User blog comment:Stolen5487/PE Removal: Yami Marik/@comment-4708882-20190720040353

Well goals vary: anime it's just like the normal Marik: Take over the world which if anything only sells it more that he's just the evil half embodied, manga it's cause death a destruction because it amuses him. Either way I personally say cut: unlike the other "Yami" characters who are explicitly said to be individual souls from the distant past Marik isn't but just treated as the embodiment of all his negative traits given form thus Agency at absolute best is questionable and I get the impression he has none. Sadistic and evil isn't exactly proof of Agency neither is self preservation which are the only actual traits at all shown with the later only in the very end before being destroyed all together.