Yes!! Zane would have been the fusion version of Jack, except much more menacing and evil assuming he was working directly under Leo

I did play around with that idea for my anime fanfic universe, but Yuya didn't dual Zane alone, he was assisted by 2 of the Yusho Dual School FD's top student, who just so happen to be this world's Jaden and Syrus.

@ULGROTHA We had one in Edo. GX's Kaiba is debatable. Some say it's Zane, some say it's Chazz, and some say it's Edo.

If Zane will have defeated Yuya Yuya will have retired from Dueling lol 😂

i wonder if Zane Vs Supreme king Z-Arc

Yeah that's a good point. Probably best he didn't show up

Well if he was in the show, like this, I would imagine he at least would've picked up some wins against random opponents in the xyz era. Maybe he could've been beating Yuto and Shun and about to card them right before Kaito shows up, and stops him from doing so.

I think that the writers had already gotten to a point somewhere in GX even that they didn't really care about Aster (and Alexis) anymore, and Arc-V was just even more of giving the middle finger to them. But with Zane, I think they might have possibly treated him a little better. I still didn't want to find out though, so I'm glad he didn't show up in Arc-V.

He would of probably lost to yuya like aster ;-;

Kaiser should've taken Battle Beast's place in the Fusion arc, defending Academia against the Lancers. Kaiser is the one who defeats Tsukikage, Crow, and Gongenzaka (in actual on-screen duels!) That way he is established as a major threat. Ultimately, I'd rather have Reiji be the one to ultimately defeat Kaiser rather than Yuya. Reiji really needed more duels, and it would've given the rival a major win. Plus, how awesome would Reiji vs Kaiser be?

Same GOOOOOOOSE

Yeah I literally play Cyber's because I love Zane as a Character so much. Note I love Duel academy Zane from GX not Hell Kaiser or this one Mentioned in the anime. I wanted to be just like him! He was calm Cool Collective a Brilliant Strategist and he had un shakeable honor. He was literally what everyone at a young age who played Yu-Gi-Oh wanted to be. Some may have pointed in the direction of People like Jaden but honestly he would never make it as a Professional Yu-Gi-Oh player in real life, only people like Zane Alexis and Bastion would. So yeah I Kinda Ranted about this but He is Easily my favorite character in the series and I feel he doesn't deserve the treatment he got overall after he left duel academy and lost to aster and in arc V.

@@That1powergamer u wanna to your friends do not know what to do with u beaucaze u changed?

@@akim1909 ummmmm.... What?? :/

@@That1powergamer u wathed series right They wanted to get him back on the way he was but they couldn't, so his brother was sad:

Yeah I think a storyline with Zane would have been incredible. I'd like to think that this theory is what happened, but it certainly would have been better if they kept him alive and present

you want to see how ryo would be defeated by yuya and zarc?

@@dariohieras9186 no but I'd like to see some more cyber dragons on screen,hell he can take down Yuya Easy,no need to lose but zarc...yh...

@@dariohieras9186 oh no I couldn't take that , all I want is tosee is kaiba slapping yuya showing him the third rate duelist with a fourth rate deck he is

@Casswury Well Cyber Drgon infinity gets an ''Alternative'' artworks so...I guess that's something.

This should have more likes I like this!

What if Kaito turned Zane into a card for revenge?

No, this theory does have some weight to it. Cyber Dragon Nova and Infinity were printed near the Arc-V era and Nova's effect allows you to bring out a Fusion monster in its place. While I didn't think much of this effect before, with this theory, it makes quite a bit of sense. And this would help explain why not many, if any GX era archetypes got XYZ support, nevermind the fact the Nova's power is linked to Fusion monsters.

Don't forget that Zane is a masquerade like Dennis. (You know what i mean Entermage).

If you add Mizar into that as well as a rival of Kaito, then have MIzar defect as he was originally an evil character. So him and zane do a switcheroo, maybe Mizar cards Zane and then Kaito cards Mizar so loses an old friend and a new friend at the same time. That being said I don't see Zane losing to Mizar.

HAHAHA top tier comment

Loool

It's a decent idea; certainly would've added much-needed layers to the characters listed. Sure would've been nice if the legacy characters revived were based on "celebrating the legacy" or "fixing past mistakes" or "cool new spins" instead of "I love these guys! Weren't _these_ specifically awesome?! (Konami mandate) _Fine;_ we'll put these losers in too, I _guess..."_

@@christopherb501 I can’t agree more. It certainly would have been nice to see more varied cast with a deeper, possibly even darker and more emotional plot than we ultimately ended up getting, but I guess there’s no changing it now. I’m not sure that this is very likely at this point, but I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed that Konami will get the picture and make a release a deeper and more impactful series or video game somewhere down the line. Honestly I feel like what could really help them out right now is just making a proper video game, perhaps a similar style to that of Jump Force, that could catch people off guard and bring new interest back to the franchise as a whole. Hell... even porting some of their older video games like the Yugioh Tag Force series and/or Yugioh Forbidden Memories to the newer consoles, perhaps in bundles similarly to how Capcom has been re-releasing their games from the Mega-Man series in recent years. I honestly feel like them capitalising on any of these suggestions could help them out a ton, as well as getting them some much needed publicity for and from the series.

Whilst that would be very cool, it seems that the siblings of the legacy character's simply just didn't exist, seeing as Atticus and Hart are never seen in Arc V despite Alexis and Kite being there

yuya is fine, he is as he should be as a vessel (in 1rst season at least)

People ragged on it because it looked childish and cartoonish but this show was pretty hard core. Of course my favorites are 5ds and zexal but arc v deserved way better.

The most ambitious Yugioh. Incredible setting, just wish the execution was more consistent

I would blame it on the " Dark side of dimensions " movie as in they have to split the group, split whats being sold

Arc-V was honestly one of the better ones. Yuya was fine and the plot was great (the ending was rushed and the last 8-10 episodes of Season 3 should've been its own season imo, but overall it was good).

but yubel is not think in arc as yubel was mitn to keep in eye on the king there si a king in arc but yubel si now where ot be find

Thanks! :)

8 days until a year of no support for Volcanic's

f*ckin legend keep that determination up

Guys only want one thing and it’s fucking disgusting

The problem is this axel was never an Academya student in gx he had his own academy so it will not make any sense for him being in arc v and working with the Academy at least aster became a part of the Academy back in gx

Sad

For real

You're probably not wrong

ikr!? Edo/Aster and Asuka/Alexis are two of my favorite characters in GX, but I did not like how Arc-V handled them. I'm glad they left Ryo/Zane out of this.

Alexis/Asuka was handled great up until Yuri took her out. It's a badass moment for Yuri, but they should've used an original character for him to do that fake out reversal thing on. If Yuri and Alexis/Asuka would've dueled with Yuri using his own deck, and if they would've just gave Alexis a "respectful" death in the show, then it'd have been fine. Edo/Aster I honestly thought was handled fine as is. The only complaint I have is that he used mostly the same cards across all duels - but really, that's a criticism I have with most of the Arc-V cast. I don't want magical BS asspull cards, but I'm not thrilled about the "using the same 10 cards every match" or "using the same 3 card combo to win every match" things they do in the shows. Gimme more variety.

@@jaernihiltheus7817 With Alexis, it was really just more her plot that sort of bored me. Idk, I just wasn't into it for some reason. It wasn't horrible, but I think they could have done more with her. But what they did to Aster was just stupid. Ok, I know these aren't their GX selves and that Aster changed his ways eventually (thank god). But having the character who was all for justice before be into turning people into cards and the whole thing against Yuya's dad and following the professor at all just didn't sit well with me. If GX Aster could have seen what his Arc-V counterpart was doing, I'm sure he would have been disgusted. And the fact that they couldn't even show him win ONE f**king duel was really annoying. When they make characters that just never win, or even almost never win, it's like they are just spitting on them. Same with how Sawatari/Sylvio became a joke. It's like, what is the point? If they're trying to sell me that a character is a powerful duelist, that isn't the way to do it. And Aster and Alexis didn't even get any interaction despite being the only two GX characters in Arc-V, and that was just stupid like it was in GX. I get that Aster is not a popular or probably even a liked character nowadays, but he didn't deserve this.

Yes!!! I'll be talking about ALL of that in a video tomorrow!! :)

Exactly what I was thinking

Okay, I can back this up. Cyber Dragon Nova is how we can prove this. In the actual card game, Cyber Dragon Nova was released about a month before Arc-V aired, so did a lot of other cards that had a lot of level manipulation (See: Cyber Dragon Drei and Cyber Dragon Herz). It's entirely possible that he realized that they were the bad guys, and tried to rebel and got carded as a result. Cyber Dragon Infinity was also released later during the Arc-V anime, and it could have easily gotten a showcase during the time. Your theory is actually sound and valid. Given how Kurosaki/Shay is only hostile and only actively cards Fusion users that were from Fusion Dimension specifically. Given how even Yuto doesn't go nuts at how Yuzu is using Fusion, it's possible that they know that not all Fusion users are evil. Without any real mention of Syrus/Ryo, it's possible that he had no real connection to anyone before going to Xyz. Since he has an Xyz Evolution with an omni-negate, it's hard to believe that Kaito could have beaten him, with how limited his overall card pool of getting out his Xyz boss monsters is, Kite would have not been that well-equipped to beat him (though admittedly, that would have made his victory all the more impressive). Plus, a lot of the Cipher monsters are Machine monsters (See: Cipher Wing and Cipher Twin Raptor), and Chimeratech can use those enemy machines to bring out a big monster, which makes Kite's victory over him a little less likely. But a Fusion user with multiple ways of recovering Polymerization and the materials, or even alternate ways of Fusion summoning?- that kind of person has a bigger shot at beating him. Especially a character who can attack a bunch of Special Summoned monsters, nuke the field, alter enemy levels, change enemy attributes, and use enemy monsters as Fusion material. Yuri is likely to have defeated him. Or even Aster/Edo. With how he defeated him pretty soundly back in GX, it's possible that he was the sacrificial lamb (Or I guess the scapegoat) that was sacrificed to prompt the anti-Xyz rhetoric that Fusion used during their invasion. And with how ruthless Kite was, it's possible that he sees Fusion as irredeemable since they're so willing to attack and card one of their own. Him defeating Kurosaki/Shun and then refusing to card him is possibly because he just realized that he was turning into what he was fighting against. He does decide to help out the Lancers after that initial duel after all, so it's possible that maybe Shay and Yuto were friends with Zane (Maybe making his facade into the real deal), and after seeing that both his old friend, and the guy that his other friend chose to wield his dragon (Dark Rebellion) were fighting Fusion, he opted to go after them to avenge an old rival.

@@dudebladeX imagine if zane pretended to be friends with yuto and shay as a spy, but then realized his ways were wrong and he changed completely…thus prompting why he may have been carded soon afterwards. Also this could be true because kite is the only returning cast member from zexal, and it’s possible Zane was meant to serve in the XYZ dimension as a “replacement” character since his new cards created during the Arc-V series run were XYZ monsters.

@@saintvgk7747 Well, there's that, and the fact that in Zexal, characters like Shark, Alito, Quattro, and Trey were all character affected by their interactions with Barrian World/Astral World (or in the case of Shark and Alito, were direct residents of Barrian World). Without those worlds, they don't exist, or at the very least, they wouldn't exist as the characters we'd know them as. Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon was made by harnessing the energies of Astral World, hence why the "true form" of the monster is Number 62: Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon. Without Numbers, the characters of Shark, the Arclight family, and the Barrian Emperors don't really exist as we would have normally known them. But Kite _does_ have something unrelated to them, making him the only one who could have realistically appeared. It's hard to imagine a Chronomaly or a Gimmick Puppet deck without Numbers, and it's really hard to think of a way that Quinton's Dyson Sphere deck could have been done without its signature Number. Retrains are a thing, but given how iconic their Numbers are, it's not exactly easy to see them as being useful without them. If anything, without Numbers, those guys were probably among the first to fall since they wouldn't have access to heavy hitters like Shark Drake, Machu Mech, Giant Grinder, Star Cestus, or Dyson Sphere. Though, it is kinda fun to theorize about what they'd be like in Arc-V and what decks they'd run. I like to imagine that Shark would have a Black Ray Lancer retrain, and have an archetype-exclusive Rank-Up card that paired with another Rank 4 that gained effects depending on whether it had a "Ray Lancer" or a "Shark" Xyz monster as material.

@@dudebladeX While I agree with your idea, I always thought that if Shark was a character in ARC-V he would have retrains of shark drake, silent honor ark, and abyss splash and their number c forms.

Hahaha my God

Calls back to his death in Season 3 of GX before he WASHED UP ON A F**KING BEACH IN SEASON 4!!!!

oof

DUDE I AGREE!!! I wanted her to return so badly

Akiza is best and should have been in Arc-V

And they could've brought the Arcadia movement and Sayer/Divine back too. What a missed opportunity

@@magicalscientist192 sure, let’s just throw it all back in and while we’re at make a 400 episode series... boundaries people, boundaries!

@@californiacrook7828 doesn't even have to be a series. I could be a movie

Agreed cyber darks are to be used by Hell Kaiser and regular cyber dragons are for zane truesdale

@@OrganizationXIII yes but tha is gx zane nto arc v zone arc v zane could easy use them

Joey wouldn´t know what an archetype is xD.

@@sockosophie3132 bruh, I can’t 😂

I did too while making this video xD

true

I do find interesting that none of the original protags were in arc V. But my theory on that is they were all wiped out from history due to the world splitting and then time went back to bring back other important figures like jack.

@@speedbump9299 yea that'd make sense as Zarc and Rey got split as a result of the dimensions splitting

Yeah would have been awesome

Could have happened! Maybe he faked his own death somehow

@@YugiohEverything cause we all know how much zane loves his cyber dragons. But then again he was very sick in about the ending of GX. So I do agree with your predictions

Thank you Axe!! Yes overanalyzing at it's finest!!

Yuri would use his fusion pendant to turn him into a card

@TheJaredPunch I no rite especially season 3 where he actually dies.

It's not the craziest thing. People have made entire plot-changing theories about other media based on one line or even one word.

I dont want to think about Zane dying and losing to anyone because Zane always comes out on top. Zane would of beat Yubel but no Jaden had to be the one since he is the main protagonist of yugioh gx

But I like the idea of zane challenging kaito to a duel while wearing shock collars. And after the duel is finished they both collapse and die. That to me would be a more fitting conclusion!

ULGROTHA you seem pretty smart, going out of your way to explain that, so it should be safe to assume you know about ten literary technique called hyperbole, although if you didn’t to summarise it is to claim something obviously false as true in order to exaggerate something. Usually when people describe something as literally being in a certain way it is done with the intention of adding emphasis to the point being made. And to go soft/hard is shorthand language (slang) for the intensity someone puts into an action, where going soft would be taking it easy on someone and going hard would be say summoning an orbital canon to obliterate your opponent because you were so pissed at them, incidentally hitting with enough impact to severely damage a whole stadium raceway.

Would be amazing!

Thanks!! Kaiba one will be coming ; I promise

@@YugiohEverything Take your time, Dylan! I was only curious xD

I think you're right about that!

That honestly could have been the case as well! And then Edo got promoted when Kaiser lost

Velin Andreev That’s just a reference! A GT REFERENCE!!!

"defeating"/"beating", not "winning"

2024

You have my full blessing to do so!

Bs. He’d steal cyber end dragon. Photons can’t steal xys units from fusion monsters.