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** 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.)

* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: SEVENS]]'', it’s much easier to list the members of the [[Mega Corp| Goha Corp]] who ''do not'' deserve this designation than the ones who do, literally: {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Wannabe|Yugo}}, [[The Man Behind The Man| Otes]], [[Evil Genius| Nail]], and [[Dark Action Girl| Mimi]] are the only competent members, the rest are, at most, [[Laughably Evil]]. This is especially true during the Team Battle Royale arc where they are unable to discover Otes' identity or location despite him being an employee and the fact that they own the online server than controls the Solid Vision system. (To put this in perspective, in the original anime, KaibaCorp owned the server and Kaiba or one of his employees could locate a duelist within a minute.) Their goal is to abolish the Rush Duel system, which [[Playful Hacker]] protagonist Yuga Ohdo programmed into their computer system, and despite ''dozens'' of engineers and programmers working around the clock, they cannot even find the implanted rootkit, much less deactivate it. Yuga didn’t even create the backdoor system that accepted his program, and their plans to steal the information or trick Yuga out of the codes fail in the most absurd way. (One seriously has to wonder why a more malevolent hacker has yet to rob them blind with such bad security.) Even worse, most members that try have to use the Rush Duel system themselves, [[I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham| and many start to seriously have a lot of fun doing so.]]

* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: SEVENS]]'', it’s much easier to list the members of the [[Mega Corp| Goha Corp]] who ''do not'' deserve this designation than the ones who do, literally: {{spoiler| [[Big Bad Wannabe| Yugo]]}}, [[The Man Behind The Man| Otes]], [[Evil Genius| Nail]], and [[Dark Action Girl| Mimi]] are the only competent members, the rest are, at most, [[Laughably Evil]]. This is especially true during the Team Battle Royale arc where they are unable to discover Otes' identity or location despite him being an employee and the fact that they own the online server than controls the Solid Vision system. (To put this in perspective, in the original anime, KaibaCorp owned the server and Kaiba or one of his employees could locate a duelist within a minute.) Their goal is to abolish the Rush Duel system, which [[Playful Hacker]] protagonist Yuga Ohdo programmed into their computer system, and despite ''dozens'' of engineers and programmers working around the clock, they cannot even find the implanted rootkit, much less deactivate it. Yuga didn’t even create the backdoor system that accepted his program, and their plans to steal the information or trick Yuga out of the codes fail in the most absurd way. (One seriously has to wonder why a more malevolent hacker has yet to rob them blind with such bad security.) Even worse, most members that try have to use the Rush Duel system themselves, [[I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham| and many start to seriously have a lot of fun doing so.]]

== Eastern Animation ==