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[[File:ChoHenshin.gif|frame|One Kamen Rider, a TON of different forms.
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* [[Badass Biker]]: Who else? The titular hero himself.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Kaoru Ichijo. He even wears a [[Badass Longcoat]].
* [[Badass Spaniard]]: No, not a character, but Kuuga's [[Cool Bike
* [[Battle Amongst the Flames]]: Episode 2; Mighty Form's debut.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Don't mess with kids if there's even a chance Yuusuke will find out. This is your ''only'' warning.
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** Grapple Form = Mighty Form; Shooting Form = Pegasus Form; Herculean Form = Titan Form; Quick Form = Dragon Form; Shocker Form = Rising Mighty Form.
* [[Eye Scream]]: The Zu-Mebio-Da gets several bullets to the eye. The result is very painful and bloody. She then decides to take revenge for this and takes out several humans' eyes.
* [[Final Battle]]: {{spoiler|Deconstructed, as instead of a typical shonen final battle involving a myriad of explosions and absurdly powerful attacks, Kuuga defeats N-Daguva-Zeba in a brutal fistfight that continues well after they both destroy each other's [[Transformation Trinket
* [[Finishing Move]]:
** {{color|gray|Growing}} Form: "Growing Kick", a kick with a third of Mighty Kick's power.
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** Although it's not explicitly mentioned until after it no longer becomes an issue for Yusuke, he could at first only assume the Rising forms for thirty seconds.
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Each episode arc introducing Kuuga's new forms involves him getting used to the strengths and weaknesses of each, as well as learning which weapon it uses.
* [[Humans Are
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each episode's name consists of exactly two kanji.
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: The police try to fight the Grongi [[Five Rounds Rapid|with their regular pistols.]] It doesn't work out well.
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* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Godai plays it straight in Episode 20.
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Yuusuke at one point succeeds at defeating a Grongi (see [[Kiss of Death]]) using Growing Form. Granted, he needed to use the considerably feeble Growing Kick ''three'' times, but it still ended in Kuuga's favour.
** It must be noted also that Growing Form isn't just "not powerful enough" (like many other [[Joke Character
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: {{spoiler|Daguva is seen in white for both his human and Grongi forms. Which is actually appropriate, considering he's somewhat akin to [[Satan]] or the Antichrist.}}
** [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Kuuga's Amazing Mighty and Ultimate Forms are black with gold, and in the final episodes Yusuke wears a lot of black. He's still as heroic as he ever was, though.
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* [[Masquerade]]: Subverted. The police try to cover up the first few incidents to prevent panic, but once they realize the scale of the problem they don't hesitate to reveal everything in the interest of public safety. From then on it becomes [[The Unmasqued World]], with frequent news reports warning people about the latest Grongi attacks and newspaper articles detailing Kuuga's various battles.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Kuuga's name comes from the Japanese reading for "Clear-self", but it also contains Ku(空), the Japanese symbol for "Sky" or "Void" and the fifth element in Japanese Elements, or ''Godai''.
** Also, if [[Spell My Name with an "S"]] is invoked, the villains are called [[Guro
* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: As a result of his {{spoiler|resurrection after his supposed death at the hands of a Grongi}}, Kuuga's basic 4 forms are upgraded - complete with gold-trimmed armor and upgraded weaponry.
** {{spoiler|Subverted later with the last of the Go class Grongi getting multiple forms like Kuuga and Zu-Gooma-Gu.}}
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** [[Lightning Bruiser]]: '''Amazing''' {{color|goldenrod|Mighty}} Form
** [[Super Mode]]: '''Ultimate''' Form
** [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Black-eyed '''Ultimate''' Form {{spoiler|and '''[[Kamen Rider Decade|Rising Ultimate]]''' [[Kamen Rider Decade|Form]]}}.
*** {{spoiler|As mentioned above, several late-series Grongi have the ability to perform Form Changes much like Kuuga, with obvious parallels - their Fighting, Quick, Shooting, and Herculean Form correspond to Mighty, Dragon, Pegasus, and Titan Forms respectively. Go-Gadoru-Ba has a full-powered Shocker Form which parallels Rising Mighty or Amazing Mighty, while N-Daguva-Zeba has an Imperfect and a Perfect Form, paralleling Growing and Ultimate Form respectively.}}
* [[My Horse Is a Motorbike]]: The Gouram was originally armor for a horse that the original ancient Kuuga would ride. When Kuuga returned in the modern day, it adapted to work with a motorcycle instead.
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* [[Snow Means Death]]: The final battle occurs on the snowy slopes of Mount Kuro, [[Where It All Began]].
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: First, we see the Zu class. Then we see the Me class. After the Me, we see the Go class, who are supposed to be the strongest group of the Grongi besides [[Big Bad|their overlord]], {{spoiler|N-Daguva-Zeba}}. (Then again, there are also the Ra class, who aid in keeping score for the [[Monster of the Week]] and the Nu class, who build weapons) This is justified by the "league" system that the Grongi have: the victor of the "Zu" class games gets promoted to "Me" class, the winner of the "Me" games is promoted to "Go" class and the winner of the "Go" games fights the sole member of the "N" class for supremacy.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: The title of the first episode is "Revival".<ref>''Fukkatsu'' in Japanese, which, like the English term, can mean either a resurrection or a media revival</ref>
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Ultimate Form, which combines the powers of all of Kuuga's other forms but at the (rather vaguely defined) risk that the user would become evil.
* [[Super Senses]]: Pegasus Form. The strain it puts on Godai's nervous system necessitates its [[Hour of Power]].
* [[Super Speed]]: Dragon Form.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Each of the Grongi is named in a certain fashion; the first part refers to their class, the second is a personal name of sorts,<ref>which typically forms a pun on the Japanese word for what plant/animal they resemble</ref>
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: Yuusuke's final battle.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Arguably, Sugita and Sakurai, Ichijo's colleagues in the Science Police. {{spoiler|They do manage to defeat Ra-Dorudo-Gu with the Nerve-Breaking Bullets later on.}}
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