 This article is about an episode in Kamen Rider, the original series.
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Gel Shocker Destroyed! The Leader's End!! (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. While not initially intended to be the end of the show, it ended up as such when the introduction of the third Kamen Rider, occuring over the next two episodes, evolved into a second Kamen Rider show as episodes 99 and 100 became the first two episodes of Kamen Rider V3. [1]
Synopsis[]
Hayato arrives and rescues Hongo in the nick of time. They capture Hilchameleon and take him to a museum at an amusement park for a chance to finally catch General Black. It's a trap and an army of revived Gel-Shocker monsters appear, and once they're defeated the Double Riders have a final confrontation with the mysterious Leader.
Plot[]
Trying to rescue his friends from Gel Shocker, Takeshi raids in and tried to transform but frozen by Hilchameleon. As one of them about to be modified into a Gel Shocker Monster, Kamen Rider 2 returns and defeats the Gel Shocker troops, rescuing the Rider Squad members and Takeshi himself. They proceed to capture Hilchameleon and ask him about General Black's location, but he refuses to speak. General Black's voice through the speakers tells them to bring Hilchameleon to him and so the Double Riders follow their only lead, taking Hilchameleon to the arranged place, only to see themselves surrounded by revived Gel Shocker monsters. General Black's voice comes from Hilchameleon himself, who leads them to that trap and reveals itself to be General Black himself. However, to his surprise, the two Riders were already expecting that. Takeshi and Hayato go after General Black, while Kazuya tells them that he'll handle the monsters, which escape in a truck. Hilchameleon can't keep up with the Riders and attempts to escape by using his invisibility. However, Riders 1 and 2 sense his presence and hit him with a double chop, which finishes off the Gel Shocker commander. Kazuya catches up with the monsters, just to be captured. Using a digital voice mimicking Kazuya's, the Shocker Leader sends the two Riders towards Gel Shocker's headquarters. They're surrounded by the Gel Shocker monster troops but managed to destroy all of them once again. Afterward, the Kamen Rider Kid Corps members are used by the Shocker Leader as hostages, and the Riders run through a minefield to reach them. The Riders seemingly fall, only to surprise the Shocker Leader by appearing in his command room. The Shocker Leader was covered by a mantle, and Rider 2 grabs it, only to reveal a head full of snakes. Promising to send them to hell for destroying Gel Shocker, the Riders are hit by powerful waves of energy, but managed to run through them and grab the Shocker Leader's head, and pulling the snakes off his head, only to reveal a plain featureless cyclops underneath. The Shocker Leader tells them that this is the end of Gel Shocker, and they'll all die together, before falling on the ground just as the explosions start. Hayato notices the Shocker Leader's supposedly real form fallen on the ground and attempts to approach it, but when they're about to do that the explosions just increase and the entire underground headquarters, and even the lake above it, explode.
With Gel Shocker destroyed, Kazuya's mission is complete, and he returns to the USA. Everyone watch his plane's departure, believing for a moment that peace has returned and the days of fighting finally have ended.
Cast[]
- Takeshi Hongo (本郷 猛, Hongō Takeshi): Hiroshi Fujioka (藤岡 弘, Fujioka Hiroshi)
- Hayato Ichimonji (一文字 隼人, Ichimonji Hayato): Takeshi Sasaki (佐々木 剛, Sasaki Takeshi)
- Tobee Tachibana (立花 藤兵衛, Tachibana Tobee): Akiji Kobayashi (小林 昭二, Kobayashi Akiji)
- Kazuya Taki (滝 和也, Taki Kazuya): Jiro Chiba (千葉 治郎, Chiba Jirō)
- The Great Leader of Shocker/Gel Shocker (ショッカー/ゲルショッカー首領, Shokkā/Geru Shokkā Shuryō, Voice): Goro Naya (納谷 悟朗, Naya Gorō)
- Narrator (ナレーター, Narētā): Shinji Nakae (中江 真司, Nakae Shinji)
Errors[]
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Notes[]
- This episode aired on NET alongside episode 31 of Android Kikaider, Octopus Gold Calls for Jiro's Death.
- Takeshi Hongo, Tobee Tachibana, and the Shocker Leader (voice only in his case) are the only characters to appear in both the first episode and this episode of Kamen Rider. Of these, Tachibana and the Shocker Leader are the only characters to have remained a constant presence throughout the entire series.
- Footage from this episode, featuring the Double Riders' showdown against both General Black and the Shocker Leader, is featured as part of Tobee Tachibana's retrospective in episode 27 of Kamen Rider X.
- This episode would receive an additional follow-up 41 years after its premiere in the form of the S.I.C. Hero Saga story, Kamen Rider: Episode 99, taking place before the first episode of Kamen Rider V3 with its title based on that episode's initial number. Following Takeshi Hongo and Hayato Ichimonji after the destruction of Shocker as well as introducing Destron cyborg Hasami Jaguar and never-before-seen Shocker cyborgs Kenji/Macrophandes and Mieko/Hydragen.
- The scene where the Riders defeat the Shocker Leader was reused and redubbed 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 Shocker Leader previously appeared in the 2011 movie, which also featured a change to the timeline, only that time it was stated to be in 1971 despite appearing more similar to 1973. [OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders#Continuity and Placement].
Digital Releases[]
- Kamen Rider DVD Volume 16 features episodes 92-98.[2]
- Kamen Rider Blu-ray Volume 4 features episodes 80-98.[3]
- Kamen Rider 4K Remaster Box 4 features episodes 80-98.
