A list of the characters in the FanFiction series ''Fanfic/YuGiOhForever''.

Currently under construction.

'''WARNING:''' ''MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD''.

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[[folder: TheTeam]]
!!Yugo Muto
The lead protagonist and only son of famous duelist Yugi Muto. Following in his father's footsteps, he wields the legendary Dark Magician strategy, even though he's been nursing a years-old inferiority complex regarding his father's fame.
* AnimeHair: Pointy like his father's, but Yugo's is entirely blond.
* BadassBoast: An example in Chapter 241, made to James Truesdale.
--> I'll smash the crown of Duel Academy's Dueling Emperor into a million tiny pieces, too many for it to be reassembled--EVER.
* BalloonBelly: Is prone to getting this due to his appetite. Notable chapters include 6, 52 and 80.
* BigEater
* BrokenAce: He's the main character and an expert duelist...with ''serious'' issues at the beginning of the story.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Dark Magician strategy.
* TheDeterminator
* DynamicEntry: [[spoiler:Via DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu at the end of the JUDAS arc]].
* FightingYourFriend: Does this with Jenna during the Intercontinental arc when she's less than pleased with him for underestimating her prowess. [[spoiler:And he's later forced to do it with [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Seta]] during Dueltropolis]].
* AFriendInNeed
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Seta.
* HiddenEyes: Done to show when he's significantly upset or if his BerserkButton has been pressed.
* HotBlooded
* IAmNotMyFather: It serves as a BerserkButton for him in early arcs, and he shouts the trope name verbatim at Odachi (who holds a grouse against Yugi and is using Yugo as a scapegoat) during Chapter 150.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Pulls this on two thugs while in Egypt, by [[ShoutOut splitting a la Johnny Cage]]. Yes, he really does know kung fu.
* MissingMom: She died when he was two years old.
* NotAMorningPerson: The only way to get him out of bed is to remind him that [[BigEater he has to eat breakfast]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Because he's a BigEater and never passes up on food, his friends take notice in Chapter 60 when he refuses to partake of the food they offer him (to be fair, he'd just overheard Miriam talking to Pegasus about her brother Malachi and their shared DarkAndTroubledPast).
--> '''Jenna:''' Oh, hey, Yugo! We've got plenty of food to split among us! Wanna share?
--> '''Yugo:''' Sorry, guys, I'm not hungry. ''(goes to his own hotel room)''
--> '''Kyo:''' Uh, okay...
--> '''Jenna:''' What's wrong with Yugo? He never passes up an opportunity to eat. Is he ill or something?
--> '''Kyo:''' Or maybe [[{{Doppelganger}} that's not Yugo]]...
* QuestForIdentity: Most of the story is about him seeking to be acknowledged for his own merits instead of being known simply as the son of the King of Games.
* TranquilFury: When he gets angry enough to start playing ''calmly'', curb-stomping will commence. Chapters 62 and 241 provide immediate examples of this.

!!Seta Kaiba
The son of Seto Kaiba and successor to the Blue-Eyes White Dragon strategy. His rivalry with Yugo is fierce but friendly, a huge moving away from their fathers' past rivalry.
* [[spoiler:TheAtoner]]
* BadassBiker
* BadassLongcoat: It's Kaiba tradition, after all.
* CoolBike: It's designed to look like the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
* CoolCar: His personal limousine is designed to look like--what else?--the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
* CoolPlane: He has a helicopter and a jet, both of which are designed to look like...[[RunningGag well, you figure it out]].
* {{Deuteragonist}}
* [[spoiler:EnemyWithin]]: [[spoiler:Ophiuchus the Imperial]].
* [[spoiler:EvilCostumeSwitch]]
* [[spoiler:EvilMeScaresMe]]
* FriendlyRival: To Yugo, in stark contrast to his father's younger days.
* GracefulLoser
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:After his BackStory is revealed]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Yugo.
* IAmYourOpponent: Invoked toward Jude Lassiter during the JUDAS arc when Yugo attempts to have a rematch with the man; this is because he has [[ItsPersonal his own personal score]] to settle with Lassiter.
* ItsAllMyFault: His view of the Zodiacs infiltrating Dueltropolis. [[spoiler:He's more right than even he realizes]].
* LightIsGood: His Blue-Eyes White Dragons.
* MissingMom: She died when he was 4.
* MrExposition
* NewTransferStudent: How he's introduced in Chapter 2.
* [[spoiler:PowerTattoo / MarkOfTheBeast]]: [[spoiler:[[RedHerring It's intended to distract from]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul the real danger to his person]]]].

!!Jenna Wheeler
The daughter of Joey Wheeler and, predictably, one of Yugo's closest friends. Like her father before her, she wields the power of the Red-Eyes Black Dragon.
* ActionGirl
* TheBigGuy
* DarkIsNotEvil
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Yugo leaves for Egypt in the JUDAS arc. Miki has to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan give her a slap]] to get her to pull herself together]].
* HotBlooded
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:With Yugo]].

!!Kyo Bakura
The son of Ryou Bakura, and one of the voices of reason for Yugo's group. He uses an Archlord deck strategy.
* BarrierWarrior: His Wall of Revealing Light trap card allows him to be this.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: If he deliberately [[TheGlassesGottaGo smashes his glasses]], get ready for a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* BigEater: He competes with Yugo in this.
* CainAndAbel: He's the Abel to Jan Shimizu's Cain.
* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake
* LetsGetDangerous
* TheSmartGuy
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses

!!Miki Taylor
Jenna's cousin, who moves to Domino City with her parents shortly after Seta arrives there. Her deck strategy revolves around a Knight theme.
%%* BadassAdorable: Becomes this over time.
* BerserkButton: For someone who's quite possibly the sweetest of the main characters, there are a few things that will set her off. These include being underestimated or treated as a weakling [[spoiler:and persons who express suicidal thoughts in her hearing]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Regina Brissett has one of her monsters' attacks throw Miki through a wall. The response? Miki ''hurls a brick into Regina's face'', scaring the crap out of the other girl in the process.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: She [[BerserkButton doesn't react well]] when Jenna [[spoiler:hints at being suicidal]] during her HeroicBSOD, ''bitch-slapping'' her and threatening even deeper violence if Jenna doesn't snap out of it. It works.
* GracefulLoser: Lampshaded by Yugo in Chapter 55, after Miki gives Jenna reassurances following her loss to the latter in the Intercontinental tournament.
--> '''Yugo:''' Miki's certainly graceful, even in defeat.
* TheIngenue: [[CharacterDevelopment At first]].
%%* KidAppealCharacter
%%* LittleMissBadass
* PintsizedPowerhouse: She's one of the younger characters among the duelists in this story, but she wields the power of several mighty monsters, including the Silent Swordsman series (which have varying effects revolving around negating Magic/Spell card effects).
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[[folder:Acquaintances and Allies]]
!!Blaze Redman
A world-renowned duelist who is famous for using Fire-attribute monsters. Has an ongoing rivalry with Wade Ocean.
* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:She's initially hesitant to accept Wade's marriage proposal during Dueltropolis]].
* CoolBigSis: Becomes this for Miki.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Ironic, considering her deck strategy.
* FieryRedhead
* IneffectualLoner: Largely due to her past. As she explains to Wade in Chapter 249:
--> '''Blaze:''' I'm a loner, Wade...that's what I've always been. For me, people come, and people go. Every person I meet is, for me, merely a phase.
* KillItWithFire
* ParentalAbandonment: As revealed in Chapter 25, she lost her parents in a car accident when she was three years old. Then she lost her foster mother Samantha in a fire...except Samantha turned out to be NotQuiteDead ''and'' a BrokenPedestal in the JUDAS arc.
* PlayingWithFire

!!Wade Ocean
Blaze Redman's chief rival, famous for his Water-attribute monsters and in particular his "Umi" style.
* BigEater: Says as much in Chapter 265 to Luke and David, who are arguing with each other over who can eat more.
--> I can eat twice what you two can eat combined!
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: His deck theme includes this.
* MakingASplash
* ManlyTears: When explaining how his sister died.
* MementoMacguffin: Wade's cards serve as a reminder to him of his sister, who was a marine biologist before her death. The cards themselves were given to him by his mentor, Mako Tsunami, who is still very much alive.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He's usually quite jovial and friendly, and is frequently smiling. Sure, he has his serious moments, but nothing completely beyond what one would expect of anybody. So any time he starts displaying a murderous attitude (as seen during his first duel, after Blaze destroys his Enchanting Mermaid), it ''will'' be noticed.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Marcus and Flora.
* StepfordSmiler: Revealed to be one in the first arc. Wade himself comments on it in Chapter 13, while explaining about his sister's death.
--> '''Wade:''' Is it any wonder why I'm so jovial all the time? Because I carry such a burden on my back, a burden I never want anyone else to have to experience even for a moment...

!!Flora Green
A duelist who utilizes a combination of Insect-type and Plant-type monsters.
* BigCreepyCrawlies
* FauxActionGirl: Despite being touted as one of the world's best duelists, she never wins ''any'' of the duels she does take part in that are shown in-story. According to WordOfGod, this would have become a plot point in ''Eternal'', with Flora slowly becoming TheResenter about it.
* GreenThumb
* MeaningfulName: She has a plant-based deck, and her name is ''Flora Green''.
* [[spoiler:StepfordSmiler]]
* WhenTreesAttack

!!Marcus Ironside
A duelist who specializes in Machine-type monsters.
* AntiHero: Somewhere between Type 1 and Type 3.
* TheAtoner
* BruiserWithASoftCenter
* CannotSpitItOut: Regarding how he really feels about [[spoiler:Flora]] following the events of the JUDAS arc.
* DeadpanSnarker
%%zce* DefrostingIceKing
* EagleLand: WordOfGod says he's American. He's of the mixed-flavor variety.
* [[spoiler:GatlingGood]]
%%zce* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KillerRobot: His deck strategy.
* ManlyTears: To show that he's NotSoStoic.
* SelfMadeOrphan: It's revealed in Chapter 22 that he shot his father in self-defense, after the man killed Marcus's mother while drunk. Marcus later sought him out and cut his throat, killing him for good that time.
* TragicKeepsake: Chapter 23 reveals that his mother bought his deck for him, and his cards have thereafter served as a reminder of her, for him.

!!Shigeo Tatsunoko
A duelist who specializes in Ninja-themed monsters. He develops a rivalry with Miki.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: He actually dresses like a ninja.
* ConservationOfNinjitsu: Shigeo follows a Ninja theme [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman right down to his clothing]], but duels more than he does actual ninja stuff.
* FriendlyRival
* {{Ninja}}: As has been indicated already. However, given the scarcity of Ninja monsters in the real-world Trading Card Game at the time the story was written, several of Shigeo’s monsters more resemble Samurais than ninjas, and his strongest monster, Gilford the Lightning, doesn’t look anything like a ninja at all.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Seta and Honey.
* StealthHiBye: He does it once.

!!Raven Pegasus
The adopted son of Maximillion Pegasus, and Honey Pegasus' older biological brother. Unlike his father, his deck strategy revolves around the Different Dimension strategy.
* AnotherDimension: His deck strategy.
* BigBrotherInstinct: At first, he was wary of Seta and Honey being in a relationship. Following some CharacterDevelopment, he became a ShipperOnDeck for both of them.
* CrazyPrepared: Revealed during the JUDAS arc, when he and Honey are ambushed by JUDAS agents while walking in town together. They get challenged to a duel, but Honey protests that she doesn't have her equipment with her. Cue Raven pulling out two Duel-Disks and both his own and Honey's decks.
* HappilyAdopted
* JerkAss -> JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Regarding his sister Honey, as noted above, although [[CharacterDevelopment he mellows]] over time.
* ParentalAbandonment: His biological parents died in a plane crash.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Seta and Honey, during Dueltropolis.

!!Honey Pegasus
Pegasus' adopted daughter and Raven's biological younger sister. Taking a page from her adopted father's book, she utilizes a deck strategy based on his legendary Toon monsters.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: At Yugo's hands.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals
* HappilyAdopted
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Raven's soul is stolen during the JUDAS arc]].
* ParentalAbandonment: See Raven's entry above.
* TheResenter: Toward Yugo, at first, because she feels his victory over Seta in the Kaibacorp Challenge Cup was a fluke (and as it turns out, because she has a crush on Seta).
* {{Toon}}: Her Toon deck, inherited from Pegasus.
* ToonTown: Toon World.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes

!!Malachi Jordan
The British Intercontinental champion, and the main antagonist of the Intercontinental Arc. He experienced DefeatMeansFriendship, but never made a complete HeelFaceTurn.
* AloofBigBrother: For his sister Miriam.
* AnimeHair: Think Yami Marik with blond hair.
* AntiHero: Type 3 -> Type 4.
* TheAtoner
* AxCrazy: Prior to the DefeatMeansFriendship.
* BigBrotherMentor
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: His past is not pretty.
* BrutalHonesty
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* DeadpanSnarker
* DebtDetester: He claims that his assistance of the protagonists during the JUDAS arc is only so he can repay Yugo for empathizing with his DarkAndTroubledPast during the Intercontinental tournament.
%%zce* DefrostingIceKing: ''Very'' gradually, though the thawing isn't quite complete by the time ''Forever'' ends.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: One reviewer admitted that if he was gay, he'd love Malachi sexually.
* FriendlyEnemy: Sort of.
* GoodIsNotNice
* IneffectualLoner
* JerkAss -> JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* JerkJustifications: A combination of Type 1 and Type 3.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He's ''very'' protective of his sister.
* MrExposition
* TheNicknamer: He tends to call other duelists "(deck-theme)-user." For example, he calls Miki the "knight-user" because all of her Warrior-type monsters have some sort of knight theme. Duelists who've earned his respect get the privilege of him addressing them by their proper name.
* ParentalAbandonment: His mother's dead, and his father's not in the picture.
* SlasherSmile: "You can't leave...we want to ''play''!"
* SourSupporter
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:When he finds out just how badly Abel Drake [[MindRape screwed with his memories]]]].

!!Miriam Jordan
Malachi Jordan's younger sister and the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple sole female]] in their specific group of TrueCompanions. Her deck strategy revolves around the use of Magic/Spell cards, both to prevent opponents from attacking and to drain their life points.
* TheAlcoholic: Shown during her dinner meeting with Pegasus in the Intercontinental arc; Pegasus muses to himself that it must be because of the Jordan siblings' DarkAndTroubledPast. However, this trait never shows up again for the rest of the series following Malachi's DefeatMeansFriendship at Yugo's hands.
* {{BFG}}: Her Wave Motion Cannon card.
* {{Goth}}: She dresses the part.
* OfficialCouple: With Luke.
* ParentalAbandonment: Shared with Malachi.
* ScarsAreForever: She has a burn-scar on the back of her neck, given to her by Abel Drake when she and Malachi were drafted into the Lightbearer cult. She shows it to Pegasus in Chapter 60, while outlining her story.

!!Luke Jericho
One of Malachi's personal entourage, Miriam's boyfriend and David's older brother. He utilizes a Rock-themed deck.
%%* BashBrothers: With David.
%%* BigEater: Argues with David about this in Chapter 265.
%%* BruiserWithASoftCenter
%%* {{Determinator}}: Which causes HowMuchMoreCanHeTake during Dueltropolis.
%%* StoneWall

!!David Jericho
One of Malachi's personal entourage and Luke's younger brother. He utilizes a Beast-Warrior deck.
%%* BashBrothers: With Luke.
%%* BigEater: Argues with Luke about this in Chapter 265.
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* OvershadowedByAwesome: [[spoiler:[[BashBrothers Until he and Luke]] [[StuffBlowingUp use several explosives]] to blow up the ARK from within]].
%%* ShipperOnDeck: For Luke and Miriam.
%%* TookALevelInBadass: He was intended to do this in ''Eternal''.

!!Jillian Uriah
A 17-year-old girl who has been employed as a bodyguard despite her young age, and at the time of her debut is appointed as Seta Kaiba's personal bodyguard. Her deck strategy revolves around the famous Guardian monsters.
* BodyguardCrush: Toward Seta, although she frequently denies it.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:At a young age, she was forced to watch while her sister was [[RapeAsDrama gang-raped]], and then was unable to prevent her sister from [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide shortly afterward]]]].
* InformedAbility: Despite her reputation as a bodyguard, she's not seen to actually do much body-guarding. [[spoiler:It later leads to her HeroicBSOD]].
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Her inability to prevent Seta's FaceHeelTurn, leading to a HeroicBSOD]].

!!GINA
A computer program with sentience, introduced just prior to the start of the JUDAS arc. She's initially found by Miki one afternoon while wandering around the internet, and is (reluctantly) accepted by Kaiba after proving her capabilities as a super-computer program.
* ArtificialHuman: She is able to take on the appearance of a transparent humanoid in order to interact with people outside of the computer system.
* ChekhovsGunman: After her introduction, she's reduced to a relatively minor role providing tidbits of information to help the protagonists during the JUDAS arc, but otherwise doesn't play a much larger role in the story after that. [[spoiler:Until Tokyo Dome, where Kaiba uses her as an anti-virus program to stop the Zodiacs' TakeOverTheWorld plot]].
* FunWithAcronyms: Her name is an acronym for ''Genetic Interface Network Android''.
* MagicalComputer

!!Janus Yuki
One of the two people in ''Forever'' who canonically defeat Yugo, and a second-year student in the Osiris/Slifer Red dorm at Duel Academy. He is also the son of Jaden Yuki and Alexis Rhodes, and wields his father's Elemental Hero deck with astonishing proficiency.
* TheAce: When first introduced in ''Forever''.
** BrokenAce: Revealed to be this in the sequel story, ''Eternal''.
* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: His Neo Space field magic card. The first time he plays it, the other characters [[LampshadeHanging comment]] on it.
* BadassFamily: Having three of Duel Academy's most talented former duelists as his parents and his uncle, as well as having West Academy's two top duelists as his maternal cousins, works for him.
* BerserkButton: Harming his family or friends is one of the fastest ways to earn his wrath, as Fletcher in ''Eternal'' [[FateWorseThanDeath found out the hard way]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* BigEater: Rivaling Yugo and Kyo.
* BrilliantButLazy
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* ElementalPowers: His Elemental Hero deck.
* FunPersonified: Inherited from his father.
* FusionDance: His whole deck strategy revolves around this.
* GracefulLoser
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Being unable to save Racquel in his ''Eternal'' back-story]].
* NextTierPowerUp: During the finals of the Dueltropolis tournament, he broke out his previously-sealed Neo-Space monsters in preparation for a rematch with Yugo.
* ObfuscatingStupidity
* RememberTheNewGuy: A mild case in ''Forever''. He's new to Yugo and his TrueCompanions, but Yugi clearly knows who he is, by virtue of knowing Janus's parents.
* [[spoiler:StepfordSmiler]]
* SuperMode: In ''Eternal'', he gets a Yami-like personality named "Senshuken" after receiving the Shadow Charm Pendant. [[spoiler:The Pendant's power actually unlocked a portion of Yubel's power that was imbedded in him fifteen years prior to the start of ''Forever'']].
* WarriorTherapist

!!Natasha Truesdale
One of Janus's Osiris Red classmates, she's got a bad reputation as one of the worst duelists among the students of Duel Academy. She's one of those students who get to enter the Dueltropolis tournament as a course requirement.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to James's Cain.
* HeroicBSOD: Following [[KickTheDog her brutal defeat at James's hands]].
* ShrinkingViolet: At first; because of her father's emotional distance and her brother's resentful brutality toward her, she developed...''issues''.
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:She gets to knock out Master Orion's BattleButler]].
%%zce* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Because she tends to get seasick easily.

!!Ricardo Misawa
Another of Janus's friends who enters Dueltropolis to get his grade, he's in the Ra Yellow dorm at Duel Academy.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis
* BadassBookworm: He's one of the most studious Ra Yellow students, and he's the one who comes up with the plan to get on board the ARK to sabotage it.
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[[folder:Supporting Characters]]
This list consists primarily of the parents of the main characters, unless otherwise indicated. Most if not all of these characters were main characters in their earlier respective canon series; here, they've been DemotedToExtra for the most part. Tropes listed here concern their characterization specific to this fanfic; for more tropes from their previous series, see the relevant character pages.

!!Yugi Muto
The previous protagonist of the canon Anime/YuGiOh series, and here the retired former Duel Monsters world champion. At the beginning of the story Yugi has been raising his son Yugo as a single father, with assistance from his mother (Yugo's grandmother) who lives with them. Yugi works as an archaeologist, historian and researcher alongside Ryou Bakura.
%%* AnimeHair: Just the same as how you remember it.
* DisappearedDad: WordOfGod says that according to this story's time-line continuity, Yugi doesn't have much of a relationship with his father, due to the other man's canonical absences on business trips. However, the senior Muto would have made an appearance in ''Eternal''.
* MyGreatestFailure: His inability to see how much damage his celebrity status was doing to Yugo's self-esteem. [[spoiler:Also, he blames himself for Rebecca's death at Odachi's hands]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Self-inflicted, as he feels that [[MyGreatestFailure he is responsible for Odachi's]] FaceHeelTurn]].
%%* ShipperOnDeck: For Yugo and Jenna.
* WellDoneSonGuy: For Yugo, though he himself didn't realize it for quite some time.

!!Seto Kaiba
The well-known business mogul from the original ''Anime/YuGiOh'' series, he's still the CEO of Kaibacorp in this story's time-line, as well as being a single father who's been raising his 16-year-old son Seta for quite some time prior to the start of the time-line proper, and he's also a member of the Duel Monsters World Tournament Committee. The years have given him some much-needed CharacterDevelopment from his younger days, though he's still recognizable as the Kaiba we all know and love (or hate).
%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking
%%* BadassBookworm
%%* DeadpanSnarker: He's still got it.
* TheDeterminator
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:After Seta's past is revealed]].
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:During his above-mentioned HeroicBSOD, he expresses the view that if he had never challenged Gozaburo to the fateful chess game way back in the original series, Mokuba and Ishizu would still be alive in the present and Seta wouldn't have become a PeoplePuppet for the Zodiacs]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LargeAndInCharge: Naturally.
* NiceToTheWaiter
* PapaWolf
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Still excels at these.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Subverted this time around due to the years of CharacterDevelopment he's received in this time-line.
* TheStoic

!!Grandma Muto
Yugi's mother and Yugo's grandmother. She's residing with her son and grandson to give them support.
* AscendedExtra: She gets ''plenty'' more characterization here than she ever did in the original manga or anime.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: By Lassiter at the start of the JUDAS arc. She gets better, don't worry.
* FlatEarthAtheist: She doesn't believe in the "heart of the cards" like Yugi and company do; as far as she's concerned, the cards are just paper and ink, nothing more.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* SupremeChef

!!Joey Wheeler
Yugi's best friend from the original series, and his next-door neighbor in this story's continuity. He's married to Mai Valentine, is Jenna's father, and is Tristan's brother-in-law.
* BigEater: Alongside Tristan.
* CowboyCop: [[WordOfGod According to the author]], Joey's a police officer with attitude in this series. Although it's never brought up in ''Forever's'' narrative itself, it has been acknowledged that, if ''Eternal'' had kept on going, Joey's job would have played a role in the story.
* HappilyMarried: To Mai.
* HenPeckedHusband: Somewhat.
* VolleyingInsults: With Kaiba. Some things never change...

!!Mai Wheeler (nee Valentine)
Joey's wife, Jenna's mother, and Serenity and Tristan's sister-in-law. She's the voice of reason in the Wheeler household.
* HappilyMarried: To Joey.
* MsFanservice: Early in the story, both Yugo and Kyo are lusting after her briefly, and Joey has to remind them she's already accounted for.
%%zce* OnlySaneWoman: Especially around Joey and Tristan.

!!Tristan Taylor
Miki's father and Jenna's uncle, he remains one of Yugi's close friends. He's also in business together with his wife Serenity and their other friend Duke Devlin.
* BigEater: Alongside Joey.
* HappilyMarried: To Serenity, Joey's sister.
* MustHaveCaffeine: "Sleep is for the weak...I want coffee!"
* UnclePennybags: Not really emphasized, but yes, he is quite well-off since he, Serenity and Duke are all co-owners of the same conglomerate.

!!Serenity Taylor (nee Wheeler)
Joey's little sister is now also Tristan's wife, Miki's mother and Mai's sister-in-law. Like Mai, she acts as a voice of reason for her brother and husband.
* ActionGirl: She's quite a bit more action-oriented here than in the original series, though she's still not a duelist.
* HappilyMarried: To Tristan.

!!Ryou Bakura
No longer the recognizable ButtMonkey of the canon series, Ryou Bakura here is an archaeologist and researcher alongside Yugi Muto. His family relations are...complicated, judging from his very different interactions with his two sons.
* IHaveNoSon: Had this attitude regarding Jan after the latter's FaceHeelTurn.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Toward Jan. As the latter reveals during his second confrontation with Kyo, this was because [[spoiler:Jan's physical appearance reminded Ryou too much of the spirit of the Millennium Ring]], leading to him treating Jan very coldly (albeit subtly so) in the past.

!!Téa Bakura (nee Gardner)
Wife to Ryou and mother to Kyo and Jan (before the latter changed his surname to Shimizu). Like Serenity and Mai, she acts as a voice of reason, although not to her own husband--but rather to Joey and Tristan.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Still believes in it.
* TeamMom: It helps that now she's actually a mom.

!!Maximillion Pegasus
Everybody's favorite childish ([[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass or not]]) card-game creator from the original series. Here, he's also the head of the Duel Monsters World Tournament Committee, as well as the adopted father of Raven and Honey Pegasus, whose birth parents were close friends of his prior to their deaths in a plane crash.
* AgentPeacock: A bit more proactive in this story's continuity than how we remember him from canon.
* AnimeHair: [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Still the way we remember it]], although it's not styled to cover up his injured eye this time; he's got an eye-patch for that now.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, he still loves his Funny Bunny cartoons and acts like a big kid (to the point that in ''Eternal'', he plays with Funny Bunny action figures when he's supposed to be working). However, this same man is capable of cowing a member of the Zodiacs by threatening him with ''just his words''.
* HonestCorporateExecutive
* PapaWolf: He'd much rather sic his Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon on you than let either of his kids be mauled to death, thank you very much.
* StepfordSmiler: For a different reason this time around--he feels a deep sense of responsibility for Raven and Honey, as he'd promised their parents (prior to their deaths) that he would care for the children if anything happened to the parents. When Raven's sent to the infirmary following his duel with Malachi in the Intercontinental tournament, Pegasus has a HeroicBSOD, as he feels he's failed in keeping that promise.

!!Duke Devlin
Many years after the end of the original canon series, Duke Devlin has become a business partner alongside Tristan Taylor in their own corporation, Devlin and Taylor. He's also a member of the Duel Monsters World Tournament Committee.
* AscendedExtra: He's given a somewhat bigger role in this story as opposed to the main canon. Granted, it does take place long after the main series has ended.

!!Marik Ishtar
The [[HeelFaceTurn former leader of the Rare Hunters]] from the first canon series, Marik in this story serves as Yugo's primary ally during the JUDAS arc, supplying him with a place to stay and sage advice, as well as rare cards to spruce up his deck.
* TheAtoner: A case where his previous KarmaHoudini status is revoked--he's serving a suspended sentence with the stipulation that he cannot travel outside of Cairo for a certain period of time.
* HappilyAdopted: He has a daughter, Mariska, who he adopted after her parents died in a boating accident.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He's Seta's uncle]]. This is a case where both characters are aware of the fact, but TheReveal is made to the reader.
* TrainingFromHell: He subjects Yugo and Seta to this, in terms of teaching them special strategies geared toward effecting a OneHitKO during duels.

!!Alexis Rhodes-Yuki
The wife of Jaden Yuki and mother of Janus, vice-principal of the central Duel Academy, and a member of the Duel Monsters World Tournament Committee.
* ActionMom
* CallingTheOldManOut: She takes Zane Truesdale to task for his WellDoneSonGuy status toward his children.
* HappilyMarried: With Jaden.
* MamaBear: Not just for Janus, but for all her students.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* TranquilFury

!!Zane Truesdale
A member of the Duel Monsters World Tournament Committee. When first introduced, he doesn't have a very good relationship with his two children, due to events in their shared past.
* PerpetualFrowner
* WellDoneSonGuy: To both of his kids, but especially his daughter Natasha. Both Alexis Rhodes-Yuki and his own son James [[CallingTheOldManOut slam him]] for it, following which he gets some CharacterDevelopment.

!!Dr. Vellian Crowler
The head of the Obelisk Blue boys' dorm at Duel Academy.
* AFatherToHisMen
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Subverted this time around, as he has a very clear goatee.

!!Vivian Wong
Previously a contender in the KC Grand Prix in the original series, she has since become a member of the Duel Monsters World Tournament Committee.
* AscendedExtra: The KC Grand Prix was a filler arc in the first ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' series, and by extension Vivian was a filler character.
* FootsieUnderTheTable: Pulls this on [[spoiler:Blaze]] on one occasion prior to Dueltropolis.

!!Zigfried von Schroeder
A member of the Duel Monsters World Tournament Committee, and now a good guy after his HeelFaceTurn in the previous anime canon. He's also the creator of the Adventure Monsters game, which he introduces during the eponymous arc (the one before Dueltropolis).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:JUDAS]]
The main antagonists of the JUDAS arc, this group consists of persons who believe (justifiably or not) that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters society or specific individuals have betrayed them in one way or another]], and have come together to get revenge for said betrayals. The core group consists of seven individuals who wield the power of the revived Millennium Items and wear robes corresponding to the Roy G Biv color scheme; they have at their disposal a gang of {{Mooks}} who wear brown robes.

!!Keisuke Odachi
The BigBad of the JUDAS arc, he is the leader of the eponymous cult-like organization and harbors a grudge against the Muto family. He possesses the power of the revived Millennium Puzzle, which basically gives him the ability to [[AssPull draw just the right card during duels]], and he also controls copies of the revived Egyptian God cards.
* AnimeHair: His is similar to Yugi's, but it's black with white highlights.
* AGodAmI
* BadBoss: To the point that Abel Drake is ''terrified'' of him.
* CivvieSpandex: When he's not wearing his JUDAS robe, he dresses like a BadassBiker.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: As happens later, Master Orion is a ''bigger'' threat than Odachi. There's also the revelation during the Dueltropolis arc that Odachi was at one time a member of the Zodiac organization, of which Master Orion is the leader.
* EvilLaugh
* FaceFramedInShadow: For several chapters after being first introduced, until Chapter 100.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He used to be a friendly college student who was close to both Yugi and Rebecca.
* [[spoiler:TheHeavy]]: [[spoiler:He's actually TheDragon to the EldritchAbomination [[ManBehindTheMan that JUDAS is seeking to resurrect]]]].
* [[spoiler:IfICantHaveYou]]: How he crosses the MoralEventHorizon in his back-story.
* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil]]
* OlympusMons: The aforementioned God cards.
* OmnicidalManiac
* RainbowMotif: Among the JUDAS elites, he wears a red robe.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:When he kills himself to offer his soul to Zorc Necrophades]].
* StuffBlowingUp: [[MoralEventHorizon Airplanes, primarily]].
* TattooedCrook: He has the kanji for "vengeance" tattooed over one eye.
* VisionaryVillain
* YouHaveFailedMe
* YourSoulIsMine: His ''modus operandi'' for defeated opponents or [[YouHaveFailedMe useless henchmen]].

!!Jude Lassiter
A former lawyer for Kaibacorp, who attempted to use certain information against Kaiba for his own profit and was fired for it; as a result, he joined JUDAS to get revenge. He wields the power of the revived Millennium Rod, with which he has the power of MindControl.
* AmoralAttorney: When he was still employed to Kaibacorp. [[spoiler:It's revealed that the Zodiacs had bribed him to blame Kaiba for the spate of virus attacks they instigated against various companies to steal their secrets]].
* BaldOfEvil
* {{Blackmail}}: Attempted this against Kaiba and was sued and then fired for it, leading to him joining JUDAS to get revenge. What he was trying to blackmail Kaiba about is revealed in the Dueltropolis arc, specifically in Chapter 186 [[spoiler:namely, Seta's role in the Zodiacs' operations as Ophiuchus the Imperial]]; also see AmoralAttorney above.
* TheDragon: To Odachi.
* MindControl
* PeoplePuppet: He can turn people into this with the Millennium Rod.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: When he invokes his SuperpoweredEvilSide, his previously bald head gets covered in spiky black hair.
* RainbowMotif: He wears a blue robe.

!!Abel Drake
A former historian who was ridiculed by his peers for proclaiming that magic was actually used to fight wars in ancient Egypt ([[Anime/YuGiOh sound familiar]]?) He wound up joining JUDAS, but also led his own cult called the Lightbearers on the side. He wields the revived Millennium Key, which allows him to [[MindRape unlock people's memories and shuffle them around as he wishes]]. WordOfGod gives his physical description as akin to [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Orochimaru]], albeit with a more normal skin tone and different hair color.
* AffablyEvil: He presents himself this way.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: He's guilty of mind-raping children, committing murder, leading a sinister cult, and stealing taxicabs.
* AxCrazy
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: His deck strategy.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: One of his powers with the Millennium Key.
* ManipulativeBastard
* MindRape
* NeverFoundTheBody: When he is first mentioned in Chapter 60, Pegasus declares that Abel Drake died at sea four years earlier, but Miriam points out that the authorities never found his body. Sure enough, he turns up alive and well during the JUDAS arc.
* OmnicidalManiac
* PsychoSupporter
* RainbowMotif: He wears a green robe.
* SmugSnake
* TheStarscream: He appears to be this due to his independent actions, but Odachi confidently (and correctly) declares that [[SubvertedTrope the man is loyal to JUDAS]].
* WhosLaughingNow: It's hinted that the researchers who laughed at him were among his first victims after he joined JUDAS.

!!Michael Bronte
One of JUDAS's more bloodthirsty high-rankers, and the youngest of the seven, he wields the power of the Millennium Ring, which he uses to home in on the other Millennium Items. His deck strategy revolves around the Dark Scorpions.
* AbusiveParents: As revealed in his back-story, [[FreudianExcuse his stepfather physically abused him while his mother turned a blind eye]].
* TheBerserker
* BloodKnight
* ColdBloodedTorture: His preferred method of dealing with opponents during Shadow Games.
* LaughingMad
* RainbowMotif: He wears a violet robe.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Because of his AbusiveParents.
* SlasherSmile

!!Judith Skye
The [[TheSmurfettePrinciple token female]] among JUDAS's higher-ranking members, but far from the only girl in the group, she wields the power of the Millennium Necklace, which allows her to see both the past and the future. Additionally, she uses Harpie Lady monsters in her deck strategy.
* BeingEvilSucks: She eventually comes to this conclusion.
* BlowYouAway: Her deck strategy revolves around the Harpie Lady archetype.
* BrokenBird: Honey can't help but feel a little sorry for her after hearing her back-story.
* CoolBigSis: Toward [[NobleDemon Jan Shimizu]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* DeathSeeker
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Her children were murdered by a pedophile serial killer, who got to walk despite witness testimony, and her efforts to appeal caused her husband to leave her, her friends and family to abandon her, and herself almost being DrivenToSuicide]].
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Who would expect an ordinary housewife and mother to turn into a vengeance-crazed killer?
* LoveMakesYouEvil
* MamaBear
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Triggered by a bad dream she had shortly after joining JUDAS.
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]
* RainbowMotif: She wears a yellow robe.
* SheWhoFightsMonsters
* SympatheticMurderer

!!Bernard Stone
One of the older members of JUDAS, and one of the more patient members of the high-ranking members. He wields the Millennium Scale, which allows him to weigh the heart of an individual against the Feather of Truth in order to gauge their honesty, and specializes in Trap cards.
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Although considering [[AssholeVictim his victims]], one can hardly blame him.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:He was a cop who got framed and locked away in an asylum for 12 years to cover up the truth, breaking his faith in the justice system]].
* [[spoiler:FaceDeathWithDignity]]
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In his back-story, prior to joining JUDAS proper.
* RainbowMotif: He wears an orange robe.
* SympatheticMurderer
* TrapMaster
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He believed justice could be gotten from an affiliation with JUDAS.

!!Jonathan Maxell
One of the crueler members of JUDAS's seven leading figures, he bears a serious grudge against Flora Green's family, and later against Marcus Ironside. He wields the Millennium Eye, which allows him to read minds and predict his opponent's strategies.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Before joining JUDAS.
* DarkIsEvil: He utilizes the Dark World strategy, which consists of Dark-attribute, Fiend-type monsters.
* EvilLaugh
* EyeScream: The Millennium Eye replacing one of his natural eyes, of course. [[spoiler:Marcus later rips the Millennium Eye out of the eye-socket]].
* ItsPersonal: His grudge toward Flora, and later Marcus's toward him.
* JerkAss
* KickTheDog
* RainbowMotif: He wears an indigo robe.

!!Jan Shimizu
Kyo's estranged older brother, he left home and changed his last name several years before the start of the series. Eventually, he joined up with JUDAS, becoming one of their more elite members.
* AloofBigBrother
* TheAtoner: Becomes this in ''Eternal''.
* BadassLongcoat
* CainAndAbel: He's the Cain to Kyo's Abel.
* DeadpanSnarker: Highlighted in ''Eternal''.
--> '''Jessica:''' ''(enamored with him)'' So what's your sign? Mine's Virgo!
--> '''Jan:''' Mine is "not interested."
* DeathGlare: In ''Eternal'', he's able to frighten Dr. Crowler with this.
* FaceHeelTurn -> HeelFaceTurn
* FreudianExcuse: His father was a WellDoneSonGuy toward him. It drove Jan away from home and led him to change his last name, in order to further distance himself from his family.
* NobleDemon
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[UnexplainedRecovery But only temporarily]].
* YouCantFightFate: Holds this view in ''Forever''.
--> '''Jan:''' ''(to Miki)'' Fate decided our roles in this life…and nothing you or I can do will change that.

!!Vladimir Draxton
A member of JUDAS with a serious grudge against Marcus Ironside.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: And very, very angry and bitter.
* FreudianExcuse: Several years prior, his village was razed by military troops. The reason he's angry with Marcus is that Marcus's troops, who were staying in the village at the time, fled the scene of battle and left the villagers behind.

!!Rodney and Reggie Rex
Two brothers who are lower-ranking members of JUDAS, they duel in a tag-team style with Reptile and Dinosaur-type monsters.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Reggie has a dual-scar over his right eye, but the eye itself is functional.
* IHaveNoSon: The brothers came from a rich family; however, they were disowned because their relatives looked down on Duel Monsters, seeing it as being below their moneyed lifestyle. The disowning is the reason the Rexes joined JUDAS.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Rodney's half of the brothers' dueling strategy.

!!Samantha Redman
Blaze Redman's adopted mother, previously thought to be dead but later turning up alive as a member of JUDAS. She wields an Amazoness deck.
* AmazonBrigade: Her deck strategy. (Though as of this update, the writer confesses that if he were to do a reboot of the story, she would get a KillItWithFire deck instead, in the form of the Volcanic archetype, as a nod to her past as a firefighter.)
* BrokenPedestal: For Blaze. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Samantha's fire chief being this led to her FaceHeelTurn]].
* ScarsAreForever: Has a scar on her back that she got while trying to put out a fire during her days as a firefighter. [[spoiler:The fire chief was the arsonist]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Zodiacs]]
A [[WeAreEverywhere global organization with ties to all known governments]] and [[MoreDakka enough firepower to start their own world war]] [[ForTheEvulz if they ever felt like it]]. They serve as the main antagonist group of the Dueltropolis arc. The name of the organization also refers specifically to its special strike-force of twelve duelists (led by [[TheDragon Zander Zabel]]) who infiltrate the Dueltropolis tournament. Each of the twelve has a MeaningfulName and a corresponding deck strategy. Their characterization was based on the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Gung-ho Guns]] from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''.

!!Master Orion
The BigBad of the Dueltropolis arc and, as it eventually turns out, [[MythArc of the entire series]]. Only those who are closest to him in the organization, like his personal butler and Zander Zabel, know who he is behind [[FaceFramedInShadow the shadows that frame his face]], or underneath the hooded cloak he wears whenever he goes out...
* [[spoiler:AscendedExtra: Revealed to be this once he unveils his true identity]].
* BadassLongcoat: Wears a black overcoat in Chapter 300.
* BadassInANiceSuit: A red suit with matching tie, accompanying the above-mentioned BadassLongcoat.
* TheChessmaster: Set his plans for world domination into motion from as far back as ''before the time-line of the canon series''. Even his actions during [[spoiler:the Virtual World filler arc in the first series' anime adaptation]] played a pivotal role in his overall plans.
* CombatPragmatist: He's not above personally putting a bullet into the protagonists as a back-up measure in case his main mode of executing his overall plan fails. Also, his soldiers will shoot anyone who attempts to resist them, once he gives the word.
%%* [[spoiler:{{Cyborg}}]]
%%* FaceFramedInShadow: Up until his true identity is revealed.
%%* AGlassOfChianti
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Mutual hatred of Kaiba Corporation, promises of grandeur, and [[MoreDakka lots of weapons]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive and corporate and political connections]]. [[spoiler:Brainwashing microchips too]].
%%* JerkAss
%%* KickTheDog: It's his hobby.
%%* [[spoiler:MachineWorship]]
%%* ManOfWealthAndTaste
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* OmnicidalManiac
* SadisticChoice: Gives one to the heroes after he agrees to let Yugo duel Ophiuchus the Imperial for the fate of the world. [[spoiler:[[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose If Yugo wins, Seta will be freed from the Ophiuchus brainwashing but in exchange the Zodiacs' hostages at Tokyo Dome will die; if Ophiuchus wins, Yugo dies]]]].
%%* SmokingIsCool
%%* SocialDarwinist
%%* UberMensch
%%* VisionaryVillain
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: He's got several, one of the most prominent of which is a battleship-submarine that's armed to the teeth with high-tech weaponry to start war on a fairly decent scale.
%%* WickedCultured
* YouHaveFailedMe: Done through Zander to any of the Zodiacs who have been eliminated from Dueltropolis.

!!Zander Zabel/"Capricorn the Blitzflash"
He is a leading figure in the Zodiac organization during the Dueltropolis arc, and the head of the similarly-named strike-force of twelve duelist assassins sent to infiltrate the eponymous tournament. He holds a particularly deep grudge against Seta due to events that took place prior to the start of the story. As his code-name indicates, he utilizes Thunder-type monsters, but also wields forged copies of the Destiny Hero deck archetype.
* [[spoiler:AvengingTheVillain: See YouKilledMyFather below]].
* BadassLongcoat
* DarkIsEvil: When wielding the Destiny Heroes.
* TheDragon: To Master Orion.
* DevilInPlainSight: To his credit, for most of the tournament Seta's the only one who knows his true nature.
* EvilCounterpart: To Seta, and later to Janus with his copied Destiny Hero deck.
* EvilIsHammy
* EvilRedhead: Just think of [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Legato Bluesummers]] with red hair.
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath]]: [[spoiler:[[TheDogBitesBack At the hands of]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own Duel Monster]] after he [[KickTheDog treats said monster as nothing but a dispensable tool and ridicules the idea of Duel Monsters having independent feelings]]]].
* KickTheDog: He does this frequently. For a few specific examples, he basically tortures Luke during their match in Dueltropolis, and later pulls a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Kyo during their match in the quarter-finals, [[MoralEventHorizon knocking Kyo overboard and unconscious and almost causing him to drown]]. [[spoiler:[[KarmicDeath It bites him on the ass]] when he pulls it on [[TheDogBitesBack his own monster]] during his duel with Janus on board the ARK]].
* ManipulativeBastard
* PsychoForHire
* PsychoSupporter: For Master Orion's plans.
* ShockAndAwe: Part of his deck strategy.
* SomethingAboutARose: In his debut appearance, he tosses a rose to a couple of girls who've noticed his good looks.
* [[spoiler:YouKilledMyFather: A charge laid against the Kaiba family due to their shared backstory]].

!!Stephen Ingram/"Cancer the Scourge"
First mentioned during the Kaibacorp Challenge Cup arc as a bully who [[ForTheEvulz destroyed a painting meant for Kyo's mother just for giggles]], he's revealed in person at the start of the Dueltropolis arc over 200 chapters later. As per his Zodiac code-name, his deck centers on "virus corruption" through the use of cards such as Crush Card Virus and Deck Devastation Virus.
* TheBerserker
* TheBully: In his back-story.
* TheDragon: To Zander.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: It's implied that he crossed the MoralEventHorizon this way before his first in-story appearance in the present day. [[spoiler:And he threatens to do it to Miki, following which Kyo [[BerserkButton delivers]] a CurbStompBattle]].
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: By only a few years, but still.

!!Cassius Princeton/"Scorpio the Venom"
Son of famous Duel Academy student Chazz Princeton. He was a proud Obelisk Blue student before Principal Jaden Yuki changed the acadmey's structure to make all students spend two mandatory years in Osiris/Slifer Red, then two in Ra Yellow before spending the final two years in Obelisk Blue. Of course, being an elitist, Cassius bears a grudge against the Yuki family because of this; [[ManipulativeBastard Zander]] used this to convince him to join the Zodiacs. He wields a strategy focusing on the Dark Scorpion monster strategy.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Marcus calls him out on it.
* FaceHeelTurn: In his back-story.
* JerkJock
* NotAMorningPerson: "Would you be so kind as to keep it down? People do like to sleep in during the morning, you know!"
* TheResenter: As explained above.
* TattooedCrook: He has a scorpion tattoo on the side of his neck. It's normally kept hidden by his turtleneck sweater.

!!Regina Brissett/"Sagittarius the Vermillion"
The first Zodiac to engage any of the duelists in the Dueltropolis tournament. She loves to fight and will kill anyone if she feels like it. Her deck strategy focuses on the use of Amazoness monsters.
* AmazonBrigade: Her deck strategy.
* AttackAttackAttack
* TheBaroness
* BloodKnight
* DoesNotLikeSpam: She dislikes ravioli and milk, the latter because she's lactose-intolerant.
* MostCommonSuperpower
* ParentalAbandonment: Chapter 187 reveals that her parents died under mysterious circumstances, her maternal grandparents died several years prior to that, and her paternal relatives are scattered. WordOfGod says the subject of her parents would have been explored in ''Eternal'' if the story had continued.

!!Angel Snow/"Virgo the Zephyr"
A classmate of Janus Yuki's in the Ra Yellow dorm. She wields the power of the Harpie Lady monsters, as per her epithet.
* BlowYouAway: Her deck strategy revolves around Wind-attribute monsters.
* FreudianExcuse: She had a physically abusive, drunken adopted father.
* NobleDemon

!!Kyle Welling/"Taurus the Gamekeeper"
A member of the twelve-man strike team who dresses in green and wears a ninja-like mask.
* BerserkButton: Inform him that one of his colleagues has decided to turn traitor. Then sit back and watch how volatile he gets.
* PsychoForHire
* TrapMaster

!!James Truesdale/"Aries the Everstrong"
A high-ranking Obelisk Blue student at Duel Academy, Zane Truesdale's son and Natasha Truesdale's older brother. However, he holds both his father and sister in contempt, and looks down on duelists weaker than himself. He wields an Exodia strategy (without using Exodia Necross, unlike Jude Lassiter).
* AloofBigBrother
* BloodKnight
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Natasha's Abel.
* CallingTheOldManOut: He screams at an absent Zane (who's watching via video-camera feed), expressing his deeply-repressed rage at his father for making him put aside his grief at [[spoiler:his mother's death in childbirth while delivering Natasha]].
* CurbStompBattle: A natural result of him wielding Exodia. On orders from Master Orion, he seeks out Victor Greaves and Chris Gear to silence them in case they might reveal information about the Zodiacs following their disqualification from Dueltropolis. When he finds them, they realize what he’s there for and summon their ace monsters to defend themselves. James, in turn, coolly summons Exodia the Forbidden One—an EldritchAbomination which guarantees an instant win in the Duel Monsters game. Cue OhCrap expressions from Victor and Chris before the curb-stomping commences.
* FreudianExcuse: [[TearJerker And a painful one it is]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to Natasha when they duel in the Dueltropolis tournament.
* RedBaron: Aside from his Zodiac epithet, he's also known as the "Dueling Emperor" of Duel Academy, by virtue of his Exodia strategy.
* TheResenter: Toward his father and sister.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Snidely dismisses Yugo as a worthy opponent, even when they're slated to fight each other during the second round of Dueltropolis. Apparently, nobody told him that Yugo had previously won the Kaibacorp Challenge Cup and the Intercontinental tournament.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has one while revealing his back-story as well as the reason why he's TheResenter.

!!Forrest Wiles/"Leo the Wildmaster"
A member of the Zodiacs who specializes in Beast-type monsters. He was previously a world-class duelist with a notorious lecherous reputation toward women.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: For Jillian, in Chapter 213.
* TheCasanova
* JustToyingWithThem: He does this during his duel with Jillian in Chapter 214. [[note]]Specifically, he summons his ultimate monster, Master of Oz, a monster with a whopping base attack of ''4200''. He then activates a Magic card called Wild Nature's Release, which will increase one selected Beast-type monster's attack points by an amount equal to its defense points (Master of Oz's defense points are 3700). If he were to use this effect with Master of Oz, he'd have increased the monster's attack power to 7900; this would then be enough to destroy Jillian's weakest monster on the field at that point (Guardian of the Labyrinth, having 1500 attack points while being equipped with the Wicked Breaking Flamberge - Baou card) and thus wipe out Jillian's life point score of 5150 and win the duel.[[/note]] Unfortunately, because he [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim toys with her instead of finishing her off at the first opportunity]], he loses.

!!Felix Sanchez/"Libra the Blackjack"
A member of the Zodiacs whose deck strategy revolves around a gambling theme. He is also the national Duel Monsters champion in his native Spain.
* BeingEvilSucks: The reason for his HeelFaceTurn.
* FreudianExcuse: As he reveals in his back-story, he felt immense pressure from his family to take up their bullfighting tradition, even though he himself had no interest in the sport. The one time he participated, he was horribly injured and subsequently left home in shame.
* FriendlyEnemy
* TheGambler: His deck consists mainly of cards whose effects involve coin tosses or dice rolling, as befits his Zodiac epithet.
* ScarsAreForever: He retains the scars he got from his ill-fated bullfighting attempt.

!!Chris Gear/"Gemini the Strife"
A member of the Zodiacs who uses two dueling strategies together--the Ancient Gears monster set in combination with a life-point restoration strategy.
* ClockPunk
* HumongousMecha: The Ancient Gears.
* ScaryShinyGlasses

!!Victor Greaves/"Aquarius the Tombstone"
A member of the Zodiacs who uses Zombie-type monsters and scare tactics to intimidate his opponents.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* PsychoForHire
* SlasherSmile

!!Laurel Strong/"Pisces the Coldblood"
A member of the Zodiacs, and the second one to fight in Dueltropolis. She wields a combined Dinosaur and Reptile deck strategy.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She initially presents herself as a friendly sort, but soon shows her true colors.
* PsychoForHire
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent

!!"Ophiuchus the Imperial"
The unofficial thirteenth member of the Zodiacs' dueling team, and the one designated to bear the organization's strongest monsters, copies of the Sacred Beast cards that were sealed underneath Duel Academy. Their purpose for infiltrating Dueltropolis is to make it possible to revive Ophiuchus to fighting form [[spoiler:[[CyberneticsEatYourSoul by reawakening his personality within a microchip implanted in Seta Kaiba's brain stem]]]].
* AxCrazy
* BadassLongcoat
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* CreepyMonotone
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul
* DeadpanSnarker
* EvilIsNotPacifist
* KillItWithFire: Uria, Lord of Searing Flames.
* LargeAndInCharge
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The individual Sacred Beasts. ''Uria, Lord of Searing Flames'', ''Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder'', and ''Raviel, Lord of Phantasms''.
* OlympusMons: His deck strategy revolves around the three Sacred Beasts.
* PeoplePuppet
* PersonOfMassDestruction
* PhysicalGod: The Sacred Beasts. Ophiuchus is considered ''the'' strongest Zodiac because of his proficiency in wielding them.
* PlayingWithFire: Uria again.
* PowerTrio: The Sacred Beasts.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:With Seta as the can]].
* ShockAndAwe: Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder.
* SlasherSmile
* SoftspokenSadist
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Of Seta]].
* SuperSoldier
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Being referred to as Seta presses his BerserkButton]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill
* TransformationTrauma: When he first appears.

!!ZEUS
A computer virus created by the Zodiac organization [[spoiler:originally to serve as an information thief for Kaiba Corp]].
* AlienInvasion: His deck strategy when GINA challenges him.
* ArtificialHuman: In cyber-space.
* ContagiousAI
* MagicalComputer
* TheVirus
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Characters in ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Eternal'']]
!!Jaden Yuki
The principal of the central Duel Academy. Mentioned several times but never actually seen during ''Forever'', he becomes a regular supporting character in ''Eternal'', where he's quite controversial for having changed the former hierarchical structure of Duel Academy to create a sense of equality amongst the school's three dorms.
* BerserkButton: Harming his wife, his son, or any of his students is never a wise idea.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* InvincibleHero: Which is the reason he only duels once before the story's cancellation.
* BumblingDad: During the story's sillier moments.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* FatalFlaw: His impulsive nature, which leads directly to TheWorfEffect and soon afterward ''almost'' gets him killed for real.
* HappilyMarried: To Alexis Yuki (nee Rhodes).
* [[spoiler:KaleidoscopeEyes]]
* PapaWolf: Not just for Janus, but for all the students under his care.
* SuperMode / SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:He's still combined with Yubel, in a ContinuityNod to the fourth season of Anime/YuGiOhGX]].
* WarriorTherapist
* TheWorfEffect: Against Park Fletcher. It's justified in this case since Fletcher had backup waiting alongside him that Principal Yuki didn't know about [[spoiler:including among the school's own security detail]].

!!Drake Phoenix
Janus' primary rival in ''Eternal'', he's the son of Aster Phoenix and the successor to the family's fortune and his father's Destiny Hero deck.
* BerserkButton: Insinuating that Janus is in any way better than him, or insulting Racquel's memory, is not a good idea.
* EvilCounterpart: Himself to Janus, and his Destiny Heroes to the Elemental Heroes.
* HairTriggerTemper
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: To Janus.
* TheResenter: He makes Kaiba's past rivalry with Yugi look civil in comparison.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections and Connections]]

!!Cassara Blackstone
A classmate of Janus' who often gets exasperated with his screwball antics. She later becomes the student editor of the school paper.
* ActionGirl
* IntrepidReporter
* OnlySaneMan: At times.
* PluckyGirl
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, usually toward Janus.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Janus. WordOfGod acknowledges that had the story continued, their relationship would have gradually developed into [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther a quiet affection]] and then eventually just short of being an all-out OfficialCouple.

!!Jiro Burger
An Osiris Red student who utilizes the Six Samurai deck archetype. Initially starts out hostile to Janus, but soon becomes part of Janus's team.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Or a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with Janus, at least.
* FreudianExcuse: His grandfather, who spent years establishing himself as an able construction worker, lost his job to a less skilled but more "naturally gifted" co-worker, and was DrivenToSuicide as a result--and Jiro had the misfortune of finding his grandfather's body after the fact. This turned him into a very bitter kid, as he blamed "geniuses" for contributing to his grandfather's death.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: He defies this trope as much and as often as he can.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: His surname comes from his father's side of the family, thank you very much.
* TheResenter: Toward "gifted" or "naturally talented" people, and Janus by extension, at least when first introduced. He loosens up after experiencing DefeatMeansFriendship.
* {{Samurai}}: His Six Samurai deck.

!!Vasha Morrison
One of the elite students of Obelisk Blue and the [[AlphaBitch resident queen bee]] of the student body. Has a rivalry with Cassara.
* AlphaBitch
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat
* JerkAss

!!Calhoun Vincente
Another elite Obelisk Blue student and the resident JerkJock. He's Vasha's boyfriend.
* JerkAss

!!Blair Flannigan
In the original Anime/YuGiOhGX, she was a recurring character with a crush on Jaden. Here, she's a teacher at Duel Academy who's a hit with her students because of, well, non-scholarly [[HotTeacher reasons]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Toward her fellow teacher, [[VitriolicBestBuds Miles Crosskill]].
--> '''Crosskill:''' ''(to Dr. Crowler)'' You might be [[DudeLooksLikeALady confused about which gender you're supposed to be]], but at least I have the right plumbing!
--> '''Blair:''' But I'll bet the plumbing doesn't work.
* HotTeacher
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

!!Jewel Duelist
A mysterious duelist who dresses in a hooded jacket with a mask that covers the lower half of her face. She possesses the power of the Crystal Beasts and uses her dueling abilities to fight crime.
* DisappearedDad: WordOfGod says he would have been revealed to be [[spoiler:Jesse Anderson]].
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows
* TheLostLenore: There was speculation among reviewers that the Jewel Duelist was actually [[spoiler:Janus and Drake's childhood friend Racquel]], based on (among other things) Principal Yuki's and Pegasus' familiar approach toward her.

!!Park Fletcher
The BigBad of the Duel Academy Takeover arc, he was a former teacher who resigned due to disagreements over Jaden Yuki being appointed principal of the institute. Since that time, he'd been operating from the shadows, waiting for his opportunity to overthrow Principal Yuki's administration.
* DeathFromAbove: He utilizes a Satellite Cannon deck strategy.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Janus causes him to see everything [[{{Irony}} in the color red]]]].
* JerkAss
* TheResenter: Toward Principal Yuki.
* WouldHitAGirl: This sets off Janus and Jaden's mutual BerserkButton.
* WouldHurtAChild

!!Miguel Beaumont
A former Duel Academy instructor who quit alongside Park Fletcher because he disagreed with Jaden Yuki's new policies for restructuring the Duel Academy hierarchy.
* TheDragon: To Fletcher.
* GracefulLoser
* NobleDemon

!!Yanique [=McKenzie=]
A former Duel Academy instructor who quit alongside Park Fletcher in defiance of Jaden Yuki's appointment as principal of the institution.
* BerserkButton: Don't insult her use of make-up (even if it ''is'' too much).
* BloodKnight
* SadistTeacher

!!Gabriel Roman
A past Duel Monsters World Champion, he retired from dueling after an unfortunate (and unrevealed in-story) incident. Drake Phoenix seeks him out as a potential member of his House of Cards, and Gabriel agrees, albeit reluctantly (as Drake is using blackmail to coerce him).
* TheAtoner
* ItsAllMyFault: Although it never gets developed before the story's eventual discontinuation, WordOfGod acknowledges that [[spoiler:[[MyGreatestFailure he blames himself for not being able to save his fiancee, who was raped and murdered in their hotel room while he was participating in that year's Duel Monsters World Championships]]]].

!!Aster Phoenix
Drake and Jessica Phoenix's father and Jaden Yuki's old rival, though the years have given him some much-needed CharacterDevelopment.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

!!Karen Phoenix
Drake and Jessica's mother, and Aster's wife. An originally-created character, she has a deep-seated hatred for Duel Monsters and anyone who plays it, only barely tolerating her children's indulgence in it.
* BerserkButton: The Duel Monsters game itself.
* FreudianExcuse: Although the reason why she hated Duel Monsters never got explained before ''Eternal's'' eventual cancellation, supplementary material says it's because her brother abandoned her to devote himself totally to playing the game on a professional level. Consequently, she believes that duelists are only wasting their money, time and lives on a pointless activity.
* TheResenter: As explained above.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The House of Cards]]
Drake Phoenix's QuirkyMinibossSquad, who appear primarily during the Phoenix Herald Crown arc in ''Eternal''. The group consists mainly of Pro-League duelists who did not appear in the Dueltropolis tournament due to their contractual obligations; consequently, Drake has them participate in his tournament ostensibly to make up for their lack of invitation at Dueltropolis. (RealLifeWritesThePlot with this group--they all sport deck archetypes that were either not fully developed or had not yet been created or officially released at the time ''Forever'' was written.)

!!Jessica Phoenix
Drake's twin sister and the vice-president of the House of Cards. She wields a Frog deck archetype.
* CoDragons: Shares the spot with Reno Dawkins.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mainly toward her brother.

!!Reno Dawkins
The previous World Champion before Seta Kaiba. He specializes in high-level Dragon-type monsters.
* CoDragons: Shares the spot with Jessica.
* HellBentForLeather

!!Usagi Saiou
A duelist who is also famous as a fortune-teller. She utilizes the Arcana Force deck archetype.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo
* LightIsGood: Well, she's definitely not villainous, seeing as she wants to bring Drake's vengeful scheme to a stop.

!!Buck Morgan
Famous as the dueling wonder of the Southern United States. He wields a Venom deck archetype.
* GracefulLoser
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: But their wielder's a NiceGuy, don't worry.

!!Alyx Brodie
The daughter of ''Yu-Gi-Oh GX'' character Axel Brodie, and a mercenary like her father before her. She wields a Volcanic deck archetype, as he did in the previous series.
* KillItWithFire
* PlayingWithFire
* TheRival: To Diane Chill.

!!Diane Chill
Known as the "Ice Princess" of dueling, she fights using an ice-themed deck.
* AnIcePerson: And a complete bitch, at that.
* KillItWithIce
* TheRival: To Alyx Brodie.

!!Gaston Altair
France's Duel Monsters champion, who wields a Lightsworn deck strategy.
* GracefulLoser
* LightIsGood

!!Caleb Link
The previous Intercontinental champion before Malachi Jordan. He uses a deck which focuses on chaining card effects together.
* UnknownRival: Malachi considers him this.

!!Kent West
A duelist who is famous for his use of the Cu'Chulainn deck archetype.
[[/folder]]