This is the Character Page for characters that appear on the Yu-Gi-Oh! Tag Force series of games.
(Note: Only characters that are original to the games shall be put here. Characters from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, from which the games are based off, can be found here and here.)
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Player Character
- The Ace: It obviously depends on the player's skillset and luck in duels, but as far as the games' story is concerned, the PC is bar none the best duelist around. How else would he be able to deal with each series' respective Big Bads with the protagonists?
- Back-to-Back Badasses: With whoever he partners with in the Tag Force games.
- Big Eater: Yuma’s story in Tag Force Special reveals him to be one. Taken to Extreme Omnivore levels in the first 3 Tag Force games where it is hinted that he is the only other person besides Jaden who likes Banner's cooking.
- Canon Name: Downplayed. In Duel Links, he's referred to as "The Vagabond".
- The Casanova: He can partner up with practically anyone in the game, with some having faint romantic undertones.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He once tried to put on a shirt while still wearing his hat.
- Continuity Cameo: A Palette Swap version of him makes a brief appearance
◊ in one of the special episodes of the ZEXAL anime, along with a few other Tag Force only characters. - Cooldown Hug: Gives one to Haruto in Kaito’s storyline in Tag Force Special.
- Expy: Of Red. He actually bears a striking resemblance to the older Red depicted in many fan arts.
- Eye-Obscuring Hat: His eyes are always obscured by the brim of his hat. Whenever he is illustrated at an angle where we’d see under his hat, he is shown also to have bangs.
- Face–Heel Turn: In storylines where the partner is an antagonist or an evil version of certain characters, such as Aki from her Duel Academy days (where she's unhinged) or Dark Signer Misty. In case you're wondering, some characters will call you out on this.
- Featureless Protagonist: Downplayed. He has brown hair, but the upper half of his face is constantly obscured by the brim of his signature red hat.
- Gender Bender: In Tag Force 3, the player has a female counterpart that can be seen in Bastion Misawa's ending picture. None of the other games share this female protagonist, but she essentially looks exactly like her male counterpart, but with long hair that reaches her lower back.
- Goggles Do Nothing: His redesign for Tag Force Special features goggles on his cap.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Because of a lack of canon name, the PC's name is of the player's choice.
- Heroic Mime: Played with. Other characters indicate that he does speak; we just don’t see/hear it, or that the game doesn't show his speaking dialogues outside of the "Talk - Numbers" option when interacting with the characters, making him a variation of a Silent Bob.
- Level-Up at Intimacy 5: Level-Up At 2nd Heart: He can start editing his current partner's Deck after completing this point.
- Making a Splash: Starts out with a Water deck in the first game and Tag Force 4.
- Morality Pet: Downplayed. In storylines where the PC allies with the antagonists, their behavior is more or less the same. The only difference is that they treat the PC as a friend at best or view him with respect at worst.
- Not a Date: This happens a lot, especially with Aki, with whom this has transpired multiple times. Happens with Ruka as well. Girls just like to go shopping with him apparently.
- In Tag Force Special, Yuzu also asks him to go shopping with her but she words it in a way that makes it seem like she’s asking him out on a date. He misunderstands and she blushingly clarifies that, yes, she just wants him to go shopping with her.
- Not a Morning Person: Some conversations in Tag Force 2 imply that he's even worse than Jaden when it comes to waking up early in the morning.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: It's never seen in-game, but Tag Force 3 (which is a sort of Continuation Fic for GX Season 4note ) implies the PC dueled Jaden during his stint as the Supreme King and won.
- Robotic Reveal: In Primo's story line in Tag Force 5, he's actually a duel robot from the future that Primo brought with him but lost his memories in the process.
- Series Mascot: He has more or less become this to Yu-Gi-Oh video games as a whole. Outside of the Tag Force series, he is also the player character in Zexal World Duel Carnival and while he isn’t necessarily the player character in the World Championship series, his outfit can be unlocked with 100% Completion in Reverse of Arcadia and Over the Nexus.
- Going further back, both Sacred Cards and Reshef of Destruction featured a silent, hat-wearing protagonist. However, in these games, his hat was blue instead of the iconic red (and you can see his face, albeit as a tiny 32-bit sprite).
- And comes to an end on Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links where (given your avatars are the original anime characters) he appears as an absurdly powerful NPC that gives extra experience when you defeat him.
- The default profile icon in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel clearly resembles him, complete with the goggles from his redesign for Tag Force Special.
- The Stoic: Comes with being a Heroic Mime. Although he does apparently speak, he displays no personality otherwise and always follows his partners’ lead in the story, giving this impression. Interestingly, he is also a Perpetual Smiler.
- Underestimating Badassery: Sometimes the characters in stories give him this treatment. Of course he always proves them wrong.
- Undying Loyalty: It doesn't matter who his partner is, they will stick with them to the bitter end. The most poignant example is the storyline with Jaden in Tag Force 3. By this point, Jaden is hated by pretty much almost the whole academy. The sole exception is the PC, who is implied to have stuck by Jaden and even dueled the hell out of him during his time as the Supreme King.
Game-only Characters
Ageha Aoba (Odelia)
- Playing with Fire: Uses a burn strategy in the Tag Force Special.
Fukiko Kazami (Celia)
- Blow You Away: Uses Wind monsters.
- Meaningful Name: Both fū and kaze are Japanese for "wind".
Hideyuki Takahashi (Jaime)
- Achilles' Heel: Can't do much without A-Counters on all of his decks.
- Alien Tropes: Runs various Aliens of multiple species.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Just like the card game proper, Aliens don't have much of an option against decks like Gladiator Beasts or any deck that gets rid of A-Counters.
Kitaki Mei (Maggie)
- The Ojou
- Ojou Ringlets: In Tag Force 6.
No Money Yayoi (Rei)
- Army of Thieves and Whores: Tag Force 4 has her wielding the Dark Scorpions.
- Boisterous Bruiser: She's eager for a fight when provoked; and her Amazoness deck will answer in kind.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Never revealed in game, but her stronger decks drop the Amazoness monsters for a generic dark deck loaded with various effects, with it's Japanese title being "The Path That Led Me Astray."
- Distinguishing Mark: Her correctional facility tattoo mark is heart shaped, which is weird even by Sector Security standards to have done that.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Between Tag Force 4 to Tag Force 5, her hair isn't as long as it was, preferring for a short, almost raggedy style.
Megumi Rain (Reyna)
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In her introduction in Tag Force 4, she was fairly plain-looking with pale hair and a straight cut for her bangs. 5 refined the design a little more, with a change in both her face and the slight shape of her hair. Then 6 hit with the Girlish Pigtails in a completely new and more silver-ish hair style that she's known for.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Rei Ayanami Expy: Odd-colored (whitish) hair? Check. Doesn't speak a lot? Check. Plays a "weird" (Zombie-Type) strategy? Check. Opens up to the protagonist? Check.
- The Stoic
- When She Smiles: And it's very cute.
Jackal Misaki (Ida)
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's protective of Satellite residents.
- Status-Buff Dispel: Both herself and the opponent's if she runs a skill drain deck in Tag Force 5.
- Tomboy
Naomi Oba (Naomi)
- Crutch Character: If you can get her to join you, you can rely on her deck and monsters to help you out early game.
- Light The Way: Uses a Lightsworn deck.
- Does Not Like Men: Does not like men much, and really disapproves of Akiza hanging out with the player character.
Nobuko Narita (Nataly)
- The Gambler: A lot of cards she uses involve coin tosses.
Reika Hara (Bright)
- Class Representative
- Playing with Fire: Uses a burn strategy. She can use stall cards and one of her aces in Tag Force 5 is Rapid-Fire Magician, using it's ability with a ton of spell cards to quickly burn away your lps.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Can conjure this on occasion.
Richua Ebi (Rita Harker)
- Meaningful Name: Her name is a play on Eviritua, the Japanese name for the "Evigishki" archetype.
Rin Kaiho (Rayna)
- Idol Singer: Though we never hear her sing, even in the Japanese version.
Rinko Aomi (Rebecca Anderson)
- Making a Splash: Uses decks revolving around Atlantean, Mermail, and other Water monsters.
Sakura Higuchi (Cherry)
- Glass Cannon: Her aces are the Sphinx monsters, and she can quickly get them out; but her only means of doing so is using the Pyramid of Light, and she doesn't protect it as well as she should.
- Sleepyhead: Most of her dialogue make references to her sleeping in classes.
- The Beastmaster: She focuses on Beast-Type monsters, her ace being Theinen the Great Sphinx.
Seaside Muramoto (Maki)
- Making a Splash: Uses Water monsters.
- Meaningful Name
Tsan Dire (Tasha)
- Expy: Of Louise, minus the violent tendencies.
- Meaningful Name / Punny Name
- Samurai: Her deck revolves around the Six Samurai.
- Tsundere
Uria Yasuda (Alice)
- Meaningful Name: Her deck focuses on Uria, Lord of Searing Flames.
Yuji Kubo (Terence)
- Boring, but Practical: His normal monster decks just utilize their powerful normal support and beat down the player. His Gemini Deck focuses on using the powerful fusion monster and Gemini support cards to do the same; but with additional effects.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Most of his decks use the earth attribute, normal monsters, or Gemini Monsters.
- Mighty Glacier: Most of his decks lack speed; requiring a tribute for draw power or just not needing to be fast.
Yasuhiko Tanaka (Simon)
- Casanova Wannabe: In Tag Force 5, Sherry notes that his ruse of being a ladies' man is a sham and he's actually quite a manipulative jerk.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: His deck in Tag Force 5 is a Cy-Caliber deck which relies on a simple beatdown strategy using those monsters, but his spell and trap lineup are both efficient and as simple as a Gadget deck's lineup and thus can easily dismantle a player from either row.
Yuki Kato (Anca)
- Crippling Overspecialization: Uses an anti-meta deck.
Yukiko Umino (Kami)
- Making a Splash: Usually fights with Water-Attribute monsters, preferring to use Fish-Type decks.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: Only heard in the Japanese version.
- The Ojou
- Rich Bitch: Gives off this vibe.
Yukino Fujiwara (Wisteria)
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: In the Japanese version, she even has a voice similar to Yuu Asakawa.
- Apocalypse Maiden: In Tag Force 5, her deck revolved around getting out Demise: King of Armageddon. Depending on the deck, it could also be used with Geartown to get out Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Making a Splash: In Tag Force 6, she uses a Gishki deck.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Meat buns. Not present in the international versions.
- Unexplained Accent: Somehow gets a southern accent in Tag Force 5 (or at least, her speech seems to be more of an American Southern accent).
Yuma Miyata (Yuma)
- Light The Way: She fights with Elemental Heroes of the light element.
- The Pollyanna: She's quite the cheerful character even in duels.
