Van Lister

Van Lister is the user of the Puncherborg Zecter & the brother of Trip Lister. He previously used the Hornix Zecter.

Van Lister
In Big Bad Beetleborgs, Van & his brother Trip were spoiled rich kids who believed that they could have anything because their father owned the building that occupied Zoom Comics & most of the other buildings in town. They were the ones who dared Drew, Roland, & Jo to enter Hillhurst mansion when they were young. They often included their driver, Dudley, into their schemes. Nukus told Van & Trip how to defeat Borgslayer which would send the Magnavores back into the comic if it was defeated. After the incident with the Borgslayer, they returned to their father's mansion & were never seen or heard of ever again.

Years later, he, for most of the series, operated as Kamen Rider Hornix, acquiring the Hornix Zecter after Roland relinquished it. Prior to it, Van was originally under his brother Trip's command & believing deeply in his superior's philosophy of teamwork & "Perfect Harmony". After the Hornix Zecter rejected Trip & chose Roland, Van attempted to make Roland understand his new responsibilities. He was baffled when Roland rejected the Hornix Zecter in favor of his friendship with Drew, whom he developed a grudge against.

Becoming the new leader of Shadow, Van turned his back on Trip & used many methods that contradict his former mentor's beliefs of "Perfect Harmony", Drew saw Van unfit to be a leader. Overtime, Drake also sees Van as being unable handle the missions assigned to him. Eventually, Van is defeated by a vengeful Trip who relieved him of the Hornix Zecter which ended up in Drew's possession. No longer qualified as Hornix, Van was ousted from the Shadow elite & cast into humiliation & shame. Battered & broken in both body & mind after being facially scarred in the crossfire between Shadow & the Worms, Van is saved by Trip, who once again invites Van to the bad side, this time giving him his own Hopper Zecter as a present which allows him to transform into Kamen Rider Puncherborg.