"Yu-Gi-Oh! is now around 10 years old! That's around twice as old as the average fan of this show!"
-Yami Yugi
Tropes
- Angrish: SHUTYOURMOUTHYOULITTLEINGRATE.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Mokuba has started to gain this attitude about his kidnappings.
- Call-Back: Joey tells Tristan to "put down the stick! Remember what happened with the scissors?" Tristan's voice was killed by running with scissors in Season 1.
- The Cameo: Jack Atlas briefly appears to shout out his catchphrase only to be vaporized by Lector.
- After Lector demonstrates his localization powers, Kaiba muses on whatever happened to Bandit Keith. Cut to Keith sleeping at a bar and muttering "In America." while Don't Stop Believing plays in the background.
- Cultural Translation: Lector's "Localization" job.
- Cutting the Knot: When Kaiba's initial threat to force DreamWorks to join him falls apart, he resorts to robbing the CEO of his money with a gun.
- The Dog Bites Back: Presumably the reason Hobson betrays Gozaburo to Kaiba in the flashback sequence.
- Drowning My Sorrows: While discussing localization and America, Kaiba wonders about whatever happened to Bandit Keith. It shows him in a bar passed out from drinking.
- Epic Fail: Kaiba has the pipe that he picked up to fight with knocked out of his hands in mere seconds by a stick-wielding Tristan (no, not another pipe, just a stick).Kaiba: Well, that was highly improbable.
- Flash Back: Weaponized; Kaiba uses it as a distraction to keep Lector's attention away while he devises his plan.
- Grand Theft Me: Tristan is no longer Tristan. Instead he is... EVIL TRISTAN!
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Lector, having turned into Jinzo, has the ability to destroy any internet memes. Kaiba turns this against him by posting a "Localization" meme on the internet, thus making Lector an internet meme and causing him to self-destruct.
- Insistent Terminology: Lector insists on using the term "localization" instead of "Americanization". Because when translating things, America is the only country that matters.
- Ironic Echo: Evil Tristan keeps working the word "reconsider" into his taunts at Kaiba while attacking him. It takes a couple times before Kaiba clues in that he's actually Nesbitt referencing the whole blowing-up-his-research-lab thing.
- Mythology Gag: Joey asks about the motorcycle Evil Tristan is suddenly riding is a Honda. Yugi just responds that his name is Tristan.
- Never Split the Party: Yugi tries to enforce this rule. Too bad that Kaiba works alone.
- Pet the Dog: We don't get to see it, but if you take Mokuba at his word, Pegasus took him on a picnic and Marik ordered him a pizza during their respective kidnappings of him.
- Plot Armor: Kaiba escapes from a flaming bike wreck unscathed just because he's Seto Kaiba.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Kaiba refers to Tristan exclusively as "the funny guy who says the funny things". Too bad that this time Tristan's not laughing.
- Shout-Out:
- Evil Tristan has Kaiba cornered and says "The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the guy kicking your ass with a stick."
- Yugi commands Joey to "use Tackle" on Tristan. Joey promptly lapses into Pokémon Speak.
- Lector's voice is an imitation of Foghorn Leghorn.
- Kaiba asks if Lector is one of Noah's seven evil ex-boyfriends.
- Mokuba demands to be allowed to watch SpongeBob SquarePants while being held hostage.
- Young Kaiba does his own rendition of The Lonely Island's "Like A Boss".
- The Stinger has Joey acting out the "Nyan Cat" meme.
- Take That!: DreamWorks Animation is accused of creating "lame, uninspired animated movies starring B-list celebrities that blatantly rip off vastly superior Pixar movies". Ouch.
- Took a Level in Badass: The show itself, according to Yugi. The copious amounts of Badass Bikers in this episode helps."Okay, so when did this show become amazing?!"
- Translation Convention: Tristan can understand all the other characters perfectly as a robot monkey, but when he talks no one hears anything except for various animal noises.
- Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Yugi cheerfully brings up how Kaiba always loses to him.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: Tristan's kidnapping attempt is quickly complicated by Mokuba's travel sickness.
