Seto Kaiba

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Seto Kaiba (海馬 瀬人 Kaiba Seto) is Yugi Mutou's Arch Rival and owner of KaibaCorp. He has a younger brother called Mokuba Kaiba

Priest Seto

Kaiba's given name, Seto, is the Japanese phonetic equivalent of the ancient Egyptian deity Set, the god of chaos, war and storms in Egyptian mythology. That is for whom he is named. Kaiba is the reincarnation of Priest Seto (a.k.a. Set, sometimes called Seth by fans), the ancient Egyptian Priest from the reign of the Pharaoh Atem (Dark Yugi a.k.a. Yami Yugi or Yu-Gi-Oh or Yami) and Pharaoh Atem's cousin. He owned the Millennium Rod and was one of the Six High Priests guarding the Millennium Items - Atem holding the Puzzle. Seto rebelled against Atem at one point and lost. However, just before Atem was sealed into the puzzle, he named Seto as heir to the Egyptian Throne. The battle is shown in the stone tablet Ishizu showed Seto (who refused to accept it). The Millennium Rod eventually opened Seto's eyes to accept the truth, though he still has some doubts.

In his past life, it is suspected that Seto either loved or had a deep feeling of friendship for Kisara, a girl with the legendary Blue Eyes White Dragon as a Ka. Unfortunately, before it became clear which was the case, she died due to his father sealing her Ka into a stone tablet. This helps explain Kaiba's connection with the Blue Eyes, though only on a superficial basis. Kisara, the original manifestation of the Blue Eyes, represented sacrifice in that she would help save Priest Seto from the darkness after Seto was possessed by the then evil Akunadin, and then, as the Blue Eyes White Dragon, serve to protect Priest Seto and the kingdom in the final battle against Thief King Bakura and Zorc.

Present day Seto Kaiba, on the other hand, seemed rather unaffected when he witnessed the death of Kisara when he was inside the Memory World. To him, the Blue Eyes represented ultimate power and domination in the game of Duel Monsters. And with 3000 ATK, it has remained the strongest monster that can be normal or special summoned with no real drawbacks. And that he carries three of the only four copies in existence further seems to reflect upon not only said near-domination of the game, but also his elite status in everything he does.

In his past life, as Priest Seto, he also seemed to be a more humble, caring human being. His sense of duty prevailed over his ego, and he felt so deeply for Kisara that he actually cried at her death.

Kaiba in the Anime

In the second series anime, previous to Seto's control, KaibaCorp was a company specializing in the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction, but when Seto took control of KaibaCorp, KaibaCorp became a company that manufactured game equipment. One of Kaiba's dreams was to build an amusement park for orphaned and underprivileged children called KaibaLand. At the start of the series, only one KaibaLand had been built, in Domino (in the English anime, none of the parks had been built, and KaibaLand was touted as the KaibaCorp headquarters).

Among one of the recurring plots in 'Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters' is Seto Kaiba being forced to deal with either people adversely affected by Gozaburo Kaiba's actions wanting to take their revenge on Seto Kaiba, or people from within KaibaCorp attempting to take over the corporation.

Until Duelist Kingdom, Seto Kaiba was World Champion, but he dropped out after Yugi Mutou defeated him using Exodia. After Pegasus kidnaps Mokuba so he can take over KaibaCorp, Seto flies to Duelist Kingom trying to save his brother, but Pegasus's Millennium Eye was too much for him and his soul is stripped from is body. He, Mokuba, and Grandpa are restored after Yugi defests Pegasus to become World Champion.

Kaiba then hosts Battle City after learning about the Egyptian God Cards, wanting to own all three of them so he can defeat Yugi and become World Champion. Ultimately, his lust for power would cost him the duel against Yugi in the Finals.

Then, Kaiba hosts the KaibaCorp GrandPrix after to regain populartiy of his company after it was bought out by Dartz. His old economic competitor, Zigfreid von Schreoder, returns hoping to collapse KaibaCorp, but Kaiba defeats him and Yugi defeats his little brother, Leon, to maintain his title as World Champion and save KaibaCorp.

Kaiba's past in the Anime

In the second series, Kaiba was bright and intelligent, which led to many prospective parents wanting to adopt him, Kaiba swore to protect his brother at all costs, and wanted Mokuba adopted with him, which all had refused. Gozaburo also had an ulterior motive: he wanted to adopt Seto because he was bright enough to be motivation for his own son, Noah Kaiba, to do better so that Noah could inherit KaibaCorp. With Noah's untimely death (his mind was placed into a virtual world), however, Gozaburo focused his energies to Seto Kaiba. On Seto's birthday, he was given a 2% share of KaibaCorp (in the English anime, ten million dollars) and was told that although he could spend the money any way he wished, he must return one hundred times (in the English anime, ten times) the amount in one year. Not only did Seto accomplish this feat, but he did so in one day, and such ruthless business skills led to Kaiba's takeover of his father's company. Gozaburo tried to use Mokuba but that plan went down the drain too due to Mokuba's loyalty to his brother. Gozaburo gave up on life and succumbed to death, but not before he downloaded his mind into Noah's virtual world. He then attempts to take over Seto's body and trap the entire world in his realm, but Kaiba defeats him and his Exodia Necross and Noah, having a change of heart, helps the gang escape the Virtual Realm and delete Gozaboro for good.

Notable Dueling Cards

Although Kaiba's best known cards are his three Blue-Eyes White Dragons and the fusion monster formed from the three dragons, the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, other Duel Monsters Cards have been utilized in his Deck, including the XYZ series. Kaiba appears to favor the Beatdown type of strategy, meaning using cards and monsters that completely overpower his opponents. His deck has often been referred to as a "Power Deck", and others have called it a Virus deck (referencing Giant Germ, Crush Card Virus and Virus Cannon). In the earlier episodes, most of the cards in his deck are high attack power monsters. As the series goes on, his deck evolves even more showcasing many bizarre yet effective strategies. From Battle City onward, his deck mostly is dominate with Dragon monsters with high attack power although some of his older cards are seen. His deck now has many support cards for his Blue-Eyes White Dragons (Such as Lord of D., The Flute of Summoning Dragon and Paladin of White Dragon), making summoning them an easy task. In later episodes, his deck becomes more focused on removing his monsters to the out of play zone and returning them to the field to overwhelm his opponents (especially with the XYZ monsters), yet he is able to execute this strategy while remaining consistent with his Beatdown strategy. This deck was also seen on Yu-Gi-Oh! GX being used by Kaibaman, a monster Kaiba had created in his image.

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Trap Cards

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