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WARNING: Due to the sheer number of spoilers associated with this character, spoilers for this series, as well as Kamen Rider Outsiders will be left unmarked. New viewers beware.

Tenjuro Banno/Gold Drive/Bronzedrive

Portrayed by: Masakazu Morita (live), Kazuya Okada (suit; Drive), Masashi Takada (suit; Outsiders)

A colleague of Krim Steinbelt, Banno is the creator of the Roidmudes, and Go and Kiriko's father. He had let himself be killed by them 15 years ago, but not before he is able to transfer his consciousness into Brain's tablet to survive.

However, his son manages to retrieve the tablet. And to Krim's chagrin, he wasn't pleased to see his former colleague. And it was only a matter of time before the heroes learn Banno's true colors, which shook Go to the core. Banno manages to steal some of Krim's technology for himself through Roidmude 004, who somehow copied Krim's appearance, in order to assume his own belt form called the Banno Driver. He then kills Roidmude 006, takes his lifeless husk to use his body to transform into Gold Drive.

Now having the power of a fully-evolved Roidmude, Banno prepares to enact his master plan — to complete the Promised Number that consists of four Roidmudes achieving their ultimate evolution, that being Heart, Brain, and Medic who all completed their evolution, with the third as a result of Banno forcibly evolving her puts her under his thrall. With the Promised Number completed, all that is needed was to awaken Sigma Circular, a weapon that could induce a worldwide-scale Global Freeze, which instead convert humans into data so that Banno plans to give them with robotic bodies to those who will bow down to him.

With Brain's sacrifice temporarily stalling Banno's plans, Heart and Medic team up with the Riders to bring down Banno once and for all, culminating in Chase's Heroic Sacrifice, giving Go the strength to finally defeat his father by unlocking Chaser Mach and ultimately kill him with Chaser's Signal Ax, putting an end to the Mad Scientist's reign of terror for good.

Nine years later, it was revealed that Banno survived his apparent demise, having stored his data into the Internet and waited a decade later to be revived after coming contact with Ark. Revived with a Humagear body by Foundation X, he is sent to confront Horobi, who was revived by the Foundation that defected to Zein's faction. He singlehandedly overpowers Horobi as Bronzedrive, only to be cornered by Kamen Rider Zein, who has the power to access every Kamen Rider powers. Again, Banno barely survived the brutal beatdown from Zein and stored himself inside Brain's tablet, who was also revived alongside him. When Brain spies on Zein's inner circle, Banno also learns the shocking truth about Zein's goal, as he alerts Foundation X of its plan to use Kamen Rider Chronicle to Kill All Humans.

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Tropes applied to him in general

• Abusive Parent: Treats his children like crap and has outright tried to kill Go on several occasions. And then there's his treatment of the Roidmudes.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Once he's reduced to a belt with no host in his final moments, he pleads for mercy to Go, who has none of it whatsoever.
• A God Am I: Has a rather pronounced God Complex, viewing himself as entitled to admiration and respect. He believes than anyone who doesn't see things his way is too far beneath him to understand his genius, and even his own family were little more than possible research subjects to him.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Getting beaten to near-death like a wild animal in the most barbaric and gruesome fashion by Kamen Rider Zein seems to be the appropriate punishment for a guy with a narcissistic personality disorder and God complex who abuses his own children and torturing his robotic creations. Not helped by the man behind Zein's suit is a guy who constantly beats his own Imagin partner.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing:
  • Quite literally NO ONE cares that he's dead with no way to come back a second time. In fact, one of his offspring is elated that he's dead, while the other is more apathetic.
  • Getting beaten within an inch of his life and butchered from top to bottom by Kamen Rider Zein is one of the, if not, most gruesome scenes in Outsiders that wouldn't be out of place from adult-oriented series like Amazons. Nico, of all people, jubilantly cheers for Zein, while Ecole, who was observing the fight from a distance, doesn't even bother hiding his disdain for Banno, as if he has no problem disposing him once he served his purpose, but chose not to.
• Asshole Victim: This is still the same Banno who is widely recognized as one of the vilest villains in the franchise. Needless to say, getting ridiculed by Foundation X and butchered by Zein in just a single episode is a blessing in disguise for both factions at his own expense.
• Ax-Crazy: The man is in no way mentally stable, as half his entry can attest to.
• Back from the Dead: Turns out he wasn't even dead to begin with. As Kamen Rider Outsiders reveals that he was able to store his data in the internet and manage to come contact with Ark. Then Foundation X gave him with a Humagear body.
• Bad Boss: After being rejected by the investor, he had 002 (who would become Heart) take the investor's likeness and tortured his own creation for his satisfaction. He also implanted most of the Roidmudes (later including Mr. Belt in the present) with a "special" chip.
• Beneath the Mask: Is very capable of putting on a mask of benevolence and friendship, but underneath it is an unrepentant Sociopath with a god complex who doesn't even see his own family as anything more than pawns.
• Big Bad: Banno is the true main antagonist in the entire series who inadvertently caused the Roidmude uprising, but he's out of the picture for most of the story. When he is released, however. he proves to be far worse than the Roidmudes. Made apparent by Heart's confrontation with Go in #40.
  Heart: He is a monster, far worse than the Roidmudes you despise. The marathon of torture that man inflicted upon me... It has been burned into my memory...
• Body Snatcher: Hijacks Medic's body to temporarily fight off Mach, and then after purging 006, uses 006's body as his physical avatar to transform into Kamen Rider Gold Drive, which is just as powerful as a Roidmude that has attained its Ultimate Evolution.
• Brain Uploading: Preserved his mind after his death by digitizing his consciousness.
• Came Back Strong: He's obviously a much bigger threat after his resurrection as a Virtual Ghost than he ever was alive.
• Can't Take Criticism: His response to Go calling him a monster? Freezing the heroes in place, retorting by calling Go the worst thing he's ever created, and declaring him the first to die.
• Catharsis Factor: A dark take of an in-universe example. He got Heart to take the form of an investor that turned him down purely so he could torture him and relieve his stress on something that did nothing wrong.
• The Chew Toy: Banno's return in Outsiders is dedicated in putting him through the wringer at the worst possible moment that both sides of the conflict benefit at the outcome of his misfortune and it's not hard to see why. The ridicule and disrespect he gets from Foundation X and even Brain seems to be a more or less humane punishment for Banno in contrast to the ultraviolent No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from (Kamen Rider) Zein.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Anyone who's ever trusted and worked with him has been betrayed and exploited.
• Consummate Liar: Poor Go found this out the hard way. Banno was an evil monster, who played his own son like a fiddle.
• Costume Copycat: In the Bad Future, he uses his Gold Drive identity to further tarnish the memory of Shinnosuke and Krim by terrorizing his subjects under the guise of the hero that once protected them.
• Creative Sterility: This trope is the main key component in Banno's character and the entire reason Kamen Rider Drive as a series exists. The Roidmudes were created out of Banno's stuck in development hell project that forced him to seek Krim's help by installing the latter's Core Driviar. Then his digitization into data came from Krim's similar intention to his Drive System and wanting Krim's intelligence without the latter's morality, he did so by having Roidmude 004 copying his former friend and reprogrammed to faithfully serve him. Years later when the Roidmudes made themselves known and the Riders actively fighting them, Banno turns himself into the Banno Driver and Gold Drive through the stolen data from the Drive Pit, as well as taking the Roidmude leadership to hijack their Promised Number plan and including himself as the final Promised Number to initiate the second Global Freeze. In short, for all the Glory Hound tendency he boasted about his intelligence, all he ever accomplished in his final moments and postmortem were hogging the hard works of his enemies to himself that eventually culminates with them banding together against him with no strings attached to one another.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The guy really is a legitimately brilliant scientist and has the knowledge to turn the entire world into immortal, powerful beings with a process he, Krim, and Lupin have proved is entirely possible to do safely...but chooses to use this to attempt to Take Over the World and rule it as a god. Justified, as it's clear the man isn't sane at all.
• Death by Irony:
  • After spending years copying everything Krim ever built, Banno meets his end by dying the same way Krim did too.
  • His second "death" in Outsiders also qualifies; he is impaled by two Seikens whose wielders are actually loving fathers, they are everything what Banno isn't.
• Dirty Coward:
  • When he's actually defenseless and about to be killed, he freaks out and desperately begs his killer not to end him. He especially comes off as this compared to most other Heisei Kamen Rider main villains, who generally react to their impending demises with either resignation or defiance.
  • He pathetically begs Zein to spare him, only to fall on deaf ears anyway. This bites him hard to the point he's Unable to Retreat when Zein sends the Seikens at Banno like guided missiles, turning him into a Human Pincushion.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu:
  • As Roidmude 006 found out, just because Banno now has a belt for a physical form, he's not the type of guy to be taken lightly. So, Banno rips out 006's core out of his body to make an example of any Roidmude defying him.
  • Banno himself gets the receiving end of one in Kamen Rider Outsiders, he overpowers Horobi to draw out Zein. He succeeds, only to get more than what he bargained for in the worst moment possible.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Of all the returning villains in Outsiders, and of all the vile villains in the entire franchise, Banno freaks out upon learning Zein's plan to use a video game that kills people in real time and convert them into data, not that this doesn't excuse him for the similar stunt he pulled in his home series (see Hypocrite below).
• Evil All Along: While the waters were murky for awhile due to Go's bias and Banno's aiding the heroes, he shows his true colors when he betrays his own son and Shinnosuke, whom Mr. Belt already warned about Banno's hidden evil agenda, thus revealing him to be Gold Drive leading most of the Roidmude generals.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Is confused that Krim has moral qualms about his torture of 002.
  • He believed that programming the Roidmudes with negative emotional traits would hasten the manifestation of Super Evolutions, but of the mere 7 (out of the 108 he created) that achieve it, only 3 do so as he intended with the rest either using positive emotions or unorthodox schemes.
  • To show he has no concept of emotion or morality, once he's at Go's mercy, rather than trying to remind Go that he's murdering his family or he could revive Chase, he tries to guilt him out of "robbing the world of [his] glorious intellect".
• Evil Counterpart:
  • To both Kamen Rider Drive (obviously) and Krim Steinbelt. Both he and Krim are brilliant scientists, with Banno lacking any morals Krim does have. They also uploaded their souls into a Rider Belt after their human bodies died, but Banno's belt acts is completely the opposite of Krim. While Krim works together with his human host, Banno lobotomized his Roidmude host, taking complete control of its body. Their deaths also mirror each other as both are killed by the Signal Axe. However, when Krim was destroyed by Shinnousuke in Surprise Future, he fully accepted his death, selflessly sacrificing himself to prevent a Bad Future. Banno on the other hand pathetically begs for his life when Go raises the Signal Axe while walking towards him, while screaming in terror when Go strikes at him.
  • He's the Outsider sent to confront Horobi and they share some similarities. Both were Abusive Parents to their children, hypocrites who use a seemingly benevolent vision to cover up their own self-serving and hateful goals, and react violently and brutally whenever their ideals are challenged.
  • In an ironic twist, Banno finds one in Zein, though exactly who qualifies for the "Evil" one is up for debate but Zein proved to be a far more threatening villain than Banno. Both take form of Rider belts to hijack host bodies to assume their Rider forms (Banno with Roidmude 006, Zein with Yuto) and both have an end goal of digitizing humans into data (Banno via a second Global Freeze and Zein using Kamen Rider Chronicle).
  • Also to Yuto Sakurai, more specifically the main timeline counterpart. As both of them have a very abusive streak; Banno treats his own children and all Roidmudes as science experiments, to the point that he even tortured the Roidmude that would become Heart, whose human form was based on the businessman who rejected him as Revenge by Proxy. Deneb is often being used as a punching bag by Yuto because of his constant showboating and blunders, but both care for each other and look after one another. The way Banno is subjected into a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Kamen Rider Zein is basically a karmic Hourglass Plot of his abuse towards Heart, not to mention that Zein's host is actually a Yuto Sakurai from an alternate Bad Future, Banno himself also doubles as a Shadow Archetype to the alternate Yuto, representing his abuse of Deneb being devoid of any humor.
• Eviler than Thou: His Control Freak and Abusive tendencies is the main reason Heart thinks that all Humans Are Bastards, and the Roidmude leader outright says that Banno is much worse than any Roidmude.
• Evil Feels Good: He clearly has fun when doing morally reprehensible acts, enjoying whatever pain he inflicts on his victims.
• Evil Former Friend: He and Krim were once colleagues and it was Krim's assistance that helped Banno complete the Roidmudes, until Krim broke off their partnership after discovering Banno was abusing his creations.
• Evil Gloating: Rarely will a scene pass of him after becoming Gold Drive that doesn't involve him gloating about how amazing he thinks he is. Justified, as he's an A God Am I Narcissist. This ultimately gets him killed, as he can't resist bragging when Sigma activates, exposing the fact he's not dead and resulting in Go finishing the job.
• Evil Is Hammy: He starts off calm when he's interacting with Gou and the Special Investigation Unit, but when he shows his true colors as a sociopath he really lets loose.
• Evil Is Petty: The entire reason that Heart has the appearance of an investor who snubbed him was so he could torture someone with the guy's face.
• Evil Knockoff: His kleptomaniac tendency towards Krim's inventions means that Banno will even have to resort creating his own copies of his inventions. First starting with creating the Banno Driver as his physical form, then creating Gold Drive as a way of personally fighting his opponents. And that's not even taking account of the fact that he even had Roidmude 004 copying Krim in both physical and intellectual sense.
• Expy:
  • Of Ryoma Sengoku, for being an Evil Former Friend to some protagonists, and their ultimate ambitions to attain godhood for their own purpose. For added bonus, he and Ryoma are the only Big Bads that had their deaths caused by the secondary riders of their respective shows.
  • Once he revealed himself to be Evil All Along he becomes KARR to Krim's KITT.
• False Innocence Trick: How he managed to KO Heart and surprise the fanbase to the fact that this tablet has teeth.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Trusting this guy is terrible mistake, the problem is he's very good at making you do it. Krim and Go's reward for showing him kindness was being thrown away the moment he got what he wanted.
• Fatal Flaw: While he's clearly got lots of problems, his worst has to be his cockiness and arrogance, which is what ultimately gets him killed.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's very good at hiding his rotten nature-at least until things stop going his way.
• Foil:
  • To his own creations, particularly Heart, in a way. The Roidmudes "evolve" by copying human emotions and growing to understand them is what leads many of them to turn good, while Banno despite being human lacked any sort of empathy to begin with and becomes more inhuman as the series progresses by returning as a Virtual Ghost and plotting to elevate himself to godhood.
  • To Kuroto Dan in Outsiders, and by extension his father Masamune Dan. Both are genius inventors with a massive God complex. All of the Doctor Riders' equipment, including Kuroto's own, are genuine byproducts of his talents. Banno's Rider system is an Evil Knockoff of Krim's technology. Banno was openly abusive to his own children (and even to his own creations), whereas Kuroto was a victim of emotional abuse from his own father. Masamune, on the other hand, genuinely loved his wife, and it's made obvious that both of their grief of losing Sakurako made them villains in the first place.
  • To Zein. Banno became a Virtual Ghost after his death as a human. Zein is a mysterious Benevolent A.I., when in truth it's anything but. Banno is a malignant narcissist with a God complex, Zein is a Dark Messiah who seeks to implement its Übermensch mentality to the world. Banno's goal to turn humans into data is merely small potatoes as this is to solely stroke his ego. The extent of Zein's goal to Kill All Humans as its Final Solution to eradicate everything that is evil basically makes it a far more threatening and well documented villain enough to be worse than Hitler. Banno took on a belt form to hijack a Roidmude body (006) to become Gold Drive. Zein can possess a human host using the Zein Driver.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Even though he's revived by Foundation X to be part of their team, no one seems to actually like him and Ecole's report even says the Foundation at-large sees Banno as "annoying."
• The Ghost: For most of the series, his physical body had not been seen in person, only in flashbacks. His consciousness, on the other hand, survived through unknown means.
• Greater-Scope Villain: While Banno caused the Roidmude uprising with his mistreatment of them, he was killed prior to the series and his Virtual Ghost spends most of it stuck in a tablet, unable to directly influence anything until his tablet gets retrieved by the heroes.
• Handicapped Badass: Don't be fooled by his commonplace appearance, he's no mere soul stuck inside a handheld computer.
• Hated by All: Everyone hates Banno, human or Roidmude. Even Foundation X can barely tolerate his self-aggrandizing antics.
• Hate Sink: Banno is an absolute monster that both humanity and Roidmudes alike revile the most who goes out of his way to be as depraved as possible, whether it be torturing Heart by using cattle prods as part of revenge by proxy, mistreating his children, stomping on a Reaper Legion, intentionally having Medic undergo a dangerous procedure that would end in her demise once one of his accomplishments were met, attempting to Take Over the World, or just being a backstabber in general. While most Roidmudes have likable moments in the series, he is completely devoid of any positive and redeeming qualities whatsoever.
• Horrifying the Horror:
  • Heart is absolutely disgusted by him. While 006 was cocky towards him, he quickly found out that was a fatal mistake a few seconds too late, and by the end of episode 41, Brain is terrified of him, and Medic got possessed by him temporarily. And worse of all, this guy is (or was) completely human.
  • Banno gets the receiving end of this trope in Outsiders the second (Kamen Rider) Zein shows up, he's reduced to screaming in agony after being beaten within an inch of his life, and tries to get out of dodge before he gets turned into a Human Pincushion. The following episode, he starts panicking when Zein, the AI, plans to use a Deadly Game as an instrument of genocide.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: As of Outsiders, Banno is nothing but a shadow of his former self. His narcissism has been played down just to be made an ass of himself. Even the heroes and villains are perfectly fine by throwing him at the wringer in the worst moment possible that they also benefit at his misfortune.
• Humanoid Abomination: Becomes this when he possesses 006. When untransformed, 006 is just walking like a puppet on strings rather than a living thing, making him quite disturbing. While he looks less like one while transformed, he's still a Virtual Ghost possessing a robot's corpse.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Is the one who inspired this belief in the Roidmudes, and quite justifiably so. The Roidmudes' crusade against humanity is entirely due to Banno's spiteful abuse of them. It's telling that by the end of the story he comes off as more inhuman than his own creations. The Roidmudes who turned good were able to do so partly because they not only copied human forms embraced the human emotions they were programmed with, while Banno abandoned his human body to become a Virtual Ghost in a bid to rule over humanity and attain godhood.
• Human Pincushion: He gets subjected to one in a disturbing and gruesome fashion by Kamen Rider Zein via Xross Saber's Finishing Move. Zein launches the 10 Seikens like guided missiles at Banno while he helplessly tries to escape Zein, only for the Kurayami to impale him, followed by the Gekido along with the other eight swords, destroying his Humagear body in the process.
• Hypocrite: Objects Zein to using a Deadly Game to convert humans into data, even though that's basically what Banno's plan was, minus the game part.
• In Name Only: As Gold Drive, supplementary materials make it clear that Banno is in no way a Kamen Rider, despite him trying to qualify as such through appearances alone and the simple logic that he copies all of Drive's (as well as Mach and Chaser's) data to create this form. Brain even lampshades it in Outsiders that Banno is unfit to call himself as a Rider, especially when he tries to put in the Arch Orphnoch into the mix as a team of Kamen Rider Outsiders.
• It's All About Me: Even when begging for mercy from his son, it's still just him boasting about his intelligence. No points for guessing what happens to him. Even after being revived with a Humagear body, Foundation X only viewed him as a nuisance.
• Jerkass: Despite his civilized facade, he's a cold and callous manipulator who views everyone around him with contempt.
• Karma Houdini: Zig-zagged. On one hand, the man who abused and corrupted the Roidmudes out of spite, yet it turns out he was able to survive by storing himself on the Internet, meaning that even if his body gets destroyed he can always return. On the other hand, it's clear that he never actually recovered from what was still his ultimate defeat, having not made much progress since. Not helped that his return in Outsiders shows that Banno is but a shell of his former self.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: His Foundation X cohorts pay him no respect, he gets brutalized by Zein as a demonstration of its power, and even Brain gets a chance to taunt and slap him silly while he's speaking to him through his tablet.
• Karmic Death:
  • Is slain by the son he abused and manipulated, using the very weapon he tried to use to kill him the previous episode. For extra irony, said weapon belonged to one of the very creations he'd abused and used so horribly.
    • For even more irony, he dies the same way Krim did in Surprise Future, for which he was (indirectly) responsible. Even more karmic, he made a habit of knocking off Krim's work only to receive Krim's death in the end.
  • Banno also physically abused and tortured the Roidmude that would become Heart purely out of spite of being rejected by the businessman whose appearance Heart is based on. In Outsiders, Kamen Rider Zein beats him up within an inch of his life before being turned into a Human Pincushion. The man behind Zein's suit, Yuto Sakurai is a guy who has knack of using his own Imagin partner as his punching bag. In essence, Banno ends up being the victim and Yuto being the abuser.
• Kick the Dog: He sets Medic up to be brainwashed just as she reaches her Ultimate Evolution from feeling unconditional love. For bonus points, that love had just been directly compared to an actual dog's devotion to its master.
• Lack of Empathy: In his mind, even his own family are nothing more than research subjects.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He is such a villain he got three instances.
  • Tried to kill the heroes by having 004 self destruct. Guess what Chase does to him when mortally wounded an episode later?
  • After abusing his son for so long, he ends up in his lack of mercy.
  • He ambushes Horobi merely for siding with Zein, only for the despotic artificial intelligence to have one of its associates transform into the namesake Rider to execute Banno with extreme prejudice.
• Laughably Evil: In comparison to his characterization in Drive, where his sociopathy and narcissism were played much more seriously, here his constant boasting and petty exchanges with Brain are portrayed comedically. Then again, he's already a mere shadow of his former self, and it's not hard to see why.
• Laughing Mad: His reaction to Brain's death throwing a massive wrench in his plans.
• Mad Scientist: Seeing his human appearance of having messy long hair, and sporting a lab coat? Yes. Emphasis on mad, as his actions and Evil Laugh make it rather clear he's by no means sane.
• Manipulative Bastard: Including to his own family. Even the "Promised Number" plan that the Roidmudes thought they had stolen from him was a lie as even if they had managed to gather four or more Super Evolution Roidmudes, they would not have had the power to enact a second everlasting Global Freeze without Sigma.
• Misplaced Retribution: Had 002 take a form of a businessman to vent his spite out on.
• Mook Horror Show:
  • Banno reacts with fear and terror once Go was about to axe him while he is helpless now that his Roidmude body is destroyed.
  • Getting brutally beaten down by Kamen Rider Zein reduced Banno into a scaredy-cat in mere minutes before having his body skewered and destroyed with Xross Saber's Finishing Move.
• Moral Myopia: He seems okay with converting humans into data using Sigma to demonstrate his God complex. However, he freaks out when Zein plans to do the same using a video game that kills people in real time to trick humanity into self-destruction to speed up the process.
• My Death Is Only The Beginning: Apparently allowing himself to die and uploading his mind was all part of his plan.
• Narcissist: The guy has all the symptoms. In addition to his A God Am I, he can't comprehend the idea he's not as great as he thinks he is, considering any who don't think likewise to be idiots who can't comprehend his genius, but also going to measures to take petty vengeance on them any chance he gets such as making Heart take the form of an investor who snubbed him solely so he could torture someone with the guy's face. He repeatedly boasts about his accomplishments and genius, casually glossing over the fact that most of them are due to him piggybacking off of or outright stealing most of Krim Steinbelt's inventions and perverting them for his own purposes. In his mind, even his own family are nothing more than research subjects in his eyes, and his response to Krim having moral qualms about his actions is to think the guy is joking. His Control Freak tendencies also lend to this disorder.
  • He manages to be this trope while begging for mercy!
  Banno: You cannot rob the world of my glorious intellect!
• Never My Fault:
  • He is unable to comprehend the fact Krim cut off their relationship due to faults on his part, let alone that he showed what's Beneath the Mask by torturing Heart in front of him, instead believing Krim just didn't understand him.
  • In Outsiders, he blames Brain for his defeat by Kamen Rider Zein when he actually brought it on himself. He just doesn't know the simple fact that taunting Zein and threatening its associates means asking for an immediate death sentence.
• Offing the Offspring: The fact Go is his son means absolutely nothing to him, and he's very willing to kill him. And would have had Chase not saved Go.
• Oh, Crap!: Has his first real (though minor) one when he realizes that he can't steal the Tridoron Shift car anymore after the heroes modify it.
  • Has a much bigger, and very very cathartic, one upon realizing Go has every intention of giving him a coup de grace with the Signal Ax.
  • Zein appearing out of nowhere and beating Banno up within an inch of his life left him screaming in fear and terror before he gets turned into a Human Pincushion.
• Older Than They Look: Considering his actor is well-known for voicing young and middle aged characters in anime and video games.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In episode 4 of Outsiders, Banno starts panicking as he discovers Zein's plan with Kamen Rider Chronicle, disguised as a Final Solution to Kill All Humans.
• Personality Powers: He made a habit of stealing and corrupting Krim's work for his own insidious devices, so naturally his primary power as Gold Drive is stealing his opponent's weapon or Shift Car/Bike.
• Pet the Dog: The only instance he shows at least one redeeming quality is in episode 4 of Outsiders. Supposedly, Banno would have held a grudge against Brain for derailing his plan to kill Medic, and in fact losing him does not matter to Project Outsiders' grand plan (granted, since Horobi did defected to Zein and Desast going solo) but he chooses to warn the Roidmude anyway to not trust Zein. Given how Banno's act of good will was meant to be Bait the Dog to the protagonist, his warning is the closest to his only redeeming quality and sole act of mercy with no strings attached.
• Posthumous Character: Letting himself be killed by the Roidmudes before the story began.
• Powerful and Helpless: His Brain Uploading scheme preserved his consciousness in cyberspace, giving him access to tremendous amounts of knowledge and energy to the point that he can lash out at and manipulate the outside world through a computer tablet or monitor, but on the whole, he's stuck there as there's no other system on the planet vast or complex enough to house his mind apart from Krim's Drive Driver.
• Properly Paranoid: Medic was a major target for him from the moment he becomes Gold Drive as he's wary of her healing abilities giving the remaining Roidmudes to stand against him indefinitely. Ultimately, it's her using her powers to heal Shinnosuke, a human, that help ensure Sigma's destruction.
• Psychopathic Man Child: There's a very good reason why Heart hates humanity; Banno, out of a childish and petty desire to take out his anger treated Heart like a toy he tries to break out of fury, he never wants to accept when things won't go his way, and makes sure to taunt his enemies whenever he's got the advantage. Ironically, Heart was cared for by Krim himself, who treats him as a living being and not a puppet.
• Revenge by Proxy: When a young investor declined to fund Banno's research, he had 002 (the future Heart) copy the man's appearance so he could indulge in this trope. Is it any wonder Heart thinks Humans Are Bastards?
• Sadist: And HOW! He really couldn't resist laughing his head out while he uses a cattle prod to electrocute Heart.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Turns out that the Roidmudes keeping him captive was probably for the best, as letting them kill him was part of his plan.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Banno is still convinced at the superiority of his genius, everyone around him, including Foundation X are seemed to be annoyed by his antics.
• Soul Jar: At first it seemed unwilling. Banno's consciousness is stored within Brain's stolen tablet. It later turns out Banno stole Krim's technology and used it to purposely upload his mind.
• Shadow Archetype: The Yuto Sakurai from Outsiders is one for Banno. And given the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown he gave to Banno is an Hourglass Plot to Banno's abuse towards Heart, he also represents the main timeline Yuto's constant physical abuse of Deneb taken to shockingly humorless extremes.
• Shout-Out: Banno's vines seem to be inspired by Hermit Purple.
• The Sociopath: Saw absolutely nothing wrong with making Heart, then simply 002, take the form of a businessman who declined to fund his experiments and then beating him viciously with what seems to be a cattle prod. And when Krim decided to end his partnership and friendship with Banno out of disgust, Banno thought he was joking. He's got a grandiose sense of self-worth.
  • He doesn't even love his own wife and children, seeing his kids as nothing more than test subjects. How this man not only had a wife, but had two kids with her is a mystery for the ages.
  • It's heavily implied that the reason this character trait is the reason he chose to steal a Roidmude body instead of just uploading his consciousness into one in the first place. Being as cold and callow as he was, he'd have no way of attaining the emotional highs necessary to attain Ultimate Evolution. To get around this, he opted to wait until one of his own creations did so and then hijacked its enhanced form.
• Snakes Are Sinister: Steals the body of Roidmude 006, a Cobra Roidmude. Given the symbolism of snakes, it's a fitting motif.
• Start of Darkness: He is this for the Roidmudes. Especially Heart, who got to witness his cruelty firsthand.
• Stealth Pun: Banno's surname is a homophone for the word "omnipotent", referring to his powers and even moreso to his opinion of himself.
• Stupid Evil:
  • One of Banno's weaknesses is that he can't resist doing unnecessarily cruel things that hinder his goals. He revels at being a Bad Boss to his Reaper Legion subordinates, and even takes his time tormenting his own son. This bites him in the rear in the worst possible moment even after his Roidmude body is destroyed, he can't even bring himself to keep quiet that his son is close by and pulls the Signal Ax before once he sees the helpless Banno.
  • He doesn't even learn from this mistake in Outsiders, instead of escaping after he has Horobi on the ropes, he just takes his time beating the tar out of him, only to find himself cornered by Zein, who beats Banno to near death and even turned him into a Human Pincushion.
• Thanatos Gambit: His death allowed him to digitize his consciousness and become a Virtual Ghost. Even after Go kills him, Banno is able to store his data into the Internet and waited for a decade later to be revived with a new body after coming contact with the Ark.
• This Cannot Be!:
  • His reaction to Go, in Chaser Mach form, overpowering him.
• This Is a Drill: How he performs his Rider Kick.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • He'd have been just fine if he hadn't started gloating about how he could repair and transfer his data.
  • Had Banno escaped after beating down Horobi, he could've spared himself from getting beaten within an inch of his life by (Kamen Rider) Zein.
• Unable to Retreat: Banno being reduced into a belt after his defeat did not guarantee him a chance to escape as his son is about to kill him. Subverted in Kamen Rider Outsiders as he was able to transfer his data around the Internet and waited a decade later for his revival... Only to be butchered by Kamen Rider Zein, destroying his Humagear body and then transferred his data into Foundation X's network.
• Undignified Death: Twice over, but subverted otherwise since he can store his data into the Internet and can come back anytime. His son commits parricide by giving Banno an axe to the face. The second is he gets skewed from top to bottom with multiple holy swords.
• Villain Has a Point: Banno is, and always has been a slimy egomaniac, but he has every right to stop Brain from siding with Zein. And considering that Zein's actual goal being more than just a witch hunt against the villains, it's safe to say that he makes a good point to warn Brain about Zein, albeit in a rude manner.
• Villainous Breakdown: The result of Brain foiling his plans to kill Medic with the Sigma Circular's energy run off (thus making Heart suffer but taking out the Roidmudes healer and preventing anyone from being healed so they could oppose him). He goes utterly Laughing Mad and unresponsive for several minutes, and even after he snaps out of it, he can't seem to stop laughing and his voice becomes even more unhinged. Even if he succeeded in getting the Sigma Circular active, he certainly didn't emerge unscathed.
  • Has more of one when Go moves in to kill him, being reduced to desperately trying to convince Go not to do so.
• Villainous Friendship: It’s revealed that Banno met and befriended Satellite Ark while his data was roaming the Internet, and he specifically cites this friendship when interrupting Horobi’s threat that Zein will destroy Ark by attacking him
• Villainous Legacy: Banno is killed separately from the battle with Sigma, which continues to attempt to carry out his plan in spite of his death.
• Villains Want Mercy:
  • Even with his body destroyed, he remains smug and arrogant...until Go drags the Signal Axe over and preps the Full Throttle. Unfortunately for the psycho, Go has none.
  • After Kamen Rider Zein, overpowers him, he desperately tries to make a bargain with Zein and offers to swear loyalty to it. Zein doesn't care and uses the brutal beatdown to set an example on his fellow villains.
• Virtual Ghost: Like Krim, he's the consciousness of a dead person who's been digitized.
• Walking Spoiler: Any discussion about him that isn't "he died" and "he made the Roidmudes" counts as a spoiler. The reason that big warning is in the folder title is because the entire folder would be spoiler text otherwise.
• What Does She See in Him?: Remember, this guy got married and had two children. Though he is good at lying...
• Xanatos Speed Chess: With Freeze and Brain becoming too smart and powerful for his liking, he actually spends over half-a-dozen episodes helping the heroes so he can buy himself more time to copy Krim's belt and find himself a suitable new body.
• You Monster!: As stated, Go had this perspective of him. As does Heart, who considers him far worse than any Roidmude, and Krim, who outright calls him a demon.
• You Will Be Assimilated: His ultimate plan involves using Sigma to catalogue and digitize the entirety of mankind. If you swear loyalty to or please him, you get to exist on the material plane. Refuse and he'll just delete you.

Tropes applied to him as Gold Drive and Bronzedrive

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• Brought Down to Badass: Bronze Drive is basically a "downgrade" of Banno's Gold Drive form. As his name suggests, the fact that his form rusted into bronze as a result of him revived with a Humagear body and in the process loses the durability from his golden form. Banno can still make up for the raw power which is still carried over from Gold Drive.
• Expy: In all but appearance, Gold Drive can be seen as one to Kohgane from Kamen Rider Gaim. In that both are artificial knockoffs of the real thing, with the word "gold" in their name only serves to inflate their massive ego. They even employ a monster as their direct subordinate and tries to take advantage of a war between two conflicting sides to strengthening their arms. Gold Drive's "degradation" into Bronzedrive is also a parallel to Kohgane's attempted payback when his old powers as Mars has been downgraded into Kamen Rider Jam.
• Glass Cannon: Bronze Drive retains the raw power of his Gold Drive form but being revived with a Humagear body comes with a huge setback of losing the durability of his golden form, leaving him helpless against Zein's plethora of Rider powers.
• Insistent Terminology: The fact that his Rider form had rusted into bronze, Banno still insists being called Gold Drive.
  Horobi: Which part of you is gold?
• Light Is Not Good: His Rider form is basically Drive Type Speed painted in gold, but the Rider himself is a straight-up psychopath with a raging God complex.
• Power Parasite: As Gold Drive has the ability of stealing weapons from others, and can even hijack the Shift Cars, though he can't change form himself. Eventually, the group finds a way to block this ability.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Gold Drive has red colored versions of Drive's Multi High Beam Eyes, but they aren't detailed after headlamps and merely opaque red, fitting to how Banno merely copies every inch of Krim's inventions on the surface level and not the in depth details of them.

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