| “ | I feed on the malignant energy that organic life radiates. Considering I prey on you so-called "demons", Earth is kind of a paradise to me, for it inhabits the perfect "demon"-birthing species known as humankind. As long as they evolve, their evil festers alongside it. Humans will doom themselves if they continue on their path. Thus, there must be necessary "adjustments". But a few splendid humans have caught my eye. The Igarashi family have made peace with their demons, while normal people have no control of theirs whatsoever once they are separated from their bodies. I suppose that has something to do with my own genes they inherited from me? Then that makes them my family, and they have a worth of walking beside me. As such, I will erase humankind to nothingness, except for the Igarashi family. The entire humankind's one and only purpose will be giving birth to more demons. And my progeny... will be the foundation of a new era in human history. | „ |
| ~ Giff explaining his goals to Vice. |
Giff is the overarching antagonist of Kamen Rider Revice, the third installment of Reiwa Era's Kamen Rider series, and its summer movie Kamen Rider Revice: Battle Familia.
He is the ruler of all demons and the most powerful of their kind. Believing Giff to be the ancestor of all demons, his revival is the goal of the Deadmans. Aguilera is said to be his fiancée. He is also the namesake of the Giff Junior footsoldiers.
He is voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue, who also voiced Ginis in Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger, Emperor in Cyborg 009: Call of Justice, as well as Kars in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency.
Biography[]
Past[]
Giff first arrived on Earth to make peace with humankind as their inner darkness can provide him nourishment, but was labeled a "demon" as more either exploit his power for their ends or openly oppose him. After wiping out Akaishi's civilization for their continued defiance, Giff was talked out of killing every other human by Akaishi and Azuma pledging their loyalty to the demon and are granted immortality to serve as his emissaries to make humanity more subservient to him. Giff then entered a dormant state, leaving Akaishi and Azuma to their tasks of influencing humanity for him while he was in slumber.
His sealed body was excavated in South America and fell into the possession of a government research organization called "NOAH", which sought to weaponize demons. As part of this research, they injected Giff's cells into a man named Junpei Shiranami, resulting in the demon Vail being born and granting Junpei the power to use the Vail Driver. His overuse of the Driver and forced extraction of Vail caused him to forget his name, taking on "Genta" as his name after falling in love with Yukimi with their children inheriting Giff's cells.
Reawakening[]
After NOAH was disbanded, Akashi led a group of former members to steal Giff's casket and establish the Deadmans cult who seek to revive Giff by creating Deadmen to terrorize humans to produce six Gifftex Deadmen for a ritual sacrifice involving their figurehead leader Aguilera. At the time of the series star, the Deadmens have three active Gifftex in their true leader Olteca, Aguilera's bodyguard Julio, and the Chameleon Deadman who infilrated Fenix. Around the same time, Genta married Yukimi and had three children with her, who all inherited Giff's cells. After Amahiko Haitani and Yasushi Kudo become Gifftex Deadmen, Olteca proceeds with the ritual to sacrifice Aguilera, only for Fenix and Igarashi siblings to raid the Deadmans Base in the battle that ends with Amahiko and Yasushi absorbed into Giff's Casket as it survives the Deadmans Base being destroyed by Revi Barid Rex. Giff's Casket was subsequently taken into custody by Fenix with Hideo Akaishi using his rank as Fenix director to observe it, revealed to be active as it feeds on the various Deadmen that include the Chameleon Deadman, Gifftarian Deadmen, and the residual energy of Julio's Deadman after being separated from it
In one instance, Giff took control of Ikki and Vice while they were transformed as Jack Revice and made them attack Sakura and Daiji. Now able to act with a degree of autonomy, Giff began absorbing humans directly and devoured the Fenix members sent to monitor it. After teleporting out of Fenix'sGiff traveled to where Olteca had gathered a number of humans as sacrifices to devour them, but Daiji and Sakura showed up to stop him. When Daiji attempted to attack Olteca however, Giff blocked him and took control of Ikki again, forcing him to become Jack Revice and making him attack Daiji and Sakura.
Giff reawakens after absorbing Olteca's life essence and body.
After the two siblings incapacitated Jack Revice with help from George as Demons, Aguilera attempted to offer herself to Giff but is slapped away. Olteca then walked up to the casket of Giff and stamped it with the Anomalocaris Vistamp before stamping it again with the Giff Stamp, causing Giff to fuse with him and transform him into the Anomalocaris Deadman. Having achieved a Phase 4 Deadman form, Olteca laid waste to the three Riders while Ikki lay unresponsive. However, Ikki was able to resist Giff's influence and use the Thunder Gale Vistamp that George had developed to become Kamen Rider Revice Thunder Gale. Olteca then battled Revice Thunder Gale but was defeated by it, prompting Giff to exit his body and revert him to normal. Giff stretched a tentacle out towards Olteca and absorb him into his pocket dimension, fully awakening before teleporting away.
Advent on Humanity[]
Taking refuge in his pocket dimension, a metaphysical representation of his stomach, Giff communicated with Akaishi through a portal. Akaishi gave Giff a presentation on the events that had transpired up to his reawakening.
When the Kamen Riders went to confront Akaishi, Akaishi created a portal to Giff, who summoned several True Gifftarians to attack them. Giff would also mutate Akemi Mikoshiba into another demonic servant, the Giffdemos.
Soon after, Akaishi gave a press conference, where he announced that Fenix had found no way to stop Giff and that the only way for humanity to survive would be to submit themselves to him. When Daiji interrupted the speech, Akaishi then opened a portal to Giff, who vaporized the Fenix soldiers standing guard and destroyed Fenix's entire Skybase fleet, in order to demonstrate how it was hopeless to oppose him. It was then that the other Kamen Riders appeared to assist Daiji, but Vail and several True Gifftarians appeared in front of them to do battle.
Giff would later fuse several Gifftarians together to create the Hell Gifftarian, which Akaishi used to attack Daiji.
After Revi and Vice immobilized Giffdemos with the Barid Rex Vistamp's ice powers, Akaishi opened a portal to Giff, who killed her.
After Vail was defeated by Kamen Rider Destream and Akaishi was killed by Ultimate Revi and Vice, Giff finally set foot in the human world when he personally intervened in the conflict. Blasting everyone away, Giff resurrected Akaishi and restored his body so he could continue his role, upgrading his demon form into Gigademos. When the Weekend Kamen Riders showed up to battle Gigademos, Giff attacked them from his dimension, but was dragged to Earth by Ultimate Revi and Vice. Battling the two Riders personally, Giff was able to overpower both of them with his tremendous might, particularly after Revi broke off from the battle to assist the other Riders in fighting Gigademos. After Akaishi was killed by Daiji Igarashi, Daiji turned to Giff and asked to make a contract with him.
Giff was about to give a contract to Daiji but this was averted by Ikki who tried to knock sense into his delusional brother. Giff was still overtly mighty, therefore he managed to hold of the heroes. While the chaos transpired, he managed to absorb Vice into his hell dimension where he revealed his plan to wipe out humanity whom after Akaishi’s death he had no confidence in. Instead, he would rule a new world populated by demons alongside the powerful Igarashi family. So he once again confronted the Igarashi siblings excluding Daiji who still aimed for a contract. Although hearing what Giff told Daiji through Vice, he at once knew Daiji shouldn’t succumb to that monster, hence throwing him aside. Daiji was brought to his senses by Hiromi and finally was in tune with Kagero. Using this Daiji sent Giff back into his dimension, temporarily imprisoning him.
The result of this released cocoons that Giff was storing and one of them contained Olteca who soon was freed and imprisoned again by Weekend.
Giff escaped easily enough and continued his advent on the human race by now spreading parasites onto humans turning them into Giffterians. This caused commotion through the internet and caused the Weekend to ward of Giff’s forces for the time being. A while later Vice heard the voice of Giff in his mind telling him to arise hinting at an attempt to brainwash him. Soon Daiji and Ikki got into a fight with Giff who still was a formidable opponent who brought mindless clones of previous Deadman generals to fight them, constantly regenerating them as they fell. As the siblings grew tired he used Vice who was now his puppet to introduce his proposal to them - Join him to rule the new Earth of demons.
Unable to hold their own against Giff, the two Igarashi siblings retreated and returned to Happy Spa. Although Giff seemed invincible, the two brothers figured out from the way they had sealed Giff the last time that Giff's dimension must also be a part of him and that it contained his weak spot. During their next confrontation with Giff, Ikki and Daiji, soon joined by Hana as Kamen Rider Aguilera, held off Giff and his army of Gifftarians and Giff Juniors while Vice went inside Giff's dimension to find a way to destroy him. Vice found Giff's casket inside and was able to weaken Giff by performing a Rider Kick on it, while Tamaki and then Sakura arrived to assist the other Kamen Riders as Over Demons and Invincible Jeanne respectively. With Vice having weakened Giff from the inside, the three Igarashi siblings and Vice performed a combined Rider Kick together to knock Giff into the sky and destroy him. But Giff's explosive destruction leaves two eyes that George takes in his possession, one used to perfect the Chimera Driver and other utilized in the creation of Juuga Driver.
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Trivia[]
- Giff's casket is reminiscent of the Great Leader of Shocker and the speakers he communicated through.
- Giff is the first main antagonist of the Reiwa era to not be a Kamen Rider and the first main antagonist since Adel to not have a Rider form.
