Tokusatsu vs. Gaming All-Stars

***Tokusatsu vs. Gaming All-Stars*** (特撮VSゲームオールスター, *Tokusattsu Bui Esu Gēmingu Ōrusutāzu*?) is an upcoming crossover special for *Kamen Rider*, *Super Sentai*, *Metal Heroes*, other Toku properties owned by Toei and various video game properties. While originally slated to be a movie, it then became a 5-week special event for *Super Hero Time*, before reverting into a 2.5-hour movie.

A few reasons led it to the current 2.5-hour movie status. The first was the budget used on the crossover, as approximately half of the budget was spent on licensing and CG animating the video game characters, mainly the prominent ones. The second of which was the confirmation of *Superhero Senki*. While this technically isn't counted as a part of the *Super Hero Taisen Series*, ShadicMCGS (the creator) has signified this as a one-off sequel to said series. Toei initially wanted a 2-hour movie, although a compromise was made to increase by half an hour, due to many plotpoints rendered impossible due to actor availability, age, and copyright issues.

The movie is to be released in Japanese theatres on September 2023. It was also released worldwide in December 1st of the same year, with English subtitles, on TokuSHOUTsu, and other streaming services exclusive on other countries.

## Synopsis

When an incident that isn't supposed to occur in the Game World, it unknowingly unleashes a unification of the Game World and the real world. The villainous forces in *Super Smash Bros. Ultimate* unites with various evil forces of the Game World to wreak havoc in the real world to ensure they rule two different worlds.

## Characters

### Gaming All-Star Heroes

#### SEGA

* Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)

 Clever Fox Boy
 Cute Rabbit

### Allies

#### Tokusatsu Allies

* Asuna Karino
* Nico Saiba

#### Gaming All-Star Allies

* Team Heroes
	+ Rookie
	+ Yacker
	+ Cheese

### Villains

#### Tokusatsu Villains

##### Kamen Rider

* Bugsters
	+ Bugster Virus

#### Gaming All-Star Villains

* Eggman Empire (from *Sonic the Hedgehog*, 1991)
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Metal Sonic
	+ Egg Pawns

## Trivia

* Activision Blizzard was initially reported to lend its characters to appear in the movie. However, due to the 2021 workplace controversy, most of their characters were dropped. Any characters that did make the cut are labelled under Microsoft.
* A bunch of plotpoints were planned, but scrapped, due to various reasons:
	+ Most plotpoints containing any Showa heroes were cut due to actor age, availability, and health.
		- Riders 2, V3, X, Amazon, Skyrider, and ZX were supposed to have their actors reprise their roles physically, but only Rider 2 and V3 returned to voice them only.
		- Perhaps the biggest plotpoint that was cut was the inclusion of a potential revival of Daigoro Kumano, seeing that Jirō Daruma is still alive. However, out of respect for him (and to the extent, others) retiring from the industry, the plotpoint was scrapped.

### Rivalries

As stated by Shadic, the movie is rivalry themed, meaning a Tokusatsu property would have a video game franchise as their rival. A list of rivalries is down below, which includes:

* *Kamen Rider Ex-Aid* vs. *Sonic the Hedgehog*: The characters of *Ex-Aid* have a video game motif that each represent a different genre of games, and the *Sonic* characters are video game characters; while they don't normally represent different game genres, they do represent their different fighting styles. Additionally, both are the main focus of the two sides in the movie.
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