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He primarily uses a Toon Deck, although he keeps Relinquished and its support cards around as his trump cards on the off-chance his Toons are defeated.

 

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: He has blue eyes in the manga, but they are [[Brown Eyes|brown]] in the anime. His white pants were also colored red in the anime.

* [[Affably Evil]]: He may seem like a carefree gentleman until he gets serious.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type II]]. All that he wanted was to be with his love, but he doesn't care for people who get in the way of his goal.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: In ''GX'', when he's fitted with the technology to paint Rainbow Dragon, he is given a black longcoat to wear with all the gadgets on.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't mock Pegasus' Toon Monsters and don't try to take them down. Moreover, don't speak of his past and his plan in front of him.

* [[Beware the Silly Ones]]: He appears to be playful and not taking his duels seriously, but he is a clever and dangerous opponent.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Doubling as his [[Pet the Dog]] moment, in the anime when Jounouchi beats Keith, he reveals that Keith was cheating the entire duel, and congratulates Jounouchi on winning fairly while his guards haul Keith away.

* [[Evil Eye]]: The Millennium Eye.

* [[Evil Is Stylish]]: And how. He organizes an actual tournament just to have a cover for taking over Kaiba Corporation! All he needed to do is defeat Yugi in an official duel. Granted, we do not know if Pegasus could have taken over the company in a different manner.

* [[Eye Scream]]: When he receives the Millennium Eye, he is heard screaming while having shown a [[Shadow Discretion Shot]] of him. Happens again when Bakura steals the Eye {{spoiler|and kills him at the same time}} in the manga only.

* [[Foil]]: His flair, smooth confidence [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative ability]], and results contrast dramatically with the [[The Brute|brutally direct]] failures of [[Smug Snake|Bandit Keith]], the season's other main antagonist.

* [[Four Is Death]]: His four enforcers.

* [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]/[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: In ''Reshef Of Destruction'', {{spoiler|Reshef worms itself into Pegasus' heart, who then asks the main character to have him sealed away before Reshef takes him over.}}

* [[I Gave My Word]]: Pegasus promises to release the souls of Kaiba and Mokuba if Yugi can defeat him. After he is defeated, Yugi tells him to fulfill his promise, which he does.

* [[Irony]]: When Pegasus also seals Kaiba's soul and looks at the two Soul Prison cards with Mokuba and Kaiba's souls in them, he mentions that the two brothers will never know the joy of restarting their relationship in this life. Then comes the end of Duelist Kingdom. where karma strikes back Pegasus - he fails to fulfill his dream of reuniting with Cyndia in his life. Upon learning about Pegasus' past, that particular quote becomes somewhat ironic, even.

* [[Kubrick Stare]]: In the anime, especially during his second duel with Yugi.

* [[Large Ham]]: In the original manga, anime, and dub versions.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Illusion" in the Japanese anime.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: He made the game, and has a Millennium Eye, yet it's still hard to take him seriously. His duel with Kaiba and ''especially'' his second Shadowgame with Yugi establish just how dangerous this man is.

* [[Missing Mom]]: In the manga, his father can be briefly seen, but nothing is known about his mother.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Oh boy. Pegasus often changes between a cruel villain and a goofy gentleman, but his duel against Yugi is the best example. Even his deck is this Trope, shifting from the silly Toon Monsters to the bizarre and creepy Illusion Monsters. See [[Villainous Breakdown]] below.

* [[Mysterious Middle Initial]]: It has never been stated what the J. stands for.

* [[Necromantic]]

* [[Sarcastic Clapping]]: In the anime, when Kaiba finds Mokuba in the dungeon.

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Post-Duelist Kingdom in the anime, much to the horror to those who witness his empty eye socket.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]: Pegasus makes free use of cards like Toon World, Relinquished, and Thousand-Eyes Restrict that were considered [[Game Breaker|too powerful]] to release to the general public.

* [[Sempai-Kohai]]: Pegasus is the sempai to Tenma Yakou and {{spoiler|Tenma Gekkou}}.

* [[Your Soul Is Mine]]

 

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He is voiced by [[You Inoue]] and [[Rica Matsumoto]] (Japanese) and [[Ted Lewis]] (English).

 

* [[Accent Adaptation]]: He was given a British accent in the dub to reflect the real Bakura's polite speech patterns in Japanese.

* [[Arch Enemy]]: The Spirit of the Millennium Ring is an ancient spirit, just like Yami, and he's also the series longest running, and final (sort of), antagonist.

** [[Badass Long Robe]]: Thief King Bakura's long red robe is very badass.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: [[Nice Guy|Ryou Bakura is a genuinely nice, polite, sweet guy.]] His [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] is a sadistic psychopath.

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Does an amazing impression of [[Nice Guy]] Bakura.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Many of his plans are set up some time in advance. Carries into his duels as well where he's a [[Manipulative Bastard]] who strings the opponent along while laying out an overarcing strategy to spring once he's got all his cards in place.

* [[Clingy MacGuffin]]: The Ring has been disposed of dozens of times. It always manages to make its way back to Bakura and possess him again.

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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Trapping Yugi's friends inside of their favourite cards was totally irrelevant to his plan to take the Millennium Puzzle. Jerk.

* [[Killer Game Master]]: Both figuratively and literally.

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: The Spirit of the Ring has none for anybody, no matter what the fangirls tell you. This extends even to his past self, Thief King Bakura, whom he cheerfully sacrifices as part of his game against Yami.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Thief King Bakura in his shorts and wide-open robe.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: He has white hair. He's a boy. And did we mention he's pretty?

* [[Your Soul Is Mine]]: Can trap souls inside of cards (though it doesn't work as well on those with Millennium Items).

 

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Voiced by [[Tetsuya Iwanaga]] (Japanese); [[Jonathan Todd Ross]] (English)

 

* [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]]: Turns every match into one.

* [[Anime Hair]]: Dark Marik.

* [[Badass Biker]]: Normal Marik.

* [[Badass Cape]]: Dark Marik adds a cape to his wardrobe.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Normal Marik.

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Played with. Normal Marik is a [[Bishounen]] [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] who nevertheless schemes to [[Take Over the World]] and has no problems brainwashing people into doing his fighting for him. Dark Marik, however, is infinitely worse, being a [[Combat Sadomasochist]], [[Blood Knight]], and [[Omnicidal Maniac]] who gets his kicks out of torturing his victims. He's also far more twisted looking than normal Marik, with his muscular build, [[Voice of the Legion]], [[Tainted Veins]], [[Anime Hair]], bulging eyes, facial stretching, [[Off-Model]] bouts, and habit of sticking out his tongue during combat.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]/[[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Once Battle City concludes, he has no problem being civil towards Yugi, who helped extinguish his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] once and for all.

* [[Jerkass]]: Normal Marik, though he gets better. Dark Marik takes it [[Up To Eleven]].

* [[Large Ham]]: See [[Card-Carrying Villain]].

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Normal Marik's empathy is limited. Dark Marik's is none existant.

* [[Off-Model]]: Dark Marik is frequently off model. Throw in the facial stretching, and it makes him really gross.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Implied in the anime, and made explicit in the video game adaptations. Dark Marik's goal is to destroy everything on Earth but himself, plunging the world into shadow, and laughing over the remains in the dark.

* [[People Puppets]]: His [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Mind Slaves]].

* [[Plot Armor]]: He ''should'' have lost his duels with Mai and Joey. What saved him with Mai was her run in with the [[Idiot Ball]], while Joey actually tried to make the winning move but collapsed from exhaustion and was disqualified. He's also on the good end of [[New Rules as the Plot Demands]], revealing new abilities of the Winged Dragon of Ra every time he duels, abilities that just so happen to let him win when otherwise Ra would be useless.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: His motivation in the manga and original dub; after his father was killed, Shadi appeared and said something which Marik assumed meant that the Pharaoh had murdered his father to punish him for leaving the tomb. He doesn't quite care for the fact that his family has been enslaved for three thousand years either.

 

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Voiced by [[Chisa Yokoyama]] (Japanese, [[Playing Against Type]])

 

* [[Bad Boss]]

* [[Cain and Abel]]: The Cain to Kaiba's Abel.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]

 

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He uses an Orichalcos deck.

 

* [[Anime Hair]]

* [[As Long as There Is Evil]]: Dartz claims The Leviathan was born from humanity's hatred, so as long as humanity exists, so shall the Beast. However, the Pharoah says it was created by the Orichalchos.

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Even with the constant revisions of his plans, {{spoiler|his own soul proved to be enough to revive the Leviathan, when Yugi manages to beat him.}}

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Nearly forced Yami Yugi to surrender, that's a accomplishment by itself.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Denied many people happiness with their loved ones, his spirit gets to have happiness with his loved ones. ''WHAT. THE. HELL?''

* [[Knight Templar]]: What he started out as before [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]].

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: See [[SNK Boss]] above.

 

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He uses a Valkyrie deck, based on ''[[The Ring of the Nibelung|Der Ring Des Nibelungen]]'', and is loaded with cards that let him make extra draws, increase his life points, block his opponent's attacks, and remove his opponent's monsters from play. His trump cards are Ride of the Valkyries and Valkyrie Brunhilde.

 

* [[Always Someone Better]]: And it ticks him off.

* [[Camp]]: [[Up to Eleven|AND HOW.]]

* [[Unknown Rival]]: Though he suspects Siegfried is the one who's hacking his computer systems, Kaiba has to dig through his family history before he realizes who the guy really is. And even he doesn't take him seriously.

 

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Voiced by: Yoshitaka Kaidu (Japanese).

 

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Millennium Items

* [[Big Bad]]: Of the second anime series.

* [[Evil Only Has to Win Once]]: Inverted. To win, The Spirit of the Millennium Ring/Zorc actually recreates the events of Zorc's original attack in an elaborate Role Playing Shadow Game, trying to rewrite history so that he never lost in the first place.

* [[God of Evil]]: Technically an [[Eldritch Abomination]] created with the Millennium items, he's upgraded in the dub to the Ruler of the Shadow Realm, essentially [[Satan]].

* [[Large and In Charge]]: Undeniably the biggest villain, if one does not count the Leviathan.

* [[Made of Evil]]: Made of all the negative energy of humankind since the dawn of their creation.

* [[Playing with Fire]]: [[Calling Your Attacks|Zorc Inferno!]]

 

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