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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: The designs for Decade's armor was not particularly well received by the fandom. Then the Rider [[The War Sequence|war sequence]] from episode 1 was shown...
** The announcement of the movie ''All Riders vs. Great Shocker'' was, by itself, quite a Fandom Rejoice moment. Then came the revelation that {{spoiler|Shadow Moon would be a major antagonist.}}
** Thanks to the crossover premise, the fans were expecting a super speed duel involving Clock Up from ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'' and the Accel ability from ''[[Kamen Rider Faiz]]'' - and boy did they deliver.
** The [[Kamen Rider Black]]/[[Kamen Rider Black RX]] arc was a definite example of overwhelming rejoicing of the fandom. This is complete with Tatsuo Kurata reprising his role as Kotaro Minami.
** By the gods, they [http://forums.henshinjustice.com/showthread.php?t=74027 announced] a [[Kamen Rider X Super Sentai Super Hero Taisen (Film)|2012 crossover movie]] between ''Decade'' and its ''[[Super Sentai]]'' analogue ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]''!
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: [[Kamen Rider Double|Double's]] appearance in ''All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker''; {{spoiler|he simply rides in, hands Shadow Moon his ass on a platter (after SM beat Decade AND Rising Ultimate Kuuga at the same time), sends him flying into the Dai-Shocker HQ, then rides off}}. However, the aftermath of the BLAM gives all Riders an extremely wide opening to perform the All Rider Kick.
** It does later get a nod, however, in ''Movie Wars''.
** The Kabuto World story ends with Kivaara facing off with a Worm mimicking Kivaara, for no reason other than to have a Worm mimicking Kivaara. It gets weirder if you're familiar with the concept from [[Kamen Rider Kabuto|the original series]]. <ref>Typically, [[Shape Shifter Baggage]] is only loosely employed so that Worms, being human-sized, can only impersonate other humans - but Kivaara is ''the size of a baseball.''</ref>
** The first sign of Diend's powers shows up during a fight in Blade's world, where suddenly out of nowhere Todoroki appears. He plays his guitar solo, strikes his guitar into the ground attacking everyone, then disappears.
* [[Broken Base]]: On one side, people who like ''Decade'' enjoy it because they feel it's a celebration of what makes ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' great while having an interesting [[Myth Arc]] story. On the other side, people who dislike it feel that the overuse of [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Suspiciously Similar Substitutes]] ruins what could have been a great [[Reunion Show]] and that [[The Worf Effect|every returning character was weakened to make Decade look stronger]]. However, both sides generally agree that the show should have had more than two episodes per plot arc. 
* [[Cargo Ship]]: thanks to what happened to him in ''Diend'' world, Yusuke/''Kivaala''.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Crowning Music of Awesome]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTembHS14oA Episode 19]. Enough said. 
** It must be stated if you know nothing about Kamen Rider, the aforementioned video is the greatest [[Mind Screw]] on the entire internet. 
** [[Gackt]] would like you to know that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U3n_4q6cug&fmt=18 You're the Next Decade]. 
*** And he wants you to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6HqjIXNF-Q Stay the Ride Alive].
*** As well take a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH7CPKC_L04&fmt=18 Journey Through the Decade].
** The RX/Black arc has a BGM of Awesome which plays several times throughout (most notably in the double henshin and Double Kick), which is actually a piece of production library music called "Millions of Me" from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoHelper VideoHelper] and has been played on the gameshow ''[[Minute to Win It]]''.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToJEjkJ8OHw Ride the Wind] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjbM5OtGxXI Treasure Sniper].
** From the soundtrack, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gHIQPttEhg Form Ride].
* [[The CSI Effect]]: There is ''no blood'' on that fork! 
* [[Epileptic Trees]]: Not only is the typical life expectancy of female Riders subverted, but two female Riders (Akira in Hibiki and L'Arc in Blade) are brought back just to have them retconned with a much better fate. {{spoiler|Unfortunately though in the Rider War...}} 
** And then the ''Final Chapter'' movie has {{spoiler|Natsumi becoming Kamen Rider Kivara and they even give the original quasi-female Rider sidekick [[Kamen Rider Stronger|Tackle]] a decent sized sub plot as way of homage.}}
** {{spoiler|Though, Natsumi prior to being Kivara was Den-o for one episode, and was killed off a couple of episodes later. She gets better.}}
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Diend, also known as ''Radiator Man'' due to the grill setup of his helmet and chest armor. Decade is often referred to as ''Watermelon'' due to his coloring. 
** And as mentioned below, Decade is ''[[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]]'' and Diend is a ''[[Pokémon]]'' Trainer. 
** The Taurus Ballista Lord being named the "[[Useful Notes/Basketball|Chicago Bulls]] Mascot." 
** Yusuke is "Yuseless," due to his lack of doing anything. If fans are feeling more charitable, they call him Newsuke. 
** The Decadriver and both Decade's and Diend's [[Super Mode|K-Touches]] have been referred to as ''[[PSP|PSPs]]''.
* [[Game Breaker]]: Decade and Diend's Complete Forms.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: in ''All Riders'', Decade's Final Kamen Attack Ride has the All Riders turn into giant FFR cards. {{spoiler|In ''Final Chapter,'' this is what remains of the Riders when Decade ''kills them''.}}
** It's common knowlege by now that ''Kuuga's'' original actor regarded that series as an [[Old Shame]] - but now, it's ''Decade'' that's known for rubbing the [[Fan Dumb]] the wrong way<ref>It doesn't help that ''Gokaiger'' showed everyone that finding an egregious number of past alumni ''was possible''</ref>, while its lead actor Masahiro Inoue is more than proud of his role, putting it lightly.
* [[Hey Its That Guy]]: Before he became Yusuke Onodera, Ryota Murai appeared in ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O|Den-O: Climax Deka]]'' as the rookie cop who works with the Den-Liner crew. And [[Retroactive Recognition|flipping the trope around]], fans probably know Ryosuke Miura better as [[Kamen Rider OOO|Ankh/Shingo Izumi]] than they do as the Tiger Orphnoch from ''Decade'''s World of Faiz arc.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: While this show features the first ''[[Super Sentai]]''/''[[Kamen Rider]]'' crossover, ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' and ''[[Masked Rider]]'' crossed over first. At the end of the ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' crossover, the world of ''[[Kamen Rider Black RX]]'', the show ''Masked Rider'' used footage from, is revealed to be the next world.
** Speaking of ''Sentai'', the first fight in the ''Shinkenger'' crossover with both Rangers and Riders involved Shinken Gold and Diend. Care to guess which Ranger is among the evil duplicates created by Diend's (outright villainous) ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' [[Expy]] Basco in his debut episode?
** About ''Gokaiger'' again, though more subtly: the first ''Shinkenger'' episode of ''Decade'' was one of the very few times in ''Decade'' where the Kamen Rides (both Diend's and Decade's) had a thematic link to the episode's theme (''Shinkenger'', ''Ryuki'' and ''Den-O'' were all written by [[Yasuko Kobayashi]]); ''Gokaiger'' turned out to be far more liberal in its usage of such thematic transformations into past heroes in episodes with alumni guest stars.
** In one of the Net Movies, ''[[Shin Kamen Rider]]'' imagines [[What Could Have Been]] if his show took off, like meeting up with a ''child fan'' - of [[Bloodier and Gorier|Shin Kamen Rider]]. [[What Do You Mean Its for Kids|You know, FOR KIDS!]]
** At the beginning of the Den-O World arc, everyone assumes that Den-O's Final Form Ride is supposed to be DenLiner since that's how the card shows it...then later on it's revealed to be Momotaros himself. {{spoiler|1=And then in ''Final Chapter'', the DenLiner thing becomes reality.}}
** Another FFR example would be Agito's. [[Kamen Rider Double|Think they'll be using that concept again?]]
** The appearance of {{spoiler|King Dark}} near the end of ''All-Riders'' is [[Late to The Punchline|funny in retrospect]], since it means {{spoiler|'''two''' personifications of the Great Leader <ref>the second one, obviously, was Decade</ref> are duking it out.}}
** In the World of Hibiki,  {{spoiler|if you're an Oni and lose your sense of justice and seek only to be stronger, you turn into a Makamou. Change the words Oni and Makamou to [[Magical Girl]] and Witch respectively and you get what happens to [[Madoka Magica|Sayaka]] just a few years later.}}
***  {{spoiler|Also replace the words justice and seeking to be stronger with sanity and refusing Grief Seeds respectively.}} 
** Faiz's world is a [[High School AU]]. Which has Orphenoch hiding out in the school. Since they're pretty much zombies, does this count as a [[Highschool of the Dead]]?
*** Not to mention a [[High School AU]] where Kamen Rider fights other students who turn into monsters, and whose name [[Kamen Rider Fourze (TV)|starts with an F and ends with a Z sound]]?
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga|"Mo' fear! Mo' pain! No henshin, Kamen Rider Kuuga!"]]'' 
** {{smallcaps|ONORE, DI[[Just for Pun|C]]KEIDO!}} (Yes, the show's unique pronunciation of "Decade" is [[Don't Explain the Joke|part of the meme]]<ref>It should be ''Dikeido'', actually, but...Just check the highlighted letter.</ref>)
*** Or the English alternative: "It's Decade's fault!"
*** Also an [[Ascended Meme]] in the Net Movies.
** [[media:junichitroll_3638.jpg|Junichi Kaito's rather]] [[Nightmare Face|unsettling smile]].
** {{spoiler|Decade has no story.}}
* [[Motive Decay]]: Heroic Example: Originally, the reason why Decade was traveling the worlds was to save them. That was when he was expecting to travel to nine worlds, and then he has to travel to [[Evil Counterpart|O]][[A Day in The Limelight|t]][[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger|h]][[Kamen Rider Black RX|e]][[Kamen Rider Amazon|r]] worlds. At the end of Amazon's world, Natsumi even asks what the point of it all was.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Judging by her reaction, Momotaros-possessed Yuusuke was this for Natsumi.
** Some of the deaths in this series, particularly Great Shocker's assault on [[The Multiverse]], where people get killed ''onscreen''.
* [[Special Effect Failure]]/[[Off the Shelf FX]]: Kivaara has (very noticeably) gone from full CGI to a toy on a string. 
** Taken to an absolutely appalling level in episode 12, where Kivaara has CGI in one scene and then instantly shifts back to toy-on-a-string for her next appearance ''in the very same episode''. 
* [[Tear Jerker]]: the deaths of {{spoiler|Kuuga!Yashiro and AU!Hibiki.}} Some could probably counted as well.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: The whole "Orphenochs can't go to school" aspect was just mentioned by one or two lines and that is it. Even after  {{spoiler|Faiz is revealed to be one,}} it doesn't get mentioned again.
** More than likely, Faiz's plot wasn't expanded because it was very similar to Kiva's, so rather than focusing on the [[Fantastic Racism]], they just used the arc to introduce Kaitou.
* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: More literally in ''All Riders'' than the series proper, since {{spoiler|Evil!}}Tsukasa sets up a Rider Battle tournament in order to determine the strongest of the Kamen Riders. For the record, {{spoiler|Decade wins the three-on-three final battle with V3, Super-1, and Black RX single-handedly after Kuuga is eliminated and Diend punks out.}}
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Hibiki's Final Form Ride. And the [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] Asumu is only ten or so! 
** Also with the boy in the Amazon World arc. The writers never explained why he had make-up on his face. Perhaps he is a [[Visual Kei]] fan? 
*** It's a [[Mythology Gag]] to the original ''[[Kamen Rider Amazon]]'', where humans brainwashed by the Geddon inexplicably had make-up applied after the process. And ''that'' has unfortunate implications in itself. 
* [[The Untwist]]: It's hard to not see the  {{spoiler|Tsukasa is leader of Daishocker}} twist coming when the initial rumors were that Tsukasa was either gonna be an [[Otaku]] or an  {{spoiler|[[Evil Overlord]]}}.
** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|No, the otaku wound up in]] [[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Super Sentai instead...]]
* [[What an Idiot]]: {{spoiler|No, Fourteen, forcing your most loyal servant watch his brother get brainwashed while telling him you've been lying to him the entire time about his education program WILL HAVE NO CONSEQUENCES WHATSOEVER.}} 
** In the world of Black RX, Apollo Geist claims that Tsukasa is trapped in the parallel world of Black forever. As he is saying this, meanwhile in that other area, Schwarian leaves a portal to the world of Black RX open while fighting Decade.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Early rumors claimed that Decade would be a high school [[The Ace|Ace]] named Jun Ryusei who was given the Decadriver by a corporation in order to continue the legacy of the Kamen Riders, and that his mentor would be [[Kamen Rider Blade|Garren]]. Interestingly, the rumors made Jun seem like ''more'' of a [[Jerkass]] than Tsukasa, and yet quite a few people who liked the idea of Jun turned right back around and hated Tsukasa...
** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|And now we do have]] [[Kamen Rider Fourze (TV)|a high school student named Ryusei, and Garren is back, but mentoring the villains.]]
** Other rumors claimed that in Kabuto's world, Tendou and Kagami would be rival TV show hosts, Tendou with a cooking show and Kagami a variety show. Tell me THAT wouldn't have been entertaining.
* [[WTH Casting Agency]]: Ryo Hayami ([[Kamen Rider X]]'s actor) really wanted to be in the movie or at least a voiceover, but Toei forgot to notify him of the movie before casting started despite X prominently featuring in Episode 26. So in the movie he was be replaced by [[The Other Darrin]]. WTH, Toei?

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