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Isis (Ishizu) Ishtar

Marik's older sister and Odion's adoptive sister, she's the owner of the Millennium Necklace, which allows the user to see into the past and future.

She uses a Sand Fairy (Fairy monsters with an Egyptian theme) deck, along with cards that cycle her opponent's cards into the graveyard and her cards into her deck. Her trump card is Reversal of Worlds (Exchange of the Spirit).

  • As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Fans assume the names of her cards (Agido, Kelbek, Zolga, Mudora) are references to something in Egyptian Mythology, but they seem to be just made-up names.
  • Because Destiny Says So: She was so obsessed with following her visions that she threw away a quicker victory against Seto just to achieve the victory she saw. Which fails when Seto manages to defy her visions and defeat her.
  • Big Sister Instinct: Joins Battle City to try to save her brother.
  • Big Good: Plays the role of the player's guide and mentor in a few video games.
  • Break the Haughty: Tries it on Kaiba and to a degree, suffers it herself.
  • Cain and Abel: The Abel to Marik's Cain.
  • Combat Clairvoyance: Sees into the future to predict her opponent's moves.
  • Do Not Adjust Your Set: How she gets Kaiba's attention at the start of the second series anime.
  • Herald: In Season 2.
  • Lady of War: Yeah she plays a children's card game instead of leading an army, but she's definitely got this vibe. She's quiet, feminine, and came this close to kicking Seto Kaiba's arrogant ass.
  • Manipulative Bitch: In her duel with Kaiba she manipulates every move he makes, even allowing herself to take damage from him, in preparation to flip his strategy back on him. Lampshaded by Dark Marik, who snickers that it's fun to watch her work Kaiba over after she did it to normal Marik so often when they were children.
  • Midnight Blue Eyes: Matches Lady of War personality.
  • Our Angels Are Different: She uses Fairy-type monsters that are kind of, well, weird, being Earth Attribute (up to that point, most Fairies were Light) with odd names (which are not references to anything) and of odd shape. They stand out enough for fans to refer to them as "Ishizu's cards" instantly.
  • Reincarnation: Of the priestess Isis.
  • Silk Hiding Steel: Quiet, polite, proper, and able to take a direct hit blow from Blue-Eyes White Dragon as if it were nothing, something that sent even Jonouchi to his knees.
  • The Strategist: Has her duel with Kaiba all planned out from the start.

Shadi

A mysterious man from Egypt, he first makes his appearance in the manga after Yugi's Millennium Puzzle is taken away by Kanekura. An emotionless person who only seems to be interested in gathering the Millennium Items.

  • Ambiguously Human: Or maybe "ambiguously alive". Or both.
  • The Cameo: He gets one in Yu-Gi-Oh Reshef of Destruction.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: In the second anime series only, where he doesn't make an appearance until the end of Duelist Kingdom. Until then, he's just a figure from one of Pegasus' paintings. In the manga, the cast recognizes him from the painting as they have met him before.
  • The Chessmaster: Hasan in the Pharaoh's Memory being revealed as Shadi might have been because of Shadi himself interfering with the Dark RPG to save the Pharaoh. He also seemed to work behind the scenes to get the Pharaoh to the afterlife and destroy the Millennium Items. See The Unfettered below.
  • Dead All Along: Possibly
  • Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: His eyes always look like this.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: In the second anime series only, his portrait is briefly shown for the first time in episode 8 of the anime, and once again in episode 28. He finally makes his debut in episode 40.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Seeing the power of friendship in action practically blows his mind.
  • Journey to the Center of the Mind: He did this a few times with his Millennium Key, entering the "Soul Room" of the person of his choice. He's also capable of remodeling said rooms, thus altering that person's personality, up to making them into his puppet.
  • Karma Houdini: Why most fans don't like him much. Nobody even calls him out on his actions, which are morally questionable at best.
  • Knight Templar: Whatever his goals are or were, he can and will commit murder or even Mind Rape in order to accomplish them.
  • Mind Screw: Holy freaking how! Shadi has the reputation for being the most confusing character in the entire franchise thanks to his enigmatic nature and for having four identities associated with him.
  • Older Alter Ego: He appears to be capable of this - when Yugi meets him, he appears as an adult man. When Pegasus meets him in Egypt in the manga, he appears as a young boy.
  • Orange and Blue Morality: It is very hard to label Shadi "good" or "evil". The shadow games he inflicts on some people border on sadistic, and end in horrid death (possibly worse) and he's not above using innocents as disposable pawns. On the other hand, there have been times he's acted out of charity to help people he barely knew, like the time he saves Honda from falling off the blimp.
  • Stealth Hi Bye
  • The Unfettered: He commits himself to his mission of assembling the Millennium Items. He kills Kanekura and the man who intended to buy the Millennium Puzzle, temporarily brainwashes Yoshimori and Anzu in order to get Dark Yugi out from the Millennium Puzzle and somewhat manipulates Pegasus.

Mr. Crocketts (Croquet)

Pegasus' right-hand servant.

  • Adaptation Dye Job: In the anime, he has gray hair, but in the video games he's shown with brown hair.
  • Demoted to Extra: He has most of his role and appearances cut in the anime, including the briefcase scene and his explanation of Pegasus' plans to the group.
  • James Bondage: In the manga, with his head held in a briefcase.
  • Last-Name Basis: He's only referred to as Mr. Crocketts.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: He tries this with Kaiba in the manga. But because he's not Pegasus, it fails badly for him.
  • Old Retainer: Pegasus' plans were very important for him, and was one of the very few who knew what was going on. In Yu-Gi-Oh! R, he addresses Tenma Yakou, Pegasus' adopted child, as Master Tenma.
  • Sinister Shades

Saruwatari (Kemo)

He is one of Pegasus' suits working for Industrial Illusions. Revealed to be spying Kaiba Corporation for Pegasus.

  • Adaptation-Induced Plothole: Saruwatari is shown to be working for Gozaburo, who was introducing the Kaibas (still kids at the time) to a young Siegfried, in a flashback during the KC Grand Prix arc. [1]
  • Anime Hair: It's the source of his fame!
  • The Brute: Oh, so very much.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: Hey, remember one of the guards from Death-T? That's him, alright.
  • Meaningful Name: His name means monkey herder. Seeing how he's always running after or supervising kids...
  • Sinister Shades

Tom (Sam)

One of the kids who attended the duel of Pegasus and Keith, and one of the children who was unfamiliar with the game. He "defeated" Keith and got a free deck from Pegasus.

Cyndia (Cecelia Pegasus)

Pegasus' lover/fiancée (wife in the dub). Her death led to the creation of the card game and the Duelist Kingdom arc.

  • Bit Character: She is one, although she is important to the plot. She also serves as a Foil to flesh out Pegasus' character through his backstory.
  • The Cameo: In Yu-Gi-Oh Reshef of Destruction, her portrait can be seen in a room in Pegasus' Castle. In Yu-Gi-Oh! R, Pegasus shows the card he made for her to Tenma Yakou in a flashback.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: Her portrait is next to Shadi's in Duelist Kingdom. At first it isn't that significant, then Yugi's friends notice it in Pegasus' hall (or his sanctuary in the anime). Her significance to the story was revealed at the end of Duelist Kingdom.
  • Dead Little Sister: For Pegasus.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: In episode 8 of the anime and chapter 73 of the manga, her portrait can be seen next to Shadi's for a brief moment. She is properly introduced when Pegasus tells about his story to Yugi (or, in the anime, when Anzu finds his journal and reads it out loud to the gang).
  • Gorgeous Period Dress: And how.
  • Ill Girl: She died to whatever illness she had.
  • Kiss Me, I'm Virtual: She would have been brought back in Solid Vision form if Pegasus' plan hadn't failed.
    • Also during Pegasus' vision after he receives his Millennium Eye - she's just an illusion.
  • Morality Pet: To Pegasus.
  • The Muse: In the dub, she inspired Pegasus to paint. Somewhat more ambiguous in the original, but it's still obvious that Pegasus loved painting pictures of her.
  • The Ojou
  • Plot Based Photograph Obfuscation: In the manga, when the portraits of her and Shadi are shown for the very first time when Pegasus is reading his Funny Rabbit manga, the top half of her face can't be seen. Dialogue and other objects conveniently obscure the entire portrait on a few occasions, while Shadi's is perfectly visible.
  • Posthumous Character: She only appears in flashbacks.
  • Spell My Name with an "S": And how! Her original name is シンディア, which can be transliterated as Cyndia, although some spell it as Cynthia or Cindia. Then there's her dub name, Cecelia Pegasus, which becomes Cecilia, despite the fact that the proper dub name was shown in episode 40. It gets worse when people assume her original name is Cyndia Crawford, as she does not have a surname in the original.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: With Pegasus.
  • Together in Death: In the manga only, according to Kazuki Takahashi.
  • Victorious Childhood Friend: With Pegasus. Unfortunately, it didn't last for too long.
    • Puppy Love: They were around 10 years old when they met.
  • Woman in White: In the manga, her dress is white.

Vivian Wong

A Chinese Girl renowned in the world as an idol singer and martial artist.

She uses a deck with cards based on Chinese mythology and martial arts. Her trump card is Dragon Lady.

Ryota Kajiki (Mako Tsunami)

A fisherman by trade who duels in honor of his father, who was lost in a shipwreck (in the dub-version, he thinks his father is still alive). He faces Yugi in Duelist Kingdom and Jounouchi in Battle City.

He uses a Water deck filled mostly with sea monsters like sharks and krakens. His trump cards are The Legendary Fisherman, which he says is identical to his father, and the Fortress Whale (he loses both to Jounouchi via the ante rules of Battle City).

  • Anime Hair
  • Badass Long Hair
  • Boisterous Bruiser
  • Combat Pragmatist: In the manga, The Legendary Fisherman is hard for an opponent to see long enough to get a bead on,and can attack by ambush. In the anime, Mako calls it "Sea Stealth 2" for this reason.
  • Fish Out of Water: The Battle City arc shows that he's a little naive about life on land. He tried to go fishing in the marine aquarium.
  • Good Samaritan: During Battle City he volunteers to sub for an orca trainer at the aquarium who was sick.
  • Heroic BSOD: When Jounouchi manages to destroy The Legendary Fisherman, since he equates him with his father, though Jounouchi cheers him up.
  • Hunk: A life of swimming left him with a lean yet muscular frame.
  • Identical Stranger: The Legendary Fisherman looks like him, only older. Ryota found the card before comparing it to his father, making it even more of a coincidence.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His hair reaches to his waist.
  • Sea Monsters: Every monster in his deck other than the Legendary Fisherman, and he has quite a variety, including sharks, squids, jellyfish, and the gigantic Fortress Whale.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: During Duelist Kingdom.

Espa Roba

A duelist who claims to have ESP, but really cheats by having his younger brothers spy on his opponent's cards and relay the info to him via an earpiece. After Jounouchi defeats him in Battle City, he decides to turn his life around and go legit.

Roba uses a deck of cards that emulate psychic powers (this was before the Psychic type was invented in the game). His trump card was Jinzo, which Jounouchi won via the ante rules of Battle City.

Kisara

The white-haired, fair-skinned peasant woman whom Kaiba’s former incarnate saves and falls in love with. Her strange coloring marks her as the victim of discrimination amongst the Egyptian plebs. She is later revealed to be the holder of the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Near the end of the arc, she sacrifices herself to protect Seto from Akhenaden. According to Takahashi, Seto’s feelings for her are a major reason behind modern-day Kaiba’s fixation with the Blue-Eyes.

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  1. ↑ Pegasus barely started working on Duel Monsters during the year Gozaburo adopted Seto and Mokuba, thus Saruwatari had nothing to spy for at the time, considering that Pegasus wanted to obtain Kaiba Corporation for the Solid Vision technology in the first place. Not to mention that Saruwatari didn't gain his famous hairstyle until Duelist Kingdom.
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