Top 10 Kamen Rider Villains

Hey guys. Whazzup! After my Ultraman Monsters countdown, I said that I was going to do another list, of the Top 10 Best Villains of Kamen Rider. So, let's dig in and see who are the greatest amongst the Rider fandom.

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#10 - Dr. Shinigami aka Ikadevil (from Kamen Rider)

Here's a bad guy who's perfect to start off this list. I know that most of you are saying that I should put him on a higher spot on the list and I highly regret putting him at number 10, but he is a Showa Era, and the rest of the other villains of this list are from the Heisei Era, except for another which we'll get to later. Anyways, before joining Shocker, Dr. Shinigami was a famed scientist, who was under the name of Ivan Tawanovitch. His research was dedicated to finding a way to revive the dead. He met a monk who showed him the ways of doing said tasks, and recruited him to be a member of Shocker, and offered him the chance to revive his sister. Doing research on modifying humans, he himself goes under the operation and suddenly gains the ability to transform into Ikadevil.

After Colonel Zol is defeated by Kamen Rider Nigo, Dr. Shinigami takes his place of command. He sadly meets his end when he goes up against Kamen Rider Ichigo. He, Ambassador Hell, Colonel Zol, and General Black were revived in episodes 27 & 28 of Kamen Rider V3, but once again met their demise once the Destron base exploded. Despite being defeated, Dr. Shinigami was an intelligent and cunning villain that earned his spot on this list.

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#9 - Masato Mishima aka Gryllus Worm (from Kamen Rider Kabuto)

Masato Mishima is the aide of the head of ZECT HQ, Riku Kagami. Masato Mishima was pretty arrogant and has a lack of taste. In one episode, he temporarily transformed into Kamen Rider TheBee, despite the fact that the TheBee Zecter rejected him. It was revealed that he had the Hyper Zecter with him all along, but sadly lost it to Renge, who gave it to Souji Tendo (aka Kamen Rider Kabuto). He later uses one of the Natives' pendants to transform into the Gryllus Worm, but is soon defeated by Kamen Rider Kabuto Hyper and Kamen Rider Gatack's Rider Kicks.

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#8 - Ryoma Sengoku aka Kamen Rider Duke (from Kamen Rider Gaim)

Ryoma Sengoku is known as the creator of the Sengoku Driver and the Genesis Driver, which he uses himself, with the Lemon Energy Lockseed to transform into Kamen Rider Duke. He first met Takatora Kureshima (aka Kamen Rider Zangetsu) in the Zawame Child Care Facility, where they created the Sengoku Driver together. He is also the one who recruited Sid and Yoko Minato (aka Sigurd and Marika). He is an amoral person who experiments on most of the Armored Riders. He then betrays his friend when sided with Mitchy (aka Kamen Rider Ryugen), who wanted to prove his loyalty to the Yggdrasill Corporation. Yoko is usually his bodyguard, since she has excellent martial arts skills. He is also known for giving some of the Riders most of their gadgetry, like giving Kaito his Genesis Driver. As time grew, he then betrayed Yggdrasill himself and went on his own. He then encounters Kaito and Yoko, where he deactivates their Genesis Drivers, so Kaito fights Ryoma using his Sengoku Driver. Sadly, Duke beats him, but Kaito eats a Helheim Fruit and becomes an Inves, but not just any Inves, an Overlord Inves, Lord Baron. Ryoma then meets his fate when going up against the powerful being.

 

He is then revived as a cyborg in Movie War Full Throttle, as Mecha Ryoma Sengoku, where he uses the Dragonfruit Energy Lockseed to access Dragonfruit Energy Arms form. He fights Takatora throughout the remainder of the movie, but Takatora is able to beat him.

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#7 - Kaito Kumon aka Kamen Rider Baron (from Kamen Rider Gaim)

Kaito Kumon starts off as the leader of Team Baron, where he later gets his own Sengoku Driver and the Banana Lockseed from Sid to transform into Kamen Rider Baron. Kaito was first seen as a character who wants to be the best, someone who wants power. He shares a really great rivalry with Kouta (aka Kamen Rider Gaim). Once he learned about the Overlords, he discarded his role as leader of Team Baron and gave the role to Zack, who would later become Kamen Rider Knuckle. Kaito is later given a Genesis Driver and a Lemon Energy Lockseed to become access Lemon Energy Arms. Yoko Minato (aka Kamen Rider Marika), ends up becoming his loyal servant, due to falling in love with him. 

 

Once up against Ryoma Sengoku, he then eats a Helheim Fruit and becomes an Overlord himself, Lord Baron. After killing Ryoma and when Yoko dies in his arms, he takes on Kouta in a final battle and takes him on, but meets his demise due to being stabbed by Kouta. He is later revived by Megahex in Movie War Full Throttle, but betrays him and helps Gaim, Zangetsu, Ryugen, and Drive fight his army. After that, he disappears, only to be revived along with Yoko in Kamen Sentai GoRider, where he assumes the guise of AkaRider in the final battle of said mini-series. Kaito had a good reputation as both an anti-hero and a villain, which earns him a spor on this list. Onto number 6!

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#6 - Tenjuro Banno (from Kamen Rider Drive)

Tenjuro Bano is a manipulative and sinister being who created the Roidmudes, with the partnership of Krim Steinbelt. The first Roidmude he created, 002, was forced to copy the human form of Shinzo Hiroi, who rejected his research. Copying his form would make him think he would be getting revenge of Shinzo, but Krim didn't like this idea, so this ended both their friendship and relationship. When he was later killed by the first three Roidmudes, he uploaded his consciousness in a tablet that Brain keeps.

It is also revealed that he is Go Shijima (aka Kamen Rider Mach) and Kiriko Shijima (link for her gravure pics: http://morphenomenalawesomeness.blogspot.com/2017/08/gravure-idol-of-week-rio-uchida.html)'s birth father. This caused Go to go undercover and pretend he was under Freeze's control and rescue his father, but he manipulates our heroes and then later captures Krim, who was actually the Drive Belt at the time. He copies his design and uploads his consciousness into a copy of the belt, naming it the Banno Driver. He then attaches himself onto 006 and destroys his consciousness, using his body to transform into Kamen Rider Gold Drive.

 

In this form, he has the ability to copy any of the Riders' weapons. After killing off Chase (aka Kamen Rider Chaser) in his Mashin Chaser form, Chase self destructs and holds onto Banno, which brings despair to Go. Sadly, Banno survives the explosion and fights Gou, who uses Chase's Signal Bike to transform into Kamen Rider Chaser Mach. He uses this form and defeats Banno, where his body is destroyed and Gou uses Chase's Signal Axe to destroy his father.

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#5 - Takeshi Asakura aka Kamen Rider Ohja (from Kamen Rider Ryuki)

Takeshi Asakura is a psychotic fugitive who escapes from prison, and is given an Advent Deck by Shiro Kanzaki and uses it to transform into Kamen Rider Ohja. At the age of 13, he murdered his entire family in a house fire, but his younger brother survived. When he meets his brother again, you think that Takeshi would turn good, but no, he commands his Contract Beast, Venosnaker, to eat up his own brother. He is a ruthless being who only cares for his goal, his hunger for violence. His lawyer is Shuichi Kitoaka (aka Kamen Rider Zolda). After killing Jun Shibaura (aka Kamen Rider Gai) and Miyuki Tezuka (aka Kamen Rider Raia), he then takes control of their Contract Beasts, Evildiver, and Metalgelas, and gains an Advent Card where he combines them into Genocider. At the end, he meets his end as he is gunned down by cops, as justice prevails. In the movie, Episode Final, he killed the sister of Miho Kirishima (aka Kamen Rider Femme), where she wants to take her revenge on him. In the movie's climax, when Ryuga makes his debut, his Contract Beast is defeated by Ryuga who Rider Kicks it. After his beast is destroyed, he is left powerless, giving Femme the ability to strike and destroy his Advent Deck, killing him in the Mirror World. Anyways, he returns in the V-Cinema, Kamen Rider Brave ~Let's Survive! Revival of the Beast Rider Squad~, where he is revived by King Dark, who was a puppet of Foundation X, where he lead the Beast Rider Squad. Assuming his Ouja guise, he fights off Hiiro Kagami (aka Kamen Rider Brave), but soon meets his end once again by the hands of Brave. All good reasons to put him on this list.

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#4 - Shadow Moon (from Kamen Rider Black)

Shadow Moon, of course he was going to make this list. Shadow Moon's human alias is Nobuhiko Akizuki, who is the step-brother & best friend of Kotaro Minami (aka Kamen Rider Black), who was also captured by Gorgom and went under a cyborg procedure and was completely brainwashed unlike his brother. During his encounter with Black and seeing his human form, his human side started to reawaken. Shadow Moon scolds Kotaro saying that if he defeats him, he will also destroy his brother. Sadly, Shadow Moon meets his end in the destruction of the Gorgom HQ. He returns in Black RX, where he wants his revenge on Kotaro. He meets his demise once again and is defeated by Kotaro, where he reverts back to Nobuhiko, showing that he has reformed.

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#3 - Shinkuro Isaka aka Weather Dopant (from Kamen Rider W)

Let's talk more about psychotic villains. Shinkuro Isaka was a doctor who encountered Ryubee Sonozaki (aka the Terror Dopant) terrorizing a group of people. Being intrigued by this, he wanted to steal the Terror Gaia Memory and use it for himself. He experiments on himself by using numerous Gaia Memories, until Shroud gives him the Weather Gaia Memory, which was capable of turning him into the Weather Dopant. Usually, most Memories warp people's minds, but he is unaffected due to being already psychotic. He tests his weather-like abilities by killing innocent people, including killing the parents of Ryu Terui (aka Kamen Rider Accel). He later then convinces Saeko Sonozaki (aka the Taboo Dopant), Ryubee's daughter, to turn against her father. At this time, he begins to display feelings for her, despite the fact that she was married. Accel finally avenges his parents by defeating him. After his demise, Shroud regrets giving Isaka the Weather Gaia Memory, not knowing how psychotic Isaka would become.

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#2 - Masamune Dan aka Kamen Rider Chronos (from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid)
At number 2 is Masamune Dan, who is known as the first CEO of Genm Corp. He makes his first appearance in the series in prison, because he was framed for starting Zero Day by his son, Kuroto Dan (aka Kamen Rider Genm). After his sentence clears up, he regains his role as CEO of Genm Corp. and assumes the form of Kamen Rider Chronos, using the Bugvisor Zwei and Kamen Rider Chronicle Gashat. Now a powerful Rider, he takes the Kamen Rider Chronicle game for himself, wanting it to spread throughout the entire world to make more cashola.

In this form, he has the ability to control time and is able to freeze it, where he is able to attack his enemies when they are still. When Emu (aka Kamen Rider Ex-Aid) ends up gaining his Muteki Gamer form, he is the only one who is immune to his attacks. After being defeated by Emu and Parado (aka Kamen Rider Para-DX), he then somehow gains the ability to reset time, able to prevent the Hyper Muteki Gashat from being created, but this is useless when Kuroto makes another one and the Riders gain the ability to save the game. Once Gamedeus is revealed, Emu uses the Doctor Mighty XX Gashat and defeats Gamedeus, not before Chronos absorbs Gamedeus into his body, becoming a godly-like being. Now fused with Gamedeus, Masamune can now transform into a Gamedeus-like form when he transforms into Chronos.

But this new-found power is defeated when Ex-Aid, Brave, and Snipe team up together, but he then assumes the form of Super Gamedeus, but is defeated by the Riders and when Poppy and Parado sacrifice themselves to stop Gamedeus' virus. Masamune then takes one final battle against the five Riders, and they luckily beat him. In his last words, to stop the Riders from saving the eliminated players, he injects himself with the Kamen Rider Chronicle Gashat and disintegrates into data. Masamune Dan is a great Rider villain and was pretty close to the number 1 spot.

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

 

Dark Shinji aka Kamen Rider Ryuga (from Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final)

Greeed (from Kamen Rider OOO)

 

Sora Takigawa aka Gremlin (from Kamen Rider Wizard)

 

Heart (from Kamen Rider Drive)

Night Rogue (from Kamen Rider Build)

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And Number 1 is...

 

#1 - Kuroto Dan aka Kamen Rider Genm (from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid)

I'm sure this is no surprise to anyone. This guy was like a god of intellect, power, you name it. This guy can also be known as the guy who created the Bugster Virus, which caused Zero Day, and is the one responsible for giving Emu the Bugster Disease. Kuroto first starts out as a bit of a nice guy, but by Episode 11, his identity is revealed to be Kamen Rider Genm. Close to death, he absorbs his life energy into a new Gashat he created, the Dangerous Zombie Gashat, which he used to become Zombie Gamer form. After the death of Kiriya (aka Kamen Rider Lazer, who would later come back), he begins his reign of terror, where he creates a game known as Kamen Rider Chronicle. Due to this, he begins to claim himself as a god. Before the game could be released, Ex-Aid assumes his Maximum Gamer form for the first time and defeat him with the help of Brave and Snipe. Once the Kamen Rider Chronicle game is released by Parado, he then comes back thanks to help of Poppy. Once back, he begins to become a comic relief in the show, and has excuses for many internet memes. He reveals the reason for creating Kamen Rider Chronicle was to bring back his dead mother, who died due to the Bugster Virus. Ironically, Poppy was the Bugster who was created from Kuroto's mother, and has her memories. This gives Kuroto a motive to protect Poppy at all times. He also has the ability to gain another life, where he would pop out of a Mario-like tunnel that says continue. Once Chronos makes his debut and claims the Kamen Rider Chronicle game for himself, this pisses of Kuroto as he strives to become better than his dad. Despite being self-centered, Kuroto had a soft spot, but we'll never forget the times when he was psychotic and manipulative.

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And that's it for now. Next time, I only have two more countdowns left, Top 10 Sentai Villains, and Top 10 Power Ranger Villains. And be sure to vote. Until then, Later