History Series / KamenRiderBlade

* NiceHat: Part of Mutsuki's SmugSnake wardrobe, hinted at early on in the opening credits.

!!This series contains examples of:

* MythologyGag: Sakuya Tachibana (Kamen Rider Garren) shares his surname with the original Kamen Riders' mentor, Tobei Tachibana, alluding to his role as the most senior Rider in this season.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Undeads' battle royale is called the "Battle Fight".

!!This series contains examples of:

* AGodAmI: Hiroshi Tennōji
* AlienBlood: Undead bleed green.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The series has a unique case as this happened ''in the first episode''.
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Yoshito Hirose]].
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: the girlfriend of Hajime's IdenticalStranger is the heiress to a ''taiyaki'' or fried-fishcake empire... who has Denise Richards-worthy fishlips.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler:Tennoji is beaten, but the Riders don't want to kill him, despite him still being a major threat, because he's defenseless at the moment. Kanai is more than happy to do it for them.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Used to defeat the Titan Undead. It'd been impersonating the group the entire time, making them unsure of who they could trust and making it hard to find. Hajime seemed to lose control and assume his Joker form and Kenzaki seemed to be unable to finish him. So the Titan emerged to try and finish the Joker himself, only to be caught by Garren and Leangle. Hajime returns to human form and reveals that was what they were hoping for. He only ''pretended'' to lose control and Kenzaki pretended to be unable to stop him so the Titan, who as an Undead fears the Joker and wants him done away with, would try to finish him itself, walking right into their trap.]]
* BatOutOfHell: Bat Undead/Garren's 8 of Diamonds Scope Bat.
* BearsAreBadNews: Polar Undead/Leangle's 6 of Clubs Blizzard Polar.
* BecomingTheMask: Hajime, who [[spoiler:assumed the appearance of the Human Undead and found himself enjoying his new life]].
* BeeAfraid: Bee Undead/Leangle's 2 of Clubs Stab Bee.

* MidSeasonUpgrade: Jack Form

* MultiformBalance: With the exception of Leangle, all of the Riders have at least two forms. And even then Leangle gets Jack Form in the manga and S.I.C. toyline.
** JackOfAllStats: Blade, Garren and Chalice's Ace Form.
** LightningBruiser: Leangle's Ace Form
** GlassCannon: Blade and Garren's Jack Forms.[[note]]The latter's also counts as his SuperMode.[[/note]]
** SuperMode: Blade's King Form and Chalice's Wild Form.

* WeaponOfChoice: All the Riders have their own weapons, usually their Rouzers (except for Chalice, whose Rouzer is only used to activate attacks but can't be used as a weapon on its own).
** CoolSword: Kazuma/Blade is armed with the Blay Rouzer and King Rouzer, both swords. Junichi/Glaive uses a modified version of the Blay Rouzer, the Glaive Rouzer.
** [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Handguns]]: Sakuya/Garren is armed with the Garren Rouzer, a high-tech gun.
** BladeOnAStick: Mutsuki/Leangle is armed with the Leangle Rouzer, an extendable staff weapon with a clover-shaped spearhead. Shin/Lance uses the Lance Rouzer, a spear.
** TheStraightAndArrowPath: Hajime/Chalice is armed with the Chalice Arrow, a longbow. Natsumi/Larc is armed with the Larc Rouzer, a crossbow.
** SinisterScythe / DualWielding: Hajime/Chalice again - when he's in Wild Form, he gets the Wild Slasher, which can be split into two kama.
** {{BFS}}: Kazuma/Blade again in [[spoiler:King Form, with its King Rouzer.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Take the trump card of fate!"''[[note]]Counter clockwise from bottom right: [[TheHero Blade]], [[TheGunslinger Garren]], [[TheRival Chalice]], [[KidAppealCharacter Leangle]][[/note]]]]

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler:Tennoji is beaten, but the Riders don't want to kill him, despite him still being a major threat, because he's defenseless at the moment. King of Diamonds is more than happy to do it for them.]]

* EvilFeelsGood: Mutsuki Kamijō
* EvilIsNotAToy: Kerberos kills the scientists involved in its genesis upon creation.

* GoodFeelsGood: [[spoiler: The Tarantula Undead feels this way due to his love for human compassion.]]

** Parodied later on with Kotaro when his date is revealed to be the Orchid Undead. His usually good cooking drops into LethalChef territory, although Tachibana can still eat it [[RuleOfFunny for some reason.]]

** [[spoiler:Tarantula Undead to save Mutsuki from being controlled by the Spider Undead. Although it didn't take until MUCH later on when Tiger Undead did the same.]]

* HumansAreSpecial: Humans have a great deal of traits that the Undead didn't start out with, such as compassion and caring about others. Some Undead who can assume human form, [[spoiler:such as the Tarantula Undead and Hajime]], discover this and perform a HeelFaceTurn as a result of finding they actually like these traits.

* LighterAndSofter: While still serious and with its fair share of drama, ''Blade'' greatly tones down the blood, graphic violence and terrifying content of its predecessor ''Faiz''.

* CardBattleGame: Has elements of this: each Undead is sealed into a card that can then be slashed through a Rouzer to activate the card's special powers. Using certain cards in succession would activate a Rider's FinishingMove.

* EvilAlbino: The Albino Joker. He's actually ''even worse'' than the normal Joker.

* GottaCatchEmAll

* AGodAmI - Hiroshi Tennōji
* AlienBlood - Undead bleed green.

* ArtificialHuman - [[spoiler:Yoshito Hirose]].
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance - the girlfriend of Hajime's IdenticalStranger is the heiress to a ''taiyaki'' or fried-fishcake empire... who has Denise Richards-worthy fishlips.
* BatmanGambit - [[spoiler:Used to defeat the Titan Undead. It'd been impersonating the group the entire time, making them unsure of who they could trust and making it hard to find. Hajime seemed to lose control and assume his Joker form and Kenzaki seemed to be unable to finish him. So the Titan emerged to try and finish the Joker himself, only to be caught by Garren and Leangle. Hajime returns to human form and reveals that was what they were hoping for. He only ''pretended'' to lose control and Kenzaki pretended to be unable to stop him so the Titan, who as an Undead fears the Joker and wants him done away with, would try to finish him itself, walking right into their trap.]]
* BatOutOfHell - Bat Undead/Garren's 8 of Diamonds Scope Bat.
* BearsAreBadNews - Polar Undead/Leangle's 6 of Clubs Blizzard Polar.
* BecomingTheMask - Hajime, who [[spoiler:assumed the appearance of the Human Undead and found himself enjoying his new life]].
* BeeAfraid - Bee Undead/Leangle's 2 of Clubs Stab Bee.
* BigBad - [[spoiler: Hiroshi Tennoji. He isn't the final villain, but he was the one who unsealed the Undead and manipulates events from behind the scene the entire series, all in an attempt to become a God and rule the world.]]

* BigDamnVillains - [[spoiler:Tennoji is beaten, but the Riders don't want to kill him, despite him still being a major threat, because he's defenseless at the moment. King of Diamonds is more than happy to do it for them.]]
* BittersweetEnding- Hajime is allowed to live on as a human, but the Sealing Stone still exists which means Kenzaki must keep as far away from Hajime as possible. Might also sort-of qualify as a DownerEnding.

*** [[spoiler: It gets better however, as both Kenzaki and Hajime's Joker powers end up being simultaeously sealed in Ridewatches, forever keeping the battle royale in a stalemate while reverting them into pure humans and taking away their need to avoid each other anymore.]]
* BlackSpeech - The language of the Undead.
* BookEnds - The decks have these. The King Undeads are all bigger, badder versions of the corresponding Ace. For instance, the ace of clubs is a spider, the king is a tarantula.
* {{Brainwashed}} - Mutsuki, falling under the influence of the Spider Undead.
* CantCatchUp - Kamen Rider Leangle, touted as the 'strongest Rider' early into his debut, lived up to that at first, but became woefully outclassed when the others got their {{Super Mode}}s. He ''tried'' to catch up, but never did. Though it should be noted that he never quite falls so far behind that he's useless, which ironically shows how his Ace Form was indeed the strongest.
* CardBattleGame - Has elements of this: each Undead is sealed into a card that can then be slashed through a Rouzer to activate the card's special powers. Using certain cards in succession would activate a Rider's FinishingMove.
* ChekhovsGun - The password for the BOARD computer, "Double Joker".
* TheChick - Shiori Hirose
* CookingDuel - For a [[JustForPun little added flavour]], this one was takoyaki[[note]]Toasted pastry balls with chunks of octopus[[/note]] vs taiyaki[[note]]Toasted fish-shaped waffles usually with jam[[/note]], scored by customer sales.
* CreationMyth
* DeadlyUpgrade - Blade's King Form. [[spoiler:This is because of a [[DidntThinkThisThrough glaring flaw]] in the overall Rider System: Kenzaki's overly-high fusion ratio caused the Blade System to exceed its perimeters and fuse his DNA with all 13 sealed Undead associated with the suit of Spades, instead of just the Category King. Because of this, extended activity in King Form raises his fusion ratio, which would eventually [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie mutate him into a Joker-type Undead]].]]

* DeathByOriginStory - The fate of Amane's father could be considered this, since it ties in directly with Hajime's origins. [[spoiler:Double subverted later on when Yoshito Hirose, presumed dead after releasing the Undead in the first place, turns up alive - only for that 'Hirose' to later be revealed to be a Trial monster himself.]]
* DrivenToSuicide - [[spoiler:Hajime attempts to kill himself after he can no longer control himself and prevent him from carrying out the Joker's destiny to destroy the world. But being an immortal Undead, this fails.]]

** Category Six cards
*** AnIcePerson - Leangle's Blizzard Polar.
*** BlowYouAway - Chalice's Tornado Hawk.
*** PlayingWithFire - Garren's Fire Fly.
*** ShockAndAwe - Blade's Thunder Deer.

*** GreenThumb - Chalice's Category Seven Bio Plant.
*** PoisonousPerson - Leangle's Category Eight Poison Scorpion.
*** TimeMaster - Blade's Category Ten Time Scarab.
* EmpathicEnvironment - Leangle's first appearence is accompanied by omnious storm clouds that come out of nowhere. No explaination is ever given, but it makes for a great entrence.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt - What happens if Joker is the last one standing.
* EvilAlbino - The Albino Joker. He's actually ''even worse'' than the normal Joker.
* EvilCounterpart - Leangle's Rider System was created by Karasuma when he was forced to work with Undeads. Albino Joker works out to be an evil counterpart to the normal Joker Undead--lacking any of Hajime's woobish tendencies.
* EvilFeelsGood - Mutsuki Kamijō
* EvilIsNotAToy - Kerberos kills the scientists involved in its genesis upon creation.
* EverybodyLives - All four Riders and their civilian buddies live [[spoiler:(although Kenzaki is now an Undead and must avoid Hajime at all costs)]].

* [[ThreateningShark Everything's Worse With Sharks]] - Hammerhead Undead/Chalice's 3 of Hearts Chop Head.

* {{Expy}} - An in-universe version; the ''Missing Ace'' Riders' powers are modeled on the four from the TV series: Glaive is Blade, Larc is a combination of Garren and Chalice, and Lance is Leangle.

* FindingJudas - Tachibana, when he works with Hirose's father to [[spoiler:save Kenzaki from his own King Form]].
* FireIceLightning - Non video game example. Blade is lightning, Garren is Fire, and Leangle is ice. Chalice messes with the formula at times by serving as air/wind.

* FunWithAcronyms - BOARD stands for the "'''B'''oard '''O'''f '''A'''rchaeological '''R'''esearch '''D'''epartment.
* FusionDance - The Rouse Systems work by merging the user's DNA with that of the Catagory Ace Undead. Though normally the human remains in control. [[spoiler:Leangle has it rough because the Spider Undead was improperly sealed and can control him to some degree.]]
* GoodFeelsGood - [[spoiler: The Tarantula Undead feels this way due to his love for human compassion.]]
* GoOutWithASmile - [[spoiler:According to Hajime's flashback, the Human Undead did this when he willingly allowed himself to be sealed.]]

* HeroicBSOD - Kenzaki briefly goes through a phase of this after Tachibana's apparent betrayal.

* HeroicSacrifice - [[spoiler:Kenzaki in the finale, who sacrifices his humanity]].

* HumansAreSpecial - Humans have a great deal of traits that the Undead didn't start out with, such as compassion and caring about others. Some Undead who can assume human form [[spoiler:,such as the Tarantula Undead and Hajime]] discover this and perform a HeelFaceTurn as a result of finding they actually like these traits.
* IneffectualLoner - Hajime Aikawa
* JapaneseBeetleBrothers - Blade and Garren are in general Type A, though there are hints of Type B.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia - Hajime at one point, which leads into an encounter with an IdenticalStranger.
* LastNameBasis - Kenzaki, Tachibana, and Hirose are almost never called by their given names.

* LetsYouAndHimFight - [[spoiler: Hiroshi uses his crossbreed Titan Undead to do this with both it's poison and shapeshifting abilities in an attempt to get the Riders to destroy each other. The Riders get wise and set up a ''fake'' battle with Hajime's Joker form in order to lure it out so it can be defeated.]]

* MessiahCreep - Kazuma Kenzaki
* MidSeasonUpgrade - Jack Form
* TheMonolith - A twisty version acts as the Undeads' Battle Royale judge.
* MoralityPet - Amane Kurihara to Hajime Aikawa, Sayoko Fukasawa to Sakuya Tachibana. Mutsuki's girlfriend Nozomi also qualifies.
* MultiformBalance - With the exception of Leangle, all of the Riders have at least two forms.

* MythologyGag - Sakuya Tachibana (Kamen Rider Garren) shares his surname with the original Kamen Riders' mentor, Tobei Tachibana, alluding to his role as the most senior Rider in this season.

* NiceHat - Part of Mutsuki's SmugSnake wardrobe, hinted at early on in the opening credits.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain - Nice job [[spoiler:killing Tachibana's girlfriend and freeing him of the fear that was crippling him in battle Isaka.]]
* OhCrap - The first time Kenzaki fights a "Trial" (artificial creatures created from hybrids of human and Undead DNA), he fells it with the Lightning Sonic. As usual, he throws a Blank to attempt to seal it... the Blank is ''absorbed'' instead.

* OneWingedAngel - The Albino Joker's final form in TheMovie.

* OutsideContextProblem - The Albino Joker in TheMovie. Having sealed every Undead already with there being no indication of there being another one, he comes out of nowhere and what really throws them off is how intelligent he is compared to the normal Joker, who in his natural state is a raging beast. By the time they figure that out, [[spoiler:he's already played them like fiddles and gotten what he wants.]]

* PowerGivesYouWings - Blade's and Garren's Jack Forms.
* PrimalFear - Tachibana's fear of his body degenerating due to prolonged use of the Rouze System. [[spoiler:Turns out it was all in his head]].

* RhinoRampage - Rhinoceros Undead/Leangle's 4 of Clubs Rush Rhinoceros.
* RuleOfFunny - Tachibana and Mutsuki whipping out their Rouzers untransformed in Blade Vs Blade (followed by shooting Kazuma in the butt and whopping him on the head respectively). Shiori Hirose can lift heavy objects with one hand. Clearly there is only one reason.
* ScaryScorpions- Scorpion Undead/Leangle's 8 of Clubs Poison Scorpion, again.
* SealedEvilInACan - Joker, who is sealed by [[spoiler:Hajime's Sealed Category Ace of Hearts and the Sealed Category Two of Hearts/Human Undead]]. Later is unsealed due to [[spoiler:Blade's King Form]] and then resealed by [[spoiler:Using the Category King of Hearts to enable Chalice's Wild Form]]
* ShootTheDog - Tachibana attempts to [[spoiler:kill Hajime]] to save the world from being overrun with monstrous roaches.
* SmokeOut - Squid Undead/Leangle's 9 of Clubs Smog Squid.
* SmugSnake - The evil version of Mutsuki Kamijo.
* SuperSpeed - Jaguar Undead/Blade's 9 of Spades Mach Jaguar.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide - [[spoiler:Hajime has one in his true form: Joker]].
* SwappedRoles - [[TheStoic Hajime]] and his takoyaki-making {{Doppelganger}}. HilarityEnsues.
* TakeAThirdOption - In the finale, [[spoiler:Kenzaki stops TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ''and'' spares Hajime by turning himself into an Undead- thereby restarting the battle royale- then fixing it so that there will never be a winner]].
* [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish The Password Is Always Double Joker]]: See ChekhovsGun above.
* ThemeNaming - The Riders are all named after the suit of the Minor Arcana corresponding to their playing card suit, and their given names all contain some reference to being first (Ace).

* ThisIsADrill - Shell Undead/Chalice's 5 of Hearts Drill Shell.

* [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Trademark Favorite Drink]] - Kotaro orders milk by the crates.
* TurtlePower - Tortoise Undead/Garren's 7 of Diamonds Rock Tortoise.

* WeaponOfChoice
** CoolSword - Kazuma/Blade, Junichi/Glaive
** [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Handguns]] - Sakuya/Garren
** BladeOnAStick - Mutsuki/Leangle, Shin/Lance
** TheStraightAndArrowPath - Hajime/Chalice (longbow), Natsumi/Larc (crossbow)
** SinisterScythe / DualWielding - Hajime/Chalice again (Wild Form's bow can be split into two kama)
** {{BFS}} - Kazuma/Blade again in [[spoiler:King Form]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman - As TheLancer, Tachibana has no problems with fighting the Undead Hajime. As AllLovingHero, Kenzaki begs to differ.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness - [[spoiler:[[BigBad Tennoji]] loves to do this. First to the Riders when they're not of use anymore, and then to the scientists that helped him create the Kerberos.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Counter clockwise from bottom right: [[TheHero Blade]], [[TheGunslinger Garren]], [[TheRival Chalice]], [[KidAppealCharacter Leangle]]]]

In addition to the main series, ''Kamen Rider Blade'' has two spinoffs. ''Kamen Rider Blade: Blade vs. Blade'' is a DVD episode that was distributed by ''Televi-kun'' magazine, where Blade faces off with an EvilTwin. ''Film/KamenRiderBladeMissingAce'' is a NonSerialMovie set a few years after an AlternateEnding to the series.

* AlternateEnding - ''Missing Ace'' serves as an alternate ending to the series where [[spoiler:Blade sealed Hajime.]]

** Series/KamenRiderZiO also makes it more bittersweet when [[spoiler: Kenzaki and Hajime end up being forced to finally fight each other due to the show's time traveling shenanigans, [[RippleEffectProofMemory which they're immune to in their case.]][[ItMakesSenseInContext Otherwise, they wouldn't still be Riders in the present.]]]]

** Series/KamenRiderZiO also makes it more bittersweet by [[spoiler: having Kenzaki and Hajime finally forced to fight each other due to the show's time traveling shenanigans, [[RippleEffectProofMemory which they're immune to in their case]].]]

* PlayingCardMotifs: The main characters all correspond to a suit. The MonsterOfTheWeek also corresponds to a card.

* ThemeNaming - The Riders are all named after the suits of the Minor Arcana, and their given names all contain some reference to being first.

''Kamen Rider Blade'' (''Masked Rider ♤'') is the 2004-2005 series of ''Franchise/KamenRider'' and the fifth installment in the Heisei Era.

The 2004-2005 series of ''Franchise/KamenRider'' and the fifth installment in the Heisei Era.

[[caption-width-right:350:Counter clockwise from bottom right: [[TheHero Blade]], [[TheGunslinger Garren]], [[TheRival Chalice]], [[SmugSnake Leangle]]]]

Now has a [[Characters/KamenRiderBlade Character Sheet]].

* AlternateEnding - ''[[TheMovie Missing Ace]]'' serves as an alternate ending to the series where [[spoiler:Blade sealed Hajime.]]

* YouLookFamiliar - Yuki Kurota (Junichi/Glaive in TheMovie) makes a cameo in the penultimate episode of the TV series as a police officer whose life is saved by Blade.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Decade and most social websites let you know [[spoiler: that there is a Joker Undead]] let alone who [[spoiler: The Joker Undead]] is.

** In fact, not only have we seen cards as powerup devices combined with a ThereCanBeOnlyOne plot before, [[KamenRiderDecade we'll see it again]].