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* BareYourMidriff: Several of her outfits.
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** BareYourMidriff: Several of her outfits.
** MsFanservice: She wears a ''corset''.
** OfCorsetsSexy: Wears this.
** MsFanservice: She wears a ''corset''.
** OfCorsetsSexy: Wears this.
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* MsFanservice: Midriff-baring corset, miniskirt, ankle boots, large breasts, and more.
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* OfCorsetsSexy: She wears a ''corset''.
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--> Voiced by: Kin Fuji (JP, ep. 2-59), YuuichiNakamura (ep. 131-224), SamRiegel (EN, ep. 1-144), Sebastian Arcelus (ep. 145-187), Anothony Salerno (ep. 188-224)
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--> Voiced by: Kin Fuji (JP, ep. 2-59), YuuichiNakamura (ep. 131-224), SamRiegel Creator/SamRiegel (EN, ep. 1-144), Sebastian Arcelus (ep. 145-187), Anothony Salerno (ep. 188-224)
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* ThighHighBoots: Wore these while she was {{Brainwashed}} by Dartz during the Doma arc.
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* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Marik's Cain.
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* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Marik's Cain.Cain before his HeelFaceTurn.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Implied. Kaiba actually notes if Marik couldn't be saved, then she intends to stay once it self-destruct. The conversation takes place in the manga before the duel between Dark Yugi and Dark Marik.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Implied. Kaiba actually notes if Marik couldn't be saved, then she intends to stay on Alcrataz once it self-destruct. self-destructs [[note]]Because Ishizu is Marik's older ''blood sibling'', Kaiba is very aware of her situation[[/note]]. The conversation takes place in the manga before the duel between Dark Yugi and Dark Marik.Marik starts.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Implied. Kaiba actually notes if Marik couldn't be saved, then she intends to stay once it self-destruct. The conversation takes place in the manga before the duel between Dark Yugi and Dark Marik.
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* CameBackWrong: In ''Yu-Gi-Oh R'', Keith was revived from his deck, which was missing a card that Jonouchi took. Because of this, he's a bit underweight, ''very'' unhinged, and it's heavily implied that he's still dead and lives on as an animate corpse.
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* KilledOffForReal: Pegasus' Shadow Game and Penalty Game in the manga has Keith shoot himself in the head to kill him via turning his hand into a gun and having him play Russian Roulette. Averted in the anime, where he survives his fall from the castle and is captured by Marik.
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* KilledOffForReal: Pegasus' Shadow Game and Penalty Game in the manga has Keith shoot himself in the head to kill him via turning his hand into a gun and having him play Russian Roulette. Averted in the anime, where he survives his fall from the castle and is captured by Marik.Marik before escaping.
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* SummonMagic: In the anime-only warehouse duel, his Zera the Mant requires the Zera Ritual before it can appear on the field.
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* SummonMagic: In the anime-only warehouse duel, his Zera the Mant requires the Zera Ritual before it can appear on the field. Keith cheats to get it into his hand.
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* {{Yandere}}: For Jonouchi in ''R''.
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* {{Yandere}}: For Jonouchi in ''R''. Keith really, ''really'' wanted to duel him and instigated the entire plot to do so.
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* KarmaHoudini: In the anime, he survives Duelist Kingdom and is set free from Marik's mind control. The games have him go even further and take over Marik's Rare Hunters, all without consequence to himself. Keith's never seen again despite all the trouble he caused.
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* KarmaHoudini: In the anime, he survives Duelist Kingdom and is set free from Marik's mind control.control after burning the warehouse down, almost killing Yugi in the process. Keith's never seen again despite all the trouble he caused. The games have him go even further and take over Marik's Rare Hunters, all without consequence to himself. Keith's never seen again despite all the trouble he caused.
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* KarmaHoudini: In the anime, he survives Duelist Kingdom and is set free from Marik's mind control. The games have him go even further and take over Marik's Rare Hunters, all without consequence to himself. Keith's never seen again despite all the trouble he caused.
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* SoreLoser: Does not take defeat well. In the manga, after losing, he threatens to kill Pegasus if he doesn't give Keith the prize money.Pegasus being a wielder of a Millennium Item, this act of coercion after losing ''and'' cheating in a game doesn't end well for Keith.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the anime, he gets off really easily.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the anime, he gets off really easily.
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* SoreLoser: Does not take defeat well. In the manga, after losing, he threatens to kill Pegasus if he doesn't give Keith the prize money. Pegasus being a wielder of a Millennium Item, this act of coercion after losing ''and'' cheating in a game doesn't end well for Keith.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the anime, hegets off really easily.survives Duelist Kingdom and disappears from the story just before Battle City.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the anime, he
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* PermaStubble: In the manga Keith has quite a bit of stubble, while in the anime he's more cleanshaven.
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* SoreLoser: Does not take defeat well. In the manga, after losing, he threatens to kill Pegasus if he doesn't give Keith the prize money. Of course, Pegasus being a wielder of a Millennium Item, this act of coercion after losing AND ''and'' cheating in a game doesn't end well for Keith.
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* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: He gloats quite a bit during matches if he's in the lead. Should he win a duel against you in the games, he'll rub it in your face.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Towards Pegasus.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In the anime-only warehouse battle, Zera the Mant, which becomes his trump card while under Marik's control is a 2800/2300 eight starred Fiend summoned by the Zera Ritual. During his duel with Jonouchi he uses Zoa, a 2600/1900 seven starred Fiend that can become KillerRobot Metalzoa under the influence of Metalmorph.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In the anime-only warehouse battle, Zera the Mant, which becomes his trump card while under Marik's control is a 2800/2300 eight starred Fiend summoned by the Zera Ritual. During his duel with Jonouchi he uses Zoa, a 2600/1900 seven starred Fiend that can become KillerRobot Metalzoa under the influence of Metalmorph.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Towards Pegasus.
Pegasus. He doesn't get to act on this in any continuity, but defeating Pegasus is what drives his motivation.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In the anime-only warehouse battle, Zera the Mant, which becomes his trump card while under Marik's control is a 2800/2300 eight starred Fiend summoned by the Zera Ritual. During his duel with Jonouchi he uses Zoa, a 2600/1900 seven starred Fiend that can become the KillerRobot Metalzoa under the influence of Metalmorph.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In the anime-only warehouse battle, Zera the Mant, which becomes his trump card while under Marik's control is a 2800/2300 eight starred Fiend summoned by the Zera Ritual. During his duel with Jonouchi he uses Zoa, a 2600/1900 seven starred Fiend that can become the KillerRobot Metalzoa under the influence of Metalmorph.
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* SchrodingersCast: In the manga, he's killed in his Shadow Game with Pegasus, but in the ''R'' spin-off, which is debated canon, he is revived by the Evil Gods. In the anime, he's dropped into the sea instead being killed by Pegasus's Penalty Game and is found and brainwashed by Marik. Then in the video games ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheSacredCards'' and ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', he becomes the new leader of the Rare Hunters/Ghouls after Marik reforms and christens them the Neo Ghouls.
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* SchrodingersCast: In the manga, he's killed in his Shadow Game with Pegasus, but in the ''R'' spin-off, which is debated canon, he is revived by the Evil Gods. In the anime, he's dropped into the sea instead of being killed by Pegasus's Penalty Game and is found and brainwashed by Marik. Then in the video games ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheSacredCards'' and ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', he becomes the new leader of the Rare Hunters/Ghouls after Marik reforms and christens them the Neo Ghouls.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Jonouchi kicks his ass in a fistfight. In the anime, Keith hands Jonouchi his rear end, and beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake all at once. He's even more awesome in the video games.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Jonouchi kicks his ass in a fistfight. In the anime, Keith hands Jonouchi his rear end, and beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake all at once. He's even more awesome in the video games.games; in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', he takes over the Rare Hunters/Ghouls after Marik's HeelFaceTurn and leads them in invading and occupying Domino City. When you duel him as a boss, he even summons the Winged Dragon of Ra against you! [[spoiler:Okay, he summons it stuck in Sphere Mode since he doesn't know the chant to unlock it, but it's the thought that counts.]]
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* ThePowerOfHate: In ''Yu-Gi-Oh R'', his grudge against Jonouchi is so strong he came back from the dead and refused to die until he hatred was sated.
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* ThePowerOfHate: In ''Yu-Gi-Oh R'', his grudge against Jonouchi is so strong he came back from the dead and refused to die until he his hatred was sated.
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* TheBrute: And lord, how. He even beats up Yugi, of all people! Contrast to Pegasus, who takes up the role of the SquishyWizard. In the manga, he's not much of a brute - he only beats up his henchman and Yugi - the latter of which causes Jonouchi to kick his ass.
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* TheBrute: And lord, how. He even beats up Yugi, of all people! Contrast to Pegasus, who takes up the role of the SquishyWizard. In the manga, he's not much of a brute - manga he only beats up his henchman henchmen and Yugi - Yugi, while in the latter of which causes anime he beats up Jonouchi to kick his ass.and sets a warehouse on fire.
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** BackFromTheDead: Revived by Yako in the R spin-off manga for his EvilPlan. It's implied that he's still actually dead, but his hatred was so strong he lived on as an animate corpse.
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** BackFromTheDead: Revived by Yako in the R ''R'' spin-off manga for his EvilPlan. It's implied that he's still actually dead, but his hatred was so strong he lived on as an animate corpse.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Assorted adaptations are quite kind to him in this regard. In Duelist Kingdom, he was a washed-up has-been who lost to a rookie in spite of cheating. He also gets beaten up by said rookie (in the anime, it's the other way around). In ''R'' he wields an Evil God, and in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' he leads the Neo Ghouls in taking over Domino, kidnapping Ishizu, and seizing the Winged Dragon of Ra, which he then duels the player with. In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhNightmareTroubadour'' he manages to defeat Joey in a duel and plays deadly Shadow Games with the player, banishing their soul to the Shadow Realm should they lose.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Assorted adaptations are quite kind to him in this regard. In Duelist Kingdom, he was a washed-up has-been who lost to a rookie in spite of cheating. He also gets beaten up by said rookie (in the anime, it's the other way around). In ''R'' ''Manga/YuGiOhR'' he wields an Evil God, and in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' he leads the Neo Ghouls in taking over Domino, kidnapping Ishizu, and seizing the Winged Dragon of Ra, which he then duels the player with. In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhNightmareTroubadour'' he manages to defeat Joey in a duel and plays deadly Shadow Games with the player, banishing their soul to the Shadow Realm should they lose.
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* {{Yandere}}: For Jonouchi in R.''R''.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Assorted adaptations are quite kind to him in this regard. In Duelist Kingdom, he was a washed-up has-been who lost to a rookie in spite of cheating. He also gets beaten up by said rookie (in the anime, it's the other way around). In ''R'' he wields an Evil God, and in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' he leads the Neo Ghouls in taking over Domino, kidnapping Ishizu, and seizing the Winged Dragon of Ra, which he then duels the player with. In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhNightmareTroubadour'' he manages to defeat Joey in a duel and plays deadly Shadow Games with the player, banishing their souls soul to the Shadow Realm should they lose.
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* DevelopmentGag: As revealed by Kazuki Takahashi in the opening of one of the later volumes, back during the development stages, Dark Yugi was originally going to have the skull-faced appearance Kozuka ultimately received.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Jonouchi kicks his ass in a fistfight. In the anime, Keith hands Jonouchi his rear end, and beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake all at once.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Jonouchi kicks his ass in a fistfight. In the anime, Keith hands Jonouchi his rear end, and beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake all at once. He's even more awesome in the video games.
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* EvilerThanThou: He never really gets the chance to act on it, but his objective is to payback Pegasus for humiliating him.
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* HairTriggerTemperHairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to make Keith angry.
** In ''Manga/YuGiOhR'', he kickstarts the plot by telling Yako that Yugi killed Pegasus. He couldn't care if it was true or not as long as he could duel Jonouchi again.
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** BackFromTheDead: Revived by Yako in the R spin-off manga for his EvilPlan
** DeadAllAlong: In spin-off ''R'', he is revived by the Evil Gods and this is the only explanation to how he survivedEvilPlan. It's implied that he's still actually dead, but his Shadow Game with Pegasus.hatred was so strong he lived on as an animate corpse.
** DeadAllAlong: In spin-off ''R'', he is revived by the Evil Gods and this is the only explanation to how he survived
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* TookALevelInBadass: Assorted adaptations are quite kind to him in this regard. In Duelist Kingdom, he was a washed-up has-been who lost to a rookie in spite of cheating. He also gets beaten up by said rookie (in the anime, it's the other way around). In ''R'' he wields an Evil God, and in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' he leads the Neo Ghouls in taking over Domino, kidnapping Ishizu, and seizing the Winged Dragon of Ra, which he then duels the player with.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Assorted adaptations are quite kind to him in this regard. In Duelist Kingdom, he was a washed-up has-been who lost to a rookie in spite of cheating. He also gets beaten up by said rookie (in the anime, it's the other way around). In ''R'' he wields an Evil God, and in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' he leads the Neo Ghouls in taking over Domino, kidnapping Ishizu, and seizing the Winged Dragon of Ra, which he then duels the player with. In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhNightmareTroubadour'' he manages to defeat Joey in a duel and plays deadly Shadow Games with the player, banishing their souls to the Shadow Realm should they lose.
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* BackForTheDead: After a notable absence he reappears near the midway point of the Battle City arc to duel Bakura and winds up dead by the end of it.
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** She also uses her looks to sneak Honda, Bakura and Anzu past the security guard at Duelist Kingdom (in the anime, at least - the manga version juat has Jonouchi beating the snot out of him), and to trick Dinosaur Ryuzaki into giving up his deluxe room on the cruise to her.
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** She also uses her looks to sneak Honda, Bakura and Anzu past the security guard at Duelist Kingdom (in the anime, at least - the manga version juat just has Jonouchi beating the snot out of him), and to trick Dinosaur Ryuzaki into giving up his deluxe room on the cruise to her.
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** She also uses her looks to sneak Honda and Anzu past the security guard at Duelist Kingdom (in the anime, at least - the manga version juat has Jonouchi beating the snot out of him), and to trick Dinosaur Ryuzaki into giving up his deluxe room on the cruise to her.
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** She also uses her looks to sneak Honda Honda, Bakura and Anzu past the security guard at Duelist Kingdom (in the anime, at least - the manga version juat has Jonouchi beating the snot out of him), and to trick Dinosaur Ryuzaki into giving up his deluxe room on the cruise to her.
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** She also uses her looks to sneak Tristan and Tea past the security guard at Duelist Kingdom, and to trick Rex Raptor into giving up his deluxe room on the cruise to her.
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** She also uses her looks to sneak Tristan Honda and Tea Anzu past the security guard at Duelist Kingdom, Kingdom (in the anime, at least - the manga version juat has Jonouchi beating the snot out of him), and to trick Rex Raptor Dinosaur Ryuzaki into giving up his deluxe room on the cruise to her.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In Battle City, he hired a kid to sabotage Jonocuhi's deck. When the kid demands his payment of a rare card, Haga gives him a lame card. When the kid protests, Weevil sprays him with silly string and runs away (in the manga, it was ''a can of insecticide'').
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In Battle City, he hired a kid to sabotage Jonocuhi's Jonouchi's deck. When the kid demands his payment of a rare card, Haga gives him a lame card. When the kid protests, Weevil Haga sprays him with silly string and runs away (in the manga, it was ''a can of insecticide'').
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* NiceGuy: Notably, he's given a much more sympathetic backstory and characterization than most of the one-shot antagonists that Yugi and Joey have to face. He also never resorts to cheating (like Weevil and Espa Roba did), or being a bully, even when taunting his opponents (which would put him in contrast with Rex).
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* NiceGuy: Notably, he's given a much more sympathetic backstory and characterization than most of the one-shot antagonists that Yugi and Joey Jonouchi have to face. He also never resorts to cheating (like Weevil Haga and Espa Roba did), or being a bully, even when taunting his opponents (which would put him in contrast with Rex).Ryuzaki).
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[[folder:Bandit Keith]]
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Jonouchi/Joey kicks his ass in a fistfight. In the anime, Keith hands Jonouchi his rear end, and beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake all at once.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Jonouchi/Joey Jonouchi kicks his ass in a fistfight. In the anime, Keith hands Jonouchi his rear end, and beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake all at once.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Does it to Joey and Pegasus.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Does it to Joey Jonouchi and Pegasus.
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''' Keith Howard (キース・ハワード ''Kīsu Hawādo'')/"Bandit" Keith (バンデット・キース ''Bandetto Kīsu'')'''
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''' Keith Howard (キース・ハワード (キース・ハワード; ''Kīsu Hawādo'')/"Bandit" Hawādo'')/\\
"Bandit" Keith(バンデット・キース (バンデット・キース; ''Bandetto Kīsu'')'''
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'''"Ghost" Kotsuzuka/Kozuka (ゴースト骨塚 ''Gōsuto Kotsuzuka'') ([[DubNameChange Bonz]])'''
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'''"Ghost" Kotsuzuka/Kozuka (ゴースト骨塚 (ゴースト骨塚; ''Gōsuto Kotsuzuka'') ([[DubNameChange Bonz]])'''
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'''Espa Roba (エスパー絽場 ''Esupā Roba'')'''
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'''Espa Roba (エスパー絽場 (エスパー絽場; ''Esupā Roba'')'''
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'''Insector Haga (インセクター羽蛾; Insekutā Haga) ([[DubNameChange Weevil Underwood]])'''
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'''Insector Haga (インセクター羽蛾; Insekutā Haga) ''Insekutā Haga'') ([[DubNameChange Weevil Underwood]])'''
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'''Dinosaur Ryuzaki (ダイナソウ竜崎; Dainasō Ryūzaki) ([[DubNameChange Rex Raptor]])'''
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'''Dinosaur Ryuzaki (ダイナソウ竜崎; Dainasō Ryūzaki) ''Dainasō Ryūzaki'') ([[DubNameChange Rex Raptor]])'''
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'''Ryota Kajiki (梶木 漁太; Kajiki Ryōta) ([[DubNameChange Mako Tsunami]])'''
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'''Ryota Kajiki (梶木 漁太; Kajiki Ryōta) ''Kajiki Ryōta'') ([[DubNameChange Mako Tsunami]])'''
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''' Keith Howard (キース・ハワード Kīsu Hawādo)/"Bandit" ''Kīsu Hawādo'')/"Bandit" Keith (バンデット・キース Bandetto Kīsu)'''''Bandetto Kīsu'')'''
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A creepy midget who plays a Zombie deck, "Ghost" Kotsuzuka Kozuka is first introduced as one of Bandit Keith's henchmen, alongside his friends Satake and Takaido. Seeking to scope out the competition, Keith sets Kotsuzuka and Jonouchi/Joey against one another; when Kozuka is defeated, Keith beats him up and steals his Star Chips. Kotsuzuka Kozuka resurfaces alongside Takaido and Satake during the Battle City arc, where he makes the fatal mistake of [[AbsurdlyhighStakesGame challenging Dark Bakura in a Shadow Game]].
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The people that play ''Magic and Wizards''/''Duel Monsters'' from anime and manga series ''Manga/YuGiOh''.
'''''ALL spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware major spoilers.'''''
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[[folder:Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine)]]
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'''Mai Kujaku (孔雀 舞; ''Kujaku Mai'') ([[DubNameChange Mai Valentine]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/HaruhiTerada (Japanese), Creator/MeganHollingshead (English Season 1-3) / Bella Hudson (English Season 4-5)
One of the best duelists around. She once worked as a casino dealer before picking up the Duel Monsters card game, and became used to depending on only herself until she met Yugi and his friends in the Duelist Kingdom arc. Though she isn't around in every chapter/episode, she's mostly a good guy and helps the heroes out frequently.
She uses a Harpie deck in the Duelist Kingdom arc, and mixes it up with some Amazons in the Battle City arc.
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* ActionGirl: She is a genuinely good duelist, even though she ends up [[DesignatedVictim getting put up and losing against the most important and/or powerful duelists in almost any given arc]], but never without a fight.
** DarkActionGirl: During the anime versions's DOMA FillerArc, after she becomes corrupted by the Orichalcos and starts working for Dartz.
* AmazonBrigade: Her deck, which includes her Harpies and some actual Amazons.
* BadassNormal: No Millennium Item or connections with ancient Egypt, but she's skilled enough to make it into the finals of Duelist Kingdom and the top eight in Battle City.
* BeMyValentine: In the dub. The "Mai" adds to it as a pun.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn.
* BikerBabe: She shows herself to be adept at riding a motorcycle in the DOMA FillerArc.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Blonde.
* BreakTheCutie: During the Battle City arc, when she fights against Dark Marik in his really, ''really'' painful Shadow Game and suffers through his Penalty Game.
* BrokenBird: In the beginning, she's an ex-LonelyRichKid who had lived by and relied on herself since her parents had passed on, acting cynical and disenchanted until Jounouchi calls her out on her treatment of her opponents, Yugi wins back the star chips she lost due to the Player Killer, and (in the anime) Anzu duels her for Yugi's sake. After she defrosts, she reverts because Dark Marik put her into a coma where she was trapped in an hourglass, slowly forgetting everyone who ever loved her (only in the anime - in the manga, she was being eaten by scarabs and she actually managed to come back from that experience emotionally stable). Then, she has recurring nightmares about the experience. This leads to why she winds up joining the villains for DOMA, because they have a magic thing called the Orichalcos that helps her cope.
* ChristmasCake: Actually, [[CelibateHero by her own choice]]. She ''did'' have a HopelessSuitor in an anime filler episode and blew him off, defeating him in a duel when he wouldn't give up.
* CompressedHair: She can somehow keep all of her hair into a normal-sized motorcycle helmet.
* CoolBigSis: She acts as the older and more experienced friend to the main characters, as well as Shizuka/Serenity.
* DarkChick: In Doma's FiveBadBand.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Throughout Duelist Kingdom.
* DemotedToExtra: After Doma, she's relegated to just making a couple of silent cameos for the remainder of the anime. In the manga, Battle City was her last appearance, and leaves the story a bit more happy compared to the anime.
* DesignatedVictim: Silly Mai, this is a {{Shonen}} manga, girls at your time can't win fights yet.
* DeusAngstMachina[=/=]TraumaCongaLine: From Dark Marik's Penalty Game to the anime's Doma.
* DistractedByTheSexy: An implied reason for her choice of outfits is to try to distract her opponents.
** She also uses her looks to sneak Tristan and Tea past the security guard at Duelist Kingdom, and to trick Rex Raptor into giving up his deluxe room on the cruise to her.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Developed a taste for black leather after joining the Doma {{cult}}.
* {{Fanservice}}: She and her monsters are this.
** BareYourMidriff: Several of her outfits.
** MsFanservice: She wears a ''corset''.
** OfCorsetsSexy: Wears this.
* GamerChick
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Does this to Jonouchi during Battle City after his BrainwashedAndCrazy period.
* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Her signature monsters, and they're ladies.
* IdiotBall: Gets a lot of this.
** Has a run-in with it at the end of her duel with Marik. Despite having the means to win the duel[[note]]Dark Marik only had one monster in Attack position with 500 ATK and 1050 Life Points, Mai had Cyber Harpie with 1800 ATK[[/note]] by just declaring an attack, she chooses to try and beat Dark Marik with the Sun Dragon Ra, despite the fact she has no idea how it works and a first-hand demonstration in the previous duel that using the card is highly dangerous.
** It happens again in the anime's Doma FillerArc: when she duels Raphael, Mai attempts to use Jonouchi's Helmos card despite not being one of the three chosen duelists. [[CurbStompBattle It doesn't go well for her.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: In the very beginning of the series, she's pretty aggressive, sarcastic, and a bit mean-spirited, though significantly less so than other duelists like Haga or Ryuzaki.
** JerkassHasAPoint: In her first duel with Jonouchi, she points out that even if he and Yugi are friends, there can only ever be one champion, and they'd have to face each other in order to win. He also has to learn to step out from Yugi's shadow and duel on his own, and hopes that his defeat teaches that to him. And she's completely right except about the "defeat" part since he beats her.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Anzu and Shizuka's light.
* LonelyRichKid: In her backstory, at least in the anime. We see her as a little girl, all alone in a BigFancyHouse...
* MeaningfulName: Mai Kujaku means "dancing peacock."
* MindRape: By Marik during Battle City. She was put into an hourglass filled with scarabs that slowly devoured her body, and she would have died after a set amount of time (in the anime, it's less nightmare-ish and more emotional - the longer she was in the hourglass, the more memories of her friends she would lose). In the anime, this lead to a HeroicBSOD and a FaceHeelTurn in the Doma filler arc.
* MoreThanMindControl: How FillerVillain Dartz got her to serve him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After she beats Jounouchi in the Doma filler, causing him to lose his soul.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: She's a very good duelist and strategist, but has the misfortune to be on the same team as Yugi and Kaiba (who have connections to the nameless pharaoh and some of the most powerful cards around) and ends up going up against [[BigBad Dark]] [[TheSociopath Marik]] in the Battle City semifinals.
* ParentalAbandonment: In the anime, her parents died when she was little and left her alone to rely on herself.
* PunnyName: In English.
* PsychicPowers: She pretends she has these at the start of Duelist Kingdom with her "aroma tactics", which involves knowing what her cards are without looking at them because of having them sprayed with various perfumes. This backfires on her in her duel with Jounouchi when he figures it out, however, and she drops them later on.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Jounouchi's red. (One of three)
* {{Sexophone}}: In the anime, new music always played whenever she showed up inDuelist Kingdom, and ocassionally in Battle City. Stopped in Doma due to her change of sides.
* ShipTease: With Jonouchi.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In ''The Sacred Cards'', a video game adaptation of Season 2-3, she duels Kaiba in the Battle City finals instead of Marik.
* ThighHighBoots: Wore these while she was {{Brainwashed}} by Dartz during the Doma arc.
* {{Tsundere}}: Shifts from a Type A to a Type B over the course of Duelist Kingdom.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Jounouchi. The anime didn't do anything to help resolve this.
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'''Ishizu Ishtar (イシズ・イシュタール; ''Ishizu Ishutaaru'')'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/SumiShimamoto (JP), Karen Neil (EN)
Marik's older sister and Rishid's adoptive sister, she's the owner of the Millennium Tauk, which allows the user to see into the past and future. Ishizu works for the Egyptian government agency, the Supreme Council of Antiquities - presumably to the public, she traveled to Japan's Domino City to oversee the dynastic exhibit, The Art of Egypt, which showcased stone slabs, depicting ka battles, from which the card game ''Magic & Wizards''/''Duel Monsters'' originated. She invited Seto Kaiba to the Domino City Museum to show him the slabs that also depicted the nameless king, who resembled Yugi. She told Kaiba about the three God Cards and tasked him with retrieving them from the Ghouls, through hosting a city-wide ''Duel Monsters'' tournament. To bait the Ghouls into coming, she gave him one of the God cards - "The God of the Obelisk."
With the Millennium Tauk, Ishizu had already predicted Yugi would visit the museum. When Dark Yugi arrived, along with Anzu Mazaki, and saw the slabs depicting the ancient ka battles and also of the pharaoh, she approached him. She told him that a large battle would soon be taking place, and that he must gather the seven Millennium Items to regain his memories.
In the ''Duel Monsters'' card game, she uses a Sand Fairy (Fairy monsters with an Egyptian theme) deck, along with cards that cycle her opponent's cards into the graveyard and her cards into her deck. Her trump card is Reversal of Worlds (Exchange of the Spirit).
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* AbusiveParents: Her father didn't treat her or her brothers particularly well, and cared more for his duty of guarding the Millennium Items than any of them.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses'', she's on the side of the Yorkists.
* AlliterativeName: ''I''shizu ''I''shtar.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: She was so obsessed with following her visions that she threw away a quicker victory against Seto just to achieve the victory she saw. Which fails when Seto manages to defy her visions and defeat her.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Joins Battle City to try to save her brother.
* BreakTheHaughty: Tries it on Kaiba and to a degree, suffers it herself.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Marik's Cain.
* CombatClairvoyance: Sees into the future to predict her opponent's moves.
* DishingOutDirt[=/=]LightEmUp: She uses Earth-attribute Fairy monsters with a distinct Egyptian design flavor.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: How she gets Kaiba's attention at the start of the second series anime adaptation.
* {{Foil}}: To Kaiba. They both had abusive fathers (biological in her case, adoptive in Kaiba's), have younger siblings they are protective of, and are part of organizing the Battle City tournament. However, Ishizu looks to the past and believes in destiny through her visions from the Millennium Tauk, where Kaiba looks to the future while being more focused on modern-day technology and, in the English 4Kids dub, is a skeptic about the ancient Egyptian magic going on. This is especially highlighted during their duel in the quarter-finals.
* GracefulLoser: In spite of the fact that it means she's out of the running of confront Marik herself, she takes her defeat to Kaiba rather well. In fact, it brings her hope that the future can be changed and that either Yugi, Jonouchi, or Kaiba can save her brother.
* {{Herald}}: In Battle City.
* JapanesePronouns: Uses "watakushi".
* LadyOfWar: Yeah, she plays a card game instead of leading an army, but she's definitely got this vibe. She's quiet, feminine, and came ''this'' close to kicking Seto Kaiba's arrogant ass.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: In her duel with Kaiba, she manipulates every move he makes, even allowing herself to take damage from him, in preparation to flip his strategy back on him. Lampshaded by Dark Marik in the anime, who snickers that it's fun to watch her work Kaiba over after she did it to normal Marik so often when they were children.
* MindRape: Subverted. Even though she has a Millennium Item, she's the only character that never (never ''seen'', at least) uses Shadow Game magic. No Penalty Games either.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She had the chance to win against Kaiba, but didn't take it because it wasn't the specific victory she foresaw. Trying to get the win conditions she saw in her vision was what led Kaiba to be able to defeat her.
* PunnyName[=/=]SpellMyNameWithAnS: Ishizu's name is ''not'' Isis, but it is meant to reference the name Isis. Kazuki Takahashi basically took the name Isis and converted the letters to Japanese characters, though he chose to use Ishizu instead of Ishisu. Further proof is the priestess Isis in the Millennium World arc is spelled more phonetically correct (アイシス; ''aishisu'') as far as the English language goes.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Of the priestess Isis.
* TheStrategist: Has her duel with Kaiba all planned out from the start.
* WomanInWhite: She primarily wears cream white gowns, which adds to her air of enigma as the {{Herald}} in the Battle City arc.
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'''Insector Haga ([[DubNameChange Weevil Underwood]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/UraraTakano (JP), Creator/JimmyZoppi (EN)
Haga was the Champion of the Japanese National Tournament for ''Magic & Wizards''/''Duel Monsters'', who then was invited to Duelist Kingdom by Pegasus. He pretends to befriend Yugi, but in actuality his goal was to throw his grandfather's powerful Exodia cards into the ocean, inciting Dark Yugi's rage and making him the first of Dark Yugi's targets on the island.
Despite putting Yugi at a disadvantage, he loses the game and gets thrown off the island. He later turns up in the Battle City arc, as well as the anime's Doma filler arc; he loses to Jonouchi and gets a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown after toying with Yugi too much. His last major appearance (anime-only) is in the last [[TournamentArc filler arc]] and stealing the God Cards before Dark Bakura stopped them.
As his name suggests, he uses an Insect deck. His trump cards are Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and Insect Queen (which he lost to Jounouchi via the ante rules of Battle City, but he quickly gains another one).
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* AnimalMotifs: Bugs.
* BerserkButton: Being laughed at angers him quite a bit, as shown in his first duel with Dark Yugi. He'd been mostly calm and shown little more than irritation up until Dark Yugi started laughing at him. At first, he was confused, then ''enraged'' into shouting. Indeed, most of his [[{{Jerkass}} jerkish]] behavior then on seemed to be motivated by the mocking he received from former fans after the events of Duelist Kingdom.
* BigBadWannabe: After the anime's filler saga Doma went and reminded everyone that both he and Ryuzaki could be legitimate opponents, the remaining arcs in the anime then had them repeatedly try to upstage things only to be immediately taken out of action by whoever the current arc's antagonist was (Siegfried in the KC Grand Prix, Dark Bakura in the anime version of Millennium World)
* BigCreepyCrawlies: His insect monsters are huge.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Much like plenty of the manga's early villains, when Yugi first met Haga, he seemed like a ''very'' nice guy, nicer than Ryuzaki ironically enough. He was very polite overall, gave some advice to both Yugi and Jounouchi, and seemed pretty tame to the GenreBlind. Yugi liked and admired him right after meeting him, which was why he [[WhatAnIdiot trusted the complete stranger with handling his grandfather's cards despite their not being water-proof and a large body of water being nearby.]] It was more noticeable in the Japanese version than in the English dub, in which he sounded unbelievably sarcastic the entire time. Now, of course, fans know [[{{Jerkass}} what]] [[SmugSnake he's really like]].
* BreakingSpeech: Gives one to Dark Yugi in the anime; it actually almost works.
* CheatersNeverProsper: And he gets kicked off the island and has his Star Chip glove taken by Jonouchi as the result of it.
* CurbstompBattle: In the Grand Prix filler, this is the result of him (and Ryuzaki) attempting to duel Siegfried.
* DealWithTheDevil: The anime incarnations joins with FillerVillain Dartz to attempt revenge on Yugi.
* {{Determinator}}: Along with Ryuzaki, in the anime. Never gave up no matter how many times he got his ass kicked. [[CrazyAwesome Biked off of a cliff to catch the rope ladder from Raphael's helicopter.]] [[{{Determinator}} Just because he wanted a better chance at defeating the Pharaoh.]] Then, in the next tournament, [[HolyShitQuotient they both beat up a duelist, tied him up, stole his clothes,]] [[TotemPoleTrench and stood on top of each other]] [[HolyShitQuotient just for another chance at fame.]] Yeah. They both qualify.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Notably [[AvertedTrope averted.]] His cheating, from what we've seen, is always clearly planned out and calculated prior to a duel. It never directly hinders him because, for all [[DirtyCoward his]] [[SmugSnake flaws]], he ''is'' a lot more clever than your average cheater.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses and is one of the most scummy characters in the series, caring nothing for anyone but himself and constantly cheating to get ahead in duels.
* FreakyIsCool: ''Adores'' insects, spiders, and all things creepy-crawly.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In the Doma arc of the anime, he gets his hands on the Seal of Orichalcos and access to Doma's endless supply of rare cards, forming a much more powerful deck.
* GigglingVillain: [[AnnoyingLaugh "Hyoi hyoi hyoi hyoi hyoi hyoi!"]]
* HiddenBadass: In the anime. Apparently brave (or [[SanitySlippage crazy]]) enough to [[TheDeterminator bike off the edge of a cliff and grab onto a helicopter rope ladder for a chance at victory]], despite his many flaws. And then, without skipping a beat, he convinces Raphael to give him and Ryuzaki a chance at joining the Orichalcos. While hanging from a rope ladder that Raphael was about to cut. The guy's got guts and he doesn't hesitate, that's for certain.
* HighCollarOfDoom: Part of his Duelist Kingdom arc [[http://www.kokorononaka.net/Image/Haga/Others-ep04-Haga-17-Permanentlear.jpg outfit]]. Less [[DownplayedTrope pronounced]] than most examples though.
* {{Jerkass}}: BIG TIME.
** JerkAssHasAPoint: During the Doma FillerArc, when Dark Yugi calls him horrible, Haga points out that Dark Yugi had used the Seal of Orichalcos in order to win despite knowing that he'd be putting his friend in danger, and that Yugi paid the price, saying that while he was indeed an asshole at least he didn't use the seal despite knowing that he could endanger his friends. Even though he tries not to show it, Dark Yugi is visibly affected.
* JerkJock: For a guy who plays a card game, he is so clearly channeling this attitude.
* KickTheDog: In the anime only. In his second duel with Dark Yugi, he pretended to tear up the card Yugi's soul was trapped in (the card he actually tore up was some random insect card) just to screw with Dark Yugi. [[UnstoppableRage It doesn't end so well for him]].
* LetsGetDangerous: His second battle with Dark Yugi in the anime.
* MeaningfulName: Aside from his obvious dub name, his Japanese given name roughly means, "Moth Wings." Particularly fitting given what one of his trump cards is.
* NerdGlasses: He's very smart and cunning.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: You shouldn't have used Yugi to pull a cruel joke on Dark Yugi.
* NotSoDifferent: In the anime, he points out that Dark Yugi was as selfish and callous as he was when he unleashed the Seal and points out that technically Dark Yugi's worse since he knew he'd put his friend in danger, which even he didn't do. Overlaps with...
** JerkassHasAPoint: Even Dark Yugi can't deny it.
* RedOniBlueOni: At first, the Blue to Ryuzaki/Rex's Red. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Color-coded]] even, with Haga's hair and Ryuzaki's hat! Haga seems more calm and composed early on, relying on strategy over brute force. However, curiously enough, they keep to their respective tactics but switch attitudes over time. Ryuzaki doesn't exactly become "calm," but Haga seems to become more HotBlooded and irritable by the time the Doma Arc rolls around.
** This may be due to SanitySlippage resulting from having Haga's aforementioned [[BerserkButton berserk buttons]] mashed too often, by the heroes as well as by unnamed in-universe fans. Interestingly, the switch does not seem to hamper Haga's skills; if anything, [[TookALevelInBadass it might have even helped]]!
* ScaryShinyGlasses: His glasses often take on this appearance when he needs to look sinister.
* SmugSnake: His main attribute and, arguably, his [[FatalFlaw principal weakness]]. He really ''is'' a great duelist and strategist but he is very over-confident and tends to underestimate his opponents, leading to his inevitable [[VillainousBreakdown downfall]].
** The only time he seemed to ''stop'' being so smug (at least at first) was against Dark Yugi during the Doma arc. He genuinely expected a big duel when he initiated it and spent about three-fourths of the duel utterly ''[[CurbStompBattle stomping]]'' Dark Yugi. He didn't really start doing badly until his [[FatalFlaw smugness]] crept in again. Oh, and especially when Dark Yugi [[UnstoppableRage absolutely flipped out in response to his cruel joke]], and got help from quite a few good draws in his final play.
* TheWorfEffect: In the anime, he's introduced in the second episode as a professional duelist who wins a championship. Then Dark Yugi beats him within minutes of arriving in Duelist Kingdom and sends him home on the first boat back. Then on the Grand Prix, he is easily beaten by Siegfried in one turn.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Ryuzaki in the anime.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Along with Ryuzaki he briefly travels with Yugi's group during the Doma arc, up until joining forces with Dartz.
* TookALevelInBadass: A FromNobodyToNightmare play with this trope, after getting the Orichalcos Seal, Haga in particular went from [[SmugSnake smug]] to [[EvilGenius being control of his duel with Yugi through clever strategy]] and almost won; a ''huge'' step up from his first duel with Dark Yugi, in which his performance was stymied by [[SmugSnake over-confidence]].
* VillainousBreakdown: Every time he loses.
* VillainousCrush: Shows a few signs of having one on Anzu in the original Japanese version only. He attempts to flirt with her at the Battle City tournament, calling her "a cute lady." Her [[{{Squick}} reaction]] was less than interested. He apparently had some hard feelings about that because later, in the Doma arc, he tells her that she looks terrible despite saying that she shouldn't feel proud "just because she's cute" an episode later. He apparently doesn't take well to rejection.
* WarmUpBoss: For the Duelist Kingdom Arc. He demonstrates to Yugi in their duel just what the new rules for the tournament are and how they work, such as the field power bonuses.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In Battle City, he hired a kid to sabotage Jonocuhi's deck. When the kid demands his payment of a rare card, Haga gives him a lame card. When the kid protests, Weevil sprays him with silly string and runs away (in the manga, it was ''a can of insecticide'').
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[[folder:Dinosaur Ryuzaki (Rex Raptor)]]
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'''Dinosaur Ryuzaki ([[DubNameChange Rex Raptor]])'''
--> Voiced by: Kin Fuji (JP, ep. 2-59), YuuichiNakamura (ep. 131-224), SamRiegel (EN, ep. 1-144), Sebastian Arcelus (ep. 145-187), Anothony Salerno (ep. 188-224)
He lost to Haga in the finale of the Japanese National Tournament. Just like Haga, he was also invited to Duelist Kingdom, but he loses to Jonouchi and forfeited his Red-Eyes Black Dragon. He later appears in the Battle City arc when Jonouchi battles Espa Roba during the tournament, and in the anime, the filler arcs (most notably Doma).
As his name suggests, he uses a Dinosaur deck, [[DinosaursAreDragons though his trump cards are all Dragons]]: Serpent Night Dragon (which he lost to Espa Roba via the ante rules of Battle City), Red-Eyes Black Dragon (which he lost in a wager to Jonouchi), and Tyrant Dragon, which he gains in the Doma filler arc.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: He may have been a jerk in the manga, but at least he was helpful and doesn't team up with Haga. In the anime he ''does'' team up with Haga and is a straight antagonist in the Doma filler arc.
* AnimalMotifs: Dinosaurs
* BigBadWannabe: See Weevil/Haga's description. Unless you go by the manga.
* DealWithTheDevil: Joins Dartz to attempt revenge on Jounouchi.
* {{Determinator}}: See Weevil/Haga's description for the trope. Downplayed in the manga.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Actually, it's reversed--Dragons Are Dinosaurs. He's a dinosaur duelist, but his strongest monsters are Serpent Night Dragon, Red-Eyes Black Dragon and Tyrant Dragon, as when the original anime was being made there were no high-powered Dinosaur cards and the type as a whole was very unsupported. This would be fixed several years later during the timeframe of ''GX's'' production, hence Tyranno Kenzan.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He has shades of this in the manga. He's not at all evil in the manga, actually, just pretty smug. He still has his standards and is above cheating, and he even warned Jonouchi not to duel Esper Roba.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Played straight with some of his monsters, subverted with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Two Headed King Rex]].
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In the anime.
* HiddenBadass: See Weevil/Haga's description.
* JerkJock: Not to the same degree as Haga, but he's still very smug about his abilities and treats weaker players like garbage.
* NeverMyFault: In anime filler, he's pissed off at Jonouchi/Joey for using his Red Eyes Black Dragon against him during their second duel and claims that Jonouchi took it from him when in reality, Ryuzaki wagered the REBD out of his own free will during their duel in Duelist Kingdom.
** He still wants revenge on Jonouchi/Joey after causing him to lose his soul to the Seal of Orichalcos the second time. Even though it was Ryuzaki/Raptor [[HoistByHisOwnPetard who chose to play and activate the card in first the place]] then makes it pretty clear that he ''knew'' of the consequences for activating it being fully aware to what would happen if either duelist lost. Jonouchi/Joey even tries to talk sense into him about playing the card, only Ryuzaki continuously responding "knowing" the deal.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Haga/Weevil's Blue at first. They switch later. See Haga/Weevil's entry.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Haga/Weevil. But only in the anime.
* TokenEvilTeammate: See Weevil/Haga's description. Is less of this in the manga
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[[folder:Ryota Kajiki (Mako Tsunami)]]
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'''Ryota Kajiki (Mako Tsunami)'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (JP), Andrew Rannells (EN)
A fisherman by trade who duels in honor of his father, who was lost in a shipwreck (in the dub-version, he thinks his father is still alive). He faces Yugi in Duelist Kingdom and Jounouchi in Battle City.
He uses a Water deck filled mostly with sea monsters like sharks and krakens. His trump cards are The Legendary Fisherman, which he says is identical to his father, and the Fortress Whale (he loses both to Jounouchi via the ante rules of Battle City).
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* AnimeHair
* BoisterousBruiser
* DayInTheLimelight: Moreso than most [[MonsterOfTheWeek Duelists of the Week]], Ryota's appearance in the Battle City arc actually starts with him getting acquainted with the workers at an aquarium, before eventually getting hired as a central performer for them. Both of his primary appearances also do make the effort to explain his backstory and what his plans are for the future.
* DisappearedDad: Implied to be dead in the manga and Japanese versions of the anime.
* FishOutOfWater: The Battle City arc shows that he's a little naive about life on land. He tried to go fishing in the marine aquarium.
--> "I am ''NOT'' a freaky fish guy!"
* FriendlyRival: With both Yugi and Jounouchi.
* HeroicBSOD: When Jounouchi manages to destroy The Legendary Fisherman, since he equates him with his father, though Jounouchi cheers him up.
* HotBlooded
* NiceGuy: Notably, he's given a much more sympathetic backstory and characterization than most of the one-shot antagonists that Yugi and Joey have to face. He also never resorts to cheating (like Weevil and Espa Roba did), or being a bully, even when taunting his opponents (which would put him in contrast with Rex).
* WalkingShirtlessScene
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[[folder:Bandit Keith]]
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'''"Bandit" Keith Howard ([[DubNameChange Bandit Keith]])'''
--> Voiced by: Hajime Komada (JP), Creator/TedLewis (EN)
The former American Champion, called "Bandit" Keith and number one "Card Professor" due to him winning all the big prizes. He issues a challenge to Pegasus, but is defeated. Throughout Duelist Kingdom, his goal is to get his revenge on Pegasus. After his defeat by Jonouchi, he is killed by Pegasus, who inflicts a Russian Roulette Penalty Game on him. In the anime, he instead is expelled from the island and ends up as one of Marik's first Mind Slaves.
In Duel Monsters, he uses a Machine deck, which is later augmented with many rare cards by Marik. His trump cards are Metalzoa, Barrel Dragon, and Slot Machine; while under Marik's control in the anime, Machine King and rare Fiend monster Zera The Mant are added to his arsenal.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Jonouchi/Joey kicks his ass in a fistfight. In the anime, Keith hands Jonouchi his rear end, and beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake all at once.
* AssholeVictim: In the manga, Pegasus' penalty game kills him. In the anime, Marik turns him into a mind slave. Either way, not very easy to pity.
* BigBadWannabe: He's played up as a major antagonist, but is clearly much less of a threat than Pegasus, the guy with the Millennium item. Continues into ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', where he leads the Neo Ghouls trying to take the Millennium Items, but is just a distraction from trying to stop Pegasus from reviving Reshef.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Blond and the biggest douche in the entire series. There might be more evil people out there, but nobody quite as punchable as Keith.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the anime only, Marik does this to him at one point.
* TheBrute: And lord, how. He even beats up Yugi, of all people! Contrast to Pegasus, who takes up the role of the SquishyWizard. In the manga, he's not much of a brute - he only beats up his henchman and Yugi - the latter of which causes Jonouchi to kick his ass.
* CheatersNeverProsper: He walks Ghost Kozuka through his duel with Jonouchi, so that he can see every card Jonouchi has. He beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake and steals their Star Chips after Kozuka's defeat, and traps Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu, Honda, and Bakura in an underground labyrinth. He steals Jonouchi's entry card to try and avoid their duel. He hides his set of "7 Completed" cards inside his wristbands during their match. And yet he still gets his ass kicked by Jonouchi. Thanks to that, he is unceremoniously killed by Pegasus via Penalty Game after threatening to take the prize money by force (in the anime, he is instead expelled from the island by Pegasus and falls into the ocean).
* CoolShades[=/=]SunglassesAtNight[=/=]SinisterShades: Keith always wears his shades, and they do a lot to enhance both the sense of menace and assholery that he gives off.
* DarkIsEvil: Most of his stronger cards, including Revolver Dragon, Zoa, Slot Machine, and Zera the Mant are Dark.
* {{Eagleland}}: Type 2. He's thuggish, selfish, smug, and a total jerk.
* EvilLaugh[=/=]UnEvilLaugh: Keith's high, girly laugh isn't especially ''menacing'', but it ''does'' sound quite unhinged.
* EvilerThanThou: He never really gets the chance to act on it, but his objective is to payback Pegasus for humiliating him.
* {{Foil}}: Keith's short-temper, {{Smug Snake}}ry, and use of physical force makes for a pretty strong contrast with ManipulativeBastard and GentlemanSnarker Pegasus.
** Also serves as an EvilCounterpart for Jounouchi/Joey for being both duelists that rely on gambling and offensive strategies.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: They're typically hidden by SinisterShades, but when we do see Keith's eyes they're small, narrow and veiny.
* HairTriggerTemper
* {{Hypocrite}}: He regularly stresses that nobody's ever beaten him without cheating (referring, of course, to Pegasus), in spite of... well, being Bandit Keith.
* {{Jerkass}}: Other characters may be more ''evil'' than Keith, but no one--except maybe Gozaburo Kaiba--is a bigger asshole.
* JerkJock: Keith's what happens when the captain of the football team from every teen movie ever made turns twenty-six and decides to play Duel Monsters.
* KickTheDog: Stealing Jonouchi's prize entry card and before that, trapping him and Yugi in a cave.
* KilledOffForReal: Pegasus' Shadow Game and Penalty Game in the manga has Keith shoot himself in the head to kill him via turning his hand into a gun and having him play Russian Roulette. Averted in the anime, where he survives his fall from the castle and is captured by Marik.
** BackFromTheDead: Revived by Yako in the R spin-off manga for his EvilPlan
** DeadAllAlong: In spin-off ''R'', he is revived by the Evil Gods and this is the only explanation to how he survived his Shadow Game with Pegasus.
* KillerRobot: Pendulum Machine, Launcher Spider, Metalzoa, Barrel Dragon, and Slot Machine would all qualify, as does the Machine King he uses under Marik's control.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: His ejection from the tournament in the anime dub. When he hits the water, he simply says "ouch."
* MechanicalMonster: Both Metalzoa and Barrel Dragon.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Or at least to distrust.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Towards Pegasus.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In the anime-only warehouse battle, Zera the Mant, which becomes his trump card while under Marik's control is a 2800/2300 eight starred Fiend summoned by the Zera Ritual. During his duel with Jonouchi he uses Zoa, a 2600/1900 seven starred Fiend that can become KillerRobot Metalzoa under the influence of Metalmorph.
* RussianRoulette: Played it in his depression over his loss to Pegasus in the manga. Because of this, his Penalty Game involved his hand morphing into a gun and being forced to play Russian Roulette, shooting himself in the head and dying.
* SchrodingersCast: In the manga, he's killed in his Shadow Game with Pegasus, but in the ''R'' spin-off, which is debated canon, he is revived by the Evil Gods. In the anime, he's dropped into the sea instead being killed by Pegasus's Penalty Game and is found and brainwashed by Marik. Then in the video games ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheSacredCards'' and ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', he becomes the new leader of the Rare Hunters/Ghouls after Marik reforms and christens them the Neo Ghouls.
* SmugSnake: Lord yes. Keith thinks the world owes him something and is confident he will be paid.
* SoreLoser: Does not take defeat well. In the manga, after losing, he threatens to kill Pegasus if he doesn't give Keith the prize money. Of course, Pegasus being a wielder of a Millennium Item, this act of coercion after losing AND cheating in a game doesn't end well for Keith.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the anime, he gets off really easily.
* SummonMagic: In the anime-only warehouse duel, his Zera the Mant requires the Zera Ritual before it can appear on the field.
* TookALevelInBadass: Assorted adaptations are quite kind to him in this regard. In Duelist Kingdom, he was a washed-up has-been who lost to a rookie in spite of cheating. He also gets beaten up by said rookie (in the anime, it's the other way around). In ''R'' he wields an Evil God, and in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' he leads the Neo Ghouls in taking over Domino, kidnapping Ishizu, and seizing the Winged Dragon of Ra, which he then duels the player with.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Does it to Joey and Pegasus.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: His AbridgedSeries counterpart is the TropeNamer.
* {{Yandere}}: For Jonouchi in R.
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[[folder:Ghost Kozuka (Bonz)]]
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'''"Ghost" Kotsuzuka/Kozuka ([[DubNameChange Bonz]])'''
-> Voiced by: Masami Suzuki (JP), Amy Birnbaum (EN)
A creepy midget who plays a Zombie deck, "Ghost" Kotsuzuka is first introduced as one of Bandit Keith's henchmen, alongside his friends Satake and Takaido. Seeking to scope out the competition, Keith sets Kotsuzuka and Jonouchi/Joey against one another; when Kozuka is defeated, Keith beats him up and steals his Star Chips. Kotsuzuka resurfaces alongside Takaido and Satake during the Battle City arc, where he makes the fatal mistake of [[AbsurdlyhighStakesGame challenging Dark Bakura in a Shadow Game]].
His trump cards are Call of the Haunted (which is a ''lot'' more powerful than its real-life counterpart), Pumpking the King of Ghosts, and Great Mammoth of Goldfine.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Gets killed by playing one with Dark Bakura, in which he and his friends get dragged into hell.. which surprisingly ''[[LighterAndSofter was in the anime]]'' of all things (he simply falls down dead in the manga).
* AdaptationalVillainy: His EvenEvilHasStandards characterization is only in the manga, and in the anime version of Battle City, he attempts to make it to the finals by cheating rather than dueling proper - which made him more of an AssholeVictim of Dark Bakura than an unfortunate one.
* AnimeHair: Being he was based on early Dark Yugi designs, not surprising.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: A skull-faced midget who runs a Zombie deck?
* CheatersNeverProsper: In the anime, rather than dueling, he, Takaido, and Satake spend all their time at Battle City scaring people into giving them their Puzzle Cards. This ultimately leads to them encounter [[AxeCrazy Dark Bakura]] and literally getting dragged into hell via Penalty Game.
* DevelopmentGag: As revealed by Kazuki Takahashi in the opening of one of the later volumes, back during the development stages, Dark Yugi was originally going to have the skull-faced appearance Kozuka ultimately received.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the manga, he felt Keith trapping Yugi and his friends in the cave was extreme. In the anime, he laughs about it instead.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies
* KilledOffForReal: By Dark Bakura's Shadow Games.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: His henchmen, Takaido and Satake. Satake's the DumbMuscle, Takaido's the talker.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Receives a nasty NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Bandit Keith after he's defeated by Jonouchi.
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[[folder:Espa Roba]]
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'''Espa Roba'''
--> Voiced by: Maiko Itou (JP), Sebastian Arcelus (EN)
A duelist who claims to have ESP, but really cheats by having his younger brothers spy on his opponent's cards and relay the info to him via an earpiece. After Jounouchi defeats him in Battle City, he decides to turn his life around and go legit.
Roba uses a deck of cards that emulate psychic powers (this was before the Psychic type was invented in the game). His trump card was Jinzo, which Jounouchi won via the ante rules of Battle City.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: The reason he resorted to cheating was so he could build a reputation of being an unbeatable duelist. The bullies would respect him and leave his brothers alone.
* CheatersNeverProsper
* JerkassFacade
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* HeelFaceTurn
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Relying on his cheating causes him to make a big mistake against Jounouchi.
* LargeHam
* NotSoDifferent: Mokuba compares him to Seto.
* SissyVillain: The villain part is subverted.
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[[folder:Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine)]]
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'''Mai Kujaku (孔雀 舞; ''Kujaku Mai'') ([[DubNameChange Mai Valentine]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/HaruhiTerada (Japanese), Creator/MeganHollingshead (English Season 1-3) / Bella Hudson (English Season 4-5)
One of the best duelists around. She once worked as a casino dealer before picking up the Duel Monsters card game, and became used to depending on only herself until she met Yugi and his friends in the Duelist Kingdom arc. Though she isn't around in every chapter/episode, she's mostly a good guy and helps the heroes out frequently.
She uses a Harpie deck in the Duelist Kingdom arc, and mixes it up with some Amazons in the Battle City arc.
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* ActionGirl: She is a genuinely good duelist, even though she ends up [[DesignatedVictim getting put up and losing against the most important and/or powerful duelists in almost any given arc]], but never without a fight.
** DarkActionGirl: During the anime versions's DOMA FillerArc, after she becomes corrupted by the Orichalcos and starts working for Dartz.
* AmazonBrigade: Her deck, which includes her Harpies and some actual Amazons.
* BadassNormal: No Millennium Item or connections with ancient Egypt, but she's skilled enough to make it into the finals of Duelist Kingdom and the top eight in Battle City.
* BeMyValentine: In the dub. The "Mai" adds to it as a pun.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn.
* BikerBabe: She shows herself to be adept at riding a motorcycle in the DOMA FillerArc.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Blonde.
* BreakTheCutie: During the Battle City arc, when she fights against Dark Marik in his really, ''really'' painful Shadow Game and suffers through his Penalty Game.
* BrokenBird: In the beginning, she's an ex-LonelyRichKid who had lived by and relied on herself since her parents had passed on, acting cynical and disenchanted until Jounouchi calls her out on her treatment of her opponents, Yugi wins back the star chips she lost due to the Player Killer, and (in the anime) Anzu duels her for Yugi's sake. After she defrosts, she reverts because Dark Marik put her into a coma where she was trapped in an hourglass, slowly forgetting everyone who ever loved her (only in the anime - in the manga, she was being eaten by scarabs and she actually managed to come back from that experience emotionally stable). Then, she has recurring nightmares about the experience. This leads to why she winds up joining the villains for DOMA, because they have a magic thing called the Orichalcos that helps her cope.
* ChristmasCake: Actually, [[CelibateHero by her own choice]]. She ''did'' have a HopelessSuitor in an anime filler episode and blew him off, defeating him in a duel when he wouldn't give up.
* CompressedHair: She can somehow keep all of her hair into a normal-sized motorcycle helmet.
* CoolBigSis: She acts as the older and more experienced friend to the main characters, as well as Shizuka/Serenity.
* DarkChick: In Doma's FiveBadBand.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Throughout Duelist Kingdom.
* DemotedToExtra: After Doma, she's relegated to just making a couple of silent cameos for the remainder of the anime. In the manga, Battle City was her last appearance, and leaves the story a bit more happy compared to the anime.
* DesignatedVictim: Silly Mai, this is a {{Shonen}} manga, girls at your time can't win fights yet.
* DeusAngstMachina[=/=]TraumaCongaLine: From Dark Marik's Penalty Game to the anime's Doma.
* DistractedByTheSexy: An implied reason for her choice of outfits is to try to distract her opponents.
** She also uses her looks to sneak Tristan and Tea past the security guard at Duelist Kingdom, and to trick Rex Raptor into giving up his deluxe room on the cruise to her.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Developed a taste for black leather after joining the Doma {{cult}}.
* {{Fanservice}}: She and her monsters are this.
** BareYourMidriff: Several of her outfits.
** MsFanservice: She wears a ''corset''.
** OfCorsetsSexy: Wears this.
* GamerChick
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Does this to Jonouchi during Battle City after his BrainwashedAndCrazy period.
* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Her signature monsters, and they're ladies.
* IdiotBall: Gets a lot of this.
** Has a run-in with it at the end of her duel with Marik. Despite having the means to win the duel[[note]]Dark Marik only had one monster in Attack position with 500 ATK and 1050 Life Points, Mai had Cyber Harpie with 1800 ATK[[/note]] by just declaring an attack, she chooses to try and beat Dark Marik with the Sun Dragon Ra, despite the fact she has no idea how it works and a first-hand demonstration in the previous duel that using the card is highly dangerous.
** It happens again in the anime's Doma FillerArc: when she duels Raphael, Mai attempts to use Jonouchi's Helmos card despite not being one of the three chosen duelists. [[CurbStompBattle It doesn't go well for her.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: In the very beginning of the series, she's pretty aggressive, sarcastic, and a bit mean-spirited, though significantly less so than other duelists like Haga or Ryuzaki.
** JerkassHasAPoint: In her first duel with Jonouchi, she points out that even if he and Yugi are friends, there can only ever be one champion, and they'd have to face each other in order to win. He also has to learn to step out from Yugi's shadow and duel on his own, and hopes that his defeat teaches that to him. And she's completely right except about the "defeat" part since he beats her.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Anzu and Shizuka's light.
* LonelyRichKid: In her backstory, at least in the anime. We see her as a little girl, all alone in a BigFancyHouse...
* MeaningfulName: Mai Kujaku means "dancing peacock."
* MindRape: By Marik during Battle City. She was put into an hourglass filled with scarabs that slowly devoured her body, and she would have died after a set amount of time (in the anime, it's less nightmare-ish and more emotional - the longer she was in the hourglass, the more memories of her friends she would lose). In the anime, this lead to a HeroicBSOD and a FaceHeelTurn in the Doma filler arc.
* MoreThanMindControl: How FillerVillain Dartz got her to serve him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After she beats Jounouchi in the Doma filler, causing him to lose his soul.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: She's a very good duelist and strategist, but has the misfortune to be on the same team as Yugi and Kaiba (who have connections to the nameless pharaoh and some of the most powerful cards around) and ends up going up against [[BigBad Dark]] [[TheSociopath Marik]] in the Battle City semifinals.
* ParentalAbandonment: In the anime, her parents died when she was little and left her alone to rely on herself.
* PunnyName: In English.
* PsychicPowers: She pretends she has these at the start of Duelist Kingdom with her "aroma tactics", which involves knowing what her cards are without looking at them because of having them sprayed with various perfumes. This backfires on her in her duel with Jounouchi when he figures it out, however, and she drops them later on.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Jounouchi's red. (One of three)
* {{Sexophone}}: In the anime, new music always played whenever she showed up inDuelist Kingdom, and ocassionally in Battle City. Stopped in Doma due to her change of sides.
* ShipTease: With Jonouchi.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In ''The Sacred Cards'', a video game adaptation of Season 2-3, she duels Kaiba in the Battle City finals instead of Marik.
* ThighHighBoots: Wore these while she was {{Brainwashed}} by Dartz during the Doma arc.
* {{Tsundere}}: Shifts from a Type A to a Type B over the course of Duelist Kingdom.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Jounouchi. The anime didn't do anything to help resolve this.
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[[folder:Ishizu Ishtar]]
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'''Ishizu Ishtar (イシズ・イシュタール; ''Ishizu Ishutaaru'')'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/SumiShimamoto (JP), Karen Neil (EN)
Marik's older sister and Rishid's adoptive sister, she's the owner of the Millennium Tauk, which allows the user to see into the past and future. Ishizu works for the Egyptian government agency, the Supreme Council of Antiquities - presumably to the public, she traveled to Japan's Domino City to oversee the dynastic exhibit, The Art of Egypt, which showcased stone slabs, depicting ka battles, from which the card game ''Magic & Wizards''/''Duel Monsters'' originated. She invited Seto Kaiba to the Domino City Museum to show him the slabs that also depicted the nameless king, who resembled Yugi. She told Kaiba about the three God Cards and tasked him with retrieving them from the Ghouls, through hosting a city-wide ''Duel Monsters'' tournament. To bait the Ghouls into coming, she gave him one of the God cards - "The God of the Obelisk."
With the Millennium Tauk, Ishizu had already predicted Yugi would visit the museum. When Dark Yugi arrived, along with Anzu Mazaki, and saw the slabs depicting the ancient ka battles and also of the pharaoh, she approached him. She told him that a large battle would soon be taking place, and that he must gather the seven Millennium Items to regain his memories.
In the ''Duel Monsters'' card game, she uses a Sand Fairy (Fairy monsters with an Egyptian theme) deck, along with cards that cycle her opponent's cards into the graveyard and her cards into her deck. Her trump card is Reversal of Worlds (Exchange of the Spirit).
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* AbusiveParents: Her father didn't treat her or her brothers particularly well, and cared more for his duty of guarding the Millennium Items than any of them.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses'', she's on the side of the Yorkists.
* AlliterativeName: ''I''shizu ''I''shtar.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: She was so obsessed with following her visions that she threw away a quicker victory against Seto just to achieve the victory she saw. Which fails when Seto manages to defy her visions and defeat her.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Joins Battle City to try to save her brother.
* BreakTheHaughty: Tries it on Kaiba and to a degree, suffers it herself.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Marik's Cain.
* CombatClairvoyance: Sees into the future to predict her opponent's moves.
* DishingOutDirt[=/=]LightEmUp: She uses Earth-attribute Fairy monsters with a distinct Egyptian design flavor.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: How she gets Kaiba's attention at the start of the second series anime adaptation.
* {{Foil}}: To Kaiba. They both had abusive fathers (biological in her case, adoptive in Kaiba's), have younger siblings they are protective of, and are part of organizing the Battle City tournament. However, Ishizu looks to the past and believes in destiny through her visions from the Millennium Tauk, where Kaiba looks to the future while being more focused on modern-day technology and, in the English 4Kids dub, is a skeptic about the ancient Egyptian magic going on. This is especially highlighted during their duel in the quarter-finals.
* GracefulLoser: In spite of the fact that it means she's out of the running of confront Marik herself, she takes her defeat to Kaiba rather well. In fact, it brings her hope that the future can be changed and that either Yugi, Jonouchi, or Kaiba can save her brother.
* {{Herald}}: In Battle City.
* JapanesePronouns: Uses "watakushi".
* LadyOfWar: Yeah, she plays a card game instead of leading an army, but she's definitely got this vibe. She's quiet, feminine, and came ''this'' close to kicking Seto Kaiba's arrogant ass.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: In her duel with Kaiba, she manipulates every move he makes, even allowing herself to take damage from him, in preparation to flip his strategy back on him. Lampshaded by Dark Marik in the anime, who snickers that it's fun to watch her work Kaiba over after she did it to normal Marik so often when they were children.
* MindRape: Subverted. Even though she has a Millennium Item, she's the only character that never (never ''seen'', at least) uses Shadow Game magic. No Penalty Games either.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She had the chance to win against Kaiba, but didn't take it because it wasn't the specific victory she foresaw. Trying to get the win conditions she saw in her vision was what led Kaiba to be able to defeat her.
* PunnyName[=/=]SpellMyNameWithAnS: Ishizu's name is ''not'' Isis, but it is meant to reference the name Isis. Kazuki Takahashi basically took the name Isis and converted the letters to Japanese characters, though he chose to use Ishizu instead of Ishisu. Further proof is the priestess Isis in the Millennium World arc is spelled more phonetically correct (アイシス; ''aishisu'') as far as the English language goes.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Of the priestess Isis.
* TheStrategist: Has her duel with Kaiba all planned out from the start.
* WomanInWhite: She primarily wears cream white gowns, which adds to her air of enigma as the {{Herald}} in the Battle City arc.
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[[folder:Insector Haga (Weevil Underwood)]]
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'''Insector Haga ([[DubNameChange Weevil Underwood]])'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/UraraTakano (JP), Creator/JimmyZoppi (EN)
Haga was the Champion of the Japanese National Tournament for ''Magic & Wizards''/''Duel Monsters'', who then was invited to Duelist Kingdom by Pegasus. He pretends to befriend Yugi, but in actuality his goal was to throw his grandfather's powerful Exodia cards into the ocean, inciting Dark Yugi's rage and making him the first of Dark Yugi's targets on the island.
Despite putting Yugi at a disadvantage, he loses the game and gets thrown off the island. He later turns up in the Battle City arc, as well as the anime's Doma filler arc; he loses to Jonouchi and gets a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown after toying with Yugi too much. His last major appearance (anime-only) is in the last [[TournamentArc filler arc]] and stealing the God Cards before Dark Bakura stopped them.
As his name suggests, he uses an Insect deck. His trump cards are Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and Insect Queen (which he lost to Jounouchi via the ante rules of Battle City, but he quickly gains another one).
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* AnimalMotifs: Bugs.
* BerserkButton: Being laughed at angers him quite a bit, as shown in his first duel with Dark Yugi. He'd been mostly calm and shown little more than irritation up until Dark Yugi started laughing at him. At first, he was confused, then ''enraged'' into shouting. Indeed, most of his [[{{Jerkass}} jerkish]] behavior then on seemed to be motivated by the mocking he received from former fans after the events of Duelist Kingdom.
* BigBadWannabe: After the anime's filler saga Doma went and reminded everyone that both he and Ryuzaki could be legitimate opponents, the remaining arcs in the anime then had them repeatedly try to upstage things only to be immediately taken out of action by whoever the current arc's antagonist was (Siegfried in the KC Grand Prix, Dark Bakura in the anime version of Millennium World)
* BigCreepyCrawlies: His insect monsters are huge.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Much like plenty of the manga's early villains, when Yugi first met Haga, he seemed like a ''very'' nice guy, nicer than Ryuzaki ironically enough. He was very polite overall, gave some advice to both Yugi and Jounouchi, and seemed pretty tame to the GenreBlind. Yugi liked and admired him right after meeting him, which was why he [[WhatAnIdiot trusted the complete stranger with handling his grandfather's cards despite their not being water-proof and a large body of water being nearby.]] It was more noticeable in the Japanese version than in the English dub, in which he sounded unbelievably sarcastic the entire time. Now, of course, fans know [[{{Jerkass}} what]] [[SmugSnake he's really like]].
* BreakingSpeech: Gives one to Dark Yugi in the anime; it actually almost works.
* CheatersNeverProsper: And he gets kicked off the island and has his Star Chip glove taken by Jonouchi as the result of it.
* CurbstompBattle: In the Grand Prix filler, this is the result of him (and Ryuzaki) attempting to duel Siegfried.
* DealWithTheDevil: The anime incarnations joins with FillerVillain Dartz to attempt revenge on Yugi.
* {{Determinator}}: Along with Ryuzaki, in the anime. Never gave up no matter how many times he got his ass kicked. [[CrazyAwesome Biked off of a cliff to catch the rope ladder from Raphael's helicopter.]] [[{{Determinator}} Just because he wanted a better chance at defeating the Pharaoh.]] Then, in the next tournament, [[HolyShitQuotient they both beat up a duelist, tied him up, stole his clothes,]] [[TotemPoleTrench and stood on top of each other]] [[HolyShitQuotient just for another chance at fame.]] Yeah. They both qualify.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Notably [[AvertedTrope averted.]] His cheating, from what we've seen, is always clearly planned out and calculated prior to a duel. It never directly hinders him because, for all [[DirtyCoward his]] [[SmugSnake flaws]], he ''is'' a lot more clever than your average cheater.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses and is one of the most scummy characters in the series, caring nothing for anyone but himself and constantly cheating to get ahead in duels.
* FreakyIsCool: ''Adores'' insects, spiders, and all things creepy-crawly.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In the Doma arc of the anime, he gets his hands on the Seal of Orichalcos and access to Doma's endless supply of rare cards, forming a much more powerful deck.
* GigglingVillain: [[AnnoyingLaugh "Hyoi hyoi hyoi hyoi hyoi hyoi!"]]
* HiddenBadass: In the anime. Apparently brave (or [[SanitySlippage crazy]]) enough to [[TheDeterminator bike off the edge of a cliff and grab onto a helicopter rope ladder for a chance at victory]], despite his many flaws. And then, without skipping a beat, he convinces Raphael to give him and Ryuzaki a chance at joining the Orichalcos. While hanging from a rope ladder that Raphael was about to cut. The guy's got guts and he doesn't hesitate, that's for certain.
* HighCollarOfDoom: Part of his Duelist Kingdom arc [[http://www.kokorononaka.net/Image/Haga/Others-ep04-Haga-17-Permanentlear.jpg outfit]]. Less [[DownplayedTrope pronounced]] than most examples though.
* {{Jerkass}}: BIG TIME.
** JerkAssHasAPoint: During the Doma FillerArc, when Dark Yugi calls him horrible, Haga points out that Dark Yugi had used the Seal of Orichalcos in order to win despite knowing that he'd be putting his friend in danger, and that Yugi paid the price, saying that while he was indeed an asshole at least he didn't use the seal despite knowing that he could endanger his friends. Even though he tries not to show it, Dark Yugi is visibly affected.
* JerkJock: For a guy who plays a card game, he is so clearly channeling this attitude.
* KickTheDog: In the anime only. In his second duel with Dark Yugi, he pretended to tear up the card Yugi's soul was trapped in (the card he actually tore up was some random insect card) just to screw with Dark Yugi. [[UnstoppableRage It doesn't end so well for him]].
* LetsGetDangerous: His second battle with Dark Yugi in the anime.
* MeaningfulName: Aside from his obvious dub name, his Japanese given name roughly means, "Moth Wings." Particularly fitting given what one of his trump cards is.
* NerdGlasses: He's very smart and cunning.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: You shouldn't have used Yugi to pull a cruel joke on Dark Yugi.
* NotSoDifferent: In the anime, he points out that Dark Yugi was as selfish and callous as he was when he unleashed the Seal and points out that technically Dark Yugi's worse since he knew he'd put his friend in danger, which even he didn't do. Overlaps with...
** JerkassHasAPoint: Even Dark Yugi can't deny it.
* RedOniBlueOni: At first, the Blue to Ryuzaki/Rex's Red. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Color-coded]] even, with Haga's hair and Ryuzaki's hat! Haga seems more calm and composed early on, relying on strategy over brute force. However, curiously enough, they keep to their respective tactics but switch attitudes over time. Ryuzaki doesn't exactly become "calm," but Haga seems to become more HotBlooded and irritable by the time the Doma Arc rolls around.
** This may be due to SanitySlippage resulting from having Haga's aforementioned [[BerserkButton berserk buttons]] mashed too often, by the heroes as well as by unnamed in-universe fans. Interestingly, the switch does not seem to hamper Haga's skills; if anything, [[TookALevelInBadass it might have even helped]]!
* ScaryShinyGlasses: His glasses often take on this appearance when he needs to look sinister.
* SmugSnake: His main attribute and, arguably, his [[FatalFlaw principal weakness]]. He really ''is'' a great duelist and strategist but he is very over-confident and tends to underestimate his opponents, leading to his inevitable [[VillainousBreakdown downfall]].
** The only time he seemed to ''stop'' being so smug (at least at first) was against Dark Yugi during the Doma arc. He genuinely expected a big duel when he initiated it and spent about three-fourths of the duel utterly ''[[CurbStompBattle stomping]]'' Dark Yugi. He didn't really start doing badly until his [[FatalFlaw smugness]] crept in again. Oh, and especially when Dark Yugi [[UnstoppableRage absolutely flipped out in response to his cruel joke]], and got help from quite a few good draws in his final play.
* TheWorfEffect: In the anime, he's introduced in the second episode as a professional duelist who wins a championship. Then Dark Yugi beats him within minutes of arriving in Duelist Kingdom and sends him home on the first boat back. Then on the Grand Prix, he is easily beaten by Siegfried in one turn.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Ryuzaki in the anime.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Along with Ryuzaki he briefly travels with Yugi's group during the Doma arc, up until joining forces with Dartz.
* TookALevelInBadass: A FromNobodyToNightmare play with this trope, after getting the Orichalcos Seal, Haga in particular went from [[SmugSnake smug]] to [[EvilGenius being control of his duel with Yugi through clever strategy]] and almost won; a ''huge'' step up from his first duel with Dark Yugi, in which his performance was stymied by [[SmugSnake over-confidence]].
* VillainousBreakdown: Every time he loses.
* VillainousCrush: Shows a few signs of having one on Anzu in the original Japanese version only. He attempts to flirt with her at the Battle City tournament, calling her "a cute lady." Her [[{{Squick}} reaction]] was less than interested. He apparently had some hard feelings about that because later, in the Doma arc, he tells her that she looks terrible despite saying that she shouldn't feel proud "just because she's cute" an episode later. He apparently doesn't take well to rejection.
* WarmUpBoss: For the Duelist Kingdom Arc. He demonstrates to Yugi in their duel just what the new rules for the tournament are and how they work, such as the field power bonuses.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In Battle City, he hired a kid to sabotage Jonocuhi's deck. When the kid demands his payment of a rare card, Haga gives him a lame card. When the kid protests, Weevil sprays him with silly string and runs away (in the manga, it was ''a can of insecticide'').
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[[folder:Dinosaur Ryuzaki (Rex Raptor)]]
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'''Dinosaur Ryuzaki ([[DubNameChange Rex Raptor]])'''
--> Voiced by: Kin Fuji (JP, ep. 2-59), YuuichiNakamura (ep. 131-224), SamRiegel (EN, ep. 1-144), Sebastian Arcelus (ep. 145-187), Anothony Salerno (ep. 188-224)
He lost to Haga in the finale of the Japanese National Tournament. Just like Haga, he was also invited to Duelist Kingdom, but he loses to Jonouchi and forfeited his Red-Eyes Black Dragon. He later appears in the Battle City arc when Jonouchi battles Espa Roba during the tournament, and in the anime, the filler arcs (most notably Doma).
As his name suggests, he uses a Dinosaur deck, [[DinosaursAreDragons though his trump cards are all Dragons]]: Serpent Night Dragon (which he lost to Espa Roba via the ante rules of Battle City), Red-Eyes Black Dragon (which he lost in a wager to Jonouchi), and Tyrant Dragon, which he gains in the Doma filler arc.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: He may have been a jerk in the manga, but at least he was helpful and doesn't team up with Haga. In the anime he ''does'' team up with Haga and is a straight antagonist in the Doma filler arc.
* AnimalMotifs: Dinosaurs
* BigBadWannabe: See Weevil/Haga's description. Unless you go by the manga.
* DealWithTheDevil: Joins Dartz to attempt revenge on Jounouchi.
* {{Determinator}}: See Weevil/Haga's description for the trope. Downplayed in the manga.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Actually, it's reversed--Dragons Are Dinosaurs. He's a dinosaur duelist, but his strongest monsters are Serpent Night Dragon, Red-Eyes Black Dragon and Tyrant Dragon, as when the original anime was being made there were no high-powered Dinosaur cards and the type as a whole was very unsupported. This would be fixed several years later during the timeframe of ''GX's'' production, hence Tyranno Kenzan.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He has shades of this in the manga. He's not at all evil in the manga, actually, just pretty smug. He still has his standards and is above cheating, and he even warned Jonouchi not to duel Esper Roba.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Played straight with some of his monsters, subverted with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Two Headed King Rex]].
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In the anime.
* HiddenBadass: See Weevil/Haga's description.
* JerkJock: Not to the same degree as Haga, but he's still very smug about his abilities and treats weaker players like garbage.
* NeverMyFault: In anime filler, he's pissed off at Jonouchi/Joey for using his Red Eyes Black Dragon against him during their second duel and claims that Jonouchi took it from him when in reality, Ryuzaki wagered the REBD out of his own free will during their duel in Duelist Kingdom.
** He still wants revenge on Jonouchi/Joey after causing him to lose his soul to the Seal of Orichalcos the second time. Even though it was Ryuzaki/Raptor [[HoistByHisOwnPetard who chose to play and activate the card in first the place]] then makes it pretty clear that he ''knew'' of the consequences for activating it being fully aware to what would happen if either duelist lost. Jonouchi/Joey even tries to talk sense into him about playing the card, only Ryuzaki continuously responding "knowing" the deal.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Haga/Weevil's Blue at first. They switch later. See Haga/Weevil's entry.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Haga/Weevil. But only in the anime.
* TokenEvilTeammate: See Weevil/Haga's description. Is less of this in the manga
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[[folder:Ryota Kajiki (Mako Tsunami)]]
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'''Ryota Kajiki (Mako Tsunami)'''
--> Voiced by: Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (JP), Andrew Rannells (EN)
A fisherman by trade who duels in honor of his father, who was lost in a shipwreck (in the dub-version, he thinks his father is still alive). He faces Yugi in Duelist Kingdom and Jounouchi in Battle City.
He uses a Water deck filled mostly with sea monsters like sharks and krakens. His trump cards are The Legendary Fisherman, which he says is identical to his father, and the Fortress Whale (he loses both to Jounouchi via the ante rules of Battle City).
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* AnimeHair
* BoisterousBruiser
* DayInTheLimelight: Moreso than most [[MonsterOfTheWeek Duelists of the Week]], Ryota's appearance in the Battle City arc actually starts with him getting acquainted with the workers at an aquarium, before eventually getting hired as a central performer for them. Both of his primary appearances also do make the effort to explain his backstory and what his plans are for the future.
* DisappearedDad: Implied to be dead in the manga and Japanese versions of the anime.
* FishOutOfWater: The Battle City arc shows that he's a little naive about life on land. He tried to go fishing in the marine aquarium.
--> "I am ''NOT'' a freaky fish guy!"
* FriendlyRival: With both Yugi and Jounouchi.
* HeroicBSOD: When Jounouchi manages to destroy The Legendary Fisherman, since he equates him with his father, though Jounouchi cheers him up.
* HotBlooded
* NiceGuy: Notably, he's given a much more sympathetic backstory and characterization than most of the one-shot antagonists that Yugi and Joey have to face. He also never resorts to cheating (like Weevil and Espa Roba did), or being a bully, even when taunting his opponents (which would put him in contrast with Rex).
* WalkingShirtlessScene
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[[folder:Bandit Keith]]
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'''"Bandit" Keith Howard ([[DubNameChange Bandit Keith]])'''
--> Voiced by: Hajime Komada (JP), Creator/TedLewis (EN)
The former American Champion, called "Bandit" Keith and number one "Card Professor" due to him winning all the big prizes. He issues a challenge to Pegasus, but is defeated. Throughout Duelist Kingdom, his goal is to get his revenge on Pegasus. After his defeat by Jonouchi, he is killed by Pegasus, who inflicts a Russian Roulette Penalty Game on him. In the anime, he instead is expelled from the island and ends up as one of Marik's first Mind Slaves.
In Duel Monsters, he uses a Machine deck, which is later augmented with many rare cards by Marik. His trump cards are Metalzoa, Barrel Dragon, and Slot Machine; while under Marik's control in the anime, Machine King and rare Fiend monster Zera The Mant are added to his arsenal.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga, Jonouchi/Joey kicks his ass in a fistfight. In the anime, Keith hands Jonouchi his rear end, and beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake all at once.
* AssholeVictim: In the manga, Pegasus' penalty game kills him. In the anime, Marik turns him into a mind slave. Either way, not very easy to pity.
* BigBadWannabe: He's played up as a major antagonist, but is clearly much less of a threat than Pegasus, the guy with the Millennium item. Continues into ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', where he leads the Neo Ghouls trying to take the Millennium Items, but is just a distraction from trying to stop Pegasus from reviving Reshef.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Blond and the biggest douche in the entire series. There might be more evil people out there, but nobody quite as punchable as Keith.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the anime only, Marik does this to him at one point.
* TheBrute: And lord, how. He even beats up Yugi, of all people! Contrast to Pegasus, who takes up the role of the SquishyWizard. In the manga, he's not much of a brute - he only beats up his henchman and Yugi - the latter of which causes Jonouchi to kick his ass.
* CheatersNeverProsper: He walks Ghost Kozuka through his duel with Jonouchi, so that he can see every card Jonouchi has. He beats up Kozuka, Takaido, and Satake and steals their Star Chips after Kozuka's defeat, and traps Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu, Honda, and Bakura in an underground labyrinth. He steals Jonouchi's entry card to try and avoid their duel. He hides his set of "7 Completed" cards inside his wristbands during their match. And yet he still gets his ass kicked by Jonouchi. Thanks to that, he is unceremoniously killed by Pegasus via Penalty Game after threatening to take the prize money by force (in the anime, he is instead expelled from the island by Pegasus and falls into the ocean).
* CoolShades[=/=]SunglassesAtNight[=/=]SinisterShades: Keith always wears his shades, and they do a lot to enhance both the sense of menace and assholery that he gives off.
* DarkIsEvil: Most of his stronger cards, including Revolver Dragon, Zoa, Slot Machine, and Zera the Mant are Dark.
* {{Eagleland}}: Type 2. He's thuggish, selfish, smug, and a total jerk.
* EvilLaugh[=/=]UnEvilLaugh: Keith's high, girly laugh isn't especially ''menacing'', but it ''does'' sound quite unhinged.
* EvilerThanThou: He never really gets the chance to act on it, but his objective is to payback Pegasus for humiliating him.
* {{Foil}}: Keith's short-temper, {{Smug Snake}}ry, and use of physical force makes for a pretty strong contrast with ManipulativeBastard and GentlemanSnarker Pegasus.
** Also serves as an EvilCounterpart for Jounouchi/Joey for being both duelists that rely on gambling and offensive strategies.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: They're typically hidden by SinisterShades, but when we do see Keith's eyes they're small, narrow and veiny.
* HairTriggerTemper
* {{Hypocrite}}: He regularly stresses that nobody's ever beaten him without cheating (referring, of course, to Pegasus), in spite of... well, being Bandit Keith.
* {{Jerkass}}: Other characters may be more ''evil'' than Keith, but no one--except maybe Gozaburo Kaiba--is a bigger asshole.
* JerkJock: Keith's what happens when the captain of the football team from every teen movie ever made turns twenty-six and decides to play Duel Monsters.
* KickTheDog: Stealing Jonouchi's prize entry card and before that, trapping him and Yugi in a cave.
* KilledOffForReal: Pegasus' Shadow Game and Penalty Game in the manga has Keith shoot himself in the head to kill him via turning his hand into a gun and having him play Russian Roulette. Averted in the anime, where he survives his fall from the castle and is captured by Marik.
** BackFromTheDead: Revived by Yako in the R spin-off manga for his EvilPlan
** DeadAllAlong: In spin-off ''R'', he is revived by the Evil Gods and this is the only explanation to how he survived his Shadow Game with Pegasus.
* KillerRobot: Pendulum Machine, Launcher Spider, Metalzoa, Barrel Dragon, and Slot Machine would all qualify, as does the Machine King he uses under Marik's control.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: His ejection from the tournament in the anime dub. When he hits the water, he simply says "ouch."
* MechanicalMonster: Both Metalzoa and Barrel Dragon.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Or at least to distrust.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Towards Pegasus.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In the anime-only warehouse battle, Zera the Mant, which becomes his trump card while under Marik's control is a 2800/2300 eight starred Fiend summoned by the Zera Ritual. During his duel with Jonouchi he uses Zoa, a 2600/1900 seven starred Fiend that can become KillerRobot Metalzoa under the influence of Metalmorph.
* RussianRoulette: Played it in his depression over his loss to Pegasus in the manga. Because of this, his Penalty Game involved his hand morphing into a gun and being forced to play Russian Roulette, shooting himself in the head and dying.
* SchrodingersCast: In the manga, he's killed in his Shadow Game with Pegasus, but in the ''R'' spin-off, which is debated canon, he is revived by the Evil Gods. In the anime, he's dropped into the sea instead being killed by Pegasus's Penalty Game and is found and brainwashed by Marik. Then in the video games ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheSacredCards'' and ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', he becomes the new leader of the Rare Hunters/Ghouls after Marik reforms and christens them the Neo Ghouls.
* SmugSnake: Lord yes. Keith thinks the world owes him something and is confident he will be paid.
* SoreLoser: Does not take defeat well. In the manga, after losing, he threatens to kill Pegasus if he doesn't give Keith the prize money. Of course, Pegasus being a wielder of a Millennium Item, this act of coercion after losing AND cheating in a game doesn't end well for Keith.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the anime, he gets off really easily.
* SummonMagic: In the anime-only warehouse duel, his Zera the Mant requires the Zera Ritual before it can appear on the field.
* TookALevelInBadass: Assorted adaptations are quite kind to him in this regard. In Duelist Kingdom, he was a washed-up has-been who lost to a rookie in spite of cheating. He also gets beaten up by said rookie (in the anime, it's the other way around). In ''R'' he wields an Evil God, and in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' he leads the Neo Ghouls in taking over Domino, kidnapping Ishizu, and seizing the Winged Dragon of Ra, which he then duels the player with.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Does it to Joey and Pegasus.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: His AbridgedSeries counterpart is the TropeNamer.
* {{Yandere}}: For Jonouchi in R.
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[[folder:Ghost Kozuka (Bonz)]]
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'''"Ghost" Kotsuzuka/Kozuka ([[DubNameChange Bonz]])'''
-> Voiced by: Masami Suzuki (JP), Amy Birnbaum (EN)
A creepy midget who plays a Zombie deck, "Ghost" Kotsuzuka is first introduced as one of Bandit Keith's henchmen, alongside his friends Satake and Takaido. Seeking to scope out the competition, Keith sets Kotsuzuka and Jonouchi/Joey against one another; when Kozuka is defeated, Keith beats him up and steals his Star Chips. Kotsuzuka resurfaces alongside Takaido and Satake during the Battle City arc, where he makes the fatal mistake of [[AbsurdlyhighStakesGame challenging Dark Bakura in a Shadow Game]].
His trump cards are Call of the Haunted (which is a ''lot'' more powerful than its real-life counterpart), Pumpking the King of Ghosts, and Great Mammoth of Goldfine.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Gets killed by playing one with Dark Bakura, in which he and his friends get dragged into hell.. which surprisingly ''[[LighterAndSofter was in the anime]]'' of all things (he simply falls down dead in the manga).
* AdaptationalVillainy: His EvenEvilHasStandards characterization is only in the manga, and in the anime version of Battle City, he attempts to make it to the finals by cheating rather than dueling proper - which made him more of an AssholeVictim of Dark Bakura than an unfortunate one.
* AnimeHair: Being he was based on early Dark Yugi designs, not surprising.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: A skull-faced midget who runs a Zombie deck?
* CheatersNeverProsper: In the anime, rather than dueling, he, Takaido, and Satake spend all their time at Battle City scaring people into giving them their Puzzle Cards. This ultimately leads to them encounter [[AxeCrazy Dark Bakura]] and literally getting dragged into hell via Penalty Game.
* DevelopmentGag: As revealed by Kazuki Takahashi in the opening of one of the later volumes, back during the development stages, Dark Yugi was originally going to have the skull-faced appearance Kozuka ultimately received.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the manga, he felt Keith trapping Yugi and his friends in the cave was extreme. In the anime, he laughs about it instead.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies
* KilledOffForReal: By Dark Bakura's Shadow Games.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: His henchmen, Takaido and Satake. Satake's the DumbMuscle, Takaido's the talker.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Receives a nasty NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Bandit Keith after he's defeated by Jonouchi.
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[[folder:Espa Roba]]
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'''Espa Roba'''
--> Voiced by: Maiko Itou (JP), Sebastian Arcelus (EN)
A duelist who claims to have ESP, but really cheats by having his younger brothers spy on his opponent's cards and relay the info to him via an earpiece. After Jounouchi defeats him in Battle City, he decides to turn his life around and go legit.
Roba uses a deck of cards that emulate psychic powers (this was before the Psychic type was invented in the game). His trump card was Jinzo, which Jounouchi won via the ante rules of Battle City.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: The reason he resorted to cheating was so he could build a reputation of being an unbeatable duelist. The bullies would respect him and leave his brothers alone.
* CheatersNeverProsper
* JerkassFacade
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* HeelFaceTurn
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Relying on his cheating causes him to make a big mistake against Jounouchi.
* LargeHam
* NotSoDifferent: Mokuba compares him to Seto.
* SissyVillain: The villain part is subverted.
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