History Characters / YuGiOh5DsYliaster

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* ManBehindTheMan: Directly behind Aporia and Paradox, and through Yliaster is behind the Godwin Brothers and the first Zero Reverse that split the city apart. Thus, pretty much every major disaster and villain can be traced back to him.

* EvilKnockoff: To Jack. His personality is based off of Jack from Season 1. (Jack even gives him a lengthy WorldOfCardboardSpeech on that to boot.)

* BigBad: Not just to 5D's, but, due to the robot clone of Paradox he created that affected the time stream in the 10th anniversary movie, he is probably this for [[Anime/YuGiOh Duel Monsters]] and [[Anime/YuGiOhGX GX]] as well.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: The reason he so thoroughly trounced Aporia in their duel is because the latter believed that Metaion was his ace monster and had no idea that there were even other Timelords in existence. Z-One simply decided to play along with this and did nothing to dissaude that notion. As such, Aporia tailored his deck to getting around Metaion and was throughly blindsided when Z-One decided to Summon Lazion and use its effect to completely disrupt his strategy.

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Appears to Sherry alone as her father.

* GreaterScopeVillain: The man behind Zero Reverse and the the entire Yliaster organization, and thus likely this show's answer to [[Manga/YuGiOh Zorc Necrophades]] and [[Anime/YuGiOhGX the Light of Destruction]].

* DespairEventHorizon: He may not have run over the line three times, but his crossing was no less painful. Having tried to make himself Yusei, he was given a HopeSpot when it seemed he had discovered a way for people to get to safety without being slaughtered by the Machine Emperors. That all came crashing down when they went berserk and killed crowds of people quickly; people fell calling out for "Yusei" to help them and Z-One could do nothing. When he realised that even with Yusei's form, he was as helpless as anyone else, he gave up on that plan and decided to work on a [[TimeForPlanB Plan B]].

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!!"Dark Glass" (''Vizor'')/Antinomy/Johnny

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!!Ghost
->'''First Ghost Voiced by:''' Masahito Kawanago (Japanese), Creator/JasonGriffith (English)

A mysterious duelist who has been infecting and destroying D-Wheels. It's actually a prototype 'Riding Roid' which was developed by Security to assist in tackling D-Wheel related crimes. Unfortunately it was purloined by Placido, who wanted to give his new cards a test drive, and programmed to hunt down any D-Wheelers holding Synchro monsters. Placido later uses Yusei's engine program to upgrade an army of Riding Roids similar to Ghost, the Diablos, which he later unleashes upon the D-Wheelers at the [=WRGP=] in attempt to complete the Circuit sooner.

The first Ghost uses Placido's deck. The Diablos use Ally of Justice decks.

* BaldOfEvil: As seen in ''Tag Force 5'', Ghost is bald underneath his helmet.
* DarkIsEvil: Ghost wears black, rides a black D-Wheel, and has a grey "skin".
* EvilLaugh: A rather creepy one thanks to its robotic voice.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Inverted. The first Ghost has a creepy high-pitched voice.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Justified, since the Ghosts are robots.
* GratuitousSpanish: "Diablo" is Spanish for 'Devil'.
* {{Irony}}: Ghost's programmed personality was designed to express a hate for Synchro monsters. Its successor, the Diablos, use Ally of Justice cards, an archetype whose strongest monsters are Synchros.
* MechaMooks: The Diablos are mass-produced Ghosts with the same evil personality.
* RoboticReveal: After Yusei makes it crash and the lads come to help, Crow touches its shoulder and its arm falls off.
* ZergRush: The Diablos force people into Free For All Duels and then swarm them with monsters.

!!Fake Jack Atlas
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakanoriHoshino (Japanese), Creator/TedLewis (English)

A robot created by the three emperors who is disguised as Jack. His personality is based of the time when Jack was the King, but Fake Jack is much more ruthless. Fake Jack has his own Wheel of Fortune and has the same deck as Jack, with the only difference being that Fake Jack has three Red Dragon Archfiends. He commits several crimes on the highway and injures other D-Wheelers to hurt Jack's reputation, and to lure him out. Jack loses to him in their first match, but later he returns and destroys the imposter with Majestic Red Dragon.

He uses the same deck as the real Jack, but with three copies of Red Dragon Archfiend and no Majestic Dragon or Majestic Red Dragon
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* BadassBiker: Pretty much the only thing to describe his impossible maneuvers.
* CarFu: What he does with his Wheel of Fortune.
* DarkIsEvil: He has the same color scheme as the real Jack, only darker.
* EvilKnockoff: To Jack. His personality is based off of Jack from Season 1. (Jack even gives him a lengthy WorldOfCardboardSpeech on that to boot.)
* EvilSoundsDeep: Inverted in the dub, where his voice is higher than the real Jack.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: His deck contains ''multiple'' copies of Red Dragon Archfiend, which is impossible in-universe. This is what ultimately clears Jack.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's based off the old Jack after all.
* LargeHam: He is surprisingly a bit less hammy than the real Jack, but he's hammy enough to scare him.
* MirrorMatch: With Jack, of course.
* NonIndicativeName: His three Red Demon's Dragons are purple, blue, and yellow instead of red.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Fake Jack has red eyes instead of purple.
* RoboticReveal: When his body is destroyed by Savior Demon Dragon.
* RuleOfThree: He has three Red Demon's Dragons, which might be a nod to Kaiba's three Blue-Eyes White Dragons. However, his Red Demon's Dragons have different colors.

!!Z-one
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HideoIshikawa (Japanese), Creator/MarcThompson (English)

A mysterious mechanical being that dwells within a cyberspace area, that has connections with Bruno and the Yliaster Trio (and possibly Yusei). It was first seen when Yusei, Sherry, and Bruno were brought to its world by the power of the 'Z-One' card. It later provided Yusei with a card with which to complete an Accel Synchro, after he achieved the state of mind necessary to use it.

It is later revealed that Z-One is the last known survivor of the destroyed future. Along with Bruno, Aporia, and Paradox, he had tried to find a way of undoing the destruction, but his allies eventually died of old age. When Aporia was on his deathbed, Z-One promised him that he would do everything he could to change the future.

He uses a Timelord deck.

* AchillesHeel: Z-One's Timelord Deck may be a SuperpowerLottery, but ironically [[ClippedWingAngel his ultimate Timelord, Sephylon, is less indestructible than the lesser Timelords]][[labelnote: note]] All other Timelords have inherent protection, but Sephylon needs to banish other Timelords to protect itself, meaning it cannot protect itself when there are no other Timelords.[[/labelnote]], enabling Yusei to beat him when he managed to rise Stardust Dragon's ATK higher than it and continuously attack it until he had no other Timelords to sacrifice.
* AscendedFanboy: Z-One is a Yusei fanboy, to the point that he decided to ''become'' Yusei in order the save the world. [[{{Irony}} Then he becomes Yusei's archenemy.]]
* BigBad: Not just to 5D's, but, due to the robot clone of Paradox he created that affected the time stream in the 10th anniversary movie, he is probably this for [[Anime/YuGiOh Duel Monsters]] and [[Anime/YuGiOhGX GX]] as well.
* BlatantLies: Yusei refuses to buy Z-one's claim that he is Yusei from the future. Thus, Z-one instead elaborates on how he came to be Yusei.
* BrokenFaceplate: His mask is cracked when Yusei manages to inflict some damage on him in their duel, and breaks away to reveal that his face is identical to Yusei's. The rest breaks away after Yusei deals the final blow and the device keeping Z-One alive shuts down, leaving him very little time left.
* CostumeCopycat: He changes his own face to look like Yusei's in an attempt to [[HopeBringer bring people hope]].
* CurbStompBattle: Effortlessly defeats Aporia while keeping his LP intact, after Aporia's self-milling strategy backfires hard.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: A flashback shows that a machine implanted in his head was damaged when he went through his DespairEventHorizon, which might have contributed to his extremism.
* {{Cyborg}}: Considering he's an old man, it's probably a life support system.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: He underwent surgery to become Yusei long after Yusei himself had passed away. He even crammed data into a metal plate that he had attached to his head.
* DespairEventHorizon: He may not have run over the line three times, but his crossing was no less painful. Having tried to make himself Yusei, he was given a HopeSpot when it seemed he had discovered a way for people to get to safety without being slaughtered by the Machine Emperors. That all came crashing down when they went berserk and killed crowds of people quickly; people fell calling out for "Yusei" to help them and Z-One could do nothing. When he realised that even with Yusei's form, he was as helpless as anyone else, he gave up on that plan and decided to work on a [[TimeForPlanB Plan B]].
* DramaticUnmask: Part of his mask is destroyed during his duel, showing that he has the same face as Yusei.
* FauxShadow: Despite the many hints, some more subtle than others, he is ''not'' Yusei from a BadFuture, rather just a normal man who assumed Yusei's appearance.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Appears to Sherry alone as her father.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: Z-One's mechanical arms and hands are so huge that even the cards he uses are too large to be played on a conventional Duel Disk.
* AGodAmI: The Three Emperors and Antinomy have referred to him as a 'God of Destiny', and he says this to Yusei at the start of their battle:
--> '''Z-One:''' "Yusei Fudo, though you may have come this far with the intention to cut open the future with your own power... everything has merely traveled along the rails that I have laid out. To you, I am the equivalent of a God. [...] In order to change the future, Zero Reverse was caused and your lives were changed dramatically. You were orphaned, living in Satellite, and then rose up to the challenges in the WRGP. However, that victory was only a means to call out the Ark Cradle. [...] Do you understand? The meaning of me being your God? And if a God decides to take a path of destruction, then no one shall defy it."
* GodIsEvil: He compares himself to God and is, if KnightTemplar-ish, definitely evil.
* GrandpaGod: He's an old man that certainly fancies himself a god.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The man behind Zero Reverse and the the entire Yliaster organization, and thus likely this show's answer to [[Manga/YuGiOh Zorc Necrophades]] and [[Anime/YuGiOhGX the Light of Destruction]].
* HeroicSacrifice: While Yusei's heading to the Momentum core of the Ark Cradle, Z-One, having just been beaten, grabs his D-Wheel and tosses it away, contributing to Yusei's getting out JustInTime and Z-One smashing himself into the core.
* HopeSpot: He deliberately invokes this trope in his duel with Aporia, who staked his strategy on drawing Afterglow from his deck (while deliberately depleting his deck to facilitate this), and using its effect to inflict 4000 damage to Z-One to win. Z-One thus decides to humor Aporia by opting to Summon Lazion, a monster with 0 ATK, when he could have easily chosen to Summon a monster with at least 500 ATK to deplete Aporia's remaining LP. Z-One then uses Lazion's effect to return every card in Aporia's Graveyard to his Deck, and then challenges the latter to pull off a miracle by drawing Afterglow under these circumstances. Aporia fails to do so and loses the duel as a result, leading Z-One to dismiss the notion of believing in hope and miracles as fallacious.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: The reason he so thoroughly trounced Aporia in their duel is because the latter believed that Metaion was his ace monster and had no idea that there were even other Timelords in existence. Z-One simply decided to play along with this and did nothing to dissaude that notion. As such, Aporia tailored his deck to getting around Metaion and was throughly blindsided when Z-One decided to Summon Lazion and use its effect to completely disrupt his strategy.
* JustAMachine: His view on the androids he made using the memories of his deceased friends.
* LackOfEmpathy: Has lost all hope in humanity and decides to exterminate Neo Domino City rather than to trust the people solve the problem by themselves.
* LastOfHisKind: Following the deaths of his friends, he is the last human alive.
* ManBehindTheMan: Directly behind Aporia and Paradox, and through Yliaster is behind the Godwin Brothers and the first Zero Reverse that split the city apart. Thus, pretty much every major disaster and villain can be traced back to him.
* ManInTheMachine: His monsters also fit this trope, seeing as how those are ''angels'' inside the armor.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: While things luckily didn't go exactly as he planned, his actions did alert the people of the present that a BadFuture was just around the corner, giving them a chance to fix things.
* PlotTwist: One of the most infamous in the entire franchise. After being hyped as a [[FutureMeScaresMe dark Yusei]] from the BadFuture, it instead turned out he was a random scientist who altered himself to look like Yusei.
* ShoutOut: Possibly to [[Manga/FullMetalAlchemist the Truth]]. He claims to be 'the one who knows the truth' and offers to tell Sherry the truth in exchange for her accepting her fate being changed.
* SuperPowerLottery: His deck. ''Trap cards that can be activated directly from the hand''. Any deck would get a big boost with just one of them, imagine a dozen or more! All of his monsters are totally indestructible and do varying types and levels of effect damage. One of them, Sandaion, does '''4000''' points of damage at the end of the Battle Phase, and that's not even his ace monster.
* TarotMotifs: The four Hand-Traps he's used are based on the first four Major Arcana.
* VillainsDyingGrace: Sacrifices himself in Yusei's stead to stop the Ark Cradle so that the latter won't have to give up his own life.
* WalkingSpoiler: His ultimate motives, the fact that he is the BigBad, and the RedHerring plot twist surrounding his identity makes it very hard to talk about him.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He's trying to prevent a worse future by destroying Domino City.
* WhiteVoidRoom: He resides in one of these.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Thanks to crossing the DespairEventHorizon.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: He knows he doesn't have very long left to live.

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!!Paradox
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->'''Voiced by:''' Atsushi Tamura (Japanese), Creator/SeanSchemmel (English)

->''If I let history be, the world will be destroyed. I've come here to change that hopeless future.''

The main antagonist of the movie Anime/YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime who comes from a destroyed future. Believing Duel Monsters to be the cause, he traveled back in time to kill Pegasus before he could create the game, requiring the main protagonists of the three series to team up to stop him.

It is later shown that he was part of a group of survivors including himself, Aporia, Antinomy, and Z-One, who sought to change the future. However, he, Aporia, and Antinomy eventually succumbed to old age and died, leaving only Z-One left.