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Megid Category symbols (left to right):
Phantom Beast, Animal, Story, Hybrid

A group of monsters who create the Alter Ride Books in the name of obtaining the Book of All.

General

• Ancient Evil: The Megid have been around for as long as the Sword of Logos has, since 2000 years ago when the Wonder World first became connected to ours.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: The three Megid don't have a designated leader between them and work together to create Alter Ride Books. At least until it turns out Storious was manipulating his supposed partners.
• Brains and Brawn: Storious is The Chessmaster while Zooous is The Brute. Legeiel falls somewhere in between, being a fairly competent schemer, but also just as fierce as Zooous if provoked.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: In comparison to MetsubouJinrai.net, who was a group of rogue androids, the Megid are natural-born creatures from books. While MetsubouJinrai.net seeks to destroy humanity to allow AI to prosper, the Megid seek to merely trap humanity in their books to open the path towards greater power. While the MetsubouJinrai.net members transformed into Kamen Riders, the Megid have monster forms. The Megid often insult and argue with each other, putting them at odds, while MetsubouJinrai.net are far more united in their goals and often work together flawlessly.
• Deadpan Snarker: At times, the Megid generals would deliver Stealth Insults towards one another for their Mamono's performance.
• Death Equals Redemption: After being defeated by the main Riders, all three Megid generals realize their crimes during their final moments and gracefully accept their defeat before passing on to the afterlife.
• Demoted to Dragon: Copies of the Megid Generals are summoned by Asmodeus in Final Stage and serve as his enforcers.
• Fallen Hero: Storious, Legeiel and Zooous were once followers of the woman who connected the worlds who sought to make the world a better place, before they turned themselves into Megid out of desire for power.
• Freudian Trio: Storious is Superego, a capable manipulator. Zooous is Id, an easily angered fighter. Legeiel has both a thinking brain and a short fuse, so he would usually be the middle step between the two of them. That is until he goes off the deep end and becomes raving mad example of Id.
• The Heavy: Collectively, they're the ones creating the Monsters of the Week Saber and the Riders have to face.
• Heel–Face Turn: The climax of Final Stage has Storious, Legeiel and Zooous team up with the Sword of Logos against Tassel Dark.
• Jerkasses: A given considering that they're villains, but the main members have no problems being vicious in battle nor do they have any qualms in endangering humans by turning them into Megids to birth more of their kin and make more Alter Books at the cost of their existence.
• The Man Behind the Monsters: While the Mamono are monstrous, the three "Black Bookshelves" who summon them look like normal humans. And are later revealed to be normal humans corrupted by the power of the Book of All.
• Meaningful Name: The overall group name takes reference from Tel Megiddo, an Israeli archaeological site also known as Armageddon in Greek where many ancient battles took place and where the battle of Armageddon will occur. Accordingly, the Megids are the forces of evil the Kamen Riders must fight, with intentions to obtain the Book of All to remake the world in their own image, especially by merging Wonder World with Earth.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: Following Calibur’s defeat, the other three begin turning humans into Mamono, starting with turning Mei’s boss Yuki into a Yeti Megid.
• Oddly Small Organization: They've been warring with the Sword of Logos for millennia, yet by present day they're mainly comprised of just three dudes and an errant Rider.
• Really 700 Years Old: They are pretty much immortal and at very least over 1000 years old at the start of the main story. It's later revealed they're at least 2000 years old, and were around when the Earth and Wonder World first became connected, presumably having had their lifespans extended due to their exposure to the Book of All.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Legeiel and Zooous are easily angered and tend to butt heads. Storious and Calibur are stoic and cooperate to some degree.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The first three Megid (Storious, Legeiel and Zooous) were sealed inside Alter Ride Books prior to the start of the series, but were set free by Calibur after his betrayal.
• Standard Evil Organization Squad: The "Black Bookshelves" and Kamen Rider Calibur, who summon the Mamono Megid and lead their attacks.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: How they approach their victims in the second arc. Also, they have the uncanny ability to just pop out of nowhere at the worst moments.
• To Create a Playground for Evil: Their end goal is to reassemble the Great Book and use it to transform the world into a twisted paradise for themselves.
• Was Once a Man: Storious, Legeiel and Zooous were all former humans before they took parts of the Book of All to obtain power. More than that, they were the former companions of Tassel, known then as Victor, and the man who would eventually become the first Master Logos, founder and leader of the Sword of Logos.

Black Bookshelves

Storious (Unmarked Spoilers)

Storious/Kamen Rider Storious

Portrayed by: Robin Furuya (live), Takuma Komori (suit)

"I shall determine how this story ends." ^{Original Japanese line}"Monogatari no ketsumatsu wa... watashi ga kimemasu!"

The Story Megid. While quiet and reserved compared to his fellow Megid, he holds far more secrets than any of the others know and seems to be pulling the strings.

Using the Grimoire Wonder Ride Book and the Dooms Driver Buckle, he transforms into Kamen Rider Storious.

Tropes that apply to him in general

The Megid of Stories and the Swordsman of Endings

Megid form

• And I Must Scream: Chapter 43 reveals he turned countless people into books, leaving them aware of their predicament but unable to do anything other than writhe in agony, at least until he feeds them all to the Charybdis.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: He notably lacks the Evil Is Hammy tendencies of his co-villains, instead opting for a cold professionalism. His strategic thinking and long term plans make him the most dangerous one out of the three...and then comes the show's final arc, where he drops his quiet demeanour and goes wild.
• Big Bad: While he shares it with many others at first, Storious becomes the only one left for this role towards the end. It eventually becomes apparent that everything, from the war in Wonder World to the very establishment of the Sword of Logos itself, stems from Storious leading his comrades to steal the Great Book and use it for selfish purposes, kickstarting the 2000 year long conflict and setting him up as the Final Boss.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: He and Isaac have a secret partnership, as both share the same goals of recreate the Almighty Book.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Legeiel and Zooous as well as the current Master Logos, Isaac. He later cuts all of his competitors out of the equation to become the Final Boss.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Storious' speech after claiming the Omniforce couldn't have been addressed to anyone but the viewer, essentially saying he's the one in control of the plot now.
  Storious: The story will continue to be spun by yours truly. Such that we meet a beautiful conclusion.
• The Chessmaster: Over the course of the show, Storious manipulates his fellow Megid, Isaac, Touma, and the Sword of Logos into recreating the Book of Omniscience, with all of his co-villains being set up for eventually fatal failure.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Satellite Ark was a modern-made, technologically advanced A.I. who was Madden Into Misanthropy by its creator into thinking that Humans Are Bastards, while Storious, a former human turned Megid, has been around for about two thousand years and Goes Mad From Revelation when reading the Great Book makes him think You Can't Fight Fate. Both are the overarching villain of their respective series that become Kamen Riders to signify their status as the main villain, but unlike the Ark, who was an Unwitting Pawn until it managed to Grow Beyond Its Programming, Storious is firmly The Man Behind the Man throughout the whole show until he finally steps up as the Final Boss of his story.
• The Corrupter: He manipulated Legeiel and Zooous into a Face–Heel Turn.
• Colliding Criminal Conspiracies: Storious' infiltration of the Southern Base and Isaac's forcing of the Forbidden Book onto Touma caused the two villains to make contact and forge an alliance, which lasts until Isaac's death.
• Cool Sword: He wields a two-pronged longsword with a buzzsaw guard called Bilgamed.
• Cynicism Catalyst: The revelation that all the poems he had written were already in the Great Book, and that humanity could never invent something that wasn't written in it first, is what led to him developing his nihilistic worldview.
• Dark Is Evil: He may hide it well in comparison to his comrades, but he dresses in all black and is the worst of the Megid, which is saying a lot.
• Devil in Plain Sight: It's obvious when he appears that there's more to Storious than he lets on, but for the most part the heroes are too occupied with the other villains to pick up on what Storious is planning.
• Devour the Dragon: Inverted. He has the Charybdis Megid devour him along with the five pieces of the Book of Omniscience in order to combine them into the Grimoire Alter Ride Book.
• Didn't See That Coming: He did not expect the Forbidden Book he stole from the archives to possess so much power he couldn't control it, much less for it to react to Touma.
• Downer Ending: His goal is to invoke the one written in the last pages of the Book of Omniscience, which says that he'll collide Earth and Wonder World into each other to annihilate them both.
• Druid: His Megid form is most likely based on the myth of druids. His human form has more scholarly appearance, like a priest^note A Taoist priest◊ to be precise. or a Scary Librarian.
• Enemy Mine: Has been cooperating with Isaac for a fair amount of time to complete the Book of Omniscience.
• Evil Costume Switch: Well, Eviler Costume Switch, but he takes up a much more gothic appearance, complete with eyeshadow, after he seizes the Omniforce book for himself.
• Evil Counterpart: He's eventually established to be one to Touma. Both are writers (Storious being a poet and Touma being a book author), both have had journeys that parallel each other (they both were a part of a group until they became split off from their friends, though Storious deliberately betrayed his comrades while Touma was framed for treason) and Storious's pre-transformation catchphrase is even a corruption of Touma's "I will decide this story's ending!"
• Evil Genius: Of the Megid. He prefers to observe the situation and pull on the strings from behind the scenes rather than taking things head on like the others. Individual battles don't interest him, only the whole picture influenced by his schemes and manipulations. He also seems to be the one who knows the most about the Wonder Books.
• Evil Is Hammy: While stoic and cool in the beginning, taking the Omniforce book seems to have transferred Isaac's hamminess onto Storious.
• Evil Laugh: Lets out a very uncharacteristically maniacal one at the end of Chapter 40, after Isaac gets defeated and he gains an opportunity to claim the Omniforce book for himself.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His soft and icy voice gets much deeper when he shows his true colors, to the point of sounding demonic.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: After finally establishing himself as the true Big Bad, he growls every word with an animalistic snarl.
• Evil Wears Black: The coat that makes up the main part of his outfit.
• Expy: He's not a one-to-one copy, but his obsession with endings brings to mind Kiyoto Maki.
• The Fatalist: Downplayed. He is undoubtedly shell-shocked and utterly bereft of hope that life has any meaning after learning of the worlds' predestinations, but his actions in the present day that he blames on this viewpoint are more easily attributed to narcissism, as it's clear he doesn't want things to get better unless he takes all the credit and benefit.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's the only outwardly polite and pleasant Megid general, which is in contrast with how he manipulates both his enemies and allies alike to achieve his goals and tends to use underhanded tactics such as hostage situations or Wounded Gazelle Gambit.
• Final Boss: He becomes the final Big Bad the heroes have to contend with after Isaac is defeated.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From poet to Book Satan.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Storious is the least proactive villain in Saber, spending most of his time quietly scheming, but the one with the widest influence on the setting of the series itself. Remember the War of Wonder World 2000 years ago? This guy started it. Everything from the war in Wonder World to the very establishment of the Sword of Logos itself stems from Storious leading his comrades to steal the Great Book and use it for selfish purposes, kickstarting the 2000 year long conflict.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Despite their occasional prying, Legeiel and Zooous die without ever getting to know what Storious is really after, as he waits until all of the other villains are dead to reveal his own plan.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Ultimately betrays Master Logos and takes the Big Bad mantle for himself.
• Ironic Echo: Copies Touma's Catchphrase word-for-word upon becoming Kamen Rider Storious, only with the pronoun "watashi" instead of "ore" to reflect his vanity. It also reflects his desire to destroy the world, rather than save it.
• It's All About Me: It's been noted that his true motivations aren't just fatalism as a result of learning the Tome of Omniscience has predetermined every single thing in the world, but can also be attributed to an inflated ego being struck down by such a revelation and his sheer desperation in making himself the center of something to the point of narcissism.
• It's Been Done: Played for Drama as this is his reasoning for wanting to destroy the world, since everything, including his own stories, were already written in the Book of Omniscience.
• Kill the Cutie: Killed Tassel/Victor to claim his section of the Book of Omniscience.
• Last Plan Standing: Storious more or less waited for the other contenders in the Big Bad Ensemble to off themselves before putting his own plan in motion.
• Last Words: After Touma, Kento and Rintaro slay him backed by the power of Touma's Wonder Almighty Wonder Ride Book.
  "Is that... a new story...? Even so... the world... will... end..."
• Load-Bearing Boss: Upon his death, his tower starts collapsing.
• Mad Artist: Having seen that he had never truly written anything that wasn't already in the Book of Omniscience, he aims to destroy all existence to at least put a bonafide personal mark on history albeit a terminal one.
• The Man Behind the Man: He at first appears on the same footing as his fellow Megid, but is later revealed to be manipulating his supposed partners in favor of a far more encompassing agenda that Legeiel and Zooous aren't in on. Also, despite them working as individuals, he is the brains of the operation and thus the de facto leader. After they partner up, he and Isaac each become convinced they're this to the other, but Storious is the one who pulls this trope in the end.
• Mask of Sanity: Similar to Kuroto Dan, Storious is capable of appearing perfectly calm and reasonable to hide that his true personality is that of a bombastic Large Ham. Unlike Kuroto, whose mask cracks within a few episodes, Storious makes it almost to the end of the show before he drops the facade.
• Meaningful Name: His name is a play on "Story" and that's where his Mamono come from unless he is tinkering with someone else's Alter Ride Books.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: Storious technically gets what he wants by destroying the world, but his motive for it (a belief that originality cannot exist due to the Almighty Book) is undercut when Touma creates a wholly new story and uses it to defeat Storious, rendering him an emotional wreck shortly before his demise, not to mention his actions are undone immediately after when Touma restores the world by writing a sequel to the Almighty Book.
• Me's a Crowd: Can summon illusions of himself to overwhelm/confuse whoever his opponent is in battle.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Downplayed. When he murders Tassel, the look on Storious' face isn't his usual expression of smug satisfaction, but one of barely held back horror. Not that it stops him from speaking ill of Tassel’s final moments when confronting Touma.
• Narcissist: While justifiably shaken by the realization that originality or creativity do not actually exist, he was only propelled towards a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum because of how it hurt his ego.
• Near-Villain Victory: Storious wins the moment he uses The End of the World and although killing him doesn't stop the resulting destruction, his actions are immediately reversed when the world is restored by the power of everyone's stories.
• No Animosity in the Afterlife: Storious's former friends all seem to have forgiven him by the time he joins them, even though Storious was the one responsible for their deaths (with the possible exception of the first Master Logos).
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Unlike Zooous, who lives for the momentary joy of battle and Legeiel, whose attempts to make and follow a strategy are marred by how much individual victories and defeats get to him, Storious' efforts are motivated solely by reaching a big picture long term goals. Whatever happens along the way is of little significance to him. He might occasionally drop some vaguely ominous one liners, but he is not prone to gloating, nor getting distracted by holding grudges or making personal enemies. As a result, he actually succeeds in destroying the world, even if Touma writes a new one afterward.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Comes as a part of his Soft-Spoken Sadist behavior. He tends to put his hand on someone when manipulating them, such as running fingers across Calibur's chest plate while asking him about his reason to reach Avalon or sliding his palm down Legeiel's cheek while weaselling out of his and Zooous' suspicion. He might also step or lean forward until his face is like an inch away from the face of whoever he is talking to.
• Omnicidal Maniac: His ultimate plan is to have the Wonder World encroach on Earth in order to bring about the destruction of both, simply so he can see to the "ending" of the story of mankind.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When the normally soft-spoken Storious lets out a hammy Evil Laugh, you know things are about to hit the fan.
• Orcus on His Throne: Halfway through the second arc, Storious stops going into field and stays within the shadows, letting others do his dirty work while he makes subtle advancements towards his ultimate goal. Even when he's directly faced by the Riders in Chapter 39, he doesn't fight himself and instead summons a Charybdis Megid to do the fighting for him.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Has the distinct honor of being the one to kill off Issac. Doubles as Kick Them While They Are Down as the latter was in the middle of a very harsh Villainous BSoD before being ruthlessly struck down by Storious.
• Perpetual Smiler: He often has a small smile at his face, but like As before him - it is anything but pleasant. If he drops that smile for whatever reason, you shouldn't stop running until you get to the next world over.
• Plant Person: His Megid form has some sort of a plant motif. It makes more sense since his form is based on druids.
• The Quiet One: He mostly stands around looking ominous, stays out of Legeiel and Zooous' petty arguments and doesn't speak unless necessary.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: A cunning individual with a Megid appearance of mainly red with some black and green, which carries on to his appearance as Kamen Rider Storious.
• Satanic Archetype: Storious was once a follower of a holy figure until he, and two of his comrades, rebelled out of selfishness, and is a manipulator who makes alliances with people only to inevitably betray them once they're of no more use. His Megid form even somewhat resembles a Big Red Devil, and his transformation into Kamen Rider Storious has him sprouting six black wings.
• Sissy Villain: Much like White Woz before him, Storious can be quite effeminate in his gestures, such as the excited twirl he does in Chapter 41's flashback.
• Smug Snake: He doesn't come across as arrogant due to his infinite patience and an affable persona, but is still disturbingly self-assured because his plans can't be foiled, just delayed and he has all time in existence.
• The Sociopath: Made much more apparent in the final arc, but nevertheless, Storious manipulates others into furthering his schemes, corrupted his friends into villainy, displays a courteous facade, and gets delighted with "endings", to the point of wanting to end humanity for such an "ending".
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: In contrast to his more uncouth co-villains, he speaks and acts in a soft and calm manner regardless of what terribleness he is currently committing. Among other things are his veiled insult to Touma after sabotaging his ability to transform or the careless abandon with which he let Zooous attempt to eat Mei. During the show's final arc, it's still displayed, albeit less often, such as declaring his intentions to Desast amidst combat in a "sweet" and sinister tone.
• Sole Survivor: By Chapter 32, he's become the sole surviving member of the Megid trio.
• Stronger Than They Look: Storious at one point casually blocks a swing from Zooous, while in human form, after giving Zooous a big power boost, suggesting that in addition to being the smartest of the trio he's also been hiding far more power than Zooous or Legeiel ever had.
• Token Evil Teammate: While Legeiel and Zooous seem to have at one point been good people, the sinister smirk Storious gives after entering the Wonder World implies that, even while he was a part of Tassel/Victor's party, Storious had self-serving goals.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Like Isaac, Storious is an incredibly dark villain despite appearing in one of the more light-hearted Kamen Rider seasons.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • In Chapter 46, the normally cool Storious gets furious when Touma chooses to not be swayed by him and keep fighting.
  • In Chapter 47, he's left broken and raging after being defeated by Touma, Rintaro and Kento.
• Walking Spoiler: Needless to say, Storious is much more than a simple member of the initial villain trio.

Tropes exclusive to him as Kamen Rider Storious

Open the Grimoire! The end of the story! Kamen Rider... STORIOUS!!! FUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

• All Your Powers Combined: As with Solomon, all the world's stories are literally ingrained into the scaling in his armor, with their destructive power being concentrated to the gloves and boots for maximum carnage.
• Evil Laugh: His Dooms Driver Buckle does this at the end of his transformation announcement, as if it didn't show him to be evil enough.
• Finishing Move:
  • The Story of Despair: Storious performs a Rider Slash that also summons a Sword Beam to annihilate the enemy.
  • Ultimate Despair
  • Open the Story of the End: Fully taps into the power of Grimoire, allowing Storious to do literally anything with this attack. He first uses it to control the Wise Gods, then to create his own base of operations in the midst of Japan. It can also simply dispense an energy orb that cannot be blocked and will flatten an entire city block upon detonation.
  • The End of the World: Starts or accelerates the degeneration of Earth and Wonder World. Can be temporarily resisted by Xross Saber's Sei Retsuzan.
• Gratuitous English: The Grimore Wonder Ride Book is the only Ride Book to not have its story announcement in Japanese, but instead has its announcement in English.
  "When the holy sword and the book intersect, rewrite the world."
• Lightning Bruiser: His official stats are on par with Kamen Rider Xross Saber, being slightly faster than him, and easily overpowers Xross Saber in his first fight. He only meets his match when Touma gets his hands on the Wonder Almighty Wonder Ride Book.
  • Mark of the Beast: Kamen Rider Storious's transformation summons six wings behind him.
• No Ontological Inertia: Averted: once Storious uses The End of the World, the world's destruction is guaranteed even after Storious is defeated.
• Paint It Black: His armor is mostly that of Solomon's, only painted black and red to represent it being even stronger than the latter.
• Superior Successor: A beefed-up replacement for Solomon that otherwise operates on the same rules as him.
• Void Between the Worlds: Retains the Obscure Cloak from Solomon, which is described as being a hole in spacetime that allows it to be used as a shield.

Legeiel

Legeiel

Portrayed by: Kyle Takano (live), Danki Sakae (suit)

The Phantom Beast Megid. Much more level-headed than Zoous, but he has a hidden wrathful side when pushed. Losing to Saber starts triggering a Villainous Breakdown, eventually leading to his own death.

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The Megid of Beasts

Megid form

Forbidden form

• Arch-Enemy: By Chapter 26, Touma has become his, as Touma's beaten and humiliated him so many times he's losing what sanity he had left after his transformation.
• Berserk Button:
  • Being defeated by Saber gradually becomes one to him, to the point where Legeiel declares vengeance on only Touma and slowly loses himself the more he is humiliated.
  • Being reminded of his past as a human brings up memories that reduce him to even more savage rage.
• BFS: Wields a large double-edged sword in his Megid form.
• Climax Boss: Touma's confrontation with him in Chapter 27 was the point when he unlocked Elemental Dragon.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The magics used to turn him into Forbidden.
• Doomed Upgrade: Storious uses the power of the Forbidden Book to give Legeiel a powerful new form. It's also permanent and does not come back from its battle with Kamen Rider Saber.
• Dragons Are Demonic: His Megid form is draconic in appearance.
• Dying as Yourself: Implied to be the case, as his human spirit is seen smiling at Touma as Legeiel is passing, implying that his humanity was restored in death.
• Evil Counterpart: To Touma, with his villainous dragon form contrasting Touma's heroic "Brave Dragon". It becomes more emphasized as Legeiel develops a rivalry with the writer Rider stemming from his previous defeat.
• Evil Is Hammy: He is mostly composed for the first ten Chapters or so, then picks up a liking to Evil Laughs and starts getting progressively hammier. The initially silly habits descend into actual madness after being defeated by Saber Primitive Dragon for the first time and things go only downhill from there.
• Evil Wears Black: His black jacket to go with the red jacket/shirt underneath. Red and Black and Evil All Over indeed.
• Go Out with a Smile: Upon being destroyed by Elemental Dragon, Legeiel's human spirit smiles at Saber before fading away.
• Hidden Depths: Chapter 18 shows that he can play the organ very well.
• It's Personal: By Chapter 27 he's just about had it with Touma, especially for his defeat at the hands of Primitive Dragon.
• Jack of All Stats: Personality-wise, of the main three Megids, Legeiel has a temper at times and is a battle enthusiast to a degree, yet comes off as more calmer than Zooous.
• Killed Off for Real: Legeiel's human spirit is shown passing on as his Megid body is destroyed, in case there's any doubt he's dead.
• The Kirk: In between the battle-hungry Zooous and Storious, Legeiel can also be a competent planner, but can be just as wrathful as Zooous when provoked.
• Last Words: When Touma (as Elemental Dragon Saber) mentions his past as a human, he screams otherwise in denial.
  "That's a lie... That's a lie! THAT'S A LIE-THATSALIETHATSALIETHATSALIETHATSALIE!!! I was never a human! I am a chosen one, a sublime being!"
• Mask of Sanity: Originally presented to be a reserved individual, his repeated defeats, especially from Saber Primitive Dragon, start making Legeiel an erratic shell of his usual self as he is consumed by desire for revenge.
• Meaningful Name: His name is a play on "Legends" and his Mamono are based on mythical creatures.
• Not So Stoic: Legeiel is normally calm and reserved, but his temper bleeds through at certain points - namely when his plans are foiled, when fighting enemies and suspicious about Storious's true motives in Chapter 9.
• One-Winged Angel: Legeiel Forbidden is this for him, making him exponentially more powerful than all the Riders save for Saber as Primitive Elemental Dragon.
• Power at a Price: Legeiel's Forbidden form is permanent and cannot be undone. Not that it's still around to be sure...
• Red Oni, Blue Oni:
  • Both he and Zooous are the Red to Storious' Blue and they tend to argue a lot. Legeiel even wears red underneath his black jacket to boot.
  • This even extends to him and Zooous, as he plays the Blue to Zooous's Red. Zooous is Hot-Blooded and easily angered while Legeiel can keep his head on his shoulders when angered (though it's clear as day that he's pissed).
• Sanity Slippage: Legeiel starts off relatively composed, but after getting beaten by Saber he becomes obsessed with revenge and little else.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • One defeat from Primitive Dragon left Legeiel tattered both outside and inside as he goes on a rampage in order to get back at Saber, becoming more berserk and impulsive in the process and even going as far as to consume Alter Ride Books to empower himself.
  • Has another one in Chapter 27 when Touma reminds him about his past as a human, repeatedly screaming in denial.
• Vocal Dissonance: In comparison to his quite young (and very attractive) looks, Legeiel has an impressively deep voice.

Zooous

Zooous

Portrayed by: Koji Saikawa (live), Shogo Teramoto (suit)

The Animal Megid. A rather rowdy and hot-tempered figure who loves to seek fights for the sake of fighting.

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The Megid of Animals

Megid form

Predator form

• Absurdly Sharp Claws: He has sharp claws on his fingers in his Megid form.
• Arch-Enemy: To Rintaro, having killed the previous Blades 15 years ago.
• Blood Knight: Sees fights as "hunts", which is all that ever matters to him.
• The Brute: He's the one usually called in to hassle the Riders when needed, and has the bloodthirsty personality to match his role. He loves to cause chaos just for the sake of causing chaos.
• The Bully: Zooous not only snarks with Storious and Legeiel, but also viciously beats down and gloats about his murder of Kenshin to Rintaro.
• Character Tic: He likes to do backflips, even when just standing still.
• Dual Wielding: He has a pair of khopesh-style swords.
• Dumb Muscle: His role between the scheming Storious and (mostly) strategic Legeiel, as he doesn't care about anything but snarking at them and bashing heads. That said, Chapter 30's events show that he's not quite as dumb as he seems.
• Dying as Yourself: Seems to have regained his previous personality moments before dying at Blades' hand.
• Evil Is Hammy: His rowdy, vicious personality more often than not gives him plenty of ham.
• Graceful Loser: When Wild Blades finishes him off in Chapter 32, his spirit acknowledges Blades' strength.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He gets pissed off at nearly everything, particularly at his fellow Megid generals despite having to work together with them.
• Hero Killer: Killed the previous Blades 15 years ago.
• Kick the Dog: Turned Mei into the Neko Megid solely to lure Rintaro in and cruelly demean him.
• Kick Them While They're Down:
  • In Chapter 30, Rintaro's lingering doubts and shame are taken full advantage of. Zooous takes the opportunity to mock him for being weak, the swordsman's inability to save Mei and rubbing his master's death in his face; all while beating Rintaro down and having a blast as he does so.
  • Chapter 31 has him cruelly taunt Mei as she's close to being consumed by the Alter Ride Book.
• Killed Off for Real: Like Legeiel before him, his human spirit frees itself from his Megid body and departs after acknowledging Blades as the victor in their final fight.
• Last Words: To Rintaro after the latter slays and freezes him in ice which shatters him to nothing afterwards.
  "You're pretty strong, ain'tcha. Let's do this again sometime."
• Literally Shattered Lives: Shatters into pieces after being frozen by Blades Tategami Hyoujuu Senki.
• Meaningful Name: His name is a play on "Zoo" and his Mamono are based on animals.
• Not Worth Killing: Says this word for word after he got bored of beating up Blades in Chapter 6. He even returns Nagare to the Rider after defeating him. Overall, killing Rintaro wouldn't be very satisfying to him unless it's after a grand fight.
• One-Winged Angel: His Zooous Predator form amps up his strength and fighting instincts exponentially, allowing him to overpower Buster and Blades with ease. He only meets his match at the hands of Blades in his Tategami Hyoujuu Senki form.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: His Zooous Predator form is notably black and red to contrast with his white and blue standard form.
• Slasher Smile: Tends to sport a toothy, predatory grin most of the time. It fits his nature as a battle obsessed Wolf Man that represents animals.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Averted. As he is able to point out to Rintaro in Chapter 30, the Riders have been so distracted by their interpersonal conflicts and conspiracies that he has been able to get stronger and further his own schemes right under their noses.
• Villain Respect:
  • Called the previous Swordsman of Water an upstanding guy with a backbone. It doesn't stop him from rubbing the man's death in Rintaro's face at every opportunity.
  • He acknowledges that Rintaro really has gotten stronger moments before his own death in Chapter 32.
• Villainous Breakdown: His (and the Neko Megid's) defeat at the hands of Saber and Blades in Chapter 31 causes him to absolutely lose it and enter his stronger Predator form.
• Volumetric Mouth: His mouth can transform into a huge, gaping maw to devour anything in his Megid form.
• Wolf Man: His Megid form is that of a wolf monster.

Allies

Kamen Rider Calibur (Unmarked Spoilers)

Daichi Kamijo/Kamen Rider Calibur (II)

Portrayed by: Hiroyuki Hirayama (live), Kenji Tominaga (suit)

"The time has come. It is the beginning of a new world."

A mysterious impostor who stole Hayato's powers and framed him as a traitor while working for the Megid. He wields the evil Sword of Darkness Kurayami and its token Wonder Ride Book Jaaku Dragon. The "impostor" in question is revealed to be Daichi Kamijo, the first Kamen Rider Saber, who became power-hungry and betrayed the Sword of Logos.

Tropes that apply to him in general

The Second Swordsman of Darkness

• Ambiguously Evil: His intentions come off as this. While he has no qualms fighting and even going so far as to kill members of the guild, he claims to only seek the "eternal truth", albeit in a way that devastates the world.
  • Chapter 15 reveals that his motive for seeking power is to expose and defeat the enemy hidden within the Sword of Logos that had been responsible for Hayato's change in behaviour.
• Anti-Villain: Sought to expose the conspiracy gripping the Swords of Logos (particulary his friend Hayato) as well as locate and pacify the Greater-Scope Villain behind it, if any existed. His incommunicable methods hurt the people he was trying to protect so deeply he became one of the very boogeymen he was trying to protect them from.
• Arc Villain: Of the first arc. He's being supported by the Megid, but he's the one driving the scheme to obtain the Table of Revelation.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He wears an all-black suit and is a master at the sword.
• Broken Pedestal: It works two ways actually.
  • By virtue of taking Hayato's mantle as Calibur and working with the Megids, any respect that Touma and the Sword of Logos had to Daichi went down the drain after his identity was revealed.
  • The entire Sword of Logos is this to him. Believing whoever corrupted Hayato must have been a mole in the organization, he couldn't bring himself to trust anyone in the organization anymore. Thus, he betrays the organization and works with the Megid in the hopes of finding The Mole from the outside.
• Create Your Own Hero: Him leaving the Brave Dragon book for Touma created his main opposition 15 years later.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: His first appearance outside of the Megid's lair has him wiping the floor from Rintaro and Touma quite easily. Though to give both a little credit, they were tired after their battle with the Hanzaki Megid.
• Dead Hat Shot: After being blown up by Touma, the Ankokuken Kurayami falls out of the flame, seemingly being the one thing to survive the blast. Though as it turns out he revived through Kurayami moments later.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He's set up as the Big Bad early on, but gets defeated and killed at the end of the first arc.
• The Dog Bites Back: He was killed by a stab In the Back from Desast, who sought to retrieve his Alter Ride Book from him in order to be completely free of his control.
• Dramatic Unmask: Chapter 10 has Calibur being forced out of his transformation thanks to Storious, revealing him to be Daichi the entire time.
• Everyone Has Standards: He genuinely regretted having to face Hayato’s son and sealed him in the darkness until the current battle was over, with the intention of having Touma free him later.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Very downplayed in his case. His hair 15 years ago had streaks of gray in it, indicating his age and experience. Jump forward to the present, and his hair is all-black.
• Face–Heel Turn: Sometime in-between his saving of Touma and the series' beginning, Daichi betrayed the Sword of Logos out of his desire for power and to out the traitor that was lurking within his former organization.
• Fallen Hero: This is what the Swords of Logos believe him to be due to not knowing that Hayato's powers were stolen from him. Ironically, he does still qualify as this given his true identity as the First Kamen Rider Saber.
• Foreshadowing: It has been hinted in several occasions that the current Kamen Rider Calibur wasn't Hayato Fukamiya, but actually Daichi Kamijo the entire time:
  • He uses a vocal modulator to disguise his voice in a similar manner used by Kuroto Dan/Kamen Rider Genm and Gentoku Himuro as Night Rogue.
  • Although Hayato name was dropped in Chapter 5, Daichi continues to disguise his voice and never acknowledged nor explicitly referred himself to be Hayato even after the revelation.
  • In most of Kento's interactions with Daichi, the latter would end up ignoring and violently pushing away Hayato's son, instead being fixated on Touma Kamiyama.
  • Daichi (And by extention, Desast) was in possession of the Storm Eagle and Saiyuu Journey Wonder Ride Books, the same two books needed for Saber to access his Set Bonus Crimson Dragon form. The only way this would be possible is if Daichi were the previous Saber.
• Gone Horribly Right: He sealed Kento in the darkness to keep him out of the battle. By the time Kento escaped, he had gone off the deep end.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: He was killed by Desast just as he was convinced by Touma's way of thinking.
• Hero Killer: He nearly kills Rintaro in Chapter 11 as a result of him Taking the Bullet for a strike that would have killed Kento. In Chapter 12, Kento fights Daichi again, and this time Daichi finishes the job.
• Hero's Evil Predecessor: Daichi was the original Kamen Rider Saber and the Swordsman of Fire, the one who wielded Rekka before Touma.
• Kill the God: He desires the Table of Revelations to confirm or disprove a suspicion he has that some domineering outside force is controlling everyone's destinies, and if that force actually exists, liberate the world from it.
• Knight of Cerebus: As soon as he makes his first move out on the playing field, he wipes the floor with Rintaro and Touma and has to be held off by Kento so that they can escape.
• Mistaken Identity: Due to the heroes initially not knowing that the current Calibur is a different person, they all believe he is Hayato, the original user. It turns out that Daichi, the first Saber, was the second Calibur all along.
• Poor Communication Kills: Called out by Touma on his insistence/inability to communicate with his comrades of old about his intentions, which may have exposed the true enemy he was attempting to root out much sooner. By the time he realizes this, Desast murders him.
• Properly Paranoid: He faked his death in order to secretly leave the Sword of Logos due to believing that there was a traitor responsible for Hayato's betrayal, and couldn't trust anyone there to help deal with the issue. Given the actions of its members and certain revelations about the group after his death and the fact that the traitor is revealed to be the current Master Logos himself, Daichi made the right call.
• Take Up My Sword: In his final moments, he tells Touma to take Kurayami. Unfortunately, the Sword of Darkness and Calibur's associated Ride Books vanish before they can be retrieved.
• The Unfettered: Is willing to do anything to uncover the secrets of the Sword of Logos, including siding with the Megid.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: What makes Daichi more dangerous than the other villains is that he actively averts this. Even though Jaaku Dragon is plenty powerful enough to fight two Wonder Combo Riders at once and only struggles when faced with three, he immediately seeks out a more powerful book as soon as the Riders start assembling even one Combo to ensure he'll remain far above anyone else's level.
• Villain Has a Point: Daichi betrayed the Sword of Logos due to believing the organization has become corrupt and completely lost its way from its original goals and purpose. The next arc reveals him to be completely right on that front, given the fact that the current Master Logos has completely disregared his position's purpose and has completely subverted the organization's goals for his own sinister ends.

Tropes exclusive to him as Kamen Rider Calibur

Ankokuken Kurayami! Get go under conquer than get keen! Jaaku Dragon~! Kurayami Honyaku! Hikari wo ubaishi, shikkoku no ken ga reikoku mujou ni ankokuryu wo shihai suru!^note Sword of Darkness Kurayami! "Moonlight Darkness Slash!" Jaaku Dragon~! Kurayami: Translated! Stealing the light, the pitch black sword ruthlessly conquers the dark dragon!

Ankokuken Kurayami! Jump out the book, open it and burst! The fear of the darkness. You make right a just, no matter dark joke. Fury in the dark~! Jaou Dragon! Dare mo nogarerarenai...^note No one can escape its clutches...

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• Badass Cape: Jaou Dragon adds one to Calibur's costume.
• Bilingual Bonus: Adding to the CaliburDriver's translation motif, the "Get go under conquer than get keen" part of its transformation call is a pun on the phrase "Moonlight Darkness Slash"^note Gekkou Ankoku Zangeki in Japanese.
• Black Knight: An evil knight with the powers of darkness, who betrayed his order and now opposes them.
• Casting a Shadow: His attacks are of the darkness element.
• Cool Sword: Wields the Sword of Darkness Kurayami.
• Dark Is Evil: Calibur is themed around darkness and is one of the main antagonists. Further, his sword as with the blades of the Logos Riders has an elemental power tied to it, also darkness.
• Dragon Knight: Much like Saber, he has this motif. Calibur uses the Jaaku Dragon Wonder Rider Book.
• Energy Absorption: The Kurayami's most dangerous ability is the power to absorb the attacks of its enemies and add the energy to its user's strength or return them as darkness-flavored versions of the same moves. While the other characters speculate that there's a limit to how much power Kurayami can absorb at once, it's incredibly difficult to reach, as even a Wonder Combo can't consistently overload it.
• Evil Counterpart: To Saber. Their designs are more similar to each other than the other Riders and both have a dragon motif. It also turns out they are both Legacy Characters to the previous user, but while Touma inherited the power, the 2nd Calibur stole it for his own sinister purposes.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Calibur's first few appearances use a voice modulator that invokes this. When his identity is revealed and the modulator comes off, he still qualifies with his natural voice. The Kurayami and its associated books also have a substantially deeper and rougher voice than the other Sacred Swords and their books.
• Finishing Move: Calibur can scan ride books on his sword to do several finishing attacks.
  • Jaken Caliburdriver: By closing a book and opening it, Calibur can do attacks from the driver.
    • Jaou Hissatsu Geki: Has three variations.
    • Calibur charges his Ankokuken Kurayami with dark energy as four golden dragon appeared from his Jaou Dragon Cuirass to attack the enemy from the sky. Calibur then deliver a rising slash, summoning a big, purple energy dragon that has it jaws open wide to consume the enemy in question.
    • Calibur charges his Ankokuken Kurayami with dark energy, after consume enemies' finsihers, he summons four golden dragon and a purple dragon that rams to the enemy.
    • Calibur charges the Ankokuken Kurayami with dark energy before he delivers a powerful slash.
  • Ankokuken Kurayami:
    • Dokugo Issen: Calibur does a darkness covered slash.
    • Shutoku Issen: When Calbiur scans a book once in the Kurayami, he can do several variations of slashes.
    • Jaaku Dragon: has three variations.
    • Calibur charges the Ankokuken Kurayami with dark energy before he delivers two slashes to the enemy, after breaking through enemy's finishing attack, the energy of two slashes will combine into an X-shaped slash and strike the target.
    • Calibur charges the Ankokuken Kurayami with dark energy before he shoots out a burning apparition of a dragon, that charges towards the enemy.
    • Calibur charges the Ankokuken Kurayami with dark energy before he shoots out a group of black dragons that homing at enemies and restrains them.
    • Saiyuu Journey: has two variations.
    • Calibur extends the Ankokuken Kurayami like Sun Wukong's Ruyi Jingu Bang with red energy before he delivers three slashes to enemy.
    • Calibur forms a dark cloud like Sun Wukong's sumersault cloud to protect himself from the enemy's attacks.
    • Tenkuu no Pegasus: Calibur charges the Ankokuken Kurayami in navy blue energy and delivers multiple slashes at the enemy.
    • Jaou Dragon: Has two variations.
    • Caibur charges the Anokuken Kurayami in dark energy, than summons four golden dragons to catch the enemy, than does a slash, summoning a purple energy dragon to overwhelm the enemy, exploding once they make contact with the enemy.
    • Calibur does a downward slash.
    • Shutoku Sansen: When Calibur scans a book three times, he can deliver a more powerful slash attack.
    • Jaaku Dragon: Calibur charges the Ankokuken Kurayami with dark energy before he delivers a powerful slash.
• Gratuitous English: Calibur's transformation announcement with Jaaku Dragon is an English wordplay pun on Japanese words. With Jaou Dragon, the transformation song is purely slightly broken English.
• Ironic Name: His name is derived from Excalibur, the sword of the heroic King Arthur, and he is on the villains' side.
• Lightning Bruiser: Easily qualifies as this according to his official stats from TV Asahi. His punching and kicking power exceed Buster's while Kenzan is the only heroic Rider who has a faster maximum running speed.
• Purple Is Powerful: Has purple all over his Rider form and is a villainous Kamen Rider.
• Resurrective Immortality: In Chapter 14, Calibur revives himself from Kurayami after his defeat at Saber Dragonic Knight form's hands.
• Spell My Name With An S: Kurayami's name is written as "Moon Darkness"^note 月闇 instead of the usual kanji for "Darkness"^note 暗闇.
• Strong and Skilled: Calibur has one of the most powerful Sacred Swords, outmatching the other Riders even when they are using Wonder Combos, and combined with its swordsman's experience make him currently the biggest threat on the battlefield. And Jaou Dragon only increases his level of menace.
• Super Form: Villainous variant with the Jaou Dragon Wonder Ride Book, amping up Calibur's strength and combat prowess such that he can easily take on any Rider in their Wonder Combo forms.
• Super Prototype: Kurayami is one of the first two Elemental Swords forged and is repeatedly shown to be a cut above the others in terms of power.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Kurayami has the ability to imprison the souls of its victims within itself, though those with a strong will are able to break free, as shown with Kento.

Desast

Desast/Kamen Rider Falchion (II)

Portrayed by: Kōki Uchiyama (voice), Kazuya Okada (suit, Chapters 4-15), Danki Sakae (suit, Chapters 30-43)

A chimeric Mamono that is a hybrid between all three of the Megid categories. Due to this, he is far more powerful than regular Mamonos. His themes are Fenrir, the Japanese tiger beetle, and The Singing Bone, released from the Desast Alter Ride Book by Calibur. 15 years ago, he killed several swordsmen of the Swords of Logos and came to blows with Ryo Ogami, and later, Ren Akamichi.

In Chapter 38, upon the death of Bahato at Touma's hands, Desast takes up Kyomu and the mantle of Kamen Rider Falchion. He would later become the Swordsman of Pitch Black, Kamen Rider Desast, in Kamen Rider Outsiders.

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The Chimera

• A Good Way to Die: Dies after having fun in a final fight against Ren, and getting to see him become stronger.
• Alas, Poor Villain: He dies like the other Megid, but seeing how he played a big part in Ren's Character Development, it's very hard not to sympathize.
• Anti-Villain: Has no ulterior motives beyond seeking a good fight, and becomes more and more sympathetic due to his interactions with Ren to the point he duels Storious in Chapter 41.
• Arch-Enemy: To Ogami, who sealed him in the past. He later becomes this to Ren, though in a far more friendly way as a sort of trickster Stealth Mentor.
• Berserk Button: Anytime Storious reminds him of why he was created. Any threat targeted towards Ren can also make the constantly-jolly Desast actually lose his cool. Unfortunately for him, he ends up being a Hoist by His Own Petard when he attempts to attack his creator, which left him vulnerable to Charybdis' massive mouth; as a result of his impulsive actions, it severely damaged his Alter Ride Book.
• Blood Knight: He constantly seeks a good fight, to the point of allowing Ryo to keep the Wonder Ride Book he'd stolen off him as he believes it would bring him even stronger opponents to beat.
• Breakout Villain: Despite being a secondary villain mostly unconnected to the main story and having relatively little screentime, Desast's honourable personality and well-developed character arc made him easily one of the most popular characters from Saber, leading to him being brought back in Kamen Rider Outsiders, being the only villain featured in the teaser trailer who wasn't a Rider.
• Cool Sword: He wields his double-edged sword, the Grudge Dent, and it has serrated edges on it. He later uses the Mumeiken Kyomu to replace it after losing half of his body.
• The Corrupter: Tends to gloat about how he and Ren are similar as two Blood Knights seeking power. While he doesn't really seem determined to corrupt Ren, he is consistent in his efforts, having reminded him of their similarities from early on in story.
• Dark Is Evil: Primarily all black and is on the side of the Megid.
• Deadpan Snarker: Briefly indulges himself by "joining" Mei and Rintaro's conversation in Chapter 5. Apparently this is a prerequisite for joining the Megid.
  • His response to being pushed away by Ren after invading his personal space is "What, you shy?"
• The Dog Bites Back: Becomes sick and tired of being bossed around by Calibur, so he uses the opportunity of Touma finally beating Calibur to finish him off.
  • Happens again in Chapter 41 when Storious claims the right to decide when Desast gets to die. Interpreting it as a threat, Desast attacks him.
• Evil Counterpart: He is this to the Sword Of Logos Riders in which he also utilizes the formula of a mythical beast (Fenrir), animal (Japanese Tiger Beetle), and story (The Singing Bone) to create his Megid form.
• Fangs Are Evil: His face has fangs akin to the wolf Fenrir from Norse Mythology. His shoulder pads are also modeled after a wolf's head.
• Fatal Flaw: The denial of his growth as a person, which causes him to become increasingly irate as he is slowly dying from the damage to his Alter Ride Book, until Ren is forced to kill him. Tellingly, him finally admitting Ren was his friend in Outsiders is what ensures his resurrection stays permanent, purifying all of his equipment into ones used by the Seiken Swordriver.
• Finishing Move: Desast is able to perform finishers like the Riders.
  • Calamity Strike: has multiple variations.
    • Desast leaps into the air and executes multiple magenta energy slashes with the Grudge Dent while spinning.
    • Desast drops down from above and executes a magenta energy slash with the Grudge Dent to the enemy, before delivering another slash after landing on the ground.
    • Desast jumps into the air and spins like a drill with the Kyomu while surrounded by purple energy.
• Flower Motifs: His insistence that Ren add red ginger to his instant ramen takes on another meaning when you realise that red ginger flowers represent strength and fiery passion, which symbolize him well. Fittingly, Ren adds red ginger to his noodles after defeating Desast and becoming strong in his own way.
• Friendly Enemy: He's this to Ren, who's a lot like him. In fact, he gets accustomed to Desast's presence after offically teaming up with the hybrid Megid.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Is vertically bisected in Chapter 41 by Charybdis. He gets better thanks to the Eternal Phoenix Wonder Ride Book, but it resulted his Alter Ride Book being heavily damaged.
• Hero Killer: Ryo comments that he has killed Riders in the past. He inevitably ends up the one to kill Calibur just at the height of his attempted Heel–Face Turn. Sword of Logos Saga further reveals that he was also the killer of the previous Espada and Kenzan.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He attempted to attack Storious after taunting him about Ren's life, which left him wide open to half of his body being eaten from Charybdis' mouth attack. Though to be fair, Storious did press his Berserk Button beforehand.
• Humanity Is Infectious: The Grudge Dent is transformed into the Sword of Pitch Black Shikkoku and the Desast Alter Ride Book transformed into the Gaikotsu Ninjaden Wonder Ride Book in Outsiders, showing that while he's still a monster, he is far more human than any of his compatriots thanks to Ren.
• Karmic Death: Killed the previous holder of Kenzan in the past, only to perish at the hands of her successor.
• Killed Off for Real: Thanks to his Alter Ride Book getting critically damaged in a previous battle with Storious, he finally gets offed by Kenzan when engaging him one final time in Chapter 43.
• Knight of Cerebus: His appearance spells trouble for the heroes, as he manages to give Ryo a hard time in their fight.
• Last Words: To Ren, after the latter manages to kill him in single combat: "Talk about boring... I can't believe it's over for me. Be Yourself You're fine the way you are, y'know? And also... make sure... you eat that red ginger."
• Lean and Mean: In contrast to our thickly armored heroes, he boasts a leaner, if rather spiky, design.
• Lightning Bruiser: In stark contrast to his initial Arch-Enemy Ogami/Buster, he moves fast and hits hard. It's taken to new levels after inheriting the Eternal Phoenix Wonder Ride Book, as he essentially combines both his strength and speed with Falchion's skill and immortality.
• Mirror Character: Is a very swift Blood Knight and enjoys fighting very much, almost like Ren. Both also seek a higher purpose in life beyond their mutual Blood Knight tendencies, which comes to a head in the closing arc of the series, specifically Chapter 43. In fact, The Stinger for that Chapter showed Ren eating ramen with red pickled ginger to heed Desast's final request, making him like a moral human version of his deceased friend and rival.
• The Nose Knows: In line with his wolf theme, he often comments on different scents coming to him.
• Odd Friendship: Despite the two of them denying it to the end, Desast becomes attached to Ren, to the point he angrily confronts Touma about he's stalling Ren's growth. He eventually requests Ren to duel him to the death, allowing him to die with some dignity at the hands of a swordsman who gave his all to defeat him.
• One-Hit Polykill: He simultaneously kills Kyoichiro and Amane with a single Sword Beam.
• Put on a Bus: He has not been seen since Chapter 20. Chapter 28 has him appear to observe Kenzan and Calibur's fight, though he does not intervene. He officially returns in Chapter 30.
  • In a meta gag, the official Kamen Rider Saber Instagram gets taken over by him occasionally, showing he's been spending the time offscreen wandering and lazing around the local districts and hangouts.
• Recurring Character: For how deadly he is, Desast doesn't appear as consecutively as his fellow Megid, usually appearing whenever severe fights occur around his vicinity at the time.
• Super Prototype: It's revealed much later that Desast was created by Storious, essentially serving as a predecessor to the Charybdis Megid. Despite this, while Desast survives most of his encounters with the Riders, the Charybdis Megid tends to get destroyed in every fight it partakes in despite its Resurrective Immortality; it is possibly due to Desast possessing his own free will and some sense of self-preservation, while the Charybdis Megid was blindly loyal to Storious.
• Sword Drag: When he is not carrying his sword over the shoulder, or trying to cut someone's head off with it, that is. Presumably for Rule of Cool, because his sword is not too big and doesn't seem to be very heavy either.
• Tragic Keepsake: Following Desast's death, his red scarf, the Mumeiken Kyomu, the Eternal Phoenix Wonder Ride Book, and his broken Alter Ride Book are taken by Ren as mementos to remember his fallen friendly rival.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Seems to have taken an interest in Ren after becoming free from Calibur, and is seen following him around in later Chapters, believing him to be like the other Megid.
  • In Saber x Ghost, when he picks up Kanon's inhuman scent, he tries to get to know her better. When she says she's looking for her older brother, Desast immediately tries to claim that position.
• Villain Team-Up: The Saber x Ghost special sees him end up siding with a Gamma Superior to take on Saber and Ghost.
• Wild Card: After becoming free from Calibur, Desast doesn't seem to have much interest in the Megid's goals and is instead operating off his own agenda.

Tropes exclusive to him as Kamen Rider Falchion

^Spoilers Battō! Eternal Phoenix! Kyomu! Shikkoku no Tsurugi ga, Mu ni Kisu.^note Unsheathe! Eternal Phoenix! Void! The jet-black sword shall turn all into nothingness.

• Dual Wielding: After becoming the second Falchion, Desast wields Mumeiken Kyomu alongside his Grudge Dent sword.
• Finishing Move: Fushicho Musou Giri/Calamity Strike: Falchion sprouts phoenix wings from his back and jumps into the air with his body covered in fire and the Grudge Dent covered in purple energy. He then flies toward the enemy while spinning like a drill and surrounded by fire and spiraling purple energy, before ramming into the opponent.

The Lords of Wise (Unmarked Spoilers)

Spartan, Highlander, Diago, and Kuon

Portrayed by: Unknown (live); Shogo Teramoto, Danki Sakae, Keisuke Higashi, Tetsuya Aoki (suit)

Formerly the Four Sages who governed the Sword of Logos before their deaths at Isaac's hand, they are forcibly resurrected by Storious to serve as his pawns.

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Clockwise from top left: Spartan, Highlander, Kuon, and Diago.

• Ascended Extra: After being limited to a side-reference in Chapters 28 and 29, the Sages finally appear in Chapter 44 as attack-zombies under Storious' control.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: They are the ruling council of the Sword of Logos, and are strong enough to actually give Xross Saber pause.
• Back from the Dead: They were resurrected by Storious in Chapter 44.
• Came Back Strong: Storious states he had resurrected them at an even stronger state than they were at their prime.
• Came Back Wrong: They were revived as slaves of Storious with no will of their own.
• Early-Bird Cameo: No pun intended, but their battle-forms first appeared as guardians of all the stories in Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger Super Hero Senki, in which they are relentlessly tossed aside by Asmodeus as he performs his uprising on Agastia Base.
• Elite Four: They are Storious's personal four attack dogs and some of the strongest of his servants.
• Energy Absorption: Highlander and Kuon's specialty, the former also being able to redirect enemy attacks.
• Flash Step: Diago can attack and move at speeds faster than even Espada Golden Alangina Form.
• Hero Killer: Even with the Riders coming up with numerous new techniques and Combination Attacks on the spot to defeat them, the Lords of Wise succeed in killing virtually the entire party in the process, with only Touma, Rintaro, and Kento actually making it all the way to Storious.
• In the Hood: In human form, their faces are mostly obscured by their hoods.
• Knight of Cerebus: Oh god, YES. Their appearance spell doom for the protagonists, and it's implied they DIED fighting them.
• Logical Weakness:
  • They're undead slaves with no will of their own. While they can counter any sword technique they created, using new techniques they didn't gives them serious trouble. This allows Daishinji and Ren to destroy Spartan first with a Combination Attack and then Ren using Desast's Ride Book for a finisher from a Megid, not a Sword of Logos sword style.
  • Once Highlander revs up an attack using his scythe, it can't absorb any more energy until the attack discharges what's currently soaked up. If he's hit again during this process, this damages him enough to land a subsequent fatal blow.
  • In general, they're particularly vulnerable to Combination Attacks, as they don't neatly fall into any of the specific styles of the Swords of Logos.
  • Likewise, Kuon meets his end after Kento replaces Lamp do Alangina in his Swordriver with Sarutobi Ninjaden, which creates a technique and possibly a form that by all means should not exist according to the rules of the Swordriver.
• Ominous Owl: Their battle-forms are owl-themed.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Storious hasn't just resurrected them, but turned them into battle-drones he sets on the heroes.
• Power Copying: Any technique the heroes attempt on them, they can instantly replicate. Justified, as the Four Sages developed those techniques, so any techniques our heroes use are instantly recognizable to them.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Combining this trope with Gold-Colored Superiority, they wear black and gold armor with red visors.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: They wear a large red visor that brings to mind Extremer and Evol.
• Significant Name Overlap: Diago shares his name with the Diago Speedy, suggesting that in-universe, the latter was named after him.
• Silent Antagonist: Apart from growling (and in Diago's case, laughing), none of them speak during their time on screen, likely as a result of being undead.
• Would Hit a Girl: In Chapter 46, during his final fight against the Shindai siblings, Diago had no problem ruthlessly beating up Reika.

Soldiers

Shimi

Footsoldiers of the Megid. Like the Mamono, they are summoned from Alter Ride Book pages, but they are not tied to any specific book.

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• Animal Motifs: They appear to be based on the silverfish, a pest that commonly infests in pages of rotting books.
• Badass Cape: Shimi wear tattered cloaks to make themselves appear menacing.
• Million Mook March: In Chapter 44, Storious creates hordes of them for his final plan to merge the Wonder World with Earth.
• Mix-and-Match Weapon: They wield pistols that have short sword blades attached on the top.
• Mooks: Being the Megid's footsoldiers.
• Mook Carryover: Bahato used them as his henchmen as well.
• Out of Focus: They become increasingly scarce as Mamonos who can either replicate themselves or come in teams start to come into greater prominence.
• Punny Name: Their name sounds a lot like "shimmer", befitting their silverfish motif.
• Zerg Rush: Their main fighting style is to swarm with numbers.

Mamono

An evil race of monsters that live in Wonder World, born from Megid using Alter Ride Books. They come in three classes, "fairy tale stories", "phantom beasts," and "regular animals".

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• Avenging the Villain: Usually in cases where there is more than one of a given type, when one is destroyed, another attempts to reap vengeance on the Rider that destroyed them, to no avail.
• Demoted to Extra: Legeiel summons extra Goblin and Medusa Megids as Elite Mooks in Chapter 17.
• Forced Transformation: As a side effect of their latest ritual in the first arc, certain humans exposed to its light became connected to the Wonder World. The Megid's next step in their plans are to forcibly transform these special humans into Mamono, in order to sacrifice their human lives to produce new Alter Ride Books from them.
• Monster of the Week: The Sword of Logos swordsmen having to contend with one each Chapter in the beginning. After the first arc however, their appearances became much more scarce.
• Mook Maker: Some of them.
• Reality Warper: Using blank Wonder Ride Books, they can steal parts of reality and trap it in Wonder World.
• Resurrective Immortality: Whenever a Mamono is destroyed, they can be revived because the Alter Ride Book used to create them still exists. This is averted with the human-Mamono however, as they can't be revived if they're destroyed before their Alter Ride Book is complete, barring one expection.
• Split-Personality Takeover: The human-Mamono suffer this, struggling against their Mamono Split Personality to regain control over their bodies. Naturally and unfortunately, most cases lose out to their Mamono side as their human selves weaken from being converted into Alter Ride Books.
• Superpowered Evil Side: For the human-Mamono, their Mamono forms are this.

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Golem Megid

Portrayed by: Hiroshi Shirokuma (voice), Yasuhiko Imai (suit)

A phantom beast Mamono released from the Gansekiou Golem^note Stone King Golem Alter Ride Book, based on the Golem.

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• Detachment Combat: The pair of hands on his head can detach and grapple Saber.
• Dishing Out Dirt: He is capable of launching rocks from his hand, as well as assimilate rocks and soil to become larger.
• Make My Monster Grow: In the final stage of his fight, he absorbs all the dirt and rubble around him to grow to ginormous size.

Ari and Kirigirisu Megid

Portrayed by: Akinori Egoshi (voice), Shogo Teramoto (suit)

A pair of fairy tale Mamono released from the Ari ka Kirigirisu^note Ant and Grasshopper Alter Ride Book, based on The Grasshopper and the Ants.

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• Acid Attack: The Ari Megid spits acid.
• Brown Note: The Kirigirisu Megid can rub its arm sickles to produce high-pitched noise that can make a human fall unconsciously.
• Dual Boss: Both of them must be destroyed to return the world to normal.
• In a Single Bound: Kirigirisu Megid, naturally. Later upgraded to flight through being imbued with the Peter Fantasista Wonder Ride Book.
• Mook Maker: The queen Ari Megid can make copies of itself. Later upgraded to making giant ants through being imbued with the Jackun-to-Domamenoki Wonder Ride Book.
• Musical Assassin: True to its nature, the Kirigirisu Megid makes "music" by rubbing its arm sickles together like a fiddle, but the sound produced is so terribly ear-screeching that it causes normal humans to faint.

Hanzaki Megid

Portrayed by: Junji Majima (voice), Danki Sakae (suit)

A regular animal Mamono released from the Hanzaki Sanshouou^note Hanzaki Salamander King Alter Ride Book, based on a Japanese Giant Salamander.

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^{Click here to see his Strengthened State}

• Berserk Button: Being called a lizard.
• Covered in Gunge: He is covered in a thick layer of slime that causes most enemy attacks to just slip off him.
• From a Single Cell: He is able to regenerate from any part of his body left behind after his destruction, coming back stronger with every time he does this.
• Insistent Terminology: He's a salamander, not a lizard.
• Nested Mouths: Has a second pair of teeth in his mouth-head.

Piranha Megid

Portrayed by: Daisuke Hirakawa (voice, male), Arisa Morishima (voice, female); Danki Sakae (suit)

A group of regular animal Mamono released from the Piranha no Lunch^note  Piranha's Lunch Alter Ride Book, based on the piranha.

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• Blade Below the Shoulder: It has a piranha-styled blade for the right arm.
• Cuteness Proximity: The sole female Piranha Megid, who witnesses The Three Little Pigs Saber summoned as his finisher, and blindly chases after them into their straw house (which was a trap).
• There Is Another: Due to the piranha's nature of traveling in schools, it turns out there wasn't just one Piranha Megid. Later on, the second one tries to get revenge for his "older brother" after the latter was defeated by Saber earlier.
  • Two more appear in Chapter 6, with one appearing to be female.

Medusa Megid

Portrayed by: Kimiko Saito (voice); Danki Sakae [episode 7], Yuki Miyazawa [episode 8] (suit)

A trio of phantom beast Mamono released from the Medusa Jaden^note Medusa Snake Legend Alter Ride Book, based on the Medusa.

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• Colony Drop: The last Medusa Megid summons a giant Flaming Meteor as a last resort to destroy the entire city.
• Make My Monster Grow: The last Medusa Megid, who grew from pure rage from seeing her sister die.
• Prehensile Hair: At least one of them can use her hair to manipulate objects.
• Red Herring: If she had been called the Gorgon Megid rather than the Medusa Megid, the twist involving her sisters would've been much less surprising.
• Taken for Granite: She can turn humans to stone by flashing her glowing red eyes on them. Her victims include two men resembling Jonouchi Hideyasu and Oren Pierre Alfonso, as well as Ryo Ogami.
• There Is Another: There are three of them, just as there were three Gorgons in Greek Mythology.

Ahiru Megid/Hakucho Megid

Portrayed by: Tomokazu Seki (voice), Shogo Teramoto (suit)

A group of six fairy tales Mamono released from the Mienikui Ahirunoko^note The Unsightly Duckling Alter Ride Book, based on The Ugly Duckling. They each have a distinguishing feature except for the last one, who instead can become invisible. Just like in the story it is based on, the last one can evolve into the Hakucho Megid, which has all five pieces combined with its invisible powers.

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• All the Other Reindeer: True to its original fairy tale, one Ahiru Megid doesn't have any outstanding or flamboyant features like its siblings do, but instead has the power of invisibility. Despite this, however, it seems to be cowardly in personality and also shown to be put down by at least one older sibling despite its unique power. Also, just like the fairy tale, the last one becomes "beautiful" by the use of having all of the other features of its siblings.
  Sibling Ahiru Megid: Your unsightliness is hindering me. Get out of my way.
• The Bully: While other Megid eat or simply murder humans, these Megids delight in tormenting people with cruel pranks and juvenile brutality instead.
• Discard and Draw: The final Sibling Ahiru Megid loses its invisibility powers, but attains all the ones possessed by its brothers in exchange.
• Invisibility: Taking on a literal meaning of its altered fairy tale name, one Ahiru Megid amongst its siblings is able to turn invisible and move out of sight.
• Verbal Tic: Being ducks, they all go "quack".
• Wolverine Claws: Two of the Ahiru Megid are equipped with an arm-mounted talon. One equips it on the right arm, while the other equip it on the left. The Hakucho Megid has two of them.

Goblin Megid

Portrayed by: Danki Sakae (suit)

A group of six Phantom Beast Mamono released from the Itazura Goblin^note Prankster Goblin Alter Ride Book, based on the Goblin.

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• Forced Transformation: They turn their victims into flat red silhouettes which are then splattered all over the ground, akin to chalk outlines of dead bodies.
• Thanatos Gambit: Defeating the Goblin Megid causes a resonance in the sword used to slay them, which produces a pillar of that sword's element. The Megid conspire to trick the Sword of Logos into using six different swords this way as part of a ritual.

Yeti Megid

Portrayed by: Hitomi Hasebe (Yuki Shirai), Wataru Hatano (Yeti Megid, voice); Takuma Komori (suit)

Yuki Shirai, the editor-in-chief and Mei's boss at her publishing company, who gained a connection to Wonder World as an effect of the Megid's latest ritual. She was found by Legeiel, who turned her into a Mamono to produce the Shirayuki Yeti^note Snow-White Yeti Alter Ride Book, based on the Yeti.

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• An Ice Person: Its main ability allows it to freeze its surroundings. That being said, Yuki herself isn't invulneable to its own effects when it regresses back into her.
• Meaningful Name: Her name contains the words "White"^note Shira/Shiro and "Snow"^note Yuki.
• Personality Powers: It is implied its An Ice Person powers came not only from Yuki's name, but the fact that she was in the midst of a camping trip in the cold mountains when she was forcefully turned into it.

Ousama Megid

Portrayed by: Kaito Komie (Shingo Kijima), Kenichi Ogata (Ousama Megid, voice); Shogo Teramoto (suit)

Shingo Kijima, a high school student with a keen interest in dioramas, who gained a connection to Wonder World as an effect of the Megid's latest ritual. He was found by Storious, who turned him into a Mamono to produce the Hadashi no Ousama^note Barefoot Emperor Alter Ride Book, based on The Emperor's New Clothes.

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• Magic Staff: It wields one as its weapon and to cast spells.
• Personality Powers: In a twisted version of Shingo's dreams, its goal was to make a full-scale diorama of a walled kingdom and its castle. To that end, it has powers of teleportation and telekinesis to gather and pile its "materials"(mainly cars and concrete blocks) to build it.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: It would rather escape this way than fight, making it difficult to track down. Once Mei figured out what it was trying to achieve, Touma and Yuri were able to corner it at the area it planned to build its castle.

Charybdis

Portrayed by: MIO (Mami Imoto), YAE (Remi Imoto), Ryota Iwasaki (Charybdis, voice); Danki Sakae (suit)

A powerful fusion Mamono, just like Desast, who is created through a Fusion Dance of the Golem, Hanzaki and Ahiru Megids into Charybdis Alter Ride Book, based on the Charybdis.

It two initial hosts were Mami and Remi Imoto, twin competitive eaters, with the former found Storious and used to the create the Charybdis Alter Ride Book and retrieve the Seiken. After Mami is defeated by Saikou, Storious retrieves the partially-formed Alter Ride Book and uses it on Remi with the Charybdis Megid absorbing Mami to fully evolve into a perfect Megid.

After being defeated by Saber and Saikou, Storious retrieves its fully-formed Alter Ride Book and uses the Mamono as his personal bodyguard and a key element in his endgame.

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• The Brute: Storious tends to summon it when he needs a minion to tussle with the Riders. Taken to the extreme when it devours part of Desast and becomes the "Hercules" Charybdis, gaining immense strength.
• Detachment Combat: Inherited Golem Megid's flying fists, which are fired from inside its mouth.
• The Dragon: Seems to be this to Storious, being his go-to minion for physical confrontations and playing a key part in his ultimate plan.
• Expy: Of Cell, being an artifically created hybrid creature who uses a set of twins to fully evolve.
• From a Single Cell: Inherited from the Hanzaki Megid.
• Fusion Dance: Created from several Megid that already exist. The Megid also asborbed a pair of twin sisters as part of Storious's plan, hypothesized that combining two humans of almost identical genes into a single Mamono would also make it harder for Saikou to unbind them.
• Godzilla Threshold: Legiel and Zooous are not happy to see another Hybrid Monster formed using their Mamono, remembering what happened with Desast.
• Invisibility: Inherited from the Ahiru Megid.
• Mook Promotion: During the endgame, Charybdis serves as a mini-Dragon to Storius.
• Not Quite Dead:
  • Yuri’s new X-Swordman form wasn’t enough to destroy it permanently, due to the healing ability it acquired from the Hanzaki Megid, with Storious merely transferring its reformed book to Mami’s sister Remi to revive it.
  • Despite Touma and Saikou managing to unbind the hosts from Charybdis and subsequently defeating it, its full Alter Ride Book was able to be produced without the sacrifice of its hosts, granting it Resurrective Immortality and allowing Storious to summon it whenever he wants.
  • In Final Stage, it gets revived again thanks to Asmodeus.
• Personality Powers: Being born from a competitive eater, its unique ability is to produce a giant mouth that allows it to consume anything much larger than itself.
• Sacrificial Lamb: On top of serving as the Dragon, Chapter 43 reveals that Charybdis held a vital role in Storious' endgame; he was meant to devour all the scattered portions of the original Tome of Omniscience (the Omni Force Wonder Ride Book, all 3 Alter Ride books of the Megid Generals, the clone of Sophia, Viktor's book, and the life force of the humans trapped in Alter Books) along with Storious himself. Storious would then absorb Charybdis from the inside out to reconstitute the Tome of Omniscience into a dark copy of itself called the Grimoire, which would grant Storious the power to destroy all of existence.

Neko Megid

Portrayed by: Asuka Kawazu (Mei Sudo), Romi Park (Neko Megid, voice); Satoshi Fujita (suit)

Mei Sudo, who later gained a connection to Wonder World, was found by Zooous, who turned her into a Mamono to produce the Neko ni Accessory^note Accessories For Cats Alter Ride Book, based on a cat.

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• Gaslighting: Attempts to rile up Rintaro by telling him that Mei was angry and disappointed at him.
• In a Single Bound: Can leap high to avoid attacks and get the jump on its enemies.
• Kick the Dog: Aside from the aforementioned gaslighting, she always transforms back into Mei whenever Touma is about to separate them in their third fight.
• Personality Powers: Due to Mei being turned into a Mamono while in the midst of making accessories as special presents for the Northern Base swordsmen, the Neko Megid has the ability to turn its victims into living accessory charms it wears on itself as hostages.

Spider Megid

A Mamono who appears exclusively in the Kamen Rider Buster manga, attacking a hospital where Ryo Ogami’s wife is soon to give birth to Sora. Summoned from the Getting Spider Alter Ride Book, based on a spider.

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