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- "Be dyed in gold. (金色に染まれ, Konjiki ni somare)"
- ―Glion's phrase when using his powers[src]
Glion (グリオン, Gurion)[1] is the main antagonist of Kamen Rider Gotchard. He was an evil alchemist who led the Three Dark Sisters into opening the Door of Darkness for the Dark Kings and briefly transformed into Kamen Rider Dread (仮面ライダードレッド, Kamen Raidā Doreddo). To achieve his goal of reaching El Dorado, he transforms into Kamen Rider Eld (仮面ライダーエルド, Kamen Raidā Erudo).[2]
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History
Background
- Main article: Dark Kings
In the early days of alchemy, three alchemists who were originally human, abandoned their humanity using the power of Philosopher's Stone and became an entity known as Dark King. Three of them were Germain, who specialised in alchemy, Gaelijah, who specialised in astrology, and Gigist, who created the first Chemies known as Gaiard and Dragonalos. Later on, Dark King created and enslaved Glion.
120 years ago, Dark King were sealed behind Door of Darkness by Alchemist of the Daybreak, and remaining Glion joined Alchemys Union to continue his research.
It is unknown how long he had "lived" before joining the Alchemys Union and began working with Fuga Kudo and his daughter Rinne Kudo. Because of his exposure to them, he began to gradually develop emotions and created the Three Dark Sisters along with other Malice Dolls. At some point, Glion taught at the Alchemist Academy.
The Riot Ten Years Ago
Ten years ago, Glion brainwashed the Alchemist higher-ups into believing that Fuga Kudo was a traitor who ran away with the Chemies and the driver in-development. He and the Three Dark Sisters tracked Fuga to a secret hideout in the Ouroboros Realm and discovered documents about the "Door of Darkness". Although Saboneedle managed to ambush and hit him with a needle attack, Glion remained unfazed and casually removed the needles from his face. He then used a mysterious crystal to turn the Chemy into gold, but Fuga appeared in time to save Saboneedle. The malevolent Alchemist unleashed an energy assault on Fuga, who was swiftly protected by X Wizard and X Fortress while UFO-X imprisoned the sisters. An explosion ensued, destroying Glion's crystal and presumably forcing him and his minions to retreat.
Days later, Glion and the sisters attacked the Alchemys Union Outer Research Facility and headed toward the Ouroboros Realm gate in an attempt to open the "Door of Darkness". While Minato teamed with his junior friend, Daiki Suzuya to stop him, using alchemy to restrain Glion with chains, Glion soon break free by himself using alchemy to transmutate the chain into a Gold Cube, and killed Suzuya afterwards, he then use his alchemy to brainwash all nearby students to kill each other, leaving only Minato alive. Later, in Alchemist Alchemy's basement, Supana Kurogane's parents, Renchi Kurogane and Suzu Kurogane, who try to stop Glion as he tries to opened the Door of Darkness, Glion easily overwhelms them with his own alchemy, and killed them instantly. Glion realized that their son Supana have the potential of possessing Black Flame. After the incident, Glion spent the next ten years in recovery soon after.
Present-day Surfacing
Years later, Glion appeared to the Three Dark Sisters after Lachesis (as the Orochi Malgam) was defeated by Gotchard and Gotchard Daybreak. Atropos asked him who Daybreak was, to which he eerily responded it was time to begin the next experiment. The Alchemist took a Malice Doll from his pocket dimension and fused it with Neminemoon into Moon Malgam. Glion then entered the Alchemist Academy and confronted Minato. He evidently brainwashed the professor into believing that capturing Chemies and creating Malgams would protect the natural order. This caused Minato to become Kamen Rider Dread and turn on Houtaro Ichinose's group. After Moon Malgam's defeat and Gotchard Daybreak's disappearance, Glion ordered Minato to finally get rid of his former student.
When one of his Malice Dolls woke up, Glion fed him with some meat he transmuted. When the Dark Sisters returned and offered him with some Chemies they had captured, he fused Yoacerberus with the doll into Cerberus Malgam and gave Atropos a golden pan flute to control him. The flute was accidentally destroyed later, which caused Cerberus to become rogue and temporarily turned Atropos's right hand into gold. After the Malgam was destroyed by the Kamen Riders and Atropos retreated to the Academy, Glion greeted and apologized to Atropos for the accident.
Later, Glion created Angel Malgam, to continue the plan that failed 10 years ago. The plan was to make Supana hatred towards him increases, and stimulate the black flame ability in his body, then take this power into his own hands. Angel Malgam briefly resurrect Supana's parents, Glion kill them with his own hands in front of Supana, the latter swallowed by strong malice and turned into Wheel Malgam. However, with the help of Houtaro and his allies, Supana reminds of his original intention as an alchemist, successfully suppressed the Black Flame and became Kamen Rider Valvarad. Glion did not take any actions after that, until he suddenly took out the Dreadriver and the card and asked Minato to become Dread Type One.
Next few days, Glion created Pteranodon Malgam, using the power of the Malgam, he succeeded in stealing most of the Ride Chemy Cards that Houtaro and his allies had. While casting a suspicious eye at Iron Gatchard, whose form has been transformed by ancient alchemy, he orders Minato to eliminate the Kamen Riders. After Minato is defeated by Iron Gotchard, he begins preparations to open the Door of Darkness.
In order to get his hands on Gaiard, the most important Chemy to open the Door of Darkness, he frees Dragonalos who was imprisoned inside his golden cube, and seals it in a card. He combines it with an Malice Doll to create Dragon Malgam, the latter defeated all Kamen Riders and attempt to catch Gaiard. However, Dragon Malgam were defeated by Kamen Rider Wind who transformed by Fuga Kudo. Glion seems had anticipated this, as he suddenly stabbed Fuga from behind after Fuga cancels his transformation, stealing his Ride Chemy Cards including Dragonalos, Gaiard, Kuroana and Gigabaham. He then travels to the Ouroboros Realm in search of the "greatest chemistry" he was unable to achieve ten years ago.
Ultimate Plan and First Defeat
As his plans began to flourish, Glion had gathered as many Chemies as he had. When he had enough of them, he had faced Houtaro, Rinne and Supana as Dread Type Two, later upgrading into Type Three. As he defeated the three riders, he got the Gotchardriver and commences the ritual to open the Door of Darkness, revealing his disillusionment with the world and ultimate goal as an alchemist is freezing it in place by turning everything to gold and admiring it for all eternity.
When Glion was about to kill Houtaro for critizing his dream, Minato intervenes and holds him off so Houtaro can reach the Chemies. Houtaro manages to get through to the captured Chemies, and as he saw Hopper1 evolve into Crosshopper, leaving Glion flabbergasted as he knocks Minato away and transforms to Dread to stop this. But he arrives too late to stop Houtaro from fully disrupting the ritual as Iron Gotchard, utterly furious as he attempts to kill the youth. But Houtaro transformed from Iron Gotchard to Platina Gotchard, defeating Glion as he is dragged into the Door of Darkness by Germain to be consumed, leaving his gold cube behind. The gold cube is wielded by Atropos since his defeat, use for creating Malgams.
Later, it was revealed that Glion's actions are known by the Alchemys Union.
Revival and Next Plan
After Germain is defeated by Kamen Rider Rainbow Gotchard, Majade and Valvarad, Atropos uses the gold cube Glion had left to revive his physical body, thereby consuming Germain. Following his resurrection, he declares that he will not perish until his ambitions are achieved and then take his leave with Atropos.
Glion briefly participated in a private meeting between Gigist and Gaelijah, regarding the distribution of the fragments of Philosopher's Stone after Germain was defeated, and tell them that he replaced Germain's posistion, which is equal to a Dark King. Although this caused dissatisfaction from them, the remaining two Dark Kings did not choose to stop Glion's next action.
Glion planning of using Isaac to create his own armies, so he targeted the Kongo Laboratory, during the process, he used the 102nd Chemy Kamedoon to forcibly transform Mami Kongo into a Malgam to hinder the Kamen Riders. After he untied the barrier and found the location of the Laboratory, Glion successfully stole Kenichi Tsuruhara's tablet and forced the latter to transform into Kamedoon Malgam (Dark) to further stopping the Kamen Riders. He also created a Dreatrooper by transmuting the Kenchi's tablet into Dreadriver, as his one of experiment. After observing Kamedoon Malgam and the Dreadtroopers rampaging for a while, he whispered something to Mami who called out to him, and then left the battle.
Glion then returned to the throne room and embraced Atropos, who had prepared the throne. He muttered to her "I'll show you something good," and threw the metal fittings, creating countless Dreadrivers. Glion would later reverse the Eldoradriver utlilized by his future self.
Revealing His True Colors
Glion focuses on creating more Dreatroopers ignored the other Dark Kings' actions before confronting Gaelijah to ask what the difference was between her and the others being defeated by Kamen Riders. Despite his dislike of Clotho aiding Gaelijah, he accepts her pleas forgive Lachesis, understanding the strength of her love for her family.
One day in his throne room, Glion has Atropos dressed in new clothes as a "gift" and reads "The Great Path of Alchemy" in front of her. Their appearance was just like that of Fuga and Rinne. When he learned from Atropos that Supana had performed 101st transmutation and was plotting to defeat the Dark King, he muttered "People who sacrifice themselves are a bit troublesome..." and sent Atropos to scout, unfortunately Atropos is kidnapped by Clotho under Gaelijah's order.
Learning of Gaelijah's plan to use Atropos to create a Chimera, Glion seemed to panic as he begs Fuga for help. Fuga agreed since both wish to save their daughters from Gaelijah, who traps the two into playing a Russian roulette-like death match before Kamen Rider Gotchard interenes as Bulletchouco Wild so the men can reach their daughters. But Glion uses the brief embrace to alter the transmutation circles on Atropos and Rinne's hands, revealing that he knew Gaelijah's plan and intends to use the Chimera for his agenda of creating El Dorado. He then admits even if the plan fails should Rinne die, he would still be satisfied over Fuga's look of despair. Seeing Atropos's shock that her creator never intended to save her, Glion drives it home by admitting that never once loved her. Glion is indifferent to the plan falling apart when Atropos sacrificed herself to protect Rinne from Gaelijah and aid her in spirit as Twilight Majade, acquiring one half of the destroyed Gaelijah's Philosopher's Stone while other half ends up with Gigist. Glion gets revenge on Gigist by imitating his catchphrase of understanding everything and tells him his ambitions, before leaving from the battle.
Final Battle
After Glion absorbed Germain and Gaelijah's Philosopher's Stone fragments, he transmuted the El Dragon Dark Ether Chemy Card in his throne room. With his final plan set well in motion, hours later, Glion sent El Dragon to retrieve Gigist's Philosopher's Stone after his defeat at Supana's hands. Initially choosing not to make his presence known, Glion reveals himself by fatally wounding Lachesis with an alchemical beam after she attempts to catch the El Dragon; callously leaving his dying creation for Supana and company to "dispose of" before teleporting away. Though Supana attempted to give chase, he ultimately chose to remain by Lachesis' side as she ultimately expired.
The following day, Glion confronted Houtaro in Kitchen ICHINOSE in a bid to provoke his nemesis, implying he had brought harm to someone very close to him. After Tamami Ichinose returned to the store, Glion feigned politeness and greeted her. Claiming Houtaro had done much for him several times, he quickly excused himself, and left the scene. Glion enacted the final phase of his scheme, using the completed Philosopher's Stone to manufacture a gigantic floating golden puzzle cube and a legion of gigantic Dreatroopers. Once confronted by Houtaro and company, Glion metamorphosed the Philosopher's Stone into the Eldoradriver, using it to transform into Kamen Rider Eld and demonstrate his newly perfected mastery of gold. Showcasing his control over the Dreatroopers and El Dragon's Golden Breath, Eld claims his first two victims: Minato and Kyoka Edami.
After Houtaro's team is forced to retreat, Glion retreated into his puzzle cube to survey his conquest. Not long after, he was confronted by Clotho, who transformed into Dread Type Three in an attempt to avenge her fallen sisters. Though Clotho had tamed the power of Type Three, even utilizing the power of all Level 10 Replichemy Cards, she was swiftly subdued and mortally wounded by an untransformed Glion. Houtaro infiltrated the puzzle cube moments after, comforting Clotho as she passed before confronting Glion in one final battle for the future of mankind and the Chemies.
The ensuing battle was swiftly in Eld's favor, as he proved the El Dragon's power by progressively gilding all of Gotchard's 101 Chemies. With the resultant overuse of the Gotchardriver to transform damaging it beyond repair, Eld commanded his Dreatroopers to gild Houtaro, before subsequently putting a golden end to Earth as a whole with the gilded Nijigon's power. Just as Eld relished his victory, Houtaro broke free from his golden state through pure willpower, sucker-punching Eld and transmuting a brand-new Gotchardriver. Using it to transform into Kamen Rider Gotchard Ultima Steamhopper, Houtaro transmuted all Dreatroopers, along with the golden coating created by Eld, to create the New Earth, surpassing Eld in all aspects.
A single uppercut from Gotchard was enough to send Eld skyrocketing into space. Careening into New Earth, Eld broke down, wondering just how such a marvelous alchemical feat was even possible. Gotchard confronted him one last time, thoroughly beating down Eld with the assistance of the 101 Chemies. Ultimately, Gotchard proved the victor, clashing against Eld's last-ditch Rider Kick with his own, before blasting right through his torso.
Death and Legacy
Upon Glion's defeat at the hands of Gotchard and all 101 Chemies, all fragments of the Philosopher's Stone were absorbed by every Chemy, equally distributed with each possessing one percent of the artifact's power. Finding some measure of respect for Houtaro as he lay dying, Glion exclaimed in awe at the beauty of his adversary's chemistry before his homunculus body deteriorated and collapsed into a pile of black coals, putting a definitive end to the sinister alchemist's schemes.
Other Events
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Personality
Glion, a sadistic and malicious individual, is obsessed with turning everything into gold. He views people as nothing but pawns in his twisted experiments, manipulating and exploiting them without a shred of remorse. The Three Dark Sisters serve him, but he treats them as expendable as well. Similarly, the Malgams are mere tools for his morbid curiosity, created to test the power of the Chemies.
Glion delights in the suffering and exploitation of others, but in a level of morbidity that can be described as abnormal. He orchestrated the death of Supana's parents to fuel the boy's hatred, transforming him into the Wheel Malgam. He even exploited the Alchemy Alliance’s higher ups by rewriting their memories to prevent Fuga from stopping his plans. This cruelty extends to everyone he deems an obstacle. When Minato confronted him, Glion threatened to kill his students like he did with his friend Daiki, manipulating him into becoming Kamen Rider Dread.
Glion's personality is a mix of sadism and instability. He exhibits signs of repressed psychopathy and highly-strung emotions, with erratic behavior like jittering when excited or enraged. This instability explodes when faced with setbacks, such as the Chemies breaking free from his control thanks to Houtaro's encouragement. Ironically, his downfall stems from his very obsessions: his contempt for humanity, his morbid fascination with negativity, and his gold-obsessed vision. It was because of these obsessions that he underestimated the true power of the Chemies and their friendship and bonds with Houtaro, leading to his first defeat in a frenzy of rage and confusion. When at times of defeat, he speaks in a glitched-out and unstable tone after being damaged, unable to move or speak properly.
After his resurrection, Glion gradually became more confident, and his words were filled with more emotion than before, as if he was influenced by the original owner of his body, Germain. He became more adept at disguising his true attitudes in front of others, presenting himself as a polite, tolerant person. When facing his enemy, he unreservedly drops his disguise and tries to irritate them, while not forgetting to show his hatred towads his enemy. At the same time, his obsessions of gold became even stronger, and was determined to achieve it by any means.
It is then revealed that the source of Glion's abnormality is from his experience with the Kudo family, his attempt to understand and admire the family's feelings gradually developing into sheer envy. But in the end, he only used the Three Sisters as tools to achieve his goals, and never poured a bit of love into them. Therefore, Atropos having been created in Rinne's image as a child, all his actions were just a poor imitation of Fuga's affection for Rinne.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Durability: Glion is immune to attacks from the Chemies, as seen he was attacked by Saboneedle but remained unharmed.
- Forbidden Alchemy: Glion is a powerful doll and dark alchemist, more so than the Sisters, and can use those powers more freely than them.
- Energy Blast: Glion could fire a strong yellow energy blast from his crystal, as seen during his fight with Fuga ten years ago.
- Possession: He can send out a golden wave of energy to possess anyone and use them as he sees fit.
- Malgam Creation: Through the use of his powers, he can either fuse with a Chemy or fuse them with anyone that has malicious intent. However, he can also use Malice Dolls to create golden Malgams that are more powerful than the regular ones.
- Transmutation: Glion can transmute inorganic objects into an item, like a shield to block attacks from an enemy or into items that torture his enemies.
- Memory Manipulation: Glion can manipulate the memories of others, as he did so with the higher ups of the Alchemys Union to brand Fuga Kudo a traitor.
- Alchemy Doll Creation: Through forbidden alchemy, Glion created homunculi like the Malice Dolls and the Three Dark Sisters.
- Telepathy: Glion could talk to Lachesis from afar if he is not with her in person. He could also manipulate Lachesis' mind to control her to become Orochi Malgam.
- Dark King Physiology: As Glion gained the body of Germain, he inherited most if not all of Germain's abilities. After the other two Dark Kings were defeated by the Kamen Riders, he absorbed all fragments of the Philosopher's Stone, becoming even stronger.
- Enhanced Durability: Glion is immune to attacks from the Kamen Riders even untransformed, as seen he was attacked by Kamen Rider Dread Type Three's Over Catastrophe finisher but remained unharmed, and easily killed Dread with one blow.
- Communication: Glion is able to communicate to other Dark Kings.
- Golem Creation: Glion is able to create a Golem from inanimate properties.
- Dreadriver Creation: Glion is able to create a Dreadriver by transmuting it from inanimate objects.
- Power Tampering: Glion can tamper the power of other Dark Kings for his own use by using the Gold puzzle cube. He is seen modifying Gaelijah's magic circle and changed the process of making a Chimera to facilitate his own use, the magic circle also changed into his cube shaped version.
- Absorbing the Philosopher's Stone: Due to Glion using Germain's body as a vessel, he also gained the ability to absorb the remaining Philosopher's Stone fragments from the other Dark Kings after they were defeated by the Kamen Riders.
- Teleportation: An ability that was inherited from Germain, it allows Glion to teleport from place to place at will.
- Advanced Transmutation: Glion can transmute a potion into the Dark Ether Chemy El Dragon with the power of the Philosopher's Stone. He could also transmute the Philosopher's Stone itself inside his body, and turned it into the Eldoradriver.
- Energy Laser: Glion could fire a thin red energy laser from his index finger. He can also shoot at the ground to stop his enemies from approaching him.
- Hologram Creation: Glion can create his own hologram on the giant gold cube and speak through the hologram.
- Dark Kings Copy Creation: Glion can create copies of Dark Kings to assist him, these copies are mindless and do not contain Philosopher's Stone fragments in their body.
Abilities
- Gold Conversion: Glion could turn anything into gold by using a crystal he had. After he become Kamen Rider Eld, he could even turn humans into gold as well. Later, it is revealed that this ability was never perfected; it would not transform matter into gold, but instead cover the object in a layer of gold. [3]
Weaknesses
- Imperfect Alchemy: Due to Kamen Rider Eld's alchemy power being imperfect, he is unable to actually transform matter into gold, but only instead cover everything in a layer of gold. Anyone with a strong will and alchemy skills can break through the shell of gold plating from the inside out. Once they break the gold shell, they can freely move and transmute these gold fragments into other materials to fight against Eld.
Former Weaknesses
- Limited Durability: Despite being an alchemical doll with an extraordinary physique, Glion is still defeated by several entities many times stronger than himself. Not only that, but when he faced Fuga, who is known as the most powerful alchemist, Glion was injured after colliding with his energy blast wave, and it took him ten years to recover. The Dread Type Three he transformed into was also easily defeated by Platina Gotchard and the rest of the Chemies. His creator, the Dark Kings, could reach out a hand from the Door of Darkness and consume him. This improved after Glion took over Germain's body and had the same physique as a Dark King.
Forms
Kamen Rider Eld's theme song is "God's Rain".
Orochi Malgam
- Statistics[4]
- Height: 227.9 cm
- Weight: 108.8 kg
- Abilities
- Storm Cloud Generation: The Orochi Malgam is able to generate a massive storm cloud to hide itself.
- Plasma Breath: The Orochi Malgam is able to fire blasts of plasma from any of its heads.
- Petrification: The Orochi Malgam's blasts are able to turn anyone they hit into stone.
- Enlargement: The Orochi Malgam is able to enlarge itself to great proportions.
- Head Extension: The Orochi Malgam is able to stretch any of its heads to great lengths.
Kamen Rider Dread Type Two
- "Dread, Nishiki."
- ―Dread Type Two transformation announcement[src]
- Rider Height: 211.8 cm
- Rider Weight: 149.4 kg
- Ability Parameters[5]
- Punching Power: 35.0 t
- Kicking Power: 35.9 t
- Maximum Jump Height: 18.2 m
- Maximum Running Speed: 100 m per 5.8 sec.
Type Two (弐式, Nishiki) is Kamen Rider Dread's upgrade form accessed by using the Repli-Steamliner and Repli-Daiohni Repli Chemy Card in the Dreadriver.
Compared to Type One, most of Type Two's stats are actually weaker, though it compensates through stronger punching power and enhanced durability. As this form utilizes the Repli-Daiohni Repli Chemy Card, similar to Valvarad, Dread can also use oni-like abilities.
Dread Type Two adds the following parts:
- Dread Mask (Type Two) (ドレッドマスク (弐式), Doreddo Masuku Nishiki): The helmet.
- Karakure Bow (カラクレボウ, Karakure Bou): The face armor. It has an eye stolen from the Repli Chemy Repli-Daiohni allowing it to coldly assess what it confronts and attacking to exploit its weaknesses.
- Oniselk (オーニセルク, Ōniseruku): The enhancement armor. By releasing power through Oni-fication (鬼化, Oni-ka), which paralyzes the senses of pain and fatigue with rage, it brings out the monstrous power and damage resistance beyond the limits of the body.
This form has the following finishers:
- Dreadriver finisher:
to be added
Appearances: Gotchard Episode 27
Kamen Rider Dread Type Three
- "Dread, Sanshiki."
- ―Dread Type Three transformation announcement[src]
- Rider Height: 212.9 cm
- Rider Weight: 166.1 kg
- Ability Parameters[6]
- Punching Power: 47.1 t
- Kicking Power: 59.6 t
- Maximum Jump Height: 32.7 m
- Maximum Running Speed: 100 m per 4.3 sec.
Type Three (参式, Sanshiki) is Kamen Rider Dread's final form accessed by using the Repli-Steamliner, Repli-Unicon, and Repli-Daiohni Repli Chemy Card in the Dreadriver.
Compared to Dread's previous forms, Type Three's stats are raised by a significant margin, making him even more powerful than Fire Gotchard Daybreak Steamhopper. Though he still loses to Iron Gotchard and Wind in some stats, as well as Platina Gotchard in every stat.
Besides being able to use both unicorn and oni-like abilities from his previous forms, Dread can also utilize both the Bloody UC and Bloody DO for a dual-wielding fight style.
Dread Type Three consists of the following parts:
- Dread Mask (Type Three) (ドレッドマスク (参式), Doreddo Masuku Sanshiki): The helmet.
- Wisdom Lamp (ウィズダムランプ, Wizudamu Ranpu): The beacon of wisdom. By accumulating the knowledge possessed by the user and the Replichemy and turning it into a collective intelligence, its intelligence increases with each transformation and transmutation.
- Maat Signal (マアトシグナル, Maato Shigunaru): The tuner device. It maximizes the destructive power by adjusting the transmutation state from time to time.
- Dread Horus (ドレッドホルス, Doreddo Horusu): The compound eyes. The application of various Replichemy powers to human vision changes its characteristics in various ways. Different abilities can be used simultaneously on the left and right side.
- Silver Obelista (シルバオベリスタ, Shiruba Oberisuta): The right face armor. It controls the healing power stolen from the Repli Chemy Repli-Unicon and exhibits super-recovery abilities.
- Karakure Bow (カラクレボウ, Karakure Bou): The left face armor. It has an eye stolen from the Repli Chemy Repli-Daiohni allowing it to coldly assess what it confronts and attacking to exploit its weaknesses.
- Irogane Skull (イロガネスカル, Irogane Sukaru): The skull. The extremely strong skeleton forged from Repli-Steamliner has an ultra-pressure-resistant structure, and will not be shaken by any attack.
- Hecate Blast (ヘカテブラースト, Hekate Burāsuto): The conversion furnace. Burning like a blast furnace inside the body, it produces tremendous destructive power by mixing and burning the power of Replichemies and all things as alchemical materials.
- Rider Golem (ライダゴレム, Raida Goremu): The body. It has an extremely strong skeleton and ultra-pressure-resistant structure due to the combination of the human body and the Replichemy Repli-Steamliner. It embodies the potential for all kinds of destruction by overlapping the power of many more Chemies.
- Monoceuro (モノケウロ, Monokeuro): The enhancement armor. It controls forces and specializes in condensing destructive energy. This makes the various attacks highly refined and maximizes combat efficiency. It also functions as a shield that parries all attacks.
- Oniselk (オーニセルク, Ōniseruku): The enhancement armor. By releasing power through Oni-fication (鬼化, Oni-ka), which paralyzes the senses of pain and fatigue with rage, it brings out the monstrous power and damage resistance beyond the limits of the body.
- Dante Actuator (ダンテアクチュエーター, Dante Akuchuētā): The arms. The "Dante Steam Compression", which increases arm strength by filling with ultra-high-pressure steam, delivers an ultra-high-pressure punch with extraordinary grip strength and destructive energy.
- Draw Holder (ドローホルダー, Dorō Horudā): The cardholder. It can store up to 20 Repli Chemy Cards.
- Dante Departure (ダンテデパーチャー, Dante Depāchā): The legs. The "Dante Steam Compression", which increases leg strength by filling with ultra-high-pressure steam, delivers an ultra-high-pressure kick with overwhelming driving force and destructive energy.
This form has the following finishers:
- Dreadriver finisher:
to be added
Appearances: Gotchard Episode 27
Kamen Rider Eld
- "Eis ton aióna! El Dorado!"
- ―Eld transformation announcement[src]
- Rider Height: 213.5 cm
- Rider Weight: 187.3 kg
- Ability Parameters[7]
- Punching Power: 99.9 t
- Kicking Power: 99.9 t
- Maximum Jump Height: 99.9 m
- Maximum Running Speed: 100 m per 0.9 sec.
Kamen Rider Eld's primary form accessed by using the El Dragon Dark Ether Chemy Card in the Eldoradriver.
Kamen Rider Eld's power is on par with Rainbow Gotchard and the Gotcharbrothers. In addition, with the power of El Dragon's Golden Breath, Eld can turn everything into gold and lose vitality, and can even turn Chemies into gold instantly to prevent his opponent to transform into Kamen Rider. He can also deliver gold beam from his hand, with the same power as Golden Breath. However, this ability does not actually turn the mass of the object itself into gold, but rather, it only coats the surface of the object with a layer of gold.[8]
By rotating the Golder Cubic Ratio on the Eldoradriver, Eld can use the abilities from each of Dark Kings:
- Theurgia (テウルギア, Teurugia): By using Gigist's Theurgy power, Eld delivers a ring of energy in black and red colors, allowing him wipe out enemies surrounding him.
- Alchemia (アルケミア, Arukemia): By using Germain's alchemy power, Eld generates several rocks from the soil and launches them at enemies.
Kamen Rider Eld consists of the following parts:
- Eld Mask (エルドマスク, Erudo Masuku): The helmet.
- Golden Trident (ゴールデントライデント, Gōruden Toraidento): The three horns. Each horn has a different role. The right horn has excellent spatial comprehension and expands the area of consciousness, increasing spatial control. The left horn predicts the future using astrological alchemy, dramatically increasing the speed of action selection and evasive ability. The central horn stores all knowledge related to alchemy and bestows the skill to master it all.
- Red Mercurial (レッドマーキュナル, Reddo Mākyunaru): The Philosopher's Stone fragment. It gives power to the Golden Trident. The Philosopher's Stone fragments placed on various parts of the body change the composition of the transmutation circle on the main stone in the chest, allowing supernatural powers to be manifested.
- Monocle Compound (モノクルコンパウンド, Monokuru Konpaundo): The compound eyes. It enhances the homunculus's eyesight, and through a special lens on its right side, it is possible to simultaneously see the field of vision of multiple Dreatroopers.
- Angelical Crusher (アンジェリカルクラッシャー, Anjerikaru Kurasshā): The mouth guard. Eld replenishes his energy by taking in the energy source Elixis Blood into his body.
- Elixis Blood (エリクシスブラッド, Erikushisu Buraddo): The energy source. By exchanging his blood for the alchemical liquid "Elixir" that is constantly produced from the Philosopher's Stone, the infinite energy generated by the Philosopher's Stone is supplied to his entire body.
- Conquista Chemy Doll (コンキスタケミドール, Konkisuta Kemidōru): The body. The homunculus's integration with pure gold has achieved eternity by eliminating all changes of state, such as corrosion and deterioration.
- Eld Core (エルドコア, Erudo Koa): The core. The supreme alchemical tool, the Philosopher's Stone, functions as the heart of the homunculus, thereby achieving theoretical immortality. The Philosopher's Stone fragments placed on various parts of the body change the composition of the transmutation circle in response to movements of the head and limbs, allowing supernatural powers to be manifested.
- Dragonia Air (ドラゴニアエール, Doragonia Ēru): The wings. They are capable of hypersonic flight, and the shockwave generated by the slightest flap of its wings alone eliminates most objects
- Eld Arm (エルドアーム, Erudo Āmu): The arms. The flexibility and excellent electrical conductivity properties of gold allow the body to move electrically to achieve ideal physical performance.
- Philosogloves (フィローソグローブ, Firōsogurōbu): The gloves. With the power of the Philosopher's Stone fragments set inside, it is even possible to create something out of nothing.
- Eld Leg (エルドレッグ, Erudo Reggu): The legs. By utilizing the excellent electrical conductivity of gold and wrapping the kick in a large amount of electricity, the destructive power of the kick is increased to a terrifying level.
- Sophially Boots (ソフィアリーブーツ, Sofiarī Būtsu): The boots. With the power of the Philosopher's Stone fragments set inside, Eld has the ability to perform powerful alchemy that can destroy any material, and by retransmuting it into gold, he is able to bestow a golden glow.
This form has the following finishers:
- Eldoradriver finisher:
- Ul El Dorado Crisis (ウル・エルドラードクライシス, Uru Eru Dorādo Kuraishisu): Eld creates countless Dreatroopers from the giant gold cubic cube floating in the sky, each Dreatrooper has the ability to plate gold on human or the objects.
- El Absolute (エル・アブソリュート, Eru Abusoryūto): Eld's body glowing with pink energy before he charges himself with black and yellow thunderbolts. He then leaps in the air and performs a flying kick, with his foot covered in red energy.
Equipment
Devices
- Dreadriver - Main transformation device as Dread.
- Eldoradriver - Main transformation device as Eld.
- Repli Chemy Cards - Transformation trinkets.
- Draw Holder - Dread's card holder for Repli Chemy Cards
- Alchemist Ring
- Gold puzzle cube - Glion uses a golden puzzle cube to perform various transmutations. It was created from the chains which Minato used to restrain him 10 years ago.
- Crystal - Ten years ago, Glion used a crystal for his alchemy, but it was destroyed in his battle against Fuga Kudo.
Weapons
- Bloody UC - Dread Type One and Type Three's fleuret granted by Repli Unicon.
- Bloody DO - Dread Type Three's metal club granted by Repli Daiohni.
- Unnamed golden sword
Relationships
Family
(Former Daughter)
Enemies
- Houtaro Ichinose/Kamen Rider Gotchard: Glion and Houtaro have completely opposite goals and personalities, and both of them feel disgusted with each other. However, Glion enjoys explaining his ambitions to Houtaro, and threatening him with human lives, trying to anger him.
- Rinne Kudo/Kamen Rider Majade: Glion didn't have much thoughts or contact with Rinne, but he does want to see Rinne's death if that could make her father Fuga fall into despair.
- Supana Kurogane/(Kamen Rider) Valvarad: Glion killed Supana's parents in a coup d'etat against Alchemys Union 10 years ago. As a result, the young alchemist wants him dead. Glion later decided to use Supana's hatred towards him to obtain latter's Black Flame ability, eventually failed. After Glion killed Lachesis, Supana's hatred towards Glion was even stronger than before.
- Renge Icho: to be added
- Sabimaru Tsuruhara/Kamen Rider Dread (I): Faced with Sabimaru who came to stop him, Glion just looked down on Sabimaru and using his older brother's research results to deal with Sabimaru.
- Kamen Rider Gotchard Daybreak: Glion waited and watched the orange Gotchard's every move and did not make any rash moves.
- Fuga Kudo/Kamen Rider Wind: A fellow teacher and work member at Alchemys Academy. At first, the two worked together, however, after learning his plans to open the Door of Darkness, and seeing his actions, Fuga become his enemy. In Gaelijah's plan, Glion revealed that he actually wanted everything that Fuga had and was very jealous of him, and he wanted to watch him feel desperate because of the death of Rinne.
- Minato/Kamen Rider Dread (IV): Since the incident occured 10 years ago, Glion has sensed Minato's mental weakness and has been using him to do dirty stuffs for him. However, after Minato had experience with his students and under Kyoka Edami's persuasion, Minato regained his confidence and turned into to fight against Glion. When Glion transformed into Kamen Rider Eld, Glion chose to make Minato into his new ability's first victim.
- Kyoka Edami: to be added
- Three Dark Sisters
- Atropos/Kamen Rider Dread (V): Glion created Atropos the earliest of the three sisters from a desire to have a family, devoting most of his affection towards Atropos. In turn, Atropos is most loyal to Glion and acted out his will before she resurrects him by stealing Germain's dying body. But it turns out Glion was imitating Fuga's feelings for Rinne and only created the Three Sisters just to fulfill his ambitions, never once truly loving them as he felt nothing from Atropos's sacrifice.
- Clotho/Kamen Rider Dread (III): Glion's attitude towards Clotho is much colder than Atropos, ordering her around withour a care about her feelings. After obtaining Germain's body, Glion's feigns sympathy as he praising her thoughts for missing her family, only to break Clotho's heart and make him her enemy over indifference to Atropos' death and then personally killing Lachesis.
- Lachesis/Kamen Rider Dread (II)/Valvarad (II): Glion never treated Lachesis normally from the beginning, and only regarded her as a tool to synthesize Malgam. Due to Glion's various actions, Lachesis was deeply afraid of him and finally betrayed him to join the Alchemist Alchemy side. After collecting all the fragments of the Philosopher's Stone, Glion mercilessly killed Lachesis for attempting to stop him and leaves her corpse for the Alchemist Alchemy members to dispose of.
Behind the Scenes
Portrayal
Glion is portrayed by Kenta Kamakari (鎌苅 健太, Kamakari Kenta). As Kamen Rider Eld, his suit actor is Kenya Saitou (齊藤 謙也, Saitou Kenya).
Etymology
- According to writer Keiichi Hasegawa, Glion is named after the sculptor Pygmalion of Greek mythology, a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.[9]
- As Kamen Rider Eld, same as Kamen Rider Dorado, it is named after El Dorado, the lost city of gold in Spanish folklore, tying in to both Glion's penchant for the metal and the color's close association with both him and alchemy in general.
Notes
- Glion's objective to turn everything into gold alludes to Chrysopoeia, where it refers to a transmutation in alchemy that turns lead into gold.
- Kamen Rider Eld's suit is retooled from Kamen Rider Zi-O Ohma Form and repainted from Kamen Rider Super Gotchard Cross XRex's armor. The arm guards are also from Kamen Rider Revice.
- According to writer Keiichi Hasegawa, Glion is based on Norman Stansfield (Played by Gary Oldman) in Léon: The Professional.[10]
Appearances
Kamen Rider Gotchard
- Episode 5: Burn! Fight! Wrestler G! (Mentioned)
- Episode 11: Catch! A Spy!? Rider Disqualified!? (Mentioned)
- Episode 16: Crisis Xmas! The Orochi Incident
- Episode 17: Moonbreak Messenger
- Episode 18: Run Through! Evolutionary Firelord!
- Episode 19: Rinne's Dawn! Transform Majade!
- Episode 20: Smiling Angel, Ridiculous Joke
- Episode 21: Mad Warrior! Valvarad the Black Flame!
- Episode 22: Love Is a Saber! Suddenly a Chemy Story
- Episode 23: Zukyun Always in My Heart
- Episode 24: Sudden Turn! Forbidden Steel Rider!
- Episode 25: A Young Teacher's Mistake
- Episode 26: Thwart Malice, Jet Black Wind
- Episode 27: Gotcha! Crosshopper! (first death)
- Episode 30: A Rival Arrives!? Gotcha and Juliet (Flashback)
- Episode 31: Two People in the Dark, Trusting Each Other. (Illusion)
- Episode 39: Gotcha Complete! Climax 101! (Mentioned)
- Episode 40: Evil Descends! The Thrice-Greatest Dark Kings (Flashback)
- Episode 41: Trace of God, Grace of Rainbow! (Revival)
- Episode 42: Let's Search! The 102nd and Brother's Thoughts
- Episode 43: Love, Sorrow, and AI!? The Power to Erase Hate
- Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak
- Episode 44: When Deep Memories Open Up
- Episode 45: A Fateful Encounter, a Junction of Love and Hate!
- Episode 46: Black Astrology, Kurogane's Oath
- Episode 47: Big Clash! Houtaro vs. Supana
- Episode 48: Say Goodbye at Twilight
- Episode 49: Metal Warrior! The Silver Valvarad
- Episode 50: This Is My and Your CHEMY×STORY (second/final death)
References
- ↑ https://twitter.com/T_HEROnight_GW/status/1769159213073236301
- ↑ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVl87_FWgAAy1o-?format=jpg&name=large
- ↑ https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/gotchard/51/
- ↑ https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/gotchard/enemy/orochi_malgam/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "TV Asahi's page for Dread Type Two". https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/gotchard/rider/dread/type_two/stand.html.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "TV Asahi's page for Dread Type Three". https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/gotchard/rider/dread/type_three/stand.html.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "TV Asahi's page for Eld". https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/gotchard/rider/eld/stand.html.
- ↑ https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/gotchard/51/
- ↑ https://x.com/dinahasegawa/status/1827648326508097564
- ↑ https://x.com/dinahasegawa/status/1825063154033840329
External Links
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