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In the English version, Kaiba plays as an anti-hero and appears to have certain contempt for Yugi's group of friends; he refers to them constantly with derisive nicknames such as "the nerd herd", "the dweeb patrol", or "the geek squad". At one point, he kept running into them during ''Waking the Dragons'', and quipped "Great. Dork fest continues." He's sarcastic, rude, usually selfish and power-hungry, no-nonsense and down-to-earth, while he may seem very realistic, but, as [[Atem]] has said so multiple times, he can be very clueless. Plus, he is fairly condescending and scathing to everyone, with the exception of Mokuba, the only person he is consistently shown to treat with love and care. However, it is stated by Mokuba ever since being adopted by Gozaburo, Kaiba has rarely smiled, if at all. Mokuba has also noted he's become much colder than he used to be. Despite this, Kaiba still has strong brotherly instincts for Mokuba and will put his life in danger in a heart beat to safeguard Mokuba's life.
Apart from Mokuba, Kaiba has compassion for children—especially orphans (as he himself was one and knew what it felt like). Kaiba also threw himself between Zorc and 2 Egyptian children and flew into a rage when Zorc killed those children instead of him first (this was edited out in the dub). He is also shown, deep down beneath his stony, ice-cold exterior, thus enabling them to be incredibly lonely, and wishes to be more open with people, but is unable to do so because of his belief that everyone is alone. This portrayed personality is also very likely because of the years of systematic emotional and psychological abuse of his adoptive father (although this is played down in the dub of the anime)make a getaway. At various points during the series, he opens up momentarily, performing kind acts, though always covering them up with sarcasm, and denying them if asked. These occurrences increase in frequency towards the later series—indeed at the end of the last arcseries. Aside from that, Kaiba maintains a stony, he is visibly hurt when Joey accuses him of having no friendsice-cold exterior.
Although Kaiba may seem very unkind toward his brother Mokuba, he has a brotherly love for him. When their adoptive brother Noah had hypnotized Mokuba into not remembering him and thinking Noah was his real brother, Kaiba revealed how much he cared about him to try to make him remember; in one Season 1 episode of the second series anime, after Pegasus is defeated, Kaiba tells Yugi that Mokuba "means everything to me". This is shown when Kaiba risks his own life by standing on a ledge to win the Duel against Yugi so that he can get to Pegasus to save Mokuba. Even when Kaiba preaches that no one gets away with trying to take over his company, he risks KaibaCorp when Dueling Noah for Mokuba.
Also, Kaiba dislikes other people using his cards, namely his "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" (his favorite and [[signature card]]; notably, he uses its motif to decorate a large portion of his personal effects - e.g., [[Kaiba Land]], his jet, and his clothing). This is shown in [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 001]], when he rips up [[Solomon Muto]]'s Blue-Eyes White Dragon after winning it so that it could never be used against him, and also in [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 136]] when Kaiba becomes very angry when he finds out about Joey using his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in their Duel. Kaiba goes so far as to attack Joey's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" with his own, destroying both in the process, to prevent Joey from using it for another turn. (He even says angrily, "I'm the only one with the skills necessary to wield a Blue-Eyes!" while doing so.) He also despises Pegasus' "[[Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon]]", saying it strips the original of all its pride. According to [[Kazuki Takahashi|Takahashi]], Kaiba's obsession with the "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (character)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" stems from the feelings between [[Kisara]] (the girl whose Ka housed the Blue-Eyes) and his ancient Egyptian incarnate, [[Priest Seto]]. This may also be due to Kaiba's affinity for [[Dragon]]-Type monsters.<ref>''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' (bunkoban) Volume 21</ref> More likely than anything would be it having to do with wanting to have the strongest Deck possible out of any Duelist as part of his domination motif, as he went through great lengths to acquire the three copies he presently has.
One of Seto's recurring traits is his absolute refusal to believe in the magic powers that is often used in the series. Later on, during sagas like [[Waking the Dragons]], he openly admits to believing in all the supernatural events occurring around him, instead of just ignorantly saying they don't exist as he always does (although it is possible that he thinks that it's science instead of magic, and doesn't hesitate to do something about it). It's possible that Kaiba believes in Clarke's Law - "higher forms of science are indistinguishable from magic". However, the closest in the dub that Kaiba has come to this is "Maybe there is some truth to this junk" in the final episodes; however, when questioned by Joey, he quickly denies having said such a thing.
In the Japanese version, while Kaiba does not take it very well, he is much more accepting of the faith and magic that occurs. In the Doma arc, he told Alister he should show him the power of a "true Duelist" and of the "Chosen One", and also openly accepted the vision he and Yami Yugi had after their Egyptian Gods were destroyed, as well as the fact that their battle was destined over the span of 3000 years. During the Duel against Dartz, Kaiba destroyed the "[[Mirror Knight Token]]" after they had taken the form of Yugi, Pegasus, Joey, and Mai because of his belief if they were true Duelists, they would be willing to allow themselves to be destroyed in order to save the world, while in the dub, Kaiba believed Dartz manipulated the holograms to resemble their friends in order to weaken their resolve. Although there are some instances where Kaiba is a believer in both the Japanese and dub. One such example would be during his final turn against [[Zigfried von Schroeder]] when he predicted he would draw exactly the spell cards he would need to defeat Zigfried, despite initially only having one card in his hand.
During Battle City, Seto's main goal is defeating Yugi in a Duel. However, when he lost, he decided on a new path, rather an old one, of building Kaiba Land all around the world. However, he vowed his battle with Yugi is far from over, even though they never had an on-screen Duel after this.
At some point, Kaiba wanted to help young Duelists grow and built bought [[Duel Academy]] to accomplish this goal.
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