Stingfish Orphenoch

**Stingfish Orphenoch**(スティングフィッシュオルフェノク *Sutingufisshuorufenoku*) is a Devil stinger-based Orphenoch from Episode 1 of Kamen Rider 555.

He is voiced by **Masanobu Kinoshita**, who also plays his human form.

## Personality

As a human, Hiroshi is a carefree guy who wants to have fun.
However, as an Orphenoch, he’s a sinister and deceitful monster who doesn’t care who he kills and shows no sympathy for anyone.

## Appearance

The Stingfish Orphenoch has an entirely white-colored body with white-colored armor that includes shoulder pads with chains attached, a war skirt, a breastplate, gauntlets, and armor on the shins. He also has fish-like eyes and a big cranium.

## Biography

A woman, named Mari, is traveling on a motorcycle carrying a gym bag until she comes across a group of boys who force her to hang out with them. After one of the boys, Daisuke, heads to the bathroom, he encounters a flying creature, called an Orphenoch. Daisuke tries to rush away when the Orphenoch approaches him but he gets cornered and the Orphenoch extends tentacles from his fingers to penetrate his heart, disintegrating it into blue flames, in an attempt to turn him into an Orphenoch.
Meanwhile, Mari tries to escape on her motorcycle to get away from the boys but she discovers Daisuke’s dead body. She warns Daisuke’s friends, Kohei and Hiroshi, about his body but they discover his body is now missing.
Late at night, as Mari and the boys sit at the campfire, Daisuke suddenly appear on his motorcycle. Mari comes up to him to scold him, believing his dead body to be some kind of prank, but he suddenly disintegrates into ash. To her shock, Kohei comes up to her, laughing, and disintegrates into ash as well.
Just then, she spots a man who has been following her, Takumi, and she accuses him of being the one who killed the boys. Seeing that he wants the contents of her gym bag, she runs into a nearby building with her bag as Takumi chases after her.
She finds Hiroshi in the building as well and she tries to warn him about Takumi being the killer. However, Hiroshi reveals that he’s the killer and shows his true Orphenoch form, the Stingfish Orphenoch.
The Stingfish Orphenoch demands Mari to hand over the belt she’s keeping in her bag to him. He grabs the bag from her but Takumi fights with him for it, claiming the belt belongs to him. When he opens the bag, he finds that it’s not his belt but instead a case belonging to an organization called Smart Brain.
Mari grabs the case out of the bag and opens it to put on the belt kept inside. However, when she tries to transform, the belt rejects her and blasts off her.
When the Stingfish Orphenoch then turns into his flying form, Mari places the belt on Takumi and gets him to transform with it, turning him into Kamen Rider Faiz.
The Stingfish Orphenoch and Faiz start to fight each other where they seemed evenly matched at first until Faiz manages to knock the Orphenoch down with a few punches. As the Stingfish Orphenoch gets up, Faiz runs up to him and kicks him in the abdomen. After a long pause from being kicked, the Stingfish Orphenoch combusts into blue flames and disintegrates into ash.

## Powers/Abilities

**Swimming Mode**: The Stingfish Orphenoch can turn his lower body half into a stingfish’s tail to fly around in the sky.

**Finger Tentacles**: The Stingfish Orphenoch can extend out tentacles from his index and middle fingers to penetrate and inject Orphenoch energy into the heart of his victims.

**Human Disguise**: The Stingfish Orphenoch can disguise himself as a man wearing a blue jacket named Hiroshi Isawa.

**Trident Spear**: The Stingfish Orphenoch’s weapon of choice is a trident that can crush concrete with a thickness of 1 m.

## Trivia

* Initially, the designer, Tamotsu Shinohara, was going to make the Stingfish Orphenoch’s motif Neptune like how Neptune was used in Kamen Rider X. Similar to how the Jaguar and Turtle motifs were used for Agito like in Kamen Rider V3 with Scissors Jaguar and Turtle Bazooka.
	+ However, he skipped the Neptune motif and instead went with a fish motif since it’s associated with the sea.
* The purpose for the “mermaid” form of the Stingfish Orphenoch was to express the half-human, half-beast idea for the Orphenochs.