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greeeaserbugAround eight hundred years ago, a man known now only as 'King OOO' lusted after the power of a god - to this end, he commanded all the alchemists that would heed him (and probably a few that rather wouldn't have) to pursue a power that could conquer the world. It was this man's desire that eventually led to the birth of desire incarnate: the Greeed. Created originally as a series of sets of ten medals imbued with ill-defined but definitely massive reserves of power, they, well, woke up when King OOO had one each of their medals taken away. Here started an existence defined with desperately wanting something unattainable - also there was a whole lot of fighting. Since hey, he's got these monsters, why not use them to go subjugate some heathens?
Predictably, things did not end well. King OOO became consumed with the power granted by the Greeed's core medals, leading to them turning against him - all but the bird Greeed Ankh. Ankh's fealty was rewarded with getting his cores stolen, things went to hell in a handbasket, OOO ended up dead, and the Greeed were all sealed away into a stone coffin.
Spin the clock forward eight hundred years. The relics of the King OOO fiasco had been systematically recovered by the Kougami foundation, a mysterious organization that - yeah, I can stop there, you know the drill. The Greeed are reawakened through the buffoonery of a pair of thieves, and escape into modern day Japan.
The Greeed have a nice chat about huh, guess we're awake, wonder where our cores are, an apparently sharp-eyed Cazali breaks the news that Ankh took them, and they all readily accept it because Ankh's a dirty traitor. Newly awakened and missing the most cores out of everyone (who isn't Ankh, but let's just accept that as a given), Uva's the first to act and start creating Yummies, with the intent of getting his cores back and scoring some cell medals in the process. Ankh's response is recruiting a new human to use the power of the medals and become Kamen Rider OOO.
The fateful story revolving around medals had begun in earnest.
Uva suffers a devastating loss of a full set of core medals early on, his medals becoming the first that Eiji manages to use a full combo of (promptly blowing most of the animation budget because GataKiriBa is just that cool) and basically setting a precedent for Uva's day getting ruined throughout the series.
As the fight with OOO drags on, Uva grows crafty in his own ways - he creates the Waste Yummies, weak little mooks born from broken cell medals. He begins employing them as distractions to great effect, fulfilling the swarm tactics prophesied by the (budget devouring) effects of GataKiriBa. He even changes his tactics for Yummy behaviour - becoming something of a genie figure to the hosts.
Then Mezul and Gamel both get taken out at once and shit gets real. Uva pretty much disappears from the plot for a long stretch - suddenly reappearing upon the fulfillment of what turns out to be a masterwork of a plan: he seeded a whole office full of people with undetectable Waste Yummies, contracted a young man to pick up the medals generated each day (and gave him a paycheck of stolen money for it), thus slowly stockpiling a truly ridiculous amount of cell medals. The purpose? Reviving Gamel and Mezul!
Shortly before he could finish the revival, Cazali and Lost Ankh showed up out of nowhere, mugged him for some cores, and solidified Uva's next goal: revenge on the cat Greeed. That goal promptly failed when Cazali easily persuaded the two newly-revived Greeed into switching sides to Team Maki, and Uva was subjected to a four Greeed all out attack!
In short, all of Uva's cell medals got exploded and all of his cores were taken save the one containing his consciousness. Uva then displayed that he is determined as all get out - swearing "I won't let it end like this," he somehow stayed conscious without the support of cell medals. He then disappeared for a slew of episodes... again, probably spending the entirety of that time edging up the fire escape that he jumped off of to possess a conveniently misanthropic old man.
The whole possessing a human thing wasn't really for him, and he jumped at the chance when Ankh's plot shenanigans led to them crossing paths under a pretense where they could actually ally. Ankh created his first Yummy since their sealing to gather enough cell medals for Uva to reform, and together they made a triumphant appearance at Maki's mansion. Well, Ankh did. Uva just kind of...got a face full of wing. Thus, all of the Greeed were on Team Maki, and their undoing began. Y'see, Doctor 'Obvious Big Bad' Maki had a plan to stuff one of the Greeed as full of cores as possible, and they'd all just made themselves readily available to him.
Ankh and Uva then preceded to beat up Cazali for cores like two seconds later. It was a bonding experience. Mezul stopped them because Mezul's the best at keeping the band together, but that's a given. Then OOO and his sidekicks launch an attack on Maki's mansion, and the Greeed exhibit the ninja-like quality of being far less competent in groups than alone. Uva falls in a pit trap, for pity's sake.
It's about now when the end game really starts, because one of the Greeed actually gets all out destroyed. Cazali is the first to go, and soon Mezul and Gamel follow. Uva actually does observe Gamel in the midst of his end-of-life rampage, pretty much shrugging it off and saying, "Well, I'll survive either way." Except then Ankh, Maki's intended vessel for the other Greeed's medals, compromises the plot via character development and also a slight case of terminal medal cracking. With only one viable Greeed left, Maki shifts his intentions to Uva - little to Uva's knowledge. He'd just managed to win back his ninth core, after an entire TV series of effort, after all. He got a little exuberant, kicking around basically everyone and apparently not realizing the implications of OOO transforming with the TaToBa combo to fight him once more - a combo that requires one of his medals to work.
Then Eiji started kicking HIM around like a ragdoll thanks to the power of the hidden tenth medals and thousands of cell medals. Maki of all people came to his rescue, throwing a couple of cores in to strengthen Uva's body after he took a devastating attack. Uva was psyched! Hey, people are finally being team players!
Then Maki kept on throwing cores medals into him and things got very very bad. Uva attempted to retreat, realizing his body was going out of control from too many foreign cores, and Maki went off in pursuit after him. He led a merry chase, but eventually collapsed, pleading for help before disintegrating and reforming into the Medal Vessel.
So basically, Uva became a UFO.
Predictably, things did not end well. King OOO became consumed with the power granted by the Greeed's core medals, leading to them turning against him - all but the bird Greeed Ankh. Ankh's fealty was rewarded with getting his cores stolen, things went to hell in a handbasket, OOO ended up dead, and the Greeed were all sealed away into a stone coffin.
Spin the clock forward eight hundred years. The relics of the King OOO fiasco had been systematically recovered by the Kougami foundation, a mysterious organization that - yeah, I can stop there, you know the drill. The Greeed are reawakened through the buffoonery of a pair of thieves, and escape into modern day Japan.
The Greeed have a nice chat about huh, guess we're awake, wonder where our cores are, an apparently sharp-eyed Cazali breaks the news that Ankh took them, and they all readily accept it because Ankh's a dirty traitor. Newly awakened and missing the most cores out of everyone (who isn't Ankh, but let's just accept that as a given), Uva's the first to act and start creating Yummies, with the intent of getting his cores back and scoring some cell medals in the process. Ankh's response is recruiting a new human to use the power of the medals and become Kamen Rider OOO.
The fateful story revolving around medals had begun in earnest.
Uva suffers a devastating loss of a full set of core medals early on, his medals becoming the first that Eiji manages to use a full combo of (promptly blowing most of the animation budget because GataKiriBa is just that cool) and basically setting a precedent for Uva's day getting ruined throughout the series.
As the fight with OOO drags on, Uva grows crafty in his own ways - he creates the Waste Yummies, weak little mooks born from broken cell medals. He begins employing them as distractions to great effect, fulfilling the swarm tactics prophesied by the (budget devouring) effects of GataKiriBa. He even changes his tactics for Yummy behaviour - becoming something of a genie figure to the hosts.
Then Mezul and Gamel both get taken out at once and shit gets real. Uva pretty much disappears from the plot for a long stretch - suddenly reappearing upon the fulfillment of what turns out to be a masterwork of a plan: he seeded a whole office full of people with undetectable Waste Yummies, contracted a young man to pick up the medals generated each day (and gave him a paycheck of stolen money for it), thus slowly stockpiling a truly ridiculous amount of cell medals. The purpose? Reviving Gamel and Mezul!
Shortly before he could finish the revival, Cazali and Lost Ankh showed up out of nowhere, mugged him for some cores, and solidified Uva's next goal: revenge on the cat Greeed. That goal promptly failed when Cazali easily persuaded the two newly-revived Greeed into switching sides to Team Maki, and Uva was subjected to a four Greeed all out attack!
In short, all of Uva's cell medals got exploded and all of his cores were taken save the one containing his consciousness. Uva then displayed that he is determined as all get out - swearing "I won't let it end like this," he somehow stayed conscious without the support of cell medals. He then disappeared for a slew of episodes... again, probably spending the entirety of that time edging up the fire escape that he jumped off of to possess a conveniently misanthropic old man.
The whole possessing a human thing wasn't really for him, and he jumped at the chance when Ankh's plot shenanigans led to them crossing paths under a pretense where they could actually ally. Ankh created his first Yummy since their sealing to gather enough cell medals for Uva to reform, and together they made a triumphant appearance at Maki's mansion. Well, Ankh did. Uva just kind of...got a face full of wing. Thus, all of the Greeed were on Team Maki, and their undoing began. Y'see, Doctor 'Obvious Big Bad' Maki had a plan to stuff one of the Greeed as full of cores as possible, and they'd all just made themselves readily available to him.
Ankh and Uva then preceded to beat up Cazali for cores like two seconds later. It was a bonding experience. Mezul stopped them because Mezul's the best at keeping the band together, but that's a given. Then OOO and his sidekicks launch an attack on Maki's mansion, and the Greeed exhibit the ninja-like quality of being far less competent in groups than alone. Uva falls in a pit trap, for pity's sake.
It's about now when the end game really starts, because one of the Greeed actually gets all out destroyed. Cazali is the first to go, and soon Mezul and Gamel follow. Uva actually does observe Gamel in the midst of his end-of-life rampage, pretty much shrugging it off and saying, "Well, I'll survive either way." Except then Ankh, Maki's intended vessel for the other Greeed's medals, compromises the plot via character development and also a slight case of terminal medal cracking. With only one viable Greeed left, Maki shifts his intentions to Uva - little to Uva's knowledge. He'd just managed to win back his ninth core, after an entire TV series of effort, after all. He got a little exuberant, kicking around basically everyone and apparently not realizing the implications of OOO transforming with the TaToBa combo to fight him once more - a combo that requires one of his medals to work.
Then Eiji started kicking HIM around like a ragdoll thanks to the power of the hidden tenth medals and thousands of cell medals. Maki of all people came to his rescue, throwing a couple of cores in to strengthen Uva's body after he took a devastating attack. Uva was psyched! Hey, people are finally being team players!
Then Maki kept on throwing cores medals into him and things got very very bad. Uva attempted to retreat, realizing his body was going out of control from too many foreign cores, and Maki went off in pursuit after him. He led a merry chase, but eventually collapsed, pleading for help before disintegrating and reforming into the Medal Vessel.
So basically, Uva became a UFO.