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===Personality===
Varis presents himself as stoic and calm, unshaken by setbacks and adversity, though he can still lose his cool. In the dub, this goes to the point of maintaining an even rasp, rarely raising his voice. Much like the other Knights of Hanoi, Varis is a ruthless individual that seeks Ai. For some reason, he He bears a great hatred towards Ai the Ignis and the Cyberse world considering them a threat to the real world, and wanted to destroy them both, even using ordinary people to achieve their goals. However Varis claims that his actions are so that he can fulfill his promise to his father.<ref name="ep3">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|3|ref}}</ref>
Unlike most hackers, Varis distrusts Link VRAINS and the people that, to him, are dedicating their lives to it and make false relationships with other people. He values a person's life more. He distrusts Artificial Intelligence, to the point where he does not have one installed into in his Duel Disk. Due to that, he looks down as on the internet world as false. Despite his hatred towards VRAINS, Varis isn't against using the Cyberse for his own benefit. When Ai called him out on that, Varis described it as "counteracting poison with poison".<ref name="ep9">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|9|ref}}</ref>During his Duel with [[George Gore|The Gore]], Varis claims not to despise someone as passionate as The Gore, but this does not earn them his mercy.
===Etymology===
Five years later, [[Spectre]] informed Varis that [[SOL Technologies]]' security were searching for the Ignis. Varis smiled, seeing that he could exploit the situation. He summoned [[Number 10 (character)|Number 10]], ordering him to capture the Ignis before SOL Technologies could, while dismissing [[Yusaku Fujiki|Playmaker]] as a threat. He watched Number 10's attack on LINK VRAINS, and was intrigued when Playmaker arrived to challenge the Number 10, betting the Ignis on the Duel.<ref name="ep1"/> To his shock, Playmaker used a [[Cyberse]] Deck; Varis had thought them destroyed.
After Playmaker won the Duel, Varis admitted he didn't expect his opponent him to be that strong. Spectre arrived, explaining it was still better to let Playmaker have the Ignis than to be in possession of SOL Technologies. Varis knew that they were going to unmask Playmaker soon, noting that Playmaker hated the Knights of Hanoi, was one of few people that had [[Cyberse]] monsters and eventually would come and seek himout, as the leader of the Knights of Hanoi, out. Varis was nevertheless pleased, and actually wanted to prepare himself for the battle against Playmaker. Later, Varis sensed the location of the Ignis, and he flew over LINK VRAINS on "[[Borreload Dragon (anime)|Borreload Dragon]]", but he was unable to track down the Ignis, as the connection was severed in the last moment. Varis returned to his base, displeased that he could not find the Ignis. He was approached by [[Dr. Kogami]], who promised to make a new program, but needed more time. Varis stated that the ones holding the Ignis could not decipher him properly, but didn't want to give them too much time. Dr. Kogami said that they had to draw Playmaker out once more and defeat him properly. Varis heard an alarm, and logged off. In the real world, Ryoken approached his father, who was resting inside a pod. Ryoken promised he would make his father's wishes come true and tenderly touched his arm.<ref name="ep3"/>
[[File:Revolver in eye.png|thumb|Varis orders Blue Angel to use the Hanoi card.]]
[[File:Revolver summons Data Storm.png|thumb|left|Varis summons the Data Storm to destroy the placechurch.]]When Blue Angel was defeated, Varis was certain that Playmaker would have to comply to his demands. Dr. Kogami said Ai had to be destroyed and Varis was concerned about Kogami since he designed Ai. Kogami told Varis it was a painful decision to destroy the AI, while Varis reminded the importance of destroying Ai and Cyberse. When [[Akira Zaizen]] and [[Emma Bessho|Ghost Gal]] captured and interrogated Playmakerin a church within LINK VRAINS. Seizing his chance, Varis appeared before them and demanded him to that Playmaker be freed, as he was challenging him to a Duel. When Akira Zaizen refused, so Varis showed demonstrated his power by summoning a [[Data Storm]] and obliterating devastating the placechurch. He also threatened to destroy [[LINK VRAINS]], but stated that was not his intention, since he was interested in Ai the Ignis that Playmaker had in his possession. When Akira Zaizen refused to hand over Aithe Ignis, so Varis revealed they had placed a computer virus inside Blue Angel as a hostage and only they had the ability to reverse it. Varis admitted that they could've placed the virus into anyone, but Blue Angel was the most efficient target to draw Playmaker out. Varis also knew that AkiraZaizen, as the Security-in-Chief, had to take Ai the Ignis back, but doing so would make leave Blue Angel - AkiraZaizen's sister - under the permanent effect of the virus. Thus, he promised to hand over the program if Playmaker defeated him. Hesitant at first, Akira Zaizen freed Playmaker while Varis left to wait for Playmaker to come and Duel him.<ref name="ep8"/>
[[File:Revolver and Playmaker battle.png|thumb|Varis faces Playmaker in the a Speed Duel.]]As the two rode off on the Data WindStorm, Varis reminded Playmaker that he had interfered a lot of many times in the Knights of Hanoi's plans. Playmaker promised to defeat him and uncover their identities while ; Varis noted that he didn't care much for Playmaker's since they had many enemies. He declared their mission was to retrieve Ai the Ignis and was surprised that Playmaker had no knowledge of Ai as didn't know what an AIIgnis was. Ai The Ignis promised to eat Varis's program and reclaim his body back, while Varis stated if he were to win, Ai he would be his owntake the Ignis. Varis admitted he didn't bring his AI for his [[Duel Disk]], as he didn't trust them, claiming the internet was but a fiction. He valued the personal values of manhumans, and didn't trust the fake relationships and dedications over in LINK VRAINS; in his words, such ignorance would destroy the world, as would Ai and the Ignis. He declared Playmaker as his enemy for helping Ai. Before the Duel beganIgnis, Varis waved his hand causing the and caused LINK VRAINS to be crushed and replaced with lava rivers and fiery lakeserupt into flames.<ref name="ep9">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|9|ref}}</ref>
[[File:Revolver's Storm Access.png|thumb|left|Varis uses the Storm Access skill.]]
Taking the first turn, Varis used "[[Dragonoid Generator (anime)|Dragonoid Generator]]" to [[Special Summon]] two "Dragonoid Tokens" and [[Tribute Summon]] "Cracking Dragon". He then summoned the "Dragonoid Tokens" on to Playmaker's field and used , using the effect "Cracking Dragon's" effect to deal him damage. Despite this, the Playmaker managed to turn around the tables by [[Link Summon]]ing [[Link Spider (anime)|three]] [[Honeybot (anime)|monsters]] and destroying "Cracking Dragon" with "[[Decode Talker (anime)|Decode Talker]]", lowering Varis's [[LP]] to 1400. Despite having the advantage, Playmaker noted that Varis was vigorous and would not give up. Varis thanked Playmaker for clearing his field, as he brought out "[[Twin Triangle Dragon (anime)|Twin Triangle Dragon]]" and revived "Cracking Dragon" back, at the cost of it unable to attack and shaving 500 LP off. Varis sensed a power inside the network, and he summoned a Data Storm, showing off the [[revealing that he could use Playmaker's Skill]] Playmaker has, ; "Storm Access". With such power, Varis used all of his monsters to Link Summon "[[Topologic Bomber Dragon (anime)|Topologic Bomber Dragon]]", for a Cyberse monster that he was amused found amusing to use a Cyberse monster against other Playmaker's Cyberse monsters. Using "Dragonoid Generator", Varis had He triggered the effect of "Topologic Bomber Dragon" use its effect to destroy with "Dragonoid Token" and Playmaker's "[[Capacitor Stalker (anime)|Capacitor Stalker]]Generator", albeit destroying all monsters in the latter's effect caused Varis's LP Main Monster Zones to be lowered down to 100. Despite this, lower the ATK of "Decode Talker's" [[ATK]] were lowered down and Varis had "Topologic Bomber Dragon" low enough to destroy it. in battle, then activated the second effect of "Topologic Bomber Dragon's" effect caused Playmaker to take damage equal inflict its ATK to "Decode Talker's" ATK. Varis claimed Playmaker, claiming that Playmaker had lost this Duel and smiled, as his dragon executed it's effect.<ref name="ep9" />
[[File:Revolver adds card.png|thumb|Varis obtains his father's card.]]
To stop the effect, Playmaker activated "[[Link Restart (anime)|Link Restart]]", and even revived "Decode Talker". , prompting Varis noted how tough Playmaker was to avoid this situation, as "Dragonoid Generator" summoned another Token to Playmaker's fieldcomment on their resistance. As Playmaker had Ai the Ignis conjure a Data Storm, as Varis was glad they did that, since he had expected them to do that. He mused how his goal for the Speed Duel Varis was completed. After impressed when Playmaker successfully used Storm Access, Varis was impressed, considering how mighty the Data Storm was. Playmaker went attempted to Link Summon, but Varis stopped that with used "[[Remote Rebirth (anime)|Remote Rebirth]]", summoning a monster from to revive Playmaker's field to one of "[[zoneCapacitor Stalker (anime)|Capacitor Stalker]]s " to a zone that "Topologic Bomber Dragon" [[Points to|pointed to]], with the intention of using his dragon's triggering its effect to destroy every monster all the monsters in the Main Monster Zones. , and thus the effect of "Capacitor Stalker's" effect , which dealt 800 LP Damage, causing damage to both Varis players and Playmaker's LP to fall to 0. Ai suspected Varis wanted ended the Duel to end in a tie, but Varis denied this, declaring he could predict their every move[[DRAW]]. Suddenly, The force of the Data Storm then drew Varis and Playmaker were pulled to the Data Storminto its eye, just as the latter realized Varis actually had planned this. Varis and Playmaker were separated from their D-Boards, and entered the center of the Data Storm - a calm place, filled with floating rocks. Varis declared the place to be their new stage of battle, as a shining card Dr. Kogami sent to LINK VRAINS was added to his Deck. Varis explained they would have a [[Master Duel]] that had more Monster and Spell & Trap Zones, fitting for them to show off their Link Monsters' prowess.<ref name="ep10">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|10|ref}}</ref>
[[File:Fire Prison destroyed.png|thumb|left|Varis's "[[Fire Prison (anime)|Fire Prison]]" is destroyed by its own effect.]]
Varis told Playmaker claimed that it was his Playmaker's fault for listening to Ai that had made the Cyberse cards unusable. Since He explained the history of the Ignis to Playmaker did not know about Ai, Varis told how there explaining that they were tests to create life forms inside the network, but most attempts lacked free will. However, there was one person that succeeded, and that product was Ignis, the first AI with free willwho were trying to conquer the network. Playmaker did not believe in this storyVaris, but Varis ignored him. He stated was unconcerned and noted that the most important thing was to capture and destroy Ai, who had created the Cyberse and wanted to conquer the network. In his next turn, Varis used the effect of "Triple Burst Dragon's" effect to summon more Dragons, all to and bring out his ace, "[[Borreload Dragon (anime)|Borreload Dragon]]". , attacking Playmaker recognized it as it was the same dragon Varis rode on when he was searching for Ai when Yusaku directly and Kolter hacked it. Varis, who placed a safety mask on, declared a direct attack with depleting most of his dragon, causing 3000 points of LP damage to Playmaker, even causing the blast to come out of the Data Storm. Since Varis believed that he had broken Playmaker was knocked out, Varis smiled, seeing the match ended. However, but Playmaker stood back up, and Varis saw he failed to crush his confidence. As Playmaker played "[[Cynet Universe (anime)|Cynet Universe]]", Varis claimed it was a pointless move, since there denying that the Cyberse were no Cyberse monsters. Playmaker denied thisgone, since as he could sense hear their pulses; Varis was greatly displeased, and shocked how he . He used his two of his ace monsters "Code Talkers" to Link Summon "[[Firewall Dragon (anime)|Firewall Dragon]]". , which Varis realized that was the card that Playmaker had obtained from the Data Storm, and with its . "Firewall Dragon's" summoning, destroyed "Fire Prison" vanished. "Firewall Dragon" , and it also destroyed "Beltlink Linkbelt Wall Dragon", which frustrated much to Varis, as Playmaker's frustration. He fought back using his "[[Parallel Port Armorrokket]]" made monsters in combination with "Borreload Dragon", taking control of "Firewall Dragon" in an attempt to defeat Playmaker with his dragon untargetable and undestroyable by battleown Cyberse monster. He took the next turn, replenishing his Playmaker was able to [[handCynet Refresh (anime)|destroy and revive]] "Firewall Dragon", and brining back "[[Anesthrokket Dragon Recoded Alive (anime)|Anesthrokket Dragonbrought back]]" Encode Talker" the next turn, claiming that their real Duel had only just begun.<ref name="ep11">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|11|ref}}</ref> Playmaker's "Firewall Dragon" used its effect to return Varis's monsters to his hand, but "Borreload Dragon" was protected by its own effect, forcing Playmaker to target and trigger "[[Autorokket Magnarokket Dragon (anime)|Autorokket Magnarokket Dragon]]" back. By using , whose effect almost destroyed "Borreload Firewall Dragon" , though Playmaker was able to decrease "Autorokket Dragonsave it, much to Varis'samusement. Playmaker began to counterattack with his "[[Battle Buffer]]" ATK and DEF, then send it to the [[Graveyard|GYContinuous Spell Card]] to destroy , raising the ATK of "Firewall Dragon's" defenses. Surprisingly to Ai and Playmaker"Encode Talker", impressing Varis. Varis countered with the effect of "Borreload Dragon's" attack caused , destroying "Firewall DragonEncode Talker" to switch over to Varis's field. Believing that Playmaker had run out of attacks, Varisclaimed the match was over, intending to have but Playmaker's own Cyberse card defeat itrevived "Decode Talker", had whose ATK was increased enough to attack "Firewall Borreload Dragon" attack directly, but the attack was canceled by . Varis countered with "[[Cynet Refresh Borrel Cooling (anime)|Cynet RefreshBorrel Cooling]]". Still, Varis boosted his defenses by reviving two of destroying his other "[[Magnarokket Dragon (anime)|Magnarokket Dragon]]s" back. Playmaker brought back his to allow it to destroy "Encode Decode Talker" . Varis smiled, believing that he was close to victory, with Playmaker having no cards nor attacks to execute. Playmaker refused to lose, and claimed he wanted to uncover the events that had happened ten years previously, to recover the time he had lost and wanted to save the person that saved him. Varis was surprised to learn that Playmaker was aware of the [[Lost Incident]] and that he highlighted his speech with the same "Firewall Dragonthree reasons"format that Varis himself used, declaring but he claimed Playmaker was a fool to help SOL Technologies without knowing the true fight had only beguntruth.<ref name="ep11ep12">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|1112|ref}}</ref> [[File:Revolver's defeat.png|thumb|Varis is defeated by Playmaker.]][[File:Revolver retreats.png|thumb|left|Varis flees from the scene.]]Playmaker refused to listen, and he had "Firewall Dragon" [[Parallel Port Armor (anime)|attack once more]] to perform a [[One Turn Kill]]. The attack destroyed "Borreload Dragon", and Varis was blasted into a rock as his LP fell to zero. Ai went wild, transforming into a giant form and attempting to devour Varis. Varis lost an arm, and he quickly fled the scene, relinquishing the program that would remove Blue Angel's virus. Before he left, he warned Playmaker that as long as he had an Ignis, their battle would continue.
===AnotherTower of Hanoi===
[[File:Mysterious person.png|thumb|left|Ryoken holding the flashdrive containing the footage of Yusaku.]]
As the [[AnotherDeleted]] victims were being infected, Varis was worried if the Hanoi program was activated, the Lost Incident records would be deleted, and he'd never uncover [[Yusaku Fujiki|Playmaker]]'s identity. He was contacted by his [[Kiyoshi Kogami|father]], who reported the Hanoi program would soon be finished. Varis was still sad, as he wished to settle things with Playmaker. He told he wouldn't move on until he defeats Playmaker, and his father permitted him the rematch, as long as it didn't take too much time. Later, Varis watched as the [[Knights of Hanoi]] forced people to Duel, preventing them from logging out. Varis was unamused, considering a thousand people that joined the Knights of Hanoi were mere grunts, who wanted self-promotion by opposing [[LINK VRAINS]]. He was visited by [[Faust]] and [[Kyoko Taki|Baira]], who informed him [[Dr. Genome]] was making his move, and gave him the [[Data Gale]].<ref name="ep22">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|22|ref}}</ref> After Baira released the virus-removal program and logged out, she appeared next to Varis, who punished her.<ref name="ep26">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|26|ref}}</ref> With all three of his subordinates - Genome, Baira, and Faust - defeated and resting inside pods, Varis left his headquarters in LINK VRAINS. In the real world, at [[Kyoko Taki's apartment]], Ryoken removed a flashdrive from its hiding place and looked at the video recording on it - [[Yusaku Fujiki|Yusaku]] and [[Kolter]] in Baira's room witnessing [[Skye Zaizen|Blue Angel]] defeating Baira. [[Ai]] appeared in the video and Ryoken smiled, as he learned that Playmaker was Yusaku.<ref name="ep28">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|28|ref}}</ref> Varis was at the pit, and proclaimed the time has come that he would risk the fate of the humanity on the Tower of Hanoi.<ref name="ep29">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|29|ref}}</ref>
[[File:Revolver looks at Yusaku.png|thumb|Ryoken looks at Yusaku, before proceeding with his plan.]]
* [[Autorokket Dragon (anime)|Autorokket Dragon]] x3
* [[Background Dragon (anime)|Background Dragon]]
* [[Blast Powder Dragon]]
* [[Checksum Dragon]]
* [[Chobham Armor Dragon]]
* [[Cracking Dragon (anime)|Cracking Dragon]]
* [[Defrag Dragon (anime)|Defrag Dragon]]
* [[DMZ Dragon]]
* [[Drop Draco]]
* [[Gateway Dragon (anime)|Gateway Dragon]]
* [[Hibernation Dragon (anime)|Hibernation Dragon]]
* [[Linkbelt Wall Dragon (anime)|Linkbelt Wall Dragon]]
* [[Magnarokket Dragon (anime)|Magnarokket Dragon]] x3
* [[Metalrokket Dragon (anime)|Metalrokket Dragon]] x2
* [[Shelrokket Dragon (anime)|Shelrokket Dragon]] x3
* [[Sniffer Dragon (anime)|Sniffer Dragon]] x3
* [[Speedburst Dragon (anime)|Speedburst Dragon]]
* [[Spin-Headed Behemoth]]
* [[Triggering Wurm (anime)|Triggering Wurm]]
* [[Vulnerability Dragon]]
|tuner monsters =
* [[Rokket Synchron (anime)|Rokket Synchron]]
|synchro monsters =
* [[Borreload Savage Dragon (anime)|Borreload Savage Dragon]]
|link monsters =
* [[Booster Dragon (anime)|Booster Dragon]]
* [[Borrel Regenerator (anime)|Borrel Regenerator]]
* [[Dragonoid Generator (anime)|Dragonoid Generator]]
* [[Fire Prison (anime)|Fire Prison]]<ref group=Notes name="fire">This card is obtained from [[Kiyoshi Kogami|his father]] in [[Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Episode 010|episode 10]].</ref>
* [[Link Coin]]
* [[Link Protection]]
* [[Squib Draw (anime)|Squib Draw]]
|traps =
* [[Borrel Refrigeration Cooling (anime)|Borrel RefrigerationCooling]]* [[Imperial Order (later anime)|Imperial Order]]
* [[Link Short]]
* [[Link Turret (anime)|Link Turret]]
| [[Yusaku Fujiki|Yusaku Fujiki/Playmaker]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Episode 043|43]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Episode 046|46]] || Lose
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| [[Windy]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Episode 069|69]]-??? [[Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Episode 070|70]] || Win|- | [[Blood Shepherd|Kengo Dojun/Blood Shepherd]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Episode 078|78]] || Win|-| [[Takeru Homura|Takeru Homura/Soulburner]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Episode 083|83]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Episode 084|84]] || TBD
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