Sherry LeBlanc Sherry LeBlanc ( シェリー ・ ルブラン , " Sherī Ruburan " ) is a female Turbo Duel ist of French origin . Competing in the WRGP , she seeks to defeat Iliaster who ' s behind the tournament and orchestrated the death of her parents . She attempts to recruit Yusei Fudo on her team , with the intention of uncovering Iliaster ' s schemes through the Signer s . It was only after she learns the fate of the future that she shifts her allegiance to Iliaster , as she aided in Z - one ' s plan to destroy New Domino City in return for having her family brought back . After being defeated by Akiza Izinski and Crow Hogan , Sherry returns to help protect New Domino City , keeping her promise to her father to fight for justice . Design . Appearance . Sherry has long , waist length , blond hair with bangs that curl away from her face in a horizontal direction and has emerald color eyes . Her Turbo Duel uniform is white with red accents that run along the outside of her arms , down the outside of her legs , and wrap around her calves . She also wears a red undershirt . Her uniform also consists of grey shoulder , knee , elbow , and shin guards , while she wears charcoal colored padding over her chest . Her helmet is also red with gold accents near the crown that run from front to back , while the open - mouthed mouth protector is grey , with an orange visor . Since her defection to Z - one , Sherry ' s uniform has now changed radically from her old attire . It now consists of a black and white scheme that inverts from both sides of her suit , with grey pauldrons instead of shoulder pads and a black lining with white laces down the middle of her body . Her undershirt remains the same though . Personality . Sherry has a fixation on getting vengeance against Iliaster due to them having killed her parents . To this end , she can be very ruthless in doing so , such as grabbing a person and throwing them out of a building However her anger towards Iliaster vanishes when their leader shows her the ruined future caused by Ener - D , deciding to aid them in return that her family is brought back as well She shows remorse and cries after Akiza and Crow defeat her , realizing her mistake and sides with Team 5D ' s again . She displays new resolve when Z - one questions Sherry cooperating with Team 5D ' s , saying the past cannot be changed and that she ' s going to live for the future . Voice / Mannerisms . In the dub , she has a French accent and occasionally includes French phrases in her dialogue . Etymology . " LeBlanc " is a common French family name meaning " the white one . " Biography . History . Sherry grew up in a mansion in France with her wealthy parents . Sherry ' s father had once told her that the way of life prevents people from knowing if they will be happy or sad , but tells Sherry that she must never give up , and to ask herself to do justice so the future can look brighter . He then gives her the teddy with the " Z - ONE " card hidden inside . Her parents were later killed ( abducted in the dub ) by Iliaster during the night . Shortly after the murders , Sherry stumbled into her father ' s office and saw the bodies . Elsworth guided her out of the building to safety . Elsworth continued to take care of Sherry and often moved to hide from Iliaster . Sherry moved from France to England to various parts of North America to an island in the Pacific to Japan . All the time , Sherry hung onto a teddy from her home in France . In Japan , Elsworth found the card , " Z - ONE " , hidden in the teddy bear . Sherry ' s hard life spent on the run led to her becoming extremely adept at martial arts . She is also stronger than she looks , enough to hold a grown man in the air with little difficulty . Pre - World Racing Grand Prix . Sherry appears after Yusei Fudo gets kidnapped and saved by Akiza Izinski from an opposing team from the World Racing Grand Prix . She forces Yusei into a Turbo Duel by pretending there is a bomb in his Duel Runner , and if he stops , it ' ll explode . At first , she doesn ' t reveal her face to them . The Duel progresses with Yusei taking most of the damage and her negating his attacks . Then , Sherry stops in the middle of the Duel . Yusei realizes her threat was a bluff , so he stops his Duel Runner too . She takes off her helmet revealing her appearance . As she does , Akiza is surprised to see a woman Turbo Dueling . Sherry reveals that her goal is to have Yusei join her team in order to help her gain revenge on Iliaster , who supposedly murdered her parents . Akiza protests that he would never do that since he is already on a team , but Sherry cuts her off saying she isn ' t talking to her . Akiza yells out Sherry doesn ' t know the first thing about Yusei , but Sherry reveals she does know enough about him as they are both Turbo Duelists . The Duel is ultimately called off because of Boss ' interruption , in which he tries to crush them with a truck . However , Akiza Summons Yusei´s " Stardust Dragon " to escape the situation , and in the process Sherry acknowledges her as a Psychic Duelist . After Boss tries to leave the scene with his thugs , Elsworth appears to beat them up , and later joins up with Yusei , Sherry , and Akiza . After that , they both leave , but not before Sherry states that they will meet again to both Yusei and Akiza . Sherry appears again after Akiza defeats Trudge in her first Turbo Duel ; she has been watching and is pleased with the result . Sherry is then on a desperate quest of finding out the mystery behind the " Z - ONE " card . To do so , Sherry , along with Elsworth , breaks into Sector Security ' s HQ . Once inside , they empty the building by making everyone believe that there is a bomb inside . Further inside the HQ , Sherry and Elsworth run into Yusei and Bruno . The two of them try to follow after her , however Elsworth blocks Yusei ' s path , only for Bruno to get past and go after Sherry . She gets to where Sector Security ' s main computer is located , to where Bruno also ends up . As he tries to stop her , Sherry retaliates tries to subdue him . However , at the moment that she threatens his life , he counterattacks Sherry and ends up turning the table on her , displaying an extreme increase in strength without any sense of friend or foe . Bruno almost beats her , but stops once he sees the " Z - One " card . He takes the card and snaps out of his unknown state and helps her in figuring out what the card is . During the card scanning process , Sherry , Yusei , who has beaten Elsworth to gain entrance to the room , and Bruno are transported to a cyber - like plane . There , they encounter a strange object . After that , the three of them , along with Elsworth , were transported to the shore of a lake . Elsworth leaves the scene while carrying Sherry , whom appears to be unconscious . Before the preliminaries for the WRGP commences , Sherry goes to where Yusei and Akiza are practicing . Sherry greets Akiza , stating that they won ' t be seeing them in the preliminaries , as she is in a different block . Still , Sherry warns Akiza to be careful , as apparently there are some dangerous people participating on the Grand Prix as well . Sherry thinks these people could be actually working for Iliaster . As for Yusei , Sherry wants to talk with him about what they saw that day . She then leaves . World Racing Grand Prix . She later reappears after Yusei and his team have won their first match of the preliminaries . She also has won the first round as well , but is here to for a different reason . Of course its because of Iliaster , and reveals to everyone that Ghost is connected to it . With this , Yusei and the others recount the strange events that have occurred so far , and after connecting the dots , wonder why Iliaster is after them . It is then that Sherry reveals it is because of them being Signers , pointing out that she truly knows who they really are . She is also aware of the legend of the Crimson Dragon . She acknowledges that there is still not much information about them and the man they saw at the cyberspace area . After the Diablo is unleashed in the New Domino City , Sherry teams up with Yusei and Elsworth to stop them . At first they defeat some of them , but after Primo sends more Duelbot s after them , both Sherry and Elsworth are eliminated by them . She is later shown watching the battle between Yusei and Primo with Elsworth . They then confront the two about the murder of her parents , but Jakob offhandedly says that he does not remember them or her . They angrily attack Jakob and Lester with Jakob pushing back her Duel Runner with his immense strength . Sherry was with Team 5D ' s when Lazar agreed to tell them what he knew about Iliaster . She angrily threw a card at Lazar which he dodged , leaving it lodge into the chair . After losing patience with him for going off topic later , she used a card to slice through the boxes of Red Demon ' s Noodle that Jack had given Lazar . She accompanied the group to Game Paradise to get information on who sent the Three Emperors of Iliaster from the database hidden in the Accel Simulator game . , Sherry later then accompanies Yusei and Bruno to the Momentum Express Development Organization where they attempt to discover how Iliaster are connected to them . Although , they are later found out and hide in a shuttle pod which appeared to be a trap and they are sent through a wormhole via Momentum Express . In the wormhole they attempt to escape using the " Z - ONE " card , during which the glass windscreen of the shuttle breaks and Sherry is sucked through it , although Yusei tries to rescue her , he ultimately fails and she is lost into the wormhole . However , Yusei and Bruno make it back safely to New Domino City . Ultimately , she winds up in the company of Z - one , in the form of her father . ZONE promises Sherry he ' d tell her the entire truth of what ' s going on , but she ' d have to accept having her fate being changed drastically . She accepts those conditions and is shown a vision of the future : a world destroyed by Ener - D . Ark Cradle . After Team 5D ' s defeats Team New World , the Divine Temple shatters the sky and finally appears in New Domino City . After this events , Sherry talks to Yusei and co . after Yusei has decided to travel to the Temple itself . Sherry reveals to them that she has seen the future . Furthermore she warns Yusei not to go , as if does , he will die . She tells them that Z - one is the one who shown her this future . She then threatens Yusei that if he boards the Divine Temple , Sherry herself will kill him . When Yusei and his allies board the Divine Temple , Sherry and Zone observes them as they progress towards the center . ZONE asks Sherry why she tried to warn him , and she replies she did it as courtesy towards a friend , then steels herself to stop them . After Yusei and co . are separated , Sherry faces off against Crow and Akiza , appearing to split into two persons . Before that , Crow gives her the Z - One card , stating that it was Elsworth ' s wish . Using her " Ecole de Zone " Field Spell , Sherry had the two of them struggling for a while , as each believed that they were Dueling Sherry , while they were actually participating in a Battle Royal and attacking each other . Akiza eventually saw through this and destroy ed the Field Spell via the effect of her " Black Rose Dragon " . She then uses " Z - ONE " to activate " Soul - Binding Gate " . During the Duel , Sherry reveals to them that she wishes to create a world where everyone gets to be with their family , herself included . Crow was hesitant to continue fighting when he saw a few orphans from Satellite in the vision , but Akiza quickly reminded him that millions of people will die if they let Sherry and Z - one destroy New Domino City . She also tells him that as long as he believes in the future , anything can be done . With his conviction returned , they continue the Duel . Sherry is defeated , however because the cards on the Duel are real , her " Soul - Binding Gate " crumbles and is about to fall on her . Both Akiza and Crow try to save her and almost suffer the same fate . Fortunately Akiza ' s " Black Rose Dragon " whose still materialized , saves them . Then Crow and Akiza convince Sherry to join with them and change the future . She watches along with Yusei ' s friends as Yusei Dueled against Z - one and , when they were able to escape after Yusei defeated Z - one , looks away in despair when she believed Yusei could not escape from the Divine Temple before it vanished . After this , Sherry is seen briefly in episode 152 , being defeated in a Duel by Jack Atlas since Jack was self - training himself to regain his crown as the King of Riding Duels . Sherry admits her loss to Jack as a " perfect loss " . Manga biography . Sherry also appears in the Yu - Gi - Oh ! 5D ' s manga . She is a Psychic Duelist with an ability referred to as " Hand Scan " , in which she can view her opponent ' s current hand . Decks . Ground . Sherry ' s Ground Deck focuses on utilizing Field Spell Card s such as " Ecole de Zone " and " Soul - Binding Gate " to prevent her opponent ' s from making any moves . Sherry also utilizes several cards to work alongside these Field Spell Cards such as " Necro Fleur " and " Imitation " , primarily to inflict large amounts of effect damage . Turbo . Sherry uses a " Sacred Knight " Turbo Deck , primarily focused on Synchro Summon ing her signature card , " Fleur de Chevalier " . She also utilizes a large amount of cards to lock her opponent such as the latter card and " Chain Close " . Sherry also uses several cards dedicated to negating attacks or prevention by battle such as " Floral Shield " and " Fleur Guard " respectively .