History Series / KamenRiderAmazon

* FinishingMove: At first he didn't have one; it was just hack and slash until the MonsterOfTheWeek stopped moving. Eventually came his trademark Great Slice, a dramatic leap-and-slash move that results in HighPressureBlood and a dramatic fall (but still no 'boom,' the monster was just left in its own juices.) Last and least-used was the Amazon Kick, your standard Rider Kick ending in your standard {{Toku}} monster kaboom. The Super Great Slice is the Great Slice when he's got [[spoiler: both armlets, as seen once in Amazon and once in Decade]]. It's no different visually, but presumably its victims were tough enough to require it as opposed to lesser attacks.

* ManBitesMan: One of the most preferred methods of Amazon. Parents actually complained about this, since it was easier for kids to imitate than the franchise's traditional [[FinishingMove Rider Kick]]

* BadBoss: Gorgos, who executes the first two Beastmen for their failures (Amazon doesn't have his first kill until #3); Gorgos roasts Spider Beastman alive with his fire breath, then has Vampire Bat Beastman fed to a swarm of vampire bats. Great Emperor Zero is no better, using his spear to execute failed Black Followers.

* YouHaveFailedMe: The villains ''love'' to do this (it's three episodes before Amazon actually gets to kill a monster himself). In fact, Amazon rescues one monster (Mole Beastman) from this, [[MookFaceTurn and said monster becomes]] TheMole for him.

* MonsterOfTheWeek
* {{Mooks}}

!! This series provides examples of:

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Amazon's blades, on the forearms of his gloves. They're very sharp, and more to the point, he's strong enough to do the cutting. Before he learned how to do a proper Rider Kick, Amazon's finisher was the Daisetsudan ("Great Amputation" or "Great Cleave") which was responsible for the HighPressureBlood below.
** SPIRITS takes this to new levels - he can easily cut arms in two (right down the middle), and that picture up at the top? That's Salamander/Tokage-Roid learning the hard way that Amazon can [[spoiler:cut heads in two as well.]] His Super Daisetsudan (available when Amazon combines the Gaga Armlet with the Gigi Armlet on his right arm for extra power) can cleave something the size of a ''T-Rex''.
* AmazonBrigade: Ironically enough given the title character, Geddon's {{Mooks}} are all this. While no match for Amazon, they're still capable of manhandling normal humans.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Amazon's plot and character are distinctly removed from the larger meta arc of its three predecessors and Series/KamenRiderStronger as well as the franchise's sci-fi roots.
* AssholeVictim: Most Beastmen attack innocent civilians but Mole Beastman's victim was the least sympathetic. In addition to killing a bird in front of Amazon, he's on the run from the cops for four murders and even after Amazon saves him, he deliberately unbalances Amazon to make sure Mole gets him.

* BatmanGambit: He may be a {{Hulk Speak}}ing WildChild, but don't confuse that for stupidity. He once used a complicated plan based on his knowledge of all involved, depending on everyone acting precisely as they did, ''including'' getting the villains to think that ''they'' were the ones who knew ''his'' plans and were gambitting ''him.'' Yes, Amazon pulled off an IKnowYouKnowIKnow, ''level three or four!''
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Amazon may be the most violent Rider, but his rage is restrained to actual bad guys. He's a FriendToAllLivingThings besides, and when misunderstanding humans begin attacking him, he will always flee rather than harm them. There's really no reason to fear him if you're not a monster trying to harm innocents. If you ''are,'' though, there ''will'' be HighPressureBlood, eye-gouging, limbs severed via teeth, and so forth.
* TheBerserker: Amazon's preferred fighting style, at least in human form. His Rider form is ''somewhat'' more refined...
** Daisuke is pretty much a straight-up [[TheBerserker Berserker]], although Amazon seems to combine it with bits of ConfusionFu.
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: In the end, after defeating the Garanda Empire and retrieving the Gigi and Gaga Armlets, Amazon [[ButNowIMustGo leaves Japan and returns to the Amazon Rainforest]], because he feels it's his true home. Tobei Tachibana, however, believes he will come back if evil terrorizes Japan again.]]
* BloodierAndGorier: Unusually for a ''Kamen Rider'' series, Amazon kills monsters by decapitating or dismembering them with the Great Slice.

* CartoonCreature: While he doesn't look all that cartoony, Amazon's [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing Animal Theme]] is very much ambiguous. Popular guesses are a piranha, a chameleon or a monitor lizard.

* CurbStompBattle: The final battle with [[spoiler: Emperor Zero]] mainly consists of Amazon walking up to him and taking him apart like a roast chicken.
** Kinda justified as Amazon had [[spoiler: both the Gigi Armlet and the Gaga Armlet at the time, which are supposed to grant their wielder great power.]] Still, it's not the grand final battle people wanted.
* DecoyLeader: [[spoiler:The Emperor Zero we see throughout most of the series is revealed to be this.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: The Mole Beastman turns to Amazon's side after Amazon saved him from execution. Considering the BigBad's opinion was "die in battle or I'll kill you myself", getting shown mercy by his former enemy convinced him to perform a HeelFaceTurn.
* DiskOneFinalBoss: Ten-Faced Demon Gorgos was the BigBad of Geddon, Amazon's first enemy group. Amazon finally killed him in episode 14, only for Geddon to be replaced by the Garanda Empire lead by Great Emperor Zero.
* DistressedDamsel: Ritsuko, to the point that even her little brother Masahiko once basically says something to the effect of "Don't worry, she gets kidnapped all the time!"
* EccentricMentor: Tobei Tachibana, even gives Amazon his trademark bike the Jungler.
* EpicFail: One of the Beastman Amazon fights made contact with seawater, and the falls over dead.
* HeelFaceTurn[=/=]MookFaceTurn - the Mole Beastman.

* FishOutOfWater: Yep!
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Mole Beastman.]] Everyone's really sad when he dies...then he's never mentioned again and the next episode starts with everyone cheerful.
* FriendToAllChildren: Amazon himself being a WildChild, this is no surprise. And [[Series/KamenRiderX GOD]] (yes, the organization; yes, the ''whole'' organization) help you if [[BerserkButton you bring harm to one he knows personally.]]
* HealingFactor: It wasn't used too overtly in the TV show (likely related to the level of 70's special effects they were budgeted for), but Amazon heals ''much'' faster than a normal human, such that he can get into fistfights with clawed Beastmen without transforming.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Whenever bad things happen, the actual villains pull a VillainExitStageLeft, and a wild, scantily-clad {{Hulk Speak}}er is the only person remaining at the scene, it sometimes doesn't go well for our hero. His good name is usually restored by the end of the episode... ''for the time being.''
* HighPressureBlood: Most monsters end up cut open by Amazon and it normally results in a massive amount of blood spurting from their wounds.
* HulkSpeak: For the first dozen episodes or so before he gradually learns Japanese. This led to much communication problems during certain episodes.
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILnnaucf48Q I Am Tobe Tachibana]]
* ImAHumanitarian: Several Beastmen consume humans
** Snake Beastman swallows the science assistant whole in episode 7.
** Crocodile Beastman appears to eat a janitor in episode 8, and later in the episode the Mountain women admit to being excited about eating children.
** Sea Anemone Beastman in episode 21 turns humans into Man Eating Humans. He later freezes Amazon, procures a giant knife and fork, dons a monster bib and attempts to eat the frozen rider.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Momonga Beastman. How hard is it to drop bombs on a house you're flying directly above?
* {{Keet}}: Amazon appears to be this outside of battle, at least by the time of Manga/KamenRiderSpirits.
* {{Kiai}}: '''''"GII GII GII GII GII!!!"'''''
* KidWithTheLeash: Masahiko, to an extent.
* LargeHam: The Narrator for the first several episodes to explain Amazon's moods and mindset before he learned Japanese.
** Amazon himself also qualifies.
* ManBitesMan: One of the most preferred methods of Amazon. Parents actually complained about this, since it was easier for kids to imitate than the franchise's traditional [[FinishingMove Rider Kick]]
* MemeticHandGesture: [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jUm1aaWSreo/Sn_qxN6ShwI/AAAAAAAACxw/tpaN0-1GdoQ/s1600-h/igablog007.jpg Amazon's hand signal of friendship]]
* NatureHero: Being raised in the jungle certainly helps.
* PeoplePuppets - After eating a person alive, the Snake Beastman somehow uses their body to move about/manipulate humans as one of them.
* PoorCommunicationKills: As noted in HeroWithBadPublicity, Amazon's inability to communicate get's him into trouble early on. In episode 5, he's accosted by police, who are grateful that he stopped a violent criminal, and need him to go back to the station to make a statement. Amazon doesn't understand and thinks they're trying to attack him, and in the process get's subdued and sent to jail.
* RaceLift: In ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'', Amazon is played by Enrique Sakamoto, a mixed-race Japanese-Peruvian actor from Trujillo.
* RaisedByNatives
* ThemeMusicPowerUp
* TheMole: The [[IncrediblyLamePun Mole]] Beastman, though he is [[InvertedTrope on Amazon's side]].
* TransformationTrauma: The first KR series to invoke this.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[Main/PunctuatedForEmphasis AAA-MAAA-ZOOOON!!]] Warning, this series is [[Main/BloodierandGorier very bloody.]] ]]

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Amazon's blades, on the forearms of his gloves. They're very sharp, and more to the point, he's strong enough to do the cutting. Before he learned how to do a proper Rider Kick, Amazon's finisher was the Daisetsudan ("Great Cleave") which was responsible for the HighPressureBlood below.

* YouHaveFailedMe: The villains ''love'' to do this (it's three episodes before Amazon actually gets to kill a monster himself). In fact, Amazon rescues one monster from this, [[MookFaceTurn and becomes]] TheMole for him.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: After defeating the Garanda Empire and retrieving both Gigi and Gaga Armlet,Amazon leaves Japan and returns to the Amazon rainforest where he lived because it's his true home though tobei believes he will come back if evil terrorize Japan again.]]
** [[spoiler:ButNowIMustGo]]
* BloodierAndGorier: Pretty much every episode, a monster was decapitated or otherwise dismembered. ''MortalKombat'', eat your heart out!
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull[=/=]PunctuatedForEmphasis: '''AAAAAAA-MAAAAAA-ZOOOONNNN!'''

[[caption-width-right:350: [[Main/PunctuatedForEmphasis AAA-MAAA-ZOOOON!!]] Warning, this series is [[Main/BloodierandGorier very bloody.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Main/PunctuatedForEmphasis AAA-MAAA-ZOOOON!!]] Warning, this series is [[Main/BloodierandGorier very bloody.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Main/PunctuatedForEnphasis AAA-MAAA-ZOOOON!!]] Warning, this series is [[Main/BloodierandGorier very bloody.]]

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[[caption-width-right:291:Amazon [[BloodierAndGorier in a]] [[FriendToAllChildren nutshell]]]]

A new Heisei-era series, ''Series/KamenRiderAmazons'', is loosely based on this series premiring on April 1st of 2016 for Amazon Prime streaming service. This one is set in [[AlternateContinuity a parallel continuity]] from the entire ''Kamen Rider'' franchise.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Amazon's plot and character are distinctly removed from the larger meta arc of its three predecessors and KamenRiderStronger as well as the franchise's sci-fi roots.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Amazon's plot and character are distinctly removed from the larger meta arc of its three predecessors and KamenRiderStronger.

'''''Kamen Rider Amazon''''' was the fourth ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series.

A new series, ''Series/KamenRiderAmazons'' , is loosely based on this series premiring on April 1st of 2016 for Amazon Prime streaming service.

* WalkingShirtlessScene - Amazon.