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Narumi Detective Agency

Kamen Rider Double (Shotaro Hidari and Philip)

Now, count up your sins!

Shotaro Hidari was the protege of the late great Hardboiled Detective Sokichi Narumi. Philip is a mysterious boy possessing the True Gaia Memory and gifted with all the world's knowledge inside his head. Together, they share a body as Double.

Shotaro Hidari/Kamen Rider Double (Left)/Kamen Rider Joker

Portrayed by: Renn Kiriyama (live), Seiji Takaiwa (suit), Yoshimasa Hosoya (voice, Japanese), Victor Tabarez (voice, Spanish dub), Guilherme Marques (voice, Portuguese dub)

The Half-Boiled Detective

^{Shotaro in Fuuto PI}

Shotaro was the protege of the private detective Sokichi Narumi. Upon the events of Begins Night he takes up on his mentor's mantle, solving Dopant cases. His Gaia Memories, featured on the left side of Double, grant Double a weapon or a fighting style. In the second movie, he takes on the mantle of Kamen Rider Joker after Philip is kidnapped, using a Lost Driver and the Joker Memory to transform. He resumes the mantle of Kamen Rider Joker in the series finale upon Philip's disappearance.

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Tropes that apply to Shotaro in general

• Arc Words: "Hard-boiled", what with him being a private detective and all. It makes its way into his bike, the Machine HardBoilder.
• Aesop Amnesia: Slightly in Fuuto P.I., acting more like his old self prior to Character Development. In fact, he even temporarily discarded his arsenal as Kamen Rider Double in chapter 4 when arguing with Philip, which predictably led to avoidable trouble.
  • Similarly, his recklessness has caused Philip to ban Shotaro from using the Lost Driver, a stark contrast to what was shown in episode 48-49.
• Badass Normal: Aside from having the Double Driver and training in detective work, Shotaro is more or less a normal human being when not Double. Which is why he can be affected in all manner of negative ways by the attacks of some Dopants such as Old and Terror, which both Philip and Terui can shrug off due to their "unique physiologies", as Shroud puts it.
  • Carries over into his transformation as Kamen Rider Joker. Not only does he have no special powers or weapons outside of enhanced strength, supplementary materials show that its base are lower than Double CycloneJoker. Doesn't stop him from kicking all kinds of ass with it.
  • That said, it is explained that continued usage of W's Gaia Memories have slightly enhanced Shotaro's body, granting him more strength and stamina than an average person.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: When using the Joker Memory in the Lost Driver to become Kamen Rider Joker.
• Berserk Button:
  • Don't you dare make anyone cry in his presence. In particular, the sight of someone crying has lead him to do several reckless acts, even using a Twin Maximum Drive against the Weather Dopant.
  • The manga Fuuto P.I. shows him being sick of getting called "half-boiled" that any phrase with the prefix "half-" (like "half-hearted") gets on his nerves.
• Cannot Spit It Out: He can't bring himself to tell Akiko about her father's death, nor can he tell a little girl her father is in fact dead and not Double. The Movie has Akiko finding out anyway, but she still wants Shotaro to openly say it to her. In the Director's Cut of the film, there's a new scene where Shotaro promises to sit down with Akiko and tell her everything about her father after they resolve the issue with the Dummy Dopant.
• Can't Catch Up: Shotaro gets this after Philip's power boost from the Xtreme Memory. He does manage to get better, unlocking their Super Mode in the process.
• Cartwright Curse: A non-lethal variation, but every single time he shows interest in a woman, she's either the Monster of the Week or simply doesn't notice.
• Character Development: At the beginning of the series, Shotaro is much more shallow in attitude, as well as suffering unresolved guilt over Sokichi's death. By the end of "Movie War 2010" though, Shotaro has largely outgrown this, with Sokichi (A.R.) acknowledging him as a "true detective". In fact, after stopping Museum, he even managed to protect Futo City alone for an entire year as Kamen Rider Joker.
  • On a more humorous note, he seems to have made some peace with his "half-boiledness", at least in the end of the original series.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He's going to do nearly anything for a lady he fancies. Taken to its logical conclusion during the Invisible Dopant arc, wherein Lily Shirogane lands on Shotaro in an, er, compromising pose.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: A common recurring weakness of his, and a major reason others dub him "Half-boiled". Once he takes on someone as a client he will put his complete faith and trust in them in order to complete their request, regardless of their nature, which oftentimes has him being used as an accomplice for a crime or makes him look extremely naive in general. This often puts him at odds with the more skeptical Philip, who is able to look up their client's history and knows who they're better off avoiding.
  • This effect is only compounded by Shotaro's Chivalrous Pervert tendencies. If he is trying to help a woman, particularly if he is attracted to them personally (even when he knows their up to no good), he will often clash and argue with Phillip and try to resolve the matter on his own, which caused him to end up in dangerous situations with Marina (The T-Rex Dopant) and Tokime.
• Excellent Judge of Character: In Fuuto PI, Philip remarks that Shotaro's The Heart nature also makes him this, which pairs off well with Philip's logical analysis. Case in point, when one Dopant suspect had a shaky alibi, Shotaro trusted her, reasoning that someone willing to brave a snowstorm to help complete strangers wouldn't also become a Dopant to murder another acquaintance, atop the fact her fear and desperation were genuine.
  • Even when Shotaro is being used by someone, more often than not it's because he has a personal interest in trying to help them rather than having any illusions about their character, such as Marina, Suzuko, and Tokime.
• Experienced Protagonist: Shotaro is among the few Rider protagonists that have been operating as a superhero prior to the beginning of the story.
• Expy: Of Shunsaku Kudo from Detective Story, most obvious in their Fedora of Asskicking. The staff even reused the desk Kudo had in his office for Shotaro's, just to complete the Homage.
• Fanboy: Of hard-boiled Raymond Chandler detective novels, which he uses to cultivate his persona. Part of his Establishing Character Moment is him reading The Long Goodbye, and Akiko at one point complains about him wasting money on novels.
• Fedora of Asskicking: His Signature Headgear, worn to emulate his mentor.
• Finishing Move: As Kamen Rider Joker, Shotaro has two, arguably homages to Kamen Rider BLACK:
  • Joker 1: Rider Kick^note Joker jumps and kicks the Dopant.
  • Joker 2: Rider Punch^note Joker delivers a powerful punch.
• Hardboiled Detective: An interesting subversion. He tries to model himself after Sokichi, who was every bit the hard boiled detective of noir fame. In practice this tends to lead to him spouting lines that seem like they've come straight from a crime novel all while being a highly emotive person with levels of hamminess that could power a small city with the level of ham he brings out. It also makes him an extremely open and caring person. His being "half-boiled" is in reality due to his strengths as both a person and detective being combined with the lessons he's learned from Sokichi, bringing together the best elements of both of them.
• Has a Type: In Fuuto PI, Phillip tells Akiko that, unsurprisingly for a fan of the Hardboiled Detective genre and an aspiring one himself, Shotaro's preferences lie in femme fatales but at the same time knows such romances rarely, if ever, end well. This is what makes his initial reaction to Tokime joining the Narumi Detective Agency and her living in Shotaro's apartment seem agitated.
• The Heart: It's his good heart that makes Philip ultimately reaffirm their partnership, even after the events of the Beast arc. He also manages to transform Ryu Terui from a rage-powered man who hates Futo to a warrior on the side of love.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Phillip, at least by the end. They even call each other 'partner'.
• Homage: Kamen Rider Joker from The Movie is one to Kamen Rider BLACK, arguably.
• I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: Shotaro's reaction to the Jidaigeki Show Within a Show Kaze no Saheiji, Panic Revenger.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: One of his biggest weaknesses. Shotaro has a strong need to prove himself and gain the respect of others, which indirectly contributed to Sokichi's death. By the end of the series though, Shotaro has eased up on this, acknowledging his own shortcomings to Akira as a means to encourage him.
• Large Ham: Look at his facial expressions. Look at them.
• Master of None: As Kamen Rider Joker.
• Meaningful Name: His surname literally means "left", and he's the left side of Double.
• My Greatest Failure: Sokichi's death, which Shotaro thinks is his fault because he went against direct orders from the boss. Addressed quite directly when the dying Sokichi passing on his cool hat; Shotaro says he's not ready for it, to which Sokichi responds "Become a man worthy of wearing it." In the penultimate episode, Shotaro pulls the hat off the wall and wears it when he confronts Kazu, showing that he's finally gotten past his guilt.
• Nice Guy: Provided you don't piss him off, Shotaro's behaviour in cases shows him to be an incredibly compassionate guy.
• Private Detective: Almost the Hardboiled Detective variety.
• Private Eye Monologue: He has a penchant for these and usually ends up saying them out loud when he shouldn't. Every arc usually ends with one.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Phillip's blue
• Running Gag: His "Half-boiled" lifestyle, used to mock his self-proclaimed hard-boiled image.
• Small Name, Big Ego: A mild version; he's somewhat competent, just not as hardboiled as he tries to be.
• Spanner in the Works: Both to Shroud's plans, initially and later to Ryubee's. Ironically Shroud would end up relying on Shotaro being this to Ryubee, calling him a Wild Card. It's not all good, though; this trope does take a dark take when he screws up his mentor's plan through rescuing Phillip, which eventually cost Narumi his life.
• Supporting Protagonist: Shotaro is the lead protagonist of the series, being the one who actively investigates each case the agency takes on, but Phillip's Character Development and Mysterious Past is what forms the series core plotline. This continues to be the case in Fuuto P.I., where the primary focus is on Tokime and her connection with the other Fuuto and Yukiji Bando.
• The Unchosen One:
  • In Shroud's eyes. Being physically normal with no resistance to Gaia Memory effects, according to her Shotaro had never been the ideal partner for Philip, and had Ryu teamed up with Philip instead they could have unlocked Double's full potential as CycloneAccelXtreme. Nevertheless, being a Badass Normal allows Shotaro to prove more than his worth as Philip's chosen partner.
  • Subverted when he learns that T2 Gaia Memories choose their users; He quickly realises the hole blown through his office's roof was the T2 Joker Memory making its way to reach him, promptly finds it crash-landed next to his desk, and acknowledges the fact that his Wild Card tendencies had called the Memory to choose him.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Despite modelling his persona off cynical Hard Boiled Detective types, Shotaro is persistently fuelled by his idealistic belief in others. Interestingly, this is shown as neither an altogether positive nor negative trait, as it leads to him being manipulated or nearly killed by culprits on multiple occasions, but just as often is what proves pivotal to saving the day.
• You Were Trying Too Hard: It's pretty much been proven that whenever Shotaro stops trying so hard to emulate his mentor's "hard-boiled" attitude, he becomes far more awe-inspiring as a detective and hero.

Philip/Kamen Rider Double (Right)/(Raito Sonozaki/Kamen Rider Cyclone)

Portrayed by: Masaki Suda (live), Kōki Uchiyama (voice), Alan Bochm (voice, Spanish dub), Francisco Freitas (voice, Portuguese dub)

The Mysterious Researcher

^{Philip in Fuuto PI}

Philip is a mysterious boy, possessing the True Gaia Memory. He was rescued by Sokichi Narumi and Shotaro during the events of Begins Night. He aids Shotaro in solving Dopant cases by accessing the Gaia Library, allowing him to look up endless amounts of information. This ability also lends itself to his obsession with research. His Gaia Memories, on Double's right, grant him an elemental power, or in FangJoker's case, an upgrade. Is kidnapped in The Movie for NEVER's plans, yet Shotaro rescues him and the two defeat Kamen Rider Eternal. Later, Philip is revealed to have died twelve years prior to the series, being resurrected as an avatar of the Gaia Memory. Due to this and Ryubee initiating the Gaia Impact, which eventually failed, Philip slowly broke down into data, until a transformation into Double would make him disappear forever. However, Wakana eventually learns the truth, sacrificing her own body to provide a way for Philip to regenerate in the recreated Xtreme Memory.

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Tropes that appy to Philip in general

• Actually Pretty Funny: Phillip ends up being the only veteran character in KAMEN RIDER: memory of heroez to find Aruto to be kind of funny. He thinks the puns he tells are terrible, but in a so bad they're good kind of way.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Has green hair in Fuuto PI manga and anime.
• Amnesiac Hero: Philip completely lacks any memory of who he was before Narumi and Shotaro rescued him, with any books in the True Gaia Memory relating to his past having their pages torn out. Finding out who he really is and why he has the True Gaia Memory forms the core mystery of the series.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: See Disguised in Drag below.
• Big Eater: Philip will do this for the sake of his research.
• Catchphrase: "Fascinating!"^note "Zokuzoku suru ne!", as well as "Bingo!" as a minor one.
• Cute Bookworm: Shy? Not exactly. Vulnerable? Depends. Cute and brainy? Definitely. Also doubles as Badass Bookworm.
• Deadly Upgrade: FangJoker set Philip's mind on fire at first, despite it taking the protagonists two minutes after its television debut to get proper control over it.
• Disguised in Drag: Except for his voice, he makes for a very convincing Wakana. Well, his clothing is marketed towards women... It also helps that Philip and Wakana are siblings.
• Establishing Character Moment: Introduced when Akiko walks in on him going through information on the case, rudely dismissing her when she tries to talk to him, only for his attention to suddenly be drawn when she mentions takoyaki. Cut ahead a little, and we see Shotaro walking to find Philip obsessively going through every detail about takoyaki, having forgotten about the case he's supposed to be investigated entirely.
• Extreme Omnivore: Philip develops a taste for... vinegar, after Akiko used it a couple of times on him as an all-purpose elixir.
• Expy: After he was revealed to be Dead All Along who was revived through otherworldly means, he is also one to Yui Kanzaki. However, unlike her, he gets better after he's revived in the final episode.
• Go-Go Enslavement: In Forever A to Z, when Phillip got captured by NEVER, they dressed him up in one of their uniforms.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Shotaro, at least by the end. They even call each other "partner"^note "Aibou", a word also often used in Engine Sentai Go-onger.
• Heroic RRoD: His body starts to disintegrate after the initial plan for Gaia Impact is ruined.
• Immortality Begins at Twenty: Delusion Diary #11 hints that Philip will forever remain seventeen years old because he's composed of the Earth's data.
• Improbable Hairstyle: Very noticeble in episode 16. His hair looks messy after taking off his motorcycle helmet, but in the next shot it's as perfect as always.
• Instant Expert: Every now and then the data Phillip searches for will stick in his head for a while.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He's 17, while Shotaro and Akiko are in their 20s.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In contrast to Shotaro, Philip is abrasive and not entirely pleasant to be around, but he is a good guy at heart.
• Literal-Minded/No Social Skills: He often doesn't understand slangs, metaphors and social cues, often pondering hard and long over why people act the way they do, or in the case of slangs and metaphors, searches them up to varying levels of interest or disappointment over their apparent meanings.
• Meaningful Name: His real name is Raito Sonozaki, and he's the right side of Double. His name also references Philip Marlowe.
• Of Corpse He's Alive: Whenever his mind is in Double's body, Philip is unconscious, so his lifeless body is a sitting duck. In episode 7, nobody tried to interact with them, but Akiko had to make-believe they were napping sweethearts, so as not to draw attention on the bus.
• Phlebotinum Breakdown: After the failed Gaia Impact, Philip's body is returning to data, hastened by transformation.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "How thrilling!"
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Shotaro's red.
• Scarf of Asskicking: The Cyclone Memory comes with the iconic scarf, known as the Windy Stabilizer according to supplementary materials.
• Spell My Name With An S: His name is spelt as "Philippe" in the aura that surrounds his body when he enters the Gaia Library, but now Toei seems to have gone with Philip.
• Touched by Vorlons: His encounter with the Xtreme Memory gave him a huge power boost that Shotaro can't keep up with. Not to mention that he died as a child and the "green light" of the True Gaia Memory revived him, along with the ability to access the Gaia Library.

Tropes exclusive to them as Kamen Rider Double

Portrayed by: Seiji Takaiwa

Cyclone, Joker!

• All Your Colors Combined: As its name implies, the Prism Memory enables this.
• All Your Powers Combined: CycloneJokerXtreme's Prism Bicker combines the power of the Cyclone, Heat, Luna, and Joker or Metal Memories to deliver a very potent Maximum Drive.
• The Berserker: FangJoker was this during its first two uses, due to Philip's difficulty in controlling it.
• Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: The LunaTrigger form fires bullets that do not just home in on the target, but can also travel in curves as Double wants. It might as well be firing bullet-shaped explosive bees...
• Blow You Away: The Cyclone Memory.
• Body Horror: Most of Double's Joker-Based finishers involve his body splitting in two. Vertically.
• Broken Record: The result of Shotaro trying to use a Twin Maximum Drive the first time around.
  MAXIMUM DRIVE MAXIMUM DRIVE MAXIMUM DRIVE MAXIMUM DRIVE MAXIMUM DRI-
• Calling Your Attacks:
  • All of Double's Memory Breaks, as their two halves must be in sync to use one. Shotaro makes up the names himself, and Philip indulges him to allow his partner some fun. May be justified, as speaking in unison is a good first step to mental synch.
  • Averted with CycloneJokerXtreme's Memory Breaks. At first.
• Catchphrase: Shotaro and Philip share not one, not two, but three of them:
  • "We are two detectives in one."^note "Boku-tachi wa, futari de, hitori no tantei sa."
  • "We are two Kamen Riders in one."^note "Boku-tachi wa, futari de, hitori no Kamen Raida da."
  • "Now, count up your sins!"^note "Saa, omae no tsumi wo kazoero!"
• Character Tics: Double flicks their left wrist, a contrast as to how Takumi flicks his right arm.
• Cool Bike: Double's HardBoilder. And like its owner, it can switch out the back half, forming either the HardTurbular hoverbike or the HardSplasher watercraft.
• Elemental Powers: Philip's Gaia Memories allow access to Blow You Away, Playing with Fire and Lunacy.
• Explosive Overclocking: Episode 27/28's Twin Maximum Drive. The effects of one person alone trying it makes its usage take on shades of Heroic RRoD as well.
• Finishing Move: Several, all called Maximum Drives or Memory Breaks.
  • Joker Forms: With the exception of FangJoker, forms using the Joker Memory involve Double's body separating.
    • CycloneJoker: Joker Extreme^note Double splits in half, then the Joker and Cyclone halves kick the target consecutively.
    • HeatJoker: Joker Grenade^note Double splits in half and delivers a jumping, flaming punch with the Heat and Joker halves consecutively.
    • LunaJoker: Joker Strange^note Double splits in half, then the Luna half makes four copies of itself that unleash countless chops on the enemy before the Joker half delivers a powerful karate chop.
    • FangJoker: Fang Streiser/Streizer/Strider^note Upon activation, the Fang Blade appears on the right ankle. Double leaps into the air and does a Hurricane Kick.
  • Metal Forms: Most Metal Maximum Drives involve empowering the Metalshaft with an element.
    • CycloneMetal: Metal Twister^note Spins the Metalshaft, releasing powerful winds to strike at close-range. Changes to a pincer attack called Metal Stag Break when the Stag Phone is attached to the Metalshaft.
    • HeatMetal: Metal Branding^note The tips of the Metalshaft ignite, and Double smashes it into the enemy with an explosion.
    • LunaMetal: Metal Illusion^note Double spins the Metalshaft around to produce Rings of Death that hit the enemy, then they all converge for one last blow.
  • Trigger Forms: Most Trigger Maximum Drives involve empowering the Triggermagnum's shots with an element. After inserting the Memory, they close the front end to deliver the Maximum Drive.
    • CycloneTrigger (Cyclone Memory): Trigger Aerobuster^note Double fires a series of blasts of pressurized air from the Triggermagnum.
    • CycloneTrigger (Trigger Memory): Trigger Storm Bomb^note Double fires a single shot on the ground which then erupts into a green tornado, hitting enemies in the sky. Changes to a powerful condensed focused shot called Trigger Bat Shooting when the Bat Shot is attached as a scope to the Triggermagnum.
    • HeatTrigger: Trigger Explosion^note The Triggermagnum fires a laser beam like flame shot, frying the target. When both Memories are used for a Twin Maximum Drive, it changes to HeatTrigger Supernova (with the Double Driver repeatedly spouts "MAXIMUM DRIVE") which is more powerful but makes Double catch fire, seriously injuring Double's body.
    • LunaTrigger: Trigger Full Burst^note A massive barrage of homing shots from the Triggermagnum. Changes to a double pincer ray called Trigger Stag Burst when the Stag Phone Memory Gadget is attached to the gun.
  • CycloneJokerXtreme: This form has a total of five finishing moves.
    • Double Xtreme: A tornado, larger than the one used by CycloneJoker, lifts Double into the sky and speeds them towards the foe.
    • Prism Break: A slash from the Prism Sword.
    • Bicker Charge Break: A slash from the Prism Sword after being charged up by the Bicker Shield using a combo of four Memories such as Cyclone, Heat, Luna, and Joker.
    • Bicker Finallusion: A laser blast from the Prism Bicker with the Cyclone, Heat, Luna, and Joker Memories. A variation with the Metal Memory replacing the Joker Memory creates a laser shield that protects against powerful attacks.
    • Double Prism Xtreme: A Twin Maximum Drive with the Prism Memory in the Maximum Slot; a bicycle kick.
  • CycloneJokerGoldXtreme: Golden Xtreme^note An enhanced version of the Double Xtreme.
  • A couple of other Maximum Drives without names have been performed with the Memory Gadgets.
    • Stag Phone with Heat Memory: Engulfs the Stag Phone in fire.
    • Bat Shot with Luna Memory: Sets off a series of flash bulb bursts that disorient the target.
• Fusion Dance:
  • It's not really two people fusing into one, but more like the soul of one person goes into the other's body. So there's a limp body that needs protecting.
  • Played straight when Double's CycloneJokerXtreme form fuses both Shotaro's and Philip's bodies together.
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Before the beatdown.
• The Gunslinger: Double is this with the Triggermagnum when Shotaro as the body uses the Trigger Memory.
• Incendiary Exponent: The Heat Memory can ignite HeatJoker's right fist or the Metalshaft as HeatMetal for the Memory Break.
• Instant Expert: A variation. CycloneJokerXtreme gives them access to the Gaia Library while assuming the form allowing them to research the memory in question and its weaknesses on the spot. Most fights with this form end quickly as they know everything they need to know, it's just a matter of executing it.
• Lunacy: The Luna Memory; invoked Word of God gives its power as "Illusions", but it seems that stretching is the primary manifestation of this power. See the main entry for more information.
• Morph Weapon: The Metalshaft as LunaMetal can become a whip.
• Playing with Fire: The Heat Memory.
• Power Gives You Wings: CycloneJokerGoldXtreme from The Movie, which bears a resemblance to Blade's Jack Form.
• Razor Wind: CycloneMetal can execute these with the Metalshaft even without using a Memory Break.
• Rubber Man: LunaJoker can stretch his right limbs.
• Scarf of Asskicking: The Windy Stabilizer, when assuming a form that uses the Cyclone Memory.
• Special Ability Shield: Kamen Rider Double Extreme's Bicker Shield can store the Prism Sword (and together they are called the Prism Bicker) and 4 additional Gaia Memories, which have their powers combined for the Finishing Move.
• Spectacular Spinning:
  • Episode 8. It's not called Heaven's Tornado for nothing.
  • FangJoker's rider kick.
  • CycloneMetal's Finishing Move.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad:
  • The Heat Memory is probably the most used memory of all, not just within the three (four if you count Fang) Philip uses.
  • Shotaro prefers the Joker Memory the most.
• Telescoping Staff: Double is equipped with the Metalshaft when Shotaro as the body uses the Metal Memory. It starts off compressed attached to the back of the Metal Half Body, it then extends when wielded.
• Theme Music Power-Up: Every time Double transforms.
• Willfully Weak: Fuuto P.I. reveals that Double's finishers originally weren't Memory Breaks and actually killed the opponent, which led to Shotaro often choosing to let Dopants escape instead of killing them. Phillip was able to get around this by modifying the way a Maximum Drive worked so that finishers only destroyed the Memory, which necessitated both halves of Double to split apart and perform the move in sync.
• Wind Is Green: The Cyclone Memory is green, and besides the name gives some wind-related abilities when in use.

Akiko Narumi

Akiko Terui (née Narumi)

Portrayed by: Hikaru Yamamoto (live), Mikako Komatsu (voice), Krishna Tapia (voice, Spanish dub), Luciana Minei (voice, Portuguese dub)

Daughter of the Hard-Boiled Detective

^{Akiko in Fuuto PI}

Akiko is the Boss's daughter, coming in to replace her father. As Shotaro's landlady she proclaims herself as the Chief of the Narumi Detective Agency, specializing in Dopant cases.

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• Armed Legs: Played for laughs with her slipper.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Episode 32 has her genuinely worried about Shotaro as he goes through his Heroic BSoD, which even leads to her calling out Philip for thinking about abandoning him as a partner and disregarding his feelings, showing that despite her constant annoyance with Shotaro, she really does care about him.
• Babies Ever After: By the events of the Chaser special, she and Ryū have a daughter named Haruna.
• Berserk Button: Akiko will cop to the beautiful part, but she's no middle-schooler!
• Big Eater: Can wolf down enormous quantities of sweets
• Big "NO!": After giving word of her treat to two men whose appetite she knows nothing about.
• Catchphrase: "No one told me about this~!"^note Atashi kiitenai~!
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: She as actually quite the competent detective when the chips are down.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Slipper-slaps Clay Doll Dopant, just after the latter's upgrade process.
• Happily Married: Subverted for a while in Accel's V Cinema. She got better afterwards.
• Iconic Item: Her slipper.
• The Idiot from Osaka: Has shades of this, given her quite black and white view of the world, but she does keep Shotaro focused on the case.
• Like Father, Like Son: Even though she's mostly a goofy and earnest girl, some of her father sometimes shines through in her personality. Shotaro even sees her as her father momentarily in Episode 10, where she smashes a chair into the Sweets Dopant she'd previously been terrified to tears of because it made the mistake of trying to attack her client.
  Akiko: Don't lay a finger on my client!
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: One that Shotaro doesn't want in his life.
• The Napoleon: Don't call her a middle-schooler (but she'll gladly be called beautiful).
• Older Than They Look: Shotaro often calls her a middle school student, but Akiko is 20 years old.
  • By the time of Girls Remix, Akiko looks significantly more mature but still looks younger than one would expect of a 30 something married woman with a child.
• Official Couple: With Ryu.
• Shoe Slap: Akiko's slipper-slap acts as a Dope Slap (on Shotaro ^*not that he's an idiot... he just tends to sidetrack.), as a Get A Hold Of Yourself Man (on Philip in episode 4), then finally gets played straight (used on Wakana as Claydoll Dopant).
  • In Ep. 14, Shotaro gets payback by hitting her with her own slipper.
  • In a more meta example, she combines the slipper slap with Percussive Maintenance in the music video for the opening theme song. The results are bizarre, to say the least.
  • Durning her dream in the Nightmare arc, her slipper serves as CycloneJoker's primary weapon, and she beats the crap out of the Nightmare Dopant with it (or tries to, at least).
  • And she manages to outdo herself yet again in episode 40 by slapping Wakana in her Claydoll form who had just received the Gaia Progressor.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Her relationship with her father was like this when she was a child, with Akiko becoming upset that he was too busy to visit her, including on her birthday (though she wasn't aware at the time that he was a Kamen Rider.) This almost became a point of contention with her and Ryu during their wedding, afraid that him being a Kamen Rider would keep him away from spending time with her, and during their early married life in the Accel V-Cinema when it almost did, but thankfully, by the time they have a daughter during the events of Kamen Rider Drive, this is completely averted in their daughter's case.

Sokichi Narumi/Kamen Rider Skull

Sokichi Narumi/Kamen Rider Skull (Crystal)

Portrayed by: Koji Kikkawa

The Hard-Boiled Detective

Sokichi Narumi was Shotaro's boss, who taught the young man the trade of a Private Detective. During a mission to liberate a young man he dubbed Philip, he was shot to death. The events of Movie Wars 2010 reveal that he was Kamen Rider Skull, while Movie Wars CORE is a Whole Episode Flashback showing him as Skull Crystal ten years before the Double TV series.

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Tropes that apply to him in general

• The Ace: Sokichi is the embodiment of Shotaro's ideal image of the hard-boiled detective; stoic, strong, intelligent, and suave. Even Saeko Sonozaki, one of Museum's top lieutenants and user of the gold Taboo Memory was intimidated by him even before he transformed, with her in Dopant form no less.
• The Atoner: He counts up his own crimes.
  Sokichi: First, I wasn't able to reveal the darkness within a friend who's always close to me. Second, I hesistated for a while in combat. Third, because I did these things, the city cries.
• The Cast Show Off: Koji Kikkawa sings his own theme song.
• Cool Old Guy: Well, not THAT old, but you get the point.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Well, "if Daddy ever touches you again you'll explode" probably qualifies for a darn good reason.
• Death by Origin Story: He dies in the Cold Open of the first episode.
• Fedora of Asskicking: He wears one and passes it on to Shotaro when he dies. He also insists that wearing one of these is something one has to be worthy of.
• Good Is Not Nice: Sokichi unlike Shotaro was notably less hesitant to use lethal force especially against guys that had done horrific things with the memories. He kills his former partner because he'd commited mass murder and personally made it so Sokichi could never touch Akiko again, and he very deliberately does not save the Bat Dopant either when she's pinned to her truck which is bursting into flames because she started the problem in the first place. Despite her begging him for help he refuses and walks away as the truck explodes with her with it.
• Hardboiled Detective: So much so that he's inspired Shotaro to try to be one.
• Hard Truth Aesop: His core philosophy; nobody in the world is perfect, and it's okay for them to fail and make mistakes. Hearing this is what allows Shotaro to finally start moving on from his guilt concerning his mentor's death.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: He even gets to die in The Hero's arms.
• No Ontological Inertia: Possibly the only aversion in all of tokusatsu. For once, defeating the monster does not remove its curse so he can never see his daughter again.
• Not So Stoic: The Chief is revealed to have a half-boiled side in episode 32.
• Posthumous Character: He bites it at the very beginning of the first episode, and his character is fleshed out through flashbacks, mostly in the movies.
• invoked Too Cool to Live: The few times we see him in action, he's everything Shotaro wants to be: smooth, stylish, intelligent, a badass, and a pretty cool Kamen Rider to boot. So of course he died.
• Touch of Death: Thanks to the Spider Dopant, he can never touch Akiko or she will explode - thus explaining his long absence from his daughter's life.

Tropes exclusive to him as Kamen Rider Skull

Skull!

• Cool Bike: The SkullBoilder, which is an black version of the HardBoilder.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite his Skull Man homage, Sokichi is firmly a heroic figure.
• Finishing Move:
  • Skull Punisher^note A Rider Shooting attack using the Skull Magnum.
  • An unnamed Rider Kick executed with the Skull Memory in the Maximum Slot, which creates an energy skull that Sokichi kicks towards the Dopant^note Ganbaride simply calls this move "Hissatsu Kick", while other sources refer to it as 'Skull Banisher'..
    • Not to mention, the Skull summoned by Diend Complete Form in Chou Den-O Trilogy: Episode Yellow performs a Rider Kick that more closely resembles the Joker Extreme.
• Homage: His design and urban legend nickname are both homages to Shotaro Ishinomori's proto-Kamen Rider Skull Man.
• Super Prototype: Skull is the prototype for Double, best illustrated by its being a jack-of-all-trades combination of Shotaro's Memories (melee brawler like Joker, good defense like Metal, The Gunslinger like Trigger).

Futo Police Department

Ryu Terui/Kamen Rider Accel

Ryu Terui/Kamen Rider Accel

Portrayed by: Minehiro Kinomoto (live), Eitoku (suit), Makoto Furukawa (voice), Fábio Lucindo (voice, Portuguese dub)

Police Superintendent of Futo PD

^{Ryu in Fuuto PI}

Ryu Terui is a police superintendent assigned to the Futo Police Department's Paranormal Crime Investigation Division, and is thus Jinno and Makura's superior. His family was murdered by a man with a W memory, giving him a motivation to exact revenge. When he meets up with the enigmatic Shroud, she gives him his gear, allowing him to transform into Kamen Rider Accel.

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Tropes that apply to him in general

• Affectionate Nickname: Initially because she insisted she was the Chief of the Narumi Detective Agency, Ryu respectfully called Akiko as "Chief". He still calls her that even after they've gotten together and even married with a daughter.
• Babies Ever After: His last scene in the Drive Saga V-Cinema has him talking to Akiko on the phone, and the conversation reveals that they have a daughter, Haruna.
• Badass Biker: Let's see: his attire completely fitting of a biker (leather jacket and pants, riding gloves and boots), he rides around on a motorcycle that's not a Rider Machine (and a Ducati at that^note the first European bike to feature in a Rider series since the Gas Gas bikes in Kamen Rider Kuuga, as well as a break in the recent pattern of Riders owning custom-made bikes from Honda), he has a motorcycle Motif as a Rider, and he can become a bike while transformed into Accel.
• Berserk Button: He won't listen to reason once the Weather Dopant comes calling. Learning to rein himself in whenever Weather baits him is part of his Character Development.
• Big Brother Instinct: Flashbacks showed that Ryu's sister was very important to him, and even was the one who gave him the necklace he wears in the series. One episode arc has him helping out a victim because she resembled his sister to a T.
• Catchphrase: Four of them.
  "Don't question me."^note "''Ore ni shitsumon wo suru na."/"Don't ask me questions."
  "Now, let's break away!"^note "Saa, furikiru ze!"/"Now, I'll shake you off!"
  "Despair awaits you at the finish line."^note "Zetsubo ga omae no goaru da."/"Despair is your goal."
  "It's time for your despair!"
• Character Development: Starts out brash, standoffish and focused entirely on revenge. Over the course of the series he warms up to the cast and ultimately succeeds in letting go of his desire for vengeance, culminating in him defeating Isaka using the newly gained Accel Trial purely out of a desire to protect an innocent.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Both Ryu Terui and Daiki Kaito are the Secondary Riders of their respective shows. Daiki was a dimension-hopping Phantom Thief who steals items from each world he visits while Ryu is a police officer who secretly doubles his duty as a Kamen Rider. Furthermore, their Rider forms are also contrasts to each other; while Diend is colored blue (cyan) who is a long-ranged gun-wielder, Accel is a sword-wielding short-ranged fighter in hot red.
• Cool Bike: Ryu's rad red Ducati 999, Diablossa.
• Death by Origin Story: One that pays homage V3's. His entire family was murdered by a Dopant with a "W" Memory that froze them to death, though they lingered long enough to die right in front of him. The murderer turns out to be Isaka with the "Weather" Memory.
• Death Glare: Enough to unnerve Shinnosuke and Gou
• Death Seeker: Ryu becomes one when he finally tracks down Dr. Isaka. Shotaro calls him out on it, and he eventually gets over it.
• Does Not Like Guns: Despite being a cop Ryu does not particularly care for firearms and almost always opts for either martial arts, or just using his Accel powers (which can use energy sword slashes from a distance but has no real ranged weapon unlike Double) over his service pistol. He even defaults to wielding the Engine Blade untransformed if he really needs a weapon out of suit. He only pulls out his pistol if he has absolutely no other option.
• Establishing Character Moment: After an entire story focused on Shotaro and Kirihiko's love for Futo, it's quite a shock to the system when Terui's very first line is him stating that he hates the city.
• Happily Married: With Akiko during the events of Movie War Core.
• Homage: His character design mirrors that of Kaneda. Also, his Rider armor is red and has a monoeye, he holds a high rank despite being young, and is rivals with one who has a W crest... Char Aznable?
• Irony: While his Kamen Rider form emphasizes speed, he has the slowest henshin phrase as he says it in a Punctuated! For! Emphasis! manner.
• Love Redeems: He believes his love for Akiko helped him overcome his craze for vengeance.
• Meaningful Name: He wears bright red and has fire-themed powers, and his name means 'Dragon Shining-well'.
• No-Sell: Ryu has the odd ability to be resistant to many Dopant mental abilities which is why Shroud scouted him in the first place. He's completely unaffected by Old's ability to age people and he's able to fight Terror without being stricken with horrific fear though that didn't really help since Terror wrecked him anyway. Against Utopia it's only partially effective as he "merely" gets horribly injured instead of being rendered a lifeless husk though again that doesn't really help much as he was still down for the count afterwards.
• Official Couple: With Akiko.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: For the Weather Dopant.
• Only Sane Man: Once he gets over his dream of vengeance, Ryu is probably the most sensible main character compared to everybody else.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Hen... SHIN!"
• The Rival: Ryu initially presents himself as though he'll be one, aided by this being the default relationship of nearly all prior secondary Riders^note Kaixa, Leangle, TheBee, etc., who often would hate and antagonize the main Rider for most if not all of the show. Ryu looks like he'll be the same way, as someone whose moral stance and personality begin fundamentally opposed to Shotaro's, but he undergoes enough Character Development in his debut two-parter alone to completely avert the formation of a rivalry. The two instead become genuine friends, setting the new standard for nearly all secondary Riders going forward.
• Tranquil Fury: How he ends up ultimately defeating Isaka.
• The Worf Effect: Ryu suffers a few beatings to showcase the power of some of the stronger Dopants, most notably in the final act against both the Terror and Utopia Dopants.
• invoked Unexpected Character: He teams up with Shinnosuke and Gō in the Drive Saga V-Cinema.

Tropes exclusive to him as Kamen Rider Accel

Accel!

• Body Horror: While the transformations of Gaia Memory-using Riders are complete alterations of their bodies, it's usually not obvious compared to the blatantly inhuman Dopants. Accel's Bike Form, however, requires contorting his body in some rather unsettling ways.
• Cool Bike: He can become one himself when he assumes Bike Form. Granted, it's all CGI, but still Rule of Cool.
• Cool Sword: Engine Blade. Although it is quite heavy for him to wield when he isn't transforming.
• Finishing Move: Several:
  • Accel: Accel Glanzer^note Kamen Rider Accel uses a flying reverse roundhouse kick that uses the wheel half on his right leg to leave a skid-mark like trail.
  • Engine: Four variations:
    • Dynamic Ace: The EngineBlade blasts a giant letter A out of the blade into the enemy.
    • A-Slasher: Accel uses the EngineBlade to make three slashes in the shape of the letter A, be it a birds eye view or in front of him, to attack.
    • Engine Bike Dasher: Accel transforms into Bike Form and then drives straight through the target.
    • (Unnamed): Accel spins around while slashing multiple targets before stopping a moment to spin into the opposite direction (still slashing) and then stops again to finish them off with normal slashes.
  • Cyclone: Accel performs a wind-powered slash with the EngineBlade.
  • AccelGunner: Gunner Full Break^note Accel in the AccelGunner fires a blast from its tank-mounted BFG, the Gaia Cannon, to defeat a Dopant turned giant.
  • AccelTurbuler: AccelTurbuler Phoenix^note Accel, connected to the Turbuler attachment, bursts into flames and rams through the enemy in midair.
  • Trial: Machine Gun Spike^note Accel Trial delivers multiple kicks that burn a giant letter T onto the enemy.
  • Trial / Engine: Machine Gun Slasher^note Accel Trial delivers a series of rapid slashes with the EngineBlade to the enemy.
  • AccelBooster / Engine: Boost Slasher^note The Engine Blade turns into a glowing golden energy blade and Accel slashes through the enemy as he flies through.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Accel's Engine Blade has settings for steam, fire, and lightning, representing three types of engines (Steam, Jet, and Electric).
• Fragile Speedster: Accel Trial loses much of Accel's armor in return for moving at Super-Speed.
• It Was a Gift: All of his gear was given to him by Shroud.
• Juggle Fu: Part of Machine Gun Spike. He starts the Trial Memory's countdown, throws it ahead of him, runs up to his opponent and kicks them an insane amount of times, then catches the Trial Memory on its way down.
• Mighty Glacier: Downplayed. Despite having a heavier armor compared to his two future form, Trial and Booster, he wasn't hindered by the restricted mobility and can still move as if he is a Lightning Bruiser.
• Super Mode: By upgrading the Accel Memory with the Gaia Memory Enhancer Adapter, he gained Accel Booster in the process.
• Super-Speed: Courtesy of Accel Trial.
• Zorro Mark: Invoked with one Engine Blade Finishing Move, down to the three-cuts gimmick (marking an A instead of a Z).

Detective Mikio Jinno

Detective Mikio Jinno

Portrayed by: Takeshi Nadagi

Detective Jinno is a friend of Shotaro's, frequently letting him deal with Dopant cases. He is never seen without his trademark back scratcher.

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• A Day in the Limelight: The Jewel Dopant arc.
• Clear My Name: The subject of #41-42.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In Kamen Rider W Returns.
• Friend on the Force: He's Shotaro's main police contact and the first episode establishes that he regularly "misplaces" intel for the Half-Boiled detective.
• Good Is Dumb: He'll fall for anything (even Look Behind You), but Shotaro says that it's his strength; Jinno is so earnest that people want to believe he's right, and when he believes that rough characters are actually good deep down, they want to be good to prove him correct. A prime example of this is Shotaro himself, as shown in flashbacks in the Jewel Dopant arc.
• Gratuitous English: Most common user among the cast.
• Iconic Item: His back scratcher.
• Inspector Lestrade: He seems to be slightly aware that he's not a particularly good detective at least and mostly relies on Shotaro and Philip's handiwork.
• Spanner in the Works: Doesn't even need to be in the action to fill this role in the Jewel Dopant arc.
• Those Two Guys: With Makura.

Detective Shun Makura

Detective Shun Makura

Portrayed by: Shingo Nakagawa

Makura is Detective Jinno's rookie partner, who usually quarrels with Shotaro.

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• Butt-Monkey: If something bad can happen and he and Jinno are on the scene, it's usually going to happen to Makura (not that he doesn't deserve it much of the time).
• Cowboy Cop: Or at least he likes to think he is.
• Fair-Weather Friend: He's very quick to write off Jinno as a thief on shaky evidence during the Jewel Dopant arc, acting like such a massive Jerkass to the point where the Narumi Detective Agency's members call him out on it constantly.
• Incoming Ham: "Maakurrra des'!"; for whenever he follows Jinno (or Ryu) in introducing himself around the crime scenes.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: A lot of the scenes that he appears in have him getting abused or verbally slapped around, but Makura is such an ass most of the time that it's hard to feel bad for him. For example, he acts like a huge Jerkass during the Jewel Dopant arc, only to get his clock cleaned by the Monster of the Week later on. He even has an ice pop stolen right off him by Shotaro at another point.
• Large Ham: If he's on the screen, he's overacting.
• Love Makes You Dumb: He develops a crush on Aya, the transfer agent from the Triceratops Dopant arc. His selfish desire to impress her causes him to endanger the case by running off on leads half-cocked. It also causes him to fail to notice the signs that she's the Triceratops Dopant.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Shotaro, though definitely not a serious case. Part of this seems to stem from frustration over police detectives like him and Jinno having to rely on a private detective like Shotaro.
• Small Name, Big Ego: In spades.
• Those Two Guys: With Jinno.
• You, Get Me Coffee: He frequently gets sent on food runs by Jinno.

The Futo Irregulars

General

• Big Eater: Watcherman and Santa-chan go though several bowls of ramen (eight each, to be exact) in the time it takes for Akiko to make a phone call.
• Locked Out of the Loop: They do not know that Philip and Shotaro are Kamen Rider Double.
• Recurring Character: Shotaro's informants, nicknamed after the Baker Street Irregulars from the Sherlock Holmes series.
• Those Two Guys: Watcherman and Santa-chan count, with Queen and Elizabeth as Those Two Girls.

Watcherman

Watcherman

Portrayed by: Nasubi

An anonymous blogger with an afro.

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• Butt-Monkey: Watcherman finds himself the target of most of the show's comedic violence.
• Ephebophile: Played for laughs. He's not actually one, but he operates a blog that gathers pictures of cute girls who consented to be photographed and his Otaku mannerisms make him seem like one.
• Otaku: Watcherman, though it's not the first time the actor has played one.

Santa-chan

Santa-chan/Manager

Portrayed by: Zennosuke Fukkin

A man who dresses as Santa Claus and wanders around Futo handing out presents. He would later becomes a pet store manager.

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• Catchphrase: "Merry Christmas!"
• Some Day This Will Come In Handy: Santa-chan gives Shotaro a bunch of miscellaneous crap in #4, including a deck of cards. Shotaro later plays a winner-take-all game of Old Maid with the Money Dopant, and won in the end with those same cards. The cards reappear briefly in ep. 12.

Queen & Elizabeth

Queen & Elizabeth

Portrayed by: Tomomi Itano (Queen), Tomomi Kasai (Elizabeth)

A pair of "street" teenage girls seen together.

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• Informed Attribute: Queen and Elizabeth don't spend a lot of time in high school, do they? Given their Gyaru aesthetics it's very likely they're skipping school.
• Joshikousei: Queen and Elizabeth are one. By the time of Fuuto P.I. they have become college students and idol singers.
• Kawaiiko: Elizabeth.
• Ship Tease: Begins Night and the ending of "The B Carried on the Wind" implied that Elizabeth has a crush on Philip. "If Philip-kun's not going to eat his candy apple, then let ♥ me ♥ do ♥ it! ♥"

Shirogane Snack & Cafe

Frank Shirogane

An aged stage magician and Lily's grandfather. He eventually became a proprietor of a cafe.

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• Stage Magician: Was this but retired and became a coffee shop owner.

Lily Shirogane

Frank's granddaughter who tried to follow her grandfather's footsteps as a stage magician but fell into the temptation of Gaia Memories and had once became the Invisible Dopant. After being saved by the Kamen Riders she became a waitress working for her grandfather.

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• Invisibility: Her power as the Invisible Dopant, but due to the Memory being modified by Isaka, her invisibility isn't something she can control.
• Power Incontinence: Her Gaia Memory was modified by Isaka, leading to her powers going off abruptly and uncontrollably.
• Stage Magician: Tried to be one like her grandfather but after the ordeal with the Invisible Memory she now works as a waitress for her grandfather's shop.
• Token Heroic Orc: One of the few Dopants who are good.

Others

Miyabi Kusuhara

A Fuuto City councilwoman who wanted to continue her late husband's plans to erect a second Fuuto Tower but her life was targeted by Museum because the project threatened their hold on the city.

Asuka Kusuhara

The daughter of Miyabi and Daisaburo Kusuhara. She mistakenly believed that Kamen Rider Double was her missing father.

Akira Aoyama

A 6th grade elementary schooler client who hired Shotaro to find his sister. By the time of Fuuto P.I. he is a middle schooler and one of the Fuuto Irregulars.

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• Last Episode, New Character: He appears in the 49th episode.

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