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And the Fandom Rejoiced: The designs for Decade's armor was not particularly well received by the fandom. Then the Rider war sequence from episode 1 was shown...
The announcement of the movie All Riders vs. Great Shocker was, by itself, quite a Fandom Rejoice moment. Then came the revelation that Shadow Moon would be a major antagonist.
Thanks to the crossover premise, the fans were expecting a super speed duel involving Clock Up from Kamen Rider Kabuto and the Accel ability from Kamen Rider Faiz — and boy did they deliver.
The Kamen Rider Black/Kamen Rider Black RX arc was a definite example of overwhelming rejoicing of the fandom. This is complete with Tatsuo Kurata reprising his role as Kotaro Minami.
Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Double's appearance in All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker; he simply rides in, hands Shadow Moon his ass on a platter (after SM beat Decade AND Rising Ultimate Kuuga at the same time), sends him flying into the Dai-Shocker HQ, then rides off. However, the aftermath of the BLAM gives all Riders an extremely wide opening to perform the All Rider Kick.
It does later get a nod, however, in Movie Wars.
The Kabuto World story ends with Kivaara facing off with a Worm mimicking Kivaara, for no reason other than to have a Worm mimicking Kivaara. It gets weirder if you're familiar with the concept from the original series. [1]
The first sign of Diend's powers shows up during a fight in Blade's world, where suddenly out of nowhere Todoroki appears. He plays his guitar solo, strikes his guitar into the ground attacking everyone, then disappears.
The RX/Black arc has a BGM of Awesome which plays several times throughout (most notably in the double henshin and Double Kick), which is actually a piece of production library music called "Millions of Me" from VideoHelper and has been played on the gameshow Minute to Win It.
Epileptic Trees: Not only is the typical life expectancy of female Riders subverted, but two female Riders (Akira in Hibiki and L'Arc in Blade) are brought back just to have them retconned with a much better fate. Unfortunately though in the Rider War...
And then the Final Chapter movie has Natsumi becoming Kamen Rider Kivara and they even give the original quasi-female Rider sidekick Tackle a decent sized sub plot as way of homage.
Though, Natsumi prior to being Kivara was Den-o for one episode, and was killed off a couple of episodes later. She gets better.
in All Riders, Decade's Final Kamen Attack Ride has the All Riders turn into giant FFR cards. In Final Chapter, this is what remains of the Riders when Decade kills them.
It's common knowledge by now that Kuuga's original actor regarded that series as an Old Shame — but now, it's Decade that's known for rubbing the Fan Dumb the wrong way[2], while its lead actor Masahiro Inoue is more than proud of his role, putting it lightly.
Narutaki's "Curse you, Decade!" rant to Tsukasa may have met in a harsher light after the reveal of Masahiro divorcing his wife on May 5, 2020. (Though the reason for this is currently unclear.)
Speaking of Sentai, the first fight in the Shinkenger crossover with both Rangers and Riders involved Shinken Gold and Diend. Care to guess which Ranger is among the evil duplicates created by Diend's (outright villainous) Kaizoku Sentai GokaigerExpy Basco in his debut episode?
About Gokaiger again, though more subtly: the first Shinkenger episode of Decade was one of the very few times in Decade where the Kamen Rides (both Diend's and Decade's) had a thematic link to the episode's theme (Shinkenger, Ryuki and Den-O were all written by Yasuko Kobayashi); Gokaiger turned out to be far more liberal in its usage of such thematic transformations into past heroes in episodes with alumni guest stars.
At the beginning of the Den-O World arc, everyone assumes that Den-O's Final Form Ride is supposed to be DenLiner since that's how the card shows it...then later on it's revealed to be Momotaros himself. And then in Final Chapter, the DenLiner thing becomes reality.
The appearance of King Dark near the end of All-Riders is funny in retrospect, since it means two personifications of the Great Leader [3] are duking it out.
In the World of Hibiki, if you're an Oni and lose your sense of justice and seek only to be stronger, you turn into a Makamou. Change the words Oni and Makamou to Magical Girl and Witch respectively and you get what happens to Sayaka just a few years later.
Also replace the words justice and seeking to be stronger with sanity and refusing Grief Seeds respectively.
Faiz's world is a High School AU. Which has Orphenoch hiding out in the school. Since they're pretty much zombies, does this count as a Highschool of the Dead?
Meta-Example: In the final episode, Alternate!Kenzaki is able to beat down Tsukasa!Decade after transforming into Blade King Form. This scene also predates Decade's status as a major (international fanbase-exclusive) Memetic Loser of being easily defeated by golden-colored Kamen Riders after his defeat in Rider Time: Kamen Rider Zi-O VS Decade.
"(^U^)", an emoticon used for the character similar to Blade's main characters.
Decade has no story.
Motive Decay: Heroic Example: Originally, the reason why Decade was traveling the worlds was to save them. That was when he was expecting to travel to nine worlds, and then he has to travel to Other worlds. At the end of Amazon's world, Natsumi even asks what the point of it all was.
Nightmare Fuel: Judging by her reaction, Momotaros-possessed Yuusuke was this for Natsumi.
Some of the deaths in this series, particularly Great Shocker's assault on The Multiverse, where people get killed onscreen.
Taken to an absolutely appalling level in episode 12, where Kivaara has CGI in one scene and then instantly shifts back to toy-on-a-string for her next appearance in the very same episode.
Tear Jerker: the deaths of Kuuga!Yashiro and AU!Hibiki. Some could probably counted as well.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The whole "Orphenochs can't go to school" aspect was just mentioned by one or two lines and that is it. Even after Faiz is revealed to be one, it doesn't get mentioned again.
More than likely, Faiz's plot wasn't expanded because it was very similar to Kiva's, so rather than focusing on the Fantastic Racism, they just used the arc to introduce Kaitou.
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: More literally in All Riders than the series proper, since Evil!Tsukasa sets up a Rider Battle tournament in order to determine the strongest of the Kamen Riders. For the record, Decade wins the three-on-three final battle with V3, Super-1, and Black RX single-handedly after Kuuga is eliminated and Diend punks out.
Also with the boy in the Amazon World arc. The writers never explained why he had make-up on his face. Perhaps he is a Visual Kei fan?
It's a Mythology Gag to the original Kamen Rider Amazon, where humans brainwashed by the Geddon inexplicably had make-up applied after the process. And that has unfortunate implications in itself.
The Untwist: It's hard to not see the Tsukasa is leader of Daishocker twist coming when the initial rumors were that Tsukasa was either gonna be an Otaku or an Evil Overlord.
What an Idiot!: No, Fourteen, forcing your most loyal servant watch his brother get brainwashed while telling him you've been lying to him the entire time about his education program WILL HAVE NO CONSEQUENCES WHATSOEVER.
In the world of Black RX, Apollo Geist claims that Tsukasa is trapped in the parallel world of Black forever. As he is saying this, meanwhile in that other area, Schwarian leaves a portal to the world of Black RX open while fighting Decade.
What Could Have Been: Early rumors claimed that Decade would be a high school Ace named Jun Ryusei who was given the Decadriver by a corporation in order to continue the legacy of the Kamen Riders, and that his mentor would be Garren. Interestingly, the rumors made Jun seem like more of a Jerkass than Tsukasa, and yet quite a few people who liked the idea of Jun turned right back around and hated Tsukasa...
Other rumors claimed that in Kabuto's world, Tendou and Kagami would be rival TV show hosts, Tendou with a cooking show and Kagami a variety show. Tell me THAT wouldn't have been entertaining.
WTH? Casting Agency: Ryo Hayami (Kamen Rider X's actor) really wanted to be in the movie or at least a voiceover, but Toei forgot to notify him of the movie before casting started despite X prominently featuring in Episode 26. So in the movie he was be replaced by The Other Darrin. WTH, Toei?
↑Typically, Shapeshifter Baggage is only loosely employed so that Worms, being human-sized, can only impersonate other humans — but Kivaara is the size of a baseball.
↑It doesn't help that Gokaiger showed everyone that finding an egregious number of past alumni was possible