| “ | You cannot rob the world of my glorious intellect! | „ |
| ~ Tenjuro Banno's last words. |
| “ | Banno: What's going on? You can't get up? Krim: What on Earth are you doing, Banno? What the... You copied a human's form for 002 to take? (Heart's narration: My human form was copied from a young industrialist who denied Banno's project. I was the only Roidmude with a human form at the time, 15 years ago, all because of Banno's selfish egotism.) Banno: It's merely an entertainment, Krim, merely a test to see his limits. I make him look like that imbecile who denied my talents... and it makes me feel so right! Krim: I can no longer tolerate what you've done. From this day on, you're no longer a friend of mine! Banno: Well, you're making me embarrased. What would I do without you? Krim: SHUT UP!!! (stormed out of the lab) |
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| ~ Banno revealed his true nature to Krim during his torture over Heart, and Krim renounced the former friendship between him and Banno. |
Tenjuro Banno is the creator of the Roidmudes and the overarching antagonist of Kamen Rider Drive. He was a scientist who was Go and Kiriko Shijima's birth father and a friend of Krim Steinbelt. He is also the creator of a knockoff of the Drive Driver, dubbed the Banno Driver, which he uses to transform into Gold Drive.
Banno is a narcissistic inventor who was originally the partner of Krim Steinbelt and worked with him to design the Roidmudes. However, the two split up after Krim discovered Banno was torturing his creations. Banno's abuse of the Roidmudes eventually led to them rising up in what came to be known as the "Global Freeze" and killing him. However, he survived by preserving his consciousness in a tablet and later tricked his son Go into releasing him, allowing him to go forward with his plans. His ultimate goal is to use Sigma Circular to become god by digitizing the entire world and force everyone to bow down to him.
He was portrayed by Masakazu Morita, the voice actor who is famous for the voices of characters like Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach, Marco from One Piece, Tidus from Final Fantasy X, Auel Neider from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny and Pegasus Seiya from Saint Seiya Hades: Chapter Inferno.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Left his family without a father leaving his two children, Kiriko and Go. When Kiriko would ask about their father to their mother, her mother would feel uncomfortable and get off the topic. This would leave an impact on Go making him feel a lot of trauma.
- After a business man rejected his work, he took one of his mechanical lifeforms, now called Roidmudes. He then made Roidmude 002 or Heart a copy of said business man and then took his anger on Heart and tortured and abused him. This torture was horrible and Heart had done nothing wrong and was just victimised by Banno out of spite of being rejected by a totally different person. This emotionally affected Heart. This was so disgusting that even Banno’s “best friend”, Krim Steinbelt, left him.
- Installed negative emotions in the Roidmudes so they would rampage out of spite of Krim Steinbelt leaving him, indirectly causing the Global Freeze and all the horrible things the roidmudes did including the killing of Eisuke Tomari, the near destruction of the world, trapping women in paintings, and much more.
- Used his own son Go Shijima as a pawn and attempted to murder him when he was done using him.
- Attempted to digitize the world with Sigma Circular and convert everyone into data so they would be forced to bow down to him.
External Links[]
- Tenjuro Banno on the Villains Wiki
- Tenjuro Banno on the Kamen Rider Wiki
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