A Man-eating Rex!? Dangerous X!!
- Original Airdate: December 10, 2023
Written by: Keiichi Hasegawa
Directed by: Katsuya Watanabe
Summary
Narrator: Previously on… Kamen Rider Gotchard!
Wishing to save Sabimaru, Houtaro "Gotchanko-es" to meet UFO-X.
He transformed the XGotchalibur into a new mode and powered-up to become Super Gotchard Cross UFO-X!
He then succeeded in freeing Sabimaru from the clutches of the DreaDriver!
Houtaro is slowly leveling up, as an alchemist and a Kamen Rider...
Keep going and become that big-shot alchemist!
Wishing to save Sabimaru, Houtaro "Gotchanko-es" to meet UFO-X.
He transformed the XGotchalibur into a new mode and powered-up to become Super Gotchard Cross UFO-X!
He then succeeded in freeing Sabimaru from the clutches of the DreaDriver!
Houtaro is slowly leveling up, as an alchemist and a Kamen Rider...
Keep going and become that big-shot alchemist!
Sabimaru is saved from the DreaDriver's constricting hold, but this victory has incurred the wrath of the three Dark Sisters, especially Clotho, who seeks vengeance on Houtaro for their latest humiliation.
Meanwhile, Rinne wants to speak her mind to Houtaro when the two are suddenly tasked to catch another Level 10 Chemy named X-Rex. While trying to hunt down the tyrannosaurus Chemy, they cross paths with a girl, when Rex suddenly eats Gotchard whole!
Tropes
- Big Damn Heroes: Houtarou arrives just in time to save Rinne and Sawa from the Dark Sisters.
- Breather Episode: After the previous two episodes were about saving Sabimaru, the episode is a light-hearted affair.
- Call-Back: Recall how Hotaro said he got a "Warm, fuzzy feeling" when he first met Hopper1. Turns out that feeling was from how they met when Hotaro was younger.
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends right as Houtarou transforms into Super Gotchard X-Rex for the first time, a staple for Kamen Rider.
- Contrived Coincidence: Houtarou and Rinne pretty much run into X-Rex due to happenstance, after Tamami tasked the two of them to collect some fir needles for her wreath. Moreover, the girl who they meet happens to be the daughter of the man who got eaten by X-Rex.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Lachesis hands Supana's butt to him hard as Dread.
- Exact Words: When the Dark Sisters advance upon Rinne and Sawa, Rinne asks Atropos to honor her promise to leave civilians alone and fight Rinne only. Lachesis steps forward and tells Rinne that she didn't make said promise, and proceeds to attack the two.
- Forgotten First Meeting: It's revealed Hopper1 and Houtaro had met before when he was a child, before his memory was erased of the incident.
- Good All Along: X-Rex doesn't eat people out of malice, it's just how they read their memories.
- Idiot Ball: Supana strolling into the sisters' hideout and challenging them was stupid enough as the three of them could easily defeat him if they worked together. Then Lachesis picks up the Dreadriver and steamrolls him on her own.
- In Medias Res: The episode opens with Houtaro being eaten by X-Rex before cutting to what happened earlier in the day.
- Internal Reveal: Rinne tells Houtaro about Atropos claiming her father is alive, as well as Atropos blaming her for what happened to Sabimaru.
- It's All My Fault:
- Rinne blames herself for what happened to Sabimaru.
- Likewise, Yuzuru blames himself for his daughter Sawa becoming disappointed in him, all because she saw him give up his dream of writing about dinosaurs in order to continue his career.
- Mind Rape: Yuzuru sees X-Rex seeing into his memories as this, clutching his head in agony. Hotaro averts this as he freely gives X-Rex permission to look into his memories.
- Moment of Weakness: Yuzuru caves to his agent's wishes to rewrite his dinosaur article while his daughter watched from afar.
- Mysterious Backer: An unknown woman is commanding Supana for reasons unknown.
- The Reveal: Hotaro and Hopper1 met when Hotaro was much younger.
- Swallowed Whole: Gotchard gets devoured by Rex. As it turns out, not only was Yuzuru also devoured earlier offscreen, but this is how the Chemy actually reads people's memories instead of digesting people alive.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: The A plot revolves around Houtarou and Rinne having a heart-to-heart and encountering X-Rex, while the B plot revolves around Supana being tasked to retrieve the Repli-Chemy cards and the Dreadriver from the Dark Sisters.
- Wham Shot: Among the various memories Rex reads of Hotaro is of one with him and Hopper1... when he was a child.
Titular Chemy: X-Rex
Cards used:
Gotchard: Hopper1, Steamliner, UFO-X, X-Rex
Dread: Repli-Venomdake, Repli-Flayrose
Chemies recovered:
Gotchard: X-Rex
