Cursed Needle
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| English name |
Minus Staff | |||||
| Japanese name |
カースド・ニードル | |||||
| Rōmaji name |
Kāsudo Nīdoru | |||||
| English name (asia) |
Cursed Needle | |||||
| Use |
Casting the Minus Curse | |||||
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The Minus Staff is a weapon used by Zeman the Ape King and his army in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's anime. It is a long-handled staff with a yellow stave and two black needles. In the English dubbed version of the anime, the staves armed with this needle are called Minus Staves.
One of the needles on the staff can be turned to resemble a minus sign (-), which causes an unusual reversal or backwards phenomenon called the Minus Curse. This is used to cause falling objects to roll uphill, fall upwards, or bounce upstairs. When the curse is used on an inhabitant of the Duel Monsters Spirit World, it causes them to revert into a stone tablet resembling their card form. When the stave is latched onto an inhabitant, the curse will cause their personalities to become reversed, as well as hear the opposite of what another person has to say.
When one of the needles of the staff is changed to resemble a plus sign (+), it will reverse everything and everyone affected by the Minus Curse. This can also happen when two Minus Staffs using the Minus Curse touch each other, which causes them to cancel out the curse before exploding.
This weapon is also used by "Zeman the Ape King" (seen in the anime) and "Magician Ape".
