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Jill De Lancebeaux (Gill de Randsborg)
Jill De Lancebeaux (Gill de Randsborg)
Voiced by: Yoji Ueda (Japanese), Eric Stuart (English)
A duelist hired by Godwin to duel Aki and to awaken her Signer powers. Believing that she's a witch, he tries to fight her like a knight, but he fails and is defeated by her.
He uses a knight deck.
- Bullying a Dragon: He constantly insults Aki for being a witch, but unlike Kodo Kinomiya he never pushes her Berserk Button.
- Knight in Shining Armor: He wears golden plate armour and uses LV Monsters that are knights.
- Lord Error-Prone: He gets played like a fiddle by Yliaster, and Aki doesn't even break a sweat while crushing him.
- Knightly Sword and Shield: His Duel Disk has the design of a shield, he wears armor like a knight, and he wears a sword in a scabbard. None of that helps.
- Oh, Crap!: Shortly before Black Rose Dragon finishes him. In the dub, he's so shocked by her finishing move that he completely breaks character.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He refuses to Duel Aki until he realizes she's a psychic.
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: In the dub, he talks like a wannabe Shakespearian actor...until he's about to lose, at which point he drops the act..
Shira the Duelist Reaper
Shira the Duelist Reaper
Voiced by: Suzune Okabe (Japanese), Jason Griffith (English)
A duelist hired by Godwin to duel Yusei and to awaken his Signer powers. However, before his match, Mukuro Enjo knocks him out and takes up his place instead.
- Black Cloak: His appearance.
- Death Dealer: He can throw a card hard enough to pierce a helmet.
- Expy: Of the minor character Fortune Salim in the original series, another hooded tournament participant that gets Mugged for Disguise by an uninvited guest.
- Giggling Villain: During his introduction.
- Goofy Print Underwear: As revealed when Mukuro takes his clothing.
- In the Hood: He wears a dark robe with a hood that conceals his face. This becomes handy, when Mukuro steals his clothes and takes up his place.
- Informed Ability: Pretty much everything we know about him.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: He notices that Mukuro is spying on him and throws a card at him without knowing his actual location. This does not stop Mukuro from knocking him out.
- Perma-Stubble: Is shown to have this.
- Red Baron: Duelist Reaper.
- Shinigami: Apparently every duelist he has dueled never duels again, with people calling him the Duelist Reaper.
- The Unfought: Shira was meant to be Yusei's first opponent in the Fortune Cup, but Mukuro Enjo knocked him out, stole his clothes, and took his place.
Mukuro Enjo (Hunter Pace)
Mukuro Enjo (Hunter Pace)
Voiced by: Naoki Yanagi (Japanese), Marc Thompson (English)
The former World Champion of the Riding Dueling world until he was defeated by Jack. He constantly challenges Jack to reclaim his title, but fails every time. He eventually sneaks into the Fortune Cup, takes up the place of Shira the Duelist Reaper, and duels Yusei, but loses.
He uses a "Flaming Skull" deck.
- Accent Adaptation: Given a Texan accent in the dub.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In the dub, it's stated that before losing to Jack, he was the previous champion before his life fell apart after Jack took the title away from him. This results in him having more of a grudge against Jack.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the anime, while he did mug Shira for his disguise, he was an overall good person, played fairly, and a Graceful Loser following his duel with Yusei, an alternate future even showing him as close friends with both Yusei and Aki. In the manga, he's a flat out jerkass who sabotaged Yusei's D-Wheel to better support his lockdown strategy, and is a Sore Loser after Yusei beats him.
- Anime Hair: Has hair that's similar to Crow's.
- Badass Biker: Mukuro knows how to use the high speed and Speed Counters in Riding Duels. He even gets the maximum number of Speed Counters during his duel with Yusei.
- Cool Shades: He's always wearing his sunglasses.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In both anime and manga, he finds ways to exploit the dueling format which haven't yet been repeated by others. In the anime, his Speed Accel Deck exploits the Speed World Field card and Speed Counters. In the manga, he runs a Stall Attack Deck, having figured out that he can exploit the first-to-finish-wins rule by simply attacking, as even if no damage is done his Feel will slow down his opponent.
- Dem Bones: His decks runs on Skullhead monsters.
- Expy: He is similar to Keith Howard from the original series, with both having a similar career and wearing sunglasses, and being allowed to participate in a tournament they weren't invited to. However, he's more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Graceful Loser: Has no hard feelings losing to Yusei in the Fortune Cup, considering his Duel against him to be the best he's ever had. Not so much to Jack, to whom he was kind of a dick.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's abrasive and aggressive, but overall is a nice guy.
- Jive Turkey: Goes with the personality.
- Large Ham: And the audience love it.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In-universe. Apparently, in Z-One's original timeline, Enjo was not only a good friend of Aki and Yusei, but the three of them won the Pegasus J. Crawford Cup Trinidad Riding Duel Grand Prix.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: By all appearances, he's actually a pretty good duelist; he just keeps dueling Yusei and Jack.
- Playing with Fire: Burning Skull's are all fire-based, except for the ace, Supersonic Skull Flame, which is wind-based.
- The Remnant: Mukuro Enjo was once the World Champion with a long list of wins. Then Jack Atlas Atlas'd him, and since then, he's been a Jobber.
- Shout-Out: Many of his monsters reference Ghost Rider.
- Training from Hell: After losing to Jack several times, he practiced driving in a forest at high speeds to make himself better at Riding Duels. The flashback scene shows him narrowly avoiding a tree, meaning one wrong move could result in injury or death.
- The Worf Effect: Mukuro loses all of his on-screen Duels, but he puts up a good fight each time.
- Worthy Opponent: When Mukuro appears and steals Shira's place, Yusei still takes the challenge because Godwin found him a worthy enough match-up. Yusei really enjoys the duel with him.
Professor Frank
Professor Frank
Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Tom Wayland (English)
A duelist hired by Godwin to duel Luca and to awaken her Signer powers. He manages to hypnotize her and her soul travels to the world of Duel Monsters Spirits for the first time in many years. Professor Frank follows her there, where he reveals his true colors. He succeeds in awakening her power, but Luca manages to make the duel into a draw.
He uses a psychiatry-themed deck.
- All Psychology Is Freudian: Professor Frank is a psychologist and a hypnotist, whose cards (most notably Id the Superdemonic Lord, a.k.a. Ido the Supreme Magical Force) are a Shout-Out to Freudian psychology (specifically, psychoanalysis) — especially easy seeing as he's dueling Luca, and his calm demeanor quickly leaves him talking like a lunatic when they both enter the Spirit World. On top of that his ace monster (the aforementioned Id) is in itself an extra Shout-Out to the monster of the same name from Forbidden Planet.
- Ax-Crazy: Revealed in the second part of the double episode.
- Back from the Dead: His ace monster, Ido the Supreme Magical Force, revives itself again and again whenever it is destroyed.
- Enemy to All Living Things: In the Spirit World, he seems to rot and corrupt the place simply by being there.
- Evil Laugh: A freakishly long one in the second part of the duel. You might be familiar with his laugh if you have watched Bleach and know Aaroniero Arruruerie.
- Faux Affably Evil: You can tell from his calm, friendly voice that he cannot be trusted, especially when he repeats his words over and over again. While in the Duel Monsters Spirit World, he drops the formal linguistics altogether and adopts a condescending tone.
- Omnicidal Maniac: He wants to see the world of the Duel Monsters Spirits destroyed, for unknown reasons.
- Perpetual Smiler: He smiles for most of the time that he's dueling. Later, it turns into a Slasher Smile.
- Psycho Psychologist: He's even crazier than his boss.
- Psycho for Hire: By Yliaster.
- Slasher Smile: When his true character is revealed, he's sporting one the whole time.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: After he comes back from the world of the Duel Monster Spirits.
Kodo Kinomiya (Commander Koda)
Kodo Kinomiya (Commander Koda)
Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki (Japanese), Marc Diraison (English)
A Duel Profiler who is hired by Godwin to duel Aki and to awaken her power. He has researched data of her to counter her deck and to confront her with her past. However, he suffers a lot of damage caused by her Psycho Powers and gets hospitalized when he succeeds in awakening her power.
He uses a detective-themed deck built around burn effects and LP gain.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: He thinks he's this, with his ability to analyze an opponent and exploit their weaknesses. Ultimately, he just ends up Bullying a Dragon.
- Authority in Name Only: He's called "Commander Koda" in the dub, even though he doesn't command anything. (Probably meant as a stage name.)
- Bullying a Dragon: He confronts Aki with facts from her past several times during their duel. But when he says that her parents don't love her, he just unlocks some of Aki's sealed power.
- Clothing Damage: His clothes get torn a lot during the duel.
- Crazy-Prepared: Thinks he has something for everything Aki's deck can throw at him. He doesn't seem to realize she can improve it by switching the cards just as anyone else can.
- Greed: His sole motivation. He demands five times his salary for the duel. (Eventually, however, he realizes - not soon enough - it's not worth it.)
- Forgotten First Meeting: Dub only. He was beaten by Akiza during her first year at Duel Academy (he was a senior at the time) and wants revenge.
- Oh, Crap!: When Aki counters his strategy and unleashes her power on him.
- Only in It for the Money: While he's given something of a personal reason in the dub, in the original, this is his only motive, demanding three times his usual fee. That is, until...
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When he realizes that he's risking his life against Aki's Psycho Power, he doesn't care for the payment anymore and just wants to finish the duel as soon as possible.
- Too Dumb to Live: Despite the fact that he realizes that Aki's Psycho Powers are dangerous and that he's risking his life dueling her, he continues the duel to defeat her as soon as possible instead of just surrendering. Not to mention how he's insulting a powerful Reality Warper known to cause disasters when she's angry.
- Villainous Breakdown: When Aki finishes him off with her Psycho Power.
