"My Name... It's Rider. Call me Kamen Rider."

"Raidā...Henshin!.."

Takeshi Hongo (本郷 猛, Hongō Takeshi) is the main protagonist of the 2023 film, Shin Kamen Rider. He is a brilliant young man who was kidnapped and upgraded by SHOCKER through their augmentation, converting him into Batta Augment-01. Hongo escaped and pledged to fight against SHOCKER to ensure human beings stay human, as the Kamen Rider (仮面ライダー).

"Those which change. Those which never change. And those that don't want to change."

"And stop looking at me with 'em big ol' eyes!"

((The soundtrack is filled with bangers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV46l4DjvFo))