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* [[Shizuka KawaiSerenity Wheeler]] (younger sister)* [[MsMrs. KawaiWheeler]] (mother)* [[Mr. JonouchiWheeler]] (father)

'''Katsuya JonouchiJoey Wheeler''', known as '''Joey WheelerKatsuya Jonouchi''' in the English animemanga and Japanese version, is a [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] character, who is best friends with [[Yugi Muto]].

Jonouchi Joey started out as a bully, but becoming friends with [[Yugi Muto]] changes this. Though occasionally portrayed as comic relief, he is essential to the plot and the series' overall theme. He is an enthusiastic duelist, who claims dueling is about fighting to help people you love.

JonouchiJoey's character design was overseen by [[Kazuki Takahashi]].

In the first seven volumes of the original [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] manga, JonouchiJoey's hairstyle changes drastically. Originally featuring two large fringes in front of his ears, the hairstyle changes to a sporadically arranged taper-like and unrealistic hairstyle. JonouchiJoey's first color appearance depicts him with medium brown hair and black eyes. Subsequent appearances lighten the hair color to dirty blond and blond. His eyes are portrayed as brown or hazel.

In the first series anime, JonouchiJoey's hairstyle does not change, and the sporadic hairstyle colored in a bright blond style is used. His eyes are brown.

In the Japanese version, Jonouchi Joey does not use honorifics, which means he has a "rude" speech pattern. When talking to people he doesn't like, Jonouchi Joey uses the word "teme" (a rude form of "you" in Japanese, often translated as "you bastard") instead of his normal "omae" (a form of "you" that in context is used between friends, but can imply that the person being spoken to has a lower status than the speaker does if used incorrectly), especially to [[Seto Kaiba]], who does not think highly of JonouchiJoey. The speech pattern translates into the 4Kids American English anime, in which it is represented by Jonouchi Joey (voiced by Wayne Grayson) speaking with a Brooklyn accent. He refers to himself as "The Godfather of Games" in the movie. In the Southeast Asian English dub, Jonouchi Joey (voiced by Dwayne Tan in this dub) noticeably lacks the Brooklyn accent he has in the American dub.

Jonouchi Joey and his sister, [[Shizuka KawaiSerenity Wheeler]], were separated when their parents divorced when he was 10. Shizuka Serenity was brought up by her mother while Jonouchi Joey lived with his father.

Joey and [[Hiroto HondaTristan Taylor]] used to bully [[Yugi Muto]] at school. At one point Jonouchi Joey took a piece of Yugi's [[Millennium Puzzle]] and threw it into a canal. However when [[Tetsu Ushio|Ushio]] started beating up Jonouchi Joey and HondaTristan, Yugi stood up for them, saying they were his friends. Jonouchi Joey was inspired by how Yugi had tried to help him and came to care for Yugi. He retrieved the piece of the puzzle in the canal and gave it to [[Sugoroku Solomon Muto|Yugi's grandfather]] , to give to Yugi.

Jonouchi Joey became friends with [[Anzu MazakiTéa Gardner]] through Yugi.

After taking up Duel Monsters, it becomes clear that Jonouchi Joey isn't very good at the game initially, so Yugi suggests that Jonouchi Joey take lessons from [[Sugoroku Solomon Muto]], Yugi's grandfather. The training proves rigorous, yet Jonouchi Joey copes and becomes a stronger duelist. He makes the top eight in the regionals. After [[Seto Kaiba]] kidnaps Sugoroku Solomon and then rips up his "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" card, Jonouchi Joey spurs a bitter hatred of Kaiba.

Jonouchi Joey accompanies Yugi in the [[Duelist Kingdom]] tournament , to help Yugi rescue Sugoroku; Solomon and so he also wishes to can use the prize money , to pay for ShizukaSerenity's eye operation. Yugi gives Jonouchi Joey one of his [[Star Chips]], allowing him Joey to also enter the tournament. On the boat journey to the Duelist Kingdom, Yugi gives Jonouchi Joey a "[[Time Wizard]]" saying it can be useful in a tight situation. Here Jonouchi Joey meets [[Mai KujakuValentine]] for the first time. At this point she claims he is not worth her time. After [[Insector Haga]] Weevil tosses Yugi's "[[Exodia]]" cards overboard, Jonouchi Joey dives in to the water to rescue them. He , he manages to retrieve two of the cards , before Yugi dives in to rescue JonouchiJoey. Both of them are saved by Anzu Téa and HondaTristan, who managed to sneak onto the boat.

Still an amateur, Jonouchi Joey manages to beat Mai Valentine with Yugi's help and support from Anzu Téa and HondaTristan. He later beats [[Dinosaur RyuzakiRex Raptor]] in a duel, where he is not allowed to accept help from Yugi. Here he wins RyuzakiRex's "[[Red-Eyes B. Dragon]]" card by betting "[[Time Wizard]]".

[[File:Flame Swordsman Joey.jpg|thumb|right|Jonouchi Joey as the "[[Flame Swordsman]]".]]

When the group meet [[Ryo Bakura|Bakura]], they end-up trapped inside Duel Monsters cards, by [[Yami Bakura]]. Using his friends as cards, Yami Yugi duels Yami Bakura. Jonouchi Joey is trapped in the "[[Flame Swordsman]]" card, but appears on the field, when Yami Yugi Summons him. Jonouchi Joey offers to sacrifice himself for Yugi's "[[Horn of Heaven]]" to they can stop Yami Bakura's "[[Man-Eater Bug]]". AnzuTéa, who has taken the form of the "[[Magician of Faith]]", cries over JonouchiJoey's deathsacrifice, activating her effect, returning "[[Monster Reborn]]" to Yami Yugi's hand. Yami then uses it to revive JonouchiJoey. Yami Yugi defeats Yami Bakura, after using his [[Millennium PuzzleRing]] to switch his place with regular Bakura. Afterwards Jonouchi Joey believes the events of the duel Duel to have been a dream.

In attempt to get revenge, he has a duel Duel outside of the tournament, against Seto Kaiba, where he is brutally defeated. Jounouchi Joey loses confidence after this defeat and briefly leaves his friends before being forced into a duel against [["Ghost" KotsuzukaBonz]]. He manages to beat Ghost [[Bonz]] and later the [[Meikyū Paradox Brothers]] in a tag duel with Yugi. Jonouchi Joey then qualified to the semi-finals. Pegasus then mentioned that each duelist must hold one of two entry cards or face disqualification. In order to keep Jonouchi Joey in the competition, Yugi gave him one of his entry cards. Although [[Keith Howard|Bandit Keith]] steals JonouchiJoey's card, Jonouchi Joey proceeds to defeat Keith in the semi-finals, because Mai gave Jonouchi Joey one of her entry cards after she loses to Yugi. In the final round, Jonouchi Joey uses everything he learned from Yugi , throughout the tournament. Despite their friendship, neither of them hold back and Yugi wins after a close duel. Jonouchi Joey remains on the sideline cheering for Yugi in the final. After Yugi defeats Pegasus, he gives Jonouchi Joey the prize money for ShizukaSerenity's operation.

Shortly after Duelist Kingdom, [[Mokuba Kaiba]] comes to SugorokuSolomon's shop, Kame Game, to inform Yugi and his friends that [[Seto Kaiba]] had been kidnapped and trapped in a Virtual World. They agree to help Mokuba and accompany him The gang went to [[KaibaCorp]]to help Seto. JonouchiJoey, Yugi and Mokuba entered the [[Wikipedia:Massively multiplayer online role-playing game|MMORPG]] like Virtual World, where they completed tasks and met up with Mai KujakuValentine. Mai reluctantly admitted it was her trying to avoid them thinking she was their friend. While Jonouchi Joey is helpful in saving Kaiba, Kaiba says he wouldn't ever consider Jonouchi Joey a teammate.

After [[Ryuji OtogiDuke Devlin]] transfers to Domino High, Jonouchi Joey becomes jealous of his popularity and challenges him to a duel, where, if Jonouchi Joey wins, Otogi Duke must shut down the game shop he'd just opened as Sugoroku , since Solomon had been complaining about the loss of business his own game shop was getting as a result. Otogi Duke sets the stakes so that, if he wins, Jonouchi Joey must do as he says. Despite Yugi's objection, Jonouchi Joey and Otogi do not Duke duel with their own decks; instead, using whatever cards they draw cards from sealed Duel Monsters acquire in a bunch of booster packs. Otogi Duke wins and, holding his end of the bargain, Jonouchi Joey does as Otogi Duke tells him and wears a dog costume. He was later released of this embarrassment , after Yugi defeated Otogi Duke in [[Dungeon Dice Monsters]], freeing JonouchiJoey. Despite their conflicts, Otogi Duke becomes friends with JonouchiJoey.

When Seto Kaiba hosted the [[Battle City]] tournament, he allowed duelists to enter based on a rating he'd given them. At the enrollment, Yugi was allowed to enter based on the 5 star rating he was given, but Jonouchi Joey was given the minimum rating of 1 star. While Jonouchi Joey was ranting about Kaiba, the tournament official, notices "[[Red-Eyes B. Dragon]]" listed as Joey's rarest card, so he changes JonouchiJoey's rating to 4 stars, saying that the previous rating there had been a mistake. After Jonouchi Joey and his friends have left, the official phones a [[Rare Hunters|Rare Hunter]], to inform him about the "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" card.

While heading to the hospital for ShizukaSerenity's operation, Jonouchi Joey encounters a group of Rare Hunters. One of them, [[Seeker]], duels Jonouchi Joey and defeats him using "[[Exodia]]". The hunters beat -up Jonouchi Joey and take the Red-Eyes card. This makes him feel unworthy to be present at ShizukaSerenity's operation. However, Shizuka But Serenity refuses to have take the operation until Jonouchi Joey arrives. Honda Tristan manages to find Jonouchi Joey and talk him into going coming to the hospital. Shizuka Serenity is still angry at Jonouchi Joey for being late, but he Joey manages to talk her into getting taking the operation.

Jonouchi Joey finds Seeker on the first day of the tournament in an attempt to get a rematch, but is denied, so Yugi duels and defeats Seeker instead. He wins back the "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" card and offers it to JonouchiJoey, but Jonouchi Joey insists that Yugi keep it. Jonouchi Joey goes on to defeat [[Esper Espa Roba]], [[Ryouta KajikiMako Tsunami]] and [[Insector HagaWeevil Underwood]], qualifying for the quarter-finals, and gaining new cards that boost his deck considerably. He decided that early on, he only wanted to defeat strong duelists to qualify, rather than do things the easy way. This led him to go as far as challenging Seto Kaiba. Kaiba declined after he is informed of Yugi's location while hunting for the Egyptian God Cards. Although he is relieved about not facing Kaiba, he still acts tough and calls Kaiba a coward.

[[File:Joey possessed by Marik.png|thumb|right|200px|Jonouchi Joey possessed by Marik.]]After his Duel with KajikiMako, [[Marik Ishtar]], the leader of the Rare Hunters, uses his [[Millennium Rod]] to possess Jonouchi Joey and force him to duel Yugi, with both their lives on the line. They were both chained to an anchor which would drop after a time limit or when a player's players Life Points hit zero. Also once a player's Life Points hit 0, the opponent would be able to get a key , that could unlock him from the chains. Marik boosts JonouchiJoey's deck with powerful spell cards that have Yugi and Kaiba amazed. Yugi, to show Marik how strong his friendship with Jonouchi Joey is, summons Red-Eyes and gives Jonouchi Joey his Millennium Puzzle. Yugi delibrately loses, but Jonouchi manages to snap Joey snaps out of Marik's control and manages to force the duel Duel in a draw. He grabs the key to unlock Yugi's chain and dives into the water to rescue him. He is unable to the unlock his own chains with Yugi's key. Shizuka Serenity arrives in time to take the bandages off her eyes and take JonouchiJoey's key and dive in to rescue him. (In the manga, it is Kaiba who rescues Jonouchi, rather than Shizuka.)

Jonouchi, Joey along with his friends, proceed on to the KaibaCorp Kaiba's blimp, where the quarter-finals are held. He is paired against [[Rishid Odion Ishtar]] in the qurater-finals. At the time, Rishid Odion was pretending to be Marik, while the real Marik pretended to be a boy named called Namu, who earned their trust by pretending to have helped [[Ryo Bakura|Bakura]]. After Rishid Odion obtains a clear advantage in their duel, Shizuka Serenity begins to leave, saying she cannot bear to watch. However, Jonouchi but Joey calls her back, saying that she is his inspiration and he needs her to win. Despite a comeback, Rishid Odion attempts to claim victory, but Jonouchi Joey accused him of not being Marik. He claimed Rishid Odion was fighting fairly and proving honorable and didn't think he was the same guy who was controlling him earlier. Rishid Odion withdraws his winning move and tries to summon "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (original)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]" to prove he was Marik. Since the Ra card was a counterfeit that Marik had put in RishidOdion's Deck, the real Ra was angered and struck down both players. When this occurred, RishidOdion's fake Millennium Rod shattered, giving the real Marik away. Seto Kaiba announced that the first player to stand up within a time limit would be declared the winner, otherwise both players would be disqualified. While unconscious, Jonouchi Joey has a dream about his friends helping him to stand up and he ends up standing up for real, claiming victory. Rishid Odion then asks for JonouchiJoey's forgiveness, and tells him that it had been an honor dueling him, before falling into a coma.

Jonouchi Joey later thanks his friends, telling him they were there with him in the dream helping him stand up. Mai asked Jonouchi Joey if she was in his dream. Jonouchi Joey lies and says that she wasn't, which infuriates Mai. She stormed off claiming she didn't need friends, while Anzu Téa pulled Jonouchi Joey aside to berate tell himoff.

Mai was paired against Marik in her quarter-final. Jonouchi Joey attempted to encourage her from the sideline, but she was still angered disgusted by what he had said earlier and claimed she didn't want or need his help. Marik set the Duel such that each time a player destroyed one of their opponent's monsters, the opponent would forget everything about someone they knew. This forced her to forget about Anzu Tea first, then JonouchiJoey. Marik was about to win the duel by attacking with "The Winged Dragon of Ra", while Mai was strapped to a wall by Marik's monsters, so Jonouchi Joey climbed into the arena and tried to unstrap Mai to save her from Ra's blast. He was unable to but [[Yugi Muto|Yami Yugi]] jumped in protecting both from the blast. Yugi and Joey survived, though Marik was able to kill send Maito the [[Shadow Realm]]. He feels somewhat responsible for Mai's Mai’s loss. This further fueled JonouchiJoey's hatred for Marik, making him want to face Marik in the next round.

After the quarter-finals, the blimp was sucked into a hidden area where Yugi, JonouchiJoey, AnzuTéa, HondaTristan, OtogiDuke, ShizukaSerenity, Kaiba Seto and Mokuba were linked into a Virtual World apparently hosted by Kaiba's stepbrother [[Noa Noah Kaiba]]. The party was split up and to defeat members of [[the Big Five]], who would take their bodies to escape from the virtual world and live inside them that body in the real world. Jonouchi Joey was able to construct his deck using lists of given cards. He included a few [[Harpies|Harpy]] cards, remembering how Mai used to use them. He faced [[Chikuzen Oka Johnson]], who rigged JonouchiJoey's lucked based cards to work in his favor. Noa Noah threatens to disqualify OkaJohnson, but Jonouchi Joey asks that the duel continue and he defeats OkaJohnson. He later pairs up with Yugi as they duel the Big Five combined. Working together they defeat the Big Five. After Yugi defeats NoaNoah, the party are returned to the real world.

On entering the Duel Tower Island, where the Battle City finals are taking place, Kaiba continues to mock Jonouchi Joey and asked how he managed to enter the tournament, saying somebody must have messed up on the computer systems. Despite his hatred for Kaiba, Jonouchi's Joey hated for Marik was stronger more and he used the Battle Royale Duel, which would determine who faced who in the next round, in his favor to pair him against Marik.

When Jonouchi Joey duels Marik in the semi-finals, Marik links all monsters summoned by a player to the player themselves, so that any pain the monster feels, the controller would also feel. Jonouchi Joey duels surprisingly well against Marik, but when Marik summons "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (original)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]", he uses its effect to destroy JonouchiJoey's monsters, causing Jonouchi Joey immense pain. It appeared that Jonouchi Joey would not survive the blast. This even resulted in Yami begging Kaiba to call off the duel, but Kaiba refuses, and insisted he had to witness Ra's special ability with his own eyes. But when Ra had finished, Jonouchi Joey was still standing. He struggled to draw his next card, "[[Gearfried the Iron Knight]]". He summoned it and tried to attack Marik's [[Life Points]] directly for the win, but collapsed before the attack went through, leaving Marik the winner. After seeing Jonouchi Joey stand up after Ra's blast, Kaiba actually admits to himself that he was impressed by JonouchiJoey's performance, and realizes Jonouchi Joey isn't only the third-rate amateur that he thought he was.

Jonouchi Joey remains in a coma for a while (in In the English version, a few screen shots were cut that showed that in fact he was dead for a few minutes , and also dialogues were rearranged to show him simply as unconscious), leaving his friends worrying whether that he will wake up or notmay have been sent to the Shadow Realm. He is taken care of by KaibaCorp doctors on the Kaiba's blimp, until Yugi's duel with Kaiba in the semi-finals, when Honda Tristan drags him to the window to see Yugi's duel claiming Yugi needs him. Jonouchi Joey slowly regained consciousness and afterwords dashes up the Duel Tower, catching the end of Yugi's duel. After Kaiba gives Yugi "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (original)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]", because of the [[Ante Duel|ante rule]], Jonouchi Joey challenges Kaiba to a play off to determine 3rd and 4th place. Though Jonouchi Joey plays rather well, managing for a short time to use Kaiba's own "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" again him, Kaiba wins and says that dueling Jonouchi Joey was just a waste of time. However, Mokuba, who was one of the few spectators, is impressed by how Jonouchi Joey dueled his brother.

Jonouchi Joey cheers on Yugi in the finals against Yami Marik and returns to Mai's bed to see if defeating Yami Marik had woken her up. He cries over her body, until he hears Mai and Shizuka Serenity snickering, as they pranked him into admitting he would do anything to have Mai wake up, Mai having woken up before he even reached her room.

After the gang flew back to Domino City, they said their goodbyes and parted. Later on, Jonouchi Joey met up with Yugi for a duel they promised each other. Joey claimed he was going to win back his "[[Red-Eyes B. Dragon|Red-Eyes Black Dragon]]". The result of the Duel was never shown.

Joey is [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 107|mentioned by name]], by Pegasus. Pegasus includes Joey in his top five duelists as number three, two . Two being Kaiba and one being Yugi.