Core Medals
Core Medals are colored O Medals that make up the essence of a Greeed. They can also be used to transform into Kamen Rider OOO or any Combos. These five types of Core Medals were originally fifty (five sets of ten) created by human alchemists 800 years ago as a means to create artificial life.
Drawing from characteristics of different animals, forming the core of the Greeed before one Medal in each set was taken. With the tenth medal gone in order to create a 'desire' in the nine other medals, the Greeds were created. A sixth set was also created, the Purple Cores, which are made from the antithesis of desire. Later Core Medals were created with current and future technology which seemingly surpass previous Core Medals in power. It is also notable that Foundation X somehow managed to turn Kamen Riders themselves into Core Medals.
Publication Information
- Combo : O Medals
- Japanese : オーメダル
- Known As : Kamen Rider OOO's Medals
- Type : Core Medals
- Usage : Transformation
- Users : Eiji Hino
- Rider Users : Kamen Rider OOO
- Gender : Male
- HomeWorld : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- Season : Kamen Rider OOO
- Main View : Full Episod
Each set of Core Medals comes in a specific color and animal type:
- Red Core Medals have bird powers
- Yellow Core Medals have big cat powers
- Green Core Medals have insect powers
- Silver Core Medals have heavy mammal powers
- Blue Core Medals have marine animal powers
- Purple Core Medals have dinosaur powers
- Orange Core Medals have reptilian powers
- Ankh's Core Medals
- Uva's Core Medals
- Kazari's Core Medals
- Gamel's Core Medals
- Mezool's Core Medals
- Giru's Core Medals
- Orange Core Medals
- Black Core Medals
- Core Medals from the Future
- Super Core Medals
- Other Core Medals
- Cell Medals
- Legend Rider Medals
- Shocker Medal
In the series finale, only 53 Core Medals that remained after Eiji and Maki permanently killed several of the Greeed. However, all Core Medals except for one Core were thought destroyed when Eiji was able to defeat the Kyoryu Greeed, the Greeed absorbing all but one of the Core Medals, along with the Medal Vessel. The influx of power caused a black hole-like collapse of the Purple Core Medals' power, seven of the Purple Cores seen shattering as they approached the event horizon, disappearing forever. That one Core Medal that was left is the split-in-two Taka Medal which formerly contained Ankh's consciousness, Eiji now carrying it with him on his journey while find a way to fix the medal and revive him.
However, in the Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max, it was eventually revealed that the black hole was not a gateway to destruction, but a time portal, which had sent all of the Core Medals, as well as the Cell Medals, the Medal Vessel had gathered, inculding what could possibly be the remains of the Kyoryu Greeed's consciousness, 40 years into the future. There, they merged into the body of Michal Minato. The overwhelming amount of Cell Medals and Core Medals allowed the newly created medals of Kamen Rider Poseidon to form into a Greeed with a will all of its own.
There were also the King's Core Medals, which were originally part of the Core Medal sets that composed Ankh, Kazari, and Uva. Being the only tenth Core Medals separated from the rest of their respective sets instead of being destroyed, the King used them to become Kamen Rider OOO eight centuries ago. They were originally in Kougami's possession until he gives them to Eiji to become the true Kamen Rider OOO. These special Cores were first mentioned in a Foundation X report during the antepenultimate episode of Kamen Rider W, referred to as the King Medal (at the time, it was believed there was only one King Core) which are said to have more power than even the True Gaia Memory. However, prior to the final battle, the King's Core Medals shattered due to the power of the purple Core Medals and the massive amount of Cell Medals in Eiji's body.
After Mega Max, Eiji now has one copy of each Core Medal of the five desire-based Medals. However, Super Hero TaisenIcon-crosswiki had shown that Eiji has regained the Purple Cores, with only seven of the Core Medals being explicitly been shown destroyed in the finale and never seen/used in Mega Max. Also, Eiji was seen to have two more copies of the Taka, Tora and Batta Medals to allow Gokai Red, Yellow, and Green to assume his Tajadol, Latorartar, and Gatakiriba Full Combo forms. In Ultimatum, Eiji uses the orange Core Medals, bringing his total count of Medals to 28.
The O Medals, along with the other Rider Powers, were stolen from OOO by Amadum in the world within the Magic Stone, who explained that they were already his due to the Riders' powers being from the same source as evil. However, the power was soon returned thanks to the appearance of Kamen Rider Gaim, with the return of the Medals immediately transforming OOO into Super Tatoba Combo.
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