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[[File:ygo.jpg|frame|The Pharaoh [left] and Yugi.]]
{{quote|''I made a wish on that puzzle... for friends I could count on... friends who could count on me! No matter what!''}}
Following the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|manga]] made by the late Kazuki Takahashi, there were actually two ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' anime series: [[Yu-Gi-Oh First Anime Series|The first anime]], which covers the first seven volumes of the manga (though with ''very'' major changes, including making Kaiba a more frequently recurring villain), which was made by Toei; and this one, the second series, '''''Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters''''', was produced by NAS and is adapted from volume 8 onward, rather loosely in some places (and featuring several [[Filler Arc]]s).
This second series is probably the reason why you are reading this, since it was the [[Adaptation First|one who made the series popular as it today]].
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There's a huge amount of video games based on this series, the most famous of which is ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction|Yu-Gi-Oh Reshef of Destruction]]''. It spawned a movie called ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light|The Pyramid of Light]]''. Yugi and his alter ego return in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time|Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie]]'' that [[Bat Family Crossover|teams him up with Juudai and Yusei.]]
This show in particular is also responsible for the creation of ''[[The Abridged Series]]'' genre of internet videos, with ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
For the card game based on the manga and anime, see [[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]].
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* [[Abandoned Warehouse]]: Bandit Kieth dueled Yugi in an abandoned warehouse that had its own Duel Monsters arena.
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** This can be attributed to [[Executive Meddling]], as Kazuki Takahashi never got to flesh out the story with Seto and Kisara the way he wanted, and rebelling against the Pharaoh was probably intended to be a larger plot point for his story.
*** In the original version of the anime, Kaiba and Atem even [[Lampshade Hanging|point out]] that the duel was completely different from what they expected. Atem handwaves it, saying the memory world is probably not an accurate representation of what really took place.
** Also noteworthy is that when it first appears, the tablet does not have Kaiba holding the Millennium Rod—it's just a generic staff, and he doesn't have it in the vision Isis shows Kaiba either. Later the fact Kaiba has the Rod on the tablet becomes a major plot point, and over time the image on the tablet changes to the point it is quite clearly the Millennium Rod. Compare [http://naraku.us/dk2/052/52x34.jpg this screencap] of the tablet in Season 2, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110814180133/http://naraku.us/doma/145/145x14.jpg this screencap] in Season 4.
* [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]]: Shadow Games and Duel Monsters. The world is frequently at stake.
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Gozaburo Kaiba, Marik and Isis's father.
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* [[Cock Fight]]: Tristan and Duke, over Serenity.
* [[Collectible Card Game]]: DURP DURP.
* [[Collectible Cloney Babies]]: Capsule Monsters, Capmon for short. They would come from a vending machine, with the luck of the draw determining what monster level and type you get. Part of the fun is the randomness, and that you use these monsters to battle. Season 1 and subsequent series engage in this. Some packs do have rare cards, like Exodia or the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Some episodes have Jounouchi and Honda asking Yugi's grandfather if new sets have come in or not; he chuckles and says not yet, most of the time. Seto Kaiba starts his rivalry with Yugi by trying to steal his grandfather's Blue Eyes White Dragon after the man refuses to sell it to him, explaining that the card has sentimental value. (It's because the card belonged to his best friend, who gave it to him after they nearly died while exploring a pyramid.) Kaiba doesn't learn; in Battle City, he says that losers in duels need to forfeit their rarest card, hoping this will help him acquire all the God cards that Isis Ishtar told him about when visiting Japan. {{spoiler|Predictably, Yugi beats him fair and square, taking Obelisk before facing Malik.}}
* [[Cooking Duel]]: Figuratively speaking. The series often stakes the lives of its characters, or even the fate of the world, on a game of Duel Monsters.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Mai Kujaku.
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** [[The Starscream|Bakura]] [[Epic Fail|completely fails]] at doing any damage to [[Big Bad|Marik]] during [[Evil vs. Evil|their duel]]
** Two words, Vivian vs Rebecca
** Nameless [[Player
** Valon defeats Rebecca and Duke on his second turn.
* [[Cut and Paste Translation]]: Most infamously the [[Never Say "Die"|Shadow Realm]] concept.
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* [[Did You Think I Can't Feel?]]
* [[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]: Kaiba uses this to announce the Battle City Tournament.
* [[Dub
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The dub was done by [[4Kids! Entertainment]], after all. Some card names were also changed, for example, Black Magician being renamed to Dark Magician (and the same for the card's female counterpart, Black Magician Girl to Dark Magician Girl) and its corresponding attack card, Black Magic, being renamed to Dark Magic Attack.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Joey says this almost word for word upon hearing that Kaiba refused to invite him into the Battle City tournament even though he was the runner up in Duelist Kingdom.
** [[Lampshaded]] in Duel Academy's school pledge.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Several characters experienced a tragic and/or depressing event in their life, especially the villains.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Duelist Kingdom used completely different rules for the card game than later arcs, but at least the rules were consistent within that arc. Before Duelist Kingdom, the manga wasn't completely about Duel Monsters, and was much darker; for example, [[Ironic Hell]] as the consequence for whoever lost Yami's shadow games.▼
* [[Ear Worm]]: The Japanese openings and endings. The biggest offender is Rakuen from season 3.
▲* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Duelist Kingdom used completely different rules for the card game than later arcs, but at least the rules were consistent within that arc. Before Duelist Kingdom, the manga wasn't completely about Duel Monsters, and was much darker; for example, [[Ironic Hell]] as the consequence for whoever lost Yami's shadow games.
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: The Kaiba brothers, Pegasus, Malik.
** Averted in the first anime series, though, where the Kaiba brothers are anything but easily forgiven.
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* [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]]: In a fantasy sequence in the first anime.
* [[Fake Brit]]: Bakura in the dub.
* [[Fiction 500]]: Seto Kaiba.▼
* [[Fetal Position Rebirth]]: Yami Yugi at the end of the Orichalcos Arc.
▲* [[Fiction 500]]: Seto Kaiba.
* [[Field Power Effect]]: Various boosting and nerfing cards, as well as terrain.
* [[Fighting Series]]: Using a children's card game.
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dub!Kaiba: "Wait and see, you geeks haven't seen the last of me." (Paraphrasing.)
Japanese!Kaiba: "One day, I will invite you [to Kaiba Land]." }}
** Bakura, (lampshaded in the Abridged Series too):
{{quote|Marik: "My name is Marik"
Japanese!Bakura: "I'm Bakura."
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* [[Fun Size]]: Yugi Mutoh and Yami.
* [[Gag Dub]]: ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', [[The Abridged Series]]' [[Trope Maker]].
* [[Geo Effects]]: Field Power Bonus. Emphasized very much earlier in the card game, but dies out to only Field Spell Cards by the Duelist Kingdom finals.▼
* [[Genki Girl]]: Mana, whose introduction consisted of jumping out of a vase to glomp the pharaoh.
▲* [[Geo Effects]]: Field Power Bonus. Emphasized very much earlier in the card game, but dies out to only Field Spell Cards by the Duelist Kingdom finals.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Yami gets one of these from Joey in the form of a punch to the face.
* [[Giant Germs]]: The Giant Germ creature summoned in multiple episodes.
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* [[Hacker Cave]]: Owned by Seto Kaiba.
* [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]]: Although many duels feel this way, the Yugi vs. Kaiba ones are the greatest examples. At some points it feels like their voice actors are competing to see who can do the most over the top performance and still keep it in the final cut.
** The Yami Marik vs. Yami Bakura duel is a fabulous example of this, especially since most of their dialogue consists of them making very enthusiastic death threats to each other.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: During every single duel against a major rival.
* [[Hard Work Hardly Works]]: Yugi plays it straight, Joey/Jounouchi actually earns his wings through hard work.
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* [[Hybrid Overkill Avoidance]]: Usually averted, but played straight in the first tournament when Yugi fused his Mammoth Graveyard to Kaiba's Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon to slowly weaken it.
* [[I Am Your Opponent]]: Used a few times by Yugi.
* [[I Have Your Wife]]: Used by various villains throughout the series. The target is usually Mokuba, who is kidnapped a grand total of 15 times.▼
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: When Yugi first completes the puzzle, he makes a wish on it to have some true friends.▼
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Yugi has one of these with Joey/Jounouchi when Marik takes control of him.▼
* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]: You could practically make a drinking game out of the number of times this basic scenario shows up: Yugi activates a card effect. Opponent believes it to be targeting their best monster and make moves to protect it, scoffing Yugi's "wasted effort." Yugi then reveals he was going after something else instead. Opponent has a massive [[Oh Crap]] moment and, usually, loses shortly thereafter.
* [[I Will Show You X]]: When Tristan has an open crush on Joey's sister Serenity, which Joey is [[Big Brother Instinct|none too pleased about]]. At one point in the English dub, Tristan talks about how he's going to visit Serenity (read:hit on her) in the hospital, to which Joey responds "''I'll'' send you to the hospital!"▼
* [[Idiot Ball]]: In the first ever duel between Joey and Kaiba, Joey's entire strategy could be summed up as "summon monster to attack." He apparently forgot that his monsters weren't nearly strong enough to beat Kaiba's, but he just kept summoning them and having them attack Kaiba's monsters, so they'd be destroyed instantly and cost him points. He never shows this level of stupidity in any duel before or after this. Justified as he was unfamiliar with the Duel Disk technology and didn't know how to set monsters in defense mode.
** Yugi's largest [[Idiot Ball]] was when, in his duel against Pegasus, he summoned Celtic Guardian to attack Toon Mermaid, hoping to destroy them both. If Toon Mermaid merely dodged the attack, as Toon Blue-Eyes had done before, Pegasus would attack Celtic Guardian with Toon Summoned Skull, winning the duel. But then, Yugi was under a considerable amount of stress.
** Here's a drinking game—watch the series and take a drink every time a duelist makes a move and doesn't notice the opponent has countered it until its too late. Blame [[Rule of Drama]], since apparently if it'll make for a dramatic twist then duelists can activate cards without announcing such (ie, Isis activating Blast Held By A Tribute to "secret" infect Obelisk without saying so). However, in the real card game every play of a card must be announced and your opponent given a chance to respond if they are able, and if they choose not to they don't get to just rewind and change their minds once you begin to make another move.
* [[If I Had a Nickel]]:
{{quote|'''Seto''': If I had a dime for every time you said the word destiny, I'd be even richer.}}
▲* [[I Have Your Wife]]: Used by various villains throughout the series. The target is usually Mokuba, who is kidnapped a grand total of 15 times.
▲* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: When Yugi first completes the puzzle, he makes a wish on it to have some true friends.
▲* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Yugi has one of these with Joey/Jounouchi when Marik takes control of him.
* [[Ill Girl]]: Shizuka/Serenity.
* [[In the End You Are on Your Own]]
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* [[Invincible Incompetent]]: Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler) perpetually comes from behind to win. Granted, everyone does this, but Joey never seems to be picked as a favorite to win anything, despite several finals showings.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In season one, Kaiba threatens that he'll fall from the castle's battlement if Yugi wins the duel, so Yugi forfeits in fear that Yami would finish Kaiba off.. In season five, Yugi again faces the decision of defeating his opponent in a duel to kill him. In this case, the opponent is {{spoiler|Yami}}. Yugi hesitates on finishing the duel, but carries it out, as this time, the reason is {{spoiler|to send Yami to the afterlife}}.
▲* [[I Will Show You X]]: When Tristan has an open crush on Joey's sister Serenity, which Joey is [[Big Brother Instinct|none too pleased about]]. At one point in the English dub, Tristan talks about how he's going to visit Serenity (read:hit on her) in the hospital, to which Joey responds "''I'll'' send you to the hospital!"
* [[It Meant Something to Me]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Jounouchi/Joey and Honda/Tristan.▼
* [[Jerkass]]: Kaiba.
** Bandit Keith is a bigger one. He and his [[Mooks]] trapped Yugi and the gang in a cave, and he also stole Jounouchi's Glory of the King's Hand card while he was sleeping.
▲* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Jounouchi/Joey and Honda/Tristan.
* [[Joker Jury]]: In the dub version of the Virtual World arc, Johnson, whose Deckmaster and appearance is that of Judge Man, claims he is putting Joey on trial for gambling.
** He then proceeds to make every trial joke imaginable.
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** And within that anime, the KC Grand Prix. A [[Breather Episode|breather arc]] with a campy villain whose crime is [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|not mine-rape, not soul-stealing, but hacking into Kaiba's computer system.]]
* [[The Load]]: Mokuba. Serenity. Also Tea and Tristan, who were pretty much just around to provide moral support ([[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded multiple times]]).
* [[Lovely Assistant]]: [[Stage Magician]] Arkana was in love with his Lovely Assistant, Catherine, and they were engaged—before his disfiguring accident. Although Catherine still loved him, Arkana pushed her away. He later regretted his choice and fell in with Marik when he promised he could restore Catherine to him. ▼
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Pegasus' motive. Also Akunadin to some extent.
* [[Love Martyr]]: Odion.
▲* [[Lovely Assistant]]: [[Stage Magician]] Arkana was in love with his Lovely Assistant, Catherine, and they were engaged—before his disfiguring accident. Although Catherine still loved him, Arkana pushed her away. He later regretted his choice and fell in with Marik when he promised he could restore Catherine to him.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Akunadin and Priest Seto in the Memory World Arc.
* [[Lull Destruction]]
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* [[Morality Pet]]: Mokuba Kaiba.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Dartz in Season 4.
* [[The Movie|The]] [[So Bad It's Good]] [[The Movie|Movie]]▼
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Mai Valentine and Dark Magician Girl.
* [[Multicolored Hair]]: Yugi, and his grandfather.
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]:
** "Card games are serious business."
** Dramatically animated belt clipping-on sequence?
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* [[My Little Panzer]]: Duel Monsters is such a safe game for little kids, isn't it?
** [[Subverted]]: By itself, the game is perfectly safe; it's the duelists like the Ghouls that add in their own, more dangerous, rules or invoke the dark magic of the Millennium Items that make it so [[Department of Redundancy Department|dangerous]].
* [[Necromantic]]: Pegasus.▼
* [[Necessary Fail]]
▲* [[Necromantic]]: Pegasus.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: In the English dub, at least.
** Except for Episode 8 where Kaiba tells Pegasus' men he'd rather die than be captured and promptly leaps to his supposed death, which is mentioned in the next episode where Yugi duels Kaiba's "corpse".
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*** Maybe. Maybe not. Anyone who reads Nietzche and truly understands his philosophy would know how to be the [[Ubermensch]], a character that some would think is a villian, but can be a hero (think Batman).
* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: Numerous times, characters will pointlessly weaken themselves in order to boost their monsters powers or completely clear the field before delivering a final blow so that not only do their opponents life points drop to 0, but all their monsters are gone too. This being in situation where they could save themselves the trouble and just attack outright and win.
** A prime example is Atem's fight with Weevil, after the latter [[Berserk Button|pretended to destroy Yugi's soul]] just to [[For the Evulz|get a rise out of the Pharoah]]. Atem used a card that let his monster attack directly every time he drew a monster card, and proceeded to pound Weevil again and again, long after his Life Points ran out. He would've kept going too, if [[What the Hell, Hero?|Tea hadn't stopped him]].
* [[Noble Demon]]: Seto Kaiba.
* [[Non-Human Undead]]: In the first tournament, Yugi defeats Kaiba's Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon by fusing his Mammoth Graveyard into it... which, because both are incompatible types, slowly weakens the resulting fusion and will cause it's eventual death. After this, the rule is never referenced again.
** Another example are Bonz's monsters brought back from the grave.
* [[Not a Date]]: Anzu/Tea goes on one of these with the Pharaoh.
* [[Not Just a Tournament]]: Virtually ''every'' [[Tournament Arc]], to the point where it's commented in-story how refreshing it is to go to a tournament that's ''only'' a tournament (it still manages to get hijacked by a villain's scheme, but at least that wasn't in the host's plans).
* [[Obvious Trap]]: The point of Odion's deck is to focus on laying tons of trap cards and then wait for the opponent to spring them. Thing is, he makes the point to play almost no monsters thereby leaving him wide open to attack except for his traps, which you ''know'' will protect him, he's not stupid. Unless you pack an insane amount of spell/trap destruction or run an unorthodox deck theme, you're gonna have to attack him sooner or later, and when you do, he'll be ready to turn it back on you. Joey found this out the hard way.
** Joey and Mai later learn Marik also plays a lot of traps, which are even more brutal and painful than anything Odion used.
** Besides the specific duelists, quite often the characters [[Genre Savvy|know the opponent has a dangerous trap waiting]], but they acknowledge if they want to win they either need to find a way around it, or trigger it and hope they can come back from whatever it does.
* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]''; ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]''; ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal|Yu-Gi-Oh Ze Xal]]''.<ref>pronounced "Zeal" in the Japanese</ref>▼
* [[Off-Model]]: Several moments. These actually make some of the more threatening characters ''even scarier''.
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Yugi vs. Jonouchi immediately after Battle City, even if we know Joey won (he was battling Yugi for his Red-Eyes and is shown to have gotten it back). Both mediums skip this.
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* [[Older Is Better]]: The older your magic, the better it is.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Yugi.
▲* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]''; ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]''; ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal|Yu-Gi-Oh Ze Xal]]''.<ref>pronounced "Zeal" in the Japanese</ref>
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: To the point where Kaiba stalks Yugi for an entire episode in Season Zero because he suspects someone ''else'' is trying to defeat him in a duel.
** Not to mention the hissy fit Kaiba throws upon learning Yugi has 'allowed' someone else to defeat him in Season 4.
* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: At the end of the Virtual World arc, Kaiba presses a [[Big Red Button]], sacrificing the greater part of his blimp to accomplish this.▼
* [[Orgasmically Delicious]]: Bakura's steak, [http://kokorononaka.net/FAQ/v23-143s.jpg in the manga]. In the anime it was more [[Crazy Consumption]].
* [[Orphanage of Fear]]: According to Kaiba, at least.
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** Mai Valentine: [[Megan Hollingshead]] --> Bella Hudson.
** Mokuba Kaiba: Tara Jayne --> Caroline Lawson.
▲* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: At the end of the Virtual World arc, Kaiba presses a [[Big Red Button]], sacrificing the greater part of his blimp to accomplish this.
* [[Overtook the Manga]]
* [[Panty Shot]]: Joey and Tristan randomly lifting up Tea's skirt in class and yelling "Panty tank!"
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** A few monsters have ATK or DEF stats that aren't divisible by 50. Castle of Dark Illusions has 920 ATK and 1930 DEF, Reaper of the Cards has 1380 ATK and 1930 DEF, King of Yamimakai has 2000 ATK and 1530 DEF, and Seven-Armed Fiend has 666 ATK and 666 DEF (1000/1000 in the Dub).
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: Yugi.
* [[Plague of Locusts]]: Near the end of the fourth season, Dartz unleashes a swarm of locusts as he prepares to summon Leviathan.
** In the English dub, Titan's "Terrorking Archfiend" uses an attack called [[Calling Your Attacks|"Locust Storm Barrage"]] in his duel against Jaden.
* [[Plot Tumor]]: The ultimate one, possibly. Originally, the manga ''was not about any specific game'', much less a single card game. He's supposed to be the King of Game'''s'''.
** Lampshaded in The Abridged Series. Yugi is just referred to as "The King Of Card Games".
** To be fair, after the point where the [[Plot Tumor]] hits, the card game is only played during Duelist Kingdom saga, the Battle City saga, and the Ceremonial Battle. In the manga, the Dungeon Dice Monsters saga and the Pharaoh's Memory saga are almost completely devoid of Duel Monsters. It's much more prevalent in the second series anime, where even flashbacks to chapters where the card game ''wasn't even introduced yet'' in the manga were altered to involve cards. This also doesn't stop every other related spin-offs from focusing exclusively on the card game after the original manga ended.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: Creating the Millennium Items required a sacrifice of 99 human lives.▼
* [[Power Levels]]
* [[Power Makes Your Hair Grow]]: When Yugi, Bakura and Marik become possessed by the spirits of the Millennium Items (or in Marik's case {{spoiler|his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]}}, their hair gets even more ridiculous than usual.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Prior to the card game [[Plot Tumor]], this was going to be the main theme of the series. It still has a fairly strong presence. Occasionally to the point of [[Narm]].
** [[Word of God]] says that it was the intended main theme the whole way through. The card game [[Plot Tumor]] just created alot of [[Misaimed Fandom]], that's all.
▲* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: Creating the Millennium Items required a sacrifice of 99 human lives.
** [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn]]: Shizuka, Anzu and Mai.▼
** [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Mai, Anzu and Shizuka.▼
** [[Freudian Trio]]: The Doma arc.▼
*** [[The Kirk]]: Yugi/Yami▼
*** [[The McCoy]]: Jounouchi▼
*** [[The Spock]]: Kaiba▼
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Many actually ''prefer'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDdUg-5_K2s the English opening] for the darker and more mythical feel it gives the series, as opposed to the J-Pop opening of the Japanese ones, not to mention the sheer [[Narm Charm]] of "It's time to D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DUEL!"
* [[Princesses Rule]]: Princess Adina, ruler of Simlow, in Kaiba's virtual world.
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*** Tea, of all people, turns out to be surprisingly good at these, although she doesn't give them often. She gives one to Kaiba at Duelist Kingdom, although it's more of a "the reason Yugi is better than you" speech. Then there's the time she let Johnny Steppes have it for running away when his duel with Yami got too difficult.
* [[Recap Episode]]
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Noah Kaiba.}}▼
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Hey, did [[Shrinking Violet|Yugi's]] irises just turn red? [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Better start running.]]
▲* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Noah Kaiba.}}
* [[Reincarnation]]: Gets rather complicated. {{spoiler|It is ''heavily'' implied that Yugi is the other half of Atem that ''didn't'' get sealed into the puzzle and just sort of floated around until it was born again. Common [[Epileptic Trees]] is that [[Nice Guy|Ryou]] is something similar in regards to the ancient [[Big Bad]] Thief King Bakura (who more complicatedly never did a bad deed until being controlled by Zorc, a completely separate being). Seto (with Set) and Ishizu (with Isis) are straighter examples.}}
** It's ''slightly'' less complicated if you look at the Ancient Egyptian concept of soul. One of the key pieces being the "ren" or name implies Kazuki may have done this on ''purpose''.
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* [[Road Sign Reversal]]: The Marik-brainwashed Bandit Keith has set up arrows to lure Yugi into a trap. Yami Bakura flips the arrows around so Yugi's friends can't follow.
* [[Rousseau Was Right]]: Numerous bad guys including {{spoiler|Dartz and his biker henchmen, Marik Ishtar, Pegasus etc}} all seem hopelessly callous and evil only to eventually prove to be good at heart, whether by exorcism of an evil side or simple persuasion, usually by Yugi or Pharaoh. Seto Kaiba is also routinely obnoxious and cold yet occasionally proves to have a compassionate side, which is usually related to his love for his little brother Mokuba.
* [[Rule of Empathy]]▼
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: The author intended to have the cards represent the character and personality of their users.▼
* [[Rule 34]]: Usually done with [[Black Magician Girl|Dark Magician Girl]], Tea/Anzu, and Mai, but other instances exist.
** Most notable is what the Crump v. Tea duel in the Virtual World arc spawned.
▲* [[Rule of Empathy]]
▲* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: The author intended to have the cards represent the character and personality of their users.
* [[Sadly Mythtaken]]: An Ancient Egyptian card game, for starters...
* [[Screw Destiny]]: It's revealed in the final arc that one of the Millennium Puzzle's abilities is to "alter fate", which in the context of the Duel Monsters, allows him to change the card he's going to draw as long as he believes it will happen hard enough, rendering every past example of Yugi drawing the exact card he needed by "Believing in the heart of the cards" more than just good luck.
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* [[Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome]]: Season 4 turns Mai Valentine into an angst-ridden member of a villainous biker gang. It turns out she was tricked into [[Heel Face Brainwashing]] by Dartz.
* [[Suggestive Collision]]: Happens to [[Just Friends|Joey and Mai]] in the episode "Lights, Camera, Duel." Played with though, in that Mai fell on top of him because he was catching her as she fell from a dangerous height—and instead of going for the pervert-slap, [[Ship Tease|Mai thanks him for saving her and calls him an "action hero".]]
* [[Sunglasses
** Because he's an American! And Americans always wear sunglasses!
*** In America!
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*** Actually, he didn't duel through the tape. The tape was enchanted to pull Yugi into a Shadow Game, where the actual Pegasus was waiting. The recording only made the announcement and activated the spell. Straighter in the manga where Yugi doesn't get pulled anywhere (unless the whole living room with his friends and Grandpa got pulled in too and it wasn't noted in any way).
* [[Tattooed Crook]]: [[Big Bad]] Marik Ishtar has a large tattoo covering his back and he is the leader of his own criminal organization. [[Inverted Trope|However]], it was his reception of the tattoo that had originally caused him to turn to evil, not the other way around with him getting the tattoo after turning evil. The tattoo was carved into his back in the Japanese version, though it’s similar, and the dub changes it to a tattoo.
▲* [[The Movie|The]] [[So Bad It's Good]] [[The Movie|Movie]]
* [[Theme Deck]]: Trope Namer
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Several characters would be better off with professional help. Most notably the villains.
* [[They Were Holding You Back]]: Dartz' recruitment method.
* [[Third Eye]]: The card "Goddess with the Third Eye", and most Millennium Item holders when using their item.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Joey/Jounouchi. As early as the Duelist Kingdom arc, he spammed monster after monster without any regard of strategy, because he relied too much on the idea of beating things to death even though the attack stat was too low. It became apparent in the second episode of the show that he lost to [[The Chick|Tea/Anzu]], probably the least competitive players of all, because she knew a thing or two about magic and traps. It took a lot of encouragement and guidance on the Pharaoh's part to help him, but by Battle City he grew into a very competent duelist and became a finalist, managing to go toe to toe against [[Big Bad|Marik]].▼
* [[Too Many Mouths]]: Slifer the Sky Dragon has two.
▲* [[Took a Level
* [[Toon]]: Pegasus' Toon Monsters.
* [[Toon Town]]: Pegasus' Toon World.
* [[Tournament Arc]]: And how. The only arc two arcs that ''weren't'' tournaments were Waking the Dragons and Dawn of the Duel.
** Only with the second series anime, of course.
* [[Tsundere]]: Mai Kujaku/Valentine and Jou/Joey.▼
* [[Traintop Battle]]: Or blimp-top in this case. Played straight in Season 4.
** Also, in Season 5, a ferris wheel-top one.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Happens several different times, to several different characters.
* [[Trio Tropes]]
▲** [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn]]: Shizuka, Anzu and Mai.
▲** [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Mai, Anzu and Shizuka.
▲** [[Freudian Trio]]: The Doma arc.
▲*** [[The Kirk]]: Yugi/Yami
▲*** [[The McCoy]]: Jounouchi
▲*** [[The Spock]]: Kaiba
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Early childhood Seto Kaiba. Also early childhood Malik.
* [[Truth in Television]]: Pegasus's Toon cards are said by Yugi to be kept out of circulation for being too powerful, but Pegasus is the creator of the game so he kept them for himself. The Seal of Orichalcos, a [[Game Breaker]] if there ever was one, exists in real life and is limited to a few copies that were used by members of Upper Deck's R&D department in a special tournament.
▲* [[Tsundere]]: Mai Kujaku/Valentine and Jou/Joey.
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: Kaiba, after several rescues from Yugi and co.
** He does show some limited thanks for Yugi, and only Yugi, at times, such as freeing him from Pegasus and the Big Five.
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* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Marik.
** Also the [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Steves]] under his control.
* [[Waterfall Shower]]: First season has this.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Noah makes this offer to Yugi in the Japanese version of episode 118, after Yugi managed a formidable counterattack and after Noah turned some of Yugi's Nakama to [[Taken for Granite|stone:]]
{{quote|'''Noah''': Seriously though, that was ''splendid'', Yugi! You possess both the skill and judgement necessary to catch your enemies off guard the second they lose focus. When you think about it, you and I have no reason to be enemies. If you swear your loyalty to me, I'll save all your friends from hell this very instant!}}
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