Then he wanted, his son, Priest Seto nobody at the time knew that Akhenaden was Seto's father to became the pharaoh of darkness. As time went on, Priest Karmim, Shadda, and Isis were killed. Mahado sacrificed himself to become pharaoh's slave to protect him.

Zork then is killed, and so is Thief Bakura , and Yami Bakura! As the memory fades, Atem asked Priest Seto to take the position as pharaoh. Then, the Ceremonial Battle begins. This duel determines whether Yami no Yuugi whould share the same body as Yugi Mutou , or whether he is sent to the past, and change what didn't happen 3, years ago.

Sadly, Yuugi Mutou wins, and Yami Yuugi looses. Yuugi cries, wishing that Yami could stay, and Yami tries to console his little friend. Even all his friends began to cry, since they shared a wonderful, friendly bond with Yami no Yuugi.

Yuugi said that he would never forget Yami no Yuugi. Then, Yami no Yuugi says his last good-bye, and goes back to the past to change the future of Egypt.

Sadly enough, that is the end of Yami no Yuugi. In the Japanese version, Yami did not go back into the past. Rather, he went to the World of the Dead. Also applies to his past self - he was very skilled in both sorcery and combat, and though he could not defeat Zorc, he created a seal strong enough to hold him for 3, years and with the failsafe of his name as the key in case the Puzzle was ever solved. Played up in derivative media like Capsule Monsters, where he does some impressive acrobatics.

Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence : His last scene is walking into the light from the door to the afterlife. Adaptational Heroism : The second series anime cut out most of his Penalty Games and ruthlessness from the first dozen volumes of the manga, making him more heroic from the get-go. Adaptational Villainy : While the second anime gave him Adaptational Heroism thanks to cutting out his more questionable actions in the beginning, during the Doma Arc he briefly gave in to his dark side completely out of self-destructive pride, used a powerful, evil card despite knowing what it could do, and lost Yugi's soul temporarily as a result.

It's even worse in the dub. While in the original, he mostly just seems to be determined to win, no matter what, in the dub he comes across as much more malicious. He refers to his monsters as "useless" and shows glee and sadism towards his opponent Rafael, constantly taunting him about his soul soon being locked away forever. Adaptation Personality Change : The second anime adaptation makes him more generally heroic, and more interested in Duel Monsters than other games.

Adaptation Explanation Extrication : Along with the removal of his more varied Penalty Games, the Duel Monsters anime does not explain why Yami Yugi stops dealing out Mind Crushes after Duelist Kingdom, nor does it explain why he challenged Shadi to a Shadow Game in the original version.

The 4Kids dub fixes the latter issue by having Shadi subjected to traps that the Pharaoh's mind had subconsciously set up. Amnesiac Hero : Thanks to having been sealed in the Puzzle, he has no memory of his past or his own name. He was completely aware of the time passing in the eternal darkness that he would be trapped in for the next three thousand years. The dub changed this into , which only made it worse, and he wasn't exactly sane at first for good reasons. Thankfully, Solomon found his Puzzle and passed it on to Yugi who eventually solved it and allowed him to go to the Afterlife.

And the Rest : In the Millennium World arc in the manga, he stands on a balcony and gazes longingly to the sky thinking of his friends, only to have a separate panel thinking of only Yugi afterwards.

Anime Hair : His hair has the same level of craziness as Yugi, only now some of the bangs stick up. Anti-Hero : At worst; especially the manga. He started as a dangerous vigilante gamer who dealt out harsh punishments to evildoers. He mellows out through Character Development and becomes more unambiguously heroic. Artifact Alias : Even after it is revealed that he is a separate person, most of his friends still call him "Yugi".

Ax-Crazy : In the early manga and Toei anime, he doesn't hesitate to dole out gruesome punishments to his enemies, taking particular joy in fire-based penalties. Bad Powers, Good People : His dark powers are a result of human sacrifices of the Village of Ku Elna, where all seven Millennium Items were created using 99 people to do so, which allows him to use Shadow Games on people unless you are a decent person or he thinks you are Not Worth Killing.

Then Pegasus dropped the bombshell about the items themselves possessing an evil intelligence as he doesn't want to be evil. He stops using Shadow Games and Penalty Games for the rest of the manga, but it does have other powers both him and Yugi can use, such as locating someone and topdecking. Badass Baritone : He has a more confident voice than Yugi, particularly in the English dub where it's much deeper. Badass Boast : He's fond of giving these across all mediums, especially when he's about to get the upper hand.

A particularly badass one in the dub of the anime is when he's going up against Yami Bakura for the final time in the dark RPG. Bakura calls him out on stalling for time and it's time he's wasting. You said it yourself Bakura, this is a game. And every challenge in a game has a solution. Now need I remind you? You're playing with the king of games!

He is also able to withstand shadow games and the real damages taken from them when Yugi could not. In the Millennium World arc, his Ba is fused with his monsters and takes an obscene amount of damage from his multiple Shadow Games with Thief King Bakura and Zorc, including falling down a very tall chasm and shortly after being tortured by vengeful spirits of Kul Elna, and still makes it to the final battle with Zorc.

The amount of punishment he stands up to in the Millennium World arc alone borders on the ridiculous, and he probably should have died at least twice. Manly Tears : Not present in the manga, where he never cries at all, but he does cry a few times in the anime.

He also sheds a Single Tear when he nearly surrenders to Dartz, which falls onto the Millennium Puzzle and forces back the Seal of Orichalcos. He cries about three times in the Doma arc alone. He also cries during his anime-only duel with Joey in Duelist Kingdom.

Mental Fusion : In the dub, he and Yugi share a mind when dueling. Mind Rape : His Penalty Games. It doesn't truly hit until he loses the duel and Yugi subsequently performs a Heroic Sacrifice to keep Dark Yugi from having his soul taken, leading Yugi's to be absorbed in his place.

It occurs again at the end of his following duel, after he comes back to his senses and realizes the brutality of his repeated attacks on Weevil. Mysterious Protector : Before his identity is revealed in the early manga. He's forgotten his name, along with much of his past. His name, Atem, is finally recovered in the final arc. New Powers as the Plot Demands : The original seven-volume manga gave him several implied abilities through the Puzzle, such as bestowing curses and declaring and enforcing Shadow Games through which to judge the hearts of its participants.

In both, it's implied that solving the Puzzle gave its wielder access to actual dark magic. The manga also gave the Puzzle two establishing powers: to locate Joey remotely, which was only seen once, and to topdeck, which he only explicitly uses in the anime during his duel with Yugi. The anime version of Duelist Kingdom gave the Puzzle powers such as a psychic link with Kaiba, immunity to fire, and switching souls during a duel. These were all phased out post-Duelist Kingdom.

Nice Guy : Becomes this after Character Development kicks in. While Atem is clearly more flawed than Yugi, Atem is still a kind, heroic, and caring soul who fights for the right thing and will do anything for his friends.

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Through Yugi and his friends, Yami Yugi learns the values and powers of friendship and unity. After seeing Yugi overcome Marik in his Duel with Joey, who has been possessed, Yami thinks to himself, he learned something from Yugi; that in kindness lies the greatest strength of all; one day Yugi will surpass him in every way.

In the Japanese anime, Yami often refers to Yugi as "Aibou" Partner although there have been instances where he also refers to Yugi as Other Me, although being more prideful than Yugi he uses "ore" as such he would call Yugi "Mou hitori no ore". Pharaoh Atem defeated Zorc Necrophades , sacrificing his life in the process.

He used his name as part of a spell that sealed Zorc's soul and his soul into the Millennium Puzzle. The puzzle was shattered by Priest Seto and laid to rest in the Pharaoh's tomb. Solomon's guide attempted to kill him to take the Pharaoh's treasure for himself. After the guide met his fate at the hands of a monster, Solomon was saved by the apparent spirit of Atem. When he returned home, he brought the Puzzle back with him. His grandson, Yugi Muto , solved the Puzzle, which caused the Pharaoh's spirit to inhabit Yugi's body.

The Pharaoh's soul, which comes to be known as "the other Yugi" or "Yami Yugi", was now missing the vast majority of his memories. In the dub, Yami knows by the start of the Battle City arc that he at least comes from ancient Egypt, although he doesn't know he was once a pharaoh until visiting the Egyptian exhibit in the museum.

In the Japanese version, however, he has no idea of any memories at the arc's beginning and has a conversation with Yugi about it in an episode before his museum visit, including being unknown of where he came from. He defeats Grandpa and tears up the card, and saying it will never be used against him, Yami Yugi Duels him using Grandpa's Deck.

After winning, he utilizes his intense mind-crushing abilities on Kaiba, dispelling his evil side. When the video is played, Pegasus appears on the screen and requests a Duel with Yugi. Yami Yugi emerges and Duels Pegasus. Pegasus reads Yami's mind, using his Millennium Eye and learns his strategies. Yami ultimately loses due to the time limit on the Duel.

Pegasus then steals Grandpa's soul, using his Millennium Eye to blackmail Yugi into entering the Duelist Kingdom tournament. Mokuba Kaiba , who was held prisoner by Pegasus, escapes and steals another Duelist's Deck. He Duels Yami Yugi in the hopes of eliminating him, so Pegasus will be unable to face him in the finals.

Unable to beat Yami, Mokuba steals two of his Star Chips , to get him disqualified. Yami manages to convince Mokuba, they should be working together and to return the stolen Star Chips. Mokuba tries to return the first Star Chips he stole, but the Duelist he took them from is already being shipped off the island. Yami challenges Kemo to a Duel for Mokuba's freedom. Kemo doesn't Duel, though, but arranges another meeting, where he'll have an opponent for Yugi.

Yami faced the Mimic of Doom , who initially disguised himself as Kaiba. The Mimic insisted that Kaiba was dead and he was his ghost seeking revenge. In the dub, he claimed to be Kaiba's evil half that Yami had sent to the Shadow Realm. In all cases Yami's opponent used Kaiba's Deck. Yugi is able to defeat one of the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" cards on his own, and then the real Seto Kaiba hacked into Pegasus computer system and installed a virus in the second "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" Summoned by Yami's opponent, inspiring Yugi to defeat the final Dragon by using "Monster Reborn" to bring back the first Blue-Eyes on his side and transfer the attack power of " Mystical Elf " to his Dragon.

In the Japanese anime, he used the Millennium Puzzle to put the Mimic in a coma. In the dub, he drove all evil from the Mimic. Yugi and his friends met up with Bakura Ryou. Yami is put at a disadvantage, as he focus on keeping his friends alive for the Duel.

Yami Bakura plays " Change of Heart ", which Bakura had become. Bakura refuses to turn his friends against each other and takes over Yami Bakura's " Lady of Faith ", telling Yami Yugi that he can win, if he attacks him. Yami Yugi refuses to attack his friend. He then uses the Millennium Puzzle to switch the souls of the two Bakuras and attacks, sending Yami Bakura to the Graveyard and winning the Duel.

Yami believes he knows what kind of man PaniK was—a cowardly bully hiding behind defenses. Yami defeats him, but PaniK doesn't give up and uses flame injectors to try to kill the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle. The game being a Labyrinth Duel , puts it strongly in the Paradox brothers favor, but Yami Yugi and Joey are able to beat them through teamwork.

To leave the Labyrinth, there are two paths out of the arena: one leads out of the caves, while another leads to an endless maze. As a way of helping the two, the Brothers claim that one of them will speak only lies, while the other will speak only the truth, and furthermore allow both Yami Yugi and Joey to ask one question each to find out which path is correct.

However, Yami deduces that both brothers are lying and they have the power to change which path leads where. By using a two-headed coin to trick the Brothers into admitting this, Yugi and his friends escape the caves. On entry to the castle to enter the finals, Yugi is confronted by Kaiba, who must beat Yugi, before he can face Pegasus. Yami shields himself with a wall of " Kuriboh " from " Multiply " and manages to weaken the dragon by fusing " Mammoth Graveyard " into it, causing it to decay.

When Yami is one attack away from victory, Kaiba stands up on the wall of the castle. If Yami continues the attack, Kaiba will be blown off the edge. Yami continues the attack, but Yugi takes control and cancels the attack, forfeiting the Duel to Kaiba, who takes five of Yugi's Star Chips. Yugi manages to regain a spot in the finals as Mai gives him her excessive Star Chips, in thanks for winning hers back off PaniK. Yami Yugi faces Mai in the first round of the finals, but patronizes her and only thinks of facing Pegasus.

This leads to a lot of bad plays on Yugi's behalf. In the dub, Yugi refuses to let Yami Duel, in fear that he may harm his opponent, like he was willing to harm Kaiba. Yami tries to talk Yugi into letting him Duel, as Yugi puts up a weak fight. After talking with Mai about facing fears, Yugi lets Yami take control. Having faith in his friends and everyone depending on him, Yami Summons the " Black Luster Soldier " and uses it to defeat Mai.

Yami Yugi faces Joey in the finals. Despite being friends, neither player holds back. Joey uses all he's learnt from the Yugis in the past and puts up a close Duel. Both players begin crying as Yami makes his final move winning the Duel.

Yami proceeds to face Pegasus in the finals. His souls is at stake as he battles for the release of Grandpa and the Kaiba brother's souls. Pegasus dominates the Duel at an early stage, with his Toon monsters and using his Millennium Eye to read Yami's mind.

Yami talks with Yugi, who gets the idea to continually switch control of his body. This way after Yugi makes a move, he switches to Yami, whose mind Pegasus then reads. This causes Pegasus to not see what cards are played face-down and where Yugi hides "Dark Magician" under " Magical Hats ". Pegasus then takes the Duel to the Shadow Realm and uses his eye-themed monsters.

Yugi, unable to cope with the Shadow Realm passes out after a few turns, setting a card as he does so. Yami Yugi and Yugi looking at their friends as they have defeated Pegasus and rescued everyone he captured.

Yami struggles with continuing the Duel alone. He then gets a vision of Grandpa, who tells that Yugi may not physically be with him, but his spirit still is. Using "Multiply" "Thousand Eyes Restrict" is forced to absorb a " Kuriboh Token " and has each of its eyes covered, freeing the Magician from its paralysis. After the Kaibas' souls were free and the gang was leaving, Yugi asked Yami Yugi what his name was. He replied by saying that he has been called many things throughout the ages-Pharaoh, Yu-Gi-Oh or Yami, which he seems to prefer more.

Mokuba Kaiba requests the help of Yugi and his friends after Seto Kaiba gets trapped in a virtual reality game by the Big Five. Yugi, along with Joey, Mai and Mokuba save Kaiba. He ordered Yugi to stay away from the new shop. At school, they met the new student, Duke Devlin , the owner of the Black Clown.

Joey was jealous of Duke's popularity and challenged him to a game of Duel Monsters. Yugi objected to the condition that Joey and Duke both use Decks from packs they open on the spot. Joey lost the televised Duel and in keeping his end of the bargain had to do whatever Duke said.

Yugi became disgusted after Duke forced Joey to wear a dog suit and behave like a dog, so he switched to Yami who challenged Duke to a Duel. Unfamiliar with the rules, Yami got off to a rough start. His chances did not improve as Duke revealed that he designed Dungeon Dice Monsters with Pegasus' aid.

Yami succeeded in calling " Dark Magician ", which Pegasus had added to the game, and used it to defeat Duke. After the game, Duke, Yugi and Yugi's friends went to Duke's office. Duke lamented that his dream has been crushed as nobody would want to play Dungeon Dice Monsters now. However Yugi assured him that it was a great game and his friends agreed. Duke apologized for how he had treated them, and they agreed to be friends.

At first, Yami showed a confident face as he often did, but became confused when noticing that there was no one to Duel. After visiting many shops and attractions, they enter an arcade.

Inside, Yami observes with interest the many games he has never heard nor seen before. If she loses she must become his girlfriend. Yami reveals himself to be Yugi Muto during the Duel, causing Johnny to surrender and run. Here they meet Ishizu Ishtar , who shows Yami some information about his past as a pharaoh and tells him he must enter the Battle City tournament to learn more, as well as warning him of a coming danger.

Yugi is invited to the Battle City tournament. After trying to return "Red-Eyes" to Joey, Joey insists that Yugi should keep it and he'll take it back when he becomes a better Duelist. Yami next faces Arkana , whose signature card is also a " Dark Magician ".

The Duel is set up, so two saw-blades draw closer to the player's feet, as their Life Points lower. Yami wins the Duel and rescues Arkana from the blades. Strings Summons " Slifer the Sky Dragon " and creates a massive hand of cards.

Yami manages to turn Marik's strategy against him, ultimately forcing his opponent to Deck Out , and takes "Slifer the Sky Dragon" after winning. Kaiba challenges Yami Yugi to a Duel after his victory against Strings. Yami however postpones the Duel, as he must check his friends' safety, as Marik is just after threatening to turn them into Mind Slaves.

Kaiba assists Yugi in his search. Umbra and Lumis Decks are designed to combat the Summoning of the God cards, but Yami and Kaiba manage to work together and get around their lock, Summoning Obelisk once again to win the Duel. Yugi acquires enough Locator Cards to proceed to the finals after this Duel. Both players are chained to an anchor and forced to Duel.

Defeating their opponent would release a key to save themselves. After a timer hits zero, the anchor would drag one of the two players chained to it into the water to drown. Marik doesn't allow Yugi to use Slifer. Yami puts the card aside, not planning to use it anyway and instead adds Joey's "Red-Eyes" to his Deck.

Shortly into the Duel, Yugi asks Yami to let him handle it. Yami is unsure if that's the safest option, but relinquishes control to Yugi. Yugi puts the Millennium Puzzle aside, so Yami cannot take control. Yugi manages to snap Joey out of Marik's control in time for Joey to force the Duel into a draw and save both players.

Yami learns from Yugi that in kindness lies the greatest strength of all, and he thinks one day Yugi will surpass him in every way. Yami competes on Kaiba's blimp for the Battle City finals. Kaiba warns him that he won't win unless he uses Slifer, and Yami reluctantly adds the god card to his Deck. His first Duel is against Bakura, and is shocked to find that his dark half has survived.

Soon, Yami's only hope is "Slifer", and he plays the god card for the first time. Marik, who had enlisted Yami Bakura's aid, tells him to use the real Bakura, who had been injured, to try and get Yami to forfeit the Duel.

Yami Bakura does, but then changes his mind at the last minute, and Yami uses "Slifer" to attack and win the Duel. Joey shields Mai with his own body, though it would risk a great deal of damage. Yami rushes in at the last minute and takes the hit; his own body, through the power of his Puzzle, affords him the strength to withstand Ra's attack. Yami Marik, however, still traps Mai in her mind sends her to the Shadow Realm in the dub.

Before Kaiba's blimp can land on Alcatraz, Yugi, Kaiba, and the rest of the passengers aboard are rerouted to a hidden bunker. The bunker seems to be operated by a boy who calls himself Noah, who forces Yugi and company into a Virtual World, where everyone is separated from one another to fend for themselves—and to Duel against KaibaCorp's former Board of Directors, the Big Five.

Yami finds himself trapped in a lockdown Duel against Gansley, who has taken on the form of the " Deepsea Warrior ". Gansley's abilities as the "Deepsea Warrior" damage Yami's Life Points considerably, until Yami's Deck Master, " Kuriboh " who chose itself as his partner , saves him from losing the Duel and his body. Yami manages to win by using " Rainbow Blessing " with Kuriboh to create a path for Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight " to strike the finishing blow against Gansley and win.

They battled the Big Five and won in the end. Yami convinced Noah to Duel him after he said that Kaiba would have beaten Noah, had Noah not used Mokuba to keep him from losing. He replaced Kaiba as Noah's opponent and combined Kaiba's Deck with his own, despite Kaiba having only Life Points while Noah had nearly twenty times his score.

With every passing turn, Noah turned each one of Yugi's friends to stone when Yugi failed to defeat him. After a harrowing battle, Yami, drawing on the strength of his friends, was able to activate " Card of Sanctity " and draw himself a brand-new hand one card for each of his friends.

Right after the Duel, Gozaburo Kaiba , Noah's father, appeared and revealed the Noah has been working for him all along, and has plans for taking of the world by sending it to the Virtual World. Noah teams up with Yugi and co. However, after Noah had a change of heart, and Yami Marik destroys the computer programming the missile, he tells them all the exit, and they all leave the Virtual World, with Noah returning Mokuba's body, and barely escaping the explosion.

After escaping the Virtual World , Yugi and the other three finalists in Battle City — Yami Marik , Joey Wheeler , and Seto Kaiba —competed against each other in a 4-way Battle Royal , to determine which opponents would be paired up against each other. Yugi found himself pitted against Kaiba in the rematch of the Millennium since their bout in Duelist Kingdom.

During this "Clash in the Coliseum", both Yugi and Kaiba Summoned the respective Egyptian God Card each of them possessed, but the Duel became a heated stalemate, as neither Egyptian God was able to destroy the other. Kaiba would ultimately force the Duel into a 6-turn showdown by using " Final Attack Orders " to reduce both players' Decks to three cards.

As per the ante rule of the Battle City Tournament—and after Kaiba berated Yugi with his delusion that one cannot truly win while relying on others—Yugi was given " Obelisk the Tormentor " before the Duel with Marik. The Duel between Yugi and Marik is a Shadow Game involving the loser forfeiting his alter ego, but as Marik pointed out, no matter who won, an innocent soul would be lost forever—and if Yami Yugi lost, both he and Yugi would cease to exist.

Yami responded by activating a card that Kaiba had given him before the Duel—" Fiend's Sanctuary ", which would turn all Battle Damage back on Marik if the attack went through. Even though Marik negated "Ra's" attack with "De-Fusion" which he'd gained after Yugi activated " Exchange " to take " Monster Reborn " from Marik , Yami would then combo "Fiend's Sanctuary" and " Multiply " to Summon "Obelisk" and attack Marik directly, but it would not be enough to win, because with that direct attack, Marik had everything he needed to complete his Immortality strategy, eventually locking down Yami's attacks with a combo of " Egyptian God Slime " and " Jam Defender " before reviving "Ra" with "Monster Reborn" yet again.