Haruto Soma

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 is the main protagonist of Kamen Rider Wizard. He is a freelance "wizard" who transforms into .
==History==
===Background===
During his childhood, Haruto's parents were badly injured during a car crash. In this event, he made a promise to keep his hope alive, saving his own life as an adolescent when he was one of the first few Gates sacrificed during a solar eclipse. Subjected to the Sabbath, pro-soccer player Haruto managed to keep his inner phantom Wizardragon, who was born in him and "berserk", from emerging by facing despair head-on. As a result, he obtained magical powers. Being the only one to survive the eclipse, White Wizard entrusted Koyomi to Haruto and gave him a Wizardriver and the Flame Ring. Haruto then began hunting down Phantoms as Wizard, seeking to prevent others from falling into despair and to protect his and their hope.
===Becoming Kamen Rider Wizard===
Haruto later comes to the aid of Kamen Riders Fourze and Meteor. It is during that battle that Fourze, unbeknownst to Haruto, calls him a "Kamen Rider", and so inherits the name of Kamen Riders, naming himself Kamen Rider Wizard.
Along his journey, Haruto becomes allies with amateur magician Shunpei Nara, police officer Rinko Daimon, and Yu Kamimura. Helping to stop the Phantom outbreaks with his friends, he learns to tap more into his mana pool and more of Wizardragon's power, allowing him to assume improved forms of his normal ones called Dragon Styles of either the Fire, Water, Wind, or Earth elements. Creating the Drago Timer from his raw mana, Haruto is able to generate three copies of himself, all assuming the upgraded Wizard Dragon Style Forms at the expense of draining his mana. Later he meets mayonnaise-lover Kamen Rider Beast, Kosuke Nitoh, with which he forms an alliance and they prevent Phantom's outbreaks together. Haruto then later learns how to tap into his power in its purest form rather than channeling it through the rings supplied to him by Sou Fueki. From his own tears, he creates the Infinity Wizard Ring, allowing him to access his final form, Infinity Style.
Haruto later finds Koyomi kidnapped by a Golden wizard, Sorcerer, who uses Koyomi as a catalyst to rewrite the world. Arriving at the new world, it is inhabited by not users of technology, but rather users of magic, using mana as an equivalent to currency. Haruto, through a long tedious process, gains the support of this world's counterparts of Wajima, Rinko, and Shunpei, who all can access the form Kamen Rider Mage, and defeats Sorcerer in a one-on-one match, sending both Haruto and Koyomi home.
Later finding out the true purpose of The Sabbath (to revive Koyomi), Haruto resolves to stop The Sabbath from occurring once again. Clashing with White Wizard, Sou Fueki, the two enter a deadlock, fighting over Koyomi. However, Koyomi and Sou are both killed by Gremlin. Later defeating Gremlin, Haruto travels the world alone with Koyomi's entity becoming one with the Hope Wizard Ring.
Finding himself coming to someone's cry for help, he is sent to the World within the Magic Stone, aiding the other Kamen Riders, and the alternate Haruto. Teaming up with Gaim, he is able to stop this world's crisis. He gives the young boy his Infinity Wizard Ring, allowing the alternate Haruto to summon him into his world whenever he needs him.
=== Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle ===
Later, Haruto faces the Ogre Phantom, creating a copy of Koyomi from his Hope Wizard Ring, armed with White Wizard's power. Calming the copy of Koyomi, she is allowed to rest in peace. However, Ogre uses Legion's attack to slash through Haruto and enters his Underworld (causing him to fall into despair). Through Shunpei's Chichin Pui Pui Wizard Ring, Haruto was able to manifest his will (Rider form) outside of his physical body. Traveling into his own Underworld, he managed to overpower the Phantom. When questioned for how he is so strong, Haruto refered to himself as the . After defeating the Ogre Phantom, Haruto gave the Hope Ring to the Koyomi that resides in his Underworld. In the aftermath, Kosuke was absorbed by the Nepenthes Monster who ran through a Crack. Arriving in the Sengoku Period World, Haruto inherited the Infinity Wizard Ring from Ieyasu, which originally belonged to Kamen Rider Bujin Wizard. Teaming up with the Armored Riders, they defeated Bujin Gaim. After the fight between Bujin Gaim and the Nepenthes Monster, Kosuke and Haruto returned back to the main world.
===Kamen Rider Taisen===
Haruto as Wizard is one of the surviving Riders in the battle between Heisei and Showa. He fights Riderman, defeating each other at the same time and transforming into their Lockseeds. Gaim is soon left as the last Rider standing before Kurayami Taishi of the Badan Empire reveals himself to be Kamen Rider ZX. Together, they restore the other Riders and all 30 Kamen Riders to defeat the Badan Empire. As Kamen Rider Decade rescues Shu from the Mega Reverse Machine, Wizard and X are about to destroy it for good, when they are stopped by Faiz, who wants to atone for Masato's death by allowing him to be revived. Haruto argues, telling him how his desire to bring Koyomi back resulted in her resurrection into a being of evil. After battling the Badan Empire, Hongo stated that their battle wasn't over as the Rider War continues. However, the Showa Riders admit their defeat after seeing Gaim protecting a flower as they would congratulate the young Riders. Sometime later, Haruto was seen somewhere eating his plain sugar donut. 
===Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Rider===
Haruto approached the Next Genome Institute after teleporting Shinnosuke Tomari and his officers away from surrounding their base, claiming to be a party interested in joining them. Later, however, he led Drive, Ghost, and Ex-Aid straight to them, having only feigned an alliance to let the Riders in, Gaim arriving soon after. Appropriately engaging the dragon-motifed Doral Bugster, Wizard eventually defeated him through an advancing succession from his Styles culminating in Infinity. Taking his leave after the destruction of Genomes brought about the fall of the Institute, Haruto resumed his travels, eating his usual plain sugar donuts on the way. 
==Other Events==
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Due to the timeline alteration caused by Shocker, Haruto became one of the brainwashed Riders in that timeline, donning the name of Shocker Rider Wizard. Wizard was one of several Shocker Riders who volunteered in the Rider Grand Prix under Shocker Rider 3, who had been personally challenged by Kamen Rider Drive. Just ahead of Drive's Tridoron, Wizard used the Big Wizard Ring to enlarge his hand and flick at Drive, followed by the Bind Ring to constrict him, only for Drive to break through with his Shift Tires and surpass Wizard. Wizard was ultimately knocked out of the race alongside Shoichi Tsugami as his Machinewinger was struck by missiles fired by Rider 3's TriCyclone. Though Wizard himself was retrieved by the Mad Doctor Shift Tire brought forth by the heroic Drive, he fell short of the Top 2 in which Drive prevailed over Rider 3.
Once Rider 3 was integrated into the Great Leader of Shocker's Rider Robo form, Wizard was among the Riders who attacked the trio of Black RX, Faiz and Mach. Ultimately, the Double Riders 1 and 2 made their appearance having survived their apparent demise from within the Rider Robo, and broke Shocker's brainwashing on the fallen Riders, enabling all Riders to unite in a final battle against Shocker.
Surviving the onslaught of the History Modifying Machine, Wizard fought and destroyed Shocker's Phantom Phoenix with the Flame Kick Strike shortly before the Rider Robo was destroyed along with the machine by . Among the remaining Riders who witnessed the farewell of Kyoichiro Kuroi as the perversion of history was reversed, with Wizard's place in history being restored.
===Kamen Rider Ghost: Legendary! Riders' Souls!===
===Kamen Rider Ex-Aid "Tricks": Kamen Rider Genm===
Despite not appearing in the web-exclusive series, Wizard and 13 Heisei Riders were the projections of the Ganbarizing Critical Strike.
===Chou Super Hero Taisen===
Wizard Water Style fights as part of the Kamen Riders' Blue Warrior Team. 
===Kamen Rider Zi-O===
====Kamen Rider Build: Be The One====
Among the first 18 Heisei Riders, Wizard fought against numerous monsters in a melee briefly witnessed by Sento Kiryu before being caught in the crossfire as Kamen Rider Zi-O BuildArmor used his Vortex Time Break to wipe out his enemies. 
====Another Wizard====
Haruto was briefly seen in Kamen Rider Zi-O. At some point in the past, Haruto obtains the blank Ridewatch from Geiz which he later gave the device to Nitoh.
===Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever===
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Ryuki, Agito & Wizard in Heisei Generations Forever.png
=== Saber + Zenkaiger: Superhero Senki ===
Though he was seemingly erased as a result of Asmodeus’ manipulations, he was restored back into existence once Touma Kamiyama had helped Shotaro regained his passion in drawing out the superheroes that he wants to draw out.
During the climatic final battle itself, he can be seen fighting alongside MagiRed, Gosei Red, Kamen Rider Ghost and Zenkai Magine.
===Kamen Rider Juuga VS Kamen Rider Orteca===
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==Video Game Appearances==
===Super Sentai: Battle Dice-O DX===
===All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation 2===
Haruto appears as Wizard Flame Style only. He can only be unlocked by a password.
===Kamen Rider: Super Climax Heroes===
Haruto appears as the main character's selection of this game. He has three modes for a fight: using all his Styles (exclude Dragon), using Flame Dragon only, and Flame Style only with the unique move available. He only has Flame and Hurricane Dragon. Hurricane Dragon only can be accessed while teamed up with another rider.
===Battride War===
====Kamen Rider Battride War====
Kamen Rider Wizard appears as a Main Rider in the video game Kamen Rider: Battride War, which unites the riders of the Heisei era from Kuuga to Wizard.
Wizard functions as the protagonist of the game, being the first Rider to escape imprisonment and thus the one to begin the process of freeing the others. In-game, Wizard has access to his Flame, Water, Hurricane, and Land Styles, with the Dragon styles of each appearing only as a powerful finishing move unlocked after leveling up. His Super Mode is All Dragon, which uses the abilities of the four Dragon Styles in its attacks. Unlike the other gun type riders (including their forms), Wizard's gun attacks can hit any other bosses.
Wizard's special attacks are:
*Flame Style: Big, Strike Wizard, Dragon Breath (as Flame Dragon)
*Water Style: Bind, Light, Blizzard (as Water Dragon)
*Hurricane Style: Extend, Slash Strike, Thunder (as Hurricane Dragon)
*Land Style: Defend, Drill, Gravity (as Land Dragon)
*All Dragon: All Dragon Wild, Dragon Dance, Blizzard, Thunder, Gravity
*Infinity Style (separate DLC): Dragon Shining
Wizard's Infinity Style also appears in the game, available as DLC. However, he is treated as a separate character with no connection to the default Wizard. He is still voiced by Shunya Shiraishi.
His gameplay also similar to Devil May Cry's Dante, such as aerial attacks are rapid tap gun fire for original Wizard and Million Slash (Million Stab like moves) for Wizard Infinity Style.
====Kamen Rider Battride War II====
Kamen Rider Wizard reappears in Kamen Rider: Battride War II, summoned by Cinema along with the other Neo-Heisei Riders in order to create the "ultimate movie".  Wizard's stages are based off of Kamen Rider Wizard in Magic Land, with Kamen Rider Sorcerer as his main enemy; he also plays a role in Gaim's stages, which are based off of Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle and feature Bujin Gaim as the main antagonist.
In this game, Wizard is fully-integrated, whereas in the original Infinity Style was a separate DLC character.  The player can choose whether to use All Dragon or Infinity as Wizard's Strongest Form, which also determines his Ultimate Form: if All Dragon is chosen, Wizard uses Special Rush from Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum, while choosing Infinity Style instead uses Infinity Dragon Gold.
15allheisei.PNG|All of the main official Heisei Riders, from Kuuga to Gaim.
WizardandFourze.PNG|Kamen Rider Wizard and Fourze in their second Extra Final Forms.
====Kamen Rider: Battride War Genesis====
Kamen Rider Wizard reappeared in Kamen Rider: Battride War Genesis
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===Battle Spirits===
As part of Kamen Rider's collaboration, Zero-One, Wizard, and W will be available in Battle Spirits.https://twitter.com/DanganYankee/status/1309874330776477698
==Personality==
Haruto hides his true self under a lighter, easily-amused persona. While not showing much emotion on his face, he is far from stoic. He is quick to make deadpan snarks, mostly at the expense of Kosuke. Rarely, he can be seen swayed by a pretty girl.
He is greatly influenced by the word "hope" ever since White Wizard told him to become the wizard of hope, developing an optimistic personality and tends to never give into despair even in worst-case scenarios.
His favorite food is plain sugar donuts and only eats them rather than other flavors, much to the manager's annoyance. He seems to take well to company as he doesn't have any complaints with Rinko and Shunpei joining them in their mission. Haruto believes steadfastly that everyone deserves to be saved. He also refuses to give up hope no matter how dire the situation. This is most likely because of his parents' last words to him to hold onto hope.
He's driven by near compulsion to stop the Phantoms and prevent anyone from falling into despair. He seems to be suffering from an acute case of survivor's guilt resulting from his parents car crash and his surviving the Sabbath. This further motivates his actions. Haruto doesn't seem to be able to forgive himself easily. He also prefers ignoring his past before becoming Wizard. Both are evident by his guilt over his friend's accident in soccer.
He however also shows a rather friendly side and will help out a fellow hero, Rider or not, as shown with the battle against Space Shocker he greatly admired the and formed a strong friendship with their leader, . He also fought alongside and .
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Phantom-Mana Channeling: After he tames Wizardragon, Haruto can use magic to produce various phenomenons by utilizing the Wizardriver and Wizard Rings to an extent. 
===Abilities===
*Master Martial Artist: Haruto is an extremely skilled master martial artist who has shown a high-level of combat skills. His unique fighting style is very acrobatic and heavily attack-oriented, primarily utilizing powerful sweeping kicks, aerial take-downs which uses many kicks and flips while using his arms to block and throw elbow strikes or initiate holds able to fight against stronger opponent. His attacks are fluid and swift, allowing him to transition from attack to defense rapidly. His combat skills gradually enhanced as he fought against numerous Phantoms as Kamen Rider Wizard throughout the series. Even without transforming, he was able to effortlessly fight against and knock down numerous Ghouls at once, which are capable of beating down trained police officers and are durable enough to withstand gunfire from New Namba M60 revolvers. He even held his own against Legion who was an extremely powerful Phantom capable of opening an entrance to anyone's Underworld, as he effectively dodged the attacks and managed to push back. In Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Wizard and Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum, Haruto was able to effectively fight against numerous Masquerade, Kuzu Yummies, Dustard and Ghouls with ease. In Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Rider, Haruto's combat abilities had shown to be improved that even without relying on his acrobatic fighting style, he was able to fight against Kazushige Ryuzaki (who defeated Emu Hojo in hand-to hand combat with ease) who was a Bugster and later even gained an upper hand throughout the fight.
*Master Swordsman: To be added
*Master Acrobat: Haruto is proven very agile, evasive, maneuverable and graceful, able to fluidly dodge attacks from multiple directions with coordinated flips, twists, and sharp turns without losing balance, that made him an highly skilled acrobat, gymnast, and aerialist. He often utilizes these talents in combat for both evasive and offensive purposes which has shown expertise in utilizing parkour and tricking flips in his attacks and takedowns.
*Soccer Proficiency: Prior to becoming Wizard, Haruto was a professional soccer player, so he has extended knowledge of the sport. Though he does not rely much on this skill due to trauma from an unfortunate accident.
*Indomitable Will: Haruto is able to endure being fallen into despair and is able to keep his Phantom in.
*Bilingualism: Haruto is able to talk in both English and Japanese.
===Weaknesses===
*Wizardragon: As an enslaved Phantom who acts as the source of Haruto's mana, Wizardragon also holds Haruto's lifeline, as its existence can greatly influence Haruto (or vice versa) depending on the abnormalities in it. When he was in berserk (example for the Sabbath), Haruto succumbs into despair again, and the berserk Wizardragon can resurface as a free Phantom, killing Haruto in process. If Wizardragon's existence is eradicated within Haruto, he cannot use magic anymore.
==Styles==
Kamen Rider Wizard's forms are called . In any Style, Wizard uses a fighting style that mostly deals with a saber (Chinese dao), kicking, and acrobatics seen in Martial Arts. This is to avoid punching so he would not hurt himself due to his Wizard Rings and also so he does not break his Wizard Rings, opting instead to use palm strikes seen in Martial Arts such as Wing Chun.
After Haruto transforms into Kamen Rider Wizard, he announces and when executing one of his finishers, he proclaims .
==Equipment==
*Mana - Main power source for Wizard's gear
===Devices===
*Wizardriver - Transformation device
*Wizard Rings - Gives access to Wizard's form changes and spells, depending on which style the ring is
*Wizard Ring Holder - Carrier strap for Wizard's rings
*Wizard Ring Box - Carrier chest for Wizard's rings
*PlaMonsters - Wizard's familiars
*Drago Timer - Wizard's wristwatch device
===Weapons===
*WizarSwordGun - Wizard's primary weapon
*Axcalibur - Wizard Infinity Style's weapon
===Vehicles===
*Machinewinger - Wizard's Rider Machine
==Legend Rider Devices==
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
Haruto Soma is portrayed by . As a child, Haruto is portrayed by .
As Kamen Rider Wizard, his suit actor is , who has been the suit actor for the majority of leading Heisei Kamen Riders (except Kuuga and Hibiki). Ironically, Takaiwa was also the primary suit actor for of , another magic-themed hero. 
*In Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle and Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai, his suit actor was .
*For Wizard's extreme martial arts, he was suit-acted by .Hyper Hobby, June 2013 
===Rider No.===
As the leading Rider protagonist of Kamen Rider Wizard, Haruto Soma (Kamen Rider Wizard) is labeled and . 
==Notes==
*A recurring gag throughout the series is that Haruto always insists eating plain-sugar donuts, yet is never seen finishing them on-screen.
*A half-second blink-and-miss shot of Kamen Rider Wizard was spotted in the teaser trailer for . This did not indicate the appearance of Wizard in said series as it was simply left over stock footage from the Super Hero Time bump.
* His name is spelt as Haruto Souma in certain official listings by Toei.https://www.toei.co.jp/en/special/list_rider.html
==Appearances==
==References==
==External Links==
*TV Asahi's Kamen Rider Wizard cast page
*TV Asahi's Kamen Rider Wizard rider page
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard Flame Style
***TV Asahi's page on the Bezel Flame helmet
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard Water Style
***TV Asahi's page on the Bezel Water helmet
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard Hurricane Style
***TV Asahi's page on the Bezel Hurricane helmet
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard Land Style
***TV Asahi's page on the Bezel Land helmet
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard Flame Dragon ​​
***TV Asahi's page on the Alter Bezel Flame helmet
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard Hurricane Dragon ​​
***TV Asahi's page on the Alter Bezel Hurricane helmet
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard Water Dragon ​​
***TV Asahi's page on the Alter Bezel Water helmet
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard Land Dragon
***TV Asahi's page on the Alter Bezel Land helmet
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard All Dragon
**TV Asahi's page on Kamen Rider Wizard Infinity Style
***TV Asahi's page on the Bezel Infinity helmet
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