History Characters / YuGiOh5DsWRGP

* ThrowingTheFight: During Jack's reign as King, Dragan participated in a fixed match against him in order to get financial aid for his injured father. He isn't happy about it (and neither is Jack when he finds out), so when the WRGP pits them against one another again, both are raring to give it their all to settle their match for real.

* TheTrickster: Brave and his Aesir Loki (who is the actual Trickster God of Myth/NorseMythology) are considered this. He even has a nickname in-universe because of it being his prominent dueling trait. He had Crow on his knees with nothing but well-placed traps and exploiting Thor's abilities.

* HonorBeforeReason: Jean costs his team the match because he allows Yusei to goad him into trying to win by attacking, rather than following through with the milling strategy that cost Yusei the match by deck out had Jean simply ended his turn. Even his teammates fall for the ploy. The result is Yusei using a graveyard effect that causes the attack to backfire and take out Jean.

* TheTrickster: Brave and his Aesir Loki (who is the actual Trickster God of Myth/NorseMythology) are considered this. He even has a nickname in-universe because of it being his prominent dueling trait. He had Crow on his knees with nothing but well-placed traps and exploiting Thor's abilities

* AwesomeButImpractical: Their ace card, Zushin the Sleeping Giant, is this in-universe, most likely as a dig against the real game's tendency to churn out powerful monsters with impossible summoning conditions. Zushin has incredibly powerful effects that have been compared to the God Cards, but it has a ridiculous summoning condition that makes it impossible to summon in a serious duel.[[note]]It's telling that the real-life version of Zushin is ''buffed'' compared to the show's version, as its summoning condition has several loopholes that allow it to be somewhat expedited, as well as being [[NoSell fully immune]] to card effects.[[/note]] Practically everyone has a copy of Zushin, at a Common rarity at that, shown when the audience members all whip out copies of the card from nowhere when Taiyou's copy is summoned. Even Team Taiyou themselves only managed to summon Zushin in their duel with Team 5Ds, having won their other matches with the burn effect of Speed World 2.

* LethalJokeWeapon: Their ultimate card, Sleeping Giant Zushin, [[MagikarpPower requires the sacrifice of a Level 1 Normal monster that has been on the field for 10 player turns (a nearly impossible condition to fulfill in today's game)]]. Once it hits the field, it can easily curb-stomp a God Card.

* StoneWall: Their overall strategy. Using Holding-Hands Majin (which forces the opponent to target it while getting its defense boosted by Defense Position monsters) and Speed World 2's effect (using accumulated speed counters to deal small amounts of damage), they chip down at their opponent's health while adding onto their impressive defense.

* {{Foil}}: To Team Satisfaction (and Yusei in particular). Both are groups of tight-knit friends from humble beginnings, using 'worthless' cards that others have thrown away. Despite their poor background, they have big ambitions to make a name for themselves. The main difference is that Team Satisfaction achieve their goal of being the best duelists in Satellite, but end up separating as a result. Team Taiyou, on the other hand, lose in their climatic duel but are still firm friends.

* WorthyOpponent: For Yusei and Team 5D's

* ThrowingTheFight: During Jack's reign as King, Dragan participated in a fixed match against him in order to get financial aid for his injured father. He isn't happy about it (and neither is Jack when he finds out), so when the WRGP pits them against one another again, both give it their all to settle their match for real.

->'''Voiced by:''' Erika Nakagawa (Japanese), Eileen Stevens (English, ''[=5Ds=''), Alice Himora (English, ''Duel Links'' onward)

->'''Voiced by:''' Erika Nakagawa (Japanese), Eileen Stevens (English)

* OutsideContextVillain: They are one to team Unicorn who, for all his great strategies, had no experience with the supernatural and was taken completely by surprise by what was effectively cheating. Team 5D's, however, proves to be one ''to them'', since they did not expect someone who wasn't taken by surprise by their exploits and that could actually deal with the supernatural far better than they could.

->'''Andore voiced by:''' Rion Kako (Japanese), Darren Dunstan (English)
->'''Breo voiced by:''' Yuki Masuda (Japanese), Tom Wayland (English)
->'''Jean voiced by:''' Ryo Naito (Japanese), Gary Mack (English)

->'''Nicolas voiced by:''' Tsuyoshi Kurosawa (Japanese), Creator/MarcThompson (English)
->'''Hermann voiced by:''' Kiyoshi Katsunuma (Japanese), Frank Frankson (English)
->'''Hans voiced by:''' Yoshiyuki Shimozuma (Japanese), Creator/SeanSchemmel (English)

->'''Taro voiced by:''' Naru Kawamoto
->'''Yoshizo voiced by:''' Kotaro Atsushi
->'''Jinbei voiced by:''' Suguru Inoue

-->'''Taro''': "Team Taiyou... That's gonna be the name of our team! [[MeaningfulName It always rises with a bright and intense light every day. We are the sun!]]"

->'''Dragan voiced by:''' Kenichi Miya (Japanese), Creator/DavidWills (English)
->'''Brave voiced by:''' Creator/RyoheiKimura (Japanese), Creator/MarcThompson (English)
->'''Harald voiced by:''' Creator/MasayaOnosaka (Japanese), Eli Jay (English)

* Myth/NorseMythology: Most of their cards are based on this.

* TheUnderdogWins: Downplayed, even though they lose the match, they won the duel as they earned the respect of the crowd, especially Team 5D'S.

** Ego: Yoshizo, not as brave or pro-active as Taro, but more eager to believe in their chances than Jinbei.

* LoopholeAbuse: How their Zushin is defeated by Yusei. Since Zushin cannot negate the effect of a monster that doesn't fight it, Yusei's uses Jack's Trap Card Monster Baton to use the effect of Crow's Blackwing -- Boreas the Sharp, which protects Yusei's Shooting Star Dragon from Zushin and destroys it after damage calculation.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Jinbei gets mad at the other two for thinking they can get to the WRGP with low-level monsters, then ditches them to try and find better cards by himself. He only realises how much of a jerk he's being when he [[{{Hypocrite}} criticises someone else for also abandoning their friends.]]

* {{Pride}}: Jinbei's reason for initially refusing Team 5D's help; [[SelfMadeMan because Team Taiyou got to where they are through their own hard work, and don't need any help from pro-level duelists.]] He mellows out once he realises that Yusei is actually no different in that respect.

* LargeHam: Brave likes to pretend that his opponent is doing a serious threat to his strategies before activating his trap cards. He's also the only one [[IncrediblyLamePun brave enough]] to stand up in the middle of a Riding Duel. Harald even notes how audacious he gets in trolling his opponents.

[[folder:Team Ragnarok: Dragan, Brave (Broder) and Harald (Halldor)]]

* ComplexityAddiction: Harald seems to have one of these, and it cost him his duel with Yusei. Already having gotten rid of Majestic Star Dragon and having a massive field advantage with his team's three Aesir, Harald keeps playing cards that he thinks will completely ensure his victory over Yusei rather than just using the Gods and their powerful effects to just crush Yusei underfoot. Yusei ends up turning all of those cards against him to not only bring out Shooting Star Dragon, but to depower all of the Aesir and banish them.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: After joining up with Z-One.

* FaceHeelTurn: After Z-One promises to bring her parents back to life.
** HeelFaceTurn: After being defeated by Crow and Aki.

* MsFanservice: Also just [[http://s591.photobucket.com/user/TheSpektrum/media/yugioh5D_sherry.jpg.html Episode 93]].
* TheOjou: Subverted; she ''was'' this until her parent's death, wherein she went into hiding with Mizoguchi and turned into a badass vigilante.

** Her design Post FaceHeelTurn strongly resembles Paradox's mask and Sin achetype, possibly since she replaced Paradox as an antagonist and Guardian of the Arc Cradle in the final arc.

* AmbiguouslyGay: All three of them.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: After losing to Team 5D's, though they were already pretty friendly to each other before.

* NearVillainVictory: To the point where all Jean had to do was end his turn to win.

* ShockAndAwe: Even though they're Beast-type monsters, Thunder Unicorn, Voltic Bicorn, and Lightning Tricorn are associated with this trope.

* TheLeader: Nicolas.

* UnwittingPawn: For Yliaster.

* TheLeader: Taro.

* TheLeader: Harald.

* YouFightLikeACow: Brave does this ''a lot''.
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* ShadowArchetype: Sherry's siding with Z-One makes her one to Aki, had she never met Yusei and instead remained loyal to Divine, even more so when Z-One offers her to join his cause eerily mirrors how Divine recruited Aki into the Arcadia Movement. Aki had a strained relationship with her parents back in her childhood until Yusei entered in her life, while Shery's had taken away from her and Mizoguchi had to raise her in their place.

* ShadowArchetype: To Aki, had she never met Yusei and remained loyal to Divine. Hell, her siding with Z-One is eerily similar to how Aki was recruited by Divine into the Arcadia Movement.