Jack Atlas

Jack Atlas (spelled Jack Atlus in the Japanese anime), is Yusei Fudo's rival in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. Like Yusei, Jack is one of the Signers with a Dragon's Birthmark on his right arm.

Jack is an arrogant man who thinks of his opponents as little more than entertainment for himself and his audience. However, after losing to Yusei, Jack realizes what he's been missing as King and decides on starting his own journey to becoming a real duelist.

In the English dub, Jack speaks with a British/Australian accent and often makes puns about biking. His personality is also slightly more malicious: he was the one who called the Securities in the first episode about the stolen Duel Runner chip, for example.

Character design
Jack's character design is by Shuji Maruyama. Jack has violet eyes and spiked blonde hair. He seems to have hair extensions in the front which are wrapped in violet bands. His attire consists of a white and purple trenchcoat over black pants and silver boots.

Life in Satellite
Jack was once one of Yusei's best friends and lived in the Satellite Ghetto with them, as well as being a member of Team Satisfaction. Once Kiryu killed a security by accident Kiryu was killed by someone. Team Satiation dissolved it's ranks and went their separate ways. Jack found an abandoned theater and here he aspired to be King. He would sit alone on a throne inside trying to find a way out of Satellite. He met a person by the name of Lazar, who talked him into stealing Yusei's Duel Runner and leaving his friends to come to New Domino City.

Accepting Lazar's offer, Jack tied Rally up and left him in a boat in a body of water. He alerted Yusei, who came there on the Duel Runner he had built. Jack forced Yusei to choose between himself and Rally's life in order to get what he was after. After Yusei dove into the water to save Rally, Jack took Yusei's signature card, the "Stardust Dragon" and the Duel Runner. He then made his way into New Domino through the trash pipeline. In the english version, Jack still uses it, while in the Japanese version, he claims it broke down.

Life in New Domino City
Jack then became the Turbo Dueling Champion and moved into the compound of Rex Goodwin who tries to conceal Jack's origins from the public. As the ex-King of Duelists, he was adored by the New Domino City public and his fame has been marketed, even to the point where both he and his "Red Dragon Archfiend" card have their own action figures.

During the midst of his fame, Jack decided to visit Yusei and his former friends in Satellite as the new King. Yusei challenges Jack to a duel, only to lose to him. After the duel, Jack tells Yusei that he cannot win with just monsters, traps, or spells, but with the soul that every duelist puts into the cards they draw.

Two years later, when Yusei ventures off into New Domino City to take back his "Stardust Dragon" card, he and Jack have a rematch, but it is interrupted by the appearance of a mysterious red-colored dragon. He later learns from Goodwin that he is a "Signer", a savior predicted to prevent the resurrection of a dark god by a Pre-Incan civilization. Although conflicted about maintaining his title even though he technically lost to Yusei, Jack complies with Goodwin's plans in the hope of truly validating his title by finally defeating Yusei in the Fortune Cup and gives "Stardust Dragon" back to Yusei as a sign of competition.

Fortune Cup Finals
Yusei faces Jack for the title of King of Turbo Duels, as he has beaten every opponent on the Fortune Cup. Before their Duel commences, Jack recounts the events that happened 2 years ago that lead ultimately to the road of him becoming King. Also, now that he is finally facing Yusei, he tells Goodwin to let Rally and the others go since, there is no further need for them to been held hostage. Before their Turbo Duel starts, Yusei sees them on the screen, and once they're free, Jack says that now there is nothing holding them back. During the duel, Jack refuses to let Yusei win, revealing that in order for him walk to the path of becoming the King, 2 years ago he gave up everything by turning his back on Satellite and on everyone else he knew. Thus, thinking that all of that happened because of the dragon birthmark, he believes now that Yusei has the chance to become King without giving up anything. Jack does not want that to happen.

As he duels against Yusei, once again the Crimson Dragon appears, and takes Jack, Yusei, Luna and Akiza to another dimension, showing them visions. Jack tells Yusei to continue since, it's their duel that is responsible for them being there. He pushes Yusei, thinking that he will finally win. Jack unleashes his devastating combo, however Yusei has already foreseen this, and manages to counter.

Yusei's Stardust Dragon unleashes its final attack destroying Jack's "Red Dragon Archfiend", consuming the last of Jack's Life Points;The duel runner he was on is completely destroyed and Jack crashes into a guard rail. Jack is thrown from his duel runner and is badly injured. Yusei is announced as the new king and Jack is carried out on a stretcher after Jack gives some words of wisdom to Yusei.

Dark Signers
Jack is transferred to the hospital to recover away from the prying eyes of the public. Carly Nagisa sneaks in disguised as a nurse in an attempt to get an interview with the former king. Trudge, now under the Dark Signers' control, suddenly comes and challenges Jack. Jack's arm is broken and asks Carly to play and hold his cards. Trudge surrounds the three with the dark Barrier and the battle starts. At first Carly has trouble seeing eye to eye with Jack but eventually find a rhythm between themselves. They launch a powerful attack wiping out Trudge's lifepoints and blowing up half the hospital. Just before Jack faints he asks Carly to get him out without notifying the Reporters outside. Carly sneaks him out on a gurney as a body with a sheet over it.

Jack wakes up in Carly's place after envisioning a meeting with the Dark Signers in a dream. He helps Carly out with Trudge and Mina. After spending some time with Carly, Jack starts to show signs of guilt for betraying his friends and shame for how he let Goodwin use him. During this time Jack somehow gained some feelings toward Carly but ignored it for a while. Carly suggests that is the real Jack Atlas returning. The old Jack was defeated by Yusei and now it's time for the real Jack to rise. Jack puts on his jacket and agrees with her and vows to never let himself get used by people again.

Shortly before Yusei duels Kyosuke Kiryu, Jack responds a call at Carly's apartment from Mina. She tells him that Yusei has gone back to Satellite thanks to Goodwin and that they can also take him back too as he desires. As Jack flies towards Satellite Carly asks what happened to Jack in Satellite. Jack tells her about team satisfaction and what happened with kiryu as well as what caused the Split between the two cities.

As he watches the duel between Yusei and Kiryu, Yusei, gets a impaled by a large shard. Crow takes Yusei to their friend Martha, to go through surgery to survive. As Crow takes off with Yusei, Jack demands the helicopter be landed, but Mina tells him that he has nowhere to go without his Duel Runner. Jack is forced to go back to Neo Domino and wait till the next attack by the Dark signers.

Upon the arrival to the city, he and Mina leave Carly alone and breaks her camera's memory chip, in order to keep her away from it and make sure the public never know the conflict between the Signers and the Dark Signers. Later Jack receives a new, nearly identical Duel Runner from Goodwin (his previous one is heavily damaged during the Fortune Cup finals) called the "Wheel of Fortune". He also tells Mina that he will go to Satellite and make his own "road" rather than "Road of the King".

After Carly returns from the Dead and transforms into a Dark Signer as a result from the death duel against Divine, the grounds shakes and as her dark mark materializes, he spots it in the sky. While investigating Misty's mark also began appearing and as he notices it, Jack tries to evade the dark barrier by entering a building and getting to the roof with the help of his Duel Runner. He notices both hummingbird and lizard marks on the city his birthmark began to react along with that of Yusei. Jack comes across Luna, Leo, and friends. They tell Jack that Akiza is inside and may need help. He rides into the Arcadia building looking for Akiza. Jack finds Carly's broken glasses and searches for her. Jack hears a sound and finds Akiza unconscious. Jack tries rousing her but she is completely out of it. Jack picks her up and rides out of the building with her just before the building collapses. Jack immediately takes Akiza to the hospital to get help for her.

Akiza is in the hospital for treatment. Akiza is in a comatose state and is visited by her parents Hideo and Setsuko, along with Jack among others. No one can find a way to help Akiza but Jack says maybe the only one who can help her could be Yusei. After her father comes back with Yusei, he eventually wakes her up with the help of the Mark of the Dragon. However due to her past and current events, she duels against him. Eventually the duel concludes with Yusei's victory, along with her decision to help the Signers.

After this Jack along with the others Signers are invited by Rex Goodwin into his house. As Goodwin wants to reveals to them some secret concerning the Crimson Dragon. That being according to the Star Guardian, to those who are Signers exists within some sort of "fate", derived from the Red Dragon power, one which cannot be escaped from. As that strange fate was the one responsible for that all of the 4 Signers to have actually met in someway. Furthermore Goodwin tells Yusei and him that actually was it the reason for both them to have come to New Domino City from the beginning.

Thus the "Fate of the Signers" unites each and every one of Yusei, Akiza and Luna and Jack's own destiny together in order to guide them all. None the less according to Goodwin the four of them are not only duelists chosen by the Dragon God itself, but they are also the reincarnations of the ancient Signers themselves. Also already predicted thousands of years ago the four of them would encounter one another.

Jack also learns about the Dark Signer's abilities involving their powers and use of the Earthbound Gods. As according to Goodwin their powers manifested in a duel all come from the underworld. Also as they appeared on the city many casualties occurred just like in Satellite due to their Gods. Thus Jack believes that Carly was among the victims who were sacrificed when the two Earthbound Gods were summoned, never even considering her true fate. Goodwin although does nothing to disprove this theory as even the Guardian doesn't know about this. Jack finally learns that person transformed into a Dark Signer can't be turn back to their former selves. That's because they are actually already dead and that are only came back alive because of the powerful phenomenon occurring on the other side of the Underworld.

After the meeting with Goodwin, Jack realizes that Yusei is afraid of Kiryu, and unwilling to face him again. Jack tells Yusei that they must now both hate Kiryu and not be afraid to fight him, but Yusei has still lost his confidence after his last duel with Kiryu. Jack punches Yusei, hoping that by forcing him to fight him, Yusei will regain his determination. Yusei eventually fights back, and Jack realizes that it worked. Yusei later tells Jack that he helped open his eyes, and now realizes that the Dark Signers are endangering their world and he has to fight to protect his friends. Jack comments on how Yusei is once again back to his old routine of "friends" and wanting to protect things. Upon saying this, Jack takes out Carly's glasses from his coat pocket and looks at them, seeing Carly's face. He thinks "What I...must protect." going back to what Yusei said, and realizing that now he has something to fight for as well.

Akiza, Leo and Luna eventually meet up with Yusei and Jack, giving Yusei morale boost and support so he will hopefully change his mind about refusing to duel Kiryu, by saying that they will all fight along his side. Yusei and Jack both have friends to fight for, along with the protection of Satellite and New Domino City. An argument between Jack and Leo breaks out, as Leo says that he will definitely become cool like Yusei and Jack, but Jack insists that Leo will never become cool.

After the Dark Signers perform some kind of dark ritual within Satellite, not only enclouding but also somehow vanquishing its other Satellite residents. Because of this the Jack along with the others, as well as with Leo and Mina all board into a helicopter to Satellite. That being flown by Trudge himself. When they all arrive to Satellite they are greeted by Martha, as she's also happy that Jack is back. However the reunion is cut close as Yusei finds out that Rally, Crow and the others have disappeared.

Thus as everyone is later sitted on the table and having supper, Rudger suddenly appears in order to duel. Jack wants to but is stopped by Yusei as he tells him that its too dangerous to duel here. Especially if a geoplyph appears and so he tells him to get take Martha and the kids to safer place. As Yusei has accepts to duel Rudger he's accompanied by Akiza, while Jack and others go someplace else safe. As Rudger and Yusei's Shadow Duel is about to begin Luna, Leo and Jack become aware of this as the dragon birtmark react.

As their duel unfolds, Rudger consequently summons his Earthbound Immortal. Because of that, as 2 of Martha's kids are about to be sacrificed, Jack suddenly appears in his Duel Runner. Just in time, he reaches to them and eventually denies their sacrificing with the help of his Wing birthmark. After Yusei's match against Rudger concludes, Jack, Akiza, Luna along with Leo are there, as the rest of the Dark Signers show themselves up too. That includes Carly as well, though for some unknown reason she keeps her identity hidden to her rivals, including to Jack. Thus when their leaveing not only does he recognizes her but, also chases after her. Thus upon managing to remove the hood to reveal her face, Jack asks why is she one of them, to what Carly's responses "If you want to know the answer, come to see me.

Further as each one of the Signers is set on defeating their respective opponent, they each split up to one of the 4 controllers belonging to the Old Momentum. As Jack rides aboard his Duel Runner set on mind to find out what truly happened to her.

Deck
Jack plays a Synchro Deck that focuses on quickly summoning monsters to use to Synchro Summon "Red Dragon Archfiend" and mainly devotes its resources to performing grandiose displays with the purpose of making duels more entertaining for the audience. He also plays monsters that focus on dealing Piercing Damage, or generally speaking, as seen in the namesake of his deck, punishing defensive play. His Ground Deck, which is a Dragon Deck, focuses on the same strategy, but with the use of Strong Wind Dragon, and Explode Wing Dragon in addition to his Red Dragon Archfiend. It also has many elements that reflect Seto Kaiba's deck, such as Cost Down, Megamorph and Shadow Spell.

Jack has two Decks, one for Turbo Duels, and a one for normal Duels.

