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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga)
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The Yu-Gi-Oh! manga by Kazuki Takahashi tells the story of Yugi Mutou, who is pulled into the world of high-stakes gaming after completing the Millennium Puzzle and awakening the Pharaoh within, gaining a darker personality known as Dark Yugi. The title of this manga means "Game King" in Japanese and thus it contains a number of games, all of which happen to have at least one thing that's being wagered. These games are usually played as Shadow Games, games in which the loser receives a dark punishment called a Penalty Game, which may or may not result in death. There is also a strong theme of friendship and unity between the main character and his circle of friends, and also the meeting of hearts through the medium of games.The manga was originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1996 to 2004, and compiled into 38 volumes. The first seven volumes have the most variety in games; from then on, the most common game that appeared was Duel Monsters/Magic & Wizards, the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game, in response to favorable reader reception.The early episodic stories found in much of the early volumes are collectively referred to as the High School chapters. In Viz Media's edition of the manga, the stories up to Monster World are simply called Yu-Gi-Oh!, Duelist Kingdom to Battle City are called Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist, and the final story arc is called Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World.The manga was the basis for the Toei anime and NAS Duel Monsters anime. Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions takes place six months after the manga (or a year after the anime in the West), and is the first Yu-Gi-Oh! anime adaptation with direct involvement from Kazuki Takahashi. There's also a two-part continuation of the manga called TRANSCEND GAME written by Takahashi, which serves as a prequel to the movie.See also the manga adaptations of the spin-off sequels to the Duel Monsters anime: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL and Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. | |
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Cherry Tapping | |
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Cherry Tapping: In Jonouchi's duel with Esper Roba, Jonouchi wins by having Baby Dragon attack Roba directly. It's not the weakest monster by a longshot, but it's still pretty embarrassing. Yugi has a thing for using weak monsters to stymie his opponent. He once managed to stall Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with Kuriboh, labeled as the weakest monster in the game. Whenever he played Capsule Monsters, the game was rigged so that Yugi's monsters were all weaker than his opponent's, yet he destroyed them anyway. | |
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Jekyll & Hyde | |
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Jekyll & Hyde: The relationship between Yugi and Dark Yugi started out like this in the manga, as did the relationship between Bakura and Dark Bakura. Gollum Made Me Do It: The Bakura/Dark Bakura relationship basically develops into this after Monster World. | |
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Hot Teacher | |
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Hot Teacher: Ms. Chono, though the students note she wears too much makeup. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: When compared to its two anime adaptations, which tone certain things down, including the atmosphere. Most of Dark Yugi's Penalty Games in Toei's anime are turned into illusions, while they are turned into Mind Crushes in the Duel Monsters anime. More characters are also Killed Off for Real in the manga. Particularly, Pegasus and Bandit Keith. | |
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Fighting Series | |
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Fighting Series: Using various games instead of punches, though Jonouchi and Honda could land a good smack down when the situation calls for them to let loose. Chapter 25 has Yugi conquering a Fighting Game at the arcade, which ends with him getting beaten up by a Bruce Lee fanatic, leading to Jonouchi playing a more physical fighting game with the perpetrator outside. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Yugi. Especially during the Dungeon Dice Monsters saga, where he manages to turn a game around without the Puzzle's help. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: The duel between Dark Marik and Dark Bakura is this. | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: When a game shop opened in front of the shop owned by Yugi's Grandfather, Yugi went there to buy the new game and Yugi asked his friends not to tell his grandfather. Yugi even complained about Grandfather being old-fashioned and it being the reason his shop had no business. Then he learned his Grandfather was behind him. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy: Marik does this to his enemies, especially Jonouchi and Anzu. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Through background stories, we learn that Sugoroku Mutou, Yugi's grandpa, was a master gambler and game expert back in the day, not unlike his grandson. We see shades of this in the prologue to the Millennium World arc, where in a hat and tuxedo, he conquers the deadly Shadow Games in the tombs which housed the Millennium Puzzle. Some time after that, he was challenged to a Shadow Game by Ryuji Otogi's father in which he bet years of his life and won. | |
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Clothes Make the Superman | |
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Clothes Make the Superman: Averted in the Zombire story, which ends with an Aesop about what being a hero really means. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: During the Millennium World story arc, there's a moment where Yugi disappears while the other characters are still discussing what to do to look for clues to find the other Yugi and/or his true name. When Anzu asks where he went, Honda said Yugi went to the tavern to collect information, since a tavern is the place to collect information in role-playing games. | |
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The Worf Effect | |
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The Worf Effect: Mai Kujaku is a top-notch duelist who gets paired off against the most dangerous opponents, and ends up being Mind Raped by Dark Marik. Despite being a very skilled duelist, she keeps going up against super-powerful opponents to show the viewers how hard it'll be for the other heroes to win. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The Gospel of Truth, a 2002 databook containing profiles on every character (even minor ones), a list of every game played, every Duel Monsters card and the variations of its rules, and official names for every Penalty Game. | |
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Redemption Quest | |
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Kaiba's backstory. In order to make him a suitable heir to KaibaCorp, his adoptive father Gozaburo put him through a brutally intense period of schooling from age 10 onward. Judging from what is shown in the manga, it involved leashing him to a desk and the occasional beating with a switch. This leads him on his descent to madness until receiving the Mind Crush Penalty Game from Dark Yugi. | |
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King of Games | |
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King of Games: Trope Namer; it's the title the main protagonist has for his mastery of gaming. | |
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Defeat Means Friendship | |
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Defeat Means Friendship: Mokuba Kaiba, though it takes two defeats before he warms up to the heroes. Ryuji Otogi in the Dragons, Dice, & Dungeons arc. Defeating him at his own game and saving his father from the fire despite his father being a major Jerkass to him and Yugi) only cemented the friendship. Marik Ishtar later on after his evil side is defeated. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: It's heavily implied that Shadi has been dead long before the start of the first chapter. Eventually confirmed in the sequel, The Dark Side of Dimensions. | |
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Two-Person Love Triangle | |
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Two-Person Love Triangle: Yugi likes Anzu, who in turn, has a crush on his Older Alter Ego that shares the same body as Yugi. | |
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Ancient Egypt | |
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Ancient Egypt: A large chunk of the characters and artifacts come from this time period. It's also the backdrop of the final Shadow Game. | |
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Defeated and Trophified: Pegasus seals the souls of those he defeats in cards as well as other objects. Yami Bakura also seals the souls of Ryou's friends into role-playing figurines. | |
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Satellite Family Member: Yugi's grandpa, Sugoroku Mutou, is usually seen with Yugi or his friends, with not much characterization beyond explaining the current game or offering insight about the duel. He also becomes a mentor for Jonouchi when it comes to the Duel Monsters card game. Sugoroku has also been used as a motivator for Yugi twice: the first time is when he became hospitalized due to Kaiba subjecting him to Death T's penalty game. The second time is when Pegasus J. Crawford stole his soul, forcing Yugi to participate in his Duelist Kingdom tournament. The Millennium World arc reveals that he was once an adventuring archaeologist who played plenty of games, which is how he discovered the Millennium Puzzle. After he retired from his adventure, he would give the Puzzle to Yugi, kicking off the events of the entire manga years later. The the NAS anime expands on his archaeologist traits, with Filler Arcs and Episodes focused on him and his friend Professor Hawkins. Yugi's mother also makes a few appearances in the manga (she only appears once in the NAS anime) and is characterized as being worried about her son talking to himself (when in actuality he is talking to Yami Yugi). Yugi also has an unnamed father who is away on a business trip according to Kazuki Takahashi. Katsuya Jonouchi/Joey Wheeler has a mom, sister, and dad, who don't get much characterization beyond their relation to him. His father is introduced by the reader only seeing his boots and him throwing a bottle at the door. From there, we learn that Jonouchi's parents are divorced, with his father being an alcoholic and gambling addict. It characterizes Jonouchi as the underdog, looking to do anything to help clear up the debts, including doing several part-time jobs or entering a game show to win a million yen. Jonouchi's sister came under his mother's custody after their divorce. Shizuka Kawai/Serenity Wheeler is used as a motivator for him as well, where by the time the Duelist Kingdom arc rolls around, she needs an expensive eye surgery to prevent her from going blind. Jonouchi enters Pegasus' Duelist Kingdom tournament to win the prize money that would be able to pay for the operation. After Duelist Kingdom and during the Battle City arc, Shizuka becomes a Recurring Character, though mainly to support Jonouchi. The NAS anime has her dueling against Big Five member Soichiro Ota/Nezbitt during the Virtual World Filler arc but is an inexperienced duelist whose character revolves around being protected by her brother, or Ryuji Otogi/Duke Devlin and Hiroto Honda/Tristan Taylor's love triangle shenanigans. In the manga, Gozaburo Kaiba is the catalyst that explains why Seto Kaiba is the way he is and not much else. Gozaburo was looking for an heir to his company, with Seto challenging him to a Chess match with the stipulation of adopting him and Mokuba if Seto won, which he did. Gozaburo then raised him through an abusive accelerated learning program, which motivated Seto to overthrow him as KaibaCorp's CEO. Gozaburo then taught him what happens to losers, where he then threw himself out of a window, with Kaiba becoming a cold-hearted and ruthless person himself. The Battle City arc in particular reveals that Seto built the Duel Tower over the remains of his stepfather's military facility, looking to destroy everything he knew about the past and his abusive stepfather, with his victory against Yugi during finals intending to be representative of that. The Virtual World filler arc of the NAS anime reveals that Gozaburo digitized his mind into the same world as his biological son Noah and that he was the orchestrator behind the arc's events. This arc frames his adoption of Seto as finding a proper vessel for his sickly son, though his plans changed so that he could become the true CEO once again. He's defeated by Seto once again in a Duel and is destroyed by a missile that was fired by Noah, which they both perish in. This opens a slight plot hole regarding Seto's reason for defeating Yugi in the Battle City finals above, as he had defeated his Stepfather again in this arc. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: In one of the early chapters, Yugi's Puzzle psychically located Jonouchi's whereabouts when he was captured by his old gang. It seemed like a one-off power never to be mentioned again, until he uses it to track down Jonouchi during Duelist Kingdom. Dark Bakura's avatar in the Monster World RPG is Dark Master Zorc, and he mentions how they're one and the same. The main antagonist of the final arc turns out to be an ancient demon that Dark Bakura is trying to revive, also named Zorc, who fused with Thief King Bakura to make Dark Bakura. When a character specifically singles out or is shown acquiring a new card before a duel, it's bound to be important in the upcoming match. In the Duelist Kingdom Arc Jonouchi is seen trading for Sword and Shield, which he later uses against Ghost Kotsuzuka to pull off a win. At the same time he got Kunai Whipchain and Salamandra, which he used to defeat two troublesome monsters in the team duel with the Meikyu Brothers, as well as Baby Dragon, which combined with the Time Wizard given to him by Yugi ended up finishing off Mai in his first duel with her. Kuriboh made a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in Yugi's duel with Haga to diffuse one of Haga's traps, before Yugi brought it back in in his third duel with Kaiba to hold off Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. An earlier chapter of Battle City has Bakura joking around with Jonouchi and trying to scare him by showing off the Occult deck he built, commenting on how many of the cards Jonouchi's won are scary and how he'd like to have them in his deck. Jonouchi does ''not'' want to duel him ever. Later on, Dark Bakura uses this very same deck for the rest of his duels in the manga and the monsters are indeed as horrific as Ryo described them... and nearly kills Jonouchi with it in the Shadow RPG. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Kaiba does it, of course. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: An assassin hired by Kaiba during the Death-T arc looks remarkably like Duke Togo of Golgo13. Zombire is a fairly transparent takeoff on Spawn, and the favorite superhero of a minor character. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_260926c3 | comment |
Failure Is the Only Option: Even though they're playing a game, of which the consequence of losing would normally only be a hit to the loser's ego (if that), the main characters are frequently involved in "shadow games" where the gist is losing = death, making Failure Is the Only Option (for the villains)/Boring Invincible Hero played straight | |
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Not Just a Tournament | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_275847f0 | comment |
Not Just a Tournament: Virtually every Tournament Arc has something shady going on, with varying degrees of life-threatening stakes. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2764d432 | comment |
As early as the Monster World arc and before the Battle City arc, Dark Bakura had alluded to himself as a thief, and Dark Yugi a king. Flash forward to the final arc, with Thief King Bakura and Pharaoh Atem. His avatar's role in the RPG also foreshadowed his role throughout the entire manga, a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing revealed to be a part of Zorc, with a good soul, White Mage Bakura or Ryo Bakura, trapped deeped inside of him and pulled back to the surface with the help of his friends. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_280f59bf | comment |
Extremely Short Time Span: Though the series itself lasts more than a year in-universe time, no individual arc takes longer than three days. In fact, there is the strange situation in which Battle City (the longest arc by number of chapters) is actually one day shorter than Duelist Kingdom (the longest arc in-universe). | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Mai Kujaku during the Duelist Kingdom saga. Kaiba is a male example. He becomes more amiable and less openly insulting towards the others, except for Jonouchi. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_294ed981 | type |
Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: The Egyptian text throughout the series is accurate. Atem's name is written as "Atemu" and the carvings on Rishid's face and Malik's back are genuine hieroglyphs. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_297ab1b9 | type |
Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Mai lost her parents at a young age. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Yugi's winning card in the last duel of the series is Golden Sarcophagus; it's pointed out that the card looks just like the box the Millennium Puzzle was in, and that the box that brought Yugi and the pharaoh together would be the very thing to bring them apart. | |
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Sadist Teacher | |
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Sadist Teacher: Ms. Chono delights in expelling students on technicalities and tormenting them by revealing their secrets. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2af6bbeb | comment |
Break the Haughty: Kaiba gets this a lot. Anyone who is foolish enough to face Dark Yugi gets this. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2b5ea43c | comment |
Bland-Name Product: Most of the fads, toys, and games in the early parts of the manga. Magic & Wizards (Duel Monsters) is clearly a Bland-Name Product of Magic: The Gathering, as is Dragons, Dice, & Dungeons (Dungeon Dice Monsters) to ''Dungeons & Dragons'. Yugi also alluded to another RPG called "Mazes & Monsters" during Monster World. Sory and Panazonic are obvious takes on Sony and Panasonic. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2bdae2ae | type |
Awesome, but Impractical | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Awesome, but Impractical: The manga version of Dark Necrofear has an absurd inherent summoning requirement from hand that required Bakura to let three monsters be destroyed in Attack Mode within 5 turns.note In exchange, she was better than the anime version since her possession effect that activated upon being sent to the Graveyard was her own effect rather than that of Dark Sanctuary and did not require a Tribute to maintain. Also, Ouija Board did not require extra Spirit Message Cards, only that she was in the Graveyard. Moreover, Dark Necrofear wasn't actually a Nomi monster, as it can be Special Summoned by any other ways, when Bakura discarded it with Multiple Destruction's effect and revived it with Puppet Master. In the otherwise likely event that Yugi drew a third monster, he would have lost without even getting to play Necrofear since he didn't have protection cards like Waboku. The anime and OCG / TCG version is more accessible, simply requiring 3 Fiends to be banished from the Graveyard, but this also makes viewers wonder why Bakura didn't put his monsters in Defense Mode instead. | |
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Light/Darkness Juxtaposition | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2dab6345 | comment |
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: This dynamic is seen several times in Memory World: Pharaoh Atem is a beacon of hope and commands the light-themed Winged Dragon of Ra. Thief King Bakura is a shady thief who plunders and murders; he uses Diabound as his monster which has several darkness based abilities such as turning invisible in shadows and walking through walls. The parallel is once again seen with the Pharaoh and Zorc's guardian spirits: Hasan the Spirit of the Tablet who gives off an ethereal glow, and Akhenaden the High Priest of Darkness who serves as Zorc's minion and is able to project dark energy blasts. To defeat Zorc in the Final Battle, the Pharaoh summoned the three Egyptian Gods: Obelisk, Slifer, and Ra, who fused together into Horakhty the Creator of Light. He was able to smite the dark demon Zorc with one devastating light blast. | |
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Displaced Origin | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2e0ba8cc | comment |
Displaced Origin: The manga started out as the tale of a teenager whose dark side brings judgment on abusive people, with lots of horrific fates worse than death via Serious Business games. Halfway into the series, particularly after the Duelist Kingdom and Dungeon Dice Monsters arcs, everything from that point onwards becomes the tale of people beating each other in a Serious Business game, but with said horrific fates worse than death being less frequent due to being issued by the villains instead. | |
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KillerYoYo | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2e38439c | comment |
Killer Yo-Yo: Hirutani's gang wield these in their second appearance. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2e6a41e0 | comment |
Gratuitous English: In the Japanese manga, Pegasus J. Crawford spouts random English from time to time, being American. In the Japanese edition of the manga, the Millennium Items are referred to as the "Sennen Items" (Sennen Puzzle, Sennen Ring, etc.), "Sennen" meaning "Millennium" in Japanese. Japanese Pegasus still calls his the "Millennium Eye", not the Sennen Eye. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2f36d97 | type |
Older Than They Look | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2f36d97 | comment |
Older Than They Look: Yugi. One chapter has a amusment park employee give him a hard time because she thought he was an elementary schooler. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2fb3170e | type |
Enemy Within | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_2fb3170e | comment |
Enemy Within: Dark Marik and Dark Bakura to their good halves, though Marik was initially bad to begin with. Priest Seto after High Priest of Darkness Akhenaden merges his soul with his in order influence Seto to overthrow Pharaoh Atem. Seto manages to overcome it with the help of Kisara's spirit, though. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3016de81 | type |
Reincarnation Romance | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3016de81 | comment |
Kaiba originally had no special bond with the Blue Eyes White Dragon. In his first appearance, the card refused to obey him because he stole it; in the second, he acquired his three copies through extortion and destroys the fourth. Not exactly the sort of behavior conducive to a Reincarnation Romance. | |
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Abandoned Warehouse | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_322d19f4 | comment |
Abandoned Warehouse: The manga has a warehouse in the Hirutani stories and Mokuba's Capmon game. | |
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Fun Size | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_33003c9b | comment |
Fun Size: Yugi Mutou and Dark Yugi are both very short, as is Ghost Kotsuzuka . | |
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Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_339e22e7 | comment |
Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Everything that's happened is because Yugi wanted a friend, poor kid. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_34dcfc96 | type |
Kick the Dog | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
Kick the Dog: Ms. Chono had a bad omiai where the guy turned her down before she could break his heart. She decides, after applying makeup to hide her reddened angry face, to find an excuse to expel some students. When she finds a gift in Miho's desk, that Miho didn't know, she proceeds to assemble the puzzle, and mocks the love letter. Yugi steps up, all ready for Taking the Heat, but Jounouchi and Honda both claim their part in the present. Rather than be touched by this display of friendship, Ms. Chrono gloats that she'll find out who the sender was by completing the puzzle. While Yami Yugi takes care of the teacher, Miho understandably turns down Honda for what happened when he asks her out. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_358388f6 | type |
White Mage | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_358388f6 | comment |
During the Monster World RPG, White Mage Bakura converted his hit points to magic points in order to cast a barrier spell to protect his friends from Zorc's attack. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_35a24c16 | type |
Geo Effects | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_35a24c16 | comment |
Geo Effects: Duelist Kingdom's version of Duel Monsters has "Field Power Bonus", but dies out to only Field Spell Cards by the finals. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_35a24c16 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3678bb22 | type |
Russian Roulette | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3678bb22 | comment |
Russian Roulette: Yugi, Jonouchi, and Mokuba play a variation of this... with poison food instead of a revolver. "Bandit" Keith Howard plays this during his depression after losing to Pegasus. His Penalty game also involved his hand turning into a gun and being forced to play Russian Roulette, killing him. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_36e63b81 | type |
Rule of Cool | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_36e63b81 | comment |
Once the rules were written and pinned down in Battle City as the "Expert Rules", this turned into "New Cards As the Plot Demands," with duelists producing cards never before seen at just the right time. Many of these cards exist for Rule of Cool, as there are other pre-existing cards that do the same thing as the new card but don't fit the theme of the duelist's deck. And lapses of the random new rules still occurred: Jinzo is supposedly immune to Time Wizard's effect due to being made of special metal, for example, and Flute of Summoning Dragon lets both players summon Dragons from their hand if they want. | |
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Split Personality | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_370aad9 | comment |
Split Personality: Dark Yugi and Dark Bakura are kind of like this to the regular ones, especially Dark Yugi during the earlier chapters since he shares Yugi's memories. Dark Marik is more of a traditional example. It is implied that the Millennium Items have the ability to induce this naturally by using the darkness in your heart. | |
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I Got Bigger | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3731d33c | comment |
I Got Bigger: By the end of the story, Yugi is noticeable taller than he was at the beginning (though he's still shorter than his friends). | |
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Not a Date | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_37d99981 | comment |
Not a Date: Anzu goes on one of these with Dark Yugi (who originally thought it was going to be a straight-up date with normal Yugi) after the Dungeon Dice Monsters arc. Even earlier than that, she goes on one of these with the regular Yugi at an amusement park. | |
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We Will Meet Again | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_384986f4 | comment |
We Will Meet Again: After her Penalty Game, Ms. Chono swears revenge. She never gets it. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3b113b7 | type |
Character Development | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3b113b7 | comment |
Character Development: The Yugis get the most development, but everyone gets a decent amount at the least. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3b16449 | type |
Plot Tumor | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3b16449 | comment |
Plot Tumor: The Duel Monsters card game after volume eight. After Duelist Kingdom, Ryuji Otogi is introduced and the plot briefly goes back to its formula of switching games for several chapters, introducing Bar Bet games and Dragons, Dice, & Dungeons. After DDD is over and done with, the card game returns the major plot device during Battle City. The Memory World, while an RPG, uses Duel Monsters and duel-related concepts alongside its own monsters and concepts, and the Ceremonial Battle is a game of Duel Monsters. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_3b5fcbb7 | comment |
Artifact of Doom: Millennium Items tend to give their owners awesome Psychic Powers of some sort. However, more often than not, they will also harbor or lead to the development of their owners' evil slide, or at least contribute to their Face–Heel Turn. | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: Easier to spot in the early chapters, where it seemed like every corner of Domino City was populated by bullies (or worse) out to get our heroes, and adult authorities are either useless or nonexistent. When the series starts to get more arc-based, most of the wrongdoings are concentrated into Big Bads and their henchmen, but the adult authorities are still useless. | |
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Super-Powered Evil Side | |
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Superpowered Evil Side: Dark Yugi, Dark Bakura, and Dark Marik are the evil counterparts to their hosts, though Dark Yugi grows much more heroic as time passes. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: A ton of them throughout the series. Various games Dark Yugi played with the earlier villains involved his opponents having a pretty much sealed fate from the beginning. The first Kaiba vs. Jonouchi duel ended with Kaiba only taking 600 damage. The Kaiba/Pegasus battle became one as soon as Toon World was played. Otogi to Yugi during their game of Dungeon Dice Monsters/DDD, until Dark Bakura intervenes and gives Otogi a Hannibal Lecture. The first battle between Dark Yugi/Kaiba VS two of Marik's Ghouls. Kaiba summoned Lord of Dragons AND special-summoned all three Blue Eyes and a spare dragon in just the first move, then summoned Obelisk on Round Two and sacrificed his remaining monsters to activate Obelisk's Total Party Kill special ability to defeat both opposing players. The Winged God Dragon of Ra versus basically anything. Except for Mai's failed attempt at using it. Final Bosses Dark Master Zorc and his precursor Zorc Necrophades in both the Monster World RPG and the Shadow RPG of the Millennium World arc pretty much beat down the parties with little effort and would have totally did a Total Party Kill in both instances had it not been for unexpected surprise inferences. | |
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Brainwashed | |
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Brainwashed: The Millennium Rod can control multiple people at once. Marik uses it to brainwash Anzu, Jounouchi, the normal Bakura, and his whole organization of thieves. | |
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Zerg Rush | |
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Zerg Rush: At one point during the Duelist Kingdom arc, Yugi uses Multiply, which causes Kuriboh to multiply each turn, in conjunction with Kuriboh's special ability allows it to nullify the damage done by one enemy monster. Due to there being no limit on how many monsters can be summoned with one magic card in the manga and anime's version of the game, this allows him to create a virtually impenetrable barrier of the little guys. | |
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Story Arc | |
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The final Story Arc, Pharaoh's Memory, is foreshadowed in volume two, with the Millennium Puzzle's Labyrinth game being revisited and Yugi finally being able to open "that door" - the secret of the Millennium Puzzle, which Shadi spoke of as he departed back in the earlier chapters, ultimately leading to the World of Memories in the final arc. Shadi lost the original "Labyrinth Treasure Hunt" game, but Dark Yugi told him It Has Only Just Begun, and it turns out that via Bobasa, Shadi finally did conquer the puzzle's labyrinth during the final arc's "Mind's Labyrinth" game with Yugi and his friends as companions. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Dark Marik prefers to make his enemies suffer as much possible before their deaths and rub it in while he's doing so. His Penalty Games also reflect this, trapping Mai in an hourglass full of scarabs that slowly devour her skin. | |
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Early Installment Character-Design Difference | |
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Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Jonouchi looked completely different on the first chapter compared with the rest of the series, having a different haircut. Dark Yugi also had ankhs on his sleeves which disappeared after the first few chapters (in addition to him becoming less deranged-looking and more heroic to match his development). | |
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Sealed Evil in a Six Pack | |
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Sealed Evil in a Six Pack: An in-universe fictional example is Exodia, a monster so powerful it takes multiple cards to contain him. The individual pieces are worthless, but a player who reassembles Exodia by getting all five parts in play wins immediately. The Pharaoh was trapped in the Millennium Pendant, which was then broken up into pieces. They were all kept in one place, but putting it back together was a complicated process (which is why it was then renamed the Millennium Puzzle). | |
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Alternate Continuity | |
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Alternate Continuity: Certain characters are dead in the manga and alive in the anime, and backstories and personalities are different between adaptations as well. The 2016 movie Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions isn't necessarily non-canon to the DM anime, but it is first and foremost set in the continuity of the manga. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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The Viz translation also initially used Marik's dub reason for wanting to defeat Yugi rather than his reason in the original before fixing it in subsequent volumes, turning it into a bizarre and unintentional case of Characterization Marches On. | |
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Let's Fight Like Gentlemen | |
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Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Played to a much creepier effect in the early volumes of the manga, where the games were often improvised based on the environment around them, and nearly always ended in death, insanity, or grievous bodily harm (compared to the later over-reliance on Tournament Arcs). | |
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The Beastmaster | |
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Beast Tamer Yugi is able to use his magic to change an enemy creature's alignment and turn them into one of his True Companions - as long as he rolls a high enough check. | |
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Angel Face, Demon Face | |
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Angel Face, Demon Face: The differences in appearance between Yugi, Bakura, and Marik and when their Dark sides take over is pretty pronounced. When Yugi, during the tabletop roleplaying game with Bakura, uses his ability to turn enemy creatures to the good side, they become extremely cute. | |
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White Hair, Black Heart | |
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White Hair, Black Heart: Dark Bakura has white hair and is a wicked villain. Marik and his Split Personality have platinum-blond hair but it's close enough to white to count. | |
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Friendless Background | |
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Friendless Background: Before Yugi finished the Millennium Puzzle, his only friend was Anzu. | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison: When "Bandit" Keith loses to Jonouchi he accuses him of using someone else's entry card to try and get him disqualified. Jonouchi admits that he is using Mai's... but there was no way Keith could have known that, unless he was sabotaging the competition and was the one who stole it. | |
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Artifact Name | |
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Artifact Name: The "Duel Disks" were originally throwing disks that projected holograms onto the playing field. Since Battle City and in every spinoff since, Duel Disks are armbands with card slot attachments. | |
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Uncanny Valley Makeup | |
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Uncanny Valley Makeup: Seen with Ms. Chono, who wears so much makeup it's like a mask. After her Penalty Game it cracks off, revealing her true, ugly face. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Shadi mentions "bringing the Millennium Puzzle home to his family" once during his first appearance. It is never brought up again. Kaiba originally had no special bond with the Blue Eyes White Dragon. In his first appearance, the card refused to obey him because he stole it; in the second, he acquired his three copies through extortion and destroys the fourth. Not exactly the sort of behavior conducive to a Reincarnation Romance. Dark Yugi mentions different levels of Shadow Games in one chapter. This is never mentioned again. The Chinese Dragon Cards are dangerous artifacts that grant the wielder the same abilities as the Millennium Items, despite being completely unrelated to them. The Devil's Board Game in the Dungeon Dice arc (which takes place later in the manga) shares this characteristic, though at least it came from Egypt. Early arcs used completely different rules for playing Duel Monsters, with the series often functioning with New Rules as the Plot Demands, playing more like an RPG than a trading card game. There are too many to list, but examples include Yugi being able to "beach" Ryota Kajiki's sea creatures, being able to target separate parts of monsters, attacks being able to "miss," etc. Battle City and the Memory World also have this, albeit to a lesser degree. In the earlier volumes, we see Dark Yugi is a scary force to be reckoned with who challenges people to Shadow Games, which were regular games turned into high-stakes duels with otherworldly consequences. When adapted into the first anime, some of the most terrifying outcomes of those games are toned down or cut out completely because of how scary they can be. Post-Duelist Kingdom, these tend to be started by the *villains* instead. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Shadi forced a thief to wear the Millennium Ring to see if he was the one destined to wear it. He clearly wasn't, as the ring punctured his chest and set the insides of his body on fire. Likewise, Shadi had gauged Pegasus's eye out with a knife to test if he was worthy of wielding the Millennium Eye. Had Pegasus not been the chosen one, he would have most likely have been left for dead with an empty eye-socket. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Dark Yugi does this all the time in the early chapters. He punched through a kid's soul for being a thieving coward, made a shop owner poison himself for running crooked, blew up a gang leader for injuring Yugi, and breaking his class' School festival stand... there are a lot of examples. Ms. Chono does this all the time. She finds reasons to expel students for minor crimes, such as giving a present to a fellow student. In Kaiba's first appearance, he stole the Blue-Eyes white Dragon and hit Yugi over the head with his briefcase when he noticed the switch, then tried to cheat in the following card game. As punishment, Dark Yugi gave him the Experience of Death Penalty Game, where he saw himself trapped in a card and was torn to shreds by monsters over and over. Kaiba then spends the next six months putting together a ridiculously elaborate series of death traps to kill Yugi, then kidnaps Yugi's grandpa and forces him through the same experience as bait. When Yugi's friends arrive to help him, including Honda's baby nephew, Kaiba tries to have them killed too. Mokuba challenged Yugi to a game of Capsule Monsters at gunpoint to get revenge for Kaiba's first loss, and then later played a very unorthodox rigged version of Russian Roulette with Yugi and Jonouchi for his first loss. | |
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Reincarnation | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_50f5dabe | comment |
Reincarnation: Several major characters are reincarnations of the ancient Egyptian characters introduced in the Millennium World arc. | |
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Cast from Hit Points | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_51567188 | comment |
Cast from Hit Points: During the Monster World RPG, White Mage Bakura converted his hit points to magic points in order to cast a barrier spell to protect his friends from Zorc's attack. And in the Memory World RPG, the Ba Gauge served as both hit points and magic points for the character cards, since the real life versions of these characters used their life energy (Ba) to summon and power-up their Monster Spirits (Ka). Within Duel Monsters a few spells, traps, and monster abilities require the player to sacrifice some of his/her life points. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: For Dark Bakura's involvement in the overall story. Both the first and last games the Pharaoh plays against him are RPGs with the souls of his friends at risk. Yugi's winning card in the last duel of the series is Golden Sarcophagus; it's pointed out that the card looks just like the box the Millennium Puzzle was in, and that the box that brought Yugi and the pharaoh together would be the very thing to bring them apart. | |
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Cosmic Chess Game | |
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Cosmic Chess Game: What Dark Yugi and Dark Bakura are revealed to be playing in the Millennium World arc. It isn't actually Ancient Egypt we were seeing; it was a recreation done as a tabletop game. | |
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Uncatty Resemblance | |
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Uncatty Resemblance: Everyone's (but especially Yugi's) virtual pet in the manga, as well as their Monster World figurines. | |
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Hilarious in Flashback | |
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Hilarious in Flashback: In a flashback to his younger days, Sugoroku declares that if he ever loses a game, he will give up adventuring and will wear overalls for the rest of his life. He must have lost at some point. | |
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Death Trap | |
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Death Trap: Kaiba's sadistic "amusement park," "Death-T," is basically a long series of increasingly difficult death traps designed to defeat and kill Yugi. | |
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Plot Device | |
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Plot Device: The various games and gambles used to further the plot and character development. Most notably Duel Monsters in the tournament arcs. | |
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Critical Failure | |
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Critical Failure: In the Monster World RPG arc, Ryou Bakura plays a tabletop game with Yugi and his friends, wherein they use percentile dice for every roll. When Dark Bakura takes over, rolling a 99 carries the penalty of having your soul trapped in your figurine. | |
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Field Power Effect | |
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Field Power Effect: Duel Monsters has various boosting and nerfing cards, as well as terrain that can strengthen or weaken monsters. | |
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Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change | |
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Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change: The Italian translation of the manga changes the currency used to a local currency, while still keeping it set in Japan. So people will refer to cents instead of yen, despite the coins and bills appearing clearly being yen coins and bills. Only in two chapters far apart from eachother, one in Volume 3 and one in Volume 19, while Yen are mentioned with no problem in every other chapter. Also, in both the chapters money was clearly shown. Indeed, that silver coin with "500" on it is clearly the famous 4,60 € coin. | |
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Inconsistent Dub | |
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Inconsistent Dub: The Viz translation of the manga is very inconsistent with naming. Mokuba calls his big brother "Kaiba" when he called him "nii-sama" in the original version, though there's still a few instances where he calls him Seto, Pegasus switches from being Pegasus J. Crawford and Maximillion J. Pegasus from one chapter to the next, they refer to Mai Kujaku as Mai Shiranui a few times, and a mistranslation involving Dark Marik made it seem like he was around for a thousand years. Monsters are also all over the place. While most default to their TCG names, a few (like Battle Warrior/Grappler Ultimator) use their OCG names, and a few (like Summoned Skull and Celtic Guardian) use not only both but also odd combinations of the two, sometimes even on the same page! | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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An earlier chapter of Battle City has Bakura joking around with Jonouchi and trying to scare him by showing off the Occult deck he built, commenting on how many of the cards Jonouchi's won are scary and how he'd like to have them in his deck. Jonouchi does ''not'' want to duel him ever. Later on, Dark Bakura uses this very same deck for the rest of his duels in the manga and the monsters are indeed as horrific as Ryo described them... and nearly kills Jonouchi with it in the Shadow RPG. | |
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Chainsaw Good | |
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Chainsaw Good: The Chopman from Death-T uses a chainsaw as a weapon. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Ryuji Otogi, Seto and Mokuba Kaiba, and Marik's good half. During the Monster World RPG, Pokii and Pao are monsters that were brainwashed using Yugi's abilities to turn good. | |
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Adoptive Name Change | |
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Adoptive Name Change: Seto and Mokuba gain the surname "Kaiba" after being adopted by Gozaburo Kaiba. Their original surname is never revealed. | |
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Orgasmically Delicious | |
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Orgasmically Delicious: Bakura's steak◊. | |
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Black Magician Girl | |
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Black Magician Girl: Trope Namer due to the "Dark Magician Girl" card, which is actually named "Black Magician Girl" in the Japanese version. | |
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Pretty Boy | |
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Pretty Boy: Marik Ishtar and Ryou Bakura are really pretty. They even share the same fangirls at different points in the manga. | |
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BadassNormal | |
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Badass Normal: Yugi eventually develops into this. Even without the milennium puzzle he pulls off some amazing feats like beating Ryuji at his own game, breaking through Jounouchi's mind control and defeating Atem, the titular King of Games, in their final duel.. Jonouchi as well, who's the most normal of the main duelists but manages to beat multiple skilled opponents and makes it into the top four in two tournaments. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Ryou Bakura in the Monster World RPG arc. | |
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Mind-Control Eyes | |
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Mind-Control Eyes: The Millennium Rod's brainwashing induces this. | |
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Amusement Park of Doom | |
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Amusement Park of Doom: Death-T was created just to kill Yugi and friends. | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: Did you know Kazuki Takahashi likes games? Because it says so in every volume of the manga. | |
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Hot-Blooded | |
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Hot-Blooded: Katsuya Jonouchi. | |
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A Villain Named "Z__rg" | |
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A Villain Named "Z__rg": Dark Master Zorc. As well as the real Zorc Necrophades. | |
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Fake Danger Gambit | |
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Fake Danger Gambit: One chapter featured a boy who loved superhero comics but wasn't strong himself. His father wanted to make him more self-confident so he hired some kids to pretend to attack someone while the boy was in a superhero costume. It worked, but then the hired kids turned it around and started really hurting the boy in order to get more money out of the father. | |
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Dub-Induced Plot Hole | |
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Dub-Induced Plot Hole: The Viz translation had it that Dark Marik was around for 1,000 years, while in the original he was around for "a long time." This led to speculation as to whether Dark Marik was an Item-connected spirit or not. Marik's motivations also line up with the English dub at first, wanting to take the Pharaoh's power rather than kill him. The Viz translation often re-writes the descriptions on the cards to make them more in line with their real world equivalents. This leads to problems however, as a lot of the time the real life cards work differently than they did in the manga. For example, “Electro Whip� is translated as only being able to be used on a thunder-type monster, but Mai is still able to use it on her Harpie Lady. | |
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Only the Chosen May Wield | |
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Only the Chosen May Wield: The Millennium Items are very unforgiving to those who plan on wielding them, but are not the ones that are "chosen": Shadi forced a thief to wear the Millennium Ring to see if he was the one destined to wear it. He clearly wasn't, as the ring punctured his chest and set the insides of his body on fire. Likewise, Shadi had gauged Pegasus's eye out with a knife to test if he was worthy of wielding the Millennium Eye. Had Pegasus not been the chosen one, he would have most likely have been left for dead with an empty eye-socket. The Millennium Puzzle itself is a little friendlier to its attempted wielders, at least before it was put together by Yugi. They would merely find the puzzle too challenging to complete, and even before that, get killed by the Shadow Games in the tomb it was hidden in rather than by the Puzzle itself. However, after Yugi had completed the Millennium Puzzle, those who attempted steal it/put it back together through force/cheating would incur the wrath of the Millennium Puzzle. An example would be Otogi's father, who had attempted to put together the pieces of the broken Millennium Puzzle, only to find himself trapped in a maze of illusions— though even that lasts for only a few seconds. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Not only does Yugi's name mean "Game" in Japanese, if you combine the first character of Yugi's name with the first character of Jounouchi's name, you get "Yujyo", which means "Friendship." The title, meaning "Game King," could also be taken as "King Yugi," referring to the main character who is the Game King. It also serves somewhat of a double-meaning later. ( Yugi's alterego, Dark Yugi, is the spirit of a gambler who was once the King of an Egyptian Dynasty named Pharaoh Atem.) Sugoroku (Yugi's grandfather) is named after a Japanese board game similar to backgammon. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Gozaburo Kaiba jumps out a window after Seto takes over Kaiba Corporation to teach him that losing means death. While we never see the outcome, Marik uses his Millennium Rod's magic to scan Pandora's mind for any past suicidal thoughts/feelings and brings them onto the surface tenfold after Pandora lost to Yugi. Marik is sure that his former minion will definitely commit suicide once he regains consciousness. | |
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Disc-One Final Boss | |
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Disc-One Final Boss: Seto Kaiba and Death-T are a conclusion to the episodic stories, leading the way for longer, detailed story arcs to play out. During the Millennium World arc, Thief King Bakura serves as one for Zorc Necrophades in Dark Bakura's Shadow RPG. | |
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Killer Game Master | |
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Killer Game Master: To extreme levels with Dark Bakura in his first appearance as Monster World's GM, also acting as one in the final arc. He's usually a particularly evil one, purposefully screwing things up for the adventurers so he could kill them/trap their souls into their game pieces. Not to mention his scenarios always seem incredibly biased towards the players. Amusingly enough, he seems completely unwilling to actually create Unwinnable by Design scenarios, to the point that he informs Dark Yugi of a way to beat him (though he doesn't expect it to work) in the final arc because otherwise it "wouldn't be fair". | |
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Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance | |
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Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Goes from mild (Dinosaur Ryuzaki and Insector Haga have dinosaur and insect themed Duel Monsters decks, respectively) to bizarre ("Ghost" Kotsuzuka, who looks like a zombie, has an all zombie deck). | |
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Came Back Strong | |
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Came Back Strong: During the Memory World Shadow RPG, Priest Mahado is killed by Thief King Bakura and comes back later as a Monster Spirit, an even stronger sorcerer. | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish: In Duelist Kingdom, Yugi and his friends forget that Pegasus really can read minds despite having seen him use it on Kaiba the day before, and Pegasus explaining to Yugi directly how his Eye worked after their first game and Yugi relaying the information to his friends afterward. Card effects also tend to be explained even if they're staples. | |
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Calling Your Attacks | |
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Calling Your Attacks: When Marik uses Lava Golem, summoning it to Jonouchi's side of the field, he tells Jonouchi that its attack is called "Golem Volcano". Jonouchi insists that since it's on his side of the field, he'll name the attacks, and hits Marik with a "JONOUCHI FIRE" instead. | |
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Game Show | |
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In Chapter 42, Jonouchi is looking to win a million yen by entering a Game Show, being selected as one of its participants. He however was selected by the TV producers since his background of a poor family and an abusive alcoholic father made them believe that he could get them high ratings. During the show, it becomes obvious that he has no intention of giving Jonouchi money if he wins, making sure to rig the final wheel spin to make him lose. Yugi, overhearing this, takes matters into his own hands by playing a game with the producer, and subsequently deals a penalty game. Said penalty game causes the producer to get in front of the live television cameras and demand money from the audience, ruining the production company and bankrupting them. Yugi's efforts also unfortunately also cause problems for Jonouchi, as the production company's bankruptcy makes the check of one million yen that Jonouchi won legitimately worth nothing as an unintended side effect. | |
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You Can't Fight Fate | |
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You Can't Fight Fate: Destiny plays a big role in the series, with the main characters generally following the path fate led for them. Averted in Kaiba's duel with Ishizu, where he manages to change fate with his own will. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Despite all the weirdness Yugi & Co. have experienced (magic multiple personalities, shadow games, Kaiba Land, etc.) when Bakura tells them everyone who plays "Monster World" with him goes into a coma, they presume it's a coincidence and insist he play anyway. Even after the mean gym teacher suddenly goes into one! During Death-T, in that room where the living Tetris blocks were falling down and Honda's jacket gets caught between the blocks, why couldn't he have just taken it off? Granted, that seems to be the case a few chapters later when you see him alive and well, but still... The potential hazards of the Shadow Game with Dark Marik against Dark Yugi could have been avoided if Dark Yugi had started his own Shadow Game instead, within rational conditions. It wouldn't have contradicted the character development he received after his battle with Pegasus, as losers of Shadow Games don't always have to be subject to a Penalty Game (which Dark Yugi decided to stop doing). In fact, he could have done this from the outside to keep Mai and Jonouchi from getting hurt by Marik's Shadow Games in the first place, like when he secretly started a Shadow Game with Ms. Chono during class. Though there wouldn't be much of a plot or conflict otherwise. | |
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Cheaters Never Prosper | |
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Cheaters Never Prosper: The whole nature of Shadow Games. Cheat during one of Dark Yugi's Shadow Games, and you'll be subject to horrible Mind Rape. Also, very early on, Kaiba tries to sneak Grandpa's stolen Blue-Eyes White Dragon that was in his pocket into his hand during the duel, only for it to disobey him and cost him the game. | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Priest Seto and Kisara in Ancient Egypt, Dark Yugi and Anzu in the main timeline. | |
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In-Series Nickname | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7360806f | comment |
In-Series Nickname: The "spirits" all have different nicknames of referring to their "hosts". Dark Bakura uses yadonushi (meaning "landlord") while Dark Marik uses shujinkaku-sama (literally meaning "Mister Main Personality") and both cases indicate a sarcastic attitude. This makes Yami's aibou ("partner") nickname stands out, because he is the only one whose relationship with the host is genuine friendship with mutual respect. | |
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Noble Demon | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7360a6b6 | comment |
Noble Demon: Seto Kaiba. | |
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Total Party Kill | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_73f7b5a5 | comment |
The first battle between Dark Yugi/Kaiba VS two of Marik's Ghouls. Kaiba summoned Lord of Dragons AND special-summoned all three Blue Eyes and a spare dragon in just the first move, then summoned Obelisk on Round Two and sacrificed his remaining monsters to activate Obelisk's Total Party Kill special ability to defeat both opposing players. | |
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Arc Words | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Something you can show, but can't see" gets repeated quite a lot, at least early on. Originally it referred to the Millennium Puzzle in the first chapter, but it's used to refer to many different things since then, by slightly altering the way the line is interpreted. In the first chapter, Jonouchi uses it to refer to friendship (it can't be seen but can be shown by actions), becoming Yugi's friend from that point forward. Dark Yugi uses it to describe a duelist's deck (the deck itself can be seen but you don't know which card you will draw from it next). When Yugi starts losing against Mai during the Duelist Kingdom finals, she throws this question back to him, with Mai telling Jonouchi that his cheesy answer of friendship isn't the answer here. Mai uses this riddle to encourage Yugi, with the answer she interpreted being "weakness" (you can show weakness but you sometimes can't see it yourself). | |
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George Lucas Altered Version | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_76cbbc0b | comment |
George Lucas Altered Version: In Japan only, digital re-releases of the early volumes redrew Yami Yugi's crazy-eyes to resemble those of the later, more heroic version. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_77c9a628 | type |
Your Soul Is Mine! | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_77c9a628 | comment |
In the manga, Yugi's grandpa wasn't really kidnapped by Pegasus; his soul was instead sealed inside a video tape, and Yugi could talk with him through a camcorder whenever he liked. The anime makes it a straight case of Your Soul Is Mine!, and anime!Yugi is appropriately angstier about the whole affair. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_77c9a628 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_780a078e | type |
Self-Made Orphan | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_780a078e | comment |
Self-Made Orphan: Already being orphans when their parents died, Seto and Mokuba become orphans again after the former drives their abusive stepfather to suicide. And Marik's Split Personality killed his father when he tried to kill his adopted brother, Rishid. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_780a078e | |
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Casting a Shadow | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7836c43 | comment |
The parallel is once again seen with the Pharaoh and Zorc's guardian spirits: Hasan the Spirit of the Tablet who gives off an ethereal glow, and Akhenaden the High Priest of Darkness who serves as Zorc's minion and is able to project dark energy blasts. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_78c5ce7e | type |
Screw the Rules, I Make Them! | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_78c5ce7e | comment |
Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Pegasus makes special cards that never go into circulation just so that it gives him an advantage as the creator of the Duel Monsters card game. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_79372d59 | type |
The Game Come to Life | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_79372d59 | comment |
The Game Come to Life: During the Monster World arc, Yugi and his friends become the pieces of the tabletop roleplaying game they were playing with Dark Bakura. Also, the Shadow Game versions of Duel Monsters feature the monsters coming to life via shadow magic. In general, the Shadow Games have the potential to make any game become real, no matter how mundane. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_79372d59 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_79468fde | type |
Player Killing | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_79468fde | comment |
Player Killing: Pegasus's "star chip assassins" that are hired to eliminate players in the Duelist Kingdom game are called Player Killers. Because of their dirty methods and being just as screwed in the head as Pegasus, two of them have the unfortunate honor of being the final victims of Dark Yugi's Shadow Games and receiving his final Penalty Games. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_79468fde | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7b144404 | type |
Mental World | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7b144404 | comment |
Mental World: Shadi's Millennium Key allows him to enter a person's mind, which projects rooms that reflect a person's personality — their ambitions, complexes, etc. He can also, um, arrange things. Yugi has two of these rooms (likewise for Bakura too, probably). His room reflects his innocence and love for gaming, while Dark Yugi's room is filled with mazes and traps, reflecting the complexity of his soul. And, as Shadi described, like a Pharaoh's Tomb. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Kaiba gives these to anyone unfortunate enough to lose to him. Jonouchi was a victim at one point. Anzu gives one to Kaiba at Duelist Kingdom after he threatens suicide to force Yugi to lose. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7e22477f | type |
Breakout Villain | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7e22477f | comment |
Breakout Villain: Kaiba and the card game were meant to be seen only twice, and went on to have major story arcs revolve around them. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7eebe99c | comment |
Katsuya Jonouchi/Joey Wheeler has a mom, sister, and dad, who don't get much characterization beyond their relation to him. His father is introduced by the reader only seeing his boots and him throwing a bottle at the door. From there, we learn that Jonouchi's parents are divorced, with his father being an alcoholic and gambling addict. It characterizes Jonouchi as the underdog, looking to do anything to help clear up the debts, including doing several part-time jobs or entering a game show to win a million yen. Jonouchi's sister came under his mother's custody after their divorce. Shizuka Kawai/Serenity Wheeler is used as a motivator for him as well, where by the time the Duelist Kingdom arc rolls around, she needs an expensive eye surgery to prevent her from going blind. Jonouchi enters Pegasus' Duelist Kingdom tournament to win the prize money that would be able to pay for the operation. After Duelist Kingdom and during the Battle City arc, Shizuka becomes a Recurring Character, though mainly to support Jonouchi. The NAS anime has her dueling against Big Five member Soichiro Ota/Nezbitt during the Virtual World Filler arc but is an inexperienced duelist whose character revolves around being protected by her brother, or Ryuji Otogi/Duke Devlin and Hiroto Honda/Tristan Taylor's love triangle shenanigans. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Yugi's first Penalty Game against Seto Kaiba, the Experience of Death, was meant to teach him how the cards felt in the hopes it would make him a better gamer. Not only did it reinforce Seto's losing equals death philosophy, it made him bitter and revenge-crazed, leading him to try and kill Yugi, his grandpa, all of his friends, a random baby, and his little brother. Yugi's Penalty Game for the TV producer who tried to rig the game show Jonouchi was playing so that he would lose causes the producer to rush onto the stage, insult the viewers and demand that they send him their money. Though Jonouchi wins the ¥1,000,000 jackpot, the entire debacle causes the studio to delcare bankruptcy before he can cash in his check. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_7fbb2a3 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8173ce7b | type |
Amulet of Concentrated Awesome | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8173ce7b | comment |
Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: Yugi's Millennium Puzzle has the soul of a 3,000 year old Pharaoh in it who takes over Yugi's body to play games. Most of the Millennium Items fit this trope. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_820ac3c5 | type |
Dysfunction Junction | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_820ac3c5 | comment |
Dysfunction Junction: Almost every major character experienced a tragic and/or depressing event early in their life, especially the villains. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_820ac3c5 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_830b0ac9 | type |
Final Battle | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_830b0ac9 | comment |
To defeat Zorc in the Final Battle, the Pharaoh summoned the three Egyptian Gods: Obelisk, Slifer, and Ra, who fused together into Horakhty the Creator of Light. He was able to smite the dark demon Zorc with one devastating light blast. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_830b0ac9 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: Ryou Bakura tries to look happy all of the time, but that's hard when you have a malicious spirit possess you and try to kill your friends. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8409a385 | comment |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: A lot of the cards, like "Red-Eyes Black Dragon," "Man-Eating Treasure Chest" and "Dark Magician," just to name a few. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8409a385 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8510238b | type |
Riddle Me This | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8510238b | comment |
Riddle Me This: All of Shadi's Shadow Games involve riddles or puzzles (fitting, as his very existence is a riddle). And the Labyrinth Coin game that Dark Yugi and Dark Bakura played against the Meikyuu Brothers during Duelist Kingdom was a way to destroy their Unwinnable by Design riddle. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8510238b | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Dragon Cards is never brought up after its sole appearance, and Dark Yugi can only hope no one else finds it and unseals the dragons. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_863fa679 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_867c3744 | type |
New Rules as the Plot Demands | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_867c3744 | comment |
New Rules as the Plot Demands: Duelist Kingdom is this writ large. Some make at least a bit of sense, like flying monsters having an advantage over land-based monsters, or machine monsters rusting due to a mist over the field. Others just plain have no basis in fact at all (at least as a regular card game), most prominently the infamous Catapult Turtle move Yugi uses to defeat the Player Killer of Darkness, as well as Giant Soldier of Stone attacking the moon(that move got turned into a card in the real card card game a few years down the line). However, Duelist Kingdom is stated to use custom rules specific to the tournament, though they're so far removed from almost anything else we see it border on being more of a battle simulator than an actual card game. Once the rules were written and pinned down in Battle City as the "Expert Rules", this turned into "New Cards As the Plot Demands," with duelists producing cards never before seen at just the right time. Many of these cards exist for Rule of Cool, as there are other pre-existing cards that do the same thing as the new card but don't fit the theme of the duelist's deck. And lapses of the random new rules still occurred: Jinzo is supposedly immune to Time Wizard's effect due to being made of special metal, for example, and Flute of Summoning Dragon lets both players summon Dragons from their hand if they want. | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_86ee8070 | type |
World of Ham | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_86ee8070 | comment |
World of Ham: Games are serious business, and everyone's dialogue reflects that. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_86ee8070 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_874176be | type |
Psychic Powers | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: The Millennium Items give their owners a variety of psychic powers, depending on the item. Some examples being mind raping, locating and identifying other Millennium Item holders, mind reading, visiting someone's mental landscape, seeing the future, and possessing other people. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_874176be | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8905bc4d | type |
Extra Eyes | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8905bc4d | comment |
Extra Eyes: Pegasus' Thousand-Eyes Restrict. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8905bc4d | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_891aa66d | type |
Formula with a Twist | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_891aa66d | comment |
Formula with a Twist: This series blended the best elements of sports manga and shounen manga by having all of its conflict based around games — particularly "Duel Monsters", a card game which is simple to understand and allows for any number of unique and interesting things to happen. It started a trend of imitators that introduced their own contests using cards, board games, Mons and anything else which could carry similar appeal. | |
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Chuunibyou | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_898bfe62 | comment |
Chuunibyou: In one of the earlier chapters, one Villain of the Week was a classmate who claimed he could see the future (and arranged for his predictions to come true). When exposed by Yugi, it turned out his predictions were all prewritten, such as "There will be an earthquake". In Japan. | |
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Mind Rape | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8a4988bb | comment |
Mind Rape: PENALTY GAME! Every single one that does not involve dying. | |
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Flaw Exploitation | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8b3fe1cb | comment |
Flaw Exploitation: Dark Yugi's Shadow Games, particularly his early ones, had him play on his opponent's inherent flaws in order to win. Dark Yugi's final Shadow Game in Duelist Kingdom returned to form with this, with Dark Yugi playing on Player Killer's Dirty Coward tendencies of hiding in the shadows even in Duel Monsters and scaring him as he did to others. | |
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Hope Crusher | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8bcfcc7 | comment |
Hope Crusher: Ms. Chono lives to crush the hearts of men, and delights in expelling students on technicalities. | |
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Flawed Prototype | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8cda3dc2 | comment |
Flawed Prototype: The original Duel Disk was a quantum leap above the technology seen before, but it was also a weird, clunky affair that could only play an oddball variant of the standard game and required the user to repeatedly throw what amounted to a giant metal frisbee-top that also periodically spat out their cards. This may have been intentional on Kaiba's part, as it was designed to counter Pegasus's mind-reading and he's shown using the device's unwieldy nature as an advantage, but this resulted in Pegasus refusing to play with it at all without acting through a proxy. The Battle City Disk, designed for actual mass-market use, was far more compact and convenient, and could actually play the standard game, with the only limitation being that it couldn't fit more than five cards onto the field (and even that weakness was absent from the anime). | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_8e9cf84e | comment |
"Blind Idiot" Translation: ViZ's translation of Yami Yugi's Death-T duel with Kaiba translates Saggi the Dark Clown's "Dark Light" as "Dark Glide". | |
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Revisiting the Roots | |
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Revisiting the Roots: After nothing but Duel Monsters post-Dungeon Dice Monsters, the manga switches games during the Millennium World arc, showcasing an elaborate tabletop RPG, as well as showcasing a flashback with Yugi's grandpa taking on a room game within the Pharaoh's tomb among other things. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Every bully who Dark Yugi fights is this. Special points go to Prisoner 777 who, after taking Anzu hostage, Dark Yugi tricks into setting himself on fire. Bandit Keith cheats, steals, beats up his underlings and eventually pulls a knife on Pegasus. He meets his end by having his hand turned into a gun and is forced to shoot himself. Marik's father is skinned alive after years of abusing his children. | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
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Pintsized Powerhouse: Yugi. | |
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Chained by Fashion | |
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Chained by Fashion: Exodia's pieces wear chains to limit his power. Getting all five results in an automatic win. After "Duelist Kingdom," Yugi starts wearing the Millennium Puzzle on a chain around his neck. | |
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Hive Mind | |
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Hive Mind: Dark Bakura's personality within the Millennium Ring is the Thief King's soul that has been consumed by the influence of Zorc, meaning he has become a part of Zorc. And by essentially infecting certain objects with portions of his soul like he did with the Millennium Puzzle and his role-playing dice, he further spreads Zorc's influence in a way. At the same time, when Akhenaden made the contract with Zorc to become the High Priest of Darkness, he also became a part of Zorc. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Yami Yugi does this to Chono. She's a Proud Beauty that hides her flaws with makeup, while being a bully to her students. As Ms. Chrono prepares to humiliate Honda and expel him, Yami Yugi proceeds to remove the makeup and reveal the teacher's ugly soul on the outside. He says no amount of foundation or lipstick will cover it up. | |
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game | |
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In the very first chapter, Hall Monitor Ushio self-appoints himself as Yugi's bodyguard and then goes on to beat up both Honda and Jonouchi (Tristan and Joey in the English dub of the anime), and then charges Yugi with 200,000 yen as a fee. When Yugi defends the defenseless Honda and Jounouchi, Ushio beats up Yugi as well, then threatens him with a knife to bring the money or else. When Yugi manages to complete the Millennium Puzzle and unlock its power, he challenges Ushio to an Absurdly High-Stakes Game: use Ushio's knife to stab at a stack of bills on top of their hands, with whatever the knife gets is what they keep (Yugi even bringing 400,000 yen instead of 200,000 like Ushio asked). Ushio's true nature comes out at the end of the game, where he finds himself unable to stab at the money without also getting his hand. In the end, he tries cheating by stabbing Yugi, which ends with him getting inflicted with a Penalty Game (fittingly called "Greed, the Illusion of Avarice"). He suddenly sees everything around him as money, when in reality he's grabbing onto dead leaves and trash, while Yugi walks away with all the money he initially brought as "payment" for his bodyguard services. | |
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Black Cloak | |
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Black Cloak: Marik Ishtar and the other Ghouls wear hooded robes and cloaks. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Dark Bakura serves as this for the whole series, working out an evil plan to resurrect Zorc Necrophades. While other characters may serve as an Arc Villain, Dark Bakura's scheme goes on throughout the series. | |
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Heel–Face Revolving Door | |
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Heel–Face Revolving Door: Dark Bakura, at least from Yugi’s perspective. It's never genuine and is all part of his plans, but he claims to have changed and occasionally helps Yugi out, like giving him a pep talk during the DDM arc and handing him the Millenium Eye. Yugi is initially distrustful, but does seem like he really wants to have faith that Dark Bakura is able to have a change of heart and genuinely wants to help his other self regain his memories. In the end, when Dark Bakura reveals who is ( A part of Zorc, not just the spirit of the Thief King) and why he helped Yugi gather the Millennium Items in the first place, Yugi visibly feels betrayed, exclaiming "I trusted you!". | |
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Hand Stomp | |
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Hand Stomp: Thief King Bakura drops the Pharaoh into a gorge by doing this, causing the Memory World to go dark. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: Zorc Necrophades, the being that the Pharaoh originally destroyed 3000 thousand years ago. He is the dark intelligence in the Millennium Items, and Dark Bakura is trying to release him. | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: The Millennium Ring/Dark Bakura serves this role to the Millennium Puzzle/Dark Yugi. Especially in his first appearance, where Dark Bakura appeared and inflicted a Penalty Game on a teacher who was picking on Ryou, much like how Dark Yugi appeared and inflicted Penalty Games on bullies who tried to do harm to Yugi and his friends. The difference? Dark Bakura uses his host to serve his own ends, twisting his wish of playing games with his friends by trapping their souls into game figurines for all eternity, and not giving impaling body parts to silence his host a second thought. Contrast to Dark Yugi, who only sincerely wants to protect Yugi and his friends and genuinely cares for Yugi's well-being. | |
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You | |
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Presented by Dark Bakura in the original manga (volume ten of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist), when he interrupts the match of DDM between Yugi and Ryuuji Otogi to prevent the former from losing the Millennium Puzzle. Seto Kaiba also treats Yugi as such. | |
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Death by Irony | |
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Death by Irony: Most of Dark Yugi's Penalty Games, though not all of the victims necessarily die and they get less extreme as the series goes on. One particularly disturbing example that doesn't involve death is his Penalty Game towards a crooked director. Earlier in the chapter, the director mentions using a mosaic to filter out the beaten Yugi's face. When he suffers his Penalty Game, he is forever blinded with a mosaic over his eyes. Another good example would be during the Duelist Kingdom arc, where the Player Killer of Darkness threatens to kill Yugi with a noose if he lost and throughout the whole game, tries to seek safety within the darkness. He ends up being hanged by a noose at the end of the game, surrounded by nothing but darkness. This would be Dark Yugi's final Penalty Game before he decides to stop using them. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Takahashi managed to sprinkle a lot of hints towards later arcs during the course of the manga's run. The final Story Arc, Pharaoh's Memory, is foreshadowed in volume two, with the Millennium Puzzle's Labyrinth game being revisited and Yugi finally being able to open "that door" - the secret of the Millennium Puzzle, which Shadi spoke of as he departed back in the earlier chapters, ultimately leading to the World of Memories in the final arc. Shadi lost the original "Labyrinth Treasure Hunt" game, but Dark Yugi told him It Has Only Just Begun, and it turns out that via Bobasa, Shadi finally did conquer the puzzle's labyrinth during the final arc's "Mind's Labyrinth" game with Yugi and his friends as companions. The power of the Millennium Puzzle that Shadi discovers in the initial arc, the power of unity, also comes to full force with his participation in the Memory World. As early as the Monster World arc and before the Battle City arc, Dark Bakura had alluded to himself as a thief, and Dark Yugi a king. Flash forward to the final arc, with Thief King Bakura and Pharaoh Atem. His avatar's role in the RPG also foreshadowed his role throughout the entire manga, a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing revealed to be a part of Zorc, with a good soul, White Mage Bakura or Ryo Bakura, trapped deeped inside of him and pulled back to the surface with the help of his friends. Planning on self-destructing Dark Master Zorc, despite being tied to his soul within the Shadow Game, Dark Bakura monologued that as long as the Millennium Ring existed, even if his avatar died his soul would continue to live forever. The group seemingly kills him during Monster World, but he resurfaces in the middle of Duelist Kingdom. He's killed again in another RPG at the end of the series, but the Millennium Ring's evil is still shown to live on in The Dark Side of Dimensions. At the beginning of the Battle City arc, Anzu had to drag Bakura out of bed because he stayed up all night working on his next big tabletop role-playing game. The very next arc, it's revealed that Dark Bakura manipulated him into building a very elaborate RPG diorama as a backdrop for the final Shadow Game, even more meticulously crafted than the Monster World campaign. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: When Jonouchi uses Kaiba's Duel Disk in Duelist Kingdom, he compares it to using a yo-yo, stating that he's good at using yo-yos, referencing the yo-yo battle in chapters 48 and 49. | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Yugi/Dark Yugi and Anzu. | |
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Non-Lethal Warfare | |
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Non-Lethal Warfare: Subverted with the Shooting Stardust game during Death-T. Yugi and his friends think it's a harmless laser tag game at first — and it certainly is for them with the toy guns they're given — but the people Kaiba hired to play against them were professor killers, and the guns they used shot out electrical currents, which were amplified to lethal levels when they hit the sensors. | |
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Smug Smiler | |
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Smug Smiler: Kaiba and Dark Yugi. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: The Duel Monsters card game was originally intended as a homage to Magic: The Gathering, of which Takahashi is a fan. Takahashi is also a fan of Dungeons & Dragons, which Bakura's Tabletop Role Playing Games and Otogi's Dungeon Dice Monsters are based on. Zombire appears to be an homage of Spawn. An important plot device of the entire series, the concept of "Penalty Games" (the Japanese term being "Batsu Game"), is inspired by the real life Penalty Games used in Japanese owarai stage comedy and variety shows, which involved losers of certain challenges and bets to experience rather unpleasant things. Yu-Gi-Oh! takes this concept and Plays It For Horror, as opposed to the real-life versions, where they're actually pretty funny because of the reactions but are humiliating to the receiving end of the punishment nonetheless. | |
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Believing Their Own Lies | |
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Believing Their Own Lies: The phony prophet, Kokurano, in chapter 5. | |
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Life Energy | |
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Life Energy: Ba in Ancient Egyptian beliefs, which served as the life force used to summon and empower their Ka (Monster Spirits) in the Pharaoh's (Dark Yugi's) kingdom. In Dark Bakura's recreation of this kingdom (as a Tabletop roleplaying game, Memory World, the Shadow R.P.G.), Ba served as the characters' Hit Points and Magic Points (and probably represented their level as well). When Priest Akhenaden turns into the High Priest of Darkness, he levels up and receives two more bars to his Ba Gauge. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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While the manga makes it clear that receiving the Millennium Eye was not pleasant for Pegasus, the actual insertion was done off-panel. The anime, on the other hand, lets the audience see every second of Shadi painfully jamming it in the poor guy's eye socket. | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
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Half-Human Hybrid: Yugi's character in the Monster World RPG is a half-elf. | |
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And You Thought It Was a Game | |
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And You Thought It Was a Game: Inverted. What the Pharaoh and company think is the world of his memories, or possibly time travel, in the Millennium World story arc turns out to be a Tabletop RPG game set up by Bakura. | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job: In-universe example; Mana's Black Magician Girl spirit had brown skin and an Eye of Anubis. In the card game designed by Pegasus, her skin is light and she wore a pentagram. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The conclusion of the Duelist Kingdom arc. Kaiba and Mokuba are reunited, and Yugi and Dark Yugi have a heartwarming friendship speech... and the next page is the dead body of Pegasus with his Millenium Eye ripped out. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: Seto Kaiba was originally supposed to be a one-off villain, but got promoted to main antagonist of his own arc when Kazuki Takahashi decided to have Duel Monsters make a reappearance. This role was ultimately what made him become one of the manga's most well-known characters, and ultimately what makes him get another promotion as a main character during the Duel Monsters arcs. The anime adaptations extends his role even further, making him even more popular by extending his significance in filler arcs and rewriting a chunk of the last arc to include him. | |
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I Am Your Opponent | |
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I Am Your Opponent: Frequently said by Dark Yugi whenever he emerges when Yugi's friends are in danger. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: The Three Gods, Kaiba and his three Blue-Eyes, the English manga being split into three parts, and of course, out of the six Millennium Item wielders, three of them (Yugi, Bakura, and Shadi) are the only ones who utilize general Shadow Games or play games other than Duel Monsters. In fact, Shadi never plays Duel Monsters. | |
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Gollum Made Me Do It | |
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Gollum Made Me Do It: The Bakura/Dark Bakura relationship basically develops into this after Monster World. | |
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Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult | |
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Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: The school guidance counselor not only confiscates a toy from Yugi, but threatens him, Jonouchi and Honda with expulsion if they can't find where he hid it within a time limit. The other Yugi triggers the toy's beeping, which reveals that the vain teacher hid it under his wig, and reveals to everyone that the teacher is actually bald. | |
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Power Makes Your Hair Grow | |
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Power Makes Your Hair Grow: When Yugi, Bakura and Marik become possessed by the spirits of the Millennium Items (or in Marik's case his Superpowered Evil Side), their hair gets even more ridiculous than usual. | |
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Myth Arc | |
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Myth Arc: Shadow Games, the Millennium Items, and the identity of Dark Yugi/uncovering the Pharaoh's memories all play important parts in all of the StoryArcs in this manga. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Dark Bakura has an Oh, Crap! moment when he realizes that the real Bakura regained control of his left hand during the Monster World RPG. Also, when the real Bakura's soul breaks his dice. | |
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Final Boss | |
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Final Bosses Dark Master Zorc and his precursor Zorc Necrophades in both the Monster World RPG and the Shadow RPG of the Millennium World arc pretty much beat down the parties with little effort and would have totally did a Total Party Kill in both instances had it not been for unexpected surprise inferences. | |
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Arc Villain | |
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Arc Villain: In order: Shadi, Kaiba, Dark Bakura, Pegasus, Mr. Clown, Marik, Dark Marik, and Dark Bakura as the final villain in a Big Bad Duumvirate with Akhenaden and with Zorc Necrophades behind them. | |
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Hammy Villain, Serious Hero | |
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Hammy Villain, Serious Hero: Yami Yugi tends to be very stoic and serious as he battles the many Ax-Crazy and hammy villains like Pegasus, Yami Bakura, Yami Marik, Dartz, and Zorc Necrophades. | |
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Unsound Effect | |
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Unsound Effect: In Polish translation there are effects like "SIT!" or "STARE!". | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Anzu, Ms. Chono, Mai, and Black Magician Girl. Anzu is probably the standout example as her casual clothes almost always show off her legs. Her Shorttank tendencies also sometimes go to the very limit of acceptible skimpiness; while her tank-top outfits already get to show off a lot of skin, one alternate look has her wear a tube-top. Incidental clothing includes a waitress outfit as well as a bikini she wears during a water park visit. | |
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Waterlogged Warzone | |
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Waterlogged Warzone: Dark Yugi once fought a gang in an abandoned building that had leakages, with puddles of water all over the floor. He took advantage of this to trick the thugs into electrocuting themselves with their tasers. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Also Seto Kaiba, given his orphaned childhood and history with Gozaburo. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: In the first chapter, Sugoroku Mutou tells Yugi and Anzu that the Millennium Puzzle was found by a team of British archaeologists who died after uncovering the puzzle, with their last words being "The Shadow Games." In the Millennium World saga, it is revealed that this British team of archaeologists died while trying to get the Millennium Puzzle (their last words still being "The Shadow Games") and Sugoroku himseld ended up finding the Puzzle after conquering the tomb's Shadow Games. The first chapter of the Millennium World has Yugi trying to hide the fact that "another him" exists from his grandpa even though Sugoroku was already well-aware of the other Yugi's existence during his stint as a video tape in Duelist Kingdom and during Dungeon Dice Monsters. | |
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Duels Decide Everything | |
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Duels Decide Everything: Dark Yugi would always play a game to resolve a conflict. Eventually, Duel Monsters was the most common game. | |
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AxeCrazy | |
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Axe-Crazy: The Chopman from the Death-T saga. Dark Bakura and Dark Marik. And although well-intentioned, Dark Yugi seemed a little too happy inflicting Penalty Games in the first few chapters. | |
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Split-Personality Makeover | |
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Split-Personality Makeover: Yugi's face changes from cute to sinister when Dark Yugi takes over. Same thing with Bakura and Dark Bakura. Though normal Marik also looks sinister, but less sinister than Dark Marik. The makeovers include, among other things, their hair getting wackier (with Dark Marik's almost doubling in size) and a tendency towards slasher smiles | |
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Morality Chain | |
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Morality Chain/Morality Pet: Mokuba Kaiba. As the Season Zero/manga version of Kaiba shows exactly what happens to his personality without Mokuba holding him back. The manga is pretty explicit in stating that Mokuba is the last and final piece of his rebuilt heart. | |
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Rebel Relaxation | |
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Rebel Relaxation: Mild-mannered nice guy Ryou is seen leaning insouciantly against a tree◊ while everyone else watches Mokuba having a tantrum. | |
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Phantom-Zone Picture | |
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Phantom-Zone Picture: Pegasus gave Seto and Mokuba Penalty Games, which involved their souls getting trapped into blank cards. | |
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Subverted | |
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Subverted: By themselves, the games are perfectly safe; it's the gamers like the Ghouls that add in their own, more dangerous, rules or invoke the dark magic of the Millennium Items that make it so dangerous. | |
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An Adventurer Is You | |
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An Adventurer Is You: The character classes that the gang chooses for their party characters during the Monster World RPG have very archetypical gameplay roles, naturally from being based on Dungeons & Dragons. Beast Tamer Yugi is able to use his magic to change an enemy creature's alignment and turn them into one of his True Companions - as long as he rolls a high enough check. Jonouchi's Warrior character, like his player, was in charge of the brawn and physical damage output for the party. He also had the highest HP out of all the party members. Magician Anzu wields powerful offensive magic, especially on critical hits, but also has some healing magic. Magic Gunman Hiroto deals ranged damage with magic bullets. White Mage Bakura, level 13, can heal the entire party of their wounds and cast powerful barriers to block enemy attacks. Depending on how powerful he wants the spells to be, it's sometimes at the cost of his own health. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: Dark Marik is so murderous that he has this face on 90% of the time. Dark Bakura pulls off a few pretty good ones, himself. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The Millennium World arc is a mild version. In general, things make sense and you can follow what's going on, but some really bizarre stuff happens too. | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: The price for losing or cheating one of the Pharaoh's Shadow Games is to receive a "Penalty Game" that would deliver Laser-Guided Karma. This ranges from seeing nothing but hallucinations of money, to having your vision censored like a mosaic. | |
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MetaGame | |
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Metagaming: As it applies to role-playing games. During the Shadow RPG of the final arc, while Dark Yugi's characters were subject to paralysis for several rounds (due to Dark Bakura's Time Stop ability), Zorc Necrophades was about to launch its Zorc Inferno. Priest Seto being one of the characters in question that was within the target range of Zorc's ultimate AOE damage spell, Dark Yugi tries to convince Dark Bakura as a role-player to have High Priest of Darkness stop Zorc from attacking, because he's Seto's father. In a horrifying break from his previously-characterized obsession with the concept of players "becoming their characters" in his Tabletop RPGs, he calls Dark Yugi a fool for thinking that would work and says that he is in control of Zorc, launching his attack anyway before being blocked by Hassan (an NPC controlled by Shadi). | |
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Healthcare Motivation | |
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Healthcare Motivation: Jonouchi's reason for tagging along with Yugi on his trip to Duelist Kingdom: To save his sister's eyesight. | |
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True Companions | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: Yugi's friends' bond is so deep and powerful that Jonouchi, Honda, Anzu, and Bakura are able to block Pegasus's Mind Scan with it, helping Dark Yugi in defeating him. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Tomoya Hanasaki, Yugi's friend from the early chapters who had an obsession with the American superhero, Zombire. Despite having a whole character development chapter for himself and being close enough to the main group that he offered to look after Yugi's grandpa in the hospital during the Death-T saga, he's never mentioned or seen again after that. | |
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The Dark Side | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_c4db3679 | comment |
The Dark Side: Many characters in Yu-Gi-Oh! fall into this, usually by trying to use an Artifact of Doom. Dark Yugi was even part of it at first before softening up. Pegasus explicitly says that there is an evil influence inside all of the Millennium Items, and the Millennium World arc reveals that the evil influence is Zorc Necrophades. | |
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Chastity Couple | |
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Chastity Couple: Yugi and Anzu, though the former does have a crush on the latter, and the latter has a crush on the former's Superpowered Evil Side. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Yugi and Jonouchi duel immediately after Battle City, and it's heavily implied Jonouchi won. Both mediums skip the duel. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Multiple: In the very first chapter, Yugi makes a reference to Dragon Ball when he talks about the Millennium Puzzle granting one wish. And one to Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo as well. Twice in the 3rd volume of the final arc someone is seen with a Nu hankerchief. Chapter 41 "Let's Find Love" has the same plot as one episode of YuYu Hakusho (hero will be expelled if he doesn't find an item that a teacher hid somewhere in the school- and actually hid on his own person). | |
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Necromantic | |
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Necromantic: Pegasus got his Start of Darkness after his beloved Cyndia passed away and he vowed to bring her back. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Towards the end of the Shadow RPG, High Priest of Darkness Akhenaden reveals to Priest Seto that he was his father all along, and tries to make Priest Seto join him and become the King of Darkness. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: The reason Thief King Bakura tries to summon Zorc in the first place is because he saw the Kul Elna genocide firsthand and was its only survivor, trying to enact revenge on the previous Pharaoh, his son, and his royal court by killing everyone using the very Items they created. Also Seto Kaiba, given his orphaned childhood and history with Gozaburo. | |
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Non-Human Undead | |
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Non-Human Undead: In the first tournament, Yugi defeats Seo Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon by fusing his Mammoth Graveyard into it... which, because both are incompatible types, slowly weakens the resulting fusion and will cause it's eventual death. After this, the rule is never referenced again. Another example are Ghost Kozuka's monsters brought back from the grave. | |
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Informed Ability | |
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Informed Ability: Despite claiming to be an expert at all games, we only ever see Kaiba play Duel Monsters and chess. The only thing that tells us of his prowess at gaming is his high scores on every arcade machine at the Domino Arcade. It's mentioned in the manga that the arcade high scores are linked, so he has the highest score on all those games in all of Japan. | |
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Environmental Symbolism | |
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Environmental Symbolism: Whenever Shadi goes into someone's Soul Room with his Millennium Key, which reflects their personality and mental state. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: The manga has a reputation for being Darker and Edgier than either anime, but there are a few instances where Takahashi went for something more low-key while the anime ramped things up. In the manga, Yugi's grandpa wasn't really kidnapped by Pegasus; his soul was instead sealed inside a video tape, and Yugi could talk with him through a camcorder whenever he liked. The anime makes it a straight case of Your Soul Is Mine!, and anime!Yugi is appropriately angstier about the whole affair. While the manga makes it clear that receiving the Millennium Eye was not pleasant for Pegasus, the actual insertion was done off-panel. The anime, on the other hand, lets the audience see every second of Shadi painfully jamming it in the poor guy's eye socket. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Thief King Bakura, against Pharaoh Atem and his priests. | |
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Orphanage of Fear | |
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Orphanage of Fear: According to Kaiba, at least. | |
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Badass Long Robe | |
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Badass Long Robe: Thief King Bakura wears a red robe with white trim. | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: Dark Bakura's black trenchcoat during the Millennium World arc. Seto Kaiba wears long, flowing trenchcoats after he wakes up from his coma after Death-T. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Mai Kujaku grew up alone and only had herself and games for company, deciding to rely solely on herself until she ran into Yugi. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Who knew yo-yos could be used that way? It should be noted that drawing cards and placing them down isn't as ridiculous as it is in the anime, judging by how calmly it's drawn in the manga. Dice rolling, however, is still taken to epic proportions in the manga. "UNMEI NO DICE ROLL!" The dice roll of LIFE OR DEATH! | |
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Death by Childbirth | |
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Death by Childbirth: Mokuba explains that his mother died shortly after his birth. Marik's mother dies giving birth to him. | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
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Character Catchphrase: Dark Yugi's "Game Start!" would count as one, though it's said a few times by Dark Bakura as well. | |
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I Know Your True Name | |
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I Know Your True Name: "Names are power." The key to winning Dark Bakura's ultimate Shadow RPG was learning Dark Yugi's true name, Atem. | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_d44ea142 | comment |
You Are Not Alone: From the very first chapter, this has been a staple of the series. When Kaiba had Yugi on the ropes with three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, Yugi was too scared to even draw at first, until he envisioned his friends standing with him. The confidence they gave him allowed Yugi to draw Exodia the Forbidden One and beat Kaiba. When Yugi and Pegasus duel and it becomes a Shadow Game, Yugi was slowly dying due to the game's energies. Dark Yugi couldn't play alone due to Pegasus having the ability to read his mind, but when Yugi's friends focused their feelings on him, they managed to block the Mind Scan and enable Yugi to win. In the Millennium World, the Pharaoh was fighting the bandit king Bakura, whose powers were too much even for him. Just when Bakura was about to kill him, Yugi and his friends stepped up and offered their energy so he could summon Ra to vanquish Bakura. Zorc Necrophades was able to kill off most of the Pharaoh's priests and soldiers, and managed to seriously wear the Pharaoh down, but then Yugi and friends made a second reappearance and gave him the key to awakening Horakthy, destroying Zorc in one hit. | |
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Psychotic Smirk | |
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Psychotic Smirk: Dark Yugi, and the villains, have this down to an art. | |
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PowerOfFriendship | |
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The power of the Millennium Puzzle that Shadi discovers in the initial arc, the power of unity, also comes to full force with his participation in the Memory World. | |
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Carnival of Killers | |
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Carnival of Killers: Seto Kaiba creates an almost literal carnival of killers with "Death T", the "Theme Park of Death" he made specifically for Yugi. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Kaiba in the Death-T arc even has a chessboard as he plans out his moves to take Yugi down. | |
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Training from Hell | |
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Training from Hell: Mahado is implied to have gone through this in the afterlife, coming back as the Black Magician, stronger than ever before, in order to serve his king once more in the battle against Zorc. Kaiba's backstory. In order to make him a suitable heir to KaibaCorp, his adoptive father Gozaburo put him through a brutally intense period of schooling from age 10 onward. Judging from what is shown in the manga, it involved leashing him to a desk and the occasional beating with a switch. This leads him on his descent to madness until receiving the Mind Crush Penalty Game from Dark Yugi. | |
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Friendship Moment | |
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Friendship Moment: Friendship is one of the key themes of the series, so moments where Yugi and his friends affirm their friendship show up a lot. | |
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Combat Sadomasochist | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_d87ba943 | comment |
Combat Sadomasochist: Dark Marik is characterized by this trope. Not only do the conditions of his Shadow Games satisfy his sadism, but the conditions also satisfy his lust for pain. While the good guys have their stamina destroyed due to the pain of feeling their monsters' limbs being chopped off, Marik wallows in the pleasure. | |
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Soul Jar | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_d8e1b5a3 | comment |
Soul Jar: A literal one in volume six, in the chapters about Imori and the Dragon Cards. Dark Bakura's Penalty Games involve the losers being trapped in lead R.P.G. figurines. Likewise, Pegasus's Penalty Games involve trapping souls/minds into inanimate objects, i.e. a miniature TV screen for Yugi's grandfather and cards for the Kaiba brothers. Dark Bakura's Millennium Ring allows him to create Soul Jars by transferring parts of his soul into any object. Yugi's puzzle piece is one example. For both Dark Yugi and Dark Bakura, the normal Yugi and Bakura are their living Soul Jars. If they allow their host's bodies to die, they'll die as well. | |
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Breakout Character | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_da0eeab5 | comment |
Breakout Character: The Black Magician Girl is far more popular than any other monster from the original series, save for the iconic Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Black Magician. She's even playable in some of the video games. | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_da1c8191 | comment |
Writers Cannot Do Math: Directly addressed in the Dungeon Dice Monsters arc, where Takahashi miscalculated the probabilities of the card trick Yugi and Otogi play; the tankoban collection not only fixes this, but admits it in an Author's Note, and adds a little panel of Yami Bakura mocking Takahashi. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Magician Anzu wields powerful offensive magic, especially on critical hits, but also has some healing magic. | |
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Anime Hair | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_daf4da31 | comment |
Anime Hair: Yugi is the most famous example and provides the trope image. Almost all the supporting characters tend to be trying to outdo each other in outlandish hairstyles. | |
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ChosenOne | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_dbea254f | comment |
The Millennium Puzzle itself is a little friendlier to its attempted wielders, at least before it was put together by Yugi. They would merely find the puzzle too challenging to complete, and even before that, get killed by the Shadow Games in the tomb it was hidden in rather than by the Puzzle itself. However, after Yugi had completed the Millennium Puzzle, those who attempted steal it/put it back together through force/cheating would incur the wrath of the Millennium Puzzle. An example would be Otogi's father, who had attempted to put together the pieces of the broken Millennium Puzzle, only to find himself trapped in a maze of illusions— though even that lasts for only a few seconds. | |
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A God Am I | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: Ms. Chono refers to herself as the goddess of the classroom at one point. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: In the Death-T arc, Anzu is fired from her waitress job and gets hired at KaibaCorp's laser tag game, and is put on the one playthrough that has actual danger in it so she can help Yugi win. Making it even sillier is that she's Kaiba's classmate and he didn't recognize her, nor did his employees. | |
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Innocuously Important Episode | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_dee56696 | comment |
Innocuously Important Episode: Most events of the series can be traced back to Yugi's first defeat of Kaiba, which is rather low-key in the grand scheme of things (all Yugi wanted was to get his grandfather's Blue-Eyes White Dragon back) and at first appears no more important than the other games against Monsters of the Week, yet leads to the events of Death-T, and from there to Duelist Kingdom and then Battle City, which in turn provides Yugi with important information that he needs for the Pharaoh's Memory. | |
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Makeup Is Evil | |
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Makeup Is Evil: Seen with Ms. Chono, who uses so much makeup it's like a mask. Her Penalty Game involves her makeup cracking off to reveal her ugly face and intentions. | |
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Mysterious Protector | |
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Mysterious Protector: Dark Yugi before the Death-T arc, where he takes over Yugi's body in order to solve Yugi's conflicts and his existence was relatively unknown to Yugi's friends. | |
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Hannibal Lecture | |
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Otogi to Yugi during their game of Dungeon Dice Monsters/DDD, until Dark Bakura intervenes and gives Otogi a Hannibal Lecture. | |
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What Is Evil? | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_e277967 | comment |
What Is Evil?: Thief King Bakura asks this to Pharaoh Atem's court during their first battle. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
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Dub Name Change: The manga-exclusive characters received English names for the Dungeon Dice Monsters video game. The Viz translation uses the dub name Maximillion J. Pegasus instead of Pegasus J. Crawford. The English manga uses the anime names for the Duel Monsters and Dungeon Dice Monsters games, presumably for familiarity or product placement for the real life games. In the Japanese manga, they were always referred to as "Magic & Wizards" (or M&W) and "Dragons, Dice & Dungeons" (or DDD). | |
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Call-Forward | |
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Call-Forward: The first chapter of Millennium World is set before the first chapter of the series. Sugoroku Muto is a skilled gamer that says that if he ever loses a game, he'll trade his suit and fedora for a pair of overalls and a bandanna, and will open a game store. Apparently he lost at some point. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: Many of the early character designs got significantly changed as the manga went on and Takahashi's overall aesthetic changed. Jonouchi's hairstyle changes from a Leonardo DiCaprio-esque style to the signature Jonouchi style, Dark Yugi appears increasingly less deranged and psychotic-looking, Kaiba goes from being kind of short to one of the tallest characters in the series, Mokuba goes from being chubby and mean-looking to a more Moe appearance, etc. Any piece of art by Takahashi released in the mid-2010s, including the pieces included in the bunkoban and illustrations for the card game, show a marked improvement in Takahashi's painting ability, making the characters look more realistic. | |
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Pokémon Speak | |
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Pokémon Speak: In Volumes 6-7, the Monster World characters Pau and Pokii speak using their own names. | |
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Dub-Induced Plotline Change: The Viz translation features some changes, from having Mokuba call Seto "Kaiba" regularly to having Jonouchi doubt Yugi can win in the final battle when in the manga he said the opposite. Other lines, such as Kaiba "carrying the cross of collectible card game defeat" were added because the translators thought it'd be funny. | |
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Powered by a Forsaken Child | |
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Powered by a Forsaken Child: Creating the Millennium Items required a sacrifice of 99 human lives. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: When Ms Chono asks about the love-letter puzzle placed under Miho's desk, Yugi jumps up and says that he wrote the letter. Immediately, Jonouchi admits to having placed it under her desk, and Honda stands up to reveal that the feelings the letter conveys are his. Ms Chono says that they can't all be right and two of them must be lying. They aren't. Honda has a crush on Miho, but asked Yugi to write the love letter. And Jonouchi was the one to put the gift-wrapped puzzle under Miho's desk. | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp: Ms. Chono and Mai flirt with men to get them to let their guards down | |
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Rousseau Was Right | |
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Rousseau Was Right: Less prevalent than in the second-series anime, especially since manga!Kaiba remains a huge Jerkass (bar the occasional Pet the Dog moment with Mokuba), Pegasus at best gets a Redemption Equals Death, and most of the one-shot villains (who survive their encounters with the Pharaoh) remain assholes to the bone, but there's still something to be said about how both Yugi and the Pharaoh absolutely refuse to give up on Marik - up to that point one of the most monstrous individuals they've run into, even subtracting his psychotic split-personality - and ultimately win his friendship. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: Dark Yugi apparently lives in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo's afro. And in Issue 2 of the American Shonen Jump, Kazuki Takahashi drew Hellboy (he's a big fan), and Mike Mignola drew Hellboy in a Dark Yugi shirt in response. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Ryuji Otogi in the Dragons, Dice, & Dungeons arc. Defeating him at his own game and saving his father from the fire despite his father being a major Jerkass to him and Yugi) only cemented the friendship. | |
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Covert Pervert | |
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Covert Pervert: Yugi. In the first manga arc, right after he's made friends with Jonouchi, they're seen talking about some porn videos they've been exchanging. Talking about 'squinting at the pixels' really leaves little else it can be. He's also shown imagining someone's panties after hearing what Anzu has to say about boys peeking up girls' skirts while playing basketball. Even in the Millennium World Arc, Yugi and Jonouchi are still exchanging videos... | |
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But Now I Must Go | |
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But Now I Must Go: Atem goes to the afterlife after losing the Ceremonial Battle. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Subverted with Jonouchi towards Kaiba and Shadi. He always brings up Death-T in regards to Kaiba and brings up Shadi's Trial of the Mind when Bobasa, supposedly Shadi's underling, shows up. Played straight with Yugi though. After all the hell Kaiba has put him through, Kaiba ends up receiving the least fatal Penalty Game Dark Yugi has ever given anyone, one that actually makes him a better person. Also, everyone forgives Marik despite the fact he put them through a living hell, even when his Split Personality wasn't at surface. | |
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Hit Points | |
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And in the Memory World RPG, the Ba Gauge served as both hit points and magic points for the character cards, since the real life versions of these characters used their life energy (Ba) to summon and power-up their Monster Spirits (Ka). | |
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School Uniforms are the New Black | |
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School Uniforms are the New Black: Yugi. One chapter even lampshades this by having Jonouchi ask Yugi why he's wearing his school uniform during the weekend. He's surprised to hear that that's supposed to be weird◊. | |
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Game Within a Game | |
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Game Within a Game: In-universe, Yugi plays a Shadow Game of Duel Monsters with Dark Bakura while he was an NPC in Dark Bakura's Shadow RPG, making it a Shadow Game within a Shadow Game. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: What Kokurano clearly planned to do to Anzu after drugging her before Dark Yugi shows up and challenges him to a Shadow Game. | |
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Cool Big Sis | |
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Cool Big Sis: Mai Kujaku becomes this after some Character Development, especially towards Shizuka. | |
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Improvised Lockpick | |
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Improvised Lockpick: When Jonouchi is chained to the Ax-Crazy Chopman as part of Kaiba's Death-T challenge, he uses a metal candle stick to pick the lock and free himself. | |
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My Little Panzer | |
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My Little Panzer: Capsule Monsters Chess, Digital Pets, Monster World, Duel Monsters, etc. are such a safe games for little kids, aren't they? Subverted: By themselves, the games are perfectly safe; it's the gamers like the Ghouls that add in their own, more dangerous, rules or invoke the dark magic of the Millennium Items that make it so dangerous. | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: Friendship is one of the key elements of the series. Dark Yugi can suddenly get lucky after invoking the belief in his comrades or his hand, especially when a Friendship Trinket is at stake or one of the game pieces turns into an Empathic Weapon. Yugi also learns to rely on others after his Friendless Background, which always helps him against adversaries who believe only in strength or pride. | |
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Swallow the Key | |
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Swallow the Key: Mokuba does this to save KaibaCorp's documents, with the Big Five having to regularly check when he goes to the bathroom. Unfortunately, they eventually sidestep it altogether by using an ultrasound to reconstruct a perfect model of the key. | |
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Talking to Themself | |
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Talking to Themself: Starting from the conclusion of the Duelist Kingdom arc, Yugi frequently has bro-talks with the other personality residing within the Puzzle, Dark Yugi, to the point where his mother starts to worry. Dark Yugi even gives some hilarious fashion advice to Yugi at the beginning of the Dragons, Dice, & Dungeons saga. The same goes to Bakura, somewhat. He only ever directly communicates with Dark Bakura during the Monster World RPG and the middle of Duelist Kingdom when the spirit convinces Bakura to put the Ring back on. After that, direct communication between the two is no longer shown on-panel. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Ryou Bakura is a very sweet, shy, polite guy with a Superpowered Evil Side that he's only vaguely aware exists. The same goes for Yugi. He is nice and weak, until his psychotic side wakes up. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: A truly long term one. In one of the first chapters of the manga, Jonouchi gives Yugi a (rather pixilated) porn tape. In the first chapter of the final arc, Jonouchi asks Yugi if he can have the tape back, but Yugi says his mom found and confiscated it. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Though occasionally the exact details are fuddled, the mythological concepts explored throughout the franchise show that Takahashi did his research: Egyptian research in the manga: While he mixed up the "ka" and "ba" concepts, Kazuki Takahashi did and showed. The baby Pharaoh has a sidelock of Youth. | |
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