History Fridge / YuGiOhArcV

** Sounds solid, but there's a hole in that theory: while Yuzu is almost certainly a nod to the trend, the "Yu" in her name is shorter, which is probably the reason why her name was changed to "Zuzu" in the dub.
* The Dragon Boys and Bracelet Girls decks tend to mesh well with out each other: Yugo and Rin's decks in the real life card game work quite well together, while Yuto's more defensive style would support Lulu's more offensive one well. During the show Yuya and Yuzu's decks both gain Fusion capabilities whose support cards both could use, with similar offensive strategies between the two of them and the dragon upgrade that would have been without Pendulum, Odd-Eyes Saber Dragon, being a result of tributing a Light monster, aka Yuzu's attribute. Clearly Ray wanting her counterparts to have every reason to stick close to Zarc's extends to combat as well. Yuri and Serena's decks, while possessing some kinship, do not mesh as well, noting how the two are not close at all despite what Ray/Destiny would prefer.

* Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon and Smile World appearing together in the opening was seen as weird, but it's actually {{Foreshadowing}} for [[BigBad Zarc's]] defeat, with what essentially are power-up of both (Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon represented Zarc's soul inside Yuya, and had the Supreme Dragon King that actually ''was'' Zarc, while Smile World is meant to hint at Smile Universe) being on the stage for his defeat.
* Yuya's first summoning of Clear Wing and Starve Venom actually has shout outs to their summoning's series of origin. He uses Stargazer magician to summon Clear Wing, referring Yusei of 5D's Stardust and Shooting Star Dragons. Starve Venom is summoned with Timegazer Magician, while GX's Jaden was reincarnation of an ancient prince from a time long past.

*** Yuto was shown to be a pacifist, disliking the idea of having to fight to survive during Acadamia's invasion of the XYZ Dimension.

** Yugo never became vocal in Yuri because Yuri never entered the Synchro Dimension so Yugo's memories were never stirred.

* At first the mentions of Fusion, Synchro and Xyz Summons courses at LDS where welcomed for being first time an installment makes reference to the summons from the other series, but since the appearance of Sora with his Fusion Summons and Yuto with Xyz Summon has started to raise a few eyebrows over the fact that everyone seems really surprised at anyone who isn't a student of LDS knowing how to make those summons, while this is kinda justified for the Pendulum Summons because Yuya pretty much discovered it, the fridge logic kicks in when you notice that they could simply read the instructions '' which are all written on the freaking cards''.

** There are quite a few cards that support normal monsters, and her ace has no rider, making it easy to summon. Maybe she plays a deck that is economical with cards; she uses Wingweaver only because she can summon it easily, and considers it no big loss if something happens to it (there are real-life decks based around Blue-Eyes White Dragon with a similar philosophy). Plus, there are probably a bunch of anime-only cards that would make Normal Fairies a legitimate deck (see: Team Taiyo, who use commons from the first few sets, which become problematic because of a bunch of made-up cards).

* It seems strange that Ruri resisted Yuri in a duel, whereas Rin just ran away until he cornered her and knocked her out. Then you notice Rin doesn't have a Duel Disk in that scene, which by itself makes sense - Ruri would've had to carry hers at all times in a warzone, whereas even with Security around in Synchro, Rin could be less vigilant. But aside from that, remember that Rin and Yugo shared a D-Wheel, and that Yugo doesn't get off his bike to duel until after the thing gets trashed, implying that the only Disk he has is the one attached to the D-Wheel. It stands to reason that Rin and Yugo didn't just share the D-Wheel, but also [i]the Duel Disk[/i]. Adds a whole other level to Yugo's desperation to find her - if he hadn't been the one on the D-Wheel that night, maybe Rin could've had a means to resist Yuri's kidnapping, or hell, a means to drive away faster than he could catch her.

** If it would ever be destroyed, it will either be a scale 4 that can put another pendulum scale on the field, or a version of Odd-eyes that traded in it's double damage effect for 500 more ATK. This represents his anger as well: either he mindlessly pendulum summons whatever he can (which won't include his boss monster), or he gives up his strategy for power. Contrast this to his other extra deck pendulum monster, Nirvana High Paladin, which has a strategic effect when it's a pendulum scale, and a scale of 8 to boot, but it's monster effect gives you more cards and deal damage that cannot end the game. Odd-Eyes Rebellion intends to end the game then and there, with total destruction, which Nirvana expects the fight to go on longer, and is a but more gentle. they have opposite black-and-white world views... as are the respective card frames, with Odd-Eyes Rebellion being a black Xyz monster and Nirvana High being a white Synchro monster..

* There is some commentary on Crow's statement that Common's cannot afford a lot of cards, yet he himself possessing 4 monsters good enough to be called an Ace Monster (Chidori, Raikiri, Kusanagi, and Onimaru)and 10 Synchro Monsters overall. However, this isn't contradictory: in Arc-V [[RealityEnsues many duelists are shown to have multiple copies of their ace cards]]. Hokuto had two Pleides, Yaiba had three Gottoms, Reiji had three Doom King Armageddon's, and many Security members carried multiple Goyo Synchro and later Fusion monsters. Other duelists are also shown to use multiple copies of major staple cards in their deck beyond the generally accepted Polymerization or Self-Swarming cards, like Kurosaki, Masumi, Dennis and Yosen Sawatari. Crow is stating he doesn't have multiple copies of them, particulalry Raikiri, not that he doesn't have any good Synchro Monsters.

* Initially it seems that Yuri is the only clone-boy not to harken back to a previous series lead through his Deck (Yuto's Phantom Knights are the same Type as Yuma's ace Hope; Yugo's Speedroids are evocative of Riding Duels and bear the same Attribute as Yusei's Stardust, while Clear Wing Synchro Dragon's name appears to be a reference to Clear Mind), with no obvious connection to Judai through either his Starve Venom or his Predator Plants. However, note that at the climax of GX's third season, Judai's soul fused with that of Yubel, whose deck focussed on supporting her own card via... you guessed it, DARK ''Plant''-types. Yubel herself later became a key player in Judai's deck, and despite her Fiend typing, in the flashback to her human self prior to her transformation, it's mentioned that she will become "a *dragon* far too ugly to glance at" or something along those lines.

** The Fusion monsters, Rune-eyes and Beast-eyes rely on the one dragon fusion material for their affects with their quality, I.E. level and attack respectively, playing a major part

* Some have noted that the Dimensional Dragons generally do not seem to fit their deck types all that well (Odd-Eyes is too high level for most Performapal scales, there are only a few Level 4 Phantom Knights that are monsters and Clear Wing's defensive ability is at odds with the offensive oriented Speedroids). As the dragons originate from Zarc, this is a bit of a way to show that they are different from their original version and have grown in different ways. The one Yu boy whose deck matches their dragon well is Yuri, who is the most Zarcish of all.

* Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon and Smile World appearing together in the opening was seen as weird, but it's actually {{Foreshadowing}} for [[BigBad Zarc's]] defeat, with what essentially are power-up of both (Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon represented Zarc's soul inside Yuya, and ww had the Supreme Dragon King that actually ''was'' Zarc) being on the stage for his defeat.

* Remember when Kaito and Shun used Sayaka's Little Fairy? Both of them used Little Fairy to help bring out the power of a monster with "Etranger" in their name (Cipher Étranger for Kaito, and Raidraptor - Étranger Falcon for Shun). "Étranger" is a French word that means "stranger" in English. Little Fairy is a card that's a ''stranger'' to their deck, because it's neither a Cipher nor a Raidraptor.

* Ritual Monsters are the first old 'summon forms' that appeared outside of LDS, and was known about by a non-Sora child character from You Show (Tatsuya). It's also the only of the 'summon that predates Pendulum Monsters that does not use the Extra Deck. While Ritual Monsters did have a cameo suggestion of being a subject of the LDS composite course in Episode 3, they aren't what LDS advertises because they are not a Extra Deck card type.
** This is also why ritual monsters appeared in the Fusion Dimension and were not looked at as 'OMG this is not right ERROR ERROR ERROR'.

* Episode 39 is called Awakening of the Imperial Wrath, or Awakening of the Reverse Scales. "Reverse Scales": Gekirin (逆鱗), in Japanese and Chinese mythology, refers to one particular scale out of 81 scales covering the body of the dragon. This scale, unlike others, is inverted. It is said in Japanese legends that if one were to touch the dragon’s gekirin, it would result in the wrath of the dragon. [[https://nyanpastique.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/reverse-scales-and-arc-vs-dragon-motif/ More explantion]].

** Yuto first became vocal in Yuya after Yuya entered the XYZ Dimension because that was where the memories that developed Yuto's personality began to truly stir.

* Gongenzaka has a deck with no spells in it, and uses Synchros. That means that, even if he was forced to use the original Riding Duel rules from 5D's, he still wouldn't have to change his deck to replace normal spells with Speed Spells.

* With what we learn about [[BigBad Zarc]] in the last few episodes, the series even manages to {{Deconstruction}} both FightingFromTheInside and [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins, by having Zarc win in a way that actually ''removes'' his evil. We learn that Zarc's StartOfDarkness was caused by him trying to entertain the audience, [[HumansAreBastards but being driven insane by their lust for blood]]. After the dimensions are split, Zarc places his dimensional reincarnations, the Yu-boys, in positions where they'll learn to duel, in hopes that they'll revive him... but also gives them a desire to entertain, very possibly a result of his pre-insanity personality managing to break through his OmnicidalManiac personality for a brief instant. (Yuya is the most obvious about this, as his entire personality revolves around entertaining others. However, Yuto has a thing for smiles (and constantly encourages Yuya not to lose his), and Yugo loves high-speed acrobatic stunts and risky all-or-nothing gambling plays (both of which keep the audience in suspense), while also using a deck based on toys (toys being something designed for the explicit purpose of entertaining people); Yuri was likely similar at first, but Zarc's influence corrupted it into a desire to ''be'' entertained.) When Zarc is revived, while he makes it clear that he wants to destroy the world in revenge, he also (if I remember correctly) outright ''says'' that he's going to destroy everything because senseless violence is what the audience wanted, showing that even after going crazy, he's still driven by a twisted form of his desire to entertain.]] So, in the end, when Yuya manages to [[spoiler:make Reira smile, finally purifying Zarc's evil, he shows that he can truly entertain the audience, ''without'' relying on violence or being driven insane by their desire for it.]] And thus, [[spoiler:due to the faintest influence from his pre-insanity personality leaking through, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Zarc manages to make everyone smile, entertain the audience without using violence]], ''[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments and]]'' [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments remove his own evil, and even make peace with Ray, through Yuya]].]] Who says [[spoiler:the villain winning]] is a ''bad'' thing, again? By the looks of things, he even got the girl!

* With what we learn about [[BigBad Zarc]] in the last few episodes, the series even manages to {{deconstruct}} both FightingFromTheInside and [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins, by having Zarc win in a way that actually ''removes'' his evil. We learn that Zarc's StartOfDarkness was caused by him trying to entertain the audience, [[HumansAreBastards but being driven insane by their lust for blood]]. After the dimensions are split, Zarc places his dimensional reincarnations, the Yu-boys, in positions where they'll learn to duel, in hopes that they'll revive him... but also gives them a desire to entertain, very possibly a result of his pre-insanity personality managing to break through his OmnicidalManiac personality for a brief instant. (Yuya is the most obvious about this, as his entire personality revolves around entertaining others. However, Yuto has a thing for smiles (and constantly encourages Yuya not to lose his), and Yugo loves high-speed acrobatic stunts and risky all-or-nothing gambling plays (both of which keep the audience in suspense), while also using a deck based on toys (toys being something designed for the explicit purpose of entertaining people); Yuri was likely similar at first, but Zarc's influence corrupted it into a desire to ''be'' entertained.) When Zarc is revived, while he makes it clear that he wants to destroy the world in revenge, he also (if I remember correctly) outright ''says'' that he's going to destroy everything because senseless violence is what the audience wanted, showing that even after going crazy, he's still driven by a twisted form of his desire to entertain.]] So, in the end, when Yuya manages to [[spoiler:make Reira smile, finally purifying Zarc's evil, he shows that he can truly entertain the audience, ''without'' relying on violence or being driven insane by their desire for it.]] And thus, [[spoiler:due to the faintest influence from his pre-insanity personality leaking through, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Zarc manages to make everyone smile, entertain the audience without using violence]], ''[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments and]]'' [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments remove his own evil, and even make peace with Ray, through Yuya]].]] Who says [[spoiler:the villain winning]] is a ''bad'' thing, again? By the looks of things, he even got the girl!

* The dance scene between Bloom Prima dancing with Frightfur Chimera is a reference to the famous ballroom scene in [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast "Beauty and the Beast"]]. As pointed out in the funny section, a beautiful lady dancing with an EldritchAbomination while looking totally happy, similar to how Belle had no problem dancing with the Beast. Bloom Prima's even wearing a yellow dress just like Belle!

** All of the counterparts became vocal in Yuya during his second duel with Jake because the track they were on ran through all of the dimensions, stirring all of their memories at once.

* With what we learn about [[BigBad Zarc]] in the last few episodes, the series even manages to {{deconstruct}} both FightingFromTheInside and [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins, by having Zarc win in a way that actually ''removes'' his evil. We learn that Zarc's StartOfDarkness was caused by him trying to entertain the audience, [[HumansAreBastards but being driven insane by their lust for blood]]. After the dimensions are split, Zarc places his dimensional reincarnations, the Yu-boys, in positions where they'll learn to duel, in hopes that they'll revive him... but also gives them a desire to entertain, very possibly a result of his pre-insanity personality managing to break through his OmnicidalManiac personality for a brief instant. (Yuya is the most obvious about this, as his entire personality revolves around entertaining others. However, Yuto has a thing for smiles (and constantly encourages Yuya not to lose his), and Yugo loves high-speed acrobatic stunts and risky all-or-nothing gambling plays (both of which keep the audience in suspense), while also using a deck based on toys (toys being something designed for the explicit purpose of entertaining people); Yuri was likely similar at first, but Zarc's influence corrupted it into a desire to ''be'' entertained.) When Zarc is revived, while he makes it clear that he wants to destroy the world in revenge, he also (if I remember correctly) outright ''says'' that he's going to destroy everything because senseless violence is what the audience wanted, showing that even after going crazy, he's still driven by a twisted form of his desire to entertain.]] So, in the end, when Yuya manages to [[spoiler:make Reira smile, finally purifying Zarc's evil, he shows that he can truly entertain the audience, ''without'' relying on violence or being driven insane by their desire for it.]] And thus, [[spoiler:due to the faintest influence from his pre-insanity personality leaking through, [[HeartwarmingMoments Zarc manages to make everyone smile, entertain the audience without using violence]], ''[[HeartwarmingMoments and]]'' [[HeartwarmingMoments remove his own evil, and even make peace with Ray, through Yuya]].]] Who says [[spoiler:the villain winning]] is a ''bad'' thing, again? By the looks of things, he even got the girl!

* Even if he wasn't planning on using Synchro Summoning, Yuya was still planning on using Tuning Magician, hence why he added Gap Power to his deck.

* The Dragon Boys and Bracelet Girls decks tend to mesh well with out each other: Yugo and Rin's decks in the real life card game work quite well together, while Yuto's more defensive style would support Rin's more offensive one well. During the show Yuya and Yuzu's decks both gain Fusion capabilities whose support cards both could use, with similar offensive strategies between the two of them and the dragon upgrade that would have been without Pendulum, Odd-Eyes Saber Dragon, being a result of tributing a Light monster, aka Yuzu's attribute. Clearly Ray wanting her counterparts to have every reason to stick close to Zarc's extends to combat as well. Yuri and Serena's decks, while possessing some kinship, do not mesh as well, noting how the two are not close at all despite what Ray/Destiny would prefer.

* The fact that the two shown survivors of the Xyz Dimension are DARK users: In the actual card game many Dark monster family groups have been successful in competitive card play (Dark World, Inzektor, Shadoll, Blackwing, Burning Abyss, Ghosttrick, etc), and thus likely lethally competitve card play. Also, in many AfterTheEnd style stories, such as MarvelZombies, it's the darker, morally gray characters, like Magneto, who are able to best survive.

* In a brilliant LampshadeHanging, Yuya outright says that [[GenreSavvy a tag duel is a terrible gamemode for Gongenzaka's deck]] thanks to the shared Graveyard rule locking out the Superheavy Samurais with "no S/T in grave" restrictions, specially when his partner was dependent on Underworld Script cards. However, it's even worse against the Tyler sisters: Gongenzaka's deck, in general, focuses on agression through powerful Defense Position attackers and breaking the opponent's Spells and Traps. The Tyler sisters play Amazoness decks, which have powerful continuous effects that manipulate the numbers on the battlefield (ATK boosts, damage redirection...), and while they CAN play spells and traps, they aren't that reliant on them for Shutendoji to be a big threat, and even if Gongenzaka got to use Susanoo's effect, most of their spells and traps were Amazoness-specific anyways - not to mention that [[spoiler:the defensive support that they played against Yuya and Kurosaki was mostly made of continuous S/T, i.e. cards that one must destroy for them to hit the Graveyard]]. Add everything up, and you'll realize that Gongenzaka was playing an uphill battle.

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*** If Yuma was born at all. At the Zexal finale, it was pretty strongly implied/confirmed that Yuma is a 'shard' that Astral that he lost during the final fight with Don Thousand. If Astral doesn't exist...neither does Yuma.

* With what we learn about [[BigBad Zarc]] in the last few episodes, the series even manages to {{deconstruct}} both FightingFromTheInside and [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins, by having Zarc win in a way that actually ''removes'' his evil. We learn that Zarc's StartOfDarkness was caused by him trying to entertain the audience, [[HumansAreBastards but being driven insane by their lust for blood]]. After the dimensions are split, Zarc places his dimensional reincarnations, the Yu-boys, in positions where they'll learn to duel, in hopes that they'll revive him... but also gives them a desire to entertain, very possibly a result of his pre-insanity personality managing to break through his OmnicidalManiac personality for a brief instant. (Yuya is the most obvious about this, as his entire personality revolves around entertaining others. However, Yuto has a thing for smiles (and constantly encourages Yuya not to lose his), and Yugo loves high-speed acrobatic stunts and risky all-or-nothing gambling plays (both of which keep the audience in suspense); Yuri was likely similar at first, but Zarc's influence corrupted it into a desire to ''be'' entertained.) When Zarc is revived, while he makes it clear that he wants to destroy the world in revenge, he also (if I remember correctly) outright ''says'' that he's going to destroy everything because senseless violence is what the audience wanted, showing that even after going crazy, he's still driven by a twisted form of his desire to entertain.]] So, in the end, when Yuya manages to [[spoiler:make Reira smile, finally purifying Zarc's evil, he shows that he can truly entertain the audience, ''without'' relying on violence or being driven insane by their desire for it.]] And thus, [[spoiler:due to the faintest influence from his pre-insanity personality leaking through, [[HeartwarmingMoments Zarc manages to make everyone smile, entertain the audience without using violence]], ''[[HeartwarmingMoments and]]'' [[HeartwarmingMoments remove his own evil, and even make peace with Ray, through Yuya]].]] Who says [[spoiler:the villain winning]] is a ''bad'' thing, again? By the looks of things, he even got the girl!