King (OOO)

The mysterious King (王) was Eiji Hino's predecessor who orchestrated the creation of the Greeed so that he would achieve godhood as the First OOO (先代オーズ). He is also an ancestor to Kousei Kougami.

Personality
According to the Kamen Rider OOO novel, the first OOO was similar to his descendant but even more malicious. He was a power-hungry greedy king that had a "soul of desire" (欲望の魂) who desired to become a god and in order to achieve his goal, he had four alchemists create the Core Medals, which manifested themselves as the Greeed, and the OOO Driver in order to harness the power of the Medals. He went as far as to betray his own allies in order to obtain what he wanted; first by turning the alchemists into Cell Medals and then taking his partner Ankh's Core Medals by force. Similar to his descendant Kousei Kougami, he also has a habit of shouting "Happy Birthday" as seen when he took the Greeeds' Core Medals during their birth.

Abilities
The King possessed the same equipment and abilities as Eiji, the only difference was that his OOO Scanner had a deeper voice and he also had the tenth set of each Core Medal which seemed to be stronger than most of Eiji's Medals. This is proven as he managed to defeat the Greeds in their full form at once. Unlike Eiji, who possessed no selfish desires, the king's self-centered desires made him descend further into insanity with each transformation.

History
The First Kamen Rider OOO was a greedy king of a mysterious lost European civilization, who wanted power more than anything else. Having Gara and three other alchemists create life through the Core Medals which became the Greeed, beings of living desire. When he no longer needed the alchemists, the king turned them into Cell Medals, not knowing that Gara's consciousness is still intact. After he witnesses the birth of the Greeeds, he says “Happy Birthday!” as he takes their Core Medals. Ankh joins up with the other Greeeds and agrees to take down the King together, in order to retrieve their Core Medals.

The King was insanely strong and controlled a large portion of Europe. He used the combos very efficiently; with Gatakiriba, he cloned himself and destroyed neighboring countries and their armies. He used Tajadol’s flight to his advantage and burned down villages that tried to oppose him. With Latoratah’s speed, he infiltrated enemy camps and strikes quickly. He used Sagohzo and Shauta to cause earthquakes and tsunamis to take down the Spanish Armada. The Greeeds finally managed to get their Core Medals back, but even when they were in their full form they couldn’t defeat the King.

In order to defeat him, they resorted to using Yummies created from the King’s greed. Uva, Kazari and Mezool creates the Cockroach, Lion and Whale Yummies, a group of Yummies who were almost as strong as a fully restored Greeed thanks of the King’s strong greed.

But none of that was enough as Ankh reveals that he was working with the King all along, but the King betrays Ankh and leads up to all of them being sealed and took their cores by force. He scanned all thirty Core Medal types at once in an attempt to gain their power through the OOO Scanner, which he thought could fulfill his desire to become a living god. However, this became his undoing.

The power was too great for him to handle and the First OOO turned into the stone coffin, and the four Greeed: Uva, Kazari, Gamel, Mezool, along with Ankh's right forearm became sealed in. The OOO Driver, the very thing that the greedy king sought to gain power from, became the lock of the coffin itself.

In the Final Stage, it is revealed that his soul was travelling in parallel world after death. In order to regain his original power of OOO, he sealed every OOO in each parallel world and become the ruler of the World of PuToTyra. He uses a gold medal to teleport Eiji Hino, the last OOO from the World of TaToBa, a.k.a. main time line world, to the World of PuToTyra. King assumes the form of OOO PuToTyra Combo to gain the trust of Eiji, and reveals his true identity after gathering other Greeed. He battles Eiji in Greeed form and gains advantages until Ankh grabs the medals from him and other Greeed. He is ultimately defeated by 8 OOO after Eiji releases all the other OOO from seal.

Kamen Rider Travelers Record
In this game, the first Kamen Rider OOO was revived by a scientist. But, OOO becomes wild and rampaged, like when Eiji was possessed by the purple Core Medals. Thus, he rebelled against his own creator. He serves as the main antagonist of the game.

Combos
Kamen Rider OOO's forms are called Combos (コンボ). By scanning the Core Medals in the OOO Driver with the O Scanner a second time after transforming, OOO can unleash the Combo's Scanning Charge (スキャニングチャージ) finishing attack.

Trivia

 * Rather fittingly, OOO can simply be pronounced as Oh, which is the Japanese word for King.
 * The King is completely different from Eiji: Whereas the former tried to use the power of OOO to take over the world, Eiji instead uses his strength to protect it, using the powers of the Medals to stop wars and give people hope for a new life.