THE FRAUDS, FODDER, AND JOBBERS OF YU-GI-OH!

[@Dzeeff]

Character roulette season 3: fodder characters

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

Ohh brother it's Siegfried all over again 😭

[@KyanbuXM]

Yes, YES!!!!!

[@webejammin9937]

You know what, would watch it in a heartbeat.

[@therranolleo468]

PLS do, GX has enough of these goobers to make an entire wheel

[@brightpowder_cena]

Team Unicorn Voltic Bicorn mill lfg

[@fanusobscurus]

5:30 they left out the best part. Jaden was sandbagging entirely because he wanted to see what the hell Spirit of the Pharoah was... AND THEN MOCKS IT WHEN HE SUMMONS IT CAUSE EVEN GX KNEW HOW BAD SUMMONING 4 LEVEL 2 NORMAL ZOMBIES over the course of 4 turns was

[@Monroah]

When the series that gassed up Neo Spacians, Vehicroids, and the OG Cyberdarks is making fun of you, you know you've found peak ass-tier deck design.

[@Sunsaparilla]

Don't forget that Cyrus said his deck was worse than a starter deck

[@a1rg3ar31]

He was primarily questioning its low atk, for how much effort it took to special summon it.

[@snowboundwhale6860]

@@Monroah The funniest part about that is Neos and Cyberdarks both came in season 2, while this was midway through the second half of season 1.

[@N12015]

​@@MonroahI'm certain Cyrus was not seen as a good duelist. They did hype Crystal beasts though, Which I would say is worse than Vehicroids.

[@UltimaShadowX]

To explain how Jaiden resolved Solemn against Jinzo, I believe Jinzo was actually destroyed and sent to the graveyard so he wasn’t actually on field and tried to summon himself back with Call of the Haunted, which Jaiden negated.

[@roninwarriorsfan]

yes

[@heyitshedgie]

the "getting your game on" difference in full display

[@majickman]

Doesn't Solemn negate Jinzo's summon anyway or is it different in the anime?

[@tylerkovalskas9780]

​@@majickmanNot sure if it's different in the anime, but because jinzo's effect is continuous, it's only applicable if it's on the field face up, meaning If you try to normal summon jinzo, solemn judgment can negate the summon since jinzo is not yet on the field. If you try to special summon jinzo with another card's effect, like call of the haunted, or monster reborn, solemn judgment can respond to these card's activation and negate them, stopping the attempt to special summon jinzo. Solemn judgment also can't respond to something like an activated monster effect that special summons a monster, but it can still negate an inherent special summon. Same with activated effects of spell and trap cards that are not being activated on the field but in the graveyard or banished zone, or effects of already active continuous traps, or spells, and field spells, since those are using their effects, but they're already past the initial activation. Sorry if you already know a lot of this, but i also figured i would explain it in depth in case anyone in general finds it useful.

[@radandpaisley]

Wait, wouldnt Jinzo just negate the call of the haunted and send itself back the the GY?

[@TrevorAllenMD]

MBT filmed this last night and sent it to Dire like, “Hey I need you to find clips of all the most obscure random 1 off forgettable YGO characters of all time.” And gave them a 24hr deadline. AND DIRE DID IT 👏👏👏

[@moonjelly5]

And then followed up that win with an L for opining her love of Gun Arm Guy.

[@17-MASY]

Her?​@@moonjelly5

[@ducksplain]

Dire just can't keep a W because they keep adding an L right afterwards

[@17-MASY]

@@moonjelly5 2:42 Her?

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

​@@17-MASYdire's a woman.

[@BobbyHopp]

the bully from darkside of dimensions having his own theme in duel links but other major characters sharing themes is still incredibly funny

[@KitsuNerezza]

God, the fact that Scud has his theme but people like Aster/Zane/Chazz have to share one (and Bastion straight up has the regular NPC theme) is as painful as it is hilarious

[@chrisburns9898]

No one brought up the genetically modified chimp (made specifically for dueling, and had an ape based deck) that had robotic implants that kidnapped a student of duel academy in GX. He’s always the best

[@Bob12649]

Wheeler goatee

[@chrisburns9898]

@@Bob12649 I completely forgot he was also had a tangential relationship to Joey wheeler. Even better

[@FanOfMostEverything]

@@chrisburns9898 Kaiba funded the dueling monkey project. _Of course_ he insisted the test subject be named after Joey.

[@TheForeverRanger]

@@FanOfMostEverything I know it was a jab at Joey but Tristan was the one turned into an actual monkey.

[@ashikjaman1940]

I've unironically never forgotten how Clayman turned into an Ape in that duel. It legitimately changed something in my brain

[@TengoSuenho]

I will never forget that 1 High Ass Kid that played Mokey Mokey and the school had in containment liek he was a SCP for some reason, just to never appear again. Like,, did nobody thought that his power to make everyone fall asleep would come in handy when they all become zombies or something?

[@sebastienbusque2312]

Belowski appeared twice in the show. The second time was during the 2nd season's tournament. He took down a Dancing Goblin duelist who was pretty much an Elvis impersonator.

[@TengoSuenho]

@@sebastienbusque2312 I cannot find that, but it sounds like something that GX would do, I'll believe it

[@sakuraryuji01]

There’s a fan theory going around the kid Belowski may have psychic energy but that energy had the power to turn monsters and people to sleep with affects similar to narcolepsy. Dude has to stay chill to not die including emotional triggers hence the prison like sphere their in some distance away from duel academy. It may relate to the Arcadia movement in 5DS which Akiza and Luna interest as they appear to have higher psychic energy and ability to connect to duel Spirits much easier. Not sure how true that is but it is a fun fan theory. And at least this about humans as channels for duel monsters is story consistency in the anime versions of yugioh.

[@franciscojaferricoyagustin162]

​@@TengoSuenhoI think is in episode 90 or at least near 90, is a really Goofy episode where a lot of random duelist appear

[@SakuraAvalon]

They had to keep him contained, cause he causes people to become a mixture of sleepy and high. With Jaden being the only one immune.

[@monstermilk6092]

The fact that the king jobber Bastion Misawa himself wasn't a part of this video amazes me. Dude didn't just get jobbed by Jaden, he got jobbed by other main characters, side characters, and espcially the writers. I'm pretty sure he's literally only remembered for his hot Duel Monster girlfriend who is *LITERALLY AMAZONESS TIGER* disguised as a human.

[@mystikx2205]

Hey now, Bastion has SOME wins under his belt. He beat the instructor at the entrance exams. He beat Chazz. He beat some random Obelisk Blue student who's claim to fame is having the only on-screen appearance of a Charmer-adjacent card (Familiar-Possessed Hiita).

[@seanmaddex4104]

@@mystikx2205he also beats jaden at baseball

[@felixdaniels37]

He also had a crush on White Magician Pikeru, for some ungodly reason.

[@christopherb501]

He wasn't a one-of, was the thing.

[@JzanderN]

Remember when he had a guaranteed win against Chazz and threw because he thought he'd be more accepted in the Society of Light? Writers definitely jobbed him more than any other character managed to.

[@EdgeyvonKarma]

GX has so many of these guys. The guy who just cosplays Yugi, the stoner dude on Mokey Mokey, the genetically engineered dueling monkey, the Tarzan knockoff, the pirate captain, Don Zaloog (like the actual monster Don Zaloog and all his Dark Scorpion friends), the sea captain, the tennis guy, that guy in the cage match who randomly had a baby voice in the dub, the game show host...Like I love GX but sometimes it didn't even seem real.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

He doesn't *just* cosplay Yugi, he net-decks anyone to try and get a win.

[@enlongjones2394]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 yep. He starts his episode copying Crowler’s ancient gear deck, and he’s so predictable that Syrus gets a rare win.

[@Petsinwinter2]

Wait, I thought the pirate and the submarine guy were the same guy. Were there 2 nautical duelists in GX?

[@GeminiTasiri]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 Am I remembering it wrong or doesn't he also method-act so hard, he eventually starts thinking he's actually the real Yugi?

[@EdgeyvonKarma]

@@Petsinwinter2 I didn't even realize I said him twice. You're right, they were the same guy.

[@adriancardona2172]

5:35 Sir Gil was Akiza/Aki's first opponent in her first proper duel, and not only does he spend the whole duel on his Shakespearean bullshit, not ONLY does he spend the entire duel calling her a witch like he lived in fucking Salem, but the whole fucking thing was just a bit that he dropped at the last turn as she utterly bitched him, and it's the funniest shit when he cracks His Masked knights were also Lv. Monsters, for some fucking reason

[@kataphrut7740]

They do the same joke with the pirate captain from season 3 of Arc-V. I love the implication that these themed jobber Yugioh characters are all ordinary dudes doing a bit.

[@Ultradragon16]

He was also voiced by Kaiba, in the dub at least

[@mystery8820]

Also, Sir Gil de Randsborg talked like a wannabe cosplayer as he knew he was gonna lose. He even begged for mercy.

[@mystery8820]

Gil: It be not fair. (loses Shakespearian accent) I spent millions to make this costume for this tourney. I'm not supposed to lose.

[@burningcole2538]

​@kataphrut7740 Let's be honest, if the prizing is anything like real life, there is no way career duality are getting the bills paid from tournaments alone. 5 bucks says the acts and costumes are requests from sponsors/the yugioh equivalent to patreon or ways to attract sponsors

[@DeepCDiva]

Damon(the Tarzan guy from GX) is also notable because he introduces DRAWING THE OUT as a learnable skill, which people occasionally use to explain that Yugi wasnt cheating with Heart Of The Cards, he was just really good at drawing cards lmao

[@NoahToledo-xo5pj]

There is even a scene where the cast is training drawing the out. In the YGO universe that is just a thing you can do at will.

[@manjackson2772]

Yugi was absolutely cheating but Jaden is just that good

[@Starmag99]

We also see young duelists doing draw drills every so often. Like, Judai and the gang got up early in the morning, and were just practicing drawing the out like they were doing kata. The headmaster's cyber archetype themed dojo up in the mountains also did this. Ryo drawing three cydras and a poly (the cards to summon Cyber End Dragon) proved his training was complete, marking him worthy to inherit the card.

[@DeepCDiva]

@@Starmag99 i didnt remember thar but its funny that it works thematically, as YGO loves the whole "forge your destiny stuff", but is really really bizarre in the context of an actual card game.

[@kindlingking]

"Yugi cheated! Get it guys? Cheated! I'm so funny" Drawing the out or rather changing your whole fate because you really want it has been part of the series from the veru begining.

[@jmurray1110]

The zexal manga has a piece of sentient corn possessed by the soul of a pirate captain who’s heard the corn was stuck on in life This is why number 50: blackship of corn exists

[@Set2Seth]

AND a Sentient Doll that got thrown away because Cathy was an asshole. *_This was how we got Zombiestein, btw_*

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

@@Set2Seth Oh, that doll is also Rank 4 tech in niche play.

[@ashikjaman1940]

Yu-Gi-Oh is so fucking peak

[@N12015]

Which is an actually very important monster in competitive YGO. I've used Cornship plenty of times in meadowlands, HAT and drafted formats because it is a better dire wolf quite often.

[@foisopracurtir6389]

The Hunder achertype came from a sentient _electron_ or eletricity, apropos enough, and these 3 jobbers were working for the same villain actually

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

Shoutout to the guy in GX that sold his soul to the grim reaper (not the Death God in S4) so he could open Slash Draw FTK every single duel. But then lost to Jaden anyways.

[@halyoalex8942]

he shoulda taken lessons from Draw The Out guy and gone into the wilderness to train

[@Sassaparilla]

Nightshroud isn't really a death god but he's definitely in the same aesthetic range.

[@mystikx2205]

@@halyoalex8942 He didn't have to. He sold his soul to the devil for topdecking powers that put Atem's to shame.

[@QueenMonoChrome]

Because Jaden managed to get him to realize that "....shit, doing this ain't fun at all", making the guy BREAK HIS CONTRACT AND SOMEHOW NOT GET PUNISHED, SWITCHED WHAT HANDS HE DUELED WITH SO THE REAPER COULDN'T INFLUENCE THE GAME ANY MORE AND ACTUALLY GOT CLOSE TO HIS FTK ANYWAY BEFORE JADEN WON

[@Dz73zxxx]

the most memorable for me is that one gambler guy from Zexal that plays Number 7: Lucky Straight with his level 7 turbo deck (not Kashtira). The most peak part is that he had an affair with Yuma's big sister. "Can't beat the protag? yea Imma swing on his sis"

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

Ngl I loved that duel because the city at night looked awesome while they were dueling on the train

[@VGV1deo]

I just know that whoever got Number 89 had a Kashtira deck and I want to know how they got beaten with all the stuff they could do

[@zeusalternative1270]

This guy quintupled his LP twice but when he lost his luck he refused to accept it and decided to bet his 200000 for no reason and of course he fails and gets back to 4000

[@ashikjaman1940]

Imagine Zexal but a random guy just has full power Kash

[@TheWizardMus]

Hang on its not just level 7 spam It's DICE level 7 spam every one of his monsters needed to roll a 6 in order to summon Lucky Straight

[@bluekirby_64]

5:57 As someone in chat pointed out, this guy doesn't disappear, he becomes a background character showing up in a couple future episodes. One in particular has him (100ish LP) beat Yuma (3800 LP) by nuking his monsters with Mirror Force and summoning Arcana Joker Knight for game.

[@thundermarisol]

That's amazing

[@pidgeyottot3527]

Yeah, he would kinda try and fulfill father figure role for Yuma sometimes, because Yuma's father is too busy being stuck on between dimensions or sth

[@jmalyousef5240]

He also duels against one of the Barians while Yuma goes to Astral World

[@Ultradragon16]

Didn't he also give Yuma some new cards for his deck? (I think the Melodic Djinn monsters)

[@rajkanishu]

Yeah I wanted to point it out too, he's actually kind of an important character

[@n.chabot1217]

The best part of the rush duel jobbers is that almost all of them appear multiple times. They don't just disappear after their first appearance. In GX characters like the noodle ninja or the talking massage chair would have been one-off characters, but in Sevens and Go Rush they're major recurring characters.

[@GentleIceZ]

5:38 Gill is from the Fortune Cup arc in 5Ds, episode 16. He's Aki's first opponent and just there to show how badass Aki is. His whole gimmick is he's a virtuous knight who will cut down the wicked "Black Rose Witch" and Aki plays into the villain role so, so well. One of the best curb stomp duels ever. Highly recommend if you haven't seen it.

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

He breaks character as soon as Black Rose Dragon is revealed to cause actual, physical damage thanks to her powers.

[@GentleIceZ]

@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 I forgot about that because it's a dub only thing. For some reason they decided he needed to be a cosplayer in the dub and it's one of my least favorite changes. It's not as bad as Yusei's out of nowhere amnesia, but still awful

[@CNightmare072]

@@GentleIceZ Nah I kinda like that he's a cosplaying jobber, makes him WAY funnier Eric Stuart doing s James-from-team-rocket-doing-a-posh-shakespeare accent for 15 minutes, then as he's about to lose lets out a berated "b...but I spent all year working on this costume T_T"

[@GentleIceZ]

@@CNightmare072 You can like it the same way you can like the narrator from Love is War going from super serious in the original Japanese to a memey quipper in the english dub: I'm glad you like it, I'm just saying it takes away what made it special for me

[@mystery8820]

The curbstomp that is also greenlit by a cult leader named Sayer/Divine.

[@alexbaccaro8578]

Shout out to Mad Dog from GX, from the episode where Zane starts his Hell Kaiser phase. Not just for his voice (A Mike Tyson impresson, i think??) but for how much he clashes with the rest of the episode. Even in the dub, the tone is largely very serious with not many "haha" jokes, but of course this guy makes it *impossible* to take the episode completely seriously

[@ToxicAtom]

It's supposed to be a Mike Tyson impression, but it's like, the goofiest cartoony mocking voice I've ever heard sustained for more than a single sentence

[@SageTigerStar]

@@ToxicAtom MAI MOMMY FINKS I'M WEAWWY STWONG!

[@SuperSilver316]

What a choice for Sean Schemmel

[@babrad]

@@ToxicAtom Same with Crystal Beef Arnold Mammoth

[@felixdaniels37]

@@alexbaccaro8578 DAS RIGHT POOPY HEAD!

[@Doliwhop]

Shoutout to Belowski from GX. A random powerful psychic duelist who makes those around him high (Sleepy, but legit they act high) and is kept in a island looking bunker underneath the chicken coops (This island has chicken coops for some reason) of Duel Academy. He plays Mokey Mokey and can talk to duel spirits. He's the reason I demand a proper Mokey Mokey Archetype.

[@shadowmetroid18]

Ofc they have chickens. How else do they make the Golden Egg Sandwich?

[@jericmagnaye2705]

The Stoner kid?

[@dannyeleternity7390]

Mad Dog deserves a mention too, someone SO FUCKING IRRITATING that the lethal cocktail of him and electrocution led to Hell Kaiser being born

[@scrumblycat]

Lilybot in Zexal is hilarious because she duels exactly once and has no plot significance ever and she also plays wind-ups

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

And Orbital has a crush on her. He picks a fight with Yuma because he thinks Lilybot is Yuma's servant and he needs to beat Yuma in order to ask her out I swear to God.

[@scrumblycat]

@nicholasfarrell5981 yeah and he summons Googly-Eyes Drum Dragon, which I WISH could be used in other decks cause of how goofy it is

[@rajkanishu]

I love Lily, real Zexal MVP if she didn't hand Yuma food every morning he wouldn't have been able to defeat the great evil™

[@victorzheng8042]

Farfa unknowingly posting Kidd in a thread about jobbers after just watching Saboady might be unironically one of the funniest things Farfa has ever done. Just pure peak.

[@dracoblizzard7944]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that was the joke.

[@victorzheng8042]

@@dracoblizzard7944 Farfa has not watched Egghead, he’s not even at the timeskip yet. He posted Kidd as a throwaway joke about putting a non yugioh character in a yugioh thread, and ended up picking the single funniest one piece character imaginable.

[@collincleaves7874]

Gotta give shoutout to my favorite fodder character from the current show go rush Maguto Sogetsu (Aka the fish from rush) A LITERAL FISH who talks and walks like a human and only comes around to beat crap out of and knock some sense into one of the main characters manabu after he had a complete mental breakdown and went mad with power. Also they’re brothers… you figure that one out 🐟

[@ashikjaman1940]

I gotta watch Rush now

[@naransolongoboldbayer8030]

It gets better. Manabu is the heir to a prestigious family with a long line of history (seen in Sevens with Gakuto/Gavin Sogetsu's arc) but the moment he runs away from them the current Sogetsu head says "Fuck it, buy the biggest tuna on the market and I'll make it the next heir to the Sogetsu style"

[@ClausSakuragi]

7:52 Fun fact about Scott Irvine! He actually makes an appearance in The Dark Side of Dimensions Movie as well. I believe he was one of scientists working at Kaiba's space elevator.

[@shadexvii3975]

6:01 correction. He shows up first as the dojo master when Yuma goes there, and then in a second episode faces Yuma in a duel when he’s in a funk. He shows up during a later episode of Zexal along with his student and a bunch of others during the start of the Barian invasion arc

[@SGTbubbles15]

Can we all agree the character that deserves the title Jobber More then any is Sylvio Sawatari He appears in so many episodes and has so many listed duels. But he gets just schooled everytime. He’s even the first person to duel Yuto. And loses on turn 3 like a chump.

[@armedweiss5531]

Straight up he NEVER won a 1v1 in the entire series. And in all the team matches he won in he was ALWAYS the least important guy there. It's so, SO funny

[@zeusalternative1270]

That guy didn't just go Tarzan to learn drawing the out, he did that by practicing drawing cards from a cascade that had a bunch of cards on it, I love GX.

[@trikovi1628]

This video just reminded me of the guy in go rush with a sentient hat who claims he can see the future only for it to be revealed that he was saying shit that happened in a gag manga. And then its revealed that the sentient hat aliens actually CAN see the future and the antagonist of the arc has one I love rush so much lmao

[@brunosanto3488]

I think you're talking about Nomura, the false prophet. Ironically, that character had more frequent appearances in other Arcs: being a member of MIK and then being a character that allowed the Main Group to have access to a secret meeting in another Arc. The Hat Aliens's power to see the future is also developed in another Arc.

[@n.chabot1217]

Even better is that the villain of the arc after that is the guy who wrote the gag manga that the hat alien was referencing.

[@ZayZenBlaze]

6:48 I actually admired the Ra Headmaster’s food deck so much that I made a custom archetype called “Super Cooking” and expanded on essentially every card that he had. The whole point of the archetype is around banishing cards and contact fusions to get out the boss monster and essentially make it and the accompanying monsters invincible by being able to recycle banished cards (you or your opponents) by sending them back into the deck or summoning them from the banished zone when need be. I even have the full deck list on Dueling Book! GX has so many one off characters yes, but the decks they run are so unique that there’s a reason why people like me will go out of their way to make them special :)

[@moleycule3177]

The vrains minion is simply known as Brickman

[@bigbobbybutters7562]

The Jersey Devil alien from Go Rush is voiced by Kazuma Kiryu's VA btw.

[@hal1385]

Go Rush is a head-trip and a half for the side characters they create and then allow to simply exist through multiple episodes. They have: - Badrap, the talking pigeon who serves as head secretary to the largest manufacturing company on the planet - Chupataro, a Chupacabra weeaboo who is obsessed with a sheep magical girl named Meeeg-chan and tricks the main cast into making an anime for him - Tremolo, the smarmy younger brother to a racist space dragon named Phaser and yet he somehow owns his own harem of anime waifus - Energy Copyco, a dominatrix police woman who owns a whip, can copy anyone she meets down to their deck, voice and personality, duels using a hand-puppet of the person she's copying, defeats 5 members of the main cast in one episode and then is never mentioned again - Ishida, a literal cave child who lives by the river in a house made of rocks, quoting the Flintstones and eating rocks - Goalko, sister to another side-character and a 3-meter tall alien woman who disguises herself as a basketball hoop to scare random passers into giving her free food because she is lazy and hates work

[@Hugelag]

Do you wanna know the worst part about 7:07? Dog girl literally never shows up again for the rest of the show _or tournament,_ meaning she immediately lost to someone else *off-screen* and Cathy threw the duel for no reason. She was robbed.

[@christopherauzenne5023]

My favorite random jobber is probably bob banter from gx, who is a play on bob barker and basically uses a jeopardy deck archetype. I honestly love the concept and how 1/3 of the deck is basically making the opponent do physical exercise challenges

[@Griever49]

My favourite was The guy from GX that had a pure luck deck and was supposed to be a great gambler with incredible luck but as it turns out, he was somehow cursed to always miss the first coin toss so he was unable to play without second coin toss

[@fameshark]

One of the funniest things about Arai is that he refers to Rush Duels as Wash Duels.

[@animeoutlands1588]

8:44 WTF Can i go 1 day without Kidd catching strays in completely unrelated videos.

[@zawarudogaming3961]

Funniest part is he doesn't even know what happened to Kidd and just put Kidd because he just finished Sabaody

[@PharaohofAtlantis]

I mean he did get FTKd by Shanks.

[@gahbunga]

I do not understand this joke... I am 31 please help an old enby out

[@toadstooltadd3843]

Kidd deserves it, he’s too cocky for his own good

[@PharaohofAtlantis]

@@gahbunga In One Piece, people meme on Captain Kidd a lot for being a lot weaker than the story wants him to be.

[@DeathAlchemist]

I like Orlando from yugioh GX who was a kabuki themed duelist who treated his duels like a stage show. Also, the monkey.

[@pkpyro2000]

7:26 He’s right the man is absolutely right and i’m tired of pretending that Zexal isn’t fucking amazing

[@rajkanishu]

Real

[@KitsuNerezza]

• Lucien Grimley from GX, a student who straight up made a pact with the Grim Reaper: dude was willing to sell his soul just to be have better luck and drawing power for his Slash Draw FTK deck • Radley/Ramon from 5Ds, the gang leader Kalin worked for during the Crash Town arc and who had a single duel... in which he got immediately defeated by Lawton's burn deck on the opening turn, therefore we didn't even get to see what he plays (but hey, at least he plays Hamon and the Crystal Beasts in the 2011 DS game for some reason) • The Triad of Terror from Zexal, three American duel mercenaries whose Magnet decks worked together as one and which were hired by the Arclight family to defeat Yuma during the Duel Carnival

[@zeusalternative1270]

Shoutout to my Boy Chojiro "Enjoy" Tokumatsu who was a Synchro Dimension duelist from Arc-V who used to inspire the Commons and teach the children, but when he decided to get against the Topsiders he got priced out and started losing and the public started to hate him so he cheated (he uses Flower cardians btw), he got discovered, thrown into prision and becomes the kingpin bc he won a lot, the prisioners loved him and he traded rare cards with the guards to get privileges. He duels Yuya after he refuses to trade his cards, sets a lock where he skips his draw to burn Yuya when he draws, Yuya sets an infinite loop of damage prevention so he is forced to play the game and he enjoys it so he returns to being Chojiro "Enjoy" (his stage name), they plan a jailbreak, they fail but get out anyways. He participates on the Friendship Cup, loses to Yuzu, gets thrown into forced labor for losing, escapes and helps on repeling the Fusion invasion. Is just wild what this man has been through.

[@jdvred9210]

ENJOY

[@jdvred9210]

KOI KOI KOI KOI

[@uninspiredname2974]

So I looked through the comments and wanted to shout out a few more rush guys that were not mentioned: • the two other members of Roa's band in Sevens, who are respectively the emo creepy kid who plays a deck based entirely about urban legends whose gameplan essentially resolves to burn turbo (he gets stomped by Luke), and the other guy who might or might not be dating Roa (unclear by the end of the series) but who does get absolutely destroyed by him in the one duel they have together. Which by the way is the first time Roa summons Royal Demon's Invasion and with that context in mind please go look up its summoning chant • She's in the thumbnail but Noodle Sorako, a girl whose outfit (or body?) is a UFO so therefore clearly she plays... the noodle archetype. She duels twice and loses twice but crucially the second time she loses to the guy playing the ramen archetype and he proceeds to fall in love with her. This never goes anywhere. • ok bear with me for this one. In Go Rush during the third arc there is a Mokeda Mbembe alien who works for the Great King of Terror: that will be the only time he is relevant. His archetype is about those like toys that you have to paint and put together yourself. He loses to child actress Atachi Manya playing the Dian Keto As A Child Maid deck (did you know Dian Keto is an entire series of cards now?). What I left out of this explanation is his other gimmick however: he keeps rapping every line of dialogue. I cannot imagine the anguish Entame (the person who does english subs for Rush yugioh episodes) had to go through with this guy. • And I would also be remiss not to mention the guy who is I believe a mad max parody, he looks like a kenshiro villain what with a cool motorcycle helmet he wears and being a huge guy with a spiked outfit... who is literally a little child in a trenchcoat except the trenchcoat is this like inflatable (?) suit of body armor that also has a voice modifier inside. He actually wins one duel however. Against his mom who works for the government and plays the Dian Keto archetype in sevens.

[@sonic21blast88]

I can’t believe this is just an endorsement for rush duel

[@zeusalternative1270]

In early Arc-V there is this fortuneteller called Mieru that uses Prediction princess and was defeated by Yuya after reading his future and gets a big crush on him. She infiltrates the Friendship Cup to be with Yuya and at the end when the Lancers are formed and are ready to leave to other dimensions she just hecking dips and we don't see her again until the end of the series. Like imagine if Shingo Sawatari did that, she was the only ritual user of the gang and I thought she was going to be a decent secondary member, and she just left.

[@spiritomb108]

She was a female character and a ritual player in Yugioh before the end of the Master format anime series. You do the math here.

[@gaara_of_the_desert1118]

The Kidd slander at the end was peak comedy.

[@jamesruth100]

I'm just sad they didn't lean all the way into it and go with "Useless 'Captain' Midd"

[@Xenonfuji]

​@@jamesruth100Farfa is not caught up yet

[@jamesruth100]

@@Xenonfuji Oh, for real? My bad, then. I thought the sabaody shoutout was just another layer to the slander, but I guess that's legit where he is?

[@Sassaparilla]

@@jamesruth100 Yeah he only started I think around one or two months ago?

[@carbonunicorn5759]

@@jamesruth100 yeah, but this makes the kidd post even funnier. he took a non yugioh character and picked KIDD of all ppl! i cant

[@asterism343]

4:30 What was 5D's about? Card games on motorcycles, of course.

[@Set2Seth]

Shoutout to Charlie McKay (Think I spelled his name wrong) Who dueled Yuma with a Lucky Straight Turbo deck that wanted his niece to survive an operation with the Number card

[@nro2990]

I still can’t believe that, out of all fucking characters, Scud made the cut for Duel Links and even got his own theme music

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

"This is a fish." A fish that knows *martial arts*!

[@roninwarriorsfan]

you know, i gotta give mbt props for having the character he voiced in deadsoldiersic's fan made yugioh animation hidden in the thumbnail

[@Sky-CladObserver]

Of all the things the dub cut from 5D's (including the literal ending) Team Taiyo is definitely one of the most heartbreaking ones, those boys deserved better. Also I'm glad the "Memory Duel" got mentioned, I actually tried to play like that irl a couple of times (minus the cheating of course) because it seemed so interesting.

[@dancostello4872]

The worst thing is Team Taiyo _do_ briefly appear in the dub - just before Yusei takes his first turn against Jakob, he thinks about all the duels he, Jack & Crow had fought together to get to that point; we see him remember Team Unicorn and Team Taiyo (but not Team Ragnarok funnily enough).

[@ilikecookies9796]

@@dancostello4872 Great choice tbh, team ragnarok suck.

[@dsalucas]

Shout out to all the duelists in arc v introduced in the battle royale for the express purpose of getting turned into cards later. RIP to my king Teppei Tairyobotai, the guy that used legendary fisherman III.

[@marimakesstuff3900]

My favorite has to be the Albert Einstein parody that says the famous quote "god doesn't play dice" only to lose to Judai's roll of a die

[@mystery8820]

Professor Eisenstein. But he insists to be called Eisen-steen.

[@air1744]

There's 2 guys in Vrains that's part of the same team of cyber security as go onizuka after he gone full villain after Revolver kick his ass. Both were playing gouki, and both got their ass OTK'ed by playmaker. Proving that firewall was stupid scary even in the anime lol.

[@ajbXYZcool]

You're right zexal is peak. I'm rewatching it now and if I recall correctly, I'm like 3 duels away from the tomato duel. Just started the soccer duel.

[@rajkanishu]

iirc it's the next one

[@jcplays5831]

5:44 holy shit I’ve been laughing at this much more than I should’ve

[@createrz8433]

Lorenzo was my inspiration to play B.E.S and annoy the heck out of my school friends for years. You haven't lived until you've triggered double Boss rush with Zelos on the field, summon 2 Tetrans, use their effects on your turn then attack with them, causing them to be destroyed to trigger Boss Rush again. I was so obsessed with this deck.

[@vampman87]

Master Roku, the old guy mentioned in Zexal, was more than just a jobber. He taught Yuma some dueling techniques in his introductory episodes and even BEAT Yuma when he wanted to run away from his problems midway through Season 1. Roku was also one of the many side characters that helped stall for time for Yuma to escape when all seven Barian Emperors attacked the city at once. He died, as did every other side character that faced the Emperors during that attack, but comes back at the end of Zexal along with everyone else to go help Yuma save Astral in Astral World.

[@Talguy21]

Not only does Rush have a dueling fish, they've made MASSAGE CHAIRS (PLURAL!!) duel!

[@Talguy21]

I'd say it makes sense in context, but nothing about Zaion in Go Rush actually makes logical sense except for his deck

[@xatuyou8045]

Remember when the school nurse used a card that single-handedly was responsible for sales of maze of millenia.

[@jackofaces107]

Rewatching GX thinking for sure someone like Axel or another fire duelist used bonfire just to realize it was used by her to search a pyro monster that gives the opponent LP in a nurse burn deck will never not be funny to me

[@SuperSox97]

@@jackofaces107 Not to mention it was a bonfire that wasn't once per turn XD

[@N12015]

@@jackofaces107 ... That explains why the duel academy campaign had bonfire, and why the spell doesn't feel like new school in terms of visuals.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

0:34 This is why I hope we do NOT get all the anime cards. The sheer volume of character-of-the-day idiots who exist only for their backside to be handed to them by Jaden's one new HERO card is...just insane.

[@indumatipngtuber2790]

Wait until you hear about Captain Corn. His backstory is the most insane thing ever AND he plays cards themed around corn.

[@ellishughes3050]

My favourite fodder characters from each series. DM: Arkana GX: So many options, but I’ll narrow it down to the Ra Yellow Dorm Master and Howard X Miller (the lawyer guy) 5Ds: Bolton (Blood Mefist user) Zexal: Charlie (Number 7 user)/Mr Kay (Number 34 user) Arc-V: Kitt (XX-Sabers) Vrains: Those two users of Gouki who only existed to get OTKed by Playmaker, while Soulburner was duelling. Sevens: Seatbastion Go Rush: Bruyea

[@residentgrey]

The duelist against the Hanoi guy is in Duel Links as an NPC and is even on a Tag Duel playmat. I even have ideas for good decks for him. I would like it if he were added as a playable character, along with the neko girl in VRAINS world and Saburamen in Sevens (FFS they give us Noodle Ninjas with TWO ideal pilots in the alien chica and him! I also love the voice of the English voice actor for the character. The dude deserves more work!), and OF COURSE, TOUR GUIDE. The devs even gave her a great deck!!! Rocking Speeder to turbo out Coral Dragon, while also getting out Djinn XYZ. It actually slaps for a mid-power deck!

[@ShanaReviews]

Fun Fact MBT: the duel with Larenzo from GX actually had a funny interaction involving Chains. Jaden had activated a trap card that would allow Neos to be put on top of his deck while also activating another Trap called Hero Climax which would let him draw his top card and if it's a monster, he can summon it to the field. Larenzo then activates a spell that lets him do his reshuffle of Jaden's deck, HOWEVER what is hilarious is that the scene plays up the drama as if him reshuffling forced Neos to be placed at random in the deck and the audience supposedly wouldn't be sure if Neos was on top of the deck anymore. but if you look at the chain sequence for which cards were activated and when, Jaden's trap that lets him put Neos on top of his resolves after Larenzo's spell to reshuffle, so Larenzo did all that reshuffling for absolutely NOTHING because Neos was always going to end up on the top of Jaden's deck because of how Chains work and thus allowed Heros Climax to resolve. i know this is a totally unimportant fact, but i just thought it was hilarious that this is the 2nd time since the Grand Prix where Chains actually mattered in a duel lol

[@six-eyes4727]

Sir Gill Randsborg's duel disk was so cool that he ended up appearing in every 5D's DS game and even Wheelie Breakers. Despite how many cameos he made Konami never bothered to print his Masked Knight cards and I am still mad about that.

[@alviabtahi5440]

You forgot the best part about Damon, where he goes from Tarzan to white twink with a bowlcut overnight after Jaden beats him.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

And then back again for a split-second appearance when there's just a bunch of GX's one-off gimmick characters splashed onscreen.

[@Swagmansuperguy]

Sir gill was a guy who pushed akiza to use her psychic during the fortune cup

[@wolfgod6443]

Fr the hooded Orichalcos guy wearing a monocle was awesome. Fantastic duel against Yugi, motivated to control the God Cards, was not allowed to stick around because he wasn't a motorcycle twink like his friends. The Clean Freak was also fun. Once everybody knows he's cheating while pretending to clean his duel disk, he starts saying stuff like "I clean my duel disk, to add X cards to my hand" and they just let it happen. Don't worry about Clark Smith. I'm pretty sure the Mech Lord club erased him from existence. Sir Gill is a special one. He fought Aki in season 1 back when she was evil. He knew exactly what he was getting into and was the only person smart enough to show up to a shadow game with protection and a weapon. It didn't save him, but he tried his best.

[@mystery8820]

When did the Clean Freak show up?

[@wolfgod6443]

@@mystery8820 I don't know the exact episode. He duels in 22 though, so probably that.

[@Rhogue]

QUESTION: Which one-of jobber played Quiz Turbo, a deck involving cards whose effects include "Hold Your Breath For 1 Minute Or Take 1200," "Does Your Topdeck Have More Than 50 Letters? Take 800," and "Do 20 Push-Ups In 10 Seconds Or Lose 500 Life Points"? If you answered with Bob Banter from GX, Survey Says you're correct!

[@thesnuggubus9224]

the Sevens anime is such a fever dream i love it so fucking much

[@theghostcreator776]

1:35 this dude is like an entire ass character in the duel academy gba game 😭 like multiple of these gx guys are entire characters you can duel bc there was no one else

[@jamesaditya5254]

"He also plays another series of cards, I don't know if we can show in the video", proceeds to show Hermit Purple from JJBA: Stardust Crusader

[@elijahpadilla5083]

Even funnier, the Ra Yellow guy played a Deck that would've had RedMage popping off for years- Curry Pot is a fucking Macro Cosmos that searches a "Spice" Spell/Trap on activation, one of the Spices was essentially a search 2, and if you had 3 Spices and at least one each of the three vanillas (Potatoman, Onionman, and Carrotman) banished, you could send off your Curry Pot to Summon "Curry Fiend Roo" from hand or Deck- a Level 8 with a Gren Maju effect that counts ALL banished cards, with a once-per-turn field nuke attached.

[@Stormcr0w0]

Sir Gil was in early 5ds his one duel was against the black rose and he had a duel shield instead of a duel disk

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

0:08 huh. the original name of the cartoon was kept 1:54 one of the most iconic duels in the entire franchise 5:35 I mean, isn't this bozo dressed as a night memorable for being Akiza's victim during her "black worse witch" days during the fortune cup arc? he is her opponent before yusei 8:04 my daily reminder that i need to watch GO RUSH!'s peak level of insanity & creativity

[@nanodose]

Thank you for rolling the footage, dire. I needed that

[@nightmarearcade2663]

Personally I remember liking, Nelson/the Sparrow from Zexal. His entire deck is just the characters from the tv show he stars in which raises so many questions. Like is the show based on the cards or were the cards made to promote the show? Who legally owns the rights to the Sparrow cards?

[@shadexvii3975]

5:26 if only his servants had actually gotten him to see how bad his boss monster was

[@mystikx2205]

Here's a few more just to show how wild GX one-shot characters were: Nurse Fontaine, while being in the show's background throughout the series, has one on-screen duel with Jaden when she's a Duel Zombie in the world Yubel transports the school to. Her major claim to fame is being the first character to play Bonfire, using it to search for Burning Algae for her Nurse Burn strategy. Lucien Grimly was a duelist who literally sold his soul to the devil, giving him a tattoo on his right arm that gave him topdecking powers that put Atem's powers to shame. His main strategy was Slash Draw OTK, and after a pep talk from Jaden, decided to trust in his own abilities to topdeck, literally swapping the arm his duel disk was on, thereby covering up the tattoo and no longer being under its influence. Elroy Prescot was a Pro Duelist that was all about dancing and bad Elvis impressions. His only monster was a clone of Goblin Attack Force, and ends up losing to the one and only Belowski. Doctor Collector was a Hannibal Lecter allegory that used a Spellcaster-themed lockdown/burn strategy where he used Dimensional Fissure in combination with Graceful Charity and Magical Stone Excavation to banish his monsters, only to bring them back with Dimension Fusion, locking his opponent with multiple Magician's Valkyria and Ebon Magician Curran supplying the burn, and Cosmo Queen as a beatstick. Too bad his opponent gave him the D; the Bloo-D that is. Finally, the Duelists of Death were the generals to the Supreme King, consisting of Chaos Sorcerer, Guardian Baou, Skull Knight, and the Skilled White/Dark Magicians. Only two of them got full duels, being Skull Guardian and Guardian Baou. The others were foddered off-screen, but we DID see one monster from each of them. Chaos Sorcerer's only monster was Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth, while the other 2 Magicians used themselves as Tribute for Demise, King of Armageddon. Skull Guardian used a strategy centered around Lycanthrope, the old-ass Ritual Monster from Strike of Neos. Guardian Baou used a semi-lockdown strategy with a Trap that's just a reverse Gravity Bind with a maintenance cost, a random Slime monster that duplicates during the Standby Phase for LP, and his ace monster.....Twinheaded Beast...

[@Ultradragon16]

"You can take the kid out of the Supreme King's clutches, but you can't take the Supreme... The Supreme King out of the... *disappears into sparkles*"

[@bingo36able]

Yes! Watch Go Rush! Maguto Sogetsu (the fish samurai) is the best. The Sogetsu family was so ashamed that Manabu became a cop that the next day, while the patriarch was walking through a seafood market, he saw a bluefin tuna thrash about and decided that this random tuna showed a greater sense of pride and a warrior's spirit than his disowned son ever had, so he adopts the tuna, gives it a mech suit, and makes him the new heir to a clan of samurai. Go Rush is absolutely peak.

[@MrChillaxin2010]

I said Mad Dog(apparently not good enough to get in), but I regret it cause I should have gone with Don Zaloog doing his best Christopher Walken impression.

[@TheForeverRanger]

No love for Belowski? Kid was baked out of his damn mind. I think they kept him in containment because he was giving everyone a contact high.

[@elixir478]

These are clearly the NPCs I duel in Duel Links clearly!

[@shadexvii3975]

1:33 Fortuno also had another number card he kept hidden away that he was going to try to use to get revenge but Kite shows up and takes him out. It’s unclear which number it is, but I believe the next episode with Kite is his duel against Shark, where he summons number 30, so I think that might be it.

[@mystery8820]

Ugh, Fortuno cheated constantly with his life-sized Kaito statue.

[@shadexvii3975]

@@mystery8820 wasn’t that just psychological trickery? I don’t remember the statue actually letting him cheat, he just used it to mess with Yuma

[@mystery8820]

@@shadexvii3975 How else would he guess what cards are in Yuma's hand if he didn't use the Kaito statue to cheat.

[@shadexvii3975]

@@mystery8820 I forgot he even did that. I only remember him doing illusion stuff to make it seem like Torii was in danger

[@adamlebedahenriksson4752]

The fact that the character with the fedora in the thumbnail is from a fan series

[@ThatOneRedDitto]

Some of my personal favorite Goobers are the Hanoi Lieutenants from Vrains, Faust, Baira and Genome. While they did kinda do some things later, they only had one on screen duel each, which they all lost their one duel. They were all assistants of Dr. Kogami during the Lost Incident. My favorite is Genome because he's just a random guy who is obsessed with genetics. He doesn't even have any further backstory, where as Faust and Baira took care of Revolver as a child when his father was in jail for y'know...the Lost Incident. We know nothing about Genome, but yet I still love him because funny gene man make my brain go: :D

[@nick8402]

surprised nobody mentioned tamako kago from go rush, shes a 9 foot tall alien lady who pretends to be a BASKETBALL HOOP so she can scare kids out of their money because she is too lazy to work. yes, this is a real character lol

[@brunosanto3488]

The most meme-worthy thing about the situation is that, currently, Tamako Kago (as well as other characters) are forced to work for the Dark Matter Empire, the Antagonist Group of Season 3.

[@334yopf]

I like Bob Banter, the Yugioh GX game show host character. His deck was a bunch of flip monsters that did burn when Jaden couldnt do things like saying the names of "Gagagigo", "Giga gagagigo", and "Gogiga gagagigo" or the names of the cards on "A Huge Revolution!" It was a dumb duel, but it was fun when a lot of GX duels end up as beatstick turbo

[@Ultradragon16]

I was so upset that Dire never played any audio for the clips of some of the characters but she redeemed it by playing THE Lorenzo clip

[@Xx8GhostFace8xX]

My favorite part about Lorenzo is how he counters Jaden's move by shuffling his deck so that he doesn't get to draw the card he placed on top of it, only to learn that he ended up shuffling Jaden's card to the top so he still drew it anyway.

[@Gamemaster13000]

Really glad Dire also brought up Dimitri in this thread. Glad I'm not the only one who remembers him.

[@derekwst3-YGO]

on my channel I do cpu vs cpu tournaments and i feel like i used most of these at least once. I had to be creative with some of these characters. Mathmatica i gave mathmech, Gurimo deck is actually functional. Dimitri has his own dm deck.

[@dadocta5168]

My favourite of these "fodder" duelists is Armstrong from 5ds. Mill Burn is such a stupid idea but I believe Iron Chain could be a cohesive deck if they just focused on the mill. How many police-themed decks does Yu-Gi-Oh have?

[@Zetact_]

You really can't say that Blood Shepherd is one of those irrelevant jobbers. He's a jobber, sure, but he's one of the only like 5 characters who do anything in Vrains. The funniest thing about him is that they establish, "He uses WIND monsters and hates AI because an AI caused him to get in a car crash" and they later establish, "Windy caused his partner to get in a car crash" and Blood Shepherd had NO CONNECTION TO WINDY WHATSOEVER. The best one-off from GX is Taizan/Damon, unironically. The episode does worldbuilding I legitimately enjoy that establishes topdecking is a skill that can actually be trained within the Yugioh anime universe. Also, in some of the video games he appears his deck is hilarious. In some of them he has a deck that has literally no win-con, all he does is play a bunch of cards that let him draw and only REALLY late in the game might he actually throw in Exodia pieces. And his monster lineup includes Doron and Dorover - why those monsters? Well, because they have the word "Doro" in them. Probably one of the most absurd concepts from Rush Duel is that there's a character who is the result of trying to transform curry bread into a different food using a space ship's replicator and it goes haywire and turns it into a sentient space ship that also is curry bread. The character uses a deck of Cyberse monsters themed around looking at the opponent's cards, and it's called "Cybersepice."

[@brunosanto3488]

The funny thing about that character you mentioned is that, despite only having one Duel, is still a recurring Character to see on screen (even Cybersepice receives support from time to time despite the fact that the Duelist of the Deck does not have many Duels) If we talk about a Jobber with a lot of presence in GO RUSH, I think it would be Mitsuko. Ironically, this made her partner, Tamako Kago, also more remembered than many Secondary Characters of GO RUSH (the power of the 3.3 Meters Tall girl)

[@shadowmetroid18]

If you're looking for a Jobber, I don't think anyone in Yugioh gets clowned on harder than Sylvio Sawatari from Arc V. Dude goes through 4 decks in the series, starting with Darts, switching to Mobius turbo, then Yosenju for a bit before settling on Abyss Actors. I don't think he actually ever wins a duel against a named character, and goes from minor antagonist to discarded member of the main cast by season 2.

[@dancostello4872]

The funniest thing about this is that the general rule of thumb is that even the worst of the named characters are able to beat the fodder en masse characters (like Sector Security in 5Ds or Barian-Possessed duelists in Zexal), but Sawatari is so bad he even gets bodied by those guys, namely the Duel Chasers and the Underground Facility guards in Arc-V, and has to rely on his companions (usually Shun or Gongenzaka) to bail him out. But for all his jobbery, he also nearly beats Yuya twice, saves Tsukikage's life, gives Yugo a run for his money & almost beats Z-ARC, so talk about the duality of man. 😂

[@dancostello4872]

I'm gonna say Franz, the Industrial Illusions employee gone rogue in GX after Pegasus favoured Hayato's latest card submission (a grilled cheese Spell Card in the dub) to his own. He steals a counterfeit Winged Dragon of Ra (developed purely for research purposes), creates Mound of the Bound Creator to physically chain it up as a means of controlling it - the anime had the whole 'only certain duelists who have a connection to high-ranking Ancient Egyptians (or are the protagonist lmao) can control a God' thing - and uses it to injure loads of students in the Genex Tournament before he comes face-to-face with the Judai buzzsaw. He doesn't just lose to Judai, he gets absolutely stunted on - Judai destroys Ra in battle with fucking _Glow Moss_ (the only time in the franchise we see it get destroyed) so he can bring it back (while still in his Battle Phase) and flex that he doesn't need chains to control an Egyptian God because he's not a little bitch like Franz (I may be paraphrasing here lmao), before sacrificing Neos, Glow Moss, and 899LP to power up Ra & overkill Franz with his own ace monster.

[@mystery8820]

Franz has such a heavy accent. Is it German?

[@jaydenliberty9536]

Rush character design is FAR closer to peak than I ever dared imagine

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

Go Rush's Chubacrbra guy who has a deck based around a sheep magical girl - Meg Chan. Its a running gag which grew on me.

[@uninspiredname2974]

Very crucial character information: he also has basically his bi awakening when he sees the main character cosplay as said magical girl sheep and goes he's kinda cute actually damn

[@reaflor91]

I forgot to add to this, but my favorite has GOT to be the Topologic lady from Vrains. Like, how does Topologic NOT have an archetype around it yet? RIP Gumblar though

[@dancostello4872]

If only Pandor had Topologina Nabee...