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, 6 years ago→Gozaburo Kaiba
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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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