Gale and Thunder Beyond Fear! The Time to Merge is Here!
- Original Airdate: March 27, 2022
Written by: Hanta Kinoshita
Directed by: Hidenori Ishida
Summary
Meanwhile, following Jack Revice's rampage, Giff's casket begins to undergo a creepy transformation!
Tropes
- Asshole Victim: It's impossible to feel any pity for Orteca once he gets swallowed whole by Giff after causing so much misery to the Igarashi siblings and his former allies.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: Ikki has to fight Vice inside himself to wrest control back from Giff.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Masumi confesses this to George, in an attempt to explain his absence from his son's life. George, however, isn't immediately accepting his father's attempt at reconciliation.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: When George silently turns down Masumi's attempt to reconcile, the latter solemnly hopes he doesn't end up like him.
- Fusion Dance: Olteca uses the Anomalocaris Proto Vistamp on himself along with the Giff Stamp on the Giff Coffin to become the Anomalocaris Deadman.
- Kick the Dog: Early into the episode, Aguilera begs Giff to know what her purpose is. Giff's answer is a slap and then no further response.
- Killed Off for Real: After being defeated by Revice using the new Thunder Gale Vistamp, Olteca is consumed by Giff, or so it seemed...
- Let's Get Dangerous!: George decides that it is no longer enough for him to be an observer and enters the fray as Kamen Rider Demons.
- Mythology Gag: In the transition scene right before Jack Revice changes into Revice Thunder Gale, Ikki's motions mirror that of #1's transformation sequence.
- Villainous BSoD:
- Aguilera's whole sense of self and purpose is destroyed when Giff rejects her as a sacrifice. She doesn't even acknowledge when Tamaki pleads her to come with him or when Sakura calls her name and just walks away silently.
- Also, Olteca in his last moments. It's obvious he realizes that his ambition was doomed from the start regardless of the valiant attempts at keeping his calm.
- Wham Shot: With Olteca's life newly lost to Giff, it has shed its coffin form for a more humanoid appearance before flying away.
- The Worf Effect: While Daiji as Holy Live is still able to put in a decent effort in fighting Olteca's new Anomalocaris Deadman form, he isn't able to deal significant damage past the regeneration granted by Giff before being forcibly unmorphed.
