History YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries / TropesIToZ

--> '''Doctor''': [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter A Hug? Well I don't see why not...]] (Switches to a GoryDiscretionShot with the sound of a revving chainsaw) OH MY GOD! IT BURNS! IT BURNS!

--> '''Doctor''': [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter I don't see why not...]] (Switches to a GoryDiscretionShot with the sound of a revving chainsaw) OH MY GOD! IT BURNS! IT BURNS!

** Florence had his ominous Latin choir whenever he spoke when he was first introduced. It lasted all of one episode.

* Took A Level in Badass: Mokuba is CONSTANTLY a punching bag in the normal series... but come Season 0 Abriged... he's the one giving orders.

--> '''Bakura''': [[{{Commando}} Hey, Pegasus, remember when I said I was going to kill you last?]]\\
'''Pegasus''': [[{{Commando}} That's right, Bakura! You did!]]\\
'''Bakura''': ''[[{{Commando}} I lied.]]''

* StuffBlowingUp: In the Michael Bay's Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged joke episode, this happens every time Tristan begins to talk. Everyone can hear him just fine in the actual show, though.

* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: done several times, and lampshaded each time.

** Again in "The Other Abridged Movie."

** One about the Nintendo Wii, and another during the ReCapEpisode.

-->[[YouNoTakeCandle Me hate ]][[TheyChangedItNowItSucks different!]]

* ThoseWackyNazis: Kaiba's bodyguards [[DieHard Hans and Gruber]] in episode 39. He asks them to tone it down, and they respond with a resounding "Ja, mein Führer!"

* IntercontinuityCrossover: [[WebOriginal/DragonBallAbridged Ghost Nappa]]'s cameo in episode 40.

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** Card games on motorcycles!

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* KaleidoscopeHair: As a gag, one episode has the villain's hair change color for every single scene he's in.

* TheUnintelligible: Zombie Boy, who can only say (and write) the word "brains." Or does he?

*** This version of Dartz is actually a reference to the Coiffio from ''Perfect Hair Forever.''

** Joey's "Nyeah." Turns out that he's completely unaware of himself doing it, even after singing the opening theme entirely in Nyeahs. Turns into FridgeBrilliance when you remember the time he tried to make "Brooklyn Rage!" a catch phrase. Yugi told him to just stick saying "Nyeah" and he responds with a "Nyeah" said in a manner that suggests he doesn't know what Yugi is talking about.
*** A whiff of a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial in there too. When he said "I still don't hear anything" after the opening theme in question, nobody had said "you're still doing it".

* VillainSong: Melvin takes it to new heights.

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: "I killed a gay clown, for Ra's sake!"

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Bandit Keith steals one of Joey's cards. It is never brought up again.
** In the original series, Mai gives Joey her card after she surrenders to Yugi.

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Seto Kaiba's totally hot dragon girlfriend from the distant future.

* WhyDontYouMarryIt: Yami mocks Seto for his dragon obsession.

* NoFourthWall: At various times ("This will allow the writers to fill in a bunch of plot holes!") and one of Ishizu's powers from her Millennium Necklace is the ability to do this.

* NoIndoorVoice: Espa Roba and his brothers.

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer - When the "Ancient Egyptian Laser Beams" Shadow Game between Bakura and Pegasus appears, "This isn't a joke. It really happens" appears on screen.

* OffModel: "Look at the size of that nose. It's like the animators [[TheyJustDidntCare didn't even care]]."

* OhCrap: When "Malik" realizes Odion getting hit by lightning and knocked out means Melvin's RestrainingBolt came off and there's nothing stopping him from taking over.

* OneSteveLimit: Thoroughly and literally averted, in that all Ghouls/Rare Hunters are named "Steve". Steve (The guy who took Joey's Red Eyes), Steve Arcana, Steve the Mime, Keith Steve Howard, The Army of Celebrity Steves, etc. It might help if Marik's mind control powers worked on people who weren't named Steve.
** [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Florence]] actually calls him on this WeaksauceWeakness in one of the "Evil Council" episodes. Marik admits it is a rather "annoying limitation".
*** Marik does point out that he could [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower control]] StoneColdSteveAustin if he felt like it.
** His control over Joey (Since the "middle name is Steve" joke was already used with Bandit Keith) is explained in Episode 34: He unknowingly signed a contract saying that he agreed to legally change his name to Steve. It's implied in Episode 36 that Téa was affected the same way (though for a drastically shorter time).
*** Apparently in Episode 39, Marik still calls Joey "Steve".

*** Technically there's ''four'' Bakuras in season 5--Normal Bakura, Florence, Thief King Bakura, and the piece of Bakura's soul in the Millennium Puzzle.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Happened in Episode 6, and also seems to be a problem with Marik (and, by extension, Melvin), as he can't seem to decide whether he has a British accent or an American one. The former incident is referenced in Episode 48, where Yugi remembers it as a full-on Cockney rant.

* OverlyLongGag: Yugi's Lampshading of OohMeAccentsSlipping from episode 6 ends up dragging on nearly a half-minute.

* PalsWithJesus: Florence and [[spoiler:[[TheSlendermanMythos Slenderman]]]] were college roommates

* ParrotExposition: "They were stolen from me by the Rare Hunters." "Rare Hunters?!" (Seto Kaiba even sounds like Solid Snake.)

* PhraseCatcher: "That Kaiba kid needs to get laid."

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Admittedly, it's a three-liner, but still:

* PrecisionFStrike: Episode 47

* RecycledINSPACE: The Abridged Series is ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' [-IN AMERICA!-]
** MemeticMutation aside, it's ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' made DangerouslyGenreSavvy.
*** Yu-Gi-Oh: Zexal will do this for the entire series much to the amusement of Yusei and Jack from 5D's who finally have something more crazy than "Card Games on Motorcycles" they can laugh at.
* ReferenceOverdosed: Hell yeah, it is.
** See [[http://forum.yugiohabridged.com/showthread.php?t=4055 here]] for a list!
* RefugeInAudacity: Quite a bit of the jokes about Duke.
-->"I summon the extremely phallic spaceship, but since it belongs to ''me'', it grows to twice its usual size!"

TheRemake: LittleKuriboh has remade the first episode several times;

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: In-Universe. Téa for Yami after giving "the biggest friendship speech of her life" to Johnny Steps.

** Mokuba. In the last few episodes he's started to show some of that patented Kaiba family [[{{JerkAss}} dickishness]] and has become infinitely more funny and maybe even a little BadAss to boot. He's still [[TheLoad completely useless]], though.
*** Mokuba gets another upgrade in badass[[spoiler: as the main antagonist of season zero.]]

** Offhand jabs at the anime's sequels, ''GX'' and ''5Ds''.
*** And ''Zexal''.

*** There's a ''5D's'' reference pretty much every time a motorcycle appears.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: [[spoiler: Melvin succeeds in canceling the show in Episode 46.]]
* ScheduleSlip: LK started off by promising one episode a week. It started to slip around Episode 10.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Cr@psule Monsters 2".

*** Which he admitted [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nZZioxC18 in the middle of singing along to "Without Yugi"]] at Youmacon 2009. "No protesting, just like you're all requesting--and that's actually completely lies!"
*** The Season 3 teaser promised new episode'''s''' in May... We've gotten just one between May and June because LK has been busy with cons.
*** Announced at the Youmacon 2010 panel that LK plans on releasing 3 more episodes within the next 6 months. Only time will tell if he stays true to this.
*** Nope.
* TheScottishTrope: In Episode 40, Bakura says the forbidden word (so evil they had to censor it twice)! [[spoiler: Disney.]] Cue [[StarWars Imperial March]].
** [[spoiler:And they mentioned it several times two episodes later]]
* TheScrappy: Mokuba is an In-Universe example.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Marik, in a sense. His mother dies in childbirth and Melvin kills his father.

** The tattoo in question reads "Die Yugi, Die"... [[TheSimpsons which a title card a moment later claims means]] "[[GratuitousGerman The Yugi, The]]".
* ShipperOnDeck: Téa. When Joey refuses to tell Mai that she appeared in his dream, she yells at him, saying that as a fanfic writer, she's offended by his not jumping at the first woman to show attraction to him.
** Also, [[spoiler: Crump wins his duel with Tea, and is now possessing her body and impersonating her. Badly.]]

* ShowWithinAShow: ''Zorc & Pals'', "Card Game Channel", and the ''Kill Your Family Show'' (Don't ask)

* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Kuriboh gets a voice in Episode 48 and its annoyance factor abruptly [[UpToEleven ramps to eleven]].
** Specifically, it gets the voice of the hot dog from ''PerfectHairForever'', which appears to have been intentionally annoying.

* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Duke Devlin's {{Gradius}}.

* SoundEffectBleep: Used a lot, but the most infamous being Marik's ClusterFBomb bleep, taken from ''Perfect Hair Forever''. The sound effect can best be described as an angry man yelling "Eff!"

*** ..."Hi there."

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: During the first Evil Council of Doom, Bakura suggests just stabbing Yugi with a knife, without playing a children's card game. Marik doesn't listen. Besides, 4Kids would just censor it if they did.

*** In episode 33, when Bakura and Malik are teaming up, Malik brings up his tactic of using mind control, Bakura responds by saying: "Or we could just slice Yugi open with a machete, see if that works." Of course, Malik says he has a better idea involving more children's card games...
* StealthPun: Episode 45

* TheStinger: Since episode 17, there has been a stinger ''after'' a stinger. These mostly use an unrelated clip from a different episode of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' dubbed with a memetic sound clip rather than dialogue by LittleKuriboh - for example, "[[SuburbanCommando I WAS FROZEN TODAY!]]", ChristianBale's famous rant at a cameraman, or [[LexLuthor Lex Luthor]]'s "WRONG!" from ''SupermanReturns''.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: "Oh my god, a giant rock!"

* StylisticSuck: In the video that gave birth to the phrase "Card Games On Motorcycles", we get to see [[NarutoTheAbridgedSeries Iruka's]] "One Piece: The Abridged Series." It's...interesting...

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "Let me assure you that this tournament is 100% genuine, and is not in any way an elaborate ruse thrown together at the last minute so that I can get my hands on an Ancient Egyptian artifact."

* TakeThat: The series frequently makes fun of general internet fandom ("I'm going to go complain about it on my [=LiveJournal=] account!") and the various [=LittleKuriboh=] impostors who try to fool people into thinking a new episode is out.

** LittleKuriboh also frequently takes aim at the other AbridgedSeries, including ''NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'' (the creators of which actually appears once as guest stars [[SelfDeprecation to make fun of themselves]]).
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnczksTB4us He raps about it, too.]]

*** Blasphemy. LittleKuriboh is listed as one of Kaiba's voice actors on his Wikipedia page.

*** Wheresthenewepisode?

** When the show gets "canceled" in Episode 47: [at least we lasted longer than {{Firefly}}]
*** It's also been referred to as "about the one thing Nick Simmons ''didn't'' [[{{Plagiarism}} plagiarize]]."

* ThirdPersonPerson - Johnny Steps, the egotistical DDR player. He does this to a lesser extent in the original ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', as well.
** "Oh no, Johnny Steps is losing--And that's ''me''!"

* TransparentCloset: Marik, at least in episode 33.

* TrueCompanions: Mercilessly parodied, especially since Tea serves only two purposes in the show 1. LoveInterest and 2. talking about friendship.

* {{Tuckerization}}: Slifer the [[FourKidsEntertainment Executive Producer]]

* LampshadedTheObscureReference: in did a scene which referenced RickRoll, TheIncredibleHulk, and TheLegendOfZelda. Tea said she was leaving due to getting annoyed by all the obscure references.

* LargeHam: "I can do whatever I want because I'm voiced by '''[[DanGreen DAN GREEN]]'''!"
** Shouldn't that have been "[[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Screw the Rules]], I'm voiced by Dan Green!"? Just sayin'.
** Also Marik seems to get quite into it during [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/535618 Leather Pants]].
*** Not that he hasn't hammed up the scenery in-series as well.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Mentioned in episode 35.

* LastSecondWordSwap: Crump the Penguin and Téa.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: After getting his eye gouged out, Pegasus, instead of screaming in pain, informs Florence that he took the wrong one.

* MemeticMutation: An ''in-universe'' example; in episode 52 Kaiba creates an internet meme called 'lolcalization', which takes Japanese cartoons and 'localises' them into American versions. [[spoiler: This causes 4Kids Executive Lector - the head of localization - to destroy himself, since his Deck Master's special power is to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard destroy internet memes]]]].

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Grandpa, unsurprisingly, pulls one off.

* MilestoneCelebration: The 2nd anniversary one was a total bust, leading to TheWarOfTheAbridgedSeriesCreators.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Joey says as much upon his reaction in episode 36 when he breaks Marik's mind control over him to find that he's been dueling in a death match with Yugi.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: The Flame Swordsman

* NegativeContinuity: Kaiba's finger came clean off while sticking it near a helicopter's blades. Played straight when it wasn't mentioned in the next episode, then subverted in the episode after ''that'' when its HandWaved by a doctor who surgically reattaches his finger, a la ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' (Which Kaiba has never seen because he doesn't "watch crap").
** In Marik's Evil Council 3, said council is meeting near an anime convention due to their Egypt hideout having [[ContinuityNod been destroyed by Yami Yugi's letterbomb in the previous Christmas Special]]...despite said bomb having gone off right next to them, which would have certainly killed them as well.
*** Though you could blame it on [=4Kids=] having censored it.

** In episode 37, Bakura points this out: "Honestly, why do we even have a graveyard in this show if nobody ever dies?"
*** [[spoiler: Averted, as Zombie Boy apparently ''did'' die later that episode. But then, he ''is'' a zombie.]]

** Episode 47: "If we were gonna die, they'd have killed us by now."
*** Subverted in Episode 47. Noah threatens the cast with sentry turrets when Kaiba's blimp lands in his mobile fortress. At first they mock Noah, thinking the bullets that the turrets fire will be non-lethal, but then Noah opens fire for a few seconds to show that they are very real bullets.

* NationalStereotypes: In-Universe. "So let me get this straight. The only characters on this show who represent [[{{Eagleland}} America]] are [[ChurchOfHappyology Jean Claude Magnum]], [[CreepyChild Rebecca Hawkins]], [[AmbiguouslyGay Maximillian Pegasus]], and [[EvilForeigner Bandit Keith]]. Is it just me, or is ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' the most xenophobic show ever?"
** Every one of the Egyptians ([[HeroicSociopath The]] [[TheCaligula Pharaoh]], [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Florence]], [[{{Borat}} Shadi]], [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Ishizu]], [[ImaginaryEnemy Marik]], [[IronWoobie Odion]], [[ExecutiveMeddling Melvin]], and [[AbusiveParents Hank Ishtar]]) is some degree of bastard.

* InsistentTerminology: "A children's card game"

* IronicEcho: "Hey, Little Kuriboh! ''When's the new episode''? [[EvilLaugh Ah hah hah hah]]!"

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds "Card games on motorbikes... come on!"]]. (Cut to a picture of ''Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds'' with the subtitles saying, "you gotta be sh*** ing me.")
** With "[[OminousLatinChanting O Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi]]" playing in the background.
*** Yusei and Jack (incidently from the afforementioned show) eventually go on to make a similar quip about "Card Games in Space" Yu-Gi-Oh: Zexal

TheRemake: LittlleKuriboh has done a "remake" of the first episode several times;

* RememberTheNewGuy: In chapter 49, during a flashback Yugi tells Tea how much she loves '''the Dark Magician Girl'''. Tea states she doesn't even remember hearing of that monster card before.

* {{Kayfabe}}: [[LateArrivalSpoiler The show being cancelled by 4Kids]].

* LifeImitatesArt: The series is cancelled by 4Kids in continuity and then it's taken off of YouTube in real life. This was right after the most recent episode featured [=Johnson/JudgeMan=] losing a trial against Joey, and then it goes back on YouTube just after the last episode defended it. Try not to think about that too hard.

* Leitmotif: [[ThirdPersonPerson Duke Devlin]] finds his extremely sexy.

* SexyBack (No, not Duke's {{Leitmotif}}!): Marik claims to have one.
-->'''Marik''': ''"Yes, get a load of that back, fangirls. You '''''[[SoundEffectBleep (EFF!)]]'''''ing love it don't you."''
** The tattoo in question reads "Die Yugi, Die"... [[TheSimpsons which a title card a moment later claims means]] "[[GratuitousGerman The Yugi, The]]".