History Characters / YuGiOhIndustrialIllusions

* BadassInANiceSuit: Maybe a little gaudy, but still suave.

* DiscoDan: He is reluctant to use the Duel Disk even after Duelist Kingdom in the anime, sticking to his antiquated arenas and not fully adapting the new technology until ''GX''.

* NightmareFace: After losing the Millennium Eye (and surviving in the anime continuity), a full view of his face is kind of ''unpleasant'' to look at, [[TakeOurWordForIt although the viewers never see it]]; even Kaiba is a little freaked out in the movie when he briefly moves his hair aside. The manga goes for a [[SarcasmMode wonderful shot]] of Pegasus' lifeless corpse, his face coated in his own blood, from being killed by Yami Bakura.

* SissyVillain: The first in a ''very'' long line of them for the franchise.

* TakeOurWordForIt: After losing the Millennium Eye, his eye socket isn't too nice to look at without his hair covering it; even Kaiba was a little freaked at seeing it. The viewers, however, aren't privy to it.

* NoodleIncident: In the anime, Pegasus scolds him for a failure and threatens to "lock him away... again". When exactly this happened and why is unclear, though Croquet's [[OhCrap clear fear at the suggestion]] hints that Pegasus [[YourSoulIsMine isn't talking about a jail cell]]...

* MellowFellow: Never raises his voice, ever. Not that he needs to in order to make Keith nervous.

* SinisterShades: [[SunglassesAtNight All the time.]]

* TheVillainSucksSong: For the dub, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPOLQmqNXso "I'm Not Gonna Panic"]].

* BadLiar: Dark Yugi and (manga-only) Dark Bakura see right through them.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Dark Yugi conjures up the "Labyrinth Coin game" and fools them with a similar trick, and then in the dub, says the exact phrase.

* ComplexityAddiction: He organizes a tournament just to have a cover for taking over Kaiba Corporation! All he needed to do is defeat Yugi in an official duel. Granted, we do not know if Pegasus could have taken over the company in a different manner.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Yami accuses him of having fallen victim to this when he manages to block Pegasus's mind-reading powers, claiming that Pegasus has become so dependent on being able to read his opponent's future moves that he's lost any real tactical ability he ever had for the game. While Pegasus does show more skill in his later duels, this could be attributed to him having time to re-learn his old tricks after losing the Eye, and he certainly finds himself missing his mind-reading ability after he can no longer rely on it in the Shadow Game.

* DespairEventHorizon: After Cynthia's death.

** However, it's averted with regards to how they react to their defeats. Unlike Keith, who proved to be a SoreLoser after his defeat to Joey and tried to threaten Pegasus with a gun, Pegasus [[GracefulLoser accepts his defeat gracefully and honors his promises]]. It should be noted that Pegasus didn't take the drastic step of dumping Keith into the ocean until ''after'' Keith threatened him with a gun.

* KarmaHoudini: In the anime, while he ''does'' get humbled after the Milennium Eye is stolen (and also, y'know, gets one of his eyes gouged out in the process), he largely goes unpunished for his actions in Duelist Kingdom, and his business continues running. [=5Ds=] even implies that he's memorialized as a ''[[HistoricalHeroUpgrade hero]]'' after his death.

* MacGuffinDeliveryService: The primary reason Pegasus didn't mind Yugi's friends accompanying him into his private castle was that thanks to Bakura the group would be bringing him two Millennium items rather than just the Puzzle.

* NightmareFace: After losing the Millennium Eye, a full view of his face is kind of ''unpleasant'' to look at, [[TakeOurWordForIt although the viewers never see it]]; even Kaiba is a little freaked out in the movie when he briefly moves his hair aside.

* PosthumousCharacter: In the spin-off manga, ''Yu-Gi-Oh R''.

* RetiredMonster: In the anime--he's not technically a villain anymore, but he's not really good either, and generally seems to prefer staying out of the affairs of the main cast.

* SchrodingersCast: He's dead and gone in the manga following Duelist Kingdom, but in the anime he survived. The manga spin-off ''Manga/YuGiOhR'' introduced his protégé Yako Tenma who took over his company and planned to resurrect him. The anime eventually brought him back for the movie, Seasons 4 and 5 and ''GX'', and in the video game ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' he gets possessed by Reshef after the events of Battle City and is the game's BigBad, being sealed away with the entity afterwards.

** In Duelist Kingdom, Jounochi and Howard arguably entered the tournament illegally, since they don't have their own dueling gloves or entry cards. Pegasus waves this off and simply treats them as regular competitors.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's the anime's StarterVillain and an ArcVillain in the manga, but setting up Duel Monsters arguably makes everything past his arc possible. Including several near end of the world scenarios.

* SquishyWizard: While he's quite smart and manipulates people rather well, he's described as physically weak in the ''Pyramid of Light'' novelization, and in the original manga, he tells Kaiba he's not good at physical sports when the Duel Disk prototype is suggested. He's also a contrast to Bandit Keith, who takes up the role of the big, strong thug.

* {{Irony}}: When Pegasus also seals Kaiba's soul and looks at the two Soul Prison cards with Mokuba and Kaiba's souls in them, he mentions that the two brothers will never know the joy of restarting their relationship in this life. Then comes the end of Duelist Kingdom. where karma strikes back Pegasus - he fails to fulfill his dream of reuniting with Cyndia in his life. Upon learning about Pegasus' past, that particular quote becomes somewhat ironic, even.

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* AdaptationalHeroism: Due to the fact that he survives past the point where his manga counterpart died, Pegasus becomes a somewhat ally to Yugi and his friends in his later appearances in the anime.

* GratuitousEnglish: Nice idea ''deesu''!

* TooAwesomeToUse: Outside of the cards based on those used in the Egyptian Shadow Games, the expansions Pegasus and his development teams made to Duel Monsters occasionally fell into this. Some of these he keeps to himself (the Toons). Others that were either too powerful or simply unfinished were offered as tournament prizes to be won and owned, but never played.

* AuthorAvatar: Of a sort. Pegasus is the in-universe creator of Duel Monsters and shares many traits with series creator Creator/KazukiTakahashi, especially his fondness for card games, RPGs, and American comics and cartoons.

* TogetherInDeath: With Cyndia in the manga, according to WordOfGod.

'''''Repeat! ALL spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware major spoilers'''''

!!'''Pegasus J. Crawford ([[DubNameChange Maximillion J. Pegasus]]) (ペガサス・ジェイ・クロフォード; ''Pegasasu Jei Kurofōdo'')'''

!!'''Mr. Crocketts (Mr.クロケッツ; ''misutaa kurokettsu'') ([[DubNameChange Croquet]])'''

!!'''Saruwatari (猿渡; ''Saruwatari'') ([[DubNameChange Kemo]])'''

!!'''Ventriloquist of the Dead (死者(ししゃ)の腹話術師; ''Shisha no Fukuwajutsūshi'')'''

!!'''Player Killer of Darkness (「闇」のプレイヤーキラー; ''"Yami" no Pureiyā Kirā'') ([[DubNamechange Panik]])'''

!!'''The Meikyū Brothers (迷宮兄弟; ''Meikyū Kyōdai'') ([[DubNameChange The Paradox Brothers]])'''

* DungeonBypass: In Duelist Kingdom, most of their monsters are designed to bypass the maze they enforce upon their opponents. Examples include a WallMaster, a tunneling SandWorm, and a DrillTank.

--> Voiced by: Jirou Jay Takasugi (JP), Darren Dunstan (EN), Gabriel Gama (Latin American Spanish), Cholo Moratalla (European Spanish)

-> Mei/Para voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama (JP), Creator/SamRiegel (episode 19, EN), Jerry Lobozzo (episodes 20-21, EN), Creator/EricStuart (GX, EN), Jorge Palafox (Latin American Spanish), Francisco Javier García (European Spanish)
-> Kyu/Dox voiced by: Hitoshi Nishimura (JP), Marc Thompson (Yu-Gi-Oh, EN), Eric Stuart (GX, EN), Luis Alfonso Padilla (Latin American Spanish), Fernando de Luis (European Spanish)

* EyeScream: In the manga, when he receives the Millennium Eye (which is not an eye piece, but an entire replacement eyeball, he is heard screaming while we're shown a ShadowDiscretionShot, and it happens again when Bakura steals the Eye and kills him. The anime actually shows Shadi pushing the Eye into his socket, with visible blood afterwards, though Bakura tearing it out is offscreen.

* EyeScream: In the manga, when he receives the Millennium Eye, he is heard screaming while we're shown a ShadowDiscretionShot, and it happens again when Bakura steals the Eye and kills him. The anime actually shows Shadi pushing the Eye into his socket, with visible blood afterwards, though Bakura tearing it out is offscreen.

** However, it's Averted with regards to how they react to their defeats. Unlike Keith, who proved to be a SoreLoser after his defeat to Joey and tried to threaten Pegasus with a gun, Pegasus [[GracefulLoser accepts his defeat gracefully and honors his promises]]. It should be noted that Pegasus didn't take the drastic step of dumping Keith into the ocean until ''after'' Keith threatened him with a gun.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He's a cold and manipulative villain.

* {{Eagleland}}: Not as blatant a Flavor 2 as Bandit Keith, but he ''is'' a filthy-rich ManChild obsessed with cartoons, who spouts GratuitousEnglish at the drop of a hat. In addition, the manga enjoys playing up both his {{Greed}} and [[TheScrooge miserliness]]: Kaiba recalls how he turned his duel with Bandit Keith into a glorified commercial, and Duelist Kingdom is rife with CuttingCorners, from the utter lack of accommodations for the contestants[[note]]Half the reason Yugi's gang hooks up with Mai is because she's the only one mature enough to have brought sleeping bags and, y'know, ''food''[[/note]] to how the losers are expected to ''row'' back to the mainland by themselves. To top it all of, the Player Killer of Darkness (aka Panik) explains part of the Player Killers' jobs are to ensure Pegasus doesn't have to pay the tournament prize money to ''anyone''.

* SanitySlippage: After getting the Eye: constantly seeing Cyndia just out of reach, unable to touch her and knowing that she's just an illusion cannot have been good for his mental stability.

* TrapDoor: When Bandit Keith threatens his life in the anime, Pegasus presses a button with his foot that opens a trap door around the perimeter of his seat that sents Keith into the ocean.

* NoodleIncident: In the anime, Pegasus scolds him for a failure and threatens to "lock him away... again". When exactly this happened and why is unclear.

* FriendToAllChildren: During the National Tournament, before dueling against Keith, he explains how to play the card game to the kids there (though Kaiba points out in the manga that it was a move to create positive advertisement for the card game). In ''Yu-Gi-Oh R'', he adopted orphans from all around the world to tutor them as card designers.

* PsychopathicManchild: He loves his favorite comic book and his Toon monsters, but there's a broken man under the childish exterior.

* VillainousBreakdown: When Yugi and Dark Yugi manage to use their Mind Shuffle tactic to evade Pegasus' Mind Scan ability ''and'' destroy all his Toon Monsters. Pegasus immediately drops his silly persona and stops toying around, starting a high-level Shadow Game where he even manages to psychically wear out the regular Yugi, albeit temporarily.

* TrapDoor: When Bandit Keith threatens his life in the anime, Pegasus presses a button with his foot that opens a trap door around the perimiter of his seat that sents Keith into the ocean.