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As his name suggests, he uses an Insect deck. His trump cards are Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and Insect Queen (which he lost to Jounouchi via the ante rules of Battle City, but he quickly gains another one).
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* [[Adaptational Heroism]]: He's still a complete jerk in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: In the original version and manga, he knew about the field power bonus rule in Duelist Kingdom because Pegasus told him about it as a "special preview" for winning the Japanese championship. In the English dub, however, he's a thief who ''stole'' the secret, bragging about doing so.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Bugs.
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* [[Giggling Villain]]: [[Annoying Laugh|"Hyoi hyoi hyoi hyoi hyoi hyoi!"]]
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Gives one to Yami; it actually almost works.
* [[Informed Ability]] Supposedly, he was the Duel Monsters champion before Duelist Kingdom, although he's only won once on-camera, to Rex, and he tends to be humiliated ''a lot''.
* [[Jerkass]]: BIG TIME.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: For a guy who plays a card game, he is so clearly channeling this attitude.
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** The only time he seemed to ''stop'' being so smug (at least at first) was against the Pharaoh during the Doma arc. He genuinely expected a big duel when he initiated it and spent about three-fourths of the duel utterly ''[[Curb Stomp Battle|stomping]]'' the Pharaoh. He didn't really start doing badly until his [[Fatal Flaw|smugness]] crept in again. Oh, and especially when the Pharaoh [[Unstoppable Rage|absolutely flipped out in response to his cruel joke]], and got help from [[Ass Pull|quite a few good draws]] in his final play.
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: With Rex.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: This guy falls for one of [[The Oldest Tricks in
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Every time he loses.
* [[Villains Want Mercy]]: And as Jonouchi tells him - before refusing to grant it - he ''really'' should have thought of that before cheating.
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As his name suggests, he uses a Dinosaur deck, though his trump cards are all Dragons: Serpent Night Dragon (which he lost to Espa Roba via the ante rules of Battle City), Red-Eyes Black Dragon (which he lost in a wager to Jonouchi), and Tyrant Dragon, which he gains in the Doma arc.
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* [[Adaptational Heroism]]: In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction]]'' much like Haga is.
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: He may have been a jerk in the manga, but at least he was helpful and doesn't team up with Haga. In the anime he does team up with Haga and is a straight antagonist in the Doma filler arc.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Dinosaurs
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Joins Dartz to attempt revenge on Jounouchi.
* [[Determinator]]: See Weevil/Haga's description for the trope.
* [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]]: Actually, it's reversed--Dragons Are Dinosaurs. He's a dinosaur duelist, but his strongest monsters are Serpent Night Dragon, Red-Eyes Black Dragon and Tyrant Dragon, as when the original anime was being made there were no high-powered Dinosaur cards and the type as a whole was very unsupported. This would be fixed several years later during the timeframe of ''GX's'' production, hence Tyranno Kenzan.
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: We'll give him that; his cards are pretty cool,
* [[Informed Ability]]: Same deal as Weevil/Haga, but he has never won on-camera.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Not to the same degree as Weevil, but he's still very smug about his abilities and treats weaker players like garbage.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]] Combined with [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]. His bet against Jonouchi to take Time Wizard is what gave Jonouchi the idea to use the card against him, and win the duel. Later, Red Eyes proved Jonouchi's most useful card.
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: With Haga/Weevil.
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He uses a Machine deck, which is later augmented with many rare cards by Marik. His trump cards are Metalzoa, Barrel Dragon, and Slot Machine; while under Marik's control Machine King and rare fiend Zera The Mant are added to his arsenal.
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* [[Adaptational Badass]]: In the manga Joey kicks his ass in a fistfight. In the anime, Keith hands Joey his rear end, and beats up Bonz, Zygor, and Sid all at once. He's even more awesome in the video games; in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction]]'', where he takes over the Rare Hunters/Ghouls after Marik's [[Heel–Face Turn]] and leads them in invading and occupying Domino City. When you duel him as a boss, he even summons the Winged Dragon of Ra against you! {{spoiler|Okay, he summons it stuck in Sphere Mode since he doesn't know the chant to unlock it, but it's the thought that counts.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Asshole Victim]]: In the manga, Pegaus' penalty game kills him. In the anime, Marik turns him into a mindslave. Either way, not very easy to pity.}}
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Blond and the biggest douche in the entire show.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: In the anime Marik does this to him at one point.
* [[The Brute]]: And lord, how. He even beats up Yugi, of all people! Contrast to Pegasus, who takes up the role of the [[Squishy Wizard]].
* [[Cheaters Never Prosper]]: Where to start...
* [[Cheaters Never Prosper]]: He walks Bonz through his duel with Joey, so that he can see every card Joey has. He beats up Bonz, Sid, and Zygor and steals their Star Chips after Bonz's defeat, and traps Yugi, Joey, and co. in an underground labyrinth. He steals Joey's entry card to try and avoid their duel. He hides his set of "7 Completed" cards inside his wristbands during their match. And yet he still gets his ass kicked by Joey and unceremoniously expelled from the island by Pegasus when he tries to take the prize money by force.▼
** First off, he brings dozens of different decks to a tournament where the rules specifically state you can only have one. When called out on this, he states he isn't in it at all. (Meaning he was never invited, which makes Keith a trespasser in a tournament he isn't even in.) This is left out of the manga.
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** This continues to when he's under Marik's control in the anime, using a mechanical device concealed in his loose sleeves to gain whatever card he wants when he draws.
* [[Cool Shades]]/[[Sunglasses at Night]]/[[Sinister Shades]]: Keith always wears his shades, and they do a lot to enhance both the sense of menace and assholery that he gives off.
* [[Eagle Land]]: Type 2.
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* [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes]]: They're typically hidden by [[Sinister Shades]], but when we do see Keith's eyes they're small, narrow and veiny.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: ''Twice'' in one episode:
** In his duel against Jounouchi, he ended up losing because he played the sword and shield card, causing his and Jounouchi's monsters to have their attack and defense points swapped. But because Joey had a trap card that allowed him to sent his Red-Eyes back one turn, it ended up with Kieth losing the duel.
** After he loses the duel, rather than just walk away, he informs everyone that Joey's entry card was not his own and that Joey should be disqualified. When asked [[Saying Too Much| how he could possibly know this]], Pegasus reveals that Kieth was the one who stole Joey's entry card in the first place. Depending on the version, this leads to Kieth either getting killed or being shot out into the ocean.
* [[Hypocrite]]:
** He regularly stresses that nobody's ever beaten him without cheating (referring, of course, to Pegasus), in spite of... well, being Bandit Keith.
** Also, in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! R]]'' he calls Jonouchi out claiming that Capture Summon (a card that lets the user take an opponent's monster and summon it) is a broken card; even though his Pillager card is an even more broken version of the same effect.
* [[Informed Ability]]: He's known to be the American Champion (or Intercontinental Champion in the dub), making him the fictional equivalent of World Championship Qualifiers like [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2010-07-13/sean-montague-yu-gi-oh-card-game-us-world-championship-2010 Sean Montague] and [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2009-07-14/kris-ferber-from-albany-new-york-outduels-more-than-1200-yu-gi-oh-5d-trading-card-game-enthusiasts-to-win-konami-digital-entertainment-inc.s-united-states-2009-national-championship Kris Ferber]. He's never been shown winning on-screen, lost to Jonouchi, and seems to cheat rather frequently, putting his actual skill into question. That said, his actual deck and strategies seem to be very good by Duelist Kingdom's standards, and it's easy to imagine him beating most of the other competitors. He'd also been out of the tournament circuit for years and gone to some dark places, meaning his skills may have degraded.
* [[Jerkass]]: Other characters may be more ''evil'' than Keith, but no one--except maybe Gozaburo Kaiba--is a bigger asshole.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Keith's what happens when the captain of the football team from every teen movie ever made turns twenty-six and decides to play Duel Monsters.
* [[Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales]]: If this guy was supposed to mock Americans, they did a bad job; he's a rather popular villain among fans in the States.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Or at least to distrust.
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Towards Pegasus.
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* [[Cheaters Never Prosper]]: In addition to loading his deck with three copies of Exodia, he also marks his cards in the dub (in the original, his cards are counterfeit). He still loses, and it's largely because his deck is so filled with Exodia pieces that he can't draw anything else.
** He cheats even worse in video games, not only using multiple copies of Exodia pieces, but multiple copies of Sangan, With of the Black Forest, and Graceful Charity, all of which are Limited on the in-game lists.
* [[Egomaniac Hunter]]: Displays this attitude towards card hunting.
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* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: When he can't use Exodia as a surprise, this guy is all talk. (In fact, Yami didn't have to "destroy" Exodia to win, seeing as he had Dust Tornado set; he just did it to teach the guy a lesson.) Yugi's entire dialogue during the duel is a "The Reason You Suck" Speech with a [[Paranoia Gambit]] built in that Seeker falls for hook line and sinker.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: He's gaunt, sallow, creepy-looking, and wears a black, scary robe. Clearly up to no-good.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Seems to think that simply having Exodia makes him invincible.
* [[Stone Wall]]: Stone Statue of the Aztecs and Gear Golem, which he uses to defend his Life Points while he searches for Exodia.
* [[Unsportsmanlike Gloating]]: It wasn't losing the duel and his best card that made Jonouchi upset. This guy had to ''beat him up'' before taking it. ''That'' was what crossed the line for Jonouchi and Yami.
* [[Villain Has a Point]]: He's sadistic scum, yes, but he was well within his rights to tell Jonouchi not to help Yugi, as such an act is not permitted in a tournament, even using [[Real Life]] rules.
* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: For the Battle City arc. He demonstrates how dogged and dangerous the Ghouls actually are in their pursuit of rare cards by beating the tar out of Jonouchi after he defeats him in a duel.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Courtesy of Marik.
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* [[Bald of Evil]]: Ganzley in his real body, Lector as Jinzo.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Lector.
* [[Cheaters Never Prosper]]: During his duel with Joey, Johnson manipulates his luck based cards. Once Noah sees this, [[Johnson makes excuses|Dirty Coward]] which Noah gets bored with. Joey Goes on to defeat Johnson on his own now that Johnson was blocked from cheating.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: They betrayed Gozaburo to Kaiba, and Kaiba to Pegasus, before trapping him in a virtual world. After they themselves were trapped there, they join up with Noah, but have no problems flaunting his rules and going behind his back in their desperation to get out of there. Finally, they violate the terms of their duel with Yugi and Joey, refusing to return Tristan's body despite having promised to.
* [[Cool Mask]]: Ganzley as Deep Sea Fisherman. Lector wears one along with some [[Sinister Shades]] when he first appears; one could argue that the mask he wears as Jinzo counts too.
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** [[Evil Genius]]: Ota/Nesbitt, robot engineer and weapons expert.
** [[Dark Chick]]: Otaki/Crump, the most sympathetic and absurd, being a penguin fanatic and all.
*[[Fixing the Game]]: Johnson Rigs Joey's luck based cards to get ahead. [[Noah|Hypocrite]] Caught Johnson and near disqualified him for cheating til Joey decides to continue the duel and Joey defeats Johnson through his guile now that Johnson couldn't cheat.
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Lector's Injection Fairy Lilly. She's a small cute fairy with only 400/1500. However, by paying 2000 Life Points he can raise her attack to 3400 until the end of his turn, making her very hard to get rid of.
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: Johnson's real body, Lecter's Deck Master body.
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* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Ganzley's deck.
* [[The Resenter]]: They all resent Kaiba for his control of the company, but Daimon/Lector is the most classic example, feeling control of the company should have come to him due to his status as Gozaburo's right-hand man.
* [[Shout-Out]]: In the English dub, "Lector" is named for Hannibal Lector, and in [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081213044448/yugioh/images/c/c1/JinzoYAP1-EN-UR-LE.png the Jinzo body]{{Dead link}} looks the part a bit.
* [[Sinister Silhouettes]]: In their initial appearances.
* [[Smug Snake]]: All of them. They range from very low-functioning (Crump and Nesbitt) to the far more high-functioning Ganzley and Lector. Johnson may be the most classic of them, with his condescending attitude, arrogance, and smarmy personality.
* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: Their deck masters have this to varying degrees, most prominently [http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/2/23/DeepseaWarriorPSV-EN-C.jpg Deepsea Warrior]{{Dead link}} and [http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/2/2a/JinzoPSV-EN-ScR.jpg Jinzo]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Villain Ball]]: Oshita actually had Yugi beat, but decided to drag their duel out because he wanted to watch him squirm.
* [[Virtual Ghost]]
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* [[Abusive Dad]]: To his ''three'' sons.
* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: Has reached this status with regards to Kaiba by the time of the Virtual World Arc.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In the original manga, he was a [[Posthumous Character]] only seen in a [[Flashback]] scene. In the anime, he's more fleshed out.
* [[Badass Moustache]]: A little bit badass, mixed in with loads of ruthlessness, but the 'stash is undeniably badass.
* [[Big Bad]]: Of the Virtual World Filler arc.
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* [[Death by Irony]]: He tries to pull this on Kaiba, intending to defeat him in duel monsters the same way Kaiba defeated him in chess. It didn't work out.
* [[Evil Mentor]]: His grooming of Kaiba to be his heir was intended to make him a vessel for Noah's mind. In the dub he comes to decide why bother, when Seto is just as smart and capable as Noah, while in the Japanese he decided to take Seto's body for himself when he died.
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: His arrogance and pride — he ''thinks'' he's always in control of the situation and has thought everything out so there's no way he can lose. Kaiba beats him this way twice, first by manipulating Mokuba into spending time with Gozaburo so Gozaburo thinks Mokuba will support his control of KaibaCorp over Kaiba; he thus allows Kaiba and the Big Five to buy up 49% of the company, ignorant to the idea that maybe Mokuba won't support him after all. Second, he believes Exodia Necross is completely invincible and will win him the duel to the point he never plays any other cards, never anticipating Kaiba might find a way to banish the Exodia parts in his graveyard and strip Exodia Necross of its powers.
* [[Filler Villain]]: Although he at least has a legitimate reason for showing up.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Exodia Necros seems invincible, but when Kaiba figures out its weakness, he tears both it and Gozaburo to shreds.
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* [[Lack of Empathy]]: He's an [[Abusive Dad]] who considers his biological son expendable, and later returns to try and trap Kaiba and his allies in the Virtual World. He tells Kaiba that you can trust no one, including him, neglects Mokuba, abandoned Noah before using him for his own ends, and generally doesn't care about anyone beyond himself and his own legacy. He's not as over the top about it as the Spirit of the Millennium Ring and Dark Marik, but yeah--there's no empathy there.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]/[[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: The dub included foreshadowing of his appearance, most notably that Noah acts all along as if he knows Gozaburo is watching. In the original though his arrival is completely unexpected and Noah is shocked to see him, thinking he was dead like everyone else.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: Done in hindsight, oddly enough. Amelda believes he had orchestrated a war profiting enterprise to make money, which resulted in the deaths of Amelda's parents. While Seto was quite willing to believe this, it wasn't true. The "Gozaburo" that Amelda had seen involved in it was Dartz in disguise.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]
* [[Offing the Offspring]]: His objective by the time of the Virtual World arc.
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* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Social Darwinist]]
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Sort of. In the original manga, he is [[Driven to Suicide]] after losing his company to Seto. In the anime, he doesn't perish until much later in the Virtual Nightmare arc.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: Tries it on the cast at the end, when he attacks their blimp.
* [[Villain Ball]]: When he learns that the virtual world is set to be destroyed, he decides to take Kaiba's body by force and escape, but Kaiba convinces him to back off and finish the duel, since he was so intent on proving himself superior.
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: When alive, his public image was that of a charitable philanthropist, which was only a PR façade.
* [[Virtual Ghost]]
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Pulls it on Noah.
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