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** Chou Koumei is one of the strongest Kingo Island Sennin under Youkai Tsuten Kyoshu and the instigator behind a battle between the aforementioned and Kongrong Mountain to test his super paopei, destroying the relationship between the two groups. Teaming up with Dakki, Chou Koumei puts a series of maneuvers in play to stop the Zhou Empire from revolting against Choka. Kidnapping Taikoubou's companions to get him to fight, Chou Koumei takes advantage of the former fleeing from combat to turn his spirit beast into stone, forcing him to confront him. After seemingly defeating Taikoubou, Chou Koumei attempts to change the story by making another manga to replace it and when Taikoubou is resurrected, Chou Koumei turns himself into a plant and tries to drain the Earth of its nutrients. Even when finally defeated, Chou Koumei remains cordial, proving himself to be one of the most respectful and interesting opponents of the series.
* Askeladd Olafson from ''[[Vinland Saga]]'' introduces himself to the audience sacking a fort and robbing it of its riches with a series of clever schemes, barely shedding a drop of blood. Leader of a group of Viking raiders, Askeladd was born the son of a slave and a lord. Murdering his father years later after his mother's death, Askeladd framed one of his brothers after ingratiating himself to his family. Playing the cutthroat court of King Sweyn with clever gambits, Askeladd has the caretaker of the weak prince Canute murdered to build Canute into an ideal candidate for the throne. Also driven by his desire to protect his maternal homeland of Wales, Askeladd finds himself briefly outplayed by Sweyn who demands he kill Canute or see Wales invaded by the Danes. Askeladd instead chooses to kill Sweyn and allow Canute to kill him, achieving all his goals posthumously by making Canute a beloved, respected King and knowing the young man will forge Askeladd's ideal kingdom and defend Wales out of gratitude.
* Maximilian Pegasus from the original ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' series is one of it's most fondly remembered [[Big Bad]]s by reason of this trope. He displayed magnificence in his bastardry as a [[Laughably Evil]] but [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] who successfully pitted Yugi and Kaiba against one another through manipulations and underhanded dealings, then clobbered Kaiba in a duel, using the mind reading powers granted to him by his Millennium Eye to maintain an edge, and brutal sarcasm to unnerve him. In his duel with Yugi, he leftoverworks Yugi to the point of failing unconscious and nearly pulled off a win, only ever losing his cool for fractions of a second whenever he appeared to be getting crushed in the duel. In the end he's proven to have an honorable streak, and releases his prisoners as part of his deal with Yugi. InOnly narrowly defeated by Yugi and Yami's tag-team dueling strategy, Pegasus set a high bar for subsequent villains to aspire to, and whether as a duelist, corporate raider, or user of Shadow magic, always seemed to be holding all the cards. While in the manga he gets killed off by the character mentioned below, but in the anime [[Spared by the Adaptation|he lives on]] to do more business in this series, ''GX'', and at least two spinoff movies.
** Yami Bakura, the Spirit of the Millennium Ring from the original series, is perhaps an even bigger example. In his debut appearance, he's shown to be the Pharaoh's equal in being a master of all games and he manipulates all events to fit in with his "game." Afterwards, he begins a [[Gambit Roulette]] that lasts for the remainder of the series andthat almostcould bring bringshis master {{spoiler|and other self, Zorc Necrophedes, the Dark One}} into the living world. NotHe has no set plan for this and just plays [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] as opportunities present themselves; he attacks a weakened Pegasus to mentiontake the Millennium Eye, he cuts deals with Marik to get his hands on the Millennium Rod, and infuses a piece of his soul in the shattered Millennium Puzzle so he can enter its complete form. He does all this while either faking a [[Heel Face Turn]] and fooling even his own host Ryo Bakura into letting him help, or pretending to be his host so well almost no one realizes which Bakura they're talking to. Any defeat or setback he suffers never sticks, Yami Bakura always finds his way back from the shadows and gets his Ring about Bakura's neck to take control of him again and keep scheming. He's such a good schemer that he ends up being the true final villain of the series, surviving up to the final story arc when he initiates his final game against Yugi and his friends, the Shadow RPG, almost destroying all of them and almost succeeding in bringing about the world's destruction. All while being [[Evil Is Cool|gleefully]], [[Large Ham|deliciously]] and [[Evil Is Sexy|charismatically]] evil the whole way through.
** Seto Kaiba incould thebe Death-Tone arc andin the Duelist Kingdom arc in theoriginal manga. While before he was a bully of the week, albeit a formidable one, upon his return he was a dangerously intelligent literal [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]] of a villain who is the CEO of his own mega corporation and comes very close to defeating Yugi at the end,. While his mental instability and petty asshole tendencies could classify him as a high functioning [[Smug Snake]] at best, he retained many of thesehis formidable traits and skills in his [[Anti-Villain]] role in the arc he reappeared in and evolved into a full-fledged [[Magnificent Bastard]], once again coming dangerously close to defeating Yugi in their rematch and then still technically winning the duel by playing Yugi's sense of morality and concern for other's well being against him, though he gets [[Out-Gambitted]] by Pegasus afterwards. He keeps this up in the Battle City Tournament, which he organizes in order to claim all three Egyptian God cards, only starting to lose his cool and fall back on his worse habits after being defeated by Yugi, but he manages a recovery and emerges in a Blue Eyed White Dragon shaped jet from his father's now destroyed island (which he self-destructed) in a truly magnificent style, setting off to veer his life in a better direction by focusing on making new innovations with his company for the enjoyment of needy children around the world.
** Dartz had 10,000 years to complete his master plan, and it shows. He's set everything up so that no matter whether he and his minions win or lose, he still wins. He is the richest and most powerful man in the world owning a tiny piece of every company on Earth, and has enough capital to buy out Kaiba-Corp for no other reason than to provoke Kaiba. He has supernatural powers that outshine anything Yami Yugi has in his arsenal (The Power of Friendship excluded, naturally), has assembled the most broken deck in the series, and survived monster armies, Egyptian Gods and the loss of his own soul before he was defeated.
** In ''Dark Side of Dimension'', Diva was once a student under Shadi, and one of the children that could wield the dimensional powers of the Plana. After Shadi was killed by Dark Bakura, Diva swore revenge on the killer's host, adopting the identity of "Aigami" to get close to him and Yugi. Upon learning of Kaiba's quest to bring back Atem, which would result in the Plana and it's power disappearing, Diva dueled Kaiba in an attempt to stop him, and when that failed stole two pieces of the Millennium Puzzle. Confronting and banishing Bakura to another dimension, Diva was forced into a duel with Yugi by Kaiba, where he attempted to coax Yugi into joining him before trying to kill him. Though the events that transpired resulted in Atem's brief return and the Plana vanishing, Diva ultimately accepted his loss.
* Sartorius Kumar in [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'']] is the head of the Society of Light, corrupted to evil by the Light of Destruction. Born with the power to see the future, he seeks out promising duelists with the power to defy fate and turn them to his cause so they can't stand in his way and derail his plans. He does this through a combination of lectures and brainwashing, telling his victims that only he can help them get what they want, convincing them they want to join the Society. Through these methods he takes over the top dorm of Duel Academy, makes all of its students his loyal followers, and plans to use a [[Kill Sat]] to destroy the world (mind control humanity in the English dub) in the name of cleansing, purifying light.
** Yubel is a demonic Duel Spirit and the mastermind behind the seeming main villain of Season 3, Professor Viper. Making a deal with Viper to revive his dead son in exchange for gathering Duel Energy to regenerate her body, she disposes of Viper and transports Duel Academy to another dimension to continue her plans herself, possessing the body of student Marcel as a host. She orchestrates Jaden's horrific [[Trauma Conga Line]] in order to awaken his dormant alter-ego, the Supreme King, so Jaden can complete the Super Polymerization card and then she can take it for herself and use it to fuse the twelve dimensions into one. Why? Because she was in love with Jaden's alter-ego in his past life, and she will do anything to rule over the multiverse with Jaden and keep him all to herself. Yubel is what happens when a love sick [[Stalker with a Crush]] decides to conquer what they see in the name of proving their love to someone.
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