Nightmare Fuel / Kamen Rider Drive

Episode 1: Why Did My Time Stop?

• This whole series starts with the most brutal intro in the entire franchise
  • The first scene of the show starts with people just going about their own business. Then everything starts to dramatically slow down. But rather than this being the case of slowing time itself, everyone caught up in it is fully aware of their surroundings but unable to move or even scream. And then to make the matter worse, the Roidmudes start going around destroying everything in sight... all the while people are living statues and can't even scream for help, some clearly shown to die during the attacks (such as a maid who got incinerated by an explosion). And this was happened worldwide.
  • Later on, it was revealed the Global Freeze only covered about 1/4 of the world (China, Korea, Japan, and Russia) due to Proto-Drive preventing the full freeze
  • What makes this all the more horrifying is that in most other Kamen Riders, end of the world crap like this are either stopped before they end up taking lives (Gaia Impact and the Day of Awakening) or affect a select few people (The Eclipse and The Medal Vessel), but Global Freeze? It ended up being well underway. The only other disaster that was this catastrophic was the Helheim Invasion, but what makes it worse than that despite having the lesser death toll of the two is that, whereas in Gaim, there were multiple Riders ready to fight off the Inves with only one Rider actively aiding the Inves, in Drive, there's only one Rider fighting for humanity, facing off one hundred and eight monsters that not only can't be permanently killed off by said Rider, but also have a resident healer to simply bring them back on their feet in a matter of seconds. Things couldn't be bleaker than that without going into straight hopelessness.

Episode 2: What Is A Kamen Rider?

• This episode shows that Roidmudes aim to evolve by taking the best parts of every person they find. Every single person you see around you could be a Roidmude, and they can throw you off by changing their appearance.

Episode 3: Who Stole The Woman's Smile?

• 2 Roidmudes, Paint and 084, trap their victims inside paintings, completely aware of their predicament. They try to escape by becoming ghosts, but never succeed.
• Kiriko's expression of sheer horror when facing her trauma caused by Paint. You can feel her fear just by looking into her eyes and listening to her screams.

Episode 4: What Is That Prideful Chaser Thinking?

• Kiriko's horror again.
• Paint in general. The guy is just a sadistic psychopath. If he were human, you'd expect him to be freaking Serial Killer. The fact he wants to immortalize Kiriko's horror when he captures her just adds the horror of this maniac.

Episode 5: What Are The Steel Robbers After?

• After four episodes of curb-stomping Roidmudes, Drive loses to Mashin Chaser, gets beat down by Crush, and is then given a lethal dose of a neuro-toxin thanks to Brain. If it weren't for Mad Doctor's timely arrival, he would've died on that pier!

Episode 7: How Was The Decisive Moment Captured?

• Oh god, the Scooper Roidmude's power! It erases objects within a photo it took, which has a boatload of horrible applications. What we see him use it for is to demolish any building from the inside out!

Episode 9: How Can I Get Used To The Cool Body?

• Volt gets presented as an incredibly creepy Roidmude. The most messed up part is that his powers are not the creepy part: It's his human form.

Episode 10: What Is In The Belt's Past?

• This episode gives us a whole smörgåsbord of nightmare full.
  • First up we have Mr. Belt freaking out at the sight of Heart, suffering from PTSD being in the prescence of his own murderer. Not to mention all the while Heart taunts him with the fact with a smile on his face.
  • The flashback showing Heart mercilessly mauling Proto-Drive, even delivering the final deathblow to him.
  • Shinnosuke's fight with Heart. At first it looks like he's doing well avoiding most hits and even landing a few as well, utilizing his shift cars and weapons to the best ability. But all too soon Heart takes the upper hand by shrugging off attacks and dealing heavy blows.
  • We bear witness to Heart's power. He can exceed his natural abilities by overclocking his android organs in order to completely outclass Drive even in his Wild form. What makes this terrifying is that we see his energy manifest as a hellish red aura that radiates around him and his voice distorts. He reveals that when he gets like this he can't stop himself and is fully intent on killing Drive.
  • Finally we have Drive reaching into Heart's well ... heart, in order to cause both of them to die once it reaches it's apex as Mr. Belt begs Shinnosuke to stop, with Heart being fully on board with seeing how it goes! He's that confident that Drive won't be able to kill him.

Episode 12: Where Did That White Kamen Rider Come From?

• It all starts with a meeting of the First Division of the police, discussing a recent crime. When Genpachiro notes that monsters may be involved, everyone mocks him and the Special Unit as "weirdos". Then they all hysterically laugh at him, all the while the camera zooms on their faces, to a very disturbing effect. For anyone that ever had problem with public speaking or appearing in public in general, that scene can send a massive shiver down their spines.

Episode 14: Who Is The Black Shadow Chasing Her?

• First off, you have Chase confronting Kiriko at night with no one else around. Kiriko may be a Badass Normal, but she can't go up against someone that can defeat Drive. And with him having his sanity drop lower every minute, it provides for a very creepy and thrilling atmosphere.
• We then have an all too real situation of famous model/actress Rira Nanao being stalked by an Implacable Man.

Episode 16: Why Is Rinna Sawagami Nervous?

• Chaser hopping onto the hood of Tridoron very suddenly. If that doesn't make you unnerved, then his challenge to Shinnosuke to fight him will.

Episode 20: When Did Kyu Saijo Become A Roidmude?

• Shinnosuke utterly loses his shit and starts beating Roidmudes up, with a scream that Gills would approve of.

Episode 21: What Can Be Spoken By The Irregular Dead?

• After Medic puts all of the Tire Exchange Shift Cars under mind control, she lets Chase do whatever he pleases with them. And after activating Triple Tune, he uses all of them in a suicide attack on Shinnosuke.

Episode 22: How Can I Use The F 1 Body To Fight?

• Medic shows just how scary she can actually be when she has Chase, hopped up on an agent she gave him to turn him into a complete psycho, put his gun to Brain's head just to get her point across. Brain is left a sobbing, traumatized wreck after the encounter and Medic also takes the time to burn his handkerchief just to screw with his head more.

Episode 24: What Can Keep Mach Running?

• Shoot in general. With his missiles, he gets presented as a Mad Bomber, especially after his abilities get upgraded by Brain. He even decided to get rid of Takuro due to this.

Episode 26: Where Is Chaser Going?

• The realization that Roidmudes have their eyes and ears everywhere, even in the very same police division our heroes work. Paranoia Fuel at it's finest.
• In yet another nod to the classic Heisei era Riders, we have Shinnosuke beating up Heart in by the river mercilessly.

Episode 27: What Is Go Shijima's Reason To Fight?

• Go is becoming noticeably more and more unhinged at the Roidmudes, going far beyond a simple desire to have the threat neutralized. It even gets to the become to where he physically assaults his own sister.
• You also have a kid witnessing his parents fight each other, physically. Even though it's because of a monster's spell, that kid has some trauma.

Episode 28: Why Were The Families Targeted?

• The Seeker Roidmude (050) has a not-so-innocent woman Reiko as a host. The way it switches between her high cackling and its deep voice is just unsettling. And mind you, Reiko keeps on cackling even while being arrested by Shinnosuke.
• Go's judgment getting clouded by hatred is something to be feared. The man nearly killed Chase twice and was close in killing Reiko as well!

Episode 29: What Really Happened In The Robbery?

• Those symbols that 001 leaves on his victims. They look like they would hurt to have in real life, and it causes people to either forget things (the people from the robbery 12 years ago) or remember things differently (why Go attacks Chase and Shinnosuke).

Episode 30: Who Reveals The Real Criminal?

• Chase's regained memories are nothing short of traumatic. Heart, Brain and 001 are standing over him while he's seemingly strapped to a table. Brain asks if Heart really wants Chase to join them, even calling Chase an animal, but Heart asserts that it'll be fine and that Chase might help them achieve the "Ultimate Evolution". 001 calls for the modifications to begin and the three transform into their human guises, and pull out a set of tools, slowly advancing on Chase as he begins to panic. It's probably a good thing the camera cuts away from the recording as Chase starts screaming
  • And that's not to mention How we see Chase's memories. Chase tunes the Proto-Drive Shift Car in the Break Gunner and his eyes start glowing red before projecting a holographic screen through his eyes. It seems like it caused him a great deal of pain too.
  • Worse still is the fact that Not only is Chase breathing heavily in the recording, but he's also breathing heavily in real life! This is probably the most vulnerable we've ever seen Chase.

Episode 32: What Is Waiting At The End Of Evolution?

• Freeze achieves his Super Evolution, and promptly gores Drive with an icicle, killing Shinnosuke and Mr. Belt in one go. Kiriko screaming does not help this at all, nor the fact that Mozart's Requiem is playing as the music.

Episode 34: Who Claimed The Life Of Eisuke Tomari?

• From Shinnosuke's perspective, the fact that your father's killer is your superior who aided you, and did it because he was envious of him. Not to mention that he, very literally, got away with murder for twelve years and rose up the ranks of the police in that time.

Episode 36: Where Will The Bullet Guide Justice?

• Shinnosuke kind of proving Nira's point from 34 that everybody has some evil side to them. As Shinnosuke may just end up murdering Nira with the same gun Nira used to kill his dad.
  • He thankfully doesn't, but the fact Nira was totally cool with himself being killed is very unsettling. Even if he had reason for that, supposedly wearing a bulletproof vest.
  • If not for Dimension Cab, Shinnosuke would have died again, and there would be no way to revive him again.
• Medic got her hands on Brain after he was defeated and reduced to his Core (the number). It´s not visible what she is doing to him, but the sounds it produces are really unsettling.

Episode 37: Who Is Aiming For The Ultimate Taste?

• Roidmudes combusting due to Cook's golden sauce, Honfleur's Dusk. Medic then dumped the sauce of 041, making him hold onto Shinnosuke as he was burning so Cook can finish them. Shinnosuke shouts at Medic again while she's laughing at all this, and had it not been for Heart, the attempt would've worked.

Episode 40: Why Are The Two Genius Scientists Having A Conflict?

• It was clear from episode 11 that Banno was a mad scientist, we just didn't know how mad. He had Heart replicate the appearance of a man who refused him funding just so he could torture his image.
  • And he screwed with Mr. Belt´s programming.

Episode 41: How Is The Golden Drive Born?

• Banno utterly annihilating seven Roidmudes in seconds, one of which was an Executive. Not scary enough? He destroys 006's Core, but leaves his body intact, promptly possessing it himself to become Gold Drive. What makes this so terrifying is that 006's now numberless body is just...limp. No sign of anything, like it's simply a puppet on strings.

Episode 42: Where Is The Truth About The Goddess?

• Kazuya attempting to inconspicuously murder the handicapped Misuzu down a few stairs. After being confronted, he reveals that he was the one staged her accident out of jealousy and pettiness.
• Thanks to Banno's experiment to her, Medic becomes more monotone and subservient to Banno. Made even more apparent by her claims of devotion to Heart.

Episode 43: When Will The Second Global Freeze Start?

• Banno aggressively stomping on a Reaper Legion, reminding Heart of how he was also tortured by him.

Episode 44: Who Loves Heart The Most?

• Banno (again) having a Villainous Breakdown when Brain foils his plans. Normally, it'd be satisfying to see this psychopath have a meltdown, but the fact his response being to go Laughing Mad and completely unresponsive to everything happening around him.
  • And if that's not enough, 004 revealed that his plan isn't entirely foiled; on the contrary, Banno has already completed what he had to do. And the Promised Land? Turns out the place they're in wasn't the one at all; Banno intentionally tipped the heroes off anonymously to draw them into a trap!
  • A minor moment has to be before said Laughing Mad scene. Almost everyone ends up growling out Banno's name and looking at him with the intent to kill him. It's minor, since it's a pretty awesome moment where the Roidmudes officially put their differences with the humans aside.
• Let's take a moment to think about what Banno truly is at the moment, especially what he looks like to the Roidmudes. He's the Virtual Ghost of a madman possessing a corpse that he destroyed the soul of, wearing a twisted version of the hero's suit. The guy is a straight up Humanoid Abomination by our perspective, from the Roidmudes he's basically a horror movie villain made real.

Episode 45: What Is A Roidmude's Dream

• Banno's ultimate goal only serves to make him even more horrifying. He wants to use the Sigma Circular to cause a total Global Freeze so he can break down all humans into data with no resistance and rule over all of them. Anyone who doesn't bow to him wouldn't be allowed to have a physical body. Even worse, he refers to it as his "divine providence". Banno isn't just a sociopath, he's a Control Freak with absolutely no morals and a God Complex.
  • It gets worse, During the Imagine Spot of the second Global Freeze and everyone being broken down into data, each and every person is assigned a unique number. Sound familiar? It doesn't help that Banno might very well have the power to delete anyone who doesn't obey him should he succeed.
  • There's also the fact that he quite clearly doesn't care about either Go or Kiriko's lives. He nearly killed Go for calling him a monster and later with the Signal Axe in this episode and nearly got Kiriko killed due to Heart in the previous. One has to wonder how he even had either of them... The preceding scene of Banno slowly approaching Go while dragging the Signal Axe across the ground in a manner not unlike a slasher Serial Killer before saying this line that shows just how little his son means to him.
  Banno: You have brought me nothing but shame. I will put you out of your misery!
  • The next episode then shows a role-reversal.

Episode 46: Why Must They Fight?

• After Chase´s death, the smoke disperses and Banno holds up a piece of scrap metal. Not so bad until you realize it was a piece of Chase just a while ago, so it´s equal to Banno waving around a raw chunk of human flesh.
• Despite Banno's death, the Sigma Circular manages to begin what it was programmed to do, and makes almost everybody in the world vanish.
  • It's Nightmare Fuel In-Universe for Kiriko, who seemingly starts to have a panic attack when she sees the numbers appear on her body due to her previous trauma from the first Global Freeze. Oh yeah, and she's got Type Deadheat on her so she's experiencing the whole process in real time. One has to wonder if anyone else in the world is reacting like her, but can't due to the slowdown.
• Watching Go executing Banno is creepy even if you know the guy fully deserves it... especially once he dons a sinister smirk. At least Banno was a belt at the time; imagine if he was still human in this moment.

Episode 47: Who Will You Entrust The Future To, My Friend?

• Freeze showing up from the black portal, more than likely heading to the kaijin afterlife we saw back in Wizard, and how Freeze almost dragged Shinnosuke into said portal.

Episode 48: Final Story (Special Edition): The Case of Ghost

• Shinnosuke has to go up against the same people who ended up causing him to inadvertdly injury his former partner. They have Kiriko hostage... and should Shinnosuke slip up...
• This episode gives us our first taste of Ghost's foes, The Gamma. They're utterly invisible to anyone who isn't holding an Eyecon, they're incredibly strong, incredibly fast, and even seem able to fly. Oh yeah, and they will beat the living hell out of you if you so much as pick up an Eyecon. Have fun knowing that one could be literally anywhere and you wouldn't know it until it was too late.
  Shinnosuke/Drive: Mr. Belt, what is this?!
  Mr. Belt: I have no data on this! Whatever this is, it is beyond the bounds of science!

D-Video Special: Kamen Rider 4

• Kiriko is held captive by Shocker, and she ends up being Driven to Suicide, with Shinnosuke not reaching her in time. Both Go and Shinnouske watched her die right in front of their eyes.

Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future

• The thought of a Bad Future caused by the same technology you use to protect the world is pretty disheartening and scary when you think about it.
  • Paradox's plan, place the world in an eternal Global Freeze.
    • It is much worse than the Global Freeze in the beginning. While the Global Freeze affected only part of the world thanks to Proto-Drive efforts and people were moving in slow-motion, Paradox's version affects the entire world and caused everyone to freeze completely in place while still being conscious.
  • The fact 108 managed to kill Eiji and take his place without anybody noticing. Shinnosuke and Kiriko may have been living with the murderer of their son and never knew it.
    • Actually, all of this was a giant lie constructed by 108. He defeated Eiji, took the Drive Driver from him, and came to the past, and used Eiji's visage to his own advantage by faking "Eiji"'s death by a Drive Driver on autopilot, all in a plot to push Shinnosuke to destroy Krim all in a plot to cause a eternal Global Freeze via a Time Crash when he fuses with his past self.
• The distortion added to Belt-san's voice when when he begins to malfunction and turn evil.

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