Roman Goodwin

Rudger is the leader of the Dark Signers.

He says that they have been waiting for 5,000 years in order to carry out revenge against the Signers, and expects for this fierce battle to be most "exceptional". He wears black robes accented with red stripes which corresponds to his Earthbound God, as his dark mark represents the Spider. He's also been shown to be in possession of the "Ancient Fairy Dragon" card, although how he obtained it is unknown.

He has the ability to possess ordinary people using spiders he controls; potentially using them as pseudo or "fake" Dark signers who act as unwilling and unsuspecting pawns for him. As now only two people have been used as a fake dark signer in the series so far, being Dick Pitt, a street duelist used to test Yusei Fudo, and Trudge,a security officer used to test Jack Atlas.

The number of his "Dark Spiders" currently possesing a victim is indicated by the number of legs missing from his birthmark. When one of them loses, the spider controlling them dies, causing Rudger's birthmark to regrow its missing limb. Which seems to cause him pain when one of the people he controls loses as shown when Yusei won and he gripped onto his arm in pain.

In episode 45, Yusei battles him in a fierce Shadow Duel in order to protect the children who reside on Martha's home. As his Spider Geoglyph has formed on that area, unfortunately Rudger summons his Earthbound God and it absorbs the kids' souls. However, Jack appears, and supposedly protects some, but Yusei is on the brink of despair, when Rudger does this.

Deck
Rudger plays a Spider Deck which focuses around Swarming and changing the Battle Position of monsters on the Field and later on, taking control of them. He also possess Luna's Ancient Fairy Dragon. He also have an alternate strategy of Special Summoning his Earthbound Immortal through Earthbound Immortal's Tempel.