Kamen Rider Fourze/Characters/Zodiarts: Difference between revisions

* [[Drunk Onon the Dark Side]]: The users tend to become more irrational and insane as they continue to use the Switch. This is undone with its destruction, however.

* [[Mono -Gender Monsters]]: Averted in a fashion similar to ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]''. Like the Dopants, uncovering the true identity of a Zodiarts is part of the story. To add to the mystery, the Zodairts refrain from speaking, have their voices digitally distorted, or a separate voice actor is used until their identity is revealed.

* [[One -Winged Angel]]: Some of the "Last One" transformations.

* [[Shout -Out]]

* [[Super -Powered Evil Side]]: The Zodiarts are pretty much extensions of their anger and wrath, but sometimes they can get even worse. Case in point: {{spoiler|the case of Cygnus Zodiarts who was, in fact, a student's [[Split Personality]].}}

{{quote| Live Actor: Shingo Tsurumi}}

He is secretly the mastermind behind the Zodiarts, and has been distributing the Zodiarts Switches amongst the students of his school for reasons unknown. His eyes often glow with an [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|unearthly red light]], and he possesses the ability to wield Cosmic Energy in a raw form. {{spoiler|As of #34, Libra has noticed that Gamou has the potential to become the Sagittarius Zodiarts.}}

** {{spoiler|He is also strong with the Cosmic Energy, as he used a raw form of it (in the form of a star) and infused Sonoda-sensei with it as so she can go [[One -Winged Angel]].}}

* [[It Amused Me]]: Hayami mentions that this is why there was a "bonus question" in the astronaut qualification test.

{{quote| "He was having a little fun."}}

* [[No Name Given]]/[[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: Initially, as "The Red-Eyed Man".

* [[Orcus Onon His Throne]]: He's mostly been seated on his chair and talking to the Zodiarts.

* [[Pet the Dog]]/[[Pragmatic Villainy]]: For a toku villain, he seems unusually committed to having his minions not die. He chooses to send those that repeatedly fail him to the Dark Nebula, and he makes an effort to have Virgo rescue those who are taken out by Fourze in space.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: If Scorpion is to be believed, he's apparently trying to benefit mankind.

* [[Co -Dragons]]

* [[Five -Bad Band]]: The initial Horoscopes fit into this fairly well, even though they are not all active at once.

* [[I Am Not Left -Handed]]: According to offical materials, their robes [[Power Limiter|limit their power to some degree]] and casting them off allows them to fight at full power.

* [[One -Winged Angel]]: The Red-Eyed Man can give them this ability by infusing them with a "supernova". It's stated only the Horoscopes can do this.

** The Horoscopes are pretty much [[One -Winged Angel]] forms themselves, being the result of someone who exceeded Last One and evolved into them. It doesn't even have to be one of the twelve [[Western Zodiac]] signs, as {{spoiler|Scorpion was the Canis Minor Zodiarts before evolving and Pegasus Zodiarts becoming Cancer Zodiarts. [[Serial Escalation|Even from there, they can be infused with supernova into a further form, as shown in episode 14!]]}}

{{quote| Voice Actor: [[Eiji Takemoto]]}}

* [[Big Creepy -Crawlies]]

* [[Death Byby Irony]]: {{spoiler|Sonoda-sensei's grudge on Gentaro ultimately [[Villainous Breakdown|defeated her]]. For added irony, said breakdown was caused by Miura rejecting the Orion Switch after it was offered again to him.}}

** Has now become somewhat of a [[Bare -Fisted Monk]], what with more common usage of the hands in combat, though will still prefer the legs.

* [[ItsIt's Personal]]: Seems to be his preference as to whom he hands out Zodiarts Switches. Which is in line with both myths of Scorpius, where the Scorpion was sent to kill Orion due to a god (Apollo in one and Gaea in another) being offended by him.

** {{spoiler|She herself grows a grudge against Fourze for constantly ruining her plans. [[Death Byby Irony|It leads to her defeat]], as she becomes so fixated on killing him she doesn't even consider taking a [[Villain Exit Stage Left]] as she'd done many times before.}}

* [[One -Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|[[Our Centaurs Are Different|Transforms her bottom half of her body into a giant scorpion form]] called Scorpion Nova in Episode 14}}.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

* [[Starter Villain]]: Is the first Horoscope to show up and Fourze's first real challenge, but was beaten without even a [[Mid -Season Upgrade]], and was considered in universe to be incompetent picking Switchers.

* [[This Cannot Be!]]: {{spoiler|Her reaction to Fourze managing to defeat her despite having already gone [[One -Winged Angel]].}}

* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: Tends to do this when Fourze is coming close to victory. {{spoiler|Until Episode 14, when [[ItsIt's Personal|her growing grudge against Fourze]] for being too much of a [[Spanner in Thethe Works]] [[Villainous Breakdown|gets in the way of her common sense]].}}

* [[Villain Forgot to Level Grind]]: Its problem wasn't getting weaker, but Fourze was getting stronger and it wasn't. It had to be ''given'' its [[One -Winged Angel]], as opposed to all the other Horoscopes who got theirs without help.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|For falling to Fourze even after going [[One -Winged Angel]], Gamou confiscates her Switch and passes the duty of passing Switches to Principal Hayami/Libra Zodiarts for the time being.}}

* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Succeeded in destroying the four stations in Kyoto and closing its Hole, which was the mission he was sent on, despite being defeated by Fourze. On top of this, he [[One -Winged Angel|achieves his Supernova]] in the process.}}

* [[Bare -Fisted Monk]]: It should be noted that he seldom actually uses that staff when he fights in one of his disguises.

* [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda]]: {{spoiler|mentions how he wants Taurus for ''his'' own, undisclosed-as-of-yet plans.}}

* [[The Force Is Strong Withwith This One]]: {{spoiler|His supernova form allows him to detect those with the potential to become Horoscopes.}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: in #37, he thinks that the astronaut exam is a good way to spot new potential Horoscopes. {{spoiler|He got his wish at the end of #38, finding Taurus among the finalists.}}

* [[Kick the Son of Aa Bitch]]: {{spoiler|Tricking Virgo into sending Cancer to the Dark Nebula. While he was doing it for his own interests, there's little doubt Cancer deserved it.}}

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to {{spoiler|Kijima}}/Cancer and Yamada/Aries' red.

* [[Simple Staff]]: Wields one that resembles a ''[http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khakkhara |Khakkhara shakujo]]'', complete with jingling rings.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|When he realizes that ''he's'' next on the [[You Have Failed Me...]] chopping block, he doesn't take it well and instead begs like a dog to be spared. This triggers his Supernova transformation, allowing him to perceive who is or can become a Horoscope, an ability that causes Gamou to (understandably) spare him.}}

{{quote| Voice Actress: [[Rie Tanaka]]}}

* [[Early -Bird Cameo]]: Rather like Meteor, she appears in ''Movie Wars Megamax'' before debuting at the end of #18.

* [[Rose -Haired Girl|Rose Haired Zodiarts]]

* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: {{spoiler|Moreso when [[One -Winged Angel|Supernova form]] kicks in (#27).}}

* [[Ham -to -Ham Combat]]: One-sided, actually. During his fight with Meteor in #27, ''he would not shut up''.

* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: He would free the souls of the KRC he imprisoned should one make him laugh. {{spoiler|Ryusei engages him in battle and the sight is so hilarious to Kijima that he laughs...which is what Ryusei wanted him to do}}.

* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: Thus far the ''only'' thing capable of damaging him.

* [[One -Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Cancer Nova. Worse? He managed to reach it ''without'' help!}}

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Unlike the other Horoscopes who seem to be [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]], Cancer is just a [[Sociopath]] who ''enjoys'' what he does.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The red to {{spoiler|Hayame}}/Libra's blue. (One of two)

{{quote| Live Actor: Kazuma Kawahara}}

* {{spoiler|[[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: Gave one of these to Ryusei to save Jiro, in the cost of killing Fourze. He then paid his end of the bargain and revived Jiro.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Death Byby Irony]]: Almost. He's last seen lying comatose in hospital after losing his Switch.}}

* [[Early -Bird Cameo]]: in #30, after Meteor's brief altercation with Libra at Subaroboshi, someone in an Amanogawa uniform ominously walks past.

* {{spoiler|[[Killer Rabbit]]: Tatsumoi supposedly transcended the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepus_:Lepus (constellation) |Lepus Zodiarts]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[PowerupPower-Up Letdown]]: He attempts to use Supernova against Fourze Cosmic States, but since he hasn't earned it himself or been granted it by Gamou, all that happens is his horns get bigger.}}

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The red to {{spoiler|Hayame}}/Libra's Blue. (One of two)

* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: {{spoiler|Flashbacks to the first episode show that he was there even though he's only actually introduced much later. He was also mentioned in Episode 17 (Ryusei's debut) when both Gentaro and Sonoda note that Yamada was gone.}}

* [[Simple Staff]]: His main weapon.

{{quote| Live Actor: Kazutoshi Yokoyama}}

* [[Berserk Button]]: He ''flipped'' after Gentarou approached Gamou without a regard for the latter's position. Gamou even held him back to make him keep his cool, but that didn't stop Leo from delivering a [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]] to Fourze unprovoked later.

* [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda]]: {{spoiler|Leo hints at looking for a [[McGuffin]] called the "Core Switch", and mentions that it will surprise even Gamou, indicating that the latter has no idea.}}

* [[Early -Bird Cameo]]

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: {{spoiler|tells Libra that should he fail the Kyoto mission, it will also be his last.}}

{{quote| Live Actor: Ryousuke Kawamura}}

* [[Anti -Villain]]: Type IV. He's the least malevolent of any of the Zodiarts so far, and really just wants to play music rather than hurt anyone. He initially only fights because Fourze attacks him first.

* {{spoiler|[[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]: After being defeated by Fourze, his memory was wiped by Gamou.}}

** [[Shout -Out Theme Naming]]: And it's turned into his old nickname by shortening further till it's read roughly like GOD, antagonist organisation to [[Kamen Rider X]] - which JK was named for.

* [[Anti -Villain]]: Another Type IV. Her first order of business as a Zodiarts was to heal Kengo, and she's only hostile to Gentaro because of his friendship with Yuki.

* [[Book Ends]]: {{spoiler|her last scene shows her "first" meeting with Gentaro and Yuki in front of the JAXA monument, just like when she was first introduced.}}

* [[Expy]]: Let's see. [[Serious Business]] about something? Check. Hates [[Genki Girl]] Yuki but doesn't have qualms with everyone else? Check. Has a [[Pet the Dog]] moment despite being a Zodiarts? Definitely. Gets talked to by Gentaro and immediately has a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment shortly thereafter? Yep. She's pretty much the Horoscope version of Motoyama (Perseus Zodiarts).

* {{spoiler|[[Go Out Withwith a Smile]]: After her fight with Fourze she gives one...and then Virgo Zodiarts teleports her to Gamou so her memory will be erased.}}

* [[Green -Eyed Monster]]: To make a long story short, she ''despises'' Yuki Jojima. More specifically, she hates Yuki Jojima due to the resemblance of a person who took her father's spot in going into space.

* [[Hair -Trigger Temper]]: Anything that comes out of Yuki's mouth makes her panic and crazy; {{spoiler|she goes overboard when she assumes Yuki hid the camera parts for the team's robot to make her look bad.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]: Just like Goto prior, she has this too. However, the ending of #38 ends on a positive note with her excitably interacting with Gentaro and Yuki.}}

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|Gentaro explains to Erin that Yuki did hide the camera parts because she found in the box were instructions for the robot the team had to make It was a [[Secret Test of Character]] to see what the team could do under circumstances, and Yuki created that cat to make up for the loss. Gentaro notes that by being the leader, she would be downright '''hated''' by everyone else, but she was willing to do so for the sake of the team. And when she returns after pushing Yuki off of the hill, Yuki states that she should leave the girl behind and save herself. Damn.}}

* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: Seems to be his MO when dealing with potential threats.

{{quote| Live Actor: Masanori Mizuno}}

A member of the football club who, fed up with his peers' poor treatment of him, accepts the Orion Zodiarts Switch to get revenge. His patron constellation is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Orion]] the Hunter.

* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: [[All There in the Manual|Chios Shield]] in Last One.

* [["No Respect" Guy]]: Gets told by Shun that he's going to be benched rather harshly. In Episode 8, Shun confesses this was due to his father telling him to do so, and he felt remorse when he saw how this took a toll in Miura's sanity.

{{quote| Live Actor: Maria Yoshikawa}}

* [[Green -Eyed Monster]]

* [[Shout -Out Theme Naming]]: To the Tama siblings and Ken Sakuma, characters in ''[[Kamen Rider V 3]]''.

{{quote| Live Actor: Kiyotaka Uji}}

* [[Game -Breaking Injury]]: Thanks to JK using him as a [[Human Shield]], he got a bad injury on his right arm and thus was forced to miss out on a fencing tournament. This, coupled with him overhearing that he was simply used, fuels his hatred against JK. It's ultimately subverted as he's not only recovered, but well enough to augment the power of his Switch.

* [[Unicorn]]: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Obviously.]]

{{quote| Live Actor: Ryuji Sato}}

{{quote| Live actor: Hikari Kajiwara}}

* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Tries to beat Fourze using her head of fire...but his Fire States makes him able to ''absorb'' her attacks, thus rendering them useless.

* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]/[[Fireballs]]

{{quote| Live Actor: Takafumi Shinohara}}

Yuki's former "friend" at the Astronomy Club who has a massive crush on her. Uses his Zodiarts power as a way to get to her and then extract his revenge. His patron constellation is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Pyxis]] the Mariner's Compass.

* [[Beware the Silly Ones]]: No, really. Makise went from geeky self-absorbed dork with a crush on one girl, play-acting as the "rest" of the astronomy club [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|"Party of One"]]-style, to invoking a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]] with Yuki, turning Fourze's attacks on his friends and finally attempting to ''SHOVE A [[Bus Full of Innocents|BUS FULL OF STUDENTS OFF A BRIDGE.]]'' [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And all within the sophomore year!]]

* [[Explaining Your Power to Thethe Enemy]]: he was [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] enough to AVERT this; {{spoiler|Fourze tried firing his Launcher missiles at Pyxis, not knowing of the latter's powers until it was too late, destroying what seemed to be the locker to the Rabbit Hatch in the process.}}

* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: Was obsessed with Yuki for quite some time, but now that he's the Pyxis Zodiarts he decides that it's time to crush her like (he thinks) she did to him, stating she was damaged goods. He's also the first Zodiarts to be portrayed as an unsympathetic [[Jerkass]] from the get go.

* [[He -Man Woman Hater]]: His stalker-like tendencies fueled this ideal. Tomoko lampshades this {{spoiler|when he returns in #37--25 episodes later}} by saying, "Simply, he's a misogynist."

* [[Laser -Guided Karma]]: {{spoiler|Becomes the first Switcher to miss out on Gentaro's friendship offer, leaving him instead to try to flee (in vain) from the girls whom he trapped on the bus at the end of Episode 12.}}

* [[Never My Fault]]: Seems completely oblivious to the fact Yuki isn't turning him down out of spite but out of repulsion over his [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|creepy obsession with her]], instead deciding that she deserves to suffer for it. This extends to the 20-30 other girls that have rejected him.

* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: For Yuki. He's given her incredible amounts of letters, gifts, emails and voicemails for God knows how long.

* [[One -Scene Wonder|Two Episode Wonder]]: Despite just being another [[Monster of the Week]], the fact that his entry is ''twice the length of any other Zodiarts'' and he's got an entire section in the [[Fridge Horror]] entry shows how much of an impact this psycho has made in the show.

* [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]]: In a rather lighthearted series where even [[Big Bad|Gamou]] [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|seems to have good intentions]] and every other Zodiarts is an [[Anti -Villain]], a genuinely creepy [[The Sociopath|sociopath]] like this guy ''really'' stands out.

{{quote| Live Actor: Ryutarou Akimoto}}

President of the Art Club. He takes the Perseus Switch so he can dish out some punishment upon anyone (and anything) that disturbs his work. His patron constellation is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Perseus]].

* [[Hair -Trigger Temper]]: If you do ''anything'' to interrupt his painting, he'll go berserk.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Upon arriving at the kindergarten class, he's awed that his previous painting is surrounded by all of the other works of the kids, reminding him of Gentaro's drawing of Mount Fuji. He then realizes that he had taken his art so seriously that he forgot the ''reason'' he'd been making it in the first place, to make the children happy, breaking down into tears. {{spoiler|It's also implied that this canceled out his ability to evolve into a Horoscope.}}

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Yes, he's [[Ax Crazy|utterly crazy]] and has [[Hair -Trigger Temper|bad anger issues]], but the reason he wants to perfect his paintings is because he simply wanted to make a kindergarten class he sometimes visits happy with his works.

* [[Serious Business]]: [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|Painting]]

{{quote| Live Actor: Shohei Yamazaki}}

Kengo's self-proclaimed rival, who was given his Switch by the Libra Zodiarts. He uses it in order to get rid of the competition of all students with higher test scores than he. His patron constellation is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Lynx the Lynx]].

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: It comes with being Kengo's "self-proclaimed" rival.

* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: He was last seen in the Rabbit Hutch with the KRC suggesting to put him in a storage closet. We don't even know whether or not he changed for the better.

{{quote| Live Actor: Ryu Ando}}

* [[Feed It Withwith Fire]]: and Electric, too!

* [[Made of Iron]]: More like made of ''steel''...[[Death Byby Irony|Which spelled the end of his Zodiarts career when Fourze obtained Magnet States]].

* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]: In Episode 20, he gains the ability to shoot fire.

* [[Shout -Out]]: A dragon that goes arround throwing balls. The reference would only be clearer if he [[DragonballDragon Ball|granted wishes]].

{{quote| Live Actor: Soran Tamoto}}

* [[Frame -Up]]: {{spoiler|Tries to frame Utsugi by mimicking her fighting style, dropping some evidence and telling the KRC that she took it from him, and outright saying "Do you really want to hit your teacher?" when Gentaro fights him in Episode 21.}}

* {{spoiler|[[One -Winged Angel]]: Transforms into the Cancer Zodiarts.}}

* [[Pungeon Master]]: A member of the school's [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Rakugo |Rakugo]] Club, he often mixes puns and wordplay into his speech.

{{quote| Live Actor: Shugo Nagashima<br />

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Of both [[Kamen Rider Den -O|Sieg]] and [[Kamen Rider Kiva|Kamen Rider IXA]].

* [[Dirty Coward]]: Used Tomoko as a shield to keep Meteor from bashing him in. He does it again in Episode 24, this time with {{spoiler|[[Laser -Guided Karma|Toriizaki]]}}.

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Due to his reputation as a hero, everyone simply calls him "Cygnus"; Gentaro's fight with his Last One state in Episode 24 marks the first time anyone refers to him as the Cygnus Zodiarts.

{{quote| Live Actress: Kasumi Suzuki}}

A third-year who is head of the Newspaper Club. She becomes a Zodiarts who uses its hair to create copies of the Chameleon, Altar and Dragon Zodiarts in order to frame their original Switchers and prevent them from graduating. Its patron constellation is [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_Berenices:Coma Berenices|Coma Berenices]], the hair of [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_II_of_Egypt:Berenice II of Egypt|Queen Berenice II of Egypt]].

* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]

* [[Stringy -Haired Ghost Girl]]: Provides the inspiration for this Zodiarts. Not just for the stringy hair and deliberately creepy [[Limp and Livid]] portrayal, but Yayoi also harbors a grudge.

* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: We don't know if she even graduates or gets held back like she wanted to.

{{quote| Live Actor: Jigen Araki}}

* [[Big Creepy -Crawlies]]

* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: A rare villainous example. Not only is he a first time Switcher still getting used to his new form, his Switch is evolving, continually dumping new powers on him.

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Is noteworthy in that his Switch is evolving even before Last One.