Line #154 Series/KamenRiderRyuki


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4	->''"Those who do not fight will not survive!"''
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6	''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' is the 2002-2003 entry in the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise, and third in the Heisei Era.
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8	Shinji Kido is a young, highly excitable IntrepidReporter for the online news website ORE Journal. Whilst investigating a series of seemingly random disappearances, he stumbles across a [[TransformationTrinket mysterious card deck]] at the home of one of the victims. After picking it up, he finds that he is able to [[MirrorMonster see hostile monsters living inside of reflective surfaces]], and is soon sucked through into the Mirror World: a [[PhantomZone parallel universe]] that serves as their home.
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10	He soon meets up with two people involved with this strange otherworld: Yui Kanzaki, a young girl looking for her missing brother, and her partner Ren Akiyama, a [[BadassLongcoat longcoat-wearing]], [[BadassBiker Harley-riding]] [[TheStoic stoic badass]] who has a card deck of his own and can use it to transform into Kamen Rider Knight. Despite the warnings of Ren and Yui, Shinji decides to make a contract with one of the Mirror Monsters to gain its power and fight as Kamen Rider Ryuki to protect the innocent. However, he has unwittingly entered into something far greater: the Rider War.
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12	Thirteen Advent Card decks have been created for thirteen Kamen Riders, and ThereCanBeOnlyOne. The mastermind behind the Rider War is Shiro Kanzaki, Yui's missing brother, and he offers to grant a single wish to the last Rider standing. Shinji is determined to stop the in-fighting between the Riders and concentrate on eliminating the threat of the Mirror Monsters, but Ren is equally determined to have his wish granted, and he isn't the only one. Ideals and friendships clash on and off the battlefield as the pressure of the war grows and the Riders are eliminated one by one.
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14	Partnered with the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' show ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' after initially airing alongside the final episodes of ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' in what would later be known as the ''Series/SuperHeroTime'' block.
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16	In addition to the main series, ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' has a few spinoffs.
17	* ''Film/KamenRiderRyukiEpisodeFinal'' (2002), a movie set in an {{Alternate Timeline}}s to the main series.
18	* ''Kamen Rider Ryuki: Ryuki vs. Series/KamenRiderAgito'' (2002) is a DVD episode that was distributed by ''Magazine/TeleviKun'' magazine where ''Ryuki'' crosses over with the preceding season (though it's AllJustADream of Shinji's).
19	* ''Kamen Rider Ryuki Special: 13 Riders'' (2002), a TV special that, like ''Episode Final'', is also set in an AlternateTimeline.
20	* ''Kamen Rider Brave: ~Let's Survive! Revival of the Beast Rider Squad!~'' (2017), a ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' spinoff on the Toei Toku Fan Club streaming service that guest-stars Ouja.
21	* ''Rider Time: Ryuki'' (2018), a Fan Club-exclusive three-episode miniseries spinning out of Shinji's return cameo in ''Series/KamenRiderZiO''.
22	* ''Series/KamenRiderOutsiders'' (2022), a villain-focused spinoff also on the Toei Toku Fan Club which builds on the plotline of ''Let's Survive!'', including in involvement of Ouja and granting him a SuperMode.
23	* ''Series/KamenRiderGeats X Series/KamenRiderRevice: [[Film/KamenRiderGeatsXKamenRiderReviceMovieBattleRoyale Movie Battle Royale]]'' (2022), a crossover film that also features cameos from Ryuki, Knight, Ouja, and Ryuga; to celebrate ''Ryuki''[='s=] 20th anniversary and because ''Geats'' and ''Ryuki'' share DeadlyGame themes.
24	** Ouja also makes a guest appearance in ''Geats''[='=] own ''Magazine/TeleviKun'' DVD episode, ''Kamen Rider Geats: What the hell?! Desire Grand Prix Full of Men! I'm Ouja!'' (2023); which features a battle at the climax where some of Geats' Riders borrow the powers of Ryuki and Ouja.
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26	[[OnceOriginalNowCommon While perhaps not the most enduringly popular]] ''Kamen Rider'' series of the Heisei era, ''Ryuki'' was one of the most influential - its morally grey conflicts, [[EvilHero evil Kamen Riders]] and [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman equipment-based transformations]] would leave permanent marks on the franchise, and at the same time it would [[GenrePopularizer spark a boom]] in DeadlyGame and ThereCanOnlyBeOne storylines in broader Japanese media. Similarly the storyline of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', regarded as a GenreTurningPoint for MagicalGirl media, was modelled heavily on ''Ryuki'' at the writer's own admission (which years later would lead to him being recruited to write ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'').
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28	The series was adapted for Western audiences in 2009 as ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight''. As part of the franchise's 50th anniversary, Creator/ShoutFactory announced both ''Ryuki'' and ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'' would come to the United States through their [=TokuSHOUTsu=] channel and online website.
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30	Followed by ''Series/KamenRider555''.
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33	!!Recurring ''Kamen Rider'' tropes include:
34	* AnimalMotifs: The contracted Mirror Monsters, and by extension, the Riders they contract with.
35	** DragonsUpTheYinYang: Dragreder/Ryuki (and his EvilTwin Dragblacker/Ryuga)
36	** BatOutOfHell: Darkwing/Knight
37	** GiantEnemyCrab: Volcancer/Scissors
38	** OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Magnugiga/Zolda (it's a minotaur)
39	** RhinoRampage: Metalgelas/Gai
40	** SnakesAreEvil: Venosnaker/Ouja
41	*** MixAndMatchCritters: Genocider
42	** PantheraAwesome: Destwilder/Tiger
43	** HollywoodChameleon: Biogreeza/Verde
44	** ThePhoenix: Goldphoenix/Odin
45	* LicensedGame: For the [=PS1=].
46	* MultiformBalance:
47	** JokeCharacter: Blank Form, when a Rider does not posses a Contract Monster. The only Riders to have assumed this form are Ryuki and Ouja.
48	** JackOfAllStats: All of the Rider's default form, as well as the only only one to most of them. Ryuki himself, for his adaptive deck, is this among the Riders.
49	** SuperMode: Ryuki and Knight's Survive Forms. In the [[NoExportForYou SIC saga stories]], Ouja and Raia get them too.
50	* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: The quote atop the page (or in Japanese, ''tatakawanakereba, ikinokorenai!'').
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52	!!''Trope Vent!'':
53	* AbusiveParents: Yui and Shiro had parents who locked them up in the attic for extended periods of time and were neglectful to notice that [[spoiler:Yui got sick and died]]. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom They'd eventually become the reason why The Rider War began]].
54	* AccidentalMisnaming: In #4, Shinji (still barely knowing Ren, not knowing his name exactly) keeps yelling after Ren, mistakingly calling him "Ron".
55	* AllJustADream: The Hyper Battle Video.
56	* AlternateTimeline:
57	** The TV series, the ''13 Riders'' special and TheMovie all exist in their own timelines. [[spoiler:This is a result of Shiro Kanzaki's overuse of the ResetButton. The TV series is actually his ''final'' attempt to do it again]].
58	** There's also a few [=SIC=] Hero Saga stories that serve as this. The first, ''World of If'', which has Shinji become ''Ryuga'' and Yui takes Kagawa's place as Alternative, as well as having Ryuga and Ouja get survive forms; the second, ''Advent Calendar'', has Ouja gathering ''all'' the Contract Monsters and combining them into Genosurvivor, only to have him and Genosurvivor get killed by Zolda's Final Vent (which also takes Zolda and his Contract Monster out), with Shinji's deceased brother possessing Shinji, becoming Ryuga, who wins the war and wishes all the riders back to life.
59	* AntagonistInMourning: When Asakura discovers that [[spoiler:he has failed to kill his nemesis, Kitaoka, it prompts him to charge out in a suicidal rage and get killed by the police]].
60	* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:And it does. With the possible exception of Knight, ''every single Rider'' that participated, ''including'' the two Alternatives, '''died''' in Ryuki. And yes, '''''[[TheHeroDies that includes the main hero.]]''''']]
61	* AwesomeButImpractical:
62	** Zolda and Tiger's Final Vents. For the former, its potential StoryBreakerPower status is mitigated by a long build-up time that leaves him wide open to attack, and the fact that despite being able to wipe out large numbers in one go, he never manages to kill anyone with it. [[spoiler:The one character who takes it head on is badly injured, but survives... [[KilledOffForReal and is killed by another rider moments later.]]]] For the latter, it's demonstrated that the gap between when Destwilder attacks and Tiger finishes the enemy off is a wide enough period of time for an aware rider to escape and survive (as both Asakura and Kitaoka managed to do).
63	** Some of the Visors used by the Riders. While some are dual purpose weapons and card scanners or are easily accessed, Ouja and Odin have large staffs that look cool but they don't use at all in combat and must we pulled out of {{Hammerspace}} just to be used. By contrast, Ryuki just slides a card into a gauntlet on his arm and done.
64	** Ouja's use of multiple Monsters gives him both impressive power and a more varied arsenal than most other Riders... but it means he has three monsters to feed whereas everyone else only has to take care of one---on top of which, two of those monsters kinda hate him because [[spoiler:he stole them after having killed their original Riders]].
65	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Yui Kanzaki]], and this is the driving force behind the entire story.
66	* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: In a show where ThereCanOnlyBeOne and you have someone who ''doesn't'' wish to fight the other Riders as your main character, that's when the resident AntiHero comes in, though when it comes to ''killing'' them, then you have the psychopathic BloodKnight and a HeroicWannabe to fall upon.
67	* BigDamnHeroes: Shinji gets a few, including one in the first few episodes where he saves Ren from Volcancer after it turns on and consumes Scissors.
68	* {{BFG}}: Zolda ''loves'' these, as he has two: two shoulder-mounted rocket launchers and an artillery cannon that's [[http://i39.tinypic.com/2whjmhe.jpg three times as long as he is high]].
69	* {{BFS}}: Kamen Rider Knight's Wing Lancer is almost six feet long.
70	** Alternative's sword also qualifies.
71	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The real ending has Shiro Kanzaki pressing the ResetButton again, only this time, he and Yui die in that reality, however, that means no Mirror World and no Rider Wars and every participant has no recollecting memories of it, makes it a safe, peaceful reality.]]
72	* BlessedWithSuck: Becoming a Kamen Rider means you gain cool powers, but you're also bound to fighting the other Riders and monsters, and if you stop fighting, your Contract Monster eventually eats you.
73	** Also, Kagawa is not always happy with his PhotographicMemory.
74	%%* BlindIdiotTranslation:. A full list about halfway down [[http://www.animeniacs.com/index.php?act=reviews&subact=d_qrev&id=317 this page]].
75	* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The ending of TheMovie, and one of the possible endings of the Special]].
76	* BondCreatures: Each Rider must make a contract with a Mirror Monster of their own to become powerful enough to fight. After the deal is struck, the Rider's contract monster is a loyal servant and freely grants their power, but only remains that way so long as the Rider can uphold their end of the deal and provide them with the essence of other slain Mirror Monsters (or, as some particularly ruthless Riders found, live humans) to feed on. If the Rider for any reason fails to provide them with food regularly, or their Advent Deck is ever destroyed, the contract is broken and monster will turn on their former master and devour them instead. Kamen Rider Scissors learned that the hard way. A Rider can potentially steal another Rider's Contract Monster if they kill the current user and take their contract card, but this isn't advised: the monster retains its loyalty to its original master and will turn on thief as soon as they're summoned. A strong enough Rider can overwhelm their new monsters and beat them into obedience, but the same rules still applies and the Rider will have to protect all of their contract cards and provide enough food to sate all their monsters or the stolen ones and their original contract monster will turn on and devour them.
77	* BoringButPractical: Ryuki's Advent Deck. Unlike [[MesACrowd Knight]], [[PowerCopying Raia]], and [[spoiler:[[FlashStep Odin]]]], it has no special cards at first, making it seem a bit dull. However, it's got shields, a long range fire blaster, a sword, and can let him summon a dragon, meaning that he's got weaponry for any sitiuation.
78	* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler:The Odin Advent Deck turns the user into Kanzaki's puppet]].
79	* BreakableWeapons: Shinji's weapon in his "Blank" form (before he becomes Ryuki) is a pathetic thing that breaks after one hit.
80	* CaptainErsatz: Ren Akiyama/Kamen Rider Knight bears more than a few thematic resemblances to a certain other [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Dark Knight]]. Not that [[RuleOfCool we're complaining]].
81	** More than that, compare Kamen Rider Knight with... Knight, [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?pid=6213&cover=1 Batman's British counterpart]]. (It's got to be unintentional; as Knight has been stuck in ComicBookLimbo for fifty years and only got out recently.)
82	* TheCameo: Several members of ''Series/KamenRiderAgito'''s cast, including three of the Riders, appear in ''Episode Final''.
83	* CanonImmigrant: Kamen Rider Abyss, originally created for ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'', turned up in the ''Rider Time: Ryuki'' mini-series.
84	* CardBattleGame: Each Rider uses Advent Cards to activate his/her powers.
85	* CardboardPrison: Asakura breaks out of jail multiple times for one reason or another, the first by traveling the through the Mirror World, the second by hiding the Contract Card for Metalgelas under his shirt when Kitoaka had the police take the rest, and the third by taking advantage of the sympathy a GenreBlind lawyer had for him.
86	* CassandraTruth: #28 has Shinji reappearing in past episodes, and all his attempts to warn everybody of the future are promptly ignored.
87	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Tojo and Sano.
88	* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The wielders of the Rider Decks were chosen by Shiro Kanzaki, but they can be actually be used by anyone, as noted in the following examples:
89	** Shinji and Miyuki were not the original owners of their Rider Decks (which is actually an important plot point in Shinji's case). Shinji found the Ryuki deck after its original owner disappeared (presumably killed), whereas Miyuki inherited the Raia deck from his friend Yuichi after Yuichi was eaten by his Contract Monster. We see the [[LegacyCharacter original Ryuki]] in the ''13 Riders'' TV special.
90	** After [[spoiler:Kitaoka dies from a terminal illness in the finale, his servant Goro inherits the Zolda deck and challenges Asakura instead.]]
91	** The ''13 Riders'' special ends with [[spoiler:Ren dying and Shinji becoming the new Knight.]]
92	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Normally, the Riders will have a black colored spandex on their suits, with their armor color being the identifier between one and the another (For example: Ouja's armor color is purple). The three main Riders (Ryuki, Knight, and Zolda) inverts this: Their armor colors are pretty much the same (a combination between grey/silver), but it's the spandex colors that differentiates them (Ryuki is red, Knight is dark navy blue, Zolda is green).
93	* ContinuitySnarl: Both the movie and the ''13 Riders'' special for this series suffer from this. The issues involving [[Film/KamenRiderRyukiEpisodeFinal Episode FINAL]] are covered on that page. As for the ''13 Riders'' special, it's implied that it takes place around the time Shinji receives the Survive card, during one of Odin's Time Vents, although there's different characterizations for Tiger, Imperer, Femme, and Ryuga (since the former two had not appeared at that point, and the latter two did not appear anywhere else outside of ''Episode [=FINAL=]'' at the time), and Shinji is given the deck, which is already contracted to Dragreder, by Koichi Sakakibara, who was Shiro's pick for Ryuki, as opposed to what happens in the show (where Shinji finds the deck, uncontracted, in Koichi Sakakibara's apartment, and it's implied that Dragreder ate Koichi prior to the start of the series).
94	* CoolSword: Ryuki, Knight, Ouja, Odin, Femme, Ryuga and Alternative each have one of these.
95	* CosmicHorrorStory: Averted. It looks very much like one at a glance, but the Rider War happened because a human, Kanzaki, made it happen. [[spoiler:And for all the power he has, controlling the Mirror Monsters and the strongest Rider, his desires are just as much out of his reach as the rest of the casts.]]
96	* CoversAlwaysLie: In a combination of BaitAndSwitch and NeverTrustATrailer, the ending of #6 shows a shadowed figure wearing gloves taking out a Card Deck and transforming into Zolda, and the next-episode preview showing an unkempt bearded man wearing gloves doing a transformation pose. And at the start of the next episode, said man is shown walking away after Zolda fights a Monster... only for the next time that Zolda's Card Deck appears on-screen be when Kitoaka takes it out of his pocket.
97	* DarkerAndEdgier: Even within the franchise as a whole, ''Ryuki'' has most of the Riders as bad as their monsters they fight, ''revolving'' around humans trying to kill humans more than anything else; some have sympathetic reasons for seeking the wish the winner will receive but are still trying to kill people; some are as murderous as any villain. Of thirteen Riders, fifteen if the Alternatives count, there are two that you would consider pure "good guys" and they spend most of the series unable to actually steer the course of events as the BigBad holds all the cards. [[spoiler:In the end, everyone dies, and to reset it, one of the remaining main characters must also die. It's complicated, but not only is she gone, but in the new, reset world, no one will ever know that she was their friend, or what she did to save them. One of the final scenes is her aunt, all alone in the LocalHangout that they once ran together.]]
98	* DeadlyGame: Jun Shibaura/Kamen Rider Gai, who creates a video game based on the Rider War that soon spills over into real life.
99	* {{Deconstruction}}:
100	** Of the ensemble HenshinHero genre. See FiveManBand below for one example.
101	** The series also deconstructs competitive {{fighting game}}s and fighting game tournaments. CompetitiveBalance can get shot down real quick through dirty tactics and [[spoiler:said game is fixed, with the host of the tournament having full control of the resident GameBreaker.]]
102	** It also deconstructs the {{Mons}}. Let's say you form a contract with one of them. Great! Now you can use their body parts as weapons to fight people who also use their monster's body parts to fight. You also have to fight other monsters to give your monster something to eat, unless you come to the conclusion that you can simply feed people to your monster (as Scissors and Ouja prove). If you don't fight the monsters? Then your monster gets hungry and decides to eat ''you''. It also happens if you don't even want to fight or you're forced not to. Or even if your Advent Card (the one you use to sic your monster on other people) or Deck (the thing you use to transform) get broken. And it's not like there's a good chance your monster will even be loyal to you anyways. Especially if you have two other monsters working for you that you snagged off their dead masters, or you just happened to luck out and contract a monster that comes in herds. Wow.
103	** There's also a deconstruction of the LetsYouAndHimFight and ConflictBall tropes. Whereas in other Kamen Rider shows, they fight each other for different reasons or misunderstandings, here they have no choice ''but'' to fight each other. The entire point of the show is to stop the fighting. This might be an UnbuiltTrope though, since the two tropes didn't have a massive occurrence [[Series/KamenRider555 until]] [[Series/KamenRiderBlade right]] [[Series/KamenRiderKabuto after this show.]]
104	** PhlebotinumRebel, one of the central tropes of the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise, is also deconstructed, as attempting to use the Advent Decks against Shiro and his aims is doomed from the outset due to the fact that he reserved the most powerful Advent Deck for his own use by perfectly brainwashed drones. [[spoiler:Not to mention that he can just time travel if things get too hairy]].
105	*** ''Thirteen Riders'' took this trope to hell. Not everyone supports Shinji's attempts to stop the fighting and it resulted in all the remaining riders (about 9 of them) teaming up to kill him and Ren. [[spoiler:And in the alternate ending, where he ''did'' stop the fighting, Shiro simply resets time and has the fight happen all over again]].
106	** Since [[BadassNormal Kazuya Taki]] from [[Series/KamenRider the first series]], up until [[Series/KamenRiderAgito Makoto Hikawa]], most audiences would assume that cop is our hero's best friend. Then Masashi Sudo reminds us that [[DirtyCop bad cops]] exist.
107	** Then there's the deconstruction of the SecretIdentity and LivingADoubleLife, but only for [[ButtMonkey poor]] [[TheHero Shinji]]. His time as a Rider constantly interferes with his work when he has to go off save people instead of investigate cases or write articles, and because his coworkers have no idea his pay is docked and he's only saved from being fired due to his enthusiasm and his friendship with his boss. He moans that he'll never become a journalist, though fortunately before the only time his Rider powers actually DO help his job in #18 and #19.
108	* DeflectorShields: The ''Seal'' Advent Card, which protects the wielder from the attacks of a Mirror Monster in the real world.
109	* DivingSave: [[spoiler:Satoru Tojo]] meets his end in this way to save a father and son.
110	* DoppelgangerSpin: Knight's ''Trick Vent''. Jumps between this and DoppelgangerAttack; sometimes the clones physically existed and would attack, but other times they were just distractions that would vanish when hit.
111	* DramaticGunCock: Justified with Zolda's Magna Visor. He can fire it without cocking the gun, but he has to cock it to slot Advent Cards.
112	* DynamicEntry: Femme's first appearance in the movie is her crashing through the ceiling and cutting up some Mirror Monsters before landing on her feet.
113	* ElementalPowers: Some of the Riders have one.
114	** AnIcePerson: Tiger. Decidedly a lot less punny than the usual examples.
115	** BlowYouAway: Knight
116	** CastingAShadow: Ryuga
117	** PlayingWithFire: Ryuki
118	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: What happens if [[spoiler:the Rider War runs on for too long]].
119	* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:How the TV series ends.]]
120	* EurekaMoment: Megumi unknowingly gives Reiko one [[spoiler:that leads her to realizing the connection between the disappearances and mirrors, and ultimately to the truth about the Rider War.]] Comically enough, while doing so, Megumi actually missed the opportunity to learn the truth much sooner.
121	* EverythingFades: Riders' corpses evaporate after a short while.
122	** Or, in a slightly more horrifying example, a Rider who reverts to human form in the Mirror World is stuck. They have about five minutes to find some way to escape before their body painfully dissolves.
123	* EvilTwin: [[spoiler:Kamen Rider Ryuga and his Contract Monster, Dragblacker.]]
124	* ExtremeOmnivore: Asakura claims to have developed this trait to survive on the streets. Later on we see him take Kitaoka's seafood spaghetti and finish it, ''oyster shells and all''.
125	* EyepatchOfPower: Reiko gains one out of nowhere in #5; a possible case of WrittenInInfirmity, as she mentions in-show that she contracted pinkeye.
126	* {{Fanservice}}: Megumi. That is all.
127	* FlashStep: One of Odin's abilities, which is part what made him nearly unbeatable, his opponents couldn't touch him. Also, Femme gains this with her ''Guard Vent''.
128	* ForcedPrizeFight: All the Riders must take part in the Rider War for a wish. It doesn't matter if they want the wish or even know that there is a prize to begin with, once they make a contract with a Mirror Monster for any reason, they're locked in. If they refuse to fight, either the other Riders, random mirror monsters, or their own contracted monster will kill them.
129	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The Mirror Monsters not allied with any specific Kamen Rider. They mostly show up to battled in a MonsterOfTheWeek fashion, and like the Contract Monsters, they never speak and display so little personality that they appear to be around the level of hungry animals.
130	* GiantEnemyCrab: Scissors' Contract Monster, Volcancer.
131	* GratuitousEnglish: Okubo spouts this on occasion, but not as much as the Riders' Visors do.
132	* TheHeroDies: Shinji in #49. [[spoiler:Timeline reset notwithstanding, he remains the only protagonist Rider to ''not'' survive the story.]]
133	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Tezuka, Tojo, Shinji and Goro.]]
134	* HeroicBSOD: Both Shinji and Ren go through these at various points in the story. Asakura has a [[VillainousBSOD Villainous BSOD]] of sorts at the end.
135	* ICallItVera: Shimada names her iMac 'Amaryllis' and her laptop 'White Milky'.
136	** Megumi tries to rename the laptop "Gosaku". Shimada does not approve.
137	*** Neither did the laptop.
138	* ICouldaBeenAContender: The original holder of the Raia Advent Deck was Yuichi Saito, a pianist who had suffered a career-ending injury; his wish would have been to repair the damage to his hands, but he [[RefusalOfTheCall refused the call]].
139	* IdiotBall: In #25, Asakura, who by this point has already established a reputation for being extremely evil, tells Reiko that he might be able to [[HeelFaceTurn change]] if he was to reunite with his brother. Reiko, who is normally one of the smartest and most competent characters on the show, honors his request without question and tracks down his brother (much to said brother's chagrin). When they do reunite, Asakura doesn't change at all and instead feeds his brother to his Contract Monster.
140	* ISurrenderSuckers: Asakura does this frequently. Whenever he is caught by police, he always finds a way to get his deck back and/or get Venosnaker to help him out. Highlight to his escape from a heavily escorted police wagon.
141	* IdentityImpersonator: Two fake decks were made for Kamen Rider Tiger so no-one would know who was behind the mask. In a later example, [[spoiler:Goro takes Kitaoka's place as Zolda when the latter finally succumbs to his cancer]].
142	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Most notably [[WhipSword Raia]], [[ThisIsADrill Imperer]] and [[KillerYoYo Verde]].
143	* {{Irony}}: Despite the fact that Raia's Contract Monster, card visor and weapon all contain the word "Evil", [[DarkIsNotEvil he is actually one of the few genuinely good Riders]].
144	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler:Kitaoka has the bloody variant]].
145	* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:Shinji when trying to change the past after Odin used his Time Vent, nothing he does manages to have an effect. The closest he came was warning Kitaoka that Asakura would become a Rider and break out of jail. Kitaoka believed him, but decided against preventing Asakura from becoming a Rider because there had to 13 Riders in the battle for the winner to get the prize.]]
146	** No matter the timeline, Shiro Kanzaki can never [[spoiler:stop Yui's death or prevent Shinji from becoming a Rider.]]
147	* InvisibleToNormals: Normal people can't see or hear the Mirror World. This makes them easy prey for hungry Mirror Monsters or evil Kamen Riders.
148	* IronicEcho: In the very first episode, Yui walks right up to Shinji and asks: "Are you a Kamen Rider?" (He wasn't one yet, but he had found the deck) Flashforward 48 episodes later, and [[spoiler:after Yui has faded away, [[IntrepidReporter Reiko]], who has seen Shinji transform and enter a mirror, and learned who the Riders are, as well as nearly everything important about the rider war,]] asking him the exact same question.
149	* ItsAllMyFault: Shinji, in the movie, realizes that [[spoiler:[[ForWantOfANail because he couldn't keep his promise to meet Yui again when he was a child, the entire Rider War happened]]]].
150	* JigsawPuzzlePlot: The main series itself is pretty easy to decipher (ThereCanOnlyBeOne Kamen Rider, the BigBad wants to win the war for himself with OP powers [[spoiler:so he can save his sister]]) but the metaplot [[spoiler:(This isn't the first Rider War, as the BigBad keeps time travelling so he can find a way to save his sister, but Shinji becomes Ryuki and delays the killing)]] is a little harder to see. It's only implied in any way in the movies.
151	* KickTheDog:
152	** Kitaoka faking his own death (well, Zolda's death) at the hands of TechnicalPacifist Shinji (which sends him straight into a HeroicBSOD) was the moment that really established him as a total dick.
153	** Even Asakura feels the need to hammer this one home, about halfway into the series; he asks Reiko to help him meet with and reconcile with his brother Akira, his only surviving family after a fire claimed the lives of their parents. [[spoiler:Then announces that ''he'' was the one who started the fire in the first place, and proceeds to finish the job by feeding his brother to Venosnaker.]]
154	** Kagawa's personal policy, which he tries to teach Shinji: to be a hero, kick one dog if it means saving ten. [[TakeAThirdOption Shinji believes otherwise]].
155	** Non-human example: [[spoiler:Darkwing put Eri into a coma before the start of the series, and after she regained consciousness, it went after her again.]]
156	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Ren Akiyama]] undergoes a spot of this, which serves as helpful exposition into his backstory.
157	* LastChanceToQuit: After meeting Shinji, Ren offered him a deal to spare him from the War. Since he had yet to bond with Mirror Monster, he wasn't officially a part of the competition. Therefore, if Shinji would give Ren the Advent Deck he accidentally found and walk away now, he could go back to his normal life and pretend none of what he had seen ever happened. Unfortunately for Shinji, his innate morality was too strong to let him ignore than dangers the Mirror Monsters posed to normal people, so he made a contract with Dragreder to become a full Rider, locking himself in to the Rider War until its end.
158	* LovecraftLite: So you've got a Mirror World which kills people that stay there too long, Monsters that can appear pretty much anywhere and pull them into it, and a shady antagonist who has nigh-godlike powers to control these monsters [[spoiler:and even time.]]
159	* LoyalPhlebotinum: In #26, Kitoaka's injured and can't load his cards, and Shinji as expected agrees to be a pal and loads them into his own visor. Shinji expects to get to wield another Rider's weapons, but finds out for a Rider to activate a weapon they only have to be loaded into a visor, it doesn't matter whose, and Kitoaka gets his own weapons even though Shinji's using them in his gear.
160	* MeaningfulName: The Survive cards are handed out to riders so they can ''survive'' most of the fights. Shinji REALLY lives up to this, as he used the card for the first time, not to kill Mirror Monsters or Riders, but to survive [[TheseHandsHaveKilled so Ren won't go insane.]]
161	* MistakenForDying: In #30, Shuichi is convinced he should see his ex-girlfriend Megumi again because she's dying. Except her only problem is low blood pressure, she just thought she's dying because she exaggerates drama.
162	* MonsterOfTheWeek: The eponymous Mirror Monsters.
163	* MoralityKitchenSink: [[TheHero Shinji Kido/Ryuki]] and [[FortuneTeller Miyuki Tezuka/Raia]] are unambiguously good, if not flawed in their reluctance to fight against the other Riders. While [[TheRival Ren Akiyama/Knight]] and [[AmoralAttorney Shuichi Kitaoka/Zolda]] are both portrayed sympathetically and are more often than not Shinji's allies, they're still complicit in the Rider War's continuation, making them land mostly in the grey territory. Most of the other Riders such as [[AxCrazy Takeshi Asakura/Ouja]] and [[TheSociopath Satoru Tojo/Tiger]] fall into the evil category, and even [[BigBad Shiro Kanzaki]] can be argued to be within a very dark shade of grey.
164	* MoralityPet: Goro acts as the foil to Shuichi's JerkAss behavior, never attempting to hide it once. Yui is this to Ren.
165	* MultipleEndings: The ''13 Riders'' TV special that allowed viewers to phone in and choose one of two endings. [[spoiler:The BolivianArmyEnding where Shinji decides to fight won.]]
166	* MundaneMacGuffinPerson: Yui, who has been [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong and is]] actually the centerpiece of the Rider War, as the person who runs it is her KnightTemplarBigBrother is trying to rig in his favor [[spoiler:so that he may save her life]].
167	* MundaneMadeAwesome:
168	** Watch as Shimada sets up her laptop in the cafe like an assassin assembling a sniper rifle. "Click...on...Send!"
169	** Also, Megumi and Goro's "standoff" in #30.
170	* MythologyGag
171	** Most ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series feature a spider monster in the first episode; Ryuki raises the bar with a GiantSpider that [[OneWingedAngel comes back to life once]].
172	** Also, the second encounter is often a bat. Guess which Rider Shinji meets first.
173	** Goro sometimes does Rider 1's and Agito's henshin poses as part of his RedHerring routine.
174	** The Double Rider Kick appears a few times: once at the end of the Hyper Battle Video (Ryuki and Agito), and once when Shinji and Ren have to fend off a Mirror Monster ''unmorphed''.
175	** A minor one design wise: Ryuki's eyes, Knight's mouthpiece, and Zolda's antennae all evoke the original Rider.
176	** Though the ''whole'' routine isn't the same, Shinji and Ren's henshin poses incorporate those of Rider 1 and Rider 2, respectively.
177	** Ren's first memory on recovering from his LaserGuidedAmnesia (see above) is an image on a woman in a white dress on a beach, just like [[Series/KamenRiderAgito Shoichi]] (they were actually Ren's girlfriend and Shoichi's sister respectively).
178	** Shiro Kanzaki went by the name Shiro Takami when he studied overseas. Both names allude to Shiro Kazami, better known as ''Series/KamenRiderV3''.
179	** The effect of Freeze Vent on CGI monsters like Genocider looked an awful lot like Duke Org Loki's freezing-and-capturing of the Power Animals in Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger.
180	** One way to distinguish between the two Alternative Riders is the silver stripes on Alternative Zero, a reference to the primary difference between the first two Kamen Riders (Hayato Ichimonji's suit had the silver stripes).
181	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Ouja's fusion monster is called ''Genocide''r.
182	** Subverted with Evildiver, who belongs to one of the good guys [[spoiler:at first]].
183	** When you deal with a final attack called ''End of World'', you know that it's in your best interest to keep out of the area.
184	* NoBodyLeftBehind: Those who die in the Mirror World disintegrate into nothing.
185	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Shinji makes his debut fight after entering a contract with Drageder and saves Ren, [[UngratefulBastard and Ren replies by trying to kill him]], nearly succeeding until Yui threatens Ren into stopping.
186	* NotMeThisTime: Shinji and Ren hear about a ship where all the occupants disappeared and realized it was done by Mirror Monsters, and when they investigate they find Asakura and naturally assume it was his doing, and obviously don't believe him when he denies it, but he turns out to have been telling the truth and a trio of Buzzstingers not connected to him were the real culprits.
187	* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Used straight and averted; Kanzaki keeps the blueprints of the Advent Decks to himself but before he could do so, Kagawa read his work and used his PhotographicMemory to reproduce it.
188	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Kamen Rider Odin, three times.]]
189	** Also a case of ThirdTimesTheCharm.
190	* NoteToSelf: After [[spoiler:Odin's Time Vent has caused him to relive the entire Rider War up to that point, including the deaths,]] Shinji uses this tropes. Hundred of Postit notes in both his room and his office (to the frustration of Yui and Ookubo) all with the same words: '''Punch where there's Golden Feathers.''' It lets him score the first hit on Odin at that point...... [[SubvertedTrope And has no effect.]]
191	** The punch may not have caused damage, but it ''proved'' to Shinji that [[spoiler:he ''could'' fight against Odin and the time loops, even if the only real change he could make was landing a punch where he couldn't before]]. This is important as [[spoiler:only Shinji, not being chosen by Shiro Kanzaki, can fight against the loops. He will always become a Rider, no matter what Kanzaki does.]]
192	* OddballInTheSeries: How different Ryuki was ''when it was new'' is something that goes over the heads of many because many of its ideas remained in the franchise. Non-insectoid Riders? Only Agito ever changed that. Carrying around a TransformationTrinket in their ''pockets'' like it's ''Franchise/SuperSentai''? That was out of the blue. ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}-''like plot? That's the one part that wasn't touched again until [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Gaim]]. BlackAndGrayMorality was also new to the series. Even the ThemeSong being less 'root for the hero' and more 'J-pop song that ''sorta'' touches on the series' themes' was new. ''Today'' this series is a lot less idiosyncratic because the aforementioned elements stuck, to the point of being quite passé. But when Ryuki was new, it was ''very'' much ''Franchise/KamenRider'' InNameOnly, with nothing but the main duo having the Rider 1 and 2 poses to suggest that it was supposed to be a KR series.
193	** In fact, the reason TheMovie is an alternate ending without going into a full-on {{Elseworld}} (like the other KR movies of the decade) or an extra-long episode (like most {{Toku}} films) is because they didn't know they were going to get a full season at that point.
194	* OntologicalInertia: Shinji discovers this the hard way, and later [[spoiler:Shiro Kanzaki]] comes to realise it too.
195	* OutOfCharacter: Played for comedy in the ''Ryuki vs Kamen Rider Agito'' Hyper Battle Video special. Ryuki, Knight, Zolda and Ouja team up against an evil Agito. The latter 3 act like stereotypical heroes of justice, despite the fact they act very selfish in the real series. Lampshaded by Shinji when even Ouja, an AxCrazy murderer, proclaims he is a fighter of justice. In the end, the whole sequence is revealed to have been a dream, much to Shinji's dismay.
196	* PetTheDog: Even Asakura of all people gets a chance, when he saves a small girl from three bug-like Mirror Monsters. Admittedly it was just so he could destroy them ''himself'', but still. It's worth noting that the initial rumors only mentioned 'three monsters', making Asakura a prime suspect of sorts (because he had contracted Jun's and Tezuka's monsters as well after killing them), but Shinji and Ren gave him the benefit of the doubt.
197	** An offscreen version takes place earlier in the series, when Kitaoka helps out another little girl by paying for her mother's surgery. There's some kind of pattern here...
198	*** Sort of a pattern. See DivingSave above for an example with a little ''boy''.
199	* PhantomZone: Mirror World.
200	* PoliceAreUseless: AND HOW. Justified with the Mirror Monsters, they have almost no way of finding or fighting them, but even when Asakura is in a position where his Mirror Monsters can't help him, half the time they still fail to slow him down.
201	* PowerCopying: Ryuki Survive's ''Strange Vent'' card always transforms into a copy of the next card his opponent will use.
202	* PowerLevels: Each Advent Card has a listed Attack rating in multiples of 1000. These seem very unreliable since a clash between Knight and Scissors' [[FinishingMove Final Vents]] left Knight taking more damage... until Scissors' Deck broke to pieces moments after.
203	* RealMenWearPink: Raia.
204	* RecapEpisode: #28, sort of. [[spoiler:Time Vent's use effectively recaps the story to that point.]]
205	* RedOniBlueOni: Shinji and Ren.
206	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Tojo.]]
207	* ReflectiveTeleportation: The Mirror World is an alternate dimension which can only be accessed by Kamen Riders through reflective surfaces.
208	* ResetButton: [[spoiler:Through Odin's Time Vent, the BigBad tries to manipulate the War to his favor.]]
209	* ResetButtonEnding: [[spoiler:Happens at least five times, probably more]].
210	* RippleEffectProofMemory: Because [[spoiler:he was never chosen by Shiro Kanzaki]], Shinji is the only one who can resist the memory-erasing effects of Odin's ''Time Vent''.
211	* RunningGag: In #3, Shinji racks up a 50,000 yen debt to Ren after Yui smashes a store window to save his life, and Ren volunteers to pay for it. This debt is constantly increasing throughout the series: Ren's itemised bill includes charges such as "Keeping Me Awake Fee" and "General Annoyance Fee".
212	* SaveTheVillain: Shinji attempts this twice, once when [[spoiler:Odin used his Time Vent, and having some memory of how things occurred with Suuichi, tries to prevent his death, but fails.]] Later does this for Asakura of all people, because a girl his saved, abit for less then heroic reasons, seeing him would encourage her to get better, he makes sure that he can feed his Contract Monsters on a trio of Mirror Monsters he was hunting.
213	* SayMyName: "Yui."
214	** Miho/Femme's "ASAKURA!!!" in ''Episode Final''.
215	** A hilarious example by Shinji: "RON!!"
216	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler:Shiro Kanzaki]] attempts to do this multiple times to [[spoiler:get the ending that he wants]]. While he is successful in altering inconsequential details, [[spoiler:he never manages to save Yui or prevent Shinji from becoming a Rider]].
217	* ShoutOut:
218	** The transporting of Asakura in #36, to ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' -- only they didn't put a muzzle on him until #40. And just to hammer it home, [[spoiler:he stages another jailbreak by swapping places with his victim, strapping the victim into his Hannibal chair while he himself gets carted out on a stretcher.]]
219	** In one episode, ''[[Anime/CombattlerV Combattler V]]'' can very briefly be seen playing on a TV. In the same episode, ''Moero Robocon'' is also seen on the TV.
220	* SignificantNameShift: Inhabitants of Ore Journal office usually call Shinji Kido by his last name or as a dumbass/idiot/some variation. After he earned their respect with bravery in a hostage situation, they mostly switch to calling him by his first name.
221	* StepfordSmiler : Mitsuru Sano (Kamen Rider Imperer).
222	* StockSoundEffects: The sound for the belt forming is a magic sound effect used in ''UsefulNotes/RPGMaker''.
223	* SummonMagic: The ''Advent'' Advent Card summons that Rider's Contract Monster.
224	* SuperPersistentPredator: Mirror Monsters. Any time a human catches they attention, they will chase it relentlessly until either they kill and eat it, only pausing if they need to fight to defend themselves or, if it's a Contract Monster, threatened by a Sealing Card or their respective Rider entering a Contract. Over the series Shinji and Ren end up guarding people from Monsters that failed to eat them.
225	* SuperpowerLottery: You've got Zolda with his destructive Final Vent, you've got Ouja who gets three monsters, you've got Imperer who has a ''herd'' of monsters, you've got Odin who [[spoiler:was designed to ''win'' the Rider War]] and then you've got Ryuki, who needs to use up one card to summon a serviceable hand weapon. Lampshaded when Raia chooses to use Copy Vent to 'borrow' one of Ryuki's weapons rather than use his own.
226	* SwissArmyWeapon: Ryuki Survive's Drag Visor-Zwei and Knight Survive's Dark Visor-Zwei.
227	* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: The Rider War can only have one winner. No matter how the Riders may personally feel about each other or how much they try to avoid it, eventually, all of them will be forced to fight and kill each other to end the War. Ren attempts to impress this grim fact on Shinji every chance he gets.
228	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Zolda's Final Vent, aptly named "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin End of World]]"
229	** It's like the unholy manbaby of a threesome between a MoreDakka, a MacrossMissileMassacre and a BeamSpam, to be specific (insofar as tropes can be "specific").
230	* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Ren does this after he kills [[spoiler:Kamen Rider Odin]] in self-defense.
231	** Shinji, after he [[FakingTheDead thinks]] he's killed Zolda.
232	* ThisIsADrill: Knight's Final Vent.
233	* TimeTravel: ''Scads'' of it. It was only used twice in the series, [[spoiler:once in attempting to remove Shinji from the war and the second time to make sure it never happened in the first place]], but the entire metaplot is that [[spoiler:Shiro Kanzaki obsessively reset time again and again to find a way to save Yui. The TV series is his final attempt, with Yui finally convincing him to end it all.]]
234	* TransformingMecha: Dragreder and Darkwing evolve into Dragranzer and Darkraider, which transform into {{Cool Bike}}s.
235	* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Justified, since none of the real combat takes place in the normal world, and the Riders have to go into the Mirror World to fight. Since most of the Riders want their beasts to get stronger by absorbing the energy of enemy Monsters (Aside from [[MagnificentBastard Kitaoka]]) and the monsters only attack in the Mirror World, they have all the time they need to transform. [[SuperMode Survive form]] also justifies this, as anyone who activates it is protected by auras of Wind or Fire (depending on the card used) while they transform.
236	* TropeCodifier: Ryuki influenced later Rider shows A LOT. Collectible devices, talking TransformationTrinket (Though that was actually for their weapons) and rival Riders? Ryuki was the one that started the trends that would be present in every show afterward.
237	** It also popularised many of the tropes established with [[ThereCanOnlyBeOne Battle-Royale]] style anime in Japan, being the first to present combatants fighting alongside supernatural entities, and the idea of the battles being fought for the sake of a wish being granted.
238	* UnbuiltTrope: Ryuki is often credited as being a TropeCodifier to many of the battle-royale tropes used in much of Japanese media, but a closer look at it shows that it deconstructs those tropes just as often. Fighters never play fair, bypassing Fighting Game-style CompetitiveBalance with dirty tricks up their sleeves that have just as much to do with engaging in as they do avoiding direct confrontations in combat, and even a few of the fighters die outside of the fight anyways. However, much of that doesn't matter, since the man in charge of the whole thing has access to the most powerful being in the battle royale, wanting to win it himself and not intending for anyone else to get the wish being offered up. But it's not any easier on his side of the story either, since no matter what he tries, there will always be one person that doesn't submit to the rules, and he'll make the oh-so tiniest mistake that causes him to lose no matter what he has on his side. Essentially, Ryuki shows how the battle-royale is painful and pointless for anyone involved, and even the happiest ending possible in the series [[spoiler:makes it so that the fight never started in the first place.]]
239	* UpgradeArtifact: Played straight and subverted. When Shinji becomes Ryuki, he suddenly gains the knowledge of how to hold a sword properly, how all his new abilities work and how to perform one hell of a flying side kick. However, as far as his general combat technique goes, he's useless when he first becomes a Rider and only marginally improves when he upgrades to Ryuki. He slowly gets better as the series progresses; by the end his fighting skills are up there with the best of them.
240	** Played even straighter with the other Riders. Kitaoka is a [[spoiler:terminally ill]], golf-playing lawyer. Shibaura is a computer nerd. Kagawa is a mild-mannered middle-aged academic. Only Ren (bar room brawler), Sudo (hardened cop) and Asakura (psycho outlaw) have plausible fighting skills.
241	*** Then again, those Riders are never shown to have good hand-to-hand skills. Kitaoka sticks to ranged combat and is woeful at hand-to-hand. Shibaura and Kagawa's deficiencies are made up by the sheer power of their armour.
242	** [[SuperMode Survive Cards]] play this even straighter: Shinji and Ren become much more powerful, and barring Shinji justifiably being mystified by the [[MeaningfulName aptly named]] [[PowerCopying Strange Vent]], they immediately knew how to use all of their new weapons and powers.
243	* VillainousRescue: Ryuga makes his appearance in ''Episode Final'' by entering the fight between Femme and Ouja, then saving Miho from getting killed by Asakura and proceeds to curbstomp Asakura.
244	* WellIntentionedExtremist: While this may apply to some of the Riders, [[spoiler:Shiro Kanzaki]] is the biggest example in the series. [[spoiler:All he wants to do is save Yui's life, and it could even be argued that by recruiting people such as Shibaura, Asakura and Takamizawa, he'd be doing the world a favor by ridding the world of such deranged criminals through having them kill each other off]].
245	* WhatIf: Miyuki, a.k.a. Kamen Rider Raia, was the original owner of the [[SuperMode Survive Shippu]] card, but willingly gave it to Ren. Since then, Toei has released art and figures of what [[http://ga.sbcr.jp/mfigure/010361/images/01.jpg Raia Survive]] and [[http://ga.sbcr.jp/mfigure/010361/images/000s.jpg Exodiver, the Survive version of Evildiver]], would have looked like.
246	** Not just Raia: [[http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t124/UndetectedOne/OujaSurviveB.jpg?t=1257605261 Ouja Survive]] ([[http://media.photobucket.com/image/Ouja%20survive/keaw_2009/OujaSurvive.jpg and with Survive-Venosnaker]]), [[http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs39/f/2008/354/3/5/SIC_kamen_rider_tiger_Survive_by_Mastvid.jpg Tiger Survive]], and [[http://www.toyzhunt.com/files/users/605/Ryuuga_Survive.jpg Ryuuga Survive]]. Plus [[http://img185.imageshack.us/i/1158753507123.jpg/ concept art of what would have happened had Yuichi Saito contracted with Guldthunder]][[note]]This last one needs some context: Yuichi Saito was the original candidate for the later-to-be Raia deck, and Guldthunder would have been his monster. But he refused Kanzaki's offer, and so was eaten by Guldthunder[[/note]].
247	** Then there is [[http://ridersclub.multiply.com/photos/album/25/Kamen_Rider_SIC_Gallery#photo=57 Genosurviver]], which is Genocider [[AllYourPowersCombined with nearly every Contract Monster combined onto it]].
248	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Shiro Kanzaki. He and his sister are raised by abusive parents, and [[spoiler:he's forced to watch Yui die while being unable to save her]]. Even once the Rider War begins, [[spoiler:he has to watch her die over and over again due to repeatedly failing to save her]].
249	* TheWorfEffect: Played straight with most of the Riders' debuts, such as when Zolda breaks out his Final Vent for the first time against both Ryuki and Knight. Subverted when the maggot monsters' first battle after evolving into a more powerful form is with Ouja, and he tears through a whole mob of them ''to start with''.
250	* ZergRush: Imperer's Final Vent. Also the [[BugWar Sheerdragoons (later Raydragoons)]] towards the end.

Context Series / KamenRiderRyuki