23,918
edits
Changes
Updating manga "Duel Monsters" links
}}
'''Keith Howard''', also known by the nickname '''Bandit Keith''', is a character in the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' manga]]. This is the original depiction of [[Bandit Keith]]. He was an experienced and successful ''[[Duel Monsters (manga)|Duel Monsters]]'' player, but had a tendency to cheat and use unsavory means to win.
Keith was the former United States ''Duel Monsters'' champion and number one ranked [[Card Professor]]. He got the nickname Bandit Keith, because of his success in winning big prizes. All of his opponents ceased playing any card games, after losing to him, due to him defeating them so brutally that the sight of a card brings great trauma to them. His reputation slumped after a humiliating defeat to [[Maximillion J. Pegasus (manga)|Maximillion J. Pegasus]], in [[Maximillion J. Pegasus and Bandit Keith's Duel (manga)|a challenge Duel]]. Afterwards, Keith became immersed in alcohol, drugs and underground gambling, including playing [[Russian roulette]]. To get revenge on Pegasus, he snuck his way into the [[Duelist Kingdom]] tournament. He cheated throughout the tournament and aided three other participants, hoping to qualify as the four semifinalists. However, after one of them lost to [[Katsuya Jonouchi (manga)|Katsuya Jonouchi]], Keith turned on them and took their remaining Star Chips for himself. He lost to Jonouchi, in the semifinals, after which he confronted Pegasus in an attempt to steal the prize. However Pegasus, having seen Keith cheat, subjected him to a Penalty Game, killing him.
In the English manga, much of Keith's dialogue is modified to include censored profanity, in part to reflect his ruder pattern of speech from the original Japanese. It also has him refer to Jonouchi, by the nickname, "Joey", which is his name in the English [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|anime]].
==Design==
===Appearance===
Keith is a tall blonde-haired man with blue eyes. He is thin in the face; in the present he is unshaven; in his prime as a [[Card professor]] he was clean shaven. He wears a navy blue shirt, a large sleeveless leather vest with studded shoulders and a high collar, tan pants, and tall leather boots. Keith also wears an American flag bandanna over his shaggy blonde hair, sunglasses, studded wristbands that he uses to conceal cards, and a cross necklace in addition to a simpler cord. Prior to his fall from grace, he kept his sunglasses on his forehead and didn't wear a vest. After his resurrection in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! R]]'', Keith is thinner and wears a longer-sleeved shirt. However, when Keith is first seen waking up after being revived, he is only wearing pants. He is shirtless and barefoot, and he lacks any of his usual accessories mentioned above.
==Biography==
* Fiendish Engine Ω (manga)
* Motor Kaiser
* Motor Shell(manga)* Motor Violence(manga)
* The Wicked Eraser (manga)
* Motor PartsPart
* Card Hexative
* De-Spell (manga)
