and Nico's flashback was still intact from the previous episode. The tipoff to this is the character of Lucky Chloe being seen during the game footage, who debuted in Tekken 7 and was not in Tekken 6. The reason is maybe, just to promote the game.
The announcements for the Perfect Puzzle Gashat and the Dangerous Zombie and Buggle Driver are both mistimed with when Dan and Parad transform.
The Revol Bugster shooting Parad is also a reference to friendly fires in first-person shooting games. Any friendly fire on an ally sometimes result in retaliation by the attacked player, especially in multiplayer games.
An arcade cabinet version of Mighty Action X
At the arcade where Nico is playing Tekken 7, an arcade version of Mighty Action X is seen in the background. This is a reference to how some console games are ports or remakes of their original arcade cabinet versions such as Ninja Gaiden or TMNT: Turtles In Time.
When the Revol Bugster fails to hit Kamen Rider Para-DX, Para-DX says that the "non-playable characters aren't very smart to begin with" before attacking Revol. Depending on the game, some NPCs are programmed to only speak a certain set of dialogue or in some cases of bad games, have terrible A.I. and offer no help to the player.
This is the second episode of Ex-Aid whose title doesn't end with a punctuation mark like "!" or "?". The first one was Defined Destiny.
Once again the theme sequence is replaced by a title card, the theme itself being used later in the episode as an insert theme.
This episode, all Riders activating their Gashats trigger Game Areas filled with loose Energy Items (as CGI and physical props) instead of their normal game-specific containers. This may either be an extended side effect of Para-DX using Perfect Puzzle's ability to convert all of the containers to Items last episode, or represents a general shift of props and effects to be used from now on.
This article is about an episode in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid.
episode 47, Ep. 47: The Last Game
