History YMMV / KamenRiderV3

** Colonel Zol from the original series returns.

** Together with Doctor G, a revived Colonel Zol plans to initiate Operation: Japan Annihilation, which involves unleashing a [[DeadlyGas toxic gas]] in Hokkaido to kill innocents. Zol also does not care about fellow Shocker and Destron officers at all, as seen when he tries to have fellow Destron officer Ambassador Hell executed for failing to defeat Kamen Rider V3. Zol stands out even to this day as one of the very worst the franchise ever produced.

** The Great Leader resurfaced here in ''[[Series/KamenRiderV3 V3]]'', where he would create the organization Destron and attempted to launch Operation: Japan Annihilation, which would release nerve gas across the entire country and take the lives of millions; he even attempted to throw his own son in a pool of acid for defying him.

* CompleteMonster: Marshal Armor, AKA Zariganna, is the fourth and final Destron Commander. When he assumes command of Destron, his first act is to plant evidence against their head scientist, Jo(u)ji Yuki, whom he views as a threat, and execute him via acid pit. Knowing the man values his hands for his work, Armor begins the execution by burning one off first. From there, Armor launches a number of deadly schemes, including attempting to cover Tokyo in [[DeadlyGas nerve gas]], kidnapping children for slave labor, and [[WouldHurtAChild unleashing Vampire-Chameleon on more children]] to feed off their blood. When Vampire-Chameleon kills a pair of his own men, Armor coldly remarks that [[LackOfEmpathy if they weren't so weak they wouldn't have died]]. When ordered by the Destron Leader to [[NukeEm launch a nuclear assault on Tokyo]], Armor kidnaps a scientist's family to force him to work on the weapon. When he frees the heroes, Armor has him killed, and hangs his corpse outside the Destron base as a warning to all who would defy him.

* CompleteMonster: Marshal Armor, AKA Zariganna, is the fourth and final Destron Commander. When he assumes command of Destron, his first act is to plant evidence against their head scientist, Yuki Jouji, whom he views as a threat, and execute him via acid pit. Knowing the man values his hands for his work, Armor begins the execution by burning one off first. From there, Armor launches a number of deadly schemes, including attempting to cover Tokyo in [[DeadlyGas nerve gas]], kidnapping children for slave labor, and [[WouldHurtAChild unleashing Vampire-Chameleon on more children]] to feed off their blood. When Vampire-Chameleon kills a pair of his own men, Armor coldly remarks that [[LackOfEmpathy if they weren't so weak they wouldn't have died]]. When ordered by the Destron Leader to [[NukeEm launch a nuclear assault on Tokyo]], Armor kidnaps a scientist's family to force him to work on the weapon. When he frees the heroes, Armor has him killed, and hangs his corpse outside the Destron base as a warning to all who would defy him.

-->Once again, V3 saved a love. However, he has no loving family of his own. And now, for that very reason, in order to save even one more family relationship, he is determined to fight for our tomorrows.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Episode 25 features [[{{MonsteroftheWeek}} Mantis-Merang]] decapitate a man with a boomerang! The effect itself was laughable, but seriously? They got away with this?
** [[{{MemeticMutation}} Damn you, V3!]]

** Many fans have joked that Destron, shared their name with the Deception faction in much of the Japanese Transformers media. Much later in a tie in to the ComicBook/MoreThanMeetsTheEye comic [[http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/d/d1/ReluctantSpecialist-V3.jpg this Deception showed up]].

* FriendlyFandoms: With fellow tokusatsu show {{Series/Kikaider}}, both aired together in Hawaii and enjoyed mass popularity. The website [[https://www.generationkikaida.com Generation Kikaida]] features the (official) english release of both Kikaida and V3 from localizing company [=JNProductions=].

** Many fans have joked about how the name of the villains, Destron, was the name of the Deception faction in much of the Japanese Transformers media. Much later in a tie in to ComicBook/MoreThanMeetsTheEye [[http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/d/d1/ReluctantSpecialist-V3.jpg a familiar looking Deception showed up]].

* HilariousInHindsight: One episode has Shiro disguised in a snappy white suit. [[Series/JAKQDengekitai Four years later...]] (Though the look of the suit brings to mind [[Series/KamenRiderDouble a much later Rider.]])

* ParanoiaFuel: Destron is very far reaching. Any number of people could be a Shocker Mook, or a monster infiltrating some organization in order to find you. EMT crew taking away an injured man? Destron soldiers. Truck Driver finding a traumatized old man? Shocker Mook. Once a surgeon thought he was seeing a patient, only for the medical Destron staff to get a hold of him and turn him into TV-Fly. V3 tries his hardest to save people, and many times he succeeds. Other times he can't save them and people just end up dead in order to further the ambitions of Destron.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Hawaiians Love Kamen Rider V3]]

* HilariousInHindsight: One episode has Shiro disguised in a snappy white suit. [[Series/JAKQDengekitai Four years later...]] (Though the look of the suit brings to mind [[KamenRiderDouble a much later Rider.]])

* HilariousInHindsight: One episode has Shiro disguised in a snappy white suit. [[JAKQDengekitai Four years later...]] (Though the look of the suit brings to mind [[KamenRiderDouble a much later Rider.]])

* HilariousInHindsight: One episode has Shiro disguised in a snappy white suit. [[JAKQDengekitai Four years later...]] Though the look of the suit brings to mind [[KamenRiderDouble a much later Rider.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: One episode has Shiro disguised as a man in a snappy white suit. [[JAKQDengekitai Four years later...]]

* HilariousInHindsight: One episode has Shiro disguised as a man in a snappy white suit. [[JAKQDengekitai Five years later...]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: When [[spoiler: Kamen Rider 1 and 2 arrive]] at the last minute to save V3's ass, the original Kamen Rider theme starts.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Episode 25 features [[{{MonsteroftheWeek}} Mantis-Merang]] decapitate a man with a boomerang! The effect itself was laughable, but seriously? They got away with this?

[[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Hawaiians Love Kamen Rider V3]]

** ONORE, V3!

** And when Riderman kicks ass through an army of Mooks to stop the Pluton Rocket, he gets his own theme, and the only one in the entire show with lyrics played in-show.