History YMMV / YuGiOh5DS

* VindicatedByHistory: [[{{DownplayedTrope}} Downplayed in that]] people will bring up valid criticism towards the series after season one, but the ''premise'' of the show has been viewed in a much more positive light as the years went on, as people have gone back to the series and noted how the 'card games on motorcycles' setup of duels allows for more dynamic action than two characters just standing across from one another, on top of the shows other strengths being brought up more frequently by fans.

** Kiryu was originally Yusei's close friend and believed Yusei turned on him, causing him to lose everything.

** "[[Characters/YuGiOh5DsFortuneCup Return to the Spirit World]]" 2-parter English dub: [[PsychoPsychologist The Professor]] is the agent of [[Characters/YuGiOh5DsYliaster Yliaster]] tasked by Rex Goodwin to duel Luna and learn the secrets of the Duel Monsters Spirit World. He hypnotises Luna during their duel in order to find a way into the Spirit World, even threatening to have the spirit Kuribon tortured unless Luna shows him the way. After following Luna into the Spirit World, where his mere presence corrupts and starts destroying it, the Professor reveals he has no loyalty to Yliaster, planning instead to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy]] and rebuild it [[InTheirOwnImage under his rule]].

** [[SmugSnake Divine]]/Sayer, is the leader of a group of Duelists training to control and harness their psychic abilities in order to turn them into soldiers of war against the rest of humanity. His earliest Duelist, Toby Lola/Toby Tredwell, was unable to withstand the procedure meant to test his abilities. Believing him to be weak and useless, Divine ordered [[ElectricTorture the intensity of the electric shocks to be amplified]], [[WouldHurtAChild causing the young boy's death]]. He also does his best to keep his prized Duelist Aki Izayoi secluded from anyone outside the Arcadia Movement to keep her full of hate and resentment at the world for his goals, as well as to hide his own secret motives. To this end, he gasses Luca, Lua, Yanagi and Jin Himuro when they come to him for aid against the Dark Singers. Then he threatens Lua's life in a Psychic Duel to test if he has powers like his twin sister Luca. Later that day he has another Psychic Duel with and murders Carly Nagisa by [[DestinationDefenestration sending her through a window]] with a direct attack, [[StartOfDarkness beginning her rebirth into a Dark Signer]]. He then returns from his DisneyDeath at the hands of Carly, posing as a security agent to attack Yusei and Mikage Sagiri. Divine states that anybody who falls prey to him will simply follow his orders and nothing more, as he takes full advantage of that individual's weakness, just like he did with Aki.
** [[DragonInChief Lotten]]/Lawton, is a tyrant lording over a small western style town called Crash Town, where he forces those he's defeated to join him or face slavery in the mines. He gets into a match with Yusei while Yusei and the gang are trying to escape the mines, but before it can be decided, he throws a stick of dynamite at Yusei, Kyosuke Kiryu, West and Nico that results in a cave-in; Yusei and Kiryu fall off the mountain, while Nico and West are unconscious on the ground. Lotten takes them back to Crash Town, renaming it Lotten Town after Barbara and he [[TheStarscream double-cross his brother Malcolm]]. Later, not satisfied with the number of workers in the mines, he and Barbara begin forcing their henchmen to Duel for their survival, which is stopped by Yusei and Kiryu. Once he does start to lose his 2-on-1-handicap match against Yusei and Kiryu, he quits the Duel and tries to run away, but not before [[DirtyCoward he abandons Barbara to her fate and sets off explosives in the town]].

** Yusei sacrificing his dream to save Rally from drowning is given this light given how it would eerily mirror the death of Creator/KazukiTakahashi.