r/whenthe • u/CobaltChromeA trollface -> • 6h ago

hit the slots baby🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰 DONT DO IT

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u/Other_Combination136 6h ago

The comic relief won

https://giphy.com/gifs/D2qdx18kZ3rNrmxI3d

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u/rauq_mawlina 5h ago

Almost happened to Joey Wheeler

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u/ShadowTown0407 3h ago

God yugioh anime has such a "dick sucking the MC" problem. Like it's a thing in pretty much all shonen but in yugioh it's just insane. That too discarding how much he fucking wins, he has like a 95% win rate, how can there be any drama when he wins literally everything

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u/Fritzzi 3h ago

Feels like an unfortunate side-effect of it being a card game anime. It's either a tournament arc where defeat is elimination or a dark magic arc where defeat means Shadow Realm.

Half the arcs would be over if he had some character-growth losses along the way, purely because of the way the setting is handled.

GX handled it a bit better where there was lots of potential to lose in the school setting.

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u/Wolveyplays07 I wish a femboy wolf would eat me and keep me inside him forever 3h ago

Don't some tourneys have loser brackets?

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u/Fritzzi 3h ago

For sure they do, but I don't think they do in the show at any point. Just a straight elimination format mostly, iirc.

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u/Wolveyplays07 I wish a femboy wolf would eat me and keep me inside him forever 3h ago

Kinda stupid and a missed opportunity tbh

I've taken a break cuz ive been getting bored of yu gi oh

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u/PancakeParty98 3h ago

Thats what makes it amazing. Somehow the writers create tension in a medium where “I play the instant win card” is always on the table, and usually is how conflicts resolve