All of these are the references to Super Heroes, Toku and anything else that Judai Yuki has ever done within his gigantic, bottomless deck.
Most of this info come from the Yugioh Wikia, the Card Trivia part of each card.
Anime
- Elemental HERO Featherman/Avian: Hawkman, Vulture, Shadowhawk
- Elemental HERO Bladedge: Iron Man
- Elemental HERO Burst Lady/Burstinatrix: Argent, Firestar
- Elemental HERO Bubbleman: Batman (No kidding you, his evolved form Neo Bubbleman also looks like from Batman Beyond)
- Elemental HERO Clayman: The Thing, The Juggernaut
- Elemental HERO Necroshade: Spawn
- Elemental HERO Neos: Guyver and Ultraman Series (even sharing a name with one)
- Elemental HERO Sparkman: Black Lightning, Black Vulcan, Static (especially the latter),Justimon
- Elemental HERO Wildheart: Either Ka-Zar, Anthro, Kamandi, Chief Apache
Season 3
- Evil HERO Inferno Wing: Bomb Queen
- Weeeell, Judai was 18 when he runned that deck... "Yep, dude, this is just me being totally mature!"
- Evil HERO Infernal Sniper: Hell Boy
- Evil HERO Malicious Edge: Wolverine (Not Yugioh Wikia Card Trivia info, Yugioh Tvtropes info)
- Evil HERO Malicious Fiend: The Darkness (not that much, though)
Manga
- Elemental HERO Captain Gold: Prodigy, Booster Gold and Superman (Hey, Judai already had a Batman, did you think he would leave out Supes?)
- Elemental HERO Heat: The Human Torch
- Elemental HERO Flash: The Flash (name), Static (a version similar to that of the Crossover between Static Shock and Batman Beyond) , FlashMan.EXE
- Elemental HERO Lady Heat: Dark Magician Girl (Internal Homage)
- Elemental HERO Poison Rose: Poison Ivy, Black Orchid, Lillymon, Rosemon
- Elemental HERO Stratos: Acroyear
- Elemental HERO Voltech/Voltic: Volteccer (japanese name), Static (The same as Flash, is Judai a big fan of Static or what?)
- Elemental HERO Woodsman: Swamp Thing
Mask Change! Henshin Shokan!
- Contrast HERO Chaos: Kamen Rider Double (Joker Fang Form)
- Masked HERO Acid: Kamen Rider Ibuki, Kamen Rider Diend
- Masked HERO Anki: Kamen Rider Hibiki
- Masked HERO Goka: Kamen Rider Agito (Burning Form), Kamen Rider Kuuga (Mighty Form, also the name), Shinken Red (Goka came first), Kyu Kyu Sentai GoGoV
- Masked HERO Dark Law: The Orphenochs, The Fangires, Chinomanako's Kamen Rider Diend (in the crossover with Samurai Sentai Shinkenger), The Questers
- Stealth Visual Pun: The mask looks like a wolf and the name puns on wolf in japanese. It's the Wolf Orphenoch (even if it doesn't look like it).
- Deader than Dead / Knight Templar: Hoo boy. This card has about the darkest effect of the Masked HEROs (banishing a monster from your opponent's graveyard) which gives it Anti Heroic vibes. This is either brings to mind: a) a certain Second Rider or b) How the Orphenochs killed people and turned them into ashes.
- Masked HERO Dian: Kamen Rider Femme, Clare
- Irony: This is the one of the strongest Masked HERO monsters. But Femme was about the weakest Rider in Ryuki. And the Ryuki-verse is the more similar to the Yugioh-verse, almost as if to rub in the wound.
- Masked HERO Gust: Kamen Rider # 1, Riderman
- Masked HERO Vapor: Kamen Rider Kuuga (Dragon Form), Kamen Rider Agito (Storm Form), Kamen Rider Den-O (Rod Form)