"despite all the slayer has won he is always defined by who he has lost" With the two unfortunate biggest losses being his significant other and Konami being too scared to print good Vendread monsters
I’m currently climbing the ranked ladder in Master Duel with Vendread and it’s so fun. I love everything about them. It’s a P.U.N.K/Zombie World/Vendread combo. And it focuses on Rank 8/6/3 mill cards.
The vendread effect monsters work similar to the djinns, Konami can easily make a new busted vendread that could prevent special summoning but that will get banned in a heartbeat
@@sebarsht12 It wouldn't, even if it was something like a Lv3 that searched a ritual spell when summoned and could special itself from GY by foolishing a Vendread for cost on top of a Djinn effect the rest of the deck is so mid and has enough random minor downsides it wouldn't even be rogue. Nekroz literally has a Djinn as a handtrap that also searches when their turn starts and it's not only legal but nekroz isn't even rogue.
I remember like Goblin of greed dropped/ broke it in an early card. Then he glues it back together and tries to sell it as legit where it breaks and breaks and breaks 😂. Altho there could be more general pot exploding cards, im interested to see fr.
17:13 Just a minor correction, Priest Seto's father, Pharaoh Atem's *uncle*, was the one who performed the sacrifice. Atem's father didn’t find out for years and the revelation of the atrocity disturbed him so much that he became ill and died.
Outstanding Dog Marron waiting for its owners for an insanely long time might be a sort of reference to the story of Hachiko, a dog who would run off to sit and wait for its owner outside Shibuya Station day after day. One day, the owner died from a heart attack while at work, but Hachiko had no way of knowing its owner would never come home from work, so it just went to sit there, with random people passing by giving it food and water, so it would survive. Eventually, Hachiko passed away, while waiting for its owner to come home, and a statue was erected outside Shibuya Station, in the spot where Hachiko would sit day after day.
The worst part about Lee is that she was originally a human scientist from thousands of years in the past who became *obsessed* with the power of the World Legacies. She basically doomed humanity because of her greed and did not care, but she is put down in the end.
@@Luna-Starfrost It's actually in the Chosen By The World Legacy Solo Mode in Master Duel! They're telling the truth. Lee was a scientist who wanted the powers of the legacies for herself and doomed the world and came back as an evil little fairy to re-doom it.
I love the revendread zombie story it's really unique, Zera's cycle of darkness is just messed up, but what broke me was to see Outstanding dog Marron on this list, had completely forgotten that story 😢
No lore is sadder than when your favourite fun rogue deck is getting nerfed to oblivion because the supporting cards got into Forbidden & Limited list.
Icejade kosmochlor dying is so sad. In icejade curse you can literally see Kosmochlor's body disintegrating away while young Aegirine just stands there reaching out. 😔
Longyuan deserved everything he got. Albaz slaying him after transforming into Mirrorjade (as depicted in the artwork of Branded Blade) is very satisfying.
@@enlongjones2394 Well, technically Aluber fused his remains with the Great Sandsea Serpent before Aegirine got a hold of him but yeah, karma: he broke into the Cenote Enion Cradle and is now forever encased therein.
@CrnaStrela And what: watch him/her turn into a deranged psychopath and try to destroy the world with a malformed/disgraced version of your body? I'd rather stick with being friends with a rapist looney than let that happen.
I have a soft spot for Destruction Sword since it was my second Duel Links deck, and the first deck I made with full understanding of how Yugioh deck-building worked. My first deck-Simorgh-was the natural evolution of trying to make a deck based around wind monsters (I had no idea Yugioh decks revolved around archetypes when I started Duel Links).
Something that wasn’t mentioned in the Vendread section: Vendread Anima is actually the lover/girlfriend of ReVendread Slayer, since you can see the necklace that appears in “Revendread Origin” on her.
@@Deathmare235 Still, to kill multiple copies of your loved one, your reason for fighting even if fake is haunting to imagine what the Slayer was going through.
Shout out to Avalon, something about the one word title and the striking imagery of a hero having fallen at end of a long and arduous journey is deeply compelling to me.
The numbers Ichi and Hachi which are 1 and 8 respectively in Japanese, is a form of goroawase, which is basically a pun involving numbers, since 1-8 can be read as i-hachi. This is very likely why Inpachi has those numbers on his chest. Furthermore the Katakana for the word imp is インプ which is pronounced "Inpu", which makes sense since Inpachi is possessed by an Imp. So his name is a play on the word imp, and the numbers ichi and hachi.
@@enlongjones2394 His name is Inpachi. 1 8 can be read as i-hachi, which sounds a lot like Inpachi. Apparently the pronunciation of the word "Imp" is "Inpu" in Japanese as well, which makes sense since Inpachi is possessed by an evil spirit, presumably an imp. I'll add that to the original comment.
regarding buster whelp, i really love the art of destruction sword memories. how the sword just stood there drenched in rain and reflected the happy memories of buster blader and buster whelp is just heart wrenching
@@MansMan42069 To be honest, how I see her, I think she and her quest is the origin of the dragon hunting technique, with her being a possible ancestor/mentor to buster blader. Even her armor as the Hexer looks similar to the Buster Blader armor but less refined/more primal.
Ib was not the only one who died in World Legacy lore, at least Ib later resurrected and lived after the war; but Auram as Avramax on the other hand got MIA'd after defeating the last of the Knightmares leaving his status unknown at this point leaving Ib (and probably Ningirsu and Imduk) alone and believing to the expectation of coming back to her/them. Its so sad that the top 10 didn't recognize Auram's sacrifice.
@@Luna-Starfrost so Ib just went full Fate/Stay Night: Heaven’s Feel -Normal Ending Sakura Matou in that case. She is now waiting for no reason until the end.
Ib and slayers lore was the most heartbreaking thing i have ever experienced in the card lore i saw it first in the MD solo mode and it hit me so hard, it was soo good
With how much lore there is around the world legacies and how much it has been delved into, my thought was they could make that whole story into an anime or something
Damn i was expecting to get Fleur delis onto this list, surprised to say the least. Another choice i wouldve made is Gem-Knight Crystal. From his corruption, arising as a Satelarrknight to a Shaddol core, to becoming Zefraath, in the end passing away wuth the soul of Lapis, fibally reuniting qith the rest of the Gem Knights. Even so, i like the list, so well done!
Another card in the Inpachi story is "two-man cell battle", which is what depicts Inpachi's initial interference between marauding captain and gagagigo. "My body as a shield" also takes place during this battle.
I swear, between the Duel Terminal and World Chalice stories alone, along with many others that could be stand alone episodes, Konami is just leaving money the table by not turning these lores into anime 😅😅
The OCG Stories manga is a thing, and gave Sky Striker lore two deaths that could have been in this list imo. So far only Striker got a story but a new one for a different universe should come soon.
War Rocks should get a notable mentioning. Their implied lore is still early. War Rock Ordeal shows a final stand against a Fire Beast that looks like the War Rock Mountain itself. Fortia finding Dignity in his new found power in War Rock Dignity and Medium. Then challenging Bashielos in War Rock Generations. Not as Fortia but as Meteoragon.
This is such a fun watch. Thank you for making it, I had a blast learning all these cards stories. Guardian Eatos is my favorite card of all time and it was great seeing her story told.
I'd argue auram's death is actually the saddest because he doesn't come back and so the people who he leaves behind actually have to come to terms and find closure in a world forever without him
@@LittleAl016 in MD solo gate, he did, he sacrificed his existence to save the world. Which makes it even sadder because that would've means nobody remember him, not even Ib. Yet she was entrusted with the world key as his legacy.
I dont know if anyone noticed it, but at the end of th Outstanding Dog Marron section, when duel logs says “family” a good old meme happens to flash at the card.
Sky Striker Ace - Camilla and Sky Striker Ace - Azalea are also rather tragic. Despite their evil and malicious nature, mostly Azalea's, the two were born and bred to be weapons. Ultimately put down by fellow Aces Raye and Roze, who do genuinely feel that their deaths are tragedies simply because they were all born in wartime and had no choice. War is hell, and those two certainly show how hell it can be when Raye ultimately has to put them down to save the people she cares about.
Never loved, always seen as knockoffs of real humans, never really given the chance to understand anything beyond power. I was really hoping they wouldn't get packed up.
I'd argue that if you want to include a death from the DT world, Natalia is a better candidate than Trishula. While yes, Trishula is a horrendous thing to be corrupted for the Terminal World at large, on a story scale Natalia's is bigger. It's the main trigger to the Ice Barriers to finally release Trishula, it's the cataclysm that releases the Lswarm virus into the world and it's what corrupts Noellia, triggering most of the events of Age 2.
@@MarkofWisdom Most of the story are inferred from the card art themselves and speculation. Most confirmed details are given through either VJump pages or the Master Guide books.
That is noelia, in the lore natalia technically die first by the hand of steelswarm hercules but is the infection of the steelswarm who cause a mess inside of the mind of noelia with more catastrophics results like noelia killing amelia for ritual which cause the body and soul of amelia split in two, the body become ghustkraken and her soul in mirrowgeist and the deaths of all lavals, in the end of noelia is even more tragic if you take a count her sacrifices for stop zielgigas after she os free from the evilness of the virus
It’s wild how you can derive stories from card artwork. Your narration and storytelling skills are also impressive. I feel like I’m in a lecture learning Yugioh whether it’s lore or techniques.
8:32 I am pretty sure it is worse the whole "his family survived, but forgot about him / moved on from him". 13:43 Marron has an alternate route. one where it becomes a demon dog 18:23 YES! it made it into the list 19:35 Probably, what could made this tragic, is the implication that, Buster Dragon's effect still try to benefit Buster Blader (by spreading a dragon virus unto others and turn them into dragons). Which could mean that Whelp went insane, and yet, in its twister mind, still tries to follows its master's commands (which would mean Blader still raised it into a monster) 22:59 Funny enough, Ib's resurrection leads to the, arguably more tragic, deaths of Orcust Galatea (who gave everything, for the sake of Ningirsu), and well, Ningirsu himself . Funny enough, both would be resurrected as guardians of the new world Avram and Ib helped create
22:10 gotta disagree with you on that bit of lore. The cards’ artworks actually imply that the “key” in World Legacy Key is the cause of the corruption, not Lee. Here’s the evidence: 1. The schematics for the same “key” can be seen in World Legacy Memory, along with Lee in her human form and Mekk-Knight of the Morning Star, the original Mekk-Knight that destroyed the world. Indeed, Morning Star’s artwork even shows it destroying a city. This implies that the “key” was the source of corruption. 2. The Mekk-Knights are the creators of the Krawlers, which are hostile to all life. 3. In World Legacy Key, Ib is clearly terrified of the “key”, not the Mekk-Knights. 4. In the artwork for World Legacy Succession, Mekk-Knight Blue Sky is clearly giving Aurem his jewel out of his own free will to stop Iblee, a strange thing to do for a being who is supposed to be inherently evil. 5. Ningirsu creates Galatea, the Orcust Automaton using the body of Ib (seen in Orcustrated Return), which still carried the corruption by the “key”. This is likely why Galatea later devolves once again into Orcust Knightmare and later Knightmare Incarnation Idlee 6. Avramax later meets the real Lee in World Legacy Bestowal, and you can clearly see Lee is sorrowful or in anguish. This would likely not be the case if Lee was evil from the start. 7. Lee and Avramax fuse into Avida, Rebuilder of Worlds. Again, unlikely if Lee was evil. 8. The World Legacy - World Key is the original “key” remade, yet free of corruption. Lib, the World Key Blademaster (a reborn/reincarnated Ib - see Guardragon Reincarnation) is officially the last survivor of the World Legacy saga and uses the World Key as her weapon, with apparently no ill effects.
Eeeeh, they expanded upon Trishula's defeat quite a lot. First he evolved into the Zero Dragon form, which is level 11, a level exclusive for the gods of the duel terminal lore Sophia and Tierra. Then it took the Dragunity's strongest knights to fight the other 2 dragons, and Ascalon the combination of all Dragunity dragons to beat Trishula itself. It was quite the badass death and not sad at all.
The Japanese name for the card 'one or eight' is 'ichi ka bachi ka' (一か八か). While this does literally mean 'one or eight', most people will interpret this as 'All or nothing'. If you look at the effect this makes sense.
Seeing a lot of zombie monsters I use on this list. The Mayakashi and Golden Land monsters might also be worth a look in the future. The Mayakashi were woodland spirits who became enraged when humans chopped down their forest to build their village, the Mayakashi would take their revenge during the night by attacking the villagers. In response, the Shiranui monsters would step forward to defeat countless Mayakashi during the night with their special techniques, in the end leaving only Yoko and Yuki-Onna as the last standing Mayakashi. The Golden Land monsters were formerly alchemists in the search for the greatest artifact of all alchemy, the philosopher's stone. The had managed to develop a ritual that in theory could create the philosopher's stone, but as seen during the Eldlixer cards, the ritual was flawed. The newly formed philosopher's stone had its power run rampant through the Eldlands, everything the light touched began turning into gold while the people would lose their minds and souls, becoming zombified golden husks, later to be enslaved by Eldlich the Golden Lord into his immortal army once he marched into the Cursed Eldlands and claimed their philosopher stone for himself.
Not sure if this counts as tragic but the story of Eldlich the golden Lord is pretty dark as the more Eldlich uses the power of the philosopher's stone he eventually becomes Eldlich the mad golden Lord. Or Alaister the envoker as the more he envokes the more pieces of his soul are lost and is eventually driven mad and becomes more fiendish.
a series where the main characters have to interact with the monsters themselves (No card limitations) would be awsome. could you imagine the stories that could be told givin the lore of the duel monsters world?
You forgot the very saddest ones imo... go check icejade Curse and Ran Aegirine's art to see how she had to watch her entire family literally crumbling into pieces in front of her.
duel terminal lore is awesome, all the water elements of that lore got tragic stories, ice barriers got wiped out and got forced to unleashed their 3 dragons but the dragons got out of control and try to freeze the world so they got banished, the surviving ice barrier noella collecting the children of the other tribe making a gishki tribe ending up corrupted by evilswarm and ends up sacrificing her adopted daughters only to be stopped by the adopted son and the son managed to safe one of the daughter and those two married (technically not incest) and have a baby and become nekroz tribe, legit duel terminal loves water type because trishula, gishki and nekroz are the strongest that came out of duel terminal with the exception of maybe mist valley apex avian, shaddoll, gem knight and qliphort, because those exception is strong but none of them are as broken as trishula (and brionac), evigishki mind augus and all the nekroz summoning
A little cabiat here, she was not stopped by avance, instead for that time for disgrace of avance he was levianima due he try to resurrect emilia from the ritual which turn her in ghustkraken but his efforts backfires and result in avance transform in leavianima, was the brother of constellar pollux which free noelia from the virus but resulting the creation of evilswarm castor, but with noelia free she return to normal avance and resurrect amelia only for her finally dying in a effort for stop once and for all with zialgigas
2:40 This gives me an idea for a “Inpachi” monster that self-revives: “Phoenix Inpachi - Dark World Experiment” (FIRE) Level 4 Machine/Tuner/Effect _This card that is Face-up on the field, in the GY or Banished is also EARTH-Attribute. (Quick Effect) While this card you own is in your GY or Banished: You can discard 1 card; Special Summon it. Can be treated as 2 tributes for the Tribute summon of a “Dark World” monster. If this card is destroyed or banished by battle or an opponent’s card or effect: inflict 500 Damage to your opponent._ ATK/1850 DEF/200 _My head canon here is that Kozaky managed to apply some resurective priorities to Inpachi, while turning it into a proper “Dark World” monster in service to himself and his superiors.
@@Deathmare235 I mean that’s just it… It’s a “Dark World” _Experiment_ of Kozaky’s… That the card doesn’t 100% mesh with normal Dark World decks reflects on how it’s a work in progress that can at least get SOME work done until it’s perfected.
@@Deathmare235 Besides, it’s a “Rekindling” target that can discard other “Dark World” cards to special summon itself after it’s been banished after the end phase by said rekindling… That _CAN’T_ be a bad card per say.
Might be because I cry easier when I'm sick but buster whelp absolutely got me and I couldn't stop the tears for the rest of the video This was a very good video I'm going to go cry in a corner now
I Think Noelia should get a honorable mention here. She lost her tribe, lost her best friend was brainwashed by the Lswarm going from a kind person to an evil witch, soul ripped her own daughter, made the orphans she picked up be rest subjects, was manipulated by Steelswarms as a meat puppet, revived Zielgigas and lastly perished saving her children. She never even got to see Avance and Emilia create the Necroz and redeem the Ice barriers/Gishki or hew grandson Shurit. All because of the Lswarm corruption.
Yeah, noelia is if not the most disgraceful character in DT the good part is her soul resting in peace in the after life due her silhouette appearing the illustration of zefra providence
you should have put ojama blue on this list, not because his death in battle is sad, far from it actually, but he brings out 2 more ojama cards which is infinitely worse
I recall at one point that Avram's fate was left uncertain following the depiction of a certain card, so I assumed that Avram may have died at the time? Although whether its true that Avram died has yet to be determined, at least for me.
"despite all the slayer has won he is always defined by who he has lost"
With the two unfortunate biggest losses being his significant other and Konami being too scared to print good Vendread monsters
I’m currently climbing the ranked ladder in Master Duel with Vendread and it’s so fun. I love everything about them. It’s a P.U.N.K/Zombie World/Vendread combo. And it focuses on Rank 8/6/3 mill cards.
@@Ashe_Foresterso it’s a P.U.N.K deck with Vendread, got it. 🤡
The story pretty much ended there according to the solo mode in Master Duel so-
The vendread effect monsters work similar to the djinns, Konami can easily make a new busted vendread that could prevent special summoning but that will get banned in a heartbeat
@@sebarsht12 It wouldn't, even if it was something like a Lv3 that searched a ritual spell when summoned and could special itself from GY by foolishing a Vendread for cost on top of a Djinn effect the rest of the deck is so mid and has enough random minor downsides it wouldn't even be rogue.
Nekroz literally has a Djinn as a handtrap that also searches when their turn starts and it's not only legal but nekroz isn't even rogue.
Ok but what about all those times that the poor Pot of Greed exploded and broke?
I remember like Goblin of greed dropped/ broke it in an early card.
Then he glues it back together and tries to sell it as legit where it breaks and breaks and breaks 😂. Altho there could be more general pot exploding cards, im interested to see fr.
Bro nobody even knows what Pot of Greed does
@@UfodexENMDdoesn’t it let you add 2 pot of greeds from your deck and put them in your hand
Only if you summon pot of greed can you draw two cards which can also let.ypu summon another pot of greed. "That is what it do yug".
@ailbemcdonnell6430 I think that's Pot of Generosity
17:13 Just a minor correction, Priest Seto's father, Pharaoh Atem's *uncle*, was the one who performed the sacrifice. Atem's father didn’t find out for years and the revelation of the atrocity disturbed him so much that he became ill and died.
Also, Diabound is a Dark monster, not Light
@@haphaxion He started as a light monster and become dark after killing several monsters in the manga.
Outstanding Dog Marron waiting for its owners for an insanely long time might be a sort of reference to the story of Hachiko, a dog who would run off to sit and wait for its owner outside Shibuya Station day after day. One day, the owner died from a heart attack while at work, but Hachiko had no way of knowing its owner would never come home from work, so it just went to sit there, with random people passing by giving it food and water, so it would survive. Eventually, Hachiko passed away, while waiting for its owner to come home, and a statue was erected outside Shibuya Station, in the spot where Hachiko would sit day after day.
Ow, my heart
I just stopped crying, why did you have to share this -fun- fact
Yeah agreed, it resembles the story greatly.
The worst part about Lee is that she was originally a human scientist from thousands of years in the past who became *obsessed* with the power of the World Legacies. She basically doomed humanity because of her greed and did not care, but she is put down in the end.
Women am I right?
I'm kidding.
Where do you have that from? Lol. Don't spread your theories as if it's canon
@@Luna-Starfrost do some reaserch tho and its true
Why I have a bad feeling Lee just got paralleled her story w/ Ymir from Attack on Titans 😅
@@Luna-Starfrost It's actually in the Chosen By The World Legacy Solo Mode in Master Duel! They're telling the truth. Lee was a scientist who wanted the powers of the legacies for herself and doomed the world and came back as an evil little fairy to re-doom it.
I love the revendread zombie story it's really unique, Zera's cycle of darkness is just messed up, but what broke me was to see Outstanding dog Marron on this list, had completely forgotten that story 😢
Would be cool if skill servant turns out to be his original owner
@@Deathmare235Marron reuniting with his owner and his owner is a King, win win
I wonder how Mad Dog of Darkness falls into Marron's plot because Mad Dog also wears Marron's dog tag
@@Crescendobro something about Marron getting captured/lost to Dark World and getting corrupted
@@Crescendobro I think he’s an evil marron
No lore is sadder than when your favourite fun rogue deck is getting nerfed to oblivion because the supporting cards got into Forbidden & Limited list.
Every time a card is banned, Frightfur gets worse
Sacred Beasts really miss Anaconda.
Malicious at 2 vs 3 be like
4:04 I love how Chopman has "I
Icejade kosmochlor dying is so sad. In icejade curse you can literally see Kosmochlor's body disintegrating away while young Aegirine just stands there reaching out. 😔
Longyuan deserved everything he got. Albaz slaying him after transforming into Mirrorjade (as depicted in the artwork of Branded Blade) is very satisfying.
Aegerine needs a hug. She's been through so much. To see she got her revenge was satisfying.
@@xCorvus7x followed by Aegerine taking his body and power, freezing him in the ice of the Icejade cradle, to use as her weapon.
@@enlongjones2394 Well, technically Aluber fused his remains with the Great Sandsea Serpent before Aegirine got a hold of him but yeah, karma: he broke into the Cenote Enion Cradle and is now forever encased therein.
Surprised to see icejades aren't here, all of them save for Aegrine died afaik and it's really depressing
Ib's death is the saddest. It absolutely wrecked Ningirsu.
“My sister gave her life for this world. So, for her, I will *build* a new world.”
Find yourself a man who looked at you like how Ningirsu looked at his sister.
I wish the make an anime about mekknights and that lore. Would be a better anime than the card dueling anime
@CrnaStrela And what: watch him/her turn into a deranged psychopath and try to destroy the world with a malformed/disgraced version of your body? I'd rather stick with being friends with a rapist looney than let that happen.
@@enlongjones2394he also almost doomed the whole world as well.
Props to the person who suggested this I love yugioh card lore and when archetypes have stories either in the artwork or name.
13:48 I appreciate the 1 frame joke. Much harder to isolate on mobile, but for anyone on PC you can go from by frame and catch it
Forgot to include that the Nekroz tribe ended up carving up Trishula, Broniac, and Gungnir for armor as their final end.
Does that mean Dragunity Knight Areadbhair died and was carved too or was the guy just cosplaying?
Nekroz, who were previously some of the Ice Barrier fellas.
@@pissy4476 Well, where are the Dragunity Knights by the time the Nekroz are around?
Ey that's just nature. I don't get teary over native americans wearing furs or something.
@@xCorvus7x No idea, that's why I'm asking. I'm only familiar with duel terminal up until the fabled are defeated.
Love to see Buster Blader's story so high. Would love to see more support for him in the future.
Destruction Sword is one of my longtime favourite archetypes, mostly for the story, but also partly cause one of my friends is a Blue-Eyes enthusiast
I have a soft spot for Destruction Sword since it was my second Duel Links deck, and the first deck I made with full understanding of how Yugioh deck-building worked. My first deck-Simorgh-was the natural evolution of trying to make a deck based around wind monsters (I had no idea Yugioh decks revolved around archetypes when I started Duel Links).
Something that wasn’t mentioned in the Vendread section: Vendread Anima is actually the lover/girlfriend of ReVendread Slayer, since you can see the necklace that appears in “Revendread Origin” on her.
Well it’s a shapeshifter, not his actual lover
@@Deathmare235 Still, to kill multiple copies of your loved one, your reason for fighting even if fake is haunting to imagine what the Slayer was going through.
You almost got past me with that vin diesel insert but I never miss anything Family.
Ha saw it too
Shout out to Avalon, something about the one word title and the striking imagery of a hero having fallen at end of a long and arduous journey is deeply compelling to me.
If it helps, Avalon in the stories of King Arthur is said to be a place of healing, where Arthur will rest until he is needed again.
Love these videos, there is so much more lore in these cards over the years I never noticed. Keep up the great work man.!
I think it's Marauding Captain that chopped up Inpachi in double attack, not Freed
THIS
Yeah, just look at the color of his cape in Double Attack. It's purple, not green like Freed.
The numbers Ichi and Hachi which are 1 and 8 respectively in Japanese, is a form of goroawase, which is basically a pun involving numbers, since 1-8 can be read as i-hachi. This is very likely why Inpachi has those numbers on his chest. Furthermore the Katakana for the word imp is インプ which is pronounced "Inpu", which makes sense since Inpachi is possessed by an Imp. So his name is a play on the word imp, and the numbers ichi and hachi.
What’s the pun’s meaning?
@@enlongjones2394 His name is Inpachi. 1 8 can be read as i-hachi, which sounds a lot like Inpachi. Apparently the pronunciation of the word "Imp" is "Inpu" in Japanese as well, which makes sense since Inpachi is possessed by an evil spirit, presumably an imp. I'll add that to the original comment.
regarding buster whelp, i really love the art of destruction sword memories. how the sword just stood there drenched in rain and reflected the happy memories of buster blader and buster whelp is just heart wrenching
Then there's Dragon Core Hexer who probably is thinking death doesn't sound so bad.
Core Hexer and Horn Hunter are my favorite cards, just for the simple bit of lore on them.
Archetype when
@@akiradkcn I wish konami retrains her as part of Buster Blader's lore. She could use a mentor who understands her.
@@MansMan42069 To be honest, how I see her, I think she and her quest is the origin of the dragon hunting technique, with her being a possible ancestor/mentor to buster blader. Even her armor as the Hexer looks similar to the Buster Blader armor but less refined/more primal.
@@renathystdream I could see that too
Ib was not the only one who died in World Legacy lore, at least Ib later resurrected and lived after the war; but Auram as Avramax on the other hand got MIA'd after defeating the last of the Knightmares leaving his status unknown at this point leaving Ib (and probably Ningirsu and Imduk) alone and believing to the expectation of coming back to her/them. Its so sad that the top 10 didn't recognize Auram's sacrifice.
Avram is dead. Masterduels Duel Gate confirmed this. Sadly.
@@Luna-Starfrost so Ib just went full Fate/Stay Night: Heaven’s Feel -Normal Ending Sakura Matou in that case. She is now waiting for no reason until the end.
Ib and slayers lore was the most heartbreaking thing i have ever experienced in the card lore i saw it first in the MD solo mode and it hit me so hard, it was soo good
With how much lore there is around the world legacies and how much it has been delved into, my thought was they could make that whole story into an anime or something
Damn i was expecting to get Fleur delis onto this list, surprised to say the least. Another choice i wouldve made is Gem-Knight Crystal. From his corruption, arising as a Satelarrknight to a Shaddol core, to becoming Zefraath, in the end passing away wuth the soul of Lapis, fibally reuniting qith the rest of the Gem Knights.
Even so, i like the list, so well done!
Dogmatika Fleur De Lis, and Icejade Kosmochlor, are strong candidates for a part 2.
Man, i love the inpachi cards for whatever reason and his end is just so unfortunate.
Another card in the Inpachi story is "two-man cell battle", which is what depicts Inpachi's initial interference between marauding captain and gagagigo. "My body as a shield" also takes place during this battle.
MY GOD! what a video, Due Logs. I enjoyed it like crazy, HOpefully there will be much more Lore in your channel, thanks a lot!
I swear, between the Duel Terminal and World Chalice stories alone, along with many others that could be stand alone episodes, Konami is just leaving money the table by not turning these lores into anime 😅😅
Some of those are way cooler than teenage fighting evil with a cardgame formula of the anime series
The OCG Stories manga is a thing, and gave Sky Striker lore two deaths that could have been in this list imo.
So far only Striker got a story but a new one for a different universe should come soon.
War Rocks should get a notable mentioning. Their implied lore is still early. War Rock Ordeal shows a final stand against a Fire Beast that looks like the War Rock Mountain itself. Fortia finding Dignity in his new found power in War Rock Dignity and Medium. Then challenging Bashielos in War Rock Generations. Not as Fortia but as Meteoragon.
This is such a fun watch. Thank you for making it, I had a blast learning all these cards stories. Guardian Eatos is my favorite card of all time and it was great seeing her story told.
I'd argue auram's death is actually the saddest because he doesn't come back and so the people who he leaves behind actually have to come to terms and find closure in a world forever without him
Did he actually die, though?
@@LittleAl016 Kinda confusing since the last time we saw him is as Avidya.
@@LittleAl016 in MD solo gate, he did, he sacrificed his existence to save the world. Which makes it even sadder because that would've means nobody remember him, not even Ib. Yet she was entrusted with the world key as his legacy.
@@LittleAl016 Yeah, as Strela already said, Master Duel unfortunately confirms his death.
You could say he ascended to become a force in the world, but he can never be himself again.
Watching a video about Yugioh lore makes me wish that they made an anime dedicated just to it. There’s so much to dive into
Buster blader and his pet dragon 😢
Also, I saw the subliminal vin diesel "family" pic at 13:48
I dont know if anyone noticed it, but at the end of th Outstanding Dog Marron section, when duel logs says “family” a good old meme happens to flash at the card.
I knew the World Legacy lore (poor Ib) would be involved in this list
Sky Striker Ace - Camilla and Sky Striker Ace - Azalea are also rather tragic. Despite their evil and malicious nature, mostly Azalea's, the two were born and bred to be weapons. Ultimately put down by fellow Aces Raye and Roze, who do genuinely feel that their deaths are tragedies simply because they were all born in wartime and had no choice. War is hell, and those two certainly show how hell it can be when Raye ultimately has to put them down to save the people she cares about.
Never loved, always seen as knockoffs of real humans, never really given the chance to understand anything beyond power. I was really hoping they wouldn't get packed up.
where can i read the lore? I didn't find anything about the lore of those cards
@@el_mr6439Yugioh OCG Stories Manga, the Sky Striker story ended "recently"
@@el_mr6439 The Strikers have a manga. Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories.
I thought Chopman the Desperate Outlaw was the one that caused Blazing Inpachi to be created. Hence the name of the Trap card, Backfire
You know what's sad, the fact that Konami ruined yugioh!
Keep telling yourself that
@@soukenmarufwt5224 what's that suppose to mean?
@@tarikkash4282What's your weird comment supposed to mean?
@@Kyoko_ I was responding to ethanle2901
This was one of the most fun lists you've done in a while!! I really enjoy these lore-related ones
I like how Zera's most viable form in the TCG was him as a herald of the sanctuary. The card game followed the rule of not seeking too much power.
The buster whelp and blader storyline was the first thing I thought of
I'd argue that if you want to include a death from the DT world, Natalia is a better candidate than Trishula. While yes, Trishula is a horrendous thing to be corrupted for the Terminal World at large, on a story scale Natalia's is bigger. It's the main trigger to the Ice Barriers to finally release Trishula, it's the cataclysm that releases the Lswarm virus into the world and it's what corrupts Noellia, triggering most of the events of Age 2.
where do all these stories and lore come from?
@@MarkofWisdom Most of the story are inferred from the card art themselves and speculation. Most confirmed details are given through either VJump pages or the Master Guide books.
That is noelia, in the lore natalia technically die first by the hand of steelswarm hercules but is the infection of the steelswarm who cause a mess inside of the mind of noelia with more catastrophics results like noelia killing amelia for ritual which cause the body and soul of amelia split in two, the body become ghustkraken and her soul in mirrowgeist and the deaths of all lavals, in the end of noelia is even more tragic if you take a count her sacrifices for stop zielgigas after she os free from the evilness of the virus
13:47 don't think we didn't see that "family" flash over Marron...
Editor sneaking in a picture of family like I wouldn't notice at 13:47
I think you may have missed some Marron lore, namely Mad Dog of Darkness and Mecha-dog Marron.
13:48 marron art turns to vin desile meme "family"
Around the 13:45 minute mark Marron glitches image right before the word family is said. Any cool Easter egg? I can't catch on my phone
Family.
It’s wild how you can derive stories from card artwork. Your narration and storytelling skills are also impressive. I feel like I’m in a lecture learning Yugioh whether it’s lore or techniques.
Top 10 saddest children's card game related videos 🥺💔
I love yugioh card's lore, great video!! Also ib's legs 👌🙏😆
8:32 I am pretty sure it is worse the whole "his family survived, but forgot about him / moved on from him".
13:43 Marron has an alternate route. one where it becomes a demon dog
18:23 YES! it made it into the list
19:35 Probably, what could made this tragic, is the implication that, Buster Dragon's effect still try to benefit Buster Blader (by spreading a dragon virus unto others and turn them into dragons).
Which could mean that Whelp went insane, and yet, in its twister mind, still tries to follows its master's commands (which would mean Blader still raised it into a monster)
22:59 Funny enough, Ib's resurrection leads to the, arguably more tragic, deaths of Orcust Galatea (who gave everything, for the sake of Ningirsu), and well, Ningirsu himself . Funny enough, both would be resurrected as guardians of the new world Avram and Ib helped create
It’s happy to see that Galatea got to live on, as the fairy accompanying Girsu.
Galatea is essentially just an infant when she died lmao
There’s also Mecha-Dog Marron too. But it’s hard to say if that’s a path for the actual dog or just something like a robot made in in his likeness
Worthless world
I didn't expect a 23 minute lore dump but hot damn did I enjoy it.
22:10 gotta disagree with you on that bit of lore. The cards’ artworks actually imply that the “key” in World Legacy Key is the cause of the corruption, not Lee. Here’s the evidence:
1. The schematics for the same “key” can be seen in World Legacy Memory, along with Lee in her human form and Mekk-Knight of the Morning Star, the original Mekk-Knight that destroyed the world. Indeed, Morning Star’s artwork even shows it destroying a city. This implies that the “key” was the source of corruption.
2. The Mekk-Knights are the creators of the Krawlers, which are hostile to all life.
3. In World Legacy Key, Ib is clearly terrified of the “key”, not the Mekk-Knights.
4. In the artwork for World Legacy Succession, Mekk-Knight Blue Sky is clearly giving Aurem his jewel out of his own free will to stop Iblee, a strange thing to do for a being who is supposed to be inherently evil.
5. Ningirsu creates Galatea, the Orcust Automaton using the body of Ib (seen in Orcustrated Return), which still carried the corruption by the “key”. This is likely why Galatea later devolves once again into Orcust Knightmare and later Knightmare Incarnation Idlee
6. Avramax later meets the real Lee in World Legacy Bestowal, and you can clearly see Lee is sorrowful or in anguish. This would likely not be the case if Lee was evil from the start.
7. Lee and Avramax fuse into Avida, Rebuilder of Worlds. Again, unlikely if Lee was evil.
8. The World Legacy - World Key is the original “key” remade, yet free of corruption. Lib, the World Key Blademaster (a reborn/reincarnated Ib - see Guardragon Reincarnation) is officially the last survivor of the World Legacy saga and uses the World Key as her weapon, with apparently no ill effects.
I love these kinds of videos, looking at card art and flavor text. Just so cool.
Eeeeh, they expanded upon Trishula's defeat quite a lot. First he evolved into the Zero Dragon form, which is level 11, a level exclusive for the gods of the duel terminal lore Sophia and Tierra. Then it took the Dragunity's strongest knights to fight the other 2 dragons, and Ascalon the combination of all Dragunity dragons to beat Trishula itself. It was quite the badass death and not sad at all.
The Japanese name for the card 'one or eight' is 'ichi ka bachi ka' (一か八か). While this does literally mean 'one or eight', most people will interpret this as 'All or nothing'. If you look at the effect this makes sense.
For me, one of the most tragic deaths in YGO lore, especially recently, is Dogmatika Fleurdelis/The Iris Swordsoul.
And life cycle of the Icejades.
She comes back though. Her body gets used in a ritual but due the power of anime love she breaks the mind control and has a powered up body.
Nope
Please do more videos about cards with lore behind them. I love when they tell stories through the cards and there are so many I don't know about.
Seeing a lot of zombie monsters I use on this list. The Mayakashi and Golden Land monsters might also be worth a look in the future.
The Mayakashi were woodland spirits who became enraged when humans chopped down their forest to build their village, the Mayakashi would take their revenge during the night by attacking the villagers. In response, the Shiranui monsters would step forward to defeat countless Mayakashi during the night with their special techniques, in the end leaving only Yoko and Yuki-Onna as the last standing Mayakashi.
The Golden Land monsters were formerly alchemists in the search for the greatest artifact of all alchemy, the philosopher's stone. The had managed to develop a ritual that in theory could create the philosopher's stone, but as seen during the Eldlixer cards, the ritual was flawed. The newly formed philosopher's stone had its power run rampant through the Eldlands, everything the light touched began turning into gold while the people would lose their minds and souls, becoming zombified golden husks, later to be enslaved by Eldlich the Golden Lord into his immortal army once he marched into the Cursed Eldlands and claimed their philosopher stone for himself.
Not sure if this counts as tragic but the story of Eldlich the golden Lord is pretty dark as the more Eldlich uses the power of the philosopher's stone he eventually becomes Eldlich the mad golden Lord.
Or Alaister the envoker as the more he envokes the more pieces of his soul are lost and is eventually driven mad and becomes more fiendish.
13:48 No worries on Marron cause he got "family" on his side LMAO
Can someone please tell me what the super-fast picture at 13:47 says? I can't seem to pause the video fast enough to get it!
Family
@@akmalfakhruddin7285 Thanks!
Vin diesel really jumbscare me at 13:48
"Despite our Solemn Wishes, life points drop to zero."
Give the writer a Pulitzer.
Anybody else also catch the "In America!" pun?😂
a series where the main characters have to interact with the monsters themselves (No card limitations) would be awsome. could you imagine the stories that could be told givin the lore of the duel monsters world?
Ash Blossom to Ash Blossom, Harpie's feather dust to Harpie's feather dust 😔
Duston to Duston.
@@enlongjones2394 I was gonna use that one but I thought more people would know HFD 😭
You forgot the very saddest ones imo... go check icejade Curse and Ran Aegirine's art to see how she had to watch her entire family literally crumbling into pieces in front of her.
You sly dog duel logs i saw that , guy slow down the video at 13:48 you'll see vin diesel saying family in the card art section
Dragon Core Hexer deserves a honorable mention too!
Isn’t he still alive though
@@Deathmare235 She is, but read hers and Dragon Horn Hunter's card text.
There are some lore about her on youtube too.
13:47
Alexa, play 'The Furious 7 soundtrack'
13:44 wasn’t there some mad beast dog card that looked like a twisted resurrected marron ?
13:47 Another victim of the "Family Stare" of Dominic Toretto...
Have you done any videos that go over yu-gi-oh lore stories of archetypes? I'd love to see more of the Dual Terminal World as well as the rest.
13:47
I saw a flicker in the artwork and already knew what the joke was, had to confirm it tho, and i was right 🤣
duel terminal lore is awesome, all the water elements of that lore got tragic stories, ice barriers got wiped out and got forced to unleashed their 3 dragons but the dragons got out of control and try to freeze the world so they got banished, the surviving ice barrier noella collecting the children of the other tribe making a gishki tribe ending up corrupted by evilswarm and ends up sacrificing her adopted daughters only to be stopped by the adopted son and the son managed to safe one of the daughter and those two married (technically not incest) and have a baby and become nekroz tribe, legit duel terminal loves water type because trishula, gishki and nekroz are the strongest that came out of duel terminal with the exception of maybe mist valley apex avian, shaddoll, gem knight and qliphort, because those exception is strong but none of them are as broken as trishula (and brionac), evigishki mind augus and all the nekroz summoning
A little cabiat here, she was not stopped by avance, instead for that time for disgrace of avance he was levianima due he try to resurrect emilia from the ritual which turn her in ghustkraken but his efforts backfires and result in avance transform in leavianima, was the brother of constellar pollux which free noelia from the virus but resulting the creation of evilswarm castor, but with noelia free she return to normal avance and resurrect amelia only for her finally dying in a effort for stop once and for all with zialgigas
Honestly a part ll please great video
Branded in central dogmatika is honestly the number 1 for me. The artwork showing the tragedy is amazing and fleurdelis deserved a better fate man …..
Outstanding Dog Marron’s death is probably one of the saddest deaths since pet deaths are really upsetting
2:40 This gives me an idea for a “Inpachi” monster that self-revives:
“Phoenix Inpachi - Dark World Experiment” (FIRE)
Level 4
Machine/Tuner/Effect
_This card that is Face-up on the field, in the GY or Banished is also EARTH-Attribute. (Quick Effect) While this card you own is in your GY or Banished: You can discard 1 card; Special Summon it. Can be treated as 2 tributes for the Tribute summon of a “Dark World” monster. If this card is destroyed or banished by battle or an opponent’s card or effect: inflict 500 Damage to your opponent._
ATK/1850 DEF/200
_My head canon here is that Kozaky managed to apply some resurective priorities to Inpachi, while turning it into a proper “Dark World” monster in service to himself and his superiors.
They could refrain cards so they become dark world monsters I mean how haven’t we got kozaky, scientist of dark world yet
Change it’s name and effect so it fits dark world more
@@Deathmare235
I mean that’s just it…
It’s a “Dark World” _Experiment_ of Kozaky’s…
That the card doesn’t 100% mesh with normal Dark World decks reflects on how it’s a work in progress that can at least get SOME work done until it’s perfected.
@@Deathmare235
Besides, it’s a “Rekindling” target that can discard other “Dark World” cards to special summon itself after it’s been banished after the end phase by said rekindling… That _CAN’T_ be a bad card per say.
@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire it seems too weird to be apart of dark world, especially the 2 tributes that’s useless
DAMN there is a lot to see about world chalice
and it doesn't even end there, there is also THE CRUSADIA CARDS
A new lore related video? Yes please!
i think that was the best intro to a yu gi oh video ever
This needs a second part... there's way more tragic stories in the abyss and deul terminal lore. Especially Gem-Knights.
Mr. krabs: "BOOHOO..! Let me play a sad song on the worlds smallest violin..!"
(except for outstanding dog marron)
Logs is so dope👏 their content is quite literally just shit you have on in the background and sometimes that’s just all you really need🖤
Bro I never thought I would cry about a card's lore, like really, Number 1 and Revendread got me
Marron is my favorite yu-gi-oh card., also loved the "family" pic
Might be because I cry easier when I'm sick but buster whelp absolutely got me and I couldn't stop the tears for the rest of the video
This was a very good video I'm going to go cry in a corner now
I Think Noelia should get a honorable mention here.
She lost her tribe, lost her best friend was brainwashed by the Lswarm going from a kind person to an evil witch, soul ripped her own daughter, made the orphans she picked up be rest subjects, was manipulated by Steelswarms as a meat puppet, revived Zielgigas and lastly perished saving her children.
She never even got to see Avance and Emilia create the Necroz and redeem the Ice barriers/Gishki or hew grandson Shurit.
All because of the Lswarm corruption.
Yeah, noelia is if not the most disgraceful character in DT the good part is her soul resting in peace in the after life due her silhouette appearing the illustration of zefra providence
13:48 The split second flash of vin diesel saying family was appreciated.
Didn't expect the intro of a top 10 cards in a children's card game video to hit so hard
13:48 i saw that family thing lmao
Dog marron was based on a real dog in Japan I believe that waited for his owner to come back, but never did. That makes it much sadder. 😢
Are we not going to talk about the Vin Diesel at 13:48?
Love these videos of yugioh's esoteric card lore
you should have put ojama blue on this list, not because his death in battle is sad, far from it actually, but he brings out 2 more ojama cards which is infinitely worse
I recall at one point that Avram's fate was left uncertain following the depiction of a certain card, so I assumed that Avram may have died at the time? Although whether its true that Avram died has yet to be determined, at least for me.
I was dreading this list wouldn't feature the goodest boi Buster Whelp. But there he is ❤
Not sure if Iris soulsword is dead or not. If yes, I'd say she deserves a spot.
Yes she is, and yes she does :(
3:07 actually, this is marauding captain. you can tell from the length of the hair and the color of the cape.