And they are far too revealing for the identities supposed to be secret.
Not much point to the secret identities when the villains know exactly who they are, though. That always seemed backward. Their friends and families don't know but their worst enemies do, and for some reason never sent a giant monster to stomp on their houses while they sleep. Not to mention that they always arrive at a fight in their civilian identities and then morph right out in the open, not bothering to check if there are witnesses.
Of course, the original '70s seasons of
Kamen Rider were even worse. Each Rider actively worked with a group of allies that were overtly a Kamen Rider support team fighting the evil enemy, and the Rider fought the enemy actively in his civilian identity, and the monsters all knew he was the Rider, yet only one of his allies knew it and the rest thought that he and the Rider were two different people who just never happened to be seen together. There was absolutely no reason for the secret identity aside from it being a stock superhero trope. Surely hiding your identity from your own allies in monster-fighting is a bad idea, and pointless when you fill the same role in the organization in both identities. (A similar argument can be directed at
Ultraman.)
But then there was
Megaranger, which felt like a reaction against
Power Rangers somewhat -- the Megarangers were high school students, the villains did
not know their identities, and as soon as they found out near the end of the season, they
immediately attacked the Rangers' homes and school, driving them and their families into hiding and forcing the school to expel them for the safety of the other students. When I saw that, I basically went, "Yes!
That's how it should have gone down!"
