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{{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 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
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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** 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
* [[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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{{quote|'''Random Mook (to Yugi)''': Wow. Your hair's crazy enough for two people!
'''Head Mook''': Attention, Duelists! My hair is now an internet phenomenon!" }}
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: Millennium Items tend to give their owners awesome [[Psychic Powers]] of some sort. However, more often than not, they will also harbor or lead to the development of their owners' [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Super Powered Evil Sides]], or at least contribute to their [[Face Heel Turn
** Technically, with 4 items to 3, there are more benign or beneficial cases - the necklace, the key, the scales and the puzzle against the eye, the ring and the rod.
* [[Art Shift]]: In the first episode. Once Yami defeats Kaiba and performs a mind crush on him, his face becomes less angular and his eyes gain pupils.
* [[Ascended Meme]]: The nicodouga phenomena relating to the "Enemy Controller" scenes from the Virtual Arc was referenced in a minigame on the Duel Terminal Arcade game. (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[C Lud BL Sx 9 LQ]])
* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: Goes from mild (Rex Raptor and Weevil Underwood have dinosaur and insect themed decks, respectively) to the truly tasteless ([[Fan Nickname|Zombie boy]] has an all zombie deck).
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Pretty much every character's deck only works because of [[The Magic Poker Equation]] and that fact that the writers can let them get whatever cards they need. For a fun drinking game, watch the show and take a drink any time a duelist's strategy could be utterly ruined with any simple one-for-one destruction card like Mystical Space Typhoon or Smashing
** This continues into the spin-offs as well. Most of the protagonists of ''GX'' rely on Fusion monsters, which are horrible for hand advantage and are easily disposed of with any of the mentioned destruction cards. There's a reason real-life VWXYZ and Cyber End Dragon decks don't exist in any seriously competitive capacity, and the Elemental Hero ones rely on cards from the
* [[A Villain Named Zrg]]: Zork
* [[Ax Crazy]]:
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** Even our hero Yami Yugi can become [[Axe Crazy]] [[Bullying a Dragon|if]] [[Heroic BSOD|you]] [[Berserk Button|get]] [[Unstoppable Rage|him]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|mad]] [[What the Hell, Hero?|enough.]]
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Yugi, anyone?
* [[Badass Normal]]:
** Joey as well who's arguably the most normal of the main duelists.
*** Arguably? He's firmly set himself as the permanent underdog. No one ever thinks he'll win, and he loses the most. He does have some of the more spectacular [[Ass Pull
* [[Beam of Enlightenment]]: Any time one of the characters has a sudden revelation. Mostly when Yami figures out how to beat his opponents.
* [[The Bechdel Test]]: Despite having only one female character stay from the beginning to the end of the story, and having a maximum of 4 important female characters ever in the same scene (or season), it actually passes. But not by much.
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* [[Book Ends]]: For Yami Bakura's involvement in the overall story, anyways. Both the first and last games the Pharaoh plays against him are RPGs with the souls of his friends at risk
** For a straighter example, Yugi's winning card in the last duel of the series is Golden Sarcophagus; it's [[Lampshade Hanging|pointed out]] that the card looks just like the box the Millennium Puzzle was in, {{spoiler|[[Invoked Trope|and that the box that brought Yugi and the pharaoh together would be the very thing to bring them apart.]]}}
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Happens quite a bit considering most of the enemies tend to use this trope. Joey and Bandit Keith would be two of the most notable
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Kaiba gets this a lot.
** Cheap shots. If they took him on head-to-head, no dice.
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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 Mooks]] versus numerous [[Designated Villain
** 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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** To an extent, Mokuba Kaiba and Marik Ishtar also.
** And [[Averted Trope|averted hard]] with Seto Kaiba.
* [[Defictionalization]]: The card game was originally just a plot device thrown into the manga, intended to be the topic of a single plot arc with no real world
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Mai Kujaku/Valentine for the first few arcs, and then heads back to Arctic levels during most of Season 4 due to her [[Face Heel Turn]].
** Kaiba may count as a male example, at least in the Japanese version. He becomes more amiable and less openly insulting towards the others.
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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 Induced Plot Hole]]: In Season 2 Isis/Ishizu arrives in Domino City via plane. A Domino museum official welcomes her "to America." This is contradicted in Season 4 when the protagonists actually travel overseas to America to investigate the local [[Filler Villain
* [[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.
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* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Yami gets one of these from Joey in the form of a punch to the face.
* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: Rebecca had a teddy bear that she regularly spoke to in her first appearance. By the time she reappears in the Doma arc however, she's ditched the [[Tastes Like Diabetes|"cutesy little girl"]] angle, and Teddy is nowhere to be seen.
* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]:
** Yugi's grandpa owns a trading card/game shop and Kaiba is rich. The second season has the rule that a loser must hand over their rarest card after they lose, with Joey's (formerly Rex Raptor's) Red Eyes Black Dragon being a significant plot point. Joey often uses cards he received from winning, such as Jinzo.
*** Possibly an Aversion of a Subversion (maybe?). Unlike in real life, where serious players usually have 2 or more decks at once for a [[Collectable Card Game]], all the characters in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' have only 1 deck that they retool constantly. That being said, those retoolings might as well count as entirely separate decks unto themselves.
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* [[Homage]]: The card game was originally intended as a homage to ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', of which Takahashi is a fan.
* [[Hostage for McGuffin]]: So much so (especially with Kaiba's little brother Mokuba) that [http://www.dailymotion.com/littlekuriboh/ LittleKuriboh]'s [[Gag Dub]] of the show has an entire running gag built around it.
* [[Hot for Teacher]]: Subject to interpretation, but Mana in the anime is ''very'' devoted to Mahad. Her goal through season five is to become a better magician, both because it's his will for her and because she wants to be able to summon and see his spirit. "Prince can summon him from the tablet, right? Please! Bring me and Master together!" She talks or thinks about him in every scene, and her other goal is to always be with and protect him... which she succeeded in, if the existence of the Black Magician Girl in modern times is any indication. One must note that the subtext is only present in the Japanese
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Jou/Joey.
** Bakura, especially as Thief King Bakura in season five. He makes the most arrogant pronoun ever (Ore-sama) sound good in constant use, and... 'ORE-SAMA NO TURN!'
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* [[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
* [[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.}}
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* [[Indy Escape]]: [[Subverted]] during Duelist Kingdom. The boulder in question was just a balloon with a speaker in it.
* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: Seto Kaiba.
* [[Informed Ability]]: The Kaiba
** I guess there's a reason why we never see Yugi and Seto play chess. King of games or not, but you can't use the heart of the chess piece to win a game. And there are no power ups (other then promoting pawns, which isn't too hard to see coming) or convenient special abilities.
** Rex Raptor and Weevil Underwood were in a tournament championship facing each other right before the Duelist Kingdom arc. Yet from then on out they never pose much of a threat to, well, pretty much anyone, effectively becoming recurring joke characters who sure don't look like champions of any level of tournament.
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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
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Pegasus' motive. Also Akunadin to some extent.
* [[Love Martyr]]: Odion.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Happens for a couple of characters, particularly the (ancient) Egyptian ones:
** If Marik's name were [[Spell My Name with an "S"|transliterated]] differently when moving into the English dub, it would be the Arabic name [http://www.behindthename.com/name/malik Malik] (or "ملك" in Arabic), which is based on the words for "king" or "possessor" in the Arabic language. Incidentally, Marik [[Body Snatcher|possesses]] several people and [[Take Over the World|wants to be the pharaoh/king of Egypt/the world]] as a [[Big Bad]].
** Also Odion's name in the Japanese version is [http://www.behindthename.com/name/rashid Rashid] (or "راشد"), meaning "rightly guided" in Arabic. Odion/Rashid is Marik/Malik's older adopted brother and serves as one of his two [[Morality Pet
** Shadi's name is only a phoneme different from the ancient Egyptian word ''[http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/shabti.html shabti]''. ''Shabti'' are figurines placed in tombs among funerary goods so they can be servants to the tomb's owner in the afterlife. Using representative figurines replaced killing [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|actual]] [[Human Sacrifice|servants]] for this sole purpose. Shadi guards the Millennium Items' original resting place and {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along|turns out to be just a ghost]] since Yami Bakura had killed him 5,000 years ago when he was one of Atem's priests.}} And like Malik's and Rashid's names, the name "Shadi" is also [http://www.behindthename.com/name/shadi-1 Arabic] in origin, [[Shown Their Work|reflecting]] that all these characters come from modern Egypt where Arabic is the official language.
** There's also Ishizu, named after the ancient Egyptian goddess [http://www.touregypt.net/magazine/mag08012001/magf5.htm Isis]. Isis is the queen of [[Religion Is Magic|magic]], [[Due to the Dead|dedicated wife]] to her murdered and undead husband Osiris, and honored for being a [[Mama Bear|good mother]] to her son [[Protectorate|Horus]]. Ishizu is a [[Mysterious Waif]] of a character who can [[Spider Sense|see the future]] using her [[Applied Phlebotinum|Millennium Necklace]]. One of her major goals is to stop her [[Face Heel Turn
** "Yugi" means "game"
*** Yami means dark or shadow, which means that "Yami Yugi" means "Shadow Game."
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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.
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* [[Pinball Scoring]]: Every card in the anime does base damage/bonuses/etc in increments of 100; the actual card game has a handful that have 50s.
** In the Duelist Kingdom season, there were a few duels where damage/bonuses were calculated by percentages of other stats, creating some odd prime numbers. From Battle City on, most all the numbers ended in even 0's.
** Unless you're Marik, in which case you can have attack points that end
** 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.
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* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|Screw The Rules, I Have Money!]]: The [[Gag Dub]] is the [[Trope Namer]].
** Occurs within the series itself. Kaiba does it, of course. Pegasus, however, even makes special cards that never go into circulation just so that it gives him an advantage.
*** Didn't help him in the movie,
**** That's because, for some weird reason, Pegasus used the real-life version of the Toon cards, which possess so many drawbacks and so little support that no serious player would be caught dead using them. .
***** It's because you have to use life points to summon them, when really you could just use the normal versions instead.
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* [[Stronger with Age]]: The Baby Dragon to Thousand Dragon age up.
* [[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
* [[Sunglasses At Night]]: Bandit Keith wearing his sunglasses in a dark cave.
** Because he's an American! And Americans always wear sunglasses!
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** He does show some limited thanks for Yugi, and only Yugi, at times, such as freeing him from Pegasus and the Big Five.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Specifically, after Yugi's soul is taken by the Orichalchos, and Insector Haga ''[[Bullying a Dragon|taunts]]'' the now rather unstable Yami by tearing up a card in front of him after claiming it was Yugi's, just "[[Moral Event Horizon|as a joke]]", Yami... well, he goes totally and utterly apeshit, really. He defeats Haga using a card that grants extra attacks by drawing and discarding monsters, and then he continues bashing at him by trashing more monsters long after Haga's lifepoints have hit zero. He would've kept going too, if Anzu hadn't stopped him. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYx_sJRmgeY Here's the scene]... Not pretty.
** There's (possibly deliberately) an added [[Meaningful Echo]]
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: Dartz.
* [[Vendor Trash]]: When the rules got more defined, a lot of the worse cards didn't have [[Deus Ex Machina]] powers anymore and were pruned. Though some of them got updated versions that are useful.
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