History Recap / KamenRiderExAidEp23ToTheMaxDeadOrAlive

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Parado gleefully kills Kuroto for all the horrible acts he committed in the past several episodes and being an insane maniac.]]

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Parado unceremoniously kills Kuroto in front of the Doctor Riders as payback for viewing his fellow Bugsters as expendable test subjects. Sparing him could've allowed to be held accountable is a much more humane punishment for the guy as Emu put it up succinctly.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Literature/SwordArtOnline It hurts, doesn't it? But it's nothing like the pain you made them feel. NOT EVEN CLOSE!!]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX Genm! Your Bugster plans stop right here!]]]]

* SanitySlippage: Even before he loses his ResurrectiveImmortality, Kuroto's almost gone completely insane by that point, to the point where his fighting style has basically devolved to trying to hit whatever's in his way. Once he loses his immortality, Kuroto loses ''[[UpToEleven anything]]'' resembling sanity on any sort of level, infecting a crowd of people for some stress relief and being unable to do anything more than scream and run at his enemies flailing his arms.

* FamousLastWords: From Kuroto, [[spoiler:although his death isn't permanent yet]]:
-->'''Kuroto''': [[spoiler:I am God! My dreams... '''ARE IMMORTAAAAAAL!!''']]

* PoliceAreUseless: Justified, as they're armed with riot gear and nightsticks against......[[CurbStompBattle An immortal zombie Kamen Rider and his horde of sentient viruses]]. [[CaptainObvious Needless to say the assault on Genm Corp. goes horribly wrong]].

[[caption-width-right:350:[[ReviveKillsZombie Your immortality is nothing!]]]]

--> Gashat Count: Ex-Aid: 8 (Continued) Brave: 3 Snipe: 3 Genm: 0 (Game Over) Para-DX: 4

--> Gashat Count: Ex-Aid: 8 Brave: 3 Snipe: 3 Genm: 0 (Game Over) Para-DX: 4

Even the Viruses can now revive, but after discovering a file on Kiriya's laptop, Hiiro arrives as Brave Quest Gamer Level 2 and tosses the blank Gashat to Ex-Aid; attacking a further-angered Genm, he says Emu should be able to make it work like he did with a previous Gashat, Emu realizing that Mighty Brothers XX had come from a game he'd once thought up as a kid. He attempts to use the Gashat, but it knocks him out of his transformation; Brave insists that Kiriya had discovered Emu as the first Bugster virus patient and knew his infection was the source of all Bugsters and Gashats, Parad noting from afar that that's why he'd been killed. Emu repeatedly attempts opening and closing his Driver to no effect, Brave taking Hunter Quest Gamer Level 5 Full Dragon to hold Genm back but getting knocked down and out. Hiiro reminds Emu how Kiriya had entrusted humanity's fate to him, prompting Emu's Bugster virus to evolve, his body emitting a magenta flame before it accumulated into the Gashat, completing it into Maximum Mighty X and transforming him into Ex-Aid Maximum Gamer Level 99, the maximum Level. He Stage Selects to outside a hangar, Genm merging his zombie Viruses into a massive amalgamation Bugster Union; it attacks Ex-Aid to no effect and is easily knocked back and destroyed, rebuilding itself seconds later. Ex-Aid uses a Gun Mode Maximum Mighty Critical Finish to split the Union into the zombie Viruses again, Genm discovering that his Rider Gauge has also been repaired and filled, Ex-Aid explaining he used Kiriya's data and reprogrammed away Genm's immortality. Snipe takes the opportunity to hit the now-vulnerable Genm with Bang Bang Critical Fire, Ex-Aid pummeling Genm down to one health bar but stopping and untransforming. He's a doctor before a Kamen Rider and won't kill Kuroto, but Kuroto fires the Gashacon Bugvisor to cover his escape.

Taiga considers this a loss of opportunity, that killing Kuroto to save many more is worth it, but Hiiro and Emu disagree. Kuroto stumbles through the city, frustrated that the final two Bugsters from [=DoReMiFa=] Beat and Drago Knight Hunter Z haven't appeared yet; finding a crowd, he decides to speed up the process and sprays the two games' infections onto everyone. While searching for him, Emu is met by Parad, who attempts to convince Emu to kill Genm, as he's basically a dead shell already and has no life left to take; he has to beat the final boss for the happy ending. Taiga finds Kuroto impatiently waiting for the Bugsters to emerge, the two transforming into Snipe Level 50 and Genm Level X. Brave Level 5 Full Dragon arrives to suggest taking Genm's Gashat instead of killing him, but Genm knocks Brave away with an Arrow Mode [=DoReMiFa=] Critical Finish, tossing the Gashat aside to use an Arrow Mode Jet Critical Finish that Snipe counters with Bang Bang Critical Fire, knocking both Riders back. Emu arrives and transforms to Ex-Aid Level 99, Stage Selecting to a junkyard; Genm calls two Level X clones, but Ex-Aid knocks them aside and starts fighting the main Genm, Snipe and Brave facing the clones. Genm uses a Sickle Mode Giri Giri Critical Finish to no effect, the doctor Riders beating down their adversaries before using Drago Knight Critical Strike, Bang Bang Critical Fire, and Maximum Critical Break, destroying the clones and defeating Genm.

After the Game Area clears, Kuroto tries transforming again, but finds that the Dangerous Zombie Gashat won't trigger; Emu explains that his finisher had reprogrammed the Bugster antibodies from Kuroto's compatibility surgery to render him incompatible with Gashats. He believes that deep inside Kuroto is a good person who wants to make games, and wants to make him smile again; however, Parad arrives, knocking Kuroto down and taking his equipment. He says that game losers get bad endings before using the Bugvisor to infect Kuroto with Dangerous Zombie's infection, spraying a cloud to keep the others back. He thanks the "Game Master" and says he's taking over Kamen Rider Chronicle before leaving. In a mad fit, Kuroto begins digitizing, claiming himself a god before dissolving into data.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse. Emu interprets Kuroto as someone who just loved games too much and needs to atone for his sins. Pallad doesn't see it that way, calling Kuroto a pathetic man who's become nothing more than an empty, souless husk.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Ex-Aid strips off Genm's Rider and Bugster powers but has no intention in killing him... [[spoiler:until Pallad shows up to finish the job for the Doctor Riders]].

* BittersweetEnding: Although Kuroto gets a [[spoiler:([[PutOnABus temporary]])]] "Game Over", Kiriya is still dead, Pallad is still on the loose, [[spoiler:and the Kamen Rider Chronicle Gashat is almost completed]].

* DeathByIrony: Emu used Kiriya's Gamer Driver to remove Kuroto's ability to transform. [[spoiler: Pallad then uses the Buggle Driver to infect Kuroto with a massive amount of the Bugster Virus to kill him, much like he did with Kiriya. To further rub salt in the wound, he used Kuroto's Dangerous Zombie Gashat to do so.]]

* DirtyCoward: Kuroto is nothing more than a worthless scumbag without his so-called "immortality". [[spoiler:This is especially evident after Pallad shows up to kill him.]]

* EnigmaticMinion: [[spoiler:His motive was already sketchy to begin with, but this episode make it clear that Pallad has his own plan for Kamen Rider Chronicle.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Kuroto's death means that Pallad now has access to his Gamer Driver, which later on would allow him to transform into Level 99.]]

* HumiliationConga: Kuroto is getting a series of these within this episode: 1) Emu strips off his ResurrectiveImmortality thanks to Kiriya's Gamer Driver and the Maximum Mighty X Gashat, 2) He lost his Genm powers at the end of his second fight against the Doctor Riders, and 3) [[spoiler:Pallad shows up to kill him.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Pallad gleefully kills Kuroto for all the horrible acts he committed in the past several episodes and being an insane maniac.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Pallad mockingly gives his thanks to a dying Kuroto before leaving.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[ReviveKillsZombie Game Over, Genm!]]]]

--> Gashat Count: Ex-Aid: 7 Brave: 3 Snipe: 3 Genm: 0 (Game Over) Para-DX: 5

--> Gashat Count: Ex-Aid: 7 Brave: 3 Snipe: 3 Genm: 0 (Game Over) Para-DX: 4