History Headscratchers / YuGiOhGX

* So...not to open up a can of worms or anything, but what exactly is Yubel's gender?

* So...can we finally say with surety that Judai and Johan are a couple, now? I mean, now that Asuka has finally given up on her pursuit of O Godly E-Hero Duelist, and Sho has tempered his {{Main/UST}} for Judai in light of his brother's recent brush with (near) death, Johan's the only one who has an obvious crush on him, a crush that's obviously reciprocated. I mean, look at their triangle duel with Fujiwara; Fujiwara tries to turn the two against each other, and they ''do'' get in a few licks on each other...then they laugh it off, like it was some kind of male bonding.

* It always bugged me that in {{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}, when Misawa appears in the Duel Spirit Dimension, he's messy and unkempt. However, even though his sideburns are long enough to be indistinguishable from the rest of his hair, he's clean-shaven. If he was gone long enough for his hair to get that long, he should have at least some PermaStubble, especially since it wouldn't make any logical sense for him to conveniently have brought along shaving cream, a razor, and a mirror when he was suddenly warped across dimensions. Plus, in seasons 1 and 2, he already had fairly large sideburns, showing he's definitely old enough to grow facial hair...

* Is anyone else confused about how Duel Academy places girls in the dorms? According to the Tag Force games, all female students are placed in Obelisk Blue, regardless of their scores because it is the only dorm that has a female only building. Why are there no female-only dorms for Ra Yellow and Slifer Red? It shouldn't be too hard to build two extra buildings, especially for an academy owned by Kaiba Corp. Also, throughout the anime, a few female students can be seen wearing Ra Yellow, but there isn't a Ra Yellow Female Dorm and they rarely appear. Now an explanation might be because there aren't that many female students, but it still doesn't seem right...

*** It makes sense to me. [[spoiler: This season basically exists to tie up the Abandoned Dorm plot. Darkness, who has clearly been reading the [[Main/NeonGenesisEvangelion Keel Lorenz]] Book Of Evil Plots, is the physical embodiment of destiny, and he dictates that all humans are to end suffering by giving up their individuality and going to another plane of existence. The Abandoned Dorm was a localized version of this, it seems. So Darkness had Trueman go around defeating troubled duelists because their spirits are the strongest, and once he had enough he could cause an artificial eclipse and affect the whole world. A bit over the top, but then, what YGO villain isn't?]]

* Is anyone else confused about how Duel Academy places girls in the dorms? According to the Tag Force games, all female students are placed in Obelisk Blue, regardless of their scores because it is the only dorm that has a female only building. Why are there no female-only dorms for Ra Yellow and Slifer Red? It shouldn't too hard to build two extra buildings, especially for an academy owned by Kaiba Corp. Also, throughout the anime, a few female students can be seen wearing Ra Yellow, but there isn't a Ra Yellow Female Dorm and they rarely appear. Now an explanation might be because there aren't that many female students, but it still doesn't seem right...

* Cutting off the result of the duel in the last episode, let's do basic maths, Yugi had Slifer and 5 cards on his hand(resulting in 5000 ATK/DEF for Slifer), Jaden orders the recently unfused Neos(2500 ATK) to attack Slifer, it would result on Neos destroyed and 2500 less LP for Jaden, who had only 1600 LP, now tell me, what is the point of cutting off something even a 10 years old with grasp of basic maths could see? Not only that, but why did Jaden attack at all? Was he just accepting defeat against Yugi?

*** Actually, his attack was an attempt to send Cyrus a signal to play a certain way, which he did.

* And even then, why did he run off into a convenient desert with [[Main/TheyFightCrime a demon hermaphrodite, a cat, and a dead schoolteacher]]? Doesn't Judai have a Main/CosmicHorror menacing the embodiments of his favorite card game to fight? Makes him seem sort of irresponsible, don't you think?

** He just defeated said Main/CosmicHorror. He had no one left to fight. The rest of the above circumstances are still ridiculous, though; I mean, how many deserts are there in Japan?

* How much physical damage/pain do the "holograms" cause? It's a big deal for the cards to do "real" damage in the Shadow Games, so the holograms can't be THAT damaging (that, and the game wouldn't be so widespread if it was physically dangerous). We also know they normally can't do (much) physical damage to surroundings, because it's a plot point for them to do so in the "Inter-dimension detention" sub-arc. Yet in many, many episodes they are shown to either inflict minor/short-term physical pain on their opponent, and/or interact with and affect the physical world in minor ways. Monster punches knocking people over. Rapidly-fading slash marks from attacks. The almost omnipresent smoke cloud from a powerful attack. The equally omnipresent screaming from loss of life points. The early-season duel on the boats between Alexis/Asuka and Jaden/Judai making a lot of waves. The fact that Jaden/Judai sees it as a big deal that Zane doesn't react to his attacks. I know RuleOfCool, but is there an in-universe explanation?

* How much physical damage do the "holograms" do? We know it's a big deal for the cards to do "real" damage in the Shadow Games, so the holograms can't be THAT damaging (that, and they'd be banned or at least far more controlled if they were physically dangerous). We also know they can't do physical damage, because it's a plot point for them to do so in the "Inter-dimension detention" sub-arc, when the nature of the different dimension makes them real. Yet in many, many episodes they are shown to either inflict minor/short-term physical pain on their opponent, and/or interact with and affect the physical world in minor ways. Monster punches knocking people over. Rapidly-fading slash marks from attacks. The almost omnipresent smoke cloud from a powerful attack. The equally omnipresent screaming from loss of life points. The early-season duel on the boats between Alexis/Asuka and Jaden/Judai making a lot of waves. The fact that Jaden/Judai sees it as a big deal that Zane doesn't react to his attacks. I know RuleOfCool, but is there an in-universe explanation?
** I suppose it could be the fact that when the "game" was originally played, it was even more SeriousBusiness, as it was played with soul energy as a form of mortal combat. The much LighterAndSofter in-universe remake "Duel Monsters" that everybody knows and loves often inadvertently draws on more of its parent game than it meant to (this explains its status as a WeirdnessMagnet and the duel spirits). Is it possible that direct attacks and losing life-points are equivalent to an [[ImHavingSoulPains attack on the player's soul]], and that explains the brief pain? Because of both the difference in the players' intent, and the difference in the game itself, it could be a much weaker attack (maybe equivalent to flicking someone's soul) but an attack nonetheless, hence why it has a shorter effect and why it hurts little enough that people still play the game. Could also explain why duel monster holograms can physically interact with players. And why duelling takes physical stamina (it is implied to in various arcs).

* On a similar note to the above, did ''none'' of Ryo's friends even contact him after he lost to Edo? It seems like he was just completely abondoned by episode 65, and that just doesn't make sense, especially from Fubuki, Asuka or Sho. You'd think he'd be a little further from the DespairEventHorizon if he had a hint of moral support.

* Weird thing I noticed with the JapanesePronouns in the series. Judai who is more or less a humble kid uses "Ore" while the arrogant Manjyome and the Casanova Fubuki use "Boku". YMMV but this troper found it a bit a weird (Especially for Manjyome)