Guyver: Dark Hero

Trivia: Brian Simpson, who has three roles in this movie; Benny, Voker Zoanoid and Crane Zoanoid, also appeared in the first movie as a member of Craig's gang who attacks Sean.

Trivia: Does the main character Shawn seem familiar but you can't place him? That's because he's actually played in this film by famed voice-actor and screenwriter David Hayter. He's notable for many voice-only roles, including playing the main character in the first four "Metal Gear Solid" games, and also worked as a screenwriter on some blockbuster films including the first two "X-Men" movies and the popular "Mummy" spin-off "The Scorpion King."

Trivia: The first live-action "Guyver" movie had notably tame (often cartoonish) violence and a greater focus on broad comedy in comparison to the darker and gorier Manga and Anime franchise that inspired it, causing some backlash from fans. For the sequel, returning director Steve Wang made an effort to deliver a film tonally closer to the original source materials, and thus added in harsher violence, added significantly more blood to the fight scenes and removed many of the more comedic elements from the first film.

Trivia: Whereas traditionally many action-film series start out with R ratings and then later transition to PG-13 to broaden the appeal of sequels, this is one of the rare cases where a PG-13 original ("The Guyver") spawned a hard-R sequel made to appeal to the fanbase.

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Mistakes

Revealing mistake: At the end of the final battle, when Sean rips the Guyver unit out of Crane's head and delivers his one-liner ("this model... has been recalled!"), you can see Sean's previously rigid, metal-like mask bending like rubber as his right shoulder rubs against it in the close-up. Particularly noticeable is the vent where steam sometimes shoots out, which bends nearly 45 degrees for about a half-second. (Revealing it's likely some sort of latex "stunt mask" for the actor to wear during fight scenes.)

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Quotes

Sean Barker: The Guyver Unit. It's been a year since the alien armor invaded my body and became a part of me. A year since I first became the Guyver and destroyed the Chronos Corporation and their shape changing killers, the Zoanoids. Now Chronos is gone. But the Guyver stays in me. Calling me to fight. To kill.

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