YMMV / Yugioh EQG

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Zeronull a genuine Well-Intentioned Extremist who truly believes that life itself is a mistake and that wiping out all living things in existence will end up saving the universe in the long run? Or is it just an Omnicidal Maniac trying to kill everyone purely out of spite for being imprisoned millennia ago? An argument could be made for either case.
• Catharsis Factor: Considering how evil they are, any time a Dominator or Zealot loses a duel is sure to be enjoyable to watch.
  • Of special note is Flaming Emperor Hellfire, the spirit Dominating Heath Burns, who, after brutally defeating Twilight, is defeated by Flash's new Fusion Monster with him being unable to do anything to stop it. His smug bravado quickly fades away and he shows his true colors as a Dirty Coward.
  • A better and more drawn out example, however, would be regarding Shining Magician Glorianna, the Spirit Dominating Starlight Glimmer. After cruelly belittling and then defeating Starlight's friend Sunburst in their duel, she's defeated the next day by Team Wonderbolt's underdog player, Soarin' Skies. Needless to say, Glorianna does not take it well. After this, she winds up on a losing streak, slowly becoming more unhinged with each defeat, until she's finally beaten by Sunburst in the finals, with a little help from the real Starlight. This results in Starlight breaking free of her control, all while Glorianna can do nothing but scream at her to stop.
  • Hellfire continues to be an example in the sequel. After joining the Omega Zealots just to ensure his own survival, he gets a major ego boost after receiving the Fire Zenith Dragon, and begins calling himself a god of destruction. He eventually gets in a duel with Sunburst, and Sunburst says that unlike Hellfire, he acknowledges that he is weak and it is thanks to that he has all his friends to support him and draw on their own power, spitting on everything Hellfire is constantly preaching about. After Sunburst stops Hellfire's final attack, showing him he's not the "god" he thinks he is, he beats him on his next turn and finally frees Heath Burns, putting an end to Hellfire once and for all!
  • Keeping up with this trend, Glorianna faces off against Starlight again during the Omega Zealots' assault on the base holding the Zenith Dragons. After giving Starlight a difficult time, including subjecting her to Mind Rape, Glorianna is finally defeated when Starlight summons her newest monster, Celestial Spirit King Leo, who then proceeds to destroy the Shining Magician Glorianna on the field. With that, Starlight finally manages to free Trixie and get revenge on the duel spirit who abused her and stole a year of her life.
• Harsher in Hindsight: An early chapter of the first story features Trixie following Twilight all over town trying to get her to accept her challenge to duel, even showing up at her house. It's actually pretty amusing. Fast forward to the latest story, where at one point we're shown Trixie in Paris, watching Twilight as she sleeps. Given the circumstances, this time it's a lot less funny and a lot more terrifying.
• He's Just Hiding: Several readers thought that Moondancer did not actually die at the end of her debut chapter, and went into hiding after surviving her accident or that the accident was staged for some reason. Eventually, Banshee513 confirmed that the accident wasn’t staged and that Moondancer was indeed dead, and was not coming back.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Chrysalis crosses it when it is not only revealed she is working with Sombra, she duels her own son Thorax to prevent him from escaping. She not only beats him very violently, she then helps contain him and brainwash him to "tie up lose ends."
  • Shining Magician Glorianna finally crosses this line during her last duel with Starlight. After triggering Starlight's PTSD by summoning her true form, Glorianna proceeds to subject Starlight to Mind Rape, forcing her to re-live the experience of when she was Dominated. Glorianna even had the gall to laugh at the mental torment she was putting Starlight through; it was at this moment that she became truly irredeemable.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Timber Spruce is introduced flirting with Twilight, and is completely unaware of how upset this makes Flash. When he and Flash duel he shows that he's a jerk who only respects strong monsters and uses his weaker monsters as Cannon Fodder. Even Twilight, who saw him as a nice guy before, is shocked that he'd treat his monsters so heartlessly. Flash beats him with Shine Crest Magna Wolf, one of the cards he mocked Flash for using and dismissed as weak.
  • Timber shows up again in the sequel as a finalist. He thinks his point score is one of the highest, only to find out that he's actually in last place. Then he loses in the first round of the finals to Cloak N Dagger. Flash smirks at both of these events, finding enjoyment in Timber's suffering.
  Flash: Is it wrong that I totally enjoyed that?
  Spike: No, but don't let Twilight see you.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Yugioh EQG: Ω Zenith is the darkest entry in the series, and as a consequence perhaps the hardest one to enjoy. Many chapters have the Zealots winning and furthering their plans, often being very petty and cruel while doing so, and the heroes are constantly struggling to keep up with them, with their lives constantly being in danger. Things come to a head when Twilight is made the vessel for Zeronull, becoming Midnight Sparkle, and Flash uses the Darkness Zenith Dragon in a desperate attempt to save her, only to fail and have his entire deck destroyed.