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** 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.)

** 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. Even then, Judai defeated a duelist using a 3,000 ATK monster in the pilot episode, so this was nothing he couldn't handle. 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. You ''know'' you're a lame duelist when an [[Idiot Hero]] like Judai points out your card's flaws.

** 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.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'': continued the trend, but not as much. As early as the second episode there was Uryu, a hoodlum who was sent to Satellite for causing trouble, who lost a duel to Yusei because he ''didn't know how his own card worked''. Aki had two opponents that qualified in the Fortune Cup alone, Jill deLauncebeaux, and Kodo Kinomiya (the second one a guy who bordered on [[Stupid Evil]], seeing as he knew he was dueling a powerful [[Reality Warper]] and spent the whole duel flinging insults at her.) In the second season there was the D-Wheel thief Cid (who rigged his [[Death Trap]] so that he wouldn't fall victim to it, only to almost be done in because he rigged it ''badly'') and the [[Loan Shark]] Garome. (Jack Atlas is a guy who grew up on Satellite and would later face the nightmarish metal stress of facing the Earthbound Gods, survived it all with a grin. It's not like common crooks like them are going to intimidate or panic him.)