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* [[Achilles' Heel]]: Some cards have deliberate weaknesses to keep things interesting and keep them from becoming too powerful. The Earthbound Immortals are all very strong, unable to be attacked and can attack the opponent directly, but automatically destroy themselves if there's no Field Spell card on the field. Cloudians must remain in attack position or they also destroy themselves.
* [[Action Girl]]: Several. There are lady warriors, spellcasters, fiends, spirits, fairies... and each of them can kick just as much ass as the male cards, or in some cases even more!
* [[Alien Invasion]]: The point of the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Alien Alien] monsters.
* [[Amazonian Beauty]] [[Amazon Brigade|Brigade]]: The [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Amazoness Amazoness] archetype. Loads of scantily-clad, athletic, muscular warrior women.
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* [[Another Dimension]]: The D.D. (Different Dimension) cards.
* [[Antimatter]]: [[Word of God]] is that the Xyz monsters are made up of this.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: The gimmick of the Karakuri archetype is that they must attack if able (even if it would get them killed) and always shift into defense when attacked (even when their defense is lower, and they would survive if they counterattacked).
* [[Attack Reflector]]: Available in [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Reflect_Bounder monster] or [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Mirror_Force trap].
** There's also ''Attack Reflector Unit'', which trades in Cyber Dragon for Cyber Barrier Dragon.
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** Even if it has the sixth highest ATK points of any monster in the game, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Machina_Force Machina Force] is one of the best examples of [[Awesome but Impractical]] due to its extremely difficult summoning conditions of having [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Commander_Covington Commander Covington] on your field and sending [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Machina_Defender three] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Machina_Soldier different] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Machina_Sniper monsters] you control to the graveyard. To make things [[It Got Worse|worse]], it cannot declare an attack unless you pay 1000 Life Points. Ironically, its amongst the most practical to use amongst the entry of this tropes (in fact, it has some Tournament records). See [[Boring but Practical]].
** The new Hieratic archetype makes it easy to summon Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, a 4500-ATK bruiser which negates all other effects on the field if it's summoned with Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon (also easy to bring out with Hieratics) and can detach ''all'' Xyz Material from your opponent's monsters, gaining 500 ATK ''and an extra attack'' for each Material detached using this effect. Unless your opponent brings out enough Xyz Monsters to make this second effect useful, however, it's more effective to use Hieratic Dragon of Atum, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, and Gaia Dragoon to swarm the field for an OTK.
** Metalzoa. It requires you to summon Zoa (a monster over Level 5, which means you have to tribute at least 2 monsters to summon it) and then equip it with "Metalmorph." THEN you have to tribute "Zoa."
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Super-Nimble_Mega_Hamster Super-Nimble Mega Hamster].
** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Red-Eyes_Darkness_Metal_Dragon Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon]
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* [[Boring but Practical]]:Normal monsters, in general. They have no effects but often have good combat stats, and there's a lot of support for them, including lots of ways to summon them from the Graveyard. Decks based around them focus on brute force rather than anything fancy.
** Gadgets for a long time plays on this. The goal of the deck is to make the game as simple as possible by playing one for one destruction card and with the help of gadgets self replenishing effect gain advantage and win effortlessly. Such deck can be really boring to play with but its really effective when played correctly.
** Ironically, see the [[Awesome but Impractical]] entry. Read Machina Force there ? Sure, summoning it is downright hard to the point of pointless, but nobody said you cant discard it for Machina Fortress revival effect. As a bonus, since its a Machina, some Machina support can work with it, creating some sorts of synergy.
* [[Bottomless Pits]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Bottomless_Trap_Hole Bottomless Trap Hole], especially since it's one of the most used cards in the game.
* [[Bowdlerize]]: In Japan, the Fairy type is actually Angel type (Tenshi-zoku).
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** Nearly taken to an extreme with Toon World; the entirety of its text is "Pay 1000 Life Points to activate this card." That's it. Sure, now you can summon your Toon monsters <ref>some don't need it to be in the field to be…well, on the field</ref>, but other than that, it just kinda sits there waiting to be destroyed.
** This is practically the Psychic-Type's main gimmick, with frequent payments to either fire off or maintain their effects. To balance this out, a good amount of their support cards involve healing.
** Some cards, like the Archfiend archetype from ''Dark Crisis'', require a life point payment to keep them on the field. A life point payment ''that is not optional''.
* [[Cherry Tapping]]: The "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Sparks Sparks]" card does a measly 200 points of damage to the opponent--that's it. Most video game versions of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] reward you with a bonus if you ever manage to finish off the opponent using "Sparks." They give a similar bonus if you manage to finish off the opponent with a Skull Servant, but at least you can give Skull Servant some good equip spell cards to boost its power.
* [[Chess Motifs]]: The first [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Archfiend Archfiend] monsters released in the ''Dark Crisis'' pack. Their top support card is [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Checkmate Checkmate].
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* [[The Corruption]]: The new [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Verz Verz Archetype] is based around monsters corrupted by the Verz virus. This includes the infamous original Duel Terminal monster, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Brionac%2C_Dragon_of_the_Ice_Barrier Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier], which has mutated into [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Verz_Bahamut Verz Bahamut].
** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Warrior_Dai_Grepher Warrior Dai Grepher] is corrupted into [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Grepher Dark Grepher] and then further into the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Lucius Dark Lucius Archetype]
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: "Toolbox" is a type of deck that specializes on searching monsters with many unique (and sometimes situational) effects directly from the Deck or Graveyard to counter your opponent. For example, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gladiator_Beast Gladiator Beasts] can "[[Fan Nickname|Tag Out]]" after a battle and bring any other Gladiator Beast from the Deck, and Koa'ki Meirus can use [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Koa%27ki_Meiru_Urnight some] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Core_Specimen_Lab cards] to get any monster they want, including a trio that literally [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Koa%27ki_Meiru_Wall can] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Koa%27ki_Meiru_Sandman stop] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Koa%27ki_Meiru_Guardian anything].
* [[Creation Sequence]]: Depicted in [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Terraforming Terraforming].
* [[Crippling Overspecialization]]: Some cards exist simply to counter other, very specific cards and are otherwise worthless. "Anti Raigeki" exists only to counteract "Raigeki", "White Hole" only exists to counteract "Dark Hole", and both "Call of Darkness" and "Call of the Grave" exist only to counter "Monster Reborn".
** However, not all specializations are crippling; for example, "G.B. Hunter," designed to lock down a Gladiator Beast deck, still has enough DEF to serve as a desperate defense. Likewise, because "Monster Reborn" was first printed in the OCG on March 27, 1999, and wasn't first Semi-Limited until April 1, 2000, its own specific counters spent a few months in a rather less crippled state.
** The Allies of Justice appear to be an entire archetype based around overspecialization. Their effects almost exclusively revolve around the opponent's monsters being LIGHT-attribute or face-down. If they're not facing something with those criteria, they're in a lot of trouble. Note that the Worms are all LIGHT-attribute monsters with a lot of flip effects, meaning the Allies of Justice were designed to just fight this one enemy and nothing else!
* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: There are cards based on Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Incan and Norse mythology, among others. Well, when we say 'based', we mean 'has some small detail in common with'.
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in the anime, as Pegasus (the creator of the game in the anime) claims to have based most of the cards on various inspirations, including the myths he encountered on his world tour.
* [[Cute Is Evil]]: Several fiend type or darkness attribute cards can be this.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: A few, but probably the best example is [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Tour_Guide_From_the_Underworld Tour Guide from the Underworld], because she's, you know, a ''demon''.
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Gagagigo's eventual fate.
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* [[Death World]]: The "Venom Swamp" field spell card will slowly kill ''everything'' on the field except the native Venom monsters. The "Zombie World" field spell card causes everything to count as zombies (even in the graveyard!) so it could be called an Undeath World.
* [[Dem Bones]]: The [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Skull_Servant Skull Servant] and related cards, along with numerous other Zombie-types.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The "Ninjitsu Art" cards and Thunder King Rai-Oh. "Ninjitsu" means "Ninja Art" and "Rai-Oh" means "Thunder King".
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Some monsters' relative ATK scores aren't exactly what you'd expect. For example, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Genesis_Star_God%2C_Sophia the supreme god of the Duel Terminal planet] can be punched out by [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Roaring_Express_Train_Rocket_Arrow a train] or [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Master_of_Oz a giant koala]<ref>of course, said god's effect makes actually getting out said train or giant koala an uphill battle</ref>.
* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: The Koa'ki Meiru monsters all have high attack power and incredibly useful anti-meta effects and support cards. What makes them difficult to use is that they all destroy themselves at the end of the turn if you don't discard the Iron Core card or reveal a card in your hand that's the same type as the monster on the field (and there are many different types of Koa'ki Meiru monsters!). It's difficult to have more than just one Koa'ki Meiru out on the field at any given time, though they can still be quite effective if you splash them into another deck full of the same monster type as them so they don't self-destruct.
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** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Sophia_the_Creator Sophia the Creator] is considered this for having harsh summoning requirement of banishing one Fusion, one Ritual, one Synchro and one Xyz on the field. However, once it hits the field, ''all other cards on the field, graveyard and hand are banished except itself''. Not to mention its summon and effect cannot be negated.
* [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]]: Averted. The two have been completely separate categories since the very beginning. Though both focus upon having supremely nasty powerhouses, Dinosaurs tend more towards brute force while Dragons often have devastating effects to go with their physical power.
** Played straight with a new Archetype collectively called '''Evol'''''(ve)'': [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Evoltile Reptiles] turn into [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Evolsaur Dinosaurs] that Xyz into [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Evolzar Dragons].
* [[Disability Superpower]]: Infernities are a variation of this trope: Typically not having cards in your hand would be considered a bad thing, as it would require you to constantly draw the cards you need from the top of your deck with no backup plan, but Infernities benefit from this situation.
* [[Discard and Draw]]: Many cards use discarding as part of a cost for an effect(ex. [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Jammer Magic Jammer], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Lightning_Vortex Lightning Vortex], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Hand_Destruction Hand Destruction], etc.) or the effect itself(ex.[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Graceful_Charity Graceful Charity], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_World_Dealings Dark World Dealings], etc.).
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** [[Making a Splash]]: Eria
** [[Playing with Fire]]: Hiita
* [[Endofthe World As We Know It]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/End_of_the_World A Ritual Spell.]
** Also caused in the Duel Terminal verse by [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Trishula,_Dragon_of_the_Ice_Barrier Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier], which plunged the world into an ice age upon release. And now, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Verz_Ouroboros it's] [[Oh Crap|back]].
** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Inferno_Tempest Inferno Tempest] can only be activated when a player takes [[Nuke Em All|over 3000 damage from one attack.]] All monsters in the graveyards, and in both player's decks are [[Deader Than Dead|removed from play.]] The world doesn't get much more thoroughly ended than having everyone who is currently or has previously lived in it disappear from reality.
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* [[Evil Twin]]: The [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_counterparts Dark Counterparts] archetype. They have few to no connections to each other, though DARK is probably the most-supported attribute in the game.
** The [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Malefic Malefic] monsters.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: There is a war between Dark Ruler Ha Des and Dark King of the Abyss. Ha Des tricked Dark King out of his throne with Demotion. Dark King got his revenge, but was killed by the Revived Ruler Ha Des.
* [[Evil Weapon]]: [[Word of God]] says the Equip Spell [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Wicked-Breaking_Flamberge_-_Baou Wicked-Breaking Flamberge - Baou] holds the dark power of [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Guardian_Baou Baou], its Guardian spirit. When [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Warrior_Dai_Grepher Warrior Dai Grepher] later wields it, he is overcome by the dark energy. He becomes [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Sakuretsu_Armor a rampaging monster], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Lucius_LV4 transforming more] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Lucius_LV6 and more] until, at the height of his mutation, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Lucius_LV8 he was completely unrecognizable as his former self].
* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: Pretty much any monster with LV in its name. Their main schtick is weak cards replacing themselves with stronger and stronger versions of themselves.
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* [[Kill Sat]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Satellite_Cannon Satellite Cannon]
* [[Knight Templar]]: Vylons are so focused on creating a world of [[Perfect Pacifist People]] that they are willing to make a [[World of Silence]] to accomplish it. [[Logical Fallacies|By killing everyone, apparently.]]
* [[Kraken and Leviathan]]:
** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Levia-Dragon_-_Daedalus Levia-Dragon - Daedalus] and its evolved form [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_Dragon_Lord_-_Neo-Daedalus Ocean Dragon Lord - Neo-Daedalus]
** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Evigishki_Gustkrake Evigishiki Gustkrake]
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* [[Married to the Job]]: Poor poor [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Kozaky Kozaky]...
* [[Mask of Power]]: Not too many, but enough to count as [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Masks an archetype].
* [[Matryoshka Object|Matryoshka Card]]: Tomato Matryoshka allows you to summon another Tomato Matryoshka from your hand or deck when it's Normal Summoned.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Earthbound Immortals. Yeah, they're really '''Earth'''bound (as in bound to the ''Field'' Spell!).
* [[Mechanical Evolution]]: Machine King. Its youngest form is labeled as being from the year ''3000 BC!'' Interestingly, the chronologically earlier forms seem to have been created as an afterthought.
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** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Shiny_Black_%22C%22 Shiny Black "C"] and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Maxx_%22C%22 Maxx "C"].
* [[Not the Intended Use]]: A number of instances. For example, Barrel Behind the Door was initially meant to bounce back damage done to you by effects. It works just as well bouncing non-cost damage from your cards to your opponent.
** One of the most interesting examples is [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/G.B._Hunter G.B. Hunter]. As the name says, it was designed to defeat Gladiator Beasts, which return to the Deck to activate their effects. Turns out, she's great at preventing ''your'' monsters from returning to the Deck ''or'' Extra Deck. Monsters like, say, the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Majestic_Star_Dragon Majestic] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Majestic_Red_Dragon Synchros], any Elemental Hero Fusion Monster with Neos in its name, or, ironically, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gladiator_Beast_Octavius Gladiator Beast Octavius].
* [[Nuke'Em]]: Shown in the artwork of [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Destiny Final Destiny.] Not to mention it is one of the very few cards that lets you wipe out the whole field.
* [[Numerical Theme Naming]]: The Karakuri archetype. In Japan, their names are actually numbers: "Karakuri Soldier Nisamu," for example, is written with the kanji 弐参六 (236). In the US, the dual nature of their names is retained by translating the kanji as both a ''model'' number and the actual reading thereof (or a variation); e.g. "Karakuri Soldier mdl 236 'Nisamu'".
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** [[Gratuitous English|Koa'ki Meiru]] run on this. Not only they have high stats, they have powerful ''positive'' effects. Their only downside is that they [[Explosive Overclocking|self-destruct at the end of your turns unless you keep them maintained]].
* [[Power Equals Rarity]]: ...and the rare cards get pretty expensive.
** As of now there's only twelve Level 12 cards in a TCG composed of ''thousands'' cards, and arguably for [[Game Breaker|a very good]] [[One-Hit Kill|reason]].
* [[Power Limiter]]: Part of the backstory behind [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gearfried_the_Iron_Knight Gearfried The Iron Knight]. When it gets [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Release_Restraint released], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gearfried_the_Swordmaster look out.]
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Oh_F!sh! Oh F!sh!], indeed!
* [[Real Robot]]: About half of all machine monsters. The other half are [[Super Robot|Super Robots]].
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* [[Shock and Awe]]: Thunder-type monsters. Additionally, a lot of cards that deal with destroying monsters happen to be named after or themed after electricity, like the Thunder Monarch, Raigeki and its variants, Elemental HERO Thunder Giant/Evil HERO Lightning Golem, and so on.
* [[Sibling Rivalry]] / [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/White_Magician_Pikeru White Magician Pikeru] and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ebon_Magician_Curran Ebon Magician Curran].
* [[Sigil Spam]]
** The [[Gratuitous English|Koa'ki Meiru]] monsters all feature their emblem somewhere on their person.
** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gusto Gusto] monsters all carry a metal amulet with a shuriken design on it.
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** The Alien Archetype is based largely on using this to weaken monsters.
** The [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Verz Verz] Archetype is entirely composed of previous monsters from the Duel Terminal world [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Corrosive_Contagion_Infestation corrupted by some kind of virus], leaving the infected as mindless beasts of destruction.
* [[Time Bomb]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Blast_Sphere Blast Sphere], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Adhesive_Explosive Adhesive Explosive], and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Jigen_Bakudan Jigen Bakudan], though going by its rulings, the latter's effect is instantaneous.
* [[Time Machine]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Machine As seen here.]
* [[Time to Unlock More True Potential]]: The basis of the Gemini monsters, who must be normal summoned after already being on the field to gain their effects. There are cards to bypass this limitation, however, which may overlap with [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]].
* [[Toon]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Toon The Toon Monsters].
* [[Transforming Mecha]]: The [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Morphtronics Morphtronics] archetype.
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* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: A well-built deck that resolves around normal monsters are rather powerful at the cost of having no effects. It should also be noted that they are immune to cards that affect Effect Monsters.
* [[Unperson]]: Konami has been taking the focus away from Synchros and Tuners ever since the debut of ZEXAL, which takes place in an alternate reality where they never existed, all in favor of the new Xyz mechanic. The former two have also been hit hard in the banlists, in contrast to the latter. The still running 5Ds manga is the last refuge for new Synchros and Tuners for the real life game.
* [[Up to Eleven]]: Monsters that are Level 8 are usually the strongest monsters you're likely to see in a deck, and they usually don't have an ATK of over 3000. Any effect monster with 3000 or higher ATK or a Level of 9 or higher usually has much stricter summoning conditions or an [[Achilles' Heel]], but they make up for it by being really powerful.
* [[Villainous Rescue]]: When your opponent attacks one of your Fiend-type monsters, you can send that Fiend to the graveyard, as well as one in your hand, to bring out [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Darkness_Neosphere Darkness Neosphere], a monster with 4000 attack and defense that can't be destroyed in battle!
* [[Wave Motion Gun|Wave Motion]] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Wave-Motion_Cannon Cannon]
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* [[The Worf Effect]]: The [http://http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Millennium_Shield Millennium Shield's] flavor text states that it is rumored to be able to block any kind of attack. Despite this, all of the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Shield_Crush other] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Kaminote_Blow cards] that depict the shield show it in the process of shattering.
* [[Word of God]]: Two, as a matter of fact; until 2008, card rulings were given by both Konami and UDE, and they didn't always agree with each other. Many cards actually have different rulings for the TCG and OCG versions of the game because of this.
** It's notable that in case of disagreement between the companies, it's rare but not impossible for the TCG's claims to gain worldwide sway in terms of deciding how cards actually work once word of the disagreement gets across the Pacific - and any cases where the TCG's claim does stand ultimately stand because the OCG and TCG management departments agree that "that works better for our purposes." Ultimately, the game's management (at least in some senses, including rulings) considers YGO to be 1 worldwide game with different names in different regions; and the OCG is the origin point, thus it's the locale that holds sway a good chunk of the time. Points of disagreement that aren't ironed out are simply points of disagreement that either went unnoticed or were noticed but deemed unimportant; but while a disagreement DOES exist, you are required to follow the orders of your own jurisdiction, regardless of whichever side you think will "win" the argument.
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Invoked by the Xyz monsters. The original Japanese literally didn't correspond to any actual word known, [[Hexyz Force|aside from a term from a completely unrelated ATLUS game]], and that term literally spawned a response of "it couldn't POSSIBLY BE THAT" out of the fanlators. That situation, combined with how Konami has made text errors in its printings before (re: the Zombie-Type's OCG name being "Undeat" rather than Undead thanks to such a mistake), made folks think of "Exceed" as a term that not only fit thematically but suffered from a hearty amount of [[Ascended Fanon]]. Cue the TCG release in which the very Konami article on the first ZeXal structure Deck included the name and the following line:
{{quote|'It's pronounced ik-seez'}}
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