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* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Lonely Brave's deluded fantasy of a bishonen Playmaker is complete with white sparkles.
* [[Broken Ace]]
* [[Broken Bird]]:His [[Dark and Troubled Past]] and The Hanoi ProhectProject has made him qualify this trope which causes him to be more bitter,sour and vengful driving towards revenge.
* [[Brutal Honesty]]:Playmaker doesn't mince his words when he dismissively remarks that he is disinterested in GO and Blue Angel.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:Some variation of three reasons when analyzing situations or reading people.
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*[[Emotionless Boy]]:Of [[The Stoic]] type he is more emotionless than Aoi and hardly changes experession
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]:Yusaku's first appearance is when he's woken up by Naoki at the end of their class. In quick succession Naoki shows off his Duel Disk, discusses Link VRAINS and asks Yusaku if he wants help improving his Dueling skills. Yusaku (who doesn't even know Noaki's name despite being in the same class for a month) has already analysed him by this point and replies no, because there are three reasons he thinks Naoki is a mediocre Duelist. . He talks about his new Duel Disk but not his deck, 2. He hasn't been to Link VRAINS (suggesting a lack of confidence) and 3. "What kind of Duelist judges someone by appearance, anyway?.He does add that [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|he also picked up three reasons Naoki is a good person]], but by that point Naoki is too miffed to care.
*[[Everyone Has Standards]]: In spite of his vengeful spirit, he is unwilling to sacrifice uninvolved parties, as demonstrated when Spectre reveals an imprisoned Akira in front of him, who increasingly risks being infected by the prison's virus as Spectre takes damage.
* [[Expy]]
**Appears to be this for Yusei], being a cool-headed economically troubled Teen Genius and all, but his Playmaker account resembles a Darker and Edgier version of Yuma's first ZEXAL form.
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*[[Rei Ayanami Expy]]:In a male version of this trope he certinely qualifies being her expy Like Rei he is very stoic and emotionless with No Social Skills and has a Mysterious Past
*[[Revenge]]:Vows to avenge his and Shoichi's little brother's as-of-yet unknown past.
*[[Revenge Before Reason]]:Playmaker refuses to relent and allow Akira to handle everything related to the ten-year old incident, even after listening to Akira's past.Later, as pointed out by Spectre, the trope is actually subverted, as despite his desire for revenge, he doesn't have the heart to be cruel and let people suffer for his revenge.
*[[Rage Breaking Point]]::He and Kusanagi snap at Akira, who claims that he understands what it's like to lose a loved one.
*[[Rule of Three]]:Has a habit of listing three things about a given situation or person.
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*[[The Gadfly]]:Show some shades of this, teasing Yusaku over his lack of social skills with women.
*[[Hacker Cave]]:His hotdog van doubles as one.
*[[Mission Control]]: Operates as Playmaker's, monitoring his activity and the goings-on of LINK VRAINS from within his hotdog stand.
*[[Nice Guy]]:He seems to be very friendly and the only person Yusaku is most comfortable talking with.
*[[Non-Action Guy]]:Doesn't do any Dueling himself, instead serving as Yusaku's [[Mission Control]].
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* [[Lady of War]]: Her Trickstar Lightstage are this fitting her calm and quite personality
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]:She lives in a well-to-do apartment, essentially alone due to her step brother's constant working.
* [[Love Freak]]: Accused of this by Spectre, who mocks her for her Blue Love that she shares for others in her attempt to be Blue Angel.
* [[Magical Girl]]: Blue Angel take on the appearance of a blue-haired magical girl with twintails and angelic wings marked with hearts and purple four-leaf clovers.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Her online handle, Blue Angel, references the fact that she uses a Trickstar Deck, which is composed of Fairy-Types.
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*[[Achilles Heel]]:Exploited by Playmaker, who uses Excode Talker to seal the Main Monster Zones pointed to by Spectre's Sunavalon Daphne so he can't take advantage of those unoccupied Zones. Spectre, however, gets out of it by revealing an imprisoned Akira in front of Playmaker.
*[[Break Them by Talking]]:
*[[Break Them by Talking]]:*He engages in a lecture in his duel with Aoi, bring up her [[Escapism]] with the Blue Angel persona and the book it was based on, as well as her loneliness and misery when her parents died. She returns in kind by pointing out that if the book resonated with him he must have a similar past, which he admits.
** Also looks down on Playmaker as weak-willed for being unable to sacrifice uninvolved parties in spite of his vengeful spirit. Playmaker doesn't receive it well at all.
*[[Cool Mask]]:Averted; Specter is (so far) the only member of the Knights of Hanoi that doesn't wear one.
*[[Composite Character]]:Spectre resembles [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)| Edo]] in appearance, but his behavior and deck bring [[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V|Yuri]] to mind. His deck's play style is similar to Aki relying on control tactics.
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*[[Green Thumb]]:Uses a Plant Deck.
*[[Heal Thyself]]:Some of his Monsters' card effects involve regaining LP equal to the amount of Battle Damage he takes from his opponents' Monsters.
*[[Light Is Not Good]]: Unlike Yuri's horrific looking plants, Spectre's Sunavalon are pretty and revered to as a holy. Despite this he is a brutal maniac and PsychoSupporter of Hanoi.
*[[Nightmare Face]]:He makes several disturbing faces while mocking Kitamura and Blue Angel.
*[[Nightmare Fetishist]]:Spectre went through the same event that lead to Yusaku's trauma and enjoyed every moment of it.
*[[Not So Different]]:Blue Angel attempts to invoke this against him, stating that he must have had a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] as well if the Blue Angel picture book resonated with him.
*[[Not So Similar]]: Like Yusaku, Spectre was one of the six children kidnapped during the Lost Incident. Unlike Yusaku, however, Spectre enjoyed every moment of his time in captivity, and felt as if time moved forward for him; his only concern being that he couldn't be with a certain tree who mothered him since infancy.
*[[Plant Person]]:The Sunavalon archetype is based upon dyrads, some being a face on a tree, but others being humanoid plants.
*[[The Reason You Suck Speech]]:
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*[[Back from the Dead]]:Was said to have died seven years prior, but resurrected from the dead solely to bring an end to the entirety of the network world.
*[[Beard of Evil]]: Zig-Zagged, as it is dubious how evil is he exactly.
*[[Dark and Troubled Past]]:A former researcher for SOL who invented the case.Ignis, SOL saw the Ignis as an opportunity for big money, and, fearing that they would be seized by authorities, SOL covered up the Lost Incident and put Kogami into a comatose state. He would eventually be reconstructed as an avatar by his son, Revolver, with intent to terminate the Ignis.
*[[Dark and Troubled Past]]:Heavily implied to be the case.
*[[Dead All Along]]:Died seven years prior, and presently exists only as an avatar in the network world.
*[[Establishing Character Moment]]: See Offing the Offspring below. Talk about Well-Intentioned Extremist...
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*[[Butt Monkey]]:He and Pigeon can never catch a break/
*[[Do Not Call Me Paul]]:Don'trog will blast at Pigeon if address him by his real name, Yamamoto, while in Link VRAINS.
*[[Online Alias]]:Frog
*[[Sempai Kouhai]]:Is referred to as "sempai" by Pigeon, implying that he is the more experienced of the two.
*[[Skewed Priorities]]: In spite of the danger they're in while the Tower of Hanoi is on the verge of activating, Frog vows to obtain footage of Playmaker so that the pair's scoop will last a lifetime even if they get erased.
*[[Those Two Guys]]:With Pigeon
*[[Yank the Dog's Chain]]:He and Pigeon never gets the footage they needed
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