King (OOO)

The , or simply , is the overarching antagonist of Kamen Rider OOO. He is Kousei Kougami's ancestor who created the Greeed 800 years ago as the original . In the present day, he is revived and transforms into ,https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/zukan/kamen_rider_members/286https://bandaicandy.hateblo.jp/entry/20220313_rider or .https://mobile.twitter.com/ooo10th/status/1457635077614018560https://p-bandai.jp/item/item-1000172074/?orgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fp-bandai.jp%3A8443%2Fitem%2Fitem-1000169434%2F
==History==
The original Kamen Rider OOO was a greedy king of a mysterious lost European civilization, who wanted power more than anything else. Having Gara and three other alchemists create life through the Core Medals which became the Greeed, beings of living desire. When he no longer needed the alchemists, the king turned them into Cell Medals, not knowing that Gara's consciousness is still intact. After he witnesses the birth of the Greeeds, he says “Happy Birthday!” as he takes their Core Medals. Ankh joins up with the other Greeeds and agrees to take down the King together, in order to retrieve their Core Medals.
The King was insanely strong and controlled a large portion of Europe. He used the combos very efficiently; with Gatakiriba, he cloned himself and destroyed neighboring countries and their armies. He used Tajadol’s flight to his advantage and burned down villages that tried to oppose him. With Latoratah’s speed, he infiltrated enemy camps and strikes quickly. He used Sagohzo and Shauta to cause earthquakes and tsunamis to take down the Spanish Armada. The Greeeds finally managed to get their Core Medals back, but even when they were in their full form they couldn’t defeat the King. 
In order to defeat him, they resorted to using Yummies created from the King’s greed. Uva, Kazari, and Mezool created the Cockroach, Lion, and Whale Yummies, a group of Yummies who were almost as strong as a fully restored Greeed thanks to the King’s strong greed. 
However, none of them were enough as Ankh reveals that he was working with the King all along, but the King betrays Ankh and leads up to all of them being sealed and took their cores by force. He scanned all thirty Core Medal types at once in an attempt to gain their power through the OOO Scanner, which he thought could fulfill his desire to become a living god. However, this became his undoing.
The power was too great for him to handle and was turned into a stone coffin, Uva, Kazari, Gamel, Mezool, along with Ankh's right arm were sealed. The OOO Driver, the very thing that the greedy king sought to gain power from, became the lock of the coffin.
===Revival===
10 years after the events of the main series, the Ancient King is resurrected by unknown reasons (implying that he regain back his body after Ankh unsealed the coffin at the beginning of the series), and by taking advantage of Dr Maki's lost Medals, he manages to revive the Greeed and plans to conquer the world again. At some point, he fights Eiji Hino and wins, and as Eiji is trying to protect a little girl, the King lands a devastating blow on him.
In an attempt to take Ankh's Core Medals, he sends Uva after him, but Uva fails and is defeated by a Goda-possessed Eiji. Disappointed by his underlings, the King absorbs all of their Core Medals and decides to take matters into his own hands. He swiftly gains the upper hand on Eiji and resolves to take his (Goda's) Core Medals as well. However, Ankh gets in the way and becomes absorbed instead. To the King's surprise, Ankh's consciousness is still active within his body, and the Greeed tosses Eiji the Purple Core Medals to allow the transformation into Putotyra Combo. Goda-Eiji then proceeds to use the Combo to finally destroy the King for good. The King's Medals would later be absorbed by Goda.
==Other Events==
===Kamen Rider OOO: Final Stage===
In the Final Stage, it is revealed that his soul was traveling in parallel worlds after his death. In order to regain his original power of OOO, he sealed every OOO in each parallel world and became the ruler of the World of Putotyra. He uses a gold medal to teleport Eiji Hino, the last OOO from the World of Tatoba, a.k.a. the main OOO world, to the World of Putotyra. King assumes the form of OOO PuToTyra Combo to gain the trust of Eiji, and reveals his true identity after gathering other Greeed. He battles Eiji in his Greeed form and gains an advantage until Ankh grabs the medals from him and the other Greeed. He is ultimately defeated by eight OOO after Eiji releases all the other OOO from the seal. 
==Video Games Appearances==
===Kamen Rider Travelers Record===
In this game, the Ancient King was revived by a scientist, but turned wild and rampaged, like when Eiji was possessed by the purple Core Medals. Thus, the King rebelled against his own creator. He serves as the main antagonist of the game.
==Personality==
According to the Kamen Rider OOO novel, the original OOO was similar to his descendant Kousei Kougami, being an eccentric ruler with little regard for consequences. In general, he was a power-hungry greedy king that had a , becoming more unhinged as he used OOO's powers. This caused the King to ultimately betray his own allies entirely; first by turning the alchemists into Cell Medals and then taking his partner Ankh's Core Medals by force. Similar to his descendant Kousei Kougami, he also has a habit of shouting "Happy Birthday" as seen when he took the Greeeds' Core Medals during their birth.
==Abilities==
The King possessed the same standard equipment and abilities as Eiji, alongside the tenth Core Medal of each five set. Immensely selfish in nature, the King did not suffer the same drawbacks as Eiji when using OOO's powers, his greed empowering him greatly. The King's Tatoba Combo alone proved capable of facing all five completed Greeds with ease, using none of his finisher moves to defeat them. However, this selfishness ultimately became the King's undoing; his mind and body being consumed upon attempting to access OOO's full powers.
When he was revived in present day, he had new powers where he was capable to shoot energy blasts and spears. He wields his own sword along with the Medajaribur for energy slash attacks. After he absorbed all the Greeeds, he was able to utilize all of their powers.
==Forms==
==Equipment==
===Devices===
*OOO Driver: Transformation belt
*O Scanner: A device that scans the medals
*O Medals: Allow OOO to use Combos
===Weapons===
*Medajaribur: Personal weapon
*Tajaspiner: Tajadol Combo's primary weapon
*Medagabryu: Putotyra Combo's primary weapon
*Unnamed sword: Ancient OOO (Greeed Absorption Form)'s primary weapon
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
Though not given an actual appearance, besides a painting of him, Ancient OOO is voiced by . His suit actor is , who would later be the suit actor for Goda.
===Etymology===
*OOO can be simply pronounced in English as "oh", which is the Japanese phonetical for 
==Notes==
*Within the series itself, the King has only been portrayed on-screen via a painting of himself, or in scenes featuring him already transformed into OOO.
**The official Chozenshu guidebook for Kamen Rider OOO provides a photograph of his real physical appearance untransformed, and remains as the only in-person depiction of his true self to date.
*The King's Kyouryu Greeed form reuses the suit of the Kyouryu Greeed assumed by Kiyoto Maki, but with the head of the Eiji Greeed instead.
*Ancient OOO's cloak in Kamen Rider OOO 10th: Core Medal of Resurrection is reused from the Great Eyezer.
*Ancient OOO's Greeed Absorption form takes the right Tatoba/Latorartar and left Gatakiriba arms, the right Saghozo and left Shauta, and reuses and repaints the Tamashiy shoulders, and gains a new chest piece. His sword is taken from the Armored Warrior Inhumanoid.
==Appearances==
* Kamen Rider OOO
**Episode 1: Medals, Underwear, and the Mysterious Arm
**Episode 8: Sabotage, Unselfish, and Taking a Break
**Episode 30: The King, the Panda, and the Flames of the Memory
**Kamen Rider OOO (novel)
**Kamen Rider OOO: Final Stage
**Kamen Rider OOO 10th: Core Medal of Resurrection
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