Sabotegron appeared in 1971 TV series called Kamen Rider. Sabotegron (サボテグロン Saboteguron) is a cactus monster. He can summon cactus swords, throw bombs and he is also a renowned Shocker commander. He can also use a human form in the disguise of an FBI agent. Starting with his arrival on Japan, the Shocker soldiers wore masks similar to the ones of Lucha libre fighters. His personal emblem, worn on his soldiers' mask, was a cactus. A successful commander from Shocker Mexico who destroyed the Paras Dam and had advanced Shocker's Mexico conquest plan to 99%. Before that conquest could be completed, the Great Leader sent him to Japan, where Shocker's greatest enemy, the Kamen Rider, was. He went to Japan disguised as an FBI Agent and attempted to kill Taki after his identity was uncovered. Rather than Rider #1, who had left the country, he met opposition from Kamen Rider #2. He spread explosives disguised as desert plants and planned to destroy Japan's Sakuma Dam with the "Flower of Mexico" bomb. While fighting Rider #2, he was destroyed by crashing onto a rock while carrying several Flowers of Mexico with him.
Exclusively in Pachinko Kamen Rider: Full Throttle, he have an ability to transform into Dark 2 (闇の２号 Yami no Nigō), the dark version of Kamen Rider 2, and the second of the Dark Shocker Army's Dark Seven Legendary Riders.
He returned as part of the revived troops in Kamen Rider vs. Shocker. Acting as a standard field operative, supporting Fly Man, who attempted to kill professor Daidouji, he found himself facing Rider #2 again. Defeated in direct combat, he attempted to throw one of his bombs, but Kamen Rider #2 kicked it back to him. He was destroyed by his own Flower of Mexico bomb.
Sabotegron was one of the monsters in a Space Shocker force led by Space Spider Man which fought a group of Kamen Riders and Super Sentai teams that came to back up Kamen Rider Beast. He was attacked by the three-man Juken Sentai Gekiranger team.
Sabotegron is one of the monsters led by Ren Aoi as Kamen Rider Fifteen to destroy all Showa Riders.