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So, remember that I said Ex-Aid would be revised next? I lied. Sorry not.
The following profiles will be affected:
As the scans show, we can interpret how desires work in OOO. Desire is the energy of life, which runs its course through all life-forms. To live is to want, so every living being has a desire for something. Desire drives us to evolve and want more, thus creating buildings, cities, and countries to satisfy our needs.
Now let us see some tangible evidence for this claim.
The monster of the week on the show is the Yummy, who are being created from human desire. They "feed" on their human host's desire and grow stronger by it. As seen in this clip where the Yummy are generating Medals by "eating" desire. They can sate the host's desires, whether it's something as simple as food or money, or even more abstract desires like wanting to destroy or getting popular.
In the movie OOO X Den-O Let's Go All Riders, we have this scene where Ankh pulls a Medal out of Momotaros, even though he isn't human. This is another piece of evidence that not just humans but every living being has a desire, and from that desire came the creation of Medals.
In the Movie War Mega Max, there are the Medals of Kamen Rider Stronger, Amazon, and X. These Medals contain the existence of those Riders, and through them, OOO can use their power or summon them.
Remember the statement above where Kougami says desire is the energy of life? Here is some tangible evidence supporting it.
The context of this scan is that the Greeeds were originally mindless beings made up of ten Medals. The creator decides to remove one Medal, leaving an incomplete tally of nine of them. Thus, to fill out that spot, their desire to be complete was born, and the Greeeds gained consciousness.
We also have this statement from Kougami where he says that in order to create Medals, they would need a massive desire to manufacture them. From those desires, they were able to create a Greeed.
In 40 years in the future, Kougami successfully creates the Medals with pure desire, so it won't become a sentient monster. However, those future Medals eventually gained consciousness of their own from the desire to fight. This means that desire is able to create life and give consciousness to beings.
Given the presented evidence, desire would most likely fit with the Type 3 concept. However, as now, we'll move on to something similar but also distinct.
The Pteranodon Yummies, who have the power to reduce desire into nothingness, claim that the Purple Medals are similar to them.
We were able to see Maki, a Greeed of the same type, creating Yummies from inanimate objects. This means that desire exists not only in living beings but also in objects that don't have consciousness. To put it simply, their desires are nonexistent, a void of nothing, as Kougami explained above.
Remember the part where Kougami claims that the table, buildings, city, and country are all a mass of desire? While it may appear to be flowey language, Some instances showcase the "mass of desire" statement more literally, such as Medal Vessal converting everything into Medals and Gamel turning people into Medals. The evidence of Purple Medals backs it up more, so it's no stretch to say that the things mentioned contained desires as well.
In the following section, we'll look at how desire extends and influences reality.
The series introduces a place called Mirror World, which, as you can guess, is a mirrored version of the real world. However, the extent of Mirror World goes beyond just that. There was a thread made to upgrade the Mirror World to a 2-A structure, which has been accepted. All the details can be found on this blog.
There have been numerous times when Mirror World has perished, but then it has been brought back by human desire. We'll examine each of them in order.
In the 13 Riders special, Shiro Kanzaki claims that human desires thrive on conflict, resulting in the creation of the Mirror World. Inside that world, there is a core to create monsters. If the core was destroyed, then the Mirror World would be gone. One of the endings shows us what exactly happened when it got destroyed. The Mirror Worlds and Riders briefly disappeared, but they came back. It was said that deep down, everyone has the desire to fight, and they eventually become riders, so the battle will continue as long as people desire something.
Many years after Ryuki ended, we got an anniversary special which is connected to the past series. The introduction of Ryuga, a mirror being halted from an erased world, Not just Ryuga, but the entire Mirror World is brought back, and it's called the "lost Mirror World," confirming that it had been erased before.
In the final episode of the original series, Odin uses Time Vent to reset the timeline and make the Riders and battle royale no longer exist. However, the Mirror World and the Riders return to fight again. We know this because the characters' memories in the original series were shown, thus proving that everything happened in the same timeline. The reason they were brought back, despite being gone from the timeline, was almost the same as in 13 Riders, though slightly different, because of the desire to stop another killing game in the real world being above all.
All of this evidence alone wouldn't be sufficient enough because the definition of "desire" is vague in and of itself. But it has been contextualized in Kamen Rider OOO that desire exists in a more literal way from the existence of Medals and Greeeds. Thus, we have enough evidence to connect the desire in OOO and Ryuki as one and the same.
Desire is an abstract energy present in all living and non-living things. It is the driving force behind life and the thriving evolution of living things. Medals are derived from desires ranging from wanting objects or food to more abstract desires. As seen in the case of Yummy, desire has the ability to directly shape an individual's existence. As long as they are willing to fight for it, the desire that exists within human hearts has the ability to create the Mirror World, a world that contains infinite realities. The desire to fight will always bring the Mirror World back, no matter how many times it is destroyed.
There is an opposing aspect known as nonexistent desire, which is void of nothing and capable of erasing desire. Since the Purple Medals have the same power as the Pteranodon Yummies, they enable OOO to interact with those who lack desire.
From this, Kamen Rider OOO would have Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3, likely 2), as desire is an abstract energy that can govern an individual's existence and can warp the entire reality of Mirror World. As the Purple Medals have the same power as the Pteranodon Yummies, he would also get Non-Physical Interaction from being able to interact with the nonexistent desire. Kyoryu Greeed would get the same abilities as they all draw power from the Purple Medals.
The following profiles will be affected:
- Kamen Rider OOO and the Legend Rider version.
- Greeeds (Kyoryu Greeed, Gamel, and Uva)
Additional Abilities for Greeeds
Let's start with the simple things first.- Immortality Type 2: Greeeds can survive even when they remain as a hand or a single Core Medal.
- Limited Invulnerability: The Medals that make up a Greeed body are invulnerable against conventional attack, which means even an attack that cuts through space and vaporizes enemies couldn't destroy them, merely scatter them around. However, it's possible to deplete the Medals inside their bodies and potentially incapacitate them, as Greeed requires a huge sum of Medals to create a stable body.
- Enhanced Senses: They can hear the sound of Medals from kilometers away.
- Extrasensory Perception: They are able to sense the desire or greed of a person.
Desire and Medals
Kamen Rider OOO's main theme is about desire and medals, and the series exploits these concepts in a more literal way. Thanks to the Kamen Rider Zukan website and Kousei Kougami's info dump, we were able to get the definition of desire for OOO.As the scans show, we can interpret how desires work in OOO. Desire is the energy of life, which runs its course through all life-forms. To live is to want, so every living being has a desire for something. Desire drives us to evolve and want more, thus creating buildings, cities, and countries to satisfy our needs.
Now let us see some tangible evidence for this claim.
The monster of the week on the show is the Yummy, who are being created from human desire. They "feed" on their human host's desire and grow stronger by it. As seen in this clip where the Yummy are generating Medals by "eating" desire. They can sate the host's desires, whether it's something as simple as food or money, or even more abstract desires like wanting to destroy or getting popular.
Moreover, the host's desire can directly shape the Yummy existence. When a Yummy feeds on desires, they will "mature" and become much stronger. If the host has a change in their desire, the Yummy will shape itself and gain ability in accordance with that desire. As in these examples, the kendo girl's having a double desire leads to the Yummy splitting itself to sate both of the desires. A traveler wants to be popular, so the Yummy gives itself the ability to absorb "talent" from others and add it to himself.
In the movie OOO X Den-O Let's Go All Riders, we have this scene where Ankh pulls a Medal out of Momotaros, even though he isn't human. This is another piece of evidence that not just humans but every living being has a desire, and from that desire came the creation of Medals.
In the Movie War Mega Max, there are the Medals of Kamen Rider Stronger, Amazon, and X. These Medals contain the existence of those Riders, and through them, OOO can use their power or summon them.
Remember the statement above where Kougami says desire is the energy of life? Here is some tangible evidence supporting it.
The context of this scan is that the Greeeds were originally mindless beings made up of ten Medals. The creator decides to remove one Medal, leaving an incomplete tally of nine of them. Thus, to fill out that spot, their desire to be complete was born, and the Greeeds gained consciousness.
We also have this statement from Kougami where he says that in order to create Medals, they would need a massive desire to manufacture them. From those desires, they were able to create a Greeed.
In 40 years in the future, Kougami successfully creates the Medals with pure desire, so it won't become a sentient monster. However, those future Medals eventually gained consciousness of their own from the desire to fight. This means that desire is able to create life and give consciousness to beings.
Given the presented evidence, desire would most likely fit with the Type 3 concept. However, as now, we'll move on to something similar but also distinct.
Purple Medals and Void Desire
After the series comes to a half-way point, we're introduced to an entirely new set of Medals called the Purple Medals. They are Medals created using the power of extinct animals, in other words, creatures that no longer exist.The Pteranodon Yummies, who have the power to reduce desire into nothingness, claim that the Purple Medals are similar to them.
We were able to see Maki, a Greeed of the same type, creating Yummies from inanimate objects. This means that desire exists not only in living beings but also in objects that don't have consciousness. To put it simply, their desires are nonexistent, a void of nothing, as Kougami explained above.
Remember the part where Kougami claims that the table, buildings, city, and country are all a mass of desire? While it may appear to be flowey language, Some instances showcase the "mass of desire" statement more literally, such as Medal Vessal converting everything into Medals and Gamel turning people into Medals. The evidence of Purple Medals backs it up more, so it's no stretch to say that the things mentioned contained desires as well.
In the following section, we'll look at how desire extends and influences reality.
Extensive of Desire
The following section is a little different. We're looking at another series that has a subtle theme of desire but still follows a similar idea, and that is Kamen Rider Ryuki.The series introduces a place called Mirror World, which, as you can guess, is a mirrored version of the real world. However, the extent of Mirror World goes beyond just that. There was a thread made to upgrade the Mirror World to a 2-A structure, which has been accepted. All the details can be found on this blog.
There have been numerous times when Mirror World has perished, but then it has been brought back by human desire. We'll examine each of them in order.
In the 13 Riders special, Shiro Kanzaki claims that human desires thrive on conflict, resulting in the creation of the Mirror World. Inside that world, there is a core to create monsters. If the core was destroyed, then the Mirror World would be gone. One of the endings shows us what exactly happened when it got destroyed. The Mirror Worlds and Riders briefly disappeared, but they came back. It was said that deep down, everyone has the desire to fight, and they eventually become riders, so the battle will continue as long as people desire something.
Many years after Ryuki ended, we got an anniversary special which is connected to the past series. The introduction of Ryuga, a mirror being halted from an erased world, Not just Ryuga, but the entire Mirror World is brought back, and it's called the "lost Mirror World," confirming that it had been erased before.
In the final episode of the original series, Odin uses Time Vent to reset the timeline and make the Riders and battle royale no longer exist. However, the Mirror World and the Riders return to fight again. We know this because the characters' memories in the original series were shown, thus proving that everything happened in the same timeline. The reason they were brought back, despite being gone from the timeline, was almost the same as in 13 Riders, though slightly different, because of the desire to stop another killing game in the real world being above all.
All of this evidence alone wouldn't be sufficient enough because the definition of "desire" is vague in and of itself. But it has been contextualized in Kamen Rider OOO that desire exists in a more literal way from the existence of Medals and Greeeds. Thus, we have enough evidence to connect the desire in OOO and Ryuki as one and the same.
TL;DR
All the additional abilities for Greeeds (Kyoryu Greeed, Gamel, and Uva):- Immortality Type 2: Greeeds can survive even when they remain as a hand or a single Core Medal.
- Limited Invulnerability: The Medals that make up a Greeed body are invulnerable against conventional attack, which means even an attack that cuts through space and vaporizes enemies couldn't destroy them, merely scatter them around. However, it's possible to deplete the Medals inside their bodies and potentially incapacitate them, as Greeed requires a huge sum of Medals to create a stable body.
- Enhanced Senses: They can hear the sound of Medals from kilometers away.
- Extrasensory Perception: They are able to sense the desire or greed of a person.
Desire is an abstract energy present in all living and non-living things. It is the driving force behind life and the thriving evolution of living things. Medals are derived from desires ranging from wanting objects or food to more abstract desires. As seen in the case of Yummy, desire has the ability to directly shape an individual's existence. As long as they are willing to fight for it, the desire that exists within human hearts has the ability to create the Mirror World, a world that contains infinite realities. The desire to fight will always bring the Mirror World back, no matter how many times it is destroyed.
There is an opposing aspect known as nonexistent desire, which is void of nothing and capable of erasing desire. Since the Purple Medals have the same power as the Pteranodon Yummies, they enable OOO to interact with those who lack desire.
From this, Kamen Rider OOO would have Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3, likely 2), as desire is an abstract energy that can govern an individual's existence and can warp the entire reality of Mirror World. As the Purple Medals have the same power as the Pteranodon Yummies, he would also get Non-Physical Interaction from being able to interact with the nonexistent desire. Kyoryu Greeed would get the same abilities as they all draw power from the Purple Medals.
