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General
- The monsters this time around, outside of one of the Sisters deciding to fight are all humans, merging with a Chemy that from what we've seen often DOES NOT want to do so, and unlike past series where it was whatever power that was granted to them that was tempting them into evil, many of these individuals were downright rotten before ever gaining any. In this series, Humans Are the Real Monsters indeed.
- The Three Dark Sisters are scary enough in their own right, but none of them hold a candle to their boss, Geryon. Pure malice incarnate and the most sadistic and demented of the Reiwa Era villains, he takes the worse traits of the past Reiwa Era villains and dials them up to 11, and unlike the sisters, Geryon always succeeds whenever he intervenes in-person.
Main series
Episode 2: Pursuit, Alchemy, Skebows!
- The Skateboard Malgam makes it very clear how effective human malice can be, as not only did its host betray his partner, he does so by throwing him off a bridge.
Episode 3: Bushido, Found.
- The Mushroom Malgam's abilities involve poisoning others to make them LAUGH TO DEATH. And the fact that the host for this monstrosity is an everyday SALARYMAN does not help, and further proves how dangerous human malice can be. Even worse: Takemoto was originally intending to go on a murder spree right there, as he is shown pulling out a knife. His change in plans after becoming the Poison Mushroom Malgam if anything makes it less of a nightmare fuel moment.
- Kariya. Yes, an ordinary man. What makes him so unsettling then? High schoolers getting stalked by older adults is far too common for anyone to be comfortable with. And he's the Submarine Malgam, meaning he can easily sink into the land while still having a scope perfectly keeping an eye on his target. In essence, he's Gotchard's version of Hiroki Makise from Kamen Rider Fourze.
Episode 5: Burn! Fight! Wrestler G!
- Our introduction to the Gorilla Malgam's human component, Gouriki the Golem, shows him breaking a man's spine over his knee. The guy falls to the ground...twitching. It gets worse later in the episode, as it soon becomes clear that he's Takeshi Asakura with proper combat training, and unlike Asakura he doesn't need ANY weapons.
Episode 6: Super A-class ☆ Warped Star
- The Hawk Malgam's host is one of the most depraved in Kamen Rider history, as his pettiness and tendency to take hostages is evil general-levels of twisted. For those who have seen the Chameleon Deadman, this will bring up some unpleasant memories.
- The fact that the Academy is willing to mind-wipe even former students in the event that they become Malgams is concerning. Not even knowing the ins and outs of alchemy render their memories immune to upholding The Masquerade. Minato even responds to Boruto's proclamations on wanting to be a high-ranked alchemist with the same deadpan response he gives to Hotaro's energy.Minato: I'm so sorry for you.
Episode 7: Goodbye Saboneedle
- The Malgam is a strict father who hates it when anyone distracts his son from his studies. Imagine your parents suddenly turning into a monster just because you're having fun. Better yet, Riku's father doesn't care that he's essentially traumatizing his son by firing sharp needles at him!
Episode 10: Kyoto on Fire! ~Tragic Love: The Chemy Thunder Affair~
- The Malgam is an older brother who cracked under the strain of looking after his sister after his parents died; he actually despised raising his sister to the point that he wanted to kill her.
- We are treated to the lovely image of Hijiri being corrupted by malice: her eyes turn completely black with black ooze flowing from them.
Episode 12: Runaway Liner! The Dark Rider!
- We're shown that Forbidden Alchemy is forbidden for a reason. Just from using a Spatial Reconfiguration Alchemy Tool, which functionally only moves whatever passes through it to a different area of space, the veins in Shiori's arm are rotting from the inside. Sabi even warns her that her arm will eventually fall apart.
- Far from frightening her, Shiori looks practically giddy at this information. Just goes to show that Forbidden Alchemy only seems to attract a certain type of person.
- Shiori threatening to use Hopper1 for a Malgam transmutation. The very idea that Houtarou might have to fight Hopper1 is scary in and of itself.
- Shiori's death. Her pitiful begging as her body slowly disintegrates is quite unnerving, despite everything she's done.
- This episode officially debuts the show's official and original evil Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Dread. And that name is not misleading. Not only does he curb-stomp almost everyone he fights, but every time he moves, he makes a bone-crunching sound. And then there's the fact that the blasted driver uses sacrificial clones as fuel for its finishers... and we mean SACRIFICIAL.
- Poor Sabimaru is forced to become an unwilling host for Kamen Rider Dread through a visibly painful transformation, fully conscious as he attacks and almost kills his friends. Made even worse in that we can actually hear his pained cries for help through Isaac during all this.
- Minato gets his hand impaled to a lamppost by Clotho to prevent him from helping Houtarou.
- Dread beats up an untransformed Houtarou in a dark echo of Kuuga beating up Go-Jaraji-Da. It's even scarier seeing a villainous Rider do it to The Hero.
- And finally, the episode was the end result of what happens when the Dark Sisters start playing for keeps and go after the alchemists seriously. They end up with one of their own abducted to become a dark Rider, Houtarou beaten up to within an inch of his life, and everyone else sporting some form of injury. Supana even points out, albeit harshly, that they were all close to getting killed that day.
Episode 13: Get It Back! United × Forever!
- Atropos disintegrating Houtarou's English teacher just because she could.
Episode 14: A Man-eating Rex!? Dangerous X!!
- How does the episode start off? With Gotchard being eaten by a T-Rex Chemy! Even if it is Good All Along and that's how it reads memories, imagine the poor human eaten by a dinosaur for no apparent reason except they looked tasty!
- The X-Rex is first seen rising from the bottom of a lake, much to an onlooker's horror. And then said onlooker is devoured.
Episode 15: Catch Happy! Shine Gotchalibur
- We are treated to the lovely sight of Clotho overusing Dreadriver's multiple dupli-chemy Antroopers just to match Gotchard's power boost. While this isn't normally a scary thing, as we've seen Riders do this kind of thing before, but Atropos says that if Clotho kept doing this, even she wouldn't survive. It's enough to make Lachesis worried about her sister's survival, but Clotho doesn't care as she was willing to die if it meant ending Gotchard.
Episode 20: Smiling Angel (Angel), Serious Truth (Joke)
- Just the preview alone is enough to make the viewer know that something bad is going to happen to Supana. It goes from Supana seeing his parents to him screaming in agony while covered in chains and blood on his face and the light-hearted opening suddenly going quiet. Oh, and the Malgam responsible for this is the Angel Malgam, whose fight with Supana is one of the most visceral fights by far, with the alchemist getting completely manhandled. Can someone say Mind Rape? Better yet, what can be so horrifying that it makes Supana terrified? Simple. Remembering the deaths of his parents and then watching it happen all over again: the parents he met are the result of the Angel Malgam's powers, falling apart like dust in the wind as they die. If that wasn't ghoulish enough, Geryon makes use of him and Madwheel, fusing them into a Malgam hell-bent on revenge.
- Oh and that remembering the deaths of his parents thing? Turns out Kyoka had to continuously erase those memories in the first place because the poor boy would keep having nightmares about the memory!
- After the Angel Malgam explains their abilities, Geryon can hear someone screaming before they see an image of a young boy howling in agony. That boy is a young Supana seeing his parents die.
- For your consideration: Valvarad is, at best, a Half-Human Hybrid rather than a true suit of Powered Armor. The metal fibers underneath it are Supana's actual muscles, and his blood is replaced with a mixture of motor oil and Noodle Implements. That is not a mask the Wheel Malgam ripped off to reveal the internal plating, that is Supana's actual face and his exposed skull. Ditto for the rest of Valvarad's armor torn off in the transformation process — that's the transmutation turning his flesh into metallic long pork for the Malice Doll body to fill in.
Episode 24: Sud-Ten Turn! Forbidden Steel Rider!
- As if Kamen Rider Dread wasn't already scary enough, we get its Type One form, where it bisects a crystal Unicon and merges it into his armor. And no, its majestic appearance doesn't change its alignment, which is made worse considering that this form overpowers Kamen Riders Majade and Valvarad.
Episode 25: Young Sensei's Mistake
- We get Minato's backstory, and if we needed more evidence of Geryon being a monster, we got it here. As a professor in the Alcehmist Academy, he had a Malgam attack alongside the Sisters, and when Minato attempted to stop him, he used the handcuffs to form his Rubik's cube, which he used to murder one of his students and Minato's friends by tossing him around like a ragdoll, before mind controlling several young alchemists into murdering each other in a vicious battle royale. The resulting Survivor's Guilt is what drives Minato in the modern day, terrified of what Geryon would do to his students and trying to keep them from fighting him.
- Even after Houtaro and the others are able to defeat him, he suffers from some form of traumatic flashback to his friend's death, and Geryon decides that if he won't be Dread anymore, it's time to eliminate him.
Episode 27: Gotcha! Cross Hopper!
- Geryon finally gets all the Chemies he needs for his plan, and to make things worse, he is the one using Kamen Rider Dread. Type. 2.
- What turns out to be Geryon's master plan? Preserve everything in gold through alchemy.
- Inside the Ouroboros Gate, there is a dark being, and it apparently went on to consume Geryon after picking him up. Even Geryon himself was afraid.
- Only Geryon's golden Rubik's cube is left behind and it is pulsating, indicating something is alive within it. And now Atropos has it...
Episode 30: A Rival Sol-journs?! Gotcha and Juliet!
- Everything about the Mammoth Malgam. To sum up, it's made of four Malice Dolls, all of whom are very angry over Geryon's defeat and fate at the hands of Gotchard. Atropos shares their desire for revenge, so she forces them together. The result is a raging, seething, foaming thing in a hood with glowing eyes. Then Blizzammoth gets thrown into the mix... and there we have it: an angry, bloodthirsty Malgam with ice powers, capable of freezing people (in this case Seina) solid, and manhandling Platina Gotchard and Majade, freezing the former in a block of ice and whacking the latter out of her transformation.
Episode 32: The Dire King Cometh! The Puppets' Dilemma
- Gigist, the entity who was Geryon's boss, finally reveals himself, and even in a more humanoid form he's absolutely MONSTROUS. His enhancements for Clotho on their own are creepy, with the veiny designs being very unsettling.
Episode 33: The Legend-ary Rider? 100 Years Too Early!
- The Hundred trio was no time with their Legend Rider powers, with Dark Kiva and Eternal wreaking havoc on Gotchard, while Glare makes quick work out of Majade and Valvarad. And that's not the worst part! You know who else also decided to show up? ZEIN. Yikes. Just like how Banno and the Ark ended up getting beaten to within an inch of their lives, Mimei was unfortunate enough to find herself in the technological oppressor's crosshairs, which leads to her own untimely demise.
- Let's review the events of episodes 3 and 4 of Outsiders, Banno and the Ark were lucky to survive Zein's onslaught since they can store their data in the computer network in the event their robotic bodies sustain calamitous damage, meaning they can come back into the surface at any time. Here, Zein's victim in this episode is an otherworldly human from an alternate dimension, who happens to be part of a terrorist organization bent on multidimensional conquest. This means, Hundred made a fatal mistake at invading Gotchard's dimension, as Zein plans to annex this world along with the rest of all Kamen Rider worlds so that Zein plans to remake it in its own image. Mimei's death was nothing more but setting an example on would be intruders entering Zein's domain.
- Atropos and Gigist having to stay out of the episode's conflict turned out to be a smart decision, knowing that attempting to fight Zein head on would be asking for an immediate death sentence. Clotho Rebis decides to get out of dodge after a brief confrontation with Lachesis. Had Zein managed to find and kill Gigist and the two Dark Sisters, Gotchard would have abruptly ended with only a short of 33 episodes!
- While it doesn't last long enough to be of major concern, the fact that Mimei revealed that Glare's Hypno Trinket isn't limited to just the Riders of the Desire Grand Prix. She manages to latch of them onto Majade for a short while. It's a good thing that Clotho Rebis knocked Majade out of her transformation, disarming the item in the process, before Mimei could've made Majade go the route that befell Punkjack.
