The poll is closed, and final results are in! Hooray for insomnia nation!
Let’s start this off with me calling as many of those who voted as I ca find, since you’re all probably curious about the results and I don’t know how many are actually keeping alerts on for this post. Please bear with me, because I’m tagging everyone:
I wish I could shrink text. Or maybe I haven’t figured it out yet.
But anyway, the thing I called you here for!
Before announcing the results, two observations: one is that quite a few people admitted to accidentally voting an option they thought was wrong. The second one is that the options with the most votes are those that happened in Season 4, which was never dubbed. Interesting to see.
A character gets superpowers by getting married. - HAPPENED
Guys. Guys. Did we all watch the same Yubel vs Judai duel!? I could go on and on about this, but at the end of Season 3 Judai literally tells Yubel he’s giving them their love forever, and proceeds to fuse the two together. And the whole duel mirrors the steps of a traditional Jewish Ceremony exactly, which you can read/watch an analysis on here, here, and here. There are stuff on this subject but this is what I can find on short notice.
As for the superpowers, this is mostly Season 4 stuff. After Judai fuses with Yubel, he gets a number of abilities, like materializing his cards in the real world, sense other people’s emotions, immunity to brainwashing, host duel Spirits in his soul, a funny glowing eye trick, and that’s just the obvious stuff. You can see a little bit in Bonds Beyond Time too.
A bear helps scrub a child in a hotspring. - HAPPENED
This scene happens early in Season 1 and was removed from the dub - apparently for nudity.
A Kaiba cosplayer hides in a secret lake. - HAPPENED
The official YGO channel is kind enough to provide you with the most of the dubbed episodes for free on YouTube, so here you go. The “cosplayer” is specifically a duel monster spirit who dresses EXACTLY like Kaiba, called Kaibaman. Yes, he’s an actual card, and Kaiba has a special line for him in Duel Links. He also hands Judai his first loss in the series.
A character is immune to brainwashing by being part dinosaur. - HAPPENED
Season 2, Society of Light. Sartorious/Saiou runs a cult that basically works on brainwashing: lose a duel to him or to someone brainwashed and you end up brainwashed yourself. However, in the same season there’s a new character named Hassleberry (or Tyrano Kenzan) who is an amateur paleontologist. In his backstory he broke his leg and part of his bone was replaced with a bone fragment of a dinosaur fossil he found, which somehow gave him dinosaur DNA. Saiou attempts to brainwash him and realizes Kenzan is too primal for that, complete with Kenzan shouting “IT’S DINOSAUR DNA-DON!”
A private military firm invades the school to find a mask. - DID NOT HAPPEN
The fake option, and the most voted one (congrats!), is the military mask thing! There really IS a plot-relevant mask in GX, that being the Nightshroud/Darkness mask, but nobody actually ever goes looking for it. Also, there is no private military that’s plot relevant: there are characters with military vibes, but nothing more than that. I had a hard time coming up with this, I needed it to look convincing. Considering that less than 20% voted for it, maybe it was TOO convincing…
A disgruntled employee enslaves god to get back at his boss. - HAPPENED
Season 2! The employee in question (whose name I don’t remember on top of my head) works as a card designer for Pegasus at Industrial Illusions. However, the cards he comes up with are far too beatdown-style for Pegasus’ taste, so oftentimes he would turn down this dude’s designs in favour of younger employees’. Dude was pissed, so he stole the sole surviving copy of the Winged Dragon of Ra, created a card that literally chains it to the ground so the card can’t disobey him, and sneaks into the GeneX tournament to prove his worth to Pegasus. At the end he loses to Judai and Pegasus shows him his fucked up eyesocket to teach him a lesson not to mess with powers beyond his understanding. That episode is also Pegasus’ first appearance in GX.
A fortune teller gets his motorcycle stolen in the middle of the apocalypse. - HAPPENED
A banger from Season 4! Not gonna lie, I don’t remember the exact circumstances, but while Judai is in Domino City, Saiou challenges him to a duel again, this time outright cheating because he doesn’t have his Light of Destruction abilities anymore. Judai beats him anyway, and then steals his Yamaha and drives like a lunatic to the port I think? But anyway, Judai crashes the bike. This all happens while Darkness is erasing everyone from existence and memory.
One of the teachers stalks the protagonist by scuba diving. - HAPPENED
This happens super early in Season 1, shortly before the abandoned dorm episodes. Cronos/Crowler wears a black scuba diving suit and stalks Judai from the water in one scene, thinking about how he’ll get him expelled. Somehow the shape of his fringe is perfectly maintained despite the compression of the scuba gear.
A cult-member prince tried to destroy a school via laser cannon. - HAPPENED
The LEAST voted option, which is honestly a surprise to me. I guess the Satellite Cannon episode was just that memorable? Or were the other options that much crazier? Anyway, for those not in the know, in Season 2 one of the Society of Light members is a prince who has the access keys to a literal kill sat, as well as a card form of it. So in a duel against Judai, instead of summoning the monster “Satellite Cannon”, he attempts to fire the ACTUAL KILL SAT. This would have destroyed a lot more than just the school… This card got a pretty nice shout-out in ARC-V, with the Satellite Cannon Falcon scene.
Electroshock kink guy gives his little brother an ultimtum over his kink gear. - HAPPENED
Ah, the Kaiser. Where do we even begin unpacking this guy. Long story short, this dude ends up in an Underground duel where everyone is forced to wear shock colars, and he finds that he really, REALLY, REALLY likes the shock colars. He’s openly talking about the thrill he’s getting from the damn things, even in the dub. In the process he also turns into an absulute fucking sadist complete with an all black leather outfit, so his little brother who used to really look up to him challenges him to a duel. And that’s when Kaiser throws the ultimatum: the little bro HAS to wear the shock colar if he wants to duel him, or not duel him at all and forever be worthless in his eyes.
Yeah. Dude has issues.
An alchemist almost gets flushed into a toilet. - HAPPENED
I’m not opening a VPN at this hour just to get a screenshot of this.
This happens in Season 4. Judai interrogates Professor Banner/Daitokuji, the alchemist from Season 1 who’s now a ghost. To get info out of him, he shoves his soul (which is the size and shape of a marble) into a string pouch and dangles him over the dorm toilets, threatening to drop him if he doesn’t spill.
Judai also has issues.
A submarine gets stranded on an alien desert. - HAPPENED
Middle of Season 3! After Yubel wraps half of Academia into the three suns dimension, the protagonists find a submarine stranded in the desert. They go there to try and gather medicine they need because supplies are running really low. I think this is also how Bastion/Misawa arrived in the dimension? The details elude me to be honest.
don’t let anyone on this website call you cringe they literally have a tumblr account
What I love about this site is the fact it’s the closest I’ve gotten to pre-2000 internet in years. No one knows anyone’s real name, photos are entirely optional, and we’re pretty sure at least one of our mutuals is 100% lying about everything. There’s a reason it’s one of the only social media sites I keep coming back to. It somehow manages to be just as horrible, enjoyable, and chaotic as 1990s chat rooms used to be.
The internet is a gentrified neighbourhood and we’re a stubborn old lady refusing to sell her run-down home to the developers.
Oh they already sold us to the developers and the developers went bankrupt trying to dislodge us.
Gandalf in The Hobbit: You are Took and that makes you absolutely suited for adventure!
Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring: Who the FUCK let the Took come on this adventure?
He learned his lesson
Nah you guys don’t get it. For all that Gandalf complained about Pippin, he better than anyone else knew that Pippin was absolutely crucial. Pippin accomplishes a very impressive feat: not only does he manage to see something in the palantír (most hobbits would perceive nothing, as these stones were designed for use by high elves), but he manages to close his mind against Sauron. That is a seriously impressive feat of ósanwë given Pippin’s youth and almost total inexperience.The only clue Sauron manages to glean from the meeting with Pippin is that he is in Meduseld: which Pippin probably did not even directly give to him. Pippin did not tell Sauron his name, so Sauron is led to believe that Pippin is Frodo. I remind you, in the books, the Good Guys manage to trick Sauron, by making him believe that Aragorn has claimed the One Ring. They can only do that because of Pippin’s ridiculous feat of ósanwë. Far from sabotaging the mission, he is the one who allows it to succeed (albeit, not on purpose). This is why Sauron doesn’t think anything is fishy when Aragorn wins the Battle of the Pelennor Fields by controlling ghosts: that would be consistent with the idea that he is using the One Ring. Which Sauron believes that Pippin brought to him. This is why Sauron pulls out his old “play nice and weak” card from his Númenor days. He first of all believes that Aragorn is a lot more powerful than he actually is, and secondly thinks that the Ring is beginning to affect him.
He should perhaps have remembered that Aragorn is named for Fingolfin. Fingolfin’s mother-name, Arakáno, would properly be translated to Sindarin as “Aragorn”. Most people would not show up to an enemy fortress with an army they knew was far too small, and start a battle they knew they would lose. But Fingolfin famously did exactly that.
When you read the line “fool of a Took!” It is important to understand that in the context of Gandalf calling himself a fool on several occasions. Galadriel too sees beyond the veneer of foolish naivety in Pippin. She gives him and Merry belts that almost definitely were once her brothers’. A golden flower on a gift from Galadriel can only be a golden lily, the sigil of the House of Finarfin. Galadriel, while all hell was breaking loose in Tirion, raided her brothers’ rooms and took their belts from when they were little kiddos, hauled them across the Helcaraxë, and then held onto them for three Ages before giving them to two hobbits she just met. Merry, of course, is comparable to Angrod and Aegnor: his great deed is done in a moment of beserk rage, and it is a feat of strength. This then implies that she is comparing Pippin to Finrod. That’s one hell of a complement coming from Galadriel: but as I just pointed out, entirely warranted. Pippin manages to reproduce Finrod’s feat of radio silence, in the face of torture by Sauron. Which again, is extremely impressive given that Pippin is far younger and less experienced than Finrod was.
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries) - Season 3 announced with 2 split cours (October 2026 and April 2027). Movie announced for December 2026.
network effect is really good because to amena murderbot is basically just a babysitter with guns but to everyone from the corporate rim it’s like seeing a teen hanging out with a grizzly bear and when they’re like what the hell she’s just like yeah that’s my mom’s friend it’s lame as fuckkkk
