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===Yu-Gi-Oh!===
====Duelist Kingdom====
[[File:YugiandYamiYugi6.jpg|thumb|left|Yugi Yami and Yami Yugi conversetheir spirits for the first time.]]Kaiba challenges Solomon Muto to a Duel after seeing his "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" for the first time. 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. Kaiba Summons the other 3 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" and Yugi defeats him with "[[Exodia the Forbidden One (anime)|Exodia the Forbidden One]]". After winning, he Mind Crushes utilizes his intense mind-crushing abilities on Kaiba, dispelling most of his evil side.
With his eyes set on the Millennium Puzzle (in the dubEnglish dubbed), [[Maximillion Pegasus]] sends Yugi a video tape videotape and invitation to [[Duelist Kingdom]]. When the video is played, Pegasus appears on the screen and requests a Duel with Yugi. Using his [[Millennium Eye]], Pegasus takes Yugi into The Shadow Realm, while Yugi's friends and Grandpa are frozen. 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.
At the tournament, Yami defeats [[Weevil Underwood]] and [[Mako Tsunami]] and supports Joey in his Duel against [[Mai Valentine|Mai]].
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. The real Seto Kaiba hacked into Pegasus computer system and installed a virus in the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", Yami's opponent Summoned. 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.
[[File:YamiYugi-DK.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Yami Yugi during the ''Duelist Kingdom''saga.]]
Yugi and his friends met up with [[Ryo Bakura]]. In the second series anime, since [[#Monster World|Monster World]] was skipped, [[Yami Bakura]] played a similar game with Yugi and his friends. Yami Bakura trapped Tristan, Téa, Joey, Yugi and Bakura in Duel Monsters cards, while he and Yami Yugi Dueled with them in their Decks. After Summoning "[[Dark Magician (anime)|Dark Magician]]", the card Yugi had become, Joey, Téa and Tristan see that there are two Yugi for the first time in the anime. Yami is put at a disadvantage, as he focus on keeping his friends alive for the Duel. Yami Bakura plays "[[Change of Heart (anime)|Change of Heart]]", which Ryo had become. Ryo refuses to turn his friends against each other and takes over Yami Bakura's "[[Lady of Faith (anime)|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. Afterwards Téa, Tristan and Joey all think they dreamt it.
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 monster]]s 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 (anime)|Magical Hats]]". Pegasus uses "[[Magical Neutralizing Force]]" to remove the hats, but Yami uses a cards Yugi Set, "[[Living Arrow (anime)|Living Arrow]]", which copies "Magical Neutralizing Force", which destroys "[[Toon World (anime)|Toon World]]", and "[[Mirror Force (anime)|Mirror Force]]" destroys Pegasus' Toons. 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 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. When Pegasus tries to read Yami's mind, the card he drew is blocked because of Téa, Tristan, and Joey spiritually bonding together to support Yami. Yami manages to counter Pegasus strategy, using the last card Yugi set, "[[Dark Magic Ritual (anime)|Dark Magic Ritual]]" and a combination of Magic Cards, resulting in the "[[Magician of Black Chaos (anime)|Magician of Black Chaos]]" being pitted against Pegasus' "[[Thousand-Eyes Restrict (anime)|Thousand-Eyes Restrict]]". Using "Multiply" "Thousand Eyes Restrict" is forced to absorb a "[[Kuriboh Token (anime)|Kuriboh Token]]" and has each of its eyes covered, freeing the Magician from its paralysis. "Magician of Black Chaos" attacks "Thousand-Eyes Restrict", winning the Duel. Later, he discovered Pegasus' true intentions when Téa read his diary. 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 was known as has been called many things throughout the ages-Pharaoh, or Yu-Gi-Ohor Yami, but he told Yugi that which he may call him Yami (this was not in the Japanese version)seems to prefer more.
====Legendary Heroes====
Yugi is invited to the Battle City tournament. Yami faces the [[Rare Hunters|Rare Hunter]], [[Seeker]] in the preliminaries, winning back Joey's "[[Red-Eyes B. Dragon (anime)|Red Eyes Black Dragon]]" and learning that his enemy is a man named [[Marik Ishtar]]. 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 (Arkana)|Dark Magician]]". The Duel is set up, so two sawblades saw-blades draw closer to the player's feet, as their [[Life Points]] lower. Yami wins the Duel and rescues Arkana from the blades.[[File:Yamiosiris.jpg|thumb|left|Yami and Slifer's first meetingencounter with an almighty Egyptian God-Slifer the Sky Dragon.]]
Yami Yugi faces an [[Egyptian Gods|Egyptian God]] for the first time, as Marik Duels him, through his puppet [[Strings]]. Strings Summons "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|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.
[[File:YamiYugi.jpg|thumb|200px|Yami Yugi during the ''Battle City '' arc]]
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. Along the way, they Tag Duel a pair of Rare Hunters, who Kaiba quickly disposes with "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (anime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]". Marik then sends the same pair of Rare Hunters [[Umbra]] and [[Lumis]] to Tag Duel Yugi and Kaiba. 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 Card]]s to proceed to the finals after this Duel.
At [[Domino Pier]], Yami locates Joey, only to discover that his friend is possessed by Marik. 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.
=== Battle City finals (1) Finals ===
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. During the Duel, Yami finds time is against him as Yami Bakura tries to win with the "[[Destiny Board (anime)|Destiny Board]]". 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.
Later on, the Big Five, sharing Tristan's body, challenged Yugi to a Duel, and Joey volunteered to be his Tag Team partner. 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 400 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 (anime)|Card of Sanctity]]" and draw himself a brand-new hand one card for each of his friends). From that hand, he was able to use a [[One Turn Kill]] strategy involving "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" and "[[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]]" to defeat Noah and restore Kaiba, Mokuba, and all of Yugi's friends to normal. 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., and Noah knows the way out of the Virtual World. However , Gozabura seperates separates all of them. However, Noah double-crosses them and has taken Mokuba's body and entered the real world. He later tried to blow the Virtual World up. 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.
====Battle City finals (2)Enter the Shadow Realm====
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.
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, Yugi would die (vanish into the Shadow Realm in the dub), and the Pharaoh would cease to exist.
Although Yami Summoned "Slifer" early in the [[Duel]], Marik countered by Summoning "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (anime)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]" in the same turn and would later attempt to defeat Yugi with the [[Point-to-Point Transfer]] power of "Ra". Yami responded by activating a card that Kaiba had given him before the Duel—"[[Fiend's Sanctuary (anime)|Fiend's Sanctuary]]", which would turn all [[Battle Damage]] back on Marik if the attack went through. Even though [[Marik]] negated the attack or "Ra" with "De-Fusion" (which he'd gained after Yugi activated "[[Exchange (anime)|Exchange]]" to take "[[Monster Reborn (anime)|Monster Reborn]]" from Marik), Yami would then combo "Fiend's Sanctuary" and "[[Multiply (anime)|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 (anime)|Jam Defender]]" before reviving his "Ra" with "Monster Reborn" yet again. The Duel ultimately culminates and concludes with the destruction of both Ra and [[Yami Marik]] (thanks to Yami Yugi's "[[Ragnarok]]" card), and when Marik regains control of his body and mind, he forfeits the Duel to Yami Yugi, destroying Yami Marik, and gives him "Ra", [[Millennium Rod]] and [[Millennium Ring]]. In addition, [[Marik]] also shows him the hieroglyphs tattooed on his back. According to Marik and Ishizu, the "Secret of the Pharaoh" is written somewhere in the hieroglyphs, and only the rightful possessor of the legendary Millennium Puzzle and the three Egyptian God Cards can unlock that great secret.
====Waking the Dragons====
[[File:Yamiyugiwakingthedragons.jpg|thumb|left|Yami Yugi during the [[Waking the Dragons|''Waking the Dragons'']] arc. And his first encounter with the Seal of Ochricalcos.]]After the Battle City tournament, Yugi goes to the museum, where Yami Yugi attempts to regain his memories by holding the Egyptian Gods up to the tablet. However, it can't due to another [[Dartz|dark force]] have freeze the entire thing preventing him to enter and it begins to consuming the God Card power. Afterwards, It was interrupted by real life Duel Monsters appearing outside.
Later that night, a group of perpetrators break into [[Kame Game]] and steal the God Cards. Yami Yugi meets up with them and Duels one, known as [[Gurimo]], who, during the Duel activates a [[field Spell Card|field Magic Card]] called "[[The Seal of Orichalcos (anime)|The Seal of Orichalcos]]", which entraps himself and Yami Yugi inside an magical force field. Gurimo explains that by using his new Magic Card, he and Yugi are cut off from the outside world and only he who wins the Duel can escape the full power of the "The Seal of Orichalcos", as it will extract the loser's soul to awaken [[the Great Leviathan]]. Gurimo Summons the stolen "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (anime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]", who is affected by the "Seal". Yami Yugi manages to destroy "Obelisk" and defeat Gurimo, sealing Gurimo's soul, but does not recover the God cards.
Afterwards, Pegasus sends Yugi and his friends a videotape, inviting the group to [[Industrial Illusions]] headquarters in America to collect a card needed to defeat Paradius.
[[File:158 yami yugi orichalchos shocked.jpg|thumb|right|202px|Yami uses "gradually being taken over by the dark energies of [[The Seal of Orichalcos (anime)|The the Seal of Orichalcos]]" during his [[Duel]] against [[Rafael]] . ]]
Believing Yami Yugi was an evil Pharaoh, [[Rafael]] targets him to try and take his soul. He manages to lure Yugi into a Duel, but tells him he won't be using "[[The Seal of Orichalcos (anime)|The Seal of Orichalcos]]". Rafael later plays the card "[[Exchange (anime)|Exchange]]", forcing Yami to take that very Magic Card. Yugi instructs that they must not play that card, no matter what. Unfortunately, Yami reaches a point in the Duel where he cannot win without playing it. While he does consider playing it, Yugi objects, to no avail. However, upon playing the Seal, Timeaus automatically leaves Yami's side of the field, as it doesn't co-operate with the Orichalcos. The energies from the Orichalcos cause Yami to turn into a corrupt form of himself that no one's ever seen before, which is revealed when he begins [[tribute|Tributing]] his own monsters in a careless attempt to damage Rafael's Life Points and win, despite Yugi's objections. Rafael uses Yami's strategy against him when he Summons "[[Guardian Eatos (anime)|Guardian Eatos]]", whose [[ATK]] increases according to the amount of monsters in the opponent's Graveyard, and defeats Yami. "The Seal of Orichalcos" begins to take Yami's soul, but Yugi decides to sacrifice himself in Yami's place, since the Seal only needs one of their souls.
[[File:YamiYugiOrichalcos.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Yami Yugi before losing against RafaelThe Pharaoh, horrified at what his actions has caused since falling prey to his own inner fury. ]]
Yami falls into depression and guilt over what he let happen to Yugi. As he continues his travels, he and Téa are split from Joey and Tristan on a train hijacked by Rex and Weevil. Weevil, seeking revenge for his loss in [[Duelist Kingdom]], Duels Yami on the roof, using "The Seal of Orichalcos". "Timaeus" refuses to assist Yami when he plays it because of his actions in the last Duel. When Weevil tricks Yami into thinking he's permanently lost Yugi's soul, Yami goes berserk and recklessly attacks him by using the combo "[[Breaker the Magical Warrior (anime)|Breaker the Magical Warrior]]" with "[[Berserker Soul (anime)|Berserker Soul]]", continuing even after Weevil's Life Points reach 0. Téa stops his constant and vengeful attacks, pointing out he's already won the Duel, but not in time for them to escape the out-of-control train, as after the Duel, it derails itself and falls off a cliff.
Yami and Téa are rescued by [[Ironheart]]. Ashamed of himself, Yami lets Ironheart hold onto his "Timaeus" card. Ironheart leads Yami to a place of lost souls, where, after confronting several evil spirits of Duelists he has faced (most of them originated in the Duelist Kingdom arc of this series), he finds Yugi's spirit. Yugi convinces Yami to engage him in a Duel, stating that this is the only way that Yami can prove he's sorry for his recent misdeeds. During the Duel, Yugi uses "The Seal of Orichalcos" which shocked Yami to the core and uses the strategy similar to Yami's from his Duel with Rafael. Yami tries to reason with him, but Yugi refuses to listen, declaring that Yami never cared about anyone else's lives that he has brought this upon himself. Yugi uses monster sacrifices to get through to Yami's doubts, but Yami prevails by using a trap card, "[[Divine Wind]]", to counter this strategy. Defeating Yugi, Yami is told by his partner that he had overcome his mistakes and, in doing so, defeated the darkness in his heart and eliminating the influence of the Orichalcos that corrupted him, meaning that Yugi planned this all along and was never under the influence of the evil card. As Yugi vanishes suddenly, Dartz conjures an Orichalcos Soldier to Duel Yami immediately afterwards. Yami is unable to defeat the Soldier's "[[Orichalcos Gigas]]" without "Timaeus", so Ironheart, [[Chris]] and [[Skye]] sacrifice their own lives as they return the card to Yami, imploring him to save this world. With the darkness within Yami's heart erased, he Summons summons "Timaeus", fuses his dragon with "[[Dark Magician Girl (anime)|Dark Magician Girl]]" to Summon her evolved "[[Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight (anime)|Dragon Knight]]" form, and uses it to defeat the Soldier.
Afterwards, Yami and Téa meet up with the rest of their group and [[Seto Kaiba]], who had just escaped a harrowing rematch with a vengeful [[Alister]] atop his own jet. Kaiba takes them back to Domino City, which has become overrun with Orichalcos Soldiers. After Joey beats Valon, he loses his own soul in a Duel with [[Mai Valentine|Mai]]. On that note, Mai, who realized she made a mistake leaving Joey for "a madman who promised me power" (according to her), and who was filled with rage over losing Joey (as he was "the only one who ever cared about" her), challenges Rafael in a Duel to avenge Joey (believing that Joey would've done the same thing for her if their roles had been reversed), but also loses her soul. Yami makes his way to Duel Rafael, who tosses him Joey's "[[Claw of Hermos|Hermos]]" card. This time Rafael uses "The Seal of Orichalos" and allows his "Eatos" to fall under its evil power. However, after Yami uses "[[Amulet Dragon (anime)|Amulet Dragon]]" to destroy "[[Guardian Eatos (anime)|Eatos]]", "[[The Seal of Orichalcos (anime)|The Seal of Orichalos]]" begins to feed on Rafael's anger, just as "[[Guardian Dreadscythe (anime)|Guardian Dreadscythe]]" is Summoned in place of "Eatos". Equipping his new Guardian with his "[[Reaper Scythe - Dreadscythe (anime)|Reaper Scythe - Dreadscythe]]" card, Rafael defies his own practice of letting his own monsters go to the Graveyard in a vengeful attempt to defeat Yami, stating that he hates him more than the thought of having monsters in his Graveyard. However, after Yami Summons "Eatos" back to the field under his control and equips her with "[[Goddess Bow (anime)|Goddess Bow]]", he destroys Rafael's "Dreadscythe", ultimately managing to free him from Dartz's influence. To end the Duel, Rafael plays "[[Soul Charge (anime)|Soul Charge]]" to revive his monsters, but depletes his Life Points and loses on purpose. However, since Rafael overcame the darkness in his heart, there was nothing to power the Seal, thus allowing him to keep his soul.
[[File:YamiYugiWTD.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Yami at the final [[Duel]] against Dartz]]In the final Duel with Dartz, Yami and Kaiba teamed up to defeat the former King of Atlantis, but Dartz revealed that "The Seal of Orichalcos" had more than one level, and proved it when he activates "[[Orichalcos Deuteros]]" and "[[Orichalcos Tritos]]". Using his "[[Orichalcos Kyutora (anime)|Orichalcos Kyutora]]" to protect his Life Points from being depleted and the magic of "Orichalcos Deuteros" and "Orichalcos Tritos" to increase his Life Points and disrupt his opponent's strategies with every passing turn, Dartz seemed almost unbeatable. Kaiba lost his soul after some time, due to the immense ATK of "[[Orichalcos Shunoros (anime)|Orichalcos Shunoros]]", but not before using "[[Wish of Final Effort]]" to increase Yami's [[Life Points]] by the ATK of his destroyed "[[Mirror Force Dragon (anime)|Mirror Force Dragon]]".
Afterwards, Yami continued the Duel and activated the seemingly useless card that Pegasus created back at Industrial Illusions to battle Dartz and the Paradius Corporation—"[[Legend of Heart (anime)|Legend of Heart]]", which allowed Timaeus, [[Fang of Critias|Critias]], and [[Claw of Hermos|Hermos]] to assume their human forms as the ][[Legendary Knight]]s. Sending them into battle against Dartz' "Orichalcos Shunoros" and later, his infinitely strong "[[Divine Serpent Geh]]", Yami was able to eke out his victory—but not before the Leviathan seemed to swallow Dartz whole. The Legendary Knights opened a tear in reality, returning the souls of the Chosen Duelists to their proper vessels.
[[File:YamiFacingHisDarkness.png|thumb|left|200px|Yami Yugi facing the OrichalcosOricalchos Stones's dark essence and his own inner darkness.]]
The final episodes of this arc brought Yugi, Joey, and Kaiba into battle with Dartz, who seemed to have merged with the Leviathan. Joined by the inhabitants of the Dominion of the Beasts, they call forth their strongest monsters, as well as the Legendary Knights, to battle the Great Beast. However, the Leviathan is too strong, despite their best efforts, and absorbs the three Chosen Duelists into its own body. Yami convinced all the people whose souls' dark feelings fueled the Leviathan's power to remember all the good things in their lives. In turn, the Chosen Duelists—as well as the Egyptian Gods, whose souls Dartz offered as a tribute to accelerate the Leviathan's awakening—were released, and Yami left Yugi's body to join them in the battle. Through the power of the light of everyone's souls fueling the Gods, Yami was able to defeat the Leviathan, and Dartz was restored to his human form. However, the Leviathan's essence still existed, and Yami knew that the only way to defeat the Great Beast was to face his own evil and step into its darkness. Using the power of his light, Yami's spirit was able to destroy the Leviathan. With the Beast permanently eliminated, Dartz seemed to act differently, as it was revealed in a flashback during the [[Tag-Team Duel]] with him that he had also fallen under the control of the Orichalcos.
Yami tries to end the Duel, by reviving "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]" with "[[Monster Reborn (anime)|<nowiki>|Monster Reborn</nowiki>]]", but Yugi predicted the move earlier and revealed the card he hid within "[[Gold Sarcophagus (anime)|Gold Sarcophagus]]" was also "Monster Reborn", negating its effect.
[[File:Yugioh224.jpg|thumb|Yami parts with his friends and enters the Afterlifespirit world to rejoin his friends. ]]
Yami ends his turn, ready to admit defeat. Yugi hesitates to make his last attack, as he does not want Yami to leave. Yugi weeps and orders "[[Silent Magician]]" to attack Yami, winning the Duel.
Yugi falls to his knees, crying, thinking that he is weak and cannot follow in Yami's footsteps. Yami tells Yugi that he is not a coward and reminds Yugi that he has taught him about the principles needed to win. Now that he is leaving, he says that there would be no one else for Yugi to follow and that there would only be one Yugi.
The Eye of Wdjat glows on the wall. Yami tells it his true name, Atem, in order to open the gate to the afterlife. His friends try to talk him out of leaving at first, but come to accept that he must go. Yami then says his farewells and enters the afterlife to join his Ancient ancient Egyptian friends, where he can finally rest in peace.
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In the series finale of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' anime, Yugi transports [[Jaden Yuki]] to the past to Duel Yugi shortly after winning a [[Battle City V2|second version]] of Battle City.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|179|ref}}</ref> [[File:Yami_in_gx.png|thumb|220px|Yami Yugi appearance in ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'']]After Jaden gains an upper hand and is about to strike the finishing blow, as well as seeing Jaden to be an incredibly powerful Duelist, Yami takes over Yugi's body and Summons "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]". Yami tells Jaden that only a god is suitable for being the opponent of a great Duelist like him. When Jaden gets excited about fighting a God, Yami tells him that the true Duel begins. At the end, Yami, Yugi, and Jaden are seen smiling.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|180|ref}}</ref>
====Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D The Bonds Beyond Time====
[[File:3DYAMI.png|thumb|135px|left|Yami Yugi's Full Outfit in ''Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time'']]
In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time]]'', following the deaths of [[Maximillion Pegasus]] and [[Solomon Muto]], [[Jaden Yuki]] and [[Yusei Fudo]] manage to get Yugi to join with them to stop [[Paradox]] and repair the timeline. Yugi agrees and the trio time warp back 30 minutes in time where Paradox arrives at an event where Pegasus is giving free cards for children. Paradox then plans to kill Pegasus, but the trio managed to intercept Paradox before he arrives. Though they plead for him to stop, Paradox refuses and a 3-on-1 Duel begins with Yami Yugi taking over for Yugi.
