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Characters in Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost
Leo
Leo/Kamen Rider Psyga/Lion Orphnoch
Portrayed by: Peter Ho (live), Naoki Nagase (suit)
Standing by...COMPLETE!
A character exclusive to the movie adaptation. Leo is a powerful, but arrogant Rider that acts as the leader of the Riotroopers. He also loves the thrill of battle, including engaging and killing other Orphnochs, and his English is very good.
- Blood Knight: Battle is just a "game" for him to win.
- Dragon-in-Chief: To Murakami, considering Murakami is a head in a jar and can't really do much he relies on Leo to be his enforcer.
- Dual Wielding: Psyga uses dual tonfas called the Psyga Tonfa Edge, which are also Laser Blades. He also uses the Flying Attacker's Blaster Rifles, which are the two engines of the Flying Attacker that are converted laser cannons in Blaster Rifle Mode.
- Expy: Leo is basically a much more mature Kitazaki.
- Finishing Move:
- Psyga Slash: Psyga inserts the Mission Memory into his Tonfa Edge and performs an energy-charged slash. The only finisher Psyga actually uses in Paradise Lost.
- Side materials revealed that Psyga has his own versions of the Rider Kick and Rider Punch, named Cobalt Smash and Sky Impact respectively, which use the Flying Attacker to enhance their power.
- Glass Cannon: Psyga's got strength that matches the main Riders and has good combat experience, also mentioning that he has incredible speed from his Flying Attacker. But, simply damaging it will leave him without his flight capabilities, which helped his evasiveness, and leaves him with just his Psyga Phone and Psyga Tonga Edge in his arsenal.
- Handguns: Similar to the main Riders, the Psyga Phone can also switch to a small blaster.
- The Heavy: The one who spearheads the Orphnochs' hunt of the remaining humans.
- Hero Killer: Murdered Kusaka, reducing him to dust.
- Jet Pack: As Kamen Rider Psyga, he wears one called the Flying Attacker to fly around in battle. It also holds his weapons the Psyga Tonfa Edge and Flying Attacker's Blaster Rifles.
- Light Is Not Good: Psyga's suit is in bright colors, but he's far from being anything close to goodness.
- Mook Lieutenant: Leads the Riotroopers in Paradise Lost and acts as Murakami's top enforcer.
- Psycho for Hire: Feels no compassion for the lives of humans and Orphnochs, and works for Smart Brain.
- The Sociopath: Leo shares the same impulses as Kitazaki, but is just better at hiding it from others.
- Sociopathic Soldier: A mix of Type 1 and 2. Leo feels superior to humans, but enjoys fighting and killing other Orphnochs for the sake of it.
Wirepullers of Smart Brain
Wirepullers of Smart Brain
Portrayed by: Gorō Naya, Seizō Katō and Shōzō Iizuka
Another trio of movie exclusive characters, they are the secret leaders of Smart Brain and The Man Behind the Man to Kyouji Murakami.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The true leaders of Smart Brain, though they let Murakami run most of the day-to-day stuff.
- Hijacked by Ganon: Notably, one of the Wirepullers is voiced by Gorō Naya which is interesting given how it's been stated that every "Great Leader" voiced by Naya is the same character.
- Minor Major Character: Despite being the true leaders of Smart Brain they only get one very short scene in Paradise Lost.
- You Have Failed Me: After Murakami fails to kill Faiz, they have Smart Lady execute him.
Mina
Mina
Portrayed by: Mirai Shida
Mizuhara
Mizuhara
Portrayed by: Mokomichi Hayami
- Jerkass: Quite an extremely unpleasant person. He not only acts extremely rude to others, but also shot Mina when she guarded Takumi from him and arrogantly attacked Kiba when the latter asked him to return the Faiz Gear to Takumi.
Professor Nomura
Professor Nomura
Portrayed by: Hiroo Ohtaka
- It Only Works Once: True to its name, the Transform One-Shot serum invented by him allows a user to transform with any of the drivers for one session with a couple of doses. While Keitaro doesn't disintegrate from using the Kaixa Driver, the Driver itself disintegrates.
Characters in Kamen Rider 555 20th: Paradise Regained
Hisao/Kamen Rider Delta (IX)/Mosquito Orphnoch
Hisao/Kamen Rider Delta (IX)/Mosquito Orphnoch
Portrayed by: Rumika Fukuda
A character exclusive to Paradise Regained. Hisao is an Orphnoch who becomes the latest user of the Delta Gear.- Heroic Sacrifice: He uses the Delta Gear to protect his friends from Reina, but dies in the process.
Rena Kurumi/Kamen Rider Muez
Rena Kurumi/Kamen Rider Muez
Portrayed by: Rumika Fukuda
A character exclusive to Paradise Regained. Rena is Kitazaki's top enforcer in Smart Brain and is tasked to slaughter the Orphnochs.- Cruel and Unusual Death: Was impaled through the stomach by Android Kitazaki by a robotic tentacle, which split apart and disintegrated her into Ludicrous Gibs.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Her role.
- Distaff Counterpart:
- To Leo from Paradise Lost, both being Smart Brain enforcers with their Kamen Rider forms having similar color schemes.
- Also to Kusaka in being in the Love Triangle with Takumi and Mari, motivated entirely by her obsessive attachment to the former that she attempts to get rid of the latter in a justified matter. But unlike Kusaka, who died unrepentant, Rena had a Heel Realization and dies atoning for her actions.
- Dual Wielding: She uses the Muez Edge, a pair of daggers, as her primary weapon.
- Number of the Beast: Muez' transformation code is "6-6-6", the "M" corresponding to the number 6 in a telephone keypad.
- Redemption Equals Death: She gets killed by Kitazaki when she refuses to kill Takumi and Mari and even covered their escape.
- True Blue Femininity: Her Rider form is blue and she's a lady who gets flustered when others stare at her before transforming
Jotaro Kikuchi
Jotaro Kikuchi
Portrayed by: Daiji Asakawa
A character exclusive to the Paradise Regained, Keitaro's nephew.- Chekhov's Gunman: Only appears as a side character in a couple of scenes, but he's later revealed to be Keitaro's nephew and the one who gives Takumi his original Faiz Gear, allowing him to gain an edge over his latest enemies.
Kouta
Kouta/Gecko Orphnoch
Portrayed by: Ryunosuke Hashino
A character exclusive to the Paradise Regained, an Orphnoch that helps the protagonists.- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He ended up getting killed by Nozomu Kitazaki after he contact Smart Brain to sold out his comrades to the organization out of desperation to join them.
Kei
Kei/ Kuina Orphnoch
Portrayed by: Kanon Matsuzawa
A character exclusive to the Paradise Regained, an Orphnoch that helps the protagonists.- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To Yuka Osada, both female Orphnochs that assume bird-like forms and support the protagonists.
Kamen Rider Kaixa (VII) (unmarked spoilers)
"Masato Kusaka"/Kamen Rider Kaixa (VII)/Kamen Rider Next Kaixa
Portrayed by: Kohei Murakami
An android copy of Kusaka obsessed with killing Orphnochs, programmed to fly into a psychotic rage at the sight of them. Initially given the Kaixa Gear to carry out his mission, he later destroys and replaces it with the Kaixa Phone XX.- Artificial Human: Identical to the original Kusaka.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Serves the role of final villain in the film together with the android Kitazaki.
- Casting Gag: The android Kusaka piggybacks a preexisting combat suit of a previous warrior, which parallels Sonoya from Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, a show that was also penned entirely by Toshiki Inoue and portrayed by Kohei Murakami himself. In addition, he joins forces with android Kitazaki (who also piggybacks another warrior's combat form like Sonona) and gets killed by the combined forces of that show's hero and their monster contemporary.
- Dead Person Impersonation: He acts as an elderly Kusaka as if his literal death by Kiba's hand never really took place. That is until his original programming kicks in.
- Evil Costume Switch: The true purpose of Next Kaixa, it acts as the android Kusaka's real combat form once he destroys the original Kaixa Phone.
- Firing in the Air a Lot: Can weaponize this with the bullets from his wrist guns, using Kaixa's boots to fling them at his actual target for increased lethality once they come back down.
- Logical Weakness: As he has no natural memory of Takumi and the original Faiz Gear, he is utterly incapable of coming up with a plan to deal with either once forced to face them down; Next Kaixa's predictive AI is also powerless to assist him in this regard due to Faiz having no entry in its database.
- Replacement Flat Character: A version of Kusaka with his violent tendencies dialed up to eleven, his love for Mari turned into murderous hate.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: For most of the movie, he pretended to be the original Kusaka until Takumi asked him to protect Mari. Due to being programmed to exterminate the surviving Ryusei School members that become Orphnochs, he ends up exposing his true nature.
- Send in the Clones: The ending reveals he is the first of a mass-produced army of professional killers, with one succeeding Kitazaki as the new Smart Brain CEO.
- Super-Speed: Can access Axel Form as Next Kaixa, something none of Kaixa's previous six users were able to accomplish.
Kamen Rider Muez (II) (unmarked spoilers)
Nozomu "Kitazaki"/Kamen Rider Muez (II)
Portrayed by: Ray Fujita
The true antagonist of Paradise Regained, an android copy of Kitazaki who later takes the Muez Gear for himself.- The Antichrist: He is created in the image of the original Kitazaki, whose Orphnoch form is dragon-themed, and uses a Rider System with a Number of the Beast theme.
- Ax-Crazy: Like the original Kitazaki, though more subdued.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Is faced by Takumi in the final fight with the android Kusaka by his side.
- Casting Gag: Ray Fujita was once another silver, sword-wielding armored warrior, Rei Suzumura/ZERO.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the original Kitazaki as both are murderous Blood Knights. But while his predecessor was a Stupid Evil Big Bad Wannabe teen, he is a Manipulative Bastard who resembles a middle-aged Kitazaki and is a genuine Big Bad.
- Logical Weakness: As a freshly-built android who is over-reliant on Muez's predictive AI systems, Kitazaki has absolutely zero clue on how to deal with the original Smart Brain Gears, which were not registered to Muez's database. When Takumi switches back to the original Faiz Gear (which is now 20 years out of date), Kitazaki struggles to keep up with his superior combat experience.
Smart Lady (II)
Smart Lady (II)
Portrayed by: Amane Shindo
The new mascot of Smart Brain following the company's re-emergence as an anti-Orphonoch organization.- Mascot: She's the living mascot of the current Smart Brain.
