Kamen Rider OOO/Fridge: Difference between revisions

* In the OOO portion of Movie Wars Core, [[Oda Nobunaga]] is after a descendant of [[Akechi Mitsuhide]], who happens to be a ballerina. Now, recall how Nobunaga has a descendant who was a figure skater...

* OOO's Combo powers, if given some thought, make sense.

*** Cold is really just the absence of heat, similar to how the purple medals represent the absence of desire.

* Why do we see Kougami baking but not eating his cakes? He likes beginnings and births if he himself ate the cakes that would mean the "end" or "death" of his cakes.

* The Batta Yummy has closed eyes because justice is blind

* Eiji is a guy with no dreams, no long term plans, no family, and no real driving desire. Sounds like a bad thing right? Well, not when you realize that the Greeed's Yummy's gain power by feeding off of people's desires. Which makes Eiji the perfect person to oppose them, since he has no desires of his own save for saving innocent lives FROM the Yummy.

** On the other end of the spectrum, {{spoiler|the King who sought to become the original OOO was described by Ankh as being "desire incarnate" and he was the one who created the Greeed. Also, his own desire for power ultimately caused him to go out of control and seemingly resulted in his death.}}

** {{spoiler|This also makes sense when one notices what makes the original OOO and Eiji go out of control. The original OOO lost control due to using the normal Core Medals, which are desire incarnate, just like him. Eiji goes out of control with the Purple Core Medals, which represent a lack of desire, just like Eiji himself.}}

*** Remember what the Mantis Yummy said in #1? "You'll pay a price for using it." The meaning becomes clear after the revelation about {{spoiler|the Original OOO}}. {{spoiler|It's not because there's any particular danger with the Driver, but with the ''Core Medals''. They thrive upon the user's desires, so even an average person can be expected to go berserk at some point. Luckily, Eiji has none. Instead, the Purple Cores react to him in a similar manner the other cores would have reacted to other people.}}

* Earlier in the show Maki mentions it's not good for all 10 purple medals to be in the same place. In episode 38 Eiji seems to be in pain when Maki's eyes change color, signifying his use of the medals, which seems to prevent Eiji from using his own.

* Most of the ways the white Yummy turn into fully fledged Yummy, and general Yummy behavior, are based on their respective animals.

* It may seem strange at first that there are two different pterosaur yummies, but if you pay attention, you can notice that they have different head crests. This would imply that they are, in fact, based off of different species of pterosaurs. Specifically, the male one is a pteranodon, and the female is a pterodactylus.

* A more meta example. The real reason Eiji can't use the Dinosaur medals with any other medals? All of the other combos are modular pieces of armor on a black bodysuit, but the SaGoZo Combo is a single set of armor permanently attached to a ''white'' bodysuit. For any 'random' combos involving the dino medals to look right the costume people would have to make a whole new two-tone bodysuit based on which parts were Dino and which weren't.

* Ever since it was revealed that Eiji's {{spoiler|turning into a Greeed}} he's been wearing [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|a lot more purple]].

* A few come in mind for the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnETbcQb7Gc Combo Change Medley]:

** Ride On Right Time plays briefly before the chorus to Power To Tearer plays which may seem out of place... {{spoiler|Until you realize that the Dinosaur Greeed is Dr. Maki, and the first Greeed he allies with is Kazari.}}

*** It could also symbolize that Kazari was the first Greeed that Eiji fought.

* We find out early on that the Greeed were born when one of each of their 10 Cores were destroyed, and yet it seems near impossible for most weapons used by anyone that fights them to even scratch the things, much less any weapon existing 800 years ago. Then we're introduced to the Purple Cores, which can ''destroy Core Medals'' but were never used to create a Greeed, are different from the others in absolutely every way, and are incompatible with regular Cores due to being the antithesis of desire, which would make them completely useless to anyone attempting to use the Medals to {{spoiler|[[A God I Am|become a God]]}} because that requires scanning a massive amount of Cores all at once. Since they were otherwise completely useless to his plan, what do you suppose {{spoiler|1=the Ancient King/The First Kamen Rider OOO}} did with them?

* Ankh has a heavy bit of Phoenix symbolism to both himself and the form OOO obtains using his Medals. {{spoiler|When Ankh (Lost) is destroyed, Ankh rises from his Cell Medals with his full power, just like a Phoenix rising from its ashes.}}

* Why did Gamel's complete form have the Cell Medal equivalent of the Midas Touch when Gamel's Yummies could never generate a single Cell Medal? That's because Gamel, [[Meaningful Name|true to his name]], always pilfered his ideas from other people. He never actually desired anything, he just imitated the desires of other people (like eating candy when he can't actually taste it). It was only when he found his own desire, resurrecting Mezool, that his powers as a Greeed became truly realized.

** It's one of his powers upon being complete. There's no hidden revelation that Gamel much unlock in order to access it. This explains why his Yummy can produce just one Cell Medal. Because he could just turn things into Cell Medals when he's low on them.

* Gamel is the only Greeed who {{spoiler|[[Let Them Die Happy|died happily instead of screaming about being unable to obtain what they desired.]]}}. Why? {{spoiler|His last sight is a vision of Mezool happily accepting his offering. Unlike the other Greeed, his desire, to make Mezool happy, was something he was ''actually capable of doing''. In the end, in his mind, he'd succeeded in obtaining the thing he desired, so he was able to die in peace.}}

* Uva's [[Meaningful Name]] (from ''ubau'': to snatch away). The basic connotations of a Greeed named after stealing are obvious, the Fridge part comes in when you realize that Uva is the most materialistic of the Greeed. While the other Greeed all desired abstract things like 'life', 'love', and 'power', Uva never showed desire for anything other his own Cores.

* PuToTyra's [[Image Song]] is called Time Judged All, which fits rather nicely as {{spoiler|1=Eiji and Ankh use SaGoZo during the finale when it was finally time for Dr. Maki to be judged for all the crimes he committed over the course of the series}}.

** {{spoiler|1=It's lyrics also mention "the power of two wishes combined" which ultimately is what gives SaGoZo the power to defeat Dr. Maki.}}

** It also relates to the Egyptian themes within Ankh, from his name to his background song.

* Why do {{spoiler|Eiji and Dr. Maki have different sets of powers despite both using the Dinosaur Medals? The Dinosaur Medals have both sets of powers, as shown when Maki creates a Yummy with ice based powers and Eiji's Giga Scan with them produces a Black Hole. So why do they each only exhibit one of their aspects? Eiji lacks desire. Cold is the lack of heat, thus [[An Ice Person|ice based powers.]] Dr. Maki desires the world to be nothing but a void, and so has the [[Power of the Void]]}}.

* In episode 22 Eiji gave a speech about how people will justify their actions when they believe they're right, and lose sight of everything else. Guess what happen to {{spoiler|Eiji himself after he remembers his true desire}}.

* A meta brilliance entry: One of the reasons the show's budget seems so thin isn't just because of the CG use, but also because of royalties due every time Kougami sings Happy Birthday.

* There's a good reason why the DX Lion Cell Medal was packaged in the Medagaburyu. {{spoiler|The Medagaburyu shattered Kazari's conscious Core, which was a Lion.}}

* Why does OOO pull the Medagabryu out of the ground, instead of out of seemingly nowhere like the Medajalibur? It's a dino-themed weapon; it's in the ground ''like a fossil''.

* A minor one with Chiyoko's [[Surprisingly Good English]]: she says "repeat after me", which initially was just a [[Call Back]] to Tendo saying the same thing in a [[Omake]] crossover with ''Boukenger'', but if you think about it, it's really a very common phrase in any English-as-a-second-language class, and the first bit of English they'll usually learn.

* The arrival of {{spoiler|all previous Kamen Riders}} in ''Let's Go Kamen Rider'' makes perfect sense when you remember something from Den-O. {{spoiler|Memories ''are'' the past, anything that's remembered can be restored. As long as ''someone'' remembered the Kamen Riders, they could be restored.}}

* The Shocker Greeed is insanely powerful, even though he only has one Core Medal. Why? When they first arrive in the [[Bad Future]], Ankh states that there's a desire so powerful it drowns out all others. What's the source of that desire? ''Shocker''. As a being fueled by desire, it only makes sense that the Shocker Greeed would be extremely strong because of that.

* Ankh's name, while yes it is reference the egyptian symbol of eternal life there's also a deeper brilliance to it. There's an Arabic word Ankaa which is pronounced surprisingly similar to Ankh and it means 'The Phoenix'. They really did think of everything.

* A Yummy seems to consume/pursue whatever their original human desires. This ''really'' makes sense in hindsight because the concept of value is purely subjective, and objects require a person to evaluate them.

* Kamen Rider Birth's name. It's rather unusual for a Rider, but fits with the secondary motif of beginnings and births.

 

== [[Fridge Horror]]: ==

** Kazari's is even worse when you think about it, his Yummy force live inside the human and force them to eat/perform their desire. And the host has no control over the body while they're inside.

** Mezool's method is as scary as the others, her Yummies, yes, Yummies, as in more than one, are gathered in a clutch and the host does not even know about the clutch until the last minute, when they burst.

** {{spoiler|Maki can make VERY powerful Yummies from ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.}}

*** {{spoiler|Specifically, the Yummies he makes release a black mist which appears to DISINTIGRATE people who come into contact with it. At the end of Episode 32, we never see the people who disappeared, reappear.}}