Card Appearances:Exodia the Forbidden One

Yu-Gi-Oh!

 * In the original manga and first series anime, this is a Level 7 monster..


 * In Yugi's match against Seto Kaiba (the Death-T final match in the manga or the first duel of the second series anime), Yugi managed to assemble all five pieces of Exodia - a feat that no duelist had ever accomplished prior to that match. "Summoned Lord Exodia" attacked and destroyed all of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragons, reducing his Life Points to 0.


 * Two episodes later, Weevil threw Yugi's Exodia cards overboard on the ship to Duelist Kingdom. Joey jumps to try and save them, but only recovers two pieces.


 * In Battle City, Seeker had three copies of Exodia; by using "Graceful Charity" he drew all five pieces and defeated Joey.


 * Seeker later dueled Yugi but when he ran out of defensive monsters he attempted to use one of the three "Exodia the Forbidden One" (they were called the "Head of Exodia" here, likely to avoid confusion) that he had in his hand as a defensive monster. But Yugi used "Chain Destruction" to destroy the other copies of "Exodia the Forbidden One" in his hand and Deck. Then, Yugi attacked with "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast" and destroyed the "Exodia the Forbidden One" on the field. It was then discovered that Seeker's cards had been marked by an invisible ink that let him know what card he was about to draw (in the Japanese version, they were forgeries). Yugi then ripped the Exodia cards up.
 * In the manga, Yugi used Lightforce Sword to forcefully placed one of Exodia's arm on the field from Rare Hunter's hand then used the Chain Destruction card to destroy the armes of Exodia in Rare Hunter's deck. Any parts of Exodia cannot be revived from graveyard (in manga rules) thus Rare Hunter surrendered at this moment in the manga. Also, in manga, there's no scene where Yugi ripping the Exodia cards that Rare Hunter had after the duel.


 * In the second Virtual Realm arc, during Kaiba's duel with his stepfather, Gozaburo Kaiba, the latter sent four of the five pieces to the Graveyard by way of the Painful Choice Spell Card. Summoning the last piece in face down Defense mode (and having it destroyed by Kaiba's Vorse Raider, Gozaburo was able to pay 2000 Life Points (unnecessary in the real game) to activate Contract with Exodia, thus summoning Exodia Necross.

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

 * While not seen in the episode, Bob Banter's Quiz Panel Obelisk: 30 had Exodia as a possible answer.


 * Marcel (while possessed by Yubel) is seen using an Exodia Deck when dueling against Adrian Gecko.


 * Later on, Adrian himself uses the deck against Aster Phoenix, ultimately claiming victory. Adrian then decides to use Exodia in order to become the king of the third alternate dimension and challenges a posessed Jesse Anderson (now possessed by Yubel) to a duel using the Exodia pieces.


 * This card appears in the GX Japanese closing song, Borderline Battle.

Naming

 * In the Spanish dub, this card was known as "Exodia, el Prohibido".
 * In the French dub,this card was known as  "Exodia le Maudit" ,means "Exodia the Cursed One"

About Exodia itself

 * In the Anime, this monster appeared when someone gathered his five limbs in their hand. In that instant Exodia appeared and attacked, destroying all the opponent's monsters with one blow and wiping out the opponent's Life Points with his attack.


 * This monster was summoned for the first time by Yugi during his first duel against Seto Kaiba. Yugi gathered Exodia's five limbs (a feat that no duelist had ever accomplished prior to that match) and summoned this card. Exodia attacked, destroying all of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragons and depleting his Life Points in an instant.


 * In Battle City a Rare Hunter also had three copies of Exodia; by using "Graceful Charity" he drew all five pieces and defeated Joey. Yugi later discovered that the Exodia cards owned by the Rare Hunter were forgeries.


 * In the Memory World, Shimon (the past life of Solomon Muto) had this monster as his Ka and he swore to seal it and never use it again after he destroyed the force that was attacking the Egyptian capital.


 * When Zorc Necrophades rose and began to march on the city, Shimon took up the Millennium Key that Isis brought back and summoned Exodia to combat Zorc (this is in the anime only, while in the manga Shimon took the key off Shada's corpse). Although Exodia experienced some success, especially after Shimon demonstrates it's ability to regenerate after its arm was torn off by Zorc, Zorc overpowered Exodia since it's power is based on Shimon's, while Zorc can draw power from the darkness. Therefore, Exodia is destroyed and Shimon was killed.


 * The attack of this monster is called "Raging Hellfire - Exxod Flame" 「怒りの業火　エクゾード・フレイム」" in the Japanese anime/manga and in the English uncut versions. The broadcast anime doesn't have a consistent attack name, although Yami famously orders Exodia to "obliterate" Kaiba's monsters in the first episode.