History Recap / YuGiOhAnimeS1E11TheDuelingMonkey

* BattleDiscretionShot: Joey punching Tristan is done off-screen in the English dub.

* BashBrothers: The Lava and Swamp Battleguards power each other up when they're on the field together.

* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Remembering her last duel with Joey, she forbids him from relying on Yugi's assistance during his match with Rex.

* InTheEndYoureOnYourOwn: Remembering her last duel with Joey, she forbids him from relying on Yugi's assistance during his match with Rex.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: This is the first duel to include extra turns that were not in the manga counterpart and which turn out to be completely inconsequential. It doesn't slow down the plot here, because it provides character for Joey and Tristan, and the manga version has Red-Eyes show up without any foreshadowing at all. Once Battle City happens, however, ''every'' duel will be stretched out to absurd levels, often involving liberal amounts of PlotInducedStupidity, just so that each duel can last three or four episodes, which only the longest duels of Duelist Kingdom took.

* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Joey and Tristan have a fight just before Joey decides to duel on his own. they reconcile just in time to make a comeback.

* ADayInTheLimelight: This is the first episode where Tristan has a prominent role, coinciding with his change in voice actors.

Joey and Tristan are having a fight, which gets worse when they punch/shove one another and run off. Still sore about losing to Joey, Mai sics dinosaur duelist Rex Raptor on him, with the added condition that Yugi can't help him out of this one. Joey agrees, felling that he doesn't need to be babied or rescued all the time and must rely on himself so he can teach Serenity how to rely on herself. Meanwhile, Yugi goes to see Tristan and convinces him that while Joey may not need ''help'', he could still use their ''support''.

* ADayinTheLimelight: This is the first episode where Tristan has a prominent role, coinciding with his change in voice actors.

joey doesn't do well initially, having his Baby Dragon destroyed before he can combine it with Time Wizard's effect and having stronger monsters lose because of Rex's field power bonus. He manages to rally with Flame Swordsman, but when that's destroyed as well, it takes him remembering his friendship with Tristan to help him. The Swamp and Lava Battleguards, as a team, deflect Rex's attacks--but the dino duelist has a powerful dragon waiting in the wings...