"Legendary Heroes, Part 1", known as "Big 5's Trap - Duel Monsters Quest" in the Japanese version, is the forty-third episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime. It is the first episode of the Legendary Heroes arc. It first aired in Japan on February 20, 2001 and in the United States on October 19, 2002.
The Big Five trap Seto Kaiba in a virtual game in an attempt to take over KaibaCorp. Yugi and friends mount a rescue mission at the behest of Mokuba.
Summary[]
On a rainy day, inside KaibaCorp headquarters, the Kaiba brothers confront The Big Five for making an alliance with Maximillion Pegasus and trying to take over his company. Seto tells them that they are fired and will leave before he loses his temper. However, the men plead with Seto to listen to their reasons, they state that they only formed an alliance with Pegasus to save Seto. To prove their word, they say that his new virtual game, Duel Monsters Quest is ready to be tested. While impressed, Seto makes it clear this is not over between them. As they head downstairs, Mokuba asks why Seto is testing the game now as they just got back, but Seto assures him that he designed every game level and knows the program by heart so it will be fine. Seto gets in the virtual pod and Mokuba starts it up with Seto saying he won't be long. After being uploaded to the virtual world the game goes according to plan but it isn't long before The Big Five reveal their true plan to trap Seto in the game as there are some unexpected reprogrammed traps and Seto is captured. With Mokuba as their prisoner, they can once again take over KaibaCorp. However, Mokuba grabs Seto's deck and escapes before the guards can capture him. The Big Five decide to not go after Mokuba because they know he will come back to save his brother. Mokuba arrives at the card shop, where Yugi and his friends are. He explains the whole story to them and they decide they will go into the virtual game and rescue Seto.
They arrive at the test room where three prototype pods are. Mokuba, Yugi, and Joey enter the game while Tristan and Tea stand guard. The Big Five notice them and send their guards to unplug those pods, which will trap the three boys as well. Tristan and Tea try to hold them off. In the game, Yugi, Mokuba, and Joey arrive in a Graveyard, where they are confronted by three zombie monsters. Joey tries to fight them with his monsters but has no idea how so Mokuba shows them how it works by summoning the Rude Kaiser, Yugi then summons Dark Magician and Joey summons Flame Swordsman but after beating them the Zombies come back. Remembering that they have 0 DEF, Yugi and Joey manage to defeat them with "Shield & Sword" and "Dark Magician", earning them five points. They arrive at a village and decides to ask everyone if they have seen Kaiba. While Yugi and Joey had no luck, Mokuba learned from an elderly woman that someone took a stranger through a desert to a temple. They try to cross it, but a tornado knocks them back to town. An old man tells them in order to cross the desert, they would need the "Niwatori" card, and the only way to get one is by winning it through a duel against the village's champion.
In the coliseum, Joey takes the offer, despite having lower Life Points than Yugi and Mokuba from the battle with the zombies. He dresses up in a pig outfit and at the ring, discovers the champion is a woman.
Featured Duels[]
Seto Kaiba vs. monsters[]
- Seto encounters a "Two-Headed King Rex" (1600/1200).
- Seto Summons "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" (3000/2500).
- "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Two-Headed King Rex".
- Seto spots the "Armed Ninja" (300/300) leaping from tree to tree, who throws a card.
- Seto uses "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" to attack the thrown card, but the card "Armed Ninja" threw is revealed to be "Dragon Capture Jar" which is unaffected by the attack.
- "Dragon Capture Jar" captures Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".
- "Armed Ninja" then captures Seto by throwing a net at him.
Yugi Muto + Joey Wheeler + Mokuba Kaiba vs. monsters[]
- "Armored Zombie" (1500/0) rises from the grave and is joined by "Dragon Zombie" (1600/0) and "Clown Zombie" (1350/0).
- Mokuba Summons "Rude Kaiser" (1800/1600).
- Yugi Summons "Dark Magician" (2500/2100).
- "Rude Kaiser" attacks and destroys "Dragon Zombie" while "Dark Magician" attacks and destroys "Armored Zombie" and "Clown Zombie".
- The Zombies revive themselves and become stronger than before ("Armored Zombie": 1500 → 1650/0, "Clown Zombie": 1350 → 1450/0, "Dragon Zombie": 1600 → 1760/0).
- Joey Summons "Flame Swordsman" (1800/1600).
- "Flame Swordsman" attacks and destroys "Dragon Zombie".
- "Dragon Zombie" revives itself and becomes stronger than before ("Dragon Zombie": 1760 → 1920/0).
- "Dragon Zombie" attacks and destroys "Flame Swordsman" (Joey: 2000 → 1820 LP).
- Joey activates "Shield & Sword", swapping the ATK and DEF of every monster on the field ("Armored Zombie": 1650 → 0/0 → 1650, "Clown Zombie": 1450 → 0/0 → 1450, "Dragon Zombie": 1920 → 0/0 → 1920, "Dark Magician": 2500 → 2100/2100 → 2500, "Rude Kaiser": 1800 → 1600/1600 → 1800).
- "Dark Magician" attacks and destroys all three of the zombies. Since the zombies' ATK were 0 when they were destroyed, they do not revive.
Changes to the dub[]
- While a shot of Mokuba with his eyes open after his soul was taken was removed from an earlier episode, it is strangely left in during the flashback.
- The word "Proto" on the pod is erased in the dub.
- In the Japanese, the sign over the building they're sneaking into says "Adventure Game." In the US version, it's replaced with a big "K".
- The "Keep Out" sign on the rope barrier they run under is removed.
- When Yugi, Joey, and Mokuba see a poster saying a "Niwatori" card as the prize to a warrior who can defeat the coliseum's champion, even though the writing on the Japanese poster is just a bunch of scribbles, the scribbles are redrawn for the US.
- In the original version when Yugi and Joey encountered the old man, he kept saying "You need a Koke Card to cross the desert" while in the dub he tells them they need the card but it can only be won.
Featured cards[]
The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.
- * Soul Prison x2
