Yusei Fudo

Yusei Fudo
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's character
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First appearance	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's episode 1
In-universe information
Alias	New King Mr. Amnesiaman (dub only)
Nickname	Yus (pronounced Yoos; in dub only)
Relatives	Professor Fudo (father, deceased) Mother (unnamed, deceased) Martha (foster parent)

Yusei Fudo (不動 遊星, Fudō Yūsei) is the main protagonist of the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.

Differently from the previous protagonists in the Yu-Gi-Oh! meta-series, Yusei is older and tends to be calm and cool much of the time, but just like them, he is always prone to make new friends and is determined to fight till the end to protect them. His friends also respect and admire him for his honor and great dueling skills.

Biography

Prior to the series Yusei was born in the Tops Area of New Domino City. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Fudo were researchers for the Momentum Investigation and Development Section which was the same group that was responsible for the activation of the first unstable energy system on Satellite. Yusei's father and mother were killed in the accident and Yusei was sent to the orphange that was run by a woman named Martha in Satellite. The accident was also what caused the original Domino City to be split into the present Neo Domino City and the Satellite. In the dub version of the anime as Yusei grew up he attended an academy with Officer Trudge and has a rivalry with him and according to Officer Trudge Yusei has been in a reeducation center with Rally Dawson and once tried to sneak out after curfew with him. Yuesi came to accept Kyosuke Kiryu, Jack Atlas, Crow, Blitz, Nervon, Rally Dawson, and Tank. Yuesi as a resident of the Satellite was made a labor for the residents of New Domino City and was denied many of the luxuries that were often enjoyed in New Domino.

As Yusei grew up he taught himself many skills that he needed in order to cope with the tough life in Satellite such as reading, spelling, writing, grammar, mathematics, computer skills, electrical and mechanical engieering, hand-to-hand combat, motorcycle riding, and of course dueling. He along with Crow, Jack, and Kiryu became part of a group known as Team Satisfaction with Kiryu as the leader of it since all of them believed that they would never be able to leave Satellite and had to try to make the most of what they could out of their lives there. They began to fight other Duel Gangs for control of Satellite and took over various regions of Satellite. During their team dueling days while all of them faced the final dueling gang once of them tried to kill Yusei by throwing him off of the roof. However Kiryu intervened and saved his life as he was falling off of the roof and after they had eventually defeated the final Duel Gang that was left other than them in the Satellite they had control over all of the zones of Satellite. Sometime later Crow, Jack, and Yusei all came to believe that Kiryu had attempted to change who he was and had become cruel and serious about who had the right to duel. Shortly after Team Satisfaction had conquered all of the zones in Satellite Kiryu forced a remaining kid from Team Insect into a duel and assaulted him after he won the duel but was stopped by Crow who disagreed with his actions and Kiryu punched him. Jack and Yusei broke up the fight but Crow and Jack both went against Kiryu for his actions and left the team while Yusei chose to stay with Kiryu. However Sector Security began to show up in Satellite to arrest duelists sometime later and Yusei finally left after Kiryu tried to declate war on Sector Security.

Kiryu went ahead with his plans to declare war on Sector Security anyway despite the fact that his team members had desert him since he believed that they would decide to help him out in the end. He blew up part of the Security base and attempted to run away from the Sector Security. Yusei and his other former teammates came to Kiryu's rescue. However Kiryu confronted a Sector Security guard on a Duel Runner and severely injuried the guard after he drove through a bunch of crates in what was supposed to be Team Satisfaction's last duel together. Yusei stopped him in his attempts to kill the man and isolated him into a room. As the two of them engaged in a fight the Sector Security Officers arrived. Yusei attempted to take the blame for Kiryu since he lied and told them that he was the leader of Team Satisfaction instead of Kiryu but by the time Sector Security had already figured out who the real leader was and arrested Kiryu for the murder of a Sector Security Officer. Kiryu saw the chief pat Yusei on the shoulder and praise him as Yusei attempted to plead with them to let them go and called him a traitor since he mistakenly assumed that Yusei had betrayed him and had him be arrested and went to prison with hatred in his heart. Crow, Jack, and Yuesi later presumed Kiryu to be dead and Yuesi went to live in a hideout that he had made in an abandoned subway.

Yusei was able to pick up TV signals from New Domino City which allowed his friends and him to witness Turbo Duels. He had a fall out with Jack after the two of them had a difference in goals since Jack wanted to lead people and have fame and power and Yusei wanted to be able to help his friends have better lives. Yuesi built his own duel runner and planned to use it and his best card Stardust Dragon in an attempt to get all of his friends out of Satellite and help them all have better lives. Rally attempted to do his best to get Jack and Yusei to accept each other for who they were and fix their strained friendship but all of his efforts to do so failed. Lazar approached Jack and talked him into leaving all of his friends behind and stealing Yusei's Duel Runner and his best card Stardust Dragon in order to come to New Domino City. Jack kidnapped Rally, held him hostage, and left him tied up in a boat in a body of water. He alerted Yusei to what he had done and Yusei went to save Rally on the Duel Runner that he had built. Jack forced Yusei to choose between Rally's life or a duel against him in order to get what he was after. Yusei dove into the water to save Rally and Jack then stole the Duel Runer Yusei made himself and his best card Stardust Dragon and escaped from the Satellite through the trash pipeline before he became a resident of Neo Domino City and the "Duel King." Yusei vowed to get back his card and settle the score with Jack at all costs.

Jack eventually decided to visit Yusei and his former friends in the Satellite as the new King during the midst of his fame. Yusei challenged Jack to a duel and lost to him. After the duel Jack told Yusei that he could not win with just the monster, spell, or trap cards in his deck but with the soul that every duelist puts into the cards that they draw. Yusei decided to believe in who he was and himself as a duelist and the power of all of the cards in his deck from then on.

Two years later Yusei has managed to build a new Duel Runner with the help of Blitz, Nervin, Rally, and Tank. Rally gets ahold of an acceleration chip ( in the English anime Yusei has made some very dangerous enemies who are namely Jack and Rex Goodwin who want him off of the streets since the two of them are afraid that Yusei knows the truth about who Jack is and his past and his plans to get revenge on Jack so Jack hires Officer Trudge to arrest Yusei and send him to the Facility and plants the chip somewhere for Rally to find in an attempt to set Yusei and him up and in the original version Rally just stole it). He gives it to Yusei and shortly afterwards Blitz, Nervin, Rally, Tank, and are confronted by Sector Security who want to arrest Rally for stealing the chip. Yusei uses his laptop to jam the signal of Rally's mark and then gets on his Duel Runner in order to distract Sector Security long enough for the others to escape. He speeds off and runs into Officer Trudge who agrees to duel Yusei under the condition that if Yusei won Officer Trudge would forget the events of that day and that if Officer Trudge won Yusei would give himself up to Officer Trudge. After accepting the challenge and losing, Officer Trudge swears to crush Yusei, but lets both Rally and him go.

Yusei plans to use the pipeline that links New Domino City and the Satellite together in order to get into Domino City and confront Jack. He duels Uryu and defeats him after he bullies his friends and tries to take his Duel Runner from him. Yusei once again runs into Officer Trudge and is forced to duel him on his way through the pipeline. He defeats him and barely makes it through the pipeline before it closes on him and bombardes Officer Trudge with trash. Yusei manages to find Jack and they duel to determine who gets to keep Stardust Dragon but their Riding Duel is interrupted by the appearance of the Crimson Dragon right before the winner is determined. The Dragon causes Jack's already permanent Birthmark to glow and burn as well as revealing Yusei's Mark, the Dragon's tail. Yusei is arrested shortly after for trespassing into Neo Domino and gets a criminal marker on his face signifying his criminal record and was sent to a detention center. There he meets Yanagi Tenzen and Yusei immediately comes to accept him for who he is and befriends him and is highly impressed by all of the cards in Yanagi's deck. He later duels Bolt Tanner who was a former Pro Duelist after Tanner calls Yanagi's cards "trash" and wins. Yusei and Tanner quickly come to accept each other for who they are and like each other and Tanner befriends both Yanagi and Yusei and offers to help Yusei make it to the big leagues which Yusei gladly accepts. Rex Goodwin has the corrupt wardern Mr. Takasu run many tests on Yusei in order to find his mark and even comes to the detention center to try to bribe Yusei into helping him out but Yusei refuses. Yusei gets moved into a new cell with a man named Alex who offers to let Tanner, Yanagi, and him escape with him. Godwin has the corrupt warden Mr. Takasu force Yusei to duel him in order to get his mark to appear and Yusei defeats him. Mr. Takasu tries to put both Alex and Yusei into permanent lockdown but Goodwin intervenes and fires him and immediately orders that Yusei be released. Tanner gives him his "Giant Ushi Oni" card and Yanagi gives him his " Totem Pole" card and Tanner tells him to use his card to lead him to Blister who can help him get his decks and Duel Runner back. Although he was freed Yusei retained his status as a criminal due to his marker.

Yusei uses Tanner's " Giant Ushi Oni" card in order to try to find out who Blister is and where he is hiding out at and Blister helps him to escape from the two Sector Security Officers that Goodwin had tailing him and get his Duel Runner and decks back. He sneaks into Sector Security's storage in order to steal his decks and Duel Runner back and gets caught by Officer Trudge who forces him to duel him once again so that he could take him back to the facility. Blister tries his best to help him escape and Yusei manages to convince Blister that what happened to his friend Aero was not his fault and the two of them come to accept each other for who they are and become good friends. Yusei defeats Officer Trudge who attempts to stop Yusei from winning by cheating and Blister helps him to escape from Officer Trudge. Yusei manages to escape from Sector Security but ends up getting tazsered many times by them in the process and collapses. Leo and Luna find him and his Duel Runner and take him in.

Yusei is given refuge by the twins Luna and Leo. When he leaves, he is threatened to participate in the Fortune Cup by Rex Godwin's crony Lazar who forces Officer Trudge to back off of him. Blister lets Yusei stay at his place and spring both Tanner and Yanagi out of prison before he goes to the Satellite in order to check up on Yusei's friends for him. Prior tho the opening, Jack returns Stardust Dragon to Yusei, claiming that it wouldn't be a real challenge for him if Yusei didn't duel him without his Stardust Dragon. In the quarter-finals of the Fortune Cup, Yusei faced Hunter Pace disguised as Shira and won, moving to the semifinals and his opponent in the semifinals is Krieger. After beating Krieger he advances to the finals and defeats Akiza, the Black Rose(Black Rose Witch in the Japanese version). Yusei and Jack settle their quarrel in their second duel to see who will become king which was once again interrupted by the Crimson Dragon who shown images of the Satellite being destroyed by a mysterious spider mark. However both Yusei and Jack manage to finish their duel, resulting in Yusei's victory and making him the new king.

After defeating Jack, Yusei is still disturbed by the vision shown by the Crimson Dragon during his duel with Jack. He meets a man with a Spider Birthmark who calls himself a Dark Signer and challenges him to a "Dark Duel". After defeating the man, the mark disappears, along with the Dark Synchro cards in his deck, and rendering him without memory of the situation. Worried about what will happened to Satellite, Yusei decided to head back but was interrupted and demanded that he met Godwin. Godwin tells him about the Signers and Dark Signers, and tells him he would need join forces with the other 4 Signers to save the world from darkness. When Yusei enquires about the unknown 5th Signer, Godwin tells him it will eventually be destined to appear. Yusei returns to the Satellite where he meets up with his old friend Crow and reunites with his friends.

After defeating Security in a tag duel with Crow, they arrive at Crow's hideout where he tells the children about a story about the man who went over a bridge with his Duel Runner. During that night, Yusei finds something isn't right and decides to head out, Crow also accompanies him, along the way they encounter Kiryu Kyosuke, who survived a brush with death and became a Dark Signer, intends to get revenge on Yusei. Before the Duel can conclude, however, Yusei's Duel Runner breaks down, and he gets impaled by a large shard to the stomach. Crow takes him to a refuge so he can get surgery. Because Akiza is in a comatose state, her father goes in search for him to seek help because he might be the only who can help her. At first, he didn't agree but with Martha convincing him, he finally accepted it, getting teased to having a crush on Akiza in the process, with Martha saying "Go and nab your future wife". He was taken to Neo Domino City to help Akiza and was successful in helping her to be brought back to her senses. He is currently staying at Godwin's place along with the other 3 Signers. Godwin tells them the secret of the Dark Signers, telling them that they are actually dead people. Yusei blames himself for the fact that Kiryu died but Jack knocks some sense into him and punches him in the stomach and face until comes to his senses and punches back. Yusei and the others get sent to the Satellite using a helicopter piloted by Trudge himself. Before going with the Signers to the Sattelite to investigate a mysterious fog, Yusei makes Goodwin promise to finish construction of the Daedelus Bridge, a bridge connecting New Domino City to the Sattelite, once the Dark Signers are defeated. On arrival, he was reunited with Martha and the kids, telling him how Rally, Crow and the others have disappeared. In his stay there, Rudger appears and duels Yusei with Akiza coming with him. Through the duel, Yusei was able to summon his level 8 Synchro monster, Road Warrior. Rudger reveals that he was Rex Goodwin's younger brother and that he purposely set off the old momentum. Rudger summons his Earthbound Immortal, he defends himself, but the resulting attack causes Martha's soul to be sacrificed. Yusei gains the upper hand with Stardust Dragon, but Rudger subsitutes himself with Rally, who decides to sacrifice himself so Yusei can keep going.

The Signers decide to split up in order to face the Dark Signers, with Yusei heading towards Kiryu, Jack towards Carly, Akiza towards Misty, and Luna and Leo towards Demak. However, when Luna transports to the Realm of Duel Monster spirits and Leo gets trapped in a shadow duel with Demak, Yusei decides to go over there and oversee it. After the duel, he spots a new Geoglyph in the sky, and is shocked to learn that Crow is facing off against Krieger, who had become a Dark Signer. He tries telling them to stop, but Crow wishes to continue. Crow eventually defeats Krieger, and Yusei finally reaches Kiryu, who initiates 'the last duel of Team Satisfaction'. Yusei battles him, overcoming the fear from his first encounter with Ccopac Apu. When Kiryu is almost burned in the flames by the effects of his own monster's attack, Kiryu reaches for him, in the same way that Kiryu saved his life back then, and his feelings call forth the power of all the Signers, bringing forth a new monster, Saviour Star Dragon. Defeated, Kiryu forgives Yusei before turning to dust.

Yusei then gets told by Rudger to face him at Old Momentum. There, he learns about the incident that happened 17 years ago between him, Yusei's father and Rex. Yusei manages to defeat Rudger. Rudger's defeat revives Martha, Rally and his friends. However, Rudger then destroys the bridge they were standing on, causing Yusei to fall into the light of Momentum. He ends up in a strange place, surrounded by the spirits of those who had died during Zero Reverse. Before he is dragged under, he is rescued by the spirit of his father, who helps him get back to the real world. Yusei and his friends then travel to the Ccrayhua Momentum Switch to assist Akiza. He encounters a man claiming to be sent by Goodwin who tells him where to find Akiza. However, it is a trap, as the man is actually Sayer, the psychic duelist, who attacks Yusei with his powers and traps him and Mina in a cage whilst it fills with water. However, Trudge arrives to save them.

Dragon Mark

Yusei is one of the five "Signers", and thus bears a "Dragon Mark", representing part of the Crimson Dragon. His mark is located on his right arm, and is in the shape of the Dragon's tail (the English dub mistakenly refers to this as the head). It first appears during his duel with Jack, when Stardust and Red Dragon Archfiend attack one another, though it disappeared again afterwards. It now only appears when Yusei is around other dueling Signers, or when he summons Stardust Dragon. After Rex Goodwin discovers Yusei's mark, he is invited to enter the Fortune Cup, a tournament Goodwin organized to discover the identities and awaken the abilities of the five Signers. After his duel with Akiza, his dragon mark becomes permanent. It shines whenever a Signer fights against a Dark Signer or another Signer. However, it doesn't respond when a Dark Signer is dueling a non-Signer. When he duels Kiryu for a second time and tries to stop him from falling into the flames of the geoglyph, his birthmark glows strongly and the power of all the Signer birthmarks are transferred to Yusei, making the full Mark of the Crimson Dragon appear on Yusei's back. This causes "Salvation Dragon - Saviour Dragon" to appear in his deck, allowing him to summon "Savior Star Dragon".

Deck

Yusei's Deck uses many speed themed cards and revolves around the Synchro Summoning of the "Warrior" Synchro Monsters, mainly the Junk Warrior. Most of his non-Synchro Monsters are low in Level, giving him more fine control over which Synchro Monster he is able to summon at a given time. Also, each of his 5 Tuner monsters are Levels 1-4, while his 6 Synchro monsters are Levels 4-8. The majority of his monsters have special effects, usually involving reviving lower level monsters in order to Synchro Summon. In later episodes, he also has a lot of cards that support his Stardust Dragon. In his second duel against Kiryu, the power of the Signers give him an additional Tuner monster, and the level 10 Synchro Monster, Saviour Star Dragon.

In the non-canon Hoi Festa Special, he has a card called 'Assault Mode Activate', which lets him upgrade his Stardust Dragon to Stardust Dragon/Assault Mode.

Yusei uses 2 decks, one for Riding Duels and one for normal Duels. His Riding Duel Deck strongly focuses on Trap Cards to bypass the limitations Speed Spells contain.

The majority of monsters in Yusei's deck have low levels, emphasizing a major theme of Yugioh 5D's: every card, no matter how weak, has a purpose.

In his Lightning Deathmatch against Mr. Takasu, Yusei used a Deck made of cards given to him by inmates at the detention center. Many of the monsters in this Deck are outlaws or otherwise unsavory. He also temporarily used Tenzen Yanagi's Treasure Deck, which featured effect-inducing relic monsters.