Masked Rider (Character)

**Joe Ryder** is the son of the late William Ryder (the previous **Masked Rider**) a vigilante who plans to make the world a better place by taking care of the criminals in his town. He was the apprentice of his father, intending to take his place if something where to happen to William Ryder. One night, while watching his father beat up criminals as a teaching lesson to show Joe Ryder how he fights, a criminal comes up behind his father and strikes him dead with one blow. After his father's funeral, he takes on the mantle of the **Masked Rider**.

## History

When he was 17 years of age, William Ryder trained his son, Joe, to make him ready to become the next Masked Rider. One night, while out on the streets, his father beat a criminal gang as a teaching lesson to show Joe Ryder how he fights, however a member of that gang comes up behind his father and strikes him dead with one blow, annoyed that he did it, the gang member escapes.

After his father's funeral, he trains his body, mind and soul hard every day to become the next Masked Rider.

He had about 5 friends in his life Lewie, Jeff, Matt, Nok and especially Darrel, the friend that he often sees the most and still does see him. All of this friends (with the exception of Darrel) had criminal records and committed some of kind of crime in their lives, especially Lewie who got arrested for stealing sour worms.

## Present

He is currently doing his Masked Rider duties, beating up bad guys doing the wrong thing. And also, due to Darrel not being able to pay his fees and losing his girlfriend in the process, Joe let Darrel stay at his apartment to help him recover. Whenever a crime happens, Joe pretends he wants to go to the bathroom so he could do his masked rider duties without Darrel knowing.

## Masked Rider (2021 Movie)

He first shows up when a criminal with a Golden Mask, also known as Golden Rim was trying to attack the Prince of Diamonds. The golden Rim then tried to attack the Masked Rider and the Masked Rider beats him up in response. He then returns to his hotel apartment and crosses Golden Rim's Name off the list of known criminals he's after. He takes nap afterwards. After his nap, an old friend, Darrel shows up and explains his situation. Feeling sorry for his friend, he lets him stay until he can find a way around. He then hears a news report on his small radio which involves a criminal with a mask pointing a gun at a supermarket worker for money. This makes Joe change into the Masked Rider. When he gets to the supermarket, the criminal tries to shoot him, but he completely dodges the bullets and punches the criminal in the face. After the supermarket worker thanks him for saving his life, Masked Rider is given permission to take anything he wants, so he takes a can of black beans. Later he is watching a cheap crime movie with Darrel, he seems to have a dislike towards the movie and decides to go to a coffee shop instead, and then they end up talking about themselves and their lives, he decides not to have a coffee due to the poor taste of the coffee itself which Darrel initially denied it but couldn't deny it any longer and admits the bad taste. The next day, while watching television, the news interrupts the program, announcing Raymond Street's prime minister Alistair's death, and the vice (and now current) prime minister, blames Masked Rider due to Alistair's obvious dislike of him. Overwhelmed by the accusation, he decides to go investigate the case on his own. He checks out the murder location and finds a sticky note with the names of famous people, most of the people work in the movie business and it is done in the style of the alphabet, and finding out the killer motive in the process. He locates of those people, Balsing, a washed up movie actor, and due to running out of things to do, acts in mostly cheap straight to DVD movies instead working in something much bigger, and a s a result lives in a greasy and messy apartment. Balsing though confused at Masked Rider showing up in his apartment at first, but when Masked Rider explains his situation, Balsing believes him. When Masked Rider asks Balsing to pack his things and follow him, Balsing agrees but decides he wants to shave first, which Masked Rider lets him off just for this, however, the killer suffocates Balsing while attempting to shave in the bathroom and stabs him to death right afterwards. Masked Rider finds his body and has a mental breakdown, but his father's spirit comes around and encourages him to fight on to which Masked Rider eventually does. Masked Rider goes the next person on the list, a movie director known as Central. He tells Central to stay put in his room which puts Central's new movie script due to be given to the higher ups be delayed. While in the room, Central tries to beg Joe to be in his movie to which he refuses. Then the doorbell rings and a dead pizza guy shows up at the door and the killer is right behind him. The killer reveals himself as Masked Killer and decides to kill both Central and Masked Rider when he spots both of them in the same room. When Central leaves the room in fear, the Masked Rider and Masked Killer fight, at first Masked Killer seems to be doing well, but to his intense training, Masked Rider is able to beat up him enough to the point of defeat. Masked Rider demands the killer about his motivations and when the killer tells him, Masked Rider, full of rage, beats him up until he goes unconscious. After this, he returns to his apartment and greats Darrel back. After that, he and Darrel decide to have dinner and talk more about themselves. Joe comes up with a plan to have he, Darrel and the rest of the old gang have a reunion to which Darrel delightedly agrees to.

## Personality

He is a mostly serious, almost no-nonsense person who likes to keep to himself, he trains himself very hard and always works himself around the clock to protect his city from criminals. He has a dislike for movies and media due to it being too 'distracting'. He can also be cold at times. However he has nicer side as he has a mostly good relationship with his best friend Darrel and even lets him stay at his apartment, making him his room mate. He seems to have a liking to black kidney beans.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Expert Fighter:** Due to his hard working training, he is very strong and can beat up a bad guy, even when the bad guy seems like a big threat.
* **Detective Skills:** He investigates crimes sometimes and he investigated the Alistair murder by checking the crime scene, he even checks up on the locations of the victims, picked by the Masked Killer.

## Notes

* He was originally going to be like the 1971 Kamen Rider, but due to Raymond wanting to do his own thing with the character, he was made a mask wearing vigilante with no superpowers whatsoever.
* He is based on Kamen Rider 1 due to the way he's used.
* Unlike Kamen Rider 1, he has no transformation device nor a belt, although he wore one at the beginning.