Cannot attack unless you control a Fusion Monster. Additionally, when 'Dark Gaia' (whose background appears to be Hell) was Summoned in the anime, a big burst of lava erupted from the ground.ĭiscard this card to add 1 'Dark Fusion' or 1 card that specifically lists 'Dark Fusion' in its text, except 'Evil HERO Adusted Gold', from your Deck to your hand. The Japanese names of 'Infernal Gainer' and 'Malicious Fiend' are 'Hell Gainer' and 'Malicious Devil' respectively. For example, the attack name of 'Inferno Wing' is 'Inferno Blast' and its effect name is 'Hell Backfire', 'Infernal Sniper' (whose Japanese name is 'Hell Sniper') has the effect name 'Hell Shot'. Most of them have the word 'Hell' in their Japanese attack/effect names, as well as fire being a prominent feature among them. The 'Evil HERO' monsters appear to have allusions to Hell. The designs of the 'Evil HERO' monsters bear some similarity to various demonic superheroes, villains, and antiheroes, such as The Darkness, Hellboy, and Witchblade. This was the only time 'Evil HERO' was treated as an archetype before the release of their first support in Duelist Pack: Legend Duelist 5in the OCG and Legendary Duelists: Immortal Destiny in the TCG. Prior to the Problem-Solving Card Text rename to distinguish between cards in the ' HERO' archetype and cards that simply include 'Hero' in their name, cards that support the 'HERO' archetype in the OCG instead supported 'Elemental Hero', 'Destiny Hero' and 'Evil Hero' as a group in the TCG ('Masked HERO' and 'Vision HERO' had not been released in the TCG at that time). The only 'Evil HERO' monsters to not have a separate counterpart are ' Evil HERO Infernal Gainer' and ' Evil HERO Infernal Prodigy'. They were released in Gladiator's Assault, but were mainly featured in Duelist Pack: Jaden Yuki 3. Most of the 'Evil HERO' monsters are Fusion Summoned by fusing existing 'Elemental HERO' monsters with ' Dark Fusion' instead of the traditional ' Polymerization'. They are corrupted versions of Jaden's ' Elemental HERO' monsters.

' Evil HERO' ( Ｅ－ＨＥＲＯ ( イービルヒーロー ) Ībiru Hīrō) is an archetype of Fiend monsters that are part of the ' HERO' archetype used by Jaden Yuki in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime temporarily after being possessed by t he Supreme King.

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