Duelist Kingdom Finals

Before the finals, Pegasus introduces Kaiba to the finalists, and the two duel. If Pegasus wins, he takes Kaiba's soul; if Kaiba wins, he gets Mokuba back. Kaiba's monsters are far stronger, but Pegasus can see the other person's cards and strategies using the Millennium Eye. Pegasus uses Toon World, which transforms all his monsters into cartoons, who cannot be destroyed. Kaiba attempts to use the Crush Card combo that he used against Yugi, but Pegasus reads his mind and prevents the strategy from working. At the end, Pegasus uses Doppelganger to copy Kaiba's Crush Card Virus, and wins the duel.

Afterwards, Pegasus uses his Millennium Eye to steal Kaiba's soul. Seeing this and knowing it has happened because Kaiba was trying to save his brother, Yugi starts to cry and demands to know why Pegasus is toying with people. Seconds later, the Millennium Puzzle activates and Yugi's "other self" emerges for the first time since his duel with Kaiba, which nearly ended in tragedy. Yugi vows to defeat Pegasus once and for all, but he will first have to get through the remaining rounds of the tournament.

First Duel of the finals comes to Mai and Yugi. In the English anime, Yugi tries to hold back Yami Yugi's dueling strength because of his willingness to beat Kaiba even if it meant his death. However, in the manga, Yugi is concentrating on the coming duel with Pegasus and not on the duel with Mai. In both cases this leads to Yugi making mistakes. Because of these mistakes, Mai gets a huge advantage, with the Harpie Lady Sisters and Harpie's Pet Dragon (2000 attack and an additional 300 for each Harpie on the field) while Yugi only has Kuriboh, Gaia the Fierce Knight, and Swords of Revealing Light. However, on the last turn, Yugi gets Black Luster Ritual to summon Black Luster Soldier (3000 attack) and destroys Harpie's Pet Dragon. Being down on morale, Mai forfeits.

Next, is Jonouchi against "Bandit" Keith Howard. Bandit Keith steals Jonouchi's entry card, nearly causing Jonouchi to be disqualified. However, Jonouchi uses Mai's entry card to play. Keith uses machine cards, which are very powerful. Jonouchi uses his trap cards to hold off the machines, until Jonouchi runs out of traps. However, Jonouchi copies Keith's Metalmorph which makes Jonouchi's Red Eyes Black Dragon a machine with an added 400 attack. Jonouchi uses Dragon Nails to power up his dragon even more so avoid being destroyed by Keith's bomb, a monster with 2900 attack. Keith uses Slot Machine, but cheats by putting two magic cards in his sleeve, each being able to power up Slot Machine by 700. On the last turn, Keith damages the Jonouchi's dragon and attacks it with Slot Machine, but Jonouchi uses Graverobber to use Keith's Time Machine, which prevent damage and return a monster the way it was a turn before. Jonouchi attacks Slot Machine and wins the duel. Then, Pegasus confronts Keith and says that he saw his cheating, whereupon Keith tries to get the prize money by force. In the anime, Pegasus drops Keith down a trap door, and Keith eventually reappears prior to Battle City under the mind control of Marik Ishtar. In the manga, Pegasus inflicts a penalty game on Keith, causing his apparent death.

Last, it is the duel between Jonouchi and Yugi, which is only in the anime. They stay rather even, but Jonouchi gains a good lead. Jonouchi copies Yugi's Summoned Skull and fuses it with Red Eyes Black Dragon to make Black Skull Dragon. Yugi destroys it with the combo Dark Magician, Spellbinding Circle, and Book of Secret Arts. Jonouchi then plays the Time Wizard-Baby Dragon combo to summon Thousand Dragon, but Time Wizard's magic turns Dark Magician into Dark Sage, which allows Yugi to play a magic card every turn, even during an opponent's turn and even if the magic card is not set. Yugi plays Magical Mist to counter Jonouchi's attack, then plays Monster Reborn to bring back Black Skull Dragon. Yugi, after telling Jonouchi that this attack is the toughest he has ever made, attacks him and wins the duel.