Card Appearances:Summoned Skull

Original Manga

 * When Duel Monsters gets introduced, this card is amongst a few other random cards shown by Yugi and Solomon Muto. Here it's a Level 7 monster and was called "デーモン" (Demon) in the Japanese version.


 * When Yugi duels Seto Kaiba, this card appears and destroys Kaiba's "Battle Ox" and a number of Kaiba's cards over the next few turns.

Duelist Kingdom

 * In episode 2, Yami Yugi uses this card during his Duel against Maximillion Pegasus. After Yugi summons this card, he uses it to attack "Illusionist Faceless Mage" and win the duel but the duel's time limit expires before this monster can complete its attack. Since Pegasus had higher Life Points when time expired, he won the Duel by default.


 * In episode 5, Yami Yugi uses this card during his Duel against Weevil Underwood. After he summons this card, "Makiu the Magical Mist" increased this card's ATK by 1000. This card then attacks and destroys "Great Moth", winning Yami Yugi the Duel.


 * In episode 21, Yugi uses this card during his Tag Duel with Joey Wheeler against the Paradox Brothers. After this card is summoned, Yugi uses this card to attack the third section of the brothers' "Gate Guardian" by using this card's electrical abilities on the puddles of water left behind by the third section's water attack from earlier. Yugi then activates "Spellbinding Circle" to immobilize "Gate Guardian", prevent it from using its effects, and decrease the ATK of all three sections by 700. The attack made by this card then destroys "Suijin". Later Yugi activates "Polymerization" to fuse this monster with Joey's "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" in order to Fusion Summon "Black Skull Dragon".


 * When Yugi duels Seto Kaiba, Yugi draws this card but can't play it due to the effect of Kaiba's "Crush Card Virus".


 * When Yugi duels Mai Valentine, Yugi plays this monster to attack Mai's "Harpie Lady" (equipped with "Cyber Shield") but "Mirror Wall" negates the attack and cuts this card's Attack points in half. Yugi later switches this card into Defense Position. This monster is later destroyed by Mai's "Harpie's Pet Dragon".


 * In episode 33, this card appears when Yami Yugi explains to Joey that Duel Monsters is about the balance between Monsters and Spell and Trap Cards.


 * When Yugi duels Joey Wheeler, Yugi plays this monster to attack and destroy Joey's "Armored Lizard". Joey then uses "Shield & Sword" to swap the Attack and Defense of all monsters out. Joey's "Flame Swordsman" then destroys this card. Later, Joey uses "Graverobber" to steal this card from Yugi's Graveyard and summon it to his side of the field. Joey then uses "Copycat" to copy "Polymerization" and use that to fuse this monster and "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" together to form "Black Skull Dragon".


 * In episode 35, this card appears in Yugi's thoughts when he notes it will take all the wisdom his grandfather taught him and all the power in his cards to defeat Pegasus.


 * When Yugi duels Maximillion Pegasus, Yami Yugi summons this monster in Defense Position. Pegasus' "Ryu-Ran" then tries to attack this monster, but Yugi activates "Spellbinding Circle" to immobilize "Ryu-Ran" and decrease its ATK by 700. Yami Yugi then switches this monster to Attack Position. He then sends this monster to attack Pegasus' "Ryu-Ran", but Pegasus activates "Trap Displacement" to change the target of "Spellbinding Circle" to this monster. This stops this monster's attack and decreases this card's ATK by 700. Pegasus' "Ryu Ran" then destroys this monster. Later, Pegasus activates "Doppel-ganger" to Special Summon itself as this monster with the same stats as this monster. "Toon World" then transforms this monster into "Toon Summoned Skull". It remains this way until Yugi Muto uses "Living Arrow" to use Pegasus' "Magical Neutralizing Force Field" to destroy "Toon World".


 * Within the Millennium Puzzle, Yugi Muto and Shadi search through Yami Yugi's mind to find this monster among others within Stone Slabs.


 * When Yugi duels Rebecca Hawkins, Yugi plays this monster to attack Rebecca's set monster, but it is then revealed to be "Millennium Shield" and since the latter's DEF is higher than this card's ATK, the attack fails. Rebecca then equips her "Millennium Shield" with "Ring of Magnetism", decreasing the DEF of "Millennium Shield" by 500, but forcing all of Yugi's attacks to be redirected to "Millennium Shield". This card then attacks Rebecca's "Cannon Soldier", but due to the effect of "Ring of Magnetism", the attack is redirected to "Millennium Shield". Since the latter's DEF is equal to this card's ATK, the attack fails. Later Yugi uses "Brain Control" to take control of Rebecca's "Millennium Shield". He then tributes it for the effect of his "Catapult Turtle". This allows this monster to destroy Rebecca's "Cannon Soldier". Both this monster and "Catapult Turtle" are then destroyed by Rebecca's "Judgment Blaster".


 * In episode 43, this card appears on the rack of cards that Yugi, Joey, and Mokuba pass by while they are going through a town.


 * When Yugi and his friends are confronted by a "Gate Guardian" at the end of the labyrinth that was within The Big Five's Virtual World Program, Yugi combines this card and Joey's "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" together thanks to "Polymerization" to form "Black Skull Dragon".

Battle City

 * When Yugi duels Bandit Keith, Yugi plays this monster after he played "Makiu, the Magical Mist". This card then got a brief power up from the effect of "Makiu, the Magical Mist" while Keith's Machines ("Ground Attacker Bugroth", "Megasonic Eye" and "Machine King") were weakened by its effect. Yugi then sent this monster to attack and destroy Keith's "Machine King". Later, Keith's "Zera the Mant" destroys this card.


 * When Yugi duels a Rare Hunter, Yugi plays this monster after tributing his "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast" to summon it and destroys the Rare Hunter's "Gear Golem the Moving Fortress". On the final turn of the duel, this monster's electricity powers up Yugi's "Alpha The Magnet Warrior" so that it would have enough points to wipe out all of the Rare Hunter's Life Points, winning Yugi the duel.


 * In episode 63, this card appears in a flashback Weevil has when he remembers the shame he got from being beaten by Yugi back at Duelist Kingdom.


 * In episode 78, this card appears in a series of flashbacks Joey has when he starts to remember that he is a Duelist(as Marik brainwashed him into Dueling Yugi and defeating him).


 * In episode 85, this card can be seen when Yugi is rebuilding his Deck.

Virtual World

 * In episode 99, this card appears when Yami Yugi was building his Virtual World Deck before his Duel with Gansley.


 * In episode 106, this card can be seen when Duke Devlin, Tristan Taylor, and Serenity Wheeler were building their Decks for their Duel against Nezbitt.


 * In episode 108, this card can be seen when Seto Kaiba was building his Deck for his Duel against Leichter.


 * In episode 111, this card is shown when Yami Yugi and Joey were selecting cards for their Duel against the Big Five.

Battle City Finals

 * When a duelist duels another duelist, the former duelist plays this monster after tributing his "Big Shield Gardna". This card then destroys the latter duelist's "Jinzo". This card is then destroyed by "St. Joan", defeating the former Duelist.

Waking the Dragons

 * In episode 159, this card appears in one of two flashbacks Weevil and Rex have when they remember their losses against Yugi and Joey respectively in Duelist Kingdom and declare to Dartz they want revenge against Yugi and Joey for those losses.


 * In Dartz's headquarters, this card is seen among piles of cards in Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor's fantasy when he thinks the reason why Pegasus invited Yugi and his friends was because he wanted to give them rare cards just for them.


 * In episode 182, Yami Yugi Summons this card to aide in the battle against The Great Leviathan. Yami, Joey, and Kaiba, after bringing out three monsters each, then summoned their Legendary Dragons. Yami then used "Legend of Heart" to transform the Dragons into the three Legendary Knights. All the monsters summoned by Yami, Joey, and Kaiba then attack The Great Leviathan, but it doesn't work. When the Great Leviathan counterattacks, Yami quickly has Timaeus absorb the power of "Big Shield Gardna" to protect everyone from the attack. While this saves the chosen Duelists and the Legendary Knights, it doesn't save the other monsters summoned by the Chosen Duelists as they were destroyed by the attack.

Dawn of the Duel

 * In episode 200, this card appears within Yami Yugi's mind when Yami Bakura claims to him that his mind is an unsolvable maze and that he pursues games like riddles.


 * When Yugi Muto duels Pharaoh Atem (Yami Yugi), Yugi plays this monster after tributing his "Witch of the Black Forest". He then attacks and destroys Atem's "Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight" with this card. On the next turn, this monster attacks Atem's "Big Shield Gardna" but its attack didn't go through as this monster's Attack points were less than the Defense points of "Big Shield Gardna". However this activates the effect of "Big Shield Gardna", switching it to Attack Position. Yugi's "Curse of Dragon" then destroy Atem's "Big Shield Gardna". Later, this monster is destroyed by Atem's "Dark Magician" (equipped with "Book of Secret Arts").


 * In episode 223, this card appears in a flashback that Téa Gardner has when she notes that "Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight" and this card are monsters that have fought alongside Yugi in his previous Duels.


 * In episode 224, this card appears in a flashback Yami Yugi has when he remembers Yugi adding "Marshmallon" from his Deck to his hand via the effect of "Witch of the Black Forest".

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

 * In episode 41, Titan uses this card in his Duel against Alexis Rhodes. He uses this card as the sacrifice for "Ritual of the Matador" so that he could Ritual Summon Archfiend Matador.


 * In episode 142, Skull Knight used this card in his duel against Axel Brodie. He sends this card alongside many other Normal Monsters from the top of his Deck to the Graveyard via the Flip effect of his "Magical Merchant". This allowed his "Lycanthrope" to deal a large amount of damage via its effect.

Video games

 * Titan uses this card in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force.


 * Motoi uses this card in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2009: Stardust Accelerator.