Dark Yugi (manga)

Dark Yugi, also romanized as Yami Yugi, is a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. This is the original depiction of Dark Yugi, as created by Kazuki Takahashi.

Dark Yugi is the spirit of Pharaoh Atem that has been sealed in the Millennium Puzzle. After Yugi Mutou solved the Millennium Puzzle, Yami Yugi resided in his body and would often take possession of it when Yugi or his friends were in danger. After Yugi became fully aware of Dark Yugi's existence, Yugi could voluntarily give control of his body to Dark Yugi.

Origin
Pharaoh Atem defeated Zorc Necrophades, sacrificing his life in the process. He used his name as part of a spell that sealed Zorc's and his own soul in the Millennium Items. Atem's soul got sealed in the Millennium Puzzle. The puzzle was shattered and laid to rest in the Pharaoh's tomb.

3,000 years later, Yugi Mutou solved the Millennium Puzzle, which caused the Pharaoh's spirit to inhabit Yugi's body. The Pharaoh's soul, which comes to be known as "the other Yugi" or "Dark Yugi" is now missing the vast majority of his memories.

Ushio
Yugi solved the Puzzle while he was under the pressure of coming up with money to pay Ushio, for his self-imposed body guard fees. Dark Yugi emerged and arranged to meet Ushio at the school at midnight. He challenged Ushio to a Shadow Game involving grabbing money off their own hand with a knife. Ushio got greedy and tried to stab Yugi, so he could take all the money for himself. However Dark Yugi dodged the attack and inflicted the Illusion of Avarice Penalty Game on him for cheating. Ushio was put under the illusion that litter and leaves were money, which he showered himself in.

ZTV director
A director from ZTV tried to orchestrate a bullying documentary, Caught on Camera: School Violence, by having A.D. Fujita attack Yugi. Dark Yugi confronted the director afterwards and challenged him to a die roll Shadow Game, where the director must roll equal to or lower than him to win. Dark Yugi rolled a 6, but still insisted that the director roll. The director tried injuring Yugi by throwing the die at his face. However Dark Yugi blocked with the Millennium Puzzle, breaking the dice in two, making it land on both 1 and 6, totaling 7. Dark Yugi then inflicted the Mosaic Illusion Penalty Game on the director, pixelating his vision.

Sozoji
The untalented singer, Sozoji, forced Yugi and Tomoya Hanasaki to sell tickets to his concert, and subsequently beat-up Hanasaki for letting Yugi take his burden of tickets. Dark Yugi emerged and faced Sozoji in a game of silence. The first person to make a sound, lost. Sozoji noticed how Dark Yugi might lose. With Yugi's life on the line, his heart pounded as he got excited about winning. But his heartbeat became amplified by his microphone connected to nearby speakers, making him lose the game. Subjected to one of Dark Yugi's Penalty Games, Sozoji continued to hear his heart beat louder and louder.

Prisoner 777
When Anzu Mazaki was held captive by an escaped convict armed with a gun at Burger World, Yugi had to serve the convict cigarettes and vodka. Dark Yugi took control and challenged the convict to a Shadow Game, where each player could only use one of their ten fingers. Blindfolded, Anzu couldn't see who was challenging the convict and thought he sounded like Yugi, but was too confident and daring to be him. The convict choose his index finger, hoping to pull the trigger of his gun. Dark Yugi choose his thumb and used it to flick on a cigarette lighter. Dark Yugi was allowed to light the convict's cigarette, after which he dropped the lighter on the convict's arm, which was pouring vodka. The vodka began to overflow, making it impossible for the convict to fire the gun without setting himself on fire. While Dark Yugi escorted Anzu away, the convict dropped his cigarette, setting himself on fire. After this incident, Anzu obsessed over finding the identity of her rescuer.

Kokurano
The alleged psychic Kokurano tried to seduce Anzu, by reading her future, telling her that a wonderful man would reveal himself to her, causing her to swoon before him in love. Anzu hoped this was the man who saved her at Burger World. For Yugi's disbelief in his powers, Kokurano predicted that countless letters would fall from the heavens and bring disaster on Yugi. Later that day Kokurano knocked over bookshelves on top of Yugi. Dark Yugi emerged and realized that Kokurano was making his predictions come true. He rushed to Anzu, who Kokurano had knocked out with a bottle of chloroform. Using the bottle, Dark Yugi defeated him in a Shadow Game, leaving him unconscious and exposed as a fraud.

Goro
During a school festival, Goro Inogashira had his class tear up Yugi's class Carnival Games spot, to make room for their okonomiyaki stand. Dark Yugi challenged Goro to an air hockey Shadow Game, Griddle Ice Hockey, using a block of ice containing a tube of an explosive chemical as a puck and the okonomiyaki grill as a board. Goro dealt powerful blows to the puck, making it difficult for Dark Yugi to keep up. But Dark Yugi, managed to nick the puck with his bat, causing the ice to break with Goro's next blow. The chemical hit the hot surface, causing it to explode in front of Goro.

Ms. Chono
The teacher Ms. Chono found Honda's love jigsaw puzzle to Miho Nosaka, during a desk check and began reading the message to the class. As she assembled it to find the culprit's name and expel him, Dark Yugi turned the jigsaw into a Shadow Game, where Ms. Chono felt the pain she was inflicting on others. On completion of the puzzle, her makeup cracked-up, revealing her true ugly self.

Junky Scorpion owner
The Junky Scorpion shop owner sold Jonouchi a rare pair of shoes, but had them stolen back by his Muscle Hunters. Dark Yugi returned to the Junky Scorpion and played a Shadow Game with the owner to take back the shoes. The owner's pet scorpion was put in a shoe, while both players tried to pull out coins without getting stung. The owner got greedy and tried to kill the scorpion. He failed to do so and got his hand stuck when he tried grabbing all the coins at once. The scorpion left him badly poisoned from a sting.

Kaiba
After Seto Kaiba stole Sugoroku Mutou's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card, Dark Yugi and Kaiba engaged in a Shadow Game of Duel Monsters. Kaiba secretly added the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card to his hand, pretending to draw it. He Summoned it and tried to attack, but the true loyalties of the "Blue-Eyes" did not lie with him, so it destroys itself. Dark Yugi used "Monster Reborn" to revive it and used it and defeat Kaiba. Dark Yugi inflicted the Experience of Death Penalty Game on Kaiba, causing him to believe he was trapped in the Duel Monsters Spirit World, where he suffered death at the hands of monsters.

Hirutani's gang
Yugi called to the Millennium Puzzle to help him find Jonouchi, while Jonouchi was held captive by Hirutani's gang. Dark Yugi located the gang at the "torture chamber" and let one of the gangsters punch him back, to lure them into a puddle. As he stood up, he covertly put a metal bar under an unconscious gangster's arm. He also hung the Millennium Puzzle off a chain over the unconscious boy's forehead. Dark Yugi then challenged the gang to a game; he warned them that there was a time bomb below their feet and it would detonate if they could not find the switch. Some of the gangsters thought that Dark Yugi was bluffing, but Hirutani realized that activating their stun guns in the rain while standing in a puddle, would cause them to get electrocuted. The gang assumed the stun guns to be the switches and advanced to attack Dark Yugi without using them. However Dark Yugi insisted that they did not find the switch. Rainwater trickled down the chain the Puzzle was tied to and off the tip of the Puzzle onto the unconscious member, waking him up. As he woke up, he moved his arm suspended over the metal bar, causing him to let the stun gun he was holding drop into the puddle of water electrocuting the gang.

Shadi
Shadi, the holder of the Millennium Key and Scales, saw Yugi at a museum. After hearing, Yugi owned the Millennium Puzzle, he used the Millennium Key to enter the room of Yugi's mind. Instead he found two rooms; Yugi's which was filled toys and another for Dark Yugi. Dark Yugi appeared inside his room and invited Shadi in, if he dared. Shadi introduced himself as an unwanted guest, who had come to learn the power of the Millennium Puzzle and if the power was needed he would draw it into his bloodline. Not willing to simply show Shadi the power, Dark Yugi imposed a Shadow Game; somewhere inside the soul was Dark Yugi's true room and if Shadi could find it, then he'll find what he's looking for. Shadi accepted the game, but mentioned that once he entered someone's room, he can redecorate it to control the individual or change their personality. Dark Yugi started the game and the place turned into a maze of doors and staircases. Shadi began searching, but the doors were filled with traps. Eventually Shadi was left dangling above a bottomless pit. Dark Yugi saved him and advised that he leave. Shadi parted, thinking he has lost the game, but Dark Yugi assured him it was only the beginning.

Upon learning that Yugi was coming to visit Professor Yoshimori at Domino University, Shadi possessed Yoshimori, giving him the intention of making Yugi's friends suffer, hoping it would coax Dark Yugi into taking control of Yugi's body. When it became evident that Yoshimori alone wouldn't be enough, he also possessed Anzu, making her his hostage. Threatening to kill Anzu, he forced Dark Yugi to take control and told him to come to the roof in ten minutes for a Shadow Game.

The Shadow Game was the Trial of the Mind. Shadi stood Anzu motionless on a board over the edge of a building. The board was supported by ropes tied to four ushebti, which would shatter when a weakness in Dark Yugi's heart was detected. A fifth ushebti for Shadi's heart held up the Millennium Key, which would slide down to Anzu's hand and return her to normal should Shadi's ushebti break. Seeing Anzu's danger immediately caused one ushebti to break. Shadi proceeded to put Dark Yugi through a series of stages hoping to expose weaknesses in his heart.

For the first stage, illusions of zombies climbed out the ground and grabbed onto Dark Yugi. The only way to break the illusion was to determine the zombies true nature, bu solving the riddle "What creeps on the ground and clings to the pillars?". Dark Yugi realized that he was the pillar, the zombies were what creeps on the ground and the answer to the riddle was a shadow, making the zombies his shadow.

In the second stage, Dark Yugi played Concentration or Death. An illusion of Ammit held onto him, while he was faced with nine face-down slabs. The slabs' other sides contained images of four pairs and one unmatched image. The slabs represented a mirror and Dark Yugi needed to determine what the odd image was within five minutes or be bitten by Ammit, which despite being an illusion would kill him. Dark Yugi realized that the slabs being a mirror contained images of visible parts of Ammit, so the four pairs were her eyes, ears, nostrils and arms, while the odd one was her mouth.

The last stage, was the Game of Death. Shadi created an illusion of Jonouchi, in his old bully persona. Seeing Jonouchi behave in his old ways, caused regular Yugi to take control for a split second and weep causing two ushebti to break. Dark Yugi and Jonouchi had to take turns tossing the Millennium Puzzle. The direction the puzzle landed pointing was the direction their opponent had to walk and the idea was to make the opponent walk into a bottomless pit. Dark Yugi worried that was a small chance the illusion was actually the real Jonouchi possessed by Shadi. Dark Yugi refused to take his turns, explaining that he trusted that his friend wouldn't kill him. This caused the illusion to stop playing and disappear.

The last rope supporting Anzu's platform began to break, but the real Jonouchi, being chased up the side of the building by the possessed Yoshimori arrived and held it up. Surprised by how the friends supported each other, Shadi's ushebti shattered and Anzu was restored to normal. Jonouchi struggled to hold up the board as Yoshimori pulled at him. This nearly caused Anzu to fall, but Dark Yugi caught her and helped her onto the building. Dark Yugi then instructed Jonouchi to touch the Millennium Key off Yoshimori to return him to normal.

Dark Yugi taught Shadi that unity was a power of the Millennium Puzzle and Jonouchi warned Shadi to leave. Shadi left beaten, but pleased because his bloodline had been searching for someone like Dark Yugi and he may be able to open "that door". Jonouchi and Anzu, unaware of Dark Yugi's existence noticed how Yugi has been acting different. When they approached him about this, Dark Yugi had already returned control to Yugi.

Kujirada
Yugi's Digital Pet, U2 developed a persona like Dark Yugi. Using data it incorporated from a connection with Jonouchi's pet, it changed into a more confident powerful form in order to beat the bullysome pet owned by Kujirada.

Thugs
Tomoya Hanasaki, dressed as the hero Zombire, tried to take on a gang, who told him that they'd kidnapped Yugi. Hanasaki's father was supposed to pay the gang to let Tomoya beat them, but could not afford the price they demanded. Yugi learned what had happened when he went to Hanasaki's house and met Hanasaki's father. The two of them went to the location on a ransom note found in Hanasaki's room. By the time they arrived, the gang had started attacking Hanasaki and Yugi switched to Dark Yugi. Dark Yugi broke up the fight and challenged the thugs to a Shadow Game. The gang proceeded to chase Dark Yugi, who left a trail of spray paint, starting at a discarded cigarette butt. As the butt burned away, it acted as a fuse. After the paint caught fire, it created a "Maze of Fire", leaving the gang dash out and jump into the water. Afterwards, Dark Yugi escorted Hanasaki away. Hanasaki thought he had been foolish for thinking he could be a hero, but Dark Yugi insisted that he could.

Capsule Monster Chess
To get revenge on Yugi for defeating his brother, Seto Kaiba, Mokuba forced Yugi into a game of Capsule Monster Chess. When Mokuba's followers tried taking Yugi's Millennium Puzzle, he switched to Dark Yugi and told them off. Mokuba who was aware that Yugi turned into a different person when he games had hoped this would happen, as Dark Yugi was the Yugi he wanted to defeat. Mokuba used a rigged dispenser to distribute the players monsters. Dark Yugi wound up with mostly low level monsters, while Mokuba got high level ones. Throughout the game, Dark Yugi sacrificed his pieces to lure Mokuba into lining his pieces up diagonally. Dark Yugi then used the special ability of his last monster "Torigun", to destroy all monsters diagonally aligned with it, defeating Mokuba. For a Penalty Game, Dark Yugi caused Mokuba to imagine he was trapped in a giant Capsule Monster Chess capsule.

Russian Roulette Dinner
Mokuba later invited Yugi to Kaiba's mansion. Here he lured Yugi and Jonouchi into a game of Russian Roulette Dinner; a game where players spun a turntable and ate the meal on the table that stopped in front of them, not knowing if it was poisoned or not. Initially Mokuba lied that the food wasn't poisoned and said that they were playing a game where there was treasure hidden in one of the meals. After Jonouchi was poisoned by one of the meals, Dark Yugi emerged and was forced to continue the game if he wanted to get the antidote for Jonouchi. Dark Yugi suspected Mokuba was cheating when he saw how he could eat a meal without any fear of it being poisoned. He then realized that Mokuba was using a syrup bottle as a switch to stop the table when he wanted. Using the Millennium Puzzle to smash the syrup bottle, Dark Yugi stopped a poisoned meal in front of Mokuba. Mokuba's fear of the meal confirmed it was poisoned. Dark Yugi reminded Mokuba of the rules and Mokuba proceeded to eat the poisoned meal, allowing Dark Yugi to claim the antidote to save Jonouchi.

Death T-1 to 3
The next day Yugi and his friends participated in Kaiba's Death-T theme park. They won the first of its games, which were designed to kill them, without aid from Dark Yugi. When Jonouchi battled the Chopman in the last part of Death T-2, Yugi's Millennium Puzzle briefly flashed before he got a plan on how Jonouchi could beat the Chopman.

Distraught by Honda getting trapped in the room of falling cubes in Death T-3, Yugi admitted to Jonouchi and Anzu that he thought there was another Yugi inside him. He explained that since he solved the Millennium Puzzle, there have been times when he blacks out and he thinks that he changes into another person when that happens. He had refrained from saying anything about this before, because he was afraid his friends would think he was weird and leave him. However Jonouchi and Anzu said that they will always be his friends even if there was another Yugi.

Death T-4
In Death T-4, Yugi had to face Mokuba alone in another game of Capsule Monster Chess in a Battle Box. Yugi changed into Dark Yugi, causing Anzu and Jonouchi to knowingly see him for the first time. The game used Solid Vision to make the monsters life-like and the loser was to suffer the "Experience of Death" Penalty Game. Once again, Mokuba used a rigged dispenser to give himself high Level monsters and give Dark Yugi mostly low Level monsters.

Dark Yugi placed his monsters together on the board, while Mokuba's were more spread out. Dark Yugi passed his first few turns, allowing Mokuba to surround his monsters. Dark Yugi then began moving his pieces and allowed Mokuba to defeat two of his monsters in order to line both players' monsters up how he wanted them. As Mokuba used "Armorsaurus" to attack Dark Yugi's "Mogley", Mogley used its dig ability to dodge into a hole, causing "Armorsaurus" to keep rolling until it smashed into Mokuba's "Megaton", destroying both monsters. Dark Yugi got "Ninja Squid" to use its self-destruct ability to take itself and Mokuba's "Zoid "M"" out. Defeating those three monsters cleared a path for Dark Yugi's "Beeton" to get to an evolution square and evolve into the Level 5 "Hyper Beetle". "Hyper Beetle" destroyed Mokuba's Level 4 "Nama Hargen" and then battled his Level 5 "Big Foot", but got destroyed. As "Big Foot" proceeded to attack "Mogley", it fell apart, damaged from its earlier attack. Having defeated all of Mokuba's monsters, Dark Yugi won the game.

Dark Yugi left the Battle Box and following the rules of Death-T, Kaiba inflicted the "Experience of Death" on the loser, Mokuba. Mokuba was surrounded by Solid Vision monsters. Dark Yugi was surprised to see Kaiba do this to his own brother and then pulled Mokuba out to safety. Mokuba was stunned to see that Dark Yugi rescued him. When questioned, Dark Yugi replied that he wouldn't have won had he not had friends reaching out to him. This reminded Mokuba of what Kaiba used to be like and hoped Dark Yugi would be able to revert Kaiba's personality in the next stage.

Death T-5
Dark Yugi proceeded to the Dome Duel Arena for Death T-5. Here he faced Kaiba in a game of Duel Monsters using the Deck Grandpa had given to Yugi.

Near the beginning of the Duel, Dark Yugi had trouble with Kaiba's "Saggi the Dark Clown", whose ATK had been tripled with "Dark Energy". Eventually he beat it with "Gaia the Fierce Knight", only to be overpowered once again by Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". After Kaiba Summoned a second "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", Dark Yugi held them back with "Swords of Revealing Light".

Dark Yugi had three weak "the Forbidden One" cards in his hand. The regular Yugi then imagined Grandpa was speaking to him and Grandpa compared the cards to the Millennium Puzzle, saying they were not meaningless and could be put together like pieces of a puzzle. This reminded Dark Yugi of "Exodia", a monster who could only be Summoned by gathering five cards. He then managed to draw the fourth piece. By the time the effect of "Swords of Revealing Light" wore off Kaiba had brought out his third "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and Dark Yugi had only 200 Life Points left. Beginning his last turn, Dark Yugi started to doubt he could get the last piece of "Exodia" and was afraid to draw. Thinking of his friends he gained the courage to draw and got "Exodia the Forbidden One". "Exodia" was then Summoned and Kaiba was defeated.

Dark Yugi inflicted the "Mind Crush" Penalty Game on Kaiba. This destroyed the evil part of Kaiba's heart and left him in a coma while he reassembled the shattered puzzle of his heart. Mokuba, who had saved Honda from the room of falling cubes to repay Dark Yugi for saving him earlier, arrived and called Kaiba's guards off from Dark Yugi and his friends. Mokuba told Dark Yugi how Kaiba had changed throughout the years and Dark Yugi explained that when Kaiba is done assembling the puzzle of his heart properly, he will return.

That day, Yugi became aware of all the battles he and Dark Yugi fought together.

Tsuruoka
Anzu gave Yugi a Lovely Two, a love compatibility tester. Initially it got no reading when near Anzu's Lovely Two suggesting that Yugi and Anzu weren't romantically compatible. The teacher Tsuruoka later confiscated Yugi's tester. When he threatened to smash it and called Yugi, Jonouchi and Honda worthless, Dark Yugi emerged and said that he never loses a game. Tsuruoka then imposed a game where he would hide the Lovely Two somewhere in the school. If Dark Yugi, Jonouchi and Honda could find it within an hour, they would get the tester back. If not they would be expelled and the tester would be smashed.

The game began 30 minutes later after the device had been hidden. Dark Yugi quickly deduced that the tester was within the building, having checked Tsuruoka's outdoor shoes. Anzu who had been bashful, seeing Dark Yugi out, gave him her love tester in the last few minutes of the game, hoping it would be of some help. Thinking people usually hide items where they can see the hiding spot, Dark Yugi went to Tsuruoka's office and Tsuruoka's adamant orders for them to get out confirmed this suspicion. Dark Yugi also believed it was hidden on Tsuruoka's body. With students not allowed to touch him and no way of proving this, Tsuruoka thought he had won. However Dark Yugi switched on Anzu's Lovely Two, which got a reading this time. The noise came from Tsuruoka's head, revealing he had a wig. Honda and Jonouchi recovered the tester, winning the game and Tsuruoka begged them not to tell anyone about his baldness.

ZTV producer
When Jonouchi took part in The Get the Million Game, Yugi overheard the producer and technician talk about how the game was rigged for Jonouchi to lose so they wouldn't have to give him any prize money and his suffering would boost ratings. Disgusted Yugi switch to Dark Yugi and challenged the producer to a game threatening to tell about the show being rigged should he not accept. The producer told the technician to play the game to get rid of Dark Yugi.

The game was 50-50 chance. Each player pulled a rope, one of which was attached to a paint can. After they pulled their ropes, the paint can landed on the technician's head. This prevented him from pressing the button on the switchboard which rigs the game. The producer was unable to do so himself because the paint had also covered the color-coded switchboard. Dark Yugi inflicted the "Mind on Air" Penalty Game on the producer, causing his greed to show. After Jonouchi won the prize, the producer ran out on set, grabbed onto a camera and ordered the viewers to send him money.

Nagumo
Koji Nagumo cheated in a game of Monster Fighter with Yugi, by punching him and stealing his equipment. Yugi then borrowed Jonouchi's fighter, "Killer Emaada" and tracked Nagumo down. He found that Nagumo was selling a lot of Monster Fighter equipment that he had stolen and challenged him to a rematch. This time they played best out of three and Dark Yugi warned Nagumo that it would be a Shadow Game, which Nagumo interpreted as meaning there was no rules.

In the first round, Nagumo attempted to punch Dark Yugi, but lost concentration in the game as he did so. This left his monster, "Wild Spider" open. It got hit and knocked out of the arena, causing Dark Yugi to win the round. Nagumo felt the pain his monster should have taken and dropped to the floor before he got to hit Dark Yugi. Dark Yugi explained that the players are scapegoats in this game, preventing their monsters from being damaged.

In the second round managed, after throwing a few punches Nagumo made a feint attack and was about to score a direct hit. Dark Yugi was unable block in time, but switched the power off of "Killer Emaada", causing it to flop to one side, hence avoiding the attack. Using the feint strategy too, Dark Yugi was about to hit the weak point on "Wild Spider". However Nagumo kicked him in the side, stopping him. Nagumo then got "Wild Spider" to knock "Killer Emaada" out of the arena and punch it several times in the stomach while it was in midair, causing Dark Yugi to feel the blows himself.

Angered by Nagumo's foul play, Dark Yugi upped the level of the Shadow Game from 1 to 3 as they entered the third round. He warned Nagumo that he wouldn't be able to cheat in this round. As Nagumo was about to lose, he tried to kick Dark Yugi again. However this time, the stolen fighters and "Wild Spider" grabbed onto Nagumo's leg, holding him back. With "Wild Spider" on the floor, Nagumo's field monster was replaced with his own soul as punishment for betraying the trust of his monster. "Killer Emaada" then knocked Nagumo out of the arena, causing Dark Yugi to win the game.

Playing card bomber
Yugi and Anzu went to Domino Park together. Anzu became obsessed with making Dark Yugi appear. When an evacuation was ordered due to a bomb scare, Anzu stayed behind hoping this would cause Dark Yugi to come out and rescue her. By the time Yugi caught up to Anzu she was on the Ferris wheel and Yugi heard from the police that there was a bomb on that ride. The bomber allowed the police to play a card game, which could control the bomb before it detonated in ten minutes. The detective asked if anyone nearby was good at card games, so Yugi switched to Dark Yugi and offered to play the game.

The game was clock solitaire. After Dark Yugi turned over four cards of the same number, the bomber blew up a car on the Ferris wheel of the same number. Since the game ends when the four kings are turned over, Dark Yugi hoped to turn them over before turning over four of a number corresponding to a car people were in. With seconds left until the ten minutes were up, Dark Yugi turned over the last king, ending the game.

The police escorted the passengers off the Ferris wheel and Dark Yugi told them that the bomber was in car #13 posing as a passenger, since it was the only safe car and the only place in the park where the bomber would have been able to see the cards. To Dark Yugi's discomfort, Anzu then suggested that they get back to their date.

Imori
Imori was aware that Yugi gained "powers of darkness" after solving the Millennium Puzzle. He stole the Millennium Puzzle in order to lure Yugi into a Shadow Game using Dragon Cards, hoping to take his place as "guardian of darkness" on winning. Yugi was unable to switch to Dark Yugi without the Millennium Puzzle and Imori had studied the game. These factors led to Imori winning and Yugi's soul being sucked into the soul-eating jar to be consumed by the dragons. However as he collapsed onto the table, Yugi touched the Millennium Puzzle, allowing him to change to Dark Yugi.

Had he not touched the puzzle, Dark Yugi said that his soul would have been entombed in the shadows forever. Dark Yugi challenged Imori to a rematch. Unable to become guardian of darkness without defeating "the other Yugi" Imori accepted. Players needed to gather three identical Dragon Cards to Summon a dragon. Each turn a player drew one card from card from the Deck or took the last card their opponent discarded and discarded then one card. Imori got a good starting hand and was soon able to summon a Level 5 water and wood dragons; "Shui Long" and "Mu Long". His dragons grew stronger each turn until Dark Yugi completed his sets, a Level 4 earth and level 5 metal dragon; "Tu Long" and "Jin Long".

Imori created a flood with "Shui Long" in an attempt to rust "Jin Long". However Dark Yugi got "Tu Long" to raise the earth, creating a dam. "Shui Long" used its water to strengthen "Mu Long", who stuck its shoots into "Tu Long" preventing it from moving. With it unable to create another dam, Imori got "Shui Long" to use another flood attack on "Jin Long". However since "Shui Long" had given some of its power to "Mu Long", the attack wasn't strong enough to fully beat "Jin Long". "Jin Long" proceeded to slice up and defeat "Mu Long". It then got hit by another flood, this time destroying it. "Shui Long" used its flood attack on "Tu Long", but Dark Yugi got "Tu Long" to use its ground shatter attack to cause the water and "Shui Long" to fall into cracks in the earth. With Imori's two dragons defeated, Dark Yugi won.

For Imori's Penalty Game, his soul was sucked into the soul-eating jar. Since it could only hold one soul at a time, Yugi's soul was freed. Dark Yugi sealed-up the Dragon Cards and thinking that this game brings disaster hoped that nobody would break the seal again.

Hirutani's gang
Nezumi lured Yugi and Jonouchi into Hirutani's torture chamber. In an attempt to get Jonouchi to rejoin the gang, gangsters surrounded Jonouchi swinging yo-yos at him and hung Yugi from a hook by the neck using the Millennium Puzzle's rope. Jonouchi refused to rejoin the gang and managed to save Yugi. After Jonouchi took care of five of the gangsters, Yugi switched to Dark Yugi and he and Jonouchi split up. Jonouchi took on Hirutani while Dark Yugi faced the rest of the gang.

Dark Yugi led the gangsters onto a galvanized roof and took out his own yo-yo. He challenged the gangsters to a game, where the last one standing on the roof won. As the gangsters chased Yugi, he swung his yo-yo into the roof, breaking holes in it. Eventually the gang cornered him, but found themselves standing in an area surrounded by holes. The holes and their weight caused the roof to give way below them, leaving them fall.

After defeating Hirutani, Jonouchi apologized to Dark Yugi for getting him caught up in his problems, but Dark Yugi insisted that Jonouchi's problems were his problems too.

Monster World
Yugi, Anzu, Jonouchi and Honda visited their new friend Ryo Bakura, the holder of a Millennium Item, the Millennium Ring, to play the tabletop role-playing game Monster World. Unbeknownst to them Bakura's other self, Dark Bakura, who had his eyes set on the Millennium Puzzle took over Bakura's body and played against them, turning the game into a Shadow Game. Dark Bakura managed to trap the souls of Anzu, Jonouchi and Honda in their avatar miniatures. Confident of the existence of Dark Yugi, Yugi deliberately let Dark Bakura trap him in his miniature, so Dark Yugi could take control of his body. This allowed the two Yugi's to meet for the first time. Yugi and his friends put their lives in Dark Yugi's hands. Dark Yugi rolled the dice to help dictate the moves of his friends. They trusted him to keep them alive and help them defeat Dark Bakura's monster, Zorc, in order to free their souls.

Dark Yugi rolled a critical hit 03 for Honda, allowing him to blast Zorc's hand off. The hand then mutated into more monsters and Zorc left the battle to them. Dark Yugi rolled a super critical 00 for Jonouchi, making him defeat the eyeball monster and a critical 02 for Yugi, causing him to tame Zorc Arm Dragon into an ally. He then revealed that like Dark Bakura he had been using the double hit technique to manipulate his dice rolls. From that point, both players agreed to throw the dice fairly.

The miniatures advanced to Zorc Castle, where a suspicious tower caught their attention. Realizing it was a trap, Dark Yugi belatedly tried to warn them to stay out the tower. The ceiling dropped onto the adventurers' heads holding them in place and revealing an incomplete column in the middle of the tower. Dark Bakura explained that they needed to roll a certain double number to finish the column, so it could support the ceiling and let the group escape, otherwise the miniatures would break under the pressure of the ceiling in three turns. Dark Yugi made two rolls failing to save them. During this time Zorc appeared and attacked the adventurers once. Dark Yugi then realized that the semi-circle patterns on the pillar were parts of an incomplete number, which could be 00, 33, 66, 88 or 99. He then managed to roll a 33, completing the column. Dark Bakura rolled a 12 for Zorc, who attacked immediately after, cutting the tower in two. Due to the characters' high speed stats they were able to escape the attack and get behind Zorc.

By channeling the emotions of his friends into the dice, Dark Yugi rolled more critical hits as his friends attacked Zorc. However due to the Level difference between Zorc and the other characters, the attacks had little affect on him. Using the Millennium Ring to seal the souls of Bakura's old gaming friends into the dice Dark Bakura created brainwashed dice, which he could control. He rolled a super critical 00 for Zorc's next attack, making it strong enough to defeat the others. However as Dark Bakura calculated the damage from the attack on the computer, Ryo Bakura took control of his left hand and altered the damage so that Dark Yugi's friends each had 1 HP left. Dark Yugi realized that something was wrong with Dark Bakura during that calculation and thought it could be the key to defeating him.

Dark Yugi rolled another critical hit, allowing Jonouchi to stab Zorc's eye out. Anzu and Zorc's initiative scores were tied for the next attack, so they rolled to determine who moved first. Ryo Bakura used his left hand to swap the brainwashed dice for regular dice without Dark Bakura realizing. This allowed Dark Yugi to win the initiative roll and get Anzu to heal the party. Ryo Bakura then threw the brainwashed dice for Zorc's attack and forced them to land on a fumble, 99, causing the attack to backfire and damage Zorc.

Dark Bakura impaled his left hand on a model tower to stop Ryo Bakura interfering. Dark Yugi and his friends heard him mention Ryo's name and then suspected that there were two different Bakuras. So for Yugi's next move, Dark Yugi got him to use his taming abilities, targeting Zorc. He rolled a critical 02, allowing Yugi to pull Ryo Bakura's avatar, a Level 13 white mage, out of Zorc's left arm, where the hand had been cut off. As a non-player character, Bakura used his white magic to lower Zorc's defenses, so when Dark Yugi rolled for Honda the attack did more damage than usual, blowing off the side of Zorc's stomach.

Zorc transformed into his final form, Last Zorc, raising his attack and defense. Dark Bakura rolled a super critical, allowing Last Zorc to use his "Zorc Inferno" attack. Bakura created a white magic shield to protect the party, leaving them with only a few HP. Dark Yugi deduced that since Zorc didn't change into this more powerful form before, it must have a weak point and he's using this form as a last resort. He realized that a hole that opened in Zorc's stomach during its last attack must be the weak point. With not enough time for Dark Yugi to attack it before it closed, Pokii, a monster Yugi had tamed earlier, flew into the hole to hold it open. Pokii advised the adventurers to attack him and Last Zorc's weak point together. Refusing to sacrifice an ally, Dark Yugi rolled a critical for Yugi, who used his beast tamer glove to grab Pokii and simultaneously punch through Last Zorc's weak point. Rolling a critical for Jonouchi, he then cut Last Zorc in half.

Last Zorc was still alive after the attack and Dark Bakura planned on making him self-destruct and take destroy the others with him. Dark Yugi and Dark Bakura rolled to see who got initiative for the next attack. Dark Yugi channeled his friends belief into his dice. Dark Bakura sealed a part of his own soul into his dice, creating "doppelganger dice", guaranteed to roll a super critical 00. Both players rolled 00, which would mean a simultaneous attack. However by sealing a fragment of his soul in the dice, Dark Bakura also sealed a Ryo Bakura's soul in them. Ryo Bakura was able to use this to shatter the dice. With no dice, Dark Bakura's roll was invalid and Dark Yugi proceeded to attack, having Anzu blow up the remainder of Last Zorc.

Ryo Bakura's soul was destroyed along with the dice. However, a fragment of his soul still existed within the white mage Bakura miniature. The white mage Bakura asked Dark Yugi to roll for him to let him use his magic. Dark Yugi rolled a 00 and the white mage Bakura was able to transfer his soul back into Bakura's body. After that Yugi and his friends' souls returned to their proper bodies.

Afterwards Bakura made a diorama as a memento of the adventure, including a miniature of Dark Yugi, holding a die.

Duelist Kingdom
The creator of Duel Monsters, Maximillion Pegasus challenged Yugi to a Duel through a television, using what initially appeared to be a pre-recorded tape of himself. When the picture on one of Yugi's cards got sucked into the TV, Dark Yugi realized the Duel was a Shadow Game and took over.

Pegasus was able to predict all of Dark Yugi's moves and counter them, which seemed impossible for a pre-recording. He also said that Dark Yugi must take part in his upcoming Duel Monsters tournament should he lose. Suspecting that the videotape contained subliminal messages Dark Yugi ignored his instincts to Summon the Zombie "Undead Warrior" and instead played "Dark Magician" face-down. Pegasus Summoned "Rogue Doll", which had an advantage over Zombies, only to get destroyed by "Dark Magician". However "Rogue Doll" being destroyed on the tape's footage indicated Pegasus knew that would happen when he made the tape.

With only so much footage, left on the tape, Pegasus imposed a time limit; should there not be a winner in the next 15 minutes, whoever has the least Life Points loses. He warned Dark Yugi that a Penalty Game awaited the loser. Although Dark Yugi got ahead at one point, he opted not to defensively guard his Life Points until the time ran out, considering that to be the path of a coward. Pegasus trumped Dark Yugi in Life Points when they got to the last ten seconds. Dark Yugi tried making a final attack to defeat Pegasus, but the timer ran out and he lost.

Pegasus showed Dark Yugi that he had a Millennium Item, the Millennium Eye, whose Mind Scan power was what let him read Dark Yugi's mind. Using it also he sucked the soul of Grandpa into the TV as Dark Yugi's Penalty Game and a means of forcing him to enter the upcoming tournament.

Although not able to communicate with him, Yugi gained the ability to sense Dark Yugi's feelings and knew he felt bad for losing to Pegasus. Dark Yugi blamed himself for what happened to Grandpa and wondered how he could win against an opponent who could read his mind. Regardless he decided to enter Pegasus' tournament to save Grandpa.

Yugi soon received his invitation to Pegasus' Duelist Kingdom tournament and also heard of Jonouchi's sister, Shizuka, who needed money for an expensive operation to save her eyesight. Dark Yugi gave one of his two Star Chip entry items to Jonouchi, so he too could enter the tournament and compete for the prize money to pay for the operation. Over the next week, the Yugis and Jonouchi trained for the tournament.

Yugi and Jonouchi were accompanied by Anzu, Honda and Bakura as they went to the tournament. On the boat to the Duelist Kingdom island, Insector Haga threw the "Exodia" cards Dark Yugi used to defeat Kaiba in Death-T overboard. Angered Dark Yugi vowed to take out Haga first when they got the kingdom.

As Pegasus explained the tournament rules, Dark Yugi realized that he and Jonouchi needed to win their first Duels, since Star Chips were to be wagered on each Duel and they only had one each. He also became suspicious of why a large island was needed for a card game tournament and remembered Haga telling Yugi that there would be new rules in the tournament.

When the tournament began, Dark Yugi went after Haga who had entered a forest and was then challenged to a Duel. Wanting to immediately eliminate Haga, Dark Yugi bet both his Deck and his life, so he could win both of Haga's Star Chips. Seeing the landscape they were in reflected on the Playing Field, combined with Pegasus' choice a multiple terrain island for the tournament, Dark Yugi suspected that monsters were to be powered-up by the field they were placed in. Knowing Haga secretly planned on using this information against him, Dark Yugi was able to counter by also choosing a field to power-up his own monster.

With the terrain, powering-up his Insect-Type monsters and granting them initiative, Haga overwhelmed Dark Yugi with barrage of monsters and Set a Trap Card which would destroy all Dark Yugi's monsters on attacking. However Dark Yugi destroyed Haga's monsters using "Mirror Force" He withdrew his own monsters using "Monster Recovery" used the weaker monster, "Kuriboh" as bait to detonate Haga's Trap at minimal cost.

With his trap distracting Dark Yugi from attacking his "Larva Moth", Haga was able to equip it with "Cocoon of Evolution" next turn. Using "Burning Land" to rid the cocoon of its field power bonus and attacking it with "Gaia the Fierce Knight", Dark Yugi forced to contained moth to prematurely come out as "Great Moth", rather than its perfectly ultimate form.

Being earthbound, "Gaia" was unable to attack "Great Moth", so Dark Yugi fused it with "Curse of Dragon" into "Gaia the Dragon Champion". Although "Gaia" and "Great Moth" now had equal attack, "Great Moth" used its poison pollen to weaken "Gaia". Dark Yugi used "Magic Mist" to wash the pollen away, preventing "Gaia" getting even weaker, but "Great Moth" still beat it. With "Great Moth" wet from the pollen, Dark Yugi revealed his true plan and played "Summoned Skull" whose lightning-based attack was powered by the water. "Summoned Skull" attacked and destroyed the "Great Moth", defeating Haga and eliminating him from the tournament.

Dark Yugi encountered Mai Kujaku afterwards and suspected that she wanted to Duel him. However Mai challenged Jonouchi, saying it wasn't wise to immediately face Yugi, so she wanted to win Star Chips off the weaker opponents first. Although their friends tried talking Jonouchi out of accepting her challenge, Dark Yugi advised him to do his best. Jonouchi was initially put at a disposition by Mai's alleged psychic powers, but Dark Yugi reminded him of the riddle "What is something you can show, but can't see?", as a nod to Mai's perfume. Jonouchi then picked-up on Mai's Aroma Tactics strategy and later went on to win the Duel.

As Dark Yugi and his friends searched for food, they stumbled upon fish cooking over a fire on a cliff. Following Jonouchi and Honda's suggestion to steal it, they soon found out that it belonged to Ryota Kajiki, who unbeknownst to them had left it their as bait for opponents. Kajiki shared the food with them, but then challenged Dark Yugi to a Duel and explained how he had lured them to the ocean terrain, where his monsters were strengthened. Both players wagered two Star Chips.

Kajiki was able to hide his monsters within the ocean and perform stealth attacks on Dark Yugi's monsters, which were Summoned on the wasteland side of the field. Dark Yugi Summoned "Silver Fang" and powered it up with "Mystical Moon", but Kajiki defeated it with "Leviathan", who flooded most of the land area with its attack. Dark Yugi Summoned "Giant Soldier of Stone" in the last bit of wasteland and its DEF went up to 2600 due to its Field Power Bonus. Kajiki got his monsters to surround the bit of land it was on. However Dark Yugi had hoped for this. He switched "Giant Soldier of Stone" to Attack Mode and attacked the "Mystical Moon", destroying it. He explained that Leviathan" had been able to flood the field because "Mystical Moon" created a high tide, like how the real moon affects tide levels. With "Mystical Moon" gone, the tide returned to normal and Kajiki's monsters were left stranded on the shore. Dark Yugi then destroyed them using "Curse of Dragon" and "Burning Land", defeating Kajiki. Dark Yugi and Kajiki parted ways wishing each other luck in the tournament.

Pharaoh's Memory
After Dark Yugi completed all his tasks, he presented the Egyptian God Cards to the ancient tablet at the museum. He was then brought to a table, where he played the Ultimate Shadow RPG with Dark Bakura. The setting of the RPG was the Pharaoh's Memory World. Dark Yugi's characters consisted of his Ancient Egyptian self, the Nameless Pharaoh and companions from when he was Pharaoh. Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu and Honda entered the RPG as non-playable characters to assist Dark Yugi.

Duel Monsters Deck
Dark Yugi uses a "Strategy" Duel Monsters Deck, which is usually the Deck he shares with Yugi. He plays very flexible strategies, preparing him for any situation.

Capsule Monster Chess pieces
The first time Yugi faced Mokuba, he used the following Capsule Monster Chess pieces.

When Yugi faced Mokuba in Death T-4, he used the following Capsule Monster Chess pieces and also evolved "Beeton" into "Hyper Beetle".

Monster Fighter figure
Dark Yugi used "Killer Emaada", which he borrowed from Jonouchi, when he played Monster Fighter.

Monster World figures
Dark Yugi rolled for the following pieces while playing Monster World against Dark Bakura.