Jean-Michel Roger

Jean-Michel Roger alternatively romanized as Jean Michel Roget is a villain in the ''Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V'' anime and the main antagonist of the Synchro Dimension saga (season 2). He is a resident of the Fusion Dimension who crossed over to the Synchro Dimension, infiltrating the dimension by rising to the position of Director of Security, enforcing the City's law. However instead of helping Duel Academy as an infiltrator for the invasion, he betrayed them and intended to control the Synchro Dimension and turn it into his kingdom instead. However his plan was thwarted by the Lancers persuading the Tops and Commons to unite, ending the unfair government and dismantling his status quo forcing him to flee back to the Academia in a last ditch attempt to save face with Akaba Leo, but his machine malfunctioned sending him into the unknown and his fate ambiguous.

Personality
Jean-Michel Roger was the very definition of the Synchro Dimension City's Status quo, he was callous, power-hungry and obsessed with his own victory leading him constantly underestimate others and overestimate himself, perhaps to compliment yet another of his obsession: himself. He was a narcisist with a clear and pathological case of self-worship. Indeed Jean-Michel Roger was an evil person who characterized the worst aspects of political and governmental power and oppression to the point of totalitarianism and devoid of a moral or ethnic centre. Ruthless, Brutal, Cruel and Corrupt as well as Machiavellian and tyrannical, he complimented the City's long and tragic history almost poetically.

In his first appearances Roger is a seemingly cold, serious and calculating individual. He is cunning and methodical, being able to calmly take decisions in order to ensure criminals are apprehended. His calmness was emphasized when he observed the Lancers' use of the other dimensions' Extra Deck Summoning methods and an Action Duel being initiated.

Roger seems to have a love for chess as he always has a chessboard with him and uses it as a tool to describe the duels going on in front of him and even as device to activate his own schemes when necessary, shown when he moved his pawns into a specific formation to activate the King's Gambit. When watching a duel with one of his pawns in play he likes to follow it and feel that he is the one personally dueling and is able to represent a Duel's progress through a chessboard by moving the pieces accordingly to the situation in the Duel as if he was playing it, even going as far as speaking in monologues of how he is "ahead" of "his" opponent. However he can also make moves ahead of the duel which results in it being completely different from what he had intended, this is especially proven in the Duel between Duel Chaser 227 and Yugo, as Roger was ready to call a "Checkmate" against the Common but quickly remembered Yugo's set trap and ordered Duel Chaser 227 to cancel his attack; an order that was ignored and resulted in his defeat. This also happened during Sergey and Jack's duel where he was ready to call the check mate of Sergey's win when Jack did what he had not expected.

He strongly dislikes being on the lower end of the ladder of authority, having turned against Leo Akaba after realizing defecting from his cause would benefit his own ambition more, and the Executive Council due to them being the only ones able to defy him blocking his way to absolute power. He seems to be under the delusion that he is the key to the city, demanding the utmost submission from it and looses any and all composure when someone else manages to unite the people when he has failed.

For all of his calmness and methodical stratagem his poker-face vanishes when a source of great frustration emerges to the point that he can litterally burst out in spouts of anger without warning. He can also show fear towards those whom he knows he cannot beat, showing a particular concern for Yuri, one of Academia's top agents. To get his own desires he is not above manipulation, whether it be verbally or general cheating. Seeing Yuya's potential after his victory over Shinji Weber, Roger praised him as an ally to the Tops. To take advantage of the scewed mentality of the citizens he placed security under mind control, desired to do the same to Yuya, and when pressed for time opted instead to torture him with electric shocks in order keep the to make sure that the audience were focused on Yuya and Crow's Duel and not his takeover of the City and defeat of the Council and hopeful incarceration of Akaba Reiji quiet and quick; less extemely he manipulated the course between Yugo and Serena in order to make it so that Yugo could not obtain Action Cards.

He shows signs of being a sociopath, deeming others as nothing more than pawns, no matter how valuable they are to his plans, which is demonstrated by him not caring about Yuya's imminent death due to his mind control chip as long as he serves his purpose of entertaining the crowd, and trapping his subordinates, whom he had no more use for, in a building he set to self-destruct as he ran away. During this time it was seen that he is cold and strict with his subordinates, as after Duel Chaser 227's Duel concluded, he fired 227, going as far as throwing a chess piece that represented him into the trash can. Giving 227 a second chance was nothing more than a ploy to evaluate Yuya as a threat, and even than he expected little to nothing from the defeated officer. He is shown to be possibly more cruel and evil than even The Professor. He invoked Yuya's Berserk Mode, he watched in delight as Crow and Yuya's life were in danger. He implanted mind control chips in the Security and sergically altered Sergey to be his ultimate machine basically robbing the man of his humanity. When the scientist warned him of the broken chip, his immediate concern was the cessation of electric shocks that did not happen and when told that the shocks would continue at their highest setting he even delighted in it; he did not care at all when Yuya's life was in danger with possible brain damage because of the unstoppable electrocution and instead merely mused it a shame to loose him as a pawn but a necessary for current events. From his perspective he is the one who is solely right and should make demands and when someone else tries to do so he becomes quite ruthless to shut up the opposition, throwing Yuya into a cell and planning in insert a mind control chip into his brain when Yuya did not share his vision of power and when Yuya and Jack began to have a duel after Sergey failed he was fully willing to have Security kill Jack and Yuya by ambushing them with his troops and when Melissa Claire reported the news he told her the shut up.

Roger was likely intelligent and capable as he had been able to secure a high ranking Tops position in the City which demonstrates his manipulation and value as well as being trusted with a mission as an infiltrator which shows that his skills were either highly prized or his deceptiveness was an asset that the Academia found would be useful for their invasion of the Synchro Dimension. None-the-less the reality is that Akaba Reiji has long foreseen all of his plans before hand making him quite behind his opponent. He also appears to be a rather lack-luster agent, his dismal sense of loyalty aside he did not posses any outwardly good qualities that would've made him the best choice for an infiltration. His dueling was below that of other, younger Academia agents and had it not been for his cheating he would've been sorely defeated, and his inter-dimensional machine also malfunctioned as well showing a lack of scientific ability when compared to other academia agents (though to be fair in this case it was likely untested and he had not worked on it with the aid of others who would've been familiar with the Fusion Dimension's advanced technology) as well as making unreasonable demands to his own scientists when more time and precision was needed than what he would allow to be scheduled The former basically assuring his total loss by its malfunction and sending him to a random location through its wormhole.

Roger is also a sore loser and a coward: when his plans to conquer the City were ruined he attempted to flee back to Duel Academy with Yuzu to avoid being seen as a traitor by Akaba Reo, while delusionally calling himself a "winner" even though he was bested in every way shape and form. He even proclaimed that running with his tail between his legs to hide behind a man he had previously betrayed and hindered was "strategy". Roger's cowardice and refusal to accept defeat can also be seen in his Dueling style, which relies on holograms which can be replaced each time one of them is defeated, rather than facing the opponent himself. When Akaba Reiji trapped this cheat in an infinite loop he completely descended into bouts of irrational spasms and made one last attempt to discredit the Leader of the Lancer's by revealing Akaba's lineage and attempted to turn them against their leader by claiming that the Akaba Father and Son were in fact cohorts. When Reiji pointed out the flaw in his logic and inconsistency Jean became possessive and threatening to Yuzu as she was the last lifeline he had to survive. When she was rescued he finally lost all hope at wining and decided to take the Lancer, the City and everything else that was proof of his failure with him into the void between dimensions, eliminating them all.

His deviousness was further emphasized by his machinations to overturn the City's structure of power by somehow implanting mind control chips in all of Security's staff to enable the King's Gambit.

Trivia
The chess formation that was used to activate the King Gambit is two white pawns against an Isolate black pawn. Judging from the moves, it would need to be a third turn situation where both the white and black pieces had taken two steps on their first move. The white pawns have pawn support while the black pawn is set to be captured next turn which represents his moves against the city.