How Joey Wheeler Became Unbreakable
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters showed the brilliance of Joey Wheeler, a novice who had immense growth throughout the series. This video essay style started with Seto Kaiba in Dark side of Dimensions, the video is on my channel and if you enjoyed this you might enjoy that too.
The video I mentioned early on:
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My bad guys I forgot Tea and Tristan throw Yugi the ladder that gets Joey back on the boat, I was just going off memory and forgot that part although I did mean to check it out but got distracted with other parts of the video. Sorry for the oversight and I'm aware that it looks kinda stupid because it happens literally right after what I was talking about 😅
Joey deserved to win Ra's favor, and to be recognized as a top-tier duelist. Red-Eyes Dragon of Ra when?
Joey not only survived just any god's attack but the STRONGEST God's STRONGEST attack. God Phoenix's is considered to be Ra's strongest move because it can wipe literally anything.
He didn't survive. He died and randomly came back to life.
Well he survived it at first and was standing for ɑ bit that counts for something
@@RazielTheUnborn He actually didn't die in the manga but he was unconscious for a few hours and at death's door. He definitely survived the attack.
The thing that a lot of people tend to overlook with Joey and his deck is that Joey is poor. Most of his cards are like, bottom of the barrel cards that most duelists would never consider using.
Like all the luck effects, most people scold him for "relying on luck" but it's important to note that Joey often relies on luck because he can't afford better cards that do guaranteed things.
He doesn't wield the power of fate, he can't see the future, or anything like that. But he also realizes that it takes skill to play the right card at the right time. (Literally a quote from I believe his second duel against mai in the orichalcos arc)
He develops a specific kind of skill BECAUSE of his luck cards. Like you said with his duel against espa roba, he might be able to predict his actions, but he can't predict the outcome.
Because most duelists forgo the potential for a more powerful outcome by using more reliable cards, Joey is able to subvert everyone else's expectations of how the duel should go.
Basically, Joey is the goat lol
Joey actually learns and tries to rely less on luck in Battle City and you can see this with him slowly phasing out luck based cards the further into the tournament.
Joey tanked the literal sun being dropped on him and stood long enough to make the big bad of Battle City shit bricks. Marik was so stressed after that duel that he threw up in his mouth. Joey may not be the best duelist, but he’s got heart and determination, and that imo counts more than anything.
Imagine if joey won and then dueled and beat kiba with the winged dragon of ra, kiba would be taken down a peg.
The greatest thing about Joey Wheeler is that he doesn't have destiny on his side.
Kaiba, Yugi, Ishizu, Marik, all of them have destinies attached to them. Not Joey.
Joey carves his path through the stone tablets that form the basis of this game, while most other successful duelists walk through a predetermined path.
I feel like if Joey managed to pull through and declare the attack before collapsing, he would've broken destiny with no Millennium Item like Kaiba or supernatural abilities like Atem. A simple man that sat down with god across the table, looked him at the eyes, got the slap of a lifetime and decided to slap back harder. Honestly? Could totally see that, somehow, he would be able to recite Ra's chant and successfully summon him, no matter if he won or lost that fight.
That’s very true, his character is the most human for sure, no supernatural elements, just someone who learned the game and became one of the best.
Absolutely brilliant character 👌
Unlike other cards in the game, the Egyptian god cards contain the spirits of Obelisk, Slifer, and The Winged Dragon of Ra. It doesn't have to be a shadow game when they're summoned for them to be real. If Joey had survived long enough to declare his attack I'm willing to bet Ra, having seen this, would have allowed Joey to use him in a duel despite not having any connection to ancient Egypt like the other god card users do.
A lot of promotional material and even some of the video games still subtly link the Winged Dragon of Ra to Joey Wheeler. Just like the Red-Eyes, Jinzo, Gearfried, and Flame Sword archetypes are linked to him.
@@OtakuMan05imagine if Joey did have ra then he could’ve fused him with hermos and red eyes to form the twin black sun swords for gearfried the master swordsman
I mean in falsebound kingdom he does have Ra
Quick thought, this is the second time he suffered damage from Ra, with the first being Joey vs Odion where Joey suffered Ra’s wrath. Plot aside, he absolutely would have fueled the pharaoh in the finals, and it would be hilarious for him to read Ra’s chant in his Brooklyn accent
Dueled not fueled, dang autocorrect
Joey represents the fun and joy of old school YGO - big monsters and risky plays, hoping on "that card" to keep you in the game.
I don't dislike modern YGO because of complexity or intricacy. I dislike it because it doesn't feel like a duel - it feels like accounting.
Joey exemplified that in the show - the valiant warrior.
lmao you need a law degree to be able to read cards nowadays 🤣
@@Stupidiusity A single Yu-Gi-Oh! card is pretty much novel by itself.
Joey got back on the ship because Téa and Tristan threw him a rope ladder.
Which is in the same episode like seconds after...
Ra: I smite you!
Joey: Shoot me again I ain't dead yet.
My favourite ever character. He is awesome, selfless, caring and that made him my most beloved character. His display of courage is second to none and he is the best friend we all wanted to have. I have learned a lot of things from him when I was a child.
I try to be that friend for mine, and I hope you all do too for yours. 😊
Fun Fact:Kazuki Takahashis favorite character he created was Joey
I see Joey Wheeler i click. My favorite character in all of yugioh and probably all of fiction
Same
I can't remember where I heard it, but apparently, Joey was supposed to beat Marik and then face Yugi in the finals and win, finally fulfilling his job as the pseudo audience stand-in, letting the World Champion title pass to us, the viewer, so Yugi can move on.
The rumor goes, that the producers didn't like it and made Takahashi change it.
if battle city was the final arc of the original series i can believe this but it's not unfortunately. we had R, waking the dragons, kaiba cup, capsule monsters, millenium world afterwards.
@@xsoultillerx R was Manga only and Waking was an anime filler arc. Millennium world is clearly meant to be Atem finishing his own character arc removed from being world champion
Given how much it seems everyone wanted Joey to win his duel with Marik, I'd say this sounds more like a fan written retcon of the series that somebody came up with just to have the satisfaction of seeing it come to fruition in the end. I myself, however, never believed that Joey was supposed to win against Marik and don't feel he was robbed of a victory because of this: sure, Joey managed to come extremely close to winning here, but I always felt that he ultimately had to lose, not just to establish Marik as a more credible threat and unhinged villain, but also because narratively, it wouldn't make sense. Joey winning that duel would probably not have helped to redeem Marik because his beef is specifically with the Pharoah, which in turn would probably cause Marik to go even more insane and throw a fit of rage, possibly even sending Joey to the shadow realm after losing and refusing to give up the Winged Dragon of Ra in his pettiness -- I can 100% see Marik acting that way if he were to lose. Speaking of Ra, I don't think that Joey would have been able to control it if he put the card in his deck: only those with ties to ancient Egypt can use the power of the Egyptian God cards -- this is consistently shown time and again in the series -- and Ra in particular seems to be ESPECIALLY choosy about who it deems worthy enough to weild it's power, given the need to both recite a chant to summon it, as well as having been shown to strike down those who would play a fake copy of it in the case of Odion specifically -- I also don't think Joey would have any luck trying to decipher the text on Ra, either. The long and short of it is that Joey was never supposed to win that duel, in my opinion: is it a potentially fun headcanon that could offer an interesting "what if?" scenario had he actually won? Yeah, sure. Does it make sense narratively? No, not really: it was established to be the duty of Yugi and Atem to beat Marik, get their hands on all 3 Egyptian God cards, and help him to overcome the darkness in his own heart by getting him to finally let go of his grudge he was holding onto all these years, and this is without mentioning that Yugi is the protagonist of the series, thus giving him the greatest importance of any character at the end of the day
We got the biggest reveal with this: Zom is British.
Joey Wheeler the man who looked into the fiery eyes of God and went....Neh!
Joey is easily the best duelist in the anime and manga. No magical items to increase his luck or being able to get th best cards due to an excess of wealth... just straight up using brain power even with the luck based cards as well as spot a cheater when duelling them! Not to mention he was still standing AFTER A LITERAL GOD BASICALLY SMITED HIM!!!! Yugi may be the main character and is a good duellist but joey got to where he is in the rawest way possible.
Started off as the worst duelist ever, just to show that hard work and passion pay off
@@whatthehail1161 not to mention his circumstances made it so he was starting off at the bottom of the barrel. No card shop to get the best cards, did not a lot of money nor owned a multibillion dollar corporation, and definitely was not in possession of any spirits or magical items (like I said), he is the most realistic duelist in the series and that is saying something because duel masters is more realistic since the main character doesn't have much plot armor and does lose a bit as he improves (if you follow the japanese version and not the irritating English dub)
Greatest Yugioh character ever. He defied god and put fear in pure evil
joey really deserved to win againsy marrick and become a god card weilder
Best character in ALL of Yugioh. In the manga, dude didn’t just come back from the shadow realm (which didn’t exist) he came back from ACTUAL DEATH. I loved his character in the Waking the Dragons arc. He was treated like the expert that he was at that point and he only used luck cards sparingly. But he still sacrificed himself for his friend and played a pivotal role in the plot.
I remember playing yugioh with my friends back in the early 2000s. I had a friend who had access to a lot of powerful cards and he gave, sold, and traded me quite a few of them. The deck that I put together with these was very srrong for the time, so much so that i probably had sonethibg like like a 70-90% winrate with my regular group.
I decided to shelve my original deck and build a new one full of gambling mechanics, weak cards with weird effects, or strong cards with equally terrible drawbacks. The new deck was very heavily inspired by Joey Wheeler and the way he dueled, and it was a ton of fun. My winrate definitely went down, but it was worth it since my group was having a lot more fun then.
Eventually the rest of my group were able to build their decks up to be more and more competitive and i decided to take my old deck off the shelf and combined the old and the new together into even more powerful, though I'm sure it wouldnt stand a chance against the kind of stuff that's in the game these days, lol.
I really like your analysis. What you saw in Joey resonated with me.
One detail I want to add to your thoughts, that in my opinion really shows Joey's commitment to his values and his growth as a person, is that he actually built a strategy around the randomness of certain cards in his duel vs Esper Roba. At that moment in the show, we get to see how far Joey has come from the novice duelist of the beginning. He used to like these cards because of their powerful effects, disregarding the risks that came with them, and to play them rashly without really understanding the implications. But against Esper Roba, he showed a much deeper understanding of the game by turning what would normally be his cards' downsides into a core strategy capable of winning. He not only understood his opponent had a trick he could not expose, but he also realized how to counter it and organized an entire strategy dedicated to achieving that goal. That is such great character development! This show's writing was incredible.
I absolutely agree with you 💯. That's why Joey's my favorite too. Thank you for making this.
Did you not watch the episode completely after he jumps off the cruise before making the video? lol Tea and Tristan threw a rope ladder for yugi and Joey like seconds after 😂
Oh yeah my bad 😂
From memory I knew Joey goes unconscious but then didn't remember how he got back on the boat. I meant to check but just got distracted with other stuff in the video and left that part in thinking there was just no explanation.
Thanks for reminding me 👍
It’s been 20 years and I STILL refuse to accept that Joey lost that duel to Marik!
Just reminds me of how bad of a duelist yami marik is he the major antagonist of an arc and didn’t lose 2 times because one person legit got attacked by a god and the other wasn’t bilingual so they couldn’t use ra
I honestly forget that Rex and Weevil were supposed to be hot shit after Joey made them both look like fodder
quality video. thanks
I've come to realize Joey duels a lot of cheaters like Mai, Weevil, Espa Roba, Marik, Odian and Bandit Keith
His duel against BK is probably my favorite period
Doesn't it get back on the boat?Cause friends threw him a life reserve or a ladder is something?
Would love to have a friend like Joey because I had friends that made me do reckless things, he definitely would’ve gone out of his way to help prevent it from happening.
R.I.P. Inoki san
Joey jumped intoma ocean in the middle of the night to get yugi's cards just to remind people the yugioh franchise has confermed sharks are a think and if you stop to think how cold a ocean gets at night it's crazzy Joey didn't die from Hyperthermia or wasn't attacked by a shark.😂 also the warmest ocean in the world have about 200 cases a year of people suffering from hyperthermia during the Dan and out out of the 200 of the cases about 30 die each year so it goes to show Joey is loyal willing to risk his life for his friends without a 2nd thought to his own safty bassicky Joey is bassicky disirves the MVP when it comes to best best friend of a yugioh mc. Also rember yugi beat Yamin a dead Pharoah weilding the power of gods and Joey has had yugi on the ropes when Yamin was In controol of yugis body showing how skilled Joey was just rember the Millennium puzzle ability it was know for was RNG Is manipulation and was vewed to be the strongest Mulanium item meaning most of yugis wins were due to cheating im sorry but useinb magic items to make a 2vs one in a dule and Manipulate RSG in the favor of the user and tamper with the opponents rng is messed up. All the Millennial puzzles had a mean to counter the effect in some way but the puzzle rng manipulator had zero means to counter and couldn't be blocked or cancled by other Millennium items. At the end of the day yugi/Yamin were the biggest cheaters in the entire yugioh animated franchise history and lets not forget yugi/yami breaking the rules thag were astonished in the anime like attacking the moon or useing card in a way that was not possible I'd even go as far to say yugis plot armor in reality my be the thickest out out of any anime mc
Weevil should of been disqualified the moment he toss someones cards out of their deck
It is unclear how Joey Wheeler wins any of his duels.
Orichalchos Mai defeated him off-screen without any effort.
No, not even close to what actually happened.
Off-screen? What? That's not what happened.
I think you confused Orichalcos Mai vs Joey and Orichalcos Mai vs Dartz.
Oh Yeah! DA Gamba House always wins, baby.
Joey only lost because of plot armor. Not saying Marik is bad but nothing special to be honest because he likes to torture his opponent instead of focusing on winning. I think only against Bakura he was serious because he was either afraid of Zorc or knew how big of a threat Zorc can be.
Actually, he lost because Odion had game on board and Joey got his ego kicked in for most of the duel up to that point.
Oh, sorry. Forgot that TKO is a valid wincon when it benefits Joey. My bad.
@@nicholasfarrell5981what does that have to do with what was said originally?
@@fandomking8939 because you shouldn't talk about how Joey "lost to plot armor" without acknowledging that Joey was on borrowed time since his loss to Odion was overturned by literal divine intervention, and I'm genuinely sick of hearing about how Joey's loss to Marik doesn't _really_ count from the same glazers who ignore him getting his teeth kicked in one round prior and only "winning" by TKO. It's one of 4 duels in DM that people insist was due to the writers conspiring to screw Joey over worse than the entire pre-Rush female cast, and it's gotten boring over the years.
@nicholasfarrell5981 I quite frankly agree with this -- I won't go into too much detail about why I feel this way because I already wrote another long comment explaining this -- but I will say that I don't think Joey was ever intended to win that duel because he's not the main protagonist, and also not the character that Marik has the biggest vendetta against -- that honor goes to Yugi/Atem. If Joey had won, Marik would've become even more enraged than he was already, and the arc would have continued for even longer as a result of that because he would be unable to accept defeat -- either that, or he would refuse to give Ra to Joey and sent him to the shadow realm so that he could move forward with his ambitions despite this setback. But like you, I personally have gotten quite tired of everyone acting like Joey should have won their duel the whole time and was "robbed" of his victory because he fell unconscious at the last moment
Joey vs marik is one of the best duels in all of yugioh
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In the manga he didn't, because Ra killed Joey.
No, it appears he is going to die, but he gets up within a few hours, same as he did in the anime.
He actually didn't die but he was at death's door
You are aware in the Japanese version, he is declared clinically dead, right? You’re using the sugarcoated censored 4Kids dub. Which is a horrible example. People today don’t care for that dub anymore. 4Kids are no more. Done. Gone. Need to be forgotten. The original Japanese version is the better and superior version. The teen rated Yugioh.
An overrated character.
@@NITESHADOWshouske honestly, yeah. I don't hate him, but I honestly feel that he gets quite a bit more credit than he deserves.
>TANKED Ra twice
HOLY FUARK WHAT A BEAST
Logic with dictate that Kaiba would finally give Joey his props, but he's too much of a egotistical megalomaniac to do so