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'''Seto Kaiba''' ({{Ruby|海馬|かいば}}{{Ruby|瀬人|せと}}, ''Kaiba Seto'') is one of the majority shareholder and CEO main characters of his own multithe ''[[Yu-national company, Gi-Oh! (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' anime. He is the older brother of [[KaibaCorpMokuba Kaiba|Mokuba]], who aims to become . He is the world's greatest player modern-day lookalike counterpart of [[Duel MonstersSeto]], by gaining an ancient Egyptian guardian, who once controlled the 3 of 4 "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" cards. To accomplish this goal, he must defeat his arch(character)|Blue-rival, [[Yugi MutoEyes White Dragon]]. He is largely considered an anti-hero, as his motives are usually ego-centric, but in several cases towards a good cause.
Adopted into the Kaiba family as an orphan, Kaiba is at the helm of the world's largest multinational gaming conglomerate, Kaiba Corp, serving as its majority owner and CEO. An intellectually gifted and innovative computer programmer, engineer, and inventor during his youth, he invented virtual software for playing video games as a young child prodigy. Nonetheless, an estranged relationship with his adoptive father and outsmarting him auspiciously led Kaiba towards a seamless corporate takeover of KaibaCorp. With access to vast wealth, technological resources, and a wellspring of scientific and business expertise, Kaiba seeks to expand Kaiba Corp not just across Domino City but the entire world. A competitive businessman and cutthroat investor, Kaiba also seeks to become the world's greatest player in ''[[Duel Monsters]]''. To accomplish this goal, he must defeat his arch-rival, [[Yugi Muto]]. Kaiba is largely considered an antihero, as his motives are usually egocentric and his personality traits are selfish and arrogant, but he does sometimes help Yugi and his friends if it's in his best interest (although there are a few occasions where he helps Yugi when faced with a common enemy). Among one of the recurring plots is Seto Kaiba being forced to deal with either people adversely affected by [[Gozaburo Kaiba]]'s actions , wanting to take their revenge on Seto Kaibahimself, or people from within KaibaCorp attempting to take over the million-dollar corporation.
==Design==
===Conception===
Kaiba is based on a collectible card games player whom a friend of [[Kazuki Takahashi]] met. Takahashi's friend asked this person to teach him how to play a card game, but he replied "HmpHmph! Come back when you've collected 10,000 cards". The story made Takahashi mad, but thought the player would make a good character.<ref>''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist'' Volume 10: "[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist - Volume 010|The Egyptian God Cards]]": foreword</ref> Takahashi had originally considered making Kaiba the heir to a gaming company and have him challenge Yugi using strange games he continuously comes up with, but on short notice, ended up having him play ''Duel Monsters'' a second time. He also reconstructed Kaiba to make him a semi-lead character and rival to Yugi.<ref name="bun 2 afterword" />
In the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (first series Toei anime)|first series Toei anime]], Kaiba has green hair, while in the manga, Toei's ''Yu-Gi-Oh! '' movie, and the second NAS series, ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters'', Kaiba has brown hair.Kaiba's character design in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' anime is nearly identical to his original appearance, although his facial structure is changed subtly.{{Clear left}}
===Personality===
In the original Japanese version of ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', Kaiba omits honorifics and has a "rude" pattern of speech. Kaiba uses the word "''ore''" to mean "I" instead of the usual ''boku''or ''watashi''; ''ore'' is a boastful way to say "I" in Japanese. Kaiba usually calls Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler) names, such as "''bonkotsu''" (mediocre), "''make-inu''" (pathetic dog, loser), "''uma no hone''" (a nobody), and "''zako''" (insignificant person, weakling). This name calling was carried over to the English animedub.
In the English version, Kaiba has plays as an arch-rival to [[Yami Yugi]] and appears to have a certain snobbish contempt for Yugi's group of friends: , namely [[Joey Wheeler]]; he refers to them constantly with derisive nicknames such as "the nerd herd", "the dweeb patrol" , or "the geek squad". At one point, he kept running into them during ''Waking the Dragons'', and quipped "Great. Dork fest continues." In the Japanese version, he is fairly just civil towards them he does trust them at certain degree. He can be condescending , selfish, no-nonsense, and scathing to everyonenarcissistic, but, as [[Yami Yugi]] has said he can be oblivious at times. However, with the exception of it is stated by Mokubaever since being adopted by Gozaburo, the only one Kaiba became much colder than he consistently cares about used to be. Despite this, Kaiba still has strong brotherly instincts for Mokuba and shows will put his softer side around, going so far as losing life in danger in a duel so as heart beat to not endanger himsafeguard Mokuba's life.
One of Seto's recurring traits is his absolute refusal to believe in the magic powers that is often used in the series. Later on, during sagas like [[Waking the Dragons]], he openly admits to believing in all the supernatural events occurring around him, instead of just ignorantly saying they don't exist as he always does (although it is possible that he thinks that it's science instead of magic, and doesn't hesitate to do something about it). However, the closest in the dub that Kaiba has come to this is "Maybe there is some truth to this junk" in the final episodes; however, when questioned by Joey, he quickly denies having said such a thing. In the Japanese version, while Kaiba does not take it very well, he is much more accepting of the faith and magic that occurs. In the Doma arc, he told Alister he should show him the power of a "true Duelist" and of the "Chosen One", and also openly accepted the vision he and Yami Yugi had after their Egyptian Gods were destroyed, as well as the fact that their battle was destined over the span of 3000 years. During the Duel against Dartz, Kaiba destroyed the "[[Mirror Knight Token]]" after they had taken the form of Yugi, Pegasus, Joey, and Mai because of his belief if they were true Duelists, they would be willing to allow themselves to be destroyed in order to save the world, while in the dub, Kaiba believed Dartz manipulated the holograms to resemble their friends in order to weaken their resolve. Although there are some instances where Kaiba is a believer in both the Japanese and dub. One such example would be during his final turn against [[Zigfried von Schroeder]] when he predicted he would draw exactly the spell cards he would need to defeat Zigfried, despite initially only having one card in his hand. Understandably, Kaiba gains a lot of contempt and disdain from virtually every single person he knows (with the exception of Mokuba) - mostly Joey, Tristan and Tea in particular. Yugi constantly holds out hope for him, as does Yugi's other self Yami. Though Yami himself finds Kaiba's attitude and arrogance quite infuriating. As was shown on the times they've been forced to Duel together as a team. Kaiba, for the most part, could not care less about what they think about him and returns the contempt in kind. In the [[Dawn of the Duel|Memory World]] arc Kaiba's past self, [[Priest Seto]], is introduced. Priest Seto is depicted as being less antagonistic than modern-day Kaiba, and is portrayed as being very loyal with a strong sense of justice. However, he maintains Kaiba's pride and intelligent mind. Kaiba, although generally self-centered and egotistic, he does have some morals in that he is against stealing. He has a vast belief that hard work and determination is what gets you ahead in life, not stealing from others to advance your situation. As such, he is disgusted by Zigfried and Noah, calling them pathetic and not worth living up to his company because they were planning on stealing his works to take his company instead of earning it through the hard work and determination he went through. Kaiba also seems to take great pride in the Duel Disks he developed as he would use them even when Duel Rings are nearby by plugging it into the Duel Ring's hologram projector so any card he plays on his Duel Disk is displayed on the Duel Ring instead of just using the Duel Ring. During Battle City, Seto's main goal is defeating Yugi in a Duel. However, when he lost, he decided on a new path, rather an old one, of building Kaiba Land all around the world. However, he vowed his battle with Yugi is far from over, even though they never had an on-screen Duel after this. At some point, Kaiba wanted to help young Duelists grow and bought [[Duel Academy]] to accomplish this goal. ===Etymology===The name "Seto" came from the Egyptian deity, [[wikipedia:Set (mythology)|Set]].<ref name="bun 2 afterword">''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' (bunkoban) [[Yu-Gi-Oh! bunkoban - Volume 002|Volume 2]]: afterword</ref> In the Japanese and English versions, Kaiba is referred to by his last name by other characters, except for Mokuba. ===Abilities=Second ==Throughout the series anime biography, Kaiba remains a formidable Duelist and businessman in his own right. In addition to his shrewd business acumen and gaming aptitude, Kaiba is skilled with science and technology. He specializes mainly in computer software programming and building cutting-edge technological software and hardware such as the development of KaibaCorp's high-tech Duel Disks and advanced Solid Vision technology. ==Biography==
===History===
====Orphanage====
At a young age, Seto and his younger brother [[Mokuba Kaiba|Mokuba]]'s]] parents both died. Their relatives took everything from their will and sent Seto and Mokuba to the [[Kaiba brothers' orphanage|orphanage]]. (In the English versiondub, it simply said that their parents disappeared died and there was no mention of their relatives).<ref name="ep 20">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|20|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx100 Seto and Mokuba play chess.jpg|thumb|right|Seto and Mokuba playing [[chess]] at the [[Kaiba brothers' orphanage|orphanage]].]]On their first day at the orphanage, Seto comforts comforted Mokuba, who is was crying. He tells told him that he'll will be his father from now there on and vows vowed to protect him no matter what. He advises advised Mokuba to always stay on his guard, as he'll will be finished if he shows any weakness.<ref name="ep 100">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|100|ref}}</ref>
Together at the orphanage, Seto and Mokuba would often play games, including [[chess]], which Seto always won, but still encouraged Mokuba.<ref name="ep 100"/> When Mokuba was bullied by other kids, Seto would stick-up for him and even jumped on another kid to retrieve a toy he'd stolen stole from Mokuba.
One day they made a model theme park in the sandpit. Seto said that one day they would open real theme parks around the world, that everyone would want to visit<ref name="ep 143">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|143|ref}}</ref> and orphans would be allowed in free of charge.
The former head of KaibaCorp, [[Gozaburo Kaiba]], arrived at the orphanage to perform a publicity stunt. (In the English dub, Seto, who was 10 twelve years old at the time (12 in the English version.), Seto saw the chance to challenge him to a game of chess, with the stakes being that Gozaburo was to adopt Seto and Mokuba together, should if Seto wins. Gozaburo refused at first, but when Seto winthreatened to tell everyone he backed down from a challenge with a child, he submits. Seto won since he had already studied Gozaburo's chess methods. Gozaburo then reluctantly adopted both brothers.<ref name="ep 100"/>
====Adoption====
[[File:DMx103 Seto forced to study.jpg|thumb|left|Seto being forced to study. (The switchblade was removed in the English animedub.)]]When he adopted Seto, Gozaburo planned to only use his body as a shell for his son, [[Noah Kaiba|Noah]]. Noah had been injured in an accident and had his mind uploaded into a virtual world, as he was unable to survive in his real body. Gozaburo also used wanted to use Seto to motivate Noah to work harder. However , Seto proved to be more capable of running KaibaCorp than Noah. Gozaburo abandoned his idea to transfer Noah's mind into Seto's body and focused his energies in training Seto. Gozaburo forced Seto into a rigorously accelerated school education program.<ref name="ep 119"/> When Gozaburo asked Seto what he planned to do with [[KaibaCorp]] after he inherited it, he said that he planned to build a [[Kaiba Land]] theme park for underprivileged children. Gozaburo called this boring, but Seto protested that games purify the soul. Gozaburo was not interested as games cannot be used to rule and ordered [[Hobson]] to confiscate all of Seto's toys, refusing to let Seto touch toys until he knew how to rule. (In the dub, Seto couldn't keep up with the pace Gozaburo wanted him to study at. Gozaburo disallowed him from having weekends off. As Gozaburo said that discipline is the only way to crush your enemies, Seto protested that he has no enemies. Gozaburo insisted that he does and he must learn that he can't even trust Gozaburo. He ordered Hobson to confiscate all of Seto's toys, so that they won't distract him from his studies.)<ref name="ep 103">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|103|ref}}</ref> Mokuba hid Seto's ''[[Duel Monsters]]'' Deck in a hollowed-out book, including a [[Mokuba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" drawing|drawing]] of a "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]". He also left a note saying that their new family couldn't take everything away from them. Kaiba stepped out onto a balcony and vowed to get a real "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", one day.<ref name="ep 103"/> Seto
====KaibaCorp take-over====
Seto invented a virtual software for playing video games. However, Gozaburo intended to use it for war. Seto confronted him over this, but Gozaburo scolded him again for wanting to play games. Seto is was to inherit the company one day, Gozaburo sayssaid, and the company is about beating enemies and rising to power, not making toys. Seto calls called him insane and Gozaburo has had his guards take Seto away. Seto calls called out "Father" as he's was dragged away. That was the last time he called Gozaburo "Father".<ref name="ep 104">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|104|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx109 Seto against Mokuba.jpg|thumb|rightleft|Seto turns Mokuba against him.]]Not wanting his virtual system to be used by Gozaburo to kill countless people and make a fortune, Seto refused to let himself hand his system over to that the evil man. He lost his expectations of respect for Gozaburo, and decided that he would take-over [[KaibaCorp]].<ref name="ep 104"/>
Seto made a deal with [[The Big Five]], where they would try to overthrow Gozaburo. He told the Big Five that Gozaburo didn't give them the respect they deserved and he would treat them better once he becomes in charge.<ref name="ep 109">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|109|ref}}</ref>
Together they gained 5149% of KaibaCorpleaving Gozaburo with 49% and Mokuba 2%. Seto made sure Gozaburo came to know of their plan and accused Mokuba of snitching on them. Seto and Mokuba were briefly turned against each other and Mokuba was given comfort by Gozaburo. Aware of Seto's plan, Gozaburo planned to use his remaining 49% with Mokuba's 2% to overrule Seto. However as , Seto had planned a step ahead knowing how Mokuba was very supportive of Seto's dream to turn KaibaCorp into a gaming company compared to being a weapons manufacturing plant and as expected, Mokuba switched back to his side one last minute, giving Seto his 2%. With the 51%, Seto was able to take full control of the company. Unable to live with the defeat, Gozaburo committed suicide,<ref name="ep 109"/> but not before he uploaded his mind into [[Noah Kaiba|Noah]]'s virtual world(in the dub, Gozaburo left in disgrace after the takeover, never to be seen or heard from again until the Virtual World arc).<ref name="ep 119">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|119|ref}}</ref>
====Refocusing KaibaCorp====
After taking control of KaibaCorp, Seto shifted its economic interest from the manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction to gaminggame-oriented equipment.
Kaiba didn't give [[The Big Five]] the respect or power they had been expecting when they made the deal to overthrow Gozaburo. He refused to provide finance to [[Crump]] to build his dream penguin theme park.<ref name="ep 102">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|102|ref}}</ref> He told [[NesbittNezbitt]] to show his loyality loyalty by destroying the military factory on [[Alcatraz]].<ref name="ep 106">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|106|ref}}</ref> Once that was done, Kaiba closed the military department and proceeded to build the Duel Tower in its place. He demotes Nesbitt demoted Nezbitt to dispatching material for building the tower.<ref name="ep 107">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|107|ref}}</ref> In the dub, it's also stated that Kaiba demoted [[Leichter]] from heir to the company president to a figurehead.<ref name="ep 109" />
Kaiba started building an amusement park for orphaned and underprivileged children called [[KaibaLandKaiba Land]]. At the start of the series, only one KaibaLand Kaiba Land had been built, in Domino (in the English versiondub, none of the parks had been built, and KaibaLand Kaiba Land was touted as the KaibaCorp headquarters).
Kaiba began work on creating holographic technology to heighten the experience of playing ''Duel Monsters''.
[[File:DMx194 Solid Vision demo.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba demonstrates the [[Solid Vision|holographic technology]] and makes a partnership with [[Maximillion Pegasus|Pegasus]].]][[Maximillion Pegasus]] invited Kaiba as his special guest to Intercontinental the [[Intercontinental Duel MonstersTournament]] Tournament in New York City. Kaiba witnesses Pegasus face [[Keith Howard|Bandit Keith]] in the finals. At the Duel, Pegasus simply sat in front of Keith for a few seconds, then wrote down some instructions on a piece of paper, which he gave to a beginner , [[Sam]], from the audience to use against Keith. While [[Sam]] dueled Dueled Keith, Pegasus sat with Kaiba. He hoped Kaiba was "enjoying the tournament so far, even though it must seem so crude to him, unlike the holographic dueling Dueling stations KaibaCorp is developing."<ref name="ep 16">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|16|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba met with Pegasus to demonstrate a miniature [[Dueling Arena]] to a group of businessmen. [[Zigfried von Schroeder]] then entered the room disgusted, as he had developed [[Battle Box|something similar]] and believed Kaiba's idea belonged to him.<ref name="ep 194">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|194|ref}}</ref> Kaiba inferred that Pegasus must have read Keith's mind in the Duel, so later he began making [[Duel Disk]]s to combat Pegasus' mind reading strategy. With Duel Disks, players would be able to stand further apart and avoid face-to-face contact, which he hoped would be enough to avoid having his mind read.<ref name="ep 16">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|22|ref}}</ref>
===Yu-Gi-Oh!===
====Duelist Kingdom====
Kaiba became the [[Duel Monsters World Champion ]] and came into possession of 3 three of the 4 four "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" cards(In the Japanese version, the latter didn't happen until after Kaiba tried to obtain Solomon's "Blue-Eyes").<ref name="ep 1">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|1|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx001 Kaiba sees the Blue-EyesRip.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba finds the fourth rips Solomon's "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (characteranime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]".]]At school, Kaiba overhears overheard [[Yugi Muto]] talking about a rare card his grandfather, [[Solomon Muto]] has. Suspecting it might be the 4th "Blue-Eyes", Kaiba vists visited [[Kame GameStore|Solomon's shop]] and sees saw the card. He tries tried to trade for the card and buy it, but Solomon refusesrefused, since the card is of high sentimental value to him. Still determined and sickened by Solomon's attitude, Kaiba kidnaps kidnapped him and challenges challenged him to a Duel. Kaiba defeats defeated Solomon and overwhelms overwhelmed him with the [[Solid Vision|holographic technology ]] used in the Duel. As a prize, he takes took Solomon's "Blue-Eyes". He then calls called Yugi over to collect his grandfather. Shortly after Yugi arrivesarrived, Kaiba tearstore-up the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card in front of him and his friends. Outraged, Yugi duels Dueled Kaiba as [[Yami Yugi]]. Yami is put in a tight place after Kaiba Summons all 3 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons", but manages managed to win by Summoning "[[Exodia]]". After winning, Yami inflicts inflicted a [[Penalty Game|Mind Crush]] on Kaiba dispelling [[Impersonator of Death|his evil half]].<ref name="ep 1"/>In the Japanese anime, the Mind Crush simply destroyed the evil in Kaiba so he can start over.
After his defeat, Seto drops Kaiba dropped out of playing ''Duel Monsters'' as a result of being confused about how power lost to heart and began rebuilding himself.<ref name="ep 8">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|8|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx008 Jump out the window.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba jumps out the window.]]
[[Maximillion Pegasus]] teams-up formed an alliance with [[The Big Five]] to try to take-over [[KaibaCorp]]. They sent 2 two men to Kaiba's office to capture him. Kaiba refused to cooperate, so the henchmen prepare prepared to open fire. However, Kaiba knocks knocked them back with a chair and deflects deflected their gunshots with his briefcase. He jumps jumped out the window of his office, leading them to believe he died. (In the English versiondub, the guns are removed and Kaiba jumps jumped out after refusing to cooperate.)<ref name="ep 8"/> However Kaiba clings clung onto the side of the cliff and climbs climbed to his safety. In the meantime his Deck is was stolen and Mokuba is was kidnapped.<ref name="ep 9">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|9|ref}}</ref>
Later Kaiba sneaks snuck back into his mansion through a hidden passageway. He enters entered a hidden computer lab, where he gets got an update on what Pegasus has had done to KaibaCorp. He learns learned that Mokuba is was held prisoner on the [[Duelist Kingdom (island)|Duelist Kingdom island]] and Pegasus will be given shares of KaibaCorp once Yugi is defeated in the [[Duelist Kingdom|Duelist Kingdom tournament]]. Kaiba hacks hacked into Pegasus's computer system and finds found Yugi is dueling was Dueling an impostor Seto Kaiba, the [[Ghost Kaiba|imposter Seto KaibaImpersonator of Death]], who even has had the real Kaiba's Deck.<ref name="ep 9"/> Kaiba infects infected a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" Summoned by the imposter impersonator with a virus, weakening it and consequently preventing Yugi from losing the duelDuel.<ref name="ep 10">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|10|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba flies flew to the Duelist Kingdom to confront Pegasus. He brings brought his [[Duel Disk]]s with him to combat Pegasus' mind reading.<ref name="ep 16"/>
As soon as he arrived on the island, he bumps bumped into Yugi and his friends. Yugi returns returned Kaiba's Deck to him and suggests suggested that they stick together as they are all going to Pegasus' castle, but Kaiba declinesdeclined. [[Joey Wheeler]], who is disguisted was disgusted by Kaiba's attitude, confronts confronted him , and the two end wound-up duelingDueling. Kaiba uses used the Duel as a chance to test his Duel Disks. Joey foolishly attacks attacked Kaiba's monsters with a barrage of weaker ones, until he Summons Summoned his "[[Red-Eyes B. Dragon(anime)|Red-Eyes Black Dragon]]", which Kaiba defeats defeated with "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and takes took out the remainder of Joey's Life Points. Kaiba cruely mocks cruelly mocked Joey and calls called him a loser. before Before leaving, he tells told the group about Pegasus' Duel with Keith, so Yugi and Joey know what they're are up against.<ref name="ep 16"/>
[[File:DMx020 Jammed gun.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba jams [[Kemo|Kemo's]] gun.(This scene was removed in the dub)]]The next day, [[Kemo]] finds found Kaiba on the island and points pointed a gun to his head. However Kaiba jams jammed the gun with a "[[Gyakutenno Megami (anime)|Gyakutenno Megami]]" card. Kaiba pulls pulled the gun from Kemo, injuring his hand. (This scene is removed from the English versiondub.) Kemo lunges lunged at Kaiba, but Kaiba subdues subdued him and orders ordered him to take them to Mokuba. Kemo takes took Kaiba to Pegasus' dungeons, but triggers triggered a security alarm, calling for backup.<ref name="ep 20"/> Pegasus, who had already known this would happen insists insisted they turn off the alarm and goes to the dungeons to meet Kaiba himself.
Kaiba hides hid on one of the walls and listenslistened-in on a group of Pegasus' guards, who have had been unable to find him. The guards decide decided to go to Mokuba's cell, believing Kaiba will show up there soon. Kaiba leaps leaped down and follows followed them. Once they arrive arrived at the cell, Kaiba sneakssneaked-up on them and knocks knocked them out. Seto is Kaiba was briefly reunited with Mokuba, but is was confronted by Pegasus before he can could release him. Pegasus uses used the [[Millennium Eye]] to strip Mokuba of his soul, which he traps trapped in a "[[Soul Prison]]" card. Pegasus says said that Kaiba must defeat him in a Duel if he wishes wished to free Mokuba. Kaiba is was willing to duel Duel on the spot, but Pegasus refuses refused telling Kaiba that he must defeat Yugi in a Duel, before he can do that.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|21|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx024 Plan B.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba stands on the edge of the castle, risking his life to win.]]
Kaiba confronts confronted Yugi outside the castle and imposes imposed a Duel. Initially Yugi refuses, but he switchs switched to Yami Yugi and acceptsaccepted.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|22|ref}}</ref> During the Duel, Kaiba Summons Summoned "[[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]]", causing problems for YugiYami,<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|23|ref}}</ref> but Yugi fuses Yami fused it with "[[Mammoth Graveyard (anime)|Mammoth Graveyard]]", causing it to decay and lose [[ATK]] each turn. Kaiba sees Mokuba, begging Seto to help him. A younger version of Seto tries to run to Mokuba's aid but unfortunately, is to late. Kaiba refuses to lose his only chance at saving his brother. As Yugi is Yami was about to win, Kaiba stands stood-up on the edge of the castle, such that if Yugi makes Yami made another attack, he will would fall to his death. Although Yami Yugi tries tried to attack, Yugi takes took-over and calls called it off. Kaiba wins won on the next turn, taking 5 five of Yugi's [[Star Chips]]. Combined with the 5 five Pegasus gave him earlier, Kaiba has had enough to enter the castle and face Pegasus.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|24|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba gets got ready to duel Duel Pegasus. He insists insisted on using the Duel Disks, but Pegasus isnwasn't too keen. Pegasus accepts accepted under the condition, that Mokuba who is stripped of his soul, holds held the Duel Disk for him. Kaiba refuses refused to face his brother in such a way and agrees agreed to duel Duel without the Disks.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|26|ref}}</ref> Pegasus defeats defeated Kaiba while using his Millennium Eye. Kaiba and also traps privately asked Mokuba to forgive him as Pegasus trapped his soul in another "Soul Prison" card.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|27|ref}}</ref>
When Yugi defeats defeated Pegasus, as promised Pegasus frees freed the souls of Seto and Mokuba Kaiba, along with Solomon Muto.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|40|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba thanks thanked Yugi for saving Mokuba and insists insisted that they should have a fair Duel someday to determine who is the better duelistDuelist. He gives gave Yugi and his friends a lift home from the island afterwards.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|41|ref}}</ref>
====Legendary Heroes====
Kaiba prepares prepared to fire [[The Big Five]] for trying to take over KaibaCorp, as well as in payment for the suffering through which they had forced himself him and Mokuba. But the Big Five plead with Kaiba, and give gave him the complete [[Virtual World|virtual reality game]] as a peace offering. Eager to try out the virtual reality game, Kaiba refrains refrained from immediately firing them decides and decided to test the system. Mokuba advises advised against it, harboring doubt. Kaiba however assures assured him otherwise, and continues continued to experiment with the game.<ref name="ep 43">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|43|ref}}</ref>
Inside the game, Kaiba is was confronted by a [[Two-Headed King Rex (anime)|Two-Headed King Rex]], which he easily defeats defeated by summoning Summoning "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (characteranime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]". However an [[Armed Ninja (anime)|Armed Ninja]] ambushes ambushed him, taking him by surprise as he has had no recollection of programming it. Kaiba attempts attempted to attack it with Blue-Eyes, but a [[Dragon Capture Jar (anime)|Dragon Capture Jar]] appears appeared and traps trapped the dragon. The Armed Ninja throws threw a net on Kaiba, capturing him.<ref name="ep 43"/>
[[File:DMx044 Captive Kaiba.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba held captive.]]
Kaiba is was taken to the [[Castle of Dark Illusions (location)|Castle of Dark Illusions]] " and chained to a pillar, where he is held captive by the [[Witty Phantom (character)|Witty Phantom]]. Witty Phantom tells told Kaiba that he is to be sacrificed to Summon the [[Five-Headed Dragon (character)|Mythic Dragon]]. In an attempt to escape, Kaiba tries tried to end the simulation, but learns learned that that function has had been disabled.<ref name="ep 44">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|44|ref}}</ref>
Mokuba recruits recruited Yugi and Joey to help him in his efforts to rescue Kaiba. Together they go to the castle and Mokuba manages managed to free Kaiba. Kaiba Summons Summoned a second "Blue-Eyes", which destroys destroyed the phantom. He re-encounters Armed Ninja and the Dragon Capture Jar again, but destroys destroyed the jar with "[[Trap Master (anime)|Trap Master]]" reclaiming his trapped "Blue-Eyes". The 2 two "Blue-Eyes" easily defeat defeated Armed Ninja.<ref name="ep 45">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|45|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba has had "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" blast a hole in the floor, allowing him and Mokuba to meet -up with Yugi, Joey and Mai. The Big Five congratulate congratulated the players on making it to the final level, but Kaiba protests protested that they stopped the "Mythic Dragon " from being Summoned, so they have already beaten the game. However the Big Five have had reprogrammed the game making them have to face the "Mythic Dragon".<ref name="ep 45"/>
The group are were sent to a room, where only Dragon-Type monsters are of use. The group have had their dragons attack the "Mythic Dragon " to no avail. The Mytic Mythic Dragon starts started to take out the players and their dragons one by one. Mokuba pushes pushed Kaiba out of the way of one of its blasts, saving Kaiba, but letting himself be taken out. With the loss of Mokuba taking a great toll on Kaiba, Yugi's persuasion finally gets got through to Kaiba and fuses , who fused his dragons into "[[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]]". Yugi then fuses it with "[[Black Luster Soldier (anime)|Black Luster Soldier]]" to form "[[Dragon Master Knight (anime)|Dragon Master Knight]]", which defeats defeated the "Mythic Dragon".<ref name="ep 45"/>
Kaiba and Yugi wakewoke-up in the courtyard of the [[EdinaPrincess Adena|Edina]]'s]] palace. The crowds cheer cheered for them for defeating the "Mythic Dragon". Edina turns turned into Mystical Elf and revives revived Joey, Mai, Mokuba and [[Iru]].<ref name="ep 45"/>
Kaiba and his rescuers return returned to the real world,<ref name="ep 45"/> while the Big Five are were left trapped in the virtual world.
====Battle City====
[[File:DMx052 Kaiba gets Obelisk.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba receives "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (originalanime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]".]]
[[Ishizu Ishtar]] invites invited Kaiba to an Ancient Egypt exhibition. Here she uses used her [[Millennium Necklace]] to show him visions from the past, where [[Priest Seto|a sorcerer]], who looks like Kaiba, battled the [[Pharaoh Atem|Nameless Pharaoh]], who looks like Yugi, using [[Duel Monster Spirits]]. She tells told him about their most powerful monsters, the [[Egyptian Gods]], which [[Maximillion Pegasus|Pegasus]] made ''Duel Monsters '' cards of, but was unable to control their power. She has had come into possession of one of the Gods, "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (originalanime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]", while the others were stolen by thieves. She gives gave Kaiba the card, in exchange for him starting a ''Duel Monsters '' tournament to attract the thieves so they may gather the 3 three Gods. Kaiba laughs laughed at the idea of him returning the "Obelisk" card, but Ishizu insists insisted that he will, as she has foreseen it. Kaiba agrees agreed to host the tournament in the hopes of gathering the 3 three God cards for himself through an [[Ante Duel|ante rule]]<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|52|ref}}</ref> and so he can defeat Yugi, reclaiming his title as World Champion.
Kaiba test tested "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (original)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]", by dueling Dueling a [[Duel Computer]], which is was using his [[Duelist Kingdom]] Deck. The computer Summons Summoned "[[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]]", but Kaiba defeats defeated it with "Obelisk the Tormentor", whose strength proves proved too much for the computer, causing it to catch fire.<ref name="ep 54">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|54|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba invites duelists invited Duelists he thinks are thought to be good enough to participate in the tournament. All players are were given the newest version of his [[Duel Disk]]s.<ref name="ep 54"/> The [[Rare Hunters]], who were not invited, hack hacked into his computer system to add themselves as participants. Mokuba suggests suggested that they disqualify them, but Kaiba allows allowed for it. (In the English versiondub, Kaiba had planned to have them hack in all along, so the holders of the Egyptian Gods would enter the tournament.)<ref name="ep 56">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|56|ref}}</ref>
The [[Seeker|first Rare Hunter]] duels Dueled Yugi. Kaiba finds found out the Rare Hunter is was using fake cards, but still doesndidn't disqualify him, as he needs needed to learn more about the Rare Hunters.<ref name="ep 56"/>
Kaiba takes took part in the tournament himself, leaving his employees monitor other Duels to find the Egyptian God cards.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|57|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba finds found [[Koji "the Spider" Nagumo|Koji Nagumo]] bullying a duelist Duelist he just defeated into giving him a second card through the ante rule. Kaiba challenges challenged Koji to a Duel and gives gave him rare cards to improve his Deck beforehand. Despite this, Kaiba quickly defeats defeated him using "Obelisk the Tormentor".<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|60|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx066 Kaiba encourages Yugi.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba encourages Yugi in his Duel against [[Strings]].]]
He spends spent much of the preliminaries trying to find and defeat Yugi. He bumps bumped into [[Joey Wheeler]] in his search, surprised to see him wearing a Duel Disk as he hadn't been invited. Joey challenges challenged Kaiba to a Duel on the spot, but Kaiba receives received word of a God Card being played and takes took-off. He finds found Yugi in a Duel against [[Strings]], who is was possessed by [[Marik Ishtar]] and using the Egyptian God card "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]". Seeing Yugi drops to his knees, doubting he can win, Kaiba calls called down to him, ordering him live up to his reputation and thinking he is the only one who should defeat Yugi.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|66|ref}}</ref>
After Yugi winswon, Kaiba congratulates congratulated him, but says said it's a shame Yugi won't have "Slifer the Sky Dragon" for long and challenges challenged him to a Duel. However Marik informs informed Yugi that his friends have had been kidnapped. Yugi postpones postponed the Duel as he must find his friends.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|67|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba follows followed Yugi and catchescaught-up when Yugi is was challenged to a Duel by [[Lumis]] and [[Umbra]]two Rare Hunters, who cancouldn't decide which of them should face Yugi first. Kaiba appears appeared and tells told them to both duel Duel at once in a Tag Duel against him and Yugi. They agree and Kaiba easily defeats defeated both of them at once using "Obelisk the Tormentor". Kaiba takes took their [[Locator Card]]s and hands 1 handed one to Yugi. He then offers offered to use KaibaCorp's satellite system to trace the location of Joey's Duel Disk.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|68|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx070 Tag Duel.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba and Yugi Tag Duel against [[Umbra]] and [[Lumis]] on the skyscraper.]]
As they search searched for Yugi's friends, the guys are were confronted by [[Lumis]], who shows showed them that they have kidnapped Mokuba. In order to get Mokuba back, Yugi and Kaiba must had to Tag Duel him and [[Umbra ]] on top of a skyscraper. The Duel is was setup such that when a player loses, the glass roof below them shatters sending them to their death. (In in the English versiondub, there was a vortex to the [[Shadow Realm]] under the glass).)<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|70|ref}}</ref> Kaiba's refusal to work as part of a team, initially hinders hindered his and Yugi's performance, while Umbra and Lumis' Decks have had been built to work together and prevent the Summoning of the [[Egyptian GodsGod]]s. However Kaiba eventually accepts accepted that they must work as a team.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|71|ref}}</ref> He sacrifices sacrificed his "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" to prevent Yugi from losing and provokes provoked Umbra and Lumis turning them against each other. Yugi and Kaiba work worked together to Summon "Obelisk the Tormentor", which defeats defeated Umbra, who uses used a parachute to save himself. [[Marik Ishtar|Marik]] takes took control of LumaLumis's mind after he surrenderssurrendered. Kaiba seizes seized him demanding they release Mokuba. However Marik doesndidn't keep his promise and leaves Luma left Lumis fall unconscious.<ref name="ep 73">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|73|ref}}</ref> Kaiba takes took "[[Masked Beast Des Gardius (anime)|Masked Beast Des Gardius]]"<ref name="ep 122">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|122|ref}}</ref> and the locator cards from LumbaLumis. He hands handed Yugi one of the Locator Cards, qualifying them both for the finals.<ref name="ep 73"/>
Despite Marik's refusal to keep his end of the bargain, Mokuba arrives arrived on the top of the skyscraper in the KaibaCorp helicopter, having escaped captivity with [[Téa Gardner|Téa's]] help. To repay Yugi's friends for saving Mokuba, Kaiba takes took Yugi to find his friends, having tracked the signal from Joey's Duel Disk.<ref name="ep 73"/> On the helicopter, [[Yami Yugi]] tells told Kaiba that he is a seperate separate personality from [[Yugi Muto|Yugi]].<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|74|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx078 Card Shurikenjutsu.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba throws the card at the Rare Hunter.]]
They arrive arrived at the [[Domino Pier]] and find Joey and Téa are posessed possessed by Marik, with Joey prepared to duel Duel Yugi. Seeing the Duel has had been set-up to kill the loser, Kaiba tries tried to call it off, but Marik disregards disregarded his authority.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|75|ref}}</ref> Once [[Tristan Taylor|Tristan]] and [[Duke Devlin|Duke]] arrive arrived at the Duel, Kaiba and Mokuba explain explained the situation to them.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|77|ref}}</ref> Towards the end of the Duel, Kaiba throws threw a card at one of the Rare Hunters monitoring the Duel. The card gets got lodged into his hand, causing him to drop the controls for a crane hovering a giant crate over Téa. With him temporarily unable to drop the crate, the KaibaCorp helicopter pulls pulled it away from Téa. Once the Duel concludes concluded with everyone alive, Kaiba parts parted and tells told Yugi that he'll see him at the finals.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|78|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba takes took his helicopter to the [[KaibaCorp Stadium]], where he waits waited for the other finalists. After 6 six of the other 7 seven finalists arrivearrived, the true location of the finals, the [[Kaiba Craft 3]] landslanded. Kaiba's men try tried to prevent Yugi and Joey's friends from boarding as they are were not finalists, but Kaiba allows for nonchalantly allowed it. On board Kaiba insults insulted Joey about making it this far by luck and advises advised Yugi to start using his Egyptian God Card"Slifer".<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|79|ref}}</ref>
[[Ryo Bakura|BakuraRyou]] is was greatly injured after is his Duel with Yugi. His friends try tried talking Kaiba into making an emergency stop to take him to the hospital, but Kaiba refuses and instead has the medical team on the blimp sent refused until Serenity begged for him to show some compassion. He still tried to look after remain cold, but let Bakurahave some medical attention anyway.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|85|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba sees saw Joey's quarter-final Duel against [[Odion Ishtar|Odion]], who they believe believed to be Marik, as a chance to find out the abilities of his Egyptian God, "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (originalanime)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]".<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|86|ref}}</ref> During the Duel, both players are were struck down by Ra's lightning. Kaiba declares declared that the first player to stand up will be declared the winner and if neither stand within five minutes they will both be disqualified. He learns learned that Marik was also a finalist under the disguise "Namu" and while Odion had a fake "The Winged Dragon of Ra", Marik holds held the real one.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|89|ref}}</ref> He refuses refused to disqualify Marik as he won't be able to win his God Card in that case.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|90|ref}}</ref>
[[Mai Valentine|Mai]]'s]] Duel against the real Marik is was also used as a chance to learn more about "The Winged Dragon of Ra". When Mai tried Summoning Ra, which she managed to add to her own hand, hieratic text appeared on the card, which Mai must receit needed to recite in order to Summon it. Kaiba has had his satellites photograph the card, so he can have the text translated later, although Marik suggests suggested that Kaiba is already able to read them.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|92|ref}}</ref>
Once Mokuba begins began the translation, he finds found that some of Ra's effects are also printed there.
[[File:DMx094 Kaiba's tablet vision.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba, shortly before the vision of [[Priest Seto]] holding [[Kisara]] up to the "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (character)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" tablet.]]
In the last of the quarter-finals quarterfinals Kaiba finds found out the eight finalist is [[Ishizu Ishtar]], as the two of them duelDueled. In the meantime, Kaiba has had Mokuba work on translating Ra's text. Ishizu has had already predicted Kaiba's moves for the Duel using her [[Millennium Necklace]] and foresaw her own victory.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|93|ref}}</ref> In the first few turns of the Duel, Kaiba has had Ishizu send plenty of cards from her [[Main Deck|Deck]] to her [[Graveyard]]. Ishizu uses used "[[Exchange of the Spirit (anime)|Exchange of the Spirit]]", causing both players to swap the contents of their Decks with their Graveyards, leaving Kaiba with very few cards. Almost finished the translation, Mokuba comes came out to support Seto in the Duel. Ishizu deliberately allows allowed Kaiba to Summon "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (original)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]", so that she may win using "[[Sacrifice's Blast Held by a Tribute]]", as predicted. However Kaiba is was affected by the [[Millennium Rod]] and feels felt "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (character)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" calling out to him, feeling it wants wanted him to Summon "Blue-Eyes White Dragon"it. Kaiba sees saw a vision of [[Priest Seto|the sorcerer]] holding [[Kisara]]'s body up to a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" tablet. Kaiba follows followed the instinct, claiming he makes his own future and [[tributeTribute]]s d "Obelisk the Tormentor" to play "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", which he uses used to attack and defeat Ishizu.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|94|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba checks checked on the progress in translating "The Winged Dragon of Ra's" text. Mokuba tells told him that they're having trouble with the last few words, but Kaiba looks looked at the text in astonishment, finding that he's able to read it himself. Remembering what Marik said about only chosen people being able to read the text, what Ishizu said about him being connected to an ancient sorcerer and the instinct that told him to play "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in the last Duel, Kaiba wonders wondered what's was happening to him.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|95|ref}}</ref>
====Virtual World====
[[File:DMx098 Virtual claw.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba lets himself get struck by the virtual dinosaur.]]
The group were then transported to a virtual jungle. Kaiba wasn't fooled into thinking the place was real and allowed himself to be struck by a dinosaur, whose claw simply passed through Kaiba, leaving him unharmed. A virtual copy of Kaiba appeared and Duels a "[[File:DMx100 Past and present Seto and Mokuba.jpg|thumb|rightTotal Defense Shogun (anime)|Seto and Mokuba see their past selves as they are made witness many of their memories.Total Defense Shogun]]Seto and Mokuba end up together " in a forest. The two of them come to a door, which transports them to a virtual reconstruction demonstration of the orphange[[Deck Master]] rules, they used to live inthis virtual world.<ref name="ep 9998"/> Here they are shown projections of their past, including when they got sent to the orphanage and when they got adopted. Mokuba runs away from Seto over to The Big Five separated the door, telling Seto he'd liked things before they got adopted. At least back then, says Mokubagang, "you smiled once in a while". Seto reminds him that they can't change the past and assures him that it's just an illusion created by Noah. However Mokuba opens the door, causing him slip over the side of a cliff. Seto reaches in on time, catching Mokuba's arm before he falls any furthermaking holes appear under them.<ref name="ep 10099"/> Seto pulls him up and the two finds themselves on top of the cliff. The virtual world Seto designed had safeguards to prevent such harm befalling on people, but this place, they realize, is different. Seto tells Mokuba that no matter what they see, he must realize that the past is over. He says that he's not proud of every decision he's made, but they were all made in favor of getting the two of them a better life.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|10199|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx100 Past and present Seto and Mokuba.jpg|thumb|right|Seto and Mokuba make see their way past selves as they are made to a log cabin witness many of their memories.]]Seto and Mokuba ended up together in a forest. Inside The two of them came to a door, which transported them to a virtual reconstruction of the orphanage that they used to live in.<ref name="ep 99"/> Here, they witness were shown projections of their past, including when they started living with Gozaburo, including Seto being forced got sent to study the orphanage and having his toys confiscatedwhen they got adopted. The projection fades Mokuba ran away and Noah appears from Seto over to the door, telling Seto that he had liked things the way they were before they got adopted; at least back then, Mokuba said, Seto and Mokubaactually smiled once in a while. Seto asks Noah why hereminded him that they can's making them watch this stuff. Noah replies t change the past and assured him that it's just an illusion created by Noah. However Mokuba opened the door, causing him to refresh slip over the side of a cliff. Setoreached in on time, catching Mokuba's memory arm before he fell any further.<ref name="ep 100"/> Seto pulled him up and the two found themselves on top of how the cliff. The virtual world Seto designed had safeguards to prevent such harm befalling on people, but this place, they realized, is different. Seto told Mokuba that no matter what they see, he forced Gozaburo to must realize that the past is over. He said that he is not proud of every decision he has made, but they were all made in favor of getting the two of them a dead end and one day Seto shall be punishedbetter life.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|103101|ref}}</ref>
The chase led Kaiba to a bridge, where he was stopped by [[Leichter]]. Leichter had taken the form of [[File:Jinzo]], but this was hidden by his trenchcoat. In order to get Mokuba back, Kaiba and Lord of Dragonshad to first defeat Leichter in a Duel.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba and was given access to ''Duel Monster'' cards, bar the Egyptian Gods to build his Deck Master, . Kaiba choose "[[Lord of D.(anime)|Lord of Dragons]]" during as his Duel with [[LectorDeck Master]].He was initially unable to see Leichter's Deck Master, nor does he care, until one of his [[Trap Card]]After s was destroyed, revealing Jinzo to be the Deck Master.<ref name="ep 108"/> During the Duel, Noah forms a tunnel Leichter taunted Kaiba about using the Big Five and Mokuba in order to overthrow Gozaburo. Leichter's Deck was weapon-themed and tells Kaiba he must come this way had worked to find Mokubaremove such aspects from KaibaCorp. Inside he finds Noah, disguised as Mokuba, who transports Kaiba Refusing to lose his dream to a living roomweapon of death, containing the real Mokuba. Noah insists that it was KaibaSummoned "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]", which took out Leichter's former employee that kidnapped Mokuba and that he was "[[Satellite Cannon (anime)|Satellite Cannon]]", before it could launch an attack, winning the one who rescued him. Duel for Kaiba tries to leave with Mokuba. However Mokuba has now been brainwashed against Seto, by Noah.<ref name="ep 110109">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|110|ref}}</ref>
[[File:Kaiba and Kaiser Sea Horse.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba and his Deck Master, "[[Kaiser Sea Horse (anime)|Kaiser Sea Horse]]" during his Duel with [[Noah Kaiba|Noah]].]]Kaiba took a train from Kaiba Land to a volcanic area, where he met Noah. Noah explained how he had his consciousness uploaded into the virtual world shortly after the accident, where he nearly died (in the dub, it is only referred to as an "accident", and Noah says "It is not important what happened to me"). By beating Seto in a Duel, Noah said that he will prove he is superior and return to the real world in Seto's body, where he will take over KaibaCorp. Seto laughs at the idea of Noah beating him and being able to run KaibaCorp. He accepted the challenge and selected "[[Kaiser Sea Horse (anime)|Kaiser Sea Horse]]" as his [[Deck Master]].<ref name="ep 114">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|114|ref}}</ref> Yugi and his friends arrive arrived to watch the Duel.<ref name="ep 114" /> After a few turns, Seto gets got a chance to win, but Noah uses used Mokuba as human shield.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|115|ref}}</ref> Kaiba refuses refused to attack Mokuba and ends ended his turn. Seto tries tried talking Mokuba into returning to his side. Yugi points pointed out that he was in this situation before when [[Marik Ishtar|Marik]] possessed Joey and urges urged Seto to keep fighting to awaken his bond with Mokuba. Kaiba manages managed to Summon "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]". Mokuba recognizes recognized this as the [[Mokuba Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" drawing|the card he drew]] for Seto. Mokuba imagines imagined Seto and himself on the back of a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and breaks broke free from Noah's influence. With "Blue-Eyes" out, Seto plays played "[[Last Turn (anime)|Last Turn]]" creating 1 one final battle to determine the winner of the Duel. Kaiba chooses choose "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", with 3000 [[ATK]] as his monster and Noah chooses his Deck Master, "[[Shinato's Ark (anime)|Shinato's Ark]]", but reveals revealed its true form "[[Shinato, King of a Higher Plane (anime)|Shinato, King of a Higher Plane]]", with 3300 ATK. "Shinato" defeats defeated "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", causing Seto to lose the Duel.<ref name="ep 116">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|116|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx116 Stone Mokuba and Seto.jpg|thumb|right|Mokuba and Seto turned to stone after Seto's Duel with Noah.]]
Having defeated Seto, Noah turns turned Seto and Mokuba into stone. However Yugi accuses accused Noah of foul play, by causing Seto to give up his chance for winning over his brother's safety. Yugi then challenges challenged Noah to continue the Duel with him. Should Yugi win everyone Noah trapped would be freed. Yugi combines combined his Deck with Seto's and continues continued the Duel from where Seto had left off.<ref name="ep 116" /> When Yugi is was on the brink of defeat, he imagines imagined everyone Noah has had turned to stone, including Seto, are were with him. They each hand handed Yugi a card to draw with "[[Card of Sanctity (anime)|Card of Sanctity]]".<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|118|ref}}</ref> Using them Yugi defeats defeated Noah, returning everyone who was turned to stone to the way they were before.<ref name="ep 119">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|119|ref}}</ref>
Gozaburo appears appeared in the sky before Noah and his prisoners, revealing that he had digitized his mind after losing KaibaCorp to Seto. Gozaburo reveals revealed how he had used Seto to motivate Noah and previously planned to use his body to host Noah's mind. After Gozaburo uploaded his mind into the Virtual World, he planned to take Seto's body for himself. He no longer intends intended to do that as he has plans to digitize the entire world and rule it.<ref name="ep 119" />
Noah leads led the prisoners, claiming to be taking them to an exit. Despite not trusting Noah, Kaiba goes went along. As he predicted, Noah betrays betrayed them and splits split the gang up.<ref name="ep 119" /> Kaiba heads headed to the virtual KaibaCorp headquarters to confront Gozaburo.<ref name="ep 120">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|120|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx121 Monster Gozaburo vs Seto.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gozaburo Kaiba|Gozaburo]], in his monster form, attacks Seto.]]Gozaburo imposes imposed a game of ''Duel Monsters '' for Seto to play for his freedom. Seto accepts accepted and finds found himself struggling against Gozaburo's "[[Exodia Necross (anime)|Exodia Necross]]".<ref name="ep 120" /> However he finds found its weakness and removes removed the "[[Exodia]]" pieces from Gozaburo's Graveyard, stripping it of its abilities. Seto defeats defeated "Exodia Necross" with "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", winning the Duel.<ref name="ep 121">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|121|ref}}</ref>
Yugi, Kaiba and Mokuba run ran to escape the fortress before the missiles strikestruck. Joey and Tristan help helped them get onto the moving blimp, as they leave left Noah's fortress, before it gets got destroyed.<ref name="ep 121" />
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====Battle City finals====
Kaiba, his colleagues and guests arrive arrived safely at [[Alcatraz]] for the [[Battle City]] finals.<ref name="ep 122" />
Kaiba, Yugi, Joey and Marik partake partook in a [[Battle Royal]] to determine the matchups for the semi-finals. Each duelist Duelist selected a monster to exclude from their Deck to determine the order of play. Kaiba chose the "[[Masked Beast Des Gardius (anime)|Masked Beast Des Gardius]]", which he had taken from [[Lumis]]. Since it had the highest ATK, Kaiba got to go first.<ref name="ep 122" /> Since "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (originalanime)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]" is the strongest of the [[Egyptian Gods]], Kaiba planned to win "Slifer" off Yugi so he could have 2 two Egyptian Gods when facing Marik and "Ra". Wanting to face Yugi in the semi-finals and too proud to purposely lose, Kaiba made sure he and Yugi were the last two standing in the Battle Royal, matching them up for the second semi-final.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|123|ref}}</ref><ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|124|ref}}</ref>
Before Joey's Duel with Marik, Kaiba comments commented that Joey doesndidn't stand a chance against "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (original)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]". Joey protests protested that he went up against "Ra" before, but Kaiba reminds reminded him how it knocked him unconscious. Kaiba tells told Yugi that his computer has had managed to translate "Ra's" effects. However, Yugi is was unconvinced and believes believed Kaiba 's connection with the past played a part in translating the text. Kaiba plans planned to use Joey as a guinea pig, so he can study Marik's strategy. Had it been Yugi that was facing Marik, Marik would win "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]" making it harder for Kaiba to defeat him in the finals. Yugi smirks smirked that Kaiba's plan has had a flaw; he has to get past him first.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|125|ref}}</ref>
Towards the end of the Duel, Marik has had Joey hit hard by one of "Ra's" effects. Mokuba protests that Marik has gone too far, but Kaiba refuses refused to stop the Duel as he must see "Ra's" abilities with his own eyes. Kaiba is was stunned to see Joey still standing after taking the blast. Joey prepares prepared to attack Marik directly with his "[[Gearfried the Iron Knight (anime)|Gearfried the Iron Knight]]" to win, but collapsescollapsed. Kaiba gives gave Joey 30 seconds to stand uprise. Unable to do so, Joey was disqualified. Kaiba was impressed with Joey's performance, thinking to himself "The way you die, at last I'll recognize you as a duelistDuelist". (In the English versiondub, Kaiba thinks maybe actually thought to himself that Joey isn's performance in the Duel was quite impressive, and finally realized that Joey wasn't the third-rate amateur, he thought he was.)<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|128|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx131 Yugi vs Kaiba.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba and Yugi face each other with their Egyptian Gods in the Colosseum.]]
Kaiba faces faced Yugi in the second quartersemi-final. He creates created a holographic Colosseum of spectators around the top of the tower for the Duel.<ref name="ep 129">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|129|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba tries tried to Summon "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (originalanime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]" at an early stage, but Yami Yugi manages to counter both his attempts. Kaiba steals stole "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon]]" from Yugi's Deck using "[[Lullaby of Obedience (anime)|Lullaby of Obedience]]". However Yami takes took it back with "[[Exchange (anime)|Exchange]]", which he had been planning to use on "Obelisk".<ref name="ep 129" /> Yami and Kaiba each manage managed to Summon their respective Egyptian Gods.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|130|ref}}</ref> The two constantly alter altered the Gods' [[ATK]] or block blocked each others [[attack]]s, preventing the other from destroying their God. Kaiba attempts attempted to win using "Obelisk's" effect, tributing 2 Tributing two monsters to inflict 4000 [[effect damage|damage]] to Yami, but Yami discards discarded "[[Kuriboh (anime)|Kuriboh]]" to protect himself. Eventually the 2 two Gods attack attacked each other and after a number of alterations each end ended up with 4000 ATK<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|131|ref}}</ref> and destroy destroyed each other.<ref name="ep 132">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|132|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx132 Yami and Seto watch the ancient Duel.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba and Yami Yugi see a vision of [[Priest Seto|Sorcerer Seto]] and the [[Pharaoh Atem|Nameless Pharaoh]] battling.]]
The battle of Gods causes caused Yami Yugi and Kaiba's consciousness to be transported to an ancient city. Here they see saw "Obelisk" and "Slifer" turned to stone, while elsewhere, the [[Priest Seto|Sorcerer Seto]] and [[Pharaoh Atem|Nameless Pharaoh]] battlebattled. The Sorcerer tells told the Pharaoh that he's powerless in the face of the darkness and the land will soon meet the fate of its destruction. When questioned as to why he joined the forces of darkness, the sorcerer replies replied that he and his followers have had allegiance to neither [[Zorc Necrophades|the Dark One]] nor the Pharaoh. The Sorcerer Summons Summoned [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (character)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]] from a tablet and the Pharaoh counters countered with [[Dark Magician (character)|Dark Magician]]. The two return returned to present time. Kaiba asks asked if Yugi Yami had the same vision as he did. Yami claims claimed that their Duel is related to the one from 3000 years ago(5000 years in the dub), and Kaiba says said their Duel is destined. (In the English versiondub, Kaiba calls the vision an illusion.)<ref name="ep 132" />
Kaiba and Yami continue continued the Duel. They quickly summon Summoned "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" and "[[Dark Magician (anime)|Dark Magician]]" respectively.<ref name="ep 132" /> Kaiba uses used "[[Lord of D.|Lord of Dragons]]" and "[[The Flute of Summoning Dragon (anime)|The Flute of Summoning Dragon]]" to bring out his other 2 two "Blue-Eyes White Dragons". Yugi uses used it to Summon Joey's "[[Red-Eyes B. Dragon(anime)|Red-Eyes Black Dragon]]" from his own hand. Yami blocks blocked the attacks from 2 two of the 3 three dragons, destroying 1 one of them and "Lord of Dragons" in the process.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|133|ref}}</ref> Kaiba uses used "[[Monster Reborn (anime)|Monster Reborn]]" and "[[Polymerization(anime)|Polyerization]]" to Summon "[[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]]", but Yami plays played "[[Double Spell (anime)|Double Spell]]" copying Kaiba's last 2 two [[Spell CardsCard|Magic Cards]], allowing him to Summon "[[Dark Paladin (anime)|Dark Paladin]]". Yami tells told Kaiba that if he stands at the top filled with hatred, he won't find real victory. He'll only have to find new hatred, and his future will be filled with endless hatred. Kaiba attacks attacked "Dark PaladianPaladin" with "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon", but Yami uses used "[[De-Fusion (anime)|De-Fusion]]", splitting the "Ultimate Dragon" into 3 three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons". He uses used "[[Diffusion Wave-Motion (anime)|Diffusion Wave-Motion]]", allowing "Dark Paladin" to attack all 3 three of them, winning the Duel.<refname="ep 134">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|134|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba thinks thought Battle City was his tournament, the entire event was designed so that he would be victorious, he wanted to put the memory of his adopted adoptive father behind him and be crowned the world's best duelist Duelist atop his [[Duel Tower]]. Despite coming so close , his victory slipped away and Kaiba says he's nothingfrom him. Yugi compliments Kaiba on the Duel, but Kaiba says said he doesn't want his pity. Yugi admits admitted Kaiba is a strong duelistDuelist, but he was defeated by the monster in his heart called "hatred". Yugi points pointed out how friendship helped him win, but Kaiba says the strength of friendship said that everyone is nothing alone in this world and he doesn't want any pals to slow himdown. Yugi calls called that sad, to which he just scoffs. Kaiba accepts accepted his defeat like a man and tosses the angrily gave Yugi his "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (original)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]" card over to Yugi, as per the rules of the tournament.<ref name="ep 135">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|135|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx136 Blue-Eyes vs Blue-Eyes.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba duels Duels Joey.]]As Kaiba leavesleft, Joey, who has awoke had awoken from his coma, challenges challenged Kaiba to a third place play-off. Kaiba isnwasn't interested at first and considers dueling considered Dueling Joey to be waste of time. But Joey persists persisted and Kaiba eventually acceptsaccepted. At the bottom of the Duel Tower, the two face-faced off. Kaiba plays played "[[Crush CardVirus (later DM anime)|Crush Card Virus]]" at an early stage, eliminating Joey's stronger monsters.<ref name="ep 135" /> Regardless Joey puts put up a good fight. He annoys annoyed Kaiba by taking control of 1 one of his "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (character)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]sDragons".<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|136|ref}}</ref> Towards the end of the Duel, Joey attempts attempted to win by using "[[Time Wizard (anime)|Time Wizard]]" to age "[[Baby Dragon (anime)|Baby Dragon]]" into "[[Thousand Dragon (anime)|Thousand Dragon]]" and weaken Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". Kaiba scolds scolded Joey for thinking the Duel is fun. When Kaiba told Joey he never has any fun even in a Duel, Joey couldn't help but grin in amusement. This proved Kaiba was a more miserable person than Joey thought he was. (In the English versiondub, he mocks mocked Joey for relying on luck to win his Duels.) Kaiba uses used "[[Interdimensional Matter Transporter (anime)|Interdimensional Matter Transporter]]" to save "Blue-Eyes" his dragon from "Time Wizard" and wins won on his next turn. Kaiba leaves left thinking the Duel was a waste of time.<ref name="ep 137">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|137|ref}}</ref>
Initially Kaiba has had no intention of watching the final Duel between Yugi and Marik, but is was confronted by [[Ishizu Ishtar|Ishizu]], who tells told him Yugi is going to need his help to defeat Marik. Kaiba walks walked away, not caring if Yugi loses. Ishizu calls called him back and says said "pret kreto", an Ancient Egyptian phrase, which to Kaiba's own surprise, he understandsunderstood. She says said that these words were prayers for the dead, from a friend that were engraved on a stone found in the [[Tomb of the Nameless Pharaoh|Pharaoh's temple]]. (In the English versiondub, Ishizu doesndidn't speak Ancient Egyptian and tells told Kaiba that his own future is at stake.) Ishizu tells told Kaiba of his connection to the Sorcerersorcerer, who was the Pharaoh's rival, but ultimately helped the Pharaoh save his people and now history is repeating itself. Kaiba is was unconvinced and leaves left to prepare for the detonation of the the Duel Tower. However, Mokuba starts started to cry that Yugi and Joey were right about Kaiba being filled with hate, dueling Dueling for all the wrong reasons and never having fun anymore either.<ref name="ep 137" />
Kaiba reconsiders reconsidered and decides decided to help Yugi, despite hosting the tournament to beat him. Kaiba estimates estimated Yugi's chances of winning to be 3%, but he has a card that can beat "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (original)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]". If Yugi can could figure out how to use it, it would give him a 20% chance of winning. (Kaiba makes made no such calculations in the English versiondub.) As he makes made his way to the Duel, Kaiba remembers remembered Yugi saying that the strength of his friends brought him victory and wonders wondered if he Yugi can create a miracle f if he entrusts him with this card. (In the English versiondub, Kaiba thinks thought he'd enjoy watching Yugi fall at the hands of Marik, but it would be interesting to see if Yugi has what it takes to use this card.) Before the Duel, Kaiba gives gave Yugi the card, "[[Fiend's Sanctuary (anime)|Fiend's Sanctuary]]". Kaiba tells told Ishizu that he only helped Yugi to prove her wrong when he loses.<ref name="ep 137" />
Kaiba watches watched the Duel and sees saw the card he gave Yugi, help out.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|139|ref}}</ref> He congratulates congratulated Yugi after he winswon.<ref name="ep 142">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|142|ref}}</ref>
With the tournament over, Kaiba and Mokuba, initiate initiated the self-destruction of the [[Alcatraz|Duel Tower]] to destroy their memory of Gozaburo and his loss to Yugi.<ref name="ep 142" /> While everyone else leaves left in the helicopter, Kaiba and Mokuba leave in the Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet, as they plan planned to start work on [[Kaiba Land]] in America right away.<refname="ep 143"/> ====Pyramid of Light===={{episodeambox|type=notice|small=left|style=width:350px;|text=The following events from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!|143|refThe Movie: Pyramid of Light]]'' are of disputed canon.}}</ref>Seto Kaiba Duels against Yami Yugi in an attempt to obtain the [[Egyptian God]] cards. In order to find a way to overpower them, he set off to where Pegasus, the creator of the game, resided to get the answers he required.
====Waking the Dragons====
When real ''[[Duel Monsters]] '' started appearing, [[KaibaCorp]] got plenty of phone calls from people, who believed they were created by Kaiba's [[Solid Vision]]. Kaiba, who was still in America working on [[Kaiba Land]], made an announcement on TV. He said that they had shut down their system as a test and found the monsters still appeared, so something other than their system is causing the monsters to be created.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|145|ref}}</ref>
In his office, Kaiba said thinks that someone is trying to make a fool out of him and wondered if the monster appearances were the doing of one of his rivals. He suspected [[Industrial Illusions]] and got [[Roland]] to contact them. Mokuba rushed into the office and showed tells Kaiba that someone was buying has bought all of their shares and owned nearly half the company. If the person was to buy any more shares, they could take control of the company, but Kaiba refuses to allow thatstocks. [[Alister]], pretending to be [[Maximillion Pegasus|Pegasus]] made contact with calls Kaiba, claiming to be the one who bought the stocks, but he's not interested in Kaiba's company . He tells Kaiba that he must Duel him in Duelist Kingdom, or else, he will sell all of his stocks, ruining the Kaiba Corporation, and just wanted the upper hand so he could force therefore, destroy his goal of building Kaiba to do something for himLand.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|148|ref}}</ref><ref name="ep 149">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|149|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba and Mokuba took the [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet]] to [[Duelist Kingdom (island)|Duelist Kingdom]]. They confronted Alister disguised as Pegasus in the castle. Kaiba accused him of being responsible for the monster appearances. Alister claimed that it's all Kaiba's responsibility. Kaiba demanded to know what he meant, and Alister said that he will tell him if Kaiba can beat him in a Duel. Alister used the [[Dueling Arena]], while Kaiba choose to put his cards on his [[Duel Disk]], as he did not trust Pegasus.<ref name="ep 149" />
[[File:DMx150 Critias awakened.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba frees [[Critias]].]]
Alister used Pegasus' [[Toon Monstersmonster|Toon]] strategy. Kaiba stopped this by [[destroy]]ing "[[Toon World (anime)|Toon World]]" and accused Pegasus of using the same old strategy. After noting that Pegasus isn't predictable, he doubted he was facing the real Pegasus, so Alister revealed the disguise. Alister then played "[[The Seal of Orichalcos (anime)|The Seal of Orichalcos]]", so that the loser would lose their soul.<ref name="ep 149" /> Alister accuses Kaiba of ruining his life, since his brother had been killed (went missing in the English versiondub) in a war, where [[Gozaburo Kaiba|Gozaburo]] sold weapons to both sides. Since Alister had been studying Kaiba, he was able to predict that Kaiba would reply rely on "[[Crush Card Virus(later DM anime)|Crush CardVirus]]", and prevented this with "[[Royal Decree (anime)|Royal Decree]]". He took control of two of Kaiba's "[[Blue-Eyes White DragonsDragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]s" to stage the perfect revenge. Kaiba realized that there wasn't a card in his Deck that could save him, but before drawing his next card, his consciousness was transported to a hall, where he sees two dragons trapped crystal. He removes a sword from one of the dragons, freeing it. To Kaiba's surprise, he somehow knows the dragon's name is [[Critias]]. (In the English versiondub, [[Dark Magician Girl (character)|Dark Magician Girl]] told him that he had been chosen to release Critius and instructed him to remove the sword).) Kaiba returned to reality and drew his next card, "[[The Fang of Critias]]", which was not in his Deck before. He combined it with "Crush Card", forming "[[Doom Virus Dragon (anime)|Doom Virus Dragon]]". He used "Doom Virus Dragon" to destroy Alister's monsters and attack him, but Alister played "[[Contagion of Madness]]", making the Duel a Draw[[DRAW]]. Since it was a DrawDRAW, neither player lost their soul.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|150|ref}}</ref> Afterwards Kaiba wondered about the card, "The Fang of Critias". After boarding his jet, he received an e-mail from HQ, saying that he needed to come back, but Kaiba opted to visit [[Industrial Illusions]] to ask about the card instead.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|151|ref}}</ref> Mokuba was unable to contact Pegasus on the way. Kaiba suspected that this would happen; whoever Alister is working for has already captures Pegasus and wants him next. Kaiba wondered how he could know the effect of the card; he doesn't believe in the supernatural, but the power of the card is very real.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|152|ref}}</ref> While on the jet, Kaiba noticed "The Fang of Critias" glowing while elsewhere Joey Wheeler acquired "[[Claw of Hermos]]".<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|153|ref}}</ref> [[File:DMx154 Holographic Pegasus.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba encounters the holographic recording of Pegasus.]]Kaiba arrived at [[Industrial Illusions]] American headquarters, where he encountered Yugi, Joey, Téa, Tristan and [[Duke Devlin|Duke]]. He asked about Pegasus and learned that [[Mai Valentine]] has been there earlier and taken his soul using "The Seal of Orichalcos". Kaiba briefed the others in on his encounter with the impostor Pegasus, who he believes is trying to take over his company. In search of answers, the group followed by [[Rex Raptor|Rex]] and [[Weevil Underwood|Weevil]] go to a private room, which Yugi is able to open using a card Pegasus gave him. A hologram of Pegasus informed the party about [[Doma]]'s involvement in historical events. Kaiba recalled Gozaburo saying something about a dark force behind the world economy, which he now believes could be Doma. (In the dub, Kaiba says that this is just a hoax by Pegasus.)<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|154|ref}}</ref> Kaiba learned that Yugi and Joey also have [[Legendary Dragon]] cards like "Critias" and Yami claimed it was their destiny to work together to defeat Doma. However Kaiba left them, claiming that he's the one who decides his fate.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|155|ref}}</ref> After Kaiba returned to KaibaCorp headquarters, he received word of their stock plummeting and nearly half of the company being bought out by an unknown investor. Kaiba believed that it was Doma's doing and had his employees research what they could find about Doma. Mokuba was concerned about Kaiba facing Alister, again as he believed that Alister was simply fighting for his brother. However, Kaiba insisted that he must knock Doma down or there won't be any hope for KaibaCorp or Kaiba Land. (In the dub, Kaiba believed that Pegasus was behind the problems and Mokuba suggested that it could be Alister.)<ref name="ep 156">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|156|ref}}</ref> Kaiba received a phone call from Joey, who asked him for a lift to Florida in exchange for information about Doma, but Joey got overexcited and told him that [[Rafael|one of them]] defeated Yugi in a Duel and took his soul. Kaiba became outraged over Yugi throwing away his championship title to some "nobody" and not him. He called Yami a disgrace to the game and hung up the phone, thinking that this is just another excuse to hunt down those thugs.<ref name="ep 156" /> On board a company plane, as Kaiba and Mokuba notice a bizarre light phenomenon outside the window, the pilot, who is Alister in disguise reports that there will be some turbulence.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|165|ref}}</ref> The brothers get curious as to what is going on and find that the rest of the plane is empty. They finally found Alister, who demands a rematch and informs them that the other passengers had been evacuated before the flight, as he didn't want them to interfere with their Duel (in the dub, he said that the other passengers had been an illusion). Kaiba flipped a switch, which removed the furniture and cleared a space for Dueling. Alister vowed to hang Kaiba's soul on [[Mikey]]'s tombstone and the Duel began.<ref name="ep 166">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|166|ref}}</ref> [[File:DMx166 Duel on top of the plane.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba and Alister Duel on top of the plane.]]Once Alister played "The Seal of Orichalcos", its green light damaged the plane and switched off the autopilot. The sides of the plane appeared as if they disappeared and the seal rose Kaiba and Alister to the roof of the plane and formed a dome over itself.<ref name="ep 166" /> During the Duel, Kaiba is sent to an illusion of a city that was made a battlefield by KaibaCorp, when [[Gozaburo Kaiba|Gozaburo]] was in power. Kaiba appeared in a hideout, where he met [[Aaron]], who looks like Mokuba. Aaron, along with [[Tony]] and [[Dennis]] had collected weapons from the battlefield to give to people protecting the city. (The references to the weapons were removed in the dub.) [[File:DMx166 Improvised chess.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba in the war struck city, playing an improvised game of [[chess]] with [[Aaron]].]] Outside, Aaron offered to play [[chess]] with Kaiba by etching the board in the soil and using empty weapon cartridges as pieces. This reminded Kaiba of how he used to play chess with Mokuba in the orphanage before they were adopted. (The game of chess was removed in the dub.) Kaiba and Aaron were interrupted when the hideout was bombed. Aaron tried to run over there to save Tony and Dennis, but Kaiba stopped him, insisting that it was too dangerous. When Aaron turns to Kaiba to plead, he turns into Mokuba pleading to Kaiba. A tank then appeared and shot at Kaiba and Aaron. The tank turned out to be one of Alister's cards and the Duel resumed in the city, while Aaron had disappeared. Alister explained what Kaiba had seen had really happened before; Aaron, Dennis and Tony were his friends growing up, that attack from the tank had killed Aaron and Alister's brother [[Mikey]] had been killed in the same way. (The mentions of death are removed in the dub.) The vision of the city faded shortly afterwards and the Duel continued on the airplane. Alister accused Kaiba of being like Gozaburo and expressed his wishes for a world free of war, which isn't possible with people like Gozaburo. To achieve such a world, he claimed to need Kaiba's soul.<ref name="ep 166" /> After sending an SOS to [[Roland]], Mokuba appeared to watch and begged Kaiba to stop the Duel or Alister would lose his soul. Kaiba claimed that he needed to defeat Alister for the sake of Kaiba Land. (In the dub, he said that he doesn't back down from a challenge.) Roland appeared with a team of helicopters to rescue the Kaiba brothers later in the Duel. Kaiba asks Alister if he would destroy the whole world if it meant hurting Mikey. Kaiba then goes to tell Alister that what happened to Mikey was Alister's fault, as it is an older brother's duty to protect the younger brother. Alister, outraged, used the "Seal of Orichalcos" to damage the plane further and send it plummeting and then refuses to end his turn, telling Kaiba that he can't protect his brother either. Mokuba calls to Alister to think what Mikey would think of Alister if he saw him acting like this, causing Alister to see Mikey in Mokuba. Kaiba tells Alister that no matter what he won't let anything happen to Mokuba and that he can win in one turn if Alister ends his turn. Alister agrees to give Kaiba one chance, to see if Kaiba can really protect Mokuba and he ends his turn. Kaiba used "The Fang of Critias" to form "[[Tyrant Burst Dragon (anime)|Tyrant Burst Dragon]]", whose effect powered up his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" (in the dub, the combination was called "Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon"), and defeated Alister before the plane crashed. Mokuba mourns over Alister's soulless body while Kaiba runs to the cockpit. Kaiba asks Alister if he can hear him because he will land the plane and not let Mokuba get hurt. The three Legendary Dragons, [[Timaeus]], [[Critias]] and [[Hermos]] then appeared and carried the plane to a safe landing.<ref name="ep 167">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|167|ref}}</ref> At some point, Kaiba sent men to the [[Florida museum|museum in Florida]] to find clues regarding the undersea ruins.<ref name="ep 168">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|168|ref}}</ref> Outside the plane, Kaiba and Mokuba met Joey, Téa, Tristan and Yami, who had followed the dragons. Roland landed his helicopter and informed them of KaibaCorp being bought out by Doma.<ref name="ep 167" /> Yami tried to convince Kaiba that they were brought together for a reason. Despite not believing in destiny, Kaiba said they might be useful and gave them a lift in one of the helicopters. Despite no longer working for Kaiba, Roland and [[Fuguta]] vowed to help him. Kaiba receives images of the ruins from the men he sent to the museum, who are attacked by ninjas immediately afterwards. Kaiba sent the data from the ruins to [[Rebecca Hawkins|Rebecca's]] laptop. However the ruins were too worn for her and [[Arthur Hawkins|Arthur]] to decipher them. Kaiba ordered the pilot to take them to the [[United States KaibaCorp headquarters]]. Despite it being taken over by Doma, it had the necessary technology to clear-up the images.<ref name="ep 168" /> [[File:DMx168 Monsters waiting.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba and Yami ambushed by [[Duel Monster Spirits]].]]The group met up with Duke, Arthur and Rebecca at the pier near the KaibaCorp building. Kaiba and Yami took an underground passage into the building. Once they got inside they were attacked, by [[Duel Monster Spirits]]. By playing cards on their Duel Disks, Yami and Kaiba were able to Summon monsters to fight them off. The monsters are eventually destroyed and the two are cornered. However Rebecca, who hacked into the security system manages to open and close doors to Kaiba and Yami's advantage safely guiding them to the central computer mainframe. Using the computer, Kaiba cleaned-up the images and sent them to Arthur, who translated them as a prophecy about [[The Great Leviathan|a black serpent]] returning and [[Atlantis]] ruling again. Kaiba recognized an insignia on the ruins as that of [[Paradius]].<ref name="ep 168" /> The president of Paradius, [[Dartz]], destroys the computers and appears before Kaiba and Yami standing on [[The Great Leviathan]]. Kaiba figured that Dartz is also in charge of Doma. Yami and Kaiba attempt to Duel him and Summon "The Eye of Timaeus" and "The Fang of Critias". However Dartz disappeared before they could attack him. The Duel Spirits then broke into the room, causing Kaiba and Yami to flee to the roof, where they boarded the [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet]] and crash landed.<ref name="ep 168" /> Kaiba and Yami met up with the others and got the location of Paradius headquarters from Rebecca. However they were ambushed by [[Orichalcos Soldier]]s,<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|169|ref}}</ref> who Yami and Kaiba managed to fight off by Summoning "Timaeus" and "Critias". Kaiba then left the group to find defeat Dartz himself and reminded them that they can use his satellite system to track Joey's location.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|170|ref}}</ref> Kaiba and Mokuba stopped at a car shop and hopped into [[Kaiba's car|a sportscar]]. The [[Car salesman|salesman]] tried to stop them, but Kaiba handed him a check for $500,000 and sped off.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|171|ref}}</ref> They were stopped by a group of [[Orichalcos Soldier]]s one block from the headquarters.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|172|ref}}</ref> Kaiba fought them off using "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "The Fang of Critias"<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|173|ref}}</ref> and continued to drive to the headquarters, but was stopped once again when he bumped into Téa and Tristan with Joey's now soulless body. They were forced to abandon the car as they got onto a fire escape to get away from a swarm of rats with glowing red eyes. The five of them then made their way to the Paradius headquarters, where they found Yami Dueling [[Rafael]].<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|174|ref}}</ref> After the Duel, the building started to collapse. Fortunately for the group, Roland arrived in the helicopter to rescue them. They witnessed the outside of the building crumble away, revealing an Atlantian building inside it. Yami handed Kaiba a chip, he received from Raphael, which Kaiba inserted into a device and found it contained a map to Dartz's lair. They prepared to fly towards it, but military helicopters appeared and gestured them to follow. They were guided through a swarm of locusts and onto the [[USS Courage|USS ''Courage'']]. (The locusts were removed in the dub.)<ref name="ep 177">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|177|ref}}</ref> The military asked for their help in defeating Doma. Doma had been controlling the country's politics preventing them from initiating an attack (in the dub, Dartz had not been leaving enough evidence to allow them to attack). The military then flew them to Dartz's temple.<ref name="ep 177" /> Inside the temple, they found the souls of everyone taken by "The Seal of Orichalcos" sealed in slabs lining the walls. Dartz appeared before them and explained that he has spent ten millennia collecting the souls to revive The Great Leviathan. For the souls to be freed, Dartz said that the [[Pharaoh Atem|Nameless Pharaoh]] must defeat him first. Not wanting to face Dartz alone, Yami enlisted Kaiba for help and the two of them faced Dartz together.<ref name="ep 177" /> [[File:DMx180 Kaiba loses his soul.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba loses his soul in the Duel against [[Dartz]].]]During the Duel, the Orichalcos generated another vision of the past. This time they witnessed [[Atlantis]] ten millennia previous, as it became corrupted by the Orichalcos, resulting in the [[Battle of Atlantis]], which caused the city to sink.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|178|ref}}</ref> The two managed to work together as a team, but when Dartz's "[[Mirror Knight Token]]s" bore the faces of Yugi, Joey, [[Mai Valentine|Mai]] and Pegasus, all of whom had been taken by "The Seal of Orichalcos", Kaiba was unable to talk Yami into attacking them. Kaiba learned that Dartz had been disguised as Gozaburo in order to manipulate Alister into hating the Kaiba family.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|179|ref}}</ref> Kaiba finally lost, but transferred the [[ATK]] of his "[[Mirror Force Dragon (anime)|Mirror Force Dragon]]" to Yami's [[Life Points]] using "[[Wish of Final Effort]]", before losing his soul.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|180|ref}}</ref> Yami made use of the extra Life Points to win the Duel.<ref name="ep 181">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|181|ref}}</ref><ref name="ep 182">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|182|ref}}</ref> After he lost, Kaiba's soul was inside a bubble being sucked into The Great Leviathan, along with some of the other lost souls.<ref name="ep 181" /> Once Yami defeated Dartz, the [[Legendary Knight]]s freed the chosen Duelists; Yugi, Joey and Kaiba, from the Leviathan.<ref name="ep 182" /> Outside, the group found that Atlantis has risen out of the sea. Kaiba, Yugi and Joey returned into temple to find Dartz. Yugi handed Kaiba and Joey back their Legendary Dragon cards and the trio entered a vortex transporting them to the heart of Atlantis. They found that Dartz had left his body and combined with The Great Leviathan, to compensate for not getting the souls of the chosen Duelists.<ref name="ep 182" />
As Yami battled what was left of The Great Leviathan, Kaiba, along with Yugi Muto and Joey Wheeler, are the three "chosen duelists" each given were forced to leave Atlantis as a ''[[Legendary Dragons|Legendary Dragon]]'' card (tidal wave approached. They met up with the ''[[The Fang of Critias]]'' in Kaiba's case) others and took off in order to save the world from [[Dartz]], who had been using the power of [[The Seal of Orichalcos]] to steal people's souls to release his legendary serpent, "''KaibaCorp helicopter. After The Great Leviathan''". Kaiba is challenged by [[Alister]] who was one of Dartz "''Swordsmen of Doma''." Alister blames Kaiba for tragic events that happened in his life due to Gozaburo. Alister has also somehow managed to take control of a large portion of KaibaCorp. Unable to convince Alister that he is not responsible Kaiba defeats Alisterdefeated and Atlantis sunk once more, who loses his soul. Kaiba ultimately loses to Dartz while dueling alongside Yugi. However using Kaiba's contributions to the duel, Yugi defeats Dartz"The Fang of Critias" card disappeared.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|184|ref}}</ref>
====Grand Championship====
Kaiba hosts managed to reclaim the stock he lost to Doma, but KaibaCorp still lost a lot of reputation and the price of its stock went down. Mokuba suggested that they host a tournament at the grand opening of the USA [[Kaiba Land]]. Kaiba agreed and decided to call it the KaibaCorp [[Grand Championship|KaibaCorp GrandPrix]] after . He sent invites to regain control some of the greatest Duelists in the world, but, because of his company after busy schedule, he was not able to take part himself.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|185|ref}}</ref> He arranged it was bought out by Dartzas a sixteen player knockout with the winner facing Yugi.<ref name="ep 186">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|186|ref}}</ref> At the opening of the Kaiba Land [[Zigfried von Schroeder]] hacked into the [[Kaiba Dome]]'s computer system. By the time Kaiba only duels once arrived at the Dome, Yugi had defeated the CPU in this arca game of ''Duel Monsters'', restoring control to normal. His old economic competitorUnsure who did it, Kaiba tightened security and vowed to punish the hacker.<ref name="ep 186" /> [[File:DMx187 Jetpack.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba jetpacks into the Kaiba Dome.]]At the beginning of the tournament Kaiba jetpacked into the Kaiba Dome to introduce the tournament as the ultimate test of survival with Kaiba Land as its battlefield.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|187|ref}}</ref> With the tournament running too smoothly, Kaiba suspected the hacker must be already be in Kaiba Land and got Roland to perform a background check on all the competitors in the tournament. Kaiba grew suspicious of Zigfried, who had entered the tournament under the name "Zigfried von SchroederLloyd", when he saw him announce to a surveillance camera that he has a special show in store for Kaiba, before Dueling [[Rex Raptor|Rex]] and [[Weevil Underwood|Weevil]], returns hoping who snuck in.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|189|ref}}</ref> Kaiba prepared for an attack on the computer system, such that he would be able to collapse KaibaCorpcompletely back-up the system should it get damaged.<ref name="ep 198">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|198|ref}}</ref> During Joey's Duel with Zigfried, but Zigfried thought Kaiba defeats was too slow with figuring him out and Yugi defeats gave Kaiba a clue by triggering a virus causing electronics around the park to go haywire. Kaiba then remembered his younger brotherencounter with Zigfried at the party thrown by Gozaburo.<ref name="ep 190" /> Kaiba managed to stop the virus and ordered Roland to perform another background check on Zigfried Lloyd and find out if he's connected to the Schroeder family.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|191|ref}}</ref> They found no personal or family information about Zigfried Lloyd, but plenty of tournament history and that he had entered these tournaments through the recommendation of politicians who were not available to comment. However Kaiba picked [[Bayern Governer Fravz]] from the list of politicians and insisted that they ask him again and mention that Kaiba still remembers "what happened". (In the dub, Kaiba told them to make him an offer he can't refuse.)<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|192|ref}}</ref> After finishing the background check, Kaiba's suspicions were confirmed<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|193|ref}}</ref> as he found Zigfried's true identity.<ref name="ep 194" /> [[File:DMx194 Get outta here.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba about to disqualify Zigfried.]]Before the final Duel between Zigfried and [[Leon von Schroeder|]], who had entered under the fake name "LeonWilson", Kaiba interrupted and exposed Zigfried as Zigfried von Schroeder from [[Schroeder Corp]]. He accused Zigfried of causing the machines to go haywire, and disqualified him for entering under a fake name. Zigfried accused Kaiba of being a coward, afraid that someone from Schroeder Corp might win the tournament and become the world champion. Kaiba disagreed, commenting that he was kicking Zigfried out because he didn't like him, not because he was scared of him. Kaiba then broke his promise of not Dueling in the tournament in favor of embarrassing Zigfried on TV and challenged him to a Duel.<ref name="ep 194" /> As they Dueled, Zigfried stated how KaibaCorp had always been one step ahead of Schroeder Corp in the gaming industry, including Kaiba making the contract with Pegasus to maintain develop holographic technology for ''Duel Monsters'', just before he could make a similar contract. (In the dub, he accused Kaiba of stealing his invention.) With KaibaCorp's stock low, Zigfried planned to defeat Kaiba and destroy KaibaCorp's reputation and cause Pegasus to give up on KaibaCorp and make a new partnership with Schroeder Corp. However Kaiba went on to win the Duel.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|195|ref}}</ref> Believing that Zigfried is no longer a threat, Kaiba didn't bother having him removed.<ref name="ep 196">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|196|ref}}</ref> As Leon faced Yugi in the title Duel, Kaiba noticed Leon was acting strange. One of his employees performed another background check on Leon Wilson and found that he is part of the Schroeder family. Zigfried appeared on Kaiba's balcony and revealed that Leon winning the tournament had been his plan all along. Kaiba was unable to disqualify Leon as World Champion the tournament rules forbade him from interrupting Duels.<ref name="ep 196" /> Leon played the card "[[Golden Castle of Stromberg (anime)|Golden Castle of Stromberg]]", which should be [[Illegal]], but Zigfried had hacked the system to allow it. Unbeknownst to Leon, Zigfried had also re-written the data on the card, so that it would inflict a deadly virus into KaibaCorp's computer system when played. Kaiba tried to launch an anti-virus, but was too late.<ref name="ep 197"/> As Kaiba and save KaibaCorphis workers tried to stop the virus, Yugi managed to [[destroy]] "Golden Castle of Stromberg", stopping the virus from doing further damage.<ref name="ep 197">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|197|ref}}</ref> Despite Leon losing the Duel, Zigfried believed the virus had done enough damage to destroy years worth of programming, but due to his earlier preparations, Kaiba was able to restore everything.<ref name="ep 198" />
====Dawn of the Duel====
[[File:Kaimemories.png|thumb|left|Kaiba's painful memories since Battle City.]]
[[Yami Bakura]] appeared on Kaiba's computer screen to show him that he had kidnapped Mokuba and challenged Kaiba to a [[Shadow Game]] of ''Duel Monsters'' on the roof of the KaibaCorp building. To Kaiba's surprise purple mist surrounded them as they Dueled, but Bakura told Kaiba not to be so shocked as he used to play this game 3000 years ago (in the dub, he said that Kaiba's attitude hadn't changed in 5000 year). When Kaiba Summoned "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", Bakura showed him a vision of [[Priest Seto]] holding [[Kisara]] up to the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" tablet. Bakura left before they could conclude the Duel and chucked Kaiba the [[Millennium Eye]], telling him to bring it to Egypt if he wants to understand the nature of his bond with Blue-Eyes White Dragon.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|200|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx202 Glowing eye.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba disturbed by the [[Millennium Eye]].]]
Roland later informed Kaiba that Yugi and his friends had boarded a flight to Egypt. Wondering why they did that, Kaiba looked at the Millennium Eye and thought Bakura must have gotten to them. Kaiba initially had no interest, but after [[Diabound]] used "Blue-Eyes'" "White Lightning" attack in the [[Memory World]], Kaiba looked at Eye again, swearing he just heard "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|202|ref}}</ref> As Kaiba thought about what was going on the Eye started to glow and he saw another vision of Priest Seto standing on a balcony with the Pharaoh. Somewhat convinced, Kaiba took his Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet and flew to Cairo.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|203|ref}}</ref>
At Egypt, Kaiba landed near a museum, where he was greeted by the [[Marik Ishtar|Marik]], [[Ishizu Ishtar|Ishizu]] and [[Odion Ishtar]], who mistakenly thought he was here to see the pharaoh's tablet and told him that it had been moved to its original resting place. However Kaiba told them about Bakura and showed them the Millennium Eye. Fearing Bakura was up to no good, they advised Kaiba to go to the tablet to find out the truth.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|209|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx212 Vortex.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba sucked into the Memory World.]]
Kaiba arrived at the cavern where the tablet was. He found Bakura, Yugi, Joey, Téa and Tristan's bodies lying unconscious on the floor. The Millennium Eye then lit up and sent a beam at the tablet and showed him visions of Priest Seto and other Ancient Egyptians. At the [[Dark RPG]] table, Yami Bakura sucked Kaiba through a vortex into the Ancient Egyptian Memory World in order to absorb some of his soul to revive [[Thief Bakura]].<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|212|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba woke up in an alley afterwards and found that other people were unable to see him and could pass through him as if he wasn't there. However he met Kisara, who was able to see him and mistook him for Priest Seto. After realizing that he wasn't, she informed that an evil force was threatening their land and they must act quickly or everything would be lost. She bade him farewell and ran off.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|213|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx215 Kisara's body covered.jpg|thumb|right|Kaiba and [[Pharaoh Atem|Atem]] watch [[Priest Seto|Seto]] cover [[Kisara]]'s body.]]
Kaiba followed Kisara and watched her warn Priest Seto of the danger. The two of them were then attacked by the [[Shadow Magus]]. Kaiba saw a battle between Kisara, Seto and later [[Pharaoh Atem]] against the Shadow Magus, which resulted in the deaths of Kisara and the Magus, as well as "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's" spirit being sealed in a tablet. Afterwards the Pharaoh, who Kaiba recognized as Yami Yugi spoke to him. He told him who Priest Seto is and that they are playing a Dark Game formed by the memories of 3000 years ago. He advised Kaiba to try and get out because [[Zorc Necrophades|Zorc]] was about to be revived.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|214|ref}}</ref> The two of them watched Seto cover Kisara's body (in the dub, Atem asked if Kaiba believed him now. Kaiba said that for all he knows it could be a bad dream. Atem looked at Seto and asked Kaiba to tell him that. However Kaiba asked if he's supposed to feel bad because some guy who looked like him lost his girlfriend). After Atem and Seto left, Kaiba took another look at Kisara's body. He remembered what she had said to him before but merely shrugged and left her to perish into dust.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|215|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba saw the [[Egyptian Gods]] battling Zorc and to his surprise saw the Gods defeated.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|217|ref}}</ref> He saw Seto Summon "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" to battle Zorc, but to his horror it also got destroyed. Kaiba went after Zorc as he attacked a city. He saw two boys running from Zorc and yelled at Zorc to stop. In response, Zorc blasted fire at him. Kaiba managed to dodge it, but was unable to get the boys to move before they were incinerated. (The fire and the boys being killed were removed from the dub.) A [[Duel Disk]] appeared on Kaiba's hand, which he used to Summon a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". Zorc reminded him that Seto had already tried that. However, Kaiba fused it with his other two "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" to form [[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (character)|Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]]. As he did this, the souls of Kisara and Seto were drawn into the dragon. "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" and Zorc battled for a while. The ultimate collision of light and dark created a bridge between worlds and the real world became visible in the sky.<ref name="ep 218">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|218|ref}}</ref>
[[File:DMx218 Master of Dragon Soldier.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba, Seto, Kisara and Atem combined to Summon "[[Dragon Master Knight (anime)|Master of Dragon Soldier]]".]]
Elsewhere Atem saw the "Ultimate Dragon" and thought Kaiba is the only person he's known to ever be able to Summon that monster. Using the power of the [[Millennium Puzzle]], [[Millennium Scale]] and his [[DiaDhank]], Atem gained the armor of "[[Black Luster Soldier (anime)|Black Luster Soldier]]" and fused himself and Kaiba with the Dragon creating "[[Dragon Master Knight (anime)|Master of Dragon Soldier]]". They attack Zorc, causing a massive burst of energy. The attack was strong, but didn't destroy Zorc. "Master of Dragon Soldier" disappeared and Atem and Kaiba returned to normal.<ref name="ep 218" />
As Yugi and his friends tried to make the Pharaoh's hieroglyphic name appear on the [[cartouche]], Zorc launched an attack at them, but Kaiba blocked it using "[[Ring of Defense (anime)|Ring of Defense]]". Zorc then threw another fireball at the ring, destroying it and throwing Kaiba back. Atem finally learned his name from reading the cartouche. With knowledge of it, he was able to revive the Egyptian Gods and fuse them into [[The Creator God of Light, Horakhty]], who destroyed Zorc.<ref name="ep 219">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|219|ref}}</ref>
After the battle, Kaiba, Atem, Yugi, Téa and Tristan flew into the gateway in the sky to return to their world.<ref name="ep 219" />
The group woke up back in the cavern with the tablets. Kaiba threw the Millennium Eye to Atem, who was back residing in Yugi's body. Joey began to question Kaiba on how he got it, but stopped at the sight of Bakura appearing. But they quickly found out it was the [[Bakura Ryou|"good" Bakura]]. As the others helped Bakura out, Kaiba stayed back with Atem and took a final look at the tablets.<ref name="ep 220">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|220|ref}}</ref>
Outside the cavern, the group met the Ishtars, who were ready to take Atem to the [[File:skinegyptShrine of the Millennium Stone]] where he can finally be laid to rest.jpg | 150px | thumb | right | Seto The group drove to a dock, where Kaiba in Ancient Egyptwas reunited with Mokuba.]]<ref name="ep 220" />
After returning to the present he wishes to duel Yugi won, Kaiba watched Atem in the Ceremonial Battle, but is refused the privilege as Yugi states his intentions to duel pass on into the Pharaohafterlife. He responds to the refusal saying Once he didn't come this far to see Yugi lose his title to his imaginary friend. Nevertheless Kaiba watches the duel and witnesses was gone, the Pharaoh separate from Yugi's body and finally be put cavern started to rest. During the duelcollapse, he for the first time openly shows respect for Yugi by calling him the "True King of Games" when he defeats all three Egyptian God Cards in a single turnand everyone ran outside. In the original Japanese anime, Kaiba eventually does acknowledge his past and the events that occurred Mokuba left Egypt afterwards in the Memory World, although he warns [[Katsuya_JonouchiBlue-Eyes White Dragon jet.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|224|Jonouchi]] to keep his mouth shut about it.ref}}</ref>
===''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX''===Though not seen much [[File:Seto Kaiba GX.jpg|thumb|left|Kaiba announcing the illustration project.]]Kaiba organized a card illustration project, where the winning entries would be put in a time capsule and sent into space. The cards would be produced once they received the wave aura from space.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|62|ref}}</ref><ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX series|131|ref}}</ref> Then, Kaiba is referred as the one who set up he later established [[Duel Academy]] and named , a school that trains students to be the dormitories personallynext generation of ''Duel Monsters'' players.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|1|ref}}</ref> Kaiba was only shown Dueling during [[Gerard]]'s flashback. He defeated him with "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]".<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|21|ref}}</ref><ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|22|ref}}</ref> The Duel Monster Spirit "[[Kaibaman (character)|Kaibaman]]", based on Kaiba's character. He made several appearancesDueled against [[Jaden Yuki]], using the first same Deck as Kaiba, including three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons".<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|34|ref}}</ref> [[File:GXx035 - Seto Kaiba.png|thumb|right|Kaiba being when he made a visited by Slade and Jagger.]]Kaiba bet on his ownership of the schoolwith [[Slade Princeton|Slade]] and [[Jagger Princeton]]. He seemed bold and had has full confidence in that the duelist Duelist representing Duel Academy, [[Chazz Princeton|Chazz]], would win despite the unfair advantage in the duel (in the Japanese episode, Duel. Kaiba stated at the end that anyone who was a student at his academy should be able to win a duel the Duel no matter what the situations are, and disadvantage (in the English version dub, he stated that Chazz's brothers needed Slade and Jagger have a lot more to learn a little bit more about world domination). During <ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|35|ref}}</ref> While [[Lyman Banner]] was giving a history lesson, he mentions [[Yugi Muto|Yugi]] and Kaiba as the best Duelists of their generation and shows drawings of them to the class. One of the girls in the class says that they are one of the best looking, and another girl calls them dream boats.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|40|ref}}</ref> [[File:Seto Kaiba in GX.jpg|thumb|left|Seto Kaiba dealing with Sartorius.]] Kaiba graciously allowed [[Sartorius]] the second yearuse of [[Kaiba Land]] during a Duel Academy field trip, having no interest how he also appears plans to use it. (In the dub, Sartorius said that Kaiba hadn't aged in years. Kaiba then ordered his security men to keep an eye on Sartorius having suspicion on his scheme for using Kaiba Land.)<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|76|ref}}</ref> When Pegasus met [[Jaden YukiAster Phoenix]] at a party he listed Kaiba as one the best five Duelists he has ever met. He considered Kaiba to be the second greatest after Yugi.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|107|Jadenref}}</ref> Kaiba was shown to be the last citizen of [[Domino City]] who survived [[Trueman]]'s flashback[[Trueman's victims|attack]].<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|168|ref}}</ref> When Jaden is taken to the past to Duel against the younger Yugi, announcing he picks up a flyer that has a card illustration projectpicture of [[Yugi Muto|Yugi]], [[Téa Gardner|Téa]], [[Tristan Taylor|Tristan]], [[Joey Wheeler|Joey]] and again when he allows Sartorius (Takuma Saiou) Kaiba.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|179|ref}}</ref> ===''Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's''===His company Kaiba Corp is responsible for turning [[Domino City]] into [[New Domino City]] as well the use creation of KaibaLand during the Academy's field trip. The [[Turbo Duels]], a type of Duel which is only played by either using a "[[Duel Monster spirit Runner]]" or a "[[Kaibaman Duel Board (character5D's)|KaibamanDuel Board]]". When [[Crow Hogan|Crow]] was investigating the disappearance of [[Robert Pearson]] in the dub, who duels against Jaden, is based he went to the security that [[Bolten]] owned. One of the security men joked that they were going to have lunch with Seto Kaiba later on that day after they heard Crow say that he needed to see Bolten.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|94|ref}}</ref>{{-}}==Decks=={{main|Seto Kaiba 's Decks}} Kaiba's signature cards are his three "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]s" and uses the same deck[[Fusion Monster]] formed from the three dragons, including his three the "[[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White DragonsUltimate Dragon]]", all of which serve as the key boss monsters to Kaiba's Decks throughout the series. His decks primarily rely on a [[Beatdown]] strategy to aggressively overwhelm his opponents with high-attack monsters. His cards are intended to be pugnacious, bellicose and vicious to reflect Kaiba is also mentioned's serious, stiff, and briefly seenuptight personality.<ref>[http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news/story/0, in a [[28277,388900,00.html timeforkids.com] Kazuki Takahashi, ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 107'' creator</ref> During [[Duelist Kingdom]], Kaiba's Magic and Trap cards supplement this strategy by disabling opposing monsters, such as "[[Shadow Spell (anime)|flashbackShadow Spell]]" or "[[Defense Paralysis]] ". Kaiba also uses a combo of Aster Phoenix"[[Saggi the Dark Clown (anime)|Saggi the Dark Clown]]" and "[[Crush Card]]", destroying all monsters in his opponent'sDeck with more than 1500 ATK, further crippling their ability to defend against him. During [[Battle City]], Kaiba added "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (anime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]" to his Deck, along with more [[Virus Cards]] like "[[Giant Germ (anime)|Giant Germ"]] and "[[Virus Cannon (anime)|Virus Cannon]]". He also began using Machine-type and Machine-type support cards such as being the second greatest duelist [[A-to-Z|XYZ]] [[Union monster]]s, "[[Enemy Controller (anime)|Enemy Controller]]" and "[[Interdimensional Matter Transporter (anime)|Interdimensional Matter Transporter]]", contrasting Kaiba's trust in technology against Yugi's Deck of mystical monsters like the world"[[Dark Magician (anime)|Dark Magician]]". Kaiba continues to make use of his "[[Crush Card Virus (later DM anime)|Crush Card Virus]]" but instead of "Saggi" prefers "[[Shrink (anime)|Shrink]]" to weaken high powered monsters and Tribute them. Another combo he is fond of at this time is "[[Ring of Destruction (anime)|Ring of Destruction]]" and "[[Ring of Defense (anime)|Ring of Defense]]" to destroy enemy monsters and damage his opponent's [[Life Points]]. In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light]]'', in Kaiba adds the mind of [[Maximillion PegasusPyramid of Light (anime)|Pyramid of Light]]to his Deck, next using it to remove Yugi's [[Egyptian God Cards]] from play. He then depletes Yugi Muto's Deck with a combo of "[[Peten the Dark Clown (anime)|Peten the Dark Clown]]" and "[[Deck Destruction Virus]]", and utilizes another enhanced form of his "Blue-Eyes", "[[Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon]]".
In [[Waking the fourth season, Seto appears to be Dragons]] Kaiba gained the only citizen of Domino City who survives "[[TruemanFang of Critias]]'s attack ". His Deck still focused on the "Blue-Eyes" and other Dragons, adding "[[Paladin of White Dragon (although the screen pans out before viewers actually see whether or not his name is erased from the listanime)|Paladin of White Dragon]]".
==Trivia==* Kaiba appears to favor the and his past counterpart [[Seto]] notably shared a similar troubled history with their father figure [[Gozaburo Kaiba]] and [[BeatdownAknadin]] type of strategy, meaning he favors using cards and monsters that completely overpower his opponentsrespectively. His cards are intended ** Both were raised by a manipulative father figure who wanted to be mean and vicious to reflect make them their "perfect" successor, though their cruel method has turned their son against them.** Both were initially raised as an orphan, in Kaiba's personalitycase he was adopted by Gozaburo, wheas Seto was initially abandoned by his Aknadin for his own safety.<ref>** In the anime, both were defeated by "[[http://wwwBlue-Eyes White Dragon]]".timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news/story/0In Gozaburo's case he lose a duel against Kaiba when "Blue-Eyes" deal a final blow,28277,388900,00while Aknadin's soul was purged from Seto's mind by the ''[[ka]]'' of "Blue-Eyes".html timeforkids* The monster "[[Kaibaman]]" is based on Kaiba.com] Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! creator</ref>
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