Gideon

Biography

Gideon is the flamboyant, technology-obsessed billionaire who runs Team Psykick for Dr Zagart — a boardroom villain rather than a blader, giving orders through black-suited enforcers and measuring progress in data. With his lead scientist Doctor B he develops the Magtram and the MG Core, and when fielding bladers without bit-beasts fails he moves on to building cyber copies of the heroes' own. He kidnaps Kenny and Hilary, bankrolls the whole programme and builds specialist bases for it, the Battle Tower among them. Tyson's battle with Kane brings the tower down on top of him, and he is not seen again.

A flamboyant billionaire by nature, Gideon dresses in bright colours and is often seen polishing a gold ring or drinking red wine. His hair is purple, and his bushy eyebrows curl upward into three points.

Gideon stays hands-on with his research, watching his scientists work or following livestream battle data, and his grasp of the analysis readouts shows real expertise in Beyblading. Technology fascinates him: he keeps robots and high-tech gadgets on hand, and had specialist Beyblades built for different terrains, seemingly to compensate for not having Bit-Beasts of his own. It was his idea to build mechanical copies of the Bladebreakers' Bit-Beasts to even the odds and make them capturable; he was the second person in the Original Series to create artificial Bit-Beasts, after Boris Balkov. He was willing to go to extremes to get what he wanted, kidnapping more than once, and set up dedicated bases for his schemes, from an abandoned ship to a deserted island to a purpose-built Battle Tower.

English voice

Len Carlson

Team

Team Psykick

Bit-beast or avatar

Cyber Bit-Beasts (mechanical copies of the Bladebreakers' bit-beasts, his creation)

Japanese name

ギデオン

Romaji

Gideon

Gender

Male

First anime appearance

The Invisible Holy Beast

Voice (Japanese)

Takashi Matsuyama

Voice (English)

Len Carlson

• Flamboyant billionaire who oversees Team Psykick on behalf of Dr. Zagart.
• Co-creates the Magtram and the MG Core concept with lead scientist Doctor B.
• Pioneers artificial Cyber Bit-Beasts, mechanical copies of the Bladebreakers' own bit-beasts.
• Uses kidnapping and builds bases (an abandoned ship, a deserted island, a battle tower) for his plans.
• Hosts a final beybattle at his battle tower to capture the heroes' bit-beasts once and for all.
• The tower collapses on him after Tyson and Kane's battle damages its foundations; faint calls afterward suggest he survives.
• Wiki compares him closely to fellow bit-beast-creating villain Boris Balkov and notes he is merely a middleman for Dr. Zagart.

1. S2E03 Unseen and Unleashed Beyblade V-Force (2002) · Mister X and the Men in Black · Jan 21, 2002
2. S2E04 Searching for Dragoon Beyblade V-Force (2002) · Mister X and the Men in Black · Jan 28, 2002
3. S2E14 Gideon Raises Gerry! Beyblade V-Force (2002) · Cyber Bit-Beasts · Apr 8, 2002
4. S2E16 Team Psykick's New Recruit Beyblade V-Force (2002) · Cyber Bit-Beasts · Apr 22, 2002
5. S2E21 The Battle Tower Showdown Beyblade V-Force (2002) · The Battle Tower · May 27, 2002
6. S2E27 Building the Perfect Bit-Beast! Beyblade V-Force (2002) · The Battle Tower · Jul 15, 2002

From our own episode records — the cast, Beyblade and debut lists we compiled show the name here.

• Beyblade: V-Force episode 3: Unseen and Unleashed 2002-01-21
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 4: Searching for Dragoon 2002-01-28
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 6: The Magtram Threat 2002-02-11
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 7: The Reunion Begins 2002-02-18
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 9: La Isla Bey-Nita 2002-03-04
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 12: Bring Me Dranzer 2002-03-25
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 13: Testing One, Two, Three 2002-04-01
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 14: Gideon Raises Gerry! 2002-04-08
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 16: Team Psykick's New Recruit 2002-04-22
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 17: Hilary's Bey-B-Que 2002-04-29
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 18: When Friends Become Foes 2002-05-06
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 21: The Battle Tower Showdown 2002-05-27
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 22: Max Takes One for the Team 2002-06-10
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 24: Ghost in the Machine 2002-06-24
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 25: Raising Kane!! 2002-07-01
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 26: Cyber Dragoon Takes Control! 2002-07-08
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 27: Building the Perfect Bit-Beast! 2002-07-15
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 8
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 19
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 20
• Beyblade: V-Force episode 23

• Doctor B chief scientist
• The Men in Black his enforcers
• KaneSalimaGokiJim his recruits
• Wyatt Wyatt's earlier corruption by a Cyber Bit-Beast is the template Gideon's program repeats on Goki, a warning sign the operation never heeds before history plays out the same way again.
• Tyson Granger Tyson is the blader whose battle with Kane ultimately brings Gideon's own Battle Tower down on top of him, ending both the man and the operation in a single collapse.