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Kaiba is a rival of Yugi Mutou and his alter-ego. He's the head of the gaming company "Kaiba Corporation" and was first introduced as a prodigal, cold-hearted gamer who stopped at nothing to achieve his goals, even resorting to torturing or killing his opponents. Following his second battle with Yugi during his Death-T games (where he acted as a main antagonist), he was left in a coma, where he reconstructed his heart and emerged less evil. Since then, rather than a villain, he merely attempted to reclaim his title and challenge Yugi again - retaining his arrogance, but shares compassion for his younger brother, Mokuba. Basically, he's initially a FauxAffablyEvil SmugSnake before CharacterDevelopment changed him into a SmugSuper {{jerkass}} BreakoutCharacter with much more involvement with the plot as a anti-hero. Even though he's a supporting character, he appears with a lot of prominence in the second series anime adaptation - in manga canon, he has an ambition to destroy Kaiba Corporation's past as a weapons company under his father's ownership, and this subject takes up the majority of two FillerArc sagas of the second series anime and is a vital subplot of a third. He is the reincarnation of Seto, one of the Six Priests who protected the Pharaoh Atem, Yugi's past life, and his monster Blue Eyes, is the reincarnation of his lover, Kisara.
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Kaiba is a rival of Yugi Mutou and his alter-ego.Dark Yugi. He's the head of the gaming company "Kaiba Corporation" and was first introduced as a prodigal, cold-hearted gamer who stopped at nothing to achieve his goals, even resorting to torturing or killing his opponents. Following his second battle with Yugi during his Death-T games (where he acted as a main antagonist), he was left in a coma, where he reconstructed his heart and emerged less evil. Since then, rather than a villain, he merely attempted to reclaim his title and challenge Yugi again - retaining his arrogance, but shares compassion for his younger brother, Mokuba. Basically, he's initially a FauxAffablyEvil SmugSnake before CharacterDevelopment changed him into a SmugSuper {{jerkass}} BreakoutCharacter with much more involvement with the plot as a anti-hero. Even though he's a supporting character, he appears with a lot of prominence in the second series anime adaptation - in manga canon, he has an ambition to destroy Kaiba Corporation's past as a weapons company under his father's ownership, and this subject takes up the majority of two FillerArc sagas of the second series anime and is a vital subplot of a third. He is the reincarnation of Seto, one of the Six Priests who protected the Pharaoh Atem, Yugi's past life, and his monster Blue Eyes, is the reincarnation of his lover, Kisara.
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In the anime, instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also radically different from his personality in the original manga. Unlike the manga where DDD was a completely separate game, he seemed to have based Dungeon Dice Monsters off as a spin-off to Duel Monsters, incorporating many Duel Monsters creatures in the game.
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In the anime, instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also radically different from his personality in the original manga. Unlike As far as his game creation goes, unlike the manga where DDD was a completely separate game, in the anime he seemed to have based Dungeon Dice Monsters off as a spin-off to Duel Monsters, incorporating many Duel Monsters creatures in the game.
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In the anime, instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also radically different from his personality in the original manga.
In the manga, aside from a mention of liking the game, he is never seen playing the Duel Monsters card game - we only see him playing bar bet games and Dungeon Dice Monsters/DDD, though he shows knowledge and interest in all games regardless. In the anime however, he is a big fan of Pegasus and is shown to play the game a few times. The first time he duels, he used a deck of cards randomly drawn from several booster packs. His true deck uses many dice effects, and many of the monsters emulate the ones from Dungeon Dice Monsters. His trump card is Orgoth the Relentless.
In the manga, aside from a mention of liking the game, he is never seen playing the Duel Monsters card game - we only see him playing bar bet games and Dungeon Dice Monsters/DDD, though he shows knowledge and interest in all games regardless. In the anime however, he is a big fan of Pegasus and is shown to play the game a few times. The first time he duels, he used a deck of cards randomly drawn from several booster packs. His true deck uses many dice effects, and many of the monsters emulate the ones from Dungeon Dice Monsters. His trump card is Orgoth the Relentless.
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In the anime, instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also radically different from his personality in the original manga.
manga. Unlike the manga where DDD was a completely separate game, he seemed to have based Dungeon Dice Monsters off as a spin-off to Duel Monsters, incorporating many Duel Monsters creatures in the game.
In the manga, aside from a one-off mention of likingthe game, Duel Monsters, he is never seen playing the Duel Monsters card game - we only see him playing bar bet "bar bet" games and Dungeon Dice Monsters/DDD, though he shows knowledge and interest in all games regardless. In the anime however, he is a big fan of Pegasus and is shown to play the game a few times. The first time he duels, he used a deck of cards randomly drawn from several booster packs. His true deck uses many dice effects, and many of the monsters emulate the ones from Dungeon Dice Monsters. His trump card is Orgoth the Relentless.
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'''Mai Kujaku (孔雀 舞; ''Kujaku Mai'') ([[DubNameChange Mai Valentine]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/HaruhiTerada (Japanese), MeganHollingshead (English Season 1-3) / Bella Hudson (English Season 4-5)
One of the best duelists around. She once worked as a casino dealer before picking up the Duel Monsters car game, and became used to depending on only herself until she met Yugi and his friends in the Duelist Kingdom arc. Though she isn't around in every chapter/episode, she's mostly a good guy and helps the heroes out frequently.
She uses a Harpie deck in the Duelist Kingdom arc, and mixes it up with some Amazons in the Battle City arc.
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'''Mai Kujaku (孔雀 舞; ''Kujaku Mai'') ([[DubNameChange Mai Valentine]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/HaruhiTerada (Japanese), MeganHollingshead (English Season 1-3) / Bella Hudson (English Season 4-5)
One of the best duelists around. She once worked as a casino dealer before picking up the Duel Monsters car game, and became used to depending on only herself until she met Yugi and his friends in the Duelist Kingdom arc. Though she isn't around in every chapter/episode, she's mostly a good guy and helps the heroes out frequently.
She uses a Harpie deck in the Duelist Kingdom arc, and mixes it up with some Amazons in the Battle City arc.
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In the anime, instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also radically different from his personality in the original manga.
In the manga, aside from a mention of liking the game, he is never seen playing the Duel Monsters
She
* AbusiveParents: In the manga. His dad raised him as a tool of vengeance and was seen whipping him after he found out he lost to Yugi in a game of Four Aces.
* AlliterativeName: In the dub.
* AscendedExtra: The filler arcs were kind to him in the anime, giving him more screentime and allowing him to duel a couple times, while in the manga he never got any such action after his introductory arc.
* {{Badass}}: Though he doesn't get to duel as often as the other characters, he is still an excellent game master and a perfectly competent duelist. He also uses dice as a weapon when attacking people.
** BadassBoast: Quite often when he challenges Yugi to Dungeon Dice Monsters, though it gets exaggerated in the dub.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Quite literally, he challenge Yugi to a game of his own creation which Yugi barely had any understanding of at first. But Yugi eventually managed to grasp the rules and turned the tables on him.
* BigBad: Of the Dragons, Dice & Dungeons arc of the manga. Though his father was more of the main antagonist than he was. Played straight in the anime's heavily modified filler-version of the arc.
* DefeatMeansFriendship[=/=]EasilyForgiven: Even after all the crap he puts Jonouchi and Yugi through in the anime, Yugi and the gang forgives him, and it's helped when Dungeon Dice Monsters gets commissioned.
* DependingOnTheWriter: In the manga, he's a serious character with emotional problems stemming from daddy issues, comparable to Kaiba. In the anime, he's a narcissistic guy who somewhat revels in the attention he gets from girls and after he joins the gang, he forms a comedic duo with Honda for Shizuka's affections.
* TheDragon: To his father, Mr. Clown, in the manga at first.
* {{Foil}}: Like Yugi, he's the youngest relative of a game shop owner and is an expert at games. Unlike Yugi, he is tall, handsome, but has a horrible relationship with his father and starts off with no friends other than his legion of fangirls, most of which also belonged to Bakura at one point.
* TheGambler: Uses dice as weapons, runs a gamble deck focused on powering up his Orgoth the Relentless, and created the luck-based game of Dungeon Dice Monsters.
** He challenges Jonouchi and Yugi to Bar Bet games in the manga, games with fixed probability that are meant to trick his opponent in a gamble.
* GracefulLoser: Subverted when he gets distraught after being beaten by Yugi in a game of Four Aces. Played straight after he loses to Yugi in Dungeon Dice, and realizes he doesn't hate nor mind losing to Yugi at all. He was willing to hand the Millennium Puzzle over until his father intervenes.
* GreenEyes
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Dice, which he regularly tosses at people who try to catch them.
* {{Jerkass}}: In the anime, he starts off almost as bad as Kaiba was pre-Mind Crush. He gets over it when Yugi wins.
* LoveTriangle: With Honda over Shizuka. Doesn't apply in the manga, however, since he's a much more serious character and less narcissistic about being popular with the ladies.
* OhCrap: Repeatedly in his DDM game with Yugi.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Very judgmental variations of this trope were used at Yugi throughout their Dungeon Dice Monsters match.
* TookALevelInKindness: After losing his Dungeon Dice Monsters match against Yugi, he became a LOT easier to get along with.
* ShipTease: With Honda (especially in the abridged series) and Shizuka.
* SinsOfOurFathers: His father lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, and he wanted Otogi to beat Yugi in a game and take his Puzzle.
* SixthRanger: After the DDM arc, he joins with the main group somewhat.
* SmugSnake: In the dub anime during his Dungeon Dice Monsters game with Yugi, he's completely confident that Yugi is just a glorified cheater who doesn't stand a chance against him since he ''made'' the game and Yugi is an amateur who doesn't have any idea of proper strategy. Yugi's repeated use of DidntSeeThatComing against him shakes him, but he brushes such instances off as luck. He mellows out once he loses.
* TheStoic: In the original manga.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Honda/Tristan. Again, only in the anime.
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[[folder:Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine)]]
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'''Mai Kujaku (孔雀 舞; ''Kujaku Mai'') ([[DubNameChange Mai Valentine]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/HaruhiTerada (Japanese), MeganHollingshead (English Season 1-3) / Bella Hudson (English Season 4-5)
One of the best duelists around. She once worked as a casino dealer before picking up the Duel Monsters car game, and became used to depending on only herself until she met Yugi and his friends in the Duelist Kingdom arc. Though she isn't around in every chapter/episode, she's mostly a good guy and helps the heroes out frequently.
She uses a Harpie deck in the Duelist Kingdom arc, and mixes it up with some Amazons in the Battle City arc.
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* AlliterativeName: In the dub.
* AscendedExtra: The filler arcs were kind to him in the anime, giving him more screentime and allowing him to duel a couple times, while in the manga he never got any such action after his introductory arc.
* {{Badass}}: Though he doesn't get to duel as often as the other characters, he is still an excellent game master and a perfectly competent duelist. He also uses dice as a weapon when attacking people.
** BadassBoast: Quite often when he challenges Yugi to Dungeon Dice Monsters, though it gets exaggerated in the dub.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Quite literally, he challenge Yugi to a game of his own creation which Yugi barely had any understanding of at first. But Yugi eventually managed to grasp the rules and turned the tables on him.
* BigBad: Of the Dragons, Dice & Dungeons arc of the manga. Though his father was more of the main antagonist than he was. Played straight in the anime's heavily modified filler-version of the arc.
* DefeatMeansFriendship[=/=]EasilyForgiven: Even after all the crap he puts Jonouchi and Yugi through in the anime, Yugi and the gang forgives him, and it's helped when Dungeon Dice Monsters gets commissioned.
* DependingOnTheWriter: In the manga, he's a serious character with emotional problems stemming from daddy issues, comparable to Kaiba. In the anime, he's a narcissistic guy who somewhat revels in the attention he gets from girls and after he joins the gang, he forms a comedic duo with Honda for Shizuka's affections.
* TheDragon: To his father, Mr. Clown, in the manga at first.
* {{Foil}}: Like Yugi, he's the youngest relative of a game shop owner and is an expert at games. Unlike Yugi, he is tall, handsome, but has a horrible relationship with his father and starts off with no friends other than his legion of fangirls, most of which also belonged to Bakura at one point.
* TheGambler: Uses dice as weapons, runs a gamble deck focused on powering up his Orgoth the Relentless, and created the luck-based game of Dungeon Dice Monsters.
** He challenges Jonouchi and Yugi to Bar Bet games in the manga, games with fixed probability that are meant to trick his opponent in a gamble.
* GracefulLoser: Subverted when he gets distraught after being beaten by Yugi in a game of Four Aces. Played straight after he loses to Yugi in Dungeon Dice, and realizes he doesn't hate nor mind losing to Yugi at all. He was willing to hand the Millennium Puzzle over until his father intervenes.
* GreenEyes
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Dice, which he regularly tosses at people who try to catch them.
* {{Jerkass}}: In the anime, he starts off almost as bad as Kaiba was pre-Mind Crush. He gets over it when Yugi wins.
* LoveTriangle: With Honda over Shizuka. Doesn't apply in the manga, however, since he's a much more serious character and less narcissistic about being popular with the ladies.
* OhCrap: Repeatedly in his DDM game with Yugi.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Very judgmental variations of this trope were used at Yugi throughout their Dungeon Dice Monsters match.
* TookALevelInKindness: After losing his Dungeon Dice Monsters match against Yugi, he became a LOT easier to get along with.
* ShipTease: With Honda (especially in the abridged series) and Shizuka.
* SinsOfOurFathers: His father lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, and he wanted Otogi to beat Yugi in a game and take his Puzzle.
* SixthRanger: After the DDM arc, he joins with the main group somewhat.
* SmugSnake: In the dub anime during his Dungeon Dice Monsters game with Yugi, he's completely confident that Yugi is just a glorified cheater who doesn't stand a chance against him since he ''made'' the game and Yugi is an amateur who doesn't have any idea of proper strategy. Yugi's repeated use of DidntSeeThatComing against him shakes him, but he brushes such instances off as luck. He mellows out once he loses.
* TheStoic: In the original manga.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Honda/Tristan. Again, only in the anime.
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[[folder:Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine)]]
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'''Mai Kujaku (孔雀 舞; ''Kujaku Mai'') ([[DubNameChange Mai Valentine]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/HaruhiTerada (Japanese), MeganHollingshead (English Season 1-3) / Bella Hudson (English Season 4-5)
One of the best duelists around. She once worked as a casino dealer before picking up the Duel Monsters car game, and became used to depending on only herself until she met Yugi and his friends in the Duelist Kingdom arc. Though she isn't around in every chapter/episode, she's mostly a good guy and helps the heroes out frequently.
She uses a Harpie deck in the Duelist Kingdom arc, and mixes it up with some Amazons in the Battle City arc.
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'''Ryuji Otogi (御伽 龍児; ''Otogi Ryuuji'') ([[DubNameChange Duke Devlin]])'''
--> Voiced by: Ryo Naitou (JP), Marc Thompson (EN)
The son of the owner to Kame Game's rival game shop, the Black Crown, and an expert at Bar Bet games. His dad lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, which disfigured his face horribly. He was raised to take revenge upon Yugi's grandpa by beating Yugi in a game and taking his Millennium Puzzle, declaring himself the King of Games. Unfortunately for his dad, he eventually becomes good friends with Yugi instead. He's the creator of Dungeon Dice Monsters (DDD in the manga) and (in the anime only) one of Pegasus' business partners and fans, and added Duel Monster creatures to his game as a tribute.
In the anime, instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also radically different from his personality in the original manga.
The first time he duels, he used a deck of cards randomly drawn from several booster packs. His true deck uses many dice effects, and many of the monsters emulate the ones from Dungeon Dice Monsters. His trump card is Orgoth the Relentless. He never duels in the manga.
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'''Ryuji Otogi (御伽 龍児; ''Otogi Ryuuji'') ([[DubNameChange Duke Devlin]])'''
--> Voiced by: Ryo Naitou (JP), Marc Thompson (EN)
The son of the owner to Kame Game's rival game shop, the Black Crown, and an expert at Bar Bet games. His dad lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, which disfigured his face horribly. He was raised to take revenge upon Yugi's grandpa by beating Yugi in a game and taking his Millennium Puzzle, declaring himself the King of Games. Unfortunately for his dad, he eventually becomes good friends with Yugi instead. He's the creator of Dungeon Dice Monsters (DDD in the manga) and (in the anime only) one of Pegasus' business partners and fans, and added Duel Monster creatures to his game as a tribute.
In the anime, instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also radically different from his personality in the original manga.
The first time he duels, he used a deck of cards randomly drawn from several booster packs. His true deck uses many dice effects, and many of the monsters emulate the ones from Dungeon Dice Monsters. His trump card is Orgoth the Relentless. He never duels in the manga.
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* AbusiveParents: In the manga. His dad raised him as a tool of vengeance and was seen whipping him after he found out he lost to Yugi in a game of Four Aces.
* AlliterativeName: In the dub.
* AscendedExtra: The filler arcs were kind to him in the anime, giving him more screentime and allowing him to duel a couple times, while in the manga he never got any such action after his introductory arc.
* {{Badass}}: Though he doesn't get to duel as often as the other characters, he is still an excellent game master and a perfectly competent duelist. He also uses dice as a weapon when attacking people.
** BadassBoast: Quite often when he challenges Yugi to Dungeon Dice Monsters, though it gets exaggerated in the dub.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Quite literally, he challenge Yugi to a game of his own creation which Yugi barely had any understanding of at first. But Yugi eventually managed to grasp the rules and turned the tables on him.
* BigBad: Of the Dragons, Dice & Dungeons arc of the manga. Though his father was more of the main antagonist than he was. Played straight in the anime's heavily modified filler-version of the arc.
* DefeatMeansFriendship[=/=]EasilyForgiven: Even after all the crap he puts Jonouchi and Yugi through in the anime, Yugi and the gang forgives him, and it's helped when Dungeon Dice Monsters gets commissioned.
* DependingOnTheWriter: In the manga, he's a serious character with emotional problems stemming from daddy issues, comparable to Kaiba. In the anime, he's a narcissistic guy who somewhat revels in the attention he gets from girls and after he joins the gang, he forms a comedic duo with Honda for Shizuka's affections.
* TheDragon: To his father, Mr. Clown, in the manga at first.
* {{Foil}}: Like Yugi, he's the youngest relative of a game shop owner and is an expert at games. Unlike Yugi, he is tall, handsome, but has a horrible relationship with his father and starts off with no friends other than his legion of fangirls, most of which also belonged to Bakura at one point.
* TheGambler: Uses dice as weapons, runs a gamble deck focused on powering up his Orgoth the Relentless, and created the luck-based game of Dungeon Dice Monsters.
** He challenges Jonouchi and Yugi to Bar Bet games in the manga, games with fixed probability that are meant to trick his opponent in a gamble.
* GracefulLoser: Subverted when he gets distraught after being beaten by Yugi in a game of Four Aces. Played straight after he loses to Yugi in Dungeon Dice, and realizes he doesn't hate nor mind losing to Yugi at all. He was willing to hand the Millennium Puzzle over until his father intervenes.
* GreenEyes
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Dice, which he regularly tosses at people who try to catch them.
* {{Jerkass}}: In the anime, he starts off almost as bad as Kaiba was pre-Mind Crush. He gets over it when Yugi wins.
* LoveTriangle: With Honda over Shizuka. Doesn't apply in the manga, however, since he's a much more serious character and less narcissistic about being popular with the ladies.
* OhCrap: Repeatedly in his DDM game with Yugi.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Very judgmental variations of this trope were used at Yugi throughout their Dungeon Dice Monsters match.
* TookALevelInKindness: After losing his Dungeon Dice Monsters match against Yugi, he became a LOT easier to get along with.
* ShipTease: With Honda (especially in the abridged series) and Shizuka.
* SinsOfOurFathers: His father lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, and he wanted Otogi to beat Yugi in a game and take his Puzzle.
* SixthRanger: After the DDM arc, he joins with the main group somewhat.
* SmugSnake: In the dub anime during his Dungeon Dice Monsters game with Yugi, he's completely confident that Yugi is just a glorified cheater who doesn't stand a chance against him since he ''made'' the game and Yugi is an amateur who doesn't have any idea of proper strategy. Yugi's repeated use of DidntSeeThatComing against him shakes him, but he brushes such instances off as luck. He mellows out once he loses.
* TheStoic: In the original manga.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Honda/Tristan. Again, only in the anime.
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[[folder:Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Muto)]]
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'''Sugoroku Mutou (武藤 双六; ''Mutou Sugoroku'') ([[DubNameChange Solomon Muto]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/TakeshiAono (Japanese Toei anime), Tadashi Miyazawa (Duel Monsters), Creator/MaddieBlaustein (English)
Yugi's grandfather and former game master,who gave Yugi his famous Millennium Puzzle as a present, which he had recovered from the tomb of Pharaoh Atem in his youth. He was once a gaming master who traveled all over the world to try all sorts of games and win them all, vowing that if he ever lost a game, he'd "trade in his tux for denim overalls, and collect years instead of chips". In the present, he's a denim overall-wearing old man who owns a game shop called Kame Game, where Yugi and his friends get several of the games they play. Sugoroku currently lives in the Kame Game Shop with Yugi and his mother.
In the anime only, since he gave his original Duel Monsters deck to Yugi, he uses an Ancient deck, with cards that emulate an explorer (the opponent) entering cursed and booby-trapped ruins, and gamble cards. His trump card is Ancient Dragon.
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* AlliterativeName: In the dub.
* AscendedExtra: The filler arcs were kind to him in the anime, giving him more screentime and allowing him to duel a couple times, while in the manga he never got any such action after his introductory arc.
* {{Badass}}: Though he doesn't get to duel as often as the other characters, he is still an excellent game master and a perfectly competent duelist. He also uses dice as a weapon when attacking people.
** BadassBoast: Quite often when he challenges Yugi to Dungeon Dice Monsters, though it gets exaggerated in the dub.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Quite literally, he challenge Yugi to a game of his own creation which Yugi barely had any understanding of at first. But Yugi eventually managed to grasp the rules and turned the tables on him.
* BigBad: Of the Dragons, Dice & Dungeons arc of the manga. Though his father was more of the main antagonist than he was. Played straight in the anime's heavily modified filler-version of the arc.
* DefeatMeansFriendship[=/=]EasilyForgiven: Even after all the crap he puts Jonouchi and Yugi through in the anime, Yugi and the gang forgives him, and it's helped when Dungeon Dice Monsters gets commissioned.
* DependingOnTheWriter: In the manga, he's a serious character with emotional problems stemming from daddy issues, comparable to Kaiba. In the anime, he's a narcissistic guy who somewhat revels in the attention he gets from girls and after he joins the gang, he forms a comedic duo with Honda for Shizuka's affections.
* TheDragon: To his father, Mr. Clown, in the manga at first.
* {{Foil}}: Like Yugi, he's the youngest relative of a game shop owner and is an expert at games. Unlike Yugi, he is tall, handsome, but has a horrible relationship with his father and starts off with no friends other than his legion of fangirls, most of which also belonged to Bakura at one point.
* TheGambler: Uses dice as weapons, runs a gamble deck focused on powering up his Orgoth the Relentless, and created the luck-based game of Dungeon Dice Monsters.
** He challenges Jonouchi and Yugi to Bar Bet games in the manga, games with fixed probability that are meant to trick his opponent in a gamble.
* GracefulLoser: Subverted when he gets distraught after being beaten by Yugi in a game of Four Aces. Played straight after he loses to Yugi in Dungeon Dice, and realizes he doesn't hate nor mind losing to Yugi at all. He was willing to hand the Millennium Puzzle over until his father intervenes.
* GreenEyes
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Dice, which he regularly tosses at people who try to catch them.
* {{Jerkass}}: In the anime, he starts off almost as bad as Kaiba was pre-Mind Crush. He gets over it when Yugi wins.
* LoveTriangle: With Honda over Shizuka. Doesn't apply in the manga, however, since he's a much more serious character and less narcissistic about being popular with the ladies.
* OhCrap: Repeatedly in his DDM game with Yugi.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Very judgmental variations of this trope were used at Yugi throughout their Dungeon Dice Monsters match.
* TookALevelInKindness: After losing his Dungeon Dice Monsters match against Yugi, he became a LOT easier to get along with.
* ShipTease: With Honda (especially in the abridged series) and Shizuka.
* SinsOfOurFathers: His father lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, and he wanted Otogi to beat Yugi in a game and take his Puzzle.
* SixthRanger: After the DDM arc, he joins with the main group somewhat.
* SmugSnake: In the dub anime during his Dungeon Dice Monsters game with Yugi, he's completely confident that Yugi is just a glorified cheater who doesn't stand a chance against him since he ''made'' the game and Yugi is an amateur who doesn't have any idea of proper strategy. Yugi's repeated use of DidntSeeThatComing against him shakes him, but he brushes such instances off as luck. He mellows out once he loses.
* TheStoic: In the original manga.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Honda/Tristan. Again, only in the anime.
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[[folder:Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Muto)]]
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'''Sugoroku Mutou (武藤 双六; ''Mutou Sugoroku'') ([[DubNameChange Solomon Muto]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/TakeshiAono (Japanese Toei anime), Tadashi Miyazawa (Duel Monsters), Creator/MaddieBlaustein (English)
Yugi's grandfather and former game master,who gave Yugi his famous Millennium Puzzle as a present, which he had recovered from the tomb of Pharaoh Atem in his youth. He was once a gaming master who traveled all over the world to try all sorts of games and win them all, vowing that if he ever lost a game, he'd "trade in his tux for denim overalls, and collect years instead of chips". In the present, he's a denim overall-wearing old man who owns a game shop called Kame Game, where Yugi and his friends get several of the games they play. Sugoroku currently lives in the Kame Game Shop with Yugi and his mother.
In the anime only, since he gave his original Duel Monsters deck to Yugi, he uses an Ancient deck, with cards that emulate an explorer (the opponent) entering cursed and booby-trapped ruins, and gamble cards. His trump card is Ancient Dragon.
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'''Shizuka Kawai (川井 静香; ''Kawai Shizuka'') ([[DubNameChange Serenity Wheeler]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/MichikoNeya (Japanese Toei anime), Mika Sakenobe (Duel Monsters), Creator/LisaOrtiz (English)
Jounouchi's sister who lost her eyesight, Jounouchi entered Duelist Kingdom to win the money to pay for her operation to heal her. She accompanies the gang for most of Season 2 and all of Season 3.
The one time she duels, her deck doesn't have a theme other than the monsters are all female and religous (which goes with her former IllGirl status). Her trump card is St. Joan.
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Jounouchi's sister who lost her eyesight, Jounouchi entered Duelist Kingdom to win the money to pay for her operation to heal her. She accompanies the gang for most of Season 2 and all of Season 3.
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* ActionGirl: Manages to play the part by the end of her duel with Nesbitt.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair was pink in the Toei anime.
* AmazonBrigade: Her deck is all female monsters, though they range from the exceptionally girly Forgiving Maiden to FallenAngel Marie the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fallen One]] to LadyOfWar St. Joan.
* BadassAdorable
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Beauty to Tea's Brains and Mai's Brawn. One could argue that in her duel alongside Duke and Tristan she also plays this role, with Tristan as the muscle, and Duke the brains.
* BeginnersLuck: Against Nesbitt. Sure she has lots of help from Tristan/Honda and Duke/Ryuji, but the fact remains that she managed to take him down with cards she herself had picked out, despite not having a ''clue'' what most of them did.
* BigBrotherWorship: Like Mokuba, she loves her big brother, despite being separated from him for years. Her love for Joey extended to her jumping in the river after having her eye surgery. Talk about devotion.
* BigDamnHeroes: Before she removed her bandages, the show 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.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Redhead.
* ChekhovsGun: At the start of the duel with Nesbitt we see her specifically selecting St. Joan (which ain't a bad pick). Guess which card takes out Nesbitt's Perfect Machine King?
* [[ChickMagnet Dude Magnet]]: For part of the Battle City Arc, Duke and Tristan fight for her affections. In the end, they both try giving her their numbers.
* GrewASpine: She wasn't a coward at first, but she spends most of her duel with Nesbitt scared and confused. Towards the end, she finally develops a backbone and comes back strong, taking Nesbitt down after Duke fails.
* HeroicBSOD: After Tristan is defeated by Nesbitt.
* IllGirl: During the first season, where she's going blind and Jounouchi wants to win the prize money for her operation.
* TheIngenue: She's sweet and idealistic, even while she's losing her eyesight and requires expensive surgery to save it.
** Best shown after Yugi's defeated Marik, and Mai should be back. She appears to be the same, and Joey's really worried, even saying he'd do anything to get her back... only for Mai to start laughing, saying he fell for it hard, and thanking Serenity for helping her. An utterly-confused Joey looks at her, and she simply sticks her tongue out as she giggles.
* LadyOfWar: Not Serenity herself (though she certainly tries) but her trump card, St. Joan who with 2800/2000 is one of the better female cards in the game, and at the time the show was made, was one of the strongest Fairy monsters around. She's specifically modeled on Joan of Arc and has the looks to prove it.
** And then, in the ''one'' time she duels with some bits of help, she takes down one of the Big 5.
* LetsGetDangerous: The duel between Yugi and Jounouchi during Battle City (rather, its consequences), in which she fearlessly jumps into the sea to rescue Joey after he sacrifices himself for Yugi.
** Doesn't apply to the manga, of course, where it was Kaiba who dropped the key into the sea so Jonouchi could set himself free, showing a small ounce of respect.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Mai's dark (one of two).
* TheLoad: She starts out as this in her duel with Nesbitt, repeatedly requiring Tristan and Duke to bail her out (in her defence it was her first ever duel and she had to pick out her cards herself). She manages to [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]] and transition to ActionGirl before the end of it.
* MeaningfulName: Kawaii means cute in Japanese. Shizuka means quiet, or silence. Her English name, Serenity, reflects this.
** PunnyName: Kawaii, meaning "cute," is written as 可愛い, while the way it's written in her name (川井) means "river well", but it's clearly meant to reference "cute."
* MoralityPet: For Joey/Katsuya, her older brother.
* ObliviousToLove: She didn't realize that Tristan/Honda liked her and she called him her friend.
* PluckyGirl: She has her ups and downs, but still tries to do what she can.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Anzu's Tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: You can spot the exact moment in the duel with Nesbitt where she decides to say "screw you" and starts channeling her brother for all she's worth.
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[[folder:Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin)]]
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'''Ryuji Otogi (御伽 龍児; ''Otogi Ryuuji'') ([[DubNameChange Duke Devlin]])'''
--> Voiced by: Ryo Naitou (JP), Marc Thompson (EN)
The son of the owner to Kame Game's rival game shop, the Black Crown, and an expert at Bar Bet games. His dad lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, which disfigured his face horribly. He was raised to take revenge upon Yugi's grandpa by beating Yugi in a game and taking his Millennium Puzzle, declaring himself the King of Games. Unfortunately for his dad, he eventually becomes good friends with Yugi instead. He's the creator of Dungeon Dice Monsters (DDD in the manga) and (in the anime only) one of Pegasus' business partners and fans, and added Duel Monster creatures to his game as a tribute.
In the anime, instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also radically different from his personality in the original manga.
The first time he duels, he used a deck of cards randomly drawn from several booster packs. His true deck uses many dice effects, and many of the monsters emulate the ones from Dungeon Dice Monsters. His trump card is Orgoth the Relentless. He never duels in the manga.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair was pink in the Toei anime.
* AmazonBrigade: Her deck is all female monsters, though they range from the exceptionally girly Forgiving Maiden to FallenAngel Marie the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fallen One]] to LadyOfWar St. Joan.
* BadassAdorable
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Beauty to Tea's Brains and Mai's Brawn. One could argue that in her duel alongside Duke and Tristan she also plays this role, with Tristan as the muscle, and Duke the brains.
* BeginnersLuck: Against Nesbitt. Sure she has lots of help from Tristan/Honda and Duke/Ryuji, but the fact remains that she managed to take him down with cards she herself had picked out, despite not having a ''clue'' what most of them did.
* BigBrotherWorship: Like Mokuba, she loves her big brother, despite being separated from him for years. Her love for Joey extended to her jumping in the river after having her eye surgery. Talk about devotion.
* BigDamnHeroes: Before she removed her bandages, the show 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.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Redhead.
* ChekhovsGun: At the start of the duel with Nesbitt we see her specifically selecting St. Joan (which ain't a bad pick). Guess which card takes out Nesbitt's Perfect Machine King?
* [[ChickMagnet Dude Magnet]]: For part of the Battle City Arc, Duke and Tristan fight for her affections. In the end, they both try giving her their numbers.
* GrewASpine: She wasn't a coward at first, but she spends most of her duel with Nesbitt scared and confused. Towards the end, she finally develops a backbone and comes back strong, taking Nesbitt down after Duke fails.
* HeroicBSOD: After Tristan is defeated by Nesbitt.
* IllGirl: During the first season, where she's going blind and Jounouchi wants to win the prize money for her operation.
* TheIngenue: She's sweet and idealistic, even while she's losing her eyesight and requires expensive surgery to save it.
** Best shown after Yugi's defeated Marik, and Mai should be back. She appears to be the same, and Joey's really worried, even saying he'd do anything to get her back... only for Mai to start laughing, saying he fell for it hard, and thanking Serenity for helping her. An utterly-confused Joey looks at her, and she simply sticks her tongue out as she giggles.
* LadyOfWar: Not Serenity herself (though she certainly tries) but her trump card, St. Joan who with 2800/2000 is one of the better female cards in the game, and at the time the show was made, was one of the strongest Fairy monsters around. She's specifically modeled on Joan of Arc and has the looks to prove it.
** And then, in the ''one'' time she duels with some bits of help, she takes down one of the Big 5.
* LetsGetDangerous: The duel between Yugi and Jounouchi during Battle City (rather, its consequences), in which she fearlessly jumps into the sea to rescue Joey after he sacrifices himself for Yugi.
** Doesn't apply to the manga, of course, where it was Kaiba who dropped the key into the sea so Jonouchi could set himself free, showing a small ounce of respect.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Mai's dark (one of two).
* TheLoad: She starts out as this in her duel with Nesbitt, repeatedly requiring Tristan and Duke to bail her out (in her defence it was her first ever duel and she had to pick out her cards herself). She manages to [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]] and transition to ActionGirl before the end of it.
* MeaningfulName: Kawaii means cute in Japanese. Shizuka means quiet, or silence. Her English name, Serenity, reflects this.
** PunnyName: Kawaii, meaning "cute," is written as 可愛い, while the way it's written in her name (川井) means "river well", but it's clearly meant to reference "cute."
* MoralityPet: For Joey/Katsuya, her older brother.
* ObliviousToLove: She didn't realize that Tristan/Honda liked her and she called him her friend.
* PluckyGirl: She has her ups and downs, but still tries to do what she can.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Anzu's Tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: You can spot the exact moment in the duel with Nesbitt where she decides to say "screw you" and starts channeling her brother for all she's worth.
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[[folder:Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin)]]
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'''Ryuji Otogi (御伽 龍児; ''Otogi Ryuuji'') ([[DubNameChange Duke Devlin]])'''
--> Voiced by: Ryo Naitou (JP), Marc Thompson (EN)
The son of the owner to Kame Game's rival game shop, the Black Crown, and an expert at Bar Bet games. His dad lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, which disfigured his face horribly. He was raised to take revenge upon Yugi's grandpa by beating Yugi in a game and taking his Millennium Puzzle, declaring himself the King of Games. Unfortunately for his dad, he eventually becomes good friends with Yugi instead. He's the creator of Dungeon Dice Monsters (DDD in the manga) and (in the anime only) one of Pegasus' business partners and fans, and added Duel Monster creatures to his game as a tribute.
In the anime, instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also radically different from his personality in the original manga.
The first time he duels, he used a deck of cards randomly drawn from several booster packs. His true deck uses many dice effects, and many of the monsters emulate the ones from Dungeon Dice Monsters. His trump card is Orgoth the Relentless. He never duels in the manga.
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'''Rebecca Hopkins (レベッカ・ホプキンス; ''rebekka hopukinsu'') ([[DubNameChange Rebecca Hawkins]])'''
--> Voiced by: Kaori Tagami (JP), Kerry Williams (EN)
An anime-only character. The granddaughter of the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Arthur Hopkins/Hawkins. She first appears seeking vengeance on the behalf of her grandfather by beating his old friend, Solomon Mutou, and taking his Blue Eyes White Dragon card and returning it to her grandfather. After her grandfather finds her and teaches her a valuable lesson about friendship, she quickly befriends Yugi and Solomon. During Season 4, she returns and becomes a member of Yugi's TrueCompanions and accompanies him on his travels.
Her first deck concentrates on supporting Shadow Ghoul. Afterwards, she uses a dragon deck mixed with a Fire Princess Gain/Drain strategy. This deck's trump card is Diamond Head Dragon.
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'''Rebecca Hopkins (レベッカ・ホプキンス; ''rebekka hopukinsu'') ([[DubNameChange Rebecca Hawkins]])'''
--> Voiced by: Kaori Tagami (JP), Kerry Williams (EN)
An anime-only character. The granddaughter of the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Arthur Hopkins/Hawkins. She first appears seeking vengeance on the behalf of her grandfather by beating his old friend, Solomon Mutou, and taking his Blue Eyes White Dragon card and returning it to her grandfather. After her grandfather finds her and teaches her a valuable lesson about friendship, she quickly befriends Yugi and Solomon. During Season 4, she returns and becomes a member of Yugi's TrueCompanions and accompanies him on his travels.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair was pink in the Toei anime.
* AmazonBrigade: Her deck is all female monsters, though they range from the exceptionally girly Forgiving Maiden to FallenAngel Marie the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fallen One]] to LadyOfWar St. Joan.
* BadassAdorable
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Beauty to Tea's Brains and Mai's Brawn. One could argue that in her duel alongside Duke and Tristan she also plays this role, with Tristan as the muscle, and Duke the brains.
* BeginnersLuck: Against Nesbitt. Sure she has lots of help from Tristan/Honda and Duke/Ryuji, but the fact remains that she managed to take him down with cards she herself had picked out, despite not having a ''clue'' what most of them did.
* BigBrotherWorship: Like Mokuba, she loves her big brother, despite being separated from him for years. Her love for Joey extended to her jumping in the river after having her eye surgery. Talk about devotion.
* BigDamnHeroes: Before she removed her bandages, the show 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.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Redhead.
* ChekhovsGun: At the start of the duel with Nesbitt we see her specifically selecting St. Joan (which ain't a bad pick). Guess which card takes out Nesbitt's Perfect Machine King?
* [[ChickMagnet Dude Magnet]]: For part of the Battle City Arc, Duke and Tristan fight for her affections. In the end, they both try giving her their numbers.
* GrewASpine: She wasn't a coward at first, but she spends most of her duel with Nesbitt scared and confused. Towards the end, she finally develops a backbone and comes back strong, taking Nesbitt down after Duke fails.
* HeroicBSOD: After Tristan is defeated by Nesbitt.
* IllGirl: During the first season, where she's going blind and Jounouchi wants to win the prize money for her operation.
* TheIngenue: She's sweet and idealistic, even while she's losing her eyesight and requires expensive surgery to save it.
** Best shown after Yugi's defeated Marik, and Mai should be back. She appears to be the same, and Joey's really worried, even saying he'd do anything to get her back... only for Mai to start laughing, saying he fell for it hard, and thanking Serenity for helping her. An utterly-confused Joey looks at her, and she simply sticks her tongue out as she giggles.
* LadyOfWar: Not Serenity herself (though she certainly tries) but her trump card, St. Joan who with 2800/2000 is one of the better female cards in the game, and at the time the show was made, was one of the strongest Fairy monsters around. She's specifically modeled on Joan of Arc and has the looks to prove it.
** And then, in the ''one'' time she duels with some bits of help, she takes down one of the Big 5.
* LetsGetDangerous: The duel between Yugi and Jounouchi during Battle City (rather, its consequences), in which she fearlessly jumps into the sea to rescue Joey after he sacrifices himself for Yugi.
** Doesn't apply to the manga, of course, where it was Kaiba who dropped the key into the sea so Jonouchi could set himself free, showing a small ounce of respect.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Mai's dark (one of two).
* TheLoad: She starts out as this in her duel with Nesbitt, repeatedly requiring Tristan and Duke to bail her out (in her defence it was her first ever duel and she had to pick out her cards herself). She manages to [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]] and transition to ActionGirl before the end of it.
* MeaningfulName: Kawaii means cute in Japanese. Shizuka means quiet, or silence. Her English name, Serenity, reflects this.
** PunnyName: Kawaii, meaning "cute," is written as 可愛い, while the way it's written in her name (川井) means "river well", but it's clearly meant to reference "cute."
* MoralityPet: For Joey/Katsuya, her older brother.
* ObliviousToLove: She didn't realize that Tristan/Honda liked her and she called him her friend.
* PluckyGirl: She has her ups and downs, but still tries to do what she can.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Anzu's Tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: You can spot the exact moment in the duel with Nesbitt where she decides to say "screw you" and starts channeling her brother for all she's worth.
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'''Rebecca Hopkins (レベッカ・ホプキンス; ''rebekka hopukinsu'') ([[DubNameChange Rebecca Hawkins]])'''
--> Voiced by: Kaori Tagami (JP), Kerry Williams (EN)
An anime-only character. The granddaughter of the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Arthur Hopkins/Hawkins. She first appears seeking vengeance on the behalf of her grandfather by beating his old friend, Solomon Mutou, and taking his Blue Eyes White Dragon card and returning it to her grandfather. After her grandfather finds her and teaches her a valuable lesson about friendship, she quickly befriends Yugi and Solomon. During Season 4, she returns and becomes a member of Yugi's TrueCompanions and accompanies him on his travels.
Her first deck concentrates on supporting Shadow Ghoul. Afterwards, she uses a dragon deck mixed with a Fire Princess Gain/Drain strategy. This deck's trump card is Diamond Head Dragon.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair was pink in the Toei anime.
* AmazonBrigade: Her deck is all female monsters, though they range from the exceptionally girly Forgiving Maiden to FallenAngel Marie the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fallen One]] to LadyOfWar St. Joan.
* BadassAdorable
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Beauty to Tea's Brains and Mai's Brawn. One could argue that in her duel alongside Duke and Tristan she also plays this role, with Tristan as the muscle, and Duke the brains.
* BeginnersLuck: Against Nesbitt. Sure she has lots of help from Tristan/Honda and Duke/Ryuji, but the fact remains that she managed to take him down with cards she herself had picked out, despite not having a ''clue'' what most of them did.
* BigBrotherWorship: Like Mokuba, she loves her big brother, despite being separated from him for years. Her love for Joey extended to her jumping in the river after having her eye surgery. Talk about devotion.
* BigDamnHeroes: Before she removed her bandages, the show 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.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Redhead.
* ChekhovsGun: At the start of the duel with Nesbitt we see her specifically selecting St. Joan (which ain't a bad pick). Guess which card takes out Nesbitt's Perfect Machine King?
* [[ChickMagnet Dude Magnet]]: For part of the Battle City Arc, Duke and Tristan fight for her affections. In the end, they both try giving her their numbers.
* GrewASpine: She wasn't a coward at first, but she spends most of her duel with Nesbitt scared and confused. Towards the end, she finally develops a backbone and comes back strong, taking Nesbitt down after Duke fails.
* HeroicBSOD: After Tristan is defeated by Nesbitt.
* IllGirl: During the first season, where she's going blind and Jounouchi wants to win the prize money for her operation.
* TheIngenue: She's sweet and idealistic, even while she's losing her eyesight and requires expensive surgery to save it.
** Best shown after Yugi's defeated Marik, and Mai should be back. She appears to be the same, and Joey's really worried, even saying he'd do anything to get her back... only for Mai to start laughing, saying he fell for it hard, and thanking Serenity for helping her. An utterly-confused Joey looks at her, and she simply sticks her tongue out as she giggles.
* LadyOfWar: Not Serenity herself (though she certainly tries) but her trump card, St. Joan who with 2800/2000 is one of the better female cards in the game, and at the time the show was made, was one of the strongest Fairy monsters around. She's specifically modeled on Joan of Arc and has the looks to prove it.
** And then, in the ''one'' time she duels with some bits of help, she takes down one of the Big 5.
* LetsGetDangerous: The duel between Yugi and Jounouchi during Battle City (rather, its consequences), in which she fearlessly jumps into the sea to rescue Joey after he sacrifices himself for Yugi.
** Doesn't apply to the manga, of course, where it was Kaiba who dropped the key into the sea so Jonouchi could set himself free, showing a small ounce of respect.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Mai's dark (one of two).
* TheLoad: She starts out as this in her duel with Nesbitt, repeatedly requiring Tristan and Duke to bail her out (in her defence it was her first ever duel and she had to pick out her cards herself). She manages to [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]] and transition to ActionGirl before the end of it.
* MeaningfulName: Kawaii means cute in Japanese. Shizuka means quiet, or silence. Her English name, Serenity, reflects this.
** PunnyName: Kawaii, meaning "cute," is written as 可愛い, while the way it's written in her name (川井) means "river well", but it's clearly meant to reference "cute."
* MoralityPet: For Joey/Katsuya, her older brother.
* ObliviousToLove: She didn't realize that Tristan/Honda liked her and she called him her friend.
* PluckyGirl: She has her ups and downs, but still tries to do what she can.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Anzu's Tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: You can spot the exact moment in the duel with Nesbitt where she decides to say "screw you" and starts channeling her brother for all she's worth.
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'''Rebecca Hopkins (レベッカ・ホプキンス; ''rebekka hopukinsu'') ([[DubNameChange Rebecca Hawkins]])'''
--> Voiced by: Kaori Tagami (JP), Kerry Williams (EN)
An anime-only character. The granddaughter of the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Arthur Hopkins/Hawkins. She first appears seeking vengeance on the behalf of her grandfather by beating his old friend, Solomon Mutou, and taking his Blue Eyes White Dragon card and returning it to her grandfather. After her grandfather finds her and teaches her a valuable lesson about friendship, she quickly befriends Yugi and Solomon. During Season 4, she returns and becomes a member of Yugi's TrueCompanions and accompanies him on his travels.
Her first deck concentrates on supporting Shadow Ghoul. Afterwards, she uses a dragon deck mixed with a Fire Princess Gain/Drain strategy. This deck's trump card is Diamond Head Dragon.
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'''Rebecca Hopkins (レベッカ・ホプキンス; ''rebekka hopukinsu'') ([[DubNameChange Rebecca Hawkins]])'''
--> Voiced by: Kaori Tagami (JP), Kerry Williams (EN)
An anime-only character. The granddaughter of the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Arthur Hopkins/Hawkins. She first appears seeking vengeance on the behalf of her grandfather by beating his old friend, Solomon Mutou, and taking his Blue Eyes White Dragon card and returning it to her grandfather. After her grandfather finds her and teaches her a valuable lesson about friendship, she quickly befriends Yugi and Solomon. During Season 4, she returns and becomes a member of Yugi's TrueCompanions and accompanies him on his travels.
Her first deck concentrates on supporting Shadow Ghoul. Afterwards, she uses a dragon deck mixed with a Fire Princess Gain/Drain strategy. This deck's trump card is Diamond Head Dragon.
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An anime-only character. The granddaughter of the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Arthur Hopkins/Hawkins. She first appears seeking vengeance on the behalf of her
Yugi's grandfather
Her first
In the anime only, since he gave his original Duel Monsters deck
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Used to be one - of the gaming variety? His deck plays straight to that.
* AwesomeButImpractical: In the Duel Monsters anime, his Ancient Dragon requires a half-dozen cards and several turns to prepare to summon, but once out it's a 2800 point beatstick that destroys all enemy monsters when it beats one in battle, and when destroyed in any way returns at the end of the turn as long as Ancient City is on the field. Hawkins even notes the reason Grandpa is so proud of it is that its cards are so rare and it's so hard to summon, no one else they know has ever done it.
** Similarly his Exodia deck, to some extent. The dialogue about the Exodia cards implies there are little to no card shuffling tactics to gather the cards more efficiently. Also, Sugoroku only has one of each card in his deck. However, drawing all five cards is an instant win.
* BadassGrandpa: When it comes to gaming anyway.
*BewareTheNiceOnes - He's a kind old man right now, but back in his younger days he was willing to play the Devil's Board Shadow Game with Ryuji Otogi's father and caused the man to age halfway to his lifespan. Presumably, much like Dark Yugi early in the manga, he wasn't willing to back down or lose a game even if it meant fucking up another person's life.
* CallForward: Before his expedition into the tomb of the Shadow Games, he says that if he ever loses a game he'd trade in his tux for overalls and collect years instead of chips. Apparently he lost at some point.
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan: Early in the manga.
* DistressedDude: He's kidnapped in the Death-T arc of the manga and first anime, kidnapped in the first episode of the second anime, and finally trapped in a video tape (manga)/Duel Monsters card (anime). Let's just say the old man's been through a lot.
** In the second anime, he also get's held hostage by Vivian Wong (granted, she threw his back out of place, but same principle) and even gets kidnapped during his guest appearance on the first spin-off of the second anime, ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''.
* TheMentor: In the anime only, to Jonouchi, whom he taught how to play Duel Monsters. In the manga, it's assumed that this is the man where Yugi gained all of his gaming knowledge.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Though given how short Yugi is, it may well be genetic.
* OldMaster: Was a big gamer/gambler like his grandson in his youth. In the anime, he gets to play Duel Monsters in the KC Grand Prix filler arc.
* TheGambler: Rivaled Dark Yugi during his younger days.
* PaperThinDisguise: In anime filler only - as Mask The Rock. He doesn't even change out of his normal outfit, he just puts on a mask.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Of Siamun Muran, the Pharaoh's vizier.
* RetiredBadass
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'''Rebecca Hopkins (レベッカ・ホプキンス; ''rebekka hopukinsu'') ([[DubNameChange Rebecca Hawkins]])'''
--> Voiced by: Kaori Tagami (JP), Kerry Williams (EN)
An anime-only character. The granddaughter of the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Arthur Hopkins/Hawkins. She first appears seeking vengeance on the behalf of her grandfather by beating his old friend, Solomon Mutou, and taking his Blue Eyes White Dragon card and returning it to her grandfather. After her grandfather finds her and teaches her a valuable lesson about friendship, she quickly befriends Yugi and Solomon. During Season 4, she returns and becomes a member of Yugi's TrueCompanions and accompanies him on his travels.
Her first deck concentrates on supporting Shadow Ghoul. Afterwards, she uses a dragon deck mixed with a Fire Princess Gain/Drain strategy. This deck's trump card is Diamond Head Dragon.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: In the Duel Monsters anime, his Ancient Dragon requires a half-dozen cards and several turns to prepare to summon, but once out it's a 2800 point beatstick that destroys all enemy monsters when it beats one in battle, and when destroyed in any way returns at the end of the turn as long as Ancient City is on the field. Hawkins even notes the reason Grandpa is so proud of it is that its cards are so rare and it's so hard to summon, no one else they know has ever done it.
** Similarly his Exodia deck, to some extent. The dialogue about the Exodia cards implies there are little to no card shuffling tactics to gather the cards more efficiently. Also, Sugoroku only has one of each card in his deck. However, drawing all five cards is an instant win.
* BadassGrandpa: When it comes to gaming anyway.
*BewareTheNiceOnes - He's a kind old man right now, but back in his younger days he was willing to play the Devil's Board Shadow Game with Ryuji Otogi's father and caused the man to age halfway to his lifespan. Presumably, much like Dark Yugi early in the manga, he wasn't willing to back down or lose a game even if it meant fucking up another person's life.
* CallForward: Before his expedition into the tomb of the Shadow Games, he says that if he ever loses a game he'd trade in his tux for overalls and collect years instead of chips. Apparently he lost at some point.
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan: Early in the manga.
* DistressedDude: He's kidnapped in the Death-T arc of the manga and first anime, kidnapped in the first episode of the second anime, and finally trapped in a video tape (manga)/Duel Monsters card (anime). Let's just say the old man's been through a lot.
** In the second anime, he also get's held hostage by Vivian Wong (granted, she threw his back out of place, but same principle) and even gets kidnapped during his guest appearance on the first spin-off of the second anime, ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''.
* TheMentor: In the anime only, to Jonouchi, whom he taught how to play Duel Monsters. In the manga, it's assumed that this is the man where Yugi gained all of his gaming knowledge.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Though given how short Yugi is, it may well be genetic.
* OldMaster: Was a big gamer/gambler like his grandson in his youth. In the anime, he gets to play Duel Monsters in the KC Grand Prix filler arc.
* TheGambler: Rivaled Dark Yugi during his younger days.
* PaperThinDisguise: In anime filler only - as Mask The Rock. He doesn't even change out of his normal outfit, he just puts on a mask.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Of Siamun Muran, the Pharaoh's vizier.
* RetiredBadass
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'''Rebecca Hopkins (レベッカ・ホプキンス; ''rebekka hopukinsu'') ([[DubNameChange Rebecca Hawkins]])'''
--> Voiced by: Kaori Tagami (JP), Kerry Williams (EN)
An anime-only character. The granddaughter of the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Arthur Hopkins/Hawkins. She first appears seeking vengeance on the behalf of her grandfather by beating his old friend, Solomon Mutou, and taking his Blue Eyes White Dragon card and returning it to her grandfather. After her grandfather finds her and teaches her a valuable lesson about friendship, she quickly befriends Yugi and Solomon. During Season 4, she returns and becomes a member of Yugi's TrueCompanions and accompanies him on his travels.
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'''Sugoroku Mutou (武藤 双六; ''Mutou Sugoroku'') ([[DubNameChange Solomon Muto]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/TakeshiAono (Japanese Toei anime), Tadashi Miyazawa (Duel Monsters), Creator/MaddieBlaustein (English)
Yugi's grandfather and former game master, Sugroku currently runs the Kame Game Shop where Yugi and his mother live, and Yugi and his friends hang out.
Since he gave his original deck to Yugi, he uses an Ancient deck, with cards that emulate an explorer (the opponent) entering cursed and booby-trapped ruins, and gamble cards. His trump card is Ancient Dragon.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Used to be one. His deck plays straight to that.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His Ancient Dragon requires a half-dozen cards and several turns to prepare to summon, but once out it's a 2800 point beatstick that destroys all enemy monsters when it beats one in battle, and when destroyed in any way returns at the end of the turn as long as Ancient City is on the field. Hawkins even notes the reason Grandpa is so proud of it is that its cards are so rare and it's so hard to summon, no one else they know has ever done it.
** Similarly his Exodia deck, to some extent. The dialogue about the Exodia cards implies there are little to no card shuffling tactics to gather the cards more efficiently. Also, Sugoroku only has one of each card in his deck. However, drawing all five cards is an instant win.
* BadassGrandpa: When it comes to dueling anyway.
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan: Early in the manga.
* DistressedDude: He's kidnapped in the Death-T arc of the Manga and first anime, kidnapped in the first episode of the second anime, and finally trapped in a video tape (manga)/Duel Monsters card (anime). Let's just say the old man's been through a lot.
** He also get's held hostage by Vivian Wong (granted, she threw his back out of place, but same principle) and even gets kidnapped during his guest appearance on ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''.
* TheMentor: To Joey, who he taught to duel.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Though given how short Yugi is, it may well be genetic.
* OldMaster: Was a big gamer like his grandson in his youth and even participates in the Kaiba Grand Prix.
* TheGambler: Rivaled Yami Yugi during his younger days.
* PaperThinDisguise: As Mask The Rock. He doesn't even change out of his normal outfit, he just puts on a mask.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Of Siamun Muran, the Pharaoh's vizier.
* RetiredBadass
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'''Sugoroku Mutou (武藤 双六; ''Mutou Sugoroku'') ([[DubNameChange Solomon Muto]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/TakeshiAono (Japanese Toei anime), Tadashi Miyazawa (Duel Monsters), Creator/MaddieBlaustein (English)
Yugi's grandfather and former game master, Sugroku currently runs the Kame Game Shop where Yugi and his mother live, and Yugi and his friends hang out.
Since he gave his original deck to Yugi, he uses an Ancient deck, with cards that emulate an explorer (the opponent) entering cursed and booby-trapped ruins, and gamble cards. His trump card is Ancient Dragon.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Used to be one. His deck plays straight to that.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His Ancient Dragon requires a half-dozen cards and several turns to prepare to summon, but once out it's a 2800 point beatstick that destroys all enemy monsters when it beats one in battle, and when destroyed in any way returns at the end of the turn as long as Ancient City is on the field. Hawkins even notes the reason Grandpa is so proud of it is that its cards are so rare and it's so hard to summon, no one else they know has ever done it.
** Similarly his Exodia deck, to some extent. The dialogue about the Exodia cards implies there are little to no card shuffling tactics to gather the cards more efficiently. Also, Sugoroku only has one of each card in his deck. However, drawing all five cards is an instant win.
* BadassGrandpa: When it comes to dueling anyway.
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan: Early in the manga.
* DistressedDude: He's kidnapped in the Death-T arc of the Manga and first anime, kidnapped in the first episode of the second anime, and finally trapped in a video tape (manga)/Duel Monsters card (anime). Let's just say the old man's been through a lot.
** He also get's held hostage by Vivian Wong (granted, she threw his back out of place, but same principle) and even gets kidnapped during his guest appearance on ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''.
* TheMentor: To Joey, who he taught to duel.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Though given how short Yugi is, it may well be genetic.
* OldMaster: Was a big gamer like his grandson in his youth and even participates in the Kaiba Grand Prix.
* TheGambler: Rivaled Yami Yugi during his younger days.
* PaperThinDisguise: As Mask The Rock. He doesn't even change out of his normal outfit, he just puts on a mask.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Of Siamun Muran, the Pharaoh's vizier.
* RetiredBadass
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One of the best duelists around. She once worked as a casino dealer before picking up Duel Monsters, and became used to depending on only herself until she met Yugi and his friends in Duelist Kingdom. Though she isn't around in every episode, she's mostly a good guy and helps the heroes out frequently.
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One of the best duelists around. She once worked as a casino dealer before picking up the Duel Monsters, Monsters car game, and became used to depending on only herself until she met Yugi and his friends in the Duelist Kingdom. Kingdom arc. Though she isn't around in every episode, chapter/episode, she's mostly a good guy and helps the heroes out frequently.
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'''Mokuba Kaiba (海馬 モクバ; ''kaiba mokuba'')'''
--> Voiced by: Katsue Miwa (Japanese Toei anime), Creator/JunkoTakeuchi (Duel Monsters), Tara Sands (English), CarrieKeranen (English, season five onwards)
Seto's little brother and his main fan. In contrast to his brother's obsession with Duel Monsters, Mokuba has an obsession for Capsule Monster Chess. Can usually be seen either carrying his brother's briefcase or monitoring his brother's tournaments. While Kaiba is openly disdainful of Yugi and his friends, Mokuba gets along with them just fine, though he's still mostly on his brother's side when it comes to the rivalry he has with Yugi.
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Seto's little brother and his main fan. In contrast to his brother's obsession with Duel Monsters, Mokuba has an obsession for Capsule Monster Chess. Can usually be seen either carrying his brother's briefcase or monitoring his brother's tournaments. While Kaiba is openly disdainful of Yugi and his friends, Mokuba gets along with them just fine, though he's still mostly on his brother's side when it comes to the rivalry he has with Yugi.
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''"Games mean conflict - a combat between two enemies. It’s the same for all of them! Cards, chess, the blood-soaked wars of the human race… All these are different kinds of games. Do you know what god gave to people so they could play games in this world? A single chip called life!"'' --'''Seto Kaiba''', Chapter 106 (Duelist Kingdom), in response to Yugi's unwillingness to send him off to his
Kaiba is
In gaming, he most deifinitely mains Duel Monsters. He uses a Power deck which focuses on summoning the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, of which he has the only three intact copies in existence. He's also fond of Deck Destruction and removing cards from play.
* AbusiveParents: KnightTemplarParent is about the nicest thing that could be said about Gozaburo.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the second anime. He's still acerbic and (early on) thuggish enough to abduct an old man over a trading card, but his outright murderous behavior is skipped over. He doesn't believe in stealing to get ahead in life, as is evident when he goes up against Zigfried.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the Toei anime, he had ''[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green]]'' hair and light brown/gold eyes. This was corrected in the second anime and the Toei movie, however.
* AgentScully: In the dub, where his insisting that everything supernatural around them is some sort of trickery comes across as him trying to convince himself. In the original, Kaiba didn't disbelieve in magic, in fact his Dark Game with Yami Yugi was his inspiration to develop his virtual projectors. He just didn't have much interest in the magical chaos occuring around him because most of the time it wasn't his problem.
* AllPowerfulBystander[=/=]BystanderSyndrome: During Battle City.
* AloofBigBrother
* AntiVillain: Type I
** Type IV during Duelist Kingdom. He may have still been a jerk, but any truly villainous traits in him were gone thanks to being Dark Yugi's "Mind Crush" Penalty Game.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Duelist Guy]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking
* {{Badass}}: Just as much as Dark Yugi.
** In the manga, [[http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/2639/kaibagar.png he smacks one of Pegasus's henchman WITH A BRIEFCASE, and then proceeds to threaten to snap his neck within it unless he gets to talk to Pegasus]]. [[http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9031/kaibagun.png He also hijacked a helicopter that planned to hijack HIM]].
** BadassBookworm: A genius CEO who's trained in Krav Maga.
** BadassLongcoat: Have you ''seen'' his trenchcoat?
** EmpoweredBadassNormal: He is one of Japan's top-level gamers who does not possess a Millennium Item or some other form of magical enhancement to his skills. In fact, all of his onscreen losses have come against Millennium Item-wielding opponents (most commonly Yugi, though not on account of said powers) and he evens owns one victory over the Millenium Item wielders (against Ishizu during the Battle City finals). That said, he also has a connection to the Millennium World background story/RPG via his ancestry. Then of course, there's also the fact that he owns the best and biggest collection of [[PowerEqualsRarity rare and powerful cards]].
* BerserkButton: Don't threaten Mokuba, don't threaten his company, don't destroy or take control of his Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and ''don't'' [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou defeat Yugi before he can]].
* BigBad: Of the Death-T arc in the manga and Toei anime.
* BigBrotherInstinct: After Death-T and reconstructing his heart ''the right way'', he will do ''anything'' to save his little brother.
* BiggerStick: His Duel Monsters deck is chock full of them, giving him a pretty one-sided advantage. See also: PowerEqualsRarity.
* BilingualBonus[=/=]StealthPun: ''Kai'' and ''ba'' are Japanese for ''sea'' and ''horse'' respectively; in Japanese mythology, seahorses are considered be to larval dragons, and Kaiba does have a affinity for his Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He was this in the manga and his debut episode in the Toei anime. The second anime adaptation, from the first episode on he doesn't even try acting nice to get what he wants; he ''demands'' it.
* BrainyBrunette: Seeing as he came up with the Solid Vision system, this is an obvious one.
* BreakoutCharacter: Originally only meant to be a one-shot antagonist-of-the-day, then promoted to a main antagonist of an entire arc, then promoted to the main antagonist for almost the entire Toei series, then promoted to a recurring antihero.
** Especially evident in the second-series anime, which included two filler arcs where the villains were ''his'' enemies instead of Yugi's, and included him in the Memory World arc when in the manga his character departed after Battle City and had no part in the Memory World.
* BrokenAce: Type II. Rich, famous, successful, and none of it is good enough for him because he's overshadowed by Yugi, is still haunted by the memory of Gozaburo, and is full of hatred for the both of them.
* TheChessmaster: Mostly during his time as a BigBad, but it's still there.
* CainAndAbel: In the second series anime, the Abel to Noah's Cain.
* CatchPhrase: "Kudaran!" ("Nonsense!")
* CharacterExaggeration: The 4Kids dub of the anime takes Kaiba's rivalry with Yugi and contempt for Jounouchi and turns them UpToEleven. In the Japanese version, Kaiba makes it clear that he respects Yugi as a talented duelist and WorthyOpponent, while his dub counterpart is much more psychotically obsessed with defeating Yugi no matter the cost. Similarly his Japanese counterpart says it was a mistake to duel Joey to test his Duel Disk since it killed his motivation, while in the dub he calls him a worthless dog and spends the duel sneering at him. The dub also makes him a FlatEarthAtheist completely in denial of all the magical phenomena going on around him, no matter how obviously real it is. Japanese Kaiba doesn't deny the magic, he just doesn't care (in fact, in the manga, ''Dark Yugi's Shadow Games are what inspire him to create the Duel Boxes/Duel Disks'').
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Before he was the SmugSuper JerkAss we all know, he used to be FauxAffablyEvil, even more so during the Death-T saga. He obtained all of his Blue Eyes White Dragon cards through blackmail (possibly involving their owners committing suicide) and subjected Sugoroku (Yugi's grandfather) to realistic holograms which almost led to a heart attack. Along with his all-me personality, he was willing to kill his Yugi and his friends (and a baby) with his amusement park of death involving trained killing professionals and a known axe murderer, all because Yugi beat him in a card game and gave him a karmic Penalty Game, and was willing to give a Penalty Game to Mokuba for losing to Yugi. He gets better after his Mind Crush, though, to the point where he was disgusted by Marik's methods of having Yugi and Jonouchi duel to the death and threatening to make Anzu ingest a cyanide pill during Battle City, even though he used to be just as bad, and arguably worse.
** He also had more SlasherSmile and StepfordSmiler than his current SmugSmiler he normally wears when not being a PerpetualFrowner.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has quite a few moments, including some in the dub that border on LampshadeHanging.
-->"Alright, [[FillerArc that little detour was a complete waste of my time and effort]]. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain So let's move on and pretend that nonsense never happened]]."
* DeathByAdaptation: In ''The Sacred Cards'' video game, he duels Marik in the semi-finals of Battle City while Yugi duels the player. Marik is the BigBad so it goes as well as you'd expect.
* DemonicPossession[=/=]GrandTheftMe: In the Memory World RPG of the Millennium World arc, Priest Seto gets possessed by Zorc's High Priest of Darkness/Akhenaden.
* {{Determinator}}: Because games are serious business. (Rescuing [[DesignatedVictim your little brother]] is also serious business.)
* {{Deuteragonist}}: In the anime, where he gets a lot more screentime, his relationship with Yugi & Dark Yugi is expanded upon, and unlike the manga he journeys to the Memory World RPG alongside the rest of the cast, ultimately helping them defeat Zorc. And that's without getting into the fact that the villains of the "Virtual Nightmare" and "Kaiba Corp Grand Prix" {{FillerArc}}s, and the EvilGenius from the "Waking the Dragons" arc, are his enemies, rather than Yugi's. Put all these factors together, and he's easily the second most important character in the anime. He even takes out the {{BigBad}}s of the "Virtual Nightmare" and "Grand Prix" arcs.
** Maybe he's the reason why the anime makes it a point to make Jonouchi less badass and take away Bakura's screentime from the manga. Perhaps the staff are Kaiba fans?
* DramaticWind: His white trenchcoat is ''always'' flaring out behind him, even when he's just walking down the hall. His other coats flare too, but not nearly as much so it's more believable.
* EasilyForgiven: Not as much in the second anime, but is jarring to see him and his brother suddenly turn a leaf after failing to kill them in the Death-T arc, from poisoned foods to unleashing killers and assassins on them.
** Heavily averted in Jonouchi/Joey's case, as he makes it clear how much he despises him for his actions during the arc. When Pegasus defeats Kaiba and traps his soul in a card, Joey personally voices his opinion that he got what he deserved.
* EnemyMine[=/=]YouOweMe: Most of the time when he directly teams up with the main cast, it's because they share a mutual enemy, or they've helped Kaiba in some manner (such as saving Mokuba) and he feels he has to repay the favor.
** DebtDetester: It bothers him. He'd like to possibly step away from the thought of "getting friendly" with Yugi and his friends.
* EnfanteTerrible: In the backstory. He's not as bad as the anime filler's Noah, but he still bordered on creepy.
* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Even Jerkasses Have Loved Ones]]: After Death-T. Even in his moments of biggest [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkassery]], Kaiba still cares deeply for his brother Mokuba and would never do anything to hurt him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's perfectly okay with endangering infants, allowing a homicidal maniac trying to kill the main characters out of revenge, and attacking innocent people, but when other people do something similar or worse, he feels compelled to stop them.
**Well, by that point, he didn't have those low standards anymore.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He's a bit sick with his jokes, but a few aren't as bad.
** NoSenseOfHumor: He's generally a serious person and doesn't crack jokes like Jonouchi does.
* EvilLaugh: Despite being [[TheStoic a reserved individual]], he tends to indulge in this when he bests an opponent. Mind you, he isn't exactly "evil", but the principle still stands.
** One of the most notable examples is during the anime filler's Grand Championship, where Kaiba defeats the resident BigBad after disqualifying him and then laughs like a villain. That's an AntiHero for you!
* FatalFlaw: His obsession for technology. That, and his hostile attitude and pride.
* {{Fiction 500}}: In the dub especially. In both versions of the anime, he casually writes check for $500,000 to pay for a new car, telling the dealer to keep the change as he drives off.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Very much so in the American dub version, but not nearly as bad in the manga and the Japanese anime, where he wasn't disbelieving of the magical events occurring around him as much as he was [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight disinterested and unconcerned]] about them.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic
* FreudianExcuse: Adopted by an [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] who taught him that being a failure in anything, even losing games, means you don't deserve to live. Lost everything but his brother in unknown circumstances before that.
* FriendToAllChildren: Shockingly. Moukba explains the reason Seto works so hard for [=KaibaCorp=] is to achieve his dream of a Kaiba Land to bring happiness to children. N'aww.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Gouzaburo wanted Kaiba to be as ruthless as him, and view everyone as a possible threat. You have to wonder how he saw that working out, although he probably didn't expect Kaiba to oust him before leaving high school.
* GreenEyedMonster: Very much so. After his public defeat during Death-T, he doesn't stop at ''anything'' to get his title back from Yugi.
* {{Griefer}}: Has one of these moments during the Battle City semi-final 4-way match. See RefugeInAudacity.
* GrumpyBear: Initially a FauxAffablyEvil StepfordSmiler and sadistic to boot, but after development, he is normally the least gleeful of the main cast.
* GuileHero: Though not nearly as much as Dark Yugi, he has his moments, particularly in their tag-Death Duel against Mask of Light & Darkness (Lumis and Umbra in the anime dub) when he gets them to begin fighting with one another.
* HeelFaceTurn: Sort of. He stops being evil and regularly helps the heroes. However, he ''never'' stops being a gigantic jackass.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Buried deep in the first half of the manga, where he almost comes across as evil as Dark Marik or Dark Bakura due to his abuse under Gouzaburo. After this, he only acts kind to Mokuba but doesn't come off as a complete monster.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Despite jokes thanks to the Abridged Series, and in contrast to his adoptive father.
* IcyBlueEyes
* ImageSong: From the 4Kids anime dub's Pyramid of Light soundtrack, ''You're Not Me''.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Keeps the hammer from dropping on a gun with a Duel Monsters card in the manga, throws them at people to disable them in the anime.
* IneffectualLoner: Because who needs friends when you're Seto Kaiba?
--> "Yugi, do you expect me to forget about the past, grin like an idiot, and join forces with you? Don't make me laugh. To this day, your stupid friendship disgusts me!"
* InformedAbility: In the manga. Despite claiming to be an expert at all games, we only ever see Kaiba play Duel Monsters and chess. The only things that tells us of his prowess at gaming are his high scores on every arcade machine at the Domino Arcade.
* InsufferableGenius
* IShallTauntYou: Comes across as a BadassBoast.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Because it's all about Seto Kaiba.
* {{Jerkass}}: Initially worse, but now is just hard to get along with since he has a major SmugSuper complex.
** JerkJock: Basically has this attitude towards games and especially Duel Monsters. You either prove yourself a WorthyOpponent for him, or you're a pathetic scrub who doesn't even deserve the two minutes of his time it would take for him to beat you. He was even this way to Mokuba before his HeelFaceTurn.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As viciously hostile as Kaiba is to the main characters, when push comes to shove, he'll help them out (most of the time). Just don't expect him to be buddy-buddy with them any time before, during or after the fact.
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Mostly during the Battle City finals. He was prepared to RageQuit the tournament and blow up the island with everyone else still on it (well, he was leaving the airship for them, but still), but Mokuba and Ishizu convinced him to put aside his petty grudge with Yugi and help him defeat Marik.
* KickTheDog: Does this a few times. Usually to Jonouchi. In the anime, exemplied by all those times they put him in a dog suit... (Jonouchi, not Kaiba.)
* LargeAndInCharge: He was actually made taller beyond his initial manga appearance to reflect the rest of his character.
* [[PlayfulHacker Leet Haxor Skillz]]: As shown in the Duel Monsters anime, when he broke into Pegasus' database.
* LightEmUp: His main cards, namely the Blue-Eyes and [=XYZ=] cards, are Light attribute.
** LightIsNotGood: And after Death-T, not completely evil either.
** YinYangBomb: But he still uses lots of [[CastingAShadow Dark]] monsters like Giant Germ, La Jinn, Saggi the Dark Clown, and even uses Chaos Emperor Dragon. However, his LightEmUp LightIsNotGood aspects are stronger to contrast Dark Yugi's CastingAShadow DarkIsNotEvil.
* MagicVersusScience: The Technology to Yugi's Magic.
* ManipulativeBastard: On occasion. Really shows it off against Mask of Light and Mask of Darkness (Lumis and Umbra in the dub).
* {{Munchkin}}: He'll do what he can to claim victory, no matter the cost.
* {{Narcissist}}: In appearance only. In reality, creator Kazuki Takahashi claimed in an interview he presents this image to try and combat his severe self-hatred after Gozaburo's death.
* NewTransferStudent: His manner of introduction, except in the second anime adaptation.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Although he's an asshole to everyone else, Kaiba treats his employees with cold, polite professionalism. For him, that's being downright civil.
* NobleDemon
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: His rivalry with Yugi counts as this. He even says this nearly word-for-word in the manga spin-off (of debatable canocity to the main manga, but still) ''Manga/YuGiOhR''.
** When Dark Yugi loses to Raphael in the Doma FillerArc of the anime, he goes into a fit of rage.
* OnlySaneMan: Dub example, subverted. He thinks there's a logical explanation for the mystical adventures, but really, he's completely skeptical and denies a deeper meaning behind it.
* OrphanageOfFear: May not have been that bad, but he ''did'' feel compelled to win his way out in a game of chess (in the manga, he even cheated to do so).
* PapaWolf: To Mokuba.
* PerpetualFrowner: When he's not a SmugSmiler, which is an improvement to his StepfordSmiler and SlasherSmile he used to put on.
* PetTheDog: Even at his worst (early manga antagonist), he seemed to adore children and wanted to give a safe and fun place for orphans to forget about their troubles.
* PowerEqualsRarity: The epitome of this trope. Prides himself on his collection in both respects, and cannot accept the thought of a duelist he deems mediocre owning any rare and powerful cards, and [[CircularReasoning rather circularly]], that anyone who plays weak monsters isn't a serious duelist. The 4Kids dub of the Duel Monsters anime also makes it his motto before his defeat to Yugi where he claims "Cards Are Power".
* {{Pride}}: Seto Kaiba's ego is his worst enemy some days. This is best exemplified by his use of the game-ending cards Last Turn[[note]]: a card which decides the outcome of the duel on a battle between two monsters[[/note]] and Final Attack Orders[[note]]in the show, it forces both players to choose only three cards to keep in their deck[[/note]], assuming Blue-Eyes would be enough to overpower anything. Naturally, he loses in both cases because he was overpowered.
** Last Turn was actually more about breaking through to Mokuba by showing him the Blue-Eyes. Had he used his Different Dimension Dragon instead, he would have tied with Noah in the anime adaptation (and had Noah not cheated earlier, Last Turn wouldn't have been neccessary.)
* PromotionToParent: To Mokuba.
* TheProudElite: Rich, intelligent, master of Duel Monsters (and chess; in the manga, games in general), and won't let anyone forget it.
* PunnyName: "Seto Kaiba" is awfully similar to a Japanese word for student council: [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil "seitokai"]]. Appropriate, as he can resemble some of the more negative examples of a haughty StudentCouncilPresident.
* TheQuietOne
* RageQuit: After losing to Yugi in Battle City and failing to resolve [[AbusiveParents his daddy issues]], he decides the best way to get rid of the problem is to sink the Duel Tower to the bottom of the ocean before Yugi and Marik even have their duel. Luckily, Mokuba talks him out of it and he decides to help Yugi win the match (and ''then'' he blows it up).
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives them constantly; in the Virtual World FillerArc his one to Noah lasts for half an episode and is awesome. In the Doma FillerArc, his one to Alister marked the first time someone that arc had finally shut the Doma guys up about the whole "healing the world through extermination thing."
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Jounouchi (one of two) and Dark Yugi's red.
* RefugeInAudacity: Constantly pesters Jonouchi during Battle City, especially during the four-way duel, for not being able to hold his own as a duelist (in spite of evidence to the contrary), and insists that he has to stand up on his own. Moments later during the latter, when Jonouchi counters a move from Dark Marik, Kaiba interferes with one of his own cards, effectively helping Marik and screwing over Jonouchi, with the former's monster surviving the battle after all. Of course, it's more likely than anything that Kaiba is either [[CombatPragmatist playing the entire field in order to ensure his opponent will be Yugi]], or he's just being a gigantic {{troll}} towards Jonouchi.
** If he could manage it, it's almost certainly both.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Of one of the six priests of the pharaoh's court, Priest Seto.
* ReincarnationRomance: According to WordOfGod:
-->"''Reluctantly, I cut short the episode with Priest Seto and Kisara [due to editorial deadlines], which is something I still regret, because, as all of you guessed, it is the defining episode for the relationship between present-day Kaiba and his Blue-Eyes White Dragon.''" [[note]]The rest of the liner notes are too long to post, but basically he describes how Kisara's death at the hands of Aknadin would have led to a subplot where Seto betrays the pharaoh and goes off on his own with the intent to avenge her demise. But apparently the series was starting to get less popular and the editors wanted Kazuki Takahashi to rush to finish the story, so his grand plans for the above were cut short.[[/note]]
* TheResenter: Clearly he dislikes Yugi, who always wants to make him a better person. The same goes for Yugi's friends, too.
* TheRival: Yugi's main rival. And we're talking the hostile type of rivalry.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Wore his school uniform during his first appearance, before it was replaced with his Kaiba Corporation white-collared outfit for the Death-Y arc. Averted in the present (unlike a certain rival of his),
**In terms of the anime, played straight in the first episode and flashbacks, where he is seen wearing his white school uniform while doing things like causing his stepfather to "commit suicide" (in the anime he didn't really do this, he put himself into virtual reality) and walking away from his first monetary triumph in a prototype of his first BadassLongcoat. Guess he did those things after school.
* ScrewDestiny: Notably in his duel against Ishizu.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Trope coined by his character in ''[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Abridged]]'', and used by him throughout the original.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Killed his adoptive father in the manga. In the anime Gozaburo manages to escape and makes a comback as a FillerVillain...and is killed when Kaiba and the others leave him trapped in his self-destructing virtual world.
* SelfMadeMan: Believes he is one.
* ShipTease: With Yugi Mutou, Katsuya Jonouchi/Joey Wheeler (especially in the Abridged Series), and Blue Eyes White Dragon.
* TheSmartGuy: Whenever he sides with the gang in the anime's ((FillerArc))s.
* SmugSmiler: So very much.
* SmugSnake: Prior to his HeelFaceTurn.
* SmugSuper: Post HeelFaceTurn.
* TheSpock: Not only is he intensely logical, he has the emotional range of a brick.
* TheStoic: Particularly in the anime.
* StopHavingFunGuys: Invoked to the max. Jounouchi even lampshades this near the conclusion of their rematch in the anime.
** In fact, he was inspired by a real life StopHavingFunGuy Kazuki Takahashi's friend met. Said friend asked him if he could teach him how to play a card game, to which he replied, "Hmph! Come back when you've collected 10,000 cards."
* StrawNihilist: Especially in the manga, has a couple of Nietzsche-themed [[HannibalLecture lectures]] to anyone whom doesn't share his mentality and is seen reading Nietzsche's ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'' in the first episode.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: No denying that.
* TeenGenius: He wins at almost virtually every game except Duel Monsters.
* TooCleverByHalf: He considers his deck to be unbeatable. He's stacked it with really strong cards. He executes his strategies with care. And still, he wonders where he goes wrong.
* TransferStudentUniforms: An all-white one in his first appearances in the Toei anime (he wore the normal one in his first appearance in the manga, with the white one being his Kaiba Corp CEO outfit during his stint as main antagonist). Played for creepiness.
* TrashTalk: He seems to do this to a lot of people. Specifically, to those he particularly dislikes.
* TroubledButCute: He really wants to be more sociable, but due to his belief that "every single one of us is alone in this world", he's unable to do so. A certain somebody must've planted it there.
* TsurimeEyes
* UsedToBeASweetKid: He really was, when he was much younger.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times they save his ass, he'll never be part of the TrueCompanions.
* UnstoppableRage: He really has no control over his rage when he's playing Duel Monsters, especially when he's facing off against Yugi. Often, this renders him vulnerable, since he's unable to think straight. And whenever someone tries to make him feel better, he doesn't pay any attention to ''anything'' anyone has to say.
* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: He has a few rare moments where he genuinely smiles, mostly in his childhood.
** ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' parodies this by saying a puppy dies every time he smiles.
* TheWorfBarrage: Despite being feared as a card that can singlehandedly ensure his victory, his Crush Card ''doesn't'' work more often than it does. He tries to use it eight times throughout the series, but only gets it off three times. And those three times, Yugi worked around it and Ishizu [[BatmanGambit flipped its effect to her advantage]], and they lost for entirely unrelated reasons.
**During anime ((FillerArc))s: When he tried to use it against Lector, it was destroyed, since Lector had assumed the appearance of Jinzo. During his duel with Willa Mette, Mette used a spell card to prevent Kaiba's Crush Card from activating. Thus, the only times Crush Card actually worked is in his duel with Joey and Alister, the first was an anime filler match and Joey ''still'' put up a good fight, and the second it only helped because he fused it with [[DeusExMachina Fang of Critias]], in the meantime Alister still stopped him from using it and it remained on the field useless. Given the consequences when it DOES go off though, it's understandable that people want to counter it so effectively.
* VillainousBSOD: Following the first episode of the Duel Monsters anime adaptation, after his defeat to Yugi he starts to question his motivations and goals as he realizes power alone isn't enough to beat him - enough for him to idiotically leave his company and his little brother unattended (in the manga, he was in a coma at the hands of Yugi's "Mind Crush" Penalty Game during Death-T).
* TheWorfEffect: His Shadow Game duel against Pegasus is to remind fans just how severely Pegasus' Millennium Eye rigs the match in his favor, turning Kaiba's moves against him left and right. The cast lampshades this in the English anime, noting Pegasus likely had them watch the duel as intimidation.
* WorthyOpponent: To Yugi.
* YouShallNotPass: Anime-only; he and his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon do it to Zorc in the Memory World RPG, buying time and keeping the GodOfEvil from reaching the city.
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[[folder:Mokuba Kaiba]]
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'''Mokuba Kaiba (海馬 モクバ; ''kaiba mokuba'')'''
--> Voiced by: Katsue Miwa (Japanese Toei anime), Creator/JunkoTakeuchi (Duel Monsters), Tara Sands (English), CarrieKeranen (English, season five onwards)
Seto's little brother and his main fan. In contrast to his brother's obsession with Duel Monsters, Mokuba has an obsession for Capsule Monster Chess. He is initially portrayed as a spoiled brat, with vindictive and malevolent behavior. He was named champion at Capsule Monster Chess, but cheated in many of the games he played. His negative traits are partly credit to the neglect he gets from his older brother, whom he desired to prove his worth to. Though still somewhat of a "brat", his behavior improved as he befriended Yugi Mutou and his companions and as Seto grew to love and appreciate him. In the anime, he is made to be much friendlier right off the bat.
Aside from his brief unfinished stint playing Duel Monsters against Yugi in Duel Kingdom, the only games he ever played on-panel were Capsule Monster Chess and Russian Roulette Dinner. Can usually be seen either carrying his brother's briefcase or monitoring his brother's tournaments. While Kaiba is openly disdainful of Yugi and his friends, Mokuba gets along with them just fine, though he's still mostly on his brother's side when it comes to the rivalry he has with Yugi.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the second anime. He's still acerbic and (early on) thuggish enough to abduct an old man over a trading card, but his outright murderous behavior is skipped over. He doesn't believe in stealing to get ahead in life, as is evident when he goes up against Zigfried.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the Toei anime, he had ''[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green]]'' hair and light brown/gold eyes. This was corrected in the second anime and the Toei movie, however.
* AgentScully: In the dub, where his insisting that everything supernatural around them is some sort of trickery comes across as him trying to convince himself. In the original, Kaiba didn't disbelieve in magic, in fact his Dark Game with Yami Yugi was his inspiration to develop his virtual projectors. He just didn't have much interest in the magical chaos occuring around him because most of the time it wasn't his problem.
* AllPowerfulBystander[=/=]BystanderSyndrome: During Battle City.
* AloofBigBrother
* AntiVillain: Type I
** Type IV during Duelist Kingdom. He may have still been a jerk, but any truly villainous traits in him were gone thanks to being Dark Yugi's "Mind Crush" Penalty Game.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Duelist Guy]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking
* {{Badass}}: Just as much as Dark Yugi.
** In the manga, [[http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/2639/kaibagar.png he smacks one of Pegasus's henchman WITH A BRIEFCASE, and then proceeds to threaten to snap his neck within it unless he gets to talk to Pegasus]]. [[http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9031/kaibagun.png He also hijacked a helicopter that planned to hijack HIM]].
** BadassBookworm: A genius CEO who's trained in Krav Maga.
** BadassLongcoat: Have you ''seen'' his trenchcoat?
** EmpoweredBadassNormal: He is one of Japan's top-level gamers who does not possess a Millennium Item or some other form of magical enhancement to his skills. In fact, all of his onscreen losses have come against Millennium Item-wielding opponents (most commonly Yugi, though not on account of said powers) and he evens owns one victory over the Millenium Item wielders (against Ishizu during the Battle City finals). That said, he also has a connection to the Millennium World background story/RPG via his ancestry. Then of course, there's also the fact that he owns the best and biggest collection of [[PowerEqualsRarity rare and powerful cards]].
* BerserkButton: Don't threaten Mokuba, don't threaten his company, don't destroy or take control of his Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and ''don't'' [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou defeat Yugi before he can]].
* BigBad: Of the Death-T arc in the manga and Toei anime.
* BigBrotherInstinct: After Death-T and reconstructing his heart ''the right way'', he will do ''anything'' to save his little brother.
* BiggerStick: His Duel Monsters deck is chock full of them, giving him a pretty one-sided advantage. See also: PowerEqualsRarity.
* BilingualBonus[=/=]StealthPun: ''Kai'' and ''ba'' are Japanese for ''sea'' and ''horse'' respectively; in Japanese mythology, seahorses are considered be to larval dragons, and Kaiba does have a affinity for his Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He was this in the manga and his debut episode in the Toei anime. The second anime adaptation, from the first episode on he doesn't even try acting nice to get what he wants; he ''demands'' it.
* BrainyBrunette: Seeing as he came up with the Solid Vision system, this is an obvious one.
* BreakoutCharacter: Originally only meant to be a one-shot antagonist-of-the-day, then promoted to a main antagonist of an entire arc, then promoted to the main antagonist for almost the entire Toei series, then promoted to a recurring antihero.
** Especially evident in the second-series anime, which included two filler arcs where the villains were ''his'' enemies instead of Yugi's, and included him in the Memory World arc when in the manga his character departed after Battle City and had no part in the Memory World.
* BrokenAce: Type II. Rich, famous, successful, and none of it is good enough for him because he's overshadowed by Yugi, is still haunted by the memory of Gozaburo, and is full of hatred for the both of them.
* TheChessmaster: Mostly during his time as a BigBad, but it's still there.
* CainAndAbel: In the second series anime, the Abel to Noah's Cain.
* CatchPhrase: "Kudaran!" ("Nonsense!")
* CharacterExaggeration: The 4Kids dub of the anime takes Kaiba's rivalry with Yugi and contempt for Jounouchi and turns them UpToEleven. In the Japanese version, Kaiba makes it clear that he respects Yugi as a talented duelist and WorthyOpponent, while his dub counterpart is much more psychotically obsessed with defeating Yugi no matter the cost. Similarly his Japanese counterpart says it was a mistake to duel Joey to test his Duel Disk since it killed his motivation, while in the dub he calls him a worthless dog and spends the duel sneering at him. The dub also makes him a FlatEarthAtheist completely in denial of all the magical phenomena going on around him, no matter how obviously real it is. Japanese Kaiba doesn't deny the magic, he just doesn't care (in fact, in the manga, ''Dark Yugi's Shadow Games are what inspire him to create the Duel Boxes/Duel Disks'').
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Before he was the SmugSuper JerkAss we all know, he used to be FauxAffablyEvil, even more so during the Death-T saga. He obtained all of his Blue Eyes White Dragon cards through blackmail (possibly involving their owners committing suicide) and subjected Sugoroku (Yugi's grandfather) to realistic holograms which almost led to a heart attack. Along with his all-me personality, he was willing to kill his Yugi and his friends (and a baby) with his amusement park of death involving trained killing professionals and a known axe murderer, all because Yugi beat him in a card game and gave him a karmic Penalty Game, and was willing to give a Penalty Game to Mokuba for losing to Yugi. He gets better after his Mind Crush, though, to the point where he was disgusted by Marik's methods of having Yugi and Jonouchi duel to the death and threatening to make Anzu ingest a cyanide pill during Battle City, even though he used to be just as bad, and arguably worse.
** He also had more SlasherSmile and StepfordSmiler than his current SmugSmiler he normally wears when not being a PerpetualFrowner.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has quite a few moments, including some in the dub that border on LampshadeHanging.
-->"Alright, [[FillerArc that little detour was a complete waste of my time and effort]]. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain So let's move on and pretend that nonsense never happened]]."
* DeathByAdaptation: In ''The Sacred Cards'' video game, he duels Marik in the semi-finals of Battle City while Yugi duels the player. Marik is the BigBad so it goes as well as you'd expect.
* DemonicPossession[=/=]GrandTheftMe: In the Memory World RPG of the Millennium World arc, Priest Seto gets possessed by Zorc's High Priest of Darkness/Akhenaden.
* {{Determinator}}: Because games are serious business. (Rescuing [[DesignatedVictim your little brother]] is also serious business.)
* {{Deuteragonist}}: In the anime, where he gets a lot more screentime, his relationship with Yugi & Dark Yugi is expanded upon, and unlike the manga he journeys to the Memory World RPG alongside the rest of the cast, ultimately helping them defeat Zorc. And that's without getting into the fact that the villains of the "Virtual Nightmare" and "Kaiba Corp Grand Prix" {{FillerArc}}s, and the EvilGenius from the "Waking the Dragons" arc, are his enemies, rather than Yugi's. Put all these factors together, and he's easily the second most important character in the anime. He even takes out the {{BigBad}}s of the "Virtual Nightmare" and "Grand Prix" arcs.
** Maybe he's the reason why the anime makes it a point to make Jonouchi less badass and take away Bakura's screentime from the manga. Perhaps the staff are Kaiba fans?
* DramaticWind: His white trenchcoat is ''always'' flaring out behind him, even when he's just walking down the hall. His other coats flare too, but not nearly as much so it's more believable.
* EasilyForgiven: Not as much in the second anime, but is jarring to see him and his brother suddenly turn a leaf after failing to kill them in the Death-T arc, from poisoned foods to unleashing killers and assassins on them.
** Heavily averted in Jonouchi/Joey's case, as he makes it clear how much he despises him for his actions during the arc. When Pegasus defeats Kaiba and traps his soul in a card, Joey personally voices his opinion that he got what he deserved.
* EnemyMine[=/=]YouOweMe: Most of the time when he directly teams up with the main cast, it's because they share a mutual enemy, or they've helped Kaiba in some manner (such as saving Mokuba) and he feels he has to repay the favor.
** DebtDetester: It bothers him. He'd like to possibly step away from the thought of "getting friendly" with Yugi and his friends.
* EnfanteTerrible: In the backstory. He's not as bad as the anime filler's Noah, but he still bordered on creepy.
* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Even Jerkasses Have Loved Ones]]: After Death-T. Even in his moments of biggest [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkassery]], Kaiba still cares deeply for his brother Mokuba and would never do anything to hurt him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's perfectly okay with endangering infants, allowing a homicidal maniac trying to kill the main characters out of revenge, and attacking innocent people, but when other people do something similar or worse, he feels compelled to stop them.
**Well, by that point, he didn't have those low standards anymore.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He's a bit sick with his jokes, but a few aren't as bad.
** NoSenseOfHumor: He's generally a serious person and doesn't crack jokes like Jonouchi does.
* EvilLaugh: Despite being [[TheStoic a reserved individual]], he tends to indulge in this when he bests an opponent. Mind you, he isn't exactly "evil", but the principle still stands.
** One of the most notable examples is during the anime filler's Grand Championship, where Kaiba defeats the resident BigBad after disqualifying him and then laughs like a villain. That's an AntiHero for you!
* FatalFlaw: His obsession for technology. That, and his hostile attitude and pride.
* {{Fiction 500}}: In the dub especially. In both versions of the anime, he casually writes check for $500,000 to pay for a new car, telling the dealer to keep the change as he drives off.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Very much so in the American dub version, but not nearly as bad in the manga and the Japanese anime, where he wasn't disbelieving of the magical events occurring around him as much as he was [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight disinterested and unconcerned]] about them.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic
* FreudianExcuse: Adopted by an [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] who taught him that being a failure in anything, even losing games, means you don't deserve to live. Lost everything but his brother in unknown circumstances before that.
* FriendToAllChildren: Shockingly. Moukba explains the reason Seto works so hard for [=KaibaCorp=] is to achieve his dream of a Kaiba Land to bring happiness to children. N'aww.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Gouzaburo wanted Kaiba to be as ruthless as him, and view everyone as a possible threat. You have to wonder how he saw that working out, although he probably didn't expect Kaiba to oust him before leaving high school.
* GreenEyedMonster: Very much so. After his public defeat during Death-T, he doesn't stop at ''anything'' to get his title back from Yugi.
* {{Griefer}}: Has one of these moments during the Battle City semi-final 4-way match. See RefugeInAudacity.
* GrumpyBear: Initially a FauxAffablyEvil StepfordSmiler and sadistic to boot, but after development, he is normally the least gleeful of the main cast.
* GuileHero: Though not nearly as much as Dark Yugi, he has his moments, particularly in their tag-Death Duel against Mask of Light & Darkness (Lumis and Umbra in the anime dub) when he gets them to begin fighting with one another.
* HeelFaceTurn: Sort of. He stops being evil and regularly helps the heroes. However, he ''never'' stops being a gigantic jackass.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Buried deep in the first half of the manga, where he almost comes across as evil as Dark Marik or Dark Bakura due to his abuse under Gouzaburo. After this, he only acts kind to Mokuba but doesn't come off as a complete monster.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Despite jokes thanks to the Abridged Series, and in contrast to his adoptive father.
* IcyBlueEyes
* ImageSong: From the 4Kids anime dub's Pyramid of Light soundtrack, ''You're Not Me''.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Keeps the hammer from dropping on a gun with a Duel Monsters card in the manga, throws them at people to disable them in the anime.
* IneffectualLoner: Because who needs friends when you're Seto Kaiba?
--> "Yugi, do you expect me to forget about the past, grin like an idiot, and join forces with you? Don't make me laugh. To this day, your stupid friendship disgusts me!"
* InformedAbility: In the manga. Despite claiming to be an expert at all games, we only ever see Kaiba play Duel Monsters and chess. The only things that tells us of his prowess at gaming are his high scores on every arcade machine at the Domino Arcade.
* InsufferableGenius
* IShallTauntYou: Comes across as a BadassBoast.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Because it's all about Seto Kaiba.
* {{Jerkass}}: Initially worse, but now is just hard to get along with since he has a major SmugSuper complex.
** JerkJock: Basically has this attitude towards games and especially Duel Monsters. You either prove yourself a WorthyOpponent for him, or you're a pathetic scrub who doesn't even deserve the two minutes of his time it would take for him to beat you. He was even this way to Mokuba before his HeelFaceTurn.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As viciously hostile as Kaiba is to the main characters, when push comes to shove, he'll help them out (most of the time). Just don't expect him to be buddy-buddy with them any time before, during or after the fact.
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Mostly during the Battle City finals. He was prepared to RageQuit the tournament and blow up the island with everyone else still on it (well, he was leaving the airship for them, but still), but Mokuba and Ishizu convinced him to put aside his petty grudge with Yugi and help him defeat Marik.
* KickTheDog: Does this a few times. Usually to Jonouchi. In the anime, exemplied by all those times they put him in a dog suit... (Jonouchi, not Kaiba.)
* LargeAndInCharge: He was actually made taller beyond his initial manga appearance to reflect the rest of his character.
* [[PlayfulHacker Leet Haxor Skillz]]: As shown in the Duel Monsters anime, when he broke into Pegasus' database.
* LightEmUp: His main cards, namely the Blue-Eyes and [=XYZ=] cards, are Light attribute.
** LightIsNotGood: And after Death-T, not completely evil either.
** YinYangBomb: But he still uses lots of [[CastingAShadow Dark]] monsters like Giant Germ, La Jinn, Saggi the Dark Clown, and even uses Chaos Emperor Dragon. However, his LightEmUp LightIsNotGood aspects are stronger to contrast Dark Yugi's CastingAShadow DarkIsNotEvil.
* MagicVersusScience: The Technology to Yugi's Magic.
* ManipulativeBastard: On occasion. Really shows it off against Mask of Light and Mask of Darkness (Lumis and Umbra in the dub).
* {{Munchkin}}: He'll do what he can to claim victory, no matter the cost.
* {{Narcissist}}: In appearance only. In reality, creator Kazuki Takahashi claimed in an interview he presents this image to try and combat his severe self-hatred after Gozaburo's death.
* NewTransferStudent: His manner of introduction, except in the second anime adaptation.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Although he's an asshole to everyone else, Kaiba treats his employees with cold, polite professionalism. For him, that's being downright civil.
* NobleDemon
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: His rivalry with Yugi counts as this. He even says this nearly word-for-word in the manga spin-off (of debatable canocity to the main manga, but still) ''Manga/YuGiOhR''.
** When Dark Yugi loses to Raphael in the Doma FillerArc of the anime, he goes into a fit of rage.
* OnlySaneMan: Dub example, subverted. He thinks there's a logical explanation for the mystical adventures, but really, he's completely skeptical and denies a deeper meaning behind it.
* OrphanageOfFear: May not have been that bad, but he ''did'' feel compelled to win his way out in a game of chess (in the manga, he even cheated to do so).
* PapaWolf: To Mokuba.
* PerpetualFrowner: When he's not a SmugSmiler, which is an improvement to his StepfordSmiler and SlasherSmile he used to put on.
* PetTheDog: Even at his worst (early manga antagonist), he seemed to adore children and wanted to give a safe and fun place for orphans to forget about their troubles.
* PowerEqualsRarity: The epitome of this trope. Prides himself on his collection in both respects, and cannot accept the thought of a duelist he deems mediocre owning any rare and powerful cards, and [[CircularReasoning rather circularly]], that anyone who plays weak monsters isn't a serious duelist. The 4Kids dub of the Duel Monsters anime also makes it his motto before his defeat to Yugi where he claims "Cards Are Power".
* {{Pride}}: Seto Kaiba's ego is his worst enemy some days. This is best exemplified by his use of the game-ending cards Last Turn[[note]]: a card which decides the outcome of the duel on a battle between two monsters[[/note]] and Final Attack Orders[[note]]in the show, it forces both players to choose only three cards to keep in their deck[[/note]], assuming Blue-Eyes would be enough to overpower anything. Naturally, he loses in both cases because he was overpowered.
** Last Turn was actually more about breaking through to Mokuba by showing him the Blue-Eyes. Had he used his Different Dimension Dragon instead, he would have tied with Noah in the anime adaptation (and had Noah not cheated earlier, Last Turn wouldn't have been neccessary.)
* PromotionToParent: To Mokuba.
* TheProudElite: Rich, intelligent, master of Duel Monsters (and chess; in the manga, games in general), and won't let anyone forget it.
* PunnyName: "Seto Kaiba" is awfully similar to a Japanese word for student council: [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil "seitokai"]]. Appropriate, as he can resemble some of the more negative examples of a haughty StudentCouncilPresident.
* TheQuietOne
* RageQuit: After losing to Yugi in Battle City and failing to resolve [[AbusiveParents his daddy issues]], he decides the best way to get rid of the problem is to sink the Duel Tower to the bottom of the ocean before Yugi and Marik even have their duel. Luckily, Mokuba talks him out of it and he decides to help Yugi win the match (and ''then'' he blows it up).
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives them constantly; in the Virtual World FillerArc his one to Noah lasts for half an episode and is awesome. In the Doma FillerArc, his one to Alister marked the first time someone that arc had finally shut the Doma guys up about the whole "healing the world through extermination thing."
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Jounouchi (one of two) and Dark Yugi's red.
* RefugeInAudacity: Constantly pesters Jonouchi during Battle City, especially during the four-way duel, for not being able to hold his own as a duelist (in spite of evidence to the contrary), and insists that he has to stand up on his own. Moments later during the latter, when Jonouchi counters a move from Dark Marik, Kaiba interferes with one of his own cards, effectively helping Marik and screwing over Jonouchi, with the former's monster surviving the battle after all. Of course, it's more likely than anything that Kaiba is either [[CombatPragmatist playing the entire field in order to ensure his opponent will be Yugi]], or he's just being a gigantic {{troll}} towards Jonouchi.
** If he could manage it, it's almost certainly both.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Of one of the six priests of the pharaoh's court, Priest Seto.
* ReincarnationRomance: According to WordOfGod:
-->"''Reluctantly, I cut short the episode with Priest Seto and Kisara [due to editorial deadlines], which is something I still regret, because, as all of you guessed, it is the defining episode for the relationship between present-day Kaiba and his Blue-Eyes White Dragon.''" [[note]]The rest of the liner notes are too long to post, but basically he describes how Kisara's death at the hands of Aknadin would have led to a subplot where Seto betrays the pharaoh and goes off on his own with the intent to avenge her demise. But apparently the series was starting to get less popular and the editors wanted Kazuki Takahashi to rush to finish the story, so his grand plans for the above were cut short.[[/note]]
* TheResenter: Clearly he dislikes Yugi, who always wants to make him a better person. The same goes for Yugi's friends, too.
* TheRival: Yugi's main rival. And we're talking the hostile type of rivalry.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Wore his school uniform during his first appearance, before it was replaced with his Kaiba Corporation white-collared outfit for the Death-Y arc. Averted in the present (unlike a certain rival of his),
**In terms of the anime, played straight in the first episode and flashbacks, where he is seen wearing his white school uniform while doing things like causing his stepfather to "commit suicide" (in the anime he didn't really do this, he put himself into virtual reality) and walking away from his first monetary triumph in a prototype of his first BadassLongcoat. Guess he did those things after school.
* ScrewDestiny: Notably in his duel against Ishizu.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Trope coined by his character in ''[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Abridged]]'', and used by him throughout the original.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Killed his adoptive father in the manga. In the anime Gozaburo manages to escape and makes a comback as a FillerVillain...and is killed when Kaiba and the others leave him trapped in his self-destructing virtual world.
* SelfMadeMan: Believes he is one.
* ShipTease: With Yugi Mutou, Katsuya Jonouchi/Joey Wheeler (especially in the Abridged Series), and Blue Eyes White Dragon.
* TheSmartGuy: Whenever he sides with the gang in the anime's ((FillerArc))s.
* SmugSmiler: So very much.
* SmugSnake: Prior to his HeelFaceTurn.
* SmugSuper: Post HeelFaceTurn.
* TheSpock: Not only is he intensely logical, he has the emotional range of a brick.
* TheStoic: Particularly in the anime.
* StopHavingFunGuys: Invoked to the max. Jounouchi even lampshades this near the conclusion of their rematch in the anime.
** In fact, he was inspired by a real life StopHavingFunGuy Kazuki Takahashi's friend met. Said friend asked him if he could teach him how to play a card game, to which he replied, "Hmph! Come back when you've collected 10,000 cards."
* StrawNihilist: Especially in the manga, has a couple of Nietzsche-themed [[HannibalLecture lectures]] to anyone whom doesn't share his mentality and is seen reading Nietzsche's ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'' in the first episode.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: No denying that.
* TeenGenius: He wins at almost virtually every game except Duel Monsters.
* TooCleverByHalf: He considers his deck to be unbeatable. He's stacked it with really strong cards. He executes his strategies with care. And still, he wonders where he goes wrong.
* TransferStudentUniforms: An all-white one in his first appearances in the Toei anime (he wore the normal one in his first appearance in the manga, with the white one being his Kaiba Corp CEO outfit during his stint as main antagonist). Played for creepiness.
* TrashTalk: He seems to do this to a lot of people. Specifically, to those he particularly dislikes.
* TroubledButCute: He really wants to be more sociable, but due to his belief that "every single one of us is alone in this world", he's unable to do so. A certain somebody must've planted it there.
* TsurimeEyes
* UsedToBeASweetKid: He really was, when he was much younger.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times they save his ass, he'll never be part of the TrueCompanions.
* UnstoppableRage: He really has no control over his rage when he's playing Duel Monsters, especially when he's facing off against Yugi. Often, this renders him vulnerable, since he's unable to think straight. And whenever someone tries to make him feel better, he doesn't pay any attention to ''anything'' anyone has to say.
* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: He has a few rare moments where he genuinely smiles, mostly in his childhood.
** ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' parodies this by saying a puppy dies every time he smiles.
* TheWorfBarrage: Despite being feared as a card that can singlehandedly ensure his victory, his Crush Card ''doesn't'' work more often than it does. He tries to use it eight times throughout the series, but only gets it off three times. And those three times, Yugi worked around it and Ishizu [[BatmanGambit flipped its effect to her advantage]], and they lost for entirely unrelated reasons.
**During anime ((FillerArc))s: When he tried to use it against Lector, it was destroyed, since Lector had assumed the appearance of Jinzo. During his duel with Willa Mette, Mette used a spell card to prevent Kaiba's Crush Card from activating. Thus, the only times Crush Card actually worked is in his duel with Joey and Alister, the first was an anime filler match and Joey ''still'' put up a good fight, and the second it only helped because he fused it with [[DeusExMachina Fang of Critias]], in the meantime Alister still stopped him from using it and it remained on the field useless. Given the consequences when it DOES go off though, it's understandable that people want to counter it so effectively.
* VillainousBSOD: Following the first episode of the Duel Monsters anime adaptation, after his defeat to Yugi he starts to question his motivations and goals as he realizes power alone isn't enough to beat him - enough for him to idiotically leave his company and his little brother unattended (in the manga, he was in a coma at the hands of Yugi's "Mind Crush" Penalty Game during Death-T).
* TheWorfEffect: His Shadow Game duel against Pegasus is to remind fans just how severely Pegasus' Millennium Eye rigs the match in his favor, turning Kaiba's moves against him left and right. The cast lampshades this in the English anime, noting Pegasus likely had them watch the duel as intimidation.
* WorthyOpponent: To Yugi.
* YouShallNotPass: Anime-only; he and his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon do it to Zorc in the Memory World RPG, buying time and keeping the GodOfEvil from reaching the city.
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[[folder:Mokuba Kaiba]]
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'''Mokuba Kaiba (海馬 モクバ; ''kaiba mokuba'')'''
--> Voiced by: Katsue Miwa (Japanese Toei anime), Creator/JunkoTakeuchi (Duel Monsters), Tara Sands (English), CarrieKeranen (English, season five onwards)
Seto's little brother and his main fan. In contrast to his brother's obsession with Duel Monsters, Mokuba has an obsession for Capsule Monster Chess. He is initially portrayed as a spoiled brat, with vindictive and malevolent behavior. He was named champion at Capsule Monster Chess, but cheated in many of the games he played. His negative traits are partly credit to the neglect he gets from his older brother, whom he desired to prove his worth to. Though still somewhat of a "brat", his behavior improved as he befriended Yugi Mutou and his companions and as Seto grew to love and appreciate him. In the anime, he is made to be much friendlier right off the bat.
Aside from his brief unfinished stint playing Duel Monsters against Yugi in Duel Kingdom, the only games he ever played on-panel were Capsule Monster Chess and Russian Roulette Dinner. Can usually be seen either carrying his brother's briefcase or monitoring his brother's tournaments. While Kaiba is openly disdainful of Yugi and his friends, Mokuba gets along with them just fine, though he's still mostly on his brother's side when it comes to the rivalry he has with Yugi.
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'''Ryo Bakura (獏良 了; ''bakura ryou'')'''
--> Voiced by: TsutomuKashiwakura (Japanese Toei anime), Creator/YouInoue (Duel Monsters ep. 12-41), RicaMatsumoto (ep. 50+), TedLewis (English)
A friend of Yugi's from school, Bakura is a shy, quiet boy who lost his sister in a car crash some time before the series started. With his archaeologist father usually away from home, Bakura spends a lot of time by himself, or playing [=RPG=]s with select groups of friends -- particularly Monster World. Unfortunately for him--and everyone else in the series--he's also the holder of the Millennium Ring, and is under the on-and-off control of the evil spirit living inside it (see below for more on that). Along with his love for the Tabletop R.P.G. genre of gaming, he has a penchant for the occult, even making a Duel Monsters deck out of it, which freaks Jonouchi out to no end.
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* AccentAdaptation: He became British in the dub.
* {{Adorkable}}: Even moreso than Yugi
* AnimeHair: A more traditional one.
** LongHairedPrettyBoy: When it's not Yami
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Bakura's a genuinely nice, if shy kid. The Ring...[[AxeCrazy not]] [[TheSociopath so]] [[LackOfEmpathy much]].
** BadassAdorable: As White Mage Bakura. Season 0, in the final episode, he stands up to Yami Bakura. Of course, through PowerOfFriendship he stood his ground and never backed down.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness
* {{Bishonen}}: Applies to all adaptations, but in the original toei anime, this is actually his nickname. In fact its rare that any female character in that season ever refers to him by his name instead of bishonen.
* BornUnlucky: His precious sister died in a car crash. He had to constantly change schools, living with the guilt and negative stigma of having his friends fall into a coma whenever they played a game with him because of the evil personality within the Millennium Ring. After Yugi and his other Domino High friends free him of the Ring's influence the first time, he is tricked to give his body up to Dark Bakura yet again so they could escape the underground maze of Duelist Kingdom, becoming an unknowing pawn for the spirit thereafter. At the beginning of the Millennium World arc, Bobasa refuses to let him into the Pharaoh's mind, despite his desire to help his friend, because of the darkness within his heart, which we all know is the evil spirit of the ring. He puts on a [[StepfordSmiler smile]], and runs away, in tears. The only lucky thing that ever happened to him is possibly having friends that never gave up on him.
* BrownEyes
** GreenEyes: In the Toei anime.
** InnocentBlueEyes: In the manga.
** PurpleEyes: In the toei anime whenever he gets possessed by Yami Bakura.
* ChickMagnet: Season 0 takes this UpToEleven.
** UnwantedHarem: On his first day of being the new kid in Yugi's school, all the girls in his class already fall head over heels for him. However, as sweet and kind he is, he actually doesn't like the attention all that much. Hell, as soon as he met Miho, he turned and walked away because of how she started fangirling around him. From his reactions, this isn't the first time that he's attracted females. And Jonouchi is jealous of him because of this.
* TheChosenOne: In a very unfortunate and literal way. He is the "chosen host" for the Pharaoh and the Spirit of the Millenium Ring's final battle. This translates to him having the "honor" of being frequently possessed by the Spirit and being the one to build the Memory World diorama on which the final Shadow Game takes place.
* ClingyMacGuffin: Bakura's repeatedly tried to free himself from the Ring and the Spirit inside of it. No matter which one he attacks, it always comes back.
* DeclarationofProtection: He would give up his life if it meant saving them from Yami Bakura. Even when he barely knew them.
* DemonicPossession: By the Spirit of the Millennium Ring.
* DemotedToExtra: In the anime {{Filler Arc}}s. In fact, he rarely appears in the anime when he's not under the control of the Ring.
** Only in the anime, of course. In the manga, Bakura is treated as part of the main group after his initial introduction and appears with them for most of the stories. Except in the Memory World saga, where he wasn't allowed to enter the Pharaoh's mind due to the darkness in his heart... and we all know who that's referring to.
* DisappearedDad: His father is always away, leaving poor Ryou to live alone and deal with Yami Bakura.
* DistressedDude[=/=]DesignatedVictim: He's always the Millennium Ring's first victim.
* EvilCounterpart: Bakura's Millennium Ring is the Evil Counterpart to Yugi's Millennium Puzzle.
* [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: In the manga, he becomes a main character after the Monster World arc.
* {{Foil}}: A shy kid with no friends who loves to play [=RPG=]s finds a Millennium Item. Am I talking about Yugi, or Bakura? In a sharp contrast of course, Yugi willingly partners with Yami, while Bakura is always the Ring's first victim.
* FriendlessBackground: Averted! And how! He did have a lot of friends, but thanks to the spirit of the Millennium Ring, all of them ended up comas because Yami Bakura would play shadow games with them. Causing poor Ryou to transfer schools like no other.
* GameMaster: Although never shown on-screen in the position, he love building game boards and figures due to his love for Tabletops (even making a giant diorama of Ancient Egypt that serves as the battleground for the final arc), and would play with his friends more often if it wasn't for his KillerGameMaster SuperPoweredEvilSide.
** KillerGameMaster: Arguably. Even without taking the Spirit's cheating into account, Ryou's shown scenarios of Monster World and Memory World are ''heavily'' biased against the players. While the second may be explained by it having been requested by the Spirit, the first was entirely created by him.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: His round eyes nicely contrast with the Spirit of the Ring's narrow ones.
* HeroicSacrifice: Tries to make one in Duelist Kingdom, when, having been transformed into the card Change of Heart, he possesses on the Ring's monsters and orders Yami to attack him; this would have won Yami the duel at the cost of sending Bakura to the Card Graveyard.
** The manga's equivalent of that scene plays this trope straight during the Monster World RPG arc, until Bakura is revive by a dice roll and his character's special ability.
* HydePlaysJekyll: Good luck telling whether it's him or the Spirit of the Millennium Ring impersonating him at any given time.
* ImpaledPalm: Happens during the Monster World arc when Dark Bakura finds out that Ryo had taken control of his left hand, and then proceeds to impale it on one of the game's towers. Ouch.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Even with the death of his dear little sister(implied to have lost his mother too), losing all his friends(not counting his current friends) who are now in comas, his father barely in the picture, being alone and dealing with Yami Bakura, its amazing how Ryou never once made a FaceHeelTurn.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: A Platonic version of this, Anzu shows a lot more aggression, and has her ActionGirl moments, while Ryou is quiet, shy, and likes to keep to himself. He doesn't seem to like fighting, and would rather be a NiceGuy about most things. Unless when it comes to dealing with Yami Bakura.
* MrExposition: The dub seemed to give him this role in the Duelist Kingdom arc. Most of his lines are generally spent describing what the Duel Monsters do, the basic rules, or what Yugi and/or Jonouchi's strategies are supposed to be.
* MissingMom: It's implied that his mom died when he was younger. Many fans have theories that his mother was killed alongside his little sister.
* NewTransferStudent: His manner of introduction...and turns out to be his shtick, thanks to his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* NiceGuy: He really is, which makes his victimisation by the Ring all the sadder.
* NonActionGuy: Ryou himself doesn't actually duel that much, he prefers Monster World. And he doesn't get into fist-fights like Honda and Jonouchi do.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: In duelist Kingdom, when Yugi hit his HeroicBSOD moment, through Anzu's duel with Mai, [[HoYay he held onto Yugi's shoulders. Not once letting go until the duel is over, sure it was his way of comforting Yugi,]] but Jonouchi did the same thing, and let go moments after the duel began.
** [[ShipTease Ryou sure did stick around Anzu, a lot in Duelist Kingdom.]]
* ShipTease: With Yugi in season 0, and a bit within the first arc of the second anime. And with Anzu, though with her it was just a matter of the two of them being nearly side-by-side in many of the scenes of Duelist Kingdom arc. It wouldn't be much of a surprise seeing as how Anzu is the only girl that hasn't fangirl over him.
** In the abridged, he was often hitting on her and Yugi.
* ShrinkingViolet: He rivals Yugi's own Shyness.
* [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Shy Blue-Haired Guy]]: In the toei anime, he had blueish hair, but he was still just as shy as ever.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Besides being good-looking, it may be why Miho got a huge crush on him. Much to his dismay. Most of his fangirls would also tell you this as well.
* TheSmartGuy: In the manga and in Season 1 of the anime.
* SupremeChef: When the gang camped out with Mai during Duelist Kingdom, Bakura was said to be this.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His dark side is this, but otherwise averted.
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'''Ryo Bakura (獏良 了; ''bakura ryou'')'''
--> Voiced by: TsutomuKashiwakura (Japanese Toei anime), Creator/YouInoue (Duel Monsters ep. 12-41), RicaMatsumoto (ep. 50+), TedLewis (English)
A friend of Yugi's from school, Bakura is a shy, quiet boy who lost his sister in a car crash some time before the series started. With his archaeologist father usually away from home, Bakura spends a lot of time by himself, or playing [=RPG=]s with select groups of friends -- particularly Monster World. Unfortunately for him--and everyone else in the series--he's also the holder of the Millennium Ring, and is under the on-and-off control of the evil spirit living inside it (see below for more on that). Along with his love for the Tabletop R.P.G. genre of gaming, he has a penchant for the occult, even making a Duel Monsters deck out of it, which freaks Jonouchi out to no end.
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* AccentAdaptation: He became British in the dub.
* {{Adorkable}}: Even moreso than Yugi
* AnimeHair: A more traditional one.
** LongHairedPrettyBoy: When it's not Yami
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Bakura's a genuinely nice, if shy kid. The Ring...[[AxeCrazy not]] [[TheSociopath so]] [[LackOfEmpathy much]].
** BadassAdorable: As White Mage Bakura. Season 0, in the final episode, he stands up to Yami Bakura. Of course, through PowerOfFriendship he stood his ground and never backed down.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness
* {{Bishonen}}: Applies to all adaptations, but in the original toei anime, this is actually his nickname. In fact its rare that any female character in that season ever refers to him by his name instead of bishonen.
* BornUnlucky: His precious sister died in a car crash. He had to constantly change schools, living with the guilt and negative stigma of having his friends fall into a coma whenever they played a game with him because of the evil personality within the Millennium Ring. After Yugi and his other Domino High friends free him of the Ring's influence the first time, he is tricked to give his body up to Dark Bakura yet again so they could escape the underground maze of Duelist Kingdom, becoming an unknowing pawn for the spirit thereafter. At the beginning of the Millennium World arc, Bobasa refuses to let him into the Pharaoh's mind, despite his desire to help his friend, because of the darkness within his heart, which we all know is the evil spirit of the ring. He puts on a [[StepfordSmiler smile]], and runs away, in tears. The only lucky thing that ever happened to him is possibly having friends that never gave up on him.
* BrownEyes
** GreenEyes: In the Toei anime.
** InnocentBlueEyes: In the manga.
** PurpleEyes: In the toei anime whenever he gets possessed by Yami Bakura.
* ChickMagnet: Season 0 takes this UpToEleven.
** UnwantedHarem: On his first day of being the new kid in Yugi's school, all the girls in his class already fall head over heels for him. However, as sweet and kind he is, he actually doesn't like the attention all that much. Hell, as soon as he met Miho, he turned and walked away because of how she started fangirling around him. From his reactions, this isn't the first time that he's attracted females. And Jonouchi is jealous of him because of this.
* TheChosenOne: In a very unfortunate and literal way. He is the "chosen host" for the Pharaoh and the Spirit of the Millenium Ring's final battle. This translates to him having the "honor" of being frequently possessed by the Spirit and being the one to build the Memory World diorama on which the final Shadow Game takes place.
* ClingyMacGuffin: Bakura's repeatedly tried to free himself from the Ring and the Spirit inside of it. No matter which one he attacks, it always comes back.
* DeclarationofProtection: He would give up his life if it meant saving them from Yami Bakura. Even when he barely knew them.
* DemonicPossession: By the Spirit of the Millennium Ring.
* DemotedToExtra: In the anime {{Filler Arc}}s. In fact, he rarely appears in the anime when he's not under the control of the Ring.
** Only in the anime, of course. In the manga, Bakura is treated as part of the main group after his initial introduction and appears with them for most of the stories. Except in the Memory World saga, where he wasn't allowed to enter the Pharaoh's mind due to the darkness in his heart... and we all know who that's referring to.
* DisappearedDad: His father is always away, leaving poor Ryou to live alone and deal with Yami Bakura.
* DistressedDude[=/=]DesignatedVictim: He's always the Millennium Ring's first victim.
* EvilCounterpart: Bakura's Millennium Ring is the Evil Counterpart to Yugi's Millennium Puzzle.
* [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: In the manga, he becomes a main character after the Monster World arc.
* {{Foil}}: A shy kid with no friends who loves to play [=RPG=]s finds a Millennium Item. Am I talking about Yugi, or Bakura? In a sharp contrast of course, Yugi willingly partners with Yami, while Bakura is always the Ring's first victim.
* FriendlessBackground: Averted! And how! He did have a lot of friends, but thanks to the spirit of the Millennium Ring, all of them ended up comas because Yami Bakura would play shadow games with them. Causing poor Ryou to transfer schools like no other.
* GameMaster: Although never shown on-screen in the position, he love building game boards and figures due to his love for Tabletops (even making a giant diorama of Ancient Egypt that serves as the battleground for the final arc), and would play with his friends more often if it wasn't for his KillerGameMaster SuperPoweredEvilSide.
** KillerGameMaster: Arguably. Even without taking the Spirit's cheating into account, Ryou's shown scenarios of Monster World and Memory World are ''heavily'' biased against the players. While the second may be explained by it having been requested by the Spirit, the first was entirely created by him.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: His round eyes nicely contrast with the Spirit of the Ring's narrow ones.
* HeroicSacrifice: Tries to make one in Duelist Kingdom, when, having been transformed into the card Change of Heart, he possesses on the Ring's monsters and orders Yami to attack him; this would have won Yami the duel at the cost of sending Bakura to the Card Graveyard.
** The manga's equivalent of that scene plays this trope straight during the Monster World RPG arc, until Bakura is revive by a dice roll and his character's special ability.
* HydePlaysJekyll: Good luck telling whether it's him or the Spirit of the Millennium Ring impersonating him at any given time.
* ImpaledPalm: Happens during the Monster World arc when Dark Bakura finds out that Ryo had taken control of his left hand, and then proceeds to impale it on one of the game's towers. Ouch.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Even with the death of his dear little sister(implied to have lost his mother too), losing all his friends(not counting his current friends) who are now in comas, his father barely in the picture, being alone and dealing with Yami Bakura, its amazing how Ryou never once made a FaceHeelTurn.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: A Platonic version of this, Anzu shows a lot more aggression, and has her ActionGirl moments, while Ryou is quiet, shy, and likes to keep to himself. He doesn't seem to like fighting, and would rather be a NiceGuy about most things. Unless when it comes to dealing with Yami Bakura.
* MrExposition: The dub seemed to give him this role in the Duelist Kingdom arc. Most of his lines are generally spent describing what the Duel Monsters do, the basic rules, or what Yugi and/or Jonouchi's strategies are supposed to be.
* MissingMom: It's implied that his mom died when he was younger. Many fans have theories that his mother was killed alongside his little sister.
* NewTransferStudent: His manner of introduction...and turns out to be his shtick, thanks to his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* NiceGuy: He really is, which makes his victimisation by the Ring all the sadder.
* NonActionGuy: Ryou himself doesn't actually duel that much, he prefers Monster World. And he doesn't get into fist-fights like Honda and Jonouchi do.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: In duelist Kingdom, when Yugi hit his HeroicBSOD moment, through Anzu's duel with Mai, [[HoYay he held onto Yugi's shoulders. Not once letting go until the duel is over, sure it was his way of comforting Yugi,]] but Jonouchi did the same thing, and let go moments after the duel began.
** [[ShipTease Ryou sure did stick around Anzu, a lot in Duelist Kingdom.]]
* ShipTease: With Yugi in season 0, and a bit within the first arc of the second anime. And with Anzu, though with her it was just a matter of the two of them being nearly side-by-side in many of the scenes of Duelist Kingdom arc. It wouldn't be much of a surprise seeing as how Anzu is the only girl that hasn't fangirl over him.
** In the abridged, he was often hitting on her and Yugi.
* ShrinkingViolet: He rivals Yugi's own Shyness.
* [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Shy Blue-Haired Guy]]: In the toei anime, he had blueish hair, but he was still just as shy as ever.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Besides being good-looking, it may be why Miho got a huge crush on him. Much to his dismay. Most of his fangirls would also tell you this as well.
* TheSmartGuy: In the manga and in Season 1 of the anime.
* SupremeChef: When the gang camped out with Mai during Duelist Kingdom, Bakura was said to be this.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His dark side is this, but otherwise averted.
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* SixthRanger: After the DDM arc, he joins with the main group somewhat.
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* GameMaster: Although never shown on-screen in the position, he love building game boards and figures due to his love for Tabletops ([[spoiler:even making a giant diorama of Ancient Egypt that serves as the battleground for the final arc]]), and would play with his friends more often if it wasn't for his KillerGameMaster SuperPoweredEvilSide.
** KillerGameMaster: Arguably. Even without taking the Spirit's cheating into account, Ryou's shown scenarios of Monster World and [[spoiler:Memory World]] are ''heavily'' biased against the players. While the second may be explained by [[spoiler:it having been requested by the Spirit]], the first was entirely created by him.
** KillerGameMaster: Arguably. Even without taking the Spirit's cheating into account, Ryou's shown scenarios of Monster World and [[spoiler:Memory World]] are ''heavily'' biased against the players. While the second may be explained by [[spoiler:it having been requested by the Spirit]], the first was entirely created by him.
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* LetsGetDangerous: The duel between Yugi and Jounouchi during Battle City (rather, its consequences), in which [[spoiler: she fearlessly jumps into the sea to rescue Joey after he sacrifices himself for Yugi]].
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* TheDragon: To his father, Mr. Clown, in the manga at first.
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* FakeBrit: In the dub.
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* MeaningfulName: Kawaii means cute in Japanese. Shizuka means quiet, or silence. Her English name Serenity reflects this.
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* ILetYouWin: How her duel with Yugi ended. Yugi forfeited the match when he actually had a card that wouldn't won him the duel. But did show in order to teach her to respect her cards.
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