Insector Haga
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| Insector Haga | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! character | |
 Insector Haga (Weevil Underwood) in the second series anime |
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| First appearance | Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist Volume 1, Duel 1 Original Japanese manga Volume 7, Duel 60 |
| Voiced by | Urara Takano (Japanese) Jimmy Zoppi (U.S. English) |
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| Age | 14 at debut; 15 at series' end |
| Date of birth | July 21 |
| Known relatives | N/A |
Insector Haga (インセクター羽蛾 Insekutā Haga?), known as Weevil Underwood in the English anime and manga, is a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
Haga develops into a rival of Yugi Mutou. He is jealous and adores insects, for his deck is all insect-type monsters and insect-related magic and trap cards.
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[edit] Story
[edit] Manga and the first part of the second series anime
Haga starts out in the series as the Japanese Champion of Duel Monsters by defeating Dinosaur Ryuzaki (Rex Raptor in the English version) in the final match of the National Championship. After his victory, he is invited personally by Pegasus J. Crawford (Maximillion Pegasus in the English version) to travel to Duelist Kingdom to compete there. On the boat ride, he confronts Yugi Mutou and asks to see his set of Exodia the Forbidden One. Once seeing them, Haga throws them off the boat and Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler in the English version) jumps to get them. Laughing, Haga returns to his cabin, content that he has destroyed his major source of competition. Ironically, it would be Yugi who would be responsible for Haga's dismissal from the island when he defeats Haga in the first duel of the tournament. Haga is forced to leave the island in shame along with those who had been defeated in their first round.
He is next seen in the Battle City arc, where he plants a Parasite Paracide card into Jonouchi's deck by paying a boy to do so. When Haga and Jonouchi duel, Haga plays Reckless Parasite, which summons the Parasite Paracide to Jonouchi's field and turns all his monsters into Insect Sub-Type monsters. With the addition of Insect Barrier, which prevents all Insect Sub-Type monsters from attacking, Haga effectively stops Jonouchi's assaults. Using the Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and the Insect Queen, Haga makes Jonouchi lose hope of winning. However, Jonouchi finds a way around his Parasite card by using Gearfried the Iron Knight, which isn't affected by equipment cards. Jonouchi also uses Graverobber to steal Eradicating Aerosol from Haga's Graveyard and uses it to destroy the Insect Queen. Jonouchi says to him just before Haga is about to lose the following: "I'm not through with you yet, Weevil Underpants." Then he uses Gearfried to finish Haga off, ejecting him from Battle City.
[edit] The second part of the second series anime
In the Waking the Dragons saga (Doma in the Japanese version), Haga and Ryuzaki are together, having lost a great deal of their former popularity after they had been ejected out of the Duelist Kingdom and Battle City tournaments without making the playoffs. However, they soon meet an Orichalcos duelist, who duels both of them and strips them of their souls. They are later granted their freedom after Yugi Mutou defeats the very same duelist.
The two of them follow the group until Yugi's soul is taken by Rafael after Dark Yugi loses to him. They beg Rafael to take them with him and he grudgingly accepts their pleas. He and Alister (Amelda in the Japanese version of the anime) take them to Dartz, and the two of them beg for more power to settle old scores. Dartz decides to test them by seeing if they could grasp a piece of the Orichalcos stone, with the penalty for failing being their souls taken again. Both of them succeed and they improve their decks with cards from Dartz's massive collection. Haga then proceeds to confront Yugi and duels him, with the Seal of Orichalcos empowering his usually weaker Insect Monsters. He mentally attacks Yugi by teasing him about rescuing host Yugi's soul, but in the end, it backfires and Yugi defeats him, punishing him way beyond his life points reaching zero, and Haga's soul is taken by the magic of the very Seal which he has employed. His virtually comatose body is found by a man named Ironheart when the train on which he had previously been dueling with Yugi derails and falls off a cliff, and he is transported to a hospital. When Dartz is defeated, Haga's soul is released from imprisonment, and he wakes up in his hospital bed in the same room as Ryuzaki, who leaves with him.
Their next plan was to enter the Kaiba Corp Grand Championship (KC Grand Prix in the Japanese version.) Where they both impersonated the duelist, Fortune Salim. They were quickly defeated by Zigfried von Schroeder (Siegfried von Schroider in the Japanese version) and sent back to Japan by Kaibacorp. (In the US anime, their fate after the duel is unknown.)
Their last attempt at revenge was to steal Yugi's Egyptian God Cards from his house, where they grabbed Yugi's bag containing all of his Millennium Items. Yugi tried to stop them but couldn't catch up. Meanwhile they examined their prize, not knowing what they had retrieved. They were then attacked by Dark Bakura, who stole the Millennium Ring back from them.
In the final episode of the Japanese version of the second series anime, Haga is last seen dueling Ryuzaki [1].
[edit] Notable Dueling Cards
As stated previously, Haga's deck primarily features Insect cards. Among his most dangerous strategies is to make all opposing monsters Insect-type with either Parasite Paracide or DNA Surgery, then stopping all attacks with Insect Barrier. While using this stall strategy, he'll then use Larvae Moth with Cocoon of Evolution to summon his Great Moth, or worse, his Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth. Haga's other key monster Insect Queen is easier to summon and gains power the more insects there are on the field. Unlike his counterpart Ryuzaki, Haga's insects rely on special abilities and combos instead of brute force to win.
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