Kamen Rider Gaoh (仮面ライダーガオウ(牙王) Kamen Raidā Gaō) is a fictional character appearing in Kamen Rider Den-O. The actor who portrays him is Hiroyuki Watanabe (渡辺裕之 Watanabe Hiroyuki), who had previously portrayed Commander Akio Ishimuro in Ultraman Gaia and Taiga Saejima in GARO.[1] Watanabe, at 51, is the oldest individual to portray a Kamen Rider. Kamen Rider Gaoh and Kintaros were the 48th Super Imaginative Chogokin volume.
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Gaoh (牙王 Gaō, literally "Fang King") is a thief-king who targets Time Trains and a renegade Kamen Rider who wishes to take over all of space-time by obtaining the legendary GaohLiner to destroy all time as he was fed up with it. He and his Imagin followers took camp at May, 2000 to await his plan to come to fruition, by sending the Molech Imagin to 2007 to set the pieces up. While he eventually obtains the GaohLiner and rampages in the day of Ryotaro's birth, the three other Ryotaros Yuto assembled for the 'Climax Scene' arrive and the four Den-O's kill all of Gaoh's followers. While Gaoh manages to defeat Zeronos and the three past Den-O's with his Full Charge, the present one in Sword Form uses his Extreme Slash (special version) to trick Gaoh and wound him. Gaoh attempts to escape aboard the GaohLiner but it is destroyed by the ZeroLiner and DenLiner, him escaping as it exploded. He is then confronted by Kamen Rider Den-O in Sword Form and eventually killed by a slash of Den-O's sword, being reduced to dust and being 'consumed by time'.
Kamen Rider Gaoh is the only Kamen Rider in Kamen Rider Den-O to only have one form, called Gaoh Form (ガオウフォーム Gaō Fōmu) and no Imagin partner (similar to Zeronos Altair Form). It is visually based on a crocodile and is similar to Den-O Sword Form. Upon transforming, Gaoh says "Everything, I'll devour it all" (全員、俺が喰ってやる Zen'in, ore ga kutte yaru).
The Gaoh Belt (ガオウベルト Gaō Beruto) allows for Gaoh to become Kamen Rider Gaoh. It uses a Rider Pass and SetTouch system, just like the Den-O Belt. However, it uses the gold-plated Master Pass (マスターパス Masutā Pasu) instead. How Gaoh came to obtain the Gaoh belt and the knowledge of its functions is never disclosed, although it could simply have been summoned with the Rider Pass.
The Machine GaohStriker (マシンガオウストライカー Mashin GaōSutoraikā) is Gaoh's personal motorcycle that he uses to pilot the GaohLiner.
The GaohGasher (ガオウガッシャー GaōGasshā) is Gaoh's only weapon and only has a Sword Mode (ソードモード Sōdo Mōdo). It is visually similar to Den-O's DenGasher Sword Mode, except it has a gold, serrated blade. He uses the weapon for his Full Charge attack, the Tyrant Crash (タイラントクラッシュ Tairanto Kurasshu), which is similar to Den-O Sword Form's Extreme Slash attack.[2]
The GaohLiner (ガオウライナー Gaōrainā) was built by the king of an ancient civilization. In the time of said civilization, it was referred to by its actual name, God's Train (神の列車 Kami no Ressha), due to having the power to control all of time, able to easily erase Singularity Points. Due to the vastness of its power, the king sealed the GaohLiner away within the time of its creation. Gaoh sought use of the train, tricking Yukimura into unsealing the cave in which the GaohLiner was sealed in. Upon its release, Gaoh wreaks havoc upon the feudal village before heading into 1988, intent on erasing Ryotaro for having interfered. The GaohLiner battles Zeronos Vega Form until Gaoh attempts to escape in it, engaging the DenLiner/ZeroLiner combo in a battle between the time-trains and is destroyed by them when the combined time-train ran straight through it from head to end with its drill, undoing the damage caused by it, though Gaoh managed to bail out in time. Despite its awesome power of erasing time, it lacks offensive power compared to the DenLiner and ZeroLiner, only having two weapons that failed to do much damage to either of the other time-trains
GaohLiner Kiba (ガオウライナーキバ（牙） Gaōrainā Kiba) is the first car. In Battle Mode, it has jaws like a crocodile, which can not only bite through targets but fire a powerful energy beam.
GaohLiner Kiba is followed by several other train cars which do not have any offensive capabilities. They are black, like Kiba, and have two rows of bronze ridges running along the tops of the cars similar to a crocodile's scales on its back. Within each car is a barrage of missiles that are shot at an enemy.
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