History YMMV / KamenRiderFourze

* OlderThanTheyThink: The trend of AdaptationalVillainy, apparently starting with UchuuTetsujinKyodain in TheMovie, actually goes back to ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'' with a villain modelled after ''HenshinNinjaArashi''.

* HolyShitQuotient: [[spoiler:All 12 Horoscopes]] are going to appear in the movie.

** Notice how Gentaro insistently wouldn't teach Nadeshiko the SecretHandshake in ''Movie Wars Megamax'', developing a crush on her and yet not wanting to befriend her like normal? He's basically acknowledging the [[AscendedMeme FriendZone!]]

** Some people consider Yukina Takamura to be this. Why? [[spoiler: Well, due to her being a ClingyJealousGirl to the point where she took away the Fourze Driver and refused to hand it back despite there being a monster that's going to kill her]].

** Misa Toriizaki for what she did to [[spoiler: Eguchi. She gets cold on Eguchi even though the others praise for his good deeds in #24, and then ''forces Eguchi to activate his switch that was on Last One'' for the sole purpose of making Cygnus emerge and forces the Ugly Ducklings to trap him so he wouldn't be free. Thankfully, TheDogBitesBack, uses her as a HumanShield, and [[BreakTheHaughty breaks her so hard]] that she [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes that leading a cult is a bad idea]], and thus disbands it.]]
** Ohsugi-sensei can slowly become one in #29. His reasons for hating Gentaro? ''Because he made Sonoda-sensei leave'' (he didn't). He relentless pursues Gentaro, Kengo, Yuki and Ryusei and [[spoiler: finds out about the Rabbit Hatch. He confiscates the Net Switch and ''threatens to destroy the KRC!'']]

** Ran for being a KnowNothingKnowItAll PrinciplesZealot who was unknowingly making her friend Haru’s life hard with her overbearing attitude, practically dictating how he should live his life and barring him from being social with anyone else but herself. [[spoiler: Was it any wonder he mutated into a Zodiarts? And Ran stupidly accelerated his mutation by continuing this thought process]].

** Back in #9-10, Tomoko claiming she didn't belong in this world and wanted to escape to the moon. [[spoiler:As of #40, she's been sent quite a bit further than that...]]

** This show was made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of spaceflight. It feels bad when the finale airs on the same day one of the best known astronauts, First Man On The Moon NeilArmstrong, died. [[spoiler:Not to mention that Japan's first man in space Mitsuaki Gamou also does!]]

** ''SAMURAI STRONG STYLE'' from Movie War Mega Max. The fact a former Music/{{Megadeth}} guitarist and the vocalist of J-Rock band Kishidan, and EarWorm-like opening chorus lyricals is only a couple of things that make this song stand out among the other Movie War themes.

* EarWorm: Like OOO, the henshin sound effect. Fourze's theme from the ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' movie ("Rocket Rider") is also quite catchy.
** The opening theme, "Switch On" is also very catchy.
** The ''MEGAMAX'' theme, "Samurai Strong Style".

* BadassDecay: Arguably Shun from #20 onwards, his Powerdizer appearances have been cut back and he's officially the DoggedNiceGuy to Miu now.

** Tomoko Nozama, with her whole Creepy {{Goth}} shtick and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]]-level randomness. The wait for her focus ep was ''agonising.'' Pre-empting the second part for a week didn't help.

** Yuki's worship of all things space to a religious level, now that actress Fumika Shimizu [[http://tokusatsunetwork.com/2017/02/fumika-shimizu-retires-from-entertainment-to-join-controversial-religious-organization-happy-science/ has joined a Japanese equivalent to the]] ChurchOfHappyology.

%% * GameBreaker: Cosmic States. Heck, JK even lampshades it with Taurus, boasting how he can't beat Cosmic. This is misused; GameBreaker is supposed to be specific to things in Video Games only.

** Yuki Jojima for some, for she's been the SwissMessenger ''[[NeverLiveItDown twice]]'' in the entire show's run, and the fact that she's just ''too'' energetic for some people.

** Yuki ''finally'' makes up for her SwissMessenger status after her BreakTheCutie phase in #43-#44.

* [[OneSceneWonder Two Episode Wonder]]: Despite just being another MonsterOfTheWeek, the fact that Makise's entry is ''twice the length of any other Zodiarts'' and he's got an entire section in the FridgeHorror entry shows how much of an impact this psycho has made in the show.

* Ran for being a KnowNothingKnowItAll PrinciplesZealot who was unknowingly making her friend Haru’s life hard with her overbearing attitude, practically dictating how he should live his life and barring him from being social with anyone else but herself. [[spoiler: Was it any wonder he mutated into a Zodiarts? And Ran stupidly accelerated his mutation by continuing this thought process]].

** The popular [[FanSub Fan Subbed]] version of Gentaro's CatchPhrase as "It's space time!" caught on like wildfire with the fandom despite not being an actual translation.

** Kamen Rider Fourze: Friendship is '''''AWESOME!!!'''''[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to the show's overall theme, as well as Fourze's declaration to make friends in his own way, certain jokes and crossover fanarts/fanfics with a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic similarly-themed kid's show]] are popping out ''immediately''.

* BrokenBase: Par for course, the suit design has caused a split in the fanbase, through mainly it's his [[SeriousBusiness helmet for Base State]] that people don't like.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tomoko Nozama, with her whole Creepy {{Goth}} shtick and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]]-level randomness. The wait for her focus ep was ''agonising.'' Pre-empting the second part for a week didn't help.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Gentaro is noted to do anything in order to help out and befriend fellow students. This comes to ''really'' bite him in the ass when [[spoiler: he gets killed and willing allows himself to do so so that Ryusei can be with Jiro again]].

* GameBreaker: [[color:darkcyan:Cosmic]] States. Heck, JK even lampshades it with Taurus, boasting how he can't beat Cosmic.
* GeniusBonus: Beyond the basics with the common Zodiarts, there are a few more subtle ones. For example, the Altar Zodiart's staff is named "Aradia", which isn't just a play on Altar's constellation Ara, but is also the name of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aradia a figure commonly regarded as the Goddess of Pagans]].

* HoYay: Tomoko is initially shown to have this towards Yuki, ever since her performance for the Queen Festival, [[http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/305448_242667075785578_111195458932741_734942_1894192044_n.jpg as seen here]]. It's also telling that they share the same interests.
** The [=Yuki/Tomoko=] HoYay gets even stronger in the DVD-exclusive special quizzes, where they keep telling each other "I love you" and, when they're partnered together in the Series/KamenRiderX quiz, spend most of the time snuggled together and giggling.[[note]]It's actually unclear if these quizzes were supposed to be in character or not, since we have both character and actor names thrown around, as well as things like Justin Tamamori alluding to his being half-Australian (which we're pretty sure Shun isn't), and Shiho being herself and not really bothering to play Tomoko at all.[[/note]]

** Forget that. If you want to look at it that way, episode #47 is rife with Gentaro/Kengo fodder.

* MoralEventHorizon: Hiroki Makise, the Pyxis Zodiarts, crosses this by blowing up the locker serving as the Rabbit Hutch for no other reason but to make Yuki cry, knowing full well it's vitally important to her (and after that calling her 'damaged goods'). If that didn't send him over this, [[spoiler:trying to ''murder a bus full of innocent people'' certainly does.]]
** What's worse? [[spoiler: Those innocent people were the girls he stalked before he went after Yuki. There must've been around ''20'' girls that were in that bus (Miu being one of them). Now factor in on how he went giving Yuki all those letters, gifts, and voicemails...]]God, I feel chills down my spine...

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The Switch-Activation voice for the Barizun Sword is a ''choir''. And putting other right-arm switches into it will trigger choir versions of their pre-existing sounds!

* {{Narm}}: When the Aries Horoscopes is revealed to have evolved from...a Rabbit Zodiarts. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepus_%28constellation%29 (Yes, there's one.)]] Not only is it never shown physically in the flashback, but the silhouette of a rabbit, bunny ears and all, is waddling in a [[VideoGame/RavingRabbids very distinct fashion.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: When we get our first Switcher who already has a split personality, the Zodiarts actually says "I'm free of him" upon entering Last One stage, with the comatose human body left behind...the split personality had remained in the human body and could awaken it. It didn't happen then, but [[spoiler:this sums up the creation of Gemini Horoscopes later on.]]

** Gentaro's parents could've been used as {{Foreshadowing}} seeing as Gentaro didn't now what job they did and could've been involved in the plot.

** Episodes 37 and 38 are about a group of students, including over half of the Kamen Rider Club, chosen for an astronaut test in a closed environment and endurance test on top of the appearance f the Aquarius Zodiarts. Among the students chosen is also the returning Hiroki Makise, and immediately the KR Club get suspicious and wary of him despite his claims of turning over a new leaf. This is about the extent of Makise's inclusion in the episodes, the rest of the time he's just seen quietly among the group of chosen students. His inclusion is wasted here, as they could've easily made him the suspect of being teh Aquarius Zodiarts and he could've chosen to help the KR Club to display that he has genuinely changed, especially when they show in the movie that he's among the 40 people chosen to press one of the forty switches to help Gentaro gain a new power and save the day, meaning that the KR Club and Makise buried the hatchet offscreen.

** JerkassWoobie: Ryusei Sakuta. He holds an arrogant prideful attitude, but that's only because his best friend told him that friendship was stupid and ridiculous and then got stuck in a coma after using a Zodiarts Switch. Even though the same friend hated friendship, Ryusei goes out as Meteor to find a way to save him, [[spoiler: although in #27, he's lost that ability to do so due to his arrogance.]] He thinks Gentaro is too naive about friendship but that's only a way to deny the fact that he couldn't do anything to save his only friend. Someone ''please'' punch him in the face and then give him a hug.
*** Arguably the same can apply to Chairman Gamou as well - to wit, all he wants to do is achieve his dream of meeting the Presenter, a dream he's had since he was a kid. The issue though? [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds He doesn't care who-or what-ever he steps on in order to achieve said dream.]]
* {{Woolseyism}}: In #27, the Cancer Zodiarts (carrying on a joke from earlier) calls Meteor "Planetarium[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns -yarou]]"; Over-Time rendered this as [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planetarium]].
** Also, earlier that same episode they managed to preserve Cancer's HurricaneOfPuns.[[labelnote:List]]"How's Meteor like a poster? They're always held up with a ''tack'' (attack)! Even if your attacks could ''pin'' me, you'd still need to ''push'' a little harder! You're all ''thumbs'' compared to someone like me, so I'm going to ''nail'' you!"[[/labelnote]]

** ''Endless Play'' brings the edge to fight scenes, perfectly encapsulated during the finale's BikeFu sequence.

** A photoset on Website/{{Tumblr}} of Yuki explaining the school cliques to Gentaro has led non-fans to call the series "Asian ''Film/MeanGirls''". (Though some fans [[FandomBerserkButton aren't too happy about that]].)

** ''[[Film/KamenRiderXKamenRiderFourzeAndOOOMovieWarMegaMax Movie War Megamax]]'' : [[BigBad Lem Kannagi]]/[[AGodAmI Super Galaxy King]] is a member of the insidious [[NebulousEvilOrganization Foundation X]] and wishes to use the power of the Astro Switches and the Core Medals from the future to become an all-powerful being. He will do absolutely anything to accomplish this, while taking a sick glee in rubbing his advantage in the faces of his enemies whenever he gets the chance. He essentially kills Gentaro's girlfriend, Nadeshiko for the SOLU she's composed of, and then rubs that fact in Gentaro's face. He also had no problem killing anyone that gets in his way without an ounce of remorse, or creating clones of all the Greeed and Sonozaki Dopants for his own evil purposes of ruling all of humanity.

** ''Movie War Megamax'' : [[BigBad Lem Kannagi]]/[[AGodAmI Super Galaxy King]] is a member of the insidious [[NebulousEvilOrganization Foundation X]] and wishes to use the power of the Astro Switches and the Core Medals from the future to become an all-powerful being. He will do absolutely anything to accomplish this, while taking a sick glee in rubbing his advantage in the faces of his enemies whenever he gets the chance. He essentially kills Gentaro's girlfriend, Nadeshiko for the SOLU she's composed of, and then rubs that fact in Gentaro's face. He also had no problem killing anyone that gets in his way without an ounce of remorse, or creating clones of all the Greeed and Sonozaki Dopants for his own evil purposes of ruling all of humanity.

** Ryusei: ''Expert Cockblocker''[[labelnote:Explanation]]In #33 during the Kyoto trip, he constantly tries to get between Gentaro and a girl who wants to be his girlfriend. His only response to this? "I need to take care of Gentaro.[[/labelnote]]

** Ryusei: ''Expert Cockblocker'' [[labelnote:Explanation]]In #33 during the Kyoto trip, he constantly tries to get between Gentaro and a girl who wants to be his girlfriend. His only response to this? "I need to take care of Gentaro.[[/labelnote]]