Card Trivia:Battle Ox
- This card has a retrained counterpart, "Enraged Battle Ox", and a "Yakiniku" counterpart, "Barbeque Ox".
- Either this monster or "Enraged Battle Ox" appear in the artworks of "Excess Lesser Linker", "New Recruit", "Pixie Ring", "Rage of the Beasts", "The Unchosen One", and "Triggered Summon".
- This card's Japanese name is based on the Minotaur, a humanoid ox monster from Greek mythology known for carrying a battle axe.
- This card's TCG name is likely a pun on this monster's weapon, the "battle axe".
- This card shares several similarities with the Magic: the Gathering card "Hurloon Minotaur". Both cards have the word "Minotaur" in their Japanese names, and this card's manga artwork is similar to Hurloon Minotaur's artwork. Notably, the Hurloon Minotaur was one of the cover cards of Fourth Edition, the first Magic: the Gathering set to be released in Japanese.
- The Bandai version of this card is Level 6 and has 2400 ATK, whereas the Konami version is Level 4 and has 1700 ATK.
- In Dark Duel Stories, when this monster is Summoned it instantly discards all Pyro monsters from the opponent's hand; in The Sacred Cards and Reshef of Destruction, this monster instead has the ability to destroy all Pyro monsters on the opponent's field.
- These effects are based on Joey Wheeler and Seto Kaiba's first Duel in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime, where Yugi Muto warned Joey that "Battle Ox" was resistant to fire attacks.
- Ironically, the Alignment system in the aforementioned Yu-Gi-Oh! video games makes it possible to destroy "Battle Ox", which is a Forest monster, by attacking it with any Fire monster.
- In the anime, this monster can be seen in the Tablet of Lost Memories serving as one of Seto's monsters. Its tablet version was also seen with Priest Seto in Yu-Gi-Oh! episode 52: "The Past is Present".
- In video games such as Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses, the 3-D model of this monster has its midsection colored black.
- The icon for Beast-Warrior monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Duel Transer is based on this monster.
- This card's OCG/TCG artwork is taken from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 10: "The Cards with Teeth (Part 2)", specifically from the panel where Seto Kaiba ordered this monster to attack Dark Yugi's "Blackland Fire Dragon".
