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Playing Card Motifs

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Playing Card Motifs	comment	Playing cards have a wide and varied use in fiction. If they show up, they're to evoke an air of luck, gambling, and trickery. The standard international deck (also known as the French deck), is the most widely-used in fiction as it is in card games. It consists of four suits — clubs (â™£), diamonds (â™¦), hearts (â™¥) and spades (â™ ) and 13 cards of each suit, plus two jokers. Respectively, the suits traditionally represent the peasantry, merchant class, clergy, and nobility. The suits also allude to Esoteric Motifs. When it comes to color-coding, hearts and diamonds are red while spades and clubs are black. If the four suits are used in a work, more often than not they'll be to differentiate factions or characters. The suit of spades in particular is associated with death, while the suit of hearts has the usual associations of Heart Symbol when it's not an Alice Allusion. The components of each deck, and the motifs associated with them, often represent the hierarchy within the card-themed organization in question. Note that the rankings of the cards vary between games. The Ace: The highest rank (although some games have it as the lowest, filling the slot taken by the absent "one" card, and a few allow it to fill either role in different circumstances), and the origin of the term The Ace (and by extension, things like Ace Pilot). The Ace Of Spades is the highest-ranking card, popularly known as the "card of death." Someone using this motif will likely be highly competent in battle. Alternately, its appearance may be foreshadowing danger ahead. The Face Cards are a group of "court" cards (a king, a queen, and a jack or knave), ranked in that order. They are named on French decks, but not on English decks. Whom the "faces" are supposed to represent, if any at all, are points of contention, however recent years have seen them replaced by more generic court characters. For more details, see the Analysis tab. The King cards traditionally rank below the ace and above the queen. When all four are collected, they are termed "the four horsemen." When not overshadowed by the Queen, often The Leader of the playing-card themed organization in question. The King of Hearts is nicknamed "The Suicide King" because the common art for the card includes holding a knife or sword to his head that may appear to be impaling himself. This can be commonly invoked in a motif. The Queen ranks below the king and above the jack. Such characters will often be regal and imperious. The Queen of Hearts represents the biblical figure Judith. Thanks to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, if the Queen of Hearts shows up in a work you can damn well bet it's an Alice Allusion, meaning God Save Us from the Queen! is usually in play. If not, she will often be a Love Interest or, at the very least, an object of romantic desire. The Jack or Knave typically ranks below the queen and above the 10, making him the lowest-ranking face card. Often the right-hand man to the King, the Queen, or both. In an Alice Allusion, the Knave of Hearts is likely to show up alongside the Queen of Hearts. If not, he's going to be The Trickster, thanks to the nursery rhyme.note The poem/nursery rhyme "The Queen of Hearts," where the knave steals the queen's tarts. Cards ranking from ten to two (also known as deuce) are portrayed with the card's number with as many symbols of the suit as the number. Commonly portrayed as Mooks. The Jokers (often two to a deck) are commonly portrayed as court jesters or fools. The use of the joker card, if any, varies wildly from game to game. In Tarot Motifs, it is comparable to The Fool. If a character is described as such, they may very well be The Trickster or a Wild Card. More recently, thanks to The Joker, Jokers have also occasionally taken on more sinister roles as monster clowns. Aside from the standard 52-card deck, other common decks include: 32-card "Piquet" deck: 52 cards minus two to six cards. 48-card Pinochle deck: Ace (high) through nine only, twice each in all four suits. French Tarot deck: 78 cards: 56 suited cards (Knight face cards are inserted between the queen and jack) plus 21 trump cardsnote which are NOT the Major Arcana from Tarot in modern decks and the Fool. Spanish Conquian deck: 40-card deck. Ace through Seven, Page, Knight, and King of Swords, Clubs, Cups, and Coins.note In Spanish, the Coins are called "Oros" (literally, "Golds"), despite this breaking modern grammatical rules. An extended deck of 50 cards also exist, it adds Eights and Nines in each suit, plus two Jokers. Compare Chess Motifs (for another motif based on a classic game), Tarot Motifs and Alice Allusion. The Gambler will often have this as his scheme, as will the Death Dealer. Supertrope to Dead Man's Hand, which is a specific group of cards (two black eights and two black aces) that symbolizes death; Ace Of Spades is another card/subtrope that symbolizes death specifically. Locations where playing cards are often used, such as The Casino, may make use of this as well. See also Poker.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_1869a077	comment	Ezekial Clench of Samurai Jack was a Wild Westâ€“style villain with a slight playing card motif; The spurs on his boots were shaped like spades, he had a card in his hat... Oh, and his cybernetic hands, the wrists of which had the playing card suits on them. The hands had a special ability depending on which suit was facing up. (He changes the setting by turning the wrist so that the desired suit is on the back of the hand.) He's also a bounty hunter, and on the run from his ex-wife, so luck is a big deal to him. (He does decide to call a truce with her to go after Jack, which turns out to be a very bad idea.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_187d570a	comment	In Devil May Cry 4, Dante's unique Gilgamesh attacks reference poker while Nero's sword attacks reference casinos/gambling. The sword itself is called the Red Queen to fit this.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_18c16686	comment	In John Wick: Chapter 4, the poker scene is laden with these kinds of motifs (and it's pretty likely the hands were chosen specifically). John, who's been living on borrowed time since the start of the series, gets a Dead Man's Hand. Caine, who faces an Uncertain Doom at the film's end, gets four nines and a four. Mr. Nobody, the only character in the game to definitively survive the film, gets a royal flush. And Killa gets five of a kind in twos—a cheating hand that outranks every hand at the table, but also the weakest possible form of that hand, reflecting his nature as the weakest person present (he even lays his cards down one by one, meaning that the fact that he won the hand isn't immediately evident). Additionally, since they got very good hands but were beaten by a cheating hand, this suggests that all three see themselves as the potential winner, but are really fighting against a rigged system.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_18fc7ea2	comment	The Strongest Suitâ€¦ obviously, since it stars anthropomorphic playing cards.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_1b386512	comment	One story arc in Ranma Â½, has the regulars playing Poker against the "Gambling King", who resembles a king from a deck of playing cards.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_23095e61	comment	The Erast Fandorin series often uses card motifs in connection to criminal world: Early in The Jack of Spades, the eponymous Conman of the Novel goes into a prolonged Internal Monologue about the symbolism of the nickname he picked for himself. In He Lover of Death, all Khitrovka gangs seem to be structured like card decks: the gang leader is referred as King, his girlfriend is the Queen and his right-hand man is the Jack, while the regular gang members are spread out between ten and six (from most important to most expendable, respectively). The Ace is a King whose gang dominates the entirety of Moscow underworld.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_261c8d3f	comment	In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer and Marge are at the movies and see a trailer for their universe's version of Cars called Cards, about anthropomorphic playing cards.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_2da0a35e	comment	All of the characters in Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker are named after card game terms, like Joker (the Canon Name for Hello, [Insert Name Here]), Solitaire, Warden Trump, Madame Rummy, and Dr. Snap. The main monster of the game is also called the Incarnus, and it has four forms named after the card suits (Wulfspade, Hawkhart, Cluboon, and Diamagon) that can upgrade to "Ace" versions. (But note that while Joker has direct sequels, the card theme doesn't carry over and becomes The Artifact.)
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Playing Card Motifs / int_2de3f467	comment	In He Lover of Death, all Khitrovka gangs seem to be structured like card decks: the gang leader is referred as King, his girlfriend is the Queen and his right-hand man is the Jack, while the regular gang members are spread out between ten and six (from most important to most expendable, respectively). The Ace is a King whose gang dominates the entirety of Moscow underworld.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Other versions of the team are featured in the Justice League episode "Wild Cards" and the Justice League Unlimited episode "Epilogue." In "Wild Cards" the team was assembled by the Joker after he freed them from a government metahuman research facility; that team's Ace went on to form the "Epilogue" version of the team by using her reality-warping abilities to give superhuman powers to the other four members.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_31e24f1e	comment	The Joker, Batman's nemesis, corresponds well to his eponymous card by being chaotic and unpredictable. He also tends to use the Joker itself as a Calling Card.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_341c02e9	comment	At the end of Batman Begins, Lieutenant Gordon hands Batman a Joker card found at the scene of a crime, foreshadowing the Joker's prominent role in The Dark Knight.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_366a284d	comment	Fist of the North Star: In the anime, the very first arc has villains with this motif. The gang leaders are named after the suits (Spade, Diamond, Club, and Mr. Heart), Shin's Dragon has a Joker motif, and Shin himself is the King.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_3717ea4a	comment	DC Animated Universe: On Batman Beyond, the Royal Flush gang are a villainous team example, taking their names from the cards that make up a royal flush in poker: King, his wife Queen, their children Jack and Ten, and the robotic Big Guy Ace. In their debut episode, Bruce is able to predict their next heist after realizing that their crimes thus far have also followed a (somewhat tenuous) playing card motif: Other versions of the team are featured in the Justice League episode "Wild Cards" and the Justice League Unlimited episode "Epilogue." In "Wild Cards" the team was assembled by the Joker after he freed them from a government metahuman research facility; that team's Ace went on to form the "Epilogue" version of the team by using her reality-warping abilities to give superhuman powers to the other four members. Even earlier in Batman: The Animated Series, a sleazy billionaire discovered he'd spent too much building a casino-hotel and was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. He promptly changed all the style and decor of the casino to obviously rip-off The Joker's image. Though it was all a ploy to get the Joker to blow the place up and clean up from the insurance, he played it off saying it was only a playing card gimmick.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_38974f2	comment	The King of Fighters: Oswald, debuting in KOF XI, is a Death Dealer and thus his attacks from his fighting style of Karnoffel have playing card theme: Spade, Club, Diamond and Heart can be cancelled into each other up to three times, while Ace is an attack that can either deal minor or massive damage, similar to the value of the card. King and Queen are Counter-Attack and projectile moves respectively. His Desperation Move Four Suits, via its C version, does 21 hits (Blackjack) while Joker has him unload his 52 (53 in XIV) cards at his victim. Furthermore, his color scheme is the one of playing cards: Black suit, red shirt and glasses, white hair, and yellow tie for the details in the figure cards. This even extends to the game's soundtrack: "Joker" is the New Hero Team's theme (Oswald is on this team, by the by), "Queen" is the Rival Team's Theme, "King" is Adelheid's theme, and "Jack" is used for some sub-bosses. Oswald retains a remix of "Joker" in his reappearance in XIV. Oswald's case once more is even a case of Shaped Like Itself; all of his listed moves in his official movesets use the playing card icons as their names! Examples include Q = Queen, â™ â™¥â™¦â™£ = Four Suits and so forth.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_3d0e59ba	comment	MotÃ¶rhead's 1980 single Ace Of Spades, from the album of the same name. Guess what it's about.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_3d555ed3	comment	Oswald, debuting in KOF XI, is a Death Dealer and thus his attacks from his fighting style of Karnoffel have playing card theme: Spade, Club, Diamond and Heart can be cancelled into each other up to three times, while Ace is an attack that can either deal minor or massive damage, similar to the value of the card. King and Queen are Counter-Attack and projectile moves respectively. His Desperation Move Four Suits, via its C version, does 21 hits (Blackjack) while Joker has him unload his 52 (53 in XIV) cards at his victim. Furthermore, his color scheme is the one of playing cards: Black suit, red shirt and glasses, white hair, and yellow tie for the details in the figure cards.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_3ec5b7a6	comment	In House of Leaves, Johnny freaks out over someone giving him a King of Hearts lighter.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP-2156, a college student who became so obsessed with solitaire and/or numerology that she broke reality.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_4407fa9a	comment	The antagonists of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn are named Spade, Heart, and Ace in the original Japanese. English versions shift the naming scheme to Tarot Motifs, redubbing them Blados, Chalis, and Arcanus.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_46823c49	comment	Downplayed in Moriarty the Patriot, but with the return of Moran's #1 Dime card from William featuring the King of Hearts ("The Suicide King") and the Jack of Hearts spliced together, they obviously represent the two characters, William as the suicidal leader and Moran as his right-hand man.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_4ada408f	comment	Parodied in Alan Ford: three famous and important men who have to undertake an airplane journey together receive the two of spades and consider it an ominous message announcing death and ill-fated departure. By the end of the issue, Number One remembers that the two of spades is also the least valuable card you can get in Briscola (a card game) and thus a way to claim that someone's useless: the person responsible is an otherwise forgettable Butt-Monkey who's always been called "two of spades" because of his incapacity and wanted to get his revenge by using these cards to make other fall into endless paranoia.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_4c56381b	comment	The Binding of Isaac has pickups based on cards, suits included. Ace cards turn all other pickups in the room in to a collectable based on the suit, while 2 cards double (quadruple with the Tarot Cloth item) the current number of that collectable held. Spades cards do these with keys, hearts with... the heart pickup, diamonds with coins, and clubs with bombs. There is also a Joker card that teleports the player character to the devil/angel room, even on floors where it is normally inaccessible.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_4d1ba412	comment	The four Radical Knights of Radical Land, from The Adventures of Dr. McNinja are each named and in some cases styled after the four suits. They are: Sir Sicknasty of Spades Sir Cowabunga of Clubs Sir Hellacious of Hearts Dame Dudeical of Diamonds
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Playing Card Motifs / int_4fc8fae	comment	Used widely in The Magician: The Hero is a death-dealing Magician Detective named Ace Cooper. The Big Bad's name is Black Jack, and his dragons are called Diamond and Spade. On top of that, Black Jack owns a casino, and even the clothes he and his henchmen wear have a red and black color motif.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_5096bdbd	comment	In Retribution Falls, Darian Fray loses a hand of Rake when he draws the Ace of Skulls, which also happens to be the name of a passenger liner carrying the son of a duke that he was conned into attacking with the lie that it was a freighter carrying gemstones.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: The Midnight Crew is a four-member mobster group, each of whom is themed and named after a specific suit: Spades Slick, Hearts Boxcars, Diamonds Droog, and Clubs Deuce. They carry decks of cards that double as weapons and other objects, such as Spades Slick's Ace of Spades card doubling as his cast iron horse hitcher, or a 10-card and a 4-card being used as a makeshift radio. The troll quadrants of romance use the four suits as their symbols. Matespritship, the flushed quadrant, uses hearts, similar to how humans use hearts as a symbol for love. Moirallegiance, the pale quadrant, uses diamonds. Auspisticism, the ashen quadrant, involves three parties: a "mediator" between two opposing personalities, hence the uses of the three-lobed club. Kismesissitude, the caliginousnote dark quadrant, uses spades, which may reference the fact that such relationships are based on feelings of hate as spades represent weapons such as swords or spears, and the spade resembles an upside-down heart with a handle at the bottom. Three of the first four kids wore shirts corresponding to different card suits in the past. John used to have a spades shirt before he got his Slimer shirt, Jade had a Skaianet shirt with a logo in the shape of a diamond, and Dave used to wear a shirt with a heart symbol. Rose is the exception, but her "angry Squiddle" shirt from the start of the story is in the loose shape of a clubs symbol.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_52646e97	comment	Kamen Rider Blade uses this for its overarching motif. There are 52 Undead, which are organized by the playing card suits based off their relative Power Levels. The Riders defeat the Undead by sealing them into cards, which allows them to draw on their power: Aces are used to transform, the face cards give access to Super Modes, and the others grant a variety of power-ups. The Riders themselves each represent one of the four suits, while being named for the corresponding Tarot suit: Blade is Spades, Garrennote a corruption of "galleon", an old form of coinage is Diamonds, Chalice is Hearts, and Leanglenote from "liangle", a type of club represents Clubs. There's also a Joker Undead, which is fittingly enough the series' Wild Card.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5: The protagonist has a Guardian Entity with multiple hearts on its shoulders, and goes by the thief Code Name JOKER. Another party member even justifies this code name by saying it's because the player character is their Badass Crew's "Wild Card."
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Playing Card Motifs / int_59da62aa	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_59da62aa	comment	A meta example from Fallout: New Vegas: one of the promotional items that shipped with the Collector's Edition of the game was a deck of cards. The deck assigned each suit to a major in-game faction/ending and each card to a character or minor faction, with each suit's king being that faction's leader. The suit of clubs is used for Caesar's Legion, a brutal conquering army in Roman centurion cosplay. Diamonds are used for the technocrat Robert House and the employees of his rebuilt Vegas Strip. Hearts are the NCR, the New California Republic, trying to rebuild America. And spades are everyone else, those caught in the crossfire as the other three factions try to take New Vegas for themselves. Special mention goes to the king of spades, which is the King, the roguish, Robin Hood-esque leader of Freeside, who stumbled onto a stash of old tapes of a great pre-war hero... Now he and his gang, the Kings, are Elvis impersonators, although sadly none of them wear Elvis's iconic rhinestone-encrusted white jumpsuit: the 1974 Arabian, also known as the King of Spades. The jokers, fittingly, are the Courier and Benny. If you help Mr. House upgrade his Securitrons with the Platinum Chip, the Courier can comment about how the visual changes in the Securitrons seems like him blatantly showing his hand. House dismisses their concerns by stating:
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Playing Card Motifs / int_59e65a05	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_59e65a05	comment	Both the book version and the original film version of The Manchurian Candidate have the Queen of Diamonds be the trigger for Raymond Shaw's brainwashing. Discussed by the Army psychologist as a reference to Shaw's mother.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_5a123cab	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_5a123cab	comment	Steven Universe: The Movie: Spinel, the primary antagonist of the movie, has a Gemstone in the shape of a heart. According to Word of God, Spinels in general have their Gemstones shaped like playing card suits.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_5ae0bec6	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_5ae0bec6	comment	WWE's Shayna Baszler, the "Queen of Spades" (named for her talent for card tricks and sleight-of-hand). While she'd been using the nickname in her MMA career as well, her wrestling gear incorporates spade and playing card motifs.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight is the one occasion where a cinematic Joker personally uses the Joker card as a Calling Card.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_5e01a192	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_5e01a192	comment	The Mighty Crusaders have in their roster a hero named Black Jack (aka Jack Jones), who dressed in red and black and spade decorations to match his card counterpart Black Jack, aka the Jack of Spades. Black Jack's origin involves the Jack of Spades: Jack Jones was a detective who was betrayed by a corrupt partner and walled alive in a deserted mansion. He was left the Jack of Spades card, a card representing misfortune, as a cruel joke, but Jones used the card to make an air hole, which gave him enough time to be found and rescued. That card not only inspired his heroic identity, but became one of his most precious possessions.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_5e16d550	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_5e16d550	comment	The four kingdoms from Black Clover are based off of the four suits.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_63ac9abf	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_63ac9abf	comment	While ultimately averted in Sonic the Hedgehog 2's Casino Night Zone, its original visual design played it more straight◊.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_66fd2e30	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_66fd2e30	comment	In Wax and Wayne, the villainous Set codenames its ranks in card puns, to wit: The Brute is a "Suit," The Reluctant Mad Scientist in the Set's employ is an "Array", The Brute's superior is a "Sequence", and member of the council are titled "Series."
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Playing Card Motifs / int_694ab80	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_694ab80	comment	On Batman Beyond, the Royal Flush gang are a villainous team example, taking their names from the cards that make up a royal flush in poker: King, his wife Queen, their children Jack and Ten, and the robotic Big Guy Ace. In their debut episode, Bruce is able to predict their next heist after realizing that their crimes thus far have also followed a (somewhat tenuous) playing card motif:
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Playing Card Motifs / int_6eb4ca5c	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	In one episode of Jackie Chan Adventures (specifically, an episode parodying the James Bond series), Dr. Necrosis' Dragon had power over playing cards, and always spoke in metaphors and puns related to them. "The deck is stacked in our favor! We have the upper hand!" "Dealer calls a new game!" "I thought he folded..."
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Playing Card Motifs / int_6f3ca8cf	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_6f3ca8cf	comment	Shugo Chara!: The Guardians of Amu's school; The King's Chair, the Queen's chair, the Jack's chair, and the Ace's chair. The Joker's chair can only be filled by someone with at least three Guardian Characters, making an actual Joker quite rare. Amu's Guardian Characters and their transformed selves, Ran (Amulet Heart), Miki (Amulet Spade), Su (Amulet Clover), and Diamond (Amulet Diamond) also fit the suit symbols.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_7041cf12	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_7041cf12	comment	The first season of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War assigned individual cards to the main characters. Kaguya and Shirogane share the Ace of Hearts, Ishigami is the Ace Of Spades, and Fujiwara is the Joker.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_717e5bde	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_717e5bde	comment	High Card revolves around this trope: it involves a deck of magical playing cards set in the Kingdom of Fourland, where everyone and everything has a card-themed name.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_72e68fc6	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_72e68fc6	comment	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice reveals the "Joker" in this arrangement, Mr. Reus, was kicked out by the troupe.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_72e9fe23	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_72e9fe23	comment	In Amnesia: Memories, each main guy is represented by a different playing card suit that shows up somewhere on their clothes: Heart for Shin, Spade for Ikki, Clover for Kent, and Diamond for Toma. Ukyo, a special Secret Character, is represented by the Joker card instead.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_7337d81c	comment	Maverick. During a scene where Maverick tries to choose which card he draws from a deck, he picks the Queen of Hearts — a Foreshadowing of his romantic encounter with Annabelle Bransford.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_761b8560	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_761b8560	comment	The Shufflers: Most prominently with MÃ¤rchen, whose job as a fortune teller has him work closely with playing cards in order to predict the future. Also present as a theme in the comic proper, most prevalent in the opening chapters art that are styled as playing cards of the characters.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_78d4f24	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_78d4f24	comment	Mega Man Star Force 3 features as its main villains a criminal syndicate named "Dealer". It is led by one Mr. King, and has among its high-ranking members Queen Tia, Jack, and Joker. There's also Ace, who deserted the organization. Furthermore, three of the (unwitting) major bosses of the game are Spade Magnes, Diamond Ice, and Club Strong, while King's Dragon is named Heartless, as befitting her status as The Mole. Their base's inner sanctum is even decorated like a gigantic card table.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_7abc4637	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_7abc4637	comment	Magical Girl Raising Project: Shufflin are artificial magical girls created by the Osk Faction to serve as soldiers. The first Shufflin consists of a Joker who controls 52 lesser Shufflin in a sort of Hive Mind. They have different roles depending on their suit: Spades are combatants, Diamonds are good with technology, Hearts are durable, and Clubs are stealthy. If any Shufflin die, the Joker can sacrifice another magical girl to dispel all of the Shufflin and create a new batch of 52, but if the Joker dies, then all of them disappear. Shufflin II are an improved model who are mass-produced without the Joker, so they are more intelligent and there are more than 52 of them, but they can't be easily replaced.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_7d4d63ef	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_7d4d63ef	comment	One review of Casino made use of this: Ace is the Ace of Spades. The poster boy go-getter. "I just wanna run a square joint." Straight and sharp. Nicky is the King of Clubs. The enforcer/boss of the literal club bearers, or soldiers. Ginger is the Queen of Hearts. The captor/ruler of all men's hearts. Lester is the Jack of Diamonds. Jack of all the trades to get those diamonds. Will do anything and everything to gain money, and materialize women into his control.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_7f83060c	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_7f83060c	comment	In Show by Rock!!, the band Criticrysta has hair decorations (in Funny Animal form) and outfits (in Human form) based on the suits, Rosia's suit is Hearts, Tsukino's suit is Spades, Jacklyn's suit is Clubs and Holmy's suit is Diamonds. Rosia and Holmy's color schemes even adhere to the red association of their respective suits.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_81765d93	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_81765d93	comment	Final Fantasy Type-0: The game starts with 14 teens, originally 12 plus 2 new members Rem and Machina, all of whom are cadets at Akademeia as Class Zero. Aside from the 2 new recruits, the members of Class Zero are named after the Japanese pronunciations of "trumps" or playing cards. The original 12 members are Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Nine, Eight, Seven, Deuce, Trey, Cater, Cinque and Sice. There are two other Academy students, Tiz and Joker, who represent the "missing" playing cards 10 and Joker (Tiz is the Hungarian word for ten) and were meant to factor into Arecia's plans for Class Zero until she deeemed them unnecessary. Instead, they report directly to her, though Joker can randomly appear as Support Personnel in missions if certain requirements are met.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_81b920b9	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_81b920b9	comment	Blackjack from European Enemies.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_81f5d35d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Stronger: General Shadow carries with him a card deck that he can use for attacks or to tell fortunes. Each card in the deck also corresponds to a different member of his Delza Army, with Shadow's personal card being the King of Spades. Snake Woman, Shadow's top henchman (and possible lover) is represented by the Queen of Hearts. Kamen Rider Blade uses this for its overarching motif. There are 52 Undead, which are organized by the playing card suits based off their relative Power Levels. The Riders defeat the Undead by sealing them into cards, which allows them to draw on their power: Aces are used to transform, the face cards give access to Super Modes, and the others grant a variety of power-ups. The Riders themselves each represent one of the four suits, while being named for the corresponding Tarot suit: Blade is Spades, Garrennote a corruption of "galleon", an old form of coinage is Diamonds, Chalice is Hearts, and Leanglenote from "liangle", a type of club represents Clubs. There's also a Joker Undead, which is fittingly enough the series' Wild Card. Kamen Rider Double: Shotaro is associated with the Joker (or "kirifuda" ("trump card"), as it's translated once). He's an unpredictable Spanner in the Works who disrupts the various schemes going on around him, with some of the other characters even calling him a "Wild Card".
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Playing Card Motifs / int_8517338a	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_8517338a	comment	The Cures from Doki Doki Pre Cure: Mana/Cure Heart (hearts), Rikka/Cure Diamond (diamonds), Alice/Cure Rosetta (clubs), Makoto/Cure Sword (spades) and Aguri/Cure Ace (aces).
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Playing Card Motifs / int_86814e56	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_86814e56	comment	Setzer, from Final Fantasy VI uses cards, dice, darts and slots in his attacks. His airship is named Blackjack. And he joins the party by losing a (rigged) coin toss. This clip shows how badass a Setzer can be: He's a wispy silver-haired Bishōnen that sails his airship at top speed, unfazed by the wind as he stands at the rudder, who destroys a heavily-armed gunship by tossing a few sharpened cards at it. Ante up indeed.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_86814e7d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_86814e7d	comment	Final Fantasy X-2: The heroines each have a different suit motif while using the Lady Luck dressphere: spades for Yuna, diamonds for Payne, and clubs for Rikku. Leblanc, whose outfit heavily resembles the Lady Luck, has hearts.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_87cf8985	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_87cf8985	comment	Card Shark from Dark Champions
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Playing Card Motifs / int_89fd748e	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_89fd748e	comment	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: In Wonderland is the court of the King and Queen of Hearts, in which all the royalty and soldiers are anthropomorphic playing cards.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_8d318bad	comment	In Super Mario RPG, a card suit symbol of different colors appears whenever a member of the party performs a special move: Mario has a blue spade, Mallow a green club, Bowser an orange diamond, and Princess Toadstool a pink heart. The fifth member, Geno, instead gets the Joker's red star, as he is originally from the stars themselves.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_8e0ff71c	comment	In Alice and the Nightmare, social castes, organizations and even sayings all derive their names from cards — castes are named after four French suits, the elite forces are called Jokers and teams are referred to as "decks".
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Playing Card Motifs / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: Ace Savvy and his sidekick One-Eyed Jack, Lincoln and Clyde's favorite comic superheroes, are themed after playing cards, with Ace having a signature pose of showing out a deck of cards. In "Pulp Friction", for the Ace Savvy comic that he and Clyde submit for a fan contest, Lincoln creates a number of characters based on his sisters and people he knows about, most of whom are named after a type of card or a related term associated with playing cards. In particular, the ones based on the sisters are summoned by Ace in the comic through a deck, and with Ace, Jack and later Wild Card Willy, are jointly referred to as the "Full Deck" or "Full House Gang".
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Playing Card Motifs / int_8ffda93c	comment	There's a set of Warrior cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! called the Three Musketeers of Face Cards, which are based on the King, Queen and Jack: King's Knight, Queen's Knight and Jack's Knight. There is also a Fusion Monster summoned by fusing the three, Arcana Knight Joker.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_90b916ba	comment	Even earlier in Batman: The Animated Series, a sleazy billionaire discovered he'd spent too much building a casino-hotel and was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. He promptly changed all the style and decor of the casino to obviously rip-off The Joker's image. Though it was all a ploy to get the Joker to blow the place up and clean up from the insurance, he played it off saying it was only a playing card gimmick.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_90d056dd	comment	In Nobody, Hutch Mansell has a 7 of Spades and a 2 of Diamonds (considered the worst hand to start with in Texas Hold'Em) tattooed on his wrist. Exactly what this means isn't explained, but the moment someone notices it he immediately thanks Hutch for his service and proceeds to hide in a panic room.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_91e45f5	comment	Troupe Gramarye heavily features these in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney: the insides of each of their capes are emblazened with a suits pattern, and each member has a brooch shaped like one of the four suits: spade for Magnifi, club for Zak, heart for Valant, and diamond for Thalassa (and Trucy, whose costume is based off of hers). Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice reveals the "Joker" in this arrangement, Mr. Reus, was kicked out by the troupe.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_955d0559	comment	In Fiorello!, "Politics and Poker" has a group of Tammany hacks playing poker while discussing political strategy:
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Playing Card Motifs / int_96387ca2	comment	In menus and promotional images for Kissed by the Baddest Bidder, the main cast are represented with playing cards: Eisuke as the Ace of Hearts, Hong Kong gangster Soryu Oh as the King of Spades, Gentleman Thief Mitsunari Baba as the Joker, Ota Kisaki as the Queen of Diamonds, and Detective Mamoru Kishi as the Jack of Clubs. In-game, the high-class hotel and casino around which most of the action revolves is called the Hotel Tres Spades ("three spades"), and has fifty-two above-ground floors.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_9b602c3f	comment	Deltarune features a large number of playing card-themed characters; the in-universe explanation is that when the Dark Fountain opened in the abandoned classroom, it turned all the objects there, including a deck of cards, into characters and environmental elements. The characters are actually based on a specific card set created by Kanotynes. Chapter 1 revolves around the King, his son Lancer, and his troops, all themed after playing card suits: Rudinn and Rudinn Rangers are diamonds, Hathy and Head Hathy are hearts, the three-headed Clover is a club, the King and Lancer are the respective King and Jack of Spades, and Rouxls Kaard is a pun on the "rules card" sometimes included in commercial decks. The Card Castle where the King resides includes a lot of playing card motifs and puns, including a literal "club" where Clover and a few others have fun together, and the castle bathroom "Royal Flush". The Chapter 1 Superboss, Jevil, is a jester based on the Black Joker card, and likewise has a chaotic and wild personality. During his fight, he uses all four suits as weapons, fitting the Joker card's ability to stand in for any other one. The first shopkeeper, Seam, is partly based on the Red Joker, since they were formerly the court magician. (Though, unlike the other card characters, they aren't actually one in the Light World — they're a plushie!) When Lancer and Rouxls enter Kris' inventory in Chapter 2, they get turned into an actual Jack of Spades and Rules Card, respectively, in the Light World.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Doflamingo's Co-Dragons have card suit themes: Diamante (diamond), Trebol (club), and Pica (spade). Doffy himself sometimes go by his alias "Joker". Even his former protege (who was intended to be his right-hand man but ended up betraying him eventually), Law, has the theme of "heart", CorazÃ³n in Spanish. Kaido's Co-Dragons are named King, Queen, and Jack. His lesser officers, the headliners, are named after various card games with the exception of those recruited from the Worst Generation. Then there are the Numbers, a group of ten failed clones of ancient giants named after the numbers one through ten, who represent the number cards and serve as Elite Mooks.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_a031329b	comment	Alice in the Country of Hearts: Being a dating sim adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it's quite rife with this. The Country of Hearts is divided into three conflicting factions with a neutral territory in the middle. The grandiose Castle of Hearts is associated with, well, hearts, the mafia territory Hatter Mansion is associated with spades, the cheery Amusement Park is associated with diamonds, and the neutral Clock Tower is associated with clover. Wonderland itself is divided into "countries." So far, the Countries of Heart, Clover, and Diamond have been seen. Joker oversees the prison realm, and seemingly has a Split Personality to match there being two jokers in a deck of cards.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_a0522cb6	comment	Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily is filled with references to Alice in Wonderland and in the 400 Rabbits Car, Gladion is given a card reading alongside Specter and Paul London. Larkspur and Lampetia later learn that the rabbits are planning on an anti-Apex group called Project Solitaire with each member represented by a specific card. Gladion fights off one member, General Zangetsu, in the Canals of Fondue Car and his card is the Ace of Clubs that represent a pursuit of knowledge. Zangetsu asks questions about Gladion's past and why he pursues the Apex if there is nothing personal at stake for him.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_a16f899a	comment	Early in The Jack of Spades, the eponymous Conman of the Novel goes into a prolonged Internal Monologue about the symbolism of the nickname he picked for himself.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_a36f037	comment	In J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai, each of the four heroes is named after a different suit/rank combo: Spade Ace, Clover (aka Club) King, Heart Queen, and Dia(mond) Jack; plus their commanding officer at Mission Control is called Joker. Joker is then replaced in a Retool by the team's Sixth Ranger, Big One, who fills the same role in the analogy even if he's not as blatant about it as the others. The team name (pronounced "Jacker"), besides being an acronym of the ranks, also sounds similar to "Joker".
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Playing Card Motifs / int_a46c9a7a	comment	X-Men villain Mister Sinister began to utilize this motif in the Krakoan Age: Or rather, the original Nathaniel Essex did, as he made clones of hismelf, each marked with a playing card symbol on their forehead, to fight the threat of AI by studying mutants (diamond), posthumans (clubs), cosmic powers (spades), and magic (hearts). The clone we know as Mister Sinister had a diamond on his head, which was his original symbol to mark his servitude to Apocalypse. The clone with the diamond continued using the Mister Sinister identity, while the other clones Dr. Stasis, Orbis Stellaris, and Mother Righteous (Who is actually a clone of Nathaniel Essex' wife) respectively have a club, spade, and heart mark on their forehead.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_a606596a	comment	Sneff, from Chrono Cross, throws playing cards at his opponents, and two of his moves revolve around playing cards: Big Deal, in which he tosses an entire deck, and HP Shuffle, in which he shuffles the three digits that make up his HP (091 might become 910, 901, 190, 109, 091 and 019).
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Playing Card Motifs / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Setzer, from Final Fantasy VI uses cards, dice, darts and slots in his attacks. His airship is named Blackjack. And he joins the party by losing a (rigged) coin toss. This clip shows how badass a Setzer can be: He's a wispy silver-haired Bishōnen that sails his airship at top speed, unfazed by the wind as he stands at the rudder, who destroys a heavily-armed gunship by tossing a few sharpened cards at it. Ante up indeed. And the Trickster class in Final Fantasy Tactics A2, who throw playing cards and use magic chants to, for instance, convince opponents that they've been poisoned (which is the same as poisoning them). The tricksters fought in the mission to unlock the class are all dimwitted thugs, though. Final Fantasy X-2: The heroines each have a different suit motif while using the Lady Luck dressphere: spades for Yuna, diamonds for Payne, and clubs for Rikku. Leblanc, whose outfit heavily resembles the Lady Luck, has hearts. Final Fantasy Type-0: The game starts with 14 teens, originally 12 plus 2 new members Rem and Machina, all of whom are cadets at Akademeia as Class Zero. Aside from the 2 new recruits, the members of Class Zero are named after the Japanese pronunciations of "trumps" or playing cards. The original 12 members are Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Nine, Eight, Seven, Deuce, Trey, Cater, Cinque and Sice. There are two other Academy students, Tiz and Joker, who represent the "missing" playing cards 10 and Joker (Tiz is the Hungarian word for ten) and were meant to factor into Arecia's plans for Class Zero until she deeemed them unnecessary. Instead, they report directly to her, though Joker can randomly appear as Support Personnel in missions if certain requirements are met.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_aca0ecd9	comment	Girls' Frontline introduced a unit (BGM-71) where each crew member had a motif based on each of the suits.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_ad34ca69	comment	And the Trickster class in Final Fantasy Tactics A2, who throw playing cards and use magic chants to, for instance, convince opponents that they've been poisoned (which is the same as poisoning them). The tricksters fought in the mission to unlock the class are all dimwitted thugs, though.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_ad6a095e	comment	Four of the Queens from Princess: The Hopeful: The Clubs believe in harmony with nature, The Diamonds believe in enlightenment, The Hearts believe in politeness, duty and social interaction, and The Spades believe in good humor and practical thinking.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_ae564575	comment	Flowing Star: Lincoln is associated with Spades, with his pocketless orange hoodie having a black spade symbol on the front and back.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_b0e712ea	comment	Callum Change's (former) mansion in Funny Man is decorated with card motifs, especially jesters. Film's main villain is based equal amounts on a standard jester as he is on Punch.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_b6d53f19	comment	The members of the Heartslabyul dorm in Twisted Wonderland are themed after playing cards, as they are based off of the Queen of Hearts and her card soldiers in Alice in Wonderland. Riddle Rosehearts is the Queen of Hearts, Ace Trappola is the Ace of Hearts, Deuce Spade is the Two of Spades, Cater Diamond is the Four of Diamonds, and Trey Clover is the Three of Clubs.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_b90e740f	comment	Similar to Shugo Chara!, the school councils in unOrdinary is named after playing cards, with the positions of King (currently occupied by Arlo), Queen (currently occupied by Remi), and Jack (currently occupied by Blake). There is also an Ace position that is regarded as higher than the King's sometimes, which is said to be occupied by Seraphina. This plays parts during confrontations between schools. Later on, John assumes the 'Joker' identity to terrorize the school, and even later, John crowns himself as King, and Cecile to Queen. It is yet unknown who his Jack is. The patreon backing tiers for the author are also named after these positions.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_bf4abb02	comment	Harley Quinn is often decorated in diamonds, partly due to her long association with the Joker.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_c01688c8	comment	In Batman (1989), Jack Napier pulls a Joker from his "lucky deck" right before being sent on a Uriah Gambit mission that ends with him falling into a vat of chemicals and becoming the Joker.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_c02a56a5	comment	Kamen Rider Stronger: General Shadow carries with him a card deck that he can use for attacks or to tell fortunes. Each card in the deck also corresponds to a different member of his Delza Army, with Shadow's personal card being the King of Spades. Snake Woman, Shadow's top henchman (and possible lover) is represented by the Queen of Hearts.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_c23ff100	comment	REFLEC BEAT: Colette has an event and four songs based on this motif. To play these songs you have to beat bosses named after the suits. SPEED BLADE by L.E.D. The boss is Francis Club. Ambitious by S-C-U. The boss is Rose Heart. Arcanos by Dj Torriot. The boss is Lily Dia (as in Diamond). Velvet Sentiment by seiya-murai. The boss is Cecil Spade. Beating all four unlocks a new song and Boss: CLAMARE by MAX MAXIMIZER. The boss is called "Joker".
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Playing Card Motifs / int_c3d129cd	comment	High School DÃ—D: The Brave Saints system of the 10 Seraphs, based on the Evil Piece System of the Devils. Each Seraph has access to 13 cards that are used to reincarnate humans into Angels, with each Seraph embodying a suit. Michael is Spades, Gabriel is Hearts, Uriel and Raziel are Diamonds, and Raphael, Sandalphon, and Metatron are Clubs. The most prominent of the Brave Saints are Irina Shidou, Michael's Ace, and Dulio Gesualdo, Michael's Joker.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_c9e78bbd	comment	F-Zero X has each cup named after a playing card, ranging from Jack, Queen, King, and Joker. Each cup is more difficult than the last and the Joker Cup has the most chaotic track designs.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_cabb7dd6	comment	Yokoka's Quest, this is a frequently recurring theme for Grace: She worked as a croupier at a Las Vegas casino. She wears earrings featuring all four card suits with her croupier outfit, is given conveniently diamond-shaped earrings which let her see in the dark, and also has diamond suit earrings. Her phone case features the four card suits on the back. The mirror path she went through features the four card suits in the background. She brought her lucky deck of cards to Cisum, which her spirits, the Poker Gang, were born from. The Poker Gang are each based on, and named after, a particular card suit. The visual effects of the Poker Gang's teleportation magic features all four card suits. Grace and the Poker Gang are playing a card game together around Yokoka's bed when she briefly wakes up under Grace's care.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter Ã— Hunter: Hisoka the Magician uses playing cards as weapons, and tends to wear clothes decorated with card suits. Even his speech bubbles are punctuated with them. In character, Hisoka is a combination of the Trickster, the Joker and monster clown.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_ccb58e7f	comment	Dead Man's Hand, befitting the title, have the main character's health represented by poker cards. There's also a Blackjack mini-game in between stages which can boost his health.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_cd8905f6	comment	Gambling imagery sees frequent use in Baccano!, being as The Mafia and the camorra play significant roles in the series. Playing card imagery is no exception: the opening credits sequence of the anime styles the kooky thief duo Isaac and Miria as the Joker, and indeed they have a tendency to shake up any situation they unwittingly wander into. The Dreaded killer-for-hire Claire Stanfield, meanwhile, is sometimes associated with the Ace Of Spades in its capacity as the "death card."
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Playing Card Motifs / int_d383246	comment	â€œShape of My Heartâ€� by Sting, quoted above, is composed of this trope, including this Double Entendre:
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Playing Card Motifs / int_d43cbccb	comment	In Luigi's Mansion, the keys obtained from beating major bosses have playing card suit motifs.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_d494343b	comment	"The Red And The Black" by Iron Maiden uses plenty of these motifs, with some lines implying the narrator may be The Gambling Addict.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	Hucksters in Deadlands are mages who cast spells by playing poker with demons, and most of their spells are card-themed.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_d616724d	comment	In League of Legends, Jack of Hearts Twisted Fate, Ace of Spades Ezreal, King of Clubs Mordekaiser, Queen of Diamonds Syndra and Wild Card Shaco.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_dcc4fa1d	comment	No Game No Life: The former King of Elchea's appearance is based on the King cards. Additionally, Tet, the God of Games, has the four suits as his motif, combined with other game-related motifs.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_deae6de5	comment	In Ghosts 'n Goblins, the Red Arremers have a caste system based around playing cards. First, there are the Red Arremer Kings, which have a darker hue to their skin. Red Arremer Aces are next, and they equip themselves with armor. Finally, the highest rank a Red Arremer can obtain is Joker, who acts the leader of the whole clan.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_df64a221	comment	In Mercenaries, you fight against the North Korean Army with each member of the regime having cards for their ranking. The lowest you start with is the Two of Clubs before working your way up to the Ace of Spades. More money is brought in if you bring the targets in alive.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_df7fa951	comment	In Casino Royale (2006), the Animated Credits Opening puts two bullet holes through a Seven of Hearts, thus identifying 007.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_e80d8f34	comment	Madame Outlaw: In episode 10, the magistrate discussing the social order is accompanied by visuals of the rich Thaddeus and Estelle as King and Queen cards, and no-name stableboy Doran as a Joker.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_ebd39ee8	comment	In Densetsu no Stafy, the four keys that unlock Dolchina and Dolshe's cage have designs based on the four playing card suits.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_ef858600	comment	Alice (2009), being an adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is naturally rife with this, but manages to sneak in a Stealth Pun regarding this: Winston, the King of Hearts, is Driven to Suicide. The King of Hearts is nicknamed "the Suicide King" since the way he holds his sword makes it look like he has stabbed himself in the head.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_f1360d68	comment	Mobile Fighter G Gundam: The Shuffle Alliance acts as the Big Good of the setting. They're a quintet of Gundam Fighters who have playing card themed titles. Who chooses the Shuffle Alliance isn't clear; the current generation simply seemed to have the crests of their title appear on the back of their hands, and the old Shuffle Alliance knew they had to take over.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_f6a54e75	comment	In Kingdom Hearts, Luxord, No. X (#10) in Organization XIII, is a Time Master who uses playing card and gambling themed attacks. One of his best tricks involves literally turning Sora into a card during battle. Luxord is so connected with cards that, in a room depicting each member of the Organization's personal weapon, his name is above a fanned deck.
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Playing Card Motifs / int_f6b79960	comment	Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: One of the rooms in which you get trapped is a Casino room, themed around finding numbered playing cards, which you use to solve puzzles to get more cards, and to escape the room. One of the puzzles is a Baccarat table, and there's a conversation about the rules for Baccarat (specifically that the strongest hand is a Nine) which is used as foreshadowing for the inspiration of the Nonary Game. In addition, the character Ace takes his codename from the playing card representing the number one.
Playing Card Motifs / int_f6b79960	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Card Motifs / int_f6b79960	featureConfidence	1.0
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Playing Card Motifs / int_f6b79960
Playing Card Motifs / int_f76b14b4	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_f76b14b4	comment	Ace Hanlon in The Quick and the Dead uses an ace as his calling card to let everyone know he's The Ace. He really isn't.
Playing Card Motifs / int_f76b14b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Card Motifs / int_f76b14b4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Quick and the Dead	hasFeature	Playing Card Motifs / int_f76b14b4
Playing Card Motifs / int_f9dd080d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_f9dd080d	comment	Poker-Face, from SilverHawks. His weapon is a staff that releases a card-suit shaped laser. His eyes are slots that change to match the occasion ($ signs when thinking about money, for instance).
Playing Card Motifs / int_f9dd080d	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Card Motifs / int_f9dd080d	featureConfidence	1.0
SilverHawks	hasFeature	Playing Card Motifs / int_f9dd080d
Playing Card Motifs / int_f9eb42dc	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_f9eb42dc	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion has the female characters of the Higashikata family as homonyms for card suit names: Daiya for diamonds, Hato for hearts, Tsurugi for spades, Mitsuba for clubs, and their mother Cato, a homonym for "card" itself.
Playing Card Motifs / int_f9eb42dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Card Motifs / int_f9eb42dc	featureConfidence	1.0
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Card Motifs / int_f9eb42dc
Playing Card Motifs / int_fdc66d32	type	Playing Card Motifs
Playing Card Motifs / int_fdc66d32	comment	Kamen Rider Double: Shotaro is associated with the Joker (or "kirifuda" ("trump card"), as it's translated once). He's an unpredictable Spanner in the Works who disrupts the various schemes going on around him, with some of the other characters even calling him a "Wild Card".
Playing Card Motifs / int_fdc66d32	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Card Motifs / int_fdc66d32	featureConfidence	1.0
Kamen Rider Double	hasFeature	Playing Card Motifs / int_fdc66d32

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Playing Card Motifs	processingCategory2	Gambling Tropes
Playing Card Motifs	processingCategory2	Game Tropes
Playing Card Motifs	processingCategory2	Motifs
Aikatsu Stars! / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Bakuten Shoot Beyblade / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Doki Doki! PreCure / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
High Card / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Mobile Fighter G Gundam / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
X-Men (2021) (Comic Book) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Gambit / Comicbook / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Rogue / Comicbook	seeAlso	Playing Card Motifs
Flowing Star (Fanfic) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
The Loud House: Flowing Star (Fanfic) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Batman Begins / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Heart of Stone / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Maverick / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Nobody / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
The Quick and the Dead / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Black Bullet / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
High School D×D / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
A Certain Magical Index / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Baccano! / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Black Bullet / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Crab Town / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
High School DÃ—D / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Hyouka / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Special Assignments / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Spellslinger Series / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
The Manchurian Candidate / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Wild Cards / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Black Clover (Manga) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Moriarty the Patriot (Manga) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Mysterious Joker (Manga) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Shugo Chara! (Manga) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Ace of Spades (Music) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Cowboy Carter (Music) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Eagles (Music) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Hadestown (Music) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Mechanical Animals (Music) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Royal Scandal (Music) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Sting (Music) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Cutie Honey: THE LIVE / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Face/Off / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Kamen Rider Blade / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Champions (Tabletop Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Princess: The Hopeful (Tabletop Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Fiorello! (Theatre) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Adventure Island (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Amnesia (Otome) (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Blazing 8s (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Bombergirl (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Bridge to Another World (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Chrono Cross (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Dead Man's Hand (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
F-Zero (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Haunted Museum (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Kid Klown In Crazy Chase (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Lobotomy Corporation (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Love of Magic (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Luigi's Mansion (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Mega Man Star Force (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Mystery Trackers (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Papa Louie Arcade (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Presentable Liberty (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Reflec Beat (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Shovel Knight (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Super Mario RPG (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
The Division 2 (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Yo-kai Watch 3 (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Hand of Fate (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Haunted Legends / Videogame / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Amnesia: Memories (Visual Novel) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Riddle Joker (Visual Novel) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
TRianThology ~Sanmenkyou no Kuni no Alice~ (Visual Novel) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Jaydreamer's OC Snippets (Web Animation) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Alpharad (Web Video) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Danganronpa: The Wonderful Abyss (Web Video) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Five Nights at Freddy's: The Musical (Web Video) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
WILD/CARD (Let's Play) (Web Video) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
WILD/CARD (Web Video) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Alice and the Nightmare (Webcomic) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Madame Outlaw (Webcomic) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Nuzlocke Comics Fan Works (Webcomic) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
unOrdinary (Webcomic) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Vampire Cheerleaders (Webcomic) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Yokoka's Quest (Webcomic) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Agent Elvis / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Batman Beyond / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Martin Morning / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Shayna Baszler (Wrestling) / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Baccano! / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs

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