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I only care about the future. I trample on the past! It means nothing! Yugi! You are a creature of the past! I will destroy you and the past along with you! I will shine light down the bright corridors of my future. I will become the King of Duelists!
~ Seto Kaiba.
I am the Number 1 Ranked Duelist in the country and the favorite to win the Duel Monsters Championship. You wouldn't last two minutes in a Duel against me.
~ Seto Kaiba flaunting his dueling skills to Joey.
Yugi! I will not be defeated at my own tournament!
~ Seto Kaiba to Yugi before his defeat at Battle City.

Seto Kaiba, more often known simply as Kaiba, is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Joey Wheeler) of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. He is Yugi Mutou's classmate and arch-rival, the CEO of the KaibaCorp gaming company, the older brother of Mokuba Kaiba, the adoptive brother of Noah Kaiba and the adoptive son of Gozaburo Kaiba. He is also the archenemy of Zigfried von Schroeder (in the anime only). His primary goals are to defeat Yugi and to be recognized as the greatest Duel Monsters player in the world.

Although he is in general an honorable person, Kaiba was initially cruel, rude, sarcastic, arrogant and occasionally aggressive. As time goes on, though, he becomes a more sympathetic character, especially after receiving a mind crush from his first of many defeats at the hands of Pharaoh Atem.

In the original manga Kaiba was the main antagonist in the Death-T arc, an anti-hero in Duelist Kingdom, the deuteragonist in Battle City, the secondary antagonist in Tournament Finals, and a major character in Ceremonial Battle. In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters he acted as an anti-hero in Season 1, the deuteragonist of both Season 2 and 4, the tritagonist of Season 3, the secondary antagonist of the film Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pyramid of Light, and a major character in Season 5. Additionally he was also the main antagonist of the original Toei Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, the main protagonist in the anime filler arcs Virtual World and Grand Championship as well as the spin off prelude story TRANSCEND GAME, and the deuteragonist of Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Side of Dimensions.

In the Japanese version, he was voiced by Kenjiro Tsuda. In the English dubbed version, he was voiced by Eric Stuart, who also voiced Titan and the Paradox Brothers in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, James and Butch in Pokemon and Dr. Z in Dinosaur King.

Personality[]

In the anime, Seto Kaiba takes on the role of an anti-hero and is shown to have a dislike toward Yugi and his company but shown he hated Zigfried von Schroeder more than he hates Yugi. Since his time in Gozaburo Kaiba's care, Kaiba's emotional range has been reduced to that of a brick. His expression is often stern, scathing and unfriendly and he rarely ever smiles. When interacting with others, he is often perceived as selfish, rude, sarcastic, condescending, vituperative and disrespectful. When he is forced to work as part of a team, he is faced with difficulty adapting.

Kaiba is known for his snobbery and sense of superiority over others, as his motives are usually ruthless and rapacious, and his personality traits are selfish as he would do almost anything to gain status, power, wealth, respect, prestige, glory, and supremacy. As a character, Kaiba is known for displaying a conservative, ruthless, and abrasive demeanor, especially looking down towards people whom he considers socially contemptible or throwing blunt insults and wisecracks towards rival duelists and their dueling abilities to whom he considers to be strategically inferior opponents. Like the Pharaoh, pride is Kaiba's strength and weakness; he never backs down from a challenge and gives everything he can in a Duel. This results him in having a sense of superiority, making it extremely difficult to earn his respect especially towards people he considers beneath him, and causes him to look down on and treat others as inferior until Kaiba considers them as his equal. This gives him difficulty when forced to rely on others and work as a team. His pride in himself and his accomplishments as an individual are prominent character traits that form a part of his character throughout the series, and he reacts harshly to those who threaten or infringe on it (although it is toned down slightly towards the end of the series).

His fatal flaw is his arrogance derived from his accomplishments until the end of the anime where he sees Yugi is the King of Games. He believes that relying on anyone else only slows him down instead of pushing him onward and that everyone in the world is alone. Since he is extremely logical, he discounts magic of any sort, passing it off as unreal and defies destiny and fate until he sees Zorc defeat the Egyptian gods (in the sub, he was more accepting of the existence of the supernatural, but doesn't allow it to interfere with his goals). When it comes to the game of Duel Monsters, he is competitive to the extreme, claiming that being on top is the only place for him. But his overconfidence makes him boast about his superiority and see certain others as being inferior. He doesn't like anyone using his cards (particularly the Blue-Eyes White Dragon), be it against him or otherwise and he also hates Pegasus' Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon (which he considered it to be a disgrace to the original Blues-Eyes). Losing is something Kaiba does not take lightly, even when it is against his greatest rivals.

Kaiba shown his dislike for Kuriboh as he called it a hairball. When Yugi used Kuriboh to prevent Obelisk's attack, Kaiba takes out his frustration when calling Kuriboh puny.

Watch and learn, you amateur!
~ Kaiba to Joey.

Kaiba disliked Joey Wheeler and look down on him as well he called him as a third-rate duelist with a fourth-rate deck and an amateur. He considered dueling Wheeler would be a waste of time. When Joey used his Blue-Eyes against him, Kaiba shown his rage and would make Joey pay by saying "You'll regret that, Wheeler!". Kaiba insulted the soulless Joey when he thinks Joey needs a nap by calling Wheeler as a baby.

Despite his vindictiveness, Seto Kaiba is still honest and compassionate deep down, often using his resources to help those in need and acting as a hero when need be. This is due to two things: His love for his younger brother Mokuba, who looks up to him as a hero, and his hatred for his evil adoptive father, Gozaburo, who he vows to never emulate. And while he does act rude to Yugi and his friends (Jonouchi especially) he does genuinely respect them and view them as friends in particular Yugi and Atem both of whom he considered worthy opponents even going as far as to try to access the afterlife in order to have a fair rematch with the latter. Additionally, when he is at his cruelest it is generally towards people who deserve it, such as those who threaten his brother or the world for that matter.

Biography[]

Past[]

Kaiba Manga

As a child, Seto was a bright boy, protective of his brother, and mainly selfless. After he and his brother were adopted by Gozaboro Kaiba, he was forced to undergo vicious studying that made every day feel like torture while building up hatred for his adoptive father. During Seto's birthday, his adoptive father gave him a 2% share of KaibaCorp (in the 4Kids dub, $10,000,000) and was told that although he could spend the money any way he wished, he must return 100 times (in the English dub, 10 times) the amount in one year. Seto returned all the money within a single day. He did this by buying 51% shares of a small company that cares for its employees, Seto then made the president buy it back, under threat of it being shut down and leaving the employees jobless.

Kaiba had ended becoming almost as ruthless as his adoptive father himself because of the treatment Gozaburo gave him, even going so far as to drive his adoptive father to commit suicide after he took Kaiba Corp away and left him with nothing. He is also seen as a master of all games, but his favorite is duel monsters. Kaiba even when becoming head of Kaiba Corp continued to be an incredibly greedy and sadistic monster with a sociopathic and borderline insane personality.

In the American Championship duel from New York City, Kaiba invited by Pegasus J. Crawford as his guest of honor to watch his duel against Bandit Keith until Pegasus chose a boy and read all of Keith's move to outsmart humiliated Keith.

Present[]

In the manga, he attempted to steal Yugi's grandfather's Blue-Eyes White Dragon card when Yugi when brought it to school one day by switching it with a counterfeit, while proceeding to bash him with his briefcase when he demands the card back until Dark Yugi appeared and dueled Kaiba to take back the card, ending in Kaiba's defeat. Yugi then gave Kaiba a Penalty Game, where traps Kaiba in an illusion where he is continuously being eaten by monsters. However, in the 2nd anime, sometime after he learned that Yugi's grandfather has a Blue-Eyes White Dragon Kaiba challenged him to a duel for the rare card which ended in Kaiba's victory. But as it turns out, Kaiba already had the other three of them and does not even need a fourth card so he tears up the card so no one can use it against him, and also since a deck can only hold 3 copies of the same card, breaking Sugoroku Muto's heart. Dark Yugi takes over and duels Kaiba, and managing a victory.

SetoKaiba

Seto as he appears in the manga.

(Manga only) Kaiba continues to have nightmares about his Penalty Game onward, which only strengthened his resolve to take revenge on Yugi. He then constructs an entire event at a theme park, titled "Death-T," in order to plot Yugi's death, including his friends. Kaiba kidnaps Yugi's grandfather in order to goad Yugi into coming, where he duels Sugoroku in the arena of his theme park, beating him with his three Blue-Eyes White Dragon and then tears Sugoroku's Blue-Eyes White Dragon as a part of his Penalty Game for losing. In the final battle with him, Kaiba recreates the Shadow Game that Yugi made, with a large glass box that would set off an illusion on the person who loses. Kaiba notes that the shock almost killed Yugi's grandfather. During the set of events that follow, Kaiba nearly kills Honda, as well as his own brother Mokuba who he subjected to his own Penalty Game.

Kaiba ends up losing the match in Death T-5 when Yugi summons Exodia, the rarest, and most difficult to summon card in the whole game. Yugi gives Kaiba under another Penalty Game, this one being a Mind Crush that is meant to destroy Kaiba's evil heart while ultimately leaving him comatose. Dark Yugi later tells Mokuba that his brother is repairing his shattered heart so that the next time he emerges, Seto will not make any mistakes.

(Both anime and manga events) From here, Kaiba became more of an anti-hero than a villain, and usually does nothing worse than trying to get in Yugi's way or make fun of Katsuya Jonouchi.

In the majority of the Duelist Kingdom arc, he was out to save his brother Mokuba, who was kidnapped by Pegasus J. Crawford but was sealed inside a card after being defeated by him. After Pegasus was defeated and Mokuba, Sugoroku, and himself released, Seto set out to become better than Yugi, and collect all three Egyptian God Cards. He received one that is Obelisk the Tormentor, from Ishizu Ishtar, and created a tournament called Battle City so he could get the other two (making it a rule for the loser to fork over their rarest card to the winner). Here, he was counting on the Ghouls entering (as they possess the two God Cards), however, they kidnapped Mokuba within the 2nd anime series (though he escaped) and forced Yugi and Jonouchi to duel each other to the death, but they both survived. In the finals he is showed to be more concerned about seeing the Egyptian Gods in action than about the health of duelists such as Bakura, Jonouchi and Mai. But in the manga storyline, he was shown to be disgusted by the duel Marik set up between Yugi and a mind-controlled Jonouchi, where the loser dies by sinking into the ocean, claiming that even at his worst he would never do something like that and while in the aftermath in the duel when Jonouchi was drowning, Kaiba drops his key to where Jonouchi is in the water so he can free himself but claims to have only saved him cause he admired his stupidity. (In the anime he tries to stop the duel realizing he and his brother could be set up in some death match like this and when Yugi loses, isn't scared cause Yugi's life points were 0 but cause he could really lose his life).

After the quarterfinals, the tournament was interrupted (in the anime only) when Kaiba, Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu, Honda, Shizuka, and Ryuji Otogi entered the virtual world to face Noah and the Big Five, with Kaiba defeating Kogoro Daimon, and later his evil adoptive father Gozaburo, who perished when the virtual world was destroyed.

Kaiba lost to Yugi in the semi-finals and his god card, Obelisk because of the ante rule. After Yugi defeated Dark Marik in the final round, Kaiba, like a sore loser, decided to blow up the duel tower in an attempt to destroy the memory of his loss to Yugi, escaping with Mokuba aboard his private jet while leaving the others (including his own men) on the island with his ship (In the anime the ship was damaged but they still managed to escape the explosion by using the medical helicopter).

(The following events occurred only in the anime) He was then forced to fight alongside Yugi again when Dartz attempted to take everyone's souls for the Orichalcos. Kaiba has wield a nameless dragon card known as the Fang of Cristias (a card fuse with trap cards). He tied Dartz's henchman Amelda in first duel and later defeating him in their rematch, causing Amelda's soul to be taken. He and Dark Yugi dueled together against Dartz; Kaiba lost the duel and his soul, but Yugi defeated Dartz, releasing Kaiba's soul from the Orichalcos. After the Orichalcos God's defeat, Kaiba's Fang of Cristias card disappeared but doesn't bothered him as he claimed his deck is still powerful without Fang of Cristias.

He then hosted a tournament which he did not enter, and in which the winner would face Yugi in the final round. His archenemy, Zigfried von Schroeder, attempted to use his younger brother Leonhart to erase all of Kaiba's data. But luckily, Kaiba had it all saved on a backup, and this was foiled. Kaiba later entered the Shadow RPG to help Yugi fight against Zorc Necrophades, realizing for the first time that everything unusual (such as Hell) was real and not just a trick (as he had thought for most of the series). He witnessed Yugi's duel against Dark Yugi in the Ceremonial Battle and finally came to accept that Yugi is the king of games.

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom[]

Though in the video game Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom, he is a playable protagonist with his own campaign, he appears as a boss in both Yugi's and Jonouchi's campaign. He uses all three Blue-Eyes White Dragons and has polymerization to fuse them into the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. In Yugi's campaign, he appears in the level "Face-Off" to which he is forced to duel Yugi under Scott Irvine's orders. After he is defeated, he explains that he did it in order to rescue Mokuba to which the two then work together to take down Irvine. In Joey's campaign, which is a prequel, he appears as his role working for the emperor and sent to destroy Jonouchi's resistance group. Though Jonouchi wins the duel, Kaiba succeeds in destroying his resistance and they must separate and join up with Yugi.

Tournaments[]

  • Battle City
  • Grand Championship

Theme Park[]

  • Original Kaiba Land
  • Bunkoban Kaiba Land

Stadium[]

  • Kaiba Dome
  • New Domino City Kaiba Dome (presumably)

Deck[]

Seto Kaiba

Kaiba with his Blue-Eyes and Obelisk.

Throughout the series, Kaiba's decks focus on a Beatdown strategy, focused on overwhelming his opponents with sheer brute force from his high ATK Monsters, while his Spells and Traps serve to disrupt their attempts to counter him. As the series progresses, his deck evolves to include "Virus" Trap cards, such as "Giant Germ", "Crush Card" and "Virus Cannon", giving it Virus and Control traits; Kaiba uses these cards to deplete his opponent's hand or destroy all monsters in their deck with less that 1500 ATK, further crippling their ability to defend against him. His favorite Spell card is "Card of Demise" which allows him to draw until has 5 cards in his hand but during his 5th Standby Phase, he must send all the cards to the graveyard.

Early in the series, Kaiba includes several vicious-looking Monsters, with most of them being Fiend-types with the DARK Attribute; as the series progresses, he switches to using various Dragon-type Monsters and also includes several support cards for them. His signature card is his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", owning three copies of the card, which he can fuse with "Polymerization" into "Blue-Eyes Ulitmate Dragon". During Battle City, he uses the Egyptian God Card "Obelisk the Tormentor", given to him by Ishizu Ishtar, until he loses it to Yugi in the tournament finals. During the Doma arc, he also makes use of "The Fang of Critias".

Quotes[]

To the road we've just set foot upon, there is no need for a past. And yet... those that I value most remain the same to this day.
~ Seto Kaiba to Mokuba in Virtual World.
Hairballs. For each one I destroy, two more takes its place.
~ Seto Kaiba on Kuriboh multiplying.
I'm glad you came here. Because now I get a chance to publicly humiliate you again.
~ Seto to Zigfried von Schroeder before defeating him.
I'm the only one with the skills necessary to wield a Blue-Eyes! Now it's time for me to use my dragon to finish you off. AND EXPOSE YOU AS THE FAILURE YOU TRULY ARE! YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING HERE, AND SOON YOU'LL LEARN THAT THE HARD WAY!
~ An Enraged Seto to Joey Wheeler.
Watch it! I have nothing in common with him! He was a snake!
~ Kaiba to Alister about Gozaburo.
Look, that lame strategy may have worked against a dork like Wheeler. But I'm in a different league.
~ Kaiba to Zigfried.
If you thought you could win this duel in one turn, then you don't know who you're up against. I've come a long way since we were kids, Zigfried. So check this out.
~ Kaiba to Zigfried.
Seto Kaiba: Now I summon Kaibaman.
Yami Yugi: Kaibaman?!
Seto Kaiba: Are you stunned by how handsome this monster is?
Yami Yugi: Uh...
Seto Kaiba: Or maybe you're just left speechless by Kaibaman's awesome sense of style?
~ Kaiba to Yugi after summoning Kaibaman in Berlin 2019 WCQ.
Take flight, Blue-Eyes White Dragon!
~ Kaiba's summoning Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Nobody comes between me and Blue-Eyes! And anyone foolish enough to try, pays the price!
~ Kaiba to Zigfried.
You'll regret that, Wheeler!
~ Seto Kaiba when Joey used Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Oh great. If it isn't the dweeb patrol.
~ Kaiba to Yugi and his friends after defeating Alister.
Fire whoever designed that bottle, Kaiba corp.'s products shouldn't bend that easily.
~ Kaiba to some of his employees after he crushes a water bottle.

Trivia[]

DMx103 Seto forced to study

Gozaburo forces Seto to study with a switchblade (removed in the English dub).

  • In the English dub, Kaiba is shown to have a very small belief in the magic that is going on around him, believing that the Millennium Items are not magical at all and that anything out of the ordinary happening to him is a dream, hologram and fairy tale, etc., only seeing the god monsters and Yugi having an alter ego is real in the last episodes of the anime. In the Japanese anime and the manga, Seto believes what is going on around him, and only slightly misunderstands the danger he is truly in most of the time when against this magic.
  • In the first series, which was based on the original manga, Kaiba has green hair, despite the fact that he has brown hair in all other appearances, including the manga itself.

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