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** Insector Haga and "Dinosaur" Ryuzaki were probably the most well known examples. You kind of felt sorry for them after awhile. Their worst humiliation came during the KC Grand Prix when they dueled Zigfried two against one, and he beat them both... On his first turn. (Granted, Zigfried is a guy who gave even Kaiba one of the most epic duels of his career, but still...)
** Not that there weren't others. There was Jean-Claude Magnum (a [[Hopeless Suitor]] to Mai, and a [[Miles Gloriosus]]) the unnamed Rare Hunter called "Seeker" by fans (half of Yugi's dialogue during the duel consisted of a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]) and Gurimo from the [[Filler Arc| DOMA arc]]. (To those who have only seen the dub, that would be the first duelist seen using the Seal of Orichalcos; the dub didn't think he was worth a dub name.) Seriously, Gurimo not only used one [[Artifact of Doom]] (The Seal of Orichalcos, naturally) he [[Too Dumb to Live| was dumb enough]] to combine it with a second one (Obelisk the Tormentor). The only thing that was truly surprising about his loss to Yugi is why all the other characters found it so surprising!
* Then came ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]] with more lame villains:
** In the first season, almost every Obelisk student shown as an antagonist except for Manjyome, Asuka, Fubuki, and Kaiser qualifies. (Clearly, most of the students there did not get to the best dorm based on merit.) Others villains like this included Seven Stars member Abidos III [[spoiler|who was a participant of the original Shadow Duels of Egypt and undefeated - but only because his servants ''let'' him win]] and the Duel Spirit Don Zaloog (not a bad duelist, really, but not a good villain, he and his gang tried to steal the Shadow Gate Keys, which was pointless, because they wouldn't function unless you won them from the owners).
** There was also Manjyome's two brothers. One was [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]], the other a [[Corrupt Politician]], and both suffered from a [[Small Name, Big Ego.]]
** The second season had its share; the Alien of Light whom Judai met in Neo Space had one of the worst deck strategies ever, focusing on a monster whose Attack Score was equal to 1,000 times the cards in the user's hand. That would seem fine if not for the fact that he needed to discard two cards to summon it... And it couldn't attack the turn he did... And he couldn't draw any more cards after doing so. (Maybe justified in that he was supposed to be a [[Warmup Boss]] for Judai after gaining the powers of Neo Space, but it was still pathetic.)
** Starting Season 3, the show took a [[Darker and Edgier]] theme and this sort of villain was rare, but there were still a couple. In Season 4, there was Sorano, another Obelisk snob who saw Judai and didn't see past the red blazer. (Some people just don't learn.) Not only that, his Horus deck seemed like it was copied from a magazine, aside from one part of the strategy that needed an anime-only card. He only became a true threat after he was possessed by Trueman.
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