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=== Tropes associated with the Rider concepts of Kamen Rider OOO: ===
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** All of the Greeed in their human forms wear clothing with the same colors as their medals. Both Dr. Maki and Eiji have started wearing more and more purple ever since they split the purple medals.
* [[Combo-Platter Powers]]: A literal and highly expanded case: OOO is able to choose his own combos by switching out the Core Medals as desired/required. His default mode is {{color|red|Hawk}}-{{color|gold|Tiger}}-{{color|green|Grasshopper}}; {{color|red|Taka}}-{{color|gold|Tora}}-{{color|green|Batta}} in Japanese, "{{color|red|Ta}}{{color|gold|To}}{{color|green|Ba}}" for short. How many forms does he have access to? There are at least 5 sets of medals that can be mixed and matched, which make up ''125'' combos. The [[Super Mode]] doesn't add a massive number to the combos, however, since the Purple Cores don't mix with the other Cores very well. Naturally, the series can't show all the combos, so it generally sticks to the ones Eiji is comfortable with.
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*** '''{{color|red|Hawk/''Taka''}}''': [[Super Senses|Telescopic sight]]. Default Head Core Medal.
*** '''{{color|orangered|Peafowl/''Kujaku''}}''': Uses the [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|Taja Spinner]] to shoot [[Fireballs]] and activate [[Finishing Move|Giga Scans]].
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*** '''{{color|yellow|''Cheetah''}}''': [[Super Speed|Hi-speed leg movement]] and reflexes.
*** '''{{color|silver|Rhino/''Sai''}}''': [[Horn Attack|Strong headbutts]].
*** '''{{color|darkgray|''Gorilla''}}''': [[Power Fist|Power Fists]] for raw close-quarter beatdown. They can also be [[Rocket Punch|fired off as a long-range attack]].
*** '''{{color|gray|Elephant/''Zou''}}''': [[Earthquake Machine|Seismic]] [[Shockwave Stomp|stomps]].
*** '''{{color|darkblue|Orca/''Shachi''}}''': [[Super Not-Drowning Skills|Underwater breathing]], [[Make Me Wanna Shout|echolocation abilities]] and [[Kill It with Water|water shooting]].
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*** '''{{color|blueviolet|''Tyranno''}}''': [[Beware My Stinger Tail]] and [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|sharp clawed feet]].
** The movies reveal even more Core Medals and exclusive Combos, though not all of them have been used by OOO:
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*** '''Scorpion/''Sasori''''', '''Crab/''Kani''''', and '''Shrimp/''Ebi''''': Powers unknown; used by Nobunaga.
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*** '''{{color|salmon|''Imagin''}}''': [[Shoulders of Doom|Shoulder horns]]; based on [[Kamen Rider Den-O|Momotaros]].
*** '''{{color|goldenrod|''Shocker''}}''': A gold [[Palette Swap]] of the [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|Condor Legs]].
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*** '''{{color|darkorange|''Cobra''}}''': [[Infrared X
*** '''{{color|orange|Turtle/''Kame''}}''': [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|Shield gauntlets]].
*** '''{{color|orangered|Alligator/''Wani''}}''': [[Man Bites Man|Alligator chomping legs]].
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*** '''{{color|lightblue|Shark/''Same''}}''', '''{{color|darkblue|Whale/''Kujira''}}''', and '''{{color|red|Wolffish/''Ookamiuo''}}''': Individual powers unknown; but their abilities are based around water. Used by Kamen Riders Aqua and Poseidon.
*** '''{{color|red|Super Hawk/''Taka''}}''', '''{{color|gold|Super Tiger/''Tora''}}''', and '''{{color|green|Super Grasshopper/''Batta''}}''': Enhanced future versions of the Taka, Tora, and Batta Medals. Intended as an homage to [[Kamen Rider Skyrider]].
** The extent is slightly expanded in the toy as with the [[Kamen Rider Double|Double Driver]] and [[Kamen Rider Decade|DecaDriver]]: there are Medals for previous Riders or other miscellaneous things. However, these were originally not used in the show, but rather mostly worked with the arcade game Ganbaride, which during the run of ''OOO'' included Medal slots that allowed players to scan Medals to power up their characters. These were later canonized in ''Movie Wars Megamax'', where the Kougami Foundation was at work creating new animal Core Medals and Foundation X turned some Showa Riders into Core Medals (and others into [[Kamen Rider Fourze|Astro Switches]]).
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*** '''{{color|gray|Rabbit/''Usagi''}}''': Powers unknown. The Usagi Head was seen in promotional material, but the Medal was never released.
*** '''{{color|gray|''Panda''}}''': {{spoiler|A white [[Palette Swap]] of the [[Wolverine Claws|Tora Arms]].}}
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** [[Lightning Bruiser]]: {{color|red|TaJaDor}} Combo
** [[Glass Cannon]]: {{color|blue|ShaUTa}} Combo
** [[Super Mode]]: {{color|purple|PuToTyra}} Combo
** [[Stone Wall]]: {{color|orange|BuraKaWani}} Combo
** [[Lethal Joke Character]]: {{color|red|Ta}}{{color|salmon|Ma}}{{color|goldenrod|Shii}} Combo
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*** [[Armed Legs]]: Leg Medals augment Eiji's legs for different strategies. Of course, that's not to say they can't be used for combat.
** [[Fireballs|Fireball]] [[Fire-Breathing Weapon|Breathing]] [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|Shield]]: {{color|red|TaJa Spinner}}, used by {{color|red|TaJaDor}} Combo or any form that uses the {{color|orangered|Peafowl}} Medal.
** [[An Axe to Grind|Axe]] [[Swiss Army Weapon|Grinding]] [[The Gunslinger|Gunslinger]]: {{color|purple|Medagabryu}}
*** Which leads to [[Dual-Wielding]] on occasion when used with the Medajalibur.
** [[Musical Assassin]]: {{color|orange|Burahngi}}, used by {{color|orange|BuraKaWani}} Combo.
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* [[Arc Words]]: "Happy Birthday." Aside from Kougami's obsession with the concept of birth and beginnings, maybe there's more meaning to those words. Especially when it's Kobayashi holding the pen.
** One phrase that appeared as early as promotional materials have a phrase: "The fateful story revolving around Medals.". Variations of it show up here and there after the series started, and in #19, the show turned the phrase into a more complete Arc Question:
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** For Maki, it's his repeated statements that something's value can only be measured at it's conclusion. In addition to his obcession with endings, it played into his motivation to {{spoiler|[[Omnicidal Maniac|destroy the world so it's value could be measured]].}}
** The series tagline "I'll transform!" seems straight forward for a [[Henshin Hero]] series, but turns out to be much more than that. {{spoiler|In the end, this holds more meaning. Kougami wants Eiji to [[A God I Am|transform into a God]] (the reason the Medals were made in the first place), Maki ends up turning himself and Eiji into Greeed, and Ankh plans to transform himself into more than just a Greeed.}}
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** Ankh pulls one of these on Kazari that involves swapping out Core Medals for Cell Medals, lying so quickly that no one has time to contradict him, and throwing Eiji off a building. The entire thing would have completely fallen flat if Yasu hadn't been such a self-serving pushover or if Kazari hadn't been naive enough to believe that Eiji actually knew where the Core Medals were, so this is probably Ankh's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in terms of brilliant manipulative schemes.
* [[Battle Cry]]: Eiji, ''every'' time he executes a finisher.
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** For more fun, that cry is the last thing Eiji and Ankh "sing" in "Time judged all".
* [[Beat Them At Their Own Game]]: #1: Eiji defeats the Mantis Yummy using the blades from the {{color|green|Mantis}} Medal.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Eiji, occasionally.
** Chiyoko's a more obvious example. How did she choose her employee in #2? Close the restaurant doors, tie lots of weights to them, and choose [[Super Strength|whoever can open the door]].
** Kougami's bizarre levels have evolved into a [[
** Doctor Kiyoto Maki definitely qualifies after #10. His [[Creepy Doll]] may have seemed as a harmless quirk before, but his [[Freak-Out]] after Eiji (and later, Kazari) knocks his doll from his arm is a sign that something is truly not right in his head.
*** Maki's case should be more along the lines of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. Not the "stupidity" part per se (he ''is'' a scientist, after all), but he always looks like he's got something up his sleeve. He might as well be ''using'' Kazari for his own ends. {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|He was]].}}
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** #47 {{spoiler|Dr. Maki in his Greeed form beats the tar out of all three Riders without sustaining one hit himself.}}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: The Shocker Grunt in #28. When a shot from an actual gun fails to injure Eiji (he switched out a prop gun for a real one), he takes the gun himself and tries to destroy the [[Transformation Trinket|OOO Driver]].
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Or something like it. In ''Let's Go Kamen Riders,'' [[Isao Sasaki]] plays the "Man in White," who is {{spoiler|the adult version of Naoki, separated from the Riders in the 1970s and eventually too important to history to go back and retrieve.}} However, since he was born in 1942, Sasaki was in his ''thirties'' in the year {{spoiler|10-ish-looking Naoki was stranded in}}.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Uva strongly gives off this vibe in #11, as the target's desire is for fame and Uva needs to interact with him to find out what will help him achieve that desire.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: At least for {{spoiler|the Greeed, anyway. Collect enough Cell Medals and get your hands on either enough of their Core Medals or the Core Medal that houses their consciousness, and they can be brought back to life. [[Subverted Trope|Unless]] [[Deader Than Dead|the Core that holds their consciousness gets destroyed]]. That's when dead means 100% dead.}}
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*** Of course, the similarities end at the surface. Dig a little deeper, and you see that they have their own distinctions from the Imagin. Uva is brash, angry, and extremely serious, getting straight to the point without an air of arrogance and cockiness. Mezool is cunning and the one who tries to keep order, as well as a motherly figure to Gamel, who is an immature and rather childish moron who has no desire of his own--except Mezool. Kazari is young, the real laid-back one, and rather hip and trendy, but also fiendishly traitorous and manipulative. Finally, Ankh is calcutating, manipulative to no end, and constantly wants to have things his way, but is also smart enough to see when he should adapt to his situation and will almost always do what's in his best interest, even switching sides
** Eiji, on the other hand, is very similar to Yusuke Onodera aka Decade!Kuuga. [[Walking the Earth]] (or parallel worlds), death in his past (with a touch of [[Friend to All Children]] from Godai!Kuuga), and now stuck with helping someone he doesn't agree with...
*** He also has some ties to the original Kuuga. Like Godai, he gains new powers, but it's usually a bad thing as they strain him, with the [[Super Mode]] being worst, as it {{spoiler|could warp him into a monster}}. He also {{spoiler|desires the power to protect everyone}}.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]:
** {{spoiler|Date in #37. But #38 reveals it was just a fake-out.}}
** {{spoiler|Ankh in #43, though it doesn't last and he's back with Eiji for the final fight.}}
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* [[Fan Service]] / [[Male Gaze]]: No, there was no reason for the camera to swing that low as Satonaka got off her 'cycle. Except that she has a very nice... bike seat.
* [[Fastball Special]]: Done to Eiji in ''OOO Wonderful'' by {{spoiler|[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]}} to land an attack on Gara.
* [[Female Gaze]]: #1 has several minutes where Eiji is in nothing but boxers, and right after the first commercial we get a close-up of his butt. People into this all approve.
** As the series progressed, it became something of a running joke for him to appear in boxers, or boxers to be relevant someway. People into this all still approved.
*** #27 has Akira take off his shirt in order to help an injured colleague, which proved to be a pleasant surprise to some.
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* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: In the 40th anniversary movie, the '''Ta'''ka-I'''ma'''gin-'''Sh'''ocker combo makes {{color|red|Ta}}{{color|salmon|Ma}}{{color|goldenrod|Shii}}, the Japanese word for "soul".
* [[Fusion Dance]]: In #16 {{spoiler|Gamel and Mezool become one entity for a while.}}
* [[Good Counterpart]]: Eiji to {{spoiler|the Original Kamen Rider OOO. They're both OOO but where the original OOO was a [[Selfish Evil]] tyrant who wanted all the power for himself, Eiji is a kindheart, selfless hero who cares only for others.}}
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Eiji Hino may seem like a carefree fool, however underneath his simple exterior lies a rather cunning mind.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Kougami singing "[[Happy Birthday to You]]" in English while making a birthday cake for the Greeed and OOO. He also says "Doctor Maki" instead of "Maki-sensei" or "-hakase" or something.
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*** However, what is shown is that the CLAWS weaponry is formed from many tiny pieces that emerge from the orbs, and considering the birth system's way of forming seems to work via some sort of nanotechnology, this doesn't seem too far from that.
** It's hard to tell if PuToTyra's Medagabryu is playing this straight or a subversion. OOO just drives his fist into the ground and yanks it out.
* [[Ham
** They meet again in #16, but Ankh is much more quiet by then.
* [[Harmony Versus Discipline]]: One interpretation of ''Movie Wars Core'', directly shown when the ruthlessly ambitious Nobunaga criticizes the happy-go-lucky Eiji for having no greater desire than "tomorrow's underwear". {{spoiler|As Nobunaga dies, he admires the sky is, saying he never really looked at it before, as well as calling the girl he'd been chasing after beautiful.}}
* [[Harmless Electrocution]]: Eiji winds up getting shocked himself in #13 after dealing with trash Yummy using the Kuwagata's electric attack, end result with twitching body and smoking [[Einstein Hair]].
* [[Hey, It's That Place!]]: Toku fans will probably recognize a lot of locations from other shows.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: As early as #2. {{spoiler|Eiji's flashback suggests there's more to him than the happy exterior.}}
** Also hinted with Goto, who, as the only survivor of the Foundation's motorcycle brigade, must somehow have escaped the Greeed - or Kougami has a reason to keep him alive.
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* [[I Know Karate]]: The Orca-Panda Yummy in #30 does Chinese kungfu. The Game-Fowl Yummy in #40 does Muay Thai, with traditional music!
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Somewhat: Ankh, an avian Greeed, gets a chicken served by Hina in #9. His eyelid-twitching reaction was priceless, but he eats it anyway. Since he currently uses the body of a human (Hina's brother), it can be argued how much this constitutes cannibalism. Besides, considering he has complete access to Shingo's knowledge, he might just be dumbfounded at the irony of the situation.
* [[Image Song]]: All of those combo songs in the [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] section? '''All''' of them are sung by Shu Watanabe, AKA Eiji Hino.
** "Time judged all", the [[Image Song]] for the {{color|red|TaJaDor}} Combo, is a duet between Eiji and Ankh.
** And [[Gratuitous English|"POWER to TEARER"]], the song for {{color|purple|PuToTyra}} is a Duet between Eiji and Akira Kushida (who actually sings on the track, as opposed to simply chanting the combo names as on all the others.)
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* [[Irony]]: A show with an anti-greed message an enjoying a simpler life... from a show with one its purposes being to sell toys? If it's not irony, it's damn close.
* [[I See London]]: We see Eiji in #1 sporting nothing but his underwear. Probably cause for [[Memetic Mutation]].
** [[Defictionalization]]: Proof that Japan wastes no time on the merch, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101035830/http://p-bandai.jp/category/0002/c0034/item-1000006968/ you can buy Eiji's underwear for yourself.]
*** The show's makers [[Genre Savvy|probably knew Kamen Rider fans would like seeing the Rider's boxers]] and were smart enough to mention them in the title of the first.
* [[Japanese Beetle Brothers]]: A pair of Yummy based on Rhinoceros and Stag Beetles in #17.
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** #3: "Hey, [[Super Strength|is she really human?]]"
* [[Large Ham]]: '''Kougami.''' Full stop and end of discussion.
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"<big>[[Say My Name|OOOOOOOOO!]]</big>"
"<big><s>Doctor Maki</s> ''Dokkuta MAAki!''</big>" }}
** Even Ankh has a moment like this when he plays the the Great Leader of Shocker in #27... because he gets paid for it.
** Taken to [[Up to Eleven]] levels in #32:
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* [[Law of Inverse Recoil]]: Subverted. Goto gets thrown back when he tries the Birth Buster on his first attempt in #20. Date points out that it takes practice to get used to the kick, even when transformed.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Most of the main characters have one.
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** {{spoiler|However, Shingo recovers enough in this stasis to finally reawaken briefly in #35 and is able to be awake permanently in #41, but Ankh forces Shingo back into stasis in #43.}}
* [[Local Hangout]]: Chiyoko Shiraishi's Cous Coussier restaurant, [[Cloudcuckoolander|decorated in whatever theme she feels like this week]]. Hina works there full time, and Eiji eventually gets a full time job there, AND Ankh is forced to live there, too.
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'''Chiyoko''' (dressed like a ninja): "Of course not. It's Old Edo." }}
* [[Lost in Translation]]: For celebrating [[Kamen Rider]]'s [[Milestone Celebration|1000th episode]], Toei guest starred [[A Worldwide Punomenon|quite a few actors with the character for "thousand" in their name]] (among whom was [[Kamen Rider Ryuki|Megumi's]] actress, as stated above). It mostly flew over Western fans' heads.
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** ''Movie War Megamax'' indicates that the Showa era events occurred 40 years back, and still exists in public consciousness as [[Urban Legend]] that likely became inspiration for in-universe media, [[No Fourth Wall]] aside.
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: Sure, toys and collectibles are pretty much no-brainers, but ''[http://img143.imageshack.us/i/oooicecream.jpg/ ice-cream]''? Then again, [[Trademark Favorite Food|it's not completely unrelated]].
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** Ironically, for a series centered around desires and dangers of their excession, OOO has the most exploitable merchandise potential than any of his predecessors - mostly from the titular character ''alone''. You've got the (currently confirmed) 24 Medals, one Cell and one Core for each<ref>And good luck if you're a completionist, because you're gonna be buying ''every single toy'' released, since the <s>Cell</s> Medals are scattered throughout all of them.</ref>; you've got different versions of OOO's Combo toys, one chain being part-swappable figures, plus Birth; and Bandai wants to release ''non-swappable'' figures for '''''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110912153857/http://www.gideonburogu.com/2010/11/bandai-collectors-division-display.html RANDOM] [http://www.jefusion.com/2010/12/sh-figuarts-kamen-rider-ooo-takakiriba.html COMBOS]'''''? Really makes you wonder if the "Greed" theme was decided by one of the creation staff as a [[Self-Parody|satire]] of Toei and Bandai's annually increasing toy count after seeing how exploitable this series is gonna be...
** Luckily, Kobayashi manages to avert blatant merchandising a la ''Goseiger'', by assigning various uses and roles to all the merch in the series. For example, the Can-droids are given functions and used quite often. And the O-Medal Holder - essentially just a Medal Album - is turned into a ''make-up gift'' from Hina to Ankh!
** Some hints and indications relating to the toys still remain though. Why do you think OOO's suit has a huge knob on his back inexplicably? {{spoiler|It's a [[Face Palm|design leftover from the toys' part-swap mechanism]].}} And since Cell Medals dissipate into thin air when their power runs out, why does the Birth Buster need a magazine to eject the used Medals into, instead of ejecting them directly? {{spoiler|So that kids won't lose their Medals while playing with the toy version.}}
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** In the [[Milestone Celebration]], Eiji actually asks who will be playing the mook in the film. The guy playing the role is has a [[Stephen Ulysses Perhero|name that sounds like a word used for mooks]] (see [[Medium Awareness]]). {{spoiler|And is the new Yummy host.}}
** And he eventually gives rise to {{spoiler|dozens of Yummies in the forms of grunts from all across franchise history - Shocker Soldiers to Masquerade Dopants to everything in between.}}
* [[Motion Capture Mecha]]: Date/Birth's CLAWS Scorpion is controlled in this fashion.
* [[Car Fu|Motorcycle Fu]]: The Tora Can-droid was designed for this.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Splendidly pulled off]] by Ankh in #2: When Eiji asks him to explain the situation, [[Invoked Trope|he suddenly starts reciting the Greeed's entire backstory]]; Eiji has to ''stop'' him because it's all <s>Greeed</s> Greek to him.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Eiji uses a Peafowl Candroid in #21 to cool down melted chocolate.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Ankh keeps telling Date not to call him "Anko".
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]:
** Ankh's initial impressions give this vibe, hailing from the antagonists' group/species and giving the hero the means to oppose them. Then comes #2... and the impression [[Just for Pun|flies out of the window]]. Let alone having a good heart, he's shown to be no less of a bastard than the other Greeed; even around the same level as [[Blood Knight|Uva]] and [[Magnificent Bastard|Kazari]], and that's saying something. If not because of his incomplete awakening and several factors hindering his plans, he'd have gotten on with his usual business, either alone or with the others. <ref>For the sake of information, though, Kobayashi tends to [[Signature Style|go bait-and-switch on character impressions]]. Pretty often.</ref>
*** {{spoiler|He ultimately plays this straight, as not only has he picked up some human traits, he's come to the realization that the Greeed are wasting their time trying to become complete and is pretty much fed up being a Greeed in general.}}
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** {{spoiler|Ankh (Lost) was shown to have an interest in lollipops, but it was only shown once or twice before being seemingly dropped or forgotten.}}
* [[Our Homunculi Are Different]]: The Greeed were created by humans and gained wills of their own when one core medal from each of them was removed.
** There is also Nobunaga, who is the cell medal based replica of [[Oda Nobunaga]].
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: The Greeed's [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|respectively-colored]] curtains: They're definitely there, but used as abstract, symbolic props, without anyone addressing their existence.
* [[Paper Fan of Doom]]: Goto uses a large one as an attempt to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|knock some sense back]] into a completely lovestruck Eiji in #24, but it fails.
* [[Parental Marriage Veto]]: Parodied in some of the Netmovies, where it turns out that Hina's father is [[Kamen Rider Stronger|General Shadow]].
* [[Parent Service]]: For some, Satonaka and the Siamese Cat Yummy are the main sources. For others, Eiji being on-screen in nothing but boxer shorts.
* [[Perma
* [[Phlebotinum Overload]]: Kougami takes advantage of this in ''OOO Wonderful'' by having Gara {{spoiler|use Eiji's desire to destroy the world. His desire is so huge that it, in combination with [[Loophole Abuse]], breaks her power and returns everything to normal.}}
* [[Police Brutality]]: {{spoiler|In the OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders movie, Shocker has taken over the world. And Shocker-infleunced police forces are the first in line to defend their rule against anti-Shocker resistance, which includes beating the snot out of those refugee kids.}}
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Kougami and Dr. Maki are an interesting case, and opposites in numerous ways. Kougami wears red (or at least rather bright colors), is very loud and outspoken, never seems to leave his office, and is always talking about birthdays and the starts of things. In contrast, Dr. Maki wears a blue shirt under his black jacket, is very quiet and stoic {{spoiler|so long as you don't knock his doll off his arm}}, is seen all over the place, and is much more concerned with the conclusions to things.
** The show also presents Eiji and Goto in contrast. Goto is stoic, serious, quiet, and focuses on a really big picture [Read: The World] concerning helping people; Eiji is emotional, kind, quite lively, and prefers pouring his strength and soul into doing what he can for the people he can focus on at the present.
** One could say that of the Greeeds, Uva and Kazari are this. Uva is [[Hot-Blooded]] and short tempered, while Kazari is calm, collected and a schemer.
*** [[Playing with a Trope|And yet the opposite is also true]], with Kazari trying to dope himself up using Mezool and Gamel's medals while Uva hesitates due to what happened to them and instead picks a safer means of gaining strength, in spite of how long it would take. Likewise, while Kazari's own schemes are guaranteed to get him desirable results in the short term, Uva was perfectly content to patiently sit back.
* [[Regular Caller]]: Ankh can sense a Yummy's presence; probably applies to all Greeed in general.
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** In episode 30, the Orca-Panda Yummy uses distinct martial arts moves - either a nod to ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' or ''[[Juuken Sentai Gekiranger]]'' since Date calls it "Panda-Ken", following Geki terminology.
** [[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger|It's not the first time Toei gave a gun-axe hybrid to a dinosaur-themed hero]]. <ref>Though technically Mammoth Ranger isn't based on a dinosaur.</ref>
** One could say that the reason why the Lion Medal gives OOO [[Light'Em Up]] powers is because of the famous scene from [[The Lion King]], which starts with a rising sun.
** Birth's theme "<nowiki>Reverse/Re:birth</nowiki>" contains the lyric "Don't lose yourself", which is the name of one of [[Kamen Rider Kiva|Ixa's]] [[Image Song|Image Songs]]. A potential lampshade on the similarity between the two characters?
** [[Kamen Rider Hibiki|A mature Rider who takes on an apprentice for support, is replaced by that apprentice and later becomes his support. They use the same gear and nearly the same suit, but with different highlights.]] Am I talking about Date and Gotou or Zanki and Todoroki?
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* [[Skyward Scream]]: OOO gave out a big one as the battle cry in his first transformation to {{color|green|GataKiriBa}} in #6. To give a good measure: It's a loud, deep-lung roar that lasts for ''11 seconds''. It even comes complete with a burst of green aura that made Ankh flinch a bit.
** 6 episodes later, in #12, it was topped by the {{color|gray|SaGoZo}} Combo: ''18 seconds''.
*** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] for {{color|gray|SaGoZo}}; the [[Make Me Wanna Shout|shouting]] plus [[Shockwave Clap|chest pounding]] is strong enough to be [[Loud of War|weaponized]].
** Kogami's "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZ!!!!!!!"
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Though he's an anti-hero, Ankh is incapable of sitting any other way. The other Greeed also sometimes indulge in this, with Kazari being the most frequent offender.
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** PuToTyra's Scanning Charge is kind of like this. First, the Wind Stingers impale the opponent to hold it in place, then the External Fins generate a cool breeze to freeze the monster, then finally, swings the Tail Divider to shatter it.
* [[Theme Tune Rap]]: The opening mixes this with ska.
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* [[This Is Sparta]]: In episode 24: "Could this be... the love combo?! {{color|hotpink|Love! LOVE! LOOOOOOVE!!!}}"
* [[Tim Taylor Technology]]: Pretty much any power inequivalency can be resolved by using more Cell Medals. {{spoiler|This is taken to its logical extreme in #48, when Eiji absorbs literally ''millions'' of Cell Medals into the Medagabryu for a single strike against Dr. Maki.}}
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** #31-32: A guy who wants to show his gratitude to the family of his dead teacher who helped him to get out of bad influence.
** #33-34: An old schoolmate of Eiji.
** #35-36: A schoolmate of Hina who [[Second Place Is for Losers|only gets the 2nd place]] in a fashion competition {{spoiler|where Hina wins and gets a business proposition by a famous designer. The schoolmate is understandably jealous}}. The [[Monster of the Week|Unicorn Yummy]] is created from her discarded trophy. Hina is kind of a secondary [[Victim of the Week]] because {{spoiler|the Unicorn Yummy literally destroys her dream of becoming a fashion designer}}.
** #37-38: Played with for once. Either Chiyoko, who's one of ''dozens'' of Yummy victims for a change, or {{spoiler|Date himself, since his condition finally gets focus.}}
** #39-40: A neighborhood association president who put up surveillance cameras throughout the town, intending to catch crimes, even minor misdemeanors. Turns out {{spoiler|it's his wife who's the real host, using the surveillance to gain a feeling of power.}}
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* [[Villain Team-Up]]: In ''Lets Go Kamen Rider'', the "Shocker UN" is composed of every [[Big Bad]] group from then on, apparently because the Kamen Riders never rose up to stop him in that timeline.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: The whole reason {{spoiler|Ankh sticks with Eiji rather than teaming up with Kazari, who's just as underhanded as him.}}
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** In #15, Kazari is dumbfounded as to why Ankh and Eiji would continue working together {{spoiler|after arguing over the importance of Cell Medals or Hina resulted in the loss of nearly all of their Medals}}.
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'''Ankh''': ''"There's nothing TO break up!"'' }}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: #19 has {{spoiler|the Medal Case being stolen and Kazari absorbing the Lion, Kamakiri, and Cheetah Medals.}}
** Scratch that, any episode that ends {{spoiler|with Eiji losing tons of medals then he had previously}}.
** [[Rule of Three|These three things]] happened in episode 29. First: Kougami reveals to Maki he knows about him and Kazari and is ''not'' happy. Second: Kazari, fed up with Maki's whining, creates a Yummy out of his desire that ends up targeting Chiyoko. And Third: We find out that {{spoiler|Ankh's ''entire body'' exists as a separate entity with its own personality}}.
** #30: {{spoiler|We find out that Dr. Maki himself - as a child! - killed his sister, and he breaks ties with the Kougami foundation to cause [[The End of the World as We Know It]].}}
** #31: {{spoiler|Eiji apparantly has begun to turn into the Dinosaur Greeed.}}
** {{spoiler|Scratch that, he's just being corrupted by the medals. MAKI is becoming the Dinosaur Greeed! And he can make powerful Yummy's from NOTHING.}}
** #35: A nonstop roller coaster of Wham: {{spoiler|Date is beginning to suffer debilitating headaches from a bullet in his head he received during his time in the civil war, Uva is attempting to resurrect Gamel and Mezool, and probably biggest of all, Shingo Izumi, the supposedly comatose [[Puppeteer Parasite]] of Ankh, has recovered enough that he's '''regaining consciousness'''.}}
*** Really, the subsequent episodes have had their shares of wham: {{spoiler|1=#36 ends with Eiji in control of PuToTyra, Mezool and Gamel revived by Uva, but betraying the latter to join Kazari. #37 has Akira Date [[Face Heel Turn|switching sides]] after Dr Maki makes him an offer too good to refuse.}}
** Nearly every episode since #40 has been a wham episode, and much like Double, they combine to make a ''Wham Arc''.
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