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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Vivian Willow is an often too-serious AdorablyPrecociousChild with a WATER themed deck and strategic style of dueling. By contrast, the sequel ''The Academy Effect'''s protagonist, Sol "Sunny" Swansong is a [[HugeSchoolgirl six foot tall freshman]], a self-admitted jock and heavily implied former delinquent who plays the HotBlooded duelist trope despite [[HiddenDepths actually being decently strategic about going face]] and has a deck built around FIRE monsters.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: For as much of a jerk as Seto Kaiba is, he is so thoroughly disgusted by Kokurano’s perverted nature that he all but declares his intention to see the boy executed for stealing girls panties over the school break.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Several of Yugi’s Shadow Game victims from the original manga are spared. Among them are Imori, whom it’s noted had his soul pulled back out of the Dragon Jar by a priest, Goro, who survived the explosion with numerous scars and being confined to a wheelchair, and [=PaniK=], who never ends up getting hung by his own noose due to never dueling Yugi.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Joey develops this for Vivian, not only walking her home after Set Kaiba threatened her, but becoming determined to take down Marik and the Rare Hunters/Ghouls after he possessed her and caused her to hurt herself.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Vivian and Rebecca get kidnapped and possessed by Marik into acting as Rare Hunters for him.]]
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** Due to Yugi beating Kaiba using a combination of Buster Blader and Last Turn, Weevil instead tosses THESE cards into the ocean to cripple Yugi’s deck. This later results in him losing to Yugi when he summons Exodia, the Forbidden One.
** Ishizu ends up giving Yugi the God Card Obelisk instead of Kaiba, while Kaiba is the one to beat Strings and earn Osiris. This is even pointed out by Ishizu in-universe that changes in Yugi’s life were why she chose him to wield Obelisk.
** Due to not dueling Joey until the semi-finals of Duelist Kingdom, Rex doesn’t lose Red-Eyes Black Dragon to him. Instead, he loses the card when dueling the Rare Hunter, who gets defeated by Tea. She wins the card in the ante and Rex insists she keep it.
** During the Battle City arc, Marik instead goes after Vivian and Rebecca and possesses THEM to act as Rare Hunters. Joey, who happened to be around the area at the time, tries to stop her before being pressured into dueling her on threat of Marik forcing Vivian to kill herself.
** Ishizu ends up giving Yugi the God Card Obelisk instead of Kaiba, while Kaiba is the one to beat Strings and earn Osiris. This is even pointed out by Ishizu in-universe that changes in Yugi’s life were why she chose him to wield Obelisk.
** Due to not dueling Joey until the semi-finals of Duelist Kingdom, Rex doesn’t lose Red-Eyes Black Dragon to him. Instead, he loses the card when dueling the Rare Hunter, who gets defeated by Tea. She wins the card in the ante and Rex insists she keep it.
** During the Battle City arc, Marik instead goes after Vivian and Rebecca and possesses THEM to act as Rare Hunters. Joey, who happened to be around the area at the time, tries to stop her before being pressured into dueling her on threat of Marik forcing Vivian to kill herself.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: PaniK is this for the Eliminators, who no one respects and several actively hate.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: PaniK [=PaniK=] is this for the Eliminators, who no one respects and several actively hate.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Mokuba and Vivian share this relationship, with the two enjoying their time together but often ending their interactions with kicking matches.
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* UnknownRival: Chazz initially starts as this for Vivian, with her having beaten him thoroughly during Duelist Kingdom. He became obsessed with beating her while she’s initially annoyed at his insistence upon beating her. Later becomes subverted as she’s impressed enough with his improvement that she actively encourages him to keep up the good work.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Mokuba and Vivian share this relationship, with the two enjoying their time together but often ending their interactions with kickingmatches.matches or trading verbal jabs.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Mokuba and Vivian share this relationship, with the two enjoying their time together but often ending their interactions with kicking
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Yugi’s penalty game to [[spoiler:the old Vivian]] resulted in her losing all her memories.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Yugi’s penalty game to [[spoiler:the old Vivian]] resulted in [[spoiler:her]] losing all [[spoiler:her]] memories.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Vivian and Rebecca get kidnapped and possessed by Marik into acting as Rare Hunters for him.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: Implied with Vivian, as Yugi explains that he had once needed to stand up to her back when she was a worse person.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Implied with Vivian, as Yugi explains that he had once needed to stand up to her back when she was a worse person. Later shown that she had been running an operation where she would forge all manner of school assignments and notes for cash. Now she is the protagonist of the story.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Yugi’s penalty game to [[spoiler:the old Vivian]] resulted in [[spoiler:her]] losing all [[spoiler:her]] memories.
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* TheFriendThatNobodyLikes: PaniK is this for the Eliminators, who no one respects and several actively hate.
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* TheFriendThatNobodyLikes: TheFriendNobodyLikes: PaniK is this for the Eliminators, who no one respects and several actively hate.
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* FriendThatNobodyLikes: TheFriendThatNobodyLikes: PaniK is this for the Eliminators, who no one respects and several actively hate.
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* VitriolicBestFriends: Mokuba and Vivian share this relationship, with the two enjoying their time together but often ending their interactions with kicking matches.
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* VitriolicBestFriends: VitriolicBestBuds: Mokuba and Vivian share this relationship, with the two enjoying their time together but often ending their interactions with kicking matches.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: During Vivian VS [=PaniK=], the duel ends with Vivian powering up her strongest monster card, Suijin as far as she possibly can in order to destroy [=PaniK's=] Castle of Dark Illusions. The combo creates a new attack for Suijin, the "Pacific Superlaser", which completely disintegrated the castle before flooding the entire field. Mind, this all because he decided to mock her friend.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: During Vivian VS [=PaniK=], the duel ends with Vivian powering up her strongest monster card, Suijin as far as she possibly can in order to destroy [=PaniK's=] Castle of Dark Illusions. The combo creates a new attack for Suijin, the "Pacific Superlaser", which completely disintegrated the castle before flooding the entire field. Mind, this all because he decided to mock her friend.friend.
* VitriolicBestFriends: Mokuba and Vivian share this relationship, with the two enjoying their time together but often ending their interactions with kicking matches.
* VitriolicBestFriends: Mokuba and Vivian share this relationship, with the two enjoying their time together but often ending their interactions with kicking matches.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Implied with Vivian, as Yugi explains that he had once needed to stand up to her back when she was a worse person.
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** In addition, since Vivian gave Yugi and the rest of her friends camping supplies, Mai didn't have to lend them a hand, and so kept traveling the Island, eventually leading to her duel with PainK. But since Yugi wasn't nearby, there was no one there to try and win back Mai's Star Chips, so she was kicked off the island.
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** In addition, since Vivian gave Yugi and the rest of her friends camping supplies, Mai didn't have to lend them a hand, and so kept traveling the Island, eventually leading to her duel with PainK.PaniK. But since Yugi wasn't nearby, there was no one there to try and win back Mai's Star Chips, so she was kicked off the island.
* FriendThatNobodyLikes: PaniK is this for the Eliminators, who no one respects and several actively hate.
* FriendThatNobodyLikes: PaniK is this for the Eliminators, who no one respects and several actively hate.
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* AdaptationalBadass: While Rex is defeated and sent off the island relatively early in canon, here he manages to be the first one to collect ten stars.
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** Espa Roba ends up getting help and encouragement from Vivian during the Duelist Kingdom arc, which results in him deciding NOT to cheat in the future.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In canon, Espa Roba is a cheater when encountered in the Battle City arc. Here, due to Vivian treating him kindly and encouraging him to do his best, he actually decides to keep playing fair.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Vivian is a cute child, even if she gets annoyed when people mentioned it, and it's not helped by the fact that she sometimes tries to sound more mature by using words she's only heard her parents or other adults used. As Joey points out, Vivian can sometimes sound like a "used car salesman," and this only makes her cuter in the eyes of her friends.
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* {{Omake}}: The story has a number of non-canon side-stories, with, as of now, fifteen written by author Frigid Magician, each one exploring various characters, how things have changed as a result of Vivian's actions, and what other characters think about Vivian and how their relationship grows. There are even a few future omakes about possible What-If scenarios. While none of them might now be canon, the author has stated that some of them are good enough that they fit seamlessly with the story and so there will be no harm if someone considers it canon, such as with the Pegasus omake where he and Seto talk over the phone.
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* {{Omake}}: The story has a number of non-canon side-stories, with, as of now, fifteen sixteen written by author Frigid Magician, each one exploring various characters, how things have changed as a result of Vivian's actions, and what other characters think about Vivian and how their relationship grows. There are even a few future omakes about possible What-If scenarios. While none of them might now be canon, the author has stated that some of them are good enough that they fit seamlessly with the story and so there will be no harm if someone considers it canon, such as with the Pegasus omake where he and Seto talk over the phone.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Several of the Elminators are shown too not be as bad as their canon counterparts might make them see, such as:
** The Clown is shown to be a rather honorable Duelist, going so far as to part with his persona as the "dead" Seto Kaiba so he could face defeat with his own face rather than as "some kid's ghost." And the only reason he was pretending to be Kaiba in the first place was because Pegasus ordered him too, and as a professional Duelist, he does as his boss tells him to. Although, that doesn't mean he likes it or even agrees with his boss, which is part of the reason he even gave away Kaiba's deck to Mokuba, seeing it would be better in Mokuba's hand rather than Pegasus' men, as he realized there was more going on in the island than he first thought.
** The Ventriloquist of the Dead is an old man with a fondness for puppets that he uses to [[Main/PungeonMaster tell puns]]. This might be because, in the story, he wasn't the one asked to mimic Kaiba and his deck, so he didn't have to act as serious as his manga counterpart.
** The Clown is shown to be a rather honorable Duelist, going so far as to part with his persona as the "dead" Seto Kaiba so he could face defeat with his own face rather than as "some kid's ghost." And the only reason he was pretending to be Kaiba in the first place was because Pegasus ordered him too, and as a professional Duelist, he does as his boss tells him to. Although, that doesn't mean he likes it or even agrees with his boss, which is part of the reason he even gave away Kaiba's deck to Mokuba, seeing it would be better in Mokuba's hand rather than Pegasus' men, as he realized there was more going on in the island than he first thought.
** The Ventriloquist of the Dead is an old man with a fondness for puppets that he uses to [[Main/PungeonMaster tell puns]]. This might be because, in the story, he wasn't the one asked to mimic Kaiba and his deck, so he didn't have to act as serious as his manga counterpart.
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** In the next duel, Vivian invokes this trope by abusing the exact same loophole to use her opponent's Fusion, Roaring Ocean Snake, to summon Elder Entity N'tss and end the duel.
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** In the next a future duel, Vivian invokes this trope by abusing the exact same loophole to use her opponent's Fusion, Roaring Ocean Snake, to summon Elder Entity N'tss and end secure her win. Many users pointed out the duel.similarity between the two plays.
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** In the next duel, Vivian invokes this trope by abusing the exact same loophole to use her opponent's Fusion, Roaring Ocean Snake, to summon Elder Entity N'tss and end the duel with Mako Tsunami.
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* OminousVisualGlitch: Summoning Elder Entity N'tss prompts the projector fields used for the game's holograms to glitch out and turn the field into a twisted, error-filled mimicry of itself.
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**In the next duel, Vivian invokes this trope by abusing the exact same loophole to use her opponent's Fusion, Roaring Ocean Snake, to summon Elder Entity N'tss and end the duel with Mako Tsunami.
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* LoopholeAbuse: During her duel with Vivian, Rebecca activates Ring of Magnetism, a card that can only be used on monsters on her side of the field. Normally, this would mean Rebecca could only use it on her own monsters, but due to the nature of Duelist Kingdom duels, opponent's monster cards can use their opponent's own field for potential attacks and/or set up their fields. So, Rebecca uses the fact that Vivian's Skull Red Bird is currently flying over her side of the field to her advantage and equips Ring of Magnetism to it, thus making Vivian unable to attack unless she wants to kill her own monster.
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* {{Omake}}: The story has a number of non-canon side-stories, with, as of now, fourteen fifteen written by author Frigid Magician, each one exploring various characters, how things have changed as a result of Vivian's actions, and what other characters think about Vivian and how their relationship grows. There are even a few future omakes about possible What-If scenarios. While none of them might now be canon, the author has stated that some of them are good enough that they fit seamlessly with the story and so there will be no harm if someone considers it canon, such as with the Pegasus omake where he and Seto talk over the phone.
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* PurpleIsPowerful: Vivian's Fusion monsters, who all have purple backgrounds, are some of her best cards. Zellandine, the first fusion she used and also a dark type with a purple symbol on its card, clinched her victory against Yugi with its effect, as did Mbeku in her duel with Rebecca Hawkins.
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* PurpleIsPowerful: Vivian's Fusion fusion monsters, who all have purple backgrounds, are some of her best cards. Zellandine, the first fusion she used and also a dark type with a purple symbol on its card, clinched her victory against Yugi with its effect, as did Mbeku in her duel with Rebecca Hawkins.
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* PurpleIsPowerful: Vivian's Fusion monsters, who all have purple backgrounds, are some of her best cards. Zellandine, the first fusion she used and also a dark type with a purple symbol on its card, clinched her victory against Yugi with its effect, as did Mbeku in her duel with Rebecca Hawkins.
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*ThemeNaming: The Willow family's names are all references with to Anglo-Saxon literature. Vivian's father's full name is Alexander Wulf Willow, with Wulf as a reference to Beowulf, and Vivian's own name is a contemporary version of Vivianne, one of the older names for Nimue, the Lady of the Lake. It also applies to Vivian's deck, as a lot of her monsters, such as Zellandine, are based on myths and legends of old.
