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Tron Family

The Tron Family are a group obsessed with attaining revenge on Dr. Faker for destroying their family, and based on the technology they use it seems they once worked for him much like Kaito does now. Tron and V, when they were still Byron and Chris, did work for him for a time, resulting in Byron's transformation into Tron and the disappearance of Yuma's father.

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All of them share the following tropes:

• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Although IV can be kind of mean to III, he really does care for him as he yelled out his name when Kaito defeated him in their Tag Duel. IV is also rebellious because he believes that his father can turn back to his former loving self if he defeated Faker instead of Shark. He also implores Shark to stop Tron and tells him that he and his brothers are waiting for their gentle father to return.
  • V is cold, but shows a lot of concern for III when he gains temporary powers from Tron in order to defeat Yuma. Once V loses to Kaito, he is shown to approach III's bedside and collapses next to him. He also wants revenge against the Barians when IV is killed off by Nasch.
  • Tron is shown to care for his sons in the end when he is defeated by Yuma in episode 67. He stares at their souls and reminisces the past before handing their souls back to them. He also mentally apologizes to them as he promises to reform once and for all.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: The whole family dresses in outfits reminiscent of old fashioned Western European upper class fashion, despite the setting taking place at some point in the future.
• Badass Family: Season 2 have them become Yuma's allies against the Barians.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: In Season 2, Trey, Quinton and Quattro become this respectively. Trey plays moral support to Yuma After he loses Astral. Quinton is the Brains for he and Tron invent all sorts of gadgets and devices that help his family and allies against the Barians. Quinton is the Brawn for he helps Shark against his duel against Kurage/Chironex and and against Shark himself when Shark decides to become Nash.
• Color Motif: Trey is Red. Quattro is yellow. Quinton is blue and Vetrix is green.
• Expy: Of Ultra-rare from Cardfight!! Vanguard. Both groups consist of four people, three siblings lead by a child who is more than he appears.
  • Trey and Rekka are the youngest with a red color scheme, are more positive and friendly than their siblings, and receive a decent amount of focus, though where Trey is unfailingly polite, even to his enemies, Rekka is rude and condescending.
  • Wuattro and Kourin are the middle child with a yellow and white color scheme, tend to act recklessly, and have received the most development among the siblings, but whereas Quattro’s kindness masks his sadism, eggs on one of the main protagonist’s into being corrupted, and faithfully follows his father’s orders to fulfill their goals, Kourin’s arrogance masks her kindness, works to stop one of the main protagonists from being corrupted, and acts independently from her sisters to do so, knowing it goes against their goals.
  • Quinton and Suiko are the oldest with a blue color scheme, are the most loyal and calm towards their leader, and receive the least amount of focus among the siblings, but while Quinton is generally stoic but can be quick to anger, Suiko is a tease but remains tranquil even when angered.
  • Vetrix and Takuto are both children who lead their respective groups with a green and white color scheme, using a trio of siblings to carry out their plans, and possess supernatural abilities from another world, but whereas Vetrix was an adult who was de-aged into a child and made a deal with the Barians for power to exact his revenge, treats his sons as disposable tools, and is a villain by choice, Takuto is a child working with Planet Cray to save both worlds, treats Ultra-rare with respect, and is unwillingly corrupted into a villain.
• Light Is Not Good: Their true family name is Arclight and they tend to dress in brightly coloured clothes, but they're one of the antagonist groups of the first half of the series.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The three brothers: kind-hearted Trey is the Nice, Ax-Crazy sadist Quattro is the Mean, and aloof but polite Quinton is the In-Between.
• Power Tattoo: The tattoos on their hands/foreheads prevent Kite or Astral from taking their Numbers from them.
• Revenge: Mainly against Faker and the Tenjo brothers, but Quattro also has a separate vendetta against Shark.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Their crests prevent their Numbers from taken by Kite and Astral after defeat, although they can still hand their Numbers over manually. It's no good against Faker's Sphere Field, though.
• Theme Naming: Each of them were named after Roman numerals that matches their Numbers card (IV with his Number 40 & Number 88(44x2), plus the converted Roman numerals of I and V into 1 and 5 in alphabetical numbers which represents his Number 15 card, and Trey with his No. 33 & No. 06 (3x2) as well as the TCG-introduced Number 36, incorporating both of his anime Numbers while still being a multiple of 3) save for Quinton, who has his name pronounced differently. It gets even more prominent when they faced enemies who uses their name's Numbers (III against Semimaru's No.3, IV against Kurage's No.4, and V against Kaninja's no.2 (try making a 'v' with your fingers and you'll get number 2)).

Tron (Vetrix)

^Unmasked.:

Voiced by: Sachi Kokuryu (JP), Michael Smith (EN)

Leader of the family, and the one who is mainly seeking revenge against Dr. Faker, Byron Arclight is utterly ruthless in his quest for revenge, and breaks down several of the characters in the way of this quest before his eventual defeat by Yuma. Though he uses the others as pawns, he does show genuine concern for them at times, leading to his regret and apology to them after his defeat. As of episode 71, he has reconciled with Faker, but it's unknown as to whether we'll see him again, as he seems to be trapped in either the Astral or Barian World.

Vetrix's deck theme is the Heraldic Beasts, based on creatures shown on family crests and coats-of-arms. In accordance with this, his ace Number is Number 8: Heraldic King Genom-Heritage, and later becomes Number 69: Heraldry Crest. His own abilities also display this somewhat, as the DNA strands shown when he uses his powers imply a theme of family ancestry and genetic links.

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• Abusive Parents: To Trey, Quattro and Quinton, who he sees as nothing but pawns to further his revenge against Dr. Faker.
• The Atoner: Becomes this in ZEXAL II, where he works to help Yuma off-screen by helping Quinton develop the crest bracelets, and later appearing to help stabilize the dimensions so Yuma and Nash can finish their duel.
• Best Served Cold: The exact timeline is a little unclear, but he clearly spent a long while plotting his revenge before having the chance to put it into action.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Dr. Faker for the first part of ZEXAL.
• The Chessmaster: As if his plans before the WDC weren't good enough, he manages to factor in Shark's newly acquired Chaos Xyz as a way to both gain control of Shark and get rid of Yuma, even though he'd been previously unaware of Chaos Xyz monsters.
• Color Motif: Green overall, but his crest is purple.
• Cool Mask: Even reflected by Genom-Heritage. When it uses its power to 'become' another monster, the only part of its regular form which remains is its mask.
  • In episode 63 he takes it off to reveal an AR copy of Hart's face.
  • In episode 66, he takes it off again and shows his true face; a black hole where his eye-socket would normally go, and a nebula floating beside it.
• Creepy Child: A small kid in an iron mask who also has a knack for mental abuse and manipulation. Except he's not actually a child.
• Dark Reprise: After taking Kite's numbers, Vetrix unleashes 3 powerful monsters in one turn...the first of which being Number 10: Illumiknight. A bit too eerily similar to the first turn Kite took on-screen, bringing out the same number to start off his combo.
• Enfant Terrible: Except he's not.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He actually thought the Mind Rape he inflicted on Dextra was funny.
• Evil Laugh: Very mocking and creepy at that.
• Expy: His use of numbered subordinates, Enfant Terrible Older Than They Look nature, and antagonism with the local Kaiba expy and his father (including using his feelings for his brother against him) all seem meant to invoke Noah from the original series.
• Eye Scream: A black hole for an eye socket is hidden behind his mask◊.
• Fountain of Youth: He's actually the father of Trey, Quattro, and Quinton, but was left with the body of a child due to Dr. Faker.
• He Who Fights Monsters: What Faker did to him is bad, but his actions at the World Duel Carnival make him just as bad, or arguably worse.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Loves inflicting this upon his opponents by use of his Number cards, which steal the names and effects of their Xyz monsters for his own use. This is how he wins against Dextra and Kite.
• I Shall Taunt You: Takes great delight in taunting Dr. Faker in episode 64 when he's about to beat Kite with Heraldry Crest.
• I Was Quite the Looker: Before his transformation, he was a strapping and respected scholar who still had all his marbles. In a weird variation of this, it's not because he got older, but because he got supernaturally aged down into a Creepy Child and had his face seriously messed up.
• Large Ham: In the dub, where he's got virtually No Indoor Voice and peppers his speech with evil giggling. It only sells how crazy he is.
• Love Is a Weakness: He was disdainful of how his sons were dueling more out of love for him than hatred for Dr. Faker and spent several years systematically ruining Shark's life to turn him into a Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb fuelled by wrath. During his duel with Yuma, he reiterates this by commenting that his years of suffering and physical conditions are the direct result of him being betrayed by someone he once considered his friend, fueling this mindset.
• Manipulative Bastard: He manipulates just about everyone, from Shark to his own sons, who he refers to as 'pawns'. In episode 58, he even says he only trusts himself and the Barian World.
• Mind Rape: To Dextra in episode 54 by taking her memories of Kite.
• Nightmare Face: His accident was not good for his looks, as the entire left side of his face is taken up by some kind of dark void. No wonder he wears a mask. His virtual Haruto face is also creepy, in an entirely different way.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Quite a few:
  • He compares himself to both Shark and Kite. With Shark, he points out that both are motivated by revenge. With Kite, he points that both would do horrible things for what's important to them; Vetrix id willing to sacrifice his sons and do other horrible things for his revenge on Dr. Faker, while Kite is willing to hunt and steal souls for his brother.
  • With Yuma, he combined this with a Break Them by Talking theme, trying to convince Yuma that he was actually working towards the same goal he was - trying to gain revenge on Dr. Faker - claiming his father had sent Astral to Earth in order to destroy it. (Whether Byron truly believed this claim is unclear, but what would make this so horrible, if true, is that it would suggest that Kazuma Tsukumo was just as sadistic as Vetrix was, which is pretty sadistic). The amazing thing is, that while Yuma refused to believe it, Astral was nearly convinced for a minute or two. (It wasn't the first time he had such suspicions as to the intent of his purpose, and as it would turn out, his purpose was far from benign, but was not via Kazuma's doing.)
• Obfuscating Stupidity: That laughing joke of a kid with a mask? Watch him absolutely massacre Dextra once he gets serious. And then he one-upped himself and beat Kite.
• Power Copying: Genom-Heritage's power allows it to take the form and name of another monster, while leaving that monster nameless.
  • His other Number, Number 69: Heraldry Crest, is also able to steal monster effects, but with the added effect of negating them as well.
  • He is also able to take a person's Numbers from them much like Photon Hand and Astral are capable of, as demonstrated after he beat Kaito.
• The Power of Hate: Heraldry Crest runs on this, so Vetrix was trying to create hatred and anger so that he could summon it. He finally succeeds in his duel with Kite.
• Psychopathic Man Child: Counts as one due to his chronological age. Meanwhile, he has no problem acting his apparent age while also ruthlessly manipulating everyone else.
• Revenge: Sure, this is stated above, right? However, as it turns out, it's only really Tron who desires revenge against Faker. His sons, Trey, Quattro, and Quinton, are only going along with the ride because they want their "real" father back, with all three actually asking their opponents after they're beaten to help save their family.
• Revenge Before Reason: During the last official round of the WDC, he's so incensed at Yuma getting in the way of his plans that he doesn't even entertain the idea that the Sphere Field they're dueling in is an enormous trap by Dr. Faker and concentrates all his energy into destroying the young Tsukumo.
• Scaled Up: In Hart's mental world in episode 64, he turns into a monstrous dragon to oppose Yuma. However, Yuma promptly kills it in two hits by summoning Utopia.
• Sigil Spam: His Crest.
• Sphere of Destruction: Can conjure one, but never used it for any functional purpose.
• Strong Family Resemblance: As Byron, he looked like a mix of Quinton and Quattro. As Vetrix, he does look quite similar when they are smirking.
• Two-Faced: Downplayed with his mask, which covers up his eye and mouth on the left side while the right side leaves them exposed. Without the mask, the right side of his face is comparatively normal, while the left is little more than a dark, swirling void.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Due to his history with his father, Vetrix is the only antagonist in the whole show who immediately considers Yuma to be a serious threat and takes measures to eliminate him and Astral so they don't interfere with his plans.
• Villainous Breakdown: Gets a minor one whenever Yuma keeps sabotaging his plan.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Is quite capable of this, as he was unaware of the Numbers' Chaos forms, yet was able to factor this knowledge in and use it to his advantage to gain control of Shark.

Tropes exclusive to him in the second half:

• Back for the Finale: He reappears towards the end of the anime after being absent for most of the second half.
• The Bus Came Back: He comes back around the Yuma vs Nash duel.

III (Trey)

Voiced by: Kyousuke Ikeda (JP), Brian Hovland (EN, ZEXAL), Nicholas Corda (EN, Duel Links)

Birth name: Michael Arclight. A kind young man who only wishes to see his family back together and happy again like they once were, Trey initially has little drive to seek revenge, and is visibly pained by the worst of Vetrix's acts. That said, he does take part in Vetrix's schemes, going out of his way to trick Shark into taking the Shark Drake Number card on Vetrix request and helping Quattro in a tag duel against Kite and Yuma to stop them from reaching Hart. The sight of Yuma's happy family reminds him of what he's fighting for, and he comes very close to utterly crushing Yuma's spirit, killing Astral, and tearing open a doorway to the Barian World (unknowingly) before his defeat. He also becomes the first character to fall comatose due to overuse of the Numbers' power.

His deck theme is the Chronomalies, a group of monsters representing historical anomalies, as Trey believes that they show the influence of other worlds on the Earth's development, and his favourite monster is Chronomaly Aztec Mask Golem. However, his aces are both Numbers; Number 33: Chronomaly Machu Mach, and later Number 6: Chronomaly Atlandis. He was also the previous owner of Number 32: Shark Drake, before it was passed on to Shark.

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Tropes exclusive to him in the first half:

• Ancient Astronauts: Trey's deck archetype is based on this, focusing on 'out of place artifacts', or artifacts that allegedly don't match the time period or civilization they came from. Trey himself seems to believe in this to some degree, claiming to Yuma that he believes that out of place artifacts come from other dimensions.
• Anti-Villain: Trey is shown to be fully aware of his family's nature, only expresses visible discomfort at their absolute worst acts of cruelty, goes along with Vetrix's scheme to trick Shark into taking Shark Drake despite knowing that the Number card would likely try to control Shark as a result, and ends up trying to kill Astral and mentally break Yuma during their duel, but his goal is ultimately just to see his family return to how it used to be and he places his trust in Yuma to save his family.
• Atlantis: Trey's ace monster, Number: 6: Chronomaly Atlandis, is based on the concept of Atlantis.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Trey breaks into Yuma's home to investigate Yuma, only to end up distracted by the large amount of artifacts in the attic. He even starts info dumping about them to Yuma when he shows up!
• Classy Cravat: Trey wears one through the whole series.
• Color Motif: Red
• Disk-One Final Boss: The last obstacle Yuma must overcome to enter the World Duel Carnival Finals and the second person dangerous enough to give Yuma and Astral reason to Zexal Morph again.
• Evil Costume Switch: To a gladiator during his duel with Yuma.
• First Friend: Views Yuma as this after their duel.
• Foil: Of Yuma. Both are the youngest in their family, but their environment is very different. Yuma doesn't have both of his parents, but still lives a peaceful and happy life with his sister and grandmother, while Trey still has a parent Vetrix and brothers, but his family life lost their peace and happiness. Yuma argues a lot with his sister but Trey maintains a calm and respectful attitude towards his older brothers despite Quattro being slightly mean towards him in the beginning.
• Friendly Enemy: Is the most outwardly nice of his family towards Yuma, expressing curiosity towards Yuma's determination and even briefly getting excited over the amount of artifacts in Yuma's attic. That said, this doesn't stop Trey from taking part in Vetrix's schemes or attempting to duel Yuma.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Far from the calming effect it had with Hart, time spent with the Tsukumos intensifies Trey need to restore his family's sanity no matter the cost. Bonus points because he literally has green eyes.
• Hero Killer: Succeeds in briefly killing Astral during his duel against Yuma, though he ultimately helps bring him back to help Yuma stop the world ending effect of Final Prophecy.
• Like Father, Like Son: Starts acting alarmingly like his father Vetrix during his duel against Yuma, as he starts using his monsters as expendable pawns and attempts to Mind Rape Yuma, much like how Vetrix views his sons as pawns in his revenge scheme and goes on to mentally break both Dextra and Quattro during the WDC. Fortunately, this behaviour doesn't stick and Trey stops acting like this after the duel.
• Mind Rape: Attempts this during his duel against Yuma, using the power he borrowed from Vetrix to make him forget his 'kattobingu' and render him cowardly. It doesn't stick.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Trey apparently managed to collect all the Heart Pieces he needed to advance in the World Duel Carnival within the first day of the tournament, as revealed after his duel against Shark at the start of the second day.
• Oh, Crap!: Once Yuma brings out Number 39, Trey remembers that Yuma was present during his battle with Shark and the one Quattro had with Bronk and Caswell, he's realises that while Kite has no idea what's coming during their Tag Duel, Yuma does and in turn they know absolutely nothing about him since he is an unknown variable in their plans. Happens again during his duel against Yuma, when he realizes that Final Prophecy will destroy the world to open a portal to the Barian World if not stopped.
• Pretty Boy: Has a cute face and his outfit looks slightly feminine compared to his brothers.
• Psycho Pink: Not normally, but veers into this when he duels Yuma, attempting to Mind Rape him and kill Astral. He reverts to normal afterwards.
• Rage Breaking Point: Hits his during his duel against Yuma, driven by his envy towards Yuma's happy family vs his own broken family.
• Sacrificial Lion: The first major duelist to be bedridden and put out of commission due to a combination of the immense power of the Numbers and his crest taking his soul after his duel against Yuma.
• Spirited Competitor: Trey continues trying to duel Shark after getting him to take Shark Drake and puts up a good fight, despite being told by Vetrix that he could just throw the match after delivering the card.
• Super-Power Meltdown: Trey starts losing control of the power he borrowed from Tron during his duel against Yuma, causing him pain and his D-Gazer tattoo (normally confined around his left eye) to start glowing and covering his entire body.
• Taking You with Me: Trey attempts to use the effect of Final Prophecy to inflict massive damage to both Yuma and himself to end their duel in a DRAW, not caring about his own safety if it means helping his family.
• Tender Tears: Cries these while eating a meal with the Tsukumos on realizing that the Tsukumos are what he wants his family to be like. Unfortunately, this leads him to dedicate himself to restoring his own family to normal no matter what it takes.
• Took a Level in Badass: Trey's duel with Yuma spans three episodes despite losing.
• Tragic Villain: Trey just wants his family to return to how it used to be, and his actions are driven by this goal. He's otherwise the nicest of his family, and his duel against Yuma is driven by a combination of envy towards the more stable Tsukumo family and desperation to save his own family, no matter what.
• Undying Loyalty: Trey is unwaveringly loyal to his family, despite knowing how broken said family is. This loyalty is taken to an extreme when a combination of envy towards the Tsukumos and desperation to see his own family go back to normal drives Trey to interpret Yuma as a threat towards Vetrix's revenge scheme and go out of his way to stop him.

Tropes exclusive to him in the second half:

• Declaration of Protection: Declares that he'll be Yuma's 'sword and shield' right before their duel against Erazor.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Trey and Quinton team up to duel Mizar in order to buy time for Yuma and Kite to pursue their respective goals, both knowing that they'd likely end up being killed in the attempt. They were right.
• I Shall Taunt You: Tends towards being very sharp mouthed to his opponents, especially in the second half.
  Mizar: (After his Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon is stolen from him) Never before I had to taste such a humiliation!
  Trey: I'm honoured to receive such a compliment, "Sir".
• The Bus Came Back: The Arclight family was nowhere to be seen for the most of early Zexal II (outside the opening, Foreshadowing their return), but Trey returned in episode 112.
• Dynamic Entry: His jumping in to save Yuma from Mr. Heartland.
• Improbable Age: He's 15 years old, but enrolls in Heartland Academy as a first-year in the last episode of Zexal.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Throws a sword at Mr. Heartland during his Dynamic Entry.
• You Shall Not Pass!: Trey and Quinton team up to stall Mizar, Dumon, and Marin (via dueling Mizar and generating a Sphere Field with their crest bracelets so that the Barians couldn't leave the area) so that Yuma and Kite can pursue their goals. They successfully buy enough time, but lose to Mizar and die in the process.

IV (Quattro)

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (JP), Michael Smith (EN)

Birth name: Thomas Arclight. The champion of the Asian Dueling Circuit, and responsible for Shark's fall from grace from said circuit, due to setting up his deck to fall over in the waiting room, Quattro shows a kind and humble face to his many fans, but acts with sadism and malice to all others. He has a personal grudge with Shark for various reasons, including his involvement in the hospitalisation of Shark's twin sister, Rio, and Vetrix's eventual use of Shark as an assassin against Faker rather than Quattro, but is also spiteful towards any others who have close family ties because of how he and his brothers have suffered in the past. He cares greatly for his family despite this, and asks Shark to save his father after his defeat.

Quattro's deck consists of Gimmick Puppets, an archetype mostly reliant on its Xyz Monsters, and has used three ace Numbers depending on the situation; Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder, Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings, and Number 88: Gimmick Puppet of Leo.

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Tropes exclusive to him in the first half:

• Always Someone Better: From multiple directions. Vetrix's decision to use Shark as an assassin instead of Quattro leads Quattro to resent Shark.
• Anti-Magic: Before the World Duel Carnival, he originally ran a Gravekeeper's deck with Skill Drain to deny his opponent the use of both Monster effects and the Graveyard. In the present day, he has adopted a heavy anti-Xyz play style with his Gimmick Puppets after receiving his Number cards.
• Ax-Crazy: Begins to lose it somewhat during his duel with Shark. Mostly attributed to Vetrix screwing with him during the duel.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While around fans, he pretends to be a friendly and noble person, but to those who know him, he's an evil manipulative jerk who enjoys others' pain.
• Catchphrase: FANSERVICE!! and in the dub: I get a kick out of spoiling my fans!
• Color Motif: Yellow
• Creepy Doll: His deck-type.
• Expy: Bears an uncanny resemblance to Takuto Tsunashi (in his pilot form) from Star Driver; hair, coat, and all.
• Fanservice: He won't stop talking about it...although his idea of fanservice is a lot different from what the trope is usually about.
• Fixing the Game: Quattro tricked Shark into peeking in his deck to get him disqualified.
• Four Is Death: Easily the most sadistic of the brothers, though Vetrix does not think so, and it pisses him off to no end.
• Freudian Excuse: Like all of the Arclight siblings, he has suffered quite a bit thanks to Dr Faker's betrayal. It's implied during the Tag Duel with Trey that this is why Quattro insists on making other people suffer. Not helped by the fact that he's Vetrix's least favorite.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Vetrix's abuse has made him insanely paranoid of anyone he values more than him.
• Hidden Depths: With all of the vague Foreshadowing, one would be surprised if his character didn't take this turn.
  • Shown in episode 58. All he wants is for his father, Byron Arclight, to return from behind the mask of Vetrix. And he reveals that he didn't intend to hurt Shark's sister, and that Vetrix was responsible as he gave Quattro a cursed card. Not to mention that he saved her life by carrying her out of the building, getting that scar on his face in the process because he stopped to do so.
• Hunter of Monsters: A Number Hunter. He collected most of the Numbers they're currently using.
• Instant-Win Condition: "Number 88: Gimmick Puppet of Leo" has one.
• Jerkass: The biggest one of the siblings.
• Kick the Dog: Even after defeating Bronk and Caswell with a One Turn Kill, he still attacks them with Giant Grinder, hurting them even more. He even breaks Caswell's arm.
• Large Ham: When the facade comes off, he chews scenery with the best of them. In Duel Links he goes straight into No Indoor Voice territory.
• Manipulative Bastard: Organized Shark's fall from grace and severely injured Shark's sister, Rio, in a duel. This is subverted when it's revealed Tron was effectively the one that organized everything, while Quattro simply followed orders. In fact, Quattro did not even intend to hurt Shark's sister - it was actually Tron's intervention that caused it. Quattro had used a card, Flaming Hell Blessing, that was given to him by Tron, but he was unaware that it had the capability of inflicting real damage. As a result, Quattro had unintentionally hurt Shark's sister, and Quattro even went out of his way to save her from the resultant fire (started by the card) straight away, which also caused the scar on his face.
• Marionette Master: His deck. Goes into Irony since he's being used by Vetrix as one, which is made worse since he's his father.
• Middle Child Syndrome: Quattro is averse to being The Un-Favourite, to say the least, which is why he tries the hardest out of all the brothers.
• Parental Abuse: May even fall into Offing the Offspring territory as no one mentions Vetrix making a contingency for Quattro to get out of that burning building alive. The scar on his face is proof enough that he struggled surviving the duel with Rio.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Despite usually being a complete sadist, he seems to genuinely care about his family a great deal. In fact, Quattro showed the most concern out of the Tron siblings when Trey was defeated by Yuma. In addition, when Tron openly called Trey and Quattro disappointments, Quattro's first reaction was to stand up for Trey, and he did not even bother trying to defend himself.
  • After his duel with Shark, he explains just what exactly happened to Shark's sister and entrusts his revenge to Shark.
• Revenge Before Reason: In his duel with Shark during the WDC, he's so anxious to make Shark's defeat as complete as possible, that he makes a grave error, taking a gamble in order to activate an effect that would have done incredible damage if it had worked when he could have simply won by using an option that would have finished his opponent quickly. The gamble fails to pay off, and he loses as a result. (Of course, you could probably blame Tron for this one too. His cruel taunting made IV jealous of Shark, and want to prove himself in the eyes of his father.)
• The Rival: To Shark.
• Sadist: His idea of fanservice is that of his "fans" writhing in agony at the mercy of his Gimmick Puppet monsters as he utterly trounces them in a duel.
• Say My Name: THHHRRREEEEEE!!! When Kaito beats III with Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon.
• Shared Family Quirks: Both IV and Tron put on a facade before showing off their sinister side.
• Slasher Smile: He along with Shark and Kaito.
• Smoke Shield: Happens every time he uses Gimmick Box. Surprisingly, it doesn't happen in his duel with Shark.
• Stepford Smiler: Unstable. So very Unstable.
• The Unexpected: His Gimmick Puppets are implied to not be his usual archetype on the pro-circuit with even his most dedicated fans being surprised to see him use them during the WDC.
• Strong Family Resemblance: IV's smirk resembles Tron's in his child form. The shape of their eyes are quite similar too. He also looks similar to V whenever his left eye turns blue in the AR vision.
• The Unfavorite: Tron trusts III and V a lot more than IV due to his recklessness and anger issues, and would rather use Shark as an assassin than his own son for the same reasons.
• Villainous Breakdown: In episode 58, where he breaks down in front of Tron when he realizes his father doesn't care about him, III or V at all, protesting that he did everything Tron wished for with the hope of Byron Arclight returning.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Is the most willing and will go the furthest to please Tron, yet is also the least appreciated by Tron.
• Your Answer to Everything: Fanservice. Not of the sexual variant, though.

Tropes exclusive to him in the second half:

• "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: Tries this on Shark. Shark instead makes him give into hatred so he'll stop trying.
• Improbable Age: He's 17 but becomes a pro-Duelist in the last episode.
• Kayfabe: His appearance in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is him from during the intrim period between Zexal 1 and Zexal 2, though he retains his psychotic in-Duel behavior from the first half. His debut event establishes that it's just an act he's putting on at this point instead of an actual relapse after an encounter with some of his fans, who explicitly tell him that they like his Kayfabe and encourage him to embrace the behavior..
• Story-Breaker Power: Number C88: Gimmick Puppet Disaster Leo. A 3500 ATK behemoth that deals 4000 damage upon using a single Overlay Unit, without any side effects whatsoever. In most cases, this will certainly mean a One-Hit Kill, as duelists start with exactly 4000 Life Points. If that wasn't enough, this card still retains the automatic-victory effect of Gimmick Puppet of Leo, allowing the player to win the duel once it no longer has Overlay Units.
• Super Mode: Gains "Rank-Up-Magic Argent Chaos Force", letting him Rank-Up his Numbers.
• Took a Level in Badass: He was already one of the stronger duelists within Zexal I, but with the aid of Argent Chaos Force, he manages to become powerful enough to nearly defeat the strongest Barian Emperor. In fact, the only reason he lost was due to Nash's deck being a natural counter to Quattro's. (Nash's deck focused on Life Point and Overlay Unit manipulation, allowing him to survive the effects of Quattro's Disaster Leo.)
• Took a Level in Kindness: MUCH nicer now than he was before.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Acts like this during his tag team duel with Shark.
• The Worf Barrage: See that Story-Breaker Power up there? Nash beats it.

V (Quinton)

Voiced by: Shouma Yamamoto (JP), Jamal Najum Khan (EN)

Birth name: Christopher Arclight. The oldest of the Vetrix siblings, Quinton is generally quite calm and reasonable, and takes the role of the responsible older brother to his younger siblings; however, his greatest loyalty is to Vetrix, and will berate his brothers for going against him. His drive for revenge is greater than that of the other two brothers, as he also worked for Faker at the time of his father's disappearance. Prior to the series, he was a mentor to Kite and taught him how to duel, but then discovered that Kite and Hart were Faker's sons and abandoned them both, which Kite has never truly forgiven him for. However, he eventually loses to Kite, who explains that he doesn't have to be loyal to his father if he doesn't want to. He then expresses his affection for the Tenjo brothers before leaving and falling comatose due to his Crest. His deck theme switched from a "Hell" theme mostly based on Spells and Traps to a space Machine theme, and his ace monster was Number 9: Dyson Sphere.

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Tropes exclusive to him in the first half:

• Adaptation Expansion: Due to his deck consisting of very few cards (and even less that have been printed in real life), Quinton's deck varies a lot in adaptations and video games. For Duel Links, he was given voicelines for a variety of space-themed decks, including Satellite Cannon, B.E.S. and Kozmo.
• Aloof Big Brother: He became one due to circumstances; his childhood showed that he wasn't one.
• Beam Spam: Dyson Sphere, to ludicrous degrees.
• Color Motif: Blue
• Expy: Of Halldor from Yugioh 5D's.
• Dyson Sphere: His deck revolves around a Number that is based on this concept.
• Evil Brit: His VA in the dub version makes him sound like one. Makes sense since he also voices Aporia from 5Ds.
• Evil Mentor: To Kite, doubles as Evil Former Friend. He gets better after Kite beats him.
• Fire and Brimstone Hell: The cards he uses on the Duel Coaster (like his Spell, Punishing Fire) are based on the concept of Naraku, the Buddhist Hell, which is like this.
• Generation Xerox: Looks more like his father than either Trey or Quattro. This is probably symbolic, as he also works more closely with Vetrix than Trey or Quattro.
• Hot-Blooded: When he Duels.
• Improbable Age: Helped out his father's research lab at 15 years old (He's 20). After his father's disappearance, he continued working at Dr. Faker's lab as a teenage researcher.
• Kill Sat: Number 9: Dyson Sphere puts just about every other example of this trope to shame in terms of sheer scale.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: It goes down to his ankles.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: Gets VERY angry when Yuma inflicts a mere 400 damage to him when he had 5000 Life Points.
• Mr. Exposition: Delivers an Info Dump on the backstory of Vetrix, Faker and Yuma's father before losing a Duel and falling unconscious.
• Not So Invincible After All: His Dyson Sphere is played up as being Nigh-Invulnerable, with the ability to negate any attack and bypass the opponent's monsters. Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon disagrees.
• Not So Stoic: When he found out what Dr. Faker did to his father.
• Sadist Teacher: He played a key role in Kite's training as a Number Hunter, viciously defeating him time after time to hone his skills. In Duel Links, he offers to teach Yuma's friends how to duel properly and Yuma is terrified at the idea of this due to seeing the effects of Quinton's teaching, meaning he's worried Tori and Bronk will be injured. Both have to tell him to cool off as they'd rather do this then be helpless in the event of a Barian invasion.
• Shoot the Dog: Before almost defeating Kite, he tells him that his victory over him would be one last good deed to a former friend, freeing him of the burden of being a Number Hunter.
• The Stoic: His usual disposition.
• That's No Moon: Pulls a variant of this the first time he summons Dyson Sphere, with a blazing sun behind him. At first, nothing seems to happen, and Kite's attacks get nullified seemingly out of the blue; then, Dyson Sphere unfolds and swallows the sun.
• The Worf Barrage: For a monster deemed Nigh-Invulnerable, his Dyson Sphere has a rather poor track record. In every single duel where it's used save one, it gets taken out in some way, and in that duel, he was teaming with someone who had already beaten it.

Tropes exclusive to him in the second half:

• Beat the Curse Out of Him: How he "cures" Kaito of Scritch's hallucinogenic poison during the two-on-one duel, by turning his Dyson Sphere on Kite's Dragon and forcing Kite to fight back.
• Big Brother Instinct: Wishes to get revenge on the Barians for killing Quattro.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Trey and Quinton team up to duel Mizar in order to buy time for Yuma and Kite to pursue their respective goals, both knowing that they'd likely end up being killed in the attempt. They were right.
• The Smart Guy: He and Kite build a dimensional transporter together. He also created a Rank-Up-Magic card.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner:
  Mizar: On what turn do you plan to defeat me by inflicting 500 points of damage?
  Quinton: This turn, of course!
• You Shall Not Pass!: Trey and Quinton team up to stall Mizar, Dumon, and Marin (via dueling Mizar and generating a Sphere Field with their crest bracelets so that the Barians couldn't leave the area) so that Yuma and Kite can pursue their goals. They successfully buy enough time, but lose to Mizar and die in the process.

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