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{{quote|''"One who does not fight will not survive."''}}
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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* [[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 from the Dead]] - {{spoiler|Yui Kanzaki}}, and this is the driving force behind the entire story.
* [[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.
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* [[Blessed with Suck]] - Becoming a Kamen Rider means you gain cool powers, but you're also bound to fighting the other Riders and monsters, and if you stop fighting, your contract monster eventually eats you.
** 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... [[Name's the Same|Knight]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20160408010626/http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?pid=6213&cover=1 Batman's British counterpart]. (It's got to be unintentional; as Knight has been stuck in [[Comic Book Limbo]] for fifty years and only got out recently.)
* [[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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* [[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-Man Band]] - A very rare case of the supporting characters (ORE Journal) instead of the actual 'heroes' (Kamen Riders) fitting this trope:
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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.}}
* [[
** 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-Winged Angel|comes back to life once]].
** Also, the second encounter is often a bat. Guess which Rider Shinjy meets first.
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** 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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