History NightmareFuel / YugiOh

* Normal Marik could be just as bad as Yami Marik at first, with his plans escalating from standard death traps to mind-controlling Yugi's friends into a death match duel where no matter who won someone would die. [[note]] This one, in particular, Seto Kaiba clearly stated [[EveryoneHasStandards that he isn't that cruel]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards even at his worst]] and considering the Death-T earlier mentioned that is saying something. [[/note]] Yami Marik later takes credit for these actions in the manga, saying that he buried Marik's conscience so he'd commit worse and worse crimes.
** Eerily, this could also be a good thing. After he is kicked out of his body and realizes the horror of what he has done, Marik thinks that the only way he atone for his sins is by dying. By the time the final match between Yami Marik and Yami Yugi comes around, he's totally given up on living. The only things he actually expresses any guilt for after he's saved is killing his father, trying to kill the pharaoh, trying to kill the normal Yugi and his friends, and making his siblings suffer because of his actions, even though both the original anime and, especially, the manga make it clear that he's done plenty of other horrible things and caused the deaths of many other people. Given his reaction to the realization that he killed his own father and tried to murder innocent people who had nothing to do with his suffering, as well as the fact that he apparently contemplated suicide in the past, it's probably a good thing that Yami Marik messed with the normal Marik's conscience, because he otherwise might have attempted suicide or completely lost his sanity from the guilt of all the other horrible things he had done.
** In the original version of the anime and the manga, Dark Marik explains his creation by saying that the pain and suffering Marik received from their father "made him desire self destruction" and that "In order to keep living, he created me." The horror sets in when you actually think about what it means; Marik wanted to kill himself; at the age of ''ten'', nonetheless; and the only way that he could not totally lose his sanity or die from the physical and mental pain he suffered was to create a whole other entity from his negative emotions.

** Yami warns Yugi during their duel with Pegasus that his soul would be ''shredded'' if he stayed in the Shadow Realm too long, and Pegasus planned to send Yugi's friends--unprotected humans--there.
** Arguably the worst part is that, considering how from Battle City on [=4Kids=] used the Shadow Realm as a catch-all HandWave for [[NeverSayDie avoiding saying a character died]], it ends up seeming that [[FromBadToWorse practically anyone with a tangential connection to the Millennium Items can initiate a Shadow Game]]. Ranging from souls being ripped apart, to people hallucinating monsters, being sent to the Shadow Realm is arguably a WORSE fate than the actual deaths [=4Kids=] was trying to avoid mentioning.

** The first vision you receive from a Millennium Item is from the future-telling Millennium Necklace. It shows Reshef burning the world to the ground, and even Yami Yugi is consumed by the flames.
** The image of Pegasus surrounded by flames from the opening [[spoiler: and ending]].

** How Pegasus creates his Toons--by sending them into Toon World and sealing them inside, if they want to or not. He's essentially conducting MindRape on the original monster to turn it into a PsychopathicManchild of itself. And let's not even get into the idea that Duel Monsters are supposed to be the incarnate souls of humans. Just think about what the Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon means in terms of ''Kisara''.

* Normal Marik could be just as bad as Yami Marik at first, with his plans escalating from standard death traps to mind-controlling Yugi's friends into a death match duel where no matter who won someone would die. [[note]] This one, in particular, Seto Kaiba clearly stated [[EveryoneHasStandards that he isn't that cruel]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards even at his worst]] and considering the Death-T earlier mentioned that is saying something. [[/note]] that Yami Marik later takes credit for these actions in the manga, saying that he buried Marik's conscience so he'd commit worse and worse crimes.

* Normal Marik could be just as bad as Yami Marik at first, with his plans escalating from standard death traps to mind-controlling Yugi's friends into a death match duel where no matter who won someone would die. Yami Marik later takes credit for these actions in the manga, saying that he buried Marik's conscience so he'd commit worse and worse crimes.

''and soon my friends, you too, will know.''

** In the Egyptian arc Thief King Bakura steals the pharaoh's sarcophagus and drags it around behind his horse as a bargaining tool, in the manga dragging his ''mummy'' around. His monster host is impervious to the sealing powers of the illennium Items, and he's still as evil and wicked when the monster is temporarily removed from him.

** Arguably the worst part is that, considering how from Battle City on [=4Kids=] used the Shadow Realm as a catch-all HandWave for [[NeverSayDie avoiding saying a character died]], it ends up seeming that [[FromBadToWorse practically anyone with a tangential connection to the Millennium Items can initiate a Shadow Game]]. Ranging from souls being ripped apart, to people hallucinating monsters, being sent to the Shadow Realm is arguably a WORSE than the actual deaths [=4Kids=] was trying to avoid mentioning.

** Arguably the worst part is that, considering how from Battle City on [=4Kids=] used the Shadow Realm as a catch-all HandWave for [[NeverSayDie avoiding saying a character died]], it ends up seeming that [[FromBadToWorse practically anyone with a tangential connection to the Millennium Items can initiate a Shadow Game]].

** You know how the Japanese anime only showed shadows while the ritual was happening? The manga shows what happened in full detail, and it's extremely unpleasant. Particularly horrifying is the fact that there are tons of men watching while little Marik is bleeding profusely and screaming bloody murder. When you considered the fact that the Ishtars are referred to as a clan and that the definition of a clan is a large group of families with a shared ethnic heritage, that means that there were potentially dozens of people who just stood by and did nothing as a innocent child was mentally and physically scared for life. It's even worse afterward; when the ritual ended, Marik was literally just dumped in part of the underground tunnels with no medical care whatsoever. He's covered in blood, half-naked, and can't even stand up because of the pain. He ends up having to drag himself over to a wall and cling to it just to be able to move at all. Keep in mind that this is a ten-year-old child going through all this. When he finally reaches what looks like a hallway, he's nearly about to pass out from blood loss and pain, and then he stumbles upon Rishid who, after scaring his own face, apparently ended up collapsing from the pain while trying to find Marik. Marik is clearly horrified by what happened to his brother and ends up collapsing while both crying his eyes out and laughing like a maniac; from the look on his face, it's quite possible that the manga actually showed the mental break than ended up triggering Dark Marik's creation.

** Along that line, while the anime hinted at Marik being traumatized and driven to some degree of legitimate insanity by his past, the manga explicitly addresses it, and it is rather unsettling. During a conversation with Rishid, Marik told his adoptive brother that "No one fears the darkness more than I do. The moments when I close my eyes to sleep, when I actually sleep, are pure terror." Marik's childhood trapped underground has literally given him PTSD and anxiety so bad that he purposely goes long periods without sleep because simply closing his eyes, or even thinking about doing so, will give give him panic attacks. In the same conversation, he openly talks about wanting to kill himself. From Rishid's thoughts, particularly his thinking that he would kill himself, too, if Marik ever committed suicide, it seems like this isn't the first time Marik has contemplated killing himself, either.

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* [[BigBad Tenma Yakou]] has an EyeScream moment in the beginning of the series, after discovering [[spoiler:the duel table with Pegasus' blood splattered over it]] and Crocketts telling him that Yugi had won the duel. His eye then melts out in a surreal scene. Since then, he would usually have a case of MadEye going on.
* The villains' plan is to resurrect Pegasus in Anzu's body, which would consume her soul in the revival process and separate her from anyone who ever cared about her. Worse, since the author said Pegasus and Cyndia were together in death, the plan would have separated them again if it worked.
* The last moments of the duel between Bandit Keith and Jonochi. Keith summons [[spoiler:Wicked Eraser]] which, when it is eventually destroyed, attempts to [[spoiler:''drown Jonouchi and Keith with what appears to be its blood'']] What makes it worse is that Keith ''[[LaughingMad is laughing while he's drowning,]]'' and is [[TakingYouWithMe okay with it just as long as he makes Jonouchi suffer]]. The fact that it may or may not be a hologram... doesn't really help. At all.
* The Wicked Avatar takes Yugi's form, resulting in a shadowy, evil Yugi for Dark Yugi to face down and destroy.
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** Then there's episode 7 of the Toei anime's version of that chapter. Basically, [[spoiler: Kujirada appears to be the bad guy... until the real BigBad of that episode reveals himself in the form of a creepy, glasses-wearing little kid known as Haiyama, who until then was considered the victim of Kujirada's bullying. Turns out ''Kujirada'' is the victim and Haiyama's the one who bullied him senseless with a ''friggin whip,'' and it's implied he has a long history of doing this to big, tough-looking guys to make them do his bidding. Just imagine what would have happened had the CreepyChild not been unmasked.]] It's one of the few instances in which the anime was darker than the manga.

* Episode 4 of the Toei anime has perhaps the most horrific scene in the entire franchise. Yugi battles a thug obsessed with watches who stole Honda's--the Shadow Game has them trying to recover it from a periodic spring, before a giant pendulum takes their hand. [[spoiler: When the thug tries to cheat, the pendulum automatically swipes across his hand--and instead of blood, he sees gears and sprockets in the gash, and lets out a ''horrible'' scream as his glasses fall off and reveal clock hands in his eyes.]]
* Yami Bakura [[spoiler:growing a duel disk [[BodyHorror right out of his arm]] in the manga version of the Memory World arc]].

* One Toei-anime only episode involved Kaoruko Himekoji, a model who humiliated Miho at a beauty contest by drugging her and ripping her dress apart. Dark Yugi challenged her to a game where they would pick roses from a collection, the loser being the one who picks the last rose. After he wins by picking the second-last rose from Kaoruko's hair, Yugi gives her a Penalty Game where she sees herself as old and ugly... and with ''snakes'' wrapping around her wrists.
* Episode 15 had Risa Kageyama and her two identical sisters, witches who want to collect Yugi's Violet Hecate card and stole the Millennium Puzzle to do it. They were about to defeat Yugi in a duel until Kaiba stepped in, they almost beat Kaiba as well, and get no punishment for their actions. Even worse is that they can easily act like kind, sweet girls, with Risa befriending Yugi at first. They also wield [[WhipItGood whips]], and the scene where they break into Yugi's house has them dropping in from above and attacking Honda and Jonouchi as they chase Yugi down.

** Arguably the worst part is that, considering how 4Kids used the Shadow Realm as a catch-all HandWave for [[NeverSayDie avoiding saying a character died]], it ends up seeming that [[FromBadToWorse practically anyone with a tangential connection to the Millennium Items can initiate a Shadow Game]].

* Despite the dub having most deaths be replaced with the Shadow Realm, the Realm itself is a place of darkness, pain, and agony where monsters feast on your body and soul as you slowly disappear into oblivion--meaning you can die horribly and painfully while already dead. Any soul sent there increases the power of a Millennium Item, and it's implied the bearer of an Item can leech off trapped souls for extra power.

* The Toei anime had a set of girls called the Kageyama sisters, witches who want to collect Yugi's Violet Hecate card and stole the Millennium Puzzle to do it. They were about to defeat Yugi until Kaiba stepped in, and get no punishment for their actions. Even worse is that normally they're kind, sweet girls until Duel Monsters is mentioned, with Risa befriending Yugi at first. They also wield [[WhipItGood whips]].

* The very first chapter has Ushio beating Jonouchi and Honda up and forcing Yugi to pay him or he'll do the same to him. When Yami Yugi awakens, he challenges Ushio to a game involving money and a knife. They'd take turns stabbing the bills, balanced on their hand, and whoever stabbed their hand first would lose. After fighting the urge to swing the knife as hard as he can, Ushio tries to stab Yugi, but is given a penalty game where ''everything'' he sees looks like money.

* Imori and his soul-eating Dragon Jar in Chapters 46 and 47 of the manga (and the Toei anime). In the manga Imori states that it takes the Jar about 3 months to fully consume a victim's soul, implying that you spend 3 months being eaten little by little. Worse, Yugi was imprisoned there briefly.

** Yami Marik is ''so'' evil and psychotic he freaks out ''Yami Bakura''. During their Shadow Game, the evil spirit is visibly frightened by the conditions--losing Life Points causes your body to be eaten by the darkness and disappear.
** Yami Marik killed Marik's father in the dub by sending him to the Shadow Realm (where he died) and stabbing him to death in the Japanese version of the anime. All of that pales to how he killed him in the manga, where he [[spoiler:skinned him alive]].
** Even worse than how Marik's father was killed in the manga is why. [[spoiler: He brutally tortured and then murdered (or so he thought) Rishid in front of Marik to punish him for sneaking outside, all while laughing and taunting his son about it like a psychopath.]]
** In the manga, the scene following Marik's father's murder is extremely disturbing and heartbreaking. In the anime, Rishid was able to make Marik switch back to his normal self and then cradled him in his arms like a baby to try and calm him down. In the manga, he is able to make Dark Marik go away, but then proceeds to pass out due to blood loss, and normal Marik thinks he's dead. Understandably, normal Marik is terrified and hysterical; his father is dead, his older brother is almost dead, there's blood everywhere, and it's implied that he thought Ishizu (who had been smashed through a wall by Dark Marik) was dead as well. Being as how he was already very messed up from his father's abuse and everything before this, it's actually not all that surprising that he not only snapped and became so sadistic, but became easily influenced by his evil side's suggestions; If you were an already mentally disturbed young child who passed out and woke up to find your entire family brutally slaughtered (or so you thought) and yourself in the middle of all the gore that would most certainly be enough to totally break you.
* Normal Marik could be just as bad as Yami Marik at first, with his plans escalating from standard death traps to mind-controlling Yugi's friends into a death match duel where no matter who won someone would die. Yami Marik later takes credit for these actions in the manga, saying that he buried Marik's conscience so he'd commit worse and worse crimes. That being said...dang...normal Marik is portrayed as much smarter and extremely more sadistic on his own in the manga, to the point that he gets joy out of brainwashing someone to commit suicide and, from what is implied, has killed God knows how many people before the start of the series and has pretty much zero remorse about admitting it at the beginning of the battle-city arc.
** The extent to which Marik has no value whatsoever for human life in the manga is disturbingly quite blatant. During one of his duels with Yugi, he goes on a rant about how weak the human mind is and how manipulability of people is the only thing that stops them from being worse less. He actually says that he is the closest thing there is to an actual God; he thinks that people who believe in God are idiots, and that it just makes it easier to overpower their minds and convince them to do his bidding. Although, the last part is actually made more understandable after the end of the duel where Marik has a conversation with himself and talks about how he wants to be stronger than God himself; basically, the guy is just extremely pissed at everyone and everything for his miserable life and just wants to prevent himself from ever being hurt again.
** That being said, what's almost even worse is the fact that in the manga and original anime, but particularly the manga, is that it's made extremely clear that Marik is severally mentally disturbed and traumatized from his horrible past, to that point that, while it doesn't excuse his actions, his sadism and stuff actually makes sense. The most prominent example of this is a scene between him and Rishid in the manga where it's revealed that Marik hardly ever actually sleeps because he's developed an intensely traumatic fear of the dark and suffers from severe flashbacks and panic attacks every time he tries to close his eyes. He even admits to having severe anxiety at even the thought of having to sleep. The guy is more or less just extremely pissed at the entire world for the suffering and despair he experienced and he just really wants to hurt people to get back at the universe for giving him what he perceives as a crappy and unjust fate.
** The most disturbing thing in the manga, though, is how Marik actually has no regard for his own life and is EXTREMELY suicidal. Although, if you have seen the original anime this shouldn't be particularly shocking, as Dark Marik flat out says that his creation was due to Marik desiring "self-destruction" (i.e, suicide) and his creation was actually necessary to keep Marik from going fully insane and killing himself. In the manga, though, it's disturbingly blatant and was actually edited out of the original anime; Marik flat-out orders Rishid that he is to kill him should their plot to kill Yami Yugi fail. From what he was thinking during that conversation, though, it's heavily implied that, if he did succeed, then he would go off somewhere by himself and quietly off himself anyway. In both the manga and original anime, he has a conversation with his sister in which he says that he isn't a strong human being and can't survive without Rishid by his side and goes on to imply that, if it hadn't been for Rishid, he would have killed himself long ago. In the manga, when Marik is also seen thinking about his crimes after his dark side kicks him out of his body, he actually makes reference to both contemplating and actually planning to commit suicide multiple times in the past, only for Rishid to unknowingly stop him; from what he said, it seems like Rishid taking care of him and being the only person he could trust gave him enough courage and hope to decide to keep living for a while longer and, on the occasions in which he came very close to actually killing himself, the thought of how Rishid would react to his death and the fact that he would be leaving his older brother all alone caused him to not go through with it. While it is disturbing, Marik's history of being suicidal actually makes the fact that he wants Yugi to kill him and can't understand why both Yugi's think his life has value and want to save him make a lot more sense.

* Guardian Dreadscythe, a darker zombified version of Guardian Eatos wearing a mask. It's big, intimidating, almost impossible to defeat, and it by the look in its eye it likely takes pleasure in destroying its enemies. It beheaded a dragon!
** Dreadscythe is implacable, as it cannot leave the field if you draw enough cards. It will just keep hacking and slashing... and then there is Soul Hunting, its trap card, which works against cards that switch it to defense mode, the only real way to stop it. It is the GrimReaper, and it now swipes away any defense mode monsters you have, leading to most likely a direct attack. By a big, monstrous thing wielding a ''huge sickle.''

--> ''What's wrong now, you look so sad.''\\

** In the manga, the scene following Marik's father's murder is extremely disturbing and heartbreaking. In the anime, Rishid was able to make Marik switch back to his normal self and then cradled him in his arms like a baby to try and calm him down. In the manga, he is able to make Dark Marik go away, but then proceeds to pass out due to blood loss, and normal Marik thinks he's dead. Understandably, normal Marik is terrified and hysterical; his father is dead, his older brother is almost dead, there's blood everywhere, and it's implied that he thought Ishizu (who had been smashed through a wall by Dark Marik) was dead as well. The most heart-wrenching part is how, after snapping out of being possessed by Dark Marik, normal Marik's first reaction is to cling to his father's mutilated corpse.
* Normal Marik could be just as bad as Yami Marik at first, with his plans escalating from standard death traps to mind-controlling Yugi's friends into a death match duel where no matter who won someone would die. Yami Marik later takes credit for these actions in the manga, saying that he buried Marik's conscience so he'd commit worse and worse crimes.

* ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheSacredCards'' has Arkana, who tells you that the loser of the duel will be chopped up. Even worse, to reach him you have to talk to an NPC who says that ''other'' people have been going to the card shop and disappearing.

* Dark Bakura and the Millennium Ring are terrifying. Just think about it. You're a shy, quiet, good kid. Then one day, your AdventurerArchaeologist father gives you a shiny little trinket from ancient Egypt, and suddenly, everything changes. You find yourself with strange gaps in your memory and people around you start going into comas for no apparent reason. And most of the time, these victims are your friends, who you were just playing a friendly tabletop RPG with the day before. Then you finally make a new friend with a similar pendant, and then [[FromBadToWorse you start hearing a voice in your head]]. And it wants to skip the comas this time and outright kill your new friends. Oh yeah, and that voice also turns out to belong to [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination that swallowed the soul of a maniacal tomb raider that looked exactly like you]]. It can [[DemonicPossession take over your body at will]], [[SpotTheImpostor flawlessly imitate your voice and behavior]] (in the anime), and do all sorts of horrible things and leave you to suffer the consequences. And no matter what you try to do about it, that accursed pendant of yours just ''[[ClingyMacguffin Won't. Go. Away]]''. This thing has you at its mercy, and there is absolutely ''nothing'' you can do to stop it.

** Don't forget he is probably a masochist, [[spoiler: who will willingly harm himself leaving his host wondering what the hell "happened to his arm."]] Not to mention in the Egyptian arc [[spoiler: he thieves the pharaoh's sarcophagus and drags it around behind his horse as a bargaining tool]] not to mention [[spoiler: his monster host is impervious to the sealing powers of the millennium items.]] And [[spoiler: he's still as evil and wicked when the monster is temporarily removed from him.]]

** Let's not forget how Pegasus creates his Toons--by sending them into Toon World and sealing them inside, if they want to or not. He's essentially conducting MindRape on the original monster to turn it into a PsychopathicManchild of itself. And let's not even get into the idea that Duel Monsters are supposed to be the incarnate souls of humans. Just think about what the Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon means in terms of ''Kisara''.

* The Doma/Doom/"Waking the Dragons" arc. The whole soul-stealing thing was bad, but considering how we had Yami using the evil "Seal of Orichalcos" card, and going all evil, only to lose his duel, but Yugi took his place so he wouldn't lose his soul, then the duel against Yugi where ''he'' used said evil card... not to mention the revelation of who the Orichalchos Knights were behind their helmets... ''gah'' that was a really dark season!

* In the manga, Japanese anime, and English dub, at the start of the Memory World arc, Yugi's grandpa gives us a flashback of when he took the Millennium Puzzle out of the Pharaoh's tomb. But in every single version, the puzzle is the ''only'' thing that's in the burial chamber of the tomb. The Pharaoh's body isn't there! Maybe sealing away that evil magic came with the price of destroying the Pharaoh's body. And if that's the case.... [[spoiler:One of the beliefs of ancient Egyptians was that the body needed to be intact to allow a spirit to enter the afterlife, so if something happened to the Pharaoh's body he shouldn't have been able to enter the afterlife no matter what the outcome of his ceremonial duel with Yugi. He should have been trapped forever between life and death, a spirit never at rest.]]
** That was the reason the Pharaoh couldn't pass on in the first place. In the manga, it was confirmed that [[spoiler:sealing himself in the Puzzle destroyed his body. He was ''already'' trapped forever between life and death, sealed in the Millennium Puzzle. The Ceremonial Battle was what was needed to allow him to pass.]]

* Episode 4 of the Toei anime has perhaps the most horrific scene in the entire franchise. Yugi battles a thug obsessed with watches who stole Honda's--the Shadow Game has them trying to recover it from a periodic spring, before a giant pendulum takes their hand. [[spoiler: When the thug tries to cheat, the pendulum automatically swipes across his hand--and instead of blood, he sees gears and sprockets in the gash, and lets out a '''HORRIBLE''' scream as his glasses fall off and reveal clock hands in his eyes.]]

* [[http://56.media.tumblr.com/a9851e57d938b4fabcc9af98babb330c/tumblr_nskqhyyMhN1u76hl0o1_1280.jpg This face]] Yami Bakura makes as he gloats that the Pharaoh's life is under his control in the Memory World RPG. It comes out of ''nowhere''.

* Yami Bakura's facial expressions become increasingly more unhinged as he gets closer to defeating the Pharaoh in the RPG. Not even the three Eygptian Gods can faze him, given that he knows for a fact that Zorc can defeat them. And how does he know?
-->'''Yami Bakura:''' Your creatures are no match for Zorc! I should know, since he and I [[spoiler:are one and the same!]]
** [[spoiler:Even the normally composed Yami Yugi is aghast that he's been seeing his ancient enemy, the cause of his thousands of years of torment in the Puzzle, throughout the entire show and had no idea until just now.]]

* Dark Bakura and the Millennium Ring are terrifying. Just think about it. You're a shy, quiet, good kid. Then one day, your AdventurerArchaeologist father gives you a shiny little trinket from ancient Egypt, and suddenly, everything changes. You find yourself with strange gaps in your memory and people around you start going into comas for no apparent reason. And most of the time, these victims are your friends, who you were just playing a friendly tabletop RPG with the day before. Then you finally make a new friend with a similar pendant, and then [[FromBadToWorse you start hearing a voice in your head]]. And it wants to skip the comas this time and outright kill your new friends. Oh yeah, and that voice also turns out to either be [[spoiler:the vengeful spirit of an ancient tomb robber, an EldritchAbomination, or some twisted combination of the two]]. It can [[DemonicPossession take over your body at will]], [[SpotTheImpostor flawlessly imitate your voice and behavior]] (in the anime), and do all sorts of horrible things and leave you to suffer the consequences. And no matter what you try to do about it, that accursed pendant of yours just ''[[ClingyMacguffin Won't. Go. Away]]''. This thing has you at its mercy, and there is absolutely ''nothing'' you can do to stop it.

* Kuribabylon, a larger Kuriboh with two fangs and a horn. Normally it's just as cute as the original Kuriboh, but when Yami Yugi corrupts it with the Orichalcos card, its fur changes to dark blue, its eyes glow red with a malevolent glare, and its two fangs become a big wide smile of long sharp teeth. [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/6/6c/Kuribabylon-JP-Anime-DM-NC-2.png/revision/latest?cb=20140921012652 That's one scary cottonball you've got there, Pharaoh]].

* The final story arc of the anime begins with Ryou Bakura running for his life, taking shelter in a church. Even though the Millennium Ring is no longer with him, Yami Bakura's voice reaches him and tells him that he will collect the Millennium Items whether he likes it or not. When Ryou tries to refuse, the church's stained glass windows shatter around him and he screams, clutching his head as Yami Bakura gloats that he's waited long enough for the ultimate Shadow game to commence. When next we see him, Yami Bakura has taken over.

* [[http://36.media.tumblr.com/a9851e57d938b4fabcc9af98babb330c/tumblr_nskqhyyMhN1u76hl0o1_1280.jpg This face]] Yami Bakura makes as he gloats that the Pharaoh's life is under his control in the Memory World RPG. It comes out of ''nowhere''.
** [[https://41.media.tumblr.com/90c4bf8f886e2f156c258b5b1c0cf250/tumblr_nsllf7dZwZ1u76hl0o2_1280.jpg This]] horrific, {{off model}} face as he gloats is reminiscent of Zorc.

* In the dub, Umbra and Lumis actually make the [[NeverSayDie Shadow Realm]] terrifying by describing how Yugi and Kaiba will fall through the skyscraper ceiling if they lose the duel...
--->'''Lumis''': But you'll never reach the bottom.