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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! (
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]].
There's a huge amount of video games based on this series, the most famous of which is ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction
This show in particular is also responsible for the creation of ''[[The Abridged Series]]'' genre of internet videos, with ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
This series has [[Yu-Gi-Oh (Franchise)/Tear Jerker|Tear Jerker]], [[Yu-Gi-Oh (Franchise)/Nightmare Fuel|Nightmare Fuel]], [[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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* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: Seto Kaiba.
** Zigfried von Schroeder may as well count, too.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: The [[
** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction]]'' is this to the anime's season 4.
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: As with all the anime that 4Kids dubs, the English opening is different from the Japanese opening. You can listen to it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp0W3LyUX0k&feature=related here].
* [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]]: Yugi's Millennium Puzzle given that it has the soul of a 3,000 year old Pharaoh in it and tends to be generally badass when it takes over Yugi's body. Actually, most of the Millennium Items in general fit this trope.
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** Also in the Waking the Dragons arc.
* [[Black Magician Girl]]: [[Trope Namer]] due to the "Dark Magician Girl" card, which is actually named "Black Magician Girl" in the original anime.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Most of the fads, toys, and games in the early parts of the manga. Duel Monsters itself (Initially called ''Magic and Wizards'') was most likely a [[Bland-Name Product]] of ''[[Magic:
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The card known in Japanese as "Shisha Sosei" (literally "Raise Dead") was called "Reborn the Monster" early in the English dub, before changing to "Monster Reborn", which makes a lot more sense.
* [[Body Surf]]: Marik causes much grief to the protagonists by doing this during the Battle City arc.
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** Those cards did have importance in the early days of the card game, since effect monsters and monster removal, amongst other meta-defining concepts, were few and far between at the time, thus making the game more about which monsters had the higher stats, with BEWD in particular standing alone at the top.
** Even now, most monsters with 3000 or more ATK have some form of summoning conditions to keep Blue-Eyes White Dragon unique (although these conditions often make such monsters easier to summon that BEWD).
* [[Chained
* [[Chastity Couple]]
* [[Character Development]]: Mostly for the two Yugis, but everyone gets a decent amount at the least.
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** Nameless [[Player Mooks]] versus numerous [[Designated Villain|Designated Villains]] like Rex and Weevil.
** Valon defeats Rebecca and Duke on his second turn.
* [[Cut and Paste Translation]]: Most infamously the [[Never Say "Die"|Shadow Realm]] concept.
* [[Cutesy Dwarf]]: Yugi.
* [[Dan Green]]: Probably his most iconic role.
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* [[Dead Ex Machina]]: Yugi gets help from all his [[Taken for Granite|petrified]] friends ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Kaiba]]) in his head before playing his last turn in the duel against Noah.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Pegasus got his [[Start of Darkness]] after his beloved Cyndia passed away.
** And a literal case with Amane, Ryou's little sister who was [[Word of God|killed in a car accident.]] Mostly subverted by the fact that aside from [[Talking to
*** Considering a big part of his back story was that he felt alone due to his lack of friends, his little sister dying is only going to make that worse. Also, not many people write to their deceased relatives, so some would argue that it's messed him up a little bit.
* [[Dead Man Writing]]: Slightly subverted with Pegasus in the Doma filler saga. {{spoiler|He wasn't dead, merely comatose due to his soul being removed.}} However, one could bring up the manga here...
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{{quote| Dartz: "The score stands--Orichalcos one, Seto Kaiba, [[Your Soul Is Mine|zip]]."}}
* [[Death
* [[Debt Detester]]: Kaiba claims that Tea helping Mokuba escape from the Rare Hunters is the only reason he's helping Yugi find his friends. Then he uses it as his reason for saving Tea's life. Considering all the times he makes a point of explaining how he's only "helping" the gang out of selfish reasons, it's pretty clear that it's only a shield for his [[Hidden Heart of Gold]].
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Ryuji Otogi/Duke Devlin in the ''Dungeon Dice Monsters'' arc.
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** Kaiba may count as a male example, at least in the Japanese version. He becomes more amiable and less openly insulting towards the others.
*** There was actually a moment in Season 1 in which he was considering the truth behind the Heart of the Cards, but he reverted after he was saved by Yugi in the end.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Ryou Bakura in the second anime. In the manga, he appears with the main group most of the time after his initial appearance and has tons of screentime, while in the anime, he usually only appears whenever it involves Yami Bakura or if it's Yami Bakura ''pretending'' to be the real Bakura (in most cases). Lampshaded in [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
** Inverted in the first anime adaptation, where Ryou is given more screentime even in episodes that correspond to the manga chapters before he was introduced.
* [[Depending
* [[Designated Victim]]/[[Distress Ball]]: Mai Kujaku/Valentine, subjected to several on-screen losses for the sake of plot advancement, and between the Battle City Finals and Doma, for real.
** Hiroto Honda/Tristan Taylor falls here too.
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** Averted in the first anime series, though, where the Kaiba brothers are anything but easily forgiven.
* [[Embarrassing Rescue]]
* [[Environmental Symbolism]]: Whenever Shadi [[Journey to
* [[Evil Eye]]: Pegasus's Millennium Eye, possessing the power to read minds and probably do other sinister things. According to [[Word of God]], it also [[
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: Nor is it a card game, ''Pegasus''.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Played straight with Yugi/Yami Yugi and Marik/Yami Marik. Both played straight and subverted by Bakura/Yami Bakura in the original Japanese. Yami Bakura does have a deeper voice than Bakura, but both have a [[Larynx Dissonance|high-pitched squeaky effeminate voice]].
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** Played straight with Yugi in the first series anime produced by Toei.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The duel between Yami Marik and Yami Bakura is this.
* [[Exactly What It Says
** Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes upon the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Giant_Turtle_Who_Feeds_on_Flames Giant Turtle Who Feeds On Flames]!
* [[Expy]]: The original manga has "Chopman" working in Death-T 2. He's basically Leatherface, but he did some Jasonesque stuff.
* [[Extra Eyes]]: Pegasus' Thousand-Eyes Restrict.
* [[Eye Scream]]: The series seems to love this trope. Pegasus and Aknadin as the owners of the Millennium Eye have pretty gruesome moments. Then there's Jonouchi stabbing Zork in the eye during the Monster World arc in the manga. Tenma Yakou from [[Yu-Gi-Oh! R
* [[Face Framed in Shadow]]: Every major villain has this going on for them, especially friends who have been made [[Brainwashed and Crazy]].
** Also used to somewhat hide Yami Yugi's identity, first in Season 0 when Tea wonders who saved her and again in Season 2 for Kaiba during Ishizu's Millennium Necklace visions. The shadow even followed him as he stood up.
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** A really touching one in particular it's between Yami and Yuugi; after Yuugi is discharged from the hospital after his duel with Bandit Keith, he becomes uncharacteristically quiet and gloomy. Even though he knows something is troubling him, Yami decides to patiently wait for Yuugi to voice his concerns, and only then he realizes that Yuugi had been afraid of losing him after his duel with Keith, and now feared that Yami would leave him someday. So Yami, knowing full well that one day he would have leave his side, tells him that despite what he ''had'' to do, he ''wanted'' to be with him forever. And Yuugi, realizing as well that Yami would have to go, replies that he also wished for them to be together; even if the Pharaoh didn't get his memory back, he and Yuugi would make new memories together.
* [[Fun Size]]: Yugi Mutoh and Yami.
* [[Gag Dub]]: ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
* [[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.
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* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: Averted -- even though the show is largely about a collectible card game, the actual ''collection'' aspect is barely seen, with most characters pulling new cards out of nowhere during duels rather than explicitly obtaining them through booster packs or trades.
** 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.
*** Mai Kujaku, who switches from Harpies to Amazons from Duelist Kingdom to Battle City, is probably the closest-to-real-life player in that she has an ''entirely'' new deck, though she still includes her Harpies. Then again, can you blame Kaiba for wanting Blue-Eyes in every deck?
*** The Pharaoh does, at one point, buy a booster pack which contains a card seen in later duels. While on a date with Anzu. Who notes grimly that it's the happiest he'd been thus far.
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* [[Hilarious in Flashback]]: Grandpa Muto makes a vow in a flashback that if he ever loses a game, he'll give up adventuring, open a game shop and wear overalls for the rest of his life.
* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: Complete with virtual doors that can be blown up with virtual dynamite...
* [[Homage]]: The card game was originally intended as a homage to ''[[Magic:
* [[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 version -- 4Kids rewrote her dialogue and character entirely until she and Mahad have nothing but a classroom relationship.
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* [["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
* [[Inaction Sequence]]: Very, very often.
* [[Inadequate Inheritor]]: Gozaburo to Seto.
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* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Because of some legal issue, it's impossible outside Japan to find any official release of the anime other than the edited dub version. 4Kids attempted to release unedited DVDs of the show, and later put subtitled episodes directly on YouTube, but both of these releases were cancelled, leaving people who don't want to endure 4Kids' edits out of luck if they want to be legitimate customers.
** [[Little Kuriboh]] has noted that he doesn't [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
* [[The Kid
* [[Killer Yoyo]]: Hirutani's gang in one story in the manga and one story in the Toei anime
* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: This is about the nicest description possible for the way Gozaburo Kaiba raised his children. Although it was probably really just the company he was worried about.
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** If you find someone with a green circle on their forehead, they probably want your soul so they can feed it to their ancient beast.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Happens for a couple of characters, particularly the (ancient) Egyptian ones:
** If Marik's name were [[Spell My Name
** 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|Morality Pets]] in the series.
** 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
** 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
** "Yugi" means "game"
*** Yami means dark or shadow, which means that "Yami Yugi" means "Shadow Game."
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* [[Necromantic]]: Pegasus.
* [[Necessary Fail]]
* [[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".
* [[New Powers
** The Winged Dragon Of Ra is especially guilty of this; it seems like every time [[Big Bad|Yami Marik]] plays it, Ra just happens to have a previously-unused power that just happens to [[Not So Fast Bucko|perfectly counter his opponent's new winning strategy]].
* [[New Rules
** Once the rules were written and pinned down in Battle City, this turned into "New Cards As the Plot Demands," with duelists producing cards never before seen at just the right time. Many of these cards exist for [[Rule of Cool]], as there are other pre-existing cards that do the same thing as the new card but don't fit the theme of the duelist's deck. Change of Heart for example has equivalents with Yugi and Kaiba in the forms of Brain Control and Enemy Controller.
** There's also a ton of cards that were created to allow the duelists to draw cards so the writers can keep their hands filled, such as Card of Last Will, Card of Demise, Nibelung's Ring, and ''especially'' Card of Sanctity. Kaiba's "Power Balance" in particular is ridiculously overpowered in this regard, requiring the opponent to discard half their hand and then allowing the user to draw the same number of cards discarded, all with no drawbacks. But hey, it added tension to his duel with Yugi so why not? Though it doesn't beg the question why he only uses it once.
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* [[Older Is Better]]: The older your magic, the better it is.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Yugi.
* [[Oddly
* [[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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** 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
* [[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.
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* [[Princesses Rule]]: Princess Adina, ruler of Simlow, in Kaiba's virtual world.
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Seto Kaiba.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: The Millennium Items give their owners a variety of psychic powers, depending on the item. Some examples being mind crushing, [[Mind Rape|mind raping]], locating and identifying other Millennium Item holders, [[Telepathy|mind reading]], [[Journey to
** Don't forget how Bakura used his Millennium Ring to {{spoiler|summon monsters and activate Duel Monsters cards outside of a duel, and sic them on some Mooks}}.
* [[Put
** Bandit Keith in the anime, who, after losing his duel with Yugi, is never mentioned in the story again.
* [[Quest for Identity]]: The second series. The pharaoh in particular.
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** This is especially fatal in a Shadow Game, which enforces the rules very strictly and very harshly.
* [[Rapid-Fire Typing]]: Seto Kaiba often utilizes this whenever he's operating or hacking into a computer.
** Parodied in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
{{quote| '''Computer''': It looks like you're just pressing the same buttons over and over.<br />
'''Kaiba''': That's because I learned how to [[Hollywood Hacking|hack]] by watching old episodes of ''[[Star Trek]]''! }}
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Both the card game and anime series feature cards based on Konami's ''[[Gradius]]'' and ''[[Mystical Ninja]]'' series, and even one that references ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''.
** First episode, take a look at the shelf that Yugi covers up just as he answers the phone call from Kaiba. Even ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' can find its way into a show about a children's card game.
** ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' has referenced ''[[
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS6wcAzXhlc One of Pegasus's toons sure loves] [[Crash Bandicoot|spinning]].
* [[Skepticism Failure]]: Hey, Kaiba. Guess what? Ancient Egyptian trading card game!
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* [[Soul Jar]]: Millennium Ring, Millennium Puzzle, various gaming equipment, {{spoiler|Taken literally with Mai in season 2 when she loses to Marik.}}
** Although "''Soul Jar''" sounds like a good name for a Duel Monsters Spell Card, it's not one. There are some other Jar monsters though.
* [[Spared
** Also, {{spoiler|Bandit Keith}}.
* [[Spell My Name
** Also 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.
* [[Split Personality]]: Not quite, since it's more like another person sharing their body, but it still fits.
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*** Sometimes averted with Bakura, who often seems to be controlled by the spirit even when he looks like his nice self, which the audience usually finds out mere seconds later.
** Played straight with Marik and Yami Marik.
* [[Stalker
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: [[Uncanny Valley|Ryou Bakura]].
* [[Stock Foreign Name]]: Vivian Wong.
* [[Story Arc]]: Duelist Kingdom, Legendary Heroes, Battle City, Noah's Virtual World, Battle City Finals, Doma, the Kaiba Corp Grand Prix, and Millennium World, with a [[Myth Arc]] spanning all of these arcs.
* [[Stronger
* [[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". ]]
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* [[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.
* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: Hey Yugi, remind me again, what does Pot of Greed do? Or how about flashing back to that play that happened one minute ago for those who missed it? Even if you have no idea how the card game actually works, you can follow every single duel in the later seasons because every single card will have at least ten seconds spent explaining its effect. Even if the card is used every single duel, its effect will be explained. This continued into ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (
* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Marik.
** Also the [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
* [[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:]]
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* [[Wham! Line]]: From episode 52:
{{quote| '''Ishizu Ishtar''': And the young man who stands behind the pharaoh... Above his head is {{spoiler|the Blue Eyes White Dragon.}}}}
* [[What Happened to
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Rebecca does this to Yami when his reckless use of the Seal of Orichalchos results in Yugi losing his soul. Heck, even WEEVIL does this effectively, pointing out that while he might be an asshole, at least he didn't knowingly endanger his friend simply to win.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Bakura, Marik, and their evil alter egos.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Kisara.
** AKA [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
* [[Wine Is Classy]]: In the original, there's a scene where Pegasus is drinking a glass of wine. For the dub, this got changed to [[Frothy Mugs of Water|"the world's finest fruit juices"]].
* [[Wok Fu]]: Yugi faces off against Vivian Wong inside a Chinese restaurant. His friends get distracted from their usual [[Power of Friendship]] cheerleading routine by all the food.
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