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** Not the first time in fiction that being possessed has that effect. Some interpretations of Hyde show him being bigger and tougher than Jekyll (ironically, in the book, Hyde shrank) despite that switching personality should logically have no effect on the body.



* Episode 61, Jaden leaves the island due to no longer being able to see his cards. Episode 62, he's transported to Neo Space, cured of his affliction, and returns to the island, but doesn't return until episode 67. He was seriously lost for four episodes?
* When the Supreme King takes over Jaden, he start slaying innocent people and monsters and his Duel Spirits just let him? I know he needed to tap into his dark powers to even stand a chance against Yubel, but its still odd they would let this happen, unless they were affected too.

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** Different sources of magic with apparently different effects and mechanisms.
* Episode 61, Jaden leaves the island due to no longer being able to see his cards. Episode 62, he's transported to Neo Space, cured of his affliction, and returns to the island, but doesn't return until episode 67. He was seriously lost for four episodes?
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** Yep, he was THAT bad with directions and finding his way. Enough to make a sign FaceFault.
* When the Supreme King takes over Jaden, he start slaying innocent people and monsters and his Duel Spirits just let him? I know he needed to tap into his dark powers to even stand a chance against Yubel, but its it's still odd they would let this happen, unless they were affected too. too.
** Maybe MyMasterRightOrWrong is in play.


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** At that point in his life, Chazz, as far as duel strategy was concerned, was still obsessed with power -- the more powerful the monster, the better.
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* "Homecoming Duel, Part I": Jaden destroys Dreadmaster in battle with Captain Tenacious on the field. All the conditions for Aster to use Tenacious to revive Dreadmaster next turn seem to be satisfied, so... why doesn't he? If he had, he would have had 4 direct attacks at the end of the episode instead of just 3 and won.
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** After rewatching this and the mini-arc of Johan's possession by Yubel, I'd say Juudai and Johan are pretty borderline, if not the most overt Main/HoYay in the series. Though given the whole Main/StalkerWithACrush issue with Yubel, I fear it's really a threesome.


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* Okay, can someone please clarify this for me. Are Jaden and Yubel a couple? Because I've gotten many differing responses from my friends that watch the show.
** In the Japanese version, the two admit their love for one another in their past lives. They really can't be a couple, since the now share the same body. But Yubel is placated and happy because she's now one with the Supreme King, which was ''exactly'' what she wanted in the first place.
*** What does sharing a body have to do with being a couple or not? Yubel is still a separate intelligence and a separate being. Juudai can manifest her solidly if he wants to (like he's done to Neos before) or she can do it herself (that's her power anyway) or they can go to one of the Duel Monster worlds and she can be solid there. Not to mention, Juudai also admitted he loved her in this life, which is the entire point of the fusion in the first place. He's keeping the vow he made of loving only her.
*** And in the English dub Yubel is female,(Both pre and post transformation) so even those that have a problem with Jesse&Jaden because it's Ho Yay can't say anything about them. Unfortunately they also changed her motives (far as I can tell) from love just to the sadistic, obsessive want to 'play' with Jaden, which is unfortunate because that made her even more psychopathic than in the original.
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** After rewatching this and the mini-arc of Johan's possession by Yubel, I'd say Juudai and Johan are pretty borderline, if not the most overt Main/HoYay in the series. Though given the whole Main/StalkerWithACrush issue with Yubel, I fear it's really a threesome.



* Okay, can someone please clarify this for me. Are Jaden and Yubel a couple? Because I've gotten many differing responses from my friends that watch the show.
** In the Japanese version, the two admit their love for one another in their past lives. They really can't be a couple, since the now share the same body. But Yubel is placated and happy because she's now one with the Supreme King, which was ''exactly'' what she wanted in the first place.
*** What does sharing a body have to do with being a couple or not? Yubel is still a separate intelligence and a separate being. Juudai can manifest her solidly if he wants to (like he's done to Neos before) or she can do it herself (that's her power anyway) or they can go to one of the Duel Monster worlds and she can be solid there. Not to mention, Juudai also admitted he loved her in this life, which is the entire point of the fusion in the first place. He's keeping the vow he made of loving only her.
*** And in the English dub Yubel is female,(Both pre and post transformation) so even those that have a problem with Jesse&Jaden because it's Ho Yay can't say anything about them. Unfortunately they also changed her motives (far as I can tell) from love just to the sadistic, obsessive want to 'play' with Jaden, which is unfortunate because that made her even more psychopathic than in the original.
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*** Mound of the Bound Creator is most likely why. As for JADEN not getting destroyed without it, it seems like he earned enough of Ra's respect by helping it for Ra to allow it, at least for that duel.

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* Episode 61, Jaden leaves the island due to no longer being able to see his cards. Episode 62, he's transported to Neo Space, cured of his affliction, and returns to the island, but doesn't return until episode 67. He was seriously lost for four episodes?
* When the Supreme King takes over Jaden, he start slaying innocent people and monsters and his Duel Spirits just let him? I know he needed to tap into his dark powers to even stand a chance against Yubel, but its still odd they would let this happen, unless they were affected too.
* Episode 2, Chazz destroys Jaden's Flame Wingman, leaving his field empty. He then activates Call of the Haunted to bring one of his monsters back and instead of attacking, he sacrifices for a stronger monster. Chazz's resurrected monster had 1200 attack while Jaden had 550 life points and since it was Chazz's turn, he could've attacked with his weaker monster and won the duel.
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* Why is it that when Chazz is brainwashed by Sartorius the Ojamas are unaffected, but when he's a ghoulified slave to Yubel, they're enslaved with him.
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** It's possible, for both the Ancient Egypt example above and the Humans vs Vampire war, that such historical records exist and are known, but in modern times they've been misconstrued by scholars. There are accounts of similar supernatural phenomena in our own world such as the Ancient Egyptians' belief in the existence of gods and old folklore surrounding vampires, but for the most part we assume those things are just stories or events told from an ignorant perspective and not things that are literally true. The same thing could be happening here, except we as the audience know for a fact that this world's scholars are wrong about these things.

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* Okay, how the hell did no-one intervene in the creation and deployment of a satelite that has the sole puspose of brainwashing every person on earth? There are no non-diabolical-villain uses for that sort of thing. They try to handwave it away by saying no-one knew what it was, but if such technology existed, any government would be hyper-paranoid about an orbital satelite that is extremely vague in its purpose, and just nuke it out of orbit. But even then, after the prince says it, it becomes common knowledge, and then weeks pass til Sartorious tries to use it.

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* Okay, how the hell did no-one intervene in the creation and deployment of a satelite sattelite that has the sole puspose purpose of brainwashing every person on earth? There are no non-diabolical-villain uses for that sort of thing. They try to handwave it away by saying no-one knew what it was, but if such technology existed, any government would be hyper-paranoid about an orbital satelite sattelite that is extremely vague in its purpose, and just nuke it out of orbit. But even then, after the prince says it, it becomes common knowledge, and then weeks pass til Sartorious tries to use it.


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** Because it was meant to nuke the planet, brainwashing is a dub thing. And laser equipped satellites are already a common thing, so it wouldn't raise any flags if they come up with a good fake excuse for it.
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** Per episode 168: Being its only survvor, because he was just too badass to beat. Clearly he diidn't bother saving anyone else.
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* 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 EldritchAbomination menacing the embodiments of his favorite card game to fight? Makes him seem sort of irresponsible, don't you think?

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

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* Why do a lot of people on Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes think Fubuki is gay?
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** Remember, that either a) is completely aware of the fact that as early as 3,000 years ago Egyptians did battle with supernatural monsters summoned from stone tablets by ancient magic (before Pegasus brought it back as all the rage) or b) is completely UNaware of that fact, in spite of the countless historical records left over from Egyptian times (and even further back) in the modern world that would serve as testament to that fact. If "a" is the case, then it's completely feasible that "there were these things called vampires a while back that were evil, humanity wiped them out" would be a kooky bit of history trivia, like the dinosaurs going extinct or whatever. If "b" is the case, then the archaeological and historical schools of learning in this world are completely inept unless they receive financial backing from a game designer, and I would find it completely believable that students being educated by people that incompetent would have no idea about vampires being real. "Did they play card games? No? Then who cares?!" seems to be the common opinion of anything in this series.

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** Remember, that either a) is completely aware of the fact that as early as 3,000 years ago Egyptians did battle with supernatural monsters summoned from stone tablets by ancient magic (before Pegasus brought it back as all the rage) or b) is completely UNaware unaware of that fact, in spite of the countless historical records left over from Egyptian times (and even further back) in the modern world that would serve as testament to that fact. If "a" is the case, then it's completely feasible that "there were these things called vampires a while back that were evil, humanity wiped them out" would be a kooky bit of history trivia, like the dinosaurs going extinct or whatever. If "b" is the case, then the archaeological and historical schools of learning in this world are completely inept unless they receive financial backing from a game designer, and I would find it completely believable that students being educated by people that incompetent would have no idea about vampires being real. "Did they play card games? No? Then who cares?!" seems to be the common opinion of anything in this series.
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* What was so dangerous about the Cyberdark Legacy? We never see any ill side effects whenever Hell Kaiser Ryo uses it. There ''is'' his growing heart problem, but that was attributed to the shock collars he used in his duels... Or was it? [[spoiler:Confirmed in Turn 164 that it ''has'' been his deck that's been torturing him. Talk about Main/ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil...]]

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* What was so dangerous about the Cyberdark Legacy? We never see any ill side effects whenever Hell Kaiser Ryo uses it. There ''is'' his growing heart problem, but that was attributed to the shock collars he used in his duels... Or was it? [[spoiler:Confirmed Confirmed in Turn 164 that it ''has'' been his deck that's been torturing him. Talk about Main/ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil...]]



* Okay, so it's been established that Judai and Yubel [[spoiler:are the reincarnated spirits of human Haou and Yubel, Princes of the Universe and future Kings of Time and Space.]] But where does Johan fit into this? When they first meet at the beginning of the season, they both mention that the other seems familiar, like they met each other before, and unlike the Abandoned Dorm saga (which may finally be explained next season), I doubt that they'd just make it a throwaway line, especially when Yubel [[spoiler:possessed Johan near the end]]. Something tells me that Johan is still majorly significant in the Yubel/Jaden mystery, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how.

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* Okay, so it's been established that Judai and Yubel [[spoiler:are are the reincarnated spirits of human Haou and Yubel, Princes of the Universe and future Kings of Time and Space.]] Space. But where does Johan fit into this? When they first meet at the beginning of the season, they both mention that the other seems familiar, like they met each other before, and unlike the Abandoned Dorm saga (which may finally be explained next season), I doubt that they'd just make it a throwaway line, especially when Yubel [[spoiler:possessed possessed Johan near the end]].end. Something tells me that Johan is still majorly significant in the Yubel/Jaden mystery, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how.



*** It makes sense to me. [[spoiler: This season basically exists to tie up the Abandoned Dorm plot. Darkness, who has clearly been reading the [[Anime/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?]]

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*** It makes sense to me. [[spoiler: This season basically exists to tie up the Abandoned Dorm plot. Darkness, who has clearly been reading the [[Anime/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?]]isn't?



*** Yes he was. [[spoiler: If I'm not mistaken, the third episode of the fourth season established that Fujiwara summoned Darkness beneath the dorm (which is why it was tainted with shadow crap when Titan used it) and Fubuki got a bit of the power as well. Then when the students disappeared, Fubuki tapped into Darkness's power to survive, and ''that's'' when Kagemaru found him.]]

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*** Yes he was. [[spoiler: If I'm not mistaken, the third episode of the fourth season established that Fujiwara summoned Darkness beneath the dorm (which is why it was tainted with shadow crap when Titan used it) and Fubuki got a bit of the power as well. Then when the students disappeared, Fubuki tapped into Darkness's power to survive, and ''that's'' when Kagemaru found him.]]



* Has Trapper been stalking Jesse since the incident with Tom and Jelly Bean Man? The dub seems to imply this is the case. I mean Jesse is on an island in the middle of the ocean probably on the other side of the world right now and the guy found him anyway. Was he the one spying on them when they were opening card packs together? I feel like I missed something there and I watched both versions.

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* Has Trapper been stalking Jesse since the incident with Tom and Jelly Bean Man? The dub seems to imply this is the case. I mean Jesse is on an island in the middle of the ocean probably on the other side of the world right now and the guy found him anyway. Was he the one spying on them when they were opening card packs together? I feel like I missed something there and I watched both versions.

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** It was the Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki. The following line is still in his article right now: "The press release for episode 157 indicates that he survived and was on the boat departing Duel Academy. He presumably returned to East Academy". Where whoever edited that in got that information from, I have no idea. I looked around a bit more, and there's also [[http://www.janime.info/Genex/series157.html Janime's summary]], which mentions Amon.

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** It was the Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki. The following line is still in his article right now: "The press release for episode 157 indicates that he survived and was on the boat departing Duel Academy. He presumably returned to East Academy". Where whoever edited that in got that information from, I have no idea. I looked around a bit more, and there's also [[http://www.janime.info/Genex/series157.html Janime's summary]], summary, which mentions Amon.
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**** Again, probably because they move up directly from the Middle School. Jaden, Syrus, and Bastion all entered Duel Academy as Reds and Yellows through the entrance examination, but the Blues are most likely either direct admittance upon graduation from Middle School, or have to take a different kind of test after Middle School ends. Which means that the school already knows what dorm they're going to be placed in (Blue by default) and can thus give them their uniforms in advance over the break. We never see Chazz or Alexis fight a placement duel against one of the proctors, they're already in-uniform because they've already been admitted to the Blue Dorm before the entrance exams were open to the general public, they're just scoping out the competition.
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** The situation with the Blue-Eyes cards is a tad up in the air as far as added support goes. Kaiba did support sending Duel Monsters Cards into space and got designs submitted, but Pegasus is still around and very much in charge of industrial illusions and the guy still has a flair for the dramatic. In my eyes and given how Pegasus was portrayed in the anime after Duelist Kingdom, he likely made extra Blue-Eyes support for Kaiba as a way of thinking ahead to potential world ending threats that Kaiba, Yugi and Co might have to deal with in the future, and made extra support for the Blue-Eyes with that in mind. In the very least, the two have to have a business relationship by GX's flashbacks thanks to the whole new archetype getting shot into space thing. So if you wanted to think instead, Pegasus decided to pay tribute to his likely number 1 business partner by adding new support cards.
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* So, did the doctor who managed to transplant dino DNA from a fossil in Tyranno's leg (which, by the way, gives him neat abilities) win an Oscar? How is that secure, scientifically helpful AND hygenic? Honestly besides it not working for obvious reasons, I'm surprised Tyranno didn't end up with an amputated leg due to infection.

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* So, did the doctor who managed to transplant dino DNA from a fossil in Tyranno's leg (which, by the way, gives him neat abilities) win an Oscar? How is that secure, scientifically helpful AND hygenic? Honestly besides it not working for obvious reasons, I'm surprised Tyranno didn't end up with an amputated leg due to infection.infection.
* Has Trapper been stalking Jesse since the incident with Tom and Jelly Bean Man? The dub seems to imply this is the case. I mean Jesse is on an island in the middle of the ocean probably on the other side of the world right now and the guy found him anyway. Was he the one spying on them when they were opening card packs together? I feel like I missed something there and I watched both versions.
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*** You can tell his arms aren't that big even with his wide sleeves. The biceps aren't nearly big enough. And that part isn't as poofy. My theory is that in the month or so Jaden was going all nuts Yubel got buff while taking Jesse's body for a joyride. Possibly to impress Jaden. Which is probably the reason for the hot leather outfit too. Jesse was unconscious when they got back home so he might have lost quite a bit of it in the hospital recovering.
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*** The problem is at this point they're all so used to Jaden saving everyone all the time and fixing everything that they've all become dependent on him. So when they fail to take care of themselves like competent human beings they can't and blame Jaden for it.
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** Also in the very next episode he's lost his tan and looks like he's resently been to a hair salon, despite the fact that they're in the middle of the desert and I doubt they even have running water at this point. So it's probably best not to think about it too hard. I'm surprised they bothered changing his appearance at all.
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** Or maybe he's from a northern academy rather than THE North Academy. He doesn't recognize Chazz at all even though the North Academy students would have probably mentioned him to Jesse at some point, and Chazz only seems to know of him in relation to the cards his family tried and failed to buy. Also Jesse seems to be from somewhere around Europe or Scandinavia. Despite his accent in the dub. They probably have their own dueling school.
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** I figured they recognized each other because the anime really wanted to hammer in just how alike they are. They recognized themselves in each other.
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** I think it's supposed to be that Jaden is the only Red left ''within his school year''. Season 4 also features graduation, after all. There could be newer Reds we don't get to see.
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** Who said his muscles were Yubel's doing? He could've always had the muscles, his normal clothes just covered them up, just like when Bastion streaked in the previous season.

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** Who said his muscles were Yubel's doing? He could've always had the muscles, his normal clothes just covered them up, just like when Bastion streaked in the previous season.season.
* So, did the doctor who managed to transplant dino DNA from a fossil in Tyranno's leg (which, by the way, gives him neat abilities) win an Oscar? How is that secure, scientifically helpful AND hygenic? Honestly besides it not working for obvious reasons, I'm surprised Tyranno didn't end up with an amputated leg due to infection.
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** Here's how it went: Seto Kaiba is like a teatoatalling [[Franchise/IronMan Tony Stark]] that enjoys playing games. One day, he picks up a new Collectible Card Game called Duel Monsters. He decides to enhance this game by using HardLight to make holograms of the pictures on the cards pop out. Now ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' is playing out on screen, and all other sports are boring by comparison.

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** Here's how it went: Seto Kaiba is like a teatoatalling [[Franchise/IronMan teatotalling [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] that enjoys playing games. One day, he picks up a new Collectible Card Game called Duel Monsters. He decides to enhance this game by using HardLight to make holograms of the pictures on the cards pop out. Now ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' is playing out on screen, and all other sports are boring by comparison.
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*** Yes I know he's rich. What I'm asking is why the dorm looks the same on the outside despite the renovations.
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** Chazz is loaded.
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** To fathom a guess; some graduated, some advanced to other dorms, some after a field trip to another dimension with real monsters decided to withdraw from school and take up a new major in a different school that won't likely kill them.
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* What would happen if a fat, ugly, small-breasted girl applied to Duel Academia and passed her entrance exams with flying colours?
** [[Main/BeautyEqualsGoodness She'd be in Obelisk Blue and not be made into a main character]]. Seriously, we hardly ''ever'' see any of the other students, unless the anime makes a plot point for a main character to duel them or get them into trouble.
** What are you talking about? Ugly people are never good at Duel Monsters unless they're [[GrandTheftMe possessed]], cheating, or [[InformedAbility not actually good in the first place]].

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