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Haruto Soma/Kamen Rider Wizard
Portrayed by: Shunya Shiraishi (live), Seiji Takaiwa (suit), Kaito Nakashima (live, child)

A survivor of the dark magical ritual, he was able to subdue his emerging Phantom by holding onto hope. This gave him the ability to use magic through the equipment granted to him by the wizard in white.
Tropes that apply to him in general
- Berserk Button: Nitoh's existence as a person in his life is one of these for him.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Haruto is a Nice Guy, yes, but he can be downright brutal in some fights, especially concerning Phoenix and later Sora/Gremlin. The former comes to its conclusion when he sends Phoenix to a Fate Worse than Death.
- Big Eater: Can down a box of donuts in one sitting. He explains in Episode 4 that his appetite is partly driven by his need of energy from a high-calorie intake to replenish the mana he's constantly burning while using his magical powers, such as keeping Koyomi alive.
- Body to Jewel: When he was struggling against Legion Phantom while powerless, his tear turned into a diamond, specifically the diamond-based Infinity Ring that not only restores his power, but also gives him his Super Mode.
- Bond One-Liner: He likes to drop these occasionally. After Phoenix pisses him off by almost killing Rinko, he drops a really good one: "There will be no finale for you," which he says just as he Rider Kicks Phoenix to the sun.
- Broken Hero: Has Survivor's Guilt from the ritual that created the Phantoms as well as from being the sole survivor of the crash that killed his parents and its clear he's hurting a great deal from it. However, he also uses this as his main motivation and seems to be coping with it well.
- Catchphrase: "It's showtime!"
- Character Tic: Throughout the series, he has been making a sigh of relief that sounds like Phii, Fwee, or Fin..., depending on the listener.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
- Gentaro Kisaragi was a Hot-Blooded high-school student determined to be everyone's friend, and is notably one of the few Rider protagonists who is fully confident in himself from the start and doesn't have a Dark and Troubled Past driving him. Haruto is an adult, The Stoic, fairly reclusive outside of his circle of friends, and a Broken Hero defined by the brutal tragedy he suffered through in his childhood.
- Both Haruto and Hitoshi Hidaka/Hibiki (from Tsuyoshi Kida's previous Rider show) are protagonists that were already active as Riders since the beginning of their respective stories. While Hibiki was optimistic for most of his prime, Haruto is more cynical due to the tragedies he suffered throughout his childhood.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Alongside with nearly becoming a Phantom in a ritual and being the cause of his friend's game-breaking injury, he had a dark and troubled past as a child. While still a child, his parents died in a car crash that left him as the only survivor. It's so troubled that it becomes Haruto's Underworld... at least until he accepted Koyomi's death. After that, his Underworld becomes a treasure trove of all the memories he had with her.
- Deadpan Snarker: He just loves firing off one-liners before a fight. He saves the snark for his Phantom opponents and Nitoh.
- Determinator: In that, he will not let someone become a phantom as long as he has a breath.
- The Dragon: Unwittingly, to Wiseman. While Fueki has many Dragons, Haruto could be considered his main and most powerful one acting as his primary pawn, asset, and enforcer of his will carrying out the most important parts of his plans while being none the wiser.
- 11th-Hour Superpower: The Hope Ring is almost a subversion, since by the time he gets it Gremlin is dying anyway. He only uses it for one final Rider Kick, and then decides to put the ring in a safe place and never use it again.
- Failure Knight: His giving people hope mentality comes from - in his eyes - his failure to save his parents and is extremely afraid of failing anyone.
- Familiar: The Garuda, Unicorn, Kraken, and Golem PlaMonsters.
- Freudian Excuse: The reason behind him being so dead-set on "restoring hope" to everyone? His parents' dying words were that he was their last hope. He took it to heart.
- Grasp the Sun: Did that while being in the process of phantomication himself, where he struggled resisting forced despair.
- Heroic BSoD: Spends a majority of episode 9 in one, and again in #23, almost to the point where he considered a 10-Minute Retirement.
- Heroic Host: His powers come from the Dragon Phantom, who is one of the very Monsters of the Week he fights.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Has a noticeable lack of self-esteem, from the guilt he has towards his parents' death and then his teammate's injury that halted his prospect of becoming a pro-football player, and how he doesn't see himself to have any other role than being Wizard, who has no hope of his own other than restore others'.
- Heroic Willpower: Managed to survive the ritual by sheer force of will in refusing to give up hope.
- Hope Bringer: Serves this role to Gates who have been driven close to the Despair Event Horizon, having to pull them back and defeat the Phantom rampaging in their soul.
- Martyr Without a Cause: Best shown when he's willing to let himself die to save Koyomi's life when the White Wizard says so. He changes his mind when he learns that he's not the sacrifice, all of Tokyo is.
- Meteor Move: Part of his fighting style in Hurricane Style is to get the opponent in the air, then mercilessly assault them from all sides as they fall.
- Moment of Weakness: In Episode 45 he was willing to let his favorite teacher fall into despair in order to get a lead on the White Wizard and save Koyomi. Luckily, Shunpei put a stop to that.
- Mundane Utility: Uses his magic, especially the Connect Ring, for some mundane things, like a portal so he can retrieve his doughnuts from where he left them earlier.
- Nice Guy: Maybe not to the extremes of Eiji or Gentaro, but he's still a stand-up guy and takes his duties to save Gates seriously. He's someone you can count on.
- Best illustrated when Mayu tells him that the White Wizard asked her to steal the Infinity Ring. He actually gives it to her.
- Not So Stoic: For quite a stoic guy, there are a few instances where Haruto really flips his shit. Like when Phoenix first attacked in #8. Their first fight was the first time Haruto seemed panicked and worried he might lose.
- Official Couple: With Rinko, per the novel.
- Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when he realizes Sora is a Serial Killer. This is added with Unstoppable Rage when he fights him later.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Kosuke's red.
- Running Gag: He will never be able to fully enjoy a doughnut onscreen, because something bad ALWAYS happens to him when he tries to eat one (like his parents dying in a car crash).
- Sarcasm Mode: Him complimenting Nitoh's downright stupid myna bird plan in Episode 37 was 100% pure sarcasm.
- Screams Like a Little Girl:
- To an extent, when he accidentally fell in a shopping cart while fighting the Bogy Phantom.
- His voice also temporary broke when he exclaimed about an advertisement beforehand.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: He wants nothing to do with Shunpei and Rinko's spat in Episode 36.
- Smug Super: Downplayed, but it's there. He has the bad habit of toying with Lesser Phantoms while showing off his magic in the most dramatic way possible instead of just killing his opponent. A lot of conflict could be avoided if he just got down to business.
- The Stoic: Haruto isn't as extreme an example as some, but he doesn't show much emotion.
- Superdickery: At the end of the series. Talking about saving Koyomi implied that he is willing to do the Sabbath ritual, like Fueki. In reality, he was referring to saving her soul by letting her rest in peace. This is through retrieving the Philosopher's Stone and hiding it away.
- Survivor's Guilt: Has signs of this from being one of the only survivors of the ritual that created the Phantoms and surviving the crash that killed his family. While he doesn't say it was all his fault, it clearly effected him deeply.
- Sweet Tooth: Hinted as to why he usually eats plain sugar donuts; Certain scenes also show him adding loads of sugar into the coffee he drinks. It may be justified due to his mana actually being sourced from his body's physical energy.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Considers Phoenix beating Rinko nearly to death just for fun this.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Plain sugar donuts. Episode 52 also shows his personal favorites are from the Donut Shop Hungry truck, as he's eating a donut and comments that it's not the same as from Hungry.
- Tranquil Fury: In #23 when Phoenix pushes him too far. He clearly is furious with Phoenix for what he did to Rinko, but Haruto keeps a calm tone the entire time (even for him), even when condemning Phoenix to a Fate Worse than Death and the Bond One-Liner that follows.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sort of. The White Wizard seeing him overcoming his Inner Phantom inspired his Plan B thus starting the plot of the show.
- Unwitting Pawn: Since Day One he's been unknowingly been one of Fueki's many Dragons.
- Walking the Earth: At the end of the series, he searches for a place to leave Koyomi's ring. During Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle, he admits that he kept wandering because he couldn't find a place. Ultimately, he decides to leave Koyomi's ring in his memories.
- Wham Line: Gave this to Phoenix after the latter proudly proclaim that he can never be fully killed."There will be no finale for you."
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Would not respect or protect Sora's wishes to become a human being.Haruto: You have lost your human soul long ago. You don't count.
- World's Best Warrior: In Super Hero Taisen Z, Sharivan describes him as the most powerful magic-user on Earth.
Tropes exclusive to him as Kamen Rider Wizard

- Ace Custom: Out of all the Wizardriver users, Haruto's is the only one other than the White Wizard and Sorcerer's that has a unique Rider form and the only one with multiple forms and the Drago Timer period. Infinity Style was created entirely by him. In fact, his is the only Wizardriver period with gold trim rather than red and with its voice and phrases. Possibly justified because the White Wizard was in a rush to get the Mage Trio ready due to Koyomi's decaying condition.
- All Your Powers Combined: All Dragon
- Armor of Invincibility: What Infinity Style is described as in Character Material. Oddly enough, this is included in the show itself.
- Badass Longcoat: So much so that it can expand as a shield.
- Car Fu: Played with. When he defeats a Phantom in a Gate’s Underworld, Wizard combines both his rides (his motorcycle and Dragon) into a giant dragon claw and fits it onto his foot for a super-powered Rider Kick.
- Chrome Champion: His suit is already covered in gemstones, but Infinity Style takes the cake by being composed of sparkling silver and glittering diamonds.
- Close-Range Combatant: In Infinity Style, where he only uses the Axcalibur as his sole weapon.
- Dark Is Not Evil: His costume and wardrobe are primarily black, but Haruto is by no means a bad person.
- Extremity Extremist: Favors his legs in combat. He presumably avoids punching so as not to bust up his rings (which, in fact,
was the real-life reason). - Flash Step: Scanning the Infinity Ring while already in Infinity Style allows him to do this.
- The Gunslinger: Is shown to be a Trick Shot in Flame Style and a Woo while using Hurricane Style.
- Heroism Burns Bright: Wizard Wizard has multiple forms based on the classical elements, but his red, fire-based form is his default.
- Ice Magic Is Water: The Blizzard Ring, an ice-elemental spell, is exclusive to Water Style.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: His fighting style is a mixture of magic, acrobatic sweeping kicks, and a gun-sword.
- Light Is Good: In Infinity Style.
- Magic Knight: Seems to be the motif of Infinity Style, both in functionality and design.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: The Dragon Stylesnote and All Dragon.
- Palette Swap: Special Rush is an-all red version of All Dragon.
- Ring of Power: This year's collectible trinket. Even Wizard's helmet is designed to look like a ring that wraps around his head. He seems to have two types of rings.
- Transformation: Worn on his left hand, these allow Wizard to assume his "Style" forms.
- The Flame Ring allows him to transform into Flame Style.
- The Water Ring enables the Water Style.
- The Hurricane Ring gives him the power of Hurricane Style.
- The Land Ring transforms his form into Land Style.
- The Dragon Rings: A series of Transformation Rings that are essentially stronger versions of Haruto's normal Style Rings, using the Wizardragon's power to enhance them.
- The Infinity Ring: Made from Haruto's tears, this ring elevates him to Infinity Style, his strongest form. Also allows Dragon to change into the AxCalibur.
- Magic: Worn on his right hand, these allow Wizard to cast magic spells.
- Driver On: Calls upon the WizarDriver.
- Dragorise Ring: Summons the WizarDragon in an Underworld.
- Connect Ring: Provides a link between two locations or people, practically being used by Wizard as a Hyperspace Arsenal.
- Kick Strike Ring: Enables Wizard to do a kick-based Finishing Move empowered by the element of his current Style.
- Engage Ring: Allows Wizard to access other peoples' Underworlds. Different from other rings in that the other person has to be the one wearing it, not Wizard.
- The Garuda, Unicorn, Kraken and Golem Rings summon (as model kits!) and then power up the PlaMonsters Red Garuda, Blue Unicorn, Yellow Kraken and Violet Golem.
- Defend Ring: Allows Wizard to create a strong defensive barrier. The form of said barrier depends on Wizard's current Style;
- in Land Style the ring forms a stone wall that not only can block enemy attacks, but also entomb them.
- In Water Style the ring forms one of Wizard's magic sigils surrounded by water, which can also be slammed into enemies.
- In Flame Style the ring envelops Wizard in flames, which can be used to clear debris.
- Small Ring: Shrinks the user down to a tiny size.
- Big Ring: Expands a body part to enormous size.... oh boy, or to enlarge the WizarSwordGun in it's sword form.
- Copy Ring: Allows Kamen Rider Wizard to create copies of himself in combat, or duplicate the WizarSwordGun.
- Sleep Ring: Puts the wearer to sleep.
- Light Ring: Illuminates the area with bright light.
- Extend Ring: Allows Wizard to elongate a part of his body... oh my.
- Liquid Ring: Used only in Water Style, it allows Wizard to become liquid, akin to Black RX's BioRider form or OOO ShaUTa Combo.
- Bind Ring: Five circles appear from the ground and sprout chains to wrap around the victims.
- Please Ring: Transfers magical energy from Wizard to the wearer. Particularly, Koyomi as she needs mana to live.
- Drill Ring: Used in Land Style, it allows Wizard to spin at high speeds and tunnel through the ground. It can also be used to enhance the Kick Strike into a Spin Attack.
- Smell Ring: Makes the wearer emit a disgusting odor.
- Special Ring: While in a Dragon Style, it summons a part of WizarDragon's body as armor - a Chest Blaster for Flame Dragon, a pair of wings for Hurricane Dragon, a Tail Slap for Water Dragon or Wolverine Claws for Land Dragon. For Flame Dragon, doubles as the Finisher Ring.
- Blizzard Ring: Enables Wizard to use his Finishing Move in Water Dragon Style.
- Thunder Ring: Enables Wizard to use his Finishing Move in Hurricane Dragon Style.
- Gravity Ring: Enables Wizard to use his Finishing Move in Land Dragon Style.
- Merry Christmas Ring:: A one time use ring that restores destroyed gifts.
- Dress Up Ring: Changes Haruto's outfit as a handy disguise.
- Excite Ring: Make Wizard much more muscular.
- Fall Ring: Creates a hole directly below the user. Useful for quick escapes.
- Hope Ring: A ring created from the Philosopher's Stone and Haruto's hope. Allows Wizard to perform a powered up version of his Rider Kick summoning energy projections of Dragon representing Fire, Land, Hurricane, Water, and Infinity to strike the opponent.
- Finish Strike Ring: Used during the events of Wizard in Magic Land, this equips Infinity Style with all of Dragon's parts save for the head, that being used during the finisher. Later gains a golden form which includes the head in The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle.
- Wizard can also use Beast's rings for various effects. It's unclear if this trend will continue however:
- Dolphi Ring: Allows the user to melt into liquid and hide/strike from all directions. Furthermore, the user does not need to be transformed first in order to use the spell.
- Falco Ring: The user molts into a mass of feathers upon any physical contact, allowing them to be unhurt from strikes. Like Dolphi, it can be used on a non-transformed individual. Used on Nitoh while he lacked the Beast Driver.
- Transformation: Worn on his left hand, these allow Wizard to assume his "Style" forms.
- Self-Duplication: When using his Copy Ring to make duplicates of himself. When Wizard uses the Drago Timer, he can summon duplicates that specialize in one element, allowing him to use Flame, Water, Hurricane, and Land Dragons all at once.
- Super Wrist-Gadget: The Drago Timer, a device created exclusively for the Dragon Styles. Always used in Flame Dragon.
- Doppelgänger Attack: Summons clones of Wizard's 3 other Dragon Styles. Unlike the Copy Ring, the Dragon Style clones can act on their own.
- Finishing Move: Dragon Four-Mationnote
- All Your Powers Combined: By scanning the Drago Timer on the WizarDriver, Wizard can unite the Dragon Styles into All Dragon.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Uses submission moves in #4.
- He uses even more when Land Style appears in Episode 6.
Portrayed by: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (voice), Shunya Shiraishi (live, Haruto's visage)
Haruto's inner Phantom, and the source of his powers.- Animalistic Abomination: Basically, it's some sort of a dragon crossed with some mechanical aspects, but more violent and evil.
- Ascended Demon: After being resurrected by Haruto's hope, he makes a Heel–Face Turn and the ability for Haruto to use Infinity Style. Note, this makes him the only Phantom to genuinely become benevolent.
- Came Back Strong: After being killed by Legion and revived, he gains the power to transform into the Axcalibur and give Haruto access to Infinity Style.
- Character Development: Until #31, Dragon acted like your typical Phantom: destructive and obsessed with bringing his Gate to despair. After Haruto's strong heart revived him, though, he has decided to become Haruto's "hope" and allows him to access Infinity Style.
- Combining Mecha: With Wizard's Machine Winger called Winger WizarDragon.
- Transforming Mecha: Into a giant foot called Strike Phase as part of a finisher.
- Enemy Within: It's Haruto's inner Phantom
- Finishing Move: Strike Endnote
- Heel–Face Turn: By #30, Haruto rubbed off on him and ultimately causes him to perform a Heroic Sacrifice to protect Beast and Chimera. He completes his turn in #31 upon being brought Back from the Dead by Haruto's hope, stating that now he is Haruto's hope.
- Heroic Sacrifice: What Dragon does in #30. Considering in #31, when he's brought Back from the Dead, he tells Haruto that he's going to be his hope, so it seems he really has changed.
- Hope Bringer: After being reborn by Haruto's sheer force of will, he declares he will become Haruto's hope through the Infinity Style and AxCalibur.
- Hunter of His Own Kind: Subverted at first, as when summoned, Haruto has to control him to fight other Phantoms.
- In the Back: Dragon might be a Hope Bringer, but he has no qualms trying to take over Haruto when given the chance, as shown in the movie.
- Meaningful Echo: Earlier, Haruto told him that he was his hope. After being brought Back from the Dead after being destroyed by Legion, it's Dragon who says that he is Haruto's hope.
- Our Dragons Are Different: It's hard to tell whether the Dragon Phantom is biological, mechanical, or spiritual. It could be all of them.
- Oxymoronic Being: As a Phantom, he was born from Haruto's despair, yet he calls him his hope.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Dragon still teases Haruto about how he will end up giving up to despair and laughs at the fact Haruto calls him the opposite of it. He allows him to borrow his powers mostly because if Haruto dies without losing hope, he will die with him. Better shown in the movie, despite the fact Dragon declared he will be Haruto's hope.
- Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Haruto keeps him sealed.
- Token Evil Teammate: Being originally a Phantom that wants to overtake his Gate.
Koyomi Fueki
Portrayed by: Makoto Okunaka
A mysterious young girl who was given to Haruto by the White Wizard. She has the supernatural ability to discern Phantoms through their human disguises. According to the White Wizard, she was a victim that died in the same Sabbath ritual that Haruto suffered through; though her body somehow stayed intact and can be kept reanimated by a wizard's mana.
- Ambiguously Human: According to pre-release material, she doesn't know whether she is a human survivor of the ritual, or a Phantom in human form. Turns out she's human, but not exactly a "survivor"...
- Berserk Button: A surefire way to make Koyomi angry is to insult Haruto. Do not imply he is trying anything but his hardest around her.
- Crystal Ball: Uses one to show her where Haruto is.
- Dead All Along: Sort of. The real Koyomi died some time ago, and Fueki describes the one we know as a puppet that houses the Philosopher's Stone.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Spends her final moments in Haruto's arms.
- Disappears into Light: How she dies by Gremlin Phantom.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: The novel reveals that, after her death in the main series, Koyomi is able to be reborn into a new life as Haruto and Rinko's daughter. Given the hell her life had been, this is more than enough.
- Empty Shell: Because the first Sabbath didn't have enough Mana, Koyomi was only partially revived and lacks the memories of her original self.
- Evil Laugh: Of a witch vibe. Even though she only did it to scare Shunpei in episode 32.
- A Friend in Need: No matter what, Koyomi will always be there for Haruto to help lift him up out of his darkest hour.
- Heroic Vow: In Episode 42 she swears that she will live her life to its fullest as a human being no matter what she really is.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Sora/Gremlin constantly calls her a 'doll' in an extremely demeaning fashion.
- Killed Off for Real: Gremlin kills her by forcefully removing the Philosopher's Stone that was keeping her alive, and unlike Philip and Kengo she doesn't came back at the end either.
- Legacy Character: Forcefully turned into the second White Wizard in the Crossover movie.
- The Lost Lenore: For Haruto after the events of the main series. The novel specifically is about exploring his feelings of grief after losing her and working to move past them.
- Meaningful Name: Means "calendar," relating to her fortune-telling ability.
- Missing Mom: It's mentioned that her mother passed away some time ago.
- Mission Control: For Haruto. She controls the PlaMonsters and searches for Phantoms with her crystal ball while Haruto gumshoes.
- Morality Chain: For Fueki. More precisely, Fueki abandoned any morals after she died in order to bring her back to life.
- Mysterious Waif: Haruto is mostly just protecting her because he was told to by the White Wizard (and because he's a good guy). She's so mysterious she doesn't even know her last name.
- Non-Action Guy: While Haruto is the only one among them who can actually fight, Koyomi for the most part doesn't go into the field and stays behind at Omokagedo for her protection.
- Only One Name: Because that's all she can remember. Turns out her last name is Fueki; she's the daughter of the White Wizard.
- Our Zombies Are Different: A rare benevolent Type V.
- Out of Focus: Her actress is an idol with a busy schedule, so she doesn't get as much screentime as you would expect from her character.
- Stepford Smiler: Becomes this trope as she begins to mysteriously fall apart.
- Tomato in the Mirror: She turns out to be the entire reason the Sabbath was orchestrated, and why Wiseman is looking to do it again.
Shigeru Wajima
Portrayed by: Hisahiro Ogura

- The Atoner: Since some of his stuff was used in the ritual, he houses Haruto and Koyomi and builds magic tools for them as penance.
- Black Box: During episode 3, he claims to just follow his instincts, carving the gems and setting them into rings, without knowing what gives them power or what spell they will cast once ready.
- Cool Old Guy: He's an older gentleman who's quite friendly and helpful to Haruto in his quest.
- The Engineer: Obviously, since he makes rings.
- Every Man Has His Price: He originally began making the rings because Fueki offered him a lot of money.
- Parental Substitute: Seems to view himself as a father figure to Haruto and Koyomi. You can hear the pain in his voice in #47 when he says that Koyomi is better off with "her real father".
- Real Men Cook: He can cook in addition to cutting gems.
- Small Role, Big Impact: It's easy to forget that his artifacts were used to help start the Eclipse thereby setting the entire plot into motion.
- The Smart Guy: He's the one who crafts the rings for Haruto.
- Team Dad: Has the wisdom and life experience to impart good advice to the rest of the group.
Rinko Daimon
Portrayed by: Yuko Takayama, Ichino Suehara (child)

- Big Eater: Early in #3, she eats all of Haruto's donuts in a matter of about one minute. Made funnier when in the following episode, she asks Haruto how he can eat so many donuts in one sitting.
- The Commissioner Gordon: She's technically a rookie, but is Haruto's main ally in the police department.
- Despair Event Horizon: Is driven dangerously close to it by Minotaur, but pulled back by Wizard.
- Fair Cop: Is a policewoman and quite pretty looking.
- Heroic BSoD: Ends up having this in the last episode. Just as Haruto shows up to (as he put it) "save Koyomi", Rinko ended up thinking Haruto had gone bad. She gets out of it when Haruto explained he was gonna save Koyomi's spirit.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
- Tells what she believes to be a good Phantom that he shouldn't follow orders and just do what he wants. Said Phantom turns out to be Phoenix, who takes her advice and decides he's going to have as much of his 'fun' as he wants.
- Another is exposing the real arsonist (a Gate's pet bird), where the bird transformed into the Phantom in front of a Gate's eyes, causing him to despair. Surprisingly, this is Played for Laughs.
- Replacement Pedestal: She becomes this to Mayu after the revelation that the White Wizard/Wiseman was using her the whole time.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: She has standing orders to ignore the Phantom threat, but is going behind her boss' back to help Haruto anyway. Eventually, Agent Kizaki informs her superiors to not interfere with her association with Wizard after he comes around.
- Sexy Santa Dress: Wears one in #16 as part of police duty on Christmas Eve, though its more cute than sexy, as noted by Haruto.
- Ship Tease: Implied with Haruto. They finally get a Relationship Upgrade in the series tie-in novel.
- Tsundere: Has shades of Type B in the first episode.
Shunpei Nara
Portrayed by: Junki Tozuka, Ryusei Shoji (child)

- Big Damn Heroes: Yes, really, in Episode #45 he saves the day stopping Siren from sending the Gate past the Despair Event Horizon.
- Bumbling Sidekick/Reckless Sidekick: Manages to be both at once.
- Camp: Has definite shades of this.
- Distressed Dude: At least twice.
- Face Fault: Frequently falls on his face for comic effect.
- I Just Want to Be Special: His dream is to become a magician just like the ones in the story books he read as a child.
- Kid-Appeal Character: Definitely meant as a surrogate for young audience members.
- The Klutz: Known to frequently trip, break things and/or injure himself.
- The Lancer: At least he sees himself as this to Haruto, being his sidekick and foil.
- Large Ham: His expressions are over-the-top. Nuff' said.
- The Load: Episodes 12 and 13 have him fearing that he is this because he feels like he doesn't contribute anything to the fight against the Phantoms compared to everyone else on Team Wizard. This is subverted when he realizes his strength is his Nice Guyness.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Feminine Boy to Rinko's Masculine Girl.
- Nice Guy: His greatest strength. His energetic personality, persistance, determination, and unconditional kindness inspire people to believe in hope and the good in the world and not to fall into despair. Best shown in episode 13.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Helping Rinko expose an arsonist is one. See the above for more details.
- One of the Kids: In his first scene, even kids consider him childish. Some episodes later when the Victim of the Week is a kid, he and Shunpei are even dressed the same.
- Playing with Fire: In his introductory episodes. Subverted as it was the Hellhound Phantom behind the powers.
- Sidekick: Self-proclaimed one to Haruto. Eventually made official.
- What the Hell, Hero?: After his Big Damn Heroes moment, he calls Haruto and Nitoh on their recently callous actions, telling them that they're both no better than the White Wizard.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: When infiltrating a high school in #26 he dresses as a schoolgirl.
Phantoms
- Always Chaotic Evil: Their plans are to kill people by driving them to the lowest point so that there can be enough of them to force a ritual where multiple humans die and create Phantoms in their despair. The Phantoms that object to this only do so because they think it'd make more sense if they just murder the people directly or just cause wanton destruction. Even Wizard's own Phantom, Wizardragon, goes on a rampage whenever it is summoned and needs to be tamed. Clinging onto the hope that some Phantoms are good or at least have some humanity? The show even goes out of its way to show that it's close to impossible, with some Phantoms faking their "humanity". Yeah, there's one Phantom who has his humanity intact, but that's only because he was evil to begin with.
- Subverted by Wizardragon eventually, who makes a full Heel–Face Turn in #31.
- Becoming the Mask: To a certain degree. Many of the Lesser Phantoms have quirks based on their Gates occupation.
- Minotauros acted like a Dirty Cop.
- Hellhound was rather dramatic while his Gate was a television host.
- Gnome acted like a sommelier.
- Valkyrie, whose Gate was a low-ranking store manager, acts like a Professional Butt-Kisser.
- Lizardman, whose Gate was a filmmaker, likes to "Cast" people as "Corpses".
- Manticore would read people's fortunes.
- Beelzebub was always acting like he was conducting music, or using music terms.
- Spriggan has been giving people words of caution, while acting like a Dirty Cop.
- Sora/Gremlin was both a hair dresser and Serial Killer as a human and continues to perform his second hobby as a Phantom, plus his Rapture blades resemble scissors...
- Raum, who can turn into a Myna Bird, still acts like an animal while in Phantom form.
- Sphinx was once a stage magician and continues to perform slight of hand magic even though he has the real deal now.
- Bishōnen Line: Instead of turning into a giant monster upon defeat, Phantoms start as a giant rampaging monster tearing the victim's soul apart then take on humanoid form upon killing them and materializing into the real world.
- Catchphrase: "The human (name of Gate) died, giving birth to a Phantom... me", normally said upon a Phantom revealing their true identity, though precise wording may vary. Usually a Wham Line.
- "Let the fear of death drive you to despair!" whenever a Phantom can't think of a specific way to make a Gate despair.
- Despair Event Horizon: They are born when a person with supernatural potential is driven to hopelessness and succumbs to despair, tearing them apart from the inside out and killing them from within to materialize into the real world.
- Elite Four: This defines the Higher Phantoms, consisting of Wiseman, Gremlin, Phoenix and Medusa, with there being three Co-Dragons instead of one Dragon.
- Expy: The Co-Dragons are, in different ways, Expies to the same person: Takeshi Asakura/Kamen Rider Ouja:
- Phoenix is an Ax-Crazy Blood Knight who simply wants to kill anyone he can.
- Medusa is a Manipulative Bitch and shares the same relation to Mayu as Ouja did to Kamen Rider Femme, who Mayu is an Expy of.
- Like Ouja, Sora was a very prolific serial killer before gaining supernatural powers and continued to be one.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Justified: their leader was actively manipulating things so they'd only succeed as much as he wanted them to succeed, rather than actually win.
- Hope Crusher: By necessity, as it's the way to create new Phantoms.
- In Name Only: Many of them have very little resemblance to the mythological creatures they're named after, except Bogy.
- Kill and Replace: Are born when their Gate suffers Death by Despair, then masquerade as them to try and drive others over the Despair Event Horizon and create more. The extent to which they take the "replace" part depends on their plan and the Phantom's particular host. If a Phantom's host knew the target Gate, or had some special status in society, they will use that, but many Phantoms will reveal themselves immediately upon encountering the Gate.
- Made of Evil: Well made of despair and dark magic.
- Meaningful Name: Phantoms are essentially "echos" of those they were created from, having their human selves' forms with inverted personalities.
- One-Winged Angel: Inverted. The monster that Wizard just killed doesn't transform, he travels into their victim's Underworld and fights their yet to be fully awakened Phantom, who is a giant monster.
- Our Demons Are Different: Demons born from despair and dark magic. The part of their host they originate from is even called an 'Underworld'.
- Sorting Algorithm of Evil: The Lesser Phantoms have become noticeably stronger as the story progresses. Originally Haruto fought jokes like Minotaur, Lizardman, and Hydra that only lasted as long as they did because of either his ego or some other complication, followed by Phantoms that could actually put up a fight like Spriggan, Bogy, Argus, and Raum, and Bahamut who is as strong as Phoenix after multiple revivals. Justified at the half-way mark. Once Gremlin got promoted, he started choosing stronger Phantoms with tricky powers (such as Bogy and Raum), and Medusa started choosing more powerful ones to try and outdo him. Further justified with the reveal Wiseman never intended for them to succeed, only create enough wizards for his plan and grow Haruto's magical abilities enough that he'd be proper for the ritual, and thus sending the strongest Phantoms from the get go would be counterproductive.
- That Man Is Dead: Phantoms normally state that the person they were born from "died a long time ago" upon revealing their true identity.
- Theatre Phantom: Since Wizard has small elements of a stage magician, these Monsters of the Week may be named after the Phantom of the Opera. They "haunt" Gates who have to potential to use magic (in a sense, the potential to become performers) and use the appearance of their own Gates to mask their hideous nature.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: All the Sabbath victims were implied to be decent people at least, as the sole exception who survived the ritual and became a Phantom himself was a serial killer to begin with.
- Unwitting Pawn: The entire freaking race is all being used by Wiseman in his plan to ensure his daughter is fully revived.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Played with; some of the Phantoms are smart and clever, using their wits to make the Gates despair. However, there are some who tend to do what Phoenix does and beat the living crap out of their Gates, hoping that them going through a near-death experience will cause them to cross the Despair Event Horizon, hence their catchphrase. Sora actually takes note of this, called out a Phantom for doing this tactic when the Gate was perfectly willing to turn into a Phantom (as she wouldn't despair and attacking her will just kill her) and hires Phantoms that specialize in emotional manipulation. Until he gets the Philosopher's Stone. Then he decides to cut the middleman and do the same tactic as his brethren.
- Would Hurt a Child: Some Phantoms, when unleashed, do not hesitate in threatening and endangering children if they see one.
Wiseman
Portrayed by: Narushi Ikeda (live), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Jun Watanabe (suit)

- Alas, Poor Villain: While he was definitely a bastard, he still did everything he did out of love for his daughter. When he's fatally wounded he can't help but look at her one last time before passing on.
- Anti-Villain: He's a loving father, so he's not all evil. While a lot of people died and became Phantom by his hands, but judging by the dialogue between him and Gremlin in #50, he's definitely not proud of it.
- Big Bad: He's the one calling the shots amongst the Phantoms. He was also the one behind the dark ritual that led to the creation of so many Phantoms.
- Carbuncle Creature: The Carbuncle Phantom, playing on the creature's connection to magic gemstones.
- Cast as a Mask: His voice actor only plays him as Carbuncle. His true identity is a different actor.
- The Chessmaster: He's orchestrating all of the events of the series as part of a careful, long term plan to perform another Sabbath and revive Koyomi.
- Degraded Boss: Clones of him appear in the Movie War but the Mages are each able to match one and Ogre devours three of them with no effort. Justified as they seem to just be mindless beasts compared to the original.
- Electric Torture: His main use of his Shock and Awe power.
- Evil Sorcerer: He's got all the bases covered. All-powerful and mysterious? Check. Summons demons? Check. Mass human sacrifice? Triple check.
- Evil Sounds Deep: His voice is booming and low, and he's the leader of the Phantoms.
- Foreshadowing: See Light Is Not Good; it's hinting to his identity as the White Wizard.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: In his first appearance on the show, all we saw was his shadow behind a large white curtain.
- His human form was still subject to the "silhouette only" manner of appearance for a long time after that.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: Case in point, even Medusa doesn't seem to know what his true plans are. Gremlin suggests it might have something to do with the mythical Philosopher's Stone.
- His goal also seems to be to hold another Sabbath, the very same ritual that created so many Phantoms in the first place. He claims he can do this without an eclipse if he has enough Phantoms with him.
- And then Gremlin comes to the conclusion that this isn't his true goal. It turns out his goal is to save Koyomi, his daughter.
- Humanoid Abomination: Subverted; the Carbuncle Phantom was an artificially-created Phantom that Fueki implanted into himself. Fueki is still human... which just makes his lack of scruples even worse.
- Human Sacrifice: Is his answer to any problem that comes up: Kidnap a bunch of people and turn them into horrid monsters.
- Killer Rabbit: In mythology, the Carbuncle is considered magical but not particularly strong or threatening. This series makes the Carbuncle the Big Bad.
- Light Is Not Good: His Phantom form is colored in white, and before that was only shown as just a silhouette bathed in light, but he's no good guy.
- The Man Behind the Monsters: While technically all Phantoms have human forms, Wiseman is the only one to actually be a human, having used artificial means to give himself a Phantom form.
- Manipulative Bastard: "You're the only one I can trust, Medusa."
- Mysterious Backer: He's the one generating the stones that become Haruto's Dragon Rings, and he actually wants them to fall into his hands. As it turns out, he's the White Wizard.
- Orcus on His Throne: He has been extremely hands-off and left most of the grunt work to Phoenix and Medusa, then gets out in #30 to confront Gremlin personally over his release of Legion, and he stops to chat with Gremlin. Even when Haruto tracks him down in #36, he just drains his mana to drive him off. He's more active as the White Wizard.
- Pragmatic Villainy: #22 reveals that he follows this trope, with him unhappy about Phoenix's rampage because he might kill another Gate, though lets him rampage when he realizes he just wants to fight Wizard and thus have either option (Wizard or Phoenix being defeated) go in his favor.
- Purple Is Powerful: Has segments on his body that seem to be composed of some purple jewel.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: A villainous example. In the Flame Dragon debut arc, he understood that Phoenix was fed up with the manipulative approach and rolled with it, directing him to an appropriate target for his wrath.
- The Reveal: Who is the Wiseman? Fueki, the White Wizard.
- Running Both Sides: Leads the Phantoms as Wiseman and manipulates Haruto and his allies as the White Wizard.
- The Unfought: As Wiseman, Haruto only fought Fueki once. Their final confrontation had him in his White Wizard form.
- Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle reveals that several Carbuncle Phantoms were created, which the Riders then fight. However, the Carbuncle Phantoms are not as powerful as Wiseman.
- Shock and Awe: Can generate electricity, as shown when he is dealing with Gremlin.
Phoenix
Portrayed by: Atsumi Kanno

- 0% Approval Rating: None of the Lesser Phantoms really seem to like or respect him all that much due to how violent he is, with several even freely sniping at him.
- And I Must Scream: Subverted when Medusa turned him into stone (he easily breaks out), then played straight when Kamen Rider Wizard kicked him to the sun.
- Ax-Crazy: He is rather unhinged, best shown with the way he almost beat the Victim of the Week to death in #8. Medusa is hesitant to let him go after Gates because he's so psychopathic she's afraid he'll kill them! He also states repeatedly he's frustrated at having to wait to go on a rampage.
- Back from the Dead: Every time he gets destroyed by Wizard, he comes back... He's a Phoenix! What would you expect?
- Battle Aura: After his third revival he's able to generate an aura of Hellfire to defend himself from attacks.
- BFS: Uses a large sword called Catastrophe in battle.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He's incredibly strong and his strength only grows as the season goes on, but as Medusa points out, his lack of strategy tends to bite him in the rear when his opponents are capable of outwitting him while he chooses to only Attack! Attack! Attack!. In the end, he's dealt with almost immediately after he breaks away from Wiseman and is kicked into the sun by Wizard for his troubles, becoming the first of the Greater Phantoms to fall.
- Blood Knight: Flat out admits in #16 that he doesn't care about the Gate, he just wants to fight Haruto.
- Brains and Brawn: With Medusa; he's the Brawn who prefers to fight and not put much thought into planning.
- The Brute: With Wiseman as the Big Bad, the violently psychopathic Phoenix is just the Phantoms' muscle.
- The Bully: He acts like a juvenile delinquent, and loves to hurt people just for fun.
- Came Back Strong: According to him, every time he revives he becomes stronger. He proves this in #16, by taking on Flame Dragon's Finishing Move which previously killed him without taking any damage. Worse? By the third time, he's grown so powerful it takes him seconds to regenerate.
- Climax Boss: His defeat not only marks Haruto mastering Dragon's power fully with his All Dragon (an arc that began with his first battle with Phoenix), but the whole ordeal is presented in a very climactic light as well.
- Co-Dragons: With Medusa, although because of his unhinged nature he's mostly kept on the sidelines.
- Dragon with an Agenda: Doesn't care at all about creating more Phantoms and just wants to fight.
- Evil Counterpart:
- Can be seen as one to Wizard and all Riders in general; it's suit looks like what a Henshin Hero would look like, he's red and gold to Wizard's default red and silver, he wants to spread despair while Wizard is the Hope Bringer, and both use fire.
- He's also one to Nitoh. Both Phoenix and Nitoh care about something else rather than their objective (bringing about despair and stopping the latter respectively) and both are pretty boisterous about it. The only difference is that Nitoh stopped and began to focus on his objective while Phoenix went for his ambition and landed in the sun.
- Fate Worse than Death: Haruto, in his All Dragon form, sends Phoenix to the sun, where he will be trapped forever, stuck in a constant cycle of death and rebirth, whilst surrounded by burning hot flames every time he comes back. This is quite possibly the harshest fate a Rider has given to his arch-enemy in the history of the franchise, but considering he seems to be truly immortal, this is quite possibly the only way he could be beaten.
- Fire and Brimstone Hell: His fate, for all intents and purposes. Just in the opposite direction from where Hell is typically depicted.
- For the Evulz: Admits that driving Gates into despair is mainly an excuse for him to spread havoc and destruction when Wiseman brings it up.
- Genius Ditz: He is most definitely not a rocket scientist but in a straight up fight he's brilliant, able to block Wizard's Finishing Moves after only seeing them once.
- Hate Sink: He acts like an asshole towards innocent people, sees hope as a concept for the weak, and even humiliates people onscreen.
- The Heavy: Wiseman gives him and Medusa some direction, but otherwise leaves them to their own devices.
- Hurl It into the Sun: Gets Rider Kicked into the sun.
- Innocent Flower Guy: Yugo, before becoming Phoenix. The life-threatening part was his high magic potential to become a Phantom.
- Invincible Villain: He’s invincible in the sense that he can never ever be truly killed, and every death will only make him stronger. It gets to the point where Haruto simply throws him into the sun.
- Ironic Hell: The fire-powered Phantom obsessed with causing nonstop death and destruction is left trapped in the sun where he will be killed over and over again forever by solar flames.
- Irony:
- In #20, Yugo's boss believed that he "wouldn't hurt anyone". Oh, if only he knew...
- Also, in his first fight with Wizard, he boasted about his Hellfire. When Wizard finally beats him, Phoenix is stuck on the sun, surrounded by the hottest flames there are.
- It Only Works Once: Invoked by Phoenix himself. After being hit by a Finishing Move, he'll instantly figure out a way to block it. Ultimately subverted when Wizard finally defeats him. Even if he could survive the sun's flames a second time, he isn't going anywhere.
- Kicked Upstairs: All things considered, while he was brought up to Co Dragon status, it's only so that he doesn't wind up killing Gates and destroying the place.
- Knight of Cerebus: The Phantoms are definitely not nice, but Phoenix is an Ax-Crazy monster who is definitely monstrous even by Phantom standards. To finish off his Knight of Cerebus status he is disturbingly brutal, brutalizing anyone in his way. Best shown when he invades the hospital, where he went out of his way to maul the hospital staff and attack a person in a wheelchair. Also, unlike other Phantoms, he doesn't particularly care about driving Gates into despair; he just enjoys causing havoc and destruction. Basically, any episode that he is the main villain of tends to lack the funny scenes that other episodes usually have.
- No-Sell: To Medusa's Taken for Granite vision and most of Wizard's arsenal.
- Playing with Fire: Not just any fire, according to him, it's Hellfire. It's a lot stronger than Haruto's.
- Power Gives You Wings: After his fourth revival he gains the ability to make huge energy wings that almost vaporize Wizard.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Type E. He's incredibly poor at controlling his anger and loves to thrash and destroy.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Ax-Crazy, hot-blooded red to Medusa's calm and strategic blue. (One of two)
- Resurrective Immortality: His special ability, he can't be killed for good and will simply revive stronger than before. In the end, the only way Haruto can permanently stop him is by Rider Kicking him into the sun and trapping him there.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Since he's immortal and can't die, Haruto is forced to throw him into the sun to defeat him once and for all, trapping him there forever.
- Story-Breaker Power: His Came Back Strong immortality is completely broken, if he was allowed to stay on the show he would have eventually become more powerful than the entire cast combined to the point of being a Physical God.
- Tempting Fate: Phoenix proudly proclaimed that even with Wizard's new Drago Timer, he can never destroy him fully. So he didn't.
- This Cannot Be!: His last words upon being thrown into the Sun.
- Took a Level in Badass: Every time he dies and comes back he is noticeably stronger. He doesn't just adapt—he becomes stronger in all areas. Best shown when it took three finishing moves in a row in Water Dragon Style to take him down a second time.
- Too Powerful to Live: Seriously, when you think about it he would have eventually become a god far stronger than even the White Wizard if he was allowed to last the whole series.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Yugo used to be a quiet, nice florist before he fell to despair, Phoenix being the complete opposite.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: The first Phantom to beat Haruto before he advanced to Flame Dragon.
- Would Hit a Girl: More like beat a woman an inch away from death.
- Would Hurt a Child: ...in order to psychologically destroy her son.
Medusa
Portrayed by: Erina Nakayama

- Alas, Poor Villain: While she was a callous manipulator who would kill a pregnant woman without a second thought, she did it all for Wiseman, and was truly loyal to him in a way you would think only a Noble Demon could be. Her death at Wiseman's hands was truly heartbreaking given that he revealed that she served a lie all of her life as she died crying at the hands of the only person she ever cared about.
- Animal Battle Aura: She can create giant mana constructs in the shape of snakes to attack her opponents.
- Arch-Enemy: Mayu's main goal in life is to kill her.
- Berserk Button: She doesn't like to be tricked by someone else. When Gremlin tricks her and Wizard into fighting each other without her knowledge, she outright tries to kill Gremlin.
- Boring, but Practical: Her fighting style might not be as flashy and badass as Phoenix's, but with her ability to drain mana she can easily deprive the Kamen Riders of their Super Modes, leaving them vulnerable.
- Brains and Brawn: With Phoenix; she's the Brains, mostly because Phoenix would rather attack than plan.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Mayu's Abel.
- Co-Dragons: With Phoenix, then later (to her horror) with Gremlin.
- Demoted to Dragon: Gremlin was made her superior at the halfway mark, so she is effectively The Dragon to The Dragon.
- Complexity Addiction: Her Fatal Flaw. There have been multiple times where she could have just killed Haruto. But nope, he has to die in some overcomplicated plot trying to save the Victim of the Week. This does have some justification, though, as it's likely she'd want to at least try to drive Haruto to despair in order to break Dragon out of him. In later episodes, she seems to have learned and tries to find ways to get Wizard out of the way with as little collateral as possible, like telling Manticore to finish Haruto when he's helpless or attempting to get the two Riders to fight and take each other out.
- Creepy Monotone: Speaks like this unless Gremlin/Sora is screwing around or Wiseman is complimenting her.
- Dark Action Girl: Kicks Haruto's ass with little effort.
- Death by Despair: While not explicitly stated, after being stabbed In the Back by Wiseman, she crosses the Despair Event Horizon and instead of exploding like any other Phantom when killed, she crumbles into ash in a similar way that Gates who become Phantoms die.
- Determinator: Anything for Wiseman.
- Energy Absorption: Able to drain mana with the use of her snake hairs.
- Evil Counterpart: She has the same amount of devotion towards the Wiseman as Mayu does for the White Wizard, with the added bonus that they're the same guy.
- Evil Genius: Between her and Phoenix, she's usually the one to come up with the plans.
- Evil Twin: While Misa was a kind twin sister to Mayu, Medusa is anything but.
- Expy: To Mezool (or Mezuru, or Mezul). Both are blue and water themed as well as their personalities match.
- Gorgeous Gorgon: Nitoh's first reaction to her human form was even "Whoa, she's a cutie". Her Phantom form isn't exactly hideous, either.
- The Heavy: Because Phoenix is a Psychopathic Manchild and Gremlin is more concerned with his own devices, Medusa is the main Greater Phantom working to create more Phantoms. Wiseman gives her and Phoenix some direction, but otherwise leaves them to their own devices.
- Ironic Death: She attempts to kill Mayu for Wiseman’s sake, only to be killed by Wiseman himself. Because while he did want her to create Phantoms, he left out the part that he was also trying to create wizards as well.
- Irony: The master manipulator spent the entire season being manipulated by Fueki as Wiseman, and for part of it by Gremlin.
- Karmic Death: Her first act upon becoming a Phantom was to kill her Gate's parents in an act of sadism. She dies when the closest thing to a father figure she has stabs her In the Back while she was seriously wounded by her Gate's sister.
- Killed Off for Real: Stabbed in the back and disintegrates out of despair.
- Love Martyr: In a sense she's this for Wiseman. She lives for his love and approval and follows downright suicidal orders just to gain simple compliments.
- Magic Staff: Fights with a scepter called Arrogant.
- Manipulative Bitch: If Phoenix can't intimidate a Phantom into doing their job, she'll manipulate them into getting the job done. And it's clearly shown that she considers everyone around her a pawn, even her CoDragon, Phoenix. In #8-9, she manipulates him like she manipulates Lesser Phantoms but in #16, Phoenix calls her out on it.
- She also pulls this trope on Nitoh and gets him to fight Haruto.
- Medusa: Is a medusa-themed Phantom and as such has several Medusa-themed attacks, such as turning people to stone.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Her attempts to make a Phantom from Mayu blew up in her face because she didn't expect two things: Mayu using her Heroic Willpower to suppress the Phantom inside her, the reason being that she told her that she's just a monster pretending to be Misa, which led to said willpower, and the White Wizard himself appearing and teleporting Mayu away, presumably to make her an apprentice. Let's just say that in the near future, Medusa's gonna have to go through three Kamen Riders.
- Subverted. Turns out everything was going according to plan, so she never fixed anything.
- Oh, Crap!: Has a mixture of this and This Is Gonna Suck when she finds out Wiseman promoted Gremlin and he's now her boss.
- Only Sane Woman: She's easily the sanest Phantom, lacking any of the insanities, besides her Complexity Addiction, that plague the others (well, for someone who wants to kill people to create monsters) - but this trope shows considerably since her partner is an Ax-Crazy Psychopathic Manchild and half of the Phantoms employed use their job as an excuse to beat up their target.
- Pet the Dog: Her only humanizing trait is her genuine, loyalty and love for Wiseman.
- Prehensile Hair: Has very long hair in human form which becomes weaponized in Phantom form as sentient snake hair that can rip through Land Style's Defend spells like they're made of wet tissue paper.
- Psychotic Smirk: Flashes one worthy of Gremlin when she realizes that a Gate has a pregnant wife.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her more powerful spells are purple.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm blue to Phoenix and Gremlin's highly emotional red.
- Self-Made Orphan: Reveals to Mayu she killed their parents, in order to send her into despair and release a new Phantom. She almost got away with it too.
- The Smurfette Principle: She is the only female phantom to appear until Siren gets called. Despite the previous ritual have women too, this trope is played straight.
- The Stoic: Always keeps her cool and speaks in a Creepy Monotone unless...
- Not So Stoic: Sora/Gremlin really makes her lose her cool. Mainly because he annoys her rather than his usual schtick.
- Taken for Granite: She is based on Medusa.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While she and Phoenix never formed a Villainous Friendship and were as different as night and day, they could at least get along with each other and form a cohesive unit. After Phoenix becomes... 'indisposed' then Gremlin starts meddling and Medusa hates every second of it. Her Oh, Crap! reaction to finding out he's been promoted to her boss speaks volumes.
- This Cannot Be!: Her reaction to Phoenix No Selling her Taken for Granite ability.
- And again, when Mayu actually overcomes her despair and suppresses her Phantom.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Her reaction to Gremlin/Sora becoming not only her Co Dragon but her superior, meaning she'll have to take orders from him.
- Tranquil Fury: After Gremlin/Sora becomes her boss she spends all of her time in a state of barely controlled hatred and rage.
- Undying Loyalty: To Wiseman. She both shows it and enforces it in other Phantoms. This is the reason why she goes after Phoenix for going rogue, and part of her annoyance with Gremlin.
- Unwitting Pawn: Was one to Fueki.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Once, she was a loving sister to Mayu... and then she got kidnapped to be used in the Sabbath Ritual which turned her into what she is today.
- Villainous Breakdown: After countless setbacks, what it took for her to finally lose it was to be betrayed by the only person she cared about.
- It started a bit earlier when she sees the latest Gate suppress his Phantom and finally decides to just wipe the Riders out.
- Villainous Friendship: Type III with Wiseman. Medusa worships the ground Wiseman walks on and seems to be in love with him, Wiseman doesn't give a crap and simply uses these feelings to better manipulate Medusa.
- We Have Reserves: She really doesn't seem to care how many Phantoms die by Wizard's hands despite there being a limited amount of them.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: One way to see her relationship with Wiseman.
- Woman Scorned: Of a partner instead of her significant other variant, where she got tricked by Gremlin. Subverted when her attacks couldn't even reach him.
- Women Are Wiser: Especially if compared to Phoenix.
- Zigzagged if compared to Gremlin/Sora, however. Gremlin seems to be a Psychopathic Manchild and we got to see it true in #35, but this is the Manchild that not only tricked Medusa, but also Wiseman into making him the sole Dragon, with Medusa serving under Sora as the result.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Gets offed by Wiseman/Fueki mainly because she's finished doing what he wants: creating more mages for his master plan.
Sora Takigawa/Gremlin
Portrayed by: Takahisa Maeyama

A strangely playful Phantom with an unclear alignment. A sometimes-ally to Wiseman's forces; he seems to have an interest in Haruto increasing his power, such as giving Section Zero the stone for Hurricane Dragon or giving Koyomi the magic stone for the fourth and final Dragon Style, but is otherwise manipulating all parties involved for some reason. He was born from (or in fact, is) a serial killer named Sora Takigawa who worked as a hairdresser, and is currently trying to get close to Wiseman in order to get some information from him. Unlike most Phantoms, Sora considers himself a different case as he has kept all of his gate's traits and personality, making him feel more human than Phantom; and in fact wants to regain his lost humanity.
- Ambiguously Evil: He was this for a long time, as he has his own agenda apart from Wiseman's, and helped Haruto and trolled his fellow Phantoms as often as he did the reverse. #34 muddied the waters further, having him claim that he kept his humanity, before #35 settled the issue: human or Phantom, he's still a monster.
- And Then What?: Is the first Phantom to wonder aloud why they're trying to hold another Sabbath on Wiseman's orders.
- Arch-Enemy: He has become this to Haruto after being outed as a Serial Killer. Haruto attacks him with much more hatred and malice than he did Phoenix.
- Ax-Crazy: #35 establishes that he's just as nuts as Phoenix, he's just better at hiding it.
- Bad Boss: Hinted at when Raum feared failing him. Confirmed when he let Slyphi die after he had outlived his usefulness with his trademark smile on his face.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Yes, Fueki was sympathetic, but he was also a self-centered mass murderer and Entitled Bastard, there was no way that Haruto could have come up with a morally correct solution to deal with him. Good thing Gremlin came along and sorted all those pesky moral problems by killing Fueki, am I right?
- Batman Gambit: A master of this trope. All of his plans rely on predicting how a person will act based on their personality, from Phoenix's impulsiveness, Medusa's loyalty, to the Kamen Riders Chronic Hero Syndrome.
- Become a Real Boy: His dream is to use the Philosopher's Stone to regain his humanity.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Despite his silly personality and playful attitude, when he gets promoted to CoDragon and Medusa's superior, his plans turn out to be surprisingly crafty and deadly compared to Phoenix and Medusa's. He's also even more Ax-Crazy than Phoenix with a huge body count.
- Big Bad Ensemble: After discovering that Wiseman doesn't plan on giving the Philosopher's Stone to him, Gremlin breaks off from his group of Phantoms and becomes a separate player vying for Koyomi. After Wizard defeats Fueki, Gremlin supercedes him and becomes the Final Boss.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. Twice over. at first he seems like the Phantoms Affably Evil Token Good Teammate but then he's revealed to be The Sociopath and a Serial Killer before he was a Phantom, but at least he follows Pragmatic Villainy, right? Wrong, it's later revealed that he beats up little girls for fun and is just a sadistic prick underneath his superficial charm.
- Camp Straight: This becomes a plot point...
- Catchphrase: A very Engrish-y "Hello~" with a little wave.
- Character Development: Inverted. As his character arc unfolds we learn more and more about who he was up until The Reveal where he shows what a monster he is and begins to drop his Mask of Sanity showing what an ass he really is. This is justified, because Sora is a low-functioning sociopath, and is incapable of developing as a character.
- The Chessmaster/Indy Ploy: It's never revealed if Sora had everything planned out from the start, if he was making things it up as he went along, or making calculated risks, guesses, and gambits, or if he ever played Xanatos Speed Chess.
- Chromatic Arrangement: Green, which contrasts nicely with Phoenix's red and Medusa's blue.
- Cool Sword: Originally his Rapture blades, but after taking out the White Wizard he switches out for the much cooler Hamel Cane.
- Death Glare: Gives one to Argus when he tries to attack a Gate that he wants to protect...so he could kill her himself.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Sora's wish to become a human, when combined with his insanity and sadism, completely deconstructed the usually sympathetic I Just Want to Be Normal trope. He would go onto a mass killing spree across the city after gaining the Philospher's Stone, trying to fuel it with Mana and revert him back to a human being.
- Deliberate Injury Gambit: Provokes the White Wizard into stabbing him in #50 so he can steal the Hamel Cane, thus letting him take the Philosopher's Stone.
- Demon of Human Origin: His true nature. Unlike Phantoms who are echoes of their destroyed human selves, Sora's mind endured the Sabbbath and became one with his Phantom self.
- Determinator: After all of his plans fall apart instead of whining he drops being a Sissy Villain and shows some serious balls when he risks himself in direct confrontation with the White Wizard.
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: He successfully blackmailed Wiseman with unknown information, and with it, became Wiseman's highest-ranking Dragon. That said, Wiseman is only using the deal to control Sora, and has no intention of upholding his end of the bargain.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He killed a black-haired girl in a white dress just because she rejected him, killing similar black-haired girls in white dresses.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Insists to be called "Sora" rather than "Gremlin." Foreshadowing his true nature.
- The Dragon: Not at first, but he worms his way into being one of Wiseman's lieutenants.
- Co-Dragons: He and Medusa are the two main Greater Phantoms. In fact, he ends up becoming her superior.
- Dragon with an Agenda: His goal isn't to create more Phantoms, he has his own goal separate from Wiseman and the other Greater Phantoms - to regain his humanity.
- The Starscream: Once he realizes Wiseman won't give him the Philosopher's Stone, he decides to usurp him.
- Dragon Ascendant: Kills Wiseman/Fueki and becomes Haruto's final opponent.
- Dual Wielding: Wields twin swords called Rapture in battle, which together look like a pair of scissor blades...
- Sword Beam: Can fire beam slashes with his swords.
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: Gave up the Land Dragon stone with little to no explanation. The next episode has him pleased that Haruto's achieved all four Dragon Styles, though why was never made clear. #34 reveals that he was also the one who supplied the Hurricane Dragon stone to Kizaki's boss as well.
- Enigmatic Minion: From the moment Sora pops up almost everything about him is kept in mystery. We only get bits and pieces of his past and what he's working towards. As far as one can tell for most of the series, he's playing everyone against each other.
- Evil Counterpart: Sora is this to Haruto. Both of them clung onto their humanities after the Sabbath, but through differing means. The driving force of what sets these two apart is what they do with their new found change. Whereas Haruto uses his Phantom to help save people from other Phantoms, Sora wants to get rid of it and become a human again.
- Eviler than Thou: Sora is this to his own Phantom. Phantoms are twisted evil parodies of their Gate. But Sora was such a monster that there was nothing that could make him worse so he got to stay in control.
- Evil Laugh: An extremely psychotic one has replaced his giggles by #42.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Whenever he gets really serious his voice noticeably deepens.
- Faux Affably Evil: He has this charm about him that makes him likeable, but it only highlights his own madness and insanity when you know the real him.
- Final Boss: He's the final villain of the main story, being fought after he kills Wiseman.
- First-Name Basis: Of sorts; he has a tendency to call Phantoms by their Gates' names. He also prefers to called by his own Gate's name.
- Flash Step: Displays an ability similar to this, often using it to leap out of reach of someone he's approached and to run on walls.
- Foil: To Haruto since he claims to still have his human heart even though his body changes into a phantom, making his a human trapped in a Phantom body as opposed to a Phantom trapped in a human's body like Haruto. In #51, he even tells Haruto he's fighting for his own hope.
- Friendly Enemy: Due to his nature, he is sometimes this to Haruto, doing such things as giving him the Land Dragon stone or wishing him luck in a coming fight. For the same reasons, he's sometimes a pretty nasty enemy.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Started out as a normal guy who then became a dangerous Serial Killer. He then became a Phantom, becoming even more dangerous.
- Giggling Villain: Prone to childish giggling.
- Griping About Gremlins: Has a Gremlin-themed Phantom form and is quite the trickster as well as the most dangerous among them.
- Hated by All: Everyone hates his guts to different degrees. Phoenix can barely stand him; the only reason why he's still alive is because he has blackmail on Wiseman. Medusa wants him dead, and every heroic character hates seeing him, and treats him with complete disdain. This hate is completely justified on multiple degrees. One degree is that he is generally annoying to them, the other degree is that he's a third party and nearly screwed up Wiseman's plans by freeing Legion, and the third degree, the ones that the heroes are on, is that he used to be a Serial Killer before being a Phantom... and still is. By #50, practically everyone wants him dead for his heinous actions.
- Hate Sink: Like Phoenix, Gremlin is already a nasty piece of work to everyone around him, even to his fellow Phantoms. But once his backstory as a misogynistic Serial Killer who murdered 43 women (which includes his ex-girlfriend who he stabbed to death just for breaking up with him) is revealed, it becomes clear that there's nothing remotely redeemable about him. While Medusa has a profound sense of loyalty to Wiseman and will do anything to appease him, not knowing that he also played her, and her Gate's sister Mayu like fools, Phoenix having to be kept in line to prevent needless bloodshed, and Fueki himself having orchestrated the show's events all to save Koyomi. This comes to a head in the show's end game when he not only murders Fueki, but also Koyomi to take the Philosopher's Stone for himself and just to spite Haruto. He also rampages through Tokyo in which he attempts to turn Gates into Phantoms and attempts to massacre all normal humans. This applies In-Universe too because everyone despises him, albeit to different degrees.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: He's running his own plan apart from Wiseman's. What's odd is that Wiseman finds out and lets him do it.
- He later tells Medusa that his dream is to use the Philosopher's Stone to become human - Wiseman knows he wants the Stone and is using it to ensure his cooperation.
- Humans Are Special: The Phantoms don’t really question their leader’s orders and overall goal, whether it be from blind loyalty or it’s just not into their personal interests. Gremlin is the only one that is curious about the bigger picture. As a former human himself, he has better insight than his fellow Phantoms on how they think, allowing him to come up with more effective ways to cause Gates to fall into despair. This is presumably one of the reasons why Wiseman allowed him to become his Dragon.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Considering how Gremlin retained his human identity, and given that this is a misogynistic serial killer who targets women with long, black hair; he lives to satisfy his own bloodlust.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The White Wizard gored him through and pinned him to a tree, but thanks to his trademark determination he survived.
- The Informant: All of the Riders' actual knowledge comes from his gloating.
- Irony: As a normal upstanding civilian he couldn't get a girl. But as The Sociopath he can easily get girls to fall for him when now, he only wants to either hurt or kill them.
- It Amused Me: Unlike Phoenix, his idea of fun amounts to 'whatever seems the most fun at the time.' Naturally, this means who he's impeding at any given moment may change at the drop of a hat depending on whether he's in the mood to antagonize the good guys or Troll his own allies.
- For the Evulz: After The Reveal, it's shifted to this trope where he becomes a monster just to get his sick kicks.
- It's All About Me: Only cares about his own humanity and will happily sacrifice other innocent people to regain it.
- Jerkass: He hides it very well, but by #46 it has become very obvious that Sora/Gremlin's faux affability just enhances how much of a douchebag he is.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: He was the only human besides Haruto to survive the Sabbath Ritual, where he becomes a Phantom instead of being killed and impersonated by one. He still dies in the end of the series though.
- Kick Them While They Are Down: Does this to Haruto and Koyomi in #46 just for shits and giggles.
- Killed Off for Real: In #51, after receiving a Rider Kick empowered within the Philosopher's Stone from Haruto.
- Knight of Cerebus: A more subtle example than most. At first, he didn't particularly do anything evil, but once he gets promoted and starts being put in charge of sending out Phantoms, his plans are more competent than Medusa's, almost never revolving around the simple 'let fear of death drive you to despair' method. Then there's the reveal that he's actually a Serial Killer, and has been since he was human. With this reveal, a lot of his comical traits suddenly become far more frightening.
- After The Reveal his personality has become Darker and Edgier as well. He speaks in a lower voice, doesn't skip around as much, his movements are noticeably sharper, has begun to threaten the Lesser Phantoms under him if they don't do a good job, and the most jarring change of all: he has stopped giggling when he appears onscreen, making his appearances far more foreboding and menacing. His general attitude would also remind one of a more threatening straight up Dragon role, rather than his original quirky personality.
- Laughing Mad: After The Reveal, he temporarily drops his Mask of Sanity evolving from a Giggling Villain into this trope.
- By #42, he has replaced his silly giggles with a downright insane laugh to herald his appearances.
- Made of Iron: He survived an attack from the White Wizard when he was actually trying to kill Sora/Gremlin.
- He later survived being impaled by Fueki's Hamel Cane.
- Manipulative Bastard: He's started out manipulating Haruto, Medusa, Phoenix, and Wiseman. And he went all out from there playing everyone like a fiddle. He's able to pretend to be a normal, likable guy as well. Justified, as he's a more realistic depiction of how a real life Serial Killer such as Ted Bundy acts, who typically are quite effective at doing this to lure their victims or evade suspicion.
- Mask of Sanity: Just like real life sociopaths Gremlin/Sora is able to pretend to act like a normal, rational person.
- Nerves of Steel: No matter how badly he's beaten or how often his plans fall apart he never has a Villainous Breakdown and instead just changes gears.
- One-Winged Angel: Was a human Serial Killer who, unlike most other Phantoms, became his Phantom.
- Later gains another one, Evolved Gremlin, who becomes the Final Boss.
- Playing Both Sides: He started out playing three sides.
- Plot Hole: It's never explained how Sora learned about the Philosopher's Stone — Wiseman's biggest secret, or Wiseman's secret itself. Knowing both of these things are vital to his real agenda so it makes a few things make no sense.
- Pragmatic Villainy: In the beginning he was like this, but as he gets closer to the Philosopher's Stone, as a low-functioning sociopath, his poor impulse control overwhelms him and he begins to Kick the Dog a lot more.
- Psychopathic Man Child: He acts goofy most of the time, but underneath it he's a childish psychopath solely concerned with himself.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The crazy red to Medusa's collected blue. (One of two)
- Oddly, he often serves as the blue to a Lower Phantom (Weretiger)'s red.
- Resurrected Murderer: Phantoms are monsters that are created when an innocent person suffers Death by Despair and comes back as a new sociopathic monster. This process normally renders Death of Personality to it's host, with the only expection being Sora Takigawa aka Gremlin Phantom. Sora even when human was a Serial Killer who killed women that looked like the girlfriend who dumped him. When he was turned into a Phantom, Sora's original personality was able to survive the transformation as he's already pure evil, so wasn't affected by the Death by Despair.
- Serial Killer: Was one before becoming a Phantom. To be specific, a Hedonist one with Revenge as a motive, becoming a Supernatural one as well after becoming a Phantom. A more realistic version than most, as his charisma and ability to seem like an average, good person is indicative of many real life serial killers such as Ted Bundy.
- Shear Menace: His twin swords look like scissor blades. For good reason, his favorite human murder weapon is a pair of scissors.
- Sixth Ranger: For the Phantoms, but he seems to be...
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: ...This. And he is after stealing the Hamel Cane from Fueki.
- Smug Smiler: He always has a know-it-all grin on his face.
- Psychotic Smirk: As he reveals his true colors his smirk becomes less funny and more insane looking, with the transformation being complete in #42.
- The Sociopath: Rather disturbingly like a real life sociopath akin to Ted Bundy, he is able to charm young woman into trusting him so he can kill them without interference and while around others can pretend to be a normal likeable guy. As the plot unfolds Sora has shown that he is an actual sociopath. He shows a grandiose sense of self worth about himself, has a superficial charm that makes certain people like and trust him instantly, has poor impulse control announcing his plans just to get a rise out of people even when it threatens his position, is easily bored and comes up with complicated scenarios to amuse himself or hurt people, is a natural manipulator, and has a complete Lack of Empathy outside of being a Manipulative Bastard or Jerkass.
- Spanner in the Works: He's the one who informs Nitoh about the Sabbath and drove him to become his own spanner.
- Start of Darkness: His flashback implies that he starts killing long-haired women after being dumped by his girlfriend, who became his first victim.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: A master of this trope.
- Stupid Evil: For a clever planner, his desire to become human will eventually give him a Meaningless Villain Victory. Because since the main cast now know of his past as a serial killer, he'll be easily arrested if Brought Down to Normal, whereas he's practically untouchable as a Phantom. And even if the police don't have enough evidence to arrest him for murder, they'll keep close tabs on him until they finally do.
- That Man Is Dead: Subverted, he's notably the only Phantom to insist on being called by his Gate's name, even to Wiseman himself. This is because he claims that he still has his humanity, even though his body is that of a Phantom. Too bad his human self is as bad as any Phantom.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: While he is a tad strange, everyone who knew him from before his transformation thought he was a normal, nice guy and never suspected he was a Serial Killer. This is actually a rather realistic depiction of a Serial Killer, who's are typically described similarly by those who knew them.
- Token Good Teammate: Subverted hard. He seems like the friendliest Phantom at first, then we learn his true nature and he becomes the most vile.
- Too Dumb to Live: Gremlin thought it would be funny to attack and hold Koyomi hostage in front of a helpless Haruto. He ended up pissing off Fueki—the White Wizard—which is probably one of the last things one should ever do.
- The fact that the White Wizard is also his boss, Wiseman, only further solidifies this.
- It makes him seem even dumber when you realize that Gremlin knew Wiseman was the White Wizard.
- The fact that the White Wizard is also his boss, Wiseman, only further solidifies this.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: It's implied that he got to keep his soul because he was already a monster and too evil for his Phantom to make any worse. Assuming he had a soul in the first place.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Has a fondness for bubblegum.
- Trick Boss: Despite being a live-action television series, he comes across as a boss who can easily fake being defeated before running off to fight again.
- Troll: Best shown when he tricks Haruto into a fight with Medusa...then laughs his head off at both of them. While he tells her it was to dispose of Haruto, the fact he didn't bother telling her that and the sheer glee he got out of it implies he just did it to annoy her.
- Visible Victimology: Sora Takigawa was a Serial Killer who targeted women with white dresses and black hair as they resembled his girlfriend. He started to kill these women after his girlfriend dumped him and started with her. Even when Sora was reborn as the Phantom Gremlin, he wanted to continue his love for killing women who looked similar.
- We Have Reserves: He'll send as many Phantoms as he needs too their deaths at the Riders hands as long as it gets him closer to his unknown goal.
- Wild Card: As mentioned above, at separate times he's helped and wished Haruto luck, favored a traitor's methods, and ratted on said traitor anyway. It's hard to tell just whose side, if anyone's, he's on.
- Invoked in his human form with the playing card motif his outfit has.
- Woman Scorned / Yandere: A rare male example. His girlfriend breaking up with him led to his Start of Darkness before he became a Phantom, whereby he began murdering women so they would never "leave" him.
- Would Hit a Girl: He hits Koyomi a couple of times just because he can. He's also fine with murdering women.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: For most of the series he lacks any sort of master plan, he's just working off of his own knowledge of the Philosopher's Stone and adjusting his plans as new information comes up.
- You Monster!: After being mortally wounded, he says that Haruto steals hope from people, and asks why Haruto calls himself a wizard. Haruto responds by saying Gremlin lost his soul long ago and that he doesn't consider him a person. Gremlin's response? "You got me there".
Minotauros
Portrayed by: RIKIYA
The first Lesser Phantom that Wizard fights onscreen. While disguised as Rinko's partner Amino, Minotauros attempted to drive her to despair.- Our Minotaurs Are Different: He's based on the Minotaur from Greek Mythology. Even his name is taken from the same creature.
- Use Your Head: Attempts to bull-rush Wizard during the fight. It doesn't quite work as well as he hoped.
Hellhound
Portrayed by: Takeshi Kongochi
The second Lesser Phantom Wizard fights. Hellhound attempted to drag Shunpei into despair by tricking him into thinking he possessed magical powers. Possesses the ability to breathe fire and hide in and travel through shadows. Born from a TV presenter named Kazuo Tajima.- Casting a Shadow: Can hide in, and travel through shadows.
- Hellhound: The mythical creature that its based on.
- Not Quite Dead: Seems to go down in one episode like the previous Phantom, but
he got away to safety. - Playing with Fire: Can breathe both streams of flame and explosive bolts.
- Teleport Spam: Uses this during his fight with Wizard, but along as long as he has access to any form of shadow.
Caitsith
Portrayed by: Bernard Ackah
The third Lesser Phantom Wizard encounters. Caitsith is a lazy Phantom that is tasked with driving a pianist to despair. However, he'd much rather sleep than do his job. Possesses formidable speed and agility.- Affably Evil: Almost to Punch-Clock Villain level. Seems cheerful and carefree... for a demon charged with bringing despair.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Can turn his forearms into swords.
- Cats Are Mean: He's a cat and his idea of driving his victim to despair is to cut off his victim's hands!
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: Wizard's fight boils down to him trying to keep up with his breakneck speeds.
- Scary Black Man: Subverted. He is black, but his personality is miles away from being scary.
- Super-Speed: Possesses the ability to run really fast.
Gnome
Portrayed by: Yoshiyuki Kanayasu
The fourth Lesser Phantom Wizard deals with. Gnome works as a sommelier, a skill enhanced by his unnaturally keen sense of smell. Gnome is sent after a female con artist who managed to scam three of Wizard's friends in addition to a rich young man. Has the ability to tunnel rapidly through dirt.- Dishing Out Dirt: Can cause cave-ins, tunnel rapidly and pull targets into the ground with ease.
- Gentleman Snarker: Has a very snobbish demeanor when interacting with other people, even Phoenix and Medusa.
- They Have the Scent!: Is able to track his target by scent. And it was his sensitive nose that partly did him in thanks to the Smell Ring.
- Wicked Cultured: Seems to have some talent in sampling fine wines, being a sommelier.
- Wine Is Classy: Is first seen smelling and sampling some fine wines when Medusa and Phoenix come calling.
Gargoyle
Portrayed by: Kenji Yamachi
The fifth Lesser Phantom Wizard faces, Gargoyle disguises himself as a blue-collar maintenance worker. Gargoyle originally attempted to drag down a high school student (and son of Agent Kizaki's late partner) into despair, but failed when the boy left town. Now that he's returned, Gargoyle seeks to finish the job. Has the power to turn himself into an immobile and nearly indestructible statue.- Our Gargoyles Rock: He's based on a gargoyle and he can turn himself into a stone statue to withstand attacks.
- Stone Wall: Turtling variant; his self-petrification lets him block most of Wizard's attacks.
- Taken for Granite: He can turn himself into stone to tank Wizard's attacks, but he also can revert back from being stone once the attacks cease.
Valkyrie
Portrayed by: Isao Sugibayashi
The sixth lesser Phantom Wizard fights. He was born from Kazuya Kiritani, a manager of a Japanese sweets department when he succumbed to despair. This Phantom was tasked by Medusa specifically to ruin a boss' sweets shop to being him despair.- Faux Affably Evil: Acts quite polite, but he's introduced when he explains to Phoenix and Medusa that he was late because he was busy "adjusting the jaw" of his human boss.
- Flight: Like regular Valkyries, he is able to fly with his wings.
- Gender Flipped: Normally, Valkyries are female, but this phantom came from a man. Who doesn't even look like a girl!
- Professional Butt-Kisser: Part of his Faux Affably Evil facade. While he is trying to kiss up to Phoenix and Medusa, it's all an act around anyone else.
- Spam Attack: Can fire a barrage of green energy blasts from a distance.
Lizardman
Portrayed by: Keisuke Ueda
The first Phantom Haruto encountered after the sacrifice, the Phantom is easily driven off by the White Wizard when it tried to kill Haruto. He was born from Satoshi Ishii, a student filmmaker. Haruto later runs into him and initially mistakes him for a Gate (as he was running from Medusa at the time), only to have to continue the act in order to keep up the spirits of Chizuru, an actual Gate, a girl that had been inspired to become an actress by being in one of his films.- Ax-Crazy: Like Phoenix, he likes to kill people to the point where Medusa worries Gates will be killed in the process.
- Chekhov's Gunman: First seen in #2's flashback, attacking Haruto in the aftermath of the ritual.
- Cyclops: Assuming the orange dot on his head is his eye.
- Dirty Coward: When it came to fighting anyone he thought was stronger than him, he would resort to hiding, running, or trickery. He's been on the run from Medusa for quite some time because of this, and the only reason he ever fought Wizard head-on was because Haruto saw him transform.
- Expy: Looks somewhat like an organic M'Quve's YMS-15 Gyan, down to his using a sword.
Manticore
Portrayed by: Soichiro Akaboshi
Born from a fortuneteller, Wizard fought him until the Rider was poisoned by his stinger. He is finally defeated by Kamen Rider Beast.- Bald of Evil: In human form.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: His tail packs in a poisonous stinger which ends up hitting Haruto, incapacitating him.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: He looks all bug rather than part insect, part lion.
- Death Dealer: Can use his cards as weapons, ala Gambit.
- Evil Counterpart: In a way, with Kamen Rider Beast, as both have a lion as part of their motifs (at least the manticore aspect for the phantom's case) and both have a pair of big green eyes.
- Poisonous Person: His ability to lethally poison people is the driving force of his episode.
- Smug Snake: Thinking his poison makes him unstoppable, he becomes insufferable after getting in a lucky shot against Wizard, with him talking smack to Phoenix, and telling off Medusa when she tells him to just kill Wizard when he's weak instead of gloating.
- Villain Has a Point: The only flaw in Manticore's plan was Beast, which nobody, not even Wiseman, seemed to know about. On top of that, it made sense from a villainous standpoint to want to see the enemy who had been kicking your collective asses suffer, and if Haruto's poisoning had been slow enough, he could have been forced to helplessly watch other Gates turn into Phantoms, which could easily have pushed him over the Despair Event Horizon and unleashed Dragon (giving the Phantoms a very powerful ally), which would be impossible if they'd just killed him.
Hydra
Portrayed by: Motokuni Nakagawa
The ninth Phantom Wizard faces, who targets an artist who has lost his inspiration. He was born from a scuba diver.- Combat Tentacles: His tentacles allow him to fight with multiple arms.
- Master of None: He's easily the weakest Phantom Haruto ever fought. Even in the water where he's a Lightning Bruiser he was still pathetic. All he really had going for him was being smart enough to come up with a decent plan.
- Super Not-Drowning Skills: His former life as a scuba diver allows him to swim with ease.
Beelzebub
Portrayed by: IZAM
Born from a conductor whom Wizard fought to protect a targeted housewife.- Badass in a Nice Suit: In human form.
- Blown Across the Room: Gets this twice, both times due to being hit with the White Wizard's Explosion Ring.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He can make normally kind people into abusive dicks.
- Combat Pragmatist: He uses his Space Master powers to redirect Wizard's attacks to hit Beast.
- Familiar: How he makes people Brainwashed and Crazy.
- Faux Affably Evil: Treats his victims' suffering as though he's conducting an orchestra, and is always softspoken and calm despite being one of the most sadistic Phantoms seen thus far.
- Gratuitous German: Sprinkles some German into his speech.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: He didn't reveal his Space Master powers until Beast showed up to help Wizard and Wizard went Flame Dragon.
- Knight of Cerebus: He's extremely competent for a Monster of the Week, and his Evil Plan is disturbingly cruel. He first brainwashes all of his victim's friends into abandoning her, then he brainwashes Shunpei into physically assaulting her. Then to put the icing on the cake he makes her husband physically assault her. Oh, and he can also kick Haruto's ass. This guy is a certifiable nightmare.
- Manipulative Bastard: He manages to brainwash his victim's friends such that they abandon her, then brainwashes Shunpei and the victim's husband to go on her hard. Basically, he's manipulating everybody through his brainwashing, if manipulating his victim into falling into despair isn't bad enough.
- Slasher Smile: Seems to wear a huge, scary smile on his face in his Phantom form.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: Acts perfectly serene as he ruins a woman's life. He even outright states he likes drawing out the suffering he causes just For the Evulz.
- Space Master: Can make portals that redirect attacks.
- Thinking Up Portals: Capable of making portals to redirect attacks.
Weretiger
Portrayed by: Kingoro Torajima
Born from a bodybuilder named Igawa when he fell into despair, he is tasked by Medusa to turn Nitoh's grandmother into a phantom. He is finally defeated and his mana consumed by Beast.- Berserk Button: He really doesn't like to be referred to by his Gate's name, as seen when Sora's First-Name Basis habit kicks in.
- Chest Blaster: With explosives coming out from its eye-like nipples.
- Panthera Awesome: Having the tiger aspect of the weretiger.
- Super-Strength: Possesses incredible strength, as from his host's former life.
- Threatening Shark: Resembles a tiger shark, for whatever reason.
Spriggan
Portrayed by: Kenji Kotton
Born from a security guard, he was ordered to turn a archeology professor into a Phantom.- Catchphrase: A threatening "You really ought to be more careful."
- Expy: A split-colored being with a sword and shield. Better yet, the shield holsters the sword. Sounds quite similar to another Rider, right?
- The Fair Folk: He's based on a fairy.
- Fat Bastard: He's an obese human in human form and he's one of the Phantoms.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Named "Riddle".
- Schlubby, Scummy Security Guard: He was once a security guard and now he's a Phantom disguising as his host.
- Shoulder Cannon: Or the magical equivalent, at least.
Legion
Portrayed by: Mitsu Murata
Born from a man named "Naito", he is apparently so powerful and disobedient that Wiseman keeps him chained up.- Ax-Crazy: Like Phoenix and Lizardman, he had no interests in turning Gates into Phantoms and would rather wreck people's minds for fun, putting them into a coma in the process. Unlike those two, Wiseman took no chances and sealed him away.
- Catchphrase: "Exciting."
- Cyclops: Zigzagged for this case. It is unclear whether he has one large eye or many eyes patterned around his face.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: The make-up department went all out to make this guy as creepy looking as possible.
- Energy Ball: His long range attack, and its very powerful.
- Hero Killer: Downplayed—he killed Wizardragon and rendered Haruto powerless.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind: Has the ability to enter people's underworlds.
- Knight of Cerebus: You thought Beelzebub was bad? Legion is even worse than him, with his psychopathic tendencies and willingness to quickly cause despair!
- Lean and Mean: He's disturbingly thin in human form.
- Mind Rape: Enjoys entering people's minds and tearing them apart from the inside out. We only see the full process once with Haruto, and it's horrifying.
- Psycho for Hire: He's a sociopathic, psychopathic Phantom who revels in violence a little too much. Wizeman had him chained up for that very reason.
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Is on the receiving end against Wizard's Infinity Style, who just stands there taking his slashes without even flinching. The 'Uh Oh' part comes when Legion's Halberd breaks on Wizard's armor.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes glow red when he gets serious.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Wiseman locked him up due to how powerful and Ax-Crazy he is.
- The Sociopath: Wrecks people's minds solely for his own interests and is quite the demented individual.
- Space Master: His halberd can cut through normal space just as well as well as Underworld space.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: His targets of choice seem to not be Gates, but good people in general. Three examples are a guitarist with an expressive song, a woman who helped an elderly and Haruto showing his Heroic Resolve. By being put into a coma, the victims ended up being this.
- Superpower Lottery: He can just walk into peoples Underworlds and destroy them. If he followed Wiseman's agenda there would be a lot more Phantoms running around.
Bogy
Portrayed by: Kenji Yabe
Born from Kasahara, this Phantom was tasked to employ a group of people with a million dollar a day pay. This way, Medusa could identify who among the workers is the Gate(s). After that, he would bring them all to an abandoned building to scare them into despair, though he was stopped by the heroes in the nick of time. Or not.- Asteroids Monster: After Wizard in Infinity Style destroys his main body, Bogy was reduced to 6 pieces that eventually matured into 6 Bogy clones, though they seemed weaker than the first Bogy.
- Came Back Strong: An odd version, after dying, his ghosts gain luck-based powers.
- Intangible Man: Once he's reduced to being a group of ghosts, he can't be physically hurt in anyway, and people would phase past him.
- Luck-Based Puzzle Boss: Turns out, he has the ability to change one's luck, and he used it to his advantage every time Wizard fought him. But since this is a toku show, his luck finally runs out.
- Obviously Evil: It was a miracle anyone trusted him in human form. He dressed in a black overcoat, was hunched over like Igor, looked shifty, and spoke in a deep, forboding voice.
- Only Mostly Dead: As noted by Gremlin himself, after being defeated by Kamen Rider Wizard the first time.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Upon getting defeated the first time, he gets split into six ghosts who can bend luck to their whims.
- Plant Aliens: Or "Plant Ghost Demon". He's based on some plants.
- Stone Wall: Almost comically slow, but his ability to become intangible makes him a tough combatant.
- Suicidal Overconfidence: The last Bogy thought he was would avoid Beast Hyper's Mirage Shooting just by standing in place. He didn't count on the fact that said move shoots Chimera himself as the attack.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: Capable of altering his luck once he gets reduced to being six ghosts.
Argus
Portrayed by: Jin Shirosaki
Born from Akito Kosuda, a photographer, he was instructed by Medusa to target a model. He was stopped by Sora, though, but that's because he wanted to be the one doing that job instead.- Extra Eyes: He has lots of eyes on his body, chest and shoulder pads included, which he can detach to attack from a distance.
- Eye Beams: He can fire a flash of light or light bolts from his eyes.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: His body has too many eyes to count, some of which are on chest, his shoulders and his legs.
- Light 'em Up: Can cause a blinding flash of light to disorient his targets.
Raum
Portrayed by: Q-ta (bird form), Yuki Anai (voice), Minoru Watanabe (human form)
Born from Kaga, it disguises itself as a Myna Bird owned by a Gate it spies on. It seemed to be helping the Gate instead, but in reality, it was tasked to frame him for arson.- Animorphism: It may look like to be born from a bird at first, but that's the Phantom being able to shape shift into an animal.
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: The real Raum is a Great Earl of Hell.
- Eye Beams: He can fire purple energy blasts out of his eyes
- Feathered Fiend: His disguise includes a bird and he's a Phantom.
- Irony: Sora threatened him, possibly with death should he screw up. But getting busted and exposing his true nature to the Gate precisely brought him to despair!
- Jack of All Stats: Very fast, can fly, has a ranged attack, and is competent in close combat.
- Manipulative Bastard: A very, very good one. Given that he only needed to use one word to manipulate his Gate.
Bahamut
Portrayed by: Shuuya Yoshimoto
Born from Katsumura, his Gate target is Kazuya, an amateur soccer player and Haruto's old friend.- Almighty Janitor: He's a Lesser Phantom, but his power level is somewhere around Phoenix's level after his fourth revival.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He's an unarmed combatant who is capable of going toe to toe with Haruto and Kosuke without flinching. His sheer skill level of fisticuffs have given him quite the ego.
- Badass Bandolier: In human form.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: He has no weapons, but is capable of matching blows with the Riders using his own two fists. He can even take on Haruto in his Drago Timer form.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: His forearms have blades on them. His lower legs also have blades on them.
- Blood Knight: His first remarks to Haruto when he swoops in in time to save Kazuya is stating he was itching to spar with him. When he fights Kosuke for the first time, he tells him to make their battle fun. Kosuke later comments that Bahamut treats fighting like a game.
- Bullet Catch: A key part of his Establishing Character Moment to show that he ain't just a normal Monster of the Week.
- Challenge Seeker: In his first appearance, he beat Haruto and was about to do the normal 'let the fear of death drive you into despair' plot, but stopped halfway through because he thought it was too boring and decided that a more personal Despair Event Horizon would be far more entertaining.
- Fat Bastard: In human form, he's fat and he's Haruto's enemy.
- The Juggernaut: Whichever form, mantle or gimmick the Riders tried, none of them work. That's until Kamen Rider Wizard changed to Infinity Style, but even that required multiple hits from his Shining Strike to destroy Bahamut.
- Lean and Mean: In Phantom form, he's thin.
- Lightning Bruiser: Goes fast and hits hard. Wizard struggled to fight him and his double whammy of swiftness and fists even with his Drago Timer on. Even with Beast aiding Wizard, he's still able to keep them on their toes.
- Sociopathic Soldier: Given his composed personality, human clothing, and general attitude, he comes off as a Type II.
- Sword Beam: He can charge up his arm blades and send a curved beam if he wants. The first time he did it to execute his victims, Haruto used himself as a shield to block it.
Sylphi
Portrayed by: Makoto Awane
Born from Nishikawa, Sora tasked this Phantom to bring a boy to despair. He successfully fulfilled the task by sabotaging he boy's bike trick to his neighbor, only for the boy to awaken as a wizard instead.- The Bad Guy Wins: He has effectively brought his target to despair in a short while! Only for his target to awaken as a wizard.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Like the Phantom who sent him, his quirky personality only serves to enhance how morally bankrupt he is.
- Blow You Away: Has powers over wind which can pick things up and said wind can cut through things if he wants to make it cut through things.
- Camp: Tempting as it is to put him as Camp Gay, it is not known whether phantoms have any sexuality at all (other than Siren exploiting her charm ability on males).
- The Fair Folk: He's actually rather similar to how real fairies acted in mythology. With his faux affability and penchant for screwing people over.
- Faux Affably Evil: Quirky and relatively polite, but it belies his sinister personality.
- Flight: Capable of using his wind powers to fly
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wear glasses in his human form and is morally bankrupt.
- Gender Flipped: Like Valkyrie, the Sylphs are usually female.
- Gratuitous English: Lots of it, but "Hey, hey, hey!" seems to be his catchphrase.
- Hearing Voices: Unique case where he can listen to air vibrations to listen to people far away.
- Lightning Bruiser: Can go fast and hits Wizard hard.
- Manipulative Bastard: Continuing the tradition of Sora's Phantoms specializing in emotional manipulation. He uses a poor kids Puppy Love to send him past the Despair Event Horizon.
- Sissy Villain: Unlike Valkyrie's Gender Flipped example, Sylphi's human for has long hair, fingernails painted blue, walk in an effeminate manner and talks as if he's flirting with his target.
- Super-Senses: Hearing for this case, though that was through his ability to pick up air vibrations.
- Would Hit a Girl: He makes a bicycle accident involving his victim, a young boy, and his friend, a girl.
- Would Hurt a Child: The bicycle accident he makes with his wind powers ends up wounding the boy and his friend, and both of them are kids.
Sphinx
Portrayed by: Kaohiko Kaoda
Born from Kusada, Medusa tasked this Phantom to bring despair to Masafumi Saionji, an esteemed author who was looking for a young woman (who is revealed to be Koyomi) to return a ring to after she talked him out of his suicidal depression.- Cane Fu: Though he can walk fine, he always carries one, even in human form.
- Cool Sword: Switches weapons during his fight with Beast.
- Gentleman Wizard: ONLY looks like one - he's definitely not gentlemanly!
- High-Class Glass: Somewhat; His specs has one missing glass piece.
- Magic Staff: His weapon and is good for close range and long range combat.
- Manipulative Bastard: Like some of the Phantoms in the show, Sphinx knows the best way to send a Gate past the Despair Event Horizon is to destroy the source of their hope.
- Mummy Wrap: He can wrap himself with bandages and escape via teleporting.
- Playing with Fire: His main form of attack.
- Would Hit a Girl: He smacks Koyomi in the face.
- Zerg Rush: His solution to dealing with Wizard? Don't fight him at all. He instead uses a large amount of Ghouls to stall him instead.
Siren
Portrayed by: Ayano Oota
Born from Shizune, Phantom was tasked to bring a retiring teacher, who is in fact Haruto's old elementary school teacher, into despair. The teacher stumbled into Haruto once again on his hunt for a rare model of a toy plane that was stolen from the shrine of his deceased son.- Blow You Away: Possesses powers over wind.
- Charm Person: She got Wajima to partly help her in her plans. He forgot the whole thing afterwards. Subverted with the child, though-she easily convinced him to get a toy plane without her charm ability.
- Feathered Fiend: Has a bird motif.
- Gender Flipped: Averted, unlike Valkyrie and Sylphi. She is a female phantom based on a female-based mythological creature.
- Limited Wardrobe: Averted. Unlike every other Phantom who only seems to have one set of clothes, she's gone through five different outfits during her two episode run, which is more than the main cast has.
- Manipulative Bitch: Notably on the next half of the arc, where you got a boy to hand her the toy plane without her charm ability.
- More than Mind Control: Said boy really wanted to break that plane so that his father would care less about his toy collection.
- The Smurfette Principle: The very Combo-breaker of this trope; we have seen over 20 male phantoms after Medusa! Too bad it becomes a double-subversion after her destruction.
- The Vamp: Even more so than Medusa, where she made use of her charm ability.
- Stage Whisper: Partly to show how she seductively got Wajima to help her despite him being an ally.
Arachne
Portrayed by: Daisuke Kirii (voice)
After finding the next Gate, a soon-to-be father, Medusa tasked this phantom to go after him. Holds the distinction of being the last of the Lesser Phantoms to appear in-series.- Bat Out of Hell: He looks like he's part bat! Did the writers even bother to look up the myths?
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Arachne is taken from arachnid which is a type of spider, and he looks partly like a big creepy spider.
- Dumb Muscle: Compared to the last batch of Phantoms who were excellent Manipulative Bastards, Arachne is a incompetent brute who's only a threat because Medusa is actively backing him.
- Gender Flipped: In a similar case to Valkyrie.
- Lightning Bruiser: Hits fast and goes as fast as Wizard in his Infinity Style form.
- Oh, Crap!: Recoils in horror upon being surrounded by Wizard Infinity Style and Beast Hyper.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: His only power.
- Would Hit a Girl: Attempts to kill a pregnant woman
- Would Hurt a Child: His attempt to kill a pregnant woman would also kill the child if he succeeded.
Jabberwock
The very first Phantom Wizard fought on-screen in a Gate's Underworld. For this case, the Gate was Rinko Daimon, who fell into despair when Minotaur destroyed her pendant which was her memento of her father.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Based on a some sort of a beetle crossed with a dragon.
Cyclops
The next Unreleased Phantom Wizard fought after it manifested from Shunpei's magic potential, after Hellhound humiliated him publicly and burnt his inspirational book.
- Carry a Big Stick: Carries a huge club, which is basically a huge stick with a big spiky bat at its top end.
- Cyclops: Though he isn't the only phantom with one eye.
Jörmungandr
The third Unreleased Phantom Wizard battled. It was manifested from the mana of a youth, Naoki Katayama, after Gargoyle revealed how the young man's father died by his hands attempting to protect his son.
- Body Motifs: For this case, it's modelled after a right hand.
- Evil Hand: It's based on a right hand and it's a monster born out of Naoki's despair.
Hekatonkheir
The fourth Unreleased Phantom Wizard battled, when Phoenix burned all the Christmas presents a yanki man (Tatsuro) worked hard to get for the children in an orphanage.
- Do Not Go Gentle: When Wizard goes to do his Kick Strike with the WizarDragon, he actually delivers a kick of his own to try and stop Wizard.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Has three pairs of arms and can fight Wizard with all of them.
Bandersnatch
The fifth Unreleased Phantom to appear after Hydra smashed an artist's precious painting. While Wizard was busy fighting Hydra and the Ghouls, Beast managed to engage this unreleased Phantom and defeat it.
- Easily Detachable Robot Parts: Not a robot, but for this case, after the phantom was sliced, the chopped up bodies
moved on its own.
Mayu's Inner Phantom
Manifested in Mayu Inamori, twin sister to Medusa's Gate Misa, after Medusa revealed her true nature to her. Neither Wizard nor Beast could reach her in time, being occupied with fighting Medusa and Gremlin. However, just as it was about to break free, Mayu managed to overcome her despair and force the Phantom back into her body with new-found hope. With the training from the White Wizard, she is able to become Kamen Rider Mage and use the Phantom's powers as her own.
- No Name Given: Mostly due to the manual not listing said Phantom.
- Playing with Fire: Implied when Mayu, as Kamen Rider Mage, used the Special Ring.
- Silicon-Based Life: Implied to be so when it began emerging from Mayu's body.
- Spikes of Villainy: From what little we see of it. Said spikes looked crystalline in nature.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Subverted at the last minute.
Nemoto Kazuyoshi's Inner Phantom
It manifested within this character after his name was cleared, but this is because he saw his pet to really be the real arsonist, Phantom Raum.
- All There in the Manual: Averted. The site that normally shows all Phantoms including unreleased ones did not give any background information on this phantom.
- Black Comedy: Nemoto showing signs of a Phantom being about to burst out of him is played as a punchline to show Rinko and Shunpei wasting their effort in preventing despair on one case when another did the job instead.
- Fat Bastard: If the Phantom were to succeed in bursting out of Nemoto, killing him and impersonate him, its human form will most likely become this.
- Great Offscreen War: Downplayed as it's a battle between it and either Kamen Rider Wizard, Kamen Rider Beast or both with their own respective Phantoms.
- No Name Given: We don't learn of its name in the show or its supplementary material.
Yuzuru Iijima's Inner Phantom
It first manifested when Syphi sabotaged Yuzuru's bike trick and blown his bicycle to his neighbor, Akari. While he managed to prevent Kamen Rider Beast from entering Yuzuru's underworld, he regained hope after seeing Akari recovering from the hit. Sylphi's next plan was to kidnap Akari and made the group see her getting crushed by metal beams, only for it to backfire horribly for this pantom. Afterwards, deciding not to become a magician, Yuzuru was offered by Kamen Rider Beast to destroy the inner Phantom, only to be stopped and abducted by The White Wizard.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Subverted the first time in a similar manner to Mayu's. During the second time, Sylphi tried to bring this gate to despair again, only to had his plan thwarted by Kamen Rider Mage.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Implied with the emerged spider limbs.
- No Name Given: Like Mayu's, its name is never revealed.
- Spider Limbs: From what we saw, it's possibly some type of Spider Phantom
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Since Yuzuru doesn't want to be a magician, Kamen Rider Beast offered him to have his inner phantom removed.
Gigantes
It manifested inside Masafumi Saionji after Sphinx successfully melted his precious ring. Kamen Rider Wizard handled this phantom while Kamen Rider Beast took care of Sphinx.
- Cyclops: Subverted. In addition of one singular eye, there is one red dot on the palm on each of its hands. These dots are revealed to be eyes as well.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Specifically, its extra eyes are on its hands.
- Giant Hands of Doom: It has a pair of them.
- Inescapable Net: Its centre body and turn into one, but as a subversion, Wizardragon managed to escape on time.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Only for its hands.
Masahiro Yamamoto's Inner Phantom
It manifested within Arachne's target after Medusa helped blasting his pregnant wife to bits. Unfortunately for this inner phantom, it could not even emerge out of his body out thanks to Wizard protecting the wife from the explosion.
- No Name Given: Its name is not given in the show, or its supplementary material.
- Tail Slap: Implied when Masahiro Yamamoto is a Kamen Rider Mage. Through the Special Ring, he can extend the tail as a whip.
Others
Donut Shop Hungry Manager/Yu Kamimura
Portrayed by: Kaba-chan
The manager of a local donut-focused food truck, the Donut Shop Hungry. He likes Haruto, who is a loyal customer, even though Haruto only ever buys the plain sugar donuts.- Apocalypse Maiden: He was kidnapped by the Akumaizer during Ultimatum and used to bring about the end of the world.
- Berserk Button: People messing up his donuts, as seen when he noticed Kosuke spreading mayonnaise on some donuts. Subverted when he tasted one of them himself, as it gave him an inspiration to make a new kind of donut, then played straight again when he served Kosuke a new donut which already had mayonnaise in it, and Kosuke spread more mayo on top. The Manager was furious and refused to let Kosuke eat it.
- Camp Gay: Is very effeminate and dresses like a woman while working on his food truck. This characterization is actually less camp than the actor's public persona, who at the time of the show was an extremely camp and femme gay man, but has since come out as a transgender woman. She still acts exactly the same.
- Flat Character: His employee one of the most blatant cases in any Kamen Rider series. He really never has much to say or do except to keep his boss in check when he gets into TMI territory, and be frustrated alongside the Manager when Haruto only asks for plain sugar donuts.
- Friend to All Children: He's nothing but friendly to children, also giving them his donuts.
- Funny Background Event: Is usually involved in this with his employee, Ryuu.
- Gossipy Hens: The Manager is all-too-quick to start going on about things like Haruto's potential love life and his own dreams. In fact, much of the Funny Background Events involve his assistant physically trying to shut him up before he goes too far.
- Local Hangout: When the good guys are not discussing the problem of the week or relaxing in the antique shop, they will definitely be doing so at the donut truck. Strangely, the Manager and his employee never make anything of it until they see Haruto transform in front of them well into the series.
- No Name Given: Is only known as Manager.
- Movie War Ultimatum reveals his name to be Yu Kamimura.
- Queer People Are Funny: As stated in Camp Gay, he acts like a lady to hilarious results.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's red, and his employee Ryu is blue.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: The Donut Shop Hungry antics become less frequent as the series goes on.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: Movie War Ultimatum shows that he looked like a beautiful woman in his youth. Haruto did not take it well.
The White Wizard/Sou Fueki/Kamen Rider Wiseman (I)
Portrayed by: Toshitsugi Takashina (first voice), Narushi Ikeda (live, second voice), Jun Watanabe (suit)

- Alas, Poor Villain: While he was definitely a bastard, he still did everything he did out of love for his daughter. When he's fatally wounded he can't help but look at her one last time before passing on.
- All for Nothing: He did everything he did to revive his daughter, but all he really did was allow the Philosopher's Stone to fall into the hands of a psychopath.
- All There in the Manual: In-series, his Rider form is only ever referred to as "the White Wizard". Information later released from Toei revealed that this form is officially called Kamen Rider Wiseman.
- Always Save the Girl: His motivation, though not in a good way.
- Anti-Hero: He mainly fights both Phantoms, but is not above taking on other Riders if need be. Although he's later revealed to be more of an Anti-Villain
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Out of his transformation, he wears a suit and a nice sweater.
- Badass Longcoat: Wears one as Fueki. His White Wizard form has a Badass Longrobe.
- Because Destiny Says So: He uses this as a justification for his more dickish moves, it's a very obvious lie.
- Big Damn Heroes: Most times he shows up, it's to drive away a Phantom in the nick of time.
- Villainous Rescue: Turns out that it was really this trope all along.
- Big Good: He provides Haruto with new gear and steps in to save him at times if need be. However, things start to change by #31.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In his earlier appearances he was your standard Big Good, but by the end, it has become obvious that he only values people depending how useful they are to him and his goals.
- Blatant Lies: Him playing the destiny card is rather obvious BS in and out of universe.
- Broken Ace: He's a brilliant scientist who has made countless discoveries that has helped mankind, the most powerful Wizard in the setting, reinvented magic, is the World's Strongest Man, but he's also a mass murdering egocentric maniac who was driven insane by his daughter's death.
- Brown Note: Whenever the White Wizard uses his weapon in a flute-like manner. Kizaki and Beast were victims of this.
- But Not Too Evil: He's a loving father, so he's not all evil. While a lot of people died and became phantoms by his hands, but judging by the dialogue between him and Gremlin in #50, he's definitely not proud of it.
- But Thou Must!: There are some people who turned down his offer in becoming a magician. The White Wizard simply chained them up, brought them to another place and made them Brainwashed and Crazy.
- Cast as a Mask: His voice actor only voices him as the White Wizard. After he's revealed to be Fueki, his voice actor is replaced by Fueki's actor.
- Casting Gag: He's an inversion of Narushi Ikeda's previous role, Lordgenome. Both are clad in white and commit atrocities out of good intentions; Lordgenome did so out of his desire to save humanity, while Fueki was willing to damn the world just to save his daughter. Lordgenome also eventually turned to the heroes' side, in contrast to Fueki who put on the facade of being the Big Good, only to reveal himself to be the villain near the end.
- The Chessmaster: Rather easy to be one when you run both sides.
- Consummate Liar: Everything that came out of his mouth during the first three quarters of the show were nothing more than excellently crafted lies.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Everytime he pulls a Big Damn Heroes moment, he is curb-stomping someone. First he knocked away Lizardman with a magical rune, and he sent Beelzebub running with just two attacks. And he did so both times without moving from his spot. Later curb-stomp victims include Medusa, Beast (twice), and Gremlin.
- Death by Irony: The man who has plotted everything from Haruto's rise to power all the way up to the Eclipse is defeated by a person who depended more on luck than on proper planning... twice.
- Despair Event Horizon:
- The original Koyomi's death was this for him. It turned him into a completely amoral, self-centered bastard... And he didn't turn into a Phantom. He's still human.
- Might be subverted because right after he goes through it, he creates an artificial phantom.
- Empowered Badass Normal: He was not born a Gate and thus did not possess magic naturally like Haruto; he used science to artificially grow a Phantom within himself and give himself magic.
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: He gives Haruto the WizarDriver and teaches him how to use it before disappearing. Later, he anonymously delivers the magic stone for the Flame Dragon Ring, directs Koyomi to the Water Dragon stone, and helps Haruto create the Drago Timer. He even eventually takes on Mayu and Yuzuru as apprentices - even though Yuzuru doesn't want to be one.
- Entitled Bastard: He states that everyone that he turned into a Phantom should be happy that they died for him.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Fueki may be evil, but he truly does love his daughter and seems to miss his wife a great deal.
- Evil All Along: He seems like the Big Good, but is really the Big Bad.
- Evil Counterpart: Examining him closely you'll realize he's a pretty solid one to Haruto. They both lost their loved ones (and bonus points for the inverse relationship, with Haruto being the child who lost his parents and Fueki being the parent who lost his child) and while Haruto was able to move on from his loss and become a selfless Nice Guy, Fueki became a selfish, callous human being. They also got their powers in opposite ways, as Haruto gained his magic from the power of hope while Fueki got the idea to give himself magic powers after passing the Despair Event Horizon. Both were motivated by Koyomi but in the end, Haruto knew when to stop chasing ghosts while Fueki didn't.
- Familiar: The White Garuda and Cerberus PlaMonsters.
- Gold and White Are Divine: His Rider form is gold and white, and he's the supposed Big Good of the setting.
- Good Wears White: Subverted when it is revealed he is the true villain of the true villain.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He's killed by the same weapon he used to pin Sora to a tree with... By the very same guy no less.
- Irony: The most powerful Wizard in the story is most well known as a scientist.
- It's All About Me: Haruto calls him out on murdering countless people to further his own goals. He calls them all "insignificant" and says that they should be happy that they died for him.
- Kick the Dog: He beat Kizaki into a coma because he figured out some secret about him, abducted a kid to train against his will, and nearly killed Beast for interfering twice over.
- Kill Steal: Sorry Mayu, looks like you won't be getting your revenge after all.
- Knight of Cerebus: An Anti-Hero variant. When he shows up, shit gets real.
- Knight Templar: Despises the Phantoms and wants them destroyed, but is willing to go to rather extreme lengths to do so. Or that's his cover story.
- Language of Magic: The White Wizard has these powers.
- Laser-Guided Karma: His plans come crashing down because he pissed off the wrong person (Nitoh) in his second attempt to save Koyomi, and was utterly defeated by two people who were birthed from his first attempt (Sora and Haruto).
- Light Is Good: He has a white color palette, and is the one enabling Haruto to go out and save people from the Phantoms...
- Light Is Not Good: As the fight against the Phantoms goes on, the White Wizard gradually shows a darker, more ruthless side. And then he's revealed to be an alter-ego of Wiseman.
- Love Makes You Evil: and Crazy The original Koyomi's death made him completely lose it!
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Koyomi, I Am Your Father
- Lunacy: His Instant Runes have the lunar cycle imprinted on them.
- Magitek: He created his magic from science. He even implanted himself with an Artificial Phantom!
- Manipulative Bastard: His relationship with Mayu is disturbingly similar to his alter-ego's relationship with Medusa. And he's responsible for the death of Mayu's sister and parents in the first place.
- Master Actor: Fueki was able to con everyone with his skills. He was able to play the role as a benevolent Big Good as the White Wizard, a mysterious Evil Overlord as Wiseman, and a morally ambiguous Anti-Hero in the later phases of his plan all while hiding that he really isn't all that sane.
- The Mentor: Taught Haruto and guided him to become a wizard.
- Mirror Character: To Gremlin of all people. Both are selfish mass murderers who have driven themselves insane chasing ghosts and both exemplify why Humans Are the Real Monsters. This is probably why he flipped out when Gremlin called him "Father", it hit a little too close to home.
- Mix-and-Match Weapon: Hamel Cane
- Moral Myopia: He truly loves his daughter, but outside of that he's an outright sociopath considering kidnapping, assault, mass murder, and human sacrifice to be perfectly acceptable practices.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: His killing of Medusa in #48 when he decided that she wasn't needed after finding his fourth Wizard. By that point, with the exception of the Wizard's Phantoms, it would appear that she and Gremlin were the only Phantoms left. If only Fueki had kept her alive and manipulated her for just a while longer, seeing as how out of everyone she was perhaps most cautious of Sora and as stated by Wiseman himself, she was the only one he really trusted. She might have taken Sora down just as he was about to make his move.
- No Body Left Behind: When he's killed by Sora, his body disappears. Probably from the Artificial Phantom in him.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He's said to be a famous physicist, but has also contributed to a number of other fields, including medicine and technology. Plus being a biologist and magicologist, since he invented an artificial Phantom (Carbuncle, AKA Wiseman) and implanted it in himself to let him wield magic.
- Palette Swap: His costume is unique in a sense, but he and Wizard share the same base.
- His belt was initially a blatant example of a repaint of Haruto's Wizardriver during his debut and early appearances, but the producers replaced the repainted prop with an actual slightly different White Wizardriver.
- Papa Wolf: Do NOT mess with his daughter; Gremlin learned this the hard way...TWICE.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "消えろ。"note
- Pride: Fueki is completely convinced in his own infallibility, superiority, and righteousness, making him incapable of seeing himself in being wrong in any way. This causes him to leave loose ends, like letting Nitoh and Sora live.
- Ring of Power: After all, he's "Wizard but stronger." Many of his rings are
Wizard's by different names.- Driver On Ring: Calls upon the White Wizard Driver.
- Change Ring: Activates the transformation into the White Wizard.
- Barrier Ring: Allows WW to create a strong defensive barrier. A renamed version of Wizard's Defend Ring.
- Connect Ring: Provides a link between two locations or people; identical to Wizard's.
- Explosion Ring: As basic as it sounds, it's surprisingly powerful, on par with Beast's Hyper Mirage Magnum attack.
- Teleport Ring: Allows Mass Teleportation.
- Chain Ring: Circles appear from the ground and sprout chains to wrap around the victims. Again, it's Wizard's Bind Ring by a different name.
- White Garuda Ring: Summons the White Garuda PlaMonster.
- Cerberus Ring: Summons the Black Cerberus PlaMonster.
- Dupe Ring: Allows Self-Duplication. However, unlike Wizard's Copy Ring, it works more like the Drago Timer, with each clone moving independently rather than unison.
- The White WizarDriver suggests he has more rings that match Wizard's but have different names, such as a "Giant Ring" (Big), and "Micro Ring" (Small).
- Science Wizard: Sueki was a physicist before becoming White Wizard. He was able to create an artificial Phantom of his own, granting him magical powers. It is also implied he creates his own magic rings.
- Shadow Archetype: Not just in the traditional way, but even his own Driver has its own 'dark' versions of Wizard's spells. It replaces the Wizardriver's "Please" with "Now", "Chou ii ne!*" with "Yes!" and "Saikoooou!*" with "Understand?!"
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Tells Haruto as much when Haruto says he'll save Koyomi another way.
- Space Master: Materials identify his magic as space-based, evidenced by his signature rings: Explosion (supercompresses and then releases magic in a very small area) and Teleport (self-explanatory).
- The Spook: He seems to have done this to himself. There is almost no information about his former identity. He also goes through a lot of trouble to make sure nobody investigates him. Including seriously injuring Kizaki and destroying his office.
- The Stoic: The White Wizard is strangely calm for almost everytime he appears.
- Tranquil Fury: He does, however, show subtle hints that he's definitely not the nicest person.
- The Fury part is more evident whenever he does his Henshin call.
- Not So Stoic: Just look at how pissed he gets when Beast ruins his plans.
- Tranquil Fury: He does, however, show subtle hints that he's definitely not the nicest person.
- Stranger Behind the Mask: Fueki is introduced one episode before he's revealed as the White Wizard. Subverted when he's revealed to be Wiseman.
- Super-Empowering: When a Gate manages to resist despair, he immediately teleports in to offer them the chance to become a wizard. And doesn't take "no" for an answer. Also applies to himself, since he became a Wizard by creating an artificial Phantom and implanting it in his own body.
- The Svengali: He raises and trains Wizards in order to turn them into Human Sacrifices for his own selfish benefit.
- This Cannot Be!: His reaction to Beast ruining his plans.
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Strangely enough, The White Wizard doesn't seem to give a shit about Phantoms, despite his power. The Lizardman, Phoenix, Beelzebub, Medusa, and Legion Phantoms were all at his mercy, but they lived (a little longer) because of his choice to let Haruto do the dirty work instead.
- Almost subverted in #46; Gremlin pushes him a bit too far, with the latter actually aiming to kill Gremlin. He almost gave chase when Gremlin flees, but is stopped by Haruto.
- Tragic Villain: All he wanted to do was save his daughter's life, but in the end failed to accomplish even that, only succeeding in creating an army of monsters and allowing a Sociopathic Serial Killer to gain unspeakable power by killing his daughter.
- Underestimating Badassery: No matter what, he never saw Beast as a threat. This came to epically bite him in the ass.
- Deconstructed with Gremlin. This proved to be a fatal mistake for not only him, but for everyone else.
- The Unfettered: There is no price to high, no atrocity too heinous to commit, and no
Moral Event Horizon he will not cross in order to save his daughter. - Unreliable Expositor: Shamelessly lies to get others to do his bidding.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While he has done enough atrocities to fill a book on purpose there was no way he could have known that the campy hairdresser he kidnapped was a sociopath and a Serial Killer that would eventually become an all powerful monster that he couldn't control.
- Villainous Breakdown: Gets noticeably angry for the first time when Beast foils the second Sabbath." I'll have you cowering in fear and despair as you die!"
- Walking Spoiler: His actual official name of his Rider transformation is one! Kamen Rider Wiseman as confirmed by Toei and Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His goal of stopping phantoms doesn't stop the fact that he kidnaps Yuzuru to do this, as well as beat up Kizaki and Beast for interfering. As it turns out his real goal is to help his daughter Koyomi, and if that means taking things to the extreme, so be it.
- World's Strongest Man: He is clearly in a league of his own. Wizard had to go all out with Infinity just to beat him and that knocked Haruto out of his transformation.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: The first Sabbath was supposed to revive Koyomi but it was only halfway successful. Seeing Haruto overcome his despair caused Fueki to modify his plans to use Wizards as the sacrifices instead.
Kosuke Nitoh/Kamen Rider Beast
Portrayed by: Tasuku Nagase (live), Jun Watanabe (suit)

Tropes that apply to him in general
- Accidental Misnaming: Does not like people calling him "Mayonnaise".
- All Men Are Perverts: The man spends the first act of Episode #26 being enamored with schoolgirls. Lampshaded by Rinko when he argues that the girl he was looking for was Medusa, while commenting on how cute she was.
- Animalistic Abilities: Beast fights with magical animal-themed mantles that grant him different powers. Falco Mantle grants him flight, Chameleo Mantle grants him Chameleon Camouflage, Dolpi Mantle allows him to swim and gives him Healing Hands, and Buffa Mantle enhances his strength.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: His Rider From is based on animals and he's saving the day as Kamen Rider Beast.
- Anti-Hero: After Yuzuru's kidnapping he's shown that he's willing to throw his morals out the window in order to save him. This includes teaming up with Sora.
- Badass Bookworm: He was an archaeologist before becoming Beast.
- Big Brother Mentor: To Yuzuru.
- Big Eater: Deconstructed. He needs to keep eating not just regular food, but the mana from phantoms as well, or else he will die.
- Brought Down to Badass: Sacrificing his powers to stop the second Sabbath doesn't stop him from kicking Ghoul butt in the finale.
- Butt-Monkey: In and out of combat.
- Catchphrase "Now, it's lunchtime!" and "Say no more, I got it."
- Haruto finally lampshades Nitoh's "Say no more, I got it" in episode 47.
- Less often, but still frequent, is "A pinch is the same as a chance".
- Deal with the Devil: Accepts an offer from Sora to help find the White Wizard.
- Ditzy Genius: Tends to lose his train of thought and go off on weird tangents making you forget that he is a skilled fighter and a talented archeologist.
- Familiar: His Griffin PlaMonster.
- Fatal Flaw: His arrogance and self-absorbed pride in his ability to understand any situation without needing the full context (as per his Catchphrase) has more often than not become a constant source of Poor Communication Kills.
- Genre Throwback: His henshin pose is a more elaborate series of movements similar to the Showa era Kamen Rider shows.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Whenever the subject of the Engage Rings come up, he comments on how he doesn't want another dude putting a ring on his hand or vice-versa. (The fact that they're called Engage Rings doesn't help.)
- Heroic Sacrifice: He sets Chimera free to stop the second Sabbath. Even Chimera didn't know what would happen to Nitoh afterwards, but in the end Nitoh just loses his powers. In a way, he and Haruto are even, doing something to protect the other at the cost of their powers.
- Hidden Depths: Episodes that focus on him tend to show that he's not as angst-free about his condition as he acts.
- In Harm's Way: It's implied that the real reason that he refuses to let Haruto destroy Chimera, and part of why he's so willing to put the belt back on during the events of The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle, is that he enjoys the inherent danger of being Beast. His Adventurer Archaeologist tendencies (including preferring to sleep in a tent outdoors) and his catchphrase, "a pinch is the same as a chance", reinforce this.
- Kiai: Shouts out gao when he attacks, which is Japanese onomatopoeia for a lion's roar.
- Kid-Appeal Character: He started out as one, being a competent Shunpei, but grows out of it after Yuzuru's kidnapping and becoming an unfettered Anti-Hero.
- Large Ham: There are many times where you can see his hamminess, such as when he was telling the time he got his Beast Driver, or, more commonly, his Henshin call.
- Let No Crisis Go to Waste: His basic attitude is that danger comes with opportunity.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Tends to suffer from lack of focus but when the situation calls for it he'll get serious. Best shown with the Legion situation.
- Slyphi's crimes made him become extremely dangerous.
- By Episode 42 you'll wonder if he's the same person with how serious, angry, and dangerous he's become.
- Locked Out of the Loop: When he first arrived, he knew next to nothing about Phantoms except Chimera eats them. Until Haruto fills him in, this was part of the reason for their conflict.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When he discovers Phantoms emerging from a Gate kills them, something he didn't know when he unwittingly aided the Phantoms.
- My Greatest Failure: In episode #31, he considers being unable to stop Dragon from being killed by Legion this. Until it's replaced by Yuzuru's kidnapping at the White Wizard's hands. It turned him into an unfettered, hardcore, Anti-Hero.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The rest of the cast is very creeped out at how serious he is after Yuzuru's kidnapping.
- Phlebotinum Dependence
- Poor Communication Kills: All of the conflict he creates comes from his inability to listen to other people.
- Power at a Price: Chimera granted him the power to fight Phantoms through the Beast Driver, but requires that Kosuke regularly feed him the mana of defeated monsters.
- Puny Earthlings: The White Wizard spits "Puny Archetype" at Beast's face during their fights.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Haruto's blue.
- The Rival:
- He viewed Haruto as this, mainly because he's off killing his food source and at the start believed he was snacking on Phantoms too. Though he seems to mean it in a friendly or joking manner. He even says that rivals ought to give one another a hand every so often. He stopped being rivals with him once the Phantoms hit it too close to home and went after his grandmother.
- He also declared the White Wizard as a Rival upon meeting him, but let's face it, the White Wizard is way out of Nitoh's league. As the White Wizard eventually proved; but Nitoh got the better of him when it counted.
- So Last Season: Soon after he showed up, Haruto got access to the Drago Timer. Even getting his Super Mode didn't help much, as one arc after Nitoh getting Hyper Beast, Haruto got Infinity Style. Poor Nitoh.
- Super Prototype: Despite his Driver being ancient, he's shown to be about on par with Wizard's Dragon Forms. His Driver is far more limited in the number of rings he can use, however.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: All the time, usually to the effect of "I'm totally not doing X just so I can eat the Phantom!"
- Trademark Favorite Food: Mayonnaise. He puts it on everything he eats,
even doughnuts. Even if the food in question 'already has' mayonnaise on it. - Tranquil Fury: This has replaced his Kid-Appeal Character personality after Episode 42. And it is extremely creepy to see him with such Dissonant Serenity. After Shunpei calls him and Haruto out for their White Wizard-driven behavior, he drops this.
- Unknown Rival: To the White Wizard...at first.
- Unstoppable Rage: Whenever Nitoh gets angry his competence goes up a million fold. But even with such justified anger, it's still not enough against the White Wizard. At least not until it really counts.
- Walking the Earth: After #51, he's actually trying to track down Chimera. In Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle it's revealed he recaptured Chimera offscreen.
- Wrong Context Magic: His magic works differently than Haruto's in that he needs to eat Phantoms' Mana in order to survive. He originally thought all magic worked this way and his initial conflict with Haruto is largely due to this misunderstanding.
Tropes exclusive to him as Kamen Rider Beast

- Awesome, but Impractical: A close look will show that his Rider abilities work with a lot more drawbacks then the other Riders seen. To start with he doesn't have any mana of his own, so if he doesn't keep feeding Chimera the mana from Phantoms then he'll be eaten in their place which can happen if Chimera gets hungry enough instead of him crossing the Despair Event Horizon. His magic is an older style one which isn't compatible with the rings used by other Riders so he can't upgrade like them, leaving him with what he starts with only. To make that more galling Haruto can use his rings for far more varied effect than Nitoh himself can. And his Finishing Move uses a Luck Based Mechanic which wouldn't be much of a problem except that it summons energy figures based on his Mantles that individually don't have much power on their own, which means he has to rely on high rolls for it to work well.
- Badass Cape: Has a half-cape on his right shoulder whenever he changes Mantles.
- Flight: Falco Mantle
- Healing Hands: Dolphi Mantle, which allows Beast to use healing magic.
- Invisibility Cloak: Chameleo Mantle
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: He manages to do this to Sphinx. And to the White Wizard in their final battle.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end of two from the White Wizard. He makes up for it with a sacrifice play in round three.
- Dance Battler: Not prominent, but Beast is somehow able to do so during #26 against Medusa.
- It could be possibly explained as because the suit actor, Jun Watanabe, is acting for Beast and Medusa, so the producers probably had to get either Takaiwa or Eitoku to suit up as Beast.
- Fun Size: Rolling one on the Dice Saber cause the sole animal to be chibi-sized. Only fun to watch it being unable to finish the foe off, though.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: Depends on how you look at it.
- Magical Girl: To hide his identity from his grandmother, he resorted to calling himself this.
- More Dakka: A normal Saber Strike summons the number of mana creatures he rolls on the Dice Saber. A Hyper Saber Strike takes that number and multiplies it by four (the number rolled per each of his Mantles).
- Power-Up Letdown:
- Rolling a one on his Dice Saber. The single creature it summons isn't enough even to annoy a Phantom. Subverted the third time he does so, though, where with his Heroic Willpower, it becomes much more powerful.
- His Hyper Form has some aspects of this, as it's stronger but doesn't have access to his Mantles and is therefore less versatile.
- Primary-Color Champion: His Super Mode is blue and gold with red highlights.
- Re-Power: In Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle, he recaptures Chimera offscreen and becomes Beast again.
- Ring of Power: Allows him to transform and switch powers. Rather than having Styles like Wizard, he has Mantles, which influences his power depending on what half-cape he dons on his right side.
- Driver On Ring: Calls upon the Beast Driver.
- Beast Ring: When inserted into the Beast Driver and turned, this ring opens the buckle and activates the transformation into Kamen Rider Beast.
- Falco Ring: Equips Beast with the Falco Mantle.
- Chameleo Ring: Equips Beast with the Chameleo Mantle.
- Buffa Ring: Equips Beast with the Buffa Mantle.
- Dolphi Ring: Equips Beast with the Dolphi Mantle.
- Griffon Ring: Allows Beast to Summon the Green Griffon Plamonster. Interestingly, Nitoh has to use Driver On in order to summon Griffon.
- Chimerise Ring: Summons BeastChimera.
- Engage Ring: Enables Beast to enter a Gate's Underworld.
- Hyper Ring: Changes Beast into his Hyper Style and arms him with the Mirage Magnum.
- Sword and Gun: In Episode 43, he was able to use both the Dice Saber and the Mirage Magnum as Beast Hyper. This combination makes the White Wizard treat him as a threat.
- Transformation Trinket: His Beast Driver and Wizard Rings.
- This is played for laughs in his debut, as he forgets where he keeps his rings.
Chimera
Portrayed by: Tomomichi Nishimura (voice)
Nitoh's Phantom, though unlike other Phantoms, it was not manifested within Nitoh. Instead, it was sealed inside the Beast Driver a long time ago, when magic and science were used together. It merged with Nitoh when he discovered and first used the Beast Driver.- Animalistic Abomination: Looks like a huge mix of animals fused together.
- Bond Creature: To Nitoh. In exchange for using his power, Nitoh needs to feed him the Mana from other Phantoms.
- Breath Weapon: Its Beast Laser attack fires a beam from each of its mouths.
- But Now I Must Go: Invoked by Chimera after Kosuke breaks the Beast Driver as a last ditch attempt to stop the second Sabbath. Chimera also spared Kosuke from being eaten as a token of good will... and because Kosuke amused him.
- Classical Chimera: Is an amalgamation of horror and animals meshed together like an actual chimera
- Finishing Move: Biting End
- Hunter of His Own Kind: Unlike Dragon, he feeds on other Phantoms (evidently for survival) of his own free will.
- I'm a Humanitarian: He eats other Phantoms. Though in Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle he finds a new food: Helheim Fruits.
- King of Beasts: His primary animal motif.
- Mix-and-Match Critter: He is composed of the various animals Beast's Mantles are based on.
- Noble Demon: Unlike Dragon, he seems a good bit less vicious and is a good deal more willing to cooperate with Nitoh. He just asks Nitoh to feed him the Mana from other Phantoms in return for lending him his powers. However if Nitoh fails to keep him filled, he will kill him. He solidifies his position as this when Nitoh releases him from the Beast Driver to stop the second Sabbath. After doing so, Chimera tells him their deal is finished and Nitoh is free to go.
- Sealed Badass in a Can: Unlike Dragon, he's stuck in the belt, rather than the person. Is released in #49, and turns out to be a rather nice guy. Kouta is revealed to have re-sealed him in Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle.
Mayu Inamori/Kamen Rider Mage
Portrayed by:' Erina Nakayama (live), Satoshi Fujita (suit)

Tropes that apply to her in general
- And Then What?: Shes not sure what to do after Medusa dies.
- Big Damn Heroes: Her debut as Mage in #40, interfering just in time before Medusa can finish Haruto off.
- Deal with the Devil: The White Wizard said he will give her the means of defeating Medusa in trade for the Infinity Ring. She eventually tells Haruto about it...and he gives her the ring of his own free will.
- Distress Ball: Grabs it after The Reveal. She becomes so broken that she's easily kidnapped by Fueki's latest Dragon, Yuzuru (a child).
- Expy: Of Akira Amami, as both are teenage girls who chosed to become apprentices to the more experienced Riders in order to avenged their parents' death from monsters of their respective series.
- Faux Action Girl: Became one after Medusa's defeat. Justified as she only became a magician to avenge her family. She was distracted in her conflict with the White Wizard after his reveal. She gets better in the finale, and even becomes Haruto's successor in Section Zero.
- Foreshadowing: Kamen Rider Mage is nothing more than an overglorified mook. Looks like Toei is being lazy again, huh? WRONG! Mage is based off of a pawn, and that's all Fueki sees Mayu as, she isn't a powerful bodyguard like Haruto was supposed to be, all she was needed for was as a sacrifice for a second Sabbath. Her form as Mage represents Fueki's true colors.
- Mirror Character: She and Medusa are both emotionally dependent on the same person.
- "Not So Different" Remark: After learning that the White Wizard was manipulating her all the time, Mayu believes that she is no better than Medusa, as they both followed the orders of their master without pondering the idea that they are just a pawn.
- Power Of Hate: This is what she really runs on.
- Revenge Before Reason: She will get revenge on Medusa, no matter what. Even if it means going to the White Wizard, while fully aware of some of the horrible things he's done.
- Take Up My Sword: After Haruto leaves to go hide the Philosopher's Stone, she takes his place as the Wizard protector of Tokyo.
Tropes exclusive to her as Kamen Rider Mage
- Ring of Power: Like with the White Wizard, most of her rings seem to be
copied from other wizards.- ''Driver On Ring': Calls upon the Mage's Belt. Visually identical to Fueki's, even down to the deeper tone.
- Mage Ring: Activates the transformation into Kamen Rider Mage.
- Connect Ring: Identical to both Wizard's and White Wizard's, it provides a link between two locations or people.
- Barrier Ring: Allows Mage to create a strong defensive barrier. Again, identical to Wizard's Defend Ring and White Wizard's own Barrier Ring.
- Teleport Ring: Allows Mass Teleportation. Same as the White Wizard's.
- Gravity Ring: The same as Wizard's Gravity Ring, if he didn't just loan it to her to begin with.
- Holy Ring: Releases holy light that severely damages Phantoms.
Yuzuru Iijima
Portrayed by: Shinta Soma
A young gate targeted by the phantom Sylphi.- Brainwashed and Crazy: Thanks to the White Wizard. He beats the crap out of a hesitant Nitoh and kidnaps Mayu. He got better.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Becomes the Blue Kamen Rider Mage after holding back his phantom.
- Refusal of the Call: Following the advice of Kosuke and Haruto, Yuzuru decides to doesn't want to be a wizard, finding it too scary. White Wizard doesn't give two craps about that and kidnaps him.
- And in #51, he accepts the call of his own will.
Masahiro Yamamoto
Portrayed by: Shingo Kawaguchi
A soon-to-be father targeted by the phantom Arachne.- Brainwashed and Crazy: Thanks to the White Wizard. He got better.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Becomes the Green Kamen Rider Mage after holding back his phantom.
- Happily Ever After: He gets to have his family in the end.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Granted, he isn’t actually a Jerkass, but he is the only one that points out that Koyomi is Dead All Along, and questions why he should get involved in rescuing her.
- Refusal of the Call: Like Yuzuru, Masahiro refuses to become a Wizard.
- Kidnapped by the Call: Also like Yuzuru, the White Wizard wasn't asking his permission and kidnaps him.
- The Call Knows Where You Live: Eventually, he decides to help out to protect his family.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Understandably does this after the second Sabbath fails...but then decides to use his powers again when Gremlin attacks.
Masanori Kizaki
Portrayed by: Naoki Kawano
The head of Section Zero who reluctantly helps out in the battle against the Phantoms.- Convenient Coma: He gets better.
- Distressed Dude: Of the non humorous variant.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Seems this way at first.
- He Knows Too Much: The White Wizard attacked him for prying into his identity.
- Tsundere: Definitely.
Movie-exclusive Characters
Characters from Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum
- Homage: The trio are based on the protagonists of Akumaizer 3.
Xatan
Portrayed by: Demon Kakka (voice)
The leader of the Akumaizers.- Big Bad: He is the one responsible for the events of Movie War Ultimaum.
- Black Magic: He is able to use magic from the Earth's Underworld, also using it to communicate and control humans and monsters easily.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Is mainly red and black and is a devilish being.
- Villainous Friendship: With Eel and Gahra, even being concerned and upset at their deaths.
Eel
Portrayed by: Tomokazu Seki (voice)
- Bat Out of Hell: Parts of his appearance have bat elements in them.
- Flight: Can sprout the wings on his back for flight.
- Fragile Speedster: The most agile and skilled of the three.
- Time Travel: Eel is able to pass through time, especially with his interaction with Banba.
Gahra
Portrayed by: Yuji Mitsuya (voice)
- The Brute: The more muscular and power oriented of the three.
- One-Winged Angel: Is able to transform into a monstrous bird-like form called Gahratcho.
- Taking the Bullet: Protects Xatan from Wizard as he himself is struck by the Rider's Slash Strikes, to the former's dismay.
- Verbal Tic: Tends to utter "dana" in his sentences.
Characters from Kamen Rider Wizard in Magic Land
Orma/Kamen Rider Sorcerer
Portrayed by: Takanori Jinnai (live), Eitoku (suit)
A mysterious golden-armored Kamen Rider that uses Koyomi to create a world where everyone can use magic and transform if they can get a driver. His human identity is Maya the Great's Prime Minister, Orma. His true identity is the Drake Phantom, and his goal is to create a world of mages so he can turn them all into Phantoms.- Badass Cape: Both as Sorcerer and Orma.
- Big Bad: Of the movie.
- Complexity Addiction: He didn't need to use Maya as a Puppet King, he just thought it was amusing to see one man drown the entire world in despair.
- Evil Chancellor: Is one to Emperor Maya.
- For the Evulz: The motivation for his plan.
- Golden Super Mode: His default style is one.
- Inconsistent Spelling: His name can be romanized as either "Orma" or "Ogma". Official supplemental material confirms his name as the latter.
- Light Is Not Good: The Black accents on his visor and armor over the gold color will instantly tell you that he's no good guy.
- No Ontological Inertia: The Land of Magic collapses after his defeat.
- Palette Swap: His costume design is quite unique, but shares the same template as Wizard, specifically Hurricane Dragon.
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Prop Recycling: He also shares the same-colored Wizardriver as the White Wizard.
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- Retconjuration: Using Koyomi, he turns the real world into the Land of Magic.
- The Reveal: Orma is Sorcerer...and also a Phantom.
- Ring of Power: Like other magicians in the series.
- Driver On Ring: Calls upon the Sorcerer's Belt.
- Sorcerer Ring: Activates the transformation into Kamen Rider Sorcerer.
- Common Ring: Multi-purpose ring which allows Sorcerer to use various spells, including Draught, Connect, Explosion, Tornado, Lightning, Reflect, Vanish Strike, Heat and Dupe.
- Create Ring: Allows Reality Warping.
- Final Strike Ring: Allows Sorcerer to execute a kick-based Finishing Move.
- This Was His True Form: He reverts back to the Drake Phantom just before dying.
- Trailers Always Spoil: Orma being Sorcerer was spoiled by all the pre-release material.
Kamen Rider Mage
In the Land of Magic, anyone with a driver can become a Kamen Rider Mage. Some of them help fight Phantoms, while others act as the king's guards and enforcers.- Animal Motifs: Mages have giant claws for left hands and "tails" on the backs of their belts, making them somewhat resemble attack dogs.
- Ascended Fanboy: Shunpei as Kamen Rider Mage...kind of. Since magic is ordinary in the Land of Magic, the Shunpei of that world wants to meet people from Alternate Universes instead.
- Brought Down to Normal: A boy, Shiina, loses his magic when his Inner Phantom is destroyed.
- Elite Mooks: Compared to the ghouls, these guys can really put up a fight. Three of them were able to take on Beast and put him in a pinch.
- Then we have Rinko, Shunpei, the Donut Manager and his assistant...
- Heroic Wannabe: Anyone in Haruto's group that transforms into a Mage qualifies for this.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: None of them remember the real world, and Haruto and Koyomi's friends don't recognize them.
- Ring of Power: Two rings.
- Driver On Ring: Calls upon the Mage's Belt.
- Mage Ring: Activates the transformation into Kamen Rider Mage.
Emperor Maya
Portrayed by: Shuugo Oshinari
The king of the Land of Magic. He is also incapable of using magic, and is just a puppet of Orma.- Alternate Self: At the end of the movie, he's seen in the real world with a wife and child.
- The Good King: Everyone else thinks so. Subverted.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: During the movie, a boy asks Maya for help when his mother is abducted by a rainbow tornado. Maya mentions that the boy made a ring for his mother...which makes the boy suspicious, because he never told anyone about the ring.
- King Incognito: He meets Koyomi disguised as an ordinary person.
- Puppet King: The real ruler is Orma.
- Put Them All Out of My Misery: Since he doesn't have magic, he wants to destroy all mages.
- Red Herring: The characters initially believe he is Kamen Rider Sorcerer; this turns out to be wrong.
- Unwitting Pawn: Orma uses him in order to make a world of Phantoms.
Khepri
Portrayed by: Keiji Hirai (voice)
A Phantom that appeared exclusively to Magic Land. He also appears in the Kamen Rider Wizard in Magica Land net movie spin-offs.- The Un-Reveal: Like Arachne, Khepri's Gate and human from was never shown.
- Villain with Good Publicity: The net movies paint him as this, with him being able to attract many customers with his own food and provide the PlaMonsters even better food than Shunpei in exchange for turning against the lad. As Shunpei ultimately failed to be successful as Mage, even the narrator decided to side with Khepri, ending the Mage segments with having Khepri as the star.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: It wasn't long until the Mages were able to apprehend him, with Rinko destroying Khepri with a Kick Strike. He gets a bit more prominence in the Kamen Rider Mage segments in Kamen Rider Wizard in Magica Land.
Amadum
Portrayed by: Tomorowo Taguchi
The villain of #52-53, a Crossover special with the other Heisei-era Kamen Riders. He is the ruler of a Pocket Dimension inside a magical stone.- All Your Powers Combined: Steals the powers of all 14 Heisei Riders. However, the 15th, Gaim ultimately manages to beat them out of him.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: Seems to fully believe this. Which is why he's can't understand how the Kamen Riders can use the same power as the forces of evil for good.
- Batman Gambit: He was actually trying to get the alternate Haruto to help him escape his prison.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Despite his personality, he's a pretty powerful threat.
- Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: It certainly seems that way.
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: Is the ruler of what amounts to monster Hell and his monster form seems to be modeled after a demon of some kind.
- Energy Absorption: Can absorb the power of other Kamen Riders. As he explains it, both him and the Riders have the same source of evil power.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
- The idea that the Kamen Riders helped the kids because...well, they were kids who needed help, not because they obeyed the one holding their rings never occurred to him.
- He can't understand why the Kamen Riders could draw their power from the same source as himself, but still be heroic. He views Kamen Riders as imperfect failures.
Amadam: What was the difference? Myself and you were all born from the same power... - Filler Villain: The plot of Wizard was actually resolved in #51; the reason he likely exists (and by extension, why #52 and #53 exist) is because had Gaim appeared in The Movie for Wizard, there would've been a lot of questions as to how a rider who isn't a magician, let alone not from Wizard's series, been able to get into Magic Land.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Summoned the 13 Riders from the Rings to try and kill Haruto...not realizing that they don't just follow the orders of whoever summons them, they do what they think is right. They promptly all turn on him.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: Spends most of the two episodes as The Man Behind the Monsters sending his army at the heroes. After it's destroyed, he transforms and reveals his true power.
- Large Ham: Indulges himself in exaggerated facial expressions and body language, alongside NO INDOOR VOICE.
- Legion of Doom: Leads one.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: During #53, he drops the camp and reveals how powerful he really is.
- Meaningful Name: His name is a Shout-Out to Kamen Rider Kuuga; it's the same name as the stone that powers Kuuga's Transformation Trinket. He's also the master of a dimension inside a magic stone and can absorb the power of other Kamen Riders
- One-Winged Angel: Transforms into powerful armored form for the Final Battle.
- Post-Final Boss: He's the last threat Wizard has to offer after Fueki and Gremlin are taken care of.
- Rasputinian Death: Takes consecutive Rider Kicks from every Heisei Rider in their Super Modes, followed by a double Rider Slash from Wizard and Gaim.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: He was apparently a wizard that was sealed in the stone for his crimes.
- Whole Costume Reference:
- He first appears dressed as Shirou from the third Kamen Rider Den-O movie. In his next appearance he's suddenly dressed as Gara from the Kamen Rider OOO Non-Serial Movie. In #53, he's seen as Super Douji from Kamen Rider Hibiki, Mimihiko from the Kamen Rider Den-O and Kamen Rider Decade Crossover movie and Gaoh from the first Kamen Rider Den-O movie.
- Also, his personality seems to change depending on what he's wearing. When dressed as Shriou he acts seriously, while when he's Gara he suddenly becomes Camp Straight.
Characters appearing in Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle
Ogre
Portrayed by: Atsushi (live), Kenji Tominaga (suit)
A Phantom that gains power from eating other Phantoms. He tries to drive Haruto into despair so he can eat Dragon.- All Your Powers Combined: Has the powers of every Phantom he eats. Most seem to be copies of previous Phantoms, implying there's more than one of each.
- Ax-Crazy: He's a cannibal who eats his own kind and enjoys every minute of it.
- Big Bad: Of Wizard's part of the movie war with Gaim.
- Cannibalism Superpower: Eats other Phantoms to steal their powers.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Went into Haruto's Underworld to try and devour Dragon, but Haruto was able to follow him. Because it was his Underworld, Haruto had the advantage and makes quick work of Ogre.
- Purple Is Powerful: In Phantom form.
- Villainous Breakdown: Doesn't take his defeat very well.
White Wizard (II)/Kamen Rider Wiseman (II)
Portrayed by: Makoto Okunaka (live), Satoshi Fujita (suit)
In order to drive Haruto into despair, Ogre creates a false Koyomi from the Hope Ring. This Koyomi can transform into the White Wizard, and only desires to cause suffering.- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the Hope Ring, but she's corrupted by the Ogre Phantom.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: She wears a frilly black dress.
- Legacy Character: As the second White Wizard.
- Person of Mass Destruction: She likes to use Explosion; at one point she's seen making explosions everywhere.



