History Characters / YuGiOhOriginalSeriesCards

* OneHitKill: Ra's Phoenix Ability is quite literally referred to as a One-Turn Kill, as it can wipe out all monsters from the opponent and ''then'' directly attack with what in most situations will be very high attack points.

* StatusBuff: His Deck Master ability in anime filler allows him to decrease his own ATK in order to increase the ATK of another Warrior-type monster by the same amount.

** In the manga, Obelisk's Soul Energy MAX effect, which made Obelisk's ATK infnity, served to cement Ra's position as the TopGod in which Ra [[NoSell no-sold]] the attack, being higher in the hierarchy of Egyptian Gods.

[[CapturedSuperEntity Exxod, Master of the Guard]], Exodia after being sealed by the gods and his powers harnessed to create a cosmic bulwark. This form can be summoned by sacrificing a "sphinx" type monster. In this form, he has very high defense (yet isn't invulnerable to instant kill conditions), but almost no attack power....unless you Flip Summon an Earth type monster while Exxod is face up, allowing Exxod to [[ArmorPiercingAttack attack the enemy player directly for 1000 damage, regardless of defenses.]]

[[BackFromTheDead The Legendary Exodia Incarnate]], a more complete resurrection of Exodus than his Necross form. This form can be summoned by sacrificing any single one of his pieces, and (like his Exodius form) he gets a buff of 1000 ATK for every one of his pieces in the Graveyard. But he also returns pieces from the Graveyard back to the player's hand, making him an inversion to the others as he gets weaker as the game goes on.

** Defied in the card game. "Obliterate!!!" (or what's translated as "Exod Flame" in Japan) is a Continuous Trap card that you want to use every turn possible in order to stall for time, with the most optimal cards to send being his pieces. While in conjunction with other cards it can make a victory much more practical, it will never be the finishing blow in its own right (and the most often way you '''do''' win with it is via gradual battle damage with Incarnate, as opposed to Exodia's inherent instant win).

* TheJuggernaut: A singular card form of him was released, named The Legendary Exodia Incarnate, which requires just a single piece of him to summon. He is completely immune to the effects of anything else, meaning the only way to remove him is to beat him in battle. This too would be a hard task as well, as he gains 1000 ATK for each piece of himself in the graveyard. Fortunately he starts at 0, so if you only have 2 or less pieces in your graveyard then he's easy pickings until you get more.

* PowerEqualsRarity: The cards are so rare that few own a complete set. This continued in the real world where ''all five pieces were some of the rarest cards of the first ever set''. Averted with later reprints, where only the head was rare.

** Obelisk, and quite possibly all three of them during the Ceremonial Duel. By the time of the Ceremonial Duel, Yugi figured out that [[AwesomeButImpractical the Egyptian God Cards simply requires too much sacrifice to be used together]] which is what leads into the Monster Reborn God card strategy that is overly used by the end of Battle City (and that unlike in the real game, in manga, the original source, monsters cannot attack the turn they are Special Summoned, and all Gods effects count as attack, which means Special Summoned Gods can neither attack nor use its effects with the exception of Ra, making Special Summon effects wasted on them unless used on defense like Atem attempted to). In the anime, this turns out to be unfounded since Atem ended up summoning all 3 of them. In the manga this is proven true, as Atem ended up only summoning Obelisk. Regardless of continuity, Yugi proceed to dismantle the god cards (via using Slifer's "second mouth" ability against them through the Magnet Warriors ability to fuse into Valkyrion, who can subsequently defuse back, paired with a spell related to the Magnet Warriors), while shutting down the the Monster Reborn God card strategy out of the game.

** In her initial appearances in the anime she wasn't very voluptuous in the figure, and was decisively more "cute" than "sexy." Later episodes increased her [[BoobsOfSteel bust size]], made her body more curvaceous, tweaked her facial design, and characters in-universe began to [[DudeMagnet comment on how hot she is]]. Just compare [[https://i.imgur.com/kBOfX86.png how she looked in Season 2]] to [[https://imgur.com/6NADkof how she looked in Season 4]]. Additionally, in her early appearances she was almost as stoic and serious as the Dark Magician (''almost'', anyway), but later was depicted as more energetic and playful, even blowing a kiss to Leon when he's in awe of seeing her.

* OffModel: While all of the Gods have had their fair share, Ra gets the worst of it in the anime, largely due to its head.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Probably the best example in Dark Yugi's deck. Unlike the other members of the Magicians, he's truly evil looking, has a definitely nasty-vibe, is called Magician of Black Chaos, and serves as one of TheHero's trump cards.

* EvilSorcerer: Unlike Black Magician and Black Magician Girl, he ''definitely'' gives off this vibe.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name essentially says "I am uncontrollably evil. Run away!"
* OhCrap: When Dark Yugi summons it, Pegasus' reaction is "Not him! Not now!"

* TheStoic: Compared to Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, Magician of Black Chaos remains stone-faced in all but a few rare instances. And even when he ''does'' emote, only his eyes tend to shift.

* CoolHelmet: Wears a knight's helmet with a long red plumage.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Another of the many examples in Yugi and Atem's deck. He's a BlackKnight with a cold expression, and an ominous sounding name, but he's ultimately one of the good guys. Oddly enough, he's an Earth-attribute monster.

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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, he wore a dark blue outfit and was blond with pale skin. In the anime, he has a purple outfit and purple hair.

* MsFanservice: The iconic one for the franchise; a blue (or green in some medias)-eyed blonde with big boobs, long legs, and a trim figure, clad in an extremely revealing outfit. There's been many attractive females in the franchise, both as characters and as cards, but none of them have come close to her popularity.

* BoringYetPractical: As mentioned under TheBrute, Obelisk the Tormenator doesn't have any particularly flashy effects to disrupt the opponent's plays and has no gimmick to manipulate its own states. But in practice, this means it's still a 4000/4000 point monster with no drawbacks, investment of resources, or strategy required to get the most out of it; you just summon it and it hits hard, and you don't need to worry about maintaining hand size or paying Life Points to use it.

* PokemonSpeak: Most of them tend to only say "kuri", at least in the original Japanese version. Most of the time in the English dub it's replaced by a vague humming noise.

** Obelisk, and quite possibly all three of them during the Ceremonial Duel. By the time of the Ceremonial Duel, Yugi figured out that [[AwesomeButImpractical the Egyptian God Cards simply requires too much sacrifice to be used together]] which is what leads into the Monster Reborn God card strategy that is overly used by the end of Battle City (and that unlike in the real game, in manga, the original source, monsters cannot attack the turn they are Special Summoned, and all Gods effects count as attack, which means Special Summoned Gods can neither attack nor use its effects with the exception of Ra, making Special Summon effects wasted on them unless used on defense like Atem attempted to). In the anime, this turns out to be unfounded since Atem ended up summoning all 3 of them. In the manga this is proven true, as Atem ended up only summoning Obelisk. Regardless of continuity, Yugi proceed to dismantle the god cards, while shutting down the the Monster Reborn God card strategy out of the game.

* {{Bishounen}}: He's quite the pretty boy under that helmet.

** In the series, however, Obelisk proves himself to be the BoringButPractical one of the trio, not requiring any special conditions to be strong, and with a special ability that cannot backfire (unlike Slifer's, whose ability works against it more often than not) nor requires steep Life Point investments. These traits add up such that when Yugi finally was able to summon all three Egyptian Gods against Anubis in the movie, only Obelisk had the strength to win the duel (with Yugi lacking the cards and life to power the others), and in Yugioh R, it was Obelisk, and not Ra, that defeated The Wicked Avatar, even though the Avatar was an EvilKnockoff of Ra (Although Ra could theoretically defeat Avatar by assuming its Phoenix form and using its effect to destroy any monster ignoring its protections by paying 1000 LP).

** This also carries over to her card art; her initial art only showed her upper torso just looking out at the player, but now she's almost universally depicted full-body in provocative poses. Her profile pic higher up is a prime example, with her holding her staff out from between her legs and prominently showing off her legs. The art was actually considered so risqué that it wasn't released in the English TCG for over ten years.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The variant art debuted in the 2008 Anniversary Pack in Japan, but the English equivalent simply let her out; rumor goes that she was dropped because Kazuki Takahashi was asked to redraw the art to be less provocative, and he refused. The art eventually came out in 2020 as part of the "Lost Arts" series; considering these cards consist of variant arts not released in English previously due to various reasons of censorship, including covering up scantily-clad female monsters, this pretty much confirms the reason she was dropped from the Anniversary Pack was due to the art being sexually suggestive.[[/labelnote]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Several possible, each with its own power. Unusually for this trope, doing this generally precludes taking others.
** Fusing with Buster Blader, makes him the Dark Paladin, who can negate any sort of Spell and gets powered up by facing Dragons.
** Absorbing the mystical power, and life energy of another mage, makes him the Sorcerer of Dark Magic, who can negate any sort of trap.
** Studying Light Magic, in addition to his own Dark Magic, makes him the Dark Magician of Chaos, allowing him access to lost magics, and stranger arts besides.
** In the anime, being aged a millennium makes him the Dark Sage, who has access to new and strange kinds of magic.
** Fusing with the Eye of Timaeus, and thus powering them up as the mounted Amulet Dragon, allowing them to feed of the energy of Spells.

* MsFanservice: The iconic one for the franchise; a blue (or green in some medias)-eyed blonde with big boobs, long legs, and a trim figure, clad in an extremely revealing outfit. Rule34 hit '''''hard'''''. There's been many attractive females in the franchise, both as characters and as cards, but none of them have come close to her popularity.

* TookALevelInBadass: As Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon, Black Skull Dragon, or any of its other alternate forms.

** This also carries over to her card art; her initial art only showed her upper torso just looking out at the player, but now she's almost universally depicted full-body in provocative poses (just take a look at her profile pic up higher, for one).