After his ordeal in season three, Jaden develops a much more cynical outlook on life and is far more brooding and serious. He finds himself unable to enjoy Dueling and attempts to end his Duels as quickly as possible. He even ceases to use his catchphrases. Despite still caring deeply for his friends, he is much more distant towards them, not wanting them to be hurt by the danger his presence tends to attract. He begins to recover his love of Dueling during the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 162|Pair Duel tournament]] and fully recovers it during [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 180|his Duel against Yugi]]. This is proven in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time]]''. Even when Jaden was still fused with Yubel and the Supreme King, he showed the same personality as the one he had in the first three seasons, showing that he in fact loves having a good time and Dueling again.
===Powers and abilities===
*Spiritual Communication **As the wielder of [[the Gentle Darkness, or Darkness of Justice]], Jaden has the ability to see, hear, and control communicate with [[Duel Monster SpiritsSpirit]]s.**Can This ability reaches as far back as Jaden's early childhood when he could hear the voices of his monsters ever since the spirits, but when he went to find the source, they disappeared. After Jaden's memories of Yubel were made dormant by an advanced medical procedure, he has not expressed communication with the spirits again until he obtained the "[[Winged Kuriboh (anime)|Winged Kuriboh]]" card, where he was a little kidheard the voice of [[Winged Kuriboh (character)|its spirit]].**Can During his Duel with [[Titan]], Jaden is able to see the spirit of Winged Kuriboh for the first time, regaining his ability to see the Duel Monsters Spirits. During his Duel with [[Blair Flannigan]], Jaden was able to glimpse at the spirits of his "[[Elemental Hero Avian (character)|Elemental Hero Avian ]]" and "[[Elemental HERO Sparkman (character)|Elemental Hero Sparkman talking ]]" communicating with Blair's "[[Maiden in Love (character)|Maiden in Love]]", as well as the spirit of "[[Elemental Hero Burstinatrix (character)|Elemental Hero Burstinatrix]]" getting angry at "Avian" and falling in love "Sparkman" for becoming infatuated with "Maiden in Love, whereas no one else could".**Was He is also able to understand and empathize with the other Duel Monsters Sprits, including "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (anime)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]", even managing to summon it to his side whom he felt its pain of the field being captured and used controlled by [[Franz]]. This ability doesn't limit Jaden to communicate with Duel Monsters Spirits; it also allows him to attack without any drawbacks.**Can see and interact communicate with Professor Bannernon-''Duel Monsters''s spirits, including the disembodied soulspirit of [[Lyman Banner]].**He and his monsters Additionally, Jaden can also communicate with each other telepathicallysouls trapped inside ''Duel Monsters'' cards, including the spirit of [[Jesse Anderson]] while his soul was trapped inside the "[[Rainbow Dark Dragon (anime)|Rainbow Dark Dragon]]" card.**Grants This ability also gives him some degree of resistance against brainwashingand emotional manipulation, including the ability to resist [[Belowski]]'s power to lull anyone in the area to fall asleep, as and the ability to resist [[Sartorius]]' attempt attempts to have control him controlled by the with [[The Light of Destruction only dealt severe ]]; however, in the case of the latter, this resistance delivered enough damage to Jaden's his soul, preventing to prevent him from seeing his reading the faces of ''Duel Monsters'' cardsand spirits in the process.**By borrowing power from During his monstersvisit to [[Neo Space]], Jaden can enter inside a person's heart eventually recovered his ability to directly read his cards and communicate with their soulsthe spirits after acquiring his "[[Neo-Spacian]]" cards, which also includes his newest signature card, "[[Elemental Hero Neos (anime)|Elemental Hero Neos]]".**After fusing his soul with Yubel, can see Jaden's abilities are dramatically increased to the point where his ability to sense and sense darkness from communicate with spirits are even more powerful than those of [[Chazz Princeton]]'s abilities. This includes sensing the sentient emissaries of the [[World of Darkness]], whereas Chazz (who can also see Duel Spirits) could not.**Sensed the 3 presences of the three [[Egyptian God Cards that were in Card]]s inside YugiMuto's Deck.**Can hear , and the voice of [[Yami Yugi's voice ]] from within the [[Millennium Puzzle]].*Emotion Manipulation Resistance**Was able to remain motivated and awake during his duel against BelowskiIn addition, despite everyone in the vicinity falling asleep because of the latter's power.**According to himself, it's because when he's enjoying doing something fungains clairvoyance, he doesn't have time complete immunity to take a break.*Prophetic Dreaming**Apparently, Jaden can catch glimpses of future events by sleeping, as he dreamt about the arrival of Camula and had a nightmare about being beaten by Bluemind-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, despite never meeting either one before.*Mental Protection**Due to possessing Yubel's power, Jaden has gained immunity towards based powers (including hypnosis and memory alteration.**Prevents others from reading the darkness in his heart (any negative emotions or strong desire that he has).**Can also resist telepathy , and mind manipulation, even from various Truemans at once.**Broke free from Nightshroud's attempt the ability to assimilate him into the World of Darkness.*Summoning**Using Yubel's power, Jaden can summon Duel Spirits manifest Monster Cards into the real world through by using his cards and his [[Duel Disk, which is useful for threats outside of Duels.**Presumably, he can also manifest Spell and Trap Cards, since Yubel caused the snakes of the Venom Swamp Field Spell to become real.**Can make the monsters he summoned more powerful than normal]].*Clairvoyance**Due to During his fusion final Duel with Yubel[[Nightshroud]], Jaden can see events that happen in the future or beyond his field of vision, such as Trueman sending the students of Duel Academy he was able to the World of Darkness.*Voice Projection**Jaden can project his voice to reach out to people from extremely far distances, as seen when he was able to speak to the populace of Earth who were trapped in within the World of Darkness, which reached despite reaching far into the Earth's orbit.Incredible Luck**Will more Jaden is also known for his incredible luck, which is often than not used for [[draw the exact ]]ing, including drawing a card he needs used to win guarantee a victory in a duel.**Made it to the entry exams at Kaiba Land on time, despite having a train accident.**When he and Chazz were reduced down to only 1000 Life PointsDuel, Jaden ends up drawing Avian (who's attack points are exactly 1000) and wins via direct attack.**Accomplished a 10-day streak of drawing a the single [[Golden Eggwich]] among the other sandwiches, despite there being only 1 among dozens of wrappers.**Picked out or drawing a salmon-flavored onigiri out of a dozen based on a guess.**After Gravekeeper's Chief forced him to discard all of the monsters other onigiri (in his hand (including Elemental HERO Necroshadethe dub, it is a strawberry-filled pastry), Jaden just happens to draw Elemental HERO Bladedge and used Necroshade's effect to Normal Summon him without Tribute.**After adding Elemental HERO Neos to the top This incredible luck is also applied outside of his DeckDuels and drawing, Lorenzo tried to shuffle Jaden's Deck thoroughly so including when he wouldn't draw him, but Jaden ends up drawing Neos anyways.**According to Bastion in arrives at [[Kaiba Land]] right before the manga, his draws become more effective as end of the Duel reaches its climaxAcademy entrance exams, despite being late due to an earlier train accident.
===Etymology===
! scope="col" | Episode(s)
! scope="col" | Outcome
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| [[Osamu]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 131|131]] || Lose (flashback)
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| [[Vellian Crowler]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 001|1]] || Win
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| [[Kagemaru]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 048|48]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 049|49]] || Win
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| [[Syrus Truesdale]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 050|50]] || Lose (simulation duel)
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| [[Zane Truesdale]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 051|51]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 052|52]] || [[DRAW]]
*Jaden's hairstyle and carefree attitude were an intentional contrast to those of [[Yami Yugi]] and [[Yugi Muto]] on the part of [[Kazuki Takahashi]].
*The plot involving [[the Supreme King]] was written after Takahashi realized that Jaden's attitude at the start of the series was difficult to show growth in, and in his own words "not enough to beat someone like [[Yami Marik]]".<ref name="duelart">''[[Duel Art]]'': An Interview with Kazuki Takahashi</ref>
* Jaden has used the most [[Fusion Monster]]s of any character in the franchise, with 33 (39 if the "[[Evil HERO]]" monsters he used while possessed by The Supreme King count).
* Jaden is the only protagonist:
** To use a [[Union monster]].
** Whose color palette does not contain any blue (Yugi's uniform is blue, [[Yusei Fudo|Yusei]]'s eyes and jacket are blue, [[Yuma Tsukumo|Yuma]]'s bracelet is dark blue with light blue gems on it, [[Yuya Sakaki|Yuya]]'s pendant and the star on the right lens of his googles are light blue, [[Yusaku Fujiki|Yusaku]]'s hair contains two shades of blue, [[Yuga Ohdo|Yuga]]'s gloves and shoes are blue, and [[Yudias Velgear|Yudias]]' hair and clothing contains multiple shades of blue).
** Whose results of his series' final Duel are unknown (not counting Yuma and Yuya's Duels against [[Cathy Katherine|Cathy]] and [[Yusho Sakaki|Yusho]], respectively, as those Duels were not seen). His final Duel is also the only one that wasn't against either a partner (like Yugi, Yuma, and Yusaku) or a rival (like Yusei, Yuya, and Yuga), as he instead faced the [[Yugi Muto|previous]] [[Yami Yugi|protagonists]].
** Whose supernatural powers do not include mid-Duel card edits. His powers also do not directly relate to dueling/drawing, as they are instead directly towards the Monster Cards themselves when he chooses to manifest them (usually not in dueling situations).
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