Zane Vamp

Zane Vamp 	Zane Vamp
Gender: 	Male
Series: 	Kamen Rider: Vampire King
Motif: 	KnightChristian Crusader Cross (XYZ)Vampire (Dark Vampire King)
Rider Type: 	Hero
Homeworld: 	Earth
First Appearance: 	Vampire King Rises
Last Appearance: 	Vampire King Ballot
Number of Episode Appearances: 	45
Actor: 	Ross Butler
Kamen Rider XYZ (1986 Former)Kamen Rider Dark Vampire King (1986)	Kamen Rider XYZ (1986 Former)Kamen Rider Dark Vampire King (1986)
 	
Zane Vamp was a violinist, and the primary user of the original XYZ system. He was notable for being the only human to transform into Kamen Rider Dark Vampire King, although the strain from doing so cost him his life.
==History==
Zane Vamp is Tyler's father who battles the Fangire menace in 1986, his ideology that "All humans are music" his reason of fighting Fangires was to protect that music. Zane was a ladies man who retires from being a professional violinist for reasons unknown. It was by accident that he interferes in Yumi Pendelton's mission and was eventually brought into their group as a result. Though normally a casanova, Zane was vexed on anything marriage related, things always staying the same, and others getting in his way. He was the first to learn Acuro is actually a Wolfen, although no one believes him until later when Acuro threatened Yumi and reveals himself. He then becomes the second user of the XYZ System when Acuro was exposed, putting up a front of not suffering the suit's side effects.
He was also capable of reasoning with Fangires (and the other Demonic Races) who are not truly evil, an example being that he befriended Jonathan/Frog Fangire as he convinces him not to harm others. During his battle with the Fangire Race, Zane falls in love with Maya, the original Queen of the Checkmate Four, resulting in the chain of events that led to him becoming the second Dark Vampire King after forming a pact with Bartholomew the 2nd to take on the Fangires' King. Zane, with help from a time-traveling Tyler, succeeds in destroying Dracula at the cost of being on the verge of death due to the strain of wielding Vampire King's power. After assuring Tyler along with Maya before parting with him, Zane would then pay final visits to his friends Yumi and the Arms Monsters (seemingly as a ghost) before finally dying in Maya's arms after playing her favorite song. He would leave behind the Bloody Rose, a violin that Zane himself made with Maya's help, for Tyler.
However, in a strange turn of events in 2008, Zane's spirit makes his appearance when he suddenly finds himself in Tyler's body due a fail attempt of a fortune teller to do the ritual for learning Vampire King's identity. During that time, he recognized Mira and Bartholomew as the children of those from his time and also starts building a new violin with Tyler unaware that his father was building it through him. He would appear to Tyler in spirit one final time, encouraging his son not to give up as he lives on through him. He was later mentioned by his future grandson Sora. 
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