Card Appearances:Basic Insect
Anime & Manga
- In the original manga, "Basic Insect" was a Level 5 monster.
- Weevil Underwood played this card during his match against Rex Raptor in national Duel Monsters Championship. After Weevil summoned this card, Rex attacked this card with Two-Headed King Rex on his turn, but Weevil activates Infinite Dismissal, negating the attack. Weevil then equipped this card with Insect Armor with Laser Cannon, strengthening it enough to allow it to destroy "Two-Headed King Rex" and win the duel.
- Weevil next played this card in his duel against Yugi Muto during the Duelist Kingdom tournament, where he immediately equipped it with Laser Cannon Armor and Level 2 Power Boost. In addition, this card received a 600-point boost to its ATK from the forest field, raising its ATK to 2600. Weevil then used this card to Destroy Yugi's Griffore. Later, he would attempt to destroy Yugi's Dark Magician with this card, only to trigger Yugi's Set Mirror Force, destroying this card along with every other one of Weevil's monsters.
- In episode 13, this card is shown in Yami Yugi's hand when he was dueling Yami Bakura.
- In episode 16, this card can be seen in Kaiba's briefcase when he takes out a Duel Disk from his briefcase and tosses it to Joey.
- In episode 26, this card can be seen in Kaiba's briefcase when he takes a Duel Disk from his briefcase and tosses it to Pegasus.
- In episode 103, this card appears in the flashback relating to the events after Gozaburo Kaiba adopted Seto and Mokuba. This card is shown in Kaiba's Deck as he looks through it before finding a drawing of a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card.
- In episode 116, this card appears in a flashback Kaiba has when he reminds Mokuba that after Gozaburo pushed him to his limits, he(Mokuba) inspired him by sneaking his Deck to him and giving him a drawing of a "Blue-Eyes Wihte Dragon" card which got him to promise himself that he will work until he got an actual "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card.
- In episode 196, this card is shown within Leon's backstory flashback when he is shown watching Yugi's Duels on television.
- In episode 220 it was seen on the table while Yugi is building his deck.