History Awesome / YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries

* In Episode 29: Epic Mokuba Manoeuvre! Set to [[Music/{{Nightwish}} "Ghost Love Score"]]!

** Especially [[spoiler: the Marik/Florence "Stand by Me" duet. Could probably be a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, too.]]

* Three words: [[spoiler:MARIK IS BACK!]]

* In the maybe-canon spinoff fanfic ''Marik & Bakura Go To Censored Town'', Ryou Bakura, of ALL PEOPLE, has one of these, when [[spoiler:he [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack convinces Florence to go back and apologise to Marik,]] making Florence realise that Marik [[OnlyFriend is the only real friend that he has.]] To do this, he actually takes control of one of his arms so that he can force Florence to look at a photo he had of Marik]]. Considering that he hadn't even been mentioned in the fic up to that point, and how he's been pretty much ignored for most of the Abridged series, it was pretty awesome.
--> '''Ryou''': ''[[spoiler:If I were in your place, I would rather die than lose any of my friends. Especially one that means as much to you as him.]]''

* Episode 3 of Season Zero. [[spoiler: Yami and the russian vodka trick is just as awesome abridged.]]

-->'''Tristan''': [[StarWars I know.]]

** Actually, just about the entire episode could qualify, probably because Kaiba is just CrazyAwesome to begin with.

** Also crosses a bit into SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming|Moments}}. Despite all their bickering, they're basically each acknowledging the other two as worthy of beig Yu-Gi-Oh! protagonists (even Jaden).

-->'''Jaden:''' You may bitch you're harder, but just wait for when I make my next move, '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV2chOcZj_s#t=18s when Winged Kuriboh's comin' atcha!]]'''

-->'''Jaden:''' You may bitch you're harder, but just wait for when I make next move, '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV2chOcZj_s#t=18s when Winged Kuriboh's comin' atcha!]]'''

* [[Music/TenaciousD "We're Yugioh, we're Yugioh,]] [[ClimacticMusic we're Yugioh,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UScz7Ne3cI&feature=player_detailpage#t=445s we're Yugioh..."]]

* The trailer to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV2chOcZj_s&feature=feedu Abridged Tenth Anniversary Movie]], featuring an epic rap by Jaden set to "Stronger" by Kanye West.
** It comes back in full as the credits to Bonds Beyond Time Abridged. It's glorious.

* In Episode 73, [=LittleKuriboh=] finally gets to do his take on Yami overkilling Weevil. Yes, he dubs the [[MemeticMutation memetically]] [[LargeHam hamtastic]] "DORO! MONSUTAA KAADO!" from the original anime wholesale. In the DAN GREEN Yami voice. ''And it is '''glorious'''.''

--> '''Panik:''' "Why aren't you dead?!
--> '''Yami:''' "As I explained earlier, I'm the main character! [[PreMortemOneLiner You, however, can just go right ahead and die!]] '''''MIND CRUSH!'''''

* Creator/LittleKuriboh codified the entire AbridgedSeries genre with this series.

* Not exactly in the show itself, but at a convention, when LK and Teamfourstar [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt_XE_u_AMQ all get up and sing "Don't Stop Believing", by Journey]], in the character's voices. Also counts as SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic. This troper literally could not stop smiling the entire time.

%%!Season 5

** Yami beating the computer and in a way beating Raphael.

* Even though Raphael's motives are… not the best in the world… he did manage to catch Yami off guard by actually dueling him this time instead of standing around conversing with him. For someone [[CallBack who could only say "ZUG ZUG" for a while]], that's pretty impressive.

** And not even taking the fact that he beat Yami into account, there's also the fact that he forces him to drop the way he usually wins duels (spending most of the time ribbing his opponent, and then finding a way to net himself an automatic win) and makes him straight up play the game. It causes Yami to get taken aback, as [[OhCrap he realizes he's never actually regularly played the game like normal at all]]. Yes, Rapahel did what no other opponent managed to do before: leave Yami completely speechless.

-->'''Marik''': But you're just an eyeball, now; how are you going to rule anything?

-->'''Marik''': No! I am through with people telling me what to do! From now one, the only person who tells me what to do, is me!

-->'''Marik''': There is only room for one Marik Ishtar on this planet… (reaches for his Duel Disk)

-->'''Marik''': …and it's '''not''' the Marik Ishtar that isn't me! (touches his deck)
-->'''Melvin''': Waitwaitwaitwait… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! (disappears)

-->'''Marik''': No! I am through with people telling me what to do! From now one, the only person who tells me what to, do is me!

-->'''Marik''': But you are just an eyeball, now; how are you going to rule anything?

-->'''Marik''': No! I am through with people telling me what to do! From now one, the only person who tells me what to do is me!

-->'''Marik''': …and it's not the Marik Ishtar that isn't me! (touches his deck)

** Bakura gets one in part two when he's [[AxeCrazy pushed a little too far]] by Dartz. He explains what he did to Pegasus and warns not to test him. [[TemptingFate Dartz foolishly does so.]] Even though it's a quick cut, the title card indicates that he successfully summoned Destiny Board and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu banished Dartz to the Shadow Realm.]]

** Bakura gets one in part two when he's [[AxeCrazy pushed a little ''too'' far]] by Dartz. He explains what he did to Pegasus and warns not to test him. [[TemptingFate Dartz foolishly does so.]] Even though it's a quick cut, the title card indicates that he successfully summoned Destiny Board and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu banished Dartz to the Shadow Realm.]]

* Mai Valentine in episode 69 finally gets some characterisation, which reveals that she's got a quick wit and is annoyed with everyone ([[TakeThatUs possibly including LittleKuriboh]]) for obsessing over her boobs and [[NeverLiveItDown her one loss to Joey]].

'''Yami:''' "[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe PLANS CHANGE]]?!" You spent all our previous duel telling me what an awful person I was because I was willing to sacrifice my monsters. How is this any different?!\\