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* Several of the Shadow Games from the Original Manga and the Toei Anime are incredibly dangerous. and many of them are from the main heroes [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], no less. One of the mildest examples of the Penalty Games is SETTING SOMEONE ON FIRE!
** Kanekura's Penalty Game is also disturbing, as Ammit towers over him and the shock gives him a heart attack. Neither Ammit itself or Kanekura's shocked face is decent to look at, to say at least...
*** The chapter when Jounouchi had been forced back into his evil gang, but when he rebelled, they took him to a warehouse where they TORTURED HIM, by beating him and electrocuting him with a taser.
*** Also, in Chapter 5, when Anzu gets knocked out with chloroform...and it's implied that the guy who knocked her out wants to rape her. Creepy enough...but then, we never get to see what Yami himself does to her, do we? The chapter ends with him standing next to her unconscious body. We have NO IDEA what he could have done to her, and don't forget that, according to [[Word of God]], Yami Yugi WAS ACTUALLY EVIL then.
{{quote|'''Yami Yugi:''' [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|And over here, we have a sleeping beauty.]]}}
* In Chapter 27 of the manga, I found Kaiba's casual mention of "human experiments" being carried out in the virtual simulator, and the fact that he's discovered he can send the average person incurably insane within 10 minutes, to be particularly disturbing.
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* In the manga, Japanese anime, and English dub, at the start of the Memory World arc, Yugi's grandpa gives us a flashback of when he took the Millennium Puzzle out of the Pharaoh's tomb. But in every single version, the puzzle is the ''only'' thing that's in the burial chamber of the tomb. The Pharaoh's body isn't there! It leads me to think that maybe sealing away that evil magic came with the price of destroying the Pharaoh's body. And if that's the case.... One of the beliefs of ancient Egyptians was that the body needed to be intact to allow a spirit to enter the afterlife, so if something happened to the Pharaoh's body he shouldn't have been able to enter the afterlife no matter what the outcome of his ceremonial duel with Yugi. He should have been trapped forever between life and death, a spirit never at rest.
* Chapter 21 of the manga, we have Kujirada's digital pet who, apart from looking absolutely disturbing and scary, eats other pets!!
Some of the deaths in yugioh japanese anime /manga like marik dad back being cut off sure the people in 4kids removed the nighgtmare fuel away by using the shadow realm instead of death
* The duel against Pandora (Arkana) during Battle City. Yeah, most of us know that in the Japanese anime, it featured buzzsaws that would cut the loser's feet off. In both versions of the anime, however, Yugi manages to save Pandora before the thing can touch him. He has no such luck in the original manga, where one can actually ''see'' the buzzsaw draw blood from what's probably one of his legs' major arteries before Yugi saves him. Even worse? Right after Yugi leaves, Marik looks into Pandora's memories and stirs up any and all suicidal thought's he's had before, meaning that ''the moment he wakes up, he'll go and kill himself''. Keep in mind, ''this is supposed to be the "good" half of Marik''.
* The Ventriloquist of the Dead's Penalty Game. Trapped for the rest of the life in an illusion to be tortured by a very disturbing-looking, Chuckyesque puppet version of himself. Shudder.
* In the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Marik hypnotises Anzu and forces her to take a pill, presumably a [[Cyanide Pill]], between her teeth. If Yugi does not duel Jonouchi, Marik will force her to swallow it. (In the anime, a giant block of concrete was suspended above her head.)
* Another example from the Battle City arc, the fate of Seeker, the first Rare Hunter (and Exodia-user) that was defeated by {{spoiler|Atem}}, especially in the dub. Just picturing what a then-faceless villain was capable by witnessing a fully-grown, hyper-confident duelist reduced to screaming for forgiveness in quite visible terror was unnerving enough, but seeing the poor man's eyes, bulging with veins and shaking with fear until the pupil slowly fades away into lifeless [[Blank White Eyes]], with the subsequent involuntary breakdance/seizure thing that Marik forces his unwitting, zombie-like puppet to perform was extremely unnerving.
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* The Earthbound Gods could qualify.
* As Does [[Axe Crazy|Kiryu Kyouske.]]
** Especially Kiryu Kyouske. Everything he does in the first duel with Yusei was primarily to further his deck's goal and to attack Yusei with almost sadistic glee. The Dub, while some deride it, is actually quite good at giving Kiryu a very insane laugh.
* Divine is a source of this as well, in that he takes kids, basically who are mistreated, and trains them into being psychic weapons. And if your not strong enough to rip your enemy limb from limb, well, you are replaceable...like anyone would miss you.
** And if you can't survive his experiments to make you strong/useful, you weren't good enough for him in the first place. He'll probably just go and look for a replacement...
*** And let's not forget how he made Aki his pawn by giving her the 'love and understanding' her parents 'did not' (they simply had no clue how to help her, but surely Divine never suggested that possibility) becoming pretty much her only reason to live. Her hairpin is meant to be a [[Power Limiter]], so let's hope he never tried to talk her into becoming stronger the same way he did to others, like Misty Lola's brother...
* Placido and his crew are a wellspring of horror. Who are these strange men in white? What do they want? On a side note, Lucciano's laugh would fit right at home in a [[When They Cry]] series...
* [[Big Bad|ZONE]]. There's just something horribly unnerving about an either very old or very burned individual (probably the former) under 50 tons of machinery shaped like a comma. His crazy voice and the fact that he resides in a [[White Void Room]] just makes it worse. When you think about how mentally damaged Paradox and Aporia were after the ruined future, it's difficult to imagine just how ZONE will turn out as their leader.
== Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal and its manga ==
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== Yu-Gi-Oh! Video Games ==
* [[Dark Nite]] and Nitemare. They come out of nowhere in Dark Duel Stories, can overwhelm you within turns, and come with broken cards. Their lines are oddly cryptic and Mind Screwy.
** And somehow, in Forbidden Memories, they became even worse. Yeah, bet you thought Heishin was the [[Big Bad]], didn't you? Well, he outlived his usefulness, was turned into a card and then '''BURNED UP'''. And even if you manage to defeat [[Dark Nite]], he transforms into Nitemare, who looks something like a mummy who decided to invest in [[Magitek]].
*** Let's not forget that darknite doesn't die after forbidden memories. He only returns to wherever he came from, which makes him more than capable of returning.
* ...which he eventually does in The Falsebound Kingdom. By manipulating Scott Irvine ( a horrifying madman in his own right), Darknite creates a giant virtual world that will bring him to the real world. Oh, and he controls all three god cards now too.
* The falsebound kingdom was pretty scary as a whole, with very surreal graphics and a freaky, ambiguous ending.
== The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game ==
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** Another example, although much less scary than the above, of censorship making things worse is the monster Mystic Tomato. The original artwork makes it look like a Jack-O-Lantern, but in the TCG, its a tomato with a bit-too-realistic monster face.
* Some say that the creepiest card in existence is [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Il_Blud Il Blud].
* Many of the earlier cards were REALLY unnerving, but one of the worst was Sorcerer Of The Doomed. It basically looks like an aged corpse with a malevolent expression and a body suit of horrified faces. The flavor text also helpfully states that it is a master of life-extinguishing spells.
* [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Verz The Verz archetype] in the Duel Terminal packs. Where their 'predecessor', the Inverz (or as they've been translated to, the Steelswarm), were just ruthless invaders without purpose or cause beyond wanting to destroy everything, the Verz archetype is introduced with the reveal that [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Corrosive_Contagion_Infestation the Inverz may not have been in] [[Grand Theft Me|full control of their senses . . .]] as the Verz archetype consists of various monsters from other Duel Terminal archetypes—every other archetype, in fact -- [[The Corruption|twisted and warped from their original forms]] by the [[The Virus|the Verz virus]], a [[Hate Plague]] that renders their victims not only [[Evil Makes You Ugly|distorted]] but also [[The Unintelligible|unable to convey their thoughts]], rendering them either [[And I Must Scream|a prisoner of their own bodies]] or at the very least [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|no longer themselves]]—to wit, the flavor text on [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Verz_Heliolope the only Normal Monster among them] is BACKWARDS just to show how hard it is to understand them and their line of 'thought'.
** For extra fun, among the monsters they've infected are some from the previous story arc in Duel Terminal -- [[Back
* [[Body Horror|The Wicked Worm Beast.]] Look closely at its card. Is this thing a humanoid monster with worm tendrils... or (more likely) a human corpse being controled by a monster worm parasite?
* The army of [[Monster Clown]]s. Mystic Clown, Dream Clown, Crass Clown, Saggi The Dark Clown... the list goes on...
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