You know they could have won even earlier than you suggested... Atem activates Dark twin burst bumping DM attack to 4.5k then Judai activates Neos spiral force to double it to 9k and suddenly that's game as battle damage is enough to otk Paradox
@@number16kelbax its not so much he's confused i think its more he's amazed there is a new way to get powerful monsters and likes it as he puts it (kinda makes you wonder if he got the chance to see it down the line if this movie didn't happen before that)
It’s almost surreal how equal all of the protagonists were in this duel. You can tell the writer took great care to keep the duel from turning into a one man show.
@@angelreyes8714 the way u gotta look at is that all 3 of them couldn't play to there full poteinal. They each had like 2 turns in this duel. While paradox had like a billion lol. But jokes aside paradox was able to get all his best cards everyturn while the main cast had 2 turns each to make a play
It cracks me up every time when they're all activating their duel disks 0:14 Yugi: entire duel disk spins into place, with his cape billowing in the wind Jaden: extends his duel disk to double in size and strikes a fighting stance Yusei: duel disk exists, sparking electricity like it's about to kill him in a freak wiring issue
@@4137Swords Because it's his duel runner disk and it rarely comes out of the runner unless he's ground dueling. No need for it to compact itself down if it's never gonna be on his arm for long periods of time.
It’s entirely possible that he built it himself from spare parts It would explain why it’s orange (a color he wears daily) in certain places where other Duel Disks have different colors And either he didn’t have all the parts needed to build in the retractable function, or, like somebody else said, maybe he simply felt it wasn’t needed It *is* often on his runner and really nowhere else
@@tristantaccad4644 that's basically entirely the case. Yusei managed to come a cross an old non-functional DC era Duel Disk and got it working again. But he was using scrap and spare parts so he wasn't able to make it retract like say Yugi's. This wasn't really a problem seeing as it basically always was on his Duel Runner but it did make it horribly cumbersome should he have to duel on foot. Notably someone like Jack Atlas who was in a similar position to Yusei before hitting the big leagues now has a proper Duel Disk that can fold and retract even with it usually being plugged into his own Duel Runner because he actually could just buy one. This does mean Yusei's Duel Disk, as good of a mechanic as he is, probably also could kill a person from a wiring error.
The entire reason that Yugi gives Jaden the "Winged Kuriboh" Card at the start of GX is because Yugi knew who he was, as well as the fact that he would use the Kuriboh cards because of the events of Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time and thats my theory
@@hollowlight_png3850 It would have given speed warrior 7200 atk, not enough to win the duel, but having your boss monster clapped by a 2 star is insult enough.
My favorite part of this movie is when Yugi goes "Synchro what?" after Yusei summons Junk Gardna. The line was so masterfully delivered that I can never help but to laugh at that line
The best part is that moment of "watdafaq?" is shared by his generation of watchers. Trying my best to hear the new mechanics added to YGO is like being stuck in a foreign country.
To my fellow Atems/Yugiboomers out there, the designs of Extra Deck summons are just Fusions with different (but usually just less) specificity each time. Fusion: 2 or more specific named monsters, using a specific named spell as the catalyst. Synchro: Fuse using varied levels rather than names, using a specific type of monster as the catalyst. XYZ: Fuse using specific and exact matching levels, no catalyst required for the summon itself but instead using the materials as a catalyst for the card's effects. Pendulum: Not really an extra deck mechanic so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Link, MR4: Fuse using any monsters of any kind, using a specific zone on your board as the first catalyst and the arrows of previous links as subsequent catalysts. Link, MR5: Lmao who needs catalysts or levels or anything else, just fuse your board, who gives a damn anymore, Konami just wants your money and they don't care about consistent game design
@shuttlecrossing1433 I see what you're getting at. HOWEVER: 1. As fusion got more support, the requirements got less specific. Just look at any modern-day fusion deck. Almost all of them just say, "Any 2 monsters of *Insert archetype or attribute here*" 2. While rare, there are certain sychros that required specifically named monsters. I.E. The majestic synchros and nordics. Pretty much everything you said is accurate. I'm just being pedantic.
Imagine if Yugi drew Slifer, that would mean all of the cards in the hands of Yusei, Jaden, and Yugi would be added to it's ATK since they share a field
@@Sally-uu3yt Oh Jaden already had it in his deck in episode 45 or 47 of his duel with "Amnael" he used it to summon "Winged Kuriboh" and then a replay occurred and Amnael took out his Winged Kuriboh. So clearly Jaden much like Atem can will some cards into existence... not like this its a new thing... Also this is the 9th use of "Flute of Summoning Kuriboh" Spell Card.
It’s a missed opportunity to either have Yusei riding around in a motorcycle while everyone else is dueling normally or having jaiden and Yugi having to learn how to ride a motorcycle on the fly for the duel.
"now yusei, i just want to remind you that this card game is not going to take place on a motorcycle" -Atem, Abridged movie (I dont remember the fully quote
Unfortunately for Paradox he was also dueling against Yugi's Millennium item, the Millennium Puzzle. In addition to housing the spirit of Atem, it has the power to alter destiny just as long as you use it with the right mindset. Paradox's defeat was set even before the start of the duel.
Funny thing is. This is the Yami Yugi before he remembered his name and became all powerful to know the means of vanquishing Zorc and even had the power to control fate itself. Would that mean he himself would have dealt Paradox in all by himself if that was the Atem he’d deal with?
DerLuukee Yugi literally just full spell card bricked. Even if he went against another DM era character, starting out with that hand is a mission and a half for the millenium puzzle to save him from.
@@NestedQuantifier Not quite. The difference here is that Paradox's deck is synergistic with itself, whereas the protagonists were dependent on more generic combinations of cards. Each of the protagonists also only had two turns, while Paradox had six, meaning he could dig deeper and get more of his combos out. There was only the one specific synergy between Jaden and Yugi in regards to Flute of Summoning Kuriboh. In effect, the game was dependent on what the protagonists' starting hands were when it comes to whether or not they could win, while Paradox had the benefit of getting more cards and not having to be reliant on awkward boardstates.
@yourdivineandgloriousmaste4207 He's right, it is Atem, because as it was summoned, Atem had already taken control over Yugi during Jaden's last attack
Would yusei even recognize it as something magical and special or would be just assume it's a really big monster? I don't think he's ever heard of the Egyptian gods
@@flameconvoy7424 I mean by this point, Yusei had already faced the Earthbound Immortals so he'd probably expect they'd be powerful based on the fact they need 3 Tributes
I think it actually would've been EVEN WORSE if it was a 1v3 but either of those two went first instead of Yusei. In a 1v1, Jaden could've played Flute of Summoning Kuriboh to stall out one turn, and then he could've *prayed* to draw Yubel to Fusion Summon Neos Wiseman, and then he could've attacked and won the duel. As for Yugi...well yeah there's nothing he could've done lol
@@hikarimemeirooficial It wouldn't matter. Even if he summons Dark Magician and destroys a monster with Dark Magic Twin Burst, it would've ran out next turn and then he'd have to deal with the monster he didn't destroy, Malefic Stardust, Malefic Paradox, and Malefic Claw Stream.
@@hikarimemeirooficial Mahad wouldn't be game because he only gets to 5K and Paradox's monsters were 4K. So it'd only be 1K damage, and then the same thing that I said before would still happen. Except I guess instead of getting OTK'd super duper easily, it'd be Claw Stream on Mahad, Dark Magician destroyed by battle, and then direct attack. Also he didn't even have Mahad because this takes place right before Waking the Dragons.
I always had Jaden as the MVP. He knew Yugi’s deck and quickly picked up Yusei’s strengths to play off of along with some clutch saves. Also how has there not been another one of these movies made.
"was Paradox about to defeat Yugi/Jaden/Yusei?" Of course!! Brothers Para and Dox are the elite amongst the elite no words can describe the manner in which the duo had them beat but of course you might be referring to another thing but no matter, brothers ParaDox duel like they're on 0 ping
12:28. Honestly I think that detail sets up that first scene from GX. Yugi giving a younger Jayden Winged Kuriboh. He could have remembered this duel and had Winged Kuriboh and gave Jayden that card so he would have a reason to put that card needed to summon a Kuriboh later on. Keeping history in tact and not making a paradox situation (no pun intended)
Protagonists: make a misplay Also protagonists: there’s just no way that we can win, his cards are epic beasts. He duels to well because he’s from another time
Paradox: It is simple. Yugi goes then I go, then Jaden goes and then I go and then Yusei goes and I go! Sounds fair right? Yugi: Well you got to be kidding! We each get one turn per round and you get like a gajillion. Paradox: I’m glad you understand!
@The Pokemon Master and Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Yusei: Jaden Jaden: What? Yusei: I'm going to go back in time, and punch you and myself for bringing you to this time
I think the reason they had Stardust dragon deal the final blow rather than Dark magician is because it’s the most satisfying narratively. That was the signature monster stolen by paradox while Yusei also had the strongest character connections to Paradox since he appeared in 5ds
It always bugged me Paradox didn't seem to know what stardust's effect was, despite stealing it, having it in his deck, summoning it and creating an evil counterpart of it. I mean it didn't matter in the duel but still.
To be fair, he had only recently stolen it, and his records only told him "the most powerful dragons in Duel Monsters", not necessarily what their effects were. There are also some differences between the Malefics and their counterparts (such as Malefic Rainbow working with other Malefics instead of Crystal Beasts). He was probably only aware that Stardust was among the ranks of the most powerful dragons, and basically only stole it to make the Malefic version without considering the actual reason why Stardust was one of the strongest dragons in the first place.
technically, yusei misplayed on paradox's 2nd turn, so when paradox attacked with malefic rainbow dragon, yusei couldve used junk gardna's effect to switch malefic cyber end dragon to defense, then use its other effect to switch rainbow to defense, which would prevent the trio from taking any damage at all
@@amberknight7301the issue is Jaden knows so Yusei could’ve been told about Cyber end dragon’s piercing battle damage before the duel began, meaning Yusei would’ve had knowledge of the cards and effects from Jaden’s time
For Me The Best Part Of The Movie Is When they All Say Their Catchphrases In A row. Jaden: Get Your Game On. Yusei: Let's Rev It Up. Yugi: It's Time To Dual.
Heres a question. why did Paradox need to travel to a specific point in time where Duel Monsters already existed and has effected the world to kill Pegasus when he could of just went to a time before pegasus was either born or before Pegasus created Duel Monsters? That would of been easier and he wouldn't really need to steal all those dragons to do so.
I love how in the intro it's like "Yeah, tru, Yusei is from the future but Paradox is from the MORE distant future" like that makes it any more believable.
The thing was they were trying to ensure Yusei had Stardust Dragon on his field, they were treating the duel as a rescue operation in a manner of speaking so Paradox can't perform some villainous escape with Stardust in hand because plot convinience. Though, it's weird that they didn't treat this as the case to get their rivals' cards back lol
They sadly never drew Monster Reborn, to summon the original dragons from the grave. Though, it is easy enough to loot a defeated duelist's deck after battle.
*sets mask change, mask change 2, form change, form change, form change* *Uses mask change in hand to summon dark law* *Uses other mask change to summon other masked hero* *Masquerade party to victory*
12:32 also another fun fact this is actually paradox's monster at the start of the duel so would either return to his field or go to his graveyard even if stardust dragon could be summoned this way.
There are a few times where characters have their key cards stolen by people, and mid-duel reclaim them. I've recently been watching Arc-V, so the one that comes to mind for me is Yuya vs Sawatari.
My reasoning for why this didn't happen in terms of anime logic is that Paradox didn't steal the physical Stardust Dragon card, but rather stole the monster from the original card and put it into a pseudo card. So when Yugi took control of Stardust Dragon, it essentially returned that monster back into the original card it came from, meaning Yusei fully owned Stardust again. It's convoluted, I know, but then again, so is Paradox.
I'd personally say it was Jaden because the flute of summoning kuriboh even in the anime let's you summon winged kuriboh to the field and if it was destroyed due to an effect they wouldn't of taken any battle damage for the rest of the turn and would of survived
I was wondering about that because Jaden used the card. Yet we see Kuriboh get added too the hand. Also i found out why in the anime he wouldn't have taken battle damage sure but Truth Dragon was effect damage which would be burn damage. So winged kuriboh effect wouldn't have work. It would've protected damage from dark magician being destroyed by battle. Yet it wouldn't have stop Truth dragon effect too burn them for damage. It would've just been another monster. So knowing anime logic it was better for normal Kuriboh too be used.
I’d like to further point out that, due to time travel shenanigans, Jaden’s Winged Kuriboh (which Yugi gave over to Jaden at the start of GX) was theoretically in Yugi’s possession at the time not unlike how GX’s anime revealed Yugi had Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Behinning in his deck. By all accounts, Yugi could’ve just summoned Winged Kuriboh’s past self to the same end goal.
@@BlazingAce20 Yes they would still take burn damage but Paradox couldn't attack since Wing Kuriboh will turn the rest of the battle damage to zero and therefore survived the turn
Except under TGS’s explanation, they wouldve taken more damage via WK being destroyed. Since his points out if Paradox did things “right” they’d be at 100 LP, summoning WK wouldve Killed them.
Yusei spent most of the duel being the support person while Yugi and Jaden were the front men. However, Yugi and Jaden also both did a lot of support and Yusei got the finishing blow. This maybe controversial, but I feel like Jaden played the most complete duel while Yugi made one crucial move to get Startdust, and Yusei used Stardust to save them. My MVP vote goes to either Yusei or Jaden.
Well, Yusei's cards protected Jaiden and Yugi's monsters. Jaiden's monsters did a lot of effect negating, and did some attacking, as well as Jaiden's spells doing some good work. Yugi used a card for Yusei to do his thing, summoned one monster that let him use one entire spell for the win, and used a spell card to summon another monster which proceeded to do literally nothing but almost die and require protecting by Junk Gardna, before actually dying, and discarded Kiribo to protect them from damage (which was Jaiden's spell) So... Yugi did basically nothing this whole duel. Dark Magician let him use one card, Dark Magician Girl did literally nothing, and Kiribo literally did more than his own monsters. Yugi was actually the Most Worthless Player in this duel.
@@woobgamer5210The disrespect... But you're right. Yugi was absolutely trash in this Duel and was simply carried by others. It wasn't just his brick hand, Jaden also bricked but managed to turn it around. Yugi in the trio against Paradox was as if Serenity joined Yugi and Kaiba against Dartz.
Honestly I both sides basically played their safest moves that benefited them the most. Honestly i think the gameplan before the duel started was if possible get stardust back and get as much a symbolic win as it was a true win. Also i think paradox is technically an inexperienced duelist (in the sense of battle experience) with a decent deck.Yes he took those cards but he's a time traveller as well he could have picked the times a duelist was at their weakest or learned a flaw in that solo deck and exploited. Which is part of the reason why he was basically doomed against the 3 protags...one of them maybe he could beat but all 3 he wouldn't know how the decks work together
*One of them that isn't Jaden. This is post-Season 4 Jaden, he's beaten gods that technically have themselves beaten all of the (living) DM and GX characters at this point, Paradox would a need a lot more OP bullshit than displayed here to stand a chance.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 Yeah, I feel like if Jaden got to do this solo (rather than understandably show off Yugi and Yusei, whose series the movie belongs to), he would've had the chance to bust out a lot more plays that would've been way too much for the deck Paradox was playing.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 you would be right if it was just a card game, but since it is the anime and Yubel was a monster spirit Yubel evolutions had ceased to exist at this point of the series. Yubel evolution were a reflection of they suffering due to being forgotten by Jaden. Their effects reflect that very well: base Yubel effect mirror how their mere presence hurt Jaden despite their effords to protect him(have a maintenance cost, reflect damage when attacked); Yubel second form mirror how after being abandoned Yubel now only care about themselves(effect still only trigger when attacked, destroy any monster regardless of owner) and Ultimate Nightmare they actively are trying to destroy everything. So after Jaden merge with Yubel and show them love, is no longer possible to Yubel to access their evolutions, but they still could turn into Wiseman, which was a regular fusion of Neos and Yubel, and would have been devastating against Paradox
From what we see, Paradox doesn't need to win (or even finish!) a duel to steal the dragon cards. He just absorbed Stardust in the middle of the duel with Yusei and booked it.
Sam is a legend for take the time and effort to make this series and I would definitely like to see more from this series. And as for who I personally think put in more of the effort in this duel, it was Yusei for me because I am biased but I am not going to pretend like Yugi and Jaden didn't help out as much as Yusei did.
Actually, the hypothetical turn where Paradox could win is still possible. Hand on to M. Raindow Dragon, use Malefic Selector to add Malefic Blue eyes and the field spell, the use M. Rainbow's effect the turn he would have summoned red eyes and blue eyes, nuke the field, summon any of his malefic monsters, and win that way. EDIT: Rest in Peace, Kazuki Takahashi. This movie was fun to watch, so was this duel. Thank you for an incredible game for us to play, and an incredible anime series.
The original Raphael Vs Yami duel would be an interesting re-examination. However I feel like that's another one that would entirely come down to speculation on what Yami draws in the next turn. However it is worth considering what, if anything, Yami COULD draw to break Raphael's defense.
Yusei: Sets Up the Defense with Junk Gardna (from battle) & Stardust Dragon (from effects) Jaden: Supports both Offense and Defense. Keeping everyone alive Yugi: Mostly went on the Offensive with his two spellcasters and massive use of spell cards.
Nah Yugi did literally nothing. Dark Magician let him use... a spell, Dark Magician Girl.. did nothing except to pad out the monster field, and Kiribo did the most out of Yugi's monsters by being drawn by Jaiden's spell to keep them alive by being discarded. Yugi used 2 useful spells and that's it. Dark Magician just.. existed for a spell use, and DMG just... sat there.
@@DarthFhenix55 oh yeah they wouldnt of won without him but, he barely did a thing. Dark Magican Girl literally was there for fan service and to buff up Dark Magicians attack once, and that all she did. Her only contribution, was to give Dark Magician more attack
17:57 actually, if my sources are correct, Yugi couldn't activate dark spiral force on Dark Magician, because the card specifically lists that you can target any monster on the field, except Dark Magician (Target 1 monster you control, except "Dark Magician"; double its ATK until the End Phase.)
He actually didn't activate Dark Spiral Force on Dark Magician, the target for the trap was Stardust Dragon, and it made the ATK of Stardust became 10000
@@hongphongluu8806 you didn’t pay attention to the video this whole comment thread was to the point he made of how the protagonists could have one a turn sooner not to what happened in the movie
@@JD-Holcombe not sure if time would be enough for the 6 shows. I believe only the first 3 happens in the same universe. Zexal, Arc V and Vrains I think are in their own universe each
Guys lets also give Paradox some credit, he went up against 3 of the strongest duelists in history and was able to do pretty well, it shows how powerful he and the others from his time were, Z-one for example.
It’s very unique to analyze the duels in the TV show. And I can’t say I really have seen a lot of people that have done it. I really enjoy this series and I hope you continue to make more. Along with your other very amazing content.
It's very simple this is during the 5ds era and what was a prominent card during that time Gorz the emissary of darkness he was attacking weakest to strongest to play around Gorz all this time
I just realized: You criticize when YUSEI summons Stardust, but for the wrong reasons. 1. PARADOX revived it from the grave. 2. Yusei summoned it FROM PARADOX'S grave.
This movie could've been amazing if it was more than just a singular duel against a largely underwhelming antagonist where each MC had like one turn each roughly. I would've loved just a bit of leg room to have the different protags interact with each other and have a bit more of an adventure. A bit of a condensed Arc-V story even.
What i like is that this movie was more about Yusei saying the future. Jaden and Yugi basically just help. It starts with Yusei and ends with Yusei even his Stardust dragon finishes the duel when he attacks. Like you said in the video if they really wanted too win they could've used those two traps too do what they did for Stardust since dark magician wasn't attacking. In truth Paradox had no way of winning this duel. You can think about it a lot too figure out where he could've won but every part would lead him too losing no matter what. The only difference is if Yusei didn't have Yugi or Jaden too help. If it aas only two of them like Yusei and Yugi or Yusei and Jaden. Then Paradox may had a chance of winning the duel.
Yeah honestly, I wish they treated him like in dsod since he was the true king of games, Yami could have came in around the time when they were backed against the wall
@@christians8821 Jaden and Yusei were transported back to a time before the Grand Ceremonial Duel between Yugi and Atem occured. I highly doubt little Yugi would have been able to do much in this movie, but he sure got his moment in DSOD...
@@cameraredeye3115 but we know he can hold his own, after all he faced challenges without atem in the manga and the anime without him. Also we know he is an amazing duelist on his own because he faced against joey who under marik had illegal cards in his deck, he could have wone but he didn't want to kill joey
Good thing that Paradox had Malefic World in his opener. Imagine how hard he would be bricking without it. Excepte he wouldn't have since this is fiction and he would have just drawn the malefics when the plot demanded it. I like how Paradox plays a card that technically doesn't do anything for him
8:33 actually the result still would've been the same even if neos was destroyed with malefic claw stream. A weird thing about Hero barrier is you can activate it at any time as long as there's a face up E HERO. So in the situation a card would destroy all your E HEROs, you can chain Hero Barrier, and you'd still be able to negate one attack even if you didn't control an E Hero. It kinda buffers until you need it to happen because the wording is "you can negate 1 attack" instead of "negate the attack". So the result would've played out the same.
We can all agree that: Jaden has some sick bars, Paradox did nothing wrong, and last but not least, Yugi definitely won that duel... including the final episode of GX. Also shoutout to very Asian guy.
Lol. What I learned from this video (great analysis btw) is- it’s the big 10th Anniversary duel, and Yugi bricks on his opening hand 🧱😂 It’s a good thing Yusei used Reincarnation of Hope 🕊👍🏼
@17:02 Counterpoint: Jaden would have summoned Winged Kuriboh from his own deck to the field, and when it’s destroyed (by battle or card effect), no battle damage for the REST OF THE TURN! Which means, Paradox couldn’t have won this way either.
So, they still take all the damage from Truth Dragon's attack, right? Leaving them with 100. Truth Dragon's effect eventually goes off after being initially stopped and monsters are destroyed. Winged Kuriboh doesn't stop effect damage.
@@RedDragonForce2 Malefic Truth Dragon would then protect itself. Blue-Eyes would attack and destroy anything to activate Truth's effect again (as it's not once per turn), wiping the board and the remaining LP.
@@RedDragonForce2 Yeah, obviously, but this is going off them deciding not to activate them at all. Otherwise they would have won when Dark Magician attacked Paradox Dragon. Yugi could have De-Fused Neos Knight and Jaden could follow up with Neos Spiral Force to make DM's attack 9000 for the attack.
The frustrating thing about stardust in the anime is that they’re always summoning it back to the field after it uses it’s a decrease even though they shouldn’t, jack and yuseis first duel comes to mind even if we don’t see it, that’s likely what was gonna happen.
I will say that the turn order is based on a dueling style only seen in Japan (to my knowledge) called Boss duels. In cardshops, the owner or cashier has cards from Yugioh anime villains (there's pegasus and darkness for example) and the turn order progresses like that. There are some major differences between this duel and boss duels (for example, a boss duel gets all their expended cards back at the start of their turn due to a limited pool, and has life points equal to the opponents starting lp x the number of opponents, and the opponents have some once per duel rules they can call upon during the draw phase.)
@@TpainactualI don't blame you for having never heard of them, I hadn't until a few years ago. but they did exist. they haven't been done in years, which I didn't realize upon posting this comment originally. here are the rules. ygorganization.com/spoiler-boss-duels/ a link to the Fandom page about them yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Boss_Duel a link to a video on this channel about them m.ruclips.net/video/L-nf8nedXdY/видео.html
We are talking about Yugi though. He only drew that hand because of what was already on the field. He would have “heart of the cards” out a different hand if he wasn’t going to get Dark Magician through a card effect anyways.
I wish we got another one of these. I so badly wanna see them all interact with some of the more recent protagonists, but make it at least a couple hours or even an arc of a spin-off show so it's not just one person's story with the others playing second fiddle
The reason Paradox came back in time. PARADOX: Well, I was not actually there. But I heard that somebody played a card game. And then boom everything Destroyed End of the World. It totally happened. Just like I said. Just card game--Boom! Everyone dead. This man was the True Hero of the Story.
But Paradox, Duel Monsters isn’t the only card game out there! There’s Go Fish, Crazy 8, Uno, Poker (the child friendly version with no wagers), etc. LOGIC BOMBED!!!
@@RedDragonForce2 I would love to see the Fate of the World Decided by playing Uno. NOW I ACTIVATE DRAW 4 WILD CARDS. LEAVING ME WITH NO CARDS IN MY HAND IN WINNING THIS DUEL!! AND SAVING THE WORLD.
@@griffingower1883 Considering how much bullshit it caused in exchange for entertainment, not really evil. I mean he could just vandalise everything related to Atem and maybe stop Kaiba and Pegasus, no need for engaging in a duel.
I love how at 0:22, the duel disks slowly get more raised with each person. This leads me to believe when it gets to Yusaku, its gonna do a full 180 flip.
It makes sense that Yusei got a slight spotlight. 5D’s was the current anime at the time, so the writers kind of had to let him deal the final blow. I still wish we got a Zexal movie.
@@Gevaudan1471 Yuma is the best protagonist. He is hilarious, his character growth actually shows throughout, and by the end he is such a good duelist on his own that he beat Astral. Who had all the numbers but Utopia. That’s not trash. At least he wasn’t a complete waste like Yuya.
@@AnnalinaSR21 Why? It was written so much better than Zarc-V. Do you hate it just because Yuma isn’t a super serious protagonist like Atem/Yugi or Yusei?
Imagine if yugi had summoned one of the gods during this duel, whichever one it is doesn't really matter but yusei and Jaden would of been in complete aww at having been there to see one up close in person (technically Jaden has seen 2 in person by this point but still)
That's why Paradox have chosen this timeline. Since God Cards weren't even mention to begin with (Besides Obelisk's ofc). But the course is that Atem didn't possess any of it. Some people assumed that it was somewhere before his duel with Arcana, right after it.
Sacred beasts aren't Gods but destroyers of worlds....they were only considered Gods because of their shared appearances with the originals. Except hamon who looked like an evangelion lol
I can see how Paradox not playing at his best with the amount of stress he must have been going through. Coming from a world that was completely ruined. I could see him slipping up.
Jaden is MVP in this duel. Without his supporting cards (magic and traps), 3 protagonists would be stuck dealing with malefic monsters. Yugi did next best when he was able to get back stardust from the opposing field and took down malefic synchro with his own spell cards. Yusei did the bare minimum work of giving yugi his dark magician, reviving all the monsters at the end with his trap, and just finish the duel when everything is basically prepared (by jaden and yugi) for him to end the game.
Absolutely untrue. Not a single one of Jaden's plays would have been possible without Junk Gardna, and not a single one of Yugi's plays would've been possible without Dark Magician added to his hand. Jaden only dealt with the Malefic monsters because Yusei switched them to defense mode and provided him with the *perfect* material for his fusion. If Junk Gardna wasn't on the field, Jaden wouldn't have been able to even *summon anything.* Don't be a fanboy.
In terms of Yugioh all I want is a Yugioh GX movie. It'll be amazing to hear the unreleased soundtrack and seeing Jaden dueling with his E-Heros and Neo-Spacians on the big screen
These breakdowns are really quite fascinating. The amount of work that goes into them must be staggering and I appreciate it. I'd love to see more breakdowns for other duels, even ones that don't seem like they could have gone differently. Actually, I'd like to see a breakdown on Joey vs Marik or Joey vs Odion. I feel like you'd do either one justice with a fair outlook rather than whining that Joey should have won or Marik sucks or whatever the flavor of the day is.
Paradox is a good villain, but you know who they should bring in next time? Nitemare, from Forbidden Memories, also Heishin - now those are some badass villains with a serious threat level
I never got that far in forbidden memories because I tried to do everything I could in ancient Egypt but the game kept forcing me into the future so I gave up on it.
@@GODOFAWSOMENESS1 Yeah, they also appeared in Duelists of the Roses (well, Nitemare only as Darknite, but he uses a Darknite-style deck in 1 story (heavily focused on Spells/Traps) and a Nitemare-style deck in the other (heavily focused on Monsters)). On top of Forbidden Memories and Duelists of the Roses, they also appeared in Dark Duel Stories and Falsebound Kingdom.
@@_Vengeance_ Basically, Kazuki Takahashi was still formulating the ending and the games wanted to have a "proper" ending, so Kazuki came up with them for the games at the time as stand ins for what kind of characters he'd like to have as possible final bosses of the manga. With Heishin being a sort of beta version of Aknadin and Nitemare/Darknite (depending on the game) as a beta version of Dark Priest Zorc. Same goes for Forbidden Memories' version of Ishizu named "Isis" (Forbidden Memories in particular was made some time as he was writing Duelist Kingdom).
One interesting thing - if I'm understanding correctly (I haven't actually watched this movie), then Stardust should never have been able to be summoned AT ALL. Summoning cards by ignoring their summoning conditions only overrides the card's summoning procedure, NOT the rule that special summon monsters must be special summoned properly before you can revive them. Because Stardust was sent directly from the ED to the GY, no effect in the game should be able to summon it back. Probably the most infamous example of this is Dark Flattop, which cannot revive SKY FIRE unless you actually pull off it's dog summoning condition first. Not that it changes the fact that this is an anime duel designed for spectacle that operates on different rules, but coming from the real card game these rulings are very poorly understood by the playerbase and it can be very frustrating to play against at times.
Been watching these more consistently then i have ever watched the show and it shocks me that you had EVER considered not continuing the series!!! Happy to see how far you’ve come!!
@@tyson543 but the ones of Yugi and Yusei are still almost identical, meanwhile jaiden's looks like the one they would give to a child because he could cut himself (ok he is at school so i guess ir makes sense)
@@Albortomagico I mean, if Jaden really wanted to he could poof a KaibaCorp one onto himself for the duel - as he's merged with Yubel that means he has all of Yubel's abilities, including creating temporary duel disks out of himself - but nostalgia.
It's weird that the poll made it look like Yusei is the top, Yugi is second and Last is Jaden but in the comment section there they are 90% sure it was Jaden who should be MVP. But whatever, The 3 are awesome together and i love them all just sad that Jaden is so far in the Poll vs the other 2 in the MVp category.
Paradox would also have a much higher opportunity to deck out, which makes his field brilliant for this one duel. It replaces his draw with a semi search. In a regular duel this is nice but you would want more search power in addition to what should be your draw. In this duel, it ensures paradox gets the cards he needs without having to empty his deck so fast. It cuts dead draws while keeping him from losing even faster since his deck running is already running out 3 times faster than his opponent. This is a case of rhe card effect working brilliantly for the specific situation in the anime but then not being so great when translated into a real world card for a typical duel.
Why? That duel finished in the anime, if you're referring to the first duel they had: it was stated in the anime that they had the same opening hand as the first time, Dragan even said that his accusation was wrong in the end and that Jack rightfully won the first duel
Actually in anime Thors card is different where it steals a monster's effect for itself. So when dragan uses his effect he still had his gulfaxe of nordic beasts tuner monster. When stealing red nova's effect thor should have gained 500 points making his attack 4000 when he Attacked jack would of lost his second duel but that's my opinion
Dragan would have won the first match And jack won the second one But yeah thor can negate ALL monsters your opponent control and take the effect of one of the monster he negated the effect and use it's effect for that turn So yeah if he targeted red nova Thor would get to 4k and nova to 3.5
@@heroeus8173 but Jack could chain Anime Red Nova, to remove it from play and have the ability to negate 1 attack from Dragan in the same turn.(Though he also didn't use Anime Red Novas effect against Broder, but he used it against Primo and Lester...)
There is kind of loophole in the duel when Yusei uses Startdust Dragon's effect. Startdust Dragon originally started the duel in Paradox's extra deck, so it was owned by Paradox. Because of that, when Stardust Dragon returns from the graveyard (and, like you pointed out in the video, let's ignore the fact it was not properly summoned in the first place. lol), it should have been summoned to Paradox's side of field, not Yusei's! @TGS Anime, what do you think? Is there a way the protagonists could have escaped from that?
The only thing that I can think of is that the anime rules work a bit differently. That Malefic Paradox Dragon counts as a proper synchro summon, and that Stardust comes back to the field of whoever used its effect.
I think its more so that stardust wasn't originally paradox's and it plays off that in this case but you know its anime so .. As Seto Kaiba says "Screw the rules, I have money".
Well, to be fair, they are in Yugi's timeline, where Duel Monsters was still a broken, exploitable mess of a game, so it's only natural that the protagonists would exploit the hell out of it.
@@themasterofw4295 I mean, you could make the argument that since Yusei's duel against Paradox at the beginning of the movie technically never finished, Paradox only had control of Stardust and not ownership.
Why do I get the feeling if they ever made that Yu-Gi-Oh GX movie, bastion would be the one that returns? I mean that he would set up a new chain of events that would cause problems.... Maybe if bastion returns from the dimension he was left at, a new villain from another dimension may come through. But hey that's just fans speculation.
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You know they could have won even earlier than you suggested...
Atem activates Dark twin burst bumping DM attack to 4.5k then Judai activates Neos spiral force to double it to 9k and suddenly that's game as battle damage is enough to otk Paradox
You are correct sir!! Didn’t realise
Neos Spiral Force requires Neos to be on the field.
@@styxxiii Tbf Yugi was the one with De-Fusion, he could of used it split the Neos Knight then gone for this play.
@@TGSAnime Oh yeah that's right. Wow Paradox was in WAY over his head.
Of course paradox was gonna lose you have 3 charatcers who have plot armor and can deal wil any situation
"He then synchro summons Junk Gardna"
Yugi: Synchro *what*?!?
Love that line from yugi. Confused look on his face lol.
Imagine right after yusei saying accel synchro and then limit over accel synchro
Of course, synchro monsters weren’t invented during Yugi’s time
The weird part is the lack of confusion on Jaden
@@number16kelbax its not so much he's confused i think its more he's amazed there is a new way to get powerful monsters and likes it as he puts it (kinda makes you wonder if he got the chance to see it down the line if this movie didn't happen before that)
It’s almost surreal how equal all of the protagonists were in this duel. You can tell the writer took great care to keep the duel from turning into a one man show.
Not really. Jaden carried the other 2 to victory
@@AmateurHEROduelist eh not really
@@AmateurHEROduelist How?
@@cydra671 It's more like Judai set the others for success since he opened with a huge board for his teammates.
@@angelreyes8714 the way u gotta look at is that all 3 of them couldn't play to there full poteinal. They each had like 2 turns in this duel. While paradox had like a billion lol. But jokes aside paradox was able to get all his best cards everyturn while the main cast had 2 turns each to make a play
In an alternate timeline. Kaiba, Chazz and Jack had to stop Paradox
Kaiba would be insulted by Malefic Blue Eyes, Chazz would Chazz it up, and Jack would be Jack
Not chazz, hell Kaiser. Cuz Paradox End Dragon
Tea, Alexis and Akiza would be cool
THE CHAZZ would instantly win, no competition, kaiba and jack are useless
@@blazelegend4602 ah no wrong answer manjome jun cant really handle paradox without atlas jack and kaiba seto considering they arent useless at all.
(Paradox defeated)
Yu-gi-oh fanbase: *"You really thought you could've beaten three protagonists?! Think Paradox!"*
In Paradox defense, the three protagonists has the 'believed in the heart of the cards' and 'destiny draw' skill
tbh, he wasn't actually that far from defeating them
If Paradox beat all of them, he would have been the real king of games.
He was lucky enough not to face Yuma
Imagine if he was facing Yusaku. He would receive the biggest OTK ever lol.
It cracks me up every time when they're all activating their duel disks 0:14
Yugi: entire duel disk spins into place, with his cape billowing in the wind
Jaden: extends his duel disk to double in size and strikes a fighting stance
Yusei: duel disk exists, sparking electricity like it's about to kill him in a freak wiring issue
I always did wonder why Yusei's duel disk was always extended, despite being seemingly the same as Yugi's.
I mean...it is a kit job....so maybe...
@@4137Swords
Because it's his duel runner disk and it rarely comes out of the runner unless he's ground dueling. No need for it to compact itself down if it's never gonna be on his arm for long periods of time.
It’s entirely possible that he built it himself from spare parts
It would explain why it’s orange (a color he wears daily) in certain places where other Duel Disks have different colors
And either he didn’t have all the parts needed to build in the retractable function, or, like somebody else said, maybe he simply felt it wasn’t needed
It *is* often on his runner and really nowhere else
@@tristantaccad4644 that's basically entirely the case. Yusei managed to come a cross an old non-functional DC era Duel Disk and got it working again. But he was using scrap and spare parts so he wasn't able to make it retract like say Yugi's. This wasn't really a problem seeing as it basically always was on his Duel Runner but it did make it horribly cumbersome should he have to duel on foot. Notably someone like Jack Atlas who was in a similar position to Yusei before hitting the big leagues now has a proper Duel Disk that can fold and retract even with it usually being plugged into his own Duel Runner because he actually could just buy one.
This does mean Yusei's Duel Disk, as good of a mechanic as he is, probably also could kill a person from a wiring error.
The entire reason that Yugi gives Jaden the "Winged Kuriboh" Card at the start of GX is because Yugi knew who he was, as well as the fact that he would use the Kuriboh cards because of the events of Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time and thats my theory
Also cause wing kuriboh liked jaden's vibe
@@williampinkley1842Jaden passes the Winged Kuriboh vibe check
Fun theory
"But that's just a theory
A game theory" - a RUclips legend
Actually a solid theory
Based on the end credits of the movie, which showed just about every card used in the duel, the card that Yusei drew for turn was Speed Warrior.
He should have won with the double attack effect just for the lolz
@@federicomacias1946 Shoulda doubled wiith speed warror then do the double sprial force for one fat warrior
@@hollowlight_png3850 It would have given speed warrior 7200 atk, not enough to win the duel, but having your boss monster clapped by a 2 star is insult enough.
No it was pot of greed
@@emperorbirb1 what does it do?
My favorite part of this movie is when Yugi goes "Synchro what?" after Yusei summons Junk Gardna. The line was so masterfully delivered that I can never help but to laugh at that line
Then Jaden immediately going "I don't know but I like it. Too cool" Just adds to it for me
For the irl tournament live voice actor duels they repeated this joke with Yousei dueling a pendulum duelist and being really confused
The best part is that moment of "watdafaq?" is shared by his generation of watchers. Trying my best to hear the new mechanics added to YGO is like being stuck in a foreign country.
To my fellow Atems/Yugiboomers out there, the designs of Extra Deck summons are just Fusions with different (but usually just less) specificity each time.
Fusion: 2 or more specific named monsters, using a specific named spell as the catalyst.
Synchro: Fuse using varied levels rather than names, using a specific type of monster as the catalyst.
XYZ: Fuse using specific and exact matching levels, no catalyst required for the summon itself but instead using the materials as a catalyst for the card's effects.
Pendulum: Not really an extra deck mechanic so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Link, MR4: Fuse using any monsters of any kind, using a specific zone on your board as the first catalyst and the arrows of previous links as subsequent catalysts.
Link, MR5: Lmao who needs catalysts or levels or anything else, just fuse your board, who gives a damn anymore, Konami just wants your money and they don't care about consistent game design
@shuttlecrossing1433 I see what you're getting at. HOWEVER:
1. As fusion got more support, the requirements got less specific. Just look at any modern-day fusion deck. Almost all of them just say, "Any 2 monsters of *Insert archetype or attribute here*"
2. While rare, there are certain sychros that required specifically named monsters. I.E. The majestic synchros and nordics.
Pretty much everything you said is accurate. I'm just being pedantic.
Imagine if Yugi drew Slifer, that would mean all of the cards in the hands of Yusei, Jaden, and Yugi would be added to it's ATK since they share a field
OUR Silfer the Sky Dragon lmao
*Soviet Russian Anthem intensifies*
Ans since it can't get affected by card effects... oof
I think that would actually take the hand of the turn player into account
@@M3G4T3RR4 always good to meet a fellow reborn fan!
Yusei: "You can be my wingman anytime yugi".
Yugi: "No Yusei. You can be mine"
*saxophone music starts to play*
Yusei: No homo
Yugi: Oh yes, I was just about to say, no homo
Abridged go brrrrrrrrrrrrr
@@Rycronic careless whisper is the song you’re looking for.
Neo: You Can Be My Wingman.
Flame Wingman: It Would Be My Honor.
@@RedDragonForce2 thank you, I never knew the name of the song
WAIT. DIDNT JADEN GET FLUTE SUMMONING KURIBOH FROM THE LUNCH LADY????? THE LUNCH LADY WAS THE REAL MVP!!!!!!
Dorothy
Dorothy and she gave him a pack and it contained "Transcendent Wings".
@@NosstheBoss ooooooh. So howd he get flute of kuriboh tho?
@@Sally-uu3yt Oh Jaden already had it in his deck in episode 45 or 47 of his duel with "Amnael" he used it to summon "Winged Kuriboh" and then a replay occurred and Amnael took out his Winged Kuriboh.
So clearly Jaden much like Atem can will some cards into existence... not like this its a new thing...
Also this is the 9th use of "Flute of Summoning Kuriboh" Spell Card.
@@NosstheBoss English be like: "Jaden much like Atem can will some cards into existence"
It’s a missed opportunity to either have Yusei riding around in a motorcycle while everyone else is dueling normally or having jaiden and Yugi having to learn how to ride a motorcycle on the fly for the duel.
Well now I feel like I was robbed of seeing Atem on a motorcycle, thanks, how will I sleep after this
I don’t know which one I’d want to see more
They should of had like a hamster wheel for him to ride on while everyone else plays as normal 😂
"now yusei, i just want to remind you that this card game is not going to take place on a motorcycle"
-Atem, Abridged movie (I dont remember the fully quote
No, they all have to ride the same motorcycle back-to-back-to-back.
Unfortunately for Paradox he was also dueling against Yugi's Millennium item, the Millennium Puzzle. In addition to housing the spirit of Atem, it has the power to alter destiny just as long as you use it with the right mindset. Paradox's defeat was set even before the start of the duel.
Oooh nice
Great point...
Judai: Am I a joke to you?
Funny thing is. This is the Yami Yugi before he remembered his name and became all powerful to know the means of vanquishing Zorc and even had the power to control fate itself. Would that mean he himself would have dealt Paradox in all by himself if that was the Atem he’d deal with?
@@sasoridokueki5754 noop wood lost atem va said h eblvie paradox could beat atem own has own look it pu
I find it funny that if any other protag went first, instead of Yusei, they would have immediately lost.
FACTS LOL
Simply because they don't have monster to summon...
Yeah, Yugis old cards have no chance against all the new "summon-everything-in-one-turn" cards lol
DerLuukee Yugi literally just full spell card bricked. Even if he went against another DM era character, starting out with that hand is a mission and a half for the millenium puzzle to save him from.
Yusei: “Hey, let me go first.”
Jaden and Yugi: *Looks at hand, then back at yusei.* “Yes, of course, friendship being the reason.”
you know, this duel is literally the definition of action economy (Paradox has 3 turns) VS card advantage (paradox: 5 cards vs protags: 15).
That's not true. They each had the equal number of turns. It's just no card advantage vs card advantage.
@@NestedQuantifier Not quite. The difference here is that Paradox's deck is synergistic with itself, whereas the protagonists were dependent on more generic combinations of cards. Each of the protagonists also only had two turns, while Paradox had six, meaning he could dig deeper and get more of his combos out. There was only the one specific synergy between Jaden and Yugi in regards to Flute of Summoning Kuriboh. In effect, the game was dependent on what the protagonists' starting hands were when it comes to whether or not they could win, while Paradox had the benefit of getting more cards and not having to be reliant on awkward boardstates.
@@NestedQuantifier wrong
@@BigDaddyRich69plz explain yourself
@@First-to-last already explained by comment above me
Would have been neat to see Jaden and Yusei's reactions to Yugi playing an Egyptian God if this took place a little later in his time line.
Well, Jaden wouldn't be as surprised as Yusei since he witness two Egyptian gods, and one of them was played by Atem himself against Jaden.
@@Kisamon Yugi, not Atem.
@yourdivineandgloriousmaste4207 He's right, it is Atem, because as it was summoned, Atem had already taken control over Yugi during Jaden's last attack
Would yusei even recognize it as something magical and special or would be just assume it's a really big monster? I don't think he's ever heard of the Egyptian gods
@@flameconvoy7424 I mean by this point, Yusei had already faced the Earthbound Immortals so he'd probably expect they'd be powerful based on the fact they need 3 Tributes
Are we not gonna talk about how both yugi and jaden got brick starting hands which would have been disastrous if either of them were in a 1v1 duel😅
I think it actually would've been EVEN WORSE if it was a 1v3 but either of those two went first instead of Yusei.
In a 1v1, Jaden could've played Flute of Summoning Kuriboh to stall out one turn, and then he could've *prayed* to draw Yubel to Fusion Summon Neos Wiseman, and then he could've attacked and won the duel.
As for Yugi...well yeah there's nothing he could've done lol
Yugi going first him get to draw a card so him would draw DM for sure.
@@hikarimemeirooficial It wouldn't matter. Even if he summons Dark Magician and destroys a monster with Dark Magic Twin Burst, it would've ran out next turn and then he'd have to deal with the monster he didn't destroy, Malefic Stardust, Malefic Paradox, and Malefic Claw Stream.
@@styxxiii Draw Mahad for game maybe?
@@hikarimemeirooficial Mahad wouldn't be game because he only gets to 5K and Paradox's monsters were 4K. So it'd only be 1K damage, and then the same thing that I said before would still happen. Except I guess instead of getting OTK'd super duper easily, it'd be Claw Stream on Mahad, Dark Magician destroyed by battle, and then direct attack.
Also he didn't even have Mahad because this takes place right before Waking the Dragons.
I always had Jaden as the MVP. He knew Yugi’s deck and quickly picked up Yusei’s strengths to play off of along with some clutch saves.
Also how has there not been another one of these movies made.
Because no one in their right mind wants to see yuma in the same lifetime as the other 3
@@Saiyangoddess72 they could a three on three duel of yugi, Jaden and yusei vs Yuma, Yuya and Yusaku
@@breakfaith3031 Dark Yuma, Beserk Yuya, and finale AI could be fun.
@@douglasnewdell bro that team vs a more season 0 style yugi, supreme king Jaden and an extremely pissed off yusei would be a fun duel to watch
@@breakfaith3031 Dark Signer Yusei. Dark Signer Yusei
"was Paradox about to defeat Yugi/Jaden/Yusei?"
Of course!! Brothers Para and Dox are the elite amongst the elite
no words can describe the manner in which the duo had them beat
but of course you might be referring to another thing
but no matter, brothers ParaDox duel like they're on 0 ping
Not that Paradox
@@griffingower1883 r/wooosh
The best comment
@@TheBlaze22b R*ddit users need to be institutionalized.
@@user-fe8gx3ie5v or you know, let people enjoy what socials they want? That's a great choice.
12:28. Honestly I think that detail sets up that first scene from GX. Yugi giving a younger Jayden Winged Kuriboh. He could have remembered this duel and had Winged Kuriboh and gave Jayden that card so he would have a reason to put that card needed to summon a Kuriboh later on. Keeping history in tact and not making a paradox situation (no pun intended)
Protagonists: make a misplay
Also protagonists: there’s just no way that we can win, his cards are epic beasts. He duels to well because he’s from another time
He's gonna rewrite history.
He's gonna wipe out our card games.
Unless we break his massive monsters into pieces...
Did someone summon "Destiny HERO - Captain Tenacious?"
@@feathero3 Nah... Elemental Hero Wonder Boy!
Love the references
@@mechasatsu6214 Homies, we've been through so much
Paradox: It is simple. Yugi goes then I go, then Jaden goes and then I go and then Yusei goes and I go! Sounds fair right?
Yugi: Well you got to be kidding! We each get one turn per round and you get like a gajillion.
Paradox: I’m glad you understand!
Lmao gotta love YGOTAS
@The Pokemon Master and Yu-Gi-Oh! Master 😂
paradox starts with 5 cards when other protagonists all combined starts with 15 cards... it is fair as it can get.
I dont know for who is more unfair but yeah
@The Pokemon Master and Yu-Gi-Oh! Master
Yusei: Jaden
Jaden: What?
Yusei: I'm going to go back in time, and punch you and myself for bringing you to this time
I think the reason they had Stardust dragon deal the final blow rather than Dark magician is because it’s the most satisfying narratively. That was the signature monster stolen by paradox while Yusei also had the strongest character connections to Paradox since he appeared in 5ds
It always bugged me Paradox didn't seem to know what stardust's effect was, despite stealing it, having it in his deck, summoning it and creating an evil counterpart of it. I mean it didn't matter in the duel but still.
"YGO players don't read, even their own cards" villain edition.
To be fair, he had only recently stolen it, and his records only told him "the most powerful dragons in Duel Monsters", not necessarily what their effects were. There are also some differences between the Malefics and their counterparts (such as Malefic Rainbow working with other Malefics instead of Crystal Beasts). He was probably only aware that Stardust was among the ranks of the most powerful dragons, and basically only stole it to make the Malefic version without considering the actual reason why Stardust was one of the strongest dragons in the first place.
The moral of the story "believe in the heart of the cards"
As per usual.
YU-GI-OOOOOOOOOH
Or plot armor.
That's what the dealer says before they hit 21 and take all my chips
The ha of tha whe?
I LOVE that combo attack at the end between Dark Magician, Elemental Hero Neos and Stardust Dragon.
technically, yusei misplayed on paradox's 2nd turn, so when paradox attacked with malefic rainbow dragon, yusei couldve used junk gardna's effect to switch malefic cyber end dragon to defense, then use its other effect to switch rainbow to defense, which would prevent the trio from taking any damage at all
On the 'albeit' Yusei may not have known that Malefic Cyber End Dragon can do piercing damage, so he wouldn't have known to target Cyber End instead.
You are right I said the same thing
But the plot made him take the damage to make it look cool
@@amberknight7301the issue is Jaden knows so Yusei could’ve been told about Cyber end dragon’s piercing battle damage before the duel began, meaning Yusei would’ve had knowledge of the cards and effects from Jaden’s time
For Me The Best Part Of The Movie Is When they All Say Their Catchphrases In A row.
Jaden: Get Your Game On.
Yusei: Let's Rev It Up.
Yugi: It's Time To Dual.
Get set to get deck'd
NAh its its time to d-d-d-d-du-due DUEL!!
@@reddragon5483 Well Technically.
@@skarloey1214 yeah😂
synchro what?
Heres a question. why did Paradox need to travel to a specific point in time where Duel Monsters already existed and has effected the world to kill Pegasus when he could of just went to a time before pegasus was either born or before Pegasus created Duel Monsters? That would of been easier and he wouldn't really need to steal all those dragons to do so.
Yeah, it's the worst part of the plot
Well, we wouldn't get a movie then, would we?
Implementing Time Travel in your story without restrictions is pretty cringe, and the writers didn‘t recognize that apparently
i mean... its essentially a kid show... they probably didn't see the necessity to ramp up the quality.
that would be the most boring movie of all time if they did that lol
damn yugi got such a bad hand if he wasn't playing a tag duel
Such a brick for a monumental duel 🤣
They had to let Yusei and Jaden shine.
Jaden also had a brick hand sorta lol, without junk gardna his turn would have been done and over.
It's ok, the Heart of the Card knew what was needed. Yugi is still my fav.
fr i was looking at it disgusted. jaden definitely the mvp
Really enjoy these break downs. They helped me get back into Yu-Gi-Oh. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks! Will do!
@@TGSAnime um if you See this can you cover little kuriboh vs pegasus
I love how in the intro it's like "Yeah, tru, Yusei is from the future but Paradox is from the MORE distant future" like that makes it any more believable.
Yusei isn't even from that far it to the future because tetsu truge went to the same school as yugi
The thing was they were trying to ensure Yusei had Stardust Dragon on his field, they were treating the duel as a rescue operation in a manner of speaking so Paradox can't perform some villainous escape with Stardust in hand because plot convinience.
Though, it's weird that they didn't treat this as the case to get their rivals' cards back lol
If they could have, I imagine they would have.
That, or they just didn’t care. Not _their_ cards, after all!
They sadly never drew Monster Reborn, to summon the original dragons from the grave. Though, it is easy enough to loot a defeated duelist's deck after battle.
Hero Player: Sets 4 and passes.
Every TCG player ever: Excuse me what the fk.
Me: *summons Denko Sekka* GG?
@@Deathfire2006 Sets 5. Mask Change, Mask Change, Mask Change, Mask Change II, and Form Change.
*sets mask change, mask change 2, form change, form change, form change*
*Uses mask change in hand to summon dark law*
*Uses other mask change to summon other masked hero*
*Masquerade party to victory*
Whenever the hero player sets 4 and passes, you deadass pray that it's just drowning mirror force or some shit
Long ago that was the play, setting Gemini spark, super poly starlight road and warning
12:32 also another fun fact this is actually paradox's monster at the start of the duel so would either return to his field or go to his graveyard even if stardust dragon could be summoned this way.
There are a few times where characters have their key cards stolen by people, and mid-duel reclaim them. I've recently been watching Arc-V, so the one that comes to mind for me is Yuya vs Sawatari.
@@liamwhite3522Yusei himself did that in his duel with Jack at the start of the show.
My reasoning for why this didn't happen in terms of anime logic is that Paradox didn't steal the physical Stardust Dragon card, but rather stole the monster from the original card and put it into a pseudo card. So when Yugi took control of Stardust Dragon, it essentially returned that monster back into the original card it came from, meaning Yusei fully owned Stardust again. It's convoluted, I know, but then again, so is Paradox.
I'd personally say it was Jaden because the flute of summoning kuriboh even in the anime let's you summon winged kuriboh to the field and if it was destroyed due to an effect they wouldn't of taken any battle damage for the rest of the turn and would of survived
I was wondering about that because Jaden used the card. Yet we see Kuriboh get added too the hand.
Also i found out why in the anime he wouldn't have taken battle damage sure but Truth Dragon was effect damage which would be burn damage. So winged kuriboh effect wouldn't have work. It would've protected damage from dark magician being destroyed by battle. Yet it wouldn't have stop Truth dragon effect too burn them for damage. It would've just been another monster. So knowing anime logic it was better for normal Kuriboh too be used.
@@BlazingAce20 yh because they share a hand and field
I’d like to further point out that, due to time travel shenanigans, Jaden’s Winged Kuriboh (which Yugi gave over to Jaden at the start of GX) was theoretically in Yugi’s possession at the time not unlike how GX’s anime revealed Yugi had Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Behinning in his deck. By all accounts, Yugi could’ve just summoned Winged Kuriboh’s past self to the same end goal.
@@BlazingAce20 Yes they would still take burn damage but Paradox couldn't attack since Wing Kuriboh will turn the rest of the battle damage to zero and therefore survived the turn
Except under TGS’s explanation, they wouldve taken more damage via WK being destroyed. Since his points out if Paradox did things “right” they’d be at 100 LP, summoning WK wouldve Killed them.
Yusei spent most of the duel being the support person while Yugi and Jaden were the front men. However, Yugi and Jaden also both did a lot of support and Yusei got the finishing blow. This maybe controversial, but I feel like Jaden played the most complete duel while Yugi made one crucial move to get Startdust, and Yusei used Stardust to save them. My MVP vote goes to either Yusei or Jaden.
Well, Yusei's cards protected Jaiden and Yugi's monsters. Jaiden's monsters did a lot of effect negating, and did some attacking, as well as Jaiden's spells doing some good work.
Yugi used a card for Yusei to do his thing, summoned one monster that let him use one entire spell for the win, and used a spell card to summon another monster which proceeded to do literally nothing but almost die and require protecting by Junk Gardna, before actually dying, and discarded Kiribo to protect them from damage (which was Jaiden's spell)
So... Yugi did basically nothing this whole duel. Dark Magician let him use one card, Dark Magician Girl did literally nothing, and Kiribo literally did more than his own monsters.
Yugi was actually the Most Worthless Player in this duel.
@@woobgamer5210The disrespect... But you're right. Yugi was absolutely trash in this Duel and was simply carried by others. It wasn't just his brick hand, Jaden also bricked but managed to turn it around. Yugi in the trio against Paradox was as if Serenity joined Yugi and Kaiba against Dartz.
Honestly I both sides basically played their safest moves that benefited them the most. Honestly i think the gameplan before the duel started was if possible get stardust back and get as much a symbolic win as it was a true win. Also i think paradox is technically an inexperienced duelist (in the sense of battle experience) with a decent deck.Yes he took those cards but he's a time traveller as well he could have picked the times a duelist was at their weakest or learned a flaw in that solo deck and exploited. Which is part of the reason why he was basically doomed against the 3 protags...one of them maybe he could beat but all 3 he wouldn't know how the decks work together
*One of them that isn't Jaden.
This is post-Season 4 Jaden, he's beaten gods that technically have themselves beaten all of the (living) DM and GX characters at this point, Paradox would a need a lot more OP bullshit than displayed here to stand a chance.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 Yeah, I feel like if Jaden got to do this solo (rather than understandably show off Yugi and Yusei, whose series the movie belongs to), he would've had the chance to bust out a lot more plays that would've been way too much for the deck Paradox was playing.
@@ganoninthepit if jaden summoned basically any of yubel's forms, then that's GG right there (or at least a good stall option) for example.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 you would be right if it was just a card game, but since it is the anime and Yubel was a monster spirit Yubel evolutions had ceased to exist at this point of the series.
Yubel evolution were a reflection of they suffering due to being forgotten by Jaden. Their effects reflect that very well: base Yubel effect mirror how their mere presence hurt Jaden despite their effords to protect him(have a maintenance cost, reflect damage when attacked); Yubel second form mirror how after being abandoned Yubel now only care about themselves(effect still only trigger when attacked, destroy any monster regardless of owner) and Ultimate Nightmare they actively are trying to destroy everything.
So after Jaden merge with Yubel and show them love, is no longer possible to Yubel to access their evolutions, but they still could turn into Wiseman, which was a regular fusion of Neos and Yubel, and would have been devastating against Paradox
From what we see, Paradox doesn't need to win (or even finish!) a duel to steal the dragon cards. He just absorbed Stardust in the middle of the duel with Yusei and booked it.
Sam is a legend for take the time and effort to make this series and I would definitely like to see more from this series. And as for who I personally think put in more of the effort in this duel, it was Yusei for me because I am biased but I am not going to pretend like Yugi and Jaden didn't help out as much as Yusei did.
Actually, the hypothetical turn where Paradox could win is still possible. Hand on to M. Raindow Dragon, use Malefic Selector to add Malefic Blue eyes and the field spell, the use M. Rainbow's effect the turn he would have summoned red eyes and blue eyes, nuke the field, summon any of his malefic monsters, and win that way.
EDIT: Rest in Peace, Kazuki Takahashi. This movie was fun to watch, so was this duel. Thank you for an incredible game for us to play, and an incredible anime series.
The original Raphael Vs Yami duel would be an interesting re-examination. However I feel like that's another one that would entirely come down to speculation on what Yami draws in the next turn. However it is worth considering what, if anything, Yami COULD draw to break Raphael's defense.
Yusei: Sets Up the Defense with Junk Gardna (from battle) & Stardust Dragon (from effects)
Jaden: Supports both Offense and Defense. Keeping everyone alive
Yugi: Mostly went on the Offensive with his two spellcasters and massive use of spell cards.
Nah Yugi did literally nothing. Dark Magician let him use... a spell, Dark Magician Girl.. did nothing except to pad out the monster field, and Kiribo did the most out of Yugi's monsters by being drawn by Jaiden's spell to keep them alive by being discarded.
Yugi used 2 useful spells and that's it. Dark Magician just.. existed for a spell use, and DMG just... sat there.
@@woobgamer5210They wouldn't have win without his help tho. Even if he only would had set a card that's still enough to change a Yu-Gi-Oh duel.
@@DarthFhenix55 oh yeah they wouldnt of won without him but, he barely did a thing.
Dark Magican Girl literally was there for fan service and to buff up Dark Magicians attack once,
and that all she did. Her only contribution, was to give Dark Magician more attack
I love situations like this, trio duels vs one big foe feel so awesome, this one, and the one in zexal, gave me chills
Imagine if the protagonists won after saying “DAMAGE STEP”
The single most terrifying thing your opponent can say.
Gage is heving ptsd
@@NeroPiroman I don't actually say it since I play online, but since my Crystal Beast deck runs Avramax and Rainbow Dragon, it comes up a lot
"Damage Step bro, what are you doing?" - Paradox 2021
Battle Phase, end of Battle Phase, activate Evenly Matched.
17:57 actually, if my sources are correct, Yugi couldn't activate dark spiral force on Dark Magician, because the card specifically lists that you can target any monster on the field, except Dark Magician (Target 1 monster you control, except "Dark Magician"; double its ATK until the End Phase.)
Granted that would still have given game cause dark magician would have had 5000 to a 3000 blues eyes and paradox only had 1750 left
Just target Dark Magician Girl instead
He actually didn't activate Dark Spiral Force on Dark Magician, the target for the trap was Stardust Dragon, and it made the ATK of Stardust became 10000
@@hongphongluu8806 you didn’t pay attention to the video this whole comment thread was to the point he made of how the protagonists could have one a turn sooner not to what happened in the movie
@@SplicerOtter i think dark magician girl was in defense when red-eyes attacked her in the original duel
I love how without yusei's work both judai and yugi would've bricked
Jaiden was mvp for me. His cards were key to their success more than anyone else's. Elemental Mirage alone was required for this win to occur.
17:08 YOU CAN'T SLIP THAT REFERENCE PAST US, THINK TGS ANIME!
Paradox, you could have outlived them all!
If Dark Magician beat Malefic Blue-Eyes that would have been an amazing call back
That whole scene with Kuriboh was awesome. He just flies at the beam with this "Come at me bro" look and takes the hit
I really hope we get another movie one day that has everyone up to Vrains
It won't be cool tbh. Unless it would have a very epic story which is impossible
With so many characters they would need to use the Fate Heavens Feels structure of 3 movies I believe
Maybe a miniseries? Where each character is taking on a different aspect of the main bad guy throughout time. I have more thoughts on it but basically
But it would be impossible
@@JD-Holcombe not sure if time would be enough for the 6 shows.
I believe only the first 3 happens in the same universe. Zexal, Arc V and Vrains I think are in their own universe each
Guys lets also give Paradox some credit, he went up against 3 of the strongest duelists in history and was able to do pretty well, it shows how powerful he and the others from his time were, Z-one for example.
Both his and Z-Ones decks have similarities, where they summon a bulky monster each turn.
It’s very unique to analyze the duels in the TV show. And I can’t say I really have seen a lot of people that have done it. I really enjoy this series and I hope you continue to make more. Along with your other very amazing content.
It's very simple this is during the 5ds era and what was a prominent card during that time Gorz the emissary of darkness he was attacking weakest to strongest to play around Gorz all this time
I just realized: You criticize when YUSEI summons Stardust, but for the wrong reasons.
1. PARADOX revived it from the grave.
2. Yusei summoned it FROM PARADOX'S grave.
This movie could've been amazing if it was more than just a singular duel against a largely underwhelming antagonist where each MC had like one turn each roughly. I would've loved just a bit of leg room to have the different protags interact with each other and have a bit more of an adventure. A bit of a condensed Arc-V story even.
In that case you could just have the antagonist be Zarc after he goes insane, setting up that storyline for a future series.
What i like is that this movie was more about Yusei saying the future. Jaden and Yugi basically just help. It starts with Yusei and ends with Yusei even his Stardust dragon finishes the duel when he attacks. Like you said in the video if they really wanted too win they could've used those two traps too do what they did for Stardust since dark magician wasn't attacking.
In truth Paradox had no way of winning this duel. You can think about it a lot too figure out where he could've won but every part would lead him too losing no matter what. The only difference is if Yusei didn't have Yugi or Jaden too help. If it aas only two of them like Yusei and Yugi or Yusei and Jaden. Then Paradox may had a chance of winning the duel.
I was thinking the same thing
Of course, this is considered as a 5ds movie
12:35 to be fair, the de-fusion play was also illegal since neos knight was summoned from the grave
My favorite part of the video starts at 2:03
Bruh little yugi should have had a bigger role
Yeah honestly, I wish they treated him like in dsod since he was the true king of games, Yami could have came in around the time when they were backed against the wall
@@christians8821 Jaden and Yusei were transported back to a time before the Grand Ceremonial Duel between Yugi and Atem occured. I highly doubt little Yugi would have been able to do much in this movie, but he sure got his moment in DSOD...
@@cameraredeye3115 but we know he can hold his own, after all he faced challenges without atem in the manga and the anime without him. Also we know he is an amazing duelist on his own because he faced against joey who under marik had illegal cards in his deck, he could have wone but he didn't want to kill joey
@@christians8821 faxs like thwy are a team ....they could have made yami come in after little yugi
I'm your 50th like
haven't watched yugioh in years but damn did i get emotional watching these three fight together. Yugis card finesse gets me so hyped !!!
Jaden was by far the MVP, his spell cards saved the game
Jaden: *fills their side with spell and trap cards*
Yugi: *with only spell and trap cards* "You did WHAT"
@@GiovannisDaedrathat's funny
12:00
Dark magician girl: ahhhh!!!!
Junk Gardna: whatever
you should do one to see if any of them could have beat paradox one on one
Yes please
paradox would beat one of them on one on one
@@jeremybaker7963 Nah, Paradox would lose to them even one on one. He was heavily advantaged in this duel and still lost
Paradox had more turns than them to set up his stuff, one on one he would lose pretty fast.
@@terryliliana but Yugi cheats like a mf XD I mean has the heart of the cards
Yusei and Atem: share a moment
Yuuki Yudai: Yubel, they are weird
Judai*
Jaden imo had the best plays, he had the defense on lock
Correct
count the number of cards he played, he played 7 cards in total and his starting hand was 6, so he literally played a card from who knows where
@@zhan2780 We know where. He played Yugis defusion card.
Good thing that Paradox had Malefic World in his opener. Imagine how hard he would be bricking without it. Excepte he wouldn't have since this is fiction and he would have just drawn the malefics when the plot demanded it. I like how Paradox plays a card that technically doesn't do anything for him
8:33 actually the result still would've been the same even if neos was destroyed with malefic claw stream. A weird thing about Hero barrier is you can activate it at any time as long as there's a face up E HERO. So in the situation a card would destroy all your E HEROs, you can chain Hero Barrier, and you'd still be able to negate one attack even if you didn't control an E Hero.
It kinda buffers until you need it to happen because the wording is "you can negate 1 attack" instead of "negate the attack". So the result would've played out the same.
We can all agree that: Jaden has some sick bars, Paradox did nothing wrong, and last but not least, Yugi definitely won that duel... including the final episode of GX. Also shoutout to very Asian guy.
based
Pretty sure Jaden won he did usin Flute of Summoning Kuriboh
Don’t forget that Yusei was so hilarious I mean a dragon eating a cake?
Lol. What I learned from this video (great analysis btw) is- it’s the big 10th Anniversary duel, and Yugi bricks on his opening hand 🧱😂 It’s a good thing Yusei used Reincarnation of Hope 🕊👍🏼
@17:02
Counterpoint: Jaden would have summoned Winged Kuriboh from his own deck to the field, and when it’s destroyed (by battle or card effect), no battle damage for the REST OF THE TURN!
Which means, Paradox couldn’t have won this way either.
So, they still take all the damage from Truth Dragon's attack, right? Leaving them with 100. Truth Dragon's effect eventually goes off after being initially stopped and monsters are destroyed. Winged Kuriboh doesn't stop effect damage.
@@ShadicRothZz1998 no, but Stardust does. He would negate the effect damage.
@@RedDragonForce2 Malefic Truth Dragon would then protect itself. Blue-Eyes would attack and destroy anything to activate Truth's effect again (as it's not once per turn), wiping the board and the remaining LP.
@@ShadicRothZz1998 not necessarily. There’s always the Dark Spiral Force and Neo Spiral Force face down cards.
@@RedDragonForce2 Yeah, obviously, but this is going off them deciding not to activate them at all. Otherwise they would have won when Dark Magician attacked Paradox Dragon. Yugi could have De-Fused Neos Knight and Jaden could follow up with Neos Spiral Force to make DM's attack 9000 for the attack.
Can we just appreciate this dude making yugioh content and theroys love your gaming channel and this one
The frustrating thing about stardust in the anime is that they’re always summoning it back to the field after it uses it’s a decrease even though they shouldn’t, jack and yuseis first duel comes to mind even if we don’t see it, that’s likely what was gonna happen.
I will say that the turn order is based on a dueling style only seen in Japan (to my knowledge) called Boss duels. In cardshops, the owner or cashier has cards from Yugioh anime villains (there's pegasus and darkness for example) and the turn order progresses like that. There are some major differences between this duel and boss duels (for example, a boss duel gets all their expended cards back at the start of their turn due to a limited pool, and has life points equal to the opponents starting lp x the number of opponents, and the opponents have some once per duel rules they can call upon during the draw phase.)
Not a thing but nice try.
@@TpainactualI don't blame you for having never heard of them, I hadn't until a few years ago. but they did exist. they haven't been done in years, which I didn't realize upon posting this comment originally. here are the rules.
ygorganization.com/spoiler-boss-duels/
a link to the Fandom page about them
yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Boss_Duel
a link to a video on this channel about them
m.ruclips.net/video/L-nf8nedXdY/видео.html
@@jacobcrumpton4643 nah fam. Stop.
I provided evidence. I can't make you read it. have a good day mate.
@@jacobcrumpton4643 some shitty website that's unofficial isn't a good source.
I'd say Yusei was MVP. Without his tutor, there's no Dark Magician. That means Yugi's entire opening hand is bricked.
We are talking about Yugi though. He only drew that hand because of what was already on the field. He would have “heart of the cards” out a different hand if he wasn’t going to get Dark Magician through a card effect anyways.
@@Flaris Imagine if he "heart of the cards" Exodia on turn 1 instead somehow
@@logicaltips4107 Mfw underwood fucks over the most op card to use "heart of the cards" with
I wish we got another one of these. I so badly wanna see them all interact with some of the more recent protagonists, but make it at least a couple hours or even an arc of a spin-off show so it's not just one person's story with the others playing second fiddle
Idea, do like that one Pokemon movie where the main plot is the same but the movie has different versions each highlighting a particular character
The reason Paradox came back in time.
PARADOX: Well, I was not actually there. But I heard that somebody played a card game. And then boom everything Destroyed End of the World. It totally happened. Just like I said. Just card game--Boom! Everyone dead.
This man was the True Hero of the Story.
But Paradox, Duel Monsters isn’t the only card game out there! There’s Go Fish, Crazy 8, Uno, Poker (the child friendly version with no wagers), etc.
LOGIC BOMBED!!!
@@RedDragonForce2 I would love to see the Fate of the World Decided by playing Uno. NOW I ACTIVATE DRAW 4 WILD CARDS. LEAVING ME WITH NO CARDS IN MY HAND IN WINNING THIS DUEL!! AND SAVING THE WORLD.
He was going to erase duel monsters from existence is that something a hero would do?
@@griffingower1883 Considering how much bullshit it caused in exchange for entertainment, not really evil. I mean he could just vandalise everything related to Atem and maybe stop Kaiba and Pegasus, no need for engaging in a duel.
@@griffingower1883 Are we talking about the same Game that Decides the Fate of All Existence on the Hopes that you have a Good Hand. Yeah i think so.
12:05 Yusei: "There's just no way that we can win his cards are epic beasts. He deals too well because he's from another time."
Yugi: Listen both of you! He's gonna rewrite history! He's gonna wipe out our card games!
Jaden: Never!
Yugi: Unless we break his massive monster into pieces!
@Zone Heart Yusei: I had to hear Jaden rapping....
Yugi: That was rough...
Yugi, Jaden, Yusei: Now it's time to take this sucker down!
@Zone Heart Yugi: I had to hear Jaden rapping
Yusei: That was rough.
@Zone Heart Yusei: I hear ya Jaden now it's time to blow doors down!
I love how at 0:22, the duel disks slowly get more raised with each person.
This leads me to believe when it gets to Yusaku, its gonna do a full 180 flip.
Stardust dragon is one of the best looking cards for me
So I was happy when I saw him deliver the final blow
It makes sense that Yusei got a slight spotlight. 5D’s was the current anime at the time, so the writers kind of had to let him deal the final blow.
I still wish we got a Zexal movie.
No. Yuma is trash
@@Gevaudan1471 Yuma is the best protagonist. He is hilarious, his character growth actually shows throughout, and by the end he is such a good duelist on his own that he beat Astral. Who had all the numbers but Utopia. That’s not trash. At least he wasn’t a complete waste like Yuya.
Yuck Zexal is trash 🤢
@@AnnalinaSR21 Why? It was written so much better than Zarc-V. Do you hate it just because Yuma isn’t a super serious protagonist like Atem/Yugi or Yusei?
@@GatorOne-in7hk I just hate his looks and how he acts. o.o
Imagine if yugi had summoned one of the gods during this duel, whichever one it is doesn't really matter but yusei and Jaden would of been in complete aww at having been there to see one up close in person (technically Jaden has seen 2 in person by this point but still)
That's why Paradox have chosen this timeline. Since God Cards weren't even mention to begin with (Besides Obelisk's ofc). But the course is that Atem didn't possess any of it.
Some people assumed that it was somewhere before his duel with Arcana, right after it.
Sacred beasts aren't Gods but destroyers of worlds....they were only considered Gods because of their shared appearances with the originals. Except hamon who looked like an evangelion lol
@@EJY809 no jaden had seen two god cards, he saw slifer in his duel with Yugi and ra from some dude that made a fake version
@@Defi4nc3s1 I don't see how it can be after yugi brats Pegasus because Pegasus still seemed to have his millennium eye
@@cameronharris4634 this was during the duelist kingdom.
I can see how Paradox not playing at his best with the amount of stress he must have been going through. Coming from a world that was completely ruined. I could see him slipping up.
Jaden is MVP in this duel. Without his supporting cards (magic and traps), 3 protagonists would be stuck dealing with malefic monsters. Yugi did next best when he was able to get back stardust from the opposing field and took down malefic synchro with his own spell cards. Yusei did the bare minimum work of giving yugi his dark magician, reviving all the monsters at the end with his trap, and just finish the duel when everything is basically prepared (by jaden and yugi) for him to end the game.
This!!!
yessss you're right
Yusei did the most life point damage
@@namesdontmattergaming2756 wouldn't have been possible without yugi and jaden's trap
Absolutely untrue.
Not a single one of Jaden's plays would have been possible without Junk Gardna, and not a single one of Yugi's plays would've been possible without Dark Magician added to his hand.
Jaden only dealt with the Malefic monsters because Yusei switched them to defense mode and provided him with the *perfect* material for his fusion. If Junk Gardna wasn't on the field, Jaden wouldn't have been able to even *summon anything.* Don't be a fanboy.
In terms of Yugioh all I want is a Yugioh GX movie. It'll be amazing to hear the unreleased soundtrack and seeing Jaden dueling with his E-Heros and Neo-Spacians on the big screen
Had Yugi or Jaden started the duel first, the protagonists would have lost. Luckily, Yusei went first and did not brick.
These breakdowns are really quite fascinating. The amount of work that goes into them must be staggering and I appreciate it. I'd love to see more breakdowns for other duels, even ones that don't seem like they could have gone differently.
Actually, I'd like to see a breakdown on Joey vs Marik or Joey vs Odion. I feel like you'd do either one justice with a fair outlook rather than whining that Joey should have won or Marik sucks or whatever the flavor of the day is.
Paradox is a good villain, but you know who they should bring in next time?
Nitemare, from Forbidden Memories, also Heishin - now those are some badass villains with a serious threat level
I never got that far in forbidden memories because I tried to do everything I could in ancient Egypt but the game kept forcing me into the future so I gave up on it.
I always wondered why they never used them, considering they appear in multiple games.
@@_Vengeance_ were they in the one game on the PlayStation where you can choose a side in a war? I got bored with that one so I never got far in it.
@@GODOFAWSOMENESS1 Yeah, they also appeared in Duelists of the Roses (well, Nitemare only as Darknite, but he uses a Darknite-style deck in 1 story (heavily focused on Spells/Traps) and a Nitemare-style deck in the other (heavily focused on Monsters)).
On top of Forbidden Memories and Duelists of the Roses, they also appeared in Dark Duel Stories and Falsebound Kingdom.
@@_Vengeance_ Basically, Kazuki Takahashi was still formulating the ending and the games wanted to have a "proper" ending, so Kazuki came up with them for the games at the time as stand ins for what kind of characters he'd like to have as possible final bosses of the manga. With Heishin being a sort of beta version of Aknadin and Nitemare/Darknite (depending on the game) as a beta version of Dark Priest Zorc.
Same goes for Forbidden Memories' version of Ishizu named "Isis" (Forbidden Memories in particular was made some time as he was writing Duelist Kingdom).
Imagine if Yugi still had Exodia. That battle would be real quick
Cringe
One interesting thing - if I'm understanding correctly (I haven't actually watched this movie), then Stardust should never have been able to be summoned AT ALL. Summoning cards by ignoring their summoning conditions only overrides the card's summoning procedure, NOT the rule that special summon monsters must be special summoned properly before you can revive them. Because Stardust was sent directly from the ED to the GY, no effect in the game should be able to summon it back. Probably the most infamous example of this is Dark Flattop, which cannot revive SKY FIRE unless you actually pull off it's dog summoning condition first.
Not that it changes the fact that this is an anime duel designed for spectacle that operates on different rules, but coming from the real card game these rulings are very poorly understood by the playerbase and it can be very frustrating to play against at times.
I like that the poll was basically split down the middle 50% of fair and unfair.
Like Joeys duel stats in the Best Friend Video.
Which by default makes if fair... I think?
Been watching these more consistently then i have ever watched the show and it shocks me that you had EVER considered not continuing the series!!! Happy to see how far you’ve come!!
Can i say that the fact that jaiden was the only one with a different duel disk always weirded me out?
They all have different duel disks.
Yusei's is an upgrade model of the original, and Jaden's is a school model.
@@tyson543 but the ones of Yugi and Yusei are still almost identical, meanwhile jaiden's looks like the one they would give to a child because he could cut himself (ok he is at school so i guess ir makes sense)
@@Albortomagico I mean, if Jaden really wanted to he could poof a KaibaCorp one onto himself for the duel - as he's merged with Yubel that means he has all of Yubel's abilities, including creating temporary duel disks out of himself - but nostalgia.
@@Albortomagico Jaden just likes his duel academy look. Dude still wears the Slifer jacket after he graduated.
It's weird that the poll made it look like Yusei is the top, Yugi is second and Last is Jaden but in the comment section there they are 90% sure it was Jaden who should be MVP.
But whatever, The 3 are awesome together and i love them all just sad that Jaden is so far in the Poll vs the other 2 in the MVp category.
Yeah that was strange, but maybe because Jaden was last the people who voted needed to explain why he was MVP
Yusei was heavily nerfed honestly
Paradox would also have a much higher opportunity to deck out, which makes his field brilliant for this one duel. It replaces his draw with a semi search. In a regular duel this is nice but you would want more search power in addition to what should be your draw. In this duel, it ensures paradox gets the cards he needs without having to empty his deck so fast. It cuts dead draws while keeping him from losing even faster since his deck running is already running out 3 times faster than his opponent. This is a case of rhe card effect working brilliantly for the specific situation in the anime but then not being so great when translated into a real world card for a typical duel.
Can the next duel analysis be Jack vs Dragan.
Why? That duel finished in the anime, if you're referring to the first duel they had: it was stated in the anime that they had the same opening hand as the first time, Dragan even said that his accusation was wrong in the end and that Jack rightfully won the first duel
I'm pretty sure the idea was that Dragan would've won though because Jack didn't have Red Nova in their first duel which was crucial in beating Thor.
Actually in anime Thors card is different where it steals a monster's effect for itself. So when dragan uses his effect he still had his gulfaxe of nordic beasts tuner monster. When stealing red nova's effect thor should have gained 500 points making his attack 4000 when he Attacked jack would of lost his second duel but that's my opinion
Dragan would have won the first match
And jack won the second one
But yeah thor can negate ALL monsters your opponent control and take the effect of one of the monster he negated the effect and use it's effect for that turn
So yeah if he targeted red nova
Thor would get to 4k and nova to 3.5
@@heroeus8173 but Jack could chain Anime Red Nova, to remove it from play and have the ability to negate 1 attack from Dragan in the same turn.(Though he also didn't use Anime Red Novas effect against Broder, but he used it against Primo and Lester...)
There is kind of loophole in the duel when Yusei uses Startdust Dragon's effect.
Startdust Dragon originally started the duel in Paradox's extra deck, so it was owned by Paradox. Because of that, when Stardust Dragon returns from the graveyard (and, like you pointed out in the video, let's ignore the fact it was not properly summoned in the first place. lol), it should have been summoned to Paradox's side of field, not Yusei's!
@TGS Anime, what do you think? Is there a way the protagonists could have escaped from that?
The only thing that I can think of is that the anime rules work a bit differently. That Malefic Paradox Dragon counts as a proper synchro summon, and that Stardust comes back to the field of whoever used its effect.
I think its more so that stardust wasn't originally paradox's and it plays off that in this case but you know its anime so .. As Seto Kaiba says "Screw the rules, I have money".
Well, to be fair, they are in Yugi's timeline, where Duel Monsters was still a broken, exploitable mess of a game, so it's only natural that the protagonists would exploit the hell out of it.
@@themasterofw4295 I mean, you could make the argument that since Yusei's duel against Paradox at the beginning of the movie technically never finished, Paradox only had control of Stardust and not ownership.
Yusei's combo opened up the game for them. Yugi and Judai would've been like "I play a monster in defense position and end my.turn".
I need a Yu-Gi-Oh GX movie
Why do I get the feeling if they ever made that Yu-Gi-Oh GX movie, bastion would be the one that returns? I mean that he would set up a new chain of events that would cause problems.... Maybe if bastion returns from the dimension he was left at, a new villain from another dimension may come through.
But hey that's just fans speculation.