Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 039

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 039

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Series
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Number	39
Season	1
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX episodes (season 1)
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"The Dark Scorpions", known as "Great Detective Thunder VS The Black Scorpion Grave-Robber Squad" in the Japanese version, is the thirty-ninth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime. It first aired in Japan on June 29, 2005 and in the US on February 26, 2006.

Chazz Duels the fourth of the Shadow Riders, the spirit of the "Don Zaloog" card, who leads the rest of the Dark Scorpions.

Summary

In a dark cave, a group of people remark that their boss in en route, and they vow to complete their task by adhering to the "Laws of Stealing", as they are the Dark Scorpions. As three of the seven Spirit Keys have already been lost to the Shadow Riders, Professor Banner calls for a professional police inspector. Upon finding out the everyone is keeping their keys on their person, he decides they should hide the keys in separate places, well away from each other. Chazz Princeton opts to hide his under the sink in his room, and the detective questions who the man outside is. Jaden Yuki responds that it's the janitor, Mr. Gorg. Jaden hides his in his deck drawer, and they find a boy named Chick eavesdropping outside. Syrus Truesdale walks by and remarks that Chick has a tendency to mix up which room is his.

Alexis Rhodes hides her key in her jewelery box, and one of the school's nurses, Meanae arrives, and the detective immediately suspects her as well. Banner places the final key in a safe located in the teacher's conference room, and they are interrupted by a security guard named Cliff, who the detective also suspects. That night, each of the keys is stolen. Despite this, any attempts to use the to open the Spirit Gate fail, and the thieves are unable to understand why. Upon discovering this, the group gathers in Chazz's room to discuss the situation, and the detective arrives as well, all of his "suspects" from earlier in tow. Chazz eventually deduces that the detective's "suspects" from earlier were all involved, as he left one of his Ojama cards in each hiding spot, and the spirits of them reported the culprits to him later. The rest of the card spirits contained in the cards in his room confirmed the culprit of the theft from his room.

The Dark Scorpions assemble.

The detective reveals himself as Don Zaloog, while his "suspects" are the remainder of his criminal Dark Scorpion group. Zaloog states he had taken the job to steal the Spirit Keys years earlier, and had the rest of his group arrive at Duel Academy undercover until the time came. Chazz reveals that the reason the keys aren't working is that they must be won in a Duel. Chazz volunteers to Duel him, and Zaloog accepts. The Duel begins, with Zaloog playing "Golem Sentry" in Defense Position. Chazz activates "Fiend's Sanctuary" and Tributes the "Metal Fiend Token" Summoned through it to Summon "Armed Dragon LV5". It destroys "Golem Sentry" and evolves into "Armed Dragon LV7" during his End Phase. Zaloog combats this by Summoning himself (when he does so, he literally moves onto the field) and using "Mustering of the Dark Scorpions" to Summon the other four Dark Scorpions. Using "Dark Scorpion Combination", Zaloog deals 2000 damage to Chazz, inflicts a variety of negative effects to him and even returns "Dark Scorpion Combination" to his hand.

Chazz strikes back by using "Level Modulation" to Special Summon "Armed Dragon LV7". He uses its effect to discard "Despair from the Dark", destroying all of Zaloog's monsters. However, Zaloog saves them with "Dark Scorpion Retreat", returning them to his hand. Regardless, this leaves him open to a direct attack. Zaloog Summons himself again and attempts to use a second copy of "Mustering of the Dark Scorpions" to Summon the rest. Chazz activates his face-down "Ojama Trio", Summoning three "Ojama Tokens" to Zaloog's field. Thus, Zaloog can only Summon one more monster with "Mustering of the Dark Scorpions". He chooses "Dark Scorpion - Meanae the Thorn" and activates "Dark Scorpion - Tragedy of Love, Tributing her to destroy "Armed Dragon LV7". He is then able to attack directly, reducing Chazz to 600 Life Points and forcing Chazz to discard the final card in his hand - "Ojamagic. However, this is beneficial, as it allows him to add the three Ojamas to his hand. He fuses them using "Polymerization" to Fusion Summon "Ojama King" and then plays "Ojamuscle" to destroy the "Ojama Tokens" and increase "Ojama King's" attack to 3000. This is enough to defeat Zaloog, and he all of the Scorpions vanish upon defeat, leaving his Shadow Charm eyepatch behind, which was what granted the five Duel Spirits the ability to physically manifest in the human world. Chazz however is concerned about something.

Chazz is then shown putting earplugs in his ears before going back to bed. It then shows the Dark Scorpion Duel Monster Spirits partying with the other Duel Monster Spirits in Chazz's room.

Featured Duel

Turn 1: Don Zaloog

• Don Zaloog draws "Dark Scorpion Combination".
• Summons "Golem Sentry" (800/1800) in Defense Position.
• Sets a card.

Turn 2: Chazz

• Chazz draws "Fiend's Sanctuary" and subsequently activates it, Special Summoning a "Metal Fiend Token" (0/0) in Attack Position.
• Tributes the "Metal Fiend Token" to Summon "Armed Dragon LV5" (2400/1700) in Attack Position.
• "Armed Dragon LV5" attacks and destroys "Golem Sentry".
• Sets 2 cards.
• During the End Phase, Chazz sends "Armed Dragon LV5" to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Armed Dragon LV7" (2800/1000) in Attack Position as "Armed Dragon LV5" destroyed a monster in battle this turn.

Turn 3: Don Zaloog

• Don Zaloog draws "Pot of Greed" and subsequently activates it, drawing 2 cards(one of which is "Don Zaloog").
• Summons "Don Zaloog" (1400/1500) in Attack Position.
• Since Don Zaloog controls himself on the field, he activates "Mustering of the Dark Scorpions", Special Summoning as many Dark Scorpion monsters with a different name as possible from his hand. He chooses to summon "Dark Scorpion - Chick the Yellow" (1000/1000), "Dark Scorpion - Meanae the Thorn" (1000/1800), "Dark Scorpion - Gorg the Strong" (1800/1500) and "Cliff the Trap Remover" (1200/1000), all in Attack Position.
• Since Don Zaloog controls all five Dark Scorpions, he activates his face-down "Dark Scorpion Combination", allowing all of his monsters to attack Chazz directly once each this turn, but every monster that attacks this way will only be allowed to inflict 400 points of Battle Damage.
• All five of Don Zaloog's monsters attack Chazz directly (Chazz 4000 → 3600 → 3200 → 2800 → 2400 → 2000).
  • Since all five Dark Scorpion monsters inflicted Battle Damage, their effects activate.
    • The effect of "Gorg" returns "Armed Dragon LV7" to the top of Chazz's Deck.
    • The effect of "Chick" returns one of Chazz's Set cards to his hand.
    • The effect of "Cliff" sends "Armed Dragon LV7" and "Level Up!" from the top of Chazz's Deck to the Graveyard.
    • The effect of "Don Zaloog" forces Chazz to discard a random card from his hand; Chazz discards "Masked Dragon".
    • The effect of "Meanae" returns 1 "Dark Scorpion" card from Don Zaloog's Graveyard to his hand. He chooses to return "Dark Scorpion Combination" to his hand.
• Chazz activates his face-down "Level Modulation", Special Summoning "Armed Dragon LV7" (2800/1000) from the Graveyard in Attack Position while ignoring the Summoning conditions, but in exchange Don Zaloog is allowed to draw two cards.
• Sets 2 cards.

Turn 4: Chazz

• Chazz draws.
• Activates the effect of "Armed Dragon LV7", sending "Despair from the Dark" (2800/3000) from his hand to the Graveyard to destroy all face-up monsters on Don Zaloog's field that have equal or less ATK than the ATK of the sent monster.
  • As he controls "Don Zaloog", "Dark Scorpion - Chick the Yellow", "Dark Scorpion - Meanae the Thorn", "Dark Scorpion - Gorg the Strong" and "Cliff the Trap Remover", Don activates "Dark Scorpion Retreat", returning all monsters he controls to his hand.
• "Armed Dragon LV7" attacks Don Zaloog directly (Don Zaloog 4000 → 1200).
• Sets a card.

Turn 5: Don Zaloog

• Don Zaloog draws.
• Summons "Don Zaloog" (1400/1500) in Attack Position.
• Activates "Mustering of the Dark Scorpions" to Special Summon as many Dark Scorpion monsters with a different name as possible from his hand.
  • Chazz activates his face-down "Ojama Trio", Special Summoning 3 "Ojama Tokens" (0/1000) to Don's side of the field in Defense Position. These Tokens can't be Tributed for a Tribute Summon and if any are destroyed the controller of those tokens will take 300 damage for each token destroyed. With three Monster Card Zones occupied, Don Zaloog uses the effect of "Mustering of the Dark Scorpions" to Special Summon "Dark Scorpion - Meanae the Thorn" (1000/1000) in Attack Position.
• Activates "Dark Scorpion - Tragedy of Love", Tributing "Meanae" to destroy all monsters Chazz controls.
• "Don Zaloog" attacks Chazz directly (Chazz 2000 → 600).
  • Since "Don Zaloog" inflicted Battle Damage, its effect activates, forcing Chazz to discard one random card in his hand. Chazz discards "Ojamagic".
    • Since "Ojamagic" was sent from Chazz's hand to the Graveyard, its effect activates, allowing Chazz to add "Ojama Green", "Ojama Black", and "Ojama Yellow" from his Deck to his hand.

Turn 6: Chazz

• Chazz draws "Pot of Greed" and subsequently activates it, drawing two cards(one of which is "Polymerization").
• Activates "Polymerization", fusing "Ojama Yellow", "Ojama Black", and "Ojama Green" to Fusion Summon "Ojama King" (0/3000) in Attack Position.
• Activates "Ojamuscle", destroying all "Ojama" monsters besides "Ojama King" and making the ATK of "Ojama King" the number of "Ojama" monsters destroyed times 1000. Three were destroyed, so the ATK of "Ojama King" becomes 3000 ("Ojama King": 0 → 3000/3000).
  • Due to the effect of "Ojama Trio", Don Zaloog takes 300 damage for each Token destroyed (Don Zaloog 1200 → 900 → 600 → 300).
• "Ojama King" attacks and destroys "Don Zaloog" (Don Zaloog 300 → 0).
• Chazz wins.

Differences in adaptations

A scene is cut from the English version after Judai asks Asuka where her Spirit Key is. As its concealed under her shirt, this causes Manjoume to blush horribly and tell Judai he has no tact.

In the Japanese version, the interrogation scenes are a homage to Detective Conan. However, Manjoume discards all of the relevant clues himself. He states he checked the scenes himself, and throws out the press-on nail from Asuka's room, assuming it was her's, wiped up the footprints in the conference room since shoes aren't supposed to be worn in there and seals the hole in Judai's room. In the English version, Alexis states she threw out the nail, Banner says he vacuumed up the footprints, and Jaden reveals that he sealed the hole.

The shot of the Dark Scorpions together is shown several times in the Japanese version, as they respond to any and all (even negative) comments with "That is what the Black Scorpion Graverobbers do", which is their collective catchphrase.

Featured cards

The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Chazz Princeton
Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Ojama Black Ojama Green Ojama Yellow Effect Monsters Armed Dragon LV5 Armed Dragon LV7 Despair from the Dark Masked Dragon Spell Cards Fiend's Sanctuary Level Up! Ojamagic Ojamuscle Polymerization Pot of Greed Trap Cards Level Modulation Ojama Trio Extra Deck Fusion Monsters Ojama King