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Shinji Kido is a young, highly excitable [[Intrepid Reporter]] for the online news website ORE Journal. Whilst investigating a series of seemingly random disappearances, he stumbles across a [[Transformation Trinket|mysterious card deck]] at the home of one of the victims. After picking it up, he finds that he is able to [[Mirror Monster|see hostile monsters living inside of reflective surfaces]], and is soon sucked through into the Mirror World: a [[Phantom Zone|parallel universe]] that serves as the home for the monsters and battleground for the Kamen Riders.
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Thirteen Advent Card decks have been created for thirteen Kamen Riders, and [[There Can Be Only One]]. The mastermind behind the Rider War is Shirou Kanzaki, Yui's missing brother, and he offers to grant a single wish to the last Rider standing. Shinji is determined to stop the in-fighting between the Riders and concentrate on eliminating the threat of the Mirror Monsters, but Ren is equally determined to have his wish granted, and he isn't the only one. Ideals and friendships clash on and off the battlefield as the pressure of the war grows and the Riders are eliminated one by one.
The series consists of the following installments:
* A 50-episode TV series.
* [[The Movie]]: ''Episode Final''.
* A TV special with [[Multiple Endings]]: ''13 Riders Special''.
* An [[All Just a Dream]] [[Crossover]]: ''Ryuki vs. [[Kamen Rider Agito|Agito]]''.
The series was adapted for Western audiences in 2009 as ''[[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]]''.
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Due to the large number of Kamen Riders, it has a [[Kamen Rider Ryuki/Characters|Characters]] page.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Keiichi Wada plays the original Ryuki in ''13 Riders''. [[Gosei Sentai Dairanger|Not the first time he had a red Chinese Dragon at his command.]]
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* [[Alternate Continuity]] - The TV series, the ''13 Riders'' special and [[The Movie]] all exist in their own continuities. {{spoiler|This is a result of Shirou Kanzaki's overuse of the [[Reset Button]]. The TV series is actually his ''final'' attempt to do it again}}.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: The contracted Mirror Monsters, and by extension, the Riders they contract with.
** [[Dragons Up the Yin
** [[Bat Out of Hell]]: Darkwing/Knight
** [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: Volcancer/Scissors
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** [[Rhino Rampage]]: Metalgelas/Gai
** [[Snakes Are Evil]]: Venosnaker/Ouja
*** [[Mix
** [[Panthera Awesome]]: Destwilder/Tiger
** [[Hollywood Chameleon]]: Biogreeza/Verde
** [[The Phoenix]]: Guldphoenix/Odin
** [[Seldom
* [[Antagonist in Mourning]]: When Asakura discovers that {{spoiler|he has failed to kill his nemesis, Kitaoka, it prompts him to charge out in a suicidal rage and get killed by the police}}.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]. {{spoiler|And does.}}
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Zolda and Tiger's Final Vents. For the former, it's [[Game Breaker]] status is mitigated by a long build-up time that leaves him wide open to attack, and the fact that despite being able to wipe out large numbers in one go, he never manages to kill anyone with it. {{spoiler|The one character who takes it head on is badly injured, but survives... [[Killed Off for Real|and is killed by another rider moments later.]]}} For the latter, despite being affectionately named the [[Fan Nickname|"Ultimate Punking Vent'']] by this troper, it's demonstrated that the gap between when Destwilder attacks and Tiger finishes the enemy off is a wide enough period of time for an aware rider to escape and survive (as both Asakura and Kitaoka managed to do).
** Some of the Visors used by the Riders. While some are dual purpose weapons and card scanners or are easily accessed, Ouja and Odin have large staffs that look cool but they don't use at all in combat and must we pulled out of [[Hammerspace]] just to be used. By contrast, Ryuki just slides a card into a gauntlet on his arm and done.
** Some, however, are [[Awesome
* [[Back
* [[Big Damn Heroes]] - Shinji gets a few, including one in the first few episodes where he saves Ren from Volcancer after it turns on and consumes Scissors.
* [[BFG]] - Zolda ''loves'' these, as he has two: two shoulder-mounted rocket launchers and an artillery cannon that's [http://i39.tinypic.com/2whjmhe.jpg three times as long as he is high].
* [[BFS]] - Kamen Rider Knight's Dark Lancer is almost six feet long.
** Alternative's sword also qualifies.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]] - {{spoiler|The real ending has Shirou Kanzaki pressing the [[Reset Button]] again, only this time, he and Yui die in that reality}}
* [[Blessed
** Also, Kagawa is not always happy with his [[Photographic Memory]].
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: See [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]] below. A full list about halfway down [https://web.archive.org/web/20140815115710/http://www.animeniacs.com/index.php?act=reviews&subact=d_qrev&id=317 this page].
* [[Bolivian Army Ending]] - {{spoiler|The ending of [[The Movie]], and one of the possible endings of the Special}}.
* [[Bond Creatures]] - The Mirror Monsters that are neither monsters of the week nor under Kanzaki's direct control.
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* [[Breakable Weapons]] - Shinji's weapon in his "Blank" form (before he becomes Ryuki) is a pathetic thing that breaks after one hit.
* [[Captain Ersatz]] - Ren Akiyama/Kamen Rider Knight bears more than a few thematic resemblances to a certain other [[Batman|Dark Knight]]. Not that [[Rule of Cool|we're complaining]].
** More than that, compare Kamen Rider Knight with... [[
* [[Cameo]] - Several members of ''[[Kamen Rider Agito]]'''s cast, including three of the Riders, appear in ''Episode Final''.
* [[Canon Foreigner]] - Kamen Rider Abyss, who is exclusive to ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]''.
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* [[Cool Sword]] - Ryuki, Knight, Ohja, Odin, Femme, Ryuga and Alternative each have one of these.
* [[Darker and Edgier]] - Even within the Kamen Rider franchise as a whole, Ryuki is one of the darker entries, holding the highest body count of major characters in the whole franchise.
** And though fairly passe now, it was the first series that used officially recognized 'evil' Kamen Riders (as opposed to the Shocker Riders/Shadowmoon/Another Agito who weren't officially considered Kamen Riders).
* [[Deadly Game]] - Jun Shibaura/Kamen Rider Gai, who creates a video game based on the Rider War that soon spills over into real life.
** [[Wild Mass Guessing|Then]], [[Defictionalization|the fighting game for Playstation is...]]
* [[Deconstruction]] - of the ensemble [[Henshin Hero]] genre. See [[Five
** The series also deconstructs [[Beat
** It also deconstructs the [[Mons]]. Let's say you form a contract with one of them. Great! Now you can use their body parts as weapons to fight people who also use their monster's body parts to fight. You also have to fight other monsters to give your monster something to eat, unless you come to the conclusion that you can simply feed people to your monster (as Scissors and Ohja prove). If you don't fight the monsters? Then your monster gets hungry and decides to eat ''you''. It also happens if you don't even want to fight or you're forced not to. Or even if your Advent Card (the one you use to sic your monster on other people) or Deck (the thing you use to transform) get broken. And it's not like there's a good chance your monster will even be loyal to you anyways. Especially if you have two other monsters working for you that you snagged off their dead masters, or you just happened to luck out and contract a monster that comes in herds. Wow.
** There's also a deconstruction of the [[Let's You and Him Fight]] and [[Conflict Ball]] tropes. Whereas in other Kamen Rider shows, they fight each other for different reasons or misunderstandings, here they have no choice ''but'' to fight each other. The entire point of the show is to stop the fighting.
** [[Phlebotinum Rebel]], one of the central tropes of the [[Kamen Rider]] franchise, is also deconstructed, as attempting to use the Advent Decks against Shirou and his aims is doomed from the outset due to the fact that he reserved the most powerful Advent Deck for his own use by perfectly brainwashed drones. {{spoiler|Not to mention that he can just time travel if things get to hairy}}.
*** ''Thirteen Riders'' took this trope to hell. Not everyone supports Shinji's attempts to stop the fighting and it resulted in all the remaining riders (about 9 of them) teaming up to kill him and Ren. {{spoiler|And in the alternate ending, where he ''did'' stop the fighting, Shiro simply resets time and has the fight happen all over again}}.
* [[Deflector Shields]] - The ''Seal'' Advent Card, which protects the wielder from the attacks of a Mirror Monster in the real world.
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** [[Blow You Away]]: Knight
** [[Casting a Shadow]]: Ryuga
** [[Playing
* [[The End of the World
* {{spoiler|[[Everybody Lives]] - The true ending of the series}}.
* [[Eureka Moment]]: Megumi unknowingly gives Reiko one {{spoiler|that leads her to realizing the connection between the disappearances and mirrors, and ultimately to the truth about the Rider War.}} Comically enough, while doing so, Megumi actually missed the opportunity to learn the truth much sooner.
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* [[Evil Twin]] - {{spoiler|Kamen Rider Ryuga and his Contract Monster, Dragblacker.}}
* [[Extreme Omnivore]] - Asakura claims to have developed this trait to survive on the streets. Later on we see him take Kitaoka's seafood spaghetti and finish it, ''oyster shells and all''.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]] - Reiko gains one out of nowhere in episode 5; a possible case of [[Written
* [[Fan Service]] - Megumi. That is all.
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]] - Ookubo certainly thinks of himself as this, but exhibits [[The Big Guy]] behavior at times.
** [[The Lancer]] - Reiko
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Tezuka, Toujou, Shinji and Gorou.}}
* [[Heroic BSOD]] - Both Shinji and Ren go through these at various points in the story. Asakura has a [[Villainous BSOD]] of sorts at the end.
* [[Hey,
** A blink-and-you'll-miss-it variant in ep 36 - Shinji channel-surfs on Kitaoka's TV, and one of the channels shows [[Kamen Rider Agito|Tsugami Shouichi's actor]] in one of his pre-Agito roles.
** [[Kamen Rider Agito|both Tsugami Shouichi AND the G3 team]] make a cameo in the movie as well, where he meets Shinji [[Mythology Gag|in a restaurant and gives his famous smile from the show]], [[Mythology Gag|while the G3 team are having their usual yakiniku gathering when Shinji drops a cup of seaweed on top of them]].
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** Keiichi Wada/[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger|Ryuuranger]] appears in the ''13 Riders'' special as the original Ryuki.
* [[I Call It Vera]] - Shimada names her iMac 'Amaryllis' and her laptop 'White Milky'.
** Megumi tries to rename the laptop "Gosaku". Shimada does not approve.
*** Neither did the laptop.
* [[I Coulda Been a Contender]] - The original holder of the Raia Advent Deck was Yuichi Saito, a pianist who had suffered a career-ending injury; his wish would have been to repair the damage to his hands, but he [[Refusal of the Call|refused the call]].
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: Asakura does this frequently. Whenever he is caught by police, he always finds a way to get his deck back and/or get Venosnaker to help him out. Highlight to his escape from a heavily escorted police wagon.
* [[Identity Impersonator]] - Two fake decks were made for Kamen Rider Tiger so no-one would know who was behind the mask. In a later example, {{spoiler|Gorou takes Kitaoka's place as Zolda when the latter finally succumbs to his cancer}}.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]] - Most notably [[Whip Sword|Raia]], [[This Is a Drill|Imperer]] and [[Killer Yoyo|Verde]].
* [[Irony]] - Despite the fact that Raia's Contract Monster, card visor and weapon all contain the word "Evil", [[Dark Is Not Evil|he is not actually evil himself]].
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In the very first episode, Yui walks right up to Shinji and asks: "Are you a Kamen Rider?" (He wasn't one yet, but he had found the deck) Flashforward 48 episodes later, and {{spoiler|after Yui has faded away, [[Intrepid Reporter|Reiko]], who has seen Shinji transform and enter a mirror, and learned who the Riders are, as well as nearly everything important about the rider war,}} asking him the exact same question.
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]
* [[Kick the Dog]] - Kitaoka faking his own death (well, Zolda's death) at the hands of [[Technical Pacifist]] Shinji (which sends him straight into a [[Heroic BSOD]]) was the moment that really established him as a total dick.
** Even Asakura feels the need to hammer this one home, about halfway into the series; he asks Reiko to help him meet with and reconcile with his brother Akira, his only surviving family after a fire claimed the lives of their parents - {{spoiler|then announces that ''he'' was the one who started the fire in the first place, and proceeds to finish the job by feeding his brother to Venosnaker.}}
** Kagawa's personal policy, which he tries to teach Shinji - to be a hero, kick one dog if it means saving ten. [[Take a Third Option|Shinji believes otherwise.]]
** Non-human example: {{spoiler|Darkwing put Eri into a coma before the start of the series, and after she regained consciousness, it went after her again.}}
* [[Laser
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Survive cards are handed out to riders so they can ''survive'' most of the fights.
* [[Morality Pet]] - Goro acts as the foil to Shuichi's [[Jerkass]] behavior, never attempting to hide it once. Yui is this to Ren.
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** [[Super Mode]]: Ryuki and Knight's Survive Forms.
* [[Multiple Endings]] - The ''13 Riders'' TV special that allowed viewers to phone in and choose one of two endings. {{spoiler|The [[Bolivian Army Ending]] where Shinji decides to fight won.}}
*
* [[Mythology Gag]] - Most [[Kamen Rider]] series feature a spider monster in the first episode; Ryuki raises the bar with a [[Giant Spider]] that [[One Winged Angel|comes back to life once]].▼
** Also, Megumi and Gorou's "standoff" in Episode 30.▼
▲* [[Mythology Gag]] - Most [[Kamen Rider]] series feature a spider monster in the first episode; Ryuki raises the bar with a [[Giant Spider]] that [[One
** Also, the second encounter is often a bat. Guess which Rider Shinjy meets first.
** Goro sometimes does Rider 1's and Agito's henshin poses as part of his [[Red Herring]] routine.
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** A minor design gag - Ryuki's eyes, Knight's mouthpiece, and Zolda's antennae all evoke the original Rider.
** Though the ''whole'' routine isn't the same, Shinji and Ren's henshin poses incorporate those of Rider 1 and Rider 2, respectively.
* [[
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]] - Ouja's fusion monster is called ''Genocide''r.
** Subverted with Evildiver, who belongs to one of the good guys {{spoiler|at first}}.
** When you deal with a final attack called ''End of World'', you know that it's in your best interest to keep out of the area.
* [[No Body Left Behind]] - Those who die in the Mirror World disintegrate into nothing.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]] - Used straight and averted; Kanzaki keeps the blueprints of the Advent Decks to himself but before he could do so, Kagawa read his work and used his [[Photographic Memory]] to reproduce it.
* [[Not Quite Dead]] - {{spoiler|Kamen Rider Odin, three times}}.
** Also a case of [[Third
* [[Note to Self:]]: After {{spoiler|Odin's Time Vent has caused him to relive the entire Rider War up to that point, including the deaths,}} Shinji uses this tropes. Hundred of Postit notes in both his room and his office ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|to the frustration of Yui and Ookubo]]) all with the same words: '''Punch where there's Golden Feathers.''' It lets him score the first hit on Odin at that point...... [[Subverted Trope|And has no effect.]]
** The punch may not have caused damage, but it ''proved'' to Shinji that {{spoiler|he ''could'' fight against Odin and the time loops, even if the only real change he could make was landing a punch where he couldn't before}}.
* [["On the Next Episode of..." Catchphrase]]: The quote atop the page (or in Japanese, ''tatakawanakereba, ikinokorenai!'').
* [[Ontological Inertia]] - Shinji discovers this the hard way, and later {{spoiler|Shiro Kanzaki}} comes to realise it too.
* [[Out of Character]] - Played for comedy in the Ryuki VS Agito special. Ryuki, Knight, Zolda and Ouja team up against an evil Agito. The latter 3 act like stereotypical heroes of justice, despite the fact they act very selfish in the real series. Lampshaded by Shinji when even Ouja, an axe crazy murderer, proclaims he is a fighter of justice. In the end, the whole sequence is revealed to have been a dream, much to Shinji's dismay.
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* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Raia.
* [[Recap Episode]]: Episode 28, sort of. {{spoiler|Time Vent's use effectively recaps the story to that point.}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Shinji and Ren.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Toujou.}}
* [[Reset Button]]: {{spoiler|Time Vent.}}
* [[Reset Button Ending]]: {{spoiler|Happens at least three times, probably more}}.
* [[Ripple
* [[Running Gag]]: In the second episode, Shinji racks up a 50,000 yen debt to Ren after Yui smashes a store window to save his life, and Ren volunteers to pay for it. This debt is constantly increasing throughout the series: Ren's itemised bill includes charges such as "Keeping Me Awake Fee" and "General Annoyance Fee".
* [[Say My Name]]: "Yui."
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** A hilarious example by Shinji: "RON!!"
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: {{spoiler|Shirou Kanzaki}} attempts to do this multiple times to {{spoiler|get the ending that he wants}}. While he is successful in altering inconsequential details, {{spoiler|he never manages to save Yui or prevent Shinji from becoming a Rider}}.
* [[Shout
** Shiro Kanzaki went by the name Shiro Takami when he studied overseas - both names allude to Shiro Kazami, better known as [[Kamen Rider V 3]].
** The transporting of Asakura in ep 36 reminded this troper an awful lot of [[Silence of the Lambs]] - only they didn't put a muzzle on him till ep 40. And just to hammer it home, {{spoiler|he stages another jailbreak by swapping places with his victim, strapping the victim into his Hannibal chair while he himself gets carted out on a stretcher.}}
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* [[Superpower Lottery]] - You've got Zolda with the [[Game Breaker]] Final Vent, you've got Ouja who gets three monsters, you've got Imperer who has a ''herd'' of monsters, you've got Odin who {{spoiler|was designed to ''win'' the Rider War}} and then you've got Ryuki, who needs to use up one card to summon a serviceable hand weapon. Lampshaded when Raia chooses to use Copy Vent to 'borrow' one of Ryuki's weapons rather than use his own.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]] - Ryuki Survive's Drag Visor-Zwei and Knight Survive's Dark Visor-Zwei.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]] - Zolda's Final Vent, aptly named "[[Exactly What It Says
** It's like the unholy manbaby of a threesome between a [[More Dakka]], a [[Macross Missile Massacre]] and a [[Beam Spam]], to be specific (insofar as tropes can be "specific").
* [[These Hands Have Killed]] - Ren does this after he kills {{spoiler|Kamen Rider Odin}} in self-defense.
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* [[Transforming Mecha]] - Dragreder and Darkwing evolve into Dragranzer and Darkraider, which transform into [[Cool Bikes]].
* [[Upgrade Artifact]] - Played straight and subverted. When Shinji becomes Ryuki he suddenly gains the knowledge of how to hold a sword properly, how all his new abilities work and how to perform one hell of a flying side kick. However, as far as his general combat technique goes he's useless when he first becomes a Rider and only marginally improves when he upgrades to Ryuki. He slowly gets better as the series progresses; by the end his fighting skills are up there with the best of them.
** Played even straighter with the other Riders. Kitaoka is a {{spoiler|terminally ill}}, golf-playing lawyer. Shibaura is a computer nerd. Kagawa is a mild-mannered middle-aged academic. Only Ren (bar room brawler), Sudou (hardened cop) and Asakura (psycho outlaw) have plausible fighting skills.
*** Then again, those Riders are never shown to have good hand-to-hand skills. Kitaoka sticks to ranged combat and is woeful at hand-to-hand. Shibaura and Kagawa's deficiencies are made up by the sheer power of their armour.
* [[What Could Have Been]] - Miyuki/Kamen Rider Raia was the original owner of the [[Super Mode|Survive Shippu]] card, but willingly gave it to Ren. Since then, Toei has released art and figures of what [http://ga.sbcr.jp/mfigure/010361/images/01.jpg Raia Survive]{{Dead link}} and [http://ga.sbcr.jp/mfigure/010361/images/000s.jpg Exodiver, the Survive version of Evildiver]{{Dead link}}, would have looked like.
** Not just Raia: [http://media.photobucket.com/image/Zolda%20Survive/Uchiha_Reza_Akatsuki/ZoldaSurvive.jpg Zolda Survive], [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/FreedomBlack/ScissorsSurvive.jpg?t=1257604037 Scissors Survive], [http://th06.deviantart.com/fs43/300W/f/2009/080/d/c/Kamen_rider_Gai_Surivive_by_Mastvid.jpg Gai Survive], [http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t124/UndetectedOne/OujaSurviveB.jpg?t=1257605261 Ouja Survive] ([http://media.photobucket.com/image/Ouja%20survive/keaw_2009/OujaSurvive.jpg and with Survive-Venosnaker]), [http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs39/f/2008/354/3/5/SIC_kamen_rider_tiger_Survive_by_Mastvid.jpg Tiger Survive], [http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs46/f/2009/226/5/f/kamen_rider_odin_survive_by_innoitra_jiruga5.jpg Odin Survive], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113103705/http://www.toyzhunt.com/files/users/605/Ryuuga_Survive.jpg Ryuuga Survive]. Plus [http://img185.imageshack.us/i/1158753507123.jpg/ concept art of what would have happened had Yuuichi Saitou contracted with Guld Thunder]. Or something.
** Then there is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420125324/http://ridersclub.multiply.com/photos/album/25/Kamen_Rider_SIC_Gallery#photo=57 Genosurviver], which is Genocider [[All Your Powers Combined|with nearly every Contract Monster combined onto it]].
▲* ~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~ - Watch as Shimada sets up her laptop in the cafe like an assassin assembling a sniper rifle. "Click...on...Send!"
▲** Also, Megumi and Gorou's "standoff" in Episode 30.
* [[The Worf Effect]] - Played straight with most of the Riders' debuts, such as when Zolda breaks out his Final Vent for the first time against both Ryuki and Knight. Subverted when the maggot monsters' first battle after evolving into a more powerful form is with Ohja - and he tears through a whole mob of them ''to start with''.
* [[Zerg Rush]] - Imperer's Final Vent. Also the [[Bug War|swarms of maggot monsters]] towards the series finale.
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