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Forbidden Characters are a form of card text featured on cards in the Duel Masters Trading Card Game.
Details[]
Forbidden characters are a type of encoding system that is first featured on a promotional version of Forbidden. It encodes English and thus the forbidden Characters correspond to English characters. At first the text is considered to have an unknown meaning, but players managed to decipher the text, revealing the mysterious Seal mechanic. This mechanic was an unknown mechanic and thus many players thought it is a non-card object.
Later on in the Duel Masters Versus Revolution Final: Episode Listing season of the anime, a card named kndn legend dkdm x appeared and is used by Basara, revealing the Seal mechanic. The card itself is actually a secret version of Dokindam X, The Legendary Forbidden which appears extremely rarely and is nearly impossible to obtain by regular players due to its extremely low packaging rate and thus high prices.
Despite forbidden characters not being Japanese characters, Forbidden character cards can be used in official tournaments. However, in order to prevent younger players from unable to recognize the card's effect, tournaments may disallow Forbidden character cards to be used. As a result, it is recommended to bring a proxy copy of the Japanese version of the card for reference purposes. Additionally, despite that it references English text, cards with forbidden characters can't be used in the English game, and is still a card in the Japanese game.
Letter Chart[]
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DMR-23 Dogiragolden VS Dormageddon X later released Dormageddon X, Forbidden Armageddon with a capital X character.
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It also introduced Initials X creatures that had Forbidden Characters for Greek letters.
- These Greek letters were previously used for Survivors of varying card rarity.
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Examples of cards with Forbidden Characters[]
9 KNDN kndn |
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Fire / Creature 9999 |
■ Creatures can't attack. |
The world will come to end when the forbidden seal becomes unlocked. |
KNDN ~SEALED X~ kndn ~sealed x~ |
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Fire / KNDN Pulse |
■ This pulse starts the game in the battle zone with 6 seals on it. |
99 KNDN LEGEND DKDM X kndn legend dkdm x |
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Fire / KNDN Creature 99999 |
■ Triple breaker |
Artist: MITSUAKI MATSUMOTO (mtsk mtmt) |
6 DEMON HAND demon hand |
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Darkness / Spell |
ST (When this spell is put into your hand from your shield zone, you may cast it for no cost.) |
Artist: hippo |
Red-End, Super Lightning Sonic was also seen played by Basara. Its name and race was in Japanese characters, but the ability and other card details were in forbidden characters.
5 超轟速 レッド・エンド |
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Fire / Evolution Creature ソニック・コマンド + 侵略者 6000 |
■ Evolution - Put on one of your fire creatures. |
Other Characters[]
Additionally, forbidden characters have been featured in creature's artworks, reading as follows:
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Card: | Forbidden Characters: | Translation: |
Forbidden ~The Sealed X~ | seal | SEAL |
Marmo, Forbidden C | save kndn |
SAVE (KNDN on the Promotional card.) |
Trooper, Forbidden U | unchain | UNCHAIN |
Red-End, Super Lightning Sonic | thered | THERED |
Redzone X, Forbidden Lightning Sonic | darkness | DARKNESS |
The End of X | dkndm | DKNDM |
Trig, Forbidden C | vol si |
VOL SI |
Typhoon, Forbidden C | honcen | HONCEN |
The Black V, Roaring Sound | rudo | RUDO |
Kizamu, Forbidden V | slash | SLASH |
Walsura Prince S | scepter | SCEPTER |
Metal Walsura S | guard | GUARD |
Savage, Forbidden U | summon | SUMMON |
Hook, Dark Armor K | tenebris scutum |
TENEBRIS SCUTUM |
Luciano, Explosive G | ferus ignis flatus |
FERUS IGNIS FLATUS |
4-W, Break Speed | dash | DASH |
Since each of the cards with a Forbidden Characters card exist with a Japanese printing, they can be directly compared to the original card.
Forbidden Characters: | Japanese: | English: | Reference: |
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kndn | 禁断 | Kindan / Forbidden | Forbidden |
dkdm | ドキンダム | Dokindam | Dokindam X, The Legendary Forbidden |
unsealing | 禁断解放 | Forbidden Liberation | Forbidden ~The Sealed X~ |
st | S・トリガー | Shield Trigger | Terror Pit |
knda | 禁断機関 | Forbidden Engine | VV-8, Forbidden Machine |
forbidden riser | 禁断機動 | Forbidden Mechanism | |
dormaggedon X | ドルマゲドン X | Dormageddon X | Dormageddon X, Forbidden Armageddon |
forbidden star ~the last day of the world~ |
FORBIDDEN STAR ~世界最後の日~ | FORBIDDEN STAR ~The Last Day of the World~ | FORBIDDEN STAR ~World's Last Day~ |
DMSP-02 The King of Legend[]
The DMSP-02 Booklet includes Forbidden Characters associated with each of the cards released in DMSP-02, typically foreshadowing which creature each of them would be fused with to form a Dispector.
DMRP-20 The King Of The End[]
The 'S' 20th Rare printing of Volzeos Balamord had its name written in Forbidden Characters; volzeos balamord.
Appearances in the anime[]
Only Basara is able of reading the forbidden characters, this being the reason why Zakira let him have the unsealed version of Forbidden. Later on, when Basara duels against Lucifer in a revenge match, the card of Red-End, Super Lightning Sonic had its effect changed from kanji to Forbidden Characters which only he could read, which influenced the outcome of the duel as Lucifer accidentally destroyed it and helped his opponent unseal Dokindam X after playing a Fire Command.
Whenever a seal was removed, a number would be displayed in Forbidden Characters as ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE and SIX. Additionally, Forbidden Characters seem to appear around the creatures as well as on their cards.
- The letters surrounding Red-End, spell out his name, REDEND redend
- The letters showed during Dokindam's liberating and those shown on cards that seal the opponent's creatures read, SEAL seal
- The letters on Redzone X's bracelets spell out DARKNESS darkness