Card Appearances:Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts

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Naming

• This card is known as "Gazela, Rey de las Bestias Mitícas" in the Anime's Spanish version.

• This monster's attack name is Claw of Destruction.

Mistakes

• This card is one of the most common mistakes in the Anime, how you can see when the card was set it was right side-up, in other scenes we can see the same card but side-down, this mistake has been repeated many times with different cards.

Anime

Battle City

• When Yugi Muto duels with a Rare Hunter, Yugi adds this card from his Deck to his hand via the effect of "Berfomet". Yugi then fuses this card with "Berfomet" via "Polymerization" to create "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast".

• In episode 56, this card is shown on Kaiba's monitor while he and his workers were observing the Duel between Yami Yugi and Seeker.

• In episode 57, this card can be seen in Seeker's Deck when Yami Yugi searches it and finds out the cards are fake(in the dub, they were real, but were marked).

• When Yugi Muto duels with Arkana, Yugi summons this monster, intending to direct attack Arkana and win the duel, but Arkana activates "Shadow Balance" to destroy this monster and "Big Shield Gardna".

• When Yami Yugi duels with Strings, Strings' "Humanoid Worm Drake" attacks this monster, but Yugi uses "De-Fusion" to defuse "Humanoid Worm Drake" back into "Humanoid Slime" and "Worm Drake". This monster then destroys "Humanoid Slime" while "Beta The Magnet Warrior" destroys Strings' "Worm Drake". Later, Yugi tributes it and "Beta The Magnet Warrior" to summon "Buster Blader".

• When Yugi duels with Joey Wheeler (under Marik Ishtar's control), Yugi summons this monster in Defense Position, but Joey destroys it with Marik's "Raigeki".

• When Yami Yugi duels with Yami Bakura, this monster attacks and destroys Bakura's "The Portrait's Secret". On the next turn, this monster attacks Bakura directly after "Gamma The Magnet Warrior" destroys Bakura's "The Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams". On the turn after that, this monster again attacks Bakura directly after "Gamma The Magnet Warrior" destroys Bakura's "Headless Knight". On the following turn, Yugi tributes this monster to summon "Dark Magician Girl".

• In episode 85, this card can be seen when Yugi is rebuilding his Deck.

Virtual World

• In episode 99, this card appears when Yami Yugi was building his Virtual World Deck before his Duel with Gansley. This is one of the few known Yami Yugi selects to be placed into his Deck. This card is later shown when Yami Yugi was choosing which monster should be his Deck Master before "Kuriboh" selects itself.

• When Yami Yugi duels with Gansley, Yugi uses "Polymerization" to fuse this card with "Berfomet" to create "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast".

• In episode 103, this card appears in a flashback Téa Gardner has when she remembers Yugi talking about "Maha Vailo" looking similar to him and having a great power inside its effect.

• While trying to get through a door puzzle, Yugi summons this monster to attack and destroy the level three door's "Dark King of the Abyss". When the door equips "Dark King of the Abyss" with "Sword of Dark Destruction", Yugi fuses this monster and "Berfomet" via "Polymerization" to create "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast".

• In episode 108, this card can be seen when Seto Kaiba was building his Deck for his Duel against Leichter.

• When Yugi Muto and Joey Wheeler duel with the Big Five (using Tristan Taylor's body), Yugi summons this card in Defense Position on his opening turn, but Crump's "The Legendary Fisherman" then attacks and destroys it.

• When Yugi Muto duels with Noah Kaiba, Yugi summons this monster in Defense Position (partly because he has no cards in his hand) Noah's "Shinato, King of a Higher Plane" then attacks and destroys this card. The Ability of Noah's Deck Master then activated, halving Yugi's Life Points.

Battle City Finals

• During Yugi Muto's third duel with Seto Kaiba, Yugi summons this monster in Defense Mode. Kaiba then immediately activates "Cloning" to create a duplicate of this monster that Kaiba tributes to summon "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" (thanks to "Cost Down") which then attacks and destroys this monster.

• During Yami Yugi's duel with Yami Marik, Yugi summons this monster in Defense Mode. Later, Yugi Tributes this monster and "Obelisk the Tormentor" via "Magical Dimension to negate the attack of Marik's "The Winged Dragon of Ra" and Special Summon "Dark Magician". Later, Yugi banishes this card via "Ragnarok". This card was then shown as one of the many monsters that were used to hold down Yami Marik's "The Winged Dragon of Ra".

Waking the Dragons

• During Yugi Muto's duel with Gurimo, Yugi summons this monster in Defense Mode. Gurimo's "Obelisk the Tormentor" then attacks and destroys this monster.

• In episode 148, this card appears in Yugi's thoughts when Yami Yugi notes that although Pegasus no longer has the Millennium Eye, he was the chosen one and he was the creator of Duel Monsters.

• During Yami Yugi's first duel with Rafael, Yugi fuses this card and "Berfomet" via "Polymerization" to create "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast". Later, this card along with "Berfomet", "Big Shield Gardna" and "Kuribabylon" were brought back to the field via "Necromancy". This card then gained 500 ATK due to "The Seal of Orichalcos". Yugi then tributes this card and "Berfomet" to summon "Dark Magician". Later, it is removed from play by the effect of Rafael's "Guardian Eatos" along with Pharaoh's "Dark Magician", "Dark Magician Girl", "Berformet" and "Big Shield Gardna" as part of Rafael's winning move.

• When Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor are taken to Dartz's vault, this card can be seen along with every card in existence at the time sans the Legendary Dragons and the Egyptian Gods.

• In episode 160, this card is seen in a flashback Yami Yugi has when he saw that his own monsters were angry at him for his selfish actions and when he lost his Duel with Rafael.

• During Yami Yugi's duel with Weevil Underwood, Yugi draws this card as per the effect of "Berserker Soul" with it being the second card drawn.

• When Ironheart is gathering Yugi's cards together, he picks up this card up from the ground.

• When Yami Yugi duels Yugi Muto, both Yugis use this card during their duel against each other. First, Yugi Muto sets his copy in Defense Position. It then gets destroyed by Yami Yugi's copy. On Yami Yugi's next turn, he uses "Polymerization" to fuse his copy with "Berfomet" to form "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast".

• During Yami Yugi's duel with an Orichalcos Soldier, this card is briefly seen when Yugi fuses it and "Berfomet" via "Polymerization" to create "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast". Later when "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast" is destroyed by the soldier's "Orichalcos Gigas", Yugi special summons this card via the effect of "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast". On the soldier's next turn, this card is attacked by "Orichalcos Gigas", but Yugi activates "Mirror Force" to destroy "Orichalcos Gigas". However the soldier then uses the effect of "Orichalcos Gigas" to bring it back even stronger. On the soldier's next turn, it has "Orichalcos Gigas" destroy this card.

• During Yami Yugi's second duel with Rafael, this card is briefly seen when it's discarded to the Graveyard because of the effect of "Kuribandit". Rafael then used the effect of his "Guardian Eatos" to remove this card along with "Gamma The Magnet Warrior" and "Kuribandit" from play.

Grand Championship

• During Yugi Muto's duel with Leon, this card is briefly seen when Yugi fuses it with "Berfomet" via "Polymerization" to create "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast".

Dawn of the Duel

• In episode 200, this card appears within Yami Yugi's mind when Yami Bakura claims to him that his mind is an unsolvable maze and that he pursues games like riddles.

• When Pharaoh Atem (Yami Yugi) duels Yugi Muto, this card is briefly seen when Atem fuses it with "Berfomet" via "Polymerization" to create "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast".

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

• After Dimitri stole Yugi's Deck, this card can be shown when Dimitri is looking through it.

• Dimitri uses this card in his duel against Jaden while the former was using Yugi's Deck. Dimitri used "Polymerization" to fuse this card with "Berfomet" to create "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast. Later Dimitri adds this card back to his hand with "Monster Reincarnation". He then summons it back to the field in Defense Position. When Jaden summons "Dark Catapulter", Dimitri activates "Dark Renewal" to send this card and "Dark Catapulter" to the Graveyard and Special Summon the "Dark Magician" in his Graveyard(It was discarded earlier to activate "Monster Reincarnation").