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Hiroshi Tsukuba / Skyrider
Hiroshi Tsukuba/Kamen Rider (Skyrider)
Portrayed by: Hiroaki Murakami
Tropes that apply to him in general
- Badass Biker: He's a Kamen Rider, so he's obviously this.
- Cool Bike: The Sky Turbo, the motorcycle he rides around on.
- The Hero: He is the titular rider who oppose Neo-Shocker.
- Phlebotinum Rebel: Was meant to become one of the Neo-Shocker kaijin after he was fatally wounded by Gameleojin, but Keitaro's actions turned him into a Kamen Rider who opposed Neo-Shocker instead.
- Retronym: Tsukuba was simply called "Kamen Rider" until the previous Riders appeared as guest stars, forcing him to adopt the new moniker of Skyrider to distinguish himself from his predecessors.
- Training from Hell: The previous Riders imbue Skyrider with their combined powers after basically hazing him out of costume.
Tropes exclusive to him as Kamen Rider Skyrider
- Animal Themed Super Being: Based on a locust, a sub-species of grasshoppers, as he can fly with his Sailing Jump ability much like the animal he's based on.
- Calling Your Attacks: Calls out his finisher right before performing it.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: Skyrider gets one from the previous 7 Riders powering up his suit after passing the test of surviving all of their Rider Kicks.
- Car Fu: Skyrider fights using his motorcycle often. The Rider Break attack his Sky Turbo can pull off is something of a series trademark.
- Next Tier Power-Up: Skyrider receives a harsh training from all seven previous Riders, gaining a power up and his more well known colors.
- Scarf of Asskicking: As is the signature for the Showa Kamen Riders, he has a scarf around his neck
- Up, Up and Away!: Skyrider's method of flying.
Keitaro Shido
Keitaro Shido
Portrayed by: Takashi Tabata
A scientist forced to work as a researcher for Neo-Shocker.- Expy: To Professor Midorikawa from the original series, being a scientist forced to work for the evil organization who helps the titular Rider to escape. The only difference between them is that Midorikawa ended up being slain by Man Spider while Keitaro survives before leaving Japan to join the Anti-Neo-Shocker Alliance.
- Put on a Bus: After episode 13, he leaves to join the Anti-Neo-Shocker Alliance.
- Reluctant Mad Scientist: Doesn’t want to work for Neo-Shocker and uses them to save Hiroshi’s life.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only appearing for a few episodes, he’s basically responsible for the whole series.
Genjiro Tani
Genjiro Tani
Portrayed by: Nobuo Tsukamoto
Owner of Bianca Coffee Shop, which acts as Skyrider's base of operations.- The Mentor: To Tsukuba, the only person who is closest to being a father figure. He later returns in the following season, taking up the role towards Kazuya.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Tobei Tachibana, even though Tachibana himself was never in Skyrider. Especially obvious in some later episodes, when the Riders from previous series interact with him in a similar way to how they interacted with Tobei, in spite of not knowing him nearly as well.
Kanji Yada / GanGan G
Kanji Yada/GanGan G
Portrayed by: Tomaru Katsura
A bumbling but well-meaning superhero wannabe who goes around declaring himself the strongest hero of justice and picking fights with Neo Shocker. Surprisingly, he survives every time.- Iron Butt Monkey: Despite getting his rear handed to him every time he tries to fight a kaijin, he manages to survive to the end of the series through a combination of surprising durability, dumb luck, and the intervention of the Kamen Riders.
- Nice Guy: For all his bragging and incompetence as a hero, he really does just want to help people by fighting for justice.
- Plucky Comic Relief: He acts as this for the second half of the series, coinciding with Neo Shocker's schemes starting to have far more stakes at play.
- Taking Up the Mantle: After it appears as though the Kamen Riders sacrificed themselves to destroy Great Leader and his oxygen bomb, GanGan G promises them he'll continue to protect Japan in their stead. Though considering the next series, it's unclear whether he's able to live up to that.
Neo-Shocker
In General
- Alien Invasion: They turn out to be a front for an invasion by aliens from the Dark Nebula B-26.
- Nebulous Evil Organisation: All of the kaijin attacks in this series are their doing.
- The Remnant: Yet another successor organization to Shocker.
Great Leader
Great Leader of Neo-Shocker/Emperor of the Dark Nebula
Voiced by: Gorō Naya
The Arch-Enemy of the Kamen Riders, back again to make another attempt at conquering Earth with Neo-Shocker.- Aliens Are Bastards: He's really an alien dragon who has his sights set on conquering Earth.
- Big Bad: He's the entity heading Neo-Shocker and masterminding their attacks.
- Final Solution: His end plan is to use an Oxygen Bomb to fry all life on Earth save for himself and his followers, who don't need oxygen to breathe.
- Kaiju: His true form is a giant dragon-like alien.
- Large and in Charge: His true form as a giant kaiju towers over all of his subordinates.
- The Man Behind the Man: Yet again. Somehow, his "true form" in Kamen Rider Stronger was just another fake (although considering that Great Leader was last scene claiming he'll return to space, it's possible they're the same entity).
- Our Dragons Are Different: Winged, lizard-like and breathes fire? Yup he's basically a dragon.
- Outside-Genre Foe: A kaiju is the type of foe you'd expect to find in a Kyodai Hero show, instead of a Henshin Hero show.
- Unseen Evil: He spends most of the show giving orders from afar through an eye icon .
- The Voice: As with his previous incarnations, the Great Leader communicates with his subordinates via a speaker and isn't fully seen until late into the series.
- You Have Failed Me: Admiral Majin's failures earn him the Great Leader crushing him into dust.
General Monster
General Monster/Yamorijin
Portrayed by: Shinzo Hotta
A Neo-Shocker executive who oversees their Japanese branch.- Beard of Evil: He has a thick goatee, further adding to his evil aesthetic.
- Degraded Boss: After his death, General Monster's kaijin form, Yamorijin, appears on two occasions later as Mooks alongside other minor second generation kaijin and were easily destroyed by the previous Riders.
- Expy: To Colonel Zol from the original series. Just like Zol, Monster is a Nazi officer who wears an eyepatch and serves as the first executive the Rider faces.
- Last Villain Stand: #17 sees him opting to face Skyrider himself after he runs out of kaijin.
- Red Right Hand: Or in this case his left hand, which has been replaced by a claw-like appendage.
- One-Winged Angel: General Monster not only looks monstrous in his human form, he has a hidden form too. That gecko design on his eyepatch, there from the beginning, is there for a reason.
Admiral Majin
Admiral Majin
Portrayed by: Yosuke Naka
A high-ranking Neo-Shocker executive called to Japan after General Monster's failures.- Bad Boss: The first thing he does upon taking command of Neo-Shocker's Japan branch is order the death of one of his subordinates, and then kill another subordinate for questioning his judgment.
- The Dragon: The Great Leader's top lieutenant.
- For the Evulz: In #53 he comes up with a plan to fool Hiroshi into thinking he's his father for seemingly no reason other than to screw with him.
- The Heavy: Majin is the one plotting and executing Neo-Shocker's operations for most of the series.
- Horns of Villainy: Wears a helmet with two horns on either side of it.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: General Monster is activating the explosives planted within his body and charging towards our hero in a last-ditch effort to take Hiroshi with him. Then he gets blasted before he can make good on this by Admiral Majin, who had decided General Monster had failed once too often and it wasn't worth letting him live even until the end of one fight. If the Admiral had waited ten seconds longer, the world might be run by Shocker to this day.
Ari Commandos
The black-suited footsoldiers of Neo-Shocker.
- Ant Assault: As their name implies, they're ant-themed.
- Battle Cry: Just like Shocker Combatmen, they have a habit of shouting out "yee".
- Evil Wears Black: Clad in full-body black jumpsuits.
- Faceless Goons: They wear featureless black masks that completely obscure their faces.
- Mooks: Neo-Shocker's disposable grunts.
Neo-Shocker Kaijin
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: All of them are themed after some plant or animal.
- Monster of the Week: The Riders have to face a different one each episode.
