By any means necessary is a dangerous way to go about living. Some organizations are infamous for going by these words til the bitter end. Shocker is one such group. Desiring to become more powerful than anyone else on the planet, they have the means to do it. So who are Shocker and what does it mean to be powerful? Let’s find out!
The Sacred Hegemony Of Cycle Kindred Evolutionary Realm or Shocker, are a shadowy organization that exists with their hands in nearly every major government, even having ties that go back to the Nazi Party, hence their similar iconography. They seek to better themselves through surgeries to become superhumans. This is mostly done through cybernetics, this allows even the most common foot soldier of Shocker to be more powerful than most regular people. They would also make Kaijin, human-animal hybrids as their lieutenants to lead their foot soldiers and carry out more complex missions.
To do this, there require test subjects. People who are either seen as an asset for their skills or just for the sake of new treatment testing. One is empowered, able to be come incredibly strong, fast, and durable. To ensure the allegiance of their new cyborgs, part of the process, which also makes them immune to pain, wipes their free will, becoming a perfect slave for Shocker.
This was common practice, kidnap test subjects for new procedures, if they survive, new foot soldiers and new techniques for all members to be upgraded with. If they die, then it’s time for new ideas, which could involve kidnapping scientists to force them to work for them in coming up with new concepts for Shocker’s higher ups to be improved with. Both of these practices would lead to their downfall.
Shocker would create its own greatest enemy, Kamen Rider, after kidnapping the wrong scientist and test subjects. Both would team up to escape and start a campaign against the conspiracy that is Shocker. Having learned nothing from their mistakes with creating Kamen Rider, they would seek to make their own Kamen Rider on purpose to fight for them against the original, this would become too perfect a replication as he would also escape to fight against them until their destruction. Though Shocker is never at their once former glory, they still arise in some form every now and again to have to deal with a new and different Kamen Rider, who is more than willing to shut them down once more.
There you have it! Shocker was the enemy of the original two Kamen Riders, the manga series and the live-action series had similarities with the manga getting a bit darker and more horrific. There are always some Shocker rebirths in a new Kamen Rider series here and there but who knows what the next one will look like and how powerful they will become? See you next time!
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