Who's the worst villain in all of Kamen Rider?
 

Like, who is the most incompetent, bubbling, shit-teir villain that any Kamen Rider has ever had to face? I haven't seen every series, but so far my vote is for Cobraman from the original 1971 series--who'sweakness was that he's afraid of dogs.

you really want to go showa in here? if that so, go with great leader in the original kamen rider. After he's unmasked he just explodes what's with that?? way to deny any epic final battle toei.

or let me put it this way, shocker and it's affiliations in general are incompetent
how hard it is to brainwash first, turn people into superhuman bug person later??
let's count how many times they're getting betrayed or screwed by showa rider that they created:

-Rider 1
-Rider 2
-SkyRider
-Stronger
-Tackle

Truly this is the sign of competent evil organization. Also it would be nice to not dip your own associates right arm into pool of acid, y'know so that person would not betray your own organization

To be fair, Stronger did let himself get kidnapped and then escaped as part of the plan. He knew what he was doing

Him? :lol

... I messed that up, didn't I? :lol

The worst villains....

- Wizard: Gremlin Phantom
- Kabuto: Mishima Worm
- Den-O: Kai
- Kiva: Bat Fangire (King)
- Faiz: Orphenoch King

In non-Tackle related news, can I nominate Narutaki. Because that guy does nothing apart from vaguely spell doom, act like a penis, and occasionally cause some actual trouble.

I'd say Decade Apollo Geist. All he ever really did was show up and be all like "Ragh! Decade, I'm gonna beat you!" Only to just send out his lackies, and as soon as Decade went past them and hit Apollo Geist once, he'd just go all "I'll get you next time, Gadget!" and run away via a dimensional wall. Like, if he only did this once, it'd be fine, but the dude did it like four or five times before Decade finally beat him.

Doctor Maki from OOO. I've been saying it for almost five years now: all you would need to do to defeat him is blow up his little doll and then wait for him to bite his tongue off and bleed to death during the resulting seizure.

I think that's just a comic relief quirk, and not a seriously disabling trauma. Sure, he'd have a gigantic fit over losing the doll, but I think once or twice he actually loses it (or leaves it behind) without throwing a tantrum in the show. I feel like had it been destroyed completely, he'd more realistically replace goofy spazzing with blistering anger. Maybe he'd cry about it for a bit, but the guy is all about the END of all things after all. I'm sure Maki would accept the doll's fate before taking revenge on whoever didn't let it have the proper ending he'd imagined for it.

Either N Daguva Zeba for being such a letdown or Eternal because he's bitch made.

Again brainwash first, turn people into superhuman bug person later. It's all about priorities:))

Either way, it permanently robbed him of all credibility for me.

Remembered another prime candidate, too: Archbishop Wing from V3. Easily the most boring and forgettable general of the entire Showa era. He was only in six episodes and most were straight remakes of the original series. His costume was boring, he was sandwiched between the far superior Baron Fang and Marshall Armor, and he didn't even get an epic final showdown with V3 - Marshall Armor just killed him to make an entrance.

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I'm liking these answers so far!

I've only seen bits of the showa era stuff--mostly whats available at Henshin Fever on facebook. I especially love the early Hongo episodes, when the Kamen Rider formula was new and there was kind of this subtle awkwardness in the production and fight choreography. I'll definitely check out some of the episodes with these villains though.

But yeah, please continue posting your thoughts on terrible KR villains! Post some details about why you think they're bad too. Stuff like general level of incompetence, personality, monster design, etc.

Shocker as an organization is full of dumbasses.

They're in the twentieth goddamn century and they insist on equipping their stupid henchmen with nothing but swords. Swords! Literally the only two times I remember them ever including guns into their plans was when they gave them to people they had brainwashed. Shocker probably wouldn't even need the monsters if they just upgraded to having bullets in their plans. It's a dumb organization.

Also, the Garanda Empire sucks, and is boring. Not that Gedon was super inspired, but at least their motivation was a little more focused and it was a good foil to Amazon. The Garanda Empire was just a generic evil organization and it was generically boring. It really made the show kind of drag for the latter half. Also the Bee and Owl had like exactly the same fricking plan. Man. Garanda is bullshit.

The Mole Beastman is also kind of a terrible villain, because he ended up being the greatest hero. Love that bastard.

Bishop from Kiva. Not only he was pure evil and ruining situations but he really pissed me off