History Characters / YuGiOhSupportingCharacters

* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: He did this a few times with his Millennium Key, entering the "Soul Room" of the person of his choice. He's also capable of remodeling said rooms, thus altering that person's personality, up to making them into his puppet.

* TheChessmaster: Hasan in the Pharaoh's Memory being revealed as Shadi might have been because of Shadi himself interfering with the Shadow RPG to save the Pharaoh. He also seemed to work behind the scenes to get the Pharaoh to the afterlife and destroy the Millennium Items. See TheUnfettered below.

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

-->Voiced by: Creator/HikaruMidorikawa (Japanese Toei anime), Creator/KenjiroTsuda (Duel Monsters), EricStuart (English)

--> Voiced by: Creator/HaruhiTerada (Japanese), MeganHollingshead (English Season 1-3) / Bella Hudson (English Season 4-5)

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic

* 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).

* ScrewDestiny: Notably in his duel against Ishizu.

* ShipTease: With Yugi Mutou, Katsuya Jonouchi/Joey Wheeler (especially in the Abridged Series), and Blue Eyes White Dragon.

* 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.

* TheDragon: To his father, Mr. Clown, in the Dragons, Dice & Dungeons arc of the manga.

* TheCasanova: The anime version of the character, where he makes it a point to be accompanied by his fangirl cheerleaders and also pursues Jonouchi's little sister. In the more serious manga incarnation, the familiar Bakura fangirls from the Monster World arc swoon over Ryuji during his first appearance at school, but he neither cares nor drags them around with him to stroke his ego. He also doesn't show any romantic feelings towards Jonouchi's sister (though he did say Mai was hot at one point during Battle City).

* 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.

[[folder:Shizuka Kawai (Serenity Wheeler)]]
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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 the later parts of Battle City.

She never plays any games in the manga - her role in Battle City is to give Jonouchi her support. In the anime, [[AscendedExtra they play her up a bit]], especially in the Virtual World filler, and even gave some of Ryo Bakura's scenes to her because [[DemotedToExtra why not]]. 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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* ActionGirl: In the anime, Manages to play the part by the end of her duel with Soichiro Ota.
* 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 Anzu's Brains and Mai's Brawn. One could argue that in her duel alongside Ryuji and Honda she also plays this role, with Honda as the muscle, and Ryuji the brains.
* BeginnersLuck: Against Soichiro Ota. Sure she has lots of help from Honda and 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. In the anime, her love for Jonouchi extended to her jumping in the river after having her eye surgery. Talk about devotion.
* BigDamnHeroes: Before she removed her bandages, the series 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. Though that only happens in the anime.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Redhead.
* ChekhovsGun: At the start of the duel with Soichiro Ota ,we see her specifically selecting St. Joan (which ain't a bad pick). Guess which card takes out Ota's Perfect Machine King?
* [[ChickMagnet Dude Magnet]]: For part of the anime's version of Battle City arc, Ryuji and Honda fight for her affections. In the end, they both try giving her their numbers. This is not the case in the manga, where they simply treat her as their friend's sister.
* GrewASpine: She wasn't a coward at first, but she spends most of her duel with Soichiro scared and confused. Towards the end, she finally develops a backbone and comes back strong, taking Soichiro down after Ryuji fails.
* HeroicBSOD: After Honda is defeated by Soichiro Ota.
* IllGirl: During the Duelist Kingdom arc, 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 defeat of Marik in the anime (the following is a scene directly from the manga that originally had [[DemotedToExtra Ryo Bakura]] instead of Shizuka), and Mai should be back. She appears to be the same, and Jonouchi'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 Shizuka for helping her. An utterly-confused Jonouchi looks at her, and she simply sticks her tongue out as she giggles.
* LadyOfWar: Not Shizuka 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 Jonouchi 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: In anime filler, she starts out as this in her duel with Soichiro Ota, repeatedly requiring Honda and Otogi 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: Shizuka means quiet, or silence. Her English name, Serenity, reflects this.
* MoralityPet: For Katsuya Jonouchi, her older brother.
* ObliviousToLove: She didn't realize that Anime 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: In terms of the anime. You can spot the exact moment in the duel with Soichiro Ota where she decides to say "screw you" and starts channeling her brother for all she's worth.
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She never plays any games in the manga. In the anime, 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.

* ActionGirl: Manages to play the part by the end of her duel with Nesbitt.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

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, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny 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 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''.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Used to be one - of the gaming variety? His deck in the Duel Monsters anime plays straight to that.

* [[YoureNothingWithoutYourPhlebotinum You're Nothing Without Your Millennium Puzzle]]: In the manga, he initially believes Yugi is nothing without the Millennium Puzzle giving him the expert gaming personality after his connection to Dark Yugi is cut off, and that he doesn't deserved to be the King of Games.

* [[YoureNothingWithoutYourPhlebotinum You're Nothing Without Your Millennium Puzzle]]: In the manga, he initially believes Yugi is nothing without the Millennium Puzzle giving him the expert gaming personality after his connection to Dark Yugi is cut off.

* [[YoureNothingWithoutYourPhlebotinum YoureNothingWithoutYourMillenniumPuzzle]]: In the manga, he initially believes Yugi is nothing without the Millennium Puzzle giving him the expert gaming personality after his connection to Dark Yugi is cut off.

* GracefulLoser: Although he gets distraught after being beaten by Yugi in a game of Four Aces, it's 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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. In the manga, he grows to view Yugi as a WorthyOpponent during their battle, and is more than willing to become his friend after he realizes that his father's revenge is going too far and that he doesn't hate the Mutou family as much as his dad does. He even lends a helping hand to Yugi's friends when his father kidnaps Yugi to play the Devil's Board Game.

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.

''"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 death.

''"When determining victory or failure in a game, don't you use your opponent's weaknesses to win it?"''

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.

** DarkActionGirl: In season 4, after she becomes corrupted by the Orichalcos and starts working for Dartz.

* BikerBabe: She shows herself to be adept at riding a motorcycle in the DOMA arc.

* BreakTheCutie: During the Battle City arc.
* BrokenBird: In the beginning, she's an ex-LonelyRichKid who had lived by and relied on herself since her parents had passed on, acting cynical and disenchanted until Jounouchi calls her out on her treatment of her opponents, Yugi wins back the star chips she lost due to the Player Killer, and (in the anime) Anzu duels her for Yugi's sake. After she defrosts, she reverts because Yami Marik put her into a coma where she was trapped in an hourglass, slowly forgetting everyone who ever loved her. Then, she has recurring nightmares about the experience. This leads to why she winds up joining the villains for Season 4, because they have a magic thing called the Orichalcos that helps her cope.
* ChristmasCake: Actually, [[CelibateHero by her own choice]]. She ''did'' have a HopelessSuitor and blew him off, defeating him in a duel when he wouldn't give up.

* DemotedToExtra: After Doma, she's relegated to just making a couple of silent cameos for the remainder of the anime.

* DeusAngstMachina[=/=]TraumaCongaLine: From Dark Marik's Penalty Game to Doma.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Does this to Joey during Battle City after his BrainwashedAndCrazy period.

** Has a run-in with it at the end of her duel with Marik. Despite having the means to win the duel[[note]]Yami Marik only had one monster in Attack position with 500 ATK and 1050 Life Points, Mai had Cyber Harpie with 1800 ATK[[/note]] by just declaring an attack, she chooses to try and beat Yami Marik with the Winged Dragon of Ra, despite the fact she has no idea how it works and a first-hand demonstration in the previous duel that using the card is highly dangerous.
** It happens again in Season 4: when she duels Raphael, Mai attempts to use Jonouchi's Helmos card despite not being one of the three chosen duelists. [[CurbStompBattle It doesn't go well for her.]]

* MindRape: By Marik during Battle City. In the anime, this lead to a HeroicBSOD and a FaceHeelTurn in the Doma filler arc.
* MoreThanMindControl: How Dartz got her to serve him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After she beats Jounouchi in the Doma arc, causing him to lose his soul.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: She's a very good duelist and strategist, but has the misfortune to be on the same team as Yugi and Kaiba (who have connections to Ancient Egypt and some of the most powerful cards around) and ends up going up against [[BigBad Dark]] [[TheSociopath Marik]] in the Battle City semifinals.

* {{Sexophone}}: New music always played whenever she showed up in the first season, and ocassionally in the second season. Stopped in season four due to her change of sides.
* ShipTease: With Joey.

* ThighHighBoots: Wore these while she was Brainwashed by Dartz during the Doma arc.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Jounouchi.