History Manga / YuGiOhR

* CloningBlues: Played with, as while Yakou and Gekko are natural identical twins, flashbacks reveal that Yakou always felt like an inferior copy of his twin brother.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Bandit Keith gets to be both on the giving and the receiving end of this one. The former is when he starts beating Ted Banias up and increases the amount of debt he owes him, all for losing a duel against [[spoiler: Gekko]]. The latter comes almost immediately afterwards, when Richie starts to kick Keith around for not following orders once they meet up. [[spoiler: Keith then returns the favor by knocking Richie down and then defeating him with the Wicked Eraser.]]

* SenpaiKohai: Yako is Pegasus' kohai.

-->'''Jonouchi''': All right! So it's MY lucky day after all!
-->'''Honda''': You seem more like a gambler than a duelist...

* ComicallySmallBribe: [[UnderestimatingBadassery Yako's initially offered bounty for defeating Jonouchi, a Duelist Kingdom finalist and Battle City semi-finalist, is a paltry $10.]] [[BlankWhiteEyes Jonouchi isn't happy]] when Tilla informs him of this.
** Downplayed in later chapters, where its revealed that any Card Professor who beats him would get to duel Yugi, so while the bounty is still incredibly low (the last time its given any value is right before his duel against Mendo Cino, in which he laments Jonuchi is only worth 500), its still enough for them to bother.

** He zig-zags this all over the place with Gekko, though, commenting that their dueling styles are similar, yet Richie was winning for most of the duel [[spoiler: and won]], and they were fighting for similar reasons, Gekko was fighting to ''protect'' Yako, who he still had, while Richie didn't have Pegasus, making him more desperate to save him.

* SempaiKohai: Yako is Pegasus' kohai.

-->'''Yugi''': You're a Card Professor?!\\

* ShrinkingViolet: [[{{Meganekko}} Reiko]], whose first instinct upon encountering another Duelist is to run away, and is described as having no fighting spirit when she does duel. Ironically, she would have beaten Jonouchi if she had stuck to her passive deck destruction strategy instead of gaining the confidence to straight-out attack him.

* ThemeDeck: Naturally.

** The ThemeDeck of Mendo Cino consists of mantises. The Dreadscythe Harvester, Cino's ace monster, is larger than even the duelist who uses it.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Depres Scott's ThemeDeck plays with this; monsters in space are assigned a number of "life stars" based on their level and [[DeathsHourglass lose one at the end of each turn]]. Once they run out, they're automatically destroyed.

* NotSoDifferent:

A spinoff of the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' series, specifically the [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]], ''Yu-Gi-Oh! R'' is written by Akira Ito, one of Creator/KazukiTakahashi's assistants on the manga. The story, taking place [[{{Interquel}} between the Battle City and Memory World arcs]], kicks off with Yako Tenma, Pegasus' adopted son and protege, taking over Kaiba Corp and challenging Yugi to a duel. There, he reveals "The Wicked Avatar," one of three "Evil Gods" that Pegasus had designed before his death. After [[TheWorfEffect destroying Yugi's Osiris in one blow]], Yako kidnaps Anzu and takes her to the Kaiba Corp building, where he intends to sacrifice her in "Project RA" as revenge for Yugi causing Pegasus's death at the end of Duelist Kingdom, unaware that it was Dark Bakura that killed him.

A spinoff of the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' series, specifically the [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]], ''Manga/YuGiOhR'' is written by Akira Ito, one of Creator/KazukiTakahashi's assistants on the manga. The story, taking place [[{{Interquel}} between the Battle City and Memory World arcs]], kicks off with Yako Tenma, Pegasus' adopted son and protege, taking over Kaiba Corp and challenging Yugi to a duel. There, he reveals "The Wicked Avatar," one of three "Evil Gods" that Pegasus had designed before his death. After [[TheWorfEffect destroying Yugi's Osiris in one blow]], Yako kidnaps Anzu and takes her to the Kaiba Corp building, where he intends to sacrifice her in "Project RA" as revenge for Yugi causing Pegasus's death at the end of Duelist Kingdom, unaware that it was Dark Bakura that killed him.

** Subverted however, in that both Yugi and Kaiba have alternatives to still make said cards work, with Arcana Knight Joker acting as a Fusion of the Poker Knights, and Kaiba unveiling strategies to get Blue-Eyes onto the field faster.

* RousingSpeech: The speech Gekko delivers to Yako near the end of the series, after Yami manages to have the Wicked Avatar destroyed and Yako is on the verge of forfeiting the duel, basically boils down to Gekko telling Yako to DareToBeBadass. Gekko argues that, while Gekko himself is incapable of growing any stronger, Yako, as the "rough diamond", still has a lot of space for improvement, and, given enough time and experience to hone his skills, his own potential will shine forth, as Pegasus saw through the Millennium Eye. The speech inspires Yako to continue his duel against Yami. After the duel ends, Yako thanks Gekko, claiming that he would have regretted it had he gone through with the forfeit.

** This is [[EnforcedTrope enforced]] as the main offensive options for Deschutes Lew, as he utilizes Spells, Traps, and/or Monster effects to make his opponent's monsters attack his opponent for him.[[note]]It backfires on him at the end of his duel against Yami, however, as Yami counters Lew's efforts with a Spell Card of his own, bringing his monster back to his side as a result. Lew, meanwhile, is left wide open, having tributed his own monster to activate the Trap needed to take Yami's monster in the first place. Guess who wins...[[/note]]

* HopeSpot: During Gekko's duel with Richie, [[spoiler: just as Gekko is about to win with a devastating direct attack, there is a sudden flash of light and Richie has won. A quick flashback next chapter reveals what happened.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Lampshaded by Richie after [[spoiler: Yugi defeats Depre]], noting that Yugi's desire to save Anzu is very much the same as their desire to revive Pegasus.

* NotSoStoic: Depres Scott. Normally he shows little emotion, but during his duel with Yugi he lets loose with an EvilLaugh when he has Yugi near defeat, and then [[spoiler: breaks down in tears after losing to Yugi]] so much Richie has to get someone to take care of him.

** Played straight in the duel between Ted Banias and [[spoiler:Gekko]]. [[note]]The duel ends this way: Ted has one monster out while his opponent, having sent the total of 5 equip spell cards into his own Graveyard, activates one spell card to bring those equip spell cards back onto the field as monsters and one other spell card to boost each of the equip-card-turned-monsters up to 2500 in Attack. One of the 5 equip-card-turned-monsters destroys Ted's monster, leaving Ted at the mercy of the remaining four. Just two of them would have wiped out Ted's Life Points to 0, much less four.[[/note]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: When Jonouchi first encounters Reiko Kitamori, he thinks she doesn't look too tough. While Reiko is [[ShrinkingViolet easily intimidated]], she uses a solely defensive deck-destruction strategy that leaves him helpless until he convinces her to attack him. And she only started playing Duel Monsters a month ago.

* WeakButSkilled: [[spoiler: Gekko Tenma, who uses hordes of low attack monsters with potent effects, supplemented with spells and traps.]] Richie uses a similar strategy, and lampshades the similarities.