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** 4kids losing the license to the series... Though extra YMMV, since that also means [[No Export for You]] for certain things.
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: What Team Catastrophe turned out to be, due to being {{spoiler|Placido's [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]] }} and not wanting to win as much as wanting to just break shit. Heck, Hans didn't even get to duel!
* [[Ass Pull]]: This ''is'' ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', so there's guaranteed to be a lot of come-from-behind victories revolving around cards that had never been foreshadowed. The most [[Egregious]] example? Rubble King from episode 10, a card whose effect depends on there being a lot of cards in the Graveyard... and it just happened to be the second-to-last card in Yusei's deck. This card was created out of wholecloth to enable Yusei's victory in that episode and never appeared again, not even being released in real life. And technically speaking, he didn't need it in the first place; he could have activated his winning trap card, Blasting the Ruins, at the start of his opponent's next turn.
* [[Badass Decay]]: Aki. At the start of the series, she was a cold stone bitch who nobody messed with or they would suffer from her unleashing the [[Blessed
** Jack suffered from this, too. While in the first season he was Yuusei's equally-matched rival and the secondary main character, he was the show's [[Plucky Comic Relief]] at worst and a [[Memetic Badass]] at best seemingly bearing no relevance to the plot whatsoever... Until a mini-arc actually addresses the perceived decay, {{spoiler|with a robot duplicate of Jack's King persona claiming that the real Jack has lost his edge, saying that he cannot win against his past self. After losing once, Jack has a rematch and whoops his doppelganger's ass in spectacular fashion.}}
*** And just in case anyone still doubts Jack, another mini-arc saw Jack fighting against the forces of the forces of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Crimson Devil]] and {{spoiler|stealing the powers of the Crimson Devil to make his newest trump card, Scar-Red Nova Dragon. It helps that he is the reincarnation of a legendary Signer with a special power called [[Hot-Blooded|"Burning Soul"]] }}
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* [[Base Breaker]]: Crow, Crow, Crow. Quite possibly the worst [[Base Breaker]] in the series, it's hard to find enough people who share opinions to come to a consensus on what they ''think'' he is and [[Alternate Character Interpretation|what he should be.]] Some people call him the [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina]] of the series(Though most detractors say that the honor should go more to [[Memetic Badass|Jack]]). Others love him for what he is, the [[Large Ham]] of the cast. Still others call him a [[Canon Sue]], citing his use of an archetype that's [[Game Breaker|been a tournament staple in real life]], the fact that {{spoiler|[[Sixth Ranger|he became a Signer]] }}, and the fact that he ''never shuts up'' as reason for being hated. This extends to just about any episode that revolves around Crow, to the point where, if you see Crow featuring prominently in an episode, there's bound to be an argument about it.
** Aki fits this to a minor degree. Either you love or hate her [[Backstory]] and [[Character Development]].
* [[Better
* [[Black Hole Sue]]: In a way that was [[Mis Blamed|in no way the fault of the production crew]] and [[Executive Meddling|in every way the fault of the card game executives]], Crow ended up warping the intended plot quite a bit. The story goes something like this: Crow was never intended to be a main character (and in fact was originally conceived as a ''villain'', believe it or not), but after Blackwings started selling like hotcakes in [[Real Life]], the Konami suits ordered the anime crew to make him a permanent member of the cast ([[Merchandise-Driven|so more Blackwings could be made, of course]]). This ended up causing quite a few things to be cut in the name of selling cards, including Demak's [[Backstory]] and a rematch between Rua and Bommer. So while Crow isn't a [[Black Hole Sue]] in the context of the ''5D's'' universe, he is one metatextually.
* [[Broken Aesop]]: The Team Unicorn duel, according to numerous disgruntled fans. The Aesop the writers were going for was probably something along the lines of "It's better to lose and have fun than win and be a [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|stick-in-the-mud]]," but it came across as broken because a) Team Unicorn was in a major tournament, so you'd imagine winning would probably be a pretty high priority for them, b) the tournament was double-elimination, not single, so Team 5D's could still progress to the finals by beating two more preliminary opponents, and c) the Aesop itself was handled more like "[[Hard Work Hardly Works]]" or "[[You Can't Fight Fate|You Can't Fight]] [[Plot Armor]]" than anything else.
* [[Broken Base]]: Let's just say that the only thing that the fandom can generally agree on is that the music is great and the first 64 episodes were better then what came after that. You'll have arguements on anything from how many seasons exist to correct character spellings to anything involving Aki and Crow.
** Crashtown Arc - pointless filler that ran on for too long and changed absolutely nothing, or interesting arc focusing on a character that until now had been [[Put
** As of Episode 107, Placido's transformation. The coolest villain in all of ''Yu-Gi-Oh'', or just silly?
** ZONE's true identity, a good plot twist or poor writing after foreshadowing pointed to something else?
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** This bit is exclusive to the English Dub. If Jack, Yusei and Crow grew up together in the same neighborhood, from they were babies I might add, why is it only Jack has an Australian accent?
*** It's 4Kids. Leave it at that.
* [[Genius Bonus]]: Similar to the many references to real-life subjects hidden in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', the Fortune Cup and Dark Signers arcs are full of references to Incan mythology, while the W.R.G.P. arc gives us references to geneticists, genetics and biology.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Luciano is nucking futs, a [[Laughing Mad]] child psycopath, and a [[Large Ham]] if there ever was one. But admittedly, it gets a bit hard to mock him for it after realizing {{spoiler|he represents a child who was driven insane by the loss of his parents}}.
** Straighter example: Zero Reverse and the [[Bad Future]] itself, thanks to Japan suffering what is pretty close to the real life equivalent with the 8.9 earthquake, tsunamis and power/nuclear plants exploding.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: About a month and a half prior to the series airing, ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
** Some fake episode titles mentioned something about a new Earthbound Immortal. With the airing of episode 112, we learn that {{spoiler|the Crimson Devil is actually an Earthbound Immortal that fought one-on-one with the Crimson Dragon and lost.}}
* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Bruno, whose on-screen stats would indicate that he's probably closer to having a normal weight-to-height ratio compared to the rest of the cast, but because this is ''Yu-Gi-Oh!''...
* [[Ho Yay]] and [[Les Yay]]: [[Yu-Gi-Oh!
* [[I Knew It!]]: One of the many [[Epileptic Trees]] surrounding the Tenors, and was recently revealed to be true in the anime, was that {{spoiler|the three are the same being, each of them representing a period in the life of the same person. They are, and they do, and that person is Aporia}}.
* [[Invincible Hero]]: Yusei, who has the least on-screen losses of any ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' protagonist, for a grand total of ''one'', and even that was due to disqualification (he fell off his bike mid-duel) rather than his Life Points hitting 0. The Team Unicorn duel was particularly criticized for this, where the [[Magnificent Bastard]] opponent seemed to lose 50 IQ points solely due to Yusei's [[Plot Armor]]. Crow had shades of this until the WRGP finals, too, where he managed to lose to all three opposing teams.
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Yuusei. Possibly [[Lampshaded]] in episode 80.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Goodwin ({{spoiler|Deceased}}).
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** Let's just say that Placido was more intimidating riding his D-Wheel than becoming his D-Wheel.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]:
** Everything about the [[Eldritch Abomination|Earthbound Immortals/Gods/Jibakushin]]. [[Sealed Evil in
** Kiryu's Infernity deck. Actually, ''just Kiryu''.
** A notable and unusual one is a shot of Ruka with a skull for a face.
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** Crow may also qualify, being given a legitimate expanded backstory in 94 and 95.
* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: The verdict of some fans after {{spoiler|Zone is revealed [[The Untwist|not to be Yusei]],}} some claiming [[Rage Quit|they'd quit]] if the series wasn't so close to ending.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Who is a Scrappy in ''5D's'' varies almost depending on who you ask. Crow is hated for being a [[Remember the New Guy?]] character with a [[Game Breaker]] deck who "stole" third billing from Aki... that is, when Aki isn't being hated for going from [[Badass]] crazy chick to [[Wangst|Wangster]] to cheerleader. The twins are hated for being [[The Load]] and for providing what is seen as unnecessary comedy to a rather dark series, and even Yusei, ''the main character'', has his haters, who claim he's a [[Invincible Hero]] with too much [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]. The things most every fan seems to agree on, though, are that Jack, Carly, and most of the villains are awesome, and that Leo/Lyndon from episode 85 is an absolutely ''terrible'' character.
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: Season Three (specifically episodes 65-130 or so) tends to get a lot of flak for this.
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: While his plan {{spoiler|to destroy an entire city}} was undoubtedly drastic, {{spoiler|Zone is the last human survivor}} who was trying to prevent {{spoiler|the same thing happening to the whole world}}. Team 5D's fights against his plan without even trying to think up of an alternative way to {{spoiler|prevent the apocalypse}} besides a generic hope speech.
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