History Fridge / YuGiOhVRAINS

** Firewall Xceed Dragon: Xceed Dragon is a Xyz Monster which represents space. In Playmaker's second duel against GO, Revolver said that the only way for Go to win was to duel beyond expectations. This card shows that Playmaker is [[JustForPun Xceeding]] everyone's expectations by using yet another new summoning method whose theme shows that Playmaker has no limits like space. Given how bad a state Go was in, a graveyard revival effect was also fairly appropriate to get him to be the person he once was again.

* Compared to the other duelists in the VRAINS series, Yusaku uses a lot fewer duplicates of his cards in his deck, with only Bitron running multiple copies. Given the statements about Cyberse being nearly extinct, Yusaku likely doesn't have enough of them to run multiple copies like GO, Blue Angel, and Revolver can, among everyone else including ''Naoki Shima''.

* By the time he fights Blood Shepherd, Ryoken/Revolver has made a name for himself by using Duel Monsters era traps to defeat his opponents. This fits both in real life and in universe as while new cards continuously come out, many old but powerful cards are overlooked. They also address popular metagame issues similar to how many used the relatively mediocre ''Anti-Spell Fragrance'' Trap Card to counter Pendulum Monsters[[note]]Anti-Spell Fragrance forces players to set Spell Cards before they can use it. Pendulum Monsters are considered Spell Cards when used in the Pendulum Zone and because the Pendulum Scale must be established face-up, Pendulum Monsters cannot be used in the Pundulum Zone and thus the player cannot use Pendulum Summoning[[/note]]. In Ryoken's case, he uses Mirror Force to directly counter the currently popular Link Monsters, Magic Cylinder in case someone manages to overpower his strong monsters, and Imperial Order to counter the Ignis' Link Spells.

** Revolver uses Dragons, a raw and destructive archtype befitting his rival status as well as a danger to all around him. The fact that Dragons can also be beneficial hints at how his goal has a point. Notably he's also TheDragon to his own father.

* It is often a question where the protagonists get their support cards for the ace monsters they get by special circumstances, like Yuma's Number or Hope support cards he isn't shown shining drawing. The only protagonist before Vrains to have a reasonable explanation is Yuya, whose major ally was the card producing Leo Corporation on top of his protagonist 'create cards on the fly' powers. Yusaku's Code Talker and Firewall support cards, however, do have a source he could have been tapping since early in the season: ''Ai''. The Ignis can create archtypes, meaning that Ai likely created cards like Recoded Alive and Firewall Guardian for Yusaku's use.

** Againist Queen, the one who was supposed to be the Big Bad of this season, he used Light Dragon @Ignister and Wind Pegasus @Ignister. Lighning and Windy were the Big Bads of the previous season

** Then it was the turn of Earth Golem @Ignister againist Go Onizuka, the same person that in the previous season had a chip with Earth's data planted in the brain

* Why did Yusaku join Yusei in the 'never turned evil' club? Fairly simple reason really: beyond the fact that there wasn't any magic or mystical elements around to corrupt him, such cases always involved the partner of a protagonist or otherwise another element to their being/soul/etc. Yami Yugi used the Seal of Oricalchos, Yubel helped set up the events of the Supreme King, Astral instigated Dark Zexal, and it was Zarc who caused berserk modes. Ai couldn't possess Yusaku in a similar manner, and when Ai moved into the role of antagonist in season 3 he left and got his own body instead of wearing Yusaku's or something.

** Yusaku doesn't seem to have anybody who cared for him, as he never mentions anybody from his past and doesn't seem to have family either. He became extremely coldhearted after the incident, never showing his feelings. This is also reflected when Ryoken becomes his voice of hope and special person, so it's strongly inplied that Yusaku never had anybody in his life other than that. Yusaku wanted nothing more than to be loved.
*** Ai is very open, clingy and giving. He is depicted as somebody who wants to give and recieve a lot, being both the most selfless and selfish person at once, lying casually but being truly soft and tender at heart just with good intentions in mind. He is extremely devoted to other people and truly loves people. As seen in the final, his name is described as "to love people". With Ai admitting he loved Yusaku.

* Will defeating Bohman enough to bring back the consciousness of the people he absorbed? And even if it is, they will still have to leave with the trauma. Not to mention how people will feel unsafe in link Vrains and unthrusting of their safety measures after that. Lo and Behold, 104 revealed that Link VRAINS was shut down possibly for good after the Ignis Warfare incident, forcing SOL Technologies to find a new source of income in the form of [=SOLtis=].

* With the reveal of Shootingcode Talker, there now exists a way to Extra Link using the Code Talkers (Starting from Encode to Transcode to Powercode, then Shootingcode, then Excode to fill the second Extra Zone). The only one that doesn't fit into this set up: Decode Talker, the Dark Code Talker. And the Dark Ignis, as well as the human whose mind was used to make him (Yusaku), are not particularly group players.

* With the reveal of Shootingcode Talker, there now exists a way to Extra Link using the Talkers (Starting from Encode to Transcode to Powercode, then Excode, then Shootingcode to fill the second Extra Zone). The only one that doesn't fit into this set up: Decode Talker, the Dark Code Talker. And the Dark Ignis, as well as the human whose mind was used to make him (Yusaku), are not particularly group players.

*** Appropriately, The Arrival Cyberse @Ignister has five link arrows pointing backwards... [[SoleSurvivor and one going forward.]]

*** Related to the above Link Bumper point Revolver attained the Topologic Monster with a lower Link Rating in his battle against Ghost Girl, who Revolver sees as far less dangerous or serious a bout than his clashes with Playmaker. The second time he used the monster on screen was against Blood Shepherd, who Revolver was more or less ''demonstrating a point'' to than fully dueling. Being [[spoiler:Ghost Girl's older half brother]] also makes it a bit fitting on top of it all.

* Hydradrive is a perfectly fitting deck for Bohman. First off in computing terms, "drive" is used to refer to devices able to store data, or more specifically, the mechanism in those devices that allows for reading and writing said data. Bohman's basically had his drive wiped and new data uploaded each time he appears. The ''Hydra'' part of it refers to his intended purpose [[spoiler: housing all of the Ignis within himself like a beast with multiple heads]].
** The effects also are based off of knowing what attribute your opponent's monsters have, and notably, there are non that affect LIGHT or DARK monsters. [[spoiler: the two Ignis that have been seen dueling so far, as well as the partner to the FIRE Ignis, all have a single attribute deck, while the partner for the DARK Ignis uses many different attributes.]]

* While it's weird that Blood Shepherd didn't try to deceive Ghost Girl or Revolver with his AI. It makes sense when you consider how much they know about him since he worked with Ghost Girl and [[spoiler:are siblings]] while Revolver found a lot of information about him. This causes Blood Shepherd to know he can't deceive them with his AI and as a professional he decided not to bother using something that doesn't even work.

* During the final battle of the final duel in the series, we see [[spoiler: Ai's @Ignister Dark Templar- the monster that represents himself in his own deck, battle Yusaku's Decode Talker- the monster that represents Ai in Yusaku's deck. This means that both figuratively and literally, the battle ended with Ai killing himself.]]

** We get the answer later, and they are all fine. [[spoiler: Unfortunately including the ones who are the villains of Season 2]].

* Jin was attacked, because he is a victim of the Lost Incident. It was stated that the identities of the victims were strictly secure and coded, but the enemy still knew that Jin is a victim of it and stole his consciousness. This means that the new enemy probably knows about the identities of the all the victims including Yusaku and Takeru. Yes, the new enemy does know about the identities of all the origins, [[spoiler:as Windy caused his victim to enter a car crash while Lightning attacks Aqua's origin Miyu in the real world before Aqua can make contact with her and imprisoned his own origin, Jin.]]

* Will defeating Bohman enough to bring back the consciousness of the people he absorbed? And even if it is, they will still have to leave with the trauma. Not to mention how people will feel unsafe in link Vrains and unthrusting of their safety measures after that. Lo and Behold, 104 revealed that Link VRAINS was shut down possibly for good after the Ignis Warfare incident, forcing SOL Technologies to find a new source of income in the form of [=SOLtis=].

* In contrast every card Revolver acquires through Storm Access do have an effect that destroy or forcefully remove other cards including his own and that effect activates whenever a monster is summoned next to its Link Marker. This shows Revolver's need to sever the connection with people close to him (like Vaira and Faust) in order to achieve his goals which is the destruction of the Ignis. The fact the effect also apply to his own cards shows his path to self-destruction as a person bound to his past and fate. All the monsters also have a higher Link Rating or ATK, this is Revolver's 'proof' that the Ignis are conceited for an ArtificialIntellience and that humans are able to improve the Skill.

* In contrast every card Revolver acquires through Storm Access do have an effect that destroy or forcefully remove other cards including his own and that effect activates whenever a monster is summoned next to its Link Marker. This shows Revolver's need to sever the connection with people close to him (like Vaira and Faust) in order to achieve his goals which is the destruction of the Ignis. The fact the effect also apply to his own cards shows his path to self-destruction as a person bound to his past and fate. All the monsters also have a higher Link Rating or ATK, this is Revolver's 'proof' that the Ignis are conceited for an {{AI}} and that humans are able to improve the Skill.

*** Related to the above Link Bumper point Revolver attained the Topologic Monster with a lower Link Rating in his battle against Ghost Girl, who Revolver sees as far less dangerous or serious a bout than his clashes with Playmaker. The second time he used the monster on screen was against Blood Shepherd, who Revolver was more or less ''demonstrating a point'' to than fully dueling. Being [[spoiler: Ghost Girl's older half brother]] also makes it a bit fitting on top of it all.