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"If God created this world in six days, then I will destroy it in 60 minutes, and create a paradise."
—S
Kamen Rider Zero-One: REAL×TIME is the winter film for Kamen Rider Zero-One, double-billed with Kamen Rider Saber's own winter film, Kamen Rider Saber: The Phoenix Swordsman and the Book of Ruin.
Set three months following the end of the series and the Stage Show, Kamen Rider Zero-One: Final Stage, large-scale terrorist attacks occur worldwide simultaneously, heralded by the appearance of a man calling himself S who, aided by his group of believers, proclaims that he will destroy the world in order to build a paradise. Now, as turmoil, death and destruction consume the world, Aruto, Is, Fuwa and many others must find the truth behind the ongoing attacks while defending humans and Humagears alike from S's clutches in 60 minutes' time.
Tropes featured in the film
- And You Thought It Was a Game: S manages to get so many Abaddon goons to follow him around by disguising the central network they operate on as an MMO. And sure enough, all the typical tropes about digital avatars vs. reality (except for that one) are revealed to ensue as a result.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Aruto and Is engage S' forces side by side as Kamen Rider Zero-One and Zero-Two respectively.
- Big Damn Heroes: Is as Kamen Rider Zero-Two dashes between Aruto and S, right as the former is about to deliver a Hellrising Impact on the untransformed S and stopping Aruto's attack.
- Breather Episode: This film is quite a breather before all goes downhill in the Zero-One Others movies.
- Bike Fu: Valkyrie gets a scene where she takes on several enemies on a motorbike.
- Chekhov's Gun: In the opening Zero-Two is beaten and has the Driver taken away so S can use it's Zea connection to start his plan then he simply tosses it off to the side. When Aruto returns to fight him again as Zero-One the driver is very prominently shown still laying there right where S left it and goes flying when he destroys the stadium. A short while later Is finds it in the rubble and connects to Zea through it to try to find Aruto at which point it's revealed there was a backup of her in it the whole time that restores her memories and emotions and allows her to transform with it to go rescue Aruto and fight alongside him.
- Climax Boss: S is the greatest threat Aruto has to deal with, but he is not the last enemy. That honor goes to Bell, who takes S' belt and driver to carry out the plan in S' stead.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Even though Bell betrays S to become Kamen Rider Lucifer, he's met with what is possibly the quickest case of The Worf Effect in the entire franchise as Aruto and Is immediately gang up on and beat the tar out of him in their final forms. Lucifer isn't even able to start up any of his finishers.
- Dark Is Not Evil:
- Kamen Rider Eden's suit is almost entirely black, save for bits of blue and red and purple that make up the armor, and while he is willing to destroy the world in his pursuit to create a paradise, S is an Anti-Villain who is desperate to see his fiancé again.
- Played with in regards to Hellrising Hopper. The form itself is dark and menacing, with the movie's creators stating it to be a Rider that could potentially end the world. In the hands of Aruto, however, it's a Godzilla Threshold that must be passed if he wants any chance of defeating S.
- Demoted to Extra: Ikazuchi and Naki appear but do not transform during the movie, due to the script largely having been written before the hiatus and originally intended to have been set during the series rather than after it in continuity. Ikazuchi gets it the worst because he's only in one scene, while Naki at least plays a supporting role throughout the film.
- The End of the World as We Know It: The first part of S' plans, as he intends to Restart the World. Just as he stated to As in his brief appearance in The Stinger.
- Final Boss: The last enemy Aruto and the others face is Kamen Rider Lucifer, AKA Bell, who betrayed S and took the Eden Driver and Zetsumerisekey and activated the Driver's hidden function to assume his Rider form.
- Foil: Despite being described as a Rider Form capable of ending the world
, Hellrising Hopper is a total contrast to Aruto's other "evil form" Ark-One. Whereas Ark-One was driven by Aruto being consumed by malice and revenge, Hellrising Hopper is the result of Aruto willing to risk his own life by using a power that could easily kill him and countless others if he wasn't careful. In terms of Aesthetics, Ark-One resembles Rising Hopper and is primarily colored white, while Hellrising Hopper looks more like a demonic version of Shining Assault Hopper, Aruto's Mid-Season Upgrade form and is a subverted case of Red and Black and Evil All Over. - Godzilla Threshold: The Hellrising Hopper Progrisekey, in that whoever uses it becomes a Rider capable of ending the world. Aruto himself has to use it if he even wants so much as a chance to defeat S, who has defeated him at almost every turn.
- Pun-Based Title: S sets a one-hour countdown before the world ends. The plot of the movie is also resolved in just a little over an hour, with the timer showing up occasionally. In other words... the movie is moving in REAL×TIME.
- The Movie: REAL×TIME is this, as well as the end to the main story.
- Something Only They Would Say: The 2nd Is stops Aruto from destroying himself and Eden with the Hellrising Hopper form and says he can't die before she's able to laugh from her heart at his jokes (which Is said to him right before she died) and that she won't be able to handle losing him (which Is said during the simulations to create the Zero-Two Driver where she saw him dying repeatedly) This has him realize she's regained herself and allows him to snap out of it.
- Soul Jar: In addition to hosting Zea’s interface in the absence of the original Satellite Zea, the Zero-Two Progrise Key turns out to have been one for the original Is, who meets with her Replacement Goldfish counterpart in Zea and merges with her to come Back from the Dead.
- Took a Level in Badass: In the main series, Is mainly served as support and analyzed Aruto's opponents in order to figure out the best countermeasure. Not only does she take to the battlefield, she even becomes a Kamen Rider herself. As in, Kamen Rider Zero-Two.
- Trailers Always Spoil: Only partially done, as while promo pics and the trailer shows that someone else will be using Zero-Two to fight alongside Aruto it does not show that it's Is, although by process of elimination most people were able to figure it out anyway
- Unwitting Pawn: S' followers go through with his plan because they believe that they're creating a new Paradise on Earth, which is technically correct. S' true plan is to create a virtual paradise free of suffering for his fiancé and the victims of their attack, who are actually having their consciousnesses uploaded into his new world rather than being killed. He would never allow a group as malicious as Thinknet near his fiancé's new utopia and fully intends to leave them behind to die in the broken remains of the real world.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: What S, real name Rihito Isshiki, is, being something of an Anti-Villain with a genuine desire to create a paradise, if only so he can reunited with his fiancé.
- The Worf Effect: Aruto uses Zero-Two his most powerful suit in the opening scene and but gets beaten pretty badly and has it taken away, forcing him to switch back to his Zero-One forms for the rest of the film. Thankfully, Is as Zero-Two is much more effective.
