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5	-> The story reaches its conclusion...
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8	''Zero-One Others: Kamen Rider Vulcan & Valkyrie'' is a V-Cinema set after the events of ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'', and the second and final part of the ''Zero-One Others'' series.
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10	Following the disastrous turn of events resulting from Kamen Rider [=MetsubouJinrai=]'s creation, Isamu Fuwa and Yua Yaiba's Kamen Rider powers are reactivated to deal with the insane MechanicalAbomination before its twisted perception of justice destroys everything.
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12	However, their intervention causes it to set its sights on AIMS; as it declares that [[CatchPhrase Vulcan and Valkyrie will be extinct]], the duo are set to face their toughest opponent yet, one powered by the screaming, tortured souls of their former allies.
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14	!Tropes:
15	* AllForNothing: By the end of the movie, not much has changed from when the series first started, and what has changed has changed for the worse. [[spoiler:The public at large is still disdainful towards Humagears (for not entirely unjustified reasons), Lyon Arkland [[TheBadGuyWins technically wins]] [[PosthumousVillainVictory despite having died]], the reformed [=MetsubouJinrai.net=] utterly failed in their quest to prevent another Ark from rising and the ''~Genms~ The Presidents'' special set immediately after reveals the original Ark is still active.]]
16	** Yua's own arc in the film also ends in failure. [[spoiler:She saves Sold 20 and gets the Justice Serval Progrise Key, only to be immediately [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] by Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai and lose her ability to transform. She does manage to land a single hit that does enough damage for Metsuboujinrai to fall back, but not long after Metsuboujinrai is shown completely repairing the damage Yua did.]]
17	* TheBadGuyWins: Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai is [[spoiler: defeated by Vulcan Lone Wolf]], but it's a PyrrhicVictory that costs [[spoiler: Fuwa's life ([[UncertainDoom possibly]]), Yua's ability to fight, the lives of Metsubojinrai and ZAIA Japan]]. Though the hostile amalgamation is defeated, it caused the destruction it wanted post-mortem.
18	** The final scene however indicates that it may be subverted. The film ends with the defense secretary Shigeru Daimonji gloating to a group of reporters on how A.I. shouldn't have been given free will to resounding cheers....[[spoiler: until Yua and the Solds enter the room and talk about how HistoryRepeatsItself]].
19	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: ZAIA Enterprise and Aruto both get their wish to defeat [=MetsubouJinrai.net=] from early in the series in this film. [[spoiler:Too bad it comes after redeeming and befriending their members, and also leads to the collapse of AIMS's main source of arms, namely their Kamen Riders]].
20	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:[=MetsubouJinrai.net=] is KilledOffForReal as a consequence of destroying Kamen Rider [=MetsubouJinrai=], all of Yua's Progrisekeys are destroyed (thus permanently denying her access to Valkyrie), and Fuwa is critically wounded dealing the finishing blow, [[UncertainDoom possibly dying at the film's end as well.]] The only thing preventing this from being a DownerEnding is that Yua, Aruto, Gai, and Is (with her original memories intact) are still alive and with both ZAIA Japan and [=MetsubouJinrai.net=] destroyed, Humagears might just have a shot at living in peace.]]
21	* BloodFromEveryOrifice: [[spoiler:Fuwa bleeds from his eyes after exchanging {{Finishing Move}}s with Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai]]
22	* TheCameo: Gai Amatsu briefly appears early on in the film, rescued by A.I.M.S. He affirms his dream of becoming a president again before completely fading from the movie.
23	* CurbstompCushion: [[spoiler:Yua, even with Justice Serval, can't stand up to Kamen Rider [=MetsubouJinrai=]...but does manage to damage its belt badly enough it has to fall back.]]
24	* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:After having their bodies destroyed and suffering a DeathOfPersonality by being absorbed into Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai, Metsuboujinrai.net meets its permanent end when the Rider is destroyed, taking the data of their four members with it.]]
25	* DePower: [[spoiler:Yua permanently loses access to Valkyrie due to her equipment being destroy during her last stand against Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai]].
26	* FauxActionGirl: Yua Yaiba ends up being this. [[spoiler: She only gets one fight as Justice Serval and spends most of it getting beat up. She lands one blow on Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai that does temporary damages to its Driver before getting defeated and losing her ability to transform, and the damage she did do is repaired by Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai after it returns to Daybreak Town, leaving Yua having not accomplished anything.]]
27	* FightingFromTheInside: The only reason Yua isn't executed by Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai on the spot after their fight is due to [[spoiler: Valkyrie's finisher damaging the Rider's belt and allowing what's left of the original members to interfere with the Rider's protocols]].
28	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Gai stumbles out of the remains of Zaia Japan, recovers his Thousand Driver and swears he'll be a President again, even if it's a totally different company and walks out of the story. This would later be picked up in ''~Genms~ The Presidents''.
29	* GoIntoTheLight: [[spoiler: As the credits roll, the members of [=MetsubouJinrai.net=] and Fuwa walk down the hallway and disappear as a symbolic way of showing they've passed.]]
30	* GreaterScopeParagon: Aruto only gets one scene in the film, but he gives Fuwa the Zero-One Driver he uses to assume his new form and fight Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai.
31	* HappyEndingOverride: Without spoiling too many details, this film and the one that precede it take its sweet time dismantling [=MetsubouJinrai.net's=] redemption and all the victories Yua and Fuwa built up over the course of the series, all while Aruto can do nothing but watch from space.
32	* HistoryRepeatsItself: The film's CentralTheme. KR Metsubojinrai's RoaringRampageofRevenge is interpreted by the remaining Solds as a call-to-arms, causing them to [[spoiler:rebel against Humanity and target A.I.M.S]]; [[CycleOfRevenge re-igniting the tensions the series started out on]]. [[spoiler:Fuwa and Yaiba do eventually manage to get through to them]], though.
33	* HopeSpot: The film ends on one. Yua manages to [[spoiler: deliver a message on how HistoryRepeatsItself in an effort to counter the hostile sentiment towards Humagears]] following the events of the movie. However, this only comes after [[spoiler: the deaths of nearly of all her friends and what's heavily-implied to be another round of anti-A.I. legislation on the horizon]].
34	* ImmediateSequel: ''Vulcan & Valkyrie'' is set immediately after the events of ''Kamen Rider [=MetsubouJinrai=]'' and picking up where the last V-Cinema left off, with Isamu and Yua tasked with dealing with the berserk Rider.
35	* InformedFlaw: In-universe example. Fuwa is convinced the berserk Rider's antagonism is [[spoiler: the members of Metsubojinrai committing [[SuicideByCop a collective suicide]] in response to what they've become]].
36	* LostAesop: KR Metsubojinrai's [[spoiler: desire to destroy everyone involved in recent events]] isn't treated as the side-effect of [[spoiler: Lyon's weaponization of Mass Brain]] like it actually is, but instead as a SuicideByCop. While the film pays quite a bit of lip-service to the dangers of the CycleOfRevenge, said cycle ends up being vindicated by the ending - which treats the [[spoiler: wiping of the slate (mostly) clean]] as the first step towards actual peace. The [[CycleOfRevenge anti-vengeance]] themes of ''Zero-One'''s final arc are overwritten by an ([[FightingFromTheInside unwilling]]) vengeance campaign that's [[TheBadGuyWins all but successful]].
37	* MartyrWithoutACause: Zig-zagged. KR Metsubojinrai's blind attacking of Vulcan and Valkyrie is the side-effect of its berserk post-Mass Brain state, yet is interpreted by Fuwa and Yaiba as [[spoiler: the members of the organization throwing their lives away after seeing the danger to humanity they became]].
38	* MissionControl: Yua (and by proxy A.I.M.S.) is constantly hounded by the secretary of defense to exterminate the berserk Metsubojinrai.
39	* MyGreatestFailure: It's revealed in a {{Flashback}} that one of Yua's university teachers was [[spoiler: the inventor of A.I.M.S.' self-targetting weapons systems]]. Said systems got a child killed in an far-off warzone, causing him to retire out of shame.
40	* NeverTrustATrailer: Yua's appearances in the film's teasers were framed as though the movie would espouse on her background. A {{Flashback}} snaps to her old university...[[spoiler: [[BaitAndSwitch whereupon she listens to her university teacher talk about his own background instead]]; [[MyGreatestFailure specifically his role in A.I.M.S.' weapon-development]]]].
41	* NoNonsenseNemesis: Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai shoots Yua's Progrise Key out of her hand instead of letting her transform with it the second time around. [[spoiler: Luckily Sold 20 had her own key to spare]].
42	* OnlyTheLeadsGetADownerEnding: By the end of the film, [[spoiler:Isamu and every member of Metsubojinrai end up taking each other down in a [[MutualKill Mutual]] MercyKill; everyone presumed dead thanks to an entirely-avoidable tragedy nobody can get justice for; making this the second time Aruto has had to see his loved ones die. The incident worsens the relations between Human and Humagear to record levels; a now-powerless Yaiba forced to argue with a hostile Defense Minister intent on bringing new anti-AI legislation to the table (implying that the fighting will just continue). Both The Ark and Gai Amatsu sit the entire Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai incident out and get away scot-free with all the suffering they heaped on the heroes during the show as a result; The Ark took refuge in the internet and gathered more data while Gai reformed into an AntiHero and ended up starting his own company ([[Recap/KamenRiderZeroOneKamenRiderGenmsThePresidents albeit with complications]])]]. Everyone other than the heroes is for the better...at least until HistoryRepeats and [[Series/KamenRiderOutsiders another evil AI rears its ugly head.]]
43	* PosthumousVillainVictory: Lyon Arkland (the BigBad of the previous film) dies without being able to mass-produce the [[RobotSoldier Solds]] he wanted to enter the global arms-race with. He DID however [[spoiler: accomplish his goal of turning the members of Metsubojinrai into the engineered threat he wanted said Solds to fight, claiming the lives of most of the season's heroes by proxy of the [[TheBerserker insane]] MechanicalAbomination he turned the Humagears into [[GoneHorriblyRight doing it for him]]. For bonus points, [[ShootTheShaggyDog the entire incident sours the relations between man and machine the heroes have been fighting to establish all season]], with ''the government itself'' planning to crack down once again on A.I.]].
44	* ResetButtonEnding: The ending to the film effectively resets the entire setting of ''Kamen Rider Zero-One''. [[spoiler: Hiden Intelligence and A.I.M.S. (the season's first two introduced factions) are the only ones that survive to the end of both films; albeit at the cost of the Shotrisers, Isamu and the original members of Metsubojinrai. The Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai incident has plummeted relations between man and machine to nearly pre-series levels with ''the government itself'' now poised for renewed crackdown on Artificial Intelligence. The film deliberately leaves out whether Yaiba's speech on how HistoryRepeatsItself gets through to the masses or not, though it makes clear that she and the Solds have [[GenerationXerox inherited Metsubojinrai's will]] - [[HereWeGoAgain framing the same initial conflict between Humans and Humagears up once more with new players]]]].[[note]] The ''Presidents'' special taking place right after also reveals that [[spoiler:The Ark also survived]], [[AllForNothing erasing the entire season's struggles by proxy]].[[/note]]
45	* SenselessSacrifice: Downplayed. While Isamu's [[spoiler: LastStand against Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai prevents more tragedy]], it only reaches that point because neither he nor Yua come up with alternatives to solving the problem beforehand. It also [[spoiler: doesn't improve relations between man and machine like anyone assumed, either - instead serving as the IncitingIncident [[CreateYourOwnVillain for the Defense Minister to go on an anti-A.I. campaign]]]].
46	* ShootTheShaggyDog: ''Vulcan & Valkyrie'' ultimately ends with the heroes losing everything. [[spoiler: Everyone other than Yaiba and the Solds dies and the relations between Humans and Humagears have absolutely ''plummeted,'' which the government plans to use to justify a crackdown on Artificial Intelligence. Even with Yaiba's speech on how HistoryRepeatsItself, the ViciousCycle [[HereWeGoAgain seems poised to start all over again despite everyone's efforts]]]].
47	* SpecialAesopVictim: Almost everybody. [[Film/KamenRiderZeroOneOthersMetsubouJinrai An evil CEO exploits the futility of the cycle of revenge by fusing the members of Metsubojinrai to a berserk Rider body wearing their data like a skin]] whose sole purpose is to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. The Shotrisers are trashed and Fuwa [[spoiler: ([[UncertainDoom possibly]]) gives his life [[HeroicSacrifice to take the berserk Rider with him]], [[MercyKill destroying the rabid remnants of the original Humagear activists in the process]]]]. Most of the setting's major figures are sacrificed (figuratively or literally) to hammer home the message that revenge is bad. And the film treats this culling like the first step toward peace.
48	* StatusQuoIsGod: Downplayed. With Hiden Intelligence [[spoiler: being the only outlet for Humagears not trashed by Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai]] and [[spoiler: the Defense Minister lobbying for crackdown against Artificial Intelligence]], the tensions between man and machine [[HereWeGoAgain are bound to continue]]. However, Yua's pre-credits KirkSummation implies [[spoiler: she and the Solds will continue to champion rights (and Aruto presumably remains as a BigGood]]), meaning not all hope is lost.
49	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: One cannot end prejudice with prejudice. Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai's [[spoiler: plan to [[GenghisGambit unite Humanity and Humagears against it to promote a lasting peace]]]] completely backfires. The Rider's rampage only gets a bunch of people killed and [[IncitingIncident damages what fragile peace already exists between man and machine]] by [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero giving the government brand-new incentive to crackdown on artificial Intelligence again by film's end]]]]. Yua's pre-credits speech is the ''only'' indicator of [[HopeSpot any impending change whatsoever]]; for better or worse deliberately left vague.
50	* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The last we see of Fuwa is him in Yua's arms bleeding from his eyes before passing out. We don't see what happened to him after but the shot of him [[GoIntoTheLight walking into the light]] during the credits implies he may have ultimately passed on.]]
51	* {{Unperson}}: Both meta and in-universe. Despite being the [[spoiler: [[ManBehindTheMan one that created Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai]]]], Lyon Arkland is never directly mentioned by anyone nor is his influence on the events of ''Others'' remotely hinted at.[[note]]Solds 9 and 20, [[spoiler: his CoDragons directly part of the HiveMind he created]], omit anything related to [[spoiler: Mass Brain or Lyon's EngineeredHeroics]] from their flashback segment; only implicating ZAIA at-large for "using them as tools."[[/note]] Kamen Rider Zaia's [[spoiler: destruction at the berserk Rider's hands]] and [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent a mugshot on a background news-broadcast]] are the only hints he was around at all, [[InnocentBystander portraying]] [[DisproportionateRetribution a less representative]] [[MartyrWithoutACause series of events]] [[EngineeredHeroics than]] [[MindHive what actually]] [[TheBerserker happened]]. This (as well as seeing [[spoiler: the creature spare Yaiba]]) influences Fuwa's [[SuicideByCop interpretation of events]].

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