Wikia

Sorting type:

|

This article is about a/an race of monsters in Kamen Rider W.

The Dopants (ドーパント, Dōpanto) are the antagonists in the Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Double. Dopants are actually normal humans who use Gaia Memories. The Gaia Memories are aspects of the true Gaia Memory, the knowledge of everything on the Earth. These were originally accessed due to Philip's link to the Gaia Memory by means of the Gaia Library (地球（ほし）の本棚, Hoshi no Hondana). But after he was taken from them, the Sonozaki Family uses a strange temple underneath their mansion to access the Gaia Memory. They then sell these to the highest bidder or to common criminals, both types used as guinea pigs to study the Gaia Memories as part of the Gaia Impact project. The name comes from the English words "dopant" and "doping".

Dopant Gaia MemoriesEdit

A Gaia Memory (ガイアメモリ, Gaia Memori) is a mysterious device resembling a USB flash drive that contains all of the Earth's knowledge of what it represents. This enables its user to become a Dopant, or in some special cases, a Kamen Rider. Every Gaia Memory is adorned with the first letter of its name, stylized to reflect the powers it imbues on its user. For example, the Injury Memory (acquired by Shotaro and Philip before the series begins) resembles a broken bone in the shape of the letter I. Each Memory also features a button which when clicked causes the Memory to loudly declare its name; while this is traditionally done immediately before inserting the Memory by Riders and Dopants alike, it is unclear if it is actually mandatory to activate the Memory's powers. In order to transform into a Dopant, the Gaia Memory is first inserted into a device called the L.C.O.G (the acronym for "Living Connector Setting Operation Gun" (生体コネクタ設置手術器, Seitai Konekuta Setchi Shujutsu Ki)), though normally called called a Connect Shooter (コネクトシューター, Konekuto Shūtā), which then produces a USB port-like tattoo on the user's skin called a Living Connector (生体コネクタ, Seitai Konekuta). Whenever the Gaia Memory is pressed onto the Living Connector, it enters the user's body and transforms the user into a Dopant. Use of a Gaia Memory without a Living Connector is possible, but the side effects of doing so are nearly fatal.

This direct insertion will eventually drive its user insane from its addictive influence, which is why special belts called Memory Drivers have been developed for use by high ranking members of the Museum to filter out these and other side effects. This has the side affect of visibly weakening the Dopant's powers. Due to this, Museum members use some of the strongest Gaia Memories ever created to more than compensate the loss of power.

To defeat a Dopant, a Kamen Rider has to use one of his Maximum Drive (マキシマムドライブ, Makishimamu Doraibu) finishing attacks to eject and destroy the Gaia Memory, resulting in what is called a Memory Break (メモリブレイク, Memori Bureiku). Evolved Gaia Memories, however, require a direct strike on its location within the Dopant's body to execute the Memory Break without the risk of killing the user. If the Dopant does not have a Living Connector, a Memory Break will not occur, however the Gaia Memory will still be ejected from the user's body. In order to defeat a Dopant that uses a Memory Driver, the belt must be broken in order to defeat the Dopant and cause the Memory Break.

In the movie Double Forever, the Dopants use T2 Gaia Memories, 26 special Gaia Memories developed by Foundation X based on Fumine Sonozaki's findings. Though originally in the possession of Jun Kazu before giving it to another member of the Foundation to take to their headquarters, the T2 Gaia Memories end up in the possession of mysterious terrorist group NEVER. Unlike the original Gaia Memories, these memories appear to have some sentience, injecting themselves into people who are compatible with them (Watcherman and Santa-chan) or causing a Living Connector to appear on someone's skin (Queen). Other than their leader, each member of NEVER uses a T2 Gaia Memory based on one of Kamen Rider Double's Gaia Memories.

Other Gaia Memories seen, yet not used in the series include Finger (フィンガー, Fingā), Lightning (ライトニング, Raitoningu), Key (キー, Kī), Umbrella (アンブレラ, Anburera), Gravitation (グラビテーション, Gurabitēshon), Apple (アップル, Appuru), Star (スター, Sutā), Dog (ドッグ, Doggu), Injury (インジャリー, Injarī), Crab (クラブ, Kurabu), Orange (オレンジ, Orenji), Time (タイム, Taimu), Zero (ゼロ, Zero), Jazz (ジャズ, Jazu), Ear (イア, Ia), Music (ミュージック, Myūjikku), Hell (ヘル, Heru), You (ユー, Yū), Pyramid (ピラミッド, Piramiddo), and Ocean (オーシャン, Ōshan).

In the real world, special edition Kamen Rider Gaia Memory Toys feature not only Gaia Memories used in the series but also Gaia Memories that features Kamen Riders, the Imagin Momotaros, and limited edition Gaia Memories like the Ganbaride Gaia Memory and the CycloneJoker Televikun Gaia Memory.

Major DopantsEdit

Sonozaki FamilyEdit

Main article: Sonozaki Family

Weather DopantEdit

Main article: Shinkuro Isaka

Masquerade DopantsEdit

Main article: Masquerade Dopants

Foundation XEdit

Main article: Foundation X

Utopia DopantEdit

Main article: Jun Kazu

EXEEdit

Minor DopantsEdit

MagmaEdit

Main article: Yousuke Togawa

T-RexEdit

Main article: Marina Tsumura

MoneyEdit

Main article: Taizo Kaga

AnomalocarisEdit

Main article: Genzo Takamura

CockroachEdit

Main article: Ikari

SweetsEdit

Main article: Yukiko Sasaki

VirusEdit

Main article: Sachi Yamamura

ViolenceEdit

Main article: Tsuyoshi Ageo

ArmsEdit

Main article: Kenji Kurata

BirdEdit

Main article: Bird Dopant

Ice AgeEdit

Main article: Kiyoshi Katahira

TriceratopsEdit

Main article: Aya Kujo

LiarEdit

Main article: Sachio Sawada

PuppeteerEdit

Main article: Keio Horinouchi

InvisibleEdit

Main article: Lily Shirogane

NightmareEdit

Main article: Hajime Fukushima

BeastEdit

Main article: Maruo Arima

ZoneEdit

Main article: Suzuko Arima

YesterdayEdit

Main article: Yukie Sudo

QuetzalcoatlusEdit

Main article: Nagi Shimamoto

HopperEdit

Main article: Hopper Dopant

GeneEdit

Main article: Toru Kawai

JewelEdit

Main article: Makoto Uesugi

OldEdit

Main article: Takashi Soma

EnergyEdit

Main article: Energy

Movie DopantsEdit

In Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Double & Decade: Movie War 2010's Kamen Rider Double: Begins Night, Masquerade Dopants appear in the movie as well.

Death DopantEdit

Statistics
- Gaia Memory: Death Memory
- Memory Break: Kamen Rider Skull's Skull Banisher

The Death Dopant (デス・ドーパント, Desu Dōpanto), has the ability to bring anyone back from the dead and carries a scythe with a white dummy attached to it. It was defeated by Kamen Rider Skull at an unknown time. It's appearance was used by the Dummy Dopant in a plot he devised.

Dummy DopantEdit

Main article: Father Roberto Shijima

Dr. ShinigamiEdit

Main article: Doctor Shinigami

Identity: Eijiro Hikari
Actor: Renji Ishibari

At some unknown point, Eijiro Hikari was given the Dr. Shinigami Memory by Ryubee Sonozaki, which causes him to transform into Super Dr. Shinigami when conned by Narutaki into speaking the word "Ikadevil". In this form he acts as the leader of Super Shocker. After the Neo Organism takes over the Super Crisis Fortress, Super Dr. Shinigami is trapped within the fortress until it is hit by Kamen Rider Double HeatMetal's Maximum Drive, which destroys the fortress and the Dr. Shinigami Memory. This causes Eijiro to forget the entire experience. How and when Eijiro originally encountered Ryubee or was injected with the Memory is entirely unclear.

SpiderEdit

Main article: Seiichiro Matsui

BatEdit

Main article: Eren Komori

NEVEREdit

Main article: NEVER

T2 Luna DopantEdit

Main article: Kyosui Izumi

T2 Heat DopantEdit

Main article: Reika Hanehara

T2 Metal DopantEdit

Main article: Gozo Domoto

T2 Trigger DopantEdit

Main article: Ken Ashihara

T2 Cyclone DopantEdit

Main article: Maria S. Cranberry''

Other T2 DopantsEdit

In addition to the above five Dopants, there are also new IceAge, Nasca, Violence, and Weather Dopants who transform using T2 Gaia Memories. In addition to the above, Eternal, and Joker, the other Gaia Memories featured in the movie are Accel, Bird, Dummy, Fang, Gene, Key, Ocean, Puppeteer, Queen (クイーン, Kuīn), Rocket (ロケット, Roketto), Skull, Unicorn (ユニコーン, Yunikōn), Xtreme, Yesterday, and Zone.

Other DopantsEdit

OyakodonEdit

Main article: Izo Aida

BeanEdit

In the webisode "The Doctor is Happy About B/Now, In the Mumbling", the Bean Memory is tested on Makura with the intent to turn him into the Bean Dopant (ビーン・ドーパント, Bīn Dōpanto). This Gaia Memory had previously appeared in the television series in where it is shown being forcibly used on a Museum test subject before resulting in the man's death.Appears in episode 21 in a flashback

KabukiEdit

In the webisode "The K is Drowsy/A Speaking Only Experiment", the Kabuki Memory is tested on Jinno with the intent to turn him into the Kabuki Dopant (カブキ・ドーパント, Kabuki Dōpanto).

YogaEdit

In the webisode "The Comedy of Y/The Man Searching for Curry", the Yoga Memory is tested on Makura with the intent to turn him into the Yoga Dopant (ヨーガ・ドーパント, Yōga Dōpanto), a Dopant with stretching powers not unlike the Luna Dopant.

UFOEdit

In the webisode "The U is a Mystery!/Rondo", Master of the Fumen ramen stand becomes the UFO Dopant (UFO・ドーパント, Yūfō Dōpanto) while Jinno and Makura were studying the UFO Memory.