Gel Shocker Destroyed! The Leader's End!!

This article is about an episode in Kamen Rider, the original series.

Gel Shocker Destroyed! The Leader's End!!
Kamen Rider, Episode 98
Air Date	February 10, 1973
Production Information
Writer(s)	Masaru Igami
Director	Masaki Tsukada
Episode Guide
Previous	Takeshi Hongo, Transformation Impossible
Next	Rider No. 3: His Name is V3!

Gel-Shocker Annihilated! The End of the Leader!! (ゲルショッカー全滅！首領の最後！！, Gerushokkā Zenmetsu! Shuryō no Saigo!!) is the ninety-eighth and final episode of the original Kamen Rider series.

Synopsis

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Plot

Main Timeline

Trying to rescue his friends from Gel-Shocker, Takeshi raid in and tried to transform but frozen by Hiruchameleon. As one of them about to be modified into a Gel-Shocker Monster, Kamen Rider 2 dashed in and fought the Gel-Shocker surgeons at the same time freeing the captives. Takeshi was unfrozen and transform into Kamen Rider 1 as the Double Riders fought against the monsters and detecting the timer bomb in the base. After a short duel, the Double Riders took Hiruchameleon and force him to reveal the rest of the Gel-Shocker army. He brought them to an old warehouse where several past Gel-Shocker monsters ambushed the Double Riders. As Hiruchameleon escaped and join the army, they fought the Double Riders at an amusement park. With Hiruchameleon left as a lone survivor, he fought the Double Riders on roller coaster and was defeated by their Rider Double Chop when turning invisible after weakened, reverts to his human form cursing the Double Rider and exploded. Taki himself tried to track down a truck carrying another revived Gel-Shocker army, only to be attacked by its passengers. Taki along with The Boys' Kamen Rider Squad and their friends were used as baits once again by Great Leader to lure the Double Riders to rescue them, resulting the two injured by multiple land mines. Nonetheless, they stood up again and went to the Gel-Shocker base (which located underneath the sea next to the beach they stood), facing the Great Leader of Shocker for the first time. During their fight, they pulled his red mask, revealing a Cyclopean medusa head but still think of this as a trick, they pull this "face" once again, revealing his white-colored head with one large eye. He sets off the headquarters' self-destruct system in a final attempt to kill the Riders, but only resulted in him being killed instead and the two Riders escaping, therefore ending Shocker's reign of terror. With Great Leader presumed died, Japan was finally freed from Shocker's reign of terror. Takeshi and his friends watch and bid farewell to Taki as he leaved Japan with a ferry.

Altered Timeline

^{[Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3]}

Cast

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Notes

• This is the only episode which doesn't have an ending song.
• This was the first episode where the Double Riders were called "Rider #1" and "Rider #2", which they would be known as in their appearances in later Rider series and movies.
• Takeshi Hongo, Tobei Tachibana, and the Great Leader of Shocker (voice only in his case) are the only characters to appear in both the first and final episodes of Kamen Rider. Of these, Tachibana and the Great Leader are the only characters to have remained a constant presence throughout the entire series.
• The scene where the Riders defeat the Great Leader of Shocker was re-filmed with modern technology for Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3 (2015), which centers around an alteration to history made in 1973.
  • A similar re-enactment of the Double Riders' showdown with the Great Leader previously appeared in OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders (2011), which also featured a change to the timeline, only that time it was stated to be in 1971 despite appearing more similar to 1973 (see OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders#Continuity and Placement).