Card Trivia:Number C39: Utopia Ray
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- This is the cover card of Order of Chaos, Super Starter: V for Victory, Star Pack 2014, and Star Pack 2014 Beginner's Kit, and is also one of the cover cards of Starter Deck 2013 and Starter Pack Volume 2.
- This monster appears in the artworks of "Number Return", "Future Drive", "Grave Chaos", "Xyz Revenge Shuffle", "Zexal Alliance", "ZW - Asura Strike".
- This card was the first monster to be Summoned through Chaos Xyz Evolution in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime.
- This card's Japanese name, "Hope Ray", is an alternative wording of "Ray of Hope".
- This card's effect reflects this, as it can only be activated if the player has 1000 Life Points or less, providing a "ray of hope" in bad situations.
- This card is a "Number C" upgraded form of "Number 39: Utopia".
- This card's effect is the opposite of its base form; the effect of "Utopia" is used to defend, while the effect of "Utopia Ray" is used for offensive purposes.
- This is the only "Number C" form of "Number 39: Utopia" that can be Summoned through a non-Rank-Up method.
- This card has two retrained counterparts ("Equipped-Unions" that are formed by equipping this card with a "ZW -" Xyz Monster):
- Equipped with "ZW - Dragonic Halberd": "Ultimate Dragonic Utopia Ray"
- Equipped with "ZW - Leo Arms": "Ultimate Leo Utopia Ray"
- This card has a baseball-themed Rush Duel counterpart: "Captain #39: Home Plate Pinch Hitter".
- This card was the first "Number C" monster.
- Being the first "Number C" monster, this card was also the first Warrior "Number C" monster.
- Also, this card was the first alternate form of "Utopia" like many of the protagonists' ace monsters, such as Yugi Muto's "Dark Paladin" and "Dark Sage", Jaden Yuki's "Elemental HERO Shining Flare Wingman" or any of his "Neos" Fusion Monsters, and Yusei Fudo's "Majestic Star Dragon" and "Shooting Star Dragon" and "Shooting Quasar Dragon". This card is Yuma Tsukumo's evolved Xyz Monster.
- This card is Summoned via an alternate way of Xyz Summon, Chaos Xyz Evolution, similar to Jaden Yuki's use of Contact Fusion as an alternate way to Fusion Summon and Yusei Fudo's use of Accel Synchro Summon as an alternate way to Synchro Summon.
- This card was the first Xyz Monster to use another Xyz Monster as its Xyz Material.
- It was also the first Xyz Monster to name a specific monster needed for Xyz Material, and the first able to be Xyz Summoned using only one Xyz Material.
- This card had the most appearances of any "Number C" monsters in the anime.