Kamen Rider Amazon: Difference between revisions

 

Daisuke Yamamoto was raised in the Amazon after his parents were killed in a plane crash. His life is changed when the Ten-Faced Demon attacked and destroyed his adopted home village. A witch doctor inserts the mystical Gigi Bracelet into him, which allows him to transform into the warrior Amazon. He goes to Japan to meet a professor who knew his father, battles Gorgos's minions after the professor is killed, and becomes the new Champion of Justice.

 

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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Amazon's blades, on the forearms of his gloves. They're very sharp, and more to the point, he's strong enough to do the cutting. Before he learned how to do a proper Rider Kick, Amazon's finisher was the Daisetsudan ("Great Cleave") which was responsible for the [[High-Pressure Blood]] below.

** SPIRITS takes this to new levels - he can easily cut arms in two (right down the middle), and that picture up at the top? That's Salamander/Tokage-Roid learning the hard way that Amazon can {{spoiler|cut heads in two as well.}} His Super Daisetsudan (available when Amazon combines the Gaga<ref>We're not going to make that comparison.</ref> Armlet with the Gigi Armlet on his right arm for extra power) can cleave something the size of a ''T-Rex''.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: The Mole Beastman turns to Amazon's side after Amazon saved him from execution. Considering the [[Big Bad]]'s opinion was "die in battle or I'll kill you myself", getting shown mercy by his former enemy convinced him to perform a [[Heel Face Turn]].

* [[Disk One Final Boss]]: Ten-Faced Demon Gorgos was the [[Big Bad]] of Geddon, Amazon's first enemy group. Amazon finally killed him in episode 14, only for Geddon to be replaced by the Garanda Empire lead by Great Emperor Zero.

* [[Eccentric Mentor]]: Tobei Tachibana, even gives Amazon his trademark bike the Jungler.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]/[[Mook Face Turn]] - the Mole Beastman.

* [[Healing Factor]]: It wasn't used too overtly in the TV show (likely related to the level of 70's special effects they were budgeted for), but Amazon heals ''much'' faster than a normal human, such that he can get into fistfights with clawed Beastmen without transforming.

* [[Henshin Hero]]: Although unlike the other Riders, his body is mystically augmented rather than mechanically - Amazon is actually ''biological'', compared to his technological Rider brethren. (This brings up an interesting point about the word "Kaizou-Ningen", usually translated as "Cyborg" in English. "Kaizou" means to modify, in the sense of remodeling and improvement, and does not necessarily indicate doing so with artificial enhancements. Thus Amazon is in fact a "Kaizou-Ningen" like the other Riders, just not in a way that translates smoothly.)

* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: Most monsters end up cut open by Amazon and it normally results in a massive amount of blood spurting from their wounds.

* [[Hulk Speak]]: For the first dozen episodes or so before he gradually learns Japanese. This led to much communication problems during certain episodes.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]] - Snake Beastman in episode 7.

* [[Keet]]: Amazon appears to be this outside of battle, at least by the time of [[Kamen Rider Spirits]].

* [[Large Ham]]: The Narrator for the first several episodes to explain Amazon's moods and mindset before he learned Japanese.

** Amazon himself also qualifies.

* [[Memetic Hand Gesture]]: [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jUm1aaWSreo/Sn_qxN6ShwI/AAAAAAAACxw/tpaN0-1GdoQ/s1600-h/igablog007.jpg Amazon's hand signal of friendship]

* [[Nature Hero]]: Being raised in the jungle certainly helps.

* [[People Puppets]] - After eating a person alive, the Snake Beastman somehow uses their body to move about/manipulate humans as one of them.

* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]

* [[The Mole]]: The [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Mole]] Beastman, though he is [[Inverted Trope|on Amazon's side]].

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]] - Amazon.

* [[Wild Child]]: Take a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|wild]] guess.

 

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