History Anime / YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime

* TheCameo: Pegasus, Sugoroku, the Crimson Dragon, Jack, Crow, Lua, Luka, Aki, Prof. Daitokuji, and Yubel.

* ContinuityNod: In-universe - The spell card "Ancient Rules", which allows high-leveled monsters (in this case, the Black Magician) to be summoned without tribute, is a nod to the in-universe game before Kaiba's Battle City Tournament, which did not require tributes at all.

* DuelsDecideEverything: Well, obviously, it's Yu-gi-oh, after all, but notable in that dueling is directly contradictory to Paradox's goal, which is to prevent the spread of Duel Monsters by traveling back in time to kill Pegasus. Nevertheless, Paradox still willingly stakes his mission on the outcome of a duel with Yugi, Judai/Jaden and Yusei. No wonder he's named "Paradox".

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Pick your choice: [[spoiler:either by Duel Monsters or by the disintegration of the dimension.]]

** Effects in the actual duel both play this trope straight and invert it. [[spoiler:Sin Truth plays it straight by destroying everything, and Stardust Mirage brings everything back.]]

--> '''Yami Yugi''' (English dub script): [[ParrotExpoWhat Synchro WHAT?!]]

* InkSuitActor[=/=]LawyerFriendlyCameo: The cast of ''Sakiyomi [=JumBANG!=]'' make an appearance as [=MCs=], voicing themselves accordingly in the Japanese version.

-->'''Yugi:''' ''(to Paradox)'' We don't care about your BackStory!
* LeftHanging: How the distant future Paradox lived in got destroyed and the true identity of Paradox isn't revealed in the movie, though it's elaborated on in Episodes 134 and 135 of 5D's.

* NonSerialMovie: Played straight for the original series and GX. Averted with [=5Ds=], but Paradox's appearance in [=5Ds=] amounted to a cameo, where he died. The Paradox in this movie is a robot clone who also died.

** Also Paradox, right before his defeat.
--> '''Paradox:''' [[spoiler:'''''10,000 ATK?!''''']]

* PreAssKickingOneliner: When the duel begins in the English Dub, each of the protagonists utter their respective catchphrase.

* PunnyName: The "Sin" theme (Malefic in the TCG). A number of kanjis can be read as "Shin" (which is the Japanese pronunciation of "Sin"), including 真 truth, 新 new and 神 god. WordOfGod says the theme is a clever combination of "sin" (罪 ''tsumi'') and "new" (新 ''atarashii'').

* ShouldersOfDoom: Paradox wears them, although they [[FridgeLogic disappear without explanation]] when the duel begins. Even more confusing because the official art shows Paradox without shoulder pads, and in another art, they are bolted to his outfit. [[spoiler:Makes sense since he's a {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}} made by ZONE.]]

* SpotlightStealingCrossover: This movie crosses over the first three ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' series, but the story mostly focuses on Yusei and the cast of ''5D's'' with all the supporting cast appearing. The plot mostly takes place in the time of the original Yu-Gi-Oh series, but ''GX'' gets the shaft with Judai being the only living character to appear and his section takes place in Venice rather than anywhere from his life.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Black Magician and Black Magician Girl randomly talk after being summoned, something that they didn't even do in the ''Duel Monsters'' series.

* ThemeNaming: Sin ''Paradox'' Dragon, Sin ''Paradigm Shift'', Sin ''Truth'' Dragon. May count as FridgeBrilliance due to a paradox turned into truth upon changing viewpoints (i.e. paradigm shift).

* AntiVillain: According to Atsushi Tamura, Paradox's voice actor. He noted that he doesn't want people to consider Paradox as a typical villain and that he also carries grief on his shoulders and has a particular reason to battle. [[Spoiler: Given he’s apart of Yliaster and is trying to fix their apocalyptic future]] while his actions are heinous, they're smaller in the grand scheme of what comes later on in 5Ds.

* AntiVillain: According to Atsushi Tamura, Paradox's voice actor. He noted that he doesn't want people to consider Paradox as a typical villain and that he also carries grief on his shoulders and has a particular reason to battle.

* ClothingDamage: When Judai gets hit by Malefic Stardust Dragon's powerful blast, he ends up getting his clothes nearly ripped out, resulting in baring the midsection.

* MrFanservice: Jaden, mostly due to his Season 4 appearance.

* BigNo: [[spoiler: Pegasus, right before his death.]]
** Also, Yugi [[spoiler:when he realizes that his Grandpa is dead.]]

* TheCameo: Pegasus, Yugi's grandpa, Crimson Dragon, Jack, Crow, Leo, Luna, Akiza, Prof. Banner, and Yubel.

* CityOfCanals: Paradox attacks Jaden in Venice (more specifically, St. Mark's Square) when the latter goes there to investigate a local issue.

* CombinationAttack[=/=]AllYourPowersCombined: Two of them, first by Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, then by the three protagonists' signature monsters.
* ContinuityNod: In-universe - The spell card "Ancient Rules", which allows high-leveled monsters (in this case, the Dark Magician) to be summoned without tribute, is a nod to the in-universe game before Kaiba's Battle City Tournament, which did not require tributes at all.

* DeadHatShot: [[spoiler: Yugi finds his grandfather's bandanna after the buildings collapse on everyone.]]

* DelayedRippleEffect: [[spoiler: Paradox's changes to the past cause reality to slowly fall apart.]]
* DragonsVersusKnights: Yusei and Jaden use mostly warrior monsters while Paradox relies on corrupted versions of well-known dragon cards. Yusei and Jaden even have a fusion of Elemental Hero Neos and Junk Gardna called Elemental Hero Neos Knight.

* DuelsDecideEverything: Well, obviously, it's Yu-gi-oh, after all, but notable in that dueling is directly contradictory to Paradox's goal, which is to prevent the spread of Duel Monsters by traveling back in time to kill Pegasus. Nevertheless, Paradox still willingly stakes his mission on the outcome of a duel with Yugi, Jaden/Judai and Yusei. No wonder he's named "Paradox".

** Effects in the actual duel both play this trope straight and invert it. [[spoiler: Sin Truth plays it straight by destroying everything, and Stardust Mirage brings everything back.]]

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Yusei ends up in Jaden's time first, then both of them eventually wind up in Yugi's time. Jaden gushes at Yusei's D-Wheel, and later on both Jaden and Yugi are amazed at Yusei's Synchro Summon.
--> '''Yami Yugi''': [[ParrotExpoWhat Synchro WHAT?!]]
* FlatCharacter: Elemental HERO Neos, who unlike the other protagonist's ace cards, has no signs of personality in this movie, appearing purely to be Jaden's signature monster. Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl both exchange dialogue upon being summoned together and even Stardust Dragon has a brief reunited moment with Yusei. Even weirder is that, in the [[Anime/YuGiOhGX series proper]], he's shown to have plenty of personality. The closest it could have to one could be when Neos engages in the final attack with Dark Magician and Stardust Dragon (in the sub).

** [[spoiler: Yusei himself has a pretty bad one that pushes him to the brink of surrender, coaxed back only by Yugi and Jaden, it may or may not have to do with him seen struggling to be on the other side of Stardust from the 5D's openings.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:To use his Sin cards, he ends up using Sin World, which will kill a player should their Life Points drop to 0. In the end, he's the one killed by it when Yugi, Jaden and Yusei unleash their final attack.]]
* IdiotBall: Although he's never called on it, Paradox makes a number of amateurish mistakes throughout the duel, but his crowning moment may be his initial plan to duel Yugi, Jaden, and Yusei all at once.

* InMediasRes: The movie starts in Venice, where Paradox is attacking Jaden with his dragons.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The trailers for the Japanese version of the movie spoiled for the dub viewers at the time that [[spoiler: Jaden fused with Yubel and gained his/her powers]] and Yusei became the owner of the Dragon Head birthmark.

* LeParkour: Jaden, manages to get from the top of a column in St. Mark's Square to the roof of a nearby building to avoid the attacks of Rainbow Dragon and Cyber End Dragon.

** Jaden not only jumped from a building to the ground without sustaining a single scratch, but he also endured an attack from Stardust Dragon (alongside Neos, who you see is visibly cracking from the assault).

* AMillionIsAStatistic: [[spoiler:The protagonists are upset by the deaths of Pegasus and Solomon Mutou, and to a lesser extent, everyone who died to Paradox's attack. To Paradox, on the other hand, the entire massacre was a trivial step to further his experiment. Considering he really didn't care about destroying Venice just to get Jaden, it's no surprise.]]

** Stardust Dragon was first Summoned (not Synchro Summoned) by Paradox with Malefic Paradox Dragon, then when Yusei took control of it and activated its effect that Tributes itself, it was able to be Special Summoned even if it was not properly Summoned before, moreover, it was Summoned in Yusei's field.
** Jaden's "Flute of Summoning Kuriboh" allowing ''Yugi'' to pick his Kuriboh from his deck.
*** This would be legal assuming they're playing by Tag Force rules - with tag team matches, duelists share a graveyard, field, and life points, and whoever last ended their turn represents that side and is in control of the field until their partner takes their turn. Yugi ended his turn before Paradox's attack, meaning he was the duelist in charge of the field at the time. But one thing tag duelists don't share is the deck, it switches out accordingly with each duelist, so it would be Yugi's deck affected by any cards that targeted it. Jaden has to activate it because story-wise only he knew what it was and it was his card, but "Flute of Summoning Kuriboh" ''would'' let Yugi draw his Kuriboh without breaking any rules.

** To a lesser extent, the three protagonists' Duel Disks. Yugi's Battle City disk, Jaden's Duel Academy disk, and the disk from Yusei's D-Wheel all work flawlessly with each other.

* SpoilerOpening: Not the movie itself, but ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' during the period it promoted the movie with clips inserted into the OP and the ED. It spoiled quite a few things, such as [[spoiler:Pegasus and Sugoroku being killed by the collapsing buildings, and Paradox summoning and fusing with Sin Truth Dragon]].
* SpotlightStealingCrossover: This movie crosses over the first three ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' series, but the story mostly focuses on Yusei and the cast of 5Ds with all the supporting cast appearing. The plot mostly takes place in the time of the original Yu-Gi-Oh series, but GX gets the shaft with Jaden being the only living character to appear and his section takes place in Venice rather than anywhere from his life.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Apparently, an incoming attack from Paradox's strongest monster provides enough time for Yusei to [[ItsAllMyFault kick himself for failing his friends]] and for Jaden to give him a RousingSpeech before making his own play.

** [[spoiler: The protagonists are guilty of this as well. Stardust Dragon's ATK are beefed up to ''10,000'' for its FinishingMove! Paradox's 1750 LP couldn't help but pale in comparison.]]
* TimeMachine: Paradox's D-Wheel.

* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Yusei telling Jaden what's happening [[UsefulNotes/HowDoIUsedTense right now in the future]]. The three protagonists are also confused when all three of them come together.
* TimeyWimeyBall: The rules of time travel in the movie are very difficult to place. Jaden's trump card, Elemental HERO Neos, disappears when Paradox jumps back to Yugi's time, presumably because Paradox prevented the future in which Neos would exist. Without having stopped Paradox yet, Jaden gets Neos back by jumping to a time before Paradox changes history, despite the fact that Neos and the bulk of Yusei and Jaden's cards wouldn't have existed in that time anyway.

* VillainBall: Paradox in the duel against the heroes. [[spoiler:At one point, he attempts to destroy Jaden's Neos Knight with Sin Paradox Dragon, only to run into the usual array of Traps. He could have attacked Jaden's revived Neos Knight with Stardust Dragon, leaving the heroes with 100 Life Points. If this had been the case, on Paradox's next turn, they would have lost due to the effect of Sin Truth Dragon.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Only Stardust Dragon's capture was shown on-screen. How Paradox obtained the other dragons was never shown. Jaden calls out Paradox for stealing Rainbow Dragon from Johan, but the plot point is never elaborated on, and the fate of the cards' original owners is not known. When one considers Paradox's methods, it couldn't have been very pleasant. A Japanese tie-in magazine and ''VideoGame/YuGiOhDuelLinks'' indicate that Paradox simply stole the dragons as the characters in the latter such as Joey and Kaiba are ''angry'' that Paradox stole and corrupted their dragons.
** Additionally, [[spoiler:Z-One, Antinomy, and Aporia are nowhere to be seen in Paradox's future. While this may have been justified in the theater release due to spoilers for 5D's, it doesn't for the DVD release.]]

** [[spoiler: The protagonists are guilty of this as well. Stardust Dragon's attack points are beefed up to ''10,000'' for its FinishingMove! Paradox's 1750 life points couldn't help but pale in comparison.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: Paradox, of course.

* {{Keigo}}:
** Yusei, who usually speaks rather informally, uses this when talking to Yugi and Jaden/Judai. He uses "desu" very often, always refers to them with the very polite "anata" and always makes sure to add the honorific "-san" to their names. But this makes sense given that he comes from at least a few decades into the future and is basically adressing his seniors.
** Judai, while still a bit less polite than Yusei, also makes sure to call Yugi "Yugi-san" at all times and refers to him with "anata" as well - which is quite impressive coming from an informal type of guy like him.

* OffModel: Not present much in the movie itself but the [[http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Yu-Gi-Oh-The-Movie-Bonds-Beyond-Time-3D-Blu-ray/22079/ English Blu-ray cover of the movie]].

* WholePlotReference: To ''[[Film/UltramanGaiaTheBattleInHyperspace Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna, & Ultraman Gaia: The Decisive Battle in Hyperspace]]''. Both this movie and the TDG movie are crossover films involving both their respective franchises' two predecessors -- ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' with ''[[Anime/YuGiOh Duel Monsters]]'' and ''Series/UltramanGaia'' with ''Series/UltramanTiga'' and ''Series/UltramanDyna'', respectively. Both crossover films deal with an antagonist that travel between worlds, or in this movie's case, time travel. ''Hyperspace'' deals with Gamu being pulled into the real world thanks to a young boy's wish to meet Ultraman, at the same time leading to the creation of a monster born from a child's greed. ''Bonds Beyond Time'' deals with all three ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' protagonists confronting a time travelling villain who seeks to prevent his timeline's BadFuture.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Only Stardust Dragon's capture was shown on-screen. How Paradox obtained the other dragons was never shown. Jaden calls out Paradox for stealing Rainbow Dragon from Johan, but the plot point is never elaborated on, and the fate of the cards' original owners is not known. When one considers Paradox's methods, it couldn't have been very pleasant.