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14	->''"In order to protect humanity... I had to abandon mine."''
15	-->--'''Jin to Professor Hoshino'''
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17	''Kamen Rider Amazons'' is a 2016-2018 web series part of the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise loosely based on ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon''. It was specifically planned for release on the Amazon Prime streaming service debuting on April 2016 in Japan and on April 2018 worldwide with English subtitles under the MarketBasedTitle ''Amazon Riders'' (the first official ''Kamen Rider'' import since ''[[Film/KamenRiderTheFirst The First]]''). As such, unlike the MerchandiseDriven shows airing in the Sunday morning kids' slot, ''Amazons'' is a DarkerAndEdgier (and BloodierAndGorier) take on the ''tokusatsu'' formula--even more so than the original ''Amazon'' series. A [[{{Bowdlerise}} re-edit]] of the first season aired on Japanese television in 2016. A second season was produced following the success of the first, and began streaming on April 2017 in Japan.
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19	The series revolves around [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically-engineered mutants]] known as Amazonz, around four thousand of which are set loose into an unnamed city [[EscapedFromTheLab after a mysterious lab accident]]. Though normally able to mimic humans and live peaceful lives, the Amazons [[PainfulTransformation regress into ravenous flesh-eating monsters]] when the medicinal suppressant within their armlets runs out after two to three years.
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21	The story of Season 1 follows a heavily-sheltered Amazon named [[TheHero Haruka Mizusawa]], who transforms into Kamen Rider Amazon Omega; the mysterious Amazon hunter [[TheRival Jin Takayama]], who transforms into Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha; and the Nozama Pest Control Service, a small group of mercenaries contracted to hunt down the awakening Amazons.
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23	Season 2 reveals that in the [[TimeSkip five years since the conclusion of S1]], the existence of the Amazons has become public knowledge, putting Nozama Pharmaceutical out of business. In their place is 4C (Competitive Creatures Control Center), a new government organisation tasked with hunting down and containing the Amazons threat. However, the Amazon Cells have mutated into a strain [[ViralTransformation capable of infecting humans, transforming victims into insane and bloodthirsty monsters]].
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25	[[ClassicalAntiHero Chihiro]] (Kamen Rider Amazon Neo) is a mysterious young Amazon who struggles to retain his humanity against his primal hunger for human flesh. While on one of his daily hunts for rogue Amazons, he happens to meet Iyu, a young girl who has been [[BackFromTheDead resurrected from the dead]] by 4C as a "Sigma-Type Amazon", [[ArtificialZombie an undead, emotionless fighting machine]]. Chihiro falls in LoveAtFirstSight, and believes that if he can help [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Iyu regain her humanity]], then there is hope for him doing the same.
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27	The series concluded with ''Film/KamenRiderAmazonsTheLastJudgement'', a theatrical movie released in May 2018, with two {{compilation movie}}s of the first two seasons being released a few weeks before it.
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30	!!Recurring ''Kamen Rider'' tropes include:
31	* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Subverted. As in the original ''Amazon'' as well as the first 13 episodes of original ''Series/KamenRider'', monsters don't explode when killed; instead they melt into black goo after being mortally wounded. In season 2, a killed Lysogenic Amazon has their corpse decay instantly.
32	* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Amazon Neo makes his on-screen debut in [[Film/KamenRiderXSuperSentaiChouSuperHeroTaisen Chou Superhero Taisen]], which came out about two weeks before ''Amazons'' Season 2.]]
33	* FinishingMove: {{Averted}} with most of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Amazons]], whose powers and behavior are purely biological and thus don't have any formal finishers (although ripping out body parts is a common tactic). PlayedStraight with the two Riders (as with the franchise tradition), as the belt used by Alpha and Omega lets them use certain "Violent" attacks.
34	** Violent Punish/Slash: A slash with the [[BladeBelowTheShoulder sharp protrusions on the forearm]].
35	** Violent Strike: A kick, with similar protrusions on the back of the leg.
36	** Violent Break: Finishing off the enemy with a weapon made from the Driver's Battler Grip (right-hand handle), such as a throwing spear or a ''[[SinisterScythe kama]]''.
37	* HenshinHero: While the closest this series has to an actual hero is Haruka, much like the original Amazon, the Amazon Riders in this series are more biological than technological. There's no traditional "enemy/hero gets hit, sparks fly", but more "enemy/hero gets hit, they bleed". Their Amazon forms are a biological creature that can bleed and their main source of power is protein. However, with enough force, they will revert to their human forms if they take too much damage. Actually killing them will cause their body to melt.
38	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The starting letter of each episode goes in an alphabetical sequence - the first three are titled '''A'''mazonz, '''B'''east Inside, and '''C'''olony of Ants. Since the first season ends at 13 eps, this carries into season 2. The last episode however, Amazon'''Z''', is the OddOneOut as its meant to be a BookEnds of sorts.
39	* SuperMode: Ironically, the Riders' '''base''' form is this in a sense: the belts give them greatly enhanced versions of their natural Amazon forms, as shown with Haruka's beltless form compared to his form with the belt.
40	** [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} with the second Butterfly Amazonz as it has a larva/pupa/adult stage like the Dobsonfly Beastman.]]
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42	!!This series contains the following tropes:
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47	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Amazon Riders' blades are sharp enough to bisect an opponent with a FinishingMove.
48	* AdaptationalWimp: Not the Riders or the Amazonz, but their armlets. In the original ''Amazon'' series, Amazon's Gigi Armlet was both the source of his power and a powerful ancient artifact that, when combined with the other armlet, would give its owner incredible, potentially world-conquering power. In this series, their only "power" is to keep Amazons from going berserk by injecting them with drugs that suppress their Amazon Cells, with the belts taking their place as the series' TransformationTrinket.
49	* AlienBlood: All Amazons, except Haruka and Jin, have black-ish green blood. Even in human form.
50	* AlternateContinuity: To the ''entire Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise, according to WordOfGod. Though they do make appearances in the ''[[Film/KamenRiderXSuperSentaiChouSuperHeroTaisen Chou Super Hero Taisen]]'' crossover film.
51	* AndTheAdventureContinues: Season 1 ends with [[spoiler:the NPS continuing to be on active duty, minus Mamoru, in hunting down violent Amazons that have survived Operation Tlaloc.]]
52	* AndShowItToYou: Mamoru kills the first Spider Amazon this way. Alpha also finishes his first fight by ripping out the monster's heart and crushing it while it's still beating.
53	* AntiHero: Just about everybody in-show, especially [[ByronicHero Jin]].
54	* BadassFamily: Chihiro's family are major badasses with Chihiro himself being Kamen Rider Amazon Neo [[spoiler:and having an Amazon Origin form that is ridiculously powerful, his father Jin, Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha and his mom Nanaha, the Jellyfish Amazon that worfs Haruka.]]
55	* TheBadGuyWins: The CEO of Nozama Pharmacy is heavily implied to [[spoiler: have been the one that released the 4,000 Amazons into the city for the sole reason of [[EvilutionaryBiologist making his own warped ecosystemic food chain]]. With Haruka, Jin, and the Tlaloc survivors still out there, he's gotten the ecological playground he was looking for. By season 2, even with all 4,000 original Amazons dead, there's the new-breed Amazons still out there; and Jin and Haruka are still alive, meaning ultimately he ends the series pretty much getting exactly what he wanted]].
56	* BigBadEnsemble: The scattered Amazons are the main threat and largely operate on their own, though some of the more powerful Amazons (like the Bat or Ant Queen) are able to command weaker members of their kind. On the other side, the Nozama Pharmacy (specifically their chairman, Takaaki Tenjo) are responsible for creating them in the first place and are willing to let people die brutal, gory deaths and keep the four thousand maneating monsters roaming the countryside secret just to keep the Amazon Cells to themselves. [[spoiler:To top it all off, Tenjo ''released'' the Amazons in the first place to cause this whole mess.]] Season 2 is a bit more complicated [[spoiler:as Mamoru and his group started the new outbreak, Jin is constantly hunting down Chihiro with intent to kill him, and Nanaha (now an Amazon) is rampaging about and becomes Jin's FinalBoss.]] Though [[spoiler:Tenjo could still be considered the overall BigBad, seeing as every single thing that happens in both seasons was because of him releasing the Amazons in the first place.]]
57	* {{Biopunk}}
58	* BittersweetEnding: Season 1. [[spoiler:Operation Tlaloc is a success and kills over three-quarters of the remaining Amazons, the vast majority of whom had yet to do anything wrong. Haruka and Mamoru survive, but have decided that they cannot live within human society and leave with the surviving Amazons. Jin survives and is driven mad by his lonesome crusade against the survivors, but is possibly saved by the intervention of Nanaha]].
59	* BloodierAndGorier:
60	** ''Moreso'' than its Showa predecessor ''and'' comparable to ''Film/ShinKamenRiderPrologue''. While it lacks HighPressureBlood, imperfect Amazon Omega is seen biting an enemy, drawing blood and ripping off an arm of a mook; while Amazon Alpha finishes his first fight by ripping the monster's heart out and crushing it. In contrast to ''Shin Kamen Rider'', Imperfect Omega kills his first enemy with the ''goriest Rider Kick ever'', people are EatenAlive, and Omega [[HalfThemanheUsedToBe cuts the Dragonfly Amazon in half]]. [[spoiler:Later, we have Sigma impaling Omega with his hand complete with blood all over Sigma's hand when he pulled it from Omega's body]]. The original would be so proud.
61	** Season 2 is even gorier than the first, thanks to the increased numbers of Amazon and the people hunting them. And while season 1 mostly confined graphic violence to the Amazons themselves, season 2 has plenty of humans get gorily slaughtered onscreen.
62	* BookEnds: "Amazonz" is the title for both the first episode of season 1 and the last episode of season 2.
63	* BreakTheCutie: Haruka and Mamoru both. See TraumaCongaLine below.
64	* ByronicHero: Jin shows shades of this. Mainly his refusal to [[TeethClenchedTeamwork work with the company that's trying to clean up the Amazons mess]] as well as his unrepentant killings of even the most benign Amazon. This puts him and Haruka at odds for the rest of the show. [[spoiler:Post-Tlaloc]], he's all [[spoiler:[[HeWhoFightsMonsters but devolved into an Amazon-hunting wild animal]]]].
65	** Haruka is probably the most altruistic character in the show. While his kindness is certainly noble, it [[HeroicNeutral makes him too wishy-washy to actually deal with problems when they come up]]; making him unreliable at-best and an outright FailureHero at-worst.
66	* CacophonyCoverUp: The Pest Exterminators blast classical music to the whole neighborhood in order to cover up the sounds of a battle inside the house.
67	* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Jun Maehara's dead body is implanted with Neo Amazon Cells, which reanimates him...minus all emotion and the ability to feel pain. Same for Iyu in Season 2]].
68	* CastingGag: It's just a little funny that Jun Yamasaki, typecast by now thanks to [[Series/KamenRiderAgito Toru Hojo]] and [[Series/KamenRider555 the Centipede Orphenoch]], appears here as the TragicMonster.
69	* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodeNames: ZigZagged. The term "Kamen Rider" is never used in show, as is common in a number of the Heisei-era series. Additionally, while their belts do say "Alpha" and "Omega", Jin and Haruka are never referred to as Amazon Alpha or Amazon Omega in dialogue. On the subject of the belts, they're never called the "Amazons Drivers" either. On the other hand, Maehara is referred to as Amazon Sigma by Jin, and Chihiro and Iyu are called Neo and Sigma by 4C in season 2.
70	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Reika seems to be the sole member of the Nozama Pharmacy's higher ups who actually gives a damn about human life. The rest are more concerned about money and the one that actually suggests breaking the masquerade only suggests it to save them money rather than save lives because a seven man team is apparently too expensive of a price to pay for stopping a 4,000 strong army of maneating monsters. Their leader is more concerned about keeping the Amazon Cells property of their company than actually cleaning up their mess.
71	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Oh, yes...full stop. One victim is discovered in pieces; another literally gets EatenAlive in front of his comrades. The monsters get them too, with two [[AndShowItToYou getting their hearts torn out]], one getting it's head crushed, and one being [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisected at the waist]]. Anyone who saw the original series should've expected this.
72	* DarkerAndEdgier: As a whole, ''Amazons'' is definitely the darkest ''Kamen Rider'' series Toei Company has made, surpassing the likes of ''[[Series/KamenRiderBlack Black]]'', ''[[Film/ShinKamenRiderPrologue Shin]]'', ''[[Series/KamenRiderRyuki Ryuki]]'', ''[[Series/KamenRider555 555]]'', ''[[Series/KamenRiderWizard Wizard]]'' and even [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Urobuchi's]] ''[[Series/KamenRiderGaim Gaim]]'' to the point it has almost no verbal humor. Ever. Even more so than the original namesake which, despite the gory finishers, still had the general tone of either a 1970s Showa-era ''Kamen Rider'' show or an early 2000s, more-intense Heisei ''Kamen Rider'' show. Season 2 is even worse, with a bleaker, more dreary and tragic tone. Yes, {{Tragedy}} is part of Season 2's themes.
73	* DeathOfPersonality: In Season Two, [[spoiler:the new Amazon Cells that transform humans into Amazons are stated to kill the humans' personality as they transform them into Amazons. This is shown when Iyu's father was transformed into an Amazon and then killed and ate his family.]]
74	* DecompositeCharacter: Amazon Alpha's suit is based on the S.I.C. Hero Saga-only form of Amazon called Pre-Amazon, which is Amazon without the Gigi Armlet.
75	* {{Deconstruction}}: ''Amazons'' deconstruct some of the elements found in ''Amazon'' and other ''Rider'' series, such as:
76	** The {{Masquerade}}: Shido points out that there are hundreds of monsters roaming loose, and people are basically just snacks for them. He also doesn't buy that there's a benevolent reason for it, pointing out that the only reason the Nozama Pharmacy would send in a group of HiredGuns to kill the Amazons is because they're hiding something rather suspicious (he's right).
77	** Haruka is a deconstruction of a typical Heisei Kamen Rider protagonist in general. He has a flexible sense of morality that gives him a more complete and nuanced understanding of a situation, but makes him inconsistent and untrustworthy to fight alongside. Jin works on a rigid and well-defined ruleset, but this makes him uncompromising at best and dangerously single-minded at worst. The Nozama Peston Service stray more towards the latter out of necessity to do their jobs well, but make a very notable exception in their treatment of Mamoru.
78	* DiagonalCut: The Amazon Riders do this for finishers with their [[BladeBelowTheShoulder forearm blades]].
79	* DoingInTheWizard: The original ''Amazon'' hand-waved a lot of stuff due to demons and Mayan SUPER SCIENCE. ''Amazons'', on the other hand, is due to a lab accident and a company trying to cover it up.
80	* DoubleStandard: Jin battles against the potentially mass-murderous threat of the Amazons, but is shown in [[spoiler: Episode 8 to be just fine with not just protecting, but outright ignoring humans that kill, too.]]
81	** Haruka is perfectly fine with protecting Mamoru's group of innocent Amazons in Season 2, yet [[HeroicNeutral he's unwilling to actually do anything about the people hunting them down]]...[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome which only puts them in more danger]].
82	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Season 2 ends with the deaths of Chihiro, Iyu, Nanaha, and Mamoru. Jin is forced to kill both his lover Nanaha and eventually his only son. The Peston crew is forced to kill Mamoru, (who tries protecting the Jellyfish Amazon) only to discover that he still had his ¥5 coin and Chihiro fails to prevent Iyu's armlet from killing her before his own death. Jin and Haruka are the only two named Amazons to survive the season and are once again WalkingTheEarth]].
83	* DramaticHourLong: A first in a ''Kamen Rider'' series outside movies. Justified, due to the web-series format of the Amazon service.
84	* DramaticIrony: The mercenaries figure out that Jin can track their movements, and find a way to send him off to some empty location while they deal with the actual Amazons. The irony comes from how they never set a trap or do much of anything after getting Jin where they want him, while ''they're'' the ones who walk right into a trap after the Queen Ant Amazon turned the whole apartment block into her hive.
85	* EnemyMine: In episode 11, Jin ends up helping Haruka and the extermination team to fight against Amazon Sigma. Shido even gives him a hamburger to fuel himself up.
86	-->'''Shido''': Sorry, it's not an egg.\
87	'''Jin''': ''[contemplating the change in meal]'' ...well, beggars can't be choosers...
88	* EscapedFromTheLab: The origin of the Amazons: they escaped from a Nozama lab. [[spoiler:The President of Nozama all but admits to deliberately freeing them two years ago, predicting that a new food chain would emerge]].
89	* EvilDetectingDog: One squad uses a dog named Baron to detect Amazons.
90	* {{Foil}}: Both Amazon Riders are this to each other. Jin/Alpha is a tough and confident adult, while Haruka/Omega is a frail and sensitive teenager. Jin's apartment is ''very'' messy, while Haruka's "house" is neat and solitary. This is inverted when the two are in battle, however; Jin is collected and in-control, while Haruka acts closer to a wild animal. [[spoiler:Then dramatically reversed by the end of the first series: Jin has become a bloodthirsty monster no better than a feral Amazon, and Haruka is the in-control one fighting for a civilized reason]].
91	* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The creation of the Amazons in general, but becomes explicit when Tachibana moves to manufacture Amazons as obedient weapons. [[spoiler:He succeeds by creating the Neo Amazon Cells and Amazon Sigma, but gets shut down after the President of Nozama discovers that Neo Amazons do not need to eat to survive, which disgusts his EvilutionaryBiologist side]].
92	* GreyAndGrayMorality: The show's morality isn't as simple as "Good vs. Evil". Killing off Amazons would usually be considered heroic, since they're man-eating monsters that pose a threat to humanity...but most of them just want to live their lives and have to go everyday of their lives in fear of [[BeingEvilSucks becoming monsters and getting hunted down]]. There will be people who have to end lives because it's necessary, but it's not easy, even for them. {{Tragic Villain}}s aren't always going to be good people who have to act as villains, but have become so broken that they've become horrible people acting as villains for heroic causes. Even by the end of Season 2, no matter which side you're rooting for, they've lost so much that you're bound to find that [[PyrrhicVictory neither has really won in the end]]. The one exception is [[BigBad Takaaki Tenjo]], who is genuinely black in terms of morality, but even then other than invoking TheMasquerade and [[spoiler:kickstarting the whole mess in the first place]], he has little direct control of the situation and is never actually fought by either side.
93	* HalfHumanHybrid: Amazon Alpha is the result of a human willingly implanting Amazon Cells into himself. [[spoiler: Haruka was born by crossing Amazon cells with Reika's own. Chihiro, on the other hand, is Jin and Nanaha's son, making him a natural-born Amazon hybrid.]]
94	* HappyEndingOverride: In the second season, we find out that Nozama Pharmacy was hit by such a huge number of lawsuits and fines as a result of the events from Season 1 that the entire company collapsed and went under.
95	* HealingFactor: Amazons can rapidly recover lost stamina and even heal life-threatening wounds by consuming proteins, be they from hamburgers...or humans.
96	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After the TimeSkip, [[spoiler:Jin's bloody crusade against the surviving Amazons and his feasting upon their corpses has transformed him into a monster]].
97	* HourglassPlot: As seen in {{Foil}} above. Particularly delineated in Jin's and Haruka's fighting styles, wherein the former starts out as a cocky and confident fighter and the latter as a feral warrior, and by season two [[spoiler: Jin is blinded and fights more haphazardly whereas Haruka fights with a calm confidence.]]
98	* HulkingOut:
99	** Transforming into an Amazon seems to be this, at least for the ones that can control it. Mamoru and Haruka are much more animalistic and berserk in their transformed state, though they're at least in control enough to tell friend from foe.
100	** Subverted with Amazon Alpha, who is completely in control of his transformed state and thus far the only Amazon to be so.
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105	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Subverted in "BEAST INSIDE". [[spoiler:Maehara thinks that he can reason with Otaki, who has transformed into the Dragonfly Amazon. It...[[EatenAlive doesn't end well]].]]
106	** Receives an IronicEcho when [[spoiler:the mercenaries find themselves fighting Maehara as Amazon Sigma.]]
107	* InNameOnly: Despite supposedly being a re-imagining of Kamen Rider Amazon, it really has nothing in common with it apart from the suit designs and violent fight scenes.
108	* ImAHumanitarian: Amazons, as shown with what happened with the victims in the inn. The Exterminators even called them leftovers.
109	** [[spoiler: Jin]] is revealed to have become [[spoiler: an "Amazonarian" post-TimeSkip]].
110	* InASingleBound: Both of the Amazon Riders have shown some impressive jumping abilities. Shown most clearly in episode 2, where Omega travels from a city to a quarry in record time mainly by leaping around.
111	* {{Invocation}}: All the Riders use "Amazon" in place of the franchise standard "Henshin".
112	* IronicEcho: At the end of the Shrike Amazon arc, Shido tells Haruka that mercenaries' morals and decisions can only be decided by who's paying them. Later on, the team nearly leaves Haruka on his own in the city to face certain death, until Mamoru convinces all of them to stick together by offering up his coin collection, which counts as payment.
113	* IronicNickname: Amazon Alpha and Amazon Omega are called the Wild Type and the Cultivation Type respectively. However, Haruka is more feral in his Amazon form than Jin, who likewise is calm and collected. It's more accurate for their human identities- Jin has more of a survivalist mindset while Haruka is repeatedly compared to a pet.
114	* ItIsDehumanizing: [[spoiler:In ''Way to Nowhere'' the remaining personnel of 4C start referring to Chihiro as "the point of origin", because of his status as the source of the Amazonz outbreak, following his rampage and escape from HQ.]]
115	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When he leaves when Tachibana contacts him, he forgets to kiss Nanaha good-bye before leaving, wondering if it's forshadowing something. [[spoiler: He gets his answer encountering a newly revived Jun Maehara, who ends his InvincibleHero status]].
116	* ManChild: Mamoru. One episode even shows him having to be comforted with toys to receive some shots. He also takes longer than the others to recognize that [[spoiler: Amazon Sigma is not quite Jun Maehara anymore]]. Downplayed example since he's biologically 16 (and would be much younger than the rest of the extermination team either way), but he is still very childlike for that age.
117	* {{Masquerade}}: The Nozama Pharmacy is covering up the existence of the Amazons, hence why the group are called the Pest Exterminators and carry that facade. Shido is actually not happy with this, and points out that Nozama is hiding something if they don't just call the police and military in. Episode 3 reveals that the real reason for the cover up is Nozama's boss wants to keep [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the Amazon Cells the sole property of their company]].
118	** In Season 2, Tokyo has become more aware of the outbreak and thus, the Competitive Creatures Control Center is formed to combat them and keep things from reaching the public.
119	* MediumAwareness: This line from Jin, while he and Haruka are in their Amazon forms:
120	-->'''Jin''': You don't have to be so pissed off. Not that I can see, I mean.
121	* MonsterOfTheWeek: Deconstructed by the Amazons. See WhatMeasureIsANonHuman below.
122	* MythologyGag: [[MythologyGag/KamenRiderAmazons Has its own page.]]
123	* NoHuggingNoKissing: {{Averted}}. Jin is very affectionate with his girlfriend/partner Nanaha, regularly kissing her on the mouth.
124	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Reika ''wants'' to expand Shido's group and give them better tech to stand a better chance of killing the Amazons...but the rest of the Board of Directors and her boss are {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s more concerned about keeping the Amazon Cells to themselves and making things "cost-effective" than actually dealing with the 4,000 man-eating abominations that escaped from ''their'' labs.
125	* OperationBlank: Operation Tlaloc. Named after the god of rain. [[spoiler:The goal for this mission: eliminate all Amazons in the Greater Tokyo Area through an anti-Amazon mist rain.]]
126	* PainfulTransformation: Anyone who undergoes an Amazon transformation, but Haruka is a ''prime'' example while transforming into Amazon Omega. Subverted with Amazon Alpha, who doesn't seem to experience any pain from transforming.
127	* PaintingTheMedium: The OnTheNext segment previewing "Under Wraps" starts with "Next Hunt" like the first-season previews instead of "Next Target" like the other second-season previews, because it mostly takes place between the two seasons. Similarly, that episode itself starts with "Armour Zone", the first-season main theme.
128	* PoliceAreUseless: Justified: the Nozama Pharmacy is covering up the Amazons' existence, so the police are unaware they even exist. On the other hand, the Public Security Bureau is helping Nozama by covering any unusual disappearances (usually attributed to the Amazons) as missing person's cases.
129	* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: [[spoiler:In Season 1, Mizuki is 17 and Haruka biologically 20; but he's an Amazon created two years ago, so Mizuki is chronologically 15 years older than he. They become this trope with the revelation that they're genetic half-siblings, due to Mizuki's mother incorporating her DNA into Haruka.]]
130	* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: The entirety of Season 1 is this for [[spoiler:Jin and Mamoru, but Haruka was a subversion. Jin is obvious and Mamoru turns his back on humanity by leading the remaining benign Amazons in order to exact their revenge against humanity]].
131	* RedEyesTakeWarning:
132	** Armlets showing red eyes are a warning that the Armlet has run out of drugs to suppress the Amazons Cells, which leads to the person turning into an Amazons shortly after.
133	** Haruka's first transformation into Amazon Omega has his human eyes turn red.
134	** Chihiro from season two eye's glow a piercing red-orange color as he transforms. As as well as having red eyes under an orange visor in his Amazon form.
135	* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Due to Jin's disappearance in Season 2, it was hinted that he was killed and his corpse was the source of the lysogenic cells. ''Schooldays'' reveals that the cells are similar to Chihiro's cells and that Jin is still alive.]]
136	* RedShirt: Nozama has other crews besides the Pest Controllers for other purposes, but they're more or less this when they show up. Out of the team appearing in episode 4, only one actually makes it out alive.
137	* SdrawkcabName: Nozama Pharmacy, anyone?
138	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Haruka and Jin, respectively.
139	* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The last moments of season two are Tachibana declaring a new Sigma project as there are still Amazons alive.]]
140	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The title, and the name of the monsters, is either spelled Amazons or Amazonz.
141	* SpiritualAntithesis: Srprisingly one to ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon''.
142	* SpiritualSuccessor: Arguably one to ''Film/ShinKamenRiderPrologue''.
143	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Haruka's [[HeroicNeutral unwillingness to do more than protect Amazons]] is certainly noble, [[DoomedMoralVictor but doesn't get anything done]] and only puts those he cares about in ''more'' danger from [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim threats he won't deal with]] (IE: [[ArchEnemy Jin]]). By the time of Season 2, [[spoiler: Mamoru]] is [[BrokenPedestal fed up with Haruka's hesitation]] and [[ThenLetMeBeEvil has turned on Humanity wholesale]].
144	* StuffedInAFridge:
145	** The Queen Ant Amazon puts her victims' remains in one this way.
146	** The Crab Amazon also does this to serve human meat to unawakened Amazons.
147	* TimeSkip: [[spoiler:Season 2 takes place five years after "M".]]
148	* {{Tragedy}}: Surprisingly, ''Amazons'' makes Urobuchi's ''Gaim'' look like the works of ''saints'', to the point that the CentralTheme of Season 2 IS Tragedy.
149	* TragicMonster: In the spirit of the Showa series, this was bound to come up. Eps. 7-8 have [[spoiler:the Shrike Amazon, who's barely clinging to sanity from fighting the need to feed for a long time, even getting the idea to hang around a SerialKiller to feed on the bodies he leaves behind. It doesn't quite work out, and he's put down for his troubles.]]
150	** In Episode 9, the owner of [[spoiler: the restaurant that serves Amazon customers]]. While the murders of [[spoiler: passersby and confused wanderers is undeniably wrong, he's allowing his clientele to eat Human meat to delay their Awakenings and maintain something resembling normal lives. He even tries to valiantly defend his customers from the Pest Exterminators. He fails]].
151	* TransformationTrinket: The Amazons Driver belts for Amazon Alpha and Omega. [[spoiler:When Nozama gets ahold of Jin's, they replicate it to create one for Amazon Sigma.]]
152	* TraumaCongaLine: '''Yes'''. Haruka decides not to take his medicine and becomes Amazon Omega, then he's taken in by the Amazon-hating Jin, whose "advice" worsens Haruka's existential crisis, THEN he begins meeting Amazons [[HopeSpot that retain their sanity]], his sympathy in turn [[spoiler: [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman alienates him from just about everyone that gives a damn about him]]]], and then most of that nice Amazon population is [[spoiler: wiped out in Operation Tlaloc]], and [[OverlyLongGag then]] his other Amazon ally [[spoiler: gives into instinct and munches on a team-mate's arm]], and then in the Last Episode, [[spoiler: Jin makes it his life's mission to eradicate the Tlaloc survivors and keeps attacking Haruka's troupe of survivors]], which has forced them to all but retreat from Humanity as a whole. And then [[spoiler: [[KicktheDog Jin attacks them again]], [[BigDamnHeroes opposed by the Nozama mercenaries this time though]]]].
153	** Mamoru, to a lesser extent. After having [[spoiler: ate human meat unknowingly in Episode 9]], he [[spoiler: nearly loses his mind to his instincts two episodes later]], knows he may be labelled as a target by the people he's called friends for ages, and is forced to [[spoiler: retreat from humanity alongside Haruka]]; reluctantly choosing to [[spoiler: [[RefusaloftheCall deny the Exterminators' attempts to re-recruit him onto the team]]]].
154	* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: The battles between Haruka and Chihiro during the first half of Season 2 are this, but Haruka's greater combat experience helps him win tidily against the less seasoned Chihiro's more advanced belt, tougher armor, and large array of higher quality weapons. [[spoiler:An exaggerated version occurs whenever Jin and Chihiro fight due to Jin being Chihiro's father.]]
155	* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Jin wants to kill ''every'' Amazon, even the ones that have yet to attack humans and just want to live peacefully, and ''even'' [[spoiler:a baby who happens to be his newborn son]]. [[DeathSeeker Also himself]], [[HunterOfHisOwnKind but he pretty much needs to take care of all the others first]].
156	* TheVirus: [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}} in Season 2: there are a new type of Amazon Cells that infect humans and turn them into Amazon, but it isn't passed by air or touch. The cells have to be ingested in order to take root--and even then, only people with certain DNA will change.]]
157	* WhamEpisode:
158	** In episode 8 of season 2, we find out that the Amazon killed in the first episode was [[spoiler: Chihiro's mother Nanaha]].
159	** In episode 9 of season 2, [[spoiler:Chihiro transforms into his true form and rampages, killing a good number of 4C including Kano, and incapacitating Tachibana. Before expiring, Kano reveals that there is another source of the Isyogenic cells.]]
160	* WhamLine: Near the end of Season 2's Episode 7:
161	-->'''Jin''': I've been looking for you. You're Chihiro, aren't you?\
162	'''Chihiro''': [[spoiler: Dad!?]]
163	* WhamShot: Season 2, Episode 9. A rare look inside the nursing home where Fukuda's mother lives...[[spoiler:and the Aroma Ozone water cooler in it.]]
164	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: It might as well be the central theme of this series in both seasons:
165	** Season 1 involved Haruka, who had this trouble when he found out he is an Amazon by Jin, who actively hunts them down. When he realizes the true nature of the Amazons, he wants to protect humans and Amazons who had not awaken. The source of his conflict is when he sees unawakened Amazons who just want to live normal lives, but he puts his foot down when they are being targeted. As he is aware that those who have awakened, he intends to end their lives as so they don't harm any other humans. In the last episode of the first season, he and Mamoru, who at that point is horrified that he ate Misaki's arm, go to live with other Amazons in self-imposed isolation from humanity.
166	** Season 2 involved Chihiro, a boy who was once human that became an Amazon. He willingly disregards being called am Amazon and calls himself a human, despite his IAmAHumanitarian issues. When he meets Iyu, he discovers not only is she a fourth type Amazon, but most of her humanity is gone due to her resurrection. He goes as far as to protect her, even if she can't feel anything, emotional or physical, despite receiving minor memories.
167	** Iyu is a human resurrected as an Amazon Sigma. Before her death, she had a loving family and friends. However once incident changed everything when [[spoiler: her father]] was infected by [[spoiler: Chihiro's]] blood. It eventually lead to the deaths of her mother, sister, and herself, who was the last one to die. After her resurrection, she was made as a fighting machine to eliminate other Amazons, and Chihiro tried his hardest to help her remember being human. Despite these attempts, she can only recall memories of her past life. But as of episode 11, [[spoiler: she finally regained her sense of self after saving Chihiro from Jin]].
168	** In general, the Amazons ''aren't'' just your typical {{Tokusatsu}} MonsterOfTheWeek the heroes defeat on a weekly basis. They are ArtificialHumans that simply wanted to live a normal lives. The problem is that most them tried their damnedest to prevent their HorrorHunger from happening. But once they have a taste of human flesh, there's no going back to whatever "normalcy" they had. The remaining original Amazons in Mamoru and Haruka's group realizes they don't want to eat anyone, no matter what their nature is. One of the straighter examples is an Amazon named Shuuya who is in love with a human woman named Emily. After 4C mistake her for an Amazon, Shuuya murders those involved. When he sees her again, he {{Mercy Kill}}s her, and tries to fight off the Amazon Riders and Iyu, only to die by their blades.
169	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Season 2 episode 8 takes on the unenviable task of summarizing the TimeSkip between seasons.
170	* XtremeKoolLetterz: Thanks to the alphabetical IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming, the third-last episode is called "Xing The Rubicon" (as in "[[PointOfNoReturn crossing the Rubicon]]").
171	* YoungerThanTheyLook: The Amazons we see in Season 1 all have different biological ages, from 16 (Mamoru) to middle-aged (some of the Amazons of the week) but are chronologically only two years old. [[spoiler:Chihiro is born during the five-year TimeSkip between Season 1 and 2, but is already in his late teens due to accelerated aging.]]
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174	[[folder: The Last Judgement]]
175	''For tropes related to the film, see Film/KamenRiderAmazonsTheLastJudgement''.

Context Series / KamenRiderAmazons