Oren Pierre Alfonzo

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, formerly known as , is the head pâtissier and former owner of Charmant who transforms into .
==History==
===Early Life===
Gennosuke Oren is a former Japanese soldier of the Parachute Regiment who served several tours in both the Middle East and Africa. Eventually he settled down in France and legally changed his name to Oren Pierre Alfonzo, where he developed a skill in pastry making and achieved the Relais Desserts grade. At some point in his career, he won the Coupe du monde and made a name for himself. Sometime afterwards, Oren returned to his homeland of Japan to open Charmant. 
===Beat Riders Saga===
When Kouta tries to apply for a job in his shop, Oren teases him for his birthday, January 30, due to his dislike of people under the Aquarius sign, and for Kouta being a pretty boy with no style, thus denying Kouta a job at his shop. He later confiscated a Sengoku Driver and a Durian Lockseed from Team Red Hot for being loud in his shop as they celebrate their luck in obtaining a Driver to compete against the other Armored Rider Teams, Gaim and Baron. After watching the previous battles of the Team Gaim Riders and the rivaling team Riders, he decides to put the belt to use, hunting down Ryoji Hase and Hideyasu Jonouchi to test his abilities as Bravo. After defeating Ryoji and Hideyasu, Oren becomes a hit sensation, hunting down all Beat Riders with a Sengoku Driver to show them a true fight and what real entertainment is rather than their dreadful dancing. Defeating Kaito with ease, he tells him to train harder. When Oren interrupts Team Gaim's dance off, Oren is confronted by both Mitsuzane and Kouta. Unaware of how Lockseeds work, he summons an armada of Inves. Defeated by Suika Arms along with his evolved Inves, Oren retreats back to Charmant. However, Oren later uses his Bravo attire as a propaganda for Charmant.
Oren catches wind of the tournament made by Gaim's team, forcing himself to be allowed to join. In the forest, he is confused where he is, but locks horns with Baron once again, both proving to be an equal match with Baron gaining the advantage. However, Zangetsu defeats both him and Baron, with Oren falling in love with Zangetsu's elegant movements and quick, but fierce fighting style.
===Yggdrasill Saga===
When Ryoji is no longer of use to Hideyasu, Oren takes it upon himself to train Hideyasu and shape him to be a real man. Oren was later hired by Takatora to eliminate Armored Riders Baron and Gaim. As Baron's Inves are about to attack the citizens, he arrives and fights Baron. Fighting to protect citizens from Baron, the citizens then proceed to cheer for Bravo, as he proclaims himself the "hero" of the city. Later, while Kouta is trying to stop an Inves from escaping, Bravo appears and fought him as Kouta transforms. While fighting, Kaito appears and team up with Gaim as they easily overpowered Bravo. Days later, Oren alongside Hideyasu was hired by Mitsuzane to steal Kouta's Sengoku Driver. Oren gladly accepted the task from Mitsuzane (who was disguising his voice) on the condition of being told how to contact Zangetsu. However, Oren wrecked the plan due to his feelings of dislike to have his guest being disturbed while eating his pastries. Oren chose to steal Kouta's Sengoku Driver after defeating him in combat, but due to Gaim Jimber Lemon Arms being more powerful, he failed to complete his objective. 
After Oren read the flier of the dance event, he, along with Hideyasu made a public announcement of stopping the event. Later, before the event could start, Oren arrives and mocks the rest of the Beat Riders while the summoned Inves from Hideyasu crash the event. Kouta transforms to stop Bravo and the Inves crashing the event along with Zack as Knuckle. After the Beat Riders finish their dance, Gaim declares his victory to Bravo as he decides to let him go. Bravo, still not giving up, tried to chase him but stopped when he struggled to remove a Duri Noko that he accidentally stabbed into his right foot.
===Helheim Saga===
After sometime, he and Hideyasu appear to try to turn the public against Zack and Peko by insisting that giving up their Inves Game is just propaganda. However, his speech was interrupted by a swarm of Elementary Inves, which made him upset. He later transforms and finished off all the Inves by himself. 
===Over Lord Saga===
As he sees Hideyasu was in a bad mood, Oren decides to take him into training. However Hideyasu stormed out of the shop as he doesn't see what was the training for. Oren manage to find Hideyasu in Drupers as he blames the Beat Riders and reveals that Hideyasu is preparing for his greatest moment. He transforms and chases Gaim until Inves appears. While fighting, Hideyasu as Gridon arrives and blocks the attack from the Inves. Bravo then took him away while Gaim deals with the Inves. Later, Hideyasu woke up and told Oren that the Inves Game really ended as he sees his teammates hanging out with other teams. Later that night, Oren found a Crack as he enters with a surprise. While wandering in the forest, Oren finds himself starving. When approaching a few premature Lockseed fruits, he remembers his cruel military survival training saying not to eat foreign objects. Saved by Kouta and his generosity with riceballs, the two find the Over Lords attacking the Yggdrasill camp. Teaming himself with the Kurokage Troopers, they stop any rampant Inves attacking the camp. Oren later takes a direct hit meant for Zangetsu Shin, falling in his arms. However, Zangetsu Shin, focusing more on the Over Lord, throws Oren across the Headquarters Crack.
Later, Oren, along with Hideyasu arrive to aid Baron, Knuckle and Marika to fight the Inves and Demushu, however the Riders were overpowered easily by the Over Lord until Kouta appears to finish off the Over Lord with his new form, Kiwami Arms.
===Forbidden Fruit Saga===
After an All Rider meeting in combating Helheim invasions led by Redyue, Bravo saved Gaim from Zangetsu Shin's attack when he finds out that the white Rider is not the original one due to the lack of the elegant fighting style that the original had.
After hearing an announcement from Over Lord Redyue planning to conquer Earth and using people as a sacrifice, with Zack getting mad to the extent of wanting to kill the Over Lord for their announcement, Oren and Hideyasu accompany Zack until they find endangered civilians being kidnapped by an Inves army and rescue the civilians safely. When Knuckle gives Gridon a Suika Lockseed from Baron, Bravo tells Gridon to be careful. As Gridon doesn't know how to control the Suika Arms armor while stuck in Oodama Mode, Bravo lent him a hand, by using him in Oodama Mode armor as a wrecking ball. It almost kills Knuckle, but luckily he dodged the uncontrolled Gridon in Suika Arms.
Before he left to patrol around the city to look over the civilians to escape Zawame, Oren learns the original Zangetsu's identity, Takatora, along with behind the compromisation of Yggdrasill by Ryoma's group, and his relationship with his younger brother, Mitsuzane, who assume Takatora's Rider identity using his Genesis Driver and betrays the alliance for selling his humanity to Over Lords instead of saving it for Takatora's sake.
When Ryoma gives the chance to think about to cooperate with him. Oren is joined in the discussion alongside Hideyasu. He later assist Gaim and Baron to raid into an infested Yggdrasill HQ with a car. As the riders transformed, both Bravo and Gridon will take care of the remaining Inves outside the HQ while Gaim and Baron enters it successfully, thanks to Ryoma's plan. Later, Bravo and Gridon appears to distract Mitsuzane, having Kaito reaching to Kouta before they retreat. Once the kidnapped citizens were saved, they return to Zawame and started to wonder about the Inves invasion coming to an end.
After Kaito's betrayal and subsequent transformation into Lord Baron, Oren along with Zack and Jonouchi discover him in the middle of Zawame accompanied by Yoko. Oren is quickly able to deduce that Kaito is not the man he once was, and transforms along with Jonouchi to battle him and the newly summoned Inves. Oren manages to put up a decent fight against Baron, but is ultimately defeated, resulting in both his Sengoku Driver and Durian Lockseed being damaged beyond further use. Unable to continue the fight, Oren and Jonouchi return to pass on the news of Kaito's betrayal, which spurs the injured Kouta into action. Although he initially protests against pursuing Kaito, Oren relents and allows Kouta to seek him out. Oren, along with other survivors at Drupers were evacuated from Zawame temporarily by the JDSF, until Kouta was able to stop Kaito, save the world and left to a new world with Mai.
3 months later, Oren built another Charmant bakeshop called "Charmant II" after Zawame has been reclaimed and rebuilt. Those saddened by the tragedy, Oren lectures Jonouchi that pasts mistakes cannot be undone, and those who commit them must move on for their future. Oren also assures him that Mitsuzane, whom Jonouchi worried about, will find a better place for the future.
4 months later (7 months after Helheim left Earth), Oren and Jonouchi served Takatora and Akira as they were their best customers, serving them special cakes, until the Grasshoper Monster and Kamen Rider Jam come out of nowhere and attacks the powerless former Armored Riders for revenge. After Jam's first attack, Oren convenes with the other surviving former Riders to discuss the best plan of action. After Kohgane's (as Kamen Rider Jam) destruction, Oren, along with Takatora and their fellow former Armored Riders reunite with Mitsuzane.
==Other Events==
===Gaim Gaiden: Kamen Rider Baron===
Oren scolded Jonouchi for letting Kaito's lookalike in his kitchen, but he received a call from Alfred to hunt Shapool. Oren tries to scare "Kaito" by transforming into Armored Rider Bravo. However, after finding out that Kaito's Sengoku Driver doesn't make Shapool transform into Baron, he attempts to attack him until Zack intervenes to stop him while Mai and Shapool run away. 
===Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Drive & Gaim: Movie War Full Throttle===
During the events of Movie War Full Throttle, Oren tastes the fruit desserts made by Bando which makes him unimpressed. Suddenly, Oren, along with Bando, Jonouchi and Zack, witnesses Kouta's defeat by Megahex. Gathered at the old Team Gaim garage to tend to Mitsuzane’s injuries, the group assesses the dire situation. With only Mitsuzane able to transform, there seems to be no hope. However, a single Helheim fruit appears, which is provided by Mai's power, to turn into Melon Lockseed for Takatora, in which Oren is pleased to see Takatora rejoin the fight. At the end of the movie, Oren, Zack, Jonouchi, Takatora and Mitsuzane appear to Kouta and Mai as the two would about to say farewell to them.
===Gaim Gaiden: Kamen Rider Knuckle===
When Zack was in trouble, Oren appeared in the underground fighting ring to assist him. While he fought the Neo Baron henchmen, Hideyasu grabbed Zack to safety.
===Chou Super Hero Taisen===
An iteration of Kamen Rider Bravo was selected to participate in the Chou Super Hero Taisen tournament as a member of Team Woman to try and win the right to become the Goriders (With Kamen Rider Bravo trying to become Mido-Rider). Kamen Rider Bravo was beaten along with his team by Team Flying in the first round.
===Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever===
Kamen Rider Bravo appears as a toy, when Sento Kiryu and Sougo Tokiwa found Ataru Hisanagahe and he brings them to his room which is filled with Kamen Rider memorabilia, with Sougo and Sento stunned to see toys of themselves. Ataru reveals that Kamen Riders are fictional. 
===Kamen Rider Saber===
====Chapter 8: The One That Is Sealed Is, Arthur.====
A pair of civilians that look like Oren and Hideyasu appear in Saber in a cameo, being petrified by Medusa Megid's attack. 
=== Gaim Gaiden: Kamen Rider Bravo vs Kamen Rider Gridon ===
Oren 2020.png|Oren in Kamen Rider Bravo vs Kamen Rider Gridon
Oren military 2020.png|Oren came towards Hideyasu with his military outfit
Many years had passed and Oren had retired as a patisserie and worked as a personal military, especially for Takatora. On a certain night, Oren was in displeased by how Hideyasu had somehow fallen in front of his eyes for taking too much credit on his successful career on taking over Charmant. It was by then, Takatora called for him to assassinate Hideyasu as he was suspected to have caused a haywire of Helheim forest to their world.
The next morning, Oren didn't start his move yet and wanted to judge the truth first on Hideyasu. Hideyasu greeted Oren happily and asked him to taste the new dessert that he made using a new fruit. After being served, Oren in fear for judging it as Helheim fruit, angry to Hideyasu and beat him for once before leaving him, calling Hideyasu a failure grown. In the evening, Oren was attacked by Gridon and it made Oren finally confirmed that Hideyasu had become a criminal and sent him a challenge letter.
Another next day, Hideyasu alongside his secretary came to the port for receiving the challenge. Oren came towards Hideyasu with his military outfit and weapons as he was about to kill him. Hideyasu was confused as he thought that the challenge would be a dessert challenge, but right after Oren had transformed, a portal of Helheim forest was opened and the veins binded Oren. Oren angry with Hideyasu commanded him to release Oren. But unbeknown to Oren, Hideyasu didn't know anything and Oren was transformed by the vein into Bravo Kingdurian Arms, brainwashing him. 
The mysterious Gridon appears and fights Bravo, which is later revealed to be Takatora. Bravo later fights Hideyasu and defeats him, knocking Hideyasu out of his transformation. Later, Hideyasu transforms into Gridon Lychee Arms and defeats Bravo, freeing him from his mindless rampage. After the battle, Hideyasu carrying Oren on his back, asks him to come back to train him, which Oren gladly accepts.
===Kamen Rider Revice: The Mystery===
In Zawame, Gridon and Bravo fight the Shika Inves and then defeats it. They realized that it was one of people who had a stamp that can turn a person into a inves. As they detransform and get some answers, they met George Karizaki and Ryu Terui and later noticed that the man tried to run away from them, so they chased him. 
Later, Hideyasu got the man who was running away from them. Hideyasu asks Oren to tickle the man and the man told Hideyasu and Oren crucial information regarding the stamp's distributor.
==Video Game Appearances==
===Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbarizing===
Bravo is among the vast majority of Kamen Riders that are available in this arcade game. Notably, he is shown to use the Legend Rider Lockseed to assume Hibiki Arms in Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbarizing.
b4bb31b6910310434e2c9d74a46a602d.jpg|Kamen Rider Bravo in Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbarizing
gr6-058.jpg|Kamen Rider Bravo Hibiki arms in Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbarizing
===Kamen Rider Riderbout===
Kamen Rider Bravo appears as a playable character with the other Heisei and Showa Kamen Riders in Kamen Rider Riderbout.
===Kamen Rider Buttobasoul===
Kamen Rider Bravo is a playable character in Kamen Rider Buttobasoul.
===Battle Spirits===
Kamen Rider Bravo Durian Arms and Kingdurian Arms is a playable character in Battle Spirits with other Kamen Riders.
==Personality==
Oren is a highly flamboyant and effeminate man, typically dressed in feminine clothing along with wearing mascara, lipstick and nail polish. In reality, however, he is a man with a military background and has a lethal cocktail of having sadistic and homicidal tendencies, as shown when he transformed and almost attacked Team Gaim when he was annoyed by them. Due to this, it makes him almost as dangerous as Zangetsu, due to the fact he is one of the few Armored Riders with professional training. Oren sees the Beat Riders' way of competing as childish and believes that it needs to be made in his own way. He also tends to use a French accent, and sometimes uses French words in his speech. He also seems to dislike people born under certain astrological signs, such as Aquarius, signifying he reads horoscopes. An adult himself, he also sees Baron as a worthy opponent as he gave back Kaito's Banana Lockseed to him so that he could train to become stronger. But still, since he is not a Beat Rider, he didn't know the first thing about summoning the Inves.
Because of this lack of information, he was inspired by Kaito summoning the Inves in spite of already having transformed into Baron, and in an Armored Rider battle against Gaim and Ryugen, Oren threw down activated Lockseeds, causing him to lose control all of his Inves. 
Oren is a very boastful man, which his skills in battle allow him to back up in spades. He often taunts his opponents in battle and takes every opportunity to make a spectacle of himself even without an audience. He often parades around in his transformed state, declaring his superiority and issuing challenges to anybody willing to face him, as well as projecting a "hero" role to the public.
Despite his grandstanding, like one of his archenemies, Kaito, Oren has a sense of honor who dislikes dirty works/tricks and deeply cares for his customers. As seen during the belt theft attempt, he places the happiness of his patrons above all else, even betraying Yggdrasill because their plan involved interrupting Akira's meal. Likewise, he shows a growing fondness for his protégé Hideyasu; when he goes through a personal crisis, Oren helps him work through it by pointing out that it was caused by the realization that he lacked a purpose in life, and encourages Hideyasu to become a stronger and more decisive man so he can find that purpose. 
Despite his bullying and sadistic tendencies, Oren ultimately means well. In fact, the only reason why he kept terrorizing the Beat Riders, was because he adamantly believed the rumors that they were the cause of the Inves problem. To Oren, this was even more proven when Kaito transformed into Baron and sicced a bunch of Inves at an angry crowd. In response, Oren genuinely thought he needed to be the hero who puts the "unruly kids" in their place, not realizing how far from the truth he was. In the end, Oren is able to accept other points of view, but only when the evidence is overwhelming.
When he finally realized the truth about the Beat Rider's innocence, Oren becomes a much more heroic figure and actually comes to admire the Beat Riders for their attempt at resisting the Overlords. During the Forbidden Fruit Saga, Oren developed a superior/supervisor-like figure to the Beat Rider resistance, feeling that they lacked an adult to guide themselves. Like the Beat Riders as well, he also worked to free the Zawame City from Inves invasion and rescues the remaining citizens. During this time, he loses his boastful personality and acts much more subdued compared to his earlier appearances.
After the Helheim crisis, Oren still maintains contact with the Beat Riders, showing he built up a genuine friendship with them. This was shown when he wished Kouta and Mai farewell after Megahex's destruction and when he helped Zack escape an illegal fight club run by Shura.
==Abilities==
* Expert Combatant: As an former French military soldier, Oren is a highly trained fighter and an expert combatant, having extensive levels of knowledge of melee combat as well as being considerably experienced in combat operations. He once fought in Africa and the Middle East as part of the Parachute Regiment in pursuit of citizenship. He is a highly skilled fighter with a great number of skills resulting from his harsh training, which has cemented him as one of the strongest Armored Riders. He has enough skill to evenly matched against opponents like Yoko Minato, a highly trained spy. He shown to fight on par against her when they were both not transformed.
*Master Chef: As the owner of Charmant, Oren is a renowned and master patisserie, and is famous in Zawame for his baking prowess. He once emigrated to France fifteen years ago to perfect his baking art.
*Skilled Engineer: Oren has some experience in creating military-grade weapons. He built the bomb for Zack's attempt to assassinate Kaito.
*Bilingualism: Oren is fluent in both Japanese and French, often interjecting French into his sentences.
* Indomitable Will: Since his training requires the necessity to reject unknown flora in the forest, Oren was able to resist the temptation of eating a raw fruit of Helheim.
==Arms==
Like with the other Armored Riders, Kamen Rider Bravo's forms are called . His Sengoku Driver plays American rock & roll music and emits a guitar riff sound before every transformation, while his personal Lockseeds are styled in pure English with a "Mr. [Adjective/Noun]" theme.
By pressing the Sengoku Driver's Cutting Blade down on the Lockseed after transforming from one to three times, Bravo can activate one of three finishing moves based on his current Arms form: , , or .
==Equipment==
===Devices===
*Sengoku Driver - Transformation device (Originally used the prototype version, retired it in favor of a customized mass production version before the latter was destroyed by Kaito Kumon
*Lockseeds - Gives access to Bravo's Arms changes, depending on which lock is used
===Weapons===
*Arms Weapons
**Duri Noko - Bravo Durian Arms' personal weapons.
**Giga Duri Noko - Bravo Kingdurian Arms' personal weapons.
**Ongekibou Rekka - Bravo Hibiki Arms' personal weapon.
**Sonic Arrow - Bravo Jimber Melon Energy Arms' personal weapon.
===Vehicles===
*Lock Vehicles - Vehicles that unfold from special Lockseeds:
**Sakura Hurricane - Kamen Rider Bravo's Rider Machine
== Relationships ==
=== Friends ===
*Hideyasu Jonouichi/Kamen Rider Gridon: Currently the best pupil for Oren. Initially, Hideyasu wanted to use Oren as his other man power to help his Beat Rider's group to be the best but the plan was back fired. As the story goes, Oren cares on Hideyasu more despite it was initially a fake and Hideyasu would be soon notice how pathetic he was after the Beat Riders were no more a separated group, but united dancers. This lead their relationship develop into a great loyal master-pupil.
=== Allies ===
*Takatora Kureshima/Kamen Rider Zangetsu (Shin): Oren has a great love feeling for Takatora and dubbed him as his Melon prince, adoring his fighting style and manners. Albeit his love is more into looking up, Takatora felt disgusted when Oren showed his expression. After Jonouichi had succeeded on inheriting Oren's Charmant, Oren becomes the personal soldier for Takatora, albeit he is officially a public serving soldier.
*Kouta Kazuraba/Kamen Rider Gaim: Initially had a great awful distance towards him because his star sign is Aquarius, but since the Overlord's raid, Oren become the best support for Kouta. Before the truth of the Helheim and Yggdrasil's hazardous plan, Oren and Kouta were enemies until Hideyasu informed Oren about the incoming danger from the uncontrolled Helheim's portal. Their relationship started to become good when Oren was lost in Helheim forest and in state of hungry, deciding to not eat the Helheim fruit and Kouta feed him instead. Despite Kouta has become a God, Oren still calls him as Aquarius boy while still having respect for him.
*Mitsuzane Kureshima/Kamen Rider Ryugen: Oren initially looking down Mitsuzane just like any other Beat Rider dancers. During Mitsuzane's heel moment, Oren looked him down more and even labelling him as 'fake melon' because how easily for Oren to discover that Mitsuzane was the one behind Zangetsu-Shin's rider suit. After Mitsuzane's raise, Oren started to respect him and they worked together to keep on Zawame City in care during Kouta's absence.
*Zack/Kamen Rider Knuckle: As one of the Beat Riders, Oren also looked down on him until Zack showed his courage and the next one to keep on taking a frontal move when Kouta and Kaito were not in the battlefield. While benevolent, Oren had Zack to be the closest in term of teaming up after Hideyasu.
*Yoko Minato/Kamen Rider Marika: to be added
=== Enemies ===
* Kaito Kumon/Kamen Rider Baron: Oren and Kaito has a benevolent relationship because they never interact well. But, Oren initially has a great respect for Kaito and was even able to see his potential to be a powerful person, a different judgement from the rest of Beat Rider dancers. Unfortunately, Oren lost his respect to Kaito after Kaito has evolved into an Overlord. It's never officially revealed if Oren has a respect for him again in the aftermath of the series.
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
Oren Pierre Alfonzo is portrayed by . Yoshida is currently married to Hiromi Iwasaki, who plays the Over Lord Queen in the same series.
As Kamen Rider Bravo, his suit actors are and Uchusen, Vol. 142Uchusen, Vol. 143
===Meme===
*The scene in Farewell, Beat Riders, where Oren jumps and performs a flying kick at Hideyasu had been made into various internet memes.
Oren flying kick.png|Oren's (in)famous flying kick scene
===Concept Art===
Kamn rider Bravo durian arm concept art.jpg|Kamen Rider Bravo Durian Arms concept art
Kamen Rider Bavo profile concept art.jpg
==Notes==
*Bravo is the second non-Beat Rider Armored Rider, with the first being Zangetsu.
*Oren is the oldest Armored Rider in the series, being around 40 years old.
*Oren becomes the only person ever seen to be tempted to eat the Helheim's Fruit but chooses not to without outside help.
*Whenever Oren speaks in the French language, a pink quotation would appear beside him to translate his words into Japanese.
*Oren is one of two Armored Riders to have a customized mass production Sengoku Driver, which retains the face plate used by his prototype Driver and maintaining the original Ride Wear suit, the other one being Gridon.
*Despite several other Riders with Sengoku Drivers that use the rock-and-roll standby sound, this sound along with the distorted guitar riff that accompanies the pressing down of the Cutting Blade is commonly associated with scenes featuring Oren.
===Legend Rider Lockseeds===
*The following Legend Rider Lockseeds are styled for Bravo, as well as Knuckle:
**X - "Mr. Kaizorg!"
**Amazon - "Mr. Wildman!"
**Faiz - "Mr. Justifaiz!"
**New Den-O - "Mr. Countdown!"
**Beast - "Mr. Mayonnaise!"
==Appearances==
==References==
==External Links==
*Kamen Rider Zukan page on Oren Pierre Alfonzo.
*Kamen Rider Zukan page on Kamen Rider Bravo Durian Arms.
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