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Here are few notes, trivias, and references found in Kamen Rider Drive inside and outside of the Kamen Rider Series.

Knight Rider
The show is a tribute to the TV series Knight Rider, giving another tagline, "Kamen Rider meets Knight Rider".
 * The titular Rider of the series along with the Rider Machine is a homage to K.I.T.T.

Kamen Rider Original Series

 * Two of the three types of Combatmen-based Roidmudes are allusions to the first two kaijin from the original series fought by the very first Kamen Rider.


 * Medic's devotion towards Heart harkens back to that of  love for . On a side note, both possess golden-like ultimate forms: Super Evolution States and Mythical Beast Forms respectively. Unlike Medic and Heart, Rio and Mele's Gen-Ki powers were temporary. Eventually, they sided with the main heroes to fight a common enemy - Banno and  respectively.

Metal Hero series

 * Gold Drive can be seen as an analogue to  from Uchuu Keiji Sharivan NEXT GENERATION. At first they briefly worked with the protagonists, until they revealed their true colors. Unlike Estevan, Banno was still an imprisoned in a tablet before getting hands Krim's on creating his own Drive Driver, while the latter is immediately a Space Sheriff. On a side note, both their suits, are obviously gold.

TV series
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Robocon
The  is one of Shotaro Ishinomori's tokusatsu creation. Considering the main writer of Drive is a well-known Showa fans and his fondness of using the in ' to create the characters in '.Something about the Roidmudes are noteworthy:


 * The procedure Tenjuro Banno's face design is very similar to the Gantsu Sensei
 * Also, Gantsu Sensei is the creator of the Robocon just like Banno created the Roidmudes.
 * Robocon is a red robot who always pay attention to its friendship and generate heat.
 * Also a heart-icon on its navel.
 * Robogari is a study robot, he wears a glasses and have a big brain.
 * There are two female robots named Robin and Robopecha in Robocon series, Robin is a girl-like robot always perform the ballet and Robopecha is a nurse robot just like
 * The Roidmudes killed Banno and Krim in 1999, the year that Moero!! Robocon series aired its first episode.
 * The Roidmudes needed some Super Advanced Roidmudes to achieve the Promised Number, the robots in Robocon also need to achieve some gold medal on their body to graduate.

Comics

 * The advent of Gold Drive in the show is a reference to DC Comics villain Reverse-Flash in terms of color scheme, serving as a counterpart to the main hero (The Flash and Drive.)
 * The events of Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future parallels to Marvel's Spider-Man: Edge of Time as it follows:
 * Both timelines (2099 in Edge of Time and 2035 in Surprise Future) depicted as dark and dystopic places. Powerful companies such as Alchemax in 2099 and Roidmudes in 2035 administer their domination over the world respectively.
 * Krim's future self is similar to that of Walker Sloan and a fallen Peter Parker, while Eiji Tomari is the equivalent to Miguel O'Hara, the Spider-Man of 2099.

Bleach

 * With Banno being portrayed by voice actor Masakazu Morita, his personality mirrors that of Zangetsu, the Zanpakuto spirit who is Ichigo Kurosaki's inner Hollow. Banno's ability to possess a Roidmude's body as first demonstrated in episode 41 is similar to how Zangetsu takes over Ichigo under certain circumstances.
 * Banno becoming Gold Drive with Roidmude 006 as his host body reflects on how Zangetsu fused with the manifestation of the same name as the latter who happens to be the Quincy powers of Ichigo. Like Roidmude 006 along with the data of the Kamen Rider Drive system, the Quincy manifestation Zangetsu is the body with the Hollow taking control, resulting in the Hollowfied Tensa Zangetsu.
 * Zangetsu constantly tormenting Ichigo is similar to how Banno torturing Heart.
 * Ironically, Masakazu as Banno is the main antagonist in Drive, while his role as Ichigo in Bleach is the main protagonist, with Zangetsu being Ichigo's split personality.
 * Drive's rivalry with Chase (during his time as Mashin Chaser) somewhat parallels to that of Ichigo and the Arrancar Ulquiorra Cifer. On a side note, whenever Drive and Mashin Chaser or Ichigo and Ulquiorra respectively fight, it almost involves Kiriko Shijima and Orihime Inoue being the target of the latter. Unlike Ulquiorra, who takes an 'interest' in Orihime, Kiriko remembering Chase is due to the fact that he was the one who saved her during the events of the Global Freeze as Protodrive.
 * Also, Chase could be also similar to Ulquiorra, both are somewhat aloof and emotionless, in contrast to those of their kind.
 * The Roidmudes are also tied to the Arrancar, in terms of their process of evolution. How Aizen being able to remove a Hollow's mask by means of Hogyoku is similar how Banno creating the Roidmudes' ability to evolve into more powerful forms.
 * Whenever Drive is in Type Tridoron and Mr. Belt borrows Shinnosuke's body is similar to Zangetsu borrowing Ichigo's when needed the most. Unlike Drive Type Tridoron, Zangetsu fights in a more feral state, as Krim fights in a rather stylish manner similar to that in an Hong Kong-style action movie.

Naruto

 * Shift Midnight Shadow's ability to create copies of the user and firing shurikens is similar to Naruto Uzumaki's Shadow Clone Jutsu and his Rasenshuriken variations.
 * Roidmude 004 is also similar to Black Zetsu, both who are created to served their creators' sinister ends (Tenjuro Banno and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki). Roidmude 004, along with 001 to 003 were among the Roidmudes who stormed Krim Steinbelt's home, with it having copied the scientists' identity, while Black Zetsu was created by Kaguya when the latter was about to be sealed by her sons (Hagoromo and Hamura) with the intent to revive her.
 * How Banno being imprisoned in Brain's tablet is likely a nod to Kaguya (in the form of the Ten-Tales) being sealed by her children
 * The Promised Number (along with the recreation of a second Global Freeze) can be considered linked to the Eye of the Moon Plan, both are used to administer dominance over humanity. Their respective components to their plan - the Sigma Circular and the Infinite Tsukuyomi are the finishing piece of their puzzles, with the result of their plans allows them to enslave all of humanity.

Other anime series

 * Freeze Roidmude can be linked to Albert Maverick, the main antagonist of Tiger & Bunny, where both are masterminds under the guise of public figures, capable of manipulating one's memories and also had made the protagonist's allies (Barnaby Brooks Jr. for Albert and Chase, later Go Shijima for Freeze; although the latter actually went undercover) turn against their fellow comrades. They even had something associated to serpents (Freeze is a Cobra-Type Roidmude and Albert is a member of Ouroboros).
 * Barnaby Brooks Jr. was voiced by Masakazu Morita, whom turned out to be Tenjuro Banno's actor as well. This is also an irony, as Masakazu voiced Barnaby, the victim of brainwashing, his character as Banno in two three years later had a son played the same role.
 * Freeze Roidmude can also be related to Frieza in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, both of them were dead and revive again, having a Evolution that turn the whole body into gold and purple.
 * Banno's personality can be linked to Seiji Noumi, the main antagonist of the light novel Accel World, Dusk Robber Arc. As shown, both had the tendency to steal anything for their own desires, and thus said personality was manifested to their alter-ego's main abilities: Dusk Taker (Seiji) utilizes Demonic Commandeer and Gold Drive (Banno) uses Gold Conversion.

Final Fantasy series

 * Banno can be associated to Kefka Palazzo, the main antagonist of Final Fantasy VI, both of their true natures describe them as sadistic, nihilistic, and megalomaniacal. They also have used test subjects to further their goals (Heart for Banno, and Terra Branford for Kefka) at one time.
 * Also, they orchestrated a phenomena that serve as a warning to those who oppose them - the Global Freeze and the moving of the Warring Triad statues out of alignment that resulted a cataclysm, in addition to obliterating anyone with the Light of Judgment.
 * Banno's attempt to gather Heart, Medic, and Brain in order to recreate a second Global Freeze is similar how Kefka misaligning the Warring Triad's statues that resulted shifted the face of the world.
 * Chase's brainwashing and identity crisis can be a reference to Terra Branford from the aforementioned game. Both possess a half-human blood (as they are part-Roidmude and part-Esper respectively) and served as "subordinates" to the villainous factions - the Roidmudes and Gestahlian Empire. The main difference is Chase is reprogrammed by the first three Roidmudes at the end of the Global Freeze, while Terra in the other hand, as an infant was taken by Emperor Gestahl, and then was used as a puppet by Kefka through a slave crown.
 * On a side note, both Chase and Terra try to understand the meaning of love; in Chase's case, due to him being a Roidmude prototype, he doesn't know the meaning of love, family, and friendship leading him to ask anyone around the Drive Pit (including Shinnosuke), while Terra on the other hand, could not feel love after looking back to her humanity forcing her to ask her fellow Returners.
 * How Banno managed to tamper Medic's A.I. after the latter achieves Super Evolution is also similar to Kefka have Terra wore the slave crown. On both respective sides, they were turned into mindless puppets who obeyed their command.

Metal Gear franchise

 * The Rider Robo in its appearance in  draws inspiration to the Metal Gear mechs of the franchise. However, unlike the Rider Robo, the Metal Gears are bipedal tanks. Both utilize superweapons in some facets.

Need For Speed series

 * In Need For Speed: Underground/Underground 2, during drag racing modes where the player uses manual transmission and if the player fails to change gear as the speedometer redlines and their car's engine overheats is similar to Drive Type Dead Heat/Dead Heat Mach's DH Kourin redlining and causing the users to go berserk.

References to other Kamen Riders

 * Shift Midnight Shadow's ability to create copies of the user harkens back to Ryuki and Knight's Trick Vent cards, Garren's Gemini Rouze Card, Decade and Diend's Attack Ride: Illusion.
 * Medic's appearance associated to her moniker as a Devil (Black) and Goddess (White) is analogous to Kotaro Minami's appearances in crossovers (including the most recent being ) whenever he assumes the powers of either Kamen Rider Black (Black) and/or Black RX (White).
 * Banno is also similar to Ryoma Sengoku (Kamen Rider Duke) from the previous series. Both are scientists, who also in turn secretly planned their own agenda behind the scenes and subsequently turned against their allies (the entire Special Investigation Unit; including his children, and the Kureshima siblings respectively) to further their sinister ends. On a side note, both their Rider systems are claimed to be unrivaled.

Real World references

 * Whenever Drive Type Dead Heat or Dead Heat Mach are in the verge of going berserk after their DH Kourin redlines is an allusion to vehicle engines tendencies of overheating. The Dead Heat Tire's treads burst parallels to any compartment of an engine is damaged upon overheating. The overheating fits Drive more as he is based on a four-wheeled based vehicle.