| 1 | [[WMG:[[center: [- ''Manga/YuGiOh'' '''[[Characters/YuGiOhOriginalSeries Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | [[Characters/YuGiOhMainCharacters Main Characters]] ([[Characters/YuGiOhYamiYugi Yami Yugi]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhYamiBakura Yami Bakura]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhSetoKaiba Seto Kaiba]]) | [[Characters/YuGiOhDominoHighSchool Domino High School ]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhDominoCityResidents Domino City Residents]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhKaibaCorporationAndDeathT Kaiba Corp]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhIndustrialIllusions Industrial Illusions]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhGhoulsAndRareHunters Ghouls and Rare Hunters]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhDuelists Other Duelists]] | '''Ancient Egypt'''| [[Characters/YuGiOhOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhGamingPieces Gaming Pieces]] | [[Characters/YuGiOhOriginalSeriesCards Cards]] -]]]]] |
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| 4 | Ancient Egyptian characters from the [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]] and [[Anime/YuGiOh anime]] series ''Yu-Gi-Oh''. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | '''''ALL spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware major spoilers.''''' |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[folder:Tropes applying to most characters]] |
| 11 | * BroadStrokes: While these characters are canon to the original series, many of them fill or otherwise approximate roles from the [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai]] games canon, many of which first appeared in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhForbiddenMemories''. |
| 12 | ** Siamun (Sugoroku's [[{{Reincarnation}} former self]]) is straight up based on his Bandai games self, though his face is exposed and he no longer has [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue skin]]. |
| 13 | ** Akhenaden fills Heishin's role as the traitorous mystic conspiring in league with an ancient evil and his attempts to court Seto to his cause are reminiscent of Bandai's priest Seto being TheDragon for Heishin. |
| 14 | ** The Pharaoh's priests in general are prefigured by Bandai's mages, who also held the Millenium Items; the mages, however, were villains working with Heishin against the pharaoh. |
| 15 | ** Mana, who in the original series canon is the not-yet Black Magician Girl, serves as the Pharaoh's childhood friend, a role which in ''Forbidden Memories'' was filled by doppelgangers of Joey and Tea (who would presumably reincarnate into their modern selves). |
| 16 | ** Zorc Necrophades, the demonic entity who created the Shadow Realm, fits perfectly into the spot originally held by Bandai's recurring FinalBoss character, the demon-god of the cards "[=DarkNite=]" (or "[[OneWingedAngel NiteMare]]"), who in ''Forbidden Memories'' is revealed to be the creator of the Shadow Games. |
| 17 | * CastFromHitPoints: In the Memory World RPG (the Shadow RPG), the Ba Gauge served as both hit points and magic points for the character cards, since the real life versions of these characters used their life energy (Ba) to summon and power-up their Monster Spirits (Ka). |
| 18 | * NonPlayerCharacter: Everyone except Atem, Thief King Bakura, Zorc, and Akenaten. Played with as both players can control their party however they like, but when not given a command, their non-player characters continue to act according to their original mindset. |
| 19 | * SummonMagic: Most of the characters are able to summon Ka(Duel Monster spirits born from a human soul). |
| 20 | [[/folder]] |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Pharaoh Atem]] |
| 23 | !!'''Pharaoh Atem (アテム; ''Atemu'')''' |
| 24 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atemu.png]] |
| 25 | --> Voiced by: Shunsuke Kazama (Japanese), Creator/DanGreen (English) |
| 26 | |
| 27 | A Pharaoh from AncientEgypt who sealed himself inside the Millennium Puzzle and became Dark Yugi. During the Shadow RPG, which is a recreation of the past in the form of a TabletopRoleplayingGame, a portion of Dark Yugi's soul enters the RPG version of Pharaoh Atem within the game world, who serves as Dark Yugi's main player character while the other portion battles Dark Bakura at the RPG table. |
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| 29 | For information on Atem, [[Characters/YuGiOhYamiYugi see his page]]. |
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| 31 | ----- |
| 32 | |
| 33 | [[/folder]] |
| 34 | |
| 35 | [[folder:Thief King Bakura]] |
| 36 | !!'''Thief King Bakura (盗賊王バクラ; ''Touzoku'ou Bakura'')''' |
| 37 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thief_king_bakura.png]] |
| 38 | --> Voiced by: Creator/RicaMatsumoto (Japanese), Creator/TedLewis (English). |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Thief King Bakura is an ancient Egyptian incarnation of Bakura that was a thief and a graverobber, who serves as one of two of Dark Bakura's Player Characters on his side of the Shadow Role-Playing Game. Though an alter ego of sorts for Dark Bakura, Dark Bakura's true identity, however, is not as simple as him being the Thief King's sealed soul, as a shard of Zorc was fused with him. |
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| 42 | For information on his reincarnation, see '''Characters/YuGiOhMainCharacters'''. For information on his successor, see [[Characters/YuGiOhYamiBakura Yami Bakura's own page]]. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | ----- |
| 45 | * AccentRelapse: In the dub, he mostly speaks with his modern counterpart’s EvilBrit speech patterns. But when he gets released from control, he speaks with a standard American accent. |
| 46 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the manga, he's first seen letting himself into the palace (along with all the treasures he successfully plundered from Atem's father's tomb) and showed up any guards that tried to stop him, he was just as wicked as Dark Bakura and even schemed openly with his future self, and while he was scared at [[spoiler:turning into sand]] he still tried to summon Zorc while it was happening. Within the Memory World in the anime however, he's first seen captured by two random guards and stumbling as they haul him along, before immediately being possessed by Yami Bakura and taking on his personality from that point on. When Yami Bakura releases him after he's outlived his usefulness, he's confused and horrified as he turns into sand. |
| 47 | * {{Badass Longrobe}}: A rather regal looking one, befitting a king of thieves. |
| 48 | * BackFromTheDead: In the anime, Dark Bakura restores him after he's turned into sand. He dies for good later on to revive Zorc. |
| 49 | * BigEater: In the manga, there was a scene in the tavern where he used all his stolen gold to buy piles of food, and he wolfs it all down while casually killing the bar patrons with shadow magic. |
| 50 | * BodyHorror: Yami Bakura disposes of him by slowly turning his body to sand. |
| 51 | * CannibalismSuperpower: This is what makes Thief King Bakura's Ka, Diabound, so dangerous--every time it kills an adversary it gains that creature's raw power, if not its actual abilities. |
| 52 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: Was this to Zorc in the real past; in the Memory World RPG he's essentially TheDragon to his own future self and acts as a literal Disc One Final Boss. |
| 53 | * TheDragon: To Zorc in the past. He becomes TheDragon to Dark Bakura during the events of the Millennium World arc as one of his Player Characters. In other words, he is TheDragon to his future self. |
| 54 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the manga, he waltzes into the palace in broad daylight with all the treasures he just plundered from the previous pharaoh's tomb, shows up any guards that try to stop him, then rubs the high priests' and current pharaoh's noses in how he just successfully desecrated the previous pharaoh's tomb, and throws said pharaoh's mummy at their feet. He also introduces himself as the "Thief King," and reveals his bottomless hatred for the royal family for his village and how powerful it made his Ka for it. |
| 55 | * EvilPlan: Originally a master bandit during Pharaoh Atem's reign, he declared the Pharaoh and his court his archenemies and wanted revenge for the destruction of his hometown by resurrecting Zorc Necrophades. |
| 56 | * EvilerThanThou: Believe it or not, he manages to be this for ''Dartz'' of all people in the anime. The reason that Dartz didn't try to capture the Pharaoh's soul when he encountered him in Egypt? Bakura was in his way. |
| 57 | * EyeScream: When his Diabound gets shot right in the left eye, Bakura's left eye goes out. |
| 58 | * FantasticAesop: Never massacre an entire village of peasants and melt their blood and bones into the Millennium Items. One of their survivors will end up merging their soul with an ancient demon and try to destroy the world. |
| 59 | * FreudianExcuse: As a child, Bakura witnessed and was the only survivor of the massacre of his entire village. Said massacre was directed by the Pharaoh's father (unknowingly) and his uncle (knowingly) to create the Millennium Items. The Pharaoh's father died soon after, but Bakura wasn't satisfied with that and transferred his hate to Atem and Egypt as a whole. |
| 60 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: He would have been just another peasant boy living a meaningless life in his village. Then the Pharaoh's brother slaughtered that village in order to create the Millennium Items, and the rage and pain engendered by that experience transformed Bakura's Ka into the monstrous killing machine Diabound, which gets stronger as it devours other people's Kas. |
| 61 | * GenocideBackfire: Akhenaden slaughtered his village to create the Millennium Items. This is what led to Bakura trying to summon Zorc. |
| 62 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Thief King Bakura has a very ugly scar on his face, just below the eye. |
| 63 | * GraveRobbing: How Thief King Bakura got his start. He began by robbing the tombs of the Pharaonic line that butchered his village, and it only gets worse from there. Eventually he stops caring whether his victims are dead or not. |
| 64 | * IncomingHam: The way he introduces himself in the manga is so audacious, it can't be anything else than this. |
| 65 | --> '''Bakura:''' A King is robed in '''gold,''' isn't he? Then that must make ''me''' a king, too! '''A KING OF THIEVES! H-HA HA HA HA!''' |
| 66 | * ItsPersonal: He blames Atem's father for the massacre so he defiles his tomb. |
| 67 | * {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7AkgUVp6xc Thief King Bakura's theme]]. |
| 68 | * LightIsNotGood: His Diabound is a holy spirit at first, but it turns into a horrific monster with every creature it absorbs. In the anime Diabound is a beast from a stone tablet created from the rage of Kul Elna's slaughtered victims, rather than a holy beast dwelling within Thief King Bakura's soul. |
| 69 | * MisplacedRetribution: While he initially blames Atem's father for the massacre, once he dies he transfers the hatred to Atem and the people of Egypt, who also weren't responsible. By the time he finds the person who ''did'' order the massacre, he brainwashes him rather than kill him. |
| 70 | * MrFanservice: He wears a wide, open coat and short shorts. The anime includes a very detailed closeup of his legs as he's restored from sand. |
| 71 | * NoNameGiven: He doesn't actually have a canon name, and is only referred to as Bakura as a reference to his future self's present-day host. |
| 72 | * NoShirtLongJacket: It's a great outfit for combining fanservice, the obligatory long dramatic coat, and avoiding a sunburn. |
| 73 | * PersonalityPowers: His Diabound is a holy beast at first, but as it absorbs more monsters it becomes more monstrous itself, reflecting off of the increasing darkness in his heart. |
| 74 | * PlayerCharacter: Serves as one of two for Dark Bakura during the Shadow RPG. |
| 75 | * PowerCopying: His Ka, Diabound, steals the abilities of the other Ka it defeats. |
| 76 | * ThePowerOfHate: His Diabound is fueled by his immeasurable hatred towards the Pharaoh and his supporters. |
| 77 | * PungeonMaster: In the manga and dub, he's fond of cracking jokes and making bad puns relevant to the situation. |
| 78 | * {{Revenge}}: Wanted revenge for the destruction of his hometown. |
| 79 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Marches into the palace to show Atem and the priests what he had done to Atem's father. |
| 80 | * ShirtlessScene: In the anime, he's first seen as a chained prisoner without a shirt. |
| 81 | * SinsOfOurFathers: With Atem's father dead, he transfers his hate to Atem himself. |
| 82 | * SoleSurvivor: Of the massacre at Kul Elna, his hometown. |
| 83 | * UnwittingPawn: Bakura is used as a pawn by both Zorc in the actual past and his own future self in the RPG. |
| 84 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Until his whole village was slaughtered. |
| 85 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Thief King Bakura in his shorts and wide-open robe. |
| 86 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: In the anime, we don't get a sense of his true personality since Dark Bakura takes him over almost immediately. Although he is later revived without Yami Bakura inside him and now aware of his role as a game pawn, and he seems just as hateful and crazy, he sacrifces himself shortly after. |
| 87 | * WholeCostumeReference: Appropriately enough, given the [[AncientEgypt setting]] and his [[GenocideBackfire backstory]], the red robe kinda makes him look like a [[NoShirtLongJacket topless]] version of the [[http://www.angelsandmasters.net/images/A59_1.jpg classic depiction of Moses]], as in ''{{Film/The Ten Commandments|1956}}''. |
| 88 | * WickedCultured: In the dub, he's exceedingly polite and formal when doing or saying ''awful'' things. The manga and Japanese version has him be more openly vulgar and ax-crazy. |
| 89 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Thief King Bakura, given that he [[StartOfDarkness became what he was]] later because he survived and witnessed the gruesome killing of all the people in his village. Granted, they were a village of thieves, but [[UsedToBeASweetKid he was an innocent child]] before this happened. Takahashi said that if the massacre hadn't happened he would be more like Ryou Bakura. |
| 90 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Dark Bakura sacrifices the Thief King to resurrect Zorc. That's right--he pulls this on ''himself''. |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | [[folder:Priest Akhenaden (Aknadin)]] |
| 94 | !!'''Priest Akhenaden (神官アクナディン; ''Shinkan Akunadin'') ([[DubNameChange Aknadin]])'''\ |
| 95 | '''High Priest of Darkness (闇の大神官; ''Yami no Dai Shinkan'')] ([[DubNameChange Shadow Magus]])''' |
| 96 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akhenadin.png]] |
| 97 | [[caption-width-right:350:Akhenaden]] |
| 98 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/highpriestofdarkness.png]] |
| 99 | [[caption-width-right:350:The High Priest of Darkness]] |
| 100 | --> Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu (Japanese), Pete Zarustica (English) |
| 101 | |
| 102 | -->''Can you feel it, Yugi? Can you feel the evil aura from this corpse? Akhenaden's '''mummy''' is also playing this game! His '''soul''' is one with Zorc's!'' --Dark Bakura, Millennium World RPG arc |
| 103 | |
| 104 | 3000 years ago, Akhenaden was one of the six priests in service to Pharaoh Atem. He was the brother to Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen and was the original wielder of the Millennium Eye. During the previous Pharaoh's reign, he massacred the village of Kul Elna, a den of thieves, and melted their [[BloodMagic blood and bones]] into gold in order to create magical relics that would protect Egypt from impending war and invasion -- [[GenocideBackfire the only survivor of the massacre being Bakura]]. Thus were born the seven Millennium Items -- cursed items that held the power to initiate occult judgment games known as Shadow Games and housed an evil intelligence that would awaken the Evil God, the secrets of their creation haunting Akhenaden for years. He never told Akhenamkhanen of it, and had all of the soldiers that had taken part brainwashed to forget the incident. Making a wish on the Millennium Eye for his son, Priest Seto, to take the throne, he is eventually influenced by Zorc to betray the current king years later. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | In modern times, Dark Bakura challenges Dark Yugi to the ultimate Shadow Game -- [[TabletopRolePlayingGame the Shadow RPG]], a game that re-imagines the events that transpired 3000 years ago. Within the Memory World campaign, a re-imagining of Akhenaden serves as one of Dark Bakura's player avatars -- with the mummy of the real Akhenaden, High Priest of Darkness, animating the game piece. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | ----- |
| 109 | * AdaptedOut: In the manga, the corrupted soul of Akhenaden, merged with that of Zorc, was sealed inside the Millennium Puzzle and released during the Memory World game, inhabiting his mummified corpse outside of the game, and [[BigBadDuumvirate works with Dark Bakura]]. This is removed entirely in the anime, with any actions taken by Akhenaden's spirit given to Dark Bakura instead. |
| 110 | * {{Archenemy}}: In the end it's revealed that it was the High Priest of Darkness who was this to the Pharaoh. Thief king Bakura, Priest Seto and even Zorc Necrophades himself were just red herrings. |
| 111 | * TheBadGuyWins: In a sense. Though he, Bakura, and Zorc are all defeated, the one true goal of his, to have Seto rule in Atem's place, ultimately happens, just differently than the way he had intended. |
| 112 | * BigBadDuumvirate: [[MindScrew The real Akhenaden's mummy shares this role with Dark Bakura for the Millennium World arc in the manga]]. The spirit of Akhenaden claims he ''is'' Zorc and turns his NPC/past/memory self into a puppet. In truth, everyone that Zorc infects [[HiveMind basically becomes part of his being]]. |
| 113 | * BlackMage: After Dark Bakura successfully transforms his character class in the RPG into the High Priest of Darkness, Akhenaden gained "Black Magician skills" as well as leveling up. |
| 114 | * BloodMagic: He was behind the massacre of Kul Elna and the creation of the Millennium Items, which involved melting the villagers' blood and bones into the gold that was used to forge the items as per the ritual written in the Millennium Tome. |
| 115 | * BrokenPedestal: Seto thought Aknadin was a loyal priest and that his father was a noble soldier. Then he learns that Aknadin is his father and is a traitor to boot. |
| 116 | * ColdBloodedTorture: He intended to subject Kisara to various torture methods in order to awaken the white dragon spirit within her. |
| 117 | * DeathByAdaptation: He gets he dies earlier variant. In the manga, he survives past Zorc's death, and serves as the final boss of the Shadow RPG due to brainwashing Seto. In the anime, these events are moved to before Zorc's revival. |
| 118 | * DeathEqualsRedemption: Apparently. When Atem enters the afterlife, a younger Akhenaden can be seen standing next to Seto, implying that his soul was freed from Zorc after he died. Notably, the version seen is from before he went to the palace at all and created the Items. |
| 119 | * DiabolusExNihilo: His other side - the High Priest of Darkness - steps in at two crucial moments when the Pharaoh manages to kill the Thief King and uses chronokinesis to put his foe at a disadvantage. Much like Zorc Necrophades himself, the High Priest of Darkness had no foreshadowing. |
| 120 | * TheDragon: Becomes this to Zorc once he's released 3000 years ago, being the one who released him. During the Shadow RPG re-enactment, the manga depicts him as Dark Bakura's second player-character with Zorc, having two health bars of Ba to Zorc's three. In the manga, he replaces Thief King Bakura as Dark Bakura's Dragon after the Thief King dies in the game world (in the anime, he revives the Thief King and his Diabound). |
| 121 | * DragonTheirFeet: In the anime, he lasts just four episodes and is killed before Zorc is even unleashed, but in the manga, he goes off with Seto to find Kisara and is defeated after Zorc has been destroyed and the Pharaoh has recovered his name. |
| 122 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The side of Akhenaden that was born from Zorc also wishes to make Seto pharaoh, which makes him hesitant to wipe out all the priests at once on Zorc's command. |
| 123 | * EvilMentor: While the exact role he plays varies between anime and manga, he guides Seto to become stronger with the intent for him to become Pharaoh. |
| 124 | * EvilSorcerer: Once he makes a contract with Zorc, which gave him the skills of a Black Magician and levels up, becoming the High Priest of Darkness. |
| 125 | * EvilUncle: He's one to Atem, though more focus is put on his relationship with Seto; he clearly considers Seto more suited to the throne than Atem. |
| 126 | * {{Expy}}: His High Priest of Darkness get-up resembles Dark Master Zorc's first form in the Monster World RPG. Likely intentional. |
| 127 | * FaceHeelTurn: While he wasn't the nicest guy beforehand, Thief King Bakura turned him into his servant to aid in reviving Zorc. In the manga, during the Shadow RPG, when the Pharaoh and his priests manage to kill the Thief King's character, Dark Bakura uses one of his [[TimeStandsStill Game Master abilities]] to freeze time on the game board, and it's here where Akhenaden betrays the Pharaoh and steals the Millennium Items, placing the items into the stone slab and becoming the High Priest of Darkness (gaining the skills of a Black Magician and leveling up). |
| 128 | * FutureMeScaresMe: The High Priest of Darkness appears to the normal Akhenaden in the manga at a time before his FaceHeelTurn, who naturally freaks out. But since he's just a non-player character in the Shadow RPG, [[YouCantFightFate he doesn't do anything differently]]. |
| 129 | * GreaterScopeVillain: While Zorc planted the spellbook for him to find, he ordered the massacre of Kul Elna, driving Bakura's hatred, creating the Millennium Items, and instigating the entire plot. |
| 130 | * HateSink: Initially, he felt guilty over killing 99 Kul Elna villagers to create the Millennium Items and acted as a strict but fair mentor to Seto, but once Bakura and Zorc reawaken his darker ambitions, he sheds most of his redeeming qualities and spends much of the arc scheming to put Seto on the throne, going completely power-mad, brainwashing his son, and trying to kill everyone. |
| 131 | * HighPriest: Serving under the Pharaoh... and then Zorc. |
| 132 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: Creating the Millennium Items to protect the kingdom by slaughtering an entire village. |
| 133 | * IgnoredEpiphany: Initially, he was remorseful of his crimes against Kul Elna and [[EvilParentsWantGoodKids worried]] that Seto might go down the same path. Once Bakura and Zorc [[MoreThanMindControl get a hold of him]], he completely forgets his guilt and joins the villains in order to put an unwilling Seto on the throne, even if it means dooming all of Egypt. |
| 134 | * {{Irony}}: He went such lengths to make his wish to turn Seto into the Pharaoh of Egypt to ensure the wish he made on the Millennium Eye comes true. It's Atem himself who ''willingly'' gave up his own life to seal Zorc away in the original timeline and outright kills Zorc and gives him the Millennium Pendant to became the new Pharaoh. In other words, Akenaden's wish to turn Seto into Pharaoh was on ''Atem's'' terms, not his. |
| 135 | * KarmaHoudini: PlayedWith. Despite his crimes, including setting the whole plot in motion by making the Items, he goes on to the afterlife and is seen living happily with the rest of the Pharaoh's court. On the other hand, his corrupted mummy is destroyed, signifying Zorc's control on him is now lost. |
| 136 | * LukeIAmYourFather: He's Priest Seto's father, and abandoned his son out of fear that reprisals for what he did at Kul Elna would make others target his family. |
| 137 | * MeaningfulName: His name is most likely derived from the real life Pharaoh [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten Akhenaten]], a pharaoh best known for his ruinous attempts to upend Egypt's millennia-old polythestic religion and forcibly replace it with a new monotheistic one that made his reign a general mess for all involved. |
| 138 | * OneWingedAngel: Once corrupted by Zorc and Thief King Bakura, he becomes the High Priest of Darkness, gaining dark powers and performing an EvilCostumeSwitch. In the Shadow RPG, he also obtains a [[EasyEXP massive level-up]] and [[LevelUpFillUp regains his previously-lost health]]. |
| 139 | * PapaWolf: In a very twisted, evil sense. He thinks that Seto's ascension from a commoner with no father to the Pharaoh's High Priest is proof of his superior ability, and thus begins plotting to put his son on the throne. |
| 140 | * ParentalSubstitute: Seto thought he was being this, having personally teach him when he became a priest. He doesn't find out Akenaden is his father until he spells it out for him, since he grew up believing his father bravely died on the battlefield. |
| 141 | * PlayerCharacter: Serves as one of two for Dark Bakura on his side of the Shadow RPG. |
| 142 | * SoulJar: The Millennium Eye, as with all the other Millennium Items, becomes one for Zorc -- the evil intelligence influencing Akhenaden into becoming his servant. This is helped by Thief King Bakura, who sealed a part of his soul in the Millennium Eye during attack on the palace, which further allowed for such an influence to take place. |
| 143 | * SplitPersonalityTakeover: |
| 144 | ** Initially Akhenaden was just another pawn in the game between Yugi and Bakura, but once the Thief King taints his Millennium Eye, the High Priest of Darkness introduces himself before eventually commandeering his past avatar right when Yugi is about to win the game. |
| 145 | ** After the High Priest of Darkness kills himself, he transfers his mind into Seto and challenges the Pharaoh to a duel. |
| 146 | * TheStarscream: Plots to overthrow the Pharaoh and put a new king on the throne. However, it's not himself that he thinks should rule, it's his son Seto. |
| 147 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Once he makes his pact with Zorc Necrophades, Akhenaden gets an upgrade in magic and develops a split personality similar to Bakura's. Confirmed by the ending where the good part of his soul is seen waiting in the afterlife with the other priests. |
| 148 | * UnwittingPawn: In the manga, it is revealed that Zorc manipulated him into translating the spells that would create the Millennium Items, the plan being all along that the Items would revive Zorc. |
| 149 | * VicariouslyAmbitious: He's hellbent on getting his son to usurp Atem, but Seto himself has no desire to do so. Unfortunately, this results in toxic parenting when Aknadin ignores this and brainwashes Seto into fighting the Pharaoh anyways. |
| 150 | * WalkingSpoiler: He was the one who created the Millennium Items in the first place, so he's pretty much responsible for ''the entire story''. He's also initially thought to be a priest loyal to the Pharaoh before Bakura brings out the full depths of his hidden jealously towards the deceased Akhenamkhanen, enforcing a FaceHeelTurn. |
| 151 | [[/folder]] |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[folder:Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen (Akhnamkanon)]] |
| 154 | !!'''Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen (アクナムカノン; ''Akhenamkhanen'') '''([[DubNameChange Akhnamkanon]]) |
| 155 | [[quoteright:538:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akhenamkhanen.png]] |
| 156 | --> Voiced by: Kobiyama Youichi (Japanese), Marc Thompson (English) |
| 157 | |
| 158 | Akhenamkhanen was the previous Pharaoh of Egypt and the father of Atem. He reigned with his brother, Akhenaden, as his chief advisor. When Egypt fell under attack, Akhenaden urged him to take stronger measures to repel the invading forces; though Akhenamkhanen desired peace, he agreed to Akhenaden's suggestion to create Millennium Items in order to protect his kingdom. This allowed Akhenaden to commit the massacre at Kul Elna that created the Items, which Akhenamkhanen was unaware of until Mahad informed him of the truth. Out of guilt, he sacrificed his soul to the gods as penance for his brother's crime and asked that his son be spared from their wrath; because of this, he grew ill and died. |
| 159 | |
| 160 | After his death, he appears as a SpiritAdvisor to Atem during the Millennium World arc. |
| 161 | ---- |
| 162 | * TheGoodKing: From what little we see of his reign, he was a benevolent and just king who cared for his people. His discovery of the massacre Akhenaden committed in his name horrified him so much that he sacrificed himself to try to atone for it. |
| 163 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He was completely oblivious to Akhenaden's true nature and trusted him enough to let him make the Millennium Items however he wanted. |
| 164 | * ItsAllMyFault: He blamed himself for giving Akhenaden the go-ahead to create the Millennium Items, which was what caused the mass slaughter of Kul Elna, and gave his life to the gods out of guilt. |
| 165 | * PapaWolf: In the anime, he appears as a spirit to shield Atem from the vengeful souls at Kul Elna. |
| 166 | * SpiritAdvisor: His spirit speaks through his mummified corpse to Atem at some key points, and protects him from the spirits at Kul Elna in the anime. |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Priest Seto]] |
| 170 | !!'''Priest Seto (神官セト ''Shinkan Seto'') ''' |
| 171 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/priest_seto.png]] |
| 172 | --> Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (Japanese), Creator/EricStuart (English) |
| 173 | |
| 174 | Seto was the son of Akhenaden and nephew of the late Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen - although he grew up thinking his father was a soldier who died in battle. Seto joined the Pharaoh's court of priests as an orphan and eventually became a High Priest, wielding the Millennium Rod and serving his cousin Atem, initially unaware they were related. |
| 175 | |
| 176 | He is Seto Kaiba's past incarnation and the second wielder of the Millennium Rod. Intrigued by the idea of monster spirits (Ka) more powerful than the Pharaoh's Gods when Thief King Bakura attacks the palace, he leads a Ka hunt behind the Pharaoh's back. Hoping to find monsters capable of defeating Bakura's Diabound, he finds a white-haired young woman said to house a very powerful Ka and begins seeking a way to extract it. |
| 177 | |
| 178 | In modern times, he appears as an NPC during Dark Bakura's Shadow Role-Playing Game. |
| 179 | |
| 180 | ---- |
| 181 | * AbortedArc: The manga's final arc greatly reduced the level of antagonism he has with the Pharaoh due to Kazuki Takahashi being pushed to wrap up the manga quickly and move onto his next project. Thus, the long-foreshadowed rebellion of Seto against the Pharaoh never happened. |
| 182 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the anime. The manga version of Seto is very much like Kaiba, an ArrogantKungFuGuy who prizes power and sneers on teamwork, and thinks he'll experiment on extracting Ka in order to learn to control Kisara's. In the anime he's comparatively more mellow, and while he does plan to extract Ka to make an army of shadow monsters he's disgusted when Akhenaden tries to control them via torture. He's still more nice than Seto Kaiba in either version, which the main cast notes when they first witness him saving Kisara. |
| 183 | * AdaptationalWimp: He and Galestgoras do much better against Diabound in the manga than in the anime; in the manga, Diabound is forced to resort to shattering Galestgoras' tablet to win since Galestgoras, while likely not more powerful, was the better fighter. In the anime, Bakura summons the rather weak Winged Sage Falcos to destroy it while it's occupied with Diabound. |
| 184 | * AmbitionIsEvil: He's seeking ever more powerful Ka, not content with the ones already captive. The "evil" part is avoided as he's doing it to further protect the kingdom, and once he sees Akhenaden attempt to order Kisara to be tortured in order to bring forth the white dragon, he puts his plans to a halt and tries to save her instead. |
| 185 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the manga, he felt no qualms with sacrificing Kisara as a means to obtain her Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Towards the end of the manga, he gets his wish, but by that time he has fallen in love with Kisara, thus feels heartbroken at witnessing her death. He laments [[BridalCarry while holding onto Kisara’s corpse]] that he doesn’t want her powers anymore, just her. |
| 186 | * BelatedLoveEpiphany: Has this moment after Kisara’s death in the manga. |
| 187 | -->''Kisara… The light which destroyed the evil god cannot reach my heart… For me… The world will never truly be bright again… Forgive me, Kisara… The truth is, I never wanted to let you go… I wanted to imprison you in the jail of my heart… You would have been the one point of light in a soul consumed by darkness… Not your spirit ka… Not your dragon… I wanted your light, Kisara… I wanted you…'' |
| 188 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: In the anime, he and Kisara first met when they were children and he rescued her from slave traders. |
| 189 | * ConnectedAllAlong: He's Atem's cousin through their fathers. They were not aware of this familial connection. |
| 190 | * DemonicPossession[=/=]GrandTheftMe: Towards the end of the Shadow RPG, Priest Seto briefly gets possessed by Zorc's High Priest of Darkness/Akhenaden. |
| 191 | * FaceHeelTurn: Originally betrays Atem in the original timeline. In the Shadow RPG, he never follows through with it, staying firmly on his cousin's side. |
| 192 | * FreudianExcuse: In the anime, his village was destroyed as a child, much like Bakura's. Kisara saves him before he's killed as well. |
| 193 | * FriendlyRival: As Ishizu says to Kaiba in during the Battle City finals, the stone tablet left behind depicting Priest Seto's great battle with Pharaoh Atem did not represent a destined rivalry between their reincarnations - it was a prayer to the deceased king, a prayer to one of his closest friends. |
| 194 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: He's pretty no-nonsense in most of his scenes, but when he finds out the peasants are ganging up on a young woman just because she has blue eyes and white skin, he snaps at them for their racism and offers her refuge in the palace (albeit in a dungeon, but at least she had her own cell.) |
| 195 | * IronicEcho: When Akenaden reveals his parentage to him, Seto retorts that his father died on the battlefield, the exact same cover story he told his beloved wife to tell Seto why he's a DisappearedDad. |
| 196 | * MagicWand: The Millennium Rod. |
| 197 | * PostFinalBoss: In the manga, he's brainwashed by Aknadin/Zorc and fought after Zorc is beaten. |
| 198 | * {{Reincarnation}}: Seto Kaiba is his modern-world reincarnation. |
| 199 | * SelfMadeMan: Much like Seto Kaiba, he started with a humble background, only to work his way up to the Pharaoh's court. |
| 200 | * SoleSurvivor: In the anime he's the only one of the original priests that served under Pharaoh Atem who survives the battle with Zorc Necrophades. Averted in the manga, as Isis also survives by the end. |
| 201 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name can vary between "Seth" and "Set". |
| 202 | * SplitPersonalityTakeover: When Seto refuses to become Pharaoh under the reign of Zorc Necrophades, the High Priest of Darkness discards his physical form (i.e. kills himself) and possesses Seto. This leads into the duel between the Pharaoh and his priest that was recorded on the stone slab. |
| 203 | * TheStarscream: Played with. While Akhenaden thinks he should take the kingdom for himself when the Pharaoh vanishes, Seto thinks that even if he could wield power greater than the Pharaoh's Gods, he has no right to the throne. |
| 204 | * TranquilFury: Let’s just say… he did ''not'' take it well once Akhenaden murders Kisara. He “calmly” approaches Akhenaden as he announces that he still firmly believes his actual father has been long dead, then pulls out a sword and '''stabs''' Akhenaden right then and there. Obliviously cut out of the 4Kids dub. |
| 205 | * UndyingLoyalty: Less noticeable than Mahado/Mahad's behaviour, but he is loyal to Atem. He refers to himself as 'the Pharaoh's true friend' on the Tablet of Memories, and he was likely the one to set up the Tombkeepers to protect the secret to Atem regaining his memories in case he ever returned. |
| 206 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: In both the anime and manga, while his attitude towards such varies, he rationalizes that capturing civilians and extracting their Ka is something they must do if they wish to protect the Pharaoh from enemies like Thief King Bakura, a nobody who turned out to have a very dangerous Ka in him. |
| 207 | * YouAreInCommandNow: After Atem defeats Zorc, he cannot remain in the world of memory due to the fact that he died in the original timeline. Before he disappears, he gives Seto the Millennium Puzzle and asks him to watch over everyone in Egypt as the new Pharaoh. |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Priest Mahado (Mahad)]] |
| 211 | !!'''Priest Mahado (神官マハード; ''Shinkan Mahado'') ([[DubNameChange Mahad]])''' \ |
| 212 | '''Black Magician Mahado (黒魔道士マハード ''Yami Madoushi Mahaado'') ([[DubNameChange Dark Magician]])''' |
| 213 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mahado.png]] |
| 214 | --> Voiced by: Kazunari Kojima (Japanese), Creator/MichaelSinterniklaas (English) |
| 215 | |
| 216 | Mahado was one of the six High Priests of the Pharaoh's court and wielded the Millennium Ring. Mahado was a loyal mage in charge of leading a group of guards who were tasked with the duty of protecting the royal tombs at the Valley of the Kings from intruders. |
| 217 | |
| 218 | Being a sorcerer, he is capable of using Heka (deification of magic in Egyptian mythology), which he uses to suppress the Millennium Ring's dark powers. He sacrifices his life after performing a spell that fused his own spirit with the Magus of Illusions during Thief King Bakura's attack on the Pharaoh's tomb, and loses his Millennium Ring to the thief in a Shadow Game. He later returns as the Black Magician spirit to serve his king once more. |
| 219 | |
| 220 | In modern times, he appears as an NPC during Dark Bakura's Shadow Role-Playing Game. |
| 221 | |
| 222 | ---- |
| 223 | * BlackMage: He's one of the Pharaoh's sorcerers, whose spirit later fused with the Magus of Illusions, gaining the skills of a powerful Black Mage (and also becoming the precursor to the Black Magician of the ''Magic & Wizards'' card game in the modern setting) |
| 224 | * CameBackStrong: During the Memory World, despite his valiant efforts, Priest Mahado is killed by Thief King Bakura. He comes back later as a Monster Spirit, fusing with the Magus of Illusions as an even ''stronger'' sorcerer in order to serve his king once more in the battle against Zorc. |
| 225 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Obviously since his spirit is the Black Magician, Mahad makes appearances ''long'' before his official introduction in the Millennium World arc. Also, Mahad's voice makes a brief appearance as the Black Magician during the [[Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters Capsule Arc.]] |
| 226 | * HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices his life to use a spell that fused his spirit with the Magus of Illusions in order to defeat Bakura. His spirit later returns to help Atem fight Zorc. |
| 227 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: A combination of his magic and loyalty to the Pharaoh allowed Mahado to resist the will of Zorc Necrophades and become the holder of the Millennium Ring. |
| 228 | * MagicWand: The Black Magician's staff. |
| 229 | * NonPlayerCharacter: He starts off as the "Priest Mahado" character card, and later becomes the Ka card Black Magician after his original game piece dies. |
| 230 | * ShipTease: With Priestess Isis in the anime. |
| 231 | * SoulJar: He begins to realize the Millennium Ring is one - detecting the evil of the previous priest that wore it - and suppresses the evil power with his own. After his death, the Black Magician's stone tablet becomes one for him. |
| 232 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: The English dub calls him "Mahad", which is also a valid rending of his Japanese name. |
| 233 | * TrainingFromHell: Literally. Mahado is implied to have gone through this in the afterlife, coming back as a Monster Spirit after sacrificing his life to fuse with the Magus of Illusions using one of his spells, stronger than ever before, in order to serve his king once more in the battle against Zorc. |
| 234 | * UndyingLoyalty: His loyalty and conviction for Atem runs deep. He continues to serve his king, even in death (and as a ''Magic & Wizards'' card for the Pharaoh's present incarnation). |
| 235 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies very quickly in, so not much is seen of his personality. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Priest Kalim/Karim]] |
| 239 | !!'''Priest Kalim (神官カリム ''Shinkan Karimu'')''' |
| 240 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kalim.png]] |
| 241 | --> Voiced by: Masahito Kawanago (Japanese), Creator/MarcDiraison (English) |
| 242 | |
| 243 | Karim was one of the six High Priests that served under Pharaoh Atem in Ancient Egypt during his reign, and was the owner of the Millennium Scales at the time. A powerful and incredibly loyal man, Karim was dedicated to serving his king, going as far as even sacrificing his life for him. |
| 244 | |
| 245 | In modern times, he appears as an NPC during Dark Bakura's Shadow Role-Playing Game. |
| 246 | |
| 247 | ---- |
| 248 | * AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Especially when he teams up with Priest Seto during their last battle with Thief King Bakura. |
| 249 | * HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices his remaining Ba to Shada, so Shada could continue to aid the Pharaoh. |
| 250 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name could be either "Kalim" or "Karim". |
| 251 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: A flashback reveals that his father looked exactly like him, albeit with a beard. He even carried the Millennium Scales as well. |
| 252 | * UndyingLoyalty: He's willing to die for the sake of his king. |
| 253 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: While he sticks around longer than Mahad, what is seen of his personality is minimal. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Priest Shada]] |
| 257 | !!'''Priest Shada (神官シャダ ''Shinkan Shada'')''' |
| 258 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shada.png]] |
| 259 | --> Voiced by: Creator/NozomuSasaki (Japanese), Creator/JDavidBrimmer (English, credited as Michael Alston Baley) |
| 260 | |
| 261 | Shada was one of the six High Priests of Pharaoh Atem's royal court. He wields the Millennium Ankh, which allows him to look into a person's soul room and identify evil ka spirits within human hearts. |
| 262 | |
| 263 | In modern times, he appears as an NPC during Dark Bakura's Shadow Role-Playing Game. |
| 264 | |
| 265 | ---- |
| 266 | * HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices his life to shield his king from a blow from Zorc. |
| 267 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Seto seem to have an odd friendship, and share quite an amount of panel time together. |
| 268 | * JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Uses his Millennium Ankh to enter the minds of criminals and graverobbers to look for evil ka and judge their heart. |
| 269 | * RedHerring: His name is similar to Shadi, they both wield the Millennium Ankh, and in the Japanese anime, they both have the same voice actor. In actuality, they have nothing to do with each other, though the anime version of Shadi is hinted to ''possibly'' be a composite of Shada and Karim's spirits (as Karim had given his life-force to Shada in this version). The dub deviates completely from this by insinuating that he's the past incarnation of Rishid[=/=]Odion instead. |
| 270 | * UndyingLoyalty: Although he was convinced to aid Priest Seto in his ka hunt, he remains loyal to his king nevertheless, even sacrificing his life to save him. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Priestess Isis]] |
| 274 | !!'''Priestess Isis (神官アイシス ''Shinkan Aishisu'') ''' |
| 275 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/priestess_isis.png]] |
| 276 | --> Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto (Japanese, Adult), Sakura Nogawa (Japanese, Young), Karen Neill (English) |
| 277 | |
| 278 | Priestess Isis is one of the six High Priests that served Pharaoh Atem in Ancient Egypt and wields the Millennium Tauk. |
| 279 | |
| 280 | Ishizu Ishtar is the modern day reincarnation of Isis. The "actual" Isis appears as an NPC during Dark Bakura's Shadow Role-Playing Game. |
| 281 | ---- |
| 282 | * ActionGirl: Participates in the battle against Zorc alongside the other priests and, in the manga, is the only survivor of it. |
| 283 | * DeathByAdaptation: In the anime, she's killed by Zorc in the RPG. |
| 284 | * HeroicSacrifice: In the real past and in the anime she died saving Atem from Zorc. |
| 285 | * {{High Priest}}ess |
| 286 | * ShipTease: With Mahad in the anime. |
| 287 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: In-universe for the manga. During the actual events of the past, she ''probably'' died during the battle with Zorc. However, during Dark Bakura's Shadow Role-Playing Game, events were modified enough by the players that Isis ended up being the only surviving party member aside from Priest Seto. She goes on to serve as a priestess under Pharaoh Seto in the RPG world. |
| 288 | * {{Reincarnation}}: She was reborn as Ishizu in modern times. |
| 289 | * WhiteMagicianGirl: Her Ka (Spiria and Holy Elf) provide support magic during Atem's battles with Thief King Bakura and Zorc. |
| 290 | * YouShallNotPass: In the anime, she's killed by Zorc after trying to buy time for Mana to give Atem his Millennium Pendant. |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Kisara]] |
| 294 | !!'''Kisara (キサラ ''Kisara'') ''' |
| 295 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_5934.png]] |
| 296 | --> Voiced by: Rie Nakagawa (Japanese), Creator/CarrieKeranen (English) |
| 297 | |
| 298 | The white-haired, fair-skinned peasant woman whom Kaiba’s former incarnate saves and falls in love with. Her strange coloring marks her as the victim of discrimination amongst the Egyptian citizens. She is later revealed to be the human vessel of a very powerful Ka, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Near the end of the arc, she sacrifices herself to protect Seto from Akhenaden. According to [[WordOfGod Takahashi]], Seto’s feelings for her are a major reason behind modern-day Kaiba’s fixation with the Blue-Eyes. |
| 299 | |
| 300 | She appears as an NPC of Dark Bakura's Shadow Role-Playing Game during the final arc of the story. |
| 301 | |
| 302 | ---- |
| 303 | * AbortedArc: She was originally slated to have an arc focused on developing her and Priest Seto's relationship, including a part with Seto having to save her from torture at Akhenaden's hands and another in which he revolted against Atem to avenge her, but it had to be cut by Takahashi due to pressure to finish the Millennium World arc. |
| 304 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the anime, Kisara is much more assertive, and determined to protect Seto. She fights Akhenaden with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and dies protecting Seto. In the manga, she just gets attacked and dies. |
| 305 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Played with. She does have white hair in the anime, as carried over from the manga, but the anime also colors her hair varying shades of blue in shots and shades it completely blue when in dim lighting. |
| 306 | * AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Making Kisara an AdaptationalBadass in the anime creates a plot hole, as Kisara's Ka, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, is also her Ba, which means the dragon is literally her soul, which is why her body passes out whenever the White Dragon emerges from her body. Her being able to remain conscious while summoning her literal soul out of her body is a plot hole. |
| 307 | * AlbinosAreFreaks: Her white hair and pale skin made the Egyptians shun her. |
| 308 | * BarefootPoverty: She's initially shown to be barefoot in Kaiba's visions, but she averts this trope in the actual arc she appears. |
| 309 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Although not stated outright, it's made evident that her loyalty to Seto stems from showing her kindness when she was being stoned by a mob accusing her of being a witch. |
| 310 | * BlessedWithSuck: Her power makes her a target for angry mobs and power-hungry rebel priests. |
| 311 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: In the anime, she and Seto first met when they were children and he saved her from slave traders. |
| 312 | * ClothingDamage: In Kaiba's vision of Seto and Kisara during the Battle City tournament, he is shown cradling her nude body. In the actual scene, however, she keeps all her clothing. |
| 313 | * DamselInDistress: Seto saves her life four times, once when they're children, again from a mob stoning her years later, and when she is pitted against two other prisoners who had unleashed their own ka in order to force hers out. Seto saves her twice in a row during that incident: when he intervenes to save her from the unleashed monsters she was facing, and when she nearly fell into a deep pit. In return, she unleashes the Blue-Eyes White Dragon to save both of them from falling, and later to protect him. |
| 314 | * DeathSeeker: Implied. In the manga, she does nothing to call out the Blue-Eyes White Dragon to protect her from the prisoners trying to kill her with their Ka monsters and simply closes her eyes to accept her fate. It takes Priest Seto's intervention to save her life. |
| 315 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: She dies in Seto's arms. |
| 316 | * DisposableWoman: In general, Kisara's character boils down to 'quiet, mysterious girl who's powerful, but is killed to motivate Seto'. In the manga, she's randomly attacked in the middle of a conversation and dies, enraging Seto and allowing him to be possessed until the end of the arc. The anime has her sacrifice herself to protect Seto and then free him from the darkness before the end of the arc. In the original plan for the arc, her death would have served to motivate an un-brainwashed Seto to rebel against the Pharaoh, fighting a three-way war to avenge her death. |
| 317 | * HeroicSacrifice: She takes a hit from Akhenaden meant to kill Seto, saving his life but dying in the process. |
| 318 | * HerosMuse: She provides an almost literal light to balance Priest Seto's inner darkness, and her HeroicSacrifice and death in his arms provides the inspiration for his reign. |
| 319 | * ImpliedLoveInterest: Seto and Kisara do love each other. It was never really expanded on in the series despite the obvious hints, but the fact it transcends time and space until becoming modern day Kaiba's fixation with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon certainly assures it was strong enough. |
| 320 | * InexplicablyAwesome: It is never explained why this random peasant woman has a spirit which rivals the gods in power. |
| 321 | * LightIsGood: A firmly heroic character, with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon as her ka. |
| 322 | * TheLostLenore: To Seto. |
| 323 | * LoveRedeems: How she saves Seto from Akhenaden's MindControl. |
| 324 | * MacGuffinSuperPerson: Her wielding of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon's power is what makes her the target of mobs and power-seeking priests. |
| 325 | * MysteriousWaif: Homeless, quiet, vaguely psychic, and the mysterious keeper of the spirit of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and in the anime sacrifices herself to protect the only person who ever showed her kindness, High Priest Seto... [[{{Reincarnation}} even 3,000 years later]]. |
| 326 | * MysticalWhiteHair: As the holder for the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, she has long white hair. |
| 327 | * NowLetMeCarryYou: In the anime, Seto saves her four times, and in return, she sacrifices herself to save him from his father. |
| 328 | * TheQuietOne: She's not very talkative. |
| 329 | * ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Her white hair and blue eyes and Seto's attachment to her make it fairly obvious that her "reincarnation" is the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. |
| 330 | * ReincarnationRomance: It's heavily implied that Kaiba's obsession with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon is because of Priest Seto's love for her and anguish at her death. |
| 331 | ** During Seto Kaiba's duel with Ishuzu Ishtar, it is hinted that Kisara saved him from losing by showing him the vision of Priest Seto cradling her in front of the stone slab where her Ka was sealed, making him realize that he should use the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and ultimately defying Ishuzu's prediction. Kaiba wins the duel as a result. |
| 332 | * ShipTease: Kisara has various instances with Priest Seto, and its obvious that their strong romantic feelings are mutual. |
| 333 | ** The brief meeting she has with Seto Kaiba can also be considered this. |
| 334 | * ShrinkingViolet: Very mild-mannered and soft-spoken, which is at odds with her Ka, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. She seems to have grown out of this by the time she faces off with Akhenaden due to her determination to save Seto from his influence, and even after her death. |
| 335 | * SilkHidingSteel: Timid, quiet, and reserved... as well as the holder of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, one of the most powerful monsters in the series. |
| 336 | ** She seems to have become much braver and more assertive than the first time she was revealed to be the vessel of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon by the time of her death due to her determination to protect Seto up to the point where she can consciously summon the said spirit without any problems to do battle with Akhenaden. |
| 337 | * SummonMagic: Unlike the other characters of the Shadow RPG, Kisara can't summon her Ka (the Blue-Eyes White Dragon) at will, but her subconscious does. This is because her Ka is also her Ba. |
| 338 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: To Priest Seto. It's more emphasized in the anime, where she dies fighting Akhenaden for Seto's sake, but also present in the manga, where she appears as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon to save him from falling to darkness when under Akhenaden's control. |
| 339 | * WrongContextMagic: Kisara's Ka is different from the others, since it is not born from the darkness inside people's hearts, but the White Dragon is also her Ba, making it her literal soul. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Siamun Muran (Shimon)]] |
| 343 | !!'''Siamun Muran (シモン・ムーラン ''Shimon Muuran'') ([[DubNameChange Shimon]])''' |
| 344 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_7894.png]] |
| 345 | --> Voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa (Japanese), Maddie Blaustein (English) |
| 346 | |
| 347 | Siamun was Pharaoh Atem's vizier and once served as a High Priest under Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen, Atem's father. He was the former wielder of the Millennium Ankh before he was succeeded by Shada. |
| 348 | |
| 349 | He is the past incarnate of Solomon Mutou, Yugi Mutou's grandfather. Siamun appears as an NPC during Dark Bakura's Shadow Role-Playing Game. |
| 350 | ---- |
| 351 | * AsYouKnow: He explains to Atem how duels worked in Ancient Egypt, even though he believes the Pharaoh already knows. He actually doesn't, since he just came back from the modern day to collect his memories. |
| 352 | * CallBack: Earlier in the Millennium World arc, there was a flashback to young Sugoroku Mutou conquering the Shadow Games in Pharaoh Atem's tomb and finding the Millennium Puzzle. When a portion of Dark Yugi's soul gets sucked into the Shadow RPG and becomes his past shelf, it's revealed that Siamun was the one that turned Pharoh Atem's tomb into the Shrine of the Shadow Games and filled it with traps to ward off graverobbers, which his future reincarnation will have to conquer 3,000 years later.. |
| 353 | ** His use of Exodia calls back all the way to the very beginning of the series, as while it was Yugi who actually summons Exodia, it was Solomon/Shimon's deck he was using. |
| 354 | * CanonImmigrant: He was in a number of ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' video games before he was introduced in the manga. This is also true of Priests Seto and Isis, but Simon can be dueled against in ''every'' game from ''Forbidden Memories'' to ''7 Trials to Glory'', [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness even the ones set in the present day, giving him no known connection to Sugoroku]]. |
| 355 | * CoolOldGuy: Like his present day reincarnation, don't underestimate his age. He takes out an entire army of undead when he reacquires the Millennium Ankh and summons his ka, the guardian of the palace, Exodia, which supposedly defeated 1,000 armies in a single night. Unfortunately, he was no match for Zorc Necrophades. |
| 356 | * HeroicSacrifice: He tries to take down Zorc with the legendary guardian Exodia, but Exodia ends up getting sliced in half, killing Siamun in the process. |
| 357 | * {{Reincarnation}}: Sugoroku Mutou is his modern-world reincarnation. |
| 358 | * TheWorfEffect: Siamun's summoning of Exodia is extravagant. Said to have taken down multiple armies in a single night and taking down Zorc's undead army with Exodo Flame, Siamun is shown to be pretty awesome... but then he gets [[OneHitKO one-shotted]] by Zorc. |
| 359 | * YouShallNotPass: He has this moment when he summons Exodia. He manages to destroy Zorc's army of undead, but he ends up getting killed by Zorc instead. |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Mana]] |
| 363 | !!'''Mana (マナ ''Mana'') ''' |
| 364 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_621.png]] |
| 365 | --> Voiced by: Yuri Nakao (Japanese), Bella Hudson (Engish) |
| 366 | |
| 367 | A spellcaster studying under the High Priest Mahado/Mahad, who eventually summons a ka in the form of the Black Magician Girl after the death of her mentor. |
| 368 | |
| 369 | In modern times, she appears as an NPC during Dark Bakura's Shadow Role-Playing Game. Her role is expanded on in the anime as the childhood friend of the Pharaoh. |
| 370 | ----- |
| 371 | * AdaptationDyeJob: |
| 372 | ** In the manga, she has blonde hair. It's changed to brown in the anime version and reddish brown in the colored manga. |
| 373 | ** Her Monster Ka gets one in the anime as well. In the manga, the "original" Black Magician Girl has brown skin and the pentagram on her chest is instead the Eye of Anubis - basically Mana in the Black Magician Girl's outfit. The anime gives her the modern design, light skin and a pentagram on her chest. |
| 374 | ** There is also an in-universe example, when Pegasus designed the Black Magician Girl with pale skin and changed the Eye of Anubis into a pentagram instead of how she was supposed to look. |
| 375 | * AdaptationExpansion: Her relationship with Atem is expanded on more in the anime, where it's shown they knew each other as children. |
| 376 | * TheApprentice: Studies under Mahado as an apprentice magician. |
| 377 | * BadassAdorable: She's cute ''and'' she kicks ass - especially when she channels her spirit as the Black Magician Girl. |
| 378 | * BlackMagicianGirl: Not only is she the apprentice of High Priest Mahado, who is a BlackMage, her Monster Ka is literally the Black Magician Girl - the trope namer. |
| 379 | * ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Mana is the only one capable of seeing Yugi and co. (and Bobasa) when they're present in the Memory World. |
| 380 | * ChildhoodFriends: In the anime, she and Atem are shown first meeting as children. |
| 381 | * CuteWitch: Sweet ray of sunshine, she is. |
| 382 | * GenkiGirl: Generally bouncy and energetic, to the point of jump-glomping the Pharaoh in her first appearance. |
| 383 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: Like Mahado, she's able to wear the Millennium Ring without being posessed by Zorc Necrophades. |
| 384 | * ShipTease: Has some with Atem in the anime, where they're close enough ChildhoodFriends for her to glomp him at one point. |
| 385 | %%* VagueAge: Takahashi never exactly stated how old she is. The anime went with making her younger than Atem for about what seems to be 2 or 3 years, but then she looks too "developed" for a 14-year-old, so it could also be implied that she is actually older than Atem in the manga and is merely OlderThanTheyLook. Then again, we can't be sure. |
| 386 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Even though she's the basis of the series' most popular MsFanservice, a character guide released in 2016 revealed that she's 13 years old. |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Hasan]] |
| 390 | !!'''Hasan (ハサン ''Hasan'') ''' |
| 391 | --> Voiced by: Masanori Ikeda (Japanese), Brian Haley (English) |
| 392 | [[quoteright:528:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captura_de_tela_2024_03_01_155207.png]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | A spirit sealed in the Tablet of the Pharaoh's memories by the former Pharaoh in order to protect his son, Atem. He first appears to watch over Atem's recuperation from an injury, and later fights alongside the other priests. In the manga, he is the true form of Bobasa and one of the forms of Shadi, and in the anime he is the true form of the latter only. |
| 395 | |
| 396 | For information on his other self (or ''selves''), see '''Characters/YuGiOhOtherCharacters'''. |
| 397 | |
| 398 | ---- |
| 399 | * BigGood: Shadi, as Hasan, is the direct counterpart to Zorc and is the embodiment of light of the memory tablet. |
| 400 | * HeroicBuild: He takes the form of a huge, muscled guy with a golden mask. |
| 401 | * HeroicSacrifice: He dies saving Yugi and his friends from Zorc's attack. |
| 402 | * HeroicSecondWind: In the anime, courtesy of present-day Shadi. |
| 403 | * UndyingLoyalty: Dies to give the Pharaoh and his friends the chance they need to release his name. |
| 404 | * NonPlayerCharacter: Weird example. In the manga, he's an NPC that's actually played by the outsider, Bobasa (who is himself actually Shadi). In the anime, however, he's just a "Master Item" that's controlled by Shadi and summoned by Dark Yugi. |
| 405 | [[/folder]] |
| 406 | |
| 407 | [[folder:Gebelk]] |
| 408 | The overseer of the Pharaoh's underground prisons, Gebelk is an expert in the art of torture. He's apparently the pre-incarnation of Kaiba's butler. |
| 409 | ---- |
| 410 | * TortureTechnician: Priest Seto recruits him to torture prisoners into revealing their Ka. |
| 411 | [[/folder]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | [[folder:Zorc Necrophades]] |
| 414 | !!'''The Great Evil God Zorc Necrophades (大邪神 ゾーク・ネクロファデス ''Daijashin Zōku Nekurofadesu'')''' |
| 415 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2766.jpeg]] |
| 416 | --> Voiced by: Yoshitaka Kaidu (Japanese), Creator/MikePollock (English) |
| 417 | |
| 418 | ->''Akhenaden! By the terms of our contract, you have become a mere part of our greatness! We have no use for your parental emotions! We will kill them along with the Pharaoh and his priests!'' --Dark Bakura narrating Zorc's dialogue. |
| 419 | |
| 420 | The ancient enemy Dark Yugi defeated in the past and sealed away. A great evil god that seeks to destroy the world and cover it in darkness, the tools for his release were accidentally created by the servants of the Pharaoh's father when they created the Millennium Items, the pivotal plot devices of the original series that allowed the occult judgment [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame Shadow Games]] to be played and also allowed the Pharaoh's priests to seal the Ka of criminals into stone slabs, which take on the form of monsters. He's the ancient enemy Pharaoh Atem (now Dark Yugi, spirit of the Millennium Puzzle) defeated three thousand years ago, but reviving him is the goal of Dark Bakura, the spirit of the Millennium Ring. If Dark Bakura is the victor of the Ultimate Shadow Game, [[CosmicChessGame the Shadow RPG]], Zorc will once again be unleashed onto the modern world. |
| 421 | |
| 422 | He is the FinalBoss of the Memory World Shadow RPG, having ''three'' full health bars ("Ba Gauges"). Prior to this, a FinalBoss named "Dark Master Zorc" appeared as Dark Bakura's PlayerCharacter during the Monster World RPG arc, as a CallForward. In the English dub, Zorc is the creator of the [[NeverSayDie Shadow Realm]]. |
| 423 | |
| 424 | ----- |
| 425 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Zorc is shocked to see all Three Eyptian Gods summoned, which then immediately merge into Horakthy for a ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill moment. In the anime, Zorc gets to fight all Three Egyptian Gods at once and he defeats all of them after creating an eclipse. When they are revived, they manage to kill him after merging into Horakthy. |
| 426 | * ArtifactOfDoom: The Millennium Items were used to summon him, and the Millennium Ring in particular is made inherently evil due to the presence of Dark Bakura, who is part of Zorc. |
| 427 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Zorc is a gigantic monster that is the size of the Three Egyptian Gods and Exodia, and he terrorizes Ancient Egypt with his powers, killing a lot of people in the process. |
| 428 | * BigBad: The true one of the entire series, Dark Bakura was his agent/herald all along and plotting to resurrect him, and the many evils of the Millenium Items were born of his evil influence. While he only appears in the last arc, it is made very clear that he was the biggest bad even if not alive in the present day. |
| 429 | * BreathWeapon: He can breathe fire from [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/62fbd9717ef8c94d214c8d2cac67b834/tumblr_p8osmt3luu1uax6y9o4_400.png his regular mouth]] or spit fire balls from [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/b/bb/I_came.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141016134747 the mouth of the dragon]] that's attached to his torso. |
| 430 | * CallingYourAttacks: Zorc is prone to shout the names of the attacks he is about to use. |
| 431 | * CardCarryingVillain: You thought Dark Master Zorc sounded villainous? Try '''The Great Evil God'''. |
| 432 | * CastingAShadow: Zorc possess a repertoire of darkness-related powers, such as the Dark Phenomenon, an attack capable of slicing Exodia in half, and in the anime, he can create an eclipse to strengthen his power while weakening the Egyptian Gods by depriving them from ThePowerOfTheSun. |
| 433 | * TheCorruption: Anything part of Zorc ''becomes'' Zorc to some extent, with his influence most strongly felt in the Ring, Bakura, and Akhenaden. |
| 434 | * ChekhovsGunman: The name Zorc first appeared as a generic FinalBoss in a tabletop RPG made by Bakura. This Zorc's appearance is ''much'' deadlier. |
| 435 | * DarkIsEvil: Red eyes, a second, draconic head, typical of an ancient demon. |
| 436 | * DragonInChief: The Shadow RPG version of Zorc is a player character controlled by Dark Bakura, but he's the main threat in the game as the game master can only do so much. |
| 437 | * DishingOutDirt: Zorc's third Hourglass ability is Natural Catastrophe, which causes the land to slowly sink around the game board. Dark Bakura activates this ability to destroy the Valley of the Kings first, in an attempt to kill Dark Yugi's friends. |
| 438 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: This is pretty much his goal, being the embodiment of negative emotions. |
| 439 | * EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: Inverted in the anime, as Dark Bakura/Zorc recreates the events of Zorc's original attack in an elaborate Role-Playing Shadow Game, trying to rewrite history so that he never lost in the first place. In the manga, Dark Bakura winning the Shadow Game will unleash Zorc Necrophades onto the modern world so he could destroy it. |
| 440 | * FinalBoss: Of the Millennium World arc. He's the final enemy that Dark Yugi has to defeat, or else Zorc is unleashed onto the modern world. |
| 441 | * GodOfEvil: In the original material, he's an EldritchAbomination who claims to have come into existence eons before he was summoned with the power of the Millennium Items. In the dub, he created and rules the Shadow Realm, essentially making him {{Satan}}. Kazuki Takahashi depicts Zorc on "the Devil" tarot card. |
| 442 | * GreaterScopeVillain: He is this for the series. Zorc is the entity that the Pharaoh destroyed and Dark Bakura is trying to resurrect, and Pegasus indirectly mentions him as an "evil intelligence" inside the Millennium Items. Also, for most of the English 4Kids dub, he is frequently but vaguely referred to only as a dark evil defeated by the Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt who destroyed that country and which the Pharaoh is prophesied to defeat again. However, it is not until the end of the last arc that we find out who and what he is, and it's revealed/confirmed that Dark Bakura was working to release him all along. |
| 443 | ** Every story that has Dark Bakura as a GreaterScopeVillain technically has Zorc as an even GreaterScopeVillain by extension. See his character page for more details. |
| 444 | * TheHeartless: Zorc was created by the collective hatred in the hearts of humankind, and physically unleashed into the world when a village was sacrificed to create the Millennium Items. The dub upgrades him to {{Satan}} or the closest equivalent of the "Shadow Realm". |
| 445 | * {{Homage}}: Like the Zorc from Monster World, Zorc's name may be a reference to ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'', an early text-based adventure game. |
| 446 | * TheJuggernaut: In the anime, the heroes throw everything they have at him: the Black Magician duo, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Exodia and even the ''Egyptian Gods'' all fail to even scratch him. The only way Atem beats him is by combining the three gods to summon Horakhty, who destroys him once and for all. |
| 447 | * KamehameHadouken: He fires a giant fireball, the Zorc Inferno, from both of his hands. |
| 448 | * KilledOffForReal: Horakhty destroys Zorc in the final battle, destroying his evil entirely. Since the spirits of Dark Bakura, Thief King Bakura, and Akhenaden contained the fragments of his soul needed to resurrect him, and they were part of Zorc and thus also slain, his death is permanent. |
| 449 | * LargeAndInCharge: Undeniably the biggest villain of the series, alongside the anime's Leviathan. |
| 450 | * MadeOfEvil: He's made of all the negative energy of humankind since the dawn of their creation. |
| 451 | * TheManBehindTheMan: A passive variation. The character of Dark Master Zorc was influenced by the Game Master, Dark Bakura, who is the soul of Thief King Bakura combined with Zorc Necrophades. |
| 452 | * MassOhCrap: Exodia, the most well-known InstantWinCondition in the Duel Monsters game, is summoned by Priest Siamun as a Ka to combat Zorc. After Exodia manages to one-shot Zorc's entire army of undead with Exodo Flame and proceeds to fire at Zorc, Zorc [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bifurcates him]]. Cue this reaction. |
| 453 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist In the dub, he claims he merely seeks reality while true reality is Zorc wishes to plunge Earth into eternal shadows. |
| 454 | * NighInvulnerability: The amount of punishment he can take from all of the anime's heavy hitters, up to and including the three Gods and Exodia, is ''insane''. In the manga, he has ''three health bars'' on his RPG character card. |
| 455 | * OntologicalInertia: Despite Atem defeating him, his evil influence still remains in the Millennium Items. The Ring, being one of the most evil of them all, still survives in ''The Dark Side of Dimensions'' to corrupt Diva until Atem returns to destroy him for good. |
| 456 | * PlayerCharacter: Dark Master Zorc was Dark Bakura's main avatar for the Monster World RPG. Likewise, during the Shadow RPG, Zorc Necrophades became one of Dark Bakura's main avatars once Thief King Bakura died and Zorc was summoned by Akhenaden. |
| 457 | * PlayingWithFire: His [[CallingYourAttacks Zorc Inferno]] is the same fiery attack he had in Bakura's Monster World, only much ''bigger'' here. |
| 458 | * ResetButton: His first Hourglass ability allows him to rewind time once. This is used to make Diabound's death by Ra undone. |
| 459 | * SealedEvilInACan: Double example. |
| 460 | ** A part of him resides in Dark Bakura, the spirit of the Millennium Ring who is also trapped within the Millennium Ring. His soul was also sealed into the Millennium Puzzle along with Atem, and if Dark Yugi loses the Shadow RPG, his soul would be released. |
| 461 | ** There's a bit of Zorc's influence in several of the Millennium Items. Pegasus reveals this when he tells Yugi that all of the Millennium Items contain an "evil intelligence", while Ishizu later clarifies that only some of them (the Eye, the Rod, the Ring and the Puzzle) do and others (the Necklace, Scales and Key) do not. |
| 462 | * TimeStandsStill: Zorc's second Hourglass ability stops time for the denizens of the Shadow RPG. This allows the Zorc-influenced Akhenaden to steal the Millennium Items and summon Zorc. |
| 463 | * VillainousBreakdown: He panics once he realizes that Atem manages to fuse the Egyptian Gods together and tries to pull a TakingYouWithMe on Atem as he dies. |
| 464 | * VisualInnuendo: His infamous dragon head, which comes out of his crotch. Various media try to censor it in various ways. |
| 465 | * WalkingSpoiler: The reveal of his existence is connected to a whole bunch of plot twists that have happened, and in the manga, his name reveals his connection with Dark Bakura and Dark Master Zorc. |
| 466 | [[/folder]] |
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