Tenjuro Banno

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 is the main antagonist of Kamen Rider Drive. He was a scientist and the co-creator of the Roidmudes alongside his former colleague, Krim Steinbelt who digitized his mind into the , allowing him to transform into .
Many years after his demise, Banno would be resurrected by Foundation X in a Humagear body as as part of Project Outsiders.
==History==
===Background===
Tenjuro Banno was once the lab partner and close colleague of Krim Steinbelt. He initially conceived the Roidmudes as mechanical lifeforms with the capacity to experience human emotions. When the Roidmudes' development hit a dead end, Banno asked Krim to provide him with the Core Driviars, enabling the Roidmudes with the ability to evolve. However, Banno forced Roidmude 002 to take the form of Shinzo Hiroi, a businessman who refused to invest in Banno's research, and performed cruel experiments on him just to pretend himself torturing Hiroi. After witnessing his madness, Krim ended his partnership with Banno.
At some point, Banno engaged in a romantic relationship with Sumiko Shijima, and fathered two children with her, Kiriko and Go Shijima. While details regarding his life with his family is unknown, it resulted in Banno no longer part of their family and causing Sumiko to feel depressed every time he is brought up.
Nevertheless, Banno continued working on the Roidmudes and installed evil chips into the Roidmudes containing negative emotions. However, doing so caused the Roidmudes to rebel against their creator as they vowed to evolve to surpass Banno and humanity itself. Banno's body was killed by Freeze, Heart, and Brain, while his mind was later stored into a tablet that was often used by Brain.
===Living As Data===
While Banno's consciousness was restricted to the tablet, his AI was generally used to reset Roidmude Cores. Brain would take advantage towards Go Shijima's connection to Banno by revealing the tablet containing Banno's AI, forcing him to go undercover just to reach closer to seize the tablet while pretending to serve the Roidmudes. With Chase's interference on barging to the Roidmudes' hideout, Banno was ripped from Brain's possession by Go and they escaped. Though he was safe thanks to his son, Banno was still in danger and remained targeted by the Roidmudes.
At first, Banno proved to be helpful to the Kamen Riders, assisting them in ways such as providing them with information and healing the neurotoxin Yukari had received from the Thief Roidmude. Upon discovering that Banno was back, Mr. Belt immediately expressed his anger towards Banno and refused to work with him, surprising the Kamen Riders and the Special Investigation Unit.
Despite him seemingly helping Go and the others, it turned out that he was manipulating them to achieve his own ends. After gaining control of one of the Ride Boosters, he uses it to attack the Kamen Riders and trash the Drive Pit. Banno had his secret agent, Roidmude 004, steal the Drive Driver from him. Banno and 004 brought Mr. Belt to a makeshift lab, where they managed to replicate the Drive Driver's schematics. With the stolen data, Banno was able to successfully transfer his will into a new belt called the Banno Driver.
===Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future===
While he isn't present during the events of Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future, Banno plays an overarching role in the film's events. Although none understood how the Krim Steinbelt turned destructive in the first place, it was later revealed in the TV Series that Banno implanted an evil chip into the Drive Driver intended to make Mr. Belt go haywire. This particular point of time was chosen by the Paradox Roidmude to manipulate the Kamen Riders.
===Drive Saga: Kamen Rider Chaser===
Following after the Angel Roidmude's defeat, Banno and Roidmude 004 watched the Kamen Riders from the beachside afar. Banno commented that the destructive chip that was left behind in Mr. Belt had been replaced, concluding that Krim is currently occupying a new Drive Driver. In light of this, Banno decided to continue his search for a body elsewhere.
===The Gold Drive===
As Banno began to launch his new machination, he approched Medic by offering his services to help her gain her ultimate evolution, but slipped away when Heart caught his intentions. Roidmude 006 led an ambush with six other Roidmudes, but Banno swiftly defeats them and tears out 006's core from his body. With the Banno Driver taking over the deceased 006's body, he transforms into the powerful "Gold Drive", demonstrating his power against the Kamen Riders. After facing Go, Banno confessed that he never loved him and always saw him as a tool.
Gold Drive reapproached Medic again and offered to operate on her to restore her back to her previous state to experience the emotion of devotion she had before. While she does acchieve Over Evolved state, Banno had secretly lobotomized Medic as part of his reprogramming. This forced Heart to submit to Banno's authority in hopes of restoring Medic. As Gold Drive himself possesses the strength and abilities similar to a Over Evolved Roidmude, Banno was worthy of completing the Promised Number, but still sought Brain to complete his ritual. 
While Gold Drive and Roidmude 004 were able to track Brain down, the latter voluntarily submitted to Banno and seemingly agreed to help him complete the Promised Number. The four Over Evolved Roidmudes all gathered beside a lake to perform the ritual to reawaken the Sigma Circular, a weapon that could induce a powerful Global Freeze on the planet. He purposely led his location the Kamen Riders, who fought a army of Low-Class Roidmudes and Reaper Units. During the ritual, Banno attempted to use Medic to host the excess energy, only for Brain to reveal his true colors and sacrificed himself in her place instead. Despite the noble sacrifice, it did not matter though as the Sigma Circular was nearly complete and Banno escapes while 004 self-destructs to cover his escape.
After further destroying the Drive Pit to ensure nobody could stand in his way, Gold Drive and the remaining six Reaper Legion took over the SDCC building to enact the second, worldwide Global Freeze. However, the Kamen Riders stormed the building to put a stop to Sigma, including Heart and Medic. While Drive and the Roidmudes went after the device, Gold Drive faced off against Mach and Chaser. Despite their best efforts, Gold Drive overwhelmed the two of them and after knocking Chase aside, Banno attempted to lay the finishing blow on Go. However, Chase took the brunt of the attack instead and in his final moments, Chase attempted self-destructed close to Banno, much to Go's horror.
===Final Battle and Death===
Having survived Chase's sacrifice, Gold Drive walked out of the explosion unharmed. This angered Go as his father continued to belittle Go and Chase's actions. After reflecting how much of a true friend Chase was to him, Go transforms into Kamen Rider Chaser Mach and suprisingly overpowers Gold Drive despite the impossible odds. Gold Drive was unable to hold his own against Mach's onslaught and his Roidmude body was destroyed by Chaser Mach with a Rider Kick. Despite being damaged, the Banno Driver remained intact and Banno's data was still active. The Sigma Circular began to convert humanity into data, Banno attempted to transfer his data to his creation. However, Go picks up Chase's Shingou-Ax and prepares to finish him off. Despite Banno's pleas with Go to spare him, saying that his genius was needed for humanity, Go refused to listen. Unable to preserve his data in time, Banno was finally killed by Go using Shingou-Ax's Full Throttle to shatter the Driver into scrap, thus ending the mad scientist's reign of terror.
== Later Appearances ==
===Drive Saga: Kamen Rider Mach Dream Story===
It was revealed that along with the Roidmudes, Tenjuro Banno had also created an artificial intelligence named Hypnos. He had additionally created his own backup of his AI consiousness, seeking to revive once he recieves a good opportunity. Having been stored in Hypnos's programming code, was later revived in complete digital form via Hypnos's dream scanning and analyzing technology. Retaining his Gold Drive form, he fought Go and the incomplete memory of Chase in his son's dream, before being swiftly defeated by Super Deadheat Mach.
===Kamen Rider Outsiders===
Years later, Banno was revived by Foundation X into a Humagear body by channeling Kamen Rider Chronicle Rider Gashat into the wrecked remains of his Banno Driver, becoming Bronzedrive in the process. Not only that, it was also revealed that ever since he was killed by his son a few years ago, Banno's data was lost amidst the Internet during the intervening years since then. At some point in time, during those intervening years, Banno had met the malicious AI known as the Ark and had became friends with it. Thus, after he was revived, Banno was sent to eliminate Horobi which he had happily agreed to do due to Horobi himself planning to eliminate his friend as well as being able to subsequently and easily overwhelm him. When he hijacked Horobi's Attache Arrow and was about to finish him off, Kamen Rider Zein appeared and stopped him in his tracks. Recognizing the new Rider's colossal power, Banno tried to run away, but he was hit and destroyed by Zein's Haou Xross Sei Retsuzan. 
Although his body was destroyed, Banno survived on the internet. He tried to convince Brain to join the Kamen Rider Outsiders team. By inhabiting Brain's phone, he learned that Zein wanted to destroy humanity as a whole, and quickly informed the Project Outsiders executives about the threat. 
==Video Game Appearances==
===All Kamen Rider: Rider Revolution===
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==Personality==
Banno as a human is viewed in flashbacks as a cruel, sadistic man whose constant failures to advance or complete his Roidmude research drove him to insanity. He was also petty as during one of his experiments on his sentient androids, he made one into the likeness of a billionaire who refused to invest in his research to enact his fantasies of torturing him. He also displayed narcissistic tendencies, as he believed anyone who did not understand his supposed genius were beneath him and enjoyed making those kinds of people suffer. To him, the concept of familial love is a foreign notion. He never viewed the members of his family as anything more than research subjects.
As an A.I., Banno is more cold and manipulative but retains some of his human traits such as his sadism and his desire to further his scientific goals, as well as his insanity. He is also abusive and manipulative to his Roidmudes, seeing them as nothing but expendable pawns towards his ultimate goal of recreating the Global Freeze. One example of this is him tricking Medic into letting him help her with her Super-Evolution. He then secretly installed some kind of a trojan program when Medic evolved which wiped her A.I. and memories rendering her a broken, mindless puppet who obeyed his every command.
Narcissistic and arrogant, Banno is completely convinced of his own genius and is motivated by his god complex and desire to control everything. Despite boasting the glories of his own intellect, most of Banno's greatest works of self-proclaimed genius are ripoffs of the products of Krim's genius, such as the Roidmudes' Core Driviars, the mind uploading technology he used to preserve himself as an AI, and the Banno Driver being reverse-engineered from the Drive Driver. The extent of this shamelessness is best shown in how he plagiarizes not just Krim's work, but Krim himself, via having Roidmude 004 copy Krim's data in order to use the latter's own scientific genius to complete the Sigma Circular.
Banno, despite being cruel and sadistic, fears his existence ending, screaming for Go to not destroy him after being defeated by the latter. Before his final moments, his ego showed by frantically claiming to Go that by destroying his consciousness he would "rob the world of its greatest scientific mind" and begged his son not to kill him. Unfortunately for him, Go was more determined in destroying him after all the pain and death he had caused, swinging down the Shingou-Ax and smashing the Banno Driver. The last thing the demented scientist ever did was scream in fear and pain at his own impending death before he was finally destroyed.
Banno has the tendency to scream at others to call him by the name of Gold Drive ever since his first transformation, even after his revival as Bronzedrive (despite no longer being gold as pointed out by Ecole and Horobi).
==Family==
*Sumiko Shijima 
**Go Shijima 
**Kiriko Shijima 
**Shinnosuke Tomari 
***Eiji Tomari 
*Sachiko Emoto
==Forms==
==Equipment==
===Devices===
*Banno Driver - Belt-based transformation device
*Shift Brace - Bracelet-based weapon-selecting device (used to activate Signal Bikes or Shift Cars). Gold Drive has a jet-black version of it.
*Shift Cars - Gives access to Gold Drive's forms and powers, depending on which car is used
*Signal Bikes - Gives access to Gold Drive's secondary powers, depending on which bike is used (stolen from Mach)
===Weapons===
*Zenrin Shooter- Gold Drive's gun weapon. Stolen from Kamen Rider Mach during their first battle.
*Door-Ju - Gold Drive's second gun weapon originally used by the second Drive. Stolen during Drive's first fight with Gold Drive along with the Brake Gunner.
*Break Gunner - Gold Drive's third gun weapon originally used by Chaser.
*Handle-Ken - Gold Drive's sword weapon. Stolen from Drive during their second fight.
*Shingou-Ax - Gold Drive's ax weapon. Stolen from Chaser during his final encounter.
*Sigma Circular - Final weapon to initiate Global Freeze
*Attache Arrow - Bronzedrive's arrow weapon. Stolen from Kamen Rider Horobi during their battle.
===Vehicles===
*Ride Booster Red - Stolen from Drive Pit
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
Tenjuro Banno is portrayed by . As Gold Drive, his suit actor is . While possessing Roidmude 006's Coreless body, he is portrayed by an unknown suit actor while retaining his voice. In Kamen Rider Outsiders, his suit actor as Bronzedrive is .
===Etymology===
Banno's surname is an anagram of the Japanese word for 『『仮面ライダードライブ』キャラクターブック VOL.TWO 〜TOMODACHI〜』東京ニュース通信社〈TOKYO NEWS MOOK〉、2015年10月28日。ISBN 978-4-86336-504-9。, as there is no redeemable traits with his character; desiring only to only destroy those who he believed wronged him in a savage and violent manner with no rhyme nor reason.
===Concept Art===
*Concept art of Gold Drive shows that he originally had a gold Shift Tire in place of where the repainted Archetype Gear would be on the final suit design.
*The screen on the Banno Driver also has Drive Type Speed's "S" symbol, suggesting that the Banno Driver's facial expressions weren't yet finalized at that time.
*The strap on Gold Drive's Shift Brace was also originally intended to be black, but later remained as red.
==Notes==
*The July 2015 issue of refers to him as , but other material such as TV-Asahi, toys, and the show itself refers to him simply as Gold Drive and categorizes him as a Roidmude instead,https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/drive/roy/https://www.ganbarizing.com/riderlist/https://tamashii.jp/item/11391/, putting his Rider status as "debatable."
**The Kamen Rider Zukan included content from Kamen Rider Drive on February 26, 2020, putting Gold Drive in the "Phantom" section, despite the Rider section often containing debatable Riders, such as Mashin Chaser and Kamen Rider Jun (Mass-produced Kamen Rider Mach) in the case of Drive.https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/zukan/phantoms/403
**Similarly, Bronzedrive in Kamen Rider Outsiders was temporarily referred to as https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/uploads/weekly_topic_geats_column/column_image1/1496/89c1666b-1cc0-4012-b6f9-e4a993cf7c22.jpghttps://www.kamen-rider-official.com/uploads/weekly_topic_geats_column/column_image1/1497/c4b166b3-87ce-456a-bfe0-c1bcb9afc36b.jpg in early merchandise, before recent sources refers to him simply as Bronzedrive.https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/outsiders/ep3/https://www.toei.co.jp/release/bb/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2023/07/21/main.jpghttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61jQXFUNAjL.jpghttps://www.toei.co.jp/release/bb/1231621_971.html Furthermore, it was stated in the fourth episode that he is not a Kamen Rider.
*For the releases of the DX Banno Driver and the SH Figuarts Gold Drive, Gold Drive's name is "misspelled" as "Gord Drive". This is also used in the SO-DO Chronicle release of the character. https://twitter.com/battleupsaber/status/1776225540900585964 The Taiwanese site for Premium Bandai uses the correct "Gold Drive" spelling.
**This might be due to Gold Drive's name using an altered version of the word for as .
*Gold Drive's suit is recycled from Protodrive's suit with Chou Dead Heat Drive's headpiece.『仮面ライダードライブ特写写真集 IGNITION』ホビージャパン〈DETAIL OF HEROES 10〉、2016年3月31日。ISBN 978-4-7986-1205-8。 When he appears in Kamen Rider Outsiders, his suit is painted a bronze color and adds bolts around the armor.
*According to Riku Sanjo, he had planned from the beginning for Tenjuro Banno to be the final antagonist and become an evil version of Drive.『宇宙船』Vol.150（2015年秋号）、2015年10月1日、 ISBN 978-4-7986-1099-3。
==Appearances==
==External links==
*Kamen Rider Zukan page on Tenjuro Banno.
*Kamen Rider Zukan page on the Banno Driver.
*Kamen Rider Zukan page on Gold Drive.
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