Masked Rider

Zoom in on two armed guards at the Duplitron building.

First Masked Rider use, but comes from VR Troopers; transitions in.

Zoom out from a security monitor watching a bank, viewed by a guard.

A quick shot of two different security camera, turning to take in the scenes.

Pushed back from source position.

On one monitor, Bananatex passes by quickly, pan over to the second, showing him approaching a door.

Japanese text blurred out in both shots.

Guard adjusts a gauge on camera G3. The security monitor zooms in on Bananatex, aware he's being filmed.

Japanese text blocked out in shot 2.

Mist pours in through the edge of a closed door.

Mist rises up from beneath the door, the hands of Bananatex stretching out from within.

Shot 1 initially has some added fog to cover Japanese text sign.

Bananatex emerges from the mist.

Signs digitally altered to remove Japanese text. Really nice work by the visual effects team. Probably cost a lot and took a lot of time and went utterly unappreciated.

Bananatex points and talks.

Trims start to remove Japanese overlaid text onscreen; signs digitally altered to remove Japanese text.

Bananatex aims his skull staff forth, firing yellow energy at the pair of guards.

Signs digitally altered to remove Japanese text.

Bananatex turns his head, then walks over to a control station.

Sign digitally altered to remove Japanese text in shot 1.

Red lights turn green.

Pushed up from source position inexplicably.

Bananatex holds his skull staff against a monitor, causing it to glow with yellow energy.

Bananatex walks over to a barred area, as the doors slide open. He walks in, talking and gesturing, then approaches the keyhole on the vault door. He sets his staff down, then unpeels a banana, before jamming it into the keyhole, using his skull staff to empower it, and then turning it. The vault door opens, inside are several stacks of "explodium" gold. He talks, then discards the banana key.

Final shot freeze-framed to avoid Japanese title text appearing.

Another shot of the "explodium" gold.

Recycled; fades to black.

Japanese police comb the site of the gold theft, cameras focusing on the discarded banana.

Altered to fit the Stewarts' TV, yet was already on a different TV set in source, so not really altered much.

Spiderbase flies toward us in front of huge swath of disturbed storm clouds.

Recycled; transitions in.

Count Dregon addresses his four minions as the camera slightly lowers.

Mirror-flipped; plays in reverse; shortened.

Close on Gork, as he raises his left index finger, then left fist, then spreads arms while wiggling fingers.

Recycled, but runs a little longer at start.

Close on Gork, talking, points, then lowers left fist, then spreads arms while wiggling fingers, then gestures finger again.

Recycled; shortened differently than usual.

Close on Cyclopter, talking and pointing directly to our slight left.

Recycled; mirror-flipped.

Doubleface talks in a medium shot as it very slowly zooms in on him.

Recycled.

Close on Gork, nodding silently.

Recycled.

Bananatex rips through his clothing all Hulk-like.

Bananatex's face unsinks from within the disguise.

Bananatex readies a banana, and tosses it forth a few times.

Shot 1 is cropped to hide kid in corner.

A banana flies through the air twice, impaling upon a tabletop, which turns to ice and explodes.

Bananatex lunges at Dex.

Shortened to remove any facial visibility of counterpart; splits end off for use in a second.

Dex keeps hold of Bananatex's skull staff, as they struggle.

Split from far end of prior shot.

Bananatex shifts his skull staff between hands, eyes flash, he turns to green mist and vanishes.

Plays in reverse; shortened; effects added (face of Bananatex appears in an effect a shot or two later, for the record).

Spiderbase flies over us through a strange dimensional gateway or something.

Recycled; transitions in.

Close on Gork as he speaks and jerks his pointing right hand forth a bit.

Recycled; shortened.

Fact talks and jerks arms right in front of a pillar.

Recycled; mirror-flipped.

Doubleface turns sharply to look to our slight left.

Recycled; mirror-flipped.

Extreme close-up of Doubleface's forehead-face, saying something as he leans down and bows with eyes closing.

First MR usage.

Spiderbase drops its jaws while firing a green energy beam downward.

Recycled with green beam from MR 101.

A green energy bolt beams down upon the planet Earth.

Recycled with green beam from MR 101.

A green energy bolt falls from the sky.

Recycled with green beam from MR 101; night-darkened.

Fluffy flaps through the moon-lit sky.

Composite of two shots in source (a fakey moon in one, and the monster flying through the sky in the other).

Fluffy flaps closer at us at night.

Fluffy flaps through the moon-lit sky.

Recycled already.

Fluffy flaps away from us in the moon-lit sky.

Recycled again; plays in reverse; fades out.

A look at a sunny, but cloudy, sky.

Fades in.

As Japanese civilians flee in terror, Fluffy picks up a random dude.

Slowed; cuts before zoom out.

Japanese civilians flee some more, as Fluffy continues to try to get ol' lard butt off the ground.

Split.

A guy in a red coat manages to pull Fluffy's victim out of his grasp, both falling to the pavement as a third guy approaches. Fluffy flaps forth.

Shot 1 split from prior shot; cuts shot 2 before they get up and we see their faces.

Fluffy lands on the ground and turns around.

Mirror-flipped.

Fluffy points and talks.

Fluffy gestures arms and talks.

Trimmed to reduce dialogue.

Fluffy motions his arms and gets ready.

Dex leaps over Fluffy and downward kicks him in the back of the head on the way by, landing behind him.

Cuts before Dex rises.

Fluffy approaches menacingly.

Fluffy spews flames at Dex, who dodges. An explosion erupts on a lakeshore, then a tree or two explosively splits in half.

Shot 2 shortened to hide Dex's counterpart's face.

Masked Rider's Ectophase sequence.

Recycled.

Masked Rider leaps up, flips over from a few angles, and lands across from Fluffy, who reacts as speaks.

Cuts shot of MR shimmering between shots 4 & 5; cuts follow-ups of Masked Rider posing a bit.

Fluffy gestures arms and talks.

Recycled, but runs fully.

Masked Rider talks forth, Fluffy leaps forth, Masked Rider leaps up to pass him in midair, then they land, having changed places. Fluffy then spews some flames.

Cuts follow-ups of fire on a pond and an explosion.

Masked Rider dodges the flames, leaps up and over Fluffy, then grabs him by the ears, they struggle, so Masked Rider finally flips him over, but he quickly recovers.

Close on Masked Rider, nod-talking.

Recycled; trimmed; mirror-flipped.

Fluffy fires eyebeams at Masked Rider, who dodges them, until he's close enough.

Cuts before he hits Fluffy; cuts follow-up of Fluffy sparkily striking him, grabbing him with all his arms, then a sai getting tossed in to save him.

Masked Rider slaps the ground, leaps up, underflips and twists around into a fully charged Rider Kick, hitting Fluffy so hard he bursts and is thrown into the air.

Effects added to final shot; cuts follow-ups of Masked Rider pulling out his saber and stabbing Fluffy to death.

Masked Rider leaps up.

Recycled; trimmed; mirror-flipped.

Masked Rider flips over in the air.

Recycled.

Combat Chopper rides through a dusty lot.

Recycled.

Masked Rider lands on his cycle.

Recycled.

Masked Rider rounds a bend on Combat Chopper.

Recycled; split.

Close-on Combat Chopper as Masked Rider rides.

Recycled.

Continued, Masked Rider keeps driving until he reaches us, pulling to a stop on Chopper.

Recycled; split from two shots ago; transitions out.

Masked Rider rides Combat Chopper down a road right toward a big Fuji-esque mountain.

Masked Rider leaps off Combat Chopper.

Recycled; trimmed to remove visibility of saber.

Masked Rider flips over and lands on a rooftop, facing Bananatex, then shimmering with power.

Bananatex talks.

Plays in reverse.

Masked Rider poses and nod-talks.

Shortened.

Bananatex talks.

Recycled, but plays normally.

Masked Rider poses.

Cuts more follow-up posing.

Bananatex reacts.

Masked Rider slaps the ground, then leaps forth at Bananatex, grabbing him, then kicking him down. Bananatex recovers and tosses a banana at him, bursting on impact as it misses him. Bananatex fires his skull staff at Masked Rider, zapping him with yellow energy, until he's flung across the roof. Bananatex tosses another banana, bursting Masked Rider directly this time. Bananatex tosses another banana, Masked Rider makes like Mr Banana Grabber and grabs it, and tosses it back at him, bursting Bananatex so hard he goes flying off the roof twice. Masked Rider gestures and begins to change form.

Masked Rider transforms into Super Blue mode.

Recycled, per source.

Super Blue gestures, Ultra Chopper rides in, Super Blue leaps off the roof, landing on his cycle. Bananatex lands down the road from him. Super Blue speeds Ultra Chopper right at Bananatex, sending him flipping over when he passes by. Super Blue parks quickly, Bananatex readies his skull staff.

Cuts follow-ups of Super Blue posing.

Super Blue gestures his hands as he poses.

Super Blue gestures his hands as he poses.

Recycled.

Bananatex tosses a banana forth, Super Blue turns into liquid energy, avoids the burst, then swoops over and rematerializes into a tackle of the monster. Super Blue poses. Bananatex fires yellow energy from his skull staff, wrapping it around Super Blue's neck. He struggles, finally flinging himself over Bananatex, who hits him on the way by. Bananatex jabs his skull staff forth, Super Blue grabs it, cracks the skull with energy cracks, then knocks it out of his hand, where it glows and dissolves.

Bananatex throws a pair of bananas forth.

Mirror-flipped.

Super Blue gestures to his belt.

Mirror-flipped.

Super Blue summons up his Blue Saber, and poses with it.

Bananatex throws a pair of bananas forth.

Recycled; Mirror-flipped again.

Smoke and sparks burst around Super Blue as he rushes forth.

Super Blue slashes past Bananatex.

Mirror-flipped.

Super Blue rolls to a crouch, then powers up his Blue Saber, then stands up suddenly with it.

Super Blue slashes Bananatex with his energized saber, crackling and smoking him.

Mirror-flipped; cuts follow-ups of Super Blue posing in front of exploding Bananatex.

Close on another fireball burst explosion.

Recycled; crossfades into next shot.

Close on an explosion in a quarry.

Recycled, per source (which runs longer than other sources); Trimmed to remove quarry visibility and crossfades in from prior shot.

Super Blue rises amid smoke and poses triumphant.

Mirror-flipped; transitions out.

Spiderbase flies to our upper left above a mountain range.

Recycled; mirror-flipped; transitions in.

Close on Gork, suddenly lifting his head and looking tense.

Recycled.

Gork talks and walks in front of Count Dregon, bowing and gesturing, then motioning away.

Recycled; shortened.

Close on Gork, visibly trembling.

Mirror-flipped.

Count Dregon zaps Gork with his staff, the yellow electricity causing him to writhe about the empty bridgeroom.

Recycled, but runs fully.

Gork lies on the ground, winded.