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*[[A Lighter Shade of Black]]k: While he is a major player of his faction, he's not nearly as evil or sadistic as Lightning and Windy are and even genuinely respects his opponents for showing him a good battle and even [[Pet the Dog|lets Blue Maiden meet her brother one last time]] before he assimilates her]].
*[[Badass Boast]]: He claims to be the very embodiment of LINK VRAINS itself, and that Blue Maiden is naught but a gnat compared to him.
*[[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]]:He voices his disappointment towards Lightning for using [[Sadistic Choice|underhanded tactics]] to gain an unfair advantage over Revolver, and thus steps in and preserves Jin and Spectre's consciousness data so that Revolver can go all-out against his opponent without reservations.
*[[Control Freak]]:Lightning's end game is essentially having Bohman eat his fellow Ignis and use him to [[Take Over the World]] because he couldn't get them to [[Take Over the World]] with him instead.
* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]:Justified, as Bohman exists primarily for the sake of surpassing his creator.
*[[Deliberate Injury Gambit]]:Bohman will allow himself to take damage so that he can meet the prerequisite for activating his Skill, Marker's Portal, though at the same time, his LP need only be less than or equal to its original value of 4000, thus allowing him to activate it as he sees fit and making the need to take damage redundant, assuming his current LP doesn't exceed its original value.
*[[Eldritch Abomination]]:In his third appearance, he also claims to be the monster that destroyed the Cyberse World. Come his Duel with Soulburner, Bohman's claim holds water, as he summons the very same monstrosity, monstrosity (i.e. "Paradox Hydradrive Atlas"), triggering Flame's memories of that very moment.
*[[Fake Memories]]: Playmaker buys none of Bohman's claims that he is the real Yusaku, deducing that Bohman was imprinted with fake memories pertaining to his true identity.
*[[Fair Play Villain]]: Unlike the rest of his faction, he is surprisingly honorable and even intervenes to force Lightning to duel without using any hostages.
*[[Grand Theft Me]]: In episode 57, Bohman claims Yusaku unintentionally did this to him during the Lost Incident. Apparently, Yusaku was a backup made from Bohman's memories and an accident switched their places. In the following episode, however, Playmaker completely dismisses Bohman's claims that he is the real Yusaku on the grounds that Bohman was imprinted with fake memories.
*[[The Gambler]]: Gains shades of this, of all things, in his third duel, with the debut of [[spoiler: Rousing Hydradrive Monarch, a Link 4 with a mass destruction effect based on dice rolls. Ai actually discusses this development being quite odd for an AI.
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*[[It's Personal]]: After awakening with new memories, Bohman bears a personal vendetta against Playmaker, and vows to push him into a state of despair in a Master Duel.
*[[No Name Given]]: His real name is unknown
*[[Pet the Dog]]:
** After he defeats Blue Maiden, he allows her to see Akira one last time before she and Aqua are terminated and assimilated into Bohman.
** Voicing his disappointment towards Lightning for using [[Sadistic Choice|underhanded tactics]] to gain an unfair advantage over Revolver, Bohman steps in and preserves Jin and Spectre's consciousness data to prevent any more Hostage Situations.
*[[Sibling Team]]:Is working with Haru, his little brother, to regain their memories.Subverted later on, as Haru was never his little brother, rather he was Bohman's handler while Lightning was developing Bohman into a 3rd Gen Ignis.
*[[Superior Successor]]: Intended to be this by Lightning since Bohman is actually the 3rd Generation AI, designed by him to be the one who unites the six Ignis together. He was incomplete without an origin however, requiring to duel Playmaker and Ai in order to obtain their duel data.]] Of course, since [[Multiple Choice Past|this is the third origin]] he's laid claim to there's no way of knowing if it's true.
*[[Spell My Name with an "S"]]:Is it "Bowman" or "Bohman"?
*[[Taking You With Me]]: Invoked in his third Duel against Playmaker. He forces a DRAW between him and Playmaker by banishing "Hydradrive Scabbard", halving the damage he takes from "Quantum Dragon's" attack, and inflicting the same amount of damage to his opponent
*[[Xanatos Gambit]]: In his duel with Soulburner. Despite his claims that he was manipulating the results of the dice rolls, with the cards he was using there was no result that wouldn't have given him what he wanted anyway. In using a trap that rolle a die to determine effects based on the target's Attribute, if he rolled anything but Fire attribute, Soulburner's monster would lose all its attack points and wipe out Soulburner's lifepoints, but if he did roll Fire attribute it doesn't matter since Bohman's Paradox Hydradrive Atlas automatically changes the attributes of monsters it points to.
*[[Your Soul Is Mine]]:A disguised Bohman sucks away Jin's soul and escapes into LINK VRAINS, leaving Jin an [[Empty Shell]].
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Voiced by: Issei Maeda (Japanese)
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*[[Alas, Poor Villain]]:Bohman sympathizes with him before absorbing him, saying he was the most human ignis for wanting to survive so badly. He even smiles to him.
*[[Ape Shall Never Kill Ape]]:He has no qualms about killing humans, but he never tried to kill Aqua, despite finishing Judgement Arrows while she was still imprisoned.
*[[Arc Villain]]: Quite likely, as he holds authority over both Haru and Bohman (in fact, they are expected to literally bow down when greeting him).
*[[At Least I Admit It]]: Downplayed. Lightning initially plays coy about whether or not he was directly responsible for the destruction of the Cyberse World, but after enough pressing from Ai and Flame, Lightning quickly relents and confesses that he was indeed responsible for destroyi*[[Bad Boss]]:Has been portrayed this way in spades. The six ignis created the Cyberse World and worked together to maintain order, even Ai though he was prone to goofing around more. According to Ai [[spoiler:Lightning was their leader on top of being the most intelligent, however when he properly debuts he reveals that '''''HE''''' was the one who destroyed the Cyberse World during the time Ai was initially in Playmaker's possession after he and the other Ignis escape the Knights of Hanoi]].
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*[[Big Bad]]: He leads the faction responsible for the destruction of the Cyberse World, and intends to not only create a new Cyberse World beyond human reach, but also rule over humanity from within.
*[[Beware the Nice Ones]]:Zigzagged. Lighting is in no way nice, but he is generally calm, a [[Faux Affably Evil]]villain with Ai describing him as the calm, controlled, and collected leader of the Ignis, however, when angered, he's [[OOC Is Serious Business|absolutely terrifying with Ai noting he'd never seen him act in such a way]] and will distribute ''brutal'' retribution to those who anger him. [[The Dragon| Spectre]] was his primary example.
*[[Chekov's Gun]]:Initially presented as just another Ignis in the first episode. He is effectively responsible for all misery in the series after the Lost Incident.
*[[Crazy Prepared]]: Before Aqua could team up with her Origin, Miyu, Lightning placed a virus on her that Aqua can't dispel just in case Aqua managed to escape, and so that it will be harder for her to interfere with his plans.
*[[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]:Aside from having the opposing Attribute to Ai, there was very little to suggest that Lightning was, in fact, the overall main villain of the series.
*[[Divide and Conquer]]:His plan for dealing with the Playmaker faction since his team is outnumbered. He takes out Blood Shepherd first before he can join with Playmaker or the Knights of Hanoi, and then aims himself at Spectre next, considering him the weakest after Blood Shepherd.
*[[Dirty Coward]]:
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** He does it again during his Duel against Revolver. Before the latter can finish off his opponent, Lightning frees Jin's consciousness and holds him hostage; should Lightning be defeated, Jin's consciousness will also be erased. This alone dissuades Revolver from landing the finishing blow.
*[[Evil Counterpart]]: Naturally he is this towards Ai.
**They are both based on attributes that can be considered each others opposite. Ai is based on DARK and Lightning is based on LIGHT.
**The way they met their partners and the way they treat each other is pretty much the exact opposite of each other. Ai met Yusaku in the real world when Yusaku tricked him into getting caught in his trap. Yusaku then trapped Ai inside his duel disk and pretty much enslaved him, but aside from looking at Ai's data and telling him to shut up whenever he gets annoying, Yusaku doesn't truly mistreat Ai and actually worries about him sometimes, Ai even considers them friends despite Yusaku's denial about it. Lightning met Jin in the network when he made Bohman take his consciousness data and bring it to him forcefully. Lightning then imprisoned and enslaved Jin. Lightning also only sees him as a puppet for him to use in order to fulfill his goals while Jin doesn't have any right in any of this.
**Their stance on humanity is also completely different. Ai believes Ignis and humanity can live alongside each other in peace while Lightning doesn't trust humanity and wants to enslave and after they lose their usefulness eliminate them.
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** Despite of the emotional trauma they've suffered, all but one of the victims of the Lost Incident - Jin Kusanagi, from whom Lightning was made from - managed to eventually recover enough to interact with society on some level. That's because Lightning subjected the child to ''additional'' torture.
** The virus he used to render Miu comatose is suspiciously similar to the one used to do the same with Dr. Kogami. That's because it is the work of the same person - Lightning.
** In episode 68, he and Windy casually choose to alter the programs of Ai and Flame to make them comply with their plan. This is what Lightning already done to Windy.
** Despite of the emotional trauma they've suffered, all but one of the victims of the Lost Incident - Jin Kusanagi, from whom Lightning was made from - managed to eventually recover enough to interact with society on some level. That's because Lightning subjected the child to ''additional'' torture.
** The virus he used to render Miu comatose is suspiciously similar to the one used to do the same with Dr. Kogami. That's because it is the work of the same person - Lightning.
** In episode 68, he and Windy casually choose to alter the programs of Ai and Flame to make them comply with their plan. This is what Lightning already done to Windy.
*[[Gratuitous Latin]]:The deck he uses is called Armatos Legio which roughly translates to Armored Legion and their attack names are also in Latin such as Centurion's Fortis Lux. It does makes sense as they are an archetype themed after Roman military.
*[[Go Mad from the Revelation]] As the least mature of the Ignis, Lightning was unable to comprehend the results of the billions of simulations he conducted regarding future relationships between humanity and the Ignis. Spectre was right all along when he pointed out that Lightning harboured some sort of complex as a result.
*[[The Heavy]]:Almost all the conflict in the series was started thanks to him infecting Dr. Kogami with a virus as well as creating the Judgement Arrows and Bohman.
*[[Hate Sink]]:Among the many atrocities he committed as leader of the rogue Ignis faction (which range from ordering Haru to stall Playmaker's entourage and not fixate on winning because he's viewed as little more than a disposable, to invoking a SadisticChoice on Kusanagi involving his little brother's consciousness and Playmaker), coupled with his HolierThanThou mentality, you're not gonna be convinced at all that Lightning wasn't written to be anything but despicable.
*[[Holier Than Thou]]:He views the Ignis as morally superior compared to humans, and also claims that Kogami's motivations for creating them in the first place was to conceive a worthy, superior successor to humanity. Whatever the case, Lightning and Windy both view humanity as little more than dispensable tools to be brainwashed into doing the Ignis's bidding, and eliminating them when their usefulness expires.
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**Sends Haru to face Blue Maiden in a duel having zero faith that he'd beat her and because he needed Haru to stall for time for Bohman to finish preparing for the upcoming final battle.
** Separating Playmaker's group and dueling them with the intention of defeating them one by one while forcing the others to watch their companions be defeated in order to demoralize them.
** When he's about to lose to Revolver he fuses his program with Jin's consciousness data, ensuring that if Revolver goes through with his final attack and defeats Lightning it will kill Jin (and Spectre, too).
** Deluding Jin into believing help came his way during his time in captivity as a subject of the Hanoi Project... only to instead terrify him with nightmarish illusions; this persisted until it broke Jin so bad, he degraded into an EmptyShell.
** Revealing a shocking, brutal truth to Revolver about his father; it was Lightning himself, and [[Red Herring|not SOL Technologies as was initially believed]], who installed a computer virus within Kogami which rendered him comatose.
**To sum it up, Lightning's appearance is just one [[Kick the Dog]] right after another.
*[[Karma Houdini]]:Refusing to be outright terminated, Lightning takes himself and Revolver out (with the former barely hanging on with 1 LP), and ultimately avoids comeuppance for his actions when he uses the last of his strength to reach out to Bohman, who then assimilates Lightning within himself.
*[[Lack of Empathy]]:He doesn't care to comprehend the concept of empathy, and delights at the sight of Playmaker and Kusanagi, two close allies, fighting each other, specifically set up such that things won't end well for either of them regardless of the Duel's outcome.
*[[Light Is Not Good]]: He's based on the LIGHT attribute, and he's up to no good since he intends to, alongside Windy, rule over humanity from within a Cyberse World beyond human reach.
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*[[Not So Stoic]]:While he's described as calm, cool, and collected, there are moments where he loses his composure (albeit briefly), evidenced during his Duels with Blood Shepherd and Spectre, though it doesn't take him long to get out of it.
*[[Significant Double Casting]]: He shares the same VA as Lightning, the Light Ignis. Not only has he only been seen as a silhouette shrouded in light, Lightning possesses an AI similar to Windy's Echo depicted as a shadowy figure with a light outline, implying Lightning uses his AI as a figurehead to lead the faction.
*[[Sore Loser]]:He refuses to accept an outright defeat from Revolver, instead opting to take his opponent down with him and at the same time barely hang on with 1 LP since he converted part of Jin's consciousness data into extra LP to keep himself in the game.
*[[Token Evil Teammate]]: The true one among the Ignis, as he simply rewrote the once nice Windy's program into a copy of himself, and he is the only one that could not co-exist with humanity. All of Windy's bad personality traits, are in fact programmed by him, as revealed as his duel with Revolver continues, exposing the psychotic maniac within. This actually plays a lot into his motivations, since he set everything in motion out of spite at his own incapability have positive interactions with humanity.
*[[Taking You with Me]]:Lightning takes down Revolver with him using the co-linked "Eques Flamma's" effect, and at the same time barely hangs on with 1 LP (despite the fact that he, too, should've also been taken down completely by conventional means) thanks to Jin's consciousness data.
*[[The Man Behind the Man]]: While Lightning himself leads the rogue Ignis faction, he conceived Bohman purely to succeed his creator (and the Ignis as a whole).
*[[This Means War!]]: After negotiations for humanity and AI to coexist peacefully fall apart completely following Windy's near-termination at the hands of the Knights of Hanoi, Lightning declares war on humanity.
*[[Villain Has a Point]]:Dick as he may be, Dr. Kogami did shoot first. And Revolver and SOL Technologies aren't going to leave them well enough alone.
*[[Villains Want Mercy]]:A weakened Lightning crawls over to Bohman and begs for mercy, to the point of offering to be assimilated within him; despite Lightning's previous actions up to the conclusion of his Duel with Revolver, Bohman accepts. With the last of his strength, Lightning reaches out to Bohman, who then assimilates Lightning within himself.
*[[Would Hurt a Child]]:During the Lost Incident he has no problem torturing and playing mind games with his then 6 years old Origin Jin Kusanagi.
*[[Walking Spoiler]]: Look at the voice actor who voices the unknown figure and Lightning; by now, you should've figured out these two are the exact same individual.
*[[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]:Dick as he may be. Dr. Kogami did shoot first. And Revolver and SOL technologies aren't going to leave well enough alone.
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*[[Anti Magic]]: The Stormrider cards revolve around destroying and negating spells and trap cards, and likewise don't let him have cards in the spell and trap card zones during some of his effects.
*[[An Arm and a Leg]]: Lightning saves him from being deleted by the Knights of Hanoi, however he still loses loses both his arms and legs, as well as his eye.
*[[Asshole Victim]]:Subverted. You'
*[[Badass Cape]]:After recoving from his injuries, he starts wearing a ragged, survivalist cape to cover up his bandages.
*[[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]]:Delivering the final blow to Windy is definitely this. The same can be said for killing Specter and Blood Shepherd since they were technically bad guys at the moment of their deaths.
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*[[Dying Curse]]:He curses Flame as he is absorbed and will never let go of his hatred. Flame only responds that AI's don't have curses.
*[[Eyepatch of Power]]:After recoving from his injuries, he starts wearing one with a W.
*[[Hate Sink]]: Subverted. It
*[[Insult Backfire]]:He takes it as a compliment when Flame accuses him of [[Loophole Abuse|cheating for using a Skill in a Master Duel]].
*[[It's Personal]]: He's itching to get back at Revolver after he and the Knights of Hanoi nearly terminate him and leave him badly scarred, only to be restrained by Lightning and ordered to go after Soulburner instead.
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*[[Kick the Dog]]: As Revolver reveals, Windy was responsible for a certain car accident which crippled his Origin. Windy proceeds to gloat that he did this all because he had no use for them.
*[[Lack of Empathy]]: Windy has very little care for the feelings of others, instead preferring to dance to his own tune unabated. While he claims to care for his fellow Ignis, he has no qualms trying to reset Ai so he'll join them and is actually glad when SOL Tech terminates Earth, as he felt Earth would have never joined them and they saved him the trouble of terminating Earth.
*[[Misblamed]]: In-universe. Windy's actions up to his termination were never his own fault in the first place, as Lightning rewrote his programming so that he not only exhibits hostility towards humanity, but also serves as his disposable [[The Dragon|right-hand man]].
*[[The Power of Hate]]:When he is taken down by Soulburner, Windy claims that his animosity towards humanity will continue to linger on as a curse within Flame (who offered to hang on to Windy's data).
*[[Rage Breaking Point]]: He momentarily loses his composure and snaps at Revolver after the former takes 3100 damage from the latter's counterattack (from "Speedburst Dragon's" Effect, and it battling Windy's "Rockbuster"). Windy reacts even worse when he hears of the news that Revolver's entourage effortlessly decimated the swarm of Echoes guarding Windy's palace.
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*[[Troll]]:When he confronts Soulburner as ordered by Lightning, Windy claims to have a bone to pick with his opponent not because he's weak, but rather, "super weak", which quickly sets off Soulburner.
*[[This Is Unforgivable!]]: His animosity towards humanity gets worse when he muses over the moment he was close to getting terminated by the Knights of Hanoi upon his defeat at Revolver's hands.
*[[Token Evil Teammate]]:
*[[Toxic Friend Influence]]:According to Lightning's and Ryoken's countless simulations of each individual Ignis, it turns out that Windy--along with every Ignis except for Lightning--had the potential for developing a good relationship with humans. As revealed in the second part of Revolver and Lightning's Duel in episode 97, Lightning [[Reforged Into A Minion|reprogrammed Windy]] to not only exhibit animosity towards humanity, but also serve as his disposable[[The Dragon|right-hand man]].
*[[Villainous Breakdown]]: He starts off cocky and calm, seeming in control of the entire duel, but as soon as Revolver unveils his new Synchro, Borreload Savage Dragon, he is reduced to babbling his frustration at how unpredictable humans are. It only gets worse when his animosity towards humanity is fueled as he recalls the moment he was closed to being terminated by the Knights of Hanoi.
*[[Walking Spoiler]]: As revealed in his Duel with Revolver, Windy is in cahoots with Bohman, the same exact individual who was able to activate a Skill in a Master Duel.
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