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** I believe it’s stated that the key Mokuba has is actually to the room where [=KaibaCorp=] keeps its contracts. Without them, Pegasus wouldn’t be able to take control of the company. Bakura only leaves to go after Honda when he hears this from Mr. Crocketts; so it seems the most likely explanation is that once he steals the key, he intends to use it to trade to Pegasus for his Millennium Eye (Pegasus isn’t going to need it once he’s beaten Yugi, after all). Sure, Bakura’s expecting Yugi to win, but it never hurts to have a convenient contingency plan if he doesn’t. The real question then is why they chose to leave it on his comatose body instead of taking it…
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** I believe it’s stated that the key Mokuba has is actually to the room where [=KaibaCorp=] keeps its contracts. Without them, Pegasus wouldn’t be able to take control of the company. Bakura only leaves to go after Honda when he hears this from Mr. Crocketts; so it seems the most likely explanation is that once he steals the key, he intends to use it to trade to Pegasus for his Millennium Eye (Pegasus isn’t going to need it once he’s beaten Yugi, after all). Sure, Bakura’s expecting Yugi to win, but it never hurts to have a convenient contingency plan if he doesn’t. The real question then is why they Pegasus' goons chose to leave it something so important on his comatose body instead of taking it…
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** According to Mr. Crocketts (Croquet in the dub), Mokuba’s body has the key to the room where the contracts are that will give Pegasus control of KaibaCorp once he beats Yugi (Please don’t ask why they opted to keep something so important on a comatose body). Bakura only leaves to follow Honda after he’s heard this, so presumably the idea in the original is that he’s not after ''Mokuba'' at all, but to that key. With that, he could steal the contracts and use them to trade to Pegasus for his Millennium Eye (Pegasus isn’t going to need it once he’s beaten Yugi, after all). Sure, Bakura’s expecting Yugi to win, but it never hurts to have a convenient contingency plan if he doesn’t.
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** According to Mr. Crocketts (Croquet in the dub), Mokuba’s body has I believe it’s stated that the key Mokuba has is actually to the room where the contracts are that will give [=KaibaCorp=] keeps its contracts. Without them, Pegasus wouldn’t be able to take control of KaibaCorp once he beats Yugi (Please don’t ask why they opted to keep something so important on a comatose body). the company. Bakura only leaves to follow go after Honda after he’s heard this, when he hears this from Mr. Crocketts; so presumably it seems the idea in the original most likely explanation is that he’s not after ''Mokuba'' at all, but to that key. With that, once he could steal steals the contracts and key, he intends to use them it to trade to Pegasus for his Millennium Eye (Pegasus isn’t going to need it once he’s beaten Yugi, after all). Sure, Bakura’s expecting Yugi to win, but it never hurts to have a convenient contingency plan if he doesn’t. The real question then is why they chose to leave it on his comatose body instead of taking it…
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** According to Mr. Crocketts (Croquet in the dub), Mokuba’s body has the key to the room where the contracts are that will give Pegasus control of KaibaCorp once he beats Yugi (Please don’t ask why they opted to keep something so important on a comatose body). Bakura only leaves to follow Honda after he’s heard this, so presumably the idea in the original is that he’s not after ''Mokuba'' at all, but to that key. With that, he could steal the contracts and use them to trade to Pegasus for his Millennium Eye (Pegasus isn’t going to need it once he’s beaten Yugi, after all). Sure, Bakura’s expecting Yugi to win, but it never hurts to have a convenient contingency plan if he doesn’t.
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* Whatever happened to the Millennium Tome/Spellbook that, y'know, enabled Egypt's dominance through invincible summoned armies and led to the creation of the Millennium Items? It's not like it was explicitly destroyed/depowered after Zorc was defeated by Horakhty...
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*** Amusingly enough, ''GX'' actually '''does''' show people getting booster packs and upgrading their decks with them.
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*** That one's probably because Pegasus makes more sense as a surname, and Crawford is a surname, too; Japanese kids might not pick up on the GratuitousEnglish naming weirdness, but an English audience ''would''. Rather than confusing kids with an inversion of TwoFirstNames, they probably decided to give him an ''actual'' given name and drop one of the surnames. Maximillion is an actual given name (and sounds kinda pretentious), and Pegasus is a lot more memorable than Crawford, so it makes sense.
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*** The King of Games title was just some weird dub change. In Japan and the manga the title is called King of Duels instead, clearly referring to Duel Monsters.
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** At least in the official game, public knowledge rules allow you to read any card your opponent has in play whenever you want, as long as that card is face-up (to vastly simplify things). Presumably, the same rule is in effect in the series, and most players are either so arrogant, or so used to just facing normal monsters, that they don't think to ''ask'' if their opponent's monster has an effect.
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** Duel Monsters clearly [[AintNoRule did not have rules forbidding the usage of ancient Egyptian magic (or laser beams)]]. Considering that most of the monsters ''are'' ancient Egyptian magic, enforcing such a rule would be infeasible at best.
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*** You said the key word right there: Arkana sacrificed ''Dark Magician''. They were building up Mahad's undying loyalty to his pharaoh, and Atem's undying respect for and loyalty to his loyal friend. The entire point was that the duel woke Mahad up: Arkana throwing his Dark Magician away for a cheap shot made him realise that the man he'd been serving wasn't his pharaoh, while Yugi's Dark Magician willingly leaped into the way and sacrificed itself to protect his friend's life points. Both cards were acting as Mahad, and siding with Mana (as Dark Magician Girl) to protect their pharaoh from beyond the grave. If it was any other monster, it wouldn't have been nearly as big a deal; case in point, Yugi's thrown some of his own monsters for cheap shots with Catapult Turtle. It was about Arkana literally ''trying to beat Atem to death with one of his closest friends' soul'', and Mahad was '''not''' down for it.
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** Troll logic: If Yugi's the King of Games (plural), then surely he should be able to figure out and master any game with ease, right? If he can't do that, he isn't worthy of the title, and is just the king of ''one'' game.
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** He had a bit of a crush on her, and wanted to impress her?
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*** Not just that, Kaiba seems to like Yugi (as much as Kaiba can like anyone), but also thinks of himself as the better of the two. He's fine with Yugi up until someone implies that Yugi can do something he can't, or that Yugi's better at something than he is, or anything else that would imply that Kaiba is the inferior of the two. It's precisely ''because'' of their rivalry that Mokuba asking Yugi for help was so bad; if Mokuba had brought Yugi to show off, and Yugi just ''happened'' to help of his own accord, it probably would've gone over much better. But with Mokuba specifically asking Yugi to help Seto, he was saying that Seto couldn't handle the Big Five... but ''Yugi'' could. He probably saw it as an insult, even if not an intentional one. As if Mokuba was saying, "Yugi's better than you."
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** Those three people aren't actually participants in the tournament, and thus aren't subject to the same rules as participants would be; they're essentially just Yugi & Joey's cheerleaders, which Pegasus seems to be okay with.
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*** The card Pegasus used to defeat Bandit Keith in this duel has since been released as [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Flying_Elephant a real card]], and its effect does help give something of an explanation. Specifically, it has the ability to win the duel immediately after dealing battle through a direct attack under certain conditions. Presumably the anime card has a similar effect, and that's why Keith lost when the kid played it.
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*** The card Pegasus used to defeat Bandit Keith in this duel has since been released as [[https://yugioh.fandom.[[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Flying_Elephant a real card]], and its effect does help give something of an explanation. Specifically, it has the ability to win the duel immediately after dealing battle through a direct attack under certain conditions. Presumably the anime card has a similar effect, and that's why Keith lost when the kid played it.
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**** In my opinion, the reaction that Dark Yugi should've really not been willing to kill a guy for getting in the way of ''one'' possible means of rescuing Grandpa Muto, is more rational, but it's more ''interesting'' if Yugi is like "oh, I'm the useless one, it's fine he did that." Yugi isn't objectively too much of a softie there, but it's more interesting to see him conflicted about it. It's sort of character development that pays off later, for instance, during the Battle City finals when Yugi and Atem plan together how to defeat Yami Malik without killing off the other Malik also. Can't just let a dude get killed when it just happens to be the easiest solution. Even if the dude is no saint himself.
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** Okay - so Takahashi eventually elaborated on this in the afterword to one of the ''Bunkoban'' rereleases. Apparently, Gozaburo played Seto ''and'' Mokuba on two boards, simultaneously. Every individual move he'd make against Mokuba, Seto would memorize to build a profile of his likely strategies.
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** For what it's worth, there is at least one point the dub where a character directly reads a card - Joey has to read Copycat during the tag duel between him and Yugi and the Paradox Brothers, since he apparently doesn't recognize it. This would seem to imply that there's still text on the cards in-universe that the audience can't see for whatever reason, so it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone has to have a bunch of effects memorized at any given time for their deck.
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** His accent honestly isn't that bad - At least I could understand what he said despite not being a native speaker (whereas I sometimes need subtitles for alleged Germans speaking German in American media, despite ''actually being'' German). It's the same reason that Yugi and Co all speak Japanese in the US during the Doma and KC Grand Prix arc, and why even Leon - a German ''child'' - speaks Japanese well enough to converse with Rebecca, an American, in Japanese: Because finding VAs whose English is good enough for that ''and'' whose voices fit ''and'' whose Japanese is good enough (in the case of Yugi & Co) would be pretty hard. I'd guess we're supposed to assume they are, in fact, talking English while in the US, but we're understanding it because Yugi understands it. If Yugi didn't know English, we'd probably be hearing it in English to emulate that.
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** His accent honestly isn't that bad - At least I could understand what he said despite not being a native speaker (whereas I sometimes need subtitles for alleged Germans speaking German in American media, despite ''actually being'' German). It's the same reason that Yugi and Co all speak Japanese in the US during the Doma and KC Grand Prix arc, and why even Leon - a German ''child'' - speaks Japanese well enough to converse with Rebecca, an American, in Japanese: Because finding VAs [=VAs=] whose English is good enough for that ''and'' whose voices fit ''and'' whose Japanese is good enough (in the case of Yugi & Co) would be pretty hard. I'd guess we're supposed to assume they are, in fact, talking English while in the US, but we're understanding it because Yugi understands it. If Yugi didn't know English, we'd probably be hearing it in English to emulate that.
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** Doing extensive research would probably include the details of each duel like the finishing move. Joey defeated Mai and Rex by Time Wizard's roulette, and Bonz through drawing Shield and Sword at the last minute. Not to mention Kaiba dueled Joey personally who made the foolish move of summoning monsters in attack mode despite having less attack points than Kaiba's monster.
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* The Ishtars have been living underground their whole lives for their tomb keeping legacy. So the day Marik and Ishizu went to the surface, how does Ishizu know what a t.v. or motorcycle is and how are they able to function in modern society even in their homeland.
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** Exodia. The Egyptian Gods have been defeated by monsters weaker than Exodia. Once Exodia hits the field, its unstoppable.
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* I get how Dartz's "Trap the souls of innocent people in my Mirror Knights" plan was supposed to stop Yugi from attacking, but how was this supposed to make Kaiba hold back? Let's pretend for a second that Kaiba believes that trapping souls inside Monster Cards is possible. The people that Dartz has trapped in Monster Cards are: 1) The guy who shares a body with his dueling archnemesis. 2) The guy who held his brother hostage and tried to take over his company. 3) A person he hates for being a disgrace to Duel Monsters. And 4) Someone Kaiba has no personal connection to. So in summation: Three people Kaiba has a vested interest in never seeing again and one that he doesn't care about. Given that this is Seto Kaiba we're talking about, what part of this was supposed to stop him from deciding that those few souls were an acceptable sacrifice for the greater good?
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* I get how Dartz's "Trap the souls of innocent people in my Mirror Knights" plan was supposed to stop Yugi Yami from attacking, but how was this supposed to make Kaiba hold back? Let's pretend for a second that Kaiba believes that trapping souls inside Monster Cards is possible. The people that Dartz has trapped in Monster Cards are: 1) The guy who shares a body with his dueling archnemesis. 2) The guy who held his brother hostage and tried to take over his company. 3) A person he hates for being a disgrace to Duel Monsters. And 4) Someone Kaiba has no personal connection to. So in summation: Three people Kaiba has a vested interest in never seeing again and one that he doesn't care about. Given that this is Seto Kaiba we're talking about, what part of this was supposed to stop him from deciding that those few souls were an acceptable sacrifice for the greater good?good?
** "Someone Kaiba has no personal connection to" applies to every person Dartz captured. He's only doing this to retrieve [=KaibaCorp=]. Since Yami and Kaiba are dueling together, Dartz only has to stop one of them and their teamwork diminishes.
** "Someone Kaiba has no personal connection to" applies to every person Dartz captured. He's only doing this to retrieve [=KaibaCorp=]. Since Yami and Kaiba are dueling together, Dartz only has to stop one of them and their teamwork diminishes.
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* I get how Dartz's "Trap the souls of innocent people in my Mirror Knights" plan was supposed to stop Yugi from attacking, but how was this supposed to make Kaiba hold back? Let's pretend for a second that Kaiba believes that trapping souls inside Monster Cards is possible. The people that Dartz has trapped in Monster Cards are: 1) The guy who shares a body with his dueling archnemesis. 2) The guy who held his brother hostage and tried to take over his company. 3) A person he hates for being a disgrace to Duel Monsters. And 4) Someone Kaiba has no personal connection to. So in summation: Three people Kaiba has a vested interest in never seeing again and one that he doesn't care about. Given that this is Seto Kaiba we're talking about, what part of this was supposed to stop him from deciding that those few souls were an acceptable sacrifice for the greater good?
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* A has an Egyptian God on the field, B summons Exodia. Which monster would win?
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** This confuses me. I just checked my Japanese copies of both the manga and the anime. Both say 5000, not 3000. So where did person get "3000" from?
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* The Yugi and Kaiba rematch. While Pegasus is basically forcing Kaiba to duel Yugi if he wants a chance to duel him and to save Mokuba, why does Yugi need to agree to this challenge where he gains nothing if he wins and won't have enough star chips to duel Pegasus if he loses. Yugi and Yami allow him the rematch to give him a chance to prove what he's learned, but that barely explains anything with the others even stating he doesn't need to duel Kaiba.
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*How did the Big Five get trapped in the virtual world? Joey, Yugi, Mokuba, Mai, and Kaiba managed to return to their bodies after ther Legendary Heroes arc just fine, and presumably they entered the game the same way. On that matter, how did they even get there? The virtual world from their first appearance was a video game Kaiba Corp. had developed, completely separate from the world Noah was in. I know this was a FillerArc to buy the manga time, but it still needs to make sense.
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*This one applies only to the original, since 4kids actually fixed it, but how did Noah not know his father was in the virtual world as well? Even if Gozaburo had somehow managed to hide his presence, you think Noah or the big five would've stumbled on his hideout.
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***Its not just during DOMA, although that was where it was the most important. Yugi's duel with Arkana made a big deal about Arkana sacrificing his Dark Magician to take a cheap shot at Yugi's life points, so much so that Dark Magician Girl gaining attack points from it being the graveyard was treated like him betraying Arkana for the manuever. To answer the original poster's question, I think it all depends on the context of the action. Sacrificing monsters in order to summon a stronger one or to pull off an effect generally isn't treated with scorn if person doing so is only doing to further their plays, since they're just playing the game normally. But when the person is laughing maniacally as they do so, or doing so just to inflict pain to their opponent like Arkana or an Orichalchos wielding Yami did, then its a sign that there's soemthing wrong with the duelist.
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**Just because he had cards doesn't mean he could've won the duel. Since neither of them used Envoy of the Beginning during the original series, its possible that Yugi obtained it between then and GX. Kuriboh may have bought Atem a turn, but by that point any card that could beat Silent Magician (who had 3500 attack) was in his grave, and to my knowledge he only had one Monster Reborn. Beyond all that, Atem may have taken Yugi's message to heart (That the dead don't belong in the world of the living, hence why he placed Monster Reborn in the Gold Sarcophagus) and accepted defeat.
