Card Trivia:Black Ray Lancer
- This monster appears in the artwork of "Xyz Entrust".
- This is the first Beast-Warrior Xyz Monster.
- This monster has 2 "Full Armored" counterparts: "Full Armored Black Ray Lancer" and "Full Armored Utopic Ray Lancer".
- This monster also has a visually upgraded counterpart: "Valiant Shark Lancer".
- This is the signature card of Reginald "Shark" Kastle.
- Interestingly, this is one of the few cards Shark uses that is not WATER, Fish or Aqua monsters, although it uses WATER monsters as Xyz Material.
- This is one of the first three Xyz Monsters (all released in Photon Shockwave) that has specific Xyz Materials, the first two being "Thunder End Dragon" and "Evolzar Laggia".
- In the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime, when this card detaches its Xyz Materials, it absorbs them through its spear or chest. When this card negates an Effect Monster's effect(s), it blasts their effects away using winds from its wings.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL episode Playing Defense", when this monster is equipped with " 84: "Sharkify", Shark refers to it as "Black Shark Lancer". This implies that this monster's name is based on a "stingray" before he replaces it with "Shark", both of which are chondrichthyes fish.