Little Assassin

"Assassinate."

- Little Assassin's catchphrase

Little Assassin (暗殺ちゃん), as he was nicknamed by Jin, is an Assassin-Type HumaGear  created by MetsubouJinrai.net that transforms into the Dodo Magia (ドードーマギア).

Origins
Little Assassin was originally part of the Zetto Matsurida series, a model of Humagear created to dance in festivals. All five units of the series were captured by a group of thieves, who specializes in changing control ID and face of Humagears. MetsubouJinrai.net then obtained them by unknown mean. One unit managed to escape somewhere in the process and thus only four of them were known as Little Assassin.

Horobi repurposed all four units into assassin-type, releasing them one by one with intention to improve the next one using the data stored in Dodo Zetsumerise Key.

Kamen Rider Zero-One
In his first appearance, Little Assassin was introduced to Jin by Horobi, who elaborates that the Humagear will become stronger over time as he learns from battles. Horobi then provides Little Assassin the Dodo Zetsumerise Key gives him the order to assassinate Kamen Rider Zero-One. After Jin and Little Assassin deploy, they are instead intercepted by Yua Yaiba, who transforms into Kamen Rider Valkyrie. Before Little Assassin can transform, Valkyrie inserts the Freezing Bear Progrise Key into his ZetsumeRiser, causing it to malfunction and freeze him. Little Assassin is then transported away by A.I.M.S. personnel while Jin is distracted by Valkyrie

Yaiba reprograms Little Assassin, but keeps his directive to assassinate Zero-One. He reappears during the Mammoth Magia's attack and transforms into the Dodo Magia while being filmed by Yaiba. He fights Zero-One and Vulcan alongside the Mammoth Magia, but is destroyed by Vulcan using the Attache Calibur. His Dodo ZetsumeRize Key is recovered by Jin.

Little Assassin reappears infiltrating a hospital with a protected local HumaGear network and attempts to hack one of the nurses without success. Upon returning to base, Horobi explains to a surprised Jin that he uploaded Little Assassin's backed-up data into a new body and gives him the order to assassinate Yua Yaiba instead. Little Assassin joins Jin and Horobi during the assault on A.I.M.S. HQ and transforms into the Dodo Magia again, now armed with twin swords due to incorporating data from his previous battle. The three retreat after Jin defeats Valkyrie and Horobi succeeds in stealing the Attache Weapons.

He reappears as the Dodo Magia during the attack on the hospital and and battles Zero-One. However, he was destroyed a second time by Zero-One using all of his current Progrise Keys in rapid succession, preventing him from adapting.

It is later revealed that there are five Little Assassins, with the Dodo Magia Custom Mk-2 being the fourth.

Personality
As Little Assassin is a MetsubouJinrai creation as opposed to a hacked unit, he is little more than a robotic android with no existing template to work off of. However, his ability to adapt has caused him to inherit many of Jin's child-like traits and essentially emulates a playful child, gesticulating and adding goofy expressions to his sentences. After his first defeat, he becomes a bit more stoic and occasionally shows slight annoyance toward Jin. However, he still continues to exhibit many of the behaviors he learned from Jin.

During his training with Shinya Owada, Little Assassin becomes more self-aware and starts acting independently, ultimately culminating in him defying MetsubouJinrai.net by attempting to assassinate Enji Matsuda for failing to meet Owada's expectations for acting. After achieving his Dodo Magia Custom form, his voice becomes much deeper and he ceases to exhibit the quirks he learned from Jin. As a miscalculation from Horobi, Little Assassin's capability on learning to further improve its skill even lead Little Assassin to believe that to become a better assassin, one must able to surpass his master, by killing them. This error existed when Horobi ordered Little Assassin to kill Shinya, unexpectedly giving the conclusion belief by Little Assassin himself.

Equipment

 * ZetsumeRiser
 * Dodo Zetsumerise Key

Portrayal
HumaGear Assassin is portrayed by Ryunosuke Matsumura (松村龍之介)

Etymology

 * The Dodo Magia is named after the, an extinct species of flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius and was hunted to extinction by 1662.

Appearances

 * Icon-zero-one.png Kamen Rider Zero-One
 * Episode 7: I am a Hot-Blooded HumaGear Teacher!
 * Episode 8: The Destruction Begins Now
 * Episode 9: I'll Take Care of Your Life
 * Episode 10: I am an Actor, Shinya Owada
 * Episode 11: Don't Stop the Camera, Stop That Guy!
 * Episode 12: The Famous Detective is Coming
 * Episode 13: I Work as the President's Secretary