History Characters / YuGiOhKaibaCorporationAndDeathT

[[folder:Daimon/Hobson]]
!!'''Daimon (大門) ([[DubNameChange Hobson]])'''
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--> Voice by: Ryuji Saikachi (Toei series), Creator/JimmyZoppi (English), Alejandro Villeli (Latin American Spanish), Miguel Ayones (European Spanish)

Seto Kaiba's faithful butler, rarely leaving his side. He once worked as a torturer and learned to resist torture himself, before being employed by the Kaiba family. Using his skills of torture, he designed the Electric Chair Ride game of Kaiba's Death-T theme park. The ride was designed to make the participants scream, which they must resist doing to avoid being electrocuted with ten million volts.

In the Toei anime he was given the name Daimon, and was a more heroic character than in the manga. The Duel Monsters anime also named him Daimon, and the English dub named him Hobson.

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: His Electric Chair Ride of Death-T's horror section electrifies you to death if you scream.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the first series anime by Toei, he is portrayed as more sympathetic. Instead of being a master torturer, he's an elderly player of Duel Monsters. Being ill and perpetually on life support, Daimon experienced Seto Kaiba's kindness when Seto was young. He duels for Kaiba in the hopes of his good heart reemerging, and upon his loss, urged Yugi to restore Kaiba's kindness.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In Toei's anime he's not that bad of a guy.
* AntiVillain: In the first series anime, where he's only following Kaiba's evil orders in the hopes that he'll eventually become good again.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: In the Toei anime, he is decrepit with age and has had to replace many of his internal organs with artificial ones. He half-jokingly calls himself a zombie because of this.
* DubNameChange: The English dub changes his anime name from "Daimon" to "Hobson."
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: In the manga, he's just Kaiba's butler.
* HighVoltageDeath: His fate in the manga.
* ManInTheMachine: In the Toei anime, he's being sustained by life support and numerous devices, and he can't last very long outside his life support capsule.
* MoralityPet: In the Toei anime, he was the one person Kaiba cared for as a child, and he expresses hope that his kindness can be restored.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The Toei and second-series anime named him Daimon (Hobson in the English dub). He was unnamed in the manga.
* NobleDemon: In the Toei anime he's much more noble than other versions, where he's a WorthyOpponent to Yugi and a MoralityPet to Kaiba.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Of ancient Egypt's Gelbelk, keeper of the pharaoh's dungeons and also a master torturer.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the manga, Johji shits on his lap, which causes him to shout and get electrocuted. Played with in the Toei anime where it's mention he's already dead, but was revived through life support. In ''Duel Monsters'', he disappears after his first appearance, suffering no punishment for taking Sugoroku to Kaiba.
* TickleTorture: Literally, he sets up tickle machines in an attempt to get Yugi's crew laughing so they'll be ''electrocuted to death''.
* TortureTechnician: Doubles as this for Kaiba as well as being his butler.
* UncertainDoom: In the Toei anime Kaiba leaves him for dead after his loss, but it's never started whether he actually died.
* WorthyOpponent: In the Toei anime Yugi considers him one, as they share a respect for games and he refuses to cheat or use an unfair advantage like earlier opponents.
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[[folder:Laser Tag Assassins]]
!!'''Laser Tag Assassins'''
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The Laser Tag Assassins were three professional mercenaries hired by Kaiba. After being offered ¥10,000 each for killing Yugi and his friends in the Shooting Stardust game of Kaiba's Death-T amusement park, they were determined to get their job done and were equipped with guns that fired real lasers that can cause fatal electric shocks, whereas Yugi and his friends were given toy guns.

In the original manga, the team composed of '''Johnny Gale''', a former Green Beret commander, '''Bob Mcguire''', a former SWAT team leader and sniper, and '''Name unknown''', a hitman who succeeded in killing all of his opponents until he was hired by Kaiba Corp.

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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: To them, getting shot by the enemy is just another game of laser tag. To the enemy, it's an actual war ground because their laser guns are real.
* AdaptationNameChange: Johnny Gale, Bob Mcguire, and "Name unknown" are changed to Red, Black, and Blue in the Toei anime. Well, "Name unknown" doesn't get a name change, but rather...
* AdaptedOut: "Name unknown" is replaced by a woman named Blue in the Toei anime.
* CaptainErsatz: "Name unknown"...? That face looks familiar... A killer who never fails an assignment... Wait a minute... Holy crap, it's Manga/{{Golgo 13}}!
* BountyHunter: Their targets? Primarily Yugi, and also his friends.
* DubNameChange: The ''Dungeon Dice Monsters'' game names them Charlie Gale, Bickford Gage, and Snipes Crosshair, respectively.
* FixingTheGame: Yugi and his friends walked into Death-T Arena 1 thinking it was just a normal laser tag game, and it is for them as they're giving regular toy guns used for laser tag. However, Kaiba had rigged the game and the assassins obviously have the upper edge here because their guns are ''real'', which the characters luckily found out before anyone died.
* ForeignCussWord: In the Japanese manga, there was an instance where on of the assassins cursed in English.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Johnny Gale and Bob Mcguire were former soldiers/law enforcement officers.
* ProfessionalKiller: "Name unknown" was a professional hitman that had a perfect kill count until he was hired by Kaiba Corp, where our heroes obviously escaped death.
* RaceLift: Bob Mcguire is a white man in the manga, whereas the Toei anime turned him into a black man named "Black"
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[[folder:Chopman]]
!!'''Chopman''' (チョップマン)
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One summer during a camp near Domino Lake, Chopman murdered ten boy scouts who had been staying there in a single night. He chopped their bodies into unrecognizable pieces and the news of the murders had all of Domino City in fear. The suspect came to be known as "The Chopman", but was not captured and remained at large. Seto Kaiba later hired him for the Horror Stage of his Death-T theme park.

After a horrifying struggle, Jonouchi manages to kill the Chopman by burning him alive.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: His role in Death-T is basically ''VideoGame/ClockTower'' come to life.
* AdaptedOut: He doesn't appear in the first series anime because Death-T was heavily toned down by Toei Animation. Likewise, the first episode of the second series anime skips over Death-T's lower stages and goes right into Yugi's final Death-T battle with Kaiba, so he doesn't appear there either.
* AxCrazy: As long as he gets to kill people, he's satisfied.
* CaptainErsatz: Of Leatherface.
* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: How he dresses.
* {{Homage}}: To ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' and ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''.
* HulkSpeak: He speaks like this in the ''Destiny Board Traveler'' game.
* KillItWithFire: Jonouchi's solution for this psychopath.
* PsychoForHire: Kaiba somehow tracked down this crazed killer and got him to be a living attraction.
%%* SerialKiller
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: No one knows who his identity is - all they know is that he's the Chopman.
* [[WouldHurtAChild Would Kill a Child]]: Killed ten boy scouts and was all-the-more-willing to kill Johji, Honda's infant nephew.
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[[folder:Gozaburo Kaiba]]
!!'''Gozaburo Kaiba''' (海馬剛三郎)
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--> Voiced by: Creator/UnshoIshizuka (Toei anime), Tetsuo Komura (Duel Monsters), Creator/DavidWills (English), Armando Réndiz (Latin American Spanish), Víctor Valverde (European Spanish)

The former head of Kaiba Corporation and Seto Kaiba's adopted father. When Kaiba took over the company, Gozaburo either fled in shame, committed suicide or experienced a heart attack, depending on the adaptation. In the anime, he is the mastermind of the Virtual World arc and Noah's father.

He uses an Exodia deck, focusing on Exodia Necross.
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[[folder:The Big Five]]

!!Konosuke Oshita (大下 幸之助) (Gansley)

[[folder:Isono (Roland)]]
!!Isono (磯野) (Roland)
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A rule-posturing [=KaibaCorp=] employee who refereed the final duels during Battle City, Isono is also Seto Kaiba's personal bodyguard. He continued to work for [=KaibaCorp=] after the tournament, though in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheFalseboundKingdom'' he quit and found new work at SIC.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Had black hair in the manga, which was made dark teal in the anime.
* AnimeHair: Mild, but the dark parts of his hair are separated by lightning bolt-shaped stripes.
* AscendedExtra: He gets a bit more to do in season 4 of the anime, highlighting his genuine loyalty to Kaiba as well as showcasing his positive traits more.
* FaceHeelTurn: In ''The Falsebound Kingdom'' Isono quit [=KaibaCorp=] to work for Scott Irvine, and is complicit in trapping Yugi and Kaiba in the game.
* FriendToAllChildren: In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'' he's good with kids, organizing a Kaibaman show to give them hope and speaking kindly of Rebecca's skills.
* RulesLawyer: According to him, duelists ''cannot'' interact with one another during the match, even if they're in danger of dying. He was ready to just start a countdown after Joey collapsed in his duel with Marik, when even Mokuba realized that maybe he should check to see if Joey had been seriously injured first.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He often appears alongside Fuguta, another employee with similar hair.
* UndyingLoyalty: In the anime he remains steadfastly loyal to Kaiba even after Dartz takes over the company.

[[folder:Scott Irvine]]
!!Scott Irvine/Engineer A (技術者Ａ)
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A [=KaibaCorp=] technician who supervised the creation of the Duel Disk, Scott Irvine bore witness to Kaiba defeating his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with Obelisk the Tormentor. His story ends there in the manga and anime.

In the ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheFalseboundKingdom'' video game, Scott is the main villain of the game, trapping the characters in a virtual game world in a bid to summon [=DarkNite=]. He also cameos in ''Anime/YuGiOhTheMoviePyramidOfLight'' and ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarksideOfDimensions''.

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* ActuallyADoombot: At one point in Kaiba's campaign, he and Yami Yugi team up to defeat Scott, only for the real Scott to reveal that they'd defeated a remotely-controlled robot stand-in.
* AdaptationDyeJob: He had grey hair in the manga and anime, black hair in ''Pyramid of Light'', and ''The Falsebound Kingdom'' gives him brown-grey hair.
* AscendedExtra: From a random technician to the main villain of ''Falsebound Kingdom''.
* BeardOfEvil: In ''The Falsebound Kingdom'' his beard is more unkempt compared to his other versions.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: He inflicts this on Joey, Tea, and Bakura via mind control.
* TheCameo: He makes minor appearances in the manga, the second series anime, ''Pyramid of Light'', and ''Darkside of Dimensions''.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Scott was a background extra from the manga and anime before appearing in the game. It's really highlighted in Yugi's campaign, since they have no idea who he is.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: He gets these when erasing Haysheen from the game and brainwashing the players.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He went mad from seeing Yugi, Kaiba and Marik wield the Egyptian God Cards and became obsessed with controlling their power.
* InsufferableGenius: He talks down to Yugi and his friends frequently, calling them a feeble-minded bunch who wouldn't understand his schemes. When Yami Yugi ''does'' figure it out, he's only mildly impressed.
* MadScientist: He built a huge video game simulation to trap the players' souls and summon a wicked spirit.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: ''The Falsebound Kingdom'' was the first media to name him. He went unnamed in the manga, ''DSOD'' gave him the last name Kuwabara after [[{{Tuckerization}} one of the movie's staff]], and the anime designated him Engineer A.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Though [=DarkNite=] implies he's dead, Scott's body is never found and he vanishes without a trace.
* SanitySlippage: While he's already unhinged by the start of the game, by the end he's gone mad to the degree that ''[=DarkNite=]'' calls him more than a little crazy.
* SmugSnake: One of his defining traits in the game is his supreme arrogance. His mugshot's only expression is of him sneering.
* StartMyOwn: He forms SIC after leaving [=KaibaCorp=], hiring Roland/Isono to work for him as well.
* WouldHurtAChild: Threatens to kill Mokuba if Seto won't do as he says, and he set the game up to sacrifice everyone in it to [=DarkNite=].
* YesMan: In the manga and anime he followed Kaiba's orders to the letter, inserting Kaiba's deck into the duel computer at maximum level despite the damage Solid Vision could cause.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Pulls this on the villain of the virtual game, Emperor Haysheen, to take over his army and his role.
* YourSoulIsMine: He steals Mokuba's soul to coerce Kaiba into fighting Yugi, then adds that he'll ''kill'' Mokuba if Kaiba doesn't comply.

--> Voice by: Ryuji Saikachi (Toei series), Creator/TedLewis (English), Alejandro Villeli (Latin American Spanish), Miguel Ayones (European Spanish)

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The Kaiba Corp board of directors, consisting of Oshita ([[DubNameChange Gansley]]), Otaki ([[DubNameChange Crump]]), Ooka ([[DubNameChange Johnson]]), Ota ([[DubNameChange Nezbitt]]) and Daimon ([[DubNameChange Lector]]). Played a part in Seto Kaiba's takeover of the company when Gozaburo ran things, but once Seto Kaiba took over he stripped them of their power and left them as figureheads. They've since tried various schemes to take the company for themselves, such as when Yugi Mutou beat Kaiba in his Death-T final game, which left him in a coma and without his title of best gamer. Thus, they attempted to work with Pegasus to take control of the company.

** Lector regularly addresses people as "mister".

** Daimon/Lector considers himself superior to Kaiba and loses when Kaiba pulls out a monster with a higher level than his.

-> Voiced by: Nobuyuki Saito (JP, Legendary Heroes), Creator/EricStuart (EN, Legendary Heroes); Shintaro Sonooka (JP, Virtual World), Creator/MarcThompson (EN, Virtual World), Carlos Kaniowski (European Spanish)

* AuthorityInNameOnly: While he's the official leader of the Big Five being its eldest member, he's still inferior to Lector, both in his superior position as the assistant to the company and in terms of dueling skills with Lector being the most skilled out of the Five.

-> Voiced by: Satoshi Tsuruoka (JP, Legendary Heroes); Ryosuke Otani (JP, Virtual World); Robert O'Gorman (EN), Antonio Villar (European Spanish)

-> Voiced by: Shin'ichi Yashiro (Japanese);, Creator/WayneGrayson (EN, Legendary Heroes); Andrew Paul (EN, Virtual World), Cholo Moratalla (European Spanish)

* LargeAndInCharge: Played straight when it comes to his monsters, being larger and more imposing in terms of attack power based on his Deck Master. Subverted overall, in spite of being having the largest monster as a Deck Master with only Lector's Jinzo being taller, he's arguably the least skilled Duelist of the Five due to resorting to cheating to gain an advantage.

* HotBlooded: Not immediately obvious due to his guise as Robotic Knight and later Perfect Machine King give him the impression of a cold machine. When he's in the tag duel with the other Five, he makes reckless decisions based on impulse, leading to a massive hiccup that forces Lector to be in control for the rest of the duel to regain their lead.

* UnskilledButStrong: He comes across as intimidating during his duel with Duke, Tristan and Serenity, managing to score the only (partial) victory of the Big Five. However, when closely examined, he only came across as threatening as he did due to Duke being the only one with credible experience--though not as skilled as Yami Yugi or Seto--in the game: Serenity is a newcomer, and Tristan, in addition to being recklessly distracted trying to protect Serenity, is not experienced at playing the game as he's usually on the sidelines. Bombarding them with beatsticks like Machine King, his Deck Master's ability, and later, Perfect Machine King is enough to overwhelm the novices. To seasoned players like Joey and Yugi, his blunt force tactics are easily put down and it takes Lector to get back the momentum due to his recklessness.

!!Kogoro Daimon (大門小五郎) (Lector)

-> Voiced by: Creator/EijiTakemoto (JP, Legendary Heroes); Hisashi Izumi (JP, Virtual World), Tom Souhrada (English), Jesús Rodríguez (European Spanish)

* TheDragon: Out of the Big Five, he's the closest of the members to being one for Noah. He's the only member Noah seems to not have total contempt for and even respects. The fact he was selected to duel against Kaiba, who Noah was obssessed with defeating, is an indication of the confidence he had in Lector's skills.

* DrivenByEnvy: All of the five are envious of Kaiba, but Daimon/Lector is the worst, as he feels he and not Seto, should have been given control of [=KaibaCorp=] due to Kaiba taking his title as heir to president.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: While his Canonical manga-continuity characterization is more of JerkWithAHeartOfGold, the second anime removes completely removes both his initial villainy and his post-FaceHeelTurn HiddenHeartOfGold moments, making him an outright NiceGuy.

* KnightOfCerebus: Mokuba's first appearance in the manga caused the story to become darker and more arc-based. It's extremely jarring to people who have only seen the second anime, where he's slightly arrogant at worst and is usually a sweet kid.

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Inverted in the Toei anime, where he is decrepit with age and has had to replace many of his internal organs with artificial ones. He half-jokingly calls himself a zombie because of this.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the manga, Johji shits on his lap, which causes him to should and get eletrocuted. Played with in the Toei anime where it's mention he's already dead, but was revived through life support. In ''Duel Monsters'', he disappears after his first appearance, suffering no punishment for taking Sugoroku to Kaiba.