History Characters / HorseshoesAndHandGrenades

* ActionDad
* AdultFear: Suffers through this over his son being kidnapped in front of his eyes and his inability to do anything to save him. He calms down a bit once the two reunite in ''Sundays-8.5''

* DeadpanSnarker[=/=]FirstPersonSmartass: Seems to be a trait with most of the first person perspective fics.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Hideyasu starts calling him "Rippupu~". Luna [[ActuallyPrettyFunny finds it adorable]].

->Masquerade Costume: [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Clopin]]

->Masquerade Costume: [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Esmerelda]]

* {{Fangirl}}: Loves WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, especially the character Clopin.

* NotSoDifferent: Tries using this card with Satonaka as they both are loyal to their bosses. [[ShutUpHannibal Satonaka proceeds to slam her head into the Den-Liner's window. Repeatedly.]]

* NotSoDifferent: After Jun talks to him about her younger brother's death, he begins to realize that even though the world is unlike his own, everyone has their own problems.

* ShutUpHannibal: Sonada tries to tell how the two [[NotSoDifferent are pretty similar to one another.]] Satonaka bashes her head against the [=DenLiner=] window repeatedly.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant
* NotSoDifferent: Despite being an ancient serpent with a Mardi Gras theme, he is also in search of a loved one which is how Jun relates to him--she lost a father and little brother and is still reeling, but she manages to live her life to the fullest despite with it.

* SupernaturalGoldEyes

* BigEater: Even though he was resurrected, Gentaro needs to eat something once or day else his body starts to decompose.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Norio delivers one in ''XIII-Web of Sin'' powerful enough to give ''Gentaro'' a VillainousBSOD.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: He gives one to Sagittarius Zodiarts, eventually declaring that he'll become the new principal of Amanogawa High.

* ElementalHair: In Ch 27 of Horseshoes, Virgo Zodiarts' Cosmic Energy injections lets her hair become like water.

* ThoseTwoGuys[=/=]ThoseTwoBadGuys

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Sonada.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Kijima.

* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Uses MindControl and Revenge for the male minions (particularly for Kengo and Jiro), for his female minons, he just uses MindControl.

* BrokenPedastal: To the entire Kamen Rider Club, Tomoko especially who was heartbroken over it all.

* HairDecorations: Wears a snake barrette in his hair.

->Masquerade Costume: [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]]

->Masquerade Costume: [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Clopin]]

->Masquerade Costume: [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Esmerelda]]

* {{Fangirl}}: Loves Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, especially the character Clopin.

->Masquerade Costume: [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} Yen Sid]]

->Masquerade Costume: [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast]]

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe. The antagonists love to rub it in her face that she just yelled "Stop!" when Ryusei was about to kill Gentaro and she ''hates'' herself more because of it.

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe. Most of the school talk behind her back as to what she did regarding turning Norio into a Zodiarts and the cult in general. Gentaro notes that for the rest of her life in Amanogawa High, she's going to be called the "Swan Bitch" because of it.

** ManInWhite: Remember, Japanese consider white just like Americans consider black: a color of death.

* ManInWhite: His human form...which looks just like ''Shotaro''.

* ManInWhite[=/=]WholeCostumeReference: His outfit is presumably a ShoutOut to [[Anime/{{Yugioh}} Dartz]], who also had a connection with Leviathan.

* PurpleEyes: Gains these under Damballa's control.

* BadassGrandpa: Gentaro had to get it from somewhere, after all!

* {{Ouroboros}}: [[CaptainObvious Of course.]]

->Masquerade Costume: [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Masque of the Red Death]]

* RomanceGenreHeroes: Abe is The Best Friend, Ibuki is The Professor, Taira is The Warrior, Teruhiko is The Swashbuckler and Miura is The Lost Soul.
** RomanceGenreHeroines: Mari is The Spunky Kid, Rumi is The Crusader and Jun fills the role of The Nurturer (with shades of The Free Spirit).

* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Their names are the shorten versions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, names of the (very) minor characters in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' but the protagonists of ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead''.

* MasterCharacterHeroes:
** Abe and Miura: ''Ares: The Protector''
** Ibuki: ''Apollo: The Businessman''
** Taira: ''Hades: The Recluse''
** Teruhiko: ''Osiris: The Male Messiah.''
** MasterCharacterHeroines:
** Mari is ''Hera: The Matriarch''
** Rumi is ''Artemis: The Amazon''
** Jun: ''Demeter: The Nurturer'' and ''Isis: The Female Messiah.''

* InfantImmortality: Averted. Yuri boils her alive with hot ground water and she can't participate in the fighting at Kyoto. She gets better and is shown fighting in ''Month of Sundays''.

* KaleidoscopeEyes: Her eyes glow yellow and orange when she activates "Sun Sight", which helps her see what a person truly desires. For example, when she analyzes Eiji, she sees that he wants the Taka Core Medal fixed.

* {{Badass}}: He's one of the ''last'' people you'd expect to start kicking ass.
** BadassNormal: Has no abilities to speak of, just lots of determination and guts.
** BadassTeacher: To sum up what's happen to him, he's stood his ground toward a bloodied Ryusei--who recently killed Shun--gets sent to the Dark Nebula with a smile on his face--saved Sonada and Kijima from the M-BUS satellite, freed Kengo from mind control while Kengo was choking him to death with flaming hands, and gave Sonada a ShutUpHannibal speech while defeating her with both a slipper and a costume glove. After that, he confronts Sagittarius Zodiarts, hits him ''with a shoe'', declares that he'll become the new principal of Amaongawa High and gains a caduceus that he immediately uses to whack the chairman across the head.

* {{Badass}}: They're Kamen Riders--of ''course'' they're badass!

* {{Badass}}: She fights Virgo Zodiarts and Leo Zodiarts head on without breaking a sweat!
** BadassNormal: Until she goes into Super Climax Form, then she's an EmpoweredBadassNormal.
** BadassTeacher

* [[BlondeGuysAreEvil Blond Boys Are Evil]]: Due to his Serpent-bearer being Ankh, he gets to replicate his form. It's more blond boys are morally confused, though.

* IncomingHam[=/=]SayMyName: "DENEB!!!"
* PuttingAHandOverHisMouth: In ''Month of Sundays'', Yuto does this to Deneb just as Deneb is about to mention something about Gentaro. See above for an explanation.

* MeaningfulName: Named after the feathered serpent in Aztec Mythology, and his bearer is essentially ''the'' representative of feathered-beings.

* ClassicalMythology: See the description above.

* ClassicalMythology

* MeaningfulName: Vasuki's namesake is a {{naga}}, one of the serpents of [[HinduMythology Hindu mythology]].