Kikaider (Verse)

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==Summary==
Kikaider (Japanese: キカイダー, Hepburn: Kikaidā) is a manga series written and illustrated by Shotaro Ishinomori. A two-season tokusatsu series titled Android Kikaider (Kikaider 01 in season 2) was produced by Toei Company and Ishimori Productions in early 1970s. A 18-episode anime series based on the manga was created by Radix in early 2000s. The tokusatsu series from 1972 is especially popular in Hawaii.
The anime series aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim Action in 2003. The complete DVD series is available with English subtitles through JN Productions.
==Story (Main Continuity)==
*Android Kikaider: Dr. Komyoji is a scientist and an expert in robotics, who is being kept prisoner by the evil organization, DARK. Dr. Komyoji creates Kikaider in order to defeat Dark and protect the innocent. When Gill, the head of DARK, learns about this, he sends his androids to deal with Dr. Komyoji. Jiro (Kikaider) is able to rescue Dr. Komyoji's daughter, Mitsuko, but a fire separates him from Dr. Komyoji. Jiro is able to destroy Gray Rhino King, but is unable to locate Dr. Komyoji, who is wandering away with amnesia. The series mainly deals with the constant battle between Kikaider and the destructroids. DARK pursues Dr. Komyoji and his children, Mitsuko and Masuru. Hatori Hanpei, a detective who provides comedy relief, helps them. During most battles, Professor Gill uses his evil flute to stop Jiro from becoming Kikaider. Jiro manages to find a way to drown out or block the sound of the flute. Dr. Komyoji (wandering with amnesia) is usually a figure in the background. Mitsuko and Masuru often talk to people who have encountered him, but never manage to catch up with him. On a few occasions, when Jiro is damaged, Dr. Komyoji manages to fix him, without quite knowing what he is doing.
*Kikaider 01: The noted robotics expert Dr. Komyoji created a powerful android to protect Japan from evil forces. When Professor Gill's mind in the body of Hakaider starts his own evil organization named SHADOW, Dr. Komyoji's android, Kikaider 01, awakens to fight Hakaider and his evils. Hakaider has three assistants, Red Hakaider, Blue Hakaider, and Silver Hakaider. Together, they devise various schemes to cause destruction, but Kikaider 01 stops them all, sometimes with assistance from Kikaider. Their chief goal is to capture a young boy named Akira. After Hakaider's attempts fail, a new, mysterious character appears, Shadow Knight. Shadow Knight is member of a competing, evil organization, SHADOW. When SHADOW proved to be more powerful than Hakaider, Hakaider unwillingly becomes a member of SHADOW. It was later revealed that Hakaider has the brain of Professor Gill (also from the Kikaider TV series) within him. Professor Gill had designed a powerful robot, and had tattooed the plans onto his two sons: Akira and his brother Hiroshi. Throughout the series, SHADOW helps Gill in building his robot, and Kikaider 01 fights to stop them.
*Mechanical Violator Hakaider: In the distant future, war and peace walk side by side in the pseudo-utopian place called Jesus Town (formerly Jerusalem), ruled by a handsome, yet cruel seraphim named Gurjev and his android companion, Michael, long for total peace. Sealed far from civilization a long time ago is an android, code named Hakaider. Since his memory is rusty, he does not know his true purpose. After his fight with Jesus Town bikers, Kaoru and her band of rebel find him. He goes insane yet again and starts to whip the rebels one by one, only to have them killed by more of Gurjev's troops, all except Kaoru. Hakaider then regains his memory, thanks to Kaoru, whom he starts taking a liking to and promises to free Jesus Town from Gurjev and Michael.
*Kikaider REBOOT: Set in the near future, Dr. Nobuhiko Komyoji was the head of the robot engineering project "ARK Project" to use robots peacefully to solve problems beyond human control. Dr. Komyoji however died during an experiment and a year later the project was headed by his rival Gilbert Kanzaki and the Minister of Defense Tsubakiya who had begun to use the project for their own personal benefits rather than its original objective. To revive the original project, Jiro aka Kikaider, an android with a Conscience Circuit created by Dr. Komyoji has appeared to protect his creator's children Mitsuko and Masaru who have the key to complete the project.
==Power of the Verse==
The powers in the Kikaider verse significantly varies from the series, whether be from TV shows, manga, anime or games.
The weakest characters such as DARK's Android Men and SHADOW's Shadow Men peak at Wall level either for surviving truck crashes at high speed or tanking bullets with no issue, and for the fact they're able to harm each other. Kikaider himself starts at Large Building level at the beginning of his series, scaling to DARK Destructoids such as Orange Ant, who had destroyed a lighthouse. The series eventually reached Multi-City Block level+ ranges for Green Mammoth freezing several buildings at once, and Devil Face Crab Red being five times stronger than another Destructoid, Horseshoe Crab Red. And of course, Kikaider is able to harm and even destroy every DARK Destructoid.
Kikaider 01 brings a great boost for the power of the characters. In the beginning of the series, we have Gill Hakaider creating a dark storm that is able to completely cover the sunlight, thus reaching Large Town level+. The monster forms of the Hakaider Squad are ten times more powerful than their normal forms, and both Kikaider and Kikaider 01 can easily beat them, becoming City level. The fused form of the Hakaider Squad, Gattaider, is 40 times more powerful than their individual forms, and still, 01 had no trouble in defeating him, and after this, Gill Hakaider received a upgrade from the ghost of Professor Gill, turning him three times stronger, thus making the middle of series characters at Mountain level+ ranges.
During the end of series arc, Bijinder was able to destroy SHADOW's time tunnel, a fourth-dimensional space controlled by Zadam, and connecting itself to any time period he wishes, making her, and everyone who scales to her reaching Universe level+.
In terms of speed, the verse showcases a decent amount of feats of either movement or reaction speed. The slowest characters reach Subsonic+ scaling to Gray Rhino King for running at 900 km/h during the first show. Kikaider 01 greatly raises the level of speed, having feats such as Silver Hakaider jumping to Satan Darkness, or Kikaider 01 outrunning an explosion, having Hypersonic to High Hypersonic levels of speed. The biggest feats of speed are Zadam flying to Earth from the Moon, making the verse peak at Sub-Relativistic in movement speed, or Kikaider reacting to Scorpion Brown's Thermoluminescence attacks and 01 reacting to the Hakaider Shot, having them at Speed of Light in reactions and combat speed.
The verse showcases multiple amounts of hax, having abilities such as Technology Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Types 1 and 2), Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8), BFR, Illusion Creation, Regeneration (High-Mid), Non-Physical Interaction, Accelerated Development, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Immersion, Regeneration Negation (High-Mid), Holy Manipulation, Power Nullification, Dimensional Manipulation, etc.
==Calculations==
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*Kikaider survives a building destruction (0.14820724763576 Tons of TNT, 9-A+) - Scales to early series Kikaider and DARK Destructoids.
*Kikaider survives a explosion (1.6618657099 Tons of TNT, 8-C+) - Scales to early series Kikaider and DARK Destructoids.
*Orange Ant destroys a lighthouse (2.2150026317113 Tons of TNT, High 8-C) - Scales to early series Kikaider and DARK Destructoids.
*Green Mammoth freezes multiple buildings (118.75530404924 Tons of TNT, 8-A) - Scales to middle series Kikaider and DARK Destructoids.
*Gill Hakaider's Satanic Darkness (794.22296845 Kilotons of TNT, High 7-C+) - Scales to Kikaider 01 characters.
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*Side Machine flies into Satanic Darkness (Mach 1.168313, Supersonic) - Scales to vehicles.
*Silver Hakaider jumps into Satanic Darkness (Mach 7.328509, Hypersonic) - Scales to Kikaider 01 characters.
*Zadam flies to Earth (0.015636833926122223c, Sub-Relativistic) - Scales to Zadam and Kikaider 01 characters.
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*Kikaider breaks Green Mantis' chains (219,090.81 kg, Class K) - Scales to Kikaider, Hakaider and DARK Destructoids.
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*Multipliers and Scaling
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==Supporters/Opponents/Neutral==
===Supporters===
*ZeedKZ
===Opponents===
===Neutral===
==Characters==
===Androids===
KikaiderProfile.png|Kikaider|link=Kikaider (Original)
Kikaider_01.png|Kikaider 01|link=Kikaider 01
Bijinder.png|Bijinder|link=Bijinder
HakaiderSaburo.png|Hakaider|link=Hakaider (Saburo)
Waruder.png|Waruder|link=Waruder
===Hakaider Squad===
GillHakaider.png|Gill Hakaider|link=Gill Hakaider
SilverHakaider.png|Silver Hakaider|link=Silver Hakaider
BlueHakaider.png|Blue Hakaider|link=Blue Hakaider
RedHakaider.png|Red Hakaider|link=Red Hakaider
Gattaider.png|Gattaider|link=Gattaider
===Leaders and Executives===
ProfessorGill.png|Professor Gill|link=Professor Gill
BigShadow.png|Big Shadow|link=Big Shadow
ShadowKnight.png|Shadow Knight|link=Shadow Knight
Zadam.png|Zadam|link=Zadam
===Organizations===
DARK_logo.png|DARK|link=DARK
SHADOW_logo.png|SHADOW|link=SHADOW
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