Card Trivia:Number 96: Dark Mist

"Number 96: Dark Mist":

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• In Japanese, the number 9 can be read as "ku" and 6 as "ro"; together, it reads kuro, the Japanese word for black, which makes sense for the monster called "Black Mist".
  • Another reason for its "Number" is the concept of reversal, because 96 will still look the same even after it's upside-down. So, its effect is based on that concept since it will still have the upper-hand when it battles, unless it has no Xyz Materials, of course.
  • The reversal concept could also allude to the form Number 96 takes when it possesses Astral. In addition to a reverse personality, it had an inverted color scheme.

• This card has a kind of "joke" on its design: its eyes are on its chest, and on its face, where the eyes should be, there is his Number (96), in a way they look like its eyes.

• This is the highest numbered "Numbers" monster yet.

• This is the first Fiend-Type "Numbers" monster along being the first Rank 2 "Numbers" monster.

• This card's effect is similar to "Elemental HERO Gaia" and "Riryoku".

• This is the first "Numbers" monster to require a specific kind of Xyz Materials, though only in the anime.

• The number 96 is on its head while its face is on its torso.

• This card's sealed form is a blob of black slime with a flickering flame-like object inside.

• In the anime, when this card detaches an Xyz Material, it absorbs it through the face on its torso.

• This is the second "Numbers" monsters whose both sealed and unsealed forms were not rendered in 3D graphics, the first being "Number 83: Galaxy Queen". Although in Episode 37 its unsealed form is shown in 3D.

• The Battle Damage this card inflicts is the same as "The Wicked Avatar" namely 100 (on most circumstances), incidentally this card is also a Fiend-Type DARK Monster Card. Added by the fact that both of them have indefinite form and they both influenced their user.

• This monster bears a strong resemblance to the Anti-Spiral's mecha, Granzeboma, from Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann.
  • Its false form looks a lot like the Anti-Spiral itself.

• As Dark Mist can be seen as the dark counterpart to Astral, this card can be seen as the dark counterpart to "Number 39: Utopia".

• This card's appearance could've been based off of Elemental HERO Escuridão.

• Black Mist continues the parallel between the original Yu-Gi-Oh!'s main 2 heroes and the final villan of the series. Black Mist acts in a similar fashion to Yami Bakura, becoming a nuisance who shows up every once in a while.
  • Black Mist also shares Bakura's ultimate goal to re-unite all the missing items, in this case the Numbers cards, into his possession.
  • The card itself has a similar effect to Bakura's ace monster, Diabound Kernel in the Dawn of the Duel/Millenium World arc. It gains attack equal to an opponents monster's attack.
  • Due to the numerous similarities with Bakura (and also with Nightshroud of the GX saga), many suspect that Black Mist, is destined to become the final enemy of the ZEXAL's saga.

• This card is the only "Number" other than Number 39: Utopia to appear within The Emperor's Key.