Card Appearances:Flame Swordsman

Yu-Gi-Oh!

 * In the anime and manga, the Flame Swordsman was Joey Wheeler's favorite monster. It was not a Fusion Monster in the Anime or Manga, appearing as a Normal Monster, but in the first part of the Anime, in the US version, it still has the Violet Card Background of a Fusion Monster.

Duelist Kingdom

 * Its first appearance was during Joey's first duel against Rex Raptor, where it could negate the Field Power Bonuses that Rex's Dinosaur monsters received. As a result, this card destroyed Rex's Megazowler, Crawling Dragon 2, and Uraby. It was eventually destroyed by Rex's Serpent Night Dragon.
 * When Bakura started his shadow game against Yami Yugi, Joey himself became the Flame Swordsman when Yami Yugi summoned this card. As the Flame Swordsman, Joey destroyed Bakura's White Magical Hat and Morphing Jar. He was later sacrificed by Yami to activate Horn of Heaven so that Man-Eater Bug would not devour any of them, and was resurrected by Monster Reborn just in time to avoid being killed by the Reaper of the Cards.
 * Joey used this card again in his duel against Seto Kaiba. Joey sent it to destroy Kaiba's "Battle Ox, but this card was destroyed by Battle Ox due to the latter's effect reducing all FIRE-attribute monsters' ATK by 300.
 * Joey used this card in his duel with Bonz. Joey summoned this card on the sixth turn of the duel. Joey then sent this card to destroy Bonz's "Crass Clown". It was later destroyed when Joey loses the gamble effect of his "Time Wizard", causing both his "Time Wizard" and "Flame Swordsman" to be destroyed and inflicting damage to Joey equal to half of his destroyed monsters' total ATK.
 * This card was used in Joey's tag duel with Yugi against the Paradox brothers. After summoning it he chose to move it 4 spaces into the maze. After Yugi and Joey got 4 monsters together in the same place (2 from each duelist), Para used "Magical Labyrinth" to separate Yugi and Joey's monsters. Joey had his monsters advance and regroup out of the maze, however his "Axe Raider" was ambushed and destroyed by Dox's "Jirai Gumo" due to the latter's effect negating "Kunai with Chain"'s effect. Dox then got his "Labyrinth Tank" right behind his "Jirai Gumo", so that way both of his monsters are ready to attack this card. Yugi used "Mystic Box to destroy "Jirai Gumo" and put "Dark Magician" where the former used to be. Yugi then destroyed "Labyrinth Tank", saving Joey's "Flame Swordsman". Later Yugi used "Magical Hats" to hide this monster and "Dark Magician" from "Dungeon Worm". After the latter destroyed an empty hat, Joey got his "Flame Swordsman" out and equipped it with "Salamandra", increasing its ATK by 700. Joey then sent this monster to attack "Dungeon Worm" and because of the latter's weakness to fire, it lost the bonus from Para's "Monster Tamer" resulting in "Dungeon Worm"'s destruction. When the brothers got "Gate Guardian" out, Para sent "Sanga" the top section to attack this monster, but Yugi used "Mirror Force" to send the attack right back, however Para uses "Kazejin" the middle section to protect Sanga, but the attack still destroyed "Monster Tamer". Joey then sent this monster to attack "Kazejin", but Dox used "Suijin" the bottom section to negate the attack. "Suijin" then attacked the entire maze, resulting in this card being destroyed as this card's weakness to water attacks caused this monster's ATK to decrease by 300.
 * Joey used this card again in his duel with Bandit Keith. After he saw that Keith's face-down monster was "Zoa" due to Keith "accidentally" revealing it, Joey summoned this card and equipped it with "Salamandra" before sending his powered up monster to destroy "Zoa". However Keith expected this and used "Magic Metal Force" to change "Zoa" to "Metalzoa". He then used the other effect of his trap to negate the attack made by this card and destroy it, while inflicting the ATK difference between "Metalzoa" and this card as damage to Joey's Life Points.
 * Joey used this monster in his duel with Yugi. After summoning it, Joey played "Shield & Sword" to swap the ATK and DEF of all monsters on the field. Joey then sent this monster to destroy "Summoned Skull" since it was now weaker. This card was later destroyed by Yugi's "Gaia the Dragon Champion".
 * This card appeared again in the Legendary Heroes arc. Joey tried to destroy "Dragon Zombie" with this card, but it came back even stronger. "Dragon Zombie" then destroyed this card. Later Joey used this card again in his duel with the champion at the coliseum, so he could win the "Niwatori" card. Joey used this card to attack the champion's "Harpie Lady", but the champion countered with "Mirror Wall", negating the attack and halving this card's ATK. When the champion equips "Rose Whip" to "Harpie Lady" and tries to use it to attack this card, Joey takes the mask he was wearing off as he had realized the champion was Mai. When Mai sees this, she stops her attack and decides to help her friends get through the sandstorm in the desert.

Virtual World Arc

 * This card serves as Joey's Deck Master in the Virtual World arc, where he has the ability to transfer some of his own ATK to other Warrior-Type monsters Joey controls.

Mistakes

 * When Yami Yugi summoned "Flame Swordsman" with Joey's soul, he put it right side-up, but later in a scene where Joey is watching giant Yugi the "Flame Swordsman" card is side-down.



Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

 * This card appears in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX closing song, "Borderline Battle".

Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL

 * This monster's statue appeared in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL - Episode 015.