Agreed. GX got me back into Yugioh a long time ago and one thing that bothered me is that Jaden dueled in practically EVERY episode. Along with missed opportunities for character development of the others, we also missed out on a ton of potential match ups. One potential match up that I wish we would've got was Chazz vs Zane. A duel between these two early on would've been a great way to humble Chazz without having to make him Jaden's punching bag.
The fact that the plot of the first season was to have 7 spirit duelists against the shadow riders and only Chazz and Alexis win there duels once to people the protagonist himself beat or are used for comic relief that felt like a filler episode
@@jeanmichelteub4884 It's fine for Jaden to duel, but they missed opportunities to give other characters a chance to shine. There were plenty of duels where it would have made more sense for other characters to duel in place of him, but since he's the main character he has to do everything. I love GX but that's one thing I hated about the show
I hate that this is right but bastion Cyrus, Zane, Alexis and especially aster, Jessie, and alexis' brother were just kinda there. I hated that because they're so cool but they're basically useless
Crowler had to be one of my favorites in GX. Not only was Ancient Gears my absolute favorite as a kid ( plus Golem was my first card in the game ) but Crowler was only salty because of Jaden. He was a Professor that praised hard work and some of his duels are also my favorite duels
No idea if this is true but I read somewhere that originally GX was planned to have 5 full 52 ep seasons but the Japanese VA for Jaden didn't want to continue the character, so they scraped season 5 and shorten the length of 4. This might explain why season 3 was more focused on the new characters, if the writers thought they were going to have more time with the core group.
Part of why in my recent rewatch of GX I enjoyed Season 1 much more was because the cast overall had more moments to shine than later seasons. You had Chazz's character development, Zane showing why he is the top academy duelist, Alexis looking for her brother and later protecting him from the shadows, even Syrus in the first episodes growing a spine and defeating the Paradox bros w/Jaden.
I'd say Vrains takes the cake on that one. Unless your character is named Playmaker, Ai, Revolver, or Soulburner; you ain't doing much to progress the plot.
Alexis is my favorite character in YuGiOh and her whole story revolved around saving her brother in Season 1.. then they give that duel to Jaden...and even worse, make her lose off-screen in season 4, where they expand on Atticus/Nightshroud. Then they brought her back in Arc-V only to treat her EVEN WORSE somehow!!
Using Vegeta to reflect both Daichi's mother's and father's reaction to his son disappearing into another dimension with his amazon girlfriend was pure genius.
GX never realized you can have these characters win duels and do something, and still progress the story. Then season 3 drops the ball with all the transfer academy students, and you could’ve done some really cool plot lines with them acting as FOILS or rivalries (Jim/hasselberry, Adrian/Chazz, Jaden/Jesse), but instead they get relegated to one off duels and nothing more. They just sorta get added to the giant group of cheerleaders for the Jaden show.
Your comment about Jim sharing a role with Hasselberry kinda validated me, as i felt the "Fossil" cards would have been a neat Deck upgrade for him going forward. Especially since otherwise, Hasselberry's only Fusion Monster in the Fusion series is Dyna Tank, and it works as least visually with Dinosaurs and Fossils working together. Not sure if it would work in the real game, but it could happen with the right amount of support.
Ironically he had an actual good arc granted he wasn't an great character but he did so little except in his own arc that he actually could escape his list because he was confined in his own season 1° season
I feel like they knew Chumley wasn't going anywhere so they jettisoned him off to Industrial Illusions. Honestly it worked out because it at least gave him a complete arc, unlike most of the other entries here.
Atticus as red eyes player should have had more duels. I also wish more decks stayed true to their manga variants. Bastion was cooler in the manga than in the anime. I like water dragons and fire dragon counterparts woulda been cool to see
7:20 Regarding Alexis, to be honest, she only had a prominent and notable role in the story, during the Season 1, in that it was explored her backgrounds and growing interest in Jaden. Adding the arc of her lost brother, making that Alexis had a lot spotlight during this Season. Without count that even her friendship and possible crush in Jaden, become so notable, that Alexis was willing to leaves the VIP dormitory of the Obelisks, to moves to the cheaper dormitory of the Slifers, only to be closer of Jaden, showing a notable potential for Alexis. Sadly, for the next Seasons, Alexis become almost a secundary character, making that her potential ended wasted. Adding the fact that her relationship with Jaden was getting worse in each Season: - Season 2, Alexis was recruited by the Society of Light, and was in this brainwashed state for most of the Season. Adding that as result of the harsh mind erasing of Sartorious, Alexis ended suffering a degree of amnesia after be free from their control, causing that she forgot many memories with Jaden, damaging their growing relationship. - Season 3, their friendship suffered a notable strain during the events of Dark Dimension, in that Alexis and the rest ended turning their back Jaden, after had many disagreements for his mission to rescue Jesse, leading to many consequences for everybody, causing a notable strain in their relationship. - Season 4, as result of the new personality of Jaden, his relationship with Alexis became notably tense and strained, to the point of be almost like former friends, showing that their friendship was getting strained as the series was advancing. To be honest, this was a shame, as Alexis had a lot potential, making a notable disappointing that the producers wasted her character.
Alexis suffered greatly from the fact her main role in the story was to be jadens love interest, and personally I have no problem with a female character being written for that. But it was very clear the writers had no idea how hard on the romance they wanted in a kids show. In which case the purpose of Alexis really needed to be changed, which the writers failed to do. GX suffered greatly from writers making cool and interesting character with no idea how to adapt them once things changed from their orignal purpose
The thing about Alexis is that, what could have been done with her wasn't, she doesn't have an arc post season 1, they mostly feel obligated to write for her
Seeing late GX episodes always leaves me like “how on earth did Blair make 2 openings but they refuse to do almost anything with her”. RIP Blair. Sorrow.
Tag Force not only gave better treatment to Blair (as well as the others). They also gave Blair a much better deck in Lightsworn, over whatever anime garbage the writers put together in five minutes. Blair is one of the biggest wasted potential and character development. Blair's existence could have led to many different scenarios. Instead she was just used for stereotypical shounen girl falls for shounen guy cliche as well as awful love triangle (which makes no sense in GX and plagues 2000s cartoons and anime at the time)
I always wished Blair dueled Marcel/Yubel. they build up the friendship between Blair & Marcel just to have Jaden & Jesse do basically everything. they could have had her beat him while Jesse still draws so the next season wouldn't have had to change much.
Blair gives the impression that they only brought her back bc of fan popularity, and so she doesn't have anything to do in the ongoing plot arc. She befriends Marcel which doesn't accomplish anything when he's posessed, she's completely absent from S3's latter half, and her only participation in S4 is one duel where Jaden and Alexis are the focus. Doesn't stop her from being Tag Force's fav girl (FOUR storylines in 3, jesus...)
Great list. I started rewatching GX last year. I was surprised by how much ended up liking Chronos. His character development is surprising, and I love how went from trying to get Judai expelled and looking down on Osiris Reds to actively defending it in a duel. He is the one character on here who at least feels like he had a satisfactory journey for me. As much as I love GX it does become obvious that the writers and showrunners were unsure how to write a Yugioh anime without a manga to follow. It feels like characters directions constantly shift. That is fine, as long as there is a satisfactory pay off, but with most GX cast a lot of them leave a sour taste in our mouths, because we know they could have been better. Sho should have been the one to save Judai. I don't think giving this plot point to Jim and O'Brien. They don't know Judai as much. There is more meaning if Sho is the one who saves Judai and finally be there for his surrogate big brother. This might be unpopular opinion, but after rewatching up until the middle of season 3 I truly don't think Kenzan needed to be more than a one time or background character. The dinosaur DNA and having it tied to the Light of Destruction felt odd, not in a good way. In terms of having a Ra Yellow as part of the main group outside of Sho, then it comes down to Misawa and Kenzan, and to be honest I don't think Kenzan adds much more than Misawa. If Kenzan was erased and the writers had decided to keep Misawa as a third duelist in their year after Judai and Manjoume that he could have added more to the plot. If we needed a new first year cast member in second season, then I think it should have been Rei over Kenzan. I think her replacing Hayato over Kenzan creates less friction with Sho. She could have become a competent female duelist that the cast needed. Asuka could have become a mentor to Rei, which gives both of them more to do.
Kenzan sadly feels like an afterthought and I agree with bastion being included, I would love if he was Jaden's rival because he's equal to Zane in intelect
@@Eric6761 I agree Kenzan feels like an afterthought. It does feel like they had no idea what to do with his character. I think it would have been smarter to keep Misawa as a main character. He has more potential as a character to me than Kenzan. Misawa easily could have been rival to Judai and Manjome. We could have had a cool three way rivalry among these 3 to be the best duelist at the school. There was enough room for both Manjome and Misawa to be Judai’s rivals and share their own rivalry.
Doctor Crowler’s duel against Camula did show he cared about his students and made sure to keep them safe, even though he lost that duel. As for the following below: Alexis: rarely dueled to showcase her skill as an Obelisk blue but still showed up to support Jaiden Bastion: ended up in a “writer’s limbo” as they couldn’t figure out what to do with his character Hasselberry: started off as a jerk who then becomes friends with the main character and occasionally gets time to shine in the spotlight Atticus: started off as a “bad guy” but was revealed to be Alexis’ missing brother and was just around after saving him
This is one of the best GX videos I've seen. You make great points about everyone listed here. Edo Phoenix wasn't just whorfed into next week; he was whorfed all the way into another anime with how hard Arc-V dissed him after hyping him up as some top Academia duelist. Just giving Edo one more sub plot and duel victory in season four could have done wonders for him. Imo, they should have made him duel and defeat Saio in season four instead of Judai again. He also has things related to him that go absolutely nowhere. Namely, his ability to see duel spirits that started on the season two field trip and how he mentions in season three that his Destiny Heroes were affected by the same light from space that Judai's Neo Spatians were. Idk, but it looked like maybe originally they were planning on also having him as a duelist that could tackle more of the larger more supernatural threats, but in the end they decided that only Judai could be "special". 😓 Another is while you can say some of the Yugiohs fell into the trap of "Big Three Syndrome" (DM with Yugi, Kaiba, Joey 5ds with Yusei, Crow, Jack ZEXAL with Yuma, Shark, Kaito VRAINS with Playmaker, Revolver, Soulburner). GX takes the problem in an even worse direction where instead it's just the Big One (Judai).
Imagine if Johan, O'brien, and the crocodile guy were introduced as childhood friends of Judai, same way Jack, Crow and Kiryu were already friends with Yusei. Judai was already a powerful duelist since episode 1, giving him some history where he was friends with other powerful duelists would've made more sense, and also would've justified everything that happened in season 3.
I'm surprised that Rei Saotome/Blair Flannigan didn't make the list. She was essentially just a filler character, yet they brought her back to be part of the main cast.
Yeah like @LiterallyUnlovable719 said, she didn't have much going for her in the first place. She was kinda just there like "hey look another female character." The rest of these entries had a solid foundation that the writers never took advantage of, therefore wasted. Rei/Blair would need a net-new plotline since she didn't have any basis beyond the maiden filler.
@@customcardguy On the other hand, she was and still is used heavily in the marketing in spite of being a background character so that really is strong grounds to say that she SHOULD have had more to do. Being a filler character is one thing but when she's appearing prominently in the opening and ending animations, has as many as FOUR variants in Tag Force, and still is being used for merch and stuff that's showing intent to actually treat her as a main cast member. Really the issue is just season 3 as a whole being the area sloppy about using supporting characters outside of Johann, and that being when she was brought in as an alleged main character.
@@customcardguytbh, all her inclusion felt like was the writers trying to give alexis a rival so she would be more proactive and you can see how well that works when both are sidelined
I think Rei could have been a strong supporting character. If GX brought her character back at the start of season 2 I think she could have been our new first year protagonist over Kenzan. Rei is portrayed as a good duelist, so she could easily become the second raising star in the Osiris dorm. There is potential for Asuka to be Rei's mentor and be a fresh of breath air for Asuka to have a female friend who takes dueling seriously. They can even be rivals in dueling. Her crush on Judai would make Sho less insecure about his position of best friend to Judai unlike Kezan, and based on how empathetic Rei was with Martin can see her getting along better with Sho then Kenzan initially, and them forming a more positive relationship where they support each other. I would make it, so Rei is one of the duelists never to be turned to Society of Light and helped to fight them. If she is given a better foundation and gets reintroduced sooner, then Rei could have been a good character and stood out in a cast that lacked female characters. I can see trio of Judai, Sho, and Rei working better than Judai, Sho, and Kenzan.
Bastion has to be top 1. Talk about a fall from grace his last official duel where we cared about him was leading him to become a secondary antagonist becoming evil to prove he was the best and not only does he not even duel to turn back to normal but he essentially accepts that he’s no longer a main character and leaves and just disappears until he returns and the cast is like”oh yea he wasn’t with us”. Then he doesn’t even duel in half is season 3 and once they reach the other dimension he chooses to stay with his Amazon gf and goes on the missing list and is never talked about again. At least with Syrus from start to finish he got that character arc where he wanted to gain his brothers respect. Bastion basically was set up to be Jaden’s foil because he used logic where as he used luck and heart of the cards only to lose one duel to a muscle mommy and never be important to the plot again.
Syrus arc feels incomplete because he doesn't get the respect of Zane until the last minute, Syrus never evolved, the show pretends that he evolved but like, his arc in season 4 felt bland at least with bastion the writers fumbled hard with him but the writers at least gave up on him and stopped pretending they cared for him
@@Eric6761 but again Syrus whole journey is to accept that he isn’t like his brother nor is he Jaden but he accepts that he can do what he can to be stronger in himself like when he had duels to gain his confidence and essentially had to learn that sometime people change and you have to accept it. His duel Zane made Zane also realize of his self destructive tendencies as he put too much presssure in himself and Syrus and watching Syrus used the deck to perfection after Zane felt betrayed that he wasn’t the true wielder had Syrus respect him. So in the end I feel like Syrus went through his character arc more than compared to bastion who essentially gave up on his dreams and stayed behind in the other dimension cause he felt more useful there.
@@ethansolorzano5989 the thing is, Zane never truly had time to reflect on everything and the realization came in a episode of 20 minutes so Syrus being suddenly confident and high spirits when seasons 2 and 3 portrayed him as anime Milhouse feels weird, it's a sudden change but I understand your point, bastion was done dirty but Syrus hurts more because his character was supposed to mirror Jaden's growth
@@Eric6761 but again he had progression, he had episodes that led him to self actualization. Where as bastion after his duel with tania gets shafted, doesnt duel until he purposely loses to chazz and then once AGAIN does nothing and leaves duel academy without anyone caring.
I have many thoughts on this list and honestly i wasn't even surprised Syrus (Sho) was included because Bastion was at least cool and interesting for an whole season and season 2 was basically his departure from the plot but Sho was the character accompanying Jaden, he had barely any victories of his own and the times he stands up he gets nerfed back to being treated as punching bag, hell, the only thing that changed on him going from Slifer to Ra was the clothing, Sho is basically anime Millhouse, the character that his main feature is being the protagonist best friend, he's mostly that
The problem is Sho's character always starts his character development over. I'm all for characters needing work to break bad habits or not to backslide, but it felt like every time Sho stepped up and showed his potential, to be an amazing duelist, the writers would take him back to unsure of himself and lack of confidence in his skills. Sho should have been the one to save Judai from being Haou/Supreme King. It baffles me that the writers didn't give him that.
@@Jjop017 exactly! Sho saving Judai was a no brainer but Axel saving him feels weird, the duel was good but even Zane and Aster would feel right facing him but Axel?
@@Eric6761 I guess to summarize Mitsuzane's (Mitchy) character, he's the sidekick to Kouta. Over time, Mitchy slowly became evil as means to "protect his friends." Kouta would learn about this and fought Mitchy, losing on purpose yet still forgives the later. Eventually Mitchy sees the errors in his ways and resolves to repent his past actions.
I totally agree with your list, although I may change some places. The funny thing is that authors gave Jaden soo many wins over the antagonists, so even Jaden himself statet he is not going to fight agains Truemans and Darkness, but he will let others save the world this time (spoiler- he saved world anyway)
Here's my list. 10. Alexis Rhodes. She honestly could have at least gotten a couple of wins in Single(one on one) Duels. 9. Jim Cook. I was today old when I learned that someone in charge of his character was a fan of Stone Cold Steve Austin. Seriously, in 2001, he started to use "What?" As a catchphrase. Fans chanted it every promo ever since. What? 8. Crowler. Honestly, he had one of the best arcs in the franchise, however he should have won one or two more duels. 7. The Chazz. Honestly, he should have won either in the Exam Duel against Jaden in Season 1 to establish him as an obstacle or in the School Duel and their duel in Season 2(as Jaden was focused on Sartorious and the Society of Light as a whole while The Chazz was going to be deemed the winner, why not give him that win? That way, they can then either be seen as equal or have a Rubber Match(Tie Breaker) as The Chazz's Graduation Duel. 6. Axel Brody. Honestly, I feel like they should have switched between him and Jim with Jim's reason being that not all the needed requirements are there so he would go so that he could get Syrus in hopes that it'd be enough to get through. The moment of cowardice ruined him for me until the Duel against Mr. T. 5. The Slade and The Jagger. The older brothers of The Chazz to me could have been fine recurring characters in all honesty. 4. Chancellor Sheppard. You said it well. He honestly should have at least been a father figure to Jaden and Syrus. All the students really, but especially those two and Alexis. 3. Mindy. She was one of Alexis's bffs and could have been say a love interest for Syrus where as he grows as a duelist, so does her perception of him. In Season 1, have her have the typical dismissal based on the color of his Vest, then by the end of it, have her tolerate him and Jaden since they're also Alexis's friends. In Season 2, have her see Syrus fighting for his former dorm and his friends, and she uses it as motivation to better herself in hopes to save Alexis, also she'd view him as a valued friend. In Seasons 3 and 4, have her have a crush on Syrus. 2. Jasmine. Same thing for Mindy but paired with The Chazz. She'd even be good for keeping Mindy safe in Season 3. 1. Bastion Misawa. He should have been there with the expressed purposes of becoming a teacher in Duelology. Have him be inspired by Crowler, Banner, and Fartyre(another wasted character is Sartyre imo as we only had like one episode with him in a prominent role). I think that's his name anyway, and give him a duel where we see his iconic Fire Dragon. Talk about a let down.
I can't agree enough with the points you made about Sho. He definitely takes the top spot. In the best season of GX, season 3, he doesn't even have a single duel.
I disagree with Chazz being so high, while everything you said is true, when you view Chazz through less of a Kaiba lens (Someone equal or superior to the protag) and more through a Joey lens (Someone who needs to develop and grow) thats where his beauty shines. His development is admitedly a little lopsided because he is the most prominent "rival", but I think his rejection of Yugi's deck says a lot about his growth
Chazz certainly had his limelight compared to a lot of these other characters, but that's what makes his handling in season 3 so disappointing. Then he's basically a joke character in season 4 with a win over Aster to make fans feel good I guess.
@brickbanditstudios6037 Nah. He was basically sidelined for half of season 3 as Yubel possessed him. Barely anything to do in 4 and you never know much about his backstory or what he's the chosen one of.
Zane was well written through season 3. Season 4 nerfed him but at least he had a compelling story for the majority of the show. Axel was a latecomer but still had a number of worthwhile moments and additional backstory in season 4. I get that Jesse feels disappointing due to his limited time, but he perfectly fits the role he was designed to play, so that's why I didn't include him on this list. And then there's everyone else lol
@customcardguy Zane was one of them lucky ones. If it wasn't for season 4 he'd have a completed arc. Axel, however, I feel could have done more in season 4 besides one duel.
Considering that Kazuki just transferred ownership to some random loser who just happen to be passing his office, its only natural that most of the characters are going to be lackluster in comparison.
More like none. They are just two sides of the same coin that flipped out on a different end for each of them. As in, "Yusho Sakaki is great and we need to make everyone smile!" and "Yusho Sakaki is bad and duels aren't for making people smile!" And they don't really do anything. Asuka only wins against Academia drones and then gets carded and written out early. And Edo is turned into a bad fanfiction version of himself turning people into cards as the Leo's puppet and then just is sort of there and not really doing anything once he joins the good side, including losing all of his duels except that one tie to Yuya.
I love GX but half of the supporting cast could have been cut. By compressing the necessary roles into a smaller number of characters they would have made all of the characters feel way more impactful. Imagine how exciting it would have been if Jaden lost his will to duel after a devestating loss to Chazz or if Cyrus got to help with the Society of Light and the Supreme King.
3:35 if you Ask Me, This Guy is the Biggest Failure of them All due to How Studio Gallop Did Absolutely Nothing to Make the RED-EYES Deck Interesting! The Fact that the Game To THIS DAY STILL hasn’t Given Us Better Red-Eyes Support to Even Match, or to Even Powerscale to BLUE-EYES has been Freaking Absurd! And It’s SO EASY! Yet They Screwed It Up Time After Time!
Tyranno Hassleberry is really wasted, he almost never win any duel. Aster could make duel during the last season to fight darkness. Atticus is an excellent duelist but i have never saw him winning a duel. Mr Shepherd had potential he deserved to duel more often against villains.
I think Sama Jima didnt put him as protector of the hey because he is retired duelist. We saw that ge used to tutor Kaiser and thst he is indeed good duelist, but he is kinda old and not in best shape. So I think he retired himself as duelist and focused more on running school with future great duelists.
I don't want shows for the sake of the supporting cast, I watch them for the sake of the story. Seasons 3 and 4 of GX are peek Yu-Gi-Oh together with Virtual World from DM, Arc Cradle from 5Ds, Barian Invasion from Zexal, and season 2 of Go Rush. I can honestly say GX is probably my favourite of the listed because of how it made me feel.
This is one of the main reasons why I totally understand people who say they prefer the GX manga. Jaiden has such an overwhelming spotlight in the anime that he basically leaves no room for anyone else. I can name maybe a handfull of characters that were given any level of respect or even a complete arc.
But manga has an absolutely garbage main plot. Who cares if the characters are more explored if the story they exist in isn't worth reading? No Yubel no nothing.
@@genyakozlov1316 true. Even though I have my gripes with the anime, The Light of Destruction , The Gentle Darkness, The Supreme King, Yubel and more were AMAZING concepts executed pretty well in the long run.
GX was like GT. Not only did they both have a G in their name but both of them made their main characters way WAY too important to the point the other characters get no development and also the animation was just overall worse but that's a different discussion. It's honestly sad and its why I think Yugioh GX is easily the Yugioh series that needs a remake the most. Not to say I hate GX as its got some of my favorite archetypes and characters.
I feel it's unfair to criticize a show for focusing on it's main character but the fact that Judai got like what? 5 rivals? And none amounted to anything for more than a couple episode is kind of a problem. You don't want your rival to turn into Vegeta where he stuck glued to the protag's hip every single episode but you also don't want them to be treated like the 'chapter 1 unnamed friend that disappear from existence' in romcoms. But yeah, GX definitely had cast bloat.
The thing about Jaden is that the writers feels like the world needs to revolves around him, characters can't breathe without Jaden, they deliberately decided to give characters a closing Arc but it felt bland
Not gonna lie the way Judai just does everything is not just bad because it waste so many other characters. No as a continuation of the original series did GX somehow ended up going entirely against the original series primary message. DM was all about the power of friendship. From breaking ancient magic powers, the thing that allows the defeat of the final villain and countless other examples. Yet in GX we somehow end up with this insane take were to be an adult Judai has to stand on his own, his friends are more often than not useless to nothing but a burden on him and so much more. And this is a problem that gets a lot worse in season 3 and 4. It all ends up feeling like GX purposefully wanted to subvert DM to more so stand on its own which however ultimately lead to series that actively goes against the originals core message and is rather annoying to watch if you aren't 100% onboard with Judai.
Before th events of arc v Alexis returned now a founder with Yusho Sakaki Aster made his debut now helping the Heartland citizens in need in the xyz world Jaden was there in bonds beyond time but never shown in arc v next to Syrus, Atticus, Zane, Blair, Axel, Jim, Tyrano, Crowler, Sheppard the counselor, Bastion, Chazz and Jesse Adrian gecko was gone Jasmine and mindy are there in the gx season though
I gave up on GX between the combination of Jayden being shoved down the throats (Yugi at least let Joey get some stuff in) and Bastion being completely ruined. Never even saw the last season.
The original series had the problem of way too much filler. GX: way too many characters but only Judai matters. 5ds: the second half sucks. Zexal: is slow at first but does get better and better as it goes along. Might be my favorite. Ark V: had the opposite problem of getting worse over time. The ending sucks. Vrains: tried to be the good half of 5ds. It also wastes characters and has the worst rival. Sevens and Go Rush: tutorials.
No way you called Revolver the worst rival. Second part of 5Ds has Crash Town, WRGP, and most importantly Arc Cradle, all of which are better than almost anything in the first half. Sevens I can give you, but it's clear you haven't caught up with Go Rush. It's currently a darn masterpiece on par with Zexal II.
@@Bonkatsu12The Grand Pri was boring. Nothing happens except long duels that made everyone but Yusei useless. The Crash Town arc was good because it felt like the first half of 5ds. Arc Craddle was a less good version of the second half of the dark signers arc. Revolver talked a lot of trash but always lost to Playmaker and didn't win any big duels.
It's crazy that the Spinoff/Sequel series got 155 episodes in the English Dub, while the Sub version has a total of 180 episodes, and yet more than 70% of screen time goes toward Judai... what a major let down. 😑
Syraz aint wasted as much that every scene with him is a waste, aweful character. Genuilny glad we saw so little of him as what we saw of him already felt like far to much, it is like Tristan if all tristan did was cry a lot about his way more interesting brother.
Syrus is genuinely an awful character. He only exists to leech off Jaden and use him as a shield. He's also incredibly toxic and clings to Jaden for everything. He's incredibly petty, gets angry over spilled milk, acts extremely entitled, and acts like a big shot if he wins while disrespecting others. His cringe fights with Hassleberry feels like they just wanted to recycle Joey and Tristan dynamic, while completely misunderstanding why that worked. His whole character arc they were going for takes so long and it gets dragged on for too long, it has no pay off when it happens
@@soukenmarufwt5224Jonouchi and Honda never had an interesting dynamic beyond the stereotypical male friendship. I think Kenzan is a nothing character, especially in the sub, but his dynamic with Sho in season 2 is way more interesting. Sho is a great character. There is nothing wrong with being a wimp and it's not something you have to get over.
One reason that everyone keeps avoiding to accept. The writing was bad and it ain't about the support but how to handle the characters properly. Judai is just too OP and a total Gary Stue
Jaden a gary stue when Lost 4 duels? Yusei only lost 1. How is Jaden a Gary stue? He gets helps a lot and had to change his deck 3 times, I think u don't know what a Gary stue is. Atem was a Gary stue, Yusei too.
In yugioh, yugi changed and has plenty of char development, same goes with yami yugi. But its not just him, There's joey There's kaiba Bakura Mai Almost all the chara got a bit of development. In gx.... its just one long episode of watching wall paint dry.....
I mean...Syrus uses one of the absolute worst archetypes in the entire yugioh game anyway. He doesnt actually get anything worth using until season 4 when he combines his deck with zanes.
Why are u using all the Japanese sub news.....must ppl who are watch this video literally only what GX in English Dub.....so this is super annoying to me
Why can't you go with the dub names in stead of sub? No one does sub anime! Also, alexis is clearly a lesbian which is why AAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the dudes get blue balls.
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In Gx everyone is a wasted character because Jaden gets all the spotlight. He fights in every important duel and there’s no room for the others.
Agreed. GX got me back into Yugioh a long time ago and one thing that bothered me is that Jaden dueled in practically EVERY episode. Along with missed opportunities for character development of the others, we also missed out on a ton of potential match ups. One potential match up that I wish we would've got was Chazz vs Zane. A duel between these two early on would've been a great way to humble Chazz without having to make him Jaden's punching bag.
I liked seeing Jaden duel.
That's a problem with all of Yu-Gi-Oh. Also they always use the same card to win. It's a little boring.
The fact that the plot of the first season was to have 7 spirit duelists against the shadow riders and only Chazz and Alexis win there duels once to people the protagonist himself beat or are used for comic relief that felt like a filler episode
@@jeanmichelteub4884 It's fine for Jaden to duel, but they missed opportunities to give other characters a chance to shine. There were plenty of duels where it would have made more sense for other characters to duel in place of him, but since he's the main character he has to do everything. I love GX but that's one thing I hated about the show
Almost every gx character is wasted tbh
GX is like GT xD but it’s Jaden time instead of Goku time
I hate that this is right but bastion Cyrus, Zane, Alexis and especially aster, Jessie, and alexis' brother were just kinda there. I hated that because they're so cool but they're basically useless
@@jonathanmanard7797Arc v dropped the ball even harder
Jaden CARRIED
@@Dunbeezytv He carried because he stole the spotlight of every other character
The fact that the Cyber Ogre archetype hasn’t got support shows how wasted of a character Chancellor Sheppard is.
The Fact his Duel is against a former Student and not a any Villain is a waste.
Crowler had to be one of my favorites in GX. Not only was Ancient Gears my absolute favorite as a kid ( plus Golem was my first card in the game ) but Crowler was only salty because of Jaden. He was a Professor that praised hard work and some of his duels are also my favorite duels
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Who? Sir that is Doctor Crowler! He earned that PHD! A PHD in dueling, but a PHD!
No idea if this is true but I read somewhere that originally GX was planned to have 5 full 52 ep seasons but the Japanese VA for Jaden didn't want to continue the character, so they scraped season 5 and shorten the length of 4. This might explain why season 3 was more focused on the new characters, if the writers thought they were going to have more time with the core group.
Part of why in my recent rewatch of GX I enjoyed Season 1 much more was because the cast overall had more moments to shine than later seasons. You had Chazz's character development, Zane showing why he is the top academy duelist, Alexis looking for her brother and later protecting him from the shadows, even Syrus in the first episodes growing a spine and defeating the Paradox bros w/Jaden.
The simple fact that a top 10 can be made on this subject says a lot about wasted potential in GX...
GX may be the Yu-Gi-Oh! poster child of wasted characters.
20 years later we finally knew the fandom whould say it
What about Arc-V?
I'd say Vrains takes the cake on that one. Unless your character is named Playmaker, Ai, Revolver, or Soulburner; you ain't doing much to progress the plot.
Alexis is my favorite character in YuGiOh and her whole story revolved around saving her brother in Season 1.. then they give that duel to Jaden...and even worse, make her lose off-screen in season 4, where they expand on Atticus/Nightshroud. Then they brought her back in Arc-V only to treat her EVEN WORSE somehow!!
Using Vegeta to reflect both Daichi's mother's and father's reaction to his son disappearing into another dimension with his amazon girlfriend was pure genius.
GX never realized you can have these characters win duels and do something, and still progress the story. Then season 3 drops the ball with all the transfer academy students, and you could’ve done some really cool plot lines with them acting as FOILS or rivalries (Jim/hasselberry, Adrian/Chazz, Jaden/Jesse), but instead they get relegated to one off duels and nothing more. They just sorta get added to the giant group of cheerleaders for the Jaden show.
Crowler at least got a really nice arc and final duel.
Yeah he wasn't an egregious error but I like the character and thought more could've been done to chart a more compelling journey
Your comment about Jim sharing a role with Hasselberry kinda validated me, as i felt the "Fossil" cards would have been a neat Deck upgrade for him going forward. Especially since otherwise, Hasselberry's only Fusion Monster in the Fusion series is Dyna Tank, and it works as least visually with Dinosaurs and Fossils working together. Not sure if it would work in the real game, but it could happen with the right amount of support.
Chumley isn’t even on the list. Koala Supremacy Lives on.
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Ironically he had an actual good arc granted he wasn't an great character but he did so little except in his own arc that he actually could escape his list because he was confined in his own season 1° season
I feel like they knew Chumley wasn't going anywhere so they jettisoned him off to Industrial Illusions. Honestly it worked out because it at least gave him a complete arc, unlike most of the other entries here.
Bruh the fact Chumley almost beat Crowler and had him sweating speaks to his untapped potential
@@thedarknight307 except chumley did not want to be a duelist. But a card artist/designer. I think his arc ended
@@DarkSymphony777 Oh I agree.
Im mainly pointing out my favorite Chumley highlight
Atticus as red eyes player should have had more duels. I also wish more decks stayed true to their manga variants. Bastion was cooler in the manga than in the anime. I like water dragons and fire dragon counterparts woulda been cool to see
The only GX characters that aren't wasted are Jaden, Zane and Jesse
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Regarding Alexis, to be honest, she only had a prominent and notable role in the story, during the Season 1, in that it was explored her backgrounds and growing interest in Jaden. Adding the arc of her lost brother, making that Alexis had a lot spotlight during this Season. Without count that even her friendship and possible crush in Jaden, become so notable, that Alexis was willing to leaves the VIP dormitory of the Obelisks, to moves to the cheaper dormitory of the Slifers, only to be closer of Jaden, showing a notable potential for Alexis.
Sadly, for the next Seasons, Alexis become almost a secundary character, making that her potential ended wasted. Adding the fact that her relationship with Jaden was getting worse in each Season:
- Season 2, Alexis was recruited by the Society of Light, and was in this brainwashed state for most of the Season. Adding that as result of the harsh mind erasing of Sartorious, Alexis ended suffering a degree of amnesia after be free from their control, causing that she forgot many memories with Jaden, damaging their growing relationship.
- Season 3, their friendship suffered a notable strain during the events of Dark Dimension, in that Alexis and the rest ended turning their back Jaden, after had many disagreements for his mission to rescue Jesse, leading to many consequences for everybody, causing a notable strain in their relationship.
- Season 4, as result of the new personality of Jaden, his relationship with Alexis became notably tense and strained, to the point of be almost like former friends, showing that their friendship was getting strained as the series was advancing.
To be honest, this was a shame, as Alexis had a lot potential, making a notable disappointing that the producers wasted her character.
Alexis suffered greatly from the fact her main role in the story was to be jadens love interest, and personally I have no problem with a female character being written for that. But it was very clear the writers had no idea how hard on the romance they wanted in a kids show. In which case the purpose of Alexis really needed to be changed, which the writers failed to do.
GX suffered greatly from writers making cool and interesting character with no idea how to adapt them once things changed from their orignal purpose
Well,if mangaka/writer in Yugioh creator was here to see this comments, sign.....😔
RIP, Kazuki Takahashi(Takahashi Kazuki)😢🫡
@@azrulamri570 RIP 😔
The thing about Alexis is that, what could have been done with her wasn't, she doesn't have an arc post season 1, they mostly feel obligated to write for her
Seeing late GX episodes always leaves me like “how on earth did Blair make 2 openings but they refuse to do almost anything with her”.
RIP Blair.
Sorrow.
Tag Force not only gave better treatment to Blair (as well as the others).
They also gave Blair a much better deck in Lightsworn, over whatever anime garbage the writers put together in five minutes.
Blair is one of the biggest wasted potential and character development. Blair's existence could have led to many different scenarios.
Instead she was just used for stereotypical shounen girl falls for shounen guy cliche as well as awful love triangle (which makes no sense in GX and plagues 2000s cartoons and anime at the time)
I always wished Blair dueled Marcel/Yubel. they build up the friendship between Blair & Marcel just to have Jaden & Jesse do basically everything. they could have had her beat him while Jesse still draws so the next season wouldn't have had to change much.
Blair gives the impression that they only brought her back bc of fan popularity, and so she doesn't have anything to do in the ongoing plot arc. She befriends Marcel which doesn't accomplish anything when he's posessed, she's completely absent from S3's latter half, and her only participation in S4 is one duel where Jaden and Alexis are the focus.
Doesn't stop her from being Tag Force's fav girl (FOUR storylines in 3, jesus...)
Oh yeah wholeheartedly agree the entire list! Also 😂😂😂 on the Lil Jon joke
Great list. I started rewatching GX last year. I was surprised by how much ended up liking Chronos. His character development is surprising, and I love how went from trying to get Judai expelled and looking down on Osiris Reds to actively defending it in a duel. He is the one character on here who at least feels like he had a satisfactory journey for me.
As much as I love GX it does become obvious that the writers and showrunners were unsure how to write a Yugioh anime without a manga to follow. It feels like characters directions constantly shift. That is fine, as long as there is a satisfactory pay off, but with most GX cast a lot of them leave a sour taste in our mouths, because we know they could have been better.
Sho should have been the one to save Judai. I don't think giving this plot point to Jim and O'Brien. They don't know Judai as much. There is more meaning if Sho is the one who saves Judai and finally be there for his surrogate big brother. This might be unpopular opinion, but after rewatching up until the middle of season 3 I truly don't think Kenzan needed to be more than a one time or background character. The dinosaur DNA and having it tied to the Light of Destruction felt odd, not in a good way. In terms of having a Ra Yellow as part of the main group outside of Sho, then it comes down to Misawa and Kenzan, and to be honest I don't think Kenzan adds much more than Misawa.
If Kenzan was erased and the writers had decided to keep Misawa as a third duelist in their year after Judai and Manjoume that he could have added more to the plot. If we needed a new first year cast member in second season, then I think it should have been Rei over Kenzan. I think her replacing Hayato over Kenzan creates less friction with Sho. She could have become a competent female duelist that the cast needed. Asuka could have become a mentor to Rei, which gives both of them more to do.
Kenzan sadly feels like an afterthought and I agree with bastion being included, I would love if he was Jaden's rival because he's equal to Zane in intelect
@@Eric6761 I agree Kenzan feels like an afterthought. It does feel like they had no idea what to do with his character. I think it would have been smarter to keep Misawa as a main character. He has more potential as a character to me than Kenzan.
Misawa easily could have been rival to Judai and Manjome. We could have had a cool three way rivalry among these 3 to be the best duelist at the school. There was enough room for both Manjome and Misawa to be Judai’s rivals and share their own rivalry.
Doctor Crowler’s duel against Camula did show he cared about his students and made sure to keep them safe, even though he lost that duel. As for the following below:
Alexis: rarely dueled to showcase her skill as an Obelisk blue but still showed up to support Jaiden
Bastion: ended up in a “writer’s limbo” as they couldn’t figure out what to do with his character
Hasselberry: started off as a jerk who then becomes friends with the main character and occasionally gets time to shine in the spotlight
Atticus: started off as a “bad guy” but was revealed to be Alexis’ missing brother and was just around after saving him
This is one of the best GX videos I've seen. You make great points about everyone listed here. Edo Phoenix wasn't just whorfed into next week; he was whorfed all the way into another anime with how hard Arc-V dissed him after hyping him up as some top Academia duelist. Just giving Edo one more sub plot and duel victory in season four could have done wonders for him. Imo, they should have made him duel and defeat Saio in season four instead of Judai again. He also has things related to him that go absolutely nowhere. Namely, his ability to see duel spirits that started on the season two field trip and how he mentions in season three that his Destiny Heroes were affected by the same light from space that Judai's Neo Spatians were. Idk, but it looked like maybe originally they were planning on also having him as a duelist that could tackle more of the larger more supernatural threats, but in the end they decided that only Judai could be "special". 😓
Another is while you can say some of the Yugiohs fell into the trap of "Big Three Syndrome" (DM with Yugi, Kaiba, Joey 5ds with Yusei, Crow, Jack ZEXAL with Yuma, Shark, Kaito VRAINS with Playmaker, Revolver, Soulburner). GX takes the problem in an even worse direction where instead it's just the Big One (Judai).
Imagine if Johan, O'brien, and the crocodile guy were introduced as childhood friends of Judai, same way Jack, Crow and Kiryu were already friends with Yusei.
Judai was already a powerful duelist since episode 1, giving him some history where he was friends with other powerful duelists would've made more sense, and also would've justified everything that happened in season 3.
I'm surprised that Rei Saotome/Blair Flannigan didn't make the list. She was essentially just a filler character, yet they brought her back to be part of the main cast.
she honestly contributed nothing at all that it's hard to critic her
Yeah like @LiterallyUnlovable719 said, she didn't have much going for her in the first place. She was kinda just there like "hey look another female character." The rest of these entries had a solid foundation that the writers never took advantage of, therefore wasted. Rei/Blair would need a net-new plotline since she didn't have any basis beyond the maiden filler.
@@customcardguy On the other hand, she was and still is used heavily in the marketing in spite of being a background character so that really is strong grounds to say that she SHOULD have had more to do.
Being a filler character is one thing but when she's appearing prominently in the opening and ending animations, has as many as FOUR variants in Tag Force, and still is being used for merch and stuff that's showing intent to actually treat her as a main cast member.
Really the issue is just season 3 as a whole being the area sloppy about using supporting characters outside of Johann, and that being when she was brought in as an alleged main character.
@@customcardguytbh, all her inclusion felt like was the writers trying to give alexis a rival so she would be more proactive and you can see how well that works when both are sidelined
I think Rei could have been a strong supporting character. If GX brought her character back at the start of season 2 I think she could have been our new first year protagonist over Kenzan.
Rei is portrayed as a good duelist, so she could easily become the second raising star in the Osiris dorm. There is potential for Asuka to be Rei's mentor and be a fresh of breath air for Asuka to have a female friend who takes dueling seriously. They can even be rivals in dueling.
Her crush on Judai would make Sho less insecure about his position of best friend to Judai unlike Kezan, and based on how empathetic Rei was with Martin can see her getting along better with Sho then Kenzan initially, and them forming a more positive relationship where they support each other. I would make it, so Rei is one of the duelists never to be turned to Society of Light and helped to fight them.
If she is given a better foundation and gets reintroduced sooner, then Rei could have been a good character and stood out in a cast that lacked female characters. I can see trio of Judai, Sho, and Rei working better than Judai, Sho, and Kenzan.
Bastion has to be top 1. Talk about a fall from grace his last official duel where we cared about him was leading him to become a secondary antagonist becoming evil to prove he was the best and not only does he not even duel to turn back to normal but he essentially accepts that he’s no longer a main character and leaves and just disappears until he returns and the cast is like”oh yea he wasn’t with us”. Then he doesn’t even duel in half is season 3 and once they reach the other dimension he chooses to stay with his Amazon gf and goes on the missing list and is never talked about again. At least with Syrus from start to finish he got that character arc where he wanted to gain his brothers respect. Bastion basically was set up to be Jaden’s foil because he used logic where as he used luck and heart of the cards only to lose one duel to a muscle mommy and never be important to the plot again.
Syrus arc feels incomplete because he doesn't get the respect of Zane until the last minute, Syrus never evolved, the show pretends that he evolved but like, his arc in season 4 felt bland at least with bastion the writers fumbled hard with him but the writers at least gave up on him and stopped pretending they cared for him
@@Eric6761 but again Syrus whole journey is to accept that he isn’t like his brother nor is he Jaden but he accepts that he can do what he can to be stronger in himself like when he had duels to gain his confidence and essentially had to learn that sometime people change and you have to accept it. His duel Zane made Zane also realize of his self destructive tendencies as he put too much presssure in himself and Syrus and watching Syrus used the deck to perfection after Zane felt betrayed that he wasn’t the true wielder had Syrus respect him. So in the end I feel like Syrus went through his character arc more than compared to bastion who essentially gave up on his dreams and stayed behind in the other dimension cause he felt more useful there.
@@ethansolorzano5989 the thing is, Zane never truly had time to reflect on everything and the realization came in a episode of 20 minutes so Syrus being suddenly confident and high spirits when seasons 2 and 3 portrayed him as anime Milhouse feels weird, it's a sudden change but I understand your point, bastion was done dirty but Syrus hurts more because his character was supposed to mirror Jaden's growth
@@Eric6761 but again he had progression, he had episodes that led him to self actualization. Where as bastion after his duel with tania gets shafted, doesnt duel until he purposely loses to chazz and then once AGAIN does nothing and leaves duel academy without anyone caring.
@@Eric6761 while zanes progression is kinda rushed, ultimateley i feel with syrus we got from point a to point b of where he needed to go.
Hearing someone exclusively use the Japanese names is music to my ears.
I have many thoughts on this list and honestly i wasn't even surprised Syrus (Sho) was included because Bastion was at least cool and interesting for an whole season and season 2 was basically his departure from the plot but Sho was the character accompanying Jaden, he had barely any victories of his own and the times he stands up he gets nerfed back to being treated as punching bag, hell, the only thing that changed on him going from Slifer to Ra was the clothing, Sho is basically anime Millhouse, the character that his main feature is being the protagonist best friend, he's mostly that
The problem is Sho's character always starts his character development over. I'm all for characters needing work to break bad habits or not to backslide, but it felt like every time Sho stepped up and showed his potential, to be an amazing duelist, the writers would take him back to unsure of himself and lack of confidence in his skills.
Sho should have been the one to save Judai from being Haou/Supreme King. It baffles me that the writers didn't give him that.
@@Jjop017 exactly! Sho saving Judai was a no brainer but Axel saving him feels weird, the duel was good but even Zane and Aster would feel right facing him but Axel?
I happen to know a character who's similar to Sho but written better, Mitsuzane Kureshima/Kamen Rider Ryugen.
@@thatman666it's that bad?
@@Eric6761 I guess to summarize Mitsuzane's (Mitchy) character, he's the sidekick to Kouta. Over time, Mitchy slowly became evil as means to "protect his friends." Kouta would learn about this and fought Mitchy, losing on purpose yet still forgives the later. Eventually Mitchy sees the errors in his ways and resolves to repent his past actions.
I totally agree with your list, although I may change some places.
The funny thing is that authors gave Jaden soo many wins over the antagonists, so even Jaden himself statet he is not going to fight agains Truemans and Darkness, but he will let others save the world this time (spoiler- he saved world anyway)
cc Goku vs Buu
Season 3 really did the original cast dirty. Like I don't think Syrus or Alexis got any duels.
Here's my list.
10. Alexis Rhodes. She honestly could have at least gotten a couple of wins in Single(one on one) Duels.
9. Jim Cook. I was today old when I learned that someone in charge of his character was a fan of Stone Cold Steve Austin. Seriously, in 2001, he started to use "What?" As a catchphrase. Fans chanted it every promo ever since. What?
8. Crowler.
Honestly, he had one of the best arcs in the franchise, however he should have won one or two more duels.
7. The Chazz. Honestly, he should have won either in the Exam Duel against Jaden in Season 1 to establish him as an obstacle or in the School Duel and their duel in Season 2(as Jaden was focused on Sartorious and the Society of Light as a whole while The Chazz was going to be deemed the winner, why not give him that win? That way, they can then either be seen as equal or have a Rubber Match(Tie Breaker) as The Chazz's Graduation Duel.
6. Axel Brody. Honestly, I feel like they should have switched between him and Jim with Jim's reason being that not all the needed requirements are there so he would go so that he could get Syrus in hopes that it'd be enough to get through. The moment of cowardice ruined him for me until the Duel against Mr. T.
5. The Slade and The Jagger. The older brothers of The Chazz to me could have been fine recurring characters in all honesty.
4. Chancellor Sheppard. You said it well. He honestly should have at least been a father figure to Jaden and Syrus. All the students really, but especially those two and Alexis.
3. Mindy. She was one of Alexis's bffs and could have been say a love interest for Syrus where as he grows as a duelist, so does her perception of him. In Season 1, have her have the typical dismissal based on the color of his Vest, then by the end of it, have her tolerate him and Jaden since they're also Alexis's friends. In Season 2, have her see Syrus fighting for his former dorm and his friends, and she uses it as motivation to better herself in hopes to save Alexis, also she'd view him as a valued friend. In Seasons 3 and 4, have her have a crush on Syrus.
2. Jasmine. Same thing for Mindy but paired with The Chazz. She'd even be good for keeping Mindy safe in Season 3.
1. Bastion Misawa. He should have been there with the expressed purposes of becoming a teacher in Duelology. Have him be inspired by Crowler, Banner, and Fartyre(another wasted character is Sartyre imo as we only had like one episode with him in a prominent role). I think that's his name anyway, and give him a duel where we see his iconic Fire Dragon. Talk about a let down.
About Bastion, we could have had a scene where he goes through the main cast's decks and upgrades them.
@@dudono1744 nah. Honestly, the ones that would have benefitted from it did a good enough job with upgrading their decks themselves.
I can't agree enough with the points you made about Sho. He definitely takes the top spot. In the best season of GX, season 3, he doesn't even have a single duel.
Lol, even the writers couldn't use it properly
Blair should've been included in here.
About all of the main cast 😭
I disagree with Chazz being so high, while everything you said is true, when you view Chazz through less of a Kaiba lens (Someone equal or superior to the protag) and more through a Joey lens (Someone who needs to develop and grow) thats where his beauty shines. His development is admitedly a little lopsided because he is the most prominent "rival", but I think his rejection of Yugi's deck says a lot about his growth
Exactly. Chazz is top charac in gx
Agreed Chazz is the best character in the show fr fr
Chazz certainly had his limelight compared to a lot of these other characters, but that's what makes his handling in season 3 so disappointing. Then he's basically a joke character in season 4 with a win over Aster to make fans feel good I guess.
The real question is what GX character isn't wasted other than Jaden?
I can think of Jesse/Johan. How about that?
@brickbanditstudios6037 Nah. He was basically sidelined for half of season 3 as Yubel possessed him. Barely anything to do in 4 and you never know much about his backstory or what he's the chosen one of.
@@brickbanditstudios6037He definitely got wasted he was hyped up and got kicked out faster than any other character
Zane was well written through season 3. Season 4 nerfed him but at least he had a compelling story for the majority of the show. Axel was a latecomer but still had a number of worthwhile moments and additional backstory in season 4.
I get that Jesse feels disappointing due to his limited time, but he perfectly fits the role he was designed to play, so that's why I didn't include him on this list.
And then there's everyone else lol
@customcardguy Zane was one of them lucky ones. If it wasn't for season 4 he'd have a completed arc. Axel, however, I feel could have done more in season 4 besides one duel.
Considering that Kazuki just transferred ownership to some random loser who just happen to be passing his office, its only natural that most of the characters are going to be lackluster in comparison.
What do you mean? I want to know.
At least they learned from their mistakes in later series by trying to keep the number of main characters low. With the exception of Arc V.
Or Zexal having a BAD MC who can't even grow than reliaing on ghost too much
Definitely Bastion is the most misused and or wasted, then again so is Zane and Adrian really.
It's a shame for those characters are my favorites!
Virtually, everybody sans Jaden, became eventually irrelevant characters, including his closest friends.
edo and asuka got a little character development in arc-v
More like none. They are just two sides of the same coin that flipped out on a different end for each of them. As in, "Yusho Sakaki is great and we need to make everyone smile!" and "Yusho Sakaki is bad and duels aren't for making people smile!" And they don't really do anything. Asuka only wins against Academia drones and then gets carded and written out early. And Edo is turned into a bad fanfiction version of himself turning people into cards as the Leo's puppet and then just is sort of there and not really doing anything once he joins the good side, including losing all of his duels except that one tie to Yuya.
I love GX but half of the supporting cast could have been cut. By compressing the necessary roles into a smaller number of characters they would have made all of the characters feel way more impactful. Imagine how exciting it would have been if Jaden lost his will to duel after a devestating loss to Chazz or if Cyrus got to help with the Society of Light and the Supreme King.
3:35 if you Ask Me, This Guy is the Biggest Failure of them All due to How Studio Gallop Did Absolutely Nothing to Make the RED-EYES Deck Interesting!
The Fact that the Game To THIS DAY STILL hasn’t Given Us Better Red-Eyes Support to Even Match, or to Even Powerscale to BLUE-EYES has been Freaking Absurd! And It’s SO EASY! Yet They Screwed It Up Time After Time!
Tyranno Hassleberry is really wasted, he almost never win any duel. Aster could make duel during the last season to fight darkness. Atticus is an excellent duelist but i have never saw him winning a duel. Mr Shepherd had potential he deserved to duel more often against villains.
I think Sama Jima didnt put him as protector of the hey because he is retired duelist. We saw that ge used to tutor Kaiser and thst he is indeed good duelist, but he is kinda old and not in best shape. So I think he retired himself as duelist and focused more on running school with future great duelists.
Ngl, jaden's win is kinda forcing
I realy dislike sho his dueling skills were quite bad i think he barely got a few solo wins over the whole gx series
Why people like the show _on the whole_ over others never fails to puzzle me.
I don't want shows for the sake of the supporting cast, I watch them for the sake of the story. Seasons 3 and 4 of GX are peek Yu-Gi-Oh together with Virtual World from DM, Arc Cradle from 5Ds, Barian Invasion from Zexal, and season 2 of Go Rush. I can honestly say GX is probably my favourite of the listed because of how it made me feel.
Bcs season 3 and 4 are arguably the best in the whole series
GX will always be my favorite of the anime, but yeah the show is just wasted potential and mediocre story telling
They could have made nearly all characters better if they would have used the deck themes from the manga. They are overall way better.
This is one of the main reasons why I totally understand people who say they prefer the GX manga. Jaiden has such an overwhelming spotlight in the anime that he basically leaves no room for anyone else.
I can name maybe a handfull of characters that were given any level of respect or even a complete arc.
But manga has an absolutely garbage main plot. Who cares if the characters are more explored if the story they exist in isn't worth reading? No Yubel no nothing.
@@genyakozlov1316 true. Even though I have my gripes with the anime, The Light of Destruction , The Gentle Darkness, The Supreme King, Yubel and more were AMAZING concepts executed pretty well in the long run.
So when are we gonna get a dino neos card?
GX was like GT. Not only did they both have a G in their name but both of them made their main characters way WAY too important to the point the other characters get no development and also the animation was just overall worse but that's a different discussion. It's honestly sad and its why I think Yugioh GX is easily the Yugioh series that needs a remake the most. Not to say I hate GX as its got some of my favorite archetypes and characters.
Haven't watched the whole video yet but you could have put everyone not named Jaden on this list
I feel it's unfair to criticize a show for focusing on it's main character but the fact that Judai got like what? 5 rivals? And none amounted to anything for more than a couple episode is kind of a problem.
You don't want your rival to turn into Vegeta where he stuck glued to the protag's hip every single episode but you also don't want them to be treated like the 'chapter 1 unnamed friend that disappear from existence' in romcoms.
But yeah, GX definitely had cast bloat.
The thing about Jaden is that the writers feels like the world needs to revolves around him, characters can't breathe without Jaden, they deliberately decided to give characters a closing Arc but it felt bland
Chad Dad, letting his boy leave to never see him again. Just so he can make his own future with his Amazon Girlfriend.
I think GX is overrated because it’s basically the Jaden Yuki show Bastion got done so dirty
Go read the Manga. Chazz is the GOAT.
I really thought bastion would be number 1
YEAH. JUSTICE FOR CHRONOS.
NA NO NE
Not gonna lie the way Judai just does everything is not just bad because it waste so many other characters.
No as a continuation of the original series did GX somehow ended up going entirely against the original series primary message.
DM was all about the power of friendship. From breaking ancient magic powers, the thing that allows the defeat of the final villain and countless other examples.
Yet in GX we somehow end up with this insane take were to be an adult Judai has to stand on his own, his friends are more often than not useless to nothing but a burden on him and so much more.
And this is a problem that gets a lot worse in season 3 and 4.
It all ends up feeling like GX purposefully wanted to subvert DM to more so stand on its own which however ultimately lead to series that actively goes against the originals core message and is rather annoying to watch if you aren't 100% onboard with Judai.
Before th events of arc v Alexis returned now a founder with Yusho Sakaki Aster made his debut now helping the Heartland citizens in need in the xyz world Jaden was there in bonds beyond time but never shown in arc v next to Syrus, Atticus, Zane, Blair, Axel, Jim, Tyrano, Crowler, Sheppard the counselor, Bastion, Chazz and Jesse Adrian gecko was gone Jasmine and mindy are there in the gx season though
I gave up on GX between the combination of Jayden being shoved down the throats (Yugi at least let Joey get some stuff in) and Bastion being completely ruined. Never even saw the last season.
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The original series had the problem of way too much filler.
GX: way too many characters but only Judai matters.
5ds: the second half sucks.
Zexal: is slow at first but does get better and better as it goes along. Might be my favorite.
Ark V: had the opposite problem of getting worse over time. The ending sucks.
Vrains: tried to be the good half of 5ds. It also wastes characters and has the worst rival.
Sevens and Go Rush: tutorials.
The filler in the DM rocks.
Ok maybe the Grand Prix is kind of sub par. But there’s still some nice moments in it.
@@Bonkatsu12 grand prix is the best one lol
No way you called Revolver the worst rival.
Second part of 5Ds has Crash Town, WRGP, and most importantly Arc Cradle, all of which are better than almost anything in the first half.
Sevens I can give you, but it's clear you haven't caught up with Go Rush. It's currently a darn masterpiece on par with Zexal II.
@@Bonkatsu12The Grand Pri was boring. Nothing happens except long duels that made everyone but Yusei useless. The Crash Town arc was good because it felt like the first half of 5ds. Arc Craddle was a less good version of the second half of the dark signers arc. Revolver talked a lot of trash but always lost to Playmaker and didn't win any big duels.
Playmaker vs Revolver is among the most imbalanced rivalries I've ever seen.
hasnt watched the video
you mean all of them?
It's crazy that the Spinoff/Sequel series got 155 episodes in the English Dub, while the Sub version has a total of 180 episodes, and yet more than 70% of screen time goes toward Judai... what a major let down. 😑
Syraz aint wasted as much that every scene with him is a waste, aweful character.
Genuilny glad we saw so little of him as what we saw of him already felt like far to much, it is like Tristan if all tristan did was cry a lot about his way more interesting brother.
Syrus is genuinely an awful character.
He only exists to leech off Jaden and use him as a shield.
He's also incredibly toxic and clings to Jaden for everything. He's incredibly petty, gets angry over spilled milk, acts extremely entitled, and acts like a big shot if he wins while disrespecting others.
His cringe fights with Hassleberry feels like they just wanted to recycle Joey and Tristan dynamic, while completely misunderstanding why that worked.
His whole character arc they were going for takes so long and it gets dragged on for too long, it has no pay off when it happens
@@soukenmarufwt5224 this absolutely
@@soukenmarufwt5224Jonouchi and Honda never had an interesting dynamic beyond the stereotypical male friendship.
I think Kenzan is a nothing character, especially in the sub, but his dynamic with Sho in season 2 is way more interesting.
Sho is a great character. There is nothing wrong with being a wimp and it's not something you have to get over.
One reason that everyone keeps avoiding to accept. The writing was bad and it ain't about the support but how to handle the characters properly. Judai is just too OP and a total Gary Stue
@@KirilKishikiliov the same can be said for Yusei especially as of Yliaster arc. Which people also refuse to accept
@@soukenmarufwt5224 Bro, don't involve Yusei since this is an off topic mate. GX is worst imo.
Jaden a gary stue when Lost 4 duels? Yusei only lost 1.
How is Jaden a Gary stue? He gets helps a lot and had to change his deck 3 times, I think u don't know what a Gary stue is.
Atem was a Gary stue, Yusei too.
In yugioh, yugi changed and has plenty of char development, same goes with yami yugi.
But its not just him,
There's joey
There's kaiba
Bakura
Mai
Almost all the chara got a bit of development.
In gx.... its just one long episode of watching wall paint dry.....
They are not that bad.
I mean...Syrus uses one of the absolute worst archetypes in the entire yugioh game anyway.
He doesnt actually get anything worth using until season 4 when he combines his deck with zanes.
To be fair, Chazz used Ojama and Jaden used Neo Spacians lol
Alexis could easily have been the protagonist in her own series.
Dude, why are you using the Japanese COMMUNIST names?!
Why are u using all the Japanese sub news.....must ppl who are watch this video literally only what GX in English Dub.....so this is super annoying to me
Why can't you go with the dub names in stead of sub? No one does sub anime! Also, alexis is clearly a lesbian which is why AAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the dudes get blue balls.
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ikr,who uses sub names ? dub ones are way cooler
“No one does sub anime”
What rock have you been living under? 🤨
Most wasted characters in GX isn't that like nearly every character 😂