History YMMV / KamenRiderFaiz

* AlasPoorVillain - [[spoiler:Masato Kusaka]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - Interestingly, I've heard that the Japanese don't have a problem with Masato Kusaka.
* AmericansHateTingle - Masato Kusaka is a fan favorite in Japan. ''KamenRider'' fans from just about everywhere else, on the other hand, ''absolutely loathe'' him for being a [[SmugSnake smug,]] petty-minded {{Jerkass}}.
* BadassDecay - Takuma. At first, he's able to curbstomp all three Renegades on his lonesome, is enough for ''one'' of them in ''human'' form, ''will kick your ass with poetry,'' and at one point wields the stolen Faiz Gear against the good guys (admittedly, though, that last seems to happen a lot.) Later in the series, he's a constantly weepy, whimpering ButtMonkey. Takuma circa #20 and Takuma circa #40 have zero in common and not in a good way.
* DracoInLeatherPants - Masato Kusaka is a {{Yandere}} MagnificentBastard who will [[{{Jerkass}} kill or bully anyone whose in his path.]] He is also extremely popular among KamenRider fans in Japan.
* EarWorm - The Hyper Battle Video
* EnsembleDarkhorse - Naoya [=Kaido/Snake=] Orphenoch. The actor even gets a couple of [[LionMaruG major]] [[SamuraiSentaiShinkenger roles]] later.
* EsotericHappyEnding: The movie's ending;[[spoiler: yes, Takumi saved Mari, but the world is still overrun by Orphenochs with the human race near extinction and the resistant force pretty much abandon Mari and her friends]].
* FanNickname - one episode has Crane Orphenoch Yuka contracting a virulent flu, and spreading it gradually through the entire cast, all of whom fall very ill indeed (but get better). Based on the mechanism of normal flu infections, [[EpilepticTrees Yuka's Orphenoch immunity system should have killed the flu virus while inadvertently resurrecting some as Flu Orphenochs]], hence the name.
** And the [[ButNotTooForeign clearly mixed-parentage]] Saeko = French Lobster Orphenoch.
* FridgeBrilliance - A superhero who transforms using a high-tech cellular phone has as his tragic flaw his [[PoorCommunicationKills inability to communicate.]]

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff - This series was a major hit in Malaysia.
* MagnificentBastard - Masato Kusaka. He's a scheming {{Jerkass}} of epic proportions, and the epic proportions are what make him fun to watch. He's basically a "good guy" version of TheStarscream (and the term "good guy" is used very loosely--he's only a "good guy" because he hates the villains only slightly more than he hates the heroes). He's popular in Japan, but the popularity could be the ''enjoyment of a good bad guy.'' He really is the series' best villain, and a rare instance of it being shown that not everyone who ''doesn't want the apocalypse'' is necessarily a sweetheart in all (or any!) other ways.
* MemeticSexGod - The Faiz Gear's voice. [[AC: Standing by. Complete.]]
* {{Narm}} - Possibly when Dragon Orphenoch stopped beating up Faiz due to a toy airplane.
* NightmareFuel - Just how do Orphnochs kill and/or turn a human? [[spoiler: By having tentacles enter their insides and go into the heart (Though Kiba just downright ''stabs the heart with his sword''), shown rather graphically ([[SpecialEffectsFailure against a backdrop of a chest X-ray, thankfully]]).]] ButWaitTheresMore. [[spoiler:Said target then continues to live for a few minutes, wandering in some confusion before dying and turning into dust... or reviving as an Orphnoch.]]

* RetroactiveRecognition - Kaidou's actor, Mitsuru Karahashi, may now be better known to tokusatsu fans as Fuwa Juzo in ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids - With the dark, serious tone of the show, one could easily mistake this TV Asahi Sunday morning program for an adults' show.
* WomenInRefrigerators - With the only female Rider in this series - the original Delta - getting killed just before suiting up for her ''first'' fight ''after'' we find out that SamusIsAGirl, the female Rider curse that will go unbroken until ''KamenRiderDecade'' has its most glaring example in this series.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Just how do Orphnochs kill and/or turn a human? [[spoiler: By having tentacles enter their insides and go into the heart (Though Kiba just downright ''stabs the heart with his sword''), shown rather graphically ([[SpecialEffectsFailure against a backdrop of a chest X-ray, thankfully]]).]] ButWaitTheresMore. [[spoiler:Said target then continues to live for a few minutes, wandering in some confusion before dying and turning into dust... or reviving as an Orphnoch.]]
** How could you forget that [[spoiler:said heart ''bursts into flames and disintegrates into nothing?'']]
** The scene showing the Orphnoch King eating an Orphnoch. Petrifying it first, then breaking its face off and eating it with crunching noises, then opens its mouth with a simple but HORRIBLY disturbing CGI effect.
*** It's also scary because the body of the first petrified Orphenoch, which the King didn't get to eat, was ''pretty much indestructible.'' That makes it freakier.

* MemeticSexGod - The Faiz Gear's voice. [-Standing by. Complete.-]

* FridgeBrilliance - A superhero who transforms using a high-tech cellular phone has as his tragic flaw is his [[PoorCommunicationKills inability to communicate.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Just how do Orphnochs kill and/or turn a human? [[spoiler: By having tentacles enter their insides and go into the heart (Though Kiba just downright ''stabs the heart with his sword''), shown rather graphically ([[SpecialEffectsFailure against a backdrop of a chest X-ray, thankfully]]).]] ButWaitTheresMore [[spoiler:Said target then continues to live for a few minutes, before dying and turning into dust... or reviving as an Orphnoch.]]

*** It's also scary because the body of the first petrified Orphenoch, which the King didn't get to eat, was ''pretty much indestructible.''

** Yuka gets it just as bad. She's not only TheUnfavorite and has to deal with AbusiveParents who absurdly dote on her (half? step? foster?) sister, but said sister is an UngratefulBitch who, after Yuka brings their parents to her when she gets hurt, lies off her ass and tells them that it's ''Yuka's'' fault in the first place. Apparently, Yuka's property is also routinely stolen and/or destroyed at school. In an early episode, a group of girls tackle her to the floor and steal her shoes and socks - the next time she sees her stuff, it's torn and cut to pieces. The scene also has minor rape overtones.

* EpilepticTrees - Popular fan theory states that female Riders die or somehow lose their powers - [[spoiler:Mari gets killed off once despite the Faiz belt never working with her; the only female to use the Delta belt does so for less than a minute; and the female Lobster Orphenoch uses the Kaixa belt without consequence, but still gets screwed over in the series finale.]]
** [[spoiler:If you consider "immune to PhlebotinumBreakdown" to be "screwed over."]]

* MagnificentBastard - Masato Kusaka. He's a scheming {{Jerkass}} of epic proportions, and the epic proportions are what make him fun to watch. He's basically a "good guy" version of TheStarscream (and the term "good guy" is used very loosely--he's only a "good guy" because he hates the villains only slightly more than he hates the heroes).
* MemeticSexGod - The Faiz Gear's voice. Standing by~
* {{Narm}} - Possibly when Dragon Orphenoch stopped beating up Faiz due to a paper airplane.

** Yuka gets it just as bad. She's not only TheUnfavorite and has to deal with AbusiveParents who absurdly dote on her (half? step? foster?) sister, but said sister is an UngratefulBitch who, after Yuka brings their parents to her, lies off her ass and tells them that it's ''Yuka's'' fault in the first place. Apparently, Yuka's property is also routinely stolen and/or destroyed at school. In an early episode, a group of girls tackle her to the floor and steal her shoes and socks - the next time she sees her stuff, it's torn and cut to pieces. The scene also has minor rape overtones.

* TheWoobie: Kiba is established as this in episode 1. He wakes up after a 2 year coma and it's revealed his previous happy life is no more. His parents are dead, his girlfriend hooked up with someone else and his house is sold because his corrupt uncle needed money.

* DarthWiki/{{Narm}} - Possibly when Dragon Orphenoch stopped beating up Faiz due to a paper airplane.

** The scene showing the Orphnoch King eating an orphnock. Petrifying it first, then breaking its face off and eating it with crunching noises, then opens its mouth with a simple but HORRIBLY disturbing CGI effect.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids - With the dark, serious tone of the show, one could easily mistake this TV Asahi Sunday morning program for an adults show.

** The scene showing the Orphnoch King eating an orphnock. Petrifying it first, then breaking its face off and eating it with crunching noises, then opens its mouth with a HORRIBLY disturbing CGI effect.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids - With the dark, serious tone of the show, one could easily mistake this TV Asahi Sunday morning program for an adults show.

* AmericansHateTingle - Masato Kusaka is a fan favorite in Japan. ''KamenRider'' fans from just about everywhere else, on the other hand, ''absolutely loathe'' him for being a [[SmugSnake smug,]] petty-minded JerkAss.
* DracoInLeatherPants - Masato Kusaka is a {{Yandere}} MagnificentBastard who will [[JerkAss kill or bully anyone whose in his path.]] He is also extremely popular among KamenRider fans in Japan.

* {{Narm}} - Possibly when Dragon Orphenoch stopped beating up Faiz due to a paper airplane.
* RetroactiveRecognition - Kaidou's actor, Mitsuru Karahashi, may now be better known to tokusatsu fans as Fuwa Juzo in ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''.

* DracoInLeatherPants - Masato Kusaka is a {{Yandere}} MagnificentBastard who will [[JerkAss kill or bully anyone whose in his path.]] He is also, horrifyingly enough, extremely popular among KamenRider fans in Japan.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Just how do Orphnochs kill and/or turn a human? [[spoiler: By stabbing them in the heart, shown rather graphically ([[SpecialEffectsFailure against a backdrop of a chest X-ray, thankfully]]).]] ButWaitTheresMore [[spoiler:Said target then continues to live for a few minutes, before dying and turning into dust... or reviving as an Orphnoch.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Just how do Orphnochs kill and/or turn a human? [[spoiler: By stabbing them in the heart, shown rather graphically ([[SpecialEffectsFailure against a backdrop of a chest X-ray, thankfully]]).]] ButWaitTheresMore; [[spoiler:Said target then continues to live for a few minutes, before dying and turning into dust... or reviving as an Orphnoch.]]

* AmericansHateTingle - Masato Kusaka is a fan favorite in Japan. KamenRider fans from just about everywhere else, on the other hand, ''absolutely loathe'' him for being a [[SmugSnake smug,]] petty-minded JerkAss.

* AmericansHateTingle - Masato Kusaka is a fan favorite in Japan. KamenRider fans from just about everywhere else, on the other hand, absolutely ''loathe'' him for being a [[SmugSnake smug,]] petty-minded JerkAss.