History Anime / YuGiOhTenthAnniversaryMovie

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->"Friendship protects the world. Dueling protects the future. This is the power set toward our futures!"
-->'''{{Tagline}}''', movie trailer

->"Synchro ''what''?"
-->'''Yami Yugi''' (Creator/DanGreen)

Also known as ''Yu-Gi-Oh! 10th Anniversary Movie: ~Super Fusion! Bonds That Transcend Time~''.

A movie special made for the [[MilestoneCelebration tenth anniversary]] of the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' anime.

Featuring the three protagonists of [[Anime/YuGiOh the]] [[Anime/YuGiOhGX three]] [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds series]], they fight against a mysterious man, Paradox, who intends to bring the world down the path of destruction. He first steals Yusei's Stardust Dragon then travels back in time, piling up a good number of... questionable acts on his list in order to realize his goal. The three protagonists eventually get to him, challenging him to the ultimate duel.

The movie debuted in Japan on the 23rd of January in 2010. The English version of the movie premiered on February 26th 2011, under the name "Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time". An encore run of the movie was announced for Japan nationwide on that same date, as part of the Worldwide Anniversary. The Japanese DVD was released on June 16, 2011, with a US release occurring later.

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!!This movie provides examples of:

* AfterTheEnd: The distant future appears to be like this.
* AllThereInTheManual: The 10th Anniversary Animation Book answers some of the questions regarding the movie.
* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Paradox's Sin World Field Spell turns the area into a purple space full of stars.
* AnimationBump: The animation is much more detailed and fluid compared to the anime series. It helps that the animation director was Takahiro Kagami.
* AnimeHair: Not only the movie has the three protagonists with their amazing hairstyles in one place, but Paradox's hairstyle takes this trope UpToEleven.
** Lampshaded by Jack in the dub while looking at a picture of Yugi.
** [[{{Hypocrite}} "Doesn't really look like much of a challenge. Especially with that dated hair style."]]
* AntiVillain: According to Atsushi Tamura, Paradox's voice actor. He noted that he doesn't want people to consider Paradox as a typical villain, and that he also carries grief on his shoulders and has a peculiar reason to battle.
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Paradox's future ranks as Class 4 or Class 5 - no seas, no forests, just rubbles with Paradox as one of the few humans remaining. After Paradox starts altering the past with time travel, this Trope is bumped up to Class Z due to reality disintegrating thanks to the changes he makes.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism:
-->Paradox: I come from the future.
-->Yusei (who comes from the future): What's that supposed to mean?
* AuthorAppeal: Takahiro Kagami loves putting a lot of detail into hands.
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Pegasus makes an appearance at an event, where he is killed by Paradox shortly after. Yugi's grandfather also suffers the same fate. Then again, this ''is'' a story with time travel involved...]]
* BadFuture: Paradox's future.
* BatFamilyCrossover: Bringing the universes of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' and ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' together.
* BatmanGambit: Yugi pulls one [[spoiler:to save Stardust Dragon, attempting to snag Sin Paradox Dragon through a Trap Card via the Black Magician duo and when Paradox activates a power on said Sin Monster, it turns right towards Stardust Dragon.]]
* BigBad: "The most powerful enemy, Paradox"
* BigDamnMovie: While the other series involved saving the world in several cases, the movie pushes it to a much bigger scale - now the ''entire timeline'' is in danger, and it requires ''three'' protagonists to save it.
* BigNo: [[spoiler: Pegasus, right before his death.]]
** Also, Yugi [[spoiler:when he realises that his Grandpa is dead.]]
** Dub Paradox, when Stardust Mirage is activated.
* {{Bishonen}}: Paradox, of course.
* BloodlessCarnage: After Paradox attacks Domino City with the dragons, among the wreckage not a single body or drop of blood is to be found despite the movie implying all those people were killed.
* BreakingSpeech: Before the climactic duel Paradox gives the heroes one, stating that even before he began to change history there were 'contradictions' such as [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters environmental destruction, war and human cruelty]], and that their futures are not the right ones. Considering he comes from a BadFuture, it makes sense he feels that way.
** ShutUpHannibal: The protagonists respond by saying that given time humanity can overcome those 'contradictions' and [[ScrewDestiny that people have the power to change the future themselves.]]
* TheCameo: Pegasus, Yugi's grandpa, Crimson Dragon, Jack, Crow, Leo, Luna, Akiza, Prof. Banner, and Yubel.
* CaptainObvious: In the Japanese version, Pegasus gets a foreboding feeling while en route to his destination. That might have something to do with the fact that his helicopter is flying straight into a swirling vortex of thunderclouds.
* CardGames: Of course! [[spoiler:It's also responsible for the future's destruction.]]
* CityOfCanals: Paradox attacks Judai in Venice (more specifically, St. Mark's Square) when the latter goes there to investigate a local issue.
* CombatCommentator: Daitokuji takes up this role during the Paradox vs. protagonists duel.
* CombinationAttack[=/=]AllYourPowersCombined: Two of them, first by Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, then by the three protagonists' signature monsters.
* ConspicuousCG: The Duel Monsters and some of the scenery and smoke. The quality is generally better than in 5D's, although the scene with Paradox capturing Stardust Dragon can look somewhat jarring when viewed in 2D.
* ContinuityNod: In-universe - The spell card "Ancient Rules", which allows high-leveled monsters (in this case, the Dark Magician) to be summoned without tribute, is a nod to the in-universe game before Kaiba's Battle City Tournament, which did not require tributes at all.
* CoolBike: Paradox's D-Wheel is capable of [[TimeMachine time travel]] and [[TransformingMecha transformation]]. And it actually looks like something which would complain about being a motorbike in the first place.
* CoolMask: Paradox's mask. It gets even gets GlowingEyesOfDoom at one point.
* DeadHatShot: [[spoiler: Yugi finds his grandfather's bandanna after the buildings collapse on everyone.]]
* DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler:Pegasus and Yugi's grandpa.]]
* DelayedRippleEffect: [[spoiler: Paradox's changes to the past cause reality to slowly fall apart.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: More like an enormous building.]]
* DubInducedPlotHole: 4Kids completely passed over the events of GX's final season, which wasn't dubbed, leading to confusion as to why Jaden is happy go lucky again.
* DyingRace: [[spoiler:Paradox is one of the few humans remaining on Earth in the future.]]
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Pick your choice: [[spoiler:either by Duel Monsters or by the disintegration of the dimension.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave: Yugi has one of these moments when [[spoiler:he realizes everybody in Domino except himself is dead]].
** Effects in the actual duel both play this trope straight and invert it. [[spoiler: Sin Truth plays it straight by destroying everything, and Stardust Mirage brings everything back.]]
* EvilLaugh: Paradox, obviously. Some of his laughs make him sound like he's channeling Hiruma right there.
* EvilMakeover: Paradox has the ability to turn the stolen monsters into "Sin" monsters.
* {{Expy}}: Paradox gives [[spoiler:Dark Marik]] vibes during the climax of the duel when [[spoiler:he fuses with Sin Truth Dragon and makes distorted faces.]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Yusei ends up in Judai's time first, then both of them eventually wind up in Yugi's time. Judai gushes at Yusei's D-Wheel, and later on both Judai and Yugi are amazed at Yusei's Synchro Summon.
--> '''Yami Yugi''': Synchro WHAT?!
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Paradox with Sin Truth Dragon, after Sin Paradox Dragon is destroyed.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Judai provides a [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/JuudaiV.jpg truly spectacular example]], although the British audience would more likely get it. (For those not living in the United Kingdom, TheOtherWiki has an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#V_sign_as_an_insult explanation]].)
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Yugi goes through one after he realizes that Grampa Moto is dead. Hence the Pharaoh taking over for the duration of the duel.]]
** [[spoiler: Yusei himself has a pretty bad one that pushes him to the brink of surrender, coaxed back only by Yugi and Judai, it may or may not have to do with him seen struggling to be on the other side of Stardust from the 5D's openings.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:To use his Sin cards, he ends up using Sin World, which will kill a player should their Life Points drop to 0. In the end, he's the one killed by it when Yugi, Judai and Yusei unleash their final attack.]]
* IdiotBall: Although he was never called on it, Paradox made a number of amateurish mistakes throughout the duel.
** HE likely wasn't a very experienced duelist, due to what Duel Monsters did to his timeline.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler: Yugi activates a spell card that allows him to take control of one of Paradox's two dragons,. Paradox, in return, activates a trap to prevent it from working against Sin Paradox Dragon, the larger, nastier of the pair... just in time to find out that Yugi was going after the other one, Sin Stardust Dragon, the whole time. (Seems to be a problem a number of Yugi's foes run into!)]]
* InvincibleHero: [[spoiler:By the second turn of the game, the protagonists are basically in control of the whole game, with Paradox doing little to bring them down.]]
* InkSuitActor[=/=]LawyerFriendlyCameo: The cast of ''Sakiyomi [=JumBANG!=]'' make an appearance as [=MCs=], voicing themselves accordingly.
* {{Keigo}}: Yusei, who usually speaks rather informally, uses this when talking to Yugi and Judai.
* InMediasRes: The movie starts in Venice, where Paradox is attacking Judai with his dragons.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The trailers for the Japanese version of the movie spoiled for the dub viewers at the time that Judai fused with Yubel and gained his/her powers]] and Yusei became the owner of the Dragon Head birthmark.
** The Yubel part becomes a DubInducedPlotHole, as 4Kids never aired season 4 of GX.
*** However, the [[VideoGame/YuGiOhTagForceSeries Tag Force series]] will have clued in fans that play the games. Though Season 4 stuff was dealt with in the third entry, which [[NoExportForYou wasn't released in the US]] so it's still not entirely covered.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the end of the movie, Pegasus says he has a special card for the children attending the tournament he paid a visit to and asks them to take one. People who attended the movie received Sin Red-Eyes Black Dragon, which was a limited edition card and could be obtained only that way (unless you bought the special movie packs).
-->'''Yugi:''' ''(to Paradox)'' We don't care about your BackStory!
* LeftHanging: [[spoiler: How the distant future Paradox lived in got destroyed and the true identity of Paradox.]]
** [[spoiler: Elaborated on in Episodes 134[=/=]135 of 5D's.]]
* LeParkour: Judai, somehow managing to get from the top of a column in St. Mark's Square to the roof of a nearby building to avoid the attacks of Rainbow Dragon and Cyber End Dragon.
--> '''Judai''' ([[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Abridged]]): Well, it's a good think I play a lot of AssassinsCreed.
* ALighterShadeOfGrey[=/=]GreyAndGrayMorality: See AlternateCharacterInterpretation above, but this might be ALighterShadeOfGrey due to the bigger protagonist count.
* LyricalDissonance: The ending theme, Makemagic, while it sounds catchy and all, the lyrics are about somebody describing their female lover, down to their lips and skin and wanting to embrace them. Its about as out of place as it can get for a movie aimed at young boys.
* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: How the three protagonists view Paradox's goal.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Paradox.
* MeaningfulName: Paradox's name is a reference to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the concept of paradoxes.]]
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: After Paradox steals Stardust Dragon and travels back to time, Yusei and co. return to Poppo Time. Akiza shows them a photo of Stardust Dragon and Paradox in Venice, who is destroying the city.
* MilestoneCelebration
* AMillionIsAStatistic: [[spoiler:The protagonists are upset by the deaths of Pegasus and Solomon Mutou, and to a lesser extent, everyone who died to Paradox's attack. To Paradox, on the other hand, the entire massacre was a trivial step to further his experiment. Considering he really didn't care about destroying Venice just to get Judai, it's no surprise.]]
* NeverSayDie: The dub never says the word 'death' or 'die', but at least it does not try and make half-baked excuses for what happens when buildings fall on people. No death scenes are edited out.
** Invoked with Sin World though. In the Japanese version, whoever loses the duel dies. In the dub, whoever loses 'lose their souls!' This could be seen as a CallBack to 4Kids "censoring" the deaths in the original by making them worse (don't worry, kids, he didn't die, he just went to Hell for all eternity).
* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands: The movie ignores many rules of the real life game. (This is in part because many cards used in the movie were not yet printed IRL.)
** Paradox often controls more than one Malefic monster at a time. IRL, you can control only one Malefic monster at a time, and only that monster can attack. Paradox has two in his second and third turn, and then even ''four'' of them in his fourth turn.
** Malefic Cyber End Dragon inflicts Piercing Battle Damage on the protagonists like Cyber End Dragon. In real life, the former card has not such an effect.
** Judai's "Flute of Summoning Kuriboh" allowing ''Yugi'' to pick his Kuriboh from his deck.
* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Yugi, after Domino City is ruined thanks to Paradox. Everyone else is dead, or at least only their belongings are seen. Doubles as PlotArmor. Might count as FridgeBrilliance.]]
** [[spoiler: The Millennium Puzzle protects him against any cowardly attacks. Yugi simply can't be killed by a sneak attack or destroying a city unless he is defeated personally first.]]
* NonSerialMovie: It was said to avert this, but Paradox's appearance in [=5Ds=] amounted to a cameo, where he died. The Paradox in this movie is a robot clone who also died.
* OffModel: Not present in the movie itself (which is animated beautifully) but 4kids did this with the [[http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Yu-Gi-Oh-The-Movie-Bonds-Beyond-Time-3D-Blu-ray/22079/ English Blu-ray cover of the movie]] (hint: look at Judai's legs).
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Pegasus, upon turning around only to see a whole building collapsing on him.]]
** [[spoiler:Also Paradox, right before his defeat.]]
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: The Instantaneous Time Travel variety. It also seems to combine the Wormhole version.
* PlugNPlayTechnology: Duel disks: ones made right before the end of the world in the distant future are compatible with the ones in modern day.
** To a lesser extent, the three protagonists' Duel Disks. Yugi's Battle City disk, Judai's Duel Academy disk, and the disk from Yusei's D-Wheel all work flawlessly with each other.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Going by the movie title, is this really a surprise?
* PreAssKickingOneliner: When the duel begins in the English Dub each of the protagonists utter their respective catchphrase.
--> '''Judai''': (eyes glowing) "Paradox, get ready to get your game on!"\\
'''Yusei:''' (Signer Mark glowing) "Your twisted time crusade ends here. Let's rev it up!"\\
'''Yugi:''' (transformed) "I have just one thing to say to you, Paradox. It's time to duel!"
* PreviouslyOn: The dub release begins with a recap of the three ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' series, including the basic setup and a few of the antagonists for each.
* ProductPlacement: A newspaper in the movie shows an advert for [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gold_Series_2010 Gold Series 2010]], released on the same day the movie debuted in Japan.
* PunnyName: The "Sin" theme (Malefic in the TCG). A number of kanjis can be read as "Shin" (which is the Japanese pronunciation of "Sin"), including 真 truth, 新 new and 神 god. WordOfGod says the theme is a clever combination of "sin" (罪 ''tsumi'') and "new" (新 ''atarashii'').
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The protagonists not only try to beat Paradox before Pegasus arrives at Domino City for his event after the Crimson Dragon gave everyone one more chance, but also before reality is destroyed.
* RagnarokProofing: Utterly averted. [[spoiler:There is literally nothing left in Paradox's world except himself and his allies, rubble, and an atmosphere that makes this planet look like Venus.]]
* {{Retcon}}: The point in time where Paradox kills Pegasus is supposedly set immediately before ''Duel Monsters'' makes its official debut. However, Yugi is seen wearing a Duel Disk, despite the fact that, in the original ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series, Duel Disks were not invented until long after ''Duel Monsters'' became a fad.
* RummageSaleReject: Paradox's outfit is definitely an odd mix of clothes.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: How Paradox views his goal.
* ShamelessSelfPromotion + DoingItForTheArt equals... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qP4xRYuCuo Amazing chalk art?]]
* ShortAnimeMovie: Only 49 minutes long, though both the dubbed version and the Encore run were lengthened by 10 minutes.
* ShouldersOfDoom: Paradox wears them, although they [[FridgeLogic disappear without explanation]] when the duel begins. Even more confusing because the official art shows Paradox without shoulderpads, and in another art they are bolted to his outfit.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Paradox wears spiky bracelets, has spikes on his shoes, even his hairstyle is a bit spiky. Then there are the... [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar oddly placed]] spikes on his chest.
* SpoilerOpening: Not the movie itself, but ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' during the period it promoted the movie with clips inserted into the OP and the ED. It spoiled quite a few things, such as [[spoiler:Pegasus and Sugoroku being killed by the collapsing buildings, and Paradox summoning and fusing with Sin Truth Dragon]].
* SpotlightStealingCrossover: This movie crosses over the then three ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' series, but the story mostly focuses on Yusei and the cast of 5Ds with all the supporting cast appearing. The plot mostly takes place in the time of the original Yu-Gi-Oh series but GX gets the shaft with Judai being the only (living and/or human) character to appear and his section takes place in Venice rather than anywhere from his life.
* SurrealThemeTune[=/=]ThematicThemeTune: ''makemagic''. One half could be called as relevant to the movie, but the other half of the song is rather rife with romantic overtones, with the chorus being about the singer wanting to take someone in their arms. It is an especially odd case because Atsushi Tamura himself mentioned that he deliberately wrote the song to be in vibe with the movie.
* TechnologyPorn: Paradox's D-Wheel during its transformation into a flying machine, with close-ups included, showing all the details. Even the protagonists are amazed at the entire sequence.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Paradox encounters Pegasus in Domino City in the midst of an event Pegasus is taking part of. What does Paradox do? Blow up the entire city, of course!]]
* TimeMachine: Paradox's D-Wheel.
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:The Crimson Dragon aids Yusei with time travel, and later on Yugi as well.]]
* TimeTravel: Paradox is capable of this, and Yusei goes through a time slip during the course of the movie. [[spoiler:It was the Crimson Dragon who helped him do so. It also brings Yugi back in time after Sugoroku and Pegasus die.]]
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Yusei telling Judai what's happening [[HowDoIUsedTense right now in the future]]. The three protagonists are also confused when all three of them come together.
* TimeyWimeyBall: The rules of time travel in the movie are very difficult to place. Judai's trump card, Elemental HERO Neos, disappears when Paradox jumps back to Yugi's time, presumably because Paradox prevented the future in which Neos would exist. Without having stopped Paradox yet, Judai gets Neos back by jumping to a time before Paradox changes history, despite the fact that Neos (and the bulk of Yusei and Judai's cards) wouldn't have existed in that time anyways.
* ThemeNaming: Sin ''Paradox'' Dragon, Sin ''Paradigm Shift'', Sin ''Truth'' Dragon. May count as FridgeBrilliance due to a paradox turned into truth upon changing viewpoints (i.e. paradigm shift).
* TransformingMecha: Paradox's bike transforms into a floating machine before the final duel.
* UnusualEyebrows: One of Paradox's eyebrows is rather bizarre, which appears to be half a tattoo and half his eyebrow.
* UpdatedRerelease: The theatrical dubbed release and the Encore run of the movie in Japan have additional footage added in. The Encore run features a special 10 minute extension in 2D.
* VillainBall: Paradox in the duel against the protagonists. [[spoiler:At one point, he attempts to destroy Judai's Neos Knight with Sin Paradox Dragon, only to run into the usual array of protagonist Traps. He could have attacked Judai's revived Neos Knight (which is at 0 attack due to Sin Paradox Dragon's effect) with Stardust Dragon, leaving the protagonists with 100 Life Points. If this had been the case, on Paradox's next turn, they would have lost due to the effect of Sin Truth Dragon.]]
** Paradox uses an effect to try and destroy every monster on the heroes' side of the field [[spoiler:while they had Stardust Dragon back under their control. Seeing as he had the card up until a couple minutes prior, he should have known what it did.]]
* WatchingTheSunset: Paradox does this in the distant future.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Paradox wants to save the future by [[spoiler:experimenting with history in order to find the best possible outcome. He almost ends up destroying reality doing so.]] He also has a HumansAreTheRealMonsters attitude.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Only Stardust Dragon's capture was shown on-screen, how Paradox obtained the other dragons was never shown. Judai calls out Paradox on stealing Rainbow Dragon from Johan, but the plot point was never elaborated on, and the fate of the cards' original owners is not known. When one considers Paradox's methods, it couldn't have been very pleasant.
** Additionally, [[spoiler:Z-One, Antinomy, and Aporia are nowhere to be seen in Paradox's future. While this may have been justified in the theater release due to spoilers for 5D's, it doesn't for the DVD release.]]
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* BigOMG[=/=]BigNo: [[spoiler: Pegasus, right before his death.]]

* BloodlessCarnage: After Paradox attacks Domino City with the dragons, among the wreckage not a single body or a drop of blood is to be found despite the movie implying all those people were killed.

* DeadHatShot: [[spoiler: Non-drowning example: Yugi finds his grandfather's bandana after the buildings collapsed on everyone.]]

* DubInducedPlotHole: 4Kids completely passes over the events of GX's final season, which wasn't dubbed.

* CombinationAttack[=/=]AllYourPowersCombined: Two of them - First by Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, then by the three protagonists' signature monsters. Both instances were explained by oddly specific spell cards.
** The first is not so surprising, considering there are A LOT of combo cards between Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl and Yugi ''would'' likely have it. The second, not so much.
* ConspicuousCG: The Duel Monsters themselves and some of the scenery as well. The quality is generally better than in 5D's, although the scene with Paradox capturing Stardust Dragon can look somewhat jarring when viewed in 2D.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Guess.

The movie debuted in Japan on the 23rd of January in 2010. FourKidsEntertainment announced their plans of dubbing the movie, and the English version of the movie premiered on February 26th 2011, under the name "Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time". An encore run of the movie was announced for Japan nationwide on that same date, as part of the Worldwide Anniversary. The Japanese DVD was released on June 16, 2011. [[http://www.animemaki.net/2011/04/yu-gi-oh-3d-bonds-beyond-time-to-be-released-on-dvd-in-july/ The English DVD WAS set for release on July 19, 2011.]] But Wal-mart did not end up receiving copies of the DVD at the expected date. Now the release has been changed to a vague "December 2011". Never fear however, [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yu-Gi-Oh-Beyond-Blu-ray/dp/B004TEC7PY the UK release of the Blu-Ray/DVD]] is available 2D and 3D ready, and even contains the original Japanese version of the movie! Which is the first time Yu-Gi-Oh! has had such a release since the few uncut DVD's 4kids released back in 2004.

Shin Yoshida, the screenwriter of the movie and one of the series compositors of the three series, stated that Paradox's true character will be revealed in the future episodes of 5D's. Paradox finally made a cameo in the main series, as of Episode 135 of 5D's.

* {{Retcon}}: The point in time where Paradox kills Pegasus is supposedly set immediately before ''Duel Monsters'' makes its official debut. However, Yugi is seen wearing a Duel Disk (needed so he can Duel Paradox), despite the fact that, in the original ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series, Duel Disks were not invented until long after ''Duel Monsters'' became a fad.

* ShortAnimeMovie: Only 49 minutes long, though both the dubbed version and the Encore run will be lengthened by 10 minutes.

** Malefic Cyber End Dragon deflicts Piercing Battle Damage on the protagonists like Cyber End Dragon. In real life, the former card has not such an effect.

* Retcon: The point in time where Paradox kills Pegasus is supposedly set immediately before ''Duel Monsters'' makes its official debut. However, Yugi is seen wearing a Duel Disk (needed so he can Duel Paradox), despite the fact that, in the original ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series, Duel Disks were not invented until long after ''Duel Monsters'' became a fad.

* {{Expy}}: Paradox gives [[spoiler:Dark Mk]] vibes during the climax of the duel when [[spoiler:he fuses with Sin Truth Dragon and makes distorted faces.]]

* UpdatedRerelease: The theatrical dubbed release and the Encore run of the movie in Japan are planned to have additional footage added in. The Encore run will feature a special 10 minute extension in 2D.

* ThreeDMovie

* DetachedSleeves: Paradox.

** [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Well, playing a card game *is* like making love...]]

*** There's a simple explanation. We know the cards in-universe contain ID chips that the Duel Disks read, so all the Duel Disk needs to have are the rules of the game programmed into it. This makes even more sense when you realize that, with new cards being released, it would not only be nearly impossible to have EVERY Disk updated for the new cards, it would have to store all of the rules for each individual card as well as the 3D hologram data on an internal hard drive, which would be pretty much impossible with the amount of cards. It makes much more sense to assume that all differences in Duel Disks are purely cosmetic (How else could the Orichalcos Disks exist?) and that the cards themselves are what cause them to work.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Going by the movie title, is this really a surprise?

* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands: The movie ignores many rules of the real life game.
** Paradox summons more than one Malefic monster on the field, despite you can control only one Malefic monster on your field, and only that monster can attack. Paradox has two in his second and third turn, and then even ''four'' of them in his fourth turn.

** Yusei activating Stardust Dragon's effect. Since it's stolen and used by Paradox, it should be revive on ''his'' field, but Stardust Dragon comes back on Yusei's side.

* BatmanGambit: Yugi pulls one [[spoiler:to save Starlight Dragon, attempting to snag Sin Starlight Dragon through a Trap Card via the Black Magician duo and when Paradox activates a power on said Sin Monster, it turns right towards Starlight Dragon.]]

Shin Yoshida, the screenwriter of the movie and one of the series compositors of the three series, stated that Paradox's true character will be revealed in the future episodes of 5D's. [[spoiler: Paradox finally made a cameo in the main series, as of Episode 135 of 5D's.]]

* CityOfCanals: Paradox attacks Jaden in Venice (more specifically, St. Mark's Square) when the latter goes there to investigate a local issue.

* CoolBike: Paradox's Duel Runner is capable of [[TimeMachine time travel]] and [[TransformingMecha transformation]]. And it actually looks like something which would complain about being a motorbike in the first place.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Yusei ends up in Jaden's time first, then both of them eventually wind up in Yugi's time. Jaden gushes at Yusei's Duel Runner, and later on both Jaden and Yugi are amazed at Yusei's Synchro Summon.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Jaden provides a [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/JuudaiV.jpg truly spectacular example]], although the British audience would more likely get it. (For those not living in the United Kingdom, TheOtherWiki has an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#V_sign_as_an_insult explanation]].)

** [[spoiler: Yusei himself has a pretty bad one that pushes him to the brink of surrender, coaxed back only by Yugi and Jaden, it may or may not have to do with him seen struggling to be on the other side of Stardust from the 5D's openings.]]

* {{Keigo}}: Yusei, who usually speaks rather informally, uses this when talking to Yugi and Jaden.
* InMediasRes: The movie starts in Venice, where Paradox is attacking Jaden with his dragons.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The trailers for the Japanese version of the movie spoiled for the dub viewers at the time that Jaden [[spoiler:fused with Yubel and gained his/her powers]] and Yusei [[spoiler:became the owner of the Dragon Head birthmark]].

* LeParkour: Jaden, somehow managing to get from the top of a column in St. Mark's Square to the roof of a nearby building to avoid the attacks of Rainbow Dragon and Cyber End Dragon.
--> '''Jaden''' ([[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Abridged]]): Well, it's a good think I play a lot of AssassinsCreed.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: [[spoiler:The protagonists are upset by the deaths of Pegasus and Solomon Mutou, and to a lesser extent, everyone who died to Paradox's attack. To Paradox, on the other hand, the entire massacre was a trivial step to further his experiment. Considering he really didn't care about destroying Venice just to get Jaden, it's no surprise.]]

* OffModel: Not present in the movie itself (which is animated beautifully) but 4kids did this with the [[http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Yu-Gi-Oh-The-Movie-Bonds-Beyond-Time-3D-Blu-ray/22079/ English Blu-ray cover of the movie]] (hint: look at Jaden's legs).

** To a lesser extent, the three protagonists' Duel Disks. Yugi's Battle City disk, Jaden's Duel Academy disk, and the disk from Yusei's D-Wheel all work flawlessly with each other.

--> '''Jaden:''' (eyes glowing) "Paradox, get ready to get your game on!"
--> '''Yusei:''' (Signer Mark glowing) "Your twisted time crusade ends here. Let's rev it up!"
--> '''Yugi:''' (transformed) "I have just one thing to say to you, Paradox. It's time to duel!"

* RaceAgainstTheClock: [[spoiler:The protagonists not only try to beat Paradox before Pegasus arrives at Domino City for his event after the Crimson Dragon gave everyone one more chance, but also before reality is destroyed.]]

* SpotlightStealingCrossover: This movie crosses over the then three ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' series, but the story mostly focuses on Yusei and the cast of 5Ds with all the supporting cast appearing. The plot mostly takes place in the time of the original Yu-Gi-Oh series but GX gets the shaft with Jaden being the only (living and/or human) character to appear and his section takes place in Venice rather than anywhere from his life.
* SurrealThemeTune[=/=]ThematicThemeTune: makemagic. One half could be called as relevant to the movie, but the other half of the song is rather rife with romantic overtones, with the chorus being about the singer wanting to take someone in their arms. It is an especially odd case because Atsushi Tamura himself mentioned that he deliberately wrote the song to be in vibe with the movie.

* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Yusei telling Jaden what's happening [[HowDoIUsedTense right now in the future]]. The three protagonists are also confused when all three of them come together.
* TimeyWimeyBall: The rules of time travel in the movie are very difficult to place. Jaden's trump card, Elemental Hero Neos, disappears when Paradox jumps back to Yugi's time, presumably because Paradox prevented the future in which Neos would exist. Without having stopped Paradox yet, Jaden gets Neos back by jumping to a time before Paradox changes history, despite the fact that Neos (and the bulk of Yusei and Jaden's cards) wouldn't have existed in that time anyways.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Only Stardust Dragon's capture was shown on-screen, how Paradox obtained the other dragons was never shown. Jaden calls out Paradox on stealing Rainbow Dragon from Johan, but the plot point was never elaborated on, and the fate of the cards' original owners is not known. When one considers Paradox's methods, it couldn't have been very pleasant.
** Additionally, [[spoiler: ZONE, Antinomy, and Aporia are nowhere to be seen in Paradox's future. While this may have been justified in the theater release due to spoilers for 5D's, it doesn't for the DVD release.]]

** Actually, if you look at it from another viewpoint, it [[FridgeBrilliance makes sense.]] They traveled back in time to a point before the timeline changed, so their cards returned to the way they would be created as the original history states.
*** But "the future" of "the past" they travelled to would still be Paradox changing it. So "their future" would include said travel, which implies they shouldn't exist.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler: Yugi activates a spell card that allows him to take control of one of Paradox's two dragons,. Paradox, in return, activates a trap to prevent it from working against Sin Paradox Dragon, the larger, nastier of the pair...just in time to find out that Yugi was going after the other one, Sin Stardust Dragon, the whole time. (Seems to be a problem a number of Yugi's foes run into!)]]

* BoringInvincibleHero: [[spoiler:By the second turn of the game, the protagonists are basically in control of the whole game, with Paradox doing little to bring them down.]]