Freeze

"I am invincible. I will stop all of humanity's memories!"

- Freeze before killing Drive.

The Freeze Roidmude (フリーズロイミュード), known simply as Freeze (フリーズ), originally Roidmude 001 (ロイミュード００１), and still referred to as 001 by the others, was one of the original trio of Roidmudes along with 002 and 003.

Shortly after his creation, he assumed the form of Soichi Makage (真影 壮一), the secretary of the National Bureau of Defense (国家防衛局), proceeding to establish a strong position in the political world. This alias allows him to keep an eye on the police forces, as well as Kamen Rider Drive when the Roidmude's case had been brought up. It is only after Shinnosuke Tomari discovers the truth and confronts "Makage" that 001 reveals himself and finally accesses his evolved form.

He is also the creator and developer of the Neo Viral Cores.

Profile

 * Motif basis:
 * Low-Class: Cobra
 * Advanced: Ice block, skeleton
 * Human form/synchronize: Soichi Makage

Past and Global Freeze
After their creation, the initial trio of Roidmudes murdered their creator, Dr. Banno. They then proceeded to the home of his colleague, Krim Steinbelt, who aided Banno in creating the Roidmudes with his Core Driviars, to kill him as well. However, unbeknownst to the Roidmudes, Steinbelt's consciousness was uploaded into the Drive Driver upon his death by their hand. Roidmude 001 later assumes the human guise of Soichi Makage, where he was promoted to the secretary of the national defense forces and has established a strong position in the political world.

He was present during a bank robbery incident which had occurred 12 years ago, and proceeded to alter the memories of all those connected to the incident. However, one of the witnesses, a police officer named Eisuke Tomari, had known of his true identity as a Roidmude and confronted him. Freeze used his memory alteration ability on Eisuke, but was stunned as it did not work on him. Freeze had to kill Eisuke as a last resort in order to silence him. It was also during this moment where Freeze gained the emotion of humiliation, which would be the key into his eventual evolution into his Advanced form.

Global Freeze and present
15 years later, all 108 Roidmudes emerged and launched an attack on human civilization which would be known as the Global Freeze. 001 was part of the Roidmude onslaught in Tokyo which was stopped by the Shift Cars and Kamen Rider Protodrive. He was present during the fall of Protodrive, announcing to a fallen Mr. Belt that he has lost. 001 also had a part in the brainwashing of Proto-Zero, alongside 002 and 003. Still with his human form's position, he was able to overseer the police activities and informed them to other Roidmude Executives.

Months later, when Brain is at wit's end after being bested by Medic multiple times, 001 willingly accepted his call for help, starting from creating new models of Viral Cores called Neo-Viral Cores, which enable the Roidmudes to evolve by fusing with the intended human so they can fuel themselves with their darker heart. He even entrusts Mitsuhide Nira, leader of the Police Department's First Division to look after the Special Investigation Unit so that he may able to destroy Drive (possibly as well as Mach and Chaser) from within.

After Drive separated Sword from Hajime Taga with a SpeeDrop, resulting in the destruction of Sword's body, Roidmude 001 made his appearance and took Sword Roidmude's core as it was floating away.

Later, he placed Brain into the investigation with the Special Investigation Unit and First Division in a plot to frame Shinnosuke and cause him to be suspended from being Drive. He as well granted Seeker Roidmude the ability to increase the negative energies of humans, while at the same time plots to use Go Shijima/Dr. Banno's son/Kamen Rider Mach as their trump card to ensure their victory.

Personality
As the first Roidmude to be created, 001 is wise, cunning and manipulative. As shown, he had planned from the beginning to join the police forces and promoted to the secretary of National Defense Agency, in order to weaken them so Roidmudes can continue their global domination. He even can simply use his memory manipulation to conceal certain criminal activities from police forces that may had been related to Roidmudes. 001 is also supportive of Brain, willing to help him after his comrades slowly reject him (Medic bested him multiple times with Heart continuing to favor her more than Brain). Even if he is one of the first trio of Roidmudes and among the single numbered ones, he refuses to take leadership of his kind, passing it to the other generals all while he oversees the police forces' activities, mainly because he likes working in the shadows.

Freeze claims that his special emotion is "humiliation (which causes his rage)", which he discovered upon confronting Eisuke, and intends to use his son as a key to complete his evolution.

Portrayal
Roidmude 001 is portrayed by Masami Horiuchi (堀内 正美). As the Freeze Roidmude, his suit actor is Masaru Obayashi (大林 勝)

Etymology
In his human identity's name, the Kanji Makage (真影) signifies him as the wirepuller while Ichi (一) reflects his designation number.

Appearance

 * Kamen Rider Drive
 * Episode 1: Why Did My Time Stop?
 * Episode 10: What Is in the Belt's Past?
 * Episode 25: Why Has a New Battle Started?
 * Episode 26: Where is Chaser Going?
 * Episode 0: Countdown to Global Freeze