Time Jackers

This article is about a set of antagonists in Kamen Rider Zi-O.

The Time Jackers (タイムジャッカー, Taimu Jakkā) are a group of individuals who seek to alter history by creating monsters known as Another Riders. There are Time Jackers throughout the multiverse, with Swartz being the most infamous one as he attempted to take the throne from Ohma Zi-O and become king himself.

In other timelines (and alternate universes), Tid, Spade and Finis executed their own agendas while staying unaffiliated with Swartz.

History

World of Swartz

There are Time Jackers throughout space and time. In the World of Swartz, the group was founded by Swartz, a member of a royal family capable of manipulating time. However because his younger sister Alpina was chosen to succeed the throne over Swartz, he became jealous and abandoned his younger sister in Ohma Zi-O's timeline in an effort to take kingship for himself. Swartz then traveled to different periods in time, recruiting Heure and Ora to carry out his orders and fully founding the Time Jackers in his space-time. They travel to different years within the Heisei era of Japan and turn several people in Another Riders, coming into conflict with Sougo Tokiwa, a young man blessed with the makings of a king, and Swartz's true target.

However their activities had caught the attention of Tsukasa Kadoya, who then traveled to their world to prevent them from fully altering the timeline. After disbanding the Time Jackers and stripping Ora and Heure of their powers, Swartz steals Tsukasa's powers and becomes Another Decade himself.

As Ora and Heure are misguided and eventually taken in by Sougo, the two ultimately meet their demise as her Swartz's plans. Fully armed with the power of Ohma Zi-O, Sougo and Swartz engage in their final showdown, with Sougo coming out on top. Sougo then chooses to reset time, placing Ora and Heure as high school students, with Swartz becoming a teacher.

World of Ataru

Sometime in the future, Tid became a Time Jacker. ^{[Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FOREVER]}

World of Zero-One

Sometime in the future, Finis became a Time Jacker and traveled to the past to prevent the Daybreak Town Accident from happening. By doing so, she created Another Zero-One and severely altered the timeline. ^{[Kamen Rider: Reiwa The First Generation]}

Powers and Abilities

• Time Travel: Most of the Time Jackers have been shown to possess the ability to travel back and forth across the timeline without the apparent use of a Time Mazine. Tid seems to lack this ability as he's been shown to use the Another Den-Liner instead.
• Time Manipulation: Time Jackers who are part of the same bloodline as Swartz and Tsukuyomi have the innate ability to stop time interact with those they wish while in stasis. Swartz can also bestow a slightly weaker version of this ability to others if he wishes, as he did for Heure, Ora, and Daiki Kaito.
• Mind Control: Tid is the only Time Jacker capable of controlling someone through the eye located on the palm of his left hand.

Weaknesses

• Future Note: Future Note tablet can bypass Time Jackers' abilities and counter them if someone writes the said event on it. It was mostly performed by White Woz before Diend took it away. ^{[Happy New Woz 2019]}.
• Tsukuyomi: Alpina, being the true heir to the Time Jacker Dynasty, has the greatest control over time powers.

Arsenal

• Anotherwatches: Pocket watch-like devices which the Time Jackers use to form contracts with people whom they transformed into Another Riders.
• Time Mazines: Time traveling mechas used by the Time Jackers for combat purposes, mainly used to prevent Zi-O to foil their plans. Unlike the regular model, the Time Jackers' Time Mazines transform into legend Rider Mecha. It's unknown if these Time Mazines are the same Legend Rider Mecha but from the future and modified to work as Time Mazines.
  • Heure's Time Mazine transforms into Captain Ghost from the Kamen Rider Ghost series.
  • Ora's Time Mazine transforms into Castle Doran from the Kamen Rider Kiva series.

Members

Notes

• Time Jacker could be a portmanteau of "time" and "hijacker".
• This is the first evil organization since the Roidmudes to turn good and defect to the main Riders' allies (Chase and Woz) against their leaders.
• They are the only evil organization in the 2nd phase Heisei Era to not appear in any films during the series run.

Appearances

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