Maximillion J. Pegasus (manga)

Maximillion J. Pegasus, known as Pegasus J. Crawford in the Japanese version is a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. This is the original depiction of Pegasus created by Kazuki Takahashi. With the exception of one occassion where he is called Pegasus J. Crawford, he is one of the few human characters to not use his original Japanese name in the English manga.

Pegasus is depicted as a well mannered, yet overly dramatic man obsessed with cartoons, concealing the appearance of a ruthless businessman and gamer, yet man of his word. His motives stem from the death of his lover, Cyndia. His fascination with Egyptian beliefs in life after death led to him obtaining the Millennium Eye and creating the Duel Monsters card game. He attempted to take control of KaibaCorp to use their Solid Vision technology to create a lifelike version of Cyndia. The takeover plan involved him hosting the Duelist Kingdom tournament to defeat Yugi Mutou. However his defeat against Yugi led to the failure of his plan and murder at the hands of Dark Bakura.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! R, Pegasus had had taken care of a number of orphans. One of them, Yako Tenma, blamed Yugi for Pegasus' death and arranged Project R.A in an attempt to revive Pegasus.

Deck
Pegasus uses a Deck containing cards he created exclusively for himself. These include "Dragon Capture Jar" and "Dragon Piper", which he uses in combination to overcome Seto Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" cards, "Toon World", which turns all his monsters into near invulnerable cartoon versions of themselves and a number of eye-themed cards, which paralyze and absorb opposing monsters.

He makes use of his Millennium Eye's mind reading powers to predict and counter opponents' strategies and exploit cards like "Prophecy", which usually require guess work.

Duels
Pegasus takes part in the following Duels.