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* [[Animal Motifs]]: Bugs.
* [[Big Creepy Crawlies]]
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: When Yugi first met Haga, he seemed like a ''very'' nice guy, nicer than Ryuzaki ironically enough. He was very polite overall, gave some advice to both Yugi and Jounouchi, and seemed pretty tame to the [[Genre Blind]]. Yugi liked and admired him right after meeting him, which was why he [[What an Idiot!|trusted the complete stranger with handling his grandfather's cards despite their not being water-proof and a large body of water being nearby.]] It was more noticeable in the Japanese version than in the English dub, in which he sounded unbelievably sarcastic the entire time. Now, of course, fans know [[Jerkass|what]] [[Smug Snake|he's]] [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|really like.]]
* [[Cheaters Never Prosper]]
* [[Deal With the Devil]]: Joins Dartz to attempt revenge on Yugi.
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* [[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.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs]]
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Not to the same degree as Weevil, but he's still very smug about his abilities and treats weaker players like garbage.
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: With Haga/Weevil.
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* [[Dirty Coward]]: Pushes other people down in order to make himself feel braver. Yami isn't buying it.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: One of Yugi's stupider opponents, Panik relies more on scare tactics and pyrotechnics than actual talent.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: In the Japanese version, he's only known by his title, "The Player Killer of Darkness."
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]
* [[Kick the Son of A Bitch]]: Yami Mind Crushes him. No one really cares.
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* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: He never really gets the chance to act on it, but his objective is to payback Pegasus for humiliating him.
* [[Foil]]: Keith's short-temper, [[Smug Snake|Smug Snakery]], and use of physical force makes for a pretty strong contrast with [[Manipulative Bastard]] and [[Gentleman Snarker]] Pegasus.
* [[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]]
* [[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.
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* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Towards Pegasus.
* [[Russian Roulette]]: Played it in his depression over his loss to Pegasus.
* {{spoiler|[[SchrodingersSchrodinger's Cast]]}}
* [[Smug Snake]]: Lord yes. Keith thinks the world owes him something.
* [[Sore Loser]]: Does not take defeat well. "No one beats Bandit Keith!"
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* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: A skull-faced midget who runs a Zombie deck?
* [[Cheaters Never Prosper]]: Rather than dueling, he, Sid, and Zygor spend all their time at Battle City scaring people into giving them their Locator Cards. This ultimately leads to them encounter Bakura and making an abrupt exit from the show.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Deader With Zombies]]
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: His henchmen, Sid and Zygor. Zygor's the [[Dumb Muscle]], Sid's the talker.
 
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* [[Creepy Twins]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Finishing Each OthersOther's Sentences]]
* [[Knights and Knaves]]: Pull this when questioned on the way out of their dungeon.
* [[Rhymes On a Dime]]: Only in the dub.
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* [[Cheaters Never Prosper]]: Trims his cards and uses trick shuffling to bring his Dark Magician into his opening hand.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Panics every time the duel is turning against him.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Not Arkana himself, but his Dark Magician, with its [[White -Haired Pretty Boy|white hair]] and evil smile is very much the evil counterpart to Yugi's Dark Magician.
* [[Giggling Villain]]
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]
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* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Stage Magician]]
* [[The Un -Reveal]]: Shows Yugi his face. Yugi is repulsed, we don't get to see it.
* [[Victim Falls For Rapist]]: His goal is to get Marik to brainwash Catherine into loving him again.
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: Courtesy of Marik.
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* [[Mask Power]]: Far more competent with their masks on.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Lumis and Umbra mean light and dark.
* [[Not -So -Harmless Villain]]: In their first apperance, they don't wear their masks and are easily defeated. In their second they keep Yugi and Kaiba busy for four episodes.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: They play dumb the first time they run into Yugi and Kaiba. The second time, not so much.
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: In the Japanese version--Mask of Light and Mask of Darkness respectively.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Is very polite in his duel with Jounouchi, in the dub referring to him as "Mr. Wheeler," and clearly respects Jounouchi's dueling skills even when Jounouchi is about to lose. It's what gives his Marik disguise away. In addition, he himself isn't so much evil as he is completely devoted to protecting Marik.
* [[Anti -Villain]]: He only follows Marik to protect him and keep his dark personality in check.
* [[Badass Cape]]
* [[Bald of Evil]]: On first appearance.
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* [[Divergent Character Evolution]]: Initially they're an [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]], with the collective goal of taking over KaibaCorp for unspecified, but undoubtedly sinister intentions. In the "Virtual Nightmare" arc, they're all given separate personalities, and objectives, and while they all share the goal of defeating Kaiba and escaping into the real world, their reasons for hating him are fleshed out, with them being gaining separate backstories and motivations. Ganzley and Johnson are just greedy, Crump resents Kaiba mocking his penguin obsession, Nesbitt's angry about his work being disposed of, and Lector's [[The Resenter]] par excellence.
* [[Dracolich]]: Berserk Dragon.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Penguins]]: Crump certainly thinks so, and his Nightmare Penguin Deck Master reflects that belief.
* [[Evil Old Folks]]: Ganzley, who actually needs a cane to support himself.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: In the dub, they all have fairly low voices, with Ganzley and Nesbitt hitting the lowest notes.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Johnson and especially Lector, who in the English dub at least, is incapable of addressing anyone informally, despite being the biggest bastard of the entire group.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Ganzley and Crump are noticeably portly.
* [[Five -Bad Band]]: If the name wasn't a tip off.
** [[Big Bad]]: Oshita/Ganzley (among the group at least)
** [[The Dragon]]: Daimon/Lector, who seems to be second-in-command, and is definitely their best duelist. One could argue that Five-Headed Dragon is this to the group as a whole, with Berserk Dragon being Lector's.
** [[The Brute]]: Ooka/Johnson, his dueling "strategy" is to abuse his Deck Master's [[Kill 'Em All]] ability to keep the opponent's field cleared.
** [[Evil Genius]]: Ota/Nesbitt, robot engineer and weapons expert.
** [[Dark Chick]]: Otaki/Crump, the most sympathetic and absurd, being a penguin fanatic and all.
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* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Nesbitt becomes one when he fuses with Machine King to become Perfect Machine King.
* [[I Lied]]: Lector's response when Yugi reminds him that he promised to return Tristan's body if the Big 5 were defeated.
* [[Last -Name Basis]]: Only Crump's first name has been revealed, and they are all addressed by their last names.
* [[The Load]]: Ota/Nesbit, who is arguably the weakest duelist in the group (having been defeated by Serenity of all people) and in the duel against Yugi and Joey totally blows the substantial lead that Ganzley, Crump, and Johnson had established, requiring [[The Dragon|Lector]] to step in in order to stave off defeat. Crump, perhaps surprisingly, isn't this; despite his humiliating loss to Tea he firmly establishes himself as a [[Not -So -Harmless Villain]] during the group duel.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: They think they're this to Pegasus; in reality he's just using them.
* [[Not -So -Harmless Villain]]: Crump. He uses a deck filled with penguins, which he's been obsessed with since childhood, and comes off as so pathetic in his duel with Tea that you almost feel sorry for him. Then in the duel between the Big Five and Yugi & Joey (in which most of the cards on the field belong to other Big Five members) he and his Deck Master, Nightmare Penguin, really come into their own, boosting the power of the WATER monsters Ganzley had played and establishing an enormous lead for the Big Five.
* [[Odd Name Out]]: Daimon in the Japanese, as the only one who's name doesn't begin with an "o". He arguably counts in the English as well, given that his name is a [[Shout Out]] to Hannibal Lector, while the others are just made up names.
* [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: In their initial appearances.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: Nesbitt fuses with Machine King to create Perfect Machine King. The entire Big Five do this in their final match, when they summon Five-Headed Dragon.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Their Five-Headed Dragon is a [[Game Breaker]] with 5000/5000, that destroys all cards on the field through the act of being summoned and can only be harmed by a monster with the Light Attribute. After it's destruction in their duel with Yugi and Jonouchi/Joey, Lector summons the Berserk Dragon, a freaky [[The Undead|undead]] monster with 3500/0 that can attack the entire field at once (but fortunately loses 500 ATK points every turn).
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Lector delivers a lengthy one to Kaiba in which he calls him out on his ruthless attitude and treatment of Mokuba.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]: He's a superb chessplayer. He also has traits of this as a villain, setting his plans in motion far in advance.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
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* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Tries it on Kaiba.
* [[Hotblooded Sideburns]]: His chops complete the trifecta that include his 'stash and his 'brows.
* [[ItsIt's Personal]]: With Kaiba.
* [[Jerkass]]: BIG. FUCKING. TIME.
* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: About the nicest way to interpret his personality is that he's so harsh and strict to temper Noah and Seto into strong, capable businessmen worthy of taking over Kaiba Corp. This is pre-death though; by the time of the Virtual World he tells Noah [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]], and doesn't care much about Kaiba anymore either.
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* [[Offing the Offspring]]: His objective by the time of the Virtual World arc.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Turns into this by the end of the Virtual World arc.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: Transforms into a corrupted virus after his defeat, and tries to first possess Kaiba, and then take the group with him.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Of Noah
* [[Self -Made Man]]: According to Kaiba.
* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]]: A totally evil one.
* [[Smug Snake]]
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* [[Noble Demon]]: The only one of Dartz's minions that isn't [[Ax Crazy]].
* [[Redemption Earns Life]]: After his loss against Yami Yugi.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Rafael or Raphael?
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Heartbreakingly highlighted in his past flashbacks.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]
* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: The only one who's not having a [[Slasher Smile]] or [[Smug Super]], having a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|vendetta against a certain organization]] and [[Blood Knight|fight anyone just because they're there]]. Also the only one that honestly believes that Dartz will inspire world peace.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: To Yugi. In their first duel he introduced himself as a true duelist, which Yugi finds ridiculous. In the [[Heroic Rematch]], Yugi calls him a true duelist himself.
* {{spoiler|[[The Worf Effect]]: As soon as he goes for the Heel, he gets defeated by Dartz himself.}}
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** [[Slasher Smile]]: Not at all.
* [[The Berserker]]: Rushes into any situation where there's a battle without thinking of the consequences, and is willing to duel anyone, even if it means not taking their souls away.
* [[Blood Knight]]: The ONLY duelist in the series who isn't a [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]], a certified [[Nice Guy]] or a psychopath obsessed with winning and killing everything that can duel. This love of a fight is what translates somewhat to Jaden Yuki in GX.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]
* [[The Brute]]: Literally has a deck that allows him to win with just punching rather than solving with complex plans that actually pay off.
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