History Series / MaskedRider

''Masked Rider'' is an American television series produced by Saban Entertainment that aired from 1995 through 1996. In much the same way as ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' with ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', this show was adapted from the ninth ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX''. Like Power Rangers series that have [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace recontextualized]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder the]] [[Series/PowerRangersRPM source footage]] [[Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger from]] [[Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger their]] [[Series/EngineSentaiGoonger original plots]], Masked Rider recontextualizes Black RX's footage by using it to fit a SitCom type show with a more... [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} traditional]] Sci-Fi premise.

!!The show contains examples of:

* WeCanRuleTogether: In "Mixed Doubles", Count Dregon gives the proposal to Dex that he can join him in his conquest. Dex, of course, turns him down.

** Ironically averted in one of the later episodes where Dex destroys Ocusect by stabbing her through her giant eye! To be more specific she switches from her humanoid form to her giant flying eyeball form and Dex throws his electro saber at her, stabbing right through the eye. He then grabs hold of his weapon with her still attached and thrusts it in for a few moments while Ocusect writhes in pain and THEN explodes. Possibly because in ''Series/MightyMorphinPower Rangers'' a precedent was set in the episode "I, Eye Guy" when Billy gored Eye Guy's main eye, nearly destroying him.

* {{Claymation}}: Hydrasect in her second form and the fight against her.

''Saban's Masked Rider'' is an American television series produced by Saban Entertainment that aired from 1995 through 1996. In much the same way as ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' with ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', this show was adapted from the ninth ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX''. Like Power Rangers series that have [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace recontextualized]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder the]] [[Series/PowerRangersRPM source footage]] [[Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger from]] [[Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger their]] [[Series/EngineSentaiGoonger original plots]], Masked Rider recontextualizes Black RX's footage by using it to fit a SitCom type show with a more... [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} traditional]] Sci-Fi premise.

''Masked Rider'' is an American television series produced by Saban Entertainment that aired from 1995 through 1996. In much the same way as ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' with ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', this show was adapted from the ninth ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX''. Like Power Rangers series that have [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace recontextualized]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder the]] [[Series/PowerRangersRPM source footage]] [[Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger from]] [[Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger their]] [[Series/EngineSentaiGoonger original plots]], Masked Rider recontextualizes Black RX's footage by using it to fit a SitCom type show with a more... [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} traditional]] Sci-Fi premise.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The Electro Saber was made to shoot fireballs as stabbing monsters through the body and out again was deemed "too violent". (Strangely, the nigh-identical Laser Lance finisher in ''Series/VRTroopers'' was not altered.)
** Possibly because ''Masked Rider'' aired on network television, while ''Series/VRTroopers'' aired in syndication, meaning the latter could get away with it due to fewer restrictions.
*** That and most of the villains in ''VR Troopers'' were robots, and the show can and did say destroyed villains would be rebuilt (to explain why they could be seen in [[StockFootage recycled crowd shots]] if nothing else.) With how about two thirds of the monsters on ''Masked Rider'' were aliens or mutants, maybe they didn't think they could get away with goring obviously living opponents through with a lightsaber.
*** Ironically averted in one of the later episodes where Dex destroys Ocusect by stabbing her through her giant eye! To be more specific she switches from her humanoid form to her giant flying eyeball form and Dex throws his electro saber at her, stabbing right through the eye. He then grabs hold of his weapon with her still attached and thrusts it in for a few moments while Ocusect writhes in pain and THEN explodes.

Dex was introduced in a [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot three-part episode]] in the beginning of the third season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', but the show itself had no references to that series. Whilst the pilot demonstrated a powerful message about enslavement and environmental damage, and left Edenoi with somewhat of a DownerEnding by the end of the third part, the changes in the series ignored this ending and underused a lot of potentially dramatic material in favor of a more simplistic good versus evil story based on Earth.

The first handful of episodes were fairly comparable to the quality of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' but it soon dropped fast. The main reason for the criticism includes turning the already LighterAndSofter ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX'' up to eleven, making it into even more of a comedic and vapid program. If nothing else, Dex's guest appearance in ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' was the closest thing to a Rider/Sentai crossover until the 2009 ''[[Series/KamenRiderDecade Decade]]''/''[[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Shinkenger]]'' team-up.[[note]]The 1979 ''JAKQ vs. Gorenger'' movie featured cameos by Amazon and [=V3=] in the form of photographs, but the actual characters themselves are never involved in the story.[[/note]]

The first handful of episodes were fairly comparable to the quality of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' but it soon dropped fast. The main reason for the criticism includes turning the already LighterAndSofter ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX'' UpToEleven, making it into even more of a comedic and vapid program. If nothing else, Dex's guest appearance in ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' was the closest thing to a Rider/Sentai crossover until the 2009 ''[[Series/KamenRiderDecade Decade]]''/''[[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Shinkenger]]'' team-up.[[note]]The 1979 ''JAKQ vs. Gorenger'' movie featured cameos by Amazon and [=V3=] in the form of photographs, but the actual characters themselves are never involved in the story.[[/note]]

* AdaptationAmalgamation: While primarily based on ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX'', six of the show's forty episodes included footage from the Kamen Rider films ''Film/KamenRiderZO'' and ''Film/KamenRiderJ'', adapting all but one villain (Garai/Cobra Man of ''Kamen Rider J'') from the two movies as [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Week]].
** ZO's footage was used in ''Escape From Edenoi'' parts 1 and 2 (with separate fight scenes for [[BigBad Doras]] and later a monster from Black RX) and ''Cat-Atomic'' (which again had two major fight scenes, one with the minor monster Koumori Man and one with a monster from Black RX).
** J's footage was used in ''Saturday Morning Invasion'' (with [[BigBad Fog Mother]] as Ultivore) and ''Ectophase Albee'' (minor monster Agito/Lizard Man).
** Footage from ''both'' movies was used in ''Stranger From the North'', which began by using J's minor monster Zu/Bee Woman as Hydrasect and switching to ZO's monster Kumo Woman as her more powerful form Arachnida.

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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: In "Pet Nappers", Negaria hires two burglars to capture Ferbus.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Ferrian and Sirius, two of Dax's Edenite friends, are never seen again after the first episode. Lexian is shown to guide Dax on occasion and Donais returns twice to deliver power-ups to his friend, but Ferrian and Sirius are just plain gone.

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* IDontKnowMortalKombat: Averted. Dex's superhuman reflexes make him a master at the (likely less violent) in-universe expy of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat''. He eventually quits it because he's ''too good'' at it, [[CursedWithAwesome considering his skills cheating]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Magno the talking car is introduced, her sultry female voice invites Dex to "feel free to check out the merchandise."

* AmusingAlien: Dex has traces of this at times. One example would be that his race, Edenoians, derive from insects instead of apes -- so guess what he answered on an Earth biology test on the subject of human origins...

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Masked Rider Warriors (the show's counterpart to Kotaro's Rider predecessors in ''RX'') had their names accidentally switched during the roll call due to an inconsistency between how the Japanese footage was edited and how it was actually dubbed.[[note]]Specifically, the Rider names were mentioned in the same order they were in the Japanese show, with Rider 1 and Rider 2 being renamed "Warrior Leader" and "Warrior Commander" respectively, but Rider 2 and Riderman were edited out of the actual footage.[[/note]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r67jBFQXJ7E The results are hilarious]], with the part where Sky Rider proclaims himself to be "Amazon" becoming a popular meme.

* CharacterAsHimself: Ferbus (partially justified as he was an animatronic puppet in the first few episodes before becoming a guy in a suit)