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{{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Character For| image name = Marik.PNG other versions of this character| image size = | english = Marik Ishtar(disambiguation)}}{{Infobox character | japanese name headers = マリク・イシュタールtrue | romaji name image = Mariku IshutāruMarik.png | english name en_name = Marik Ishtar | alternate name other_names =

* Malik Ishtar ([[fanslation]]) | arabic name ja_name = マリク・イシュタール| romaji_name = Mariku Ishutāru| ar_name = مِريك إشتار | manga debut ko_name = 마리크 이슈타르| birthdate = December 23<ref name= "GoT">''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! DuelistCharacter Guidebook: The Gospel of Truth]]'' Duel 92profile; [[:File: Gospel of Truth - Marik Ishtar profile.jpg]] {{icon|Japanese}}</ref>| age = 16<ref name="Rare Hunters!GoT"/> | anime debut gender = {{episodeMale|Yu-Gi-Oh!height = 180 cm <ref name="GoT" />|51weight = 55 kg<ref name="GoT" />|blood_type = B<ref}}name="GoT" /> | video game debut favorite_food = Koshary<ref name= [[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul]]"GoT" /> | appears manga least_favorite_food =Meat dish<ref name="GoT" />* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist]]| relatives = * [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium WorldIshizu Ishtar]](older sister)* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! ROdion]] | appears anime = [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh! (second seriesadoptive older brother)]] | appears video games =* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist SoulMr. Ishtar]]* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway (father; deceased; sent to the Destined Duel]]* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred CardsShadow Realm]]in the dub)* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship 2005Mrs. Ishtar]](mother; deceased)* | previous_occupation = [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare TroubadourTomb Keeper]]* | previous_organization = [[Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2004Rare Hunters]] | birthdate = December 23 | age = 16 | height tournament1 = 175 cm{{fact}}[[Battle City]] | weight result1 = 57 kg{{fact}}Runner-up | gender = male | blood type = B | anime deck anime_deck =* [[Machine]] (through [[Bandit Keith]])* Slime/Slifer (through [[Strings]])* [[Burn]] (through [[JoeyWheeler]])* Immortality/Torture (As as [[Yami-Marik]]) | wc4deckdesc wc4_deck = Darkness | ntrdeck ntr_deck =

* Dark Destroyer | relatives anime_debut = {{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|50|ref}}| video_game_debut = ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories]]''| hide_appearances = true| appears_in_anime = [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' (second series)]]| appears_in_gbc = ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories]]''| appears_in_gba = * ''[[Ishizu IshtarYu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul]] (older sister)''* ''[[Odion IshtarYu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction]] (adoptive older brother)''* ''[[Mr. IshtarYu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel]] (father, deceased)''* ''[[Mrs. IshtarYu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards]] (mother, deceased)'' | favorite food = Koshary* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship 2005]]'' | least favorite food = Meat dish* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2004]]'' | affiliation appears_in_nds = ''[[Tomb KeeperYu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour]]s'' | previous affiliation appears_in_ps2 = ''[[Rare HuntersYu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum]]'' | japanese voice ja_voice = {{voice actors|ja|Tetsuya Iwanaga|Akiko Kimura|e2=(young Marikchild)}} | english voice en_voice = {{voice actors|en|Jonathan Todd Ross|Taaz Gill|Brian Zimmerman|e2=(Marik, Singapore)}} | related pages de_voice =Charles Rettinghaus* |it_voice = {{voice actors|it|Patrizio Prata}}|fil_name = Malik Ishtar|tl_voice = Michael Punzalan}} '''Marik Ishtar''' (マリク・イシュタール ''Mariku Ishutāru'') is a character in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' anime and the main antagonist of the [[Battle City]] and [[Battle City Quarterfinals]] arcs, until the defeat of [[Odion]], when Marik Ishtar's Decksalter ego [[Yami Marik]] takes over his body and replaces him as the main antagonist. He is the leader and founder of the [[Rare Hunters]] and heir to the [[Tomb Keeper]]s.* Marik is the younger brother of [[Ishizu Ishtar]] and the adoptive younger brother of [[Millennium RodOdion]]}}.

[[File:Marik lineartMalikConceptart.jpgpng|thumb|left|Marik linework.]]Marik's usual initial outfit consists of purple hooded robes with the [[Eye of Anubis]] on it, and a long purple cape with a gold chain at the front worn by the rare hunters, a sleeveless black shirt and beige combats. He wears gold golden earrings, three bands of neckwear, armbandsan armband on each arm, and five bracelets all up on each arm starting from close to his elbows down to his wrists. His He has dark skin, purple eyes and white-blonde gold hair is neatly arranged that occasionally appears as more light gray hair, especially in the Battle City tournament and at night. When he arrived in Domino City, he wore a sleeveless light purple hoodie with two gold chains on the front, black pants, and black shoes. While in [[Battle City]], he acquires a [[Duel Disk|KaibaCorp Duel Disk]] on his left arm. In the manga, his pants are beige, and he wears a black tank top underneath his hoodie, which would come to be the clothes his split personality would wear, minus the hoodie.  When he was switched with Dark Marikas his sacrifice during his battle against Yami Yugi, he wears the outfit that Dark Marik wore but he removes the purple cloak before he destroys his dark self in the shadow game.

As Throughout Season 5, Marik eventually changed in a civiliansteel blue shirt with a black vest over it, he still wears the two black and gold earrings, neckwear, armbands, and bracelets all up to his wrists, a sleeveless purple shirt, black light gray pants, and black shoes. While in [[Battle City]], he often wears a [[Duel Disk|KaibaCorp Duel Disk]] on his  {{clear left arm.}}

As a child, Marik was an innocent boy who desired to see the outside world, despite his clan's laws forbidding him from doing so, and was willing to sneak out to fulfill his desire. He cared for his sister [[Ishizu Ishtar]] very much and also considered [[Odion Ishtar]] to be his brother, despite not being blood related. Marik bore a grudge towards [[Pharaoh Atem|the Pharaoh]] because he was forced by [[Mr. Ishtar|his own father]] to guard the family's carving with his life via a ritual of having carvings (in the anime's Japanese version and the original manga) or tattoos (in the anime's dub) onto his back which brought intense pain during and after the ritual and robbed him of his freedom.  With the intense pain and his hatred towards the Pharaoh, he spawned his second personality [[Yami Marik]] to deal with it all. Such as a year later when his father brutally tortured Odion for helping Marik and Ishizu to sneak outside, Marik was unconscious while Yami Marik killed his father and woke up with no recollection of his father's murder. Immediately afterwards, he sees [[Shadi|a loyalist to the Pharaoh]], Shadi, had come to warn him about the dangerous path he had taken. Marik thought that Shadi had murdered his father, leading to Marik's betrayal of the clan to get revenge against the Pharaoh (this aspect is removed from the dub). While leading the [[Rare Hunters]] in his quest for world domination and freedom, Marik became cruel and uncaring, willing to brainwash people to do his bidding, force them to cheat, and use cruelty on his behalf, the victims included [[Bandit Keith]] and [[Strings]]. He was not above using death to punish his subordinates for failure despite them pleading to Marik they tried their best, such as [[Arkana]] and [[Lumis]], nor did he care about sacrificing Rare Hunters to test the fake "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (anime)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]" cards which produced severe injuries and death. He even threatened his sister Ishizu with the [[Millennium Rod]] for getting in his way and ordered Odion to use the fake Ra card against his will when was so close to winning against Joey. This may all stem from his other persona influencing him as when they met during Yami Marik's duel with Yami Bakura, the former said that he caused him to not feel guilty over his actions. Though He still retained his love for his family, despite his mistreatment of them. === Etymology ===His given name "Marik" is derived from the Arabic name [[wikipedia:Malik|Malik]] (مالك ''Mālik''), meaning "owner" or "holder". It was likely also influenced by the distinct Arabic title "Malik" (ملك ''Malik''), which means "king". The use of "r" rather than "l" comes from the two consonants being represented by the same speech sound in Japanese. He uses the name "Malik" in the Filipino and Indonesian versions. His surname "Ishtar" comes from [[Wikipedia:Ishtar|Ishtar]], a [[Wikipedia:Mesopotamia|Mesopotamian]] goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. ==Biography=====History===Marik's family guarded the tomb of the Pharaoh for generations and two [[Millennium Items]] (the [[Millennium Rod]] and [[Millennium Necklace]]) were passed on to Marik and his sister [[Ishizu Ishtar]]. Marik was forbidden to leave the Pharaoh's tomb due to his [[Mr. Ishtar|father]]'s fear that the freedom and marvels of the outside world would further divert Marik's attention from his heritage. Marik no longer wanted to become a Tombkeeper, so his adoptive brother [[Odion Ishtar]] asked if he could take Marik's place but Marik's father rejected the thought of Odion taking Marik's place. When Marik was forced to take the initiation ritual to become a full Tombkeeper, Marik spawned his second personality [[Yami Marik]] from the pain he endured. A year later, Marik and Ishizu took a forbidden trip to the surface but their father found out and attempted punish Odion for not stoping Marik and Ishizu, by killing him. In the midst of his father's torturing Odion, Marik blanked out and his second personality Yami Marik emerged for the first time to resist his father's punishment and claimed the Millennium Rod for himself. Ignoring his father's orders to put it down, Yami Marik used its powers to smash him against the wall. When Ishizu protested, she suffered the same strike. Yami Marik then proceeded to kill his father. After Yami Marik was sealed away in Marik's body by Odion, Marik believed that the Pharaoh had ordered the loyalist [[Shadi]] to kill his father, due to Odion saying Shadi had killed him, trying to be a big brother and hiding from Marik that it was actually his alter ego who had done so. This increased Marik's grudge and resentment to the Pharaoh, causing him to create the Rare Hunters. As a teenager, Marik was the leader of the [[Rare Hunters]] organization as he wished with the Millennium Rod to obtain the three [[Egyptian Gods|Egyptian God Cards]] so that he could unlock their power for himself, gain the title of "Pharaoh" and set his family free from the duty of the Tombkeepers (In the dub, he wants the God Cards and the Millennium Puzzle, so he can unlock the Pharaoh's power for himself and use it to rule the world). He also had a hidden agenda - to get revenge on the [[Yami Yugi|Nameless Pharaoh]]'s soul for killing his father as he mistakenly believed that it was the Pharaoh's fault. Although he and his Rare Hunters uncovered "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (anime)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]" and "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]" from where [[Maximillion Pegasus]] had hidden them, they were unable to uncover "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (anime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]", which was taken by Ishizu and given to [[Seto Kaiba]]. ===Battle City===During [[Battle City]], Marik and his Rare Hunters hacked into Battle City's computer system and entered themselves in the tournament. After the Pharaoh defeated [[Seeker|the weakest Rare Hunter]], Marik used the Millennium Rod to take over the Rare Hunter's body to introduce himself to the Pharaoh. After the Pharaoh defeated [[Arkana]], Marik used the Millennium Rod to take over Arkana's body to introduce himself to [[Yugi Muto]]. While arriving at Domino City, Marik used the Millennium Rod to have [[Strings|a Rare Hunter]] use Slifer against the Pharaoh to win the Millennium Puzzle from him. Marik has a huge advantage up his sleeve, with the Egyptian God Card "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]". Using a five card combo involving "Slifer", "[[Revival Jam (anime)|Revival Jam]]", "[[Infinite Cards (anime)|Infinite Cards]]", "[[Jam Defender (anime)|Jam Defender]]", and "[[Card of Safe Return (anime)|Card of Safe Return]]", Strings puts Yami in a tight situation. Every time he attacks, Strings can redirect the attack to "Revival Jam", which regenerates itself after being destroyed (this is neither an automatic nor immediate effect in the OCG/TCG) and thanks to "Card of Safe Return", he draws three cards from his Deck whenever this happens and because of "Infinite Cards", he can hold as many cards as he wants. With Slifer's ATK and DEF proportional to the number of cards its controller holds, and with "Revival Jam" able to absorb and reform from any attack Yugi is able to make with the aid of "Jam Defender", Marik boasts the strategy is unbeatable. Yami is just about to give up until Kaiba arrives and encourages him to fight on. The two manage to figure out the weakness of this combo and turn it against Marik. Yami attacks "Revival Jam" with "[[Buster Blader (anime)|Buster Blader]]", and then uses "[[Brain Control (anime)|Brain Control]]" to take control of "Revival Jam" as it regenerates so it regenerates under his control, forcing "Slifer" to attack it with its second mouth. Then "Revival Jam" is destroyed and regenerates, forcing Strings to draw three more cards due to "Card of Safe Return". Then "Slifer" must attack "Revival Jam" again, since it reformed under Yami's control, destroying it and allowing it to regenerate again, and forcing Strings to continue drawing due to "Card of Safe Return". This continues in a never-ending loop until Strings' Deck is empty, and thus he loses the Duel through a Deck Out. Yami gets "Slifer the Sky Dragon" for his victory. When he was getting ready to brainwash Joey, [[Yami Bakura]] stood in his way, telling him to hand over the Rod. Instead, they made a deal where if Bakura obtains Slifer for him and defeat Yami Yugi, he would give him the Millennium Rod. Yami Bakura then stabbed himself in the arm and gave control back to his host, [[Bakura Ryou]]. He showed the injured Bakura to Joey, Solomon, and Téa, gaining their trust and taking the guise of Namu. While Kaiba and the Pharaoh Dueled [[Lumis and Umbra]], Marik used his Millennium Rod to brainwash [[Joey Wheeler]] and [[Téa Gardner]]. After Kaiba used Obelisk to defeat Umbra, Marik used the Millennium Rod to take over Lumis's body and brag about having Yugi's friends. Having a Rare Hunter hold Tea hostage, the deadly Duel between the Pharaoh and Joey went through much to Kaiba's horror. In the midst of the Duel, Yugi took over for the Pharaoh much to Marik's anger as he wanted to see the Pharaoh's demise not his teenage vessel's. When Marik forced Joey with the Millennium Rod's full power, Joey was able break free with his willpower. Marik, Bakura and Odion took places in the quarter-finals. Marik took the guise of Namu while Odion pretended to be "Marik" as nobody had actually met him in person and known his true name (sans Yami Bakura, since although Téa, Joey, and Bakura Ryou technically met him, he pretended to be a boy named Namu). After Bakura was defeated by the Pharaoh in the first quarter-final match, Marik had Odion use a counterfeit Ra card in his quarter-final against Joey. When Joey suspected that he was not Dueling the real Marik, as Odion had been Dueling with honor while Marik was cruel, sadistic and as by far as Joey was concerned, a dirty cheater; Marik ordered Odion to use the counterfeit Ra to "show" he's Marik but Ra was angered by this and wrathfully struck both Duelists with lightning, ultimately rendering Odion and Joey unconscious. After Joey defeated Odion, the latter reveals to the Pharaoh and Joey that he is really Marik's servant while Marik began to suffer sudden headaches. After Odion was further rendered unconscious, Marik revealed himself to the Pharaoh, Joey, Kaiba, Téa, [[Tristan Taylor]], [[Duke Devlin]], [[Mokuba Kaiba]], [[Serenity Wheeler]] and [[Mai Valentine]]. Suddenly, Marik cried out in pain as his darker personality gained control of his body. While Ishizu Dueled Kaiba in the fourth quarter-final match, Marik tried to call out to Ishizu but his dark personality trapped Marik in a "prison" built out of his own fear and pity. During his sister's Duel with Kaiba, the Millennium Rod began activating on its own, causing Yami Marik to wonder why; although Yami Marik had already taken control of him, there is a large possibility that Marik, by somehow knowing what was happening through his alter ego, wondered as well why Kaiba had a connection to his Rod. In the manga, one of Marik's goals before his darker personality awakened ''was'' to discover why the figure on the mural looked like Kaiba holding his Millennium Rod. Through Tea's mind, Marik listened to Ishizu's story of how he became evil and created his darker side, thus beginning to reform himself. After the quarter-finals, his reformed soul confronted his other self, claiming that he would make up for everything he had done and apologizing to his father, before a Duel with him. In this Duel, Marik teamed up with Yami Bakura to stop him, but failed when Yami Marik used Ra's other abilities, which were unknown to Marik. However, Marik (through Téa) warned Ishizu to hide Odion from Yami Marik in order to save his life.

Marik bore a grudge towards === Battle City Finals ===[[Pharaoh AtemFile:Marik'sBack.jpg|thumb|200px|Marik's carving/tattoo of the Pharaoh's memory.]] because he was forced by In the final Duel between Yami Marik and the Pharaoh, their weaker selves were the victims of the [[Mr. Ishtar|his own fatherShadow Game]] to guard being played. As the Duel went on, Yami Marik became the dominant host of Marik's body while the familyreal Marik's carving with his life via soul slowly faded out of existence. This Shadow Game gave him a ritual of having carvings (in clear edge, for when the animePharaoh lost [[Life Points]], Yugi's Japanese version body would fade away, and when Yami Marik lost Life Points, the original manga) or tattoos (in Marik would fade away. As Marik realizes his mistakes of making people suffer, he speaks out through Téa, begging the anime's English version) onto Pharaoh for his back which brought intense pain during forgiveness and after asks him to defeat Yami Marik, even if it meant he would go to the ritual Shadow Realm. While they Dueled, Odion woke up and robbed made Marik realize he had to accept his responsibility for being a Tombkeeper. With this confidence, Marik overpowered his evil self and made him the victim of his freedomthe Shadow Game, and then forfeited, destroying Yami Marik. Marik gave the Pharaoh the Millennium Rod and the Ra card.

With the intense pain and his hatred towards the Pharaoh, he spawned his second personality [[Yami Marik]] to deal with then revealed the painTombkeeper's initiation. A year later when his father brutally tortured Odion for helping Marik and Ishizu to sneak outside, Marik was unconscious while Yami Marik killed his father and woke up with no recollection The carving of his fatherthe pharaoh's murder. Immediately afterwardsmemory onto the back of a tomb guardian (using either a hot dagger in the manga and the Japanese version of the second series anime, he sees [[Shadi|or a loyalist to tattoo in the English second series anime although the Pharaoh]] had come to warn him about dagger was still seen in the dangerous path he had takenflashback) on his back. Marik thought that the loyalist murdered Fulfilling his fatherduty as a Tombkeeper, leading Marik returned to Marik's betrayal of the clan Egypt to get revenge against the Pharaohstart a new life with his sister and Odion.

While leading the ===Pharaoh's Memories===[[Rare Hunters]] File:Reformed marik.jpg|thumb|Marik's appearance in his quest for world domination and freedom, Marik became cruel and uncaring, willing to brainwash people to do his bidding, force them to cheat, and use cruelty on his behalf-the victims included [[Keith Howard|Bandit KeithDawn of the Duel]] and [[Strings]]. He was not above using death to punish his subordinates for failure, such as In the [[Arkana]] and [[LumisPharaoh's Memories]]arc, Marik, nor did he care about sacrificing Rare Hunters to test the fake "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (original)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]" cards which produced severe injuries and death. He even threatened his sister Ishizu with the [[Millennium Rod]] for getting in his way , and ordered Odion lead Yugi and his friends to use the fake Ra card against his will. He still retained his love for his familyTablet of Memories, despite so Yami Yugi may enter the Memory World and regain his mistreatment of themmemory.

===EtymologyCeremonial Battle ===Marik's name is also commonly read as ''Malik'' by fans. Some fans believe that it was made fairly obvious that it was meant , Ishizu, and Odion lead Yugi and his friends to be romanized as "Malik", given the meaning tomb of the name "Malik", Pharaoh in order for Yugi and given [[Pharaoh Atem|Atem]] to have a final Duel in order to determine whether Atem will move on to the afterlife or remain in the fact that Malik is a fairly common Arabic namepresent. AdditionallyAtem loses, "Malik" can be defined in Arabic as "allowing him to pass on to the controllerafterlife. After he left," "king", or "one who rules", a well-fitting name given his excessive use of the Millennium Rod, mind slaves, Items sank into the ground and his portrayal as a dominating villainthe tomb collapsed. Marik Ishtar is known as "Malik Ishtar" and the others managed to escape and Marik and his family end up staying in IndonesiaEgypt.

Some speakers of Japanese, however, argue that '==Decks==Marik' s own Deck is not meant as 'Malik', because the translation only shown once in Japanese isn't correct. If his name was Malika Duel, and Kazuki Takahashi had translated before Yami Marik modifies it prior to Japanese, than the correct name would be 'Mariku', as there is no singular 'k' in the Japanese alphabethis second Duel. Despite some fans arguing that Marik himself uses several Decks while controlling the substitution bodies of 'l' to 'r' from English to Japanese would mean that 'Malik' would become 'Marik', the entire name would've had to have been translated for this theory to be correctothers through his [[Millennium Rod]].

Marik is not ===Through Keith===While controlling [[Bandit Keith]], he utilizes Keith's '''[[Machine]] Deck''', albeit modified to include powerful cards obtained by his [[Rare Hunter]]s, such as "[[Zera the romanized version of Malik: Mariku is. This is why some fans say that Marik is simply meant to be MarikMant (anime)|Zera the Mant]]", "[[Seiyaryu (anime)|Seiyaryu]]" and "[[Graceful Charity (anime)|Graceful Charity]]".

Marik's {{Decklist|Machine Deck|normal monsters =* [[Ground Attacker Bugroth (anime)|Ground Attack Bugroth]] x2<ref group=Notes name =hand2>The second copy can be seen in his hand after the first is derived from [[Tribute]]d for "[[Zera Ritual (anime)|Zera Ritual]]" in [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 051|episode 51]].</ref>* [[Mechanicalchaser (anime)|Mechancialchaser]]* [[Megasonic Eye (anime)|Megasonic Eye]]* [[Seiyaryu (anime)|Seiyaryu]]|effect monsters = * [[Cyber Jar (anime)|Cyber Jar]] * [[Machine King (anime)|Machine King]]|ritual monsters = * [[Zera the Arabic word Mant (anime)|Zera the Mant]]|magic =* [[Curse of Fiend (anime)|Curse of Fiend]]* [[wikipedia:MalikGraceful Charity (anime)|MalikGraceful Charity]] * [[Machine Conversion Factory ("king"anime) and the Mesopotamian deity |Machine Conversion Factory]]* [[Wikipedia:IshtarStop Defense (anime)|IshtarStop Defense]]. Ishtar is a vengeful Babylonian goddess according * [[Tribute to the Doomed (anime)|Tribute to the 3000 year-old epic of Gilgamesh.Doomed]]* [[Zera Ritual (anime)|Zera Ritual]]|traps =* [[Magic Jammer (anime)|Magic Jammer]]* [[Solemn Judgment (anime)|Solemn Judgment]]}}

'''Malik''' is considered a correct Romanization ===Through Strings===While controlling the body of 3 different Arabic words. These include:*(ملك) '''Malik''' (also '''Malek''' or '''Melik''')[[Strings]], an Arabic word and title, meaning "king", "monarch", and "sovereign". Notably Marik uses a ''not'' used as a given first name, but rather as a title.*[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (مالكanime) |Slifer]]/[[Slime]] Deck'''Mālik''' (also '''Maalik'''), an Arabic word tooled to Summoning and name, meaning "owner", powering up the [[Egyptian Gods|Egyptian God Card]] "proprietor", "proprietary", "possessor", and "holder". It is [[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|Slifer the most common among the three to be used as a first name for Sky Dragon]]" using a person, and its use five-card combo known as a name dates back to ancient times.*(مليك) the '''Malīk"God Five"''' (also '''Maleek'''), can mean either of the two words above. Although mostly ''not'' used as a given first name.:

If Marik's name was based on Arabic, then * "[[Slifer the second one Sky Dragon (مالكanime) is |Slifer the most correct equivalent naming-wiseSky Dragon]]": The main attack force with near infinite attack power.* "[[Revival Jam (anime)|Revivial Jam]]": The ultimate defense, to defend "Slifer" if necessary.* "[[Jam Defender (anime)|Jam Defender]]": To allow "Revival Jam" to automatically defend "Slifer". It could have been chosen based on the meaning * "[[Card of Safe Return (anime)|Card of Safe Return]]": Every time "Revival Jam" is [[Special Summon]]ed from the other two names though[[Graveyard]], Strings must draw three cards, and "Slifer" gains 3000 ATK.* "[[Infinite Cards (anime)|Infinite Cards]]": Removes hand limit, as allowing the three words are usually written with no clear differentiation in EnglishATK of "Slifer" to climb virtually infinite.

==Biography==Marik's family guarded the tomb The sheer draw power of the Pharaoh for generations and two [[Millennium Items]] (the [[Millennium Rod]] and [[Millennium Necklace]]) were passed on to Marik and his sister [[Ishizu Ishtar]]. Marik was forbidden to leave the Pharaoh's tomb due to his [[Mr. Ishtar|father]]'s fear that the freedom and marvels of the outside world would further divert Marik's attention from his heritage. Marik no longer wanted to become a Tombkeeperthis deck ended up being its downfall, so his adoptive brother [[Odion Ishtar]] asked if he could take Marik's place but as Yami Yugi was refused. When Marik was forced able to take the initiation ritual create an infinite loop causing Strings to become a full Tombkeeper, Marik spawned his second personality [[Yami MarikDeck Out]] from the pain he endured. A year later, Marik and Ishizu took a forbidden trip to surface but their father found out and attempted to kill Odion. In the misdt of his father's torture of Odion, Marik blanked out and his second personality Yami Marik emerged for the first time to resist his father's punishment and claimed the Millennium Rod for himself. Ignoring his father's orders to put it down, Yami Marik used its powers to smash him against the wall. When Ishizu protested, she suffered the same strike. Yami Marik then proceeded to kill his father. After Yami Marik was sealed away in Marik's body by Odion, Marik believed it was the Pharaoh that had killed his father.

During {{Decklist|Slifer Deck|normal monsters =* [[Battle CityHumanoid Slime (anime)|Humanoid Slime]], Marik and x2 <ref group=Notes name=hand1>A second copy can be seen in the anime after Strings drops his Rare Hunters hacked into to Battle City's computer system and entered themselves hand while Yami is explaining his infinite loop combo in the tournament. After the Pharaoh defeated [[SeekerYu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 057|the weakest Rare Hunterepisode 57]], Marik used the Millennium Rod to take over the Rare Hunter's body to introduce himself to the Pharaoh. After the Pharoah defeated </ref>* [[ArkanaSlime King]], Marik <ref group=Notes name=manga1>This card was only used in the Millennium Rod to take over Arkana's body to introduce himself to manga.</ref>* [[Yugi MutoWorm Drake (anime)|Worm Drake]]. Wanting something done right, Marik controlled x2 <ref group=Notes name=hand1/>|effect monsters = * [[Revival Jam (via anime)|Revival Jam]] * [[Slifer the Millennium RodSky Dragon (anime) |Slifer the Sky Dragon]]|fusion monsters = * [[StringsHumanoid Worm Drake (anime)|a Rare HunterHumanoid Worm Drake]] to use Slifer against the Pharoah to take the Millennium Puzzle from him but the Pharaoh defeated the Rare Hunter and took Silfer as his prize. While Yugi and Kaiba dueled |magic =* [[Lumis and UmbraCard of Safe Return (anime)|Card of Safe Return]], Marik used his Millennium Rod to brainwash x2* [[Joey WheelerInfinite Cards (anime)|Infinite Cards]] and * [[Téa GardnerJam Breeding Machine (anime)|Jam Breeding Machine]]. After Kaiba used Obelisk to defeat Umbra, Marik used the Millennium Rod to take over Lumisx2* [[Nightmare's body and brag about having YugiSteelcage (anime)|Nightmare's friends. Having a Rare Hunter hold Tea hostage, the deadly duel between the Pharaoh and Joey went through much to Kaiba's horror. In the midst Steelcage]]* [[Polymerization (anime)|Polymerization]]<ref group=Notes name=artwork1>The artwork of the duel, Yugi took over for the Pharaoh much to Marik's anger as he wanted to see the Pharaoh's demise not his teenage vessel's. When Marik forced Joey with the Millennium Rod's full power, Joey this card was able break free with his will power. Later, Marik teamed up with that of "[[Yami BakuraDe-Fusion (anime)|De-Fusion]] " in a verbal deal consisting the dub.</ref>* [[Pot of Marik's relinquishment Greed (anime)|Pot of Greed]]<ref group=Notes name=anime1>This card was only used in the Millennium Rod if Yami Bakura defeat the Pharaohanime.</ref>* [[Quick Attack]]|traps =* [[Jam Defender (anime)|Jam Defender]]}}

Marik, Bakura, and Odion took places in the quarter-finals. Marik took the guise of '''Namu''' while Odion pretended to be "Marik" as nobody (sans Yami Bakura) had actually met him in person. After Bakura was defeated by Yugi in the first quarter-final match, Marik had Odion use a counterfeit Ra card in his quarter-final against ===Through Joey===While controlling [[Joey Wheeler]]. When Joey suspected that he was not dueling the real Marik, Odion had been dueling with honor while Marik was cruel and sadistic, Marik ordered Odion to use the counterfeit Ra to "show" heplays a modified version of Joey's Marik but Ra was angered by this and wrathfully struck both duelists with lightningown Deck, ultimately rendering Odion and Joey unconscious. After Joey defeated Odion, the latter reveals to Yugi and Joey which includes cards that he is really Marik's servant while Marik began to suffer sudden headaches. After Odion was further rendered unconscious, Marik revealed himself to Yugi, Joey, Kaiba, Tea, are banned by [[Tristan TaylorBattle City Rules]], such as "[[Duke DevlinHinotama (anime)|Hinotama]]", "[[Mokuba KaibaRaigeki (anime)|Raigeki]], " and "[[Serenity Wheeler]] and [[Mai Valentine]]. Suddenly, Marik cried out in pain as his darker personality [[Yami MarikMeteor of Destruction (anime)|Meteor of Destruction]] appeared and gained control of his body. When Ishizu dueled Kaiba in the fourth quarter-final match, Marik tried to call out to Ishizu but Yami Marik trapped Marik in a "prison" built out his own fear and pity. After the quarter-finals, Marik's reformed soul teams up with Yami Bakura to stop Yami Marik, but failed when Yami Marik uses Ra's other abilities, which were unknown to Marik but Marik (through Téa) warned Ishizu to hide Odion from Yami Marik in order to save his life.

In the final duel between Yami Marik and the Pharaoh, their weaker selves were the victims of the {{Decklist|Joey's Deck|normal monsters =* [[Shadow Game]] being played. As the duel went on, Yami Marik became the dominant host of MarikAlligator's body while the real MarikSword (anime)|Alligator's soul slowly faded out of existence. This Shadow Game gave him a clear edge, for when Sword]]|effect monsters = * [[Gearfried the Iron Knight (anime)|Gearfried the Pharaoh lost Iron Knight]] (in hand)* [[Life PointsPanther Warrior (anime)|Panther Warrior]], Yugi's body would fade away, when Yami Marik lost Life Points, the original Marik would fade away. While they dueled, Odion woke up and made Marik realize he had to accept his responsibility for being a Tombkeeper. With this confidence, Marik overpowered his evil self and forfeited, destroying Yami Marik. Marik gave the Pharaoh the Millennium Rod and the Ra card.* [[File:Marik'sBack.jpgRocket Warrior (anime)|Rocket Warrior]]|thumbmagic =* [[Attrition]]* [[Graceful Dice (anime)|200pxGraceful Dice]]* [[Hinotama (anime)|Marik's carving/tattoo of the Pharaoh's memory.Hinotama]] Marik then revealed the Tombkeeper's initiation. The carving x3* [[Meteor of the pharaoh's memory onto the back Destruction (anime)|Meteor of a tomb guardian involves using either a hot dagger Destruction]]* [[Raigeki (in the manga and the Japanese version of the second series anime), or a tattoo |Raigeki]]* [[Skull Dice (anime)|Skull Dice]]|traps =* [[Magical Arm Shield (in the English second series anime, although the dagger was still seen in the flashback) on his back. Fulfilling his duty as a Tombkeeper, Marik returned to Egypt to start a new life.|Magical Arm Shield]]}}

[[File:Reformed_marik.jpg===As Yami Marik==={{main|thumb]]Yami Marik#Deck}}In the Millennium World arc, Yami Marikruns an '''Immortality-Torture Deck''', Ishizu, and Odion lead Yugi and which focuses on slowly torturing his friends to the tomb of the Pharaoh in order for Yugi opponents and him watching them squirm. His Deck's signature card is "[[Pharaoh AtemThe Winged Dragon of Ra (anime)|AtemThe Winged Dragon of Ra]] to have a final duel in order to determine whether Atem will move on to the afterlife or remain in the present. Atem loses, allowing him to pass on to the afterlife. After he left, the Millennium Items sank into the ground and the tomb collapsed. Marik and the others managed to escape and Marik and his family end up staying in Egypt".

==NonDuels=={| class="wikitable card-canon appearanceslist"|-! scope="col" | Opponent(s)! scope="col" | Episode(s)! scope="col" | Outcome|-| [[Yugi Muto]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 050|50]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 051|51]] || No result (possessing [[Bandit Keith]])In ''|-| [[Yugi Muto]]/[[Yami Yugi]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 065|65]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship 2005- Episode 067|67]]'', || Lose (possessing [[Strings]])|-| [[Yugi Muto]]/[[Yami Yugi]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 075|75]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 078|78]] || [[DRAW]] (taken over by [[Joey Wheeler]])|-| [[Yugi Muto]]/[[Yami Yugi]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 142|142]] || Lose (taken over from [[Yami Marik is unlocked as an opponent after the player has won the National Championship, and can be found at various locations in the game.]])|}

==DeckNotes=={{main|Marik Ishtar's Decks|Yami Marik's Decks}}<references group=Notes />

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