Franz

Franz (フランツ, Furantsu) is one of Maximillion Pegasus' top card designers from Industrial Illusions who was envious of Chumley Huffington's talents, seeing as his own designs are looked down upon because, as Pegasus declares, the cards Franz designed focused too much on power. Out of frustration and anger he decides to steal the only copy of "The Winged Dragon of Ra" that Industrial Illusions had kept for testing purposes. After doing so he snuck his way into the Genex Tournament, and manages to use Ra to defeat and critically injure two random opponents.franz is enemys with chumley because franz has been creating cards for along time yet he's over looked by pegasus while the new employee chumley is getting all the atention.

Later on, Pegasus and Jaden Yuki encounter Franz, who challenges the former to a Duel, but it is the latter who ultimately accepts. Jaden realizes that Franz is able to summon "Ra" without having to decipher its Hieratic Text, as well as control Ra, albeit against its will, due to a Spell Card he designed, called "Mound of the Bound Creator". Ultimately, Franz is defeated by Jaden, who uses "Necro Illusion" to use Ra against him, despite neither having the knowledge of Egyptian hieratic text nor "Mound of the Bound Creator" in play. In the end, Pegasus consoles Franz's defeat, and Franz agrees to return to Industrial Illusions as a loyal employee.

Deck
During his only appearance in the series, Franz runs a Winged Dragon of Ra Deck, which, like Yami Marik from the Battle City arc in the previous series, focuses on summoning "Ra" and using its many effects. However, the "Ra" card that he uses is a copy that Industrial Illusions re-created for research, as its prototype—which Pegasus stated contained the spirit of Ra itself—was destroyed at the end of the previous series.