Card Appearances:Exodia the Forbidden One

Yu-Gi-Oh!

 * The complete set is first used by Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi.


 * This card is referred to as "Head of Exodia" by one of the Rare Hunters.


 * The original manga and first series anime has this card as a Level 7 while the second series anime has it as a Level 3.


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


 * 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 manga, and the Japanese anime. In the English uncut versions, it is called Hellfire's Rage - Exodo Flame. The broadcast anime doesn't have a consistent attack name, although Obliterate is the name given to Exodia's Automatic Win effect in the first dubbed episode.

First Appearence

 * When Yugi duels 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 the Forbidden One (a feat that no duelist has ever accomplished prior to that duel) and attacks and destroys all of Kaiba's three copies of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", winning him the duel.

Duelist Kingdom

 * While on the ship to Maximillion Pegasus' Island, Weevil Underwood threw Yugi's Exodia cards overboard. Despite Joey Wheeler jumping in to try and save the cards, he only recovers two pieces.

Battle City

 * When Joey duels a Rare Hunter, the Rare Hunter recurringly uses "Graceful Charity" to get the five pieces into his hand, eventually succeeding in getting a complete set and destroys Joey's "Red-Eyes Black Dragon". After the duel, the Rare Hunter reveals to Joey that he has three complete copies of Forbidden One.


 * When Yugi duels the Rare Hunter, the Rare Hunter utilizies the same strategy (resulting in the Rare Hunter having two copies of this card in his hand) but Yugi quickly figured it out before the Rare Hunter revealed it. After Yugi eliminates the Rare Hunter's "Stone Statue of the Aztecs" and "Gear Golem the Moving Fortress", removes the Rare Hunter's "Right Arm of the Forbidden One" for three turns via the effect of "Lightforce Sword" and the Rare Hunter using "Swords of Revealing Light" to stall for time, he summons his first copy that he has in his hand as a defensive monster (while he kept his second copy in his hand) as he ran out of defensive monsters and became worried that Yugi might destroy his "Swords of Revealing Light" before the effect expires but Yugi uses "Chain Destruction" to destroy the Rare Hunter's other copies of this card in his hand and Deck then Yugi attacks and destroys the one on the field with "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast" after he gets rid of "Swords of Revealing Light" via "Dust Tornado". After Yugi won the duel, he discovers that the Rare Hunter's cards had been marked (either by an invisible ink that let him know what card the Rare Hunter was about to draw in the English version or with the cards being forgeries in Japanese version) and Yugi then rips the "Forbidden One" cards up.

Virtual Realm

 * When Seto duels with his stepfather Gozaburo Kaiba, Gozaburo sends this card, "Left Arm of the Forbidden One", "Right Leg of the Forbidden One" and "Left Leg of the Forbidden One" to the Graveyard via "Painful Choice". Once Gozaburo had the five pieces of the "Forbidden One" in his Graveyard, he activated "Contract with Exodia" to Special Summon Exodia Necross, with payment of 2000 Life Points. This card makes "Exodia Necross" unable to be destroyed by battle but damage calculation is still applied normally. Later, this card (along with the other four pieces) are removed from play by the effect of Kaiba's "Soul Demolition".

Waking the Dragons

 * When Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor are taken within Dartz's headquarters, the two see a complete of "Forbidden One" among other copies of every card in existence at the time sans the Legendary Dragons and the Egyptian Gods.

Dawn of the Duel

 * During Aknamkanon's reign, Shimon (the past life of Solomon Muto) has 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 attacks Egypt, Shimon summons Exodia from its five pieces after he took up the Millennium Key (either after Isis brought it back in the anime or when Shimon took it off Shada's corpse in the manga). Although Exodia experienced some success (like after Shimon demonstrates its ability to regenerate after its arm was torn off by Zorc in the anime), Zorc overpowers Exodia since its power is based on Shimon's while Zorc can draw power from the darkness. Therefore, Exodia is destroyed and Shimon is killed.

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

 * In episode 75, this card appears in a flashback to episode 57 of the previous series.


 * In episode 127, the Yubel-possessed Marcel Bonaparte had four pieces of the "Forbidden One" cards in his hand against Adrian Gecko, and was about the draw this card, but the duel ends prematurely due to the Sacred Beasts awakening.


 * In episodes 144 and 145, Adrian uses the "Forbidden One" cards against Aster Phoenix. He slowly got the other four Exodia parts into his hand thanks to the effect of "Vortex Trooper". Later he placed this card on top of his Deck due to the effect of "Deep Diver". Aster thwarts his attempt for an automatic win with "Force of Four". Adrian is then forced to discard this card on his Draw Phase. However he then goes for his alternative strategy. He activates the effect of "The Ultimate Ritual of the Forbidden Lord" from his Graveyard, returning this card to his Deck, discarding "Right Arm of the Forbidden One" and "Left Arm of the Forbidden One" to the Graveyard and summoning out "Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord". Adrian sends the "Right Leg of the Forbidden One" to the Graveyard when "Exodius" attacks "Destiny HERO - Disk Commander". Later he sends the "Left Leg of the Forbidden One" to the Graveyard when "Exodius" attacks "Destiny HERO - Dogma". This card is sent to the Graveyard when "Exodius" attacks "Destiny HERO - Plasma" and when that happened Adrian got an automatic win.


 * In episodes 149 and 150 Adrian plays the "Forbidden One" cards against the Yubel-possessed Jesse Anderson. He had four pieces in his opening hand, however Yubel then uses "Hand Destruction" to make him discard "Left Arm", "Left Leg", "Right Leg" and "The Ultimate Ritual of the Forbidden Lord". Adrian then activates the latter's effect to return the pieces in his Graveyard to his Deck. Adrian then sends the pieces in his hand to the Graveyard to Summon "Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord". He sends "Left Arm" to the Graveyard when "Exodius" attacks "Hamon". He later sends "Right Leg" to the Graveyard when "Exodius" attacks "Uria". This strategy ultimately fails when the effect of "Armityle" berids of "Exodius". Later Adrian uses the effect of "Fog Castle" to return the four pieces in his Graveyard to his hand. He then uses "Break the Seal" to get the "Left Leg" to his hand, but Jesse then uses "Hand Destruction" to make Adrian discard the four pieces in his hand to the Graveyard. Adrian then adds the "Left Leg" to his hand as per the effect of "Break the Seal". He then uses "A Feather of the Phoenix" to place this card on top of his Deck. He then sets "Backup Soldier" and intends to use it to get the three pieces in his Graveyard to his hand and complete "Forbidden One". Adrian however does not get the chance to use "Backup Soldier" or get this card to his hand as Jesse defeats him before that happens.


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