Mythology Gag / Kamen Rider OOO

• Pronouncing OOO as "Ōz", and the Tron Lines on the suit itself, are pretty obvious references to 555/Faiz/Phi's.
• An Everyman Falling into the Cockpit in Kamen Rider? Seen it. Twice. Are we seeing a pattern here?
• Uva, the insect Greeed, looks like a composite of the Joker suit and the Chalice suit.
• Red Right Hand, check. Former villain turned Anti-Hero who fights the bad guys to further his own interests, check. More than a human but not quite a Kamen Rider, check. Ankh is quickly shaping up to be the second coming of Riderman.
  • Red skin, check. Teaming up with the hero for their own reasons, check. Possessing a human, check. Violent, check. Member of the main kaijin who isn't entirely evil, check. Getting beaten up by a black haired, super strong woman, check. Seems like Ankh would get along with a certain hotheaded Imagin. And wouldn't you know it, he's pretty much at Hina's mercy starting from the end of #8. Later subverted as it's shown that he's undoubtedly a villain until he finally gets that it sucks.
• If Ankh was originally to be named Asshu, we'd have had an Eiji and an Ashu. Sorta.
• The main four villainous Greeed wear belts that almost look exactly like Rider 1/2's belt, only grayed out. And when the Greeed are complete, said belts gain a golden center, similar to the belt of Kuuga's Rising forms.
• This wouldn't be the first time we've seen an Izumi aiding a Rider.
• OOO's three-part Combo names are awfully reminiscent of the Gurongi (which neatly parallels their shared origin with the villains). For that matter, the one cat-based Greeed resembles the jaguar-based Unknowns. Both the Unknowns and the Yummy were designed by Yutaka Izubuchi.
• OOO's first use of Gatakiriba's Doppelgänger Attack involves a one-man All Riders Kick.
• The TaJaDor◊ Combo has FangJoker's eyes and a coin-loading Visor.
• Hina gives Eiji a red scarf in #17, a subtle nod to the standard Scarf of Asskicking mostly older Riders have.
• The idea of making a monster from a person's desire or wish is similar to the Imagin of Kamen Rider Den-O.
• #21-22 deals with a "heroic" monster, so of course it uses the Batta Yummy. Besides the general idea of an evil creation being used for good (albeit turning the concept on its head by not actually being good), it bears a strong resemblance to Shin and even says "Toh!" when it jumps.
• Shauta Combo has the ability to turn OOO into a liquid form. We've seen that before on Kamen Rider BLACK RX with the Bio Rider form.
• The cover story Eiji cooks up for Ankh - he claims Ankh grew up alone in a haunted house, not much different from Wataru.
• Dr Maki mentioning that "Birth" was a bad name for a Rider - considering his obsession with the end, maybe his first choice for a name was already taken...
• Not only do the Candroids borrow their entire premise from the Disc Animals, but both have a red hawk among them.
• The Ika-Jaguar Yummy in #27-28 basically homages Ikadevil and Scissors Jaguar. And Maki's doll gains the same squeaking sound from a previous Creepy Doll.
• The title card for Kamen Rider OOO vs. Shocker has an illustration of OOO on his bike, reflecting the original series' eyecatch.
• We get another instance of a dinosaur-based berserker Rider form that very nearly mauls the main female protagonist. Of course, while Philip and Shotaro managed to control FangJoker, Eiji hasn't managed to control Putotyra yet. In #36, however, Eiji is in full control.
• A subtle gag: Both users of Kamen Rider Birth differ in their combat philosophy, with one relying on power and the second relying on technique (what with Date never bothering to read the manual and Goto liking manuals). The first was replaced by the second due to his injury. This all subtly references the original two Riders. It helps that Birth has a similar color scheme - bluish-green, black and silver, with eyes that light up red.
  • Scans show that Date will return as Birth Prototype, which is basically the Birth suit with some red highlights, just like how the Kamen Rider 2 costume is mostly just Rider 1 with red gloves and boots.
  • Only in Movie Wars Core do we see the Cell Medal that enters the Birth Driver dissipate after use, just like the Zeronos cards.
• Complete Kazari looks like CycloneJokerXtreme, what with his black/tiger stripe thirds color scheme, with a white band up the middle. His death scene also looks creepily like Miho Kirishima/Kamen Rider Femme's from Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final.
• In Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals, Eiji transforms into Birth, mirroring how Shouichi Tsugami briefly took on the mantle of G3-X.
• The Reveal that the purple core medals mutated Eiji after prolonged exposure mirrors that of Kazuma Kenzaki’s situation with King Form.
• OOO's Super TaToBa combo may be a nod to his predecessor Double's CycloneJokerExtreme, since they're both upgraded versions of the Rider's default form.

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