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Marik bore a grudge towards [[Pharaoh Atem|the Pharaoh]] because he was forced by [[Mr. Ishtar|his own father]] to guard the family's carving with his life via a ritual of having carvings (in the anime's Japanese version and the original manga) or tattoos (in the anime's dub) onto his back which brought intense pain during and after the ritual and robbed him of his freedom.
With the intense pain and his hatred towards the Pharaoh, he spawned his second personality [[Yami Marik]] to deal with the pain. A year later when his father brutally tortured Odion for helping Marik and Ishizu to sneak outside, Marik was unconscious while Yami Marik killed his father and woke up with no recollection of his father's murder. Immediately afterwards, he sees [[Shadi|a loyalist to the Pharaoh]] , Shadi, had come to warn him about the dangerous path he had taken. Marik thought that the loyalist Shadi had murdered his father, leading to Marik's betrayal of the clan to get revenge against the Pharaoh (this aspect is removed from the dub).
While leading the [[Rare Hunters]] in his quest for world domination and freedom, Marik became cruel and uncaring, willing to brainwash people to do his bidding, force them to cheat, and use cruelty on his behalf, the victims included [[Bandit Keith]] and [[Strings]]. He was not above using death to punish his subordinates for failure, such as [[Arkana]] and [[Lumis]], nor did he care about sacrificing Rare Hunters to test the fake "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (anime)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]" cards which produced severe injuries and death. He even threatened his sister Ishizu with the [[Millennium Rod]] for getting in his way and ordered Odion to use the fake Ra card against his will. He still retained his love for his family, despite his mistreatment of them.
==Biography==
===History===
Marik's family guarded the tomb of the Pharaoh for generations and two [[Millennium Items]] (the [[Millennium Rod]] and [[Millennium Necklace]]) were passed on to Marik and his sister [[Ishizu Ishtar]]. Marik was forbidden to leave the Pharaoh's tomb due to his [[Mr. Ishtar|father]]'s fear that the freedom and marvels of the outside world would further divert Marik's attention from his heritage. Marik no longer wanted to become a Tombkeeper, so his adoptive brother [[Odion Ishtar]] asked if he could take Marik's place but was refusedMAriks father rejected the thought of Odion taking Marik's place. When Marik was forced to take the initiation ritual to become a full Tombkeeper, Marik spawned his second personality [[Yami Marik]] from the pain he endured. A year later, Marik and Ishizu took a forbidden trip to the surface but their father found out and attempted to kill Odion. In the midst of his father's torture of Odion, Marik blanked out and his second personality Yami Marik emerged for the first time to resist his father's punishment and claimed the Millennium Rod for himself. Ignoring his father's orders to put it down, Yami Marik used its powers to smash him against the wall. When Ishizu protested, she suffered the same strike. Yami Marik then proceeded to kill his father. After Yami Marik was sealed away in Marik's body by Odion, Marik believed that the Pharaoh had ordered the loyalist [[Shadi]] to kill his father, due to Odion saying Shadi had killed him, trying to be a big brother and hiding from Marik that it was actually his alter ego who had done so. This increased Marik's grudge and resentment to the Pharaoh, causing him to create the Rare Hunters.
As a teenager, Marik was the leader of the [[Rare Hunters]] organization as he wished with the Millennium Rod to obtain the three [[Egyptian Gods|Egyptian God Cards]] so that he could unlock their power for himself, gain the title of "Pharaoh" and set his family free from the duty of the Tombkeepers (In the dub, he wants the God Cards and the Millennium Puzzle, so he can unlock the Pharaoh's power for himself and use it to rule the world). He also had a hidden agenda - to get revenge on the [[Yami Yugi|Nameless Pharaoh]]'s soul for killing his father as he mistakenly believed that it was the Pharaoh's fault. Although he and his Rare Hunters uncovered "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra (anime)|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]" and "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]" from where [[Maximillion Pegasus]] had hidden them, they were unable to uncover "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (anime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]", which was taken by Ishizu and given to [[Seto Kaiba]].
