Kamen Rider Blade: Difference between revisions

* [[Alien Blood]] - Undead bleed green.

* [[Alternate Ending]] - ''[[The Movie|Missing Ace]]'' serves as an alternate ending to the series were {{spoiler|Blade sealed Hajime.}}

* [[Artificial Human]] - {{spoiler|Yoshito Hirose}}.

* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]] - the girlfriend of Hajime's [[Identical Stranger]] is the heiress to a ''taiyaki'' or fried-fishcake empire... who has Denise Richards-worthy fishlips.

* [[Everybody Lives]] - All four Riders and their civilian buddies live {{spoiler|(although Kenzaki is now an Undead and must avoid Hajime at all costs)}}.

** It's worth noting that the MotWs of this season don't really die either. As Undead, the only way to put them down is to seal them into cards - only the Trial Undeads and Roaches can be killed.

* [[Evolving Credits]]

* [[Expy]] - An in-universe version; the ''Missing Ace'' Riders' powers are modeled on the four from the TV series: Glaive is Blade, Larc is a combination of Garren and Chalice, and Lance is Leangle.

** Also worth noting is two specific Trial Monsters, one modeled after Garren's battle style and another modeled after Leangle's battle style.

* [[Finding Judas]] - Tachibana, when he works with Hirose's father to {{spoiler|save Kenzaki from his own King Form}}.

* [[Four Is Death]]

* [[Frogs and Toads]] - Frog Undead/Garren's 3 of Diamonds Upper Frog.

* [[Fun With Acronyms]] - BOARD stands for the "'''B'''oard '''O'''f '''A'''rchaeological '''R'''esearch '''D'''epartment.

** {{spoiler|Tarantula Undead to save Mutsuki from being controlled by the Spider Undead. Although it didn't take until MUCH later on when Tiger Undead did the same.}}

** {{spoiler|Hajime in the movie, who switches places with Amane as the Albino Joker's power source so Kenzaki can destroy it and weaken the Albino Joker, killing Hajime in the process.}}

** Going back even further would be Tennouji Hiroshi, who used to be Muruboshi Dan aka [[Ultra Seven]].

** Hirose's father is played by Jun'ichi Haruta of ''[[Dai Sentai Goggle Five]]'' and ''[[Kagaku Sentai Dynaman]]'' fame.

* [[Ineffectual Loner]] - Hajime Aikawa

* [[Japanese Beetle Brothers]] - Blade and Garren are in general Type A, though there are hints of Type B.

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: Decade and most social websites let you know {{spoiler|that there is a Joker Undead}} let alone who {{spoiler|The Joker Undead}} is.

* [[Let's You and Him Fight]] - {{spoiler|Hiroshi uses his crossbreed Titan Undead to do this with both it's poison and shapeshifting abilities in an attempt to get the Riders to destroy each other. The Riders get wise and set up a ''fake'' battle with Hajime's Joker form in order to lure it out so it can be defeated.}}

* [[Messiah Creep]] - Kazuma Kenzaki

* [[The Monolith]] - A twisty version acts as the Undeads' Battle Royale judge.

** The story parallels [[Kamen Rider Ryuki]] in several ways - ignoring the obvious use of cards, Riders in Ryuki and Undeads in Blade must fight and kill each other until one is left, and the last few episodes see the world swarmed with thousands of bug monsters for related reasons.

* [[Nice Hat]] - Part of Mutsuki's [[Smug Snake]] wardrobe, hinted at early on in the opening credits.

* [[Oh Crap]] - The first time Kenzaki fights a "Trial" (artificial creatures created from hybrids of human and Undead DNA), he fells it with the Lightning Sonic. As usual, he throws a Blank to attempt to seal it... the Blank is ''absorbed'' instead.

** The first time Leangle uses his 'Remote' ability on other Rider's cards.

** {{spoiler|Tennōji after fusing with Kerberos. }}

* [[Outside Context Villain]] - The Albino Joker in [[The Movie]]. Having sealed every Undead already with there being no indication of there being another one, he comes out of nowhere and what really throws them off is how intelligent he is compared to the normal Joker, who in his natural state is a raging beast. By the time they figure that out, {{spoiler|he's already played them like fiddles and gotten what he wants.}}

* [[Primal Fear]] - Tachibana's fear of his body degenerating due to prolonged use of the Rouze System. {{spoiler|Turns out it was all in his head}}.

** {{spoiler|1=Something of a ~Chekhov's Boomerang~ given later everyone learned of the nature of the Rouzers and King form later in the series [[He Who Fights Monsters|turning users into Undead]].}}

* [[Rhino Rampage]] - Rhinoceros Undead/Leangle's 4 of Clubs Rush Rhinoceros.

* [[Rule of Funny]] - Tachibana and Mutsuki whipping out their Rouzers untransformed in Blade Vs Blade (followed by shooting Kazuma in the butt and whopping him on the head respectively). Shiori Hirose can lift heavy objects with one hand. Clearly there is only one reason.

* [[Stop Helping Me]] - Done entirely for humor in the Hyper Battle Video. A Trial has impersonated Kazuma, and he asks Tachibana and Mutsuki for help. Each of them in turn says "I know who the impostor is!", pulls out his personal weapon (while not transformed)...and attacks the real Kazuma, getting him shot in the ass and bashed over the head respectively.

* [[Super Speed]] - Jaguar Undead/Blade's 9 of Spades Mach Jaguar.

* [[Swapped Roles]] - [[The Stoic|Hajime]] and his takoyaki-making [[Doppelganger]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* [[Take a Third Option]] - In the finale, {{spoiler|Kenzaki stops [[The End of the World As We Know It]] ''and'' spares Hajime by turning himself into an Undead- thereby restarting the battle royale- then fixing it so that there will never be a winner}}.

** [[Blade On a Stick]] - Mutsuki/Leangle, Shin/Lance

** [[The Archer]] - Hajime/Chalice (longbow), Natsumi/Larc (crossbow)

** [[BFS]] - Kazuma/Blade again in {{spoiler|King Form}}

* [[What Could Have Been]] - Each of the 52 normal Undead is pretty much this. Each had the chance to be the one whose species could've ruled the Earth, the Human Undead just managed to win out. This includes lions, tigers, spiders, grasshoppers, and even some species of ''plants''. Yeah, Orchids could've ruled the world.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]] - {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Tennoji]] loves to do this. First to the Riders when they're not of use anymore, and then to the scientists that helped him create the Kerberos.}}

** {{spoiler|The Albino Joker kills off the two other movie Riders once he's done using them as [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]].}}