Kamen Rider OOO/YMMV

"You count the Medals: one, two and three! Life goes on; anything goes! Coming up, OOO!"
 * Alas, Poor Villain: A lot of viewers were saddened when died; The latter because of her strict but reasonable motherly control of the group, and the former for his childish behavior. Gamel scored a lot of extra points in #16 when . It gets worse in the Christmas party scene: . 
 * It's also possible to feel this way for at his demise.  All this combined with how brutally OOO (who was in Berserker mode at the time) destroyed him makes his death scene rather bittersweet.
 * In the movie,
 * In #45,
 * Angst? What Angst?: Eiji has no family, job, or ambitions, but he doesn't really attach any importance to those things so it doesn't bug him.
 * Awesome Music: The theme song; then again, an awesome theme song seems to be mandatory for a Kamen Rider series.
 * #5: "Regret nothing ~Tighten Up~", the theme song of TaToBa Combo.
 * The song is also the default used for the Random Combos that don't have a theme; the TaToBa beats are removed in these cases, of course.
 * #6: "Got to keep it real", the theme song of GataKiriBa Combo.
 * #9: "Ride on Right time", the theme song of LaToraTah Combo.
 * #12: "Sun goes up", the theme song of SaGoZo Combo.
 * #20: "Time judged all", the theme song of TaJaDor Combo.
 * #36: "POWER to TEARER", the theme song of PuToTyra Combo.
 * #38: "Reverse/Re:birth", the theme song of Kamen Rider Birth.
 * Movie War Megamax: "Shout Out", the theme song of ShaUTa Combo.
 * The "Combo Change Medley." If the Combo songs were awesome alone, listen to all of them together in one package.
 * The movie theme song, Te wo Tsunagou, also counts as a Heartwarming Moment. Doubly so for the full orchestra version.
 * The OST has a handful of powerful tracks to offer too.
 * T#17: "The Transforming TaJaDor". Fast, guitar-based TaJaDor action theme.
 * T#41: "Elite Troops, Mobilize".
 * T#44: "Resolve". An audio representation of the "Determinator" trope.
 * T#50: "Big Brother and Little Sister". As you can guess from the title, it's generally used in scenes involving Ankh/Shingo and Hina. But unlike the other upbeat songs listed here, this one is rather sad and melancholic, and in a handful of instances where it's used in the series, it certainly delivers the emotional weight of the scenes.
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Even with all the weirdness rampant in #27, one moment stands out: two random women come across the Squid-Jaguar Yummy and smack it around, then disappear before Ankh and Eiji get to it. That's really it -- the women are only in the episode because their names contain the kanji for '1000'.
 * To note, it's more the fact that they beat the crap out of it than they appeared, as it did mistake them for Kamen Riders.
 * Why does the Yummy belonging to the former Shocker Mook spawn a couple of Oba-san?
 * Then there's Eiji at the end of Movie Wars Core, though it leads into a Brick Joke as.
 * Complete Monster: Kazari is shaping up as one. He has an extremely cruel way of creating Yummy (at least some of his victims are fully aware of what they're being made to do) but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, see that Alas, Poor Villain entry above? Kazari caused that just because he was curious as to what would happen. Even worse, he's smiling while doing it (well when he has a mouth), completely content in what he's done!
 * Dr. Maki is arguably just as terrible as Kazari, since he's willingly working with him. Not to mention that he actively encouraged a Mad Bomber to go on a rampage just to feed a nest of Mezool's Yummy and observe them. When they hatch, he proceeds to lock his workers inside with them! This guy made Eiji try to deck him so hard he put a dent in the wall. Yeah, he's got some comical moments with Date lately, but that doesn't make the stuff he's done any less terrible. While he did have a tragic childhood, it by no means justifies his actions and Before this moment, he could be sympathatic, but this is the point where it becomes clear he's an irredeemable monster. After this, he just keeps getting worse and worse as the series goes on.
 * He's
 * may qualify as well.
 * Ear Worm: The opening theme, "Anything Goes". Despite it being so happy, jumpy and weird compared to the opening themes of Decade and Double, you can't help but listen to it over and over again.
 * Ear Worm: The opening theme, "Anything Goes". Despite it being so happy, jumpy and weird compared to the opening themes of Decade and Double, you can't help but listen to it over and over again.

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 * Just listen to the SKA version of Regret Nothing ~Tighten Up~, you can tell Kushida had alot of fun with that one.
 * PuToTyra PuToTyrannosaur!
 * The OST has lot of PuToTyra that, once listened, won't be leaving your head anytime soon. Even more so if you're familiar with the series to know in which context each track is used.
 * T#08: "The Schoolgirl of My Dreams". Possibly Hina's leitmotif. For quite a calm guitar track, it ironically got a heavy, emotional piano remix in the form of T#50: "Brother and Sister".
 * T#10: "Hina the Schoolgirl". A humorous remix of T#08; it even has somebody making groaning sounds in the background.
 * T#12: "Ankh the Greeed". Ankh's leitmotif styled after classic Egyptian music.
 * T#14: "Ankh's Secret". A slower remix of T#12.
 * T#19: "Enter the Can-droids". A cutely robotic tune for the kids' favourite robot buddies.
 * The OOO Scanner managed to find different ways to be catchy with its Combo tunes. By extension, Akira Kushida's background rhythms in the Combo Image Songs as well.
 * TAKA! TORA! BATTA! TA-TO-BA! TaToBa, TA-TO-BA!
 * KUWAGATA! KAMAKIRI! BATTA! [Buzz!] Ga~ta-Gata-Gata-Kiri! Ba! GataKiriBa!
 * LION! TORA! CHEETAH! [Roar!] LaTah LaTah! LaToraTah!
 * SAI! GORILLA! ZOU! [Stomp!] SaGoZo... SAGOZO!
 * TAKA! KUJAKU! CONDOR! [Crow!] Ta~Ja~Doru!
 * SHACHI! UNAGI! TAKO! [Splash!] Sha-Sha-ShaUTa, Sha-Sha-ShaUTa!
 * PTERA! TRICERA! TYRANNO! [Screech!] Pu-To-Tyrannosaurus!
 * COBRA! KAME! WANI! [Hiss!] BuraKaWANI!
 * TAKA! IMAGIN! SHOCKER! Ta-Ma-Shii! TaMaShii, Ta-Ma-Shii! Rider TaMaShii!
 * SUPER, SUPER, SUPER! SUPER TAKA! SUPER TORA! SUPER BATTA! Su~per TaToBa, TA-TO-BA! SUPER!
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Akira Date, due to his rather laid-back behavior and general masculinity. Probably why he was brought back for the final eps.
 * Epileptic Trees: Since the beginning, many people began creating theories about the OOO Driver being a Deadly Upgrade, who the Original OOO was, and how it will effect Eiji, with a popular theory being that Eiji would turn into a Greeed.
 * Everybody Remembers the Pantsu
 * Fan Nickname: "Kamen Rider Traffic Light" and "Kamen Rider Wolverine", to name a few. Image Boards also came up with the sobriquet "Kamen Rider Taco Bar", due to his rather Mexican color scheme and the pronunciation of the "To" in "TaToBa" sounding like a "Co" when shouted by OOO's belt. Though "Taco Bar" has been declared a Forced Meme.
 * "Cakeguy" for Kougami, for very, very obvious reasons.
 * Or more frequently "PuToTyra" due both to his status as a rich and powerful man, and his similarity to Double's Ryubee Sonozaki, who was popularly described as "Like a boss". Perfectly fitting, as it also draws a connection to this.
 * Can't forget "Kamen Rider Pantsu", obviously due to Eiji's colorful boxers.
 * Skamen Rider is also used, due to the theme song.
 * is often referred to as 'Lefty'.
 * Dr Maki's Creepy Doll = 'Maki Jr'.For the record though, it's named 'Kiyo-chan'
 * And Giru, being based on dinosaurs and colored purple = "Barney".
 * Fetish Fuel: #13 has a dominatrix Catgirl with scalpel hands.
 * #20 has Satonaka in leather biker gear.
 * Satonaka is a fetish in that episode!
 * #10, Chiyoko's teacher-esque outfit, made even better by her sashay and glasses. Not to mention most of the cosplay to begin with...
 * Hina and her love of skirts and short shorts. That girl has legs.
 * Game Breaker: PuToTyra Combo.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: In the advertising for the Cho Den-O Trilogy, Momotaros says of the trilogy's Colorful Theme Naming "Think of a traffic light!" Now we have OOO, who has himself been nicknamed Kamen Rider Traffic Light.
 * Hina is one letter away from another super strong, backhaired young woman who can beat up a monster singlehandedly.
 * It's hard not to be reminded of Scott Pilgrim with the medal motif, and bad guys bursting into coins once beaten.
 * "Giru?"
 * Red, Blue, Yellow, Purple, White and Green monsters, and Rider Forms drawn from their powers? Hmm...
 * As the Image Song and ending song sung by the main character and his red demonic partner who is the source of power for the main Kamen Rider's red form, "Time Judged All" is, in concept, not unlike "Double Action - Sword Form".
 * One of the Net Movies for Kamen Rider Decade involved Shin Kamen Rider and his Imagine Spot, wondering what it'd be like if his show took off. Episodes 21 and 22 provide a somewhat twisted picture.
 * We've had Dr Maki leaving the Kougami company to form his own faction with the younger-looking Kazari and in the form of a small boy, not long after the fate of a certain other Two and A Half Men was in question.
 * And the final fight is essentially Two And Bits of a Man.
 * ShaUTa Combo's theme song title, "Shout Out", is bound to make many a troper chuckle.
 * Birth's theme "Reverse/Re:birth" sounds quite a call back when it is considered that Kamen Rider Blade's resident Gunslinger Garren's actor sang an ending theme for his series, called rebirth.
 * The OOO chapter in Movie Wars Core is subtitled Nobunaga's Desire, which may bring to mind one of Koei's strategy game titles, Nobunaga's Ambition.
 * One of those "weird Japanese inventions" often circulated on the 'net involves a device women can use to outwit stalkers, a handbag that unfolds into a vending machine disguise. Which is exactly what the RideVendor does.
 * You know who else was famously disguised as a vending machine? Dispensor.
 * The animals Kazari's Core Medals are based on, Lion, Tiger and Cheetah, appeared as Mecha in Juken Sentai Gekiranger.
 * Ditto for Giru's Medals, Ptera, Tricera, and Tyranno for Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger
 * There was quite a bit of negative reaction over RideVendor, the purple form, being designated as the "Ultimate Form" over the already-impressive BGMs (which was touted as such in Movie Wars Core). Fast forward to the finale, and
 * There are three possible reasons for this. One, . Two, . Three,.
 * Looks like Toei decided to take the initiative here, by churning out Super TaToBa Form for Movie Wars Megamax. It does reuses ShaUTa head though.
 * The PV for the OP "Anything Goes" may have predicted key points of the finale.
 * Gara's One-Winged Angel form in Shogun and the 21 Core Medals is looking very Dovah-like.
 * What was the first ever costume theme at the Cous Coussier? Pirates.
 * Similarly, Hina asks Eiji what he always wanted to be in #35. His first choice? Astronaut.
 * I Knew It!: Gotou.
 * Jerkass Woobie: In #29, when Kazari uses Maki to make a Yummy, it's revealed that his greatest desire is for . Though its pretty much subverted when we find out
 * Fridge Brilliance: It's no accident that the Yummy created from him
 * Magnificent Bastard: Kougami; crazy as he is, makes it abundantly clear that he's in control of the situation in #6, forcing Ankh to accept a crooked deal in order for him and Eiji to use the ShaUTa located around the city.
 * Ankh himself isn't too shabby either: In #20, it is revealed that he
 * Kazari shows signs of this as well.
 * Memetic Molester: King OOO. Why, fandom. Why.
 * Memetic Outfit: Eiji's floral boxers.
 * Now in more than one style!
 * Moral Event Horizon: Kazari
 * If he didn't cross it by locking his assistants in a lab with rampaging Yummy For Science!, Dr. Maki crossed this when he realizes It's more likely the latter, as before that point, he wasn't beyond redemption. It's this point that it becomes clear he's irredeemable. Made even worse by
 * crossed this by
 * Narm: The upcoming summer movie involves some Time Travel, and the design of medieval knights seen in the trailers may look familiar to some viewers. Think they'll run away upon seeing the Greeed or OOO?
 * Eiji and Ankh's confrontation in #46 is very heart-felt and serious, but all of that goes out the window when you suddenly realize that
 * And then there is Kousei Kougami at episode 47 who overacted regarding about the purple core medals stuffs blocking the way.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
 * Purity Sue: Eiji. He might as well be the second coming of Yuusuke.
 * Does this still count after we find out he's a Stepford Smiler?
 * Retroactive Recognition: Karin Ogino, Belle from Shogun and the 21 Core medals, has not only gotten a leading role in Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, but a role in the upcoming Tiger and Bunny stage show. Not bad for an Advertised Extra.
 * Tear Jerker: #16. Full stop.
 * #40.
 * #45.
 * #46.
 * #46.


 * Tethercat Principle: In Episode 46:
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: In Kamen Rider Double, a representative of Foundation X discusses the possibility of the Core Medals. In Kamen Rider OOO, Foundation X is never mentioned.
 * However, they are now confirmed to appear in Movie Wars Megamax.
 * Unfortunate Implications: At the end of 20 Yasu, the spineless toady afraid of what the newly-freed Yummy host Yamakane would do to him ties him up with rope saying "even if you return to jail you won't forgive me." Had Yamakane not woken up, what was Yasu going to do with him tied up, next to the docks, asleep, if not return him to jail? (And how different would it be from what Yamakane decided to do to Yasu upon waking up, given that it still involved those ropes?)
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: Gara has a female live actor and a male voice actor, so this becomes inevitable.
 * Villain Decay: Doctor Maki's levels of creepiness and menace went into severe decline soon after his introduction, particuarly once Date appeared.
 * Visual Effects of Awesome: The last stage of the Final Battle is done amazingly well, especially They really outdid themselves on this one!
 * The Woobie: If you didn't feel sorry for Gamel while he was wandering around searching for Mezool like a lost puppy, you don't have a heart.
 * Gamel again in #45
 * And again with Gamel in the next episode
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Strangely, the Greeed as a whole could be considered this. They want to consume the world, but think about why they're doing it. The destruction of their 10th Medal resulted in them having a void in themselves they can never fill and consuming the world is merely a way to try to fill it. Then there's