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[[File:Fourze-TVT_3294.jpg|frame| [[Catch Phrase|UCHUU KITAAAAAAA!!]]]]
{{quote|"''Space...a wondrous world, filled with infinite cosmic energy. Using the Astro Switches, these young people will open the door to the future of space. [[Gratuitous English|Space on your hand!]] Reach out and seize the universe!''"|Opening Narration}}
The 2011-2012 ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series and the thirteenth entry in the franchise's Heisei era. Pronounced "Four-Zeh" as in "'''Four'''-'''Ze'''ro",<ref>In Japanese phonetics</ref> i.e. ''[[Kamen Rider]]''{{'}}s 40th anniversary series.
Amanogawa High School is a school that encourages every one of its students to [[Be Yourself|be themselves]], creating a diverse (but chaotic) student body. Arriving into this bedlam is [[New Transfer Student]] Gentaro Kisaragi, a cool guy with a [[Delinquent]] image who immediately vows to [[Magnetic Hero|become friends with every single student in the school]].
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The plot's main driving element is Gentaro's goal in [[The Power of Friendship|making friends with everyone in the school, even the Zodiarts Switchers.]] As such, many of the characters learn important life lessons from Gentaro as he tries not only to fight monsters, but also to befriend them and save them from themselves. The Zodiarts themselves show parallels to the darker sides of humanity and with each one that appears, it becomes harder and harder to free them.
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* [[An Aesop]]: Aside from #1-2, there seems to be a trend of aesops similar to what happened in ''Gokaiger'':
** #3-4: "Do stuff that's beneficial to yourself and not to latch onto others."
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Gentaro's. (After transforming) "Space is awesome!"
* [[Canon Welding]]: In #33 {{spoiler|Foundation X reappears as Gamou's financial backers, tying Fourze into the same continuity started by ''Double'' and ''OOO''.}}
* [[Chosen Family]]: The Kamen Rider Club are teenagers from different high school groups uniting to help Gentaro Kisaragi fight the Zodiarts. While each member had some conflict, they joined the group, overcame their hang-ups, and assisted the Kamen Rider's fight.
* [[Christmas Episode]]: Episodes 15 and 16 involve around Yuki helping the Glee Club, and the Kamen Rider Club having their own Christmas Party.
* [[Competitive Balance]]: The Horoscopes.
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** In ''Movie Wars MegaMax'', not only does [[Kamen Rider OOO|Eiji]] remember Gentaro from ''Wonderful! Shogun and the 21 Core Medals'', but [[Kamen Rider Double|Shotaro]] brings up meeting Eiji way back in ''A to Z: The Gaia Memories of Fate''
* [[Couch Gag]]: The camera goes into a hard zoom of a random Astro or Zodiarts Switch before the OP starts every week.
* [[Crossover]]: Although it's not known to what extent this element will go, magazines have mentioned that there'll be urban legends in Fourze about the battles by previous Riders. The only confirmed one right now is about [[Kamen Rider (TV series)|Rider 1]].
** [[Retcon]]: [http://www.rangercrew.com/forum/showthread.php?21029-Kamen-Rider-Fourze-Discussion-Thread&p=875144&viewfull=1#post875144 Apparently], ''Fourze'' will be using this aspect to fix continuity errors introduced by [[Kamen Rider Decade|Decade]].
** And of course, the now-annual tradition of a ''Movie Wars'' crossover applies too; however, this time Fourze won't just be meeting his immediate predecessor [[Kamen Rider OOO|OOO]], but also [[Kamen Rider Double|Double]], [[Kamen Rider (TV series)|Riders 1 and 2]], [[Kamen Rider V 3|V3 and Riderman]], [[Kamen Rider X|X-Rider]], [[Kamen Rider Amazon|Amazon]], and [[Kamen Rider Stronger|Stronger]].
** A([[Kamen Rider Den-O|nother]]) series of crossover shorts with ''[[Crayon Shin
** Much like ''[[
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The Leo Zodiarts does to this Fourze and Meteor a multitude of times.
* [[Delinquent]]: The group that Gentaro beats up in #2 and #3.
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*** [[Non-Elemental]]: {{color|lightgray|Base}} States, {{color|darkorange|Rocket}} States {{spoiler|and Rocket Drill States}}.
*** [[Shock and Awe]]: {{color|gold|Elek}} States
*** [[Playing
*** [[Extra Ore Dinary]]: {{color|red|Mag}}{{color|blue|net}} States, by manipulating surrounding metal through its magnetism.
*** [[Space Master]]: {{color|cyan|Cosmic}} States, who can create a warp drive to send the enemy into space for its [[Finishing Move]].
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** Episode 19's opening takes out Sonoda and adds Meteor. Episode 21's opening adds Magnet States and showcases the Switches starting with #21 (Stealth).
** #35 adds Cosmic into the States montage. It also added Ryuusei into more of the Kamen Rider Club Shots, updated the States (including adding Meteor Storm into the credits), and Miu, Shun, Ohsugi-sensei and Gamou have new clips for the opening.
* [[Freeze
** #15. Some book artist thinks Perseus looked like [[Orlando Bloom]].
** The M-Bus Satellite was actually seen in the beginning of #1.
** The [[Imagine Spot]] from #25 goes into [[Friday (
* [[Funny Background Event]]:
** In the opening, during the montage of Fourze using various Switches, Shield!Fourze can be seen flashing a peace sign and Flash!Fourze accidentally blinds himself. From #21 onwards, Fourze lampshades the nature of the Stealth switch by performing a ''ninja'' hand gesture before fading out, and plays Rock Scissors Paper against the Hand switch - but ''loses''. In the next update, when Fourze activates his GiantFoot switch, he accidentally crushes himself.
** #1 has a funny ''foreground'' event the first time we see the classroom, with one student invoking some kind of summon ritual amidst the classroom chatter.
** #5. Sonoda and Ohsugi are discussing something while another teacher in the back is getting punked by a student, then retaliates with a [[Wrestler in All of Us|headlock.]]
** #9. While Kengo is pointing out the silliness of Yuki and Gentaro racing to school every morning, there's a couple of the "inmate" students doing an even more strenuous exercise behind him.
*** Not just any exercises, but full on hopping squats and fireman carries. [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|The other students don't seem to bat an eye]].
** #10. More of an easter egg, but when the witches tie up the entire Kamen Rider Club, JK's hands are inexplicably tied into his JK finger salute.
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** The detention teacher in #7 uses a few English words, but especially "bad boy" for Gentaro, which he always pronounces in a gleeful yet creepy way.
** Episode 15 has Yuki, along with the Glee Club, sing a nice rendition of ''Jingle Bells''.
*** In the same episode when JK goes to throw Fourze the Pen switch, he says "This is a Pen" (which may be a common phrase in English-as-a-second-language class if [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykf4D4-aKHg&t=0m50s this clip] is any indication).
** And in #31, we have the PE Teacher acting as the English teacher {{spoiler|due to Aries casting her in that role.}}
* [[Halloween Episode]]: #9-10
* [[Ham
* [[High School Dance]]: The Prom which is the focus on #25-26.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each episode has a title written in four kanji which when taken together forms a sentence.
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* [[Recycled in Space]]: Motif-wise, literally.
* [[Rule of Three]]: Shown all over the place. Miu and Ritsuko lead a posse of three, Power Dizer went through three users aside from Kengo (Miu, Shun and JK) and has three modes, there are three female members of the Kamen Rider Club, etc.
** The Kamen Rider club starts out with Gentaro, Kengo and Yuki, who are not just [[Two Guys and
* [[Running Gag]]:
** That bunch of thugs hanging out at the back of the school who attack Gentaro on sight, and fail, ''twice'' so far.
** Gentaro's constant misunderstanding of [[Gratuitous English|English words]] (i.e. trash, knight).
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* [[Shout-Out]]: The Astro Switches are named after Japanese astronaut [http://twitter.com/#!/astro_soichi Soichi Noguchi's Twitter profile].
** Yuki pointing out the different "student groups" to Gentaro in #1 may remind some of a scene from ''[[Mean Girls]]''.
** Fourze's limbs are each marked with a different symbol: [[
** Tachibana's [[Cool Mask]] looks just like the ones worn by [[
** #7-8 has a good number of these. The Hound Zodiarts is shown dangling a bundle of chains resembling the poachers' lure from ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'', and Satake claims to be "[[Lilo and Stitch|the one they call in when things go wrong]]".
*** The Sunday detention class itself stands out as a straight-up [[Homage]] of ''[[
** #9-10 feature [[The Craft|a trio of goth girls]] [[Charmed
** The OP includes a shot of Fourze making a [[Full-Moon Silhouette]] while on a bike. [[E.T. the
** #12 has [[Speed
** #14 has Shun taking [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon
** #15 has some ''[[
** #16 has some as well. The sound in the Rabbit Hatch that let Kengo know Gentaro was in danger is also the sound of the low HP bar from the Kingdom Hearts series. Not to mention Gentaro getting [[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger|a brush that actually writes things in the air.]]
*** [[Percy Jackson
** #20 has Meteor delivering [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]] [[Ip Man]]-style. Rather appropriate considering [[Bruce Lee|where all his other moves came from.]]
** The Cygnus Zodiarts, who has a swan motif, {{spoiler|is a crazy guy with a split personality}}. [[Black Swan
*** On top of that, we have Toriizaki, a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] ballerina who [[Evil Costume Switch|dons a black tutu]] in her last appearance.
*** It doesn't help that Swan Lake was a heavy motif in those episodes.
** Yuki says that the Ugly Ducklings have had their fill of heroes. This isn't too remarkable by itself, but she does so while mimicking the Henshin pose of [[Kamen Rider OOO|Kamen Rider OOO!]]
** While the myth behind the Coma Berenices constellation mentions Queen Berenice sacrificing her hair, the Coma Zodiarts' ability to [[Mook Maker|turn it into more monsters]] comes from a different mythical character. [[Journey to
** #37. As if reinforcing the [[
* [[Signature Style]]: Yes, [[Koichi Sakamoto]] has a hand in this show, and just to hammer it home we have Fourze jumping off a flying bike to kick the enemy in #2. Other elements of Sakamoto's style are present such as the wire-fu (in mild doses when compared to ''[[Power Rangers]]'') and filming at an angle. The [[Fan Nickname|Kalishplosions]] did not get carried over, thankfully.
* [[The World Is Just Awesome|Space is Just Awesome]]: Tends to happen with any person entering the Rabbit Hutch and realising where it really is for the first time.
* [[Space Is Noisy]]
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* [[Wham! Episode]]: #11: Kengo's now seemingly stuck on the moon because the Pyxis Zodiarts destroyed the locker that acts as its teleporter.
** #13. Aside from bringing back an old Zodiarts Switcher, {{spoiler|the identity of the Scorpion Zodiarts is finally revealed}}.
** #14.
** #18.
** #19.
** #22.
** #25.
** #27:
** #29: Remember the time where Ohsugi took the locker to Rabbit Hatch around 18 episodes back? {{spoiler|He now knows about Rabbit Hatch and took the only switch capable of stopping Musca!}}
** #30: At the end of the episode, {{spoiler|Aries Zodiarts has appeared}}.
** #31:
** #33:
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* [[World of Ham]]: Judging from the fact that this is from the man who wrote ''[[
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: The girls have Grade B as a whole.
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