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| 5 | !Season 1 |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[folder:Pegasus]] |
| 8 | !!Maximillion Pegasus |
| 9 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0000qhs6_8629.jpg]] |
| 10 | -->''"Ooooo, I'm so ambiguously camp!"'' |
| 11 | |
| 12 | CEO and founder of Industrial Illusions and creator of the children's card game Duel Monsters. When his wife-to-be inexplicably exploded at the altar, he went to Egypt and received the Millennium Eye from Shadi. He hides his sorrows and true intentions behind a gay facade. And we mean that literally. He used the first tournament to gather souls to bring back Cecelia, but lost to Yugi. After releasing the people he turned into trading cards he was killed by Yami Bakura... temporarily. Surgery has made broad advances, and Pegasus is back and more fabulous than ever before. |
| 13 | ---- |
| 14 | * AffablyEvil: He's just as silly, camp, and funny as in the canon, but is still a villain. |
| 15 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Flirts with every man on the show and is extremely effeminate, but had a loving marriage to his wife Cecilia and doesn't trigger the Millennium Gaydar. This is entirely deliberate on his part: the one time people discovered he actually was straight, he tried to kill them to ensure nobody would know. Given his behavior towards Kaiba in TheMovie (making obvious sexual passes and then feigning obliviousness), he seems to do it to {{Troll}} people ForTheLulz. Little Kuriboh confirmed he's only pretending to be gay, but you wouldn't tell from the way he's been acting. |
| 16 | * AntiVillain: Mocked; upon learning he was doing all he did to bring his dead wife back to life, Téa said it made up for all the horrible things he did. Yugi immediately notes it doesn't work that way. |
| 17 | * ArmouredClosetGay: Inverted. One episode has him attempting to kill Tristan, Téa, and Bakura so they can't tell anyone that his DarkSecret is that he is actually ''straight''. |
| 18 | * BigBad: Season 1's main baddie. |
| 19 | * TheCameo: In ''Bonds Beyond Time Abridged'' for a DeathByCameo. {{Lampshaded}}. |
| 20 | -->'''Pegasus:''' (''singing'') "I'm making a cameo in this movie~ I'm much more fabulous in 3D~" |
| 21 | * CampStraight: Repeatedly lampshaded. Kaiba for instance offers this insight: |
| 22 | -->"Pegasus is ruthless. Camp, yet ruthless." |
| 23 | * CasualDangerDialogue: In the Abridged movie after being told that they're about fly into a massive storm, he calmly suggests simply turning around. When he's told that the pilot only knows how to fly forward, he just tells him to turn the radio up. |
| 24 | * CatchPhrase: |
| 25 | ** Mentions many things as being "fabulous" (or ''un''fabulous). |
| 26 | ** When something grabs his attention, he usually starts his sentences with a high-pitched, long "hooo!" sound. |
| 27 | * ComedicLolicon: The implication that Pegasus may be attracted to children is repeatedly PlayedForLaughs. |
| 28 | -->"Well, hello little girl, would you like to see my Funny Bunny?" |
| 29 | * ComplexityAddiction: As Yami points out in episode 18: |
| 30 | -->'''Pegasus:''' Excellent. Soon, my evil plan to steal an object from a small child will be complete!.\ |
| 31 | '''Yami:''' You mean you arranged this whole tournament just to steal my Millennium Puzzle?\ |
| 32 | '''Pegasus:''' Exactly.\ |
| 33 | '''Yami:''' [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot Did you even consider just asking me for it?]] I mean, do you have ''any'' idea how much time and money you've wasted with this whole facade? PEOPLE HAVE DIED BECAUSE YOU WANTED A NECKLACE! '''I KILLED A GAY CLOWN, FOR RA'S SAKE!'''\ |
| 34 | '''Pegasus:''' Look, are you going to play a children's card game with me or not?\ |
| 35 | '''Yami:''' I suppose I might as well. |
| 36 | * DisneyDeath: In ''Bonds Beyond Time Abridged'', he's crushed by a building, but it gets undone by the CosmicRetcon the heroes bring about dueling Paradox. |
| 37 | * EyeScream: PlayedForLaughs when Yami Bakura tries to extract his Millennium Eye. |
| 38 | -->"That's the wrong eyeball, you fool!" |
| 39 | * FanBoy: Of the Music/SpiceGirls. He also seems to like Music/{{ABBA}}. |
| 40 | * {{Guyliner}}: According with the second ''Marik's Evil Council'', he wears make-up and takes his time to apply it in order to be "sufficiently glamourous". |
| 41 | * HarmlessVillain: Yeah, no one takes him seriously except Kaiba. Yami notes how silly it is basing an evil plan involving corporate espionage and ancient magic around a children's card game. As Episode 35's clip show has Pegasus himself claim: |
| 42 | -->"If I weren't so very camp, I'd probably make a credible villain!" |
| 43 | * LastNameBasis: Except for his guards, who address him as Mr. Pegasus. |
| 44 | * TheLostLenore: His [[InconsistentDub wife/fiancee]], Cecelia. |
| 45 | * {{Necromantic}}: Like in the original his goal is to bring his dead wife back to life. This gets taken to its logical extreme in ''Evil Council 4''. With the help of Rebecca's satanic teddy bear, Cecelia is brought back to life...[[CameBackWrong as a zombie]]. |
| 46 | * PutOnABus: For the main series as he doesn't appear again until season 4; he's made appearances in specials and ''Bonds Beyond Time'' though. |
| 47 | * RetiredMonster: Post-Duelist Kingdom, he quits being a villain. |
| 48 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Though he's nowhere near the level of Kaiba, Yugi claims that he couldn't just instead call the police when Pegasus stole Grandpa's soul because rich megalomaniacs such as himself are immune from the law. |
| 49 | * ShipperOnDeck: He ships Bakura and Marik because it's ''obvious'' they have a thing. In ''Marik's Evil Council'' 5, after hearing Marik and Bakura arguing over a new and ridiculous plan, Pegasus said that they are ''so gay'' for each other. [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday Marik]] and [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend Bakura]] were not amused. |
| 50 | * SissyVillain: And you thought the ''original'' was eccentric enough. |
| 51 | --> Wohoohoohoo. If I weren't so very camp I'd probably make a credible villain. |
| 52 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "Welcome to the Duelist Kingdom. Let me assure you that this tournament is 100% genuine and is (''spoken extremely quickly'') not in any way an elaborate ruse thrown together at the last minute so that I can get my hands on an Ancient Egyptian artifact." |
| 53 | * {{Troll}}: According to Little Kuriboh himself, his coming onto Kaiba is entirely to creep him out ForTheLulz. |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[folder:Yami Bakura / Florence]] |
| 57 | !!Yami Bakura / Florence / The Spirit of the Millennium Ring |
| 58 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/YamiBakura_3884.jpg]] |
| 59 | -->''"I'm not British. I'm just gay."'' |
| 60 | |
| 61 | The spirit within the Millennium Ring. Yami Bakura, whose name is actually [[GenderBlenderName Florence]], is the definition of evil: [[FauxAffablyEvil sadistic, sarcastic,]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and trying to steal Yami's screentime]]. It is because of this, however, that he has a legion of fangirls at his beck and call. After Dueling Kingdom he lay dormant until Marik's arrival, where he struck a deal to assist him in his cause, since they shared similar agendas. After Melvin assumed direct control of Marik's body, he [[EvenEvilHasStandards outed him as a spy for 4Kids]] and challenged him. He lost and died, but after Marik regained control, it seems Florence is back, albeit he will be swept aside to make way for Dartz and his Evil Motorcycle Riding Henchmen. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | He's a prominent BreakoutCharacter of the series with Marik and the two star in several side projects including fanfiction and the Evil Council videos. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | ---- |
| 66 | * AdaptationNameChange: A strange case; the Abridged series changes his name to Florence but the other characters continue to refer to him as Bakura, just like his host. Given how much he hates his real name, Florence is probably adopting a new name to get away from the one his parents gave him. |
| 67 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: The real Spirit of the Millennium Ring is a vile and ruthless villain who fully intends on bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. This version of him, while still evil, is a lot less cold and more willing to get along or converse with others, even Yugi's friends and family. What's more, Florence's reason for fighting Yami Marik/Melvin was to prevent him from canceling the show, while Yami Bakura only dueled him because he didn't want any competition to rule the world. |
| 68 | * AdaptationalSexuality: In the Abridged Series, Florence flat-out says he's gay. In the original, he was AmbiguouslyGay at best, considering his interactions with Marik, but there was nothing beyond that to hint an exact orientation. |
| 69 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Ironically, this version has a more petty reason to be evil. Yami Bakura had to watch his whole village get raided and dumped into molten gold as a child, and then have his memories and personality absorbed by Zorc Necrophades, while Florence decided to be evil simply because his parents try to force him to be more like a girl. What's more, Zorc is a separate character from Bakura in this continuity, meaning Florence was doing everything in his own free will instead of being influenced by him. |
| 70 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Gets his very own episode in episode 37, "Bakuhazard." He even does the PreviouslyOn narration and gets his own intro and theme music for ''The Bakura Show''! |
| 71 | * AffablyEvil: He interestingly switches between this and FauxAffablyEvil. On one hand, he can be polite and civil with other characters, even his own enemies. On the other hand, any bouts of humor he makes right before or after doing something abhorrent is usually just him getting sadistic glee from the matter. |
| 72 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: He seems to harbor strong feelings of lust or possibly love towards Marik, but Marik is either completely oblivious or just interested in Bakura as an accomplice. |
| 73 | * AntiVillain: He's a psychotic mass murderer, but even he is creeped out by Marik and Melvin. He also fights Melvin to stop him from destroying the show, nudging his way to NominalHero for an episode. |
| 74 | * AxCrazy: He likes knives; they make him feel all tingly. He also likes saying the word "Die". |
| 75 | * BlackComedyRape: According to Episode 16, he has a habit of taking over his host's body in the middle of the night and molesting anyone nearby. |
| 76 | * BritsLoveTea: "I'm going to go do British things, like drink cups of tea and eat bangers and mash, that sort of thing... Because I'm British." |
| 77 | * ByronicHero: In the latter part of season 2 where he goes up against Melvin. (In the end, he's the only one with enough insight to realize what [[BreakingTheFourthWall Melvin's endgame was]].) |
| 78 | * CatchPhrase: |
| 79 | ** "Oh, bugger (me)." |
| 80 | ** The word "bloody" also comes out of his mouth a lot. |
| 81 | * TheChewToy: Nothing goes right for him in episode 83. |
| 82 | * ClosetKey: All signs indicate that he's destined to become Marik's. [[spoiler:If you consider WebVideo/MarikPlaysBloodlines to be canon, then it's already been confirmed]]. |
| 83 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: To Marik. |
| 84 | %%* ClusterFBomb: In Episode 46. |
| 85 | * TheComicallySerious: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuFW9rn4Bo Yep.]] |
| 86 | * CrazyConsumption: The one time he's shown eating on screen, he tears apart a steak like a rabid animal. Apparently, this is a normal thing for him; a later episode has Marik [[TalkingInYourSleep Talking In His Sleep]] during what is apparently a dream about Bakura eating spaghetti with his mouth open and getting it all over the place. |
| 87 | * DeadpanSnarker: Along with Yami and Kaiba, 90% of the sarcastic quips come from him. |
| 88 | * DoggedNiceGuy: Type 2. He neither advertises nor conceals his feelings for Marik, and seems mostly content to remain [[VitriolicBestBuds Vitriolic]] HeterosexualLifePartners. |
| 89 | * TheDragon: |
| 90 | ** To Marik in Season 2. Even when Melvin usurps the role as the BigBad, he still prefers working with his better half. |
| 91 | ** He even qualifies for DragonInChief, if the Evil Council's complete dissolution in his absence is anything to go by. |
| 92 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: His host is a young boy with a delicate appearance. Not that he's complaining. |
| 93 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: His parents named him Florence, which he is deeply ashamed of. |
| 94 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 95 | ** He has [[VisionaryVillain evil aspirations]] but there are some things he won't do, for example catering to 4kids and cancelling the show. |
| 96 | ** He's also terrified of Melvin. |
| 97 | ** Also, {{Cosplay}}ing. |
| 98 | -->'''Bakura:''' Marik, this hotel is the host of the local anime convention, Youmakon.\ |
| 99 | '''Marik:''' Precisely! It's perfect! We're hiding in plain sight! Everyone will just assume we're cosplayers!\ |
| 100 | '''Baruka:''' Oh come on, we're not that evil. |
| 101 | * EvilBrit: Subverted; he's not British, he's just gay. |
| 102 | * EvilerThanThou: In the second "Counseling Evil" video, he [[spoiler:sends Dartz to the Shadow Realm and tries to take over Dartz's council]], though he only succeeds in the first part. |
| 103 | * EvilVersusOblivion: In "Melvin'd", he duels Melvin to stop him from cancelling the series, as he had yet to receive the screentime he was promised in his contract. |
| 104 | * ExperimentedInCollege: According to him in Concrete Giraffes, he and Slender Man "used to get drunk and pick up ''chicks''" while roommates in college. If he was experimenting with heterosexuality or bisexuality is up to the WildMassGuessing. |
| 105 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: He and Marik sing a modified version of "Stand By Me" as Melvin vaporizes them and cancels their show. |
| 106 | * FoeRomanceSubtext: With Melvin. Despite being terrified of him, Bakura still has Freudian dreams about hooking up with him. |
| 107 | * FreudianExcuse: The reason for him being evil is rather flimsy (though he was asked about it on the spot by Tristan): |
| 108 | -->"Well, I suppose my parents never loved me enough. They were always dressing me like a girl. Did you know they wanted to call me ''Florence''? Who names a boy Florence?! Idiots, that's who!" |
| 109 | * {{GIRL}}: Implied in Neko Porno charity video and then confirmed later in LK's spinoff fic, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7417268/1/Midknight_At_The_Oasis Midknight At The Oasis]], that he trolls people regularly and tricks them into ridiculous cybersex situations. According to Marik he's… very descriptive. |
| 110 | * HijackedByGanon: Attempts to usurp the role of BigBad from Melvin with the help of Marik. Not only does it backfire, it results in the show's cancellation by 4Kids. |
| 111 | * HypercompetentSidekick: To Marik in the ''Evil Council'' videos. He's so much more competent that everybody likes and respects him better than Marik. [[spoiler:Until he decided to defect and joined Dartz's evil council.]] And even after that, he's still liked better than Marik. |
| 112 | * IHaveManyNames: Bakura, Spirit of the [Millennium] Ring, Yami Bakura, Florence. This was inevitably lampshaded in episode 40. |
| 113 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: His given reason for wanting to find gay people is that he's secretly very lonely. For what it's worth, he ''did'' somewhat get his wish upon meeting Marik, seeing as Marik is the only person he really tolerates enough to hang out with and it's been implied again and again that Florence has feelings for him. |
| 114 | * {{Irony}}: Twofold. His parents always tried to raise him as a girl (even giving him a girly name), but Bakura is possibly the least flamboyant character in the series, and unlike Pegasus and Marik, lacks many traits belonging to a SissyVillain. Also, he's the only character who is genuinely open about his sexuality, but doesn't possess any of the stereotypes that go with it. |
| 115 | * KickTheDog: According to his theme song, "he's so evil, he once killed a puppy. It was cute." |
| 116 | * KnightOfCerebus: Played with. While he's just as comical as the other villains, it's usually because he's playing a snarky straight man, not because he's incompetent, stupid or AmbiguouslyGay like the rest. In the Evil Council videos he's also the only one with a genuine interest in killing Yugi, and becomes increasingly frustrated with Marik's FelonyMisdemeanor plans and the fact the council spends more time arguing with each other than actually trying to defeat Yugi. |
| 117 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: ''[[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos The Slender Man]]'' was his college roommate. For some reason, he can't remember most of it. |
| 118 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Ave Satani |
| 119 | * MrFanservice: Like Marik, he knows it. |
| 120 | * OddFriendship: With Marik. Although "friendship" may not be the [[VillainTeamUp best]] [[WithFriendsLikeThese descriptive]] term. |
| 121 | * OneSteveLimit: Played with. In Season 2, he notes he and his host are both called Bakura, as in the canon, but Yami says that's both confusing and unlikely. Then in some other videos he's called Florence. Much like Yami[=/=]The Pharaoh, it swings between the two. |
| 122 | * OnlySaneMan: One of the saner characters in the series, which gets played up during the ''Evil Council'' videos. |
| 123 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: Played for laughs in Season 5, where he ''wants'' to finally get to his final confrontation with Yugi and the Pharoah but unfortunately, he's been sidelined (with only the former narrator of the now-cancelled WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged for company) waiting for Yugi to show up because Season 5 is a ''filler arc'' and Yugi and his friends are busy with something completely unrelated. At a ''theme park'', no less. Florence is exasperated to no end by this. |
| 124 | * PetTheDog: |
| 125 | ** A fair amount of his scenes with Marik qualify, Marik bordering on being his MoralityPet. |
| 126 | ** His last words when Melvin destroys him at the end of season 2 are "Tell my fangirls I love them". |
| 127 | * RedOniBlueOni: The calm and sarcastic blue to Marik's hammy and silly red. |
| 128 | * RidiculousProcrastinator: He mentions in WebVideo/MarikPlaysBloodlines that his fans incorrectly assume that his EvilPlan took five seasons because it was just ''that'' well thought out. He's actually "just very slow". |
| 129 | * SarcasticDevotee: Towards Marik, who he aids but mocks constantly. |
| 130 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In ''Marik's Evil Council'' 5 [[spoiler:he finally decided to leave Marik's council in favor of Dartz's. Dartz is willing to pay him ''actual money'' and let him do at least one evil deed per month.]] |
| 131 | * ScrewYourself: ''Zorc & Pals'' shows him in a relationship with Zorc, his past incarnation. |
| 132 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: He and Marik join forces to get more screen time than Yugi and Yami. They kind of succeeded in this, at least outside the main series. Most of the spin-offs like Marik's LP of ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' and several of LK's fanfics as well as the "Leather Pants" music video focus on Marik and Florence, who are also arguably the most popular characters with the fans. |
| 133 | * TheStarscream: Though he ditches Marik's evil council to join Dartz's, the latter ends up pissing him off with the same idiocy and he ends up [[spoiler:banishing Dartz to the Shadow Realm]]. Then he tries to seize control of the council, but the motorcycle-riding henchmen don't take him seriously and instead appoint Zombie Boy as their new leader. |
| 134 | * StraightGay: To contrast Marik's ArmoredClosetGay, Bakura isn't nearly as effeminate or flamboyant, but is quite open about his sexuality when it comes up. |
| 135 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Invoked in the Evil Council vids. He's pretty much the only person there who takes the meetings seriously. |
| 136 | * TalkToTheFist: He shoots Zombie Boy mid-rant with an [[ContinuityNod Invisible Gun]]. |
| 137 | --> "It's the only way to kill an overacting zombie!" |
| 138 | * {{Tsundere}}: Towards Marik, both in spin-off fanfics and their Let's Plays. His sexual attraction towards Marik is extremely intense, but he hates his personality as a BrainlessBeauty. The result is Bakura regularly insulting or snarking at Marik while also flirting or making sexual innuendos. |
| 139 | * WeaksauceWeakness: It's never come up in the actual show, but in [[http://www.mediafire.com/listen/pxra2rm587in4a8/phantomkim.mp3 one of the many audio clips]] that can be found floating on [=LittleKuriboh=]'s Tumblr, Marik claims that Bakura is allergic to marshmallows. |
| 140 | * WhoNamesTheirKidDude: His parents named him Florence. He's not happy about it. |
| 141 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: According to Marik in his LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', Bakura is immortal and thinks it's rather overrated. |
| 142 | * YankTheDogsChain: In the Evil Council 4, Melvin (and by extension, Marik) declared him his boyfriend, Zork & Pals gained another season and his name is declared the manliest name ever… [[spoiler:it all went down in flames when it turns out it was AllJustADream.]] |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | !Season 2 |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Marik]] |
| 148 | !!Marik Sebastian Ishtar III |
| 149 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marik_1774.jpg]] |
| 150 | -->''"I don't want to kill you, I just want to destroy you a little!"'' |
| 151 | |
| 152 | Marik is the successor to the tomb keepers of the Pharaoh and the leader of the Rare Hunters. Like Yami Bakura, he wants to take the Pharaoh's screentime, and so he sends his minions into the Battle City tournament to destroy Yugi a little (not kill, destroy). He possesses the Millennium Rod, which allows the user to brainwash anyone with "Steve" or any variation thereof in their name. When he was young, Marik yearned for a life better than one spent underground, and the trauma of living with an abusive father and undergoing ritualistic scarring created an alternate personality/imaginary friend, "Melvin." The Melvin personality was sealed away for some time but at the end of Season 2, he emerged and banished Marik from his mind. However, he reclaimed his body and reformed at the end of Season 3. |
| 153 | |
| 154 | A BreakoutCharacter of the series with Bakura, Marik is featured in numerous side-videos, most notably the Evil Council videos, where he annually (or did; the videos have seemingly been discontinued by Little Kuriboh) called together other villains to scheme against Yugi. None of them ever got anything does. He even has his own LetsPlay, ''WebVideo/MarikPlaysBloodlines'', where he plays ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. |
| 155 | ---- |
| 156 | * AdaptationalDumbass: His stupidity might be second only to Tristan. Something that even gets on Yami Bakura's nerves. |
| 157 | -->'''Marik:''' Maybe we should hug him, Bakura. I mean, he seems like an okay guy. |
| 158 | -->'''Bakura:''' Marik, that's your ''evil alter ego.'' He killed your father and made your life a living hell, remember? |
| 159 | -->'''Melvin:''' Huuuug? |
| 160 | -->'''Marik:''' [[TooDumbToLive I still think you should hug him.]] |
| 161 | * AdaptationalHeroism: He's not as bad a person as his original counterpart used to be even before his HeelFaceTurn. Anime Marik was a physically[[labelnote:*]]He slapped Odion in the face in the Japanese dub[[/labelnote]] and psychologically abusive BadBoss who either wants to inflict world domination over his hatred for the pharaoh (English dub) or is blinded by rage and willing to go to extreme lengths to fulfill his misguided lust for revenge (original Japanese). This Marik, while having the same motivations, is only evil to the point of pushing someone off a boat (which by Yu-Gi-Oh! standards is a mere slap to the wrist), and he at least allows Steve Umbra and Luna/Lumis (who have failed him in both continuities) to join his Evil Council Of Doom, whereas the real Marik allowed them to die for their failures. |
| 162 | * AdaptationalWimp: He is nowhere near as competent or evil as he was in the original series. |
| 163 | * ArchEnemy: He claims it's the Pharaoh but in the spin-offs, it's [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]]. |
| 164 | * ArmoredClosetGay: He insists he is 100% straight and gets angry whenever someone presumes he's gay, but ''everyone'' knows the truth that he's just in denial over. [[spoiler:In the mentioned Let's Play, he has a freakout and admits he loves Yami Bakura, writes fanfics about them, and has fanart of them on his computer... which he then denies once the scares stop and he calms down.]] |
| 165 | -->"Oh, what, just because a man likes to dress effeminately, and hang out with another extremely attractive man, and read yaoi, and flaunt his gorgeous abs, and stroke a phallic symbol suggestively in every other scene, that automatically makes him gay?!" |
| 166 | * BadBoss: He constantly invokes YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on minions. Hell, he even treats his stepbrother Odion like crap. |
| 167 | * BigBad: Of Season 2, until episode 42 when Melvin broke out. |
| 168 | * BigBadWannabe: Not only are most of his "eeeeeeeevil plans" pretty [[PokeThePoodle tame]], they also almost never work and he seems harmless against the likes of the other villains. He's blissfully unaware of this fact, of course. |
| 169 | * BilingualBonus: His pseudonym, Malik, is Arabic for "King". |
| 170 | * BrainlessBeauty: Bakura certainly seems to think so. |
| 171 | -->'''Bakura:''' You know, it's a good thing you're pretty. Otherwise, I'd have to suffocate you. |
| 172 | -->'''Marik:''' IGNORE ME! |
| 173 | -->'''Bakura:''' Sometimes I wish I ''could''... |
| 174 | * BullyingADragon: He has no problems with shouting or insulting members of his Council of Doom, including Zorc, the GodOfEvil. |
| 175 | * CampGay: [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday If Marik really is gay]], he is this. |
| 176 | * CardCarryingVillain: He's pretty bad at ''not'' making his evilness apparent to everyone around him ([[FailedASpotCheck though the main characters are completely oblivious to it]]). |
| 177 | * CatchPhrase: He even combines them on occasion. |
| 178 | ** "Silence!" |
| 179 | ** "[[YouFool Foolish fools!]]" |
| 180 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: |
| 181 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj6F_piB_HE Oh, yes.]] |
| 182 | ** His "evil plans" involve rearranging Yugi's sock drawer and trolling his Youtube account by spamming the comment section on his channel, and accents them with lines roughly following "Yugi will be so [insert negative mood or the word "ruined"] that he'll ''have'' to give us his puzzle!" |
| 183 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In order to become a tombkeeper, Marik had his back carved with a knife... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and was forced to watch]] ''Film/BeverlyHillsChihuahua''. |
| 184 | * TheDitz: He's rather dim. |
| 185 | -->'''Melvin:''' Say hello to the Shadow Realm, Marik! \ |
| 186 | '''Marik:''' *''cheerfully''* Hello, Shadow Realm! \ |
| 187 | '''Melvin:''' [[DeadpanSnarker How did I even spawn from your mind]]? |
| 188 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: In the canon, Dark Marik is the embodiment of the normal Marik's hatred and rage taken to the extreme of total world destruction. Here, Marik and Melvin are characterized so differently they barely resemble each other. |
| 189 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His sexual subtext with Yami Bakura is made fun of this way. |
| 190 | ** Marik's phrases after discovering [[spoiler:Bakura is leaving for Dartz's council and that he was meeting with him for weeks]] sound more like a breakup for cheating. |
| 191 | ** Another jewel: |
| 192 | -->'''Marik:''' Remember [Bakura] when we all got together in the desert to play baseball? [[DoubleEntendre I was the pitcher, you were the catcher...]] \ |
| 193 | '''Pegasus:''' [[LampshadeHanging I'm not even going to comment on that one]]. |
| 194 | * DoubleEntendre: |
| 195 | ** Many regarding his Millennium Item's identity. [=LittleKuriboh=] milks the "rod" jokes all he can -- Marik's real-life [=YouTube=] account is named "[=ObeyMyRod=]" for example. |
| 196 | ** ''WebVideo/MarikPlaysBloodlines'' has even more, which are usually lampshaded by Bakura laughing while Marik is unaware of what he's said. |
| 197 | -->"Geez, I can't believe on my first day as a vampire I sucked off a hobo." |
| 198 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: Make-up and all. |
| 199 | --> '''Yami:''' Why wouldn't I hate women? I mean, they hate me. That Marik chick is always saying how much she despises me. \ |
| 200 | '''Joey:''' Guh, Yug, I don't know how to tell you this, but...Marik's a guy. \ |
| 201 | '''Yami:''' What!? That's crazy! But look at the way she dresses! |
| 202 | * EffeminateMisogynisticGuy: Marik loudly proclaims himself the most effeminate guy around, and generally disdains women and believes that Yu-Gi-Oh ''has'' no women. |
| 203 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: He and Florence sing a modified version of "Stand By Me" as Melvin vaporizes them and cancels their show. |
| 204 | * FreudianSlip: Has one in the Season 3 finale, though he immediately backpedals on it. |
| 205 | --> '''Yami''': (talking about Marik's back) It's a pretty sweet tattoo! \ |
| 206 | '''Marik''': I know right, all the dudes love it. \ |
| 207 | '''Yami''': What was that? \ |
| 208 | '''Marik''': [[HaveIMentionedThatIAmHeterosexualToday All the ladies love it.]] |
| 209 | * GagPenis: If the Pharoah's reaction to it is any indication. |
| 210 | --> '''Yami''': Oh my god, a giant cock! |
| 211 | * GenericDoomsdayVillain: Initially downplayed; Marik definitely had a personality when first introduced but he had no real reason for wanting to defeat the Pharaoh and take over the world other than for the simple fact that he was evil. Subverted later on when he's actually given a backstory and motivation behind his deeds (albeit a vague one). |
| 212 | * HarmlessVillain: Played straight or subverted depending on whether he's carrying the IdiotBall. Generally, he's the most ineffective villain around, no matter what he does, but he did kill a man in cold blood, so it's best not to drop your guard entirely. |
| 213 | * HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: "I AM ONE-HUNDRED-PERCENT STRAIGHT!" |
| 214 | * HesBack: Returns triumphantly after Yami defeats Ra. |
| 215 | * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: He was forced to watch horrible Disney movies as a child and his father was insane and whipped him all the time. |
| 216 | * {{Hipster}}: Parodied. ''"It's me, Marik Ishtar! And for the record, I was possessing this girl way before it was cool.'' |
| 217 | * ImaginaryFriend: Melvin, who later materialized as a SplitPersonality. |
| 218 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: His evil plans are as harmless as they are poorly thought out, but darn, he just tries so hard! |
| 219 | * LargeHam: He essentially channels the voice and acting abilities of both [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Skeletor]] ''and'' [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers the Monarch]]. |
| 220 | * LateToThePunchline: Episode 46, after the previous episode when Melvin made a joke about Bakura wanting Marik inside him. |
| 221 | -->"[[BrickJoke OH, I get it!]] [[DontExplainTheJoke He was implying that you wanted me to sleep with you!]] That is pretty funny. After all, I'm way out of your league." |
| 222 | * LaughablyEvil: He's constantly laughing and making jokes. |
| 223 | * LustObject: It's ''painfully'' obvious that Florence wants to jump his bones. |
| 224 | * MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Averted, his mother died giving birth to him, but Hank barely even noticed her death, caring only that he finally had a biological male heir. |
| 225 | * MediumAwareness: When Bakura suggests that they just murder Yugi and the Pharaoh, Marik shoots him down because 4Kids would just censor it anyway. |
| 226 | * MisappliedPhlebotinum: For having an all-powerful ancient Egyptian artifact that can control minds and warp the fabric of reality, he really [[CutLexLuthorACheck doesn't do much with it.]] Justified in that it can only control people named "Steve," and he knows it's an annoying limitation. |
| 227 | * MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: When he pretends to be "Malik Blishtar". |
| 228 | -->'''Yugi''': Hey, look, it's that Malik Ishtar guy.\ |
| 229 | '''Marik''': ''[[LargeHam I will destroy everything you hold dear!]]'' [[VerbalBackspace I mean, hello]]. |
| 230 | * MrFanservice: And boy does he know it! Tea's reduced to a babbling mess when in his presence. |
| 231 | * MoralityPet: A bird he named Mr. Tweetums, his best friend ever. Bakura and Odion also bring out his softer side on occasion. |
| 232 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: When Crump successfully possesses Tea's body, Marik inadvertently saves her a couple of episodes later by kicking him out. |
| 233 | * ObliviousToLove: Or at the very least oblivious to ''lust''. [[ShipTease Or whatever the hell it is]] that constitutes his and Bakura's relationship these days. |
| 234 | -->'''Marik:''' ''(playing Bloodlines)'' Paranormal activity: you WILL believe a door can slam very hard! \ |
| 235 | '''Bakura:''' I'd like you to slam ''me'' very hard. \ |
| 236 | '''Marik:''' Bakura, can you keep it down? I'm trying to play a video game.\ |
| 237 | '''Bakura:''' ''(groans)'' |
| 238 | * ObviouslyEvil: Hilariously played with. He's only obviously evil to the audience, as none of the protagonists seem to notice it, even when he BLATANTLY declares his evilness in front of them. |
| 239 | --> '''Joey''' (''thinking''): ''I still think there's something fishy about this guy…''\ |
| 240 | '''Marik''': WAHAHAHA!!! DESTROY YOU ALL!\ |
| 241 | '''Joey''' (''thinking''): ''Man, if I could only put my finger on it.'' |
| 242 | * PaperThinDisguise: His "Malik Blishtar" identity. In the original, Marik didn't actually need a physical disguise since the heroes had no idea what he looked like yet and simply acted as a friendly duelist named Namu while Odion pretended to be the real Marik, but in this version, not only is his fake name painfully obvious, he constantly slips up and goes on evil rants, accidentally uses his real name, etc. |
| 243 | * PetTheDog: As he's slowly dying, he visits Odion in spirit, admitting that Odion was the best brother he ever had - and he wasn't such a bad henchman, either. He also left some Gummi Bears in his room for Odion. [[spoiler:It's a good thing he did, seeing as it snapped Odion out of his coma]]. |
| 244 | * PokeThePoodle: Most of his "eeeeee-vil plans" end up as this. |
| 245 | -->"We are going to sneak into Yugi's house under cover of darkness, and [[FelonyMisdemeanor rearrange his sock drawer]]! His entire collection of socks shall be thrown into disarray! His world will be plunged into chaos! Sock-related chaos! |
| 246 | ** Though hilariously if not ironically, when Marik actually pulled this particular plan on Dartz, Dartz was [[SeriousBusiness pretty pissed off]]. |
| 247 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Perhaps the one evil (or at the very least, bad) deed he can do right. He repeatedly makes misogynistic quotes at women, such as claiming that women don't exist in Yu-Gi-Oh!, and while possessing Tea, he claims he doesn't know anything cause he's possessing a woman. Ironic, when you consider how girly Marik himself is. |
| 248 | * PsychopathicManchild: Creator/LittleKuriboh says in a few interviews that Marik is essentially a combination of his inner child and himself at 14. [[CardCarryingVillain Except evil.]] |
| 249 | * PunchClockVillain: Apparently he only became a villain because he thought it would give him a 10 out of 10 in the sexy scale. |
| 250 | * RedOniBlueOni: The hammy and silly red to Bakura's calm and snarky blue. |
| 251 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive Guy to Bakura and Melvin's Manly Men. |
| 252 | * SilenceYouFool: Goes a step further by "silencing the silence" at one point. |
| 253 | * SmallNameBigEgo: In "Marik's Evil Council" and "Concrete Giraffes". He's convinced that he's the most evil villain of all time in the former and that he's making a film that will put ''Film/CitizenKane'' to shame in the latter, when he's comically incompetent at both. By the time [[Film/SlenderMan his movie finally gets released]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKijnKthJpI he seems to have realized that he is not a great filmmaker]]. |
| 254 | * SoundEffectBleep: When uttering the F-word, [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever a voice belching "EFF!!" is used in place of a regular beep]]. This trait has since been taken by Dartz, as Marik's character had evolved far beyond what LK had originally intended. |
| 255 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: His motive as opposed to killing the Pharaoh in the original show. Eventually works with Bakura to do so. Given they both became [[BreakoutCharacter breakout characters]], they succeeded. |
| 256 | * SueDonym: Uses "Malik Blishtar" as an alias. |
| 257 | * TooDumbToLive: |
| 258 | ** In the 2008 Christmas special, he seemed pretty excited about receiving a ''bomb'' as a gift. |
| 259 | -->Ooo, I bet it's a bomb! Wouldn't that just be '''(EFF)'''ing awesome?! |
| 260 | ** And in the last five seconds before the bomb goes off, Marik tries to think of a good ''Film/TheyMightBeGiants'' quote when Bakura tells him to say something profound before they die. |
| 261 | * TransparentCloset: Mocked frequently for it. Everyone ''knows'' the truth, but he refuses to admit it. |
| 262 | * UnwantedAssistance: [[invoked]] Has this trope about Odion when he's impersonating him; Odion insults "himself" (Marik) and accepts insults directed at him as passive-aggressive slaps to the real thing. |
| 263 | -->'''Odion:''' I am Marik Ishtar. I like to take control of people's minds and dress in highly effeminate clothing. Also I have an irrational hatred for Gummi Bears. I'm pretty much the worst boss ever. \ |
| 264 | '''Marik''': No, I'm not! I mean, er, who is this strange person of whom I've never heard of? He seems like a big, bald jerk! \ |
| 265 | '''Odion:''' Yes. I, Marik Ishtar, am a huge jerk. \ |
| 266 | '''Marik:''' Cut it out, you knobhead! \ |
| 267 | '''Odion:''' Yes. I, Marik Ishtar, am a knobhead. \ |
| 268 | '''Marik:''' (offscreen) I command you to stop agreeing with me! |
| 269 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: A rare male example -- when not in use, he apparently keeps the Millenium Rod clenched tightly between his butt cheeks "like an iron vice". |
| 270 | * VillainProtagonist: For the eponymous ''[[SpinOff Marik's Evil Council]]'' videos. |
| 271 | * VillainSong: ''Leather Pants'' (with Bakura) |
| 272 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The Abridged version of the Millenium Rod can only control the minds of people named Steve (or some variation of it), forcing Marik to go the extra mile to gain control of certain characters, such as tricking Joey and Tea into legally changing their names. This limitation gets even more ridiculous once you consider that not only is Marik Egyptian, where the name Steve would be extremely rare to start with, but the Rod itself is from ''ancient'' Egypt, predating the name entirely. |
| 273 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: His evil alter-ego and messed up attitude towards life in general wouldn't even exist if not for his father's horrific abuse, and CharacterDevelopment has shown he's really, desperately lonely… |
| 274 | * YaoiFangirl: Well, fanboy, but still. When he finds a comic book lying on the ground: |
| 275 | -->"This isn't like my scriptures at all! I mean, what is that guy doing to that other guy? I don't know what it is, but it gives me cravings!" |
| 276 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His M.O. throughout the first half of season 2. |
| 277 | * YouWillBeSpared: When Joey tells him that he's a good pal while pretending to be Malik Blishtar, Marik says he likes Joey and as such he's gonna kill him last. |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Yami Marik / Melvin]] |
| 281 | !!Yami Marik / Melvin |
| 282 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Yami_Marik_8267.jpg]] |
| 283 | -->''"Come over here and let me cut you, I mean hug you. Hugging is what I meant."'' |
| 284 | |
| 285 | Marik's alter-ego-slash-imaginary friend, born from his childhood trauma of being tattooed during the tombkeeper initiation ritual. When Odion was struck by Ra's divine wrath, the mental seals on Melvin weakened, and he resurfaced. Unlike Marik who wants to destroy Yami, Melvin just wants a hug. And by "a hug" we mean "to stab you with a chainsaw or any other weapon on hand". And he ''loves'' hugging people. |
| 286 | |
| 287 | At the end of Season 2 he is revealed to be a spy for [=4Kids=], sent to get the show cancelled. Bakura duels him to try and save the show but is defeated. Melvin thus destroys the FourthWall and the show is canceled. However, boredom slowly starts to set in during ''The Cancelled Series'' due to him becoming a sub-character, and he goes on another destruction spree that inadvertently gets the show UnCanceled. With his former employers now dead, Melvin was once again the main villain… until Marik was able to regain control of his body and finally destroyed Melvin for good. |
| 288 | ---- |
| 289 | * AppropriatedAppellation: ZigzaggedTrope: In his first appearance reviewing Film/XMenOriginsWolverine he refers to himself as Yami Marik, and it's Yugi who mocks him as 'Marik's imaginary childhood buddy Melvin' when he first comes out after Odion's duel with Joey. But then in the flashback in Episode 45, he refers to himself as Melvin as a child when he surfaces for the very first time to kill his father. |
| 290 | * ArchEnemy: The code-locked door became his. He spent several episodes getting past it and cursing it out. |
| 291 | * AxCrazy: Just a warning--"Could I have a hug?" translates to "I'm going to take a chainsaw to you". |
| 292 | -->"Come on, pick up the friggin' phone before I stab someone out of boredom! As opposed to the many other reasons for which I tend to stab people." |
| 293 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He's just this side of Pegasus for one of the silliest, hammiest, most ridiculous villains of the show, but he's arguably even more dangerous than his canon counterpart since he helped get the show itself cancelled. |
| 294 | * BigBad: For the second half both of seasons 2 and 3. |
| 295 | * BlackComedy: His whole shtick involves treating death and destruction like regular hobbies and basically just being a definite example of a PsychopathicManChild. |
| 296 | * BorrowedCatchPhrase: In episode 61, he borrows Marik's "Silence!" a few times. |
| 297 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: Literally. He destroys the Fourth Wall at the end of Season 2. |
| 298 | * CatchPhrase: |
| 299 | ** Formerly "Mind Slave" and "Binky Boy," dropped when he appeared in the main series. |
| 300 | ** "Could I get a hug?" and variations of such. |
| 301 | ** "Kill your family! Kill your family!" from the "Kill Your Family Show". |
| 302 | * ChainsawGood: "Ahhh, now that was a ''good'' hug!" And then there's ''Evil Council 4'', where he chainsaws numerous villains at the drop of a hat. |
| 303 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Twice. In an EarlyBirdCameo in a vid where he visits Kaiba in a parody of ''A Christmas Carol'', Melvin repeatedly refers to people as his mind slaves and "Binky Boy." Come Season 2/3 and his actual appearance, he drops the two catchphrases and becomes much more comical. Then, after 4Kids is defeated and Marik is out of work, he claims in Episode 61 he wants to avenge the Tomb Keeper's lineage. |
| 304 | * ComedicSociopathy: Most of his antics come from the hilarious ways he hurts people. Again, there's the whole hugging deal. |
| 305 | * CuddleBug: He's almost always looking to [[DeadlyHug "hug"]] someone. |
| 306 | * DeadlyHug: He makes it an art form since asking for a hug for him means he wants to kill you. |
| 307 | * DeadpanSnarker: Unlike Marik, who wouldn't know sarcasm if it bit him in his leather-clad butt, Melvin is this when he's not just being AxeCrazy. And sometimes when he is as well. |
| 308 | --> '''Melvin''': "Yay! Once again friendship saves the day. I love it when that happens. This calls for a group hug. Group hug, everyone!" |
| 309 | * DeathByIrony: Defeated by the biggest bear hug of his life, courtesy of the other Egyptian Gods. |
| 310 | * DoubleEntendre: Inherits the "rod" jokes from Marik when he takes over his body. |
| 311 | * TheDreaded: Even ''Bakura'' is terrified by him. |
| 312 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Appeared in a ChristmasSpecial, had his own musical number, ''and'' eviscerated ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' all before his proper appearance in series. |
| 313 | * EnemyWithout: He's Marik's SuperpoweredEvilSide. |
| 314 | * EvilerThanThou: To both Marik and Florence, who try and fail to stop him from canceling the show. |
| 315 | * EvilTastesGood |
| 316 | -->'''Melvin:''' I've been OMNOMNOM-ing on his soul for ten years and I happen to like the taste! |
| 317 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He almost seems childish in how he acts, but he frequently sprinkles in random threats of violence in his speech. |
| 318 | -->"Geez, everywhere I go people are always fighting over which one of them gets to be murdered by me! Joke's on these guys, I'm gonna kill 'em both. My treat." |
| 319 | * ForTheEvulz |
| 320 | -->'''Yugi:''' Ask yourself: what would killing me accomplish?\ |
| 321 | '''Melvin:''' Other than making me laugh like a maniac, not much. But it's enough. |
| 322 | ** Also his response to Ishizu asking why Melvin wants to kill them all. |
| 323 | -->'''Ishizu:''' Why, Melvin? Why are you doing this to us?\ |
| 324 | '''Melvin:''' Because ''shut up.'' |
| 325 | * HostileShowTakeover: |
| 326 | ** Since it came out during Season 3, he replaces Marik in ''Evil Council 4'' as the leader. [[spoiler:[[AllJustADream But not really.]]]] |
| 327 | ** Done again, but more literally for Marik's Bloodlines LP. |
| 328 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Always cheerful about giving hugs to everyone, but he's reduced to screaming like a maniac when all of Yugi's monsters give him "the biggest hug of his life". |
| 329 | * FreakOut: Several times during his duel with the Pharaoh. |
| 330 | * KnightOfCerebus: Parodied. He's just as AxCrazy and insane as his original counterpart, the other characters are terrified of him, and he ''does'' manage to be the most effective and dangerous villain yet when he gets the show cancelled at the end of Season 2. But all his antics are PlayedForLaughs, and he's so ridiculously over the top and silly that he's hard to take as a serious threat. Often characters will talk about how wicked and cruel he is, then the episode does a GilliganCut to Melvin being completely harmless and comical. |
| 331 | -->'''Yami:''' No doubt he's already hard at work plotting his next evil scheme. \ |
| 332 | '''Melvin:''' (''looking at himself in the mirror'') Would you *[[SoundEffectBleep beep]]* me? ''I'd'' *beep* me. I'd *beep* me hard." |
| 333 | * LaserBlade: His Millennium Rod holds a knife [[BlatantLies which he uses to give great big hugs]]. Sometimes the knife is a [[Franchise/StarWars lightsaber]]. |
| 334 | * LaughablyEvil: He wouldn't be as funny as he is if he wasn't a murderous lunatic. |
| 335 | * LargeHam: He's just as over-the-top as his canon counterpart, if not more so. |
| 336 | -->"Hello, Pharaoh! We were just about to play Twister! It involves me twisting your neck until it snaps. We were also going to play Snap. It has similar rules." |
| 337 | * LaughingMad: Comes with the territory of being a comical and hammy madman. |
| 338 | * {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLcznIOCldo His theme music from the dub]]. |
| 339 | * LyricalDissonance: His villain song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8-FF_V8wQ Villain]]", in which Melvin sings about torture and murder, is sung in tune to the calm and relaxing "[[Music/EnriqueIglesias Hero]]". |
| 340 | * TheMole: He's a 4Kids employee sent to get the show canceled. |
| 341 | * MoralEventHorizon: Parodied in-universe. When reveals that ''he'' is the one who [[spoiler:suspended Creator/TeamFourStar]], nobody seems to think it's as big a deal as he makes out. In fact, Tristan has ''no idea'' who they are. |
| 342 | * MoralityPet: Mr. Tweetums, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia until he forgets him in a Shadow Game with Mai]]. |
| 343 | * TheNicknamer: Frequently refers to Mai as "Whore Biscuit", Yami Bakura by his real name "Florence," and Joey as "Susan". He even calls his own father "Doctor Scuzzbucket" just before murdering him. Also called the Pharaoh 'Nancy' on one occasion. |
| 344 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Lampshaded in Marik's Evil Council 4, where even ''Florence'' is terrified of him. |
| 345 | * OmnicidalManiac: Sort of. He wants to destroy the fourth wall and get the show canceled, which would be this in a meta way. |
| 346 | * OnlySaneMan: Manages to be this during his duel with Yugi. He's baffled by Yugi's slurred pronunciations, his offer to trade his Obelisk card for Melvin's Metal Reflect Slime (despite this being in his favour) and he loses his temper when he's suddenly ignored despite his BigBad status. |
| 347 | * OutOfFocus: ''The Cancelled Series''. The only screentime he's had involves his misadventures of trying to find something to do. Once he uses 10,002 passwords to get through the so-known "bitchy door", he ends up screwing Noah over by breaking his missile control panel and gets the video feed to show an episode of the "Kill Your Family" show. |
| 348 | * OutsideContextVillain: Despite initially working for 4Kids, he becomes this for ''The Cancelled Series'', as he stops working for them and just does his own thing, with nobody really acknowledging his existence until the end, much like the original series. And considering he is a psychopathic serial killer, the fact that Noah didn't plan to keep him out of the way was a bit of a misstep on his part. Once Melvin gets bored, he wanders around and eventually starts making a mess of everything, which causes problems for Noah later. If Noah's and/or Gozaburo's plans had actually succeeded, Melvin simply could have murdered them and the Big Five. |
| 349 | * PalsWithJesus: He's friends with Slender Man. |
| 350 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: Marik's father Hank Ishtar, [[AssholeVictim who really deserved it]] after savagely whipping Odion and then trying to do the same to Marik. |
| 351 | * PsychoForHire: Once we find out he's working for someone. But all he cares about is destruction, and at the end of Season 3 he destroys 4Kids by hijacking Noah's self-destruct system. |
| 352 | * PsychopathicManchild: Even more so than Marik. |
| 353 | -->''"I am henceforth known as the ruler of all doors! Every single door shall bow before me and open at my command! [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil I am the Master of Unlocking!]]"'' |
| 354 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to Marik's Sensitive Guy, and it shows. Marik is a CampGay who has trouble expressing his TransparentCloset and comes up with ridiculous plans that usually end in failure, Melvin is a hammy, psychotic villain who's not afraid to get his hands dirty, often succeeds, and openly expresses his feelings towards something. |
| 355 | * ShowWithinAShow: The "Kill your Family" show, which may or may not be all in regular Marik's head (it's implied that it isn't). It appears to be nothing but Melvin telling viewers to ''"Kill your family!" over and over and over again. Spawned a couple of Website/{{Youtube}} adaptations, which stretches it out for several minutes. |
| 356 | * SplitPersonalityTakeover: He seizes control of Marik's body near the end of Season 2. |
| 357 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: To Marik. |
| 358 | * TermsOfEndangerment: |
| 359 | ** He gives nicknames for most of the cast and uses them almost exclusively in place of their name. It does not make his death threats any less threatening. |
| 360 | --->'''Joey:''' What happens when my life points reach zero? \ |
| 361 | '''Melvin:''' That depends. Have you been a good Susan, or a bad Susan? \ |
| 362 | '''Joey:''' My name is not- ''*screams as he gets electrocuted*'' \ |
| 363 | '''Melvin:''' A very bad Susan indeed. |
| 364 | ** Somewhat averted with Ishizu and Yami, the former whom he calls 'chucklenuts' once but then refers to her as "sis" or other varied terms, and latter who he calls "Nancy" once but usually refers to as the Pharaoh. |
| 365 | * TomTheDarkLord: You wouldn't expect an AxeCrazy OmnicidalManiac to be named "Melvin". Of course, that's the joke. |
| 366 | * {{Troll}}: After trashing Noah's command center in Season 3, he leaves the "Kill Your Family Show" running on the last monitor he left intact for Noah to find. |
| 367 | * VillainSong: "Villain". |
| 368 | * VillainousBreakdown: Over the course of his duel with the Pharaoh. He goes from taunting Yami as he usually does, to being increasingly annoyed by his antics (such as constantly pointing out the Shadow Realm should be called the "Purple Realm") to [[RageBreakingPoint completely losing it out of frustration]] when Yami stops being afraid of him and starts arguing with Kaiba in the middle of their duel. |
| 369 | * VillainsWantMercy: Tries to keep Marik from banishing him to the Shadow Realm by saying that they can work together when he'd been nothing but cruel and abusive to Marik beforehand. Additionally, during the climactic duel, once the Pharaoh summoned Obelisk the Tormenter, Melvin immediately asked if they could play a different game, like Rock-Paper-Scissors instead. The Pharaoh obliged and said that he picked "rock"...which he demonstrated by having Obelisk punch Melvin straight in the face. |
| 370 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: Perhaps his most immediately recognizable trait. |
| 371 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Punctuality is his only weakness. |
| 372 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Indirectly lampshaded when he is confronted by robot guards. |
| 373 | -->"Well, howdy ho! Robots! You know what that means: I can be as hardcore as I want and it'll still be PG-13! Hehehe... Mmm, delicious ultraviolence." |
| 374 | [[/folder]] |
| 375 | |
| 376 | !Season 3 |
| 377 | |
| 378 | [[folder:Noah]] |
| 379 | !!Noah Kaiba |
| 380 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/101-noah-kaiba-1-jpg_7642.jpg]] |
| 381 | -->''"Who's the green-haired, rich, spoiled brat, screwing the rules now, Seto?"'' |
| 382 | -> '''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/ChrisNiosi Chris "Kirbopher" Niosi]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | The biological son of Seto's and Mokuba's adoptive father Gozaburo, and CEO of 4Kids. In league with the Big Five to attempt to take down the show for good. Certifiable nutjob who wants revenge against Kaiba for stealing his life. Noah lived (somewhat) happily with Gozaburo until he was killed in a car accident. What remained of his mind was uploaded to the internet. Unbeknownst to him, Joey and Serenity are indirectly responsible for his death. Serenity, as it turns out, was the one who ran him over while learning how to drive. Regains his sanity -- or something -- upon hijacking Mokuba's body and returning with it to the real world. Then returns to the Internet to save the main characters, and destroy Gozaburo and himself. |
| 385 | |
| 386 | ---- |
| 387 | * AffablyEvil: He's rather friendly and polite, but he's no less evil for it. |
| 388 | * AmbiguouslyGay: His way of hugging Mokuba is not very sibling-like. Whether he means to be creepy or not isn't quite clear. He also tries to steal Yugi's body in a very sexual way. |
| 389 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's the CEO of 4Kids. Clearly takes after his old man. |
| 390 | * CreepyChild: Has the appearance of a child, but frequently displays a PsychoticSmirk, has a quite creepy EvilLaugh, and taunts Kaiba with an IronicNurseryTune. To say nothing of his IncestSubtext with a very unnerved Mokuba. |
| 391 | * DeathEqualsRedemption: Invoked and Deconstructed. Noah seems to think that sacrificing his life to save Mokuba and everyone else from [[DeathFromAbove an oncoming missile makes up for everything]]. Mokuba doesn't buy it, since Noah himself launched the missile to begin with. Ultimately played straight (see EasilyForgiven). |
| 392 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Soon you will be face to face with the truth. The truth that I am truly the true successor to the Kaiba Corporation. The true-ness of it will be truly truthful." |
| 393 | * TheDragon: For ''The Cancelled Series'', to Gozaburo. |
| 394 | * EasilyForgiven: Subverted when the gang are still upset with him after his immediate HeelFaceTurn (even Mokuba calls him out). Played straight later on when, after sacrificing himself to save everyone, Yugi claims that Noah isn't such a bad guy after all, aside from the attempted murder. |
| 395 | * EnfantTerrible: Despite being a child (in appearance, anyway), he's still absolutely evil. |
| 396 | * EvilLaugh: Whenever the plan's going his way, he does this. |
| 397 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 398 | -->'''Seto:''' "Who are you? And why do you look like me from Season 0?" |
| 399 | -->'''Tristan:''' "Oooooo... the forbidden season...." |
| 400 | * FillerVillain: His original role, but subverted here seeing as [[spoiler:Melvin was actually ''working for him.'']] |
| 401 | * GoMadFromTheIsolation: Just like the canon version, but he's actually more passive about it. |
| 402 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Of Season 2. |
| 403 | * HeelFaceTurn |
| 404 | ** MyGodWhatHaveIDone: It took him just 3 seconds to realize. |
| 405 | * IronicNurseryTune: Gives us particularly chilling renditions of "Hush Little Baby" and "Happy Birthday". Along with his disturbing evil smirk, a sign that he can be a genuinely creepy villain. |
| 406 | * LaughingMad: Egregiously so. But then again, who wouldn't GoMadFromTheIsolation? |
| 407 | * {{Leitmotif}}: His theme from the dub normally, same as Melvin. In Episode 55 he gets a new one while revealing his sob story: [[VideoGame/GearsOfWar Mad]][[Music/TearsForFears World]]. |
| 408 | * TheManBehindTheMan: He's the one who sent Melvin to destroy the show in Season 2, and comes into focus as the villain of Season 3. |
| 409 | * OutOfClothesExperience: When he stops Gozaburo from attacking the plane. |
| 410 | --> ''Don't worry father. Now we can be together for all time. Also, for some reason, I'm naked.'' |
| 411 | * RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to Seto and Mokuba's Red Onis. Ironically, he's shown to be more emotional than they are in his own arc, going from being callous in one second to being regretful in the next. |
| 412 | * ReformedButRejected: Played for laugh; the protagonists still refuse to believe he has reformed even as he is ''warning them the place is about to blow up''. |
| 413 | * WouldHurtAChild: Worse, he'll make them say ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' and then ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'' are their favorite spinoffs. |
| 414 | * {{Yandere}}: For Mokuba, it seems. When his bribing to maintain Mokuba's loyalty through love and donuts fails, Noah responds by turning both him and Seto into stone. |
| 415 | * YouHaveFailedMe: Banishes Team 4kids to the darkest corners of the internet. |
| 416 | [[/folder]] |
| 417 | |
| 418 | [[folder:Gozaburo Kaiba]] |
| 419 | !!Gozaburo Kaiba |
| 420 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GozaburoKaiba_143.jpg]] |
| 421 | -->''"Listen, small person. There's no such thing as bad publicity."'' |
| 422 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Anthony "Antfish" Sardinha, Scott "Creator/KaiserNeko" Frerichs (Ep. 86) |
| 423 | |
| 424 | Former CEO of Kaiba Corporation. Considers anyone beneath him a "small person" and will occasionally poke fun at their misfortune. Do not enrage him if you value your ears. Was fired by Seto and Mokuba and committed suicide in disgrace. But, just like in the source material he faked his death and actually inserted himself into the Virtual World in order to manipulate [=KaibaCorp=] from behind the scenes. At any rate, his plan backfired and he was killed by his biological son Noah. |
| 425 | |
| 426 | ---- |
| 427 | |
| 428 | * AbusiveParent: "[[ShoutOut Whip [Kaiba] 'til his name's]] [[Series/Roots1977 Toby]]". Incredibly, he actually treated Noah ''worse''. |
| 429 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Though it's not like Gozaburo wasn't a huge bastard in the original anime, here he's even ''worse''; he revels in his admission that he made his fortune manufacturing weapons of mass destruction that threaten the world's stability, he plans to tear down an orphanage to build a theme park on the grounds and dismisses concerns about the orphans, and while he at least cared a ''bit'' about Noah in the original anime, here he has to struggle to remember he even exists and mocks his death to his face. |
| 430 | -->'''Gozaburo:''' You ungrateful little runt! Seven years and not a single Father's Day card? \ |
| 431 | '''Noah:''' I thought you were dead! \ |
| 432 | '''Gozaburo:''' And I thought you knew better than to play in the middle of the f***ing road. Who's the idiot now? |
| 433 | * AllMenArePerverts: Makes suggestive comments aloud when Noah attempts to force his way into Yugi's body. Doubles as a {{Squick}} moment. |
| 434 | * AndIMustScream: His reaction to having his naked son fused to his back, with one particular part of his anatomy rubbing up against him for all eternity. |
| 435 | * {{Angrish}}: "SHUTYOURMOUTHYOULITTLEINGRATE!" |
| 436 | * BadBoss: As Hobson can testify, he treated his employees and family terribly. |
| 437 | * BigBad: For ''The Cancelled Series'', as the one behind Noah's plans. |
| 438 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: "Screw the rules, I have ''your'' money". [[BerserkButton Kaiba doesn't take it well.]] |
| 439 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Acts like a ditzy buffoon most of the time, but he's a self-made billionaire and a very successful, if ruthless and corrupt, businessman. |
| 440 | * CloudCuckooLander: Seems to frequently forget the fact he only adopted Seto and had a real son (Noah) before. Also refers to the knight piece in chess as a "horsey." |
| 441 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Especially obvious with his "Orphanland" bit. He also refuses to call people with less money than him by their names; He just calls them "small person". Not to mention he chooses to spend his money on "weapons of mass destruction that'll threaten the stability of world peace" over virtual holograms for children's card games. |
| 442 | * FillerVillain: A subversion seeing as he's TheManBehindTheMan for Noah, who was TheManBehindTheMan for Melvin. |
| 443 | * IHaveNoSon: Played for laugh; he appears to use this trope toward Noah in a flashback, but as it turns out, he ''[[NotHyperbole genuinely]]'' forgot he had a biological son, and remembers Seto and Mokuba instead. |
| 444 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Blames Noah for not sending him either a "thank you" or a Father's Day card... even though Noah thought he was ''dead''. |
| 445 | * {{Jerkass}}: Of the "tearing down an orphanage" variety. |
| 446 | * LaughablyEvil: A bastard, yes. But thanks to Antfish's presentation, he's utterly hilarious. |
| 447 | * MoodSwinger: He seems to be nice, but also seems to go in fits of rage as he chewed off an employee's ear off-screen. |
| 448 | * NoIndoorVoice: He shouts a lot, and even his normal tone is pretty loud. |
| 449 | * TheSociopath: If the way he treated his kids wasn't enough, he tore down an orphanage to build a theme park, said the orphans "don't get a theme park", showed no concern for the children he made homeless, and tore a man's EARS off because he "got mad". |
| 450 | * TooDumbToLive: At least when it comes to chess. He refers to knights as "horseys," and when Kaiba corrects him Gozaburo mutters "Horses can't be knights, that's just silly." |
| 451 | * YoureJustJealous: When Kaiba says he's insane for building weapons that threaten world stability, Gozaburo says he's just jealous he didn't think of it first. |
| 452 | [[/folder]] |
| 453 | |
| 454 | !Season 4 |
| 455 | |
| 456 | [[folder:Dartz]] |
| 457 | !!Dartz |
| 458 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dartz_3431.png]] |
| 459 | -->''"Den keep you mouf shut, mayan! Okay, mayan? Yeah."'' |
| 460 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Curtis "[=Takahata101=]" Arnott (Evil Council 3 onwards) |
| 461 | |
| 462 | The former king of Atlantis and BigBad of Season 4. Dartz is biding his time by gathering his own cabal of villains to counter Marik's Evil Council; with both having yet to accomplish anything. He finally made his proper debut in the main series in episode 64, alongside his motorcycle-riding henchmen. |
| 463 | ---- |
| 464 | * AccentAdaptation: Unlike Bakura, this character's accent wasn't in the original dub. |
| 465 | * AntagonistAbilities: Parodied; just like his canon counterpart, his deck, means and powers are completely overpowered-- and the characters are ''very much'' aware of this, constantly pointing out his abuse of NewPowersAsThePlotDemands. |
| 466 | * BadBoss: The verbal abuse he hurls to his minions aside, he also [[YourSoulIsMine rips out their souls]] [[YouHaveFailedMe if they fail him]], [[spoiler:and, like in canon, was responsible for all the events leading them to serve him in the first place]]. Alister flat out says "Master Dartz is a notorious douche." |
| 467 | * BerserkButton: Never insinuate you like tacos better than pizza. |
| 468 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Though he's treated as a comedic nuisance in most of his appearances due to his odd speech pattern when he finally duels in Episode 81, none of the jokes in the episode diminish just how much of a FauxAffablyEvil {{Jerkass}} he really is. He cruelly mocked Rafael for causing his family's death and him being stranded on a desert island (even if the reveal was a ContrivedCoincidence), and manages to [[BreakThemByTalking break Yami Yugi]] (something only Rafael had been able to do before) by pointing out he doesn't even need to reference his ancient past to show how much of an asshole he was to his friends. And that's on top of his canon counterpart's actions in the Duel, such as using Yugi's friends as faces for his monsters. |
| 469 | * BigBad: Of the "Marik's Evil Council" series, toward Marik. He becomes the show's main antagonist in season 4. |
| 470 | * CaptainErsatz: Of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Coiffio]]. |
| 471 | * CassandraTruth: He straight up tells the Pharaoh his true name a season too early. Unfortunately, Dartz's bizarre accent distorts the word so thoroughly (he pronounces it as "AY-tum") that the Pharaoh thinks he's joking. |
| 472 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: The first two ''Marik's Evil Council'' specials portrayed him as a serious villain SurroundedByIdiots with his henchmen. Since the third ''Evil Council'' and continuing into Season 4, he's been voiced by [=Takahata101=] and is characterized radically different, being based on Coiffio in mannerisms and being a comical villain with a thick speech impediment that freaks out his henchmen, who became far less idiotic and are now disturbed by his poorly pronounced schemes. |
| 473 | * DeathByIrony: |
| 474 | ** Dartz's primary gimmick in this version (aside from his accent) is that his plan, henchmen and cards abuse InsaneTrollLogic and NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, causing characters to constantly complain about all the "bullshit" he keeps pulling out of nowhere. Yami defeats him in their duel by pulling even ''more'' of exactly the same thing, while Dartz spends his VillainousBreakdown baffled that the Pharaoh manages to "out-bullshit" him. |
| 475 | ** One of the first and most famous jokes regarding Dartz was his henchmen being unable to understand if he was asking them to "do" or "duel" Marik. When facing his OneWingedAngel form in a BeamOWar, Yami defeats him by asking him this very question, distracting him long enough to slay him. |
| 476 | * DeepSouth: He's got what sounds like the world's thickest Cajun accent, and apparently spent a lot of time in Abalamya. Er--Alabama. [[spoiler:At least, until the finale.]] |
| 477 | * DissonantSerenity: A surprisingly disturbing case, given the usually comedic nature of his character, but when revealing to Rafael [[spoiler:he was responsible for all the tragic events leading his henchmen to serve him]], he describes the whole thing while [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor gleefully laughing as if he was telling a good joke]]. |
| 478 | * EarlyBirdCameo: He and his gang of motorcycle-riding henchmen have had a subplot in all of the ''Marik's Evil Council'' videos to date. He and his henchmen made their proper debut in episode 64 (which makes sense, since their rival council likely got disbanded after Marik's HeelFaceTurn) |
| 479 | * ElmuhFuddSyndwome[=/=]PorkyPigPronunciation: He owften has twouble pwonun-unciati— anan-on-ci— anonymous… sayin' words in da way they s'posed t' be said, mayan. [[spoiler:In the season finale, this was revealed to be an effect of the Orichalcos, and he has a normal accent after being uncorrupted.]] |
| 480 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Dartz takes the time to tell how [[spoiler:he was responsible for causing the misfortunes that befell all of his men to Rafael as if it were a harmless prank, which includes purposely causing a war, setting a Church on fire, and killing everyone but Rafael by crashing his boat. These revelations drive Rafael insane because of how contrived it all is]]. |
| 481 | * EvilerThanThou: He's on the receiving end of this in "Counseling Evil - 2" when Bakura [[spoiler:banishes him to the Shadow Realm and tries to take over the council]]. |
| 482 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Dartz is superficially pleasant and charming, but once he's suckered people into bringing him into their confidence, the abuses and manipulations start stacking up. Of note, like his original counterpart, he kicks off his arc by foregoing the whole children's card game aspect in favor of trying to get the Great Leviathan to destroy everything at the very start. |
| 483 | * FillerVillain: And pretty much counts as this for the Evil Council videos, too. |
| 484 | * HypocriticalHumor: Doesn't seem to notice his own speech impediment. Possibly subverted in later episodes where he seems aware that other people can't understand him. |
| 485 | -->"You gotta learn to e-nun-ci-ate, mayn. Speak plain English. It's a matter of coowates—cour—courageo—it's good manners, mayn!" |
| 486 | * IncomingHam: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MomLFmCUBxk&t=167 His first scene in Season 4]] must be seen to be believed. |
| 487 | * InnocentInnuendo: ''All the time'' due to his incredibly thick accent. Stand-out examples include "Dick" and "Wank", as well as ordering his henchmen to "do" various characters. [[labelnote:*]]"Deck", "Rank" and "Duel"[[/labelnote]] |
| 488 | --> '''Zombie Boy''': Wait, is he saying "deck" or "d*ck"?\ |
| 489 | '''Valon:''' Eh, sometimes it's best not to ask. |
| 490 | * {{Jerkass}}: He loves to verbally abuse his henchmen, suck their souls should they fail him, and apparently once sucked out Creator/ChanningTatum's soul [[ForTheEvulz as a joke]]. Alister flat-out calls him a douche because of this. |
| 491 | * KaleidoscopeHair: |
| 492 | ** His hair changes color every time the scene cuts to him. In Season 4, it doesn't even take a cut, his hair can actually be seen shifting colors ''in the same scene''. |
| 493 | ** In episode 73 this stops… [[MundaneSolution because he washed the dye out of it]]. |
| 494 | * LargeHam: He shouts a lot, helped by his speech impediment. |
| 495 | * LaughablyEvil: As per the norm, but with an extra layer of hilarity added by that accent, mayan. |
| 496 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Music/JudasPriest's ''Hellion'' plays just before any scenes with him, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPTYGyIMAiI&t=40s alongside]] Rob Halford's distinctive TitleScream heard in VideoGame/BrutalLegend's boot screen (Creator/{{DOUBLE FINE}}!!!). |
| 497 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: "Gentlemen (his Motorcycle-Riding Henchmen)… and YOU (Zombie Boy), zombie dooshbag." |
| 498 | * ParentalAbandonment: He doesn't remember his daughter Chris. At all. |
| 499 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers a quite impressive one to Yami, by pointing out how much of a NominalHero he is, to the point he doesn't need to remember his ancient past to show it. |
| 500 | * SerialEscalation: Deconstructed. As much as the series tries to make him look like a joke, he still has insane wealth, a small army of minions, and ''very'' dangerous magic powers comparable to Zorc's, the show's final villain. However, on top of the accent, the writing notes that while the ''scale'' of his arc is rather immense (including the heroes travelling to America on a cross-country exodus to defeat him) with plenty of enormous action beats (plane crashes, train derailments, Duel Monster rampages, etc.), it only barely makes sense what with the contrived separations, convenient distances, loads of WhyDontYouJustShootHim, and a plethora of other plot holes. |
| 501 | * SeriousBusiness: How his sock drawer is organized. [[InsaneTrollLogic He likes to keep them alphabetized.]] |
| 502 | * SoundEffectBleep: Gets the '''[EFF!]''' sound effect from Marik after his shift to be based on Coiffio. |
| 503 | * {{Troll}}: In the original, he ruined the lives of his henchmen so they would become his servants. Here, he just did it to be a dick. |
| 504 | --> '''Dartz''': PWANKED! |
| 505 | * TheUnreveal: Parodied. When pressed by Yami to tell him his real name as proof that he actually visited ancient Egypt during his reign, Dartz blithely tells him, but his accent makes it impossible to discern that it's Atem. |
| 506 | * VerbalTic: He's got one, mayan. |
| 507 | * VillainHasAPoint: One that he's not entirely off-based with either. In his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, he points out that not only was the Pharaoh a tyrant in his own time, but tells Yami Yugi ever since he came back to life, he spent most of his second life insulting his own friends and taking their friendship for granted, including the boy whose body he inhabits. Rather than appreciate that they have the patience to be around him, and even considered them his friends. In this case, Dartz is ''absolutely right''. This point gives Yami Yugi much-deserved deserved CharacterDevelopment from this. |
| 508 | * VocalDissonance: Part of Dartz's humor is that his silly voice and speech patterns don't fit his design at all. |
| 509 | [[/folder]] |
| 510 | |
| 511 | [[folder:Leviathan]] |
| 512 | !!Leviathan |
| 513 | The great beast that Dartz unleashes after gaining three Egyptian God Cards. As opposed to the anime series, ''Abridged'' Leviathan is Dartz' attack dog instead of his master. |
| 514 | ---- |
| 515 | * AmbiguousGender: No info about its gender, if it has any, is mentioned. Dartz calls it a bitch, but he likely used it as an insult for failure instead of directing it towards the fact its a girl. |
| 516 | * AsLongAsThereIsEvil: According to Dartz, it will keep existing as long as there is evil in humanity. |
| 517 | * BullyingADragon: Dartz calls Leviathan a "widdle bitch" after getting beaten by Yugi. |
| 518 | * CaptainErsatz: Yami Yugi (and eventually Yugi) points out how his Great Eye form looks exactly like [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]]. |
| 519 | * CombatTentacles: Its body distorts in goo-like tentacles to grab Yami, Kaiba and Joey. |
| 520 | -->'''Dartz''': I am sure you've all seen enough hentai to know where this is going... |
| 521 | * DragonInChief: Despite being a PhysicalGod, Leviathan is treated about the same as the rest of Dartz' henchmen |
| 522 | * FacelessEye: In his earliest appearance. |
| 523 | * FusionDance: After failing to give it Yami's soul as a meal, Dartz gives it his own soul, causing both of them to fuse together. |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | !Season 5 |
| 527 | [[folder:Zigfried von Schroeder]] |
| 528 | !!Zigfried von Schroeder |
| 529 | A rich and flamboyant businessman with gorgeous long-flowing hair, who has taken a fascination with Kaiba and his company. And isn't Pegasus. |
| 530 | ---- |
| 531 | * AdaptationalNameChange: Of a sort. In the original version, he entered under the alias Zigfried Lloyd to hide his true identity and motives. Here, he makes no such attempt and enters the tournament under his real name. |
| 532 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Shigfried von Schroeder shpeaks in shentenshesh where sho many shoundsh of the letter "S" are shpoken at the shtart of wordsh, ja! |
| 533 | * TheCracker: Like the source material, Zigfried hacks into Kaiba's tournament in order to cause problems for everyone involved. |
| 534 | * FunnyForeigner: He is a stereotype of EU cultural weirdness, speaking in an exaggerated high-pitched German accent and always being introduced with Europop. |
| 535 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: True, even in the source material Zigfried has none of the destructive ambitions of previous villains, and here there's plenty of jokes based around his accent and similarities to Pegasus...but he's still a damn good duelist, [[OneTurnKill OTKing]] Rex and Weevil and genuinely outplaying Joey just as he did in canon. |
| 536 | * PlayfulHacker: As a kid, he hacked the lighting systems during Kaiba's party as a bit of fun, making them flicker. Gozaburo Kaiba doesn't think it's all that impressive, unlike Kaiba, who remembers it as "the most impressive thing he'd ever seen," and his hacker tricks continue in present day with him, this time [[TheCracker maliciously using his skills to mess with Kaiba's tournament]]. |
| 537 | * SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: He describes Joey's defeat by recreating the sound of the life points counter going down as "''blelelelelele''" and "''bloop!''" |
| 538 | * ShoutOut: His [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent strange accent]], cultural eccentricities, and being introduced with pop music are very reminiscent of [[Film/AustinPowers Goldmember]]. |
| 539 | * SissyVillain: He has long pink hair, speaks with a high-pitched lisp, listens to campy music, has a deck full of girls, and is highly eccentric. |
| 540 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He's an effeminate westerner with long hair who lives in a castle, has a rivalry with Kaiba and is constantly making innuendo-laden remarks at him. Kaiba repeatedly mistakes him for Pegasus, and even Zigfried admits that the similarities are there. His Valkyries are also named after the Spice Girls, which he first tries denying until Joey points out the pattern. |
| 541 | -->'''Yugi:''' [Zigfried] is not beating those Pegasus ripoff allegations! |
| 542 | * VerbalTic: He speaks with a lateral lisp. |
| 543 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His exaggerated German accent is all over the place. Roland even introduces him as being "[[LampshadeHanging from somewhere in Germany, his accent makes it hard to pin down.]]" |
| 544 | [[/folder]] |
| 545 | |
| 546 | [[folder:Zorc]] |
| 547 | !!Zorc Necrophades |
| 548 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Zorcnecrophades_1128.jpg]] |
| 549 | -->''"And now it's time to destroy the world, again!"'' |
| 550 | |
| 551 | A dark god and famous TV celebrity. Was at first the star of ''Zorc & Pals'' with Florence, but it got cancelled. However, Zorc bounced back by performing in ''The Suite Life of Zorc & Cody''. He loves destruction, especially of the worldly kind. |
| 552 | ---- |
| 553 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: The canon Zorc is a GodOfEvil and an OmnicidalManiac. This one is silly, childish, and AffablyEvil. |
| 554 | * AlmightyJanitor: The most powerful ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' antagonist in the Abridged universe so far is treated as an absent-minded subordinate by Marik's Evil Council of Doom. |
| 555 | * BlackComedy: A LaughTrack is played whenever he mentions that he is busy with destroying the world. |
| 556 | * CatchPhrase: Mentions "destroying the world" in some variation all the time. |
| 557 | * EarlyBirdCameo: He appeared as early as episode 9 in the Abridged series. In canon, he doesn't appear until the fifth season. |
| 558 | * FullFrontalAssault: Yes, that dragon is his willy. |
| 559 | * LaughTrack: Provided in his show. |
| 560 | * OmnicidalManiac: Wants to destroy the world. He's very enthusiastic about this. |
| 561 | * ScrewYourself: ''Zorc & Pals'' shows him in a relationship with Yami Bakura, his future incarnation. |
| 562 | * ShowWithinAShow: ''Zorc & Pals'', which was canceled after he destroyed the studio audience. Now he's on ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life of Zorc and Cody]]''. |
| 563 | * SimpletonVoice: He sounds rather dopey. Because he is. |
| 564 | * SoWhatDoWeDoNow: After destroying the world in ''Zorc & Pals: TheMovie'', he goes to Disney World... and then he's going to destroy it. [[spoiler:He had so much fun, however, that he decided against it. [[TakeThat So he destroys Euro-Disney instead]].]] |
| 565 | * SoapOperaDisease: Mocked in a fake commercial in episode 17. |
| 566 | -->'''Zorc:''' "I have a terminal disease!"\ |
| 567 | '''Florence:''' "But you can't die, what about our adopted daughter?! Who's going to take care of her once you're gone?!"\ |
| 568 | '''Zorc:''' "She also has a terminal disease!" |
| 569 | * StraightGay: In ''Zorc & Pals'', he and Florence are a couple and they (apparently) have an adopted daughter. |
| 570 | * YouWillBeSpared: He planned on destroying Disney World, but didn't because it was too much fun. So he destroyed Euro-Disney instead. |
| 571 | [[/folder]] |
| 572 | |
| 573 | !Movies |
| 574 | |
| 575 | [[folder:Anubis]] |
| 576 | !!Anubis |
| 577 | -->''"I'm a throwaway villain! Fear my generic motives!"'' |
| 578 | |
| 579 | The villain of TheMovie. He's a throw-away character with generic motives no one gives a damn about. He's going to defeat the Pharaoh and destroy the world because... reasons. |
| 580 | |
| 581 | ---- |
| 582 | |
| 583 | * AndThenWhat: Anubis has no idea what comes after the "Destroy the world" part of his plan. When Yami asks him what possible reason he could have for destroying the world, he is first stumped by the question, before hastily and lamely trying to claim that ''of course'' he has a reason, but he won't tell what it is because it is a "secret". |
| 584 | * BigBad: Of TheMovie. |
| 585 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "You're going to die, and then you'll be dead. Because '''I killed you!'''" |
| 586 | * DiabolusExNihilo: Yami calls him out for being a generic bad guy who just came out of nowhere. |
| 587 | * FillerVillain: The Movie is BroadStrokes canon anyway, and similarly has little influence on the main abridged series. |
| 588 | * GenericDoomsdayVillain: Mercilessly lampshaded by Yami. Anubis has no motivation or characterization besides being a vague evil force that must be stopped or it'll destroy the world. |
| 589 | * NakedOnArrival: And Kaiba, despite his best efforts, looks at his penis. |
| 590 | * StupidEvil: Yami points out how stupid it is to destroy the world for no reason or benefit. Anubis has no counter. |
| 591 | ** Brought up again near the end where he attempts to "summon all [his] darkest powers to destroy the world once and for all." Yugi asks why he didn't just do that in the first place instead of wasting time playing a card game. He merely tells him to shut up. |
| 592 | * VocalDissonance: He's a burly man that definitely looks like he could be scary and threatening, but sports an extremely goofy voice identical to [[HarmlessVillain Marik's]]. |
| 593 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: He has a noticeable echo in his voice. |
| 594 | [[/folder]] |
| 595 | |
| 596 | [[folder:Paradox]] |
| 597 | !!Paradox |
| 598 | -->''"Pwotagonists!"'' |
| 599 | |
| 600 | The villain of ''Bonds Beyond Time Abridged''. He actually wants to save the world from card games (who apparently destroyed the Earth in his future if he is to believed). But since he seems to have no idea what happened or how to prevent it, He somehow decided to go on a murderous rampage through time and space and is completely blind to his evilness and stupidity of his "plan". In other words, he is basically the same as Anubis, but [[RunningGag IN 3D!!!]] |
| 601 | |
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| 603 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In canon, Paradox lived through the apocalypse and is [[VillainHasAPoint correct]] about Duel Monsters inadvertently causing it. In the abridged series, he's relying on second-hand information to blame Duel Monsters, making his reasons for killing Pegasus less sympathetic. |
| 604 | * AntiVillain: Parodied, he tells the heroes that he's traveled back in time to avert a BadFuture, but they note his methods for doing so are to massacre crowds of people, he made a stop in Venice to go on a rampage for no given reason, and does it all laughing evilly, wearing a mask, riding a sinister-looking motorcycle, and generally looks and acts ObviouslyEvil. |
| 605 | * BadFuture: He comes from one that was apparently destroyed by card games. [[NoodleIncident Somehow]]. He himself admits that he doesn't know how it happened. |
| 606 | * BigBad: Of the anniversary movie. |
| 607 | * CaptainErsatz: Of [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Mandark]]. |
| 608 | * CatchPhrase: "Pwotagonists!" |
| 609 | --> ''"Ahaha, ahahahaha, ahaha, ahahahaha!"'' |
| 610 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Could almost be seen as a bit of the reverse of what happened with Dartz. When he first appeared he was voiced by [=Semisoma1=], now [=TheAzureCrow=], and spoke normally. When ''Anime/YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime'' was properly adapted, he was instead voiced by [=LittleKuriboh=] and he spoke with a speech impediment. His motive also changed from wanting to destroy abridged series to it being more inline with canon where he wants to destroy card games. |
| 611 | * DesignatedHero: Invoked -- he seems to think he's the good guy, but, well... |
| 612 | -->'''[[Anime/YugiohGX Jaden]]:''' Then why are you riding around in a motorcycle, wearing an evil mask, stealing peoples cards and laughing like a maniac? Does that sound like a hero? \ |
| 613 | '''Paradox:''' When you put it that like that, no, not weally. \ |
| 614 | '''Jaden:''' Then [[WhatTheHellHero what the hell, man]]!? What the actual Hell!?!? |
| 615 | * ElmuhFuddSyndwome: "Humanity's ignowance has caused the planet to become wavaged and wifeless." |
| 616 | * EvilLaugh: He uses [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Mandark's]]. |
| 617 | * GenerationXerox: He is the descendant of [[spoiler:Dartz]]. This explains a lot when you look at some of the other tropes. |
| 618 | * IMeantToDoThat: "I totawwy pwanned that. My pwan is gweat!" |
| 619 | * {{Leitmotif}}: The theme from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm''. |
| 620 | * LoopholeAbuse: Sets the terms of his 3-on-1 duel with the "pwotagonists" in a manner extremely advantageous to himself akin to [[Anime/YuGiOhZexal Dr. Faker]]. While the abridged movie doesn't touch upon how he has 4000 life points while his opponents have to share a joint pool of 4000 life points, it does highlight how absurd it is that he not only gets the very first turn of the duel, but gets to have one after Yusei, Jaden, and Yugi each do. |
| 621 | * NoodleIncident: How his future got destroyed by card games. All he knows is that "someone played a card game, and then BOOM! End of the world." |
| 622 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Stole Cyber-End Dragon and Rainbow Dragon (which belonged to Jaden's friends Zane Truesdale and Jesse Anderson respectively) offscreen (though Jaden only mentions Jesse). |
| 623 | * PsychopathicManchild: Acts and sounds like an overgrown kid inside of a grown-up's body. |
| 624 | * RapidFireNo: A series of these to the same rhythm as his EvilLaugh serve as his last words. |
| 625 | * SerialKiller: He killed Yugi's Grandpa, Pegasus, the people of Domino City, the people of Venice, indirectly the people of Neo-Domino City in Yusei's timeline, and possibly Zane and Jesse (given that he holds their ace cards), all in a single movie. He has little reason for doing any of this beyond "my pwan is gweat!" |
| 626 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He ''thinks'' he's this. In reality, it's pretty clear he's just randomly doing evil things and has no idea what the hell any of it accomplishes. |
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