Card Trivia:Arcana Force VIII - The Strength
- This monster appears in the artworks of "Reverse Reborn" and "The Spiritual Lord".
- This monster is based on the Major Arcana Tarot card, Strength.
- This monster's number "VIII" and original ATK and DEF (1800) reference how Strength is the eighth trump card of the Majora Arcana Tarot.
- The Major Arcana Strength and Justice swap numbers in certain tarot decks. Traditionally Strength is XI and Justice is VIII, but the Rider-Waite tarot deck switched the places of the two cards, and now both numberings are common. This monster uses the numbering introduced by the Rider-Waite tarot deck.
- This monster's appearance is based on the Lovecraftian monster, the shoggoth, keeping in relation with the extraterrestrial theme of the "Arcana Force" archetype.
- In the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime, a shoggoth is depicted on Sartorius' regular Strength Tarot card, which is used to represent Tyranno Hassleberry, whom Satorius Duels using this monster in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX episode 73: "Source of Strength".
