Kamen Rider OOO/Characters
Main Characters
The heroes of the show, they are the following:
Eiji Hino/Kamen Rider OOO/Eiji Greeed
Live Actor: Shu Watanabe
Suit Actor: Seiji Takaiwa
A world-traveling vagrant with no family, dreams, or long-term career, whose recent stint as a museum guard for the Kougami Foundation ends with him taking possession of three Core Medals and the OOO Driver, allowing him to turn into Kamen Rider OOO and fulfill his subconscious impulse for helping people.
- A God Am I: Kougami's agenda is to get Eiji to succeed where the original OOO failed -- by absorbing the thousands of Cell Medals within the Foundation's vault.
- Baleful Polymorph/One-Winged Angel: Is forced into fully transforming into a berserk, mindless Greeed by Dr. Maki in Episode 46. Fortunately he managed to return to his true self come next episode.
- The Berserker: Like FangJoker, PuToTyra was extremely difficult for Eiji to control. Of course, he does eventually manage to tame the form.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Episode 43 shows how scary Eiji can be when he is angry.
- Blessed with Suck: The five purple Core Medals inside his body. Eiji has enough of the medals to use the PuToTyra Combo, by far the strongest terms of power (in fact, strong enough to shatter Core Medals), and the medals themselves are sentient enough that they can emerge from his body on their own to be used if Eiji is ever in mortal danger. On the flip side, it will send send him into a mindless rampage that drains his strength more than normal combos; while it became possible for him to control it, it's difficult to maintain that control and the combo is less powerful when restrained. Their presence in his body also causes Eiji to turn into a Greeed.
- Chest Insignia: The O Lung Circle, which displays pictures of the Medals currently in use.
- Combo-Platter Powers: As OOO, he has the power to mix and match the Medals, giving him three to use at any one time. As evidenced in Episode 6, Full Combos (GataKiriBa, LaToraTah, SaGoZo, TaJaDor, ShaUTa, PuToTyra and BuraKaWani) are much more powerful than Random Combos (including the default TaToBa), albeit at the cost of leaving Eiji completely spent afterwards.
- Color Coded for Your Convenience: Incorporates more purple into his wardrobe later in the series as he gradually becomes more Greeed-like.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Ankh thought he'd make Eiji his sock puppet; turns out underneath his naive and carefree persona is someone who won't back down even unto death and, when given the power, can fight.
- Deadly Upgrade: The PuToTyra Combo (See Blessed with Suck).
- Determinator: Put someone's life in danger and there's nothing he won't do to protect them.
- Drunk on the Dark Side: Power to save people was what Eiji always wanted. So decides he needs get power, no matter the means or costs.
- Dunno What's Going On, But...: When offered the OOO Driver, he pretty much states that he doesn't know what's going on but if it helps him save lives, he'll do it.
- Elemental Powers: OOO's full colored Combo forms each have elements that match the Greeed their Medals come from.
- An Ice Person: PuToTyra can create cold winds that can encase enemies in ice. When Eiji becomes a Greeed, he gets this power as well.
- Gravity Master: SaGoZo can manipulate gravity.
- Making a Splash: ShaUTa can liquify his body,as well as shoot water from it's helmet.
- Non-Elemental: BuraKaWani is the only combo without some form of element involved.
- Playing with Fire: TaJaDor can shoot fireballs with the Taja Spinner.
- The Power of the Sun: LaToraTah can emit a scorching heat.
- Shock and Awe: GataKiriBa can shoot lightning from his horns.
- Time Master: Super Tatoba can temporarily stop time.
- Expy: One can make the arguement that he is a much sillier Godai Yuusuke.
- Finishing Move: Several. The finishers themselves have elements of Combo-Platter Powers. For instance, with Head Medals, the Taka Head has OOO target the enemy with a scope before attacking, while the Lion Head charges his attacks with glowing energy. Also, with Leg Medals, the Batta Legs are leaping attacks, while the Cheetah Legs are rushing attacks.
- Combo Forms
- TaToBa Combo: PuToTyra Kick [1]
- GataKiriBa Combo: PuToTyra Kick [2]
- LaToraTah Combo: Gash Cross [3]
- SaGoZo Combo: GataKiriBa Impact [4]
- TaJaDor Combo: Prominence Drop [5]
- ShaUTa Combo: Octo Banish [6]
- PuToTyra Combo: Blasting Freezer [7]
- BuraKaWani Combo: Warning Ride [8]
- TaMaShii Combo: LaToraTah Bomber [9]
- Super TaToBa Combo: Super SaGoZo Kick [10]
- Random Combo Forms
- LaKiriBa: OOO leaps into the air with the Batta Legs. Then, he blinds the enemy with the Lion Head's power. Finally, OOO performs a mid-air cross slash with the Kamakiri Swords.
- TakaKiriTah: OOO locks on to the enemy with the Taka Head's power. Then, after producing three rings (one red, another green and the third yellow) between him and the enemy, OOO dashes through them and executes a cross slash with the Kamakiri Swords.
- ShaGoriTa: OOO does a powered up version of the Gori Bagon's long range attack.
- Weapon finishers
- Medajalibur: OOO Bash [11]
- Taja Spinner: Magna Blaze [12]
- Taja Spinner: Using any combination of seven Cell or Core Medals in the Taja Spinner, OOO launches a wheel of energy at the enemy. Power is dependent on the number of Cores used.
- Medagabryu Bazooka Mode: Strain Doom [13]
- Medagabryu Axe Mode: Grand of Rage
- Combo Forms
- Gameplay and Story SegregationPuToTyraStory-Breaker Power: Although never outright supported by the plot, GataKiriBa is drastically more useful than any of Eiji's other combos; as such, he never gains access to it except when he would be absolutely be unable to defeat an enemy otherwise.
- The OOO's movie shows how truly powerful the Strongest Combo is. Thanks to it Replication ability, it was able to allow Eiji to transform into all of his complete combos.
- One of the Net Movies reveals the true reason why Eiji hardly uses it: the CGI cost.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Eiji's eyes glow purple after he absorbs the Dinosaur Medals. This only happens when their power reacts to something.
- Good Is Not Dumb: Ankh gave Eiji the OOO Driver, believing he's an impressionable pawn. But come Episode 2 Eiji not only proves him wrong, but also showed a considerable level of cunning.
- Goofy Print Underwear: These seem to be the only type of underpants he's capable of owning.
- Granola Guy
- The Hero
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Episode 2 reveals an embittered side beneath his laid-back behavior -- his zeal for saving people stemmed from memories of a young girl he befriended during his travels, whom he was unable to save during a civil war.
- Stepford Smiler: Episode 32 reveals he's most likely a Type B -- he's also embittered for being unable to stop the civil war that killed said girl, which was being funded and orchestrated by his politician father.
- Idiot Hair: One is briefly shown in Episode 2 prior to receiving a text from Hina and revealing his deeper, troubled past.
- Incendiary Exponent: When he performs TaJaDor's "Magna Blaze" Giga Scan, he ignites into a firebird and rams the opponent from the air.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: Initially played straight with BuraKaWani, which seemed to be a stronger combo than any of the others, even getting a unique design from its pieces and chest symbols whereas the others were more proper combos. Then subverted when combos were proven to be situational, turning PuToTyra into "the form that flies" much like PuToTyra is "the form that swims".
- Seemingly ultimately played straight at the finale, as Eiji uses this form to defeat Dr. Maki once and for all.
- Bonus points, in that the belt's song for SaGoZo is very serious and dramatic sounding, while the songs for the other combos are more of a playful jingle.
- Not to mention the Foreshadowing hinted at by Kougami, who displays this picture in #44 while talking about how strong desire can even make lifeforms evolve. Yup, that's the evolved bird beating its predecessor, the dinosaur.
- Loyal Phlebotinum: The OOO Driver will only work for him because he's the one that broke its seal.
- Though this is largely an Informed Ability said by Ankh. We haven't seen what (if anything) would happen if someone else tried to use the OOO Driver.
- The Messiah: A deconstruction. Eiji's selflessness is due to a deeply traumatic past that has left him an emotional wreck, and his constant need to put others ahead of himself is shown to be psychologically damaging in the long run.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: TaJaDor Combo
- Also comes with the Taja Spinner, allowing for more powerful finishing attacks called Giga Scans.
- Multiform Balance
- Master of None: TaToBa Combo [14]
- Jack of All Stats: GataKiriBa Combo
- Fragile Speedster: LaToraTah Combo
- Mighty Glacier: SaGoZo Combo
- Lightning Bruiser: TaJaDor Combo
- Glass Cannon: ShaUTa Combo
- Super Mode: PuToTyra Combo [15]
- Stone Wall: BuraKaWani Combo
- Lethal Joke Character: TaMaShii Combo
- Serial Escalation: Super TaToBa Combo
- Mythical Motifs: Two of OOO's Combo forms have this.
- The Phoenix: TaJaDor
- Also becomes engulfed in a firebird when he performs the "Magna Blaze" Giga Scan.
- Our Dragons Are Different: PuToTyra
- The Phoenix: TaJaDor
- Nice Guy
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Played for Laughs in Episode 3 where he threatens to "not be able to resist doing something stupid" and throw away the OOO Driver to force Ankh into releasing Hina. Mostly subverted though, as his natural personality just seems stupid despite him being extremely clever.
- Oblivious to Love: Hilariously Lampshaded in episode 18, where it takes a lot of hinting to find out the victim of the week was in love with a man, and still, Ankh gets it faster than him.
- Parental Abandonment: Inverted and justified, given what his father was willing to do to him for votes.
- Peacock Guy: As TaJaDor.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Goto's blue.
- Rich Idiot With No Day Job: Subverted. He used to be an emissary for his politician father, with a genuine desire to help people. Unfortunately, his father used the money he donated to the African village he was in to fund a civil war which killed a girl he befriended, which he exploited to earn votes. This traumatic incident robbed him of all desire, turning him into a self-sufficient wanderer helping people along the way.
- Rummage Sale Reject: Let's just begin with how oversized his clothes are.
- Samaritan Syndrome: "If I don't reach out my hand when I can, the regret will make me wish I were dead."
- Sense Loss Sadness: Apparently a sign of him becoming a Greeed.
- Set Bonus: OOO's full color Combos each give him an extra power otherwise unusable in Random Combos. The purple Medals notably cannot be used with other Medals, due to their special properties.
- GataKiriBa: Replication
- LaToraTah: Shining Heat Bursts.
- SaGoZo: Gravity Control.
- TaJaDor: Wings/Energy Peacock Feather Missiles.
- ShaUTa: Liquid Shapeshifting.
- PuToTyra: Icy Winds.
- BuraKaWani: Healing/Cobra Summoning through Flute Music.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: The civil war that killed a friend of his not only left him the sole survivor due to being a politician's son, but also helped his father earn votes without even caring for his feelings. He grew into a jaded man with no desires, allowing him to become OOO (specifically, with the Red, Green, Yellow, Gray and Blue Medals) without losing his mind. Unfortunately, the Purple Medals feed on the desire of nothingness, explaining why it turns Eiji into The Berserker.
- It Got Worse: The money he donated to the village was secretly being used to fund said civil war, making him indirectly responsible for it and the casualties of it.
- Shockwave Clap: SaGoZo has the ability to generate extremely powerful shockwaves by beating his chest like a Gorilla.
- Tron Lines
- Walking the Earth: A closer look at his spare change in Episode 1 reveals currency from other countries (including an American quarter), and in Episode 3, he can be seen in the background of a photograph taken in the middle of a desert. He also states in Episode 1 that he doesn't have a fixed address and often isn't even in Japan. Turns out he used to be a traveling emissary on behalf of his father. At the end of the series he left Japan once again, and a year later, updates his friends through webcam on his whereabouts, unknowingly being accompanied by Ankh's spirit -- somewhere in the desert.
- Weapon of Choice
- Cool Sword: Medajalibur
- Fireball Breathing Shield: The Kujaku Medal with the Taja Spinner.
- Axe Grinding Gunslinger: Medagabryu, the main weapon of PuToTyra Combo. [16]
- Kill It with Ice: When summoned and wielded by a different Combo form, the Medagabryu can use ice-powered slashes.
- Musical Assassin: Burahngi, the main weapon of BuraKaWani Combo.
- Weaponized Headgear: The Head Core Medals give OOO's head special powers.
- Aquatic Breathing Echolocating Blowhole: The Shachi Medal.
- Horn Attack: The Sai Medal.
- Infrared X-Ray Camera: The Cobra Medal.
- Light'Em Up: The Lion Medal can emit an intense light.
- Power Gives You Wings: The Ptera Medal with the External Fins.
- Shock and Awe: The Kuwagata Medal can generate lightning from its horns.
- Super Senses: The Taka Medal has telescopic vision.
- Dual-Wielding: The Arm Core Medals give OOO two weapons on each arm, expect for the Kujaku Medal.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: The Kame Medal with the Goura Guardners.
- Reverse Grip Blades Below The Shoulder: The Kamakiri Medal with the Kamakiri Swords.
- Rocket Powered Fists: The Gorilla Medal with the Gori Bagōn.
- Shoulders of Doom: The Tricera Medal with the Wind Stingers, and the Imagin Medal with the Orenotsuno. [17]
- Whip It Electrifyingly Good: The Denki Unagi Medal with the Denki Unagi Whips.
- Wind Slashing Wolverine Claws: The Tora Medal with the Tora Claws, and its white Palette Swap counterpart, the Panda Medal.
- Armed Legs: The Leg Core Medals give OOO's legs special powers.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Condor Medal with the Raptor Edges, and it's gold Palette Swap counterpart, the Shocker Medal.
- Earthquake Machine: The Zou Medal.
- In a Single Bound: The Batta Medal.
- Man Bites Man: The Wani Medal with the Saw Deadscythers.
- Super Speed: The Cheetah Medal.
- Swiss Army Weapon: The Tyranno Medal with the Tail Divider and Legsteranail.
- Wall Crawling Combat Tentacles: The Tako Medal.
- Boxing Kangaroo: The Kangaroo Medal. Unlike the other Core Medals, this one can be used as either an arm or leg Medal and gives OOO a different power depending on which body part its being used as.
- Arms: Gangan Gloves
- Legs: In a Single Bound
- Word Puree Title: All the combo names, default, random or official. And with words from two languages to boot.
- Fun with Acronyms: And then there's the movie only TaJaDor Combo, which could also be read as 'tamashi' or soul.
- You Are Not Alone: A major part of his growth as a character is realizing this. Happens more directly in the finale after Ankh performs a Heroic Sacrifice to allow him to use LaToraTah against Maki, only for Eiji to find out quickly that he's literally fighting alongside Ankh's spirit. Even though he doesn't know it, Ankh never leaves him.
Ankh/Shingo Izumi's body
Voice/Live Actor: Ryosuke Miura
Suit Actor: Eitoku/Satoshi Fujita (hand)
The Bird Greeed and a dishonest wildcard who was released along with the other Greeed -- in the form of his right arm. After encountering Eiji and turning him into OOO, he takes over the half-dead body of Shingo Izumi, a police detective whom Eiji met earlier in the story, to become his temporary vessel even as he keeps an eye on Eiji.
- Acting for Two: Once Eiji destroys Ankh (Lost)'s Core Medals in Episode 42, allowing Ankh to form his own body from the remaining Cell Medals.
- Only for a very short time. In #43 he goes right back to possessing Shingo against his will in his Face Heel Turn.
- And I Must Scream: Ultimately averted with Shingo -- he was conscious all along while his body was taken over by Ankh, but this has no effect on his psyche once he temporarily regained control of his body during Episodes 41-43, and once he returns to his body for good at the finale.
- And Then What?: Asks this of the other Greeed in regards to becoming complete. Unlike the others, he's come to realize that becoming complete is a moot point because that still won't satisfy them, and that he realized he desires something more: to be alive.
- Animal Motifs: Birds
- Big Badass Birds of Prey: Taka and Condor.
- Anime Hair: His mohawk-ish hairdo is curled on the right side, braided on the left side and mostly straight in the back.
- One might even call his hair feathered.
- The hair kind of makes sense when you compare him with the other Ankh, who is missing the right side of his head.
- More so once one sees his complete form. He's still asymmetrical and the crest on his head resembles his human hairdo.
- And then there is also his new hairstyle in the "Let's Go Kamen Riders" 40th year anniversary movie, which he gets while he is possessed by Momotaros.
- Backup From Otherworld: After performing his Heroic Sacrifice to enable Eiji to utilize GataKiriBa in the Final Battle, his spirit appears and fights side by side with Eiji, even aidding in the Finishing Move. Afterwards, his spirit continues to follow and watch over Eiji.
- In Movie Wars MEGAMAX, Ankh comes back from the future to help Eiji battle Kamen Rider Poseidon; this gives Eiji hope, since it means someday he will restore the cracked Taka Medal.
- Anti-Hero: Type V. He's only helpping Eiji against the other Greeed because it's in his own best intrests, and has no qualms about who is hurt so long as he gets what he wants. Gradually becomes Type II in the end.
- Barehanded Blade Block: Manages to do this against TaToBa Medagabryu in Episode 34.
- Being Evil Sucks: Is thus far the only Greeed to realize just how lousy lousy an existence being a Greeed really is and now utterly loathes being one at all. He actually goes on a tirade about this in his confrontation with the Eiji Greeed in Episode 46, explaining exactly just how awful being a Greeed really is and asking him if he could ever really know what that's like.
- Blond Guys Are Evil: Or at least morally ambiguous.
- Blood From the Mouth: Shingo, when very near death.
- Boomerang Bigot: Is shown to have grown disgusted with the single-mindedness of the Greeed (including his own), and openly speaks his mind about it.
- Butt MonkeyGataKiriBaThe Chew Toy: One of the few villainous examples. He gets hurt in a comical fashion, including being crushed under a vending machine, kicked, hit by a flying Tako Candroid, and getting flipped over by Hina.
- Played for Drama in Episode 8, where he gets beaten half to death by Uva, has two core medals stolen from him, gets rocks thrown at, and having to crawl to Eiji for some cell medals.
- But Now I Must Go: After waking Eiji so he can be saved from his fall and thanking him for helpping him become a living being, Ankh's spirit starts flying away and says Eiji doesn't need to his help anymore before vanishing into half his broken Taka Core. Subverted kind of, because Ankh's spirit remains with Eiji without his knowledge, but a Tear Jerker reguardless.
Ankh: I'm not the hand you need help from anymore.
- Calling Your Attacks: The only live character to indulge in this so far, when he whacked Gamel on the forehead to escape his grasp.
- Character Tic: "*Tch*"
- The Chessmaster: Too bad his "pawn" Eiji turns out to be a little more cunning than he wanted him to be.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Death Glare: He seems to like giving this to people. That, or it's his default expression. Notably in Episode 13, he scares a little boy just by staring at him like this.
- Demonic Possession: Done by attaching himself like a glove.
- Dyeing for Your Art: Miura's hair is actually dyed and styled as Ankh; his hair as Shingo is a wig.
- Ear Ache: How Hina manhandles him.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After all he went through the entire series, he ultimately becomes alive and gains a spirit, allowing him to both die happy and follow Eiji in spirit form after his death.
- Same goes for his host, Shingo. He reclaims his body for good and returns to a normal life with Hina.
- Enter Stage Window: Notably in Episode 17. Might be justified because he is the bird Greeed.
- Evil Mentor: Has no interest in saving people. He just wants enough Cell Medals to reconstitute himself a full body.
- Ultimately subverted, once he realized he actually wants to live and has grown too fond of Eiji to ever kill him even after he has been turned into a Greeed by Dr. Maki.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Much like the Imagin, Shingo's hair turns into a blonde mess only when Ankh's possessing him.
- It gets even crazier when Momotaros's own expository hair change kicks in when he attaches his severed left arm to Shingo's body in The Movie, as seen in the image link under Anime Hair above.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: A minor example, his T-shirt is mostly white with a single red sleeve.
- Which just happens to coordinate perfectly with his literal Red Right Hand.
- Fighting From the Inside: Ankh (Lost)'s reconstructed right arm freezing up during a fight with OOO in #41, showing that Ankh hadn't been completely absorbed.
- Ghost Memory: Ankh is able to access Shingo's memories while inhabiting his body.
- Good Wings, Evil Wings: Played with. Multicolored wings represent angels in Islamic art, which is odd for a character that's morally ambiguous at best.
- Guyliner: Given the Egyptian theme he seems to have going for him, it makes sense.
- Hammerspace: He's a living one. He's composed of far more Medals than his body could logically hold, plus kept the OOO Driver inside himself.
- Heel Face Revolving Door
- Heel Face Turn at Episode 40, after discovering that he's grown too close to Eiji and Hina to harm them anymore and even allowing them to have a birthday party for Shingo without complaint. Only to get absorbed by Ankh (Lost) afterwards.
- Face Heel Turn in Episode 43, when he turns on Eiji, re-possesses Shingo, and joins Dr. Maki and the other Greeed.
- Heel Face Turn in Episode 46, when he realized completing his body was not worth turning his back on Eiji, Hina and Shingo -- and that he truly wanted to be alive. Come Episode 47, he finds himself unable to kill the man he came to consider his friend, turning on Dr. Maki... who then proceeded to crack his Taka Medal, sending him on the verge of death. He ultimately makes a Heroic Sacrifice to save Eiji, but in the process somehow gained true life, and thus a spirit that survived his demise.
- Helping Hands: Due to losing nearly all his Cores, he's been reduced to an arm, but is still able to function perfectly well without a body... and fly.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Ultimately sacrifices himself to let Eiji become GataKiriBa to defeat Dr. Maki once and for all...but
- The End - or Is It?: A spectral form of his hand was last seen stalking Eiji one year after he resumed his travels.
- Hidden Depths: Somehow, he ended up being a right forearm, while the rest of him is a completely separate entity. Even he and the rest of his body seem confused as to how this happened until #30.
- I Have the High Ground: Likes hanging out in trees. Which is completely natural since he's the Bird Greeed.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: He's able to throw medals with such skill that he's thrown one right into the OOO Driver slot... from across the battlefield, past a swarm of Jellyfish Yummy! Justified, as long-range accuracy is the Taka Medal's innate power.
- Improbable Hairstyle: Looks very hard to maintain for someone who was pretty much homeless for the first few episodes. Especially obvious when he jumps into a river in #15, and arrives just a few minutes later looking as polished as usual.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
- Japanese Pronouns: "Ore".
- Ankh (Lost) uses "boku".
- The Lancer
- Large Ham: Shows this at times, normally when he's actually happy for once, such as when he got his Kujaku Medal back. He really hams it up when playing the Great Leader of Shocker in Kougami's movie.
- Not to mention the net movies for Let's Go Kamen Riders; just watch him Freak-Out when he sees there are no more ice candies, or how loud he gets when he proclaims that the secret to the show's success is "Me, ANKH!!"
- The Last Dance: Heads back to help Eiji in the Final Battle with Dr. Maki and Uva despite the fact that the former dealt him a fatal blow by cracking his Taka Core.
- Literal Split Personality: He and Ankh (Lost) seem to have this. Where he is cunning and manipulative, his other half is childish and singleminded.
- Meaningful Name: In Egyptian, "ankh" means "eye of the hawk", fitting as he's the Bird Greeed.
- In a nod to its etymology, the Taka Medal is used as OOO's head part.
- It's also the name of the Egyptian symbol of life, he's the only thing keeping Shingo alive (and later, becoming truly alive has become his true desire). His theme Ankh The Greeed seems to support this as it is Egyptian themed.
- My Name Is Not Durwood: He doesn't like it when Date calls hims "Anko".
- And considering how close it is to "Unko"(poop), there's probably a very good reason for that.
- My Species Doth Protest Too MuchLaToraTahHeel Realization: Unlike the other Greeed, he came to realize how pointless their quest of becoming complete is, because even that won't fill the void within them. He's becoming frustrated with how his kind seem completely unaware of this and is sick and tired of being one. Having Eiji thank him for letting him become OOO seems to have triggered a clearer Heel Realization.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He thought Eiji would make for a good dimwitted puppet; he ended up with a guy who's a lot more cunning than he shows, and giving him a Transformation Trinket that allows him to oppose the Greeed and save lives (which he apparently really wanted to do). Extra points for letting Eiji know that Ankh needs Eiji and the OOO Driver to be able to do anything at all and letting Eiji keep the OOO Driver with him at all times. Eiji eventually thanks Ankh for this.
- Not So Different: From Kazari, which is why he turns down the offer to work together. He can't trust someone who's as sneaky as he is.
- One-Winged Angel: After collecting four of his Core Medals and re-absorbing them all, he briefly sprouts a literal single wing on the right side of his back but is unable to regenerate completely since the rest of his body is a separate entity.
- Played straight later, after Ankh (Lost) is destroyed and he's absorbed some of Kazari's Cores. It allows him to assume his Greeed form despite using Shingo's body as a base. The first time he actually does it is to fight Eiji in Episode 46... in self-defense after Maki forces Eiji to perform this trope. Even with only three Cores, he's capable of this.
- Odd Name Out: The other Greeed all have names stimming from a desire, or at the very least, a verb. Ankh's means "eye of the hawk" and it's also the Egyptian symbol for life.
- Word of God has it that during production stages, his name was "Asshu", from "Assuru"/"Dominate", i.e: desire for authority. It still fits him even now.
- Playing with Fire: While not originally shown, it was speculated due to the TaJaDor Combo having flames surrounding it whenever it's formed, when it executes a Finishing Move, and with the Taja Spinner having the power to shoot fireballs. It was further supported by the Bird Yummy also able to use fire elemental attacks and finally confirmed by Ankh (Lost).
- After he absorbs Ankh (Lost), he has the ability to use it now.
- Posthumous Character: Ankh's "host", Shingo Izumi. Though Shingo slowly recovered back to perfect health while being possessed.
- Power Fist: His Greeed arm (which -- at least until he re-absorbs his body from Ankh (Lost) -- is his entire body) is his Weapon of Choice when he has to fight, normally using his claws to slash the opponent.
- Power Gives You Wings: When he regains two of his Cores, he gains a single energy wing... and that's it. Ankh (Lost) has the other.
- Redemption Equals DeathSaGoZoRedemption Earns Life: In a weird way, he manages both at the same time. He ultimately performs a Heroic Sacrifice to give Eiji the power to finish off Dr. Maki once and for all, all of his Cores except for his Taka Cora (which broke in half) remaining. But in the process, he became truly alive and gained a spirit, which means unlike the other Greeed, he's not Deader Than Dead and his spirit is last seen watching over Eiji. So in this case, redemption literally earned life and gave him an afterlife in the process.
- Red Right Hand: Literally; it's all there is to him! Turns out the rest of his body is a different entity altogether, but even after recovering his full body, he still has a tendency to only materialize his Greeed Arm.
- Right Hand Versus Left Hand: He and Eiji sometimes don't exactly clue each other in to important details (like when Kougami offered Eiji one of Ankh's medals). Also literally from Episode 25 onwards, due to Ankh's left arm creating the Yummy for the arc. Another (smaller) example would be in Episode 35, where Shingo temporarily gains control of his body and tries to save Hina from the Unicorn Yummy.
- Rocket Punch: Performs one in Episode 13 when fighting Goto by launching himself off his host's arm and punching him in the face.
- Also uses a similar technique to gather Cell Medals whenever Eiji defeats a Yummy.
- Secretly Dying: He keeps the fact he's been mortally wounded by Maki hidden from everyone (except Hina). He says he's hiding it so Eiji won't worry about him during the Final Battle. Eiji doesn't realize it until after Ankh already performed his Heroic Sacrifice and he sees the cracked Core himself
- Token Evil Teammate
- Trademark Favorite Food: Popsicles, so much so he's willing to steal a few from children. In Episode 15, Chiyoko presents Eiji with Ankh's ice candy bill of ¥23,625 (~$280). In the same episode, Eiji goes so far as to promise Ankh a year's worth of ice candy if he helps him save Hina.
- Unexplained Recovery: Shingo, in the end. He reclaims his body for good, and returns to a normal life.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Eiji. Sure, they frequently undermine one another's goals to advance their own, but at least they're up front about it.
- Villainous BSOD: Goes into one (of the Heel Realization variant) at the climax of Episode 46, when Eiji thanks him for helping him rediscover his desire: to help people. Ankh instantly stops attacking him and freezes up at the notion.
- Wakeup Makeup: Ankh takes this to the extreme in Episode 13. As if the ever-present Guyliner and Improbable Hairstyle weren't enough, he even sleeps fully clothed, including shoes.
- You Are Not Alone: After he performs his Heroic Sacrifice, his spirit appears to fight along side OOO in the final battle, giving a smile pretty much telling Eiji this.
- You Will Be Assimilated: Ankh and the rest of his body try this on each other at the end of Episode 29. And the other Ankh was winning before Eiji intervened.
- Happens again in Episode 40, only this time, both Eiji and Hina are unable to stop Ankh from getting consumed by Ankh (Lost). Three episodes later, however, Ankh (Lost) is killed, allowing Ankh to absorb what's left of him to regain his true power.
International Cuisine Restaurant Cous Coussier
A Cosplay restaurant themed on international cultures.
Chiyoko Shiraishi
Live Actress: Marie Kai
Owner of the Cous Coussier. She hires Hina on account of her Super Strength, and later (and on Hina's recommendation) Eiji on account of his knowledge of foreign cultures garnered from the years he spent as a world traveler.
- Acting for Two: Appears in flashbacks as Dr. Maki's sister, Hitomi, in Episode 26.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Most of it happens offscreen, but Hina's reaction to her beating the tar out of a group of mind-controlled police officers implies there's more to her than just The Ditz. In this case, though, she was also really angry.
- The Ditz
- Locked Out of the Loop: Eiji had to give her a well-made excuse about Ankh being raised on the streets so she wouldn't find out about his true nature. She goes onto believe the story until Episode 47.
- Morality Pet: Displayed all the traits of being one for Dr. Maki, except he turned out to be so fundamentally screwed up that meeting her made him much worse!
- Surprisingly Good English: A few of her lines at the end of Episode 10 when she tries to teach Ankh etiquette and table manners[18] certainly count. Not one bit of accent when she used English.
Hina Izumi
Live Actress: Riho Takada
Shingo's younger sister. After learning from Eiji of what became of her brother, she urged him to join her as a coworker at the Cous Coussier, not only because of his extensive knowledge of foreign cultures (which the restaurant uses as its Cosplay themes), but also to look after her brother's body, now occupied by Ankh.
- Ambiguously Human: It's been hinted this could be the reason for her strength.
Ankh: "Is she even human or what?!"
- The Chick
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Her brother regains control of his own body for good and they return to their normal lives.
- Expy: Black hair? Check. Wears white a lot? Check. Super Strength? Check. Frequently uses said Super Strength to keep the ally Kaijin in line? Check. She has a lot in common with Hana, with their names only one letter apart. Makes sense, cause the writer for this series was also the writer for Den-O.
- Extremity Extremist: Her Super Strength is strictly focused in her arms.
- The Fashionista: She goes to a fashion design college and even won an internship in France, but declined the offer due to her brother's condition. In the finale, while Shingo accompanies her to school, they notice two high school students, one of whom carries a strange switch-like device.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Averted. Eiji tries to make up a story about Shingo being on an undercover operation, but that lie gets blown almost immediately. He finally tells her the whole story in Episode 4.
- Secret Keeper: For Eiji and Ankh. During the Final Battle, she's also the only one other than Ankh himself that knows Ankh is Secretly Dying, as Ankh told her not to tell Eiji.
- Ship Tease: It's shown several times that she deeply cares for Eiji
- And, at other times, for Ankh. She even made personal chocolate Valentines for them both.
- Super Strength: You wouldn't expect this until we see it for the first time, lifting a giant vending machine just so Eiji could pick up the Cell Medal he found...and then smashing it on Ankh's hand when she sees it.
- Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Occasionally. Especially evident in Episode 28, where she tries to hug Eiji and nearly snaps him in two.
- Don't forget that time in Episode 16, that while trying to help Eiji recover from some injuries, she's only making it worse.
- Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Occasionally. Especially evident in Episode 28, where she tries to hug Eiji and nearly snaps him in two.
- Woman in White
Kougami Foundation
A company that has been researching on the Greeed since they found a sarcophagus containing them in their art museum. Also seems to fit the Omniscient Council of Vagueness trope. There main goal seems to be harnessing the power of the Core and Cell Medals for the betterment of mankind. The members are as follows:
Kousei Kougami
Live Actor: Takashi Ukaji
The very eccentric president of Kougami Foundation. A firm believer in the power of desire and the beauty of the birth of all things, good or bad, he is also known for his odd habit of making birthday cakes whenever he's not bending Ankh, Eiji or the other Greeed to his will.
- Ambition Is Evil: Inverted in his personal philosophy. He believes that desire is a force of progress and evolution and encourages it in his subordinates.
- Batman Gambit: Tricks Gara into making a Deal with the Devil with Eiji, knowing full well they Eiji's void of desire would overload Gara's Doomsday Device.
- Big Good
- Bunny Ears Lawyer: He out-negotiated a living embodiment of human greed. There's a reason this guy's a CEO and not a patissier.
- Catch Phrase: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Also WONDERFUL![19]
- The Chessmaster: He's expected everything that has happened thus far, he even outwitted Ankh, a living incarnation of greed and a cunning trickster himself.
- Large Ham: Full stop! None can beat him in hamminess in the show.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: The Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful movie reveals that he is the descendant of the first OOO. This factors into his desire to see Eiji succeed where his ancestor failed to do -- become a god.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Dr. Maki's blue.
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: Stands on the "enlightenment" side of growth and progress.
- Too Dumb to Live: He himself describes Oda Nobunaga as the most wickedly ambitious man in history...and then clones the guy using Cell Medals. Let's re-iterate: the most evil and ambitious man ever, brought back to life using condensed human greed.
- Not to mention the fact that he apparently intended to shove the black Core Medals into Nobunaga all along, if the dialog is any indicator.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He hasn't been seen eating much yet, but he very much enjoys making birthday cakes.
- The Wonka
- You Didn't Ask: Despite knowing pretty much everything about the events of 800 years ago, he seems to only reveal the information when someone is looking for it. Possibly justified, as he believes desire is the most important thing in the world, so it makes sense he only provides information if someone desires it.
Erika Satonaka
Live Actress: Mayuko Arisue
Kousei's personal secretary who procures cakes and maintains a businesslike attitude.
- Action Girl: She shows in Episode 20 just how Badass she really is when she uses a shotgun and a pistol to wipe out a small army of Mooks singlehandedly. Maybe her Big Eater abilities weren't the only reason Kougami hired her... And Kougami even makes her Goto's backup after Date passes onto him the mantle of Birth.
- Big Eater: During Episode 14 her temporary replacement is seen to have collapsed halfway through his tenth cake, which is the size of a small cake one could buy from a grocery store. Kougami laments that the replacement, while doing everything he could to wolf down the cake, is not at Satonaka's level. One wonders how on earth she manages, and if her Hammerspace is in fact in her stomach.
- Also take notice that she hates sweet things, and is more into spicy foods. One has to wonder how she is able to literally stomach all that sugar.
- Emotionless Girl
- Hair Decorations
- Fan Service: Her Catgirl costume at the Halloween party in episode 9.
- Her arrival in Episode 20, natch.
- The Fashionista: She loves looking good even in battle, so she takes a long time to dress up before going out to fight, much to Goto's annoyance.
- Girl Friday
- Guns Akimbo: In Episode 20, she arrives to help against the latest Yummy armed with a pistol and shotgun.
- Let's Get Dangerous: She's normally quite unassuming... then Kougami told her to go help OOO and Birth with a Yummy. Cue her arriving on a motorcycle armed with a shotgun and pistol and proceeds to kick butt.
- Parent Service
- Pink Girl, Blue BoySaGoZoWoman in White: The promo material and opening credits show her in a pink business suit, but in most episodes she wears white.
- Punch Clock Hero: Only shows her Action Girl credentials when Kougami asks her to. Even when she's officially reassigned as Goto's support once he takes over as Birth, she turns off the Yummy-detecting Gorilla Candroid when she's on her break. Goto had to offer her a percentage of his pay in order to get her to be on-call and ready to deploy at all times.
- Real Women Hate Sugar: Dislikes sugar, and is more interested in spicy foods. However, she eats Kougami's confections because he pays her well.
- Sexy Secretary: Oh yes.
Doctor Kiyoto Maki/Dinosaur Greeed
Live Actor: Yu Kamio (adult) / Hayato Watanabe (child)
Suit Actor: Yuugo Fujii
One of Kougami Foundation's brightest scientists, in charge of its Biotech Laboratory, as well as the inventor of the Birth system. Late in the series, he becomes a Greeed and becomes the Big Bad.
- Ascended Extra: His Creepy Doll started off as a mere prop for Maki but gradually appeared to be more and more sentient.
- Berserk Button: Do not touch his Creepy Doll. Ever.
- And Date seems determined to find every single Berserk Button he has, then pound them all until something breaks.
- Big Bad: Has booted Kazari out of this spot.
- Bunny Ears Lawyer: Apparently a brilliant scientist, but suffers massive panic attacks if he's removed from his doll. On top of that, he seems to be quite insane.
- The Chessmaster: Kazari didn't find this out until it was too late.
- Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive
- Creepy Doll: Carries on on his shoulder. It originally belonged to Hitomi.
- Creepy Monotone
- Dead Older Sister: Hitomi, who resembles Chiyoko. Why is she dead? He killed her!
- Deal with the Devil: Has made a deal with Kazari to provide Medals in exchange for being allowed to "research" him. Notwithstanding the risks of associating himself with someone like Kazari.
- Ironically, the deal ended badly for Kazari.
- Devil in Plain Sight: A creepy Mad Scientist with an equally Creepy Doll who tells the audience up front in his Creepy Monotone that he is an Omnicidal Maniac. Yet not only does Kougami employ him, but has become a joke once Date entered the scene. Until Episode 30, that is.
- Disproportionate Retribution: His older sister was getting married and seemingly wanted to leave him behind in an empty house all by himself. What does he do? Burn her to death!
- Enemy Summoner: Like Gamel, he can create fully-powered Yummies with one Cell Medal from nothingness because he has five of Giru's Core Medals inside him.
- Enfant Terrible: Was a bit... deranged as a child. He decided that his sister getting married and leaving him called for burning her alive in her sleep.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Considers the Yummy Kazari made from him to be quite distasteful, even attempting to destroy it himself before it can attack Chiyoko.
- Eviler Than Thou: Kazari finds this out too late when Maki rips all his Cores out of him.
- For Science!: This is supposedly his motivation for letting the Yummy rampage through the Kougami labs, just to see what they'll do.
- Freudian Excuse: And a very twisted one. His parents died and his sister was kind of a jerk... so he burns her to death the day before her wedding because she was going to get married and leave him behind with her doll. While he seemed to mourn her before he remembered this, afterwards, he assumes he did the right thing and shows no remorse.
- Hannibal Lecture: Since becoming a Greeed, he's become quite prone to giving these.
- Hidden Depths: Hinted in Episode 10.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: It's ultimately the Core Medals he implanted in Eiji that spelled his own demise when Eiji used them as TaJaDor for his final Giga Scan to destroy Dr. Maki.
- If I Can't Have You: The reason he murdered his sister.
- Lack of Empathy
- Mad Scientist
- Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate: He allows a subordinate to proceed with an illegal and dangerous hobby all to watch the Yummy and see what they do -- go on a rampage and kill his subordinates.
- He then teamed up with Kazari, a chronic backstabber and genuine threat to humanity... only for the latter to find out, too late it may be, that Maki is far worse than even he is.
- Not So Harmless: After Date showed up, he was pretty much a complete joke. Then he Jumped Off the Slippery Slope, became a Greeed, killed Kazari, and took his place as the Big Bad.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Seems to be a mild example. He's stated that his ultimate desire is to see the end of the world, and use the power of the Medals to do that but has yet to actually try. Until now.
- One-Winged Angel: Absorbs five of the Purple Core Medals to undergo Greeedification and transform into the Dinosaur Greeed so he can kill whichever Greeed goes berserk after it destroys the world and become the last living thing on earth.
- Power of the Void: While Eiji became An Ice Person from the Purple Cores, Maki's Greeed powers seemed to be more towards this, including dark energy blasts and his Yummy being able to destroy everything with a smoke, as well as sending off an energy wave which reduced a large area of forest into nothing. Which makes since, as he literally desired there to be nothing by a void in the end.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Kougami's red.
- Redemption Rejection: Meeting Chiyoko seemed to be leading towards a Heel Face Turn, but then he realizes he was the one who murdered his sister and she was really a jerk. So he Jumped Off the Slippery Slope and joined Kazari and Ankh (Lost) to destroy the world.
- Room Full of Crazy: Has one in his old house displaying the fire he killed his sister with, probably out of hidden guilt over the whole affair.
- The Sociopath: If the flashbacks are any indication, he's been one since he was a kid!
- The Stoic
- Villainous Breakdown: Realizing that Chiyoko looks identical to his sister results in him having an emotional breakdown. This lasts until he realized that he killed off his sister himself and he gets even worse than he used to be.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Despite becoming the most powerful Greeed, he can still be effectively disabled by knocking his doll off his shoulder, as shown in Episode 47 when Ankh sets his doll ablaze. He spent so much time trying to retrieve it after throwing it to the ocean to put it out Eiji and Ankh managed to escape. Though this may be why it's not visible when he's in his Greeed form.
- Yandere: Towards his sister.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Pulls this on Kazari after OOO damaged one of his Cores, after which Maki ripped the rest out of him and left him with only the damaged Lion Core that eventually shattered. He also does this to Ankh after pulling a Heel Face Turn and stops him from trying to kill Eiji and reclaim the Purple Medals still inside his body.
Kamen Rider Birth
Suit Actor: Eitoku
An experimental Kamen Rider suit using the expendible but common Cell Medals, as opposed to OOO and his rare Core Medals.
- All Your Powers Combined: Birth Day
- Awesome but Impractical: The CLAWS Scorpion is incredibly powerful, but requires a total of 1000 cell medals to use, thereby depleting a good chunk of Birth's user's reserves.
- Finishing Move: Cell Burst
- Birth Buster: After connecting the Cell Bullet Pod to the barrel of the Birth Buster, Birth shoots an explosive ball of energy at the enemy.
- Breast Cannon: Birth fires a blast of red energy at the enemy. The blast's power varies depending on how many multiples of two Cell Medals were used to charge it.
- CLAWs Scorpion: Fires an array of various colored lasers from the tip of its stinger.
- Birth Day: Cell Bash [20]
- Fun with Acronyms: Birth's weapons are referred to as the Birth CLAWS, or the Cannon/Leg(s)/Arm/Wing System.
- Hammerspace: Averted, the Birth system runs on Cell Medals, so it user has to carry the Medals around in something (for Date, a large can and for Goto, a backpack) wherever they go.
- However, the Birth Buster, on the other hand, seems to be pulled out of nowhere.
- Somewhat subverted, however, as unlike most Riders were the weapon is formed with the suit, instead of just forming a new one after giving his Birth Buster to Goto, he had to go have a new one made.
- Played straight with the CLAWS and the suit itself, as the components that are assembled into the suit and weapons come out of roughly baseball-sized orbs that they could not realistically fit into.
- However, the Birth Buster, on the other hand, seems to be pulled out of nowhere.
- Law of Inverse Recoil: Suprisingly averted. The Birth Buster has a huge recoil, enough to knock an unprepared person off their feet. Date has just practiced and knows how to use it properly.
- Motion Capture Mecha: ShaUTa Scorpion, to a degree. It's clearly motion controlled and mimics the Birth user's movements to a degree, but obviously takes a few liberties due to the fact that Birth moves like a human while the Scorpion moves like a ... scorpion.
- Second Rider
- Selective Magnetism: The Birth PuToTyra can automatically draw in Cell Medals (but not Core Medals).
- Super Prototype: Averted, as the prototype version of the Birth Driver has only a few of the functions of the later model, and is used as a backup when the main driver is damaged. Then Date returns, and takes the prototype in order to back up Goto.
- Weapon of Choice
- Combining Mecha: CLAWs Scorpion
- Armed Legs: Caterpillar Leg
- Boomerang Razor Wings: Cutter Wing
- Chest Blaster: Breast Cannon
- Grappling Hook Gun: Crane Arm
- Shovel Strike: Shovel Arm
- This Is a Drill: Drill Arm
- The Gunslinger: Birth Buster
- Combining Mecha: CLAWs Scorpion
Akira Date (Episodes 16-38, The Shogun and 21 Core Medals)
Live Actor: Hiroaki Iwanaga
The first full-time wielder of the Birth system and, like Eiji, a world traveler who only came back to earn funds for his travels.
- All There in the Manual: In-series -- the manual of the Birth suit includes information on Ankh and Eiji. By his own words, it appears Kougami expected him to read it and didn't brief him much.
- The Big Guy
- Blood From the Mouth: Spits up blood when badly injured by the Greeed, causing Goto to think he died.
- Bounty Hunter: He was hired by the Kougami Foundation to get a hundred million Cell Medals to be paid, which requires him to hunt down and destroy Yummy and Greeed. This is simular to real life bounty hunters, who are technically, by law, hired to hunt down the bail of the person, represented physically by the person.
- Catch Phrase: "Now's the perfect time to cash in" and "Time to get to work".
- Combat Medic: Date was once part of a team of doctors that traveled the world. His nickname was something along the lines of the "Fighting Doctor". In the finale he returns to Africa to resume his work.
- Dunno What's Going On, But...: While not a Punch Clock Hero like Satonaka, he originally doesn't come off as someone all too interested in the politics of fighting the Greeed and, instead, just does it for the money.
- Face Heel Turn
- Fake Defector: Turns out it was an act, base don Kougami's orders, to keep an eye on Dr. Maki and help get Goto in the right mindset to take over as Birth.
- Gratuitous English: "Goto-chan, come on!", "Goto-chan, nice!"
- Hidden Depths: While we don't know what he wants his money for, it's implied that it's something important, at least to him.
- Episode 37 implies he wishes to use the money to fund medical schools in the country which experienced a civil war that involved him and Eiji; this is used as his motivation for his faux-Face Heel Turn.
- Instant Expert: Averted, unlike most Kamen Riders, he needs an instruction manual to know how to use the Birth suit. He does mention that he hates reading through manuals though, and prefers to learn from practical experience.
- The Last Dance: It's revealed that he became Birth because he's dying -- he has a bullet lodged in his brain. However, he returns in Episode 46, fully recovered, and rejoins Goto as Birth Proto Type.
- Meaningful Name: Birth Date.
- Mr. Fanservice
- Older Sidekick: He is in his thirties, younger than Kougami, but noticeably older than most Kamen Riders.
- Ironically, he's Goto's mentor.
- Put On A Plane
- The Bus Came Back: Returns to join Goto with the Kamen Rider Birth Prototype.
- Real Men Hate Sugar: He doesn't seem to like sweets, as he flees the Couscoussier when it has a dessert fair.
- The Rival: A more friendly version than normal for Kamen Rider, and it's not really towards OOO but to Ankh. Eiji doesn't really care about Cell Medals and just really wants to save people, and is even willing to join forces with him whenever necessary; it's Ankh that is really in conflict with Date.
- Even Ankh lightened up slightly when he realized that Birth is only interested in Cells and not Cores. And really, name one person Ankh isn't hostile towards.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: Leaves before the show's comedy rate drops as the plot reaches its climax, though he does come back.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Oden.
- Wrestler in All of Us: He'll use pro wrestling moves and grapple Yummys to the ground when he's unarmed.
Shintaro Goto (Movie War Core, Episodes 38-present)
Live Actor: Asaya Kimijima
Sole survivor of the Kougami Foundation's 1st Ride Vendor Motorcycle Brigade and a former police officer.
- The Apprentice: Goto starts training under Date to replace him as Birth for whenever he finishes his job.
- Badass
- Call To The Police Force: Returns to his job as a cop in the finale.
- Character Development: Big time. Once Kougami told him his pride is one of the reasons he was denied the chance to become Birth, he decided it's about time he swallow his pride and learn some humility by becoming a waiter at the Cous Coussier, as well as ask Date to make him his apprentice.
- Chick Magnet: During his stay at Cous Coussier, he was popular among the female customers.
- Even Jerks Have Standards: One reason he was initially denied the chance to become Birth is because he objected to Dr. Maki's unscrupulous ways.
- The Gunslinger: He's been shown using a pistol, a shotgun, and even gets a Birth Buster when Date takes him as his apprentice.
- Hidden Depths: Implied; as he was the only survivor of the Foundation's motorcycle patrol, Shintaro either has some ace battle smarts or Kougami has a reason to keep him alive.
- Both, actually, as Shintaro was Kougami's first choice for who would use the Birth System.
- I Just Want to Be Special
- Jerkass: Pre-Character Development, he's generally abrasive towards Eiji.
- Legacy Character
- Let's Get Dangerous: Notably Episode 10.
- Episode 38, natch.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: Subverted -- he cannot bring himself to say goodbye to Date, believing they will see each other again. And see each other again they did, because The Bus Came Back and Date, now fully recovered, now joins him and OOO as Birth Proto Type.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Eiji's red.
- Sidekick: To Date after he starts training.
- The Smart Guy
- Took a Level in Badass: After finally succeeding Date as Birth, Goto takes a million levels in badass.
- Took a Level In Kindness: Part of Gotou's Character Development.
Others
Characters who just don't seem to fit anywhere else, be they allies, villains, or something in between.
Hitomi Maki
Live Actress: Marie Kai
Dr Maki's Dead Older Sister, responsible for his Start of Darkness in more ways than one.
- Acting for Two
- Death by Origin Story
- Identical Stranger: Resembles Chiyoko for some reason.
- Posthumous Character
Kamen Rider Core
Voice Actor: Fumihiko Tachiki
A being born from the Memory Memory and Nobunaga's black Core Medals, Kamen Rider Core is the embodiment of memories of all previous Kamen Riders. He battled and was defeated by Kamen Riders Double CycloneJoker Gold Xtreme and OOO TaJaDor.
- All Your Powers Combined: Formed from the knowledge of all previous Kamen Riders. Which, for some reason, results in him being on fire.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Joins Kamen Rider J as one of the largest known Kamen Riders.
- Eldritch Abomination: The result of combining the Memory Memory and the black Core Medals, along with a crystallized form of the earth's data in the earth's core.
- Frickin' Laser Beams: Has the ability to fire these.
- Playing with Fire: In addition to being absolutely massive, he's on fire.
- Raymanian Limbs: Some of his limbs aren't connected to his body.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Being formed from knowledge of past Kamen Riders, it's no surprise that he has one. His also happens to be on fire.
- Transforming Mecha: Not really a mecha, but he's able to convert part of his body into a giant flaming motorcycle.
The Ancient King/The First Kamen Rider OOO
King of a lost European kingdom 800 years ago, when the Greeed and OOO were created. He created the Greeed and the OOO Driver in order to absorb their power and become a god. He teamed up with Ankh to defeat the other Greeed, but ended up literally backstabbing him, only to die from being unable to contain all the power he absorbed, transforming him into the stone sarcophagus the Greeed were sealed in.
- A God I Am: His plan was to absorb the powers of all the Core Medals and become a Physical God to conquer the world.
- Alchemy: The kingdom which he ruled were apparently very skilled with this. They used this to create the Greeed and OOO.
- Bigger Bad: While he's dead long before the series starts, he's the cause of everything that's happened in the entire series because he had the Greeed and OOO created out of his own selfish desire to become a God.
- Evil Counterpart: To Eiji. While both were OOO, the Ancient King is evil, selfish, and has been referred to as "desire incarnate"; Eiji is selfless, good, and is described as void of all (negative) desire.
- Eviler Than Thou: Proves to be this to the Greeed. Ankh finds out at the last minute that he shouldn't have turned his back on him.
- Evil Sounds Deep: His OOO Scanner has a noticeably deeper voice than Eiji's.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Is killed when he absorbed all the Core Medals but couldn't handle the power.
- It's All About Me: He had five sentient lifeforms created for the sole purpose of killing them off so he could become a god and Take Over the World.
- Karmic Death: His own overflowing desire was the reason absorbing the Core Medals killed him.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: The Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful movie reveals he was Kougami's ancestor.
- Posthumous Character: Is long dead before the series begins but was the cause of everything that happened.
- In the Back: Where he stabs Ankh to rip out his Cores.
- Selfish Evil: In-Universe, he's refered to as "desire incarnate" (by Ankh!), and promotional materials state that he has a "soul of desire", making this Canon. According to Kougami, this was ultimately his downfall, as he was so full of desire, his body couldn't contain the power of the Cores.
- Take Over the World
Greeed
The Big Bad Ensemble of the show. They were artificial creatures created by humans 800 years ago, only to evolve beyond their control and begin a competition for title of "Multi-King", only to be sealed away by the original OOO. Ankh is one of them, but doesn't get along with them. They also have a Theme Naming going on, each ones name revolves around a desire, except Ankh, who is the Odd Name Out[21]. They feed off human desire and greed by using their Yummy to turn it into Cell Medals. According to Ankh, they also have a habit of regularly turning against each other. In truth, it was the original OOO who made them, in order to Take Over the World and become immortal by absorbing Medals of other living beings; Ankh helped him, hoping to backstab him later. Unfortunately, OOO went out of control and caused the Greeed to be sealed, except for Ankh's body due to only his right arm being sealed. The members are as follows:
Uva
Voice/Live Actor: Yuusuke Yamada
Suit Actor: Kazuya Okada
The Insect Greeed and a hot-headed warrior. His Yummies takes strength from stealing the object of their hosts' desires.
- Animal Motifs: Insects
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Kuwagata, Kamakiri, and Batta.
- Back from the Dead: In Episode 43.
- Blood Knight
- Character Development: Went from being the most Hot-Blooded Greeed (and second dumbest next to Gamel) to being the most patient and resourceful out of all the Greeed.
- The Chessmaster: When he needs to, he's good at making long term, effective plans.
- Deal with the Devil: He seems to have changed his preferences to this, as his recent Yummy tried to actively carry out their host's desires (making its host more talented, destroying the wedding of someone they wanted to be with, and carrying out justice on those its host declared 'bad guys') but ultimately causing harm in the long run (sucking the talent out of someone else, violently beating up people who did wrong in the eyes of its host). Uva also remains in contact with the host, unlike his fellow Greeed.
- Determinator: He simply won't give up. Even being blown up and reduced to a single Core Medal wasn't enough to put him down for good!
- Hot-Blooded
- Japanese Pronouns: "Ore".
- Killed Off for Real: He's the very last Greeed to bite the dust (not counting Ankh, who managed to live on as a specter).
- Meaningful Name: His name is a play on "Ubau", a Japanese word meaning "to steal away".
- His way of making Yummy makes it more meaningful -- they literally steal the object their host desires.
- Mook Maker: Figured out a way to make Waste Yummies by breaking Cell Medals in half -- two Yummies, half strength, zero upgrade.
- He also worked out how to implant Waste Yummies into human hosts, allowing him to farm a huge amount of Cell Medals over time without drawing the sort of attention a full Yummy would bring.
- Not Quite Dead: At the end of Episode 36, Uva is seemingly destroyed by Kazari, Gamel, Mezool, and Ankh (Lost)... but then his Kuwagata Medal begins to shake and his voice says he's not letting it end this way. He meant it, managing to possess a human and then team up with Ankh to restore his body.
- One-Winged Angel: After having been forced to absorb the other Greeeds' Core Medals, he becomes the Medal Vessel, a machine-like object that converts matter into Cell Medals and produces Waste Yummies as a side effect.
- Puppeteer Parasite: Became this after having his body destroyed by Kazari, Gamel, Mezool, and Ankh (Lost), his Kuwagata Core Medal doing much the same as Ankh did by possessing a human who just happened to be walking by. He remains like this until Ankh uses one of his Yummy to get Uva enough Cell Medals to restore his body.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Kazari's blue.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He makes his escape in the finale when he realizes things are getting too far out of his control, but by this point he's already been made to absorb too many Cores by Dr. Maki, causing him to uncontrollably transform into the Medal Vessel.
- Shock and Awe: He can shoot lightning out from his antennae.
- Shout-Out: Uva seems to have a good bit in common with the Black Joker.
- Kinda makes sense, considering the monster designer for Blade is the designer for OOO
- He also highly resembles Kamen Rider Shin.
- Took a Level in Badass: Since Kazari started absorbing Cores, Uva was kind of left in the dust. So he disappeared for about six episodes and quietly farmed a massive amount of Cell Medals by seeding people with Waste Yummies. The result? He was able to shrug off OOO and Birth's normal attacks like they were nothing and fight OOO TaJaDor on even ground.
- In episode 44, he was able to fight Kazari fairly evenly with five less medals than him, and even succeed in reclaiming two of his own.
Kazari
Voice/Live Actor: Taito Hashimoto
Suit Actor: Jun Watanabe
The Feline Greeed and a cunning schemer. His Yummies have a habit of devouring their hosts once their desires are satisfied.
- Animal Motifs: Felines
- Panthera Awesome: Lion, Tiger, and Cheetah.
- Big Bad: Out of the original (villainous) Greeed, he seems to be the one who fits this role the most. Despite all four being even at first, his Chessmaster abilities and absorbing Cores from other Greeed eventually promoted him to this. Only to get killed off and replaced by Dr. Maki.
- Cats Are Mean: He's probably the meanest out of the Greeed.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Has it the worst of all the Greeed. It is also his undoing, as not only does it give OOO and Birth the upper hand on him, the other Greeed don't even care he's dead.
- Demonic Possession: The trait of his Yummies. When Kazari infects someone with one of his Yummies, the victim is forced to act out their desire. Once the Yummy matures, it even completely absorbs the host into its body, making it difficult to fight it without hurting the host.
- Disc One Final Boss: Was pretty much the Big Bad most of the series, but Dr. Maki ultimately killed him off and replaced him as the main villain.
- Elemental Powers
- His own elements
- Blow You Away: He can produce mini cyclones.
- Light'Em UpBuraKaWaniThe Power of the Sun: He can emit an intense light.
- Elements gained from absorbing other Greeed's Core Medals.
- Gravity Master: After absorbing two of Gamel's Core Medals.
- Making a Splash: After absorbing five of Mezool's Core Medals.
- His own elements
- Eviler Than Thou: To the other Greeed. Ironically, he meets his end when Maki reveals to be even worse than him.
- Evil Genius: Despite his immature demeanor, he's the Greeed who most prefers to make plans and set traps for his adversaries.
- Humiliation Conga: Episode 44, full stop. Not only does Uva come back to life and kick his tail with Ankh, the latter pretty much talks the Greeed over to his side. Then, after finally becoming complete, OOO and Birth breaks his Lion Medal before Dr. Maki tells him he's outlived his usefulness and rips off all his Cores except one in the exact way he did to Mezool, proving he'd been Out-Gambitted the entire time. He's last seen a broken wreck, dying alone with the other Greeed not even caring about his demise. To add more to it, Ankh then absorbs his Cores, the same thing Kazari had been doing to his fellow Greeed.
- It's All About Me: His principal goal. In his dying words, he mourns how he was unable to gain everything the world has to offer.
- Japanese Pronouns: "Boku".
- Karmic Death: Him getting stabbed in the gut by Dr. Maki echoes his own betrayal of Mezool. The fact Ankh does to his Cores after his death what he did to Mezool and Gamel's, making it all the more karmic.
- His final defeat was the result of getting tag-teamed by OOO and Birth, something that was only possible because he started blasting away at his own allies the second he revived, reversing a 5-on-2 match in his favor into a 2-on-1 in favor of OOO and Birth. In short, the power he obtained via Chronic Backstabbing Disorder ultimately left him vulnerable to The Power of Friendship.
- Killed Off for Real: Come Episode 44.
- Light Is Not Good
- Meaningful Name: His name comes from "kazaru" -- meaning 'to decorate'.
- Also applies to his manner of creating Yummy. They form around their host once they're complete. In this context, to "decorate" means to apply something to the outside of something else, thus they 'decorate' their host.
- Plus it sounds similar to kaze, referring to his wind-based powers.
- Also applies to his manner of creating Yummy. They form around their host once they're complete. In this context, to "decorate" means to apply something to the outside of something else, thus they 'decorate' their host.
- Obfuscating Stupidity
- Out-Gambitted: He thought he is pulling Dr. Maki's strings. He didn't learn it was the other way around until the latter told him he'd outlived his usefulness.
- Prehensile Hair: When at full power, his dreadlocks can become tendrils.
- Psychopathic Manchild: While a mild case, he's still rather childish in his behavior, but still just as, if not more, deadly as his fellow Greeed.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Uva's red.
- Sacrificial Lion: Dr. Maki's murder of him proves just how evil Maki has truly become. Also a literal example, as his head Core was Lion.
- Shout-Out: His human form looks very familiar, maybe he based it from the human form of another childish kaijin.
- Smug Snake
- The Starscream
- Villainous Breakdown: He's last seen wandering the city a broken wreck, mourning over the fact he'd failed to gain everything the world has to offer, dying a pathetic shell of his former self.
- White-Haired Pretty Boy: His human form has white hair.
- Xanatos Gambit: By teaming up with Dr. Maki, he points out that creating Yummies bears no downside upon him. Even if it gets destroyed by OOO, most of the Cell Medals are handed over to the Kougami Foundation. Since they then go to Dr. Maki, Kazari still gets a portion of the Medals.
- You Didn't Ask: Saw Ankh make off with their missing Medals and never bothered to tell the others until they realize they're missing some Medals. Could be justified because the Greeed are competing with each other, and this information might give him an advantage, playing on his Obfuscating Stupidity.
Gamel
Voice/Live Actor: Hiroyuki Matsumoto
Suit Actor: Masashi Takada
The Large Animal Greeed and a simple-minded brute. His Yummies are created from his own body using human desires.
- Animal Motifs: Heavy animals.
- Everything's Better with Monkeys: Gorilla
- Rhino Rampage: Sai
- War Elephants: Zou
- Anti-Villain: He never really wanted anything more than to make Mezool happy.
- Awesome Yet Impractical: The downside to producing Yummy from his own body is that they're absolutely useless for medal farming. This factors into his closeness to Mezool, from whom he procures a large part of Cell Medals in his possession.
- His Medals also suffer from this; Eiji and Ankh got a grand total of one Cell Medal for defeating the Buffalo Yummy.
- On the upside, having a single Cell Medal reduces the vulnerability period of his Yummy. Theoretically, as long as he has enough medals to spare, he can summon a Zerg Rush of Yummy. There is also the fact that since Yummies get Cell Medals from feeding on their hosts' desires, his Yummies come from him to fulfill his desires -- he is feeding on desires, not the Yummy. And then it turns out he can turn anything he touches -- including humans -- into Cell Medals (as in Episode 46), and once at full power, he need not farm Medals anymore.
- Back from the Dead: Only to be Killed Off for Real come Episode 46.
- The Brute
- Combat Tentacles: Well, it's an elephant trunk, but it's the same basic idea.
- Dumb Muscle: Not necessarily stupid, but pretty clearly the most simple-minded among the Greeed. Case in point: he's seen in Episode 6 stacking bar-stools into a fort, with pretty much no interest in the others' problems.
- He also has next to no knowledge of Greeed anatomy (like thinking he can replace Mezool's Cores with his own and trying to resurrect her the same way Uva did despite being Killed Off for Real).
- Elemental Powers
- Dishing Out Dirt: Reported (The Zou Medal allows for earthquake generation.)
- Gravity Master
- Enemy Summoner: Unlike the other Greeed, he produces fully mature Yummy straight from his own body.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Thinks Mezool is his mama, and he'll do practically anything for her.
- Go Out with a Smile: Dies smiling when he has a vision of Mezool happily accepting a piece of candy from him, her happiness being the one thing he desired more than anything.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The poor guy can't do anything right, and his lack of intelligence leaves him open to manipulation from everyone.
- Japanese Pronouns: "Ore".
- Killed Off for Real: In Episode 47.
- Meaningful Name: His name means 'to pilfer'.
- While he doesn't do any physical theft, and his Yummies also don't, he does so in a metaphorical way -- he always copies what he sees others do since he cannot fully think for himself.
- It also sounds roughly like 'kame' meaning turtle, which is what the mishmash creature formed by his and Mezool's Cell Medals resembled the most.
- And it's also the last Yummy he creates (technically it's a tortoise).
- Nigh Invulnerable: At full power, the only reason why the two Births are able to hurt him is because Dr. Maki had already cracked the Core containing his consciousness.
- One-Winged Angel: Kazari convinced him to take in Mezool's Cores, and seems to intend to feed him more, making Gamel an engine of destruction.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Case in point -- after seeing a couple fight with throwing a shoe, he finds it absolutely hilarious and creates a Yummy whose main power is to make inanimate objects throw themselves at people. It gets worse over the episode as the items move from shoes and bags to heavy metal cases and exploding barrels.
- Sacrificial Lion: Twice.
- Shirtless Scene: Spends a lot of time missing the armor for his upper body thanks to losing those Medals early, even after he's brought back. It could be lampshading his role as The Brute, though.
- Spoiled Brat: Mezool babies him by giving him candy and cell medals.
- As noted in his character entry, his Yummies aren't able to gather hordes of Cell Medals, hence Mezool giving him the medals.
- Super Strength
- Sweet Tooth: There are points where he does nothing but eat candy even when it's revealed that he can't actually taste it, much less tell the difference between eating candy or eating a plastic toy. He's just copying the reactions that he expects a human would have.
- Too Dumb to Live: Since his Yummies can't gather Cell Medals, Gamel is literally incapable of feeding himself without help from Mezool. Only when not at full power, anyway.
- Touch of Death: Once he's fully restored, he's able to convert anything he touches into Cell Medals, including humans.
Mezool
Voice Actress: Yukana
Live Actress: Honoka Miki
Suit Actress: Satoshi Fujita
The Aquatic Greeed and a mother-figure to her kin. Her Yummies derive their power from their hosts' growing obsessions.
- Animal Motifs: Aquatic animals.
- Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods: Tako
- Psycho Electric Eel: Denki Unagi
- Anti-Villain: Seems to be a Type II. It's hard to see her as anything but this once her true motivation is revealed; a desperate desire to finally be able to feel maternal love that, as a Greeed, she's incapable of ever feeling. Her "motherly love" towards Gamel, Ankh (Lost), and Dr. Maki was all a futile attempt to be able to feel this. Her villainy is by no means her own fault, it's just what she is and there's nothing she can do about it.
- Back from the Dead: Only to get Killed Off for Real come Episode 45.
- Combat Stilettos: In her Greeed form, though they seem to disappear during actual stunt sequences.
- Creepy Child: Her human form.
- Dark Chick: Seems to fit the role.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's even blue.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Eiji destroys three of her Cores, causing her to die in Gamel's arms, who she had previously discarded for being unable to satisfy her desire.
- Elemental Powers
- Make Me Wanna Shout: Reported (The Shachi Medal can emit and receive sonic waves.)
- Making a Splash: Obvious enough, being blue and based on aquatic animals.
- Shock and Awe: Reported (The Denki Unagi Medal uses two electric whips.)
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Fire can mess her up... even though she's the water-based Greed...
- What happens to water when its heated up enough? It really seemed to be more of a burst of pure heat, much like the sun emits, rather than straight-up fire.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: Achieves this power when she possess all of her Cores.
- Faux Dark Action Girl: Her battle record so far is... less than stellar. Not exactly her fault, though. And even then, only until she's fully restored.
- Japanese Pronouns: "Watashi".
- Lady of War
- Lightning Bruiser: Once she's got all of her Cores.
- Meaningful Name: Her name means to love. Her's is more fitting than the others as she seems to be the most compassionate.
- It's also fitting as her Yummy make a person's desire turn into an obsession.
- Her name also sounds similar to mizu, referring to her water-based powers.
- Once fully restored, it turns out that her desire is to be able to genuinely feel maternal love instead of merely imitating as Gamel does. Unfortunately, her method involves abducting mothers and their children, and trapping them inside her eggs. And no matter how many she took, it was clear that it's never enough.
- One-Winged Angel: After absorbing Gamel, a load of Cell Medals, and two of Uva's Core Medals, she transforms into a Aquatic/Heavy Animal hybrid taken down by OOO TaMaShii with help from Birth.
- Sacrificial Lion: Twice.
- Team Mom: A rare villainous example. Gamel even acts like she's his mommy. And then it's made even more heartbreaking in episodes 45 and 46.
- Extends to her Yummies as well, even if she and the others ultimately eat them, she still refers to them as 'my children' or 'sweetie'.
- She also treats Ankh (Lost) like her child to some degree and refers to Maki as a "hatchling" due to transforming himself into a Greeed.
- It's a fairly Deconstructed Trope. When she shows more interest in Maki, Gamel becomes angrily jealous
- Ungrateful Bitch: Uva worked his butt off to revive her and Gamel. She repays him by joining Kazari and helping blast him to bits.
- In her defense, the whole reason she was destroyed in the first place was because Uva went crazy and attempted to seize her Core Medals, disbanding what remained of her "family" and driving her over the Despair Event Horizon.
- Water Is Blue
- Zettai Ryouiki: After being revived.
- Zerg Rush: Her Yummies are basically this trope. She creates a whole nest of yummy eggs, that are incubated by the hosts desire. Once they are fed with enough desire, they hatch and appear in great numbers.
Giru
Voice Actor: Kenji Hamada
The original Dinosaur Greeed who appeared in Movie War Core. His Yummies are the antithesis of those created by the other Greeed, intending to destroy all desire.
- Animal Motifs: Dinosaurs [22]
- Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Ptera, Tricera, and Tyranno.
- Elemental Powers
- An Ice Person: Reported (PuToTyra Combo has the power to create cold winds that can freeze enemies, as shown in its Finishing Move.)
- Power of the Void: Giru's Yummies are created through inanimate objects, rather than people, being true to his theme of nothingness.
- Meaningful Name: His name comes from uragiru, meaning "to betray", as his medals and Yummies are the opposite of desire rather than representing it, thus betraying what the other Greeed embody.
- No Name Given: Sort of. His name is mentioned in The Movie, but he is credited as the Dinosaur Greeed.
- Omnicidal Maniac: According to Kougami, Giru is this by his very nature and the antithesis of creation itself. Fitting it's Maki who ultimately becomes him.
Ankh (Lost)
Voice Actor: Miyu Irino
Live Actor: Hikari Tobita
Suit Actor: Masashi Takada
A mysterious Greeed who turns out to be the rest of Ankh's body animated with a mind of its own.
- Animal Motifs: Birds
- Big Badass Birds of Prey: Taka and Condor.
- The Chessmaster: Learned from Kazari and the other Greeed how to be one. He's very good at it and his first plan goes off without a hitch! He also plays the "chess" part straight as well.
- Japanese Pronouns: "Boku".
- Killed Off for Real: The first victim of TaToBa ability to shatter Core Medals.
- Literal Split Personality: He and the other Ankh have very different personalities. While the other Ankh is a cunning Manipulative Bastard, this one is singleminded and suprisingly childish.
- Perpetual Molt
- Playing with Fire
- Psychopathic Manchild: He didn't talk for his first few episodes, but when he finally did, his voice and personality were suprisingly childish. He eventually takes on the human form of a ten or eleven-year-old child. Justified, as Kougami only recently took one of his Cores and restored his consciousness, leaving him mentally an infant.
- He shows how psychopathic he is in 38 when he blasts Gamel across the room FOR TOUCHING HIS SOCCER BALL.
- Tyke Bomb: Kazari seems to have this in mind for him. He might not actually be a child physically, but mentally he is. Kazari even refers to him as a "baby bird looking for its mother."
Yummy
The Monster of the Week. They're created from human desire by the Greeed for the purpose of creating Cell Medals. They start out life as identical faceless mummy-like creatures called White Yummy that are made from a Cell Medal inserted into a human host by their master. They then proceed to eat the thing their host desires, and a lot of it until they finally become their animal-like complete form, but they can still continue to eat to become stronger. This food is converted into Cell Medals, which 'bleed' out when the Yummy is wounded; when they're destroyed, they explode into a shower of Medals, the stronger the Yummy, the more you get.
- Asteroids Monster: The jellyfish creatures spawned by the Yummy in episodes 19/20
- Blade Below the Shoulder: The Mantis Yummy has hook-like blades on the sides of his fingers. In addition, he looks creepily like a mad slasher...
- Catch Phrase: Certain Yummy are articulate enough to have these.
Unicorn Yummy: "Save your dreams for the night."
- Everything's Even Worse with Sharks: Mezool's second batch.
- Japanese Beetle Brothers: Appear in episode 17. Notably the first Yummy two-for-one deal. The "Japanese" part even gets a push as being born from a kendo student gives them a samurai-looking design.
- Literal Genie: Though the Yummy all exhibit this to varying extents, the Vulture Yummy fulfills its host's desire to be the only man remaining by beating up other men.
- Literally Shattered Lives: The Ankylosaurus Yummy in #42 pulls this on a captive civilian in order to draw out OOO.
- Love Makes You Crazy: The desire of the victim in episode 17-18. She wanted to impress her kendo instructor, who was to get married soon.
- Macross Missile Massacre: Used by the Ankylosaurus Yummy in episode 41-42, by shooting out its spikes.
- Mega Neko: The apparent theme of Kazari's Yummies, starting with the Neko/Cat Yummy and Siam-Neko/Siamese Cat Yummy.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: After absorbing Mezool's Core Medals, Kazari's Yummy become these.
- Mono-Gender Monsters: Averted in #13 with Kazari's Siamese Yummy.
- Mook Maker: Gamel's Yummy come directly out of him, fully formed without having to eat anything (which may be explained by his simplistic thoughts and desires)
- Uva can make (what Ankh has dubbed) Pseudo-Yummies, two at a time, by splitting a Cell Medal. As the Medal Vessel he produces Waste Yummies en masse.
- The Lion/Jellyfish Yummy can spawn mini-mooks, most likely a result of Kazari absorbing Mezool's medals, and thus inheriting her ability to spawn a Yummy 'nest'.
- Uva can make (what Ankh has dubbed) Pseudo-Yummies, two at a time, by splitting a Cell Medal. As the Medal Vessel he produces Waste Yummies en masse.
- No Mouth: White Yummy have no mouth, instead, they ether phase their 'food' into them or open a previously not present mouth elsewhere on their body.
- Won't Work On Me: The Neko Yummy's fat body makes it immune to bladed attacks, which it doesn't even react to. Thankfully, blunt trauma is another story.
- Omnicidal Maniac: The Dinosaur Yummies, who are fueled by the desire to reduce everything to nothingness.
- Piranha Problem: Mezool's first swarm.
- Somewhat averted at the end of #14; though they aren't even seen by Ankh or Eiji, Mezool managed to make another full batch of these suckers, and managed to get quite the payload out of them, which will no-doubt prove bad for our heroes further down the line.
- Playing with Fire: The Cockatoo Yummy made by Ankh's left arm can breath fire.
- Puppeteer Parasite: Certain Yummies, at least Kazari's, are parasites. When they enter their host, they take control of them and (in one case, so far) force them to eat their desire. Once again, some nasty results here.
- Fridge Horror is (somewhat) averted with Kazari's second Yummy, who's linked to a surgeon. No, she doesn't go around eating patients; she just performs their surgeries in the dead of night without so much as one assistant, and without authorization. Thankfully, she's so talented that every single operation was successful, even earning her more fame than before.
- Power of the Void:Doctor Maki's and by extension,Giru, The Pterodon Yummies made by Doctor Maki can breathe a mist which dissolve anything caught in it to nothing.
- Shock and Awe: The Stag Beetle Yummy seems to have inherited Uva's lightning attack.
- Turtle Power: The Rikugame/Tortoise Yummy created by Gamel in episode 15.
- Wolverine Claws: cat-type Yummys tend to have these.
- Zerg Rush: Mezool's Yummies personify this trope. When the Cell Medal is inserted, it creates a nest of Roe-like eggs that multiply the more the host indulges in their desire, but the host isn't aware of the nest until it drops and hatches.
Characters appearing in Kamen Rider OOO: Nobunaga's Desire
Nobunaga
Live Actor: Kengo Ohkuchi
Voice Actor: Keikou Sakai (Greeed)
Suit Actor: Eitoku (Birth), Jun Watanabe (Greeed)
Yes, THAT Nobunaga. He is the Big Bad of the OOO portion of Movie Wars Core.
- Animal Motifs: His core medals are based on Arthropods, and his Greeed form does have a crab claw, but that's it..
- Giant Enemy Crab: Kani
- Scary Scorpions: Sasori
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Being a warlord full of desire to conquer all, he does not understand why Eiji is content with just his simple drifter lifestyle.
- Foil: He is portrayed as the opposite of Eiji. Nobunaga always looked at the big picture and wanted to own everything he could set his eyes on. Eiji looked more at the present and enjoyed the simple things, like the fact the sky is blue. This sparks some confusion for Nobunaga.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Invoked. One gets the idea that Nobunaga already has a gameplan for rebuilding his empire in any situation.
- Historical Beauty Update: Ignoring the Greeed form, anyway.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: What did you expect?
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: After absorbing three Black Core Medals, he begins to go out of control and begs Eiji to put him down.
- Instant Expert: Despite being from the 16th century, only one visit to the library gives Nobunaga super hacking skills. When an IT company he visits has a bug in their software that would take 2 hours to fix, Nobu simply fixes said bug in less than half a minute.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Notably averted, as the Greeed carrying a katana in a movie with someone named for Oda Nobunaga would have been a blatant clue.
- Mega Corp: He wanted to set one up by buying every corporation he set his eyes on.
- One-Winged Angel: When absorbing the Black Core medals mutates him further into a Shogun-like form.
- Our Homunculi Are Different: He is the cell-medal based replica of the original Nobunaga. He also has the power to assume a Greeed-like form, complete with his own core medals, which is why he is on this list.
- Pet the Dog: After Yoshino is crippled, he manages to heal her - but it's Cast from Hit Points.
Yoshino Akechi
A descendant of Akechi Mitsuhide, the man who killed Nobunaga. Wishes to be a dancer.
- Acting for Two: Apparently, she also looked like Nōhime (Nobunaga's wife), which explains why Nobunaga wanted to have her as a consort. Although he chose to cripple her when she said no, he had a change of heart and healed her.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: Downplayed Trope. She's as close to Mitsuhide as Nobunari is to Oda in Real Life.
Characters appearing in OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Rider
Shocker Greeed
Voice Actor: Hideo Ishikawa
Suit Actor: Jun Watanabe
Yes, Shocker made themselves a Greeed thanks to For Want of a Nail.
- Animal Motifs: Is based off a bird, as in the kind of bird shown on the Shocker symbol.
- The Dragon
- Gas Mask Mooks
- The Worf Effect: Is shown to be powerful enough to defeat the Double Riders.
- Gets on the recieving end later when they have their rematch.
The Great Leader of Shocker
- Adaptational Badass: The original didn't put up much of the fight, this one takes all the Riders to finally put down.
- Big Bad
- Cyclops
- Evil Overlord
- One-Winged Angel: Transforms into the Rock Great Leader after OOO defeats his normal form.
- Snake People: His head is pretty much a mass of snakes.
Characters in Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals
Tokugawa Yoshimune
Played by: Ken Matsudaira
As denoted by the film's title, Yoshimune, 8th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, shall be central to the film's plot and shall help Eiji in his quest.
- Authority Equals Asskicking and Badass Grandpa: As consistent with the portrayal of Yoshimune across Japanese fiction, both in print and multimedia.
- Badass Normal: Even at the meta level, as all those years swordfighting in a Jidai Geki Long Runner have remained with the actor.
- It Was a Gift: Variation. The Reptile Core Medals were given to him by a foreign emissary; he passes them on to Eiji just as he needs them.
- Katanas Are Just Better
- Lantern Jaw of Justice
- No Name Given: In a way. He goes by his incognito name Tokuda Shinnosuke here - it's up to anyone who recognises the actor, that pseudonym, the family symbol and if all fails, the theme from Abarenbo Shogun to figure out who he really is.
- With My Hands Tied: Deliberately battles with his sword in Reverse Grip, a technique some may find familiar.
Gara
Live Actress: Miki Sakai
Voice Actor: Ryuzaburo Otomo (kaijin)
Suit Actor: Yuugo Fujii
The film's Big Bad. An alchemist from 800 years ago who helped create the Greeed. He is reawakened in modern times to try and succeed where the first OOO failed.
- Acting for Two: The real reason for Gara looking like a woman - upon his awakening, he absorbs a human woman to reconstitute his body, and winds up looking like her.
- A God I Am: Seeks to obtain this where the first OOO failed.
- Big Bad
- Dragon Ascendant: Was one of the alchemists who served the original OOO and created the Greeed for him. After the death of his boss, he waited 800 years and became the Big Bad himself.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Justified. While the character is male, he is portrayed by a woman because he possesed one.
- Gone Horribly Right: In using Eiji's desire to fill up the cell medals container.
- One-Winged Angel: Transforms into a powerful, Greeed-like monster by absorbing Cell Medals. After losing in that form, he does it again and transforms into a giant monster.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Was sealed away in his tomb until he was reawakened in modern day.
Belle
Live Actress: Karin Ogino
Summoned from a handful of Cell Medals, there are actually three of her, sent out among the masses to harvest their greed.
- Advertised Extra: Appears in all the Net Movies.
- Kawaiiko
- Perky Female Minion
- Rose-Haired Girl
- Rule of Three: Three identical ones, just because.
- Villainous Harlequin
- What Happened to the Mouse?: We only see one of them get destroyed.
Characters appearing in Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax
Michal Minato/Kamen Rider Aqua
Live actor: Atsushi Arai
Suit actor: Eitoku
A Kamen Rider from 40 years into the future, who transforms with the Aqua Driver. He also gives Eiji the Super Taka, Tora, and Batta Medals, allowing Eiji to transform into Super TaToBa later in the film.
- Cool Boat: Owns a jet ski named the Aqua Miraider.
- Finishing Move: Both are Rider Kicks.
- Oceanic Break
- Aqua Vortex
- Making a Splash: Hence the name.
- Multicolored Hair: Has a blue streak in his hair.
- Retraux: His design deliberately invokes Kamen Rider 1, and more broadly, the Showa Rider designs.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ironically, despite being a water-themed Rider, he's afraid of water.
Kamen Rider Poseidon
Live actor: Atsushi Arai
Voice actor: Kenji Hamada
Suit actor: Jun Watanabe
A mysterious Kamen Rider from the future, using three Core Medals and the Poseidon Driver created by the remnants of the Kougami Foundation in the future. In reality, the collection of Core and Cell Medals sent into the future upon Eiji and Ankh's defeat of Dr Maki and the Medal Vessel, which possesses Michal Minato and goes back in time. Overpowering the two Kamen Rider Births, Eiji can only look on until Ankh returns from the future and aids Eiji, allowing the latter to become OOO again.
- Blade on a Stick: Deepest Harpoon
- Demonic Possession: How he controlled Minato.
- Enemy Without: After being forced out of Minato's body.
- Evil Twin: Of OOO; given his use of three Core Medals to transform.
- ↑ OOO's legs turn into grasshopper legs, with which he leaps into the air. He then produces three rings (red, yellow then green), which he then descends through, surrounding him in a different aura, to execute a drop kick.
- ↑ OOO and his duplicates leap into the air and hit the enemy with numerous flying side kicks.
- ↑ OOO produces three yellow rings between him and the enemy. He then dashes through them, which energizes the Tora Claws before he cross-slashes the enemy with them.
- ↑ OOO jumps into the air and lands back down with a powerful stomp, which traps the enemy in the ground. Afterwards, the ground pulls the enemy towards OOO, where he delivers a headbutt and two punches.
- ↑ OOO executes a flying drop kick with the Raptor Edges engulfed in flames and opening up like talons.
- ↑ OOO liquefies his body to go airborne. He then binds and throws the enemy towards him with the Unagi Whips. Finally, he turns the Tako Legs into a drill, which he uses to burst through the enemy.
- ↑ OOO restricts the enemy with the Wind Stingers. Afterwards, he freezes them in place with the External Fins. Finally, he swings his Tail Divider at the enemy, which shatters them into pieces.
- ↑ OOO produces three orange rings between him and the enemy. He then slides through them foot first like a crawling snake, which energizes the Saw Deadscythers before he kicks the enemy with them.
- ↑ OOO absorbs the energy around him (in the movie's case, flames created by the Great Leader's fireballs) shoots a Kamehame Hadoken with the Shocker Medal's energy in it to damage and restrict his opponent, then creates two red energy projectiles with the Taka and Imagin Medals that go spiraling towards the opponent to finish him.
- ↑ An enhanced version of the TaJaDor Kick.
- ↑ OOO executes a Diagonal Cut that slices through the enemy and it's background, which is restored once the enemy is destroyed.
- ↑ Using ShaUTa Core Medals and four Cell Medals in the Taja Spinner, OOO is engulfed in a flaming phoenix and uses it in a flying charge into the enemy.
- ↑ OOO shoots a blast of dark energy at the enemy.
- ↑ The same can be said about every Random Combo OOO uses, as they are shown to be not as strong as the single-colored Combo forms, but are still quite useful in battle.
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- 42 takes this even further when its revealed that ShaUTa can destroy Core Medals.
- ↑ It can also be used with other Combo forms through the energy of the purple Core Medals in Eiji's body. However, BuraKaWani is the only form that can control its Bazooka Mode.
- ↑ Literally "My Horns", referring to Momotaros
- ↑ Though the purpose is ambiguous, since her restaurant is taking on a school theme in the scene.
- ↑ Subarashii!
- ↑ Birth Day fires a blast of red energy from the Breast Cannon without inserting cell medals
- ↑ Though he did have a name that followed the naming scheme in early production stages.
- ↑ It gets a little more complicated, as also he spawns Yummies based on mythological creatures, like the Unicorn. In short, animals that don't actually exist in the present day.