Card Appearances:Obelisk the Tormentor


 * Obelisk the Tormentor is the first of the Egyptian God Cards to appear in the anime and manga. Obelisk is the only card Marik could not acquire, and his sister Isis gave the card to Seto Kaiba in the hopes he would use the card in his upcoming tournament and lure Marik out of hiding to claim it for himself. Kaiba used Obelisk as his trump card during the preliminaries, but lost to Yugi Muto in the semi-finals and thus handed the card to him. Yugi went on to use Obelisk against Marik in the tournament finals.


 * Obelisk makes sporadic appearances throughout the rest of the series. It is used by Grerimo in Season 4 of the anime, and takes part in the battle against the Leviathan. It is used to battle Bakura's Diabound in the final season; it defeats Diabound in the manga, while it is a draw in the anime against the power of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon that Diabound had absorbed. In the manga, it is the only God card that Atem uses in his duel with Yugi (in the anime, he uses all three Gods).


 * Obelisk reappers in Yu-Gi-Oh! R, used by Yugi on his final duel against Yakou Tenma. Yakou's "The Wicked Avatar" adopted Obelisk's shape and power immediately. However, Yugi used "Divine Evolution", evolving Obelisk into the "True Ancient Obelisk" 「真祖・オベリスク」 and causing its ATK to raise to infinity. Obelisk and the Avatar destroyed each other in battle.


 * Obelisk's signature attack (only seen when Obelisk's effect has been activated) is named "God Hand Crusher" 「ゴッド・ハンド・クラッシャー」 (rendered "Fist of Fate" in the English series, later renamed "Fist of Fury"). Obelisk's effect that increases its ATK to infinite is known as "Soul Energy Max" 「ソウルエナジーＭＡＸ」, and its attack name becomes "God Hand Impact".


 * In the original Japanese Anime and Manga, the name and lore of this card was printed in English. The name written on the card in the Japanese Anime and Manga is "The God of Obelisk". In the English Manga, this cards name reads "The God of the Obelisk".