History Characters / YuGiOhArcVTheLancers

* WrongGenreSavvy: As with Reiji, this is zig-zagged: He's also right about the DarkerAndEdgier nature of the series, but genuinely belives that he's an AntiHero in TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks story smiliar to ComicBook/{{Batman}} or ComicBook/ThePunisher.

*** He and Manjoume also share the distinction of changing their decks the most throughtout the series as compared to most other characters who stick with one deck. Sawatari went through 4 decks, while Manjoume whent through 5, although one of these was only while he was possessed.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Metaphorically; his Raid Raptors monsters resemble robotic avian predators, which might also symbolize [[HeWhoFightsMonsters his desire to protect and rescue]] [[KnightTemplarBigBrother his sister slowly]] [[SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope sliding him down]] [[MoralEventHorizon the morality road]].

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He's KnightTemplar in defeating his enemies and finding Ruri, but his actions are taking him further into the MoralEventHorizon. It took until his duel with Crow that he finally started to get out of this.

* BadassBaritone: A deep-voiced man in charge of the Leo Corporation.

%%* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: He's shaping up to be Yuya's final opponent in the series.]]

* InvincibleHero: The most competent and ruthless among the "Kaibas". So far, his only loss is against Yuya in their first Duel because he [[ILetYouWin threw himself out of the ring]] to deal with Marco's disappearance. His duel against his father nearly averted this due to Leo countering everything he threw at him, with Yuya as his partner being the only reason they won. [[spoiler:This is finally averted when he duels Zarc in episode 140 and lost.]]

* NobleDemon: His DD deck contains Fiend-type monsters, but Reiji is the leader of the heroes and his noble goals.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuiIshikawa (JP), Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld (EN)

* NotSoDifferent:
** From his father, they are both stoic men that run a school that is meant to train child soldiers. They have both done some horrible things to fulfill their goals and have shown no remorse for their actions. This is furthered in episode 52 when Reiji reveals he plans on turning LDS into military training centers for dueling soldiers just like the Academia.
** He also is this to Yuya. When Reiji was 13, roughly around Yuya's age, they were very similar. Both were kindhearted people whose fathers went missing leaving them confused and upset.

** This is finally subverted during his duel with [[spoiler:Crow]]; while at the beginning he was just as belligerent and close-minded as usual, after he [[spoiler:rescues Tanner from falling down on the Duel lane]], Kurosaki realizes that he and Crow had [[NotSoDifferent similar experiences]]. As a result, he ended up befriending him, with both of them promising to continue fighting the good fight against their respective enemies.

* {{Irony}}: He hates LDS, yet is put among their numbers for the Maiami Championship. Also, see NotSoDifferent. Later on in Episode 48, he's saved by Serena, an Academia Fusion user who looks like his sister.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Shows signs of this after his second duel with Dennis. [[spoiler:Stops doing it when he saves Tanner and realizes that Crow is NotSoDifferent.]]

* NotSoDifferent:
** Hinted at by his duel with Sora when you consider that Kurosaki has hunted people in much the same way as the Fusion faction, Academia, albeit for a different reason, and he finishes the duel by bombing the virtual Heartland to the ground, which is exactly what the Academia did to the real one. This is further emphasized when Sora revealed that Academia would seal their victims' souls in cards. Furthermore, he is also able to card people like Academia.
** He and Serena share a similar desire in working alone and believing that their strength and skills is enough to take on ''anyone''.
** Hilariously enough, he's this to LDS given that his attitude seems to come from when he was at a pro duelist school himself.
** Befriends Crow once he realizes that this is their situation.
** Kaito is exactly like Kurosaki, but more violent and angrier at Academia, if that's even possible.
** In the dub, he realizes that he's this to Leo Akaba; both of them committed morally unconscious acts in order to get back a family member that they loved; Shay for Lulu and Leo for Ray.

* HandshakeSubstitute: [[spoiler:He does a fist bump with Kurosaki after realizing that they're NotSoDifferent.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:To Kurosaki, which they eventually realize; they are [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold jerks with hearts of gold]] that are fighting against an enemy much stronger than they are.]]

* DoesNotLikeMagic: He doesn't have ''any'' Spell or Trap Cards in his StoneWall deck and just relies on his monster effects. This proves to be more CrazyAwesome than people give it credit for; most of his monster effects require a Graveyard free of Spells and Traps to work. This is the other reason why he never uses Action Cards. He does however gain ''Superheavy Samurai Warlord Susanowo'', whose ability allows him to activate magic cards from his ''opponent's'' graveyard. He later gains ''Superheavy Samurai Steam Fiend Tetsudo'o'', whose ability allows him to banish the Spells and Traps in his graveyard, allowing him to use them without hampering his strategy.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: How Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon attacks. Although, given Xyz Monster Lore from ZEXAL [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Xyz_Monster#In_the_anime lore]], it's attack may be caused by Ultimate Falcon summmoning a big ball of anti-matter rather than a black hole.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: How Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon attacks. Although, given Xyz Monster Lore from ZEXAL, it's attack may be caused by Ultimate Falcon summmoning a big ball of anti-matter rather than a black hole.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: How Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon attacks.

* RealityEnsues:
** After Sawatari loses to Yuya, he just tries to steal the Pendulum Cards by force.
** Sawatari often switches decks to find one that might be perfect, something that most meta players do.
** It's mentioned that Gongenzaka would be crippled by a shared graveyard in their Tag Duel with the Tyler sisters, but Sawatari would have been just as crippled had he accommodated Gongenzaka due to his own heavy reliance on Spells.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: She's a very skilled duelist, at least equal to Yuya and co. according to Reiji. [[spoiler:This is marked quite clearly with her first high-stakes duel, where she deals [[OneHitKill OTKs]] to three Security guards in the span of a single Attack Phase. She can also easily hold her own in 3-to-1 duels against {{Elite Mook}}s; she simply stops being able to because exhaustion and [[RealityEnsues PTSD]] kick in.]] In 131 she proves capable of dueling evenly with [[spoiler: Reiji himself]].

* RealityEnsues:
** The kid may be a good duelist on par of the other Lancers, but she's still just a traumatized little kid. She's scared stiff when she arrives in the Synchro Dimension without Reiji.
** Despite being a good duelist, she also tires much easier than the older Lancers, [[spoiler:and after beating three Security officers and two Obelisk Force squads in a row, she is exhausted... and her PTSD is triggered]].

* WeaksauceWeakness: The anime seems to give Kurosaki a laughable weakness to stairs. In episode 46, he falls down some stairs, causing him to break one of his ribs. [[spoiler:After recently recovering from his injuries he received from the Obelisk Force in Heartland, Kurosaki has to run a lot of stairs up, but for pacing reasons, he has to run on those stairs in a much longer air time than Kaito and Yugo did. And then he has to go down from said stairs while carrying his sister on his back, and due to being damaged from his duel with her and the fact that he just woke up from a coma not long before, he collapses.]] Even his English voice actor (who apparently follows the Japanese run), has noticed [[https://twitter.com/MattShipmanVO/status/780211522169544704?lang=de that]].

* GoOutWithASmile: Non-lethal version. He gives a satisfied smirk as he manages to protect Jack's monsters from [[spoiler:Zarc]] at the cost of his own remaining Life Points. It stands out compared to the other duelists who only had expressions of abject terror as they lost to [[spoiler:Zarc's]] overwhelming power.

** His fifth duel, however, is similar as his first one. He summons Temujin, Alexander and Caesar and Hell Armageddon again, but uses a different strategy. [[spoiler:The presence of Temujin, Alexander and Caesar are meant to prevent the Professor from Tribute, Fusion, Synchro and Xyz Summoning, but that doesn't work as the Professor is capable of Pendulum Summoning. As Reiji's monsters are incapable of attacking, he has to tribute his two remaining kings to Tribute Summon Hell Armageddon and needs to boost him to attack and win the duel, but even that is countered by his father. This is the only time where Reiji has not summon a new monster. And he almost loses the duel.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Since Reiji was already very skilled since the beginning and he barely duels, he barely grows, but you can see that has become slightly better at performing different Special Summoning methods at once, but that's very subtle.

* {{Chuunibyou}}: It bears repeating that he made his archetype from the ground up and filled it with as many stand-ins for famous historical and mythological figures as he could (some of whom, such as Tristan, all ready had cards named after them). This is in sharp contrast to Yuya's deck which contains many hand-me-downs his father possessed.

* ChickMagnet: As seen in Episode 27, he has a lot of fangirls.

* CharacterTic: He has a tendency to expand his eyes and point with his right index and middle fingers when ordering his Xyz monsters to attack.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Reiji is gentle and good hearted person underneath his no-nonsense and stoic nature.

** Reiji's first set of DDD monsters are named after famous conquerors: Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Genghis Khan (by his birth name, Temujin), as well as Kaiser the Conqueror in the manga.[[note]]Unlike the others, though, this one is pretty vague, as there have been ''many'' people with the title of "Kaiser". Common guesses as to who this card is modeled after are Charlemagne, first ruler of the Carolingian Empire, or Otto I, creator and first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.[[/note]] After he masters Pendulum Summoning, his new ones are named after end of the world scenarios in various religions (Christianity's Armageddon, Norse's Ragnarok and Hinduism's Kali Yuga).
** His high Level DDD Pendulums have titles which are phonetic puns on corporate titles. Shiiou for CEO, Kaichiou for Kaichou (chairman), and Chaos Apocalypse has Kyokuchiou for Kyokucho (bureau director).

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YamatoKinjo (JP), Matt Shipman (EN)

* InformedAbility: His skill as TheChessmaster. Characters talk about what a genius he is and how indispensable his planning and organization is, but though he's a great Duelist, his actual schemes tend to be overcomplicated at best and outright detrimental at worst, and the majority of the handful of Lancer successes involved things he had nothing to do with or couldn't possibly have predicted.

* TheSouthpaw: In a rarity for this series, Tsukikage's left-handed. However he uses his right hand in a Riding Duel.

* UnexpectedCharacter: In Episode 40, he plays DD Proud Chevalier, which had previously appeared only in an one-shot manga chapter-- a rather rare occurrence in the franchise, and he later brought in the OCG debuted Abyss Ragnarok.

* {{Adorkable}}: [[TookALevelInKindness Taking a level in kindness]] doesn't stop him from being awkward, tactless, unlucky, and none-too-bright.

* ShipTease: People like pairing him up with ''Asuka'' of all people, though it helps that both get along pretty well with one another, especially against Yuri. By series end, they smile at one another and comment on the final duels taking place together.

* AntiHero: Everything he does is to stop his father, Leo Akaba who started a war between the Fusion and Xyz dimensions and does seem to honestly care for his town. But he has done a lot of morally gray actions in his quest, from manipulating his students and allies, to lying to his allies so he can experiment on their possibly dead ally's Duel Disk, and willingly using teenagers as soldiers.

* AntiHero: Almost to the point of NominalHero. He'll do anything to rescue his comrades and stop Academia, but his current actions include attacking innocents for going to LDS, showing a disregard for the safety of his own allies, and he has no hesitation about fighting anyone in his way regardless of their own moral standing. This also doesn't get into his intensely antisocial behavior and general {{Jerkass}}-ness.