| 1 | [[center:[[WMG:''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'' '''[[Characters/YuGiOhZexal Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | [-[[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALMainCharacters Main Characters]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALFriendsInHeartland Friends in Heartland]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALTsukumoHousehold Tsukumo Household]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALTronFamily Tron Family]] | '''Dr. Faker Faction''' | [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALNumbersDuelists Numbers Duelists]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALBarianWorld Barian World]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALAstralWorld Astral World]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALOther Other]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALMangaOnly Manga Only]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALCards Cards]]]]-]]] |
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| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | [[folder:Kaito Tenjo (Kite Tenjo)]] |
| 7 | A Number Hunter working for the Faker Faction, reporting to Mr. Heartland.\ |
| 8 | See [[Characters/YuGiOhZEXALMainCharacters here]] for his tropes. |
| 9 | [[/folder]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | [[folder:Haruto Tenjo (Hart Tenjo)]] |
| 12 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hart_tenjo_render__legacy_of_the_duelist__by_maxiuchiha22_dbqm9v5.png]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:As of Zexal II]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haruto_normal_4201.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 14 | ->Voiced by: Creator/YukoSanpei (JP), Rebecca Soler (EN) |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Kite's younger brother, whose illness can only be cured if Kaito gathers the Number Cards.\ |
| 17 | In the manga, he owns Number 28: Titanic Moth. |
| 18 | ---- |
| 19 | !!!Tropes exclusive to him in the first half: |
| 20 | * BerserkButton: Do not harm Kite. Do not insinuate that you're going to harm Kite. Do not remind Hart of an event in which Kite was harmed. He ''will'' find a way to utterly wreck you. |
| 21 | * CreepyChild: Before he even appeared, fans were calling him 'Creepy Moon Child' for his appearance in the opening. When he finally did appear, he took the trope up to eleven. |
| 22 | --> '''Haruto''': I need more and more screams... |
| 23 | * CreepyMonotone: Most of the time, though quite noticeable in episode 40; even when he's panicking, his voice is still fairly monotone. |
| 24 | * CuteAndPsycho: Oh look, an adorable little kid who looks up to and loves his brother... and spends many of his days bombing innocent beings of another world. |
| 25 | * DemonicPossession: The source of his "disease." [[spoiler: Alien Possession would be more accurate; the possessor is Vector.]] |
| 26 | * DesignatedVictim: Though he often finds ways to assist in getting himself out of these situations. [[spoiler:Expresses guilt about this (and the fact that Kite and Yuma often endanger themselves to help him) in episode 71.]] |
| 27 | --> [[spoiler:'''Haruto''': Yuma...brother...always for my sake...for me...]] |
| 28 | * DissonantLaughter: In episode 13, when he starts giggling extremely creepily after we've just heard the screams of the beings victim to the trash-bomb attacks on the Astral World. |
| 29 | * DoubleConsciousness: Is essentially split between his forcibly insane half, and his sweet, kind child half, which occasionally surfaces for a heartwarming moment before sinking again. [[spoiler:The "sweet, kind child" half returns for good in episode 71, where it finally breaks through from where it had been locked away.]] |
| 30 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Not so much "evil", but more like he doesn't seem to understand certain social cues. |
| 31 | --> '''Haruto''': Brother, why are they laughing? |
| 32 | * FantasticallyIndifferent: Upon first seeing Astral (who is generally reacted to with shock, awe or similar), he doesn't ask anything about his ghostly appearance, why he's floating, or other entirely valid questions. No, Hart has much bigger concerns. |
| 33 | --> '''Haruto''': ...Aren't you cold? |
| 34 | * FlashbackNightmare: When he attempts to sleep at Yuma's house in episode 40, he has a nightmare about the time he and Kite attempted to escape Heartland Tower. Needless to say, [[ElectricTorture it didn't end well]]. |
| 35 | * ImprobableAge[=/=]OlderThanTheyLook: A flashback Kite has to five years ago shows Hart looking fairly similar to what he does at present, giving the implication that Hart is actually around Yuma's age or slightly younger as opposed to about 8. |
| 36 | * ItsAllMyFault: Has a guilt-trip in episode 71 because he perceives that [[spoiler:the danger Kite and Yuma are in at that point is largely his fault.]] |
| 37 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Started off as just being this to Kite, since whenever he goes missing Kitr tends to go into something resembling berserker rage until he's returned. [[spoiler:As of episode 72-73, he also acts like this to Dr. Faker to a degree, making him the emotional crutch of the Tenjo family in general.]] |
| 38 | * LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Though it may be down to his "disease". |
| 39 | * MentalWorld: The house where he and Kite lived as children, which he drags Yuma into several times to ask for his help in saving Kaito [[spoiler:or saving his own mind from Vetrix's influence]]. |
| 40 | * NoSocialSkills: During his time on the streets of Heartland, he crosses a busy road without traffic lights, sends parts of vehicles to another dimension, and is out of place at the Tsukumo household's dinner until Astral shows him to eat. |
| 41 | ** He really seems to be unaware of his surroundings entirely. |
| 42 | * NowLetMeCarryYou: His speech to Vetrix in episode 43 demonstrates this fairly well. |
| 43 | -->'''Haruto''': You have no idea how much my brother protects me. How much he wants to protect me. This time...I will protect my brother! |
| 44 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: When he has a flashback-induced FreakOut in episode 40, it's mentioned that he could potentially destroy everything with his powers. |
| 45 | * RealityWarper: Is capable of tearing open portals between dimensions. |
| 46 | * SphereOfDestruction: When he's angry, in danger or upset, he can create a sphere which transports anything within it that isn't in contact with him to another dimension. |
| 47 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Caramel is important to him, due to a significant event in his backstory involving it, but his actual favourite food/drink is hot chocolate. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | !!!Tropes exclusive to him in the second half: |
| 50 | * PutOnABus: Justified, given that there's no way in hell that Kite would want him involved in the Interdimensional War again. |
| 51 | [[/folder]] |
| 52 | |
| 53 | [[folder:Orbital 7]] |
| 54 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orbital7_duli.png]] |
| 55 | ->Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (JP), Creator/SeanSchemmel, Darren Dunstan (EN) |
| 56 | |
| 57 | A robot who assists Kite in Number Hunting through the use of a variety of abilities, most prominent of which is the power to stop time. |
| 58 | ---- |
| 59 | * BabiesEverAfter: With Lillybot. How this is possible we'll never know. |
| 60 | * BerserkButton: Flips out when he sees a robot which a criminal trashed. |
| 61 | * ButtMonkey: Poor guy can't catch a break. |
| 62 | * CatchPhrase: "Kashikomari" (meaning roughly, "yes, sir"), translated to "You got it, boss!" in the dub and on his card. |
| 63 | * ClippedWingAngel: When he decides to get dangerous, Orbital 7 can break out a more menacing combat form. But being [[ButtMonkey Orbital 7]], he never succeeds at actually doing anything with it, though not for lack of trying. |
| 64 | * CombiningMecha: The theme of his deck, more or less, which revolves around Googly-Eyes Drum Dragon. |
| 65 | * CoolBike: One of his transformations. |
| 66 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Gets a starring role in Episode 90, which is devoted to his attempt to win Lillybot's heart. |
| 67 | * DoAnythingRobot: Freezes time, acts as glider wings, turn into a motorbike and [[FlightStrengthHeart holds Kite's Duel Disk]]. He goes a step further during Kite's final match with Mizar, acting as a LITERAL FREAKING SPACESUIT so that they can duel on the moon. He even acts as Kite's eyes during the duel because he's exhausted himself from overuse of Photon Transformation. |
| 68 | * ElectronicSpeechImpediment: He has a persistent stutter in the dub. |
| 69 | * FunnyRobot: Doesn't ''intend'' to be, but it often turns out that way. |
| 70 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Back when Kite was an antagonist. Orbital 7 tries so, ''so'' hard to carry the same menace as his boss, but just can't pull it off for the life of him. |
| 71 | * KillSat: Controls one called Orbital 4, which he uses to snipe Yuma as a back-up plan after he loses a duel against the latter. Subverted in that apart from some minor burns and his hair being charred into an afro, Yuma is not seriously harmed. |
| 72 | * RobotBuddy: To Kite. |
| 73 | * ThisIsADrill: His combat form has drills on his arms... but he sucks at using them. |
| 74 | * VileVillainLaughableLackey: While Kite himself was an AntiVillain at worst, only coming into conflict with Yuma due to them both collecting Numbers for different ends, he was played as a deadly serious threat due to [[YourSoulIsMine the way he takes them]] and his general demeanor toward his prey (including Yuma). Orbital 7, on the other hand, was anything but threatening even back then. |
| 75 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: He goes through this after meeting Lillybot. (Which, unfortunately, leads to an embarrassing situation when he thinks Yuma is abusing her.) |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Mr. Heartland]] |
| 79 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr__heartland_render__website__by_maxiuchiha22_ddgf9ll.png]] |
| 80 | ->Voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (JP), Marc Thompson (EN) |
| 81 | |
| 82 | The mayor of Heartland, Mr. Heartland works with Dr. Faker and is Kite's handler. He is the holder of a fake Number card created by Don Thousand: Number 1: Infection Buzz King. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | In the manga he owns No. 82: Heartlandraco and No. 52: Diamond Crab King. |
| 85 | ---- |
| 86 | !!!Tropes exclusive to him in the first half: |
| 87 | * CatchPhrase: "Heart Burning!", said during his public appearances. |
| 88 | * CombatCommentator: During the WDC finals. |
| 89 | * DevilInPlainSight: He's a lot more cruel and evil than his outwardly happy and energetic personality would suggest. Just ask Kaito, who clearly didn't trust the guy any further than he could throw him, not helped by the circumstances under which they first met. |
| 90 | * DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Plummets to his doom after the power to his flying platform is cut. Of course, now it's just a regular DisneyDeath since he comes back in season 2.]] |
| 91 | * TheDragon: To Faker originally, [[spoiler:then to Vector later.]] |
| 92 | * {{Egopolis}}: He named the city after himself! |
| 93 | * {{Expy}}: Like Pegasus, he's a dapper, flamboyant SissyVillain LargeHam who organizes the first major tournament in the series (itself fairly reminiscent of Duelist Kingdom) but hides a secretly twisted and malevolent side. The major distinction between the two is that while Pegasus was once a decent man but fell to evil out of desperation and was even redeemed in the anime continuity [[spoiler:(that part was given to Dr. Faker)]], Mr. Heartland basically comes across as rotten to the core. |
| 94 | ** He's even more of an expy in the manga. [[spoiler:His Heart Monster deck is reminiscent of Pegasus' Toon deck in terms of strategy, and his Mind X-Ray is similar to the Millenium Eye's Mind Scan ability. His fate also mirrors Pegasus' own in the manga: both are killed by another antagonist who ends up being a bigger threat.]] |
| 95 | * FauxAffablyEvil: The charismatic face for Heartland City, who happens to be a stooge for Faker and his mad schemes. It's hard to tell how genuine his niceness is, though Dextra's flashback has him remaining disturbingly cheery while putting duelists through brutal training, suggesting it's largely a facade, moreso in the dub where his interactions with Kite drip with smarminess. The fact that he's willing to use what are essentially child soldiers as followers should say a lot about the kind of person he really is, emphasized in Kite's flashback where he basically coerces Kite into working for him if he wants to see Hart again, all while remaining disturbingly polite and cordial. |
| 96 | * GratuitousEnglish: Heart Burning! |
| 97 | * InsistentTerminology: |
| 98 | -->"It's ''Mr. Heartland-sama''." |
| 99 | * LackOfEmpathy: He presents himself as friendly and caring towards his underlings, but never once shows a shred of genuine concern. |
| 100 | * LargeHam: When commentating. |
| 101 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: In Gauche's flasback from episode 59. |
| 102 | * SissyVillain: In fact, in the dub version, when Yuma first meets him, he makes the same mistake that Judai first made when he fist met Professor Chronos in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', mistaking him for the wrong gender. (Heartland wasn't amused either, but he forgot about it when he saw Yuma's pendant, which he was ''very'' interested in.) |
| 103 | %%* SmugSnake |
| 104 | * TrainingFromHell: [[spoiler:Subjects a lot of young duelists to this in Droite's flashback in episode 54]]. |
| 105 | * TheUnfought: He never gets the chance to Duel before [[spoiler:Orbital 7 sends him plummeting down into Barian World. However, he does get a proper Duel in the second half.]] |
| 106 | %%* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans |
| 107 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Gets sent down the garbage chute with the robots to the Astral World without any indication of his true identity or motivation. Subverted with his return in ''Zexal II''.]] |
| 108 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: In fact, it is doubtful that anyone in Heartland City even knows ''now'' what he was really up to. |
| 109 | |
| 110 | !!!Tropes exclusive to him in the second half: |
| 111 | %%* AnimalMotifs: Flies. |
| 112 | * BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Pretty much anything concerning Kite, or Kite interrupting him/not acting the way he wants.]] |
| 113 | * BigBadWannabe: He's thoroughly convinced he's a lot more important than he really is, and seems genuinely convinced that [[spoiler:the Number 1 card he receives is the real deal]]. He's just a disposable pawn, and while he's grandstanding, his boss is actively chuckling at how wrong he is. |
| 114 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: [[spoiler:His ace monster, ''Infection Baal Zebul'' (very obviously alluding to {{Beelzebub}}) was renamed ''Infection Buzz King'' in the dub.]] |
| 115 | * CatchPhrase: [[spoiler:"Fly Burning!" is his new one ever since he turned into a fly and after becoming a human again.]] |
| 116 | * DeathOfAThousandCuts: His Infection Deck gradually chips away at the opponent's Life Points with several cards doing 300 points of damage which seems minimal at first but eventually stacks up. |
| 117 | * TheDragon: [[spoiler:It appears he, rather than a Barian, has become Vector's chief agent, even commanding numerous other agents in the field. Including scary, memory stealing Semimaru.]] |
| 118 | * TheFightingNarcissist: [[spoiler:Not only is he Vector's Dragon, but he's also narcissistic and break downs into tears when a statue of himself is destroyed.]] |
| 119 | * TheFinalTemptation: [[spoiler:Not truly a straight example – as Yuma is wide awake – but right before Yuma duels Semimaru he makes an offer like this that he sees as a way for Yuma to avoid trouble, especially now that Astral is missing and presumed dead. If Yuma simply gives him the Numbers, he’ll release the hostages without a fight, and even tell Erazor to delete everyone’s memories of Astral, forever, making their life the way it was before the fighting ever began. Still, Yuma can’t make himself agree, seeing those memories as priceless. (Clearly, Heartland didn’t understand the bond between them any more than Jin did.)]] |
| 120 | * FixingTheGame: [[spoiler:He tries to rig the duel between Trey and Yuma and Erazor, halving their life points and adding it to Semimaru's.]] |
| 121 | * ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:Has been turned into a fly. Vector gave him some of Don Thousand's power, resulting in him transforming back and becoming TheDragon]] |
| 122 | * FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler:You thought it was bad when Astral vanished after the duel with Number 96? Well, now Heartland is back, more powerful, and has made a nightmarish new scheme with Vector.]] |
| 123 | * KilledOffForReal: |
| 124 | ** [[spoiler:This ''probably'' happened after he dueled Kite during the Legendary Numbers War, and it was ''not'' a DisneyDeath this time. He was assaulted by a mob of the [[TheVirus Fake Numbers]] he had used to overrun Heartland City, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and was burned alive]]. Pretty much confirmed in the final episode as he and the other members of the Fearsome Four are the only ones not to be revived.]] |
| 125 | ** [[spoiler:Heavily implied to happen to him after losing to Kyoji in the manga.]] |
| 126 | * OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Eventually he assumes a Barian form, which is hideous, even when compared to other residents of Barian World. It's still insect-like, but hulking, muscular, and demonic, with a head that mutates into a bulbous thorax with jagged teeth and a set of jagged mandibles across his face. He also has seven red eyes along his abdomen and one at the top of his forehead.]] |
| 127 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: Despite their name, the ''Infection Flies'' are not Insect-Type monsters, but Fiends. [[spoiler:This alludes to Heartland using them to summon his ace monster, Buzz King.]] |
| 128 | * SuperEmpowering: [[spoiler:It appears Semimaru got his powers from Heartland.]] |
| 129 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: An ImpliedTrope, ''and'' a subversion. He ''thinks'' he's this, and ''admits'' he's one. In fact, [[spoiler:before his duel with Kite]], he quotes the famous quote on the Trope page by Bernard of Clairvaux almost word-for-word. However, it's doubtful most would agree he does what he does for anything other than greed and lust for power. |
| 130 | |
| 131 | |
| 132 | !!!Tropes exclusive to him in the manga: |
| 133 | * CheatersNeverProsper: He is heavily dependant on his "Mind X-Ray" trick but it backfires in his duel with Kyoji [[spoiler:due to the technology not being able to comprehend the Blank Numbers]] which causes Heartland to underestimate his opponent and costs him the match. |
| 134 | * ConMan: According to Kyoji, this was his profession prior to meeting Faker with a total of 689 victims. |
| 135 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Decides to eliminate Kyoji once he reveals he knows both Heartland's past and the truth about Faker.]] |
| 136 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Heavily implied to be his fate after his loss to Kyoji who taunts Kaito with Heartland's broken glasses.]] |
| 137 | * TheManInFrontOfTheMan: [[spoiler: Due to Faker being DeadAllAlong, it turns out that his lackey Heartland was calling the shots instead.]] |
| 138 | * PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:After Faker's death, Heartland ceased the attacks on Astral World out of concern the Earth could also be destroyed as a result.]] |
| 139 | * TheUnfought: He never duels Yuma or his friends throughout the manga's run. When he meets Yuma, he makes a WeCanRuleTogether attempt on Yuma, only for Yuma to rebuff and scrutinize him in return, at which point he sends Yuma and co. through a trapdoor for the other duelists at Heartland to duel Yuma in his stead. [[spoiler:His only duel in the manga is against Kyoji, to whom he lost, and it's heavily implied that he's KilledOffForReal afterward.]] |
| 140 | * XRayVision: His glasses allow him to scan through his opponent's deck to give him an advantage. They also allow him to partially see through Astral's invisibility, but only showing him Astral's silhouette. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Dr. Faker]] |
| 144 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr__faker_render__legacy_of_the_duelist__by_maxiuchiha22_dbqm9u2.png]] |
| 145 | ->Voiced by: Shinji Ogawa (JP), Ryan Stadler (EN) |
| 146 | |
| 147 | The man at the center of the Faker faction. The mad scientist who controls Heartland City from behind the scenes; he created the Photon series to hunt Numbers, as well inventing the D-Gazer contacts and Duel Anchor that Kite, Nistro, Dextra and the Arclight brothers use. Bears a mysterious grudge against Xyz Monsters in general, and has bone to pick with the Astral World. The main antagonist to the first three seasons of Zexal. His deck theme is "Garbage," and based on getting out two main Number monsters; Number 53: Heart-eartH and Number 92: Heart-eartH Dragon. |
| 148 | ---- |
| 149 | * ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:To Kite, once his plan is revealed and after Kite becomes one of Yuma's allies. During the showdown pitting Faker against Kite, Shark, and Yuma, Kite [[CallingTheOldManOut calls him out on not trusting his own son with the whole truth despite everything he did for him.]]]] |
| 150 | * BigBadEnsemble: With Vetrix and [[spoiler:unknown to both, Vector.]] |
| 151 | * DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:His fate in the manga turns out to be this. He died of natural causes a year before the story began, but Mr. Heartland covered it up to usurp his positions for his own ends.]] |
| 152 | * DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:His deal with the Barians.]] |
| 153 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: For the first half of the anime. Starting from ZEXAL II, the Barians take over as the main antagonists. |
| 154 | * EinsteinHair: One look at his wild, spiky hair should give away that he's an evil scientist, if his name didn't do that already. |
| 155 | * EvilGenius: Most of Kite's cool toys and the Sphere Field [[spoiler:and, by extension, the garbage cannon destroying Astral World]] were Faker's inventions. |
| 156 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 157 | ** His Heart-eartH has several aesthetic and effect similarities to Pegasus' Relinquished from the original show in how it gains AttackReflector properties after equipping monsters while confusing opponents with its initial paltry ATK. |
| 158 | ** Faker's appearance cribs some design notes from one [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]], most notably the hair. |
| 159 | * GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Everything he has done was all for the sake of keeping Haruto alive.]] |
| 160 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Once he lays things bare in a MotiveRant and begins to make amends with Kite, seemingly about to surrender the Duel against him, Yuma, and Shark, Vector possesses him and forces him to keep Dueling instead. Fortunately, he's freed upon Vector's defeat.]] |
| 161 | * LargeHam: Good god, does he ham it up. |
| 162 | * LoopholeAbuse: In the three-on-one duel against Yuma, Kite, and Shark during the SeasonFinale of season one, he starts the duel with 12,000 Life Points (triple the normal amount) while his opponents share a pool of 4,000. (And this is ''his'' condition.) While it seems fair on the surface, it is not; it gives him a ''huge'' advantage. (If he had let his three opponents each use an ''individual'' Life Point total of 4,000, ''then'' him starting with triple the amount might have been fair. That being said, his opponents essentially get to take three turns in a row before he gets his next one, which ''may'' have balanced things out somewhat if his Numbers weren't so absurdly powerful that he rips through their LP even on their turn.) |
| 163 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:His love for Hart, his son, has led him to commit several horrific acts over the course of the series. His betrayal of Byron and Kazuma, collecting the Number Cards, and the attempted destruction of the Astral World were all for the sake of keeping Hart alive.]] |
| 164 | * MadScientist: [[spoiler:But not as mad as everyone thought.]] |
| 165 | * ManBehindTheMan: He's Mr. Heartland's boss, actually. [[spoiler:The Barian World could be considered this to Dr. Faker]]. |
| 166 | * ObviouslyEvil: His name is "Faker". He also has the looks, mannerisms, and [[EvilLaugh evil cackle]] of a bona-fide MadScientist. Which makes TheReveal of him being [[spoiler:GoodAllAlong]] even more surprising. |
| 167 | * OhCrap: After a momentary HopeSpot, [[spoiler:Vector says Faker's name, and you can practically see him crap bricks when he hears it.]] |
| 168 | * OneWingedAngel: Turns into a gigantic cyborg to open his duel with Yuma, Kite, and Shark. |
| 169 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: For most of ZEXAL I. Justified since he's already done his part, there's nothing he can do to advance his plan at this point. |
| 170 | * PuppetKing: [[spoiler:His role in the manga is... rather different, to say the least. He'd actually already died about a year before, of the same disease ailing his son, and [[BastardUnderstudy Heartland]] locked up his mummified corpse in his lab and projected holograms of him to legitimize his own corrupt rule]]. |
| 171 | * TheReveal: Fans were more then a little surprised to find out he's actually [[spoiler:Kite and Hart's father.]] |
| 172 | ** [[spoiler:Even more surprising is the revelation that he actually ''cares'' about his children, and in fact, has been doing everything for the sake of keeping Haruto alive]]. |
| 173 | ** In the manga, the fact that [[spoiler:he was DeadAllAlong; all the times we'd seen him were ruses created by Heartland]]. |
| 174 | * RobotMaster: Presumably he designed and built the small army of robots used to collect the trash which is then used [[spoiler:as ammunition in his assault on Astral World]], which are later used by Heartland as MechaMooks against Shark and Kaito. |
| 175 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Seems to believe that the 'Astral World' is a threat to the world as a whole, and so is doing all this to fight it. |
| 176 | ** [[spoiler:That actually turns out to be a lie, but surprisingly, this trope is still played straight. The truth is that Faker made a deal with Barian World; in exchange for keeping Hart alive, Faker would destroy the Astral World]]. |
| 177 | ** [[spoiler:Played straight in the manga, as his attacks on the 'Astral World' are his desperate attempts to cure Haruto, not knowing that doing so play straight into the hand of [[HopeCrusher E'Rah]], who cursed Haruto into being fragile since birth.]] |
| 178 | * XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:While Kite's loss against Vetrix was unexpected and surprised him, it still didn't affect his plans. His real goal was for as many Numbers as possible to be collected so that they could be used in the Sphere Field, the arena for the WDC finals which collects their energy for his own use. With Vetrix taking Kite's Numbers, nothing actually changed.]] |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:Gauche (Nistro)]] |
| 182 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_m8j0mwnWqD1rwvm9so9_1280_9082.png]] |
| 183 | ->Voiced by: Creator/GoShinomiya (JP), Creator/JasonGriffith (EN) |
| 184 | |
| 185 | A hot-blooded duelist and one of Heartland's assistants, he originally takes the role of administrator for the WDC. However, his duel with Yuma causes him to enter the tournament in order to settle the score with him. His first deck shown is a "Bounzer" deck, with the ace monster being Photon Strike Bounzer. His real deck is a "Heroic" deck, with the ace monster Heroic Champion - Excalibur. |
| 186 | ---- |
| 187 | !!!Tropes exclusive to him in the first half: |
| 188 | * AttackAttackAttack: A major theme of his Heroic Champion deck is raw power, particularly Heroic Champion - Excalibur. |
| 189 | * BoisterousBruiser: He's got all the hallmarks, being a tough, loveable, stronghearted sort who loves a good fight. |
| 190 | * ButtMonkey: At times, especially after swearing he will be the only one to beat Yuma/Astral. Subverted when he makes YUMA the Butt-Monkey during his duel with Tomboy Tillbitty, calling him out for being a kid who eats junk food. |
| 191 | * ChildhoodFriends: With Dextra. |
| 192 | * ChildSoldiers: [[spoiler:A flashback he has in episode 59 strongly suggests Mr. Heartland took him and Dextra in at a young age.]] |
| 193 | * EvilCounterpart: He's basically an older Yuma who happens to be working for the first series' villains. Note, older, not necessarily grown-up. |
| 194 | * {{Foil}}: To Dextra. |
| 195 | * FieryRedhead: He has red hair and is very hot-blooded. |
| 196 | * FriendlyEnemy: A bit of a side effect due to his mindset of being TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou, but Nistro seems to be warming up to Yuma. So much so that [[spoiler:after losing to him in episode 59, he gives him "Heroic Champion - Excalibur".]] |
| 197 | * HeroicSecondWind: His ace monster can't attack unless Nistro is about to lose, but when it can attack, it can double its attack to 4000, meaning it can take out almost anything it's aimed at. He also has a card called Heroic Chance which doubles a Heroic monster's attack points, which he used in a pinch to defeat The Sparrow. |
| 198 | * HotBlooded: He could give [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Jack Atlas]] a run for his money in this department and even uses cards that punish defending, forcing his opponent to meet him on the attack. |
| 199 | * HotBloodedSideburns: A very boisterous, high-spirited Duelist with sideburns that look sharp enough to cut glass. |
| 200 | * HonorBeforeReason: Opts to restore Yuma's life points to 4000 with "Heroic Gift" so they can have a duel on equal ground, despite it being suggested that Mr. Heartland rigged the duel coaster to give Nistro an easy win. |
| 201 | ** In addition, he blatantly asks Yuma to use Utopia in the duel when normally at this point in the series, Yuma doesn't use Number monsters against opponents to who lack Numbers of their own. |
| 202 | * LargeHam: Jason Griffith turns it up in the dub, to the point where Nistro's dialogue borders on comic relief whenever he's not Dueling. |
| 203 | * ManlyMan: He's incredibly muscular, sideburned, and gruff, all his strategies are based on extreme brute power and sacrificing his LP while using burly, powerful Warriors and Beast-Warriors, and his personality is all about being HotBlooded and seeking out strong fights. |
| 204 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Dextra. |
| 205 | * RedOniBlueOni: Nistro is the red to Dextra's blue. |
| 206 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: After fighting Yuma once, and discovering that Yuma has the "original Number", Nistro makes it his mission to beat Yuma and one-up Kite. |
| 207 | * ThemeNaming: Gauche and Droite mean "left" and "right" in French, respectively. |
| 208 | ** You can also apply this to their dub names, as "Nistro" is short for "sinistro", which means "left" in Italian, while "Dextra" comes from "dexter", another term for one's right which also means female right-handed in Portuguese. |
| 209 | ** Also with his Heroic Champions, which are named after mythical weapons: [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Excalibur]], Gandiva and [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Kusanagi]]. |
| 210 | * VillainousFriendship: Type 1 with Dextra. |
| 211 | * VillainyFreeVillain: In his initial showing against Flip, he comes across like this: nothing about what he's doing is actually ''wrong'' (he's just punishing Flip for being a cheater, and even Yuma admits that Flip deserves to get disqualified); he's just being very rude and extreme about it. |
| 212 | * WorthyOpponent: Considers Yuma this. He even [[spoiler:heals him to 4000 Life Points in episode 59 so they can have a true duel, and gets annoyed when Yuma doesn't go at full strength. And after losing, he gives Yuma his Heroic Champion - Excalibur]]. |
| 213 | * YearsTooEarly: Said to his first opponent on the Duel Coaster. |
| 214 | * YoungerThanHeLooks: He's 19, but sure as hell doesn't look like it. |
| 215 | |
| 216 | !!!Tropes exclusive to him in the second half: |
| 217 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Courtesy of [[spoiler:Alito]]. |
| 218 | * FriendToAllChildren: He's a pro-duelist for the children. |
| 219 | * HenshinHero: As part of his "friend to all children" image. He's even called "Nistromo the Star Voyager" in the dub. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Droite (Dextra)]] |
| 223 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_m9dzhvuvs01qhwi1z_3510.png]] |
| 224 | ->Voiced by: Yumi Fukamizu (JP), Creator/EvaChristensen (EN) |
| 225 | |
| 226 | One of Heartland's assistants alongside Nistro, Dextra is quite calm, cool and collected, and administrates the WDC alongside Nistro. She joins the tournament with him, however, and eventually shows her own motivations for doing so. Her deck theme is the "Butterspy" monsters, with her ace being "Photon Pappilloperative", and it runs on a combination of lockdown and burn tactics that allow her low-ATK monsters to deal a lot of damage. |
| 227 | |
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| 229 | !!!Tropes exclusive to her in the first half: |
| 230 | * ActionGirl: She is a female duelist strong enough to be one of the WDC administrators. |
| 231 | * ChildhoodFriends: With Nistro. |
| 232 | * ChildSoldiers: [[spoiler:A flashback Gauche has in episode 59 strongly suggests Mr. Heartland took her and Gauche in at a young age.]] |
| 233 | * {{Foil}}: To Nistro. |
| 234 | * IceQueen: Her usual demeanor, but she does have a hidden softer side towards Kite. |
| 235 | * IOweYouMyLife: To Kite, who saved her once, which is why she's been so protective of him. |
| 236 | * LightIsNotGood: While not evil, she is still an antagonist with LIGHT monsters. |
| 237 | * PinkIsFeminine: Dextra wears a lot of pink, purple, and white. |
| 238 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Nistro. Him just asking her to keep Yuma a secret from Heartland is enough for her to do so. |
| 239 | * PrettyButterflies: Dextra's entire deck consists of them. Though, strangely enough, only one of them is actually an Insect-Type monster, all the others being Warrior-type. |
| 240 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: Well mostly, since her hair has some purple in it. |
| 241 | * RedOniBlueOni: Dextra is the blue to Nistro's red. |
| 242 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: Most notably in episode 50, where she shows a lot of concern about Kite when she finds out he's slowly dying from his Photon Transformation. |
| 243 | * ThemeNaming: Gauche and Droite mean "left" and "right" in French, respectively. |
| 244 | ** You can also apply this to their dub names, as "Nistro" is short for "sinistro", which means "left" in Italian, while "Dextra" comes from "dexter", another term for one's right which also means female right-handed in Portuguese. |
| 245 | * VillainousFriendship: If she and Kite can be considered villains at all, they would be considered Type III. She holds a Type One with Nistro, her [[PlatonicLifePartners Platonic Life Partner]]. |
| 246 | * WeakButSkilled: Her monsters are lacking in attack and her ace monsters are a bit weak, but she uses many Spells and Traps to make them very dangerous. |
| 247 | * YoungerThanSheLooks: Not as drastic as Nistro, but 19 year-old Dextra looks like she could easily be a matured woman in her twenties. |
| 248 | |
| 249 | !!!Tropes exclusive to her in the second half: |
| 250 | * BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: In the team duel between her and Yuma against Alito and a {{Brainwashed}} Nistro, she tried this to cure Nistro, powering up her monster to incredible levels and attacking his monster, which had an effect that dealt Battle Damage to both of them, but kept Nistro from losing all his Life Points. She didn't fully cure him, but he remembered his true fighting style, and switched to fighting offensively, letting Yuma win. (As a bonus, this beat Alito's true memories ''into'' him.) |
| 251 | * TheComicallySerious: At one point, it is imagined that she is wearing the same costume as Nistro. It is hilarious. |
| 252 | * DefrostingIceQueen: After becoming Nistro's manager, she is more noticeably friendly towards other people. |
| 253 | * LightIsGood: Her Photon Xyz monsters, like "Alexandra Queen" and "Pappilloperative". |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
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