Thunder

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Thunder Dragon Colossus
"Thunder Dragon Colossus", a Thunder monster.

Thunder (いかずち Ikazuchi) is a Type of Monster Card. It debuted in Vol.1 in the OCG, Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon in the TCG, and Deck Mod Pack: Hyperspeed Rush Road!! in Rush Duel.

Overview[edit]

The Thunder Type appears to be an adaptation of the original manga's THUNDER Attribute; it represents control over electricity. Thunder monsters often appear to be beings with electrical powers, such as "Zaborg the Thunder Monarch" or "The Ascended of Thunder". Sometimes, they might also appear as non-human beings who utilize thunder and lightning as part of themselves, such as "Watthopper" and "Tripwire Beast", or as pure manifestations of electricity or thunder-inducing phenomena, such as "Electric Virus" and "LaLa Li-oon".

Many early Thunder monster effects and support cards focus upon destroying the opponent's monsters. Later members and supports took it further by focusing on banishing cards.

There is also a subset of Level 4 LIGHT Thunder monsters that are noteworthy for stalling or locking down both players from performing certain actions; "Denko Sekka" prevents Spell/Trap Cards from being set on the field; "Lightning Rod Lord" forbids both players from activating Spell Cards during the Main Phase 1; "Thunder King Rai-Oh" prevents cards from being searched from the Deck; and "Zap Mustung", which locks both players from Special Summoning in a very peculiar manner.

Themes[edit]

TCG/OCG[edit]

Mixed

Rush Duel[edit]

Appearance in media[edit]

The following characters use Thunder monsters across the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise.

Manga[edit]

Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL

Anime[edit]

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS

Video games[edit]

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus

Icons[edit]

These are icons used to represent the Thunder Type in various video games. They all depict either a lightning strike, or a creature of electricity similar to "Electric Virus".

In other languages[edit]

"Thunder" in languages other than English
Language NameRomanized
French Tonnerre
German Donner
Italian Tuono
Portuguese Trovão
Spanish Trueno
Japanese いかずちIkazuchi
いかずち (kana)
(base)
Korean 번개Beon-gae
Chinese Léi

See also[edit]