Funny moments in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL.
- In episode 1, Yuma drops his deck on the ground, leading to this exchange between him and the cleaning robots:Trashbot: Garbage! Garbage!
Yuma: My deck is not garbage!
Trashbot: Trash! Trash!
Yuma: My deck is not trash!
Trashbot: Shit! Shit! Shit!
Yuma: You guys are doing this on purpose aren't you?!- Yuma saying his catchphrase underwater and nearly drowning.
- In the dub of the second episode where Yuma meets Astral, the exchanges between him and Yuma are hilarious throughout pretty much the whole thing, from Yuma calling Astral "Captain Obvious" to Astral making his first observation (which is, basically, that Yuma is a really bad duelist). It ends with Astral saying, "I have a feeling that this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship—IF you do as I say."
- In episode 5, the summoning of Baby Tiragon. There's this whole big, dramatic scene with crashing concrete and flying dust to herald the appearance of... a cute little kitten looking thing.
- In episode 6, it's revealed that Flip Turner scammed a kid by promising him a rare card if he could fill an entire room with dominoes. Tori barges in and accidentally knocks them over, forcing him to restart. At the end of the episode, the kid is about to put in the last domino when he accidentally knocks them over.
- In the dub version of episode 7, Yuma's reaction to the summoning of Galaxy Queen. His reaction and incredulous tone of voice make it funny:Yuma: You just summoned your mom.
- In episode 9, there's Yuma somehow not noticing he's wearing ridiculous clothes until the others point it out. Then when Yuma's Achacha Archer tries to attack Stray Cat, the cat turns around and reveals its demonic face. The archer gets terrified and quickly kills it.
- And Bronk's EPICALLY HILARIOUS face when he notices Yuma's "new outfit"
- Yuma duels his dad in a flashback. His dad tries to overlay Gagaga Magician and Gogogo Golem only to remember that he has no XYZ monsters. The image of Gogogo Golem collapsing on Gagaga Magician is hilarious. Like father like son.
- In episode 18, Yuma manages to defeat Fortuno with Utopia Ray Victory and save his friends, with his friends getting their first brief glimpse of Astral during the final turn. But when Yuma reunites with his friends, they they only thank Astral for saving them. Also, they aren't even looking at Astral when parsing him since he's still invisible to them. When Yuma gets mad at them all for ignoring him and says he's going home, they rush after him trying to thank him too.
- In episode 19, Yuma's grandmother and one of her old high school friends are having a gardening conversation while completely ignoring the duel between the waiter and an irate customer going on behind them.
- Even funnier is that the two put on D-gazers anyway, even though they clearly have no idea what is going on.
"Where has our waiter gone off to?" - Yuma desperately trying to apply for the World Duel Carnival in episode 26.
- Yuma kicks Nistro in the nuts in episode 41, resulting in Nistro making what's one of the show's funniest faces.
- The first thing we see Yuma do in episode 46 is try to find someone to duel. He asks an old man, a young boy, and a cat, who then scratches his face.
- It only gets better from there. While he's in the middle of a duel with Shark, his stomach grumbling interrupts, and causes Tori to yell at him for it. It's not long afterward that Shark cancels the duel, furthering the joke by saying he "lost his appetite" for defeating Yuma.
- III starts showing off his Adorkable side when he visits the Tsukumo household. He gets momentarily surprised by Haru Tsukumo; his quick cover story is calling himself a friend of her grandson. When Yuma comes back after being notified, he finds III wearing one of the masks in his room! His reaction is priceless!
- While III is welcome to lunch with the Tsukumos, all sorts of humorous things are shown. From Yuma and Kari's banter, Obomi chiding him while serving tea, and Yuma proceeding to burn his mouth. The sight of it all even draws a chuckle out of the guest himself.
- As the battlefield around Yuma and III collapses, Takashi says it's just the AR. He takes off his D-Gazer and gives a massive Oh, Crap! face as it's clearly not the case. (Lucky this face was here; the scene isn't funny at all otherwise.)
- In Episode 67 during the duel against Tron, Yuma suddenly gets hungry while in his Zexal form. Even Astral is bewildered by this. Then Yuma remembers the duel meal Kotori gave him earlier and begins to eat it. In their overlayed form Astral gets to experience eating for the first time too. He then gives endless praise to the act by saying his body is starting to burst with fighting spirit and that he's feeling truly alive at this moment and that he'd like to eat more of these later.
- In the episode where Caswell is made disciplinarian by the Villain of the Week, he has Flip penalised for “evil scheming”.
- In episode 80, everything that Alito does. The Imagine Spots, the bar scenes with Girag, the ways Yuma interrupts his attempts to get Kotori's attention, the music tracks, and his reaction to Yuma beating him are all glorious. (Note that this applies to the original - the dubbed version doesn't quite have the same effect.)
- In Episode 78, Caswell stops Tori and her friends for violating the school's dress code. Except that they're wearing the school's standard uniforms. The school's uniforms are against the school's dress code. And the girls each throw a shoe at Caswell and his cronies for it.
- Whenever Gagaga Girl gets pouty for whatever reason (like Yuma having to abandon a duel in episode 81).
- Also from episode 81, the sheer insanity of everyone dueling while doing something else at the same time, like skydiving, beach volleyball, tennis, ping pong, and wrestling. Talk about multitasking...
- Rei causes a Cat Fight between Kotori and cathy. Yuma's expression can be summed up as What Have You Done, even I'm not that stupid.
- How Yuma finds out about the Cat Fight properly is hilarious too. They open the door and Rei ducks just in time to avoid a thrown shoe, which beans poor Yuma in the face.
- Shark boredom throughout the whole episode. He doesn't even seem to know why he's there. Reasonable because he's not part of the fight Yuma is trying to fix. All culminating into him straight up ditching them all for the final round. Even better everyone knew Shark ditched and didn't bother to tell Yuma until the duel was getting ready to start.
- Girag, planning to prevent Tori from using Rank-Up-Magic Barian's Force, uses the effect of Magic Hand to discard Barian's Force from Tori's hand. Yuma, still trying to throw the game, advises Girag to chain their Memory Loss, and Girag does so without reading it, negating his own Magic Hand and letting them keep Barian's Force.
- The scene straight after the OP theme in Episode 87. The opening scene was quite tense and dramatic, and therefore you'd expect the rest of the episode to follow suit; however, instead we jump to Yuma and Rei being chased to school by a pack of dogs due to Rei suggesting a shortcut.
- Yuma's declaration that it's impossible for Rei to have attacked Alito, with the flawless logic of...Yuma: It's because...because...because he sucks at everything!
- Rei's method of "setting up a defense" during the duel...by Normal Summoning a 0 ATK monster. And his overblown reaction when he realizes what he's done is also rather amusing.
- Yuma's declaration that it's impossible for Rei to have attacked Alito, with the flawless logic of...
- During episode 88, there is a rather stunning display of Yuma's incompetence with English words; he manages to mix up "Guardian" and "Cardigan", resulting in a rather amusing exchange.Rei: I am a Barian's Guardian.Yuma: Barian's...cardigan?Rei: Guardian.
- And not long after we find out what Rei actually is, he declares Yuma his "subordinate". He doesn't even let Yuma argue the matter, insisting on "subordinate" after Yuma asks why they can't be partners.
- Several scenes with Shark and Rio (Episode 79 being a prime example during the scenes where they eat lunch and the end of the episode) give them rather funny interactions, usually with Rio calling Shark out on how bad of a brother he is. And Shark usually is not very happy about this, to say the least.
- Gets even funnier in Episode 79 when Shark seemingly gets intimidated by Rio.
- Episode 90. Orbital 7 duels Yuma. He summons his Rank 8 ace monster which is being hyped with an animation similar to Galaxy-Eyes. Then it's revealed as Googly-Eyes Drum Dragon
. Orbital 7 thinks he intimidated everyone while they are lost for words.- Astral to Yuma, advising him against the duel: "I've seen you lose to a vending machine."
- Afro!Yuma. Which occurred after Orbital 7 decided to fire an orbital satellite laser at Yuma.
- Episode 91 is a comedy of errors. Flip and Caswell misinterpret Shark's statement that Yuma is the only duelist close to his skill level to mean that Yuma is the only one he'd let Rio date, to which a furious Rio challenges him, threatening to have Flip expose that Shark's scared of onions. The cherry on top is Astral's reaction:Astral: A battle between brother and sister.We should wear earplugs.
- Fridge humor comes in when you realize Astral's only experience with siblings is Yuma and Kari.
- Episode 92 involves a "Duel Monster Cafe," with Yuma and co. dressing up as various Duel Monsters. Most of them are fairly normal; Kotori as Gagaga Girl, Cathy as Cat Girl, and Yuma as Temtempo...then cut to Rei, stumbling awkwardly down the corridor dressed as Dandylion.◊
- Made especially funny after The Reveal. Vector in a Dandylion costume, anyone?
- And then Anna busts down the wall to the cafe. Via cannon.
- Rio throws her shoe at Shark when his yelling interrupted her big romantic scene during her school play. Even better? Shark was standing in the back of the audience. She chucked that thing clear across the room.
- Episode 93 ends with Umimi encouraging Anna to pursue Yuma and shoving her toward him...knocking them both down a flight of stairs.
- Episode 101 has Yuma being bounced around in the spaceship, and the borderline non-reaction/sarcastic comment from Shark.
- And the comment in the dub? "I guess this is our in-flight entertainment."
- Reginals berated Yuma for picking the path filled with traps, he earned a compliment from Rio whom Yuma explains that the signs were made by his dad, he chuckles... until he accidentally pushes a button that opens a dropper. Cue that Reginald also surprised when the trap was activated.
- Episode 103. Anything that has to do with muscular men in spandex. Also, Alito blowing up the entrance to a set of ruins using Blast with Chain cards.
- Episode 105. Having proved himself quite the competent rock-climber as opposed to the less experienced Shark and Kaito, Yuma gets to the ruins...and he smells food. He starts walking towards it in a trance, and Shark initially thinks Yuma's sensed a Barian. Then he and Kaito realize what Yuma's doing. Their reaction is priceless, to say the least.
- Also from 105, Jinlong's reaction to Kite just wanting the duel over with.
Jinlong: Okay, okay, sheesh. Boy, I think you've got to be the grouchiest Duelist I have ever battled. - Girag's predicament in Episode 107. Getting stuck in a statue. You don't know half of what he's thinking because he can't even make facial expressions.
- The first duel that Yuma fought in the WDC Carnival, which turned into a soccer match with everyone including the monsters and the spectators dressed up in uniforms and cheerleader outfits.
- Episode 112 was pretty dark with Mr. Heartland's return...but then Semimaru shatters his statue, causing The Dragon to break down into tears and ruining the mood.
- Episode 113:Yuma: Shut up, fly bastard!Mr. Heartland: Flies are supposed to buzz and annoy people!
- Pretty much the entirety of Episode 114 once IV arrives, with Kurage's silly-sounding slurring, and...IV (Sub): Number 4, you say?! The Number 4's MY thing! It's a special numeral! On top of that, Number 4 is a freaking jellyfish of all things!Quattro (Dub): The nerve of this guy! Number 4's my special number! My name ain't "Quattro" for nothing! And it turns out Number 4's something from the seafood section?!
- Episode 122, in spite of all the terrible things that are happening. Mr. Heartland's silly behavior just absolutely ruins the mood...until...Mr. Heartland: Just kidding.
- In Episode 124, if you've ever watched Power Rangers, the Barian Emperor's introduction can be kinda hilarious, especially Vector's.
- Vector remarking "Has the kitty come out to play?" when Rio/Merag summons Ragnazero in episode 131 initially seems like simple taunting... until you realize he's probably taunting her about her fear of cats.
- In Episode 144, Yuma is quietly building his deck. Anna comes bursting through the wall of his house on her cannon, knocking a tribal mask onto Yuma's face that he had hung on the wall. Anna apologizes, saying her cannon has bad brakes.
- Episode 146, the look on Yuma's face when Kotori says she loves his smile.
- Hell, pretty much the last 5 minutes of the dubbed episode, from Rio saying Yuma now has to dress as Rainbow Kuriboh for a week (after losing a bet), Orbital 7 and his 'children', to the moment when they all fly off to Astral World. All culminating in Tori telling Yuma that she is 'Gagaga' over him. Awesome, Heartwarming and Funny all rolled into one.
- Vector had a girl's butt, if you actually looked at his figure.
