Little Assassin

The , nicknamed by Jin, was a series of Assassin-Type Humagears created by MetsubouJinrai.net that transformed into the first .
==Iterations==
HumaGear Assassin 1 Profile.png|No. 1
HumaGear Assassin 2 Profile.png|No. 2
Little Assassin 3.png|No. 3
HumaGearAssassin.png|No. 4
==History==
===Origins===
Little Assassin was originally a member of the series, a special Humagear model created to dance in traditional festivals. Five units of the series were captured by a group of thieves, who specialized in changing the faces of Humagears. The units were given a younger appearance by the thieves, before MetsubouJinrai.net then managed to obtain them by unknown means. One unit, named by Aruto Hiden, managed to escape before then, which meant that only four of them came into the terrorist group's possession. Horobi then repurposed all four units into Assassin Humagears.
===Attack of the Assassin Humagear===
The Assassin Humagear was originally introduced by Horobi to Jin as a special Humagear that can become stronger over time as he learns from battles. Horobi then provides Little Assassin the Dodo Zetsumerisekey, and gives him the order to assassinate Kamen Rider Zero-One. Jin would playfully nickname the Assassin Humagear as "Little Assassin". After Jin and Little Assassin are deployed, they are intercepted by Yua Yaiba, who transforms into Kamen Rider Valkyrie. Before the Assassin Humagear could transform, Valkyrie froze him with Freezing Bear Progrisekey and distracted Jin in battle while A.I.M.S. soldiers abducted the Assassin Humagear. While Yaiba reprograms the Assassin Humagear, she keeps his directive to assassinate Zero-One to cover her tracks. He reappears during the Mammoth Magia's attack and transforms into the Dodo Magia, all while being filmed by Yaiba. He fights Zero-One and Vulcan alongside the Mammoth Magia, but is destroyed by Vulcan using the Attache Calibur. His Dodo Zetsumerisekey is recovered by Jin, who sadly noted that Little Assassin was still too weak to fight properly.
The second Little Assassin unit infiltrates a hospital with a local Humagear network and attempts to hack one of the nurses, but without success. Upon returning to Daybreak Town, Horobi explains to Jin that he uploaded Little Assassin's back-up data into a new body and gives him the order to assassinate Yaiba instead, having noticed what she did previously. Little Assassin joins Jin and Horobi during the assault on A.I.M.S. HQ and transforms into the Dodo Magia, now armed with the Buaruku Sabers due to learning from his mistakes after his previous battle. The three then leave after Jin defeats Valkyrie and Horobi succeeds in stealing the Attache Weapons. The Dodo Magia arrives during the attack on the hospital and and battles Zero-One and is destroyed a second time after his opponent used all of his current Progrisekeys in rapid succession. The Dodo Zetsumerisekey is later reclaimed by Horobi.
At Daybreak Town, the third Little Assassin watches a samurai movie called "And, Assassinate" made by Shinya Owada alongside Jin. Due to believing that the movie was real, Jin suggests that Little Assassin should become Shinya's personal student thanks to the Humagear's losing streak, though this offends the latter, who retorts that he grows rather than losing. Little Assassin later went undercover during Shinya Owada's drama shooting and met up with the actor while in disguise. He impressed Owada after replicating his stunts accurately and Little Assassin learned to improvise once every often. Owada's kindness would made Little Assassin awaken to Singularity. The next day, after seeing the Actor Humagear Enji Matsuda pulling a poor performance, Little Assassin took matters in his own hands and tries to attack the Actor Humagear as the Dodo Magia. However, Jin tries to stop him and their fight drew the attention of the other Kamen Riders. The Dodo Magia was destroyed by Vulcan using the Gatling Hedgehog Progrisekey, with Jin grabbing the Dodo Zetsumerisekey and fleeing the battle yet again.
At Daybreak Town, Little Assassin was restored to his fourth and final body, with Horobi commenting on how Shinya's lessons made him much more powerful than ever before. Jin then revealed to his Horobi that Little Assassin attempted to destroy their next Magia candidate out of his own volition. Amused by this revelation, Horobi instead declared that the assassin was more closer to Singularity then Jin was. He was then ordered to kill his next target: Shinya Owada. Although Little Assassin breifly hessitated over he had to do to his mentor, he still followed the order regardless and shot the actor with a real gun. This caused Little Assassin to evolve into the Dodo Magia Custom, and, after attempting to escape undetected, he fought and defeated Vulcan before leaving to Daybreak Town, all while declaring that humanity is doomed.
When Horobi reveals to Jin about the assassin's attempted mutiny, Little Assassin canceled his transformation, but suddenly used two silver balls to transform two nearby Trilobite Magia into Dodo Magia Chicks. It was then that he broke out of his restraints, got his Zetsumerisekey and transformed into the Dodo Magia Custom once more, but now with a skull-like face. After escaping Horobi and Jin, Little Assassin was now set on creating his own squad of assassins to personally train, and went on by himself to find his 'brother'. He encountered Zero-One, beating him and Vulcan, but after his Shining Hopper form was properly working, Little Assassin was permanently destroyed by Zero-One's Shining Mega Impact.
===Final Stage===
Little Assassin would end up being reprinted by Kamen Rider Ark-Zero-One as Ark-Zero. He brainwashes Naki & Ikazuchi into his personal minions, forming . After the two were freed from their brainwashing, Little Assassin would end up fighting and getting defeated by the core MetsubouJinrai.net members.
==Personality==
As Little Assassin is a MetsubouJinrai.net creation as opposed to a hacked unit, he is little more than a robotic android with no existing template to work off of. However, his ability to adapt has caused him to inherit many of Jin's child-like traits and essentially emulates the personality of a playful child, gesticulating and adding goofy expressions to his sentences. After his first defeat, he becomes a bit more stoic and occasionally shows slight annoyance toward Jin. However, he still continues to exhibit many of the behaviors he learned from Jin.
During his training with Shinya Owada, Little Assassin becomes more self-aware and starts acting independently, ultimately culminating in him defying MetsubouJinrai.net by attempting to assassinate Enji Matsuda for failing to meet Owada's expectations for acting. After achieving his Dodo Magia Custom form, his voice becomes much deeper and he ceases to exhibit the quirks he learned from Jin. As a miscalculation from Horobi, Little Assassin's capability on learning to further improve his skills even lead Little Assassin to create his own, personal philosophy: to become a better assassin, one must be able to surpass their master by killing them. This error emerged when Horobi ordered Little Assassin to kill Shinya, unexpectedly leading Little Assassin to form this belief.
==Forms==
==Equipment==
===Devices===
*Zetsumeriser
*Dodo Zetsumerisekey
*Ark Driver-Zero - transformation device as Ark-Zero
===Weapons===
*Buaruku Sabers
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
The Humagear Assassins are portrayed by . In their original Matsurida Z state, they are portrayed by .
===Etymology===
*The Dodo Magia is named after the , an extinct species of flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius and was hunted to extinction by 1662.
===Concept Art===
*Dodo Magia was designed by , while the costom version was designed by .
Dodo Magia concept art.jpg|Dodo Magia concept art
Dodo Magia Custom concept art.jpg|Dodo Magia Custom concept art
Dodo Magia Custom Two concept art.jpg|Dodo Magia Custom Two concept art
==Notes==
*The Dodo Magia is the first dodo-themed monster in the Kamen Rider series.
*The Dodo Magia is the most recurring Magia to appear again after being destroyed.
*Little Assassin is the second Humagear with the ability to speak coherently as a Magia, with the first being Fukkinhoukai Taro as the Berotha Magia.
*The Dodo Magia is the first Magia to defeat a Kamen Rider.
*The Dodo Magia is the only Magia to use a finisher.
**He is also the first monster in the Kamen Rider franchise to use a finisher activated and announced by transformation gear. All monsters before him either used an unannounced finisher-like move or announced the finisher name themselves.
*As Little Assassin learns and adapts, he gains more red streaks in his hair.
*Little Assassin is the only Magia to be seen being able to revert to his Humagear form, despite the transformation into a Magia tearing off a Humagear's skin and outer armors.
* According to Ryunosuke Matsumura in the ROMAN ALBUM Kamen Rider Zero-One MetsubouJinrai.book cast interview, Little Assassin’s poses before transforming into the Dodo Magia have different inspirations for each new unit.
** No. 2’s pose is an homage to Cure White’s transformation from Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart.
** No. 3’s pose is an imitation of Enji Matsuda adjusting his tie.
** No. 4’s pose mimics Shinya Owada.
==Appearances==
* Kamen Rider Zero-One
**Episode 7: I'm a Hot-Blooded Humagear Teacher! (No.1)
**Episode 8: The Destruction Begins Now (No. 2)
**Episode 9: Entrusted With That Life (Flashback footage of No. 1)
**Episode 10: I Am the Actor, Shinya Owada (No. 3)
**Episode 11: Don't Stop the Camera, Stop Him! (No. 4)
**Episode 12: The Great Detective Has Arrived (No. 4)
**Episode 13: My Job Is the President's Secretary (No. 4)
**Kamen Rider Zero-One: Final Stage
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