Jim Crocodile Cook

Infobox animanga character
name = Jim Crocodile Cook
series = Yu-Gi-Oh! GX


caption = Jim Crocodile Cook
first = "Yu-Gi-Oh! GX" Episode 106
last =
creator =
voiced by = Naoya Iwahashi (Japanese)
Unknown (English)
alias =
age = 19
born = Date Unknown
relatives = Crocodile: Shirley(Karen in the Japanese version)

nihongo|Jim Crocodile Cook|ジム・クロコダイル・クック|Jimu Kurokodairu Kukku is a fictional character in the anime series "Yu-Gi-Oh! GX". His name is derived from the name Captain James Cook, the man who in 1770 claimed the continent of Australia in the name of the British. In the Japanese version, Jim is voiced by Naoya Iwahashi.

A duelist completely in-tune with the landscape, Jim is introduced during the third season as one of Jaden Yuki's new allies.

Biography

In the timeline of the "Yu-Gi-Oh! GX" anime, Jim fell off a cliff trying to prevent his crocodile friend, Shirley (Karen in the Japanese version), from walking into an animal trap. He awoke with an ancient artifact known as the "Orichalcum Eye" embedded in his right eye, which was said to possess miraculous powers in the presence of a unique falling comet. ["Yu-Gi-Oh! GX". Episode #139. June 6, 2007.]

A student hailing from South Academy, Jim enters Duel Academy in the third year. He is an expert geologist and archaeologist, having taken part in an excavation of a "Tyrannosaurus" in the past."Yu-Gi-Oh! GX". Episode #110. November 15, 2006.] He regards Shirley as "family," and does not consider her a pet, and carries her around in a specially made backpack wherever he goes. He wields a Duel Disk in the shape of a boomerang.

During the Duel between Jaden Yuki and Axel Brodie, Shirley began acting strangely due to electromagnetic waves coming from within the jungle. Meeting up with Jaden and his friends after Shirley inadvertently attacks Tyranno Hassleberry the next day, he and the group venture deep into the woods to investigate. Seeing another opportunity to claim Duel Energy, Professor Viper reactivates the signals, causing Tyranno to act wildly and face Jim in a Survival Duel. Although the duelist quickly regains his senses, he lashes out at Jim, but is eventually defeated.

Jim accompanies Jaden and co. to an alternate dimension and assists them in defending Duel Academy from zombified students. After their journey into a third alternate world, Axel and Jim face Jaden, who has turned evil and begun calling himself the "Supreme King". Jim uses his Orichalcum Eye during a Duel with Jaden and sees into his heart, where it is revealed that the Supreme King is actually an entity that has possessed Jaden. Despite his discovery and attempts to free Jaden, Jim loses and vanishes, his Orichalcum Eye falling into Axel's hands. He does fully return alive alongside others after Jaden's duel against Yubel.

In the English version, Jim speaks with a stereotypical Australian accent, while his original series counterpart instead speaks frequently in Engrish and gives nicknames to his companions, such as "Dino Boy" and "Tomorrow Girl" for Tyranno Kenzan and Asuka Tenjouin, respectively.

Deck

Jim plays a Fossil Dragon deck. His strategy relies heavily on the use of "Fossil Fusion" to remove from the game the monsters in both his own and his opponent's Graveyards to summon creatures of varying strengths dependent on the levels and types of the Fusion Materials used for the merger. The monsters created by "Fossil Fusion" follow "reverse evolution" through the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic Eras; the more ancient the monster, the more powerful it is.

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