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** Rishid trying to be seen as part of the family is a big one for him. He throws a candle at Rishids head when he's practically begging him to let him take Mariks place in the initiation ceremony which would also indicate him as part of the family. He harshly tells him he is just a servant and threatens to cut off his tongue if he suggests this again.
** When he finds out Rishid let Marik and his sister go to the surface he whips him to near death and would have whipped them too had Mariks dark personality not emerged.

** In the second-series anime, he's ''possibly'' the combined reincarnation of Shada and Karim who was killed by Yami Bakura five years ago.
** In the dub, he's a millennia-old spirit whose body was destroyed by Thief King Bakura.

* NotSoAboveItAll: He's extremely serious most of the time, but in his first appearance he playfully ruffles Yugi's hair.

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* KnifeNut: More notable in the manga, where he not only uses a searing-hot knife to carve the tomb inscriptions into Marik's back but ''also'' uses said knives to punish Rishid for letting Marik go outside (the anime toned this down to him "merely" whipping Rishid).

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: He showed Pegasus where the Egyptian God tablets purely because it was prophesied that he would. Had he simply not interfered, it's unlikely Pegasus would have ever found them.

--> Voiced by: Creator/MichikoNeya (Toei anime), Mika Sakenobe (Duel Monsters), Creator/AmyBirnbaum (English, First Appearance), Creator/LisaOrtiz (English, All Subsequent Appearnces), Alison Lester (Singapore, English), Carme Cervantes (European Spanish)

* BigDamnHeroes: Before she removed her bandages, the anime plays her off as an IllGirl who needs escorting and to be with someone. What does she do right as she takes them off? Dives into an ocean from a pier, and saves her drowning brother.

* IllGirl: During the Duelist Kingdom arc, where she's going blind and Jounouchi wants to win the prize money for her operation. The Toei anime gave her a generic illness.

* IllGirl: She died suddenly and unexpectedly of an unnamed illness.

--> Voiced by: Creator/MichikoNeya (Toei anime), Mika Sakenobe (Duel Monsters), Creator/LisaOrtiz (English), Alison Lester (Singapore, English), Carme Cervantes (European Spanish)

--> Voiced by: Anzaki Motomu (JP), David Wills (EN)

* TheSociopath: He didn't care about people at all unless they are of use to him. He only cared about Marik because he needed a male heir and he didn't care that his wife was dying as long as he had a son.
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: He never actually saw Rishid as his adoptive child but his wife insisted as such. As soon as she died he forbade Rishid from calling him father anymore, harshly and firmly telling him that he is nothing but a servant and treating him with cruelty afterwards. Going as far as to physically abuse him and threaten him with death, and would have possibly even whipped Rishid to death had Marik not banished him.

* WouldHurtAChild: His own son, who was only 12 years old when he was forced to go through the Tombkeeper's Initiation and have hieroglyphs carved onto his back with a red-hot knife. Though this is a ceremony that every member of their family goes through, including him at his son's age, he has a SadisticSmile on his face before he goes through with it. He was also prepared to whip Marik for going to the surface against his orders right after he whipped Rishid to near-death.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: His entire family has been stuck underground loyally guarding the Pharaohs tomb since anchient egypt, which means he probably doesn't know or care about certain social and moral standards of the modern world:
** In Anchient Egypt, it would have been perfectly normal to raise an orphaned child (Rishid) as your personal slave, but in modern times it is horrific child abuse.

* BeserkButton: The continuation of the families duties being in any way detained.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: His entire family has been stuck underground loyally guarding the Pharaohs tomb since anchient egypt, which means he probably doesnt know or care about certain social and moral standards of the modern world:

** It is also revealed in the final season that all the clans were raised under the belief that the only purpose they serve in life is to guard the pharaohs artifacts and when the Pharaoh reclaims them they will have no reason to exist. Which would probably explain his extreme dedication and disregard for family beyond serving the purpose.

* PapaWolf: Averted. Though he was furious with Rishid for letting Marik get bit by a cobra and threatened to kill him if it happened again it was less out of care for his son as his child than it was as his hair in continuing the families duty of guarding the Pharaoh's tomb. While he wouldnt let his son die for pragmatic reasons he wasnt above harming him physically if he felt he wasnt taking the family duties seriously. See WouldHurtAChild for more examples.

* WouldHurtAChild: His own son, who was only 12 years old when he was forced to go through the Tombkeeper's Initiation and have hieroglyphs carved onto his back with a red-hot knife. Though this is a ceremony that every member of their family goes through, including him at his sons age, he has a SadisticSmile on his face before he goes through with it. He was also prepared to whip Marik for going to the surface against his orders right after he whipped Rishid to near death.

* ValuesDissonance: His entire family has been stuck underground loyally guarding the Pharaohs tomb since anchient egypt, which means he probably doesnt know or care about certain social and moral standards of the modern world:
** In Anchient Egypt, it would have been perfectly normal to raise an orphaned child (Rishid) as your personal slave, but in modern times it is horrific child abuse.
** It is also revealed in the final season that all the clans were raised under the belief that the only purpose they serve in life is to guard the pharaohs artifacts and when the Pharaoh reclaims them they will have no reason to exist. Which would probably explain his extreme dedication and disregard for family beyond serving the purpose.

* WouldHurtAChild: His own son, who was only 12 years old when he was forced to go through the Tombkeeper's Initiation and have hieroglyphs carved onto his back with a red-hot knife.

A mysterious man from Egypt, Shadi was the guardian of ancient Egyptian tombs and the modern day holder of the Millennium Ankh/Key and Scales. He uses the Ankh to enter a person's soul room and redecorate their rooms to control the individual to his liking, and uses the Scales to measure a person's sins via a Weighing of the Soul Shadow Game and punish them as he sees fit. He first makes his appearance in the manga after Yugi's Millennium Puzzle is taken away by Kanekura and acts as the BigBad of the Trial of the Mind arc where he poses a series of Shadow Games onto Yugi as a test.

* AssholeVictim: He was killed by Dark Bakura in the flashbacks in ''The Dark Side of Dimensions''.
* BigBad: Of the first real arc of the manga. He is not actually ''evil'', but he abides by the Egyptian standards of morality.

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* SkewedPriorities: Protecting the Pharaoh's tomb was the most important thing to him, even more so than his own family. This has disastrous results.

* AbusiveParent: Between refusing to let Marik go outside, neglecting Ishizu and treating Rishid like a slave, Mr. Ishtar is not exactly a parent role model.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''Skinned alive'' by Dark Marik in the manga, stabbed to death in the anime, sent to the Shadow Realm (where your soul would be shredded) in the dub. None of his fates were quick and easy.

* TheSociopath: He didn't care about people at all unless they are of use. He only cared about Marik because he needed a male heir and he didn't care that his wife was dying as long as he had a son.

* HiddenDepths: Shows tremendous swimming ability. She also demonstrates knowledge if animals in the Reshef of Destruction game when she mentions reading that chimps and dogs don't get along after the Acrobat Monkey Tristan interacts friendly with his dog Blankey during a side quest.