History Awesome / YuGiOh5Ds

* Yusei's victory over Harald of Team Ragnarok. [[spoiler:As insurance if Yusei pulls out a comeback, Harald uses a card called "Gjallarhorn", which after three turns destroys all his monsters and inflicts their ATK as damage, a total of 10,000 in this case. On the third turn though, seeing Yusei pull out Shooting Star Dragon from nothing in one turn, he starts worrying Yusei has a Set card that can stop "Gjallarhorn". To make sure of his victory Harald uses "Odin's Eye" to see what Yusei's face-down cards are, but Yusei counters with "Trick Mirror", negating Odin's Eye and keeping his other face-down concealed. Terrified Yusei really does have something to stop "Gjallarhorn" that he was stopping him from seeing, Harald goes for the attack to end the duel quicker. Turns out Yusei really was bluffing -- his face-down card is "Zero Force", which saps the ATK of Harald's monsters to 0. The turn ends, Harald's monsters self-destruct by his own card effect, and thanks to Zero Force their combined ATK that Yusei takes as damage is a whopping '''0'''. On his next turn Yusei's Shooting Star Dragon returns to the field and he attacks for the win.]] The move is also divisive though, due to arguments over if Harald falling for Yusei's bluff is a case of WrongGenreSavvy or someone throwing him an IdiotBall.

** Not enough, you say? This duel lasted ''six episodes'' (technically five and the first act of the sixth, but still).

* Episode 102: The first time Yusei performs a ''Fusion'' Summon, fusing his two most famous monsters (Stardust Dragon and Junk Warrior) to form Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste. Not only is it a complete mindblow to everyone in the series and a lot of fans, since nobody ever expected him to do that, but the use of [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome both versions of Yusei Battle]] (the first when bringing Junk Warrior out, and the 2nd when performing the fusion) is just the cherry on top.

* Episode 110, Yusei successfully pulls off Accel Synchro and summons [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfyh44Mo2DE Shooting Star Dragon]] (to the CrowningMusicOfAwesome "Clear Mind" by Masaaki Endoh). He then reveals its effect: he reveals the top five cards of his deck, and Shooting Star Dragon can attack once for each Tuner monster he reveals. Cue the other four members of the main FiveManBand around the city looking at their glowing Signer marks and cheering Yusei on. Yusei draws, revealing Tuner monsters one by one as the five Signer marks light up in sequence on his back with overlaid shots of his friends. As he draws the fifth Tuner, the lines of the mark's body draw out a circle, and the camera pulls back to reveal the full mark of the Crimson Dragon lit up. Placido has just enough time to go "OhCrap! ThisCannotBe!" before Yusei orders Shooting Star Dragon to attack five times, destroying the Machine Emperor piece by piece and giving Placido a serious case of CriticalExistenceFailure as his motorcycle blows up underneath him. And while all this is going on, the background music starts out low and quiet and grows faster and louder with every draw.

* Team Ragnarok creating Rainbow Bridge Bifrost to allow Yusei and co. to reach the Ark Cradle. Accompanied by a brand new BGM [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome crowned with awesome]].

* Yusei [[ShutUpHannibal pointing out]] [[spoiler: Godwin's]] hypocrisy then proceeding to summon Savior Star Dragon. The clincher is that he then proceeds not only to take out both Wiraqocha Rasca and the rest of [[spoiler: Godwin's]] Life Points, but then [[spoiler: drive Savior Star, powered by the Crimson Dragon, into the [[EldritchAbomination King of the Underworld]] and blasts off its face.]] Made even more awesome in the flashback in episode 79 which adds [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Yusei Battle to it]].

* Yusei summoning Stardust Dragon during his first duel with Aki/Akiza. Even the dub manages to make it an utterly majestic moment with the music and the MC's narration. It also marks the turning point in the duel, where it goes from a CurbStompBattle on Akiza's part to one on Yusei's, since Stardust counters Black Rose so well.

* In episode 138, Ruka jumping from Aki's motorcycle to Yusei's ''while they were moving at high speed''.
* In the DistantFinale, Ruka has been enjoying her normal like, but Rua has become a popular Riding Duelist. In fact, when Crow leaves his team to challenge Jack, his first recommendation is to hire Rua on as his replacement.

* JACK ATLAS beating both Lucciano and Placido in the WRGP. The machine emperors kept trying to absorb Scar Red Nova Dragon but it just keeps using its remove from play effect to evade the synchro stealing effect.

** He also gets another moment in ep. 78 against Luciano and his Machine Emperor Skiel Infinity. After Ruka had unknowingly walked right into his plan and practically given him Ancient Fairy Dragon, Leo makes what effectively amounts to the card game equivalent of a HeroicSacrifice just to get it back for her. [[spoiler: Sure, they lose and he just about makes an ''actual'' Heroic Sacrifice, but ''boy'' does he royally piss Luciano off in the process!]]

** Team Ragnarok's duel in general was awesome, given that they're the first duelists to use true God cards since the Egyptian Gods. The first time that Thor rises from the Graveyard is incredibly awesome: the sea splits in two and Thor ascends. It's awesome in both versions. Brave/Brodor in particular proves to be CrazyAwesome; first he takes out Red Nova Dragon by suiciding Thor and reviving it to take Jack out with it's effect. Then he completely reverses all of Crow's moves, including swarming the field with his Blackwings, attempting to return Thor to the extra deck and gain life points equal to its ATK, only for Brave to blow it up ''again''. And then he attempts to use what can only be described as Mirror Force on steroids, only for Brave to reveal that his God can negate the trap.

* Godwin gets one when he manages to manipulate two ''gods'' to bring them on his side, right after losing his duel with the dark signers and revealing it was actually his plan from the very beginning. Also, his subsequent duel with Yusei, Jack and Crow: first, his deck is designed to take advantage of the enormous amount of life points he got, proving it was designed for that three-against-one duel and not the common one-against-one (although it's implied he still ''would'' have won against the dark signer, but he chose to let his opponent win to further his plan), and then, instead of trying to actually defeating Crow and Jack, just makes them unable to continue by making them fall of the tracks. He still is unable to overcome Yusei's PlotArmor and ThePowerOfFriendship, but it was really impressive.
* Both awesome and hearthwarming, considering the cowardly attitude he displayed earlier, is Jaeger chosing to stay behind to coordinate evacuation while ordering to ''everyone else'' in the building to evacuate the city themselves. Even in later episodes, while he asks his friends to put their own lives first (the fact that they doesn't is awesome on his own), he never considers doing that ''himself'', never leaving his place despite facing, for all he knew, certain doom.

[[AC:Yusei Fudo]]

[[AC:JACK ATLAS]]

[[AC:Crow Hogan]]

* Despite not being a signer and not having a dragon, he doesn't hesitate to challenge a dark signer (note, also, that he manages to trick Bommer into the fight, making him believe that his clock alarm is a EMP that will destroy their D-Wheels unless they duel), and ''wins''.

[[AC:Aki Izayoi]]

[[AC:Rua & Ruka]]

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* The fact that Creator/LittleKuriboh, despite mocking this series as being "Card Games on Motorcycles", actually likes this series. While talking about the highly acclaimed ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', he sincerely praised it as the best since ''5D's'', and this show is apparently one of his favourite ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' installments.

** Even better, Yusei's strategy: he knew from the very beginning that his deck was just random cards together with no real consistency of its own (which is [[LampshadeHanging actually lampshaded several times during the duels]]), so he developed a way that required to get most of those cards in the graveyard, and made Armstrong do the dirty work for him. He also outsmarted his cheating, first by [[GenreSavvy correctly guessing Armstrong would use the security cameras to spy his cards]], and hiding his trump card from him from the very beginning, and then taking advantage of it by switching his two face downs during a black out, making Armstrong pick the wrong one to destroy.

* Episode 1&154: Yusei ending the first and last duels of the series with the same monster: [[spoiler:Junk Warrior]].

* Despite not being a signer and not having a dragon, he doesn't hesitate to challenge a dark signer (note, also, that he manages to trick into the fight, making him believe that his clock allarm is a EMP that will destroy their D-Wheelers unless they duel), and ''wins''.

* Despite not being a signer and not having a dragon, he doesn't esitate to challenge a dark signer (note, also, that he manages to trick into the fight, making him believe that his clock allarm is a EMP that will destroy their D-Wheelers unless they duel), and ''wins''.

** ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' makes it even better. [[spoiler:The alternate universe's Jack uses a variant of Red Dragon Archfiend called Red Dragon Archfiend Scar-Right, with a crippled right arm. WordOfGod says that design choice came from Junk Warrior's final clash with Red Dragon Archfiend. In other words, Junk Warrior [[HitYouSoHardYourXWillFeelIt hit it so hard a parallel universe version of it felt it.]]]]

* In episode 25, demanding to know whats going on once and for all, Yusei decides to confront Godwin. However, his way is blocked by two guards. Now if this were Yugi or Jaden in this situation, they'd challenge the guards to a duel in order to get past. However, since this is the older and significantly more well built (read as: {{Badass}}) Yusei, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNsAhyZLovI&feature=related he just goes Street Fighter on them instead.]] Sure the 4kids dub added a few flashes in it to attempt to censor the scene, but it was done so badly, it was kept mainly intact even there. Unintentional [=CMoA=] for them, too. :)

* [[spoiler: After getting destroyed by Andore, JACK ATLAS, injured and bleeding after taking a brutal fall off his bike, claws with every last ounce of strength in his body to get the Wheel of Fortune to the finish line so he can baton pass to Aki.]] [[BadAss Stay amazing, Mr. Atlus.]]
** He ends up seriously injured because of that, of course. Except that he then ignores his injury during Yusei's duel and shows up saying that if he could endure all that, so could Yusei, [[DareToBeBadass basically challenging Yusei to be as badass as he is.]] And, if you think about it, there's a subtle one: similar injuries have put both Crow and Akisa out of commission, forcing them to skip duels, however Jack Atlas just recovers from that without any lasting consequences. He's just made of {{Badass}}ium.

** Even better, Yusei's strategy: he knew from the very beginning that his deck was just random cards together with no real consistency of its own (wich is [[LampshadeHanging actually lampshaded several times during the duels), so he developed a way that required to get most of those cards in the graveyard, and made Armstrong do the dirty work for him. He also outsmarted his cheating, first by [[GenreSavvy correctly guessing Armstrong would use the security cameras to spy his cards]], and hiding his trumph card from him from the very beginning, and then taking advantage of it by switching his two face downs during a black out, making Armstrong pick the wrong one to destroy.

** Even better, Yusei's strategy: he knew from the very beginning that his deck was just random cards together with no real consistency of its own, so he found a way to make it work based on very few of them and got Armstrong to help him by eliminating the others, and then took advantage of that too.

* Yusei's victory over Harald of Team Ragnarok. [[spoiler:As insurance if Yusei pulls out a comeback, Harald uses a card called "Gjallarhorn", which after three turns destroys all his monsters and inflicts their ATK as damage, a total of 10,000 in this case. On the third turn though, seeing Yusei pull out Shooting Star Dragon from nothing in one turn, he starts worrying Yusei has a Set card that can stop "Gjallarhorn". To make sure of his victory Harald uses "Odin's Eye" to see what Yusei's face-down cards are, but Yusei counters with "Trick Mirror", negating Odin's Eye and keeping his other face-down concealed. Terrified Yusei really does have something to stop "Gjallarhorn" that he was stopping him from seeing, Harald goes for the attack to end the duel quicker. Turns out Yusei really was bluffing -- his face-down card is "Zero Force", which saps the ATK of Harald's monsters to 0. The turn ends, Harald's monsters self-destruct by his own card effect, and thanks to Zero Force their combined ATK that Yusei takes as damage is a whopping '''0'''. On his next turn Yusei's Shooting Star Dragon returns to the field and he attacks for the win.]] The move is also a BaseBreaker though, due to arguments over if Harald falling for Yusei's bluff is a case of WrongGenreSavvy or someone throwing him an IdiotBall.

* Godwin gets one when he manages to manipulate two ''gods'' to birng them on his side, right after losing his duel with the dark signers and revealing it was actually his plan from the very beginning. Also, his subsequent duel with Yusei, Jack and Crow proves to be both FridgeBrilliance and DangerouslyGenreSavvy: first, his deck is designed to take advantage of the enormous amount of life points he got, proving it was designed for that three-against-one duel and not the common one-against-one (although it's implied he still ''would'' have won against the dark signer, but he chose to let his opponent win to further his plan), and then, instead of trying to actually defeating Crow and Jack, just makes them unable to continue by making them fall of the tracks. He still is unable to overcome Yusei's PlotArmor and ThePowerOfFriendship, but it was really impressive.

* The fact that Creator/LittleKuriboh, despite mocking this series as being "Card Games on Motorcycles", actually likes this series. While talking about the highly acclaimed ''Anime/YuGiOhAcrV'', he sincerely praised it as the best since ''5D's'', and this show is apparently one of his favourite ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' installments.

** He ends up seriously injured because of that, of course. Except that he then ignores his injury during Yusei's duel and shows up saying that if he could endure all that, so could Yusei, [[DareToBeABadass basically challenging Yusei to be as badass as he is.]] And, if you think about it, there's a subtle one: similar injuries have put both Crow and Akisa out of commision, forcing them to skip duels, however Jack Atlas just recovers from that without any lasting consequences. He's just made of badassium.

* The fact that Creator/LittleKuriboh, despite mocking this series as being "Card Games on Motorcycles", actually likes this series. While talking about the highly acclaimed ''Anime/YuGiOhAcrV'', he sincerely praised it as the best since ''5D's'', and this show is apparently one of his favourite ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series.

* Godwin gets one when he manages to manipulate two ''gods'' to birng them on his side, right after losing his duel with the dark signers and revealing it was actually his plan from the very beginning. Also, his subsequent duel with Yusei, Jack and Crow proves to be both FridgeBrillance and DangerouslyGenreSavvy: first, his deck is designed to take advantage of the enormous amount of life points he got, proving it was designed for that three-against-one duel and not the common one-against-one (althought it's implied he still ''would'' have won against the dark signer, but he chose to let his opponent win to further his plan), and then, instead of trying to actually defeating Crow and Jack, just makes them unable to continue by making them fall of the tracks. He still is unable to overcome Yusei's PlotArmor and ThePowerOfFriendship, but it was really impressive.

* The final Duel between Yusei and Jack for the show's finale. The WHOLE THING was one non-stop [=CMoA=] given the sheer nostalgia fuel of seeing some of their oldest cards revived, coupled with the reappearance of many characters, including Yusei's four friends from the first season who got {{Put On A Bus}}, and even a trip back into the factory where the very first Duel of 5D's took place. And it even had Yusei avoiding his usual 'Stardust/Savior Star/Shooting Star/Shooting Quasar spam' victory to beat Jack via ''Junk Warrior'', the Synchro he won the very first Duel of 5D's with. It also serves as a {{Call Back}} to the very first opening, where Junk Warrior and Red Demon went head-on. This time, though, Junk Warrior got to pwn Red Demon via {{The Power of Friendship}} in its effect.