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{{Infobox character

| headers = true

| birthdate = January 25<ref name="GoT P">''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Character Guidebook: The Gospel of Truth]]'': Katsuya Jonouchi's profile</ref><ref name="yugioh characters">{{citeweb|url=http://www.yugioh.com/characters/joey-wheeler|title=Character|publisher=4K Media Inc.|date=July 7, 2015}}</ref>

| age = 16<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|42|ref}}</ref>

| gender = Male

| favorite_food =

| relatives =

* [[Serenity Wheeler]] (younger sister)

| tournament1 = [[Duelist Kingdom]]

| tournament2 = [[Battle City]]

| tournament3 = [[Grand Championship]]

| result3 = Top 8

| anime_deck =

* [[Warrior]]/[[Beast-Warrior]]/Luck

| deck_master = [[Flame Swordsman (anime)|Flame Swordsman]]

| appears_in_xbox = ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny]]''

| ja_voice = {{voice actors|ja|Hiroki Takahashi|Mariko Nagahama|e1=<ref name="YGODM cast">[http://www.hi-net.zaq.ne.jp/aki_rhythm/seiyuu/seiyuu-y.html hi-net.zaq.ne.jp] ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters'' cast</ref>|e2=(childhood)<ref name="YGODM cast" />}}

| de_voice = {{voice actors|de|Robin Kahnmeyer}}

| it_voice = {{voice actors|it|Simone D'Andrea}}

| es_voice = {{voice actors|es|Carlos Íñigo|e1=(Americas)|José Gilberto Vilchis|e2=(Americas; some episodes)|Alfonso Obregón|e3=(Americas; ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light|Pyramid of Light]]''|Pablo Tribaldos|e4=(Spain)}}

| pt_voice = {{Voice actors|pt|Rodrigo Andreatto|e1=(Brazil)}}

==Design==

===Appearance===

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

In the first seven volumes of the original [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] manga, Joey'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. Joey'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 second series anime, he has dirty blond hair in the sporadic hairstyle and dark brown eyes. His usual outfit from the second series anime consists of a long green open jacket with a raised collar, a white T-shirt underneath and blue jeans. Later in the series, his green jacket is replaced with a blue denim one. He often carries a [[Duel Disk#Duel Disk (version 2)|KaibaCorp Duel Disk]] on his left arm.

===Personality===

[[Kazuki Takahashi]] considers [[Seto Kaiba]] and [[Yami Yugi]] weak in comparison to Joey.<ref>''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Character Guidebook: The Gospel of Truth]]'': The Super Long Interview with Kazuki Takahashi</ref>

===Voice===

===Etymology===

==Biography==

===Yu-Gi-Oh!===

====Duelist Kingdom====

Joey accompanies Yugi in the [[Duelist Kingdom]] tournament, to help Yugi rescue Solomon and so he can use the prize money, to pay for Serenity's eye operation. Yugi gives Joey one of his [[Star Chips]] allowing Joey to also enter the tournament. On the boat journey to the Duelist Kingdom, Yugi gives Joey a "[[Time Wizard (anime)|Time Wizard]]" saying it can be useful in a tight situation. Here Joey meets [[Mai Valentine]] for the first time. At this point she claims he is not worth her time. After Weevil tosses Yugi's "[[Exodia]]" cards overboard, Joey dives in to the water to rescue them, he manages to retrieve two of the cards, before Yugi dives in to rescue Joey. Both of them are saved by Téa and Tristan, who managed to sneak onto the boat. Once safely back on board, Joey tells his friends of his sister and her condition.

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

[[File:Joey-54643.jpg|thumb|left|215px|Joey at [[Pegasus Castle]]]]

In attempt to get revenge, he has a Duel outside of the tournament, against Seto Kaiba, where he is brutally defeated. Joey loses confidence after this defeat and briefly leaves his friends before being forced into a Duel against [[Bonz]]. He manages to beat [[Bonz]] and later the [[Paradox Brothers]] in a tag Duel with Yugi. 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 Joey in the competition, Yugi gave him one of his entry cards. Although [[Bandit Keith]] steals Joey's card, Joey proceeds to defeat Keith in the semi-finals, because Mai gave Joey one of her entry cards after she loses to Yugi. In the final round 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. Joey remains on the sideline cheering for Yugi in the final. After Yugi defeats Pegasus, he gives Joey the prize money for Serenity's operation.

====Legendary Heroes====

Shortly after Duelist Kingdom, [[Mokuba Kaiba]] comes to Solomon's shop to inform Yugi and his friends that Seto had been kidnapped and trapped in a Virtual World. The gang went to [[KaibaCorp]] to help Seto. Joey, 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 Valentine. Mai reluctantly admitted it was her trying to avoid them thinking she was their friend. While Joey is helpful in saving Kaiba, Kaiba says he wouldn't ever consider Joey a teammate.

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" card and offers it to Joey, but Joey insists that Yugi keep it. Despite losing the card, Joey goes on to defeat [[Espa Roba]], who had just defeated the card's original owner, [[Rex Raptor]]. He then defeats Yugi's old rivals [[Weevil Underwood]] and [[Mako Tsunami]], 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.

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

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

====Virtual World====

After the quarter-finals, the blimp was sucked into a hidden area where Yugi, Joey, Téa, Tristan, Duke, Serenity, Seto and Mokuba were linked into a Virtual World apparently hosted by Kaiba's stepbrother [[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 that body in the real world. Joey was able to construct his Deck using lists of given cards. He also included a few "[[Harpie]]" cards, remembering how Mai used to use them. He faced [[Johnson]], who rigged Joey's luck-based cards to work in his favor. Noah threatens to disqualify Johnson, but Joey asks that the Duel continue, and he defeats Johnson. He later pairs up with Yugi as they Duel the Big Five combined. Working together they defeat the Big Five. After Yugi defeats Noah, the party is returned to the real world.

====Battle City finals====

On entering the Duel Tower Island, where the Battle City finals are taking place, Kaiba continues to mock 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, Joey hated Marik more and used the Battle Royale Duel, which would determine who faced who in the next round in his favor to pair him against Marik.

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 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.

====Waking the Dragons====

He later finds out Mai is working for Paradius and is set on using "[[The Seal of Orichalcos (anime)|The Seal of Orichalcos]]" to strip Joey of his soul. Joey refuses to accept that Mai joined under her own free will and accused Paradius of brainwashing her. Mai Duels Joey in an attempt to take his soul. Joey, holding back at first for fear of losing Mai, struggles to avoid losing the Duel, until his mind is taken to another world, where he pulls a sword from a large dragon sealed in crystal. Back in reality that dragon, "[[Claw of Hermos]]" is added to his Deck. He uses this card to gain an advantage in the Duel. When it becomes apparent that Joey is about to win, [[Valon]] interrupts, using a fragment of the Orichalcos stone to remove "The Seal of Orichalcos" in order to save Mai.

Joey's Hermos card begins to glow, and he sees the three [[Legendary Dragon]]s appear and guide an airplane to land safely nearby. Joey and Tristan rush to the plane, where they meet up with Yami and Téa, who had also seen the Dragons guide the plane. Kaiba emerges from the plane, and he explains how Paradius had hacked into KaibaCorp and began taking over. Kaiba gives them all a lift to Domino City, leaving Rex in the care of his remaining faithful staff. The City has become overrun with Orichalcos Soldiers. After being chased by one, Joey meets [[Valon]], who takes off on a motorcycle. Joey grabs a motorcycle that an Orichalcos Soldier had caused someone to fall off of and chases Valon. After catching up, they Duel, and Valon explains his reason for targeting Joey; from hearing Mai constantly rant about him, he felt eliminating Joey would be a favor to her. However, Valon becomes impressed by Joey's Dueling skills and speech about how he felt Dueling was about fighting for people you love. He soon comes to respect Joey and see why Mai is so interested in him. Mai appears midway through the Duel, telling Valon off for Dueling Joey because she wanted to be the one to defeat him. Joey wins, and just before Valon lost his soul, he asked Joey to save Mai.

====Grand Championship====

====Dawn of the Duel====

During the ''[[Dawn of the Duel]]'' arc, Joey, Yugi, Téa and Tristan go to Cairo, Egypt so that they might help Yami Yugi fulfill his destiny as Pharaoh. They were greeted at the airport by the Ishtars. After Yami Yugi entered the [[World of Memories|Memory World]], his friends were shocked to see that he had left the Millennium Puzzle, so [[Shadi]] used the [[Millennium Key]] to open the way to the maze of Yugi's heart so that he might try to find the door to the Memory World. Once there, the four of them met up with [[Bobasa]], who promised to help them. They were able to phase through other buildings and people unnoticed and remained invisible to the majority of people, but they could not pass through the palace gates. Joey, Téa, Tristan and Yugi manage to find Yami's real name, but are unable to read the hieroglyphics. When they meet up with Yami later, they are unable to tell him his real name. Together they Summon monsters to fight [[Zorc Necrophades]]. After Zorc defeats their monsters, they try concentrating on their memories of the hieroglyphics, and are able to make them appear on a [[Wikipedia:Cartouche|cartouche]]. Yami read his name, Atem, from the cartouche allowing him to Summon [[The Creator God of Light, Horakhty]], destroying [[Zorc Necrophades]].

===''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX''===

His name is referenced in an episode in the dub when [[Jaden Yuki]] Duels a lab chimpanzee, the scientist says the ape's name is [[Wheeler]]. This is a reference to [[Seto Kaiba|Kaiba]] once calling Joey a "Dueling monkey" in the dub.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|13|ref}}</ref>

A Duelist who looks like Joey is seen Dueling at [[Daimon Area]] against a Duelist who resembles [[Frost]]. [[Thunder (character)|Thunder]], Frost's partner, also bears a resemblance to Joey. In the dub, someone asks if the Duelist is Joey Wheeler. Someone else replies that it is his cousin [[Jesse Wheeler]].<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|14|ref}}</ref>

==Non-canon appearances==

==Other appearances==

==Relationships==

===Mai Valentine===

===Seto Kaiba===

{{Main|Joey Wheeler's Decks}}

During the ''[[Duelist Kingdom]]'' arc, Joey's Deck is comprised of mostly [[Warrior]] and [[Beast-Warrior]]-[[Type]] [[Monster Cards|monsters]]. He uses few Magic and Trap Cards, the ones that do mostly allowing him to power up his monsters or weaken enemy monsters. His favorite card is "[[Flame Swordsman (anime)|Flame Swordsman]]", but he rarely uses it after Duelist Kingdom. Joey's signature move during Duelist Kingdom was to use a combo of "[[Time Wizard (anime)|Time Wizard]]" and "[[Baby Dragon (anime)|Baby Dragon]]" to weaken enemy monsters and aging "Baby Dragon" into "[[Thousand Dragon (anime)|Thousand Dragon]]". Joey also uses "[[Graverobber (anime)|Graverobber]]" to steal enemy cards for his own usage (note that in the anime "Graverobber" can take any card from the opponent's Graveyard, not just Magic cards), and adds the "[[Red-Eyes B. Dragon (anime)|Red-Eyes Black Dragon]]" to his Deck after he wins it from [[Rex Raptor]]. With the exception of Battle City, when he lost the "Red-Eyes" to a [[Seeker|Rare Hunter]], Joey would make usage of the dragon throughout the series, gradually adding support cards for it to his Deck.

In the ''[[Battle City]]'' arc, Joey's Deck is more balanced. He relies on Warriors again and incorporates '''Gamble''' cards that rely on coin flips, dice rolls or other games of chance and luck, "[[Graceful Dice (anime)|Graceful Dice]]" and "[[Skull Dice (anime)|Skull Dice]]" being two such cards that become a permanent part of Joey's Deck. His reliance on these cards contrasts the other Duelists in the series including Yugi and Kaiba, as Joey does not have access to the powerful cards they do and relies on luck to win. Other cards that become mainstays in his Deck include "[[Alligator's Sword (anime)|Alligator Sword]]", "[[Swordsman of Landstar (anime)|Swordsman of Landstar]]", and "[[Panther Warrior (anime)|Panther Warrior]]", and the Magic Cards "[[Scapegoat (anime)|Scapegoat]]" and "[[Giant Trunade (anime)|Giant Trunade]]". As he defeats opponents Joey adds "[[Jinzo (anime)|Jinzo]]", "[[Insect Queen (anime)|Insect Queen]]", and "[[The Legendary Fisherman (anime)|The Legendary Fisherman]]" to his Deck, "Jinzo" becoming one of Joey's best monsters as the series progresses.

During the ''[[Grand Championship]]'' arc, Joey's Deck is largely the same as in "Waking the Dragons". He expands on his "Swordsman of Landstar" in the form of other "[[Landstar]]" monsters and support cards for them, and uses more gamble cards, namely "[[Dangerous Machine Type-6 (anime)|Dangerous Machine Type-6]]" and "[[Maximum Six (anime)|Maximum Six]]".

==References==

{{Joey Wheeler pages}}

{{Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories characters}}

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