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The Millennium Rod is one of the seven [[Millennium Items (manga)|Millennium Items]], which were created to help Egypt defend from foreign invaders.
==Powers==
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In ancient Egypt, like all [[Millennium Items (manga)|Millennium Items]], the Millennium Rod could be used to summon up to three ''[[ka]]'' from [[stone slab]]s in the [[Shrine of Wedju]].<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|286|ref}}</ref>
In the twentieth century, the Millennium Rod enabled its wielder to control the minds of any individual it came into contact with.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|178|ref}}</ref> [[Marik Ishtar (manga)|Marik Ishtar]] described its power by noting how easily people are influenced, how they can create split personalities or believe they hear God and by combining his charisma and dominance with their internal image of God, he could control them with the Rod.<ref name="d 171">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|171|ref}}</ref> The mind control powers include:
* Being able to brainwash a person, such that they act on their own accord, but follow motives the wielder gave them<ref name="d 165">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|165|ref}}</ref>
* Ability to take complete control of the individual, in which case the skin on the forehead of the person being controlled swells and takes the form of the [[Eye of Wdjat|Eye of Wadjet]]<ref name="d 154">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|154|ref}}</ref><ref name="d 165" /><ref name="d 170">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|170|ref}}</ref>
* Access to the controlled individual's memories<ref name="d 165" /><ref name="d 171">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|171|ref}}</ref>
==History==
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===Ancient Egypt===
===Battle City===
[[Marik Ishtar (manga)|Marik Ishtar]] possessed the Millennium Rod and used it to implant a bit of himself in the [[Rare Hunters]], allowing him to control them remotely.<ref name="d 154">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|154|ref}}</ref> He arranged for a number of them to be present in [[Domino City (manga)|Domino City]] for the [[Battle City]] tournament. Among them was the "[[Doll (manga)|Doll]]", whose consciousness Marik had fully controlled with the Millennium Rod. He had the Doll stand on the same spot in [[Domino Park (square)|Domino Park]] for two days<ref name="d 170">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|170|ref}}</ref> and programmed him to kill [[Dark Yugi (manga)|Dark Yugi]], should the Doll defeat him in a Duel.<ref name="d 171">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|171|ref}}</ref> He had another keep an eye on Dark Yugi's friends.<ref name="d 177">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|177|ref}}</ref>
After Dark Yugi defeated [[Rare Hunter 1 (manga)|a Rare Hunter]] in the [[Battle City]] tournament, Marik took control of the Rare Hunter using the Millennium Rod, in order to introduce himself to Dark Yugi.<ref name="d 154" /> He demonstrated the power of the Rod by making the Rare Hunter do a humiliating dance.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|155|ref}}</ref>
Similarly, following [[Pandora (manga)|Pandora]]'s defeat to Dark Yugi, Marik used the Millennium Rod to take full control of him. This time he introduced himself to [[Yugi Mutou (manga)|Yugi Mutou]]. When he was done, Marik saw Pandora as a loose end that needed tidying up, so used the Millennium Rod to look through the network of Pandora's memories. He found two times he contemplated suicide, forced those memories to resurface and stirred them up a bit, with the intention of having Pandora take his life once he released control of his body.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|name="d 165|ref}}<" /ref>
While Marik traveled from [[Port Othello]] to Domino City on his motorcycle, he used the Millennium Rod to inhabit the mind of the [[Doll (manga)|Doll]] and got him to run to Yugi's location, so that he could use the Doll as a proxy in order to Duel Dark Yugi.<ref name="d 170" /> After Marik's loss, he continued to control the Doll to warn Dark Yugi he had better get to his friends, as he had plans to use them.<ref name="d 177" />
