50 Fun Facts About Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

At Duel Academy in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, which lowest-ranked dorm is Jaden Yuki placed in despite winning his entrance duel?

Slifer Red houses the academy's weakest students, and Jaden lands there because of his poor grades. He later turns down a promotion so he can stay.

Which monster card is Jaden Yuki handed by a famous duelist he bumps into before his Duel Academy entrance exam?

Winged Kuriboh becomes Jaden's spirit partner, and it helps him beat an examiner's strongest monster in the very first episode.

Which character from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! series founded Duel Academy, the island school where GX is set?

Seto Kaiba still owns the academy in season one, when he lets a single student duel decide whether two tycoon brothers may buy it.

Which family of monsters makes up Jaden Yuki's first deck in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX?

Elemental Heroes are modelled on comic-book superheroes, and they stay at the core of Jaden's deck for the whole series.

The GX in the title Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, also the name of an in-story tournament, is short for which phrase?

Generation Next also gave the series its original title, GENEX, which still appears on early promotional artwork.

Which star of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! series does Jaden Yuki travel back in time to duel at the end of GX?

Yugi Muto sends Jaden back in time to fight his younger self, a graduation match that restores Jaden's lost love of dueling.

Which Duel Academy teacher does Jaden Yuki beat in his entrance exam, earning a grudge that lasts through season one?

Crowler loses despite summoning his best monster, then spends much of the year scheming to get Jaden expelled.

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX builds its duels around which summoning method, the one Jaden Yuki and most of his rivals rely on?

Fusion is the signature mechanic of the series, and Jaden later learns a version that needs no spell card at all.

Which Yu-Gi-Oh! series took over from GX on TV Tokyo when its 180-episode run came to an end?

5D's began in 2008, and its English dub reached American screens just three weeks after the last dubbed GX episode aired.

Which American company dubbed Yu-Gi-Oh! GX into English, changing character names and cutting references to death?

4Kids was sued by the Japanese rights holders in 2011 and filed for bankruptcy days later; Konami bought its Yu-Gi-Oh! rights the following year.

Which Obelisk Blue senior, the older brother of Jaden's roommate Syrus, is Duel Academy's top duelist in season one?

Zane Truesdale beats Jaden the first time they duel, and after graduating he leaves to join the professional league.

Which elitist rival of Jaden Yuki quits Duel Academy, then returns as North Academy's champion for the School Duel?

Chazz Princeton loses that duel too, and after three months away he is barred from his old dorm and sent to live in Jaden's.

Which top female duelist of Obelisk Blue spends season one of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX searching for her missing brother Atticus?

Alexis Rhodes gets him back when Jaden unmasks a villain: Atticus had been possessed after vanishing in an abandoned dorm.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, which comical monsters in Yellow, Green and Black become the spirit sidekicks of Jaden's rival?

Ojamas have zero attack points, yet a season-one duel that bans strong monsters leaves their owner no choice but to win with them.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Jaden's graduation match against Duel Academy's departing top student ends in which result for him?

A tie is how it ends, the only one in the whole series, after both duelists' strongest monsters clash.

Which group of seven villains hunts Duel Academy's Spirit Keys in season one of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX to free three sealed cards?

Shadow Riders have to win the keys in duels, because a key that is simply stolen cannot break the seal.

Banner, the cat-loving head of Jaden Yuki's dorm at Duel Academy, is unmasked late in season one as what?

An alchemist called Amnael is his true identity: he had moved his soul into an artificial body after a poison crippled his own.

Camula, the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX villainess who traps beaten duelists' souls inside dolls, is which kind of creature?

A vampire woken from a long sleep in her coffin, Camula duels in the hope of reviving her destroyed race.

Which portly roommate of Jaden Yuki, held back a year, leaves Duel Academy to design cards for Industrial Illusions?

Chumley Huffington earns the job by winning a drawing contest, and his teacher recommends him even after beating him in a duel.

Which Ra Yellow genius of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX keeps six carefully calculated decks, one for each monster attribute?

Bastion Misawa had the best entrance grades of his year, yet he turns down promotion until he can beat Jaden.

Which pro duelist enrols as a Duel Academy freshman in season two of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and beats its star graduate?

Aster Phoenix lost his father as a boy, and the manager who sends him to the academy, a cult's leader, uses him as a pawn in his plans.

Which fortune-teller leads the Society of Light, the cult that brainwashes Duel Academy students in season two of GX?

Sartorius has two personalities, and it is the one ruled by an alien light that wants to remake the world.

Hassleberry, the Ra Yellow drill sergeant of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, had what implanted in his leg after a childhood accident?

A dinosaur bone was put in by scientists after he was hurt while hunting for fossils, and he duels with a deck of prehistoric reptiles.

Which monsters, designed by Jaden Yuki as a child, join his deck in season two of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX?

Neo-Spacians can combine with Jaden's new ace monster without needing a spell card to do it.

X, the duelist hired to remove Jaden in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX episode Not Playing with a Full Deck, has which day job?

A lawyer for the Society of Light's leader, X is said never to have lost a duel. The English dub adds that he once dreamed of being a pastry chef.

Which Industrial Illusions boss visits Duel Academy in season two of GX to recover a stolen Egyptian God card?

Maximillion Pegasus arrives with a former student who now designs cards for him, chasing the chief designer who stole it.

Which home town of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! champion does Jaden Yuki choose for Duel Academy's season-two field trip?

Domino City is Jaden's pick after he wins a duel for the right to choose, beating a rival who believes her frog monsters are princes.

In season two of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, the Society of Light's leader seizes which device to brainwash the whole world?

A laser satellite owned by a prince is the weapon, and the keys to its controls end up with Jaden and a fellow duelist.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Duel Academy's fallen former top student joins underground duels that punish losses with what?

Shock collars jolt the loser, and the brutal matches turn a once-respectful champion into an aggressive, ruthless duelist.

Which North Academy transfer in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX shares Jaden's gift for talking to spirits and plays Crystal Beasts?

Jesse Anderson stays behind so the academy can return home from another dimension, and a hostile spirit takes over his body.

Which duel spirit, once Jaden Yuki's childhood card, is the vengeful main villain of season three of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX?

Yubel was fired into space by the young Jaden to cure her overprotectiveness, and a corrupting light drove her insane instead.

After watching his friends sacrificed in season three of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Jaden Yuki is possessed by which ruthless ruler?

Supreme King turns out to be Jaden's own past incarnation, so the cruelty he commits in that guise leaves him racked with guilt.

Which entity possesses Atticus early in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and returns years later as the final villain Jaden Yuki defeats?

Nightshroud feeds on people's negative emotions, and Jaden's last-season victory over him frees everyone he had swallowed up.

Which season of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX was left out of the original English dub?

The fourth season stayed Japan-only, as did the last episode of the one before it, so the dub stops short of the ending.

Which devices does Professor Viper hand out to Duel Academy's students in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX to harvest their duel energy?

Bio-Bands feed that energy to a damaged spirit Viper wants revived, because it has promised to bring back his dead son.

Which young girl sneaks into Duel Academy disguised as a boy in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX to be near her crush?

Blair is politely turned down because of her age, but she returns in a later season and earns a real place at the academy.

Titan, the hired duelist who kidnaps a student in season one of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, carries a fake version of which relic?

Millennium Puzzle in hand, Titan uses stage tricks to fake a supernatural duel, until a real one swallows him.

Which famous card spirit duels Jaden Yuki at Duel Academy's costume festival in season one of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX?

Dark Magician Girl seems to be a student in costume, and only after beating her does Jaden realise he fought a real spirit.

Which android monster, called up by Obelisk Blue students over winter break, steals their souls in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX?

Jinzo wants to become a real person, so he takes the souls of the students who summoned him until Jaden beats him in a duel.

Which card, a gift from his older brother, is Syrus too afraid to play until a team duel in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX?

Power Bond wins the match that saves Syrus and Jaden from expulsion, and it shows his brother he is a strong duelist after all.

Which signature monster of Jaden Yuki beats a classmate wielding a stolen champion's deck in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX?

Flame Wingman finishes off the copycat, who had convinced himself that he really was the deck's legendary owner.

What is the name of Banner's cat in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, the pet whose body later carries its dead owner's spirit?

Pharaoh carries Banner's spirit in its stomach, and the ghost pops back out to offer Jaden advice whenever it can.

Tania, the Amazon duelist hunting for a husband in season one of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, is really which animal in human form?

A white tiger is her true form, and she changes back after losing to Jaden, to the dismay of the student she had beaten first.

Which animation studio handled Yu-Gi-Oh! GX for producers TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems, under director Hatsuki Tsuji?

Gallop handled the animation, while a separate specialist, Masahiro Hikokubo, oversaw the layout of the duels themselves.

Which Shueisha magazine serialised Naoyuki Kageyama's Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga for more than five years?

V Jump ran the manga under the supervision of franchise creator Kazuki Takahashi, and its chapters fill nine collected volumes.

Which American channel first aired the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX dub on its Miguzi block before moving it to Toonami?

Cartoon Network shifted the show to Toonami in October 2006, while Fox carried it on a block of its own.

Which PSP game series has its first three entries based on Yu-Gi-Oh! GX?

Tag Force added two-on-two team duels, and its third game never reached North America, although Europe got it.

In the Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, the lead character Jaden goes by which given name?

Judai Yuki is his full Japanese name, and the English dub renamed almost all of his classmates in the same way.

Kagemaru, the aged mastermind of season one of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, wants three sealed monster cards to give him what?

Eternal youth almost comes true: the cards make him young again in mid-duel, but he ages the moment Jaden beats him.

Which legendary card does the Crystal Beast duelist of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX search for, finally obtaining it in season three?

Rainbow Dragon is the card whose activation sends Duel Academy home from another dimension, at the cost of stranding its owner.