History Awesome / YugiOh

*** Apparently, dueling community took this pair of episodes way too seriously, they started developing their own strategies around Cannon Soldier (or its Toon counterpart), [[GameBreaker exploiting them in official tournaments]] and leading [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Cannon_Soldier both]] [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Toon_Cannon_Soldier cards]] to get banned in OCG format.

* Defeating Espa Roba by making Jinzo attack one of the duelists at random, basically leaving the game up to [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/36708764 a roulette spin]], took titanic balls.

** Strings has Slifer the Sky Dragon, which is immune to destruction and most Spell and Trap effects, gains 1000 ATK for every card in Marik's hand, and automatically attacks any monster Yami Yugi summons with an ATK force of 2000 points. Marik has an impenetrable defense with Revival Jam, which regenerates whenever it is destroyed, and further has Jam Defender to let Revival Jam intercept any attack Yami Yugi may attempt. Finally he has Card of Safe Return, which lets him draw three cards every time a monster is revived. The result is a seemingly unstoppable combo; a monster that revives whenever it is destroyed, a card that lets Marik draw every time a monster revives, and a second monster that grows stronger the more cards he holds in his hand, and just in case he can destroy most monsters the second they hit the field and can block any attack they may try anyway.

* Slifer and Obelisk both collide in the Battle City semifinals with 4000 attack points. The force of the stalemate causes a groundshaking explosion and shatters televisions all over the world. Don't fuck with the Egyptian Gods.

** During his duel with Yami Marik, Joey uses Question, which forces the opponent to guess which of his monsters was sent to the graveyard first. Yami Marik, at this point, has sent so many he can't remember, and Joey caps it off with "Stunned silence was not the answer we were looking for!"
*** Correction, the monster in the bottom of Joey's graveyard (Jinzo) was sent there RANDOMLY via one of Yami Marik's own ploys. [[HoiseByHisOwnPetard He couldn't have guessed correctly if he tried.]]

*** Correction, the monster in the bottom of Joey's graveyard was sent there RANDOMLY via one of Yami Marik's cards. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By His Own Petard]] indeed.

-->'''Yami Yugi:''' Blue Eyes White Dragons! ''Wipe him out!''

*** There's something really unsung about this awesome moment. We learn according to Kaiba that in order to defeat Ra, Yugi would have needed two god cards and the Fiend's Sanctuary. Without Fiend's Sanctuary his win chances would have been 3%. Even with all of those cards, the win percentage was 20%. Joey had neither the god cards nor the Fiends' Sanctuary and he Had Yami Marik dead to rights finished with a single word standing between victory and defeat!

--> '''Pegasus:''' You really are a persistent one.
--> '''Keith:''' Hand over the prize money! Otherwise, I'll take your life right here!
--> '''Pegasus:''' You see the once renowned "Prize King" like this, you've clearly lost the necessary mind for a Duelist as I witnessed first hand in the match just now.
--> '''Keith:''' Don't screw with me! Where's the prize money!?
--> '''Pegasus:''' Begone, weakling.
--> ''Pegasus presses the emergency trap door and Keith is removed from the Duelist Kingdom.''

---'''Yami Yugi:''' Blue Eyes White Dragons! ''Wipe him out!''

* The final move he uses in the duel with Noah is golden. He's down to a bare minimum of 100 Life Points and has to take out Noah's 10,000. He gives both players the maximum amount for a hand and then begins by reviving the Blue Eyes that was sent to the graveyard while Kaiba was duelling. Then, he fuses them into the Blue Eyes Ultimate dragon, a monster far more powerful than anything that Noah has even come CLOSE to bringing out. He then blows his monster out of the water. Noah of course begins to gloat because he feels confident he can survive a few more turns against the Blue Eyes, only for Yugi to activate De-Fusion. Noah's remaining LP doesn't look so nice now that there's ''three'' individual Blue Eyes dragons on the field, all ready to direct attack.

[[folder:Scripted Duels]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLJ0dY4FS3M This scripted duel narrated by the VAs for Yugi and Yusei]]. For fans of the original series and of Anime/YuGiOh5Ds, a real treat seeing the protagonists duke it out, exactly as one would expect (especially with all the old-school cards Yugi unleashes that are currently banned from the metagame).
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQcgfgmE4U This VA scripted duel]] is a tag team duel that has Yugi, Joey, and Mai versus Pegasus and Bakura. It is the ''definition'' of epic. Pegasus defeats Mai and Joey, but loses to Yugi, and Yami Bakura takes over Ryou as his turn begins, turning the duel into a shadow game.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk_YP6XF0yQ This scripted duel]] has Kaiba versus Pegasus, the latter using a Wind-Up deck provided by one of the real-life players instead of his usual Toons.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRRLRtC1YxE This scripted duel]] is between Joey and Kaiba. While Joey loses, he puts up quite a fight.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rLCzGx_cKU Another scripted duel]] is between Yugi and Mai. When Yugi activates Multiply, a pile of Kuriboh cards is tossed between the two to mimic what Multiply does on the show.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phTcXmOqJy8 Then there is the one]] between Yugi and Astral. Easily one of the best matches, filled with constant gambits from both eras.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daYaE6Y0Fr0 This one]] is between Pegasus and Marik. Pegasus wins by ''using Comic Hand to take control of the Winged Dragon of Ra and turn it into a Toon!''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDDwAOp7Sp8 This duel]] is between Joey and Pegasus. Joey takes Pegasus down to 300 LP before losing and earns his respect as a duelist.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIcPPSBe7Ak This one]] is Yusei versus Yuya. Yusei defeats Yuya with his Stardust Charge Warrior, attacking all of his monsters at once.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foNHub1JjB4 This duel]] is between Yugi and Kaiba. It's down to the wire as the Egyptian God cards get played along with the duelists' signature monsters, and new support cards. The duel itself is a combination of their duel in ''Anime/YuGiOhTheMoviePyramidOfLight'', their Battle City duel, and Yugi's duels in ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions'', alongside new summoning methods and old favorites.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2xwJXxacHY This scripted duel]] is a double-event of Jack Atlas vs. Pegasus, and then Jack vs. Aster Phoenix. Jack beats Pegasus in a single turn, prompting Aster to duel and defeat Jack while Pegasus commentates.
* For the one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNMhVjQXuTI between Joey and Ishizu]], Joey displays amazing tenacity despite a number of things, including his own chance-based cards, not going his way. One standout moment involves his board getting blown up only for him to rebuild it right away, and this happens ''twice'' in a single Battle Phase.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnF_xXT-VKE This scripted duel]] in 2019 is, once again, between Yugi and Kaiba.
** It begins with Kaiba summoning all three Blue-Eyes White Dragons on his very first turn, and then proceeds into a back-and-forth swing as both Yugi and Kaiba keep destroying the other's field and rebuilding their own, bringing their aces back each time. This culminates in Yugi and Kaiba both summoning a colossal Fusion Monster -- Quintet Magician and Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon -- and both getting defeated in a DoubleKnockout, leaving the path clear for a humble Sangan to finally inflict the first instance of Battle Damage.
** Kaiba then triggers his Crush Card Virus after Yugi wipes out his Giant Germ with his Blue-Eyes (again). This destroys every monster Yugi can draw with 1500 ATK, leaving him with no field and no hand, and little in the way to stand up to Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon or Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon. The final turns comes down to a CallBack to the very first episode:
--->'''Kaiba:''' Draw your last pathetic card, Yugi...\\
...\\
'''Yugi:''' I've told you once and I'll tell you again, Kaiba: My deck has no pathetic cards! But once again, it does contain... The unstoppable Exodia! Come forth, Exodia the Legendary Defender!\\
'''Kaiba:''' Exodia? How can this be?!
** On a meta level, Dan Green plays the roles of both Yugi and Atem during this duel. This is live and in person, with no ability to do separate takes, but he swaps between them as easily as changing clothes. They even have a conversation mid-duel, showing off just how much range Green has.
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[[folder:Trading Card Game]]
* During a Top 32 match at the 2012 European Championships, Thibault Giordan may have ultimately lost the match, but he made the crowd go absolutely ''berserk'' in game three when '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vt0xScWef0&t=2m30s he Tribute Summoned Dark Magician.]]'''''
** And Thibault continued the awesome the next turn. His opponent summoned an XYZ monster with whom he attacked Dark Magician. Cue "Forbidden Chalice", which boosted Dark Magician's attack to 2900, culminating with it overpowering the XYZ! The crowd goes wild again!
* [[https://yugiohblog.konami.com/?p=7359 In the finals of YCS Columbus in 2011, Billy Brake played against Alistar Albans in a Plant mirror match, with Brake looking to take his second YCS in two months.]] During the third and final game, Brake has the misfortune to draw into all 3 copies of Reborn Tengu, a card that is powerful, yet only useful so long as you don't draw multiple copies, and still ended up winning the match and therefore the tournament, despite playing with effectively a '''3 card handicap''' for the entirety of the 3rd duel.
* [[https://youtu.be/_kIgnHrxEng?t=36m23s Game 3 of the 2016 European Championship final]], Samir Bacher, playing Pendulums, had to deal with his opponent opening an absolutely perfect opening hand, most importantly including Anti-Spell Fragrance, a card that stops him from being able to play at all. It looked like Samir was going to lose without being able to play a single card, but, off the top of his deck he draws Mystical Space Typhoon as his sixth card destroying the Anti-Spell Fragrance that would have prevented him from playing the game, and because of it, he takes the game and the tournament.
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---> '''Fift Draw''': "DRAW! MONSTER CARD!!"

---> "Here I go! The first card! Draw!! I discard the Monster Card, Queen's Knight into the Graveyard!" ''(Discards Queen's Knight)'' "Breaker the Magical Warrior, extra attack!!"
---> "The second draw! A Monster Card!!"
---> "The third one! A Monster Card!!"
---> "Draw! Monster Card!!"
---> "DRAW! MONSTER CARD!!"
---> '''"DRAW! MONSTER CARD!!"'''
---> '''''"DRAW! MONSTER CARD!!"'''''

---> "Here I go! The first card! Draw!! I discard the Monster Card, Queen's Knight into the Graveyard!" ''(Discards Queen's Knight)'' "Breaker the Magical Warrior! Extra Attack!!"

---> "DRAW! MONSTER CARD!" x7

** Even more impressive, not only had he survive ROTV's OneHitKill, but throughout the duel he had brought Jinzo, Red Eyes and a 3100 Maximum Six and managed to ensure draw power through Dangerous Machine Type Six and a +5 from Roll of Fate. He even managed to get Ziegfried down to 100.

** All this despite the fact that: A. He began the duel with no summonable monsters and B. Ziegfried had been repeatedly messing with Joey's deck with the Goddess contiuous cards.

* [[https://youtu.be/_kIgnHrxEng?t=36m23s Game 3 of the 2016 European Championship final]], Samir Bacher, playing Pendulums, had to deal with his opponent opening an absolutely perfect opening hand, most importantly including Anti-Spell Fragrance, a card that stops him from being able to play at all. It looked like Samir was going to lose without being able to play a single card, but, off the top of his deck he draws Mystical Space Typhoon as his sixth card destroying the Anti-Spell Fragrance that would have prevented him from playing the game, and because of it, he takes the the game and the tournament.

* The final move he uses in the duel with Noah is golden. He's down to a bare minimum of 100 Life Points and has to take out Noah's 10,000. He gives both players the maximum amount for a hand and then begins by reviving the Blue Eyes that was sent to the graveyard while Kaiba was duelling. Then, he fuses them into the Blue Eyes Ultimate dragon, a monster far more powerful than anything that Noah has even come CLOSE to bringing out. He then blows his monster out of the water. Noah of course begins to gloat because he feels confident he can survive a few more turns against the Blue Eyes, only for Yugi to activate De-Fusion. Noah's remaining LP doesn't look so nice now that there's ''three'' individual Blue Eyes dragons ready to direct attack.

--> '''Dark Bakura:''' [[WhenItAllBegan What if - 3000/5000 years ago - ]][[BelatedBackstory Zorc Necrophades sealed a piece of HIS soul into the Millenium Ring]]?

* The final move he uses in the duel with Noah is golden. He's down to a bare minimum of 100 Life Points and has to take out Noah's 10,000. He gives both players the maximum amount for a hand and then begins by reviving the Blue Eyes that was sent to the graveyard while Kaiba was dueling. Then, he fuses them into the Blue Eyes Ultimate dragon, a monster far more powerful than anything that Noah has even come CLOSE to bringing out. He then blows his monster out of the water. Noah of course begins to gloat because he feels confident he can survive a few more turns against the Blue Eyes, only for Yugi to activate De-Fusion. Noah's remaining LP doesn't look so nice now that there's ''three'' individual Blue Eyes dragons ready to direct attack.

** Jonouchi ''outright'' mocking Keith during their Duel.

* There's also when Yugi banished the mimic/Kaiba's evil half. Then as a silhouette against a fiery background, with only the puzzle, glowing eyes set in a DeathGlare, and the rainbow Millennium Eye on his forehead visible, he gives this message to Pegasus (who's viewing the game from a security camera).
--> ''Pegasus, I sense that you're watching. Consider this a warning: nothing you send against me with stop me! And when we finally duel, believe me, victory will be mine! I'll win back my grandfather's soul, and you will pay for all the people you've hurt in the name of your sick little game!'' '''''I'm coming for you, Pegasus!'''''
--> ''[[AwesomenessIsVolatile (Pegasus' wineglass shatters)]]''
* And let's not forget the finishing blow: he uses Monster Reborn to bring back a Blue Eyes, and increases its Attack with Mystical Elf. Right before he has his Blue Eyes attack Mimic's, he says:
--> '''Dub!Yami Yugi:''' Consider this a message from the ''real'' Seto Kaiba... '''YOU LOSE!!! NOW, BLUE EYES!!!''' '''''OBLITERATE!!!''''' ''(after destroying Mimic's Blue Eyes)'' Pegasus may have freed you from the Shadow Realm, but it won't happen again! ''NEVER AGAIN!''
--> '''Japanese!Yami Yugi:''' Prepare yourself! This is Kaiba's anger! Let's do this! '''HOLY BURST STREAM'''! ''(after destroying Mimic's Blue Eyes)'' You stole Kaiba's deck and stained his heart! I won't forgive you! '''MIND CRUSH!'''

* His finishing move against Ishizu, which changes the future. Present here in video form, be it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T3NzhuZubs dub]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJp1sDLOaos original]].

** Seeing his ''one'' card, he declares he will cast ''four'' spell cards this turn. Both his and Siegfried's life points rise by 2000 (Kaiba now has 2950 and Siegfried now has 3600).

* His finishing move against Ishizu, which changes the future.

-->'''Japanese!Kaiba:''' My pride! And my soul! I decide my future! Obelisk! Gadget Soldier! For my loyal servant, you shall be sacrified! Ishizu! I'll show you. The embodiment of both my pride and my soul, my loyal servant! Come forth, Blue-Eyes White Dragon! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJr1dTPSis Present here in video form.]]