Seto Kaiba

Seto Kaiba

Seto Kaiba, or just commonly referred to as Kaiba, is one of the main characters of the series. He is the older brother of Mokuba. Priest Seto is his Egyptian incarnate. He is the majority shareholder and CEO of his own multi-national gaming company, KaibaCorp, and aims to become the world's greatest player of Duel Monsters. To accomplish this goal, he must defeat his arch-rival, Yugi Moto. He is the modern-day lookalike counterpart of Priest Seto himself, the original keeper of the mighty Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

Kaiba is largely considered an anti-hero, as his motives are usually ego-centric and his personality traits are selfish and arrogant, but he does sometimes help Yugi and his friends if it's in his best interest. Although there are a few occasions when he helps Yugi when faced with a common enemy. He also does appear to have ethics, as he does not believe in stealing from others to get ahead in life, proven in his duel against Zigfried. He has proven to strongly believe in hard work and determination, and dislikes people who steal or cheat.

Among one of the recurring plots is Seto Kaiba being forced to deal with either people adversely affected by Gozaburo Kaiba's actions, wanting to take their revenge on Seto himself, or people from within attempting to take over the million-dollar corporation.

Trivia

• One day, when he became a Pokemon Trainer himself, Kaiba met Ash Ketchum and his friends and treated them the same way he usually treats Yugi and friends. It wasn't until he faced off against Ash in Duel Monsters that he finds a very worthy opponent in him the same way he feels about Yugi. Then he experienced a Pokemon battle where Ash went up against Team Rocket. When he witnessed Ash-Greninja in action, he was amazed. It was then he decided to become a Pokemon Trainer as well. But one thing was for sure, he did not want to let Team Rocket beat Ash and take his Pokemon. So Kaiba assisted Ash in battle, knocking down the Team Rocket balloon with his Blue Eyes White Dragon. After Team Rocket was sent blasting off, Ash and the gang thanked Kaiba for his help, and Kaiba admitted that they earned his respect. And for that, Kaiba actually made his very first friends.

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Seto Kaiba (Toei)

Seto Kaiba's Deck

Main article: Seto Kaiba's Decks

Kaiba's signature cards are his three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" and the Fusion Monster formed from the three dragons, the "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon", all of which serve as the key boss monsters to Kaiba's Decks throughout the series. His decks primarily rely on a Beatdown strategy to aggressively overwhelm his opponents with a roster of monsters with high attack. His cards are intended to be pugnacious, bellicose and vicious to reflect Kaiba's serious, stiff, and uptight personality. During Duelist Kingdom, Kaiba's Magic and Trap cards supplement this strategy by disabling opposing monsters, such as "Shadow Spell" or "Defense Paralysis" to stop his opponent from gaining any advantage against him. Kaiba also uses a combo of "Saggi the Dark Clown" and "Crush Card", destroying all monsters in his opponent's Deck with more than 1500 ATK, further inhibiting their ability to defend against him.

During Battle City, Kaiba added "Obelisk the Tormentor" to his Deck, along with more Virus Cards like "Giant Germ" and "Virus Cannon". He also began using Machine-type and Machine-type support cards such as the XYZ Union monsters, "Enemy Controller" and "Interdimensional Matter Transporter", contrasting Kaiba's trust in technology against Yugi's Deck of mystical monsters like the "Dark Magician". Kaiba continues to make use of his "Crush Card Virus" but instead of "Saggi" prefers "Shrink" to weaken high powered monsters and Tribute them. Another combo he is fond of at this time is "Ring of Destruction" and "Ring of Defense" to destroy enemy monsters and damage his opponent's Life Points.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, Kaiba adds the Pyramid of Light to his Deck, using it to remove Yugi's Egyptian God Cards from play. He then depletes Yugi's Deck with a combo of "Peten the Dark Clown" and "Deck Destruction Virus", and utilizes another enhanced form of his "Blue-Eyes", "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon".

While in the Virtual World Kaiba's Deck had a stronger focus on Dragon-Type monsters, adding "Spear Dragon", "Different Dimension Dragon" and "Thunder Dragon".

In Waking the Dragons Kaiba gained the "Fang of Critias". His Deck still focused on the "Blue-Eyes" and other Dragons, adding "Paladin of White Dragon".

After Waking the Dragons, Kaiba only Dueled twice more in the series, against Zigfried von Schroeder in the Grand Championship, and later against Yami Bakura. Against Zigfried, Kaiba focused on removing his cards from play then returning them to the field with "Dimension Fusion" in masses and using cards to regain Life Points such as "Soul Absorption" and "Emergency Provisions" to counter the high costs of these cards. Kaiba also incorporates more dragons most notably the "Chaos Emperor Dragon" and uses its ability to devastate his opponent. He makes his duel finale against Yami Bakura, where he once again relies on his "Blue-Eyes" and uses cards seen in previous seasons to summon it to no avail as the duel is called off resulting in an undecided outcome.