History Characters / YuGiOhMainAntagonists

* FixingTheGame: His constant {{critical hits}}s aren't just the work of the RandomNumberGod, but Dark Bakura rigging his dice to always roll less than 10 (they're using percentile dice, and the lower the number, the better).

** His Millennium Ring allows him to seal a portion of his soul inside any object. He uses this to create his special 2d10 percentile dice that always rolled {{CriticalHit}}s and also putting a portion of soul within one of Millennium Puzzle's pieces (essentially invading its labyrinth).

* FixingTheGame: His constant {{CriticalHits}}s aren't just the work of the RandomNumberGod, but Dark Bakura rigging his dice to always roll less than 10 (they're using percentile dice, and the lower the number, the better).

** His Millennium Ring allows him to seal a portion of his soul inside any object. He uses this to create his special 2d10 percentile dice that always rolled {{criticalhit}}s and also putting a portion of soul within one of Millennium Puzzle's pieces (essentially invading its labyrinth).

** His Millennium Ring allows him to seal a portion of his soul inside any object. He uses this to create his special 2d10 percentile dice that always rolled {{critical hit}}s and also putting a portion of soul within one of Millennium Puzzle's pieces (essentially invading its labyrinth).

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Symbolic of Dark Bakura's role in the story, as Dark Master Zorc was physically connected to Bakura's body as his PlayerCharacter. Dark Master Zorc starts off as a stranger lying unconscious (a figurine that resembles Dark Bakura) in the middle of the road, who the party helps and befriends. He lies and says his goal is the same as the adventures, and that he was heading to bring a holy sword to a hero that would defeat Zorc. He leads the party into a trap and reveals himself as the Dark Master Zorc himself. But deep down inside of him lies the soul of the White Wizard Bakura, who is a genuine ally to the adventures.

** The dub upgrades him to {{Satan}} or the closest equivalent of the "Shadow Realm".

* BigBad: Of the Monster World RPG campaign.

[[folder:Pegasus J. Crawford (Maxmillion J. Pegasus)]]
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'''Pegasus J. Crawford (ペガサス・ジェイ・クロフォード; ''Pegasasu Jei Kurofōdo'') ([[DubNameChange Maximillion J. Pegasus]])'''
--> Voiced by: Jirou Jay Takasugi (JP), Darren Dunstan (EN)

->''"Yugi Boy...from here on, it isn't just a battle between duelists...it's a battle between those who have been '''chosen''' by the '''Millennium Items'''. From here on... it's a '''Shadow Game'''!"''

The BigBad of the fourth arc of the manga (first arc in the anime), Pegasus is the enigmatic creator of Duel Monsters and the bearer of the Millennium Eye. He rarely appears before the public, many of whom have never seen his face. Some time after Yugi defeated Kaiba in his Death-T arena, Pegasus duels with Yugi in a Shadow Game...through a video tape, and ends up winning due to the time limit. Pegasus then inflicts a Penalty Game which seals his grandfather's soul into the video tape (in the anime, a blank Duel Monsters card) and asks Yugi to come to his tournament, Duelist Kingdom. It is later revealed that he desires to take over [=KaibaCorp=], and for that to happen, he needs to defeat Yugi in a official match in order to get the prestige title as top gamer. However, his real goal stretches beyond a mere company takeover...

Although he is killed by Dark Bakura in the manga, he survives in the anime version of canon. He gets a mention in ''Manga/YuGiOhR'', and makes reappearances in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', ''The Pyramid of Light'' Movie and the ''Anime/YuGiOhTenthAnniversaryMovie''. He also appears in the ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' video game as the antagonist.

As the creator of Duel Monsters, he uses an exclusive and [[PurposefullyOverpowered ridiculously broken]] Toon Deck, whose monsters cannot be destroyed except by other Toon monsters. On the off-chance that his Toons are overcome, he then pulls out the ''even more broken'' "Relinquished" and "Thousand-Eyes Restrict."

He is the FinalBoss of the Memory World Shadow RPG, having ''three'' full health bars ("Ba Gauges"). Prior to this, he appeared as the FinalBoss "Dark Master Zorc" during the Monster World RPG arc, a CallForward. In the English dub, Zorc is the creator of the [[NeverSayDie Shadow Realm]].

He is the FinalBoss of the Memory World Shadow RPG, having ''three'' full health bars ("Ba Gauges"). Prior to this, he appeared as "Dark Master Zorc" during the Monster World RPG arc as a CallForward boss. In the English dub, Zorc is the creator of the [[NeverSayDie Shadow Realm]].

He is the FinalBoss of the Memory World Shadow RPG, having ''three'' full health bars ("Ba Gauges"). Prior to this, "Dark Master Zorc" of the Monster World RPG was a CallForward. In the English dub, Zorc is the creator of the [[NeverSayDie Shadow Realm]].

* YourSoulIsMine: His earlier Penalty Games often involved trapping souls inside of RPG pieces, and in the anime only, apparently he's able to put people inside their favorite cards (though it doesn't work as well on those with Millennium Items).

For information on his past self, see '''[[Characters/YuGiOhAncientEgypt AncientEgypt]]'''.

* EvilCounterpart: To Dark Yugi. They're both ancient spirits sealed in Millennium Items who use mortal vessels, and are experts at games, but while Yugi and Dark Yugi are partners who change control when appropriate (eventually), Ryo Bakura is possessed by Dark Bakura who uses his body to further his own intentions without Ryo's knowledge. This is also reflected in their gaming styles, the two both rely on trickery and cunning to win by strategy rather than force, but Dark Bakura is a Chessmaster to Dark Yugi's GuileHero, and thus in their games Dark Bakura usually controls the game until Dark Yugi pulls a move he doesn't see coming and reverses the situation.

* EvilerThanThou: With Pegasus J. Crawford and Dark Marik, whose Millenium Items he tries to add to his collection by force. He's successful with Pegasus (he ends up killing him in the original manga), but his clash with Dark Marik ends very badly for him, with him being sent off into the darkness (along with Ryou) with a Penalty Game until Dark Marik himself dies later on.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Thief King Bakura. He would have been just another peasant boy living a meaningless life in his village. Then the Pharaoh and his brother slaughtered that village in order to create the Millennium Items, and the rage and pain engendered by that experience transformed Bakura's Ka into the monstrous killing machine Diabound, which gets stronger as it devours other people's Kas. Things get messy from there on out.
* GenocideBackfire: Thief King Bakura's origin story.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Thief King Bakura has a very ugly scar on his face, just below the eye.

* GraveRobbing: How Thief King Bakura got his start. He began by robbing the tombs of the Pharoanic line that butchered his village, and it only gets worse from there. Eventually he stops caring whether his victims are dead or not.

* IncomingHam: The way the Thief King Bakura introduces himself in the manga is so audacious, it can't be anything else than this.
--> '''Bakura:''' A King is robed in '''gold,''' isn't he? Then that must make ''me''' a king, too! '''A KING OF THIEVES! H-HA HA HA HA!'''

* {{Revenge}}: Thief King Bakura wanted revenge for the destruction of his hometown.
** SinsOfOurFathers: With Atem's father dead, he transfers his hate to Atem himself.
** RoaringRampageofRevenge / ItsPersonal

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'''Dark Bakura (闇獏良; ''Yami Bakura'')\\
Thief King Bakura (盗賊王バクラ; ''Touzoku'ou Bakura'')'''

For information on his past self, see '''Characters/YuGiOhAncientEgypt'''.

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'''Priest Akhenaden (神官アクナディン; ''Shinkan Akunadin'') ([[DubNameChange Aknadin]])'''\\
'''High Priest of Darkness (闇の大神官; ''Yami no Dai Shinkan'')] ([[DubNameChange Shadow Magus]])'''
--> Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu (JP), Pete Zarustica (EN)

-->''Can you feel it, Yugi? Can you feel the evil aura from this corpse? Akhenaden's '''mummy''' is also playing this game! His '''soul''' is one with Zorc's!'' --Dark Bakura, Millennium World RPG arc

3000 years ago, Akhenaden was one of the six priests in service to Pharaoh Atem. He was the brother to the previous Pharaoh and was the original wielder of the Millennium Eye. During the previous Pharaoh's reign, he massacred the village of Kul Elna, a den of thieves, and melted their [[BloodMagic blood and bones]] into gold in order to create magical relics that would protect Egypt from impending war and invasion -- [[GenocideBackfire the only survivor of the massacre being Bakura]]. Thus were born the seven Millennium Items - cursed items that held the power to initiate occult judgment games known as Shadow Games and housed an evil intelligence that would awaken the Evil God, the secrets of their creation haunting Akhenaden for years. He never told his brother of it, and had all of the soldiers that had taken part brainwashed to forget the incident. Making a wish on the Millennium Eye for his son, Priest Seto, to take the throne, he is eventually influenced by Zorc to betray the current king years later.

In modern times, Dark Bakura challenges Dark Yugi to the ultimate Shadow Game - [[TabletopRolePlayingGame the Shadow RPG]], a game that re-imagines the events that transpired 3000 years ago. Within the Memory World campaign, a re-imagining of Akhenaden serves as one of Dark Bakura's player avatars -- with the mummy of the real Akhenaden, High Priest of Darkness, animating the game piece.

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[MindScrew The real Akhenaden's mummy possibly shares this role with Dark Bakura for the Millennium World arc]]. In the manga, the spirit of Akhenaden claims he ''is'' Zorc and turns his NPC/past/memory self into a puppet. In truth, everyone that Zorc infects [[HiveMind basically becomes part of his being]].
* TheDragon: Becomes this to Zorc once he's released 3000 years ago, being the one who released him. During the Shadow RPG re-enactment, the manga depicts him as Dark Bakura's second player-character with Zorc, having two health bars of Ba to Zorc's three. In the manga, he replaces Thief King Bakura as Dark Bakura's Dragon after the Thief King dies in the game world (in the anime, he revives the Thief King and his Diabound).
** DragonTheirFeet: In the anime, he's killed during the final battle with Zorc, but in the manga, he goes off with Seto to find Kisara and is defeated after Zorc has been destroyed and the Pharaoh has recovered his name.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He intended to subject Kisara to various torture methods in order to awaken the white dragon spirit within her.
* EvilMentor: While the exact role he plays varies between anime and manga, he guides Seto to become stronger with the intent for him to become Pharaoh.
* FaceHeelTurn: While he wasn't the nicest guy beforehand, Thief King Bakura turned him into his servant to aid in reviving Zorc. In the manga, during the Shadow RPG, when the Pharaoh and his priests manage to kill the Thief King's character, Dark Bakura uses one of his [[TimeStandsStill Game Master abilities]] to freeze time on the game board, and it's here where Akhenaden betrays the Pharaoh and steals the Millennium Items, placing the items into the stone slab and becoming the High Priest of Darkness (gaining the skills of a Black Magician and leveling up).
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Creating the Millennium Items to protect the kingdom by slaughtering an entire village.
* LukeIAmYourFather: He's Priest Seto's father, and abandoned his son out of fear that reprisals for what he did at Kul Elna would make others target his family.
* OneWingedAngel: Corrupted by Zorc and Thief King Bakura, he becomes the High Priest of Darkness, gaining dark powers and performing an EvilCostumeSwitch (in the Shadow RPG, he also obtains a [[EasyExp massive level-up]] and [[LevelUpFillUp regains his previously-lost health]]).
* PapaWolf: In a very twisted, evil sense. He thinks that Seto's ascension from a commoner with no father to the Pharaoh's High Priest is proof of his superior ability, and thus begins plotting to put his son on the throne.
* SoulJar: The Millennium Eye, as with all the other Millennium Items, becomes one for Zorc - the evil intelligence influencing Akhenaden into becoming his servant.
* TheStarscream: Plots to overthrow the Pharaoh and put a new king on the throne. However, it's not himself that he thinks should rule, it's Seto.
* UnwittingPawn: In the manga, it is revealed that Zorc manipulated him into translating the spells that would create the Millennium Items, the plan being all along that the items would revive Zorc.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that his folder is here reveals a lot.
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'''The Great Evil God Zorc Necrophades (大邪神 ゾーク・ネクロファデス; ''Daijashin Zōku Nekurofadesu'')'''
--> Voiced by: Yoshitaka Kaidu (Japanese), Creator/MikePollock (English)

->''Akhenaden! By the terms of our contract, you have become a mere part of our greatness! We have no use for your parental emotions! We will kill them along with the Pharaoh and his priests!'' --Dark Bakura narrating Zorc's dialogue.

The ancient enemy Dark Yugi defeated in the past and sealed away. A great evil god that seeks to destroy the world and cover it in darkness, the tools for his release were accidentally created by the servants of the Pharaoh's father when they created the Millennium Items, the pivotal plot devices of the original series that allowed the occult judgment [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame Shadow Games]] to be played and also allowed the Pharaoh's priests to seal the Ka of criminals into stone slabs, which take on the form of monsters. He's the ancient enemy Pharaoh Atem (now Dark Yugi, spirit of the Millennium Puzzle) defeated three thousand years ago, but reviving him is the goal of Dark Bakura, the spirit of the Millennium Ring. If Dark Bakura is the victor of the Ultimate Shadow Game, [[CosmicChessGame the Shadow RPG]], Zorc will once again be unleashed onto the modern world.

He is the FinalBoss of the Memory World Shadow RPG, having ''three'' full health bars ("Ba Gauges"). Prior to this, "Dark Master Zorc" of the Monster World RPG was a CallForward. In the English dub, Zorc is the creator of the [[NeverSayDie Shadow Realm]].

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The final story arc of the original manga series introduces an alter-ego of sorts, Thief King Bakura, an ancient Egyptian incarnation of Bakura that was a thief and a graverobber, who serves as one of two of Dark Bakura's Player Characters on his side of the Shadow Role-Playing Game. Dark Bakura's true identity, however, is not as simple as him being the Thief King's sealed soul, and is a major story spoiler.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Thief King Bakura was this to Zorc in the real past; in the Memory World RPG he's essentially TheDragon to his own future self.
* TheDragon: Thief King Bakura becomes TheDragon to Dark Bakura during the events of the Millennium World arc as one of his Player Characters. In other words, his past self is TheDragon to his future self.
** DragonWithAnAgenda: Dark Bakura plays this role to Marik during Battle City, dueling on his behalf, but only so that it can gain access to the rest of the Millennium Items.

* EvilPlan: Originally a master bandit during Pharaoh Atem's reign. He declared the Pharaoh and his court his archenemies and wanted revenge for the destruction of his hometown. From his first appearance in Monster World to the Millennium World arcs, he viewed Dark Yugi as his "opposite number".
** The spirit itself has its own plan: Capture the other items.

* FreudianExcuse: As a child, Thief King Bakura witnessed and was the only survivor of the massacre of his entire village. Said massacre was directed by the Pharaoh (Atem's father), albeit unknowingly, to create the Millennium Items. The Pharaoh died soon after, but Bakura wasn't satisfied with that and transferred his hate to Atem.

* UnwittingPawn: Thief King Bakura is used as a pawn by both Zorc and his own future self.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: The Thief King.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Thief King Bakura in his shorts and wide-open robe.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Thief King Bakura might count, given that he [[StartOfDarkness became what he was]] later because he survived and witnessed the gruesome killing of all the people in his village. Granted, they seemed to be a village of thieves, but still, [[UsedToBeASweetKid he was an innocent child]] before this happened.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Dark Bakura sacrifices Thief King Bakura to resurrect Zorc. That's right--he pulls this on ''himself''.

* LargeHam: Goes in and out of this in the manga, [[SoftSpokenSadist never]] with his [[Creator/YouInoue first seiyu]], and ''always'' with his [[RicaMatsumoto second]].

** This is lampshaded by Dark Yugi during their battle in the Battle City arc:

* DemonicPossession: Half the time Bakura doesn't even know what's going on, The Spirit has so much control over him. And that's leaving out The Spirit's possession of its own past self, Thief King Bakura (although, in the manga, no possession occurs - Thief King Bakura is just a character card). There's also his various decks that involve this through certain means.

* HydePlaysJekyll: In the anime only, Dark Bakura is infamous for this. It quickly gets to the point it's hard to tell which is which, especially since The Spirit can imitate the real Bakura's voice and mannerisms perfectly.

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Lose a duel in his world, and you'll be trapped there forever (though that's nothing compared to what Pegasus, The Spirit of the Ring, and Dark Marik will put on the line).

* AscendedExtra: In the manga he was just a part of Kaiba's backstory. The anime makes him the BigBad of a FillerArc and devotes a lot of screentime in it to fleshing out his past with the Kaiba brothers.

* BiggerBad: He is the reason for Seto's harsh and mean character.

* TheChessmaster: Not only is he good at setting up overarcing plans in advance, but this trope is a recurring motif for him -- he's a master chess player forced to adopt Seto when Seto beats him, he uses a chessboard and pieces to summon monsters in the virtual world, and snickers he'll call out "checkmate" when he beats Seto in their duel.

* EvilMentor: His grooming of Kaiba to be his heir was intended to make him a vessel for Noah's mind. In the dub he comes to decide why bother, when Seto is just as smart and capable as Noah, while in the Japanese he decided to take Seto's body for himself when he died.

* FillerVillain: Although he at least has a legitimate reason for showing up, what with being a major part of Kaiba's backstory.

* GlassCannon: Exodia Necros seems invincible, but when Kaiba figures out its weakness, he tears both it and Gozaburo to shreds.

* {{Jerkass}}: Gozaburo is up there with The Spirit of the Millenium Ring and Dark Marik for one of the most unpleasant human beings of the original series. He's cruel, ruthless, manipulative, pulls YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on his own blood son, and plans to blow up the world's major cities with missiles for no real reason. However, unlike The Spirit and Dark Marik, Gozaburo has no FreudianExcuse or other justification for why he is the way he is. He's just a bastard, plain and simple.

* LackOfEmpathy: He's an AbusiveDad who considers his biological son expendable, and later returns to try and trap Kaiba and his allies in the Virtual World. He tells Kaiba that you can trust no one, including him, neglects Mokuba, abandoned Noah before using him for his own ends, and generally doesn't care about anyone beyond himself and his own legacy. He's not as over the top about it as the Spirit of the Millennium Ring and Dark Marik, but yeah--there's no empathy there.

* PosthumousCharacter: In the manga. Subverted in the anime, when he turns up alive in the virutal world.

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Naturally, every game he participates in becomes this. Roll a [[CriticalFailure critical failure]] in a role-playing game? Penalty Game! Your soul is now stuck in your character figurine forever. Piss off the Game Master? Death to all players (literally)! Lose to him at Duel Monsters? Penalty Game! You either just die right off the bat (like Ghost Kozuka in the manga) or get dragged into hell (Ghost Kozuka again, surprisingly, the anime is responsible for that).

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Naturally, every game he participates in becomes this. Roll a [[CriticalFailure critical failure]] in a role-playing game? Penalty Game! Your soul is now stuck in your character figurine forever. Piss off the Game Master? Death to all players (literally)! Lose to him at Duel Monsters? Penalty Game! You ether just die right off the bat (like Ghost Kozuka in the manga) or get dragged into hell (Ghost Kozuka again, surprisingly, the anime is responsible for that).

* {{Jerkass}}: It says something that Gozaburo approaches the levels of The Spirit of the Millenium Ring and Dark Marik for how ruthless, cruel and manipulative he can be, ''without'' needing a FreudianExcuse to get that way. He's just that much of a bastard.