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| “ | Yuya: I won... (He turns around as his voice changes to Z-ARC's) Z-ARC: Just like you wanted! And from now on there isn't anymore duel-taining, only winning! You wanted a more brutal duel so I gave it to you! |
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| ~ Z-ARC moments before fully reincarnating. |
| “ | Duel me! | „ |
| ~ Z-ARC's most spoken line. |
Z-ARC is the overarching antagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V, the fifth entry in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime franchise.
He is the original form of Yuya, Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri. and was the greatest duelist in the Original Dimension, who harnessed the power of the Dragon Cards and as a result, started the Dimensional War by destroying the Original Dimension. He was stopped by a duelist girl named Ray, who used the four Energy Cards to defeat him and as a result, the original dimension split into four (Pendulum, Xyz, Synchro and Fusion). He serves as the overarching antagonist of both season 1 and 2, as well as the main antagonist of season 3.
He is the arch-nemesis of Ray Akaba.
In the original Japanese dub, he is voiced by Kensho Ono, and by Michael Liscio Jr. in the English Dub who also voiced all his counterparts, and Chironex in the English dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal.
Biography[]
In the original dimension, Z-ARC quickly mastered all summoning techniques bonding with his 4 dragons and became an undefeated Duel Monsters champion. People would come from all over to watch him duel and all he wanted was to give everyone watching a good show. But then one day however an incident occurred where Z-ARC hit his opponent with his own monster and the crowd enjoyed it. Over time Z-ARC's crowd became more bloodthirsty, selfish, and greedy for more brutal duels they demanded and every time Z-ARC won, he delivered as they pressured and force him. Soon Z-ARC was considered to be unbeatable. Soon, Z-ARC was no longer being challenged as all who did lost, Z-ARC tired of waiting for a challenge found a new opponent: the entire world, he sent his dragons on rampages through cites until he wanted to make sure he was unstoppable he called on Astrograph sorcerer the ruler of time and space to combine him and his dragons as well to become one and took up the name as Supreme King Z-ARC and ruled the world with fear.
However, Leo Akaba with help from his daughter Ray began working on a way to combat Z-ARC in which he created the 4 natural energy cards each designed to combat a specific dragon En Moon-the power of the cosmos, designed to combat the dragon Starving Venom, En Wind-the power of storms and gale, designed to combat the dragon Clear Wing, En Birds-the power of every living creature's life force, designed to combat the dragon Dark Rebellion, and En Flowers-the very power of Mother Nature herself, designed to combat the dragon Odd Eyes. Leo intended to use the cards himself however Ray, not wanting to lose her father, stole the cards and confronted Z-ARC successfully defeating him, however Ray and Z-ARC, and their very dimension split into 4. Leo spent years preparing to stop Z-ARC from ever returning by combining the dimensions back and resurrecting his daughter.
Throughout the series Z-ARC awakens within his 4 counterparts, “Pieces of Z-ARC” as Leo calls them, causing their eyes to glow and for them to lose control and attempt to reunite with the other 3 as Ray’s 4 counterparts each have a bracelet that will teleport one of Z-ARC’s reincarnations away if 2 of them get too close to one another and will start glowing and blinking rapidly if Z-ARC begins awakening, however Z-ARC eventually revives and slowly begins to defeat the Lancers and their allies, including Leo and his son Declan until Riley (housing the spirit of Ray) takes the 4 natural energy cards and defeats Z-ARC once again sealing away his darkness within her body causing her to regress back to infancy.
In order to fully vanquish Z-ARC's dark side, Yuya sets out on duel after duel in order to make Riley smile after beating Shay, Dennis, and Jack, Yuya faces off with Declan in which the stakes are if Yuya wins he goes to the pro leagues but if he loses, he can never duel again. Though the duel proves difficult to win Yuya ultimately triumphs, resurrecting Zuzu, with the other three girls now living within her, and causing Riley to smile. Declan believe that Z-ARC's inside Reiley was smiling as well, thus ending is evil and in the way, redeem him.
Enemies[]
- Leo Akaba.
- Ray Akaba and her fragments:
- Zuzu Boyle (Standard/Pendulum Dimension fragment)
- Lulu Obsidian (Xyz Dimension fragment)
- Rin (Synchro Dimension fragment)
- Celina (Fusion Dimension fragment)
- His Fragments:
- Yuya Sakaki (Standard/Pendulum Dimension fragment/reborn identity)
- Yuto (Xyz Dimension fragment)
- Yugo (Synchro Dimension fragment)
- Yuri (Fusion Dimension fragment)
- The Lancers and their allies:
- Declan Akaba
- Riley Akaba
- Shay Obsidian
- Crow Hogan
- Sylvio Sawatari
- Gong Strong
- Jack Atlas
- Sora Perse
- Aster Phoenix
- Kite Tenjo
- Everyone Else
Quotes[]
| “ | Yuya and Yuto: It's finally time! Finally time, to reunite. Yugo: Reunite, and become whole just as before. I shall resurrect. Yuri: Resurrect, and return, back here, back as one. Reunite, as one. Yugo: Reunite, as one. Yuya and Yuto: Reunite as one. Reunite as one. I'M RESURRECTING NOW! |
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| ~ Z-ARC through his 4 counterparts after all 4 dragons were summoned |
Trivia[]
- Z-ARC seemed to favor Yuya the most of his incarnations; since he was the only one with an Extra Deck summoning method he didn't have before. Plus, Yuya was the most resistant to his influence; since he was very pure in his desire to bring smiles, compared to Yugo, Yuto and Yuri, who all had trauma or sadism that made them closer to Z-ARC.
- Z-ARC is 100% crazy evil, much like Yami Marik. He uses dueling to inflict misery and destruction to those around him; just for his own amusement.
- The only difference is Z-ARC is his own original personality; his fragments all developed their own personalities.
- Much like Yami Marik, his final duel resulted in his demise; albeit roundabout as getting Riley, who absorbed his evil, to smile was key to erasing Z-ARC. Yami Marik was destroyed by his own sadistic shadow game.
- Z-ARC is just a crazy mass murderer, whom can't realize that he's just killing and destroying for his own amusement; ignoring the fact everyone is terrified of and loathes his existence.
- He also shares many similarities to other antagonists in the franchise:
- Much like Dark Master Zorc and Z-One, his name starts with Z.
- His self-appointed title of Supreme King, the same as the darker personality of Jaden Yuki; much like Jaden, he is a former hero corrupted by evil.
- His two Pendulum Monsters "Supreme King Gate Zero" and "Supreme King Gate Infinity" are similar to "Zero" and "Infinity", both used by Nightshroud.
- He is the first main antagonist in the franchise whose final defeat came as a result of dueling against a character other than the main protagonist.
- He holds the record for the duelist (antagonist or otherwise) with most opponents in a single duel, eleven, though he did so two at a time.
- Z-ARC possesses one of the most broken and overpowered decks in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, only losing his Duel against Riley due to Yuya resisting him and sabotaging his turn. His overpowered deck emphasises his crippling fear of losing,
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